Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 3, 1910, Page 1

‘ f”b‘u| 1 business at Juneau, NEWS SECTION ONE TO EIGHT. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. 9 OMAHA, SUNDAY MOR) SERIOUS CHARGE FACES COLLIER'S Accusation Made in Pinchot-Ballin- ger Inquiry by Mr. Love Against Well Known Weekly Paper, SECRETARY TO SUE FOR LIBEL Declares He Will Go to Law Because | of Articles About Him. | LOVE SPRINGS BIG SENSATION/ Witness in Ballinger Case Says Paper Offered Bribe to J, W. Dudley. HE TELLS OF CONVERSATION | Says Attempt Was Made to Pay For- of Land Offtce to ty — Committee lu- mer Reg! Te er wues Subpoe | WASHINGTON, April 2—The activity of Collier's Weekly on behalf of former Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot was brought forcibly to the attention of the Ballihger- | Pinchot congressional committee today | when Mr. Love testified that John W. Dud- | ley: former register of the land office at Juneau, Alaska, told him last February in ‘Juneau that Collier's had Intimated to him that “it would be worth from $5.000 to $10,000 to to g0 to Washington to testify.” Incidental (o' the hearing today it m: be stated that Secretary Ballinger has an- nounced that he will Institute proceedings in law against Collier's Weekly as an after- math of the publications in that paper con- cerning him. Although Mr. Love told the committee t-day he had not previously mentioned the convorsation to anybody, because he feared Dudley might have misconstrued what Col- lier's agent had said to him, the committee | was unanimous the opinion that ‘the ineld was of such importamce that Dudley should come here from Alaska to tell about it. A subpoenae wiil be issued for'him at | him n “Did you understand Colller's was (|‘_\‘|n|:] to bribe Dudley to testify?" inqired Repre- gentative Madison. lere to tell the truth’' an-| 1eus, explaining that Dudley had b Jut"" as register of the land office, ard iha' he had declared his inten- tion of going to Washington to clear his record. He sald Dudley had told him he wanted to go to Washington to testify for “the other side,’ meaning for Ballinger, and he had asked Love to convey that in- 'formation to the secretary. Love said he did not comply with this request. | understood they wanted Frank Spalding Called. Attorney Brandels concluded his cross- examination of Mr. Love and Attorney Vertceen cailéd Frank L. Spalding, former Aisburiing officer In Glavis' office at Seat- tle, by whom he tried to show that Glavis made an effort to get him to cut a %5 ftem out of Glavis' eXpefise aecount on his trip east to ‘Heverley last summer: This was for typewriting done in Chicago on & report to the president. Spalding sald Glavis had asked him to cut the item out and mako it appear as an error In ad- dition. Later, on cross-examination by Mr. Bran- dels, the witness sald Glavis had explained his intention of relmbursing the govern- ment for the full amount in order that he might keep for himself two of the three coples of the report he had made against Scoretary Ballinger. He also admitted Glavis had made no at- tempt to have other items incldent to his trip to Beverley cut out and sald he did not belleve Glavis had intended to cheat the government, When the committee met H. K. Love, now a United States marshal in Alaska, but formerly a special agent of the land office, continued on the stand on cross- examination by Attorney Brandeis, repre- seniing Louls R. Glavis and othera. A ngw sensation Was Sprung soon after the inquiry was resumed this morning. Attorney Brandels at once launched Into the cross-examination of Mr. Love, who told of meeting John W. Dudley, former register of the land office at Juneau, Alaska, last February in a Juneau hotel Dudley, testitied Mr. Love, sald he had Dbeen “let out” of his office and that Collier's Weekly had Intimated to him that “{t would be worth from %00 to $10,000" tor him to go to Washington to tekuty, Draws Wne Distinction. “Do you mean that the weekly meant to bribe him committee. “Na, not to bribe him, but to pay him,” rhplled the witness. “You draw a whole lot finer Aistinctions than T have been able to do,” retorted Mr, Madison. The committee betrayed great interest nd pressed Mr. Love for detalls of the meeting. The witness sald he saw Mr. Dudley for mot more than three minutes, | and Dudley had sald he wanted to go to |l Washington to testify for the “other side.” He sald Dudiey wanted him to tell M. Ballinger of this offer and that he had not -cepted 1t. but that he desired to tastity for the “other side." My, Love said he did not tell Mr. B lager begause he thought perhaps Mr. Dud. | truction on *h | ley had put the wron remark of Colller's agent. He sald Mr Dudley did not tell him the name of the agent. Subneena for Dudley. “Do you think the weekly wanted Dud- ley to come here to tell the truth?* asked Mr. Graham (depocrat). ‘Most assuredly,” replied the witness. Mr. Loye sald Dudley had expressed the Yyntention of going to Washington to clear \Us recoid with the department siuce; he N beey Aismissed. The committee de- ed by unanimous vote to subpoena Mr. who, the witness sald, wi 18} L said he did not think he had $ulkioned the conversation: with Mr. Dud- necel anybody. He denied that Dudley more \ juded o try tlon o soon definit Britary of the interior. p ] _lowa ¢ty Amed UN Year Hin Sl\- Wis Temporarily The travel the fo | coast boat, Insame, Ia.. April 2 —(Special Tele- W's throat from ear to ged, 68 killed himsolf at 4 rning. Temporary Insanity rs of idle i8 helleved the wulcids He was ai [ 1ng the iast asked Mr. Madison of the| rn-l‘ and influence Mr. Bal- | ‘W AAY'NT hiny mention the incident | New Taritf Law ' Does the Work, | Says Official Treasury Balance Increases Seven Million Dollars First Ten Days in March. WASHINGTON, April 2.—Aesistant Sec- | Norton of the Treasury department, calling attention today to the increase in the treasury balance of about $7,000,000 dur- ten days of March, says It is evident that the Payne-Aldrich tariff law Is an excellent producer of revenus, but he adds, certain considerations should be borne in mind Mr. Norton says “It is more than probable that customs revenues for the first part of this fiscal year were largely affected by antlcipatory importations and by considerations which Rrew out of the maximum and minimum feature of the Payne-Aldrich law. ‘Furthemore, the fact must not be over- looked that the legisiation which resulted In, glving to the Cherokee Indian tribe a payment of approximately $,000,000 has now passed through the court of elai paym the year. retary 1, and this must be made before the close of Maryland House Passes Digges Bill Measure Which Disfranchises Ne- groes Will Soon Become |ATTACK CAREFULLY PLANNED RAIDS MADE 0 BUCKET SHOPS Federal Oficials Pounce Upon Brokers of Six Citiese and Make Twenty- Nine Arrests. CONSPIRACY INDICTMENTS MADE Federal Grand Jury Makes Returns Involving Wealthy Men. Secret Plans Carried Out to Visit Offices at Same Time. GAMBLING IN STOCKS ALLEGED Indietments Handed Down by Wash- ington Grand Jury Charge Con- spiracy to Relleve People of Their Money. WASHINGTON, Apsil Armed with | bench warrants f{ssued by the supreme| court of the District of Columbla. special | agents of the Department of Justice this| morning at il o'clock (eastern time) sim- ultaneously raided brokers' offices in New | York, Philadelphla, Jersey City, Baltimore, | Cineinnat! and St. Louls Conspiracy indictments in which twenty- nine persons are named, five of them said to be millionaires and all interested in brokers' offices in large cities of the United a Law. ANNAPOLIS, Digges bills for April 2.—The so-calied the disranchisement of the negro in all states and municipal elec- | {tions In Maryland were passed by the sen- ate at a late hour last night, following thelr introduction earlier at the night ses- | sion. They now go to the their pussage is assured because of the large democratic majorities. It is not proposed to attempt to prevent negroes voting at congressional or pres dentlal elections, the restriction applying house, where | only to state and municipal balloting. The orlginal draft of the plan was amended by the insertion of a clause by which negroes owning property assessed at | 8500 may vote, provided they were possessed of property thus valued two years in ad- | vance of their registration. 1t is proposed to amend the present regls- tration laws; to have a new general regls- tration next year refusing registration to negroes and to abolish spring elections in Baltimore, carrying forward those elections until the state election In the November following. Being refused reglstration if the bills are enacted, the negro will not.be able to vote on the measures when they come before the electors in November, 1911, in the form of a constitutional amendment, The democrats did not insert the proparty qualification in the reglstration bill because, they say, they will conduct the election under the Btate monstitution, from wiiicH, I they claim, the - word “white" never been expunged by any act of the state. S804 by dov ost of 8 UNION STATION FOR CHEYENNE Litigation Over Right-of-Way Results in Agreement Among Three Roads for New W ructure. CHEYENNE, Wyo., April 2.—(Speclal.)— Southern Rallway company against Tim- | othy Dyer, Henry C. Becker and the Coors | Brewing company were heard In the dls- {triot court today and Judge Matson will appoint a board of appraisers to appraise | the value of property owned by the deend- ants, and which property is in the line of | the proposed right-of-way of the Colorado & Southern across the city from Capitol avenue to Bent street to a connection with | 1ts Cheyenne & Northern tracks. All other | property holders settled with the rallway | company, ana many of the bulldings have | been removed. It ‘is state on good authority that the Uplon Pacifie, Colorado & Southern and Burlington roads have an agreement for the Joint use of each other's tracks in this | eity, and that a new union station is to be | bullt in the near future, probably on the | site of the present Burlington station. This | would be much more convenient for all | roads and would do away with the neces- |sity of the traveling public crossing the | tracks of the, Burlington and the Colorado |'& Southern to reach the Union Pacific | trains. EMPLOYERS’ LIABILITY . BILL BECOMES A LAW House Agrees to Semate Amendments and Measure is Sent to Presi- dent for Signature. WASHINGTON, April 2--The senate amendments to the bill to amend the em- ployers liabllity law were agreed to by the house today. The measure will at once be engrossed and sent to the president for his signature. | Girl Held by Kidapers. NEW YORK, April 2—Kidnapers are be- lleved to be holding Mildred Rudd, the 15- year-oid daughter of George Rudd, a wealthy merchant, strangely missing from ner Bronx home since last Thursday. Mr. |Rudd received a letter today saying his daughter was being detained pending his offer to pay a ransom for her return, Carrl Pigeon in Mid cean. NEW YORK, April 2—A carrier pigeon | fell exhausted to the rigging of the liner the ship was 500 miles from New Found- land, the nearest land, on Wednesday moruiug. A ring on the pigeon's foot bear; ‘Words “Lafayette, Bordeux.' The condemnation suits of the Colorado & ; |Campanta, which reached here today, when | States, were returned late yesterday by | the federal grand jury of the District of { Columbia on evidence which agents of the Department of Justice have been gathering for more than & year. | The indictments were withheld yestor- |day on the request of Attorney General | Wickersham, so that the Department of Justice detectives mignt make the raids | simultaneously on the places suspected | of being *'bucket shops.” “ List of Accused Men. | The men indicted are sald to be those | financially interested in the corporations known as E. 8. Boggs & Co, which has |offices in New York and Philadeiphia; | Price & Co., which has offices in Baltimore and. New York, and the Standard Stock and Grain Dealers, which have offices In Jersey City, Philadelphia, Clncinnati and St. Louls. As being interested in Boggs & Co. the following are indicted: Richard E. Prous- ser, Lee Mayer, George Turner, Willlam M. Tillls, Oliver J. Robinson, Edward S. Boggs, Harry Owens, Robert A. Guy, all of New York, and Al Ford and Marshall F. Parish of Philadelphia. Named in connes tion with them as alleged co-conapirators are Edward Everett Taylor of Washington, D, C, and his telegraph operator, Harry Johnson. In the Indictmients agalnst Price & Co. the followlng are name Willam B, Price, Virgll P. Randolph, Harcy M, Ran- dolph, Charles T. Morehead, Edward Wel- lon, Joseph Gaskins and James A. Ander- son, all of Baltimore; Thomas H. Campbell | and.Baward B. Taylor of Philadelphia. In the Standard Stook and Grain Deal- |ers are named: Edward Altemus, Danlel | Raymond, Oscar J. Raphel and Robert Hall of Jersey City, N. J.; Louls Cella of St. Louls, Henry C. Stumpt of Philadel- | phia and Henry R. Duyres and his tele- graph operator, Charles R. Allen. Plan Carefully Prepared. the United States government's first attack on stock gambling, has been prepared with the greatest secrecy, Its scope principally covering the United States from the Missouri river to the Atlantio, | The three concerns indicted maintain more | than 250 offices and branch offices located from New England to Oklahoma. With the aid of United States Attorney Baker of the District of Columbia, Speclal Assistant Attorney General A. Bruce R. Claski and Chief Finch of Attorney Gen- eral Wickersham's bureau of investigation, have been presenting the evidence to the grand jury for several days. The theory of the conspiracy indictments is that every man connected in any way with the operation of the three firms which do business in the dlstrict had en- tered into a conspiracy to relleve people of thelr money. The government main- tains that every alleged bucketing tran- saction of the local brokers named was the act of each and every person charged jn the indictment. Statement by Wickersham, Attorney General Wickersham daid not comment on the ralds today further than to lssue a statement of which the fol- lowing Is the' substance “In the first Indictment against Preu ser, Mayer, Turner, etc., the defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States in violation of msection 540 of the revised statutes, which makes unlawful the keep- ing of bucket shops in the District of Columbia. Edward E. Taylor, mentioned | in the indlctment maintained two offices in | Washington, and was correspondent for| Boggs & Co, of 47 Broadway, New York “This firm,” the attorney general's state- ment continucs, “as well as those Involved in_the other two indictments, alleges that {it Buys and sells securities through the | Consolidated Stack Exchange of Philadel- |phia and that Ford & Parrish are thelr Irepresentatives on that exchange. | “The evidence before the grand jury tended {to show that tbis exchange was simply | & cover maintained to enable operators of | bucket shops to conceal the real of their operations. “'Pressuer Is reported to be a notorious gambler, who was convicted of murder of onc Myles McDonald some years ago, as| | Th nature (Continued on Second Page.) There is & strong prospect that the mii- [{tary vallooning experiments wil be re | sumed at Fort Omaha early May, and | continue for a greater part of the sum- n mer. The Baldwin dirigible, States army dirigible No. oughly overhauled and repaired since lts return from Los Angeles, and will be in %00d shape for experimental flights. Spherical ballooning wil be another fea- ture during the season. The sirnal service has recelved a duplicate of the balloon from France that was destroyed early last known as United 1, has been thor- Balloons Will Sail Over Fort Omaha Again in May | | | | { { | summer in the remarkable flight made by | Captain D. F. Chandler and Lieutenant | J. E. Ware, This new balloon is one of the finest now owned by the United States ' government, and will be used at Fort| Omaha frequently during the summer for practical instruction and demonstrations in ba'looning. Experiments will also be made with captive balloons as well as with the free flights. | In brief, something will be doing right | ong in the balioon line at Fort Omaha, %00n a8 the settied late spriog and early summer weather and wind currents are | assured. | NING APRIL 1910—8IX From the Philadelphia Inquirer. SECTTON THE ANNUAL SURPRISE SINGLE WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska-—Falr and warmer, or lowa-—Falr; Sunday cloudy For weatner feport sce page 2 COPY FIVE CENTS. PUZZLE OVER CONSERVATION How to Conserve Nature's Gifts, Problem Before Congress. is HARMONY ABSENT FROM MEETING Members Agree that Steps Should be Taken to Preserve Coal, Oil n) Water Power, But Dis- agree on Method. WASHINGTON, April 2—Members of both the house and the senate are struggling with the question of framing laws to further the gase of conservation. During the last two or three days, however, both house of congress have been &0 occupled that little attention has been pald to the subject. Since Friday efforts have been made to get some, of the adminiatration measures, dealing with. conseérvation, into shape for presentation. The. public lands' committes of the House has gone to pleces on the proposed law o authorize the president to make ~with- drawal and classifications of public lands and the members are now divided into sey- eral groups, each pulling in a dlfferent direction. The chief questions which the legislature have to deal with in connection With con servation are embodied in bills on the foi lowing subjects. Withdrawal and classification of public lands. Conservation Conservation Conservation of ofl lands. Conservation of phosphate lands. Are Serions Question The first four will recelve serfous and earnest consideration. The bills on the last named one are likely to be lost in the gen- eral fight on the others, There are any number of bills pending In congress upon all of these subjects and how best to harmonize them and arrive at some mutyal basls s the question. President Taft will be drawn into the fight and today he in- formed some of the members of the com- mittee he desired to talk with them next week in the interests of harmony. In the committee the republican mem- bers are split upon the question - of whether to valldate all past withdrawals of public lands, about which there fs a doubt of legality, or to yeave that to a future determination by the courts, Representatives Plckett of lowa, Par- sons of New York and Gronna of North Dakota, all republicans, are standing tirm for a validation of all past with- drawals. Chalrman Mondell of the com- mittee and Representatives Smith of Cal. ifornia, Morgan of Oklahoma and Pray of Montana are oposing the effort to validate past withdrawals, Their objection, sands of people have taken up coal and ofl lands and expended Jarge sums in de- velopment in the bellef that the govern- ment withdrawals were illegal. Unless these claimants are cared for they will oppose a validation of the withdrawals. The democratic members of the commit- tee say the republican members who want to qualify the validation are not for real conservation at all, but are merely alming at a “whitewashing” of of coal lands. of water power. (Continued on S:cond Page.) A Bee want ad 1s a mighty big thing. Turn to them. If you want a servant it will bring one to your door. If you want a position it will find one for you. If you have something to sell, it will sell it for ygu. If you have lost so=ething it will find it for you. If you have found somethi~’ it will be the frst to terifies yho lost it. r law! Bee Want Ads are tred w You have done your best you use one. 8. hen Everybody reads Bee Want Ads. "Phone Douglas 238, they say, is that thou- |’ Operators and Miners Renew Negotiations Debate in Three States Will Be Pro. longed, but in Others Adjustments ‘Will Be Made Speedily. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 2—Operators and miners in the bituminous coal fields of the United States began with renewed activity today thelr negotiations looking to signing & new two-year wage contract that will bring a resumption of work In the mines, Similar conférences have been appointed for next week in the districts of Iilinols, Indlana, Ohlo, western Pennsylvania and through the west. Debutg in Dlinots, central Penrisylvania and the southwest probably will be pro- longed, but In the other districts the minots expect thelr demands will be granted with little delay. Thomad L. Lewls, president of the United Mine Workers, was expected to return to- day to this city from his visit to the Ili- nols mining 'centers. He fs to leaye here Lonight to confer with the miners, district officlals in Ohlo, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. PITTSBURG, April 2—According to re- lable authority, the iron and steel industry is proof agalnst serious disturbance from the suspension of coal mining in the cen- tral competitive districts, as it has accumu- lated some stock, depends largely Upon non- union districts and has the other flelds to fall back on in a pinch. The Pittsburg Coal Operators assoclation, In its meeting with President Francls Feehan of District No. 5, United Mine Workers of Americ: is reported today to have stated flatly that it would resist any increasa in the cost of mining, but would grant the miners the demanded 6.86 per cent wage Increase at once. It is reported that the operators have tentatively agreed to furnish the new ex- plosives /in mines whers the same cost as black powder, but will not agree to a run of mine basis. A forma) Joint wage scale conterence has been called tor Monday. ;fAFT TO SOUND KEY NOTE President Wil Campaign at Washington April 9. | | WASHINGTON, April 2—The president s expected to anngunce the keynote for the congressional campaign next fall at banquet to be given here-at the Arlington on April 9 by the League of Republican Clubs. Wants LaFollette's Seat. MILWAUKEE, April 2—8amucl B. Cook of Neenha, former congressman, today an- nounced himself a candidate for’the Unitea States senate to syeceed Robert M. La Follette, Rain for Kansas Missourl. KANSAS CITY, April 2—A drouth of several weeks' duration in western Mis- sourl and Kansas was broken today when a steady rai nbegan falling. it Is required at | Open Congressional | the | Well Known Bohemian Editor Suc- cumbs After Four Months' Iline: YEARS THIRTY IN OMAHA| |Had Been Active Untll the Sicknes Overtook Him Which Resulted in His Death Saturday Evening. John Rosicky, editor of the Osveta | Amerika, one of the prominent Bohemian publications of this city and state, died yesterday evening at 6:30 at his home, 1016 William street. for about four months. His medical at- tendant was Dr. Simanek and Drs. Coul- ter and Dunn were called in consultation. Mr. Rosioky was 64 years of age and had been a prominent figure in Bohemlan cir- cles in Nebraska for over thirty yes-s.| He was an ardent bellever and advocule o fhealthful physical exercise and early took a conspicuous part in the organiza- tlon of the Bohemfan athletic assocla- tions of Nebraska and the transmissouri country, and the success of these organ- izations teday fs due very largely to his genlus and enthusiasm. He was & man of broad and liberal tem- perament and did not hesitate to express himself on great public topics, not merely through the newspapers with which he was assoclated, but on the stufp as well. Prior to his connection with the Osveta Amerika he was the proprietor of the Pokrok Zapudu, the weekly republican perlodical that was established In Omaha in 1571 by the late Edward Rosewater, and whigh publication has today the largest circula- tion, probably, of any Bohemian paper in the United States. g John Rosicky and the late Edward Rose- water were always ardent friends, and men who possessed a pecullar unanimity of views. During the famous anti-prohibi- tion campaign of 189 Mr. Rosicky stumped the state against prohibition, practically every Bohemian community in the state. The effect of his eloquence was manifest in these communities when the returns came in. He was In no sense a radical in his views or expressions, and even in the stronger prohibition localities where he spoke he was given ’umcm_v and a broadness of view that was accorded few other speakers representing that side of the question. John Rosicky was born in Bohemia in 1846, He came to Omaha in 1880, and at once entered into its business activities, in which ' he thereafter continued until, his friend, Kdward Rosewater, he in the harness, Few men in Omaha were more widely known and esteemed than John Rosick: He was a member of the Bohemian lodge of the Western Fraternal union, and was also & member of the Bohemian Turners, of which latter organization he was the vir- tual founder. He is survived by his widow and two sons, Of the latter, Walter has been as- soclated with his father In the newspaper business for many years. John G. is con- died ny, as electrician, NWORTH, Kan., April 2~With | simple services the body of Justice David | J. Brewer of the supreme court was burled in Mount Muncie cemetery here this after- | noon, . Previously hundreds of persons had | viewed the features of the dead jurist in | the First Congregational ehurch, where the | body lay in #tate for four hours. Business generally was suspended In response to & | proclamation of the mayor. Many houses | were draped in mourning, while all flags weére at half mast | " Just prior to the heginning of the serv- |tces (he niembers of the Leavenworth |County Bar assoclation, of which the | decedent was a member, assembled in the |a boay. | Services in the chureh were conducted hy | Rev. Brewer Eddy of Boston, Mass., as Sisted by Rev. Willlam ¥. Harding, pastor of the Congregational chureh. Rev. giddy is & son of one of the dead justice's early friends. A choir rendered some of Justice Brew- ¢r's favorite hymns and Revs. Eddy and Harding paid tributes to his memory. Justice Brewer was one of the founders of the church. | Waiter, Edgar Hopkin Body of Justice Brewer Laid to Rest in Leavenworth At the conclusion of the church services the body was taken to Mount Muncle and lald to rest. On his last visit to Leaven- worth Justice Brewer went to the cemetery And with the sexton, visited the graves of his loved ones. After a few moments con- templation he turned to the sexton and | pointing to & spot by the side of his wife, said exton, lay me there”; and this spot that the grave was dug. The men selected for active pallbearers were Judge Willlam C. Hook, Judge Wil- liam Dill, Mayor Omar Abernathy, Lees Bond, Hon. Edward Carroll and Willlam it was in | Reed. | court house and marched to the ehurch in | The honorary pallbearers were Paul Ha- vens, Judge H. W. Ide, Arthur Simmons, William Booth, O. B. Taylor, W. N. Todd, A. B. Havens, George Sharritt, Dr. W, W Thomas P. Fenlon, Eugene Lysle and W. T. Hewitt | When the tuneral party arrived from the east the relatives of Justice Brewer re- quested that no display be attempted and | the plan to escort the body to the church was abandoned. The relatives also requested that the ser | vices at the grave be private. | D S T——— JOHN ROSICKY PASSES AWAY He had been ailing | speaking in | credit for | ke | nected with the Nebraska Telephone com- | | demana INAPLES SMILES " ON ROOSEVELT |Italian City, Gay with American Flags and National Colors, Wel- coms Yankee to Europe. HARBOR FLECKED WITH VESSELS | Cruising Parties of Tourists Shout | Greetings from Steamers, iRECEIVING PARTY BOARDS SHIP Former President Welcomed by Local | and American Officials. BANQUET AT ROME WEDNESDAY |Accepin 1 the vitation ne Municipality—R Talk Re- porters. ot to to the NAP April Narles never was ful than whim the steamer Prinz Helnil.h, with the Roose velt family aboard amed into the harbor |at 8:20 o'clock this morning Notwithstanding the early hour the watar | tront was lined with thousands who wished to share in the welcome to Mr. Roosevelt Only American Ambassador Lelshruan with [ the othér members of the smbassy; Ameri- Marquis De Sota The bay blue |ean Consul Cornishiela | the perfect of Naples; officlal representus tives of the municipality; the commander of the fort and a group of forelgn borre spondents were admitted to the slip whera the vessel docked, but outside the gates, a surging mass of excited persons, including hundreds of Americans, cranned thelr nech to get an early glimpse of the distinguished Ameriean, As soon as the gangplank had been low- ered the official party of welcome boarded the steamer and was conducted aloft to the bridge, where the Roosevelts were bldding goodbye to the captain Cordfal greetings were exchanged. ~ Mr. Rooseveli, attired in a grey sack suit and wearlng & soft black hat, appeared in splendid health and spirits, He spoke with pleasure of setting his foot again upon Kuropean soll and of feeling that at last he was homeward bound Mr. Roosevelt said that the voyage from Alexandria had been without special In- cident and had been accomplished in perfect weather. A few moments later he descended the gangplank and the crowd catching sight of him, greeted him with cheers. Many Americans had provided themselves with flags and these were waived frantically. The Roosevelts, with those who had coma to formally recelve them, were soon whisked away In automobiles to the Ex- celsior hotel. As the motor cars made thelr way through the crowd, Mr. Rooseveit raised his hat and, smiling, howed right and left in acknowledgment of repeated chee: Refases to Talk to Reporters. No sooner had he reached.lis hotel than the tormer president wus hesleged by the neiwspaper men. Promptly and flrmlv ke {relterated his refusal to discuss any phase of American politics or other affairs, add- Ing that he would stick to his announced policy throughout his European tour. Any statements purporting to have coma from him would be unauthorized, he satd The expected arrival of Mr. Roosevelt {haa created considerable excitement among | Neapolitans, who, since his brief sojourn here in April of last year, had promised to give him a hearty welcome on his return The Prinz Helnrich arrived ear'ler than its usual hour, but the had dis- counted this possibility and were not taken by surprise At his hotel, Mr. Roosevelt found awalt ing him & messenger from Mayor Nathan of Rome, bearing an invitation from the Imunicipal authorities, who wished to give « dinner and recoption in his honor The former president accepted the in- vitation and fixed the date for Wednesdav evening next. -Following this reception, he will leave for Spezia. Otherwise there will be no change In the program arranged for his visit at Rome. Great Crowd on Docks. When the Prinz Heinrlch was sighted th's morning the docks of San Vincenzo and the Immacolatella, the arsenal and the Promenade Chiala, along the Via Carac- clolo, were crowded, ard on many houses {the Italian colors waved alongside the |Stars and Stripes. A large number of |boats, flying the American and Italian flags and carrying citizens of both coun tries, went out to meot the steamer. The morning was matchless and Mr. | Roosevelt had a splendid view of the bay jas the vessel drew In between (he promon- {tory of Posllippo and the Sorrento penin- |sula. In the near distance were Caprl, Ischia and Procida, while Vesuvius, threat- ening and majestic, towered over all As was the case when the former presf- dent stopped here on his to Africa, the police took extraordinary measures only to protect his person. but to avold any unpleasant incident during his stay in | the city. Amerjean Colors Everywhere, As the steamer moved the |narbor the crowas on shore burat into cries {of “Long live The excitement grew when the statesman could be dlstinguished on deck rom a'l |sldes came salutes and while hats {and handkerchiefs and ware It must have scemed homocoming to Mr. Roosevelt, for Ameriean salors |could be seen from the hay of Santa Lucla |to the helghts of the Vomero The formal reception was carried out as planned, Mr. Roosevelt recelving first his countrymen, then representatives of the municipality of Naples, after which he acknowledged the popular welcome. The landing and drive to the Excelslor hotes where apartments for the family had heen reserved by Mrs. Roosevelt during her ear- ler visit to Naples, were achleved without any untoward happening. NEWSPAPERS REPORT EXECUTIVE SESSIONS Senate Is Making Kffort Ancertain Sources of Informath JACKSON, Mi April 2—Several rub- poenacs ved on local newspaper men today to appear before the senate and explain where they have been getting their reports of the testimony given In exscutive session in the B'Ibo-Perey brib ry inve stiga« tlon. The newspaper men held a confer- ence and agreed they would dec'ine te anawer. Word came from the senate chamber that some of the members would that the newspaper men be senf to jail if they refused to testify, ¥ crowds T way not slowly Into Rooseve cheers flags ko a the waved. were e e