RET IS HONORED; ROYALTY AT BIER *k_ Impressive Memorial Servica ->f Late Ambassador Held la Westminister. Rortfon, Dec. 21.—The memorial ser vice fur the late Ambassador Whitelavv Reid, celebrated today in Westminster Abbey, was an impressive ceremony. The honor of such a servie in Great Britain’s most historic cathedral has on only few occasions been accorded to any but British subjects of great distinction. In the qongregation of 2,500 which assembled tlJ .'J morning, nearly half were American residents in England, ■ Including the staff of the American embasitv and consulate general. Royalty, the government and every class of public life together with the artistic, and literary world were repre sented. The day was a gray and gloomy one, typical of London winter. All the con gregation were dressed in the deepest black. The robes of the clergy and the choir and the fiamep from the clus ters of candles before the altar were the only spots of color against the dark stone wllll lined with tablets and busts of hundreds of the noted dead. Funeral marches were played while the great congregation assembled. Royal Personages Present. Prince Arthur of Connaugh, as rep resentative of King George and Queen Mary; Lord Howe, representing Queen MotherAAlexandra; the representatives of other royal personages; the Duke of Argyll; Prince Louis, of Hattenberg; the Gratrtl Duke Michael, of Russia; the vice chandlers of Oxford and Cam bridge universities; Premier Asquith; Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey; Home Secretary Reginald McKenna; Colonial Secretary Lewis Harcourt; Lord President of the Council Viscount Morley; Indian Secretary, the Marquis of Crews, end president of the hoard of trade, Sydney Buxton, were seated in the front pewp of the chancel. Daughter Misses Service. Others Included Attorney General Sir Rufus Isaacs, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, the Duchess of k Marlborough, the Duchess of Welling ■ ton, Prjnccss Hatzfeldt, Lady Ponce Si fote.'Lttdy Strathcona and Mount Roy Sl al; the American cavalry’commission, W headed by Brig. Geh. Edward J. Me I Clerna, and Craig ”W. Wadsworth, V American secretary'of legation at Te Jieran. m Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid, the son and daughterinlaw of the late am bassador, arrived at Plymouth this morning, but the Crown Princess Ce celie docked too late to permit of them , reaching Lpndon for the services. Shortly after noon a processional wad played on the groat organ and the archbishop's of Canterbury and York, |n their robes of scarlet and white, with thb Right Rev. Herbert Edward Ryle, dean of Westminster Abbey, in black and gold, went to their places, while the choir sortly chanted the opening sentences of the burial services. The 19th psalm was sung to Purcell’s music-. The lesson was from -the 15th chapter of the first epistle to the Cor inthians. , Afterward, Wesley’s anthem, “He Will Swallow Up Death in Victory," jt teas sung and then Dean Ryle read part of the burial Service. FITZGERALD FREED k OF THEFT CHARGES WM1 ■ - • £x-Sub Treasury Official Weeps With Joy When Jury Re turns Verdict. .. * Chicago, Dec. 21.—George W. Fitz-< geraid, former associate teller in the United States sub-treasury at Chicago, charged with the theft of $173,000 from • the government in February,“T907, was found not guilty by a jury in Federal Judge Carpenter’s court today. The verdict was read In court short ly after noon. The case was given to the jury at S o’clock yesterday after >noon. The trial was begun November 12. The five years’ preliminary inves tigation of the mysterious shortage in the Chicago sub-treasury which re sulted in the indjetmern'and trial of Fitzgerald is said'fe have cost the gov ernment more than $100,000. Fitzgerald wept with joy when the finding of the jury was made public and threw his arms around the neck of his attorney. .CHAMPION SWINDLER OF FRANCE MISSING _t_ Paris. Dec. 21.—GraaMJwUgnatlon has been aroused here by the discovery that Henri Rochette, the banker and promoter who was twice sentenced for embezzlement and was out on bail, has ilsappeared? m Rochette’s case involved a sensa tional parliamentary investigation, in which M. Clemenceau, the ex-premier; M. Depine, perfect of Paris, and other officials were examined. • Rochette, by various frauds, accord ing to the testimony by .which he was convicted, robbed the French public of savings amounting to $30,000,000. He waS arrested March 23, 1908, but was released on $40,000 bail. He fought the case by every legal device. His first trial began July 28,;J1910. and he was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. [This was quashed on account of legal irregularities. Tte second trial t*gan July 26. 1912, and he was convict^ and sentenced to two years’ imnfHaOiment. He was given his libertipygball. CUSTOMERS IMPRESSED BY “GLOOM PROCESS” Cincinnati. Ohio. Dec. 21.—Further E^R testimony regarding the existence of |E^R *. “historical room1’ in which was a display of cash register machines |P^R which had beert discarded and put out of business and "in which customers SjM were taken and put through the i-SUSE “gloom” process was taken when the MM trial of John H. Patterson and 29 of PjJM ficials and former officers of the Na ji||M lional Cash Register company was re Eumed today. m APPEAL NOTfpE FILED M IN CASE OF GANGSTERS p® • *' |R0 New York, Dee. 21—Notice of appeal gijflEr In the case of gQyp the Blood," Jj^E “Dago '‘Frank,-’ WVCTtcy’’ Lewis and “Lefty Lottie,” condemned to death for the murder ol Herman Rosenthal. Sj^R^ was filed by their counsel today. This aBK^Racls as a stay cf execution, pending a MBSMileetsion by the higher courts. They ByRvere originally sentenced to die dur piRlk j^Rlg the Week of January 6 CHICAGO EGG WAR IS INAUGURATED Women Offer “Hen Fruit” for Sale At 24 Cents and Re tailers Quote 22 Cents. Chicago, Dec. 21.—Chicago's club • omen became egg merchants today. They planned to sell 1,000,000 eggs at 24 cents a dozen in their campaign against the high cost of that com modity. Thirty stations were opened throughout the city where eggs could be purchased from 6 to 10 cents cheap er than the same product has been sold by the retail grocers. They will be sold in three, six and nine dozen lots. Tile “bargain day sale” is being con ducted under the auspices of the Chi cago Clean Food league, which bought 10 carloads of eggs. Sales of butter, meat and vegetables will be arranged. Retailers Cut Prices. As soon as the women opened their sale retail grocers plastered the front of their stores with signs offering eggs at 22 cents a dozen, 2 cents less than the price asked by the women, The grocers advertised their product as “guaranteed April storage eggs,” the same quality sold by the women. The man behind the 24-cent storage egg sale is a Chicago wholesale egg dealer. He made public his connection with the crusade last night after many inquiries as to the sources of the finances behind the movement had been made. Dealer Backs Crusade. He said he became associated with the women In the fight against high priced eggs in the hope that certain "dishonest wholesalers and dishonest retailers” might find it impossible to longer boost produce prices when con ditions did not warrant it. If there be any loss as a result of the sale, he said, he alone would stand it, as the club women have not contracted to sell any certain amount of eggs. They will pay him 20% cents for each dozen they sell and the 3% cents profit will go into the league treasury. The public sale had little if any ef fect on the wholesale price of the prod uct. There was an advance of a % cent a dozen for strictly fresh eggs, while the price of storage eggs re mained the same. Campaign is Success. Mrs. John C. Bley, president of the Chicago Pure Food club, said reports from the different selling stations showed the campaign had proved a success. The nine stations in the down town district were crowded with customers soon after the doors were opened and scores of clerks were kept busy wrapping up packages of eggs. “The campaign is a success in every way,” said Mrs. Bley. "We have em phasized the good quality of our eggs rather than the lower price and in this way we have overcome the effect of competition from retailers located near our selling stations. The sale will prove a great benefit to the consumer and we hope to teach the retailer a wholesome lesson.” PLAN IS PRACTICAL IF IT IS NOT SCIENTIFIC Philadelphia, Dec. 21.—Another cut in the price of storage eggs was de cided upon by the Housekeepers’ league here and today the product is being sold for 22 cents a dozen. It was de cided to hold a mass meeting early next month to discuss co-operative schemes for buying and selling other necessities. A feature of the campaign to reduce the high cost of living was a debate to day between Mrs. Derr, leader in the movement, and Dr. Clyde L. King, pro fessor of political economy at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. Dr. King declared the selling of eggs or other commodities by volunteers was not economically sound and of no particular benefit, as prices would rise when the supply is exhausted. Mrs. Derr defended the action of the league as practical ^if not scientific. FARMERS JOIN WOMEN IN CRUSADE OF BEAN CITY Boston, Dec. 21.—Agitation to reduce the price of eggs in this city resulted in Mrs. Susane Stevens, secretary of the Women’s Homestead association, announcement that farmers in the su burbs would sell fresh eggs to the association for 18 cents a dozen. Alton B. Briggs, executive secretary of the Boston Fruit and Produce ex change, said the wholesale price for fresh eggs here is 38 cents a dozen. He believes there can be no serious in tention among farmers to sell at a lower price. MAYOR OF HAVANA TO END DUELING CUSTOM He Not Only Refuses to Fight Himself But Proposes to Stop Practice. Havana. Dec. 21.—General Freyre Andrade, the new mayor of Havana, has set his face resolutely against the national custom of dueling. Col. Manuel Armanda. a prominent member of the veterans’ association, visited the mayor yesterday. He was accompanied by eight comrades for whom he demanded appointments. The mayor refused to comply with his de mand and indulged In sarcastic com ments on the veterans’ greed for office. Then ensued an acrimonious personal dispute. Colonel Armanda today sent two sec onds to the mayor who promptly ar rested both of them and committed them to Jail. The mayor's action has caused great excitement in the highest social and political circles and his further action is awaited with intense interest. The mayor says he is fully determined to enforce the anti-duelling law regardless of consequences. CAN’T HELP STEALING. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 21.—A con fessed kleptomaniac, Harry Van War inga, tearfully told Judge Porterfield in the criminal court here that he was powerless to quit stealing and the judge revoked a parole and ordered him taken to the penitentiary to serva four years for forgery. LITTLE GIRL KIDNAPED BY A WOMAN IN GREEN Chicago. Dec. 21.—Police of Chicago and Evanston are searching today for a well dressed woman, wearing a green Jacket and a green veil, who kidnaped Margaret Houghton. 6 years old, while she was on her way to school in Evanston yesterday. The father of the missing girl, until recently was tmployod by M. M. Klrkman, fo^mo-iy j vice president of the Chicago & Nortll I western railroad. TO SUGGEST PLAN FOR UNSCRAMBLING EGGS Union Pacific Officials Ask for Approval of Scheme for Sale of Southern Road. Washington. Dec. 21.—The supreme court of the United States today took under advisement a combined motion of the government and the Union Pa cific railroad attorneys for a more specific decree as to the rights of Union Pacific stockholders in the or dered distribution of the $126,650,000 worth of Southern Pacific stock owned by the Union Pacific Itailroad com pany. The railroad attorneys want the Union Pacific stockholders exclusively to be allowed to buy the stock. The government is opposed to such an ex clusive privilege. The court's action may be announced Monday. The railroad attorneys explained to the court that they considered tho only practical method by which the stock could be distributed without irrepalr able injury, would be for the Union Pacific company to offer it to its own shareholders pro rata, according to the amount of their holdings; for purchase at a fair price, or to distribute It as a dividend to its stockholders entitled to a dividend. Say Inj'ury Would Result. They declared that the attorney gen eral was opposed to such a plan. “To refuse to allow the Union Pa cific shareholders to participate in such a distribution,” declared the attorneys in the papers they filed, “would expose them to a serious loss and possible ir reparable injury. “The offering for sale upon the opeif market of the Union Pacific's holding of Southern Pacific stock, aggregat ing $126,650,000, would hot only inflict great injustice and irreparable dam age upon tho Union Pacific and its shareholders, but also would cause a serious financial disturbances by over supplying the market demand for se curities of this character and conse quently depressing the price, not merely of tho Southern Pacific's shares owned by the Union Pacific, but also of the shares of Southern Pacific held by others, and even of the securities of other corporations dealt in on the market during and for a long period after the offering of these Southern Pacific shares for sale.” From exhibits brought into the court the railroad attorneys argued that if the Southern Pacific stock owned by the Union Pacific were distributed among all Union Pacific shareholders the “so-called controlling interests" would get only 6 per cent of the to tal capitalization of the Southern Pa cific company or an “infinitesimal portion.” Finally it was argued that the plan advocated by the railroad attorneys was in conformity with the practice in ether dissolutions directed by th# court. _ BANDIT SUSPECT IS WORKER IN CHURCH Alias “Louis Forbes” Contrib utor to Missions and Episco pal Club Member. Chicago, Dec. 21.—When Arthur Lewis, alias "Louis Forbes" who, with two companions is being held at a Westside police station as alleged automobile bandits, was searched to day, a card was found in his pocket showing that he is a member of the Tuesday Evening club of the Trinity Episcopal church, South Michigan ave nue and East Twenty-sixth street. In another pocket a letter was found from the pastor. Rev. John M. Mc Gann, acknowledging receipt of a con tribution of $10 for missionary pur poses. The three men were arrested follow ing their betrayal by Elmer Heath, an automobile repair man, who said he had been engaged to drive the alleged robbers to several restaurants they had planned to hold-up. Victims of recent robberies by auto mobile bandits in all parts of the city, have been notified to visit the police station and attempt to identify the three men under arrest, MAD KING OTTO MAY SOON BE DETHRONED Prince Ludwig Slated for Ruler ship Over Subjects of Bavar ian Province. Munich, Bavaria, Dec. 21.—Prince Ludwig, the new prince regent of Ba varia, will become king and the mad king, Otto, who has never known that he was a royal personage, will he de throned, in all probability next year. The Bavarian premier today in formed the speaker of the Bavarian diet and the leaders of the various parties in that assembly that an amendment to the constitution would be submitted by the government to a special session of the diet in January, by the terms of which the regency would be abolished and Ludwig would receive the title of king. 44444444-444444444444444444 4 4 4 KISSES ANOTHER’S GIRL 4 4 AND LOSES HIS NOSE 4 4 4 4 Pottsville, Pa.. Dec. 21.—Be- 4 4 cause Anthony Baron, of Mt. 4 4 Carbon, kissed a young woman, 4 4 he lost his nose. 4 4 This is how it happened: Bar- 4 4 on, James Currie and Dornlci 4 4 Dando were courting the same 4 4 young woman. All three called 4 4 at the same time. Matters 4 4 reached a crisis in the rivalry 4 4 for the girl's favor when Baron 4 4 planted an enthusiastic kiss on 4 4 her lips. Dando and Currie drew 4 *■ knives and used them, with the 4 4 result that Baron's nasal organ 4 4 was severed iron] his face. 4 4 4 44444444444444444444444444 SLOCUM COMMANDER IS GRANTED PARDON Washington. Dec. 21.—The president today granted a pardon to Capt. Wil liam H. VanSchaick, who commanded the steamboat General Slocum which burned in 190-1 in East River, off New York city, resulting in the loss ot 1,030 lives, mostly women and children The pardon becomes effective Christ mas day. VanSchaick has been out of prison on parole^ for some time. MADERO INFORMED REVOLJJUST STOP Rebel Activities and Appeals o! American Interests Practic ally Ignored by Mexicans Washington, D. C„ Dec. 21.—The de* termination of tho American govern ment to adopt a stiffer policy toward Mexico, as disclosed In the announce ment last night, in the purpose to make fresh representations to that govern ment regarding the continuation of the rebellion, is directly attributed to the recent return to Washington of several persons thoroughly conversant with the alleged evil conditions existing south of tho border. First, was Henry Lane Wilson, American ambassador to Mexico, who has been in close touch with every one of the American consular officers in the disturbed districts, and who is also personally aware of the attitude of the Mexican government toward the large number of American claims presented as a result of the depredations com mitted by rebels. Ail Pleas Ignored. Then there have come forward the three members of the self-constituted committee of Americans, representing the largfc plantation and mining inter ests in northern Mexico, who from per sonal knowledge, were able to Inform the state department of tho various practices employed by the rebel leaders to extort money from the American managers and foremen and of the com parative Indifference of the Mexican government officials to the numerous appeals of the American Interests for protection from raiders. Lastly, there have come the members of the Senate sub-committee on for eign relations, fresh from an Investiga tion at first hand of border conditions from California to Texas. Madero Given Warning. The combination of all those repre sentations has made a profound im pression on the administration. It has been concluded that stronger repre sentations than have heretofore been made, must be directed to the Mexican government if the conditions are to be cured. In the ordinary course these will be communicated through Ambas sador Wilson, who Is leaving Washing ton this morning for New York, whence he will sail next Thursday for his post by way of Vera Cruz. The fact that the ambassador is returning In a leisurely fashion may be Indica tive of the purpose of the administra tion to avoid undue haste or excite ment in developing this stronger policy toward Mexico. It has been reported to the state department that the strict enforcement of the neutrality laws Is, in fact, resulting in the maintenance of an attitude anything but neutral on the part of the United States, and that the Madero government Is beneflttlng unduly by the exclusion of arms from the rebels, while Itself receiving quan tities of military supplies, and the United States government Is now con templating some amendment of the practice In that respect so as to make its attitude more Impartial as between the combatants. RAILWAY TERMINALS TOO SMALL, HE SAYS James J. Hill Says Lack of Finances Is Back of Car Shortage. New York, Dec. 21.—"The commerce of the country can escape disaster only by additions to, and enlargements of railway terminals," 'declared James J. Hill, formerly president of the Great Northern railway, last night In a speech at the annual banquet of the Railway Business association. "When the railroad yards are filled with cars that cannot be moved, the railroad loses a portion of Its earnings,” he said, "but the business man loses a larger share of his trade and the working man his employment.” Back of the lack of proper terminal facilities, Mr. Hill declared, was the question of finances. Impairment of credit, decretsed earning power and In creased expenses, he said, made it im possible for the railways to borrow money advantageously and build these necessary terminals. “The railroads should be permitted,” he argued, “to earn and hold a surplus equal to 50 per cent of the amount they pay out In dividends, to be held for emergency cases, and applied to improved facilities. The people must realize that regulation must not be strangulation." MANY FATAL WRECKS COULD BE PREVENTED Washington, Dec. 21.—“Safety first” is the paramount rule of train operation suggested by the Interstate Commerce commission in its 26th annual report sub mitted to congress. Discussion of disasters on American railroads during the last year constitutes an important feature of the report. It is pointed out that many of the acci dents resulting fn fatalities might have been averted by the exercise of proper precaution or the employment of suitable devices and good equipment. Figures given show that of the total of 8,215 derailments during the year 1,877 were caused by de fects of roadway and 3,847 were due to de fective equipment. This indicates an in crease over the previous year of 662 in the derailments due to bad roadw’ay, and 1,023 due to bad equipment. SHOES MADE OF RAGS AND PAPER, HE SAYS Washington, Dec. 21.—Charging that imitation leathers, made of paper and rags, were being foisted on the people by the manufac turers of boots and shoes, Representative Oldfield, of Ar kansas, introduced a bill in the House requiring manufacturers to stamp all footwear so that the kind of substitute for leather may be known to the pur chaser. SENDS BODY OF DEAD INFANT BY EXPRESS Denver, Colo.,’Dec. Hi.—David Boskin received an express package yesterday. It was labeled “Glass. Handle with i are," and the value of the contents was placed at $10. In the package was the body of a baby. When the infant child of L. Rolsteln. Laramie, Wyo„ died, the father wished It to be burled In a Jewish cemetery. Therefore he decided to ship the body to his friend, Boskin, of Denver. The death cer tificate was sent by mall. NEW LEGISLATION CERTAIN TO COME 'evelations of Wall Street Gambling Have Started Na tion Wide Agitation. Washington, Dee. 21.—J. Pler pont Morgan having denied there ts a money trust, the Pujo commit tee and Attorney Untermeycr will prove It. Far reaching plans were laid today to call ns witnesses John D. and William Rockefeller and other big captains of finance and industry, and especially to call men who have been squeezed by the money trust. The bank panic of 1907 will be explored, the Ten nessee coal and Iron deal, the wresting of the Great Western from A. B. Stlckney and all the big financial Incidents of recent years will be probed. Washington, D. C„ Dec. 21.—That tlfc. tnoney trust Inquiry which has been so much sneered at and condemned as useless and ineffective. Is going to re sult In a powerful agitation for legisla tion of a corrective sort, If not In actual legislation. Is becoming cloar. It may be Impossible to prove actual existence of a money trust, but It has already been shown, what students of the situation have known, that the country as a whole Is more or less con stantly being milked of money In order to help along the tremendous gambling transactions on the New York Stock exchange. What Quiz Hss Shown. The Interior banks of the country are constantly sending their money, which Is really the money of their depositors, to New York. There. If there happens to be a brisk demand for money, or If money Is tight, the money Is loaned out at high rates of Interest. It goes, moreover, for the purpose of promoting speculation and speculative move ments. It has been brought out by the fig ures put In evidence in the Inquiry that a third of the money loaned by New York banks on stock exchange and like collateral. Is not their own money, but the money of out of town banks. Roughly, the New York banks, Novem ber 1, loaned three-quarters of a bil lion dollars on such collateral and about a quarter of a billion was money of banks out of the city of New York. Construction Retarded. This means that the country outside of New York Is furnishing millions and millions of dollars to help along, not the constructive enterprises of the country, but the Jugglery of stocks and securities as prices of such paper are made to rise and fall by the manipula tions of the operators. Putting it in another way, the depositors’ money in great numbers of the banks of the country is being used to enliven the game on the world’s greatest gaming table and the banks are paid a high percentage of the rake-off for helping along the game. Just what congress can do about it Is a matter of dispute. But the prob abilities are that congress can take action In the way of restricting the loans and the rates of interest of na tional banks and by modifying the re quirements as to where reserves shall be kept to prevent vast sums of the money of the pubftc from flowing Into New York to be used for stock gamb ling. At any rate, much attention to the problem which stock gambling and concentration of money presents Is be ing given In congress, as It will doubt less be given in various state legisla tures. PARDON FOR HALL IS ECHO OFJENEY CASE Taft Declares Oregon District Attorney Was Not Guilty of Frauds. Washington, Dec. 21.—President Taft has granted a full and absolute par don to John H. Hall, former United States district attorney of Portland, Ore., convicted June 1, 1909, of conspir acy in connection with unlawful fencing of public lands in eastern Ore gon. The president’s action was based on the ground that Hall is Innocent of the offense. Hall was fined $1,000 and sentenced to 60 days in Jail, but has served none of the sentence. He appealed to the supreme court of the United States, but that appeal was dismissed today, co incident with his pardon by the presi dent. The substance of the offense for which Hall was prosecuted by Francis J. Heney, was that the district attor ney had failed to prosecute a land com pany in Oregon, charged with fencing government lands, and that when he did prosecute it was through civil in stead of criminal proceedings. SHAFT IS ERECTED TO HONOR SOLDIER DEAD Andersonvllle, Ga., Dec. 21.—In the presence of Governor Deneen, of Illi nois, his staff, a large party of Illinois veterans and representatives of the government, the monument erected tc the memory of Illinois soldiers buried here was unveiled today. Addresses were delivered by Governor Deneen and Capt. J. J. Ryan, U. S. A., attached tc the department of the gulf, who ac cepted the shaft on behalf of the gov ernment. The Illinois monument, which cosl about $10,000, is one of the most impos ing erected by the northern states lr the national cemetery here. WOMAN LEAPS FROM WINDOW AND DIES St. Louis, Mo., Deo. 21.—Mrs. Clara Gordon, 41 years old, leaped 60 feel from a fifth story window of the cit> hospital today killing herself. She waf sent to the hospital for treatment foi a n ental ailment. BOY IS F0UND~GUILTY OF MURDERING FATHEF Chicago, Dec. 21.—Paul Garozo, Jr, 16 years old, was found guilty of man slaughter by a jury in Judge Wind’i court today. The boy shot and killec his father in a dispute over money a the family home on the Westsidi February 11, 1912. The jury recommended that the boj be sent to the Pontiac reformatory un til he is 21 years old. It was thi youthful prisoner's second trial, th< Jury in the first having disagreed. PRESIDENT DENIES HE IS PLAYING POLITICS Taft Says Charge of Democrats Concerning Patronage Is An Untruth. Washington, Dec. 21.—President Taft yesterday gave congress his opinion of tho charge that he had been playing politics In his recent executive order putting 36,000 fourth class postmaster* under tho civil service. The president made the counter charge that his ac cusers on the floor of the House were gala™ telling “untruths,” and declared he deeply regretted the failure of con gress to pass legislation which prac tically would destroy the “spoils sys tem." "Criticism has been made of this or der on the ground that the motive was political,” said the president. “Noth ing could be farther from the truth. The order was made before the election and In the Interest of efficient public service. I have several times requested i congress to give me authority to put first, second and third class postmas ters and all other local officers. United States marshals and the local agents t of the other departments under ths j classification of the civil service law by taking away the necessity of con firming such appointments by the Senate. I deeply regret the failure of congress to follow these recommenda tions. The change would have taken out of politics practically every local officer and would have entirely cured the evils growing out of what, under the present law, must always remain * remnunt of the spoils system.” Some Recommendations. The president’s advice to congress was contained in his third message of I the year, sent in today. It was devoted largely to a review of the accomplish ments of several government depart ments not touched upon in previous messages and to recommendations for legislation. The president advocated: Legislation which would permit members of the cabinet to sit in either house of congress, with tho right to enter Into debate and answer ques tions, but without a vote. The adoption of the postmaster gen eral's plan for a readjustment of com pensation to railways carrying malls, especially In view of the conditions which will exist under the parcels post law. A revision of the land laws to secure proper conservation and at the cams time assure prompt disposition of land that should be turned over to private ownership. Legislation nffoctlng Alaska which would provide for leases of coal lands and In respect to mining claims, ths disposition of oil, phosphate and potash lands In the United States. Approves Remsen Board. An act of congress which would legalize a court authorized to review decisions on the pure food laws such as are now made by the Remsen baardj In this connection the president ap proved the creation of the Remsen board by former President Roosevelt, but said the time had come for con gress to recognize the necessity for “a tribunal of appeal” In pure food cases. “While we are struggling to suppress an evil of great proportions like that 6f Impure Food,” said the president. “we must provide the machinery of the law Itself to prevent Its becoming an Instrument of oppression and we ought to enable those whose business Is threatened with annihilation to have some tribunal and some form of appeal in which they have a complete day In court.” The president closed his mCSSft with a recommendation that congress report for a government building at the Panama-Pacific international ex position at San Francisco, and for the beautification of Washington. In his discussion of the capital he said that a public utilities Commission was needed. The president expressed opposition to the granting of the electric fran chise to citizens of Washington and endorsed the plans of the commission of fine arts for city improvements. RUSSIA WOULD GRAB ALL FROM CHINESE Terms of Proposed Mangoliaa Treaty Offensive to New Republic. Pekin, Dec. 21.—The terms of the Russo-Mongollan treaty of November 3 are published here. The Chinese re gard them as far more comprehensive than the Manchurian agreements which finally led to the Russo-Japanese war. The features to which the Chinese particularly object as Infringing China’s sovereignty are the right they give Russia to send consuls and con sular guards to all Mongolian ports and to establish postoffices. The treaty also accords to Russian subjects freedom to trade, establish manufactories, buy land, to arrange concessions for fishing, mining and for the navigation of the rivers flowing into Russian territory. insane,'plotted to BLAST DENVER MINT Denver, Colo., Dec. 21.—Investigation of a report that a well laid plot to dynamite the Denver mint and rob it of its contents of almost 3500,000,000, had been discovered, brought out the fact that all reference to blowing up the building was made by a person whose mind is evidently unbalanced. Three weeks ago a letter was sent through tho malls, written in Denver, addressed to "Public Comfort Station, Denver.” The postman delivered it to the Janitor at the station and he, after reading it, turned it over to Chief O’Neill. The writer suggested that since there are persons in Denver out of work, and many who have little money, it was not Just to horde a vast amount of gold and silver In the mint. It was his idea that a great charge of dynamite should be placed under the building and the gold and bullion be scattered all over the city so everyone who would could help himself. HANGMAN’S CAP STOPS BLACKHANDER’S WORDS Montreal, Dec. 20.—With an incoher ent speech cut short on his lips when the hangman slipped the black cap i over his eyes and sprung the trap. Carlo Battista, a member of the black hand, met death on the scaffold today for the murder of Salvatore Mariano. Battista had been raving in his cell ever since be learned that his recent sensational statement concerning the > murderers of Joseph Petroslno, the > New York detective, would not delay his execution.