The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1906, Page 2

LODGE SAYS REBATING more evil of hes of red the ishment should vould have the desi for an investigation of alleged nroblem than ordinary ed out to those found guilty cd effect—that the fining of the gullty persons would not act as a deterrent. provisions of the Esch-Townsend bill of the last session, and intimated were changed {n conformity with his views he might not support it. railroad combiues was adopted. assailed the railronds and questioned the sincerity of giving rebatés, an In a ¢ President of the interest, on the raliroad problem, were rebating (o be the only one that required a remedy. acteristic speech efforts to solve the tramsportation MUST BE CHECKED. made In the Senate yesterday. | He believed that drastic pun- | that only fmprisonment Lodge fa- that unless the present Tillman’s resolution providing the South Caro- d sald SENATE ORDERS INVESTIGATION OF RAILROAD COMBINES REBATING COAT SHI are made of the best white or -!Itl-sbng, CLUKTT, PEABODY & CO, Makers of Collare and Shirts tn the World D Graves’ Tooth Powder you have a perfect dentifrice and antiseptic. 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Dr-Graves’ Tooth Powder Co. ‘| to vote for a bill embodying the princi- ples of the Esch-Townsend bill of the last session he would do so with reluctance, ;| He said that the language of the resolu- beauty — becomes a part of| | experien untries demonstrates that | t rate-making wha Governi has h d rates, but, on the ¢ em not only higher, b as in Russia, rates are w as ours, the railroeds and the loss Is made good of the taxpayers, In Eng- | aximum rates fixed by Parliamen- | on against ral » consent of the railway | rates are higher than not decline in accord- of prices, or, indeed, in any of Burope generally 1 roy the profits | wages of those em- | | e accepted the other | ywnership, with the I the people taxed to | last point is that of discrim ities ® * That di our be fol eystem which | folly to es tions, working a f disc larger | 2 the hope of curing the -original pt , to remedy make, we shou of the y -wheth- g, with a view can be effected | hange for the worse, but at all 4t ought not to g0 e by the tion h pro- | coun- | an the courts of the is as far as w mbated the idea that the rail- wned by a few men and that inimical to and independent of interests. He sald: the settled th wellbeing of such death. A su on in our method would br are and estab- eo but to SENATOR ADVISES CAUTION. | se reasons, he argued, we should ceed with the utmost care In railroad | He concluded: | e proper legislation in regard | ; there should be Government | ulation. We should stop | ertake should not itself lead to Govern- owtiership, the dange; pittall we are g to av It is vital that.this legista- tion shoujd eucceed, . but -it can succeed only ive against the evils which it e it proceeds with the utmost those directions where experience has some of the remedies now proposed duced evils far more unbearable and urious than those which It : was & dy nting out possible dangers fo the oposed legislation he sald the first of rese was found in the possibility of fail- ing to provide an effective remedy against ersonal djscrimination “That which is to be fearéd as to re- bates,” he said; ‘4s that the law will fiot go far enough and will not be intelligent- ly effective.’ He suggeste t the power delegated ot go beyond on freight. dge said that while he was prepared because of his doubt as to the wisdom of rate-making by the Government. How- ev the regulation and supervision of ri d tems seemed so essential that was not willing to oppose it even if did not Teel satisfied with some of its features. 0% he added signiicantly, “if the e I have outlined is to be modified, the case will assuredly change.” TILLMAN ASSAILS RAILROADS. called up his resolution re- Iman the fon, with a railroad discrimina View to asking for immediate considera- tion « Before doing so he explained the resolution by saying that it was very comprehensive and covered a wide field. | tion was largely the same as that of the esolution presented in the House a few s ago by Gillesple. ving his reasons for asking for the inquiry he =aid that he was convincea that evils existed in connection with the raflroad systems of the country. He said | that he had no desire to do injustice to | the rallroads, and he believed they should | have a fair return on the money invested “We find, however,” said he, “a system tem which of combination instead of the oiu s | of competition, resulting in trus are grinding the people to death He belleved there should be a remedy, but added that the present proceeding in Congress was & stupendous farce. Said he: ery paper you read brings assurance that t F‘xv;énfiar has won his fight, and yet when | you examine further you find that the Presi- dent's two principal advisers are Eilihu Root, who has been the closest adviser of the rail- way magnates of New York, who are at the | Yoot of all the devilment, and the { junior Senator from Pen | been for 1 don’'t know how many years in the employ of the l’flnn\']’l\'alnia Rallroad and its closest friend and counseior. | “When vou look further you find the Penn- Raflroad at the head of the list of ssors of the people. Hence, he contended that the people | were belng “bamboozled” by the talk | of protecting the masses against the | class He confessed that “with such | cooks he was inclined to sniff at the | dish that is set in the United States | Senate.” KNOX ANSWERS SOUTHERNER. Knox was not in the Senate chamber | when reference was made to him, but the South Carolina | he came in before | Senator had proceeded far. He im- mediately interrupted Tillman to say | to him that he had been entirely mis-: | taken in saying he had been attorney | or the Pennsylvania Railroad. 1 “I never sustained that relationship, either permanently or temporarily, di- rectly or indirectly, at any time dur- | ing my career.” he said. He added that he would not consider such connection at all improper. | Tillman expressed satisfaction at the | devial, saying to Knox that “he would ; respect him more for the balance of | nis life.” Continuing, the South Carolina Sen- ator said that the three principal lines of road south of the Potomac were in | a merger which was controlled by the! Pennsylvania Railroad and the New | York Central. He then spoke of the, conditions in West Virginia, and said that, notwithstanding tha Governor | Dawson’s” predecessor had called at- tention to the violation of the law in that State, the Attorney General had done nothing about it. The people were, however, becoming aroused. + “Even the poor, besotted Pennsyl- | referring | policy in West Virginia, sald that road | were being made | until he is forced into bankruptc vania Legislature, owned body and soul by the Pennsylvania and Reading rail- roads,” had shown signs of life by adopting a resolution as to the control of the coal product by the railroads, as if everybody did not know that the anthracite output was and had been for years controlled both as to quantity and pr! He declared the Pennsyl- vania Railroad to be the “head devil in the whole policy of monopoly,” and, to the Baltimore & Ohio's had practically told the public that it might be “damned.” He declared that a very strenuous effort had been brought to bear on the President to grant to the railroads the privilege of appeal to the courts before the orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission went fect. into ef- He had even heard that threats that>the President must yield. FORAKER DECLARES HIMSELF. Foraker asked Tillman if he did not believe there should be provisions for review by the courts and Tillman re- plied that he believed in it if properly provided for. “Otherwise,” he said, “the poor devil of a complainant will be bullyragged and dragged from one court to another In answer to further questions by Foraker, Tillman sald he was not sat- isfied with the Hepburn bill, and he added that he intended to offer amend- ments to remedy the situation in West Virginia. He asked Foraker if he was g0ing to vote for the House bill. For- aker replied In a sentence. “I am not,” he said. The South Carolina Senator then went on to say that the Senate was under a cloud and should take, steps to clear its good name, o “The newspaper press associations, how- ever controlled—and I have my suspicions on that point,” he sald, “have educated the people to believe that Theodore Roose- velt is their only friend here and that the Senate is the supple tool of the corpora- tions unless it takes their fpse dixit.” He declared that the Hepburn bill had a loophole in it that a freight train might be driven through, and added: You will never stop the devilment till | ¥ou put some millionaire in prison and put the stripes on him.” Tillman then proceeded to give reasons why he thought the President could not be depended upon to serve the interests of the people. Tillman referred to for- mer Attorney General Griggs, saying that immediately after retiring from office he had taken the merger cases of the North- ern Securities Company against the At- torney General. Speaking of Paul Mor- ton, l:ae said that he had resigned from the Navy Department “‘with the confes- sion of rebate on him, made by his own mouth, and the proof hanging over him."” .‘He is promcted,” Tillman continued, ‘and made head of the great insurance organization in New York, which has been made the stamping ground for as dirty a lot of thieves as ever walked God’'s green earth. And they sent a man with this nice clean record and put him in charge of these scores of hundreds of millions, which are the savings, so to speak, of widows and orphans, who have polcies in that company. STANDS BY HIS FRIENDS. “Yet here we say,”. he went on, “the White House is immaculate. I do not doubt Theodore Roosevelt's integrity and patriotism. As I stated the other day, he is monstrously persuaded by some people who get around him and ‘honeyfuggle’ him with flattery. Whatever their meth- ods may be he stands by his friends. He gave Morton a certificate of good charac. ter.” Tillman then referred to a dinner recent- Iy at the White House to the executive committee - of the Republican National Committee, and said: The President has been elected nearly a year and a half and never has it been found neces- sary or desirable to bring these friends of his, these true and tried lieutenants and coun- selors in his last race for the Presidency, to dine with him. The inevitable conclusion in my mind—at least it ought to be if it is not— is” that these people were brought together to confer as to how the money could be raised to help poor old McCall out of the bog into which he has sunk and refund $148,000 which he stole from the policy-holders of ‘the insur- ance company and tontrybuted. to the campaiba funds of the National Republican Committee. For surely this man McCall s not going to be left in the lurch and run the riek of bank- ruptcy or of being sent to the penitentiary because of the fact that his love for the Re- publican party got him into this trouble. Tillman closed as follows: The other day somebody here made an al- lusion to the ‘comparison between Andrew Jackson and President Roosevelt. Let us look at it. Andrew Jackson never put Nicholas Biddle in his Cabinet. In his fight against vower he fought to the bitter end. d no blandishments; he used a bludg- The President had no need for any cam- paign fund, but his lleutenants did. Mr. Bliss collected it. Mr, Cortelyou spent it. Mr. Cor- telyou is in the Cablnet, and, as I said, so is the trusted friend and attorney of the money power in New York—Eiihu Root. 1 acknowi- edge he is a very bright and great man, and 1 admire him. But Andrew Jackson never would have taken as a Cabinet officer a man so closely allied with Nicholas Biddle in the national banks. e BILL DISPLEASES RIPLEY. President of Santa Fe Rallroad Would Change Hepburm Measure. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12.—E. P. Rip- ley, president of the Santa Fe Rafl- road, arrived in Los Angeles to-day. On the subject of proposed rate legis- lation by Congress, he said'the Hep- burn bill did not please him to a great extent and asserted that its passage would place the power of administering the rate affairs of great railroad cor- porations into the hands of a “political bod “I hope to see the United States Sen- ate modify the provisions of the bill,” Ripley said. “In what respect?”’ he was asked. “Well, 1 do not think it safe to place the power to make raiflroad rates in the hands of a political body, even temporarily. There is a possibility of | too much politics in the proposed bill. However, I know nothing of the status of affairs in that regard. I haven't been near Washington for qaite a while. Ripley said the Santa Fe Company would expend more than $15,000,000 in improvements in the present fiscal year. “We have not expended less than $6,000,000 annually for several vears in improving bur lines,” he said. Che work now under way is mostly in the way of better ballast and new rolling stock.” The work in _connection with the Texico cut-off will be finished by July 1, he said. The operation of passenger trains over the new tracks will place Los Angeles nearer to Chicago than any other city on the coast by severa] | hours. The time between Chicago and Los Angeles will be reduced from six to eight hours, the cut-off saving more than 200 miles’ travel over the present route, Js.» s | | | | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1. WHIPPING-POST BILL “KILLED" Ridiculed to Death by the Oratorical Humorists of the House of Representatives ADAMS BUTT OF JOKES s Author of Measure Rebuked by His Colleagues for Re- maining in Bachelor Ranks g WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The House to- day had sport with the Wwhipping-post bill for wife-beaters and then laid it upon the table, effectively disposing of it by a vote of 155 to 57. The most impas- sloned speech for the measure was de- livered by Hepburn of Iowa, Who de- picted the brutality of the man who would beat his wife'and declared that to be whipped was hardly adequate punish- ment. Adams of Pennsylvania opened the dis- cussion with a serious speech in favor of the blll. Al of the opposing speeches partook of levity, and Adams received more than one fling because he is a bache- lor. Adams sald President Roosevelt and the district officials were in sympathy with the bill and it was only those possessed with the character of ‘“maudlin sentiment which sent flowers to the criminal's cell that opposed i The Chief of Police of ‘Washington, he said, has reported 308 wife beatings in the past two years. Ade. quate punishment, he said, should be pro- vided. . Stephens of Texas interjected the query it the bill was not ‘“class Iegislation.” Members laughed as Adams “declined to be interrupted.” Wachter of Maryland said that if the bill passed the city of Baltimore had a very good whipping-post in the Balti- more city jall, which the district could buy at a bargain. In firty years, he said, it had been used but twice. “The women of Maryland don’t want it used any more than the men,” said he. “Where does the gentleman get his in- formation?” asked Adams. “At home,"” replied Wachter, and added: “Oh, I mean in Baltimore.” (Laughter.) SIMS ADDS TO THE LEVITY. Sims of Tennessee, opposing the bill, predicted that it would get one vote only in the House, The President, he said, had advocated increased punishment for wife-beaters, but, added Sims: “He is a year older now and his last message sald nothing about it.” He made further point that the report of the local Chief of Police indicated that “common law wives and other females” received most of the beatings. “Some one has suggested we amend the bill to apply to wife-chasers,” he declared turther. “I don’t know whom that would hit.”” (Laughter.) James made an attempt to advocate that the Whipping of *‘beaters” should be done ublic. lns[l)ms accepted this. If the whipping, he sald. was to serve as an example, a platform should be erected on top of the Washington monumept, where the effect of the beating could reach afar off. For five minutes Stanley of Kentucky made fun of the bill, and incidentally took Adams to task for never having married. STANLEY SCORES THE BACHELORS. “T am more ‘Surprised,” said Stanley, “at this unusual proposition, coming, as it does, from the distinguished gen- tleman from Pennsylvania—of all the men in the House the last orfe to shed tears as big as a buttermilk biscuit, over a suffering wife. (Laughter.) If it had come from a gentleman from Utah I could have listened with more patience. “If you take all the suffering women in this country there are more of them really in pain that are not married, and in pain because of that fact, than women who are married and beaten.” (Laughter.) “And,” he continued, “the gentleman from Pennsylvania belongs to the class which is really afflicting more torture than the wife-beater. The man-anguish is more serious than pain, and If you will think of the great number whom he has left alone lamenting he should have more mercy on others who inflict agony on the fair sex. “I shall move that a like punishment be inflicted on him who feloniously re- fuses to take a wife. (Laughter.) Gaines of Tennessee asked what the gentleman would do if he were to wit- ness a husband beating his wife.” “It would depend,” replied Stanley. “upon the husband and upon the wife. If she were red-headed. even my Southern chivalry would not tempt me to Interfere.” (Laughter.) BARTHOLDT OFFERS AMENDMENTS Bartholdt of Missouri offered several amendments: one to put upon the rack a man guilty of non-support of his family; one that a wife deserter should be pinched with red-hot tongs; another | to pillory every man over 25 vears of age who refuses to take a wife, the amendment providing that he shall stand in the pillory, and after six months, if he still refuse, he shall be burned at the stake. These amend- ments were received with hilarity. Mahon of Pennsylvania created much merriment by offefing an amendment providing for the punishment of wom- en who are “common scolds,” ‘“com- monly called hell-cats,” who shall be ducked In the Potomac river not less than five nor more than ten times. This amendment exempted the Presi- dent, members of the Cabinet, mem- bers of the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives. t Hepburn of Towa declared the situa- tion which the bill sought to remedy a serious and disgraceful one. It was impossible to find any adequate pun- ishment for the 508 “brutes” who had beaten their wives in the Distriet. Payne moved that the bill be laid on the table. A vote by roll call was ordered on his motion, which was car- ried by a vote of 153 to 60, thus de- feating the measure. DRUG HABIT ASSUMES ALARMING PROPORTIONS House Passes Bill to Regulate the Sale of Poisons in District of Columbia. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—During the consideration in.the House to-day of a bill to regulate the sale of poisons in the District of Columbia, the state- ment was made that the drug habit, especially the use of cocaine, had grown at an alarming rate during the past five years. Babcock said he had I been called at all times of day and inight by mothers and persons inter- | ested to plead for a law which would make {t impossible to obtain thisdrug. | The evil had grown, he sald, to be de- cidedly greater than the liquor habit. The bill was passed. % e e Baldwin Assigned to Dakota. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Orders have been issued at the War Department as- signing General Baldwin to the com- mand of the Department of Dakota. General Baldwin is now temporarily in command of the Southwestern Division and will be relieved there by General Greely. The change will take effect about March 1, SAYS ROCKEFELLER CANT UNDO WRONG et on Sins gl QW foug KANSAS CITY, Feb. 12.—Herbert S. Hadley, Attorney General of Missouri, to- day in an interview here said that if John D. Rockefeller at his death should leave his entire possessions to the nation it would not atone for the wrong which the Standard Oll Company had done toy the country. ‘“Suppose that John D. Rockefeller on his death left all his Standard Oil pos- sessions as a gift to the nation, to be held in trust perpetually for all the peo- ple, what would the people think of him?"” was asked of Hadley. “If Rockefeller did that,” replied the Attorney General, “he could not atone for the almost incalculable moral wrong he has done the country. It would not atone for the distinctly dishonorable and commercially immoral trend the success of Standard Oil methods has given the trading and _fipancial organizationsg of America. In my own recent investiga- tions I have had the most positive and actual proof of the demoralizing influence of Standard Oil in Missouri. Railroad preference still exists. It costs 5 cents more to freight oil from St. Louls to Kan- sas City than it does from Kansas City to St. Louis. But Standard Oil has a re- finery at Kansas City. Standard oil is shipped in iron barrels, and independent oil in wooden barrels. Iron barrels are heavier, but the rate on wooden barrels is one class higher. “Rallroad officials have been bribed here. Tha spy system is common. Every trick and turn that can be adapted to evade the law is used without scruple.” -—— ON TRAIL OF ROCKEFELLER. Noisy Cheeses Point the Way teo the 0il Baron’s Hiding Place. TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Feb. 12.—Many residents of the vicinity of his Pocantico Hills estate are convinced that Johm D. Rockefeller is hidden on his own property. They found to-day what they considered to be the strongest kind of evidence lo- cating him in this neighborhood. This is nothing more or less than a revelation that the one brand of cheese which + ERAL, WHO IS CAMPED UPON THE OIL TRUSTS TRAIL. l MISSOURI'S ATTORNEY GEN. - B Rockefeller fancies most is still being shipped from New York City to Tarry- town. The cheese Is arriving every day, consigned to some person employed on the estate. The moment it arrives its presence is known. Although regular em- ployes of the New York Central would not talk, Henry Coge, a hackman, spoke frealy to-day. “Them cheeses,” -he said, “I would rec- ognize them anywhere, no matter wheth- er it was day or night. I have always been given to understand that it is the one brand be likes. It comes here regular when he is here, and ordinarily when he is absent it stops coming. I have heard that he could not be found, but I know that it has been coming up here every couple of days. I am acquainted with it and recognize it the moment it comes out of the express car and is received by a waiting driver. Rockefeller, in my opin- fon, is somewhere on his estate.” It must be acknowledged that a visit to the Pocantico Hills property is dis- couraging. The golf links are under four inches of snow, the walks are untrodden, the yellow glass encased house appears deserted and long rings at the bell simply produce a diffident Italian youth, who apparently does not know who employs him. Asked about Rockefeller to-day, the youth launched into a graphic description of a recent case of sore throat he him- self had suffered. —_——————— SAN JOSE, Feb. 12.—Luther Hutchison re- ported to the Sheriff's office this morning that yesterday afterncon some person entered his residence at Mountain View and stole $175. The Sheriff is investigating. BALLOON TRIP DURING STORM Daring French Aeronaut As- ends at West Point and Carried to Mountains Is BUFFETED BY A GALE Thrilling Ride Through Dense Clouds and,in Bitter Cold Has Fortunate Ending Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Feb. 12—The keen anxiety felt for the safety of Charles Levee. the French aeronaut, who started from West Point yesterday in his great balloon and was rapidly swept northward over the mountainous region west of the Hudson River, was relieved to-day when Augus- tus T. Pose and other members of the Aero Club learried that the intrepid bal- loonist had landed without mishap at Hurley, five miles from Kingston and sixty miles from his starting point. Levee had a thrilling night ride in a storm. “As I arose above West Point,” said Levee, “the great mountain that you call Storm King faded away beneath me and I had shot 1000 feet above the earth be- fore being driven northward. The moun- tain looked like an ant hill “Here and thers was a village, and I could see roads winding down from the hills. Carried by the wind I did not feel it, of course, and the peace and beauty of it all was something far beyond my powers to describe. It was a sensation known only to aeronauts, and so far be- yond anything one can experience .in traveling on earth that mobody who has not been in the sky can appreciate It “If the wind had held from the south- east I undoubtedly would have been car- ried far into the interior, but when I was salling along as smoothly as could le a be desired and expecting no trou storm struck me dead ahead 1ds poured down upon me and shut the moen from sight. The cold became intense. The mercury dropped many degrees in a few secondg. “I knew that I had been driven far into the mountains and I was only too glad when the storm shot me about and began carrying me back toward the riv where there was hope of finding a land- ing place. “Only by my instruments could I tell whether I was now shooting toward or from the earth. The clouds enveloped me as if I were in a demse fog. Grad- ually I let the gas escape and began to settle toward the earth. I realized my danger If I did not find a landing place before the equilibrium gained by the ad- justment of gas and ballast was exhaust- ed. My instruments told me that I was reaching the earth, but even when I was only a couple of hundred feet up I could not see anything below me until far ahead a MNttle light shone out As T neared it I leaned over the basket and shouted, but nobody around heard me. If T could have known that just back of the house, which I could see by that time, was a large, open fleld, T would have been saved the most anxious moment of my life, but it was too dark for me to see anything until 1 was directly -over: the open space. “It was my chance and’T ‘tdok>it on the instant. My hand was on the rip eord and with one jerk I split the balloon wide open. I supposed I was about twen- ty feet from the ground then, bwt the gas did mot burst out so rapidly as to let me fall any too hard. The anchor luck- {ly caught on a stone and by clinging to the strands I saved myself from belng thrown out when the basket struck. Tt was all over then and for the first time in several minutes I belleve, I was able to breathe.” ——————————— To_Cure a Cold in One Day Teke LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Jatiea o mone: ; . B - GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25¢.° —_——————— MRS. BLAIR WINS HER SUIT AGAINST INSURANCE COMPANY aim That Suileide Was Contemplated When Poliey Was Signed. ST. 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