Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 28, 1909, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WEATHER FORECAST For Nebraska—inoreasing cloudiness. For lowa—Increasing cloudiness; warmer, For weather report sea Page & VOL. XXXVITI— OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, INCOME TAX AND TARIFF Senator Bailey Comcludes His Speech in Defense of Validity of Taxing ncomes. CITES NUEMOROUS PRICEDENTS —i 3ays This Form of Ta Inquisitorial Tha SENATOR SCOTT TALKS He Speaks of Effect of Pen ‘. GORE TALKS ON DUTY ON COAL Dkluhoma Senator Says Coml Miners in West Virginia Are Pald No More Than Those im Nova Sco- tia--Deninl by Elk WASHINGTON, April 27.—As the last half of his two-day speech, Senatr Bailey devoted nearly three hours In the senate today to discussion of the legal aspect of his income tax amendment to the tariff bill, clting numerous cases snd ways to maintain the view that such a law would be constitutional. He was In- terrupted frequently by senators, who at times offered objections to his position or suggested authorities to sustatn him. The senate was fully represented in the audience that accorded Mr. Batley a hear- ing and the gallerles were crowded Mr. Scott mpoke on the tariff with espe- clal reference to its effect on the south, espectully In his own state of West Vir- winfa. Mr. Gore of Oklahoma spoke in denunciation of the protective tariff “Mr. President, 1 do not wish the men- ate called to order,” sald Senator Scott of West Virginla upon beginning his speech on the tariff today when Vice President Sherman undertook to maintain qulet in the chamber. "1 do not expect this argument to change w vote,” added Mr. Scott, ‘“and conse- quently I am entirely Indifferent whethe wenators retire to the lobbles or Indulge In conversation, because I do not care whether they listen to my remarks or not.” “The chalr does care,” replled Mr. Sher- man. Mr. Scott's remarks were listened to by many senators who gave him strict atten- tion. He advoeated pretection. ‘Wages of Coal Miners. Senator Gore of Oklahoma engaged both Senators Scott and Elkins in a colloquy concerning the wages pald American coal miners, Mr. Gore declared he had been reliably informed that in the rich Poca- hontas coal mines of West Virginiu the wages were less than in Nova Scotla and England. This statement was denied by Senator Elkins. # Mr. Gore, who stood at the front row of the senate seats on the democratic side, figuratively looking over the body with his wightiess Loyes:: aniiw an impassioned denunclation of the protective tariff. Inci- dentally, he spoke of the treatment of coal operatives, which he attributed to the tariff and which he declared was out of keeping with the civilization of the day. Referring (o the superfor manner of life of the American workmen, Mr. Gore sald: “He eams the morey and this is the reason he recelyes more for his labor. Mr. McComber msked the menator from Oklahoma how It happened that while one- half to two-thirds of the coal miners of this country are foreigrers they were su- perior here and mot so In thelr own coun- tries. He answered his own question by saying that it was the differeat conditions under which they llved which was brought about by the profective tariff in this coun- | try that allowed these miners to make more money and ot live better than while abroad. “Poes the senator mean to intimate that the republican party has pursued a policy which has turned over the labor of our coal mines to forelgners? inquired Mr. McCumber replied ttat the gates of America have always swung inward to the peopie of the world. ‘Then reviewing political conditions, Mr. Gere, speuking In dramatic tones, referred to various Industrisl conditions In the United States to show that the tariff had nething to do with the prosperty of the | people. Tauning the Oklahoma senator with hav- ing been & popullst in 188, Mr. Boott asied whether he had copies of his speech of that year. ‘Yes, 1 have them.” replied Gore, “snd | the question reminds me that T have grown wiser and that the senator from West Vir- | ginla v not 100 0ld to gain wisdom. Bailey on Income Tax. Seuntor Bailey today resumed his speech begun yesterday on the Income tax. He ®afd the question of direct taxation had Bever been satisfactorily settled by the con tinental congress, by the federation that followed, nor by the constitutional conven- tton. Reviewing one case after another, Balley quoted ftrom court opinions and otrer Authorities to substantiate his con tention respecting the constitutionality of an income tax. He then departed for a time from his purel ylegal argument and launched into a denunclation of men who | Ve sald reslst the Income tax as inqu'sttorial and calculated to make the United States & ‘natlon of lars." ‘That this tax is tnquisitorial,” said Mr. Balley, “i8 true, but not more so than any other thx. To compel me to tell the source of my lncome, as s done in the state in which I live, is as Inquisitorial as to com- pel me to tell the amount of my income. He then took up the plea that such & tax wild make us & nation of liars and sald: { will mot inault the American people Uy repaating that charge, but I will rppel It as mn unwarranted reflection upon our 1eople. 1 do nmot think a self-respecting American citisen will le to escape the pay- ment of & tax, and if I should find a man Who would commit perjury to escape tax- ation 1 would favor disfranchising him. 1t may be that rich men will tell a Ve to avold paying an income tax, but 1 will not say 80, although some of them say it of themselves. MINISTER COMMITS SUICIDE Bev, §. V. Willinms Nilis mA 1L, April ~Re \Willanis, pustor of the Christian church here, commitied suicide last night by taking carbolic weid while mentally de- NANKAKEE Q.,u More ' Mr. | Roosevelt Party | E Ready to Start | ‘k-fitident and Kermit Succeed in ! Bringing Down Small Game— Both Appear Tired. | NATROBI, British Bast Atrica, April 27 Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit had sufficlently recovered today from the | fatigue connected with their first shooting | trips and their journey from Kapiti Plains | tation to the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease on the Athi river to o out shooting this morning for smail game cessful In securing a Grant's gaselle and | harteboest are busy today sorting out their baggage | and making it up into londs and otherwise | preparing to start on more extended hunt- ing expeditions. J. Alden Loring and Major | Mearns came into Kapiti station this morn- ing from the Pease ranch and set to work making up loads from the baggage there. They looked tired owing to the fatigue of the last few days and the depressing effect of the climate. Part of the Roosevelt camp already has been established at the Peaso camp; the remainder of the caravan will move over to this point tomorrow morning. The Roosevelt party decided today to re- main for one week at the Pease ranch, and with this stay in view a number of cases of stores were sent into the Amerjcan camp today. The smallpox among the porters of the Roosevelt caravan has been checked. Jap Reception Ends with Long | Tour in Trolley Naval Officials Visit Orchards and Are Received by Crowds of School Children. LOS ANGELES, Cal., April The day of the Los Angeles celebration in honor of the visit of Rear Admiral 1jichi's training squadron from Japan began at an early hour this morning and will continue uninterruptedly until midnight tonight. To- morrow the squadron sails for San Fransci- co. At 7 o'clock this morning, escorted by the ocommittes of prominent citizens, Admiral Ifichi and forty of his officers departed in @ spectal car for an all day trolley ride through the orange beit. The first stop of length was made at Azusa and the party visited the great orange und lemon or- chards in the reglon. The Japanese ad- miral and his principal officers were photographed In almost all manner of at- titudes as they plucked the ripened orange: trom the trees. Here the excursionists were met by a large assemblage of school children, who sang patriotic songw and cheered the Japanese officers. Admiral Ijichi was especiully delighted with this demonstration. % The party reached Pasadena at hoon, where luncheon was provided by the Pasadena Board of Trade and an automo- blie ride through the celebrated residence portion of the city. Boy Killed in Base Ball Game High School Student at Lamoni, Ia., Dead Following Collision on Second. LAMONI, Ia, April #1.—Leonard De Long, & high school student, injured while playing base ball here Saturday, died this morning. The Lamoni and Mount Ayr High school teams were the contestants and De Long played second base. He collided with & base runner bursting a bood vessal. WELLESLEY STUDENT IS HURT more Drops Two Stories When Fire Bscape She Was De- scending Breas, WELLESLEY, Mass, April 27.—By the breaking of @ rope fire esoape Miss Jeunette Tandy of Vevay, Ind., & sopho- | more at Wellesley college, fell two storles and suffered serious injuries. Miss Tandy was fulfilling the requirement | that each student make a descent of the fire escape ,‘ on Long Hunt| They were suc- | last | ENATOR BROWN FOR INCONE TAX Nebraska Member Proposes Amend- ment to Federal Constitution to Make Law Plain. FOLLOWS UP TALK BY MR. BAILEY Refers to Attitude of Bupreme Court on This Propesition. CUDAHY CASE IS PUT OVER Results in Postponing Assessment. |MANY PUT IN CATTLE BIDS | E | T. B. McPherson Says He Cannot Une derdtand Low Figures at Which Dealers Are Willing te Furnish Stoc. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April %.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Senator Norris Brown today intro- duced a jolnt resolution to amend the con- stitution of the United States as follow: “The congress of the United States shafl have the power to'lay and collect taxes on incomes and inheritances.” The joint resolution comes at a time when the income tax discussion has boen brought uppermost through an address of Genator Balley, which has extended over the last two days, and Is to be made the vehicle for a speech on Incomes by Renator Brown either tomorrow or the day follow- ing. “We can admit the arguments of Senator Bailey and other advocates of the passage of an incoms tax law, but where doos it get us,” Senator Brown asked today. “Admitting the supreme court did seem to approve an income tax up to lts last dccision on the matter, we now are con- fronted wtih the fact that the ceurt has | overruled that line of decisions and the law 1s now the ruling of the latest deci- slon “It does not seem entirely safe for us to conclude that because the personnel of the court has changed a reversal of the last dectsion may bo expected. The law ought to be based on a firmer foundation than & change in the personrel of the court. I am in favor of an Income tax and I am in favor of making the constitution speak 80 plainly in the matter that the supreme ccurt may judge such a law constitutional.” Postpone Cudahy Assessment. At & conference at the Treasury depart- ment today by Secretary MacVeagh, Solici- tor of Internal Revenue Maddox and Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue Willlams decided 1o postpone the assessment 717 against the Cudahy Packing com- pany, levied on oleomargerine, until the company has had a hedting before the de- partment. The payment under the assess- ment was duc today. The date of hearing has not yet beef fixed. Many Bidders on Stock. | and mares for delivery at the following Indlen agencles In the northwest: Stand- ing Rock, Cheyenne River, Lower Brule, Pine Ridge and Rosebud. Thers was & very large attendance of cattiemen and prices were low, considering the market value of the live stock offered. There were twenty-nine bidders, mearly three times as many as usually appear at a letting of this character. The price ranged from $21.14 to $29 per head for 2.year old helfers, and from $34.44 to $30.710 tor cows, and from $144 to 3§60 for mares. Among the successful bidders were: W. I Walker, Council Bluffs; Ross & Rob- erts of Gordon, Neb.; D. R. Brown, Spring- fleld, Neb. Other prominent bidders were: A. D Marriot, C. J. Hysham, of Omaha; 8. T. Napper of Norfolk; Hank P. Simmons, Manderson, 8. D.; F. M. Stewart. Buffalo Gap, 8. D., and Smith & Btephens of Fair- fleld, Ta. T. B. McPhe rsen, president of the South Omaha live stock exchange, and a cattle producer in Arizona, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana, speaking of these bids, said: “Prices were far below the present mar- ket value of animals offered, and I can't understund how producers can afford to furnish cattle and horses at the prices named McPherson on Duty on Hides. Of the fight being made in favor of duty on hides Mr. McPherson said: cannot seo how the producers of cattle can stand & turther decrease In the value of thelr (Continued on Becond Page.) Unsanitary Cit | | | “The extremely unsanitary conditions in (1'0"!(.“"“0;‘]! were as much responsible | for the revolution in the Turkish capital as | anything else. my opinion, and 1f the |overthrow of the sultan will result in | cleaner streets and fewer dogs the revoiu- | tion will not have been in vain This 1s the way R. R. Bradford, in an from the land of the Sick Man of Burope, views the situation. He spent three days in Constantinople about a month ago and says that he has been kicking himself ever since the revolution started that he did not stay in the capital of the Ottoman empire and witness the “fun.” “Constantinople, while a beautiful eity trom a distance, s the dirtiest city I ever s id Mr. Bradford The people there even know less about street cleaning than we do In Omaha, and, if anythin thelr streets ave dirtier than ours. T streets are not paved. except in the Euro pean quarter, and all garbage s thrown Into the streets, where the 2,000,000 or 3.00, 00 dogs that roam the city at will can have their pick. The rest is left there to |toment and cause sickness. Thers is practically no sewage system, plumbing 's unknown and sanitation is never thought of. These young Turks who started and car- ried on the revolution have been to Paris and other European cities and learned the benefits of civilisation, so It was the | natural thing for them to ‘start something’ when they got & good chance. They were | mobllieing outside the city when we were | there » month ago, and we saw troops J‘:‘umm. on several drives we took out- the city. A representative of tha Omaha young man who has just returned | y Cause of Turks’ Woes, Says Omahan | Young Turks came on beard our vessel and welcomed us in behalf of the new move- | ment telling us his people were especially glad to welcome us because we came from | & republic and because they hoped to over- tirow the despetic rule which has gov- erned them since the beginning of time, { almost.”* | Mr. Bradford, together with his mother, Mrs. Frank Colpetzer and Mrs. Wilson Lowe, took the trip through the Mediter- ranean on the White Star steamer Arabic. They will return the latter part of June. There were ghout 60 Americans in the party and they touched at many points on the European and African coast. Their | vessel wus the only one flying the Amer- fcan flag in the harbor of Constantinople the three days they were there, excepting the yachts kept by every forelgn embassy Mr. Bradford sald he thought the yachts were kept by the forelgn ministers for pleasure purposes, but he found out they make their “get away in & hurry in the event something might “break loose” in the sultan’s city, which has always been teared 1 The American party was shown through the national treasury, Where is kept the | crown jewels and court dress of all pre- ceding sultans. Thess fewels are looked |upon as something sacred, but the de- {posed sultan managed to flich & few costly | rubles and other stones, replacing them | with gisss, which he sold to secure money to pay his troops to keep them loyal Jerusalem was visited by the tourists, |and Mr. Bradtord says it looks just like | the bible pictures and that the people live ;Oll the tourists. | Conference at Treasury Department | | All the members of the Rooseveit party APRIL. 28, 1 Bids were opened today for heifers, cows |- were maintained so the ministesr could | MR. BRYAN AGREES WITH THE TARIFF FARMERS ON ONE POINT. From Minneapolis Journal, 909 —-TWELVE PAGES. BYALL MEANS * HAVE A HIGHER TARIPF ON LEMONS! FORGED TO PAY BAD PAPER New Confession by Million-Dollar Forger. CREDITORS KNEW OF MISDEEDS Peter Van Viissinger Says He Con- fessed Orime to Prominent Oapi- taliats Resold Fagmed In. struments to Pt Them. CHICAGO, April 27.—Peter Vanvliis- singer, whose cenfession last winter to the forgery of mortgages to the extent of $,000000 caused a great sensation, ex- ploded a bombshell In the bankruptey court heve today when he stated that his confes- slon & few months ago was antedated by four years by a confession made privately to men who held 340,000 of his spurious paper. Van Viissinger was brought back from prison today to teetify before Referee in Bankrupcy Wean, who is attempting to locate the valid assets of the prisoner. an Vilssinger declared that in 190 he was compelled to confess to Maurice Rosen- feld, at that time a director of the now defunct Chicago National bank, and Ber- nard Rosen| a real estate dealer, that the mortgages held by them and valued at $00,000 had been forged. “They discovered some irregularities in the paper in that ye aid the witness, “and came to iy office for a conference 1 admitted the forgeries and said: ‘T will 80 betere the state's attorney, tell him just what I have related to you gentlemen, plead gullty and go to prison like & man.' ‘We want our money,’ they sald. ‘I can got 1t I told them, 'but I must dupe others as I have duped you men.' “We had another conference soon after,” continued the witness. “Finally I proposed to settle with them. T promised to pay them from $,000 to $,000 a week. Alto- gether ultimately I pald them approxi- mately $260,000." Hesold Hedeemed Paper. “What became of the forged papers held by these gentiemen and that you can- celled?’ was asked “1 locked them In my safe.” “DId you resell them?" “Yes; not all of them, thoug! ‘Did they promise net to exposs you?' “They came to my office regularly for the Instaliments, but said nothing more about my going before the state’s attor- ney. 1 paid them interest at times. ‘We don’'t want to know how you get the money,' they told me at one conference, held in December, 1904 Maurice Rosenfeld is italist and real estate dealer. He was a Airector of the Chicago Nationa! bank and the Home Savings bank, two of the John (Continued on Second Page.) Many a woman makes herspending money by using Bee WantAds. Are you one of them? Don't let old things accumulate —sell them. Don't buy semething sew when you can find a bargain in one for which some one has no further use. It makes no differ- ence what it is—a laundry stove, or a plano. Everybody reads the Bee want ad pages. They are the bargain hnnter’s best hunting ground. Buy or sell—the cheap little want ads certainly do the bunsiness. a well known cap- No Rehearing for Two Coopers in Carmack Case Judge Hart Overrules Motion for New Trial and Defense Will Appeal to Supreme Court. | NABHVILLE, Tenn., April 27.—Judge Wil- {liam M. Hart today overruled the motion for a new trial in the case of Colonel Dun- can B. and Robin J. Cooper, recently con- victed of the murder of former United Btates Semator B. W. Carmack. The de- | tense at once gave notice of an appeal to the supreme court and waived the formal sentence of twenty years in the peniten- Hary. | Judge Hart in his opinfon said: “After giving dus and’careful considera- | tion to all the reasons assigned in the mo- ton, the court is of the opinion that there is not ground for .setting aside the verdict of the jury and therefore the motion is overruled.” “We will pray for an appeal to the su- preme court,” said Judge Anderson, ‘‘and watve formal sentence.’ t is granted,” replied Judge Hart. ‘e msk for tme to perfect our appeal and that the bond be fixed,” said Anderson The same bondsmen qualified. After court adjourned Judge Hart commented to some friends upon the fact that the killing of Ike Morse today by a young woman who claims he had abandoned her was the tenth murder in this ocounty since the Cooper trial began. Signed Wife’s Name to Letter Kansas City Man is Sent to Prison for a Year for Writing to Business Man, KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 27.—Chester M. Hamsheer in the federal court ‘here | | today pleaded gullty to the charge of sign- | |ing his wite's neme to love letters which | Ehe wrote to & wealthy business man of | Atchison, Kan., and he was sentenced to |one years imprisonment n jail. Ham- sheer's “love lettar coprespondence with the Atchison man extended over a period of a year. GIRL KILLS NASHVILLE MAN “He Could Live 't Throw Me Over and the Explanation She Offers. NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 2.—Isaac 8. Morse, a young business man was shot and almost instantly killed here by Ger- trude Douglas today. The young woman escaped, but was arrested an hour later, Miss Douglas sald: “Ike Merse has ruined me and he has | been going with me for the last nine years. | ennially | e at the meeting and instalied the new | officers. | He couldn't throw me over and live. There Were no witnesses to the tragedy. SINGLE OMAHAN HEADS ARCANUM Paul B. Harm Elected Grand Regent | of Nebraska by Order. —— | POWELL GETS SECRETARYSHIP | In Olesing Session Royal Are Nai Many Omah to Serve as Grand Officers and Directors. i Paul B. Harm of Omaha, grand regent S. A. Sanderson of Lincoin, grand vice | regent | Dr. A. 8. Pinto of Omaha, grand orator. Bemen C. Fox of Lincoln, past grand regent. George S. Powell of Omaha, grand secre- tary, E. A. Parmeles of Omaha, Grand treas- urer. C. H. Gerber of Omaha, grand chaplain. W. 8. McKay of Omaha, grand gulde. J. D. Young of Havelock, grand warden George Brown of Linceln, grand sentry. W. A. Foster of Omaha, 8. W. Orton of Weeping Water, W. C. Sundblad of Omaha, grand trustees. F. N. Reckard of Omaha, representative of the supreme council, H. H. Compton of Cedar Rapld nate to supreme ocouncil. A. H. Hipple of Omaha, E. T. Robinson of Cedar Rapids, H. 8. King of Omaha, standing committee on laws, appeals and grievances. A. C. Resd of Omaha, B S Peters of Omaha, Dr. Ralph P. Roberts of Falls | City, committee on finance. Beman C. Fox of Lincom, C. M. Rich of South Omaha, F. J. Nerton of Omaha, com- mittes on state of the order. alter- These were elected officers of the grand councll of the Royal Arcanus of Nebraska, Tuesday afternoon. The councll closed its thirteenth annual sesslon Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock. The meeting was held in Edward Crelghton In- stitute hall, and was one of the mest spir- fted and well attended meetings held in the thirteen years of the grand council's his- tory. The preposition to hold the meetings bi instead ef annually was voted down and annual sessions will be held as heretofore. The grand council opened at 10 a with Grand Regent B. C. Fox ef Lineoin fn the chalr, Paul B. Harm as reading clerk and George 8. Powell as secretary Deputy Supreme Regent Daniel R. Benedict of Denver, represented the supreme coun- m Guests “Ne. The grand council delegates were guests of Unlon Pacific councll No. 1069 at a mpecial meeting Monday evening, at which a speclal program of entertainment was given, following the business session. Three new members wore inftlated with impresaive ceremonies by the uniformed arlll team of the Union Pacific council, in- cluding an officer of the regular army “(Continued on Second Page.) 1,069, the { SCRANTON, Pa.. April Z.—An agree ment betwen the anthracite mine owners and the mine workers will be signed at & meeeting (o be held in the Reading Term- fral bufiding, Philadelphia, at 2 o'clock Thursday, uniess present plans fall. The Tri-dlstrict convention of the union mine workers will met in the court house here this afterncon to act un the proposition al- 1eady agreed upon by the representatives of the men. This proposition was ratified yesterday by the executive boards of the three anthrecite districts of the miners' | 'Danger of Strike in Coal Mines Said to Have Passed union. It Is expected the entire afterncon will be taken up with organization of the convention and that consideration of the proposttion will not be begun until tomer- row morning. National President Lewis of the usifon expects the convention to ad- Journ early in the afternocn tomorrow, pos- sibly at noon, which indicates that oes not anticipate any trouble in having the delegutes ratify the action taken by their committee. Tho agresment provides for the renewal of another period of three years of the old agveemmnt, with & fow conces- sens of importance te <he miners. | lowea | troops against COPY TWO CENTS. ABDUL HAMED 11 IS DETHRONED Sultan of Turkey Formally Deposed by Order of Church, Army and Assembly, CANOCIAL FORM It Was Read to Sultan by Shiek Ul Islam in Person, FETVA IN HIS BROTHER SUCCEEDS HIM Prince Mehemmed Peschad Effendi Formally Proclaimed Sultan, OLD RULER IS A PRISONER Held Oaptive by Young Turks, Who Ave Sald to Removed Mim Cap- Have from the teai. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 21.—Abdul Hamid 11, sultan of Turkey, was today de- posed from the throne of the Ottoman em- pire by his subjects for his interference with the progress of popular govermment under the constitution granted by him last July and his brother, Mehemmed Resched Effendl now occuples the throne, This change was decided upon by the Natlonal assembly without n dissenting vote and it was carrfed out with the utmost rapidity. The sultan {s now a prisoner in the hands of the young Turks and carefully guarded by his captors. The Shelk-Ui-Islam, supported by the principal personages of the higher church administration, ‘wsued the fetva as the de- cree of deposition is called. It informed Mehemmefl Reschad Effendl that he was chosen sultan by the will of the church, the will of the Parliament, the will of the army and the will of the people. It admonished him to serve God and keep the cred law, as communicated by the prohet. This Reschad humbly promised to do. The fotva was prepared last night, both Abdul Hamid and his brother, Prince Reschad belng Informed at an early hour this morning. The Shelk-Ul-Islam it sald personally visited the sultan and read him the decree. He Informed his majesty that the question having been put In canonical form before the shelk and his assoclates as to whether Abdul Hamid had not forfelted the right to rule over the falthful, they had decided “ye Abdul bowed his head, saying: will of Allah. At a secret sitting of the national as- sembly in the morning the decres was read. It declared that Abdul Hamid I1 must abdicate or be dethroned. The as- sembly unhesitatingly shouted ‘“dethrons him." A conslsting of two senators and two deputies thereupan visited the palace at Yildiz and communicated to,the sultan,ihe assembly's resolution. Abdul Hamin replied: . “I expseted this, it 1s fate. My only wish is that the lives of myseit and family he safeguarded and that T may reside at the palace of Chera- ghun, as 1 wish to dle where 1 was born." New Sultan Notified. A similar deputation proceeded to Dolmabagtsche palace in Galata, and “It is the the in- | formed Mehammed Reschad Bffend! of the nation's wish. The newly proclaimed sultan replied that he bowed to the will ot the people. Later the assembly debated the mo- mentous question of Abdul Hamid's future residence. The suggestion that he be al- to travel abroad was strongly op- posed, on the ground that it might cause complicailons. It was tinally decided that he must remain in Constantinople. AL 2:30 In the afternoon a salute of twen- ty-one guns announced the departure of Mehammed Reschad Effend! to the Sara- skerat to swear 7idelity to the constitution Had his successor followed the death of the sultan this ceremony would have oc- { curred at the Top-Kapou palace, where the relics of the prophet are preserved, but as the succession ensued as the result pf tife dethronement of the ruler, the ceremony was held at the War office. City in Ovderly, The city of Constantinople is alive with excitement and throngs fill the streets. A number of arrests have been made, but the change of soverelgns has been effectod without disorder of any kind. A salute of 101 guns announcing the end of the relgn of Abdul Hamid and the b ginning of that of Mohemmed' Kffend! wi fired at 2:3 this afterncon. It 1s reported here that the sultan has been removed from the imperial palace of Yildiz and conveyed across the Bosphorus to a polnt in Asiatic Turkey. Among those who have been arrested under orders of the military dictatorship are Prince Babah ddine, & nephew of the sultan, and all the members of his family The prince has been a leader of the Young ‘Turk party. Fifty Turkish officers have bean arrested at Erseroum by thelr troops and dis- patched under esoort to Trebizond. The exact significance of thie action te not yet clear, but it is feared it means the beginning of & revolt of the provinclal the Young Turk officers. Last of Paluce G Yesterday afternoon witnes act in the slege of the Yiidiz, ¢ ket, commander of the constitutionalists, overawing the Albanians Into surrender. This force, which was composed of 200 men, was stationed In the Imper; The Albanians did not fight day, but persistently refused to lay down thelr arris. General Schefket sent up a strong body of Macedonlans and six fleld pleces were placed in a_prominent position above the palace. Other guns were dis- posed over the nelghboring heights while the troops commanded all the Approaches. The red flag continued, however, to fly deflantly until 2 o'clock, when the wateh- ers saw It dropping slowly down the flag- pole, making place for the white token of surrender. A few minutes laler & crowd of fugitives were seen pouring down the dusty road, leading to Beshimtash, whers they were fastened together with ropes and conducted under & military escort to the headquarters of the commission of inquiry. Tem Thousand Prisomers. The prisoners included domestics, eunuahs, pages, secretaries and practically the en- tire male staff of the palace, s well as the famous Fusiliers, the spolied proteges of the sultan. Thelr commander wis ar- rested In disguise at Galats and ssverely handled subjected to lndiguities. The