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VOLUME 31. No. 222
WILL A FIFTH
CALLED SESSION
BE NECESSARY?
Insurance Measures In Fite
Conference With Doubt as
to the Outcome.
A CONFLICT IS APPARENT
"Has It Straight" Says Davis f
That Senate Will Stand Pat
On Its Bill.
< By Macmillan.)
Special Dispatcn,
Austin, Tex., Aug. 31.—Again the big
problem of insurance legislation is in
free conference, where it was at the
close of the last special session. It is
not easy to see that the prospect now is
much better than it was then, and still
it may be.
The senate has passed a concurrent
resolution providing for adjournment
sine die on Saturday. To be effective
the resolution must pass the house,
where it now lies on the table subject to
call. Everything indicates that if an
agreement is reached on insurance there
will be a quick hurry home. If the
penitentiary' bill loses out, the members
will whistle and say it is too bad, but
proceed to catch the early train just the
same.
The senate and the house conferrees
have been warned by the presiding offi
cers of the two branches that if they
can not get what they want, why then,
take what they can get. This is favor
able enough, but in the end the ques
tion of agreement is up to the house, at
one end of the capitol, and up to the
senate at the other end.
Apparent Conflict.
If the senate’s clauses permitting dis
crimination reach the house they will
fail. On the other hand if the senate
conferrees come back with any of the
house provisions restraining competi
tion the conference report will be
slaughtered at once z in the senate. Ap
parently there is an irreconcilable con
flict on this matter of principle.
The conferrees are about the same as
last session, but they start in with a
spirit less warlike.
Lieutenant Governor Davidson named
for the senate, Hudspeth, Alexander,
Continued on page tl e*. first column.
(Other Austin News on Page Three.)
DMIDSQN HiTS
AT PRISON DILI
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 31. —Lieutenant
Governor Davidson struck at the life of
the prison reform bill in the senate this
morning. The senate being in committee
of the whole, Davidson offered an
amendment from the floor to strike out
the section providing .that $1,000,000
might be borrowed from the school fund
to carry out the reforms outlined in the
measure.
“Such action will kill the bill,” de
clared Senator Weinert.
A spirited battle followed. Senator
Braehfield defended the position of the
lieutenant governor and Hudspeth,
Weinert and Alexander fought for the
bill.
HAVE RESOLUTION
DENOUNCING TARIFF
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 31.—Kennedy,
Caves and others offered in the honse
another resolution denouncing the
Payne-Aldrich tariff act, as “discrim
inatory,” “iniquitous” and “trust
bleeding. ’ ’
The point and purpose of the new
lesolution is in a section praising Bailey
and Culberson, senators, and all the
members of the Texas delegation in con
gress for voting against the Payne-A Id
rich bill. In the Maxwell resolution in
troduced yesterday, there is no praise
for senators and congressmen, and it
was, for this reason, declared to be an
attack on Bailey.
Kennedy’s resolution, like Maxwell’s
died when the regular order was called.
NO TRUTH TO STORY.
Brother-in-Law of Texia Allison Says
Latter’s Daughter Was Not
Kidnaped.
Shreveport, La., Aug. 31.—R. T.
Clayton, a brother-in-law of Texia Al
lison, of Princeton, Ky., who claims
that immediately following his wife’s
funeral in this city his little daughter
Gladys was kidnaped, stated today
there was no foundation to the kidnap
ing story. Gladys now is in New York
under the care of Mrs. Allison ’a
mother
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
16 PAGES
SULZER IS "BOOMED”
AS N. Y. GOVERNOR
Congressman William Sulzer, whose
boom for the nomination for governor
of New York at the hands of the demo
cratic party, has just been launched by
some of his enthusiastic constituents
of New Y'ork. By many, Mr. Sulzer is
considered a remarkably strong man. He
has been in public life a number of
years and w’as at oue time speaker of
the assembly of his state. His boom
took the form of the adoption of reso
lutions urging the democratic state con
vention, which meets in Rochester Sep
tember 29, to name him as standard
hearer. General Daniel E. Siekels of
Gettysburg fame, was one of the prime
movers in the launching -t the boom.
OFFICEHOLDERS
DF TEXAS NDT
TDFORMTRUST
Frank R. Newton, county clerk, back
from Waco, where he attended the
County Tax Collectors’ association,
which body named a committee to con
fer with other county associations with
a view of having future meetings at, the
same time and place, denies absolute
ly that any “officeholders’ trust” is
contemplated.
“What we are seeking,” said Mr.
Newton, “is to have the different coun
ty officials associations convene in the
same city at the same time. It is not
the aim to have them merge into one
big organization with a common set
of officers and a common board of di
rectors. We believe that if all met at
the same time it would be advantageous
to all.”
The associations which are thus, if
possible, to be brought into the agree
ment to meet at the same time and
place are the county clerks, the county
tax collectors, the county tax assessors
and the sheriffs. Mr. Newton has taken
a lending part in the unification and
went to Waco to lay the matter before
the tax collectors. He gained the ap
pointment of a committee which is to
confer with similar committees named
by the other organizations.
“That officeholders trust proposi
tion,” said he, this morning, “was a
mis-statement from the start. It has not
been the aim to merge all the organiza
tions, but simply to have them meet to
gether. The social entertainment feat
ures can thus be more easily attended
to, and inasmuch as all the county as
sociations are more or less identified I
believe that it would be a good idea.”
Mr. Newton said that several years
ago all the associations met at the same
time, but that something occurred
which caused the organizations to fall
apart. He would heal this breech and
bring them together again in amity and
concord, so far as their meeting in the
same town at the same time.
While at Waco yesterday Mr. Newton
saw the auto races which resulted in
two men being hurt. A flyer went to
pieces and two cars coming after it
struck it and were wrecked. Ono driver
sent hie car over the embankment to
escape. At first Mr. Newton believed
that five or six men had been killed,
but later it developed that only two
were injured to such extent that they
had to be moved to a hospital.
Local Weather y
CFor San Antonio and vicinity:
Forecast till 7 p. m. Thursday.
L Partly cloudy weather tonight
and Thursday; cooler tonight.
OThe maximum tempetaturo for
the 24 hours ending at a o'clock
this morning was 96 degrees and
the minimum was 74 degrees.
U Comparative temperatures fol
thia year and last:
D 1909 1910
4 a. m. ... 75 72
6 a. m.... 75 72
Y Ba. m.... 78 79
10 a. m.... 79 85
12 n00n.... 87 90
1 p. m.... 82 82
WILL NOT PICK
COTTON SO THEY
MUST LEAVE CITY
Growers Coming to Town Of
fer Extra Wages as Induce
ment to Men.
IDLENESS TOO SWEET
So Police Get After the Two
• Hundred Who Disdain Work
and Rockpile Is Beckoning.
Acting under orders of Chief of Po
lice Charles Van Kiner, Detectives New
nam. Stowe and Green between mid
night and 4 o'clock this morning raidel
a dozen or more resorts in the trans-
San P«dro district, effecting the arrest
of twenty-eight men, who were lodged
in jail on charges of vagrancy. There
were whites, Mexicans and negroes in
the lot.
‘.‘There are about two hundred idle
men, white, Mexican and negroes in this
city who make absolutely no effort to
seek honest employment, but spend
their entire time in dives, many of the
worst character in the city,” said Chief
cf Police Van Riper in speaking of the
arrests.
“There have been many men coming
into the city from farms in this and ad
joining counties looking for men to pick
cotton,” continued the chief, “and
have gone through the district offering
good wages for pickers, but this idle
class turn the offers down with a sneer.
They laugh at the idea of picking cot
ton. They simply don't want to work
and won't work and yet when they are
arrested they put up the cry they cannot
be expected to be so fortunate as to be
constantly employed.
“I do not propose to have these men
loitering about this city, committing
every kind of crime. They have sim
ply got to go to work, either picking
cotton or somewhere else or work on
the rock pile. I have instructftl the de
tectives to visit every resort they can
every night and to arrest every one of
this class until we have cleaned them
out. There is no excuse that they can
not get work., Owners of cotton fields
nre simply begging men to work for
them and are offering good wages as
an extra inducement.”
Several of those taken into custody
were pronounced by the detectives as
dangerous men, who would knock a
man in the head for a dollar if he
thought be might escape and in fact,
the police said, would stop at nothing
short of murder. In some cases fines of
$5O were imposed but judgment sus
pended on condition that they leave the
citv and keep away permanently. The
police will sec to it that they leave.
Some declared they would go to the
cotton fields and hereafter keep out of
San Antonio. Others were sent to the
rock pile for from ten to twenty-five
days.
Chief Van Riper say’s persons who
serve out a fine and are caught the see
ond time loitering in and about their
cld haunts will be severely dealt with
and the court appealed to to impose
heavier fines each succeeding time thev
are arraigned on the same charge. Af
fidavits lodged against those brought
before the court today charged with
vagrancy, based on that clause with
reference to loitering about places of
ill-repute. •
The testimony in several eases devel
oped that the idlers depended upon cer
tain women of the district to support
them. The police say it is because of
this practice that such idlers do not.
care to work hard. The chief says this
practice will be broken up if it takes
months to accomplish it.
ND LONGER TRUE
ID RAILROADS
Senate, Repentant, Concurs In
House Amendments In Be
half of Laborers.
Special Dispatch.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 31.—The repentant
senate, persistent in reform, today con
curred in the house amendment to the
“car sheds” bill. These were amend
ments offered in behalf of the railroad
laborers, not the railroads, and
strengthen the bill. No longer can it
be said that the senate fs true blue to
the railroads.
SCALES DROP FROM
THE BLIND GODDESS
Greensburg, Pa.. Aug. 31.—The । Waco, Tex., Aug. 31.—Mrs. Minnie
“Blind Goddess” that stands with out-■ Lee Streight, charged with killing her
stretched arms on the huge dome of the ; husband, T. E. Streight, an editor at
.Westmoreland county court house, i McGregor, .Tune 18, was this morning
dropped her scales yesterday afternoon I taken to Providence sanitarium for
just as court criers were announcing I treatment for nercous collapse, having
the adjournment of criminal court. The made the bond allowed by Justice W.
heavy balances struck the pavement IL. Davidson, of the criminal appeals
more than a hundred feet below with a)court, after habeas corpus proceedings
loud crash, but a few feet from a group I which were completed here yesterday
of court attendants. No one was hurt. | afternoon. ,
AND GAZETTE
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 31, 1910.
TWELVE THOUSAND
PUPILS 10 ENTER
PUBLIC SCHOOL
Enrollment This Year Consid
erably Increased Over That
of Last September,
SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. 14.
Meeting of Teachers Will Be
Held at Respective Schools
September 10.
The public schools wiK 3pen Bept#n
ber 14, and at this time over 12,000
boys and girls will cross the thresholds
of the thirty schools for another nine
months of study. It is believed that
the enrollment this year will be con
siderably increased over the enroll
ment at the same time last year.
A meeting of the 300 teachers will
be held at the respective schools to
which they have been assigned on Sep
tember 10 at 2:30 o'clock. A list of
the teachers and the schools to which
they have been assigned was printed
exclusively in the Light and Gazette
of Monday’, August 29. At this lime
the teachers will receive from the prin
cipals instructions regarding the vari
ous details of the opening of school.
The sixty-six schools in the country
districts of Bexar county will open
September 12. The new school house
at Hot Wells is about completed and
the one at Alamo Heights has been en
larged and it is believed that a very
much smaller number of pupils proper
ly belonging to the county schools w ',
be transferred to the city schools than
last year. A new school house at
Mitchell lake has just been completed
and also a new schoolhouse south of
the city on the Applewhite road.
Teachers’ Examination.
The regular state and county teach
ers’ examination will be held in the
county courthoase Friday and Gatur
day. The examinations will begin at
8 o’clock in the morning and the first
day’s applicants for third grade cer
tificates will be examined and Satur
day applicants for first and second
grade certificates.
The examining board consists of
George E. Baxter, principal of the Say
ers high schools, and George B. Davis,
principal of the Olmos school.
SHOT AS HE WROTE
CHECK EOR LABORER
Special Dispatch.
Orange, Tex., Aug. 31. —Albert Baz
zano shot and dangerously wounded H.
Ashworth, manager of the Sabine farm,
near here at 3 o’clock this morning
while Ashworth was writing a check
for Bazzano’s services as laborer fol
lowing Bazzano’s demand for payment.
Several shots were fired, one taking ef
fect in the shoulder and penetrating
the body. Bazzano was arrested and
placed in jail.
Bazzano has been out on bond pend
iig the decision of the high court on
an appeal from a sentence of three
y-ears in the penitentiary for killing
Daniel Harris here three years ago.
Ashworth, who is 63 years old, crawled
to the home of a neighbor and gave
the alarm. uJ,
CONFEREES FAIL 10
REACH AGREEMENT
Austin, Tex., Aug. 31. —The conferrees
on the insurance legislation failed to
agree at their first session this morn
ing, but Braehfield, for the senate and
Cureton for the house, were authorized
to try to prepare an amendment to the
house bill that will satisfy the senate
later in the day. The conferrees will
meet again.
CONDITION 0 FMISS
CARROLL ABOUT SAME
Reports from Santa Rosa infirmary
state that Miss Annie Carroll’s con
dition is about the same. The young
woman yet remains paralyzed on the
right side, but is able to speak some
what better. She has been conscious
now for two weeks, but her attending
physician reports that she is in a grave
condition, and that nothing short of a
super normal occurrence can restore her
to health.
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MRS. STREIGHT TO SANITARIUM.
ASKS CHMTE’S
EXPDLSIDN BI
AM. BAR ASSN.
Former Ambassador to Great
Britain Accused of Violation
of Confidence.
SIX DIFFERENT CHARGES.
All Are Described and Made
Plain in Document Filed by
James Watts of N. Y.
Associated Press.
Chattanooga. Tenn.. Aug. 31.—
Charges that Joseph Choate of New
York, former ambassador from the
United States to Great Britain, han
been guilty of the gravest violation of
JOSEPH CHOATE.
the constitution of the American Bar
association in his failure to uphold the
honor of the profession of law, and a
petition that he be expelled from the
bar association, have been filed by
James Watts of New York, through
Attorney George Chamlce of this city,
a member of the bar association.
These sensational charges allege that
Choate “has violated the confidence of
his clients, Janies Watts and wife,
that he violated Cannon’s thics of the
American Bar association, that he has
been guilty of divers and many of
fenses in violation of good morals and
fair dealings and has brought dishon
or and dishgrace upon the American
Bar Association of the United States
of America.”
Six different charges are contained
in the allegations which were placed
before the bar association this morn
ing. All are described and made plain
in the minutest detail.
The association, at the request ot
Mr. Chamlee of Tennessee, received
and ordered referred to the grievance
committee the charges prefrred against
Mr. Choate. Only two members of
the grievance committee were present.
Messrs. Lehman and Beck. No report
of any kjnd has yet been heard from
this committee. Only a few members
of the association were aware the
charges were filed at this time, as
they were no tread. It is believed a
special committee will be appointe 1
tomorrow and will give careful consid
eration to the grave charges against
Choate.
WOULD WORK CONVICTS
ON IHE PUBLIC ROADS
Special Dlapatcb.
Austin, Tex., Aug. 31. —Stamps and
others in the house will try to amend
the penitentiary bill to provide for
working convicts, as trusties under
guard, on the public roads. Stamps,
who was a member of the legislative
investigating committee. says the
prison bill, as it eomes from the com
mittee. provides for turning all the
penitentiaries into health resorts.
WHEELS STOP IN
MEMORY OF GIRL
Special Dlsratch
Wichita Falls, Tex., Aug. 31.—1 n hon
or of the memory of Miss Flora Kemp,
daughter of J. A. Kemp, president of
the road, the general offices were clos
ed this afternoon and all Wichita Falls
& Northwestern railway trains were
stopped five minutes, at 4:30 this after
noon, the hour when the funeral was in
progress. Miss Kemp died at Detroit.
Mich., Sunday.
RELEASED ON BOND.
Special Dispatch. %
Gainesville. Tex., Aug. 31.—Herman
Luttmer, a young German farmer, who
was arrested charged with firing on
some young men at Myra Sunday night,
was released jesterday on $5OO bond.
16 PAGES
SCANDAL FOR
TEXAS LEAGUE
Charge of Bribery Made at Magnates'
Meeting at Dallas and Thorough
Investigation Is Ordered.
MANY CONTESTS ARE AFFECTED
Special Dispatch.
Dallas, Tex., Aug. 31. —Charges of attempted bribery in the Texas
League, in which Pitcher Harry Ables, of the San Antonio club, was
mentioned as having been offered a suit of clothes and money if he
would “throw" a game, were made and discussed at the meeting oi
the league magnates here today. The names of the parties said to have
offered the bribe were not made known.
The charges came as a sensation, and the league at once voted to
have a thorough investigation made, and if the evidence bears out the
accusations several players of the league will be black-listed from
organized baseball. The league went on record as being for clean
baseball, and set aside a fund to investigate the charges.
President Allen was authorized to go ahead and get affidavits' from
Players Salm. Jerry Kane. Hinrickson. Corkhill. Ables. Sens, Man
ager Roberts. Dundou, Hoffman. Donnelley. Dougherty, Onslow,
Chellette, Manager Block and Umpires Hurlburt, Setley and Jeffries.
The charges concern games played at San Antonio, Houston, Gal
veston, Dallas and Oklahoma City.
GIVES BONO OF
S» NOT TO
do w
W. J. Lytle Denies Charges of
Railroads and Matter Is
Settled Satisfactorily.
A PERPETUAL INJUNCTION
Settlement Means There Will
Be Exceptionally Low Rates
For Fair This Fall.
W. J. Lytle, defendant in an alleged
contempt of court ease, the pleading
charging him with “scalping'' railroad
tickets, despite a perpetual injunction
issued against him, this morning gave
a $2OOO bond as surety that he would
not engage in that business and tins
case was not called for hearing. The
cases against Mrs. Hortense Waller ana
Earnest Feille, also charged similarly
were likewise continued indefinitely.
The hearing bad been set for 10
o'clock this morning, the style of the
cases being the Missouri. Kansas -i
Texas Railway company vs. W. J.
Lytle et al. At that hour, however, Car
los Bee, counsel for the defendants, and
C. A. Davies, counsel for the Fair as
sociation and the railroad company,
with A. R. Atkinson, of the Sunsei, as
sembled in Judge Dwyer's office for a
conference. Defendants’ counsel de
nied that his clients had been engaged
in “scalping” but the railroad claimed
to have proof. The upshot was that an
agreement was drawn up whereby Lytle
gave a bond that he will reimburse the
railroad company in the event that an
offense is preben against him. Court
costs were also assessed against the de
fendants. The cases remain on the
docket but will not be heard.
“The settlement of this case.” said
C. A. Davies, “makes it absolutely as
sured that there will be no scalping in
San Antonio. This is what the Fair as
sociation has been working for, as the
railroads have assured us that there will
be exceptionally low rates for the fai’
this year if they can be assured that
the excursion tickets will not be scalp
ed. For the last three years there have
been efforts to break up the practice
and I believe that no more cases will
arise.”
Carlos Bee said that the basis of the
suit against Lytle was the fact that
some old signs had not been taken down
from Lytie’s store. Lytle, he said, de
nied absolutely that there had been any
scalping going on, and to show his good
faith had torn down all old signs and
every other indications that might lead
anyone to believe tickets were sold iu
li is place.
Among the railroad men present for
the hearing which did not materialize '
were Walter Walthall of the Katy. R. 1..
McKibben of the Sunset. A. R." Atki
nson of the Sunset and H. C. Smith of
the Illinois Central, Mr. Webb being a
visitor. Lytle and Mrs. Walle> were
presuaJ .
LAST EDITION
4 o'Clock
PRICE: FIVE CENTS.
$ The charges were freely discussed in
the meeting and considerable warmth
: developed, all the findings of the recent
Fort Worth meeting were sustained.
Roberts attempted to have a rehearing
1 of the games thrown out at that meet
' ing, but was voted down. President Al
■ len favored a reopening of the Fort
1 Worth meeting.
An auditing committee. com
posed of Devers of Galveston. Block ot
San Antonio, and Morris of Fort Worth
was appointed to report at the annual
; meeting on October 21.
Houston's protests on the games of
June 17 at Dallas. May 22 at Fort
Worth, July 17 and 18 at Waeo was
turned down.
San Antonio's protest against the
playing of Cy Young in the three games
at Oklahoma City on August 14,-15 and
16 was voted down after a lengthy dis
cussion. Motion by Devers of' Gal
veston was carried that all protests to
date be closed without any further dis
cussion.
Owner Gardner of Dallas introduced
them after the attempt at bribery was
dismissed from which resulted the mo
tion above outlined.
Sam Laird of Oklahoma City repre-.
sented that club, matters there have not
yet been thoroughly straightened out,
but Moist is still recognized as president
of the chib. Today's action does not
change the present standing of the
Texas League clubs. The keynote of
the meeting was for clean baseball in
Texas.
Tom W. Larkins of Beaumont appear
ed before the meeting in an effort to
secure for Beaumont a franchise in tha
Texas league for the 1911 season. Tha
matter will be considered at the annual
meeting in Dallas in October.
Those present at the meeting were?
President Allen. Vice President Withers
of Dallas: Roberts and Sens of Houston;
Ehrlich of Shreveport; Gardner of Dal
las, Morris of Fort Worth, Block of San
Antonio: Sabarain and Laird of Okla
homa, Devers of Galveston with news
paper representatives of several papers.
The charges of attempted bribery
created a sensation in this city when it
became known that propositions had
been made to a player of the San Anto
nio team.
It was announced here today that
while the Bronchos were playing in
Houston on the last road trip a person
connected with the latter club approach
ed Ables and offered him a suit of
elothes if he would lose the contest he
was to pitch against the Buffaloes.
Ables at once informed his fellow play
ers and also Owner Morris Block of tha
attempt at bribery and yesterday in this
city made affidavit to the above facts.
Nor was he the only one. Two members
of the Galveston team were also ap
proached by the same parties during tha
Houston-Galveston series at Galveston
and a fight was narrowly averted when
thev made known their intention. These
players are Hoffman and Dundon and
thev also made affidavits to the facts
and' these were given to Morris Block
who took them to the meeting today. No
announcement of the names ot rnose im
plicated in the attempted bribing of the
players were announced but in the ar 1-
daVita the players mention the meu who
approached them.
This is one of the b-ggest sensations
that has broken loose in baseball in tn.s
section of the country for many year,
and the matter will be thoroughly lu'e.-
Wg»‘ed. , ~ bc s WO nder in
The senes snw« /
fact the best of the entire sea-on. for
there is a bitter feeling between these
two teams at the present time ann th*
locals will pl«y ha r, l t* ll " ll ’’T*
to make a clean sweep of the aeries.
For once the fans will kave a real live
umpire officiating »■ import-
ant »eri«e —