The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIII-NO. 104. N SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. KEENE'S SENSATIONAL ACCUSATIONS AGAINST HARRIMAN BRING LECTS THREE MASTER MARINERS Board Guilty of Cor- | ruption Speedily Ousted. il iviais they o DISGRACED MEN OUT. The facts produced by The Call in sup- port of its charges of bribery and cor- r n and the evi- dence ing there all as smmissioners. from the posi- had disgraced, Gover- no comment whatever. e act of justice was per- ctic manner, and no to soften the blow. kicked out of office in s were used to an- out of Captain Pratt, d the acceptance aptain Alexander, trio. to he local history of so_thoroughly and were those which bro against the removed r T One of the accused of- 3 Alex made a full > his sole plea | f the opinion that it | . ) accept money for | & hen he resigned ument that his self- pect would not allow him to sit on e Pilot Board with two men who had . bee of boodling. The | was backed up by the testi- Captain der's stenogra- Who brought Cap- the canvas sack in which he is share of the bribe money, ana aw him handling the gold. THREE MASTER MARINERS, The action of the Governor emphasizes the report of “‘guilty” filed by the Senate Committee on Commerce and Navigation and found by the public after the publica- ng woman, tion in the columns of The Call of the |1 of the Superior Court. Judge Hyland testimony in the case. Cantin;ed on Page 2, Column 2. I - FOR THE PILOT COMMISSION 3 ONERS TO SUCCEED THE . GUILTY OF G MASTER MARINERS WHO HAVE BEEN APPOINTED PILOT COMMIS- THREE MEN RE! HAVING TRADED LICENSES FOR COIN. CENTLY PROVEN TO SINGULAR | CURE FOR TYPHOID Serum- Obtained by Crush- ing Fever Bacillus in Liquid Air. | —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, March 13.—Lord Lister has comm: ated to the Royal Soclety a paper Dr. Allan MacFadyn, director | of Jenner. Institute of Preventive | Medicine, setting’ forth an efficient pro- | phylactic and curative treatment for yphoid fever. Dr. MacFadyn found that by crushing the microscopic cells of typhold bacillus in liquid alr, intercellular juices could be obtained apart from.their living organ- ism and that these juices were highly t By Injecting them in small, re- | peated doses into a living animal its| blood serum is rendered powerfully anti- toxic—that is to say, it becomes an antl- | dote alike to Uving typhotd bacteria and | to the poison that may be extracted | therefrom. Dr. MacFadyn explains the | application of the serum to animals and detalls his various experimeats,* which showed that the serum was curative of typhoid as well as protective agalnst in- fection. Regarding the crushing of the bacteria the question naturally arises: By what unimaginable accuracy of grinding may these infinitesimal organisms be broken | £0 as to release the intercellular toxins? The answer that the crushing is done in liquid air does not explain the whole of the marvel, for it i known that the in- tense cold of liquid air does not affect | the vitality of bacteria; but when thus frozen hard they become brittle, and, not- withstanding their almost inconceivable minuteness can be completely broken up by grinding and will, under no subsequent condition, show sign of bacterial growth. by the New Judge Begins Work. SAN JOSE, March 13—Judge 8. F. Lelb, who was recently appointed to the va- | cancy created by the appointment of | Judge Lorigan to the Supreme Court, | took his seat this morning in Department escorted Judge Leib to the chair, and the latter made a short address. The pro- ceedings were very brief, and consisted principally in calling the calendars. | ENORMOUS DUTIES ON RARE ART J. Pierpont Morgan Seeks to Avoid the Payment of $2,500,000. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call, CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, March 12.—J. Pier- pont Morgan and Secretary Shaw con- ferred at the Treasury Department for about two hours to-day about the finan- cler's “costly art collection and how its owner could enjoy it In this country with- out paying a huge sum for the privilege. No_conclusion was reached, but Morgan was_told that he could organize an in- stitution of his own to exhibit the col- lection or he could remain abroad a year and then bring the treasures in as house- hold effects. These are the only choices aside from paying the inevitabls 60 per cent ad valorem tax. As Morgan's collection of paintings, bric-a-brac, bronzes and objects of art | 1s valued at more than $4,000,000 the duty would amount to the tidy sum of $2,500,- 000. Morgan has just been planning ex- tensive additions to his residence in New York with a view of housing the superb collection of' pictures and pottery, much of which 1s invaluable, that he has ac- cumulated during his trips to Europe. By throwing her new Wenetian palace open to the public, which obtains cards at infrequent intervals, Mrs, “Jack” Gara- ner of Boston has got around the customs regulations, and, while practically retain. ing the ownership of her art treasures, permits them to figure as articles brought for exhibition. This plan’ does not appeal to Morgan and he does not like the idea of paying $8500 duty, Dingley rate, for example, on a single Piece of porcelain plate for. which he recently paid more than $10,000. While the trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art may import a picture for exhibition a private individual cannot, un- less he organize an institution of his own, Morgan does not Intend to exile himself abroad for a year to achieve his purpose, Neither does he desire to import his treag- ures for a temporary period. IO MILLION DOLLARS THIS LAWYER'S FEE Enormou8 Sum for Canal Company Counsel. New Record for Single Payment for Legal Services. Money Will Have Been Earned When Treaty Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 13.—New York la yers say that if the Panama canal treaty is passed by the United States Senate William Nelson Cromwell will receive the largest fee ever given to a lawyer in this country, if not in the world. The report finds credence fn the Wall street district | | that $2,000,000 of the money to be paid | | by the Government for the partly ished ditch across the isthmus will go directly Into Cromwel's pocket. It is doubtful if any fee approximating that sum has ever been paid to an American | lawyer for strictly legal services. Other | lawyers have profited to the extent of hundreds of thousands through forming corporations and protecting’ them against | attack, but never Lefore have millions | in cash been turned over upon the com- | pletion of any legal work. For many | years it has been believed that the larg- est fee evé¥ paid to a lawyer in one case | was the $250,000 that John E. Parsons re- | | | cetved for his services to the sugar trust. Cromwell's arrangemertswitis the Parr ]ama Canal Company is reported to be on | r cent of the amount re ized for the sale. With smaller figures 1 this would seem reasonable compensation, | but the compensation is enormous, as the | French eompany exp to lize $40,- ‘IIN),O(NW. There is no question that the iny | vestment of the original stockholders was | far greater than that, but the anxiety of ‘lhoa at present in control of the stock | to aispose of their interests is evidenced | | by the large percentage that they are | willing to give to the man charged with | effecting the sale. | According to Washington dispatches, | there has been a formal agreement in | the Senate to take a vote on the Panama | canal treaty next Tuesday. If the treaty | passes the United States will'be obliged | to pay $10,000,000 to the republic of Co- | lombia in cash, and when the canal is | completed, within nine years from the ratification of the treaty, the lease will begin under the terms of which Colombia will get $250,000 4 ve SER e e EXTRA SESSION UNLIEKELY. | Many Reasong Why Congress Should ! Not Convene in Autumn. WASHINGTON, March 13.—Senators | who talked with the Presidenteto-day be- lieve it to be unlikely that an extraordi- lon will be called next autumn, They say many reasons might be cited why such a session should not be keld, | the principal one being that some impor- tant State efections are to be held in No- vember and members of Congress will be busy with politital affairs in their own States. They point out that on the eve of a Presidential campaign it is highly important that every effort be made. es- pecially in doubtful States, to maintain the strength of party organization.. In be possible only with difficulty to main- tain a quorum at each branch of the ex- tra session. If the session were not called until November, they say, it would be so close to the regular session as to render it practically unnecessary. The Senate to-day made public the re- ply of the President to the Senate resolu- tion introduced by Senator Morgan ask- ing for information as to the present state of negotiations between che new Panama Canal Company and ths Government of the United States, together with a copy of any agreements touching the, sale of the property since December 1, 1902. The reply is by Attorney General Knox. He says that all negotiations have. been con- ducted with the understanding that the consent of Colombia was necessary to en- able the canal company to sell and the United States to buy the canal rights. The cablegram of Knox of February 17 accepting the offer of the company to sell the canal property to the United States is given. On February 19 President Bo sent a cable to Knox saying Willlam M. Cromwell was charged with transmitting the response of the council of administra- tion. A letter from Cromwell to the At- torney General, dated March 3, says ac- ceptance by the President is assured by the Attorney General's telegram of Sep- tember 17 as being in conformity with the offer of the canal company. Knox says there has been no other negotiation or agreement. » Justice Day’s Condition Is Improved, WASHINGTON, March 13.—The reports from the bedside of Justice Day of the Supreme Court, who has an attack of pneumonia, aré encouraging to-night and grafl heaith, he will recover. FORTH COURT ORDER RESTRAINING GOVERNOR PARDEE SE Is Signed. bl such circumstances, it is said, it would | I | H | | 11 + | | Supaes HomaACce~ | LumToOor: Q ‘ R == N — | | { 3 Sl BT WALL STREET GIANTS OF F HAERRIMAN ISSUED RESTRAINING ORDER AND UNION PACIFIC DIRECTORS Legal Fight for Con- trol of Southern - Pacific Is Begun. Forebodings in Wall Street Over Out- come of the Struggle. | I < United States Senator Foraker and Jud- son Harmon of counsel for the applicants were in conference after the other attor- neys left. Harmon as Attorney General during the second Cleveland administra- tion had much to do with the Pacific railway case for the Government. ACCUSATIONS IN THE BILL. The bill filed by.the attorneys for the complainants, Talbot Taylor and James B. Taylor, forming the Wall street firm of Talbot J. Taylor & Co., and one of whom is son-in-law of James R. Keene, reviews the history of the Southern FPa- nis family is hopeful that, despite his | cific Company and discloses an alleged condition of affairs in which the Unlon Pacific interests in the Southern Pacific's | directorate have systematically managed | the latter company in the. interests of | the former. - During the years 1900 and 191 | the Union Pacific Company acquired a | holding of Southern Pacific shares| amounting to $75,000,000, or 750,000 shares. | These were used, it Is alleged, to elect a | directory, each member of which was and | is interested in the Union Pacific as against the Southern Pacific. The new directory, it is charged, united all departments of the two roads wher- ever possible, “subject to a dominating and controlling influenice in favor of the CONTROL, JUDGE WHO UNITED STATES SENATOR WHO AP- PEARED IN COURT AS COUNSEL FOR THE KEENE INTERESTS. . -+ INCINNATI, March 13.—In the | 3 oy EW YORK, March 13.—Wall contest between the . Keene | street considered the obtain- and the Harriman interests in WHAT KEENE | ing of the temporary injunc- the Unlon, the Central and the o | tion against the Union Pa- Southern Pacific rallroads the ALLEGES IN | cific Company as the first former to-day obtained from | gun in the struggle between the Federal court a temporary restrain- | | EN COURT | | the wan street stock peot tn Southern ing order, and notice was served on the| | | Pacifie, of which Keene is the manager, . hat at Nash-| | 7 {and the B ' Harriman representative that al ash- | an e Harriman management. Business ville on April 1 there would be a,hearing A e Interents of the | |on the Stock Exchange quickened constd- of cause why an injunction should not dangerea and prejudiced | | rably and the volume of transactions be fssued as prayed for. <As April 8.1s | | by discriminations in fa- | |Was materially lessened. Values, how- the date for the annual meeting of the | | vor of the Umion Pacific. | ever, were not adversely affected. stockholders of ‘the Southern Pacific it | | ‘“30:‘:;1:::;:-":“‘1;:1:1-52-1::: ; The point over which forebodings were was desired to have the petition heard ot -PRisS | | expressea by the banking element was before the next election of directors. That the Southern Pacific the feature in the bill of complait ques- The Southern Pacific Company has a was required tho Eh:":h"'ulhx tioning the legality of the Unfon Pacific's E . ive freight rates tha e Spuadl g Kentucky charter, although it owns no | |-exeess: | |ownership of Southern Pacific stock. The v i cluded from a = property In that State. Its legal head- (| Ivae virtaslly exciuded or | order issuea by Judge Lurton restratns quarters are at Beechmont, Ky., a suburb That the cost of extensive the Unfon Pacific from making any ¢ Louisville, where its legal representa- improvements to the Central | |change or transfer in its methods of hold- ot L 3 tive resides, and for this reason the bill| | Pacific has been charged to | |ing Southern Pacific stock. There can of complaint was filed in Loulsville yes- _50::::“ Facific operating ex- | |po no change to the Oregon Short Lime, terday, but the attorneys found no Fed- | P TEnt the Unton Pactlie with- | | 28 was at first suggested, or to any other eral Judge there and came to Cincinnatl, | | ;, ejghteen months made im- | | company friendly to the Union Pacific, so where Judge Horace 1. Lurton of the provements costing mnearly | |that when the case comes up om April 1 United States Circuit Court heard the ar-| | $22,000,000, charging :he | .| the merits-of the ownership question will gument in chambers. The attorneys on | ::::-::-‘::“:;'e !;:u:::rr:t;: | |be fully atscussed. both sides, held conferences here this aft-| | SO | ‘ Eminent counsel retained by the Uniin ernoon before they left for their homes | Pacific interests lay eclaim to having no to meet mgain at Nashville two weecks | .. i+ | fears regarding the legality of the owner- from next Wednesday. ship of Southern Pacific stock by th Union Pacific. On the other hand, coun sel for the Keene pool will strike their heaviest blow at this point. It Is asserted by them that both roads are competitors, that both are parallel lines, and as such ownership of one by the other is contrary not only to the laws of the States through which the Itnes run, but also comes under the ban of the in- terstate commerce law. The bill of complaint was drawn up by Edward Lauterbach, under the direct su- pervision of Mr. Keene. It was then pre- sented to Senator Foraker, who has been Continued on Page 3, Column 5. Continued on Page 3, Columa 6, *