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VOLUME XCIII-NO. 46. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 135, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CONGRESS SUSPENDS COAL DUTY AND MAY TAKE CHARGE OF MINES AEED SMOOT, THE MORMON, WINS TOEN Utah Caucus Gives Him Unanimous Vote. Apostle Will Be Sent to United States Senate. Rep ature Ignore Roose- velt’s Appeal il stle In e rch, Whs sen as the a 2 ee for United States Bonnist. o Senator Joseph L. s, whose term of office was slted as follows » Saa ngressman Geor e George M. Cannon 2, Gov- Emoot was a8 mer ’ f twelve aposties of the mon chur d therefore Is r e e preside of the < E £ FOUR PROSPECTIVE SENATORS. Congressman Hopkins Will Be Ma- son’s Successor in Illinois. £ > 14.—Congress M I Jan. 14—United Sta s pooner was the t : ' e-election in the joint night. The candi each house on Jan- hat day the Legislature session and officially | 14.—Dr. Jacob was to-night 2 by the Repub- e Legislature to suc- | Senator | 14.—In a tauf‘ < g e minutes Senator O. | ' n mously renominated bers of the Gen- term in the | States Jar DEMOCRATS MAKE OFFER. Submit Plan t Anti-Addicks Faction in Delaware. 4 The twenty-one | of the Delaware | ference after the adjourned to-day | 1 a statement in which ap- | owing | of United State y declare that if | vix Re n with the twenty- > serats we will elect any R, = o wi wn himself opp. 1 to | A s x may select a Sena- r the long term of four years if | s in electing a Democrat whom | wc shall sclect for the short term of two | rovided such six Republicans ghal 1 on the first joint | uary 2L i | wanted at Rec | aftern {er rolling him in the snow, one of the T5 USE JUDGE SAYS THE LISH MONEY WhS. 0 HIS WIFE~ PROFFERED R Professor VenturaSwears That Clark Startles Iowa Offered Him | Court. $250,000. n Sensational in Disbarment Pro- i I Dramatic Climax i Strife Over Their Child. Case Seandal Is Aired in Court. — | Special Dispatch to The Call BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 14.—For the first time since the beginning of the scandal 81 of the mous Minnie Healy 1 whipped wing out decision of the fa- mine case, in which had bee enced In his decision by Mrs. Ada H Brackett, Harney to-day present | mage a public statement as a witness in the disbarment proceedings he has insti t Arthur J. Shores, chief at- stered f Amalgamated Copper Com- | While rushed that bea admir he had never accepted a bribe and had not been influenced in any fu v in his decisions, but that Shores and | an—his avife—bedecked with jew- 3 P ; 3 the Amalgamated Copper ¢ ough e opera cape own about her b: I Ama ma 1 py people, thr I shoulders. Yes, your Horor, it is W. Clark. son of United States be outraged huchand clutched her by nator W. A. Clark, had attempted to e throat €. wonges he retained | pribe him to grant them a new trial of 1 of self-control** 4 < - »ol ihe cass, ana when -~be refused - tuey 2t bys Professor Ventura's threatened to ruin him and to send him 3 ‘XHRI‘K' g7 f!:an‘.’\'lc | to the penitentiary for bribery. 5o s b o o Judge Harney testified that he had been i tricked into visiting the room of Shores cus- ara f m'mnn‘j::glur;ev“ was | @t the Thornton Hotel, and that Clark SraveE R it 4 bt. | Was then brought in. The Senator’s son | be submitted before | 10/d him that he was convinced of his i guilt and that they had evidence enough was presented in a | 10 send him to the penitentiary. Clark | eful manner. Her at-|then said he had been authorized to offer | hat Vertura was of a | the Judge $100,000 for an admission that jous dispositior he had been bribed by Heinze, but he | was also to resign his position and leave the country. He was told that he could take his resignation with him to, New York, where arrangements would be made | 1 had wanted it T could have had any amount of it before, and that they could | not send me to the penitentiary. I defied | them to do their wor: ® Judge Harney him the proposition to offer him $100,000 ated young Clark, and that Clark told him he and his father were in- | terested in the matter because they want ed to discredit Heinze, who was a young | political upstart trylag to take the lead- | | ership in Mo na from-the Senator. | wife's bare k and th Allian Ventura, and that she ced him that she actually pre- Ventura's the the child in bad cony e mother this by attorney child had testimony of Harney's sensational recital had not his ¢ to show | been concluded when the court adjourned t lly cared for the|this evening. Charles W. Clark, who is | ed her hair each morn-|also charged with bribery, 1s at his new | | country home at San Mateo, Cal., and haz not been arrested. He is out on bail on another charge of alleged bribery. dramatic reference to his client's by affi- | RUMOR SAYS ROSEBERY WONAN' STANDS <GUABD | WILL WED MRS. CHAUNCEY WITH A SIX-SHOOTER Sherifi’s Wife and a Domestic Pre- | EPgagement of Former Prime Min- | vent a Jail Delivery at Bill- ister to Kentucky Belle Is Re- ings, Montana. ported in Switzerland. Mont., Jan. 14.—Walter Cox,| LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 14.—A letter re- Lodge and Billings, Mont., | ceived here to-day from Mrs. Joseph Arm- Wyo., on charges of for-| sirong, who is at present in Switzerland, ay out of the jail this| ... the engagement is reported there of | ' still at Mberty, mave sl gl it et bisibey SR oF | A domestic and Sherifr | o A i85l rly o Hubbard’'s wife prevented the escape of | J-culsville but now residing in Cannes, about dozen other Going | France, and Lord Rosebery, the former the rear of the jail the girl saw a man’s | Prime Minister of England. head sticking out through a hole in the| Mrs. Chauncey, before her marriage to brick wall. She screamed and the man | the late Samuel Sloan Chauncey of New drew in his head. The girl informed Mrs. York, was Miss Alice Carr, and was ngimsgod ;j"” at once telephoned the | kyown as one'of the most beautiful wom. | - {.";”’;;o".'“ i e | en in Louisville, where she spent the _Ondler Eheriif Sayles hurried to the Jeil | i car: poditon ' ofs Bl Elaticss: Her | Upon his arrival he found Mrs. Hubbard | - 3 younger sister, Grace, also a noted beau- | and the girl guarding the hole with a six- | fod Lotd Newlorsuh of Yirisiana shooter, determinedly holding ut bay a | t¥; MarTed O HenRoroush of ngland, dozen or more prisoners. A posse is in| #POM she met while on a cruise with pursult of Cox, but there is no clew to | Mrs. Chauncey in the Mediterranean Sea. his whereabouts. Affer the death of Mr. Chauncey | wife went abroad and purchased a mag- WIFE-BEATER BRANDED | nificent villa at Cannes, where she en- WITH RED-HOT IRON | tertained with lavish hospitality. Last o= winter Mrs. Chauncey was presented at the English court while visiting Lady Newborough. Both Mrs. Chauncey and Lady Newborough were born in & small | | town in Sguthern Indiana. | e Western Union Wins Victory. TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 14—In the Cir- cuit Court to-day a decision was filed n favor of the Western Union Telegraph Company, restraining the Pennsylvania Railroad from interfering with the com- pany’s lines along the road. The injunc- tion is made permanent. HELENA, s and ge Billings special a prisoners. o ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 14.—James Me- | Quade of 210 Spruce street lles in the Homeopathic Hospital in a very preca- rious condition. McQuade was admitted to the hospital while suffering from awful burns. Alleged maitreatment of his wife | was the cause of an attack upon him. | McQuade was waylald by a gang of men, who stripped him of his clothes and marched him up Swan street to EIk. Aft- gang took a red hot poker and seared his body, drawing it acyoss in parallel lines. Evidence || testified that Shores told | | #- ceedings. || ublican Members of Leg- | Former Husband's Counsel | Famous Minnie Healy Mine| | Seeks to Justify Use of Force. innuendoes that were | to have him exchange it for the cash. | ed that Mrs. Robin- | He was offered $100.000 first, and Clark | | stutement Ventura | finally raised it to $250,000. | his version of the epi-| Harney says he repeatedly told Clark | Paul had sub- | that he had been gullty of no wrong and | ng told | would not confess to one. He said, *I 1d stat- | told him t I would not make such a | Ventura | statement, that I would not resign and | rage with- | that I would not take their money, for if | that she heard fall of | | i L bill came back from the Senate ‘with a A MO TAIY OF VA TACLE EADSE— REPUBLICAN STATESMAN IN THE HOUSE WHO LED THE FIGHT TO PLACE COAL ON THE FREE LIST FOR TWELVE MONTHS, AND TH E CHAIRMAN OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, WHICH HAS PRO- POSED GOVERNMENT OPERATION OF ALL COAL MINES DURING THE FUEL CRISIS. v vrovision which virtually placed anthra- jgorously. Dalzell in the course of his remarks to- ~in the United States and a little in China. + dy to Begin Selling of Fuel. |Its Prices One-Third Those Charged by Combine. ETROIT, Jan. 4.—The Munie- ipal Coal Comm of D troft will begin selling coa a ton only to each purch —on Friday morning. The commission has 220 tons of soft coal at the yards, and has 40 tons on:the way. The price per ton at which the commission will begin doing business is $6. Half-ton lots the same rate; quarter-ton lots at $1 6 85 cents; 100 pounds, 35 50 pounds, 20 cents. The dealers e city are day asking $ 50 per ton for the same coal. The commission will not deliver coal, the alm being to help the poor who have to go to the yards and purchase small quantities, arrangements have been made with teams that will be on hand te deliver the municipal coal at 3 cents per ton. Mayor Maybury night that those buying small quantities would get coal from the commission for on will go at pounds, cer any but | about one-third the price they have been | The paying the dealers. The best bid the commission has anthracite is $0 the mine, which has not been considered reasor he freight and handling would make re- ceived for at as | the cost of the fuel delivered here 31971 per ton. e e el @) adopted Senate amendment without division. DALZELL OPENS DEBATE. The attendance was in the House galleries 1 to-day was an evidence of the geners Interest in the proceedings. An unusually | large num! of members were on the floor and the leaders on both sides were in their plac After the transaction of seme prelin ry business Grosvenor of P A e and House Act |’ i g HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ‘ o shi i ira i : IZURE OF MINES | . | i Coal Bill. | PROPOSES SE ] Yo | ASHINGTON, Jan. 14—The .chairman of the Ju- | Product of Collieries| | diciary Committee of the House to-day introduced the | Is Put UpOfl the [ following resolution: 72 g y { Free LiSt i “Resolved, That the Committeee on Judiciary is authorx:.ai | g and hereby directed to investigate and report to this House, with : ! ASHINGTON, Jan. 14— all convenient speed, the opinion of that 'mnmn[[ce'_ as .Iu the The bill reported from | | power of Congress to declare that a necessity l:fm arisen for t.ak— the Ways and Means| | jug possession of all coal, coal beds and coal mincs in Ihf' United Cos ttee yester: o i e 2 2 : 4 4 pr:\]'mo for a rebate of States, and all lines of transportation, agencies, m-shmnm!s and the dutles on foreign coal i wehicles of commerce necessary for the transportation of coal, and | for a' period of one year was passed in b g . - . 4y | short order by the House to-day by prac- if, in the opmwnAof that committee, the power exists and a neces | tically a unanimous vote—28 to 5—thosc sity for the exercise of such power has arisen, that the committee | voting against it being Cushman and 1) ¥ 3 ) iy | hied ! dfs Wradbkiaton. Cines . oF SW ekt for{lm‘n‘h report to ih.m /musf’ablll dcda_rmg !l_w necessity fnni Virginia, Mondell of Wyoming and Pat- providing fully and in detail the occasions, modes, conditions terson of Pennsylvania, all Republicans. . r : lati will fully and complete- | The bill was considered under the opera. | | /10 agencies for said appropriation that wwill fully omplete- | tion of a rule which cut off opportunity ; ly exhaust the power of Congress in that regard. j o mued She el oovasition (40 he The resolution was referred to the Committee on Rulcs, | measure came from some of the members - 3 Izell &=\ representing coal States, who express the which consists of the Speaker, Grosvenor and Dalzell (Republi- ‘ fear that the admission of Chinese-mined 7 "d L'ndm(.oad (Dl’"lo["flf& 4 { coal from Canada would fnjure the coal cans) and Richardson a ) | industry of their States. |' ..;. Both Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Payne ! ot New York. Repuntican tenders, ex.| | BURGLARS PREFER COAL TO GEMS pressed the opinion on the floor that the bill would not relfeve the existing dis- INNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Jan. 14—Burglars ransacked the resi- | Piag T':":: di:‘“:‘;‘; ;:;?_u:i!:, ‘;“';‘r:’d h::; dence of Mrs. Adelaide Anderson of this city last evening and ever, pu 3 2 sl . . o ' the disposition of Congress to do what it carried off uv_enllhundredhponnds of anthracite coal in sacks. | could. The Democrats, although they ail | | They did net touch jewelry or plate. Ohio, from the Committee on Rules, pre- supported the bill, took the view that it| | et n Teseintion suA T St did not go far emough, saying that coal | ™ ] adopted yesterday directing the Commit- should go on the free list, and when the | cite coal on the free list they applauded day said that there was practically no | anthracite coal in the world except that| ~ Continued on Page 4, Column 3.