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II THE SUN, BALTIMORE, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1907. EXONERATED BY TEXAS LEGISLATURE BLAMES LABOR PMOBS Rock Island Vice-President Says They Cause APPEALS TO S. COURT Chanler Wants The New York Authorities Restrained. JEROME MORE -GENTLE Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Has A Good Day On The Stand. IP1 SENATE EXONERATES BAILEY Bnt The Vote To Dismiss Committee AVas IS To 11.

Austin, Texas, Feb. 25. By a vote of 15 to 11 the Texas Senate today discharged the investigating committee which has been in session several weeks looking into charges against United States Senator V. Bailey. The anti-Bailey following had offered a resolution Instructing the committee not to bring in a report at this time, but to send a subcommittee to St.

Louis to secure the testimony of II. Clay Pierce, of the Waters- SENATOR JOSEPH W. BAILEY found a hypodermic syringe among Thaw's effects?" "I did not tell Mr. Hummel that." "Did you tell Mr. Hummel that Thaw threatened to kill you?" "1 did not." 1 Mr.

Jerome then offered the witness the photographic copy of the Hummel affidavit. Mrs. Thaw said that the photograph reproduced a signature that looked like hers. Mr. Delmas objected to the use of the photograph until the original was produced or accounted for.

Hummel To Take Stand. Mr. Jerome said he would have to interrupt the examination to callj Abraham Hummel and his stenographer to identify the photographic copy. "With the understanding that Mr. Hummel is to take the stand tomorrow, we agree to an adjournment at this time," said Mr.

Delmas. District Attorney Jerome said that after the photograph of the affidavit is admitted ie would have a few more questions to ask Mrs. Thaw concerning it, and he would then be through with her. Adjournment was taken until tomorrow at 10.30 A. M.

Stanford White Brougrht In. It is further alleged that as a part of that conspiracy the late Stanford White, on the pretext that petitioner's presence in New York was desired "solely and exclusively for convivial purposes," lured him to that city, "for the purpose of giving the Supreme Court of that State ostensible and colorable jurisdiction over his person to arrest and imprison him as an insane person. Chanler claims that as he was then a citizen of Virginia the New York court had no jurisdiction over him, and that the order was further illegal in that he had no opportunity to appear, was not notified that the proceedings were pending and Tits commitment was almost entirely upon the testimony of Drs. Starr and Fuller. How He Was Committed.

The order of commitment shows that the physicians examined Chanler while he was stopping at the Kensington Hotel, after his arrival from Virginia; that they swore he was "violent, excited, is armed, threatens people, is dangerous;" that he had delusions that lie could change the color of his eyes, the shape of his nose and ears so that he resembled Napoleon, and that he was immoral. His brothers deposed that Chanler, at his Virginia home, bad acted in a very erratic manner had burned his hand carrying hot coals in it that he had "devised jnany peculiar projects, such as a roulette scheme to beat Monte Carlo," and that he claimed to be inspired. In the lunacy proceedings in Virginia, Chanler's hallucination was referred to as the "Napoleonic death trance" and it was claimed was brought about by Chanler's "X-faculty." HOWARD NESBIT THREATENS Declares Thaw "Will Get All That's Coming; To Htm." Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Pittsburg, Feb. will get all that's coming to him, even If the jury does free him." This was the bitter remark attributed to Howard Nesbit, brother of Mrs. Harry K.

Thaw, at the Union Depot last evening. Young Nesbit came from New York Saturday for the avowed purpose of talking to his 'mother, Mrs. Charles J. Holman, and urging her to go to New Y'ork and on the witness stand, where he declares she could give testimony which would send Thaw to the chair. He failed of his mission and received a severe snubbing, Mrs.

Holman saying she would not go to New York under any condition and that she considered that Thaw was insane when he killed White. Y'oung Nesbit is reported as being furious over his defeat and to have said: "After this trial is over, Mrs. Thaw and Harry, too, will throw my sister down and it's all she deserves. To think that she got on the stand and lied the way She did is awful. Mr.

White wan a good man and I know he never my sister the way she says he did. "Of course, I wanted my mother to go East and tell what she knows. It is a shame that she will not go. Her reputation has been ripped up in a terrible fashion, and I blame Jerome for all of it. It is a shame and I did all I could to talk my mother into becoming a witness and telling all she knows, and if she does Harry Thaw will be a doomed man.

Nothing will save him from the electric chair if she becomes a witness. And that fate is too good for him. He has practically allowed his wife to lie and crucify my and Thaw must be crazy to allow her to do anything of the sort." CRIES HEARD THROUGH PHONE Bat Aid Came Too Late To Save Woman From Tramp. Centerville, Iowa, Feb. telephone users all over Wayne county yesterday heard the screams of Mrs.

George Stech while she struggled desperately with a tramp who attacked her in her home near the county line. Men in the homes of her nearest neighbors who hastened to get out teams and rush to her assistance were too late to save Mrs. Stech or capture her assailant. Posses with bloodhounds are searching the countryside and there is a chance that the tramp will be lynched if captured. Mrs.

Stech says the tramp came to her door and demanded admittance. She was alone in the house with her 3-year-old girl and, frightened, she closed the door In the tramp's face and locked it. The man at once commenced to break down the door. Mrs. Stech carried her little girl to a bedroom and locked her in.

She then ran to the telephone and rang to call for help, but before she could speak the tramp had forced his way in and seized her. She dropped the receiver, leaving the telephone open and the central operator heard her first scream. For half an hour the woman struggled desperately with her assailant all over little living room. Each time she found herself near the telephone she screamed for help. In nearly every home on the system to which her telephone belonged her screams were heard.

The first of her neighbors to arrive found Mrs. Stech bound and unconseious. The tramp had disappeared. The men who started out to hunt him down after hearing her story were armed and said they would shoot him on sight. GOES TO ELECTRIC CHAIR Yontb.

Had Murdered A Farmer In Dutchess County, Jfew ToTk. Osslnlng, N. Feb. Granger, aged 20 years, was put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison today. His crime was the murder of a farmer, Charles Lutz, in Dutchess county, in 1C05.

The electric current was applied three times before Granger was declared dead. Was Child Of The Bowery. George Granger, who was in his 21st year, had spent most of his life on the Bowery, in New Y'ork, or In some charitable institution in the city. His mother died when he was 5 years old. In the winter of 1904 he got employment with a theatrical company, but was turned adrift when the season closed.

In June, 1905 he went to an employment agency in New Y'ork, and, tendering his watch in lieu of a fee, was sent to the farm of Charles Lutz, a dairy farmer, at Pawling, Dutchess county. He worked there for a few days, and then tired of country life. He knew that Lutz carried more or less money in wallet, and he lny in wait for him on a lonely road. When the farmer drove past in his milk wagon Granger shot him in the back, killing him. From his victim's pocket he got about $70.

SOUTHERN LUMBERMEN MEET Baltimore Exchange Represented At Joint Session In Florida. Jacksonville, Feb. 25. The Georgia-Florida Lumbermen's Association met here today, routine business and adjourned to meet In Tifton, March 12. The members accepted an invitation to hold the June meeting In Fernandlna, Fla.

This afternoon a joint meeting of the following associations was held: Wholesale Lumber Dealers', Association of New York, New Y'ork Lumber Trades Association, Yellow Pine Exporters of New Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia, Lumber Exchange of Baltimore; Boston Lumber Trade Association, South Carolina Lumber Association and the Georgia-Florida Lumber Association. Only a short session was, held, at which a. closer union of the associations was discussed. The delegates later were taken for a ride to the cstrich farm and other places of interest. Tomorrow they will be given a steamer excursion on the St.

John's river. In Quarantine. "The old man'a in a. bad fix." "You don't say "Yes the children split up his wooden leg to kindle the fire with," and now the old woman's got him where she can lectuife hire good!" Atlanta Constitution- In the summer of 1902, In "The Tower." Stanford White and some other men and girls also were there. She had gone to supper with him frequently and alone.

"Did you ever go to Dr. Carlton Flint with Jack Barrymore?" "No." "Ever see him?" "Not that I remember." "Did White continually object to your going with Jlarrymore?" "Yes after he had seen my mother." "When did you last see Mr. Barrymore?" "When I went to call on his sister In Pittsburg, in 10OU." Does Not Remember Dr. Flint. At this point Dr.

Carlton Flint, who had been sent for by the prosecution, appeared In court, was escorted to within a few feet of the witness and confronted her. "Did you ever see that man before?" demanded Mr. Jerome of Mrs. Thaw. The witness turned quickly toward the newcomer, hesitated a moment, and then said: "Never." "You are sure?" said Mr.

Jerome threateningly. "To the best of my knowledge I never saw him before." "Did you not go to him with Jack Barrymore?" "No." Dr. Flint withdrew. Mrs. Thaw said she had first heard Mrs.

Caine's story about Thaw's proposal to her mother' three weeks ago, when Mrs. Calne told it to Mr. Delmas. Mr. Jerome next asked the witness if she had understood Thnw was paying "honorable court" to her.

She declared she didn't know whether Thaw had matrimonial Intentions during the first period of their acquaintance or not; Story Excited II Im. Mrs. Thaw said that previous to telling her story to Thaw she noticed nothing about him that she thought was a mark of Irrationality, but after he heard the story he became very much excited and brooded over the story, gradually growing worse. When Thaw heard of the letter of credit which Stanford White had given her he became much excited. "He said the money was filthy and poisonous and that I must never touch It again," said Mrs.

Thaw. "He said he would take It bo I. could not use It. He said that he would give me anything I wanted and that if mamma wanted anything she would only have to ask for it. "When Mr.

White gave me the letter of credit It was sealed up. I did not know what it was. and he told me I must not open the letter until we were well at sea. Whatever was used of the money was for my mother. Mr.

Thaw gave It to her after I had given it to him." In describing their life In Paris, Mrs. Thaw said she found in the rooms some peculiar-looking needles which looked like darning needles. She asked Mr. Thaw-about and be 6aid they were old stuff someone had left behind. Mr.

Thaw had never written her about them, she said, whereupon Mr. Jerome produced one of the letters which the'de-fense had introduced, in which Thaw inen-tious the needles and explains that they were not for morphine. The letter, however, Is one of those sent in Mr. Longfellow's care and which was not delivered. She had never seen the letter, she said, until it was shown her by Mr.

Gleason. Thaw did not drink heavily In Paris, she testified, except occasionally. After returning to New York on October 24, 1903, Thaw went, she said, first to the Savoy Hotel and then to the Navarre, staying at each hotel several weeks. Her bills at these hotels she paid out of money given her by Thaw. When she left Paris she had quite a sum of money which Thaw had given her about Began To Believe "White.

Mrs. Thaw said that before she left the Savoy she had begun to believe the "terrible stories Stanford White had told about Harry." "But, believing the stories to be true, you continued to pay your expenses out of Thaw's money?" asked Mr. Jerome. "Yes." "Did White give you any presents while there?" "No." While at the Sav Mrs. Thaw said she went out several times with White, and she told him about her travels with Thaw.

"Did you tell him about your mother?" "He knew more about mamma than I did." "What did he tell you he knew about your mother?" Mr. Delmas objected and was sustained. Mr. Jerome, reading from the statement he secured from Mrs. Holman, asked the witness if her mother nnd a Miss Simon-ton had not gone to White upon their return from Europe and taxed him with the girl's story of hor downfall, the architect replying: "My wife on one side and my son on the other, and may God strike me dead if I ever harmed her." "Yes, he told me that." said Mrs.

Thaw, "and he told me his body turned ice-cold when they accused him. He Said he could handle a dozen mammas, but he was afraid of this Simonton woman." "You had told Miss Simonton." "Yes In Paris." Mrs. Thaw said that Thaw had sent for Miss Simonton to accompany Mrs. Nesbit home, as she was determined to go. "We did it purely out of kindness for mamma," she said.

She declared that Thaw had paid Mrs. Nesbit's fare to America. Mr. Jerome tried to show that White had told her that he had sent the money to pay the fare, but Mr. Delmas objection was sustained: She said that before Thaw returned from Europe she went several times to dinners at "The Tower." Several times she went alone with White, trusting to his word that there would be others present.

The witness never had seen Thaw take cocaine and did not tell Abraham Hummel she had, nor that Thaw had tried to ad-miniser cocaine to her. Mrs. Thaw, at the direction of Mr. Jerome, repeated all the stories White had told her about Harry Thaw. "So by the time he arrived In America you had ceased to love him?" "Yes 1 thought it all very horrible." No Suit For "Was there ever any talk of a suit against Thaw for kidnapping?" "Not that ever heard of." "Were you depressed upon your return to America in 1903?" "No." "And Thaw had proposed to you just three months before?" "Yes." Mrs.

Thaw said that her reconciliation with Thaw took place a few days before Christmas. 1903, when she went to dinner at the Cafe Beaux Arts on the invitation of Mazle Follette and there unexpectedly found Thaw. Before this reconciliation, She said. Thaw sent her flowers, but she denied that he had ever sent her jewelry. "Didn't you show Abe Hummel a diamond ring for which you said Thaw paid "I did "Have you such a ring?" "I have not." Mr.

Delmas objected to further ques Honing along this line, and was sustained. Mrs. Thaw said her friendship with White ceased about Christmas, 1903. "Did you receive money from White after that date." "I did not, in no way, 6hape or manner." The witness admitted that she and Thaw sat down at a table In a restaurant with the man who told her that Thaw tied glrl3 to bedposts and beat them. "What was Thaw's manner toward this loan?" asked Mr.

Jerome. "Was it rational or Irrational?" "He was more or less amused." The Return To New York. "When you returned to New York, where did you go?" The Cumberland. I think." "Yoi had to leave the Cumberland?" "Yes." "When you were directed to leave what was Thaw's manner?" "Ratioual." "When you went to 'Abe' Hummer's office you had a talk with him?" "Yes." "Did you not tell him the details of your trip to Europe?" "Yes." "Did you not tell 'Abe' Hummel at that time that Thaw beat you with a whip?" "I did not." Mr. Jerome continued to question Mrs.

Thaw about her visit to Hummel, reading from a photographic copy of the famous affidavit. Mr. Jerome said that he would later submit the paper to the witness, but In the meantime he got practically the entire document before the jury by asking questions covering every one of its allegations. Mrs. Thaw, declared she had not told Hummel the things alleged.

One of the incidents related in the affidavit which Mr. Jerome read was that while traveling in Europe Thaw had torn her clothes from her and had beaten her, acting all the while like a person demented. "Did you tell Mr. Hummel you bad TOO" MUCH IRRESPONSIBILITY Great Demand For Workers, Official Asserts, Makes It Impossible To Strict Discipline. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

Chicago, Feb. 25. H. U. Mudge, vice-president in charge of operation and construction of the Rock Island Railway system, eaid today regarding the cause for the recent numerous railway accidents "I have made a study of railway accidents for many years.

I am convinced that the, great loss of life on American railways is due largely to labor conditions. I would not pretend to say that all the blame is to be laid at the door of organized labor, but I do believe that there is a general irresponsibility on the part of trainmen an irresponsibility that is a natural outgrowth of the labor conditions of the age. "Railway traulc is so heavy and there is such an urgent and general demand for men that employment is easy to get. If a man prove to be not up to the mark for one road, he does not find it difficult under these conditions to get employment with another road. One of the results is that all railway officials are powerless to apply discipline as it should be applied.

They are. also unable to get and retain as many reliable and competent men as they should have. "There are demands enforced by the labor organizations, which are destructive in a degree of the best and safest service. The seniority rule is one of the things that works serious harm. Through it the men oldest in point of service are given the preference regardless of their competency and responsibility.

Other- things beiDg equal, the seniority plan is a good one. but it frequently works disastrously in practice. "I firmly believe that collisions on the railways cf this country will never be reduced to what they are In other countries until "the authorities take the stand that the men in charge of trains are to be held strittly accountable for their failure to observe the rules and regulations laid down for the saving of life and property. "I submit that the regard for all kind of law in this country is not what it is abroad. If men will have competent rules of conduct laid down in the statutes, they are quite as likely to hold lightly the regulations and rules prescribed by their employers In the service they perform for the public "Most men in considering the railway accidents in this country do not stop to think of the great fluctuations of travel.

For instance, between the months of June and September the increase in traffic on the Rock Island was 46 per cent. An expansion such as that In so short a time is no little thing to deal with. With an immense increase In the carrying business- there must be a little increase in the train forces to handle It. The problem Is to get safe men for this purpose. I am convinced that the difllcultles in handling traffic that have been encountered the last year are due more to a shortage of competent men than to a shortage of cars and equipment.

"Personally, I think we are going too fast, but the people are going too fast in many other ways. It Is in the blood. There is rarely any objection to fast riding until the train goes into the ditch, and the greater the speed the worse the accident as a general rule." BLAMES NEW YORK CENTRAL Jerome's Assistant Charges Criminal Responsibility For Wreck. New York. Feb.

25. A formal request that the coroner's jury bring in a verdict that the New York Central Railroad and its vice-president, William J. Wilgus, were criminally negligent in connection with the wreck on the Harlem division of that road on February 16, in which more than a score of lives were lost, was made today by Assistant District Attorney Smith. Mr. Smith has had charge of the inquiry whioh has been In progress since last Monday.

His request was made-after Prof. Earl B. Lovell. of Columbia had testified that he had made computations I which convinced him that the accident las due to the great weight and excessive Lovell sa id that the same computations might have been made before the accident and that they would have shown that the accident was sure to come. He declared-that the construction of the track was such that it was "decidedly unsafe" to send a train of the weight of the Brewster express around the curve where the accident occurred at the scheduled speed of 57.6 miles an hour.

"I believe," said Professor Lovell, "that the spikes on the outside of the outer rail on the curve were sheared by the presstire of the flange of the outer forward wheel of the front locomotive as It rounded the curve, and the subsequent derailment of the cars was due to the spreading of the rails permitted by the shearing of the spikes." Mr. Smith said he understood that Mr. Wilgus was in New Orleans and that the District Attorney's office wanted to give him a chance to appear at the inquest and testify. Mr. Smith then asked the coroner to adjourn the inquest until Friday.

This adjournment was granted. ELECTRIC LIGHTS HER TARGET Woman Motorist Has Great Sport Shattering Them. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Atlantic City, Feb. 25.

A sharp outlook is being kept by detectives stationed along the automobile boulevard leading to this city for a woman whose aim with a revolver is unerring and who Is said to have recently smashed 50 electric-light globes while her machine was speeding full tilt. Nearly all the electric-light globes along the boulevard, which extends several miles over to the mainland, have been shattered by revolver shots fired by motorists. The shooting up of the boulevard lights has been going on all winter and the practice has cost the county hundreds of dollars. An inspector recently detected a woman In a big auto shooting the globes. While the machine was being run at express-train speed, she stood up In one of the rear seats and smashed a number of bowls with shots from a large automatic revolver.

Other motorists are believed to have been en Joyin the novel sport, mm Tis, indeed, the pace -which kills. It is not -work which injures, it is overwork, worry, confinement, overtaxing the strain upon nerve and body, dissipation or spring debility, which breaks down the health, weakens the nerves, exhausts the body. You become weak, nervous, restless or fretful have dizziness, bad-feeling head and- unsteady and trembling nerves, strange sensations, a feeling of anxiety, gloom and discouragement you are sleepless and wake tired and unrefreshed; appetite and digestion fail, and you have kidney and liver constipation, rheumatism and finally nervous prostration, heart failure, paralysis, insanity death. Now, what is the remedy? Obviously something which will rebuild the shattered nerves, restore tone and vitality to the blood, brain and nerves and strengthen and invigorate all the organs of the body. There is nothing else known which will so completely and perfectly do this as Dr, Greene's Ker-vura blood and nerva remedy, that grandest of medicines, which is restoring the health of the people, recognized at the present day as the master remedy of the world.

Dr. Greene's Nervura is always pure, harmless and effective, and put up in compliance with the new National Pure Food law guarantee filed at Washington, serial number 150. Dr. Greene is the well-known public medical lecturer and specialist in treatment of nervous and chronic diseases and can be personally consulted at hi ofliee, 101 Fifth avenue, New York city, or by. nuula ire MILLIONAIRE'S QUEER CASE Escaped From Insane Asylum Has Brought Suit Asalnst Man Who Administered His Property.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Washington, Feb. 25. In behalf of John Armstrong Chanler, formerly of New York, and the first husband of Amelle Rives, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court of the United States today for a writ prohibiting the New York courts or their officers from molesting or arresting him while on a contemplated visit to New York State which Mr, Chanler desires to make in prosecution of a suit which he has instituted against Thomas T. Sherman, of New York.

Mr. Chanler was adjudged Insane in New York In 1897 and Sherman was appointed guardian of his estate, which is estimated to be worth over $1,000,000. Chanler escaped from the asylum at Bloomlngdale and now resides in North Carolina. He asserts his sanity and desires to take legal steps to recover his property, and asks for the protection of" the Federal courts against arrest by the New Y'ork authorities while in that State. A brief was submitted in behalf of Mr.

Sherman in opposition to the petition. The Court took the matter under advisement. Wants Full Protection. The petition filed today asks permission to file an application for a writ of prohibition, directed to "the honorable judges of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, to the officers or agents of that court, to the magistrates, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, police officers, and each and every person or persons of said State" and "to any person or persons, judges, officers of the law or private citizens in the States of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia," enjoining them from molesting or arresting Chanler while on a journey from his home in North Carolina to New-York. He wishes to appear in a suit which he has instituted to recover possesion of his estate.

The petition also asks that the order apply to the return journey to North Carolina that he be given: five days before the trial and five days afterward, and that a deputy United States marshal be detailed in attendance upon him to enforce the provisions of the writ and to protect the public from the petitioner, if he is, as claimed, "dangerous to the public peace and welfare." Says It Was Conspiracy. In his affidavit, accompanying the petition, Chanler makes oath thar he is not and has not been insane that his incarceration in the Bloomingdale Asylum was the result of a consp'racy on the part of Winthrop Astor Chanler and Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, his brothers, whom he charges with perjury In connection with these proceedings that the first named has a pecuniary interest In keeping the petitioner locked up, in that otherwise his income would be seriously curtailed through loss of legal fees for which the petitioner's estate has been mulcted, and he would "suffer the loss of prestige, which he now enjoys in the financial world by reason of his control, illegal as it be, over the plaintiff's property In New York and North Carolina." CROSS AND MITER ATTACHED Archbishop Vilatte Accuses Enemies Of Making; Trouble. Paris, Feb. 25. The cross and miter of Archbishop Vilatte, who has been assisting in the organization of the new French National Church, were seized today in an attachment suit brought by a certain Mme.

N. to recover which the woman asserts she loaned the archbishop in 1900 when he was trying to organize his former Schismatic church here. The Archbishop says the charge against him has been trumped up by his enemies. CHURCH VESSELS STOLEN Articles Of Great Historic And Intrinsic Value Taken. Treves, Prussia, Feb.

25. Thieves last night entered the famous Church of St. Paul through the Vault of the Martyrs, broke open the tabernacle and stole two monstrances, one of which Napoleon took from the Maximilian Monastery and gave to the Church of St. Paul. The thieves also took a golden cup and other rare jeweled vessels used in the church services and valued at many hundreds of thousands of marks.

Some of the articles stolen dated back to the seventh century. No clue to the identity of the thieves has been obtained. Pope Will Appeal To The'Hagrue. Paris. Feb.

25. A dispatch to the Eclair from Rome, published today, affirms, apparently on the authority of the Vatican, that It is the intention of the Pope to send a communication to The Hague Peace Conference regarding the expulsion from France of Mgr. Montagnini, the secretary of the Papal Nunciature at Paris, and the rupture of the concordat. BUEL0W ATTACKS CENTRISTS Taunts Them For Forming An Alliance With Foes Of Church. Berlin, 25.

The Imperial Chancellor, Prince von Buelow, in the course of a speech In the Reichstag today on the internal politics of Germany, accused the members of the Center party of combining with the Socialists In attacking the foundations of social order. He expressed astonishment that the church party should ally itself with a party whose counterpart in France had shot Catholic archbishops during the Commune. The Centrist leaders are much disturbed by the Chancellor's speech, as they had hoped they might be able to form some kind of a working arrangement with the Government, while the attitude of Prince von Buelow indicates a widening of the breach. Ambassador Tower and Third Secretary O'Shaughnessy, of the American Embassy, were among those present in the diplomatic box. Secretary of the Treasury von Stengel introduced in the Reichstag the same budget that was laid before the -house prior to its dissolution.

He stated that in spite of an increase in revenues for the fiscal year of $16,250,000 it would be necessary to Issue an Imperial loan of $50,000,000. TO REFORM BRITISH ARMY Secretary llaldane Lays Plan Before Commons. i London, Feb. 25. The latest scheme for the reorganization of the British army was unfolded by War Secretary Haldane in the House of Commons this afternoon.

It contemplates dividing all the forces into two categories, a field force and a territorial or home force. The former, with a total of 160,000 officers and men, is to consist of four cavalry brigades and six Infantry divisions, with a full complement of horse and field artillery, all to be kept in a complete state of organization, ready for immediate mobilization on the outbreak of war. The territorial force, totaling 500,000 men, will be a complete army in itself and as. nearly as possible of the same pattern as the regular troops. Mr.

Haldane's plan would unite all the present auxiliary forces, yeomanry, militia and volunteers, with a complement of regular artillery, into one homogeneous body, all to be paid at service rates during the time they are embodied or called out for training. The territorial forces would be so trained and organized as to enable their im mediate mobilization simultaneously with the field force, with the view of their systematic training for war, so as to be in readiness within a few months to support the regulars and make good the deficiencies In the fighting line. Mr. llaldane proposes the creation of a "special contingent" of troops within the territorial army consisting of 80,000 men, who will engage to join the regulars on their mobilization. These would be utilized principally with ammunition columns, the army service corps, railway work and other semi-civilian duties now performed by the highly trained and expensive regulars.

The present militia principle of the county organization will govern the whole home army organization, with the army council in supreme control. The War Secretary said that under the old system only about 100,000 regulars could be mobilized today, but he expected that the new organization would furnish a much more efficient and stronger force and at the same time have the effect of earing In the estimates oyer MAKES POINTS FOR DEFENSE Abraham Hummel To Give Testimony Today CroM-Examlnillon Of Woman Nearly Over. York, Feb. 25. Except for on brief moment, Mrs.

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw hail a decidedly easy day of It today during the continuation of her cross-examination by District Attorney Jerome. When adjournment wns taken the prosecutor announced that he had practically concluded with the witness. Mrs. Thaw will be temporarily excused tomorrow morning, to enable Mr. Jerome to lutroduce Abraham Hummel to identify a photographic copy of the affidavit Evelyn Nesbit is alleged to have signed, charging Thaw with many cruelties during their 1003 trip to Europe.

The District Attorney got the contents of the affidavit before the jury this afternoon by reading certain of Its statements In the form of questions and asking Mrs. Thaw It she told such things to Mr. Hummel. In each Instance she declared she had not. She also denied ever signing such an affidavit, admitting that she had, however, signed some papers for White in the Madison Square tower, of whose nature she was not awar It was during the morning session that Jerome played his strongest card of the day.

Mrs. Thaw had denied most positively that she had ever been to see a Dr. Carlton Flint with Jack Barrymore. "Call Dr. Flint," commanded Mr.

Jerome to aicourt attendant. The Doctor entered from the witness room and was escorted to within a few feet of the witness chair. "Did you ever see, that man before?" Mr. Jerome asked Mrs, Thaw. Startled, Bat Firm.

The witness seemed just a bit startled, looked quickly and intently at the physician, then turned to Mr. Jerome and shook her head. she declared. Thaw was intensely interested In this incident, and when it was over he turned to the newspaper men sitting Dearest him and whispered: "That man made a mistake in coming here. He stood there a liar.

Do you catch the point a liar?" Mrs. Thaw was in much better spirits when she took the stand today and looked decidedly better physically than she did Inst week. She seemed thoroughly at home in the witness chair, and, with footstool and back cushion, appeared quite comfortable. She had all her wits about her and did ivt fare at all badly at the hands of the District Attorney. Mho was more gentle in handling the witness.

Instead of further hurting the cause of hor husband, Mrs. Thaw managed to make two decided gains. When court adjourned Inst Thursday it appeared from her own statements that she had used letter of credit from Stanford "White while touring In Europe nnd had turned the letter over to Thaw. Today she explained that Thaw took the letter of credit from her, saying the money was "poisonous," and neither she nor her mother should touch It, and that he would provide them with funds. Whatever had been spent of the.

money, she declared, was for her mother. A Point On Cablegrams. The second point Mrs. Thaw made was concerning the cablegrams which Thaw is said to have sent to Stanford White from London. It appeared Thursday that these cablegrams were requests to White to use his Influence In keeping Mrs.

Nesbit from "raising a row" nnd interfering with Evelyn continuing In company with Thaw. Mr. Jerome took up the subject again today, but his question elicited the information that the letters did not concern Mrs. Thaw at all, but related to a man a secretary of the American Embassy in London, who, Mrs. Thaw said, had "sneaked up to mama and Insulted her." She said the man had also insulted her and that Thaw had gone in search of him, but failed to find him.

Tomorrow's proceedings, with Mr. Hummel on the stand, should be more interesting. Tho defense, on cross-examination, will attempt to discredit the witness, who Is under indictment. Should the defense decide to proceed with the redirect ex-nminatlon of Mrs. Thaw and Mr.

Jerome should take up the re-cross-examination, Mrs. Thaw may, be kept upon the stand all of Wednesday and Thursday. There may be an attempt, however, to intersperse the Inst phases of her testimony with further statements from the experts. Mrs. William Thaw, mother of the defendant, and Mrs.

Carnegie, his sister, were at the courthouse today for the first time in 10 days. Mrs. Thaw has been suffering from a severe cold. When the morning session opened Mr. Jerome asked Mrs.

Thaw If she had not had trouble with her mother In Allegheny, before going to Philadelphia to live if she had not run away with a girl. Mrs. Thaw replied In the negative. Mr. Jerome asked the witness if she had not oflen gone to suppers with two men whose names he whispered to her.

"I never went with them, but they were present." "Did they not on occasions take you home?" "One took me home once and the other twice but there was always another girl with me." "These suppers were after the theatre?" "Yes." A letter and envelope were shown Mrs. lhaw, who identified the writing as that of Stanford White. The envelope was postmarked Boston. January 20, 1002, and was addressed to Charles Hartnett, White's private secretary. It read: "Dear Hartnett: Please telephone Mrs.

Nesbit to let you know whenever Miss Evelyn decides to go on her vacation. Then send this note to the Mercantile Trust Company: 'Please notify Miss Nesbit that on receK-Ing word she is about to start on her vocation you will send her the weekly checks for $25 and an additional check for $200. Yours truly. Stanford Mother Signed Cheeks Too. The Introduction of this letter and several checks signed by Evelyn Nesbit and her mother refreshed Mrs.

Thaw's memory. The checks were In payment of hotel bills, and were drawn against a deposit made In the New Amsterdam Bank by White to the Joint credit of Mrs. Nesbit and her daughter. All of the checks drawn against this account were signed by both Evelyn and her mother. The witness testified that she first met Thaw either In December, 1901.

or January, 1902, at a dinner at Rector's, given by Thaw. This dinner was after a matinee and lasted, perhaps, an hour. She was taken to the dinner by another girl. "At this dinner," asked Mr. Jerome, "was Mr.

Thaw rational?" "Why, yes." "Had Thaw during these first weeks of your acquaintance given you any presents?" than some violets." "Did he ever Bend on any money with flowers?" "Yes once at the theatre." "Was this before or after he had called upon you?" "I can't remember." "Did It make no Impression on your mind?" "Yes, it did. That Is why I remember it." "You were not In the habit of receiving money from men, were you?" "No," indignantly. Saw It Going: On AH The Time. i -Didn't It strike you as strange?" "I knew it was always done at the theatre I saw it going on all the time." "Did you know him well?" "No." "Did your mother make you send the money back?" "No." "Who did send it back?" "1 did." "How much was It?" "Fifty dollars." she next saw Thaw she asked him not to do such a thing again, nnd he apologized. He was self-possessed at that time.

"When you returned from Europe In October, did not you go directly to Ledercr's office and telephone to Stanford White?" did not." "Didn't you try to telephone Mr. White from the wharf where the ship docked?" "1 did not." "Didn't you see George Lederer before ou saw Stanford White?" "No." She first saw Lederer In 1902. when she went to him with a letter from Mr. Marks, looking for a position. r'DId you ever go to supper with George "Yes." "Alone?" Tlie witness first met Jack Barrymore, Pierce Oil Company, and to embody such evidence in the committee's final report.

Adherents of Senator Bailey promptly offered a usbstitute that the investigating committee be discharged at once without making a report and that Senator Bailey be fully indorsed. After a rather heated "debate the substitute resolution was passed by a vote of 15 to 11. Mr. Bailey's friends contended that every member of the Legislature, as well as the general public, was fully acquainted with all the details of the evidence before the committee by reason of publication in the daily press and that the Senate members could vote on the question now in an intelligent manner. During the debate Senator Sentel announced, that he would introduce a resolution demanding the disbarment of J.

I). Johnson, of St. Louis, attorney for the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, from practicing In the courtf. of Texas. Johnson, he declared, had admitted that he was in a conspiracy to make a false affidavit.

The House will consider the investigation of Senator. Bailey tomorrow. BUSSE AGAINST DUNNE Chicago Postmaster To Be Candidate For Mayor. Chicago, Feb. 25.

As a result of Republican primaries today, Fred A. Busse. postmaster of Chicago, will be the candidate of the party for Mayor at the April election. The nominating convention will be held as soon as Mr. Busse, who was Injured in the railroad wreck in Pennsylvania, returns to Chicago.

The Mayor'3 term has been extended from two to four years, and a spirited fight Is expected between Mayor Dunne, Democratic nominee, and Mr. Busse. 'MR. BARNES OF N. DEAD Archibald Clavering GanterStrlck-en With Apoplexy.

Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. New York, Feb. 5. Archibald Claver-Ing Gunter will never put "Finis" to his last play he was writing, the one he told his friends would be the best he had yet put out. The manuscript Is lying on his study table in his home at loWest Seventy-third street and lacks but a few lines to finish it.

The author-playwright was stricken with apoplexy Saturday. Mr. Gunter was 59 years old and is survived by his widow, who was Miss Esther Lisbeth Burns, niece of George II. Story, former curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They had no children.

Had A Varied Career. Before his first successful novel. "Mr. Barnes of New Y'ork," which went through edition after edition and of which more than 1,000,000 copies have been sold here and in England, Mr. Gunter led a varied and active life.

Born in Liverpool, he was brought to New Y'ork by his parents at the age of 6. and soon afterward they went to San Francisco, where he was educated in the public schools and the University of California, subsequently being graduated from the School of Mines of that institution. He wns engaged as a civil engineer by the Central Pacific Railroad when he was 21 years old, was later a chemist in the California assay office, superintendent of the McKay mines in Utah, a stock broker in San Francisco and came to New York again In 1879, residing heresince that time. His residence was at 66 West Fifty-second street, but it was leased in bis absence and on his recent return to 'the city he rented the house In which he died. In the dramatic field Mr.

Gunter's best-known work is "Prince Karl," in which Richard Mansfield first won special fame. He wrote 39 novels, many of which have enjoyed more than brief success, and several plays, including "Two Nights in Rome," "Fresh, the American" and "The Deacon's Daughter." He used his immense profits from the sale of "Mr. Barnes of New York" to es tablish a publishing business and had published his own recent works. lie was pro prietor of the Home Publishing Company, No. 3 East Fourteenth street.

JENNY UNITS HUSBAND DEAD Otto Goldschmidt Dies At The Age Of 7S Years. London, Feb. 23. Otto Goldschmidt, the husband of Jenny Lind, the celebrated singer, who died In London in 1S87, died today at the age of 78 years. He married Miss Lind in 1852, during her American tour, on which he was her accompanist on the piano.

Mr. and Mrs. Goldschmidt took up their residence in England in 1S58. He was professor in the Royal Academy of Music in 18C3, was made vice-principal in 1866, was first musical director of the Bach Choir in 1876 and resigned in 1885. He edited in conjunction with Sterndale Bennett "The Chorae Book for England." Southern R.

It. Official Promoted. Mobile. Feb. 25.

Announcement was made today of the appointment of N. S. Jones, chief engineer of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad, to the position of general superintendent. The general offices of the road here will be abolished and L. F.

Whltlesey. former general manager, will go to tne Seaboard Air Line. FATHER DIRKES DIES SUDDENLY Was Assistant Pastor At Holy Cross Church. Rev. S.

H. Dirkes, assistant to Rev. Chas. Damer, pastor of Holy- Cross Catholic Church. West, near Light 6treet, died suddenly last night, being stricken with hemorrhages In the morning.

Sunday Rev. Father Dirkes delivered the sermon at high mass and appeared as well as usual. Yesterday when he failed to appear for dinner a servant went to summon him and found him semi-conscious. Physicians were notified and were soon at his bedside, but he died about midnight. Father Dirkes was born In Germany and had been at Holy Cross Church about 10 years.

TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS Little Rock, Feb. 25. The body of Bishop Edward Fitzgerald was brought to Little Rock yesterday afternoon and placed in St. Andrew's Cathedral, where it will He in state until Wednesday -morning, when the pontifical requiem mass will be said by Bishop Heslin, of Natchez, Mi6s. The panegyric will be delivered by Bishop Gallagher, of Galveston, Texas, after which the body will be laid to rest in a vault in St.

Andrew's Cathedral. Camden, N. Feb. 25. Richard F.

Smith, a prominent Democrat and formerly City Treasurer and Sheriff of Camden county, died at his home here today, aged 64 ypars. He was a member of the Democratic State Committee. Chicago. Feb. 25.

Fire yesterday In the plant of the National Box Company, op-crated jointly by Swift Co. and Morris Co. in conjunction with their packing business, caused a damage of $50,000. A stiff southwest gale carried sparks to the Illinois Brewing Company and the Paltzer Lumber Company, and it was with difficulty that the firemen cheeked the spread of the flames. Spontaneous combustion 13 supposed to have caused the fire.

El Paso, Texas." Feb. 25. Mayor Charles Davis and Col. John W. Brady are critically ill of ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating canned tomatoes while out hunting Sunday.

Denver. Feb. 25. Mrs. Benjamin C.

Wright' and her 5-year-old daughter Genevieve were' found dead and Mr. Wright In a dying condition today at their home in this city. Traces of cyanide of notnssitim werp discovered, indicating dou ble murder nnd suicide or a triple suicide. latest News Of The Shipping: Gibraltar, Feb. 25.

Passed, stinr Algeria, from New York for Naples, Marseilles, etc. Malta, Feb. 23l Arrived, stmr from New York. Passed 23d, stmr Wartenfels. from Calcutta for Philadelphia and New York.

Scilly, Feb. 25. Passed. Eteamer Bur germeister Petersen, from Philadelphia for St. John, N.

Feb. 25. ArriTed, stmr Pomeranian, from London and Havre. Cleared 25th, stmr Pretorian, for Liverpool. Yokohama, Feb, n.

bailed, steamer Emprcu ot India, for Vaacouvat. MRS. BRADLEY IN GOURT Sobbed As The Clerk Bead Her Indictment. MAY NOT BE TRIED TILL MAY Pathetic Scene When Woman Who Killed Ex-Senator Brown, Of Utah, Is Arraigned. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

Washington, Feb. 25. The scene was pathetic In Criminal Court No. 1 this morning when Mrs. Annie M.

Bradley was arraigned on the indictment recently returned by the grand jury charging her with the murder of ex-Senator Ai-thur M. Brown, of Utah, on December 8 last in the Raleigh Hotel. Mrs. Bradley was brought up from the cells by Deputy Marshal Roberts and taken to a chair close to her attorneys, Robert M. Wells and George P.

Hoover. She looked very frail, and her face was pale and drawn. She was dressed in a plain black suit, with a small black bonnet to match, and carried a muff. Attorney Hoover endeavored to have the reading of the Indictment dispensed with, but this could not be done, as this is a capital Clerk Hawkins then ordered the frail defendant to rise, and he read the indictment. From the beginning of the reading until the end Mrs.

Bradley sobbed, and at one time would have collapsed had she not been supported by Mrs. Rosalie Gould-ing, a friend. After the Indictment was read Clerk Hawkins asked: "How. do you plead to this Indictment, guilty or not guilty?" In a whipser that was scarcely audible Mrs. Bradley responded: "Not guilty." She was then led downstairs and taken back to the jail.

Attorneys Wells and Hoover after the arraignment discussed with the District Attorney the fixing of an early date for beginning the trial, but on account of the crowded condition of the docket the trial will probably not take place until some time In May. Mrs. Bradley's appearance and demeanor In court aroused sympathy even among the court omcicls and attendants. NO UNWRITTEN LAW FOR HIM Negro's Counsel 3Vot Allowed To Bring: In Such Evidence. Philadelphia.

Feb. 25. Ji de Martin, In the Criminal Court, here, today In the trial of-thesnegro on the charge of attempting to kill another negro; refused to permit evidence offered by the 'endant's counsel to go to the jury which tended to prove that the prisoner's action was prompted because he claimed that the other negro had stolen the affections of his wife. Judge Martin said "It! sometimes happens that man may catch his wife in a compromising position with another man, and there have been occasions when a shooting at such a time has been exonerated on the ground that the husband was temporarily insane. When the period of excitement has passed, however, and the husband has had a chance to deliberate upon the matter such a defense could not be raised.

There is no unwritten law. Nor is jealousy any excuse for murder. These is a proper remedy-in the courts for any wrongs that a man may suffer In his home." The defendant was convicted. IF HE BEAUTIFIES BABOON Then Doctor Will Get Thousands For Beautifying The Colonel. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

New Y'ork, Feb. 25. Col. Stanley H. Lewis, a wealthy man who has suffered from a complication of diseases, has agreed to pay $20,000 to a specialist for an operation on the face and head of a baboon to Improving the animal's personal appearance, and if this is successful the Colonel agrees to undergo a similar operation and pay for the same.

The physician is to bleach the skin of the baboon's face and peck, tattoo rosy cheeks, reshape the nose, fill the cheek hollows; fill out and remove scowling furrows In the forehead, raise slightly the corners of the mouth, modify the chin bone, increase the growth of hair on the head and produce a decided "part" through same from forehead to center and crown of head, and to reshape the ears. In short, the physician agrees "to modify and change the entire facial expression of the baboon," and all of this is "to he accomplished without harm, pain or danger to the, caid animal." If the physician shall succeed in making a smiling, rosy cheeked, comely beast of the baboon, Colonel Lewis is willing that the party of the first part may try to do the same for him. The agreement has been placed in legal form. DR. O'CONNELL'S MOTHER DEAD Parent Of Catholic University Head Was SO Years Old.

Charlotte. N. Feb. 25. Mrs.

Bridget O'Connell. mother of Rev. Dr. Denis O'Con-nell. head of the Catholic University at Washington, is dead at her home In Fort Mill, S.

C. at the age of 80 years. The body was taken to Columbia, S. C. for Interment.

There the O'Connells formerly lived and there Dr. O'Connell was born. HICKORY INN BURNED Narrow Escapes By Guests And At Tfnmber Injured. Special' Disnatch to the Baltimore Sun. Hickory.

N. C. Feb. 25. -The Hickory Inn.

In this village, was destroyed by fire early this morning. There were many narrow escapes among the guests. One man had a leg broken jumping from a third-story window. Others were Injured, among them the proprietor, Mr. Montague, but none was seriously hurt.

The Are originated In the servants' quarters and was caused by the explosion of a lamp. The loss is estimated at about with $50,000 insurance. Two New Ilenr-Admirals. Washington, Feb. 25.

The President sent to the Senate today -the following nominations Captains to be Rear-Admirals Seta M. Ackley, Benjamin Tilley. Surveyor of Customs, District of Boston and Charlestown, Mass. Jeremiah A. McCarthy.

How To Shorten Lent. "He who would have a short Lent, let him borrow money to be repaid, at Easter," Poor Richard's BLACK DRAMA STOPPED Negress Had Secured Young White Girls For Play. ANSWER TO "THE CLANSMAN" "Mixed Race Dramatic Company" To Present It In WashingtonWoman Promoter Arrested. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Washington, Feb.

25. "An English so ciety melodrama," which was to have been an answer to "The Clansman," and which was to be produced 'four times beginning February 26 in the True Reformers' Hall, corner of Twelfth and streets, has been indefinitely postponed on account of the arrest in New York of Mary A. Pitts, colored, on a charge of kidnapping preferred by Police Captain Shevlin according to Information which reached the police here today. The play was advertised for four productions at the True Reformers' Hall, Twelth and TJ. streets northwest, the home of the colored secret organization known as the True Reformers.

It is described in gaudy circulars as a "beautiful English society melodrama, with a lady descended. In straight line from the English nobility as leading lady." The handbill promises a "Mixed Race Dramatic Company, with genius, elegant costumes and bright, pretty girls." These "bright, pretty girls" were, in the plans of the promoter of the enterprise, to be youthful white beauties of New York, and, perhaps. Washington. Captain Boardman detailed Detective Frank Helan to make an investigation of the matter, and he later reported that according to Walter R. Griffin, colored, manager of the True Reformers' Hall, Mary Pitts came to Washington about February 4 and engaged the hall for four performances, February 23, 27, 28, March 1, the proceeds, to be divided on a percentage basis, and that she told him that she had a company of sixteen, know as the "Mixed Race Dramatic Company." The Pitts woman was arrested yesterday ata 310 Mott avenue, New York, and she had with her at the time four pretty young white women.

The entire party had completed their plans to take the Congressional Limited train for Washington, which leaves at 4 o'clock. The four white girls were also arrested, their names and ages Mary Brereton, 15; Isabel Carney, 17 Catherine Fltzpatrick, 16, and Kate Froelich, 19. The girls, it Is stated, afterward but will be used as witnesses against the woman. The arrest of the negress was brought about by Policeman of the Alexan der Avenue Station, New York, who was told several days ago by a young lady whom he knew that she was going to leave the city and become an actress. By questioning her he learned that the Pitts woman had been advertising for young girls to join a theatrical company.

Young communicated with the captain of his precinct, and an investigation was started, which Led to the arrest of the Pitts woman as stated above and the consequent disintegration of the "Mixed Race Dramatic Company." It was probably the plan of the woman to complete the company here from the ranks of local colored performers. From the stories told by the girls it appeared they had been enticed away from home. First, they had seen an advertisement. Then they met Mary and she taught them a few dancing steps. All were to have received $15 a week, with the exception of Miss Fitzpatrick, who was to have a speaking part in the play and receive $20.

Her "part" involved the following lines': "I will not marry. I am too young to marry. I would rather throw myself from yonder mountain than marry such a man as you' BURIED UNDER AVALANCHES Eighteen Persons Believed To Have Lost Their Lives In Norway. Christiania, Feb. 25.

Disasters caused by avalanches continue to be reported from different parts of Norway. A telegram from Opstryn, in Nordfjord, records the destruction of the Tunold farmstead, with the loss of eight lives. Tho Koletak homestead, on Gedrange fjord, also was overwhelmed and 10 persons. Including women and children, were buried beyond hope of rescue. NICARAGUANS TAKE A TOWN It Was Defended By Hnndnran Minister Of War.

Managua, Nicaragua, Feb. 25. San Marcos de Colon, a well fortified Honduran town, which was defended by Solomon Ordonez, the Honduran Minister of War, at the bead of a strong army, was captured by Nicaraguan forces at 4 o'clock this afternoon. WAS PATRON OF SPORTS Vlcomte De La Rochefoucault, Founder Of Polo Cluo, Dead. Copyright, 1307, by New York Herald Company.

Special to the Baltimore Sun. Paris, Feb. 25. Vicomte de la Rochefoucault died today at Bonnetable of appendicitis. The Vicomte was 40 years old.

He was the eldest son by a second marriage of the Due de Doudeauville and Princess Marie de Ligne. He was brother of the Due de Bisaccla, of Comte Edouard de la Rochefoucault, of the Princess de Ligne and of the Duchesse d'Harcourt He was married to Charlotte de la Tre-mollle, daughter of the Due and Duchesse de la Tremollle, and had one daughter. The Vicomte was a prominent horseman, fond of riding and gave much attention to sports. He was the founder of the well-known polo club with grounds in the Bois de Boulogne. 1 WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN ROME Subject Taken Up And Discussed By Clamber Of Deputies.

Rome," Feb. 25. Woman suffrage was discussed in the Chamber of Deputies and -the question referred to a committee for lnvestigatipn and report. Signor Luzzatti, former Minister of Finance, spoke earnestly for the extension of the franchise to women, saying In the course of his remarks that If in England women had not been permitted to exercise political functions that country could not-have bad two of its greatest sovereigns, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria..