Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 15, 1913, Page 1

Norwich VOL. LV.—NO. 116 NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1913 KEPT DOORS OF THE HOUSE CLOSED Speaker Webster Resorts to Drastic Action to Keep Democrats From Leaving Chamber BATTLE OVER THE COUN TY COMMISSIONERSHIPS Body in Session Until 10 o’Clock Last Night—All Rollcall Records Broken—No Election For New London County —Disagreeing Action With Senate in Four Counties— Speaker Creates a Tie, Thereby Defeating Lanphere. 1 The democratic #artford, Conn., May L3 re- publican e had the minority chancery this afternoon and tonight, politically speaking, over Al were the county commissionerships. records for number of roll calls oken. Twenty fimes the roll of the S called by the clerks and cach time saw a fading away of the democratic vote. Adjournment was inaMly taken at 10 o'clock after ev- ting scenes Doors Ordered Closed. the ninth roll call ordered the doors 2t any members from they were ex At nine o’clock, however, about members rtushed the door- and made their escape, un- ly there was no quorum. Speaker Webster then ruled that the ote should be taken by pairs to heip constitute a quorum. Objection was at onece raised and a roil call or- dered. The speaker was sustained by 107 to 57. Democrats Outgeneraled. ¥he democrats started a filibuster shortly after six o’clock and it lasted stii 8. when Mr. Webster duled that be would not recognize any more dila- tory resolutions. Nevertheiess, there was a running fire of motions put to the chair which the speaker ignored, as he did not hear them. The republicans, starting with a bare majority of three votes, maintained their advantage to the end. Repre- sentative Healy ,the republican lead- er, out-manceuvred the democrats un- der Mr. Thoms and forced the oppo- sition to sit through roil calls which they had started by a motion to recon- sider the election of Andrew Steele, republican, as commissioner of Hart- ford county. Disagreeing Action in Four Counties. The democratic senate had sent down down the names of democrats for Hartford, New Haven, New Lon- den and Fairfield counties, while there were house resolutions for candidates of the same party. The result is that in four actior while the house will send to the sepate the names of four republicans fro mthe other counties. It is antici- pated that the sepate wiil not bow to the house and the disagreements will last till the session ends. Governor Baldwinw will then have the oppor- tunity to fill a vacancy which will ex- ist after July 1 in each county hoard. DETAILS OF THE BATTLE. Speaker closed to leaving, rairs. wenty n. Democrats Start Rollcall Voting and | Live to Regret it. (Special to The Bulletin.) Hartford, May 14—The order of the day in the house Wednesday was hed noon which was action on resoiutions appointing commis- s for the eight counties of the Mr. Healy of Windsor Locks, the sion ml»é at the outset that he did not pro- pose to take up but a few minutes in expianation. He said the democrats had defeated the Magee amendment which would have given a democratic < missfoner to each county that had majority in the legislature, which nt also four republicans, In ad- ion to this the democrats in cau-~ had decided to vote for all ths édemocratic nominees, thereby making fter a party issge, He an- ed that he would therefors vote cus or every republican nominee and 20ped all other republicans would do kewise Thoms Favered Minority Representa- tion. Mr. Thoms, of Waterbury, the demo- ic leader, said that he would fol- low the example of the republican leader and be brief. He noted that the calendar, the name of the re- lican candidate appeared first on alendar in every instance, so that no democrat could be acted upon first. He said In all fsirness the democrats should have representation in every hoard of county commissioners in the state. This was the rule up to about ten vears ago when the republicans in their plentitude of power took over all the commiszioners and plucked the minority representation from the rail- rosd commissioner as well. He eaid Row the democrats are in control of the house he did not know what wonld be done, but he, as a demo- cral, would favor minority representa- tion to the republicans as a matter of instice and fairmess. Hartford County. resointion appointing commissioner ‘for Hartford was then order. By vote, was then in order. By vote, on a roll call was ordersd with this re- S ‘Whole number of votes, 6 necessary for cholce, 119: yes, 119; no, 107, Mr, Healv then moved recon- t'devation in the hops it would not pass. A vote was ordered and result- ed as follows: Whols number votes, 227; necessary to prevail, 114; yes, 112; 116. The motion to reconsider was declared lost. Mr, Healy then moved that the resclution appointing Charles J. Gunning ,democrat, commigsioner for Hartford county, be Iindefinitely postponed, and on that a rolk call vote was demanded, which resulted as fol- lows: Whole number of votes, 230; neceegsary to prevail, 116; yes, 118; no, 1 The Bteele. eounty counly Andrew New Haven County. Then came the contest for commis- sionership of New Haven county, and @ roll call vote was ordered on the res- olution appointing John Wilkinson, republican. The vote being as fol- lows Whole number votes, 223; nec- essary, 112; yes, 113; no, 110, On motion of My, Streniean, of Mer- fden @ roll call vote wae taken on the ssolution appoiuting James F. Cloon- ‘&n, democrat, commissioner for New Haven county, The vote follows: Wkole number votes, 210; necessary for cholce 108: yes, 104; no, 106, motion to reconsider was lost, New Lemdon County. When New London county was call- ®4, Mr, Tanner of New London, moved that when the vote be taken it be by roll call, on the resslution appointing Charles D, Noyes ,commissione; New Londen county., 'The veie was sa fellows; Whale number voles, 205 necassary to prevail, 103:. ves, 100: ne, 188, Tha vete wasx declared lost Mr, Healy then made motion, which cused or had fiel counties there is disagreeing | on | X for | prevailed, that there be a roll call vote ’on the resolution appointing Albert H. Lanphere, democrat, a commissioner | for ew London county. Mr. Lan- phere is the representative from Wa- terford. Like an Old Ladies’ Tea Party. While the vote was being taken there was much subsequent talk. Speaker Webster rapped for order and remarked: “This reminds me of an old ladies’ tea party. more than a legis lative session.” There were many vis- litors in the house ,including several senators, and the speaker remarked that visiting seemed of more import- ance than business and he suggested business to proceed. Before the vote was announced, Mr. Healy made the point of order that in violation of the rules of the house, Mr. Lanphere had in which he had personal interest and therefore the vote should be taken from the roll. The speaker ruled th point well taken and Mr. Lanphere’s vote was not counted. Speaker Made It a Tie Vote. The speaker declared the vote to be 102 yes and 102 no. He announced his vote as no, and declared that thereby a tie resulted ,and the resolution fail- ed to pass. A motion to reconsider was lost. The The rule Rule in the Case. which sent Mr. Lanphere teen which is to the effect that a mermber may not stay in the chamber { when a question is decided or decided in which he is interested. The dem- ocrats scanned the rules to find any other rule to fit this situation. Mr. Lanphere had stayed in the chamber and had voted and the rules had not said he could not vote. Democrats throught the failure of the republi- can side tfo have Mr. Lanphere sent quo warranto proceedings against ! whoever was elected as county com- missioner. As it stands now there. has been no elaction. The action of the speaker is justified by Rule 29 of the rules of the house which reads: In all cases of ballot- ing the speaker shall vote: in other cases he shall not vote uniess house be equally divided, or unless his vote, if given in the minority, will make the division equal. And in case of such equal division the questiom shall be lost. Fairfield County. The republican candidate for com- missioner for Fairfield county was ‘Whitman S. Mead, and roll call vote | was ordered on the resolution for ap- ipolntmenL The result of the vote: Whole number, 208; necessary, 102; yes, 108; no, 95. The customary mo- tion to reconsider was lost. On motfon of Mr. Wilson of Bridge- port, a roll call vote was adopted on the resolution appointing Dennis Mul- vibill, democrat, county commissioner for Fairfleld county, The vote: Whole number, 186; necessary 94; ves, 87; no, 39. The motion to re- consider was lost, Motion to Adjourn Voted Down. Mr., Weeks made motion to adjourn and the the balance of the county commissioner resolutions be made the order of the day for next Tuesday. Mr, Healy spoke In opposition and this was a clear case of endurance, as the only possible show the democrats nad to get in was in New lLondon county, The motion was declared lost. Mr. Thoms moved to adjourn to Thursday morning at 11.80, Mr. Healy objected. The motion was lost, by a strict party votas. Windham County. siution appointing E. Her- . county commissioner for { Windham county was then taken up. !A roll call was ordered on motion of | Mr. Kelley of Willimantic. Mr. Beers !moved indefinite postponement and , the motion was ruled out of order. Mr. {Caine of Naugatuck arose to a point of {order, and was ruled out of order. Af | the request of Mr. Healy, the speaker tat 4.30 ordered the doors closed in jorder of a possibility of the house be- !ing left without a quorum, as many ! democrats were leaving. When |pame of Mr. Thoms was reached M i Thoms said that while the speak: jcould prevent him from leaving the {house he could not be compelled to jvote, and he did not. Many demo- icrats did likewise. Mr. Healy raised | the point of order that every member |of the house was required to vote | under the rules, unbess excused by unanimous consent. Mr.Healy quoted from rule 17 that in.m’nbers shall answer to their names jor the speaker shall count the house {and members present and not voting ‘as presumptively voting with the ma- jority. The speaker took this view. Upon request Messrs. Kelley and ! Bugbee of Willimantic, were excused from voting, the point being raised when the name of Mr. Kelley was reached. The vote Whole number, 126; necessary €64; yes, 81: no, 45. A count showed a quorum present. Mr. Healy made motion for reconsideration and Mr. Caine moved that when vete be taken it _be by a vea and nay vote. ,The motion for roll call prevailed on ithe motior. to reconsider and the vote was: Whole number, 121; necessary, 61; yes, 37; mno, 84. A count of the |house revealed a quorum. ° Tt was sure case of endurance as “train time” arrived, when Mr. Bald- | win, republican of Beacon Falls was {the first to break the spell. He asked permissfon to leave the house, but the i speaker refused siating that he could {not excuse after ordering the doors closed, during the progress of the vote. On motion of Mr. Wilson, democrat, |of Bridgeport, the unanimons consent of the house was given Mr. Baldwin to retire jAction Denounced ae | The bert Cortti re; “Tem-Foolery At 5.20 Mr. Weeks renewed his mo- | tion that the order of the day be con- | tinued untfl next Tuesday, Mr, Magee spoke In opposition and sald this de- lay was due to the action of the dem- ocrats and a puvely pelitieal party meve. Mr. Tayler urged that the pres- ent methods were a waste of time and isheuld end for the geod of the state. Mr. Keppleman while in faver of reil feall vetes, e did net faver a een- {1huanea with 8 decrearsd nttendance of members. Mr, Thoms moved to ad- | postpened, 10§ to 64. that the visitors retire and permit the | voted in a matter | out of the chamber was number six- | out earlfer might furnish grounds for! said | the | objected to a continuation of the tom- | | Cabied Paragraphs sh Ambaesador Resigns. Constantinople, May 14.—The Brit- ish ambassador to Turkey, Sir Gerard Augustus Lowther, resigned his post today owing to ill-health. Jail for Trespassing Aviators. Berlin, May 14.—German military aviators in future are to be punished by a minimum penalty of two weeks close arrest in the event of their cross- ing a foreign frontier in their aero- planes or airships. Bomb Found in Passenger Car. London, May 14.—A businesslike bomb addressed to Henry Curtis Ben- nett, the police magistrate who is hear- ing the charges against the suffragette leaders, was delivered by a letter car- ,rler at Bow street police court to- day. Anti-Gambling Proposal Beaten. Paris, May 14—The anti-gambling proposal introduced by Deputy Pion, i was rejected by the chamber of depu- ties today by a vote of 231 to . The Piou amendment sought to revoke all gambling licenses granted under the law of 1907. Bomb Fired in Passenger aCr. London, May 14.—Suffragette bombs were found today in one of the pas- senger cars of local train running between ingston-on-Thames London, on the Southwestern railway, making the third outrage of this kind on the same line within two months. Explosion on German Torpedo Boat. Helgoland, Germany, May 14—Four German bluejackets were killed and three others seriously injured today by the explosion of a high pressure cylinder in the engine room of torpedo boat S-148, while the vessel was par- ticipating in manoeuvres near here. Another Suffragette Fire. London, May 14.—A militant suffra- gette “arson squad” during the night destroyed a large untenanted resi- dence, The Highlands, at Sandgate- on-Sea, near Folkestone, on the Eng- lish channel. Postcards addressed to the “Dishonorable prime minister” and to the “Dishonorable Reginald McKen- na, home secretary” were left lving about on the premises. Aviators Collide in Air. Johannisthal, Gefmany, May 14— Another collision im the air occurred here today. A biplane plioted by Cap- tain Zucker and carrying a pupil named Dietrich as a passenger, came into collislon with a monoplane at an altitude of sixty feet. Zucker was in- stantly killed, Dietrich was badly In- { jured and the two men in the mono- plane were slightly injured. MAHAN AFTER NAVAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE Second Choice is For Committee on Rivers and Harbors. (Special to The Builetin.) ‘Washington, May 14—The ways and means committee of the house, or the Democratic members thereof, are sit- ting as a committee on committees | seeking to find good committee as- signments for the majority members the , of the house. To keep from putting square pegs into round holes, and to find holes enough for all the pegs is the problem that is now occupying the committees. As legislation is to a large extent shaped in the committees great care is being taken to place a majority of conservatives upon all important com- mittees. It is a well known fact that the Clark-Underwood forces in the house are conservative and does not jibe at all times with the administra- tion forces and under the circum- stances the outcome of the delibera- tions of the committee on committees is being watched with great interest. The Connecticut delegation profess not to know what they will be giv in the way of assignments. Mr. Reil- ly without doubt will retain his place on the post office committee. Whether he will also hold his place on the coinage weights and measures com- mittee is a question that is not decided. Mr. Donovan says he has not yet expressed a choice, “they would not give me the place I first asked for, and I shall now take what is given me,” he said. Mr. Kennedy would like a place on the judiclary committea; Mr. Lonergan has been asked if he would accept a place on the committee on patents. The ways and means committee realize that Connecticut should be represented on this important committee. and a mem- ber of the committea has asked Mr. Lonergan if such an assignment would be acceptable to him. Mr. Mahan has made known to the committes his first and second choice. TFirst he would like a piace on naval affairs and next on the rivers and harbors committee. He is more likely to get the first than the second choice. 0 Jjourn to 11 o’clock Thursday morning. The motion was lost. Mr. Hall said as full grown men of wisdom he thought there had been enough of the political play, and there is nothing to gain, and both parties are at fault. He foolery, sand suggested a rising vote on balance of commissioners and drop thg dilatory tactic Mr. Caine spoke in‘favor of the suggestion. Mr, Hyde moved the passing question which pre- vailed. The motion of Mr. Weeks was lost. Mr. Thoms Gets Hungry. Mr. Thoms sald that Mr. Healey had said that the democrats had beaten to a frazzle and did not set well on the democrats. He thought the members were not in good temper, some rulings had been unwise- ly made and he hoped the houss would adjourn. Mr. Thoms as a matter of personal privelege said that he had had noth- ing to eat since 7 a. m. (it was then 5.45) and he had not seen the coffee and rolls promised by Mr. Healey. Mr. Healey called a messenger,. gave him a greenback, and told him to get Mr. Thoms’ order. A little later a lunch on a tray came in for Mr. Thoms and the latter thanked Mr. Healey and said he would reciprocate later, Mr. Thoms had asked the speaker to let him leave under guard while he got a bite to eat. Litchfield County. At 8 p, m. the roll proceeded on the name of John P. Porter, republican, foi commissioner for T.itchfield, the resolution for Lebbeus S. Smith, dem- ocrat, for Windkam county having been indefinitely postponaed. Mr, Porter was approved having about forty votes to the good. The name of Willlam Jerome Bissell- for Litchflelq county, a democrat, came up next and action was indefinitaly postponed. Charles E. Chapman, re- publiican, of Middlesex county, was pessed by 107 to 63. Action on the name of Willlarn Jamieson to be com- missloner from Middlesex was indefi- nitely postponed by the same vote. Mr. Jamieson is a democrat. Tolland County. By a vete of 108 to 65. Mavor Ken- v to be commissioner for Tol d { eounty was passed. Fe {8 a republi can. Action en Michasl D. O'Conn demoerat, of Tolland eount was and |{ yet | ! i been | the remark ! i | | | { | i | i | { | | poses described is absolute in our state, and we seek to deal only with| our agricultural lands. Johnson Will A@[ove Bill GOVERNOR REGARDS PLAIN DUTY 1T HIS SENDS REPLY TO BRYAN No Treaty Rights Are Violated, No Of- fence Offered, tion Made, He Asserts. and No Discrimina- Sucramento, Cal., May 14—Express- ing his determination to sign the alien iand bill recently passed by the leg lature, Governor Hiram W. Johnson of California toduy telegraphed to Sec-_ retary of State Bryan a long expla- nation of the action taken by the leg- islature. The message was in answer to the request telegraphed to the governor by Secretary Bryan at the direction of President Wilson that the bill be vetoed. The Governor’s Message. The governor's message follow. “Hon. William J. Bryan, Secretary of ate, Washington, D. C.: ‘Your very courteous telegram re- lating to the alien land bill reached me late Sunday night. I take it from our conversations and your request made to me to’withhold executive action un- til opportunity was accorded for the presentations of the national govern- ment that it embodies what it was vour wish and the wish of the presi- dent to say to us before final action. “In this response it is my design most respectfully to present the situa- tion from our standpoint and the views that actuated our legislature in pass- ing the bill and that impel me to sanction it Grave Problem Confronts California. “For many years a very grave prob- lem, little understood in the east, has conffunted California; a problem the weriousness of which has been recog- nized by statesmen in our natioh, and has been viewed with apprehension by the people of this state. ‘When the present constitution of California was adopted, more than thirty years ago, it contained the following declaration: ‘The presence of foreigners ineligible to become citizens of the United States is declared to be dengerous to the well | being of the state, and the legislature shall discourage their immigration by all means within its power. “Of late years our problem from another angle has become acute, and the agitation has been continuous in the last decade in reference to our agricultural lands until finally affirma- tive action is an attempted solution | became imperative. This attempted solution is found In the action of our | legislature in the passage of the alien land bill. In the phraseology of this bill, in those in whom it affects, its scope and in its purposes, we believe we are within our and our moral igh X doing only are vhat is imperatively demanded for the protection and prescrvation of ouri state. In this enactment we have kept ever in mind our national good faith enced by existing treaties. Existing Treaties Part of the Law. “The objections to our bill are based, first, upon the treaty obligations of the nation, and, secondly, upon the asser- tion that our act is offensive and dis- criminatory. The protest to our meas- ure, as your telegram states, comes | from the representative of Japan. The bill that is now before me provides substantially in its first section that all aliens sdiiiblo to citizenship under the laws of the United States may ac- quire real property in the same man- ner as citizens of the United States, and the second section provides that all aliens other than those mentioned in the firat section may acquire real property in the manner and to the ex- tent and for the purpose prescribed b\" any treaty now existing between the | government of the United States and the natfon or country or which such allens are citizens or subjects, and may in addition lease for a period of three vears lands for agricultural pruposes. “Thus we have made existing treat- ies a part of our law and thus we have preserved every right that any foreign nation by International contract has insisted upon preserving with our na- tional government. No Violation of Treaty Rights. “We assume that the right of Japan- ese to own real property for the pur- “We embody the treaty in our law and we add to it permission to lease our agricultural lands for the period of three years. “Where such extracrdinary care has been exercised to preserve honor and good falth, in the very words of the coniract made by the natlon, we our own and to do more by authorizing leases of agricultural lands, it would seem that we ought not to be open to any accusation of violation of treaty rights or of desire to entrench upon that which belongs alone to the na- tional government or which might be- come a matter of international policy. Offer No Offense, Make No Discrim- ination. “By the law adopted we offer no offense, we make no discrimination. “The naturalization laws of the | United States, long since, without de- | mur from any natlon, determined who were and who were not eligible to cit- izenship. If invidious diserimination ever were made in this regard the Uniied States made it when the Unit- ed States declared who were and who were not eligible to citizenship, and when we but follow and depend upon the statutes of the United States and their determination as to eligibility to citizenship we cannot be accused of | indulging in invidious discrimination. May I venture to call vour attention to the immigration law now pending in } congress, which passed both houses of the last congress, where apparently ‘certain classes who shall be excluded from our country are described as ‘persons who cannot become eligible under existing laws to become citizens of the United States. “At this very moment the national legislature, without protest or objec- tion—indeed, it is published in Cali- fornia by express consent—is using the terms that are claimed in Califor- nia’s law to he offensive and inator Plain Duty to Sian Bill. “And so, with all respect and cour- tesy, the state of feels its bounden duty to citizens to do that which mand: people approves; the Interests of its people de- that which the conscience of iis that which viclates | Prof. Cranston Brenton of Trinity col Condensed Teiegrams The Government of Urugauy has just importeq 600 American hens for the improvement of the native stock. | Fire That Started in a Bakery, a! Hardingsburg, Ky., yesterday destroyed fourteen business buildings. The esti- | mated loss is $125,000. William Harvey Brown, naturalist. writer and soldier, died April 5 In Rho- desia, South Africa, according to word received at Lawrence, Kas. Mrs. Mary Scachner of Bridgeport, PRICE TWO CENTS Again in Path 0f a Tornado IN A WIDE AREA DEVASTATED NEBRASKA TEN DEAD AT SEWARD :vorriteda over a:omeml(- troubles, at- empter suieis yesterday afternoon i by drinking an ounce of lysol. Tyedty-Fwo [ Hesdelons FHEatTnY 5 —F Small Towns R Santa Barbara, Cal, Pragtically| Y/rocked—Four Sma went “dry” in Monday's election. Sa- ported to Have Been Wiped Out. X()On._\' were eliminated and liquor seli- ing in restaurants also was abolished. William W. Irwin of Wheeling, W. Va.. vesterday was elected imperial potenante of the Ancient Arabic or- der, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The Woman's Suffrage Bill passed by the Illinois senate was read a first time in the house yesterday, and re- | terred to the elections committee~ Tests and Examination of Currency, both washed and unwashed bills show- ed them to be singularly free from germs, due to the ink used in print- ing the biils. While in Hartford Tuesday Night, Representative Theodore Sturges of West Cornwall received a telephone message announcing the sudden death of his wife, of apoplexy. Complications Have Developed in the condition of lLeopold de Leeuw of Hartford, past grand master of the Grand lodge of Odd Fellows .and he is expected to live only a few hours. _rMs. Helen E. Marsh Coy, widow of Edwarq G. Voy, former, head master of Hotchkiss school, and mother of Ted Coy, the famous Yale football vlayer, dled at New Haven Yesterday Senator Chamberlain’s Resolution proposing an amendment to the con- stitution to give the ballot to women vesterday ordered favorably re ported hy the senate woman suffrage committee, | Teckla Myisenska, the New Britain girl who drank a mixture of beer and cigar ashes at a dance, is recovering. Someone placed the cigar ashes in her beer as a joke and the girl soon be- came unconscious. Substantial Advances in the Wage scale for every division of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers for the year beginning July 1, are asked for in the report of the scale committee. State Regulation of Marriage was ad- vocated in the report of the commit- tee on families as presented vesterday by Mrs.| William Grant Brown at the fourth Nef York city conference on | charities and corrections. In Memory of a Husband who for vearg had suffered from a malady that eluded medical skill, Mrs. George Wil- liam Hooper of San Francisco, has transferred to the University of Cal ifornia $1,000.000 for the establishment of an institute of medical research. Senator O’0Grman’s Bill to have the governi nt return to private contrib- utors $66,000 they subscribed to ran- som Ellen M. Stone, the missionary, from brigands in the Balkans in 1901, was favorably reported from the sen- ate foreign relatioms committee yester. day. Detectives Investigating the Theft of pians for the electrical wiring of the dreadnought Pennsylvania, declared vesterday that blication of a “leak” probably would hamper their work and might prevent solution of the problem That the Convi n of Jack John- eon for violation of the Mann act against trafiicking in women, is the forerunner of laws forbidding mis- cegenation, was the assertion yester- day of Assistant United States Dis- trict Attorney Harry Parkin. 1 Salvatore Gerracci, an Italian, who confessed that he killed his wife last November by driving wire nails into her brain while she slept, and later shipped the body to Georgetown, Conm., | where it was found In a mill pond, was sent to Sing Sing for twenty years vesterday. A Formal Decree Filed by Judge Marcus H. Holcomb of the superior court at Hartford, yesterday granted | lege an absolute divorce from Hliza- beth A, Custls Brenton and giving | him custody of thejr six vear oid son. | | Because of Family Troubles, Wil- | liam Hogue. aged 70, a retired farmer of Sparta, Wis, yesterday killed his | wife with a stove poker, three times | shot his daughter with a revolver, ser- fously wounded his son-in-law with two shots from the same weapon, and then committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. A Bill Which Aims to Prevent hasty marriages In this state by non-resi- dents was reported favorably to the legislature yesterday. It places re- strictions upon the issuance of mar- riage llcenses, ordering that where neither of the applicants is a resident | of the state, the license shall be held for five days, and there shall be a Seward, Neb, May 14—A tornade which took a toll of ten lives, injured thirty odd persons and destroyed more than a tkird of the town occurred shortly before six o'clock this evening. Twenty-two residences, including sev- eral of the best, were destroyed and many more were partly wrecked but { the business portion of the place did not suffer greatly. The Identified Dead. identified dear are: David Hoover. William Heffinger. Chris Wasserman. B. L. Wasserman Schultze, Burlington section fore- The Mrs. Mrs. Mrs, Mrs. J. man Six year old daughter of Schulte. Mrs, Rimley. Fam™' Crimm. Mrs. lKdwards. Struck Residential Section. The tornado struck the western or residence portion of Seward and swept everything in its path. Those killed mostly were caught tm the wreckage o ftheir homes. The tornado after passing through Seward continued to the northeast, Towns Reported Wiped Out. Reports tonight say that the towns of Tomaro, Lushton, Grafton and Mec-~ Cool Junction were wiped out. Four | persons are reported killed at Tomaro and several at McCool Junction. Uti- ca was In the path of the twister. Before the last telephone wire wi down an appeal was sent to Lincoin send physicians and undertakers. Effects Were Widespread. Reports from surrounding sections indicate that the effects of the tornado were felt over a wide range of terri- t tory . The tornado was followed in Sa- ward by a hail and rain storm. To- night the town was wothout lights and search of the ruins was made with lanterns. DEMOCRATS ATTACK FREE SUGAR PLAN. Letter of “Original Wilson Man” Read in the Senate. Washington, May 14—Using 2 “origina] Wilson man” from Michi- gan with a fluent pen for an oracle, the anti-free sugar democrats ded by Senator Ransdell of Louisiana assaile { ed the Underwood sugar schedule in the senate today, despite strenuous efforts of Senator Simmons and other democrats to stop the flow of the at- tack. Republicans enjoyed the efforts of the democratic leaders to prevent the reading of a long letter submitted by Senator Ransdell, written by Lewls C. Rowley of Lansing, In which free sugar advocates were characterized as “accursed. unpardonable apostates of democratic faith” and the free sugar schedule as a ‘“boomerang to knock ut the democratic party.” FEWER CHILDREN IN MILLS, Annual. Decrease in the Number Ems« ployed in South Carolina. Columbia, S. C, May 14—The annual statistics, gathered by the Btate factory Inspectors of labor in conditions in the textile plants, show that more grown operatives and fewer children are being employed from yvear to year. According to Commissioner E. J. Watson this change is due to the fact that, although the capacity is constantly being increased, the evoln- tion from coarse to fine goods calls for less help but more experience. This year shows a decrease of 896 males and thirteen females between the ages | of fourteen and sixteen years employ- ed; of those between the ages of twelve and fourteen years, a decrease of 102 males is shown., but thirty-five more females are employed. On comparing statietics for tha ears 1912 and 1913 ,it has been found that the mills employ 308 grown maleg and 748 grown females more this year than last. At the same time a de- crease is noted of 533 Negro male. These Negroes were mostly employed during 1912 on new mills, aadditions and general improvements. An in- crease of twenty-four Negro females show that the mills are paying more attention to sanitary arrangements. Industrial Worker Convicted. Paterson, N. J.. May 14.—Patrick uinlan, Industrial Worker of the orled leader, indicted with Willlam D. Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Filynnm, Carlo Tresca and Adolph Leasig in connection with recent silk mill strike riots, was convicted at his second trial today. The jury found Quinlan gullty of inciting to riot. hearing before a probate judge, NEW ENGINES FOR THE NEW HAVEN. | Instalment of Fifty of Pacifle Type to Arrive Soon. First | New Haven, Conn., May 14—During | the next few days the first instalment of fifty new passenger engines of the | Pacificstype which are being built at Dunkirk, O., for the New Haven road will be received in this city. These . are machines of 112 toms, with six driving wheels, and with fifty tons of coal aboard engine and tender will | weigh 160 tons. They are calculated | to haul fifteen-car trains. The twenty- five heavy switéh engines ordered some time since by the company have been recelved and deilvered to different points on the system, with the excep- tlon ®f five which are stored in reserve in New Haven. These engines and tenders weigh from 125 to 180 {ons each and can haul thirty-five or forty carz easih. Make a plenting of & msin crop va- riety of cabbage seed to produce a succession crop. no ireaty righta; that which presents no diserimination, and that which can glve no just cause for offense. “You have spuggested to me delay, bui this question was very earnestly and fully presented to you by our leg- islature, And the lesislature deter- mined te proeceed. My province 18 to approve or dlsanprove the law as pre- sented. Our peoplq as reprasented in the lesislature have sverwheimingly expressed their Gesire for the present allen land bill. The veie in the sen- ate was 50 to 2 and in the assembly 72 to 3. With such unanimity of opin- lon, even did I Lold other views, 1 would fael it my plain duty to sign the bill unless some absolutely controlling necessity demanded contrary action, Apparently no such ccntrolling neces- sity exists. “It {s with the highest respsct for yourself and the president that I feel my duty o my state compels me to upprova the action of the legislature. (Signed) C“HIRAM JOHNSON, “Governor of Callfornia.” Taft Going to Cleveland. New Haven, Conn., May lé—Formes President Taft announced today that he will go to Cincinnatl on June 24, to remain three days, and will deliver an address on June 26 at the dedication of the new chamber of commerce building there. Boy Ran Down an Aute. Hartford, Conn, May 1i4—Charles Edlin, aged 12, was perhaps fatally injured tonight when he ran into an automobile driven by Archer G. House of Waterbury, The lad was on roller skates. President Williams Resigns. Hartford, Conn., May 14—Job K. ‘Williams, for many years president of the American school for the deaf im this city, resigned today. Steamers Reported by Wireless. Sable Island, May 14.—Steamer Iver- nia, Trieste for New York, signalled %86 miles east of Sandy Hook af noon. Dock 8 a. m. Saturday. Slasoonsett, Mass, May 14—Steam- er San Glorglo, Naples for New York, algnalled 825 miles east of Sandy Hook at _noon, Deeck 1230 p, m, Thursday. Brow Jiead, 14.—8teamer | Lerrain, New Yark for Havre, algnailod £20 milos sonthwest at 1118 a. m. Due Havre noon Thursday. Queenstown, May lé,~—Steamer Ava- bie, Bostan for Queenstown and Liver- vool, slgnalled 216 miles west al noon. Due Queenstown 2 a, m. Thursday, Steamship Arsivals. Rotterdam, May 14, — Aryived: Steamer Kurst, New Yark for Libau. New York, May 14é--Arrived; Btanme. e Oceanis, Seuthamptom e dide &