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ASSOCIATED PRESS Leased Wire A TH ER FORKCA ST. Fair tonight and Wednesday. PASO HERALD EL PASO, TEXAS, Tuesday Evening, May 27, Pages TWO SECTIONS A Eighteen Autoists Have Agreed to Go; All Welcome and Invited. BARBECUE AT THE RANCH POSSIBLE She Says She First Went Wrong While Going to Saloon For Beer. FOB COLONEL VV uh Li IVI i I Ho iviiiu KOOl ne Occasionali MAXES CHARGES JAILER Former President Denies Charge of Drunkenness; Admits Using Light Wine.

DOES NOT SMOKE NOR TOUGH BEER PASO automobile enthusiasts are busy working- up a large list of cars to make the run Sunday to rancfi to meet the Las Cruces and Alamogordo automobilists and enjoy a outing and incidentally work up enthusiasm in country touring and good roads. Already 18 cars have been entered for the trip ami the officials of the automobile club hope to have 100 before next Sunday. It is not necessary to be a member of the automobile club to join the motorcade. Any El Pasoans owning an automobile will be welcome. Each car will carry its own provisions and the luncheon will be a picnic affair.

It is quite probable that a barbecue will be at the ranch by the owner, W. Cox. He has promised to barbecue a beef if he is not called to Denver this week. After lunch, there will be speeches by county judge A. S.

J. Eylar and others on good roads. Judge Evlar will go in his Ford and take a party of friends. Las Cruces automobilists are making preparations to come over the pass and meet the El Pasoans at the ranch and spend the day with them. They want the El Pasoans to return by way of Las Cruces and the valley road.

It will be optional with the El Pasoans whether they return that way or by Fort Bliss, over the road they cover going up. All 'Automobilists Welcome. El Pasoans who can make the trip Sunday are expected to be at the plaza at 8 Sunday morning, Vhen the start will be made. C. B.

Stevens, acting president of the Automobile club, V. Stiles, president of the chamber of commerce, and R. H. Rinehart, who is acting as chairman case an hour assessing on the years in for iccommodations. These are Anyhow.

Those who have so far decided to go are as follows: M. L. Burkhead. Cole H. P.

Jackson, Studebaker F. M. Murchison, Chalmers Chas. Stevens, Chalmers Bert Semple, Haynes S. C.

Awbrey, Haynes O. H. Baum, Chalmers Geo. LeBaron. Overland Horace Broaddus, Overland L.

M. Lawson, Cadillac C. L. Sirmans, Chalmers P. C.

Crowell, Cadillac Judge A. S. J. Eylar, Ford Lee Orndorff, Chalmers G. A.

Martin, Chalmers W. J. Rand, Chalmers R. H. Rinehart, Chalmers V.

R. Stiles, Reo V. SEVERAL ARIZONA MEASURES UNSIGNED Governor Will Permit Severn! to Become Laws Without His Signature; One Taxation Measure. Phoenix, May of the laws passed by the legislature at the third special session probably will become laws without the signature of governor Hunt. It is known that the governor disapproves of the law for the taxation of express companies, of the insurance code and the bawdy house abatement law.

He will not veto them, however, but will remain passive, as the constitution allows him to do. At the first session the legislature passed a law assessing express companies four per cent of their gross receipts, but the companies managed, to pav their taxes undfer the former law and got off for $400. Four per cent of their receipts would have been approximately $2,000. The new law raises tlie tax to six per cent of the gross receipts. Governor Hunt has had state examiner W.

H. Plunkett reading the insurance code. It is understood that several jokers have been discovered. Thursday is the last day that governor Hunt has to sign bills the legislature passed at the last session. Those he does not sign or disapprove within ten days after adjournment, become laws without his signature.

The municipal incorporation, recall, marriage and divorce, and election codes are still in the hands of the governor, as well as the Linney bill appropriating $1.000 for an Arizona exhibit at the Tulsa dry farm congress. CHANGE OF VENUE GRANTED WRIGHT ETNG repeatedly sent to a saloon with a tin pail for beer, as testified to by Marie Wallace, aged 14 years, on the stand in the 34th district court Monday, was taken as one of the causes which led to her downfall. She dwelt on the incident of going after beer. The girl was the prosecuting Avitness in the trial of John Stigall, aged about 35 years, who was on trial for abduction in her case. He was also indicted on a criminal assault charge, but the indictment was quashed.

The incident out of which the latter indictment grew is alleved to have occurred on the road from El Paso to Anthony. N. on which the two walked after failing to secure a license here. Sentence Suspended. The jury which tried the out Monday afternoon only when it returned a verdict the punishment charge of abduction at five the state penitentiary.

Prior to the the defendant's attorneys filed an application for a suspension of the sentence in case of conviction. The jury recommended the suspension. The term assessed by the jury is the maximum in cases where the suspended sentence may operAte. Judge Dan M. Jackson, of the court, stated that he would suspend sentence some time before the close of the present term of the court.

Implicates Others. On cross examination the girl when asked who else had had relations with her besides the defendant, testified that her stepfather and a jailer, when she was kept in the county jail for some time. When Garcia, a iailer, was brought into the court room, the girl appeared glad to see him, rising find shaking hands with him. She declared that he was not the man. Tuesday morning the girl was a witness before the grand jury.

The testimony she gave at the trial of Stigail was read to it. Jack Breeding, night jailer at the county jail, was arrested Tuesday afternoon on an indictment charging him with assault to rape. The indictment grows out of this trial and the testi- ony of the girl. As soon as the tes- imony of the girl was given, sheriff Edwards asked judge Jackson to call he grand jury for a special sitting, nd the indictment was the result. In Jail a tear.

Stigall has been in the county jail most a year. He was arrested last ne when he returned from Anthony more funds. He left the girl there. explanation was that he had seen the girl making the trips to the saloon for beer for her foster mother, Mrs. John Wolfard, who at present is said to be in Mexico with her husband.

He said he marry her and give her a good homi, because the girl had no parents. He made the attempt to secure a marriage license at the county office here, but on account of the age of the girl, it was refused. Appealed to Judge Eylar. Stigall then said he appealed to county judge A. S.

J. Eylar, stating to him the circumstances, telling him that the girl was running around the streets, and he wanted to marry her. The judge refused to act as her guardian or to give his consent to the marriage, stating that the girl was too young. The couple then walked to Anthony, where another effort was made to secure a license. Failing there, the two went to Las Cruces, and there got the license.

They then returned to Anthony with the necessary papers, but the.jus­ tice of the peace there still refused to perform the ceremony. On the stand Monday, the girl said that she would marry the defendant now if she were permitted to. She said she dia not want to have him sent to the penitentiary. Girl In Rescue Home. Shbrtly after the examining trial, the girl was sent to the rescue home at San Antonio, Texas, where she has been staying.

Before she would return for the" trial, an attachment has had to be issued tor her, and she was brought to El Paso by a deputy sheriff. The jurors who tried the case A. J. Davis, J. O.

Friliek, G. A. Haling, M. Robertson. C.

F. Plank, George Mawhinney, A. McIntosh, W. E. Botsai, Thomas McEmery, J.

S. Jeffries, Stewart and J. Robertson. and, I me. which E.

E. FALLS TO DEATH TAKING PICTURES Judge Ivaaeks Unable to Get a Jury at Pecos After Exhausting Two Venires of Men. Tecos, May only eight jurors had qualified and been sworn to try the case of Jim Wright, cnargc-d with the murder of C. C. Steel, judge Isaaeks, Monday afternoon, granted motion for a change of venue.

Two venires had been exhausted, the first venire being of 96 men, and the second of 80. A most rigid examination of each was made by judge Ross, and the record with reference to the prejudice existing in the courty is a bulkv The only men who were able to qualify were the few who had not heard any of the particulars of the affair, practically every other disqualifying on the second statutory question. Judge Isaaeks has not yet announced the new venue of the case. There still remain several criminal cases to be heard, and a few stray civil non jury cases remain to be disposed of. is the sixth week of court, and the officers are feeling the effects of the continued strain and the hot weather.

Lee J. Schultz, Formerly of Albuquerque, Found Dead in Clear Creek Canyon at Foot of Precipice. Albuquerque, N. May funeral of Lee James Schultz, whose body was found last Friday night in the Clear Creek canyon, Arizona, was here yesterday afternoon. Schultz formerly lived in Albuquerque.

Jamffe M. Carpenter, 821 North Fourth street, general yardmaster for the Santa Fe railroad here, was his uncle. Schultz, who was in the employ of the Santa Fe water service at the Clear Creek pump house, was last seen last Thursday, taking photographs along the canyon. He did not report for work Friday morning. A search was begun that afternoon.

The body was found by E. J. Hungerford at the foot of a 225 foot precipice. Practically every bone Ayas broken by the fall. camera was found at the brink of the cliff.

Apparently he placed the camera on the ground while looking over the brink, lost his balance and pitched downward. AVIATOHS ESCAPE INJl RY IN A BLAZING BIPLANE Salisbury, England, May planing from a height of 1200 feet in a blazing biplane, the British aviator, Cologne Pizey and a passenger, H. Fellow's, reached the ground in safety, and stepped from the machine as an explosion of the gasoline tank wrecked it. Pizey held the wheel in firm grasp although the flames scorched his hands and succeeded Ln making a splendid landing. TWO CONVICTS BREAK OUT OF PHOENIX JAIL May hack saws obtained in a mysterious manner, C.

A. Wagon and Dawson, federal prisoners, sentenced to four and six years, respectively, for passing counterfeit money, sawed out of the county jail last night. They penetrated the metal ceilings of the cell, tore a piece of iron off the roof and slid down 50 feet of water hose. There is no trace of them. They were to have gone to Atlanta Friday.

THREE KATES CARRY AS FAD! Washington. D. May latest fad in Washington society is the I It is carried as a walking stick and is topped by a replica of the favorite dog or horse, done in ivory or silver. The Misses Allen, daughters of Gen. Allen, U.

S. known as the best horsewomen among the society girls of the capital, are responsible for this fad. Among other women carrying dog- sticks are Miss Katherine Jennings, Miss Katherine Britton and Miss Katherine Elkins. ARQUETTE, May Theodore Roosevelt took the stand today in his libel suit against Geo. A.

Newett, who in an editorial charged him with drunkenness. The former president entered a denial. He admitted usintr iiirht wines with his meals, but said he never touched strong liquors except on advice of his physician or after great exposure. He said he does not smoke touch beer. Has Never Drunk a Cocktail.

After giving a brief outline of his i political career, the former president said: have never drunk a cocktail or a highball in my life. With the exceptions hereafter noted, I never drank whisky or brandy except under the advice of a physician. I care for the taste of either. I smoke and I drink beer, because I dislike smoking and dislike the taste of beer. never have drunk whisky or brandy except when the doctor prescribed it.

or possibly on some occasion after great exposure when I was chilled through. But it has been certainly 15 or 20 years since I have drunk it because of being chilled through. ses AVhite Wines. never have drunk beer, nor do I drink red wine. The only wines that I have drunk have been white wines, Madeira, champagne or very occasionally, a.

glass of sherry. At home, I often at dinner, will drink a wine glass or two wine glasses of Madeira. In summer, instead of the Madeira, I will often drink a tall glass of wine and Holland water or water. At public dinners I sometimes drink a glass of champagne, or perhaps two. I think that on the average this means that I will drink champagne about once a Has Had Few Mint Juleps.

juleps I very rarely drink. In the white house we had a mint bed and I should think that on the average I may have drunk half a dozen mint juleps a year. Since I left the white house, four years ago, to the best of my memory, I have drunk mint juleps twice; on one occasion at the Country club at St. Louis, where I drank part of a glass of mint julep and on another occasion at a big luncheon given me at Little Rock, where they passed around the table a loving cup with the mint julep in it drank when the cup passed to only other occasions on I have drunk whisky have been when it has been prescribed by the doctor. During the last 14 years I believe I have drunk whisky straight or with water more than half a dozen AVhite House Routine.

The routine at the white house was as follows: had breakfast at 8 or 8:30, Mrs. Roosevelt, the children and myself. After breakfast, if the weather was good, Mrs. Roosevelt and I walked around the white house grounds for 20 minutes or half an hour. 1 then came over to the white house office and as soon as I reached there Mr.

Loeb came in with the mail, and papers to sign. After about half an hour of this the senators and congressmen would begin to arrive. If it was an ordinary day they would generally continue to arrive until 12 or 1 but if it was a cabinet day they would stop at 11 Works As He Shaved. 11 oclock when I went in to get shaved, I would usually get Mr. Loeb in and dictate to him or he would take up with me the mail that had accumulated during the morning and would receive directions about various things that had arisen during the morning.

I would also frequently see some member of the cabinet or some man I knew intimately during that time, or some newspaper man would be allowed to come in to ask questions, Mr. Loeb generally sitting by and waiting until the answer had been given and then resuming the work. Mr. Loeb would follow me out to the wash room and continue talking ith me, and getting directions and laying matters before me while I washed my hands. I would then go to lunch.

Immediately after lunch would return to the office. I might then again work with Mr. Loeb for an hour or some member of tne cabinet or other person- with whom I had to talk over details of official business. No Drinks Uetuecn Meals. never in my life, while in the white house or anywhere else, have ever left a room for the purpose of getting a drink between meals, and it would have been a physical impossibility for me to have left the room for any such purpose at any period of my work in the white house.

Describes Trip to New York. the 17th and 18th of February last, I was staying in New York with Mrs. Roosevelt and my daughter at the Marquis hotel, at 12 East 31st street. Mrs. Roosevelt and my daughter and I had breakfast served in our apartment, at about 9.

Immediately afterwards, on both days. I walked down Madison avenue to 23d street, across to Fourth avenue, and into the Outlook office, doing work and seeing various people until about 5:30 the first day, and until 5 the next day, going out for a few minutes for lunch. When I left the office on Monday I walked up Fourth avenue to 31st street and across to the Marquis where I had tea with Mrs. Roosevelt. On Tuesday, I left at 5 oclock and took the 5:30 train from the Pennsylvania depot for Oyster Bay.

On neither day did I touch a drop of anything at any time. When in town 1 usually, but not. always, lunch with some member of the Outlook staff and during the three years 1 don't recall an instance where I ever drank anything except either milk, tea or coffee. On these two days 1 never went up Fifth avenue nor above 32d street. Never Under Influence of Liquor.

have not been in the Waldorf unless at a public dinner for certainly three years and I was not in the Waldorf on rii her of those two days. On neither of these two days did I go into or come out of any building in 42d street and on neither of those two days did I go above 31st or 32d streets on Fifth avenue. Between 4 and 6 oclock the avenue is densely crowded. "For the last 15 years I can give you in detail just about what I have drunk and I have given it substantially above and neither during those 15 years or since 1 have been of age have I ever, under circumstances, been, in the smallest degree, under the influence of liquor. Tastes Ilc-cr in dont remember, dozen years drinking glass of beer except at The white house had a mintbed when he was president, but he drank only an occasional mint julep, said Col.

Theodore Roosevelt in court today. He drinks champagne, he says, but never drinks more than two glasses. He is Dutch, but he does not drink beer and never smokes. Never drank a cocktail or a highball in his life. Only drinks whisky and brandy under orders of a doctor.

could not get me some white wine, saying I never drank beer. They asked me if I woyild not take a mouthful anyway, because they said it was the beer that made Milwaukee famous. So I took a mouthful and then took white wine. They then all sang songs, but therd was only one song in which I could join. I was governor and always my habits in using wine and champagne have been precisely as Liquor in Small Quantities.

Cross examination of the colonel only occupied 20 minutes. It was conducted by Horace Andrews, of the defence. In part it follows: Did I understand you to say that you have never taken anything in the way of intoxicating You did not so understand me; you understood me to say I did so only in small The only spiritous or intoxicating liquors you took in general would be a little brandy with Teaspoonful in a tumblerfull of You have never for lo years, taken more than a dozen glasses of 1 did not drink a dozen glasses of whisky in 15 You never drank any I said that in the 15 years it would probably not be more than a dozen times I have'drank ht Wine Is White Now the wine you drank is light Yes, What do you mean by light I mean white wine and sometimes it may be a little Any other kind of I may have drunk a little red wine and occasionally a little sherry. Keeps Wine in House. You keep any wine of any kind in your Red Do you1 keep wine of any kind in your Did you keep brandy and wine in the Pound: 1 object to The court: may note an Roosevelt: continued to keep wine as I found that my predecessor had Did you drink whisky or have vou drunk whisky on your No, except as I have described, a teaspoonful in a glass of Does Not Carry a Flask.

Now, did you carry a flask of whisky or brandy with you on your I did On redirect examination. Col Roosevelt said he assumed complete responsibility for the suit. No organization has anyj-responsibility excepting myself. I have it he said. Col.

Roosevelt was on the stand an hour and 40 minutes. Defence Concedes Publication. Henry Rauthier, city assessor of Ishpeming, was the next witness. He testified concerning the publication of the alleged libel. Attorneys for Mr.

Newett said they would concede the publication of the article, but Col. attorneys stated that they would insist upon proving it. Iliis Testifies For Roosevelt. Jacob A. Riis, the writer, called as the first important witness for Col.

Roosevelt, testified that he was 64 years old and was born in Denmark. Riis said he became acquainted with Col. Koosevelt because of their mutual interest in the welfare of the poorer classes of New York. made him my said Riis. days and nights we walked the streets together, watching whether the police were on duty and looking into the condition of those desperate tenement The same degree of friendship continued until after Col.

Roosevelt became president. the 15 years you have known Mr. Roosevelt did you ever him under the influence of he was asked. Says Teddy Is a Lord, replied Riis. statement that he is a user of liquor is a lie.

I have seen this man under the greatest stress and never have seen him resort to "Is he a blasphemous he is a Argument followed between counsel as to whether it was competent for witnesses to testify whether Col. Roosevelt was a The court sustained an objection that the presumes the plaintiff was a When crooss-examined, Riis was asked whether his work as a writer took him out of politics. has put me right in the thick of it. I have been fighting Tammany in New York for 30 you ever see Mr. Roosevelt drink mint never did and I believe he does.

I have seen him drink Senator Cummins Asks For Investigation of Charges Made by President. THINKS LOBBYISTS DELAY THE TARIFF nm I i I il 111 i If run Hum GRAND JURORS VIEW SCENE OF DISASTER Coroner Will Hcgrin Investigation at Long Reach Thursday. Two Injured are Not Expected to Live. Los Angeles, May of the county grand jury accompanied the district attorney today to view the scene of the pier disaster, of Saturday, at Long Beach. It was stated while there had been no change in the plan to have the coroner conduct the entire investigation alone, beginning Thursday, it was thought wise to have the grand jurors familiar with the situation.

Experts appointed to inspect the ruins began their work today. They will be expected to furnish the data upon which the jury can arrive at a conclusion as to the cause of the disaster and the responsibility for it. According reports from Long Beaeh, Margaret Reed, aged 12 and Otis Hass, aged 13, who slid into the death pit, are expected to die at any moment. Milw aukce. within the last even a part of a once.

That was When ever I the Deutscher cl ul). pro to Milwaukee, I try to go to the Deutscher club for a call. their request, 1 think in 1903, 1 think I drank a mouthful of beer. They offered me beer, and i asked if they QUESTION S. 1.

What word can you form from the letters in the following words: mid nice rains. 2. What turns a lover into clover? 3. Spell dried grass with three letters. 4.

Why is a passenger by the 12:18 train likely to be late? 5. Why are the days long in summer and short in winter. Answers will De found under their appropriate numbers scattered through the Classified Advertising pages. E. H.

DAVIS, OF REEVES COUNTY, SHOT Pecos, May was received here today of the shooting of E. H. Davis, formerly a resident of this place, by M. J. Delaney, whose home is in Reeves county.

Nothing of the particulars of the affair have been received, though is known that there was trouble between the two men because of a land deal and a recently filed civil suit. Mr. Davis, it is reported, is seriously injured, though he has a chance for recovery. Both men are well known in Reeves county and have lived here for years. DYNAMITING FISH.

Phoenix, Mav 27 are be- in frdvnamited in Salt river, near Phoenix. Several reports of dynamite being used in fishing holes have reached game warden Frank W. Rodgers, who is now conducting an investigation. lie to make examples oi several of the guilty parties. Five Men Suspended on Charge of Trying to Control Union Organization Is Declared Detriment to the Unions, After Investigation by a Committee Henry M.

Walker Says State Federation of Labor Convention Will Bring Only 150 Men Here. ASHINGTON, p. May Senator A. B1 Cummins today presented to the senate a resolution to direct vice president Marshall to appoint five senators to investigate president charge that a lobby exists in Washington to influence legislation, particularly on the tariff, and to report within 10 days. Wilson Denounces Lobby.

President Wilson stirred congressional circles with an emphatic statement denouncing the and lobby in Washington, attempting to create public sentiment against certain features of the Underwood tariff bill. This was accepted at the capitol as referring to the unusual efforts being made against free raw wool and free sugar. While the president was declaring it his opinion that the public be relieved the intolerable senators and representatives were viewing on every hand the of the lobbyists which beset them, and significance was attached to statements made by senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee which now has the tariff bill in hand that, in his opinion, the lobbyists were not making any headway. To Restrict Lobbyists. The declaration that the lobbyists were so thick that one couldn't a brick without hitting revived interest in two bills recently introduced in the house and senate to limit lobbying on pending legislation.

Senator Kenyon of Iowa, and representative Smith of New York declared they would press bills they have introduced which would restrict the work of lobbyists, require their registration and that they be licensed to appear before any committee or to carry on a campaign for or against proposed legislation. Heavy penalties would be imposed for violations. No Change in Policy. Democratic leaders are almost unanimous in sup'port of the statement maintaining that they are well able to handle the impending tariff legislation and that sugar and wool will be thoroughly considered and discussed by the finance committee and Democratic caucuses before it is reported. No change of policy relating to either schedule has yet been determined however, it is emphatically declared by the members of the committee.

Protest Against Suiiar. A memorial from the Denver chamber of commerce protesting against free sugar, was presented to the senate by senator Shafroth by Senator Thomas declared he could not let the memorial be read without stating it did not represent the sentiment of the state. rlnn Currency lleforiu. The senate banking and currency committee began its investigation of what is the matter with the nation's currency system and how its defects should be remedied, when a list of questions to be sent to bankers and financial experts was approved and prepared for immediate distribution. Emergency urrency.

Senator Nelson introduced a bill proposing a system or for national banks under which the banks of the country could, if necessary, issue emergency currency to the total amount of $295,000,000. The bill would give banks authority to issue the new notes to an amount not greater than the difference between their present bond-secured currency and their total paid in capital. The new notes would constitute a and preferred upon all of the assets of the bank by which they were issued. To restrict the use of new currency to emergencies, the Nelson bill proposes a tax of 4 percent per year on the extra notes, increasing in rate monthly and reaching 10 percent in five months. In a statement accompanying the bill, senator Nelson drew attention to the fact that the total amount of clearing house certificates issued in the financial crisis of 1007 was $253,000,000, or nearly less than the amount of emergency currency that would be available under his plan.

To Enlarge Committees. Tn the house leader Underwood obtained unanimous consent to increase the indian affairs, irrigation and public buildings committees and create a new committee on expenditures in labor department. Representative Borland discussed soealled slums. Would Abolish Commerce Court. Representative Sims introduced a bill to' abolish the commerce court.

Representative Tavenner introduced a resolution to investigate the activities of the traiff lobbyists. It was agreed to adjourn until Thursday. FISH WITH GOLD TOOTH; SOME FISH, EH? NEXT? Woodmont. May fishing in the sound off Woodmont, Robert Mattoon, youngest son of Capt. A.

W-. Mattoon of the guard, hooked a blaekfish big enough to be eaten. In removing the hook from the mouth. Robert discovered it had a gold crowned tooth on its lower jaw. The report of the catch spread today through Woodmont and reached the ears of Dr.

Frank C. Parsons, dentist. He explained that one day last October with William IT. Hamilton, a merchant, he went blaekfish- ing off the rocks at Woodmont. Dr.

Parsons caught a blaekfish so small that he decided to toss it back into the water. First he affixed a gold crown on of its teeth. HARGES that members of the Central Labor Union had organized a club called the Nil Des- perandum, or club, for political purposes to control the vote of the labor unions and, if possible, to elect an alderman, at the next city election, resulted in the expulsion of five members from the central body Monday night when the committee which had been appointed to investigate the club made its report. The differences of the unions may find an airing in the courts. The committee reported to the Central Labor Union that club was organized and was a detriment to the central body; that tne objects of the club were to control the labor vote and each labor organization; that the club was started by F.

J. Schilling, W. G. Griffin, A. M.

James, F. W. Curtis and W. PI. Brophy and that others had joined; that the obligation of the club was stronger than' that of any union or fraternal order and contrary to the principles and ethics of union labor organizations The resolution ended by recommending that the members of the club who are members of tiie Central Labor Union be expelled until April first, 1914, or longer if they continue as members of the club and that they be denied the right to attend or witness any meeting's of the central body.

The report was signed by Ed Kessel, of the union; R. J. Harrison, of the Electrical union, and ,1. E. Burton, of the Horse- union.

The recommendation and report of the committee was adopted at the meeting Monday night, members of the central body say. Griffin is secretary-treasurer of the Central I Labor Union. i An Old Fight. The fight within the Central Labor Union, which is the organization composed of representatives of all the unions in El Paso, has been in progress for several years. Henry M.

Walker, editor of the Texas Union, the official labor union paper, has been the leader of one faction and A. M. James, F. C. Standish and others are said to have represented the faction opposing the editor of the labor paper.

The present difficulty arose at the time that charges against Walker were being investigated by the central body. It was charged by A. M. James and F. C.

Standish that Walker had made a statement against them as a result of the two men appearing before the chamber of commerce and asking for funds to go to Port Arthur to get the 1914 meeting of the state federation of labor. According to Walker, James made a statement on April 14 at a meeting of the central body that Walker had told a member of the chamber of commerce that James and Standish would squander the money. A committee was appointed and an investigation started which resulted in a report being made to the body on April 28 without recommendations of any sort. What Walker Said. At the time that this report was being considered by the delegates on April 28, Walker says A.

M. James made charges against him, charging Walker with conduct unbecoming a union man. G. Griffin was the only witness against Walker says. "He testified that i had said that men (James and Standish) went down to the chamber of commerce to ask fora slush fund to get the federation meeting.

What I did say to Griffin, who is hard of hearing and misunderstood my remarks, was that 1 regretted that a self constituted committee from the Central Labor Union composed of James and Standish. went to the chamber of commerce for funds to get this convention. I criticized this because they went without authority and I did not think that they would get the convention, and if they did, that it would not amount to much. I have a letter from secretary and treasurer John R. Spencer, of the state federation, saying that only 150 delegates will be here next year and that they were promised a $15 rate, which is less than the rate will really be.

I added that if they did not get the eonven- I tion it would leave the central body open for critcism by opponents of the I labor cause, if there are any in the chamber of commerce, who would have the chance to say that the labor fel- lows were grafters and had spent the money for a slush Walker says that no action was taken on his case until last night, when it was taken up prior to the re- Port of the committee appointed to in- vestigate the club. The result was I that he was exonerated, the labor edi- tor says, by a three to one vote. Probe is Ordered. While affairs were under discussion at the April 2S meeting, a delegate to the central body asked for infor- 1 mation about the club, which had been talked of informally before, the labor men say. Another delegate announced that it was organized for political purposes and for the purpose of controling the labor vote and movement.

A committee was thereupon appointed to investigate the club and report to the central organization. Evidence was read at the Monday night meeting, the members say, to show that the club was organized for the purpose of dabbling in city elections aril controling the union vote with a group of five men in each union. The aim of the club was to elect one of its members as alderman at the next election, the opposition says. This investigating committee made its report Monday night and the vote to suspend the organizers was passed, according to those present, by a four to one vote. The Committee Report.

The recommendation of this committee in full as it was made to the central body follows: We, your special com- mitte appointed to make an investigation as to the existence of the Nil Desperandum club, its objects, purposes and membership, beg leave to report that we have had said matter under consideration for more than four weeks, held a number of meetings Union Labor hail, gave opportunity to all who desired to testify, and we are firmly of the opinion from the testimony in hand that it is sufficient to sustain the recommendations herein submitted: Detriment to I nions. We find that said Nil dum (Z) club exists and is a detriment to the central labor union and union labor in general. We believe that the evidence proves conclusively that the objects i and purposes of the Nil Desperandum I (Z) club are to control the labor vote, to control the Central labor union, if possible, control each and every organization in El Paso affiliated with this body. "3. We find from the evidence that the Nil Desperandum (Z) club was started with F.

Schilling, G. Griffin, A. James, F. W. Curtis and W.

H. Brophy as members. We find that since its organization a number of others have joined said club; that its obligation is stronger than that of any labor organization or fraternal order, which is contrary to the principles and ethics of union labor organizations. Recommended Suspension. We, therefore, recommend that all members of the Central Labor union (including those already mentioned herein) wrho are members of the Nil Desperandum (Z) club be immediately expelled from the Central Labor union, until August 1, 1914, or longer if they as members of the Nil Desperandum (Z) club.

We, further, recommend that all of the Nil Desperandum (Z) club be denied the right to witness all meetings of the Central Labor union, and that action be immediately taken upon this matter. Kessel, Butchers, J. Harrison, Electrical Workers. Burton, Horseshoers. committee of C.

L. New Appointed, Vacancies were created by the expulsions of the club members in the Central Labor union and president Wilson has made the following protem appointments: Second vice president, J. E. Ferguson, of Typographical union. Secretary-treasurer, Ed Kessel, of and Meat Cutters union.

Recording secretary, Roy M. Walker, of Electrical union. On auditing committee, E. R. Moody, of union and Geo.

Peckham, of Sheet Metal union. The auditing committee was instructed to audit the books and check out ex-secretafiy-treasurer W. G. Griffin, on the first of June, promptly. Schilling's Statement.

Fred J. Schilling, to whom H. M. Walker says a hearing was made the following signed statement: am not a delegate to the Central Labor Union, and was only there as a visitor, and when my name was mentioned, I arose to ask the privilege of the floor and was refused and told to take my seat. I did not think I was on trial but did want to protest against bringing my name before an organization of which I was not a member.

I was denied the floor six or eight times, and anyone outside of w'hat appeared to be a side was also denied the floor. J. May Go to i ourts. Other members of the central bodv who are opposed to the faction which passed the resolution, say that it i the result of H. M.

efforts to regain control of the Central Labor union. They threaten to take the case into court to test the authority of the members present Monday night which they claim is a faction to run the affairs of the central body. The carter of the central organization since its formation has been a stcrmy one and a number of charges of political nature have been against its leaders. Charges and counter charges have been made, all of it centering around Henry M. Walker and his labor paper.

One faction has claimed that he was trying to dominate the organized labor of El Paso and the other protects that the opposition has only been trying to unseat the officers in order to advance their own political ambitions. James Makes Statement. A. M. James, one of op- nonents and himself a member of the club made the following statement today: C.

Standish and I were elected delegates to attend the state convention as representatives of our respective unions and also as representatives of the Central Labor Union. Walker opposed trying to bring the 1914 convention to El Paso, contending that it was impossible of accomplishment, as Fort Worth been promised the convention two years previous. went to the chamber of commerce, got its support, went to Port Arthur and brought back the convention. Walker said in a meeting that Standish and I wanted this contribution from the chamber of commerce for a slush fund and that it was a grafting proposition. "On May 11 he sent a telegram to Port Arthur.

This telegram was produced at a meeting of the Central Labor Union and he admitted the authenticity of it. month ago a committee of the Central Labor Union was appointed to investigate the standing of the club. This club is merely a joke. It is composed of about a dozen men, each of whom carries a brass check in his pocket. If any of the other members should meet him in a saloon and he did not have this brass check he would have to stand the treat.

That is all there is to the club, so far as know. Monday night's meeting we were ruled out of order by the chair every time we trii to get a hearing w'hile Walker's crowd was allowed to take the floor at pleasure. There were no charges preferred against any one connected with the club, but despite this, several members were expelled, among them W. G. Griffin, W.

H. Brophy, F. J. Schilling, F. C.

Curtis and ail other members of the club carrying union cards. will take immediate action in the courts to secure the restoration of these men to membership in the Central Labor The Walker Telegram. The telegram which James says Walker sent to Port Arthur, is admitted by Walker. He says the matter of how the telegram got to anyone else than the man to whom it was addressed, is now being investigated. told them last night when they read the telegram before the Central Labor said Walker, I could prove what said.

They said they had a message that I had sent to the state federation convention and I insisted that it be read and I admitted that I wrote it and told them 1 could prove what I The message in question follows: Paso, May 11. 1913, L. lioefgen, Convention Hall, Port Arthur. confidential. Keep your eye on the two snakes from here.

I hope to be with you at next convention. Everything lovely, and I received unanimous vote for return as delegate to Central Labor Union today from union. There will be something doing here when snakes return. 7:54 a. May 11, 1913.

a. James appeared before notary public James J. Murphy and swore that this was an exact copy oJf a telegram signed by Walker, and sent to Wm. L. Hoefgen at Port Arthur, on May 11.

James gave a copy of the message to The Herald today. W. G. Griffin, one of the men expelled, is secretary-treasurer of the Central Labor Union, lie said: tried to get a hearing several times at the meeting but this was.