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NOISELESS; w- TYPEWRITER The Noiseless Typewriter Sales Room 25 Mitchell 9 West Fonrth Cincinnati. Phone Main 1716. Call or Write For Demonstration. Cleveland Toledo Canton Agents Desired, Columbus, session last Saturday. A few hours later the letters were issued dismissing the two drainage officials and suspending Singleton.

Started By Wright. -'The charges involving the dismissed men were reported to have been made to Solicitor McCabe recently by J. O. Wright, former subordinate of Elliott, but at pres ent chief engineer of the Board of Trus tees of the Internal Improvement Fund of isfc state of Florida. Wright made a fa- vorable report upon the Everglade' lands nnd soon, afterward resigned from office to rnter the employ of the state of Solicitor McCabe told tbe committee that i reports and papers bearing on the Ever-g'ades esse had been collected by the department, and would be turned over to tne committee for its investigation.

The he said, welcomed the investi gation. He declared further that the rea fon Secretary Wilson had ordered that the report on tlie Everglades be not printed -was because the engineers in the Drainage lepartment were so at variance in the" matter. When asked why a new investigation was it instituted in view of the situation, and in view of the public demand for informa tion, Mr. McCabe told the committee that the state of Florida by that time had taken the matter in hand and was conducting an Inquiry. Wilson To Be Summoned as Witness.

Representative Clark said to-day that Sec- aetary Wilson would be summoned as witness, and that he would be asked con cerning an interview he had with the Flor ida Representative some time ago, in which the Secretary is said to have admitted that he had suppressed the report on the Ever glade lands. Mr. Clark charges this was done at the request of the land companies. He said that, together trim four Florida citizens, lie called on Secretary Wilson to ask why the report was suppressed. One of these men was W.

R. Hardee, of Jensen, Fla. who recently made, a statement that Sec retary Wilson said: "I am not running this office for the -pro tection of fools who do not know any bet ter than to buy something that they never ww and do not know anything about." This statement. Mr. Hardee declared.

Sec retary Wilson made to Mr, Clark, himself and to others when they visited him. also will be summoned before the House committee as a witness. Before the House committee to-day Representative Clark outlined the charges. Mating that In 1907 the Department of Agriculture was flooded with requests from peo. le throughout the country regarding the ondition of Florida Everglades lands which s-yndicateswere exploiting.

Wright Sent To Florida. J. O. Wright and a corps of engineers front the Drainage Department were sent to Florida by Chief Engineer Elliott to make a survey and to compile a complete report 3 lere, according to Representative Clark, tegan the trouble that has led up to the present controversy. A part of the evidence submitted to the 3 louse committee is a copy of a letter written by Mr.

Elliott to Secretary Wilson lait "November. this the engineer set forth iho whole history of the case and asserted 'that be was threatened-by agents of the land dealers when he refused to alter or suppress a circular sent out nthe Ever-Clades. "Some time in January. 1010. if I remera.

Iter correctly," said Mr. Elliott in his letter to Secretary Wilson, C. Howe and Thomas H. Will, agents for the Florida Kverglades Land Company, called upon Director A. C.

True, of the office of experiment stations, and protested against our tending out these circulars. "I was called into the Director's office, and in ths Director's presence they demand, ed of me that the circular should be discontinued, and threatened me personally with jrablic exposure if any further Information concerning the Everglades should be furnished to correspondents. Demands of Promoters. "A few days later they called at my t'fflce, and, in the, presence of the office engineer, continued their demands, not only that the circular letters be discontinued. iia'l -f JL- v' prticulmr people.

Shoes cix Hosiery 414 Prospect At. 105 Colonnade Bldg. Courtland Building Springfield, Dayton, Zanesville. but that we send to all to whom we bad sent circulars, a retraction of certain statements in them which were especially displeasing. pon my refusal to entertain such a piopositlon, Mr.

Howe informed me in somewhat strong language that unless I acceeded to their wishes they would take the matter up higher and compel mo to suppress all Information regarding the Everglades. Both Director True and my self refused to discuss the matter further with them. "Soon after I received instructions from your office, through the Director, to send no further copies of the circular nor fur nish information of any kind to inquiries concerning the Everglades. The direction from you to furnish no further Information concerning the Everglades was emphasised in the following May, when I was called by you into your office and emphatically cautioned to give no Information whatever to any one about the As I remember, you re- Marked that the state and real estate ueaiers were engaged Ifi promotion scheme that the department should have nothing to do with." The Suppressed Circular. The circular said to have been suooressed by" Secretary Wilson also will be In evi dence before the committee.

This circular tvas made up on account of public demand for Information while the printed report iroiit engineer Wright, which was bulky. was Dving awaited. e.uiott outlined portions of the circular, unfavorable to the exploitation schemes' of the land syndicates, which he declared Howe and Wills demanded that he retract. The circular in the mam recited the Government reclamation and drainage pians ror the Everglades and Included many favorable references to the prospects. In his statement to Secretary Wilson El liott said he directed Wright in April.

1008, to make a complete report of the Everglade Investigation, and that In the June following he (Elliott) went to Europe at Secre tary Wilson's direction, to study drainage. When he returned in September, to his sur- nriu Via -A I. jrepitraiion oi tne re- in a oeen Dropped as soon as he had departed. "In answer to my request for an explana tion, wrote Mr. Elliott.

"Mr. Wright replied that Governor Broward, of Florida, would undoubtedly be defeated in the com- rccuon ana that the succeeding Administration would probably have no Interest In the Florida project and lie did not think it worth while to complete the report. Hot Their Business. "I Informed him that that was no concern" of ours, and did not in any way release us from the duty of preparing a prompt and careful report of our Investigations, and requested him to proceed at once with his work on the The report wss eventually completed In May. 1008.

according to Mr. Elliott, and be says It was changed in majiv by himself and Morehouse, after consultation, without an outside expert en gineer, copies oi tne revised report, he said, were sent, with Secretary Wilson's permission, to Henry Clay Hall. of one of the Florida land syndicates in Colorado. It was June 14. 1910, Elliott reported, that Secretary Wilson decided not to have the report published at alL Nothing more was heard of the matter until last summer, when the Senate Committee on i-nniing cauea ror an documents In the department relating to the Eversrladea cme All documents In his possession, Elliott assert before his dismissal, were demanded by Solicitor McCabe.

and he was even unable to obtain his own copy of one or ih records which the Department Solicitor now nas in nis possession. Committee Hot on Trail. We want the committee to And nut whose instigation his report was kept from publication." said Representative Clark today, "and we want also to know at whose Instance the circular on the Everglade lands was suppressed after Elliott refused to alter It. We think that the committee, upon Investigation, will find that the dis missals of the engineers may be traced to the land promoters." The charge against the discharged offi cials is that several years ago they ran short In the appropriation for the drainage division because funds had been irregularly loaned to the irrigation division of the department. Drainage work was in progress In Nortb Carolina and a private contractor was engaged, who finished the work and was compensated in the next year's appropriation, being carried on the pay roll as an employee.

Singleton, who is suspended, is declared mm mmtmamT wis THE ENQUIRER, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY; 1912. to have unrated this means of carrying on the uncompleted work. The total about $000. but no financial sain accrued to any of the officials In the transaction, it la declared. Dr.

Bureau ol kaeAmet eUaliobs. which the drainage orlncoie. it iAx to-day to dls- tuss any phaee of the case, while neither Secretary Wllaon nor Secretary Mccaoe would talk of It, declaring that the was now in. the bands of the Department of Justice. The Committee on Expenditures In the Department of Agriculture will hold another meeting to-morrow morning, when Solicitor McCa.be la expected to tell the de partment side of the case.

QUESTION TO ELLIOTT About the ETerglades Was Sidestepped in Newspaper Interview. -In an interview with Charles. O. Elliott, In Ths Enqi'Irir. September W10-.

James B. Morrow quotes him a speaking with seeming reticence concerning some of this southern swamp lands. "Will the Everglades of Florida ever be reclaimed, he was asked. "Work to that end la now being done, was the reply, "the state baring bought dredges for digging large ditches. It is proposed to drain a region CO miles long and miles wide." "is It true that the land was bought from the state for about t2 an acre, and that the atate is cutting ditches with the money eo obtained, and that the land is now sell ing at from (2 to ISO an acreT" "I have nothing further to add with re spect to the Everglades of Florida, Mr.

Elliott answered. I PROSECUTION. CONTINUED TIOK FIMT 7 AGE. violation of the Sherman antitrust law. Such action would not affect the equity "proceedings which have been instituted.

"Through the destruction of the the petition declares, "the Government has suffered irreparable Injury. These docu ments, it is added, were surrendered Juno 29, 1911. by District Attorney Wise, In re sponse to a letter from General Solicitor MacVeagh, of the Steel Corporation, con taining the following: Promised To Preserve Taper. "I understand that you may desire to'ex- anfln these papers at some future time. In the event that proceedings should be taken against the company or some of its officers'.

and, therefore, 1 have agreed with you that I will keep these papers In my personal charge and subject to examination by you or your assistants at any time. "In view of the destruction of the the petition continues, "special asslstsnt to the Attorney-General Col ton, requested As. sistant General Solicitor Boiling, of the corporation, February 1 last, to take appro priate affirmative action to the end that all papers belonging to the United States Steel Corporation and Its subsidiary com panies be preserved, so that the Govern ment might avail Itself of their production on the trial of the cause. "Mr. BoIHng has as yet made no formal reply." It is added, "but Indicated verbally to Mr.

Col ton a purpose of doing wbat be could to comply with his The petition specifically mentions a num ber of documents which the Government de sires preserved. These, it Is claimed, were presented to the grand Jury Investigating the "wire pool" about the same time the trunk full of documents were laid before the Inquisitors. They were "letters and papers ertalnlng to the so-called Horseshoe Manu facturers' Association, in which the Amer ican Steel and Wire Company was repre sented by Mr. Taylor, ao officer of the American Steel and Wire Company," and correspondence between "Russell B. Buaa, a salesman of the Vnlted States Steel Products Export Company.

and J. A. Farrell, William P. Palmer. President of the Ameri can Steel and Wire Company; George A.

Cragln. assistant general sales agent of the American Steel and Wire Company: a cer tain Mr. Rummel: Mr. Taylor, an officer of the American Steel and Wire Company Mr. Merrlman, a sales agent of the Ameri can Steel And Wire Company: Edwin E.

Jackson, supervisor of the various associa tions, and Louis V. Hubbard, a partner of Jackson, and assistant supervisor of several of the associations." WKITS AXE HEADY Tor Service on Officials of Steel Corpor ation To-Day. Trenton. X. February 6.

Deputies from United States Marshal Alcott's office In this city will start to-morrow morning to serve writs upon the United States Steel Corporation and other defendants named in an order signed by Circuit Court Judge George Gqay. and filed in the United States Circuit Court Clerk's office here this after noon by Henry E. Colton, of the Depart ment of Justice at Washing tan. The writs were issued to restrain the United States Steel Corporation and 13 other defendants from destroying books and papers and other evidence that might be useful to the Government In the dissolution suit against the Steel Corporation. The 13 other defendants' are only a few of those named in the Government's original suit for the dissolution of the Steel Corpora tion.

The defendants are proceeded against because it Is charged that they, acting in their Individual capacities, are Hke the Steel Corporation, "guilty of acts in violation of the antitrust law." The writs, which restrain the destruction of books, papers. Ac. are to.be effective unUl March 0. when argument Is to be heard here on the application of the Gov ernment made in to-day's petition (or a permanent injunction restraining the de struction of books, papers, Ac Mr. Colton said that the writs became ef fective immediately upon the signing of the order by Judge Gray, provided the defendants bad knowledge of the order's existence.

The serving of the writs, he said, was for the purpose of precluding a plea that such knowledge waa not possessed by the defendants. Twelve Other Defendants. The defendants named in' to-day's peti tion in addition to the Steel Corporation itself are: Carnegie Steel Company. Fed eral Steel Company, American Steel and Wire Company. National Tube Company, the Shelby Steel Tube Company, American Tlnplate Company.

American Bridge Com pany, the Iaeae superior -onsouaatea i-on Mines, the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, the Union Steel Company, the Clalrton Steel Company and the H. C. Frlck Coke Company. The petition charges that thousands of letters of the American Steel and Wire Company and or tne umtea mates Bteel Export Products Company and of other subsidiary companies have been destroyed. It la charged that the letters have been destroyed to prevent the Government prov- Inar Urn TH MtltlOfl ItVI thM.

Imt- rices through a pool. The petition further chsrges that lit thbeVork of maintain ing prices Edward E. Jackson was em ployed as a central man and that he designated who shall be the successful bidder on Government work and on large private contracts. It Is atlU further charged that Jack son designated the "competitors" who were to bid high. It is claimed that through this method the Government had paid enormous prices for the products of the Steel Corporation.

Trunk and Papers Destroyed. The destroyed papers. It Is charged, were in a trunk which, with its contents, were delivered on June 1011, by United States District Attorney Wise to Charles MacVeagh, General Solicitor of the United States Steel Corporation, who gave a writ ten agreement, it is said, that he would keep the papers in bis personal charge. subject to examination by MiV Wise or his assistants at any time. The Government, through Henry E.

Col ton, Special Assistant to the Attorney-Gen era in the dissolution, suit against the Steel Corporation, began negotiations for these papers in connection with tbe pending proceedings oa Janauu-y Xft. R. C. Boiling, As sistant General Solicitor of the Steel Cor poration, informed Ms. Colton.

It la allered that tbe trunk bad been returned to the American Steel and Wire Company about October 1, 1911, and that all the papers bad oeen oestroyed by F. Baackea, Vice Presi dent and general sales agent of the wire company. The papers, it la charged In the Govern ment a petition, "contained matters tending to show that J. A. Farrell.

formerly -resident of the United States Steel Prod ucta (export) Company, now President of the United States Steel Corporation, not only knew of said unlawful pools and combinations described, but aided and abetted in meir successful ooeratlon." One portion of the Government's petition aeems to be susceptible of the interpretation that criminal indictments and prosecutions or certain officers of tbe Steel Corporation and Its subsidarles are under consideration by the Department of Justice. Other Papers An Wanted. The petition avers that certain much- wanted documents are in imminent danger Of destruction, "because there are officers of the United States steel Corporation and its suosidlarlea wbo have not vet been In dicted for the practices which said paper tena to show them guilty of. namely, of having been involved of the aforesaid un lawful association, and also because none of the defendant companies has yet been indicted in respect thereto." The petition urges that numerous other papers were produced in the wire-pool prosecution which contained data "tending to show ths guilt of the American Steel and Wire Company, the United States Steel Corporation and. tbe United States Steel Products Export Company, as charged in the aald petition, as well aa the fact that said Farrell.

formerly President of the last-named company, now President of the United States Steel Corporation, not merely was cognisant of the unlawful pooling ar rangement entered Into by the American Steel and Wire Company, through Its officers, but also knowingly aided and abetted said unlawful practices In violation of tbe Sherman antitrust act. With occasional interruptions." saya the petition, "tbe subsidiaries of the. United States Steel Corporation have from time to time been members of similar pools and agree menu in respect to the several prod acts manufactured and sold by them In Interstate and foreign commerce, and there must be, unless they nave been already destroyed, among the records of the United States Steel Corporation or its subsidiary companies, correspondence, papers, reports, statements and accounts relating to said pools and agreements." GETTTJI0 A JTJKY For Trial of ths Cass Against the Bath Tub Men. -Detroit, February In the Gov ernment a criminal case against tbe so- called bath tub trust, which began before United States District Judge A. C.

Angell. here, to-day. the Government passed for cause tbe first twelve Jurors drawn, after an hour's Interrogation toy former United States District Attorney Frank H. Watson. Court adjourned for tbe day when Attor ney Henry E.

Bod man, of Detroit, of coun sel for the defense, had questioned ten of the jurors. The defense will go on with the Interrogation of Jurymen to-morrow morning. Five farmers, a merchant, a hotel keeper, a watchman, a real estate dealer, an Insurance agent, a druggist and motorman sat in the Jury box at this evening's adjournment. Both sides questioned the prospective jurors as to whether they had been interested in any patent rights, and whether they had ever been connected with any corporations. Most of the jurymen replied to Attorney Bodmsn's questions that they knew little about the Sherman law, but W.

E. Robinson, an insurance agent and former Superintendent of Schools in Detroit, expressed the opinion that the busi ness of the country could not be conducted witnout comoinauons. too mucn competition, he said, was bad for the consumer because It made him support too many competitors. Being asked what he would consider a Talr profit on manufacturing, one candidate for the Jury said 30 per cent would not be too much If the concern did not have abso lute cotnrot of the trade. John Doherty, a farmer, said he expected to make per cent on his Investment above his living ex penses.

Fred Kidder, a farmer, of Almont, told the.attorney for the defense that a plumb ers agent tow mm ne was lucay to nave contracted for plumbing fixtures for his new houss last spring, as prices had since gone up a quart He demurred about giving the name of the agent, snd the question wss not pressed further. He said he saw no wrong In an agreement for ob taining a reasonable profit. Of the two Indictments, conspiracy and combination, the Government elected to go to trial first with the conspiracy charge. John Clifford, general manager of the L. Wolff Company, of Chicago, and one of the Individual defendants, was excused by Judge Angell to-night from attending the trial because of illness, and expected to return to Chicago at once- to remain there until summoned again to Detroit.

J. E. Wright, Secretary of the Wheeling Enameled Iron Company, of Wheeling. W. wss not present, and a physician's telegram certifying that the defendant was confined to bis house by serious Hints wss accepted by Judge Angell.

Tbe Government nolle pressed the In dictments against W. C. Wlnfleld, of War ren. J. Mahoney, of Chattanooga Geonre Praushetm.

of Wheellns. w. and Bert Tllden, Secretary of the Colwell Lead Company, of New York. SWUT CO. Center of Government' Attack at the Packers' Trial.

-1 Chicago, February The Government centered ita attack on Swift A Co. In the packers trial, to-day. John M. Chaplin, chief of the plant accounting; department of that corporation, who was on the stand most of the day, wss subjected to a searching examination by District Attorney ilkerson snd required to explain to the Jury many details of 'ths complex system used by the packers. Mr.

Chaplin Identified numerous letters. changing the by-product allowances, which were sent by him to other employees. One letter signed by Chaplin and dated November li. 190T, gave Instructions to dis continue making any allowances for hides In figuring the test cost of beef. The letter was offered In substantiation of the Government's charge that no allowance for hides wss made between November 18, 1907, and April 31.

1900. Chaplin said previously to five year sgO be received his Instructions regarding the figuring of the teat cost of beef from Charles H. Swift, one of the defendants. Vice President of Swift but that in recent years be used bis own judgment in making the changes. District Attorney Wilkerson pointed out that from the organisation of the National Packing Company, March IS, 1008 the test cost of beef as figured by Swift A Co.

steadily rose while the allowances for by products decreased. A summary of the salient points brought out by the Government in the examination OS Chaplin follows: April w. -1909 Fat allowances reduced from So to 4c a pound. May lttO-Kllling charge Increased from tl 75 to $1 80 a head. Allowance for hides reduced 1c a pound.

July 8, 1909 Discontinued allowance tar all fata excepting tbe caul and ruffled variety. July 33. 1903 Reduced the allowance foe fat from 4c to So a pound. September 9. 1903 Kllline: charsa in.

creased from $2 30 to (3 75 head. November 18, 1907 Discontinued allowance for hides in- figuring the test cost of April 31. 1909 Resumed allowance f- hides in Hgurtng ths test cost of beef. OQUE TEST. comiU uia raoit fxbst paos.

to -taka notes and not the issue as to whether be did take -the particular notes on a partieular occasion. Iiuis Gibson, a Cbicaco lawyer. was called to teatifv abont the refutation of H. J2. Kerr, one of the men who is sup- iwhH a hai-A hMrd Vrfiflvtn mass tne Toronto ata ement His examination WSS delayed until to-morrow by a quibble over a legal point.

ClUUtCUUVII, pub PH V.J clared that be was not suffering on Satur- oay nignt xrom a nervous oreaauown. a i A Hnm. imiIKU MimUM VWM nw. hi. mlrht hSVS been the causes of his sensational outburst before tbe committee.

He aemea tn intoxicated. Reoeatedly be refused say if be regretted bis action. Was Not Hysterical. 'T-" moiim von wars in highly excited and byterical state?" asked Attorney Heaiy. Hi a ftniahlne- his examin- aUon Chairman Dillingham again asked him if be meant any disrespect tow number of the committee on .1.1 IT.

rf.nl.il it. "And if you said anything that might have been taken aa an oirense waa Intended?" asked Senator Gamble. tt'i had finished Attorneys for Senator Lorimer began calling expert stenographer witnesses to hist statement that tjnerioan niw xt T.hin aaid it would bave laBCU. 11. a.

twi e. xnerieneed reporter oeen inipusDium v. to have got all of the alleged wm. MCUOWIP ai.M Bailey and present notes resembling Sheri oan m. He also aald the notes snowea commensurate with the rate at which the conversation is saio riea on- witness chair.

Attorney Heery led hlmto e.miiiBT. with the con- say tnat ne ui ditkms under which Stenographer hdan had made the notes tor mo Uvea Must Xnow wnmuuu. -m, an onlnlon as to their he said. It was not necessary to know the conditions. "Couln't Sheriaan nave explosive remarks in ranina i wrney xiwMj.

Yes, but nis report Vfcnator Lea asked why Blumenberg imsk fti ftYAmlne th not when he had aald on Saturday night that he was convinced tney were tured." The witness aald ne sw to find reasons to convince a laymen, the general appearance or tne eonugh to convince him aa an expert, he grand Jury investigation of the perjury aJlantiona In connection of McOowan. Bal.ey and Sheridan waa proposed at the afternoon session by Senator Kenyon No action of Senator Gamble, the committee decided arrange a ret of rooms like those in the Toronto botel. where Stenographer unenuan corded "admissions" made in xne ra i. ha intention of the committee tTtest Sheridan' ability to make note. under such circumstances- i jk ate-mita the obleclon of Attorney Hanecy, lor senator lTATIOH CAJTT AIT0ED To Stand In Way of Peace, Says Bur ton, th Treaties.

BISriTCW CO TS SX01IXSX-. Washington. February mat 1 aa, mtA In th VftV no nation coum um of the world movement for peace. Senator Rnrton. of Ohio, to-day opened tne ulcus i avf the sion on tne jiepuoiican ratification of the Pending untisn ana French treaties without amendment.

Senator Burton' address was not tne first that has been beard in the Senate in support of the eonventlona. Senator Ray- nor. of Maryland, having led on in tne ais- tussiqn. but the Ohio member" speech was the first coming from the Republican side the Chamber. No nation can afford at this time to stand in the war of the peace movement, was the keynote.

Tbe treaties with Great Britain and France mutt be ratified, declared Senator Burton, not eo much because they are im portant In themselves, but because they pave the way for other agreements with nations strong and weak enae." The Senator declared, nevertheless, that a greater advance had been made in the direc tion of universal peace within the last IS years than in all tbe preceding centuries. He traced the growth of International law from the time of Hugo Grotlus. comment ing on the manner of effecting settlements in international controversies and review ing some of the most important peace trea ties of the last two centuries. "The progress toward peace in the past few years." he concluded, "promises an amelioration in the condition of mankind which far surpasses most sanguine forecast. The moot strenuous advocate of war will not deny the inestimable advantages which would pertain to an era of peace.

He only questions its possibility or practicability." DISOEDEE IN MEXICO Due To Government By Dictators, Says KcCall He' Against Third Tern. Washington, February 6. Citing the revo lution In Mexico as an example of the dan gers, lurking in extended terms for rulers of a republic. Representative Samuel W. McCall.

of Massachusetts, spoke is the House to-day against the proposal to legalise a Presidential third term. Mr. McCaU declared that American Presi dents had set a precedent of retiring after a service of eight years, and quoted the declaration made by President Roosevelt, before the end of bis last term, that he would not be candidate for re-election. Representative orris, of Nebraska, in surgent lesder. questioned Mr.

McCall repeatedly with the evident purpose, of indicating that the sentiment against a third term probably was against a "third con secutive term" rather than against a third term served after a lapse of four years out of the White House. "Were not Mr. Roosevelt's statSment made when he was serving second term?" asked Mr. orris, "and in response to the suggestions that be become a candi date for a third consecutive term?" "That is undoubtedly true," said Mr. Mc CaU, "but the statement wllr stand now on Its merits." The attacka of the Massachusetts Repub lican upon the danger that might lie in the use of Presidential power to enfroce a nomination for a third term brought another interruption from the msurgent lead- Representative Norrls asked if the sentiment- gainst the third term should apply to a man who had dropped out of office for four years.

WRb, the authority a man has who has served eight years in the Presidency." plied Mr. McCaU. "these- men oould undoubtedly ttave stimulated their friends to such an extent that they could have become candidates even after a lapse) of four yeare." He added that bo President but Grant had ever attempted a third term- light. "He was defeated in the nominating con- ventlon. and I believe that be would bstve been more severely defeated at the polls bad he been nominated." seia Mr.

atcuau. Thai tremendous influence of the Ex ecutive powert centralised in the band of one strong, unscrupulous man, may easily be adeouate in critical times to remove an limitations upon bis tenure and to change rtbe essential character of tne sald Mr. McCalL "Tou have only to tut to the neurhbortns republio of Mexico, where autocracy paved the way for revolu tion and only a bloody war terminated the rule of a Pre! dew." One of the Problems. Mr. McCall aaid In the framing of the constitution the Presidential tenure was one of the foremost among the problems that received the thoughtful consideration of the convention, For nearly a century and a quarter, he pointed out.

the precedent of Washington in nxing the limit at two terms naa ac quired the force of a constitutional limita tion and by prescription it bad to-oay tne validity of positive law. "Jeerson's example, following that of Washington, removed the question of i third term from the politics of that There was a universal acquiescence ln the practice established by Madison and Monroe. Andrew Jackson did not believe In even one re-election. 'During Grant's second term there was i agitation to secure his election for third term. After more than a year of discussion the question was brought up In Congress, and on December 13.

1875. the House of Representatives, by a vote of 233 to 18, passed a resolution against the third-term idea. Four year after hi name was presented to the Republican convention, but. ne was defeated for the nomination." Mr. McCall recalled that on June 10, 1901.

after President McKlnley had entered upon bis second term, he put himself unequivoc ally on record against a third term by say ing he would not accept the nomination it it were tendered him. Plenty of Timber. President Roosevelt, he declared, i equally emphatic in bis refusal to consider a third term. The nation baa no poverty in men." said Mr. McCall.

in conclusion. "It posses hundreds of dtisens capable of performing with high honor the duties of the Presidency. And it will always be Infinitely safer to dip into the great mass of Ameri can dtlsenshlp In order to secure a bead for the state than to do violence to tne uniform precedents of our history and to remove the hallowed landmark of republican institution, established by George Washington and sacredly cherished by the nation down to this hour." EESOLtmON IS PASSES For Inrestigation of Alleged Konopoly of Army Shoe Contracts. Washington. February The House to day authorised its Committee on Expendi tures in tbe War Department to go outside of Washington to seek evidence in tbe al leged monopoly of army shoe contracts by Massachusetts manufacturing concern.

The passage of a resolution to this effect, by a rote of 168 to 106, followed a renewal of tbe counter charges between Representa tive Difenderfer. Democrat, of Pennsyl vania, and Representative Gardner, Repub lican, of Massachusetts, which character ised a previous consideration of tbe matter in the House last summer. Mr. Gardner objected unavaillngiy to the conduct of the Investigation by a committee of which Mr. Difenderfer, who precipitated the inquiry, was a member.

Sharp words passed between the twe Rep resentatives. Mr. Gardner declared that if the investigation did not produce facta to Justify Mr. Dlrenderfers charges of wrongful awarding of the contracts the House ought then to begin proceedings against Mr. Difenderfer.

CAUCUS OJ? DEMOCRATS In Senate Beaolre Itself Into Discus- sion of the Tariff. Washington. February Senate Democrats met in caucus to-day. Senator Newland's resolution to Increase the mem bership of the Finance Committee by ad ding one Progressive Republican and one Democrat was one of the things taken un der The caucus developed Into a conference for the discussion of the tariff. A general exchange of view favored an agressive policy.

A number of Senators bought a combination should be made with the Progressive Republicans to pass bills making considerable reductions in several of the schedules of the existing law. VIOLENCE In Pending Shoe workers strike Con demned in Resolution Adopted By Central Labor Council. At tbe meeting of the Central Labor Council last nignt the following resolution was adopted: Whereas, the Central Labor Council of Clodtmati, at a previous meeting having muorsea tne policy of the International owl ana nnoe workers Union in their method of adjusting grievances in the shoe trade of our city, which has always been done In a satisfactory and peaceful manner, thereby conserving the best Interests of the employees and manufacturers, and con demning the methods as used by a dual organization, known as The United Shoe Workers of America, which has no affiliation with the legitimate trade onion movement aa represented by the American Federation of Labor, and learning from the daily papers of the numerous assaults and Intimidation of -workmen, who are la no way connected with the strike as carried on by this organization, the 300 delegates herewith assembiei In council, representing me enure legitimate trade union movement of Cincinnati, do hereby Resolve, That We deplbre the fact that these assaults and Intlmldationa am and respectfully request that th. proper authorities take such steps as to prevent further occurrence of such action which Is bringing discredit upon the legitimate trade union movements and the law-abidtng workmen of Cincinnati." NEWS OF FULLER Comes To Minister's Wls Just as She Xs Starting; on Search. sractat, pitram to tb Bxqciasa.

Lexington, Ky February 8. Just as she as about to start for Bid well. Ohio, to night to Join In the search for Rev. Louis 8. Fuller, the missing Methodist minister and Superintendent of tbe Lexington "Di vision of the Kentucky Anti-Saloon LeagueJ a-uuer receives a telegram from Ira Russell, of Bldwell.

saying that Re. Fuller had spent last Friday night at GalUpolls and had been seen there Saturday morning. "I now feel," ald Mrs. Fuller, "that my husband will be home soon or that 1 will hear from him ahorOy. I am still of the opinion that be became too ill te travel and that he has stopped off at Ashland or seme other point near there.

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118 Seventh Avenue, West. TROOPS RUSHED. COBTINiJED FROM FIRST PAGE. ceived advices through secret agents th: David de La, Fuenta, who was one of the signatories of the plan of Tacubaya. and is a member of the revolutionary junta formed a week ago in El Paso, is preparing to cross the frontier to engage in an In surrection In favor of Eml llano asquez Gomes.

He is said to be now at Brown- vllle. Texas. David de La Fuente was formerly Chief of Police here, and later became a Dlrec tor of the so-called Army of Liberation which Emlllano Vasques Gomes endeavored to organise. He fled to the United States to avoid arrest for insurrectionary agitation in Chihuabua. It is affirmed here that General fascuai Orosco has been offered the Governorship of Chihuahua.

0B0ZC0 DENIES Disloyalty To Kadero and Reported Secession of Chihuahua. El Paso, Texas. February 6. General Orosco denies emphatically that the state of Chihuahua la on the verge of seceding from the Mexican or that he I disloyal to Hadero. His denial is contained In a telegram received late to-day by the Chief of tbe Federal telegraph lines in Juarez.

The telegram, signed Pascual Orosco, fol lows: I wish emphatically to deny the reports published as to the secession of Cblhusbua and my disloyalty to the Madero Govern ment." Official advices from Chihuahua state that eisrht coach loads of loyal Mexican troops left here this afternoon for Son An tonlo In search Of Antonio Roias, the rebel leader, liberated from the penitentiary tew days ago by mutineers. Rojas and small party of followers are said to be en camped near Baa Antonio. A Chihuahua special to the Herald says the guards- at the State Penitentiary have deserted and Jailed the Director, Rafael Raembo. after -which they took to the hills to join Rojas. Government officials in Chi huahua say the Hadero regime la dead and that the State Government is ready to be turned over to EmiUo Vasques Gomez.

Citizens of Juarez are here buying guns and ammunition in quantities, arming them selves for protection in case rebel bands come to that city. There is grave appre aa the whole country to the south is reported In revolt. ABUT POSTS Throughout the Country Notified To Be Beady For Mobilization. Washington, February 6. President TaM and his Cabinet turned a scrutinizing eye toward Mexico to-day.

Official dispatcher, placed before the President, seriously questioned the loyalty of General Pascual Orosco, to the Mexican Federal Govern ment, and intimated that the present conditions in the State of Chihuahua, border- bur on Texas, might develop Into a move ment of secession, establishing an Independent republic in the North. Tbe President discussed precautionary leasures with his official family, and to night the War Department has cent ad ditional orders to army posts throughout tbe country to be reedy for a possible mobilisation. Tbe Department of Justice has instructed Its asenta to exercise all possible vigilance In enforcing Neutrality laws, while the State Department has asked for quick re ports from consular agents of any danger in the interior to. Americans or their interests. After to-day's cabinet meeting the Presi dent professed not to be alarmed over the situation.

It was admitted In oltlclal circles, however, that the separation of Chihuabua from the remainder of Mexico would create a situation different In msny respects -from those that existed during the last rebellion. It is not believed that there would be much lighting en the border, for, with Juarez in the bands of the Orozco adherents, the new revolutionists would con centrate at the city of Chihuahua, miles South of the border, where the advance of an army from Mexico City first would contested. American special sgsnts are reported to be watching the activity of Emlllo Vanquej Gomes, now in San Antonio. Texas, and declared to be the real leader of the new rebellion. It was rumored here that Gomez exile might have made cause with Orosco at the moment when the hopes of the latter to become Governor of Chihuahua" were blighted by the Federal Government.

The wbele State Chihuahua Is now reported to be in revolt against the Madero Government. The State Assembly is expected to meet at once and declare Independence. Local representatives of the National Government, are said to be without sup port snd afraid to appeal to the city of Mexico for help, fearing that any attempt on the part of the National Government to end loyal, troops Into Chihuahua to enforce tbe decrees, of the Madero Government would precipitate bloodshed. IJT FULL WAS STBENGTH Troops Leave Ft. Barranca, To- Bay For Mexican Border.

Pensacola, February 6. For therec-ond time within twelve months two companies of the -coast artillei-y stationed at Ft. Barrancas received orders to-day t- leave tor tbe Mexican border in Texas. Four other companies stationed here arv being recruited to the full War strength in anticipation of possible orders to move on abort notice. The Ft.

Barrancas troops will leave foi Texas to-morrow morning. An Inaoection of the tmo companies tiih ordered this morn ins and they Kill In full war strength. The garrisons at Ft. Moraan. Mobile, aid Ft.

Moultrie. Charleston, 8. C. sre in read: nesi for Texas duty GE CITY NOTES, lUu Represent Xt Leaf Grow. r-met to-day cussed enthusiasm ts of the warehouse, a.

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