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VOL. X.
METHODISTS NAME
BISHOPS TO LEAD
I WmEHCES
Assignments for Coming Year
of Conferences Are Made By
College of Bishops of South
ern Methodist Church
'By AwocUted Pr»»»)
’*■ • NASHVILLE. Tenn.. May I—The fol
lowing conference assignments have been .
announced by the college of bishops of
the Southern Methodist church in session
here: r
Bishop Wilson—Virginia, Salisbury. Md., ,
November 1; North Georgia, St. James.
Augusta. Ga., November 15; Alabama.
Pensacola. Fla.. December 6.
Bishop Hendrtx—Denver. Walsenburg.
Col., August 31; Mexicon border, mission.
Saltillo. Mexico. February 1; Central Mex- |
ico mission. Guadalajara. Mexico, Febru
ary S; Northern Mexican mission. Tor- j
neon, Mexico, February 22.
CANDLER AT HOLSTON.
Bishop Candler—Holston, Morristown. ,
September 27; Tennessee, Columbia, Octo
ber 18; Memphis, Madison Heights, Mem- i
phis. November 16; Cuban mission, Janu
ary 11-13.
Bishop Morrison—Western Virginia.
< Kentucky > Louisa, Ky.. September 16; ;
Illinois, Warden, September 21; South
Georgia, Bainbridge. Ga., November 11-13.
Bishop Hoss—Western North Carolina.
Broad Street, Statesville, N. C., Novem
ber 8; North Carolina, Kinston, N. C., !
November 22; North Alabama. Florence.
Ala., November 29; Florida, Gainesville, !
Fla.. December IX
Bishop Atkins—New Mexico, Tucumcari,
New Mexico. October 4; West Texas. San
Marcos. Tex.. October 18; Northwest Tex
•as. Plainview. Tex.. November 4; Central
Texas, Polytechnic State, Fort Worth,
Bishop Denny—Missouri, Columbia, Mo.,
August 90; Southwest Missouri, Marshall,
Me.. September 12; Sv Louis, Kirkwood,
Mo.. September 27; East Oklahoma, Ok
mulgee. November 28; West Oklahoma,
Mangum. Okla. November 22.
KILGORE GIVEN PLACES.
Bishop Kilgore—Kentucky. Itichmond.
Ky., September 12; North Mississippi, Ma
con, Miss., November 29; South Carolina
Bennettsville, S. C„ November 22.
Bishop Murrah—Japan mission,. Arima.
Japan. August «; Korean mission, Won
san. Korea, September 21; China mission,
Shanghai. China. October 12; Baltimore.
Roanoke. Va. March 27..
Bishop Lambuth—Brazil. Petropolls.
Brazil. July 20; South Brazil. Uruguayans.
Brazil, August 17; African mission, Sep
tember 90.
Bishop Waterhouse—Montana Missoula.
Mont., August 24: East Columbia. Hepp
ner. Ore., August 31; Columbia. Roseburg.
Ore., September 14; Pacific. Sacramento,
Cal, October It; Los Angeles. San Diego.
Cal., November L
Bishop Monzon—German mission. San
Antonio, Tex.. November 2; North Texas. I
Gainesville Tea. November IS; Texas, j
Marlin,* Tex.. November 22; Louisiana.!
Parker Memorial, New Orleans. December |
. A
Bishop McCoy—Louisville. Greenville,
Ky., September 27; Arkansas. Boonville.
Ark., November 22; Little Rock. Fordyce,
Ark., November 15; White River. Blythe
ville. Ark., December «.
WDPT Bill EY MOTION
4FTEB LENGTHY FISHT
J
Senate Decides to Meet at 2
o’Clock p. m. Instead of
• at Noon
WASHINGTON, D. C-, May 4 —The sen
ate today radically departed from cus
toms of the past, when it adopted Sena
tor Bailey's motion fixing the hour ot
meeting at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. For
years the senate has met at noon, just as
the house. The Bailey motion commits
the upper legislative branch to the 2
o’clock meeting hour Indefinitely, and it
will not be changed until the senate re
scinds today s work.
Although the change is a radical de
parture from precedent, for which the
senate is a great stickler, the change in
no wise will interfere with its well known
leisurely habits. The new meeting hour
means simply that the senate proposes to
proceed in future with even greater delib
eration and tardiness than in the past.
The Bailey motion was adopted by a
viva voce vote and only a few voices were
raised in opposition. The sentiment said
to be overwhelming in favor of the
change.
The 2 o'clock meeting means that the
senate will not really get down to the
business o fthe goernment until 2 o'clock
every day. The first hour of each ses
sion is devoted to what is called "Morn
ing business,” consisting of the filing of
reports and the introduction of bills. Aft
er "morning taisiness" is out of the way,
the senate proceeds to its deliberations.
Senator Bailey began the agitation for a
meeting hour a couple of years ago.
At first there was no sentiment in its
favor, but the Texan has persisted, and
today won his point. It is explained that
the 2 o’clock meeting will enable the sen
ators to devote more time to committee
work, and to better enjoy their lunch.
J. J. COLLINS IS DEAD;
WAS COTTON BUYER
GREENVILLE. Ala.. May 4—After
repeated calls this morning the room
at the Wilkinson house here of John
J. Coll ip. a cotton buyer for the firm
of C. H. Minge & Co., of Mobile, was
broken open and Mr. Collins was found
dead In bed. Pnysicians gave as the
cause of his death, hemmorhage of the
brain caused by the wound. Mr. Bol
tins’ relatives live in Brooklyn. N. Y..
bls former home, and have been noti
fied.
He was at one time a member of the
Kew York Cotton exchange, and lived
in Brookhaven, Mass., before coming
here. The body will be taken to his
home tn Brooklyn for burial. He was
about 42 years of age.
Watkins Found Guilty
ASHEVILLE. N. C.. May 4.—The jury
In the case of F. C Watkins, charged
with the killing of John Hill Bunting at
Black Moudlain tn August. 19®. yesterday
afternoon returned a verdict of man
slaughter after being out 19 hours.
fldfiil EDUCATION IS
URGED BI HOKE SMITH
Governor-Elect Makes Inter
esting Address to Lowndes
School Commissioners
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
I VALDOSTA. Ga.. May 4.-The address
of Governor-elect Hoke Smith was a
'feature of the annua] convention of the
county school commissioners here te
day. He said in part:
MR. SMITH’S ADDRESS.
j I cannot too strongly urge the possi
ibi I i ties for service which thq offices you
j fill give.
i New and improved methods are daily
j being introduced into industrial pur
lsuits and city lite.
! Our city schools, supported by local
i taxation, are well equipped for efficient
work and contribute greatly to the prog
ress being made in the cities.
I Our rural schools should seek to ac
complish the same results for thos® at
I work upon the farms, but the task is
'more difficult because the rural schools
I depend almost entirely upon contribu
tion for their support from the state
treasury, and are further handicapped
! by the fact that our rural population is
sparse. ’
FARMS UNLIMITED.
The ideal school system will not exist
i until each county through local taxa
tion establishes one system of schools
i for the entire county, but this condt
ition will come slowly and the task is
■ largely on you to see that progress is
| made with the schools a® they now exist,
i I wish to make a few practical sug
gestions for your consideration.
The work of th® rural school cannot
be accomplished by mere instruction in
reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar,
geography and history.
The children must be taught those
things that pertain to rural life that
their powers of observation and creation
may be stimulated with reference to
those things which will be connected
with their future.
The rural school house and the rural
home must be brought closer together.
Our rural school teachers must be
aroused and filled with a greater desire
for accomplishment that they may be
able to stir the children and cause them
to long for knowledge and for thorough
preparation for life.
The county school commissioners and
the rural teachers must themselves feel
the deepest interest in rural life and be
ready to acquire and to teach all knowl
edge possible with reference to it if they
are to be successful workers in rural
schools.
I commend to the county commlsson
ers the necessity for frequent normal
school meetings among the teachers.
At these meetings not only better meth
ods of teaching the ordinary courses of
study should be considered, but ALL
J PROBLEMS CONNECTED WITH RU
RAL LIFE SHOULD BE STUDIED.
Revolutions are taking place all over the
' wqrld in agricultural methods.
! Those entrusted with the conduct of our
rural schools should seek to acquire and
to teach ail available knowledge which
will improve farm conditions throughout
the state.
VALUE OF CORN CLUBS.
I wish especially to commend to your
consideration the value of boys’ corn
| clubs and girls’ domestic science clubs.
You should intensify the interest of
even- teacher under your direction In
such .work.
I wish every white boy and girl in
the rural schools of Georgia would join
these clubs.
The rural teachers under your direction
should encourage and advise the boys
and girls in this work.
The time taken from the ordinary
school work for instruction on these
lines will not lessen the proficiency of
the children In their regular school
studies. On the contrary, it will make
them 'realize that the school house is
preparing them for life and it will stimu
late to higher effort on the part of th®
children in the regular school work.
I believe that the boys’ acre of cotton
or corn and the special work of the girls
done at home under the leadership of the
rural school teacher will bring better
results than any effort at a school gar
den immediately around the school house.
The use by the rural teacher of
STORIES OF GOOD WORK DONE IN
FARMING AND OF IMPROVED
METHODS AROUND THE HOME, to
be read to the boys and girls and studied
by them, should prove a great help and
I bring the parents closer to school work.
I It Is my purpose to recommend to the
legislature a Überal appropriation tq/the
State CollegZ of Agriculture for exten
sion work Among the grown men and
women engaged in farming. By the dis
tribution of bulletins carrying valuable
Information to the grown farmers, im
mense good can be accomplished
* The rural school teacher should also
read and study upon these lines. THE
RURAL SCHOOL TEACHER SHOULD
BE INFORMED UPON THE PRO
GRESS THAT IS BEING MADE IN
AGRICULTURE and should introduce a
system of reading among the children of
the many interesting publications now
being made on heme hygiene, on poultry,
on cooking, on butter making and on
farming generally.
It would be admirable while the father
is reading at home a bulletin from the
State College of Agriculture on com
raising for the teacher to read the same
bulletin and explain It to th£ child at
school, and while the mother is reading
at home a bulletin on some subject con
nected with her> household responsibili
ties for the teacher to read It and explain
it to the girls In school.
RURAL SCHOOL SUPERVISORS.
It is my purpose to recommend the ap
pointment of a number of rural school
supervisors to aid the state school com
missioner. and to assist the county school
commissioners in developing the rural
schools.
My hope is that these rural school su
pervisors. if created, may help you in
your normal schools to teach the teach
ers. May help you to bring the home and
the school house close together and in
tensify the interest tn that progress
which can only come when you make
the rural school house U> a large extent
the center of pleasure and instruction
for parent and child.
With knowledge of the great opportuni
ty which the soli of Georgia offers to
those who cultivate it Intelligently and
industriously, with knowledge of the
splendid achievements that are being
made by the most successful farmers of
the state, what a splendid service is open
to you when you realize how greatly
can be increased the number of th* very
successful through the work In the rural
school house.
IT WILL BRING IN GEORGIA GOOD
ROADS. GOOD SCHOOLS, GOOD
FARMS, BETTER HOMES. MORE
CAPITOL ANNEX IS
FAVOUED BY GOVERNOR
MW RECOMMEND IT
Gov. Brown Believes an An
nex as Large as Present
Capitol Should Be Built
Near Old State House
In an Interview Wednesday morning
Governor Brown proposed that an an
nex to the capitol be built on Capitol
avenue or other property, near the cap
itol. He has not decided to embody this
proposal in his message to the legisla
ture, but it is not improbable that he
will do so, for he is decided in his be
lief that an annex to the capitol is nee-*
essary.
He thinks that the annex should be
about as large as the present capitol
building and that, in addition to pro
viding offices for state officials, it
snould also be used in part for a state
museum.
The present building, in his opinion,
should be retained as offices for the
court of appeals and the supreme court,
the executive offices, the state treasury,
and the departments of the comptroller
and the secretary of state. The other
departments should be moved into the
annex.
Governor Brown detailed this plan af
ter he had been asked whether he
thought, it necessary, for the capitol
building to be remodeled inside. It was
suggested to him that a movement has
already been begun for a state museum.
"But we need more than a museum."
he answered. “We need an annex. The
Jackson residence and about half of
the square in which it ia set might be
purchased, the buildings cleared off and
the annex built there.
“1 think it would be well if some ar
rangement were made by which the of
fice ot the adjutant general, or at least
the supplies of this office, abutted on a
railroad. In such a case, a sudden
movement of troops would not be de
layed by the movement of supplies.”
He was asked if any legislation has
been decided upon that woujd provide for
the construction of an annex to the
capitol. He said that he doesn’t know
of any and that he hasn’t yet outlined
his message. He is now deciding upon
what recommendations he will put Into
this message. As soon as he has made
this decisiort* he will begin the writing
of it.
In addition to recommending an an
nex, the governor agreed that improve
ment of the capitol is needed.
“This budding,” he said, “should be
kept in a condition that would comport
with the dignity of the state.”
Other state officials are very desirous
of the offices of the building being done
over. Without exception these are dingy
and the walls are cracked. In many
instances parts of the plastering have
fallen.
J. Pope Brown, state treasurer, said
Wednesday morning:
“There seems to be a:t opinion that the
people in general take no interest in
public , buildings. This is not true. As a
rule every individual is interested in
public buildings.
“A gentleman who was in my office
the other day noticeci how the walls
have begun to peel. He asked me how
the state could permit the capitol ,to
fall into such a condition. He remarsed
that it looked as though the state were
broke.
"Lt is a shame that this budding
should not be kept in better repair.”
WARRING LEGISLIIOHS
REACH NO COMPROMISE
'Speaker” of Insurgent Wing
of Tennessee House, Will
Not Consider One
(By Aisociated Preai.)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 4.—That no
proposition of a compromise between
the regulars and fusionists of the Ten
nessee legislature had been received
here or would be considered was the
statement made this morning by "Speak
er” Johnsonius, of the "Alabama wing"
of the Tennessee legislature, who came
here to break a quorum at Nashville.
The proposition or suggestion made by
Representative William, of Hamilton
county, had been heard of, but it was
not pleasing to the members here.
The tentative plans of the fusionists
are to leave for their homes next Wed
nesday, the idea being that no mem
ber could be arrested and made to attend
the legislature after that date, even if
it has been decided to continue the leg
islature two years, if necessary. The
daily sessions here by the fusionists
have been discontinued.
J. D. MOBLEY IS INJURED
IN CATCHING STREET CAR
Missed Step of Car and Was
Thrown to Ground, Receiv
ing Bad Scalp Wound
While trying to board a trolley caf at
the corner of Whitehall and Alabama
streets Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock
J. D. Mobley, of 5 Adair avenue, Lake
wood Heights, was thrown violently to
the ground and painfully though not
seriously injured. He was rushed to the
Atlanta hospital where it was later sta
ted that his only injuries consisted of
a bad gash on his head.
Bystanders stated that Mr. Mobley
tried to board the car after it had start
ed and missing the step, was thrown
heavily to the ground. He had been in
ill health for the past year and it is
thought his weak physical condition
caused him to miss his grip in trying
to catch the car.
COMFORT AND GREATER PROSPERI
TY FOR THE MASSES OF OUR
STATE.
It will cause the development of more
Individuals of splendid capacity to serve
themselves, their families and their lo
calities.
Let us all determine to realize the
value of this service and during the next
12 months to set high our standards
and work with unbounded energy, en
thusiasm and self-denial to accomplish
the best results.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1911.
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PEACE ENVOYS MEET
IN 200-FDDT ARENA
JS CROWD LOOKS ON
Roped Off From the Curious
.. Throngs, Mexican and Rebel
Leaders Begih Their Con
ferences to Settle War
(By Associated Press.)
EL PASO, May to
bring about a reign of peace in war
torn Mexico begin today. The negotiations
probably will progress with great delib
eration owing to the fact that Judge Car
bajal, the government commissioner, will
be compelled to hold frequent consul
tations with Mexico City.
The commissioners wifi meet in a 200-
foot ring, roped and guarded to keep
out the curious. Not even General Madero
will be permitted to Judge Car
bajal and Dr. Vasquez Gomez, the elder
Francisco Madero and Senor Suarez, who
represent the insurrectos, will' be the sole
occupants of the charmed circle.
The site of the peace conference was
not chosen for the convenience of the
newspaper men. It is on the Mexican
side of the Rio Grande, midway between
Juarez and the insurrecto camp. As Gen
eral Navarro will not allow the reporters
to pass through Juarez, it is necessary to
make the trip to the scene of the peace
negotiations byway of the food bridge
near the El Paso smelter, two miles be
yond the meeting place of the conferees
which in addition necessitates the retrac
ing of two miles more on the Mexican
side.
Peace May Be Brought
To Satisfactory End
WASHINGTON, May 4. —According
to a telegram from American Ambas
sador Wilson, at Mexico City, foreign
Minister de la Bara expects peace ar
rangements between the federals and
insurrectos to be perfected today.
In another telegram Mr. Wilson says
that the Mexican government expects
Independent negotiations in the states
of Moreloes and Guerrero.
VOTE HAS BEEN DELAYED
ON POPULAR ELECTION
May Come Up Later Under
Head of Unfinished
Business
WASHINGTON, D. C., - May 4—The
house resolution providing ftor the popu
lar election of United States senators
will not come before the senate until
next week. Senator Borah who has
charge of the resolution, today yielded
to the importunities of its opponents and
agreed to a delay in order that they
maw draft and file a minority report,
setting forth their objections. Senator
I Borah will then move to make the reso
| lution unfinished business and eventually
I his motion will prevail.
patentYarFissued
TO MANY GEORGIANS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4 Patents
i issued: Samuel B. Adams, Manchester,
valve motion; B. Bowers and O. H.
Franklin, Canon, cottonseed culler; John
G. Hale, Pendergrass, hay press; Lena A.
Kent and G. H. Tuttle, Atlanta, dental
Instrument, holding and sterilizing
bracket table; Otis A. Murphy, Atlanta,
hub attaching device. ,
SHERIFF FRED T. CLARK
REPRIMANDED BY JUDGE
HAYWARD. Wls.. May 4.—During
the trial roday of John Dietz, his wife
and son. Leslie, for the alleged slaying
of Deputy Oscar Harp, Judge Reid, rep
rimanded Sheriff Fred L. Clark for al
lowing John Dietz to walk around town
last night and permitting him to enter
saloon.
OHIO LEGISLATURE
BRIBERY CHARGES
AREJEFORE JURY
Forty Members of General
Assembly Are Accused of
Accepting Money-Organiza
zation Officers Summoned
(By Associated Press.)
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 2—The Frank
lin county grand jury met today to con
sider the wholesale charges of bribery,
involving about 40 members of the Ohio
legislature. The matter was taken before
the grand jury instead of a legislative
probe committee on the advice of Gov
ernor Harmon and others In order to pre
vent any accused members from escap
ing punishment through the immunity
bath. Scores of witnessed have been
summoned, and it is said that the jury
ma.v make a partial report some time
tomorrow.
Officers of state organizations interested
in legislation before this assembly have
been summoned to tell what they know
of efforts to hold them up by members.
They include officers of such bodies a?
the state board of commerce, the Antt-
Saloon"' league. th® Personal Liberty
league and heads of large corporations.
It is reported that at least one head
of a state department was solicited for
a bribe to expedite the passage of a
bill of interest to his department.
Attorney General Hogan, After a talk
wtih Prosecuting Attorney Turner, said
that if there is any need for immu
nity baths, they will be given to the
person least culpable.
RAILWAY STRIKE IS NOW
BECOMING WIDESPREAD
300 Additional Employees Go
Out in Sympathetic
Strike /
PITTSBURG, May 4.—The Pennsylvania
railway shopmen’s strike is spreading.
About 300 men employed in the shops ot
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
railroad joined the movement today and
it was said men along the lines between
Pittsburg and Alliance (Ohio) would go
out some time during the day. Two hun
dred men also quit work at the Verona
shops on the Cone Maugh branch of the
Pittsburg division. The railorad compa
ny continued to place new men in the
different shops today. No disorder was
reported.
While the result of the meetings of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and
Order of Railway Conductors at Pitcairn
was kept secret, it was declared at strik
ers’ headquarters that the members of
the two orders indorsed the strike and
promised support, both financial aifS
moral.
PRESIDENT TAFT~TO~ BE
GUEST AT RECEPTION
Philadelphia Medical Club Will
Entertain in Honor of
Chief Executive
PHILADELPHIA, May 4.—President
Taft will be the guest of honor at, the
dinner and reception to be given tonight
by the Philadelphia Medical club. The
function will be in the nature of a tes
timonial of the appreciation of the pro
fession for the president’s interest in
the science and for the many things he
has done to assist the forward move
ment of medicine in its fight to con
quer disease. There will be no speech
es at the dinner, but at the reception
which follows addresses will be made
by the president, Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell
and Dr. W. L. Rodman, of this city.
Among the guests invited are Andrew
Carnegie and J. D. Rockefeller in recog
nition of their efforts in behalf of med
icine.
SPLIT IS IMMINENT
AMONG DEMOCRATS
OVER WOOL TARIFF
Nine Members of Ways and
Means Committee Determin
ed to Report Free Raw Wool
Duty Bill
BY MALPM SMITH.
WASHINGTON, May 2.—A situation
has developed in the house of represen
tatives in connection with the proposal
to amend the wool, schedule of the tariff
law that may/ cause a serious split In
the ranks of the Democratic party in
congress. Nine of the 14 Democratic
members of the ways and means com
mittee are determined to report a wool
bill which shall admit the raw product
duty free. The five members of the com
mittee, who are opposed to raw wool,
are led by Chairman Underwood.
While Speaker Clark has not, up to
date, attempted to dictate to the lead
ers of the house membership in matters
of legislation, he is taking a lively In
terest in the deliberations of the com
mittee over the wool bill. He has ex
pressed the opinion to members of the
committee that the party will make a
serious blunder if it passes a bill con
taining a free raw wool provision.
FEAR LOSS OF STATES.
Messrs. Clark and Underwood have
pointed out to the majority on the ways
and means committee that if the Demo
cratic house commits itself to free raw
wool, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and oth
er wool-growing states, which are now
veering toward Democracy, will be lost
to the party in the next presidential elec
tion. They have argued further that raw
wool is a big revenue producer, and that
it would be unwise from an economic
standpoint to admit the product duty free
until measures have been evolved that
will furnish revenue to take the place
of that now yielded by raw wool.
Speaker Clark and Chairman Under
wood are very much in earnest In the
arguments they have made in this con
nection. Up to date the Democrats have
worked in harmony on all legislative
matters. The wool bill threatens to make
trouble. Even if the speaker and ma
jority leader, Underwood, induce the ma
jority of the ways and means commit
tee to approve a bill providing for a
duty on raw wool, they will still have
another difficulty to overcome. A count
of nays has disclosed that a majority of
the Democrats in the house favor free
raw wool.
PERMISSION GRANTED
FOR AN INVESTIGATION
National Tariff Commission
Association Permitted to
Make Probe
■ i
WASHINGTON, May 4.—ln a letter
to John Candler Cobb, president of the
National Tariff Commission association.
President Taft today granted permission
for a committee appointed by that as
sociation to make an investigation of
the work of the tariff board. This, the
president said, was “with a view to
seeing in how far the structure of the
board and its methods and systems
agree with the broad principle of scien
tific reconstruction of the tariff mak
ing system.”
Kills Wife, Shoots Child
GAINESVILLE, Ga., May 4—Balus
Merck, a negro, about 55 years of age,
in a fit of jealousy and crazed from
drinking blind tiger liquor for the past
several weeks, killed his wife on Summit
street in this city last night with a shot
gun and then shot his 12-year-old adopted
child. He first shot his wife at his home,
and she ran to her brother’s house across
the street, and he followed her, empty
ing his double-barreled shotgun in his
wife’s killing her instantly.
SHOE IMDUSTBY OF
UNITED STATES IS
IN WS TOILS'
Startling Declaration Made
Before Senate Committee on
Finance at Beginning of
Reciprocity Bill Hearing
WASHINGTON. May X—The declara
tion tha<t a “trust” grips the entire shoe
manufacturing industry of the United
States was made today before the sen
ate committee on finance which began
hearings on the Canadian reciprocity
bill. Manufacturers from the middle
west told the committee that they were
practically at the mercy of the United
Shoe Machine company of Boston.
It was suggested that a report of the
hearings would be transmittfctj to the at
torney general.
The principal spokesman for the shce
manufacturers was William D’Oench, of
St. Louis. With him were manufacturer*
from St. Louis, Chicago and Grand Rap
ids, Mich. An incidental reference to a
failure to reduce the duty on brass wl'e
used in the manufacture of shoe* led
Mr. D’Oench to say that the “trust”
made it impossible to buy brass wi e
abroad.
“Why don’t you buy all your machin
ery abroad then?” asked Senator Sim
mons, of North Carolina.
HIGH MACHINERY DUTY.
In reply the shoe manufacturer refer
red to the 45 per cent duty which stood
in the way.
"Would the removal of that duty make
shoes cheaper?” asked Senator Simmoti
"It would, but I cannot say hew
much.”
The witness said the royalty charged
by the shoe machinery "trust” in less
than a year would be sufficient to buy
the English machinery outright. Senator
Smoot contended that under these cir- |
cumstances the duty should not prevent
the American manufacturer buying Fil
ropean machines. Mr. D’Oench declared
that the shoe manufacturers could not
get all their machinery in England and
to get part of It from the American
concern they were required to buy all. I
Representative Simmons said that if
the report of the hearing were trans
mitted to the attorney general it ought
to “make trouble for the shoe machine fl
trust.”
Senator Gallinger said he thought Int
ents on machinery would protect the
machinery manufacturing company from ,
the charge of being a “trust.”
Senator Bailey asserted they would .
not.
Mr. D’Oench said the United Shoe
Machinery company sold some of its
machines in England and that it did not
bind the English manufacturers by any
such contracts as those in this country.
Milton 8. Florsheim told the cpm- s
Tnittee that the American manufacturer
had been obliged to sign a 17 years’ con
tract and that no. other shoe manufac
turing company would enter the field
because it would not find purchasers.
MMEBIS MURDER" SAYS
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In Signed Article Dealing With
Los Angeles Dynamiting
Case
NEW YORK, May 4—Theodor#-
Roosevelt will have a signed article
entitled “Murder is Murder" in ’the
Outlook” this week, dealing wlt ? th ®
dynamiting of the Los Angeles
and the arrests recently made by De- ■
tective Burns. Mr. Roosevelt says in g
part:
■'The men responsible for the dyna
miting of the Los Angeles Times build
ing are responsible not only for the
wreck of the newspaper offices, but
for the loss of ’many lives.
IMPARTIAL SEVERITY.
“The arrest was made In consequence
of testimony secured by Mr. Burns.
who has been Mr. Henry’s right-hand i
man in bringing to justice grafters x
who violated the law of the United
States in Oregon and grafters who vio
lated the laws of California in San
Francisco. He has proceeded with im- <
partial severity against the most in
fluential politicians and the rich set
business men. It happens that the -nett
whom he has now arrested are mem
bers of a labor organization; just as;
men whom he formerly arrested were I
members of the Republican or Demo-(I
cratic parties or of great and wealthy
corporations. , ' ■
“It would have been a wicked thing •
in the former cases with which Mr.'
Burns had to do, for leading Repub- ■
Means or Democrats to combine to I
break him down and support the ac-;
cused merely because the accused be-'
longed to their political parties, and it
would have been a wicked thing fori -'j
capitalists and big business men to
make common cause with the capital
ists against whom he proceeded nere-.
ly because they were capitalists.
"Wherever any politician or any cap
italist did actually take this position,
whether in the case of the men prose- >
cuted by Mr. Burns or in any other
case, the Outlook unhesitatingly de
nounced them. In exactly the Same
spirit, I state the convictions of the
Outlook in expressing its heartiest re
probation of the conduct of those la
bor leaders, who, without waiting to
know anything of the facts of the case,
have at once flown to the defense ot
the alleged dynamiters whom Mr.
Burns has now arrested and who talk
about the arrest as being part of a
conspiracy against labor unions.
"It is grossly improper to try to
create a public opinion in favor of the
arrested men simply because the crime
of which they are accused is commit- ■
ted against a capitalist or a corpora- .
tion and because thef men who are
charged with committing it are mem
bers of a labor union. This is ar in- |
iquity as gross as it would have been
if when three years ago the sugar
trust was Indicted for swindling op-,
erations in the New York custom house
the forces of organized capital han
been put behind the indicted men on
the ground that the attack on capital
ists guilty of crime meant an attack ‘
on all capital.
“The question of organized labor or
organized capital, or of the relatdons
ot either with the community at large,
has nothing whatever to do with this I ,
issue. All we are now concerned with ‘ |
is the grave and vital question of i -
»fact, whether the accused men have '
been guilty of murder.
NO. 65.