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iij VOL. LXX. NO. PLANER Still Is Being Used Senate Tinkers on lie Underwood Bill. Income Tax Clause Is Radically Changed Wool and Sugar Votes Are To Be Taken To-Day.

Leaders Are Confident of Putting Items Over. Stick Is Placed in the Hands of President. Authority Is Given To Increase Duties Touching Nations Discriminating Against American Products. rriii TO THE SQtIKCB. rhuisttn.

June 24. Material progress to-day in tariff revision. al changes in the income tax plan Underwood tariff bill, and 'altera of the adtninistfati ve features "of tlie -rT- ir- to ovrrrome mo'b of the bjec tirif rat.d by foreign Governments, al' aprerd upon in a tentative way Worc adopted by the Democratic members o' tlip Senate Finance Committee. Th" income tax under the new plan 1 apply to individual incomes over hut would make important exemp- op for individuals, municipalities, civic and mutual insurance companies un tain restrictions. I'-iangea.

in the administrative sections a new provision giving the PTesT. ri'nt authority to increase tariff duties certain foreign articles coming from countries that discriminate against States. Tfv proposed per cent concession In -tariff on coods brought in American ship's: th" antidumping' clause, and the provision the United States authorities "in- 1'iiitorlal powers" to examine books of foreign manufa'tiirera 'hjn the valuation of i. in dispute, were stricken out. Many Protests Heard.

A provisions brought protests from imny foreign lTnocrat-s of the committee made It cfar that -some further changes might 0i in. the income tax and administrative before they were reported to the n.xio but the revised sections as li.Tie public to-day are expected to stand itn but little altt ration Auntil the caucus r- a. iics tliem. Senate Democrats in caucus th-- bill spent the entire day on wool and before adjournment to-night Chair-o tii Simmons, of the Fina nee Committee. ur.

agreement to vote upon both not "t't than 4 o'clock to-morrow. No amend- A i nt t-j the free wool provision has ben I'-'i. but the majority Senators will have tunity to express their opinUns on a Migar amendments. Senator Shafroth one to fix -the rate at the tnd ot years at about one half cent a pound i'-a of the free list provision now in the natoi Thornton offered the 'second "to provide that the rates re- il i at they are in the Payne-Aldricta act. i Sugar Men To Concentrate.

a regarded as probable to-night that free sugar men wouM get toge'tner morrow before the vote is taken to de- 'j! to concentrate their support behind one if the other is beaten, l.eadeis n' the jiiaj'irity were confident that despite it oratory, against free stfetar it would be ncii in the bill and that only the two -u-'iiijia, Senators would be found op- i "id to it when the measures reaches the 1 nder the proposed new form of the in- taxan additional exemption of 11,000 uld ie allowed to married men or mar. ryii women with dependent wives or hus- nds. not taxable under this law. arid oOO be kdded for each dependent child and dependent upon the taxable In case of both parents being however, no exemption for would apply. 'nhor important changes in the plan in-de the exemption from taxation of that portion of the premiums collected by the "vitual lifp-or mutual marine insurance "mpanies which may be returned to pol-v holde-Sj in the form of dividends.

Insurance Companies Protest. The taxation of this portion of their had been bitterly opposed by the oompanles. The Underwood bill, hai exempted only mutual fire insurance Companies on this basis. Chamber of Commerce, civic bodies and Hies, countie and states are added to 'bis class of organizations whose incomes W'H not be taxable. (To secure the payment of taxes upon oupons.

checks or bills of exchange," tolleoted for foreign residents, a provision CONTINUED ON HIED PAGE. 1- PAGES WEATHER Thunder showfera Wednesday anti probably Thursday; south winds. Temperature yesterday: Maximum, SH; minimum, .71. TO-DAY nTFTT Tni TTHTTX'T: tntttxtixt a rmir I RE "II 1 I I I I 176 "Wilson Whole Says Uncle Joe Cannon; No Help Is Reeded xPcriAUMsrATcn to tub RIcbMOBd. j-Be 24-JL typical e.tlmate of the preneat eeaftaat the White Haae wa slvea here to-Jay.

I'reslileat Woodrun Wllsoa la a lualy lafaatt" nbt loeMB't need mm 7 wromm. Mid JoarpB fi. Cmmon. former feaker of the Honae of 1 Mr. Canaon vmn here atleadlac the h.nie-etialair Rarlhant Cellexe aad realllaa the oM boardlns-mrhool dayn theo he a atndeat.

"Mr. WIUob rioeaa't aeed aay former Speaker Mild, la t-nmrneatlaic oa the PreMdeat. "Hfi the whole thlaa Prealdeol. Coa-BTrrn. t'ablaet aad party.

a healthy, lanlv Infaot aad eaa si a ad eatirrl? aloae. AUo. he ea apeak 1 for hlmaelf. He doeao't aerd aay 'proaa." Thla lUayaet eoaatr Iras' the only oae In the atate la which the eatlre Proft-rraalre ticket was elected laat Whea told of thla -Inrle Joe" tilled kit elarar a few degree hlaher aad exclalmeot "AVayae Coaatr will not be Ral Mooae la IBIS. Why, boys, by that time 00 per eeat of.

the Bull Mooae will hae made affidavlta that ther aever did It. -I'll net the eonaty la aettlaa over Ita allllrtloa rlsrht bow. PVrrVhJMWMWhoV I MYSTERIOUS KIDNAPER, Snatches, Atlantic City Child Trom Porch and Escapes. TO TIB ENQriKCIl. Atlantir City.

N. June up three-year-old Jtmpf Callahan from the porch of his home while his mother wa abst-m buying tne family dinner this morning, a well-dressed man. unknown to the neighbors, smothered the youngster's cri-s with hie coat and bolted around the nearest corner-' before a policeman could be summoned. When Mrs. Callahan returned fhe said she could give no explanation of the af fair, raying that she knew of no enomies.

At a late hour to-night police had ob tained no traces of either the child or his kidnaper. JEALOUSY Over Attention To Wife By Another Drives Mlddledmo Man Slay His Spouse Children Witness the Shooting. srrcur. iftch to the oorrnts. Middletown.

Ohio. June 24. William F. Byrne. year old.

shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Ashton Byrne. In the presence of her thre? children to-day. He declares he will plead guilty of first I decree murder. -I am sorry I killed her," ho said.

"1 am willinc taUk- the consequences." Jealousy over the. attentions of another .1 man to his wile is sain to nave 'proroptea 1 1 the act. Marjorie 12. the dead woman daughter, said that a had frequently visited her mother. He called, last" night, she said, and her mother took a walk him- When she returned alone.

Byrne met iier at the door and told her he would givefierrftfl morning to get out of the hoMprCaKOording to the girls story. The children say that their mother was standing in the pantry when the fother shot and was successful in dodging four bullets, but the last one struck her in the 1 I aim and penetrated seated himself in the parlor and waited. for the officers to- arrest him. Mrs. Bryne yas the widow of Geprge Ashton.

This morning Byrne arose early, but In- stead of eating breakfast left the house and returned later. It is believed tbat while absent he procured the weapon with which he shot his wife. 'PICNIC Is Turned Into Tragedy When Bolt of Lightning Strikes Cleve land Pavilion One Killed and Four Others Injured. srrCIAl, PIST4TCT! TO THE INQCHIS. Cleveland.

Ohio. June 24. A bolt of lightnins striking the lunch pavilion at Wil-lough Beach Park converted the annual plc-nice of the Sunday school classes of the First. Unitarian Church into a tragedy this afternoon when it killed Joseph Mansfield, custodian of the church, and seriously injured four of the picnickers. The crowd of several hundred" picnickers, composed mainly of children and women, were in the pavilion of the parkl eating- their lunch.

Thomas White head of a sewing machine company; Mrs. Thos. White, Mrs. Harry Hyatt and Mrs. Fannie Wilkins were partly paralyzed when a vivid lightning flash out of a clear sky pierced through the length of the big lunchroom.

As dorens of the women and children were struck down the whole crowd became panic-stricken. Screams nnea me pi.e and many women fainted. Minnt O. Simmons, pastor of the hnreh. and his wife and a half dozen oth ers calmedthe crowd.

PINKEETON IS ILL. rsciAi- nisrTCH to tbs bvbb. rwaha. June wunam a. in- erton.

head of the detective agency, was taken from a train here to-day suffering of ptomaine poisoning. PATH Of Alleged Graft In Pan-Handle Legislature Described By Quizzer. Prosecutor's Testimony Ends State's Case Against Senator Accused of Accepting Bribe. Marked Money Said To Have Been Taken From Smith's Pockets Edwards Not in on Inquiry. srtriAL nikriTcn to the ie.

Webster 8prings. W. June ing to the jury a story of corruption which is alleged to have permeated the last regular session of the West Virginia Legisla ture, Prorccuting Attorney Thomas C. Townsejid, of Kanawha County, undrr whose direction detectives exposed the alleged graft, thi afternoon concluded the case of the state in the trial of Senator Ben AaSmib. Townsend's testimony was largely cor- I robprative of the testimony ofother wit- nesses placed on tlie stand by the prose cutlon.

He accepted full responsibility for the inveotlgation and asserted' that It was Instituted for the purpose of detecting crime among the members of the Legisla ture while the tenalorlal contest was pend ing 'The investigation, then, was nn insti tuted on behalf of or in the interest of any candidate for the L'nited States inquired Congressman Avis. o. sir. I would not have engaged in it for that purpose." was the reply of the Prosecutor. Prosecutor Townscnd told of meeting Biddinger, and whll the detective demand of the legislators and paying out thousands of dollars in one room Townsend was a listen er to the conversation in an adjoining room.

Tells of Arrest. tne Kanawha Prosecutor told of the plane he had perfected for effecting the arrest of Senator Smith and his colleagues In the Legislature. "On the day of their ar a V. .1 a i tri me urLt-'uuitm ana me remaining in- w-r" arven envelopes con- taming large sums or mone and were ta by a rer room, wher werc inrougn a signal with the 'n each instance In whlrh nnrkt murli.H cealed." Townsend said With the testimony of Prosecutor Town send the state rested, and the defense be fore offering any testimony demanded the production of the money which was taken from Senator Smith and the other defend ants, claiming that the best evidence ob tainable must be introduced and that the secondary evidence was inadmlssable. Judge O'Brien withheld a decision on the question until to-morrow During the day? the state offered a num ber of witnesses, in an attempt to show the for his vote, '-this alleged acceptance of $2,200 In four different payments, the mark ing of the money, his arrest and the al' leaed seizure of the marked money in his pockets.

Grant P. Hall, of Charleston, said that Senator Smith had demanded for his vote in the- senatorial contest for William Seymour Edwards. Hall assisted Townsend in the investigation. Unacquainted With Details. Although it was brought out through the testimony of Hall and Frank A.

Smith, the latter Secretary of the William Seymour Edwards Oil Company, that Smith had been instructed by Colonel Edwards to place the meney necessary to conduct the investigation in the hands Prosecutor Townsend. Hall testified that Edwards was unacquainted with the details of the plan and with the identity of the lawmakers. On several occasions I started to tell him something) about the investigation," declared Hall, "but he would nbt permit me to talk to him about It. saying that he did not want to know. On one occasion I told him that the exposure would him out of business, and he replied 'that he would rather clear up the rottenness in' the Legislature than be elected to the.

United States Senate. Smith testified that he had given Hall $27,000 to conduct the investigation. Of this amount KO.000 was given Hall on the day of', the arrest of the solons when Dele gate Rhodes was alleged to have been handed $13,000. Sheriff Bonner Hill, of Kanawha County; Justice Charlee Staunton. S.

Bock, Charles F. McConihay and Ben B. Hall testified concerning the spectacular arrest of the members of the Legislature last February, the latter asserting he had been Invited to the room for a conference, the door locked and then required to stay in the room as a witness until the accused were arrested. "WANDEBLUST" VICTIM FOUND. srSClAL nUPATCH TO TSB BX4DIBBB.

Lexington, June 24. John McNa-mara. 21 years old, of Syracuse. N. i for whom a search of the country has been tn progress for months.

Is In this city and will! return to his parents as soon as funds reach him. McNamara is a victim of 1 WEDNESDAY 25, COX GIVES RIBBONS To National Guardsmen Tor Services Saring the M-ECIA DISPATCB; TO THE BNQDiaSB. Columbus. Ohio. June 24.

In a field nef Lancaster Governor James M. Coa thi1 evening made the first presentation of service ribbons for flood duty under th special act of the General Assembly. recipfents were members of the Sanitary Department of the Ohio National Guard, which is made up of the First and Second Ambulance Corps and the First and Second Field Colonel Joseph Hall, of Cincinnati, commanding. They are marching overland from- the capital to Lancaster, bivouacking in the fields en route. The Governor reminded the recipients that the honors voted them were for the formance of the highest type of patriotism toward suffering humanity.

One of the pathetic- incidents was the sor. row displayed by one of the negro civilian cooks. He served all through the flood exigency. When he found that, booause ha was not an enlisted man. he.

could not re' reive a ribbon, he broke down and wept Governor Cox will try to have some recog' nltion given the civilian attaches of the service. Including many women hospital nurses. PRISONER CHEATS JUSTICE. Jumps From Window To His Death When Waiting To Be Arraigned. irtCUt, PltriTTH TO TBI INQrilEl.

Terre Haute. June 24. John Brant linger, charged with larceny, leaped from the ofrict of the Prosecutor, on the third floor of the Vigo County Courthouse to day, and killev himself while the Prose cutor was preparing an information against him. Brantlingef hid in a laat night, robbed It after It had been rosd. and wag caught while spending the money.

In 1 fierce battle with local police he was ar rested. As he waited In the Prosecutors office to-day to be arraigned he leisurely toward the window and leaped to the pave ment below. He was dead when officials reached his side. TRIMMING Of Gallia County, Ohio Charged in Indictments Against Infirmary Superintendent. Brother Also Accused Former Surveyor Is Alleged To Have Accepted Bribes.

riciii. pimTr to Tw Kmiiil. Gallipolls. Ohio June 24. As a result of the examination made by Spexlal Examiner John A.

Bliss into graft charges" against Gallia County officials, a special grand Jury to-day reported indictments. Harry M. Womeldorff. Superintendent of the County Infirmary, was indicted on 10 counts, one for alleged embeBzlement ot county funds, and nine charging certifying of false bills. Three indictments were found against Edward Womeldorff, a hardware merchant and brother of the Infirmary Superintendent, one alleges perjury and two for the alleged certifying of false bills for goods sold to ttie Infirmary.

Millard F. Leonurd. a former County Surveyor, was Indicted en a charge-of soliciting and accepting bribes in connection with county road work. An Indictment also was returned against Harry L. Cadot.

Mayor of Gallipolls. for assault and battery. The Indictments state that Superintendent Womeldorff purchased silk stocklnsa for the use of his family and charged the expense to the county, saying they were to be put on the old women who died at the In Btitution. Toilet goods were bought for private use and charged as hoof ointment and horse powders, it is charged. Edward Womeldorff sold a bicycle, gun and other goods to the Infirmary, and charged them as wire fencing.

It is alleged. It is claimed by Examiner Bliss that by this method enough wire fencing had been purchased to fence the whole of Gallia The grand jury also found several indictments rheUegleingjnf liquors. LIFE Of Editor Was Saved Through Heroic Method of Dr. Tiffin Sinks, Who Dies in Leavenworth rpsciu. DtnrATCB to rat bnqcieeii.

Leavenworth, June 24. Dr. Tiffin Sinks. 79 years bid. the first practicing physician to locate in Leavenworth, died to-day in his room in the Leavenworth Times Building willed to him by the late Colonel X).

R. Anthony, wjio was saved from death in the early days by Dr. Sinks. In a gun light Leavenworth streets between Fred Embry, a rival editor, a bullet severed Anthony's aorta. Physicians from all hear-by cities despaired of saving the life of the Kansas editor.

Finally Dr. Sinks was called. He summoned four Catholic Sisters to the bedside and Instructed them to hold the severed aorta together until it healed. For more than two weeks the Sisters did this, fcavfng Anthony's life: In his will Anthony, who was a brother of Susan B. Anthony, the left Instructions that Dr.

jSinks be given a home In the Times Building for the remainder of his life. Or. Sinks was born In Williamsburg, Ohio. He was graduated from the Ohio Medical College at 1 as pi. wis ''ST TONGUE I Of Flame Leaps Out From Corn Pit and Large Milling Plant Seven Persons Are Killed and Fifty InjWed.

Buffalo Concern Suffers a L6ss of $1,000,000. Workman Is Blown Through Roof Engineer and Fireman Are Hurled From Their Train. 1 trtrtti, respires to Tar nt-ir. Buffalo. N.

June 24. -Seven men art known to be dead and persons were injured, some of them fatally. In a series of explosions folowrd by a fire late to-day, which destroyed the Husted Milling big plant at Klk and Peai-ody Streets. Two bodies have been recovered Every hospital in the city Is filled with the injured. The concern -iploved more than i men.

The explosions caus-ed the walls to i eol lapse. A Nickel-Plate past-eriger train was pass ing the plant when the first explosion or. curred. Although the trak 1s l.V fert from the Engineer John Conroy and his fireman w-ere, blown from the cab. Both were seriously Injured.

Conroy later d'JPing. To-night an unidentified body was found in the ruins. An unidentified boy was killed while crossing a railroad bridge clos to the mill. A young man was run down and killed automobile carrying a physician which was liurrying to the scene of the explosion Man Blown Through Roof. One of the men working near the pit where the explosion occurred was blown hrough.

the roof of the building and over Tr railroad tree tie 300 feet away. He was believed to be Michael King. When picked up by an ambulance surgeon the man wu terribly crushed and died on the way to the hospital. The explosion was caused by spontaneous combustion in a pit where many tons of corn were stored. One of the 200 men employed in the fac tory where the explosion took place said: The-flrt sign of any disturbance was when a vast tongue of flame burst from the corn pit.

followed an Instant later by a tremendous explosion. This was succeeded by several others. ust how many the man was not certain. as he ran from the building just in time to see the rear wall collapse burying a large number of workmen. Alarm after alarm of fire was turned in.

The first companies of firemen were able to carry out many of the dead and dying. Foreman Instantly Killed. The first body brought out was that of Henry Vetter. foreman of the factory. He had b.n Instantly, killed.

Fifty other mutilated men were carried out by the fire men and the police while flames roared through the great factory building. The eyes of many of the victims were blown out and hands and feet were burned off. The plant was entirely destroyed by fire that followed the explosions, with a loss of about xl.noo.ooo. The elevator company employed 200 men. and, according to 'Vice President Husted, of the company, four are not accounted for.

Employees who escaped declared that many of their fellow workmen were cut oft by the flames and probably perished. A dozen box cars loaded with grain were destroyed. The elevator had a capacity of 500,000 bushels. Half was of old wooden construction and with its contents was de- stroyed. KILLED AT PICNIC.

rrnciAi. pmpatcb to thk bsotibbb. Pittsburg. June 24. The gayety at the annual picnic of the Elks of Western Pennsylvania in Idlewlld Park this afternoon was to gloom when a pipe filled with dynamite and powder exploded, killing one man and injuring several others.

Albert KIrsch, years old, of Beaver avenue. North Side, a member of Lodg- Xtu. was killed almost instantly when struck by a fragment of the pipe. "OIL QUEEN" IS RELEASED. Mrs Cynthia Sparks Says She Will Return To Husband, nisrATca to tbr sxqutbbr.

Charleston. W. June 24. Despite the efforts of her relatives to separate her and her young husband. Cynthia C.

Sparks, known as "'West Virginia's Oil Queen." again is free. Utter having been incarcerated in the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane for the past 10 days. The Superintendent and the members of the State Board, of Control have placed beyond question her sanity after a close observa tion during that time. Mrs. Sparks will go to her twenty-stx- year-oia us Dana, rea jspuma, nan alleged by the woman's children by her first husband, was rapidly dissipating her fortune of $2,000,000 by his extravagant living.

1 Mrs. Sparks declared to-day that her young husband Is welcome to the half of her fortune which she retained after having signed over the half to him. She declared that he couM "spend It and long as she was with him it made little difference to hpr where the money went 1 i I Wilson's Probable Choice To Prosecute Frisco Cases BKBmmmmWmmWmmmVmmm1mlNmmmmm1UBmXmmmmVmmnm1mmWKmmmWKmlm. Cp.x TJ I eV 1 i I FRANCIS J. HENEY, Famous for his prosecution of California graft and other investigations.

PEARL For Each Wedded Year Is president's Gift To His Consort oa Anniversary -Mrs. Wilson Goes Slumming. reciti. dittch to thk BuriiEi. Washington.

June 24. To-day was the twenty-eighth wedding anniversary of the President and Mrs. Wilson at Savannah. Ga. Each observed it tn a oinerent way.

After a busy morning with callers and a long Cabinet meeting the President mo- tored to the golf links, dressed In a white linen suit, white shoes and a Filpino straw iat. He wore a white flower in his buttonhole. Mrs. Wilson, who has recovered from a recent illness, went on a slumming expedi tion through many of the national capi tal's alleys, which it is her purpose to have abolished as places of abode for the poor. She was accompanied by Mrs.

Ernest P. Bit knell and Representative Fitzgerald, Chairman of the House Committee on Ap propriations. Mrs. ilson wanted to dem onstrate to Mr. Fitzgerald need of an appropriation to do away wth the alley districts.

She had been over the ground jnany times before in the crusade, against the alleys that was 'begun several weeks I ago. There was no formal observations of the wedding anniversary at the White House. but flowers came in great quantities and congratulations were many. President Wilson presented Mrs. Wilson with a string of 2 pearls.

Mrs. wiison bestowed on him a new pair of gold cuff buttons with the United States seal in raised enamel. The Misses Jessie and Eleanor Wilson shared the joy of the anniversary with their parents. SNAKE Is Piece de Resistance On the Menu of Mexican Federals Above. Guaymas Battle Continues With Heavy Losses.

rCIAI. DISPATCH TO TEB B.VQFIBRB. Nogales, June 24. Federal soldiers above Guaymas are reduced to eating snakes, so completely has the food supply, been cut off by the Sonora insurgent state troops, say advices reaching here to-day. Smallpox epidemics fn the Constitutionalist camps partially equalize the situation.

Despite the demoralization caused by famine anf disease on either side, fighting Waa reported to have continued late tor day. The Insurgents attacked Ojeda's column on both the front and rear. Many were reported killed, while the wounded He unattended on the field. Pancho Villa and his band of Mexican rebels are en route from C'asas Grander. 150 miles south of here, to attack Juarez, according' to a messenger of the Pearson lumber Interest who has arrived at El Paso.

VICTIM Of. Criminal Operation Said To Have Been Carried From Yard To Desk in Office To Conceal Crime. RPBCIAL. DISPATra TO THE SNQFIKBH tffe Salisbury. June i'4.

Despite efforts being made by the authorities to keep secret the developments in the investigation into the death of Miss Florence Walnwright, who was found dead in the office of the Home Gas Company Friday night, it now is known that the young woman did not die of poison, but from a criminal operation performed, it is thought, Friday afternoon in yard back of the Gas Company office. I That the young woman did not die sit ting at her desk, as was made to appear now seems certain. In all probability she was carried Into the office and placed at the desk in the position in which she was found. It is thought that at least three persona were with the young woman when she died. Harold Smith, manager of the Gas Com pany, testified before the Coroner's Jury, it Is said, that he was In tfie office all afternoon, leaving there at The young woman he says, was alone in the office when he went BRAVERY Of Man at the Throttle Carries Sixteen Men Through Walls of Flame Half 8 Mile Wide in Wisconsin Forests.

8PBCUX. TO TBB BNOCIBIB. Marinette. 'June, 24. The fearless.

ness of an engineer, who drove Ms locomotive attached' to a logging train at a rate of 40 miles an hour over a rickety track and through a blazing wood, saved the lives of 16 men near to-day. The men. who were members of a logging crew, valiantly endeavored to prevent flames from sweeping Camp Five of the Oconto Forced to flee from he heat and 'surrounded by flames, the men got aboard the logging'train and the dash for safety started. Through the woods, from which great walls of fire swept across the track, the train dashed. Fourteen tlmea the caboose caught fire during the half-mile run through the fire zone, and once the heat ignited the engine but of the the fl.amea-before much damage was done.

All of the me rubers of the crew were rendered unconscious by the Intense heat, but it was decided all would survive. The loss to the Oconto Oorapuny wan T0KTTJRED TO DEATH. PkriAU Ulf T. TMK ENUUIKKH. Camden, N.

June 24. Joseph Denni. 18 years old. employed in the factory of a talking machine cmpany, died in a hospital to-day from a rupture of the abdomen caused by two other workmen forcing a brass tube down Defini's throat and filling, his compressed air. Eugene Bysher and Walter Simon were art est ed and will be held pending the Coroner's irj-qucst.

PRICE FIVE CENTS RULER In Hands of Wilson Lands un the Knuckles of Naughty McNab. Action of Prosecutor Is Called Inexcusable. Prompt Trials Ordered in Cases Involved. Heney Tipped For Posr of Special I Attorney. Secretary of i Labor Joins the "Alibi'1 Brigade.

Grand Jurors Who Returned Indictments Excoriate Mc- Reynolds For Usur- pation of P(ower." SPECrAI. msrATCH TO, THE S(t-KX. Washington, June 24. President "Wilson this afternoon accepted the resignation of John I. McNab, United States District Attorney at San Francisco, and sent a telegram rebukins him for, makmg pubJJe charges taxing Attorney-General MeRey- i i nolds in connection with the Caminettl Diggs white slave case and Western Fuel case.

But the action ot tne impairment of Justice in postponing the trial of both of theee caies until next fall was reverse by the President! who directed that spe cial counsel be immediately employed and. that all the defendants be placed en trial without further delay. Thus the immediate effect of McNab'8 sensational and defiant allegations against he AttowtejlUGewe ra ia. thaL. the speedy trial for which he was contending 1 achieved, although It cost him his Job.

i i This, however, he must have expected) in view of the insubordination and disre- respectful manner in which he epoke of th Attorney-General In', his telegram of re- signation to the President last eeturda night. McReynolds's Course Approved. Although the President has ordered ait immediate trial of these cases after th Attorney-General had directed their postponement until he neverthelessan- nounced to-night that he was entirely satisfied with thl "course previously' taken by Mr. McReynolds. This may seem like anv indirect rebuke to 'jthe Attorney-General also, although the President evidently tries to avoid creating tnis impreision by declaring that "I approve your course very heartily and without hesitation:" 'r The President reproaches District Ailor ney McNab.

for haslly casting aspersfsns upon the Attorney-General and not waiting; until- he had further communication with that official before making public his grievance. This is the telegram he sent to th District Attorney "I greatly regret that you should have acted ao hastily and under so complete a misapprehension of the actual circumstances, but, since you have chosen such, a course and have given your resignation the form of an inexcusable intimation of injustice and( wrongdoing on the part of your superior. I release you without hesitation and accept your, resignation, to take effect at once. Wood row This telegram was given out at the Whlta House to-night, together with a letter which the President 'wrote to the Attorney-General and a statement of the two, cases by McReynolds, which included a letter from Secretary of Lbor Wilson, at whose request the white slave caaea had been postponed. Letter Goes To McReynolds.

The President's letter to the Attorney-General reads as follows: i "My Dear Attorney-General: Allow ma to acknowledge with sincere 1 appreciation your letter of to-day, giving me a full account of the way In which the Department of Justice has dealt with the DIggs-Cami- netti and the Western Fuel Company case pending in California, and transmitting the documents connected with the two cases necessary for the elucidation, I am entirely satisfied that the course you took In both these cases was prompted by sound and im partial judgment and a clear instinct for what was fair and. right. 1 approve your course very heartny anfi wunout nos na tion. But 1 agree with-you that what we may think of what has' been done does not relieve us of the oMigation to press these rases with tne iitmont oiugence ana energy. 1 approve heartily of your suggestion that in the circumstance's' special counsel be employed, the ablest we can obtain.

1 will be very glal to confer; with you about the se lection. 1 hope that you will do this with out delay. 1 am very glad. Indeed, that you are giving your' personal attention to the immediate and diligent prosecution of the cases, which 1 agree' with you in regarding as of srious Importance from every point of view. Sincerely jours.

"Woodrow One sentence In the President's letter the Attorney-General is naturally inter-. (I 4 1. i T. KM.