The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1904, Page 3

MILLIONAIRE LAWSON RUNS/ENT AMUCK IN WALL STREET. Prices Suffer Through Assau on Amalgamated Copper. | | | | | < | | | 45 N AN LOAD ED 1 1 BY UN | | BOSTON, Mass., ght that pany to » his em- very g 2 ‘ of ¥ ed on an = £ points, the most I ss Amalga- ted ¢ ke in a sensa- 2 a loss e pres- % points business the to- the Northern ther LAWSON UNDER SUSPICION. ng that President Roosev wild,” and that he, controlled the railroad m Washington tell of in- | erest prevailing there over the t's recommendations. dations are appro- owers of the Interstate nission should be en-| or Quarles. als everywhere are| n the great question. | ral belief that the Presi- mendations are the direct | ! appeals made to him by Gov- | mins of Iowa, Van Sant of | : Follette of Wiscon- | or rate regulation | r body of men, | hose of their constit- | onsideration. of the stock mar- upon_the common | « Prices have de- | 1lues have not been ary circulars issued cerned ernors ( Minnesot jobbing campaign. they injured by the dis- to th vernment rat jon of railways, may nev ze. Pros- is general ey nd is not dependent convulsion in speculative i xlriru GATES AIDING LAWSON. BOSTON, Dec. 7.—It is understood | here that John W. Gates, the spectac- | ular steel operator, is backing the | equally spectacular Thomas W. Law- gon in the latter's campaign against Amalgamated and the steel issues. Lawson himself gives color to the be- lief in a bulletin to-day in which he says: “Late afternoon break on sales of 20,000 shares for Western man who bought at 40. He has 30,000 left, which I will probably sell to-morrow. and substantiate | tions. — Dec. 7.—Thomas W. Lawson is reported to have an- he would apply for a receiver for the Amalga- every statement he had pub- 1we zreat Rockefeller trust. alg ch mated at it an nges possibility settlement of He f completion 2 being sprung. I will personally ask court for injunc- tion on ground of fraud,” The street thinks that Lawson found ibat Rogers and his associates k i out Amalgamated and ‘“got the jump on them. ARMOUR UNLOADS WHEAT. CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—A ur & Co. created a panic in the Board of Trade -day b; throwing on the market s of wheat e most ex The iting witn ns dropped ed a relapse of sed 28, ¢ December sutfe panic in the of was on the first stock market since resent bull a de Amalgamated downward course. nated line of i at into the pit, the Ar- s, supported by other strong put the bulls in wild retreat times, when the liquidation was t, the excitement in the pit 1 on insa of peop great los ¥ think that Armour when he dumped his big line to-day,” said a trader: “but I feel confident that even at the low prices he came out a fair winner.” PLEASED AT PRESIDENT'S WORDS ON INSURANCE Attorney Beck of Mutual Life Tells What It Means for the Bu Special Disy v YORK, Dec. 7. tant At- General James M. Beck, who argued the Northern Securities case in the Circuit Court and who is now spe- counsel for the Mutual Life In- surance Company, said to-day: No feature of the President’s mes- sage was more noteworthy than his brief but emphatic recommendation that Congress should bring insurance hin Federal supervision. He force- calls attention to the fact that corporations ‘can become such by engaging in interstate com- merce.” This recognition of the fact that insurance lays an important part in the interstate commercial inter- course of the nation is a new departure. great on | Other Presidents have recognized that the foreign business of American life insurance companies constituted an im- portant part of our foreign commercial relations. Thus, President Cleveland, in his message of December 2, 1895, re- ferred to the ‘vast business’ which American insurance companies had de- veloped in foreign countries, and re- ferring to the attempts to exclude them he expressed an opinion that we should not ‘silently acquiesce in vexatious bindrances to the enjoyment of our share of the legitimate advantages of proper trade relations.’ l J | shiving. “During the administrations of Presi- | dents Cleveland, Harrison and McKin- ley the State Department repeatedly exercised its influence, through diplo- matic channels, to prevent unjust dis- crimination by foreign nations against this feature of our foreign trade rela- The Federal Government has, however, been embarrassed in protect- ing the rights of American companies in foreign lands by the absence of any | Congressional recognition of the na- ! tioral and international character of insurance. President Roosevelt's rec- ommendation will be valuable in safe- guarding our interests in foreign coun- tries at a time when certain foreign nations are attempting to deny Amer- ican companies equal rights in their territory. The President gives to the vast business of life insurance that for which the American companies have long and most earnestly sought—the seal of national recognition. “It seems strange that such recogni- tion should have been delayed until the business of the United States should FRANC ISCO CALL, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1904. Against Japa- nese Luns. TOKIO, Dec. 8, 11 a. m.—Imperial headquarters has made the following announcement: “The result of the bombardment of Port Arthur by our large caliber guns on the 7th inst. was very good. Many effective hits were made against the battleships Peresviet and Pcbieda and the protected cruiser Pallada. In con- sequence the Peresviet caught fire and at 3:15 o'clock the Pobieda listed to starboard.” TOKI10, Dec. 7.—The headquarters of the Japanese army in front of Port Arthur has reported, confirming the disabling of the Russian battleships Retvizan and Poltava and stating that the cruiser Bayan is aground. The re- port goes on to say: “Owing to the plunging fire from 203-Meter Hill the enemy has with- { drawn to Akasaka Hill. On December | 6 our forces occupied an entire fort at 1 p. m. Subsequently our forces, afte: ' dislodging the enemy, occupled an | IAkBsaka Hil. i anese name. St.Petershurg Now Realizes End ls_z\j@r. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 8§, 2:20l a. m.—Foreign telegrams received here ! stating that the Japanese have suc- ceeded in mounting heavy guns on 203-Meter Hill are regarded as seriously significant and have created a deep de- pression at the War Office. If the re- ports cf the sinking of the Russian warships in the harbor of Port Arthur 2re confirmed, it destroys the last hope of a sortie, and when tne end comes nothing remains but to sink those that remain in deep water, to prevent them from falling into the hands of the en- emy. The War Office is unavie to identify Evidently it is a Jap- The importance of 203-Meter Hill to | the garrison is evidenced by General Stoessel’s desperate efforts to recapture it. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 7.—Accord- eminence north of Suerhkou and two eminences north of Sanlichian at 3 p. m. On December 6 at 4 p. m., in responsc to the request of the bearer of the enemy’s flag of truce, an armis- tice of five hours was granted for the removal of the dead.” The commander of the Japanese na- val guns in front of Port Arthur, tele- graphing on December 6, says: “An observation taken from 2 Meter Hill shows that the turret-ship Poitava is sunk and that the battle- | ship Retvizan i ting heav to | port. Observations taken on December 6 covered the results of the bombard- | ment on December 5. We are now tak- ! ing obscrvations from a hill near Shu- ‘Since December 2 we hombarded the enemy’s south of Paiyu Mountain. From that point only the masts and funnel-tops of the battleships Pobieda, Retvizan or the cruiser Pallada could be seen, and it was impossible to count the number of our shel ing effect. On | other ships explosion resulting from our shells could be seen, but owing to their positions behind the hills it was difficult exactly to identify them “The total of our shells taking ef-| fect on the enemy’s ships were as fol- low On a vessel of the Pobleda ype, 34; on the battleship Retvizan or the cruiser Pallada, 31; on the turre Poltav 1 Besides (hese, struck, from which sions followed. “On December 5 seven shells struck have daily fleet - lying ex p !a third party | liabiiity. ing to a story current In high circles here Russia’s efforts some time ago to | negotiate the purchase of seven Argen- | tine and Chilean warships have had a curious sequel. The two South Ameri can countries declined to sell the ves sels direct to Russia, fearing the pos- sibility of being subsequently held lia- ble to pay Japan heavy damages, as Great Britain was in the Alabama case. At that time the question of selling to s an. intermediary was discussed, and the possibility of Tur- key playing the role was suggested. But Argentina and Chile steadfastly declined to entertain any proposition without a guarantee against future According to the story abandoned the project, whereupon Great Britain stepped in, offering to advance the money to Turkey to buy | the ships in return for certain conces- sions which would permit Great Brit- ain to erect a second Gibraltar coast of Yemen, opposite F which would give Great Br of the lower entrance to the Red Sea. | Negotiations between Great Britain and Turkey along these lines are szid to be now nrogressing. It is added that Russia is =0 much alarmed over the re- port that an emissary has been dis- patched to Constantinople to investi- gate and block the game. General Kuronatkin in a telegram to | Russia then | the Emperor mentions Javanese at- tacks on Sinchinpu and Soudgianin, both of which were repulsed, and an | the battleship Pobieda, and at about 3.30 p. m. a big explosion was observed | south of Paiyu Mountain, resulting om the effect of our shells, evidently. n a powder magazine. The successful result of the bom- bardment on December 5 is inspiring our mer to greater etfort.” The Peltava was an armored turret- ip of 10,960 tons displacement and indicated horsepower. She was built in St. Petersburg in 1894 and went into commission in 1898. Her cost of construction w. nearly $6,000,000. Her armament con ed of four 12-inch, twelve 5.9-inch and thirty-four smaller caliber breech-loading rifle guns of | the Russian-Krupp patterns. She had a crew of 700 men. She had a speed of 1£.2 knots. Th> Retzivan is a battleship of 12,700 tons displacement and 16,000 indicated horsepower. She was built in Phila- delphia in 1902. Her armament con- of four 12-inch, twelve 6-inch, @ and | twenty 3-inch, twenty 3-pounder six 1-pounder guns of Russian-Krupp | pattern. Her speed is 18 knots per | hour. SRR S Ship Veteran a Lawful Prize. ERLIN, Dec. 8.—A dispatch from Tokio to the Lokal Anzeiger repor! that the prize coyrt at Sasebo has de- clared the German ship Veteran, which was captured near Port Arthur, a lawful prize. The officers and crew of the Veteran have been released. EZARIEE e L6 Makes the Blockade Secure, BERLIN, Dec. 8.—According to a| dispatch from Tokio to the Lokal An- zeiger the placing of heavy cannon on 203-Meter Hill will enable the Japan- ese to fire on and sink junks and other craft bringing supplies for Port Ar- thur from Chefu. s Mobilizing More Troops. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. | | | Orders | have been issued for the mobilization of the second Volga regiment and the Terek Cossacks. e el have reached its present amazing de- velopment. i “A business which has in force over 17,000,000 contracts of insurance, whose annual income exceeds $500,000,000 and whose accumulated assets exceed $2,- 000,000,000 obviously enters most inti- mately into the commercial life of the American people. “The reason for this delay is not far to seek, When insurance was in its in- fancy the Supreme Court expressed the opinion that insurance was not com- merce. In all of the so-called insurance cases, however, the validity of State statutes enacted in the absence of Fed- eral legislation was alone in question. “The Supreme Court has never passed upon the validity of an act of Congress affirmatively regulating interstate or foreign insurance. Their probable opin- jon iIs indicated by the recent decision in the lottery cases, where a lottery ticket was held to be a ‘subject of com- merce’ and its carriage from State to State the subject of Congressional leg- islation. If a lottery ticket is a subject of commerce a policy of insurance, less aleatory in character, must equally be so. To hold otherwise would be “If Congress shall follow the recom- mendation of the President .an im- portant advance will be made in thé development of this great business, and 1 believe the Supreme Court will sus- tain it. Such regulation need not be exclusive of the rights of the States to protect their citizens from fraudulent transactions or to tax property within their borders. I am satisfied that the great life insurance companies would welcome Federal supervision. Notwith- standing recent ill-advised and for the most part malicious diatribes against these companies, no business is con- ducted by abler men and none with less secrecy. Most of the principal compa- nies exhibit to every policy holder each year an exact statement of their in- vestments, and for many years they have submitted the most intimate de- tails of their business to the insurance departments of many States and for- eign countries. I believe they will wel- to] | ‘strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.’ important outnost affair on the right | wing, where the Russians routed and| | bayoneted a Japanese guard. | General Sakharoff under to-day's date veports that the Russian van- guard at the village southward of Laotchengulni Pass was driven out vesterday by the Japanese artiller The Russians fell back on the pass after sustaining a few casualties. The | Japanese attacking force subsequently retired toward Dapindu Mountain. The | night of December 6 was quiet. | Much circumstantial evidence exists< showing that the agitatiori for the dls-‘ patch of a third squadron, comprising the Black Sea fleet, to the Far East is inspired by Admiral Alexieff and is in the nature of a camnaign against the! Forelgn Office and the Admiralty. The demands for the reinforcement of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky’s squadron the immediate dispatch of all the avail- | able ships still in the Baltic is, how- ever, growing stronger daily. A high| | naval authority declares that there are | three good battleshins ready at Libau and four cruisers could be made ready quickly, while two battleships can be; fitted out in time to sail with the other reinforcements. | The military strength of Russia is| still untouched by the present war, ac- ! cording to an official renort at the War | Office. Of the 764 districts in Russia | there has been thus far partial mobili- | | zation in 423 districts, and in seventy- | pleted as speedily as possible, five older | the Black Sea fleet. 16 | Turkey for ¢he purchase of Argentine lis the fact that the Ottoman embassy | foundation for rumors that T | purchasing or |{own use or for the use of any other | From IRE_PORT ARTHUR FLEET DOOMED T CERTAIN DESTRUCTION, lt1Warshfi§fiélpless (7ar Orders More Vessels to the | | Fmst. LONDON, Dec. 8.—According to a St. Petersburg dispatch to the Daily Mail the Emperor on Wednesday decreed the dispatch to the Far East of a third! squadron, comprising the battleships} Paul I and Slava, which will be com- | battleships, five cruisers and forty tor- pedo-boat destroyers. The whole squad- ron, the dispatch adds, it is hoped will] be fitted out in two months. Probably it will be commanded by either Vice Admiral Dnubassoff or Vice Admiral Chouknin. It is further asserted that| no decision has been reached regarding A renort from Tientsin states that the Javanese shell fire at Port Arthur also sank the Russian battieship Peres- viet, but no further news concerning the fortress has reached London. The Daily Telegraph's correspond- ent in front of Port Arthur, cabling under date of December 7, says that the Russians ceased their attempts to recapture 203-Meter Hill on December In an uncompleted account of the | fighting that preceded the capture of the hill the same correspondent ap- plauds the magnificent defense the Russians made and the clever handling | of the defensive forces against the re- peated Japanese feints and enveloping movements en masse. In connection with the story from St. Petersburg regarding negotiations with and Chilean cruisers a curious feature in London yesterday issued an/official statement declaring that therg/ was no key was intending purchase Argentine men-of-war, “either for her power.” e A FIRING HEARD. HEAVY i | Big Siege Guns in Action Along . the Shakhe River. MUKD. Dec. .—Cannonading | of great volume was heard around ! Poutiloff Hill and the railway yester-| day morning. It continued during the | day and evidently, owing to the tre. | mendous noise, reached its height from 3 to 5 o’clock in the afternoon. It was unlike anything of the kind heard heretofore except at Port Ar-| thur. This tremendous noise is believed to | have been due to the constantly in- creasing number of siege guns of large caliber, all of which seemed to | be in use vesterday. Rumors of an attack by the Jap- | anese at various dates have been cur- the last two weeks and the | on prevails bomba that yesterday’s | Iment was in anticipa- | umption of the offens- ive by the Japanes — Massing Men on Afghan Frontier. LONDON, Dec. 7.—Those in close | touch with Afghan affairs credit the | reports of large movements of Rus- | sian troops on the Afghan borders. the latest advices it appears| hat there has been a steady concen- tration of Afghan troops at Kabul for | some time past. | - 3 four of the latter only a few categories were touched. In none are the reserves!: exhausted. The regular establishment includes a guard and grenadier corps, | two cavalry corps and twenty-three regular corps, exclusive of two in the Caucasus, two in Turkestan and the Siberian corps. Ten of these corps are | now at the front. Four more European | corps and five rifle brigades are also under orders to fill up the three armies to 150,000 men each. 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