Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - January 8, 1908, Washington, District Of Columbia The Post the leading newspaper of the National because Washington want the news of the world every day In the and they find It only In The to-day and diminishing westerly Temperature 42i 25. NO. JANUARY 8, 1908.-FOURTEEN THREE Wife Sends Bright Greeting Across Court THREE JURORS ACCEPTED They Escape Peremptory Challenge of State and Selected Dismissed Without Reason and Four Stricken by Each New Temporary Selections m Mrs Holman Forgives Son-in-law and Says She Hopes for LUXURIES FOR Rooms at Hotel and dinners there Luncheons at cafe Will cost more than 000 a week i JURORS SELECTED No E MELS broker About years old and has two children foreman No R ING baker About fifty married and has several No W dry merchant About sixty years old and a widower I in i jurors sworn ii t i ti U u ind for II inj K suited to i tin lift ind ses ions of the u Ju tuc Polling in tin trim f th Court In lid in the box four subject st 11 to i r il i nhi t i s nil proposed were I i lestion il to u session the storm of t s left but thite sur 1-. in th ind It was agreed bo sworn is nucleus i infl art Ch E 1 ship broker who is to be u N Naething and ml W Gary dry goods I 11 I th f I r r a i t i1 r jurors are George i tit nines isent Join R M mmn kcr ml Thomas T C r inston Watch Is i i t if the to d ly paused v MI nt V t desman who said I t M told t x t I r 11 e tint he been d t n rou it room As u I the i i c I i ui t ii the court room M int concern He i t Kc ind VA issc i t I 1 the m to look f r the il lit ren m foi pie kpr t 1 i i up UK n i i i I m 1 11 I tl f we re i 1 m nib rs if 1 ist Side u ml t to th nil I I in Ii nl e iph fin a 1 i i n i L l i 1 i i tt m n u ho ii id been so I i tie l in tli in ii ip I ill t in i pie mint frune of 1 1 Ii v 1 t p n i h t t tl r Hitei Knie kcr on 1 e e t wine h will i I n u e foi flie illy I i i n boon engaged i I e tli trill starts twelve juroi s I tt n 1 mil stay night U I I to Usurp out I t -in it he about l u I tl have t t I i s re M int U n 1 lu i hro in the Ins his 1 it i J is ili Mrs Evelyn Ne s t I i xi cd tl mt a halt hour i in th it her automobile h id L i I in i 1 nt in the Howe v coming n n S i 1 ol pel is well is she had i 1 t n ml smiled at hpr hus i 1 w i be em red the court i oom i i h it a ph incc during the si p n pc sin 1 I i i le i i r ie u i e u a s 11 t n t i ii in First Juror of Day il in II I hens s c of a sig 1 t I ntn 1 e was the first lio f I t it the session Then i h Moon i was ex I l is in knew Stanford White s i i til sme n excused in a rush n I u n Mr Littleton leeran a lone and ida futil ot I N I who hi 1 in about t e i It American was selected as the next Juror The third Juror of the day was Otto who is an assistant superintendent for the John Hancock Life Insurance The fourth was Frederick W a shipping Did Not Want to Pitcher said he did not want to serve because he was paid by the Job and when he didn't work he paid He knew of only one reason why he might not be a fair asked Mr against expert 'A great many of us have said Mr Jerome Pitcher said he would hear mony of experts and pass on it although he would scrutinize it closely you against body In this asked Mr. Littleton might I am called to That raised a great and Mr. said the responsibility would be divided he would not carry resentment into the I ox with and when he added that he felt that he could be a fair juror he was accepted It was the close of the afternoon sion when the box was Albert H who 13 secretary of the lord Fish out after a brief Peremptory Challenges The full panel did not last long the dinner recess Peremptorily challenging one another of the con- District Jeromo and Mr for the emptied the box of all but three These were c and and thus are finally accepted for the trial panel By Juror who was No 10 in the tentative was excused District Attorney Jerome then challenged Jiu Goss and Frazier Tl 0 defense challenged Jurors and Tl aw robe and faced the three accepted as they were sworn in It was decided to again fill tho nine vacant places exercising any more h nces George C a the first talesman examined during the ing qualified to cause and became a provisional Juror at No 4 Moses Greeny an insurance was next to qualify It appeared for a time as though Nathan a clothing would go on the temporary but he wab challenged by the defense John R a retired grain broker and former member of the Chicago Board of Trade broke the long of dis- and was assigned to chair No G Mr Maginn said he had an but could lay It aside Thomas F was just before adjournment Mrs. Holman Forgives Added interest was given to the trial by the announcement that Mrs Charles J mother of Evelyn Nesbit 11-aw, now at her home in burg 1 as forgiven Thaw In dispatch from Pittsburg to-day Mrs Holman Is l quoted as Nothing would please me so much as to Harry Thaw go free His wife s a daughter of my own flesh and blood I Her is Anything that Harry Thaw has said about me or done 10 me or any pain he has caused me is trivial comparison to my Interest in I i ly daughter s. happiness The Belief that I would put a straw in Evelyn b band s path to is too repulsive for thought It would be little short of unnatural for a aid in sending her own daughters husband to the I trip chair It w ab announced also that neither Howard Nesbit Evelyn's who was in New York during last nor Ida regarded as an witness for the will oome to New York to testify FLAMES FOLLOW RAGE RIOT IS INDICTED Man Whose Corner Started Panic Held for BAILED ON PRISON CHARGE County Court House at Bryson N. Not a. Single Public Record ored People Are Forbidden by Law to Be Abroad After 9 lovli U p I ute t i f ire inclined to make a dial k it Justice Mr n el Mr l i 1 Justice had been exhaust h hi ne el In a ery few tc announced without in t i uio i th it J Ties C omv a h t I Kf i it Wist street a 1 U 11 mi Irmer a of r M nt h b i n lli if u is no e fro n Mi J lomi or Mi tl is i Ion IX xt r a stock broker was pit tti m extremely ln ition s lid lie bael an opinion and tike it to the jury box with him but u ml In t let tt Interfere with his 1_iu nt Mr Jerome liked him but Mr f i tl ton won a point when he got Mr ti it would elen to change his opinion Justice D then made a ruling excluding tilt sin n who hid opinions which would evidence to remove This post 1 of m my talesmen subsequently ex- C an accountant for the 1EWSP4PERS Special to The Pest son N. C Jan. 7 county together with all the was burned last night The county i attribute the fire to negroes im- plicated in the race riots here in five white men were wounded and killed Not a single lic d 101 inent saved Tne mayor's of Tice and that of the city clerk were in the court house Both tho county commissioners and town council held special Joint meetings to-day and a curfew ordinance was passed which is applicable to the i nly and requires that all negroes must ho off the street by 9 o'clock at night th mise they will be arrested and A number of negroes have been ar resud in connection with the and ire bring held without ball to await the action of the Superior Court MAP OF ERIN DEATH TO SNAKE Wriggling Reptile Curled Up and Died on Turf from Special to The Washington Post Jan opening of th Irish Exposition at Madison Square Garden to-night was bj a miracle One of the earlj arrivals to the story goes brought a am deposited it on the map of mad of turg from various counties of th Isle Tim the umpire saw the evil and down upon the scene to prevent tion the which had been and had no touched the soil than it turned over on its and died snake will bi in and exhibited Surplus Money Can Be Made To earn money by depositing same in bank ing of Union Trust Co 15th H sts Interest paid pn all accounts Business an accounts Gov t control of Mercantile Bank Checks Counsel for Banker and Copper Magnate Declares that Accusation Is an for Heinze Had Borrowed Half Million and Transferred It to Credit of er's by Whom Checks Were Cases Under New Jan. by the Federal grand Jury for the of fifteen in the over and drawn by the firm of Otto Heinze Co. on the Mercantile National Fritz Augustus the copper magnate and former president of the Mei can tile National rendered himself and was re- leased on The which contains thirty charges the catlon of fifteen checks drawn on the National Bank last the specific offense on which bench warrant for Mr. arrest was sued being alleged to have been com- mitted on October 14 This is alleged to have been made on a check drawn on the Mercantile National Bank by the firm of Otto Heinze the members of which were Mr. two Otto C and Arthur P. and Max H. The check was drawn to the order of Gross and was for the sum of 40. For some time there have been mors of proceedings against some of the chief actors In the city's financial affairs in the period Just pre- ceding the disturbance in banking cles last October The indictment of Heinze is the result and from what could be learned to-day the present Heinze indictment is only a beginning More Under United States Attorney Henry L Stimson said this In- into financial conditions Is not ended by this indictment It is still going of it would be improper for me to give any hint as to the individuals and banking institutions whose acts are under The Indictment against Heinze was voted about two weks and the dis- attorney's office has been at work ever since in preparing the indictment An arrangement was made by which Heinze should surrender a bench warrant had been issued by United States Circuit Judge Chatfield Edward counsel for Heinze introduced him to United States Marshal Henkel this afternoon Henkel escorted him to the office of United States Com- missioner Shield Here Heinze was held in bail to appear and plead to the indictment to-morrow morning before Judge Bail was furnished by a surety company Counsel Denies After an examination of the indictment Mr Lauterbach said to-night the certification was F Augustus Heinze obtained the discount of a note of secured by abundant stock exchange worth at the market rates of that day more than and drew his check for to the credit of Otto Heinze the amount of which should have been passed to their as I think it certainly was no willful intent within the statute to overcertify not even to the extent that over- certification is practiced every day li Wall street by all the banks as a matter of business necessity Heinze Precipitated Whatever may have caused the bank panic of last it was precipitated by the disclosure that followed the col- lapse of corner in United Copper which was engineered by Otto C Heinze Co In the curb market Ai that time F Augustus Heinze was presi dent of the Mercantile National Bank and as a result of the in into that institution s affairs a day or two after the copper corner s total collapse Heinze and all the directors of the bank among them Charles W and the clearing house as virtual control of the bank's af fairs Otto C and Arthur P Heinze were among the directors who F Augustus Heinze is of Brooklyn birth and about forty years old He graduated fiom Columbia School of in 1889, and went at once to where he early became a factor 11 the mining situation He soon went to ac quired some and sole them at a and returned fc Montana His practice was to pick cheaply mines abandoned by and mak them big winners His most famous ex of this performed will the celebrated Minnie mine tha Daley He was In in the United Copper in trying to corner which his firm came t grief The special grand jury chosen sider the conduct of New Yoik financia institutions began its work to-day by lak ing up the case of the Provident In surance Company Penalty Is Five to Ten Mr Comptroller of the Cur yesterday that when th trouble with the Mercantile Bank bagan he sent a representative t New York to co-operate with the distric and he had no doubt that th action now brought was one of the re ults of that He tire for a check on a bank was a term of not more ban ten or less than five years in When asked whether he looked for other arrests on other Mr. Ridgely aid It a rare thing1 for a national ank to fail without the having the national bank and he would not be surprised if other cases mere brought to KENT Landlords Told Fires in Buildings Will Follow New Jan. that their would be burned If they evicted he tenants flooded the Bast Side ords The warnings were to have come from the rent nd In general were on post d as will but after your house ias been vacated the fire department will THE RED FLAG Point was given to the threats by a re to-day at a Madison street where the demands of the occupants for ower rents had been Applications for dispossess papers have een so heavy that several of the courts were forced to refuse to consider any more until Many of the are delaying evictions by ng the stoves In their apartments red When the marshals arrive they are compelled to wait until the stoves cool before they can put them in the street with the other B MAW Miss M. A. of Hew Becomes Bride of to The Washington Poet Jan. The wedding of Miss M. Adelaide daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elgin B. L. of this and Charles of was at 4 oclock this afternoon in St. Bartholomews The Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks and Bishop Oreer Miss Gould wore a princess satin gown with a court train and a point and duchess lace which was worn also iy her mother at her Her only was a diamond thee bridegrooms Mrs. Lyttleton B was the of Among the maids were Floren of of brother of he was best Among he ushers were Clarke of and B. Mulford of Richn Va After a trip Mr and Mrs Ingram will live in Baltimore SCHOOLBOYS TAUGHT TO Woman and Two Men Arrested on the Charge of Corrupting to Tha Washington New Jan. of the moral condition of children of public school No 120 atj 187 Brome op- the University about which Miss Olive M principal of the has sent complaints to Com- missioner led to-night to the arrest of a two and a boy The who was said he was Harry Scobel Scobel was locked up at police charged with violating the penal which deals with the question of improper ship After a long talk with the the detectives went to 175 Essex and there arrested Martin and Fanny Ecoff and Jacob charged with violating the penal code by corrupting the morals of children According to the Icoff would become acquainted with the and then Introduce them to his who says she is eighteen years old The according to the were taught to pick pockets and to other forms of vice by the FRIENDS DIE ON SAME and Cram Oldest Presidents of Fire Insurance St Jan an of hree Capt George Taylor yenrs president of the American Central Insurance died at his home here to-day He had served longer as president of an ance company than any other man in the with one that of George L of the Hartford mce Company of Wio also died to-day Capt Cram died at 6 a m just three after the demise of Mr Chase Capt Cram had served as an insurance company president since 1875, Mr Chase since 1S67 They were personal friends New York Jan has been re- in this city of the at France of George Bishop of who recently took charge of all the Episcopal churches on the continent of where he Bishop resigned 8 IN One Man Is Two Are and Five Six Vats Plunge Into Brewery Firemen Wade Waist Deep in Beer and New Jan a steel was two men are and five others were seriously Injured to-day in the collapse of two floors of a three-story known as the brew of the Nay Co on Tenth avenue It Is be- that the collapse was caused either by improper shoring or the explosion of ammonia The building was undergoing repairs and eight men were working inside the structure when the floors collapsed Six each containing 2 OCO gallons of beer plunged through the floors with a roar snapping the ammonia pipes nnd filling the air with fumes The fire department was and the firemen waded into the cellar nearly up to their waists In ammonia and beer Fleming was found crushed under a heavy One by one the workmen though five were found to be seri Two workmen could not be tound and they are believed to be under the debris SPECIAL SESSION West Virginia Legislature Will Begin Its Work January 28. W. Jan Daw son to-day issued a call tor a specia session of the West Virginia legislatur to convene January 28 Thirty-seven sub are embraced in the proclamation and all of them must be considered The most important which is th chief cause for calling the special session is the necessity for an act to limit th amount of Miss Ethel to Be Special to Tha Washington Post R Jan 7 Thomas Jefferson U. S N and Mrs Cowles have issued invitations to marriage of their daughter Ethel to Pass ed Assistant Surgeon Robert Emme U S N. The wedding will take place at the home of the bride's 10 Sampson row United States Naval Annapolis at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon January 22. Seaboard Florida Offers best and most reliable 1421 Pa. ave. j SEPT Water Front at Beaufort Is Wrecked by WAREHOUSES Carolina and Virginia Seaboard aged by TOOK AWAY Immigrants Returning to Europe Carried About SpecUl to The Washington New Jan. to the North German Lloyd which has made a careful computation based on the figures of steamship money and railroad more than was taken out of the United States by the immigrants who returned o their native places last year The mate is that each of the foreigners had about with him w an offset to millions that t is noted that aliens who arrived ast vear brought with according to lie estimate of the Commissioner of about Much of was furnished to the immigrants by relatives or friends in the States TRAIN DROPS 25 FEET Wind Reaches a Velocity of 75 Miles an Ship Drags Anchor and Crashes Into Hospital Ship town in Hampton and Southern Bridge Suffers Grave Fears for Two Score Passengers Hurt in Wreck of TWO TRAINMEN LIKELY TO DIE Ohio on Way to Florida and Tumbled Into Creek One Coach Broken in Two by Force of Are Taken to Atlanta Late at Jan 7 second ion of what is known as the Collver running from to St. was wrecked this afternoon between Dallas and on the Southern on a restle twenty-five feet over the nearly dry bed of Copper Mine Five of the seven cars went into the and moie than two score most of them residents of were The only seriously hurt are Engineer who was caught beneath the of his engine when it ii clearing the Road Foreman of Engines and the negro fireman Sdwards and his fireman probably will die Snapp will recover The injuries to the passengers consist chiefly of broken limbs and Injured in The injured In Atlanta hospitals H W. in- injured and badly bruised on head Mrs R. W. bruised on back and Mr. and Mrs. slightly bruised Mrs Elizabeth back hurt and probably serious internal Mr and Mrs R. E. slightly Mrs Elizabeth F slightly bruised Mrs K slightly bruised Rogers and badly cut and bruised Mr and Mrs R C F Mrs Delia Thompson Ohio Frank Gregory and wife E E. Henry and John East badly Injured H H Hodell Mrs George B Rogers Ohio Mrs Nellie Columbus Mrs P N Columbus O G. Voss Columbus Mrs Ella B. Cleveland Mrs E F Ohio G M Ga Jacob Mrs J. Roth Mrs D D Pa E N Ohio Mrs Theodore Arter Columbus Twelve whose names could not be are cared for at Tram Late at The special is an annual ex- cursion run from to points and Cuba The train was late at and it was well along toward 3 o'clock this afternoon when the second section slowed down for the trestle crossing at Copper Mine On the south side of this trestle is a The engine passed the bridge in the and turned on its side The baggage car turned over on the the heavy Pull mans crashing through the creek rested with one end in the mud and the ether on the bank above On car in the middle of the train cracked in the middle through the and pinned down Jacob of Pa and his The accident occurred near where the Seaboard Air crosses the tracks A freight train was ig on the and the conductor of freight sidetracked everything but a ca boose and one and ran fiose back to where the passengers were slowly ex themselves Forty of ihe most of them were thus into Atlanta The second relief train arrived later in the TO COME and falling to the bed of the The last an observation Morehead N. Jan. 7 most severe storm since 1879 has prevailed here to-day since 9 o'clock this morning The wind has been blowing at a rate not less than 75 miles an hour Considerable age has been done especially to At it is reported that every dock and warehouse on the water front has been swept away byl the storm eral boats are reported at a total loss Fear Great No report has been received yet from the but coasters say this storm has done great damage on the North Carolina The Norfolk and Southern Railroad a mile between Morehead City and stood the storm with the exception of two or three spans for out of line by the swift current The loss here will be considerable Norfolk Felt Jan tropical storm of unusual severity struck the Virginia and Carolina coasts early this morning and continued throughout the though with diminished severity as the day passed Torrential rains accompanied the wind and dense fogs hung over the The ocean was lashed into fury by the and shipping caught on the water was in a precarious condition The wind reached the high velocity of two miles an hour at Cape Henry be- tween 8 and 9 o'clock this morning In this city it blew forty-eight The winds before noon brought the ture of the Indies with them Await Lifting of No disasters to shipping as result of the Storm have been reported although grave fears are entertained for any vessels that may have been caught in the path of the wind The of the tempest and the lifting of the fog will be anxiously Much small damage wrought by the wind In Norfolk and in the surrounding Street car traffic was delayed In the city by the falling of trees eral small buildings were unroofed and several chimneys fell Numerous fences were laid an occasional window blown and signboards were carried So far no lives have been reported lost Newport Va Jan 7 the storm heie this the survey steamer Bache dragged her anchor and collided with the old hospital ship off Old Point Comfort Both weie damaged before the could get under way and haul off Crashed Together in of the crew of the Bache donned life preservers and boarded hospital thinking that the town had been damaged to such an ex- tent that the crew might require assist ance the Bache steamed to Nor folk for repairs The Jamestown will be brought to the ship yard here Although a fierce gale has been blowing here all day no serious damage has been reported from the local water front Va Jan 7 heavy snow and sleet storm which prevailed here to day assumed the proportions of a bliz zard The snow drifted threaten Ing to block railroad traffic HOUNDS TO TRACK HAVANA STUDENTS TO Threaten Reprisal for Governor's Decree on Pharmacy Jan. delegation of dents from the university visited Gov Magoon this afternoon and informed him of their determination to absenting themselves from all until ne should revoke his transferring the examination for licenses in pharmacy from the university to a commission After leaving Gov. the dents gathered in the square in front of the palace One of mounting a defended the action of Gov but the majority with decree close the uni- versity the GAR RUNS AWAY Passengers on Brightwood Line Are Thrown Into Conductor and Motorman Says that a Big Man Threw Them Off and Started the Rushing madly down grade with sengers on but without either motorman or car No 319 of the Brightwood avenue line last night threatened every minute to jump the track or to run into some obstruction John one of tbe dozen had almost reached his destination so he pressed the electric for the car to come to a stop When the car did not come to a halt the passengers looked about in wonder and is the born left his seat and looked first on the rear and then the front platforms He was astonished to find that neither conductor nor was on l the Instantly there was The women 4 children began and in the confusion several panes of glass were but fortunately no one was in- jured Osborn grabbed the controller to stop the but It refused to work at Finally he gained control and stopped the car The passengers were badly shaken up and one woman had A search for the conductor and man was begun Osborn walked down the track a block and met Policeman of the Tenth and in- forded hir of the passenger s experience walked another block together and the and conductor in com- pany with Policeman Clifford conductor Jacob McDonald of street northwest said that a man six feet tall and weighing in the of 200 pounds had boarded the car at the station near U street and abused him He said he went to the front platform to talk to the motorman I rank A Williams of 1310 Wallach place when the man followed and without warning hit him in the head knocking him to the ground Williams told Policeman Clifford that after ing his mate from the car the man turned on picking him up bodily tossed him from the car The man he then turned on the starting the car ahead Committee to Take Up rency Measure INTRODUCED IN THE SENATE Democrats Not Expected to Oppose the Majority's Republican Leaders Not Wedded to as It and Invite Suggestions for Betterment of Law to Make Money System More Epitome of the m Noncommittal on THE CURRENCY Provides for additional national bank currency aggregating not to exceed Currency to be secured by proved and pal bonds and by first mortgage railroad other than street that conform to certain requirements Interest at the rate of one-half of 1 per cent a to be sessed against such circulation during the time It Is The Secretary of the the Treasurer of the United and the Comptroller of the Currency to approve the ter of the securities offered Currency to be deposited In sub- so It can be readily obtained by the banks when requires When Senator Aldrich the leader of Republican forces in the Senate j day introduced the measure simple title to the national banking the initial stepb were taken in the effort to put through Con- gress at the earliest d ly lation that will lend flexibility to the money supply of the and make a repetition of the recent currency gency impossible The basis of the as shown in Tha Post yesterday is a precision that and county bonds and of com- other Linn street may be for to 7> per cent of the tion of the securities The unofficial bonds are to conform to certain and a tax of one-half of 1 per cent a month 18 imposed upon this new currency during the period that it remains in culation Take It Up Tuesday the Committee up for con- Next Finance will take the CHARGES FRAUD ON INDIANS Mr. Resolution Involves Department of Twelve Robbed on Long and Special to The Washington New Jan little strip o territory along the main tracks of th Long Island and stretching from Queens into Nassau County is said to hold the record for Since last May t have been entered and the safes blown The safe blowers seem to have had a fondness for the at the county seat of President Roosevelt's home county of Nassau Government sleuths having failed to run down the hounds are to be called A pack of five trained will be stationed at some central presumably in readiness for the next robbery Moody and Bonaparte Are Both Said to Have Ordered the Indictments POPE NOT FOR Japanese Charge d'Affaires to Announce the selection o Baron Japanese Ambassador to succeed Viscount at ington has not been It is admitted at the foreign office that the appointment has been decided It is understood that instructions have been forwarded to the Japanese charge d'affaires at Washington to announce to the State Department the appointment of Baron The In making the appointment is probably due to the desire of the Japanese government to wait the departure of Ambassador Aoki from Solid Through Train to St. Y. Florida Atlantic Coast 1119 N. Y. ave. Pontiff Denies Saying Good Government Must Be Jan 7 has been alleged that the in addressing the anti-slavery congress the other said that a to govern must be despotic and tyrannical The sentence did not pear in the official report of the and it was said that it had been Many inquiries on the subject were sent to the and as a result of these the Pope has ordered that a complete denial be that it was impossible for him to utter such a as it is opposed wholly to his principles Franklin Hub J H. 520-522 13th st The Post the Paper That Reaches the people with the full That is why it to advertise in it. Representative of Texas introduced in the House a tion in which serious charges of fraud are made in connection with the saw and Choctaw Indians and the alleged efforts of the Interior Department ney General and Attorney General Bonaparte to prevent the punishment of the alleged conspirators It is set forth in the resolution tnat on June 24, 1905 the grand jury for the Southern district of Indian Territory re- turned indictments against D H son P S George Mansfield J K McMurray and Mclvin Cornish charging them with to defraud in con- with the Chickasaw Nation cases Following the indictment it is alleged that the General of 1 who was then Mr Moody ed the United States district attorney for the Southern district of Indian W B Johnson to cause the indictments to be dismissed Mr Johnson refused to and for his refusal was dismissed from office It is then stated that on November 13 Just three diyS before the admission of Oklahoma to Statehood Attorney Mi Bonaparte sent a. telegram to George R Walker then district ney for the Southern district of Indian directing him to anJ dismiss the indictments the courts pass out of existence and the creation of the new State It is said that D H and Cornish were attorneys in the Indian citizenship cases for the purpose of keeping as many In- dians off the citizenship roll as in order that they might continue to draw the allotments from the government It Is alleged that they took the cases upon a contingent fee of 10 per and upon the estimate that the case was worth upon the average of to each Indian their fees amounted to about a minion Complaint was made against them which resulted in their indictment by the grand jury on tbe charge of conspiracy to to the exclusion of all other until it is finally agreed to and reported favorably to the Senate posed measure wis discussed Informally at yesterdays meeting of the committor at which both Republican and members were All the cans agreed to the save M- who denounced it rather and urged that his central bink be a measure IK afforded relief while from his point of the w is but and could not afford manent relief from the conditions that were compelling the Congress to The members of the com- were noncommittal but ippe to be complacent it and tho that while they might to have certain amendments made they would not antagonize the measure in any factious but would permit the to put such legislation aa it believed the situation required After the committee meeting several of the Re- publican leaders talked the matter over with influential Democrats and were pleased to learn that no obstacles would be thrown in the way of speedy and action on the May Be That the measure will be amended la seme particulars is admitted by the There will be some tion to authorizing the use of bonds on the ground that the value of such securities are to hav e too gi eat a make them security for There is no disposition to retention of this provision and If the opposition to it is it will be permitted to go out of the Neither would the Senate leaders make any great opposition to an effort to the till so that the de- posit bonds may be accepted at 85 or even 90 per cent of their market Instead of the 75 per as provided in the Senator Hansbrough is perhaps the only Republican who oppose the on the floor of tho His tion will be for the purpose of putting on record more than any attempt to defeat measure and in tris he would fall Mr brough will make a speech in favor of his central-bank and self with asking the Senate for a on that measure as a. Had Read at When Mr Aldrich Introduced the he had it read at length at the He followed this with the ment that he had been authorized by the Committee on Finance to sav that the committee would receive and careful consideration to bills sent to it having the same purpose in view that are sought in the that had just been read He requested that Senators having such bills would present them at earliest day possible Republican leaders In the a are extremely hopeful of the early passage of this They declare that they are anxious that it shall not be a partisan yet if opposition develop the
