The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 17, 1906, Page 1

THE WDATHER. Forecest for January 17, 1008: Ban Francieco and vicinity—Cloudy ‘Wednesday, with occasional showers; somewhat warmer; light west wind. A. G, MoADIB, Prince and CATIRORNTA The Tnnoce RNIA— B nt Maids. COLUMBIA—'‘Mary Stuart.” Ado About Northing," CHUTES—Vaudeville. GRAND—'‘Monna Vanna.” ““Fires of St. llnn;ei tinee— John." " ORPHEUM—Vaudevilie. MAJESTIC—"A Contenteq Woman. CENTRAL—“The SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LADY CREYS [IFE ENDS N POVERTY *Sacrifices Fortune for Sake of Children. Her Death in Chicago Reveals Story of Rare Heroism. Vhile Daughter Is Member Queen’s Household her Starves. v g rifice in giv- | Ry <ol which 4id not - 3% Grey ret doing she ollars of er for wais ’ e that for days at & a f At the & the daugh- obtained Her to Ch at Oxford, o nds she intended to hide a, Lady Grey came to has been in this city 1 life of abject doverty. v came of the aristocratic BaRi- avy. An unmarried has won fame In (ILLS HINSELF T SHLT ARE Despondent Defaulter From This Town Commits Sui- 1 / . . cide in Mormon City —— Epecial Diepatch to The Call LAKE, Jan. 16.—Dogged by the g a defaulter and a fu- ce, James P. Watson, ould no* be revived. Watson gave himself up to Police Of- ficer Burt Seagar last Saturday and told him he was wanted in San Francisco for mbezzlement. He was taken to the police station, and at his request a tel- Wwas sent to Adam Andrew of ta Mineral Water Com- pany asking If Watson was wanted for such & crime. Watson explained that he hed been in the employment of the company and had stolen $225. Fearing his arrest and exposure before he could settle the matter, he left San Francisco He died about § | Gains. ) | since the elections were begun is-met. by of San Franmeisco, com- de this @fternoon in his | on Commercial glley by taking 2 dose of morphine. Watson was @ in his room about § o'clock. Med- | assistance was summoned, but he LIBERALS O HoL 1% S Each Day's Elec-| tions Add to Victory. British Laborites Also! Continue Their { | | —————— |Unionist Losses Thus Far | Reach Total of Eighty- " Nine Divisions. e LONDON, Jan. 16. —The -commerclal | of the United Kingdom remained the Unionist cause the city of Londo and Sir Edward C Gibb maj s, approximating 10,000, over their Liberal opponents. Some of | the other Conservative London districts, | | like Westminster, and provincial seats Oxford, where the working class is small, managed to retain population U esentatives. Otherwise to- the struggle is a repetition erday’s heavily increased pollings labor votes and discomfiture . who did not gain a sin- day’s balloting, -but lost -two to the' Liberals and Labor- already elected for the 125; Unlonists, 54; Labor- Nationalists, 88. ENT OF THE LANDSLIDE. he solitary Unionist gain at Hastings combined Liberal and Labor gain of 8 elections in London and Liv- e not gone so heavily in favor of the Liberals as did those at Manches- but several seats were won in Lon- nd two In Liverpool. In most cases, the Unionists retained their h greatly reduced majorities, r, the Nationalist, was re- Scotland aivision of Liv- ter, T. P. 0'C | elected for erpool. At Berkenhead the Liberals gained a seat and one at Bdinburgh. Laborites gained one at Dundee. Defeats of former Cabinet secretaries continue to be announced. Alfred Lyt- | tieton, Colonial Secretary in Balfour's et, and Willlam Hayes Fisher, Fin- Secretary to the Treasury in 1902, those who lost their seats. ead Bartlett - Burdett- managed to maintain ter seat, but Sir Henry rr was defeated at Stephens by Glover, a Laborite, LABOR LEADER VICTORIOUS. There was a great scene at Battersea to-night after the poll showing that John 1s was .elected was announced. on the balcony of the Town vendar Hill, where he resides, waving his hat while fully 20,000 pporters were along the hill as eermg. It was 2 long time be- could get a hearing to an- e figures. Then he exclaimed, Now go and tell my wife.” A few min- afterward Burns was _escorted high through the Battersea thousands of workmen. rarles Dilke, in the Forest of atvision of Gloucestershire, and lerson, in North Armagh, the members of Parliament ay without opposition. J. the American, formerly of has been successful in ing the Brixton division of Lam- | The Mr ‘Bu utes shoulder streets , London, for the Liberals. —_—————————— TORONTO PLUMBERS FINED FOR FORMING A TRUST One Hundred and Thirty-Four Men Ad- wit Share in Conspiracy to Restrain Trade. NTO, Ont., Jan. 16.—The Gov- | ernment’s prosecution of Toromrto | plumbers as individuals for combina- | tion in restraint of trade and conspiracy | has resulted in 134 men pleading guilty. [I-‘orty were yesterday fined a total of £10,600, the fines of the others® being suspended. The combination as a whole was fined $12,000 several weeks ago. TORO] i Lo S L Princess Embrages Catholicism. MADRID, Jan. 16.—A dispatch from Rome is to the effect that Princess Ena of Battenberg, the flancee of King Al- fonso, has written to Pope Pius, an- nouncing her conversion to Catholicism. baby were left alone and he had not | the courage to write to them and ex- plain his circumstances. When a return message was received | Monday by Chief of Police George A. | Sheets it contained the information that | Watson had stolen considerable money, but the company would not prosecute, | Watson was released and said he in- | tended to go to work and get enough | money to return to his home and fam- ily. { y\\'auon made several attempts Mon- | day afternoon and Wednesday to find | employment. When he failed he grew despondent. He secured enough money | to-day to buy a dozen grains of mor- | phine and went to his room, where he swallowed the drug. He left a letter which he had written shortly before taking the drug. In- closed was a newspaper clipping which told of Watson el ling 3226 and that he would not prosecuted for the crime. . James P. WMatson was 27 years of age and had been employed by the mineral water company for the past eighteen months at Shasta Springs. He leaves a wife and child in this city. Drink is escribed as the cause of Waison's and came to Balt Lake. His wife and | downfall & INSURGENTS ROUTED IN THe HOUSE —_— Philipp Bill Given Big Majority. Fifty-Seven - Republi- cans Vote Against the Measure, - Babcock’s Followers Prefer Defeat to Affiliation With Demoorats. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The Philip- pine tariff bill was passed by the House to-day substantlally as it came from the Ways and Means Committee; The vote was 258 to 71. Rice was made subject to the same tariff as sugar and tobacco—25 per cent of the Dingley rates—and one or two changes were made as to the ian- guage. This result was attained after decidedly the most strenuous day of the present Congress. Republican opposition to the bill in the interest of the American bect and cane sugar and tobacco interests tried out its strength early and gave up. This oppo- sition refused to affiliate with Democratic efforts. The strongest plea for “insurgent” sup- port was made in behalf of Champ k's amendment reducing the differ- ential on refined sugar. The minority sought to duplicate the House record made on the Cuban reciprocity act, but they reckoned without their host. The Democratic substitute met with only the support of the minerity and went down under a vote of 231 to 106. ©On final passage of the bill the “insurgents” de- manded a roll call, that the record might be preserved. An effort, sustalned by the Democrats but opposed by all but three Republicans, was initiated by McCall of Massachpsetts to commit the United States to the policy of granting indépendence to the Philip- pines as soon as thelr inhabitants can be prepared for self-government. SCOPE OF THE MEASURE. The bill passed to-day admits goods, the growth of products of the Philippine Islands, into the United States free of duty, except sugar, tobacco and rice, on which a tariff of 25 per cent of the Ding- ley rates is levied. It provides that after April 11, 1909, there shall be absolute free trade each way between the United States and the Phillppines. It also exempts Philippine goods coming to the United States from the export duty of those islands. Merchandise from either coun- try is subjected to the internal revenue tax of the country in which such mer- chandise is withdrawn for consumption. Criticizing the expedition to the Philippines last summer, participated in by members of Congress, Bogg of Colorado said to-day that it had cost the Government $10,000—just the amount the press agent of the Panama Canal Commission had cost—to inform the American people of the administra- tion of affairs there. He referred to the account of the trip by Colonel Ed- wards. It showed that they visited a certain place and there were a parade, a dinner and a dance. They visited another place and.there was another parade, another dinner and another dance. He was surprised that the members had obtained so much infor- mation. / On endeavoring to reply, Payne was laughed at when admitting the hos- pitality of the Filipinos and the fre- quent “banquets.” WILLIAMS OFFERS AMENDMENT. The minority leader, Williams, no- ticing “a lucld interval on the part of the administration and the party in power,” offered an amendment putting sugar and tobacco from the Philippines on the free list. He twitted the Re- ublican opponents of the bill with Klvlng “weak knees” because they had just refused to support McCall's amend- ment to “cut loose” from the Philip- pines. Payne thanked Williams, but de- clared his help was not needed in per- fecting. the bill Champ Clark said he had a most per- tinent question to ask: “Does the gentleman think he can pass this bill without our help?’ “I conslder that question very im- pertinent,” was Payne's answer, much to the amusement of the Democratic side. The Willlams amendment was de- feated, the House dividing on party lines, 68 to 170. Mann of Illinois secured the adoption of an amendment providing that tarift and Internal revenue collections shall go directly into the Philippine treasury only until April 11, 1909. An amendment cutting oft 32 50 a ton of the differential on refined sygar and leaving $2 80 of the differential was offered by Clark. Payne made a point of order against the amendment. Clark said here was an opportunity for all those Republicans who had de- nounced the “sugar trust” words. % “If you vote against the amendment,” he continued, “forever and eternally hold your peace about the extortions of the sugar trust.”” REPUBLICANS VOTE TOGETHER. Williams urged the Republicans follow the precedent made on v:; Cuban reciprocity bill, when the House voted to lift the _@ifferential on After & running debate, | T 42 ine Tariff | to back their GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA ARE ALLIES AT ALGECIRAS b | | f | | PR 7 Ameve o DISTINGUISHED SPANIARD CHOSEN TO PRESIDE OVER THE ALGECIRAS CONFERENCE, AND TWO STATESMEN, WHO REPRESENT THE OPPOSING SIDES IN THE DISPUTE BETWEEN GERMANY AND FRANCE. CLERCHIAN WK CHN ASSAILS IOLE. | SAYS HE DOES RICH WOMEN' NOT GO ARMED Says They Are Not Fit| Kentuckian Never in to Become Mothers His Life Carried of Children, a “Gun.” EAEL LT L) Speelal Dispatch to The Call. 5 Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Rev. Madison LEXINGTON, Ky. Jan. 16.—Colonel C. Peters, who last Sunday preached a | ‘Jack” Chinn, the Kentuckian known the sermon in which he said many of the country over as a man who loves to pleasures of idle rich women were in fight and who would go out of hi‘:‘:ly to fend his honor, created a genuine sen- reality vices, supplimented his state- SAta » ments with an interview to-day. . sation here to-day with an address to the studant body at the State college, in “When Mrs. Astor slums,” he says, | which he chatacterized the pistol “toter” “she has a thousand followers; 1if Mrs. |as a person utterly devoid of character. Fish lays bridge the smaller fry will follow suit, and if all of fashion- Coionel Chinn was a member of the Senate committee from the Gensral As- able society drink and smoke the en- tire country will feel its viclous in- sembly which investigated the State col- lege and he was called upon by the chair- fluence. There is where the most harm is done. man of the committee to address the stu- “I have been into the cafes of fash- dents. fonable hotels and niné women out of He took for his subject the bill now hefore the ILegislature to abolish the ten will order drinks of the same kind that her escort orders, and aquite as carrying of concealed deadly weapons, and his remarks were greeted with great applause by the young men and many of them. - “Why is it that so many men in so- ciety go outside of their society ac- women. He said he had more respect for a second-class thief than he had for a bully and would rather be caught with counterfeit morey on hfs person thau a pistol. SSADTOBE TIRED OF HS INSURANCE 10B Grover Cleveland Rest- less Under Hostile Criticism. Special Dispatch to The Call, NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Friends of Grover Cleveland said to-day that he was heartily sick of his $12,000 a year posi- tion as rebate referee for the Equitable, the Mutual and the New York Life insur- ance companies. Mr. Cleveland, it is said, told Paul Morton, president of the Equit- able, on Monday that he would like to be released from the position. Morton begged him to remain and give the place a further test. The reasons underlying Cleveland's desire to give up the position are described by his friends as twofold. In the flrst place he was dissatisfied with the pubucity which had been given his | acceptance of the office, and in the sec ond place he keenly felt the hostile criti- cism which the publicity had aroused. Mr. Cleveland is punctilious and e stick- ler for the conventionalities, and the criti- cism that In accepting the 312,000 a year position he had violated the proprieties or any of the traditions respecting the conduct of former Presidents was bitterly repugnant to him. Paul Morton was asked about these re- ports to-day and denied them emphati- cally, declaring they did not contain one word of truth. Cleveland spent the entire business day on Monday in the office of the trustees of the Ryan stock. These offices are on the third floor of the Equitable building, the same floor on which President Mor- ton's offices are located. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. MortonSat their home on Park {avenue for a few.-days The four had a'box at the theater Mon- day night. z Cleveland was appointed to the place of rebate referee less than a month ago. Each of the “Big Three” companies con- tribute $4000 a year to his salary. His appointment was the result of an agree- ment between the three to make an hcnest effort to prevent the giving of rebates by their respective agents. |\ ENVO +* ~ LONDON, Jan. 17.—The Standard this morning gives prominence to a statement that Great Britain and Russia have arrived at an understanding for a common course of action in the Moroccan conference at Algeciras. TRADITIONAL FOES ARRANGE A PARTNERSHIP | Moroccan Conference Begins Its Del1b- erations. \ SPANISH DUKE 1§ PRESIDENT { \ Almodovar Appeals U for a Peaceful ‘Qutcome. : YS FAVOR : “OPEN DOOR” ALGECIRAS, Jan. 16.—The opening of the Moroccan conference to-day was chiefly notable for the spirit of concilia- | tion manifested throughout the formal | inaugural session. The events of the day }were the gathering of the Embassadors and their executive staffs, and the one- | hour sessfon in which the Duke of Almo- dovar, Spanish Minister of Foreign Af- | fairs, was unanimously elected president { of the conference. The Duke's speech of acceptance | breathed concord and peace. It counseled the nations to adjust their differemces, emphasized the essential principles of the sovereignty of the Sultan, the terri- | torfal integrity of Morocco and the “open door.” It was significant that both the French and the ~German delegations heartily seconded the remarks of the Dulgp, thus foreshadowing the ameliora- tion of Franco-German relations. The delegates had agreed 'to make themselves comfortabls and not to trou- ble about uniforms, so most of them wers in afternoon dress. The Moors wers the last to arrive, and their white draperies and turbans and yellow shoes added an odd touch to a gathering that otherwise looked like that at an afternoon tea. EL TORRES IS HONORED. There were seven of the Arabs—dignie fled men, with watchful eyes and all with athletic frames, except Mohammed el Torres, whose figure is bent under the weight of his 83 years, and who walks with a long staff, which he handles more like a youth than an old man. The Duke of Almodovar met Moham- med el Torres at the head of the stajrs, a distinction which was not shown to the, other delegates. The repose of the Moors was shaken for a second by the rattle of camera shutters In the hands of some thirty foreign photographers, whié¢h sourided as though the file of soldiers was cocking its rifles. Quite a hundred news- paper men and artists representing illus- trated periodicals lined the approaches. The Duke of Almodovar, in welcoming the conference in the name of King Al- fonso, said it was the second time that Morocco and the great powers had met in Spain to deliberate on questions of the highest importance, and he hoped that the common efforts of the envoys would result in the satisfactory fulfin- ment of the heavy task imposed upon them. DUKE APPEALS FOR PEACE. Prince von Radowitz, the German Em- bassador to Spain, and head of the Ger- man deiegation, then arose and pointed out. that the position alphabetically of Allemagne (Germany) gave him the right to propose the Duke of Almodovar for president of the conference. The elee- tion of the Duke was unanimous. In ac- cepting he said: “The powers have clearly shown their desire that order, peace and prosperity shall relgn throughout Morocco. The Sultan, as well as the Forelgn Gover ments, desires this end, which Is obtain- able by introducing reforms upon the triple prénciple of the sovereignty of the Sultan, the integrity of his territory ana equal commercial treatment, namely, the ‘open door.’ Mutual respect for our re- ciprocal interests and a sincere desire to conciliate them must be, according to my view, our rule of conduct at this confer- ence. Qur own sentiment, as well as the expectant attitude of the entire world, dictates such a concillatory solution.” M. Revoll, former Governor of Alglers, who heads the French delegation, second- ed the Duke of Almodovar's speech. He asked the conferencé to adbere to the thoughts so happily advocated by the Duke. Ven Radowitz joined Revoll In & the that the work of the conference would e a fruitful result. pro s SR STANDS FOR A “SQUARE DEAL” Part This Government Will Play fn the Conference. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—What part will be played by the Washington Gov- ernment in the Morocean conference now convening at Algeciras is clearly set forth in the instructions prepared by Secretary Root for the American del- The participation of the United | | | States is based exclusively upon irs teaty Tishts with Morocco. The traaty of S au. .= ent it i de= are to an‘equal share 1n ‘whatever privileges of commerce and quaintance for wives? The answer is “I suppose that every young man in | C- Hart has notified Governor Pardee of residence may be enjoyed that so many of the daughters of thair | tne audjence knows me by Teputation,” | that, owing to the fact that the trial | P00 or"toreigners. e k, | saia Colonel Chinn, “and I want to say | 0f former tor French is pending | ppe attitude of this Government fo- g ; t|a word along that line. I have sever |in his court, and he has & press of | ,,rq the policies of Morocco is clearly is what bridge whist has resolved ft- | carried a pistol in my life and have | business on hand, he will be unable to 1413 down In the instructions. The trial in San Fran- tes will have vices. It Is be- -of soclety mothers of children—not fit thelr tables and over | self into) an o men of the world and cause 3 realize that society women never taken a human life” LIS, 2 Fight Back. M] Jan. 16.—In - retalia- tion for the Mayor's order closing sa- loons on Sunday, E. . Cary, represent- Lion of the to become to preside at such save to ex) ‘whatever that, t arrangerients may be cntered into, an eq! of rights shali be guaranteed to the United States, S -