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I 1 r ;. , ,M J -4 i : SUBSCRIPTION PElOE: ?8.00 PER YKAR. CHARLOTTE, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1907. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ln,A Mi; L !i r JEROME MAY CLOSE TO-DAY ONLY A HALF SESSION OF COURT vf;; i tv !; , . : r...i- '''O'S ' District Attorney Consumed Most of ' Time in Bluer Denunciation of ' Thaw and Evelyn Nesblt in Argu. ' in . Question of 'Admissibility of Abraham HummelAdjournment Taken , to Allow Ddmas Time , to Frame Reply to Jerome and Latter opportunity or twmpieung iiypo u ' tbetical Question Material rolnt in A Case.- Sara the District Attorney, la Whether ? or Not Evelyn Nesblt f luln by Stanford White -Believed ' End of Trial la Still 19 ,Days or Two Weeks Away, -t v? ,V ? New" York, Marca - 13.After t a ifCcmfalni -eslonf;:'otocupl6d almost '. en pjg tlrely by District Attorney Jerome, In Ci a, bitter 'denunciation '.of, the defend-fM-'ant .andhls wife, . the trial of Harry -i " K. Thaw tori ti murder of Stanford ;'; White was adjourned shortly ater 12 11 o'clock to-day until to-morrow. The ' ; prosecuting , attorney found his op ''', pottunlty to attack Thaw and Evelyn C'... -Nesblt in arguing on the question , of the-admissibility of the testimony -whloh Abraham Hummel the lawyer, v'. ' who Is under tndlctnient. for suborna ' tlon of perjury in the Dodge-Morse divorce case, has to offer. It was to enable Delphip M. Del mas, leading, 1 counsel for the defense, to consult )a authorities and frame a reply to Mr. Jerome and also to allow the latter an opportunity of completing the : hypothetical question which he is to : ' put to his experts that the early ad journment was ordered. . Mr. Jerome said he hopes to close the rebuttal for ' - the people to-morrow evening. WHAT HUMMEL WOULD SWEAR. During his argument to-day the district attorney took on for the first time since the case began a sustained oratorical tone. He asserted that Hummel would awear Evelyn Nesblt told him three days after her return from Europe in 108 that Thaw -had beaten her cruelly because she would not sign papers he had prepared, falsely accusing Stanford White of having drugged and betrayed her. Mr. Jerome contended that she had told much more, that Thaw seemed bent upon putting Stanford White In the penitentiary, that the statement that White had betrayed her Was not true, that Stanford White had never harmed her; and that Thaw was con sumed with rage when she refused to sign and swear to the papers con taining "lies against Stanford White," "These things were put Into the form of an affidavit," declared Mr. Jerome, "and that affldavt was sub scribed to by Evelyn Nesblt when she knew what she was doing and what the paper contained. "We want to show that the girl who told this remarkable story here on the witness stand swore at another time, under the solemnity of an oath, that naked -stripped absolutely naked eh had endured the lashings and beatings of this defendant rather than swear to his false statements that Stanford White had drugged and w ruined her." TRUTH OP STORY THE POINT. Mr. Jerome argued that the ma terial point of the case Is whether or not Evelyn Nesblt told Thaw the story of her alleged . ruin by Stanford White. With out that story In evidence, he de clared, the reason for the defendant's alleged insanity disappears. The prosecutor plainly admitted the Im portance of young Mrs. Thaw's testi mony, and said he washed by Hum mel's testimony to show her own re pudiation of the charges which on the witness stand- ehe renewed against White. "Thus," he concluded, "the Jury may infer from her own statements after her return from Europe In 1903 whether or not she had within two months of that time told this de fendaat the things she said she did." Mr. Delmss objected to Hummel as a witness on the ground that his tes timony had to do with the truth or falsity of Mrs. Thaw's narration and was not permissible under the rules of evidence. He will proceed with his argument to-morrow. Mr. Jerome's contention is that while he may not . attack the truth or falsity of Mrs. Thaw's statement that she was be trayed by White he can attack the truth of her assertion that she told the story to Thaw at the time she Bays she did. HUMMEL EVADES DELMAS. Mr. Delmag first sought to-day to interrupt Hummel's testimony by showing that he was acting as Eve lyn Nesblt's legal adviser and coun sel when she made certain statements to him. Hummel evaded this, how ever by saying he was acting solely as White's counsel and no legal ac tion had been contemplated in behalf of Miss Nesblt. He said he was paid yearly retainer by Stanford White and could-not say exactly what he charged the architect for drawing up the affidavit. Asked If It was 11,000 he burst Into laughter and said ab solutely it was not He Anally placed the charge at "one hundred dollars about" When Evelyn Nesblt Thaw was on (he witness stand she said Stanford White came to see her one evening In 1208 and aaked her what she had told Hummel about him, adding that "Abe Hummel has Just squeezed 21. 000 out of me, and the Lord only knows how soon he will squeeie an other." r Young Mrs. Thaw's -testimony re- uiuitii waa 10 ine ei- fect that Stanford White had taken .her to Hummel's office after telling ' her "lots of horrid things about Harry," and that she had told Hum , mel about her trip through Lurope - with Thaw. She said: "Mr. Hum mel then dictated a lot of things to T' m m,m mmA nut I n ut. it. TUtf ffhaw which wasn't true at all." 1 DENIED 8IONINO ANY PAPER. She denied signing any paper in numrael's office, but admitted having having signed some papers later in White's studio. She claimed she did not know what the papers were. Sometime afterwards she says ehe de manded that White show her the pa pers. She was taken to Hummel's office and there a .paper bearing her signature was shown her and -burned. She was not allowed to see it she - clared. Almost since the beginning of the trial District Attorney Jerome has been trying to put In evidence a photographic copy of the affidavit It developed yesterday that the copy 'was made by the same photographer who had been employed by. Stanford ' White to make "The Tired Butterfly" I and other pictures of the Nesbtt girl. I ; Mr. Jerome continues quite optl .tnlstie about bringing the taking of .testimony to a close this Week, but others) who have followed the trial 'ttellev that the" end ts arUII JO days 'ft tw weeks away. .-. - ; , ,; , ; FATAL RISE OF ' DEER CREEK. irclght Train 'of Fve Cars Crashes Through Bridge Near Ilarmarsvllle, Pa., Killing Three of Crew. Pittsburg, Pa., March 1 8," Three men drowned, a railroad bridge wash ed away, a county bridge in danger of following the railroad bridge into fhel Alleghaney" river ' and an , engine and five freight cars In the water are the first results of the rapid rise dur ing . the night of Deer creek, near Harmarsville, Pa., on the West Penn Railroad.U-:v''&,; X The dead:''4;:v?3:v;Wi'jtf " : J B, M1KESSELL, englaeel Alle gheny. sv:'Wi i-:-:t W. J. CANT WELL, fireman, Dar lington, Pa;'-'r-; mm iih---''"' J.; M. JOHNS, brakeman, Freftport, About i: M o'clock this iaora.Ing a freight train ieastbound, . entered on the - bridge, but had , not got further than ; the second!; pier,- when . , It? sud denly gave way Before the engineer, fireman of a brakeman onHhe front part of the train could realize what had happened; the bridge went down, carrying the engine, trainmen and five freight, cars with ltU So great, too, was the force" of the current that one of the five- freight cars, heavily load ed, , was carried down tha-creek a distance of over a quarter of a mile before "1U progress waa" stayed. , The fireman, engineer and brakeman were immediately dragged into the roar ing current and drowned. ; THERE IS NO TAINTED MONET. President of George Waahlaton Uni versity Says Wrong Conduct of Holder Does Not Attach to Coin. Washington. March il. "There is no such thing aa tainted money," de clared Dr. Charles W. Needham, pres ident of George . Washington Univer sity, in an address before the students of that institution- to-day. The uni versity ia making a campaign for a larger scope in American education and has raised moqa than $120,000 lo cally toward the purchase of a $400, 000 alte for the new building. 'What is it that taints money V aska Presi dent Needham. in announcing the uni versity's attitude on the subject "I know what some people say about it They say that the wrong conduct of a holder , attaches to, the money and the money Is thereafter unfit for service. "Human conduct in acquiring money does not attach to or mix in the coin, nor lessen, nor weakens the promise to pay upon the bank note. ' There Is always the question of ownership. The man who gives must own It But there Is no such thing aa tainted money. Good moral money that Is, coin of full weight and live promise to pay good coin. Is good anywhere, In any man's hand. Truth takes no passing shadow to itself.' and money cannot become impregnated by the deeds of passing users. Having this View of good money, I will accept it from any man who owns it" BRYAN TALKS OP HAIUUMAN Just Now Moat Interesting Phase of Railroad Situation Affecting Gov ernment Ownership is Refusal of People to Lend Money Freely. Blnghampton, N. Y., March 1$. A representative of The Associated Press to-day asked William J. Bryan, on his arrival here to fill a lecture engage ment what effect the Harximan and other Investigations would have on the agitation In favor of government ownership or management of rail roads. He replied:- "The most In teresting phase of the situation Just now is the refusal of the people to lend money freely to the railroads. The railroad managers say that this Is due to hostile legislation, but this Is a mistake. There has been no hos tile legislation of sufficient severity to impair the real value of railroad se curities where the railroads have been honestl" conducted upon an honest capitalisation. "If the Investing publlo is alarmed It Is because the railroad managers hi" a vain effort to terrorise the Legis latures have carried matters too far. If any other answer is needed for the hesitancy on the part of Investors the investigations furnish It, for the in quiries have shown to what extent railroads stocks have been watered. But what Is the alternative. Must the government refuse to investigate the rotten management for fear the mismanaged railroad no longer will be able to fool the public Into buying inflated securities? The sooner the railroads are put on an honest basis the more secure will the Investing public feel." MOVE FOR COMBINATION FAILS. Southern lee Exchange in Convention at Atlanta Will Not Raise Price or Fix Cnlform Rates. Atlanta, Ga,, March 18. The prop osition considered by the Southern Ice Exchange at Its annual convention here to-day to form a combination for the benefit of the trade In the South ern States, was defeated, and no effort will be made, according to the de cision, to raise prices or fix uniform rates. The reasons which brought this decision was that legislation and public sentiment are too strong against combinations in the South;- that cond tlons affecting manufacture vary too much in different communities, and what would be a reasonable price In one place, would be too low In an other; end that manufacturers refus ing to enter the combination, would make It Impossible to maintain prices. The anti-trust legislation In the South era States waa discussed at length and severely criticised, although Its ef fectiveness was tacitly admitted by the aotlon of the exchange to-day. The convention will conclude its sessions to-morrow. James Speyer, of the banking firm of Speyer A Co., of New York, was also at the White House, and talked with the President Secretaries Root and Cortelyou returned to the White House this evening and again con ferred with . the Preeldent-" Chair man Knapp, of the .Inter-State com merce commission, and Commissioner Lane of that body, participated In the conference. Those who participated declined to discuss the conference. Opinion Handed 'Down In Old Nick Williams Case. Special to The Observer. - Richmond, Va., March It. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals reconvened this morning: at 10 o'clock, with Judgee Ooff. Prttchard and Waddlll In attendance. The court handed - down Its opin ion In the following North Carolina case: ' " .,sv . . i.t' ', ' Old Kick Williams Company, plain till la error,-petitioner vs. the United States, defendant In error, respondent In error to the Circuit Court at Greensboro, N. C.I upon a petition to settle bin of exception! cause oon Scoatlnued , , , . M0BE TIME- GIVEN BAKES THE MONEY SITUATION YET BAD Secretary ' of Treasury Will . Not at ; Present Fix Date For Return of ; ' 930,000,000 Additional Deposit : v Placed In -r Depositary- Banks, Se cured by State, Municipal and Rail road BondsBesides saying He Is Keeping Close Watch on Financial Situation In New York, the Becre tary Refused to ' Indicate : Further r Fluns -Visits of Six of Cabinet to White House May Have Had to do: With Action, j .Washington. , March 13. Tha Beo-i retary, of- the Treasury to-day an nounced that the $310,000,000 which was deposited In the national banks the 'last of September to be returned about the : beginning of February 1st, will not be called for at present ' Be yond saplng that he was keeping close watch -on the financial situation in New Yorjt, Secretary Cortelyou would not Indicate what his further plans wcre.: - - -' The official statement of Secretary Cortelyou la as follows: "The Secretary of the Treasury an nounced this atternoon that it IS not his Intention to tlx at proseht a date .i which the thirty millions addi tional deposits piaceu with existing depositary banks, secured by State, municipal and railroad . bonds, under the terms of the press announcement of Sept. 27, 1806, shall be returned to the Treasury." On Oct Z2nd last the Secretary of the Treasury authorized national banks that had government bonds on deposit to secure public deposits to substitute for the government bonds. State and municipal bonds provided they would use the government bonds so released to Increase their circula tion. Eighteen million dollars was Axed as the limit of this increase. The Secretary provided, however, that this Increased circulation must be re duced at the rate or three million a month beginning on the 1st of March. In view of the money situation in New York Secretary Cortelyou thinks it is unwise to compel a compliance with this order and therefore has stated that the banks that took advantage of this offer of Oct. $2nd, may retain their increased circulation provided they substitute certain bonds, which he names for the State and muni cipals they now have on deposit The bonds authorized to be substituted are governments, Philippines, Panamas and Hawaiian bonds. The presence at the White House to-day of six members of the Cabinet who called within a few minutes of each other, gave rise to considerable speculation regarding the purport of their conference with the President. The impression gained ground that It was a special meeting of the Presi dent's advisers consider some ques tion of moment, but none of those present would admit that his call simultaneously with that of the ethers Was anything more than a coinci dence. It is known, however, that some of the cabinet officers were sent for by the President, and in view of the statement Issued later In the day to-Beorataxj ' Cortelypa it la. Relieved that the conference at least with some of his advisers had to do with the financial situation In New York. Those who saw the President were Secretaries Cortelyou, Taft Metcalf, and Straus and Attorney Ueneral Bonaparte. Later Secretary iwoot spent some time with him. CANTON, O., BANKER A SUICIDE. Has Been Remorse and Secmnlgly Weighed Dnvn by Some Trouble for DaysKnown Throughout Stato as Breeder and Buyer of High Class Sheep. Canton, O., March IS. Horace G. McDowell, president of the Farmers' Bank of Canton, nhot and killed him self at his country home, five miles north of the city, this- morning. He waa known throughout Ohio as a breeder and buyer of high class sheep. Mr. McDowell had been rtfmorse and seemingly weighed down by some trouble for some days. He had been suffering from an attack of the grippe. ' Aside from this ailment there Is not at this time known any cause for the suicide except that it is said Mr. Mc Dowell may have had some personal financial matter worrying him. It Is not thought the bank of which he Is preeldent Is involved. MoDowell was one of the men who put up a strong fight against the pro posed State bank Inspection law be fore the Ohio Legislature. He had personal counsel employed for that purpose and Hon. James A. Rice, of this city, was given a hearing by the legislative commute in arguments for his client against the bill. The Farmers' Bank closed to the publlo to-day. A card on the door reads: "This bank is closed on account of the death of H. G. McDowell, pres ident" 70 PER CENT BILL" OPPOSED Brief Submitted to Insurance Investi- gating Committee of Tennessee Lrgifdature by Former President Cleveland. Nashville Tenn., March 1$. Former President Grover Cleveland has sub mitted to tha insurance Investigating committee of the Tennessee Assembly, a brief in opposition to what Is known as the "70 per cent bill" now pending before the committee, which requires that life Insurance companies operat ing In Tennessee Invest 70 per cent of thelf reserve -fund of Tennessee policies in Tennessee securities. Mr. Cleveland calls attention to recent in surance disclosures and says: . "It seems to be quite apparent that If the best legislative results are to be reached by safeguarding all the In terests in any related to life Insurance those who make our laws should be free from all vindictive feeling and misleading prejudice and duly guard ed against a dangerous disregard of safe and conservative business rules. "We cannot escape the proof of the existence and activity - of anti-State sentiment It is not well for us to forget, that though this sentiment Is to an extent one of the manifestations oc the restlessness and reckless Impulse of out times. It is none the less dan gerous and that it certainly gains new converts with every new occasion for discontent" - . ) SeJxed Rifled Released, lfanarua. Kitiri U.mIi ii . The American steamer City of. para, having on board 1,000 rifles for Amapla, Honduras, was recently over- nauiea ny a wicaraguan gunboat, which seised tha rifles. The steamer was permitted to proceed to her des tination.; t . 4 .i V " s ? f Ut A Fatal Railroad Accident," " Orsnae. TexV Mareft 12. In a col lision between, two trains en the Gulf, Sablae East Texas Railroad, near fields. lailast nlcht Thomaa Ilawltv and William Mass were killed, and serea other mea were injured, ACCORDING TO THE 8. C. CASE ;. '-..J .; ' ' ' ' Immigration Authorities Reach This . Decision a .to New Law After Sev- , eral Conferences in Which the Pres ident Has Participated. ,. Washington. March 1$. Informa tion reoeived to-day renders .it - clear that the immigration authorities, as one result of the several conferences recently held. In which the President, Secretary Straus, - Attorney General Bpnaparte, Commissioner of Immigra tion Sargent and prominent men of she South have participated, win in terpret" the existing immigration law aa it wasvlnterpreted , in . the . South Carolina case. - The Attorney General has held that the Immigrants landed at; Charleston;' fcV JC..1 last' November are legally in this country. They were Sauced to come to, America by au orlzed agents of the state of South Carolina and the passage money- oi some at least of them was paid by the Bute, and of others by contributions by citizens. . . Several other Southern States have decided to seek Immigration along the same lines as were followed by South Carolina and it is understood they will not be Interfered with In the carrying out of their plans, prior to the 1st of next July, on which date the act of February 10, 107, will beoome ef fective. In other words, such Immi grants as present themselves to ports of this country before July 1st next under conditions the same as sur rounded those who arrived at Charles ton, S. C, last November will be per mitted to land. Meantime, Attorney General Bona parte will examine carefully the new Immigration law and will prepare an Interpretation of it tor the guidance of the administration and of the Southern States. It Is quite certain that the States, under the new law, will be permitted to advertise the ad vantages to Immigrants of locating within their borders, but whether the State authorities are to be permitted to go to the extent of furnishing Im migrants with transportation to this country is yet problematical. It la the opinion of Attorney Gener al Bonaparte that they will be permit ted to do so, but he expects further to examine the law In the light of the decisions of the courts, and render to the President a formal opinion on the subject before the law shall become effective. FAVOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL. Bryan, Says This Desire of Railroad Manager to Escape State Legisla tion Contradicts President's Theory. Buffalo, N. Y.. March II. The Times to-day published the following: "William J. Bryan spent an hour here en route from Beaver, Pa., to Bing bamton, this morning. He was met by National Committeeman Norman E. Mack, who remained with him until his departure for Bingham ton at 8:15 on the Erie express. - "A Times reporter asked Mr. Bryan: What is your opinion of the proposed conference between President Roose velt and the raTirofffpTWMtmtsr "Mr. Bryan replied: The Republi can leaders object to the doctrine: 'With the consent of the governed' In the Philippines, but some of them seem to think that nothing can be done In the regulation of railroads without ihe consent, of the railroad managers. The Important part of that announcement, however, Is that the railroad managers want the super vision of the railroads transferred to the Federal government that they may avoid State legislation, and this contradicts the President's theory that the corporations favor State tights as a means of avoiding Federal control. "The great corporations would much rather risk control by Congress, which Is far away from sen people than by State Legislatures, which are close to the people." KISSED HEM OF DOWIE'S SHROUD Young Woman Suffering From Loco motor Ataxia, Attempts to Walk, Failing Down Flight of Stairs and Receiving Serious Injuries But One of Many Who Thronged House. Chicago, March 1$. Rachael Fish er, 20 years of age, was seriously In jured to-day In the crowd of people who thronged around the bier of John Alexander Dowle at Zlon City, In the hope of being cured of their ailments by touching the hem of his shroud. Miss Fisher, who Is suffering from locomotor ataxia, kissed the hem of the shroud and then Informed , her father, who carried her into the room, that she could walk. She pushed htm away, and attempted to descend a flight of steps leading to the outer air. She fell oa the top step and rolled to the bottom, where she was picked up unconscious, and seriously bruised about the head and body. She was only one of many who thronged Into the house during the day. All of them sought relief from their ailments by touching the hem of the shroud. NINE BURIED BENEATH ROCK, One Laborer Killed and Eight Injured in 'Cave-in In Pennsylvania Railroad Station Excavation. New York, March 18. One man killed and eight Injured, some of them seriously, by a cave-in of rock in the Pennsylvania Railroad station excava tion early to-day. The dead man was Giuseppe Saslo, a laborer. Saslo and his gang had been ordered to clear away the shale and deoris torn up by two heavy blasts. They were loading the material on cars for removal down the tramway to the river when an enormous boulder, loosened by the shot, gave way and fell, carrying with It a mass of broken stone and dirt Nina laborers were burled. All save Saslo were alive when, they were dug out He had been caught under the heavy boulder and crushed to death. 'I I Mil II , A Negro College Burned. Athens. Ala., March 18. Trinity CoMege, a school for negroes, located here and owned by the Congregational Society of New York, was destroyed by fire late to-day. The building wss three stories high and of modern de sign. The loss is sevsral thousand dollars. A city ordinance prohibits the rebuilding of the school in the elty limits , ,. , , ' Funeral of Ex-Senator Pugh. . Eufaula, Ala., r March A 1 8. People from all sections of Barbour county and elsewhere in . Alabam, gathered Hera to-day ta pay their tribute to the tats ex-Senator James, L. Pugh. Jhe funeral services took place at St Episcopal charon and were conducted by Rev. Bertram Brown, of Eufaula, assisted by Dr. Beard, of Birmingham. The remains war lateued la FsinrUw Cemetery;. ; -,..-- Vi;v,.'i UNFAIB DEAL PBEDICTED PRESIDENT NOT WITH THE SOUTH It is Hinted That He WW Appoint Labor Agitators to the Immigration Commission Instead of Naming Men : Identified- With the Booth's Manu facturing InterceU Hint of m Del icate Situation as Regards Uhe Mat ter of Immigrants Despite the Con : structlon of the Law by the Admin--. tetratlon The Conference Between r the Pre Id cut , and the Southern Gentlemen Some . Asking ' Why Southern Representatives Did Not - Interpret Law for Themselves, - - if Observer Bureau, ; , 1417 O Street, N. W., . Washington, March 18. ' The President has not yet appointed the three men he was delegated to appoint upon the immigration com mission. It seems likely from facts learned to-day that he will not ap point , anybody acquainted with Southern conditions or anybody who is in line with the spirit of the new movement in the South. On the con trary, it looks as if he expects to ap point on the commission some of the most radical of labor agitators, who will represent nelther the manufac turer, nor the people at large, nor the laboring men, but who will rep resent that radical element of our society which - seems to be seeking only discontent This will be exceed ingly disappointing to those who have been trying to get the President to work in harmony with the Industrial forces of the South and with those who have been endeavoring to bring into the South a holiday class of citi zens and laborers. SOUTHERNERS HOODWINKED T There is a feeling among those who were In conference with the President over the Immigration situation last night-.ihat certain of the Southern Senators and Representatives who al lowed the ,new immigration Jaw to be passed without strong opposition were "hoodoed" by the President or by some of those who spoke for the President Talking on the subject to-day one of the principal South ers Representatives at that conference said that it woul be exceedingly dif ficult for the Attorney General to con struct the new law so that It will not Interfere with the bringing of Im migrants to fill up the waste labor fields of the South. It will be remembered that when the bill was In the Senate and Sen ators Tillman, of South Carolina, and Bacon, of Georgia, held it up, and there was a feeling among Southern Senators that the bill. If enacted would Interfere with the Immigration movement In the South. Senator Overman went to two members of the President's cabinet, Garfield and Taft who assured him that there was nothing In the new law materially different from the present law. Up on this assurance Senators Overman, Sim mora and bther Southern Senators voted (or the passage of the bill. THE LAUGUAGE PLAIN. But the Xraestton being 'asked by those who have been looking into the law since and have conferred with the President and other officials here Is why did not Senator Overman, Senator Simmons and the rest read the bill for themselves and do their own Interpreting. The language Is as clear as the nose on one's face and Senator Lodge declared that It was Intended to prevent corporations, so cieties and so forth from paying the way of immigrants Into this country. For It Is argued, however, Attorney General Bonaparte and the President may construe the law, rt must final ly be determined, not by the admin istration, but by the courts. Senator Overman was at the White House to-day and had a talk with the President The President again assured him that the plans of the Southern Immigration societies and so forth would not be nterferred with. WAITINO ON MR. BONAPARTE. The Attorney General of the United States, Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte, has not yet construed the new Immigra tion law, which goes Into effect July 1 of this year, but In the conference at the White House yesterday, In which the President asked Mr. Bona parte to explain certain passages of the new. law to ex-Governor Heyward, president of the Southern Immigration Society, and to Col. Watson, the com missioner of immigration, whose ac tions were in question, there was a strong Intimation of what construc tion the Department of Justice, speak ing for the President, would put upon this law. The excitement throughout the South about this Isw was caused by a wholly erroneous statement sent out by The Associated Press to the ef fect that the Attorney General had already construed this law and con strued It to mean that a State can do nothing more than advertise, that It rannot, for Instance, pay the fares of Immigrants it may wis to bring to this country. The Attorney General made no such construction, but Im migration societies have been holding meetings, Governors, commissioners, United States Senators and others have been giving out statements as to the situation, all predicated upon the theory that such a construction had been put upon the new law by the Attorney General; and Cain has been profusely raised in many places. It was this erroneous statement which caused all the racket. But what would have caused -the racket would have been the new law Itself, If It had been printed, without any Interpretation be ing put upon it by the Attorney Gen eral, every man being Ma own Inter preter. Here Is that portion of th law, which would have caused the trouble: TROUBLOUS PORTION. Section 2, That the following elasses-of aliens shall be excluded from admission Into the United States: All Idiots, Imbeciles, etc., and on down for a half a page till we come to this: "Any person whose ticket or passage -has been paid for with the money of another, or who Is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirma tively and satisfactorily shown that each person does not belong to ons of the foregoing classes, and that said ticket or passage was not paid for by any corporation, association, society, municipality, or foreign government, either directly or Indirectly, etc" 1 Therein the whole trouble lies. Commissioner Watson, of South Car olina, hss been going to Europe and bringing in immigrants, paying for their passsge .on the steamers with money furnished him by soma "corpo ration, association, society, munici pality ' or foreign . government, either directly or indirectly," and Other States In- tha South, following tha ex ample of South Carolina have been planning to do tha same thing. , NOT.W PRESENT ACT.' ' "The above passage la not In "the present law, which, as said above, wUl be In effect till July 1. In the present law the pasaaga reads thus: "Any person whose , ticket or passage , is paid for with the money of another, or who Is assisted by others to come, unless It Is affirmatively shown that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes." And right there It stops;' there Is nothing said about corporations, associations, societies and so forth. That la the way the present law reads and under It CommlsslonerVWatson brought in his Immigrants, 'Using money furnish' vd him by an association, society or something like that. Solicitor Earle, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, construed the law as it reads In that passage to mean that Commis sioner Watson's actions were within it Attorney General Bonaparte was asked If the lmmlgrarts brought in under it came In lawfully, or whether they would have to be deported back to Bremen. Attorney General Bona parte said yes, they had come in law fully and that they could not-be de ported back to Bremen. But Attorney General also observed before he got through giving his opinion as to that that if this ,new law had been In force then the immigrants would all have to be deported back to Bremen. Why7 Simply because of the peculiar cir cumstances under which they came In. COL. WATSON SATISFIED. And yet, in spite of that, the At torney General explained the matter to Commissioner Watson yesterday, and the explanation was so satisfac tory that Col. Watson took the next steamer for Bremen and will proceed to bring In a whole steamer full of other Immigrants. And he Is "satis fied" not only with the present law, but he is "satisfied" with the new law, whloh -he announces, after the con fereone with the President and the Attorney General, that his operations will in no manner be interferred with except that he will not in the future make -his promises to get Jobs for tha Immigrants less definite than he has been making them. This, it will be observed, is a mat ter totally apart from th provision about paying for tickets. In order for Col. Watson to continue to pay for tickets, and In order that other States and State officials may be able to pay for tickets, that is. after July 1, there must be another loophole somewhere. And here It Is Attorney General Bo naparte found It: he had to Arid It, for the reason -that the administration promised certain Southern Senators, when the Immigration law was under consideration In the 8enate, that the new law would make no material change and that It would not Interfere with the plans of the Southern immi gration societies. The matter was dis cussed at a cabinet meeting, and two members of the President's cabinet, Messrs. Root and Taft. both able lawyers, too, gave the positive assur ance to these Southern Senators, and they were not Bacon or Tillman, by the way, that this new law would not interfere with their plans, would not be materially different from the pres ent law, but Senator Lodge gave no auch assurance. He stated on the floor of the Senate that he and others had fixed It up, and that they hadTlxed It up for the speclflo purpose of Interfer ing with the plans of immigration so cieties, movements or anything else whereby aliens were to be brought here with their tickets paid for by private or corporate contributions. WILL FIND A LOOPHOLE. -nut rioiriv in unite of this, or In stpe and Intention of the law on theJ part of those who fixed it up, it .waa clearly up to Mr. Bonaparte to find a loophole. He has not yet made his announcement but he will find It all right. It Is In there. For, you must observe, that In the enumeration of those persons and things which could not pay for tickets, Mr. Lodge, Mr. Gardner and the others forgot to In clude the State. The State can there fore pay for the tickets of Immigrants. The only thing which can exclude them when they ere brought in by the State Is that they are under con tract before they come. And Mr. Bo naparte says that the mere paying for a ticket is not a contract either ex pressed or Implied. But there Is an other thing. Where is the money to come from with which a State may pay for the tickets of lmmtgranta7 Oan it be subscribed by a corporation. Miioclatlon. society. etcT The law says the tickets must not be paid for by any ef these, "either directly or Indl- tsrtlv " So. there! How Is Mr.Bonapaxte go ing to get around that? Col. Watson says that money raised by the Immi gration societies and given to the BUte belongs to the State and may be used by the State for whatever pur pose the 8tate chooses. And he said this after talking wtlh Attorney Qen- 1 Tlnnanurt, Anyway, the President and the At torney General have agreed to fix it up somehow. And Cot. Watson has gone to Europe, with a letter of Intro duction to all the diplomatic and con sular officers from the great Secreta ry of State of the unitea eiates. FOR A CRUISE OF INSPECTION Sec. Metcalf and Party Sail From Charleston, a C To-Day. Washington, March 18. Secretary Metcalf left here this afternoon for Charleston, B. C, where he will board U. 8. ship Dolphin to-morrow for a cruise of Inspection In Cuba and Por to Rlcan waters. He will be accom panied by Senator Flint, of California. The Dolphin left Washington Navy Yard yesterday and Is due at Charles ton about noon to-morrow. She car ried passengers. Senators Hale, of Maine: Penross, of Pennsylvania, and Carter, of Montana. The party will e gone about three weeka British Tramp Steamer Fat Aground Off Long island. New York, March IS. While feeling hr throurh the to that made shipping movements along the coast precarious to-day, the British ttamp steamer Oowenburn, Capt. Forbes, ran her nose In the sana on ins souvn talanri and late to-nlaht was fast aground. The steamer rest ed easily and was not peiievea to he in any Immediate dinger. Tugs put out A har. knt their caDtalns hardly ex pected to be of assistance before the fog lifted. The wind to-night was of moderate etrengm. r ' 1 ' American Gunner Aboard. Puerto Cortex, Hdnduras, March It. The llonduran gunboat Tatura bta and the Mexican steamer Olym piad under charter, , both equipped with rifles and, cannon "and with a large and well armed force Including American gunners, under Gen. Qulros, on board, left here to-dsr and steam ed In the direction ef TruJIllo. The report that Americans have been Ira-, pressed for service in the Uondurao army la untrue, f .,'r V.. 50 MOBE BODIES KECO YEB ED NEARLY ALL FORMLESS HASSES In Spite of Efforts for! Past 34 Hours , ine Number of Casualties Resulting Front Explosion Aboard . French Battleship Iena Ha Not Yet Been , Definitely Fixed After Last Roll ' i Call There Were SU11 Unaccounted for IIS Men and AU May Have Perished Total Number of Dead Slay Reach 120 Only 12 of the BO , Bodies Recovered During the Day Could be Recognised. ' ( Toulon. March W.-Tho efforts to re cover the bodies of those killed by the -explosion on board the French battleship Iena here yesterday, which have ' been carried on with energy for 24 hours,, have not yet resulted In definitely fix. ' ' ing the number of casualties. After the ' last roll-call to-night there were still i unaccounted for eight officers" and 118 men. Unfortunately there little doubt that all these missing men perished. The roll-call waa applied only to the crew of the Iena, but aa It is believed that some 12 or 15 arsenal hands were en gaged on board the battleship at the-'i time of the explosion, it Is feared that the total number of dead will reach 120. In this belief the naval honpltal here ' was Instructed to-night to prepare mort- ' ' usry space for that number. -ia, Minister of Marine Thomson mads -second visit to the Iena late this after ' noon, after the dry dock had been empt led of water, and made a careful aara lnatlon of every part of the battleship ' that was accessible. The Interior steel ' planking and the partitions of the bat tleshlp shows signs of having been sub jected to enormous pressure. In many places they are bulged out or IneentedV : The gap In the side of the vessel acted as a safety valve for the vast volume ' of gas generated by the taming powdes without which the explosion wouM have had even more disastrous results. Fifty bodies were reoovered during tfie day, but only 12 of them eestd be recog nlsed. The remainder were foitnless ' mams of charred flesh. At 7 o'clock this evening hope was re- : vlved by a rumor that several men had been brought out alive, but this proved ' to b untrue. After tha roll-call Minister Thomson le vie wed the survivors and addressed to them a few touching words, after which the men who are engaged in' searching the vessel returned to their task, at whin they will work all night Two of the wounded died In tha aospi tal this evening, and there are five oth ers who ara not expected to live. The Prince of the Asturtas, a brother-in-law of King Alfonso, of Spain, has arrived here to convey the eondolenoee of his majesty to the French navy, and to visit Rear Admiral Manceron, who was wounded. MR. WH. E. SPRINGER, MAYOR. Former Chief Executive of Wilming ton Nominated in the Primary Over P. Q. Moore A - Second Primary Necessary for Aldermen. 8pecial to The Observer. Wilmington, March 11. Ex-Mayor Wm. E. Springer waa nominated for mayor by a majority of 123 votes In the municipal Democratic primaries to-day over Aaldcrman P. Q. Moore. Second primaries will have to be held In four of the five wards for one of two members of tho board of alder men. The vote was very heavy, but good order prevailed. To-night ex-Mayor Springer ad dresed a lnrge gathering at the city hall, pledging his best effort towards the upbuilding of the city. The alder men nominated are: J. A. Karr, first ward; M. O'Brien, second ward; I. M. Bear, and R. H. Northrop, third ward; C. P. Bolles, fourth ward; W. W. King, fifth ward. The second primary to morrow will be between M. Rathjen and J. F. Sellers, first ward; Jno. H. Sweeney and T. W. Wood, second ward; J. McRee Hatch and W. A, French, Jr., fourth ward; J. O. Brown, and K. W. Jewell, fifth ward. . . ARRESTED FOR MURDER. South Carolina Officer Takes chargcj of White- Man at AshevUle, Who le Said to be Wanted Fur the Killing of ilia Slater-in-Law hi Tennessee. Special to The Observer. Ashevllle. March IS. Police Ser geant Jackson, of Spartanburg, S. C, came to Ashevllle lute yesterday after noon and without taking eltaer the city or county officers Into his confi dence trekked across to the Hana Roes tannery near the paasenger sta tion and placed under arrest an em ploye of the tannery, a young fellow 21 years f ago. known as Noahv: Walker r Noah MiFurls. The Soutla Carolina officir alleges that his) prisoner Is a fugitive from Justice that he Is wanted for murder In Ten nessee and that he la being held for tht Newport officers. When arrested! and confronted with the charge Walker, or McFuris, said that . tha officer had the wrong man; that U the officer would agree to pay ex penses back to Ashevllle the prisoner would go to Newport without requisi tion and establish the truth Of his statements. The prisoner however, has been held. He wis brought up) ' town last night and looked . up In, city hall. This afternoon Sergeant Jackson was In police station await ' Ing the coming of the Newport ottU cere. The chsrge laid at the door of Walker or McFuris is that of murder. It Is alleged that he shot and klUed his sister-in-law near Newport sever, al months ago and that since thai time he has succeeded in evading ar rest. - ROOSEVELT WILL RUN JSO MORE. , President of Columbia ratversity Say Roosevelt's Principles Are Greater Than the Man. '. , -,v " Los Angeles, Cal March I8.Ia an Interview here pr, Nicholas ; Murray ; Butler, president of Columbia Univer sity, said: v i- . .",.V:-V i , "President Roosevelt will : not run for President again, no matter what pressure Is brought to bear upon blm. The principles which Roosevelt stands tor are greater than the man. The Republican party must support the principles no matter who ita stand. ir l' bearer may be at the next election. With Mr. Root as' Preeldent and Mr. Taft as chief Justice of the Supreme Court, conditions , would be pn-f . nearly Ideal. Hut I hardly look f .t such a 'combination ta sa I."