The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 20. PRICE FIVE CENTS, PLOT OF ANARCHISTS TO LEAD STRIKERS IN FIERCE RIOTS CAUSES PATERSON TO TAKE PROMPT STEPS TOSTAMP OUTNEST SENA 5 o SELECTS PANAMA ROUTE . BY MAJORITY OF EIGHT VOTES Passage of Substitute for House Nicaréguan Canal Bill Which Provides for Issuance of $130,000,000 Gold Bonds. ASHINGTON, June 18.— An isthmian canal, while yet absolutely as- is nearer to con- on than it has ever The Senate to-day t votes adopted the for the Hepburn Nica- the vote on the sub- 34 After two amend- e had been made, one mission to supervise of the canal and the or the issuance of $130,- g0ld bonds to raise construct the water- y a vote of 67 to 6 or several days that which in brief the President shall select the Panama route if he can obtain a clear Panama Canal Company’'s » but otherwise he shall adbpt the Nicaragus route, would command the way, it It has bee the Spooner provides evl substitute, C-p1-BELL WASKINETON D. SENATOR Wt B ALLISON 1‘ o | THREE STATESMEN WHO HAVE TAKEN ACTIVE PART IN THE CANAL CONTROVERSY. of the Senate. was cor ed more de- te than the Nicaragua n left open is the | the Pres l endments to rtS bill.. closed to-day’s de- | st appeal for the adop- | ute. He had been | f Montana in supp: ‘[; nd Allison of £t pooner propost- K iinor amendments, except adopted, all others STY‘LES PANAMA A HOODOO. When consideratior of the canal ques-| r of Wisconsin ent as a sub- cailed Hepburn fon was res offered forr stitute for Nicaragua cans Clark of Montana addressed the Benate apport of the Nicaragua canal route. He thought if one half the objections to both the Nicaragua and Panama routes | were velid, nelther route would be adop- ted. However, he was satisfled the con- | sensus of conservative opinion in this | country was that a great isthmian water- bill. in The | way should be constructed. | that vote fo: The American people, he said, were not to be deterred. “You may delay the project,” said he, “but it cannot be defeated.” The difficy AIlic<"f cun:xrucung the canal the .\‘ir-uragu.—. route was more to be preferred, as it was, in his opinion, more feasible and practicable than the Panama route. Clark declared that the Panama canal scheme was a hoodoo which ought to be shunned and ied. He sald the Pan- ama canal scheme had left a heritage of ruin, disasier and desolation. ALLISON’S ARGUMENT. Allison of Iowa explained why he should the Spooner substitute. He be- lieved there was a general desire among the American people for an isthmian canal, and the people desired, too, that the United States Government should construct and control the canal. He pointed out that the eygs of the American people had been directed partic- toward the Nicaragua route be- cause it was supposed that as a French company had the concessiors for the Pan-, ama route the United States was barred from that route. Allison said it was proposed now to build i = a canal forty-five feet deep and wide cnough and with a volume of water suf- ficient to float the largest ship afloat. The minimum expenditure for the construction of the canal, he believed, would be more than $200,000,000. .To meet this enormous expenditure, he favored the borrowing of the money, making proper provision for liquidating the principalMand interest of the bonds. MORGAN’S FINAL APPEAL. Morgan, chairman of the Interoceanic Canal Committee, at the conclusion of Al- lison’s remarks, began his speech closing” the debate. He said the canal issue seem- ed to have come down to a single point —that of finance. On that point he de- ferred to Allison, but he did not believe with him that it would be necessary to issue bonds to pay for the construction of a canal. Morgan particularly denounced the Pan- ama canal route as a “place where labor and death join hands.” He sald he had been trying to protect the United States from the shame of intercourse with it. Those who wanted to ‘“touch that thing” might do so. He would not do it, he de- clared, for both canals. Morgan urged Congress to determine the question of route and not cowardly refer the matter to the President. In conclu- sion he said: “Just one word in parting with this question. This duty was assigned to me by the Senate and was not sought by me, If we are to be beaten down here to-day, and America is to he disgraced, I shall have had the honor, and the American people will give it to me after I am dead, the best labors of my life to the success of our project.” PERFECTS AMENDMENT. Spooner perfected his amendment, the changes made being principally verbal, The amendment, providing for the appoint- ment of an Isthmian Canal Commission to ditect the construction of the canal and providing that seven members from the committee shall recelve such compensa- tion as the President shall prescribe, un- Continued on Page Two. , | meeting of anarchists last of having devoted honestly and sincerely | TROOPS TO HELP POLICE Militia Is Sent Out to Suppress the Trouble. Governor Takes Ac- tion in Aid of City Officials. Foreigners Who Plan Strife Are Now in Hiding. NEWARK, N. J., June 13.—Governor Murphy at m!dnight ordered a part of the First Regiment of Infantry and the entire iroop of First Troop O, Cavalry, to Pater- son to preserve peace. The Erie Railroad has been ordered to send tralns here at once. The members of both commands began to assemble at 1 a. m. The troops wlill be put on guard duty at the mills be- fore they open at 7 o'clock this morning. PATERSON, N. J., June 20.—A delega- tion tepresenting the mill owners called on the Mayor last night and demanded pretection. The Mayor replied that the police force was too small and would be overridden by a mob of any size; that it was impossible to concentrate any great number of men at any point, and that a lerge portion of the deputy sheriffs were green hands and unreliable. It was point- ed out that the millhands were afraid to work and were in momentary fear of at- teck. This resulted in an appeal to the ‘Governor, who was in Newark, for troops, and the consequent action. NEW YORK, June 19.—Evidence was procured to-day that the rioting in Pater- son and @ bances elsewhere were the result of an anarchist plot. The strike of the silk workers was apparently taken out of the hands of the strikers and used by the anarchists as an excuse for an at- tack on the authoriti Paterson is de- termiined to stamp out the nest of anar- chists that has found lodgment in the city. Mayor Hincheliffe said the limip had been reached ohd the leadeérs of group woud e “heiffted ‘Gut of the eit; There | was talk to-night of forming vigilanice committee to maintain order. Every silk miil was a fort filled with armed deputies. Meectings of the anar- chists were dispersed by the police, and ten prisoners were taken during the day. As a result of mob violence the cause of the strikers scems to have been lost, though the anarchist element is defiant. SILK MILLS CLOSE. The silk mills Ihluugholl‘ Hudson Coun- ty were closed indefinitely to-day by their mannagers, to avoid disorder. Several policemen were injured and a score of locked-out operatives hgd their heads broken in a riot at Union Hill, near to Paterson, the chief cengper of the silk in- | dustry in this country, this afternoon. All but one of the mills there were closed down this morning Ly their owners, who merely anticipated a demand on the part of their employes that they cease opera- tions in sympathy with the Paterson strikers. | More fhan one thousand men and wonien made a demonstration against the mill of R. & H. Simon, which re- mained in operation, but were driven back and dispersed after a bitter fight, chiefly through the work done by firemen in turning their hose on the mob. Trouble of even more serious character will, it Is feared, take place there to-morrow. LEADERS IN HIDING. PATERSON, N. J., June 19.—In the main this was a quiet day in this city. The most important event was the sus- pension from duty of Chief of Police Fred C. Graul by Mayor Hinchcliffe and the assumption by the Mayor of the duties of that position. Willlam McQueen, the Englishman who was prominent at yes- terday’s meeting before the rioting be- gan, has left the city and is belleved to be jn New York. Galleano, the Italian and Grossman, the German, who are sald to have been prominent yesterday, have also kept from public notice. Mayor Hinch- cliffe wishes to interview all these men. Lacking a leader and keeping out of the heavy rain in the early day, the rioters of yesterday did nothing when a majority of the mills they closed yesterday by thelr violence resumed work. The police received orders to shoot straight if they should have another en- counter with the rioters, and the Mayor has had copies of the riot act distributed. This week's edition ef La Questione So- ciale, one of the anarchist papers, was set up here but was sent to a Passalc printer to run off the forms. He was ordered mnot to hamdle it and complied. ITALIANS ARE DISPERSED. About 400 Italian strikers and others gathered in the quarter of the city where the larger part of the TItalian colony lives and started to march to Turner Hall, only a block from police headquar- ters. It is sald that the proposed meet- ing there to-day was arranged for at a night. The procession had barely got under way when the reserves charged the paraders, There was a quick scattering in ali direc- tions. Harry Harris, the reporter who was knocked down, beaten and fitmlly shot with his own revolver by the mob, was very low to-day, but hope of his recoy. ery is still entertained. General Molto Dies of Injuries. MADRID, June 19.—General Molto, cap- tain general of Madrid, died to-day from {njuries sustained when he fell from his horse at a review of the Spanish troops held at the time King Alfonso attained his majority BLACK A MAN OF MANY ALIASES WHO SWINDLED THE BONIFACES Mass of Evidence Found in Prisoner’s Palace Hotel Room Shows That He Is *“John O. Stone,” Much Wanted by Eastern Police. Lo NATIONAL HOTEL merrems PROTECTIVE AZSOCATION. ZINC TUATE | OF CREDIT LETTER am | i = - THE SWINDLER OF MANY ALIASES AND SOME OF THE-EVIDENCE THAT WILL BE USED IN THE AT-. | TEMPT TO CONVICT HIM OF PASSING FICTITIOUS CHECKS. THE CHECK IS THAT DEPOSITED BY | HIM AT THE WESTERN NATIONAL BANK. | } e _— R. J. B. BLACK, alias Rich- ard James, allas Robert Jones, allas John O. Stone, to say nothing of more than @ score of other useful ali- ases, thinks the world has changed since Monday. When the week began he was living in luxury at the Pal- ace Hotel, a stylish, successful man of the world in appearance. Three days in a cell have put the prison mark upon him. He has lost his dapper appearance and the two felony charges against him placed on the jail records yesterday, have driven thoughts of automobiles and social con- quests from his head. The detectives found Wednesday night that the man they had held as J. B. Black at the instance of the Western National Bank had been living in room 56 at the Palace Hotel under the name of Richard M. James. They took possession at once of his elaborate wardrobe, and yesterday morning they found in a travel-worn dress suit case stowed away In a dark corner of a closet a mass of evidence that connects the prisoner with a series of swindles that has lately attracted the attention of the police of the chief cities of a dozen East- ern and Middle West States. Indeed, the evidence uncovered seems to show beyond doubt that the man Black has been either the moving spirit of a gang of clever forgers and swindlers, or else is himself the forger and “‘operator” whose Industry and quick changes of base have nonplus- sed the Hawkshaws of the other side of the continent. Black, or James, or Stone, working un- der many allases or with confederates,has within a few months duped Eastern hotels out of between $12,000 and $15,000. Banks have suffered, too, though to whatamount has not yet been ascertained. Two felony charges of passing fictitious checks were placed against Black yester- day, on complaints sworn to before Judge Conlan by Colonel A. Andrews and E. S. Scott, cashier of the Western National Bank. Bond was fixed at $5000 in each case. The " habeas corpus proceedings were at once dismissed by Judge Lawlor. R. M. Fitzgerald and D. Y. Campbell ap- peared in JudgekConlan’s court to give notice that they were employed by the |National Bankers' Assoclatlon to assist in the prosecution. EASTERN POLICE WANT HIM. Chief of Police Wittman received a tel- egram yesterday from the Chief of Police of Springfield, Mass., asking that Black be held until he send an officer out and secure Black's extradition for passing a bogus check for $285 there. Wittman wired back not to send the officer as Black was held here on felony charges. Black had two strings to his bow. He swindled banks. Tirst a cash deposit, then the deposit of worthless checks or drafts, then checks upon his account un- til the cash was overdrawn before ad- vices could be received from the banks on which the paper was drawn—it was the old Becker-Cregan-Dean game over again, though not so daring nor cleverly done. Indeed it was his bungling work in this line that landed him in the meshes of the law. It was In his other speclalty that Black kit upon a method that promised to make him wealthy, with little danger of arrest to face. He lived at the best hotels of the big citles and made the proprietors pay his bills. With a stroke of genius he turned the Natlonal Hotel Keepers' Pro- tective Association, meant to safeguard the bonifaces, into an agency for swind- ling its members. FIND CREDIT LETTER. In the prisoner's Palace Hotel room there was found yesterday a genuino credit letter of the National Hotel Keep- ers’ Protective Association, authorizing its members to cash for O. B. John checks drawn by the Milwaukee Novelty Com- pany or checks or drafts drawn on that company by O. B. John. This credit letter was accompanied by a type-written letter from C. S. Walz, secretary of the as ciation, saying it was issued at the re- quest of the Milwaukee Novelty Com- pany. Both were under date of March 28, The request from the novelty compa was probably forged. A letter from Sec retary Walz addressed to F. G. Davis of Cleveland, Ohiv, was among Black’s mass of papers. It advised Davis that his application for a credit letter had been referred to his company. the Olio Rittato Company of Chicago for indorsement. This was under date of February 5, and evidently made wiser by experience “O. John" secured thie credit-letter that Davis’ failed to get. - use n which Black put this eredit letter is shown by nearly a theusand conhnued on Page Two.