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TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1ZC7. THE TTVTCE-A-TTEEK TELEGRAPH LIE CONSUMER STILL PAYING THE FREIGHT SOME STARTLING FIGURES, BY JOSEPH M. BROWN pie. I know that ft -will be asserted ' by these manufacturers and their apologists that the prices of pig Iron an 1 otfcer materials have enormously increased. that the wages paid to the laborers are higher than they have 1 been for years, or ever, and that hence Joseph siorer. In i docurru Br< Railrdad thirty sh wed no chance la average ate and r - 1 -.rice for the year and fifty showed a .’ted along ■ decre-s'- In price as compared with the reduced 1303, while ITS showed an Increase in ; Interesting price.” <i to freijr.it, a table Is then given, under the fol- greatly in- j lowing heading: Hon Ctot bausti ■with I passenger rates, gave and star ling facts In : rate reductions, which t> rest the people • • : ••• g i. and which i "Per cent of increase or decrease in have been carefully excluded from average prices f:r l9f$ as compared th<> columns of the Atlanta newspapers, with those for 1905. and number of ar- ' -people will want to know the ! tides that increased or decreased in facts and figures. a:.-1 Mr. Brown gives price by groups of commodities. lines had have hauled them absolutely free from the Eastern city to Atlanta there would .'till have been an increase | of {435 in the price. And yet. the railroad companies are MINNESOTA'S LAUNCH RAN INTO A STEEL HAWSER they have had no recourse save fo rais the prices of their products or go out of rea but and mis mercilessly denounced for oppressing charges which I have proved are un- of the Minnesota's launch just as the the people with "excessive freight true, "Why has not this reason been ; shattered craft was 'being raised from rates.” ad the Railroad Commission given till I have made this expose? • its resting place at the bottom cl of Georgia as mercilessly denounced "Why has the privileged class, it? nra- j Hampton Roads, by the huge naval NORFOLK. Va., June 16.—CoL John I tug and car float. The supervising In- GOSS'P USD MOTS OF WEEK III MNIO! manner, | paper: No Part . Group. No. com. Farm products 16 J Food, etc 53 In 1905 Cloths and cloth'g. ..75 the I ' uel and J-ghtlng.. .13 Metals end imp. ....33 tliem in a clear and cone 1 The mowing Is n r-nrt of h Many Artic’es of Freight G of the Reduction. Let us note some examples: a I have shown, there were, aggravate. enormous reductions* in in terstate and Intrastate rates to and from Atlanta and other Georgia cities. The amount of reduction from New Tork and Boston to Atltnta, for in stance. was 9 cents per 100 pounds, or {27 per carload of 30,000 pounds, oa hats, men’s clothing. blankets, dry good* and the like. Yst. not one of the Georgia farmers who have filed the petition now under consideration for the reduction of passenger rates has been able to buy a hat. or a suit of i native sheep and wheat, clothes for himself or his sons: or a 1 “There was " Lum. & bjd’g mat.., . .27 9. .6 Drugs and chem... .. 9 House fur. giods . .14 i! ,7 . Miscellaneous ,.13 7. ’4 P.C. of P.C. of Inc. dec. 0.2 3.6 7.1 1.5 10.4 for '‘permitting them to do Let us 'take another example, also drawn from the Bureau of Labor's , bulletins 63 and 69. Bulletin 69 savs J that among “the most striking in- j creases in Slices” in 1906 over 1903 that of bcots and shoes. Bo-its tors and editors given enrirelv a differ- i derrick, brought from Norfolk for the ent reason, v.z-, that the burden unon the people was ’the excessive freight rates which the Railroad Commission has permitted the railroads to charge?’" And let me here anticipate another j and shoes are certainly necessary arti- assertion which I know will he made ides. We will eingle out men’s bregans, t by the advocates and editors of the fa- [ the grade generally used by the farm- vored classes. They will undoubtedly j ers. In January. 1903. the wholesale ' sav that “the Railroad Cortfmisslon of ! price was 921£ cents per pair. In Feb- i Georgia had nothing to do with secur- jrucrv and in Mar. 1905, the rates tn Imr the reductions in interstate rates, A reierence lo rame iv asn traffic coming into Georgia and on tnut , effective February 1. 1905. that-those "hots r ^ re . n „ C c e re l a°,eT„ ,C ,^-^ wholly within Georgia were re- rates were reduced by the railroad 1906 of bar’ev ca-tL cott m «»«•*«*• Tct. in May. 1905, the price was companies as the result of the fight -r,W. «.«. advanced to 95 cents per pair which | made by the Atlanta Freight Bureau." 1 be eleur in the statement that great personal regard for a vast y of the members cf the Atlanta tion which will be held by the steam- : a winner were he named by tho Dem- boat inspectors in this city at a date ! ocratic convention in 190S? In any to be fixed in the near future. I event the belief is growing that "Mars* It was learned that the inspectors Henry" has the Governor of the great believe that it was probably the Cris- ' wheat State in mind. This belief Is no! field’s hawser that the launch collided finding foothold alone here, but ac- ed the derrick ajid with the members , with, and to settle this point, the evl- j cording to Judge Humphrey, of I/m- of the naval board of Inquiry, which i dence of the two crews will be taken. ' tsville, who Is here on business with was already on the scene, made an in- I A heavy squal was in progress about . the departments, it is generally consid. spection of the launch. After a careful ! the time the launch was lost. It Is the ; ered in the Kentucky metropolis that purpose.. Col. Oast immediately board- »sed th^ price to the retail dialer {3.2SS besides! And when the retail i dealer sells the shoe? to the farmer he I mils', add his own profit to the •tuiti- | pll«d profit above shown. The freight rate, as now reduced. «n „ , j pounds hence, when shipped in ca:load greater Increase in the lncrfa ® e ln TCas s , 375 the shoes, while freight rate was seen that the jcl>- the freight rates on these items. Nay', J" the group there was an Increase In reduction^n* the and! even worse although the freight rates the price* of 29 articles. Including tools. ! b as“d doubtless on the price the man- were reduced almost 8 per cent on >' 3rtpd wire, copper, lead, pig iron. ' u7 a ct U rerhw charged him ha® to clothing, the price of clothing as I nails, silver, tin plates, etc. Seven ar- > UIaC - r - a * t,lm ’ has ,n - ahalt show la'rr. Is actually 7 per cent t*® 5 * 8 - Including steel rails, did not higher now than In 1905. And. amnz- change in price, and In only two arti- ing to relate, although the freight rate c ^ e? - bar iron at Pittsburg and files, on bools and shoes was reduced 29 was there a decrease, cents pe- ion pounds, or. In other " A study of the table shows that the words. {87 per carload of 30.000 group of metals and Implements IshAA" in earloads *i« *$*65 * for~ *n AMI »«* ,h f e <" Vi'-1 it farmer who Io *' eS 1 t ,n 1898 and ; pounds from New York'or Boston to c.m buy a pa!r of hoots or shoes pn bipnest in 1906. -Vtlants If tho 'Railrnart com. cheaply now as In January. 1905. In And Just here let me Interrupt tho mission’could force the rail ard water feet, t e price of shoes is 40 n» r cent quotation of impartial and highest finis to haul th-se shws .bsol^Vv higher now than in January. 1905. Proof a *ate that from no business i r<K! there would «tt'n remain'an 5n- And not a farmer can buy a plow, *“•*» ha * ‘hove come such caustic crlt- ^reose of S3 033 in the twice of 30 000 or on ax or a set of harness cheaper:’ »d«*n of the Railroad Commission as pounds “f shoes which ’he *ann~s or brooms or bedsteads or chairs. Tn f ro ™ tne representatives of stove fac- nay. .And vet the Railroad c*m- fact run the whole gamut of articles to J e ? f pd hardware houses, each of mission i® denounced for ’’permCtlng of necessity or articles of ornament to tie group of “metals and th „ raiIrnad to cha rge Lorbftant Jtnd luxury’ one buys at th* stores. or ‘^P^nients. • frefeht rates” at the factory door, and tell me how te a further fact worthy of note j Tako anat ber srrade of shoes men-®; many of them a farmer can huv for as tbat - although the Standard Oil Com- ! - L " ^ aae or snoes ' lpen £ low c price new as he could before the P an y kas been he'd up to public con- freight rates on practically all of thorn demnation for advancing the price of were r*-dime-i two veare ago. Two mil- petroleum, the , advance It made on llo~- of dollars wos the amount of the this pr:duct in 1906 over 1905 was less reduction and tho farmers were not al- than 5 P er cent . whereas the Increase lowed to share one cent of It! l n the prices of metals, stoves and im Bureau. ..They are gentlemen of high social standing, of commercial integrity, of unblemished honor. Thev are patriotic Georgians.' and many tf not a majority of them are c'lurch members who worship God in spirit and in truth. Hence they will almost with unanimity, concede the propriety of the remarks X will now make. I cannot admit that the court records which I have quoted and the sube- quent oaths of railroad officials who swore that the rates in question were reduced “to meet the views of this commission” are false. I scoff at the suvestlon that Hon. J. Pope Brown, whose statement on the same subject I have quoted, -has written aught save the truth. But suppose I were to follow some of the newspaper writers and orators who ■have gone far away from the facts in their assertion that the Atlanta Freight Bureau and not the Railroad Commis- examlnation. it was found that the j opinion of the authorities here that the launch, while hound from the exposi- J occupants of the launch may have seen tion grounds to toe battleship Conecti- I the tug's lights and not paid any at- cut, at anchor off Old Point, had run I tcntlon to the towing lights which she into a steel hawser, such as are used In ! carried, and had not looked for the tow. towing the gigantic car floats used by ; To prove this theory, it is shown that the railroads. It was found that brass tho launch attempted to cross directly prow of the launch showed signs of i astern of the tow boat. "Whether or having struck the hawser which then j not the victims of the disaster ex- passed under the keel of tiny craft. I changed signals with the tug will not When the cable struck that part of the $ be known until the evidence of the keel near the propeller, it came in con- j Crlsfleld’s crew is heard. Whether or tact with the condenser • pipes which | not the launch carried the necessary were torn away and the shock threw : lights as prescribed by the navigation the launch over on its starboard side j laws, is also a question that must be which crushed in. and the tiny craft j answered by those who saw the tiny was hurled to the bottom of Hamp- j vessel sail away on Its last voyage ton Roads and ibecame the tomb of its from the exposition pier on the event- 11 occupants. Part of the hull of the ’ ful night. launch was crushed ln by the impact t The naval board of inspectors, after with the cable, but the steamboat in» J the investigation yesterday morning, spectors and the members of the naval • agreed that the launch was lost by board of Inquiry expressed the unan!- i colliding with a steel cable ns 'stated mous opinion that the ill-fated vessel j above and all of the facts In the case was not struck by a barge or tug. hut were wired to Washington by Super- had collided with the cable between tho vising Inspector Oast this afternoon. BY STROKE OF PEN CZAR ABOLISHES RUSSIA'S DOUMA Governor Johnson Is the than on whose behalf the mysterious appeal to Mr. Bryan was made. Judge Humphrej says: “Governor Johnson, it Is believed, comes up to t.'e specifications laid down by Col. Watterson. He has a moustache and his geography accords. The Minnesota man i« also on record as opposing Government ownership of railroads. But he. Is also said to be the possessor of a large and varied assort ment of views on all the que.'tions of the day. Perhaps If he could get as many votes as he has views he might bo able to prove Col. Watterson a true prophet." There is no doubt that Governor Johnson's activity la causing the Dem ocratic leaders considerable anxiety. His coming raid into tho South, when he is to deliver an address at the un veiling of a monument on a historic battlefield. Is looked upon as being a clever way of introducing himself to Southern Democrats. As a politician Governor Johnson measures large, and it may bo predicted with all safety that he will say nothing on his South ern tour that will give offense. August Franke, who I« said to lire at 1070 Jackson street, Dubuque, Towa, caused considerable excitement In the executive office .at tho White House one morning this week. Frank, who is tall, brawny, board-shouldered man. ei kid. rene-raliy worn in the cities. The wholesale price in January. 1905, was ??.05 per pair: The freight rates were reduced In February, but in March the price was advanced to {2.10 v-er pair. There, were oth'-r advances In price till In December. .1905. it stood ST. PETERSBURG. June T7.—Em- . The dissolution of the Russia Douma. t _ ... peror Nichols affixed his signature I arriving directly out of the refusal of stalked into the waiting room and an- si-an of Georgia secured the reductions J this (Sunday) morning to an imperial that body to consent to the demand J ~—’ ’ * - ’ And vet the votes of the farmers Plements was more than 10 per cent. „ V?,, na<- wh'cb was Advanced were the main votes appealed to to Inna no apologist for the Standard Oil lr 1995 Hoslrgth^vearat X’45ofr atamn the seal of condemnation unon Company; but the foregoing figures are pair As these shoes wMgh two n winds the Railroad Commission of Georgia c ^;ainly an object lesson. iW palr the flgures furnlsi-d bv ”bl which hPd forced this enormous reduc- > An<J in the meantime the farmer i3 United State' ‘.Bureau T lion of rates in its attempt to lighten sotting smaller prices on his corn, his Washltiirtotl D C p-o-e thiVt^’ad- their burdens. wheat, his rye. etc.. .than he got before vsnee in nr-lce of 3ft non1 ..Vls /A ,™ And. coming Into tho city, I will add the frelg.it rates were reduced, and is was six thousand dollars *8 fion ' that, although the rafe on flour was J ayin 8 hteher prices for his clothing. ; there' was a reduction in the freight •reduced at lea*t {6 per carload of 30.- kats and shoes, his building material’ !rate on them f£m New York fr R,s- ,n 000 pounds, not a carpenter or other and hous ® furnishings, besides his j IO Atlanta of S77 on 30 000 pounds This consumer in Atlanta 1ms been able to stoves and hardware. ! shipment of shoes Is nrVrd m buy a loaf cf h*-end cne cent cheaper But for the. organiatizon of the farm- j the advance in the -'el'ing price* is because of. or since the reduction in w i th incr ® aEed markets, en- ! sc.ooo. the total freight rafe ?s now the fre'eht rate. And as it has been f^led them to get better prices for S! . ss the . redui ? tion in th« freight f-te In Atlanta so. no doubt. It is in the their cotton, their condition, under this , s sg?^»nd v“t th" Rallmad Commls! other renters general advance by the jobbers and VwA j A • Reductions For Stove Makers. manufacturers in the prices of nearly mttMr-* C- f'Proeds "o efimei exirlU Afroin *•-- .. - .. ’ fill flrMclPC SAM In flask otnene t- tA.'I * I- in Interstate rates to Rome. Athens, Augusta. Macon. Columbus, Albany, etc., with all of which cities Atlanta is in vigorous competition for the trade of Georgians, bow would that admis sion on my part prove that the present burden upon the farmers and other laboring people in Georgia is the freight rates nr.d not the increase in the prices of goods which the manu facturers have made This question is. already so com pletely answered that It is’needless for me to wa 'te words or space upon it. The official figures whfch I have quoted tell their own story. It is cer tainly a startling one. I could quote ten times as many such figures but these are surely enough to prove that the privileged few whose oratobs and ukase, abolishing the present Douma ! made upon it by Premier Stolypin, that and ordering that tho elections of i it permit the arrest of a number of its members to its successor, which is to members on the charge of conspiring meet November 14 be held under the I against the State, does not come as a new election 1 aw. which provides j surprise. In fact it had been freely against tbe "submergence of the edu- j predicted ever since the lower house cated classes by the uneducated ‘ first met on March 5 of this year, that masses.” its dissolution was only a question of This act constitutes a virtual coup time and the many official denials to d’etat and overrides the specific pro- 1 the effect that the Douma would not visions of the fundamental laws of the be dissolved never carried conviction, realm, solemnly proclaimed by his The history of this Douma. like its majesty on the eve of the convocation predecessor, has been one of almost of the first Douma, which declare that constant clashes with the Government, the electoral law could never be This, in spite of the fact that a con- changed without the consent of Par- j slstent effort was made ln some quar- liament itself. j ters to make the Douma an effective The Law of Necessity. ! legislative body, and that the Govern- This breach of the constitution is ‘ ment’s program for legislation con- justified by the great law of necessity, i tained a number of real reforms, the advisers of the Emperor holding it The cabinet declared it would give editors have temporarily- deceived the __ people are responsible for the present j impossible under present conditions to Parliament every chance to justify” its auctions For Stove Makers. 1 ,n .i . - ^prices or nearly r ,)i ro „ do . . n. at tbe same time, a reduction * r, l c J? s s0,d in th f ? tor ' >s ' wo “! d fant freight rates!” ado ir, the rates on pig ’ron and ka\e been serious. And even this • Another exampl 0 ' * ****"«_» f ?r the benefit of the In*s, *11 wool. Flinch. was m rand to stove fro*r>rle*. stove factor! also got the benefit of the reduced rates on stoves effective May 20. 1905 be tween Atlanta and nil Georvin cities and other having points. The following nra some samples of the reductions, per carload of 20 000 pounds. In t.he freight rates on stores: : Frrm Atlanta to Columbus, {18: to.' Athens S10: to Angus’s Macon Al- b.anv. Hawktn*'-'!le. A-"rrirns Dublin. Dawson and Vlfiedecville. 54 eaoh And the following are some ?amr 1ft s ! of C'n reductions per 100 pnurds in f-o j freight rates on stoves In less than 1 carload quantities: From Atlanta to ThomisviBe Ouit- j man. Valdosta’. Fit'-c» ra | d and TIfton. P cents eneh: to Athens. 5 cents: to Aumcta. Albany. Macon, Hawkinsvllle. Americas. Milled geville. Dublin and Dawson. 4 cents each, and to Colum bus 14 een*s. Tn other w-rds, on a vhlpmoot of 10.000 pounds of stoves from Atl»nta to Thorrsavllle there was a reduction in the fre'erht r?*« of S9. of the following quotation from Bulle- i V ard • tin 69 of the .Bureau of Labor: "Cotton receded from the Indigo blue suit- 14 ounces to the Reduction in freight rate S27 per car load of 30.000 pounds: advance XcepT^rifiings | showed a slight tendency to decline. * X D^bVr? 1* ',$£ cen*s ner pound. Reduction in freight rate $12: advance in iprice $1,800 per car lend of 20.000 pounds. Again, tickings for matrr»s*es and feather beds are Indispensable in every farmer’s house. Let us see how the freight rates affect the prices on this item. In January. 1905. "Tickings. Amoskeasf. A. C. A..” were sold at 10U cent* per yard. In July. 1905. they ad- “In the group of wool and woolen goods, wool declined slightly during the summer and early fall, but the greater portion of woolen goods remained sta tionary or advatieed slightly.” Atlanta Gets the Velvet. The above are additional instances where the farmers were the losers and the manufacturers and jobbers were getting richer. __A? otb ®r illustration showing how ■ v ?need to 11 tA cents per yard, in Oc- ea.il> the privileged class makes j tober l9 n 5. to- 12 cents per vard. and Lc the farmer is shown by 1 i n December 1925. stood at 12% cents the following clipping from an Atlanta • ner yard. The freight rates from New P a ,rrri d f t '“ Q Aprl li 8 o : n „ . Tcrk to. Boston to Atla nta wer<»* re- Atlantans get {40.000 profit by tie { dured $27 pei; carload of 32.000 pounds ral.-e. Handsome \elvet for Atlanta ; Fehruarv 1. 1925: but the wholesale . in S°i C' cu ’ d h’t he Dodged. J price in .Tulv. 1905. was $600 per ear- nnd on n live shipment f-’m Atlanta to I Over 400.000 bales turned out last year. | 7o-d of .30 o«0 pounds greater than It •Columbus ’here was a re-'imtion of $14. 1 Increase In the price of ties of 10 cents j was In January. 1905. and in Decembjr It should b« held in mind that when bundle made by the Steel Trust | 1906 it had advanced $600 per carload these redue*lops in the rates or, stoves ! wl11 ° e observed by all competitors. * f of 30 000 more- ip other words al- wore made th<>y carried with them the 1 “ As the result of the increase of 10 ; though the Railroad Commission forced reAurtler, t' ova-,. slM , 0! , 1 cen.s per hundle In the price of cotton ; the railroad; to reduce the r a te $27 per whose rates ha-ed on tho cIMes near- I *'f® a unounced by the United States - car t'e manufacturers and jobbers ad- ost to them. Hence nearly everv 1 Gbtnoration. a few dav« ago, the ; v’nced the wholesale pr'ee {j ?oo per farmer in Georgia who bought a stove ! Atlanta Hoop Company will get a clear 1 car! The amount of this advance should have received the benefit of j pro “* of $40,000 ® v f r a "d above the * alone in the price Is almost four times these reduced rates. j profits on which it had figured before j rs great as is the amount of the enti-p The particular r*nson whv the Rail- j th f announcement of the raise in the j freight rate from Boston to Atlanta' road Commission fook the above men- j ties - „ The foregoing figures, showing an timed. :>rd subsequent siens for j T al s extra profit would be known in j enn-mous ire-ease in the carltad prices 1 l”'" —» ’’••’’’Ction In the : J^® POP p lar yernacuLar of the day as ! of shoes, clothing etc- must come as a | freight rates In Georgia on *toves was . a very swell piece of velvet” and an ! shock *0 rhe public, especially when in ’ i: t'■ ra ap.-thinc which i Interest.ng feature., so far as the prublic connection with the. fact that the in ha « become an object 0/ everv dev—I ls concerned, is tiat the local steel ! terstate rates ere lower than they have three times s day—necessity ln nrae- c°inpany cannot help taking this extra ! ever been and the rates within the tlcallv everv hevsehold in G»"rr!n. It pr ,^S: ,, 1 State nra lower than thev have been is t'e s'ovc H-oeo. mn-e than any I " hl s po announcement has been ! since 1S93. But tbe carload prices are s'lon the ! mad ® f; , reluctance on this | not the only ones which have been ■ commit- It is -well known, that the steel : ra’sed. h]em wi‘h U’iPj of the country, which are Inde- i 'Turning row to the stove, another 1 !ts will Pendent o. the - teel Trust, are obliged ; article which oi'err farmer must have. < on stove l? observe its scale of prices or get | w« find that the stoi a which the man- jna.-.ioio 'ac*o-.cs and themselves tn bad order with the giant ’. ufacturer priced to t ie retail dealer at on th -* when completed nnd put i Jon. Of course t 'Is would not 1 S31.70 In .Tanuf*rv. 1°05. h? in Mav. 1907 upon t'-e market. I prove profitable to any company and desrite the reductions in the freight. I wi’l "how. a '•‘tic ’iter ♦ lat ihe naturally there Is little disposition on ; rates on stove matrials end on stoves, s*a.-c trust, hr rs's'-g the u-icos. rn-’- j ta e part o. anybody to buck the scale, j priced at $12. And the Stove Trust! dcra.i of no nvai' to *he fa-mer. tho T.s^. \en- he .\tlanta Steel Hoop ■ about the midd'e of May Ju c t past, sent carpenter the —--'--nt- these reduc- Company turned out something over • out notice tto the retail dea’ers that ‘he ‘400 000 bundles of —" — extortion in a time of high prosperity. The figures show that it is not the “excessive freight -rates which the Railroad Commission permi's the rail roads to charge.” b"t It is the exorbi tant increases in tho prices fixed by the manufacturers and some of the middle men. It is clearly proven that the reduction in freight rates, although the unjust discrimination caused by them required that they be made, sig nally failed to reach the masses of the people. And. let me add; their increase in prices has ofteen been made at the expense of even the retail dealers. And another test I make before leav ing I his subject. Take the circulars of tbe Railroad Commission issued since the genera] rates were reduced in Feb ruary and May. 1905. These circulars ordered reductions on scores of special article®. I ask on how many of'them are prices as low now as they were in January. 1905? It Is therefore certainly pertinent to ask. “Fhall the transportation facilities necessary for the commerce and inter course of the people of Georgia be made subservient to the demands for other and greater dividends for the manufacturers of Georgia and of other States from whom Georgia jobbers buy? Ought not the railroads to be protected in the power to furnish the people prompt and safe service for per son and property and should not future reductions in their revenues be made on such items as will reach the masses of the people? In the meantime it ls certainly perti nent to ask directly the question which is clearlv inferred from the facts I have adduced, viz.. "Wherein has it benefited the peopla to reduce the freight rates?” And now. turning from further con sideration of fhe fact that the masse® of the people were not allowed to share j secure a Parliament capable of co- . existence. The deputies, however, operating harmoniously with the i were insistent on radical changes, and crown to rescue Russia from anarchy j their persistence in this course result- and revolution. j ed In what amounts to a charge by The session of the council of minis- the Government that the Douma was a tres at which the decision to dissolve shelter for conspiracy and treason Parliament was reached, was a long against the State. one. It lasted from 9 o’clock last night ! The situation entered upon its final until nearly 4 o’clock this morning. 1 phase when the revolutionary members The ministers had agreed upon the of tael ower house .went to London terms of the ukase before midnight, and took part ln a congress, which however, and a draft of the ukase had .’or its avowed purpose, the upset- was taken immediately to Peterhof, ting of the throne of the empire. From where the Emperor affixed his signa- . the very beginning the sessions of the ture. i second Douma have been characterized The news of the dissolution was re- ; by bitterness, recrimination, and de nounced that tho President had prom ised him one million dollars and that ho wanted to collect It at once. He was Immediately surrounded l}.v guards, who engaged him in conversa tion and finally persuaded him to take a walk. When the police sergeants got through with their examination Frank was committed temporarily to the Government Hospital for the Insane. ceived shortly after 2 o'clock this morning but the cabinet was contin ued until.the arrival of the signed document. This document was deliv ered by Premier Stolypin into the i hands of the official printers for pub- i lication in the official messenger and were of comparatively minor in the Rossft’ this morning. tance. content and there has been countless evidences of hostility between the house and the administration. While this Douma passed more legislation than did its predecessor the measures that became laws under its hands lmpor- PROSECUTION WILL CLOSE IN CASE NEXT WEEK BOTSE. Idaho. June 16.—Tn sup port of its case against Wm. D. Hay wood. charged with the murder of former Gov. Frank Steunenberg, the S’ate Saturday submitted to jury the testimony of a dozen witnesses, tend ing to confirm several details oi the story of Harry Orchard, and at ad journment announced that it would close its case next week. The an nouncement as to the conclusion of tho prosecution’s case was a surprise to t the defense and was clearly as pleas- 5n the enormous reduction of freight i ' n F to the prisoner and his counsel. ra+e S which the Railroad Commission ! 1° response to a request from the secured for their benefit, let me ad- 1 defense for notice from the State as to cifbep article Riilrea.i m-- tee who hnrdl tbe rallr'nd r that there mu the time it should assemble its wit nesses. Senator Borah gave next Wednesday as the time. He later ex plained, however, that he had given an early day in order to avoid delay. As the’trial now stands adjourned dress these words to the people of Georgia: ”Mv countrymen, as my mental eyes behold it, we are approac-hing the gravest crisis which has threatened you in many years, a crisis made pos sible. nav, probable, by the avowed : until Tuesday morning the prosecu- deelaration in high circles that the ! tion would not be able to conclude be- owners of railroad property shall not ! fore the end of next week, have the same protection of the laws ! Among today’s witnesses were that is guaranteed to the owner® of i former Gov. Peabody, of Colorado, and cotton factories and stove factories, j his daughter. Miss Cora Peabody, but to the jobbers of hardware, drj- goods neither was on the stand long. It wa® and shoes, fo the owners of warehouses i anticipated that the defense would band’s and farms. ! cross-examine Peabody to extent and "The issue cannot be disguised: It is open the entire contention involved in not an assault uron ‘the railroads.’ it j the Colorado labor law. but a noon - - ..._ ........ ( is an assault upon the owners of rail- recess conference of the united counsel tlons in f'Mght rates. j 4 -e pop nurmtes ot cotton ties. The ■ price would go up 5 ner cent the first , road prorertv. Will the State authori- for the defense decided that it would Whv Stoves Are High. ’ ® xpec ^ *° provide a® many for • of June. In oth®r word®, the $13 stove tips ‘umnire it’ fairly, or will they take be better to refrain from such ques- The above are in a double sense ' v/ e f ,9 2 ceT, t- a ! will then bo sold at $13 63. : sides wi*h the former who are making | tioning. homelv illustrations: but is it not time " undl ® ^add.tional profit it does not UKte : It is a significant fact that the notice net profit® of from forty to one hun- .Damaging Circumstances. ” rer ! to Ogare whore , of this advance of o per cent in the dred per cent, and against the latter j Against a sustained fire of objec- f.* n ^ , tion and motions to strike out, the prosecution got the admission of much have that I . .. . __J^_ intan- Cold Steel For the Farmer. i stoves. Thus the stove manufacturers. | gible monster: it is a property owned ■While this may appropriately be ! at the very flmn when the freight rates ; bv citizens, by widows and orphans by styled “velvet” for the Atlanta raanu- I on stoves are lower than they have educational and herevolent institu casing in court by the plumber who made It. Former Governor Peabody and his family watched the bomb cov er every moment that it was displayed on tlje witness stand. Then the state once more took up the general thread of Orchard's story, and suceessKveli- offered tHe testi mony of Miss Peabody to the incident related by Orchard where he and Steve Adams followed the Peabody carriage home: the evidence of Gov ernor Peabody that he had seen Orch ard in Canyon City, and that he had repaired his house as Orchard had testified: testimony showing that at various times in 1905, Haywood, Pet- tibone and Orchard were seen togeth er. and confirmation by William Vaughan, of the trip that Orchard and Vaughan made to Canyon City. Last ly came proof that Steve Adams was at Pocatello in September, presumably to meet and throw "Pettibone dope” at a carload of non-union miners as related by Orchard. Judge Wood is to go to Caldwell an Monday, to continue the case of Harry Orchard, murder of Frank Steunenberg. and here will be no session of court here on that day. Orchard will be taken to Caldwell to make formal appearance when the case is called. Little Mary Wagner, of Michigan, has touched the heart of the President and her plantivo appeal may result ln her s‘ep--father being pardoned from • the Michigan State prison. The De partment of Justice has the matter in charge and is investigating it. While it is probable that the question of a pardon is one that lies entirely with Michigan's Governor, it is likely that any recommendations mnde by Atttor- ney-General Bonaparte will carry great weight. The case ls that of John- Alli son. a bank robber, who escaped from the Michigan penitentiary after having served six years of a seventeen-year sontence. He made his way to Wi nona and married a widow with ona child. He did not tell her of his past until after their baby was botn and shortly thereafter lie was recognized and reimprisoned. The letteer which the little sten-daughter wrote to Presl- d.-nt Roosevelt retie-ts her -belief in her step-father whom, she says. "Is not a bad man and has been good to mama and me.” Ohio rectifiers and Vender® are in undating Secretary Taft with appeals to use his .best efforts to secure the modification of the recently delivered ooinlon of Attorney-General .Bonaparte denying them the right to use the term “whysky” for their product. Mr. Taft, before he left on his Western trip, de clared he had no personal Interest in the matter, but regarded it aa one sole ly within the authority of the Depart ment of Justice. As a result his pri vate secretary Is sending all such pe titions to Mr. Bonaparte. Ohio stands near the head of the ll®t of States that produce and rectify whiskies and there seems to be a well-organized movement under way to force Mr. Taft to inter vene in behalf of these Interests. It is regarded now as probable tha\ the Government will begin proceedings under the anti-trust act against E. n. Harriman and his associates for vio lation.® of law. Tho whole matter de pends on the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission with reference to the so-called Chicago and Alton deal, fhe Union and Southern Faclflo transactions and the Southern Pacific and San Pedro traffic agreement. This report has not yet been made and con sequently the action of the Department of Justice in filing its bill or bills will be somewhat delayed. It i® .almost cer tain. however, tbat an action will be taken in the court® within the imme diate future to compel Mr. Harriman to answer certain questions which he de clined to answer at tho hearings of the commission some months ago and which, are deemed important in the drawing up of the commission's report. President Roosevelt left this -week for his summer home in Oyster Bay, charged with the | an<J Vice-President Faip'-anks and his j family will flit away shortly for ! three month® 1 vacation In Danvers, i Mass. Mr®. Fairbanks. It is said, ha* I been advised by her physician to seek ja complete change of air somewhere on the Atlantic coast. It is probable,., however, that the Vice-President will not spfend a summer of inactivity, with, the Knox. Cannon and Tnft boom* looming aa large as they do. questions of weighty import. And that thev are in the miod to ask these ques tions even now wr.« proven by the fact that at the hearing of this case April 23. ult . a committee of the labor union stated that, even with the higher wns-e® now rereived, le.® saved than under lower facturers It is literally cold, hard steel ( ever been, are forcing the people to pay far the Georgia farmer who will have ; the highest prices which have for many J p ay the extra 10 cents per bundle, j years been charged for stoves. money can be wi*h no chance to get it back. So. too, we find that while the freight rare®, because : 1 cannot doubt that when to the up- [rates on barbed wire and nails re- jrlces of almost al’ thing® they • ' tv nrds of $!.0M,OM taken from the rail- I mained the same the prices upon t^iem it tbe stores are higher than ever rr,at ^ we .idd the amount® received , were advanced to the farmer who must j : from the increase above V r price.® u®e them: and. while the freight rates The” proof of the truth of the above . * or goods t>efora tho. ,-al'read on axes, which no family living in the statement ls found In Bulletin * the Bure-u of Labor, printed United States Government p office. Washington March. 1907. From . It I make the following ex"-acts In the present report prices ffivep for 29® ret-raser: ltive a® huv bef-i ,f . rates were reduced ln 19 f, 5 iv- win find j country can do without, were reduced 'hat the great mercantile hcoes and i through the efforts qf the Railroad _ propT'.etor.® of stove factories and like j Commission of Georgia, the prices on i establishments in Georg:®, a-- now col- j them ware advanced more than {600 leet'ng out of the peon’? more than j per carjoad by the hardware dealers. {■t.ono.0'90 a year above the!® profi-s ;n A Vow me to add that if the railroad.® 1904. T:at this estimate :® p-ohab'y j were hauling .absolutely free of freight The pres-’Ht !' tbnt wholesale prlc ?“® commodities a® higher level In 1906 Fsati the yea seven* high. 1905 under the mark, let mi Illustrate by ! charges more than half the items I some examples: j have ranted. t v e prices to the con- a February 1. 3S‘ 1 j. the rate on i sumer would nevertheless be higher blanket.® from New York to vl mta ; than they bare :-een at any time for was reduced 9 veols per 100 *.edj years. And the freight rates on the Twenty pair® c 4 blanket pounds. Bu!ie**n 63. nub Bureau cf L«bor Washington, D. C.. of shows that in 1905. "blanket-. 11-1. i i i pounds to the pair, cotton warp, a'.l- ' wool filling ” were priced ■: {3.87*1 per pair. Bulletin 69. published by the 1 V- 1 s.n-e bureau, shows that the®'- same : tions: a property which gives to each other kind of property- from one-half to five-sixths of its present value; a property without the existence of which a vast proportion of the other propertv in Georgia would not, could not “xist. evidence bearing on points of Orch ard's tale. First there was a showing that Steve Adams, stranded at Ogden in 1903, on the way home from Califor nia, where, it Is alleged, he went to kill Bradley, sent a telegram to Hay wood at Denver for money. It showed by the originals of six drafts on New York banks, five of which were pur chased at the First National Bank of Denver by Haywood himself, that during 1904. 1905 and 1906 money was frequently remitted by Haywood to L. “Will vou allow that property of J ' Simpkin®. formerly a member of hte those who have bought It in the faith executive board of the W estern Fed- that Georgia would protect them equal- I ^°? 0 ^ a ?” we U 'with Harrv Orchard •'.® gs-Kti 1O0 others are the minor part of the total j Vislm bv the i cost. ly with the holders of all other prop erty in her borders, and who through it pay one-eighth of the taxes of Geor gia. to be destroyed, and with that de struction of the power of its owners to buy their daily bread bring a panic which will cut probably in two the prices of every bale of cotton, bushel of grain or ton of hay the Georgia farmers produce: that will not only di=a®treu®!y reduce the public school fund, and with it tbe wages of every laboring man. but will throw tens of And now, lest I he misunderstood. ! thousands out of emn’oyrnent. bringing me say clearly and with emohasis ; famine to th^'r families.? : T have n-> words of criticism for : "Shall prejudice supplant wisdom, great mas? of the jobbers, since I ! shall greed expel ju®t’ce. shall reck on: doubt that 'heir advance in 'less vSndictivene®? thrust from the lolessle price® i? only the reflex of I helm the ha^d A f moderation? Will thf all blankets were priced during iPcs at $4 ; the advance charged against them by ! you allow this blot, this blight, this Per pair. Hero®, on twenty pair® of } the manufaetturers. 'But I do criti- j ruin?” b'enkets ‘"e “'re'.g'it Tate from N"w: ; ®e and hold up to public endemna- j — York to Atlanta, was 9 cents le--® and 'tion those individuals, whether job- Chancellor VacCra.cken. of the New t'-e selling pr'ee was $250 greater, cr» ! hers, manufacturers, politicians or ed- I York University, on commencement if we figure ft on the ’ a®'® if $30,000 1 itor®. who, knowing the truth, have j day insisted on the rule tha* nobody prurds. th- rht rsi® was $27 'ess j pre'erred to di®s®m.innte error, who. should be admitted to the auditorium | nrd the .®-"<qg price 1730 greater. | pretending to advocate the cause of the ! while anv one was sneaking. He be lt will be c 'e t th>-1 the nr»®®nt ! peon!®, have astutely protected the • gao the exercises on time with room [ thronch re’e '.Vfs >t® from • privileged cl.a®® (whether it be com- : half fMled and spoke for an hour, while , N- w York to *’a r .i i® ®t 05 r«r ion p- f Nor'hern ma-uriacturers and • nee ly a $31: rep 30 060 pound®, jobber® r those in Georgia) which has and assisted in the first attempt to kill Steunenberg. The last draft sent in January. 1906, after the murder of Steunenberg. was cashed by Mrs. Simpkins, presumably after Simpkins had fled. Then came the shattered and twisted fragments of the device bv which the Vindicator mine bomb was set off and this led to an extended inquire by the defense into conditions and events centering about Cripple Creek during strike.® and martial law days. The defense tried to show that ; there had been unwarranted deporta- : tion of union miners: that the calling of the militia was unwarranted: that union store.® had been looted: that ; agents of the mine owner.® had com mitted accts of violence and incited 1 other.® to violence; that union miners ; had been flogged and driven from : their homes, and that peace offerings controlled by the mine owners had • employed deputies who were fighters, I thugs and criminals. Next the state completed the legal history of the Peabody bomb, by showit\; that it was dug out of the w.:ich wholesale prices were late comers stood ! ice in tbe Cour d’Alene river, that It iul .... t ... IT _ ,,, L , j ,..jp and the rain. j was brought to Boise and taken oh to obtained Hence, if the railroad and steamship increased the cost of living to the peo- ; the laws of Georgia, he was not aware • Denver, and lastly by identifying its FAIRBANKS SAYS HIS STATEMENT GAMED 'BIRMINGHAM. Ala., June 16.—Before leaving here today for Selma to attend the funeral of the late Senator Morgan, Vice-President Fairbanks denied a story which recently caused wide comment in the Southern press. The story was to the effect that Mr. Fairbanks recently said ln a speech at Chattanooga, that the late Gen. Joseph Wheeler told President McKinley in Mr. Fairbanks’ presence, when applying for service in the Spanish war. that the ap plicant had “followed the Confederate flag under a mistake.” "What Gen. Wheeler said.” declared the Vice-President, “was that under the dictates of his conscience, he had fought once against the United States flag, but now desired to fight under it before he died." The Vice-President said he regretted what he said at Chattanooga bad been garbled. MOTHER GAVE CHILDREN DOSE WHICH PROVED FATAL NEW YORK. June 15.—Brandy given them by the mother to alleviate, their sufferings from sea sickness, caused the death of three children on the steamer Cretlc during the voyage which ended here today. The ship's physicians as cribed death to alcoholic poisoning. The bodies were buried at sea. The children and their mother embarked at St. Mich aels, Azores. SAVANNAH DOES NOT WANT “SALVATION BAND" SAVANNAH. Ga.. June 15.—Three women, two men and two boys, compris ing the “Salvation Band,” appeared be fore the recorder this morning for ope rating on the streets last night without license. They were ordered to take their music elsewhere. Other eitte s have Inclined to have It. The organization said to operate in competition with the Salvation Army. With the passing away thi® week of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, there is removed from public life a unique and gracious figure. Th* aged statesman was nearly eighty- three years old and had been in th* . United States senate continuously for thirty yedirs. He was a brilliant opt- tor and a debater of acknowledged skill. About two years ago he mad* the "long distance" speaking record, forcing an extraordinary session of the senate and finally succeeding in killing the asset currency bill, which was fathered by Senator Aldrich. Senator Morgan previously had been sneaking for about two weeks on th* Panama canal question and ln this debate he spoke about 200.000 words. Before going to the senate he hal made a brilliant record as a Confed erate soldier. He was a colonel 1n th* Confederate army in 1862 and within a year by valorous and distinguished service rose to brigadier general. The last few dava in Washington : really should go down in history as Confederate week. The men in gray and the Daughters of the Confederacy | pruitically took (ossesslon of the Na tional capital, and for the first tim* in history a column in gray marched down Pennsylvania avenue from th* \ capitol to the White House. It waa a pathetic handful of the former war- '1 rlors under "Jeb” Stewart and Stone wall Jackson. Each of the marcher* carried hi® old arms, whether It wa* J the cavalry sabre or the heavy mus ket affected by the infantry of thos* stirring times. Headed by a band, the warriors of a passing day marched down the avenue with the stars and bars fluttering beside the flag of the united country. A large number of the veterans who attended the reun ion at Richmond came here to call at the White House, where they offered their services to the President as rough riders, should he ever b* lo «eed of such men. INDISTINCT PRINT