Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 24, 1912, Page 8

+— DENIES CHARGE SOCIALISTS NOW ABOUT THE STATE OF MONOPOLY Head of Steel Trust Defends Its Motiiods. EXPORT TRABE IS SMALL } Contradicts Statement That el, Would Contro! Trade of the World, but Admits Its Products Are Sold Abroad Cheaper Than They Are at Home. Washington, Jan. 24——Emphatic de- mia] that the United States Steel cor- poration is a “monopoly” as charged was made to the Stanley investigating committee of the house by President J. J. Farrell. He declared that it was mot the purpose of the corporation to “gobble the export trade of the world at any cost.” “A monopoly of the iron and steel trade in this courtry,” said Mr. Farrell, “ts neither possible nor desirable. ‘There is no monopoly or anything ap preaching it. Since the steel corpora- tion was organized there has been meuch new capital attracted to the in- @ustry and many furnaces have been beilt which are not controlled by the stee) corporation. “It is charged that the corporation is seeking to drive other countries out of the export market. This is far from the truth. “The British steel industry must ex- port 40 per cent of the product a year in erder to live. Germany must export 86 per cent and Belgium 80 per cent. The product of the United States is greater than England, Germany and Belgium combined and the domestic consumption is so much greater that export trade is not so vital. Stee! Exports Not Large. “It is true that before the steel cor- | poration was formed the steel exports of the United States amounted to about 200,000 tons a year. Last year the exports of the United States Steel | corporation were about 2,000,000 tons, | valued at $69,000,000, as against Ger- many’s 5,000,000 tons. “It is not the aim of the steel cor- | poration to grab the export trade of | the world. We are conducting our ex- port business on a safe and sane basis, | without any jealousy toward other na- tions to whom export trade is of such | vital importance.” Mr. Farrell said the basis price on rails sold to foreign countries was low- er than the domestic rate, but that the company tried to get as high prices as possible. He gave the committee the tariffs on steel rails in various countries as follows: | Germany, $6.03 a ton; France, | $17.70; Russia, $28.60; Spain and Italy, | $11.76; Austria-Hungary, $12.32, and Camada, $7.84. The duty on rails in the United States under the Payne- Aldrich law is $3.92. The steel cor- poration, Mr. Farrell declared, did a much greater export business in other steel products than in rails owing to the excessive rail tariffs. STEEL RAILS ARE TOO FRAIL| Ecenomy Reason Given by Head of Steel Corporation. Washington, Jan. 24—James J. Far- Tell, president of the United States Stee] corporation, testified before the Stanley steel investigating committee. That steel rails are unsafe was one surprising assertion by Mr. Farrell. He said t‘at rails now used are both too Nght and too brittle for the traffic. They are “too near the danger mark,” he said, and gave economy as the rea- son for the use of the too frail rails. “The liability of breakage is greater } than in the days of softer steel,” he said. “We should have rails with a | Jower grade of carbon and softer { ei ad “HEADQUARTERS ARE OPENED | Make Roosevelt Boomers Plan to Fight in Middle West. Chicago, Jan. 24——A mammoth pic ture of Theodore Roosevelt adorns a hall on the parlor fioor of the Con- gress hotel, marking the headquarters ef the Roosevelt movement in the Mid- dle West. Carpenters, electricians and others are working in clubroom No. 10 of the hotel, making ready the quarters from which will be sent forth literature and Jater on speakers, cal’ ‘ted to revive and create “Rooseveli -ntiment in Miinois and surrounding ».. -s. Strike Vote Is Being Taken. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 24.—Approxi- mately 375 telegraphers, telephone operators and station agents on the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound railroad between Seattle and Mobridge, 8. D., are taking a strike vote as the result of the refusal of the officials in this city to grant a wage increa.e of about 5 per cent. On Record for Roosevelt. Kansas City, Jan. 24.—At a meeting of the Wyandotte County Republican club in Kansas City, Kan., the mem- bers declared themselves in favor of Theodore Roosevelt for president. A vote was taken and showed the fol- Jowing result: Roosevelt 78, Taft 6, La Follette 1. | carrying the j tal of 174. | STATE CONTROL OF POLICE | Hennepin County Attor Attorney Would De- | | h M prive Cities of Power. Creation of a state police board HAVE 99 SEATS ues sage nas ty <2 <2 sce bec Make Large Gains in Ger- man Reballoting. GOVERNHENT IS LOSING At Present Time Allied Supporters Hold 176 Seats, While the United | Opposition Have 174, With Thirty- three Contests Still Undecided. Berlin, Jan. 24—The Socialists, as a Fesult of Monday’s rebaHoting for Members of the reichstag, lack only one of an even one hundred seats. This was the outcome of another re markable change in the political at- mosphere and, coupled with thirty- three victories by other Left parties, makes the chances of the “blue-black bloc,” or. government, of retaining its former majority more than doubtful. The Socialists elected 27 men in 54 contests and now have a total of 99 seats. The allied Conservatives elect- ed 11, with a total of 69; allied Center, 5, total 107; Radicals, 17, tota} 34; Na- tional Liberals. 1¢, total 41. The most sensational event of the reballoting was the winning by the Socialists of Cologne, “the German Rome,” which has been im the unin- terrupted possession of the Clericals since the founding of the empire. The Socialists lacked only First Berlin district, where the ministers’ votes re-elected the Radical candidate. Conservatives Lose Seats. The Conservatives suffered a net loss of fifteen, of which ten went to the Socialists. The Socialists cap- tured Colmar and Strassburg from the | Centrists and defeated Dr. Mugden, | the Radical leader, in Goeritz, and Dr. Rosann, the National Liberal leader, in Darmstadt; Count von Oppersdorff, the leading Clerical, barely escaped de- feat by the Radicals in Franstadt. Late returns give the “bloc” a total of 176 seats and the National Liberals, Radicals and Socialists together a to- Of the thirty-three man- dates which will be contested on Thursday the most generous estimate apparently cannot give the “bloc” more than ten, making the total 186, fourteen less than a majority, while twenty-three appear to be safe for the Left. This would give the com ticularists, independents and others While a total of eighty reballots were taken Monday, the Socialists participated in only fifty-four. One of the noteworthy Socialist victories was won at Frankfort-on-the-Main. FORTUNE IN GIFTS TO WIFE TVET } Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury Has Pearl Neck- lace Valued at $500,000. Washington, Jan. 24—Hdward T. Stotesbury, the Philadelphia partner of J. P. Morgan, who married Mrs. Oliver Cromwell of this city, gave her E. T. STOTESBURY. $4,000,000 worth of securities just be- | fore the ceremony was performed. Mr. Stotesbury also presented his bride with jewels worth more than | $1,000,000. Among other jewels was a sapphire ring valued at $100,000. Mr. | Morgan’s gift was a diamond neck- lace valued at $40,000. STANDARD OIL FINED $55,000 Company Penalized for Violations of Statutes Governing. Rebates. Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 24—The Stand- ard Oil company of New York was fined $55,000 by Judge Hazel in the United States district court here for 148 violations of the interstate com merce law in accepting rate conces- sions in 1904 and 1905 from the. Penn- sylvania and New York Central rail- roads on shipments of oil from Olean, N. Y., to Burlington, Vt. Fire Causes Panic in Hotel. Chicago, Jan. 24.—Fire of unknown origin drove 125 guests of the York hotel to the street in their night clothes. There was a panic when the alarm was sounded in the hotel, as the blaze had made great headway be- fore it was discovered. nine votes of | d | | | Left 197, leaving only fourteen for par- Minnesota Readers. LEGISLATION IS RESPONSIBLE: Lumber interests of Minnesota | for White Earth Troubies. { A charge that legislation passed pre- sumably for the benefit of the White Earth Indians of Minnesota has actu- ally resuited “in the disintegration of that great and valuable Indian reser- vation and the property rights and effects of a large majority of the sev- eral thousand Indians concerned in the ownership thereof” is contained in a statement filed with the house committee on expenditures in the de- partment of the interior by M. C. Burch, an officer of the department of justice. The statement of Mr. Bureh is couched in strong lgpadtee | and will be used as the basis for the | public hearings that will be begun in Minneapelis in a few days by Repre-; George of New York, acting for the house committee above named. White Earth Indians, stating in sub- stance that they have been made the victims of injustice through legisia- tive enactments since the passage o! the Nelson act in 1889. He places the blame for the troubles of the Indians on the lumber interests of the state. | There are several chapters of the | statement, among them one headed “The First Grab for Pine,” another entitled “The Saturnalia,” still an- Other that appears under the caption “The Tragedy of 1892,” and another | headed “A TwoEdged Fraud—The Mille Lac case.” Nelson act, Mr. Burch says: “While apparently every safeguard known to legislators at that time was imserted in the Nelson act for the pro- tection of these Indians, it is plain that the longing eyes of the lumber- ; men and the land grabbers were early directed te the magnificent timber and | | Confesses abies and and Says He Had Been Drinking. Fred Wagner, a farmer, aged forty- | five. shot and Killed his wife, aged | forty, on their farm four miles west of Winsted. Wagner was arrested and, ac- cording to officials, has confessed. Wagner, according to the officials, | said be had been drinking and that he and his wife quarreled. He was un- | able to give any other explanation for | the shooting. The murder was reported by the hired man. A constable from Winsted | went at onee to the farm, where he found the body of the woman on a bed.. Wagner was in the house and did not resist arrest. | | LOST WOMAN DIES IN FIELD Victim of Freezing Found Near In- tended Destination. Miss Mary Thuet, aged twenty-three, | who came to this country from Ger- | Many a year ago and who was working in Graceville, was frozen todeath. She went from Graceville to Collins and |from there started to walk to the home of her aunt, Mrs. Max Fischer, |a distance of two miles. She became nat and walked about in a field until | exhausted. Her body lay in the field rs quarter ofa mile from the Fischer ‘place. Her parents live in Germany. “EIGHT TIMES ES UNDER KNIFE | Prominent Minneapolis Man Dies Fol- lowing Operation. J. E. Rogers, forty-three years of age, proprietor of the Rogers hotel |and the Unique theater, identified | with a number of other business en- terprises and one of the most widely {known men in Minneapolis, died at |; St. Barnabas hospital in that city |from shock following an operation for intestinal adhesion. It was the eighth | time in as many years that Mr. Rogers had been under the surgeon’s knife. | 2 HE Lind Heads Wilson Club. The first. public move toward get- |ting) the Minnesota Democratic del- egation for Governor Woodrow Wil- son was launched at Minneapolis when a number of Democrats met at the as- |sembly hall in the: courthouse and or- | ganized a Wilson club. Former Gov- ernor John Lind, who took a leading part in the meeting and was elected President of the club, declared that he was going into the campaign hands ‘and feet. Accident Fatal to Lawyer. Christian Henningsen, aged “sixty- seven, prominent lawyer and business Man of Stillwater, was almost instant- ly killed at the Omaha freight depot while directing and assisting his work- men in the removal of plate glass from a freight car. Mr. Henningsen Was standing outside the car when the big crate of glass, weighing over three tons, slipped and fell upon him. He died a few minutes after the ac- ident. Department of Justice Official Blames | sentatives Graham of Illinois and | Mr. Burch recites the history of the , Speaking of the} fine agricultura: lands of these reser- | | FARMER MURDERS HIS WIFE! cities from contro! by city authorities was proposed in a resolution present- ed to the State Association of County | Attorneys, in session at St. Paul, by | County Attorney James Robertson of ‘Hennepin county. The proposed police board would | have three members, to be named by the governor, chief justice and attor- Rey general, who would give their en- | tire time te the board’s work. They would conduct civil service examina- tions and appoint men to serve in any city as the local officers might request. | Cities would be prohibited from ap- pointing or maintaining their own po- \liee and the policemen assigned to each city would be under control of | the sheriff of the county. Each city would contribute $50 a month for sup- port of the state board and would also pay the officers assigned to it, but the board would fix their compen- sation. The resolution was adopted. 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