AMERICA IN GRIP
OF MONEY TRUST
Majority of Pujo Committee
Find That Morgan Heads
“Inner Ring.’’
Washington, March 3.—That a money
trust does exist and that its powers
should be curbed by stringent federal
regulations as to the conduct of na
tional banks, clearing houses and stock
exchanges were the findings of the
House money trust committee, set
forth in the majority of its investiga
tions filed in the House.
The report, signed by Chairman Pujo
and the six other democratic members
of the sub-committee which conduct
ed the money trust probe, was accom
panied by two bills, one to regulate
stock exchanges through forbidding
the malls to exchanges that do not
comply with federal regulations, and
the other to regulate clearing house as
sociations through forbidding national
banks to Join such associations unless
federal regulations are observed. In
the latter bill, proposed as an amend
ment to the national banking act, the
conduct of national bank officers and
directors is closely restricted.
Money Trust Defined.
On the question of the existence of a
money trust, the report is specific and
detailed.
"It would, of course, be absurd,”
aald the report, "to suggest that con
trol of the bulk of the widely distrib
uted wealth of a great nation can be
corralled by any set of men. If that
ts what is meant by gentlemen who
deny the existence of a money trust,
your committee agrees with them. It
is not, however, necessary that a group
of men shall control directly the small
savings in the banks nor the scattered
resources of the country in order to
monopolize the great financial trans
actions or to be able to direct credits
to be extended or withheld from busi
ness enterprises.”
The great bank or banker, with ac
cess to the main springs of the con
centrated "resources of other people’s
money,” the report declares, can han
dle the vast issues of securities now
demanded by the commercial and in
dustrial development of the country,
but the bank reserve system, It is
further contended, concentrates a large
part of the funds of the smaller banks
in New York, where a group of men
have strengthened their Interest in the
various banking institutions, the re
port said.
How System Works.
"If. therefore, by a ‘money trust' Is
meant an established and well defined
identity and community of interest be
tween a few leaders of finance which
has been created and held together
through stockholdings, Interlocking di
rectorates and other forms of domina
tion over banks, trust companies, rail
roads. public service and industrial cor
porations and which has resulted in
a vast and growing concentration of
the control of money and credit In the
hands of a comparatively few men,
your rommittee has no hesitation In
asserting that the condition thus des
cribed exists in this country today.
“To say that the domination of this
group over the money and credit of
the country controlled by our largest
financial institutions and that is avail
able for financing large security Issues
for the current needs of our principal
interstate corporations and of the in
dividuals conducting great enterprises
and for stock exchange loans, is at
least as effective as, for instance, is
the control of the United States Steel
corporation over the steel Industry. Is
an understatement of the situation, al
though the methods by which this con
trol is effected and together are, of
course, essentially different, and of a
more loose and intangible character.”
Morgan Is Its Head.
Aceepting this as the long sought
"money trust." the committee outlined
the membership as follows:
“The parties to this combination or
understanding, or community of Inter
est by whatever name It may be called,
may be conveniently classified, for the
purpose of differentiation. Into four
separate groups. The first, which we
will call the inner group, consists of
J. P. Morgan & Co., the recognized
leaders, and George P. Baker and
James Stillman in their individual ca
pacities and in their Joint administra
tion and control of the First National
bank, the National City bank, the Na
tional Bank of Commerce, the Chase
National bank, the Guaranty Trust
company and the Bankers’ Trust coin
company, with total known resources,
in these corporations alone, in excess
of $1,300,000,000, and of a number of
smaller but important financial insti
tutions. This takes no account of the
personal fortunes of these gentlemen.
"Closely allied with this inner group
and indeeed related to them practical
ly as partners in many of their larger
financial enterprises, are the powerful
international banking houses of Lee
Higginson & Co., and Kidder. Peabody
& Co., with three affiliated banks in
Boston.
“Banking Ethl«.“
“In New York city the international
banking house of Messrs. Kuehn. Loeb
& Co., with its large foreign clientele
and connections, whilst only qualiflcdly
allied with the inner group, yet through
its close relations with the National
City bank and the National Bank of
Commerce and other financial institu
tions with which it has recently al
lied itself, has many Interests in com
mon. conducting large Joint account
transactions with them, especially in
recent years and having what virtually
amounts to an understanding not to
compete, which is defended as a prin
ciple of ‘banking ethics.’ Together they
have, with a few exceptions, pre
empted the banking business of the im
portant railways of the countrv.
’’In Chicago this Inner group asso
ciates with and makes issues of se
curities in Joint account, or through un
derwriting participations primarily
with the First National bank and the
Illinois Trust and Savings bank, and
has more or less friendly business re
lations with the Continental and Com
mercial National bank, which partici
pates in the underwriting of security
issues by the inner group. These are
the three largest financial institutions
In Chicago, with combined resources of
$561,000,000.
Some Smaller Concerns.
“Radiating from these principal
groups and closely affiliated with them
are smaller but important banking
houses, such as Kissel. Kinnicut * Co.:
White. Weld & Co., and Harvey Fisk
WILL MAKE INQUIRY
INTO SLAVERY CAUSE
Chicago, March 3.—Fifteen white
men and 300 negroes live off the earn
ings of “white slaves’* and women of
the underworld in Chicago, according
to testimony given today by a former
cadet to the state commission investi
gating vice conditions in Illinois. Lieu
tenant Governor O’Hara, head of the
commission, after bearing testimony
which tended to show tha* many vie
& Son», who receive large and lucra
tive patronage from the dominating
groups and are used by the latter as
jobbers or distributors of securities,
the Issuing of which they control, but
which for reasons of their own they
prefer not to have issued or distributed
under their own names.
"Beyond these inner groups and sub
groups are banks and bankers through
out the country who co-operate with
them In underwriting or guaranteeing
the sale of securities offered to the pub
lic and who also act as distributors of
such securities.
“The patronage thus proceeding from
the inner group and Its sub-groups Is
of great value to these banks and
bankers, who are thus tied by self in
terest to the great issuing houses and
may be regarded as a part of this vast
financial organization."
Fraught With Peril.
Concluding its findings as to the ex
istence of a money trust, the commit
tee said:
"Your committee is convinced that,
however well founded may be the as
surances of good Intentions by those
now holding the places of honor which
have been thus created, the situation is
fraught with too great perils to our In
stitutions to be tolerated.”
Discussing the control of securities
by this so-called money trust, the re
port said:
"Through their power and domina
tion over so many of the largest Insti
tutions which, as buyers, underwriters,
distributors or investors, constitute the
principal first outlets for security Is
sues, the inner group and its allies have
drawn to themselves practically the
sole marketing of the Issues of the
greater railroads, producing and trad
ing and public utility corporations,
which in consequence have no open
mafket to which to appeal and in this
position of vantage, fortified by the
control exerted by them through voting
trusts, representation In directorates,
stockholdings, fiscal agencies and other
■relations, they have been able in turn
to direct the deposits and other pat
ronage of such corporations to those
same financial institutions, thereby
strengthening the Instruments through
which they work.”
Condemn Voting Trusts,
The report condemned Interlocking
directorates and consolidations and de
voted considerable space to a statement
showing the development of control
through these agencies in New York
institutions.
“It is manifestly improper,” said the
report, "and repugnant to the theory
and practice of competition that the
same person or members of the same
firm shall undertake to act in such in
consistent capacities.”
The report condemns the use of vot
ing trusts in the control of financial
institutions and criticises private
bankers in the capacity of depositaries
for interstate corporations.
The recommendations of the com
mittee as set forth in the report and
as embraced in the bills accompanying
the report urged the following reforms:
incorporate Clearing mouses.
Clearing house associations of which
national banks are members should be
required to become bodies corporate
of the states in which they are located
and every solvent and properly man
aged bank or trust company should
have the right, enforceable at law, to
become and remain a member.
"Regular periodical examinations of
members by a committee of the clear
ing house association should be pro
hibited and instead all such examina
tions should be conducted by public au
thorities.”
The committee would give the gov
ernment supervision of clearing house
certificates and would prohibit the fix
ing of rates by clearing houses for the
collection of out of town checks, dis
count or interest on deposits.
Invoke Lottery Law.
As to the New York Stock exchange
the committee recommended that con
gress "prohibit the transmission by the
mails or by telegraph or by telephone
from one state to another of orders tc
buy or sell Or quotations or other in
formation concerning transactions oil
any stock exchange and also prohibit
national banks from buying or selling
or lending upon the security of stocks
or bonds listed in any stock exchange
unless such exchange were a body cor
porate of the state or territory in
which it is located.
‘"Require corporations whose securi
ties it (the stock exchange) lists.” the
report continues, "to make a complete
disclosure of their affairs in particu
lar any commission paid to promo
ters, middlemen or bankers, out ol
any such security interest or the pro
ceeds thereof.
Require Larger Margin.
"Require a margin of not less than
20 per cent on all purchases of stock.
"Prohibit so far as possible the exe
cution of simultaneous or substantially
simultaneous orders proceeding from
the same person or persons to buy and
sell the same security for the purpose
of creating an appearance of activity
therein and any orders, the purpose
of which Is to inflate or depress the
price of any security.
"Prohibit members from pledging
securities purchased and carried for a
customer for an amount greater than
the unpaid portion of the purchase
price, whether with or without the
consent of such customer.
“Prohibit members from lending to
other members securities carried by
the former for customers, whether with
or without the customers’ consent.
“State In Its charter the condittons
on which issues of securities shall be
admitted or removed from the trading
list and provide for a judicial review
of its action in this regard.
"Keep books of account, showing the
actual names and transactions of cus
tomers and give access thereto to the
postmaster general.”
Restrict National Banka.
Among the recommendations for the
restriction of national banks, the com
mittee set forth 22 regulations. These
were:
The prohibition of the consolidation
of two or more banks without the ap
proval of the comptroller of the cur
rency; prohibiting of directors serving
on the boards of more than one bank
in the same community or locality:
forbidding ownership of stock in one
national bank by any other bank or
trust company; forbidding voting
trusts in the control of batiks; pro
viding for cumulative voting in the
election of national bank directors;
forbidding security holding companies
as adjuncts to national banks: for
bidding Interstate corporations from
constituting any banking establish
ment thejr sole- fiscal agents; forbidding
interstate corporations to deposit funds
with “unsupervitJed, unregulated, pri
vate bankers:" forbidding national
banks from engaging In underwriting
syndicates; allowing national banks to
tints of white slavers took their first
downward step because of low wages,
ordered that a list of these employers
lie prepared and subpoenaes issued for
their presence before the committee.
"It does not matter whether those re
sponsible for existing conditions live
i on the Lake Shore drive or in the
! slums, we are going to drag them into
I public light." said O’Hara.
MEDAL GIVEN ROSTRON.
Washington. March 1.—President
| Taft today presented to (’apt. Arthur
i H. Postron, the sold medal authorized
‘by lungreas for Tils courage and gal
Invest IK per cent of their capital la
state, city, county or corporation
mortgage bonds if the corporation is
sues have paid Interest regularly for
five years; reform of the system of
railroad reorganization to conform with
the scheme outlined in the British law
which places reorganization under the
control of the courts, giving the In
terstate Commerce commission the
power to supervise reorganization
plans; placing ralroad securities is
sues under the control of the com
mission and providing for competitive
bidding on such Issues; forbidding of
ficers of national banks from borrow
ing from their banks; providing for
publicity for loans made by a director
from his bank; forbidding national of
ficers and directors from participating
in underwriting syndicates; making it
a crime for officers or directors to ac
cept any compensation for loaning a
bank’s funds; limiting the number of
directors of national banks to not less
than five or more than IS; providing
publicity for the assets and for the
stockholding lists of national hanks.
The two bills presented by the com
mittee deal with the national banks
and with stock exchanges. The first
embodies the committee’s recommen
dation as to control of clearing bouses,
cumulative voting for directors, for
bidding loans to aid in combinations to
restrain trade; limiting the number of
bank directors, regulating loans by
national banks to officers and direc
tors; forbidding interlocking direc
torates in banks and national banks or
officers from participation in under
writing syndicates and providing a
fine of $6,000 and imprisonment for
two years for violation.
The second bill embodies all of the
recommendations of the committee as
to stock exchanges and fixes penalties
for violation.
The first minority report, signed by
Representative Hayes of California.
Representative Heald of Delaware and
Representative Guernsey of Maine, re
publicans, set forth that the investiga
tion ’’has not disclosed the existence of
any so-called money trust," but added,
"it has, however, disclosed a dangerous
concentration of credit in New York
city and to some extent in Boston and
Chicago."
"While agreeing substantially with
the majority,” said the report, “on
many of the abuses to be corrected In
the financial system, the stock ex
changes and the clearing house asso
ciation, the undersigned have doubts
as to the wisdom of some of the rem
edies proposed by the majority.”
Second Minority Report.
An individual minority report! filed by
Representative McMorran, of Michigan,
republican, was a flat, detailed dis
agreement with the recommendations
and findings of the majority. He says:
"While i believe that attention has
been called to grave deficiencies in our
financial laws, I also believe that a sin
ister light has been thrown over bank
ing practices which was not justified
by the facts; that no effort has been
made to show the reasonable and com
mendable explanations of the practices,
and that in many years an impression
has been given to the country as to
the character and methods of the lead
ing bankers which Is altogether unfair.
A sentiment has been crteated through
out the country against Wall street,
and many of our good citizens do not
realize what It means that New York
has become one of the world’s leading
money markets.”
FRIEDMANN PLANNING
TO HOLD OPEN CLINIC
German Savant to Administer
White Plague Cure to Poor
Without Charge.
New York, March 3.—The widespread
attention which has been drawn to the
tuberculosis serum of Dr. Friedmann,
the German bacteriologist, will be
brought to a climax next week. The
announcement is made today that Dr.
Friedmann will open offices and for
two weeks will conduct a public clinic,
where the poor as well as the rich will
be treated, the serum to be administer
ed free to those who cannot afTord to
pay for it.
A number of American physicians
will be invited to attend the clinic to
assist in diagnosing the cases and to
watch them afterwards and learn Dr.
Friedmann’s method. He claims that
within a week the benefits of ths
serum will be apparent._
TELLS OF CARNEGIE
AND JOHN D/S FIGHT
New York, March 3.—John D. Rocke
feller and Andrew Carnegie fought
each other In the late '90s to monopo
lize the Lake Superior ore lands. Mr.
Rockefeller caught Mr. Carnegie s com
pany violating an agreement and forced
it to give up ore properties contain
ing 75,000,000 tons, according to the evi
dence at the hearing to dissolve the
United States Steel corporation under
the Sherman anti-trust law resumed
yesterday. James Gayley. former vice
president of the corporation, and di
rector of the Carnegie Steel company
previous to its acquisition by the cor
poration in 1901, was the witness
through whom the testimony was ad
duced.
SUICIDE RECORDS HIS
FINAL DEATH THROBS
Philadelphia, Mar. 3.—With a stetho
scope applied to his ears, Karl W.
Schneyder. a manufacturer of surgical
Instruments, yesterday listened to his
heart record its dying beats after he
had pierced that organ with a steel
lance. Near the body, which was dis
covered In the rear of his store, the
police found a piece of paper on which
was written the figures "1-2-3” and
ending with "26." Deputy Coroner
McKeever believes this is the record
of the pulsations Schneyder had
strength to record before his death.
He was 48 years old and had been In
poor health,
WANTS WOMEN COPS.
New York. March 1.-—Mrs. Wm. K.
Vanderbilt urges that a squad of po
licewomen be appointed to deal with
vice in New York, In a letter sent to
day to the legislative committee for
remedial police legislation.
j lantry in rescuing the survivors of the
Titanic and bringing them safely to
] Now York. The president made a brief
j si cecli, quoting tile report of the Sen
ate Investigating committee to show
; the bravery, the painstaking care and
I ihu kindliness exhibited by Captain
j Kostron.
] Five hundred dollars was recently
; paid for the good will of an humble
| colToo 3tall In London.
Newton. Mass., is to have a dental
I clinic for p iplls of public schools.
ALLEGED GLUCOSE
TRUST SUIT STARTS
Dissolution of Corn Products
Refining Company Sought
By Wickersham.
New York, March 3.—Dissolution of
the Corn Products Refining company,
an alleged starch, glucose and syrup
“trust.” Is sought by the federal gov
ernment In a civil anti-trust suit filed
here today, charging the $80,000,000
combination with entering conspiracies
and contracts to destroy competition In
violation of the Sherman law. It Is
alleged they kept the cost of corn prod
ucts unreasonably high to harrass and
discourage Independent manufacturers.
It la alleged that by controlling 66 per
cent of the American production of
starch and glucose and 80 per cent of
the Interstate trade In mixed syrups,
that alleged trust Is charged with fix
ing resale prices, with manufacturing
cheap grade candy at unreasonably low
prices In retaliation against confection
ers who buy starch and glucose from
Independents, with practically sup
pressing t > private brands of mixed
syrups of grocers by quoting low prices
on Its own syrups, and with unlawful
threats and contracts to destroy com
petition.
Injunction Sought.
Aside from dissolution, the govern
ment asks for an injunction prohibit
ing the alleged restraint of trade. The
suit recalls the long drawn out fight
between the department of agriculture
and the Corn Products Refining com
pany over the branding of its corn
products.
The following corporations, officers
and directors are named as de
fendants:
Corn Products Refining company,
New Jersey: National Starch company,
New Jersey; St. Louis Syrup & Pre
serving company, Missouri: Novelty
Candy company, New Jersey: Penlck
& Ford, Limited. Louisiana; Edward
T. Bedford. William J. Matheson, Fred
erick T. Bedford, A. B. Boardman,
Frederick T. Fisher, C. H. Kelsey, Geo.
S. Manhana, George M. Moffett, Will
iam P. Nichols, A. A. Smith, James
Speyer, E. Beverly Walden, C. M. War
ner, R S. Burns and A. M. Watkins,
all of New York; Thomas P. Kings
ford, Oswego, N. Y.; C. H. Lorenz and
Louis Suss. St. Louis; F. A. Lohme.ver,
C. W. Lohmeyer and Edward T. Bed
ford II, of Jersey City, N. Y.; Benja
min Schneewind, Chicago, and William
S. Penlck, jr., and James P. Ford, New
Orleans.
The bill, filed by United StntM At
torney Henry A. Wise, is signed by At
torney General Wickersham and James
A. Fowler. Jesse C. Adkins and Will
iam H. Miller, his assistants.
Dismantled Plants.
It Is alleged that the defendant com
bination dismantled many of the starch
and glucose factories it absorbed, sell
ing the properties in most cases under
covenants that the land conveyed
should never or not for a long term *
of years, be used In connection with
the manufacture of similar products.
The alleged trust and its predecessors
are charged with having taken con
tracts from officers and directors of
certain absorbed companies, not to en
gage in the business for a period of
years.
When the Royal Baking Powder com
pany acquired control of the American
Maize Produce company, the defendant
combination, it is alleged, threatened
to engage in the making of baking
powder, resulting in an agreement
whereby the maize company sold to the
defendant the surplus product not con
sumed by the baking powder company.
To suppress competition, the combina
tion is alleged to have employed the
firm of Stein. Hirsch & Co., in 1908 and
1909 to sell glucose at a loss as Inde
pendent manufacturers.
Grab Candy Business
When the National Candy company
organized In 1906, the Clinton Uugar
Refining company, whose output would
come in competition with that of the
Corn Products Manufacturing company,
the latter, the bill says, informed candy
manufacturers throughout the country
that unless they bought a sufficient
percentage of the glucose tivey needed
from the defendant combination, it
would go into the candy manufactur
ing business Itself in competition with
them.
In consequence. It Is alleged, the Corn
Products Refining company acquired
control of the Novelty Candy company
to retaliate against the National Candy
company and manufacturing confec
tioners purchasing glucose from inde
pendents.
Until prohibited by the Interstate
Commerce commission, the company Is
alleged to have secured from railroads
an excessive ihare of the through rates
TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRLS
WELL VERSED IN CRIME
Salt Lake f’ity, Utah, Mar, 3.—After
"beating" their way to this city from Po
catello, Id., Mildred Freteustlne arid Ber
nice Simpson, both of whom are a month
short of 10 years old, proceeded to enrich
themselves at the Jewelry counter of a lo
cal department store yesterday afternoon.
They were caught In the act and turned
over to the police.
In spite of their tender years the tots
were well versed 111 the slang of the street
and without a tear or sign of fright told
the police that they had “beat It" from
their home in Pocatello. They explained
that after they had boarded tbs train a
kind hearted passenger covered them with
his overcoat and In this way they escaped
the eyes of the conductor. When asked
If they had had anything to eat. one of
the girls replied.: "Of course we have,
I hocked my ring for 30 cents.'1
BODIES ARE RESCUED
AFTER FOUR MONTHS
Hobrt, Tasmania, March 3.—There
were pitiful scenes today at the mouth
of the North Lylell mine, when the
bodies of 18 miners were brought to the
surface after a search that had laster
four months and a fortnight. Forty
live bodies have now been “ecovered
and further search has been abandoned.
A fierce fire, started by the explosion
In which the miners were killed on Oc
tober 12, has made the mine unsale to
explorers.
PICKPOCKET* RETURNS
PURSE THROUGH MAIL
Nashville, Tenn., March 1.—The par
cel post was put to a new use by a St.
Louis pickpocket, when a pocket bock
containing a check for 33,188.18, and
cash amounting to nearly J300 were re
turned by tliis means to J. D. Mason,
a cattle dealer of Jackson, Tenn. Mr.
Mason was robbed in St. Louis this
week of the pocket book and contents,
but Immediately stopped payment of
the check. Thirty-five dollars in money
taken from the purse was kept by the
thief.
GARMENT WORKERS.
WIN THEIR STRIKE
Wage Raise Granted and 50,*
000 Employes Go Back
to Work
- i
New York, March 3.—The settlement
being on Saturday, not all of the 60,
000 garment workers affected by the
settlement of the strike which began
on December 30, returned to their
shops, but It Is thought by today prac
tically all will have resumed their
places. The terms of the agreement
provide that there shall be "no dis
crimination In re-employment."
The agreement officially ratified by
all the unions Involved settles for the
time being a labor crisis which at Its
height affected 300,000 workers.
It does not, however, have any bear
ing on the garment workers' strikes
In Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
elsewhere.
Terms of Settlement.
The terms submitted by the manu
facturers In the allied clothiers’ asso
ciation. acceptance of which by the
workers Is thus announced, provides
substantially for the following:
"Immediate return of all workers
with an advance of 31 a week to work
ers In tailor shops who are paid by the
week, with a proportionate advance to
piece workers; the Question of hours
to be submitted to a commission whose
recommendations are to be binding,
the findings to be ‘the basis of estab
lishing a standard of working hours
per week that will maintain the indus
try on a competitive basis with other
markets for the present and for the
future.’
"No reduction In prices In a dull
season; the maintenance of sanitary
conditions: abolition of sub-contract
ing: the wages of cutters to be agreed
on between firms and their employes."
The final condition was: “There shall
be no discrimination in the re-employ
ment of workers.”
LILY LAWRENCE PUT
OUT OF CIRCULATION
Judge Hutchinson Imposes Sen*
tence of Five Years On
LeMars Woman.
LeMars, la,, March 3.—In the dis
trict court this morning. Judge Hutch
inson presiding, Mrs. Lily Lawrence
was sentenced to five years In the peni
tentiary for the crime of keeping a
house of ill fame. Her appeal bond
was fixed at 31.600.
Mrs. Lawrence was found guilty by
a Jury two weeks ago of harboring for
prostitution girls of 14, In connection
with whom a number of young men
tvere arrested, charged with statutory
assault, some of whom were allowed to
plead guilty to minor charges.
It is regarded as certain the case
against the Lawrence woman will bo
appealed.
FOUR MILLION NICKELS
PUT INTO CIRCULATION
Washington, March 3.—Four million
glistening new nickels, with an Indian
head on the face and the figure of a
buffalo on the reverse, to Supplant the
time honored 5-cent pieces, with the
Goddess of Liberty as Its character
istic, are piled in the vaults of the
United States treasury and sub-treas
les to be turned into pUbllc circulatibn
today.
Only once In 25 years can the secre
tary of the treasury, without the sanc
tion of congress, change the design of
any coin. President Wilson's secretary
of the treasury will have an opportu
nity to change the dime, quarter ana
half dollar, because in 1915 the present
designs will have been In circulation
for a quarter century. Some of the
treasury officials now In office Hre In
favor of changing them on the ground
that they are inartistic.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
LAUDS WILSON'S VIEWS
Nashville, Tenn., March 3.—Booker
T. Washington, the negro educator, In
Nashville today, en route to the state
of Washington, where he will conduct a
speaking tour, discussed the attitude of
President-elect Wilson to the negro.
He said:
“Mr. Wilson Is In favor of the things
which tend to the uplift and advance
ment of my people and at his hands
we have nothing to fear. My belief
',s that the next president of the United
States Is one of the best friends of ne
gro education that has ever occupied
the presidential chair.”
SPECTACULAR METHODS
GATHER IN THE COIN
London, March 3.—Suffragists play
ing barrel orgahB. drawing pictures on
the pavement, selling flowers on the
street corners and singing suffrage
songs provided lively entertainment for
the residents of London today. The
women gathered a considerable amount
of money.
Next week the Woman's Social and
Political union will copy the annual
self denial week of the Salvation army
and by this means hopes to collect
many thousands of dollars.
FIELDER STEPS INTO
THE SHOES OF WILSON
Trenton. N. J. March 1.—Woodrow
Wilson, soon to be inaugurated presi
dent formally turned over at 12:30
o'clock today the office of governor of
New Jersey to Senator Jaimas Fielder,
president of the state senate.
“The people of this country are go
ing to be served by conscience and not
by expediency.'' was the assurance
which Mr Wilson gave in an im/
promptu speech of farewell.
STREET CAR STEPS
LOWERED FOR WOMEN
New York. March 1.—A protest from
women's clubs against high street cur
steps, first voiced when hobble skirts
became popular, resulted today In the
public service commission ordering
that all closed street cars in New York
city be equipped with steps not higher
than 15 Inches from the ground on and
alter January 1, 1914. Open cars are
not included because of mechanical
obstacles
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WEBB LIQUOR BILL
PASSES OVER VETO
Senate Passed Measure and f
House Follows Example By
Overwhelming Vote.
Washington, March 3.—By a vote of
SH to 95 the House Saturday passed
over President Taft’s veto, the Webb j
bill prohibiting shipment of intoxicating
liquors into ’’dry” states. The Senate
passed it over the veto of Friday and |
the bill now becomes law.
Only one other time in the last 15 ;*s
years has congress overridden a pres
ident’s veto. That was when the Rainy
river dam bill was passed over Pres- J
tdent Roosevelt’s disapproval.
The move to override the president’s
veto was brought up in the House al- j
most at the outset of the session.
Immediately following the reading of
the message, Chairman Clayton, of the
judiciary committee, moved to recon- -
aider the Webb bill and pass it over
the president’s veto.
General debate followed.
Quickly Passes Senate.
The Webb liquor bill, prohibiting the
shipment of liquor Into "dry’ state*. i
was repassed in the Senate over Presi
dent Taft s veto within two hours from
the time the president’s message of j
disapproval had been laid before that
body. A short debate in which the ad
vocates of the bill voted down a mo
tion to postpone action, and in which
they reaffirmed their belief that the
measure is constitutional, ende.d with
the repassage of the bill by the large
majority of 63 to 21. j
The Webb bill passed both houses of
congress and went to the president 10
days ago. His veto message reached
the Senate about 3 o'clock, accompa- j
nied by an opinion from the attorney J
general. Basing tils decision upon the
attorney general’s finding, the presi
dent expressed the belief that the
measure clearly was unconstitutional
because it gave the states the right to
interfere with interstate commerce. it
Senator McCumber declared both the
president and the attorney general had
misconstrued the grounds upon which
congress had passed the prohibition
law. He said it had not attempted to
give the states the right to Interfere
with commerce, but simply had de
clared liquor an "outlaw’ and had then
prescribed conditions under which it
might enter Interstate commerce. ,
Senator Kenyon also briefly urged
passage of the bill, while Senator*
Paynter and Percy supported Presi
dent Taft’s veto.
Lineup of Senators.
The Senate vote follows;
To Override the President's Veto—
Senators Ashurst, Borah, Brady. Bris
tow. Brown, Bryan, Burnham, Burton, 5
Chamberlain. Chilton, Clapp. Clarke of
Arkansas, Crawford. Culberson, Cul
lom, Cummins, Curtis, Dillingham, Dix
on, Fall, Fletcher. OuUtnger. Gamble,
Gardner, Gore, Gronna, Jackson, John
son, Johnston, Jones. Kavanaugh, Ken
yon, Kern. Rea. Lodge, McCumber,
Martin, Myers, Nelson. Nexvlands, Oil- j
ver. Overman. Owen, Page, Pittman,
Poindexter, Sheppard, Shively, Sim
mons, Smith of Arizona, Smith of
Georgia, Smith of South Carolina.
Smoot, Swanson, Thomas. Thornton,
Tillman. Townsend, Webb, Williams.
Works—63.
To Sustain the President—Senators
Bradley. Brnndegee, Catron, Crane, Du
Pont. Foater, Guggenheim, McLean,
Martine, O'Gornian. Paynter. Penrose,
Percy, Perkins, Pomerene. Rlehnidson.
Root, Stephenson, Sutherland, Warren,
Welmore—21.
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COSSON SAYS WEBB LAW
WILL PROVE OF SERVICE j
Des Moines, la., March 3.—Attorney
General Cosson. who Is a warm sup
porter of the Webb bill passed by con
gress over the president’s veto today,
admits that the hill Is not all that could
be wished for. He says, however, that
It will be possible t<> stop some sales
of liquor which could not be reached
under state law.
"The main point we gain In this
bill Is that It permits us to seize liquor
which Is en route,” he said. "For in
stance, we have a case now on hand
where liquor which was consigned to a
lodge at ORkuloosu was seized at the
station on the ground that It was be
ing shipped to be used for illegal pur
poses. The law is not now clear as to
whether we had a right to seize this
liquor. Under the Webb bill the liquor
would be classed as an illegal ship
ment and could be stopped at any point
after it was consigned, provided the
shipment was consigned to ’dry’ ter
ritory."
The Webb bill will catch all dubs,
societies, lodges or parties to whom liq -
uor Is shipped, provided these lodge*
or clubs are In “dry” territory. The
dispensing of liquors by such lodges
or clubs is contrary to law, hence the
liquor In illegally shipped and can be
seized under the Webb bill.
Tlie bill does not prevent the ship
ment of liquor from any point outside
of Iowa to any point In Iowa to a pri
vate individual for his own home con
sumption. It will prevent such ship
ment to any person who expects to sell
the liquor.
CASTRO IS THORN IN
SIDE OF DIPLOMATS
Washington, March 3.—Gen. Cipriano
Castro, the deposed dictator of Vene
zuela, is coming to Washington. Thi»
developed today when a downtown ho
tel received a cablegram from Havana
asking that a suite of rooms be re
served for him and his party. The
exact date was not given, hut the ex
iled dictator Is expected here in tlmo
to attend the Inauguration of President
Wilson.
The hotel Is the gathering place of
the ministers and diplomats from Cen
tral America, and Interest approaching
consternation was evident when the
news of Castro's coming was made
known. Several of the envoys appar
ently foresaw diplomatic complications,
and the manner in which the former
president shall be received by them to
a question of gravedlscusslon.
TENER NAMES BAER.
Philadelphia, March 3.—George F.
Baer, president of the Reading rail
road, and John P. Green, retired vico
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, have been appointed by Gov
ernor Tener members of the Pennsyl
vania commission to arrange for the
celebration of the 50th anniversary of
the battje of Gettysburg next July.
DIES AWFUL DEATH
IN DESERT CANYON
Ray, Ariz.. March 1.—Exposure, hun
ger and, worst of all, thirst killed Eg
nest Sutton, of Denver, in the Devil j
canyon. His body was brought he j
today, and with it Edward Gardner.
Eos Angeles, more dead than alive.
The two left here several days ago.
trying to make their way on foot to
Miami. When no word of their arrival
had been received, a rescue party was
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