Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - January 29, 1914, Galveston, Texas TO 312 JANUARY 29, 1914-TWELVE ESTABLISHED 1841' PROPOSED IN BILLS LONG-TIME RURAL LOAN SYSTEM AND EASIER MONEY TO TIDE OVER IS WILL REVOLUTIONIZE FINANCE President anS Secretary In Accord With From Other OTTO Special to The Jan. first of two administration rural credit bills will be Introduced In congress It will be a farm land bank with a primary object of making for renters to become farm in the approval of President Wilson and Secretary Houston of the department of The second which has not yet beeti will undertake to make It easier and cheaper for the farmer to obtain short-time loans to tide him over the harvesting of his corn and wheat crops and to help him get the crop to After a long conference with the ident this morning the senate tee on agriculture spent the entire after- noon goins over the bills It was said that they the measures they had prepared to meet the ideas and views upon the subject ex- pressed by the president at the Ing's conference and by Secretary ton before he left for the West with the organization committee of the federal reserve To Br It was announced tonight that the time farm would be In- In the senate and house The second the will not be presented for It was Enactment of the two bills is expected to revolutionize the of tlie American The measures will have a particularly Important bearing upon the farm finance of the great midwest where the problem of financing between crops is a most serious The time farm differs primarily from the several farm credit measures pending before the The proposes to create a system of farm land whose mary will be to handle farm mortgages and make the obtaining of loans cheaper and These banks must take out a federal They may do a general banking with this one may take deposits to the amount of 60 per cent of their capital and Where a farm land Is as the It may take deposits of Its stockholders and no With the system of farm land banks established to handle the farm gages tho government proposes to step In with federal Inspection of the gages to make to the that tho mortgages are gages may only bo taken to 50 per cent of the value of the After the mortgage has been approved by the the provides that the eral farm land banks then may Issue debenture upon the gages they have Across the bonds be written a sentence something like with government In- spected farm as TEXANS TAKE BACK ACTION Proposal to Be Bound by Cancan Rale Causes Delegation to Reconsider and Stand Is opposition which has arisen In the Texas delegation ia to the proposal to bind un- der caucus rule the members of the In the matter of pending and future in congress has re- in a movement among the Texano who were parties to last quiet meeting to rescind the action that Is Bald to been taken AMOUNT OF STOCK TO BE Reserve Bank Committee Says No Bank Onn Take More Than 6 Per Cent. Jan. became known today that the federal reserve bank organization committee has ed that no bank shall be allowed to take stock In the reserve hank in its district amounting to more 6 per of its capital and LAW HELD INVALID United Circuit Holds Michigan Statute In Violation of the eral Jan. 28__The Michigan Is to nn opinion filed In the United States district this the result of a judgment recently dered by Circuit Dennison of the court and District Judges Ar- thur Tuttlo and A. It held the Michigan law would net in restraint of commerce of kinds anil would n burden on tho interstate commission which the government would not Kuropatkin's Offer to Duels Is Not Accepted by ST. Jan. lenge to a duel eent by General Alexel was by Michel a writer on the who declared his principles were opposed to The famous who was com- mander in chief of the Russian forces during the Russo-Japanese ered himself wronged by the persistent attacks of M. II IS STOPPED INTEREST IS MT COURTS DECISION ON LEGAL STATUS OF PAT Special to The Jan. audit of the county books of Duval which had been in for tho past few days at San has been brought to a sudden Thin incident revives interest in tho recent court proceedings at San Diego in connection with the Pat Dunn County in which District Judge B. kins held that Pat Dunn County had been illegally a line of the new county being less than twelve miles from the county seat of the county from which it was At the same time those seeking to annul Pat Dunn County alleged that there had not been an audit of the books of Duval County in eleven M demanded that such audit be Ed C. Lasater one of the leaders In an effort to secure an audit of the county books and with cured from the district court the pointment of a to make such an This committee was composed of M. D. Phil and P. Valleo They made that they would be unable to audit the but suggested that experienced accountants be secured to do tho Judge Hopkins recommended to the commissioners court of Duval TO CONTROL RADIUM OUTPUT I Committee Will Permit Private Development of Ore Jon. of the house mines committee announced night that they had decided tentatively that the proposed radium should vide for federal control of radium ores and the finished product without the withdrawal from entry of The committee's plan is to permit the development of the radium bearing lands by private and at the same time give the government control of radium It virtually was agreed at meeting to recommend the construction of a government-owned radium plant at some Western The com- was in session until No agreement was reached as to the final draft of the proposed OPPOSES WITHDRAWAL OF Governor of Colorado Shafroth to Make on Jan. E. M. Ammons has decided to take an tive In the fight to defeat the eral withdrawal lands In. the He has telegraphed Senator Shafroth urging a fight on the and In a letter to the senator today expressed the fear that the withdrawal of the radium lands later would tend toward the of all mineral LOYALTY HURTS Chicago Professor Lumber Men Will Emancipate Men From Too SAY JUDGE IS HIGH-HANDED Committee Holding i In of Judge Speer IK 2R. 1'Y'fonil of tho hits his nnd is unfit ii by the Invent ion horo Into of of field by tho mMMmM K of WHS vigorous in tion of Judge Kansas tional politics out of the community problems If you would build up the com- Thus counselled Professor Graham Taylor of addressing the western Lumber Men's Association I to local questions in tional party we see what fools wo continued Professor there a high tariff way of ing Is there a standard method of emptying a garbage Chicago I look to tho women now enfranchised to emancipate un fool men from the loyalty wo men have given party names at tho expense of our Selfishness In business came In for condemnation at the hands of Professor gro to Have to ThP druggist In Trenton avenue was hy rlty detectives an charge of Illegally It Is charged In the complaint filed that he sold the drug a Ho made was released ana thu wu Ml VANDERBILTS SAVED DEATH MILLIONAIRE AND HIS IN- MEMBERS BRITISH NO- TAKEN OW TUT IS HELD ON REEF to All In Attempt at New the party aboard Frederick W. Vanderbilt's yacht Warrior faced death probably for hours after the vessel went aground on a reel off the coast of Colombia was gained tonight from fragments of wireless messages picked up All the lifeboats of the United Fruit Company's steamer Frutera lost In the effort to take the passengers off the and Captain moned the steamer which finally effected a perilous cording to In the party were Mr. and Mrs. the duke and duchess of Manchester and Lord Arthur George Keith son and heir of the earl of Soon after the Warrior struck distress signals sent by wireless were read by the only a few miles The captain of the Frutera hurried to the and although the sea was running lowered his One of the boats was capsized and others were The rescue work became so difficult that officers of the Frutera summoned the which was at Santa about forty miles With great difficulty the Almirante In taking off all Mr. and the captains of the Frutera and Almirante admonished the crew of the Warrior to abandon the they The yacht was in a bad condition and in ger of breaking The shipwrecked party proceeded to where the Almirante is due morrow is understood they will continue to New York on the mirante and will arrive there Feb. 6. Nothing further as to the fate of the Warrior or crew has been learned here The coast near where the rior struck Is and with ad- verse winds it is feared the yacht may be seriously As the scene is only forty miles from Santa it is believed the crew would have ample sistance should the yacht begin to break WARSHIPS HAY dlL IK TEXAS Erection 0f a Refinery In Oklahoma Pipe Purl TUB Jan. of the navy department for establishing a bif government-owned oil refining plant in with pipe lines to the to furnish an oil fuel supply for warships on the Gulf of Mexico were considered at a conference today between Secretary Daniels and Rear Admiral chief of the bureau of steam en- Indian Commissioner Cato Sells and experts the bureau of Details of the which ed with Lieutenant Commander have been worked and it is declared that ths navy can be provided with oil at less than half the present The ter has been discussed with the bouse mines and probably reach congress soon in the of a GENERAL APPEAL Blue Does Not age Michigan Jan. General Fellows aays the opinion of the United States district court In the case will have no bearing case' now pending in the supreme court of where the constitutionality of the law is will go on with the case In the Michigan supreme and appeal to the supreme court of the United If said Mr. PUFF RENDS PAVEMENT Damage Amounting Done to Streets of Detroit Covering Stretch of Several explosion of gas in a newer sent manhole covers flying tore up shattered windows and wrecked ings In the western part of the city late The district affected covered Ja dozen or more No one was but there were scores of to pavements la estimated at while the loss to private erty will exceed that EVA BOOTH IS SERIOUSLY SICK of American Division of tion Array In New Jan. head of the Salvation Army In this who hns been Ul In the Salvation Army barracks here for more than a week after a nervous ed to bo in a grave She suffered an attack of Influenza which developed into pleurisy and IS BV W. T. Sr. Him Over In Nrw Well New Jan. 28 MKP known over the Mouth nn an ox on run nnd killed by an Illinois tral train at Lonko avenue and Mto wife aurl A ton This Crown Prince Aspires to Become Monarch of Air American New PRINCE THE youthful heir to the throne of has just turned his thirteenth become a great He Is a very manly little SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FOUR HUNDRED poll taiei paid only three more ONE OF American Bails one of fastest American schooners Into TONY COSTELLO walks miles to give Galveston at NEW BROADWAY SYSTEM to be operation within thren ONE HUNDRED BANDSMEN will play at farewell to Major General PLANS contract to be for hotel on the beach SCOTTISH RITE REUNION and semi-annual degree work In April 6, 7, 8. 9. ARGUMENTS ON POOL HALL option motion are heard in criminal appeals SUPREME COURT holds plea of assumed may be invoked in LENGTHY GAME LAW and commerce ion results from detained TWO IMPORTANT FACTORS hinge of Katy suit AUDIT OF DUVAL COUNTY RECORDS has been TEXAS STOCKMEN wijl resUt Houston's ROMANS SPENT LAVISHLY on public says lecturer at BONDHOLDERS OF at ton on tour of HOUSTON MACHINIST ihot and mortally wounded as he from GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION elects and ends at Fort RAILROAD COMMISSION adopts new rules for marking BEAUMONT wounds TRADE COMMISSION IB being ed by senate committee on GRAND JURY ACTION SOUGHT in New York concerning highway SHELBY M. former senator from died In F. W. VANDERBILT AND close call with death when yacht EMBARGO ON ARMS may removed soon by giving rebels equal with MINERS GROW BOISTEROUS over Increasing of their NEW TREATY with nation agreed upon at GENERAL VILLA disclaims any ambition to become CENTRAL AMERICAN CONGRESS meeting In Honduras makes many HIGH WIND PREVENTS GOOD SCORING at Sunny South HENRY who put Beach Park grounds In leaves BASEBALL AVERAGE in big leagues Is ten POCKET BILLIARDS becoming popular throughout tho FEDERALS DENY that Arc after time Y. M. C. A. BOWLERS beat Houston in match games at STOCK MARKET IS INACTIVE and prices FEAR COLD WAVE WOULD HARM WHEAT bulges the LIGHT SUPPLIES rule New Orleans rice prices CATTLE MARKET WEAKENS at Fort receipts COTTON IN LOCAL MARKET transactions PEOPLE COMING INTO POWER Says Presidential Primary will Thorn Absolute ting Ont Jan. 28. Secretary Bryan told the Common Counsel here day that adoption of the presidential primary plan would mark the tion of the movement by which the ple .ue Into absolute control of the naming of their Never he would Wall street have anything to say In the election of a Mr. Bryan denounced senate rules lowing unlimited to them the stand of the which permitted a few to do what ought not to do and a majority from doing what to bo Brandeis tolu the club that the government to furnish to the small business man of tho country in- formation to them to conduct their with tho same employed by the blR man or concern with Nfi TEXAN Youthful of 1 rid In Ar- In New Now Jan. 2S. With a dirk fourteen Rnd lurid talon of much lonKOr tho printed in hM a H yearn an runaway from at the Union Station He IB hold at iho honin while nn effort in to with hlc SELF FOR CONQUEROR OK OJINAGA AND INSISTS HE DOBS NOT SEEK IS IK Advancement by Who He Will I Mexico If Jan. cisco military commander of the rebel disclaimed any to become president of Mexico In the event the revolution IB He said that although his victories against the Huerta forces at and Chihuahua had to he did not to overshadow General whom he recognized as the leader of the become president he would receive my support and I would obey his said General proof of my loyalty and as evidence that I have no ambition to become president I would leave the country If he ordered me to do have never been In but the fullest accord with General said General never had any personal ambition to reach high T am man only and I am for the liberation of my not to elevate I am only a soldier under command of my chief and I shall obey him whatever his orders may If he becomes president and tells me to set out of the country I will do It No more proof of my loyalty to Carranza could be wish all the nations of the world to know that I am not fighting to malio myself and here General Villa brought both clenched fists through the air by way of are not fighting to make any man president but we hope once all to save our country from spoliation and the ambi- tions of We are the of a republic and we are ex- terminating those who oppose a few months we have liberated half of Mexico and In a few months more we shall liberate the other Are to General Villa came to Juarez to with business interests for the resumption State and He plans to start a rebel mint and a hank as soon as He said on his return to Chihuahua he would prepare personally to command an at- tack on Sand who was reputed to have been on a to create an ance between General Villa and the Felix Diaz returned from Chihuahua with said he would go to Mexico sums of money were said to have been paid the rebels for the safe conduct to the border for forty-eight members of the f A movement In the Interest of Huerta to Invade Mexico from El Is said to have failed when the treasurer of the federal junta left with the The Junta had recruited 200 former federals and of it was The men expected to take the field west of El Paso and oppose Villa and Bui the money which was raised to buy arms was taken by the secret service men and tho Junta GENERAL IS HIGHLY PRAISED Secretary Blind for Manner In Which He Handled Border Situation at Former Senator Left Public Life of Fifty Years Poor Jan. rison today wrote Brigadier General Tasker H. commanding American troops the Texas com- mending him for the activity and rare degree of with which ho has handled the border care of the Mexican refugees from will be pleased if you will com- the substance of this letter to the officers and men under your com- so that they may know their ice is appreciated at its true the DOG'S LOVE IS FATAL TO BABY Infant In for Safety and Collie Turns on Spigot New Jan. Scotch collie's fondness for ft Gladys Is believed to have been the rect cause of the child's death by ing in the bathtub of a Bronx borough home late last At an inquest today it developed the had been left alone in the with only the dog for the pre- caution taken for the one's safety being to place her In tho well with blankets and The it Is pressed ita paw on the spigot handle when peering Into tub to look at Its baby and started the water The baby was YOUTH IS SAVING Sled Into Telegraph Another Fatally Jan. boy wna fatally Injured and ton of n party hurt today when Donald who was tho sent It crashing Into n pole to avoid striking a Partridge was killed almosi and Leonard vnn so badly In- jured lhat he can hot re- SHELBY M. Of 111., Jan. informed today of the death in Washington of former Senator Shelby M. Governor Edward Dunne Issued a statement in which he Senator Cullom through the fiery ordeal of holding public office for fifty years without ever having been accused of himself in public and died comparatively The governor urged the honor of a public funeral from the officials citizens of and telegraphed his condolences Miss Victoria a relative of Senator Cullom in ing to her Senator Cullom be given a public funeral by TREATY MS ALL POINTS IT IS PROPOSED TO ARBITRATE QUESTIONS THAT MAY ARISE Of- NATIONAL Jan. of all questions may Including involving national is posed in a the terms of which agreed upon today by Secretary Bryan mi Tt is expected that tho new treaty will In tho near future and MTV Bryan is optimistic over the reception it will be given in the The convention which will be an of the principle of Mr. an's proposals makes no reservation whatever in the be sub- to Its basis a con- vention between Denmark and Rome Dec. 19, 1905, which obliges the signatory powers to sub- mit to arbitration at the Hague court all disputes of whatever nature that may arise between them and could not have been settled by It that a vision of treaty ing the nationals of either country as arbitrators will not ba a feature of the It Is that favorable ress is being made toward the sion peace convention with Great DAUGHTER HARRIES Minn Youngest Daughter of Late Bride of Ralph H. Son of New Jan. Marion fourth and youngest daughter of the late Mayor William J. was married here to Ralph Hey wood son of Henry Heywood New Jersey It was explained that no formal an- of the engagement had been made because of the recent death of the city's City officials were among the guests at a reception ing the quiet Mr. who is 23 years spent a year at Yale and then traveled He is a descendant of Jonathan first governor of As Miss Mrs. Isham drove an automobile and several times was a winner of blue ribbons at horse shows at Belmont Park and Square ALt OF ENGLAND ASTONISHED General Botha's Action In Ten linden From Africa Taken Country by Special Cablegram to Jan. 1914. by ths New York eial Botha's dramatic step In summarily deporting ten labor leaders from South Africa took England by Two views are held of the wisdom and expediency or the In labor circles the feeling IB one of astonishment and but employers who suffered from syn- themselves port the which they aay might well be Tht conference at Glasgow demands tho recall of Lord RADIUM AUK of nnd Con- R. G. of Now Jersey and Miss garet daughter of Bishop of the who nre revolving radium treatment were to bo Improved In tion INLAND Part of Jan. A now Island In and foot In bright has Appeared south of one of the Honin DEATH'S SABLE PALL VEILS FORMER SENATOR FROM BREATHES HIS LAST AT INGTON OX YEARS III Retina Statesmen Wan Yean Great of to See to Jan. Senator M. Cullom of Illinois died here today after an illness of more than a during which he hovered between life and Ills last words were a wish that ho might have lived to aee the completion of the national memorial to Abraham who was his personal his retirement from the senate last March Mr. Cullom has been resident commissioner of the commission created by congress to build the coln A little more than a week Mr. lom was taken 111 with la age put his recovery beyond He 86 years The former senator's last were divided between spells of ness and short intervals in which he those at his It was decided to have a brief funeral service at the Cullom home on at 10 o'clock tomorrow and take the body to 111., on the train at a. m. The former senator's first and second wives and several children are buried at The adjourned for the day as a mark of respect to the memory of the former senator when his death was by Senator Had Served Fifty Moore Cullom's death fifty years of continuous public service that had made him a figure In American national life and brought him into olal relations with every from Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow President Taft once said of here's my old friend Uncle he comes nearer connecting the ent with the days of Washington than any one else whom I As a plow driving his father's over the fresh prairie of he had known and talked with the ors of the and of the rugged foundations of a life begun in pioneer hardships of a family of twelve children had built a career that took him to the Illinois legislature as a two terms In the service in tho national house of representatives and thirty con- years in the United States His nearest living contemporary ably is Uncle whose senior he was some seven years by birth and years in national Andrew Jackson was president of the United States when Mr. Cullom was born in 1829, down In the Elk Spring Valley of near the where the Culloms of Maryland and the Coffeys of North drifting ward with the tides of Immigration that set In at the close of the founded their early the year Mr. Cullom recently wrote to illustrate the epoch In which he began crown of Great Britain descended from King George IV to King William that reign passed away and I have lived to see the long reign of Victoria come and the reign of King Edward come and and the accession of king George V. Charles V ruled in Francis I in Frederick William III In las I in while Leo XII governed the papal the kingdom of Italy not yet having come into The United Kingdom Britain and Ireland had not yet a population of all No iman who had not served his country in some capacity in the revolutionary war had been elevated to the presidency of the United and this wae the case until 1843." Chicago Wan Small Times and events in his own country were no lesE and his part In them was a marked Kentucky was a slave state at his the controversy which was to hatch into a great civil war was in the process of the Culloms moved to Illinois to be In a free and Chicago was then a small The elder Cullom was then a friend of the struggling backwoods lawyer to Young Cullom's first lection of the future war president was under such Scraping gether tha rudiments of an education gained by tolling over rough primeval he became successively a student at Mount Morris a country school teacher and a being ad- mitted to the bar at Springfield In 1856. When he became city attorney of he launched upon a political which for n record of unbroken service Is unchallenged as exceeding that of any other Among his political experiences was the novelty of being elected and defeated at the same He was elected to tho tur and defeated us an elector on tha Then the historic Lincoln nnd Douglas debates and lom's association with whom he followed into the ranks of the republican Ho presided over the session of the Illinois house at after Fort had been fired Stephen A. appeared and mado his dramatic plea for the preservation of the During the first of President Lincoln's second term Mr. Cullom came to tho tional house of representatives and gnn a work which was practically only when he two terms of soon Culloni Washington life and tlm young 1-iKlnla- tor WAS a of committee that demanded the of tho president's body to Then when the country to recover from what a final blow and the tion in the thirty-ninth
