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FOR rawl REVISION Statement Is Given Out At White House Setting Lay To Twenty-Three Members of Con gress Who Called To Protest Washington, Special.—All doubt as K) wluYe President Taft stands with regard to the downward revision •f the tariff was swept away Friday ■when a statement was given out at the White House setting forth in de tail what the President had to gay to 23 Republican members of Congress who iailed to protest against putting *aw material on the free list. The President deciarese that the Republican party is committed to a downward revision; that he lias nev er had any other idea of the Chicago plat 'Vrm, and that" he personally has pro: ised a downward revision to the people. _ This was interpreted in aome : , q'-aftrrs hera ,Friday night as a direct uuliihation to the conferees •n the tariff bill that if the measure they finally;agree upon does not eon atitule a material reduction in spe •ific duties, the President will veto it. "The President said that he was SK>t committed to the principle of free TSW material, but. that he was c.om anittcd to the principle of a down ward revision of the tariff, which he ha I promised, and that he was •bliired to look at the matter, not from the standpoint of any particu lar district, but fropi the standpoint •f responsibility for the entire Re- MRS, EVELYN NESBIT THAW TELLS OF THE THREAT White Plains, N. Y., Special—Har yy K. Thaw's wife, formerly the •hor.is girl, Eyelyn Neshit, went on the stand hero Thursday and gave damn Sing testimony against him. It was the strongest point scored so lar by the State in its fight to keep Thaw in the asylum for the criminal tisane at Mattenwan. When Thurs day 's session / was concluded, ad journment was Taken until July 26. "l id Harry K. Thaw threaten to lake your lite?" she was asked di vert 1/ by Deputy Attorney General Clai ke. r* .Till 1 , court room was hushed and Evelyn Thaw turned nppealingly tn Justice Mills. She begged to be al lowed not to answer because she said the knew she would incur his ever lasting animosity. T ; nt the court ruled that the.only possiMe grounds upon which she could-'decline to answer were that it wouh! tend to incriminate her, and lie added that be did not see how lhat would be applicable to her sit nati'!). "Yes, -he did," she said in a low Toiee. "Wlat were his exact wordsf" demanded Mr. Clarke. "lie said: 'When I get out of here' 1 suppose T will have to kill you.' "I EIGHTEEN MEET THEIR DEATH WHEN WALLS CRASH Philadelphia*. Special. Eighteen persons were killed in tho collapse •f the Building, at ®e. e.ilh and Market streets, at 1 •'cluck Thursday afternoon. "2 r "fi 'YljplT r T3S*T)odiefi Tiad liern ' taken from the ruins, and twenty of tile seriously injured had been re ■eved to hispitals. It is believed there are at least •rt eeii or twenty other persons in the ruins. Policemen and firemen were work fag like beavers in their attempt to tear down the debris. Ropes, with Mod ■c and tackle, are employed in the endeavor '.o get under the ruins and raise the mass of wreckage from the bodies of the victims. With the exception of Peter Fritz, foreman of tho workmen, who was THE BOLL WEEVIL AND BAD SEASON SCARE SUBSIDES lew York, Special.—One of the Most remarkable breaks in the his tory of the New York cotton market ••eurred Friday as a result of a spe cial rfport on tho boll weevil situa tien by the government entomologist. Dr. Hunter. At the end of the decline ••tton for new crop delivery was sell TO ISSUE $40,000,000.00 BONDS FOR. PANAMA CANAL Washington,. Special. • Congress iwiJf be asked ut the inslanee of Pres ifcnt Taft to authorize the issuance wt bonds to the extent of the latest •rtimate of the .cost of the Panama •anal. This issue would be in lieu «f that proposed in the rider to the Jfeync tariff bill (stricken out in the •mate) authorizing the issuance of »H).( >OO,OOO in bonds to reimburse the genrra! fund of the treasury for the jßrehrtJe of the canal property This decision was reached Thurs day at a luncheon conference at the MOHAMMED ALI, SHAH OF PERSIA, IS DETHRONED „ Teheran, Special.—Mohamed Ali, BLah of Persia, was dethroned Fri day and the Crown Prince, Sultan Akmed Mirza, was proclaimed Shah Iy the National Assembly, composed the, chief Mujtehids and the lead- Ms of the Nationalist forces in the ■■esence of an immense crowd in rarliment square. Mohamed Ali hu taken refuge in A* Russian summer legation at Scr ip aae, where he is under the proteo- t publican party. He said the qces- H tjon in each case was a question of fact a -to be determined by evidence, as to y whether the present duty was needed t for protection or whether the rate - was excessive, so that a downward a revision or putting the article on the g free list would not injury the in- dustry. "He repeated the platform of the e Republican party and said he had al i ways understood that it meant a - dowward revision in many instances, i though perhaps in some few instances i an increase might be needed; that he 5 reached this construction of the plat form on what' he understood to be bbe i principle of protection and its pusti- fication, namely, that after an indus s try was protected by a duty equnl to ? the difference between the cost or - production abroad and the cost - in this country, including a fair > profit to the manufacturer, Ihe en ergy and enterprise of American bus ( iness men and capitalists, the effec ; tiveness of Amereian labor and the ■ ingenuity of American inventors un ■ der the impulse of competition be > hind the tariff wall, would reduce the i cost of production, and that, with the reduction and the cost of production • the tariff rate would become unnec : essarily high and ought to be re ■ duced. "Why did ho say th.?.tt" "We were discussing bis mental condition. I had asked him what he meant, and tie said: 'You know I was not crazy on the night that I shot white.' I asked him agaiu and he said: 'You know that I missed White by two minutes on the day be fore.' " Thaw, when asked about his wife's testimony after court, said he was not surprised at her attitude but de nied that he ever threatened her life. Before leaving White Plains Thurs day night, Evelyn Thaw said: "If the Thaw family had done the right thing by me I would never have taken the stand to testify against my husband. But they wouldn't guar antee me the allowance 1 asked for. "I must go out ami get a living some how. I can't go back to the stage. My notoriety would prohibit that. I will try to get work as a model. I can do it, too, I am sure. "Often I feel sorry ! ever saw the stage at all. As a model I can be I a good girl and earn enough to keep me. I can hope for nothing from my husband V family. "I don't know whether or not my husband will harm me if he is re -1 leased. IJn has made one threat, I (hough, and diat has terrified me. 1 ' i identified by a numbered tag, none ( > of the dead at the morgue had been j identified up to a late hour in the afternoon. All are horribly crushed, i making identification difficult. With a crash 'hat bo heard i Tr>v blocks, ihe wall? oftlie building I' which is being renovated by the - I'nitod Gas Improvement Company, fell, carrying with them ten work t men who had .just returned to work l from the noon hour, and burying a score or more pedestrians who were parsing through tho busy thorough ) face. I When the huge cloud of dust rose, i tl.e oricks and mortar were seen piled s in the streets as far out as the car i tracks, a mass twentv feet high. Un derneath the ruins could be heard the groans and shrieks rff those who s had been imprisoned. 1 ing at $2 a bale less than the closing price on •Thursday. The break was marked by panicky liquidation and excitement seldom equaled except in times of complete demoraliration. Within half an hour prices declined fully 35 points; and ' while the market recovered a few 1 points of the loss, yie close was bare • ly' steady. s White House in which President ■ Taft, Senator Aldrieh, Chairman » Payne, of the House ways and means , committee, Secretary of the Treas ury MacVeah nnd Assistant Secre ' tarv Norton participated. ' The Qoethals' estimate of $397,- 5 000,000 as the cost of the canal com- J plete, was used as a basis for the p proposed bond issue. J The Secretary of the Treasury 5. 'would be empowered to issue the / bonds from time to tipne as.the mon ey is needed, at interest not' to ex s cend 3 per sent. , tion of detachments of Cossacks and • seperys attached JLO the Serzende by i the Russian and British diplomatic i representatives. I The new Shah is yet in his minor ■ ity, and Azad U1 Mulk, head of the s Kajar family, has been appointed re i gent. Sipahdar, one of the most active i leaders of- the movement, Sas taken • office as Minister of War and Govern • of Teherau. .. MRS. HAYES DEAD Last of Family of Dm President of the Confederate States Succumbs to Combination of Diseases—Suc ceeded Her Younger Sister as "Daughter of the Confederacy." Colorado Springs, Col., Special.— Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter of Jefferson Davis, President of the Con federacy, died Sunday night at her home after an illness of six months. Mrs. Hayes, 54 years old, was the wife of J. Addison Hayes, president of the First National Bank of Colo rado Springs. Friends throughout the country had gained the impression that Mrs. Hayes suffered from cancer, but the cause of her death was announced by at tending physicians as a complication cf diseases. Mrs. Hayes, the last of the family of the only President of the Confed eracy, after the death of her sister, Miss Winnie Davis, in New York made a trip through the "South a few years ago, when she was made the ' 'Jlaughter of the Confederacy'' in her sister's stead. Her mother, widow of the Southern President, died in New York about two years ago. Mrs. Hayes is survived by two sons, Jefferson Hayes Davis and William Hayes, and two daughters, Luey Hayes and Mrs. Virginia Webb, wife of Dr. Gerald 15. Webb, of Colorado Springs. JeU'orson Ila.yes Davis bears the name of his grandfather through a special net of the Legislature. It is expected that official notice of her death will bo given at once by the heads of the various Confederate organizations of the South, and a fit ting tribute paid by them to her memory. Only a short time ago, Mrs. W. J. Behan, of New Orleans, one of the leaders of the Daughters of the Con federacy, received a letter from Mrs. Ilayes, thanking the former for her offorts tc bring about the restoration On Cabin John Bridge, near Washing ton of the name of Mr. Davis, which had been chiseled off after his acces sion to the presidency of the Con federacy. Motor Cycle Spreads Death. Berlin, By Cable.—Four persons were killed, more than twenty seriously injured, and a dozen others slightly injured as the result of the explosion of a motor cycle, hnd a tire which followed it, during a cycle race at the old botanic gardens Sunday evening. Thousands of spectators had gathered around the track which was opened tor the first time a few days ago. During an endurance race, the tire of one of the pacemakers' motor cy cle burst and the rider lost control I The benzine exploded in a burst of I flame and the machine leaped into the air. The rider was thrown off and lcll ngainst other competitors. So tcrifflc was the speed of the mo tor cycle that it continued on its course after the explosion, crashing iniiito the public stand, hurling specta tors right and left, and setting on fire several women's dresses. Two womqn were instantly killed and their bodies, satuated with flaming ben zine, were burned to cinders. The wooden stand caught fire, and the flan'es flashed in the faces of by standers, who, with clothing ablaze rushed about shrieking with pain and fear. A panic ensued, in which n great number of persons, including children, were - 1 badly trampled. Eighteen men and four women were seriously injured, two of the men having since died, ho hospital sur geons say that several others are in a hopeless condition. Big Fira at Rocky Mount. Rocky Mount, Special.-—Fire was discovered in a room on the sec ond floor of the Hammond Hotel Saturday morning. at 4 o'clock. The building was crowded, containing about 100 guests. Rare presence of mind caused the opening of a tap on the third floor by the first fireman who reached the burning building. This preserved the stairway until the third floor occupants could hurry from the building in their night clothes. The loss is reported at about $20,- 000 on the building, without insur ance; furnishings about $3,500, part ly insured. , Sixteen Perish in Water. New York, Special.—Sixteen per sons, five of them women, met death by drowning in the waters either sur rounding or in the vicinity of New York Sunday. Ten of the victims per ished after the capsizing. of the ex cursion sloop Roxana, carrying 22 passengers, which was struck by a sudden squall in .lower New York bay, midway between Coney Island Point and Hoffman Island, late Sun day afternoon. Of the survivors, one woman, Mrs. C. Knudson, of Brook lyn, is in such a serious condition that she probably will die. Her two daughters were drowned. Frenchman Eclipses Wright's Record For Height. Doue, France, By Cablit-M. Paul ham on Saturday beat the aeroplane record for height, held by Wilbur Wright. He made a flight at an altitude of about 450 feet. The previous record was 360 feet. - K. Bleriot won the speed prise, covering 2,000 metres in 2 minutes 19 seconds. M. Paulham's flight oo» espied 57 minutes. ( ELLA GINGLjSACPTTED Jury That Frees Irish Maker Says That thi Charges Aga^ist Miss Agnes Barretts Are Without Foundation. Chicsgo, Special—Ella Gingles was clesred Monday night of the charge of stealing lace from Miss Agnes Bar rette, her former employer, but the story she told on the witness stand to the effect that an attempt was made to force her into white slavery was denounced as untrue by the jury that freed her. The verdict was as follows: "We, the jury, find the defendant not guilty and we, the jury, further find that the charges made against Miss Barrette were unfounded and are untrue." ' The basis of the defense made by Miss Gingles' counsel was that Miss Barrette and others had attacked her and mistreated her in the Wellington Hotel on two occasions last winter, and that the object of these attacks and of the theft charge was to force her to be sold toan unnamed man in French Lick Springs, Ind. Miss Gingles shook hands with the jurors. Juror Thomas Mackey, the oldest man on the panel, said: "Now, be a good girl, Ella. Go back to your home. in Ireland and be a fro rid girl." The girl nodded her head and turn ed away. It was annaunced by . Assistant State's Attorney Furthman that the question of whether indictments for perjury would be ask*d against Miss Gingles would be taken up later. \ Instructing the jury, Judge Breu ti'iio said that the givl's story of tor ture in the Wellington Hotel was to be legarded by the jurors as a tfat. of the credibility of the defendant's testimony. At one time the taking of pertin ent evidence was hulted long enough to /?ive Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, former chairman of the Democratic national committee, un opportunity to declare from the witness stand that he had no knowledge of Ella Gingles, save what he had read in the newspapers. His name had been men tioned by Ella Gingles as one which was spoken while she was subjected to the imaginary abuse at the hotel. Announce Mrs. Hayes' Death. New Orleans, Special.—Official an nouncement of the death of Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, the last surviving child of President Jefferson Davis, of the Confederate States of America, was made to the United Confederate V eterans in a general order issued 'Monday afternoon from the head quarters of that organisation in this city. The order, issued by command of Gen. Clement A. Evans, comman der-in-chief, is as follows: "With extreme sorrow the general commanding makes official announce ment of the death of the last mem ber of the immediate household of Jefferson Davis, our beloved and only President. Mrs. J. Addison (Marga ret Davis) Hayes, died at her home in Colorado Springs late Sunday af ternoon. "Like her distinguished mother, Mrs. Hayes did not enjoy the best of health and was on this account de nied the pleasure of attending t|ie reunions of the U. C. V. to the same extent as her charming sister 'Win nie.' Yet she was often able to be present at these annual gatherings, and the 'boys' of the Confederate armies ever greeted her with that hearty affection that they felt for her immortal father. "Gifted in mind, charming in man ner, winning in behavior, she won the affections of all who knew her in timately. She will long be remem bered by all the members of this or 4pr." The body of Mrs. Hayes was cre mated at the Riverside creamatorv, Denver, Colo., Monday afternoon. The cremation was private and an effort was made to keep it a secret. French Aviator Fails. Calais, Special.—Herbert Latham, the French aviator, made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to cross the English channel in his monoplane Monday morning. He got away splendidly under perfect conditions, for the top of tho chalk cliffe at San gatte, and had oovered over half the distance at an average height of 500 feet when the motor alowed down and he was obliged to descend. Appeal for Missionaries. Boston, Special.—An appeal to President Taft in behalf of the Rev. Dr. William Morrison and the Rev. W. B. Sheppard, the sionaries in the Congo region, whose trial for alleged "caluminous denun ciation '' of officers of the Kasai Com pany, a commercial organization ope rating near the mission station at Luebo, is to be held at Lcopoldville, July 30, has been prepared by the Swiss League for the defense of Con go natives. t The appeal Characterizes the treatment of the missionaries as "persecution." Mr. Taft r-trdons Aldington. Washington, Special—"l won't al low any d man in Ibe world to" whittle me cIT my t scddle,'' is the re mark attributed to 0. h. Aldington, after a of shots on the Ar ksnsas-lndian Territory border in the latter nineties, and Monday Adding ton was pardoned after serving a sen tence of more than a dozen years of imprisonment following that shoot ing affair. 1 WASHINGTON NOTES By passing over the cotton and woolen schedules without any of the amended paragraphs, and akip ping the' disputed points connected with the rates on 1 amber in the wood schedule, the tariff conferees were able to dispose of sbout 400 amend ments Tuesday. This number however in eludes subjects thai were settled tentatively on Monday and Saturday. Many important subjects, such as the House drawbacks featuivs in the alcohol paragraph, the rates on oil cloth and the various items under the head of lithographs, were submitted to sub-conferees. The treasury ex perts who helped the Senate finance committee in its consideration of the bill are assisting the conferees in gathering information about these subjects. • • • • Strenuous objections were raised by the House members of the tariff conference Wednesday to the Senate provision in the maximum and mini mum feature of the tariff bill, which gives to the President authority to employ such persons as he may de sire to aid him in enforcing the tariff laws and which will be uaeful to Con gress in tariff legislation in the fu ture. The provision which provides for the establishment of a court of cus toms appeals was adopted. It is in tended that this court shall deal with ail cases of appeal from the board of general appraisers and that its judgment shall be final. The salaries of the five judges were fixed at $lO,- 000, instead of $7,000 as provided by the Senate amendment. The Senate maximum and mini mum provision Was agreed upon ten tatively as a substitute for the House feature, with the exception of the provision for the employment of tar iff experts. The House conferees claimed that the House ways and Wans committee and the Senate fi nance committee have the investiga tion of tariff matters as their special province. • • ■ • Twenty-four hours would see the end of the work of the Senate and House conferees on the tariff bill, and a substantil agreement upon the questions at issue but for the five propositions—iron ore, coal, hides, oil and lumber—upon which the Pres ident stands firm for radical reduc tion or even abolition of the tariff. Great progress was made by the conferees Friday. A preponderance of the differences have been adjusted In each schedule, however, are a few items that have necessitated investi gation in order to enable the con ferees t© get together. This is true of lead products, such as paints, in the chemical schedule; numerous ar ticles in the mfetal schedule on which the rates depend upon the settlement of the iron ore question; the demand for a change in the classification of wool tops; the change from ad valo rem to specific rates on cotton goods; the increase made by the House oh gloves, and the wood pulp and print paper contest. The rates on silks and wQolen goods were determined Fri day. The Senate won in both cases. On silks there will be a considerable advance over existing duties; on woolen, no change from the present law except in regard to wool tops, which are to be given a new classi fication. The duty on tops is prohibi tive now, and it is predicted that it will continue so, even after the re duction is put into force. The Senate provision reenacted tha Dingley rates of the whole woolen schedule, while the House provided for material re lictions. x •s s . « A Washington, Special.—President Taft will win his fight for free or re duced rates of duty on raw materials. Nearly every member of the confer ence on the tariff bill conceded Sat urday. The indications are that when the new tariff bill becomes a law, the rates on the articles which the President desired to come in free will be as follows: Iron ore, free (present rate 40 cents per torn) Oil, free (now protected by coun tervailing duty.) Hides, 7 1-2 per cent, ad valorem - (present rate 15 per cent.) Coal, 45 cents per ton. (Present rate 67 cents.) Lumber will probably be $1.25 on rough, with Senate rates on finish ed. This would be a material reduc tion throughout the lumber, schedule. When the conferees transferred to the President's shoulders the respon sibility of putting the foregoing raw materials on the free list, it was not believed he would meeet with success in bringing about a changed senti fent in relation to these articles. A change of sentiment seems ap parent. •• • • The extra session of Congress will soon be a thing of the past and it is plain now, at this stage of the game, that the South is going to get a lem on, if not worse. Iron ore, coal and hides will be put on the free list. Lumber will be reduced as low as pos sible, retaining the House rate on rough lumber and the Senate the finished product. Cotton bagging will be put back on the dutiable list. A drawback on ties will not be pro vided for. Sulphate of ammonia, used in fertilisers, is to be, taken from the free list. The New England States will get the benefit of raw material. The i woolen and cotten schedules will net ibe towered. There will be no reduc tion of ratss on food prodncta. -M, —■ . . tut NEWS IN BRlff ftems of Interest Gathered iy Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY I4w Items Covering Event* of Hon •r Lew Interest at Home aai Abroad. John W. Hodges and Rnfus Lu cas, well-to-do farmers, at Oliver, Ga., fought an impromptu duel last Saturday over a trivial affair, result ing in the death of Hodges and the fatal wounding of Lucas. John D. Roekefellow has recently added $10,000,000 to his former gifts of $42,000,000 to the General Educational Board. Arne Boerner, a Belgian, offers to build for the United States govern ment an airship that will carry 200 men a distance o£ 3,000 miles with out landing. He figures the cost of the trip at $600,000 but will build it unaided if the government will pay him $1,200,000 for it wheu conditions are fully met. Herman Wilcox of Chicago, not knowing that Good Time lake near Pensacola, Fla., contained aligators, went swimming in its waters last week. Four days later his bones were found. The aligators had de voured him. Miss Lois Campbell traveling with her father, the president of the "Prised" system, in a condition of rfomnambulatism rose from her berth and walked off of the coach that was running 40 miles an hour early last Friday. When she came to from the shock she found heself alone on the prairie. She fortun ately had on a skirt that had some red and flagged a freight train. By this time all train crews were run ning slow along that part of the road looking for her. When the freight arrived at Sweetwater, she saw her distressed father on the plat form and surprised him by her ca resses. State Auditor Kenehan, of Colo rado docks the salary of Governor and all other State officials for the time they are out of the State. He goes further and makes out bills against former officers for the time of absence which was not docked by his predecessors. The German Reichstag has com pleted the tax law which provides higher rates on tobacco, beer, tea, and coffee and imposes a stamp tax on checks. Two hundred and fifty-one Ameri can wood pulp mills in 1908 con sumed 3,346,106 cords of wood val ued at $28,000,000. "Petrol Butter" is the latest pro duction of the Standard Oil Compa ny.- Its color is brown and it does not get rancid from age. Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr.. a New Or leans banker, just married, has been arrested on eharges of being a de faulter to the extent of SIOO,OOO. A big cave near Masontown, W. Va., is being explored and 250 per sons who went in Sunday did not see it all. The tunnels of the Pennsylvania Railroad under the Hudson river and Berge Hill to New York city are finished and the work of electrifi cation and tracklaying will begin at once. About Governenr, N. Y. ( last Sun day there was a heavy storm that dropped young frogs. Pedestrians could scarcely proceed on the side walks and the frogs lay so thick on the railroad track that the wheels slipped with the slimy mash. Bristol, Va., Went "wet" by 32 votes in the late election but the Virginia law forbids issuing license to any but qualified voters of the county. There will be some businesa disappointments. Washington News Notes. William J. Bryan has written to President Taft urging him to allow popular vote for Senators. The Cabinet decided upon the new form of the corporation income tax Tuesday. President Taft has the use of the trowel and at a corner-stone laying recently spread morter for about 15 minutes. Chairman Payne is standing firmly for the lower House rates in the tar iff conference. Mr. Taft last Saturday reassured Senators Taylor and Frazier in re gard to eensus appointments in the South. Summoning Thursday Aldrich and Payne to the White House Thursday, the President insisted upon the re tention of the corporation tax. President Taft spoke last Satur day at the laying of the corner stone of Ingram Memorial Congregational Church which is to have a swimming pool, gymnasium, bowling alley and *.lub rooms. ' Foreign Affairs. France and Italy are now consid ering the matter of a tunnel through Mont Blanc. It would 'be eight miles . leng and to equip it with a . double track electric railway would cost about $18,000,000. A fearful storm swept part of the Btate of Vera Cruz last weeje. Six are known to be dead and property lose is estimated at $1,000,000. Hun dreds of acres of laud were from 3 to 9 feet deep u the f100d.., ,
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