Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 25, 1913, Page 3

TELLS CONGRESS : CURRENCY NEEDS jap President Wilson Reads Mes- sage in Person. URGES PROMPT ACTION Chief Executive Declares Immediate | Revision of Banking Laws Is Neces- sary—Approves Measure Prepared by House and Senate Committees. Washington, June 24.—President ‘Wilson personally read the following | message to both houses of congress in joint session: “Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Gen- tlemen of the Congress—It is under the compulsion of what seems to me a clear and imperative duty that I have a second time this session sought the privilege of addressing you in person. I know, of course, that the heated season of the year is upon us, that work in these cham- bers and in the committee rooms is likely to become a burden as the sea- son lengthens and that every consid- eration of personal convenience and personal comfort, perhaps, in the cases of some of us, considerations of personal health even, dictate an early conclusion of the deliberatio: of the n. But there are occasions of public duty when these things which touch us privately seem very small, when the work to be done is so pressing and so fraught with big consequence that we know that we are not at liberty to weigh against it any point of personal sacrifice. We are now in the presence of such an occasion. It is absolutely im- perative that we should give the busi- mess men of this country a banking and currency system by means of which they can make use of the free- dom of enterprise and of individual initiative which we are about to be- stow upon them. age Sat Must Leave Tools of Action. “We are about to set them free. We must not leave them without the tools of action when they are free. We are about to set them free by re- moving the trammels of the pro- tcetive tariff. Ever since the Civil ee war they have waited for this eman- cipation and for the free opportuni- ties it will bring with it. ‘ reserved for us to give it to them. “Now both the tonic and discipline of liberty and maturity are to ensue. There will be some readjustments of purpose and point of view. There will follow a period of expansion and new enterprise, freshly conceived. us to determine now whether it shall be rapid and facile and of easy ac- complishment. This it cannot be un- less the resourceful business men who are to deal with the new circum- stances are to have at hand and ready for use the instrumentalities and con- veniences of free enterprise which in- dependent men need when acting on their own initiative. “It is perfectly clear that it is our | duty to supply the new banking and currency system the country needs and that it will immediately need it more than ever. Need of Currency Changes. “We must act now, at whatever sacrifice to ourselves. It is a duty which the circumstances forbid us to postpone. I should be recreant to my deepest convictions of public obliga- tions did I not press it upon you with solemn and urgent insistence. “The pri les upon which we #) It has been | It is for | treet teedeeteetedeeteetetettetetetetetetetetetetetete The Pioneer Stor should act are also clear. have a currency, not rigid as now, but readily, elastically responsive to sound credit, the expanding and con- tracting credits of every day transac- tions, the normal personal and corporate dealings. Our banking laws must mobilize reserves, must not permit the concentration |anywhere in a few hands of the monetary resources of the country or their use for speculative purposes in such volume as to hinder or im- pede or stand in the way of other more legitimate, more fruitful uses. And the control of the system of laws are to set up must be publi not private; government itself, so that the banks may be the instruments, not the | al enterprise and initiative. Committees Ready to Report. “The committees of the congress | to which legislation of this character |is referred have devoted careful and dispassionate study to the means of accomplishing these objects. have honored me by consulting me. They are ready to suggest action. I government and _ the _ responsible action now, while there is time to serve the country deliberately and as we should, in a clear air of common counsel. “IT appeal to you with a deep con- viction of duty. I believe that you share this conviction. I therefore ap- peal to you with confidence. at your service without reserve to play my part in any way you may call upon me to play it in this great enterprise of exigent reform which it will dignify and distinguish us to per- form and discredit us to neglect.” NINE PERISH WHEN Survey Boat Beaver Lost in the Mississippi River. New Madrid, Mo., June 24.—Search is being made for the bodies of eight members of a party of United States army engineers and other government employee who were drowned when the United States survey boat Beaver capsized in a wind storm four miles above this city. The body Williamson, engineer, Mason, O., the ninth victim, was washed up by the waves. The missing are: Phil Wray, Jackson, Tenn.; A. D. Coston, engineer; J. M. McConnell, Memphis, Tenn., graduate Cornell uni- | versity law college; Harry Sherrell, ;mate, Cottonwood, Tenn.; Lamb, pilot; John Freeman, hand; two rodmen, not identified. The Beaver left Memphis, Tenn., last Friday en route for Snaky Bend, in the Mississippi, near here, where a | government survey was to be made. | A severe squall overturned the boat | in the middle of the river. The steam- \er Chiska saved five members of the | party found clinging to bits of wreck- age. PEER EEE EEE EE + + GOLD LADEN SHIPS AR- RIVE AT SEATTLE. Seattle, Wash, June 24—A million dollars in gold, the first shipment from Nome (Alaska) this year, was re- ceived by the steamships Sen- ator and Victoria, which com- pleted their first round trip of the season to Bering sea. 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John Beckfelt Grand Rapids, Minn. We must ebb and flow of } banking and of issue which our new | must be vested in the | masters, of business and of individu- | They | have come to you, as the head of the | leader of the party in power, to urge | I am | STEAMER CAPSIZES of C. S.| Captain | deck GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1913. PREPARING FOR GREAT REUNION ‘Gettysburg Battlefield Be- comes City of Tents. BLUE AND GRAY TO MINGLE — | Every State in the Union Will Be Represented by Federal or Con- federate Veterans at the Anni- versary of the Great Conflict of Fifty Years Ago. Gettysburg, Pa., June 24.—The hills of Gettysburg, where the armies of Meade and Lee pitched their tents | fifty years ago, are flecked with can- vas, harbingers of the tented city which will soon arise on the battle- field. The army of Civil war veterans from the North and the South—40,- |.000 of them—are coming, some few | in thread worn uniforms and all with- | out their muskets, to hold a jubilee | reunion on the fiftieth anniversary of the battle. Some of the scouts will bivouac on the field within a week; the rank and file will follow them not more than forty-eight hours later. Every star of the forty-eight in the American flag is expected to have here its own quota of veterans. They will come as the guests of the nati al government, and of their spective states and territories, w. jointly will spend more than a m lion dollars for their entertainment and comfort. The big camp is pitched on that | part of the battlefield which lies southwest of Gettysburg. On nea: tents and more are going up under the supervision of the war depar'- ment. The camp lies partly on the scene of the first day’s fighting and is not far from High Water Ma is not far from High Water Mark. where Pickett’s famous charge shat- tered against the Union lines. Five Thousand Tents Ready. Five thousand tents have been erect- ed for the exclusive use of the veter- ans. The camp has been laid out like a city. Each street and each tent has veteran to look up a former comrade or foe. In the center of the camp will | be the headquarters of the ‘chief quartermaster. The veterans will be encamped according to states. Although each tent is designed to | accommodate twelve men it has been | planned to assign only eight veterans to each, so as to make then as com- fortable as possible. Each veteran will have a separate cot, blankets and a mess kit, which will contain a plate, cup, knife, fork and spoon and will become his personal property when he breaks camp. Each tent also will have two hand basins, a water bucket, candles and two lanterns. The principal events of the celebra- tion will be held on July 1, 2, 3 and 4. The great celebration will be in full swing on the morning of July 1, ex- actly fifty years to the day from the the town. The exercises will be held in a great tent, one of the largest in the United States, capable of accommodating about 15,000 persons. This tent is at | the southern end of the camp, beside the Emmettsburg road, down which Lee’s army went after the close of the | three days’ battle. | CONSIDER METAL CHANGES on Tariff. Washington, June 24.—Hopeful that this would be the last week of pre- liminary consideration of the tariff bill the senate Democratic caucus resumed work. Changes in the metal schedule, partly approved Saturday night, came up first, but were not concluded when adjournment was taken. Senator Simmons, chairman:of the finance committee, said that the re- vision of the income tax and admin- istrative features would be submitted later. GRASSHOPPERS RAID COTTON ricultural Board for Aid. Guthrie, Okla., June 24.—Grasshop- pers are doing such damage in Cen- tral OkJahoma that a delegation from Lincoln county went to Oklahoma City to petition the state board of ag- riculture to aid them in stopping the invasion of the insects in Deep Fork valley. In the vicinity of Warwick and Wellston the cotton crop has been | destroyed and the grasshoppers are attacking the corn and alfalfa. Montreal Firemen Killed. Montreal, Que., June 24.—Four fire- men were killed and three were in- jured while fighting a fire which de stroyed a sash and blind factory and the big warehouse of the City Ice com- za The loss is estimated at $125, HeeCOCRKTPTIVISCL | are already here; the advance guard | 300 acres of contiguous ground 7,099 | a number, so it will be easy for any | time the battle opened to the west of | Democratic Caucus Resumes Work Oklahoma Farmers Petition State Ag- | CARTER GLASS. Heads House Committee That Framed New Currency Bill. BIG MEN IN SLAVE TRIAL | Russian Prince involved in Sensation- { al London Case. London, June 24.—Queenie Gerald, keeper of a Haymarket resort, arrest- | ed on white slave charges, threatens to make revelations concerning sev- eral prominent politicians, a Russian prince and well known society per- sons in court. In the raid the detec- tives discovered some extremely com- promising documents, implicating big names in London society. These include letters from three | Liberal and two Conservative mem- bers of parliament, also one from a | relative of the czar. ARREST OF LEADER REVEALS SECRETS Frisco Tong Made Business of Blackmail and Murder, San Francisco, June 24.—Black- mail, murders, opium smuggling and smuggling of coolies across the bor- der were revealed in letters and docu. ments taken upon the arrest of | | Wong Do King, head of the Bing| Kung tong, according to information given out by federal immigration offi- cials. { | Death, say the immigration men, | was the penalty by all who opposed or attempted to betray the schemes} of the highbinders. The deportation of Wong will be sought at once and other Chinese powerful in many American cities will be prosecuted. Wong for twenty years has been head of the Bing Kungs, the most warlike and powerful of the Chinese secret societies. Widespread levying of blackmail, said to be the principal activity of the Bing Kungs, was made effective by a score of gunmen on salaries, with bonuses for killing “big | men.” The gunmen also protected the gambling dens and owners of Chinese and American slave girls, the letters show. | Many letters bear upon the recent tong war which extended the length of the Pacific coast, some of them giving specific instructions for the killing of various men. ae abe She eae sabe: Eo sobs he inks ake: Be AN ah gst + % BULGARIA REJECTS RUS- + SIAN PROPOSAL, + Vienna, June 24.—A special dispatch from Sofia says that Bulgaria has definitely de- clined the Russian emperor’s proposal for a meeting of the premiers of the Balkan states at St. Petersburg to discuss the critical situation in the Near East. peeeersss PEPER EE EE EERE EE PEEP EEE EEE EEE |ORCHESTRA AVERTS PANIC | Plays in Theater Until 1,100 Persons Are Safely Out of Building. Fond du Lac, Wis., June 24.——What | threatened to be a serious fire panic was averted at the Idea theater when the members of the orchestra hit up a lively air and played while the room filled with smoke and until the theater was emptied of 1,100 persons. The | mile above the rapids, when the rope fire was caused by the burning of a motion ‘picture film and was confined to the operator’s room. Twenty min- utes after the panic had occurred the audience filed into the theater for an- other performance. Chicago Pioneer of ’33 Dead. Chicago, June 24.—Frederick Brookes, who came from New York to Chicago by ox' team in 1833, is dead at the age of eighty-six. He was one of the city’s first printers and “worked at the case” with the late “Long John Wentworth,” after- wards mayor, who was editor of the Chicago Democrat. Oh, You Shady Porch! yo who have a shady porch, to shield you from Old Sol’s hot scorch, should congratulate and shake hands with yourselves, Make the Best Use of It Furnish it with some of the many comfortable and convenient articles of Porch Furniture we have here, and enjoy it from the beginning to the end of the hot summer season. GEO. F. KREMEP Furniture, Rugs, Linoleum and Undertaking OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE % sSoedoat ae ee te ee ea a oe RRS: es seepenseisets Seater . , ss THOUSANDS MAY JOIN STRIKE Vote to Decide Walkout Pro- posed in Kansas City. Kansas City, June 24.—A general strike of all unions connected with the Industrial council may be called here next Friday. Heads of all of the unions in Kansas City will meet Wednesday to vote on the request of the Building Trades council that a general strike be called. If the vote carries 15,000 men, com- prising the 117 locals here, will stop work within the next two weeks. Varlet and V “We have only oursi our forefathers, to blr ble about the pronunc says the London Cb had stuck to ‘varlet’ been no difficulty. ‘ are the same word, | just a boy, the dim aman. Unfortunate tors applied a wor signify a servant t' it bear a scornful let’ degenerated b ‘knave,’ which is ‘knabe,’ boy.” will ‘Two Boys Perish at Niagara. Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 24.—Don- ald Roscoe, aged ten, and Hubert Moore, aged nine, both of Buffalo, were drowned in the whirlpool rapids while hundreds of men watched help- less from the shore. The boys were playing in a flat bottom scow, half a Indispt “Say, father you ever hat wother?” “Why. cert “How do - question, ° “Well, saw in ried 4 that - Mar cr’ holding the boat broke and they were carried out into the stream and down the river. Rebels Capture Durango. Mexico City, June 24.—The capture of the city of Durango is reported unofficially here. There is no tele- graphic communication. 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