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VOL. XX.— NO. 351.
BULLETIN OF
THE; ST. PftUl^ Gl^O ß___i
FRIDAY, DEC. 17, ISOT.
"Weather for Today-
Fair and Warmer.
PAGB 1.
Prison Investigation.
Prl - ileues of Pooling Dlsenased.
May Wheat *l.r»<> Predicted.
.punish Court Panic-Stricken.
English Actor Assassinated.
Beware «>f the Handshake.
PAGE 2.
South St. Paul Man Frozen.
Cause of ..levator Accident.
Ketail Liquor Dealers Meet.
PAGE 3.
_I i n ii. upol i_ Matters.
Libel Case A_ninnt the Times,
.chin-/. Criticises Kepuhlicuns.
Gufje'M Currency Plan.
PAGE 4.
Editorial.
Committee DlseuasinK Briiljifes.
Day's Social Events.
PAGE 6.
D-vyer Defeats Schott.
McKciina for Judge.
PAGE 6.
Ili_.li Hates for Money.
Ilur Sliver, R5 :»-4c.
Cash Wheut lv Chicago, SI.OO 1-2.
World's Markets Reviewed.
PAGE 7.
Good llnihriiy Reports.
House and Senate Proceedings.
Two Sides iol Wheat Corner.
Wants of the Peoiple.
PAGE 8.
Visitor.* From Japan.
Prison Investigation Continued.
EVENTS TODAY.
Met— Heart of Maryland, 8.115.
Grand— Piney Hidgc, 8.13.
MOVEMENT OF STEAMSHIPS.
NEW YORK— Arrived: Kaiser Wilhi'lm 11.
from Naples; Ethiopia, Glasgow; Oufic, Liver
pool; Alesia, Marseilles; Saale, Bremen.
HAMBURG— Arrived: Patria, New York.
HOTTBRDAM— SaiIed: o__am. New York.
LIVERPOOL— Arrived: Waesland, Phila
delphia.
QIEENSTOWN— SaiIed: Majestic, New
York.
LlS ßON— Arrived: Peninsular. New York.
NAPLES— Arrived: Fulda, New York.
HAVRE— Sailed: Sicily, New York.
CENO A— Sailed: Werra, New York.
illEßßOl'RG— Sailed: Wilhelm der Orose.
New York.
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Anyhow. Gen. Blanco Isn't so handy
with the telegraph wire as Gen. Wey-
I ler.
Lockport, N. T., has a woman eight
feet tall. Her place Is on the police
force.
It is amazing how many dollars you
I can spend on things that cost less than
a dollar.
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I Water massage Is the latest lnven
ti>m. Nobody has thought to try it on
a tramp.
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_Ir. Fleischmann may be said to have
purchased the biggest Hamburg steak
. on record.
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The bustle Is back again, but not In
nil its ancient hideousness. It is only
half size.
A Cincinnati society of collegians had
n banquet in the cellar of a brewery.
Guess what they had to drink.
Senator Gorman denies that he Is to
move to New York and become a mem
ber of Tammany. Tammany Is also
ready to deny It.
m
Joseph Leiter now has more wheat
than the Dalrymples, of North Dakota,
raised and the boys are still pouring it
i in on him by the 10,000 bushels.
Nansen was always a great lover of
skating. Had there been a solid sheet
ot ice he would have skated from
Norway to the North pole long before
this.
m
Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, has
I Li en nominated and confirmed as
comptroller of the currency. He is
likely to chuck around a good deal in
| the shoes of Mr. Eckels.
Mayor Doran has selected the Christ
mas presents for Mr. Corning and Mr.
Miller, the two young men who make
l up the beauty show in his front office.
T ■ey will each get a pair of eight
ounce gloves.
In spite of his "soreness" over the
failure of his man Diment to get a gov
ernment snap, it is presumed Mr. Taw
ney will remain a Republican as long
a. the First district will continue to
fend him to congress.
It is announced from Bangor that
Maine* is tired of prohibition. Maine
always was "tired of prohibition," but
while Neal Dow was alive it didn't feel
it was courtesy to him to take a drink
except behind a tree.
The motor carriage doesn't, like the
horse, shy at things at the roadside.
, but it runs away Just the same. A
horseless carriage ran away with a
bridal couple ln New York city and
almost scared them to death.
m
Tom Piatt, Russell Sage and Richard
Pioker are going to join hands this
winter in an effort to suppress news
paper cartoons by means of legislation.
Of course they won't succeed, and the
whole country will laugh at them.
A long distance telephone line Is to
be put in between Seattle and Dawson
City. Next summer every time a Klon
dlker takes out a nugget worth over
$6 he can run to the transmitter and
telephone Horace Dunne, ln Seattle,
about it.
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A Missouri man has Just come to
1 the front with a story that he and
I some friends charmed 10,000 wild geese
with a brass band and captured half
i of them. As soon as the lowa man
, K< ts his breath he will tell a story that
i will beat this.
It is stated that a man named Peter
son is to be appointed collector of cus
toms at St. Paul, and that a man
named Steenerscn Is to be named as
• United States district attorney for
Minnesota. A senator from this state
named Nelson appears to be looking
1 after his friends fairly well.
THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE.
CLINICS ON CONVICTS.
Diversion of Stillwater Medics to Experiment on
Warden Wolfer's Wards.
STORY OF THE DEAD M' DONALD,
Who Is Given Ether By Force and Carved Against
His Will.
FEVERISH PATIENTS HALF=STARVED.
Secrets of the Solitary, Now Revealed, Show Horrors
Exceeding the Worst Yet Charged. Deputy
Warden Lemon's Defense Nothing More Nor Less
Than a Specific Denial of Every Damaging
Allegation.
Testimony in the Inquiry Closed Ln. t Evening—
Number of Prison Officials Were Examined at the
Three Sessions in Behalf of the Defense— Dr. Mer
rill. Prison Physician, Warden WoJfer and Deputy
Warden Lemon the Most Prominent — Commission
Adjourned to Jan. 1.1.
Horrors were piled on horrors yes
terday in the testimony of the closing
day of the prison investigation, and
that, too, from the mouths of prison
officers themselves.
The clubbing and bruising of con
victs for slight misdemeanors does not
appeal strongly to the popular mind as
a tribute to the valor of the guards,
but it certainly has something to be
said in its favor as against the opera
tions of surgeons, who, in spite of pa
tients' protests, administer anaesthet
ics to them by brute force, and then
perform maiming operations, not to re
move disease or injured members, but
to experiment on apparent Insanity
where the patient has been brooding
over a chronic trouble.
"We did it primarily to relieve the
patient's pathological mental state,"
was Dr. Merrill' s explanation which
followed an especially graphic account
of a serious surgical operation.
Small consolation to the bereaved
relatives.
The unsuspecting public has sup
posed that the insane experimentation
ln the state was to be done by the ex
pert corps of physicians at the regular
ly established insane hospitals, with
whose equipments the solitary hospital
at the Stillwater prison compares
about as a pint of alcohol and a bottle
of tooth powder would to a metropol
itan pharmacy.
It has been supposed that the med
ical colleges of the university could
give the young doctors good clinics in
surgery without performing vivisec
tion on helpless convicts against their
will.
It was shown in the prison records
yesterday that patients were left in
the solitary cells on a bread and water
diet, with pulse above 130 and tmeper
ature far above the century mark.
What wonder that Dr. Hedbeck wor
ried about Ryan when he saw the
mercury bound from the bulb far into
fever stages that Sunday night!
And little wonder that Ryan was
nursed back to strength on bread and
milk when the terrible condition of
the convict was revealed to the outside
world.
Where Is cruelty more to be con
demned than when men who have
taken up the vocation of Aesculapius,
and joined ln the work for the uplift
ing of men and the protection of the
race from insidious disease, prove
faithless and assist the work of disso
lution, almost to the brink of death's
irredeemable gulf?
Dr. Merrill's testimony brought out In
bold relief these two sensations of the
day, with others lesser. He, with
Deputy Warden Lemon himself, were
the star witnesses of the day. At
least they were so billed.
But Deputy Warden Lemon's testi
mony, covering three hours or nearly
so, when simmered down in the warm
sunlight of open day, amounts to noth
ing more nor less than a consecutive,
concise, but not remarkably ingenious
nor difficult denial of each and every
allegation which reflected in any sense
upon his treatment of convicts.
TALES OF THE FINAL DAY.
Dr. Merrill nnd Lemon Himself — De
fense's Stnr Witnesses.
When the morning session opened
Mr. Penny asked leave to call a new
found witness, an ex-convict who
served a sentence from Jackson coun
ty. This man testified to seeing Colli
gan hit a man with a cane, knocking
him down. One Sunday a fellow in a
cell near him was making a noise with
the dishes when Lemon came up and
witness could hear the sound of heavy
blows. Seemed to be a cane falling on
a man. Lemon and the prisoner, ac
companied by a big dog, afterward
passed his cell. He was put in the
dungeon once because another convict
hit him.
A scar on his head he explained, was
received in an assault in the dining
room when a crazy man struck him.
"Dr." Frank Hall, formerly hospital
steward, testified to a conversation
with Convict Lawton the night before
the old man killed himself. He said
Lawton was despondent because his
application for a pardon had not been
granted. Lawton had never com
plained to him of guards abusing him.
Witness knew Heen. Never saw any
signs of violence upon Heen's body.
Witness testified that Heen died of
typhoid fever. Witness helped Dr.
Merrill in reducing a dislocation of
Warden Lemon's shoulder.
Hall, on cross-examination, said
Heen was frequently at the hospital
for treatment. Heen had high tem
perature and rapid pulse when he
came the last time, and died in six
days of typhoid fever. On redirect,
witness said he had never seen any vio
lence used toward prisoners, but on
re-cross-examination he admitted hav
ing seen convicts with their heads cut.
Rev. S. G. Smith, who was on the
state board of corrections and chari
ties, said he had visited the Institu
tion frequently and had"" -talked with
convicts freely and privately. Had
FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1897.
never heard any complaints of mal
treatment.
Mr. Connolly, the Union Shoe and
Leather company's general foreman,
said that Deputy Lemon was always
gentlemanly in his treatment of the
convicts. Assistant Deputy Colligan
he believed qualified for his position.
He related an Incident of a convict
in the shop who was holding two
guards at bay with an armful of the
dies used in cutting heels. They sent
for the deputy warden, and Mr. Lemon
walked to the man at what witness
considered serious personal risk and
took the fellow out.
Dr. Merrill was recalled and asked
about a convict named Ryan. He had
made a memorandum of the prison
records in that case. These records
show that Ryan was left in the solitary
till his temperature reached 102 4-5 and
his pulse 116. Witness had thoroughly
examined Ryan several times, as he
complained that the prison work was
injuring him. Witness could not find
any signs of any physical ailment, and
believed he was trying to shirk. Ryan
had a swollen knee joint, Dr. Merrill
said he did not make a change in diet,
he thought, until Monday, although the
man was taken out of the solitary cell
and put to bed on account of his con
dition. He did not prescribe the milk
until he learned from Ryan that he
had once had rheumatism.
The autopsy on Dunn, who died sud
denly one Labor day, showed that he
had died from chronic valvular dis
ease of the heart. Prior to that time
the prison had not made the thorousrh
physical examination now had. This,
he thought, was one of the incidents
which had led to this reform. McDon
ald, who, it had been claimed, had
been kicked by Deputy Lemon, Dr.
Merrill had examined. He said that
McDonald had an inflammation which
made him insane, and the operation
was performed to relieve his mental
condition, although McDonald had,
when still sane, refused to submit to
the operation. He protested even when
the operation was made, although Mc-
Donald's father consented thereto .The
operation relieved the convict's "path
ological mental state," but he after
wards developed pulmonary tuberculo
sis.
On cross-examination it developed
that ether was administered to Mc-
Donald by force. Dr. Merrill strenu
ously denied that the inflammation in
dicated any violence such as kicking.
Dr. .Merrill knew Heen and had treated him
with some difficulty on account of his in
ability to talk English. Dr. Merrill read the
transcript of the hospital records in lieen's
case. Heen had not be«n reported sick for
two weeks before June 20, when his tempera
ture was 103 and his pulse 120. He died Sept.
26. at 2.30 a. m. Previous to that time, Heen
had been treated for urinary trouble and was
reported when ho entered the hospital for
diarrhoea. Case was dagnosed afterward as
typhoid fever.
Dr. MrTiell was then asked about John
Reed, the convict with the broken finger.
He did not remember having asked Reed how
the finger was broken. Only the little finger
was broken. He could not give an idea how.
Fing.r was in a splint. It was contused and
bruised. Bone was broken oft clean indicat
ing either a severe violent blow or that it
had been possibly jammed ln something and
broken off. Reed had never told him that
Continued On Kiybth I'aae.
Meat of the Gage Currency Measure.
FITIBT, to commit the country more thoroughly to the gold standard,
and remove, so far as possible, doubts and fear, on that point and
thus strengthen the credit of the United States both at home and
abroad.
Second, to itrengthen the treasury in relation to Its demand liabilities,
in which aire Included greenbacks, treasury notes and the lnoldental obli
gation to maintain on a parity, through lnterchangeabillty wirth gold, so
far as may be necessary, the present large volume of silver certlfloates and
silver dollars.
Third, to do this ln such a way as not to contract the volume of circula
tion ln the hands of the people. »
Fourth, to take an initial step toward a system of bank note issues with
out the conditional deposit of public bonds as security therefor.
SPANISH COURT
IN TERROR.
LONDON, Dec. 16.— According to the
St. James Gazette, private letters re
ceived here from Madrid, say that Gen.
Weyler's reception there was most sig
nificant and that the government is so
alarmed by the menacing attitude of
the populace that artillery has been
stationed at concealed points com
manding the main thoroughfares. The
gunners, however, cannot be relied
upon. The wildest rumors are current,
say the letters in question, with report
that preparations are being made for
the flight of the members of the royal
family to France at the first sign of a
revolution.
LONDON, Dec. 16.— The Madrid cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says: The
city is decorated and Illumined in joy
over the peace concluded in the Phil
ippines. The Carllst conferences here
between Marquis Cerralbo. Count Cas
sola and the Carlist deputies have de
cided that no present action is possi
ble, owing to the failure to get money
for revolutionary purposes, either in
Europe or America. Therefore, though
the agitation will be kept alive and In
readiness, should it by any turn in
BEWARE OF THE ANNEXATION HAND- SHAKE!
With ItH Accompanying Transfer of Bacilli.
WILLIrYIW
TERRISS
STUBBED
LONDON, Dec. 16.— William Terriss,
the well-known actor, was assassinat
ed, being stabbed with a knife as he
was entering the stage door of the
Adelphia theater tonight. He has been
playing in London in the English ver
sion of William Gillette's American
drama, "Secret Service." Terriss' as
sailant is supposed to be a former su
per. The murderer rushed at the ac
tor as he was stepping across the pave
ment from his cab and stabbed him
just below the heart. As the actor fell
his murderer was seized by people who
were outside the theater. The wound
ed man was carried into the theater
and doctors were called from the Char
ing Cross hospital.
Terriss fell, shouting: "My God, he's
stabbed me. Don't let him escape."
The assassin withdrew the dagger
and made a second plunge at his vic
tim, but he wus seized by the specta
tors, of whom there is always a crowd
about the stage entrance to witness the
arrival of the actors. Mr. Terriss was
placed on the landing of the stairway
just inside the theater, where he lay
groaning loudly. Once or twice he at
tempted to speak, but It was impossi
ble. He quickly succumbed, while sur
rounded by the theater staff.
The murderer was taken to the Bow
street police station, followed by an
angry crowd. His name was given as
Archer. It is said that he had been a
"super" at the Adelphia theater sev
eral years ago, and for some days past
he has haunted the theater. The mo
tive of the crime is not yet known. A
large audience had already assembled
for the evening performance; and the
manager came to the footlights and
announced that as Mr. Terriss had met
with an accident no performance would
be given tonight. It appears that the
assassin last evening asked the keeper
of the stage entrance as to the where
abouts of Mr. Terriss; and his behavior
was then so obnoxious that Harry
Nichols, one of the principal col
leagues of Mr. Terriss, was obliged to
remonstrate and to order him to leave
the premises.
The scene along the Strand at the
Queen Regent Ready to Fly
to France at the First Signs
of An Uprising.
events be given an opportunity, all
idea of the rising for the present is
abandoned.
MADRID, Dec. 16.— An extraordinary
number of the Gazette issued today
publishes dispatches received from Ma
nilla, capital of the Philippine islands,
saying that the insurgent chief, Agui
naldo, has ordered all his followers to
submit and that he and his entire in
surgent government will be allowed to
go to Hong Kong.
BAD BLAZE IN IOWA.
Loan at Marshallto wn of More Than
9150,000.
MARSHALLTOWN, 10., Dec. 16.— A
fire this afternoon destroyed the three
story building occupied by the whole
sale grocery establishment of the
Letts-Fletcher store. Loss on stock,
$150,000; Insurance. $85,000; loss on
building, $22,000; Insurance. $8,000.
The Odeon theater and the postoflice
building, adjoining the grocery house,
caught fire several times, but were
saved.
One of the Most Prominent
of English Actors Killed
at the Stage Door of
His Theater.
time when the theater closed tonight
was remarkable. By that time the spe
cial additions of the evening papers
were out and the newsboys were shout
ing around the theater exists that Mr.
Terriss had been murdered. At first
the people refused to place any cre
dence in the report, but when they
found it was true, horror and indigna
tion were generally expressed.
When rcher arrived at the police sta
tion he still held the weapon, apparent
ly a big butcher knife, concealed be
neath his cape. On being charged with
murder he is reported to have replied:
"He's done me out of the benevolent
fund this morning and I am out of it
for life." The murderer was placed in
a cell and is under a special watch for
the night.
According to later accounts Mr. Ter
riss had alighted from a cab at the
stage door in Maiden lane, used only
by himself and the principal members
of the company. Glibert Tate the the
atrical agent, met him at the door.
The two were standing and in conver
sation, and Mr. Terriss was just taking
the door key from his pocket when his
assailant darted from the shade of the
neighboring shop and plunged the knife
into his breast, almost bearing him to
the ground with the force of the blow.
Mr. Terriss dropped his glove and
tried to seize his assailant, who then
dealt two more stabs before the by
standers had time to interfere.
The murderer gives the name of
Richard Arthur Prince. but he Is
known at the theater as Archer. Since
he left the Adelphi, Archer has several
times begged aid from the different
theatrical funds, of whose committees
Mr. Terriss was a member. Archer, it
appears, who is well educated and a
good singer, has been living in mean
lodgings in the neighborhood of Buck
ingham palace. He had often been
assisted financially by Terriss and oth
er members of the Adelphi company,
but of late he had become so impor
tunate that Mr. Terriss had referred
him to the Actors' Benevolent fund.
All the morning papers contain edi
torials expressing the deepest sympa
thy, abhorrence of the outrage and eu
logizing the talents of the deceased
actor. They print columns of memoirs,
reminiscences and critical reviews of
his work. The utmost gloom filled all
the theatrical clubs and resorts on the
arrival of the sad newi late tonight.
PRJCB TWO CENTS— | SVKSVS.
PRIVILEGE OF POOLING
Recommended Do tne Commerce Commission
and .tie National Board of Trade.
SECTIONAL
CONTEST.
East and West Divided
Sharply oq the Question.
National Board of Trade and the Interstate Com
merce Commission Take lp the Question of Pool-
Ing, the Anti-Scalper Law and the Need of Addi
tional Le Klslntlon That Will Give the Commission
Power Over Interstate Commerce to Counteract
Recent Judicial Decisions.
WASHINGTON, Dec 16.— The annual
report of the Interstate commerce com- I
mission was made public today. In a j
considerable measure It Is devoted to I
legal decisions of the past year that
have affected the powers of the com
mission and to new legislation where it
is regarded as advisable. Mention Is
made of the effect of the Import rate
decision of the supreme court, requir
ing that competition arising in foreign I
countries or on foreign seas must be j
considered and given proper weight in J
determining the proper relations of j
rates on import and domestic traffic
carried between the same points in this
country. The commission is unable to
recommend any practical rule or addi- j
tional legislation other than that im
port traflic shall not be carried within
the United States at other than the in- j
land tariff governing other freights,
and congress is again appealed to for
appropriate legislation.
Discussing the supreme court decis
ion denying power ln the commisasion
to prescribe maximum rates, tlie report
states that it Is perhaps th. most Im- I
portant since the act was passed. Car- i
riers may now establish their own rates
and judge fur themselves what are
reasonable and just, independent of
any regulating authority. The power
of the commission over future discrimi
nations and preferences is also affected, j
Without authority to make the first
three sections of the law effective in
the future, practically all the commis
sion can do, it is urged, Is to inquire
into wrongs done in the past and re
port the result to itself. A suit to re
cover excess over reasonable rates is
not an adequate or equitable remedy.
Prevention by fixing and establishing
reasonable rates In advance is suggest
ed as the only practical legal remedy
for extortionate and unjust charges,
and the law should be made so plain
that neither the commission nor the
courts can misconstrue or misinterpret
its meaning.
POOLING LAW.
As to the wisdom of pooling legisla
tion the commis_ion is not agreed. By
legalizing pooling the public loses the
only protection it now has against the
unreasonable exactions of transporta
tion agencies Still, in view of the
whole situation, a majority of the com
mission would be inclined to recom
mend that the expedient be tried if
suitable safeguards are provided In ad
vance. The members of the commis
sion say, however, in the strongest pos
sible terms that they are unanimous In
the opinion that to overturn the trans-
Missouri decision, to repeal the fifth
section of the interstate commerce act
and enact in its place a pooling bill,
thereby permitting and inviting unlim
ited combination between carriers,
wculd be little better than a crime
against tbe people of the United States,
unless this tribunal, or some other
tribunal, is at the same time invested
with adequate pow< rs of control.
The report Includes railway statistics
for the year ending June 30, 18.6, an
abstract of which has heretofore been
published. Advance figures from th.
preliminary report on the income ac
count of railways for the year ending
June 30, 1887, prepared in the statis
tician's office, are also given, which
show that the gross earnings of 748
railways, representing on June 30, 1897,
an operated mileage of 180,127.65 mile*,
were $1,116,635,999. The operating ex
penses were $747,589,370. leaving net
earnings of $369,046,629. The railways
also received $34,166,656 from sources
other than operation, so that the total
income for the year was $403,213,285.
The total deductions from Income, in
cluding in the term interest, rents of
leased lines, taxes and other charges
against income, were $347,335,105. The
dividends declared amounted to $57,
--290,579. The deficit from the opera
tions of the year as reported was $1,
--412,399.
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS.
To make the act operative, in ac
cordance with Its generally accepted
objects and purposes, and to give prac
tical eff. ct to its first, second and third
sections which declare unjust and un
reasonable rates and charges to be
unlawful, arid which in terms forbid
unjust discriminations and undue pref-
I erences, the commission submits and
recommends amendments to sections 6,
i 1 5 aid 16 of the act. These relate to
the preparation, filing and publication
! of tariffs, powers of the commission
over rates, and procedure ln the courts.
: Amendments are also proposed for sec
tion 4, the long and short haul clause;
i section 20. covering the filing of an
i nual reports; section 3. as to through
i routes and through rates, and section
■ 10 the penal section.
An amendment requiring import and
: domestic traffic to be carried at the
j same rates is suggested, but if congress
shall deem it wise to justify higher
charges on domestic than on imported
: traffic, then it submitted that some
i provision of law be enacted under
i which it will be practicable to deter -
i mine the extent to which discrimlna
tons through lower rates shall be made
, in favor of freights coming from for
eign countries.
Attention is called to other leglsla-
I tion recommended in the body of th.
report including pending bills provid
! ing for uniform classification and pro
hibiting ticket brokerage.
COLOR LINE IN LABOR.
Spirited Dlnruiwlon by the Delegate*
at Nashville.
NASHVILLE. Dec. 16.— The negro
question occupied the major portion of
the session of the Federation of Labor
this afterno.n, and a heated discus ion
was brought on by a resolution intro
duced by Henry Lloyd, reaffirming the
declarations of the federation that all
labor, without regard to color, is wel
come to its ranks — denouncing as un
true, ln fact, the reported statements
of Booker T. Washington that the
trades unions were placing obstacles in
the way of the material advancement
fir LIMITING
CONDITION.
/..solute Control of Such
fl-^reerrients Necessary.
WASHINGTON, Dec. -The Na-
I tional board of trade today adjourned
' after a three days' session. The most
important action of today's session was
the indorsement of a pooling measure
which would place this question under
the supervision of the interstate com
merce commission. There was a strong
sectional division on the question, with
the East for and the West against the
measure.
Mr. Thurber, of New York, presented
the report upon railroad transportation
I and kindred subjects which contained
the following resolution:
i That the national board of trade earnestly
! advocate* legislation by congress tv amend
i tho Interstate commerce tan m ai to ;
! pooling by railroads under the Bup.Tvl.ioa
j and control of the Interstate commerce cotn
: mission, to the end that unjust discrimina
tions may be prevented and reasonable, unl-
I form and stable rates be established.
A minority report on this resolution
was presented by Mr. Valandingham,
of St. Louis, on behalf of four numbers
I of the committee, strongly opposing the
I pooling proposition. The resolution
I precipitated a discussion which lasted
: an hour or more, under the ten-minute
rule, Mr. Valandingham and others
, from the West taking strong grounds
. against it. The advocates of the pool
, Ing proposition were practically unanl
! mous in favor of it only when placed
i under absolute control of the Inter
state commerce commission. It was
I also developed that the members of
j the board, almost without exception,
! were agreed that the present arrange
< ment Is altogether unsatisfactory and
| the Interstate commerce act shall be
! amended ln important particulars.
The resolution favoring pooling, as
submitted by Mr. Thurber, of New
i York, was finally adopted by a two
| thirds vote. The remaining resolu
! tion by Mr. Thurber were also adopt
ed as follows:
That as a step towards Justice In transpor
tation rates, greater uniform!.. In the classi
fication of freight is necessary; and should
! the railroad companies fail to formulate and
put Into effect a uniform classification of
freight within a reasonable time, that tho
; Interstate commerce commission .hould ba
j empowered to formulate and make effective
B_c_ a classification.
That the national board of trade deprecate
all movements looking to the government
ownership of railway lines; but advocates a
' wise, firm and continuous supervision over
; the operation and management of these great
i agencies ln all matters affecting their rela
! tlona with the public In the conduct of Intor
-1 state commerce.
That the national board of trade reaffirms
, Its approval of the bill known as the anti
scalper bill, now pending In congress de
signed to protect both travelers and carriers
against fraudulent and Irregular practices ln
passenger traffic.
That as the decisions of the United States
supreme court have so weakened the power
of the interstate commerce commlssh n to
perform the duties originally oulined for it.
That we petition congress to so amend tho
Interstate commerce laws as to clothe the
commission with power to carry iut th< orig
inal Intentions of the act.
At 2:30 the board, by Invitation, made a
call on the president.
ANTI-S CALPI--I- HKAHI .<_,
Hill Opposed Before the Senate < om
meree Committee.
WASHINGTON. Dec. i ..— The senate
committee on Interstate commerce held
a meeting today at which a hearing
was had on the anti-scalping Mil.
Qeorge M. McKenzie, representing the'
; ticket brokers, made a statement n.
Opposition to the bill. He said It., per
c< nt of the business of the brokers was
' dene with the companies. Mr. Mc
! Kenzle said there were many roads
I that did not want the bill.
Senator Elkins — What railroads are
opposing it?
McKenzie — I do not want to embar
rass the roads by naming them. If I
j did they would suffer for it. I know
personally that they are opposing this
bill, but I cannot name them. I am
aware that my statement cannot k»
| for anything under these circum
stances.
Senator Chandler — Do not these
small railroad linos sell to the l-rokers?
Mr. McKenzie — Yes.
Asked how the ticket brokers made
their business pay, Mr. McKenzie said
the profit came in the way of a rebate
which went to the broker and not io
the traveler.
The members expressed great sur
prise at the statement that the tickets
were generally secured from the rail
roads themselves, but Mr. McKenzie
; maintained the truth of the statement.
saying that it was especially true with
the two ticket brokers' associations.
Continuing. Mr. McKenzie said three
of the railroad lines to St. Paul were
practically supported by the scalpers.
"Two of them." he said, "were not
abe to run through trains without the
aid of the brokers."
He took up the question of dividends
upi n the capital invested In railroad*,
contending that where so much of the
railroad stock was watered it was dif
ficult to find a proper basis of return.
It is prof-able that there will be no
further meeting of the committee un
til after the holiday recess, when the
friends of the Mil say they will refute
the statements made by Mr. McKenzie
today.
of the negro, and appealing to the
records of the federation conventions
as complete answ.is to such false as
sertions. This resolution caused much
spirited discussion, but was finally
adopted.
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G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.
Dates for the National Catherine at
Cineiliiiatl l-'l.ecl.
CINCINNATI. 0., Dec. 16.— Tho date
of the national encampment. <',rand
Army of the Republic, has been fixed
for Sept. 6 to 10.