Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 6, 1909, Page 1

VoL LL—NO. 107. THE UTILITIES BILL WILL NOT DOWN| Again Yesterday it Loomed Up Big in the House of Representatives ADVOCATES RESORT TO FILIBUSTERING Great Scurrying Around the are for and Against the Chamber of Members, who Eill and of Men who Repre- sent Corporations and Other Interests—Advocates of Bill Accuse Opponents of Lack of Fair Play. Hartford, Conn,, May 5.—The nublic | di the | tive Burnes. utilities bill loomed up big in house of representatives today. The efforts of its ofi”'m" to give it a parliamentary quietus wepe frustrated for the day by the stubborn defense of Rej tative Chandler of Rocky ill and its advocates, who resorted to libustering owing to knowledge of the fact that the house was about evenly divided with possible advantage in numbers on the side of those who wanted' to get reconsideration of the motipn by which vesterday it was voted to send the bill to a special com- mittee of nine members for redraft- ing. Representative Burnes Let Opportunity Slip By. Representative Burnes, with the stronger position, let the opportunity g0 by, im the opinion of many, of forcing & vote early on the motion of Representative Hayes of Waterbury to Teconsider yesterday's action. ~Mr. Hayes had voted to reject the bill and then voted in the affirmative on the question of reference to a special com- mittee of the house. He was there- fore in order to move reconsideration, but after doing so he withdrew the motfon to permit of the taking up of routine business which had accumu- Jated in considerable volume the past few days. Great Scurrying To and Fro, Later Mr. Hayes pressed his motion, but in the meantime there had been great scurrying around the chamber of members who are for and against the bill and also of county commissioners who attend the sessions regularly, of officeholders who are always on hand during the sittings of the house, and of ‘men who are understood to repre- sent corporations and other interests. Upstairs in the capitol a conference of many of the last mentioned men was held and several times members-of tha house were in the corridors discussing she situation with men who seemed to be worried over the way things were golng or not going. Postponement Demanded. A Aiscussion was precipitated on the motion of Mr. Hayes, in which Repre- sentative Burnes and others argued for fts passage and Representatives Hall of Willington. Representative Chandler of Rocky Hill, Representative Brins- made of Washiogton and many others demanded a rejection of the motion or a postponement until tomorrow or later because some thirty members had gone with the agricultural committee to visit Storrs school. Representative Burnes was willing to have the house rules suspended so that the motion might be made the order of the day on Tuesday next, but this was refused. Attempt to Adjourn Defeated. An attempt to adjourn the house was deteated. 80 to 79, indicating a very close vote on any other measure. Af- ter more talk of wide range the mat- ter was lald on the table to allow of more business being transacted. Then shortly before 2 o'clock the motion was further discussed and, departing from the motion, members pretty generally GRAND ILODGE OF MASONS OF CONNECTICUT To Lay Cornerstone of New Supreme Court House at Hartford. Hartford, Conn.,, May 5.—The grand lodge of Masons of the state will lay the cornerstone of the new supreme court house on_May 26th, and Chief Justice Simeon BaMwin of the supreme court of errors will deliver the oration on the south lawn of the capitol. The hour—3 p. m.—will be convenient to the members of the lerislature, who will be invited to attend. United States Senator Bulkeley, who came on from Washington to atfend a meeting of the commisslon, today invited Jus- tice Baldwin to speak. The committce of arrangements was selected from the commission. TRAIN HIT HERD OF CATTLE, COACHES GO OVER BANK. fosid ot ) Six Persons Injured on Branch of B, & O. Romaey, W. Va, May 5.—Six per- sons were injured tonight when a train on-the Romney branch of the Balti- more & Ohio railroad hit a herd of cattle and two coacheg were thrown over a bank, The.injured, all of Rom- nep, include, Mrs. John 'J. Cornwall, of former Semator Cornwall, who was the democratic nominee for gov- ernor in 1904, One of the derailed coaches caught fire and was burned. Joseph Inskeep Keller. hurried to the ~scene of the wreck and dropped dead from excite- ment, Romney TRAVELING SILVER TROWEL OF MASONIC ORDER Starts on Special Train from Los An- geles to Mexico City. 1Los Angeles, Cal,, May §.—The trav- eling silver trowel of the Masonic or- der was started on its journey to Mex- jeo City tonight im a_ specia] train. Many of the leading Masons in the state are In the party, which includues James Richardson of Washington, sov- erelgn - grand commander, and Frank Plerce of San Francisco, sovereign in- spector general of the Scottish Rite ‘bodies. . B. Spencer, chairman of the deputation, will deliver the trowel to Dr. Charles R. Pullen of Mexico City, master of Auhua lodge, No, 141. 8econd Peace Conference Comes to a Clos Chicago, May 5.—Feeling that a real step forward _ i the world's peace movement had been taken, delegates o the second peace congress brought their three days’ convention to a close with a banquet tonight given by the Chicago Association of Commerce. The day was notable for three feat- ures: The smothering of resolutions introduced by a soclalist and some- what tinged with the sentlments of :h:]z party: the m:‘u of the offi- cfal representatives of seven nations, ;-ld <he adoption of agpropriate reso- issed the bill, ded by Representa- Accused of Lack of Fair Play. There was no hesitancy on the part of the advocates of the measure in ac- cusing the opponents of lack of fair play In refusing to delay action until the absentees could be in their seats. The house settled down for a com- plete threshing out of the matter un- der guise of the motion to reconsider. Representative Dunn got the house o accept & motion to have the vote recorded. Just beforé § o'clock Rep- resentative Quintard of Norwalk sud- denly offered a motion to adjourn which went through. Reconsideration, Advyocates of the bill at once jumped at_the conclusion that under the house rules the legislative day had ended and reconsideration could not be taken up tomorrow. But in the rules was found a ruling by Speaker Barbour in 1897 that if the house voted to ad- journ while debate on reconsideration was in progress the motion was the first business on the next session day. Situation Still Unsettled. Speaker Banks, it is assumed, will tollow this ruling. Then will come an- other contest of parliamentary proced- ure and RepPesentative Chandler, with a majority with him, may be able to appeal from such a ruling. In this case reconsideration of the vote to re- fer to a special committee may be deemed to have ended. The house, however, in the past has not many times falled to support the ruling of the chair. The situation tonight there- fore is not more settled than it was yesterday. ¥ Spectators Filled the Aisles. The debate today was listened to by enough spectators to fill the side aisles. Representative Chandler made one speech in_reply to Representative Burnes which brought out great ap- plause. He said that much attention had been given by the opponents of the bil] to the claim that refere to a special committee was a snub to the senate. He said that the proced- ure was a sensible one and that the senate was too well versed in parlia- mentary lore to feel offense when there was none. He said it was time Con- necticut departed from some prece- dents when it meant a broadening out. He said that nearly every leglsiaturc followed the commitiee of the whole means of transacting business which could not be handled in its first stages by the houses separately, Opponents of Bill Worried. It was evident after the session closed that opponents of the bill were worrled at the predicament in which they found themselves. Size of Calendar Reduced. Aside from this debate, the house reduced the size of its calendar by one- half, which was considerable. The sendte in a short session had practi- cally cleaned up its calendar so that tomorrow it may happen that a few minutes will suffice to do business. Most of the senators were in the house during the debate. SUDDEN WEDDING YALE STUDENT AND ACTRESS College Man’s Chum Did All He Could to Prevent It. New York, May 5.—One of those sudden weddings in which a young college student figures as the bride- groom and a young woman identifled with theatricals as the bride, was re- vealed today when Justice of the Teace Alfred Sorensen of Jersey City announeed that last Saturday night be married Donald Buchanan of Buffa- lo, a former Yale student, and Elaine May Miller of Reading, Pa., whose stago name 1s Helen Chapman. The pair left an uptown restaurant on Saturday evening for Jersey City, cluding with some difficulty Buchan- ar's college chum, Joseph A. Wade of Fhiladelphia, who' determined to pre- | vent their marriage if possible. No license is necessary in New Jersey, if one of thd parties to the marriage is a resident, and young Buchanan claimed residence in Hoboken. Buchana is a son of Gen, William Inseo Buchanan of Buffalo, said to be cousin of ex-President Roosevelt, and formerl-~ United States minister to Argentina, THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT the Strongly Favored Over Present Hartford, Conn, May 5.—The Aus- tralfan ballot in place of the present paster ballot was favored sirongly be- ore the judiciary committee this af- ternoon. ‘The hearing was on the bill of Representative Bennett of Norwalk, who had a dummy ballot in evidence. Mr. Bennett spoke in favor and he presented many recommendations in favor of the ballot which he advocated. O. R, Fyler, railroad commissioner and prominent in politics, came out almost unreservedly in favor of a change in the ballot. He told of the wide @istri- bution of supposed spurious ballots in the last election, something like 160,000 all over the state, and he thought that when such conditions were puxsi- ble it was time to look &bout for a bet- ter method: of voting. Dr. Rowell of Stamford spoke in favor also, telling of the experience of voters in ‘Stamford last election with a_citizens' ballot which was denled a place within the polling booth. Sev- eral others spoke for the bi Battleship Mississippi Anchored Off New Orleans. New Orleans, May 5.—After being lost to the wireless station for nearly three days, the battieship Mississipp! sWung up to the bar at the mouth of the Mississippl river tonight and an- chored. She will come to the South Pass tomorrow and reach the New Orleans naval wharf about noon. All preparations for an enthuslastic re- ception to both officers and men are completed. Miners Killed by Gas Blowout. ‘Winnipeg, Man.,, May 5.—A big blow- out of gas oceurred at mine No. 7 of the Crows Nest Pass Coal company at Carbonado, in the Fernie district, today, killing two miners and injuring & number of others. Cabled Paragraphs. Paris, 5.—Joseph Bauen, the anarchist, of Cincinnati, Q. was ar- rested by the police of Paris this aft- ernoon. The British government at one tume issved a decree of expulsion.| against Bauen. Reims, France, May 5.—The mag- nificent residence near here of Jacques Lebaudy, the eccentric Frenchman who has cailed himself “Emperor of the Sahara,” was burned down today. For several years the property and the vast farms adjoining it have been al- most abandoned. It became a refuge for tramps, to whom the fire is at- tributed. London, May 5. —Lewis Harcourt has promised the government a con- tribution of $50,000 provided, the pub- lic will subscribe for the balance of the sum required for the purchase of the famous Holbein portrait of Chris- tina of Denmark, This portrait has been a loan from the Duke of Norfolk to the National gdllery for twenty- eight years. It is supposed to have been bought by the art dealer for an American client for $330,000. London, May 5.—The govempment's belated recognition of the importance of aerfal navigation by the appoint- ment of a scientific investigation com- mission and the provision of funds for experimenting purposes gives univer- sal satisfaction. Its coincidence with the visit of Wilbur and Orville Wright is considered by no means accidental, although pressure from the defense committee is believed to have been the chief factor in arousing the ministers to the growing Importance of _the question and the danger of Great Brit- ain being left behind in the race for the conquest of the air. SITUATION IS DESPERATE, DESPITE PRESENCE OF TROOPS Mohammedans Push Their Attack En- ergetically—Lack of Food and Med- icine in Hadj Hadjin, Asiatic Turkey, May 5—Not- withstanding the presence of the troops here, the situation is desper- ate, owing to lack of food and medi- cal supplies. The troops which re- lieved the city came up from Mersina under command of Loufti Bey just in time. The Mohammedans outside the walls who seemingly numbered many thou- sands, pushed their attacks energeti- cally against the inhabitants, killing and wounding many, They were So eager to get inside the city and plun- der the place that they did not observe the approach of Loutfi Bey and his men until they were close upon them, whereupon the Mohammedans fled precipitately, carrying off all the cat- tle outside the cit; Marash, May 5.—A by messenger from Harni says that every man there has been killed. On- Iy women, girls and boys under ten have been left alive. The churches and houses were plundered and most of them were burned. The letter, which is from the widow of a clergyman, sa letter received “We have nothing to eat or wear. We are living on grass like animals. ‘Worse than this, the Moslems are trying to force the women and girls to become Mohammedans. Already some of the women have been carried away.” Lucius_O. Lee, a missionary here, sa) We are trying to send food to Harni, although it is dangerous, and te bring the women away as well” CATHOLIC PRINCIPLE BAD LAW. Ante-Nuptial Agreement About Edu- cation of Children Not Binding, St. Louis Judge Determines. St. Louis, May 5.—Stipulations made before marriage by which one or the other party agrees to permit the edu- cation and religious training of any | children that may be born after mar- riage in a given religious faith, can- not be enforced by law. Judge Matthew G. Reynolds yester- day handed down a decision to this effect. This decision, be the-first of said by lawyers to kiud, holds to be of ne effect in law one of the cardinal principles of the ic church, which requires atholics who marry Catholics to sign an ante-nup- tial contract giving control of the re. ligious education of any children born of the marriage to the Catholic party to the affair. ARBOR DAY MAY 14TH. Proclamation Issued Yesterday by Gév. Frank B. Weeks. Hartford, May 6.—Arbor day will be observed on the fourteenth of this month, when, in_accordance with the proclamation of Gow F. B. Weeks, the school children will receive special instruction in the importance of our forests and will plant trees and shrubs, The governor's proclamation is as folldws: State of Connecticut. By His Excellency, Frank B. Weeks, Governor, A Proclamation. In_accordance with the statutes, T hereby appoint Friday, the fourteenth day of May, as Arbor and Bird day, recommending on that day the plant- ing of trees and shrubs, and request- ing that the school children receive special instructions in the importance of our forests, in kindness to beast and bird, and in all the pleasant ways of nature. (Seal.) Given under my hand and seal of the state, at the capitol in Hartford, this sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine, and the independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third. FRANK B. WEEKS, By His Excellency’s Command: Matthew H. Rogers, Secretary. BLACKLISTS OF EMPLOYES. Several Speakers Before Legislative Committee on Labor. Hartford, Conn., N Many rep- resentatives of organized labor appear- ed before the legislative committee on labor this afternoon at a hearing on the bill concerning blacklists of em- ployes. The principal speaker of the labor ‘men Charles F. Donohue of the Conneeticut Federation of Labor. He spoke strongly in favor of a substi- tute measure which would appear to be framed somewhat along the lines of the Colorado law regarding black- lists. He was followed by Charles E. Leonard of Hartford, a veteran of the Civil war, who said that for forty years entrenchments of a legal nature have been thrown up by capital around labor so that now it is working great disadvantage to the labor interests. There were a number of other speak- &8, all of whom spoke along similar nes. Weston in Kansas City Today. Kansas City, Mo, May 5.—Edward Payson Weston, walking from New York to San Francisco, tonight reached Oak Grove, twenty miles east of Kan- sas City, and expects to be in Kansas City tomorrow. Mostly Farmers LITTLE DIFFICULTY IN FILLING THE JURY BOX. JAMES H. BOYLE ON TRIAL Prosecution Secures Statement of Mar- riage of Edward Shaeffer to Anna McDermott by Rev. Father Ganser. May 5.—James H. e, charged with the abduction of Wwillle Whitla of Sharon, Pa., was placed on trial this afternoon. When court adjourned for the day a jury had been selected temporarily. Most of these jurors are farmers. Trial May, End This Week. Little difficully was experienced in securing the jury. Each man was closely questioned and only 27 were cxamined before the box was filled, It iz believed the trial can be concluded before the end of the present week. Thre are from 40 to 50 witnesses for the state and several for the defense, but the testimony of most of them will be brief. Marriage Statement Secured. The prosecution today secured the following statement: “Holy Family Church, 417 West 12th street, Chicago, 1Il. “On_ the fourth day of February, 1905, 1 united in the bonds of matri- money Edward Shaeffer and Anna Mc- Dermott In this clty, in the presence of John Butler and Mary Middleman, dispensation of differing religions hav. ing been obtained. “J. A. GANSER, §. 3. “I certify that the above abstract is correct. “W. J. PETERS, S. J.” Priest Declines to Come to Court. Rev. Father Ganser is now stationed at Toledo, and It is said that T, C. Cochran for the prosecution made an effort to have himscome here to try to identify Mrs, Boyle as the woman he had united in_marriage to Shaef- fer, but he positively declined to come. Believing that they couid show that Mrs, Boyle is not legally married to James H. Boyle, the prosecution has had her summoned as a witness for the state against Boyle. But the re- fusa] of the priest to attempt the wo- man’s identification has put a stop to their efforts in this direction, No Recollection of Performing Such Marriage. v Toledo, 0., May 5. have no rec- ollection of performing the marriage of Anna McDermott and Edward Shaefer,” said Rev. Father J. A. Gan- ser when asked about the news des- patch connecting his name with the Boyle case at Mercer, Pa. Father Gan- ser is an instructor in the St. John's college here. “If they had been members of my parish in Chicago,” continued Father Ganser, “T would certainly remember them, but if I married them, they were strangers to me-and I cannot recall their names. If the church record shows such a marrfage it is no doubt correct. “I could not identify the woman un- @er oath, so it would be useless for me te appear at the trial.” Mercer, P MANIC DEPRESSIVE INSANITY Troubled Hains When He Shot Annis —Alienist Testimony. Flushing, L. I, May 5—This was “hypothetical” day at the Hains trial. For nearly two hours the jury lis- tened to the reading of the hypothet- ical question, containing more than 10,000 words, as propounded by the defence, upon which three alienists are to predicate their opinions about the mental condition of the defend- ant, Capt. Peter C. Hains, on August 15 last, when he shot and killed Wil- lizm K. Annig at the Bayside yacht club. During the long cross examination of the first alienist, Dr, Samuel Man- son of New York, by District Attor- ney Dewitt, many forms of insanity and their classifications, ranging from ordinary melancholia to the ravings of a hopeless lunatic, were discussed, And the jury, and every one but the witness, appeared at times to be lcst in the maze of psychical phenom- ena. In answer to the hypothetical question which covered practically all the actions and speech of the defend- ant tending to show_irrationality as wced in evidence, Dr. Manson de- clared that Captain Hains was suf- fering from “impulsive insanity” at the time he killed Annis. He had been the victim of “manic depressive insanity,” the physician said, from May 31, 1908, the day on which his wife Claudia is alleged to have con- fessed to her relations. with Annis, up te the time of the shooting. Only once during the reading of the Eypothetical question by John F. Mc- Intyre, counsel for the defense, did Captain Hains show a flash of inter- est. That was when the lawyer read in dramatic tones the-alleged signed confession of Claudia Hains. Then Captain Hains raised himself in his chair for a moment and with wide-open eves glanced at the lawver, His interest was only momentary, however, for he quickly sank back into his usual lstless attitude. It was one of the very few times he has shown any intelligent appreciation of what was going on around him since the trial began, BAD DIMES AND NICKELS Said to Have Been Sold to Newark Conductors at Half Face Value. ewark, N. J, May 5.—For some days past the Public Service corpora. tion and the public have been flooded vith bad dimes and five-cent pieces. They were turned In to the offices of the "corporation through the condue- tors of the “pay as you enter” cars. The corporation' reported the matter to the police, and today John Smith, 32 years old, of No. 181 Norfokc street was arrested and arraigned before U. £, Commissioner Bigelow. It is charg- ed he has been selling bogus coins to the conductors at the rate of fifty cents for a dollar's face value in counter- feits, He says he bought the coins in New York at the rate of $3.75 for bogus coins of $50 face value. Middletown Universalists Call Pastor. Middletown, Conn., May 5.—The Uni- versalist church of this place has ex- tended a call to Rev. Harris W. Smith of Gloucester, Mass., and it is thought he will accept. Rev. Mr. Smith is a lacturer at Tufts college. Rockville—~St. James' branch, La- dies’ Catholic Beneyolent assoclation, of Manchester, was the guest of St. Anthony branch In Rockville Tuesday evening. Supreme Deputy Bessie Mat- thews of Buffalo, N. Y. was present and gave Instructions in’Inlatory work, BILL CONCERING SALE OF TROUT PASSED. AUTOMOBILE BILL SUBSTITUTE Bill in Relation to Certificates of Teachers Amended and Passed—Milk Inspector for City of Norwich. Hartford, May 5.—The senate was called to order at 1115 by President pro tem. Banks. Prayer by Chap- lain Countryman of the, house. Petition. By Senator Peck—From Mrs. Elsie Sands et al, in favor of house bill No. 533, for the prohibition of the liquor traffic by a referendum vote of the people. Excise. Substitute Automobile Bill. The committee on roads, bridges and rivers reported a substitute automobile bill. The original bill, which was re- committed to the ~committee, . is changed in some particulars. The term “liveryman” is further defined by in- cluding eveny person, whether engaged in ‘buying, selling, or exchanging mo- tor vehicles or not, who maintains for hire more than two motor vehicles, The following addition is made: “No recovery shall be had in the courts of the state by the owner, operator or passenger of a motor vehicle which has not been registered in accordance with section 2 or section 3 of this act, for any injury to person or property received by reason of the operation of said motor veaicle in or upon the public highways of this state, unless said motor vehicle is the property of a_non-resident and is within the pro- visions of section 10 of this act. Nor shall such recovery be had if the mo- tor vehicle be registered but is being operated by an unlicensed person in violation of section 7 of this act.” Calendar. Calendar. / Passed—Increasing the capital stock of the East Lyme Power company from $10,000 to $25,000 and authoriz- ing the company to issue bonds to the amount of three-fourths of the capita] stock: concerning the careand protection of trees in highways and public grounds as amended, by pro- viding that appeals from the action of tree wardens may be taken to the county commissioners instead of to the superior court, and that the tree war- den must first obtain the consent of local authorities before trimming the trees; extending the time in which the Willimantic and Stafford Street Railway company may construct its road; authorizing the courts of pro- bate to require executors and trustees to give bonds even when the testator states in his will that they may not. Quadrennial Statements. Senator Arnold explained the follow- ing bill and it was passed: “Section 1. The assessors of every town shall, on or before the date re- quired for the filing of thelr abstract with the town clerk, comencing with the year 1910, and every fourth year thereafter make an inventory and valuation of all of the property exempt from taxation, but which would be subject to taxation fir such towns except for such exemption, and shall make and file an abstract of such ' property with the town clerk on the date now provided for flling such abstract; and the town clerk shall, on or before the first day of July. 1910, and every fourth year thereafter, re- turn to the tax commissioners a cor- rect copy of such abstract of property exempt from taxation, stating sepa- rately the tota] value of such property belonging to educational, benevolent, or ecclesiastical socleties, municipali- ties, and other corporations and per- sons, such statement to be made upon printed blanks to be prepared and furnished by the tax commissioner at least ninety days before the date pre- seribed for the filing of said statement. The tax commissioner shall publish such returns, and send a copy thereof to the town clerk of every town, and to each member of the general as- sembly next following the date of such publication, “Sec. 2. Every such officer who shall fail to make and return such statement at the time and in the form required shall forfeit to the state one hundred dollars. . Sale of Trout. Senator Fenn explained the bil] concerning the sale of trout and it was passed. The bill is as follows: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to buy. sell, or offer for sale any brook trout taken from the waters of this state, except as provid. ed in section 3,142 of the general statutes, , Sec, 2. Every person who violates the provisions of section 1 of this act shall be punished by & fine of not less than one dollar or more than fifty dollars, and the buying, selling or of- fering for sale of each fish shall be deemed a separate offense. Certificates of Teachers. Senator Middleton offered an amendment to . the bill in relation to the certificates of teachers, striking out the provision which entitles teach- ers of three years’ standing to obtain certificates, and gives all teachers, re- zardless of the time they may be teaching when the bill is passed, the right to certificates. The amendment was accepted by Senator Luther, and | the bill as amended was passed, Appropriation Bill $186,760. On the motion of Senator Blakeslee, the senate passed an appropriation bill amounting to $186.760, for the tary’s office and for the Conn School for Boys, Adjourned to Thursday. THE HOUSE. The house was called to order at 11.15 by Speaker Banks. The speaker had expected to be absent today but presided as usual, Prayer was offered by the senate chaplain, the Rev. J. F. Sexton, From the Senate. The house concurred with the sen- ate in rejecting a bill concerning loan brokers, and acted in concurrence in other matters. Columbus Day. The house adopted a resolution ac- cepting October 12 as a legal holiday to be known as Columbus day. Calendar. The following resolutions on the calendar were adopted: Authorizing city of Norwich to have a milk in- spector; concerning fishing for smelts in the Thames river; authorizing the city of Willimantic to issue. bonds. Retained on Calendar—Concerning the sale of eggs; .concerning grants to the Connecticut Pomological so- ciety; incorporating the Tolland Coun- ty Street Railway company; concern- ing obstruction of streets with rail- road cars; concerning the storage and sale of fireworks; concerning seats or stools for the use of motormen on cars: annual reports of corporations. Adjourned to Thursday. cre- | ticut | Hilma Pasha Will Likely Head the new Turkish cabinet, (R Japan Claims Compensation for giv- ing up Pratos-island to China, The Lusitania Reached Liverpool after her roughest Atlantic voyage. Monsignor Farrelly, bishop of Cleve- land was received in private farewell audience by the pope. A Cold Wave in France and Ger- many has done great damage to the vineyards and orchard: Harvard Graduates Living in or vis- iting Florence organized into-a club and celebrated at a banquet. A Regular Line of Airships from Lucerne to North Germany via Frank- fort-on-the-Iain, is to be established. It Is Reported that the Shah of Per- sia_has accepted the project for re- forms advanced by Great Britain and Russia. Russia Has Decided to Dismantle or raze her forts on the Polish fron- tier, and adopt a new line of defence further east. Olive Logan, the Writer, was buried at Malden, England, the casket being covered with flowers, the tributes of American friends. Professor Todd of Amherst planned a balloon ascension to decide on the feasibility of a great observatory at an elevatlon of 25,000 feet, Castro, the Deposed President of Venezuela, who is now in Spain, pro- poses to go to Ecuador. where he will form an expedition to return to Venez- uvela. Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Venezuela were formally re-established when Presi- dent Taft received Dr. Pedro E. Ro- Jas, the new Venezuelan minister. Premier Clemenceau Has apparently decided to stop the agitation among the employes of the state, even at the risk of hastening the threatened gen. cral strike; many of the labor lead- ers have been suspended; the unions are deflant. When the Osaka Shoshen Steamship company starts its transpacific serv- ice next month, a through traffic con- nection with Manchuria and Asiatic Russla to Europe will be effected un. der a Russo-Japanese traffic conven- tion just completed. . The French Cable Company and Venezuela have made a new contract under which the former secures a monopoly for twenty vears. It was the dispute between the cable com- pany and Castro which caused the break between France and Venezuela. VOTE ON RECDNMDE_R‘ATION May Not Be Taken Today—Speaker's Ruling Anxiously Awaited. (Special to The Bulletin.) Hartford, May 5.—It was Mayor Dunn of Willimantic who made the tactical motion which really brought atout adjournment of the house this afternoon and made it possible that the public utilities commission mat- ter will not come to a vote tomorrow on the reconmsideration of the house action yesterday in passing the mo- tion of Mr. Chandler of Rocky Hill referring the entire subject to a house committee of nine mempers to be chosen by the speaker from among those in the 'majority vote against the rejection of the bill. The house was very, vei tired listening to much talk on this subject, Chairman Eurnes had wandered far afield from the real matter urder ssion, the reconsideration of the Chandler mo- tion and not the public utilities bill litself, most members bad had no lunch, and when it came to 2.30 and Dunn’ secured the ordering of a roll call vote, making it impossible to ad- journ before some time after 3, if the roll call was started then, it was easy to_secure adjournment. Now the question arises as to whether or not this adjournment shuts off the taking of a vote at all tomor- row and whether possibly the whole matter of reconsideration is ended for g0od. The rules state that reconsid- eration shall not take place later th the day after the action has taken place, The passage of the Chandler motion occurred yesterday and today was the second day beyond which it couldn’t be reconsidered under the rules. The house refused to suspend the rules on motion of Burnes and there are many who believe that when it adjourned it ended the possibility of reconsideration, even though it is a fact that adjournment took place in the midst of the consideration of the question of reconsideration and before the vote was taken. It _transpires that it was the plan of Dunn, who is in favor of a publi utilities Dbill to shut off a vote on re- consideration by adjournment and he moved a roll call vote for this pur- pose largely, though In general he wanted the members of the house obliged to put themselves on record. It will be up to Speaker Banks the first thing tomorrow to rule as to whether or not the vote on reconsid. cration is properly before the house and the plan of the insurgents and | supporters of the general proposition | is to appeal from his ruling if he rules that.it is,_ Their hope is that they may have sufficient strength in the house | to_sustain the appeal and thus shut {off a vote. The speaker announced | before adjournment that if the house adjourned, the vote would be the first order of business tomorrow, but later stated privately that he would be obliged to look up authorities to be sure what his final position on this would be. There is a ruling of Speaker Joseph L. Barbour, > in 1897, which cov- cisely similar and which declares the vote on reconsideration in order, but it is not yet certain whether or not this ruling was made on the session day on which the action was original- Iy taken, or the second day. hat point would make a lot of difference, KIDNAPPING PLOT UNEARTHED. Eight. Year Old Son of Califor Governor Was to Be Seized. Oakland, Cal, May 5.—A plot to kidnap the eight year old son of Gov- ernor Gillett was unearthed ai San Quentin prison today when it was found that J. B. Clifton, a notorious criminal, who is serving time for at- tempting the life of Detective Hodgins of Oakland, had completed arrange- ments with a confederate on the out- side to steal the boy and hoid him for ransom. The price of the lad’s n to his father was to have been Clifton’s pardon. Mrs. Sarah Dawson in Paris. Paris, May 5.—Mrs. Sarah (Mor- gan) Dawson, of Charieston, . C., died here suddenly tod: Mrs. Daw. son was the widow of E'apl_ Francis ‘W. Dawson, proprietor of the Charles- ton News and Courier. Mrs. Dawson is survived by a son, Francis W. Daw- son, a writer, and_a daughter, Mrs. Herbert Barry of New York. ers this exact point in a situation pre- | SE S — NATE MAKES SLOW HEAD Little or no Chance for Adjournment of Con- gress Before June 15 or Juy1 [ PRESIDENT REITERATES HIS ATTITUDE On Various Special Taxation Propositions—Hopeful that New Bill will Furnish Revenue Sufficient to Prevent a Deficit—Statements Made to Senate on Number of Increases, Decreases, and the Changed Duties. . Washington, May 5.—The possibil- ity of the passage of the tariff bill and the adjournment of the special session of congress before June 15 or July 1 seems to have vanished. This con- clusion has been reached by the presi dent as a result gf recent talks with senators and representatives, and he made it known today. Headway Expected Not Mad. The senate is not making the head- way with the Aldrich measure that was expected, and before the new tar- iff law can be presented to the presi- dent for his action, there must ensue a long conference between the repr sentatives of the two houses of con- gres. The President’s Hopes. In view of conflicting reports as to the president’s attitude on the various special taxation propositions which have been suggested in connection h the new bill, the president has ted his position to recent callers. Il hopeful that the revenie new bill and dministration ament will prove sufficient to prevent a deficit. If it should be wi iter shown, however, that the government finances are in need of further sUPport to meet the current expenditures, the president will adhere to his orlginal proposition that a graduated federal inheritance tax is the most Just that could be levied and would prove the lest (0 collect. If such a ltax shuld not prove sufficient, the president favors as a substitute, or as an addi- tional means of collecting revenue, the imposition of an excise tax on the div= idends of corporations, Decreases 356, Increases 316. Washington, May §.—Statembnts were made to the senate late today by Senator Aldrich, representing the finance committes, and Senator Cul- on, the minority leader, analyzing tarift bill as it was reported to the senate, and comparing it so far as In- wes and reductions are concerned with the Dingley law Senator Culberson ases at 35 and the nun ed the de- ses at 516, es on which the duties are unchanged at 1,271, Mr, Aldrich made the reductions 379, but furnished no figures as to the number of increases made. SUPPOSED LOST SHIP'S CREW ARE ALIVE IN PRISON, Escaped Prisoner from Venezuela Tells an Astounding Story. Kingston, St. Vin w. —It may be that pt. tephenson and the crew of the Amer- ican whallng ship Carrie D. Kno long since thought to have sea, are still allve in prison. ~ An American gives the name of Payne prisoner from Venezuela, has made way to Kingston, where he laid before the authorities an astounding story of the_seizure of the Carrie D. Knowles at Venezuelan port, where she arrived five years ago In distress, and the In- carceration by the Venezuelans of the captain and his men. Provincetown, Mass, May despatch from Kingston out story told by an e prisoner to the effe his that the crew the lost Provincetown whaler D. Knowles were incarcerated prison in Venez was natur: intense interes As the entlre natives of the West Indies, there are little m here of verifying Payne's stateme The identity of Payne is not clear he is no other than man of Provinc n, who mysteriously disappeared from this port previous the time of the sailing of the Knowle So far-as known here, Payne was not a member of the crew when she sailed. SHOT DEAD IN A SALOON. Armour & Co. Shipping Clerk of New York—Shooter Escaped. New York, May . that began Satur t a ball game, John Hamill, a shipping clerk for A mour & Co., was shot dead tonight in a saloon in Eleventh avenue by a character known in the neighborhood as “Yellow.” The bullet struck Ham- ill in the temple and he died Instantly. “Yellow” escaped. In an argument Hamil] lived in West Thirty-sixth street with his wife and three chil- dren, Mrs. Hamlll, when notified of the shooting, hurried to the saloon and tried to force her way to the body of her husband, but she was prevent- ed by the police. She was finally taken to_her home in a hysterical congitio Hamill, when he was shot, was standing at the bar with two friends when a swinging door was pushed open and a man, who the police say was “Yellow,” rushed in witl wn revolver. In an instant he was at Hamill's side, Raising the weapon to a level with the clerk’s head he fired, then almost with the discharge of the gun he turned and fled. $25,000 FIRE AT HOLYOKE. Blaze Started from Explosion of Gas- oline Stove—Fireman Injured. Ma upper street Holyoke, M: swept the thr five-story Main ing out 14 fam etary loss of $25,000. on the third floor of the Florence Donoghue marble front brick block from the explosion of a gasoline stove and spread to the top floors of the adjolning buflding, a five-story brick structure owned by the Mrs. Antoine Marcotte estate. John McCarthy hose from' the top of the Donoghue during the fire and sustained s tered leg and Internal injuries. Fire tonight floors of two blocks, driv- nd causing a mon- The fire started a $100,000 FIRE AT HALIFAX. Seven Large Buildings in Wholesals District Destroyed. Hafifax, N. 8. May 6—2.30 a. m Seven large bulldings along the water front were practically destroyed by fire which burned for four hours this morning and threatened to sweep away a large section of the wholesale dis- trict. The total loss is estimated at about $100,000. A fireman, George Mc- Guire, was serfously injured by a fail- ing wall, but no other person was hurt. Violent Demonstration Against Span- sh Bishop. —Violent demonstra- against, the mob broke the and attacked Madrid, May tions took bishop of Orenso. windows of the place today T} disorders w, several convents: the outcome of the serious trouble which arose a few days ago at Osera, where a number were killed or wound- ed while they were opposing the car- rylog out of an episcopal order, Speeding Automol Poisoned His Last Days. ay 5.—M. Gilbert, a retired mercbant, whose declining years have been made miserable by speeding au- tomobiles, has bequeathed his entire fortune to churches in certain Frefich cities for masses for the repose of the souls of the victims of the “diabolical an;hlnel which have polsoned my last . to or about | HAGGARD YOUNG MAN WISHED TO SURRENDER. Staggered Into Brooklyn Police Head: quarters With Tale of Woe. New York, May 5.—A harward young man, almost on the verge of colla from exhaustion and lack of food, ered into pol quarters in yn tonight and sald in a husky voice that he wished to surrender him- self to the authorities. His name, he |®ald, was Willlam Pallas, his age 32, and his position that of a clerk in the government service, which department he did not specif His reason for surrendering, he con- tinued, was because he was wanted in Washington for faflure to pay $4 a week alimony to his wife. Unabie te meet the payments, he had fled from the city. proceeding as far as Wilming- ton, Del, by train. There his funds gave out and he resumed his journey on foot, walking first to Elisabeth, N. J., thence to this city. Food had not passed hix lips in two dayp, he sald Pallas gave his Washington address Ninth street, N. E., and the in that eity will be notified, { | HOT WAVE HITS CHICAGO AND THE MIDDLE WEST, Several Prostrations—Ninety Degrees at Omaha—86 in Chicago. Chicago, May 5. A hot wave, accom= panied by several prostrations, was the kind of weather today in Chicago ani the m west, in contrast with the £no nd rain that prevailed during the first two days of the month, The temperatu degrees in mina hours, making the maximum for the in Ch 86. At Omaha and Molnes rmometers registered more than 90 degrees. BODY GF SUICIDE IDENTIFIED. Formerly Captain in the British Royal Artillery. New York, Ma Inquirfes con- cerning the identity of George P. Arm strong, who was found dead in his cot- tage in East Rutherford, N. J. this morning, a suleld m gas, indicate that he was form a captain in the British Royal artillery and won & medal for gallantry for service under don fn the Soudan and carried him- self with credit in India. His suicide followed the departure of his bride for York Friday evening, although her afives in Br vn sald tonight that absence from him was to have been temporary. They were marrfed only on April 17 Armstrong, who was a naturalized American citizen, left a noie in which Below this was written the one werd “Solitude.” HARTFORD BLOCK GUTTED. Loss by Fire to Owners and Qocupants $12,000. Hartford, May 5—The two upper stories of the Industrial Realty com- 1v's block at 67 Temple street were gutted by fire tonight with a loss to the owners and occupants of the build. ing of $12,000. The fire started in the sixth story of the block occupled Hartford Mattress company, | or, whict ame Ignited whi z put through a picking machine. the fire could be gotten under e two top stories were gut- th & loss to the mattress cpm. y of $5000. The second, third nd fourth floors were unoccuphed, while the first floor was poccupled by the Webb Manufacturing compuny, wvhose loss by water will amount to $5,000. The damage to the bullding was $5,000 FARMER FATALLY STABBED. Outcome of Altercation With nder Who Was Arrested. Hardwick, Mass., May 5.—An alter- cation which began in the Hardwick Inn was finished in the outsid tonlght when William prominent young farmer was fatally stabbed. A Polish farmhand, Johm Gyrastis, was arrested half an hous later, charged with the stabbing. Goodfield was placed in a carriage and driven to a physician's office in Gilbertville, two and a half miles di tant, but died from his wound a few miniites after reaching there, An artery of onc of his lags W severed. He was about 30 years age. $65,000,000 Coke Plant Merger. Pittsburg, Pa.. May held at Uniontown t of the §1 independ ke plants ig the Conrelisville and Klondike fielde were represented, statements were made warranting the belief that withe in a week owners of every plant i the two fields will have signed ment for a 366,000,000 merger. 20 per cent. of be already under i .::"""'fib'