Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - January 20, 1911, Washington, District Of Columbia PLACE YOUR ORDER TODAY For The Sunday Better than News and amusing for old and x tomorrow moderate light variable becoming Temperature 45; 23. NO. JANUARY 20, 1911.-FOUfiTEEN THREE FOR CLARK Democrats of House Indorse Him for LEADERS CARRY PROGRAM Ways and Means Chosen to Select Standing of Picked to Head Important Which Also Will Frame Tariff Legislation in Next Con- Proves and Fall Quickly Into Akin Is Read Out of WHAT THE CAUCUS Nominated Champ Clark for Speaker of the next House by Is the first time the Democrats nave ever nominated a Speaker for a Teron of New waa read out of the party by unanimous charged with having repudiated the cratic Chairman Underwood says the ways and means committee will meet Immediately after the of to consider tariff Nominated Underwood for chairman of the ways and means which will handle the Nominated thirteen other holdover members to act with Unanimously approved of the proposition to have the ways and means committee Investigate the tariff during the and pre- pare a or bills for the next Approved of the proposition to have the ways and means tee act as a committee on with the provision that none of the members of that committee will be eligible for any other standing Champ of of the next of and given a on of hli name for t' and meani committee pre- agreed upon c hosen to name standing committees and frame tariff legislation for action of tlie next a New Yoik member read out of the of a host of features of last caucus of Democratic members of the coming House There were right absentees among the old Democrats of the Congress Martin W 1 of New York was 0110 of those missing The program arranged bv the leaders was carried out almost to the letter all members being latitude of debate Mr of Mabama long the lieutenant of Mr heads the new means committee caucus developed considerable of as to the method of selecting committees hut when the time came for the tion tho to tlie Speakers selection was beaten 29 to and the placing that rower in the wai s and means tee carried bv 1S6 to 7 Personnel of Oscar I of chaliman of the and means committee bv The other thirteen names which c of the went through with the same relerin were Ollie M. James of C B of Cardell of drew J of Massachusetts tam tt of William of New 's of Claude of Lincoln of W of M. of A Mitchell of Pennsylvania and Francis Burton of New York While the was still going on comment was made freely that there was not a single Ohio man on the committee none of the men who attended the CAUCUS would make any formal some of them described it as against Gov. Harmon of Ohio T T of called attention to the when in seconding the nomination of Champ for he made this ment behalf of the sixteen members of the Ohio which will second the nomination of Gov Harmon of for the in 1912. I second the nation of Mr Clark for the Speakership to the actual count of one of the friends of Champ no less than three men applauded the mention of Harmon's name It waa a delicate situation The New delegation has Its the New Jersey delegation Its the delegation Its Toss and the souri delegation Its own Champ Clark Tt was believed mam that Harmon had been dragged In hi the and the absence of enthusiasm earned its re- Speech the Big From confusion of Ideas as to the the appointing of committees should be handled the speech of Representative Fitzgerald stood out as the big of the caucus Quoting Gov Wilson of New he slashed the new-fangled idea of having the House elect the standing committees as an From Dr umo of Congressional con- ON FOURTH CHOSEN BY Ways and means committee nominated at last night's which will select committees of the next Oscar W. M. C. B. Cardell Tennessee A. J. W. G. William New W. S. Claude North Lincoln D. W. H. M. A. M. F. B. New TO TALLEST Woolworth Plans Block 58 taling 750 Feet to The Washington Poit New Jan Woolworth to be erected by Frank W. on the block in Broadway opposite the is to be the tallest in the world the building was to be 45 stories but since Mr Woolworth succeeded in buying the Warwick ing at the northwest corner of Broadway and Barclay which gave him con- trol of the block up to Park it is said that he has decided to increase the height of the building to The reports have it that the building decided on bj Mr Woolworth will bo 60 feet higher than the top of the Metro- and about 140 feet above the Singer tower It will measure 750 feet from the curb to the top cupolas The main building will be 30 stories and the which will be built either in the middle on Broadway at the Park place will be 28 stories er The It is will cost The site has cost 000 TOO MUCH Mr. Wickersham Deplores the Criticism of BOOT FOR FEWER STATUTES Judges Too Prone He to Restate Settled Law in New Forms in Their May Come When We Must Bum Our Books and Begin at N Y Jan. 19 oral a warning tonight against the popular to blanches of the government lie before an audience of mot e than 400 jurists and Tjho gathered in Syracuse for the annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association T States Senator Ulhu Root presided candid must admit that a higher of pre- vails in both public and life than before in our declared General more rigid ition of this aid la demanded the people to the conduct of all concerned with our and municipal Warns Against The attorney then declared that of the of political m the past has resulted In a popular distrust of them and of those In in them and that various tendencies ghe rise to the in- whether there is not danger that the movement toward better government may Ignore the constitutional channel Into should be and through It may accomplish its laudable aims and legitimate without damage to the structure of our Senator Root nas the er tit the session Tie pleaded fot In the administration of law I said he our judges could realize officially hat so mam of them agree to restating settled law In however well It is rather than the administration of tho that the briefest of opinions usually an- swers purpose of the particular and that the general interests of prudence justify reasoned opinions only when some question of law Is which has not been determined before by equal authority The the and the public that there Is undue delay in our judicial proceedings Senator Root pointed out that decisions at The were reached without complicated modes of and he continued share with England and Tier colonies a highly artificial and of rules of evidence such as obtain nowhere else in the civilized world Overwhelmed With mass of our statutes has grown so great that the volumes constitute a librae in and require an- other library of indexes and digests and guides to ascertain what the law Is. We are continually to simplify this condition bj consolidations and revisions and codifications all of which are The mass of judicial reports has grown so great that it begins to seem as If be- fore long we shall to burn our books like the Romans and begin anew where decisions can be found in t of side of every authority is in a great measure and we do begin anew in mining bj the light of reason which shall be followed Tomorrow evening the annual banquet will be held Senator Root will preside Among the speakers will be Attorney General Chancellor and Justice of the kings Ontario Baltimore and Ohio 1o A Quickest time no chanse of cars direct connection at Joisey ity with ferry for Libel st and the and toi West 23d st uptown Stricken While in New York SUCCUMBS TO APOPLEXY Hardening of His Arteries Brings On As President of the Equitable Life surance He Had Attended a Board Then Went to Confer With Fainting in way of Never Regains Con- Arrives After New Jan dent of the Equitable Life Assurance Secretary of the Navy under dore and son of the late J. Sterling Secretary of ture under President died of cerebral in the Hotel 60 West Fortieth Mr. his friends had gono to Hotel Seymour to keep an appointment with Paul J a It was explained at the hotel that a maid had noticed Mr Morton in a faint in hallway outside of suite 55, on the fifth Just about 5 o'clock This suite been vacated by Mr. Kiernan at 3 o'clock in the after- noon and he had been moved to a larger suite The maid notified the telephone and Fred C. manager of the rushed up to the fifth He helped the maid to assist Mr Morton into the vacant Dr Henry Pearson was but he could do I Mr Morton's wife and his elder brother Joy were summoned to his hut he was dead at 6.45, a few utes before they arrived and an hour after he was His close E J arrived a few ments perhaps ten minutes before he breathed his but he was scious fiom the moment of the and neither recognized those about him nor spoke The office is satisfied that the death resulted from natural and there will be no Mr. Morton himself had no idea that his life was in but his his and a few close friends Knew that his condition was precarious and that if he did not take care of self grave results would Joj immediately after he left the room Where the body gave a full account of his ill health sudden Awaited Him at and I took luncheon together at noon he said had come on here from Chicago only this and Paul met me at the We went to the Equitable building where at Paul's request I attended the ing of the board of directors at which he presented me Then we had luncheon together in the and sat talking until half past 2 I had other business and so had be you at the house at 6 or a little I said and we parted I never saw him alive At 5 o'clock I dropped into his thinking we might go uptown but the left before me So I went on up to the house where I met Mrs. Morton and we drank tea knew that Paul had promised me to be home at 6 or and as it grew she turned to me and said isn't it odd that Paul's always so The words were out of her mouth before the tele- phone and the butler brought bad he 'the Hotel telephones that Mr. Morton has just Was Refused a jumped into an automobile and were there in a Mr Edward J. wind was there before us They had tele- to tlie Metropolitan to Paul's and to others 8f his friends was on the fifth where he had an appointment with a lawyer whose name I'm not sure of. told us that he had fainted in the on his wav to his friend's and that they carried him into a vacant apartment let me tell jou a little about my brother's health About the first of last December the Equitable got out what it called a Christmas and when everything was in gested that it would be fitting to make out the first policy in the name of the president 6f the company Paul was ex- and Dr. the examiner of the rejected it was a but Paul never dreamed how serious was his case It alarmed the and we hacT him come on to Chicago to be ex- bv Dr Frank Billings I was about December 5. Paul laughed at us only trying to scare I remember he Had Dr. Billings didn't tell Paul all he but he did tell me. brother's blood pressure is too he has And then he explained that autointoxication is a condition in which the body does not rid itself of the toxins it and so the sufferer In he diagnosed cerebral thrombosis My father died of precisely similar conditions on April 27, 1902 I came on to New York to find out what they thought Dr Isaac Adler the family told me that Paul was suffering from a and arterial condition indicating Bright's Wells told me that he had rejected Paul because his tests showed traces of albumen he feeling the effects of what we call an unbalanced I tell you a little about Paul's habits that phrase will explain itself He i very temperate man He ate drank and smoked not at all For fast lie would eat sometimes a nothing more For luncheon he CONTINUED ON THIRD INDORSE TAFT FOR 1912. New York County Republican tee Fears Roosevelt j Special to The Washington New Jan. Republican county committee at Its monthly ing tonight passed a resolution pledging itself to work for the of President Taft next The resolution was brought forward on the suggestion of who fear an attempt at domination of Republican affairs of the State by Col. Roosevelt The which was proposed by Representative William S says the high regard in which President Taft has always been held throughout the country is daily and his strength with the people constantly That each assembly district committee be requested to commence at active work for 1912 upon the sumption that our campaign will be based upon our achievements as licans that our nominee for dent will be William H. JAPAN COULD SEIZE THE So Says Representative in an Address at V Special to The Washington Jan could seize the Bremerton government navy five great transcontinental fortify mountain and have an empire upon which to live before the United States could get troops to the declared Representative W. E. of at Lake Association banquet here The Inefficiency of the United States merchant marine was the subject of his He nations of the know we are utterly unprepared for They know our army Is too and that our navy is practically helpless because we have no merchant vessels as an PACKERS CLAIM Administered in 1906 Still Jan. to quash the indictments against them were made in the Federal district court by the ers under indictment here The packers set forth that the administered in 1306 by Judge still and that no action of theirs prior to that year can be either as explanation in the present On these grounds the packers allege that indictments drafted against them were illegally Packers the motions are Louis F Edward F. Charles H A Edward J Ogden Arthur Thomas J. Edward and Louis H. Heyman HIS WINS Gift to Polite to The Washington Post Ind Jan years ago Frank L a passenger con- ductor on the New and Louis bowed politely as handed Mrs. Jennie L a rich her ticket after punching it. they became warm Mrs Schofield died in 1908 and be- Bunnell her entire estate of ignoring Edward her of and William her of The Howards sought to break the will in the court of common pleas at Mrs. who lives here won the The ards then appealed to a higher alleging that Mrs of un- Today the decision of the lower court was TIE PIN MAY COST HIM Seeking High Beats His Breast and Wounds Mich Jan. to reach a high note in a song brought Richard of Vinewood to St Mary's where he lies today In a critical Sunday evening who was the tenor in a family found difficulty in reaching a high and beat his chest to clear the bronchial passages necktie pin was drivAi deep into his and part of it re- mained In the breastbone when young man's mother broke the in trying to withdraw it. One proved and the physicians will make another effort to dislodge the pin Lara is 19 years old EMERSON SEEKS A DIVORCE Wealthy Baltimore Drue Man's tion Kept Names a Prominent Baltimore Mrs. Who Is 111, Will Make No Jan. became known today that yesterday papers in which Capt Isaac E a millionaire diug man of and widely known in this country and asks for an absolute divorce from his were placed in the hands of Judge Charles W of the circuit by attorneys for Capt. The papers were immediately and all having knowledge of their contents re- fuse to give out any information about Reports that divorce proceedings were in contemplation have been current since last November Mrs. Emerson is at her home in this but is said to be and no one is allowed to communicate with Capt Emerson attended the Democratic banquet here on but is now said to be In New It is reported on authority that Capt Emerson asks divorce on that he names a known Baltimorean as corespondent 4.30. Columbia 25c to NO SHE Carnegie Medal Girl Tells of Fright While Saving Special to The Washington Poet Jan O the pretty 16-year-old student at the Margaret Morrison Carnegie who has been voted a bronze medal and for education by the Carnegie hero com- mission for life does not like being called a heroine and slapped on the back She said so today of being very brave and all when I went the water after Philip Fackenthall I must confess that I Was scared almost to stammered the tittle heroine today been a good swimmer since I was 10 years and I don't think I did anything BO I heard the man and I saw his scared and I was out of the boat diving for him before I if I had think I would not have it. but I didn't have time to I didn't have time to even get frightened until after I was with Mr. to keep him from ing up on my Miss Bromley is studying cooking at the Margaret Morrison She will go to the home of her a Pa. Friday night and ask whether she shall the SWINDLERS GET New Yorker Bets on in THREE MEN OPERATE FRAUD Albany Manufacturer at First Places Small Amounts on and Then He Wagers a Large and NeV With Vanish From S. Peter a of was swindled out of in bogus race track operations with three unknown the operations ex- tending over a of three Capt. of the detective hag notified of the and is making every effort to hend the By getting Servais to place small bets in their hands and allowing him to win several times on supposed horse the swindlers induced him to turn over with which to carry on ther He did not get cious until the men failed to keep an appointment with him yesterday time they had promised give his Inside have good OJC the One the name of. a Second gave name of. but the third was not Servais says the police believe that the three are skilled gamblers and may attempt other swindles in nearby to told to the he was asked to enter the game by Berg Berg later Introduced him to other two the three posing as close friends who had inside Information on race track Lewis claimed to be the operator of a and it was he who had charge of laying the supposed Servais came to Washington he told Capt. That morning as he was walking down the steps of the Washington lie he was accosted who appeared to be very much and who of Servais if he had seen an from the top of the jgervais re- plied that he had seen no but consented to walk uptown with Berg to search for the When the two reached Fourteenth street and New York avenue they met the two other whom Berg introduced as his Servais alleges Grow in The men led the conversation around to and Berg asked Servais if he wished to lay a wager on a race Servais and turned over Lewis took the money and saying he was going to his poolroom to make He later returned and informed Servais that he had giving him as his Servais then laid an- other bet of winning this time getting The men then attempted to persuade Servais to wager a larger but he refused until Berg counted out produced a check for drawn on a Canadian and told Lewis to bet it on the next This convinced Servais that the men were and be over to j In company he then left for with the intention of drawing more The pair returned to Washington Thursday and Servais gave Lewis to The three men promised to meet vais yesterday morning and give him his share of the When they did not meet him he reported the whole thing to the VACCINATION CUBES Dr. H. of the New York State Tells of His to The Washington N. Jan. with the introduction into the legislature of a by State Senator Loomis for a appropriation for the New York Cancer Laboratory the was made today by H. of the that he has discovered a cure for cancer and has successfully demonstrated It in case of a boy 17 years experiments with said brought results that justify us In believing we have a In the case of the boy an operation had been recommended to remove the which was located on his The boy's parents aitt so the vaccine treatment The vaccine gradually removed the and now all trace of it has Baltimore and Baltimore and Every Saturday and All trains both both except Royal BIG SENATE West Virginia Situation Holds Interest DIVERGENT VIEWS GIVEN Question Is Based on tbe Legality of Quitting of Republicans in Upper Branch of Legislature Leaves Other Party in Condition in Ohio Years Election in Montana Held it Legal to Act as an blage of INDEX TO TODAY'S Caucus for Senator Root for Fewer Paul Morton Swindlers Get His West Virginia Senatorial Charleston Democrats Make Overtures Teachers Oyster Says Parlors Straus Milk Plant Search for Desiccated York Deadlock Defense in Schenk Case Reports Mann's Words Against His In the Political to Protest to Presented to Ellen Convicted of Jilted Girl May Keep Betrothal Bank Inquiry in Alexandria The West Virginia political with the probability of a tie-up and quent failure to elect two United States senators to Succeed Scott and his late Mr is ing the keen attention of statesmen of both parties in Opinion as to the legality of called organization of the State senate Is but In the Judgment of some very good so the tion of a senator vis that Is of is denied by but there would seem to be precedents in the settlement of con- tested election cases that would Justify those who contend there should be no un- usual delay in election of The Democrats have an undisputed in the lower house of the State assembly and a majority on Joint ballot The senate is evenly fifteen being Republicans and fifteen Tile action of the fifteen In ing the State and taking refuge in where they may avoid any ess of the State authorities compelling their leaves the fifteen Democratic senators as the sole representatives of that Republican lawyers say that fifteen senators do not a quorum of a house consisting of 30 and that until a legal quorum Is no business can be Insist Fifteen Is Legal This would seem to be cratic lawyers put the case an entirely different light Of the fifteen can senators all of them are holdovers from the last general assembly but were elected last In der to prevent the organization of senate four not appeared qualified eay the the senate of but 26 of which IB ly is a quorum entitled to transact However that may on Tuesday the Democratic senators voted to oust a Republican from the First and seated the Democratic contestant It is claimed that this done because there was not a quorum present capable of passing this vote of Whether this Is or Is not may largely upon how it Is shown the record in the case Is made-up If there was no Republican present to demand a roll call when this action was and the vote cast viva the record would disclose neither the absence nor the presence of a simply the fact such action taken by an vote of the If that action is permitted to then the say the undoubtedly have a clear majority of the full senate membership Precedent in There Is a precedent for this line of procedure in the Ohio about the middle the Democrats fled from the and went to to bring about a condition cal with that precipitated In West The Democrats in Ohio left one member on guard to demand a roll call on every their object being to show by the record the absence a legal One day this Democrat was not and the seats of the contested delegation Were declared and the Republican contestants The record did not disclose the absence of a legal tor no roll call was that never was successfully Two or three of the best lawyers in the Senate yesterday gave it as their based upon the Best information ob- regarding the that the West senate was fully organized and capable of Exercising all the tions of a coordinate branch of the making power of that As a matter of the United States Senate hag in the contested election case in- the of C. of that a legislature in a senator may act under the law as an of rather than as two organized legislative bodies In Montana as in West Virginia the senate was equally divided Half body met with the Democratic members of the House and half the ate membership met with the Republican membership of the house Position of In this case the senate refused to agree to the doctrine that to elect a senator there must be in existence a or at least capable of the and that when this function Is inter- or or has never been set in motion because either house re- fuses to recognize and act in concert with the or because the governor refuses to treat either as possessed of legislative there is. In no legislature in tire constitutional and no body competent to elect a would be a strange condition of said the report or the committee In this the governor of. a or the President of the United by a simple refusal of suspend all legislative functions Such a which rests wholly on ON THIRD PAGE FINDS Two Widows Fighting for Man's Body When Third Arrives to Wed Jan. A summer romance was blighted when Miss Cora who came here today from to become a found her James S. of. In- diana two claiming the man as their fighting for the Snyder committed suicide here and Miss Guthrie knew nothing of It. The unable to find any relatives of the notified Mrs. Harry and Mrs. J S. of whose addresses were found in the man's and who contend they are wives of the dead The police are unable to learn if der had been divorced from OFFERS 10 ABSENTEES Charleston Democrats Anxious to Organize MAY YIELD ME PRESIDENCY Gov. Probable Refusal to Election of United tors if Upper House Lacks Quorum May Result in No Cloud on to Baltimore and Saturdays and via Pennsylvania Railroad Tickets good until Sunday night All regular trains except tbe Special to TM Port w. Jan. of the State senate are reported to be making overtures to the fifteen licans who fled to Cincinnati Tho nomination of candidates for the United States Senate apparently has strengthened tire desire of the Democrats to clear any cloud which may bang over the election next and they may the presidency to get the to refusal to nize the senate as legally organized In- that he will decline to sign com- missions for the States senators when they are elected unless the senate gets and this may result in a compromise It was were Also made today to certain Republicans by crats dissatisfied with the selection of Watson and Chilton as candidates by the say they will not Join the McGraw crowd Graw says he has no intention of the Republicans of the house of delegates who have held that the State senate is not legally should not be recognized by the succeeded through the assistance of Nelson C In having a resolution adopted directing that the house judiciary committee investigate the legality of the organization of the upper branch and report J Substitute Resolution When the Moore resolution ordering a similar investigation came Hubbard offered a which was It That the committee on the judiciary is hereby to consider and to advise this as promptly as may whether the legality of the organization of the senate Is a proper subject inquiry by this and if whether the senate is legally The judiciary committee met this but considered other Declare Glasscock Is Jan Gov. cock of West Virginia may refuse to give commissions to Clarence W Watson and William B Democratic caucus nominees for United States in case the legislature ratifies the choice of these men next week was the statement made heie today by several of the Re- publican State senators who fled from Charleston to escape arrest as absentees It is said that the Democrats concede the presidency of the senate to the Republicans and allow the contests for two of the latter's seats to go before a bipartisan trial committee the governor will declare the election refuse to issue commissions to Watson and and will fill the vacancies caused by the death of Senator Elkins and the ex- term of Senator Scott BAND HEADS HER Woman's Cortege Passes Along Trolley Line on Which She Was Special to The Washington Post New Jan. Unusual tacle of a brass band at the a funeral procession aroused considerable curiosity in N. today The band escorted the body of Mrs. Charles of 298 to Lodl 21-2 v t march trolley on Mrs. Mauro was fatally injured Sunday night She was 19 years and had been married lour Neglect Schools and Visit Con- Oyster TO PROBE THEIR CONDUCT Board Fears Criticism as Result of Alleged Absence of Washington Instructors From Classrooms Averages Higher Than That of Officials Are Excuse Mentors Cannot Be Says Supt. tion of Situation Is CHARGES AGAINST i Capt James F. president f of the board of members of Congress of ing teachers of Washington's schools to violate rules of Teachers are charged with in the Interest of legislation affecting school Also the teachers are accused of entire school system Is likely to suffer board of education Is liable to criticism on account of the of few I believe the boart should protect itself by ing the Declaring that members of Congress encourage teachers In the public schools of Washington to violate the rule of the board of education which prohibits them from attempting to influence legislation by inviting them to offices to cuss matters of importance relating to school Capt James F president of the board of ated a sensation at the meeting of that body yesterday afternoon In consequence of the president's allegations it is the board will make a thorough gation of what Capt. Oyster terms the of school teachers OB pretext of attending co business of teachers the of to the of men when there is no occasion for such unless they are made for the pose of He stated that certain reports had reached him to the effect that the school system was the object of severe criticism in some quarters on account of these and that he felt it his duty to biing the matter before the board Oyster Scents entire school system is likely to said Capt the board of education is liable to criticism on count of misdemeanors of a few I do not think that this is and I believe that the board of education should protect itself from attack from this quarter by investigating the matter The teachers were particularly active during the last session of when legislation having a direct bearing oa their positions and salaries was pending before It is asserted Capt. Oyster said that members of Congress freely admitted that they were visited by but when asked to give the names of the pedagogues they invariably Superintendent of Schools A. T Stuart not discuss the matter at length last When asked if was any way to prevent teachers from ing members of presumably to influence he said the con- gressmen could prevent by refusing to see the Question of The question of the absences of which provoked Capt. Oyster's and which has caused con- between the auditor of the Dis- the comptroller of the and tbe board of was discussed tt was the opinion of nearly every ber of the that while the majority of absences are this is not always the Several bers stated they had heard reports of specific cases where it was known that teachers were unnecessarily Capt. Oyster said it seemed to be the practice of many teachers to fabricate statements devoid of to excuse their absences as mortality in the families of office boys and clerks is greatest during the baseball so are teachers of the public schools more often visited with during the school months than during the was the ment made by Capt. Oyster Is will put up the teachers of the public schools of said Supt. or persons of any who are noted for their propensity to get around the and I believe they will win in a contest to determine who can tell the best story to cover up his Henry P Blair gave showing that while the attendance of pupils in the public schools was 90 per that of the teachers was 80 per cent Mr. Blair stated that the percentage should be between 95 and 100 per cent. Capt Oyster advocated a broad which would permit of excusing teachers for necessary absence for an indefinite The policy of advocating a system by which a. teacher can be excused from her duties for an Indefinite length of time without paj without her tion with the school system seemed to the sense of the meeting That high school principals are not mitted to exercise a. sufficient amount ON SECOND
