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VOL. XXXIX NO. 3.
OMAILA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 0, 1910-SIX SEC110NS-TIIIIMT-EIG1IT PACKS.
DAY OF DISORDER
IN PHILADELPHIA
Sympathetic Strike i Marked with
Disturbancei in All Parti of
the City.
CEOWDS ARE KEPT MOVING
Careful Work of Police Prevents
Serious Outbreak in Square.
FOOD DELIVERY NOT HAMPERED
Drivers for Milk, Bakery and Grocery
Firms Not Called Out. f
SEVENTY THOUSAND STRIKE
TkU Is Estimate of I'nlon fommlttw,
bat Director of Public Safety
Clay finyn More Than
Twenty Thousand.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. March 5. Dis
order In mnny parts of the city marked
the first day of Philadelphia's great sym
pathetic walkout of organized labor to
Lack up the fight of tho trolley men
.ilnst the Philadelphia Ropld Trnnslt
ompany. Nenrly every section of the city
1 had Its talo to tell of cars attacked, of
men assaulted hy strikers or sympathiz
ers, or of clashes with police.
The scene of the most general disturb
ances shifted from the heretofore turbu
lent Kensington district to the very cen
ter of the city. The greatest trouble was
experienced by the pollen at Independence
square whre, despite the announcement
by Mayor Royburn that no demonstration
could be held on that historic ground, a
crowd of 25,000 persons feathered to par
ticipate In or wath tho demonstration of
orgnnlzcd labor.
Policemen, mounted and afoot were
wars there by the score with strict orders
to keep the 'crowd moving. Tho city au
thorities had learned much during the
last week in the handling of crowds and
It was the belief that if the Immense
throng could be kept on the move trouble
Would be averted.
Crowds Kept Moving.
Thl( was accomplished and It Is due
to thei patience carefulness andd steadi
ness of the police that no serious out
break occurred. A great crowd of strikers
paraded through the square and weee not
molested by the police.
There was a wide difference of opinion
today as to the extent of the strike. Sat
urday, being a half holiday and In some
Industries no work being done at all on
ths last day of the week, It was utterly
Impossible to get more than rough esti
mates of the number of men that quit
work. The committee of ten of the Cen
tral Labor union, which Is conducting the
strike, In a statement made ' tonight
Charles A. Hope, secretary of the Central
Labor union and a member of the com
mittee, announced that reports show that
70,000 union men are out and that ths
walkout has affected 30,000 other workers.
" Food Deliver? Not Hampered.
, Secret ory Hope declared that bakers, milk
wagon drivers and grocery clerks were not
called out and would hot be. It was not
I the desire of organized labor, he said, to
Inconvenience the public to the extent of
handicapping the delivery of the necessaries
of life.
Other labor leaders said that 65,000 men
had struck and that the number would be
greatly increased by Monday.
Although the entire population of the
City looks upon the Btrlke as a most seri
ous affair, the effects of which are likely
to be felt for a long time to come, the city
officials, from Mayor Keyburn down, de
clare ths walkout Is not as widespread as
olalmed by the labor leaders.
Usury Clay, director of the department
tat jmbljo safety, said today that 'he had
police reports to show that not more than
20,000 men were on strike.
However; with all the conflicting reports,
It was evident that Philadelphia's in
dustries are not yet prostrated by the con
flict The great Industrial establishments,
such as Baldwin's locomotive works,
Cramp's "shipyards, Drill's car works, the
Mldvale steel works, all of which are "open
shop" concerns, were in operation today
with practically their full forces.
Building; Trades Are Oat.
The greatest number of sympathetic strik
ers were found among the textile works
In the Kensington district and the allied
building trades.
. The strikers claimed that 50,000 persons
wore out In these two industries alone and
that the scattering unions in other trades
were well represented by strikers. The
master builders at a meeting today ad
mjuffj that their Industry is seriously
crlppfcd. No hand was raised today to
stop the conflict which is rapidly paralyz
ing business. Thcro was a rumor in cir
culation tonight that the labor leaders
might request President Taft to use his
Influence to bring an end to the trouble
or take some step along the lines adopted
by President Roosevelt In the coal strike
of lOUf. Such a move, it Is believed, would
be welcomed by the people of the city,
,There was no talk of arbitration or peace
hoard during the day and It la evident
that employers of large numbers of work
men are walling the events of the next,
few days before attempting any settlement
Of the general strike.
More Cars Honntni,
The dny developed nothing In the street
car strike Itself. The trolley company had
about aa many cars lu operation as it hud
yesterday, according to. the company a
little more than l.OoO. However, the cars
did not carry aa many passinger as on
other days of this week. People generally
were not willing to take a chance of being
Injured and many would not ride in them
because of principle.
The company opened one new line In the
southern part ot the city, but after a few
trips the cars were withdrawn because of
the frequency with which they were as
sailed by stones and bricks. - ltalf ot the
cars In operation during the day were
withdrawn at nightfall.
EXPRESS CAR LOOTED ON TRAIN
Thousand I'arkaatea Broken Open aad
hivvs
i
Contents Scattered hy
Robbers.
ROCHESTER N. Y., March E.-When
j ( train No. r? on the New York Central
fi reached Rochester today, It was discovered
; , ' that an American Express car had been
looted. Nearly all 0f the 1,000 packages
' had been broken open and their contents
I sx-attered. Just how much the robbers got
not learned.
Basin Has First
Explosion from
Natural Gas
Wyoming City Experiences Small
Earthquake as Result of Pocket
of the Gas.
BASIN, Wyo., March 5. (Special Tele
gram.) When James ONrll, superintendent
of the Pig Horn Oil and Gas company,
opened tho door of an unused coal vault
beneath tho Wg Horn County bank this
mornlnfT and thrust a lighted match Inside
to locate a supply pipe, a terrific explo
sion followed which was heard all over
town. O'Nell was blown out of the vault
clear across the basement of the bank
building against a brick wall, sustaining
serious burns and painful contusions. David
Lewis, one of the proprietors of tho Hustler
newspaper, whose establishment is on the
same floor, was also hurled a dlst.anco of
thirty feet, escaping uninjured. The doors
of the basement were blown from their
hinges and splintered Into kindling wood.
Every window was shattered, thouph the
property damage resulting was not great.
The accident was caused by tho natural
gas escaping from the street main and ac
cumulating In the coal vault.
This Is the first casualty from using
natural gas In Basin.
Germans to Join
Race for the Pole
Geographical Society Has Decided to
Enter Competition with United
States and England.
BERLIN, March G.-The German geo
graphical society has decided to send out
a South polar discovery expedition and
so contest . with tho United States and
Great Hrltain In the race through the
Antarctic.
The German plans were made public tr
day at a meeting of the society at which
Dr. Nordenskjold, the Antarctic explorer,
v.as present.
Big Phone War
by Morgan Concern
United States Telephone Company
Decides to Enter Rate Fight
Against All Competitors.
CLEVELAND, Maroh S. Directors of the
United States Telephone company, the
Morgan Independent Distance company, de-
elded late today to wage a rate war against
all competitors. - -
WILSON RECEIVED BY DIAZ
Successor to D. E. VhAnipson' Becomes
, Dean of Diplomatic Corps at
Mexico City.
MEXICO CITT, ' March 6.-Pro:j)Jent
Dlas received Henry Lane Wilson, who
succeeds David E. Thompson as LrHtod
States ambassador to Mexico, at the am
bassadors' salon at . the national palace at
noon today. Mr. Wilson was presented to
President- Dlax by Captai Alfredo Bar
ron. President Dlas expressed and the na
tion's regard for the United States.
As the American government has the
only embassy here, Mr. Wilson will, by
virtue of his position, be the dean of the
diplomatic corps.
ITALIANS' VICTIM IS DEAD
Detective Wren of Chicago Snccnmbs
to Woanda Inflicted by
Black Handera.
CHICAGO, March 5-Detectlve John
Wren, who with Detective Patrick Qulnn,
was shot by three Italians yesterday, died
today. Wren's death occurred a few' min
utes after his wounded comrade had been
carried to his bedside, that the men might
bid each other a last farewell.
The detectives were shot down while
pursuing the Italians, whom they believed
to be connected with the Black Hand
society. The murderers have not been
caught.
TEN NATIONS HONOR PEARY
Formal Recognition of Ills Clnlm aa
Dleeoverer of Pole by Scien
tific Societies.
WASHINGTON, March 6. -Formal recog
nition of Robert E. Peary as the discov
erer of the North polo has boen given by
the leading scientific societies of ten gov
ernments, according to advices which have
reached the National Geographic Bootety.
Treasury Statement. 1
WASHINGTON, March B.-The condition
of the treasury at the beginning of business
today was as follows: Trust funds-Gold
coin. $.SM,3S7.8CD; silver dollars, 1480,141 000
silver dollars of ISM, $3,832,000; silver certifi
cates outstanding, $4X8,141,000. General fund
Standard silver dollars in general fund
5.496,570; current liabilities. $97,105,457; work
ing balance In treasury offices, $21.706.6o3; In
banks to credit of treasurer of the United
States, $35,04,WO: subsidiary silver vin tn 11
)3,47&; minor coin, I1.1SS.41G: total biin0'
lu general fund, l.y2.01j,TO.
Grownups Catch Marble
Fever and Are Kids Again
thLV'V0." '.aV?"1Ve? 1TPSJ and,rUrChaSe" wero m " whenthe three
- w VMVV.I IBV II V V
on the minds of youngsters.
bchool attendance officers and probation
officers have more kicks about truancy
and more complaints about troublesome
boys at this particular season than at any
other. The balmy air Is laden with "spring
rever," which surely develops Into a ds
termlnatlon to play marbles and toss the
ball and let school go hang.
But the boys are not the only ones.
Thtlr elders have not forgotten how to
"knuckle down" and "fan hunching." In
a group of grown up .men yesterday Daa
Whitney, the ball player, was showing a
handful of agates, glassies, whlties and
poeweea he had bought for his boy. "John
r.lo" Dineen, some ball piaytr himself, and
John Coffee wanted to know where Whit
ney bought the marble. Dan touk the
two wltbj him to a news company. More
THIRTEEN BILLS
AGAINST HYDE
Kansas City Physician Charged with
Murder of Colonel Swope and
Chrisman Swope.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER
He is Also Accused of Bleeding J. M.
Hunton in Negligent Manner.
TEN
OTHER
INDICTMENTS
These Charge Attempt to Murder
Members of Swope Family.
DEFENDANT IS UNDER BOND
lie Was Arrested Last Month oi
Information Charging: Mnrder
and Released I'sdet
50,000 Ball.
KANSAS CITT, March 5 Dr. B. Clarke
Hyde, husband of a nlecs of tho late
Thomas II. Swope, was Indicted on thir
teen counts in eleven Indictments returned
by tho grand Jury that has been Investi
gating tho Swop mystery for the last
three weeks, at 6:35 o'clock tonight.
Two Indictments charge first degree
murder In connection with the death of
Colonel Swopo and of Chrisman Swope.
Hr. Hyde Is alleged to have given them
strychnine tablets.
One Indictment accuses Dr. Hyde of man
slaughter by bleeding James Moss Han
ton, a counsln of Colonel Swope In a
neglectful manner.
The Indictments also charge Dr. Hyde
with attempting to poison Lucy Lee Swope,
Margaret Swopo and Stella Swope, all
nieces of Colonel Swope, and Leonora cop.
prldge, a negro servant In the Swop home.
The indictments charging murder found
that Colonel Swopo came to his death by
taking poison In the shape of strychnine
pills administered by Dr. Hyde.
When the indictments were returned,
Virgil Conkllng, county prosecutor, said
he believed the grand Jurors had done their
duty. He said the evidence of the case
gave him no reason to doubt that he had
taken tho correct position In regard to it.
Dr. Hyde la the husband of Frances
Swope Hyde, niece of Colonel Swope, who
inherits about $300,000 of the millionaire's
estate.
Dr. Hyde was arrested on February 10,
charged with the murder of Colonel Swope.
His arrest at that time followed a formal
charge of murded In the first degree pre
ferred by John G. Paxton.
The physician was released ' on a bond
of $50,000. His preliminary hearing- was
continued until March U, pending the re
port of the grand Jury.
On February . a coroner's Jury, which
.had fcivertlgaticd the death of Colonel
Swope, brought In a report to. the effect
tht Solonel Swope had died from the
effects of strychnlnlng poisoning adminis
tered In g capsule at the direction of Dr.
Hyde, but the Jury was unable to de
termine whether Dr. Hyde had been guilty
of felonious Intent In directing that the
capsule be given to Colonel Swope.
FIREMEN DEMAND MORE PAY
Employes of Thirty-Two Roads Make
Same Appeal aa Conductors
and Trainmen.
NEW YORK,. March B.-The Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Englnmen of
the thirty-two eastern railroads have sub
mitted to tho General Managers' associa
tion a formal demand for an increase in
wages. This demand is similar to that
presented to the, same roads last Decem
ber by the Order of Railway Conductors
and the Brotherhood of Railway Train
men and which are now in their final
stage of negotiation.
General Manager J. C. Stuart of the
Erie refused to accept the demands as
chairman of the General Managers' asso
ciation, declaring he would meet a com
mittee of the Erie firemen, but that the
brotherhood would have to deal with each
railroad separately. The demand Involves
about CO.OOO firemen on the railroads east
of the Mississippi. The wage demands are
for an Increase In pay of from $2.60 a day
to $3.
BALTIMORE, Md., March B.-At the ex
ecutive offices of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad today it was learned that both
the locomotive engineers and the firemen
n aa asaea lor a revision of the
schedules.
wage
J0PLIN MINERS WALK OUT
Demand Restoration of Old Scale
Following Boost in Price
ot Zluo,
JOPLIN, Mo March 6. Seven hundred
miners employed at the plants of the
American Zinc, Lead and Smelting com
pany have struck for higher wages.
The miners contend that It has been the
custom of operators to raise their wage
Bcale when the price for sine ore went
above $40, but recently when the price fell
to $40 tho wages were cut and, although
xlnc blend has gone to 115, the former scale
as not Tteen replaced by many of the
operators.
lf'ft tha it.A . u i m . r
- '" aa ti.M wortn or mar
bles between them.
Around the corner was a billboard with
a nice clean piac, behind It. Josh and
taunt led to action, and soon Whitney was
making a ring with his boot heel, in the
good old way. Then the three went to It
on their knees, like three kids. Their
wrangling attracted something of a crowd
and Whitney, between "kidding" the oth
ers and thus rattling them, and by the
exercise cf his limber thumb knuckle
"skinned" the other two of all the mar
bles they had bought
Coffee and Dineen insisted on revenge,
and offered to go and buy more. "No
said Dan."I've got all the marbles my
boy can use this year. You fellows are
too easy; go and get some kids to play
with, so you can throw them down and
take thtlr marbles away from them."
From tho Chicago Post.
SIXTY KILLED BY SNOWSLIDE
Work Crew of Canadian Pacific
Buried by Huge Avalanche.
DEBRIS EIGHTY FEET DEEP
Men Were Working; to Clear Tracks
from Debris of First Slide Wheal
Second Came Thundering
Down Mountain.'
VANCOVBR; B. C. March B.-Slxty,tWo
men, who we- tngaged In clearing the
Canadian i'-yc f c 'Crack in Rogers Pass,' at
the Summit of the Selkirk range, were
entombed by an avalanche soon Hfter mid
night this morning and all are probably
dead. .
The men were a working creW engaged
In clearing away a small slide that had
come down early In the evening. They
were working a rotary engine over It when
a larger slide came down and carried them
to their death in the canyon below.
At first it was believed thaC all the
hundred men engaged were k tiled, but later
It was found that many had escaped and
the death list is now estimated at fifty.
The accident occurred near a snjwshed,
one mile west of Rogers Pass and at the
actual summit of the Selkirks. Seventy
five per cent of the dead are white men.
the remainder Japanese. Conductor Buck- I
ley and Engineer Phillips of the work I
train, headed by a rotary snow plaw.
were killed. .
Relief Harried to Scene.
As soon as the news reached Revelstoke,
a relief train conveying physicians and
nurses and over 200 railway men was
speeding east to Rogers Pass. The scene
of the accident was reached at 6 o'clock
this morning, when the task of digging in
the tangled mass of debris in the hope of
finding a few survivors was commenced
with vigor.
Calgary made an equally prompt response.
It also sent a special relief train with 126
workmen, as well as nurses and doctors.
Acting Superintendent Kllpatrlck of tho
Paciflo division of the Canadian Pacific
railway left Vancouver today for the scene
of the accident
The first slide occurred at B:40 yesterday
afternoon in the Arrow valley of U'-ar
Creek, flanked on either side by mountains,
covered with a depth of snow varying from
twenty to fifty feet. The slide had a
length of GOO feet and a depth of eighty
feet.
Wlillo men were working to clear the
tracks at 12:30 this morning, half of the
first slido having ben removed, the second
avalanche dtsceuded. It started on the
side of the conyon opposite the point where
the first slide occurred. Thousands of feet
above a few rolling masses of snow grow
ing in volume and momentum started on a
pathway of destruction.
Second Avalanche Breaks. Loose.
In a few seconds, with a noise like a
thousand thunderbolts crashing in unison.
the avalanch leaped from shelf to shelf,
uprooting and carrying with It a tangled
mass of Ice, trees and boulders. There was
no oscapa for the unfortunate workers. The
avalanche plied on top of the first slldo.
burying the tracks for a distance of a
quarter of a mile around to a depth of
fifty feet. Hndreds of thousands of tons
of other debris in the wake of the ava
lanche bounded off tho huge heap and half
(Continued on Second Page.
The want ad col
umns of The Bee
will be interesting
reading this morning:-
A
Peruse them. You will get tho
pulse of the people. See who
wlBhea servants who wishes places
who wants to sell, and the things
they offer.
Read the hundreds of little
treasures today. It may bo
the most profitable half hour
of your life.
A Peril of the Chantccler, Hat
Thirty-Three
Miners Killed
By Explosion
Bodies of Ten More Men Are Found
in Mexican Shaft of Treadwell
Mines,
JUNEAU. Alaska. March 4.-Thtrty.
three miners are dead as a result of
Wednesday night's' powder magailne ' ex
plosion in the Mexican shaft of the Tread
well gold mines, It was announced today.
Twenty-three bodies were taken out soon
after , the explosion, eight others were
Wnd in a later search and two died in a
hospital. Five other men In the hospital
are badly Injured. It Is supposed the care
lessness of a miner caused the explosion.
The dead men are mostly foreigners, all
copper miners. St ope Boss Nels Rustgard
is among the dead.
Tschaikovsky to
Have Secret Trial
Police Fear Co-Defendant, Mme.
Breshkovskaya, Will Make Revo
lutionary Speech to Judges. '
ST. PETERSBURG, March 5.-The pre
fect of police today ordered that the trlai
of Nicholas Vasillevich Tschaikovsky, the
widely known member of the social revolu
tionary party, who was arrested November
1L 1907, charged with revolutionary activity,
be held behind closed doors.
The present is the first occasion upon
which the closure has been applied In con
nection with a political trial in the circuit
court of St. Peterburg for a number of
years.
The prefect was influenced by the prob
ability that Mme. Broshko-Iireshkovskaya.
who is to be tried with M. Tschaikovsky
would make a revolutionary address to the
Judge.
Upon the eve of his trial M. Tschaikovsky
has Issued a long statement analyslzlng
the accusations of the indictment.
USES BANK FUNDS IN HIGH
LIVING TELLER CONFESSES
Was About to Rmbark on Bis; Build
Ins; Scheme In Effort to Recoup
Losses.
PHILADELPHIA, March 6-Thomas E.
Larsen, receiving teller of the Philadelphia
branch of tho First National bank of Cam
den, surrendered to the local police today
when he learned that he was wanted on a
charge of embezzling IS0.000 from the in
stitution's funds. Larson confessed to the
charge, the police say.
Larsen, according to the police, had been
taking the bank's money for seven years.
He lived In expensive apartments and was
married about two years ago. Irsen also
told the police he was about to start a big
building operation in an effort to recoup
his losses.
General "Wood Cared.
BALTIMORE, Md., March O.-Major
Geneial Lfonard Wood left the hospital
here today pronounced cured
Death Takes Louis James;
Heart Failure Stops Show
HELENA, March 6 Louis James' long
career as an actor was ended by death
here this morning, following an attack of
heart failure lost evening, Just before the
curtain went up for a performance of
Henry VI II."
The body Hill be shipped tomorrow to
Kansas City. Tho company will disband
and Mrs. James will return to Kansas
City.
KANSAS City. March 5. Louis James,
the actor, had for many years made his
home In Kansas City much of the time,
although he also had a residence at Mon
mouth Iieach, N. J.
His second wife. Miss Aphle Hendricks,
was a Kanaaa City woman and for several
seasons she has taken the leading role la
all his plays.
CRACKS IN ENGINE BOILERS
Senate Committee Hears Evidence
Roads' Inspection is Poor.
BROTHERHOOD TAKING INTEREST
Assertion Made Locomotive Boilers
Need aa Thoronch . Supervision
by Government as Does
Marine Machinery.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, March 5.-(Speclal Tele
gram.) The committee on commerce to
which was referred the Burkott bill. com.
pelting more rigid Inspection of boilers on
locomotives In order further to safeguard
the traveling public today, completed Its
hearings, during the course of which it has
been very emphatically shown that there
Is necessity for government Inspection of
locomotive.
At present there Is no government su
pervision of the condition of locomotive
boilers. Tho railroads themselves have a
system of Inspection, but though Inpected,
It has developed during the hearing that
very often locomotives are sent out known
by englnemen to be unfit for service, who
if they protest are marked, and soon lose
their Jobs if they protest too vigorously.
These defective engines are started out
upon the theory that they have sufficient
strength to make another run.
The committee today had before It Presi
dent Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood
or Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. He
said that often engineers were ordered to
take out engines which they knew were In
bad shape. He said the bill as drawn
would meet with most cordial aproval of
52,000 locomotive engineers employed In this
country. (
Example of Marine Service.
General Uhler, chief of steamboat In
spection of the United States, was also
upon the stand. Under the service over
which he has control, rigid Inspection of
14,000 boilers was made during the year
paRt and there was but one explosion. Gen
eral Uhler thought that locomotive engines
should be as rigidly Inspected under gov
ernment supervision as Is exacted of en
gines and boilers aboard ship. Exhibits
were made to the commute by those fav
oring the bill to controvert statements
mado by the railroads that no defective
engines are sent out. A plato was px
hVbited which upon. Its exterior showed
no signs of decay, but upon the Inside
was cracked and therefore much weak
ened and dangerous.
Another exhibit presented showed that
In this particular instance an englna wa
sent out by certain well known railroad
""i"ri wnere mere was a cluster of
seven aerectlve staple or rivets and that
the sllghest attempt to Increase the steam
pressure might have caused the explosion
of the boiler. That It did not explolde
was an act of providence, rather than
the will of man.
Senator Burkett today sold he now feels
assured that his bill will receive favor
able report from the committee and If
the bill Is amended, at all. It will be to
ward making Its terms even more strin
gent In order to safeguard the lives of
those who travel behind railway locomo
tives. The secretary of war and the regents of
(Continued on Second Page.)
Louis James was born In Tremont, III.,
In Hi. first engagement was with
McAuleys Stock company which he Joined
at Louisville. Ky In 1884. Laier for five
years he was Lawrence Barrett's leading
man. From 1S86 to 1889 he starred with
Joseph Jefferson and In the nineties he
starred with Frederick Ward.
In recent years he had been the star in
Wagenhals and Kemper productions. At
the time of his death Mr. James was play
ing "Henry VIII." taking the part of
Cardinal Wolesey. Last week while his
company was stalled on a snow bound
train in the west they produced "The Mer
chant of Venice" to amuse the passengers
Mr. James first wife, MIm Lillian Scan
land, whom ha married in Philadelphia in
1871, died five years ltr.
SENATE PASSES
POSTAL BILL
Measure Creating Savings Banks Goes
Through Upper House by Vote
of fiG to 22.
CUMMINS AMENDMENT LOST
Clause Designed to Limit Government
Use of Funds Defeated.
SM00T AMENDMENT ADOPTED
It is Intended to Keep Funds in
Localities Where Deposited.
PROVISIONS OF THE MEASURE
Deposits Made In Any Money Order
Office Will Drnvr Intereat at Rate
of Two Per Cent Funda to Re
Deposited In Local Ranks.
WASHINGTON, Mart'h 6. Dividing prac
tically upon party lines, the senate, at the
close or the third session of the legislative
day of March 3, today passed tho adminis
tration postul savings bank Xilll.
Of the seventy-two votes cast, fifty wero
In favor of the bill and twenty-two against.
All tho negative voles were cast by demo
crats, oven Mr. MoEnery, who had voted
with the republicans throughout the con
sideration of the bill, In the end Joining
his, own party. Senator Chamberlain of
Oretton was the only democrat who stood
with the republicans in favor of the bill.
As It goes to the house, the bill author
ises the various money order postofflces to
accept sums of tl or more from depositors
and to deposit these sums in the local
bankB, where the money Is to remain un
less withdrawn by the president In case of
war Or other exigency. In case of this
withdrawal the funds are to be Invested In
government securities, but with the pro
viso that such securities shall not draw
less than 24 per cent interest. The control
of the funds is vested In a board of trus
tees composed of the postmaster general,
the secretary of the treasury nnd the at
torney general. The aggregate balance al
lowed to any depositor Is $600, and no per
son is permitted to deposit more than $100
In any ono month. The government is re
quired to pay 2 per cent Interest and must
exact not lees than 2 per cent from trie
banks, the extra quarter of 1 per cent be
ing required for tho payment of expenses
and losses. It Is calculated that such a
law would bring much money out of hid
ing and result In a fund ranging all the
way from $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000.
Cummins Amendment Defeated. .
Beginning at 11:46 o'clock the senate's
session continued until 4:60 p. m., and
practically all of the time was devoted.
to the consideration of amendments.
Almost Immediately after It began the
first vote was taken. This was on the
cummins' amendment to the Smoot pro
vision, upon which yesterday's debate
waged so .fiercely. , .
The Smoot amendment looked to th
authorization of the withdrawal from the
local banks of the postal funds In case
of war or other exigency and Mr. Cum
mins sought to modify It by making it
apply to war as the only exigency Justify
ing withdrawals. The Cummins' provision
went down under a vote of 40 nays, as
against 18 ayes, tho afflrmatlvo vote be
ing cast by the so-called "Insurgents,"
republicans and half a dozen democrats,
with the slngl exception of Senator Mo
Cumber, a stalwart republican.
Later in the day and after considerable
debate the 8moot amendment was adopted
after It had beon amended by the Insertion
of an amendment Introduced by Senator
Borah, directing that the funds with
drawn should not be Invested in govern
ment securities carrying less than 2Vi
per cent interest, the rate required from
the banks.
Text of Smoot Amendment.
As adopted, the amendment in the shape
of a proviso reads:
"When, In the Judgment of the president,
war qr any other exigency involving the
credit of the government so requires, the
board of trustees may withdraw all or any
part of said funds from the banks and
Invest the same in bonds or other securi
ties of the United States.
"Provided, That no part of said funds
shall In any event be invested in bonds or
other securities bearing Intereat at less
than 2 per centum pr annum."
. Two other Important amendments were
agreed to today. One of these was sug
gested by Benutor Bailey and would per
mit the withdrawal of postal funds de
posits by the original depositor "upon de
mand," and the other by Senator Galllngty
specifically Including savings banks sX4
trust companies doing a banking business,
among the banking institutions permitted
to accept the deposits of postal funds.
Debate on Borah Proviso.
The "Insurgent" republicans were much
elated over the acceptance of the Borah
modification. They contend that it will
save the effect of reducing to a minimum
the government securities in which the
postal funds may be invested and prvent
the national banks from using the funds to
relieve themselves of a class of securities
which are not popular with them. On the
other hand, it was contended, especially by
Senator Bacon, that the Borah provision
would never be accepted by the house, and,
therefore, will not be a portion of It when
the bill becomes a law.
Mr. Carter, In charge of the bill, made
no objection to the borah amendment. He
simply remarked that it was fair to require
the government to pay the same Interest
required of the bank and that there was no
reason for opposing It. The provision was
agreed to. 49 to 11. The republicans voting
nssiMBi ii were juessra. ttrandegeo. Bulko
ley. Burnham, Burton, Keati and Wetmore;
and the democrats, Messrs. Bankhead,
Money, Paynter, Rayner and Smith of
South Carolina.
The opposing republicans made no expla
nation of their attitude, but Mr. Money,
speaking for the democrats, based his oppo
sition upon the theory that an amendment,
constitutional in iu.if. ccu'.d not render
valid a bill which In Itself was In contra
vention of the constitution.
Amendments Voted Down.
Soveral amendments were voted down, the
mont important being one offered by Mr.
Owen of Oklahoma, which was Intended as
a substitute for the whole bill and which
provided for the establishment of a fund
to guarantee national bank d pjlls along
the lines of the state bank guarantee plait
of Oklahoma.
Mr. Oaen spoke In support of his pro
vision, again holding up the Oklahoma plan
as a model of banking legislation.
The sharpest dlstgusslou of the day roe
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