Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 19, 1911, Page 5

ij _ times was the only senator in the BACON FOUGHT — “AT BULL RUN. Georgia Senator Says He Re- members Batile Well. ANNIVERSARY IS CELEBRATED. Veterans of Both Armies Participated in the Exercises—No One Can Tell What Is Likely to Happen Any Day In the Senate—Clash Between Bailey and Williams Comes Unexpectedly. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, July 20. — [Special.J— July 21 is the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Bull Run. That battle is particularly interesting to such resi- | dents of Washington as remember it, for it seemed likely that the defeat of the Union forces so close to Washing- ton might mean the capture of the na- tional capital by the Confederates. The battle is more interesting to Sen- ator Bacon of Georgia than any other man now in public life, for he was a boy soldier at the time, and he is one of the few men of prominence in pub- lic life who took part in the engage- ment. Senator Bacon says he recol- lects the events of that day much more vividly than he does many things which have happened since. He can now describe the battle with as much accuracy as the historians and with much more interest, for he tells what he saw and the impression it made upon him at the time. Veterans of both the Union and Con- federate armies made arrangements to | Peavey & Go. Take Steps Gal- participate in the ceremonies of the fiftieth anniversary. That the animos- ities are forgotten is apparent when both sides unite to celebrate the event. A Way of the Senate. No one can tell what is going to happen in the senate. Senator Suther- land announced a speech on the Arizo- na constitution, and everybody expect- ed a dull and dry constitutional argu- ment. It turned out to be the most brilliant speech of the session. Then it was expected that the bal- ance of the day would be devoted to time killing talk on the reciprocity bill, but the promised clash between Senator Bailey and John Sharp Wil- liams enlivened the senate and the few spectators who remained in the heated chamber. We knew that at some time these brilliant southerners would cross swords, but it was unexpected because it was believed that it would occur when the wool bill was con- | sidered. Those Paddle Fans. Paddle fans, such as are seen in ! cheap restaurants, disfigure the sym- etry of the senate chamber and dis- turb the hot air which accumulates under the skylight. “Those fans would never have been allowed if Eugene Hale was a mem- ber of the senate,” was the remark of | an old employee who was thoroughly acquainted with Hale’s peculiarities. A curious feature of the fanning proc- ess is that the heated and vitiated air is driven down from above for the | senators to breathe over and over again. Kidnaping a President. In a colloquy between Senator Gron- na and Senator Reed the North Dako- ta senator, being pressed to say what | President Taft would do with the reci- procity bill in case it was amended, said: “It is unfair to ask me a ques- tion of this kind, for I had almost come to the conclusion that the Dem- dent.” , “when the Democracy start out kid- naping presidents they will pick one for themselves,” retorted the Missouri senator. As the Record Reads. ‘The morning papers announced that there had been a most entertaining de- bate between Senator Bailey of Texas and Senator Williams of Mississippi, in which each tried to read the other out of the party and that each claimed to represent simon pure Democracy. It lasted until long after 7 o'clock in the evening. Those who were not in the senate turned to the Congressional Record to read the interesting discus- sion, and this is what they found: Mr. Bailey addressed the senate. His speech will be published hereafter. Mr. Williams addressed the senate. His speech will be published hereafter. Mr. Bailey addressed the senate. His speech will be published hereafter. Mr. Williams addressed the senate. His speech will be published hereafter. Mr. Bailey addressed the senate. His speech wil! be published hereafter. The Fourth Smith. Hoke Smith of Georgia will make the fourth Smith in the senate, and, like the Maryland and Michigan sen- ators, he will be known by his first name. He comes with the prestige of having been a cabinet officer and twice governor. Chilton’s Busy Day. Former Governor McCorkle of West Virginia was in Washington last week and saw. Senator Chilton of his state. Chilton said to McCorkle that he was quite tired and when asked what he had been doing replied, “I’ve been pre- siding over Gronna.” He then explained that Vice Presi- dent Sherman had called him to the chair and left him there all day, while Senator Gronna of North Dakota spoke against the reciprocity bill. Chilton ‘was the only man who listened and at sont SOD : ca } its own uebts. DULUTH HAS SERIOUS FIRE Whe je District Threatened With Destruction. Fire caused a loss of $100,000 or more and at times thre-:ened Duluth’s entire wholesale district and only hard fighting on the part of the fire depart- ment, assisted by three fire tugs, pre- vented further destruction. For a time the main building of the Gowan-Pey- ton-Congdon company was threatened, as the warehouse adjoining it was all ablaze. The fire started between the ware- houses of the Gowan-Peyton-Congdon company and that of the F. A. Patrick company. (Che scattering brands of the fire spread rapidly. It extended south to the end of the dock and wiped out everything in sight. The block across the slip also caught fire. The work of the firemen had to be directed in nearly every direction, as everything was dry as tinder. Bill- boards and refuse soon took fire and many smoldering piles had to be watched. What caused the fire has not. been learned, but from the warehouses in which it started it spread rapidly. From there it went to the residence of Captain Magee, then to the store of the Duluth Marine Supply company and on to the building occupied by the Lake Carriers’ association, clean- ing out everything and leaving noth- ing but a wake of ashes. On reaching the end of the dock the fire swept over to the yards of the Carnegie Fuel company, destroying the weighing office and several coal boxes. DEPOSIT ASSETS TO SECURE CREDITORS culated to Hold Confidence. Assets to the value of $4,750,000 of F. H. Peavey & Co. of Minneapolis are in the hands of the Minneapolis Trust company, a branch of the First National bank of Minneapolis, as a means of protection to the concern’s creditors. This action was announced as vol- untary on the part of tae company by the committee composed of repre- sentatives of Minneapolis and Chica- go banks and Eastern commercial pa- per houses. The total indebtedness of F. H. Pea- vey & Co. is placed at $2,050,000, of which $750,000 is due subsidiary con- eerns, and most of the remainder falls due Aug. 1 or on demand. It was the settlement of these claims the com- mittee has been consiuering the last three days. F. H. Peavey & Co. had expected large sums of money from the Peavey Grain company to assist in paying off Instead of money came the news the grain company was $1,- 200,600 short. WIFE WILL SEEK DIVORCE Congressman Miller of Duluth in Do- mestic Difficulties. Mrs. C. B. Miller of Duluth, wife of the congressman from the Eighth Minnesota district, is in St. Paul con- sulting an attorney with a view to starting proceedings for a divorce. Mrs. Miller has been contemplating the move for some time, but has taken no steps until she went to St. Paul and engaged the attorney. That she has gone this far she admitted, but wanted it clearly understood that no legal steps have been taken thus far and that no action will be taken until | the fall term of the district court ocratic party had kidnaped our presi- opens. When questioned regarding the rea- son for the possible divorce Mrs. Mil-, ler would not reply further than to say: “It would be shameful to pub- lish such a thing at this time and it would be highly detrimental to Mr. Miller’s political career.” SIX MEN HURT IN WRECK Injuries of One Victim Believed to Be, Fatal. Six Greek workmen were hurt, one perhaps fatally, as the result of a col- | placed on an equality with the high lision on the Burlington road near Curry, a few miles south of St. Paul. Boni Bobible suffered the loss of ; both legs above the knees and prob- ably will die. All the injured were brought to St. Paul on a special train made up at Curry for the purpose. The men are all members of a section crew and were riding on a flat car. There were a number of steel rails on the same car. In going down a steep incline the brakes on the engine refused to work and the short train ran 200 yards under great headway, gaining speed at every moment. At the bottom of the hill it crashed into a lot of cars causing the steel rails to shift. ASSAILANT IS FOUND DEAD Man Accused of Stabbing Probably Committed Suicide. Halve Keisic, who stabbed Fred Gatel and then set fire to Henry Con- zemius’ stock barn, was found dead by Edward Chamberlain in a ditch in a clump of trees near the roadside about eighty rods south of the scene of the tragedy in Nininger, evidently having killed himself or fractured his skull in the fall into the ditch. Gatel. who was assaulted, is report- ed in a -preecartous condition with no | minority leader in the house. GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVI HARD TO DRAW PARTY LINES, Senators Trying to Tell What Is What In Politics, SPLIT ON RECIPROCITY BILL. y and Heyburn Use Cowboy Ver- nacular In Colloquy About Repub- lican Mutineers—“Dog Day” In the House Leads to Long Debate on Rights of Canine Pets. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, July 21.—[Special.]— “What is a Republican?’ and “Who are Democrats?" were questions which have agitated members of the senate for a long time. On several days the debate has been confined largely to settling these disturbing questions, with the result that more doubt than ever exists. One day when the subject was uppermost Sen- ator Nelson asked Heyburn how the head of the Republican party could be educated and brought back into the Republican fold. “Who is the leader and head of the Republican party?” asked the Idaho senator. The talk also turned upon the ques- tion as to whether the reciprocity bill, supported by nearly all the Demo- erats and upon which the Republicans were nearly equally divided, but, hav- ing been proposed by a Republican president, was a Republican or Demo- cratic measure. And that question re- mains unsettled. Cattle Verfacular. A little later Bailey and Heyburn had a colloquy over mutiny in the Re- publican party, in which cowboy terms were used. “Mavericks” was Heyburn’s term for the Republicans who had strayed from his idea of Re- publicanism. Bailey suggested a “roundup” at the White House, when all might be “branded.” Vice President Sherman has done something that none of his predeces- sors was ever known to do. He sits ‘and reads newspapers while senators are debating. Why no senator has called attention to this innovation is strange, for it certainly encroaches on senatorial dignity. “Dog Days” In the House. There are certain days in summer designated “dog days,” and everybody understands why. Perhaps that ac- counts for a “dog day” in the house of representatives. Now we all know that while the senate has been debat- ing at great length the various tariff bills the house has been adjourning from time to time, doing absolutely nothing to the best of its ability. Then came a day when a tariff bill was reported and passed which every- body wanted. It provided that where animals strayed or were taken across the border they might be returned without the payment of duty. That was all right until Fitzgerald of New York raised the question of a society Pomeranian which had been compelled to pay duty at the New York custom house, and then there was a regular dog discussion of sev- eral hours. Took a Wide Range. Of course there was the customary |reference to “yellow dogs,” “brindle pups,” and suggestions as to sausage and frankfurters. Payne and Fitz- gerald had a pleasant wrangle about the defense of the dog, and Hughes of New Jersey chipped in a few words. Uncle Joe Cannon, who never feels quite satisfied unless he has said some- thing, got started and had to have his time extended several-times before he concluded his say. Sims of Tennessee, without reference to the dog discussion, | caused the reading of a patriotic speech of a grandson of former Speaker Bell. and Cannon pointed out that this grandson was a railroad attorney, which rattled Sims and brought Rod- denbery of Georgia forward with a defense of Sims and incidentally re- turned the discussion to dogs. He de- ' manded that the coon dog, the possum dog: and the rabbit dog should be bred dogs of the idle rich. When Norris Got “In Bad.” It was Norris of Nebraska who told the most interesting dog story. He had been invited to address an au- dience and found it composed of young men of Washington. He urged man- hood and marriage. He said he had seen a wealthy woman neglect her child to take care of a poodle dog and designated the place so definitely that she was identified. His speech went over the country, and his mail was fill- ed with letters of denunciation from owners of poodle dogs. Norris said that he hoped the pend- ing bill favored poodle dogs, as it gave ! him an opportunity of going on record | as doing something for them in order to “avert-the catastrophe which I fear is about to fall on my troubled head from the avenging wrath of the own- ers of these animals.” All of the discussion bears out the remark of John Sharp Williams when “We are boys grown up,” he remarked after a few hours of frivolous talk. -Has a Literary Son. The new minority leader has a lit- erary son.’ Young James Mann has written several articles and stories which have been accepted by the mag- WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1911. JAMES WICKERSHAM. Alaskan Delegate Says Attor- ney General Permitted Fraud. CHARGES WILL BE PROBED) Alaskan Delegate Says Attorney Gen- eral Permitted Fraud. Washington, July 15.—After secret| consideration of charges made by Del- egate Wickersham of Alaska that At- torney General Wickersham delib- erately permitted the statute of limi-| tations to run against agents of the Alaska syndicate who defrauded the) government through perjury to the extent of $50,000 the house committee on judiciary has determined to report favorably a resolution of inquiry of- fered by Delegate Wickersham. The resolution would call upon the attorney general to furnish the house with all documents, affidavits and tes- timony in his possession relating to! an affidavit submitted to him more than a year.ago and sworn to in 1908 by H. J. Douglas, former auditor of the Alaska syndicate. LA FOLLETTE FLAYS THE ADMINISTRATION Wisconsin Senator Talks on Reciprocity. Washington, July 14.—Senator La Follette, in a speech against reciproc- ity, reviewed act by act the adminis- tration of President Taft in unspar- ing tones dnd declared that the con- teat involved was the “fight between the plain people and confederated privilege.” Summing up ‘his indictment against the president Senator La Follette as- serted the executive had attempted to secure enactment of an interstate commerce law favorable to the rail- roads; had thrown open Controller bay, Alaska, key to the coal fields, to corporation interests; removed “hon- est and efficient James R. Garfield” from the head of the interior depart- ment and replaced him with Ballin- ger; and that his course “has been vacillating and without definite policy because apparently there has been throughout his administration no deep | conviction other than the hour makes it appear expelient.” “In the beginning the reciprocity bill was heralded as a blessing to the | consumers. So was the tariff bill of 1909. It promises to reduce duties for the benefit of the people. It re- duces no duties, the effect of which can ever reach the people, but it does reduce duties for the millers, the packers, Standard Oil, the brewers, {the coal combine and, in some meas- ure, for the already grossly protected interests. It is nothing that ft pre- tends to be and professes to be noth- ing that it is.” SENATE AGREES UPON DATE Will Vote on Canadian Reciprocity Bill July 22. Washington, July 15.—An agreement to vote on the Canadian reciprocity bill on July 22 was adopted in the sen- ate without opposition. Agreements also were made for votes on other measures which will carry the session “through the legislative day” of Aug. 7, immediately after which congress will adjourn. The agreement in full, reached at a conference of the various elements of the senate and later adopted in the senate, calls for votes as follows: July 22—Canadian reciprocity. July 27—Wool revision bill. Aug. 1—Free list bill. Aug. 3—Reapportionment bill. | Aug. 7—Arizona-New Mexico state hood_bill. | Twenty-seven Families Homeless. St. Jerome, Que., July 14—Twenty- seven families are homeless here and the entire business section of the town is in ruins as the result of a fire which swept across it. The damage is estimated at more than $150,000. McNamaras’ Trial Oct. 10. Los Angeles, Cal., July 15.—The trial of John and James McNamara, on the charge of murder in connection CREATES STIR Friends of Federal Food Expert Rally to His Defense, HOUSE MAY ORDER INQUIRY Charge That the Move to “Get” Wiley Was Instituted by the “Inter- ests” to Be Probed. Washington, July 15.—Dr. Harvey W. Wiley will not be separated from his job as chief chemist without an upheaval such as. the administration has never known before, according to indications here. Progressive Republicans joined with Democrats of the house to urge an im- mediate probe into the report that a move to “get” the chief food expert was instituted by the “interests.” The house committee on expenui- tures in the department of agriculture made plans for immediate action. Another schism of the Ballinger- Pin- chot type is predicted by Wile;’s friends. As reprsesenting the general indig- nation among Democratic membcrs over the plan to oust Wiley, Repre- sentative Sulzer (Dem., N. Y.) said: “Dr. Wiley is one of the few cham- | pions the people have had. He is the most valuable man in the government service. I do not think the adminis- tration will make the mistaxe of dis- pensing with his services. He has done monumental work for this gov- ernment and its people in protecting them from the food adulterators, pat- | ent medicine concerns and canned food manufacturers. “The people have a champion in He has kept them from Dr. Wiley. @ 1910, by American Press Association. DOR. H. W. WILEY. being the prey of the combination. I will give Dr. Wiley all the support I have. He may have made mistakes, but they have been mistakes of the head and not mistakes of the heart.” There was talk at the capital of a reprisal directed against Attorney General Wickersham for his report that Wiley’s “offense in employing | Dr. Rusby merited condign punish- ment.” Evidence which the commit- tee on expenditures in the department of justice has uncovered, members say, | shows the attorney general himself to have been guilty of “irregularities” in disregardinng the law which re- quires that payments of expenses to special assistant attorneys be item- ized in full. President Taft is receiving letters and telegrams from all over the coun- | try protesting against any move} against the pure food official. ALL AMENDMENTS DEFEATED Canadian Reciprocity Bill Nearer Passage. Washington, July 12.—The Cana- dian reciprocity bill emerged un- scathed from the most serious ordeal it has yet experienced in the senate. The series of amendments offered by Senator Cummins of Iowa and the two offered by Senator Simmons of North Carolina, all seeking to increase the number of Canadian manufactured articles that shall be admitted to the United States free of duty, were voted down by large majorities. The defeat of the Cummins amend- ments clears the situation in the sen- ate and leaves the reciprocity bill much nearer final passage. Appears WOMAN’S LIFE IS SPARED Death Sentence Imposed on Mrs. Na- politano Commuted. Ottawa, Ont., July 15.—The cabinet has commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of death passed upon the Italian woman, Angelino Napolitang, for the murder of her husband at Sault Ste. Marie. Gasoline Is Fatal to Five. Grand Junction, Colo., July 14—0. J. Williams, a pumpman on the Rio and Western, his wife and daughters are dead as gasoline explosion at Williams PAGE FIVE WILEY REMOVAL |ABOUT THE STATE News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers TWO OIE IN PISTOL QUEL Minneapolis Policeman and Escaped Convict Battle Until Both Are Killed. In a revolver battle at close range, Jerry McCarty, escaped convict and known as one of the most desperate criminals in America, and Patrolman Joseph Ollinger killed each other at Minneapolis. The hunted man, cor- nered, did just what his pursuer ex- pected him to do, opened the first fire. Ollinger fired almost at the same in- stant. McCarty fell first and Ollinger, witb four bullets in his body, fell on him. The battle, which eclipsed any in the annals of the Minneapolis police, vas fought alone by the two men, watched at a distance by bystanders, who had been warned away by the po- liceman. The death ot the two men ends a search for McCarty which has extend- ed throughout. the United States, while McCarty, who had escaped from Stillwater penitentiary on March 4, continued his career of robbery. The fatal fight strangely resembled one which preceded the capture of McCarty in October, 1909, when he shot at Patrolman Jonas Jonassen, but missed fire and wounded himself in the hip. It was for the attack on Jonassen that he was serving the Still- water sentence when he last escaped. TRUST BUSTING EXPENSIVE Kellogg Received $59,000 in Fees and $22,000 Expenses. Expense accounts of “special assist- ants” to the attorney general and the large cost of the “trust busting” cam- paign of the department of justice was egain the subject of inquiry before the house committee on expenditures in that department Frank B. Kellogg, special assistant, spent more than $22,000 in considera- bly less than three years, according to a@ statement sent the committee by the department of justice. The department also furnished the committee with an itemized statement of fees paid to Trust Buster Kellogg in the Standard Oil and other cases amounting to $59,000 from Sept 30, 1907, to Feb. 2, 1911. The Kellogg fees are enumerated as follows: Eight payments of $3,000 each from July 1, 1907, to June 30, 1909, in the Standard Oil cases, $24,- 000; Dec. 8, 1909, in full payment to Dec. 3, $25,000; Feb. 2, 1911, “for mak- ing brief and assisting in the argu- ment in the Standard Oi) cases and for other services, $10,000.” Mr. Kellogg, it appears, spent the sum of $22,561.70 for “expenses” im the Union Pacific and Standard Oil cases. The expenses covered Mr. Kellogg’s trust busting operations from Dec. 23, 1907, to Feb. 11, 1910, a little more than two years. RULE OF REASON PLEA FAILS State Supreme Court Renders Anti- Trust Decision. The state supreme court refuses to follow the “rule of reason” applied by the United States supreme court in the Standard Oil and American To- bacco cases. The court decides that the Creamery Package Manufacturing company of Mankato is violating the state anti-trust laws and it is ordered to cease doing intrastate business. The judgment does not prohibit the firm from doing interstate business. The Creamery Package Manufac- turing company cited the Standard Oil and American Tobacco decisions and asked to have the “rule of reason” ap- plied in its case and also asked that it be given time in which to reorganize so as to conform to the state law. Justice Bunn, who wrote the deci- sion, says that so far as the latter contention is concerned the two cases cited are not at point. He says the Sherman anti-trust act did not impose the penalty of a forfeiture of corporate right and that the prosecutions were not to forfeit such right, but to enjoin the acts and dissolve the combinations that were in restraint of trade ST. PAUL GETS CONVENTION Teachers Will Meet at Minnesota Capital Next Year. St. Paul won the next annual con vention of tne National Educational association, defeating Chicago after a close contest Carroll Gardner Pearse, superintend- ent of schools of Milwaukee, was elected president of the association. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintend. ent of schools of Chicago, was elect- ed vice president and Mrs. Katherine D. Blake of New York treasurer, thus giving the power on the mittee. The other