Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 23, 1913, Page 2

: PAGE TWO GOVERNMENT IS NOW INVOLVED | Becomes Party to Pending Minnesota Rate Case. FURTHER DELAY LIKELY Action Expected to Defer Final De- cision in the Case Until Next Fall. Court Makes No Comment in Ao cep! mg intervening Brief. Washington, April 22.—The su- Preme court, on the application of Attorney General McReynolds, has permitted the department of justice to file a brief in the pending Minne- gota rate cases because of its in- terest in the Texas rate cases. The Jatter are said to involve the same Points. The court made no comment im accepting the intervening brief. The action will, it is believed, defer fal dec on of this case by the su- preme court until next fall, or at least | until late in the end of the present session of the court. The court must pess upon the points raised in the brief of the government, which will mecessitate some delay. It was at first rumored that filing of the gov- ernment brief might lead to a re argument of the case, but this is hardly probable. It is rumored here that the court may have been equally divided up to this time. It is said that Justice Van- d@eventer had not participated in the consideration of this case, because he was a judge of the circuit court of ap- peals in Missouri, that decided the Fate case there. The Missouri case is mow virtually the same as the Minne- gota case, as the state cases were ar- gued together. With Vandeventer out of it the rest of the judges may be equally divided on the question. This has been advanced as one possible zeason for the long delay of the su- preme court in arriving at a decision. In the Texas case the interstate commerce commission directed rail- voads to raise certain rates in Texas, | er to reduce interstate rates from points in Louisiana to Texas. Thi§ was done on the theory that the rail- roads in complying with the Texas Jaw had reduced the state rates so as to discriminate against interstate commerce. The government brief filed with the commerce court and now filed with the supreme court was to uphold the power of the commission to prevent such discrimination FAVORS WAGE COMMISSION Recommendation of Illinois Vice Probe Committee. Chicago, April —The Illinois sen- ate white slave investigation commis- sion will bring its inquiry looking toa minimum wage recommendation to @ close this week. Demand for the minimum wage eommission is the first concrete re- sult growing out of the commission’s Probe into the low wage problem as 2 factor in the social evil. The sen- ators believe public sentiment created by means of the investigation will force the passage of the bill. Lieutenant Governor O’Hara and Senator Juul, members of the vice Imvestigating body, are drafting the law. It will provide for a commis- sion of five members, to consist of two employers, two wage earners and one sociological expert. At least one member shall be a woman. The commision will be given au- thority to fix wages to be paid women in various cities of the state with the Fight to adopt a scale, taking into eonsideration the differences in the eost of living in different localities. AUTO BANDITS GUILLOTINED Trio Executed at Paris in Three Minutes. s, Apri Exactly P: Sond, Bonnot azling rain , three of e bandi notorious a were 2 ned in three min- utes The executions, carried out prema- | turely to forestall a demonstration, eeccurred at 4:30 a. m. in the Boule- ward Arago, ontside the prison De la Bante. A cordon of police and scl- @iers entirely surrounded the guillo- time and prevented the small mob that gathered from seeing the men die. ULTIMATUM TO MONTENEGRO Must Withdraw From Scutari or Fight the Powers. Antivari, Montenegro, April 22—An witimatum was sent to Montenegro by the commander of the international fleet blockading the coast. It declares that unless Montenegro immediately withdraws her troops from Scutari the fleet will land troops at Santivari, Dulcigno and San Gio- wanni de Medua. An officer was landed at Cattaro and conveyed the ultimatum to Cet- tinje. Rolls Down Hill to Death, Dickinson, N. D., April 22—The @hree-year-old child of Anton Liske, wwhile playin on the top of a steep Bill, fell, rolled down the slope into a slough and was drowned. W. L. Moore and C. W. Dab- ney, His Probable Successor. DABNEY FOR MOORE’S PLACE GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1913. { Cincinnati University Head Sees the | President. Washington, April 22.—Charles W. Dabney, president of the University of Cincinnati, will probably succeed Willis L. Moore as chief of the weath- er bureau. Mr. Dabney was in Washington and conferred with President Wilson. He served as assistant secretary of agri- culture under President Cleveland and was talked of for head of the depart- ment in the Wilson administration. Professor Moore denied the state- ment made by the secretary of agricul- ture that the charges came from “re- sponsible men in the weather bureau.” He defied Secretary Houston to name the men. ADMINISTRATION OF LAW IS DEFICIENT Former President Taft Dis- cusses Our Courts. New Haven, Conn., April 22.—In a speech before the Cobey Court club of the Yale law school, Professor Will- iam H. Taft characterized the courts as deficient in the administration of the law. He said in part: “Today there are not the same laws, or rather application of laws, for the poor man as there is for the rich. This does not arise from the fact that our judiciary is partial; it is by reason of the extreme delays which one meets in litigation. “When the man who has a little $10 law suit endeavors to carry this to a higher court for an appeal he is liable to find that it is not as easy as might appear. This is not true of the large corporations, however.. “The courts in this country are not controlled by the judges, but by the lawyers who bring cases before them. The manner that we have of prosecut- ing criminal laws is a disgrace. The number of real criminals that get away even without being brought to trial is something of which we can truly be ashamed.” hh be eb bh ef + b + ~ rs + + cs + MISS DUNCAN WILL QUIT sa THE STAGE. + WEEN 5 Paris, April 22.—Isadora Duncan, the barefoot dancer, whose two children were drowned Saturday when the automobile in which they were riding plunged into the Seine, announced that she had de- cided to retire from the stage and devote the rest of her life to the care of the poor and sick ‘as hospital nurse. eh PEPE EE EEE EEE EET NO CLUE TO J. W. MARTIN Memphis Cotton Broker Disappeared on April 3. London, April 22—-The disappear- ance of Joseph Wilberforce Martin, the missing Memphis cotton broker, is just as much a mystery as it was on April 3 when he disappeared from sight somewhere between his flat and the Royal Automobile club. The Daily Mail’s wireless dispatch from the steamship Walmer Castle, bound for South Africa, effectively disposed of the rumor that Martin sailed on that vessel April 5. Man Killed by Levee Guards. Memphis, Tenn., April 22—Hdward Robinson, a farmer, was shot and killed by levee guards near Arkansas City, Ark. According to the guards Robinson became enraged when or- dered to drive cattle he was herding from the levee and threatened to kill the guard and destroy the embank- ment, PEELE ERE EEE | PRISON EXPLOSIVES MISSING | San Quentin Convicts Suspected of TARIFF BILL 1 AGAIN IN HOUSE Measure Reintroduced by Chairman Underwood. | TIME LIMIT PROPOSED Rules Committee Considering Reso- lution Restricting Discussion and Number of Amendments With the Object of Hastening Its Passage. Washington, April 22.—Chairman Underwood, in reintroducing the Dem. ocratic tariff bill in the house, made no. reference to any changes by the caucus. Among these were the placing on the free list of shoe machinery, cream separators, buckwheat and rye, and the extension of the income tax exemption to savings banks not con-| ducted for profit, affecting numerous savings institutions in New York and | New England. | The house rules committee is con: | sidering a resolution to limit the | time for discussion and the number of amendments, aiming to put the bill through to its passage as rapidly as possible. A resolution offered in the caucus | would limit debate to eight legislative days, the number of amendments to each schedule to two and permit only two amendments to the bill as a whole. That was designed to prevent prolonged delays by the introduction by the minority of numerous amend- ments to each schedule when the bill is taken up under the five-minute rule. Should that resolution pass it is es- timated that at least three weeks will be required for house consideration of the bill. | President Wilson told callers he be- lieved the low rates of the tariff bill justified, even though not permit: ting any further cut for reciprocity ageements. The president told his visitors the primary consideration was the advantage of the consumer and not necessarily the retention of tact- ical advantages for future negotions of reciprocity treaties. MORGAN WILL FILED IN COURT Less Than $20,000,000 Accounted for in Bequests. New York, April 22—J. P. Morgan’s will was filed for probate here. J. P. Morgan, the testator’s son; Herbert L. Satterlee and W. P. Hamilton, his sons-in-law, and Lewis Cass Ledyard, the Morgan attorney, also filed their oaths as executors. Mrs. Morgan, the widow, and three daughters, Miss Morgan, Mrs. Satterlee and Mrs. Ham: | ilton, and J. P. Morgan have waived citation. Less than $20,000,000 was account- ed for in the specific bequests made by Mr. Morgan, the rest being the resi- duary portion left to the son without mention of the amount. Some estimates place the total es- tate as high as $125,000,000. be i a i i i ie de ll i lc INSIST ON PASSAGE OF ALIEN LAND LAW. San Francisco, April 22.— Unless the California legisla- ture enacts an effective alien land bill, it will be asked to prepare and submit to the voters at the next election a constitutional amendment deal- ing with the question, accord- ing to announcement made here by the Asiatic Exclusion league. If that plan fails the league says it will invoke the initi- ative to bring the question be- fore the public. OW fe de de de be le te te be be he bh ee hh ob bh oh EEE EEEEEE EEE EEE EE EE Bes ie i i Mh wn aie i er we ge ae a Hiding Them. San Rafael, Cal, April 22.—San Quentin penitentiary officials were startled by the discovery that 100 sticks of dynamite, 200 feet of fuse and about 600 fulminating caps have disappeared from the quarry maga- zine, located just outside the big stone walls. * It is believed the explosion mate- | rials were stolen by prisoners. A quantity of nitroglycerin was found hidden about a half mile from the prison, where a chain gang had been working. Daughter Kills Father. North Baltimore, O., April 22—*I had to do it to save mother and my brothers and sisters,” declared Beu- lah Byer, aged seventeen, who shot and killed her father, Charles Byer, aged fifty-two, on the Byer farm. The girl is held in jail here. Ex-King Manuel to Wed. London, April 22.—The private sec- retaries of former King Manuel of Portugal have confirmed the report of the betrothal of the young king and Princess Augusta Victoria, daughter of Prince Wilhelm of Ho- | SENATOR. CHAMBERLAIN. Proposes to Abrogate Existing Treaties With Great Britain. @ 1911, hv Ame recs Association. OFFERS JOINT RESOLUTION Senator Chamberlain Would Abrogate Certain Treaties. Washington, April 22.—A joint reso- lution to abrogate the Hay-Pauncefote and Clayton-Bulwer treaties on which Great Britain is basing her protests against the Panama canal act was in- troduced by Senator Chamberlain of Oregon and referred to the foreign relations committee. MILLION LOSS IN SHIPYARD BLAZE Plant Now the Property of Stand- ard Oil Company. New York, April 22.—A million dol- lar loss is estimated from a fire which destroyed the old Shooters Island shfp- yard in the Kill von Kull, near Staten Island, in NewYork bay. The plant was purchased a few years ago by the Standard Oil company, which used it during the winter for the construc- tion of many of its tank ships and tugs. The German emperor’s yacht Meteor was built at the Shooters Is- land yard in 1912, when many celebri- ties, including Prince Henry of Prus- sia, President Roosevelt and others at- tended the launching. Besides sweeping the yards the fire burned to the water’s edge the large transfer ferry express of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road, the ferryboat Fordham, a barge and two schooners. CONCILIATION BOARD FAILS Canadian Northern Faces Strike of Conductors. Winnipeg, April 22.—No settlement of the dispute between the Canadian Northern railway and the Order of Railway Conductors was reported when the board of conciliation and ad- justment, in session since March 25, adjourned. Two reports were sent to Ottawa. The demands will next go to the federated board of engineers, fire men, conductors and trainmen and that action will be a step toward the issuing of a strike ultimatum to the company. The railway company contends it is not in position financially, consider- ing the earning powers of the road, to grant the increase demanded by the men. WILSON NOMINATES STRONG Names Juneau Man Governor of Alaska. Washington, April 22.-—President Wilson sent the following nomina- tions to the senate: Governor of Alaska, J. E. A. Strong of Juneau. Surveyor general of Alaska, Charles E. Davidson of Alaska. Auditor for the war department, J. L. Baity of Missouri. Collectors of Customs—At Astoria, Ore., William C. Logan; at Portland, Ore., Charles C. Burke. CUYUNA STRIKE IS SETTLED Iron Miners Reach Agreement and Work Is Resumed. Brainerd, Minn., April 22.—The Cu- yuna iron range strike of under- ground miners was settled satisfac- torily and all mines are working. There was no disorder of any kind. The men favored resumption of work, Court Frees Nella Bergen. Mineola, N. Y., April 22.—Ellen B. 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