The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1902. + QUESTIONS AGT OF MILLIONAIRE Lawyer Folk Prosecutes Colonel Butler of St. Louis. Rich Politician on Trial for Alleged Attempt at Eribery. COLUMBIA, Mo., Oct. 14.—Judge Hock- aday called the case of Colonel Ed Butler, the Louis millionaire politician, in- dicted on a charge of attempted bribery, nection with the city garbage con- here on a change of morning, but the detendant pear. One of his attorneys failed fcund Butler still in his room at the hotel. Shor! er Butler appeared in court. hester Krum, for the defense, opened tihe rgument on the demurrer. In ting the demurrer to the Butler in- the defense made its strongest tract, let by the Board of which, Drs. Mer- the defendant is In his the demurrer Circuit da charged with attempting io bribe. Chapman, argument against Attorney Folk eaid: “The State’s position is that the work of garbage reduction is not public work, in the sense that is meant in the statute concerning the powers of the Board of second, the State ged with bribery of an defend himself on the of authority on the part of If the official was good ough for the defendant to tempt by egating a bribe before his eyes, he is enough 1o answer the requirements a witness on this charge.” nts; a man offers a bribe to a public of- he must be prosecuted, whether he is Zdward Butler or some humbler man.” Folk finished at 2 o'clock and Judge Waller of Moberly, for the defense, at- ked the indictment on the ground that not show the power of the Board of to let the garbage contract. New Commandant for Guam. FASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Orders have 2. Sewell to pro- me the duties of station at that g Commander Seaton Shroe- home to await orders. 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Tents Floor, _}h:o:‘ 1015, Claus Spreckels bidg. elephone Main Residence, 821 California below Powell Residence 'X‘ekvbm“imu 1501 ment against the validity of the gar- | his argument Attorney Folk | | lic stateméent. | sition of the operators.” | questions regarding the attitude of the | { he had no reply to make to any of these questions. | his officers nor the rank and file of | silence as to their personal opinion on | hey, who, after he arrived from Boston | can make any deduction from this that | dents and Secretary Wilson, who will ar- | that the sentiment of all the strikers will ‘I | be known to-morrow and that action will | a convention being called, but there is | nothing | and the district officers had power ,to end | the strike he said that it is a rule of Missouri Pacific Railway | ators dictate to the President from what COAL MINERS INDICATE A PURPOSE TO REFUSE | AC( S UIESCENCE IN THE PROPOSAL OF OPERATORS Uncertainty Ru‘le,s in the Ranks of ‘ Strikers. i Mitchell Remarks on a Very Serious Situation. LKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 14.— From a thorough eanvass of the situation as it exists to- night, there is every indica- tion that the new arbitration plan proposed by the presidents of the coal companies for ending the miners’ strike will not be accepted in its present form. There is a division of opinion among the strikers, but there is no doubt that a majority feel that the offer to have the President.of the United States select an arbitration commission along the lines suggested by the operators is not fair, and that it unduly limits the President in making up the board. The miners, it is safe to say, will abide by the advice of their national presi- dent, in whose judgment they have the utmost confidence. President Mitchell declines to say how e personally looks upon the proposition, but to-night he gave to the press\the following state- ment: “I fully appreciate with what anxiety the people of our country are awaiting the end of the cpal strike. The coal operators have not addressed the miners’ union or its officers in making their pub- It is therefore impossible for me to state the attitude of the miners at this time. I am now, as I have always been, deeply solicitous of the interests of the public and the welfare of the mine workers who have been on strike for the past five months. A formal statement defining our position and intentions will be fssued just as soon as we are in pos- session of the full meaning of the propo- PLEA. FOR A STATEMENT. This statement was made by him at § o'clock, after a silence lasting all day. | Mitchell had no intention of making it until the correspondents representing newspapers all over the country called on | him in a body and informed him that the general public desired to have an answer to the proposition of the operators. After giving it he was asked many men and the probability of the accept- | ance or rejection of the new offer, but He denied that he had any knowledge of what the new offer of the operators was until it became public property, and also denied that he was| in telephonic communication with Pres- | ident Roosevelt. His attention was called to the fact that most of the in- formation from Washington indicated that the proposition would be accepted and that the strike was near an end, but he stoutly maintained that neither | the | men had done anything to cause such an impression to go out. The district presidents also maintain the proposition, excepting President Fa- to-day, gave an Inkling as to how he viewed the new turn of affairs. In reply | to = query he sald: “The strike cannot be settled without the consent of the men. We are not deal- ing in gold bricks of any kind and you you want.” CONFERENCE SCHEDULED. There will be a conference to-morrow between Mitchell, the three district presi- rive here to-morrow. It 1s fully expected be taken accordingly. There is talk of definite on which to base this talk. When Mitchell was asked if he the organization that no settlement can be made by the officers of the union with- out the consent of a delegate convention. It is practically certain that Mitchell's advice will be followed in the conference. While he has not sald a word as to what he wil: do it is freely predicted by those who understand the situation that he will | advise a refusal of the proposition. The rank and file of the miners view | the new proposal in different lights. | Those who are opposed to accepting the | g; new offer look upon the operators’ latest move as a counter proposition to Mitch- ell's offer to arbitrate made in the tem- | porary White House at Washington. They | compare the two offers and pick out what | they allege to be many flaws. Their | greatest objection to it is that the oper- class of men he shall select the arbi- trators and they charge the operators with lack of faith in the President when | they do not give him a free hand to pick the men he wants. Another objectfon to it is that the Pres- ident is limited to four men in selecting the jurist on the commission. Neither are they sure, they say, that labor would be represented, because the proposal does not specifically say so, and they add that they have no assuraifte that “a man of prominence, eminent as a sociologist,” would cover this objection. DIVISION IN SENTIMENT. A great many of the strikers think the proposition should be accepted and that the miners should trust to .President Roosevelt to do the best he can under the conditions laid down by the coal road presidents, An argument was made by one miner at the Hart Hotel to-day that Mitchell could mot well afford to turn down the proposition after already offer- ing to permit the President to select the members of the commission. He thought the President would appreciate the trust put in him and see that the miners had fair play. Others in the same class thought that not much harm could be done by accepting the proposition, but that in the end much good will resuit. o+ NOTED NEW YORK FINANCIER AND THE UNITED STATES LA- BOR COMMISSIONER. 2 VIZErOoNrE LG 0 — e | ers and that is to refuse to accept the plan proposed and make a counter propo- sition embodying some of the suggestions contained in the operators’ offer. One proposition was that the operators, the miners and the President each select a number of men to act as a board. This was mentioned to President Mitchell, but he would make no comment on it. The situation around‘the collieries was partially lost sight of because of last night's developments, but there was no | material change from that of yesterday. The arbitration talk has acted as a check upon the movement of men returning. to work. The prospect for a coal supply to meet the rapidly approaching cold weather is by no means bright. If the miners should accept the arbitration plan of the operators it would take at least two weeks before. the details of sending them back could be worked out. As the outlook for arbitration is rather dark it can safely be said that there will be little more coal on the market for some time to com:e than there is at present. It developed here to-night that Nathan | Strauss of New York, with the assistance uf J. P. Morgan, has been endeavoring for few days to end the strike. represented here by A. L. Kinkead, Sylvester Burns and W. L. Wil- mer of New York. Strauss had received the assurance from Morgan that if the men would return to work he (Mor- gan) would see that justice was done the miners, but he did not care to have any- thing to do with the union. The proposi- tion was laid before Mitchell and he re- fused it on the ground that he would not advise the men to return to work in the hepe that Morgan would do-something for them, The representatives of Strauss received the final answer to-day and they gave out the information to-night. The three dis- trici presidents were with Mitchell late to-night discussing the situation. They will take up the operators’ plan to-mor- row. GOMPERS’ POINTED VIEWS. Says Plan of Op;;oru Is Not Fair to Miners. WASHINGTON, = Oct. - 14. — President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, with whom Mitchell has been in constant communication and consultation, declined all requests of newspapers for an expression of opinion on the part of the coal operators, but ‘to-night stated his views to the Associated Press. Gompers said: You can readily understand that I want to leave this whole matter in the hands of Mr. Mitchell and his colleagues. 1 am particularly anxious not to say anything that might be construed otherwise. I will say that in my opinion the proposition made by the operators, at least so far as their designation of who should be invited to g0 on the committee of There 1s still a third view held by min-_ arbitration is concerned, is an insult to the swe BABY'S VOIGE which the Is the joy of the household, for without it no happiness can be complete. 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I desire that the President should use his discretion in the selection of the personnel of the committee. By indirection it would seem from the opera- tors’ proposition that the President has evil designs on the mine-owners. No one belleves this. The operators indicate what class of mea sbould be selected for the persemnel of the committee. For instance, they say that an ex- pert mining engineer, experienced in the min- ing of coal and other minerals and not in any way connected with coal mining properties, shall be one of the members. In other words, this one must be an expert miner out of a Jjob. This member must elther have been em- Ployed In the mines as an expert or must ex- pect or hope to be employed in the future as an expert. Another must be an eminent fo- clologist. Well, who? Must he be a specu- lative soclologist, a theorist, or what? = An- other member is to be some man actively par- 'uclpltlng in the mining and selling of coal and familjar with the commercial as well as the physical part of the business. This must certainly be one of the operutors or one of thelr representatives. No other man familiar with the commercial features of the business in_those flelds fits that description. In the classes of persons from whom the mine-owners prescribe the commission shall be selected, there is to be not a single repre- sentative of the man who digs coal, the man who work in and about the mines. Now, as a matter of fact, the entire question of the selection and appointment of a commission ehould be left to the President of the United States. Mr. Mitchell has sald that he will be perfectly satisfied with whogyver the President selects, If the mine-owners are to be permit- ted to suggest who shall constitute the arbi- tration commission, why in all fairness should it not follow that Mr. Mitcheil should like- wise be permiited to make suggestions as to the personnel of the commission? T hope that the President will decline to act upon this proposition of the mine-owners unless he is given a free h: - ta kARG OPERATORS IN SESSION. Manufacturers Propose a Means of Settling the Coal Strike. NEW- YORK, Oct. 14.—The reguiar weekly meeting of the coal operators to- day was-preceded by a conference with a committee of the National Association of Manufacturers and at the conference the salient points of a plan to settle the an- thracite coal strike were submitted by the manufacturers. The operators will consider the plan while the mine workers are reaching a conclusion in regard to the proposal of arbitration submitted to President Roosevelt at Washington yes- terday. A member of the manufacturers’ com- mittee said that he knew the association's plan would be acceptable to Mitchell. The same member of the committee sald that the manufacturers’ plan would be considered by the operators If the mine workers reject the plan submitted to the President yesterday. The operators began their meeting im- mediately after the conference with the manufacturers and at the close of the meeting President Baer of the Reading said that no statement would be given out regarding it. The members of the manufacturers’ committee at the confer- ence were David N. Parry, president of the association; Frank Leake of Philadel- phia and Richard Young of this city. Leake sald that the proposition of the Manufacturers’ Association had not been formally presented to the operators, but that its salient points had been discussed. According to President Parry’'s secre- tary, at the meeting between Mitchell and the representatives of the Manufacturers’ Association at Buffalo last week, Mitchell agreed to forego the recognition of the union in his demands upon the operators if there was a general advance in wages of 10 per cent. Parry and Leake an- nounced that they would leave the city, but their destination could not be learned. All the leading operators were present at the meeting except President Oliphant and Vice President Wilcox of the Deia- ware and Hudson. ‘While the coal operators’ meeting was in progress J. P. Morgan and his partner, Robert Bacon, arrived in the city from ‘Washington and ‘went directly to Mor- gan’'s office. Morgan was asked: ““Have you heard anything from Mr. Mitchell in segard to the terms of the operators?” “No, I have not.heard anything since I left,” ‘replied the financier. * “Have you anything to say about your conference with the President?” “No, I have not a word to say. The riewspapers have had everything that oc- curred over there.” Baer was asked if the presidents had had any intimation that the proposition made to President Roosevelt last nignt ‘was acceptable to the miners. . “You will have to see Mr. Mitchell,” was the reply. “We certainly did not consult Mr. Mitchell.” One of the men prominent in coal rail- roads said to-day: “The arbitration proposition now before the President was formulated by the men and interests appended thereto. It is only fair to say that Mr. Morgan took an active part in the proceedings and -his suggestions were most valuable. The operators realized that matters had reached the stage where somebody had to give way. As men of common sense they knew that they could not freeze the American public. Mr. Morgan was frank to say that something had to be done at once or the hard coal interests would suf- fer serious harm. The force of his argu- ment was generally recognized.” LONDON, Oct. 14.—-The Stock Exchange will closed at 1 p. m. Saturday and Monday, Oc- tober 18 and 20. White House Gives No Tidings of Peace. L] : - President Awaits Move for Settlement of Trouble. > TR e S . ASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—It was said at the temporary White House to-day that no commu- nication relative to the propo- sition " of . the anthracite coal operators had been received from President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America. The proposition was not transmitted to President Mitchell officlally elther by President RooseVelt or by the coal oper- ators. It was addressed to the public, and it is assumed that Mitchell will take cog- nizance of it from the press. In the event he should not do so, however, it is possible that the President will officially notify him of the position of the opera- tors. Inasmuch as the communication of the operators was in the shape of an ad- dress to the public, it is possible that Mitchell may make his reply in a similar manner. The President has agreed to ap- point the commission suggested by the coal operators, provided such a commis- sion should prove satisfactory to the miners. During the early part of to-day the President had several conferences, all bearing on the strike situation. ' Secre- tary Root called at the White House im- mediately after the departure of J. P. Morgan and Robert S. Bacon for New York, and had a brief interview with the President. Soon afterward Frank P. Sar- gent, Commissioner of Immigration, had a conference with the President. He de- clined to discuss the object of his inter- view, but it was belleved to be with ref- erence to the personnel of the proposed commissfon. EVE OF SETTLEMENT. Commissioner of Labor Carroll D. ‘Wright also had an extended interview with the President. At its conclusion, while he declined to discuss it, he ex- pressed the belief that the coal strike was on the eve of settlement. formation from Mitchell. The feeling at the White House is op- timistic. The belief is general among of- ficial callers that a long step has been taken toward a final settlement of the strike. Until Mitchell makes his reply no further action on the part of the Presi- dent is expected. It developed to-day tnat the main fea- tures of the operators’ proposition were discussed and in a general way agreed to at the conference between Secretary Root and J. Pierpont Morgan in New York on Saturday last. Morgan was very anxious to bring about an adjustment and Secre- tary Root was able to point out means ‘whereby the main obstacles to ylelding on the part of the operators could be re- moved. Two names suggested for the arbitra- tion ccmrussicn are Carroll D. 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Secretary Root was again at the White House for an hour this afternoon, and the belief is that he discussed again with the President features bearing on the coal strike, but he would not talk about the as the “sociological membe: mission. E. W. Parker of Texas, who has bean in the service of the survey department for some years, is considered one of tae Dbest authorities in the country on the sub- | ject of coal. He had charge of an import- ant part of the recent census statistics. The general opinion is that the selection of the member to be “‘an army or navy engineer” will be confined to the army, and that to Secretary Root will be left the designation of some engineering of- ficer of his department. OBJECTION TO JUDGE. 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