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2 THE TWICER-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1907. 2-CENT FARE ARGUED BEFORE R. R. COMMISSION COLO WAVE KILLED FRUIT MD TRUCK ATLANTA. April 2.—It was a ease of skirmishing in the 2-cent passenger fare proposition before the railroad commission today. The plaintiff, the Georgia Farmer*’ Union, presented their case in very general terms, submit tins no evidence, no facts and no flguer* beyond a state ment of counsel that the railroads of the state are earning more than ever before in their history and that the general prosperity of the country Justi fies a concession to the people in the shape of a reduced charge for passen ger trav.!. The railroads, some twenty-live or thiry. of which were represented before the commission, followed similar lines, dealing only in general assertion* such as that they are entitled to share in the general prosperity, that their oper ating expense* are heavier than over before and that they tire not earning anything like as much in proportion as other industries, when the prosperity of the times is taken into consideration. This was really about ail there was to the hearing, at the conclusion of which the railroad commissioners post poned the further hearing of the case to April 23. at which time the railroad will be expected to present such fur ther facts and figures as they deslr and It was announced by the commis sion that at that time the hearing will be continued from day to day until it la finally concluded. Just why Judge J. K. Hines, attorney for the Farmers’ Union, was not pres ent at the hearing which took place in ♦ he Senate chamber at 10 o’clock, was not made apparent. Judge Hines, it appears, was absent from the city without having given notice to National President C. S. Barrett of the Farmers’ Union, who came here for the hearing, and It becoming necessary to procure counsel, Mr. Barrett secured Hooper Alexander Just a short time before the bearing was to take place. J. R. Jor dan also apeared as counsel for the pe titioners. “We have no definite figures,” said Mr. Alexander, “but are ready to pre sent our views.” Mr. Alexander then announced that be would request Railroad Commis sioner Joseph M. 'Brown to make a statement, as a witness, regarding the result of reduced passenger fares on the Western and Atlantic Railroad at the time when he was in control of Its traffic department. Other matters In tervened. and the request not being re newed Mr. Brown was not called to the witness stand. Several of the roads, the Seaboard Air Line, O. S. & F.. Macon. Dublin and Savannah and others asked for a postponement of the passenger matter as to them until April 17. This problem was solved at the conclusion of the hearing by a postponement as to all railroads until April 23. though the Seaboard was given permission to pre sent its case as to passenger reduction on April 17. Vice-President W. A. TYInbujn, of tbe Central of Georgia, submitted an answer on the part of his road to the petition as filed by the Farmers’ Union. This answer was general in terms merely calling attention to the presen- ’ tatlon of the Central’s case when the passenger fare qustlon was last up In i!»or.. Traffic Manager A. Pope, of the Georgia and Florida railroad, parts of wliith arc under construction, spoke briefly for the short, independetly own ed tines In Georgia. He said the short lines tood ready to answer as soon as they know what it was they were re quired to answer. There were several more requests for postponement when Chairman Hill stated that, the hearing would proceed as far ns It was possible to go. Mr. Alexander stated that the complain ants had no evidence and could not get i! because It was Impossible for them to compel the railroads to produce it. F. H. Hardwick, passenger traffic manager of the Southern Railway, said the Southern stood ready to answer the complaint ns soon as it was made aware what the complaint was. If the petition contained everything the com plainants had to present, the South ern was ready to answer at once. But ir there were other facts to be brought before the. commission, the Southern would like to hear them befor submit ting Its reply. A'exander States the Case. "The petitioners.” said Mr. Alexan der In opening his statement of the ease from their standpoint, "come here to ask you to fix a lower rate of pas senger fare than now prevails in Geor gia. We think two cents a mile Is suf ficient. but we are not undertaking to lay down any absolute sum.” Mr. Alexader argued that the rail road commission is not a court, but a tribunal clothed with the power to fix Just and reasonable tolls. Just as in local communities there were and still nre at times, tribunals empowered to fix a fair rate of toll across privately owned bridges. The railroads are public servants of the •State, he contended just as much as justices of the peace; like them they collect their own compensation, enjoy ing franchises given them bv the peo ple. He compared the railroad commis sion to the official under the Roman re public known as the tribune of the people whose duty it was too look after the relations between the powerful and the great, on the one hand, and the masses of the people on the other. “The mistake others have made in coming before this commission with complaints.” he said, "is that they have not been able to procure needed evi dence and they have come here without it Then the railroads reiort. and not without reason "You don’t know what you are talking about.' ” The complainants. Mr. Alexander •eontinued, are compelled to ttVte the figures furnished by the railroads themselves. Nevertheless these figures show the railroads are earning greatx- proflt than ever before In their hi«tor.\ thelr . proflts have grown from year to year to a point where they are far moo than enough to pay a reasonable return on their actual investments Yet they have watered their stock and’nul lifted the laws of the State. ’ All we ask is a Just and reasonable rate. We are not seeking to put .any Injustice on the railroads, nor do we want any Injustice done the people. When this commission was first organ ised one of the very first things it did ■was to cut the passenger rates to per cent, reduc'ng it from five to three cents per mile. In the nature of things the time was bound to come when there should be a reduction also In that rate. We believe that time has now come as is shown by the prosperity of the country and of the railroads. Every time there has been a decrease in the passenger rate there has ben a conse quent increase in the earnings. The time has come when the peor.le are entitled to share In this prosprity of would take snap Judgment on the ! 1 200 of 3.502 miles of th.-se lines in i Georgia ard about 43h more which are ' being built He had prepared the j facts in the case from the standpoint ' of the shert lines, he S2id. and was ready to present them es soon as it was made apparent what they had to ; answer. But he did not propose to j fight a. chimera. Mr. Lawton’s Statement. Vice-President A. R. Lawton of the Central of Georgia made a genertl : and pointed statement of the ease from the standpoint of that system, i He had no sympathy, he said, with the • policy that would accord different ! treatment to owners of Georgia prop- I erties who reside without the State and those who live in it. "I cannot accept the statement.” Mr. Lawton said.. "that the rights of j the people who use rtiilroad properties are equal to the rights of those who own them. I am controlled to deny it, but I am not prepared to deny that the public has large and broad'rights In railroad properties which have been established beyond a doubt.” Mr. Lawton denied that a railroad fare could be any more considered a tax on the public, than a lawyer’s fee or a grocer’s charge for a sack of flour. "There is no law.” Mr. Lawton de clared, "which confines us to a fair return upon the actual value of our property. We have a ing tnd NOP.FOLK. Va., April 2.—A heavy frost in the Norfolk Country trucking belt last night, with the thermometer down to 39 degrees. did much damage to growin; crops, such as early potatoes, peas beans and fruit also suffered to a consid erable extent. Strawberries were in b.oom. but these being close in the vines were more protected and did not suffer to such an extent as did fruit in the biooir LYNCHBURG. Va.. April 2.—The tem perature dropped to 25 last night, t tie minimum for April in the past 2*; years, and it is believed that the early fruit crop is practically ruined. There was no frost, but a severe freeze. TO COST $200,000 DEAD IN TOO CATARRH OF THE KBBNEYS. BET WM. LEE’S GAZE William Bailey, Past Col. Enc. No. 6g, Union Veteran Legion, prominently identified with many ofthe great labor protective associations in Chicago and Nc ~o York, and Secretary of one of the largest associations in the former city. SAVANNAH. Ga.. April 2.—His mother dead In a tub of water was the distressing sight that met the gaz; of William Lee this morning when he ROWE. Md.. April 2.—The fruit crop of Southern Maryland has been killed by the cold weather today when the thermome ter's registered 22 degrees. Vegetation lmd become far advanced by the summer- like wcatiir of March. SAVANNAH. Ga.. April 2.—Hearts from Middle and South Georgia indicate that vegetables and farm crops have been seriously damaged by the cold of the last two days. They were well advanced for this time of the year. Growers tonight’say that they are un able to tell whether the peach crop has been damaged. Fear is felt in account of tonight's low temperature. AMERICUS. Ga., April 2.—While considerable dee and frost appeared here this morning, orchardmen express belief that the peach .crop is unin jured. High winds prevailing for two constitutional , days dried the blooms of moisture pre- ATLANTA. Ga., April 2.—The officers and employes of the Southern Railway will build in Atlsnts a hospital costing $200,000 for the treatment of railroad men j arose for hir.'breakfast.' hTs mother, and their families as a memorial to the j Mrs. Daniel Lee. had tripped over a late Samuel Spencer, president of the J stick of wood and fallen Into the tub. road. The money has nearly all been ■ where she suffocated. His efforts to raised by subscription, and it is reported : revive her were without avail, that J. F. Morgan, of New York, has do- ! Mrs. Lee was 60 years old. She nut -$10 000 toward the hospital. It was • lived in her own home with her son. at first intended to erect a monument to ' her onlv relative. on Williamson pencer In the'new terminal station ill Lilt; lit-*-. ICI iUiU U SU1UUU oi,- here, but the contributions made for that str ? e * - lJe ®£° se , t0 S® 1 purpose will be diverted to the hospital and it was while going about fun !. that the accident occurred breakfast. this task BUSSE IS ELECTED MAYOR OF CHICAGO OVER DUNNE BY A PLURALITY OF 13,121 CHICAGO, April 2.—The total vote for Mayor is as follows: Busse, Republican, 164 S39. Dunne. Democrat, 151.71S. Reubaker. Prohibitionist, 5,875. Keep, Socialist, 13,439. Busse's plurality. 13,121. Kearst Supported Dunne. Wm. Randolph Hearst came person- captains against what developed to be a distracted and divided Democratic party." Mr. Busse, who is postmaster of the city, gave out a statement to the fol lowing effect: "I am of course greatly surprised at the success of the Republican ticket. It shows that the people of this city viously accumulated and probably saved this valuable crop. Truckers and gardeners here lost cons'derably in the destruction of vegetable gar dens, while young cotton and corn re cently ploughed and ' cultivated are severely nipped. right to charge a reasonable rate not withstanding the fact that it gives us a high return on that value. The only limitation put upon us is that we shall charge a reasonable rate.” Mr. Lawton said the railroads had given the figures to the railroad com mission to the extent that the law re quires. Railroads do not keep exten- ROANOKE, Va., April 2.—A severe sive figures on file, and it is a matter coId wave, following a fortnight of of labor and expense to prepare them. : warm weather, passed over this section “Two years ago we came here, Just last n l£ht, the thermometer standing as as we are here today to fight a wind- as 1® in the valley. Peaches, cher- mill. Nobody on that occasion gave r * es ant ^ Plum trees were In fun bloom one single reason why the passenger and were killed by the freeze. Apples fares should be reduced. If the argu- ; r -re somewhat damaged and vegetables ment just made by counsel Is all we ar ® Injured. The wheat crop has suffer- have to meet, the Central of Georgia et ^ af places. Near Roanoke, the Is ready. If there are any further Hoomaw orchard with six thousand reasons to be presented, we would ; flna Peach trees in bloom was laid low. like to have them.” .... The Central. Mr. Lawton said, had HILLSBORO, Ga., April 2.—This lo- made a showing In the United States ! caljty was visited by a severe frost Court to the effect that It is not mak- . and ice last night, which killed all the Ing a fair return upon its Investment. : vcffctotion in early gardens and all I have no apology for going into • ^“ e tiuit on 200,000 peach trees, the Federal courts to enforce my Fed- j eral rights any more than I have for ; going into the State courts to enforce my rights under the laws of the , State." , The Alabama law forfeiting the • right to do business In the State if. appeal is made to the Federal court, I he declared, was a great bluff and would not stand. | ‘‘When the country is prosperous TALLAHASSEE. Fla., April 2.—The we are entitled to share in it Just as ! Florida Legislature met today and or- much as anyone else. We are entitled I ganized by the election of F. Hunt to a reasonable return not only for one ' Harris, of Key West, as president of year, but for all time. If It be con- the Senate and Eugene Matthews, edi- ccded that S per cent Is a reasonable tor of the Starke Telegraph, as speak return, and for a period of ten years ; er of the House. The body will be In we earn nothing, then I contend that session sixty days. for the next ten years we are entitled j The Governor’s message was recelv- to earn 16 per cent.” | ed In both houses. It Is a lengthy doc- Despite assertions to the contrary, I ument, covering about twenty news- Col. Lawton declared that the Central paper columns. of Georgia is todav capitalized at les3 1 _In discussing the race question. Gov. ally from New York to take pare in f av or immediate improvement In our the campaign and brought with him cartoonists and editorial writers. His papers were the only ones published in the city supporting Mayor Dunne, j all other newspapers being for Busse j and the ordinances. The papers fav- | oring Busse made much of the cry street car systems, and that they em dorse the ordinances passed by the City Council over the veto of Mayor Dunne.” BALTIMORE, Md., April 2.—Primary elections held here today resulted in that Chicago was able to manage its I the nomination of J. Barry Mahool, by own interests without receiving in- j the Democrats for mayor and that of structions from New York. The : the present Incumbent, E. Clay Him- Hearst papers claimed that Mayor I anus, by the Republicans for the same Dunne was acting for the best inter- office. Mahool who was the organlza- TO SOLVE RACE ISSUE than its actual cost and at less than It would cost to reproduce the system. "We are entitled to have something to answer,” he said. “Our answer now is that you decided this question in 1903. What is wrong with that de cision?” Complainants Again Heard. J. R. Jordan, representing the Farm ers’ Union, said he wished to discuss Broward, in his message, says that while no question has arisen to cause any dis turbance. yet it is apparent that the re lations between the two races Is becom ing more strained and acute. In offering a solution of the problem. Gov. Broward says: ’’I recommend a resolution memorializ ing Congress to purchase territory, either domestic or foreign, and provide means to purchase the property of the negroes at reasonable prices and to transport the three points in connection with the unUe^BtatV’s 6 ; Lhc"umtod’atate^to^fo™ question, the economic and social , a government for them of the negro race; views and whether Intellectual and , to prevent foreign invasion, and prevent civic benefits which would follow, I white people from living among them in would be sufficient to justify the re- i I* 1 ® territory, and to prevent negroes from ductlon asked. He said the majority ml srating back to the United States.” of the citizens of Georgia are poor: ! CORNERSTONE- FvenriRcc they earn their living by the sweat of CORNERSTONE EXERCISES their brow. Labor is entitled to have THIRD DISTRICT SCHOOL, the benefit of the best market. The AMERICUS, Ga., April 2.—Arrange- fares charged in Georgia are enormous , tnents for the cornerstone exercises of when compared with those charged In i fhe Third district agricultural college foreign countries. In Georgia a farmer i were discussed this morning by the must pay 3 cents a mile; In Germany executive committee In session here he can ride, fourth class, for 2-3 of a ! H has been suggested that the Masonic cent. The Farmers’ Union, he said, j fraternity and people of the Third dis- is not asking for a 2 cent rate on the trict generally, together with Governor small Independent lines, but consider- 1 Terrell, Congressman Lewis and oth- ed that the large and strong corpora- ] fT distinguished Goergians be invited, tions should be forced to allow the *be people of Sumter acting as hosts poor population of the State to travel. I ?. ' ae occasion. Should this proposi ests of Chicago and that It was, there fore, their duty to support him. Dunne Affected by Results. Mayor Dunne received the returns at his home, surrounded by his family and a few friends. He appeared great ly affected by the result, and said: "It looks as though the money pow er has overwhelmed us but our cause tion candidate deaefted Geo. Stewart Brown. Mayor Timanus opponent was ex-Congressman Frank C. Wachter. The latter earled only six of the twen ty-four wards. GUTHRIE, Okla., April 2.—Returns from today’s elections in Oklahoma and Indian Teritory indicates sweeptngy is not lost. Municipal ownership and j gains for the Republicans. In Guthrie, governmental ownership will win in j the entire Republican ticket was elect- the end.” ed. The Democrats of Oklahoma City Corporation Counsel James Hamil- j claim the election of their ticket. Re ton Lewis, who has been a staunch [ publicans tickets were successful in supporter of Mayor Dunne, said at 6 J Enid. Shawnee, King Fisher. Tulsa, o'clock: Chichasha, and Okmulgee, while Law- "The result came because a combln • ! ton, Hobart and Norman returned re ed Republican party was led by able * dueed Democratic majorities. FIGHTING WITH TROUBLES BOSTON, April I.—The fact that that the minor "troubles” of the tele phone service and the measures taken to keep the plant in perfect working condition, day in and day out. cost the Bell companies millions of dollars every year. This does not count the havoc wrought among the wires by storms and flods—the calamities of business, as they may be called—but includes only the diurnal round of_ things gone wrong which are sometimes simple enough when they are found, but are often very difficult to locate and al ways even more disconcerting and an noying, and much more expensive, to the telephone men than to their sub scribers. After all, it Is surprising, when you come to think of it, how little inter ruption of the telephone service there is. The records of Bell exchanges in the big cities show that on the average no one subscriber’s service is inter rupted even for a second oftener than once in four years. A 10,000-line switchboard, such as Is used in the larger central offices, contains 4,000 miles of wire and 2,000,009 soldered connections, with hundreds of thous ands of small parts, including 15 000 incandescent electric lamp signals no bigger around than an old-fashioned •slate pencil, with filaments finer than a human hair. The auxiliary appara tus through which the outside circuits are distributed and brought to the switchboard contains other thousands ground cable cut clear through by a crowbar which had been driven with such force that it penetrated first the conduit', then the sheath of the cable, then the closely packed wires, and finally the sheath again. Rats cause a lot of bother by gnawing away the lead sheaths of underground cables mis taking them for water pipes, the "trouble shooters” declare. And oc casionally, in winter, _a little water will get into a manhole and, freezing on the connections, crush a cable all out of shape until It puts it out of commis sion. There was a curious ense of trouble near Boston a few summers ago which puzzled the Bell linemen a good deal. It occurred on a pole line that had been built sixty feet high to carry the w'res above the trees, the foliage being cut away on either side to prevent inter ference. The trouble was intermittent. It would begin violently and then, be- Attributes Present Good Health to Pe-ru-na. MR. BAILEY had for nearly thirty | judicious use of that great remedy, years been afflicted with Kidney trou- | Washington climate is notoriously bad bles. for kidney and liver troubles yet by n Within a short period he has been per- (judicious use of the remedy he Is now suaded to try Peruna, and his present quite cured and in excellent physical healthy condition is attributed to his I condition. This brief statement of facts, without exaggeration or hyperbole, appears to tell the whole story, which the Peruna Company is authorized to use, if it so chooses, believing, as I do, that by so dcing it will be for the general good.—William Bailey, 58 I St,, N. E., Washigton, D. C, CATARRH FOR TEN YEARS, PE-RU-NA RELIEVED: "I have been af flicted with catarrh for about ten years, and I have tried different remedies and no benefit. About two years ago I bought a bottle of Peruna and com menced using It according to directions, and it relieved me so much, I contin ued using Peruna until I had used five bottles, and now I hardly feel the ef fects of catarrh at all. I have also used Peruna in my fam'lv for fever with good success. I cheerfully recommend it to all.”—Mr. John M. Winstead, R. F. D., No. 2, Treadway, Tenn. HARRIMAN ENROLLED IN THE ANANIAS CLUB NEW YORK, April 2.—A sensation ! private citizen might. So you see r was created here today by the publl- j was brought forward by Roosevelt in cation of a letter written in December, i an attempt to help, at It's request, the 1905, and addressed to Mr. Sidney ! same as I was in the insurance matter Webster, of New York, and signed ‘E. H. Hardman." Sidney Webster is a lawyer and a writer on political subjects. His wife is a sister of Stuyvesant Fish, who lost the presidency of the Illinois Cen tral Railroad a few months ago, after antagonizing Mr. Harriman. Follow ing is the 1 portion of the letter refer ring to Ills relations with President Roosevelt In the campaign of 1904: “As to my political Instincts to which you refer in your letter of De- •' cember 13. I am quite sure I have none and my being made at all prominent by Hyde and Ryan by their request for my help. Yours sincerely. (Signed) “E. H. HARRIMAN.” in the political situation is entirely fore it could be located It disappeared i due to President Roosevelt and be- and everything was working properly ! cause D f my taking an active part in again. After a week’s search one of the "trouble shooters” found an um brella rib lodged way out on a branch of a tree, where it interfered with the wires only when the wind blew from just the right direction.* Several years ago there was a very mysterious case of telephone trouble In an ice plant a few miles out from tbe city. The service worked all right during the day, but every evening be tween a quarter of five and a quarter past it was so affected that while “Cen- Xew business, he declared, would come as a result of the reduction and the railroads would make practically as much as they are earning now. Mr. Alexander again took the floor and presented some figures showing the result of operations of the Wes- tion prevail an early date will be se lected for the exercises. CITY ATTORNEY RYMAN ASSAULTED BY W. B. MOORE FITZGERALD. Ga., April 2.—Just after dinner as Col. E. TV. Ryman, city tern and Atlantic or State road. The j attorney, was descending the stairs passenger earnings of this road last j from his office he was assaulted by year, he said, in Georgia alone were YT. B. Moore, a real estate man, who $419,000. A reduction of one-third bad been waiting for him. After would take off $140,000. A large part Some struggling. Col. Ryman threw of that reduction would be, made up his assailant to the pavement and by increased business. The total net held him until a policeman came up. earnings of the road in Georgia were j The cause of the attack was the fact $695,000, and after deducting the one- : that Col. Ryman was the prosecuting third of passenger earnings would : attorney in a criminal charge against leave $555,000, or enough to pay the Moore. Some blood was shed by State the amount of the lease and , Moore's head striking the pavement, leave $150,000 net profit. This he as- : Otherwise no damage resulted. serted, was sufficient and furnished < an example of what might well be j TWO ADDITIONAL f° ne _' n . the case of other ra * * roads in J ^ v , ORTH ?^°mo£ tn ® , .. ,, I ing the debris of the two freight trains Ho called attention to the fact that • on the Missouri. Kansas and Texa- Rail- the Central of Georgia Is owned and j road, wrecked a t Bethel switch near here of miles of wire and other hundreds of I ^ral' could call the ice company the ice thousands of parts. For instance, the “relay" by which the current is intro duced into each subscriber’s line—each line having its own special relay— contains a mile and a half of wire a* fine as ordinary sewing cotton—so fine that it takes four miles of it to weigh a pound: and besides the subscribers’ relays there are several hundred others for trunk lines, office circuits, oper ators' positions, and so on. In this maze of delicately adjusted mechanism occure nearly half of all the telephone man’s troubles. For tunately for him the central office plant is arranged with such skillful method that every part of it can be reached company could not call “Central.” The next morning everything would be all right again. AH sorts of tests and in spections were made but they revealed nothing that would account for the queer state of affairs. After a long investigation it was found that a tiny piece of aluminum wire in a fuse box three miles from the ice company’s office had been flattened just enough by its fastenings 30 that in the cool of the evening it contracted sufficiently to increase the resistance on the line to a point which the current from the subscriber’s telephone could not overcome, though the more power ful current from the central office the autumn of 1904. at his request, and his taking advantage of conditions then created to further his own inter ests. If it had been a premeditated pot it could not have been better started or carried out. Roosevelt Sent For Him. “About a week before the election in the autumn of 1904. when it looked certain that the State ticket would go Democratic and was doubtful as to Roosevelt himself, he. the President, sent me a request to go to Washington to confer upon the political conditions in New York State. I complied and he told me he understood the cam paign could .not be successfully carried on without sufficient money and asked if I would help them in raising the necessary funds, as the national com mittee, under control of Chairman Cortelyou, had utterly failed of obtain ing them, and there was a large amount due from them to the New York State committee. “I explained to him that I under stood the difficulty here was mainly caused by the up-State leaders being unwilling to support Depew for re- election as United States Senator; ppsilv if ‘ anvthine goes wrong and ! cou,<i get by it. The warmth of the I that if he. Depew. could be taken care man^- cases of trouble in the exchange morning sun expanded It again, so the ; of in some other way I thought mat- ment: . .. ... .. ' folonhnnhr wnrlznii nmnurh* t H n. » nmiLI hti Qtilitsrofl and I IP fllTTPl— ,\l Depew Knows Nothing About It. NEW YORK. Apr 1 ! 2.—Son tor Doppw, when asked about the Harriman letter, siid: “I know nothing about it, except that the part that refers to me as am- bissador to France. It is true that a friend told me that I might lie nnpoinjed to that place, hut I told aim that I did not care at all for'tbe ambassadorship That is all I can say about the Harriman letter." Cornelius N. Bliss mad’e this repl v to questions: "I haven't seen the Harriman letter; I don't want to see it. and If I did see it. I would say nothing about it.” HARRIMAN WAS BROUGHT FORWARD BY ROOSEVELT. WASHINGTON. April 21—President Roosevelt today emphatically denied the statement contained in a letter published this morning, purporting to have been written by E. H. Harriman to Sidney Webster of New York, in the latter part of December. 1903. In Mr. Harriman’s letter the statement is made that at the request of Presi dent Roosevelt, he, Harriman, assist ed in raising a fund of $250,000 to he used In carrying New York for the Republican party at the election of 1904. This statement the President characterizes as “a deliberate and wil ful untruth—by right it should lie characterized by an even shorter and more ugly word. I never requested Mr. Harriman to raise a dollar for too Presidential campaign of 1904.” President's Denial. The, President's denial was con tained in a brief statement and eopics of letters written to Representative Sherman, of New York. The letters are dated October S and October 12, 1906 respectively. The President, after furnishing the letters to the press, dictated the following state- equipment are remedied without the worked properly during the j ters could be adjusted and the differ- subscriber knowing that they have oc- new fuse wire was put in and ent contending elements in the party curred. But to keep the system, in- j there has never been any trouble there s ! de and out. in the perfect working j smce - ^ order which minimizes "troubles” and { assures efficient service Is a tremen- yesterdny. two additional unidentified bodies were found today by workmen. These make the total dead as a result of the wreck eight. the road Mr. Alexander called attention to one Instance. He lives, he said, seven miles from Atlanta. He has stock feed shipped In carload lots from «South Carolina. It costs him $5 a car more to have that feed stopped at his place than It does to bring It on to the citv of Atlanta. That he declared, was an unjust tax and was imposed by the railroads simply because thev had the power to do it. Here Mr. Alexander concluded his statement. A. Pope said he was simply an old fashioned every day traffic man. He did not Intend to make a stump speech. Ha represented, he said the independently owned short lines and I of mmiIA urs - anu » certie.i. i nave none or oiviue. coma not believe the commission Chairman Hill then announced that controlled by the Southern Railway, which, he said, he presumed no one would attempt to deny. The result had been to deny to the people of the State the benefits of competition. Mr. Alexander denied the truth of the proposition laid down by Col. Lawton to the effect that railroads were entitled to make as much as they could so long as they charged reasonable rates. That was contrary, he said to the Supreme Court of the United ’ States. There is no other basis to get at what a fair and rea- „ sonable charge is except by making It : COLUMBUS. Ga-. April 2.—At the a reasonable return on the investment request of the board of directors of the Georgia Immigration Association the newly elected president of the as- dous expense, the Bell companies set ting aside a third of their gross income every year for maintenance and re pairs. Considerable malicious damage is done by thieves who strip cables, leav- the wires exposed to rain and gleet, for the sake of the lead of which the covering Is made. Squirrels are almost PLOT AGAINST GOVERNMENT OF KING CHARLES OF ROUMANIA BERLIN. April 2.—A dispatch to the Tageblatt from Czernowltz, Austria-Hun gary. not far from the Roumanian fron tier. says that intelligence has been re ceived there from Bucharest to the effect that a plot has been discovered at the Roumanian capitol against King Charles and his Governmnet. The city of Bucha rest. it is added, is In a state of great excitement, peasants are not permitted to brought Into alliance again. We talk' ed over what could be done for De pew and finally he agreed If found necessary he would appoint him as ambassador to Paris. “With full belief that he, the Presi dent, would keep this agreemenL I came back to New York, sent for ‘After writing these letters to Con gressman Sherman, the President was assured that Mr. Harriman had hot made the statements which Mr. Sher man credited him with making. In asmuch as the same statements ap pear in the major part in rite letter of Mr. Harriman now published, the President deems it proper that the let ters he sent to Congressman Shcr- WILL VISIT EUROPE a= bad as two-legged thieves, gnawing J enter the capital and numerous arrests the protecting metal away, and some- j has been made. times also tampering with the Insula- . tion of the wires within. The brush- i Funeral of Mrs. Joseph B. McDonald, i ing of overhanging tree limbs against j COLUMBUUS, April 2.—The re- the wires particularly in wet weather, | mains of Mrs. Henrietta Bacon Me- ! when the trees are heavy, and. being i Donald, wife of Capt Joseph B. Me- j damp, are good electrical conductors. ! Donald, who died Sundey night at her j is the commonest, perhaps, of all the home at Alexander City, Ala., were ! causes of overhead troubles and H so : brought to Columbus, her old home, j detrimental to good transmission that • this afternoon, and the funeral took | In some localities the Bell compan'es ! place from Trinity Episcopal Church. Bliss, who took them in the property. Hearing Is Postponed. No one expressing a desire to be heard, the commission was about to postpone the further hearing to April 17. when some misunderstanding arose as to what sort of a showing would be expected of the railroads at the time sociation, G. Gunby Jordan, will make a tour of Northern Europe. Accom panied by his niece. Miss Maude P. Burnett, he will sail on the Kaiser William II of the North German Chairman HI!! announced_ that the Rail- j Lloyd Line, departing from New York April 9. Maj. and Mrs. W. W. Wil liamson. of Savannah, will also be of the party. Gov.-elect Hoke Smith and Mrs. Smith will leave at the same time on a European tour. A thorough investigation of the European people to be invited to Georgia will be made. Early vegetables and a- good deal of corn in this section were killed by frost this morning. rood Commission wanted all the informa tion it could get on the subject, and it nnv of the other roads desired to he heard then or before the 17th. the commission was readv to hear them. “Our view.” said Mr. Alexander. ”fs that it 1« up tn the railroads to show w^y this reduction should not bo made. We have closed our case, and we consider that the burden of proof is upon them.” "Our attitude.'’ said Col. Lawton. “Is that nothing has been presented here, and consequently there is nothing to an swer We can furnish the figures if the commission wants them, but this matter was gone into thoroughly two years ago. and it seems unreasonable to bring us h"re when there is nothing for us to an- Chairman Hi'.' said there was .a differ ence between the rase of 3905 and the present one Tlio 1905 cas» was a motion made bv one‘of the commission for a tint 2-rent rate- th- present petition simnly asked a reduction without stating the •'mount The Commission, he said, would like to have the railroads throw all pos sible light on the case. j \v Og’esbv. president of the South Georgia Railroad, said the railroads had don-' about ns much for the pub!!' s* the public had done for them. "All I can cee in this crs*." be said, “is a proptrtrfon that we whack un with the p<v>nle. . >e,e seems to he .an idea that we have made some monev and the public wants a part distributed. So far »» I. am con cerned. I have none to divid Treasurer Bliss wlio told me that it man last October shall nc was their last hope and that they had | selvess be made public.” exhausted every other resource. In j In the first letter referenr his presence I called up an intimate friend of Senator Depew, told him that it was necessary in order to car ry New York State that $200,000 should be raised at once, and if he would help I would subscribe $50 000. After a few words over the telephone the gentleman said he would let me know, which he did probably in three or four hours, with the result tnat the whole amount, including my subscrip tion. had been raised. The checks were given to Treasurer Chairman r them- Is made to a conversation between Mr. Harri man and"Mi*. Sherman which was re peated to the President, in which Mr. Harriman is said to have given as a reason for his personal dislike of the President partly the latter’s determi*; nation to have the railroads supervis ed and partly the alleged fact that after promising Mr. Harriman to ap point Senator Depew ambassador to France, he. the President, failed to do it. “and" continues the President, "I understood you to say that he alleg ed that I made this promise at a time are particularly annoying because tie i bama, survive her. ’ She~was a prom- ' senbers were, other than the frieCiL. number of wires in underground cables | inent mpm her of the Datts-hters of the ! of Depew. who was an individual Th.s _ , .. , inent member of the Daughters of the is much Iarsrer than in overhead cables ( Confederacy and the Daughters of the and therefore the number of circuits . Arner i C an Revolution, effected is correspondmglv greater. An Just Like Bibb. FITZGERALD. Ga, April 2.—State School Commissioner W. B. Merr tt delivered an eloquent address upon ed ucational matters during the noon in- terimssion of the Superior Court. His remarks were well received and if the authorities act on his recommendations we will organize our school system on the same basis as that of Fulton and Bibb counties. there were other matters to come up on April 17. the Commission had dec!d“d to let the whole matter go over until April 23. wnen the hearine will be taken up and pushed to a conclusion. "The question is.” said, ’as to a reduction in the passenger fare. No fig ure is stated. Can the railroads stand'a reduction at all. and. if so. how much?” The hearing then stood adjourned. njery to an underground cable which [ CAPTAIN SWIFT FOUND GUILTY eventually causes trouble may exist a: __ WP /;i cct nnrv month or two before it makes Us pres- ^ ,? T ° F ence known. Then, if only a part of j WASHINGTON, April 2.—Captain the wires are "out” the damage can be William Swift, who was in command j districts in Greater New York, and in amount enabled the New York Stal* eammittee to continue its work, with the result that at least 50,900 votes were turned in th> c’ty of New York alone, making a difference of 100,000 votes in the general result. There are between 2,200 and 2.300 Joeated bv testing from the exchange ! °f the battleship Connecticut when it : a campaign such as that the expenda on those that are uninjured: but if an | grounded near Culebra on January , ture Q f. say $50 in each district fr for campaign purposes, not including the watchers on election day, would take more than $100,000. Roosevelt Went Back on It. “Some time in December. 1904, on my way from Virginia to New York, I entire section of cable Is bad tests j 13, was found guilty of Inattention and mu't be made from manhole to man- j neglect of duty by the courtmartial, hole until the faultv length of line is I which tried him at Norfolk. The navy discovered i department reviewed the sentence and Freouently cable trouble under- I today it was announced by Assistant ground is caused by the carelessness of j Secretary Newberry that Captain Swift _ workmen who are d'gging sewers, lay- > will be suspended for nine months and stopped and had a short talk with the ing water or gas pipes, repairing j will lose three numebrs. The court- , president. He then told yr.e that he efreeta or do'ng some w:rk of the/ ! martial recommended suspension for a . aid not think it necessary to appoint kind. A while ;ieo the men of a high- ! year and a half and loss of five num- ! Depew as ambassador to Paris, as way gang working on the approaches ! hers, but as the court also asked that ! agreed; in fact, favored h:m for the to a bridge in a suburban town near j Captain Swift be dealt with leniently ’ Senate. I had not expected that he Boston came across what looked like a f^i® department reduced the sentence. | was the one to say as to what would wooden box buried several feet below the surface. The foreman, evidently witheut stooping to think twice, told them to “ch'n the thing out and throw it away." Th's they proceeded to do with enthusiasm, and a few minutes later telephone subscribers In the ad- ioining towns wonder'd why they could not get “Centra!” and began making vigorous complaints. “Trouble men” have found an nnder- be nccessarv, but he arrogated that to himself, and I. of course, could say nothing further. After that I used what Influence I could to have Depew returned to the Senate, as I cons'dered Good Rains. FITZGERALD. Ga., April 2.—A t»untifui rain yesterday lasting all night broke a dry spell of several weeks’ duratfon, and which had made | there had been an implied obligation planting unusually late. Oats and j which should be lived up to. wheat had begun to suffer for want of “This is the way I was brought to moisture. About the usual area of cot- ! the surface in political matters, as I ton will be planted, with a large in- | had never before taken any active part crease In corn and oats. Would Not Appoint Depew. It appears from the conversation re peated to the President that Mr. Sherman had gone tc Mr. Harriman to ask him for a contribution for the campaign. The President says that Harriman also, (more than once) he thinks, urged him to promise to make Mr. Depew ambassador because this would help Gov. O’Dell by pleasing certain big financial interests. The President said he informed Mr. Har riman that he did not believe it would be possible to appoint Mr. Depew and furthermore expressed his surprise at his (Harriman’s) saying the n:tn rep resenting the big financial interests of New York wished the appointment made, inasmuch as a numl r of them had written asking that the place be given to Air. Hyde. Air. Harriman on learning Mr. Hyde was a candidate, hastily said that he did not wish to he understood as antagonizing him, .and would be quite willing to support him. The President says that al though he understood that he (Harri man) still preferred Air. Depew. be left a strong impre~?ion that ’he would be almost as well satisfied with Hyde. Some correspondence is to ho given between the President and A7r. Harri man from which it appears on Octo- j and had only done what I could as any her 10 the President said to Mr. Harri- INDISTINCT PRINT