Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 1

Have You Gist Your Vote for Your Conductor? Have You Cast Your Vote for Your Conductor? WRATH Ml FAIR RICHMOND VA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 3 1914' WHOLE NUMBER 19615 MB TIMM rOtrjfDBD IH rn Diirtm roinreiD i Brilliant Marks Inauguration of Governor Stuart CENTER tyfbsfer T-TT-T Reads Address to Great Multitude From Por- tico of Capitol Mm "4 CEREMONY UNDER CLOUDLESS SKY! 1 Militia I Cadets Judges State Official! Congressmen and Members of General Assembly Honor Head of In- coming Administration Tax Reform Is Paramount Issue PRICE TWO Scene Witherspoon and Hensley Make Sensational Accusations Before Committee YEARBOOK IS ANALYZED Vessels Omitted and Facts Distorted to Make Country Appear Weak Washington February Representatives Witherspoon of Mississippi and Heneiey of Missouri to-day charged that experts of the Navy Department juggled the statistics of the ISIS Xavy Yearbook to make the American navy appear Inferior to the German navy This action they declared set the United States down from second to third place as a naval power Both Congressmen are members of tho House Xaval Affaire Committee With Secretary Daniels before the committee to explain the naval program for tho coming year tho two Congressmen who are strongly opposed to a Iblg questioned him at length on what they declared were omissions and faulty comparisons' In the yearbook The secretary explained that he was not an expert In comparing navies and said he had relied on what exporta In the navy had advised him about the facta Three Battleships Omitted In their questioning the Congressmen brought out that three American tho Oregifti Massachusetts and Indiana which are of the same tonnage nnd of heavier armament than ten listed German battleships are left out of the United States list altogether and that the yearbook Instead of giving tho United Staten thlr-ty-elx battleships built and building compared with Germany's thirty-nine should have credited the United States with thirty-nine battleships of heavier total tonnage and armament than Germany They also davaloped that the navy statisticians this year for tho flret time have taken out the Dreadnought close the battleships South Carolina and Michigan which have Dreadnought armament nnd have put into the German Dreadnought class four ships of 11-lnch gun armament The yearbook's comparison give Germany thirteen Dreadnoaghte nnd the United Staten seven while the Congressmen insisted that the correct figures should give Germany nnd the United States nine Dreadnoughts each Detailed results of their Investiga- BAND PUT AS NEW EXECUTIVE REFUSING TO PLAY Workers In Sweatshops and Factories Plead Cause of Suffrage GET NO DEFINITE PROMISE Wilson: -Deeply Depressed by His Inability to Give De- sired Aid Resigns His Ambassadorship to 1 Russia Before -V Up Duties FEELS IT RIGHT THING TO DO Tells' President Action Is Because of Cloud'Cast by Re- cent Controversy Cadet Dance Held Up Two Hours With Musicians on Strike BOWLES CALLS ON WERNER FOR AID krmed Guard in Patrol Ii Sent Out to Round Up Men Who Art Now Under Bond Facing Get Music 0 From Mansion May End Battalion Band Multitude of People in Streets as Military Companies Sweep By CHEERS FOR I CADETS New Governor and Old Governor Warmly Greeted on Way to Inauguration Commander of Nantucket Must Face Accusation of Negligence EVIDENCE IS SUFFICIENT Investigators Hold Him1 to Blame for Loss of Monroe and Forty-One Lives Washington February Secretary Redfleld late to-day directed that charges of negligence be preferred against Captain Osmund Berry of tho Merchants and steamship Xan-tuckct which collided with ana sank the Old Dominion liner Monroe with a loss of forty-one llvea off Uio Virginia coast on Friday 1 Investigation of the chargee will he Intrusted to the local bar of inspectors at Philadelphia with Instructions that testimony be taken and a decision reported This action followed a conference at tha Department of Commerce from a report of Tapley the department's inspector of hulls at Norfolk Vs The secretary announced that evidence brought out by the preliminary Inquiry held on board the Nantucket while that vessel was making her way Into Norfolk with tho Mon-roe'e survivors aboard to show that there waa negligence on tha part of Captain Berry" He added however that It would bo 'quite Improper to paea upon that Sueetlon at this time further than to ectda that there sufficient evidence to require that chargee be preferred against Captain Berry and that the question of his Innocence or guilt be made the subject of further Investigation" Nature Net Specified Xo Intimation was given as to ths specific nature of tho negligence to be charged against the Nantucket's skipper The two vessels met In a denes fog early Friday morning the Monroe hound up tho const from Norfolk for New Tork and tho Nantucket steaming southward from Boston for Norfolk Tho Nantucket drove her bow Into tho starboard sldo of the Monroe causing the Utter to sink within few minute' While the charges agalnet Captain Berry are under investigation a special committee of the George UhUr supervising inspector-general of the Steamboat Inspection Service and Chamberlain commissioner of navigation will undertake a particular Inquiry Into the farts and conditions surrounding tho collision with tho view to suggesting action by the department pr Congress on the leesone taught by the disaster A statement from tho department announcing tho results of conference said: "The department has given Instruction to Inspector Tapley to prefer charges against Captain B-rrjr This wtll be done without delay and the board nf Iwal inspectors at rtilladcl-phis will hear all the testimony which may be produced on both sides and render Its declaloiv An appeal may he taken from the decision of (his board to the eupervielng Inspector of Washington February -Henry Plndell of Peoria I1L who was recently nominated and confirmed aa ambassador to Russia has declined the appointment Mr Plndelfs decision wag announced in a letter to President Wilson made public at the White House to-day Mr Plndell wrote President Wilson that although tho Senate had investigated accusations in connection with his appointment he felt nevertheless that no controversy of any kind should surround the appointment of any ambassador as it was liable to he misunderstood abroad Tho President In a letter of regret accepted Mr declination In Ms letter to tho President Mr Plndell expressed appreciation of honor you have done in nominating mo ambassador to Russia and tho very great compliment paid me by the Senate In confirming the nomination by unanimous Mere Delicate ts Deetiaew After stating that he had at first intenddd accepting the poet Mr Plndell continues: have as you know been put in a very false tight by certain gross misrepresentations In tho public press and while it is true that these have been cleared away and the nomination accepted in its true light by the Senate after a thorough and dispassionate Investigation I feel that It would be more delicate for mo to decline tho appointment than to accept It controversy of any kind should surround the appointment of an ambassador to a country which cannot be expected to be familiar with the real circumstance! ns they ere known at home There should be nothing personal to talk about or explain there as far as the ambassador hlmeelf la concerned" In reply President Wilson wrote: letter does credit to your delicate eenee of propriety and serves to Increase if that were possible my admiration for you and my confidence in your eminent fitness for tho mission which you' now decline can but yield to your Judgment in the matter because it le dear to me that feeling ae you do whether you sro fully Justified in that feeling or not you would not be comfortable or happy In the post therefore cannot Insist You will allow me however I hope to express my deep regret I know your quality ao well and waa (Continued On Third Page) Washington February Women workers wko toll dally In tho mills and tho mines and In tha sweatshops and the factories of tho nation with President Wlieon to-day for his assistance to the cause of woman suffrage The President regretfully told them as hs did a delegation laet December that he could not urge anything on Congress which had not received the organic consideration of the Democratic party demonstration not tho brass band the street procession the colored pennants and hattleflsgs of tho cause but the talc of hardship of the struggle to live on low wages of tho sanitariums for those who sickened at their work and tho heart-breaking tragedlea of affected the President deeply As the delegatee left the executive offices discouraged and disappointed because they obtained no positive aid they did not know that tha President hlmeelf was depreseed perhaps even more than they as he went to luncheon with hie family He told hie friends afterward he wished he could help hut saw no way to do it Thera le ovary reason to believs however that tho day gave added stimulus to tho desire for early legislation on social Justice and industrial reform mentioned In hie drat annual message Earnest and Determined Five hundred old and young of them plainly dressed but earnest and determined went to the White 'House but only a committee of twenty-Bve with live speakers gained audience with the President the ethers waiting until the argument hud ceased when Mr Wilson asked to shako hands with all In voices often choked with emotion tha five speakers recited a tale of modern Industry which they said knew no chivalry where old and young women worked stdeby elds with men for Inadequate wages and under conditions that undermined health Representatives of the weavers the laundresses the cap makers the hat makers and garment workers In ten Eastern States addressed the President Mrs Glendower Evans of Boa-ton one of the leaders of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage introduced them in turn and each presented plea from her own viewpoint have to make a speech to said Mies Boas Winslow of the weavers I am aa nervous that I (Continued On Second Page) Through nearly half a hundred city blocks filled with a multitude of cheer Ing people Henry Carter Stuart rods yesterday to the ancient Capitol and took the oath aa Governor of Virginia In the brilliant midwinter sunshine of a glorious day ha stood uncovered on tho south portico and dedicated himself to four years of public service faithfully and Impartially to discharge ths duties of high office to which he had been elected without a show of opposition and asking the support of all Democrats who stand for good government (Irmly and resolutely administered In the paramount Interest the State Before 19000 people Governor Stuart read aa his Inaugural addrese a declaration of the platform and principles for which he etanda To place equally upon all tho burden of taxation to be Governor of all men without faction or distinction to glvs proper and due regard to tho rights of corporations te upbuild the State In agriculture te secure purity of elections and needed reforms In methods of legislation were the chief Items of Ms political creed Great Cheer Fills Air Oovernor Stuart was heard distinctive not only by tho great multitude lit front of him but by Icglslatora Starts and city official Judges members of Congress and a brilliant ese-mbly of all those whom Virginia has delighted to honor with place an-i petition The Governor's address was followed by a saints of nineteen guna and a review of the troope taking pvrt In ths parade Sobered by' the serious and thoughtful matter discerned by Mg Stuart In bis Inaugural addreea thnre was at flrt little disposition to ehe-r but wben ths United fU'ri Coast Artillery Band from Fortr-e Monro- bravely playing ld the cad-rt of the Yirs'na Military lisMa'e before the rdvirwtrc stand tl yre was burst of enthusiastic apptaur la which judge h-ratora sad people Joln-4 ths laet not- of a bugi bad (Continued On Tenth Page) Becaug tha twenty-on enlisted member! of the battalion hand refuaed to ploy nnleee they were paid the dance given laet night bp the Richmond Light Infantry Blues in honor of the Virginia Military Institute cadets at tho armory in Sixth Street could not begin until 11 o'clock and before midnight ton muelciane were under military arrest facing court-martial for disobedience and squad of eight privates in charge of a eer-ghant waa seeking the othera Until the orchestra which played at the reception of Governor and krx Btnart had concluded Ita engagement at the Executive Mansion all of the Blues and their guests waited patiently From 9 until 11 there waa not a strain of music but the crowd chatted gaily until the substitute musicians arrived Bowles Ordered Arrest members of tho band are en listed the same as any other nj ember of the battalion" said Major Bow lea ordered them to report at tho armory to-night nt for duty nnd they did not do so Therefore 1 ordered their arrest and called out a guard and aent it to round up the bandsmen- First however Major Bowles communicated with Chief of Police Werner end a big automobile patrol was placed at bis disposal In- It the aoldlera fully armed visited practically all parts of the city Several of the players were found near the armory Others were found at their homes bundled Into tho patrol and taken to the armory where they were placed 'under guard' At midnight ten of them including the lender I Colavita were In cue tody Under guard of soldiers aid ed by Police Sergeant Johnson and Patrolmen Crump and rouse they were taken from the armory at mid-eight and ssnt to the Second folic- (Continued On Fifth Pass Guarded by the sturdy striplings of younger day surrounded by public men of maturar years and honored by all the citlaene of tho capital city Governor Henry Stuart yesterday morning rode in state before more than 90000 people and received the homage which la paid to the Governor of Virginia Beaido him and hardly lees a figure sat William Hodges Mann who for four yeara had guided the deattnies of Virginia and was now resigning to somewhat younger hands the cares of state And of all the hundreds who were in the great parade these two srlll be the laet to be forgotten and the first to be remembered when to-day the glamour of the soldiery has lost ita touch and the tumult of the crowds has died away Uncovered In All Their Blue And as If the finger ofdeatiny would write a message of good promise for tho four years to come the sklea lay uncovered In all their tender blue and the sun shone forth with a warm and kindly tonch It teemed as though the elements had conspired to add their marvels to tho ceremony of inauguration and to lend color to gaily nodding plumea and the scarlet of military cloaka It was Just such a day as pomp and ceremony could derlro and nature give For nearly an hour tho procession moved along Ita rourssi and no accident served to mar its brilliancy or to ewervo It from Its path A few halt occurred on Grace Street near 'Elba Station where a train of the Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad running south cut the Virginia Military Institute battalion In half When at last the train had cleared the crossing the first half of the corps was four blocks ahead of tho second half But there was no dismay no break In the ranka A staccato order and the rear hpif of tha visiting corps was put to the double-quick and kept the pnee nntll it had raught np with the parade It was occasion for i (Continued On Tenth Pag) (Continued On Second Pegs) (Continued On Third Page).