Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1908, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION. Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Avenue, t t ening Star Newspaper Company, ne aa W. NOYES, fount’ | ‘Gan | European Office: 3 Regent St., London, England. New York Office: Tribune Building. | Chicago Ofice: First National Bank Euilding. | The Evening Star. with the Snaday morning | edition, ix delivered by Guriers, on their own ac count bin the elts at 50 per month without The Sunday Star at 44 cents per month. | By mall. postage prepaid: [on Ca REE Eee ES wer Tew E™ EMRE T ee Pails, Sunday incinded, one month, Daily. Sunday excepted. one month, | No. 17,349. year. $1.00. year, $1.50. Saturday Star. Sunday Star, one Che Evening Star. . GTON, D. CG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1908 TWENTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. Weather. Fair tonight. Tomprrow in- creasing cloudiness, probably rain; warmer. | { | PRESIDENT PLEADS. TO PROTECT UNIS Asks Congress to Amend the Anti-Trust Law. STATE CONVENTION OW IN TENNESSEE ' Republican Gathering Opens With Fist Fights. i j | i CURB ALSO ON INJUNCTIONS |FACTIONS NOW HOLD SWAY | . Financial Legislation Requested as H. Clay Evans Dominates the State Especially Urgent. Machine. WOULD ADMIT WOOD PULP FREE BROWNLOW KEEPS BOBBING UP Around Child Labor and Employers’ Liab’ ity Law Tcuched Upon—The -' Trouble Chiefly Centers | the. Indorsement of the Waterways Commission. Taft Candidacy. i | { NASHVILLE, Tenn.. roh ~The | republican ‘state convention, called to se- | ‘This anti-trust law was a most | | lect presidential electors and delegates | drawn statute. | ‘for the state at large to the Chicago { now become uncertain how | | convention, was called to order at 10 | result in the de- | |o 0! : | 1 of the organizations nec- | , o'clock this morning at‘the state capitol. tion of mod- ¢ pate alin ie a | is of afl Tabor | |For the space of nearly an hour after | organi- | |the body had been called to order a | jhaitle royal waged. It was a fight in } ke is a clumsy weapon for hting verones done to labo’ ' which hundreds participated from time to | time—a genuine rough-and-iumble affair— be done | precipitgted by the efforts of the Evans- youl e illegal at com- | | ee : | Hale delegates to take charge of the ‘rostrum already held by the Oliver-Aus- itin-Brownlow wing of the party. The Oliver hosts, who had come in on a | special train from east Tennesse. marched I } mon law. | Our forests need every protection and one w d for protecting them would be to put upon the free list wood pulp. A message from the. President , was | Straight to the hall of the house of repye- dea nsmidlistt 40) 1enigiess: todas: recom- | Sentatives and filled the big auditorium mending immediate re-enactment of the} Sortly after 6 o'clock thisemorning, They employers’ lability law. the passage of a model child-labor law for the District of Columbia. action limiting the power of injunctions in labor disputes, amendment of the interstate and anti-trust laws—the latter chiefly to prevent the destruction | of unions, under the threefold penalty—j; j the five unsuspecting Evans-Hale guards and took the room. They kept it held it straight through until the hour for the convention, and when the Evans- Wale delegates walked into the room at 10 a.m. the Oliver men were in possess- sion. | passage of financial legislation, and the removal of the duty from wood pulp: [Tt was on the advent of the Evans cohorts that the trouble started. A shipped from countries which put no ex-| Deri aue eae. {dozen fist fights occurred, and in several In the House the declaration that the! instances pistols were drawn. One man time had come for a revision of the tariff; Produced a hatchet, which he was pre- elicited handclapping on the part of demo-| ating to wield when intercepted. A cratic members. Democratic approval jlso|"€SFo delegate. was knocked down by a was given by way of pounding desks to| White man. Both were arrested and the suggestion that Congress could with "Ustled off to the police station. advantage forthwith remove the tariff on, Newell Sanders, chairman of the state wood pulp, with a corresponding reduc. (COMMIttee, an ardent Evans man, was tion upon paper made from wood pulp.(aMest choked into insensibillty by a ‘The republicans waited and confined the} ™¢™MPEers of the Brownlow faction. Fi applause to the message a8 a whole, | T8lly the police restored order, with th ‘The text of the message follows: iRise Se be To the Senate and House of Representa- Party Is at War. iets - Of all the southern states south of Ken- call yo @ i H a res oT, Platts Shine al ynis Pa beptae reipte tucky, Tennessee has for years showh the tion by the Congress pefore the close of | @rBest republican sentiment. Une present sescion. ‘There is ample cinge| The Party Is now rent with factionalism for their consideration. As régards most | *s.7¢Ver Pefore- if not all of the matters, bills have heen introduced into one or the other of ‘the two houses, and it is , ch. to and it is not too much to} the right-hand man of H. Clay Evans, hope that action will be taken one way | % Burke ¥| former jpension commissioner. or the other on these bills at the present | 1°" ; ssion. In my message at the epenine, ttined Ins position by the co-operation of % P pening | Representative N. W. Hale, who repre sents this district. They routed Represent- The present state organ’ Newell Sanders of Chattanooga, scrupuloyis business man of that city a of a | the present session, and, indeed. in rious messages to previous Congresses, | ative W. P. Brownlow at the last state T have repeatedly suggested action on| Convention when Evans was nominated most of these medsures. for governor. Chia uld be prohibited! Brownlow, like Banquo's ghost, will not throughout the nation. ehild-labor bill should b District of Columbia. t in the one place At least a model} down without a struggle, and the struggle { between the factions has resulted in two passed for the) republican part It is unfortunate! eytmir solely dependent} in this sin the state w te in two candidates for distri ho will gress ‘land two sets of delegates upon Congress for its legislation there | to Chicago, should he no law whatever to protect Hale Has Hopes. ‘ ‘dren by forbidding or regulating their| Representati Hale is a candidate to labor | succeed himself to Congress and also for Employers’ Liability Law. national committeeman, in‘ which latter 1 renew my recommendation for the | Position he hopes to succeed Representa- peat re-enactment of an employers’, tive Brownlow. He has the hearty sup- law, de Habiltt y drawn conform to the | Port of the present state organization, and recent of the Supreme Court. While they claim to have elected a ma- Within the limits indicated by the court, | Jority of the delegates from nine districts to sion the law should be made thorough dnd| Out of ten nearly two-thirds of the dele- compreher and the protection it af-| Sates are contestetl, which appears to fords should embrace every class of em-| make two conventions at Nashville next rleye to which the power of the Congress} Wednesday z can extend. | Mr. Hale’ br national com- ia 4 liability law protecting | Mitteeman is W.-J. Oliver, the contracto common carrier; the ; canal. but who did not get the contract pOvern do show its go a pray | Show its good faith |He has never taken part in politics be- t 5 ether law giving com-|fore and little was known of him in a peng ewn employes for injury | political way until he announced his can- er death inewsred in its servi It is a]ldacy. He is sald to pox ees @ barrel of (atts ks = fe hat in bein }B00dlY size and announced to the dele- eis at that in both | gation selected here by his followers the its legislation we have lother day that their expenses to the a protection to public and]|convention at Nashville would be paid. ivate employes than any other indus-| Mr. Hale’s opponent for Congress is R. al try 6£ the world W. Austin, who recently resigned as oa $ onsul to € ow to make the race. He Notice of Injunctions. $a born politician and as a schemer tn { also utge that action Be ‘taken politics has no superior anywhere. His thar atue ok tid (s mendations I hava |itiends have formed # congressional com mittee and called a convention t¢ nate a candidate for Congress May ne elready made co erning Mr. ‘a tempor old committee, which is friendly to in issued by any ec Hale. had previous alled a primary wititint “not as ose = for Septembe So it is plain that there papelcocbeygh tl 4: will b ndijates for Congress from ne aay Which such jet Ss republican Gebraltar, which has not ry has been elected a democrat for a half century. “sued ; ourt issuing Democrats Stand Off. jue sues The democrats have no show to slip in their candidate, district is repub- the date lican by more to one, and it is worth not cer t they will nominate fa rive £ the | car but they enjoyt the contempt Sf} conte their opponents just thé th me should be ar udge than the one 4 ganization . except where the | now J in the mpt is commit presence f ‘court Oliver-Austin com-/ ap-|Elga and J had a key to the hall and marched in on | and! { | i ! | peewee | ization is headed | pistrict committee and chairman of He at-! legislation. i ;committee would act upon such a meas- } NO MORE “LEAVE TO PRINT” WHILE HORATIUS HOLDS THE BRIDGE. SULZER ON THE JOB One-Man Filibuster Still in Progress at Capitol. i 1 |HE OBJECTS AND IS HAPPY Then Apologizes, NEW YORKER WINS POINT Checks the Speedy Consideration of an Appropriation Bill and Retires for Refreshing Smoke. William Bill Sulzer of Nu Yawk war on hand bright and early this morning. a trifle wan and pale as a result cf the terrific mental and physical strain in- jee! in successfully maintaining his only lMving genuine one-man filibuster j against the republican machine, but otherwise ail to the paprika. His Titian hair showed the effects of a long night | of idea-seeking clutches, and his back- bone was so stiff and straight he had to call a page to pick up his handker- chief. ; William Bill looked fit and wasn’t back- ward about saying so. He told a reporter for The Star that he was trained to the minute and couicn't possibly be in better physical condition for the third round of his single-handed filibuster. - “Say, if I felt any bettery I'd hurt my- self,” remarked Mr. Sulzer, just before the House convened. “I’m going to show this bunch how they do things up in little old Nu Yawk.” Right on the Minute. During the preliminaries. of the session | Mr. Sulzer occupied his accustomed seat up front, right under the Speaker's nose, and dawdled with the rules and regula- tions of the Sixtieth Congress and sev- eral other solemn-looking volumes, but at the tap of the business gong he was out TO STOP TRACK BETS LITTLE COMMITTEE'S ACTION. There is little doubt in the minds of | those interested in the passage of anti- | race track gambling legislation at this isession that the Senate District commit- tee at its meeting Friday will take favora- ble action on the Sims amendment to the] Benning road bill to prohibit effec ively.| this form of gambling in the District. All of those members of the committee to | whom a representative of The Star ha: spoken favor the enactment of such legis Senator Dillingham, a member of { ure without referring it to a subcom-. mittee for investigation. He said he did not believe that the proposed legislation would be enacted into law quite so soon as is expected in some quarters. Mr. Gallinger sald Qhat he anticipated some DOUBT OF SENATE /|GUEST “I am strongly in favor of this sort of | I am not prepared to say, anything at this time about the present measure, as I have not examined 1 will do so very soon,” Senator Gailinger, chairman of district committee, said today that al- though he favored the early passage of legislation to prevent betting at the races in the Jistrict, he did not believe that the} } objection on the part of senators to the! measure in its .present form, that is. as an amendment to the Benning: road bill, as it came. from the House yesterday. i PROCTOR’S SUCCESSOR | LOOKS GOOD TO CANNON J. W. STEWART IS A LAWYER AND IS EIGHTY-THREE. The news of the appointment of John W. Stewart as United States senator to r who was the lowest bidder on the Panama | Succeed the late Senator Proctor of Ver- mont was received with the New England republicans at the Capitol today. The new senator is eighty- three years of age. and will be the oldest senator as well as the newest. Speaking of Mr. Stewart, Senator Dil- lingham of Vermont said this morning: “He is one of the best lawyers in the state, a liberal, broad-minded man, who has made his mark in state and national affairs. He is certain to serve with honor as a member of the Senate. John Wolcott Stewart was born in Mid- diebury, Vt.. November 24, 1825. and was graduated from Middlebury ‘ollege 1846, He read law in the office of F Seymour and was admitted to t much favor by t bar ip four 3 He was elected governor fo: two years in 1870, and after another short erm speaker was sent to Congress district in 1882, being re- i for three s Ss. h as from! the first ted Stewart —and one son— B. of Colorado Stewart. The younger Stewart is an inti- Philip Springs. mate friend of President Roosevelt, and accompanied him on his western hunting trip a few years ago ‘The new Senator is with his son at Golo- rado Springs. “This is news to me,” said he when the appointment was announced to him. “I received some slight intimation that I might receive the appointment in a letter from a friend which 1eached me_ this morning, but beyond that [ know nothing. I have not been in any sense a candidate. this now and unsolicited appointment at the | hands of the son of the man whose term or in other case of urgency ead (one toe Watt Interstate and Anti-Trust Laws. ‘ome lukewarm in its | : : jance. as in two counties that re- I again call attention tot urgent néed | cently held conventions which it con- ef amending the Interstate commerce law, } trolled ft failed to even mention Judge | apa especial'y the anti-trust law Taft's v i sik the lines indicate 5 " ts are at swords points | pi Heleremn EEE pean between ex ator Carmack and} The interstate | commerce law ep eee) Patterson to who shall make | amended s to give railroads the right|the race for governor next year. Car- to make trafic agreements. subject to|mack wanted « primary election to ese cen s »proved »|decide, but the committee which is these" agreements Leing approved by the | ¢\crapie to the governor decided on a interstate commerce commission and pub-| qgelegate convention, and the Carmack | lished in all of their details. The com-|rollowers are saying some very ugly mission should also be given the power | things Nats Peat a seer aot nce for o make publie and yass upon the | State-wide probibition, while the gov- issuance of ail securities hereafter issued | "fuer favers local option. So, taking - : preliminarles sriterion, the old by railroads doing an interstate commerce | Vaiuhteer state’ will ye. tlie hottest j campaign in her histor: ng the year. passed ' providing federal court deter: mn carrier or oth ider the contre! Attorr n ae ee Smith's Election Ratified. ANNAPOLIS, Ma., Mareh tion yesterday ef former Gov. | ter nith to fill the unexpired position of when mines to place a public utility a concer of recetvership, ethe should hi the the late United States Senator least one of the in}term was formally ratified today at a some © way the joint session of the two ‘branches of the (Continued on Fourth Page.) [tegistature. Whyte's | Cun | I am to fill out is exceedingly gratifying to me.” —— Little Girl Burned to Death. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., March 25.~ playing with home, at Fairview, this county, ningham, aged five years, acciden et fire to the clothing of his five-yea stepsister. The little one was burned to a crisp before the flames could be extin- guished, and died a few hours later. -While matches in front of their Ray | | | or state questions of national importance. BRYAN IS IN VIRGINIA OF _GOV. SWANSON. PUBLIC ADDRESS TONIGHT. RICHMOND, Va.. March 25.—William Jennings Bryan arrived here today, and 1s the guest of Gov. Swanson. He will address a mass meeting in the auditorium tonight. Many persons are here from nearby points to attend the meeting. Maryland Bryanites Aroused. BALTIMORE, March 25.—Winfield E. ,| Beveridge, secretary of the Maryland Pro- | Sressive Democratic League, accompanied | lation. | by several members of that organization, the | will go to Washington tomorrow and con- the | manne. a 5 fer with Mr. William Jennin; Bryan. | subcommittee on excise and liquor legi cabot and |jation, said today: The Bryan campaign for delegates-to the national convention has been lagging in Baltimore lately, and the members o} the league will call on their leader. They it, but | will orobably ask Mr. Bryan what his | attitude 1s in regard to the fight in Mary- the } land. The position taken by the New York leaders in their opposition to the Ne- braskan has acted as a tonic to the Balti- more friends of Goy. Johnson. If the Bryanites are not careful the delegation from Maryland may be found behind the Minnesotan. The friends of Mr. Bryan are aware that a united fight against their favorite in the eastern states for the Governor of Minnesota might mean the defeat of their man. Col. Bryan held a reception at 1 o'clock today in the offices of Gov. Swanson, when all the members of the gen>ral as- sembly and state officials called to pay their respects. A o'clock Col. Bryan, Gov. Swanson and the members of the reception committes were entertained by President Ellyson at lunch. |HIS FRIENDS WILL CONTROL THE CONVENTION TOMORROW. SPRINGFIELD. I1).. March 25.—The ad- vance guard of delegates to the republi- can state convention, which tomorrow will name four delegates-at-large to the republican national convention and adopt} a platform touching upon national issue! arrived today. The convention, generaily speaking. will be in accordance with the | Obio platform on tariff revision, although ; the idea is to be expressed in a manner somewhat different. The idea generally favored at this time is “tariff adjust- ment.” The exact difference between “adjust- ment” and “revision” will, it {is under- stood, be made clear tonight when Repre- tative Boutell urrives from Washing- ton. No selection has as yet been made for temporary or permanent irman, but the names of Charles P. Hitch of Eckhart of Tuscola kingham of Danville j are mentioned in connection with the lat- 18%. Four years later he formed a part- nership with former United States Sena- tor S. 8. Phelps. but the, firm was dis- selved on the death of Mr. Phelps the 2 Stewart was state's attorney for Addison county from 1852 to 1 . and in 1856-57 represented Middlebury in the le isiature He served as senator in 1861-6: and. House in 1864. Ss} j ele do speaker and held the position for | voted on favorably ter position. On the presidential proposition Cannon far has everything his “own way, and no suggestion has been heard looking toward the indorsement of any other candidate. ‘The nds of the Speaker express themselves as confident of controlling the convention without trouble. Two Cannon Men Selected. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, March 25.—The second dis- triet republican congressional convention, the first to be held in Cook county, today selected Roy O. West, chairman of the re- publican state coMmitee, and County Treasurer Thompson as delegates to the national convention. They were not in- structed. Mr. West and Mr. Thompson will go to the national convention as Can- non men. Se Se ee ee Captaincy Limit for Porto Ricans. ‘The bill introduced by Mr. Hull of Towa, chairman of the House committee on mili- tary affairs, to establish the status of the Porto Rican Regiment as a part of the regular army of the United States, was yesterday by that committee. The committee so amended the bill that native Porto Ricans shall not | hold in the regiment a rank higher than that of captain, and that a lieutenant col- onel and two majors shall be detailed to the regiment from the regular army of the United States. of his seat, trying to attract he Speaker's attention. Somebody got in ahead of him, however, Mr. Cannon appearing some- what blind in the eye that wandered over Mr. Sulzer’s way, and for a little while the business of the House proceeded, in- CLAIMED FOR TAFT MANAGERS SAY NEW JERSEY IS FOR SECRETARY. by William Bill’s repeated yells of “Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Speake: At Taft headquarters here the claim is made that New Jersey republicans are overwhelmingly in favor of the nomina- tion of the Secreta! Canvasses made | in all parts of the state, it is sald, show! with a somewhat querulous air and in- that thé popular mind is not merely set quired: upon Mr. Taft as the-candidate of the “For what purpose does the gentleman | Chicago convention, but that his prom-| rise?” inence is undisputed by any rival among} “I want to make a parliamentary in- v" for the} aquiry,” replied Mr. Sulzer, in the gentle Hea Meerire Nitti es though unmistakable accent of fast Nu nomination. vee softer as he went along. Sentiment throughout the state, and particularly in north Jersey, 1s pro- Exercise for the Speaker. nouncedly in favor of Mr. Taft's can-| Speaker ‘Cannon banged his desk until didacy, and the drift of public opinion| the skylight rattled. among leading commercial and pro-| “There is nothing before the House for essional men, including those who do|the gentleman to inquire about,” he re- usiness in New York, is strongly toward} Plied sharply, and, of course, everybody the Secretary of War, according to the | laughed. ‘Taft managers. It was at first supposed] Then Mr. Cannon was reminded by Asher that in the commuter sections, where a] Hinds, the parliamentarian who stands large proportion of the voters, might! 4+ his elbow and guides him through the ‘easily be under the influence of | YOre eat ‘there would be a tendency to|™@zes of the parllamentary canebrakes, | espouse the candidacy of some one other | that there was some kind of a motion be- |than Mr. Taft. A careful survey of the| fore the House, and Uncle Joe, turning in Seton in thee) Co ee inaleate: Mr. Sulzer's direction, placed bis hand on it is claimed,-that this fs not e case. re z Taft supporters say that not only is his|"!s heart, kowed profoundly, and apolo candidacy favored, but the feeling pre-| sized. y beat valls that New Jersey’s delegates should ‘The chair,” he said, “apologizes to the be instructed to vote for him “‘first, last} gentleman from New York. The chair and all the tim was in error. There is a motion before the Jn reaching the conclusion that Mr. Taft | House.” is the favorite candidate of the republic-]__ William Bill was not to be outdone. ans of New Jersey especial effort was|He placed his right Smithfield over that made by his friends to gain~expressions| Portion of the anatomy which is sup- of opinion from those who are not classed| posed to work in close harmofy with either as politicians or officeholders. the appetite, and bowing until his Titian Taft sentiment is manifesting itself in nee prashet the dgsk in front of him at all over the} he remarked: aia oaeaa outers PER Adah “That's all right, Mr. Chair. The gene "The Taft people claim that the German|tleman from Nu Yawk is often in error voters in Newark, who number between | himself. : 18,000 and 120.000, ‘prefer Mr. Taft. Per- Always in Ple: t Mood. vi in touch with the German d Sleanent eoncns ‘the republicans say that] But this little interchange of pleas- they favor the Secretary's nomination | antries did not mean that the only living almost as a unit. genuine one-man filibuster had gotten over its mad. It merely meant that BLAZE IN DRURY LANE) rie ea cou olan oven un For when Representative Gillette, in CLD LONDON PLAYHOUSE HAS A charge of the legislative, executive and CLOSE CALL TODAY. judicial appropriation bill. whch is now in conference, climbed to his feet with a tentative, hopeful. too-good-to-be-true smile and asked unanimous consent to E call up the in order that the House Special Cablegram to The Btar. might disagree to the Senate amend- LONDON, March 25.—A fire that WaS/ ments, Mr. Sulzer uttered a deep throaty {discovered in Drury Lane Theater at 4] “f object.” o'clock this morning did a considerable} So Mr. Gillette had to move that the |amount of damage, but not so much ,as| House go into a committee of the whole | was at first supposed. The cause of the = take on moun and a Ee 80 to do i ertain, but it is known| What otherwise. except for the operation joutbreale is -une A of the only living genuine one-man fili- jthat the fire started back of the stage. | buster. would have been done in a minute jamong some stored scenery. Soon the and a half. whole stage was ablaze and the flames} “And Mr. Sulzer. having accomplished | threatened to spread to fhe auditorium. |fhis much. retired to the cloakroom for But the prompt, lowering of the iron safe- ae eee taet Oe el eemines ty curtain effectually prevented this and |to°the door of the cloakroom and, stuck hommaned the flames to the rear of the! ot his head for a glance around. just to | 5 ngines and 200 firemen centered |#ssure himself that the House was per- inet Urdre upon the endangered building [forming according to the standards and and within three hours were enabled |ideals of William Bill, proprietor and te obtain the mastery over the flam: general manager of the only living genuine The entire front part of the theater is|onc-man filibuster. undamaged, and the auditorium presents ee STILL FAR APART. Its . lits usual’ appearance. immunity is! jentirely due to the safety curtain’ It) | was not found necessary to take a single | 4 liine of hose through the front of the |Conferees on Union Station Tracks building. The stage. however, is prac Fail to Agree. ‘The Senate and House conferees on the Union station permanent trackage bill met yesterday: afternoon and agreed to meet again this afternoon. There is as yet no sign of an agreement, or even a compromise, between the Senate and House on the three leading proposi- tions of the House trackage bill. These are the arrangement of the tracks on the plaza of the Union station, universal transfers and supervision and control of local traction companies by the Com- missioners. Engineers representing the Washing- ton Terminal Company and both of the street railway companies and Engineer Commissioner Morrow appeared before the conferees and gave their views as to the proper arrangements of the tracks jnear the station. Representative Sims of Tennessee, the tically destroyed and a section of the roof has fallen in. The offices and dress- ing rooms are damaged and much scen- ery and stage machinery and many costly costumes were ruined, though quantities were saved. The damage will run into several thou- sads of pounds and the work of repair will take several months, Drury Lane Theater was first opened in 1663, burned 1672 and reopened in 1674 with an address by Dryden, who extalled its advantages in location. The burning of the third theater on the site took place February 24, 1909. It was in the famous Drury Lane that Garrick. Kean. the Kembles and Mrs. Siddons used to act. SUSE Een eee British Premier Growing Worse. LONDON, March 25.—Premier Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman is steadily growing worse. The public today was given a guarded notification of the real gravity of his malady, which up to the present time has been known only to a few persons. ‘he bulletin issued this morning read: of the House, is anxious to see the trackage bill become a law. and is ener- ‘The prime minister had a good night andj getically prodding his colleagues on the a good sleep, but he is weak, and his co: conference committee to deman@ every- dition gives Cause for considerable anx-|day meetings until the whole business lety.”” is settled. Speaker Gets Busy With Gavel and} terrupted as far as noise was concerned, And William Bill's voice didn't get any Finally the reiterations seemed to get on Mr. Can- non’s nerves, and he turned to Mr. Sulzer | minority conference. member on the ‘part | i GEAMANY DECLINES ~ TO RECEIVE DR HILL | Secretary Root Amazed at the Announcement. i |NO REASON KNOWN HERE Berlin Reports That He Was Not Considered Representative. EMBASSY HERE NOT INFORMED | Said to Be Regarded at the German Court as Unsuitable for Post of American Ambassador. _ The German government has declined to receive Dr. David Jayne Hill in the ca- pacity of American ambassador to suc- ceed Charlemagne Tower, whose resigna- tion has been accepted to take effect upon the qualification of his successor. Dr. Hill te at present American minister to The Hague. and was formerly first ‘an- sistant secretary of state under the -ad- ministration of Secretary Hay. The objection to Dr. Hill is one purely personal to Emperor William, who has simply caused it to be made known that the American dipiomatist is persona non grata to him. The reason for the em- Peror's objection is connected with the visit to America several years ago of his brother, Prince Henry, the ranking admiral of the German na Dr. Hill at that time was first assistant secretary of state, and necessarily was brought into oMcial contact with the distinguished foreign visitors. Just what he did or did not do to give offense is not known here, Germany's First Tatimation. A perplexing Yeature of the case is Presented by the fact that last November the-German government let it be known that Dr. Hill would be cordially received as American ambassador to Berlin. at that time Ambassador Te Deut ne ‘ower, after the id sought in vain t i suade him from suc! dhnand| the decision et rdge a a course, reached roper consideratio: for his own private a ana ae ee a business interests education he deemed fone dten, whose it necessary to Po fect in America. wee sees bs eles . obliged him to insist eptance of his resignatt Dr. Hill was selected to All’ this im- porsant vacancy for two reasons—first, 4 cause of his high rank in the world of iitetateine ang diplomacy, and, seconi, Hones pr Promotion would be in execu ivil service principles in t diplomatic service. For seed Head ceding Dr. Hill had been an merica minister, first accredited to Switzerland and then to The Hague. -He was ¢ gaged in a monumental covering the entire history ‘diplomacy, and these two exceptional advantages fo) ment of the great mass of material re- quired for the work. As that task neared completion Dr. Hill found himself will- ing to abandon the field for the higher diplomati¢ post of ‘Berlin, and, as al- ready stated, the German foreign office cordially responded to the usual cautious overtures from the State Department here as to his availability for appoint- ment as ambassador. So today's decision of the German em- peror has come as a complete surprise to official Washington. It is, nevertheless, final as far as Dr. Hill is concerned, *for the etiquette that governs international relations does not permit of any question of the right of a sovereign to interpose an objection to the reception of any official who comes to his posi In the extraor- one and personal character of ambas- sador. Secretary Root Amazed. Notice of the action of the German gov- ernment in Dr. Hill's case came to the State Department quite unofficially at first today, there being nothing in the shape of a formal notification, but simply an inti- mation of what was to follow. Secretary Root was amazed, because his own in formation was that not only the German foreign office. but Emperor William him. self, had formally signified a willingness to receive Dr. Hill when his name was suggested last fall. Therefore, the first conclusion reached at the State Depart- ment was that somewhere a mistake had been made. Secretary Root immediately communi- cated by telephone with Baron Speck von Sternburg, the German ambassador here, and upon the Secretary's invitation tne diplomat called at once at the State De- partment to confer personally with the Secretary regarding the master. But it was said at the German embassy that no knowledge of Dr. Hill's rejection had reached the embassy officially, and when the members were asked to endeavor to recall any ‘unpleasant incident connected with the visit to Washington of Princo Henry they were at a loss. That visit was in February, 1902, when Baron Speck von Sternburg was German consul gen- eral in Bombay. and so not in a position to throw any light on the subject. Dr. Hill's High Reputation. David Jayne Hill has for many years been regarded as an authority on inter- national law. As President of Roches- ter University he made that fascinating subject a specialty. and was the author of several works and lectures thereon and made it his favorite course. He entered the service of the State Department Or- tober 25. 1898, as assistant secretary of state under the administration of the late Secretary Hay. His record in the Stata Department was that of an extremely ef- ficient officer, and during the frequent illnesses and absences of Secretary Hav he discharged the responsible duties of the head of the department of state in a manner that elicited the warm admiration of the late President McKinley. Presi dent Roosevelt also conceived high admiration for Dr. Hill's ability, and | was with some reluctance that he vield to the doctor's desire to go abroad ani allowed him to leave the State Denar ment to become minister to Switzerlar January 7, 1903. He was transferred The Hague Mareh 15. 1905. in compliand with his own desire to participate in tht proceedings of the second Hague cons ference, which project was then undet discussion. He was one of the American delegates to that conference and took a leading part in the presentation of a American propositions, which terminat in what Secretary Root has been pleased to record as one of the greatest diplo- matic achievements of the century. Important Social Position. While in Washington Dr. Hill and hia wife filled the most important place in the social life of the capital, and the elaborateness and frequen of the entertainments extended by them to the diplomatic corps, to distinguished visit- ing foreigners and to other »eople of note was a subject of comment. It w understood here that the Hills nad ca ried the broad notions of hospitality into their European homes-when they ent abroad. ae having a possible bearing on to~ | day's developments, the fact is recalle@ literary we of the world's posts afforded r the procure- a | °