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LaLZSrw iJ1 10 THE WASHINGTON POSTl WEDNESDAY JEBRlMKi 13r1907 IAP COOLIE A MENACE Representative Kalro Tells of Conditions on Coast JeABED HOBE THAU CHINESE Subjects ofMUudo Coming by Thou sands and Threatening to Reduce the American Standard of Living Traditional Friendship with Oriental a Myth Increased Military and Naral Strength Boston Mass Feb 12 Jullus Kahn trnember if Congress from a San Fran 3sco JietrJct delivered an address before nhe Middlesex Club this city this eveningevening In which he discussed the Japa Sresej question Mr Kahn In opening aid there was no antagonism Ja Call forrla to the Japanese of thei better 5JJS such as scholars prolesslbnal men ImuOccts and merchants on the Pacific oatt The opposition Is entirely directed isalnst the coolie or laboring class ald Mr Kahn and I say frankly that CtM Japanese coolie Is much more feared In California than is his meek docile childlike nd bland counterpart from the lclnage of Canton As a matter of fact the Japanese Jocie did hot make his appearance cunoxig us to any appreciable extent prior ttn th litsa of thfi Chlna JaDan war tfcince then however he has been coming ln constantly increasing numbers and during the past year he has been landing Jit the port of San Francisco at the rate Jpf a thousand or more every month i1 Competes with Skilled Labor He Is not altogether an unskilled laborer and almost Immediately after his Jirrival In that city he enters Into direct competition with white skilled mechanics Ipur experience with him has taught us 4hat even where he begins work as an unskilled laborer he does not stay at it ery long lie soon branches out in business for himself as a contractor a restaurant keeper a florist or some other ocatloa of that kind 3fow that in Itself Is commendable Jbnoughbut the moment he has put up Jhls sign he begins to cut the bottom out Of prices As a general rule he has no family to support for themost of the Jjapaneso that come to the United States Sum males They are not accompanied iby their wives and children to any great xtent as In the case with European Im txnigrants 1 Undersells Caucasians VIn fact most of the Japanese women Jjhat land upon our shores are brought here for Immoral purposes And so Since he has few mouths to feed and tslnce he can make a good meal on a handful of rice a piece of dried fish and Jjt cup of tea he can afford to and as jf matter of fact he does sell his com enodities at about one half the price his Caucasian neighbor is compelled to Jcharge ITnder such circumstances It Is 5b nail wonder that there Is an outcry jjrrorrr our shopkeepers and our laboring Klasses California by reason of her geographical location has to bear the brunt Jtf this fight Those who do not under jftandthc conditions that prevail In that tiate are ant to condemn her people for their stand on the question of Asiatic immigration But it Is a case of self tpreseratlon with us and If conditions ewere reversed and the great hordes of Asiatic coolies were landed on the shores Massachusetts you would probably hare an outcry here compared to which the protest that comes from California Tlrs the same proportion that a balmy Kummer zepnjr bears to a genuine Nebraska blizzard If Boston Were San Francisco Suppose for the sake of argument that Boston were the nearest port to Japan nd that your suburbs even as they are present were the seats of large manufacturingmanufacturing interests especially in the production of shoes and cotton goods It Is an admittr fact that during recent years ne Japanese nae made marvelous progress in the manufacture cf cotton goods 3n the mills now being operated In Japan ihe operatives receive from 10 to 15 cents a day with long hours of labor and no Sunday rest After he has learned how handle the machinery Bropcrly the Japanese operator feels that he can better his condition by coming to Boston where he cin purcnase the commodleies lie consumes about as cheaply as he can In hla own country and where he can well afford to work for 40 or SO ents a day hlch Is 300 or 400 per cent moie than he lean earn on his native heath In the same lino of endeavor A few of these laborers come over at first and excite little attention These dnd that the field Is a productive one and shortly each Incoming steamer brines them In In Urge numbers Gradually they begin to displace your white laborers in the cotton mills Soon after they attack your woolen mills and almost at the came lime they go into your fishing industry and drive the fishermen of Gloucester to the wall Tour white laborers find that they cannot and what Is more they will hot come down to the standard of living bf the Japanese They eoon realize that Is a struggle tor xlrtence between Cau pasian civilization and tho civilization of Asia Which would your people espouse Vhich ought your people to eiouse Do you think the citizens of your Common I health would allow the white man to be driven out of tha factories and ytork fehope or do you think they would assume the attitude taken by the people of Call Jorma on this question if Are Given Good Schooling An effort has been made to create the Impression throughout the country that 8an Francisco had denied all Japanese chlldren admission Into her public schools Ho such step has ever been contemplated The action of the school board era If It shall become necessary for them to control their markets And I have always felt that if ever a clash of arms shall occur between the two nations It will arise as a result of our own commercial expansion Interfering with the commercial expansion of our powerful neighbor on the other side of the Pacific In that connection It is well to bear Jn mind that both the Japanese nation and the American nation are alike proud sen sitlve ambitious patriotic aggressive Just as we desire to be the dominant power on thp American continent so Japan aspires to be the dominant power In Asia She Is already stirring China am i ititOT tt affM and When that great inert mass ofThumanlty ehalll nave oeen arousea mu kuuu world will hAve to sit up and take no tlce Traditional Friendship a Myth There Is a strong anti foreign sentiment In both Japan and China True the argument Is often made that the United States Is the traditional friend of both of these Oriental countries But in my study of world politics I have learned to believe thalT at the psychological moment this traditional friendship business turns out to be a pure myth In the development of commerce and the settlement of International questions the reliance upon traditional friendship Is not one half as potent or effective as reliance on a fleet of good battle ships augmented by cruisers and submarines of the latest improved types and adequate modern coast defense fortifications By continuing the construction of these we prepare in times of peace to maintain peace Forty years ago the brilliant Seward announced to his countrymen that the mmmpm of the future would be car ried on the waters of the Pacific Ocean Both the United States ana japan are now seeking to control that commerce Each country will make every effort to achelve Its ambitions It Is the hope of every American tnat tne quesuons may be settled without resorting to the arbitrament of arms 100000 JAPS IN HONOLULU Crowding White Men Out of Business Says Customs Officer Japanese are arriving In Honolulu In double the number they were a few months ago said Edwin Fanner boarding officer of the United States customs service yesterday who is stationed at that port Mr Farmer is at the Raleigh Hotel In November 3200 Japanese arrived at Honolulu and In the succeeding months the number I Judge has been Just about as large continued air Farmer More than half of them remain in Hawaii the others go on to California Most of the Japanese who have reached Honolulu in the last few months are soldiers who served In the Russian war They still wear the uniforms of that conflict Among all the Japs I have seen and I have seen all that have arrived and have examined their trunks I have not found one who brought a firearm with him Some have their swords but If they brought along firearms they have been successful In concealing them There is a much large number of Japanese coming to Hawaii and the United States han ever before Whether it h3 any significance or not I do not know In the last year a number of steamers operated by Japanese companies have come directly from Japan carrying only Japanese They do not proceed to California but turn around and go back to Japan atfer unloading their passengoi at Honolulu In 1900 there were 60000 Japanese on the Island of Hawaii That number has been so largely Increased that they are now crowding out many of the white people who are engaged In business there Ido not know how many are there nOw but I presume In the neighborhood of 100000 They are not only seriously Injuring he business industries Of the whites but they are hurting the laboring classes If they could be kept on the plantations they would not be so seriously objected to but when they find outthat they can make more money in tbb cities they go there and engage In business pursuits that compete with the whites and natives Tn Honolulu for many years thsro were three drug stores conducted by white men Now there are probably a dozen drug stores and a big majority I of them are run by Japanese It was not so long ago that the larger portion of the Japanese who put into Hawaii on the Pa cific steamers kept on to San Francisco but in the last few months I believe more have gone ashore at Honolulu than went to California CONDEMNS TOY SOLDIER HOW TO BAE JAPANESE CONTINUED JROM rtRST PAGE Boston Woman Against Lore of War Being Developed in Child Chicago Feb 12 Mrs Lucia Ames Mead of Boston who addressed the Chicago section of the Council of Jewish Women yesterday believes the tin soldier the plaything of happy childhood is a foe of international peace She said Above all things let me uYge you mothers net to allow your children to play at war with tin soldiers and toy cannon Why should you permit the boy who you hope will become a fine and gentle man to pretend that he Is killing people and to cut whole platoons of infantry at one volley Do not I beg of you let the children mimic this ghastly business of violent death I do not disapprove of drums or bugles or other military paraphernalia which can be used without indulging in make believe warfare But the pretended battles of tin soldiers throws the glamour of romance about war for the child and warps his imagination EASE PAINTINGS LOST fled that the conference to day Trould be final The Immigration bill has been In conference since the last session of Congress and until yesterday the prospect was that It would falL The Senate Inserted an amendment providing for an educational test of Immigrants which was strongly opposed by the House The House In turn provided for a commission to investigate immigration matters which did not suit the Senate conferees After Secretary Roots talk with Speaker Cannon Senator Lodge and others it was reported that a tacit agreement had been reached whereby theblll would be reduced to two main propositions one providing for an lmmlgratloncommls elon and theother embodying Secretary Roots amendment relating to Asiatic laborers Hold Bill in Conference The conferees on the Immigration bill are Senators Dillingham Lodge and McCreary and Representatives Howell Bennet and Ruppert Senator Dilllng ham professed Ignorance of the Japan ese amendment yesterday saying merely that he had been requested to hold the bill In conference foe a day or two until an amendment could be offered Senator Lodge refused absolutely to discuss the matter The other conferees were equally noncommunicatlve even to members of the California delegation Were getting up an amendment that Will please you said one of the committee to a California Congressman Thats all I can say Just now The President and Secretary Root asked us to maintain strict secrecy for the time being Late last night a member of the California delegation said From all that I can learn rapid progress Is being made toward the exclusion of Japanese laborers from the mainland Secretary Root has not given out the exact phraseology of the proposed amendment to the Immigration bill but I understand that he has submitted it to Japan and that Japan agrees to it In order to induce the San Francisco school authorities to sclnd their segregation resolution It Is absolutely necessary that the Influx of Japanese laborers Into California shall be stopped in some way or other ThereforeTherefore I assume that this will be accomplished on the plan now being executed by Secretary Root Telegrams Pour In The assumption that Mayor Schmltz would hurry to Washington simply to back down at the Presidents request was based on ignorance of conditions in California Mayor Schmltz does not dare to back down He has received 335 telegrams to day from home demanding that he shall stand pat until he gets what he wants If the San Ffrancisco people should back down without getting anj thlng to show for it the delegation would be mobbed upon their return to the Coast Now as we are positively assured that the proposed legislation will be pleasing to us we must assume that it is nothing less than the exclusion of Japanese laborers from our coast We dont care how the law is framed so long as It will accomplish that object Mr Hayes of our delegation has a bill prepared providing for the exclusion of Asiatic East Indian and Eurasian laborers which he Intended to offer In case a treaty was agreed upon with Japan The purpose of this was to broaden the restrictions in order that It should not appear to be aimed directly at Japan It is probable that the President and Secretary Root acted upon this line and obtained assurances from Japan that no objection would be made to the exclusion from the mainland of all Asiatic laborers in our Insular possessions so long as Japanese were not specifically mentioned Coolies Cause Friction If Mr Root can assure Congress that Japan has no objection to this legislation there will be no difficulty In passing such an act Congress is as anxious as the President to settle the Japanese question before further friction occurs Everybody realizes that the continued Influx of Japanese Into California can have only one outcome Ever since the President told us Californlans that he had changed his position on the question of exclusion and was now with us we have believed that some arrangement would be made which would settle the whole question The President changed his position because he perceived that friction with Japan would increase so long as coolies poured Into the Coast He was forced to conclude that exclusion was the only way to avoid serious complications The prospect of obtaining even partial exclusion is of course exceedingly gratifying to us We believe If thjs is accomplished at this session It will be the forerunner of an exclusion treaty If we do not get an exclusion act at this session we shall go right ahead until we do get it There can be no other permanent settlement of the Japanese question The Japs must be excluded with Japans consent if possible without it if necessary BASSETT CAST0STP0NED 2000 DOGS ARE SHOWN Opening Day of Westminster Kennel Club Exhibit TOY ANIMALS THE NOISIEST For First Time in Thirty one Years of Organization Dog Is Lost on Premises Slips Collar and Crate and Now Awaits Identif ication 7 Associatioiv at Midday Interval Entertains attWheon Two Murillos and a Rubens in Burned Wanamaker Collection the Philadelphia Feb 12 Four rare paintings are now abandoned as lost In the fire by those who are re sorting the art collection which was kept In Linden Hurst the country home of John Wanamaker which was destroyed by fire last Friday The paintings are Our Lady of i i nomn1t4 tH iJMHn auuuu uy Muruio all Japanese school children under one roof iv1 VSi nd It has been generally admitted thai n1abr ul rrhe other SSX the l08S J5 orientJ children was equaUy uh flre iMUrance companies an arbi i00 WCren3h BC ended by ttraUon board of the best lSiown painters nrtilte children The corps of instructors be created Many of Mr Wana TULWlututcujuucu nuiv juiu turn TMllntlnM ft lntorvnvn wlfh pared most favorably with the teachers In the other schools of the city rJt Is not my purpose to discuss this school question this evening My Individual opinion is and always has been that every State In the Union has the absolute right to regulate her own schools In any manner she sees fit and that no outsider not even the President of the United States has the right to interfere But the courts will probably pass upon that subject and anything that I may ay upon it would be purely academic Unfortunately however the discussion of the school question has constantly car Tied more or less war tallc Jn Its train Personally I have never taken any stock In such talk I have always felt that the good common sense of the two nations would assert Itself and that a solution would be found which would be creditable alike to the people of our own government and the government of Japan Warns Manufacturers fit has been generally believed on the Pacific Coast that the manufacturers of Xhu country are ine most pronounced opponents to the enactment of exclusion laws If that be true let me say to those manufacturers that the fear of the sale of a few bolts of cotton cloth IS not a wn4Ti jirvntnent with which tn annror The cry of the Caucasian population of UM Pacific Coast against being overwhelmed by the yellow and brown hordes from tho shores of Asia Japan 3 Just as ambitions cotamer miiv as we are She will exert every IK in build her markets at our iDone Sha given evidence thatl jibe wi ey the traditions of the Old World makes them doubly valuable Californians Go Sight seeing Members of the California delegation who came here to confer with the administration as to the Japanese question visited police headquarters yesterday morning and paid their respects to MaJ Silvester The party was composed of Alfred Roncovleri Walsh Thomas Boyle Aaron Altmann David Oliver Jr and LefBngwell Letters of introduction were presented roto DInan chief of police qf San Francisco and John Seymour of the general managers office Wells Fargo Co From headquarters the party left for Mount Vernon accompanied by Phillips of the local bureau of Identification The Yote at Providence EpwUl to Tb Wuhlnrton Poet Provider ce I Feb 12 The usual ballot for United States Senator was taken to day and resulted in no netT developments The vote stood Goadard 41 Colt S7t Wetmere 50 Utter 1 Two men a Colt and a Wetmore follower were absent thus reducing the vote slightly Alleged Thieves Taken to Jersey Asa Van Lew and James Johnson who were recently arrested In this city while negotiating the sale of an expensive coat were taken to POlnt Pleasant yesterday morning In the custody of Constable John Hegerman The prisoners are charged with robbing the home of Albert Wheelock the bookmaker In that town Rer Hunt In Omaha to Appear as Witness in Washingtonians Suit Specitl to The Wublngton Tort Omaha Nebr Feb 12 Rev a Lawrence Hunt formerly of Washington but now pastor of Noble Street Presbyterian Church Brooklyn arrived In Omaha this morning to attend the trial of the Bassett divorce case in which he figures as a witness George Bassett of Washington the defendant Is also here but is keeping under cover Rv Mr Hunt was In conference with Mrs Bassetts attornejs this afternoon The hearing of the case was again postponed this morning and Ill come up again Wednesday The postponement was caused by the attorneys for Mrs Bassett being engaged In another case to day SHOT AS HE TRIED TO ESCAPE Man Arrested for Threatening Wifes Life May Die from Wounds Mariot Ohio Feb 12 Benjamin Run kle a former Salvation Army captain was shot and perhaps fatally wounded late yesterday afternoon by Marshal McClain of Morral Runkle had written to his wife who Is nursing a relative near Morral threatening to kill her It Is said If she did not come here and live with him He was arrested and fined 100 and sentenced to the Columbuswork house for a month While the marshal was taking him to the village prison he made a dash for liberty ard was shot CREIGHTOITS WILL IS LOST Executors Find Old Testament bat Suspect a Later Exists i Omaha Nebr Feb 12L rThe last will of the late Count John A Crelghton has disappeared and all efforts of the executors to find It have been unavailing A win made three years ago has been found but as Count Crelghton since this will was drawn has disposed of much property Including a mine worth 5000000 and as none of this is accounted for In tho win Just found the executors are sure another will is in existence Prohibits Treating in Saloons Pierre Dak Feb 12 The house today passed a reciprocal demurrage bill andone which prohibits treating in saloons The measures now go to the governor The Washington Post Book Catalogue will be on sale at the Business Office of The Post beginning Thursday mornlpg Price tt ceftta vv Speclil to Ths Wuhlnrton Port New York Feb 12 The Westminster Kennel Club opened Its show this morning with about 2000 dogs on exhibition Lost dog was the unexpected cry to open the event A stray among the listed and numbered exhibits was a surprise to Superintendent Mortimer and his assistants The dog was a very good bull ter rler that slipped from her collar and crate upon arriving at the garden It scooted under the benches and had the whole place to itself But the terrier had no use for solitary bliss She at once got Into a scrap which Ted to detection and arrest No Way to Identify Her There was no way to Identify the stray and It was tied to Mortimers desk all day long It was the only lost dog on the premises in the thirty one years of the show although once or twice a dog has escaped and as often there has been a dog left behind on the closing day Mira of Dalmore a replica of the wolf of Red Riding Hood was the oddest exhibit Its fur would be just right for an automobile coat being thick soft and glossy It was the first Belgian sheep dog ever seen in New York and an ex hibit In the miscellaneous class Mlra Is owned in Port Allegany Pa and re garded with sulky Indifference by Its 1999 neighbors of better known breeds The smallest dog at the show was Mrs Cooper He aitts Papillon Bijou weighing less than a pound the tallest the Russian wolf hound Rasbol of Valley Farm and the heaviest a St Bernard that would touch the scales at 150 pounds This one lost Its ribbon through too much flesh so its name need not be recorded Some Valued at 10000 A dozen dogs were carded on the catalogue at 10000 so which is the most valuable one must remain a dream It was an Interesting sight to see the oxpress wagons drawing up at the ciirb every instant loaded with boxes and kennels and yelping cargoes The stalls In the cellar where the horses are kept in Horse Show week were turned over to the arriving canine delegation and there wss a vast and huddled confusion while excited owners rushed around trying to find their dogs Then was the time to make friends The dogs get bewildered upstairs In the arena with so much space and so many companions and people staring at them In sudh a senseless way but below they had Just arrived after long railway Journeys without any human friends to pet them end wpre only too ready to paw over one and danc under friendly pats Not many people showed up during the early morning hours Those who did come were mostly enthusiasts who would have and In some cases did come miles to see the sight of 2000 dogs Difference in Conduct It was amusing to contrast the difference In the conduct of dogs who have attended previous shows and the youngsters With the old ones1 It was an old story not worth loud and vituperous comment and the only noise they vouchsafed was an occasional bark or reproof when their friends in their Immediate vicinity waxed exceeding obstreperous It was obvious that they did not approve of the demonstrations and from time to time they emitted sharp short barks as if to say Silence Have you no sense You arc disgraces They are the ones who sub mit to being petted with such an air of lazy disdain They do not rear back on their leashes and growl threateningly to make young women snatch away their hands with exclamations of horror Great Dane Homesick There Is a majestic Great Dane near the entrance that attracts general attention and consequent admiration He Is a lean powerful puppy with rippling muscles showing beneath his hide tremendous chest and hind legs that coll up like springs All night long he had been very lonely He is only eighteen months old and had never been away from his master In a strange place before So he sat on his bed of straw and howled mournfully at the steel girders of the roof and the faintly winking electric lights uhtll several sensible dogs near him swore at him in most violent fishlon They told him sharply that he was an Idiot and that his ancestors were worthless In fact he had no ancestors and it there is any deadly Insult which can be hurled at a dog show dog It is to Insinuate that he has no ancestors Even If he has not It Is fair to suppose that his kennel master has fixed one up for him and dog etiquette demands that it be respected outwardly though Inwardly despised Sir Daniel burst forth in puppy rage glad to have some objects upon which to vent his resentment but he soon found that with a three foot leash he could not very well reach his tormenters Whereupon he subsided and greeted his master with redoubled Joy In the morninsr and begged him volubly to take him away from tho place Toy Dogs Are Noisiest It is safe to say that the noisiest spot In the building was the concert hall where the toy dogs are shown There they have a Judging pen of their own and an entirely separate establishment Their cages are completely surrounded and are not much more than bird cages Some of these pampered pets have Inclosed glass cages furnished with gaudy silken pillows They are never quiet and the coni tlnual yelping In which they Indulge Is much more deafening than the greater volume of sound In the arena To the uninitiated it seems as though every dog in the country must be somewhere on those long rows of benches In one oi tne wjre wauea siaus is 1 Richard Croker Jr who Is exhibit vxt ttxt KlPTvl bulldogs Irvand Mrs George LAJLtAL JT IIM AJNL1AL and Ing Gould are showing Russian wolfhounds pointers and setters Among other well known exhibitors are A WInthrop Rutherfurd Mrs Buth erfurd A Hlgglnson master of the Middlesex Hunt near Boston Irving Ackerman of San Francisco Mn and Mrs Robert EL Strawbridge of Philadelphia Clothier Jr of Philadelphia the well known tennis champion Mrs Vafable of Tuxedo Mrs Perry Belmont Munscn Morris of Jericho Long Island Scott McCoombe of Dobbs TTerry SamtieiaJntermyer the well known law Rway preferred remained unchanged yer AD Cochran of Yonkers Howard Willets of White Plains Harry Peters Jr of Isllp Long Island Rockefeller and IL Honeywell of Boston GUNBOAT ON SCENE Marietta Arrives at Nicaragua and Reports to Americas Consul The gunboat Marietta arrived at Grey town Nicaragua Monday from Guantanamo and reported to American Consul Ryder at San Juan del Norte or Grey town It Is stated that the war ship will afford the consul a means of conveyance up the coast to Blueflelds where he will be abla to get Into closer communication with the Nicaraguan authortles at Managua the capital and assist In carrying out the State Department plans for the prevention of a hostile clash between Nicaragua and Honduras The cruiser Chicago which has been taking on coal at Acapulco Mexico Is understood to be again ojf her way down the Pacific coast tf Central America and Commander Doyle will take the ship to Acajutla Salvador and report to Amer lean Minister Merry It may be that in the course of the ne gotiations it will be found desirable to provide some neutral place for a meeting of commissioners and the Chicago win thus serve in a similar capacity to the Marblehead last spring when the founda tions for oeace were laid aboard that gun boat It Is stated on authority that tne Issues between Honduras and Nicaragua appear now to have dwindled into a mere exhibition of temper on both sides HARELMAN ROAD HEARING Commission to Fix Date for Further Inquiry at New York At a ireetlng of the Interstate Commerce Commission to be held here this week a date will be set for further hearing at New York Incident to the Inquiry now being made by the commission Into the operations of the Harnman railroad consolidation The Indications are that the hearirg will be held the latter part of the month The financial aspect of the Harrlman consolidation touched upon at the hearing held in New York early In January will reselve the attention of the commission during the progress of Its proceedings In New York this month Commissioner Franklin Lane in charge of the investigation of the Har riman lines on the Pacific Coast returned to Washington last night He has been inquiring into the phjslcal operations of the Harrlman roads Commissioner Lane will In all probability make a partial report as to the operations of the consolidation this week At the previous hearing In New York the commission was disappointed at the Inability of II Harrlman to appear before It The railroad king will be the star witness In the next hearing During the past month members of the commission have been holding hearings in various cities in cases Involving unjust and unreasonable rates and alleged discriminations by the carriers against both individuals and communities The evidence In these cases will be given careful consideration during the next few months when decisions under the rate act will begin to make their appearance LONDON STOCK MARKET A fractional decline In the price of v7ashlngton Railway andt Electric Com pany waspracucauy me omy ioiu yesterdays session of the Stock Exchange The loss was not considerable and was significant only In the fact thit the price level fell a half point below the 40 mark above which It has been held for weekaJThe dealing lnthe Issue was lim London Feb 1Z On the itock exchne to dt7 Americana were moderately acthre In aplte of the holiday In lit York Prlcea started at over parity hardened daring the session and closed steady The stens tskea by Secretary Shaw to relieve the monetary situation created a favorable impression and the moderate carry over rates to 1 per cent assisted la the Improvement Clos ing prices Anaconda Atchison Atchison pld Baltimore and Ohio Csnadlan Pacific Chesapeake and Ohio Chicago Great Western Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Denver and Rio Grande Denver and Rio Grande pfd Erie Erie 1st pfd Erie 24 pld Illinois Central Louisville and Nashville Missouri Kansas and Texas New lork Central Norfolk and Western Norfolk and Western pfd Pennsylvania Reading Southern Railway Southern Railway pfd Southern Pacific Union Pacific Union Pacific pfd United States Steel United States Steel pfd Wabash Wabash pfd Bar silver firm 31 13 Md per ounce Money 4Vi4 per cent The rate ot discount In the open market for short bills Is 4 per cent The rate of discount in the open market tor three months bills Is 4 per cent LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET 15 10714 188 62H 1 154 394 83 37V 714 2V4 34Vi Liverpool Feb 12 Closing Spot good business done prices 169 points lower American middling fair 94 good mlddl ng 633 middling 6C4 low middling ill good ordinary 52S ordinary 6 04 The sales of the day were 10000 bales of which 600 were for speculation and export and Included Ssoo American Receipts 60 000 bales Including 66600 American Futures opened barely steady and closed steady American middlings Opening Closing February 5 65 67 February and March 61V4 S63H March and April 661 662H April and May 668 6 61 May and June 657 6 5JVi June and July 5 5 66 July and August 653 5 6514 August and September 6484 65vH September and October 54414 6 4614 October and November rt 640 5 414 November and December 5 39 641 December and January 5 39 5 41 TREASURY REPORT 6875291 346903 L0133l 12560 1840 000 National bank notes received yesterday for redemption Receipts tram internal revenue possible for the admirer to take his SnnrtciipU pick ir he prerers tne nuge grave i EiMnditnres eyed St Hernards or Newfoundlands Balance in general fund exclusive of i50oooooo he can stare at them to his hearts 0h fb Wane i 24s 221994 tent ana spena aeugntiui minutes bullion rv i06263s9J making inenas ne preiers ine small Gold certificate wmw and lively terriers he will And breed Condiuon or Treasury at beginning ot business on breed hundreds and hundreds of I yesterday Reserve fund representatives the attractive little doglGow coin and bullion liMoooooo named for Bostonnhe fox smooth and funds to redeem outstanding certificates wire haired Irlsh and Scotch rZi SUM Cater to All Tastes silver donan ot 6437000 There are beautiful setters Irish and Total J113011489 Gordon gracefuldeerhdundsi powerful General fund 198kt462 A Ai 1 Deposits In national banks Ia5598295 Great Danes and any number of oth I ln nmipptne treasury 420030s ers so that no matter how finicky may Awaiting reimbursement be ones taste there Is bound to be a Current natunics representative 01 ine one breed thatl will please In the midday interval ot Judging the Westminster Kennel Club entertained the Judges and many doggy experts at luncheon It was a spread to tempt an eplcureandan enjoyable reunion of the brothers of the fancy At the tables were Williams president of the club Harry Peters WIn throp Rutherford happy at having scooped botn winners classes in smooth fox terriers Thomas Jr James Watson A I Vroedenburg Center Hitchcock Robert AlcKlm KnappLewls A Eldrldge and Deforest Well known Exhibitors ilany well known persons1 are among the exhibitors Including Plerpont Morgan and Samuel Untermyer whor will rreet in their annual battle ln the collie class Mrs Henry Havemeyer Jr who is showing the French bulldog Mlka 183073 116221994 New Trial for Mrs May Asked Attorneys Creed Fulton and Gtbbs Baker counsel for Mrs Jennie May recently convicted before Justice Stafford and a JuryvinCrimlnaICourt No 1 of 1 assault wlthJntent to kill on Luclen Conen a member of the Marine Band wboMIed from the effects of a pistol shot wound Inflicted by Mrs May yesterday filed a motion for a new trial Mrs May Is now confined In the District Jail where she went after being surrendered by her bondsman pr Stewart last Saturday the day after she was convicted Her husband Ole MayThaatbus far been unable to secure new ball for her The Washlnaton Pott Book Catalogue will be on sale at the Business Office of The Post be sinning Thursday mornlna Price 15 cents The threatened legislation In Congress on the reduction of street railway fares ln the District was naturally the cause of numerous comments on the exchange yesterday Apparently the proposed bill has had little or no effect In the trading on the board There was a fractional decline on Greene Copper which sold at 323 4 for a 1D0 share lot Mitchell Mining did not figure In the days trading Washington Gas was marketed at 553 4 and 6 7 8 eighty seven shares selling at this price regular while an option on a quotation lot was bought at 57 Daniel Morgan president of the United States Trust Company has arrived In Washington and was present at the companys offices yesterday He received scores of the patrons of the new Institution and also had a number of calls from friends who became acquainted with him when he was Treasurer of the United States and resided in this city for four years Mr Morgan has much faith in the future of the National Capital and has settled down with the other organizers to push the affairs of the company as rapidly as possible WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE M0C bead last twt Seventj srrsn ears oa sal and market slow and 10c lower steers good to enolc 460 to 660 others 375 to 436 cow 150 to 373 balls 260 to 335 atockers and feeders X0 to 446 heifers 300 to 460 fresh cows 25M to 6500 per head Exported last week By steamship Indore for Liverpool 696 head cattle and U49 aheo CHECK OH BAUK BALANCES New Form for Ezamisera Will Verify Individual Accounts art rSSa Tracrn1 of the Currency ha Sales Washington Rallwar and Electric common 100 at 40 barer 60 60 at 39H 60 at 39H 60 at 39H Washington Gas 4 at 66 8 at 66 25 at 64 23 at 56 25 at 56 25 at 67 burer 60 Greene Copper 100 at 32 Union Trust wsrrants 10 at 41 16 at 40 National Union Insurance 25 at Vi Graphophone common 10 at 43 Following were the closing bid quotations on jrs terdava stock exchange Philippine Land Purchase 4s 109H District of Columbia bonds 365s 1924 114 Gas bonds Washington Gas Company 4a 1927 29 103 Washington Gas Companj certificate of indebtedness 6s 1908 23 112 Railroad bonds Capital Traction Railroad 4s 1903 20 105 Anscostla and Potomac 6s 1948 102 City and Suburban Railroad 5s 1948 101 Columbia Rstlroad 2d mortgage 6a 1914 105 Columbia Railroad 6s 1914 110 Metropolitan Railroad 6s 1925 116 Metropolitan Railroad certificates of indebtedness 6s 1907 100 Washington Railway and Electric 4s 1902 51 84 Vt ashingtotf Alexandria and Mount Vernon 5s 1950 103 Miscellaneous bonds United States Electric Light debenture Improvement 6s 1907 100 United States Electric Light certificates of Indebtedness 6s 1907 10L Potomac Electric Light 1st 5s 1904 29 104 Norfolk and Washington Steamboat6s 1910 25 107 Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone 63 1909 29 104 Washington Market Company 1st 6s 1892 1911 100 Public utility stocks Capital Traction 143 The Washington Railway and Electric tommon 39 The Washington Railway and Electric preferred 85 Norfolk and Washington Steamboat 285 Washington Gas 66 Georgetown Gss 60 Wash tngton Alexandria and Mount Vernon 53 Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone 60 Type machine stocks Mergenthaler Linotype 201 Lanston Monotype 13 Mining stock Greene Copper 32 Mitchell Min National bank stocks American 167 Capital 206 Central 390 National City 142 Columbia 290 Commercial 210 Farmers and Mechanics 310 Lincoln 130 Metropolitan 319 Riggs 600 Second 150 Traders 150 Washington 636 Washington Exchange Bank 125 Trust company stocks American Security and Trust 270 National Safe Deposit and Trust 190 Union Trust Company 137 Washington Loan and Trust 206 Washington Safe Deposit 40 Union Trust warrant 39 Savings bank stocks Home Savings Bank 275 Union Savings Bank 290 Merchants and Mechanic Savings Bank 13 Fire lnsursnce stocks Arlington 30 Columbia 10 Commercial 5 Corcoran 74 Firemens 21 Franklin 66 German American 260 Metropolitan 96 National Union 7 Peoples 6 Potomao 25 TlUe insurance stocks Columbia Title 3 Real Estate Title 85 Washington Title 5 Miscellaneous stocks Southern Public 8ervice Corporation 113 Graphophone common 40 Graphophone preferred 82 Security Storage Company 160 Realty Appraisal and Agency 20 Washington Market 18 Fidelity Storage Company 118 Ex dividend WASHINGTON PRODUCE MARKET Quotations Indicate wholesale prices only EGGS Receipts contnue pentiful market steady at quotations near by fresh Virginia 2526 West Virginia and Southwest Virginia 2425 Tennessee 24925 North Carolina 2425 Jobbing prices Ifl2c higher BUTTER qwlng to the advance in the West of 2c our msrket has advanced accordingly Fancy packages of country roll selling well creamery fancy 33034 do Western firsts 32833 do seconds 2527 process fancy 2425 do fair to good 22623 dairy choice 2223 do good 1P02O store packed fresh 15 16 CHEESE Msrket about same as quoted last New Tork State factory large 14345 flats 14ei5 small 16Q16 summer large 121S summer small 13 fair to good 1112 Western factory new choice 1112 fair to good 11 Virginia 10 LIVE PDULTRT The receipt only moderate and choice hen turkeys young chickens and fancy ducks wanted at good prices staggy chickens and rcugh turkeys extremely dull chickens large stags per pound 10 11 medium per pound 150 16 small per pound 17 IS hens per pound 13 roosters per pound 7 ducks Urge per pound 14015 small per pound 12 13 geese per pound 911 turkeys toms pr pound 15 hens per pound IB 16 turkeys thin 10 keats per pound 10012 DRESSED POULTRY Arrivals were light ln all lines and quotations ruling firm turkeys hens undrawn per pound 18819 average undrawn per pound 17618 thin per pound 10 old toms 15 16 ehlckens spring large per pound 1516 small per pound 18619 hns and chickens mixed 1516 capons 7 pound average per pound 18 IS small 1514 hens choice per pcund 1415 roosters per pound 8 ducks Urge per pound 1516 small per pound 13 14 geese per pound 861 DRES3ED MEATS All receipts of nicely handled pork selling well at full quotations and market very firm Shippers will find no trouble to dispose of their hogs Calves full dressed 900 10 00 do heads off 9 0061000 bog dressed calves 60069 00 hams country sugar cured 12 hogs small and neat per cwt 9 00 do medium 8 O08 60 do heavy 7 00 GAME Quail In light supply and market firm on all stock arriving ln good condition rabbit aeason over quail per oosen I 004 09 VEGETABLES Receipts heavfer and market holding Us own Irish potatoes in light supply and market firm Sweets and yams quiet Potatoes per bushel 6570 sweet potatoes per barrel 200 2 50 yama per barrel 00 2 25 cabbage per 100 pounds 17562 00 celery California per bunch 50675 cucumbers Florida per basket 200 2 50 lettuce Florida per basket 2 00 00 onions Bermuda per crate 1 5063 00 Ohio per barrel 2 00 25 tomatoes per crate 3 004 00 GREEN FRUITS Receipts of market lighter and market active Apples Tork Imperial 2 0063 00 Ben Davis 3 003 25 fancy table fruit 4 0065 00 Spy per barrel 3 003 60 Greening 2 603 50 loose packed 1 006150 grape fruit Florida per box 3 0063 60 oranges California Navels per box 2 7563 25 DRIED FRUITS Apples sliced fancy 45 sliced bright 464 cherries 12914 black berries whortleberries 10612 raspberries 20623 WASHINGTON CATTLE MARKET Cattle market in good shape Hogs In good demand and higher Calves when choice sell freely at full quotations Lambs and sheep in good demand when choice Owing to the rtgfd inspection ot live stock shippers are cautioned against sending calves too young aa they are likely to be condemned CATTLE Extra per cwt S256550 do butcher per cwt 4 0064 do common per cwt 2606300 do rough pr cwt LMQ2 00 HOGS Per cwt groj 256740 do ordinary per ewU 6 5067 00 SHEEP Clipped 4006460 do common 2001 300 lamb choice per pound 767 da medium per pound 67 CALVES Prime per pound 969 do medium per pound 88 cows prime fresh each 40 00 60 00 do common each 20 00630 00 da old and dry 800610 00 LITE STOCK MARKETS recently forwarded to all the bank examiners a new blank form to be used in connection with bank examinations in order to check up Individual depositors balances These forms are to be mailed to a number of the customers of each bank at random and contain a request that the customer verify the amount of his balance on a certain date with the figures given on the bank books It is found impossible for a bank examiner to balance any considerable number of accounts In the time given for exam ination but It Is expected that by se lecting a number of accounts at random if there is any discrepancy in the de positors ledger It will be thus discovered Forms similar to these have been tn use for a number of years ln some of the bank examiners districts and have given great satisfaction DIBECTOES EE ELECTED Washington Alexandria and Mount Ver non Railway Holds Meeting The stockholders and directors of the Washington Alexandria and Mount Ver non Railway held their annual meeting jesterday afternoon at Mount Vernon President Clarence King of Philadel phla and the seven other directors were unanimously re elected Twelve members attended several being unable to be pres ent The special parlor car bearing the rail way men left Washington at 3 oclock and proceeded without stopping to Mount Vernon The party remained at Mount Vernon less than two hours part or which time was spent ln visiting the home of Washington On the return trlD sev eral stops were made the car arriving at the station in this city soon after oclock Seven of the directors and stock holders living ln Philadelphia and other Isorthern cities caught the bss train at the Pennsylvania station for the riortn FINANCIAL Chicago Feb lt CATTLE Receipt about 4000 market steady but slow plain to beat steers 4 006725 cow 323e60 heifers 275 625 bulls 3006460 calvea 2506800J stacker jT feeder 4J0658S HOGS Receipt about 26000 market stnug Choice heavy shipping 7177s Hgkt out hers 6756715 light mixed T06TM choice light 7 056707 packing 11007 15 good pigs 430 690 bulk of sale 710672O 8HEEF Receipt about 17000 market steady sheep 3006586 yearling 640465 lamb 400 765 attimara Feb If CATTLE ReeefbU torsreek oded at aooo to day were 2766 head against I The Management of ESTATES Under capable management an estate not only re tains but frequently IN CREASES its value Estates intrusted to the care oi this company are managed with a degree of efficiency that insures most satisfactory results Union Trust Co 1414 Street EDWARD 8TELLWAGEN President GEORGE FLEMING Secretary EDSON OLDS Treasurer The High Character of the Service this bank renders is appreciated by conservative depositors Accounts of corporations firms and individuals invited Depositorsare assured every tanking safeguard and every possible courtesy THE TRADERS National Bank Cor 10th St and Pa Ave 44f4HHt 04H IHf4t4l4f 4 What HasHe Done Napoleons famous question Napoleons am jus question can well be answered by my long Washington record that is It you are loosing for a builder Investigate me I can build a residence hotel block manufacturing plant apartment honse in fact anything In the building line Plenty evidences ot my work are to be found ln and around Washington A consultation Is respectfully solicited ARTHUR COWSILL Tbt Baiitr Wb Utktt Good 307 Colorado Building 14m and Stt rjA COPPER MINING INVESTMENTS Have proven and are proving anch profitable Investment that many of the moat conservative lnvetom In the country are baying theae atoelu We are selling a few shares of treasury stock In ona of the best COPPER mines ln the country to day WRITE OR WIR3 for part cnlars UPHAN GEN MCR The Gold Divide Mining Milling and Tunnel Company WASHINGTON OFFICES 1502 ST NW TO LET Elegant banking room with fine fixtures and superior vault COR of 12th and sts nw Perfect light fine location especially adapted for office or financial institution For particulars see The Smith Co Smith Latimer Neabit 1408 New York Ave You can deposit a dollar or so at a time in a savings account with this Bank and your money will eafn interest stead Oq ily at the rate of JU 1 opens a saving account DIRECTORS Ceo Harrlea Kimball wriiam King A Lothrop Theo Noyes Ralston John email Jr Qulney Smith Waters Woodward UNION SAVINGS BANK 710 Fourteenth St INVESTORS WE HAVE A CHOICE LIST Or INDUSTRIAL SECURITIES AND HIGH GRADE BONDS PAYING EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD RATES OF INTEREST Campbell Hudson Co PHONE MAIN 6294 1502 ST Mining Investors Write for our market letter oa the aew camp of WONDER NEVADA We eaa glr yon aay Information tow want to know about the GOLD FIELDS OF NEVADA PATRICK ELLIOTTS CAMP 0TCAST ELLIS Mgr Maryland Building 1410 Street rrNAffciAL Uptown Branch As at the main local office we transact every description of banking business domestic and foreign We pay interest on drawing accounts and a higher rate on time money We discount commercial piper and make loans against approved collaterals We solicit ladfes accounts All are invited to call INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION 1 124 Connecticut Avenue Telephone North 1SZS CHAPMAN GO Members Stock Exchange 80 Broadway New York WASHINGTON OFFICH 1301 SL NW Chipman Manager Member Washington Stock Exchnga 930 to 12 Midnight SUSINES5 men professional men government employes and others will find it both convenient and satisfactory to transact their banking business with this Day and Night Bank Business and personal accounts solicited Washington Exchange RANK 710 FOURTEENTH DZIHIV STREET The Safest Investments Are those that do not depend npon the financial responsibility or the stability of sny IndlTldnal or corporation First deeds of trust mortgage note liberally secure on good real estate ln the District or Columbia constitute gilt edge lnTestments Thee are the only kind make and supply to Inreston They bear Interest payable semi annually at the rate of Fire per cent per aannm and may be had ot In In amount from 1800 and upward at par and accrued Interest Send for booklet Concerning Loans aad Inrestmenta Swartzell Rheem Hensey Co WARNER BCTLDINCJ fig STREET NORTHWEST Washington Loan Trust Co OFFICE COR ITH AND STS PADUP CAPITAL L0OOW SURPLUS 190000 rZARNED Loan ln any amount mad on approred real estate or collateral at reasonable rata Interest paid upon deposit on monthly bI ance subject to check This company acts a exeeoter admtnlstrs tor trustee agent treasurer reglatrar anj in all other ntJtniary capacities Boxes for rent tn bargtsr and areproat raults for sat dsposit and atorag of raha able packages Real Estate Department Is prepared to as ume the management 01 your real estate cntlon glrtn to all detail JOHN JOT EDSON JOHN A SWOPE ELLIS SPEAR ANDREW PARKER HARRT MEEM BOYD TATLOR THOMAS BRADLET FREDK EICHELBERQER President Vie President Second Vice President Treasurer Assistant Treasurer Assistant Treasurer Real Estate Officer Trust Officer Capital rt00O00O Surpln tX30000a Rigg Natiftnitl BANK Issues drafts direct available throughout the world Issues letters of credit Bujs ard sells exchange Transmits money by cable Makes investments for customars Makes collections for customers Buys and sells stocks and bonds E7 SPECIAL DEPT FOR LADIES Pa Ave opp US Trexiar JENKINS CO Stock Brokers 1421 Strwt Washington Correspondent ot Cella Commission Co Missouri Corporation S250009 Fully Pali REFERENCES Herhsnlcs American hatlonal Bank St Louts National Bank of Commerce St Lou Third National Bank St Louis Third National Bank Jersey City And all mercantile agencies STOCKS BONDS MARGIN I PER GENT CHESLEY SPENCE office Colorado Betiding ground floor Mala 74 7th and sts Main 112 GRAIN COTTON Marshall Fool 1235 St STOCKS BONDS GRAIN COTTON Phone Mala S21X LEWIS CO 2ZS 7 St Than OSS Buy or sell STOCKS OB 2 Per Cent Margin Francis Dooley Go Stocks Bonds Grain 810 St Le Droit Building Tkese Mala 110 ltL FRANK KANE ft CO STOCK BROKERS 1425 St Room 1 Correspondent Miner Co rhnadetpbla REASONABLE lASQIM IJUICK 3EKVICS NO INTEREST TeL Mala ITU We Buy Life Insarancs Policies Aad pay mora than tn Company Issuing tkaav Unit 1 years oil No ladastrlat poise The Harmon Realty Companj tut Street 2C Money to Loan 4 Pr Cent Oa Baal Xatata ta District 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