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News and Views by Experts of Finance, Industry, Crops and Commerce
Former Consul Said To Be Em
ployed as Lobbyist at Annual
Salary of $lO,OOO,
NEW YORK, Mayv 30— I'nusual se
crecy veiled the heginning of a erimi
na! investigation vesterday by United
States Special Attorney General Mark
Hyman and a special Federal! Grand
Jury into the operations of the United |
States Potters’ Association
Known as the “Pottery Trust,” the
association is said to have adopted a
“trade list” to maintaln prices, and
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to have employed a lobbyist at a $lO,- |
000 salary. The headquarters of the
association are at East Liverpool,
Orhio ;
President Wilson directly nrdere'l‘
tne Investigation, it was learned. |
While it invoives an industry whose }
invested captial is ,only about Sl"‘-i
000,006, it indirectly affects the entire |
tariff policy of the Administration ‘
Through this investigation the Pres. |
|
ident hopes to strike back at those
home manufacturers who have been
declaring the new tariff bill is hurting
the country
May Reach Official Heads.
The Grand Jur investigation in
the end will have international com
plications invoiving France and Eng
land, will affect the Panama Exposi
+ion and have a bearing on the recent
dismissal of Special Attorney General
William L. Wemple and the resigna
tion of Special Attorney General
WWakefield, who ig said to have at
tended a banquet of the Potters’ As
gociation in Pittsburg and te have
been on very frinadly terms with its
officials 8
Like a politica: house of china, the
whole investigation threatens to come
erasghing down on the heads of Im
portant politicians and former of.
ficials in the Government’'s customs
branches. e o
The officials of the Potters’ Asso
elation, inciuding W. B, Wells, head
of the Homer-Laughlin China Com
pany, of East Liverpool, the leading
spirit, declared a year ago before the
Ways and Means Committee of Con
geu that the passage of the tariff
1! would shut up every china kiln
in America and throw 15,000 men out
of work.
Onee Was Consul.
Behind the trouble is one man, Wil.
ltam Burgess, who, the china impor
ters assert, is the chief trouble maker.
Burgess was formerly a United States
Consul at Tunstall, England, the
Bome of the Pnglish potteries.
The information he obtained there
gmu‘ht about hls employment by the
nited States Potters’ Agsociation at
a salary sald to be more than $lO,OOO
a vear.
The china Importers declare that it
was Burgess who stirred up the con
troversy with France which resulted
in the United States Government su
ing the Limoges importers for $6,000, -
000 on alleged undervaluation frauds.
After Ambassador Jusserand had
brought International politics to play
and Attorney General Mqßeynolds
had had most of these suits dis
missed, Mr. Wemple was asked quietly
to quit,
French Appeased.
This appeased the French nation.
healed up some diplomatic sores wor.
rying President Wilson and led the
French to recongider thelr threat not
to exhibit at the San Franciseo Fair.
Investigation of the books of the
Potters' Association, under the direc.
tion of Secretary Redfield, of the De
partment of Commerce, to ascertain
\ the effect of the tariff on that indus
try, it was learned yesterday, has re
vealad some startling facts, which will
be presented before the present Grand
Jury.
The firms in the so-called Potters’
Trust operated 454 kilns in 1909, and
are located in East Liverpool, Seb
ring and Steubenville, Ohio; Trenton,
N. J., and other points,
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‘Trains Are Cut Off
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i Railroads Retaliate for Broadening
; of Commerce Inquiry Into
l Their Affairs.
| ERR St
WASHINGTON, May 30.~—1t was
intimated here to-day that the rail
roads of the East are getting ready
to take up arms against the Inter
state Commerce (Commission
A theatrical troupe which was
leaving Washington last Sunday nignt
bad counted on taking a certain train
To their dismay, the business man
ager when he took his company o
the station was informed the train
had been taken off
“But that train should leave at this
hour, according to the time-table”
complained the manager
“Maybe sO,” said a station atten
dant, “but they've taken it off, so
| there vou are”
i U'pon investigation it was found the
raliroad had deliberately taken off
the train, and threatens to take off
several more in reprisal for the in
vestigation planned,
Examiners of the commission are
row preparing to find out the exact
official of the road which threatens
this reprisal and to order him be
fore the commission.
Financier Doubtful
0f Early Trade Boom
~ NEW YORK, May 30.—Alvin W,
Krech, president of tlie Equitable
Trust Company, 18 a skeptic on any
immediate improvement in business,
and believeg it will take some univer
fal factor to turn the tide, |
“SBuch a factor,” said Mr. Krech,|
“would be bountiful crops, but these
must be irrevocably assured before
general improvement can take place.
“1 do not believe we have anywhere
near reached the limit of the gold ex
port movement. They want gold
abroad. Our banking condition at
present permits a free movement, and
completion of the Federal reserve
organization will release still more
gold.
“There is one redeeming feature in
the situation. That is the more gold
we ship the more easily can we geot
what we need when we want it.”
Saulsbury Has Bill
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To End Railway Evils
WASHINGTON, May 30 —A solu
tion for the railroad section of the
anti-trust legislative problem offered
in a bill by Senator Saulsbury, of
Delaware, attracted wide Interest in
the Capita! to-day.
The bill would require that the
meetings of boards of directors of in
terstate carriers shall be publicly
held, would terminate the abuse of
fiscal agentg for railroads by requir
ing that all gecurities issued be duly
advertised and sold to the highest
bidders under rules adopted by the
Interstate Commission, would require
all supplies purchased by the rail
roads to be purchased of the, lowest
bidder, and would prohibit the adver
tiging expenses of railroads going be
vond a reasonable amount.
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Plant Facility Roads Permitted to
Serve Their Special Indus
trial Owners.
VASHINGTON, May 30.—The Su
nreme Court to-day held in a number
of decisions that where the Inter
state Commerce Commission brought
facility railroads, or tap-lines. under
the common carrier law it had no au
thority to make special regulations
reating such railroads as to freigit
charges when serving their special in
jstriai plants
The commission had been over
riuled on decisions Involving switch
ing charges by tap-lines serving su
gar plantations in Louisiana and
lumber camps in the Southwest. by
the Commerce Court before the latter
rad been legislated out of existence.
Ruling Discriminatory.
In the case of the Burler County
(Mo.) Railroad Company, owned by
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany, Justice Day pointed out that
the Interstate Commerce Commis
gsion's regulations were discriminatory
ind that under the commerce acts it
had authority to control the giving of
rebates by securing enforcement of
(riminal provisions of the law.
Justice Day in the opinion says:
“The Interstate Commerce Com
mission ordered restoration of
sohedules of tariffs, thus recognizing
the right of this road ta participate
in joint tariffs with other common
carriers and to receive a division out
of the joint rates.
“But the commission excepted from
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I've yearned the secret of Dolores’ en
trancing beauty—the wondrous charm
that has dazzled the courts of Europe
and captivated vast audlences every
where. The famous dancer abhors
rouges and cosmetics. Yet, deepig the
strenuosity of her life she retains fhe in
comparable complexion best described
as “‘indescribable.”’ An intimafe friend
tells me the senorita regularly uses on
her face what druggists know as mer
colized wax. This is applied at night
in the manner cold cream is used and
washed off in the morning. It absorbs
the dead particles of skin which daily
appear, and a fair, soft, fresh, girlish
complexion is always in evidence.
Dolores’ skin is not marred by a sin-
Eln wrinkle, not even the finest line.
She wards these off by dally bathing
the face In & solution made by dissolv
ing an ounce of gowdered saxolite in a
half-pint witch hazel. As your drug
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mercolized wax (one ounce of the wax
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welcome this information.—Aileen
Moore in Beauty's Mirror.—ADVER
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this right traffic offered the railroad
by its proprietary company, evidently
upon the theory that as to such
traffic the railroad company had not
the rights of a common carrier, and
to such traffic limited the compensa
tion of the railroad company to a
switching charge.”
Can Not Be Subterfuge.
*“The Commerce Court correctly
held the fact that the same owner
ship controlled the freight offered
and the railroad company would not
be justified in the different rates im
posed upocn the same kind of traffic.
The right of a carrier to carry this
class of freight, although owned by
it, 18 recognized as lawful. Until the
law otherwise provides, such a car
rier has the right to treat such
freight in the same manner as it
does like freight independently
owned, ;
“Of course, if the division of rates
ig a mere cover for rebates of dis
erimination, such practices may be
controlied by the commisgion under
the acts 1o regulate von’merce."
© GOLD EXPORTS HEAVY.
NEW YORK. May 30.—Gold exporis
total $15,000000 since May 5. Twa
gold coin engagements for Paris &
L.azard Freres and Goldman, Sacks
& Co. for 352.000,000 each were an
nounced vesterday,
Banker Tells Cotton Men Exces-
Sive Cost of Living Is Not Due
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to “Big Business.”
NEW YORK. May 30.—T0 get start
ed on a new period of true prosperity,
Frank A. Vanderlip, pregtdent of the
Nationa] City Bank, last night urged
members of the American Cotton
Manufacturers’ Association to !‘di
rect the attention of the cotton plant
ers of the South, or of the farmers
nf the whole country, to the fact that
the fundamental cause of the high
ost ‘of living is not to be found in
the offices where big business is
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managed, but rather in the ignorance
and inefficiency of management of
their own farms and plantations.”
Even in the present depressed
times, Mr. Vanderlip marveled not
that in spite of our great resources
we are in such a period, but that
“with the terrible misunderstanding
and misconception on the part of pub
lic opinion, that under the popular
government, we are not in a condi
tion of much deeper depression.”
Outlook for Business.
Of the outlook for business Mr.
Vanderlip said:
“I regret 1 can not at the mo
ment see any marked tendency in
.the direction of business improve
ment. We have the promise of
great crops, although there is
much uncertainty between such
an early promise and ultimate
fulfiliment of that promise, it
would, of course, temporarily, at
least, bring with it improvement.
“We may be permitted an in
crease of railroad rates, and that
would be doubly helpful, first on
the side of its direct benefit, but
even more on the side of a prom
ise of fairer treatment.
“Business conditions are un
satisfactory, however, on account
of fundamental reasons that are
deeper than can be cured by one
or both of these factors.”
He deprecated the tardiness and in
competency of those engaged in the
cotton manufacturing business, when
compared with the wonderful strides
forward of other American industries.
He put the dismal situation as fol
lows:
“Although we supply nearly
two-thirds of the raw cotton of
the world, 1 still believe that we
present, in our methods of cotton
production, one of the most
gigantic examples of incompe
tency to be found anywhere.
“The huge and rapidly grow
ing totals of our cottoi crop are
sources of satisfaction until we
examine thern in cennection with
our acreage. That examination
discloses four-tenths of a bale an
acre is about the average of our
production. In that figure, I be
lieve is to be found an important
indictment against the United
States.”
N'Y. Central P 1
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$3,000,000 Outlay
PHILADELPHIA, May 30.—The
New York Centrai Railroad plans to
spend $3,000,000 on the Pennsylvania
division for new shops and added
equipment. These plans are contin
gent upon the outcome of the freight
rate case,
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BELLAIRE, OHIO, May 30.—J,
Roberts, of Alledonia, at 98, 13 pry
bly the oldest public officia; in ¢
United States, having been re-elaot
Constable against his wishes at
last election.
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