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ston to do. THE WORLD: Sw ‘ FRIDAY EVENI eres cane assem G, MARCH 18, 1904, ' wD GEN. WOOD WINS IN SENATE FIGHT: His Promotion as Major-Gen-' eral of the Army Confirmed! by a Vote of 45 to 16, Only, Two Republicans Against. | PPOSITION WITHDRAWN | AT THE LAST MOMEN‘' Four Democrats Stand Up for, Him and Result Is Taken as, a Vindication—Favoritism and Other Charges Were Made. WASHINGTON, March 18.—Brig.-Gon, Leonard Wood's nomination as Major- General was confirmed by a v to 16 by the Senate tn executiv to-day. Senators Kittridge and Scott were the! ehly Hepublicans who voted against Wood. Cockrell, Pettus, Dubois, Patter. fon and Clarke (Ark.), Democrats, voted for him, | ‘The debate on the Wood case brought to a conclusion by the 4 of Senator TMler not to speak against Wood's confirmation, ax he had pre- viously announced that it was his inter Senator Foraker accordingly abandoned his speech tn favor of Wood and, no otfier Senator desiring to be heard, the vote was taken shortly ufter the doors had been closed for the execu tive session The opposition to Wood whieh had Deen led by Senator Hanna seemed to have fost its force after the Senators | denth, and although there was a show of antagonism at the Committee he SULLY’S FAILURE CAUSES PANIC. | ings, the extent to which it went was | avidenced by the vote. | The favoritism as charged shown Wb Wontinued from First Page.) ' President Roosevelt had little weight) , in the ultimate result, the vote being | Cafes in the neighborhood of the Cotton Exchange were crowded with dis- taken as a vindication of the Ge ral hevelled brokers celebrating the failure of the erstwhile cotton king. 3 ae ae Chy TURE G14) This last market manipulator to go the way of nearly all who attempt | UR Woodinow usaumos ther premier jcorners has had a remarkable business exnerlence in the past fourteen | position In the army avsigned him by! months. Christmas Day, 1902. found him working In a cotton broker's off ‘he President, | C Q ny 50 a ¢ » 7 o- Brerldent: sacntiat nommation| i Providence for a salary of $50.0 w Christmas Day, 1903, he pr aun ever been fought with more mony in the United stu mate than) hat which has jus anried by | 6 shat Wood five i nited | erl-|sented to his charming young wife the house at No. 6 Bast Sixty-second which/he paid $300,000, He was born in Providence and is now forty-three years old. IHis con- nection with the cotton business led him to careful investigetion, and he determined that the price of the staple at the end of 1902 was too low. |STARTED HIS FAMOUS CAMPAIG lie interested New Engand capitalsts in his ideas and got backing for body. tomran national body ely pool up the price of the staple. Coming to New York in January of Ip he went on the floor of the Cotton Exchange on ‘Feb. 3 and in} and the man that he has adva a quiet, unobtrusive and generally gumshoe manner started his campaign, The heads of older un voldiers never diminix! After the war Presid | Ina very helm of the few idlays the bears knew that there was a master hand at the Dull movement. Gotton was then selling at a Little less than 9 ww feeuts a pound. Since that sime it has sold, through the influence of Sully, remained! at 17.95, an advance of 100 per cent. ‘The high price touched was more than i cotton had commanded before in thirty years pointed Gen. Brigadic srnor of (1 Wood--n thir time erament on. ie returged ‘ coping, “evuthin the ; Six weeks after entering the market Sully had cleared up $900,000 for Deteer nt tat recs Ine Binself and much more for the pool back of him, Then the bears jumped | some months age Wood wis Major-Gen: ‘Then “the opposition came terms. ( ‘on bim and ter days his corner hung in the balance, but his sill and his! knowledge of the market conditions won him out He closed all his deals in May with profits estimated at $3,000,000 and announced that he was going to Europe for a rest. In the mean time W.| Brown, a young cotton broker from New Orleans, had come to New ‘Pp. york and formed an alliance with Sully, and when Sully sailed for Europe | Brown kept the bull campaign moving. | + . 4 ro ’ 7 pl 4q t DRAGGED IN AGAIN AND CAUGHT, Z ! Hie returned in August and entered the market again, cleaning up prob- ally $600,000 before the middle of December, when he closed out his deals slon king the ton in Cuba as Military roncerning Work iene + the cone hn, Unrough a with the xeon ee and took a rest Trade and other exchange seats, Ip to five weeks agu he was not a prominent factor in the market. Then he wot In. and [n the pagt two days his total holdings have run up to 300,000 his total los in the market in five weeks $3,900,000 W ORLEANS, March 18.--The announcement of the failure of Broker ding the whole ring into a pante. There was instantly a iG mendous drop in cotton, dnd dt the moment it seemed impossible to say where the tmp would terminate, Shortly after the sensational bulletin came in over | Rapid Transit Board Passes, the wires the market was reported to be down about $10 a bale The scenes around the ring defied description. On the receipt of the Resolution Asking the Legis) gis, puttetin and ina remarkably short time there was a drop of about a” lature to Pass a Law Giving, cont and a half, July fell from 14.56 to 13.65, and May was selling at 13.00. | Later the effect of the suspension had been tested and the market ve- the Municipality Ful Power. | * recovering some 30 points gan siowly to tuen upward, \PAILURE AFFECTS WHEAT PIT, The beard of Rapid Transit: met. te. CHICAGO, March 18.—Mr. Sully within the las few AY agonted |e tuvon favoring | mombership gn the Chicago Board of Trade, and caused a brief sensation | have not recove a ref ydum to the people om the mat! in the wheatpit. His operations in grain, however, are said to have been| ter of munici J} ownersliip: with refer shee to future subway raliroads | velatively unimportant ’ RY tee thie nesnens Law a a cane News of the failtre was recelyed here just as the closing gong sounded! commission will Ine re was a slump of 2 6-8 cents in wheat to-day, chiefly in the closing! ne bw ind it is said that liquldation for Sully’s account was a factor in the © John Chitin w ndous selling pressure who did 1 . He begged to be excused fr RAINE hat he doubted t ROVIDENCE, R ment of Dantel J 1, March 18.—The announcement of the embar Sully came as a blow to the cotton trade. Mr. Sully be- youn Ceapiity of aa ane ope stoi Messrs | Boardman and ives, counsel te the! je G altvranc : peels 5 ey Hoes Ad TE ny Woon tol aay | pgs In this city, aud his daring operations have been followed clorely cate the measire in accorduice with, Many local speculators followed Sully’s example and advice, and not a few! tw-day's resolution. | ‘ofited handsomely last year. In manufacturing circles there has been little sympathy with | and mil! owners snd agents were prominent in expressing belief that would do much toward relieving the uncertain situation in| _——— SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY OBur seis. TOO) ate however the vrei, Tat] the toxtilé trade, suspensior TIDES Water, Low Water ‘rp, ALL ts IKE THAT OF LEITER, ( and fall of Sully fn the cotton market is strikingly like the| sy of youn Leiter in the Chicago wheat pit. As Suily cotton market, so Leiter cornered the wheat market, and folks all over the country talked of Leiter as they did of Sully. They called him) ithe genius of the wheat pit, and gave him fanciful tities like "Wheat King,”’| just as they cailed Sully the genius and the king of the cotton market. ] Leiter enjoyed a career ax king about as brie? as that of Sully. While {folks were figuring out his millions in paper gains he was gradually losing control of the situation, until he fell with a crash that was heard through.| out the worlds The failure of this young mau separated Leiter, sr., from some $6,000,000 of his bankroll. but the young man got out with a good; name, although t was, expensive, Sully has controled cotton just as Leiter controlled wheat. His failure, | like that of Leiter, was hardly expected, although everybody wondered | how he could continue his sway. Sully has no rich daddy to pay his debts, | He danced high, but it isn't known yet who is to pay the fiddler. ton, 8 ‘ar "hrunanci laen LADELPHIA, March 18.—-A member of the firm of George McFad- ‘Tallahassee, den & Bo., cotton brokers, of this city, said, commenting on the failure: The decline, amounting tw about $18 a bale, will be beneficial to the cotton industry because it will allow manufacturers to purchase cotton at ® marketable rate, Numerous mills were closed on account of the high price if of-cotton, The losses will ye) solely, I balievé, upon the speculators, 3 PORT OF SEW york, ARRIV hristiansand, WORKING THE GUNS ON THE MIKASA, THE JAP BATTLESHIP REPORTED HURT MINERS VOTE AGAINST GOING OUT ON STRIKE a Big Majority in Favor of New Two-Year Wage Scale Which Will Be Signed Next Monday. INDIANAPOLIS lers whi to-day Hot the scale and in favor of a str ounted the vote of the min acceptance Annotnced the Kotex east, 165, accepting the scale, 98, March 18—The or rejection of the le of wages offered b¥ the operators sult ns follows: | Majority against a strike, Wilson, of the United Mine Workers, said a mgcting of the joint sub-acale committee would in all proba- billty be called for Indianapolis next Monday, when the scale would be signed for two years and arrangements would be made for the next Joint convention to meet two years from now, Secretary BUILDING STRIKE Bricklayers, However, Who Have} MAY END SOON Been Acting Tra The des. Independently, Will Soon Be Allied with Othee, : Bricklayers’ Unton has made ap- j BUeation for membership in the Board GIRL ROMANCER SENT HOME. \ Child Who Told Many Yarns Terned Over to Mother, The girl who mystified the police and the offiders of the Gerry Society by many stories ghe told a few days in the Childrens Court morning and finally told «he ceuth When she was found tast Mor the pollee she sald she the ago this been napped ang held a prisoner in a house ‘Harlem for several days, but she could give n © he description of the house. hame us Jselia Friedman, Later. she No. 69 Henry street, but a nether address could any cue be found name vind’ thother a snd tad that. th child's name is ¥ she lives at 2 of Representatlyes of the Butlding] moiher suid the ant to visit ‘Trades, and the application has been | & cousin In Harler sist) Monday: ‘and : lost her way, but she could iva ho ex- Tavorably veted upon, This means that] planation of why she should have tne tho Drickliyers, Who have been ac} ‘ lem SXSEDT THis ale is Klayers, who have been actine Hasiecencinens fidependently in the controversy with | Sent_hamo. (he Mason Butiders’ A tion, will shortly be allied with all the other buttding ty Most of the organizations have rigtd! !trom ay urally Huy ent of stre look, th tne Hoard sucee Bulla the ing trades, Ye at noune J masen but ! support | building operations, weeks acquired of this is conside cnused, sor ol ‘Trades which Sam F stowd Wreeked. walking delegates of all the Soy of these men who ex- ed Viewssunfavorable to the brick- yers ve tude an 1 their the ak th dy th last summer, Nope for Reau While the conference last night tween t “F ele! double tors 1 As Bi nilder Phat Ca After meeth the ta repres ctl Inver orth The 1s conduct By It was then that he bought his Stock Exchange, Board of °OHfracts with their employers, ur to two years to yun. will hy of Representatives and wher support is an ete sth that the theo! th intention bricklayers should decide heir t pet v he brickl: having Nut ive to suppert Misgon Build Assochition cunnot fafford to over- the United Board of rks wid it ls composed of bulid- hd ve awitched in their yers have an- getting Into with the Id demand the skilled Workmen on but the possibility remote, as the men from the losses long spell of idleness ption of Work, be- he Arbitration Boara, represent: hour day pay yindin and w and the Mason i not result in eis hope that thi resiimed on all the build- tor age "Get \rbitration Committee returned. Townsend Building and reported employers their hy laborers to go back to work, morning conference was held at ing the Dricklayers Builders’ Assootntio: any definite aetio work will be ings at the be The Trieklayers' ginning of the trouvl mbers of the yelation have themselves Assooiatl Jab inning of next week Inton in this diffi has had ne fight of its owa, but at ide of the Lab: hich wants an an hour and e, Since the many contrac- nm Butla- signed an a tot buc the Mason refused to organization, ms, n what the fight hinges on now Vaborere Back. with the 8 Curry's Hall and th dressed whom urged the tabo and th of the and cold. by the majority of bricklayers would be with them. It \s charged that many of the leaders kia are blowing bath hot When with the bossem-they tell of the hard struggle they are mak- Ing with the laborers toeget them to go to work pending arbitration,cand these same men when they get de as the seca are mbaevaxet Xo advise Saeny br jeneral Coun- afternoon the of Brick- this ives inability to get laborers were ad- cklavers, gsome of rs to stand firm, fe the | | SKIN HUMORS BLOOD HUMORS ‘Speedily, Permanently and _ Economically Cured by Cuticura WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS: Compleie External and Internal Treatment Price One Dollar In the treatment of torturing, disfig- uring, itching. scaly, crusted. pimply, blotchy and scrofclous humors of the skin, scalp and blood, with loss of bair, Cuticura Soap, Olntment and Pills have been wonderlully euccessfal. 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