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President Accepts Memorial to the Gray at Jlrlington THE WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. VOLUME XIX, No. 155. MoAmtars Awnn&| Edbd OandFs Mepty W°A Mtenai© Merest MONUMENT TO DEAD OE CONFEDERACY PUT IN KEEPIJEJE NATION Bronze Memorial Typifying the South Rising Triumphant After Civil War. Dedicated in Presence of Most Distin guished Assemblage—Formal Presentation By the United Daughters of Confederacy, Acceptance By President of the United States Arlington National Cemetery Scene of Remarkable Tributes to Valor of Those Who Fell Under the Stars and Bars. "The Heroic Devotion and Lofty Self-Sacrifice of These Honored Dead is Held in Grateful and Loving Memory.” Washington. —Representatives of ev ery stats of the Confederacy, officers of the armies of the North and South and many distinguished guests gath ered here today for the unveiling of the Confederate Monument in Arling ton National Cemetery. President Wilson was the principal speaker on the program of exercises, which was to begin late in the after noon and which included addresses by General Bennett Young of Louisville, commander-in-chief of the United t Confederate Veterans, and General 'Vashington Gardner of Albion, Mich., commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. %-Five Confederate veterans, among : \es» Sir Moses Ezekiel, sculptor of the Arlington Monument, today were proud ’possessors of specially designed crosses of honor presented last night at a Jefferson Davis birthday cele bration rate veteran? attended. Senator Williams of Mississippi and Mrs. Daisy Mcl.aurin Stevens, presi dent-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, addressed the vet erans, paying tribute to the memory of the Confederate president. Those who received crosses for valor were: James C. Lee, First Maryland Ar tillery; J. *M. Locker, Virginia Artil lery; Albert L. McAlister, Fifth Vir ginia Infantry; Jacob A. Norton, Sec ond Mississippi Infantry, and Sir Moses Ezekiel, Virginia Military In stitute Cadets. Mrs. C. P. Hancock, daughter of Augustus Durphy, Com pany C, Twelfth Virginia Infantry, re ceved a special “descendants' cross." “The time has now come," said Senator Williams, in his address, “when the North has learned to ap preciate Robert E. Lee and 'Stonewall' Jackson as we of the South have learned to admire Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Lincoln. The Ceremonies. Washington. —ln the presence of sev eral thousand persons, including many Cc -.federate Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy, as well as former Union soldiers, and with unique and (Continued on Next Page.) MISHAP LOST HE TOJNITIE Cup Defender Breaks Sail Sheet and Third Contest Goes to the Resolute Associated Press Boat, Off Glenn Cave, L. I. (By wireless).—Driving rain and flying spray drenched the crews this afternoon as the cup de fender candidates Resolute and Va nitie started their third trial race in Long Island Sound. The Vanitie crossed the starting line more than a minute ahead of her rival, the Resolute, pointed higher in the thrash to windward and Agan to cut down the lead. Shortly after the start the forestay sail sheet Vanitie broke and she withdrew from the race. Resolute won when she crossed the finish line at 1:55:47, unofficial time. CIRCUS MEN INJURED. Saginaw. Mich. —Eight employes of a circus were injured severely, when two sleping ears and a flat car of the flr»t section of the circus trains, en nuts from Flint to Port Hum over the Pere Marquette Railroad, were thrown from the track at Hoyt Junction, Just east of Saginaw, shortly before mid night last night. It is said the acci dent was caused by a brakeman throwing a switch before all the cars had passed. RE-ELECTED SPEAKER. Parj*.—PfjHl Dyschanel, one of the •'immortals,” was today re-elected speaker of the chamber of deputies by (11 votes against 24 scattered among other candidates. 1t. 426.713 INTEREST Ofaahington. D. C.—’The tinsury de partment nnounced today thai ns a re sult of (he requirement that hanks pay two per cent. Interest on all government deposits 11.425.TU had be. n added to the treasury receipts during the first year of the requirement which exphed June first. — THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES ■■ ■■ THE AUGUSTA HERALD GALA HE AT WEDDING NEAT WEEK IN SPAIN Religious Service at Nuptials of Roosevelt, Jr., and Miss Willard to Be Preceded By Civil Ceremony Special Room in Magistrate’s Office Fitted Up—Wedding Party to Church in Autos and State Carriages. Madrid.— Colonel Joseph E. Williard, United States ambassador, and Mrs. Williard, had King Alfonso and Queen Victoria of Spain, as their guests at luncheon at the American embassy to day. Kermit Roosevelt and the Brit ish and German ambassadors also were guests. A brilliant reception followed, which was attended by the members of the diplomatic corps and many persons prominent in the society of the Span ish capital. A Russian ballet was.giv en for the entertainment of the guests. Two Ceremonies. Madrid. —Because Ambasador Wil lard desires to observe all require ments of the Spanish laws in respect to foreign marriages, the magistrate of the Buenavista district will per form the civil marriage ceremony for Miss Belle Willard and Kermit Roose velt, on June 10. The American embassy is situated in the .Buenavista district, the most aristocratic section of the city. When the minister of state learned that the ambasasdor desired to observe the Spanish law in this respect he sug gested the Justice should go to the American embassy but as the embassy is beyond the legal control of the mag istrate, being technically United States territory, a room has been up in the magistrate’s own residence, where the ceremony will take place. The formal witnesses doubtless will include Eduardo Dato, the Spanish premier; the Marquis of Lema, the minister of state; Myron T. Herrick, the American ambasasdor in Paris, and Coi. Roosevelt. The religious service will take place at noon the next day in the chapel of the British embassy. The chapel la in a pavilion in the embassy grounds. The Rev. Dr. Samuel N. Watson, pas tor of the American Protestant Epis copal church in Paris, will perform the service, assisted by the Rev. Her bert Brown, chaplain of the British embassy in Madrid. Wedding Party. The wedding party will proceed from the ambassador’s house to the church in automobiles and gala carriages, among which probably will b e one of the court equipages with a represen tative o" the king of Spain. The bride's dress will be of ivory satin and tulle with a court train. She will wear orange blossoms arranged with old lace and a long veil of tulle and lace. The* maid of honor. Miss Elizabeth Willard, will wear white satin with tunic of pale blue tulle. Ths Bridesmaids. The bridesmaids, her Serene High ness the Princess of Thurn and Taxis, Miss Katherine Page, Mademoiselle Gilone le Veneurs de Tlllleres, and Miss Virginia Christian, will wear white tulle with tunics. All of (hem will wear lace with touches of yellow and yellow ribbons tied under the chin. They will carry bouquets of yellow orchida. The wedding breakfast will be served In the American embassy and a reception to which some thousands of persons have been Invited, Includ ing all the diplomatic corps and many officials and members of the highest Spanish nobility, will follow. ANNOUNCES FOR SENATE. Madison, Wis,—Gov. Francis E. Mc- Govern, today made formal announce ment of his candidacy for the Repub lican nomination for United States senator. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 4, 1914. HUERTA TO BLOCKADE TAMPICO Admirals Badger and Mayo Informed of Proposed At tempt—latest Development Considered Significant at Washington Vera Cruz. —The price Provis ional President Huerta demands fo r his retirement, is the legaliza tion of his official acts since his appointment to the provisional presidency, according to advices from the capital today. Washington, D. C. —One of the fove gn ministers in Mexico Oity advised the em bassy of his country here today that Huerta regarded receipt of the recently landed cargoes of arms as strengthen ing his pos'tien but that it had not changed the dictator's attitude toward mediation. United States Admirals Informed. Washington, D. C. —Prospects es an attempted blockade of Tampico by Hu erta gunboats took the position of chief Interest in Mexican affairs here today and admmistrtion officials informed of the latest development only in news despatches, declined to indicate, their ixdiev, AUioagL they informed Admirals Badger and Mayo ot the situation. It was considered significant, how ever, that at the state department im mediately after Tampico fell into the hands of tire constitutionalists it was announced that all Mexican gulf ports were considered “open’’ and that was in terpreted as a clear intimation that no blockade would be recognized. Files Cuban Flag. The steamer Antlila, hearing arms for Carranza and which has aroused the present situation, flies the Cuban flag. What the United States would do should Hurrta gunboats attempt to Interfere with her, officials declined to say or in dicate. Whether the United States ships would permit the Antilla to land her cargo, now that the embargo on arms is again enforce, was another complicating feat ure to which officials hqre did not at tempt to offer any explanation. I. N. *. ‘FIGHT TO jJINISH’ Public Demonstration Planned at Tarrytown After Arrest of 13 of Their Members. Tarrytown, N. Y. —In anticipation of the arrival here sometime before Sat urday, of an army of several hundred members of the Industrial Workers of the World, to follow an announced plan to hold a public demonstration against the arrest of thirteen of their number last week. Sheriff Doyle today assigned special deputies to sentry duty on all principal roads leading Into Tarrytown. At the first appearance of a large number of suspected dem onstrators, the sentry ts instructed to notify the Tarrytown police that they may be prepared to maintain peace when the band reaches the village. Alexander Herkman, a leader of the demonstrators, while visiting the White Plains Jail, where the thirteen prisoners are held, who were arrested last Saturday night, declared that “It is a fight to a finish In Tarrytown" for free speech. Wants U.S. Commission to Settle Colorado Trouble Waahington. —A federal commission to settle the Colorado strike troubles, was proposed to President Wilson to day by Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, who announced his intention of intro ducing a bill for such a body. Fire on Strikebreakers With High Power Rifles Colbert, W. Va. —ln response to a telegram from Oov. Hatfield, calling on him to preserve the peace in Brooke county. Sheriff Patterson, today sent six deputies here to Investigate the firing on four houses occupied by strikebreakers employed by the West Virginia and Pittsburg Coal Company. Reports were that men In the houses snswered the shots, but no one had been hurt. The attacking party, it was stated, lay on a hill fully half mile from the village, and used high power rifles. Paiheiic Sight on Arrival of Bodies at Quebec Ml HBMplPjaVif l f gy^^K^w^>ldPWßip*^| l ' •'' jSB dsUf *"*<s*9 BmJwJW^^WKSfil flWSffiSßy frPmifein n >> << .'*^ i *^^w^"mHnw^^ : %Sk» -^_j, iF yffWpM|« vS ®L WBjW|wßWCi'4»| ) |~ < y REMOVING VICTIMS OF DISASTER The sight that pulled hardest at the heart-strings of the great throng of onlookers that witnessed the re moval of the bodies of the victims of the Empress of Ireland disaster from the s. S. I.ndy Grey at Quebec, was that of sailors of H. M. S. Essex carrying the tiny coffins containing the bodies of Imldos who wire drowned. The sturdy tars filed slowly down the gangplank, each tenderly hearing a small white casket, and tears coursed down the cheeks of these strong men as they placed their burdens in the hearses on the wharf. CARRANZA YET THE GHHX HE PEACEPLANS Upon His Message to the Mediators Hangs Immediate Hope of Bringing Order Out of Chaos in Mexico Constitutionalists Notify State Dep’t They Have Cut Huerta’s Oil Tax of 75 Cents to 20 Cents a Ton. Washington.—Carranza, aagin today constituted the crux in the mediation situation. Upon his message to the South American envoys hung the Im mediate scope of diplomatic endeavor to bring order out of chaos in the Southern republic. The constitutionalist chief's com munication anxiously was awaited by administration chiefs. They were hope ful that the way might be cleared for Carranza to enter the mediation con ferenee so that all of the elements now figuring in the Southern republic’s plight might lie brought together to discuss terms of restoring peace. Cut the Taxes. Washington.—Constitutionalist au thorities at Tampico have notified the state department that they have di rected that the tax on oil production there shall he at the rate of twenty cents per ton in accordance Adth regu lations made during the Madero ad ministration instead of 7 B cents per ton, the rate flxgd by the latest Hu erta decree. The Sisters of the Order of the Sac red Heart, concerning whom inquiries have been made, are well, and do not wish to leave Mexico, according to ad vices to the state department from Consul General Hanna. Rejuvenated Brooklyn to Sail For Chinese Post Philadelphia. —The cruiser Brooklyn, atatloned at the lon&l Navy Yard fori nearly ten year* and at one time or- ! dered to the HOTap heap will Hall noon' for <‘hln« to become flagship of the' AulatU squadron. The Brooklyn was Adm r«l Hchley's flagship during the Hpanlsh-AmerloHn war and led the fl*ht ln« when the Hpanleh fleet was destroy, ed at Santiago The ship was struck about twenty times by shells. Heveral years Hfter the war the ves- i sel wan sent to the Philadelphia yard’ where she was put out of commission. ' About a year h*o work was begun on] the vessel and she was completely over-: hauled Today she Is one of the best 1 and fastest cruisers In the navy. PROBE MOTORCYCLE DEATHS. Pittsburg, Pa.— With two persons dead, and a dozen Injured, aa a result | of last night's motorcycla accident hero, Coroner Samuel Jamlxon today began a careful Invextlgation of motor cycle racing In I’ittxhurg Archer Armstrong, of New York, whose ma chine left the track and dashed among the xj setatorc and William H. Vxn derberrv, of Philadelphia another rac er. were said to he fatally hurt. Of the spectator* who were Injured, It was •aid, all would recover, z ‘Merely a Rubber Stamp Director Skinner, of the New Haven Road, Continues Testimony Be fore Inter-State Commerce Commission —“Prayer From the Hills” Issued Bv Railway to Create Public Sentiment. Geo. f. Baker and Lewis Cass Lgdyard Awaiting Grill Washington —William Skinner, a di rector of the New Haven Railroad, continued hlx testimony today at the interxtftte commitce commission's in quiry Into the railroad's financial af fairs. Lewis Caas Ledyard and Geo. F. Baker, directors, and Lawrence Minot, a former director, wore present waiting to testify. Mr. Ledyard will testify as a voluntary witness. “Why did the directors make a re port to the stockholders to the effect that the New Haven held marketable .securities of t lie Rlllard Company worth $10,400,000, when they were in reality, of little value?” Chief CounsN Folk asked Mr. Skinner. Took Their. “I look the word of the accounting department of the road.” “Then, so far as these securities were concerned, you were merely a rubber stamp director?” “I did not and could not investigate all of these details. I accepted the re port of the accounting department of the value of the securities." "Dili you know of the 'prayer frow the hills', issued to create public sen timent ?" “Yes." "Do you think It wax right to c|r eulate literature purporting to come from the people, when, as a matter of fact, It was sent out liv the railroad?" Anti Hue and Cry. "With all the hue and cry against. 3 Found With Throats Cut; Doctor Arrested Long Beach, Call. Loewi authorities began an Investigation today into the death of Mrs. Lena Raab, 29 years old, and tier two daughters, Lena, « years old, and Lillian, 15 months old. All three w«*re found late Inst night In their home with their throats rut Mrs. Kwah left a note written In Her man In which, according to the police, she attributed her approaching mother hood to I>r. Waiter R hill, a prominent Long Beach physician and declared her Intention of killing the children and herself. I>r. MIU was taken Into custody. JR denied the charge. What Militants Did to Two Managing Editors Belfast, Ireland. Militants today Assaulted managing editors of two leading newspapers of Belfast which had criticised tho militant campaign Two well-drcNaed women, n« of them a giantess. went to the Belfast Telegraph office and were ushered Into the editor's room Without speaking a word the larger one walk ed up to Mr. Stewart, the managing editor, and with her clenched fist, knocked him out of his chair. At the ssme time her companion hurled a mucilage bottle at Ills heart. The women then went to the News Letter office arid made a similar attack on Mr. Anderson of that newspaper. He haa since been confined to bed and is under surgical treatment. $6.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY. the railroads, they must create senti ment in their favor." “Are they justified In using any met hod ?” "No, lint they must create the sen timent.” In reply to questions by Mr. Folk, the witness said lie did not consider interlocking directorates worked any injury to the public interest. "What brought about the troubled conditions of the New Haven? Was it not the necessity of disintegrating some of the properties acquired, which under various laws the New Haven had to dispose of after II Had bought them ?” asked William Nelson Crom well, appearing for several of the di rectors. “That had a good deal to do with It." “Were not the conditions also partly due to the lack of ability to properly mortgage the New Haven's property?” "They were." Morgan's Dictatorship. "Did Mr. Morgan, at the directors’ meetings, show nny desire to domi nate or dictate?" "Not that I recall. He was away In Europe much of the time and could net attend meetings regularly." Following Mr. Hklnrier's testimony, Mr. Ledyard wax called but was not sworn. lie said he desired to con tradict certain statements made by Mr. Mellon In his testimony. Presbyterians and Those Interested in Liquor Newca*tl«, Pa.—Members of the Unit ed Presbyterian church who arc mem bers of clubs hav ng sideboards, attor m*ys who represent applicants for liquor licenses or property owners who rent their buildings for saloons may he dis ciplined If the Individual churches care to take mp the question, according to the conclusion reached by tho genera! as sembly here today. 186 Refugees Arrive at N. Y. on Way to Spain New York. The Kpanish L'ne Hteam er Manuel Oilvo wnlch arrived today from Mexhnn ports via Havana, brought lkf> Mexican refugees enronte for Spain. Many have suffered the loss of trielr property. Held Captive. Washington, D. C The Spanish min ster in Mexico Pity advised Mr Kiano, the Span'sh ambassador here, that con stitutionalists were continuing to *x « t forced loans from Spaniards and In some cases were bolding Span birds for ransom and reporting the ciptives held by brigands. GARRIBON AT WEST POINT. Washington. —? Secretary Harrison will go to New York next Wednesday and on June 11 and 12, will be pres ent at the graduating exercises at tire military academy Point, mak ing an address aTrd handing the gradu ate* their diplomat*. a m HOME EDITION MILLIONS MORE FOR COTTON Lever Futures Bill Favorably Reported Today—Would Add $100,000,000 Yearly to In come of South’s Farmers Washington.—The Never Cotton Future Hill was favorably reported to tile house today as a substitute for the bill already passed by the senate. Representative Never (if South Car olina, author of the hill and chairman of the agricultural committee, includ ed In his favorable report a compre hensive analysis of cotton exchange transactions. At Its True Value. The hill, says the report, ‘rerog nixes the economic value of these cot ton exchanges that use a contract representative of the true value of spinnahle cotton and levels its pro ; hibltlon against those exchanges only the value of whose contracts is sus ceptible to violent fluctuations and manipulation. "Upon such contracts the value of which, under the rules of the ex changes, does not reflect truly the value of spot cotton as it exists from dav to day in the hands of the far mers upon local markets,” adds th» report, "a tax of $:, a hale Is levied. Prohibitive. Such a tax In the judgment of the trade Is absolutely prohibitive. Upon sneli contracts as do represent the value of spot cotton, no tax whatever is laid, and this is trite likewise of all spot cotton transactions including the ‘f o. I).’ cotton, cotton ‘to arrive’, and ‘for prompt delivery.’ Bill's Purpose. The whole puriose of the bill is to compel by. law the use of such a con tract by (he future markets, the quo tations of the value of which will re flect accurately and truly the value of spot, cotton of spinnable and usable quality. In the light of the best in formation available, the ultimate ef fect of providing a contract of the character described In the bill will b# to enhance, In the opinion of experts, the value of the cotton crop In the hands of the farmers of the South, not less than $100,000,000 annually.” U. S. POLICY DEPENDS ON REPLY Peace Plans of the Two Sets ot Delegates at Niagara Falls of Much Value Even if Consti tutionalists Decide to Enter Norfolk, Vs.—The naval collier Ja son, with Consul Klllltnan on hoard, reached Hampton Roads this morning. Continue Work. Niagara Falls, Ont.—Whlie waiting to In-ar from General Carranza whether he would send delegates to the conferences here, the mediators planned today tp continue such work ns would not tie affected by the con stltulonallH answer. The peace plans on which the two sets of delegates have been working for two weeks has been only partially completed. Much of the work will bs of value i > en if the constitutionalists decide to enter the negotiation*. The mediation colony Is absorbed, how ever, In the eonxtltutlonallst phase of tin Mexican problem. Word In re spect to It is awaited with Intense in - ten at. The'feeling Is general that the attl- The feeling Is genral that the atti tude taken by General Carranza In his reply preliably will shupe the entire course of tin mediation lureuftcr and perhaps have a direct effect on the Washington government’s future pol icy toward the two factions In Mexico. Those who have seen the mediators note to the eenxtlfutolns’lst* say It Is so phrased that they ran find ijiereln a dignified wav of entering the nego tiations, notwithstanding their previ ous objections. UNDERWOOD BACK. Washington, liept exeatatlve Under wood nf Alabama, democratic leader of the house, who has been at Hot Springs, Va., seeking relief from a severe bront chal trouble, returned to (he Capital today. HANGED SELF IN CELL. Dayton, O.—The dead body of Arthur Fowler, a British subject, found guilty yesterday of the murder of John Jennies, was found In the county Jail early today. He hml secured a strap and hunged himself tu the bars in his cell.