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51HY mm THE WEATHER. "All the News That's Fit to Print" Fair to-day; unsettled to-morrow, moderate, variable winds. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1911. TWENTY PAGES ONE CENT I (Jreatea Xew Yar. trrmj Cita-, aaa Wear! VOL.

SHEEH AN LOSES TWO MORE VOTES Insurgents Now Sure of Victory, but Murphy Will Keep Up the Fight. PARKER IN QUEER POSITION Accused of Inspiring a Letter ln tended to Keep Sheehan Out of the Race. OIX DISCUSSES THE CAUCUS Never In One. He Saya, and Decline to Say If He Considers It Binding. i.

A'rnr York Timtt. ALBANY. Jan- the second joint UV.ot ct the Yor legislature ity WUlism F. 8heehan'e chancea of belt- tlacted United States Senator contln-ad te grow dimmer. He received only two fewer than yesterday.

Tte ram who deserted him were As-eunblynien Bbortt of Richmond and Hoyt Dutches. Ensooraged by. this recruiting of their farces, the Democratic Insurgents, under the leadership of Senator Franklin D. tooeavelt. prepared to fight all the harder te defeat Mr.

Sheehan. Charles F. Mur-fbj Is equally determined to keep up the contest sad Mr. Sheehan himself said It stick It out all Winter If neces-etry. Parker's Part la Flab.

rx-Juir Alton B. Parker, Mr. Shee-haa'i law partner, has returned to New Tort Before be took his train Mr. PirW was asked what he thought of tc. chances of Mr.

Sheehan to bo ejected leialor. Mr. Parker replied with an air ef rri'snstlon: "Well, we have done all a could, at any rate." Wbeo Judge Parker reached Albany on Wednesday It was said that he had come to do what he could to break the deadly sad win a victory for his partner. bis visit to Gov. Iix he was quoted as faying that he saw no reason for permitting anybody to say why he should lit accept the genatorshlp himself If It cm his way.

Te facts, taken in conjunction with tn Hifr-rlal entitled "Judge Parker and 'i Friend." printed this morning in The Xw York fun. have caused much epecue km here regarding Mr. Parker'? exact ftittude toward the genatorshlp. This Is toa editorial: Br all roeana the mwt Interesting future etriv's development In the Kena-trUI ths appearance of the fi Alton H. I'arker at Albany aa an iDinb advier of the Demwata In the nd earneat i4vil ot thn tnn of hi frtenj on law partner.

Mr. rfl'ffrent pool. I have lwn expect-of rrer un l-r the circumstance. Hi wn rASiution not to r-e a nn1tii Senator xniLi hhn from iMutotim. rvrn the haw'l inlnd.

of an trtmr puriM? in going tv Alhany. He there aa Mr. Sheehan'a loyal friend and ennmner. and an the pane counsellor a mti'v rfiKtntiftlit by conflicting ambtttona n1 by too large an r-ip of mutwunnry. mti.

tiiat Jmlare Alton Tt. Tarker a fhrvalrie )urnr to Albany tn behalf of hla William Sheelian will become hia-tmr r.jeriai'r If hi. iriimlon hall proi-S tu.ee."u to-'iav or later In the week. It ativh entrrirtiscs of per- ai and rny loyalfy-that eliarm the Imaetnatl'in and raie the conflict P4iil aho the level of the aordld ami ta mean. Orlglw of at Katefnt Letter.

roiltidans who are well Informed as to rh events U.Hlnv i. the rAntMt nOW heing waged In Uio Iegisiature recaHed te-ay several Incidents reaardlng ir. Sieehan's entrar.v-e Into the race and Mr. rrier a connection story 'kr tell as Vhen Mr. Sheehan first considered the seitton of becomlna; a canoidate ror f'nate he the matter, over wltlfi fral Trlends.

Kvett when. he was ad-T "4 by theni to enter the flaht he hesi-'ied for some time before reaching his seclaion. Bince then he has said to friends 'hat cue thing more than anv other determined Ms action. It was the fact that Jodas Parker had shown him a letter f-om Rollo Ogden. editor of The New "ark Evening Post, in which Mr.

Ogden diared that In his opinion Mr. Sheehan's tsoiaaey would have a bad effect upon I 'fcs partv; that If he should enter the Tli V.renlnr Pout would be com- to print Mr. political of years sso. and that such of lua record mlsht not be very siwd ts Mr. Sheehan's liking.

Bheehan looked upon as a "reat. not only for this but for future and that If ever he should run for a political office the same club might be tied, over him. Reasoning in this way. cam to the conclusion that he would bni a candidate, despite Mr. Ogden.

icek a bitter fight, aa much for his fputition as for the Senatorshlp. The rest of the atory deala with how r. Parker enme Into posnesaion of thla tter frnnt Mr OKden. It la said that Parker and Mr. Ogden were on' a ateamer trip and became frlendlv.

The political situation In Tork State was discusaed. and Mr. 'eehan name waa mentioned aa a pos- -w nuinaie lor ue vnitea oiairs ow-jnrvhip. jjr. Ogden Is aalt to have ex-7ed his opinion of Mr.

Sheehan as a "nat.nial possibility- to which Mr. Fark-. according to the slorv told, did not u'ent. in fact. It Is said Xhe ex-Judge Mr.

Ogden to put his views Into letter, which Mr. Parker would show to fcheehan in the belief that it might rwe tllert ot keeplna: him out of the Sheehan. curious as to the reAson iT Vr should writs such a let- 'ked a mutual friend about it. This iTJ1! nt to Mr. Ogden and inquired Jt Mr- Ogden Is said to have re fkTr.

hecaui Judge Parker suggested arnr' t1' frlmd carried the answer to there la raid to have been "urJ the law partners. The Jhe Vden letter became known "ln Pt dwya. and It r'ort now that If Mr. Sheehan in i elected under no rlrcumatancea Parker' throw their uPIort to I Lavea Tw Mare. "hen Tj.

7 ur. i nomas uinwar, lis Joint ballot on the United States fcd en taken to-day. thre had been -no choice." i Ufphx a candidate had 88 rotea to i twelve to make a Present and voting, other Joint ballot is to be taken at TROOPS STOP WINE RIOTS. Mast of the Villages In the Region Under. Military Control.

PARIS. Jan. 19. The Government has asserted Its authority In order to overcome rioting which ha started In the champagne district. Most of tho villages in the wine region are occupied to-night by troops, and the outlook for a settlement of the trouble has greatly improved.

The Prefect of Champagne to-day went unescorted to a meeting of delegates representing the growers In eighteen villages and succeeded In obtaining a promise that thers would be no further destruction of property. Aithntis-h the mlsenr of the wine work ers, resulting from poor crops and small wages, is recognised officially. It la pointed out that large sums have already been appropriated by Parliament to alleviate their suffering. night 2.000 men and women from the surrounding -country marched into Hautevllle. carrying red banners and singing revolutionary airs.

They broke Into several wine cellara and smashing the casks poured the contents, valued at thouaands of dollars. Into the streets, until the thoroughfares fairly ran with champagne. Thousands of bottles ot wine were emptied Into a creek. The owners of many wine establishments, which have been threatened by the rioting orkera, have walled up their cellars. The growers, whose campaign Is being directed by a secret committee, declare that they can bear uncomplainingly tho misery resulUng from th fsJlure of the vine but that they will not tolerate trie imtaUoir.

of wine from other regions byrtalnnanufacturers for the purpose of transforming it into spurious champs gne. ADLER BANKER. IS GUILTY. His Second Conviction In Ce Involv Ing In Overdrawn Funds. NEW ORLEANS.

Jan. 10.William Ad- esa.A.k. "NT a ler. former President or me tlonal Bank of New Orleans, was found guilty late to-day In the Federal court on eighty counts charging misapplication of the runaa or me TTtls waa the second time Adler had nff.nM. At the first peen tntu trial more than a year ago he was guilty and sentenced to six years 1a the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta.

Th verdict was reversed aa to many counts by ih T'nlted States Circuit court oi peals and a new trial granted. Following the decision or tne Appea Court another indictment was returned, upon which the Jury returned a verdict of guilty to-dsy. A motion for a new trlsl waa made and Adier was under the existing bend of O.0OX It waa charged that Adler In 1907 per mitted a local firm of whicn ne waa a- ft. account at the hank for more than nd that he overdrew his own to uie extent of about S20.O0O. In December of iha? lenr.

shortly before the failure the. bank. Adler chartered loaded it wun for Central America. jh ntr tinndnras. but the banker and crew reached Belise.

After remaining tor nrwu Honduraa and Nicaragua, where he had atiee returned to New 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 I jnn. Orleans end surrendered. POISON SUSPECTED. Coroner Is Investigating the Mysteri ous Death of a Chicago Man. Sffiial to Tkr Srv York Timtt.

CHICAGO. Jan. 1ft. David J. Davis, manager and stockholder fthe Davis Milk Machinery Company, died tx-day under circumstances which caused the unending physician to refuse a certificate, whereupon the Coroner sent the internal organs to a chemist for analysis.

Dr. W. A. D. Montgomery said the patient declared repeatedly that he was being poisoned, and for several weeks had refused to take food or medicine.

Mr. Davis was taken sick in Decern, ber. He was tlrst attended by his brother, Dr. J. J.

Davis, and later by Dr. Mont-gomerv. who recently surrendered -he case to Dr. Clement W. K.

Briggs. He leaves several brothers, all hla seniors. One' Is .00 years old. Indicating a long-lived family. The dead man waa 63 years old.

His wife, who is 43. told the Coroner thst she believed his disease was Intestinal. She said her husband vocal cords were paralyzed for three weeks before his death. Dr. Brlggss testimony was to the effect that Mr.

Davis was able to talk at times and repeatedly said to him he was being poisoned with arsenic, symptoms of which, he said, were present: but a superficial examination of the internal organs to-day failed to show and eigne "VhlnesTwa, postponed ther investigation- Detectives have been PUMrsn Davsa-id to-night that her husband carried no life insurance and had accumulated no money. SIX ROBBED IN A FLAT; Masked Men Get $200 and a Watch, and Eacape in a Taxi. "Please come up here right away," said a woman's voice over the telephone to Police Headquarters lest night. Four masked men have just left my apartment after robbing me and some frlenda of nearly and a gold watch." Tw.tHtt Daniels and Flood of the rnriv.a.vnth Street station were sent to the flat of Mrs. Richard Elliott at 300 West Fifty-Eighth Street and found there, besides Mrs.

Elliott, two young women and three young men. The Intruders, all the Inmates of the flat agreed, had rung the bell, pushed past Mrs. Elliott when she opened the door, and held up all six at the point of revolvers, after which they took $130 belonging to Mrs. Elliott. r0 from one of the men.

some other money from the others and a gold watch. The four then ran from the flat and Jumped into a taxlcab waiting outside the Kind cipd. The police got a de-ac-ription erf the intruders and hope to arrest one of them whom those in the flat Identified. RICH OIL MAN KILLED. Van W.

Welah Caught In Machinery of Hi Own Electric Light Plant. MAFJETTA. Jan. -Vsn W. nmminant oil man and capital ist, was found dead in the electric light plant at Beveriy io-aay.

w-a eauarht in thV VachinVy orta. the engineer1, ab- aence. ti omn 4 aprriAL. rjfTJti Yn. Z' Uthmcm tha nae traia LI'ADOO FIGURES OUT HEW SUBWAY SYSTEM City Could Build It for and Make $13,000,000 Profit in 10 Years, He Says.

TRANSFERS WITH INTERB0R0 aaaaaaa.a aaaaaaassaaaaaaaaess. Thinke the Company Could Be Com pelled to Give Them In Exchange for Elevated Privllegee. wnuam McAdoo. President of the Hudson Manhattan Company, speaking Hinnoe under the auspices of the Trustees of Plymouth Church. In Brook lyn, last night, set rortn, a pian tor construction by the city of an Independent subway system embracing the main feat-- ures of the Trlborough route, vre xAAna hid last Fall on the equip ment and operation, of the Trlborough.

with modifications, but as tne c.r.. Pnmmliiilnn did not take up his proposal within the month set for its consideration, he allowed It to expire by 11m- tt.tlon daclarinsr that the City must first choose between monopoly and competi tion on Us rapid transit development De-fore considering the merits of proposals. ii xfr McAdoo did not say in his address last night that he would bid on the equipment and operation of the sys tem which he described. It was under stood on good authority that be would be prepared to do so If the city determined to build It. The nhvaical features of the McAdoo offer are practically those of the original Trlborough with these modifications: Connections between the Centre Street loon atibwav with, the three downtown East River bridges and the trunk line In Broadway, ao as to allow the operation of trains from Brooklyn through the bridge loop subway up and down town lover ine roam aieni in Maniiaii.n.

iubo connections consisting of a link from Centre Street Into Broadway at Spring Street and a link from the Brooklyn Bridge into Broadway at Vesey Street. The construction of a local loop from Lexington Avenue and Forty-second Street through Forty-second Street and Sixth Avenue to Thirty-fourth Street and thence down Broadway to rejoin the main line at Tenth Street. Red wees Slse of Triborosgh Tab. Reduction of the size of the Trlborough tube as adopted by. the Public Service Commission to a cross section cine Inches higher than the existing Interborough subway: the elimination of reservoir stations and the substitution therefor of separate loading and unloading platforms to avoid the collision of two streams of traffic at "the "express stations.

An operating contract giving the city' the right to take over the subway not only at the end of ten years (as required by the present law) on payment of cost to the operator plus 15 per but the right to take o-er at any time after one year on payment of the operator's cost plus 20 per cent. If universal subway transfers are deemed desirable, a nrovlalon in the on. erating contract of the Independent line that It transfer-at Intersections with the Interborough Subway, and a stipulation that the grant of such transfers by the Interborough shall be a condition precedent to any extensions or third-tracking of its elevated lines. This, Mr. McAdoo could be built, with roadbed, track, and fig-rial systems, for $107,000,000.

and equipment by the operator with electrical apparatus of the most improved design, power houses, storage yards, shops. for It would offer In Its physical features the two trlborough extensions lu the Bronx, one to Pelhatn Bay Park and the other out Jerome Avenue to "Wood lawn: then a main stem down Lexington Avenue and Broadway in Manhattan to the Battery, and operating connections through the Centre Street bridge loop subway to the Williamsburg Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge, with the Fourth Avenue Buowsy to oniein oirwi. dj Ridge, and with the Broadway-Lafayette loop from the Williamsburg Fridge out Broadway. Williamsburg, and back over Iarayette Avenue to connect wun iut Fourth Avenue Subway at Flatbush Atlantic Avenues. He Presents (be Issue." Purih.p extensions which Mr.

McAdoo suggests, but'does not include in his estimate of construction cost, comprise a line out Broadway. Williamsburg, to the Queens County line, or a branch from Lexington Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street in Manhattan over the Queensboro I maw tiinn.1 nnuiklvn under Liberty and Pineapule Streets, and a continuation of the Fourth Avenue system to Coney island ana to oiaien jsiana via Fort Hamilton and a tunnel under the Narrows. In his speech last night Mr. McAdoo made this statement of what he, termed tne iKsue otw- ev.ii Ka build an independent system of subways wun US own money, cquippetj wim pi i- vate capital and operated under a short-term lease, the city to share the profits. thus assuring competition? or, ahall the citv permit the Interborough Company to build extensions of Its present system an MAate of forty-nine years' duration and require 9.kA;.'".v lily UJUitcy, luus aaouiiua monopoly; nl.l n-1 I.

here presented. Upon its wise determina tion me weuare oi ip tuuimuuuj r-pends for many years to come. The flirt 1 LB V. luurjrcuuriitc represented by the two plana must there- lore oe cunaiucrru. jur.

t.w vl i conatructlon coat of 1 107.Xf.0rK thua: The city has f00.000.0n0 In hand and per annum which the Controller has repeatedly stated that the city can easily set aside for the next five -rears. This will' produce an additional making a total of fU0.0O0.Uiu. Wnicn IS ail trial iiiw tiijr win iiai. provide to secure this splendid transportation facility. The cost of all equipment and interest during construction will amount to 47.000,oi.

An operator can In my opinion be found toprovide this 4T.000.00L. so that the city's credit need not be taxed, for this amount." Flaratre-a lae-aa Aeeeait. Mr. McAdoo declared that the lines he suggested were as well. If not better.

located than the Interborough. and should nt the outset carry as many passengers, but. assuming- that only iwo-miras as manv were carried as on the Tftgured a traffic for the first Caatlaars mm Pa are 3. TUT SKABOARH FLORn- LIMITED. All Pullmaaa.

electrlo ll-nt On. lrbt nut awrrtoe to n.arlr all riprlda Resorta. Ia. A PIRATE'S ROMANCE is the theme of a brilliant new-story by the Russian Pot L. Andreyev entitled "The Ocean," which will receive its first publication in an authorized translation in Next Sunday Time.

CAPT. EMERSON SUES WIFE IN BALTIMORE Druggist Secretly Files Pape -a, PJaming a Prominent more Manufacturer. COUPLE ARE LIVING APART Suit Follows Reported Disagreement at Waldorf-Aetorja Capt. Emeraon Here After Attending Banquet. Special to Thi A'rtr York Times.

BALTIMORE, Jan. Isaac E. Emerson, the wealthy druggist, whose daughter, Margaret, was recently divorced from Dr. HolUos McKlm, has secretly filed here a suit for divorce from Mrs. Emerson.

Contrary to the usual procedure, the papers were handed to the Judge of the Circuit Court, not sent to the Clerk's office. Mrs. Emerson, who has been occupying their mansion near Druid Hill Park alone for some time. has. It Is said, been served with a summons to appear.

It is reported that C. Haseltinc Ha ash or, a prominent manufacturer. Is named as co-respondent. Mr. Basshor, when so Informed, appeared surprised.

"This Is the first I've heard of It." he said. William Sheppard Bryan, one of Mrs. Emerson's counsel, said he hoped the public would suspend Judgment until all the facts In the case were brought out. He felt assured they would no ground for the complaints made by Capt. Emerson, and Mrs.

Emerson was really the wronged party. Capt. Emerson attended the big Democratic banquet here on Tuesday. He returned to New Tork yesterday. He and Mrs.

Emerson have had their own set of friends for some years, but rumors of a divorce were not circulated until, last November, when It was said the couple had a disagreement in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria. New Tork- Neither Capt. Emerson nor hia wife would affirm or deny the report. Capt. Emerson spent -Thanksgiving with a party: of fritnds at Arcadia, hla South Carolina while Mrs.

Emerson remained In Baltimore. That was Just after the Incident at the Waldorf-Astoria: Among the house guests of Capt. Emerson at Arcadia were his daughter. Mrs. Smith Holllns McKlm, the daughter of Mrs.

Emerson, and Mrs. Jams McVickar and her husband of New York. The Emersons are natives of North Carolina, but have lived in Baltimore for about thirty years. Mrs. Emerson was formerly Miss Askew of Mlllbrook, six miles from Baleluh.

N. Her first husband was a Mr. Dunn, and they had two daughters. Mrs. McVickar and Mrs.

White, the latter living in Atlanta. Mrs. Emerson Is said to be ill at ner home here and no one is allowed to communicate with her. T. G.

PLANT SUED BY WIFE. Judge Issues $1,500,000 Attachment In Connection with Her Divorce Libel. Special to Tht Sete York Timet. BOSTON. Jan.

19. Thomas O. Plant, the well-known shoe manufacturer, who recently sold his Jamaica Plain shoe plant and his machinery plant In Lynn ith na tents to the United Shoe Machinery Company for something like $3,000,000. was to-day made aeienaam In a divorce suit brought against him by his wife. Mrs.

Caroline Griggs Plant. The Plants were married In Chicago on Judce Hitchcock this after- a unerlal nrecept for a 000 attachment In connection with the divorce libel. Tyler' Toung. attorneys for Mrs. Plant, filed the suit this afternoon.

The itKei' ehararea the defendant with offenses on Oct. 1..1900, at Calais and Bangor, and on other dates at St. George. N. ana iew i orx v-ny.

Technically the Plant have made their i wA UM.I Kstmerftet ftn Commonwealth and Mrs. Plant has actuaiiv uvea inert, out ii is that they were rarelv seen In each other a companv for several months. Their marriage up to about a year ago had been considered a happy one. The couple were constantly seen at society hnra. ihAWS nil VI 1I1IM1T-Ilin, and country club meets.

Mr. Plant owned a number of fyie horses, and his anowea in uiiiiihc both In harness and under the saddle, at the various meets all over New England. Other litigation is pending against Mr. Plant. Harry W.

Smith, the Worcester and Grarton horseman, to-day bringing suit for which he claims is due him for his efforts In effecting the transferor the Wonder Worker Machine orn-pur to the Cnited Shoe Machinery Company. The writ is returnable at Worces-1 vAv a emfth'i attnrnatf has icr uri 1 placed an attachment for that sum on Mr. plant Dante account auu uuici piij. SUES HIS ACTRESS WIFE. E.

T. Tie Roode Namee Broker Bur-rows Metier as Co-respondent. Special to Tho A'rru York Timtt. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.

Carrie A. Do Roode of "The Beauty Spot" company, and known on the stage aa Grace Walton, is the defendant in a divorce ajult" brought by Eugene T. De Roode. Depositions taken In New Tork by her btutband's attorneya were received here to-wy at the County Clerk's" office. De Roode filed his complaint on Aug.

17. alleging; that his wife had told him she loved Burrows McNIer. a stock- broker of New Tork. McNIer Is said to have signed himself Bunny In hla letters to the actress. The De Roodes were married on Ang.

17. 1 at Salt Lake City. McNIer Is married, but, according to papera in the raae. has arranged to get a aivorce ana marry the actress alter the law had et hlslehattuck. an actress, also in The Beauty Spot" company, la said to have riven much of the information on which the suit is based.

The trial of the case Is set for next Thursday before Judge Van Noatrand. prNTTHrRST CAMDEN FLORIDA. fjaat throuch aervtoa via Seaboard Atr tin ftTl ofgee UM gear, bona 6oat Mtn.anT CAUCUS NAMES CLARK FOR NEXT SPEAKER Old and New Democratic Members of House Nominate Him by Acclamation, IS FOR FREEDOM OF OPINION After Debating Procedure for Naming Committees It Empowers Ways and Means Committee to Do Special to Tk Ktw York Timet. W4SHINOTON. Friday.

Jan. 20. The caucus of the Democratic members of the next House of Representatives adjourned early this morning after a discussion of various matters of policy. It was determined after a long eeDaie that the Wava and Means Committee rnmmittM on Committees and that it should name all the com mittees. Instead of the 8peaker, subject to the approval ot the caucus.

Champ Clark was unanimously Indorsed for the Speakership, not a sign of opposition being manifested. Oscar Underwood of Alabama was chosen Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. The caucus of Democrats elected to the House of the Sixty-second Congress met In the Kail of the house at 8 o'clock at ntgnt to the number of 219. and Included eighty new m.mhprn Representative Ashbrook of Ohio was chosen Secretary of the conference and Representative Hay Permanent Chairman. The roll call showed eight absentees Edmund T.

Stack. Illinois: James M. Gu.lger. Nortn Carolina; F. I Hlackman.

Alabama; H. D. Stephens. A. S.

Burleson, Texas; A. W. Gregg, Texas; James A. Hamlll, New Jersey, and Wager Sherley. Kentucky.

When the name of Dr. (Theron Akin of the Twenty-fifth New Tork District waa called. Francis Burton Harrison explained that Dr. Akin bad Informed him he was nominated as an Independent Representative and Indorsed by the Democrats of the district. He desired to take his seat on the Republican side of the House and should do so.

His name, therefore, was stricken off the roll of the conference. i Representative Lloyd of Missouri placed the name of Champ Clark In nomination as the' choice of the conference for Speaker. The nomination was seconded by Representatives Suiter of New Tork. Boehnef Indiana, An sherry of Ohio. Talbot of Maryland, Adamson of Georgia, and Pou of North Carolina.

The vote was by acclamation. Mr Clark. In acknowledging the honor, said, he would endeavor to discharge the Awtirr nf that rrAat nosittoa ex fairly and so impartially that they would never have cause to regret tneir acum. no caucus, he said, was called for the purpose of selecting the Democratic contingent of the Ways and Means Commit tea for the SUty-second Congress In order to expedite tariff legislation by securing as speedily as possible the data on which to base a bill or bills which the Democrats believe would promote the prosperity of the country, and give a new impetus to every legitimate bualness under- Each member of the caucus." he said. should have the opportunity to express his opinions fully.

The newest member has as much right to exploit his theories aa the oldest, aud he should not be too bashful about it. Whatever Is done should be marked by good nature, kindly forbearance, and an earnest desire to be of service to the rarty and to the coun- trRepresentatlve Henry of Texas moved resolution declaring the order Of business for the conference, which was promptly adopted. The resolution read: 1. The determination of method of selecting the standing committees of the House nt the Kixty-second Congress. The election of a Chairman of the Wavs and Means Committee of the hou-w in the Kixty-second Vnjir- "3.

The election of thirteen other members of the Ways and Means Committee ofthe House in the Sixty-second Fitzgerald of New Tork moved as a substitute ror the Foster resolution that the committees of the bty-second Congress, in accordance with the unbroken policy of the Democratic Party and the uniform practice or the House be appointed by the Speaker subject to the approval of the Houae. and empowering Mr. Clark to designate the Democratic members of a tentative Committee on Ways and Means. Representative Foster of Illinois moved that the Committee on Ways and Means be the Committee on Committees, their selections to be indorsed or rejected by thAfterUageneral debate on the resolutions Representative. Cox of Indiana moved as a substitute for the Fltxgerald resolution that a committee should be created embracing one member from each State having Democratic representation in the House, and that this committee be the Committee on Committees, with the understanding that no member should be eligible for a Chairmanship.

The caucus developed much difference of opinion a to the method of selecting committees, but when the time came for voting, various resolutions were down, the Fitsgeraid proposal to leave the committees to the 8peakor8 selection being beaten by 29 to 108. The Foster resolution placing that power In the Ways and Means Committee waa carried by 16d to 7. JELLYFISH SAYS EVANS. Admiral's Description of Our Present Pacific Coast Defenses. SPtcial to Tin Kew York Timet.

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 19. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, retired, arrived In Los Angeles to-day on his third visit In as many months.

In discussing the possibilities of war and the preparedness of the United States he said: You 'never can tell when the next war cornea It will come quickly. They won't bother to notify you about six months beforehand. It will come by tele-: So'far as the Japanese are concerned, there Is no more reason for mentioning Japan In that connection than any other country. 1 tell you this, though, when the United States assumes the position in the Pacific that she ought to assume In reference to coin metre, and which she will assume soon, taere wOii come very serious friction with Japan on that one thing. "The American people are going to wake up some day to the fact that they ehouid have their flag afloat over a great merchant marine.

When that it Is going to bring with It a friction that will be a friction of dollars and cents with Japan, and no man can tell how soon It will require twelve-tech guns to settle 'On the question of defense the Admiral waa almost savage in his vehemence. "A fleet for the weat coast?" he exclaimed. I should say so. As things are now you are absolutely a shapeless Jellyfish. AFTER THI CKIPFE rxvrr i Pert Wine and Olht On.

H. T. DSWKT St SON 13 Fulton -A4. MAYOR TO TAKE A VACATION. Will Go Away fcr a Long Rett When Subway Situation la Cleared Up.

Mayor Gaynor will probably wtart In a few weeks on an extended vacation. Me has been planning for some time to lake a rest, but so many city affairs of importance are pending be baa deferred bis start from week to week. The Mayor had bo vacation last Bummer except the time he spent in St. Mary's Hospital. Hoboken.

and afterward at St. James, L. recovering from his wound. He will probably leave town as soon as the subway altuatlon Is cleared up. $50,000 FOR LISZT'S ORGAN.

London Paper Saye an American Mil-llonairs Has Bought It. LONDON. Friday. Jan. 20.

The Daily News says that an American millionaire has purchased for $30,000 Llfst's organ, which was built in the United States in the courae of one of his tours. The organ was used later both by Wagner and Schumann. CORNER SOLIS AT LAST? Rural Guards Say They Have a Cor-flon Round the Cuban Bandit. Special Cabla to Thb Nw Tons: Times. HAVANA.

Jan. 19. The Rural Guards report that they have drawn' an Impregnable cordon around the notorious bandit Soils and that this time they are certain to capture him. Meanwhile Soils last night collected $2,000 from a planter on the threat that his cane would be burned If the money were not forthcoming. The dry condition of the cane last night made the threat the more formidable, but rain fell to-day.

i DUTCH PLAN ALARMS FRANCE. Government Believed to Have Objected to Fortification of Fluahlng. PARIS, Jan. French press Is much exercised over the Netherlands Government's proposal to fortify Flushing. The papers generally support what Is assumed to be an objection on the part of the French Government.

whether Holland's reported Intention to modify the Fortification bill as original ly drawn will be satisfactory to notn trr.n. anA Oermanv" Is a matter concern Ing which there Is a difference of opinion. DECLARES WAR ON TURKEY. Imam of Sana Starts Revolt Rlelng Throughout Yemen Expected. Jan.

19 The Imam of Sana, Seyld Tahya. has declared war against the Turks, and armed bands are gather- In in the Yemen mountains. The noton fwvs Sheikh Benl Pasha has Joined the Imam's standard, and a rising tnrougn out Temen Is expected. The pretender Idrlsee has assumed the defensive against the Turks. The canltat of Aslr Province has been under siege since early In December, the Governor and a large garrison being barred In.

A new Governor has been appointed, but he has not been able to reach his post owing to the activity of the Arabs. SEVEN TOWNS IN DARKNESS. Current Shut Off by. Firemen During a New Rochelle Blaze. Special to Tki Xeur York Timet.

NEW ROCHELLE, Jan. 19. This city. Mount Vernon, Pelham. North Pelham, Felham Manor and Larchmont.

and a part of the town of Mamaroneck were plunged In darkness and all electrle- machinery stopped to-night when the current was shut off In the power house of the Weetchester Lighting Company here by order of Fire Chief James Ross, following a blaze In the residence of Charles Edwin Jones, 74 Main Street. Mr. Jones Is out of town, and Mrs. Jones bad gone out. leaving at home only Charles, five years old.

and his six-year-old brother, Edwin. The two, children wandered to the cellar, where It Is believed they dropped matches Into a pile of excelsior. The boys tried to beat out the fire, and called for help until Clarence Edwards, a porter, broke In the door and rescued them. He was nearly overcome with amoka. OHIO FOR INCOME TAX.

Amendment Now Ratified by Legls-j laturea of Ten States. COLUMBUS. Ohio. Jan. 19.

By a vote of 100 to 3 the Houae to-day concurred In the action of the Senate in adopting the resolution Drovidlnar for the approval Of the Income tax amendment to the United States Constitution. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. Ohio Is the tenth Ktate to ratlfv the Income tax amendment to the Constitution, the other nine being Alabama. Illinois, Marylana, Oklahoma.

Georgia. Kentucky. Mississippi. South Carolina, jnd TexAS. In five States the Legislatures have refused to ratify the They are Tork.

Rhode Island. Maaaacnuaeiia. Virginia, and Louisiana. The advocates of the Income tax nere are sanguine that ratification will be had by enough additional States this inter to give the amendment force as part.or the Constitution. It is expected that In New York the Democratic Legislature will fiiin-r the recommendation of Gov.

Dlx and declare In favor of the amendment. It requires ratification ny iiuripmt States to put the amendment in force. Latest Shipping News. S. S.

Bretagne. Incoming, was reported mlreless 1.26 miles east of Sandy Hook at 7: P. M. yesterday; due tn New York Monday. S.

S. Main. Bremen. Jan. 7.

BY MARCONI WIRELESS, ca rwnnli. Incoming fom Genoa, was nc-k miiea en of Sandy Hook at 10-30 P. M. yesterday; due at her pier. If not delayed, vteaneaaujr uimun.

SS Martha Washington, Incoming from Trieste, was reported 1.000 miles east of Sandy Hook at jv.w r. due at ber pier. If not delayed. Monday morning. S3 Taormina.

Incoming f-om Genoa, was reported 908 miles east of Sandy Hook at 10:3) P. M. yesterday; due at her pier, if not delayed. Sunday afternoon. KallPs ReataaraBt fla loat t-H Park Pt.

fcacaiiaat servicsi ae ssiaiae; maie.A6 PAUL MORTOU DIES SUDDENLY IN HOTEL ROOIJ Had Gone to the Seymour to Call and Was Found Fatally Stricken in Upper Corridor. BRAIN HEMORRHAGE KILLS President of the Equitable Had Laughed at Repeated Warnings of Physical Breakdown. WIFE ARRIVES TOO LATE Prostrated at Hotel When Shs Finds Husband Dead Had Urged Him to Take a Rett. FRIENDS PAY HIM TRIBUTE His Career In Railroading, Finance, and Politica Had Been a Notable One Once Secretary of the Navy. Paul Morton, Preatdent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, former Secretary of the Navy, and a financier ef NaUonal repute, died suddenly a hemorrhage of the brain-last night In the Hotel Seymour at 44 West Forty-fifth Street.

He bad gone there late In the afternoon, presum- ably to make a call. Mr. Morton had bad luncheon with his brother downtown and had left blm te meet later at the Morton home, Fifth Avenue. Aeoording to the hotel man-agement Mr. Morton arrived at the Bsy-tnour about 5, o'clock In the afternoon and without calling at the desk to announce hlmsalf stepped at onee into aa elevator and ascended to the fifth floor.

There he left the elevator, and the erer. etor closed the door quickly and contln. ued upwsrd, as there were other pa-sengers In the csr. Just what happened when Mr. Morton reached the fifth floor corridor Is not definitely known, but he Is supposed to have itaggered and fallen.

One of the maids found him there unconscious a fw minutes later. She telephoned at once te the of fee. and the manager of the Soymour. Freder. Ick C.

Hall, was notified. Mr. Hall summoned Dr. Henry Pearson, the house physician, who Is also bouse physician of th. itotel Iroouols.

on West Forty-fourth Street, and who waa la his office at the latter hotel. t-v- arrived a few minutes later. and assisted by Hotel Seymour employs. carried Mr. Morton into koobh wn.cn Keen vacated about two hours before by P.

L. Klemsn. a lawyer, with office at 141 Broadway. f- vnrtnn'. Identity was not known at the time, but Dr.

Pearson, realising that the man was dying. Instructed Manager Hall to call another physician, ana ur. ti.m.wa reanondea, Tne two slclans did what they could, but were unable to revive the ayinf man. after half an hour It was oscioea it. examine his effects to learn hie Identity.

His card case revealed mis. t-v- adi.r. the family physician of the Mortons, was then called in. and later he Morton home was nounea oj phone. Mrs.

Morton ana joy storwn, it tfte hOtSL but T' lived after Mr. Morton's death, an hour and a half after he was striken. In the meantime there was intense th. hotel. Word soon spread xtr Marian had been taken ill on the fifth floor and wss probably dying.

In the dining room were several doseu men and women, who upon learning that a man of such prominence was dying In an upper room, crowded about the hotel desk asking for information. Managxr Hall and his assistants turned them away with the statement that Mr. Morton Mines was not serious and that he would be all right In a few minutes. BImmI traafl Beret la Brala. Mr.

Morton died at :30 o'clock without having recovered consciousness. Coroner Isrsel L. Fein berg came to the hotel and was Joined there' by Coroner's Pay sielan O'Hanlon. After questioning the physicians who had been In attendance, and after b-arntng all he could from the hotel attendants. Felaberg announced that Mr.

Morton's death was caused from arterio-sclerosis. or hardening of the arteries, which bad caused an Increased blood pressure, resulting In the sudJen bursting- of a blood vessel la the brain. Coroner Felnberg waa at first Inform that Mr. Morton had gone to the hotel meet Mr. Klcrnan by appointment.

But he eaid later that this waa a mistake, and that to the excitement ef the moment Ms informant had Jumped at eon-clus'ons learning that Mr; Morton had been taken to the room lately occupied by Mr. Klernan. Dr. Adler had been treating Mr. Morton for arterial trouble and also for an affection of the kidneys." said Coroner Felnberg later In the evening.

"It was tul condition that brought the hem orrhage of tho braia. From all I can learn there was no one wita Mr. wor-too when he was Every or a i. tn a iyaitlon to know says that he left the elevator without saying what room he was to visit, and that It waa not until, after he had fallen upon the floor r.ear the elevator snaft that a maid on the fifth floor found him and thougat that he had fainted. WaJ IVI3 lirai ibbi w.

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