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u i. r ; I. THE WEATHER. Fair father and moderate tempera ' t0day and Wednesday; light va; ' . .,', ! . ' t riable wids. r U'TTiflS. i 'r ... i ; vol. lxxxtx-no. 105: ilWte&Z " ll to simtrpmppQ r 'II . . ' ;V nWlLMlKGTOK K". C, TUESBA? 'OIlNrN'G-, j ANTJARY 23.1912: . PROTEST James J. Farrell. President of Steel Trust, Before : Committee. IDEAS OF TRUST REGULATION Mr. Farrell Told the Stanley Commit tee That Publication of Manufac- turers Costs Would trlurt ' Foreign Trade. " .u Washington, Jan. 22. James J. Far rclL president of the United States Steel Corporation, ; protested btforo the Stanley Steel Investigating Conv n.ittee today against unnecessary pub licity of manufacturers' cost of steel products in this country, as ruinous to foreign trade of domestic" manufac turers. He aiso aiscussea witn tne committee the "Gary dinners", and ideas of trust regulation, which differ ed somewhat from, suggestions previ ously made by Elbert H. Gary, execu tive head of the Steel Corporation, Andrew Carnegie, and others. President Farrell asserted - that the Gary dinners, at which steel manufac turers assembled to discuss the trade, had no influence in fixing or maintain it?: the stability of the market, " "I do not believe," he, said, "that the prices of any two steel manufac turers in the United States are alike." "Why has Judge Gary said that the day of competition has passed?" asked Representative Beall. " . . . "J think he referred-to destructive' comafctition," said Mr. Farrell." "As a matter of .fact, steel prices today, arV; very low. There is no doubt that re-; ports of some corporations soon to be n.ade will showJthat they, are' not get2 ting the cost of manufacture out of present prices. ; ..-," "Are you one of the apostles of this new cult of industrialism advocating; gornnient control' of corporations as suggested by Judge Gary, Mr. Car? uegie and others?", . ..... - - "I believe that there.hould be pubt ticity of corporations, that" this should show profits and losses an-d -.genera) conduct of business," said. President Farrell. "I think that there should he a supervising board, but I believe that it would be impracticable, almost impossible, for a governmental board to fix prices, even to fix maximum prices. To determine the cost of arti cles manufactured "in the steel busi ness alone requires a. corps of hun dreds of experts. : , "I would have a supervisory board which would have authority, to Inves tigate all corporations for the purpose of preventing not only unusually high rates but also unusually low rates; wnicn would result in reduced .wages and impairment of plants. It is most vital that this committee K'-i mis iniormauon," continued tne c',iaii man, "and come what will, we Mil know it. There is power enough in this government to find out." Mr. Heed asked If the committee 'on Id not te satisfied to let Mr. Mc Rae. their accountant, examine the records, verify them and make a gen eral report thereon, and Mr.. Farrell added that publication of the-, costs y ould effect 40,000 employes ..engaged m thP roreign sales department of the corporation. Chairman Stanley said he did "not intend to expose secretsinnecessarii ' Dut that he would insist upon the corporation complying with subpoenas duces tecum for records not yet pro- d iced. . . , , It was tentatively agreed, that ex port McRae should examine the; cost s-f't'ts of the corporation to .verify "sures to be Hubmitted by the Corpc iiiion regarding composite icos of production. ' Mr Farrell's testimony will be re sumed tomorrow. twr'uFarren 8aid he did not.believe "at the Sherman law should be re Ja ed but that it should be" .clarified o tnat business men would know.ex ap'. hat to do under it. r lu asl(1 about a statement be re th committee by Andrew .Car rie that it was obvious that there as some- sort of combination among id ,men ,today t0 maintain prices, iHMdont Farrell said: th ' ""'Jerstnnd Mr. Carnegie r made nat remark, but Mr. Carnegie has not v ,r '"vthe business' for U vn,,'; , 0,1 fent?.jmen probably were "P isci a, the aacr.ty he dispIayed sired " ycu information you ' de- ,.J.hls the only positive state- tivr. 'V. m.a.ke" said Representarl - -laugning. .i .. ' ' no. hh"; a,,),,,u.. s'Pthing ' he " knew ir, .?.. ")U.1- retorted Mr. Farrell. ' l'rcsifi,., , ... t '.d,ie" wid the committee pellfor 9v r " inis country wmcn nlv K.5uS,? t00- tne asic price, sup- raus in this country which ron, the ba ho market. are mart' 1 ?n! jnaet.' Special rails id n Ja 3 bigher Price. He -also "Raiu i feX1)f'nslve rails for safety, th, f1 lt0lia'-" he said, "ana too near liabiii, 7:(mc of brittleness Th a heater th"in, .v5? ana danger is rails v ' aays or the sot,te 1a....' u" SUOUld hnvo rolla n.lfh- , stPf.", lraat nf rarbon, and of softer vier an,r . r,lJU,u necessarily be hea if'. ... . ' "uuiu cost more.' rld afi w m,lrDose to publish to the t nf Prod L r ' "tails of our mill costs V prKn on? demanded President hpfore th. J .ben pnt on the stand titati1 Stanley Steel Trust Tnvft. IS Vf t mmittee- !t a grot ,M.,d Ir- farrell, "I think "uumico to an Industry x - . 1 1 iLki' u 1 1 1 r in i it if 1 1 v, r it : i Ln i ill iinii ii inn i . i. ; - rinin iiii i rii -nun A. ' . ' I r. . '.: I - T... - I w llll kliu IU " '. tl IIMM lllll.lrll HIIII The -Report oihe House Investigate . - ing Committee Completely Ex-y- onerates Jhe Nation's Pur r FoodChleif i Washington, Jan ; 'ZZ.-Dr Harvei W. Wiley is held "hot guilty" of coni spiray Id evade the ' law in a report filed with the House today by tte com mittee which conducted - an investiga te last August into the "charges , up? en which President Taft was asked to dismiss the Nation's chief chemist from the government service. :' Not only does the committee ab solve DrT Wiley from" criticisms for the, employment of Dr.,H,"H. Ruaby, of. New York, T ag; a government expert at a technical rate of. $20 per day; but it attacks iri measured terms the whole .administration of the National Purp Food Law, and demands ot con gress action to change the method n tne Department of Agriculture by which the. law is how applied. ' . . The; so-called Wiley. . investigation arose rom the charges made in the Agricultural, Department that Dr. WJ ley, Dr.' W. D. Blglow and Dr.' L, F. Kebler, all of the. Bureau of Chenlistrv. -had secretly arranged with Dr. H. H. Husoy, or NewTork, so that the latteT need work only 80 days in the year for an annual salary of $1,600. Thia was declared to be a deliberate evas ion ot the established limit of $9 per day.' ; . -' "We find from the evidence that'.thet charges of conspiracy have not been established," says gthe committee re port, "but on the contrary, that the ac cused officials were actuated through out" solely -by a. -desire to procure for the Bureau of Chemistry an efficient assistant in the person of Dr.'H. H. Rusby; under terms- and " conditions which those officials believed to oe in entire accord with the "law, regula-1 tiona and practices of the Department of Agriculture." : .-. " v " The ! report. holds; however, that the contract fojr the employment of Dr. Rusliy "lis technically illegal and recom mends; that--Congress make , specific provision-for the employment of. ex perts in the ; Agricultural Deparement. " Charges were tnade during .the -committee's "hearing that the work of Dr. vkley find his associates was revised and often rejected either by Solicitor Mceaberor by they Board of Food and Drug Inspection, cf which, Mr. , Mc Cabe, Dr. Wiley and Associate Cbem Ist ; Dunlan, t were .the embef. The i position at'.ttrr Dunlap was 4 variously stated to be co-ordinate with, and... su perior to, thatr-of. Dr. Wiley, who was supposed to be the supreme officer of the bureau. ; The committee maxes a sweeping criticism of iHxe methods , of the de partment. liU recommends , that the chief of the bureau be given the full power which the law supposes him to have, over all employes of the bureau; that the Board of Food and Drug Ex amination, be made entirely separate frrfm the' Bureau of Chemistry, and that the power of the. solicitor to pass upon the findings of the Bureau of Chemistry be withdrawn. "It is recommended that the chief and his two associates shall be of the same rank, sitting with equal power as board members. All are to toe sub ject to removal by the appointing pow ers." ' ., ' The Remsen Referee Board, around which much of the investigation cen tered last Summer, is held to be le gally' constituted, 'but its activities as a supervising power, over. the ureau of tJhemistry arer declared to be out-. side of the law, , ,., ; -.-a This board was created by: President Roosevelt and Is', composed ox emi nent 'chemists.. to- whom 'are referred debated questions arising 4 under the pure food, law. it reversed ur. w -u-vifi fln'dinz on benzoate of soda,. and ha ' before , it other . questions whicn the Committee declares properly De- long to the Bureau of Chemistry. , Th committee declares tne ooara should not be continued : under ; the si mole authority of an. executive or der to exercise s,uc1r control over tho pure food law. . PAUL HEMPHILL DEAD.' Prominent South Carolina Lawyer " . nid in Charlotte. Charlotte. . N. C Jan. . 22.Paul ftemnhlll. a Brominent South caron na lawver' - died at 'the Presbyterian hospital here today after, a protracted Illnessi aged 50. He wa3 a brother of ttr. C. R. HemDhill. oresident of Union Theological Seminary, Louisville, Jvy.; jfnfl was onnected with one oi tne om est" &nd . most prominent " families in the Palmetto State. He is surviveq Dy a widow and three children.. The body will toe - taken, to .tjnester,. p. w mi? home, stoiborrow. for., burial; ; Wednes day,'--.. ,., . . -,- L: -Kenosha, Wis., ; ' Jan. t2Johnny Coulon..pantanweight (. cnampion oi the-world, Aonlght knocked, out, Harry FnrhASj .the former chamnion,. in. the third found Qf -;tlx scheduled ten. round flctit.'- Tne, ena. came wnen-xue. ruium was twio, nlnltesand, -'34 ,)?ednd3 old, a, rights 8,w?ns.-Jtp.;tna.ni,cuHui to-the stomacn, qomg tne. wy .y;f hi'iilt nb in competition - with Belgium Germany Rtfssia and . other - nations If it'is- proposed to put theee 'secrets. in the hands of our roreign competi tors our foreign bnsiness will not be worth anything within . 12 . montns. Mr Farrell and J. A. Reed, genera counsel for . the Steel .Corporation, wf witnesses before the committee At the. outset they . had no obJecti.on to memDera c:.iiO',.wuuiMe CAftui th . records to satisfy them aeivea tnt thei Insisted thaLpubllca tinn would work irreparable injury not only to the Steel Corporation, but to every one ;pf its;:nPjtltorr.to;tM8 OF filAKING STEEL ommiasioner Smith Recom mends Separation of Ore ' Railroads From Trust. ' IIIDEPEIiOEIITS WERE KILLED Dri Herbert Smith Thinks Steel Trust Hat' Kept Ore Transportation Prices" at an Unusually ' : High Level, y .Washington, Jan. Unreasonable profits are made ot fron ore of "the Ldker region, JexcesIve- earnings flow nto the treasury of the United States Steel Corporation from its ore, trans portation facilities, which suggest the necessity, from the standpoint of pub lic policy, of segregating the ore rail roads from the giant corporations, and steel companies, according to a prc- fmihary report on the cost, of produc tion in the steel industry by Herbert Knox Smith, -commissioner of corpora tions, made -public' tonight. ; The re port was- presented" to President Tafi and sent to the .House Committee on Ways, and Means for consideraticn in connection 'with ' the provisions of the steel tariff schedule, upon which the Democrats will caucus tomorrow. 'The prices of lake fore," the report declares, "have been - kept or , many years at an unioasonably high level compared with the cost of production and the cost of the investment in the producing ore properties." In connection with the alleged ex cessive profits realized by the Steel Corporation from its "ore railroads, Commissioner . Smith says that the control of public agencies of transpor tation carries with it ' such possibili ties of abeuse that the question is. rais ed,"whether the public interest in this country does not require a segregation of the xre railroads from the Steel Cor- poration.,, ' ,The report As based upon an investi gation of two-thirds of the country's lyroduction of,iron nd; -steel from 1902 &T19Q9, "inclusive. Limited 'data io 1902 to 1910, Mr. Smith adds, makes it clear that -these fire year figures sub stantially represent present conditions Insofar. as the steel corporation "en joys monopolistic power,"" the report states, it lies chiefly in its holdings of oro and. its railroad -transportation ra cilltles... The company, the jeport de- clares,-rhaa acquired! unduly large ore reserves, holding at the close of 1910 at 'leaBtO "years supply at the pres ent rate of consumption, exclusive of the Great Northern ore properties, -yie lease of which has been cancelled, ef fective January 1, 1915. It is estimat ed that the corporation has fully 1,- 200.000,000 tons of other ore in the Lake region'. . ., -The average cost of.Xake or3 gene rally, delivered at rower lake ports, from 1902 vto 1906, was $2.64 per ton. The average transfer profit on ore was 66 cents per ton. This is regarded as excessive by the commissioner, repre senting, in his judgment, from l(h to 15 per cent, on the investment.; It ' may be stated, the report ,a3ds, as a ' notorious : and incontrovertible fact, that the price of Lake Superior ore during the greater part of the per iod 1902 to 1906 and indeed back to 1893, - has been established in large measure , by agreement among the princlpaL ore producing interests " The -excessive profits xn ore, the re port says,- handicap effective competl tion in the produ5tionof pig iron and steel by concerns -which, must go' Into the open, market for their ore.. ; The transportation proflf or to cents a ton, 'realized ny tae steei corpora tion on -its own ore over its principal ore - carrying railroads, and in lake vessels from 1802 to i06, was rgross-4 ly excessive," the report alleges. The report v adds: "While - integra tion of; industry to permit of large- scale operations and minimum costs are exceedingly desirable, these enor mous profits, of the Steel Corporation on the 'transportation -of ore, present a problem of very great importance. The situation is'this: .. - "Integration of the- steel industry with respect to transportation thus. far, Instead of working tc tne advan tage of the public In the form of lower costs to all shippers and lower prices. ha.l worked ?tv the benefit of a areat combination. On; the othar hand, to let the' Steel Corporation retain this advantage , Of low transportation cost and to let this work., itself out in the forin, of lower prices might be undesir able, 'because ; it would-tend: to give the Steel Corporation an unreasonable and undesirable" : advantage over ; competi- petitors in - the sale of. finished ; pro ducts.' .: ' ' "This situation clearly recommends the rinefttiftn whether the Interests of ;.the..puDUa may noi require ipe. segre gation of these raiiroaa . properties from tne Steel corporation, it- woum olAn ar'hctf 'laliTimiPat'nna'hIir an evil. and that is the imposition of high rates . upon competitors' shipments,' which puts them at a great disadvan tage, while at the same time forcing them, ' by reason or tnis very tact,-. to contribute unduly to the profits of the Steel Corporation on transportation v Large lnter-company profits, the re nort' says, were revealed by the' exam ination of the many companies linked "up under one control through various, subsidiaries, ore mines, mast rurna ces, steel 'works, etc. , These compo nent parts, 6f one interest, it is charg - ' (Continued on Page Eight). . , Supreme Cort Decides That t Rail roads Must ' Carnj Beer When : . ' Offerett for- Trahaportatiofi Into Dry Territory.; :" WashingtojBw Jan. 2 2. -Liquor inter ests today' won. a far reaching victory in the United .States Supreme - Court by a declsion that ra Iroads . must' car ry . teer, when offered for transporta tion into "dry" counties" of another State. The decision" affected particu larly shipments ' from. Indiana . Into Kentucky. ' . Justice Lurton; who announced the court's decision, also Jlald down some limitations on the jurisdiction ot the Interstate Commerce Commission. He upheld the action or j shippers in ; go-' ing before judicial . tribunals to test the validity of lawsj ratherV than to the commission. Hej said that '. the commission had .jurisdiction, ove&d ministrative questloni and matters of fact; but the courts cwe questions of general la,W. ' ' - . - ; ; Justice Lurton deel qxe& decisions of the Supreme Court d undisputably determined: r ; ... "That beer and other intoxicating liquors are the recognized tad legiti mate subjects . of inter-State com merce.H ' : r "That rio State, can forbid-Any comj mon carrier tovxransport suca articles from a consignor in fjone State to a consignee 'In aaother., "That, until such .transportation - is concluded ,by delivery to. the consig nee such commodities; do not become subject to such regulation restraining their sale or dispositlbn." . He explained that the Wilson act, which subjected such liquors to State regulations, although . the , liquor ' Btlll was In original packages, did not ap ply before actual delivery to the-consignee wheralthe shipment was inter state. The case arose when the Louis ville & Nashville Railroad Company refused to carry beer offered by- the F. W. Cook Brewing Company at Ev ansville, Ind. The railroad' declined the shipment because a Kentucky law of 1906 forbade bringing intoxicating liquors into local option districts. .The United States Circuit Court for Indiana' enjoined the railroad from refusing to transport beer, on the ground that beer was a commodity and that the Kentucky, stattte, 1f it at tempted to regulate intir-State com merce,, was no defense for the Tail-' rokd's efaLTfce for the-seventh circuit affirmed this decision. . -; "Valid as ajregulation of intra-State shipments, it never, was effective as to inter-State shipments to 'dry coun ties'," said Justice Lurton today, in sustaining the lower courts. -FORMER BANKER DETAINED. Wanted at Kansas City In Connection With 'Serious Charge. ' Memphis, Tenn Jan. 22. Henry W. Richardson, formerly president of a trust company at Kansas City, was de tained by the police hena early today after advices had been received stat ing that Richardson is charged With certifying to false entries. Richard son safd he; would willingly return to Missouri. , '; .vr f. '. ' He exhibited , a telegram from' Unit ed "States Diatricj Attorney, Lyons, of Kansas City, asking that Lyons be kept advised of his movements In or- . . . ?t t 1. ,.vt Iw. tne - more easily servea . ior iticnara- son's appearance as a witness in oases involving certain officials of. the Kan sas City All-Nlght and Day Bank, which Richardson says absorbed the trust company witn wmcn ne was con nected. 1 '. ;-'- " -i .l : ; The Chinese Premier's efforte . to bring about the abdication, of - the throne have utterly failed. - ,,, Rutherford Page, a young-asiator, who had just received his license, fell 150 feet at' Los Angeles, CaU yester day, and was Instantly killed. . Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, head of the Buread cf Chemistry, was completely exonerated " from,: the charges agalns him yesterday Jy the full House Com mittee. ; J. r- The openihe of the Florida East Coast Railroad Was celebrated .yester day at Key West with appropriate ce remonies, .many government officials and foreign diplomats feeing present Dr. Herbart iCnox Smith, in making a report yesterdat- On the cost of pro duction in the steel industry, declared tnat the ore carrying railroads ought to be segregated from the Steel Cor poration. The liquorjnterests won a far-reach-lng victory 'yesterday when the U. S Supreme. Court decided that .railroads must arry 4eer when offered' for trans porta tion into dry counties of anotner ' Hour promineit knen, three of them officials of .thd'4 Illinois Central Rail road, were - instantly killed yesterday and several people" injured when one tram ran into the rear ori anctaer.on that road, near Centralia; Ttl Mr. James Ji' 'Farrejl;presldent Of tne United States Steel corporation, told the Stanley committee yesterday that unnecessary t pubiiQjty , of manu facturers' ocsts would result in untold injury-to the foreign trade of the in dustrv. '.' ".; .. :',;'..- -. " :. New York markets: Money oh ca,ll steady, 2 to 24-2 perc$nt.V ruling rate, closlne bid and offered at 2 1-4. Spot cotton- quiet. Flour firm and higher. Wheat firm, No. 2' red 99-1-2 elevator, export b&sis, and 1.01 3-4 f .o.b. . afloat . Co steady export -71 3-4 f.o.b. "afloat Rosin,; and . turpen itine quiet. ISIOIifGONEO Many Dif tinjrmslied Visitor Took Part in tKe Ke We?i Celebration Yesterday. A GREAT TRIBUTE TO BUILDER Representatives of United States and .Other Governments Honor Oc casion of Great Interest t3 "Railroad World. f ,Key West, 'Fla., Jan. 22. Cheering by.; thousands of visitors, the blowing bf whistles and the ringing of bells an nounced the arrival this morning of the first passenger train over the new ly completed extension of the Florida East Coast Railway between thjsf city and Knlgtht's Key, 46-miles "toward tne . mainland of .Florida: and marked the. beginning of a. three days- cele- uiauuu wer me completion of tne line. The first train bore Governor Gilchrist and - other State .officials; Henry M; Flagler, president of the Florida East Coast Railroad, and a party of friends from New York, including wejll known figures in. the railroad world. The second "train brought As1 sistant Secretary of War Oliver, ep1 resenting President Taft, representa tives of several foreign countries and a Congressional delegation numbering 68 persons. Another brought excur sionists from various parts of the country. . . Today's programme consisted of a reception to Mr. Flagler, followed by a reception -to, . the foreign diplomats, Congressmen and State officials, a drive through the city, a boat ride around the harbor and a reception by Mayor Fogarty. . A grand ball at the government equipment .building - to night will bring the day's entertain ments for the visitors to -a; close, v Many distinguished foreign- ivisltors are here for the celebration,; among them being General Marti,'; represent ing President Gomezv of Cuba who ar rived yesterday, afternooncu.J&eCa-. pan cruiser rHatueyf.y,ii $w.4,; Public buildings, - business houses and private residences are decorated with flags and bunting whilo gaily dressed naval vessels, merchant Steamers and private yachts swinging at anchor in the harbor make the scahe along'the water front one; of great animation. Among the naval vessels here are the Portuguese 1 crui ser Republics, : the (Juban cruiser Ha- tuey ana tne nitn envision of tne At lantic fleet of the United States navy under command cf Rear Admiral Fiske and consisting of the cruisers Wash ington: tha flagship, the cruiser North Carolina and the scout cruisers Bir mingham and Salem, and the gunboat Vicksburgr ' The House committee on naval af fairs, which arrived on. the Congres sional special, will take' a trip to Ha vana before returning to Washington. The cruiser Washington ; has t been placed at its disposal for that purpose and the committee probably will sail for the Cuban capital Wednesday, re turning Thursday or Friday; ; When Henry M. Flagler stepped from-his private car after the arrival of the first passenger train ; Into Key West- by the "over-the-sea" route he was handed a solid gold facsimile of a '-Western Unioi telegraph blank upon whkh was inscribed - the congratulations..-of every employe - of .the Florida East Coast Railway;; - -This: unique gift was accompanied by a specially prepared paper -document upon which ) were written the names of - those- who contributed .to the iund for its purchase, v -President J. R. Parrott", . 'of'the East .Coast Railway the 'man who handled all of the details of-thls great engineering feat,-, presented :,the .-gold telegram to 'Mr. - Flagler and - accom panied the "presentation? with ; a brief speech, tc- which Mr. iagier respona- ed .-'.':'"- si ' - The gold tefegram is thexaet "size! bf a Western union . blank, r a; six- teenta or an mqn in imcKiteiiB, uu 18 karat pure; : ' ; i - '- :- , ' . Great Day for Tamo." ' . Key West, Fla. Jan. 22. Fdr the first time, In the history of this city and. marking an epoch in the history of railroad '-constructloil, in this douh try, a railroad train entered Key West today over. the', over-seas extension of the Florida East Coast Railroad. - The first train bearing . President H. - M. Flagler ' and a party of,: distinguished grestswas greeted . hy the shrieking of whistles and ringing of bells on all itie vessels in? the. harborand the shouts of nearly 1&000 persons assem bled at the terminus. The president's train was quickly . followed across ' the long concrete viaduct by the 'Congres sional' spehial frbm Washington -nd aeveral' excursion . train.'.' V-h- 't . norinntmr.ith reftentions ' to ' the visitors in the morning, the day's pro-1 gramme. mciuaea, sifcur vj.iiwuw Int'ijrest about the island city and con cluded with . ' grand baltt the havy yard tonights. Tomorrow i wiir be voted io isperon QTjthe natal and military reservations and , thetrailroad construction , work and a militar-f and civic parade.. - . s-'".,' - .Amusement 'of i all' sorts have been prepared- for -the -thousands of visitors, Including-a' circus and a four, day avi ation meetlng.-;; : '.-.:' . . Washlnoiw' Jan V 22 .Postmasters appointed;1 today -. included Rohert D. Douglas,: Greensboro,' N C, and Wii mnt Ti 'Harris: ' Charleston; S , M- . Yuan Shi Kai Falls ' to Bring : About Abdicatiqn of the Throne Rel actionarlea HaveiBeeit Strengthened . -:' .", '. Peking, ran. 28 .Premier Yuan Shi Kal's efforts to bring about the abdica tion of Ihe-throne have failed', and the situation in China has, entered a. new and perplexing phase. : ' Prince Ching, the ex-Premier; Prince Pu, Lun;ex- president of the National Assemblr. and Prince TBal Suun, brother of the ex-regent, absented themselves, from the" conference of princes (5f the Imper rial clan today, which left the deML ion as to abdication to the re-action- niies, wno nave oeen strengthening their hand steadily since the Premier permitted , the probability of abdica tion to become known. . v--- Curiously, few of the Drincea of in ner Mongolia, whom the ManchuTcoa Pider inferior, to themselves, rallied to vue am oi tne Jkanchus. At a previous meeting one of the Mongols strongly ccntroverted Prince Chlng's argument that the Imperial armies were unable t oppose - the Rebels. ADDarentlv preparations were complete for a pro- YKsiwaiii government; an abdication edict had even been drafted,, but the announcement that such a course" was contemplated, which had been allowed to become, public, with the evident ob ject of preparing the Manrchu .troops agamst-the shock, Inspired clansmen of all degrees to resist The Empress Dowager, being reluc tant to abdicate, has accepted thea.d vice of the re-actionary princes. The matter or appointing Yin Tchwang, iue ex-war minister, or Tie Liang, for mer Tartar general at Nanking to re place Yuan Shi Kai, was discussed, but the argument prevailed that the ! ar ticles of the constitution promulgated by the National Assembly last Novem- cer. snouid 'be observed. .' - Yuan Shi Kai's bluffing is. becoming uuvious. tie nas neid special trains ready for several daya-for his deoart- ure, hut now ."that xtheManchtrs have accepted his -challenge he remains In Peking. He has asked fori a further so-called sick leave, indicatln that he has no intention of reUnquishing lae.rTemiersmp. . tie is now recogniz ed as anti-Manchu; '.therefore, this dis trustful country ' accuSe8him .of per sonal designs. But it may be that he is only tallowing a Datrlotlc ' determi- ttidnTor-4h 'purpose-of "eveting a division'of the country' wfth the pros pect of sub-divisions. ; . .. The foreign legations, fntludlng the American legation, do not desire to 6ee . Yuan . Kai retire, because a cap able substitute for his -office is hot available. It Is, realized that Yuan's .presence alone .prevents widespread disorders in the North, which would endanger the lives of foreigners. It Is believed that Ke will remain in Pee king, protected from Manchu attacks and Rebel dynamite until the Manchus discover their own inability to cope with the situation,' whereupon he will resume control. Many missionaries In the northern provinces strongly resent the attitude of te missionaries in Shanghai, Who are publicly supporting the revolution. Bishop Bashford, of tue Methodist "Episcopal mission, and other prominent American missionar ies, have expressed to the' Washington administration the view that a Repub lic is Inevitable, while another -group, almost entirely Americans, have tele graphed to the Empress Dowager and The leading princes, asking them - to abdicate. . ' - , .'; ' i. The American legation' approves, of the opinions expressed In the follow ing letter addressed .to the legation from a mission. in Chi Li: v ".'"'.'''' "Wje; Strongly disapprove of mission aries becoming political advisers and placing -themselves. on the side of the Revolutionaries It ' is a : menace to us, who remain in the northern inte rior.' The act of themissionaries in ianghai, signing suc telegrams anu widely publishing them, i brands the missionary body as revolutionary and might nien our being' wiped out. at any time." V . . '" . - " . .The: Imperialists ?f already suspect ihat the missions, especially the Am erican . missions, are inculcating re lufJonary ideas. ; The American mi ister, Mr; uainoun, naa enaeavorea r peatedly to persuade .all the jnJSBion- a ties to leave the Interior but many of. them, particularly! he medical mis sionaries, feel that:thrr duty requires tbem to remain. '". ' .... Starving In China. 'Washington, Jan. 22. "They have no seed "to plant and no animals to do their plowing with, and this; condition of affairslias gone On for so , long that they havf lost all desire for work,: they simply ivanV to lie down in the;-mud and die. ' ' There" were people Walking on either slde'of Ufe roadway, coming - and going" These-, were all beggars", and all starving. ""A few years'ago the ; majority 'of tbemhad been 8ucce8sfui'farmers, but now they have absolutely nothing.'. There was not 'a day that t did not pass two or three. boflSjS of men. Women and child ren lying on th.road?! Whn'tne Peo ple got tired and gave I .up; they sim ply dropped doWp,' where they wer6 and died; they did not even go to the raised; track Wttie'stde, butdropped inUhe road. Where , they, lay unburied. .-I'lcame across the emaciated body of a young- toy, five or six years. old. HiSvthroat had been' cut from ear; to ear and. a piece of paper was pinned on him which stated that his father and toother had nothing to give him to. eatMuid; the, children of the village wePa standing ar6uhd looking at the corpse."- . '- W :1 ', . ' 7v ' : '; , These Were some of the observations of. C. D. Jameson, a Red Cross engi neer,' sent -to -inspect the famine dis: trict In Xhlna,.and ,to report on the possibility offood . preventlonin ths j-r . (Continued on ,FageEjgnt Railroad Officials Met Death in Illinois , , Central IflVESTIBATIOn 8ELNG MADE Responsibility for the Awful Wreck Lies Between Engineer Stuart and the Flagman of the " Limited .CehtraUa, 111., Jan. 22. The State: pf Illinois; the. coroner of arlbn conn-. : ty" and thejnmois'.Central. Railroad J Company, itself, today began a three fold investigation of the fatal collision on that railroad early hls morning, In which four, men, high in "thf railroad7 world,, were killed at KInmundy; thlr- ty miles northeast of here.-;. In a prl--vate car . of wood, attached , to Train No. 25, the New Orleans Limited, four ; men were instantly killed, why e four ; . other men in the -forward end" of the same car escaped unhurt , , The four victims'of the wreck were sleeping in the rear end of the private, car. which was telescoped by the en gine pulling Train No. 3, the Panama Express, running fifty miles an hour. The deqn arft? . "'! . . james i . naranan, or vjnicago, ior mer president othe Illinois Central. Frank. O . Mel cheri second vice pres- ; ident of . the Rock Island, whose . car "was crushed. ' - - f E. 'B. Pierce, general counsel of the Rock Island. - - Eldridge E. Wright, of Memphis, rice president of a Rock Island bridge company and a Son of Luke E. Wright, rormer Secretary , of war; ; The trainme injured ere: - ' . ; v Robert . Stuart, engineer ; ' C . . J . Bert, firemani hotfi .of the Limited; Jesse Gilbert, fireman" of the Espress. ; . ' They Were takeh" to their .homes 'in Champaign. ; Bert . JiaaL-Jt Jratiture i ; skull, : .GUlert!s':Bw8'Wa and Stuart vis Buffering from concussion of the .brain.-. ..;' ' ' -. :; '-T. f.V . " ' ' The heavy engine drawing a soli l tj-ain of steel sleeping cars, plowed . half way through the private car. Tte four other occupants, Byrkn B. Carry,, secretary to Vice President Melcher; Thomas Busbee, local attorney of-the Rock Island at Little .Rock, .Ark., 'an 4 two negro porters,, escaped with bruises after being buried In the d bris. . '. Witnesses were examined by Deputy Coroner Grant Wf atherllng and the In quest was continued ufitll Friday enable the crew of the engine of the Limited to testify.' -: The deputy coroner, expressed th.oj . opinion that the respdnsibiiiiy lay be-. tween Engineer Stuart and lagman Henry J. Broecker, M the Expresa, -. Who live in Chicago. - - The bodies of. the four victims were mutilated. Their arms were torn o) and the top of Mr. Harahan's heed was cut away. The Cat was reduce! . to Junk. Citizens of t Klninud? aided the train crews and passengers In re- ( moving the debris frbm the dead. ; Friends of the Officials' took the bod ies of Mr. Harahsn, Mr; Melcher and Mr. Pierce to Chicago.,- Mr. Wright's tody, was taken south to Memphis. Mr. Busbee, in speakliig of the es cape -from the car said: "I retire-1 otlly a few minutes before the wreck and had hardly fallen asleep jvhen , was aroused by a terrific crash as the locomotive of the Limited spilt our car , In two. 'When I got my; bearings . found myself ahd Curry; who . wa asleep in the upper-berth of the same apartment, : virtually covered, by de bris. ' uv- Y ; ' . "We assisted eafch. other to arise nnd after a s:reat deal . of difficulty, -' imanaged to make our, way out of the car a.t the forward end. A.crowa. nan . gathered by the t'me we ot out anl wegsearched the ruins if' the private car, .finding the bodies of Mr. Hara ban, : Mr . Melcher, Mr ' fierce and . Mr.-nvrlght. ,.They,Werftbadly mutl lated: - '.-''...-- ' '"The conipartmehi in .which' Mr. Curry and' I were sleeblng was in the forward end of the; car and: to this fact, we probably owe. our lives. It is marvelous that we escaped," as it. was.' . Curry, said he retired at, 10; 45 and had heen sleeping soundly. . lpng tUno . before the crashr r-l t':-f Broeeker, testifying at the. inquest, said- he was riding olhe next to the last car of the ExpreM. and that when . it stopped at Kinmudyi 30 nii.es north of here for water, he ran back- with his lantern nd a block andsa half to the"-, rear gave the ph-rUshing Limit ed a-signal. He testified his signal; was answered by tb engineer by two blasts of the whistle. - ? ' : Stuart, it was said; ; applied. - tha , brakes out the train was going at too great a speed. to be stoppedrThe forco , of the collision was so great that the standing train, with "'brakes locked, , was shoved 200 feet ahead. '.-' Passenger's on each-s train escaped with slight bruiseSj caused by the sud den stopping of the . 2 trains Physic clans Who were, taken" ior-'Klnmundy from here gave all of tbtir attention to the three trainmenLy': . ' - .'. ' Conductor John':H:''Brainard, ofr Chicago, of ; the Express, txirroDoratd the testimony of HIS flagtnan.i At ' Ef firfgham, he tesUfledhe'tbld the' flag- man that the Limited rwas less than . teji. minutes behind and "to-mat a . Wreck. .1 -,, (,:.' ,ms 4T:- V ; . jr il l !' v.. Til' -IP .- V.-x I ! t ' tit' ' .- h f.'i. 4 u. "i, . ! - -i.-1"' i V.' ' I ' ' ; '" r :;' :; t ' ' I Si .Ml. m4 ft- 'i'-t.' 'I Whi ; . ir r ' . r..t- i ' .y ' -.i -! , r '' - P., ' ' t. M it 't 'J .A .-' . .)"'. j'i '' V- ... i , ... , 1 'I' v'. -ir- i.j.1-
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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