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if SENATORS HESITATE: i TO DEFEND ROOSEVELT Remember of His in RateBiU Fight SHY NOV AT NGRO ISSUE Approve Hit Present Position on Dismissal of Troops, but Are Not Sure He'll Stick to'lt. Social to Tit Arw i'trh 7W. "WASHINGTON. Dec r. 2S- Preldnt Roosevelt I beginning to reap the results of his management and political alliances In the Rata bill' fight last rear.

II la res ping them In a war moat unex pected and disconcerting to himaelf. With the Brownsville fight about to begin, tbe President-finds hi friends timid and reluctant about going to the front (or him. Forak ha a been raging unopposed. JCot a Senator ha a displayed any symp toms of serJouslv' encaaina Foraker. ex ceptoa'the Detnoeratic whera prep-J aratiops.

to dfend the President are going forward -buly and where several Sena tors their speeches" pTactlcaity- I This 'is not bWaure tha President baa no wrrii fVlends In tho Senate, not because thfr are no Republicans who thoroughly aprrove'ihia position and are anxious to defend him. It Is because they are afraid, and this fear has its birth In the memory of what happened to his defenders at tha last -r No Ben tor on the Republican aide has sai anything hot for publication, and no Senator Has given sny Indication of making a speech for him, escept possibly the tmtcrrJfUble It was reported that Senator Bpooncr was grjlrg to undertake tha Presidential later Spooner refused to ''confirm JtJand declined to commit himself. Other potcntUl Presidential tfefenders say they, ha not yet Jrecelved.ali the evidence. Ordinarily, this burning desire to rend all the evidc-nce dees not prevent a real lreldentlnl defender from defending, at hasfin an One. strong' supporter of the President, after giving the usual excuses, was pressed for' la real.

reason to-night until be finally tourst out with this confidence: "If I. defend him howdo I know where I will be' left? Who wlU'guarantefr that after 1 have hopelessly committed nfyself will not back out again, and leave me in the position not of defending the Pres ident, but of attacking the negroes Where will I be then? Ills popularity will not 'suffer; on the contrary. It will be In creased, for every such action Increases It. I will get the whole brunt of it And this is what Is the matter -with them all. the Rate bill fight every Senator who was vested with Presi dentlal defense suffered.

The first was Knox, who was Intrusted by the Presi' dent with the task of drafting the Ad ministration bill. The announcement of Knox's selection waa made and he set to work on his task. Aa soon as he bad drafted his bill the President stepped out from under, and Knox's bill was straightway denounced by the Administration champions In the press, as a pro-railroad measure. Finally came the climax, when Mr. Roosevelt made, his famoua observation to William E.

Chandler on the subject of pro-railroad Senators like Knox, Spoor.er. and Foraker, Next came Dblllver. who' waa chosen at a special champion of the President i arid, to whom was given the task of get ting the Hepburn bill out of the eommlt- With hits was associated Clapp, and 1 tha two worked like Trojans until the end of tha third act. when the President suddenly whipped over to the so-called Allison amendment without notifying them, and" Aldrlch closed a deal with their supporters which left them both high and dry. This deal, by the way, was not carried out on the Aldrlch aide after Aldrlch had got the enemy on tha run.

The only member of the Aldrlch crowd who kept faith waa Crane of Massachusetts Then the President took up Long and the Long amendment waa heralded from the White House as the Administration measure. Long, too, fell outside the breastworks when the President took up the Allison measure, and a few montha later Long was defending himself desperately in Kansas from the assaults of La Follette, who was charging him with having betrayed tha people on the Rate bill. What scared and disheartened the President's Republican followers more than anything ele, however, was the -revelation made by Tillman. Bailey, and Chandler tnat throughout the whole of this, at least' after the overthrow of Knox, the Pridont had been secretly dealing with the HvmocniM. and that at the last moment he had thrown the Democrata over without warning and closed with Aldrlch on the Allison amendment.

A lesser casualty was the" case -of Attorney General Moody, who had been acting as the President's intermediary with the lvmoorata and knew nothing of the President's abandonment of Bailey. Tillman. 'and Chandler, with whom Moody was until Bailey called him and fbforNUMi him of- the news which be had kjirned from a newspaper reporter. This is why the President's friend have beei So bnckWsrd. He will get theni.

of course. aftT the fight becomes warm, tut at present he has no spokesmen in sight except Culberson. Carmack, and the other They have no dealings with hlro syid nothing to losej; -fc CQTTON BOARD NOT WORRIED. Exchange Talks Over the 8tory of Threatened Mall Fraud Order. The Board of Managers of the Cotton Exchange held a protracted meeting yesterday afternoon.

at which among other things the story that antagonistic Southern cotton interests had presented to the Post Of tics Department a suggestion that the use of the mails should be denied. to the New York Cotton Exchange was con- President Hubbard said after the meeting that the Exchange would meet such action promptly if it had been taken, but that in the meantime no reply could be ex ade to an anonymous harge, of Which nothing had heard officially. Mr. Hubbard said It would not be proper for him to put' forward a defense or-apology for a body which, since th Exchange obtained its charter from the State, thirty years ago, has been composed of the representative business men of the city. The character of tbe membership of ths Exchange, he said, ought to be a sufficient guarantee that It was not conducting- the sort ot Diisincss wnicn would make it amenable to a Post Office fraud order.

i rOUGHS tHat hant on" ari coughs ei that need 'Watching. They weaken A the lungs and give consumption a A chance. Scoff EmuUton of pure cod liver joil soothes and heaU the affected membrane, "makes fat and pure rich HlooL O' -v v-i-t ALL DRUGGISTS A.HOLIDAY. EXHIBITION. Groups of Paintings by Local Artists at the Arts Club For holldaya th Art Committee the.

National Art Club Jiaa arranged a collection of tars score paintings by a dozen" meor and women In tbe galleries. aaklnc each -contributor to superintend tbe banging: of a wroup of from three to Th- result ta satisfactory. The selection as -n as the banging; bas been left to the artist. Mr. Elmer L.

MacRae shows half a dozen winterscape and shorescapes which Interpret very; well saturated' with moisture. January Thaw." Snow-bound Tillage." Winter Mlata at Sunrise" reflect the temperature of outdoors; one feels the rawness of the air, the freahneaa a breesa off tha sa. Meads of Bablta is a picture not so well adapted to. the style Mr, MacRas fotlows, and must be felt to be a mistake to make tha two -children sleeping side by aide appear like a fragment of a frlese of slumbering Infants. Miss Elisabeth R.

Finley has two fine three-tuarterv length portraits of ladles standing. The one In mauve Is a handsome, bit of colon, wrought with spirit and excellent brnsbcrafU' "Donna Bcata a symbolic picture. John Henv mlng Fry-, and Georgia Fry are figure and respective ly. Decorative compositions are suppuea by J. Mortimer' Llchtenauer, "me v-up of Life." Vision of Kntgnt." ana Mr.

Albrlghtwrgand has mnnA lanAaoans A Jtnndv Road. and a number of portraits; -the best which is one or an elderly lady eenteo. Fantasy of mermen and mermalda, a "Study; of Clouds." a view, of Lauter-( brunnen Purity and The Dawn of Spring." Attractive landscapes and shorescapes are contributed by W. Granville. Smith, such as "Opalescent Sandy Beech," Ac, and How- ard Logan MiiaerDranai ro group of alx paintings portraits and tirw irvm nature light on Gloucester Harbor is notable for its cnarm.

Other exhibitors are O. C. Wlgand. C. ti.in nr.

inhn V. O'Kulllvan. The group from Arthur Hoeber is varied ana notewormy; enpeciaiiT 11115 "MoonUt WAter White" and "Flowing Tide." These pictures may be seen by card of member during the afternoon; the en trance Is through-tne muuio Annex, xia East Nineteenth Street. i CITY MAY SUE FOR MILLIONS. Discrimination In Rates for Lighting, 8ayt Mr.

Ellison. Because he believes the lighting companies have so discriminated against the city that they Jiave been overpaid Corporation Counsel Ellison will investigate the working of the lighting contracts with ah idea of recovering, that amount. Mr, was started on this tack yesterday by a decision by the Ap-pellata Division of the Second Department lu the case of the Armour Packing Company against the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn. It developed from figures submitted to Mr. Ellison by experts that there is a difference of from 40 to 30 per cent.

In the prices "charged to the city as compared with those charged to certain indlviduala who are large consumers. Mr. Ellison presents therefore this question: Shall the companies be allowwed to discriminate between the city and Individuals to the Injury of the former? The amounts paid the lighting companies In the last six years aggregate u.000, Ouo. The proportion of that which Is deemed to have been wrongfully charged Is figured at The decision of the Appellate Division waa an appeal from the lower court, which held that the Armour Company had no cause of action. The higher court ruled that the company did have cause for action, and In conclusion said: "Both reason and authority, therefore, sustain the plaintiff's contention that the defendant engaged in public service may not discriminate agntnst it In favor of others in charges for the same service and under the same conditions." POLITICIANS SCENT A TRICK.

Gherardl Davis Named to Handle Court End of Hearst Expense Case. ALB ANT, 28. Attorney General Mayer has named ex-Assemblyman Gherardl Davis to represent him In the court proceedings in connection with the election expense statement of W. R. Hearst.

Mr. Davis said last night that the appointment came as a surprise to him and that the Attorney General's notice to htm a as the first Intimation of it did not know how long he could serve under the designation. The question is whether he can serve thres days or until the work for which he Is appointed has been completed. Politicians, without reaard to party. were figuring last night that the procedure ru a mm to out Attorney Gen eral-elect Jackson In a hole.

Most ot them believed that Mr. Davis couldn't err InnSnr than for the balance of Mr. Mayer's and that If Mr. Jackson did not continue the appointment of Mr. Davis or reappoint him It might be evidence that he had no desire to have the exitenditurea of Mr.

Hearst Investigated, ami so Republicans could say he was derelict In his duty within the first twen-tv-four hours of his sdmlnistratlon. Mr. Dnvls has heen very prominent In, the Corrupt Practlcea Association. This ortranitation has been planning for the prosecution of Mr. Hearst from the day the Secretary of State made public the list of campaign expenses, which showed the total of the Independence Ieague-Democratlc candidate's to be over S200.0UQ.

rWENDEL INQUIRY' PUT OFF. Court Organizes, but the Captain. Geta a Postponement to Jan. 14. Yhe first session of the court of inquiry called at the request of Capt.

Louis Wen-del of the First Battery. N. O. N. who desires a full Investigation of the charges of graft made against hlm was held last night at the armory, 00 West Sixty-sixth Street, iThe session lasted less than an hour, and an adjournment was taken until the evening of Monday.

Jan. 14. when witnesses' will be' called and the taking of testimony besmn. Capt. AVendel told the members of the ro art that he had not retained an attorney nor summoned witnesses, and asked for time in which to make arrangements for irt connuri oi nis case.

Third BrT- me couri in-iuirv consists or Rria. Sevcntv-fourth ReRiment. Binghamton. v. VIIC ana cot.

cnaries h. Hitncock of the First IWiment. Buffalo. The Judge Advocate is Major George Lawver of the Third Albany. Brig.

Gen. Lloyd is President of the court. When the court convened at 8 o'clock last nicht Gen. Lloyd announced that all procedines would be public. Major Lawyer, as Jutge Advx-ate, asksd Capt.

Wen-del whether he had any objection to the personnel of the court. Upon receiving a reply in the negative, he administered the oath to' each member of the court, and was himself sworn by Gen. Lloyd Cspt. Wcndol said one reason for asking for the postponement waa the fact that h-had'-to attend the Inauguration TaW ToovernhiV of rvreTOomrn in connection witn the Indue AND $1X0. 3A -Co.

st3Td Street: BOYS CLOTHING. Blue Serge and fancy mixed Tweed Suits. Single, or double breasted and yoke Norfolk Coats. Sizes 8 to' 17 years. 10.00 Iraarlr U.00, 18JM aa lCUM English "Sailor" Blouse" Suits.

With extra shield. Blade of grey or brown mixed Sizes 6 to 12 O.OO faraaerly JdO Oxford, Cheviot or mixed cloth coats. Sizes 8 to 17 years. lO.OO forsaerly 13.00, 13JIO James McCreeiy Co. 93rd Street, 34th Street Calendar JDays AT Brotherse The Specialty Store," Saturday, Dec.

29th, Monday, Dec 31st. In accordance with our usual custom, we will present to our patrons BEAUTIFUL CALENDARS Made by the well-known firm of RAPHAEL TUCK SONS CO. i To All Our Patrons and Friends A Happy and Prosperous New Year. 978 THIRD AVENUE, Bet. 5Sth 59th sts.

1 Store Open Evenings Until New Year's. BOOKKEEPER WHO FELL SET. FREE BY THE COURT Prosecutor Scoring Employer from Whom He Stole. HOUNDED AFTER HIS THEFT And Though He and Hia Family' Gave Up All to Atone He Was Arrested. i One of the last official.

acts of Judge Rufus B. Cowing before he retired, from the General Sessions bench waa to suspend sentence on William Westcott Brldgeman, who pleaded guilty to grand larceny: The habitues of General Sessions characterised it as an act of humanity characteristic of Judge Cowing" ca reer of twenty-eight years on the bench. Brldgeman is 00 years old. Before this Fall he had never been accused of wrongdoing. Affidavits filed by his wife and daughter testified that he had always been a good husband and father.

Assist ant District Attorney Smyth strongly urged that leniency be extended. Brldgeman. while employed as a bookkeeper in November. 1901. by John Han- kin, a contracting engineer of 55 West Twenty-fifth Street, stole ajims variously estimated' at from to S20.tJU0.

The latter says it was the larger sum. This money Brldgeman used in stock speculation. the commission of the crime Brldgeman has done everything he could to reimburse his employer. Hankln on hs part made no move to arr-st him until thU Fall, every cent that Brldgeman or his family could obtain tfolng to pay off the debt. That Bridgeman's misdeed was not that of an ordinary criminal, but was the single yielding to a sudden temptation was shown by a petition filed by forty rest- dents of Nutley, N.

where Brldgeman lived for seven years. These people said that he was one of the most respected members of the community, and that they knew he had done all but starve himself In his effort to pay back tbe money he had stolen. His wife and daughter swore that the family had sacrificed everything to repay Hankln. Mrs. Brldgeman had aotd or pawned all her Jewels and had aa-signed to Hankln her dower right to property In Colorado and In New Hampshire.

She also deeded her house In Nutley to Hankln. How she came to do so was taken as throwing some light on the kind of man Brttlgeman's former employer was. Mrs. Brldgeman saya in her affidavit that Hankin.and a lawyer went to her house about a week after, the theft, at 11 o'clock at night, and told her she must give them the deed of the house. She was alone with her daughter then and pleaded for a chance to consult her husband about the To this she ssys Hankln replied: Oh, you can't get hold of him.

He's In Paaaaic." Thereupon Mrs. Brldgeman signed the deed, and Hankln went to the door and whistled to some one outside. Then his brother appexred with who had teen kept there ail along, says the affidavit, and was not in Passaic at alL Mrs. Bridgman says thst. In addition to mortgaging the house for Sl.uuu, she pawned Jewelry and borrowed enough to make and gave tbe entire to Hankin.

More about Hankln appeared in an affidavit by Clarence E. Thomall. who was Bridgeman's attorney. Thornall swore that Hankln. went to see Urn after his arrest and said that he had taken out an Insuiance policy for on Bridge-man's life.

Hankln wss ntmed aa the beneficiary to the polk-y. Thcrnall's affidavit says that Hankln said to him: I hope he dlea. If it were not for the Consequences J'd kill him." The reason given by. Hankln for not having caused his bookkeeper's arrest before was that ha was afraid his creditors would press him when they heard that his firm was In difficulties. He admitted.

however, having obtained an extension of time from some creditors whom he told of the larceny. In hia recommendation for clemency Assistant District Attorney Smyth said tn part: "The conduct of the complainant arouses grave suspicion as to the sincerity of his motives. it has been the custom ot this court to extend clemency whenever a public example wss not required, and the offenders had proved by their conduct that they deserved leniency. This defendant has given such proof during the last two and therefore I request that extreme clemency be shown him." Brldgeman has returned to his place wth the Sedgwick Machine Works, at Llbei ty Street, where he has been a bookkeeper since he Committed his crime In His present em plovers provided him with his counsel and have done all they could to help The Secretary of ths firm wrota to Judge Cowing- that unageman waa trusted by them Implicitly and that they were confident he would do no wrong if -set free and allowed to return to their, office. "34th Street Street Store.

NO BETTER SUBWAY SERVICE Washington Heights Residents Says There Haa Been No Improvement, When the order was issued fop the run. ning of Broadway express trains between Ninety-sixth Street and 137th Street, about five weeks ago. General Manager Hedley remarked to the Rapid Transit Board In regard to th representations of the Washington Heights Taxpayers' Association, which agitated the "I don't think, however, that they will gain much." At a meeting of the association held in Corrlgan Hall. 157th Street and Broadway, last night, the President, after hearing a report on observations otr the express system made' by members, exclaimed I Why." that Just what Hedley told us." The express service, In fact. Is regarded by the Manhattan Heights Taxpayers' Association as little.

If any. Improvement upon the old system. Since Nov. 21 tbe members ot the association have kept a keen eye: upon the Subway. Each man as he went to business took observations, the result of which was submitted, to Reginald Pelham Bolton, the Secretary of the association, who compiled a statement showing what conditions were.

The schedule." said Mr. Bolton, Is not changed from what it was prior to the. establishment of the express service. The average time von the trip downtown between 137th and Ninety-sixth Streets is nine minutes and thirty-four seconds. The run uptown in the evenings, however, is better, and has been cut as low as four minutes and forty-five seconds.

But the observations show that the expresses on the third track are run at half speed oi are slowed opposite The Klngsbridge expresses are well patronized both ways. Some of the l8th Street locals on the' down run In the morning pass lu7th Street without stopping. HUGHES IN ALBANY TO-DAY. Will Go at Once to the Executive Man. sion Chanter Also Expected.

fecial lo Tht AVt 'r Tim. ALBANY. N. Dec 28. Both tinv.

ernor-elect Huahes and Lewis Stuwesant Chanler. the Lieutenant Governor-elect. are expected here to-morrow afterdoon, io remain lor the inauguration on Mr. Hughes will arrive on the train leaving New Vork at 1:02 o'clock. At the Invitation of Gov.

Higglns, extended at the recent visit of Mrs. Hughes, he will go direct to the Executive Mansion and make his home there. Gov. Higglns has already transferred his household goods to hia home in Olean. aur'nfhia stay in Albany, will live in the old Douglas mansion, at the corner of State and Eagle Streets.

Tnl" residency which overlooks Capitol Park. -while not pretentious, is one of ths substantial old houses of Albany. DANCE FOR HOSPITAL NURSES! Eye and Ear Infirmary 8urgeong the Hosta of the Oceaalon. A dance was given in honor of the nurses of the New Tork Eye and, Ear Infirmary, at Second Avenue and Thirteenth Street, by the surgeons of that Institution last night. The clinic reception; room was transformed into a dancing hall by means of decorations, and the nurses, their friends, snd the surgeons forgot for tha evening their cares.

AH-of the regular staff surgeons were present, as well as several visiting- phr sicians. Your Plana 7 should laclsdo TcepAbnq Ccrvieo mt both oftlo and tono If wiU wvo yosv moon Unto mad InoonvontenoGm mr rorae ttIephokz ea fIe JHstrfftgten tor VI' v. V-, i i A ssssw al a Km 'v a V. 'V''' V-VvV Evening Clothes Full Dress and Tuxedo Suits for evening wear also greatly reduced. We also sell cTWen's Satisfactory- Haberdashery, Hats, Shoes.

3 STORES 30-41 C0RTLANDT Bet 6th 9th Ave. Stations. -3 Tine SuiiniKQlW 1 Dec. 30: a Gold win Smith on James Bryce. An interview with George Bernard Iphaw.

First account of a newly discovered monster of the remote i 5 past, whose bones are now being set up in New Testing the effect of radium upon the life cell. mr. L-Jooiey, wno sV A he Pictorial supplement, now tne most important' ieaiure of Sunday journalism in America, containing i next Sunday ai tworpage photograph, one of the most remarkable ever Opera House SEWER BILL APPROVED. State Health Commission and Stat Engineer Indorae. the Bronx Plan.

Is Ti Kiv York Times. V- ALB ANT. N. Dec. vigorous opposition on the part ef -'paany commercial bodies and civic organizations in New Tork who are opposed io any further polj-jtlon of the-Hudson-' and the harhor, Eugene K' Porter," Health Commissioner, and Bute Engineer Van AI-styne to-day approved the so-calied Bronx Valley sewer; which will empty the sewage of a dozen towns and villages In Westchester County Into he Hudson Just above Ton Iters, v-f -f i 19.

tin. I i I .11 J. uits cc uver coats price cut so radical that every man who appreciates the opportunity to buy these famous garments so far below their value should be attracted to the Lambert Shops. These clothes are without equal in their making in their fit and their thorough finish. Each garment is handled through every' stage by expert taflorsfrom the cutting to the last stitch.

'o4s the CMn Who Wears Them." following are the prices vIrAtI DOWN TO $16-50 vIrats marked down to $19-50 4ovSa marked downTO $24'50 8405VER RKED DOWN TO 50 rlk. 1 cAlso at; New Haven, OF T0MimW, reviews uie yeur i a r- I showing the interior while a performance Meeting An Memory of Mrs. A meeting In memory of Mrs. Margaret Bottoms will be held in the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Sixtieth 8treet and Madison Avenue, at 8 o'clock to-morrow The speakers will represent the various lines of religious and philanthropic work with which Mrs. Bottoms was most closely identified.

-The meeting will also be addressed by tbe Rev. Dr. Wallace MacMullen. tha Rev. Dr.

Anthony Evans, and th Dr. R. 8. MacArthur. New Magazine Devoted to Water 'K Another new monthly magazine made its first appearance yesterday.

It Is called Tachtlng, but la devoted to water sports of all aorta. Among th Initial articles is one by Sir Thomas Upton on American Tachtlng." iAwrence Perry has contributed th first chapter of a series on Successful American Tacht Crab. and Owen Roberts outlines the prospect of th coming season of th eaQora and boatmen. ITeir Fork CiOv -4 i i mat nfVk 5-' -I 5. 1' 183 BROADWAY, Near Dey Street Subway nfflrass of the Metropolitan is in progress.

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