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"1 s tall.' p ' , 1 y; THE WEATHER: ' PAIR i ' -. - , - THE ASHE VliLLE CITIZEN. Complete Associated Press Reports ' VOL, XXVII, NO. 167 ASHEyiLLE, K. C, THU RSDAY MORNING, A PHI L 6, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS VICE COMMISSION "The Easiest Way to Reach a Boy's Heart is Through His Stomach" WAS OBTAINED FOR TOPIC IN MESSAGE OFPBESIDENTTAFT Urges Extra Session of Con gross to at Ones Enact Trjt.iA AnrApmAnf " . , LQR1MER E HUNDREDTHQUSAND THQUSAriDSMABGH IN SOLEMN PARADE THROUGH NEIVYQRK RECIPROCITY ONLY CHICAGO IKES LECTION neon Qlanager of Harvester Com pany Gives Sensational Testimony GREAT SLUSH FUND SPENT IN BRIBERY To Abate Social Evil Asks for Commission and Creation of Morals Court Eight Bodies of Unidentified Victims of Factory Fire Borne to Rest I Vl4 V fll VVIMVill 4? Editor Kohlsaat Released From Secrecy and Full Details are Given ajpKirvunr-L,!-'. in., ni-iw --.i a ptini, p.nprnl manager VIBl Bllc '. o - o( the International Harvester com pany, before the.statc senate bribery Investigation committee today ex ploded the blgsest sensation of the Lorlmer bribery case. Mr. Funk testified that Edward Hlnes of Chicago, millionaire lumber dealer, asked him us a manager of the Harvester company, to contribute 10,000 to reimburse certain men who had put up a $100,000 "slush fund to elect Lorlmer to the United Slate aenate. The Harvester mana ger further testified that Mr. Hlnes mimed Edward Tilden, a wealthy Clilcasu packer, as the collector of thin fund to reimburse the men who, as Mr Mines was quoted as having said, had "underwritten' the election of lorlmer. Effort to Save Kdltor Mr. Funk declared that his object In givlnr this testimony wag to save H. H. Kohlsaat, publisher of The Chicago Record-Herald, from a pos sible Jail sentence as a result of Mr. Kotflsaat'a refusal to give certain Information demanded by tho com mittee last week. The witness said that h'e had given Mr, Kohlsaat informatton in confi dence' upon which the Chicago pub lisher had. 'based an editorial. The publication In February last of this editorial 'resulted in the calling of Mr. Kohlsaat as a witness before the known the name of his Informant 4Tn4 wa given one week's time to . Knnk, tMttd todav that he vol- MttBtiirauMM-.Hr.imiiui inim me ,pieagv 01 connueiico wugti that th ubllaher would be sent to Jan. shiest the Information was giv en. ' Th disclosures made by Funk occurred unexpectedly at a specially (CoHUniifd on Page Six) OF0EM0CRAT5IN SENATE Interference by Peerless One Proves Embarrass ing to Senators CONFERENCE CALLED WASHINGTON, April B Whether forty-Ohe senators, constituting the democratic party In the senate, shall support a conservative or a progres sive policy during the present session of congress formed the subject of aa earnest an animated conference participated In today by about fifteen democratic senators. The meeting was held In the committee room of Senator Stone of Misourl. The gathering grew out of the vis it of Wm. J. Brian and was due to the prospect that Senator Martin, of Virginia, would be elected chairman of the democratic caucus. The Ne braska leader Is understood to have , "tinselled his intimate senatorial friends to select some other senator more Acllned toward Bryan policies. Mr. Bryan offered no personal oppo sition to Mr. Martin but pleaded that the party should take advantage of lis present great opportunity. He thought Oiat this could be done only hrough an aggressive policy, to hlch. 1n Mr. Bryan's opinion, Mr. Jlartln's leadership would imt be conducive. As many of the demo cratic senators had pledged their v-'tes to their Virginia colleague the ingestion was embarrassing and mnservatlve senators expressed re sentment at the . Interposition. The . inference occupied four hours. The , nly definite conclusion reached was t,, ask that the democratic senatorial iaucus. scheduled for tomorrow, be postponed until Friday. COST OF PHILIPPINES. WASHINGTON. April 5. Repre tative Cox,-of Ohio, today Introduced a resolution calling on President Taft to furnish oongress with Information showing th entire cost to date of the occupation of the Philippines by the t'nlted States. Mr. Cox declared that the Island are a burden ilid th: In case of war this country- would be hu miliated by losing them. Re Intends to urge a treaty neutralizing the Is lands, placing them In the control of Great Britain. Japan and the t'nlted 8tatv ,-. '."'- . ' - ' CONDITIONS IN CITY AND CAUSES AKE GIVEN Says Best Preventative Is Per- sonal Oversight and Train ing by Parents CHICAGO, April S. The Chicago vrce commission, the first salaried municipal commission of , its kind, made many radical recommendations in Its report to the common council lonierhi and gave an exhaustive review of the present status of the social evil in Chicago, ts past. Its causes and means of suppressing It. The rec ommendations were directly against the European principle of segregation. They were: Constant and persistent repression of he social evil as an Immediate method with absolute annihilation as the ultimate Ideal. This by means: First, the appointment of a Moral commission. Second, the establishment of a morals court. Summary of Conditions, In summing up present conditions the report says: Most or the police are honest one standard of morality In Chicago ap plauds nearly naked women In the name of art and condemns dances no worse, but before more prosperous audiences: men, not women, are the ones "highest up" In the business ad ministration of the social evil; hotels which "ask Bo questions" of their patrons are a great contributing means to wrecked girlhood; prejudice against colored girls drives them into the social evil centers either as serv ants or Inmates; the "white slavol traffic" Is not organized. Causes are named as follows; Want of the necessities of life. Ig norance: deceit of men; but chief of all poverty. Lack of protection to Immigrant girls aids the evil, say the report, and lake steamers -with no regulations are fruitful source of vie- Uimv Lack ,ff proper pay for work-1 In bitter terms, and is called two chief reasons why young girls fall to resist temptations placed In their path. Lack of ethical and religious teaching: economic stress on under- Continued on lage three) GLOOM CAST OVER PEACE GOLGNYBYMESSAGE THAT Story of Negotiations Start ed in Washington Was , Also Perturbing DIAZ MUST RESIGN I EI- FASO, Texas, April 5. Two ; Associated Press despatches, one from a staff correspondent In the field with Madero and the other from : Washington, perturbed the local peace camp today. The publication , of the Washington telegram In which j the fart that Dr. Gomez, the reve lutionary agent at Washington and the Uien Ambassador De La Barra, had started peace negotiations on their own account ten daya or more ago. was called to the attention of Francisco Madero, father of the re bel leacier. He received It after the i fanhlon of one whose thunder has been stolen. j "I think It is not so," he remarked and waited for corroboration. "It is true and Its publication was authorised by both Gomez and De I Harra. Are you working In harmony I with Gomez?" j "Oh, yes; certainly. I think it Is ' not so." ! I-ater Itafel Hernsndez. a sort of j unofficial go-between trying to for I ward the peace meeting, was referred , to the Washington story. He too, re j marked "I think.lt Is not so." The dispatch from Madero's camp West I of Chihuahua stating among other vital facts that the rebel leader would consider no negotiations which do not have the resignation of Dla o a basis, spread more gloom. Yes terday arrangements were made for the so-called peace party to visit Ma dero in camp. Tonight Hernandez said that they did not know whether the trip would be made. HIXES DENIES STATEMENT CHICAGO, April S Edward Hlnes late today denied- absolutely the story told the Helm committee I the legislature which la investlgat 1 lng the election of United States j Senator Wm. Lorlmer that he, Hlnes ! had solicited a fund of 1100.000 to j reimburse those who 'had 'put up" lor Uj eecator'a election. . MOURNFUL SCENES IN WASHINGTON PLACE Uptown Division Met Others ft Scene of Great Fire Amid . Much Emotion NEW YORK, April 8. Rain, re duced to less than 71,000 the army of 200,000 workers who had planned to march In memory of the victims of the Washington place factory tire. 'tm't what the storm took In numbers It added In solemnity. The demon stration will long be remembered by those who took active part and by countless thousands who came to look n but who unconsciously found themselves joining In the wave of mournful emotion which swept the line of march. Simultaneously with the removal from the 'morgue for burial of the eight coffins containing unidentified victims of the Are In which 144 lives were lost, worker poured from sweat shop and garment factories through out the city and formed In line at up town and downtown atartlng points. Neither division -took part In the lit tle funeral proeearion but marched Only as a demonstration, while the eight unnamed dead were borne to a resting; place In a city plot Survivor In Une, The downtown aectlon was headed by five hundred men and women em ploye of the Triangle Waist com pany, survivors of the fire, and when they turned Into Washington square, where so many of their comrade met death, one young woman brolee forth Into a Wall of moumfulness that swept' the entire throng, even to the onlooker. Meanwhile the uptown dlvalon had been trudging south and the two sec tion poured Into the square and met, hundreds, If not thousands,, burst Into tears; many knelt In the wet streets In prayer and women and men em braced and wept. The uptown marcher. sank by spectator, 'spread bat Jjtot twenty block, and th downtown line was full a long. Each person carried a small Amer ican flag, draped In crepe. Now and then the line was broken by a be draggled banner lettered "We Mourn Our I-os. RGOME TAX AGREEMENT AND GIVESJIS REASONS Believes Its - Ratification Would Affect Value of State Bonds DOUBTFUL CLAUSE NEW YORK, April 6. If the pro osed federal Income tax amendment Is ratified by a sufficient number of state. Mayor Gaynor believes that the the doubtful meaning of The clause providing for the taxation of incomes, "from what ever source de rived" will seriously affect the mar ket for state and municipal bonds, perhaps necessitating an Increased Interest rate. The major expressed this view In a letter to Govenor Ilx made public tonight In which he oppose ratifi cation of the amendment by this State. The doubt would linger, he ays, Until the matter has been passed on by the Supreme court of the United Stales, which "might not be In ten year of a generation from now." created, especially when It can be avoided with little trouble and no de lay," the mayor asks. He points out that supporters of the amendment have expressed an opinion that the Supreme court's fi nal ruling will exempt state and mu nicipal bonds, but personally he sees nothing In the wording of the amendment to Justify such a conclu sion. "We all know." he continues, "that your perdeceasor. Governor Hughes, now a distinguished mem ber of that court, will so vote, for In a special message to the legislature last January he advised against the ratification of the proposed amend ment." WANTS MONEY FOR STAMPS. TACOMA, Wash.. April S. Pro ceedings were begun In the Superior court today by Federal District Attor ney Todd to attach certain real estate belonging to Edward Fay, alia Rich ard J. Cummlng. to recompense the government for' stamps valued at 117,721 stolen by Fay and other from the postofflce at Richmond. Va., and nver recovered, ''..' Fay Is now serving a term In the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga. The real estat owned by Fay In thi coun ty la laid U b worth J,90. , -.. tfl"" ii. J o Offi? H M ' ) DEMOCRATS DESPITE Much of Power is Taken From Speaker and Chairman of Commitu on Ru)e$ Be comes Important Tgurt.--Republkan in Yarn Protest at VThat They Term N Gag ' Rule. Cannon Make Maiden Speech ae Simple Memher. WASHINGTON, April Botn house of congrtaa listened today to President Taft brief mesaage urging the adoption of thj reciprocity afree. meht with Canada. " Then, with tna senate, adjourned, the democratic ttou proceeded fur ther with It organisation by adopting a new set of rule. - Heform In Itnh. t-i . mai extant ths new rule are a repetition, at thos that hav . J.J -l.uuw ' ku iMnnv CAB. Dean iwmm mw "i .. , grrsses in the pnat, . Th tUmocrat claimed mat tnew jre v in taking away tttbn ,'th speaker bis t rtwilrrt Jiimmlrtae nd to designate i th chn of ach com mittee. The new rule provide for the election of committees and their chairmen. The second reform Is a return to th. former democratic practice of permitting legislation on appropria tion bills when that legislation tends to reduce the expenses of the govern ment. A .nodal order naased by the dem ocrat and limiting debate on the bills to four hours Immediately brought out a try of "gag" from the repub lican. The speeches which followed were more or less of a political na ture, and there whs no serious ngnt on the rules themselves. The repuh iinm claimed they were debarred 'mm mnklna such a fight because of the further provision of the special j . . i order that only one suosmuie ihi m LEG OF RIDER CRUSHED Jamestown Jockey Club Holding Meet Despite Virginia Laws NORFOLK, Va.. April 5. Antenor, a colt owned by W H. Austin, cap- . vi-mH. hotel stakes this afternoon in the feature event of the opening day of the Jamestown Jockey club meeting which i to continue un til April 2. Antenor was oacr from 12 p J to 6 to 1. During the running of the firth race Sam Matthews bolted Into the . and broke hi rider's. Wlngfleld's, leg by crushing It against the rail. .Fred Miur ana ni. i . .r. arrested to make further test of the Virginia race track laws. Both were balled ror tneir appear ance tomorrow afternoon before Ma gistral Backus. engagement In court of the eomnionwcaim " ney preventing an earfler trial. The telegraph companlea had no wires In" the trsck today, thla being to avoid any possible violation m .k. i. -( mm meres lawa by giv ing one claas of business preference ..... ..mw The track wa heavy today becauw of previous rains as well as a severe storm owwren events. The attendance waa 2,600. FAIR . WASHINGlTON. April s.For csst: North Carolina; - fair, slightly colder Thursday; Friday fair In east, rain in western portion; rnoderat aoutbwcat - wjnda becoming varUbl. t 1 ADOPT A MENDED RULES PROTESTS OF; REPUBLICANS 7 rule could be offered by th minority. Not vtt a roll call wa demanded by th republican on. th adoption of th rule. : ' ' Many Baltic ExpeoUxl.t r Tho political battle which waved for four hour wa but a foretaat of other to com during th session, and which ar expected to mak th present congress itotabla. Representative Mann, th republi can leader, wa ably , oond4 by former Speaker Cannon and Bepr sentatlv Olmstead, with an or two republican Insurgent thrown In for Rood pnWV.,5 Tba latter asslstsd thrlr tr.ot)tr f th minority Jtwro. testing against the action of th dem ocrats in adopting th tyrannical method of th former majority In cut ting off debate and the opportunity for amendment Mr. Mann charged the democrat with insincerity In much they said In praise of the rules, and declared that they -had no purpose to take away from theipselves, as a majority, th right to control legislation. He char acterised the rule for the discharge of committee aa "an utter absurdity, not to say Idiocy." Chairman Henry, of the new rule committee, retorted that the rule thus characterized had called out the most doleful speech from Mr. Mann that he had ever heard that gentle man make. Mr. Henry further said that the fault the American people had found In the past was not so much with the house rules s th bad DEMOCRATS CELEBRATE Col, Bryan, Woodrow Wil son and Others Among Notable Speakers BURI.INOTON, N. J,, April 6. Th Burlington auditorium wa packed tonight on tho occasion of the cele bration of the demoeretlo club of Rurllngton of the birthday of Thomas Jefferson. Col. Wm. J. Bryan, Oov. Wilson, United States Senator James K. Martlne and Frank B. KaUtenbach, Jr.,, were the speakers.. The subject of Col. Hryan's speech was "Watch man. What of the Night?" The col onel, after some Introductory re marks, said that the world was mov ing forward: that debts contracted fifteen years ago are now being paid by dollar worth only two-third of what they ere worth when the debts were contracted. Mr. Bryan also discussed direct pri maries, which he said meant the pus in of the "boss" and the ee cendancy of the people. He said that some other time he would come Hack and discuss the Initiative , referendum and recall Before closing his f talk Mr. Bryan, making some reference to himself, said the progress towsrd democracy was not the work of any one man. He gloried, however, In what had been accomplished, and sal, dthat some things that now meet with popular favor used to be refer red to In derision as "Bryanlsm." ..The colonel also made a referencerlo Col. Roosevelt, who he said, had be come familiar with democrat! poli cies and appropriated them. Col. Bryan In hi talk paid a tribute to Oov. Wilson, and said that hi cour ageous light nd victory last fall meant that New Jersey hd Joined the great movement for progre. rule. Mr, Cannon' speech waa easily th faturvv Ha was greeted with ap plause from both partlea wthen he arose to mak hi maiden address of th aestlon. .-i., - I'lM-ie Joei Speaks. ,'"1 want to say her and y now," he declared, "that substantially th rule proposed an endorsement of near, ly all that I good In th rule that hav , volutd sine th adoption at th constitution, and thrf or 1 am hot oln t criticise th rule merely because th majority of th house propose to adopt them. Sometimes .Bi4uriusMkaa jemms-hm iaion to tatter, and appeal from, th stand point of demagoRuafy and claptrap to peopl who Would not know a rule or a cod of rule If they met In the middle pf the street. "Now It I said that w hav a unanlmou consent calendar. I am glad that w have. Along with that Is th saying, in th Isnguags' of th distinguished gentleman from Kan sas (Mr. Murdock) and th universal representation of the uplift maga zines, that It 1 no longer nareaaary to crawl upon your knee, hat . In hand, to ask the speaker for recogni tion for unanlmou consent, "No, no, th speaker Is .a member of th hour. I am a member of th house, and I never felt less like dying than I do now. When the unanlmou consent calendar I called, If my (Continued on Page Pour.) IAL BY DIRECT VOTE LIKELY Resolution Introduced in House and Passage at Ex tra Session Probable WASHINGTON. April 8. Direct election of senators by th people I provided for In a resolution which hat been Introduced In th house by Rep resentative Sulser, of New York, It Is Identical with Senator Borah's reso lution at th last seselpn. Mr. Sulser had consulted with the Idaho sena tor. Mr. Sulxer thinks this will give It a much better chance of passing the enat provided It goes through 'i-Uie house. Inasmuch th democratic caucus of the house declared In favor of such a bill, It 1 bound to tand more than an even chance of passage. iiefohms promised in HjA. TAI-I-AH AHHEE. Fla.. April 8 Th reading of the annual message of th governor, occupied the greater part of th time of the two branches of the legislature today. The gover nor, by Invitation himself read the mesag to the senate. He also trans mitted to the two house the propo ed Incom tit mendment to the constitution of the United Staea. In the senate this waa mad a special order for next Thursday and In the house It was referred to the commit tee on constitutional amendments. Among th Important recommenda tion contained In th governor' me, sag are: reform of th primary, simplification of court procedure, con tinuance of convict lease system, revi sion of tax and rvenu laws, gradu ated Inheritance tax. continuance of Everglade reclamation work, urging that KJncoln' birthday be made a tat holiday, ., appropriation for li ver service for the battleship Florida, and th enlargement of lb slats cap ItoL ":v'-::' .'-v.-;viV;,',:.-.;; administration of the IMPORTANCE OF TREATY, IS AGAIN EMPHASISED Consummation of Earnest Ef forts Extending Oyer a Year of Time WASHINGTON, April I. President Taft today transmitted to congress message urging early action on th reciprocity agreement with Canada. He atated that he baaed thla menus upon deference to popular sentiment and duty to the great mass of th American people. , Th message fol. low: '" "To th Senat and Hous of Bepr. aantatlvMr ,.; i . "I transmitted to h slxty-llrst congress on Jun, It last th text at tho reciprocal trad agreement whics) had been negotiated under my dlrc tlon by the secretary pf stat with th representative of th Dominion of Canada, Th' agreement wa th con summation of earnest, efforts extend Ing over period pf neany a year on th part of both government to ef fect a trader arrangement, which sup plementlng a It did the amicable set. tlement of varloua questions of a dip. lomatlo and political character that had been reached,, would naturally promote commerce , and strengthen th friendly relation now existing. "Th agreement In It Intent and lt term wag purely economic and com mercial. Whlla th general subject wa under discussion by th commis sioner I felt assured that the senti ment of th peopl' of th United State waa such that they would wel come a measure which would result In th Increase of trad, on both sides of th boundary line, would open up th reserv productlv resource of Canada to the great mas of our own consumer on advantageous condi tion, and at th aam' offer, broad er nutlt for th excess products f our farm any many of our Indns-trtesv-Deis lis regarding a ncuiitunuin of this kind necessarily could not b mad public while the conference wer pending.. When, however, the full text of th agreement, with the accompanying , rorrspondsnc and data explaining both It purpose -and It cop, became-known to th peopl through th meswtg transmitted to congress, It wss Immediately appar ent (hat th ripened fruit of h careful labor of the commissioners met with widespread approval. Thi approval ha been strengthened br further consideration of th term of th agreement In all their particulars. Th volume of support which ha de veloped shows that Its broadly na tions! scope fully appreciated and I rpnn!v to th popular will. "Th house of c. representative - of th slxty-nrst congress, after th full text of th arrangement with all th details la regard to th different pro vision had been before It, as they wer before th American people, passed a bill confirming th agree ment a negotiated and as transmit ted to congress. This measure failed of action In th senat. "In my transmitting message of th ilth of January I fully set forth th character of the agreement, nd Continued on pore three) ' mm wmm in NEW TOBK ACGORDiuG TO MKGISTEUTESTESTIMONr Corrigan Tells Grand Jury , What He Knows of Crime in City SOMETHING AWFUL NOT YORK. . Anrll ' l.-ln: K. Corrigan, the city magistrate who started the present "ertm wave" sgl tutlon In New York by accusing Msy or Qsynor of demoralising the pollca force, testified for an hour and half today before the grand Jury which U trying to determine whether th City. I overrun with crooks, and ito, who 1 to blame. ,,'. 'M Generally speaking, the magistrate repeated his charge, giving th ad drt-sses of gambling houses and re sorts, together with a list of welt known crlmln! who, be ay, hav flocked to th city for -a harvest. While grand Jury proceeding ar -cret It la understood that after sub mitting his detail of ortm he ug tested everal new lines of Inquiry. Dr. Geo. McPhemon,. manager of the; Seamen' Friend oclety, told tha Jury that In hi opinion thr waa but on eaport wors than New York out of the fifteen porta In Eu rope and America with which h wa familiar. Thl port wa Rosarto. Ar gantln Republic. H enumerated eleven peciflc hold-up and ssaulis on rwllor along the water front, one of which resulted In the death of the Victim.