The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1906, Page 1

Forecast for February 8 1908: San Francisco and Thursday, light northeast wind vicinity—Fair A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. SIANFORD STUDENTS RESTLESS - P Voice Objections to Men Named by Faculty. Transmit an Appeal to President of the University. Letter Is Practically an In- dorsement of the Dis- missed Editor. to The Call. ERSITY, Feb. 7. Allen, the d! Palo Alto, and ttee 100K & new the Quadrangle ts members the most rd, transmitted Jordan a state and emphatic on which th ittee on stu. s L. Green is the ur to-night this statement, f the prominent mem- nt body and officially *ommittee of he students af- one interpretation The ..anford stu- removal of certain from control of letter is as follows: of Leland Stanford 3 e Quadrangle Club of niversity, at the- request—of women of the ed to formulate, : but n from it. gene ition and policy committee on student affairs 1 entire elimination of the per- ent, and actuated solely by a awas b exists bvtween ne of the administrative com iversity, the committee , we submit to you that t constituted that committee ly fail in its efforts to con- the conduct of the k ve this to be due wit hick and committee are entirely out with the under- t their influence 1 d appreciations has ist ‘eontinue to be entirely no intention of deciding as to the ice of particular admin- at committee, we be- ge mzjority of the students nee in the judg- strative body that a nge in the com- essential to a e student body powers of the MARK TWAIN TALKS ON THE ART OF LYING Says He Is Twice as Well Acquainted With Truth as Young Rockefeller. Special Dispatch to The Call. Feb rously 7.—Despite the fact pretended to be the 5 unchauser of the age, Mark Twain declared at the Dickens an- the Press Club to- D. Rockefeller Jr. could ng in the veracity line, grew out of the fact, so at he had been calling attention to d' of cold facts” roung Rotke- to his Bible unknown correspondents suggested uld be a bad idea if I ext session and learn truth,” the genial broad smile. “Now cefeller, and 1 e is fully com- school. He Is it cemes to - r. Clemens did until the eating was over. H arrive Ia gre aching against and he w entire worl d into a con- ng people 1- vulsing talk on the P the art of t 1p by declar ntirely mi aid b ing i t th the point in the story of George Wa: ngton and the cherry tree “The reason his father was proud of jm,” Merk Twain said, “is not that he the t but becaus e knew ‘ L not to tell a lie where 2 lie would ha seen immediately detected.” he marvelous celerity with which sng George took in the situation and ~d the day was what, Mr. Clemens <2id, made the elder Washington proud. ———e———— Edward to Vistt Archduke Frans. VIENNA, Feb, 7.—It 18 reported here from sources which it Is declared are elizble that King Edward will it Dalmatia in the spring. when he will meet Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, with fog in the morning; | | | ibmieiiebinmestiuinsids | Jjority of the mem- | ALHAMBRA—“A Runaway Match.” ALCAZAR—'‘Old Heidelberg. CALIFORNIA — lesquers.”” ‘‘American Bur- COLUMBIA—“Woodland." CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee. GRAND—""Way Down East.” MAJESTIC—*‘Sweet Nell of OM Drury.”” Matinee. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matinee, TIVOLI—"The Gelsha.” NEUMONIA - YIELDS 10 Success of a New Treatment in ' New York. Out of Thirty Cases | Only One Patient Succumbs. \Invalids Are Cared For in Tent House Purified by Winter Breezes. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Interesting re- sults have attended a new treatment of pneumonia at the Fordham Hospital this winter, where Dr. T. Joseph Dunn | tried the outdoor methods which have been used so successfully in tuber- FRESH AIR SAN PATTERSON READ OUT OF PARTY e Democratic Sena- tors Repudiate Colleague. Dramatic Scene in the Upper Branch of Congress. | Coloradan Firm in Intention | to Vote According to His Convictions. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—To-day for lhe‘; first time in many years the Senate cham- | ber was made the scene of an effort to ad- | minister party discipline to a member of | that body, and the occurrence was one of 80 many dramatic details that the many witnesses will not soon forget it. Patter- son was thé subject of the effort, and culosis cases. Standing on the hospital grounds was an old tent, which had been used for typhoid patients when that disease was epidemic in the upper section of the city a year ago. It had been decided to remove the tent, when Dr. Dunn asked for it, with a view of trym? the open-air treatment for pneumonia. he November. all were treated in the tent, with re- sults so satisfactory that it was decided | first patients were admitted in During that month ten in to continue the experiment. Dr. Dunn holds to the theory that a patient with pneumonia needs all the fresh air he can get and the tent was arranged with that end in view. The lower part of the structure called by the physician a “tent” is of wood to a | height of four feet. Then comes a row of windows three feet high, extending j:emtircly around the tent, with sashes opening upward. Above the windows | the tent is of canvas, only the frame- | work of the root being of wood. When the windows are open there is free filtration of air throughout the tent, the | amount of oxygen being greater than could be obtained in a hospital ward. A large coal stove keeps the place at a comfortable temperature. Inside there are eleven cots, arranged n two rows along the walls, with the heads under the windows, but so low as to avold a direct current of afr. | 1In the three months during which the | tent has been in use Dr. Dunn lost only one case of actual pneumonia out of | thirty. Fully 75 per cent of the pneu- monia patients recovered, the deaths, | with one exception, being in cases of alcoholics suffering from pneumonth. DR. SCHENCK HAS A RIVAL English Woman Claims She Can Determine the Sex of Children Before Birth U S SRS Epecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—In the mail that Magistrate Wahle receilved in the York- ville Police Court to-day was a letter | from England enclosing a circular that made the magistrate take notice. The circular said it was the easlest thing in the world to gratify the wish of parents who desired to have sons instead of daughters or girls instead of boys. Mrs. S. J. Pratt is the one who sent | the circular to his Honor. She gives her address as No. 57 Furness Road, Fallow- fleld, Manchester, England. Mrs. Pratt sald in her letfer that the diet theory was all wrong. | *“Let me assure you there is no food in the world that can in any way in- fluence the sex of children,” she wrote. | Mre. Pratt claims to be the first and | only exponent of the law which governs | the determination of sexes. According to the circular, she has received permission to give the names and addresses of sev- eral women who will confirm from their own experience the unfalling results of compliance with her instructions. “Up to the present time,” she writes, “I have not had a fallure.” Mrs. Pratt did not tell how she could accomplish the proportioning of sexes. | s | She did explain that she gave instruec- tions direct to the mother, and she added that if she was guaranteed at least fifty clients she would come to the United States and demonstrate her theory. ————— PASSENGER TRAINS MEET IN MIDNIGHT COLLISION Serfous Accident Occurs on Georgla Raflroad and Several Persons Are Reported Hurt. MACON, Ga., Feb. 8.—Trains Nos. 4 |and 9 (Dixie fiier) on the Central of Georgia Railroad collided near For- sythe, Ga., shortly after nfidnight. No | Getails have been obtained yet, but sev- eral are reported hurt. iR A ng Garfield’s Report. CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—The reading of the report on the beef industry made by Commissioner Garfleld occupied the entire day in the trial of the’ packers’ | a large part remained to be read. In | all probability the reading will not be finished before a late hour to-morrow or some tima am Fridax case to-day and when court adjourned | Bailey, to whom in the absence of Gor- | man Democratic leadership is conceded, | was the instrument of his party in the incident. The proceeding arose in connection with the consideration of Patterson's resolu- | tion of remonstrance against caucus ac- tion on treaties with foreign nations. The Colorado Senator to-day called up his res- | olution immediately after the conclusion of the routine morning business and ad- dressed the Benate upon it. The facts concerning the caucus proceedings of Sat- | | urday and his withdrawal from the cau- cus were fresh in the minds of the Sen- ators. Patterson’s speech was in the main an elaboration of his resolution, and he contended stoutly for the right of a Sen- ator to follow the dictates of his coen- science rather than the demands of his party in all matters regarding which the two might be in conflict. It was not un- til after he had concluded that the. pro- ceedings took on an aif 'of intensity and excitement. BAILEY WIELDS THE WHIP. Bailey, like most of the members of his party, had interpreted Patterson's resolu- tion as a deliberate reflection upon the Democratic caucus, and from the moment that Balley arose he assumed an aggres- sive and somewhat taunting manner to- ward the Colorado Senator. His speech was based upon the theory that all Sen- | ators are under obligation to obey con- | science rather than caucus, but that in doing so they antagonize their party and | should hold themselves responsible to thelr party, but the speech was more notable for its arraignment of Patterson for his course than for its adherence to any line of argument. Balley charged the | Senator from Colorado with having been | a party to the adoption in a previous | caucus of the rule binding Democratic Senators to the two-thirds rule. This charge and Patterson’s response to it con- stituted a dramatic incident, and the feel- ing throughout the Senate chamber was very tense until the climax was passed. Patterson failed to recail the proceed- ings of the previous caucus, but Bailey's colleague, Culberson, was prepared with a copy of those proceedings, and when he had exhibited it Patterson said that he would not undertake to dispute the record. He was Inclined at first to charge complicity to disparage him before his colleagues and the country, but afterward said he was not so much concerned over the apparent Inconsistency on his own part as he was over the effect that the springing of the matter would have upon the main issue, which was to exhibit to the country the danger there is in caucus dictation. NO “WHITE HOUSE DEMOCRAT.” ‘When Patterson first arose, he said that he had supposed that his former remarks on the Banto Domingo treaty would be passed over as inconsequential, but the action of the Democratic caucus last Sat- urday had made it evident to him that he fell directly within the censure of that caucus. He said he had been called a “bolter” and e ‘“White House Democrat,"” and that a New York paper had gone so far as to say that there had been an un- derstanding between himself and the President, and that an understanding about patronage and the Senator’s re-elec- tion had been reached. In refutation of this charge, he sald that he had never made but one request for official appoint- ment by the President, and in tha! case the request was refused. The last in- terview he had had with the President was a month ago, he sald, and pertained to the forest reserves. In that matter he felt that the President had transcended his authority and he had so informed the President. In that case also he had failed in his mission. There had been an em- phatic exchange of views and a sudden termination of the interview, and he had not since met the Chief Executive except in a casual way. He confessed to a firm friendship for the President and he felt that in the struggle he was making on economic lines he deserved support. “I admire and commend him for his brave position,” he said. Patterson said that he expected treaty to be amended. “I don’t object to the main features of the treaty,” he said, “but if the treaty is not amended, as L think it should be, I take the new condition into conside |ation ana in the end do as I think I , should.” the TILLMAN CAUSES A LAUGHL. Daniel asked Patterson if he knew of {any other Senator who would vote for | |the treaty, but Patterson did not reply Instead he referred to the charge. mad«| that he had deserted his party and (hat | {he was in the habit of making party changes. He admitted that he had left he Democratic party in 1862 rather than In this connec- | | by questions from Morgan. FRANCISCO,. TH Much of this statement was brought cui : t RSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ALL ATTEMPTS TO AMEND WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—By continuing its session practically to 7 o'clock the House concluded all preliminary steps to the passage of the rallfoad rate bill, or- dered a roll call on the measure and put off final action until to-morrow. The time for amendment came at 4 o'clock, and for three hours following one amendment after another came up, was read, debated in some instances and went down to- de- feat. So flerce was the struggle to amend that often when a paragraph of the bill was concluded in the reading a dozen members waved their amendments and shouted for recognition. Not one of these amendments was adopted. They contained all manner of propositions, such as regulating preferen- tials, the long and short haul, free passes, court procedure, whole rate bills and parts of bills. All went “by the board.” RATE BILL Final Vote on the Measure Goes Over Until To-Day. Indications That It Will Have Large Majority in House. Orators of Both Parties Are Heard in Closing Debate. “This the proposition in the pending measure,” sald Mann. “It is proposed to give to the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, to a limited degree, the rate- meking power. This will not prevent the carrier. in the face of competition, from lowering its rates in order to save its share of the business. The pending bill invites competition and preserves all the comvetitive forces which tend to in- crease the economy of transportation and reduce the cost thereof. “The railroad officlals fear that it is dangerous. Let us admit it. There is some danger. No one can tell how dan- gerous it might become if fully exercised. But no legislation is ever enacted with- out some element of danger in its possi- bilitles. The best guaranty is that the pending measure is conservative. It pro- tects the interests of the shipping com- REPRESENTATIVE- JoHN oF HMISSISSIPPY o el Previous to the exciting proceeding the House had been entertained for five hours by the oratory of its best speakers. W. Bourke Cockran of New York gavé his approval of the measure in an elaborate speech. Mann of Illinois followed. Then the minority leader, Williams of Missis- sippl, expounded the measure and con- gratulated everybody upon its success. Chairman Hepburn closed the debate in a comprehensive speech dealing with the arguments of its opponents and the terms of the bill. COCKRAN ARRAIGNS RAILROADS. Cockran, while he did not consider the bill a panacea for all evils, said it was a most wholesome manifestation of a unan- imous public determination to deal with the rate evils. It was the only means by which public ownership could be stopped, and checked the most plausible argument of the Socialist. “The history of railroad mznagement in this country,” he said, “is the history of favoritism, of corruption and of fraud.” In spite of this he would not say the rallroads had not rendered enormous ser- vice, but they had not been as efficient as they should have been. His next assertion was that railway influences predominated both political parties. Illustrating this, he showed how the representatives of wealth ignored the courts and dominated State administrations. The very court which had dropped the proceedings against H. H. Rogers had the next day issued a most vigorous injunction against striking printers. In this connection he reviewed the Northern Securities decision, which, he sald, classed as criminals and conspirators those responsible for that combination. Harriman and Morgan, he sald, quarreled over the control of several railways in the Northwest which threat- ened to Interfere with their plunder. The President directed an action against them. The court declared a conspiracy existed. “What was the result?’ he asked. “It was to reduce the control of these prop- erties from two to one. When they came to Aistribute the stocks Harriman had been eliminated; Morgan was supreme. A more perfect conspiracy was perfected through the decision of the court itself. And the stock, which was selling at $100 to $102 .when the decision was pending, sold for $160 after it was announced, thus enriching the conspirators,. who walked out of court just $240,000,000 richer for having been convicted.” ‘ The fact that no criminal proceedings had beer begun was dwelt on at some length and the jail sentence of Debs and the conviction of two railroads for ‘“‘mere tions’” are ::’:gvl]stcsrilcre paid to. Rockefeller, *“‘at once the richest and most despised of our ole population.” W"!“h«: r‘nos( effective feature of the bill, he maintained, was the popular disposi- bac): of it: the mext was its pub- v feature. SIANN SUPPORTS THE BILL. Applause greeted Cockran's conclusion and after the informal congratulatory re- ception to him had concluded, Mann of 1llinols teok the floor. Tersely stating the need of the shipper. for railroads, the need of the railroads for the shipper and the difficulty of their coming to an equitable understanding, contrasted. Compil- \HARP ' WiLliaMy ° oo ee, 4 ARE DEFEATED Discussion of the railroad rate bill was concluded in the House yester- day, but the final vote was put over until to-day. Every attempt to amend the measure was defeated, the rollcalls indicating that it will have Sy I BEPRESENTATIVE. W POURKE COCKRAN of NEw YORK — NT IN NATIONAL LIFE WHO TOOK PART IN THE DISCUSSION uEgFP_?}(l)g !gAEILRDAD RATE BILL AT WASHINGTON v NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS WERB BEING MADE TO AMEND THE MEASURE. YESTERDAY WHILE ‘ — munity and does not permit conflscation of the rallroad property. The present bill is a compromise measure. It prob- ably does not meet the full views of any one.” — WILLIAMS FELICITATES. Willlams, the Democratic floor leader, who - followed Mann, presented a host of tions upon the rate -bill. He ::;lfltpul?n turn in his felicitations the Democratic members of the committee reporting the bill, the whole committee, the Democratic party, the Republican party, the President and the country. Willlams summarized the bill and all that had been done by Congress, and went over the ground that had been debated at length during the past ten days. He concluded with’ an ex- pression of the hope that the House would stay in session until the begin- ning of the next session before it would yield to an amendment which might be put In by the Senate, the effect of which might be to weaken the bill Hepburn made the concluding speech on the bill. Hes took up in turn the points made Iin opposition to the bill and disposed of each in a brief man- ner. First, he deprecatéd the effort to claim political credit. He reviewed the progress and development of rallroads during the past twenty years to show that the interstate commerce act of that time had not impeded railroad progress. Touching on the construction of words, which had been made a point of opposition, Hepburn asserted the utter futility of getting a legislative unanim- ity on€that peint. He sald that not a member of the House could write a twenty-word senterce that would not be capable of two constructions. % “You doubtless have heard the story of the lttle girl whose people were to move to Missourl and who prayed ‘Good-by, God; we are going to move to Missourl’ (Laughter). Her brother heard her, and in his joy at the pros- pect of travel amended the prayer in this way: ‘Good, by God! We are go- ing to move to Missourl’” (Prolonged | laughter.) He maintained that no court rights were lost under the bill and concluded with an expression of the hope that the bill would be sent to the Senate without anendment. . When Hepburn concluded he asked Mann pointed out the necessity for an LINSON SIS~ PRONIES CIVE “HIW CONTROL Claims He Will Rule Two Insurance Companies. ST. PAUL, Feb. 7.—Thomas W. Lawson of Boston held a four hours' conference with Governor Johnson at the Capitol to- day. Immediately afterward Lawson left for Chicago. The subject of the confer- ence was the forming of a committes of governors and other prominent men to investigate the affairs of the New York Life and the Mutual Life Insurance com- panies. At the close of the conference Lawson said that his interview with Governor Johnson had been very satisfactory. “‘Governor Johnson has consented to re- main as a member of the committee I have in mind,’ said Lawson. “I have enough ‘proxies right now te give me vot- ing control of the New York Life and the Mutual Life.” Governor Johnson sa!d after the conm- ference that he had agreed to remain on thé committee, “although I refused to act as chairman of it, as Mr. Lawson urged me to do, as it would take tos much of my time away from the State.” “Has Mr. Lawson the necessary proxies from policy holders to control the voting | in the two big life ipsurance comj ” ‘was asked. i “I believe from the showing he made MEN OF MEANS N SEARCH OF LIFE PARTNERS Wealthy Bachelors of Wyoming Advertise for Wives. DENVER, Feb. 7.—Nine of the wealthiest bachelors in Wyoming. sev< eral of them members of the Grey Buil Club of Meetteetse, are ready to re- ceive proposals of marriage from pretty and women, and have advertised their willingness in circulars sent out, Their names and addresses and esti~ mated fortunes follow: Frederick Henderson, Casper, Wyo., sheepman and member of the Grey Bull Club; wealth estimated at $500,000. 0. J. Johnson, Casper, sheepman and owner of dry goods store, telephone lines and laundry; wealth estimated at $750,000. Timothy Kinney, Cookesville, sheep- man, $500,000. J. A. Delfelder, Lander, Wyo., formen member of Grey Bull Club, shespman, worth $300.000. P. H. Ralston, Powder River, stock- man; worth $1,000,000. ‘Walter I Rellly, Monetta, owns town of Monetta and one of the principal members of the Grey Bull Club; worth $750,000. David Dickie, Meetteotse, corre- sponding secretary of the Grey Bull Club, sheepman: worth $300,000. James Dickle, Anchor ranch, sheep- man; worth $500,000. E. C. Blond, Anchor ranch, Postmas- ter and sheepman: worth $400,000. Women were so scarce in the Big Horn basin that the club recently be- gan a campaign to secure wives for its members; also stenographers and school teachers. Two hundred men want wives. —_————— ' GET OUT YOUR GLASS AND. OBSERVE TOTAL ECLIPSE Moen Will Be Overshadowed To-Night, SAN JOSE, Feb. 7.—W. P. Campbell,