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'PHONE MEASURE
IN THE SENATE
Treadway Denies Making Agreement
As lo Amendment
Present Week Will Demonstrate Whether People Or Lobby
Controls Ohiolienral Assembly-Several Important
Measures Will Be Adopted Or Rejected-Probe Com
mittees Promise To Spring Bio Sensations On Public
Before Friday'
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Columbus, O., March 14. Lleuton
ant Governor Treadway, In an lnter
Tlsw, denounced as untruo rumors that
ho hud entered Into a deal to tunond
the Elson telephone merger bill In tho
aenato by Inserting a provision to pre
vent tho watering of stock by merged
companies). Ho said ho favored such
n amendment, but was not a party
to a "deal" to have It done.
Some legislators say they think that
With proper amendments tho bill
Would be a good one. A prdvislon,
giving the state a veto on stock Is
sues of consolidated companies, Is re
garded as tho most Important amend
ment. In the houso tho bill was
amended so, as to givo tho stato rail
. road commission supervision of rates
end service, but unless tho stock
watering veto Is added, tho purposo
of tho amendment will not be real
ized. It has become a rulo of commercial
Jaw that Investments aro -entitled to
reasonable earning, and G per cent is
considered a fair dividend. So there
1b nothing In the bill at present to pre
Tent the Issuing of thousands of
ahares of supcifluous Btock and tho
Increasing of rates to earn tho 6 per
cent dividend on the inflated issue.
Fear Stock Watering.
True, the railroad commission has
eupcrvlslon of rates, but It Is believed
4 consolidated telephone company
would win its plea for a rate suffi
cient to earn 6 per cent dividend on
Its capital stock, oven though It was
watered, with the commission power
less to wring out tho water.
Senators appreciate tho Importance
of control of stock issues, and a mem
tor will offer tho proper amendment
beforo a vote Is taken on tho bill.
With the rate:, sorvlco nnd stock is
sues under stato control, it Is argued,
the merger of tho competing compa
nies would bo beneficial, as it would
eliminato tho inconvenience of two
systems and lower expenses of busi
ness men. Whon tho bill Is reached on
the scnato cnlondar tho unusual spec
tacle of the original sponsors lighting
their own measuro is llkoly to bo wit-
ticsscd, for It is said the tolophono
lobby Is opposed to tho stock-Issuing
amendment.
LOBBYISTS OR PEOPLE?
Important Measures Will Tell Who
Runs Legislature.
Columbus, O., March 14. Tho pres
ent week will doterwlno tho all Im
portant question whether tho lobby
has a stranglo hold on tho legislature
or whether tho wishes and Interests
of tho peoplo will bo rcspoctod when
a number of important measures
como up for consideration. To
morrow morning the Yount school
book bill comes up in tho senate as a
Senator Mather's bill giving tho
etate bank examiner tho power to
eelzo and administer tho assets of
Insolvent banks Is the first bill of the
ccnato's regular calendar. Senator
Alsdorf's bill limiting tho rato of tax
ation to 1 per cent Is a special order
In tho senate for Wednesday aftor
noon. It will bo immediately preceded
by a special order by Senator Law
yer's bill making tho terms of all
county officers except treasurer four
years and extending all tho terms of
the proscnt Incumbents to tho first
Monday In January, 1913.
Favor County Offices Bill.
Pamphlet arguments prepared by
Smith W. Dennett of Columbus and
Walter B. Ritchie of Lima have been
laid on the desks of senators in sup
port of tho bill, Mr. Bonnett argues
us to Its expediency and Mr. IUtchle
osjo its constitutionality.
On tho house calendar la ho An
dcrson house bill repealing tho law
forbidding the playing of ball on Sun
day and giving tho right of local op
tion as to that matter. If tho Black
bill giving tho governor tho power to
remove mayors for not doing their
duty becomes a law and some of
these Sunday laws aro not repealed,
tho governor will havo lots of this
kind of business.
Tho food price investigating com
mltteo will resume its sessions In Co
lumbus Immediately upon its return
from Cincinnati tonight, and It Is
promised that the most Interesting
testimony yet secured will be given.
Tho state graft probe committee that
has been waiting for nearly two
weeks uron the attorney general, will
probably l'old a session toward the
close of the week, and there will be
bcnsatlonal developments.
SHAM BATTLE
ON LAKE
Uloveland, O., March n. Four gun
boats and fully 1,000 ofllcers and men
will take patt In a mimic war which
will be waged along tho water front
near Cleveland on the night of May
?9. Navy forces will try to take pos
session of the city, while the land
forces will atftmpt to repel them.
Hamilton, 0 Maich 11.-Tho body
of Chris Weiss, CD, was found in the
Miami and Eiio canal at Wilbur
Carr's farm, four miles south of Ham
ilton. A lore was bound around one
arm and on tho other wrist were
marks showing that it had also been
bound. Death appaieutly resulted
from drowning, but Coroner Burnett
says an autopsy alono can determine
(ho ca"se. The coroner Is undecided
as to whether Weiss was murdered or
committed suicide.
Seattlo, Wash., March 14. It Is re
ported that an avalanche at Welling
ton, tho sccno of tho Great Northern
disaster, in which moro than 100 lives
were lost two weeks ago, has burled
a rotary snow plow and two onglneB
with their crows.
Enacts Triple Tragedy.
New York, March 14. Horman II.
Morltz, a retired real estate man, shot
and killed his two sons, set fire to his
home and then committed sulfide. He
had been In a melancholy stato of
mind for somo time.
IN CANAL
BLUED BY
AVALANCHE
Philadelphia's Mayor Hanged
In Effigy on Trolley Wire
-,""" -rC,"' f 'f iff! WiM
Philadelphia's streets during the great lubor disturbance begun by the strike
Df the tiolhy men furnlshi'd ninny Interesting sputtncles. but few more stiik
Ins than that of the hanging In olilgy of Major John U Reyhuru of the citj.
He was uciubed, Justly or uujustlj, of slduV with tin- company.
TRAGEDY AT ARMY POST
LIEUTENANT KILLS HIMSELF
Mnnlla, March 14. Lieutenant Clar
ence M. Jaiincy of tho Twelfth infan
try killed himself with -a pistol, either
accidentally or Intentionally, at the
residence of Lieutenant Colonel Ames
at Fort McKlnley, at a dinner party,
before a dance.
Lieutenant Janney, it is alleged,
raroso from tho dinner' table, having
become angry at something, and left
tho house. Ho returned In a short
time and fired his pistol Into tho air
outside. Then he re-entered tho
house flourishing his revolver and
shot himself at the edge of the dinner
table. Lieutenant Colonel Ames was
knt first detained, but was released.
Ho attended tho funeral of Jannov.
Ironton, O., March 14. Beaten and
thefl shoved to hla death under a
moving streetcar was tho fato of Ed
ward Feiguson, a young negro. It Is
claimed by the police that Ferguson
was beaten by a woman and compan
ions nnd then pushed under tho car.
Four persons, three colored and ono
white, were arrested on suspicion of
bolus concerned in tho death cf Fer
guson. Body Found In Lake.
Now York, Mnrch 11. Clad only in
tho nightgown sho woro when sho dis
appeared, tho body of Miss Helena
Bloodgood was found in Lako Carafal
go by two lugs which had been drag
ging tho bottom.
Cincinnati, O., March 11. George
B. Cox, Republican leader of Hamil
ton county and tho southern district
of Ohio, denied emphatically that ho
and Chairman Ellis of tho Ohio stato
Republican oxccutlvo commltteo have
agmed upon a program for tho cam
paign In this stato. Ho declared that
so far as any campaigning Is con
cerned tho entire matter Is still in the
air. EllLj has gone, to Washington to
ASSIGNEE ELLIS AND COX
CONTINUE THEIR PLAY
It Is rumored that Janney and Ames
had been unfriendly lately owing to
tho attentions paid by the latter to
tho lloutonnnt's wifn.
TURKS START ROUGH HOUSE
Fifteen Killed In Riot With Bulgarians
Who Married Their Girls.
Sofia, March 14. An attempt by
Turkish parents' to recover their
daughter, who had married a Bulga
rian official against their wishes, led
to a serious riot at Itustchuk. Fifteen
persons were killed and 30 Injured.
The victims lncludo General Dlztrleff
and some of tho leading residents of
tho town.
Omaha, Neb., March 14. In an ef
fort to prevent tho railroads from in
eret""'ig tho lates on dressed meats
between Omaha and Chicago, tho
business men today asked tho 'edcral
court for an injunction preventing tho
Wabash railroad from putting tho
now rato Into effect.
President Attends Funeral.
nttsburg, March 11. President
Taft attended the funeral of Thomas
K. Laughlln, tho brother-in-law of
Mrs. Taft, who killed himself at his
homo In this city on Friday last. Only
tho president, Mrs. LouH More and
Mrs. Chnrles Anderson, sisters of
Mrs. Laughlln, nnd a fow lmmodiato
rc-.'ij' and friends, wcro present.
confer with President Taft, after an
Interview with Cox in Cox's offlco, at
which Cox later told tho newspaper
mon that 'nothing in particular had
been dIsciiKii
Congressman's Wife- Dies.
Washington, March 14. Mrs. Mary
V. Dlokoma, wife of Representative
Dlokoma of Michigan, died after a
long illness.
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ELIHU AND TIM
TALK IT OVEFi
Chairman Galled For Acilcn b
Cobb Episode,
PROMISES TO GET IN LIKE
Senator Root Spends Busy Day In
New York Ironlnj Out Trembles In
Governor Hughes' Legislative Pro
gram Says Allds and Conger Mu3t
Both Walk Plank If Former U
Found Guilty Woodruff Will Finish
Out Term as Chairman.
New York, March 14. As It look3
now, after the interviews between
Senator Root and tho Republican
leaders of Now York btate, Timothy
L. Woodriiff, chairman of the Re
publican stato executive committee,
will serve out his second term of two
years and retire next fall for a Re
publican, as jet undetermined, to be
selected by the new state committee
elected In the Republican state con
vention. Senator Root had one of his busiest
days receiving Republicans and talk
ing with them over the Now York sit
uation at his home, 733 Park avenue.
During the day Senator Root confer
red with Lloyd C. Grlscom, president
of tho New York Republican county
committee; Speaker J. W. Wads
worth, Jr., Chairman Woodruff and
William Barnes, Jr., besides others of
lesser significance.
It turned out that the conference
was planned two weeks ngo In the
Interval that episode at Albany by
which Senator George H. Cobb defeat
ed Senator H. D. Hlmnan for the
place of president pro tem. of the
state senate, and the bickerings
which led up to the event and the
friction which followed it, had led to
confusion, but at no time during the
two weeks was there an idea of post
poning the conference, which was
really called In the first place to take
up the situation at Albany, especially
that part which had to do with the
legislative program.
Did Not Sesk Resignation.
To all of Senator Root's visitors he
made it plain that he had not come
here to ask for the resignation of
Chairman Woodruff; that he had not
been asked to make that request and
that there could be no gainsaying the
statement that President Taft, the
senator himself and most other Re
publicans In Washington had no de
sire to humiliate Chairman Woodruff,
but on the contrary they were person
ally fond of him, but at the same time
Chairman Woodruff and his friends
at Albany and elsewhere should bo
made to understand that their atti
tude towards ceitaln of Governor
Hughes' measures and their general
holding off from everything that Gov
ernor Hughes desired would not be
tolerated, and that Chairman Wood
ruff and his friends must get to work
and pass legislation In sympathy with
the desires of the people, and In or
der that the Republican party may go
before tho loters next fall with Issues
good enough to mako a fight on. This
Senator Root Insisted upon, nnd it
turned out that Chairman Woodruff,
Speaker Wadsworth, Mr. Barnes and
others with whom Senntor Root con
ferred cheerfully bowed acqulesceneo
and from tills time on aro to get to
work. Very llttlo work can bo done,
however, until tho Allds trial at Al
bany Is out of tho way, and It wns
said that this trial will bo over with
in the next two weeks.
Senator Root, It vns learned, had
been Informed In Washington by Sen
ator Brackett, Representatives Dwlght
and Fassott and President Grlscom of
tho New Yofrc county committee that
the election of Senator Cobb to be
president pro tern, of the senate wa3
tho result of a bargain, nnd that Cobb
was merely another name lor Allds,
who had been forced to resign as
president pro torn., and that Cobb was
interested with Woodruff and Barnes
am' others In whitewashing Allds, no
matter how tho testimony turned out.
Senator Root was deeply Incensed
over this Information, for ho believed,
and ho so stated to all of his visitors,
that there must bo no dlllydalljlng
with Allds If ho Js guilty, and 'or that
matter both Conger and Allds must
walk tho pUnk If tho ovldonce Justi
fies It.
Favors Extreme Action.
Senator Root was rathor inclined to
bellevo that tho evidence thus far jus
tified extromo action with both Con
ger and Allds. Indeed, tho situation
In Senator Root's mind has recome
to acute over this Allds trial that the
people of the stato will not bo hood
winked. Eton if Allds should turn
out to be guiltless it. would be a case
of "nothing proved and everything
believed."
UNION LEADERS
TRY NEW TACK
Ask Workinomen
opil
Central Body At Philadelphia Holds Secret Session And
Maps Out New Program Tor Carmen's Sii ike-Propose
That Unions Sinking In Sympathy With Move
ment Present Demands In Cider To Have Heal
Grievance Of Their Own
Philadelphia, March 14. At a se
cret meeting the Central Labor union
voted to boycott the banks and "ostra
cize" all union men who fall to go on
strike by tonight. This resolution
was adopted:
"Whereas, certain bankers have de
clared their sympathy for lIio Phila
delphia Rapid Transit company in its
fight to subdue the carmen's union
and crush the general strike, and aro
calling on other bankers to take sim
ilar action; and
"Whereas, tho banks rest upon tho
money deposited by the workingmen
and women of America; and
"Whereas, tho workers of the na
tion hae pledged to the Philadelphia
strikers their moral and financial sup
port, to the end that they may win in
the struggle; therefore, be it
Appeal to Workingmen.
"Resolved, that the Central Labor
union of Philadelphia and vicinity
hereby call uron the workingmen and
women of America and their sympa
thizing friends as their first sympa
thetic act to withdraw all their funds
they mave have on deposit with the
banks, thereby teaching the bankers
that without the" money of the work
ers the Institutions of finance must
be affected, as without the labor of
the workers, all Industry must cease."
The Central Labor union also re
solved to ostracize union men who
declined to go on strike, 'the resolu
tion gives them until tonight at mid
night to fall In line or be "outlawed."
It Is directed against three unions,
principally the bakers, the printers
and the brewery workers.
So far as the brewery workers aro
concerned they have been refused per
mission to strike by their Interna
tional union, which met In Cincinnati
last week and decided that it could
not countenance the breaking of
agreements without a specific, well
founded grievance.
Members of the typographical union
said that It was nonsense to think
that tho Central Labor union could
CONVICTS FSGOI FLIES
IN PENNSYLVANIA PEN
,-rn was tnreatened. Heroic work on tho
Pittsburg. March 14. Ahilo 'f'u I part of the convicts headed by a mur
convicts in Riverside penitentiary derer an(1 ,nembera of tho famous
were at chapel service, fire broke out , i,anknG colony, helped hold the
In the stocking snops of the lnstltu- j flame3 ,n c!,eck ntu the nrrivai or
Hon az' for a tlmo the entire prison i the flr0 department.
TRESPASSER
IS SHOT
Bucyrus, O., March 14 Charles
Williams, 50, colored, was shot three
times by John B. Beile, 35, white.
Williams was trespassing on Bealo's
frot lawn and was ordered to kneel
by Bcale. who then shot him. Bealo
was captured by the pollco nfter a
five-mile chase, and is thought to bo
of linsnmid mind
And Women To
Bank
compel them to strike. Such action
would be impossible without tne per
mission of the International body, and
none of them believe that the Inter
national ualon would consent.
Bakers Well Satisfied.
The same thing applies to the ba
kers. The latter are well satisfied,
and It is not likely that all of them
would go out even In the event that
their international union gave con
tent. The third action taken by the Cen
tral Labor union was the adoption of
a resolution re westing the Individual
unions on strike to demand, In case a
settlement of the carmen's troublo Is
further postponed, an advance In
wages and shorter hours. Tho inten
tion Is to furnish all the jtrlklns
unions with a specific grievance of
their own.
The united Hebrew trades, which
Includes a body of workers estimated
to number more than 13,000, voted to
remain on strike and net to return to
work today. Similar action was taken
by the textile workers.
Richmond, Va., Mnrfh 11. Tho
United States district court of appeals
has made perpetual the Injunction ob
tained by the HInchnian Coal & Coko
company against Thomas L. Lewis, a3
president of the United Mine Workers
of America, by which the union Is en
Joined from interfering with the em
ployes of the company, so as know
ingly to bring about the breaking by
plaintiff's employes of contracts of
service existing at the time and there
after. Harly nnd provident fear Is the
mother of safety, Burke.
ON LOOKOUT FOR TEDDY
Khartoum In Gala Attire For Distin
guished Hunter's Arrival.
Khartoum, March 14. A hearty
welcome and a huge quantity of let
ters and telegrams await Colonol
Roosevelt on his arrival here, which
will probably be some time today.
Thoro Is a possibility, howevar, that
tho arrival on tho steamor Bal, on
which he Is traveling, will bo delayed
owing to low water In tho Nile.
Polar Explorer Suicides.
Melbourne, March 14. Mr, Armlt
ago, a member of Lieutenant Shackle
ton's Antarctic expedition, has com
mitted suicide by shooting himself
with a revolver, $
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