Times-Tribune, The (Newspaper) - May 7, 1911, Waterloo, Iowa t- ESTABLISHED 1870 REACTIONARY MEMBERS OF THE G O P IN SENATE HAVE PLANS ARRANGED ALL IMPORTANT COMMITTEES PACKED 11 Big Corporations Are Lending Their Support to These Senators in Effort to Defeat Legislation BY CLYDE H Special to Washington D C May re- actionary republicans in the senate are lying in wait for the farmers free list and progressive legislation passed by the democratic house is becoming mora evident daily The obvious motive ia two-fold to protect the monopolies and profits of the tariff trusts and to prevent if possible the democrats from ing promises made to the people The group of Senate Tories is stll able to exert a tremendous influence apon legislation Having packed all the important committees of the ate with men who take the same tude toward the particular legislation to come before them that the big cor- take the are in a position to continue serving cial privilege by obstructing the age of measures desired by the people Among those whom tie public may rely upon to oppose most of the progressive House measures are linger Smoot Guggenheim Stephenson Lodge Oliver Warren Perkins and a dozen others who will at all times have the hearty ation of Vice President Sherman Back of this group of reactionaries are arrayed tariff trusts railroads Wall street Standard Oil and the balance of the organized wealth of the country Pitted against this combination are the democrats and the progressive republicans The latter forces will when necessary undoubtedly com- bine to prevent the passage of a bad but they will be helpless at times to prevent the obstructing the of progressive house such as the free list torn Senator De Facto the group of ate Tories that in planning to fere with the passage of anti- trust measures as the free list is Nelson ol Rhode Island Nominally Mr is con- only an institution of his own creation called the monetary commission The has a suite of rooms ad roams of the finance committee to which will go the free list If it should happen opines ths eland Press that the door were open the rooms of the finance committee and the rooms of the tary commission it might happen that former Senator Aldrich might com- with Senator Penrose the new chairman of the finance tee and thus the titular head of the new senate majority might have the benefit of the views of the and possibly leader de facto of the States senate As a matter of fact Mr Aldrich keeps Ju close touch with all the re- just as he did while of- a senator BY A LIVE ALMOST MIRACULOUS ESCAPE OF YOUNG MAN ON LOGAN AVE Broken Wire Pulls Free With His Weight and Burns and Bruises Alone Are Suffered An accident occurred at about this morning that might have been fatal and only a fortuitous circum- stance prevented it Shepard Owen operator of the ing picture machine at Dreamland atre while going home ran against a wire hanging across the sidewalk let ween Dane and Chestnut streets on Logan avenue He grasped it throw it aside and was violently thrown to the wire was a broken one that crossed the trolley wire that point Luckily the other end of the broken wire was also free and in failing he pulled it clear from the trolley wire to the street He was badly burned about the hands and face and his clothing was torn considerably by his struggles while the voltage lessened by the looseness the wire was not suffiC isct to kill or stun Had the other end of the wire been fast another tragedy would have shocked the His escape is well nigh LYNCH TWO NEGROES Associated Louisville Miss May with attempting to poison the family of Johnson Pearson for they worked two negroes Cliff Jones and Bruce White half brothers were en from officers near here today by a mob and hanged IOWA SUNDAY MAY 7 DEBATE ON THE FREE LIST NEW SERIES NO 1740 FORMER SPEAKER CANNON AT- TACKS MEASURE IN TER TERMS DEMOCRATS HOPE TO PASS BELL MONDAY Speech of President Taft Before the Publishers irt New York Wa Also Ridiculed by the Ex- Czar of the House Associated Washington May house the termination late this after- noon of the memorable debate on the tariff free list hill Former Speaker Cannon had a good audience today when he spoke against the The seats deserted ing the remainder of the day however The close of today's session ended general discussion of the day the measure which is the first of the democratic tariff bills to come be- fore congress will be subjected to at- tempts at amendments hut the democratic leaders hope to secure a final vote on its passage before ad- that day Representatives Cannon Bowman of Pennsylvania Gardner of New sey and Rees of Kansas opposed the today Speeches in its favor were made by Representative Fields of Kentucky Collier of Missisippi er of Oklahoma of land Morgan of Oklahoma Dent Alabama of North Carolina and Wilson of Pennsylvania Former Speaker Cannon referred to the hill as halm in by the democrats to the farmers because of the passage of He asserted that its benefits would not be important Mr Cannon demanded to know why live cattle and other products of the south had apt been on the free list hill when these products of the ern farmer had been deprived of by the reciprocity measure He claimed that the southerners on the ways and means committees had demanded protection I believe this secret agreement never would had been made if it had not been demanded by the great lishing Said Mr Cannon Mr Cannon said that the speech be- fore the publishers in New York was a fine piece of better than thing of Mark Twain's when the dent urged the publishers to be con- stant in favoring the passage of the reciprocity without amendment I lost my temper over the said Mr Cannon I felt that those who represented two thirds of the people were willing to sacrifice the others to answer the hysterical cry by the pers Oti A RAMPAGE AGAIN YOU rtAN AND BABY CAST OFF IN WATERLOO Flirtation Began Through a ial All the Way From Mississippi the Poor got a wrecked ance yesterday when his services were called ia for a young woman with a child who claimed she had no means of subsistence and was located at 1715 Commercial street Investigation proved her a stranger in a strange land destitute and the victim of a peculiar train of circumstances Her name is Mrs Kate and she has a little girl three years old At the age of twenty-two she has been a widow for about a year and a few weeks ago lived at West Point a levee town a short distance south of Memphis Tenn on the river West Point is a steam boat landing where cotton lumber and oil cake are the principal freight and where niggers outnumber the whites about five to one Mrs Engle was romantic and she advertised in a matrimonial paper for a husband She had a few dollars was pretty and affectionate ly Henry Batters working for a Mrs Kate Olds at Fairbanks heard or read of the widow and through Mrs Olds Henry cannot write it is said a cor- respondence which she evidently con- to a friend of her late husband one J B Gregory of West Point was hurried to the point where Butters proposed and she accepted and he told ier to come and she sold but and came paying car fare and ar- riving in Fairbank with something less thaa in her purse only to be flatly turned down by Butters whose ardor cooled when he faced supporting a wife and child at close range Not knowing which way to turn or what to do she was advised by the thoughtless if not heartless laborer and his educated promoter to come to Waterloo and did so bringing Henry Butters and Mrs Kate Olds letters also one of Gregory's which thanked ier for presents bought and sent to friends in her old home and cautioned ier against sending any laoro letters n packages with presents as 3rd class mail In the meantime she lias lost her TWO OF THE MOST INTERESTING MEMBERS OF CAMORRISTS FACE DENOUNCED BY PRIEST Became Frantic When He Failed to Weaken the Government's Leading ness Remained Calm fBy Viterbo Italy May of the most interesting of the alleged charged with the murder of and his wife con- fronted Gennaro today They were Arena and Giro zi said he heard zi the priest who is one of the discussing the ers at o'clock the morning after the assassinations Vitozzi replied that he could prove that on the day mentioned he was at tne cemetery of of which he was chaplain The confrontation of by Vitozzi was theatrical The angel of the camorrists was evidently try- ing to cast magic over the informer But this produced no effect as Ab- calmly repeated his sations Vitozzi then became and Swear it on the ashes of vour I swear became frantic Forge perjurer attacking me an ec- smiled and You stained the ecclesiastic Vitozzi Thief infamous one may the mighty curse you throughout the Luigi Arena took the confrontation jokingly He was quite as calm and cool as the informer and at the end You know Neapolitan story tellers who go on for hours relating their tales so long as they receive cigars for their reward Here is a cigar for you go on C C PRICE AND BABY YEINGST Mr Price the Result of cer at the Girl Had Been in III Health After an illness dating back to a time eight ago C C Pries died morning at at the Presbyterian hospital where he had been treatment for the past four weeks death resulting j from cancer Deceased resided at 139 Adams street and had been a dent of the city a little over a year moving here from Sunnier a year ago last February He was Maxfield Bremer county July 4 and after residing there a number of years re- moved to Sumner where he was ried and a year-ago to Waterloo to make his hoffle He is survived by his wife and fife children One child preceded death Those living are as Miss at ami Amanda nie and home The funeral Services will be held at 10 o'clock late home and the remains will at noon over the Great Western to where the burial wil Tuesday after- j noon at 2 o'clock Girl Died Following illness Blanche C Yeingst the daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Yeingst ing at 850 Fowler street passed away Friday evening at 8 o'clock death re- from spinal The little girl was in Cumberland county Pa on Nor 8 1903 and had been in ill health for some time The funeral services will be held this afternoon from the late home and burial will occur in view WILL NOT TAKE THE DEFENDANT DECLARES THERE IS NO UNDER OATH MAKES LONG ADDRESS ADVOCATE SANE FOURTH Associated Joliet HI May Allen mayor of Joliet today advocated pre- for a sane Fourth He suggested public gatherings with ic speeches shows and public works trunk which contained and also lost her pocketbook with something over and is without any visible means of support so Supt will send her to Fairbank by he next daylight train keeping her at a hotel in the meantime and directing to go to Mrs Olds and advising that lady and her hired man to send victim of their experiment back to her ern home paying her way liberally The letters from Butters Via Kale Olds will probably be kept here till is safely at home as a guarantee of her getting there they being considered sufficient evidence to secure her re- turn by them at their expense if the has to be appealed to VETOED Des May or Carroll vetoed the Dunlay passed recent legislature which teams must turn out so that automobiles may pass to the left from The governor today signed the ing better prelection for miners and the omnibus insurance to cor- rect the insurance laws These com- plete the measures enacted by the re- cent legislature Will Probably Take the Cameron Dam Defender a Week to Make Closing Talk to the Jury Refused Automobile fBy Associated Hayward Wis May Diets on trial for the alleged murder of car Harp asked Judge Reid tonight to furnish him an automobile and allow him to go to his old home at Cameron Dam to collect evidence He claims a diagram introduced by the prosecution to show that a bullet could have ed the lumber piles in traveling from the barn to the body of Deputy Harp is manufactured evidence and that the lumber piles were lowered to allow the alleged line of flight to clear them Judge Reid replied that the court had no authority to direct the trip Although the state expected to ish its case today it obtained a con- until Monday morning Six former sheriffs 0 S deputy marshals and deputy sheriffs testified to Dietz's alleged dangerous attitude toward process servers John Dietz said that it was not ly that he nor his wife nor Leslie go on the staand There is no use in our going on the stand after what I have seen here It looks as if my word without oath was as good as with he said He said his closing address might last a week PEORIA LANDS CONVENTION Associated Chicago May Illinois sion of the Travelers Protective sociation at its twenty-second annual convention today endorsed Peoria for the national convention in 1912 The meeting of the state organization will be held in Daniel Ginnivan of Springfield was elected president NEBRASKA WON I By Associated Lincoln Neb May de- Kansas in a dual track meet here this afternoon 61 to 48 Real News Service You have noticed complete is the Tribune news service Nearly every morning this week the une has furnished sensational news of the baseball league doings In fact readers have become accustomed to looking to the for the real reliable the world Other papers are forced to follow along ten hours later with the same news not so complete Northern Iowa's Greatest Newspaper is bringing fame and trade to Waterloo JUDGE PETIT UPHELD OF HABEAS CORPUS LY ISSUED INTENDS TO HAVE THE CASE REVIEWED Attorney John J Healey Indicated That Case Will Be Carried Up to the Appellate Basis for Associated Chicago May A J Petit in the district court today declared that Illinois senate could not force in- of the private accounts of Edward Tilden His decision upheld the writ of habeas corpus obtained by Tilden G W Benedict and W C arrested on charges of con- tempt the state senate in refusing to present the accounts to the Helm committee The decision took nearly an hour to read It was seen from the first minutes reading that the judge would uphold the contention of the ants attorney Attorney John J Mealy ing the Helm committee was given ten days in which to file exceptions Te indicated that the case probably would reviewed by the appellate court Judge Petit based his decision in large part on tlie premise that the whole proceedings before the Helm committee i were invalid It will be clearly said the court that the main question ed here is whether the senate tee had the power to order Mr Tilden to produce his books There must be evidence to show that the witness had evidence in his possession The court took cognizance of re- ports to the effect that he had sued the habeas corpus writs before arrested and he contended that even if the papers had not been served until a few minutes after the arrests it would have been immaterial in this The decision If by any quibble under the circum- stances case rit could be tended that the subpoena for the personal appearance of Tilden be- fore the senate a motion to quash the writ would have to be denied because of the illegality of the whole inquiry It must be expressly understood however that if the resolution the committee to investigate con- the alleged acts of duct of the present members of the senate during this or any session of the senate this court does not hold that such a committee could not com- pel any person to appear and produce papers and documents The formal order releasing Tilden Benedict and Cummins made no ence to the payment of costs of the court action MAYOR'S APPOINTEES WILL BE- GIN WORK SOON First Work Will Be to Draw up Laws for Own for More Men on Nothing of any importance had been filed yesterday with City Clerk son for the council meeting Monday evening and it is expected that the meeting will assume the regular ine order Several ordinances will come up among which it is believed is the building inspectors ordinance which was to have been read at the last meeting but was not completed The two civil service appointees have failed to file their bonds as yet but it is expected that they will be filed some time Monday and will come before the council for its approval in the evening It is not believed that there will be any objections made to them and the civil service fight is about all over The police officials are very anxious the board shall start work there being a number vacancies wish filled at the present time and have been for months seriously by the lack of men In many cases the night men have been com- to work overtime and a ber of the day men have been to the same The board had planned on a ing last week but owing to tiie ab- sence of Paul Smith from tiie city it was impossible to hold the meeting Their first action will be to adopt by laws and rules to govern themselves after which will come the real work of examining the list of candidates for positions on the police and fire departments FIRE DESTROYS FACTORY Freeport 111 May factory of the Freeport Shoe Co was destroyed by fire this after- noon The loss is estimated at 000 PROMINENT AMERICAN DEAD London May Ives director of the City Art museum of St Louis and widely known in the worid of art died during tho night following a stroke of day ARMISTICE DECLARED OFF AND BECOME TIVE AT ONCE FEDERAL ENVOYS SEEKING PEACE Would Not Consider Resignation of President Diaz at One of president Diaz One of ference Was Ended Associated El Paso May stice covering the Chihuahua and all unofficial communication be- tween Mexican government and the revolutionists were broken off day Tonight the insurrecto a nuv un- der Gen Francisco I Madero Jr is preparing to Juarez will be the first point of at- tack but the rebels probably will not move for another 24 hours The inexplicable ambition of dent Diaz who refused to accede is the rebel demand that iio make lic announcement of his intention to resign was the expression by Gen tonight epitomized tho reasons for the break Judge notified Dr Vasquez Gomez today that not continue peace tions on the basis suggested by The rebels The rebel chief reused to extend the armistice A st-ie-tMiient- was Issued by Gen Madero in part as I invited the people of Mexico to take up arms against when legal means to bring about the of the people had been exhausted While Gen Diaz is in the power nii the laws will be fictitious and all the promises tricks In order to obtain peace I asked him to make public the intention which he had manifested privately of resigning In order lhat he might not feel I posed that I also resign as al president even manifesting to him that I would accept as president for the interim a member of his net If the war continues it will ba due solely to the inexplicable ambition of President Diaz He will be alone responsible lor all the the war may Judge Carabajel had received al messages from the Mexican during the day but not until after the armistice had been ed did he send his answer to Dr mezs demand to a reply from Mexican government Judge reply was thai he could not con- sider the that Diaz resign though ho evaded of the rebel demand Dn Diaz Dr Gomez replied to Judge I acknowledge the fact that peace been Just Carabajel tually w the government the proposition by the rebels an- to has been i Up leaders are of that Use government out to dent Diaz did not wish to acknowledge that it had entertained such a sition Everyone in the camp is preparing for tin opening of the Campaign of Gen ro's garrison tonight is scouting the hills to north in of an in- advance The rebels ara waiting for orders to move which are expected tomorrow All tiie revolutionary leaders with the exception of Dr Gomez were in conference tonight with Senor one of SQ or Braniff one of the Senor Braniff made u last appeal to them to prevent a of the hostilities It is inferred that lie explained to them confidentially the contents of a long message which he received from Minister Limantour this afternoon The conference was still in session at tonight SLUGGED AND ROBBED AT INDEPENDENCE Waterloo Police in Search of Man Said to Have Come to This City ter Doing the Stunt The police last night received a long distance telephone call from In- dependence asking them arrest a man who held up one of the ence citizens last night and after ing him up robbed him of several dollars in currency The man is ed for assault and robbery An excellent description was sriven the police and it is believed that he will be picked up on one of the ing freights in over the Illinois Cent- as it is said he caught one of the heights out of there after pulling off stunt All officers were instructed to be on the lookout for him and an extra number we're sent to the railroad yards to watch for him CITY CLERK ARRESTED fBy Dissociated Council Bluffs Iowa May W former city clerk of cil Bluffs was arrested this afternoon on an indictment returned by the grand jury charging him with the em- of from the He was already under bonds in a al conn for preliminary hearing on similar brought by a surety company for as city clerk He was released in i bonds
