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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 3,. 1913.
NO. 72.
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DEATH ON FIRST
. FLODFMS CLAIM
Blood Spots on Second Floor
Explained by Fact That Em
ployes'Frequently Cut Fin
gers—Theory in Detail
From apparently tellable authority
it was learned Monday that the theory
to be advanced in defense of .Leo M.
Frank, 'the pencil factory superinteii-
dent, who has been indicted for the
murder of Mary Phagan, will be that
James Conley, the negro sweeper, and
he alone, killed the girl and hid her
body in the factory basement.
Notwithstanding Luther Z. Rosser,
chief counsel for Frank, maintains his
sphinxlike attitude and declines to dis
cuss the theory of the defense, it is
understood that the arguments in
• Frank’s favor will be based upon the
idea that Conley was without assistance
•.in the Commission of the crime ana
that Frank had no knowledge whatever
• of it.
The defense will, it is said, take the
position that Mary Phagan w T as killed
on the first floor of the factory at the
• foot of the stairs where the negro ad
mits he was in hiding. The suggestion
of the girl having been killed on tho
second floor, as declared by Conley in
his affidavit of confession, wtfl. it Is
said, be ridiculed.
It will be contended that Conley was
in hiding on the first floor from about
v 9 o'clock in the morning, most prob
ably with the intention of robbing some
of the women employes who came for
their pay.
It will be shown that many of the
incidents which thfe pegro swears hap
pened while he was secluded among tho
boxes by the stairs occurred before
Frank went over to Nelson street, and
'therefore, the negro must be tying
• when he says that he met the superin
tendent at the corner of Nelson ana
Forsyth streets and Tollow r ed him back
to the factory sometime between 10:3u
and 11 o’clock.
The several different ..versions of the
negro’s story will be cited to show thai
he began by lying and only made ad
missions that he had knowledge of the
crime when he was caught in lies. The
claim, will be set up that the negro is
very cunning, had a perfect knowledge
of the pencil factory and its operations,
and has kept thoroughly posted on
everything that has been publisher
about the murder. This will be urged
to substantiate the allegation that he
has endeavored to make his “confession”
fit the facts so far revealed.
' ' ELEVATOR DIDN’T RUN.
r But it will insisted that despite
the negro's canning he has made many
palpable misstatements of facts. Not
only will it be claimed that the negro
was in tfie factory in hiding long before
Frank went to Nelson street, as is in
dicated by certain incidents, described in
detail, but it will be contended that
contrary to the negro’s statement the
elevator did not run on Saturday,
April 26.
Just how the defense will show this
is not known, but that it feels that n
can make such a showing and one that
will be convincing is admitted by the
close friends of Frank.
The negro’s statement that he ob
tained from the cotton room on the sec
ond floor a large piece of gunny sack
which he tied about the girl’s .body win
be challenged and evidence will be sub
mitted to show that on the fatal Sat
urday there were no empty gunny
sacks in the cotton room, that the oniv
sacks there were filled witn cotton and
that' these were still in place on the
following Monday.
To further substantiate this allegation
it will be pointed out that the gunny
sack which the negro said he tied about
the body and which he declares he threw
on the trash pile by the boiler along with
the girl’s hat and one of her shoes has
never been found.
The hat and shoe were discovered on
this trash pile a short while after the
body was found, but there was no gunny
sack there.
THEORY OF KILLING.
The theory of the defense will be, it is
said, that after Mary Phagan got her
pay envelope she immediately ieft the of
fice on the second floor and proceeded
down the stairs toward the street; that
just as she reached the bottom, the ne
gro, who was in hiding and who had seen
her swinging a mesh handbag, stepped
out from behind the boxes and struck
her a blow on the head with a stick.
Attention will be called to the fact that
the big doors leading to the street were
closed, and it was entirely possible for
the girl to have been felled without any
one outside on the street or anyone up
stairs in the office being any the wiser.
Having knocked the girl down and ren
dered her unconscious, it will be con
tended, it is said, that the negro quickly
pushed her through the elvator shaft,
which was but six or eight feet to his
left. Fearing that the girl may have
recognized him and apprehending that
she was not dead, the negro climbed
down the ladder through the cubby hole
»nd quickly tore off the hem of her
underskirt, w'hich he knotted around her
neck, it being the most available instru
ment to check any possible outcry; after
which he hunted around the basement
and found a length of cord, which
abounds, in all parts of the factory.
Looping this cord around the girl’s
neck so that when it was pulled the
knot would tighten, the negro dragged
her back to the sawdust bin in the rear
of the basement, where her. body was
found, it will be contended.
When he went back to the elevator
shaft he found her hat and her purse, it
will be argued. He placed the purse in
his pocket, took the hat and started back
toward the rear of the basement. On
the way he picked up one of the girl’s
slippers, which had come off while she
was being dragged. The hat and the
slipper he tossed on the trash pile by
the boiler.
In the darkness of the elevator shaft he
overlooked the parasol, which he had
• tossed dowr; with the girl's body.
OBJECT OF NOTES.
With a view, it is said, to directing
suspicion to the other negroes employed
In the factory, Conley wrote the two
notes found near the body. The tablet
paper upon which these were written, it
will be asserted, can be found in all
parts of the factory. One of them, the
yellow order blank book, it will be
claimed, belonged to an old discarded se
ries and was.-more likely to be on the
trash pile than in the office.
The suggestion will, it is said, be ad
vanced that the negro first wrote the
two line note which simply stated:
“That long, tall black negro did it by
his self.” Conceiving the idea that a
THREE NEGROES QUIZZED
IN STEVENS FIRE CASE
Detectives Put Suspects
Through Close Examination
in McDonough Mystery
In an effort to gain a confession In
regard to the McDonough road mystery
of last Tuesday night, three negro sus
pects who are held at police station
charged with the murder of Mrs. Sarah
Stevens and he radopted daughter, Nel
lie, were put through an examination by
the police Monday morning and were
later taken to the scene of the crime.
The negroes are Walter Wilkes, who
formerly worked for the Stevens family;
Ernest Maynard, a half-breed negro, who
was once in their employ, and Dan Wal
ker, another negro.
All of these men were arrested Satur
day afternoon. They were confined at
the police Monday morning and later
will be taken to the scene of the crime.
The negroes were told the definite
charge against them. Detectives quizzed
them for several hours in the hope of
getting some damaging admission.
When the negroes are taken out the
McDonough road they will not ne told
where they are going. Thus will the
ashes of the Stevens home come suddenly
to their view.
Wade Stevens, son of the dead woman,
is still at police station, helping the de
tectives in their work. He took part in
the examination Monday morning. The
officers believe that he can do much to
ward making the negroes talk.
L. G. Self, a neighbor of the Stevens,
who testified at the coroner’s inquest
that he thought he saw a white man
near the Stevens house Tuesday after
noon about 6 o’clock, now has told de
tectives that he is not sure whether
the man he saw was white or black.
AVIATOR ELIES OVER
r LOOKOUT MOUNT
Johnny Green, Flying Before
Veterans, Performs Feat
Others Have Failed At
CHATANOOGA, Tenn., June 2.—One
of the features of the closing day of the
Confederate reunion was the flight over
Lookout mountain by Johnny Green in
his Curtiss Di-plane, the first successful
flight over the countain ever made.
Several other aviators have attempted
the feat but failed on account of treach
erous wind currents encountered. Green
rose to a height of 6,900 feet, 700 feet
above any of his previous records. He
was in the air 41 minutes. He encounter
ed in the flight over the mountain and
Maccasin- bend . valley a wind of thirty-
mile velocity.
ST, MARYS LUMBER YARDS
AND DOCKS EIRE-SWEPT
Quick Action Saves Big Mill
and Five-Mast Schooner
From Flames \
ST. MARYS. Ga., June 2.—Fire which
raged from 11:30 o’clock Saturday
morning until midnight, swept the lum
ber yards and the docks of the Brandon
Lumber company here.
The mill was saved with the aid of
firemen summoned from Fernandina.
Damage to a five-mast schooner which
was loading whenZJthe docks caught fire,
was prevented by quick work in towing
it outstream.
The loss from the fire cannot be de
termined yet'.
CHOKES TO DEATH
ON A FALSE TOOTH
CHICAGO, June 2.—Miss Angelina
Schefer choked .to death last night on a
false tooth which became loosened when
she laughed heartily at a story told
by her fiance, Albert Hedofer. She
was twenty years old.
note directed to the girl’s mother
might further lift suspicion from him
the negro then wrote the second, in
which he referred to the long, tall
black negro and the night watchman.
When the negro got ready to leave
the factory it will be asserted he found
that Frank had gone to lunch and had
locked the front doors. Then there was
nothing left for him to do but pull the
staple from the back basement door and
make his escape from the factory
through it.
BLOOD SPOTS EXPLAINED.
Little credence will, it is said, be
placed by the defense in the alleged
blood spots found near the dressing
room door in tne metal room on the
second floor. It will be argued that these
spots may or may not be blood. And
to explain them if they are blood it
will be shown that several times each
week the employes cut their fingers and
hands and the wounds frequently bleed
on the floor.
It will be asserted by witnesses, it
is said, that- large quantities of ani
lines, and paints resembling blood are
used at the factory and that possibly
the spots at the dressing room door
are nothing more than paint.
To further strengthen this idea it
will be pointed out that the negro
claims to have first found the girl’s
body in the little alleyway near the
women’s lavatory, some fifty or seventy-
five feet from the alleged blood marks,
and yet not a sign of blood can be dis
covered there, although if the negro’s
story is true the body must have lain
there for some time. Even admitting
the truth of the negro’s statements the
defense will, it is claimed, call atten
tion to the fact that the body remained
at the dressing room door, where the
negro says he dropped it, only so long
as it required him to rush up to the
front and call Frank to help him to
the elevator with it. Therefore, it will
be insisted if there was to have been
any blood on the floor it would most
likely have been at the spot where the
body first fell and where it lay for so
long.
Of course the above may not be the
complete theory of the defense, but it
is understood that the points set out
will form the principal portions of the
theory.
«
COL. W. A. HUFF WILL
PROBABLY BE GIVEN
SENTENCE TUESDAY
Judge Grubb Will Confer With
Col. Huffs Counsel in At
lanta Before Final Decision
in the Case
(By Associated Press.)
MACON, Ga.. June 2.—Colonel W. A.
Huff, former mayor of Macon and one
time the city’s wealthiest citizen, was
today adjudged guilty of contempt of
court by Judge W. I. Grubb, of thj
Northern district of Alabama, presid
ing, in the United States court here,
Judge Emory Speer being disqualified.
Colonel Huff says:
“The verdict is what I expected. At
the time I sent Judge Emory Speer
those letters last summer I had a vague
idea that I was committing contempt
of court. However, I was not as fa
miliar then as I am now with the law
on contempt. I wrote those letters
solely and simply for the purpose of
telling Judge Speer, man to man, what
I thought about him and the way he
had handled my bankruptcy case. There
was never any intention on my part to
bring the judiciary into disrepute.
Having been found guilty by a tri
bunal which I consider absolutely fair
and impartial, I am satised with the
decision, and will accept without a mur
mur whatever punishment may be
meted out to me.”
Judge Grubb will confer with Colo
nel Huff’s counsel, Attorney General T.
S Felder, in Atlanta, tomorrow in re
gard to the sentence to be impose^
“Not Here to See Me,”
Declares Mr, Felder
Attorney General Thomas S. Felder,
stated Monday morning that he had
received word from Judge W. I. Grubb,
of Birmingham, Ala., who presided over
the Huff contempt case that he would
be in Atlanta Tuesday.
Mr. Felder said that Judge Grubb
was coming here on other business than
conferring with him and that he had In
mind no conference regarding the case
of Colonel W. A. Huff, of Macon, Ga.,
in the verdict of contempt ^against
Judge 'Emory Speer, of the United
States court.
Lightning Kills Father
Without Harming Babe
That Plays in His Lap
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
GAINESVILLE, Ga., June 2.—L. J.
Wilder, a well known farmer, was struck
dead by lightning* at his home near Daw-
sonville, last night.
His eighteen-months-old baby, which
was playing in his lap at the time, was
not hurt.
Mr. Wilder was about thirty years
old. He leaves his wife and two small
children.
ONE LIGHTNING STROKE
SLAYS MOTHER AND SON
Sunday and Saturday Storms
Left Trail in Many Sections
of Georgia
MACON, Ga., June 2.—Mrs. J. G.
Thomas and her son, Jesse C. Thomas,
Jr., were instantly killed, and four oth
er members of the family and a neigh
bor’s child injured by a stroke of light
ning which struck the Thomas home,
two miles north of Jeffersonville, twen
ty-five miles from Macon, Saturday aft
ernoon at 5:30 o’clock, during a severe
electrical storm. The injured are J. C.
Thomas, Sr., Elliott Thomas, aged nine
years, Louise Thomas, aged twelve,
and Morrill Methvin, aged fourteen
years.
Because of the fact that telephone
and telegraph wires were put out of
commission by the storm, news of tho
tragedy did not/ reach here until yes
terday, when a relative came here to
secure the services of an undertaker.
j
THREATENED WITH DEATH
Russian Frontier Guards Sent
to Kalisz District in Russian
Poland
(By Associated Press.)
ST. PETERSBURG, June 2.-A detach
ment of 300 Russian frontier guards was
sent today to the district of Kalisz, in
Russian Poland, owing to the receipt of
dispatches declaring that the Jewish In
habitants of the villages there, as well
as the Christians having relations with
them, had received letters threatening
them with death.
WOMEN DEMOCRATS’
FIRST BIRTHDAY PARTY
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 2.—One year old
today the Woman’s National Democratic
league has planned a “birthday party”
for tonight, v at which Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, honorary president of the
league, and Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall,
honorary vice president, are expected to
be present. Members have been planning
for days for the celebration. Vice Presi
dent Marshall, Speaker Clark, Senator
Gore and the Right Rev. Alfred Hard
ing, bishop of Washington, are on the
program for speeches.
THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME
GREAT 5COTT ? -
•SAY Y0U*l<J MAtf.DoYoO
JUST -SCUFF AROIW& AND
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WEAR OUT SHOES ?
IRMAN OF
Georgians Head Educational
Committees in Both Houses
of Congress Now
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, June 2.—Selections
of Democrats by the ways and means
committee for the majorities of the
house committees were presented today
to the caucus for ratification.
On the banking and currency com
mittee, which will frame the currency
measure, the administration will insist
upon Representative Carter Glass, of
Virginia, as chairman, and only four
other members who were on the com
mittee in the last house remain.
They are Representatives Korbly, of
Indiana; Brown, of West Virginia;
Bulkeley, of Ohio, and Neely, of Kan
sas. Nine new Democrats get places.
Of the new committee on good roads,
Representative Shackleford, of Mis
souri, is given the chairmanship.
HUGHES CHAIRMAN EDUCATION.
A free for all contest for the chair
manship of the education committee
was won by Representative Hughes, of
Georgia, Representative Hobson, who
could have had the place, preferring to
remain on the naval affairs committee.
The make-up of the. labor committee
is greatly changed. Representative Lew
is, of Maryland, succeeded Secretary of
Labor Wilson as chairman, Representa
tive Maher, of New York, becomes
ranking member of the committee and
also becomes chairman of the new
committee on expenditures in the de
partment of labor.
This gives the Georgia delegation tho
chairmanship of educational commit
tees in both houses. Senator Hoke
Smith is chairman of senate commit
tee on education and labor.
" The members of the Georgia delega
tion in the house were assigned to the
following committees by the ways and
means committee, which assignments
will be approved by the Democratic
<aucus this afternoon:
Edwards—Rivers and harbors.
Roddenbery—Public buildings, revis
ion of laws, expenditures state depart
ment.
Crisp—Pensions, elections and elec
tion president, vice president and rep
resentatives in congress.
Adams—Interstat^jand foreign com
merce, chairman. "
Howard—Military affairs.
Bartlett—Appropriation.
Lee—Agriculture.
Tribble—Naval affairs.
Bell—Postoffice and post roads.
Hardwick—Coinage, weights and
measures, chairman; rules.
Walker—Foreign relations.
Hughes—Education, chairman.
The delegation as a whole did not
fare as well as it did in the last con
gress, although again it has been in
creased by the addition of one new
member through the creation of an
other congressional district. The state
has no representation on the ways and
means committee, which it enjoyed in
the last house.
GREEKS AND SERVIANS
INST
Bulgaria’s Claims Will Be Con
tested by New Balkan
Alliance
EXPERTS STUDY BATTLES
OF THE BALKAN WAR
WASHINGTON, June 2.—Military ex
perts at the army w$tr college have
completed their study of the Balkan
campaign. Hundreds of reports from
all sources were scanned carefully, and
the campaign of aggression by the allies
together with the defensive tactics
of the Turks were scrutinized for mili
tary lessons that might prove valuable
to the United States.
The experts, it was said today, are
agreed that in fighting qualities tho
troops un the two sides were evenly
matched. Turkey, however, fought a
losing fight from the beginning, because
of her unpreparedness. The Balkan
allies, on the other hand, for years hau
made careful preparations Tor the strug
gle.
(By Associated Press.)
SALONIKI, June 2.—A report from
a cerdible quarter says that a commer
cial and political agreement has been
reached between the Greeks and Ser
vians against the claims of Bulgaria.
The Bulgarian commander at Eieu-
thera today informed the Greek com
mander that the Bulgarian troops would
not advance any farther and that the
recent movements of the Bulgarian sol
diers had not been intended in a hostile
spirit.
EDITOR FREED FROM
CHARGE OF CONTEMPT
William R, Nelson Wins Unan
imous Decision From Mis
souri Supreme Court
(By Associated Press.)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., June 2.—
The Missouri supreme court today dis
charged William R. Nelson, owner and
editor of the Kansas City Star, from
contempt of the Jackson county circuit
court. The decision of the supreme court
was unanimous.
The supreme court held the article
published in the Star pentemptuous,
but ordered Mr. Nelson discharged
from contempt solely on the ground
that Circcuit Judge Guthrie prepared
his opinion the night before the trial
for contempt.
HEALTH CERTIFICATES
FOR MARRIAGE LICENSES
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON June 2.—Sex hygiene
and the enactment of a law compelling
prospective bridegrooms in the nation's
capital to procure a certificate of healtn
before a marriage license could be ob
tained, were subjects for discussion to
day at a meeting of prominent society
women and welfare workers. The
meeting was held in the home of Mrs.
John Hays Hammond, wife of the min
ing engineer.
While it was apparent the women were
agreed on the compulsory production
of the health certificate by the bride
grooms, there was a difference of opin
ion as to the method of issuing suen
a certificate.
One group favored the establishment
of a medical board in connection with
the health department, while others
would leave the matter to any reputa
ble physician. Dr. Eleanora Folkmar
was on the program as the principal
speaker, although Mrs. John A. Logan,
Mrs. Howard Bell and other prominent
women were prepared to advance their
views. Further conferences will be held
before recommendations are made to
congress.
IDS Dili TO GET AGIO
TEST IN FEDERAL COURTS
Anti-Jusr Train Law Will Ulti
mately Be Put Up te-Ui S,
Supreme Court
10,000 ENTRIES FILED
IN BIG CORN CONTEST
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 2.—About
10,000 persons filed their names with
the department ot agriculture and en
tered the state corn contest before the
time limit expired at midnight Saturday.
Every county in the state is represented
and indications are that the contest will
be tho greatest ever held. Prizes will
be give nthose who make the largest
yields of corn on measured acres of
land.
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, June 2.—The action
of the United States Express company
and the Rock Island railway, in refusing
to accept shipments of intoxicating
liquors for delivery in towns in Iowa,
notwithstanding the fact that the liquor
had been paid for in advance and was
intended for the personal use of the
consignees, is to bring into the federal
courts a suit that will test the consti
tutionality of the new Webb law. passed
over the veto of President Taft at the
last session of congress.
Some of the preliminaries of the suit
have been arranged in this city during
the past two days by attorneys repre
senting the National Liquor Dealers’ as
sociation, and the action will be filed
before one of the federal courts of Iowa
in a short time, and pushed up as rap
idly as possible to the supreme court
for final decision, regardless of which
side wins in the lower courts.
There has never been a decision on
the question raised in Iowa, although
several times the supreme court has
rather squinted in the direction of a
theory that would, if adopted by that
body now, hold the Webb law to be un
constitutional. A square and flat-footed
decision is what both sides want, and
the forthcoming suit will be planned
with a view to having such a decision
rendered.
The Webb law provides that the ma
chinery o fthe federal government is to
be used for the enforcement of state
prohibition laws, and its enactment had
been earnetlsy demanded by the temper
ance people of the country twenty years
prior to the favorable action of the
last congress.
* The suit will be prepared and brought
under the direction of Lawrence Max
well, of Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the
counsel for the National Liquor Deal
ers’ association, and an attorney of wide
reputation. It was he who furnished
the legal arguments on which President
Taft relied for his veto of the Webb
bill.
If the case should be decided by the
supreme court on its technical merits,
it is believed by good lawyers in con
gress that the liquor dealers may win,
but if, as seems the more likely, it is
decided on other and broader grounds, it
is believed that the temperance people
will win. Incidentally, it may be said
that the men representing the liquor
interests do not seem to be particularly
hopeful of the ultimate outcome.
LAST DAY GRACE CAN
ANSWER WIFE’S SUIT
Mrs, Grace's Suit for Divorce
Philadelphia Has Not
in
Been Answered Yet
PHILADELPHIA, June 2.—This was
the last defy upon which Eugene H.
Grace, of Atlanta, Ga., could answer to
the suit for divorce filed here by his
wife, Daisy Ulrich Opie Grace, who al
leges cruel and barbarous treatment.
Mrs Grace was acquitted in Atlanta last
summer on a charge of having shot
her husband.
Whether Grace does or does not make
answer to the suit today, a master will
be appointed to take testimony. Grace,
who is supposed to be at his mother’s
home, in Newnan, Ga., has filed a
counter suit for divorce in the Georgia
courts.
Eighty-Pound Melon
PAVO, Ga., May 30.—Brooks county
still holds her supremacy in agricul
ture. L. S. Adams Thursday sent to
town from his melon patch a water
melon weighing eighty pounds. E. J. Car-
roll, another farmer from Brooks ex
hibited a well developed cotton blossom
and states there are plenty more in his
field. Crops in Pavo district are fine.
SENATE BEGINS ITS ■
SEARCH FI TARIFF
L0BBYJ[ CAPITAL
Senator Bacon, of Georgia,
One of the First Senators
Called by the Probe to An
swer Questions
(By Associated Preaa.)
WASHINGTON, June 2.—The first
senators to testify today at the sen
ate’s investigation of the charges that
a lobby is working against the tariff
bill, declared they knew of no improper
influences being exerted; no use of
money and had not themselves at
tempted to improperly influence any
other senators. ^
All admitted having talked with man
ufacturers Interested in the tariff, hav
ing heard arguments and protests but
all considered such proceedings strictly
legitimate and none considered the men
with whom they talked as “lobbyists.”
Senator Ashurst said, however,, that
“a man named McMurray,” had been
attempting improperly to influence senr
ators against the movement to cancel
certain Indian contracts by which Mo
Murray is said to stand to receive $3.-
600,000. Senator Borah referred also
to “the man Senator Ashurst men
tioned.”
Just before the committee began tak
ing testimony, Chairman Overman and
Senator Reed conferred with President
Wilson. It was said the president
would not be called before the commit
tee but would transmit any information
he might have on the subject of a
“lobby.”
BACON CALLED.
Senators Ashhurst, Bacon, Bankhead
and Borah were the first asked to ap
pear before the committee.
Before the investigating committee
met, Senators Overman and Reed went
to the White House and had a Iona
conference with President Wilson.
Both declined to talk of their visit,
but the president told inquirers he hau
made suggestions to the senators which
would be developed in the course of the
inquiry.
He declined to say what they wer*.
The senators did not ask President
Wilson to appear and it was generally
regarded at the capitol a4<l at the Whit*
House that the president would not.
It was said at the White House that
the president practically had' placed ill
his information of the lobby in the
hands of Senators Overman and Reed,
and the impression prevailed that later
the president might furnish a list ot
names of those wTiom he believed fb
be lobbying against the tariff bill. 1
When the heating opened some news
paper photographers ordered the com
mittee members abound in a business
like way while # a photo was taken. Sen
ators Bacon and Ashurst moved aside.
BACON AVOIDS PHOTOGRAPHER.
"I don’t care to get into such a
picture/’ said Senator Bacon.
Senator Ashurst testified he was not
interested directly or indirectly finan
cially in the production, manufacture or
sale of an article mentioned in the tariff
bill or any other bill pending before
congress, nor had he sought to influ
ence any other senator.
The committee then , made the first ef
fort to secure a list of so-called “lob
byists” or persons who have “talked
with senators” about the tariff bill.
Senator Ashurst said he had not kept
a record of those who had talked with
him, but he was prepared to give
names of all he could remember.
The first was “William Kettner, of
California,” who had asked him to find
out whether there would be any fur
ther reduction in the tariff on lemons
and fruits. The senator asked Chair
man Simmons, of the finance committee,
and the latter said he thought the Un
derwood rates would stand.
"But I told him,” said Senator
Ashurst, “that T wanted it distinctly
understood that in asking the question
I was not urging that the tariff be not
reduced.”
A Mr. McClure, representing western
sheep fnen, and a* Mr. Tomlinson, rep
resenting cattle men, Senator Ashurst
said, called upon him and by legiti
mate argument sought to show him
that the sheep and cattle business
‘would be hurt by the bill.
“Nothing improper was said to me
by these men and what they did every
American citizen has a right to do—
talk to their senator about their busi
ness affairs,” said he. No one, he de
clared, had tried improperly to influ
ence his action.
ONE SMOOTH LOBBYIST.
Senator Ashurst said he did believe,
however, that “a man named McMur-
roy” had been attempting to influence
improperly the action of senators with
respect to preventing the cancellation
of certain contracts he (McMurray)
held with Cherokee Indians for the sale
of land whereby he would receive $3,-
500,000.
“He is the smoothest lobbyist I have
ever seen,” added the senator.
“He could carry a bundle of eels up
stairs without dropping a single one.”
Senator Ashurst said he considered
any man or woman a “lobbyist,” who
“button-holed senators or members of
congress and urged them to vote for
“certain measures dr suffer reprisals in
the elections.”
“I don’t consider a man a lobbyist
who files legitimate arguments with
congress about matters in. which he is
interested,” said the senator.
STRUCK OVER HEART BY
BASEBALL; IS DEAD
(By Associated Press.)
SANDERSVILLE, Ga., June 2.—Wil
liam Howard, four-year-old son of Col
onel and Mrs. George C. Evans, was
killed Sunday afternoon by a baseball
that hit him over the heart. The boy
was watching other lads playing the
game when a wild pitched ball struck
him over the heart.
INTERIOR SECRETARY CAN
REMOVE TRIBAL COUNCIL
WASHINGTON, June 2.—The district
court of appeals today upheld the legal
right of the secretary of the Interior to
remove members of the tribal council
of the Osage Indians for cause. The
case arose through former Secretary
Fisher's removal of tribal chiefs In
connection *lth oil land leases he al
leged had been made to the disadvan
tage of the Indians.