Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 8, 1913, Page 3

‘PAGE TWO WORK ON TARIFF BILL TAKEN UP Ways and Means Committee Begins Hearings. | SCHEDULE A IS FIRST! / Witness Representing Chemical Asso- ciation Asks That Whole Question | Be Delegated to Subcommittee for Expert Investigation. | Washingion, Jan. 7.—Democratic re. vision of the tariff actually got under | way when the house ways and means | committee began hearings which will be the basis of the new tariff bill of the next congress to repeal the Payne- | with the} Aldrich law in accordance party’s pledges for “immediate down- | ward revision” and for “tariff for reve- | waue only.” | The hearing was on Schedule A, the | chemical schedule. The committee | plans to go down through the list, tak-| fing a new schedule every other day ‘enti! all have been covered. Most of the Democratic majority of | the present ways and imeans commit- tee will go into the next congress, which is to convene in extra se probably between March 15 and ez ‘in April. When the tariff! hearings are ended Democrats of the committee will devote themselves in daily execu- Rive sessions to the formulation of the tentative tariff legislation which they hope to have ready by March 15 if not earlier. Caucus to Pass on Bill. { The concrete result of their delibera-| tions, the new tariff rates from “acids to zinc,” the expansion of the free list and so on, will be formally passed | upon at a caucus of the representa- |! tives of the new house soon after the | opening of the extra session. This caucus will determine whether | the new tariff legislation shall be in the form of a single measure or in separate bills, schedule by schedule, along the lines of the tariff procedure eof the last session, when chemical | wool, cotton, iron and steel and free | ‘st bills went through both houses but met presidential veto. The first witness was Henry How- ard of New York, representing the Manufacturing Chemists’ association. He contended that the committee should delegate the whole question of | the chemical schedule to a sub-com-! mittee for expert investigation. | anisbideaaaines? j BIG VICTORY FOR CARRIERS | States Cannot Fix Liability of Rail-} road and Express Companies. | Washington, Jan. 7.—Railroad andj} express companies won a revolution- ary decision in the supreme court} when it was held that contracts limit- | ing to small sums their liability for! loss of shipments were not subject to atate laws but to interstate law. It is further held that contracts | limiting liability to a small sum, in return for a low rate, were not in vio- lation of the interstate commerce laws, particularly the Carmack amend- ment. Scores of such contracts have deen held void under state laws. Court Disapproves Plan. Washington. Jan. 7.—The aie eourt held that the plan advanced by | Union Pacific attorneys of Hlepoatne. | of the entire stock holdings of the Union Pacific Railroad company in the | | Southern Pacific company by transfer to the stockholders of the Union Pa- rcifie company would ‘not so effectual- ‘dy end the Union Pacitic merger as to comply with the dissolution decree. BIG STRIKE IS IMPENDING. Stockholm Transport Workers Threat- | en to Go Out. Stockholm, Jan. 7—A strike simi- | Yar to that of the transport workers dn London iast summer now is threat- ned by the municipal workingmen of | Stockholm. The difficulty is over a matter of wages. Thus far the men’s demands have been refused. The men have enlisted the support of the labor federation in Sweden, | which has promised to call a general | strike if the board persists in its re- | fusal to grant the demands. ARCHBALD TAKES THE STAND | dudge of Coinineree Court Testifies at | Impeachment Trial. Washington, Jan. 7—Judge Arch- Wald of the commerce court, who is being tried before the impeachment court of the senate, took the stand in ‘Ms own defense. He is the last wit- mess for the defense and it is thought the arguments and charges may be completed by the end of the week. Oil Production Decreases. Washington, Jan. 7.—With the world’s consumption of oil aggregat- fing 1,000,000 barrels a day, of which the United States supplied almost two-thirds, production of petroleum im this country during 1912 was 220- 200,009 forty-two gallon barrels, or| about 250,000 barrels less than 1911. “While the production was less, the rising price of oil increased the total value of the product markedly. | States. | if any existed, Chosen Governor of New Hamp- shire by the State Legisiature. FATHER AND SON ENTOMBED | Rescuers Have Worked Three Days in Effort to Save Them. Walsenburg, Colo., Jan. more than seventy-two hours have elapsed since Richard Smedden, a fifty-year-old miner, and his sixteen year-old son William were pocketed in the Alliance mine by an avalanche of earth and rock the recuing squads | have failed to reach them. The rescuers have been working in continuous shifts of ten men each ever since the accident occurred. It is now feared that neither of them will be alive when the chamber in which they are imprisoned is reached. DEMURRAGE LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL | Supreme Court Holds Minneso- ta Statute Aull and Void, Washington, jen. 7.—The Minneso- ta reciprocal demurrage law of 1907 was annulied as unconstitutional by | the supreme court of the United The court held that the fed- eral government had legislatéd on the subject and so taken away all powers, islate on it as far as interstate com- merce was concerned. Several states have similar laws. The reciprocal demurrage law pro- | vided a penalty of $1 a day per car on the railroad companies for failure to provide cars within a limited timg after receiving an order from the ship- per. It was based upon the fact that railroads at present charge a demur- rage rate of $1 a day for cars held at the shipper’s disposal and unloaded within the time limit. | GEORGE ADE 1S IMPROVING Fear internal However. Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 7.—George Ade, humorist, who while walking on a slippery sidewalk fell and was ren- dered insensible, was taken in an am- bulance to the home of Judge Henry Vinton, where he has been visiting. He is severely bruised and lamed by his fall and it is feared may have sustained internal injuries. Physi- Physicians Injuries, cians reported him as being somewhat | improved. M’GOVERN TAKES HIS OATH | | Other State Officials Also Sworn in at ; Madison. Medison, Wis., McGovern of Milwaukee was sworn in as- governor of Wisconsin for a sec ond time. Other state officers inau- gurated were: Thomas Morris, La Crosse, lieutenant governor (re-elect- ed); John S. Donald, Mount Horeb, secretary of state; Henry Johnson, | South Madison, state treasurer; Wal- ter C. Owen, Maiden Rock, attorney general. President Given a Medal. Washington, Jan. 7.—President Taft adds to his collection of decorations a gold medal, presented to him for his championship of the Jewish cause in the recent diplomatic embroglio with Russia which resulted in the abrogation of the treaty of 1832 with that country. The medal is the gift of the B’nai B'rith, the constitutional executive committee of which is meet- ing here. Per Capita Circulation. Washington, Jan. 7.—The latest es- timate of the population of continental United States places the figure at 96,- 496,000 on Jan. 2, 1913. ‘This figure was used by the treasury department experts in determining that of the total money in circulation in the country on that date, $3,350,727,580, the amount per capita was $34.72. | 7.—Though from the states to leg- | Jan. 7.—Francis E. ; Gompers Says Ironworkers Are Not Repudiated. (FLAYS BIG CORPORATIONS ; Declares Organized Capital Has Con- spired to Murder the Liberty of the Toilers, but is Allowed to Manipu- | late the Powers of Government. Washington, Jan. 7.—Organized la- | bor will not repudiate the structural | ironworkers condemned and sentenced | as dynamite conspirators, said Presi- |dent Samuel Gompers of the Amer- jican Federation. of Labor before the | | Senate subcommittee on judiciary in ja speech defending the Clayton anti- | | injunction and contempt bills. | “If ever the time shall come,” ;Mr. Gompers, in |address, “when government by dyna: | mite shall be attempted—and let us |hope and work that it néver shall | come—it will have as its main cause [ee theory and policy upon which is | pasea government by injunction—per- | eonal government foisted upon our | people instead of a government by law.” In closing his statement, which in- | cluded an assault upon the employ- jers’ and manufacturers’ associations, | Particularly the United States Steel j Corporation and the National Erec- tors’ association, Mr. Gompers de- |clared that organized labor would not repudiate the Structural Ironworkers’ unions “and leave them helpless and {at the mercy of organized capital and insatiable, uncurbed greed for profits. Heartaches Added to Burdens. “No one feels the terrible conse- | quences of the Indianapolis trial more keenly than the men of organized la- bor. There have been added heart- aches and sorrow to our already heavy burdens. tenced cannot suffer the alone—upon them and ali working men fall the suffering and penalty. “But what of the conspire of or- | ganized capital—the ; murder the liberty | tear from them the said Is not such a conspiracy Ss |dastardly to incur ‘some | Should thé conspirators wil | hands stained with life bi ambition, happiness, libe ed nothing but honor, power fdatiantid bility? Should they be allowed to continue to manipulate the powers of |government, the administration of \ justice until those oppressed find the ; burden intolerable?” | FOR PRISONERS’ FAMILIES Collection of Fund Begun by Labor Organizations, 7.— Officials Chicago, Jan. | gun the collection of a fund for the ; assistance of the families of the thir- j ty-three men convicted of dynamite | conspiracy, following their bitter at- | tack on the verdict and sentence. | By a practically unanimous vote ee federation adopted resolutions de- claring the charges against the men i “trumped up,” the jury prejudiced and fixed,” Judge A. B. Anderson partial | and the whole case a pilot of the gov- | | ernment and steel trust to crush or- | ganized labor by railroading its lead- | ers to prison. Every member of the federation | will be assessed 5 cents to raise a ‘fund of $40,000 for the wives and chil- | dren of the convicted men. FURTHER DELAY GRANTED Put Melien and Chambertain Cases Over for Present. New York, Jan. 7—The time within | which Charles S. Mellen and E. J. Chamberlain, presidents respectively of the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Grand Trunk rail- { ways, must decide finally what they will do with reference to the federal {indictments charging them with vio- ; lating the anti-trust law by attempting ! { 1 New England, was exiended for a week. The defendants meanwhile have un- their tentative pleas of not guilty, al- ready entered. Two Killed in Auto Wreck. Minden, Neb., Jan. 7—Two men were killed and one perhaps fatally Injured in an automobile accident a few miles southwest of here. The dead are Henry Jakins and John Will- jams, both of Hildreth. The injured man is L. E. Stenger of Burr, Neb. he machine skidded while turning a corner at high speed and turned over. Two Are Frozen to Death. Winnipeg, Jan. 7—Mrs. George Buckley, bride of a well known whole- sale implement dealer of Reaburn, Man., was found frozen to death a mile from her home. Edward Bruce, aged forty, market gardener, also was ‘found frozen to death. The thermom- eter registered 10 below. the climax of his ; The men accused and sen- | penalties | iracy to | Bp ss states and Turkey the Turk- of the | | Chicago Federation of Labor have be- j to monopolize the railroad traffic of . til next Monday to demur or change | Photo by American Press Association ——— ——OOOOOOOe SHOULD BE BLOTTED OUT Dr. Gladden Denounces the Ironwork- ers’ Union. Columbus, O., Jani. 7.—Abolition of the Ironworkers’ union is demanded | by Dr. Washington Gladden, venerable champion of trades unionism. In a sermon on “The Dynamiters,” he said: “This union ought to be blotted out at once and forever. The worst things that have been said against unionism have been proved against this particular union. I do not believe the union’s rank and file knew of the dynamite conspiracy.” MORE CONCESSIONS OFFERED BY TURKS Allies Regard Them Sufficient to Prevent Rupture, | London, Jan. 7.—At the peace con- | ference between the delegates of the ish envoys offered to make further concessions which were considered by the Balkan plenipotentiaries sufii- cient to prevent the threatened rup- ture of the negotiations. Since Saturday’s postponement the Ottoman envoys had received addi- tional instructions from Constantino. ple authorizing them io concede a larger slice of Thrace, inciuding Kirk | Kilise, to the Balkan states. EBEN SMITH WHEELER DIES Directed Construction of Soo as Gov- ernment Engineer. Detroit, Jan. 7—Eben Smith Whee- ler, chief United States engineer in! | this district and chairman of the Nica-| raguan canal commission, died at his home here from heart disease. He | was seventy-four years of age. Mr. Wheeler had charge of construc- tion work at the Soo canal and spent much time in perfecting surveys of the Great Lakes. In 1837 he went io Nicaragua and spent a year in making surveys for the proposed waterway which later was abandoned in favor of the Panama route.” SPEEDS TO HELPLESS SHIP Revenue Cutter Goes to Assistance of | Schooner, Washington, Jan. 7.—With one mem- ber of her crew reporied dead and several injured the schooner Bessie | Whiting, wrecked off the coast of Vir- | ginia during the terrific storm of last week, still is helpless and appealing for assistance. The revenue cutter Onondaga, after searching the coast | for two days to find the distressed H ship, has just learned her location and | is rushing to her aid. Very Cold in Colorado. Denver, Jan. 7.—All Colorado is in the grip of the coldest weather of win- ter and one of the coldest periods in i many years. Mountain thermometers registered 31 degrees below zero. Tem- peratures throughout the entire state averaged 10 degrees below. The cold wave, coming on the heels of a twen- ty-four hour blizzard, has resulted in great suffering. Prominent Physician Ends Life. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 7—Dr. Will- lam Elza Greene, formerly president of the American Institute of Homeo- pathy and of the Southern Associa- tion of Homeopathy, shot and killed himself at his home here. Dr. Greene, who was sixty-eight years old, had been in ill health for some months. Another Editor Goes to Senate. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 7—Governor George W. Donaghey has appointed J. N. Heiskeil, editor of the Arkansas Gazette of this city, United States senator to succeed the late Jeff Davis. ‘The appointment is for the short term ending March 4. Paiten and Others Mu “ior RULE OF HIGHEST COURT Supreme Tribunal of the United States Overrules Decision Holding Insuffi- ciewt Certain Counts in the True Bill Returned, Wasiifigton, Jan. 7.--By upholding certain disputed counts against James A. Patten and others charged with violation of the Sherman anti-trust law in running a so called cotton cor- ner the supreme court sent the case against the men to trial in the lower courts. Patteu, Eugene G. Scales, Frank B. Hayne and William P. Brown were indicted in New York on charges of conspiring on Jan. 1, 1910, to “cor- ner” cotton by extensive buying on the New York cotton exchange as a re- sult of which the price would be en- banced and ultimately bring arbitrary and excessive prices. The conspiracy was described as calculated to yield $10,000,000 in profits. The alleged violation of the Sher- man law was set forth in the indict- ment in eight different ways in as many counts, the defendants being liable for trial on any one. Before the defendants could be placed on trial the United States circuit court for Southern New York held insufficient four eounts as not stating an offense. The government appealed from that decision to the supreme court. The decision of the supreme court settles the important question that a “eorner” of any commodity is a re- straint of interstate commerce and may be a violation of the Sherman } anti-trust law. The ruling does not determine the question of guilt of Pat- ten or the other defendants, but sends the case back to the lower court for trial on the facts. TAFT DECIDES HIS PLANS Will Go to Augusta, Ga., immediately After March 4, Washington, Jan. sident Taft will spend his summer vacation this year at Murray Bay, Canada, where he ‘had: a* cottage, when he was. secre- tary of war. He will leave Washing- ton March 4. and go to Angusta, Ga. When the weather there becomes too warm he will probably go to Cincin- nati for a short visit. Ue will go to New Haven, Conn., for the meeting of the Yale corporatian about the middle of June and then will probably formal- ly accept the post of Kent professor of law at Yale. He will arrange for a home in New Haven and after that will probably go to Murray Bay and remain there until he returns to New Haven in the fall to open his course of lectures as a law professor. MEXICAN SITUATION BETTER American Consuls Report Border States Quieter. Washington, Jan. 7.--Conditions in Mexico generally, and especially in the border states, are reported better in advices received at the state de- partment from American consuls in Chinuahua and Sonora. These are to the effect that there have been no fresh outbreaks and from the Ameri- can embassy in Mexico City the news indicates dispersal of the rebel bands operating in the country to the ‘south and east of the capital. In the mining country, and especial- ly at Cananea, where large American interests are located, the suppression of the strike is declared to have re- stored quiet and security. STEAMSHIP AMERIKA FREE Big Liner Resumes Her Voyage to Hamburg. New York, Jan. American liner Amerika was released from the mud banks off Tompkins- ville, Staten Island, where she went eground Saturday. Three barge loads of the Amerika’s heaviest freight. was removed before tugs succeeded in fragging her free. After the cargo had been returned to the hold the steamship resumed her interrupted voyage to Hamburg. Grand Duke Next Czar. Berlin, Jan. 7—A news agency dis- patch from St. Petersburg reiterated the statement that the czar by im- perial ukase announced the Grand _Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch as the new heir apparent to the Russian throne. It was added that the czarevitch, the ‘ttle Grand Duke Alexis, was incur- able and that physicians agreed he could not live long. Gomez Is Held as Plotter, Mexieo Ciiy, Jan. 7.—-A charge of plotting rebellion was formally made against Dr. Francisco Gomez, who is being held by the Mexican authori- ties. His arrest created a profound sensation in this city and more ar- rests are expected. 7.—The Hamburg: ; OS LS a a a. Scenes [aan ines Caen RRS CS Sen eee? Representative Steenerson of Min- nesota introduced a bill in the lower branch of congress intended to amend the three-year homestead law, reagor- ing the clause regarding “improve- ment” that was in the old law. Mr. Steenerson pointed out that the three- year law requires that not less thas twenty acres of a quarter section en- try shali be cultivated the first. year and that this requirement is a burden upon settlers on cutover land in Min- nesota, particularly inasmuch as they have to clear the stumps from their claims. Under the old homestead law the settler is required only to offer proof of cultivation and settlement, with no minimum acreage to be cleared in any one year. Mr. Steenerson proposes that set- tlers under the three-year law may have the cption of proving up undér that act or the old law. |HILL DOESN'T WANT PLACE Would Not Accept Portfolio in Wit- son’s Cabinet. In spite of the enthusiasm in North- west business circles which the sug- gestion of James J. Hill of St. Paul for secretary of agriculture im President Elect Wilson’s cabinet re- ceived, it is probable that the buildér of the Great Northern railway system would not accept the office should the appointment be made. “It would be ungrateful to desline the honor,” said Mr. Hill, “but | could not consider appointment to public office.” Although ‘the St. Paul financier ua- doubtedly feels that his duties in the railway field and the exactions of his recent connections in Twin City banmk- ing circles prohibit his entrance into public life, the favor which has. been accorded the movement is unabated. PROGRESSIVES WILL GATHER AT ST. PAUL |Five States to Be Represented at Rally Jan, 24, The Northwestern Progressive con- ference at St. Paul, the cali for which has just been issued, was de- cided upon at the recent national con- ference held in Chicago. Representa- tives of the Progressive party from the states of Michigan, Wisconsia, North Dakota, South Dakota and Min- nesota at that time determined to hold this rally of the Progressives of these five states and settled upon St. Paul as the most convenient and cen- tral point and the best prepared t> take care of the large meeting ex- pected. !x-President Roosevelt and Senator Beveridge gave the propo sition their unqualified endorsement and the date was fixed at Jan. 24 It was also arranged at that time that Senator Beveridge should be present and deliver the principal address. An all day conference will be held. The forenoon will be devoted to the consideration of Progressive organi- zation and addresses will be delivered by leading organizers from the vari- ous states represented. This will be followed by a general discussion and the comparison of different plans. of action. The afternoon session wilt take up the question of Progressive legislation and will be addressed by Progressive congressmen elect, Pro- gressive state officials and Progres- sive state legislators. In the evening there will be a banquet at the Audite- rium, where 1,000 guests will be ac commodated. This will be a Progres- jsive family dinner, strictly popular and moderate priced, open to mem and women alike. At 8 o’clock the entire Auditorium, with 10,000 seats, will be | thrown open free to the public and the meeting will be addressed by several noted speakers, among whom J. Allen of Kansas, and Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, daughter of Julia Ward Howe, author of the “Battle Hyma of the Republic.” MANY POSTMASTERS TO G@ | Democrats Will Succee Succeed Republicans in Minnesota. Between now and March 4, 1917, whem Wilson’s term as president expires, Republican postmasters in Minnesota will, kave yielded to Democrats «posi- tions carrying aggregate salaries of $437,600 a year. This is the amount now paid by the government to the presidential postmasters in the state and it is reasonable to estimate that this amount will be increased by ‘sev- eral thousands of dollars annually dur- ing the four years, because of in- creased receipts. of several of the of- fices and consequent increases in sala- ries. TRAFFIC ON GREAT LAKES Nearly 72,500,000 Tons of Freight Han- died During Year. _ Washington, Jan. 6.—Traffic on the Great Lakes during the last year was greater than ever before, according to reports received by Captain Berthelf, commander of the revenue cutter service. Nearly 72,500,000 tons of freight passed through the Soo canal from the upper to the lower lakes from April 24 to Dec. 19—the period of may- tigation, will be Senator Beveridge, Hon. Henry ©