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Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST — RAIN TONIGHT ANG WEDNESDAY; LIGHT BOUTHEAST WINDS. ‘Gricnintnenceeaphidbieneinied and Legislatures, Claimed By the Administration to Have No n to Regulate Railroads—-Every Act By Every State Legislature, ssed Since June 1, 1906, Unconstitutional and Void. Servies.) March 19.—Ono/ at radical and far reach / ever undertaken in bas been opened t's latest ad: pottey oe far as the Goneerned are to be and legislatures, the administration, ii to regulate that every act by fistature paseed or ce June, 1908, bs end void, Tt means that the two cent fare laws, demurrage laws, safety coup ler and similar laws passed by state legislatures are worth no more thas the paper they are writ ten upon. These matters will all be burried to the supreme court of the United States before Christmas. Tt te expected that the railroad control by states will be a thing of | the past. The new move refers to within state carriers as well as to interstate carriers. ‘The passage of the rate bill has done more than anybody suspected. It wiped out the state control over all common carriers. The constitution gives gress the power over te com tatorstate commerce, Up to the passage of the rate law the federal govern ment had not assumed its full pow or, but by the passing of that act the National Government took full conrel of the rallroada Nothing now remains for the states The president's opinion is that states have no control and he ts backed by Chief Justice Marchall im the case of Ogden va. Gibbons, whieh the jurist held that steamship plying between New York and Albany was engaged in tnteretate commerce, sithough it didn’t leave the state waters It ts expected that the destruc tion of states’ rights will raise a big how! by the senators. RY’S FINANCIAL OLICY TO BE CHANGED Service.) Sis March 19.— From ie fectived today from | the administration i! upon a striking Pnancial policy of the wilt, if txken, shee- the stand taken by of the Treasury ae tt will eliminate from the high Rave previously held | I in heavily tovest- @ecurities and already of extreme sen-| te the announcement | haf a serious financial | [be precipitated d that the views of George PB. Cortelyou, present secre- ltary of the treasury, are even more! pronounced on railroad securitt than President Roosevelt | Mr, Bhaw, in his efforts to estab- Veh the clastic currency, inter- preted the law as being in favor of ® high grade of raitroad bonds, and permitted the banks to place with the United States treasury railroad and other bonds to increase thelr cireutation conditional upon the basis of government bende. tt ts openly eatd that Secretary Cortetyou considers the method most unsatisfactory and that it ts) not conductve to the country’s financial stability, Thore are about $15,000,000 worth of railroad bonds held a security! for public deposit Fifteen Supervisors Contessed to Jory Which Held Official Will Escape--Ruef Like a Tiger Service.) March 19.— ons are said to Before Monday's fary which did] 1 o'eloek this! jones have cre m | 10 sensatic Heors who sre tlewed or who Slept last night there Heney nm them mor pt to Detective 1 us are m on Men againnt me OTE expect! Will be ar MER only as specific FM sald to have boon given and others H Will reach a ni as and} taining | m and} whom | empt 1 im ic amoumt Doltar Grart Mtorney tx confid be able to ahow that | PW the amount of 1, thas | been passe im have be of the th Roet ywd to} he oe er adjoarned, bw: SEO permit no 0 Pragtion! eat ail night and pe Pere fMposen in it Again that the feturned 1) Sealy annonne. Will be to acc Honey » Bierning ani » <n the tinder for 1 ated over Metlined to 4 y and a on he his further 89 fntimation 1, Fifteen Contessed be aeerte.; Doslt Confenne Mt among |. this aft Salost 6 one Vangdon » atate confer Tean | paced the the Session All Night—-Only have confessed that he recetred $5,000 for his vote. Rusf Paces Chambers. Ruef spent a night of horfors In his sumptuous quarters at the St Francis, Cut off from friends, bh stxall room in agony,| deubt and terror For the fi time since his im dictment and arrest he now realizes the seriousness of hia predicament Time and again he th hiss self on his bed in an effort to sleep, | but after a few mome 1 would | jump from the bed bis} ows tran isor Bixgy remained in the room with bin night, fearing the prisoner would attempt to do himself bodily harm. Twelve Counts for Halsey. Haleey, it wae stated, will be tn- Seted on at least 13 counts. Rumors eame@bick and fast o day grew) bider, and indictr » will be against ptncticnliy every person) mentioned ag having been concerned | in yesterday’s proceedings. One indictment, it te stated, will agtinet Nellie Mmith, the co stenographer Gerstet attorneys for the/ | at rew nd re ume be company grand jury not satisfied ith the o whe gave yeater- Hurns and his assistants claim | have pe idence that she | who took the at and confidential com attorney | compar "| aitive « person > ations between tho f the Home supervisors ed abe | y, how much it} we wal pansed. Jintrict at- Thomas 4 antiy ere and by understood ffi at the indbete be rete of the 1 | |GARVEY-BUCHANAN’S | OPany | TOMORROW ° program | formal $0 musics nned for ‘ the at omorrow ¢ ot 7 opening arve t ening be and 9 orchestra asion. with Hliew will rations » the vis ja meeting of the | bollermakers on that line | AND JURY AFTER WALSH (Beriaps Telegraph Service.) CHICAGO, March 19-—A further investication into the banking methots of Millionaire Walsh ordered by Judge Anderson this} morning in impancling a new fed eral grand jury, which was tastruct #4 to investigate the alleged viola tions of the banking laws prior to} the division tn 1906 by the judictal cirewit court. that Count Lamedorff, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1907. ATE RAILROAD LAWS AND RAILROAD COMMISSIONS ARE WITHOUT LEGAL STANDING SAYS THE PRESIDENT AGE OF RATE BILL WIPES UT STATE CONTROL OF ALL LINES OF TRANSPORTATION POISONED | h Berviee.) it ie stated the former (Beripps Teleg ROME, March 19. Russian foreign mintater to Maly, le dying at Ban Remo, He was paleo ed before he loft t ae CITY 10 GUARD Petersburs. CROSSINGS An ordinance wae introduced last night im the council authorizing « settioment of the crossing Magma: question with the Seattle Blectrie | company, with the company officals. in conformity with the trangement made by Mayor Moore This te the payment of $450 « month to the elty and the ase of polite of- fleers tnatend a company Aagmen. director rreo LANGWAY oes. Fred Langwar. formerty a funeral Orovitie, Wash, died last es at the Providence hospt- tal. Langway was a member of the Orovilie serie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, By in good standing Deceased leaves a wife, and J 4 years old, While in thin city | the couple lived at 107 Beventh ar NEW FIRE APPARATUS. Preliminary stepa were taken by the counei! last night for procurtag a large amount of additional apparatus, consisting of several en-/| gines, hase wagets, pipe, ete. beard of public works will call for) | bide. suction this morning by fire The ‘BUYS OWN BOAT AND SAVES $70 ‘The launch Coldfoot was sold at Deputy Inited States Marshal Stringer. WERAR RRA A RRA AS WORLD i6 TOO QuierT, Telegraph Service.) La IN, March 19.—Jobo Milng, the selsmologist, says the workk has been so quiet the past fortnight that the tn dientions are that something is threatened ——y +teeueeeeueeesy eeeee tees eeee WORRARA ARR H AHH od “FIFTY ARE DROWNED (Berinve Telegrach Service.) COPENHAGEN, March 19.—~The Danish training ship Viking was blow over in the ship building yards here today during a storm 400 workingmen aboard It is believed 50 were drowned, NO ACTION ON HAY The iewbore ot the city counell last night refused to take a vote | for the confirmation of John May, the appointees of Mayor Moore for superintendent of streets The appointment was referred to the stamet commitioe for a week BANK CLEARINGS. MO 44 16,140.64 March March 19, 1%, 1907 1906 over same $ 318,472.80 Inere date last year sete ee eeeee eee eee eee RR H. 6. BURGMAN 5 CONVICTED H. G. Burgman, of the Minnesota cafe, appeared before Judge Gordon, charged with having sold Mquor on Sunday, and was fined $76 and costa, from which decision an op peal was taken by his attorney Judge Bell. Patrolman Tate was the complaining witness, and alles ed that on Sunday while fn efvilian clothes he purchased a bottle of whisky tn the cafe which ts a part of « saloon at the corner of Occi dental av, and Washington st. TRAINMEN TAKE STRIKE VOTE Tt wae learned tralnten on some 40 today that the odd ratiroade Of Chicago are completing # poll ta decide whether they shall declare © strike on (he railroad com- | pantem, ‘The faliroad officiate here declare they Etow nothing of the situation to SC Maul, where the grievance committee of the trainmen te tn pea. sion, a4 the fact that the men are | taking ® Vote on the strike question ja watd fa be news to them. The tminmen refuse to discuss the question, further than to admit that the prospect for « strike he been afffcus within the past two west weeks ‘The pall of the trainmen affected. | of whien there are at least 60,000, | has Been sent to Bt Paul, and news The bishent bidder wae B, Smith, | of the mpult will be given out from the fétmer owners. Smith nt, ges Recently cH ale others brought suit that to 4 statement given out Up « Great Northern official this against ae owners of the launch | morning, the following railroads are |the 9700. The plaintiffe won and | concerned in the coutreversy | the boat was sold to collect the | By buying the boat back | Smith somewhat reduces | Judgment ten a8 Under the new passenger rates| of the Canadian Pacific, effective April 1, passengers may secure through rates from Kootenal and Pacific const pointa by way of Winnipeg for Chicago, St. Paul and iotermediate points at the regular} transcontinental rates j Previously the road char rate of $10 extra to go route by way of Winnipeg BG. STRIK IN olGHl (Seriops Telegraph Service.) CLEVELAND, 0., M h 18 At] executive board | | | | of the International Brotherhood of | Botlermakers and Iron Sbipbutid-| ers this morning an ultimatum was) issued to B. H. Harriman that strike on all of his line declared 48 a general be will within hours | & Alton come to terms the ect ne Mectaanihli on strike since February WORK ON BUILDINGS Great Union Ber | Narthern, Northern Pacttic Pacific, Banta Fe, Big nar | ington, Chic Alton. Nerthupagers seemnod Great Weet- Mitwaukee & St. Paul Chicago, Kock Island & Pacific, Col ado & Southern, Colorado Mid- land, Cotton Belt route, Denver & Rio Grande, Frisco sytem, Miinois Central, L & G. N, lows Central, Kansas City Bouthern, Milwaukee & St. Lowim Mixsour! Pacific, M sourt, Kansas & Texas, O. R. & Oregon Short Line, Rio Gn | Western, St Loui, LM & & Spokane Falls @ Northern, Southern Pacific, Boo Line, Texas & Pacific, Wabash. and Wisconsin Central ‘The strike agitation has been the result of sands by the trainmen or an increase in wages. The man- agers’ committen in Chicage reduced the men's original demands from a 15 per cent Increase to a 12 per cent th arbitration, i¢ this did not prove satisfactory to the men. The exact terms now being demanded by the trainmen’s grievance committee are not known here ‘The average wage pald to passen- ger conductors te $140 a month, to pastenger brakermen $75. Freight brakemen are paid by the mileage yatem, and can earn from $60 to 100 per month. The awitchmen re eelve from 32 to 38 cents an hour. ern, Chicago. in COLONEL GLASSFORD FACING GRAVE CHARGE COMMETT SR To ro MEET. of the Commercial Club egisiative committee wilt be yw afternoon im the chip At last night's meeting. No. 19 ting to the f A meeting ¢ rr na bir mprovem red to action. ELLEN. VISITS went dent offictala of the Chic ago | o'clock who have! dent 40 minut ROOSEVELT ih Gervice.) SHINGTON March 19.—~ rles 8, Mellen, president of the lew York, w Haven & Hartford, into conference with Preat Roosevelt this afternoon at 3 (Scripps Te remained with the preat- He refused to say Melien what was ie ee A CLOSED 0 DOWN Operations on @ number of build natruct b Ma f the ster Bu Marche tle has beer Hl sticking determina 7 r the ting mmittee tomor nemotiating builders will ask that agree Ante wo that it will carry the period of, con for the Alaka-Yu ring thre master wo- year nt mhall n next July through work expositio 1 differs arbitrated are tay for the dem nd of per held) Wilttam A the United/ of Charges that | Glasatord, head States Signal Corps, operating the | cable between Seattle and Alaska points, Bas been guilty of irregular littes imy the conduct of his off | were trWarded today from Ses’ to Gem, Jnmes Allen, chief sical | officer Bt Washington, by leentative of the ScrippsNews sociation, It {# quite probable that as « }eult of these charges Col jae wil be removed from bis His conduct has Sotora yas under investigath Waeinapon officlals. The charges made by the News afgociation # net Col. Glase ford have to do with the news ser vice t Varlong Alaskan newspa pers. Por some fine past a local newspaper man by the name of R |M. Mc@ormack has been serving jall of the Alaskan , jcorrespondents being “frozen out because of the highhanded meth oda of Col, Glassford, whose rela tions with McCormack are very close Want Another Service. Several, ot the Alaskan papers. becoming Aiasatiafied with the Mc Cormatk Service, deputized Edward Russell, wf the Juneau Dispateh te comp to Seattle and arrange for an improved vice. This Re sell @id by irrangement. with the Beripps aasociatior | which, congolidated with the Put lishers’ Press, is one of the largest néwsgetbering organtzations of the world, In gonelading with the various served by the it wag nocess >» aed was at this sslotd utepped in, making termined effort prevent Scripps peeple from carrying their arrangement that Cormatk should not interfer with. One of the R repre as re n by Ser | an the negotiation Alaskan papers t Scripps use the point that a de the out to om most serious charge against Glassford that the « tents of all of the messages by the Seripps people, by to northern papers immediately one to Moet 4 to these messages, to the Scripr ws assocta tion, beeame known to McCormack before they w Jelivered th Beripps representative Give McCormack Time. Thia was done th mack Might have bef messages to and from the representative were delivere ise thg cables in an endeavor head off the efforts of the rappers to cha their service Another charge against Gla that all of Mot ages to the Alaskan in an effort to hold while all Seripps pe charged at full commercial rates, This ination was arbitrarily made n Ru were known b 1 that sell most som made rmack a re ed Ne time aford ‘ormack’s me en ht papers for pre sent them at Messages b ass | pree-| onee | Alaskan | by Glasaford in his efforts to harass the Scripps News association An instance of this irregularity jand an example of the manner in which messages were held up aft : ad by McCormack oceur the negotiations with Thom p manager of the anks News. Thompson Shown Message. the rescatative wired Thompson the ipps service 4 that he did Al thereafter sived a message from rying the quality of pe service and endeavor ing to retain him as a client. ‘The moraa to Thompson. from the Sorip association and his reply thereto had been accepte press rates. On th | On February Scripps rep it e desired Ser | Thompson rep | mort imm Thompson intely morning of February 28 the officer in charge of the cable joffice at Fairbanks visited the News office and told Thompson that he must commercial rate on all messages to the Sertpps people. The officer informed Thompson that his message order ing the Scripps service had n sent to Seattle but that It had not been delivered and that if Thomp son did not want to pay commercial rates the could be killed Thompson the mess killed Here wa Seripps people and held in the the sender it message ordered sage sent to the read to MeCormach eattle office un induced to “th Punishing Thompson 1 heard ervice him from Thomp A me rw } ing man d that it be merelal rates and | compelled to pay receipt of the And during ” paper at comt was 1 message all of this time ending mes: n Alaska pps service * were sont either 6 rates the charge that Met of the i sages sent by the to Alaska; that ym the Seripp: held up, pending rmack, and that n charged « messages that junder the pre ruling McCormack has been permitted t end deadhead or at es intended to p from s¢ Cormack variow ng” the head or at pre Specifically ilasaford knock which dead ‘ mack ress 0 nd fr eon MeCo etal rates the have for while Scripps people Hents. CASES SET FOR APRIL 12 fe Griffin toda t the Union proceed April right * condemnation yet unsettled for trial on | Nearly all cases on the lof-way have been settled. paking | On PAY ONLY E CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE VOL. 9. NO. 19. In the conduct of the th Constantine trial, which will begin next Monday in Seattle, will be almost identical with the Thaw ease in New York, and the Mitchell case in Seattle William Constantine will answer to the charge of assault with in- to commit murder upon the person of his son-in-law, Jesse Hall, & young business man of this city, who, a few months previously, had jeloped with and married Constan |tine’s only daughter, Myra Constantine has two defenses \from which to choose, insanity or welf defense. As there ts no pow sible foundation. for the latter, the plea will undoubtedly be temporary insanity, produced by stories told to the defendant by the daughter accusing Hall of brutal and inhu man conduct toward her. Hall Is Threatened. Various reports as to the char- acter of these stories have reached the public. It h been stated by friends of Hall that some time ago word was sent to him in an in- direct way that unless he would necept offers of settlement and absent himself at the time of the trial, his wife would go on the wand and tell a story that would for all time blacken Hall's reputa case, tion and compel him to leave Se-| attle. With an insanity defense, Myra Constantine Hall, wife of the prose outing witness and daughter of the ‘“OSGROVE 25 CENTS PER MONTH, YRA CONSTANTINE TO BESMIRCH HALL’S NAME peCeer errno wee «| Young Wife Will ‘Aid Father's s Insanity Plea by | Testifying to Story She Told Him of Her Hus- band’s Cruelty---Her Position in Case Duplicate That of Evelyn Thaw. defendant, witness for her father Pleading temporary insanity an excuse for the crime, witnesses may be put on the stand by the defense to relate any conversatio: er held in the presence of the dant regarding improper atment of Myra Hall by her hus id, Jesse Hall. The significant feature of this plea, if advanced, will be that young Hail will be in no position to submit testimony to combat the charges made by his wife to her father, the sole question being the effect Mra. Hall's story had upon her father, Mre. Hall will take the stand and repeat the story she will allege to have told her father. The jury will dectde whether the charges were terrible enough to have driven her father temporarily insane. Expert Testimony. Experts will, of course, be placed on the stand. In all probability allenints will be in constant at- tendance upon the case, as they were in the Thompson case and ip the Mitchell case. If the evidence develops os ex pected the Constantine trial prom isew to be one of the most sensa- tion im the history of this coun lty, Both Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh and his assistant, Judge Miller, and the defendant's lawyers, Morris, Southard & Ship- ley, are prepared for a hard legal battle will be the principal a WILL GET LICENSE The Star's expose of the condi tons existing among the saloons of the city and the efforts of the whisky ring to make « scapegoat of | KB. R Cosgrove yesterday afternoon so confounded the gang that an im- mediate scurrying to cover last night resulted. Backing down completely from | the attitude ascumed in the late aft ernoom, the license committee sur- rendered unconditionally, and ev ery man put his name to a paper recommending to the counqi! that it grant Coagrove a renewal of his license. The counctl, following up the good work, voted unanimously the adoption of the report, and Com grove will get his bit of paper next Monday night There Was a Thud. Thus fell with a thud the last vestige of the ring’s fight on this question. It was all that the co mittee could do in the afternoc hold its members together un the persuasive talk of the represent ative of the Seattle Brewing & Malting company. Hurd, who had stood out for fair play all along, clared before the commit that the mayor had been exonerated be fore the committee, and oth 4 in declarations practical ling the same thing Hurd got busy with Morrison, committee's chairman, just be fore the council met last nigh it was pot up to the ring membh ng th e was n do b lare the While it { known jfact, it was rumored around city hall today that the brew!r company kept up its fight for the favor to Cosgrove, fearing disaster today to some of its many running without a license. Many Violations. Several of those named day by The Star as operating wh ly in violation of law are controlle so stro’ else te ff. not saloons After | between al days of co Mayor Moore, y Thomson and J. D. Fi jand other offictals of the Union Pa leific over th aty’s pr an ne sever erence gineer tunnel Agree under the y }ment has ed cc | that part ¢ pass unde | the ne lding a av. and Ye | The jabout, at j that part build w munte 3 is to haft tunnel route th will | feet erning by the brewertes, in fact owned by them, the alleged owner only act ing somewhat as an agent. in the bond given it is specifical- ly set forth that the $1,000 put up jie the money of the brewing com- | pany, and im nO sense nor under ‘any circumstances must it be paid to nove in whose name the license runs should the council refuse to erant a The arrest of Cosgrove Saturday night seems to have been made with the purpose of casting upon him personal odfum, for he was taken out of the saloon and his ph of business left to run as it might. There was no attempt on the part of the officers to Tock up the place or close it up. Cosgrove, the man, was wanted, not the sa- loon, and it was Cosgrove himself who eaused the doors to be locked until the time when it should be known what was to come of it. Cosgrove said he did not want to ec to trial on a charge of vio- lating a state law and have it de- clared to the court that not only had he violated law, but had antly violated the law ever ace me _ Congaree’s Place Closed. ed today, at sug: t him or until ft n grat eaking to rning, said 1 in this com this is the first time i e had my name upon the po- tter. My money has been with the city treasurer I was told by % of the license com- could go on doing jon was | since | the mittee pest membe that I ee AGREEMENT ON U.P. TUNNEL REACHED ith and Terrace st. on the Masonry pliers table ground the tun it nd ure to be sunk a found for the foun- building and that 1 is not only to be to be ased in the outside tamped The alls of the to be rked out by nilroad and n has ad Jat } part of the | bored but enc t will to the is will nd ve will be THEATER CASES WILL BE TRIED TOGETHER The will with M theater managers ne m cause the liquor ¢ n compel uyor change his policy with to the enforcement of the closing law mney ha the pre att but 1 hay aged | they all the in all A person clo Jone of the prgncipal agers, speaking to a w cases a of ther by the course have taken us to make hem they are We that, er force th staken will not be we don’t be- We joing ry

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