The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1906, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1906. = RATE CONTROL | ACAIN TAKEN UP seussed by the Interstate mmittee of the Senate. t No Decision Reached | 'LLIVER URGES BILL leavors to Gain - Consid- tion for His Measure. Is Not Successful | REQUESTS AN INVESTIGATION. Wants Congress Affairs. Gongressman Heeder < lnto Ratlway ta ke and Ohio two or more the in vielation of FOR PRESIDIO Measure Calling for | ollars. 5.—Representa- y introduced a bill ap- 0 for the erection of be used as a 3 >residio, San present there is no such of Jeffe Bar- Kahn Introduces Half Million N, WASHT Jz Mo aisp west n introduced a bill appro- | 00 a general hospital y, Alaska, to be paid for fisheries licenses. i i SENATE CANAL COMMITTEE. Will Meet When the Upper House Re- | mes Sessio) 5.—Because of nan Millard and e other members of the Senate ttee on the Isthmian Canal, there be no meeting to consider the nom- & of members of the Canal Com- 1l after the Senate recon- onday next. After the nom- of commissioners have been dis- of, it is said, the committee will p the question of reorganizing es to be pald to 1 employes. | ————— | SECRETARY OF INTERIOR | WITHDRAWS PUBLIC LANDS | More Tham One Million Acres in Ari- sona and New Mexico Reserved | by the Govermment. | ASHINGTON, Jan. 5—By an order on December 30 last by the Sec- | the Interior and made pub- | e than & milllon acres of | Arizona and New Mex- | hdrawn from all forms of | except under the mineral laws | n within forest reserve: tion by acres is as follow: Navajo reserve, 39,516 acres; | reserve, 390,000 acres, Hua- | 45,000 acres. | Nev Mexico—Magdalena reserve, | : : San Mateo reserve, 460,- | acres i —_————— CHICAGO YOUTH CONFESSES KILLING BOY IN QUARREL Piaces Body on Raib Track in an Effort to Hide the Crime. AGO, Jan. 6.-~William J. Moran, 9 years, confessed to-day to the last night of Robert Collier, ears, during a quarrel, after an says he placed Collier's e railroad track in the hope 2 pa g train would hide the evi- ce of the crime. The accidental dis- of the body before a train had disclosed fact that Collier | HIC ng the » killed by a pistol bullet. _POSTUM CEREAL. COFFEE AILS eave when you quit and use POSTUM FOOD COFFEE “There's a Reason.” SCHIFF'S FEARS SHARED [CHAMP CLARK BY FINANCIERS OF NOTE Currency Reform Deem Great Panic in t ed Necessary to Prevent ke United States. — 2 TS 2 § R ¥ TO WHOM ATTENTION HAS BEEN DI- *Y REFORM IN ORDER TO EW YORK FINANCIERS. CURR! D BY The opinion of Jacob H. Schiff that the U'nited States financial panje if the curremey by wuch well-known financiers as 1 Treasury, and Frank A. Vanderlip. recommended by Sceretary Shaw, alt NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Lyman J. Gage, former Secretary of the Treasury, said to-day that he agrees with Jacob H. Schiff in the opinfon that a great finan- cial panic is inevitable unless steps are | taken to remedy the inelasticity of the existing currency system “I agree positively with M said Gage. “that the monetary conditions which have existed In this country dur- Ing the last sixty days are disgraceful to us as a nation, and I further agree with him that a stunning panic is but a matter of time nless something is done. The more promptly and effectually this is done the better for the United States. is no immediate If is apparent sive under ex- there “In my opinion, danger, but the d: and if the country's isting conditions the country will suffer| I don't understand how any careful and thoughtful financier can fail to real- ize the peril “I see that Mr. Schiff objects to Secre- tary Shaw's recommendation of an emer- gency circulation of heavily taxed bank notes, holding that such a plan would fa- cilitate speculation rather than the legiti- mate interests which stand in need at present. I may y that I believe Secre- tary Shaw's idea an excellent one, with certain modifications. With these modi- fications I believe his proposition would provide a cure. “I don't care in the short space of a newspaper interview to go into detalls, continued Gage. “My views to-day ai views which I have entertained ports made by me as Secretary of the Treasury, and In bills already offered in Congress. 1 belicve the work of securing proper legislation to relieve the present | etrculation conditions is a high public duty of the President—a very high public duty.” Frank A. Vanderlip, vice president of age pt to aid speculative than legitimate business. Schift,” | long | while—views which are embodied in re-| ill face a grave ix not made more elastic is shared yman J. Gage, former Sceretary of the is inclined to favor the changes houzh Schiff helicves this plam more ' the National City Bank, said to-day that he believed Schiff's speech had no appli- cation to the immediate situation. ‘{Had Mr. Schiff thought,” said Vander- lip, “that there was any present danger | he would not have regarded this as an apt time to call public attention to that | danger. He is undoubtedly right in say- ing that some time our illogical currency system will cause trouble. It has caused | trouble in the last six weeks, but the in- dications are that the trouble is about over.” A. Barton Hepburn, president of the Chase National Bank and former Con- troller of the Currency, criticised Schiff's plan as being impracticable and unsafe. “Certainly something has to be done,” he added. ‘“We have no Government bank to fall back upon and some way of im- proving present conditions must be found.” ‘When Jacob H. this afternoon that criticised as Impracticable, he sald that perhaps he had not made himself thor- oughly understood. He said he had no idea of trying to inflate the currency by issuing paper money against the commer- cfal paper already in the banks, but his idea was merely to make more sécure the | plan already, advocated by BSecretary | Shaw, Shaw's plan, he said, was a proposal to let each national bank issue 50 per cent more currency than it now issued without any security whatever. Schiff said he merely wished to have that extra 50 per cent of currency secured by the com- mercial paper in the banks. Schiff added that he would not try to | work out the detalls of the general plan hé had in mind. But he reiterated that | unless some sound scheme of stretching the currency in times of need were found by the national Government the next panic would be a disaster—worse than the United States ‘ever before experienced. Schiff was informed o+ FITZSIMMONS STILL LOVES RUNAWAY WIFE Says He Hopes to Meet Her and Bring About a Re- coneiliation. Spectal Dispatch to The Call SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Jan. 5.—Declaring he still Joves his wife, and is willing to | go any lengths to win her back, Bob Fizsimmons passed through here to-night en route to Sioux Falls, where his wife has gone to obtain a divorce. He hopes to get by her lawyer and thinks he can induce her to return to New York with him. Fitz wept as he spoke of his love for | Julia and cursed whenever he touched on Major Miller. He says his occupation as a fighter is gone, and that the last knock- out was delivered by Julia, and not by O'Brien. The stage, he says, is his only means <f making a livelihood; and this §s precarious without Julla. A new play awaits them, written for them jointly. He admits he is moved by mercenary as well as fentimental reasons in‘seeking a reconciliatio — Werk on Big Hetel Is Begun. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 5.—Work was be- gun to-day on the exeavation for the new $750,000 U. S, Grant Hotel in this city. The structure will occupy half a city block on D street, between Third and Fourth, and will be nine stories in height. The excavation is to be completed by April 1 -+ MODERN BORGIA DIES IN EASTERN PRISON Woman Who Poisoned Sev- eral of Her Relatives Passes Away. BOSTON, Jan. 6.—Mrs. Sarah Jane | Robinson, one of the most notorious fe- male convicts in the country, died in the Middlesex County Jail in East Cam- bridge last night. She was 68 years old and had been in solitary confine- ment more than eighteen years. In 1887 she was convicted of the murder of Prince Arthur Freeman, her brother- in-law, but it was established at the trial that she had also murdered her son, William, 23 years old; her daugh- ter, Elizabeth, 22 years old; her hus- band and her nephew, Thomas A. Free- man. 7 The victims were all killed by poison. The motive for the murders was to se- cure money from life insurance poli- cies held by her victims. —_——— Refuse to Pay the Deposit. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 5.— The agents of the Panama Canal Commis- sion who caine here for the pufpose closed their oftices to-day by orders from Washington owing, to Governor Swettenham’s attitude in refusing to allow laborers to go to Panama with- out a deposit of $§ each, Mr. O’Connell, | his plan had been|, | of hiring laborers to work on the canal | who was in charge of the office, sailed | for Colon to-night ] N STAR ROLE Amuses the House With His Gibes at Republican Party in Philippine Bill Debate POKES FUN AT CANNON Takes a Fling at President and the Leaders Allied With the Administration WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—“Champ Clark Democracy” was expounded to the de-| light and entertainment of the House for three hours to-day by Clark of Missouri, and constituted the feature of the debate on the Philippine tariff bill. Clark’s speech took a wide range and he labeled his political beliefs as above, in answer to a question as to what kind of a Demo- crat he really was. He talked of the Philippines and favored the pending bill; he discussed the general tariff question, and in particular the German tariff sit- uation. He reviewed Willlam J. Bryan's record on silver, and paid his respects in characteristic oratory to Republican lead- ers. He ascribed future greatness to what he termed the great “stand-pat” disciples, and declared that one of these, Secretary Shaw, whose record as Secre- of the Treasury included, he said, classifying frog's legs as poultry and po- nies a household articles,” for the col- | lection of revenue, was a logical Republi- can Presidential possibility, unless the | mantle should fall on *“the gray and griz- zled speaker, ‘Uncle Joe’ Cannon.” WOULD KILL SUGAR TRUST. Speaking from the forum in front of | the Speaker’s desk, Clark addressed many of his positivg asdertions directly to the | Republican members, He was interrupted | many times, and these interruptions gen- erally resulted in responses that delighted both sides. The fight against the bill was opened in the interest of the beet-sugar industry by Fordney of Michigan. He recalled the Hepublican membership to its pledges on the stand-pat tariff plank of the party. Speaking of the area and productive- ness of the Philippine Islands, Clark said he had never been so much surprised since a Republican beat him for Con- gress in 1894, “You could,” he said, “rarn the whole islands into the Congressional district represented by Mr. Stevens of Texas.” Having his attention called to the “sugar trust” by a question from Broussard of Louisiana, Clark declared dramatically “I'll tell you about the sugar trust; if you beet sugar people over here will vote with us to wipe out the differential tariff of 2642 cents on refined sugar we will kill the sugar trust as dead as a mullett.” A question which was immeasurably greater in importance than the Philip- pine sugar question, Clark declared, was the German tariff situation and the Dingley tariff in general. He quoted Governor Cummins of Iowa as saying that all of the insurance stealing and other irregularities were not a tithe to the stealing that is going on un- der the Dingley tariff law. Referring to the ‘“stand pat” doc: trine held by the Republicans, he said: “That phrase Senator Hanna stole from the poker table. If he were alive now he would see that the Republican party has a bobtail flush on the tariff ques- tion.” REFERS TO MORALES. He paid his respects to Senator Cul- lom of Illinois, “who prides himself on a physical resemblance to Abraham Lincoln,” and said he had changed from a “stand-patter” to a believer in re- ciprocity. Senator Lodge, he said, had been stirred to action by the recent election in Massachusetts and wanted reciprocity. “Would the gentleman support a proposition for free hides coupled with a reduction on leather products?”’ asked Gardner of Massachusetts. “So quick it would make your head swim,” replied Clark. Speaker Cannon had taken a seat di- rectly in front of Clark, who, looking directly at the Speaker, said: “The newspapers say President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon have en- tered into a modus vivendi by which the Speaker will permit or facilitate railroad rate legislation during this session if the President will not send in a message in favor of tariif revision.” “Does the gentleman believe that state- ment?”’ asked Grosvenor after the laugh had quicted. “I am not an the witness stand,” was the answer, ~‘but President Roosevelt en- tered into a modus vivendi with President Morales of Banto Domingo, and Morales has taken to the woods, modus vivendi and all.” (Laughter.) MAKES FUN OF LEADERS. When Clark asserted that the Dingley bill was not producing enough revenue to run the Government he brought Gros- venor and Payne to their feet with de- nials. “It is producing a deficit of $1,000,000 a day,” declared Clark. Then, turning to Grosvenor, he shouted: “Now, I want to ask you a question: Are we going to have any river and harbor bill this year?"” Grosvenor at first asserted that he did not know, whereupon Clark pictured him for the amusement of the House as one of the “great triumvirate of the House.” “1¢ consists of the Speaker, Mr. Dalzell and General Grosvenor,” Clark declared. ‘When Payne arose Clark held out his hand and saild: “Now, I want to ask “Well, T guess that’s going some.” THE ROOSEVELT BEARS ° In San Francisco Sunday Morning They tell me at THE CALL office that unless the orders from newsdealers or carriers reach them to-day or early to-morrow they cannot increase the supply of the SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL sent to any particular point. People everywhere are already talking about this newspaper feature; not simply in San Francisco, but in every large city'in the United States. A children’s story as jolly and clean and as stimulating as this should be welcomed by every parent in the country. “The Roosevelt Bears” are two fine fellows. They start from the mountaing of Colorado and make a tour of the East. They ride on Pullman trains, eat in dining cars, stop at the best hotels and have all kinds of good wholesome fun. There ) 1 - 14 <K N : is “something doing” every minute. The story is told in rollicking rhyme; just the kind of jingle that youngsters enjoy. Those who know someth_ing of newspaper printing know that extra eg!izions of a Sunday paper cannot be gotten out to fill Saturday night orders. If you want to be sure of getting a copy place your order with the newsdealer or carrier to-day. Simply tell your newsdealer to-day to be sure to keep a copy for you or to deliver it at your home Sunday morning. Every copy will sell NOTE TO PARENTS: Children need pictures and stories. Tt is just as necessary to feed their im- aginations with good food as it is to feed their bodies with good food. Here is a story full to the brim with .adventure and fun, and crowded to the page limit with comical and entertaining pictures, and at the same time clean and wholesome and elevating. It has been written for all the children of the United States, in- cluding Mr. Roosevelt’s own boys and girls. If you want to be very sure of getting the first instaliment place your order to-day for the SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. If you need extra copies to send to distant points order them in advance. BAILROA’D! PLACE HEAVY ORDERS FOR EQUIPMENT dered 341,315 freight cars, 6265 loco~ “kindergarten’” members of the House, motives and 3289 passenger cars. In and advised them to take notice. If there was necessity for an appropriation to 1904 the flgures were: Locomotives, carry on river and harbor work already | Over Twice as Many Locomotives and | 3535; passenger cars, 2213; freight begun It might be had, he sald, but not . -““ cars, 136,561. 1 S-S SR a cent for new work on public buildings. CHICAGO, Jan. 5—Startling totals ——- are. in the figures which the Railway Troops in Readiness at Manila. Age prints in its i3sue of to-day, show- MANILA, Jan. 5.—Great activity pre= ing its anpual statistics of the car and | vails among the troops in the garrisons PRESIDENT ON FREE TRADE. ‘Watson of Indiana wanted to know what kind of a Democrat Clark was. you a question. are we to have a public bullding bill this session?” “I don’t know.” “Well, why don’t you?"” “Because I am not interested.” “That's just it. You have got yours.,” (Laughter.) Clark then addressed himself to the Vichy tobe only Croton water locomotive business. The figures show | at Manila. Three regiments are under that in the twelve months just closed | fleld orders, In view of possible even- the railways of the cdduntry have or-! tualities in China. Chicago sz East LNICago ax¢ ™= 1,aS Are easily reached by the through train serv- ice -of the Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line. Three trains route and over the only double-track railway Daily and ‘Personally Conducted Ex in Pullman Tourist sleeping cars through to Chicago without change. Double berth only $7.00. Choice of routes. Free information, booklets, maps. time schedules, sleeping “I am a Champ Clark Democrat,” he rejoined, amid hearty laughter. “But the gentleman in 1897 sald he wished all the custom-houses in the country were destroyed,” persisted Wat- son. to have that speech in- answered Clark. “I sald it Asking any Republican if he considered free trade a crime and getting an af- firmative answer from Mahon of Pennsyl- “You are just the I want to pump something into yol He then read a paragraph praising Thomas H. Benton for his efforts to put salt on the free list. s that free trade doctrine?” he asked. * interjected Grosvendr. h, you know who wrote it,"” rejoined Clark. “But here (pointing to Mahon) is ‘the man I am after. He will have to ad- mit that the man who wrote it Is a crim- tnal.” Grosvenor said that President Roosevelt in his younger days had written the sen- timent. “I am nkot a defender of the President,” interjected Grosvenor. “Well, T am glad of continued Clark, “for T do not think he wants to be defended by having the baby act pleaded for him. He would not do that himself. Neither can any Republiean Representa- tive call him a criminal. for if he did the S NG icta N o8 President would cut ‘pap’ (laugh- - R. R. RITCHIE, 8. F. BOOTH, ter), and a Republican Congressman Genl Agent Pacifio Goast, 0. & N.-W.Ry. Gew'l Agent Pass'rDept. U. 2. R.&. © 617 Markst Street, Palsce Hotel, No. { Montgemery Street P.c. 124 SAN FRANCISCO, OAL.