The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1903, Page 1

- 4 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1903. WILL DETERMINE WHITHER SOLAR SYSTEM SPEEDS IN _ITS FLIGHT THROUGH SPACE —ile Miils astronomical from the I Untversity of neighborh work of chnical e solution of vet ita largely te knowr that the obscrved posi- | Astronomers Sail To-Day for the Southern Hemisphere to Caiculate Endless Path of the Sun and Planets. .73;_5/ . W. Campbell, Director of Lick Observatory. n or fifteen > motion. an uncertainty of at least t degrees as to the direction of Our knowldge of the peed of the solar almost no infor of the stars certaln assumptions as to their dis- s he was led to the conclusion that the speed of the solar system is in the neighborhood of ten miles p ond Other ulS\uasSunfl‘uf the qu | tion by mak- bu tane PE AND CTROSCOPE PROPOSES USE | 0F CHLORDFORM OR THE DY Mrs. Booth Would-End the Pain of Wreck Victims. W A S ING TEL YORK, Fe { CONSTRUCTED ARGE OF THE [ ! . Be has addressed oth of the Vol motions of celestial objects are of all large B e e e e notsonly by the motiors of the themselves, but also by motions et of the observer. Inciuding several minor I am an extensive traveler, sp listurba the observer's motion is many days end sights of every ree components n the road, and, therefore, ques i@ to the rotation of the earth which affects the life or comfort of | on its axis. The elements of this diurnal ssengers or of the brave men ahead on. are well known, and its effects eliminated from the s yery closely home to me an completely noticed on reading of some "";_ ations. : re Iroad wrecks, as also many in t du the annual revolution o t ¢ the survivors have had to .- ©2Tth around the sun. The form ot = e the earth’s orbit 1s very well known, but | R agony of fatally Injured there s at present an uncertainty of from be- | one-fourth t6 one-half of 1 per cent In the size of the orbit. This introduces a slight uncertainty in the observer's speed, which is troublesome in a few cases. It is hopea 1 were seen in similar | that as a result of recent observations of ild instantly end | the planet s we shall soon be able to swift blow or a mer- | ©iminate the greater part of this uncer- tainty. 3—That due to the motion of the solar system (sun, planets and their moons) | through space. The elements of this | motion are not well known. In fact, a general knowledge of them constitutes one of the most pressing problems in as- tronomy, and it is to contribute to the pinioned Inextricably wreckage, have pleaded for ef of death while hed or consimed them. uncontrollable e t permissible when being, - whose | system is bruises washing packed in a 1 represent no it not be an | yestanders, as | f thome dying nconsclous iful anes- mpt atd se who expedition to the southern hemisphere has been organized. HERSCHEL'S CONCLUFIONS. More than 100 years ago Sir William Herschel from a consideration of the ap- | parent motions of the then accurately observed came to | the conclusion that the solar system is moving in a straight line approxi- | mately toward the constellation Her- cules. This was In fact one of the g s nim i u,n.n A AvRnsie, | e Hror - wibfoh < Foemtios i NFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. 27— justly famous. Later solutions made by Cochran, .1, & gTaduate of the | siper astronomers, using the steadily in- | creasing number of observed stars, have | confirmed the approximate correctness of Herschel's result as to the point toward | which the solar eystem Is moving. They have, I think, without exception, located | this point either in Hercules or in Lyra. JNevermeleu the various solutions leave 1 as to the s few stars worge T. nford law school, has relinquished his w practice in Calaverss County to ac- pt a legal position under the United Government in Manila. Cochran one of the most brilllant students in aw school during his undergraduate Says at Stanford. tates the 1 solution of this problem that the Mills | {have led to the assignment of values :)‘:‘n‘ Ing from as low as fivé miles to high as twenty-five iniles | Ali these solutions were by observed directions, and changes in the ob- | | served directions, of the stars, and In- 1\’:]\'0(] assumptions as to the stellar distances. | The development as per second. d upon the unknown | | of | method of measuring st the r velocities in {m» lné of sight of the observer has| placed in our hands a means of making | dectded improvements in our knowledge | of the solar motions, since this methog is | entirely independent of stellar distances, | It 15 exceedingly stmple in theor: o f(’f cxtraordinary difficulty “in [lr.arlice, It {is based upon the fact, well known to students of physical sclence, that if g | star 18 approaching the observer its epec. | trum will be shifted slig! toward the violet fr ;lzm:, and if the st | from the obser: | shifted slightly | red end. | DISPLACEMENTS MINUTE, | These displacements’ of the spectra, dl:e“ to the velocitles of the stars, | minute a scale that the errors of observa- | | tion may readily exceed' the magnitude | of the quantities to be observed. Fortu- vately the thorough understanding of the problem, reached through what have been bitter expericnces to some observers, has | made it possible at the ‘present time to | measure stellar velocities with a high de- | gree of accuracy. The displacements of | the spectra referred . to, measured with the instruments now in use for that pur- | pose, amount to only the thousandth part of an inch for a- speed of fourteen miles per second. Yet we are able to measure spectrum plates very nearly to the one. hundredth part of a thousandth of an inch, that is, nmearly to the one one hundred thousandth of ap inch. ~The evolution of Instruments and methods &nd the precautions tgken to enable us to reach this de- gree of refinement form an interesting » but one | o3 | htly as a whole ‘om its normal posi- ar is traveling away | °r its spectrum will be 8s a whole toward the are on so | | ine a point in the sky such that the stars | within a concentric area will have the | opposite area, a maximum velocity of re. STHTESNAN'S NAZES - COLLEAES ‘Morgan, Lgid With | Rage, Assails Cullom. ‘ Likens Illinoisan to an Imp of the Nether [ | | Regions, L Declares Canal Lobbyists Are Debauching Two Capitals. : - | Special Di b ta e Cal | i | WASHINGTON “That is as| | false as though it me frc the mouth of an shouted Sena- | tor Mo n ir ve session of the Senate to-day in repiy to an gheerva- tion made by Senator Cullom that Mor- gan evidently speaking with the in- | tention of defeating the canal treaty. vid with rag. |and Lis frame trembled as he uttered his | denia). “1 doi s from the Senator from I tinued. ““When 71| want as my captain, I will get a man with more mental caliber and a broader mind reply to this powers be Morgan h . displaying ers, Cullo liatory tone, | hearing had been | wred to speak on the should te reached | expired. ¢ upon the | Senator from Ala- was only nd others 0 talk this then told t his ore trouble uy Leaping here, for If it was treaty to death: he n himself < pur aul K here amd ree & more time at the disposal of Cullom remarked that Mor- be known as the “father of come bac there w the Senate. wuold gan ar 1 but connectior | It would be too © 4, to destroy the value of years of work ccn- tributed to the succe the canal | scheme by defeating the treaty o i repeatedly told that 1| am the father of the canal aid gan a want to be father (o ar ich dirty work as this.” went on to that the Eenate could take all the time eased in rat ving the treat red the N Panama Compan & of lobb ists bot lombia and they | would upt the Colombian Government 1 sceure the ra %090 to be paid n. We can consider this treaty next fall | winter,” said Morgan; “there is no hurry about it."” Cullom then asked for vote on the treaty, but Tt was then that Cullom remarked that | from all he’ could n the delay was for the purpose of defeating the canal and Morgan replied with his “imp-in-hell” simile. greement to Morgan objected. part the history of a nomy, but need not be considered here. | The velocities of some four hundred | of the brighter stars have in the last | seven vears been measured with the D. | O. Mills spectrograph attached to the | great Lick telescope. These stars are | distributed more or less uniformly over | the three-fourths of the sky visible from | Mt. Hamilton. Two years ago I combined | the results from these stars inan attempt | to determine the elements of solar mo- tion. It is evident that while the individ- dal stars have individual motlons, one moving in one direction, another in an- other direction, nearly all of them appar- ently independent of one another, yet if the solar system is moving toward a given point in the sky the stars In that portion of the sky will on the average appear to be approaching the solar system; and sim- tlarly, that the stars in the exactly op- posite portion of the sky will appear to be moving away from the solar System. Con- versely, if the velocities of the stars in all parts of the sky be known, it s pos- sible by mathematical analysis to determ- maximum velocity of approach to the solar system; and in the corresponding cession; the stars in other areas of the sky having systematically smaller speeds of approach or recession. SPEED OF SOLAR SYSTEM. The solution referred to led to the re- sult that the solar system is moving ap. proximately in the direction of the southern boundary of the Lyre, with a speed of twelve and a half miles per second. There is no doubt that this re- sult for speed is very close to the truth; but it I8 reasonably certain that the ai. rection of the motion Is somewhat in er- ror. The weakness of the solution lies in the fact that the observed stars are not distributed uniformly over the entire sky. The region from 30 degrees south of the celestial equator of the south pole of the sky is not represented at all in the ob- Continued on Page 4, Column 2. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HOUSE ADOPTS NEW RULES CURBING MINORITY’S POWER TO OBSTRUCT LEGISLATION ORI S | sume | threatened to defeat the rules | | v A CONGRESSMAN — ELE MATCe STATESMEN , WHO FIGURE IN | STORY OF PARTISAN WAR | THE HOUSE. i + | | | s Defeat of Resoiution Questioning Veracity of Speaker One Feature of an Exciting Day. the + to-day “c 1 out threat of Butler were un- s would do evervthing in their = to block legi: lation from now expires on March Wi another stormy 1 from 11 o’clock this morning until 7 o’clock to-night. Roll call succeeded roil call and at every pause party passion manifested itself in bitt and acriminous denunciation. Two spe- cial rules were brought in to expedite ap- propriation bills and continue the legisla- tive day of terday in order to reduce | | as much as possible the minority’s power to obstruct legislation. During the debate on the rules the Democrats voiced thefr condemnation of what they denominated vesterday's outrageous ac chalr. The Republicans dee they were willing to assume responsibili for what they had done and explained the necessity of the drastic rules presented to- day. Dalzell s unless this course re pursued the Democ hours, or twen tive days, on roll ca amendments to the appropriation bills. BLOCKS ALL LEGISLATION. Tt was agreed on both sides that the present situation sounded the death knell of practically everything except the ap- propriation bills. The friends of the omni- bus public building bill, who yesterday if they ‘were not modified to include their meas- ure, were placated by a promise, which, it is understood, was given, that their bill would be covered by a special rule to be brought in later. Even with the special rules in opera- tion, getting appropriation bills into con- ference was a tedious and laborious pro- cess, an eight-hour session and thirteen roll calls being necessary to get the sun- dry civil, the military academy and the postoffice appropriation bills into confer- ence and to adopt the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill All overtures from the Republican side to the Democrats to induce the latter to abandon their filibustering have been fruitless and there is every indication that they will continue their present tactics to the end of the session. ARRAIGNS THE SPEAKER. During the day Fleming of Georgia, ris- ing to a question of the highest privilege, sent to the clerk’s desk and had read the following resolution: “Whereas, It appears from the Con- gressional Record of February 2, 193, that by actual count and announcement by the Speaker pro tempore, a quorum was not present when the resolutions were voted upon declaring that James J. Butler was not elected and that George C. R. Wagoner was duly elected a Rep- resentative in the Fifty-seventh Con- gress from the Twelfth Missour District, and that the point of no quorum was duly raised upon the vote of each of said reso- Jutions and that the same in each in- stance was overruled by the Speaker pro tempore, in Violation of the constitution, the rules of the House and the practice of all parliamentary bodies: > of the ared that ARy “Resolved; That the announcement by | the Speaker pro tempore that sald resolu- ticns were adopted was in fact untrue, and that the sald James.J. Butler is still entitled at ‘in this House, an | that said George C. R. Wagoner is not to his | now entitled to the same. | FLEMING IS SUPPRESSED. | Payne. the madors der, was recog- | nized, despite the of Fleming {that he could not be 1 off the floor, |and moved to lay the r tion on the table. The Democrats forced a roll call on ithe motion. The motion prevailed—161 to “108. | Cannon of Tilinois then asked unani- mous consent to disagree to the Senate amendments to the sundry civil appro- | priation bill and send the bill to confer- Reserving the right to object, Rich- ! ardson asked if by the Republican rules of the House the bill did not go to the Com- | mitee on Apprepriations. the rules of this Republican | Housa have been and are being sacredly replied the Speaker. I ask is the enforcement of the said Richardson. “I demand the reg ar' order.” “The gentleman from Tennessee ob- jects,” answered the Speaker, who Im mediately recognized Dalzell, who pre- sented the two rules agreed to by the Rules Committee this morning to expe- dite appropriation bills and to continue | the legislative day March 4. As the terms of the rules were read at the clerk’s desk the Demo- crats jeered. DEBATE WAXES FIERCE. When the confusion subsided Dalzell, speaking in support of the necessity for the rules, called attention to the refusal of the minority to allow the sundry civil appropriation bill to go to conference— a request, he said, that had. never before 'been refused In the history of the House. Amid Democratic jeers and Republican applause, he characterized | ence. enforces ish proceeding.” Underwood of Alabama taunted the Republicans with being obliged to make the humiliating confession that they were unable to “do business” under the Reed rules. Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio declared that the majority was not abandoning the Reed rules. It was simply doing its duty. L De Armond (D.) of Missouri was giv- en five minutes and the entire Demo- cratic side broke Into applause when he arose. In bitterly sarcastic terms he arraigned the other side, ridiculing theg “pathos” in the voice of Grosvenor and excoriating Dal< zell for his action while in the chalr last night, declaring that the majority now had one who always could be relied on to do that which no one else would do. CANNON HAS LAST WORD. Williams (D.) of Illinols was even more severe than De Armond in’ his de- nunclation of the action of the majority Continued on Page 2, Column 4. of yesterday untfl | the course of the minority as a “child- tumultuous | STRANGE CRIME CIVES SLEUTHS HARD PROBLEN Wealthy Buffalo Resi- | dent Vietim of an I Assassin, BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. ZI.—Edwin L. Burdick, president of E. L. Burdick & Co. and of the Buffa nvelope Com- pany,. was murdered early to-day at his land ue In one the sections of the ci The theory advanced, that the crime was the work of a burglar, was aban- doned as the police probed deeper into tk case, and to-night, while they claim to have several important clews, no arrest has been made. Mr. Burdick was last seen alive last night at 10:30. o’clock, when he bade the other members of the household good- night and started for his room, apparen ly with' the intention of retiring for the night. . This morning & 1 lying on a couch In a small room off t lower hall, used by Mr. Burdick as smoking-room. The body was covered with'a rug and a number of sofa pil lows. The couch was saturated blood. The head had been crushed with some blunt instrument Chief of Detectives C of ‘the case.. A the ho is body was fou a ck took charge rough examination of se and its occupants was made Nothing of value was missing. The ont vas locked and the spring lock was in its place when the servants got ug this morning. The inner door was ajar. A | kitchen window was partly raised, bu: there were no marks on the snow outsid upon. tha window sill to indicate that | any one had entered there. All the other windows and doors of the house were se curely fastened. This shattered the theory that the crime was committed by an un | known intruder. * Some interesting discoveries wers made {In other parts of the house. To begin with, no weapon could be found any- where: The body.was clad In only an undergarment. The trousers and other ar- ticles of clothing which Mr. Burdick had worn were in his bedroom on the floor above. The bed had not been occupied | On the. table in the smoking-room the detectives found a bottle partly filled with | whisky and the remains of a light lunch eon. Members of the family declare that : Mr. Burdick never partook of the food of which the luncheon was composed and never drank liquor while eating. In, this connection Chief Cusack gave out the following statement: “From what investigations I have made I would conclude that Mr. Burdick was called down stairs by a ring or a knock at the door after he was ready for bed He evidently admitted some one he knew well and took the visitor into the den for a talk and to partake of the luncheon found there. “There are some signs of a struggle The fact that two of the fingers of Mr. Burdick's left band were broken indi- cates that he put up his hand to ward off # blow which he saw coming.” The force with which the blows that killed Mr. Burdick wepe delivered seems to preciude the possibility that a woman wielded the weapon. Mrs. Burdick, the murdered man’s wife, left home two months ago with the In- tention, it is said, of not returning. On | December § proceedings for divorce were filed in the County Clerk’s office by Mr Burdick. It Is understood that Mrs. Bur- dick went to Atlantic City. What con- nection Burdick’'ss domestic trouble may | have had with the crime, the police do sume to say. n(:lshgr‘pollce to-night found a hackman who carried a man to the first corner eas: | of the Burdick house last night about 12 | o'clock. After leaving the carriage the | man, of whom the pelice have a good description, walked up the street toward Burdick’s house