Washington Post, The (Newspaper) - July 13, 1911, Washington, District Of Columbia MR. You will find The For column an effective and economical means of reaching today and probably moderate light west to northwest Temperature 87; 72. NO. JULY 13, 1911.-FOURTEEN TWO FOREST FIRES KILL Hundreds of Persons in Canada and Michigan DOZEN TOWNS WIPED OUT Miners at South Porcupine Succumb and Bodies Strew Millions of Damage Already With Forests Still Small Army of People Women and Children Saved at Os coda and An In Waves on Doomed July loss of lite in Porcupine district from yesterday's is known to be several and the property loss will reach several lions of Only 3 of the 84 em- ployes of the West Dome mine have been accounted and 200 and others in the Dome mine have been The mines burned include the North East Foley Standard West and Among the dead are Robert manager of the West and his wife and The Philadelphia mine's loss is about United Porcupine mine's Eldorado ail buildings about 000; about West about AU reports give but a vague idea of tho loss of as well as property in which probably will total lions of dollars and hundreds of Disaster in Four In four short beginning at p. m. the swept from the Standard mines through the shores Porcupine where it ate up the towns of South end part of Golden as well as many dinall buildings the lake hlla some of life occurred In the vicinity of Porcupine the greatest havoc was wrought around the main notably West Dome and Big 1'ome. There the entrapped cut yon from were forced to take to 'the shafts for and penned in by This wag notably true let Dome and West Dome At Dome an gave shelter and none Dead Strew the The streets of South Porcupine are with dead and Along the mine roads are the bodies of those overcome to Two special trains have been sent to here persons who are starvation or death by in the Communication with districts is exceedingly he flames swept down on South and Pittsville almost without The alarm came Just In time for the people to rush for the but they were forced to abandon all of their Gasoline even hastily improvised rafts were to get the many of whom were women and across the lake to Golden with survivors of the fires In the at present fighting back the scorched the outskirts of that There are only a few left in Golden Tho laborers employed on the Ontario new railroad line from City reached the city after a desperate fight With the in which many were badly They lost but the clothes they The town of Kelso was abandoned er lasting since Three Dozens July food at their disposal and tents provided for their the thousand or more homeless of the of Au and Oscoda easier tonight than at time since the flames de- their yesterday The known dead remain tin ee in with Samuel a the only one The bodies of the are charred beyond ns are reported Late reports other counties in the zone are thAt Michigan is facing the worst forest situation the State has winds are blow ins down over the burned and burning Ing in almost every There is no rain in and the weather men sav that a hot spell is all the State can expect for several Without ram there Is certain to a much larger loss of property than at and the reported far will undoubtedly reach Gov. Osborn stands ready to Older out every man of the Michigan Guard If the situation warrants the Another Town on The village of 107 miles north 01 Bay on the Michigan together with the Lumber Company mills and lumber valued at about The village has permanent dents and a large floating population of The fire has warped the rails so as to effectually hold up traffic on the Michigan and lias binned down the wires so that communication of Waters is cut off. It Is believed of life will result from the outbreak of the flames in as there are many lumbermen in the Reports come from camps by that the fled for their and little is known tonight of what be- came of of Many Other Forests Rain li needed to smother Ing fires through and esque Isle The Is not and State 4eB Gates summoned every available to check the progress of the His leports tonight indicate that forest flies are burning in every county north of the counties bounded on the west by and on uhf east by In the n section of the Antrim and report threatening vand ti espass agent and land looker employed by the State has pressed into seivice to fight menacing Au and both of which are in a desolate Those not by tents have at the and every train takes many and theie a few bricks and melted iron are all that re- main of the Two hundred and eighty victims fiom these two points reached Port Huron this morning on board a lumber Plunges Back Into Both bow and stern were on fire when she cut Most of those who were on the barge were women and the husbands and fathers being left be- hind to fight the Just as the barge cast off Jrom the Oscoda Stephen an Oscoda came rushing toward the carrying his 88-year-old on his People on the boat threw wa- ter at him to help him get through the The effort was and he was forced to plunge back into the From a position 25 miles offshore in Lake Huron the crew and passengers of the steamer St. Ignace witnessed the de- struction of the villages of Oscoda and Au Food distributions were started with supplies of meat and bread and butter received from Bay All the survivors in declaring that the loss of life must necessarily be Families have been separated and dren Many Other Towns La Roque and Posen are also reported to have sustained severe Six towns between Alpena and boygan that were yesterday thought to be threatened with destruction suffered serious property losses when the forest fires invaded their At the scene of a great fatality of the forest fires of 1908, a great pile of bark was after burning for twelve hours and seriously threatening the At Millersburg the Gardner Peterman mill and 31 houses were At Onaway the section of the village known as Frenchtown was At Tower the Detroit and Mackinaw freight 20 and 30 cars were Representative Loud a i The heaviest loser at Oscoda is H. H. Sons of which sentative George A. of the Tenth Michigan is the The com- loss Is nearly Its erty consisted of two planing shingle bolt lumber cedar pump and The total losses are ably in excess of COURT FINES MARY j Duke de Talleyrand Acquitted in Auto- mobile Accident at Cable to The Washington July suits of the bicyclist i who claimed damages from Mary the and the Duke de husband of Anna for i injuries received in an accident on June 19, came up for trial The bicyclist claimed while ing a milk cart he was run down by Miss Garden's which was driven by her Jack On the rebound he was knocked down by the Duke of Talleyrand's The Duke de Talleyrand was Miss Garden's was fined and the singer was condemned to pay Robin wanted GOSSIP CAUSES HER SUIT BRYAN FOR PRESIDENT Available Democratic Candidates Listed in the Western and Southern Men No One From Ohio Is Tickets Are Special lo The July de- claring that he Is not prepared to decide for himself the question of relative ability of Democrats for the presidential Mr. in a Commoner lists those whom he deems fitted for the The name of Harmon is conspicuously No he questions the availability of or and he adds these as men Democracy might well Gov. Plaisted of Senator of Senator Senator of Senator of Gov. Thomas of former Senator of former Gov. Adams of George Fred of former Gov. of Rhode former Gov. Glenn of North former Gov. Tyler of Gov. McMillin of former Senator of Senator of former Gov. Campbell of sentative of former Gov. Comer of former Gov. McCreary of former Beckham of Henry of tucky Representative of Major of New Mayor of and former Mayor of These tickets are Gov. Smith of Georgia and Gov. Burke of North of and of New or Dix and Senator of and of New of and of of and of James and of Judge of North and Senator of APPROVE TREATY Colonies Back Great Britain in Her anese July Times intimates that the question of the revision of the Anglo-Japanese alliance in order to bring it into harmony with the proposed Anglo- American arbitration treaty was fully discussed at the imperial Therefore any new arrangement with Japan will be made with new authority and new moral force through the previous assent of all the self-governing Hence the Times considers that one of the most Important results of the imperial conference has still to be 20 KILLED IN TRAIN Bridge Burned After a and Cars Fall Into July 12 A Soo ore train and freight tram collided on a tle leading to the Soo ore docks in this Twenty men are reported The bi and the ears fell into a 91.OO find Return f. ft R Special tiain T S JO n it. See Uie Guard in Talking to Woman Falls From Window Forty Feet to New July Mollie 21 years while preparing to hang clothes at 576 One Hundred and eighth today gossiped with a neighbor on the floor While looking upward she stepped from a second floor window falling 40 feet to a and dying In- ICE RIOT IN NEW YORK Kahn Girls 2 OJ m x BAR Law WQ HUNTERS i Small Moiety of Representative From in ter Speech Against ers of Wealthy American fends and Quotes From State Department Records on Inadequacy of Salaries Poor People Attack Buildings of Principal SCORES MOKE ABE DEAD Thirty-two Persons Expire at Twenty-two at New and Twenty-three in New England Police Bar Sufferers From Pittsburg Parks at New July were 22 deaths and 77 prostrations from the heat in Greater York Five in- sanity due to the hot and two suicides also Ice riots broke out on the East Side today among the Prices have from 200 to 300 per cent in the course of the hot and the Increased demand has been so heavy that the er Ice Company refuses to sell to any but its own retail The pendent dealers but only at advanced One hundred men and women stormed the office of the Foster Scott Company this Give us Many had sick children dying for lack of ice. the yelled the Buckets of water from the windows greeted the but the crowd growing the manager de- to quiet it by distributing which could be exchanged for Ice at the company's Gaynor Orders Mayor Gaynor today n later by ordering Police Waldo to investigate complaints that the company is refusing to sell ice to the so-called independent The mayor directed that policemen certain whether the company 1s ing the amount of Ice It brings to the city daily In order to enhance and the number of independent wagons which it is refusing to supply and information we can lay before tho district July i r t w o from heat exhaustion were re- ported to the coroner Many of the victims were persons who had been prostrated during the past ten The humidity was extraordinarily Barred From Pittsburg July the face of the Ice famine and the most terrible heat wave In 30 the poor of the city are forbidden the use df parks for sleeping The police have made nightly raids in the smaller breathing spots throughout the refusing to digress from the old standing rule unless it is officially Rioting has been imminent on a ber of but scores have been bundled into patrol wagons and laken to station One magistrate brought down upon himself bitter lic criticism by fining a number men for seeking relief one of the Ice peddlers continue to fleece the poor to the point where it is impossible to buy the supply which becomes more scant every 24 As high as a ton has been offered the big ice com- panies here for quantities of from to 25 but it cannot be Rains have brought some and Pittsburg today experienced cooling weather for the first time since July 1, when the heat wave July deaths in ton and 21 in other parts of setts and in Rhode Island were reported up to this All weather signs day indicated that within 24 hours there would be a decided July fierce heat wave is prevailing The thermometers day indicated 80 degrees in the The price of ice has been and the streets are DR. R. E. GALLINGER Son of United States Senator Victim of Automobile N. July Ralph E. of son of United States Senator Jacob H. was killed in an automobile accident just be- fore midnight Dr. A. a Con- cord insurance had been out for an evening spin in the When about halfway between this tow n and Concord on the return the machine struck a sandy stretch of way and turned Dr. Gallinger was pinned beneath the i car and instantly Davies was verely Dr Gallinger was 40 years old and practicing at Senator was informed shortly after midnight of the death of his Dr E. in an automobile in N. H Ho at once to leave for New A heavy tax on the dowries of can brides in international that the penurious but titled fortune hunters might secure but a small moiety of the price the bride pays for a name which he himself dishonors by putting it up at auction to the was suggested by Representative of in the House as a means to stop alliances be- tween American heiresses and down foreign Mr. Kahn came warmly to the of and his speech was in answer to an attack by Representative of a week Declaring that at no time In the tory of the republic the American Ambassadors or Minister's to foreign courts been less dressed in simpler and resorted to and than Mr. Kahn paid tribute to the late John Elihu and to Philander C. He dwelt upon brilliant and successful of Knox to extend American trade and pioneer work In making can diplomacy an intense and wide vigilant promotion of the interests of the American As to the criticisms of John Hays special ambassador to the coronation of King Mr. Kahn said he believed Mr. after calmer would admit himself that they were and entirely Meant Representative Henry replied to Mr. Re said it was the ex- diplomatic and not the of which he He declared that sador Reid's estate in don was not typical of the American would this country never would send another to Berlin than that this try should take orders from the man government as to what Is to be the sine qua non of a diplomat Mr. Henry said that In his opinion reason why Dr. David J. Hill was to leave Berlin was so that John Hays Hammond might come home and get his credentials and go to Mr. Henry referred sarcastically to re- ports that John Hays Hammond the and had asked the king if he was not pleased that the nation ceremonies had gone off so we send him abroad to another said Mr. suppose he would nudge the you know why Hill Is to leave asked to make way for John Hays because Dr. Hill is a poor man and cannot live in great Reads Century-Old Representative Kahn read to the House some remarkable obtained as the result of his researches In the flies of the State Among these were a number of communications received at the State Department 100 and more years declared Representative home from France to the Continental Congress requesting that some products of the colonies be for- warded to him to be given to Queen Marie Antoinette to secure her royal in- is his 3, 1776. 'The queen is fond of I wishes for and is our She loves riding on Could you send me a fine Narragansett horse or two? The money would be well laid aviary or Arnold's collection of a phaeton of ican make and a pair bay a few barrels of would be great Salaries Always the very Mr. pay to our representatives abroad has been entirely anci at ery period of our country's history the men who have represented us on diplo- matic missions have been compelled to use their private means in order to tain the dignity of their positions and to uphold the honor of their Thus Thomas when Minister to wrote to the Continental Con- gress and to his own personal friends that it was impossible for him to live on He suggested a more liberal to John the secretary of foreign he is the usage I suppose at all a Minister shall establish his house in the first If this is done out of his salary he will be a absent without a copper to live My and apparel are all yet they have cost me more than a year's Adams complained to the Con- gress of the Confederation in 17S5 that his salary at Paris and The Hague was in- sufficient to enable him to make a decent CONTINUED ON THIRD Falls July and Ohio Special train es Union Station a m Cheap side from Niagara Falls and liberal stopovers Other ex- Aug. 4 and 25, Sept. 8 and 2i Oct. 6. SHE SILENCES TOWN Selectmen of Yield s to Miss Emily Special to Washington July Emily of who has a villa seems to have won her contest with the town of over the sounding of the Field and the bells are silent for the first time 1S78. Miss Tuckerman's villa is near the beautiful wherein are chimes given under of the late Dudley Field as a memorial to the By his Mr. Field left to one-half of the income of which should be used for sounding the For years the have been played for half an hour just Last year Miss Tuckerman remonstrated with the selectmen against the ringing of the chimes at that alleging that they disturbed her hour of The selectmen refused to stop sounding the and she spent most of the season in She arrived in early this and the chimes have not been sounded at Relatives of David say that unless the chimes are sounded daily the legacy will be HUGE FRAUDS ALLEGED E St. Louis Indicted on 12 SEVEN MILLIONS INVOLVED Inspectors Charge That lions Were Wrongfully Lewis flakes and Declares He the Victim of Before Congressional St. July G. until Recently publisher of a number of and promoter of was indicted by a special grand jury in the United States district court on charges of fraudulent use of the It is charged in tHe Indictment fhat by the debenture Lewis endeavored Uo recover in exchange for long time ture papers securities of his different companies and most of which were due at amounting to The bond wae fixed at The indictment containing twelve counts covers four propositions laid be- fore the public by m which he is alleged to have obtained dollars misleading statements lated through the It is charged that through representations with intent to sold notes on the Woman's Magazine and 'the Woman's National Daily building University of which Lewis is unsecured notes of the University Heights Reality and Development a debenture and that he resented the condition of the Lewis lishing Company in selling stock in the After giving Lewis a investigation of my claim by Con- gress begins today in and Federal officials here are to head off the investigation by returning in- did it once desire hts op- should be Brought to light In his he announced considering an effort to get his trial set for the week of October 23, concurrently with the an- convention of which he was the Wants All want everybody to hear Lewis I believe if properly ad- my trial would draw more Lewis gave newspaper reporters at the marshal's office a typewritten giving hie version of what he ed unremitting warfare of tion kept up incessantly by certain postal officials against the so-called Lewis en- He said that 120f different pamphlets and circulars been printed at public expense and sent broadcast to those interested in his institutions them Postoffice he have and persons to make sort of a complaint against Ine he was that his credit had been de- and his business with losses Attacks Postmaster Lewis the various charges in his and replied to them as sale of unsecured Lewis Publishing Company No pre- tense was made that they were sale an overissue of real estate Each note was certified by a title and this charge is knowingly sale of the funds from which were used for the pose for which they were the publishing stock was The postal officials made it if that is Congress Hears the Hearing of of persecution brought by the Lewis Publishing Com- of St. against the was begun morning by the House committee on expenditures Jn the Edwin C. former Third Assistant Postmaster appeared as attorney for the Lewis andf there were several clashes between him and Representative of a Republican member of the Mr. Madden requested permission to preface the presentation of Lewis case with a statement of- how the Lewis during the administration of Postmaster General had been wrongfully denied the second-class and how the people had been driven out of business by the of the object to your said Mr. 'The criticisms were Mr. Madden tartly tee Mr. Austin's and him to INDEX TO TODAY'S Sylvester Wants Law to ish WOULD SEND THEM TO JAIL Police Chief Says Many Are Attempts to Gain New Statute Intended to Deter Persons by of Bravado to Effort at So-Called Epidemics Follow tional Cases Where No Penalty Be Inflicted After Maj. Richard superintended of the police of this has mended the enactment of a law which will provide fine and imprisonment for any person seeks self-destruction and to accomplish his If ihe recommendation is every who attempts regardless of thj reason for his will be haled Into court to face the charge of attempted Should the would-be suicide he adjudged he will be sent to trie government Otherwise he will be committed to the District workhouse until the suicide desire has been ively worked out of his t of the present suicide Maj. Sylvester said last prompted by a spirit of bravado or a de- sire for are other in- stances where the supposed really does not intend to end his but de- sires to create a These I will be minimized if the vidual knows that he must either end his life or go There is nothing ro- mantic or poetic in doing 30 days at hard labor after drinking poison and leaving a note am not Good-by In such a Maj. ter does not feel that he is assuming an unnecessarily harsh His desire Ss to deter many of those he would be restrained by the law when nothing else would ting that some of those who kill selves are temporarily vester asserts that there is still a of Understand the law well what happen if they and he will tend to unnerve Beguiling Public Support of this measure by officers of the department comes from the great number of attempts at sometimes numbering two and three a which have recorded In Washington ing the months of June and Soma of it is pointed were to beguile the public and win Chief among these according to Maj. is the case of a girl who jumped into 4 feet water from the Pennsylvania nue bridge across the Anacostia and a woman who drank a small Quantity of poison while in her laying the bottle shrieked until assistance These cases and others like them are in the belief of the by a desire for and until they are recognized as ordinary it is there will be many new law as Recommended by Maj. Sylvester was drawn up at the advice of R. A. chief pharmacist of the who believes it is the only way of the many of more or less serious at Mr. Sanders directed attention to his re- port for 1910, in which 23 fatal cases and 24 nonfatal cases of poisoning were re- ported to the It is estimated that about 50 persons died by their own hand during the fiscal year of 1998-10. The attempts of various some of which were never reported to the ran into the Many excuses were recorded on Some attempts were because of financial a half dozen because of family and about twice that ber because of One reported in was a 17-year-old girl who drank ammonia wanted to Continuing his discussion of the new Maj. Sylvester of this kind are a menace to the as well as to They make a based on whatever reason occurs to them and reading of the it an act of bravery and attempt it Send Insane to there are instances where the person who takes life is really in- But if the person making the at- tempt is insane he is not fit to be at proposed law does more than to aim at the Its purpose is to save the from the taint of such acts by minimizing So-called epi- demics of suicide in moral effect on others of successful at- tempts at What punishment will be fixed is to be decided by the corporation It is probable that the first cases will re- sult hi Coroner Reserves Coroner Nevitt said that he didn't know of any increase in the number of or attempted the am unacquainted with the conditions which Maj. Sylvester says prompted him to advocate this I of no larger number of alleged at- tempts at suicide now than Whether such a law is needed in ington I am unable to I think the New York is but whether the same conditions exist here as I do not Die in Forest Huge Frauds Sylvester Would Curb Ice Riot in New For Railway Safety Death List N umbels Mrs. Walcott's Body Wreck Laid to Hoodoo Huge Mail Frauds F. Norment Embezzler Lee Gets Five Kentucky Declares for No Aero Trip for the Fisher Asks an Bailey's Amendments Crowded at Ellis Romance of the Alsop Westerner Wants a Camorra Secrets Two Slayers at 1 Revolt Spreads in Romance of -a Photo E. J. Harvie Killed by Mrs. Hutchins Paid Brother's EGGS HATCHED IN 12 Physician Uses Hen and Oven and Wins a to The Washington N. July Bontecou made a wager here two weeks that chickens could be hatched in twelve though foe union schedule for a sitting hen has been three weeks from time The wager was and the twelfth day was Taking four business and professional as judges to the nest where his hen was sitting on a dozen and a half of drove tne hen removed the and one by one ed them open placed them in and hurried them into a hot In half an hour of the Uttle ens were and all of them are alive and Dr. Bontecou says his theory is only the application of the course of procedure to of WAE ON K. Merchant Increase of Trade Refusing Special to The R. July P. of F. Garrettson who a week ago began what he calls a war on said today that he had lost the trade of only three families by the stand he had and has gained considerable Mr. Garrettson ago advertised a warning all butlers and the families ot residents he not only refuse to give the ot but he would cause the arrest of one who asked for any UNREST IN CUBA INCREASED Lottery Accused of Big Fraud Jointly With Gen. Likely to Fight Duel With Editor Coming of Stimson I. C. C. Members Are Stirred by Bridgeport WILL ASK CONGRESS TO ACT Railroad Board Cannot Enforce Commissioner McChord Has Ordered Report Made of Connecticut and on It Will Base Plea for ity to Make Sheppard Favors Plan to Safeguard Traveling WOULD PREVENT recent terrible at Bridgeport shown how lutely Imperative It that the Interstate Commerce slon be greater power over The commission exercise the right fo compel common carriers to use the precautions and safety de- vices In In other Morris of Interstate Commerce Commission Is doing what It can under the existing New legislation In and needed at which will require roads to adopt the ary measures which are Am ters the commission In largely where It should be possessed of positive C. C. and Return July 16, Baltimore cial leaves Union Station a. m. July of the national re- signed on the ground of Ul Gomez accepted his resignation this Gen. Nodarse recently was the object of bitter attacks by the new paper El charging him with frauds amounting by the collection of illegal sions on lottery This El Dla was divided among bers of the including President The of Gen. Nodarse is generally believed to be a preliminary to a challenge to a. duel with editor of the the president ing prohibited dueling by bers of his official The evening which is op- posed to the deplores the coming of Henry L. the Secretary of and Col. to Investigate alleged ident concessions to foreigner as humiliating to the Cuban i The paper points that the blame j rests with the president for authorizing concessions of such a character for the sake of personal it aggregates a huge Oh account of Gen. being more closely allied with President sonally and than any other member of the nation is accorded great It has served to arouse a recrudescence of the feeling of recently to be La Discusion prints an with the in which he declares the administration does not fear a and is fully to deal if an emergency It rumored that Maj. Andre will be assassinated as the only means of saving the the exposures which his paper is making since the party refused to accept and indorse his motion to Impeach GIRL FIANCE Sister of Intending Bride Injured When Auto Leaps N. July an early hour this morning while three miles from N. an bile containing several persons went over an embankment resulting in the instant death of Miss S. and Mr. Robert S. C. Miss Mabel sister of Miss was seriously injured Miss Lena Bowman and Mr. Robert who were were to have been married within the next few Money to Lend 4, 5. and 6 Per Cent On real 1425 av. The death of fourteen persons and the Injury of nearly threescore in the wreck the Federal Express at Tuesday morning has aroused ths interstate commerce commissioners und members of Congress to the need of a. law which will give the commission to force railroads to plans to safeguard the Although there is no law warranting Commissioner C. C. in charge of this branch of the sent three inspectors to port with orders to report pn the wreck and its This report will be for- warded to It is wilt form the basis of an amendment to the present report which are considered the weakest point in the ex- isting The officials of the New 3fork. New and Hartford the line on which the wreck have sent no report of the accident to the Inter- state Commerce All railroad officials recently were asked bV the com- mission to report by telegraph to ington all accidents immediately after they The failure of the railroad to do and the report that the tracks at the point of the wreck are so arranged as to make it dangerous for an inexperienced engineer to run over led to an order by Commissioner that the in- be especially Delay in Starting Commissioner investigation is made possible by the recent tion of the service safety and boiler inspection divisions of the Interstate Commerce Under this new Chord has at his disposal about men in different sections of the country who can be sent to a The manner in which Mr. dered an investigation of the wreck shows with what Interstate Com- merce Commission has to At 11 o'clock Tuesday several hours after the wreck he tele- phoned Chief Inspector Hiram Belnap In New York and ordered him to proceed at once to Bridgeport with such men as he could The chief inspector and two assistants arrived in Bridgeport while still were being taken from the splintered f said Mr. McChord last how sary it IB that the Interstate Commerce Commission be given greater control in these The laws regarding dents should require railroads to send a telegraphic report to us immediately after they hear of a wreck their This would enable men to reach the scene before the witnesses had Do Not Obey recently requested all railroads in the to do Some of them have Challenged our authority to issue such a request and have refused to Others have sent us long tele- but these have not been as no provision is made for their important of is the necessity of establishing legislation ing the Interstate Commerce sion the right to compel railroads to adopt its suggestions with regard to safety appliances and precautionary Fine Is He Chief among the criticisms of the ent according to Commissioner that the punishment for Ing an engineer Overtime la The law sets the maximum day's work at teen consecutive and provides a fine of not more than for any or who violates 4t. There are only four inspectors whose duty it is to see that required to work All wrecks should be inspected by tho Interstate Commerce em- and railroads should be compelled to the recommendations in the opinion of Representative Morris of who is among demanding a change of Mr. Sheppard may ask the Interstate Com- ON SECOND