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4 THE SUN, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1916. I. Y. REPUBLICANS TO IGNORE MOOSE? Tanner nnd Other Leaders Oppose Coddling Progressives to Elect Whitman. CONFERENCE TO DECIDE Executive Committee Will Meet Hero Monday Governor's Views Awaited.

If State Chairman Frederick C. Tanner nd th Hepubllcan leaden now on top In the Republican organization In this Btate havo their way there will be no coddling of Progressives an puch In the conduct of the campaign to elect (lov. Whitman and his associates on the 8tate ticket. On the contrary, every effort will be made to bring the Hull Moose party as a separate political organization to an end by withholding recognition of It na auch nd by refusing to dicker for Progressive Indorsements on local and State candidates. Mr.

Tanner and his friends hold to the view that the great majority of Pro-gresslves have already returned to the Hepubllcan fold. They fnor keeping the doors wide open for any more to follow them. giving all farmer Progressives recognition as soon as they declare them-elves again to be ltepubllcans. But as for appointing men as Progressives on committees and bargaining for Indorsements with the remnant of the Progressives who may seek to keep alive the party organization for Just such a purpose, this they are unalterably opposed to. Conference Xeat Monday.

A big conference of State leaders Is to be held In this city next Monday la conjunction with the first meeting of the new Republican executive committee. The attitude of the organisation toward the Progressives Is to be one of tho subjects discussed. Whether Mr. Tanner's policy has the approval of Gov. Whitman remains to be seen.

The Governor, nt any rate, has been assured by men like George Al-drldge. William Ward and Francis that his reelection can bo accomplished without according recognition to the Bull Moose rs as a party. The Bull Moosera In the last State campaign, they have pointed out, polled only 45,000 votes even with the help of Col. Roosevelt. To accord the party recognition this fall.

It Is asserted, would Invite a situation such as has existed for some years now with respect not only to the Progressives but also to those who have kept alive the Independence League. Scramble for Indorsements. With an almost negligible voting strength, the Independence League has been kept alive largely through the Indorsement which candidates of the older parties have scrambled to secure until It has become almost a scandal. This Is what the State and county lead-ra of the Republican organisation, con. fldent In their ability to carry the State this fall, desire to avoid If possible, be-latin- that most of the rank and file of the Progressives are already at heart once more Republicans.

While this policy, differing as It does materially from that which those managing the national campaign are pursuing, may meet with opposition In some quarters 'at next Monday's conference. Indications yesterday seemed to point to Its adoption. In fact, It was said that In this county such a policy has already been agreed to by Chairman Xoenir. Herbert Parsons and other leaders. A denial that Gov.

Whitman had personally selected the members of the new executive committee was mado by Mr. Tanner yesterday, who pointed out that with but one or1 two exceptions every man on the committee had been on original Hughes man before tho convention. Tanner to Manage Campaign. As to the report that Senator Arget-alnger, representing George Aldridge, as chairman of the committee would actively manage the Stato campaign, Mr. Tanner declared it was entirely erro-neous.

"I shall be very glad of Senator Argetslnger's assistance," he explained "but I certainly Intend to be In charze of things," Besides discussing the attitude to be assumed toward what Is left of the Progressive organization In the State, other matters having un Important bearing on tha State tight are to come up at Monday's conference In the Metropolitan Ufa Building, among them the question of the soldiers' votes and the advisability of holding a State convention. Ttier are 17.000 National Guardsmen from this State now down on the border Virtually every one of them, the Repub. llcans think, has un antl-Wllson vote burning In his pocket Knowing this It Is the plan of the Administration, the Republicans believe, to keep the guards, men- on the border until ufter election but whether or not this can be circumvented is a matter of great doubt. The entire matter Is now under Investigation The belief among Republicans yesterday was that the Governor would call an extra session certainly for the purpose of putting through a new reapportionment bill to meet the changes required by tho decision of tho Court of Appeals and could Include In his call the matter of the soldiers' votes. The reap, portlonment matter.

It was generally felt, could be hustled through In two days, sixty of the sixty-one counties being unaffected by the decision. The executive committee probably will decide to defer calling any State con-ventlon of tho pnrty until after the primaries. Tho politicians, while In favor of It, would prefer to have the demand come more from the people. They think that the demand for a reestabllshment of the convention system will In time be almost universal. STRONG PROBE ASSAILED Dr.

rotter and Others Testify Before Justice Orernbssnt, Dr. Daniel C. Potter, on the wltneas stand again yesterday before Justice Oreenbaum In the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court, attacked the Investigation out of which grew the charges against himself, Father Karrcll Mgr. Dunn and Robert W. Hebbcrd, as peine primarily directed against Cath olic charitable institutions.

The witness asserted that although he was a Protestant of Protestants, tracing ancestors of this faith back to the time of Roger Williams In Rhode Island, he Irnd a great respect for the Roman Catholic religion and believed It had been singled out for criticism by the "antl-lnstltutlonallsta." "The Catholic Church," he said, "does not believe In farming out children Uvents have proved that the Charities Department Introduced the farming out lystem." William J. Poherty, Deputy CharitleH Commissioner, was another witness. He denied reporting that pigs and orphans ate from the came bowl at the Mount Loretto home mi Htiitcn Island. I.Ike rotter, jionert Ileljlierd and James I. Murray Of the H.im.l Arnl.iilanp.

vice denied under 04th the 1 of the phonograms purporting to relate to mens. MORI NOT LISS we were managing jour estate (or yonr widow and children, we should hope to manage It to that there never would be any Iom of principal. We ahoald hope always to earn far the beneficiaries the full market rate of interest and keep the eipenses ot management at a minimum. We hare the men and the machinery to accomplish such results. All difficult and unusual questions are submitted to our Trust Committee, consisting of men of standing and experience In the business world.

It will profit you to write In our name a the executor of yew WIIL TiTlE GUARANTEE AND TRUST C9 capital $5,000,000 11,000,000 Surplus (an tarsal) 1 76 Braarwat. Haw York mi WILSON IS SENDING LANSING TO MAINE Picks Cabinet Members to Launch Campaign Bryan Beady to Go. Secretary of State Lansing has been picked to present President Wilson's case to the voters of Maine, according to Information at national Democratic head quarters yesterday. The Secretary Is to have a host of colleagues, but the Presi dent Is said to be depending upon him to defend his foreign and Mexican policies when the campaign In the Pine Tree State gets going. The selection of Mr.

Lansing In this particular offers further evidence of the Importance the Administration nttachea to the Maine situation. Other speakers. It was lesrned yesterday, arc to be Secretaries Redfleld. Lane and Daniels and Attorney-General Gregory. Mr.

Bryan has offered his services as a campaign speaker, but It Is doubtful whether he will go to Maine. Supplementing the efforts of these members of the President's official family there will be about fifteen Senators, Including Ollle James, and an caual num ber of Democratic Congressmen. The In dications are that Maine will be an ex citing stumping ground after August 15, the date set for the opening of the campaign, but the big men will not enter the State until Congress has adjourned. Homer s. uummlngs.

head of the speakers' bureau at Democratic headquarters, is to start the first batch of spellbinders out through the country next week. Charles R. Crane of Chicago, one of the largest contributors to President Wilson's campaign fund four years ago, was among Chairman McCormlck's call ers yesterday. The latter also siw Nor man E. Mack and Fred H.

Lynch of Minnesota. N. B. Paxton. former State chairman of New Mexico, came to assure Mr.

Mc-Cormlck that conditions In Arizona and New Mexico were all right for the Presi dent. fhe Democratic chairman yesterday In sisted that the President had nothing to fear from his Mexican policy. HELPS FITZGERALD'S FIGHT. Old nistrlctlna- Pat Qulnn lu l'oiver In Ilrooklyn. The decision of the Court of Appeals upsetting the political reapportionment of Brooklyn will prove of benefit to Congressman Fitzgerald In his fight for ro- nomlnatlon.

It nullifies the recent defeat of Shipping Commissioner Patrick II. Qulnn, one of Fitzgerald's strongest backers In the Seventh district, strengthens the district as a Democratic strong- tioia and weakens the power of Elections Commissioner Kane In his fight on Fitzgerald. Nevertheless. Kane a choice. State Senator Thomas H.

Cullen, announced that he was In the fight to stay. SCHOOL BILL STIES MONTCLAIR. Pastor Charges SO for Address to Graduates. Montclair, N. July 26.

A charge of IW for the address ho delivered to the graduating class of the Montclair High School last month by the Rev. Dr. Thomas Travis, pastor of the Wntchun Avenue Congregational Church, has caused considerable discussion anions members of the Board of ICducatlon. It has not been the custom to pay for commencement addresses. The bill was ordered paid, but in the future speakers will be expected to give their services without charge.

SUES SOLDIER FOR DIVORCE. Florctta Whaler's Ulster Aceases Floyd S. Weekes. Mrs. Kdna A.

Weekes. whose sister, Florctta Whaley, eloped from Hempstead, L. with Jere Knode Cooke, an Episcopalian minister, and subsequently married him, submitted evidence to Supreme Court Justice Benedict In Ilrooklyn yesterday In suit for divorce from Floyd Southard Weekes, a resident nf Hempstead village, and now with a militia regiment at Camp Whitman. Ju3-tire Benedict reserved decision. Thomas Murray, a Freeport constable, who Is related to Mrs.

Weekes by marriage, testified that he followed Weekes and an unidentified woman to the Hotel Navarre, Manhattan, on June 13 last. He reported the matter to Mrs. Weekes and tha suit followed. It was undefended. Film Man fined by Wife.

David J. McOowan, said to receive $300 a month from a film company, was sued for separation yesterday in tho Su-preme Court by Marlon McOowan, who asks alimony enough to support herself nnd a son born to her by a former marriage. She charges McCJowAn treated her cruelly. Gets Divorce From Dr. Warner.

Mrs. Jennie Warner of 1050 llergon street, Brooklyn, yesterday gained a divorce from Dr. 1-oula H. Warner, a pathologist and bacteriologist, of 2424 Seventh avenue, Manhattan, Supreme Court Justice Henedlct directed the phy-slclan to pay his former wife $12 a week. The couple were married In 1896, Thry have no children.

Spanish Harries ne Kills II. MAnnin, July 2. A hurricane of unprecedented violence has ravaged the provinces of Ksragossn. Horln, Valla-dolld, Leon and Ponlevedra. Tho villain of Torreon Is In ruins and three churclicM have been swept away by floodH In the village of Ateca In the province of Ara-gon.

Th bodies of eleven victims have teen recoverea. SERGEANT KENNEL EXPLAINS SHOOTING Continued from Firtt Page. ert W. Hebberd and Dr. "Daniel C.

Totter. "Kverythlns; I Oot la Trae." Also among the first to talk with the sergeant Were Inspector Faurot nnd Sergt. (leorge Yunge. head of tho wiretapping squad, llefore the physicians made htm stop to relieve his pain the paurm managea 10 say to mem: "My head Is In whirl. Don't blame me.

Everything I got on the wire Is true. The dirty, rotten, lying skunks! What will my wife and children do? Oh, I am In such terrible pain. Can't they give me something? I'm all filling up." Then, nt 1 o'clock, came District Attorney Swunn for visit of a few moments. After him came Assistant District Attorney Joyce, accompanied by Nathan lllrchall, an official stenographer, to take down what were believed to be Kennel's dying words. Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Lord, Inspector Faurot, Sergt.

Yunge, Detective McCahlll and Father William T. Mcdulrl, police chaplain, were also present at this Interview, and Kennel's son, Charles, 25 years old, walked In with a newspaper In his hand, from which he had first teamed of his father's plight. Tho men all shook hands with Kennel nnd bade him be of good cheer. His voice enmo faintly at first In answer to Assistant District Attorney Joyce's questions, but after a hypodermic Injection It grew stronger. Kennel's Ante-mortem Statement.

Interrupted by occasional spasms of pain, he slowly unburdened his mind of the reasons for his act. expressed the hope that ho would recover and maintained persistently that the phonograms ho had written wero true and faithful copies. Here Is the record the stenographer made: Officer Kennel They can't blame me, Everything I done was Innocent, By Sergeant Yungei Q. Didn't I tell you everything was all right and conditions wore different? A. They put me In that room, they put me In that room, George, for an hour.

They put me In guard of a detail. And then It didn't tho lawyer kept watch, come over thero to watch me, he was afraid I might talk to some one. and I told him he need not worry that I was telling the truth. tj. I left you this morning at about half past 8, and you were all right.

A. Yes, but then all of a sudden everything went wrong. q. I left you about half past 8 and you Just told mo you were doing fine, do you remember? A. I thought everything would go along all right, but I didn't sleep In tho last I.

You know what you told me? A. I told you that. Q. How did you happen to do It, John? A. I don't know, I don't remember.

I can't realize It. "Every Man Told the Train." Q. What were you worrying about? This Is the District Attorney, John (indicating Mr. Joyce). A.

The treatment 1 got the other day from people rreparcd to criticise everything I did. Everything In these conversations Is true, and nothing but the truth. Uverythlng thnt was said and eerthlng thnt was In my papers was the truth, and every man In thero told tho tt.o. I can vouch for It. Ami there was no stranger In there when litem papers was taken, when them messages was taken.

There was no stranger In the room, only the men that was assigned there, and we all made out our own papers, so I couldn't do the typewriting and I left that to tho other men, so that's all I have got to say. If anything happens to mo you can tell them that 1 can By Mr. Joyeei q. What was In your mind that you worried so? A. The humiliation In the papers.

And I couldn't sleep, I was taking messages and messages. Q. You moan the humiliation of that test In court tho other day weighed on your mind? A. And they says they was going to prove q. You weren't afraid you would have to go on the stand, were you? A.

Not that. I wasn't afraid to go on again, but I don't know, It got lu my head. Tells How He Was Snubbed. q. Well, when were you to take your test, to-morrow? A.

It Isn't that I look at my children, they snub you: soma people has no respect at all. My children were born In the Catholic faith, I was married In the Catholic faith, I believe In the Catholic faith, and people snub you simply because you done something against a priest or a head of the church. They don't look Into It In the right way. They don't take two sides of the story and let them look at the conversations nnd read them and then go down tho lino and find out how much of the truth they are telling when they are on the stand. I went there and I told the truth clear as any man could tell It.

They couldn't tell me that' I done this or I didn't do It. when I know I done It. They admit to a certain point, and then they will turn about and have something clsn for It. q. What? A.

They admit all the conversations, they admit to a certain point, and when It injures them then they have some alibi or something of that sort. q. Who do you mean when you say "they admit?" A. The witnesses on the stand. Denies Making "Mistakes." q.

Well, would you sxy that during your examination that you made any mistakes In any of these things you took down? A. I made mistakes? Nothing I I didn't take nil the conversations: some times they talked for eight minutes. We only got the Important parts of the conversations, that's all. q. Well, how would you take It, you Just dot down whatever struck you forcibly? A.

No, not forcibly, what I got clearly and kept In my mind, and then I might have lost something and I got their next Item again. q. Well, I mean, would you write It down Just ns you heard It? A. I would write down whatever was mentioned, whatever I heard. q.

You would write It down right away, would you 7 A. On a slate. q. And what you missed, why you would Just go 011 and pick up the next thing? A. Pick up tho next.

q. And when would you put that on the typewriter? I put It on paper as soon aa they got through taming, rrom the slate, and then left It for the typewriter. Well, how soon would you report that to anynony A. (live It to Sergt. Yunge when he came In.

He Verified Same of It. q. Did you ever see that after you gave It to him again, after you gave It to him In your writing? A. Yes. some of It, aura; I verified some 01 11.

pjasaaasBagaaaafli I saaaaasBaaaVfesfei seal ifgHKafll Detective-Sergeant John Kennel. q. Would he take It off on a type writer? A. Sometimes he would typewrite some, sometimes tho other men. q.

Would you compare It yourself? A. Certainly. q. It would always be compared? A. When I took ones that was type written while I was there.

q. Then what became of the slip that you got It out on? A. I would destroy It. q. The typewritten paper or the writ ten paper? A.

No, not this typewritten paper, my handwriting. q. So would you be sure thnt any thing that had been typewritten was the same ns you had copied on It? A. To the best of my Judgment, yes, because In reading over those conversa tions I can remember most of It and bo familiar with It. q.

Hut how soon nfler they were type written would you re.id them over? A. How soon? Sometimes Immedi ately, two minutes after they were type written. q. Would you compare A. From my paper, I would compare my paper to them.

q. Would you compare with any man? A. Not nt nil. I used my own, com paring for myself. Didn't Repeat to Anybody.

q. You took your own copy and then the typewritten copy? A. Yes. q. While you were taking any tele phone messages would you ever repeat them off to anybody that would write them down? A.

No; I don't do that work. q. I mean, when you were listening. you would never repeat the conversation as you (No answer). q.

There la nothing that you have, no feeling towards anybody In this thing? Do you feel that anybody has tried to Influence you In any way? A. No, nobody Influenced me, nobody, q. Nobody ever asked you to do anything In the line of making reports? A. No. sir.

q. How do you feel yourself, now? A. I feel very voak now, q. How whs It you came to do this thing, did you go up In the air? A. I don't know, I was getting ready to go out to get my lunch.

q. What time do you usually go to lunch? A. 11 o'clock. q. When you went away from the wire, did anybody take your place? A.

Why, them's nlwa two men. There was two men there. q. Did you talk to anybody Immediately before you went out? A. I told them that 1 can't get them things out of my mind.

q. And did, you get up nnd leave the wire nnd go out anywhere? A. No, I changed my shoes nnd my clothes nnd was getting ready and all of a sudden I 1 don't know. Delivered First to Inass, This statement was delivered ftft to District Attorney Swann, who finally de-elded that It ought propcily be made public by the Police Commissioner, ns It concerned member of his department The Commissioner, before giving on? copies of it, declared that he would not have let such nn Intimate document be printed If the Assistant District Attorney had not made a brief digest of lis contents previously for reporters. In such a cose, the Commissioner felt, the public were entitled to the full details.

Commissioner Woods njso wroto a statement commending Kennel I11 the highest terms as "an honest, conscientious man and faithful officer." Another direction In which Kennel's perturbation over his showing nt the test had turned his mind was made known when Theodore Rousseau, secretary for the Mayor, said In the absence rf the chief city Magistrate that he had heard lately that Kennel thought the Mayor was dlssatli-fled with him. The secretary conveed word to Kennel through his brother not to worry on any account whatsoever, as Mayor Mltdiel had no fault to find with his vntk In court. This exhibition, It was acknowledged by lawyers In the Criminal Courts Build-Ing, was made last Thursday under rather trying circumstances. Kennel, ohosen to go through the ordeal because ho had taken down 40 out of the 120 phonograms, particularly those In which Father Farrell nnd Mgr. Dunn wero represented as offering money to Dr Potter with which to lenvo the Jurisdiction of the Strong Investigation, was set nt the telephone In Justice (ireenhaum's chambors lu the Criminal Rranch of the Supreme Court.

Furnished with hendplece nnd a slate similar to those used by him In regulnr wire tapping proceedings, he tried to Jot down two phonograms nnd a typewritten statement which were read over 11 tapped wire In adjacent rooms by Meyer Stelnhrlnk nnd Alfred Tnftey. of counsel for the defence, In the same room with him wero Justice flreenbaum, Robert Hebberd and Frank Moss, his counsel. On Tuesday Juitlce Oreenbaum had proposed that another test bo mado, this time with the ofllcer alone In the room, as ho had noticed Kennel's and considered that the previous trial was unsatisfactory. Though no detective was named to take tho notes, It was generally expected that Kennel would be tho man. The Justice yesterday appeared to be deeply shocked at the news of Kennel's net, nnd ns word of It spread a subdued air descended on tha court room, Kennel was visited later In tho day by his daughter, Frances, 23 years old, who was deeply moved.

His brother had hurried to his home, 51 Lott avenue, Forest Park, L. to bring his wife to the hospital, but she wu.i too prosliated by the news to come. Kennel attended St. Thomas's Roman Catholic Church In Wnodhaven. He was appointed tu the force October 29, 1892, previously hv-Ing been a watchman.

It was Mild at the liojltal lata last night that his condition was still very serious, but that he seemed to be resting a little mora comfortably. TAMMANY PREDICTS SEABURY WILL WIN Club Members Offer Wngers on Democratic-Progressive Combine Victory. BUT MURPHY IS RETICENT Gossip in Political i Circles Concerns Ticket to Beat Whitman. In one of tha big Tammany clubs on the West Side last night men were offering to bet real money, asking odds, however, that Justice Samuel Seabury of the Court of Appeals wilt be the next Governor of New York. Tha Tammany politicians say Justlco Seabury will be the candidate of a Democratic-Progressive combine.

The Murphy organization, caring nothing about Woodrow Wilson and frankly Indifferent aa to the fate of the President's campaign In this State, has Just one aim In life and that Is to get back the state offices from which It was ousted by the Whitman "ripper" Legislation ot 1316. Vole Netting Strength. There Is next to no Wilson talk In Tammany circles; what little there Is, like ns not Is disparaging, but everywhere among Tannany men and In Brooklyn, among the Democrats of the McCooey organization there Is discussion of JSeabury's voto getting abilities, confident predictions that as a Democratic nominee for Governor Indorsed by the Progressives he would win an easy victory over a renominated Whitman. When It comes to a discussion of the treatment Seabury, In tho event of his election, would accord to the Democratic organization. Murphy's followers are not sanguine.

No doubt, they say, Seabury would be a "lemon but William Sulzer was a "lemon," and even Gov. Dlx disappointed Tammany expectation at times. Tho Democrats say all State executives In these days are disposed to snub the organization forces and play ur to the Independent vote. Rut If Seabury should prove ungrateful. It would be different In the case of other State officials who would be nominated with him and helped to victory, perhaps, by his popularity.

The office of State Comptroller is an Important one, the dispenser of many fat Jobs. Tammany would be willing to take a chance with Seabury If side by side with him it could elect "Mike" Walsh of Yonkers as State Comptroller. Talk of ratronage. It Is estimated that In tho Stato Comr-ttoller's office alone, with the right man at Its head, majority of the Tammany district leaders could be accommodated Ith Jobs at satisfactory salaries. There are other good places, not so many, In the Attorney General's office nnd the State Engineer and Secretary nf State have patronage not to lie despised.

And In tho nnture of things, say Murphy's lieutenants, Seabury, If Governor, would feel constrained to ajipolnt an occasional Democrat of the organization type to office. All this explains why Tammany regards with kindly eye the movemmt, now well advanced, to enter Seabury for the Governorship lu the Progressive primaries. If that movement does not ftrlk a snag between now and the data of the fall primaries It Is an open secret In Tammany circles that Seabury will be entered, and under auspices that will assure his success In them. Meanwhile Charles F. Murphy, It Is understood, will refrain carefully from saying anything to Indicate a Seabury bWs.

He will (lureue a similar policy to that adopted by him In tho Mayoralty campaign of 1909, when Tammany, well dlspced from the first toward Justice William J. Gaynor, permitted various Independent organizations and citizens committees to take the Initiative In booming him for Mayor. DEFENDS REAPPORTIONMENT. Itrnirn Hays Court of Appeals' Ob jrrtlnn la Easily Mr), Watertow.v. N.

July 2fl. "The decision of the Court of Appeals, although setting cslde the leglslatlvn apportionment act ns unconstitutional. Is a very fnllsfactery decision," said Senator Klon R. Ilrown. majority leader In the Senate, to-day.

"In sustaining tha legislature on Its contention, the policy of territorial representation embodied In the Constitution of 1S9S Is finally settled. "The decision Is equally satisfactory in sustaining the action of the legislature In apportioning members of Assembly. The claim was made by New York county that It should have twenty-seven Instead of twenty-three Assemblymen, each district numbering US, 000 pco-pie, nnd that only two Assemblymen should be given to the county of Onondaga, where each Assemblyman would over 90,000 people. If this proposition had been established the two Assembly districts In Onondapn county ould have had 23,000 more population than two Assembly districts lu the county ot New York. "Tho fault pointed out by the Court of Appeals could corrected by the Legls.

lature In an hour The present act could be recnactcd under an emergency message from the Governor In extraordinary session." NEW DOMINICAN PRESIDENT. Carvajal Chosen As Mnccrssor of Jlmlnes, San Dominuo Cffrr, July 26. Fcdcrlco llenrlquez Carvajal was proclaimed provisional President of tho Dominican Republic by Congress to-day. President Carvajal succeeds Juan Isl-Tiro Jlmlnez. Ho was elected by the Chamber of Deputies on May 17, but continuation by tho Senate was postponed at the request of Admiral Caper-ton, commanding the American naval foices In Santo Domingo, The disturbed condition of the republic was tho reason of Admiral Capcrton'a request, MAY HOLD CONGRESS.

Immigration Bill as Child Labor Illdrr Threntened, Washington, July 26. Senator Borah gave notice to-day that he would offer the Immigration hill ns an nmendment or rider to the child labor bill which the Democratic caucus has decided to include in the legislative programmo. This adds to the complications that tend to postpone adjournment. As soon ns tho chllil labor 'bill was added tha date, which hail been tentatively fixed for August 19, was moved to September 1. Now thero are Senators who affect to believe that adjournment will not come until well along In September, Rlkus Leaves I'.

9. Anaast 30. Wasiiinqton, July 26 Abr.un 1. Klkus, the new United States Ambassador to Turkey, called on President Wilson and State Department officials today and arranged to depart for his post about August 20. STRIKERS REJECT PEACE; MOB CHIEFS 23,700 Garment Workers Refuse to Accept Agreement Leaders Drew Up.

RIOTS AT TWO MEETINGS Police Club Tailors Who Threaten Lives of Heads of Union. The clothing strike is on again, rickets are back on their beata and union workers have been ordered not to return to the shops. Peace seemed almost at hand. The leaders of tha union and representatives of the manufacturers had drafted an agreement which had been accepted by the general strike commit-teen. But when It was presented yesterday to tha BOO shop chairmen they refused to listen to It.

The rank and file, roused to fury by the socialist contingent, It Is said, angrily shouted that they would not even vote on the proposals. Riots followed In Union Square and In Stuyvesant Casino, 140 Second avenue, In which the Uvea of union leaders were imperilled. The police restored order only after many of the strikers had been severely clubbed. In the agreement the employers had conceded one of the principal points of contention tho preferential union shop. They had agreed, alio, to a 6 per cent.

Increase In wages, a decrease of one Working hour a week, a system of price adjustment, and the continuation of the Joint board ot sanitary control. What they did not give up was the right to hire or fire employees as tha needs of their business dictated. Further, they would consent to no pruvlslon for a board of arbitration for settlement of future disputes. Need Arbitration Board. It was asserted yesterday that the socialists objected vigorously to the employers retaining the right to discharge help.

Robert Bruere, general counsel for the union. Issued a long statement In which he attributed the resentment of the workers to the lack of a board of arbitration. The manufacturers had broken one solemn agreement, he said, and the workers had 110 guarantee under the proposed agreement that they would not do tha same thing again. Whatever tho cause, there was serious trouble when Benjamin Schleelngcr, president of the International Ladles' Garment Workers Union, appeared bc-foro the BOO shop chairmen In Stuyvesant Casino and offered to explain the agreement. The chairmen refused to listen.

There were crlea of "Sold out!" and for a long time Schleslnger could not make hlmtclf heard. In the street outside were 10,000 strikers. There were more lu the side streets from Secon-1 to Eleventh and there were Impromptu meetings outside Webster Hnll nnd other Kast Side meeting places. Sensing something Cf the disorder the strikers charged, attempting to the Cajilno. There were few police on duty, and scores of the rioters succeeded In getting Inside.

Then the reserves from the Fifth street Mutton were called. As soon as they arrived they charged the crowd with their clubs. The mob wan stubborn and ugly, and not until many had been clubbed Into Insensibility did It give way before tho bluecoats. Mets Gets Ont Window. Inside the rioting was almost as bad.

Schleslnger, when he addressed the shop chairmen as "brothers" was met with shouts that he was no brother of theirs. Solomon Mctz, chairmen of the cloak-makers, wan compelled to seek safety by climbing out of a window. Ho had been openly threatened with violence. Another crowd had been gathering all morning In Union Siunre. At 11 o'clock nn aged women appeared with a white boimer covered with Yiddish legends.

She tried to organize a parade. Police were summoned haitlly, and under Sergeant McAulcy they scattered the moh. Later In the day meetings of the union members tu the square were and wtre ujimolestrd Schleslnger, addressing crowd of union members, told them he would have nothing to do with the strike unless there was order ns there had been lu the thirteen wcelui the strike had been In progress. "Tho conference committee for the union did not expect to settle the strike until tho workers ratified the agreement." he told the crowd. "If tho agreement Is not suitable then we will carry on the strike, provided you stop street demonstrations and remain In the halls.

"If you don't want a referendum no one can compel you to accept It, We nvide that clear to the employers. Now go to your halls." Robert Hruere's statement In part follows "The rejection by the strikers of tentative agreement came lis a great surprise. It Is Important under the circumstances that the public should understand the motive behind the widespread oppo- sltlon. "The prjiosril agreement provided no machinery In the nature of a council of conciliation or board of arbitration for the redress of grievances or for the en-forcement of the provisions of the pro- contract. One Agreement Broken.

"In view of the fact that the execution of the proposed agreement was left pri marily wiin tne Association or Manufacturers, whose executive committee in declaring a lockout on April 29 broke solemn contract that still had more than a year to run, the men beliee that they had no adequate guarantee that the provisions of the new contract would be faithfully carried out. "The great majority of the men are firmly of tho opinion that without the protection of somo disinterested body In the nature of tho council of conciliation or a board of arbitration tho Industry will be thrown back Into a state of anarchy that existed prior to tho crea Hon of the pvotoeol In 1910, "In this view they h.n been strength ened by tho public statement of Mr. Wile, president of the Manufacturers Protective Association, to the effect that In destroying the protocol and eliminating all machinery for the adjustment of grievances and the mediation of dls- Prompt, efficient, resourceful service i ynun at the LIBERTY, LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK in the Equitable Building no Broadway New York putes the association triumphantly achieved the purpose of tha lockout. "in drafting and submitting an agreement the officers of the union made a great concession to the manufacturers to which they felt themselves compelled by the knowledge that more than 200,000 human beings have been brought face to face with starvation by tha long duration of the lockout. "The revolt of the workers against this concession finally demonstratea that- It Is Impossible In this complex Industry to srrlve nt an agreement that will be fair alike to the employers and the workers and that will secure durable peace without the intervention ot a board of arbitration In which the public la adequately represented." Tho agreement was adopted by the strike committee after a stormy session In the Broadway Central Hotel.

The vote was 41 to 40, which also was tho vote on the proposal to submit the agreement to the shop chairmen. There are 28,700 workers on strike. CAN'T FORCE SERVICE. Chairman Van Saatvoord Sara Board's Hands Are Tied. Albant, July S.

Chairman Van Bantvoord of the up-State Public Service Commission, said to-night that an Inquiry Into the strike conditions In Yonkers and Mount Vernon Is being made, but thnt the commission cannot grant the request ot the Yonkers authorities to compel the Yonkers street railway system to furnish service. Mr. Van Santvoord explained that the request of the Yonkers officials wss based upon an agreement between the company and Its employees made In 1913, to settle disagreements by arbitration. The officers of the railroad company say that because of the absence of tho president of the railroad company In Kurope no one haa power to agree upon arbitration. The chairman said also that an ordinance of Yonkers requires thst surface cars In that city cannot be operated by men without fifteen days' Instructions on the street railway lines of the city.

He pointed out that If the commission should order the street railway company to operate Its lines, there Immediately would arise a question of law between the authority of the commission and the Yonkers ordinance. YALE CLUB IS FORCED TO EAT COLD FOOD Hcadwnitcr and Bus Boys Try Hard, but Strike Cripples the Service. Cold dishes formed the staple of tha Yale' Club menu last night, a diet enforced because of the continued strlko of the waiters, who walked out on Tuesday Just before tho dinner hour. The head waiter, with .1 few faithful omnibus boys and the sdded help nf other club employees, strove valiantly against the appetites of tho Yale men through the day, but finally had to abandon the dining room nnd lntrert themselves In the grill as a last stand. It is a fortunate circumstance, according to D.

B. Cashlu, superintendent ot the club, that the waiters seized this sen-son for their strike. Most of the club men are out of town, so only 120 had to be fed last night. Cashln expects tint a compromise with the waiters' union will be effected before the fall Influx. The executive committee of the union said It was powerless to hold In leash the men who served at the club.

An ultimatum setting to-day ns the time for the walkout hail been Issued from the union headquarters, but this was The men on Tuesday demanded nn Increase of their wages from $30 monthly to The club was willing to give 100 to trained men and to waiters less experienced. These terms were refused. To Count Strike Vote Tuesday. Announcement was made yesterday that the count of the strike vote of the railroad brotherhoods of the Kastern and Southeastern districts will begin next Tuesday. The strlko vote In the West will be counted August 5.

Ofllclols the union declined yesterday to say the vote Is going. FIGHT GARBAGE TOWING BILL. N'. V. Iloat Owners Send Protest Aitnlnat Hlerilnn Measure.

The New York Iloat Owners Associa tion, composed of 151 owners of com mercial craft plying In the harbor, yes terday sent to Hi'prceentattve Stephen M. Sparkm.m, chairman of the Committee on Rivers nnd Harbors of the House of Representatives, a letter protesting against the proposed Itlordan bill, which would prohibit the towing of garbage and other refuse through rivers, harbors, canals or other pavlgablo wnters under Cnvrrnment Jurisdiction. The boat owners say the bill defeats the purpose of home rule, that refuse Is handled satisfactorily under present methods and that should the' bill be passed thero would be no means, since there Is no public Incinerating plant, of disposing of waste. (inrbnue Fight In Congress. Wasiiinoton, July 26.

The right In New York to prevent the proposed loci-tlon of a garbage plant on Staten Island was brought to Congres to-day. Calvin D. Van Name. President of the Itorougn of Richmond Pcrclv.il Ullman of Staten Island and Representative Itlordan urged the House Rivers and Harbors Committee to report a bill prohibiting tha use of harbors, rivers and canals for tha transportation of waste materials. Repre sentatives or New lorit city and of the contractors opposed the bill.

Itnndlts Overpower Cashier. INPIANAWMH. Ind July 26. Two nrmed men to-day held up and robbed the Hast Tenth Street State Rank, es caping with between and I1.S00, It wan saltl at mo nanK. Harvey 11.

Tillnr.111, cashier, fought the bandits, but us struck on the head with a re volver and overpowered. BBBB1 I lAWBB aT BBBBhsr Willys-Overland Inc. 1826-1828 Broadway, New York 338 Flatbush Brooklyn. 3S37 Halsay Newark Prompt and courteous attention at our SERVICE STATIONS JJla 9l. ens' Gwimi nrsnr ana STRIKE TIES DP ALL CARS IN THE BRONX Continued from First I'ngt.

to tha various police stations in Tha Rronx, ready for emergency cnl chl.f Police Inspector Max Sctinnm.efK,r toured tho borough In the sizing up the situation and issuing orders for precautionary measures. At the Instance of Organizer Pin. gerald letters were sent to (leiier.il Mr oger Maher setting forth the ,1 n(j of tha men. The one difference letutn those demands and the demands m.il upon the Union Hallway lines In We.i. Chester Is that The Bronx demand, a.

for a recognition of the right of tu- to Join the union. Next the employees usk fur an in. crease of 6 cents an hour over tin: r.vn prevailing up to June 30 nst, and finally they aek for a meeting between the of. flclals of the railway and representative of the association to adjust runs and other working conditions. The present scale of vuwca Is said to be 26 cents an hour for the first nr, 29 cents nn hour for the second, third, fourth and fifth years nnd 30 cents an hour thereafter.

The men nre reported to be willing to scale their dcinandi down to 30 cents un hour for the tirt ear and 33 cents an hour for eai )ear thereafter and to arbltratn except tha question of their right to or-gnnlse. Fitzgerald Insisted last night tli.it had gone Into The Rronx nt the rcpieM of the men themselves. He nnd bis colleagues, William K. Collins nnd O'llrlcn, arrived In The lironx early yerterdiy from Yonkers, the headquarters for the.r strike operations In Westchester. S.

eral days ago they had organized a unlrn at Klrrgsbrldge, and those members im gathered In a hall awaiting them at an early hour. While that meeting was in firngriM Mr. Maher, accompanied by Superintendent Reynolds and Starter De Vliuie Klngsbrldge, arrived In an automobile. Mr. Maher's assistants tried to get Into the hall, but were refused admission.

Call on Police to Aid. Fitzgerald and his associates held another meeting In a hall at Hughes avenue and 183d street, where they rounded more men and got a promlso from them to go on strike. Maher Hnd his men followed the organizers to that nife'lrij and called upon the police for aid. Supt. Reynolds, who tried to get two the meeting, called out the names nf men whom he saw there and told them they were discharged.

When many of tha conductor? ar.d motormen were due to report for work at 5 o'clock yesterday morning the dl-vision superintendents found thf-n-Un short of men. The superintendents, ho-ever, started out as many cars as possible. Some of these men made (: run and reaching the barn aniiaunotd they were on strike. The lines running In'o Mount Vernon and Yonkers were affected first nnd for a couple ot hours kcircely a car was running. Mr.

Maher, however, succeeded In et. ting men to replace some of the str ler and sent out cars with private detectives on board. But us the day noie tin strike extended to the various lines ai.d It became practically Impossible to reuch Westchester a surface car. During the rush hour last night a valiant effort was made to handle the, crowd, but that was In vain. The cro.

town lines, like the H9th street, the Tre-mont avenue nnd the 167th street, also wero operating only a few striiggllin; cars. At the car bams at 21 filh "re. I Hiosdway and at Third axenue and liPth street men were obt-crird th out the diy to finish their runs and quii work. Meetings were held In the after, noon at points convenient for the mri employed on the different divisions. at all these meetings resolution r.voi Ing a strike were adopted and the men present agreed not to return to ork.

One meeting was held at tho N'or'h I3nd Democratic Club Hall, at Wihier avenue and Kordham road, where l'ltz-serald nddresid the men mirl tecewd in enthusiast! response. One mret 1 -js held In tho afternoon at th Court-landt Casino, 5U7 Courtlandt avenue, and a second one at night, whem ot tho railway company gathered ana Joined the union. Kvcrywhere the strikers seemed to be gMlnlng ptrength. May Organise City. Vice-President O'Brien said last nigh', "Our president, I) M.ihon, v.

lb nr. rive here to-morrow morning from Pe-trolt to tnke charge of this situ it. It would be big Job to orgiture 1 men In this great city, but It Is nut impossibility. New York Is one of 'le big cities in hlch the street ra'lnay men are not organized. "It looks now, in view of the we have had to-day, that we will not stop until we reach tho Battery 1W nddlng the workers of the entire cltv 'o our ranks would Increase our membership by from 100,000 to 120.000." General M.wiugcr Mnher persisted sayln that thero was no strike.

"If get sufficient police protection we will have sufficient service to-morrow The first arrest In connection with strike occurred nt Fcrdham road and Webster avenue In the afternoon, ven William CJoodman, conductor nn e. hind a southbound car and pulle' trolley off. Patrick Corbctt. srother striking conductor. Interfered 1 patrolman who arrested Cioodm.i" I Cioodman and Corbett were rra 1 before Magistrate Deuel In the Ve Minns Court, where noodmnn i i $0 and M'ntenco was on Corbett.

During the evening rush lnur strikers with bricks attacked a tr car at Webster uvenuo nnd lMth s' e' They smushed every window, drtM igt motorman and conduct to shelt. side the car. The police sen.s Uronx Park police station 1 strikers nnd arrest three men. P. Gallagher.

Owi H.idden and irt nhan. All three vteie accui-cd of orderly conduct. Last night the railway oflVUils 11 ered In the car bains men v.ho uete llevcd to be strike breakers and prrfV' 1 to send out cars this morning, irafral Ntwmt I I I I I I I Motop.

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