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00K ISLAND GUS, Associated Press Exclusive Wire SIXTY-SECOND YEAR. XO. 214. THURSDAY. JUNE 2fi, 1913. TWELVE PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. THE AR HOME EDITION it FUSS CAUSED BYLOVETTON LOBBY GRAFT Name of "Congressman" With Pull Known, it is Said. SMOOTH GAMES PLAYED Union Pacific Head Tells of Ef forts to Get Lawyer on Payroll. Washington, Juno 26. Robert S Lovett's charge that men impersonate ing mombers of congress had been Makics demands upon Wall street fi nanciers has stirred congressional cir cles to its depths. Lovett made such a charge before the senate lobby com mittee last nigh-, saying men imper Eonatlng reprerenlatlves had claimed to be able to "grease the wheels lu Washington," for the Union Pacific merger. Lewis Cass Ledyard. a New York attorney, who encouraged such a "congressman" over the telephone for tv.'o weuks and discovered he waa not a congressman, probably will be summoned. Lovett told the commit tee Ledyard had htrong evidence as to who the man was. !t lb probable Otto H. Kahn, a banker, Maxwell EvarH, general counsel of the South cm Pacif.c, other Wall street men win be U6ked to testify. Lovett's tet'i sr.ony doalt with alleged efforts to force the railroads to employ Kdward Lauterbach, a Xrw York attorney, who claimed to havo enouj-'h influ ence with members of congress to prevent agitation against the disso.u tlcn plan and to prevent tho reopening of :he money trust inquiry. .Mr. Lovett had no information as to the Identity of the man telephoning beyond tho man's own statement. IHOl.l UO risu AT ISM E. U appears, however, that Mr. Lauter bach bubHciiuiaiUv, called ou Otto H. Kabn of Kuu&, Loeb at Co. to discuss his employment as special counel to represent tho Union and Southern Pa cific in the dissolution proceedings, and Lewis Cass Ledyaid of New'Yorat also informed Mr. Lovett of telephone talks with "congressmen" regarding the influence of congressmen in mat ters of legislation. Both Mr. Kuhn and Mr. Ledyard will be called to give the committee auch Information an thry may have. Mr. Lovett explained that the Inter view which brought him to tho wli Xicsu ataud was Inspired by tho belief that there was a movement efoot to cause trouble in the dissolution pro ceedings until he compromised and employed men who could stop it. He mentioned a Chicago dispatch printed by Dow Jones & Co., under date of June 14 as the incentive, saying that by the interviews he hoped to fright n off those whom be thought were pur suing him. I EAHU1) ACTIO IN ( (.IIKS, Mr. Lovett testified that a long-continued and determined effort had been made to have Mr. Lauterbach, who is a lawyer, retained by his company "to grease the wheels" In Washington and prevent UDpleaaut agitation in con ereaa against the dissolution plan of the Unloa Paiiflc-Southern' Pacific sysiema, ordered by the supreme court and cow before the department of Justice, lie made no charge ,uat any corrupt methods had bean uued in urg ing the employment of Lauterbach. "Mr. Kahii reported to mo," aald Mr. Lcvett, "that Mr. Lauterbach had said In substance that a moilo4 wao about to b made, 1 think in tho house cf representatives, to oppose this pro poced disulutlon, or tho diepoltlo-i of tho stock of the Southern Pacific, which Is new held by the Union Pa cific, and that it probably would also Involve a reopening of the money trust inquiry, I think, and some other matter tiiat had btuu mere or less uls- CUSecJ. TAi.:crr ok the -radical!!.' "He bald that the radical rarty, as B3 called them, or the radical faction, were abctii to commence these efforts and that t'oey were going to make a point about common banking control he msntloued avme of the congress men who would 1 ad In thle and IndW cat4 that he miht be very helpful la the matter and that his cervices vera available If des'.red." "Did he cay what congressmen they wets?' asked Chairman Overman, Coagresiimau Henry of Texas waa mentioned," snld the witness, "as the leader of the radical faction, as he called It. 1 should like to say I never believed that there viaa any connec tion between this gentleman and Con. greaanaq Henry." rei'ttu rAnDixj as kiordas, Mr. Loveu said he had made no ef fort to deitrmlne v heiher li waa R-p-reseniatlve Riordan who telephoned te him. lie had cut doubted it until he lerrned recently that many Wall a "reel financial men had been repeat edly c-lled up by men-wuo faloely rep resented themselves to be congress men. "I bow have serloua doubta that It II forecast Tiil 7 p. m. Tomorrow, fcf Rock Island, Davenport, Moline, and Vicinity. Unsettled weetter with thunder showers tonight or Friday, slightly cooler Friday, brisk winds. Temperature at 7 a. m. 76. Highest yesterday 84, lowest last n'.ght 74. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m. 8 miles per hour. Precipitation none. Relative humidity at 7 p. m. 72, at 7 a. m. 78. Stage of water 4.2, a fall of .1 in last 24 hours. J. M. SHERIER. Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. Evening star: Mercury. Mornins stars: Venus, Saturn. Mnrs. Jupiter. Midway between the horizon nr.d the point overhead, about 10 p. E.. the star Vega of constellation Lyra tthe Lyre k' conspicuous. was Congressman Riordan who talked with mt over the telephone," he ad ded. Questioned by the committee, Mr. Lovett said Mr. Ledyard had been call ed up by a man purporting to be a congressman, but that Mr. Ledysrd found that, he was not. The imper sonator, he said, was "Eeeking to have some other person employed." "1 have heard of a great many peo-. pie in Wall street beiLg called up by a peraon purporting to be Congress man Riordan," Mr. Lovett continued. "I am by no means the only one." COMES TO CONSPIRACY CHARGE. Mr. Lovett said he ignored the ef forts to have Lauterbach employed un til he became convinced that a con spiracy had been formed that might succeed in holding up the Union Pa-clSc-Southern Pacific dissolution plans until after July 1. "I believe there was a conspiracy here," said Mr. Lovett, "to try to force us to employ some one we didn't want to employ and that the conspirators after trying various methods were about to go into th9 newspapers and " - crea. oppoeition In congress to the plan of dissolution that was about to ' be carried out." Mr. Lovett then named Mr. Lauter bach and the man who represented himself to be Congressman Riordan. "I bpllpvp nnil mv aannriatfa fin tho executive committee believed, there was another individual In New York 1 who aa th- mrKf arttv TOnt in t..! conrpiracy." he went on, "but I did rnt -nma ( rnntoxt u-tth v,im aia - - . ... - i any other on the executive commit tee." I.OBDVrST APPEALS rO EV ARTS. Maxwell Evarts, general counsel for the Southern Pacific, told him. 6a:d Mr. Lovett, of a telephone application also purporting to come from Con gressman Riordan for the employment of lauterbach. The witness added that Paul D. Cravath of New York, one of the attorneys for Kuhn, Loeb & Co., also was mysteriously called by telephone by a man who wanted to talk with him about employing coun- i sel "who would be very helpful at Washington." Cravath had another Call of the same character, eald Mr. Lovett, and in that case he believed the name of Mr. Lauterbach had been mentioned. Mr. Lovett 6a!d the CrEt publica tion which convinced him that efforts were being made to misrepresent the Harriman roads in the dissolution case 1 was In a financial newspaper of high standing in New York. He said the character of the article was being made to Inspire articles that would route the desired opposition in con gress. ASSBSSMI THE CONGRESSMEN. "You believed that the same parties who were thus endeavoring to force the employment you speak about had caused these stories to be circulated for the purpose of arousing hostility toward you?" asked Senator Walsh. "I believed that, and Mr. Kahn was very positively of that opinion," said Mr. Lovett, "that this newspaper pub lication to which I refer was inspired by the same parties who weresc:ng to force relations with us in this mat ter." "You have not been approached by any congressman or ex-congrestman dlroctly cr indirectly?" atked Senator Overman. "Not by aay congressman or ex-con-(rreseman directly or indirectly, so far aa I know except in the case I have mentioned," answered the witness. Gerard for German Post. Washington, D. C, June 28. Jus tices James VV. Gerard of the New York supreme court has teen selectied as amoassador to Germany, lie was originally a'ated for Spain. Ct. Dsnr.ls Bankrupt. New York, June 2. The old Hotel St. Dennis, survivor of the days that were, waa thrown Into bankruptcy by creditors today. The liabilities are $53, COO, with assets of 15,000. The St, Dennis ranked next to the Astor house, recently closed, ia historic In terest, THOUSAND IN 1913 MICHIGAN CLASS Ann Arbor, Mich., Juno 28. More than a thousand graduaiea ef the year 1913 received degrees at the 03-h aa nual commencement esereisea of the University of Michigan today. The 11 THE WEATHER commencement addrets waa delivered i red thia morning. Firemen are eul. by President Vincent of the Unlver-! pouring water oa the wreckage. De sity of Minnesota. The honorary de- j biis is piled 60 feet high and no aua gre of Doctor of Laws was conferred fctaatial progress toward recovery ot upon Governor Ferris of Michigan and i several others. UNNE SIGNS BILL GIVING HEN VOTE Moving Pictures Taken of Ceremonies at Spring field Today. LEADERS ARE ON HAND Pen Is Divided in Three Parts and Presented to Those Who Directed the Fight. Springfield, 111., June 26. Governor Durme signed the woman's suffrage bill at 9:53 this morning. The bill gives women the right to vote in Illinois for candidates for all statutory offices. The signing was made the occasion for a demonstration by leaders of the I women's cause. Moving pictures I were taken of the women and of the ' governor as he attached his signature i with a pen which afterwards was di- vided into three parts and handed to ' three women who had watched the progress of the bill from its introduc tion. MRS. Dl'.WE I I'lCTl RE. Mrs. Edward F. Dunne, wife of the governor, was pprsuaded to be present and sit in the picture as the firs: lady tue Btatt, Attorney General I.ucey does not find the suffrage bill unconstitutional. I He takes the ground that danger for the bill will arise when its champ'ona seek to put it in operation. Then they m3.f find, ,he isiature h"s been sulUy of S1M oi ""ioa in not amending the various election laws to COnfo.m to th? dutits devolvin5 "Poa election cmiiais s'nee me women are to have the right, to vote for presiden tial electors and all statutory elective officers. While declining to express an opinion cn the constitutionality of the bill, holding that is a matter for the supreme court to decide, the at torney general set forth tha: if the 6uprenie court should follow the rule laid down in the Badencch case against the city of Chicago, the bill will be considered a bad law. WITNESS SIGNATURE. Bpsakcr McKinley, some newspaper men and several members of the as sembly wlnessed the signing cf the bill and wlli be seen in tho moving pic tures taken in the governor's private office. Tho suffragists plan to com plete the film next Monday In the hall of representatives and In the senate chamber, with moica pictures to bo taken showing cuffrnse leaders upon the flcor cf tha two houses lobbying with members for their bill. "We don't havo to say 'thank you,' new," remarked one of the ladles to the elevator man at the capitol, as she rede from the second to the first floor, "because we are equal." 1TI1.ITV mi. I. SOUND. Atrncy General Lueey returned the public uiillty bill to Governor Dunne today wUh the opinion that it Is con Etiijiilonci as to form. 'The governor bar not indicated his probable action on tho bill. NEBRASKA CROPS INJURED BY HAIL Lincoln, Neb., June 2C. A tornado, teesir.panicd by a terrific hail and rainstorm, swept over Central Ne braska last night, dr.mngias crcpa and tearing through tho littlo village of Keaesaw, 100 miles wcat cf hero, where several farm bjddlngs were ce molSehcd, but no lives lost. The hail pounded crops Into the grcund la many places. Wires are down, but meager reports estimate the damage at a hundred thousand. Rain fell In southern Nebrtrka, bene fitting crops where tiiero was no hail. SKIN IS REQUIRED TO SAVE INJURED Buffalo, June 28. Over ten thou rsnd etiuare Inches of rkln must be g:vtn for grilling purposes if the tifeath list In the Huested elevator ex plosion aad fire is to be kept rrom reaching far more tppailing propor tlscs according to eontarvttive es:i matea of physician in attendance on tne Injured at hoapitala. To meet this demand 300 volunteers will be resumed, A publie appeal will be made ts soon as excel conditions are known. No more bodies w:ere recov- nomea eaa ba made until the ruins 4 cool and wreckage is removed. 0 A W sZy H Lf- f ta. -this sLr-J n- jj srX . fiY TH city" fkznt A L A ) cV"i - L L- 6ao6 MtAuS X '! ' -W ill J J AHD oATJ AT xJ&Jnio I rill tit (rVorV XrUF fAODERATE TSWlll 'f "i c rfA SATTfP-f - i ASK COURT ORDER TO PROTECT NAVY Injunction Sought Against Con cern Giving Demonstration to British. New York, June 26. Protection of naval secrets is the object of proceed ings -asua-bfiral government for an injunctiontcve6aln thefe(W.. Bliss company from devnonstratlrfg to the British government the process of making and using the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo. Federal Judge Veeder yes terday reserved a decision on the ques tion of granting an injunction, as re quested by Federal Attorney Cole3. "This torpedo is tho principal weap on of our navy," said Coles. "The right arm of the nation's defense calls upon this court to protect its rights." GETTYSBURG HAS BIG JOB ON HANDS Gettysburg, Pa., Juno 26. That Gettysburg has a great task before her in feeding and -housing the thou B.tids of visitors jvho will come to the reunion of the "Blue and Gray" next week Is manifest today. Every train carries hundreds of persons and nearly every tralu is run in sections. Hundreds of telegrams are being re ceived at hotels asking for accommo dations. A message was received from General Daniel E. Sickles say ing he would arrive Sunday and ask ing that he be furnished au ambulance and wheeling chair. The "command" ci! the general, who lost a log in tho creal battle, will be obeyed. Tho re union begins Sunday. BLE TRAGEDY AT WEST QUINCY Quincy, 111., June 26. A man believ ed to be J. W. Banning of Gregory, Mo., shot and killed Theodoro Poguo and then kiiled himself at Wc3t Quin cy, Mo., this morning. The tragedy waa at the Pogue homo a half mile west of the West Quincy ferry land ing. The details are not known. Pogue was a bachelor, 75 years cf age, a confederate veteran, and owner of 1,000 acres of valuable Missouri bot tom lands. Benning worked for Pogue a year ago, when It Is said he threatened to kill his empioyar. He v.o in Qulacy this morclns. NAME CHICAGOAN FOR RUSSIAN POST Washington, June 15. The presi dent his decided to nominate a for mer governor of Tennessee, Bcntoa McMillan, to be minister to Pert'. Joseph E. Wlliard, iormer lieutenant governor of Virgiaii is slated for Mad rid, Recently he hd been slutd for Belgium. An important position not in the fiiplc malic service is scon to be of fered to Augustus Thomas, a play READY FOR BUSINESS wright. The embassy of France still being held for William McCombs. It was reiterated today that within a year Charles It. Crane of Chicago will become ambassador to Russia. The president nominated: Albert Sohmedemann of Wisconsin to be minister to Norway. Member of Isthmian canal commis sion, Richard Lee Metcalf, Lincoln, LNeb. Members of the commission on in dustrial relations, Frank P. Walsh, Kansas City; John Commons, Wiscon sin; Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Nov: York; Fre4cJkii1.Daln.no, Chicago; Harris Weinsfock, California; S. T. Ballard, Kentucky; John B. Lennon, Illinois; James O'Connell, Washing ton, D. C, and Austin B. Garretsou, Iowa. GERMANS SHOWN NATION BUILDERS Denver, Col., June 26. What was intended to be the one educational fea ture of the program in the allegorical pageant this afternoon was pronounc ed the most instructive as well as impressive lesson ever given by tho North American Gymnastic union. Through the agency of 49 floats on which were grouped turners costumed in keeping with the period they rep resented, the story of the develop ment of the German nation and the part played by German-Americans in the founding and upbuilding of the American republic was. graphically told. The pageant 'was divided Into three sections. TO HOLD INQUIRY INTO RATE RAISE Washington, D. C, June 25. An amended order in lieu cf that rescind ed last Saturday wa3 issued today by tho interstate commerce commission for an Investigation of aa increase of freight rat (as by eastern railroads. It differs in phraseology, but not In prin ciple, from that rescinded. Clemens, MeCord and Marble dissented, holding in the main that the commission, hav ing noth'ng concrete before it, was without authority to establish mini mum rates. No time was fixed for the beriming of the investigation, but un officially it ia understood no formal Xroreedir.gs wiil be undertaken be fore next autumn. EDEN, EX-BONIFACE AND POLITICIAN, IS STRICKEN Chicago, 111., June 26. William S. Eden, former manager of the Great Northern hotel, and a figure in Chi cago politics in years past, was taken to St. Luke's hospital latt night, by friends, who found him ill at the Palmer house. Physicians who exam ined him said that his condition was grave. Eden was at one time one of the best known hotel ms in the United Statea. He was a colonel in the Illi nois natioml guard. He rose from the position of bell boy in the old Tre mont house 50 years ago. As a result of differences with some of the proprietors of the Great North ern Eden retired from the position of manager In 1301, and te same year filed a voluntary petition in bankrupt cy, stating his liabilities at more than a million dollars and his assets at less than half that amount. HORSES BLINDED TO STOP SHYNESS Chicago Dealers Found to Be Practicing Cruelties to Make Easy Sales. Chicago, June 26. That a large number - ot--her la ..Chicago have been deliberately made blind to make them more easily managed is the re port of agents of the Aati-Cruelty so ciety, whose curiosity was aroused by docility of young and apparently nor mal animals. Warrants will be asked for horse dealers accused of mutHa tlon. "Horses are blinded by men who guarantee purchasers they will not shy and need no blinders," said Super intendent Krause of the society. "A needle is Jabbed through each retina, The wound is scarcely noticeable, but the horse so treated will never see again. They are helpless to kicK as in vicious beatings. Peddlers in particular desire horses which are quiet and the blinding of animals has been put on a commercial basis. In South Water street market yesterday 60 horees were fou tl blinded by thi3 method." COOPER JURY TO CARRY ON PROBE Chicago, June 26. The conflict be tween grand juries empaneled respec tively by Judge Kersten and Judge Cooper to investigate alleged frauds In the election of Maclay Hoyne as state's attorney last November, was settled today by Judge Baldwin in favor of the Cooper jury. Both juries had requested Judge Baldwin' to fur nish them the ballots and other rec ords rf the election, and the decision tva3 made on these requests. Judge Kersten, who said jhe had deferred ac tion out of respect for Judge Baldwin, immediately dismissed the jury" under his jurisdiction. Baldwin did not question the faith of either judge or the rival camps of politicians involved. Hoyne had opposed the Cooper jury and alleged that personal animosity of Judge Ccoper to hiniBtlf would pre vent a fair investiga'lon. Drives Through Open Bridge. Upper Sandusky, Ohio, June 25. Not heedtag the warnings cf the bridge tender. It is alleged, Harry Daniels, aged E4, a wealthy banker of this city, drove his automobile through aa open bridge at Fort Clinton early to day and drowned in 20 feet of water. SflERZ MECHANIC KILLED ON TRACK Indianapolis, Ind, June 26. Harry Martin, mechanic for Charles Merz, who drove the last lap in the recent 600-mile auto race with his car on Sre to win tMrd place, was killed on the speedway today while testing out a car. Frank Agan, his assistant, wa3 probably fatally Injured. The accident was ca :sed by the bursting of a tire. The car hit a wall and rolled over with i both men under. PRESID EfJTIS ATTACKED IN COASTCASES Minority Leader Mann De livers His Criticism in the House. COURSE IS HELD WRONG Harrington, Federal Agent, Sus pended Pending Investiga tion of Activities. -' Washington, June 26. Minority .eader Mann in the house today at tacked the course of the president and the attorney general in the Diggs- Caminetti white slave cases and West ern Fuel company indictments In San Francisco. He declared the "chief magistrate of the country had pir- mitted himself to be used in the post ponement. , Clayton Herrington, special agent of the department of justice at San Francisco, who sent President Wilson Sunday night a telegram appealing for the removal from office of Attorney General McReynolds, because cf the circumstances of the resignation of District Attorney McNab, also of San Francisco, was suspended without pay last night by A. Bruce Biolaskl, chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice. This action, it was said, was to give Herrington an opportunity to explain his telegram. If the explanation la not satisfactory, officials declare, the spe cial agent probably will be summarily dealt with. Herrington, a former judge, was In charge of the federal government's bureau of Investigation at San Fran cisco. He helped McNab prepare tho Dlggs-Camlnettl white slave cases, the postponement of the trial of which re- suited in McNab'a resignation and charge against the attorney general. President Wilson has recommended to Attorney General McReynolds the names of Francis J. Heney, Matt J. Sullivan, Thomas Hayden and ot,hera for appointment as special prosecutors In the Digss-Caminetti case and West ern Fuel company coal customs cases. No final selections were made. FOES STU.L. AFTER WII.SOX. President Wilson's publication of the correspondence between himself and Attorney General McReynolds re specting the latter'a interference with the prosecution of the Caminettl-Dlgga case in California has not deposed of the matter. Representative Kahn of Californl will appear before the house judiciary committee today and demand tiiat all the correspondence in the possession of the attorney general be furnished the house and be made public. It is now probable that no action will be taken by the house likely to cause t,he administration increased embarrassment. Tho republicans, how ever, propose to keep the incident be fore the public. Through the acceptance of MeNab's resignation, it Is asserted the friends of Caminetti have obtained the vacan cy in the district attorney's office which they desired, and that unless a special prosecutor of the type of Frank J. Heney is employed, prosecution may devolve upon the man selected for po litical reasons to be McNab'a succes sor. McVYII SCORES McHliV-NOLPS. McNab has issued a statoment to the press today branding the explan ation sent to the president by the at. torney general as "lame and pe.urile." "One of two thing3 is true," tho statement continues. "Either the at torney general withheld from tha president my repeated messages warn ing that corruption and influence were destroying the cases and postpone ment was fatal or official Washing ton is neither sensitive nor responsive to the charge of corruption in its pub lic service." AVIIMnT I A V II lHEW IMJICTED. Sacramento, Cal., June 28. Maury I. Diggs, former state architect, and Drew Caminetti, son of A. Caminetti. immigration commissioner, were In dicted by the county grand Jury last night, charged with abandonment of their minor children In e'oping to Ueno with Marsha Warrington and Lela Norrie, local ' girls. Both men are at liberty on 110,000 bonds. HE.NEt SII.KNT 0- CASE. Albuquerque, N. M., June 26. Fran cis J. Heney, who was in Albuquer?le at noon yeEterday on his way to Sari Francisco, denied all knowledge of his prospective appointment as special prosecutor to conduct the Diggs-Ca-ninett! and the Western FueF com prny cases at San Francisco. He de clined to say whether he would ac cept the position. 1,000 Minera Strike. Charleston, W. Va., June 26. Re ports from Cabin Creek today an- nounce that about a thousand minera ' went on strike this morning at two of the . largest mines of the Cabin ; Creek Consolidated Coal comnanv. t