Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1909, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION. ‘Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Avenue The Evening Star Newspaper Company, European Office: 8 Regent St., London. England New York Office: Tribune Building. — Chicago Office: First National Bank uilding. ‘The Evening Star, with the Sunday morpin; edition. delivered by carriers within the ity at 50 cents per month. y be sent by mail or telephone Main 2440. rrier at the end of each month. By mail. postage prepaid: . Sunday included, Sunday exeepted. Saturday Star, $1 year. Sunday Stat i] i | | No. 17,651. TON, D. C, FRI Che Fvening Star. DAY, JANUARY 2, 1909—TWENTY-TWO PAGES. WO CENTS. Weather. Unsettled and warmer tonight and Saturday, with rain Satur day. KNOX AND ADOT HEARD INVESTIGATION FOR FRAUD Assisted Attorney General Russell Puts Documents in Evidence. POSTAL EMPLOYE TESTIFIES Otis Guild Tells of Receipts of News- papers Through Mails—Baker Quizzed by Student. canal investigation was District of Columbia Panama continued before tl grand jury today with the testimony of | e | Philander C. Knox, senator from Penn- sylvania, and Attorney General at the time of the purchase of the canal. He is supposed to have reviewed in a general way the negotiations leading up} to the purchase, and to have shown the grand jury just what degree of vigilance e exercised in seeing that no advantage taken of this government in the transaction. Mr. Knox, it is known, during the prog- ress of the settlement of the canal pur- chase made a personal visit to Paris, and also sent trusted assistants to the French capital to unearth any “graft,” if such should exist, in the transaction. The first government documents bearing om the canal purchase to be laid before the grand jury were presented today by Assistant Attorney General Charles W. Russell, who, when he entered the grand jury room, carried a brief bag bulging with papers and pamphlets. On issuing from the room he declined to say any- thing about the investigation or to iden- tify the documents which he carried. Following Mr. Russell, the reading of the alleged Ifbelous articles from the In- dianapolis News proceeded. The World articles were not read to the grand jury today. At 12:40 the grand jury took a recess for twenty minutes to await the arrival of Secretary Root. Root Has to Wait. Mr. Root arrived at the city hall five minutes after the jurors had left for the recess, and was compelled to wait in the private office of Mr. Baker for fifteen minutes. In response to the inquiries of the press representatives the Secretary, holding out his subpoena, declared that it was the only paper he had brought with him. He had nothing further to Say. At the conclusion of Mr. Root’s test which lasted less than ten min- .. the .grand jury adjourned until Monday. Mr. Root stated today that he had not heen within the precincts of the city hall since the Gutteau trial in 188, when he was a specator. Asked if he had ever been before a grand jury previously he answered: ‘I used to run a grand jury when I was @ district attorney.” Senator Knox Comes Early. Senator Knox, accompanied by his pri- vate secretary, €. I. Wilson, reached the city hall promptly at 11 o'clock and was ushered into the district attorney's pri- vate office, where they were closeted with Mr. Baker for ten minutes. Mr. Baker then escorted Mr. Knox to the grand jury room, which is at the extreme end of the corridor from the office of the United States attorney. (wenty minutes were consumed by Mr. nox in detailing to the grand jury his connection with the canal purchase. When he retired he declined to say any- concerning his testimony or about tigation generally. ssued to Mr. Knox re- at 1 o'clock. communicated with y's office and suggest- to the ator’s engage- itol hour would be was the inconvenies Mr. Baker then arranged that the testi mony of Mr. Kn should be given at) 11 o'clock. He therefore, the first witness to test today, as the grand Jury convenes at that hour. The appearance of Mr. Knox in response to the subpoena, it was learned today, w: purely voluntary. He could not ‘have been compelled to testify at this time i he had been unwilling. During the sions of Congress its members are empt from service of proc Otis Guild, employed in the mailing divi- sion of the city post office, followed Sena- tor Knox on the witness stand. Through him, it 1s thought, the grand jury was advised of the receipt through the mails of the coples of the two publications con- taining the alleged libel for distribution in this District. Assistant Attorne} was under the knox, clo: General Russell, who then Attorney General ly identified with the canal purchase settlement, next testified. He is presumed to have shown documentary evidence to the grand jury tending to establish the fact that the transaction was above suspicion. Mr. Root Has to Wait. Jocularly remarking that he brought his subpoena and his conscience with im, Secretary Root appeared at the court- house at 12 o'clock. onterred with Distri the grand jury havin, arrival taken a r He immediatety Attorney Baker, just previous to his ess until 1 o'clock. Mr. Root was the last witness. He was n the grand jury room only a short while. Law Student Quizzes Baker. An incident occurred a few nights ago 5 Gata g anaen | | 5 the end of this fiseal year, and probably! <.. é E The fips! it ts said, at a local law school, which | $149,000.000 at the end of the next year,| ST. LOUIS, January ee et aa considered an attempt to break the|he thought that there was no excuse for | tional convention of the unemployed con-| sphinx-like silence observed throughout | 4PPTOPriating $24,000,000 for two battle-| vened here today under the auspices of | t y by United States Attorney | Sh'PS. ait ee crn: Saas: ina ee money | James Eads How, the millionaire sponsor | k who is a lecturer there. During |." auch as piver aid: hagice pioiects | ob the hoboes. He ae ee arrived | course of the lecture, which was on| eerste : : uring the nigit on freight trains and ate law, one of the audience, |2epburn RidiculesTawney’s Position | j)ina baggage. ly a law student, plied the pro-| Representative Hepburn of Iowa fol-| The convention will consider the elimi- with questions of criminal libel lowed Mr. Tawney in support of the bat-| nation of labor employment bureaus and . | : i ‘ lin their place Use .establishment of bu- ir. (Baker ‘ fact rogram. In his well known style |! Uv P : I Mr. Baker squel: ied the questioner with ee waeee dee will furnish work without the remark th Was lecturing, on. yeah {5S ace Stee atenk on the chal set program has been a estate law, which was far removed from|man of the appropriation committee whe | al noted men have been in- e law of eriminal hbel. Several students | had just preceded fim. He held Mr. /v 1k to the delegates oh taken umbrage at the l-ypawnev 0 ridic a 8: | SSS SSS mud threatened to eieee nce awney up to ridicule as professing to | | Supreme Court, Century Ago, Quashed Federal Libel Suit EARLY BIRDS fo Commitee’s Provision for Two Battleships Adopted. 160 TO 80 ‘VOTE WA |Chairman Tawney Leads in Opposi- tion to the Vessels. HOLDS THEY ARE NOT NEEDED | |Hepburn Ridicules the Contention. | | Proposition for One Battleship Defeated, 108 to 158. | “IT am tired of these annual wars with | Japan, which always occur simultaneous- lly with the consideration of the naval ap- propriation bill by Congress,” declared Chairman Tawney of the appropriations ‘ommittee, in opposing the battleship pro- vision of the naval bill in the House “All the rest of the time our re- lations with Japan are friendly, but soon as we begin to consider the naval | as appropriation bill then we learn from} the press and other sources that war is imminent.” When the House resumed consideration | of the naval bill the members were primed for the usual fight over the increase in | the naval establishment. A long wrangle over the amount of time which should be devoted to debate on the battleship | provision followed the taking up of the measure. | Mr. Foss (1l.). in charge of the bill, | sought to limit the consideration of this feature to one hour, but Mr. Griggs (Ga.) | objected. An agreement finally was | reached by which two hours were alloted. | The Finley amendment to the bill strik- | ing out the battleship provision, was | defeated by a vote of °8 to 160. | NCIES. Deems Provision Unnecessary. Speaking in support of an amendment by Mr. Finley (S. €.), striking out the bat- tleship provision, Mr. Bartholdt (Mo.) de- clared that if there ever was a time when such an appropriation was unwise and un- necessary it was now. “It is unnecessary,” he said, “because we are at peace with all the world, and, what is more, we have wisely managed to safeguard our peace as it.has never been safeguarded before. Representative Hardy of ‘Texas, who fol- lowed Mr. Bartholdt, declared that when nations or peoples armed themselves they armed for war and not for peace. He asserted that in for ys when pretty nearly everybody in his state carried @ gun there bloodshed, battle, murder and sudden death. But now, when the carrying of we:pons is prohibited by law, peace prevails everywhere within the bor- ders of Texas. 2 Tawney Opposes Battleship Program. Representative Tawney of Minnesota, chairman of the House committee on appropriation, made the strongest speech |DEATH OF VETERAN PUBLISHER ANDREW J. AIKENS OF MIL- WAUKEE DIES OF PARALYSIS. With Wisconsin Paper for Fifty- Five Years—Originator of “Patent Insides.” MILWAUKEE, Wis. January 22.-An- drew J. Aikens, aged eighty, general manager and part owner of the Evening Wisconsin of this city, died today, the re- sult of a paralytic stroke which he suf- fered several days ago. He had been in feeble health for many months. He had been a newspaper man for about sixty-five years, and connected with the Evening Wisconsin of this city about fifty-five years. He was the originatot of “patent in- of the day in opposition to the battle-|sides” in 1863, and afterward founded | ship program, and in support of the |newspaper unions for the printing of amendment. He declared that action by | “patent insides’ at Chicago, New York, | the House in opposition to the recom-|Cincinnati, Nashville, Atlanta and Mem- mendation of the naval committee would | phis. not necessarily mean that Congress has| Mr. Aikens had been a member of the changed its plans with respect to a naval | Associated Press for upward of forty program, but simply that it w not | years. |thought ‘advisable to authorize at this jtime the expenditure of $24,000,000. for DISASTER IN GOLD MINE. ! two of the greatest vessels that were! ever planned. He did not believe that | é the Cnited States should pat.ern its|Ten White Men and 150 Natives) Bate policy on the naval policy of other Perish in Flood. nations. JOHANNESBURG, ‘Ten white He did not believe that because some Transvaal, January other nation had authorized several bat- men and 150 natives were Ueships bigger than anything heretofore | ‘ d contemplated the United States must im-| drowned today in the Witwatersrand gold mediately provide for two battleships big-| mine which became flooded by t- ger even than those. | To Gratify National Vanity. “This is merely,” cried Mr. Tawney, “to gratify our ambition to lead the entire world in the matter of navat shipbuild- ing.” It was ambition, Mr. Tawney said, that |first prompted the Unit-d States to an am- |bitious naval policy, and that had kept| ATLANTA MAN PLEADS GUILTY. |that policy alive for the last four or five | ——— years. He deplored the fact. that the} naval committee's justification for these two great ships was based on the naval policy of other nations The geographical isolation of the United States, he thought, constituted a better e bur | ing of Knights dam. the dam to give way Heavy rains caused The water from the dam flooded the lower sections of the town of Elsburg. A of w j and thirteen persons were drowned. also number houses © swept away With Others Practiced Fraud Among Negroes to Amount of $5,000. ATLANTA. Ga., January 2-J. .J. | Weaver, who was indicted jointly with three others on a charge of counterfeiting defense than all the combined navies ot | certificates of the Columbus Clearing erahyeess bia é ith Japan, | House Association, entered a plea of As to apprehension of war with Japan, cy os Weue te iain VS apru he declared, there was no more danger o¢|Sullty in the superior court of Fulton county. Pending the outcome of the trial of his alleged confederates, C. E. Davis, an at- torney of Rome, Ga.; W. O. Bowden of Columbus and T. W. Ezzard of Fulton county, Judge Roan did not pronounce sentence upon Weaver. The plea of gui by Weaver was conditioned upon the jury accompanying its verdict with a recommendation that the offense be treated as a misdemeanor, which was done war between Japan and the United States |than between the United States and Great | Britain. Japan, he said, could not impose another penny of taxes upon her people without revolution resulting. But even more important than this Japan could not conduct naval operations against the | United States without a naval base in the | Pacific. ‘Hawali was the only island that | could serve as a base of naval operations | in the Pacific and when the fortifications now under construction at Pearl harbor |and Honolulu by this government were} It is charged that the four men during | corapleted the island would be as impreg-| the 1907 panic printed bogus clearing nable as the Rock bf Gibralter. house certificates and circulated them Mr. Tawney also called attention to the| among negroes to the amount of about recently ratified agreement between the | $5,000. United States and Japan. whieh, he ————>—____ | thought. would result in perpetual peace. “t HOBOES IN CONVENTION. Nor was there the slightest danger to be| penattnyitPak feared from any European nation. In . ; iew of all these facts, and considering | First National Meeting of Unem- here would be a deficit of $125,000,000 at | ployed at St. Louis. know more than any one tions of war and of peac | Ise about ques- He thought, moreover, that in making the statement that the naval committee's program was a result of ambition that the United States should have bigger ships than any other REASONS FOR HER SUICIDE. |Chicago Victim Leaves Remarkable | Letter Explaining Her Act. | | | CHICAGO, January A remarkable | tence that the | States, l engaged in four vars. nation, he had deliberately insulted the fi a s: i aw, age PITTSBURG, Januar That action | American people. He denounced Mr. | lette= was left by Miss Alice Law, aged for libel cannot be brought in fedesal|Tawney’s argument as the most tricia |tWenty-six, an editor employed by a localj ee me yg. be had heard against the item carried by | publishing firm, who committed suicide courts against the publishers of news- | | the naval bill for two battleships. today by asphyxiation. The letter follows: | pepers containing the alleged libelous; My. Hepburn said he intended to speak | ire all cwhon it does “nol “Gonkerd: 1 matter concerning the purchase by the) frankly. He called the attention of his | a. engyng aiteniecaline peecens Paty United States of the Panama Canal Com-| colleagues to the fact that in less than a! aenleldikinciontinets a . and that the exa ci hundred years the United States had been | iy ete enw sen 6 a1 nr na tion to Ngee and a pany, anc xamination conduct- | believe I have an absolute right to end my | ed by the grand jury in the United States | AB yr ds ; | had had its war, and he saw ‘no reason _cour New York must, if any] for believing that eact ration would = (Continued on Eleventh Page> | (Continued on Ele ge.) life if [ wish. The struggle is too har | There is too much work, too much monot- ony, too much weariness and not enough | tart, music, recreation and rest,’ Serious Differences Deadlock International Conference. MAY DEFEAT AGREEMENT American Delegates Stand Firm for “Continuous Voyages.” THEY HAVE CONCEDED MUCH Great Heal Breach and Arrive at Mutual Britain Anxious to Understanding. LONDON, January 22. ing impression here that the powers will not be able to reconcile their differences, and that the international naval confer- ence, which opened here last month, is 4oomed to failure. Great Britain is working desperately to prevent this. She put off the evil day by canceling the meeting called for this morning, after arranging that the com- mittee shall take up the discussion of technical subjects only. ‘These committee meetings will be con- tinued until the delegates, whose insis- views of their governments shall prevail, brought about the deadlock, have received more definite instructions. America is included in this group. Americans Will Not Yield. The American delegates, acting on in- structions from Washington, refused par- | ticularly to concede anything on the ques- tion of “continuous voyages.” This ques- tion is regarded as vital by the United States. Having made concessions to the other powers on points regarded by them to be vital. she is now looking for a little re- ciprocity. Up to the present this has not been forthcomin: Great Britain sartly responsible for this situation. Having suffered during the Russo-Japanese war from the enforce- ment of a principle which she always had upheld. and in which America agreed with her, she has now been partly converted to the’ continental view. fhe. American delegates continue to maintain reticence. It has been learned that they have held from the start that America was ready to make reasonable concessions which did not mean a too great impairment of her interests and which were nét wholly in conflict with her laws and policies. With regard to the deadlock it was sug- gested today that such condition might be brought about as much by one party as the other. Last week the conference was proceed- ing smoothly. Delegates were predicting that an agreement would be reached Feb- ruary 1, and a code of laws drawn up and signed by the middle of the month. They far less optimistic today. While they believe it still possible to reach agreement they do not think it probable even on such technical ques- lions as what shall be considered contra- band. a matter with which the committee is now dealing ‘On this question the powers hold widely divergent view ‘To many delegates the | difficulties appear insurmountable. Proposed Naval Code. ‘The international naval conference was called by Great Britain to frame a code of laws for naval warfare and to es- tablish the international prize court, as recommended by The Hague peace con- ference. The conference many definite prin ternational law as possible. Great B in, France, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Spain, Holland and Japan are represented. The Americal delegates are Rear Ad- miral Charles H. Stocaton and Prof. George Grafton Wilson of Brown Uni- versity. Commander John H. Gibbons, American naval attache at London, has been acting as aid. ———_>__—_ Korean Emperor to Tour Empire. SEOUL. January 22.—The emperor, ac- companied bs Ito, the Japanese resident general in Korea, wil) start on a the northern portion of the empire y The emperor will visit all was to determine as ples of maritime in- Prince The United; UUSCORD OVER NAVIES Mo™C= ipal cities and towns in that parte ae u N TOWNS WIPED OUT TORRENTIAL RAIN FOR HOURS CAUSES GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. Some Damage at Ceuta, Near Where Several American Naval Vessels Lie. CEUTA, Morocco, January A terri- ble tempest, accompanied by a torrential downpeur of rain, raged for five hours last night over the northernmost section of Morocco. There were no casualties in Ceuta, but réports brought in by native runners from the Rhmara territory, a mountainous dls- trict fifty miles to the south, declare that several small villages have been over- whelmed and many persons killed or in- jured. Several American colliers and supply ships are anchored in Negro bay, between Ceuta and Tetuan, awaiting the arrival of the American battleships. No damage to these vessels has been reported. It is impossible to ascertain whether the landslides to the south are due to an earthquake or to the inundation. The lower portion of the town of Ceuta was inundated. The fires in the electric light plant were extinguished and the town consequently plunged into darkness. There were several local landslips, but no casualties. ‘The foregoing dispatch corroborates to some extent a message received last night from Tetuan, saying a severe earth shock in the region south of Tetuan had wiped out several villages and that hundreds of people were reported killed or injured. Ceuta and Tetuan are on the Moroccan coast directly south of Gibraltar. They are about twenty miles apart, one to the} north and the other to the south of Negro bay, where the American battleships now in the Mediterranean are to rendezvous February 1 prior to sailing for Hampton roads on the last lap of their round-the- world cruis ——_.+—____- FLOAT SMASHES FERRYBOAT. Pierpont Badly Damaged and Pas- sengers Thrown Into Panic. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, January 2.—In the heavy fog that hung over the harbor today the ferryboat Pierpont crashed into an empty car float. ‘The ferryboat was badly damaged above the water line. Her starboard cabin was partly ripped away. The 200 paseengers and teams on board were thrown into a panic. No one was badly hurt. The Pierpont had left her slip in Brook- lyn and was proceeding to the Manhattan CALLS SECOND PANEL Court Gives Order in Carmack | Murder Trial. | 'WILL NOT ACCEPT EXCUSES Five Hundred Additional Talesmen | to Report Monday. | STATE SPRINGS A SURPRISE! Prosecution Attacks Competency of | One of the Six Men Chosen for the Jury. NASHVILLE, Tenn., January Wearied by the monotony of the examina- tion of talesmen, the throng which was on hand during the first two days of the trial of the three men accused of the mur- der of ex-Senator Carmack was absent | when court opened today. There was the usual rush forward of men summoned for jury duty to offer excuses, but Judge Hart remarked that he would accept no excuses except those fixed by law. When the six selected jurors were brought in one of them, J. M. Whitworth, said to Judge Hart: “Judge, I've been used to my morning toddy for a good many years, and I miss it powerfully this morning. Can't I get one, just one, every morning?” “The Constitution prohibits unusual or cruel punishments.” the court remarked, judicially. “Mr. Officer, see that those gentlemen who are wont to have a toddy get their toddy hereafter.” Relatives of Defendants Appear. Judge Allison of the chancery court, who was killed by Juror Whitworth brother a few years ago, was the father- in-law of Attorney General McCarn. who is prosecuting this case. Juror Whitworth stands very high in the community and is regarded as one of the best men yet se- lected. Mrs. John D. Sharpe was the only rela- | tive of any of the defendants in court this morning when the proceedings began. | Later Col. Cooper's daughter and nieces arrived and greeted their kinsman on trial | affectionately. Col. Cooper made a place for his daugh- ter at his side and put his arm gently around her. May Play Cards and Dice. A litile later the attorneys asked time for conference and were granted forty minutes. Judge Hart then suggested that the, jurors retire to their room, where they could be more comfortable. “Can they play cards?” the asked. “Yes, and roll dice on the floor if tuey want to,” said the court. When the conferetice was ended the | first surprise of the triai came. Affidavits | were filed by the state attacking the com- petency of one of the six jurors chosen. The document was offered by Attorney General McCarn, who said that J. 5. Leigh, the second man chosen, was drunk the day he was selected, and was the fore disqualifed by law. Judge Anderson, for tie defense, object- 'ed and was granied time .o examine the affidavit. The court ordered the examination of talesmen to proceed, pending a decision as to the competency of Juror Leigh. State Grows Cautious. The incident appeared to make the! state's attorneys more cautious, and they | began to question prospective jurois so closely that the defense objected to rgument with witnesses.” Capt. Fitzhugh, for the prosecution, re. plied hotly that he must learn the di! position of the witness before he could! judge whether or not to accept him. nt 2 { | deputy man, thereafter. too, w: ad whether or not he drank and whether or noi he! i got drunk. | ‘This feature was cons d signiticant jin view of the charges against Leigh. Admits Drinking Often. One man said he drank often, but got drunk only when he had nothing to do. He declared his last celebration was fully six weeks ago. He was rejected by the j state. At noon the frst venire of 500 men had been exhausted and ‘ond 5U0 were | ordered summoned Monday. w appear Hl Then the court gave the attorneys for the | defense until 9 a.m. tomorrow to answer the affidavits against Juror Leigh and ad- journment was taken until that time. NATIVES KIL LE XPLORER. STRAUS OFER jing was, Secretary Straus. jelass of white people. |e 5 PROOE Insists That Fewer Japanese Are Coming Here. TALKED OVER BY CABINET President Satisfied With Outlook in California Affair. SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR FUTURE Senator Flint Opinion That Trouble Is Over for the Pres- ent—Californians Call. Expresses The was less Japanese talk aroun® the White House today than at any time in the last few days. The most warlike man around the builde He is not sat- isfied with the suspicions of the Californta people that the figures of his immigration lepartment as to Japanese decreasing in this country in the last six months are incorrect. “I stand by my figures,” he asserts. “They are absolutely right, and I can prove that they are by any commission jthe California people will send here.” “Away with the figures,’ said Call- fornians. “We know what the facts are. We don't see any decrease and we don’t believe there is any.” Secretary Straus again repeated to the President at the cabinet meeting today his confidence in the accuracy of the im- migration figures. He says that it is im- possible for many Japanese to get across the Canadian or Mexican borders, and he is further satisfied that the immigration officers at the ports are not hoodwinked sufficiently to let any of them in. The President seemed satisfied today that the outlook is better all around. The cabinet gave little consideration to the subject, at least not as a whole. Mem- bers of the cabinet began departing from the executive offices earlier in the day than. in the past few weeks. If there was any serious talk It was with Secreiary Root, who left about 12 clock, going to the District grand jury room to testify in the Panama libel suit. All reports reaching the President are to the effect that Gov. Gillett has squat- ted heavily on the leaders in the legisla- ture seeking to put through hostile legis- lation. With the legislature putting aside all enactments bearing on the question and postponing further consideration for two years, it is now hoped that agitation of all kinds will likewise be suspended. Californians Talk to President. California citizens who saw the Presi- dent today were ex-Mayor James D. Phe- lan, Dr. A. H, Giannini, chairman of the board of supervisors of San Francisco; Marsden Manson, another city official, and J. D. Galloway, civil engineer. Their call was personal, but quite naturally the Japanese situation was discussed, the President earnestly presenting his views. he Presiden’ told us," said Mr, Phe- lan, “that everything is being done by the | United States and Japan to restrict the immigration of Japanese, and that he be- lieved the decrease cf this immigration would finally solve the problem if legisia- tion should be left alone for awhile. The President s; that he fully understood the nature of the opposition to the Japa- nese and the desire to restrict the owner- ship of lands in that state by certain aliens, but he refused to consider the Japanese in a class by themselves and in- sisted that any legislation In this resrect should be directed against all aliens alike. ‘He reiterated his opinion that the time inopportune and premature to pass state laws, especially until a fair trial has been given to the question of whether the Japanese are coming here in larger numbers than they are going away. He |desired to see the Japanese here treated | with the consideration their standing un- der agreement ranted.” “What is y view of the matter, Mr. Phelan have no authority to speak for any one except myself, but the fact is that the California peo, cannot see that there decrease in the number of and I am afraid the situation 1 continue to be an aggravating one. he Japanese 4 crowding out the white man on the Pacific coast, pressing him to the wall by a system of low living that the white man can not get down to, and dete We are iorating civilization as a whole. inviting immigration ef a good We can't expect have it under the cireumstances, the f which are not appreciated in the to fact st or where the Japanese are not pres- in ent poss live together and the question to be settled sooner or later. Grave Question for the Future. “Is the situation in California as ser- ious as would appear from the published large numbers. It is simply im- » for the two races to continue to vill have English Geographer Meets Death in Wilds of Thibet. LOS ANGELES, Cal. Janud H. Brooke, English explorer known here, has met death at of the natives of Thibet. His party, of whom he was the only white man, consisted of a band of Hindu guides, a number of pack carriers and a few mule drive: well | the hanas | side. She was opposite Governor's Is-] 4 dispatch received from Maj. F. R.| land when the huge car float, in tow of a} Burnham of Pasadena, who now in tug, loomed up out of the mist. New York. sa It was too late fowpnevent aes The ‘ables confirm the killing by natives of | pilot of the ferryboat threw the wheel rset ieaaine” i eVRES OA SR hard over, with the result that the Pier-|J- Hl. Breoke, leading an exploration | pont struck the float a glancing blow. party Into Thibet i The impact was terrific. Passengers| Brooke was a member of the Royal} were dumped from their seats in the cab- = in. Horses standing in the runw: knocked off their feet. ‘The smash put the-starboard paddle of the Pierpont out of business. She drifted helpless with the tide. were “The skipper finally managed to effect a | Janding alongside a dock at the foot of Main street, in Brooklyn, where the pas- sengers disembarked. _——_—.. WARSHIPS AT ALGIERS. Geographical Society of London. —_—_.____ SPERRY AT VILLEFRANCHE. American Admiral Accorded a Cor-| dial Greeting at French Port. VILLEFRANCHE, France, January —All the ships in the harbor, including the Danish cruiser Heimdal and the E. lish battleship Enchantress and many pri- | Officers of the Wisconsin and French ; bere 3 bie ete ayly sree a sete | | flags an unting today 2 hono Oven Eacheney Visits. | of the arrival of Rear Admiral Sper ALGIERS, January 22.—Mr. Avago. rep-| commander of the Atlantic battleship | resenting the French government, this} eet, who reached here at S730 o'clock | morning returned Admiral W. D. Pot- cinenine ouaarat Velie | oonn apelin ter's visit on board the battleship Wis- salute was answered. gun for gun, | consin, after which the admiral and ihe members of his staff came ashore and paid a round of official visits on the gov- ernor general, the prefect, Gen. Bailloud commander of the 19th Army Corps; the mayor of Algiets and the other civil au- thorities. M. Arago Monday will give a luncheen in honor of Admiral Potter and the of-! ficers of the American battleships. ————>—___—_ New Departure in Arkansas. LITLE ROCK, Ark., January 22.—The state senate has adopted a joint resolu-j} tion providing for the imitiative and ref- erendum as a part of the constitution of Arkansas. The resolution provides for the-submission of the quesiion to the vot rs of the state at the next general el jon, ws the batteries of the old citadel and | by the guns of the Heimdal. | The crews of the Minnesota, the Kan- | sas and ihe Vermont manned tise sides | of their respective ships, while the band | struck up national anthem of the} the United States as the Connecticut passed in to her moorings. se Fortifications Bill Cut Down. Cutting down the estimates nearly | $10.000,000, the House committee on ap- | citie ga | question dispatches and the activity of the admin- istration in endeavoring to suppress the | anti-Japanese legislation?” Senator Flint of California was asked today. “Yes, al no,” replied Senator Flint, reflectively. “I don’t think there is any danger of a break with Japan at the pres- nt time. Neither do [I think that any hostile legislation will be passed now by zislature, but the question is one that will have to be dealt with in the fu- tur There is no doubt that Japanese » still coming to this country in large numbe I know that many people are giving out figures to prove the contrary, but the Japs are there, aud their number is growing enator Knox, who is to be Secretary of State in Mr. Taft's cabinet, is con- cerning himself with the Japanese situa- on with a view to becow 9 conversant with the subject. He has consulted with Senators Perkins and nt, and has also considered the ques- tion in conference with members of the committee on n relations. . He re- gards the ¢ one of great mo- ment. requiring infinite delicacy and tact in approaching a settlement. He con- the question one that cannot be ed of at this time, and one that is to come to the surface again n as Japanese labor comes in with American labor on the P% and contfiic BUSINESS MEN PROTEST. Urge Legislators Not to Exact Anti- Japanese Legislation. SAN FRANCISCO, January A strong protest against anti-Japanese leg islation has been sent to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house and the members of both houses by the San Francisco business men who recently re- turned from an extended visit to Japan at he invitation of various Japanese com- mercial organizations. “During our visit to Japan,” the protest “we paid particular attention to the of Japanese immigration, and from what we ascertained we are str says, nghy lee- 5 propriations today agreed to repor: the |of the opinion that the emperor and the government of Japan are acting in abso- fortifications, bul carrying only %- Inte good faith regarding the restriction 111 for the next fiscal year. ‘The largest }of Japanese immigration to the United item carried is that of $1,900,000 for sex- | St" coast batteries in the Philippine Islands,|the legis mly believe that any action by ature which is directed at to ’