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Leave For Chic<go—Phila
delphia Urchanged
Call For StateVote Made
WASHINGTON, March 16.—To
undertake the adjustment of the con
troversy between tie western rail
roads and their enfinemen and fire
men, Chairman Kiapp of the Inter
state Commerce commission and I)r.
Charles P. Neill. commlssloijer of
Labor, mediators under the Erdman
act, left for Chleigo today.
Both mediator expressed the hope
of a successful cutcome of the settle
ment plans wh*h will be advanced.
Confidence tlat the conference now
In progress between the New York
Central Railroad officials and the rep
resentatives *f its conductors and
trainmen will result in an agreement
without the necessity for calling of a
strike, was expressed by both the
union leaders and the railroad offi
cials today.
PHILADELPHIA, March 16.—
The general strike situation has un
dergone little change In the last 24
hours. The United Business Men’s
association is still striving to find a
way to end the labor troubles and the
labor leaders are looking about for
a plan to bring the strikers and the
officials of the Rapid Transit company
together.
Carrying out the action taken by
the State Federation of Labor at the
convention at Newcastle last week,
State President E. E. Genenwllt has
sent out a call for a vote on a state
wide strike.
CINCINNATI, March 16—Only
by advancing wages can the coal
mines operators of the country avoid
a strike of the union miners after
April 1st, according to developments
before tne special convention of the
United Mine Workers of North Amer
ica here today.
Session lasted only 45 minutes, but
In that time the leaders of the men
Intimated plainly that more money
must be paid to the hundred thous
and workmen involved. Otherwise
no new wage agreement w ill be sign
ed.
ECCLEM UNDER RIG ROND.
Lumberman Kc<) Hired In Furnish
Half a Million in Frauds Case.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 15.
David Ernes, who reached this city
last night on a delayed train, this
mortting secured the necessary bonds
men in the sum of 1500,000 demand
ed by the federal government. He
tiled the bonds late this afternoon.
His bondsmen also served as sure
ties for Messrs. Burton, Geddes and
Hmurthwalte, who are included in
the same Indictment.
The sureties follow: E. B. Mc
Daniels, one of the prominent phy
sicians of Portland and a former resi
dent of Baker county; VV. K. Grace,
one of the directors of the Portland
Trust company of Oregon; Phil
Metst han, Donald McKay, president
of the North Pacific Lumber com
pany; M. G. Dickinson, proprietor of
the Oregon hotel; Dr. Henry Waldo
of Coe.
PRATT’S BUSINESS IS HELPING
TROLLEY MEN WHEN THEY STRIKE.
Organizing street railway employees into unions and helping them to fight
for higher wages is the business of Clarence O. 1’ratt, who has had charge of
the big strike in Philadelphia. Pratt is considered one of the country's ablest
labor leaders. He is an Ohio man by birth and residence, but bis vocation;
takes hint to all sections of the country. Pratt has taken nu active part in !
managing a score of strikes.
BOND BUYERS HESITATING
ON UNFAVORABLE REPORTS
Council Calls For Haste**Sewer Con*
nection Demand**Other City Business
Ely council last night gave notice |
to Chicago capitalists that they must
Immediately make gocd their bid for
the $25,000 general improvement
bonds, or the securities will be sold
elsewhere. The council decided some
weeks ago to accept the proposition
of the Chicago capitalists. Since then
additional information as to the se
curities and the town has been ask
ed. The Chicago people heard that
the Ely-Goldlleld franchise had been
voted down and that the town would
accordingly not get the new road;
also they heard other detrimental
things upon which they wanted more
light before putting up monef.
Mayor McDonald reported that
health committee notices had been
ordered Informing property owners
that they must immediately connect
their premises with the sewerage sys
tem; that cesspools must be abol
ished, and that premises must be
kept in a thoroughly sanitary condi
tion.
City Attorney Jurlch was Instruct
ed to prepare a written opinion upon
the procedure to be followed by the
treasurer in levying sewer assess
ment against lots which have been
divided up and are owned by more
than one person. City Engineer Col
well was instructed to Immediately
fill up the gulleys made in the road
near the storage yards of the Ely
Lumber & Coal Co., where an acci
dent occurred Saturday. He was also
Instructed to have a watering trough
for horses placed near the city hall
and to get estimates on the cost of
a drinking foundation In the central
part of town. The tapping fee for
connection of the county courthouse
and hospital with the sewerage sys
tem was fixed at $250. Councilman
Tels was authorized to have an elec
trie lamp placed In front of the post
office. The city marshall repo.-ted
collection of $200 for two .-etail
liquor licenses, $110 in fines aid $20
in miscellaneous licenses. Bits of G.
SHIP SINKS WITH LOSS OF
LIVES OF MANY EMIGRANTS
Survivors in Frenzied Terror Run to
the Hills on Reaching Shore
lilSIiON, Marcli III.—A Portugucsc hark loaded with emigrants
IhiuiiiI for America, lias been wrecked in a storm olt Pico Island and 40
lives lost. The bodies of -H persons have been washed ashore.
Twenty-three of the passengers and crew survived. When they
reached the land they ran terror- stricken Into the hills.
A. McDonad and Sain nassham for
$3 and $10 respectively, for work on
the streets, were allowed.
LANGFOIID THE FAVORITE.
I,OS ANGELES, March 16.—Sam
Langford and Jim Flynn will fight
In the Jeffries pavilion at Vernon to
morrow afternoon. The bout is
scheduled for 45 rounds. Langford
is the favorite in the betting.
PRESIDENT
IN CHICAGO
FOR THE DAY
TAFT OFF OY SWING
ARWt’.VD THE CIRCLE
WASHINGTON. March 16.—
President Taft left here at 9:10
this morning for Chicago, where
he is due at 8 o'clock tomorrow
morning. From Chicago the
President will "swing around
the circle to Rochester, Albany,
New York, New Haven and
Providence. He will not be In
Washington again until March
23rd.
The President’s visit to Chicago Is
primarily for the purpose of attend
ing the St. Patrick’s day banquet of
the Irish fellowship club in that city.
Also he will be a guest of that or
ganization at luncheon. From the
moment of his prrlval, however, until
he leaves Chicago at nearly mid
night tomorrow, he has continuous
engagements.
The President will ride with a mil
itary escort from one of the subur
ban stations to his hotel. Later he
will visit the newspapermen's club
and the tratllc club, and attend a con
servation meeting in the afternoon at
the Auditorium. He will be tendered
a reception at the Hamilton club and
will wind up the day at the Fellow
ship banquet.
I A. Montgomery Ward, a wealthy
1 Chicago merchant, was seriously hurt
I In an automobile accident at Pasa
ldena, Calf.
Attorney General Presents
Case Forcefully—Argu- j
ments Are Now Closed
WASHINGTON, March 16.—The
dosing arguments in the great con
test over the dissolution of the Stand
ard Oil company were made this af
ternoon before the Supreme Court of j
the United States.
According to arrangements as
made Monday, the arguments closed j
at 4 o'clock. Attorney General Wick- j
ersham made the closing speech in
behalf of the government. Many be-1
lieve the decision of the court will not
be announced before the first of May. j
Time after time the court mani- j
tested its keen interest In the case
by subjecting counsel to a series of
queries. They were anxious to know
about the common ownership claimed
I by the Standard Oil counsel, and to
get the various interpretations or the |
meaning that should be given the!
word “monopoly, as used In the
Sherman anti-trust act.
The day brought out a sharp con
flict of purposes between the govern
ment and the Standard Oil. Mr. Kel
logg, on behalf of the government,
dwelt upon the activities of the cor
poration to prove an Intent to
monopolise. On the other hand, the
Standard Oil counsel contended that
such matters were not before the
court for review.
Mr. Wickersham charged that the
Standard Oil, since its pipe lines had
been common carriers, had “estab
lished stations at outlandish places,
where nobody ever had a refinery.”
| Their rates were prohibitive, coun
| sel said, and that was the reason ap
i plications to use the pipe lines had
not been made by independents.
Railroad rates, as a means of un
fair competition, were next consider
ed. He spoke of the number of
Standard Oil officials in many rail
roads. Front the railroad question
he returned to what he called the un
fair methods of competition. As an
example, he told of the Standard sell
ing oil at a loss in Los Angeles,
where there was competition, and at
a profit in Portland and Seattle,
where there was no competition.
“They may say that is only com
petition, but we say it is competition
that is dangerous in the hands of a
corporation spreading all over this
country.”
Alleged bogus independent com
panies organized by the Standard
were likewise classed as dangerous to
competition. He then turned to a
discusison of the purely legal phases
of the controversy. He argued that
the Northern Securities decision ap
plied squarely to the case. In touch
ing on the claim of common owner
ship, he said that at times when it
was convenient, the defendants dwelt
upon corporate entity, but in the
present instance they were anxious to
go beyond the corporations to the in
dividual. He argued that the action
oi the corporation was before the
court.
Justice White and Justice Lurton
questioned him on how he Interpret
ed the two sections of the Sherman
anti-trust law in question. He an
swered that much depended on the
degree of control possessed In each
case by the corporations.
SHY $3,000 ON NOBLE MATCH.
So Avers French Lawyer, Suing
Ambassador to Italy.
PITTSBURG, March 16.—John G.
A. Lelshman, United States Ambas
sador to Italy, has been sued by
Maitre O. E. Hodington, a counselor
of Paris, for the balance alleged to
be due the Parisian for services ren
dered preliminary to securing a title
for his daughter, Martha Lelshman,
who became Countess lie Gontaut
niron three years ago. The French
man says the ambassador has paid
him In part, but he still wants |5,
000, {ind a writ of foreign attachment
has been isused against the Union
Trust company, Mr. Leishman's
Pittsburg bank.
Maitre Hodington sets forth that
he weut to great trouble In making a
settlement of a portion of the Pltts
burger’s fortune on the French Count
before the latter married the Pitts
burg beauty, and that he wants his
pay.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK, March 16.—
Lead $4.50 to $4.60. Copper
dull 12% to 13%. Silver 51%.
CHICAGO, March 16.—May
wheat closed at $1.13%.
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
Sixty-one additional bodies are re
ported taken from the wrecked coal
mine at Cairo, 111.
For an attack on a white woman,
Roland Flowers, colored, was hanged
in the jailyard at Tampa, Fla.
The board of managers of the New
York coffee exchange has made im
portant amendments to the trading
rules.
Judge Sea, at Dallas, Texas, has
Instructed the grand jury to investi
gate the lynching of Alien Brooks,
a negro.
John H. Cullen, teller in the Union
Institution for Savings, at Boston,
was arrested, charged with a short
age of $1200.
Traveling at a 50-mile-an-bour
clip, the Pennsylvania special side
swiped a string of freight cars east
of Wooster, Ohio, but no one was in
jured.
I
ST. PAUL, March 16.—“The in
surgent movement is something like
a fantasy and the Ballinger-Pinehot
hearing is of less importance in the
east than in the west."
Secretary Ballinger, who was here
to address the Minnesota conserva
tion convention today, thus expressed
himself. Speaking further of the In
vestigation of the Glavis charges, Mr.
Ballinger said:
"So far nothing has been brought
to light but suspicions, innuendo
and intimations. These will be dis
pelled as soon as my evidence is in.”
Secretary Ballinger was the prin
cipal speaker at the opening of the
Minnesota conservation and agricul
tnural congress today. Archbishop
Ireland presided at the first session.
The congress will continue for three
days and several noted speakers, in
cluding government experts, will be
heard.
KHARTUM, March 16.—The
Roosevelts today paid their second
visit to Obdurnian, on the left bank
of the N'ile, the party making the trip
on the Sirdars yacht. At the Khajifs
house, Roosevelt received more prom
inent residents of Obdurman.
ROME, March 16.—King Victor
Emmanuel has decided to give a din
ner in honor of former President
Roosevelt on the occasion of the lat
ter’s visit to this city. The guests
will include Mrs. Roosevelt, Kerrnlt
and Miss Ethel Roosevelt, American
Ambassador Leishman, Mrs. Leish
man and other members of the
American embassy, and Count Guic
ciardini, minister of foreign affairs.
TOUCHING
Veteran Senator Pays
Tribute to His Associates
and Also to Capital
WASHINGTON. March 16.—The
most remarkabe farewell ever deliv
ered in the Senate chamber was
heard today when at the close of the
session Senator James Gordon, of
Mississippi, said goodbye to the men
with whom he had served for the
past 60 years.
Colonel Gordon spoke half an hour.
When he had concluded Senator De
pew arose and said he never had
heard or read so Impressive a speech.
The New York Senator said he was
sure he voiced the sentiment of all
the members of the Senate w'hen he
expressed regret over the passing of
the Mississippian.
“No matter," he said, "how won
derful a colleague succeeds him he
cannot be James Gordon, of Missis
sippi.”
Beginning with the statement that
the deadlock in Mississippi had been
broken and that Earl Percy had
been chosen to take his place, Col
onel Gordon said he felt a' desire to
express his feelings toward the Sen
ate before returning to his home.
He then told how, when five years
old, he had been presented with a
toy board which was checkered over
with different objects, some of them
i good and some of them bad. One
of these objects was the capltol of
the United States, and his mother
had told nim, he said, that if he
would be good and would live a cor
rect life he might, some day, hope
to sit in the seat of the big man who
was pictured there.
“She never had told me a lie and
I knew that what she said was true.
1 knew that I would some day oc
cupy the seat of that big man, and
God helping me, I got there yester
day.” He referred to the fact that
for a time yesterday he had occupied,
the seat of the presiding officer.
“I was born a multi-millionaire,”
continued Colonel Gordon, "but I
never was happy until I got rid of
my surplus money. I spent much of
It on my slaves and the rest of my
funds I spent like a gentleman and
got rid of the entire encumbrance.
"I have listened with Interest to
their speeches here and the more I
hear of them the sorrier I am for the
millionaires. Why, If there is a fel
low in the United States that 1 am
sorry for it Is Rockefeller, because
he has more money than any one
[ else. That is his misfortune. He
can’t go on the street with one of
his grandchildren unless he is afraid
that some harm might happen. Why,
I know that he loves one of those
children much better than he loves
all the money he nas got.
“1 think Mr. Rockefeller is a good
man. I see his employes speak well
of him and 1 am told that he never
had a strike. 1 am told also that he
has given much money to churches
and education. Now, I don’t sup
(Continued on Rage Two)
CONDITION OF DANIEL
CONTICES CRITICAL
DAYTON, Fla., March 16.—
The condition of Senator John
VV. Daniel, of Virginia, who
suffered a severe relapse late
yesterday afternoon, Is reported
as unchanged today by his phy
sicians. The patient's entire left
side is paralyzed.
PRUSSIAN SUFFRAGE BILL
IS PASSED BY THE DIET
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Discussion of Measure Cause of
Socialistic Outbreaks and Woodshed
HKKI.IN, March 1H.—The diet today passed without essential
change the government's Prussian suffrage bill. The vote was 238
to 188.
The measure' has been bitterly opposed by the Socialists, whose
recent public demonstrations of protest brought them into frequent
sanguinary conflicts with the police.