The evening world. Newspaper, June 2, 1913, Page 1

ty FIGHT U.S, SENATORS SHER | {THEY OO NOT KNOW OF ANY ANTLTAREF BIL LOBBYIST ) apa WLATHER-—Fatr to-night E PRICE ONE CENT. aS ae? Inquiry Into Wilson’s Charge of Insidious Influences Is Begun at Washington. s ONLY AFTER CLUES NOW (Chairman Overman Says Next Step Will Be to Examine the Supposed Lobbyists. » . Samuel M. Williams. sangeet of The Bvening ‘ WASHINGTON. Guce 2.—Invest!- pation into the tarif lobby had its} Start this, morning in the “white | ‘House. President Wilson vent for flquator Overman of North Carolina, @hipt inquisttor, and vis priucipal as Goclate, Senator Reed of Missour!. ‘Por’ nat an hour they were closeted nd the President, receiving instruc- what questions to ask and ‘whom to summon. Then they hast- ‘ened to Capitol Hill, summoned the other members of the committee and outlined the presidential programme Defore beginning the formal sessions Presicent Wilson 4 ft been aubpoenaed aud did po be. Whether or not he farnisned to names of lubby- yut added signiti nts during the in- for themaalves, ig fre committer a list « acs fete he would not atly that devela ry would Of any nefarious work by the tasidiour @rew Buch proclaimed his own lack of Mlerast in tariff affected ariteles and rightly hei 10 giz on the re noted as) "poor men. Mone of the half dosen doubt- fol and waverirg Domooratic foeators was among then.—and tari® lubbvytats are not wasting time on Republicans or righ! tar- 7 day were Ashurat of Artauna: of Georg! Borah vf daw; Bradley vf Kentucky; | Bristow of | Brandagee of Connecticut; Baveas. They agreed in general on ning a lobbyist as un agent work- for hire to influence leglistation, it that businoss men having inter- ‘esta involved in legiisiation and com fag to Washington to present thei: Wiews as to the effect of pending bills, G@hould not be clussed aa lobbyists. @enator Bryan of Florida and Sen- @tor Burton of Ohlo were exurined this Bfternacon. Chairman Overman said that ‘ais examination of Senators was | merely © Graguet to get clues. The next step would be to go after the lobbyists themselves @ENATORS CALLED FROM ROLL TO TAKE THE STAND. ‘The inquiry committe: members of the regulal mittce on judiciary, Senators Ove man, of North Carolina; Reed, of Mis- gourl, Walsh, of Montana; Nelson, of Towa. Mianesota, and Cummins of ‘The firgt are Democrats; the latter | gwo, Progressive Republican, The committes determin: to hold hearings dally from 10 to 1; from 2 to 6. nd from 8 to 10. The stage for the dramatic wis net in the green marble committee inquiry | INA EDITION. ./& determined, well-qualified head must | retor the first | Consta |aapeinted in order to carry out the ordi- Hanoy to theCietter. The Mayor said that the police wil do its part, bur that a forceful head with a compet j shold ye establinhe yeans poom the Senate office bu lding. It has Seating capacity for titty spectators, table across on J for the eo and another table along one sie for the Bowsnaver respondents a In swnall groupe before the al ittee | r tho Senators| tive } mittee. Ashu of Alizona, v | atively new member, first merely | use of name, led toe way, followed of Georgli «veteran of Many years in the Heute, Who frowned | Gnd fumed and gree peetles dle. days. saat asinine bh a Tuesday. L c ‘Co. (The New TAXI ORDINANCE® SIGNED BY GAYNOR; IN EFFECT AUG. | Evening World’s Victory in Fight for Lower Rates Is Now Complete, PLANS TO ENFORCE IT. Mayor Plans to Enlarge the Bureau and Put a Strong Man at the Head. ‘The ordinance reducing taxteab rates, pansed by the Board of Aldermen, fol- lowing the fight for it by The Evening World in the interests of the public, was signed to-day by Mayor Gaynor. ‘The Mayor attached his signature after satiefying himself by personal in- vestigation that every provision of the oniinanve-ancluding the low rates set, Was justifiable, The new order of things will ve put Into effect as quickly red tape will perntit, but the Mayor's Bureau of Li+ vennes has full power and he will see that all the necessary machinery le set inaction, He realizes that he must have 4 large force In that bureau and that be placed in pdwition to see that every provided for in the new ordi- hances shall be curried out. bureau musi be estaviished, nee requires closer and m both by the police and pureau officials, and these must be vow olit an to be made to the Board of Estimate for additional funds with whieh to reforms provided for in new ordinance. The Board meets regularly on Thuredi The coming meeting may witness such an application being made. The courts alone can now prevent the enforcement of the ordinance, Law- yers for the taxicab companies have threatened to go into court on the sub- Ject of rates, claiming that the city has no jurisdiction. It ts stipulated that the new ordinance all not go into effect until August 1, but preparation for :ts enforcement wil) | meantime be made, The Mayor to-morrow will send @ meinvrandum to the Board of Aldermen { expressing his disappointment and cha- grin at the action of the board tn adapt ing the “ leries’’ moving pict ordinance inst the measure sul gested by his commission. Hin message | fo the board will be of the “aot” variety | and will carry with tt an absolute veto of the ordin ——— CALL IN CONGRESS FOR FEDERAL INQUIRY ON ST. Louis, "FRISCO RO. Full Light pany for One Year Prior to Receivership 1s Demanded. WASHINGTON, June 2 Huepranantas Hnebaugh of Hiinols introe resolution today to direct the Inter state Commerce Conimitns: to in vesiigute and ieport on the 1 | ineut of Louls id @enator Agere’ sect ewod up and was] there have been ‘pany ailogatious loi of : of securt- io Stgnitanel ox, 600008 Base) _.* tan ond other suas , nate 1912, by The Press Publishing ROOSEVELT BACK, |FOUR AUTOISTS KILLED, \pe on Management of Com: | York World WOMAN WHO HAS i DISAPPEARED WITH MONEY AND JEWELS. “SATISFIED” WITH VERDICT ON DRINK “Had to Prove It,” He on Alighting From Train; “Settled for All Time.” aa Says Theodore Roosevelt reached New York from Marquedge, Mickigun, to~ an hour late but vindicated of the charge of being a drugkard anJ the winner of a wix-cont verdict That he had been expoeed as the cul- tlvator of a mintbed In the back yard of the Witte House and asa guzzler of an occasional epvontul of brandy with @ milk alib!, was not #orrying him in the least, As he buatied through the ramps of the Grand Ceatral Terminal, JRRAN COMMITTEE SUDDENLY SHIFTS FROM SULZER: ASKS MAYOR TO REMOVE WALDO FOR “EFFICIENCY POLICE FIND CUE TOMISSING WOMAN IN SAILING OF BOAT | Triton Departed Soon After} | Mrs. Houseman Disappeared | From Plum Island. | POLICE LAUNCHES HUNT | She Rowed Away Sdturday Evening and No Trace of Her Is Found. | | In aceking to unravel the myatery of| the dinapearance for forty-eight hours of Mrs. Olga M. Houseman of No. 912 Pacific atrect, Brooklyn, who went out | from Plum Island alone in a light skiff near dark Saturday night, the officers of the Canarete harbor police station are now rupning down « clue which holda an element of hope for her dis- tracted husband and felende. It has been learned that the %-foot Power boat Titon, owned by @ Sheeps head Bay man who was an old friend of Qire, Houseman, anchored tn ‘the channel off Plum Beach @ few hours before the comely young woman took the #kiff for her solitary row on Sat- arday night. About § o'clock , an hour after Mrs. Houseman left the camp where she and her husband had deen spending a week-end holiday, the Triton hoisted anchor and sailed away. Search ts being made for the Triton to-day in the belief that Mra, House- man may have gone on @ short cruise. A! first the police and the volunteer xearchern worked on the theory that Mrs. Houseman’s boat might have been overturned, and that sho had been drowned In one of the numberless little arias of water that streak the map of the Jamaica Hay territory Ike fila: ments of epider web, But when per- sistent search failed to bring to light any trace of the boat, and Alonxo Houseman, the missing woman's aur- band, revealed the fact that when she went out alone in the boat Mrs, Hol man had between $20 and $00 pinned Inside her shirt waist, a graver cause Jot her Callure to return began to be accepted as probable. BOATS WITH SEARCHLIGHTS HUNTED WATERS ALL NIGHT. Mrs, Houseman, who ts a milliner and dressmaker, with good buniness, 1 and her husband went to the camp of to at. Capt. Greenwald on Plum Island flanked by (he fUlltul Secretary Harper and the eas fotthful William Loeb tr, the Colonel w { back wwyer, Mr, Var Harper close afte at to the Outtook office. later te sued the following b : “Mr. Roosevelt ts perfectly satis. ted with the result the triai at Merquette.. Beyond vaying that, he will not discuss the watter. He will romain at this office all day catch- ing up with his work and will go to Oyater Bay to-night, remaining there all cay ¢ norrow."* — TWO OTHERS INJURED, WHEN TRAIN HIT CAR sped the Memorial Day vacation. ter spending Ir man, who | sessed of a | went to Brook! wtnrday to cole lect some money due her for gowns, WEATHER-Palr to-night ané Tueséey. 16 PAGES ‘BISHOP cHLD WILL CHOOSE BETWEEN BANKER AND WIFE } | Year-Old Girl to Court for “Examination. ALIMONY IS ARRANGED.! Chief Figures in Divorce Ac- tion Hold Conference With | Lawyers in Court. To Uttle Muriel Biwhop, a child of eleven years, Is practically to be left the decision as to whether she will remain with her father, James Cunningham Bishop, millionaire society man and ‘banker, or go to her mother, Mra. Abigail Hancock Bishop, whose successful sult) for divorce caused # sensation in the su-! preme Court Inst week. The question| will be settled by the child herself, ao far as Gupreme Court Justice Goff feels that! she may 0 capable of reaching 4 ver- ator. . | ‘The venevadie Justice has’ ordered that, the little girl’te brought before him tm the Criminal Branch ef the Su- prome Court where he is sitting now, on Wednesday motning. The chitd te now with an aunt, a «ister of her father, in Virginia, and tt wilt take un-| tll Wedneeday to bring her here, Then! Juntiee Goff will undertake, eo far an! the Mttle qtrl's mind may be capable of grasping It, the delicate task of inform- ing the child why her mother waa given a divorce, At the trial the father was accused Of visiting the Hotel Aator with the beautiful Mrs, J. Temple Gwath- mey, wife of former President of the New York Cotton Exchange, THE MOTHER FEARS CHILD !8 AGAINST HER. The Justice will endeavor to bring the ttle girl to @ realization that her father has been guilty of @ great wrong to her mother, and that whatever pre- conceived notions her mother’s position may have resulted from the child's close association with her father in the last few monthe must be disregarded. Mra. Bishop te fearful that her amall daughter's mind has been polsoned against her. Whe? the Bishops Henry W. ‘Taft, brother of the ex-Preal- dent, for the banker, and ex Attorney William Travers Je James W. Osborne for Mrs. Bishop, ap- their lawyers, As the banks were cloned, she pinned | the money inside of hor waist and returned to the Plum Isiand camp. Bhortly after the evening mea! that night she told her husband was going out alone for a row d th creek that flows past Capt. Gi ald's camp. She wou:d be back before tt was dark, she said. Then she stepped into ® light 8t. Lawrence skiff, nestecting firat to give to her husband for safe keeping the money she had with her, |and she put off, When 11 o'clock came |and she had not returned h heavy with anxiety, organiz | log party. | Beveral boats equipped with e! Members of Family Party Victims in Collision at Crossing Near Minnesota Town. RIVER, ih Wre dead reault of a N Pacific passenger Jiratn cras automobtie at a jcronming near here to-day. | ‘Phe dead are Mr. and Mra. J. 1, fon, Francis Dawson, eight yoars old, and the Dawsonw name was not ovta me Jured are Mrs, ©. ¢ & young ® The party were way f [Kalona, In, 9 Clear Lake, 3M ‘NEW MINISTER T TO COLOMBIA. dens &. Thomson of Teas Ap- pied by Wilson, i of Aue " Pr esiie WASHINGTON ty ve ices wai? Work Wonderng! is ad ared aa the! Daw: | seurchiighte nowed through the short creeks, sloughs and arcs of the bay an Saturday night and yesterd | When report af Mre, Houseman's ate: appearance was carried to the Canarsie Water police they sent out two launches to pursue the search fi SHES BARRIE NOW A BARONET. ‘auth Honored by King Georg Forbes Robertson Also Named. JONDON, June 2—J. Mo Barrie, the rand playwright, is made @ bar- Johnston Forbar-Rubertro: knighted. in the annual nore’ conferred by King Announced to-nigat. The King will be forty-eight years old to morrow ane perrages are created ti! sume ‘a alwe °| matter of alimony and only the que: peared before Justice Goff to-day, little Muriel was revealed at once as the sole obstacle in the way of an immediate agreement as to the terms of the di- voroe, Thare was @ ten-inmute confer- ence between the Justice and the law- yere and then both sides, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, accompanying their counsel, went into conference tp Justice Goft's chambers. For more than am hour they were closeted there, and when they left the room none of them was willing to what had happened behind the ch door, It was learned, however, there had been no difficulty in thi the tion of Murtel's custody had preventea an Immediate adjustment of all difter- ene Bishop, tt developed, atood stead. fastly by the proposition that thei could be no discussion of terme whi 4id not include her possession of h Uttle daughter. Mr. Fishop wae almost | equally firm, but the mother stood ready to hinge the whole settlement on this one point. MOTHER SAYS DAUGHTERS TOOK GIRL AWAY. Mire Bishop had had the child with) her aivaye until one day fast winter! when, she says, her elder daugh Mary, twenty yeare old, and Augun Jelgitecn, paid her @ visit, Praviou: had elected to aide with the! y| Inecesmary t : wolog with fat omarted after Piere a v vider gliid: aire, Musi, Ate, oot sige ALDERMANIC SOMITE ll P Justice Goff Summons Eleven-| POLICE CO | rony * Natubles Afteen, unt “pblgall, Seven, | He fell unconscious, An operation was berkassasd, N REPORT FOR WALDO'S: REMOVAL MMISSIONER AND ALDERMAN WHO WANTS HIM REMOVED. Original Report, Declaring That . Commissioner Has Shown Himself “Unfit.” TAMMANY MEN FIGHT Governor Told Commissioner Failed to Punish Uniformed Men He Knew Disobeyed Law. A report calling on Gov. Sulzer to remove Commissioner Waldo - was voted down late this afternoon at a meeting of the Curran Caste ” os Aldermen’ which has been Investigating police affairs In Inv place Of the section saying that was useless ¢0 ask the pagina oh ag going oyer his head. to. the Governor with the de mand that he “relieve the city” of the present Police clause was introduced addressing the recommendation to the Mayor. BATTLESHPS CRASH |S== sss == IN SEA PRACTICE OF SLE OF WHT Prince of Wales wid oak Irresistible of British Navy in Smash and Latter Damaged. tion, that the appen! te violated the epirit, tf mot tho recently passed tome Alderman Dowling said 2 the Commiastoner was the the Mayor, tated that the recommendation go (o him before any appeal was made to the Governor. VOTE WAS FOUR TO TWO NOT VOTING, On the amendment the vote was four to three, with two members not vetting. Throughout the meeting of the eom- mittee there was uncertainty @mendment was adopted. The amended recommendation wapas follows: POWTSMOUTH, June 2—Tho British | Dattleships Irresistible ana Prince of “Pubtio irterest requires = it Wales of the home foet were in collision | removal of Co ‘ to-<lay while inanoeuveing off the Isle! recommend that the Board . Aldermen of Wight, Immediately after the crash| request Mayor Gdynor to retleve the both headed to dock, ‘The trrestattble's|CHY of New York from a Poltce Com- saat nivtioner who by his temperament ear + , conduct has v himeelt undt fo @c- Aiderrgn HENRY 1 CURRAN Baseball Games To-Day vows Dut the naval aus NATIONAL L ORAL: LEAGUE. thorities believe whe has not suffered] cuny bis off neriourly, ‘The clause for which tits was submil- AT PHILADELPHIA. aioe Gn ited Seow ‘The public interests require the BROOKLYN-~ BALKAN ALLIES TO MEET. immediate removal of Commi 01010000 0—- eee rite Over Division | Wait: We realise the futility of PHILADELPHIA— making apy such recommendation to 60000001 — of War Spoils, the Mayor of the olty, Nevertheless, | SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 2—An agree-|the Mayor continues te approve aad AT PITTSBURGH. ment in principle for @ meeting of the|spplaud the Commissioners admints- : Premiers of Bulgaria, Servia, Greece and | tration. ~ BOSTON— Montenegro was reached last night by| “We therefore recommend that @e 100030 — [the Bulgarian and Servian Ministers! Board of Aldermen request the Gever- PITTSBURGH— who met at Taarlbrod, on the Bulgarian| nor of the to relieve the eity ef 033010 __ | frontier, to exchange views on the altu- | police commissioner who by temper Ze during their! ament and conduct hae shown himeeif unfit to occupy his office.” | GOVERNOR HAS POWER TO RE- MOVE WALDO. Section £79 of the City charter, under which the majority of the committee would ask Governor Sulzer to act reads, insofar as dt relates to the removal & police commissioner: The head of the Police Deparsment shall be culled the Police Commisstoner, AMERICAN LEAGUE. AT NEW YORK. FIRST GAME, an urgent dewpateh ment BUsTON— 00002000 2— NEW YORK— o0010000 SECOND GAME = EE, A Race Far More Profitable to Its Followers Than Those 3} ;OSTON— at the Belmont Track: || Whe shall be appointed by the “farer 000 a and shall, unieas sooner removed, held BS y vOnk So far this year there have been |} office for five years or until ble eae NEI " i |] printed — ceawor shall be appointed and has quel- 0 oa | fled. ‘The sald commissioner may, whem DURING JANUARY: ever, in the judgment of the Mager ef ead city or the Governor, the pubite im- teresta shail eo require, be remeved from office by either and shall be inell- gible Tor reappointment thereto,” ‘The Mayor {» required to appoint a Jeuccessor to the man removed within len days, | if the report ts submitted to the fait: board for adoption It t# not altos | eure to pas By a party vote thers ‘forty-two Fusion votes in the AT WASHINGTON. , | PHIL ADELPHIA— 3200000 4 0—- 9) WASHINGTON— 10030000 — ‘ BALL AND RACING! SEE PAGE 10. | > — | by « Rasebaul, 63,2: DURING FEBRUARY: 110,881 WORLD ADS 02,622 More than the Herald: DURING MARCH: 168,777 WORLD AD6, 74,801 More thas the Herald: DURING APRIL: 1 21 WORLD ana— 4 More thea the 1 KRAIINY Dine BWI DURING MAY: | and ony thiry-seven men clected 1 Wisetne of Tabor, N. Jy 197,206 WORLD apa. — | the Tammany allermen, Of Morristown to-day 68.503 Mere than the Herald, fusion’ aye wei Veet adie t f the eau lle was their You are “Playing the Winner” when you use World Ads. for Readers! Reliability! Results! ida Stestod memoers, The refieg! ' Pusloniete to adept the report and Whe at bat Uae head by &@ pliched ba! ar ad he 4 ot chong, - “Useless to Appeal to Mayor,” Said 3 TO SAVE POLICE HEAD: |