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Omaha Looking Backward . This Day in Omaha r tlrty Tw ety Tea Tmh' Acs See Koltorlnl Vac of eh lasn THE WEATHER. Fair; Cooler VOL. XLLI-NO. 26. OMAHA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY IS, 1912-TWELVE PAGES.; SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. The Daily .Bee SENATOR WOEKS ASKED TO RESIGN Receives Telegram Signed by Lien . . tenant Governor Wallace and Other Progressiva. THEY OBJECT TO , CRITICISM Excption Taken to Statement Issued . by Senator. ANSWER I .QUICKLY MADE He Says These lien Have No Right to Make Request. ; ROOSEVELT IS STANDING PAT Colonel Ref naea to Change Ilia Posi tion In Regard to Snggestlon Xpf Compromise Slates in .V ; Primary States.'' ; ; -' '. . S- " ' LOS ANGELES. Cal.,' July 17.-Because of hia criticism of the proposed new "progressive party," as set out in a statement issued by him in Washington two days ago. United States Senator John D. Works was asked to resign .to day by Lieutenant Governor A. J. Wal lace, Mayor Lissner, chairman of the California republican central committee, and other progressive supporters. . The request was telegraphed to Mr. Works in . Washington today and was signed by forty progressives. , WASH1N GTON, July 17. "I shall not resign," said Senator Works when asked what he meant to do about the telegram from California progressives. "Why should IT Those people are not even members of the republican party they have no right to ask my resignation." f Mr. Works said be had telegraphed the signers of the telegram that he would write them. w,.'. " ' - Roosevelt Stands Pat. '. OYSTER BAY. N. Y.. . July 17.-After reading the statements made by William Fllnn of Pittsburgh and E. A. ' Van Valkenburg of Philadelphia, two of his leaders in Pennsylvania, in support of the plan for placing the same candidates for presidential electors, on both the Taft and Roosevelt tickets, Colonel Roosevelt said today that be would not recede from the position he bad taken in regard to & compromise giving recognition 4o Taft claims in the primary states. The differ ence which baa arisen will be threshed out at the Chicago convention next month, Colonel Roosevelt indicated. Cull for Illinois Moose Convention. CHICAGO, July 17.-Attaches of the headquarters of the Roosevelt forces to day were busy sending throughout the state the call for a state convention to be held in Chicago August t to elect dele . gates to the national third party conven toin to be held here two days later. picked the. five members of the committee, authorised at yesterday's state meeting tjrk. Governor; Deneen whether" he will support Colonel Roosevelt or President . Taft.V y - v "'"' . ' Whether the national convention is to be held in the Auditorium or in the Coliseum also was said to be undecided. MRS. LINDLOFF CHARGED WITH MURDER OF.SON .CHICAGO, July . 17. An indictment charging Mrs. Louise Lindloff with poi soning' her son, Arthur Lindloff, whose death was investigated by the coroner, was returned today in the criminal court The woman is charged with giving ar senic to her son to cause his death. The bodies of sr-number of her relatives who died under suspicious circumstances have been disinterred and chemical examina tion disclosed the presence of arsenic in their , vitals, according to reports made to the coroner. Shortly after the death of her son Mrs. Lindloff was taken in custody and held to await the action of the grand jury. RUSSELL CUFF'S BODY ,' FOUND IN PLUM RIVER SAVANNAH, 111.. July 17.-The body of Russell Cliff, aged 60 years, at one time a wealthy citisen ofJS&vannah, was found in Plum river near here today. A bad bruise' behind his left ear caused the po lice to believe he was murdered. He was not known to have had any money on .his person and his watch was in his pocket He had been missing since Saturday bight. The Weather For Nebraska Fair, cooler south and east portions. For Iowa Generally fair, cooler. Hour. Degree. i I ,. I r it m... 67 III 7 a.m... 70 fin. m ' 7R A 9 a. m... 78 A 3?M? v.-2 na m.., ev 1 P. m 81 2 p. m 82 8 p. ra 83 - V( Sp.m 78 7o. m...i 74 8 p. m .72 Comparative Local Record. 1312. 1911. 1910. 1905 Highest yesterday 84 83 89 09 Lowest yesterday, 66 , 72 81 70 Mean temperature 75 ' 72 HI 80 Precipitation 00 .00 T .51 Temperature and precipitation depar tures from the normal: . Normal temperature 77 Deficiency for the day , 2 Total deficiency since March 1 .104 Normal precipitation , -.13 inclt Deficiency for the day 13 inch Total rainfall since March 1.. 8.72 inches Deficiency since Aiaxcn 1 7.66 inches Deficiency for cor. period, 191 L. 8.26 inches Deficiency for cor. period, 1910..12.36 inches Station and State Temp. High- Rain- of Weather . 7 p.m. est fall. Cheyenne, cloudy 68 66 .1$ .uavenpori, clear s 88 .00 Denver, part cloudy .... 62 (4 .00 ! ims Moines, clear 72 - 86 .00 ! Doriea "!itv floor ' cfi 11 1 Lander, clear 78 82 !d0 ,-:orm Platte, cloudy .... 74 : 80 .00 Oraah. clear 74 84 .00 -j. Pueblo, clear .. 82 86 .00 Rapid City, rain 68 62 42 Salt Lake, part cloudy .. 92 94 00 ' Sioux City, clear 68 72 T -Valentine, cloudy 08 70 02 "T" indicates trace of precipitation. ' . L. A. WELSH, Local Forecaster. . Coroner Finds New Evidence in Wreck v- Case Near Chicago CHICAGO. . July 17. Coroner Peter Hoffman, who is investigating the wreck of the Denver train Thursday morning in which thirteen persons were killed on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad at Western Springs, ascertained from county court records that a Mrs. Fisk A. Wilcox, the same name as that of the woman who had charge of the block signal tower at Western Springs, had been committed to the Dunning insane asylum in 1908 as af flicted with paranoia, and discharged as cured July 14, 1909.. The record showed that she was a resident of La Grange, the home of the woman signal operator and that she had charge of a railroad station. . .. . The . investigation by the railroad offi cials exonerated Mrs. Wilcox, pf blame and laid the responsibility for the disaster on George Brownson, " engineer of -the fast mail, who was killed, and Frank Woodworttv flagman . of the passenger train. - ' - :- ' . The coroner sIeo received Information which may exonerate the flagman' fiom blame. It is said that residents of the suburb saw . ttreams of sparks from the wheels of the engine cf the fast mall Just before it crashed' into the tear cf the Denver train, which would Indicate, that the' warning lantern and torpedoes of the flagman had been seen 1 y the engineer of the mall train. OSKALOOSA, la., July 17.-The body of one of the unidentified dead of the recent wreck at Western Springs,' III., was mis taken for that of Mrs. G. W. Tudor and shipped here for burial with the bodies of Mr. Tudor and his daughter, Lois, but the mistake was noticed before inter ment and the triple funeral of the Tudor family was postponed. ' A dentist who had crowned some teeth for Mrs. Tudor established the fact that the body sent . was not that of Mrs. Tudor. The dentist accompanied the body back to Chicago and advices from there today indicate that he has identified the remains of Mrs. Tudor. Peoria Judge Rules .', Against Insurgent Modern Woodmen PEORIA, 111., July 17.-Modern Wood men of America camps cannot ' take money, from their general fund and use it in the fight against the proposed rate Increase, even though a majority of The members of any camp are "Insurgents," according to a ruling made by Leslie D. Puterbough in the circuit court today, when he issued an Injunction, prayed for by a "standpat" member of Baker camp here in Peoria. The camp by an overwhelming vote decided two weeks ago to take the gen eral fund money and use it In a fight on the Increase in rates. Edward' Powers started proceedings and woa. out today, -the- court 'holding that while majority Of any oamp- ihlght "desire the ;money jid used, there was nothing in the charter of any Woodman camp which provided for the use of money in that way. Receiver of Illinois Telephone Companyx ' Discharged by Court CHICAGO, July 17.-The property of the Interstate ' Independent Telephone and Telegraph company, which operates lines In Illinois, was ordered out of receiver's hands today by United States Circuit Judge Kohlsaat and returned to the con trol of the corporation. This is regarded as virtually recognition of the; company. J. P. Marshall or Toledo, who is said to represent much Ohio capital, is the president of the com pany, which will now operate the lines of the corporation. The corporation has lines from Chicaeo to Springfield and Peoria, maintaining some 18,000 telephones. The main offices are in Aurora, 111. Gambler is Arrested in Connection With Rosenthal Murder NEW YORK, July 17.-A' fourth arrest in the case of the gambler, Herman Ros enthal, who was shot to death yesterday just before he was to testify regarding charges . of gambling graft against the police, was made today when Louis Webber, known in the underworld as "Bridgey," was brought to police head quarters. Webber, according to the police, ran a' gambling house in opposition to Rosenthal about three years ' ago and had incurred the murdered gambler's en mity. While the f ued between the two men was on, Webber's home was dyna mited, the police said, and his jaw broken by a man known as "Tough Toney." House Passes Bill to c Create Department of Labor in Cabinet WASHINGTON, July 17.-The house to day passed the bill to create a department of labor, the secretary of which shall have a place in the cabinet The measure long has been pressed by organized labor and now goes to the senate. - MISS ETHEL CONRAD FOUND BOUND ON VACANT LOT NEW YORK. July 17. Miss Ethel Con rad, the chorus girl who, with her chum, Lillian Graham, was tried and acquitted several months ago of attempting to murder W. E. D. Stokes, the millionaire hotel man, is a patient today at a local hospital, to which she was brought after being found unconscious, according to the police, in a vacant lot In the upper west side. It was said that a chloro formed handkerchief was bound over her mouth, and her hands and feet were tied with a fope. She told the hospital author ities that after leaving a subway station last night she had been followed by a man and that her mind "suddenly went blank." The young woman refused to tell her name until Identified by MKs Graham. ," ' HITCHCOCK GIVES REP0RT0J FUNDS President Taft's Campaign Manager Appears Before Honse Committee. STATEMENT FILED IS CORRECT Nothing Supplementary to Give to These Figures. NO CORPORATION MONEY TK J' Law Passed by Congress Was iv,1 lowed to the Letter. COMPLETE RECORD IS KEPT More Than Million and Half Col lected and Expended Report Filed ,with,. Mew York Secretary of State, WASHINGTON," Juy 17.-Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock today told the senate committee Investigating campaign contributions of 1904 and Bos that the record of the funds used in President Taft's election as filed in Albany, N. Y., were . absolutely correct and that he could not supplement these reports by testimony. , ' Mr. Hitchcock said the total collected through various agencies of the commit tee In 1908 was $1,655,618.27. Of this amount $(0,130 was collected In various states and handled by the local state commit tees. The latter; sum never was turned into the treasury of the republican na tional committee, although that commit tee kept account of it. ' Mr. Hitchcock promised to furnish the investigating committee with copies of the financial records of the campaign. No contribution was received ftom a corporation, Mr. Hitchcock said, as con gress had just passed a aw prohibiting it He told of the only subscription he could remember having rejected. Dnpont'a Subscription Rejected. It was offered by General T. Coleman Dupont of Delaware, then a member of the republican executive committee, ac tively. assisting in the management of the campaign, and amounted to $20,000. "He turned it over to the treasurer, George R. Sheldon," begat) Mr, Hitch cock. "When I learned of it, I told Mr. Dupont' I did not think we could accept It because the government had a civil suit against a corporation in which he was Interested. I Instructed the treas urer to return it and he did so." Mr. Hitchcock replied General Dupont declared he felt he was not doing his part and asked if he' could not give the money in some way. Mr. Hitchcock said he replied in the negative. "I am positive he did not contribute It to any other fund," 'he' added, "because I have talked to General Dupont about it since the . campaign He said that when the fund was returned he considered he bad given to a cause and placed it on a special deposlC, f "It may come In handy T" remarked Senator Oliver aside; "Is he a Roosevelt man?" inquired Sen ator Paynter. . The question was unan swered. 1 Mr. Hitchcock insisted that with the exception of .about twenty-five, all the contributions were below $5,000. "We figured that the more persons we could get ' to invest, the more Interest they would take in the success of the venture," explained the former chairman. Before the system of collecting money by finance committees organized In each state was put into operation Mr. Hitch-' cock said: "fortunately friends of the party pame forward with large contri butions. ( Larger Contrlbntora. The first "friends" he mentioned In that connection were Charles P. Taft, brother of President Taft, who contributed $60, 000; William Nelson Cromwell, $25,000; Mr. and Mrs. Lars Anderson, $25,000; Andrew Carnegie, $20,000; William Smith Cochran, $15,000; Frank Munsey, $10,0C0; Whitelaw Reld, $10,000; M. C. Borden, $10,000, and General Corbln, for a number of persons, $10,000. "Did the Tobacco trust contribute?" inquired Senator Paynter. "No, sir." "Any of Its stockholders?" "Not to my knowledge. I know by name those chiefly interested and I do not have any knowledge of such con tributions being received." "Any from stockholders of the steel corporation?" , "I believe some of the men I have men tioned are Interested in It. I think Mr. Munsey is." "And Mr. Cochran?" suggested Senator Oliver. "Yes, sir." Senator Paynter asked Mr. Hitchcock If he wore acquainted with any of the stockholders of the International Har vester company. He said he knew the McCormicks, Frank Munsey, George Per kins and Clarence S. Funk "Did Mr. Perkins contribute?" asked the senator. "I do not think so." "Did the McCormicks?" "Not that I remember. They would be more likely to contribute to your party, sir." Jenks Off ered Post of Financial Adviser to Republic of China PEKING, July 17.-Prof. Jeremiah Jenks of Columbia university and formerly of Cornell was today offered the post of financial adviser to the Chinese repub lican government This marks an im portant step toward governmental reform and shows the desire of the Chinese cabi net to employ expert foreign talent Other advisers are to be appointed shortly. ROOSEVELT WILL NOT ATTEND IOWA CONVENTION OYSTER BAY, July 17.-CoIonel Roose velt Is hard at work on the speeches for his trip into the middle west. It is not unlikely that he will be 'unable to begin his trip until late next week, in which case he wltl be unable to attend the state convention of the "third party" in Des Moines next Wedheidaj "In Them Days I smv ""V ""N , . From the Cleveland Leader. DEMOCRATS TOt FILIBUSTER Republicans in Senate Will Agree to Vote on Tariff Bills. DETAILS NOT YET ARRANGED In Meantime Opposition la Continv ' lng Its Dilatory . Tactics Son dry Civil Appropriation Bill is Held Up. " WASHINGTON, July 17.-Democratlo forces' In the senate today practically won their demand for consideration of the re maining tariff bills and the excise tax bill. This was the result of conferences on the floor at the opening of a demo cratic filibuster. Senator Simmons, in charge of the tar iff bills, told the republican leaders the democrats ' would resort to every device to delay business unless assured there could be a vote on the tariff measures. Senator Smoot immediately called a number of other republican leaders in con ference in the republican cloak room. So far as they could the republican senators present' agreed to accede to the demo cratic dexaand,, with the understanding that the democrats abandon tueir filibus ter and agres to allow 'the tariff bills to go to ballot after comparatively brief dis cussion. ' " . ' " ' - Formal agreement among the( repub licans, however, was not immediately reached owing to the desire of some of the principals to offer amendments to the wool bill. The democratic leaders declined to stop their filibuster against the sundry civil bill ' until actual agreement was made. They then forced the senate to take up the Panama canal measure. Senator Simmons announced he would endeavor again tomorrow to call up, the wool bill. ' Suggests Teaching of Ireland's History CHICAGO, July 17.-The Ladles' Auxil iary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians was complimented today by its president, Miss Anna C. Malia of Scranton, Pa., who declared the progress made by the organ ization In the three years It has been under the control of the women them selves would set at rest all doubts "of the ability of the ladles to legislate for themselves." Miss Malta advocated the teaching of Ireland's history. "Our boys and girls should be taujht the Gaelio language that they may learn to love Its music and literature," she said. "In teaching' the youth of our land the story of Ireland's past and present we can best help its future." The National Capital Wednesday, July IT, 1912. The Senate. Convened at 11 a. m. , Considered sundry civtl appropriation bill after an attempt was made to force consideration of the wool tariff bill. Foreign relations committee authorised favorable report on resolution to In vestigate the fomenting or encouraging of Mexican revolution or in Cuba. Adopted resolution to inquire into the purchase of Montlcello, Jefferson's old home. ; Conferees agreed to .bill requiring monthly census bureau reports on the amount of spot cotton on hand. Resumed consideration of the Panama canal bill. Lodge and O'Gorman urged right of American coastwise shipping to free passage. O'Gorman asserted . rail road influence is behind British protest. I'ostoftice committee, finishing post-office appropriation bill agreed to a par cels post provision and to bar .sending any second claps mail by freight. River and harbor appropriation ' bill, carryin? $33,000,000 agreed to in confer ence. The House. Convened at noon. Passed bill to create a department of labor. Considered industrial ' relations com mission bill. Secretary Wilson categorically denied before the agricultural committee Repre. sentatlve Aiken's charges that his son was connected with an Irrigation project because of the secretary's official posi tion. Passed bill to Investigate Industrial conditions and suggest strike remedy. Adopted conference report on Senator Smith's bill requiting two wireless oper ators on steamers. Nye of Minnesota In In a speech de precated fast living and other besetting sins. House steel trust Inquiry committee majority will report Important ant-trust law amendments. Democratic cnucus elected Charles M. Riddel I of Indlaca sergeant at arms of . .Tr 'TSSCTV.'sar i ' X .vVSW m W4WJH11: )Uuev . ... :' :- Was th' Champeen Div Strikers Make Big -. Demonstration at New Bedford Plant NEW BEDFORD,. Mass., July 17.-A disorderly demonstration by a crowd of 1,000 strikers and strike . sympathisers occurred today before the gates of the Butler mill, In connection with the strike and ' lockout affecting twelve cotton cloth mills of this city and resulting In 18,000 persons being- out of work. For more than an hour strikers and their sympathisers . refused to allow operatives to enter the gates. During the disturbance three arrests , were made, one of the offenders being a woman, who vigorously resisted being taken into cus tody. '.'' John A. Fernley, superintendent of the Butler mill,' while trying to drive away the strikers, was handled roughly by the crowd, but escaped injury. Three police men were unable to hold the crowd In check and a squad of reserves was sent from police headquarters. ' ! " ; Nearly every one participating in the demonstration either wore t th smblsm of l,he Industriai.Workers of "tbe World or a button . bearing the likeness of Joseph J. Ettor, the Imprisoned leader of the Lawrence strike. ., . After ,the. demonstration , had subsided, mohy of the workers In the Butler mill entered the gates under police protec tion. 1 Mexican Insurgents Loot Storehouse of Lumber Company MADERA, Chihuahua, July 17.-Havlng looted the Madera Lumber company's storehouse of $26,000 worth of goods and robbed of $25,000 worth of horses and saddles, the rebel command of General Antonio Rojas, comprising 1,000 men, started westward today through the state of Sonora for Guaymas and Pacific coast points. t The troops headed for Dolores, where a mountain pass leads Into the state of Sonora. Their entrance will be opposed by 1,000 Maderlsta volunteers, who are reported to be awaiting the rebel invasion, WASHINGTON, July 17.-Somewhere in Mexico Patrick Dunne, an American citi sen, is In prison under sentence of death. This much and no more the State depart-' ment learned through Representative Klnkald of Nebraska. Consular officers in various sections of Mexico have been directed to make every effort to locate Dunne and save his life. Griffiths is Elected President of Foreign Consuls' Association LONDON. July TT.Wohn L. Griffiths, United States consul general in London has been chosen president of the Associa tion of Foreign Consuls. This is the first time an American has been thus honored, and the honor Is all the greater as Mr. Griffiths has held the London post for less than three years. The association was organised to enable consuls generals and consuls In London to become better acquainted with each other, and through exchange- of views, to familiarize themselves not only with the trade and commercial conditions In the country to which they are accredited, but also with the conditions ' in other countries. The members,- who Include all the consular representatives, meet socially very week at luncheon and annually give a dinner which is Invariably at tended by the lord mayor, sheriffs and members of the corporation of this city. JULES HENRI P0INCARE. FAMOUS SCIENTIST, IS DEAD PARIS, July 17.Jules Henri Poincare, the Illustrious mathematician and cousin of the French premier, died suddenly to day.' A fortnight ago he underwent a serious operation, which apparently was successful, and the doctors in attendance foresaw no complications. Jules Henri Poincare, who was a pro fessor of science at the Paris U'jlverelty, a member of the institute s.ni oi the French academy, Inspector general of mines and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences at Washington, as well as of all the academics of science of Europe, was 68 years old. He was a prolific,, author .of scientific wprks er of th' Township" BODY OF SCHWARTZ IS FOUND Slayer of Julia Connors Drowned Himself in River. CONFESSED CRIME TO RELATIVES Girl, Who Was Stabbed Forty times, Lived Throng-hoot Mgbt in - ' Bos Where Her Body Was Fonnd. NEW TORK. July 17.-The body of a man found floating Monday In the Hud son river and taken to a morgue in Ho boken was today Identified as that of Nathan Swarts, Indicted for the murder of the child Julia Connors In the Bronx on July 7. The Identification was made by Frank Alexander, ftwarti's brother-in-law.' Terrifying details of the murder of Julia Connors were told to the grand jury yes terday. Two relatives of Nathan Swarts, his father and sister, Mrs.' Frances Alex ander', were present when he admitted that he murdered the child, according to Mrs. Alexander. ' At 'the conclusion of the hearing an Indictment charging murder ina ths.rirst degree was voted against the youths, - ;;''.-V . - , .. k Girl Liven AH Night. . ' Swarts has been missing since shortly after the murder. The elder Swarts said he advised his son, upon hearing .the story of the crime, to commit suicide. Mrs. Alexander . made the assertion that the child was jammed In a box after being stabbed mors than forty times by Swarts and that she remained alive in the box throughout a night. Mrs. Alex ander's repetition of the story she said her brother had told her was detailed, explicit and telling in its revelations of horror. According to Assistant District Attorney Nott, she told the jury that her brother said he had met Julia Connors on Saturday night and asked her to take a pair of opera glasses to his home which Is just across the hall from the vacant flat where the murder was com mitted. The young man said be followed the girl and at the top of the stairs pushed her Into the vacant flat and at tacked her. The child ' screamed, according to the story of Mrs. Alexander, and Swarts plunged his pocket knife Into her. As she continued to scream, he stabbed again and again until she finally fell. Then he plunged the knife Into her breast near the heart and Julia remained still. Then Swarts went to his own home and procured the box In which the body was found.' He placed the still living child In this box after cutting off her hair, put the box on the dumb waiter and let it slide to the cellar where he hid It. Early the next morning, Sunday, he took the girl, still alive, Into the lot where she was found later. Mrs. Alexander said she threw the youth out of her house when she heard the tale. He then went to his father's pl.-ice of business where he told the same story, according to the father. Canadian Railroads Deny Any Action in . Canal Toll Rates MONTREAL, July 17.-Sir Thomas Shaughnesay, president of the Canadian Pacific railway, today denied absolutely that this company had made any repre sentations to Great Britain regarding the matter of tolls through ' the Panama canal. E. G. Chamberlain, president ' of the Grand Trunk, made a similar statement several days ago. Canadian railway men generally were Inclined-today to make light of Repre sentative Knowland's assertion that the Canadian railways inspired Groat Brit ain's protest against the canal bill in Its present form. . Fight for New Electoral Ticket in South Dakota WASHINGTON, July 17.-By direct au thority of President Taft, Senator Gamble and Representative Burke of South Da kota announced today that tha president would oppose any attempt to put electors or '.cave electors already appointed ' on 1 U e presidential ticket beaded by his name who are expected Co vote for . Colonel Roosevelt. Senator Gamble and Mr. Burke left the White House determined to begin at once a struggle to have a new set of presi dential electors put on the ticket in South Dakota. 'l-v-- "' ' SEE RAILROADS BEHINDPROTEST; Senators O'Gorman and Lodge Make Direct Charges in Panama Canal , Bill Debate. FOR FREE TOLLS TO OUR SHIPS Treaty with Great Britain No Bar t to Privileges. RULE WOULD HOLD DURING WAR McCumber Admits Wonld Make Big 1 Ditch Neutral. " ' ONLY BURDEN ON THIS NATION Senator Root Points Ont that Any i Country May Remit ' Tolls to Ships and Objects to Ham- j perlutr America. j WASHINGTON, July 17. Senator O'Gor- j man of New York charged In the senate'! today that railroad Influence was behind ; Great Britain's protest against the ! Panama canal bill and ho joined with j Senator Lodge In declaring that the; United States possessed full rights under ths British treaty to give free passage to ships of American register. These two speeches marked the debate In ths senate on the Panama canal bill. Both Mr. Lodge and Mr. O'Gorman de clared this nation was not bound by tha ; Hay-Pauncefote treaty to give foreign ships all the privileges granted American, ships. Mr. Lodge favored a bill to rebate : the tolls to American ships, while Sena- i tor O'Gorman declared the United States! possessed the full right to give American i vessels free passage if desired. Senator ' Lodge conceded that it the case went to The Hague court the United States prob ably would lose. . . , i The support today for the provision giving free passage to American ships against which Great Britain has protested was more emphatic than at any time since. the senate began consideration of the bill..; Mr. O'Gorman, Mr. Cummins and others declared that If the United States had . to construe the treaty liter ally In giving the ships of all nations equal treatment. It by other terms of the treaty would be prevented from de fending the canal in case of war. "If a Japaneese beet appeared at the western end of ths canal" said Senator Reed of Missouri, "bent upon passing through to attack the olty of New Tork, the United States would have no right under such a construction of the treaty to take sny steps tgalnst It.". , ' Senator Burton of Ohio, who made ths first speech Monday in support of the British theory that the United States can give no special privileges to its own -Vessels,, declared war. would suspend the . operation of the .treaty.- Senator Mc Cumber, however,. In a ., speech today against 'the free, provision eonosded that' If was hIr -bBtteH,aaat. would haw to remain neutral even in time of war and that the United States would be for bdden by the Hay-Paunoefote treaty from taking immediate measures to block or use the canal for . Its own protection. , Beuator O'Gorman declared that railroad Influence was behind the British protest. : "I do not think British shipping is grealy interested" he said. "I believe the railroads of Canada and th railroads of the United States have been enable to secure the coopertlon of the British office of foreign affairs, to . embarrass this government. "The only; government that has . as sumed any especial burden under the treat yls the United States" said Sen ator O'Gorman. "England and other countries have assumed no burdens be yond the payment of the tolls and the agreements as to the terms of its neu trality. . "There Is nothing to prevent England from remitting to Its merchant ships every dollar of tolls paid the Panama' canal. There is onthlng to prevent sim ilar action by other countries. The only 1 power that la trammeled, restrained and curtailed I nthe performance of its duties to Its own cltlsenshlp Is the one that has spent $440,000,000 . In the construction of this great enterprise." He said Spain already had legislated . "to reimburse Spanish ships for the tolls Spent in going through our canal." Senator Lodge raised - the - question whether the United States would have a right ' to interfere If another country should undertake to pay the tolls of its ships when passing through the canal. No foreign country, he sold, could Inter fere with any, arrangement the' United States might make for the payment of tolls. . ! ' "If any government should undertake to do so I for one would protest," he said. ' . .''-, Escaped Prisoners Are Recaptured CENTRALIA, 111., July 17. Three' pris oners, C. L. McRaven, Otto Laswsll and Thomas Tomalson, escaped from the Salem jail, last night by digging a hole through a brick wall. Tomalson was overtaken near Klnmundy, after a run ning battle with Sheriff Vursell and the other two were captured . in the woods near Salem. There is no kind of advertising so easy to use as classified, which is suggested in this paperby the classified pages. 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