VOL. XCIMSTO 46.
MILITANTS : CAUSE
A REIGN DF TERROR
Suffragette Bomb Throwers
and Arson , Squads
Active .
THE PRQSEGUTIQT1S CONTINUE
Police Magistrate Receives Combusti
ble. Package by Mail Methods
Used in Publication of "The " -Suffragette'
Exposed.
London, , May 14.-A business-like
bomb, addressed to Henry Curtis Ben
nett, the , police magistrate, was de
livered by a letter . carrier at Bow
street police court today. The pack;
age was marked "immediate", but dis
liking the looks - of , it, the cautious
court officer took it butside and plung
ed it into a pail- of :water. . -,
When the package was opened It
was found o contain a tin tobacco
box, bound fith wire and filled with
gunpowder, shot and a cartridge. At
tached to the cap end of the cartridge
was a nail, which, if it had been struck
would have fired the bomb and explod
ed its contents. ;';V
Combustibles Discovered.
Suffragette bombs were found today
in one of the passenger cars of a train
running between Kingston-on-Thames
and London, on ; the - Southwestern
Railway, This makes the third out
rage of the kind on the same line
within two months: c On . the, train's
arrival at Waterloo terminus the con
ductor noticed in one of the compart
ments three "parcels which aroused
suspicion. On investigation . two of
them were found to contain tin. can
isters filled1 with: combustibles and
wrapped in suffragette placards.: No
explosion occurred and the bombs
were handed oper to the police. .
Residence Burned.
A militant suffragette-f'arson squad"
destroyed a large untenanted resi
dence, the "Highlands"- at Sanddate-on-S
ea, near - Folkes ton, on the Eng
lish channel last night, . Post cards'
addressed to the "Dishonorable Prime
Minister," and ;Aqj, the "Dishonorable
Reginald McKenna, Homo .Secretary
were -letttabouf the premises,1 nTiere
was a post, card Rearing; the words,
"We, hope -this is not ft poor a widow's
house." '. . . ;.- " - '
School boys are. piping, militant
suffragettes in their reign of terror.
.Several bombs which on examination
turned outtO" be dummies, have been
traced to scholars.- - '
Hearings Resumed.
Striking evidence of the extensive
operations of the militant suffragettes
and the bad effects on -the women's
cause of "the. outrages committed by
them was given today on the resump
tion of the" hearing at Bow street po
lice court of the charges against the
suffragette leaders. - They are charg
ed with the infringement of malicious
damage to property acts..
Those who. occupied the prisoners'
inclosure were .Miss ' Harriet Rebecca
Kerr, Miss. Agnes Lake, Miss Rachael
Barret, Miss Beatrice Saunders, Miss
Annie Kenny, Mrs. Laura Lenn and
the analytical chemist, Clayton. The
case against ; 'General" Mrs. Flora
Drummond was postponed until. July,
owine to her illness.'.
Letter carriers and postoffice offi-a
cials testified as to: the great damage
done to the mails by chemicals ana
other fluids poured into the public
letter boxes. N
The former business manager of the
Suffragette testified his services were
dispensed with by -the militant socie
ty because Mrs! Emmeline Pankhurst
thought it better that only women
should conduct the paper.
As to the loss-of circulation by The
Suffragette, he told Mrs. Pankhursty
the decrease, was due to the letter box
raids, but she said that could not be
possible, because when . the women
were most militant they were most
successful.
Archibald Bodkin, treasurer counsel,
attempted to elicit from -the account
ant who audited the books of the Wo
men's Social and Political Union what
became of the so-called secret service
S-und of $1,250,000, yh which the news
paper, The Suffragette " announced
$900,000 had been raised. The ac
countant was unable to tell.
Salaries Small.
The accountant produced the salary
book from which It appeared the pay
of the militant movement leaders was
not princely. Miss Annie Kenney re
ceived 21 weekly; "General" .Flora
Drummond and; Miss Harriett Rebec
ca $17.50; Mrs. Beatrice Saunders and
Miss Rachael Barrett. $15, and Miss
-Laura Lennox $10.- Miss Christabal
Pankhurst, who is living in Paris,
drew $875 in the last four months, ac
cording to the books. v
A receiving order was issued by the
bankruptcy, court today against. Fred
erick Pethick Lawrence, a prominent
and wealthy suffragist, who recently
severed his connection with the mili
tant suffragette ; society. The order
was made on the application of . the
Director of Public Prosecution be
cause Mr. Lawrence . refused to; pay
the costs of the prosecution of himself
his wife and Mrs. Emmeline Pank
hurst on a charge of conspiracy last
May. The outstanding amount is $3;
040. The court appointed an official
receiver to take, charge of Mrs.' Law
rence's affairs, v-- '
On leaving the court Mr. Lawrence
remarked: "I am now a financial ci
pher, but I am out, for a fight in the
public interest ' against a wholly un
just law which gives the executive
the power to strike a . blow at any
man who sides with a revolt by charg
ing him with the cost of his prosecu
tion." - i ' .ir ; -..,.-". .--
Laredo, Tex M&y 'c 14 -Of six J Fed
eral scouts sent out reconnoitre
near Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, today.
four distanced a email Rebel and
which they ran into four milest south
of the border, and, returned to the Fed
eral garrison inraf ety. font - the.-otb.ers
were caDtured. and: hane?d. v Their bul
let ridden foodies were brought to Nu
ftllHlJfliX7THT' CONFERENCE
Officers; for the Ensuing Year Elected.
Strong Addresses by Eminent
Speakers Are Heard.
Opening Sermon.
"St Louis. May 14. The 67th annual
conference of . the Southern. Baptists
formally .ooened this evening. , The
Rev. Edward Charles D'argan presided.
: Officers for the - ensuing year were
re-elected1 i with the exception of the
vice-presidents. -Tne officers are: ?
The Rev. Dr. Edwin Charles Daman.
Of Macon, Ga., president; M. H. Wolf,
ui uauasj x exas ; tne tiev. a. u. wasn
burn, of McAlester. OKla: Isaac B. Ti-
grett. C-f Jackson, Miss., and William
""J"i vm. ii-iv-uiiivJHUi, V ct., V iC"-pi trail -
dents.; it-he "Rev. Dr. Lansing Burrows,
ot Amencus, ua., ana tne Kev. Oliver
Fuller Gregory, of Staunton, Va., sec
retaries; George W. Norton, of Louis
ville, Ky., treasurer, and William P.
Harvey, of, Harrodsburg, Ky., auditor:
The programme provides for three
sessions each day, the closing session
ibeinsr next Monday -night. The morn-
inr. tomorrow will be given up mis
sionary matters, and the afternoon
session to the laymen's movement and
the young people s work.
" It is shown in the statistical reDorts
that Texas leads all the States in ce
convention l1 u amount of money
contributed to both home and fore5--missions,
giving $71,000 to home mis
sions and $8b,0uu to foreign missions.
Optimism characterized the annual
report of tne foreign mission board of
the Southern Baoi. Church, submitt
ed by Rev.- T. B. Ray, of Richmond,
Va.
Baptists were , awakened to world
wide responsibilities, and at the' same
time -to the great opportunities before
them In the nome land," says the re
port.- i
Considerable space is given to con
ditions in Mexico. f
"The year 1912" reports A. N. Por
ter, in charge of the Southern Mexi
can Mission, "was one of the most try
ing In the history of the Mexican peo
ple. Thousands of bandits have over
run -the rural districts, leaving ruin and
distress. Such conditions hav made
it nearly impossible to do missionary
work, except in the cities."
. A plea for denominational loyalty is
made in the report of tke :board of
home missions, submitted to the South
ern Baptist Convention today.
- "As -we- contemplate the great prob
lems that the Sooth confronts," says
the report, "The : negro, materialism,
twentyttwo million people not in any
relierious body, the fearful cheapening
of : human, rlife,, the more than 3,000
churches that nave no houses of wor-
Vbtp-rv. w6? think of thes things, we
long to Derempowerea tp project a pro
gramme, that snail oe positive, , cour
ageous. adequate and triumphant." '
The nome mission board' reports that
it-closed, tb?' year's work free from
debt. Emphasis of the doctrinal .char
acter of Christianity is urged in Sun
day school work in the report of the
Sunday, school board, submitted to the
Southern Baptist convention today.
The Sunday school lesson commit
tee's , work in this .connection and its
work in graded lessons for the inter
mediate department, is commended.
In .his introductory sermon before
the convention today, Rev. Thomas
W. O'Kelly, pastor of the First Bap
tist church, Raleigh, N. C. said that
church men were losing opportunity
to make converts because of an effort
"to do so much work in the name of
conglomerate organizations which
lack the power and inspiration of
Jesus' name." - Rev. Mr. O'Kelley
spoke on "Equality," saying in part:
"We are losing largely our oppor-1
tunny to oring men iiilo me cuusciuus
ness of freedom and equality in Christ
fey, endeavoring to do so much in the
name of conglomerate organizations
which lack the inspiration and power
of Jesus' name. Let us -learn to say
in Apostolic fashion, 'In the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and
walk, and old-time power will again
be ours, : and eaYth's helpless ones
shall praise God for the blessings sent
them through us.
"The spiritual needs of men are the
most -. desperate of all and cry most
loudly for help. The . inequality be
tween the saved soul and the unsaved
is like the difference between heaven
and hell. Under the same roof one
is Irving in the light of heaven, and
another In the darkness which rises
from the pit. Hence the gigantic task
before us is to Diot out this aeaaiy
inequality ; by preaching the Gospel to
every creatures This work of equali
zation cannot be aone Dy sentimental
brotherhoods which ignore the ugly
fact of sin in setting forth the. princi-.
pies of their order, but by preaching
the Gospel oi uoa s son, in wmcn
there is an effective remedy for sin.
This is our only hope of permanently
improving conditions in this life, and
certainly the .oniy means Dy wmcn
men can be prepared for the life to
come." - ...r .
' -Appealing-for greater equality m
church work, Rev. Mr. O'Kelley said:
"Equality in Christ is the clear,
thrilling note of the glorious gospel
of the blessed God. Sound it out till
all the earth shall hear. Live it till
all men see Its rich and holy mean
ing. When we fall to apply this hies-
sed doctrine in our daily lives, we do
incalculable injury to the cause of our
Lord. We must never for a minute ad
mit, even to ourselves, that the rich
and-the poor, the learned and the ig
norant, cannot worship, live and work
together in; the same church. If the
poor wilt not go to the church on the
boulevard, then let the boulevard
dweller go to the church of the poor.
The life of- a consecrated man of
wealth in a ? church of the poor is
worth ten times all the money he may
give to the work ot the church, while
a chasm yawns between his life and
theirs: The vey spirit of the gospel
is that the strong go-down where the
weak are, and lift them to the level of
their, own lives. Jesus went down to
the depths , that He might lift those
who were perishing there , to the
heights of freedom In -Himself. The
disciple is not above his master, nor
the -servant above his lord. It is
master,; and the servant as his lord .
onmiffii fnr- tha riiinin that he be as
his master,' and the, servant as his
lord'." - . -
vr&,A v- : - - -
Washington, May 14. Joaouin Men
dez. Guatemalan- minister here, has
designated Dsr.w Padilla . Matute, consul
i genera irom ni- couuu y -
Cisco; to select a site for the-Guate-
iiiaiau xiuiiuiug av iuo b"'"
Exposition.
WILMINGTON, N.
Si
NERS
FINISH
CAMELS
RETURN
Atlanta Chosen as the Next
Meeting Place at Dal
las Yesterday
ELECTION OF THE OFFICERS
Honolulu IMan Elected to Only Office
. Contested Closing -Features, of
Entertainment in Texas
Dispensations.
Dallas, Texas, May 14. After elect
ing Atlanta as the 1914 meeting place
over Buffalo, N. J"., and Memphis,
Tenn., and electing James Sutton Mc
Candless, of Aloha Temple, Honolulu,
imperial outer guard, the Imperial
Council, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
today completed its labors . and the
thousands of Shriners turned their
weary camels homeward.
The council granted a dispensation'
to the Mobile, Ala., Temple, . and a
charter to Montgomery, Ala.
The . election of an imperial outer
guard, usually the only contest as the
other members of the Imperial divan
are advanced one office each year, developed-
nine candidates and an .elec
tion was not had until the third ballot
when' Jack Jones, of Oklahoma City,
former imperial potentate, withdrew
in favor of McUandless, and made nis
election certain. The Honolulu man
had led' in the first -two ballots, but
lacked the necessary majority. .
The warmest contest of the day,
however,1 came with the selection of
the .1914 convention city. The report
of a special committee, recommending
Buffalo, N. Y.t was amended to include
Atlanta and Memphis in the voting
and the Georgia city won handily on
the first ballot, receiving 2b9 votes
as against 85 for Buffalo and 67 for
Memphis. The convention closed to
night with a grand ball at the "Garden
of Allah" at Fair Park.
William W. Irwin, of Wheeling, W:
Va.. was . today elected? imperial po
tentate, of the Ancient " Arabic Order
of Nobles of .the Mystic Shrine. Oth
er Officera 'elected were: : ...
- Imperial Deputy Potentate Freder
ick R. Smith, Rochester, N. Y.
Imperial Chief Rabban J. Putnam
Stevens, Portland, Me.
Imperial Assistant Chief KabDan
Henry F, Niedringhaus, Jr., St. Louis.
Imperial High Priest and Prophet
William S. Brown, Pittsburg.
Imperial Treasurer Benjamin W.
Rowell, Boston.
Imperial Oriente Guide Eiias A. Ja-
coby, Indianapolis.
Imperial First Ceremonial Master
W. Freeland Kendrick, Philadelphia.
Imperial Second Ceremonial Master
Ellis L. Garretson, Tacoma, Wash.
Imperial ' Marshal William J. Mat
thews, New York City.
Imperial Captain of the Guard Ern
est A. Cutts, Savannah, "Ga.
Imperial Outer Guard J. S. Mc-
Candless, Honolulu.
MAGISTRATE HELD. .
Under $200 Bond Awaiting Action of
the Grand Jury.
Asheville, N. C, May 14. Magis
trate M. A. 'Creasman, who was arrest
ed Monday on the charge of violation
of his oath of office for releasing W.
S. Adams, the detective charged with
torturing a negro witness In the John
Huff case was given a preliminary
hearing before Judge W. J. Adams, in
Superior Court today and was held
under a bond of $200 to await the ac
tion of the grand jury at the next
term of court.
" Solicitor Robert R. Reynolds, who
prosecuted the case, introduced wit
nesses to prove that Adams, in addi
tion to torturing the negro, Walker,
in South Carolina, had threatened the
negro after his arrival in Asheville,
in order to get him to acknowledge
his signature to the alleged affidavit
made in South Carolina, which the
man testified was false.
Creasman on the stand, said he felt
that Adams had not done anything in
this State and that he had no juris
diction. Judge Adams in holding him
to the grand jury, held that the action,
even if committed in South Carolina,
was intended . to produce subordina
tion of perjury in this State.
FURIOUS TORNADO.
(Many, Are Killed and Injured Build-
ings uemoiisnea.
Omaha, ,Neb: May 14. Officials of
the Nebraska Telephone Company in
this city were notified early this even
ing that a tornado at Seward had. re
sulted in? 12 deaths, and 50 persons
being injured, several of them fatally.
The town is, said to have been almost
destroyed. A . series of tornadoes
which had their climax at Seward,
struck 5 the town of McCool, Lushton
tnd Grafton, east of here, just before
o'clock tonight. Numerous build
ings were demolished, but , the total
number bf casualties is not known.
A storm , of great fury struck the
southern -part of Omaha at 7 o'clock
this evening unroofing many houses
In the vicinity of 13th and Gold streets
and doing Other damage. No persons
are reported Injured,
v. Coming so quickly after the Easter
tornado in which more than 100 lives
were lost, many hundreds of south
end inhabitants rushed to cellars and
other places of refuge.
- Three-Inches of. rain fell In the
downtown district. -
AMERICAN COMMISSION.
Studying European Methods of Agri
culture and Rural Credits.
Naples, May.-14. A section of the
American commission for the -study,
of European; systems of agricultural
co-operation, and rural credits, carried
on an. investigation here today and ex
pressed great satisfaction with the
information collected. The members
afterwards visited Pompeii, "Vesuvius
and - other -Interesting, spots. i r
C, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1913,
THE ANTI-FREE SUGAR FIGHT
Anti-Free Sugar Democrats Join Re
publicans in Fight Against Un-
derwood Tariff Measures.
President's Attitude.
Washington, May; 14. Using an
"original "Wilson man", from Michigan
with a fluent pen for an oracle, the
anti-free sugar Democrats led by Sen
ator Ransdell, of Louisiana, assailed
the Underwood sugar schedule in the
Senate today despite strenuous efforts
of Senator Simmons and other Demo
crats to stop the flow , of the attack.
Republicans enjoycSd the efforts of
the, Democratic leaders. , to prevent
the reading. of a long letter submitted
py Senator Ransdell ..written by Lew
is C. Rowles, of Lansing, Mich., in
which free sugar advocates werecharr
acterized as "accursed unpardonable
apostles of Democratic faith", and the
sugar schedule as "a. boomerang to
knock out the Democratic party." ,
Letter as Argument. ,
With Republican 4yotes, Senator
Ransdell was aided in,-getting the long
epistle before the Seriate as a part of
the argument against the proposed
sugar tariff. It precipitated lively
discussion between "the Louisianan
and Senators James, Myers, Simmons
and other Democratic leaders. In his
plea for Michigan President Wilson's
attitude on sugar, the party platform
pledges and the President's campaign
pledges not to hurt legitimate indus
try were called, the writer declaring
"there is almost. imminent danger that
in his almost hilarious enthusiasm for
the Democratic ideals the President
tries to do too much". ' . ,
The Democrats also were foreed to
hear from this same trenchant Mich
igan protestant that "the statesman or
party leade who, in formulating im
portant legislative- measures does not
take into consideration the psycho
logical effect as well as the ultimate
practical results of these measures is
a raw hand at the business.' He said
he did not believe President Wilson
was "that kind of an immature lead
er." , i s
"I refuse to believe, he continued,
"that the President will commit the
party to radical courses which how
ever sound theoretically are calcu
lated to alarm and alienate large
iumbers of voters in-many of the
most populous agricultural sections
of the country."
Republicans Applaud.
Republicans applauded , when the
Senate clerk read "is'iree to trade,
too, inscribed as '- the fcarty gonfalon,
which erstwhile - bore the "immortal
watchword of free stiver?" and again'
when the adtaonftioh;was ' sounded
that the "Democratic party would bet
ter effect changes moderately and
safely rather than hastily and at the
dictates of .a' caucus too, many of
whose members leave their private
judgments and consciences where the
Mussulman leaves his shoes outside
the door."
Senator Penrose later injected lev
ity into the proceedings when Sena
tor Simmons, on behalf of the Finance
Committee, tried to get 'an agreement
for a vote on the question of public
hearings on the Underwood bill. The
Pennsylvania Senator emphatically
denied that he had any idea of con
ducting a filibuster on the issue. He
had asked for-public hearings, he said,
because he conscientiously believed
that they should be held and he felt
sure that the Senator from North
Carolina had not entertained any idea
that he ever had captained any "leg
islative piratical craft."
While Senator Simmons was en
deavoring to' fix a time for a vote the
time .for .the consideration of the mat
ter expired and again it, went over
until tomorrow, when the Democrats
will endeavor to bring the reference
of the bill and the Republican hearing
amendment to a vote.
Discussing the attitude of the Dem
ocratic party toward he sugar tariff,
Senator James aske0!enator Rans
dell if he did not thijsy that the plat
form of the party gatle fair warning
to Louisiana, Mr. Ransdell-emphati-cally
replied "no" and the Kentucky
Senator then proceeded to read from
the platform endorsing what the party
did last year and demanding reduc
tions to reduce the cost of living. In
this connection the Louisiana Senator
referred to a statement in the Rowley
letter which said "Neither in his cam
paign for the Democratic nomination
nor for his election did Mr. Wilson
pledge himself to give the country
free sugar. On the contrary,, when
ever he was asked about his position
on the sugar tariff, he distinctly de
clared that he was against any tariff
changes that would injure or destroy
any legitimate industry. -
Buffalo Mav 14. Philadelphia, wm
selected as the next convention city
Dy tne Order of B'Kith Abraham, at
the closing session of the biennial ses
sion here today.
O UT LINES
The United Presbyterian Assembly
in session in Atlanta considered re
forms and important church business.
The 67th annual conference of the
Southern Baptists opened last night
at St. Louis with Rev. E. C. Dargan
presiding.
A tornado passed through sections
of Nebraska surrounding Omaha yes
terday. Thirty were killed outright
and many injured. 1 Many buildings
were demolished in several small
towns.
Governor Hiram W. Johnson, of Cal
ifornia, sent a message yesterday to
Secretary of State Bryan announcing
his intention of signing the Anti-Air-Ian
Land bill recently passed by . the
Legislature of his State.
" The militant suffragettes are con
tinuing to place Infernal machines
and bombs in and about the public
buildings of London. School boys are
aiding the women in the work of de
struction. Several Democratic Senators joined
the Republicans yesterday in their
fight against the free sugar provisions
of the Underwood tariff measure. The
matter of public hearings on the Un
derwood bill was ; again postponed. -
New York markets: Money on call
steady 2 3-4 to 3 per cent; ruling rate
2 7-8 ; closing . bid 2 3-4? offered at 2
7-8. Cotton quiet, middling uplands
12.00; middling gulf 12.23; no sales.
Turpentine and rosin steady. Flour
quiet. Wheat easy. . Corn steady.
NEBRASKA TOR
ADO
TAKES DEATH TOLL
Ten Killed rind Thirty-odd
Injured at Seward '
Yesterday
WIND STORM IN OKLAHOMA
Much Property Lost in Both Places
Other Towns Also Reported Laid
in Waste Hail and Rain
Followed
Seward, Neb., May 14. A tornado
which took a toll of. ten lives, injured
30-odd persons and destroyed more
than: a third of this town, occurred
shortly before J5 o'clock this evening.
Twenty-two residences were destroy
ed and many more were partly wreck
ed, but the business portion of the
place did not greatly suffer. . ..
The identified dead are: Mrs. David
Hoover, Mrs. William Heffinger, Mrs.
Chris Wasserman, Mrs. B. L. Was
serman, J. Schultz; Burlington section
foreman; six-year-old daughter of
Schultz, Mrs. R. Imlay, Samuel Crlm,
Mrs. Edwards.
The tornado struck the residence por
tion of Seward and swept everything
in its path. Most of those killed were
caught in the wreckage of their homes.
The tornado after passing through
Seward continued to the northeast.
Reports tonight say thaithe towns of
Tcmaro, Lushton, Grafton and Mc
Cool Junction were winfiri nut Ifnnr
persons are reported killed at Toma-
ro ana several at Mcuool Junction.
Utica was in the path of the twister.
Before the last telephone wire went
down an anneal was snt tn T .innln
to send physicians and undertakers.
Reports irom ' surrounding sections
indicate that the effects of the torna
do were felt over a wide range of ter
ritory. The tornado was followed in Seward
by a hail and rain storm. Tonight the
town was without light.
Tornado In Oklahoma
Chattanooga., Okla.. Mav 14. Sevr
eral buildings, including a bank,
church - and school house here were
wrecked during a " wind storm, late to
day. The property damage is esti
mated at $25,000. No one was hurt.
Reports from the surrounding country
tell of the serious damage to crops.
MINERS' STRIKE.
Senate May Order Federal Investiga
tion in West Virginia.
Washington, May 14. Senator
Kern's resolution for. a Federal Inves
tigation of conditions accompanying
the strike of coal miners in West Vir
ginia, advanced through three hours
of debate in the Senate today to a
point where its friends believe that
tomorrow a vote upon it would be taken:-
Several Senators expressed doubt
as to the wisdom of ordering a Sena
torial inquiry before a Senate commit
tee had discussed the necessity for it.
From the support it received upon
the Republican side in the day's de
velopments, however, advocates of the
resolution were confident it would be
adopted. -
Senator Kern led the supporting
column in favor of the resolution in
a long speech, while Senators Chilton,
and Goff, of West Virginia, expressed
their disapproval. ' Senator Chilton
argued against an investigation, by
the Senate of acts done in. a sovereign
State. Senator Goff had not complet
ed his address when the Senate ad
journed. Senator Kern read statements from
men who declared that they had re
fused admission to the postoffice in
the strike region by employes of the
mine operators. He said men had
been tried there by drum head court
martial, and refused writs of habeas
corpus, and said acts such as these
were responsible for the request of
recall of judges and judicial decisions.
Senator Borah, author of the resolu
tion of the same tenor last year re
ferred to decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States In similar
cases and insisted that it had held
that while a Governor of a State
might create a military zone such as
existed in that State, might employ
the militia to enforce order, men must
be tried in the civil courts under the
ordinary, law, and not by. military
court martial.
. Senator Goff admitted many of the
Incidents related by Mr. Kern, but de
clared creation of military tribunals
-was justified under existing, condi
tions. He told of orators who went
into the strike country and made in
flammatory speeches and of their sup
pression. He said he did. not oppose
free speech, nor did he believe the
Senate opposed it. : ; - :
- "But," he said, "it has never been
held in any land that free speech
means license." .s. ..
DISSOLUTION SUIT.
President of Steel Corporation Con
tinues Testimony. '
New York, May 14. James A. Fer
ral, president of the United States
Steel Corporation, continued his .tes
timony today as a witness for the de
fense in hearings of the government
suit to dissolve the corporation as an
illegal combination. . -
Mr. Ferral testified : along similar
lines in defense of the American
Steel Hoop and the American Bridge
Company, x constituent concerns. He
read a list of more than 375 concerns
which he said were competitors of the
bridge company - when the present
suit was filed. Other subsidiaries
were described by the witness as con
cerns which did not compete with
each other at the time they were ac
quired.- He named the National Steel
Company as a corporation which sold
steel to others of the subsidiaries.
Consequently, he - said, ' it could not
have been their competitor. He sub
mitted evidence'to show that all had
been . since - subject to the increasing
complication . of Independent compa
nies, and - that their percentage of
production had gradually decreased.
THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY
Prominent Church Leaders From AH
Quarters of the Globe In Attend
ance Unification in the
ChurcKss Discussed
Atlanta, Ga., May .14 J Dr. Robert
M'. Russell, of Westminster College,
New Wilmington, Pa., tonight was
unanimously elected moderator of the
United Presbyterian Assembly in ses
sion here. "Dr. Russell succeeds Dr.
Hugh II . Bell, of San Francisco.
The name of Dr. Russell was placed
before the assembly by Dr. C P
Proudfit, of Des Moines, Iowa. ' No
other nominations were made and Dr.
Russell was declared elected by ac
clamation. . v
The incoming moderator was pre
sented with a handsome gavel made
from wood taken from the first United
Presbyterian Theological Seminary,
founded at -Service, Pa. In making
the presentation Dr. G. A. Beattie,
of Atlanta, spoke of the proposed un
ion "between the United Presbyterian
Church with the Southern Presbyte
rian Church and suggested that the
merged organizations should be called
the United Presbyterian Church.
Day's Proceedings
After a day devoted to numerous
pre-assejwbly conferences, all of which
were well attended, the Pan-American
Pentecost was formally launched to
night when, the United Presbyterian
Assembly held its initial meeting.. As
semblies of the Northern a-mi South
ern churches will begin their sessions
tomorrow morning the joint assembly
extending through three days.
Chief in interest among the pre
assemibly conferences held today was
the .joint meeting of representatives
of the United and Southern assem
blies to discuss the union of the two
Churches. It was announced that
while progress had been made at the
meeting, another session has been set
for Friday, at which time a final re
port will be prepared and submitted
to the assemblies of the two interest
ed Churches.
A feature of especial interest at the
opening session of the United Assem
bly tonight was the farewell sermon
of Dr. H. H. Bell, of San Francisco,
retiring moderator. A. number of im
portant committee reports were also
made public, among these being a
record of the work done by the Church
during the year, submitted by. the com
mittee upon narrative and state of re
ligion. Reports were also submitted
by committees upon rural churches, in
dutriai. conditions, -wyoung peoples
work, brotherhood and other impor
tant bodies. Action t upon . these- re:
ports will 'be .taken by ..the assembly
on Friday. . .. . - . : .
At the sessions of the Northern and
Southern assemblies tomorrow morn
ing elections will be held to select
successors to Dr.. Mark A Matthews,
of Seattle, Wash., and Dr. Thomas S .
Clyce, of Sherman, Texas, moderators
of the respective bodies. . The selec
tion of these moderators, and the fare
well sermons by the retiring heads of
the two assemblies will be the chief
events of Interest for the . day. To-:
morrow night the first general session i
of the point assembly will be held.
Much interest centers about the
conference of the representatives of
the Southern Assembly to consider
the advisability of altering the word
ing the "Elect Infant Clause." While
definite action may be taken, it is be
lieved that there will be no renewal
of activity looking toward effecting
any change in the wording of the
clause.
Action in this matter was first tak
en as the result of overtures from, the
master assembly of the. Southern Pres
byterian Church and was submitted
to the Presbyteries for. action and
ratification requiring a two-thirds
vote. It is reported, on good author
ity that the amendment to the infant
clause failed to be ratified by the
Presbyteries. Had it been favorably
acted upon it would have, been refer
red back to the present general assem-1
bly for passage. '
Taking an active part in the confer
ences and assembly sessions are four
delegates from the Far East; these
being Dr. J. A- McArthur, of theGuj
ranwala Presbytery; Rev. E. ; E.
Campbell, of Rawal Pin di Presbytery;
Dr. M. M. Brown, of Sialkot Presby
tery, all of India, and Rev. W. H.
Reed, of the Middle Presbytery of'
Egypt. .
"The Living Christ", whose "living,
personal presence" he termed "our
greatest present day need," - was the
subject of a sermon delivered tonight -by-Retiring"
Moderator Hugh H. Bell,
before the delegates of the. United
Presbyterian Church. The vision of
John on Patmos was so described as
to first articulate, its import upon
modern life, and second to impress the
fact that "too much of our theology
and religion and preaching today deals
with a dead Christ to the utter dis
honor of the living Christ." Dr. Bell
declared that the Christ of the Ro
man Catholic is largely a dead Christ;
that of the Orthodox Greek Church,, a
dead Christ; that of Art, Literature,
Poetry and Music, a dead Christ. Ger
man socialism, he said preaches a, dead
Christ. A peril that faces even Pro
testantism,, declared the speaker.ois
the evading of the spiritual, the avoid
ance of the supernatural.. The person
ality of Christ as a living, moving in
fluence of, today, was shown to merit
its greatest honor in the. service its
power inspires. r
In examples to show that this liv
ing Christ is now the source of the
most universal idealsr Dr. Bell cited
recent events in Korea, India, Egypt,
China and other countries. While its
note was generally encouraging Dr.
Bell sounded a warning against the
materialism of the United States. . ,
C THE WEBB BILL: '
South Carolina Court Holds It is Not
r Applicable to That State
Columbia, S. C, May 14. An opin
ion rendered .today by the South Caro
lina Supreme Court holds that in the
absence ! of ? specific legislative prohi
bition, against the importation of liq
uor from another State, provisions' of
the Webb bill do not apply to this
State. It is held that the Webb bill's
purpose is to prevent infraction of
State statutes through inter-State traffic-
The eourt granted an Injunction
against-the Southern-Express Com
pany which refused to deliver liquor
consigned to a South Carolina point.
WHOLE NUMBER 13,324.
GOVERNOR UPHOLDS
THE LEGISLATURE
Determined to Sign Anti-Alieri
Land Bill, After Due
Consideration. I
THE ANSWER OF CALIFORNIA
Governor Johnson Will Sign Bill lit
Spite of Federal Administra
tion's Appeal For Veto .
International Question
Washington,- May 14. .With Gover
nor Johnson's -announcement today
that ' he would sign the California
alien land bill in spite of the Federal
administration's appeal, for a veto on
account of the Japanese protest, it
now becomes necessary for the State.
Department to determine whether it
will proceed with the negotiations with
the Japanese government on the basis
of defending ' and sustaining the rest
of the Californians to deprive the
Japanese Of the right to hold real
property, or whether it shall concede
that the act violates the spirit if not
the letter of the treaty with 'Japan
and attempt to find means of .nullify-
inp it
In his messages to Governor John
son, President Wilson already express
ed, the opinion that the legislation is
discriminatory so that the Japanese
contentions that the act constitutes
discrimination m violation of interna
tional law. ad of the spirit of the
treaty, is powerfully ' supported and
the position of the State Department
made difficult should It be found ne
cessary to champion the cause of the
Calif ornians.
The first thing to be done will be
to formally inform the "Japanese em
bassy of Governor Johnson's action.
In the ordinary course of negotiations.
the Japanese government would reply
that, as it is prevented by the consti
tution of the United States from ne
gotiating directly with one , of the
American commonwealths it must hold
1h National envfirnment? rfisnnnjrilhlft
for anything that " may occur iu CajuV'
forniarf.to;,; the detriment-?ef 'Japanese
residents. :;,Probably with-Jthese ex
changes' as a preliminary, the two gov-
earnest-to" find some way , permanent
ly to adjust the status, of-the citizens
Of each country residents in the oth
er on a satisfactory basis.
It is hoped here that this can be.
accomplished diplomatically by . nego
tiation of a new treaty. If this hope
should not be realized, then recourse
might be had - under the terms of the
special arbitration treaty of 1908 to
the Hague tribunal, though how - the
United States government could en
force a finding by that court adverse .
to the California law is at present a
grave problem. ,
Secretary Bryan, who was an hon
or guest at a dinner at Spanish lega
tion tonight, left for New York on- a
midnight train-to attend the banquet
there tomorrow night of the Pan
American Society. Consequently it is
not expected anything will be done in
pursuance of the negotiations until he
returns to Washington Fridayi .
v Governor Johnson's telegram to Sec
retary Bryan, giving notice of his in
tention to sign the land bill and out
lining the California attitude was re
ceived at the State Department tonight
after the Secretary had left his office.
It was made public later at the White
House without comment
Sacramento, Cal.i May 14. Express-
ing his determination to sign the alien
land bill recently passed by the Leg
islature, Governor Hiram W. Johnson,
of California, today telegraphed to
'Secretary of State Bryan a long ex
planation of the action taken Dy tne
Legislature. The message was in an
swer to the request telegraphed to the
Governor iby Secretary Bryan at the
direction of President Wilson that the
L111 UC V CLUvUt
The Governors message follows:
"Hon. -William J. Bryan, Secretary of
tntf Washington. D. C.
"Your very courteous - telegram re
lating to the alien land bill reached
me late Sunday night. It take it from
our. .conversations and your request
made to me to withhold executive ac
tion until opportunity was accorded
for the presentations from the Federal
government, that your message embod
ies "that It was your wish and the wish
of the President to say to ils before
final action. ? - :
"In this response, -it is my-design.
most respectfully to present the situa
tion from Our standpoint,-- and the
views that actuated our Legislature in
passing-the bill, and that impel me to
sanction it. ' - - - -
"For many years a very ''grave prob
lem, little understood in the East has
confronted California; A problem the
seriousness by which has been recog
nized by statesmen in our Nation and
has jbeen viewed with apprehension
by tne people of this State. . When the
present constitution of California was
adopted, more than' 30 years ago,:. it
contained the following declaration t
" 'The presence of foreigners ineligi
ble to ibecome citizens i of the "United
States is declared to be dangerous to
the well 'being of the State, and the
Legislature shall discourage their im
migration by all means within Its pow
er. .. -' ;.-'-;
v "Of late years our problem from an-,
other jangle has become acute, and the
agitation has ibeen continuous in the -last
decade in -reference to our agri
cultural lands, until finally affirmative
action an an attempted solution be
came imperative. This attempted solution-
is found in the action of our
Legislature in the passage of alien
landjrill. n the phraseology of this
bill. Jh those whom it affecti, in its
scope and in its purpose, we- believe
we are within our legal and ourmoral
rights, and that we are doing only
what is imperatively demanded for the
protection and . preservation - of .; our
State. In this enactment we have kept
ever in mind our National good faith
as evidenced by existing treaties; and
our desire and anxiety have been to
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evo Laredo late today. , v