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preside IS HOT IN FAVOR OF THE LAW'S REPEAL , -"( . , . But tie Advocates Supplement al Legislation to Existing Sherman Act . HIS MESSAGE READ IN v CONGRESS YESTERDAY Document Deals Exclusively With Trust Question. But Offers ho Relief WASHINGTON, Jeo. &. President i.ft'a third annual message to con gress, devoted exclusively to the Sherman anti-trust act and the trust question In general, wa read Jn con gress today. 1 ha resident defended the Sher man adt a interpreted by the Su United States, In dicated plainly hla opposition to the repeal or amendment ol mis but suggested that congress pas a federal Incorporation law and sup .i.m.ntm loni.intinn that "would 'describe and denounce method of competition that are unfair. To supervise -corporations char tered under federal law, President Taft proposed the creation of an executive bureau, v or commission, with' powers akin to those of the in terstate Commerce Commission. ' Speaking of the much discussed dissolution of the: tobacco trust, the president declared that in his opinion "not in the history of American law has decree more effective for such a purpose been entered by a court Pprtlona of hla message of Janu ary,: 1010, , proposing Federal lncor poratlon were referred to In this "r nni " nntlniiit the nresldent. "th recommendations of the enact ment ,of a general law providing for the voluntary formation of corpora tions to engage in trade and com merce among the states and' with foreign nations. It is even, more man ifest now than it was then that the tienunctiftuun ox buuovwovim strain t of trade should not, and' does not,' mean the denial of organisations large .enough, to be. entrusted with our interests or foreign trade. It. has Been --mad Tnoreretear- new. um . wag then that purely ' negative Mat. ute like the anti-trust law may well be supplemented by specific provis ions for the building up and regula tion of legitimate national and for eign commeroe." ' Supplemental legislation. - The supplemental legislation the president desires, is explained in ,a paragraph. "The attempt and pur 'pose to suppress a . competitor by underselling him at a price as un profitable as to drive him out of business, or the making of exclusive contracts with customers nnder which they are required to give up associations with other manufactur ers and numerous kindred methods for stifling competition and effecting monopoly, should be described with sufficient accuracy in a . criminal statute on the one hand to enable the government to shorten its' task by prosecuting single. misdemeanors Instead of an entire conspiracy, and, on the other hand, to serve the pur pose of pointing out mors In detail to the business community what must be avoided." The courts should be empowered, ' fConMisnrd on Page Hevgn) AGENTS REPORT RIFLES TO Arrests Are Expected to be Made Within Very Short Time SHIPMENT NOV. 28 NEW ORLEANS. Dec 6. Agents ef ttve Mexican government report that 6,000 rifles and a large quantity of ammunition wan shipped from a point near Gulfport, Miss., on the evening of November 28, destined to some point in Yucatan. There are many Mexicans In New Orleans at thtc time and more or less activity in their circles has been ob served recently toy agents of both the United States and Mexican govern ments. A Mexican who is believed to have engineered the expedition whidh Is said to have left the gulf coast last ,week Is under survellance and it was announced seml-officially tonight that arrests in connection with these ac tivities may be expected within the next week. TOTJNO NEGRO LYNCHED VLAIANT. Okla.. Dec. S. A mob forced -an entrance, to the Jail here today, aeured Jbwoung negro who re fused to give hisfearoe. and hanged Wm to a tree it fair ernnnds Mr the town? ThWcn was ar- "tea on the chardTlrr assaulting 2-yr-oldiflCughter df Lee Saunders of this place. JAMES B. GOES UP FOR LIFE; JOHN J. FIFTEEN YEARS Judge Bordwel) Sentences The.Mc- Namaras SelfrCon fessed Dyna mitersBoth; Will be Subpoenaed To Divulge Details of Operations IW AJNOlCT .EH. CaL. - Dec . James Boyd MoNamara and John 3. McNamara, brother, natives of Cin cinnati, O., today felt the strong, hand of Justice whlfti they long had sought to evade. James B. McNamara-was sentenced to imprisonment i for life for murder committed tn dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building and hailing twenty-one .Persons, and his brother to .fifteen .years in ftha peni tentiary for blowing up the Llewellyn Jron works. It was the retaliatory ac tion of the law against methods which John J. McNamara, secretary and treasurer of the International aasocla utort of Bridge . and Structural Iron Workers, pursued in fighting employ ers who kept open shops. Though the younger brother, James B., Informally presenting Ma confes sion to the court ' today, declared that he intended no mirder when he placed sixteen sticks of dynamite be neath .the Times building on October 1, 110, John J. McNamara, reoouru inp tonight to his attorneys his prin ciples, , broke down as he muttered that he fought against great odd in the best way he could. . It was a se quel to the court scene earlier today when he received his aentencsln tears o&.afeject surrender..'''- . Subpoenas Issued - A few hours attar the, sentences wars pronounced by Judge .Bordwell. word went forth that siibpoenaes would Issued for both McNamara to appear before a federal grand Jury to divulge if urther details' of their dy namiting conspiracies. The United States government will Remand of them information con cerning Intestate traffic lng in dyna mite, which alleged to have result ed in more than 400 explosions at bridges and factories where labor wel fare' was involved.' '..-.,. . ' - BometSvlng of the same) fear of ter rorism brought by ttfose sxplostoM flitted through m crowd of nearly 15, 00 Persons today as U surged back and forth arosnd the Jail expecting to see the MoNsmaras taken to the hall of records, where previous- scenes In the trial hstd been enacted.. ; But -the sostt -amtoounsel; lrtng--rognta1ice Of possible lawlessness held the final session In a court room adjoining the Jail and the prisoners were . taken thither over an Interior bridge, pass ageway, "i never carried a gun un til today since the McNamara affair started," confided Samuel I Browne, chief of the state's department of in vestigation, wllen his detectives re ported to him that suspicious char acters by the score were scattered in the crowd. Judge Bordwell. changed his enlnd several times, but'took final FDfl LOS ANGELES MAYOR IB! BADLY DEFEATED Incomplete Returns Indi cate Vote of Two to One Against Harriman MANY WOMEN VOTE LOS ANOELE6, Dec t- A islan der, good government candidate for mayor, was re-elected today by aa overwhelming majority over Job Har riman, socialist. The count of ballots at 8. SO o'clock in 71 precincts out of a total of ISO gave Alexander 27, 99 and Harriman 10.5'M. -This shows a gain for Alexander of about I to 1 companrd with One primary vote. ' . Forced to yield first place in the nominating ballot, October 11, when the vote cast totalled 45.000. Mayor Alexander polled today apparently more than a two to one majority over I Harriman in a vote which totalled j 140,880. Today 187.000 persona In cluding (5,000 women, were entitled to vote. ' Alexander's campaign managers! claim the election of the entire goodj government ticket by a majority of . at leaex ad.vvu. ai i.is iiiif, aocuuiziis left their headquarters admitting de feat. Prohibition, an Issue in the muni cipal campaign, received scant atten tion from the vote counters and the fate of the drastic "dry" ordinance remalna"T!heertafn; though the prob ability Is that It was defeated. The victorious ticket consists of Mayor Alexander and nine council men, including bankers. - . lawyers, merchants and realty brokers. : The peace Insurance" army of 1. 000 officers, detailed to preserve or der had little to do. For the peace and serenity ttiat prevailed, 'leaders of both sides (hanked the women, thousands of whom crowded about the polling booths. The women wera treated with the greatest gallantry. - Many mother went to the polls pushing bay car riages and often father took ears of baby while mother voted. ' precaution and held court In the small chamlber beside the Jail. Crowd 'Begs for Kn trance Outside, The crowd begged for en trance. An army of policemen fought its efforts,: To the hall of records, not far distant, , the mass of humanity moved back, and forth In onfuslon and" even many who really were en titled to admission were denied that privilege. In the hall' of records, floors and stairways were choked with the curi ous. Only a hundred persona saw the two brothers led through the nar row passageway into the chamber be side the Jail. A supreme ordeal faced James B. McNamara, who worried as to whether the court would inflict the extreme penalty, death. John J. Mo Namara not liable to such severity, was anxious for his brother's sake. 1 The twenty-four minutes of pro cedure that decided the fate of the two men went forward slowly. It was quiet almost to the point of mo notony. Pleas of guilty were entered with the assurance of District At torney John D. Fredericks that he would urge clemency. But whatever fortitude1 the two men had mustered for the occasion received a set back and dismay threatened them for a moment sa Judge Bordwell, In passing sentence en James B. McNamara, seemed to be Inclined to inflict the death pen alty. . John J. Dejected.. And though It did not come, the severity of Judge Bordwell's remarks cut, and John J. McNamara accus tomed expression, half smile and half sneer, passed into one of dejec tion. "t never saw a man change so much within a few minutes,4 -declared. Judge Bordwell later. Attor neys close by saw tears In the .eyes of John 3. McNamara. The younger man, the confessed murderer, took his sentence calmly. As he resumed his seat lie smiled in recognition of an acquaintance. Judge Bordwell talked slowly and with supreme gravity' Unused, to prlmlniaftjsfj twwund Ms nrwt sentence . or importance outside of the civil case which he has been handling for a score of years. Ths Judg cased at the prisoners as he pronounced Judgment Jamm B. First. i James B. McNamara came first. His face was pale-. District Attor ney Fredericks made a brief state ment of the case, reading the pris oner's confession for the first time. As he spoke the court room was fContlnwirl on Pagw Ttir) ALUMINUM PLANT WITH CAPITAL OF ,90,000,000 NEAR THEBQROER LINE Half Million Spent For Bights-of-Way in East ern Tennessee INTO THIS STATE KNOXVILE, Tenn., Dec. S. For the purpose of building an immense power plant to develop electricity for the operation of an aluminum plant capitalised at IfD, 000.000, the alum inum company of America, a Penn sylvania corporation, has purchased rights of way for a distance of forty miles along the Little Tennessee riv er In Blount county, Tenn.. and across the state line in North -Carolina. About a half million dollars have been spent ; for these rights of way and the company It Is said, will spend about thirty million dollars for an immense plants for Uvt manufacture of aluminum. This deal carries with It h completion of the Bushnell extension of the Southern railway, a line of road partially constructed be tween Maryville. Tenn., and Bushnell, N. C. MEDICOS MEET NEWPORT NEWS. Va., Dec. 6. With upwards of one) hundred physi cians from Virginia and North Caro lina in attendance, the sixteenth an nual session of the Seaboard Medical association began hero tonlgftt with addressee by Dr. E. A. Alderman, president of the I'nlverslty of Vir ginia, and Dr. Cyrus Thompson, of Jacksonville, N. C. Addresses of welcome wer deliv ered by Mayor Maryu Jones, W. B. Coltona, president of the the cham ber of commerce, and Dr. Jos. T. Buxton, . president or the Newport News medical association. WEALTHY FARM EH KILLBQ GREENSBORO, N. C. Dec, S. -Harper Hodhln. one of the wealthiest farmers of this sevtlon,-:tt'ltt almost Instant death near here this afternoon when a pony he was driving became frightend and by a sudden swsrvs tarsw him from the buggy. . . John D. "Weil l Guess I Can Keep the Wolf ' " c From the Door." :t. '?3CSS&iir!. tins ..h-ihii ni-Mii.ipiii ii iii i usin n.i f ii im.f i. , inn, i. ii i ii n n imn n i.-umi sfcisii-i.ilsill I'liJli nisssi iiisw.Tiw'ie.w ii'iiWmLs'1 DEMOCRATS Will Begin WrJk Immediately on Cotton, and Woolen Cextir Sharply Criticise Supreme Court on Spokane Rate Deciaion-Mag ; WA8HINOT0N, 13eo, l-Work onf cotton and woolen tkrlff revision bills probably will be beaiia by the duna cratic members . of tths house wss and means com tilttee, - It was an asunoed today wtutoiut waiting longer for the report -oil tb' tariff board and ths presidents messag accom panying it- t'i , Reprassfitatlva raderwood has called a conference en the subject tomorrow at which the tariff program tor the present sweaion may. be de termlnedv v . v. " i i - ' ' . Ths . tariff beard!. ,1 . working at breakneck speed In jn effort ta pre sent Its report oh ! wmoI t6 President Tart on Saturday 'The liotton report in probability will not be lit tn preal- lent's hands until after the Christmas holidays. ? Day and night shifts of clerks are rushing towards completion, the tabu lation of the Immense amount of statistical data which will aocom pany , the report The entire field investigation of the woolen Industry Jhas been finished and tine board is now preparing a digest of this ma terial showing the difference In cost of production of wool In this coun try and abroad. Every element of outlay In the conduct 'of the Indus try, including labor, will be exten sively '-set forth. While the board will not recom mend rate of duty It will discuss In its report the probable , effect of va rious ljainrs Including specific and ad valorem diftles in trie light of the data which it has collected. The Held investigation of the cot ton Industry will not be completed for ten days. DECISION CKITICISED WASHINGTON, Dec. In Intro TEACHER CLAIMS BEAUTY IS SPOILED Wants Damages Because Her Chance of Marrying Will be Ruined CAMDEN, N. J.. Pec. . Claiming that her heauty had been spoiled en tirely In as accident and her chance or marrying advantageously ruined, Miss Annette Myers, an Atlantic City school te aether, entered suit here to day for f 5.000 damages against Rob art Cain, a member of the Cam-den county board of freeholder, whom she alleges is responsible. Recently the school teacher and a party of friends while walking alone a country road on their way to a fair, were run Into toy Cain, who was driving a rfast horse attached to a light carriage. Several of ha party were knocked down but all escaped serious Injury except Mlse Myers, who sustained a broken nose and a crush ed cheek bone. Miss Myers' counsel claims that she Was so disfigured that she hates to appear in public. FAIR WASHINGTON. Dec.' . Forecast for Nofth Carolina: Slightly warmer Wednesday; Thursday . fair, tight to tnodarata northeast wtoda, WILL NOT WAIT FOR REPORT OF THE TARIFF BOARD nitude of Prof it on Beet Sugar ducing a but for the abolition of ths. court of commerce, Senator' Poinds -j ter today sharply criticised the d-j elalon of that court in the Spokane. rate case.- He declared that tie af fect of the court's decision was to destroy ; tho Jong and ' short haul clause of ths Interstate commeros law as well as ths power of the Interstate commerce commission V" perform Us function. Mr. Polndtef deUsr1 d that In every, Important case where fche -petition was filed by a railroad, company ths commerce court pas en Joined the orders of ' the Interstate coninieree$pwiBtoiti ,....;,. ' "It has destroyed M sffectlveness of this commission," he. said. "The commission by it good work for years has won the confidence of th Dennis. The ftbokana pu was .: fully considered by ths commission ' fq year, conclusions were tested by application to actual business hrfer ordered Into effect and yet the raw commerce-court without special ex perience, -on a brief hearing, enjoins this carefully considered and thor oughly tested order. ' "The court 1 entirely superfluous, has- grossly exceeded its authority and will constantly be prone to arro gate to. Itself functions which do not belong to It, which are not Judicial and 'which can neveic. b properly ex ercised by a Judicial tribunal, It should be at once abolished' BF.CT Sl'CJAR OPKHATIOXt WASHINGTON, Deo. B. Repne sentatlve Baker of California drew from W. T. Tlllett, a sugar expert witness before the house Investigating 'committee today the magnitude of 0h profit made by th beet sugar Interests on the rise In sugar to the TRIG DEI -TO PROVE .1 Witnesses Introduced to Contradict His Testimony in Lorimer Probe " WASHINGTON, Dec. I. When the senate committee wh ldh Is investigat ing the election of Senator Wm. Lori mer, of Illinois, resumed hearings to day, Kl bridge T. Hancey, chief of counsel f oAvth defense, Introduced witnesses to contradict ths testimony of Charles A. White that Sidney Yar borough was at Springfield, Ills., on the night of May 24, 101. F. Q, Hill, of Chicago, one of the pass clerks of the Illinois Central rail road, Identified a pas issued to Whits which was used (between Chicago and Sprlnifleld on the night of May It. It I the contention of the defense -that Yarborougrh used the pass and that he was In Chicago and not In Springfield oa the night" of the twenty-fourth. When 'the committee re sume tomorrow Mr. Hancey will pro duce George Gloss, Mrs. Ellen does, E. J. Bell and Wm. Sturvner, all of Chicago, by whom he expects to jom plets testimony on thst point. The committee showed a marked disposi tion today to 'have the Investigation finished without further delays. Sen ator . Jones ' complained because enough witnesses-were not on hand to occupy a. who) afternoon. Senator Kenyon joined the general request that all possible delays b eliminated. It is ths Intention of ths committer to hold daily session until th case is closed- . Revision BilhSenator Pomm Interests, . consumer which began la June of this year Mr, Wlllctt said that when ths New York pries of sugar advanced a cor responding rise was announced In the wwst, notwithstanding ths fact tliat the beet sugar refineries of Colorado and California had an enormous sup ply of their product en hand. Mr, ,Wtllet who earlier In hit tet tlmony said that suirar had drifted bak to ;. approximately cents a pound, testified that the farmer w.lto rata'd ths sugar beet got no benefit from the rise. He was paid tie ams pries-C..ila bests that wag aamsd in . thtrcontractt dated month be fore. . , "Why, did th bet sugar manufac turers of California raise their prints Just because New-. York refiners, I, - n miles away, did so T". asked Mr, Baker, i "tfecaiis it was good buelnes." "That Is what I known a good business, Is It 7" ' "Tee, . of course If fehsy hadn't done an tivy would have been called fool if yiey gava away I cent pro fit on a- pound," - ' Br. Wiyett gave , the committee much statistical data on the world's operation In sugar. He denounced the gratuity given ths Hawaiian sugar Planters by f ras ntry to ths' United States and expressed the opinion thai frea raw sugar would sttrva ths beet sugar mn to death. MBfWAflE ViV, RFXICIVED" . WASHINOTON, Doc. I. President Taft's massage on the trust was read irl boon, branches of congress today and was generally wall received. The president' .objection t a repeal of (Oontlniwd on Psgn Tlire) I OF BOAT Last Vestige of "Gen, Slo cum" on Which 1,000 Lives Lost, Destroyed PHILADELPHIA, Dec. I Ths last vestige of th unfortunate steam boat, General Slocum, on which about 1,000 live were lost In the water of New York onvc years ago, now lie at th bottom of th sea. After the steamboat was burned to the water's dge, Che hull was converted into a barg and given the name of Mary land. Today a report was received here that the barge' could not stand th gale that blsw off ths New Jer sey coast yesterday and sank som- ft ere In the vicinity of Sandy Hook. crew of five man were taken off by a tug? ' The Maryland we valued at 120,000, and there was no Insur ance, Bad luck pursued the ciuli of the General Slocurm even after it had been turned into a barge. Peter Hagan,. the owner of th Ill-fated hulk, said h was always gettUg Into trouble. , - . ; v, , "III fortunt always followed tier," he said, "even on -this trip we ad to put In a new rudder before h went to sea I am glad se's gone. Of course, 1 didn't Ilk to throw 10,- 000 Into ths sa, but now' that she's gone I have no regret" ' ACTO-mCYCLE CXLU8IOX FITZGERALD, Oa Dec. .-Clar-enc Tripp died today and hi brother Cecil Tripp Is said to be dying a a result of a collision by their ' bicy cle on which they were 'tiding and an automobile driven by John Hogan aear. her late (hi night. Cecil Tripp' head I injured and both arms god txth legs broken. ' . -' " ' . I 15 Says ho Thinks Sentences Re ceived by Both Men "Ap v propria! to Crime" MAKES DEFENSE OF LABOR LEADER: HT industrial Pcacn Will Come When Employers Treat ; Labor Fairly-. .' . " NEW YORK, tW). I."! am glad a death sentence was not Imposed, I am opposed to capital punishment un der any circumstances, I think th sentence received by both mn p proprlate to t.ns crime." - Thl .. was' th comment of Samuel Oomper to night wt)n aked if h wa tifid with the punishment meted out ts the McNamara brothsr In Los An gle today. "I would Ilka to mak orna statement," continued Mr. ftomp-j er. "and that I concerning lb trlc-' ture mad by District Attorney Mil.' ler on Indianapolis a la pm wisdom of my leadership of ths American Federation of Labor. I want to say that If . Miller ha a cess, to - pros Out against tm or anybody els let him go ahead and prosecute, but it I not for him to say whether myj leadership 1 wis or hot t' conald r hi criticism a gratuitous and un warranted impertinence. Miller ha notrlgi t to set himself up a my guld. I C?w'o' to stand true to th men of labor." -Ia of ParlOcatlnn" Mr. Gomper was asked If It wera true that he and other labor leader were advising "an era of pacifica tion" In (he matter of culling airlkes In th future until th country had forgotten th McNamara ease. , ' "All I ran ay to that," he replied, "Is that M sn employer treat' labor as -fairly as organised tabor trsuts' ths smployers then there wilt be In dustrial peace, Th executive cntri. mlltee , of th American Tederation of Labor I the greatest ctinun,u. body that: vr exMrted anywhere, it desires peace and Is alway r:dy to tnet employer half way." i '"Mr. Gomper. did ths Bridge and Structural Iron Workers' union re eeivs y money from other organU xatlons during time that th Mcl Namara hrothsra were active in thsir dymmltlng plots f was aaksd, f "I am not sure, but I am under, th Impression that they did not re-' otve one dollar from any outalds organisation," : was the reply. , ) Morrtnon'g Bwtcsnont -' Frank Morrison, secretary of th American Federation of Labor, - to-j night added to hi aarller statement In regard to tho rund raised by thai American Federation of Labor for! th McNamara' defena. by saylnf (Crmtlnned on nags night) APPLIED TO CARNEGIE HON S GO Hi Governor Woodrow Wilson Gives Reason for Making Such Application ; ' WAS TURNED DO WIT BALJTTMORB, Dso. I. Oojvernori Woodrow Wilson In a signed state-j ment Issued hsre tonight regardlngi (he story printed In a Now Tork pa- per today to th effect that h had applied to th Carnegl Foundation! for a pension admitted that h had, made suoh apllcatlon bsfor hi elec-j tlon as govsrnor of New Jsrsey. Th j governor Justified his aotlon, hower- sr. on the grounds of long rvioa as a trlc"rJ!r. tott he had no privata, mean to depend upon and that "a man who go into politics bound tr tho principles of honor put his fam ily and all who may ba dependent upon him for support, at, tha mercy of any Incalculable turn of ths wheal of fortun. : .'-? '--" v'-'Vcv In hi statement Governor Wilson say ft understood that upon th r celpt of his apllcatlon the executive- committee of the trustee of th foun-r dstlon restricted ths Interpretation oft their rule and demlned to grant ths I allowance, ".-- :.;. . "I have not renewed th appllca-j tff( - " ".: ..;;,.;.:;;. 'i'" I Governor' Wilson mad an address' here this afternoon betots tn Mary-! lend Week .itpositlon. In which h re- ; ferred to tho undeveloped resources! of th south and 'the important part! played by (ho farmer In connection'' with the government and Institutions' Of S country. ' Ths governor said the south Is not merely to consume her own products, farm hy farm, she roust go to chool to the grrat masters of science shi must he interested In the eonsump-j tlon by young and old men of ttiej great stores of knowledge which fcav1 been laid up in the modern world, with regard to agricultural and t"-' r processes. GQMPERS DEATH SENTENCE IS NOT IMPOSED