Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 124, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1904 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 15)04.

SON OF A HIGH MORMON LYNCHE SET FREE POWER AND DUTY OF HE FAIR. TUsQirO Eo üdQ QcnöoüßCcüdo Hei r SAYS HE TOLD LIE By ! OE UNITED I ME ONTHE GENTILES Was Drunk When He Said President Smith Married A. H. Cannon and Lillian Hamlin. STATES HE COURT f i

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All last season's odds and ends have moved out. and the new light-weight, cool styles moved in clothing that does not have to be pushed or pulled. Spring Suits that will put spring into you. Trice But the style, the fit. the quality interest you more than the price. Our price, you know, is always right. The novel 'colors (In the new grays) are here In Vests

AT THE Buster Brown Suits $3 up. Member of Merchants Association. Fares rebated under their plan. Abdominal and Scrotal Eupporter. Wrlstlet. ßhouMer Prace. Spinal Corsets. Instep Elevators. Ankle Braces and Elastic Hosiery Mad to order and proper fit gnaranteed. WM. II. ARMSTRONG Sc CO., 221 and 2ZS S. Meridian St.. Indianapolls. Ind. STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS AFFECT MAN! THOUSANDS Carpenters and Other Building Trades Unionists Quit Work in Several Cities. FACTORIES ALSO CLOSE CHICAGO. May 2. Three strikes and one lockout became effective here to-day, and In consequence 6.200 wage earners are Idle, ricture-frame makers employed in six factories to the number of 1,700 struck, and 4.000 boot and shoemakers', employes of ten manufacturers, were locked out. One hundred teamsters of the Union Lime Company and the Artesian Lime Company refused to work because denied an advance of 50 cents a week. Nine baking concerns were tied up by a strike of 400 men, the rirms refusing ' to grant "closed shop." Still another strike is in prospect, members of the machinists' union employed in 50C shops throughout the city having voted to demand an increase of 2 to 5 cents an hour. BOSTON. May 2. The principal difficulty to occur on May day in New England was the strike of more than 1,500 bakers in this city and nearby places, including Cambridge, Lynn, Salem, Brockton, Abington, Kockland, Stoughton. North Easton, Weymouth. South Weymouth and Bridgewater. The strike was causevfby the refusal of the master bakers to sign a new schedule callingfor a sixty-hour week and $16 weekly for second hands and $18 for foremen. The larger hotels and .restaurants are not affected by' the strike. PHILADELPHIA, May 2. About 2.000 "workmen employed in the building trades were rendered idle to-day as the result of strikes ordered by the local unions. The branches affected are the elevaur. conductors, cement - finishers, stone cutters, tile layers anct helpers, metallic lathers and granite cutters. All of the strikes were caused by the refusal of employers to grant certain increases in wages. The differences In rr.ofct cases will probably be settled by to-morrow. - t LOS ANGELES. Cal., May 2. Thp injunction order which was issued by Judge Melborn, of the United States District Court, last Saturday against the striking Santa Fe machinists restraining them from In any way interfering with the Santa Fe eervice, is being served on the men personally to-day by United States Marshal Osborne and his deputies. The names of 140 strikers are included In the order. WATER BURY. Conn.. May 2. A general strike of all the union carpenters, hod carries and laborers in this city, numbering 700, began to-day. The carpenters demanded a minimum wage rate of $2.S0 a day in place of the $-.50 now paid, and the refusal Of the master carpenters to sign an agreement based on the increased rate caused the strike. About Wö men are affected. JACKSON. Mich.. May 2.-The labor unions comprising the building trades council of this city decreed that the contractors must return to suntime or have a strike. The Builders' Exchange persisted in using standard time, and to-day about 500 men of different trades refused to work. SCHENECTADY. N. Y.. May 2. Two ptrlkes were inaugurated in this city today when the members of the Tinsmiths' and the Coal Handlers' unions, numbering in all about 3i0 men, went out as the result of the refusal of employers to grant a nlncrease of wages. OIL CITY. Pa.. May 2. Building operations were tied up here to-day by a strike of carpenters, painters, stone masons, tinners and paper hangers against what is known as the open shop policy. About 200 men are idle. HOLYOKE. Mass.. May 2. Three hundred carpenters went on strike to-day in an effort to compell the master carpenters to fign union contracts for an Increase in wages. CLEVELAND. O.. May 2. About 200 tin and metal workers went on strike to-day to enforce their. demand for a minimum wage scale of $-.50 rer day. WASHINGTON NOTES OF IX TU REST TO INDIANA Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, May 2. Indiana postmasters appointed to-day: Loon Curtis, at Patton, Carroll county, vice Abraham Schopf, resigned, and Henry Chapman, at Woodburn. Allen ccrunty, vice Levi Klopfenstlne, resigned. Authority has been granted for the organization of the Citizens National Bank of Tell City, Ind. Capital. $.T0,O00. John T. Patrick. John W. Scull. Adolph Zuelly, Gustave Meyer and Andy Steinauer are named as incorporators. The First National Bank of Loogootee, Ind.. has been authorized to commence business. Capital. J5.w). John N. Breen, president; J. M. Twitty, cashier. Rural free delivery will be established nt Pleiceton. Kosciusko county, June 1 (additional service.) Length, twenty-three miles; population. 5O0 ; houses on route, 110. The Civll-st-rvlce Commission announces an examination at Princeton. Ind.. May It. for positions of cU-rk and carriers in tbe office in that place. On the same date an examination for clerks anil carriers pi the Fort Wayne office will be held in Fort Wayne. Topographical maps of the Indianapolis army post site have been received at the War Department from Captain Cheatham. The officials seem to be in no hurry to take up the plans for the new fort. .This is due to the fact that the appropriation made by Congress does not become available until July 1. General Humphreys said to-day . that he could not anticipate, when the army board would visit Indianapolis. V!rnnlii IIeKatra nmril. MILWAUKEE. May -Republicans of the Fourth Wisconsin congressional district to-dav renominated Therljihi n4.n I Charles F. PrHter and E. L. Philipp, of ailiwauKte. oeing eiectea delegates to the national convention. William H. Stafford was renominated by Fifth district Republicans, nnd William I. Green, of Milwaukee, and Arthur James, of Waukesha, were elected delegates to the national convention. Both conventions adopted resolution indorsing the administration of President IUHMvelL

SMOOT CASE WITNESS

Who Circulated Falsehood Because Anything Against Saincs Tickled the Gentiles. WASHINGTON. May 2. Angus M. Cannon, jr., son of Angus M. Cannon, former president of the Salt Lake stake of Mormons in Utah, traveled from Salt Lake to Washington to inform the Senate committee on privileges and elections that he had perjured himself In Informing prominent gentiles in Utah that President Joseph F. Smith, of the Mormon Church, had performed plural marriage ceremonies. Mr. Cannon, Jr.. was a witness in the Smoot investigation to-day. He said that he had told false stories in regard to President Smith marrying his cousin, Abram H. Cannon, and Lillian Hamlin, a fourth wife. His only excuse was that he had been drinking and conceived the Idea that to tell such a story would be a good joke on the gentiles referred to, "as anything against the Mormons tickled them all over." Members of the Senate committee on privileges and elections received a communication several days ago from E. B. Crltchlow, of Salt Lake, to the effect that Cannon would go on the stand and testify that Abram II. Cannon and Lillian Hamlin were married on the high seas, between Los Angeles and the Catalina islands, and that President Joseph F. Smith, of the Mormon Church, performed the ceremony. Crltchlow stated that Angus M. Cannon, jr., had said he was present and witnessed the ceremony. Consequently, arrangements were made for the meeting to-day. After the witness had been sworn he was questioned by Mr. Tayler, counsel for the prosecution, in regard to the incident. The witness said that he knew Abram H. Cannon intimately, as they had been associated together in business. He said that Abram had three wives at the time of his death in the fall of isr6, but that there was another wife he knew about. He gave the names of the three wives as Sarah M. Jenkins, Wilhelmina M. Cannon, sister of the witness, and Mary E. Croxall'. Abram II. Cannon had children by all of them. COURTED MISS HAMLIN. "Did you know Abram to associate with a woman called Lillian Hamlin?" asked Mr. Tayler. "I know he took her riding. He used my buggy." "Did you know he was engaged to her?" "He did not say anything about that. He said she had been engaged to his brother David, who died on a mission to Germany. I never heard him say that he was engaged to her." "Did you tell E. L. Wilson, of Salt Lake, that you saw Abram II. Cannon and Lillian Hamlin married?" "I think I did tell him." The witness stated that Wilson is well known in Salt Lake, Is cashier of the Commercial National Bank and a gentleman of high , standing. In response to questions, answered with the briefest of admissions. It was drawn from the witness that he had told Wilson within the last two weeks that in 1SW, in Los Angeles, ten or twelve people chartered a vessel for the Catalina islands and that in the party in addition to himself were Joseph F. Smith and one of his wives, Abram Cannon and his wife, Wilhelmina, sister to the witness, a man named Langford and Lillian Hamlin. After the boat had gone some distance from Los Angeles members of the party, with two or three exceptions, retired to the cabin and there Joseph F. Smith married Cannon and Lillian Hamlin. The witness said that after his sister. Cannon's second wife, heard what was going on she "got angry and left the cabin." The witness under direct examination said that later in the day on which he had told the story to Wilson he met Mr. Ciitchlow and Mr. Wilson and he repeated substantially the same story. When asked how he happened to tell the story in regard to the marriage the witness said: "Well, I had 'read the testimony which Mr. Smith gave in Washington and I told Mr. Wilson that I knew that Smith did know of polygamous marriages since the manifesto, because he had performed one himself." ALSO MISLED TERRY S. HEATH. Mr. Tayler drew from the witness the fact that he had also telephoned to Perry Heath and made an appointment at the office of the Salt Lake Tribune, at which he told Mr. Heath the same story he had related to Messrs. Crltchlow and Wilson. He declared that he had told no other persons in regard to the marriage and that he had seen no one except Crltchlow, and that was on the day he had received the subpoena. "Are you still satisfied that Smith married them?" asked Senator Dubois. "Of course, I don't know that he married them, but I think that he did." was the answer. The witness declared that the only persons In Utah who knew that he was starting for Washington were the members of his family, his brother-in-law and the United States marshal. "Who told you of the cercmouy on the high seas?" .... "My wife said she was satisfied It took place just as related." "Anv one else?" "1 cannot think of any others." Senator Dubois "Were you with Abram H. Cannon before his death?" "Through his entire illness." "Where did he die?" "At mv sister's house." "Was Lillian Hamlin there?" "Part of the time." ."lias she a child?" Witness said yes, and that her name wa3 Mrla Cannon. The witness said that the child was recognized as the daughter of Abram H. Cannou and treated as a sister by others of Cannon's children. The witness in reply to questions by Senator McComan said he had been drinking when he told the story about the marriage on the boat and he did it as a joke on Crltchlow ana Wilson who wanted to see the Mormons get the worst of it. He said that he had never thought the story would go far enough to result in his being subpoenaed to Washington. When the subpoena came he said he told his brother-in-law that what he had been telling was all "hot air." and asked him to go to Wilson and Crltchlow and have the subpoena withdrawn. "Was it all 'hot air" about Langford and others you mentioned being on the boat?" asked Senator McComas. The witness answered he thought he had given the facts right about the marriage. but that he had not been present, lie was asked It he thought the joke was a good one on his dead cousin and others he had dragged in, and. with some bitterness, he answered: "Well. I was thinking about Joseph F. Smith more than anything else. He said he did not know anything about polygamous marriages since the manifesto and I knew that he did." Chairman Burrows took the witness severely to task for his failure to go to Wilson and Crltchlow and tell them that he had told an untruth. Cannon had but one excuse and that was that he had been drinking and was 111 up to the time he went to the station to go to Washington. It wa. developed that the station is not more than six blocks from where Crltchlow a lui Wilson were and that he could have Informed them of his story without trouble. WITNESS SAW SMOOT. Mr. Cannon said he arrived here about 8 a. m. to-day and that he met Senator Smoot soon afterward. He said he had spent about thirty minutes in all at Senator Smoofs oflice. He had been directed to the Senate annex by a policeman, who told him that was where committees met after the adjournment of Congress. Cannon said he met Senator Srnoot coming out of the building, the senator, be said, Invited him to his oftice, where they talked over what Cannon was to testify to at the hearing. Frank S. Richards, counsel for the Mormon

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JOSEPH F. SMITH. President of the Church of Latt?r-Day Saints. Church, was present and the witness said he explained fully that he was drunk In Salt Lake and had made statements regarding tho alleged Cannon-Hamlin wedding which were untrue. On cross-examination by Mr. Worthington, attorney for Senator Smoot, the witness said Abraham H. Cannon had been in California about six weeks in 1s:j. The witness said he had been in Salt Lake all the time during Abraham's absence. He declared that neither Senator Smoot, his clerk, Mr. Badger, nor Mr. Richards, attorney for the church, had discussed with him what his testimony was to be. He admitted to Mr. Worthington that he went on periodical sprees and often "tells cock and bull stories when drunk." "Has there been any feeling between you and President Smith?" asked Mr. Worthington. "Nothing except of a personal nature. Of course. It is none of my business who he makes apostles of, but I have felt that there has been too much Smith in his appointments." "And you have expressed yourself pretty freely about the 'too much Smith have you not?" "I think I have." Mr. Cannon said 'he went to Wilson's bank to get money and borrowed $11 or $15 of Mr. Wilson. "He is not the kind of a man who would lend money to a drunkard, is he?" asked Mr. Burrows. "I don't this he is; no. sir." At the afternoon hearing it was brought out that the wife who accompanied Mr. Cannon to Los Angeles was his third wife and not the sister of the witness. The hearing was adjourned, subject to the call of Chairman Burrows. DUE TO A FLAREAccident. on the Battleship Caused by a Combination of Gases. NO FURTHER ACTION WASHINGTON, May, 2. That no further proceedings be taken, is the recommendation of the court of fnqulry appointed to hivestigate the explosion in the after-turret of the Missouri on April 13. The court linds that the explosion was due to a "flareback." caused by an inexplicable combination of oxygen with certain usually latent gases in smokeless powder. The officers and crew of the Missouri not only are relieved from all responsibility for the accident, but are warmly commended for the bravery they showed after its occurrence in rescuing the victims. These facts about the findings were obtained from Mr. Darling, the acting secretary of the navy, when he returned from a visit to the White House where he informed the President of) the receipt of the findings and their nature. Full official announcement of the findings will be made in a statement to be given out at the Navy Department to-morrow. Father Gleason, the chaplain of the Missouri, testified that he received from a dying seaman a statement that he saw it. Lieutenant Davidson, who was the officer in charge of the after-turvet crew, look into the gun and then saw flames burst forth, and could remember nothing- else. It is stated that there was absolutely nothing in the evidence to show that Lieutenant Davidson had failed in his duty in any respect. It is learned that a change in the form in which smokeless powder is now made in the navy has been determined on and that hereatter it will be produced in sticks with a hole down the center. This new form, it is believed, will decrease the danger of explosions caused by the uneven burnlug of the powder. This was the form in which smokeless powder originally was manufactured, but as the process takes three months longer a quicker process was adopted. KENTUCKY WILL NAME ROOSEVELT MEN TO-DAY LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 2.-Delegates to the Republican State convention, which will be held here to-morrow, are arriving on every train and from present indications fully l.&OO of the 2.1XK) delegates will be in the hall when the meeting is called to order at 2 o'clock. It is believed John W. Yerkes will be temporary chairman. The business before the convention will be to select four delegates to the Republican convention from the State at large, to reorganize the state central body and to name a member from the State on the national committee. Mr. Yerkes will have no opposition for the latter honor. The delegates to the national convention will be former Governor Bradley, Col. Morris B. Belknap; George W Long and possibly R. I. Ernst, or a colored man from either Louisville or Lexington. ARGUMENTS IN THE V AND ALI A CASE WASHINGTON. May 2.-Oral argument in the case of the State of Indiana against the Vandalia Railroad Company was resumed in the Supreme Court to-day, after the regular Monday decisions had been announced. Lawrence Maxwell, of Cincinnati, continued the argument for the railroad company. He was followed by William A Ketcham and Robert S. Taylor for the State. John G. Williams or S. O. Pickens will make the closing argument for the company. The argument is proceeding' along the same lines as when the case was In the Indiana Supreme Court. It is possible that the case may be decided before the court adjourns for the summer vacation. t'ongreftfimnn Fltzisernld Hefter. WASHINGTON. May -Representative Morgan C. Fitzpatrick. of Tennessee, who was taken ill with an attack of peritonitis and nervous prostration the night before Congress adjourned, has recovered sufficiently to be about again, and to-night authorized the announcement that he would not be a candidate for re-election to Congress. The reason for declining a renominatlon. he said, was that his physician had advised him it was necessary to take a long and complete rest. Cn 11 ued Good Brokern OrRnnlie. CHICAGO. May 2. The National Canned Goods and Dried Fruit Brokers' Association was formed here to-day. One hundred and fitty delegates representing im brokers in all parts of the country were present. The association is declared to be purely of a protective nature and its aim i.s to unite the brokers on general questions relating to the canned goods industry. Thomas J. Meehan. of Baltimore, was elected presioent, and F. I Dutton. New York, secretary. The meeting of the organization will be continued to-morrow.

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Application for Extradition Must Be Made by a Competent Court.

WASHINGTON, May 2. The United States Supreme Court to-day affirmed the opinion of the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Indiana in the case of United States Marshal Pettlt against Thomas Walshe, alias Lynchehaun, releasing Walshe from custody. It was an extradition ea?e. and the opinion was delivered by Justice Harlan. Walshe Is an Irhhman, who was prosecuted in his own country on the charge of committing an assault on his landlady with Intent to commit murder, lie was sentenced to penal seritude for life, but escaped and came to America, whence, the British government sought to secure his extradition. A warrant for his arrest was issued by Commissioner Shields, of New York, and was served upon Walshe by Marshal Pettlt in Indiana. His release on a writ of habeas corpus was ordered by the Indiana court on the ground that the commissioner in New York was without power to issue a warrant under which the marshal in Indiana could legally arrest the accused and deliver him in New York without a previous examination. Affirming that opinion, the Supreme Court said: "The treaty of 1S12 expressly provides that a person charged with the crime of murder committed within the jurisdiction of either country and found within the territories of the other shall ha"ve been delivered up by the latter country, and the provision shall apply In the case of one convicted of such a crime, but whose sentence has not been executed. But both countries stipulated that the alleged criminal shall be arrested and delivered up only upon such e idence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive person so charged is found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime had been there committed. As applied to the present case, that stipulation means that the accused Walshe could not be extradited under the treaties In question except upon such evidence of criminality as. under the laws of Indiana, the place in which he was found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime alleged had been committed in that State. In our opinion the evidence of the criminality charge must be heard and considered by some judge or magistrate authorized by acts of Congress to act in extradition matters, and sitting In the State where the accused was found and arrested." TRIAL OF LYNCHEHAUN HELD IN THIS CITY Local Irish Citizens Raised a Fund to Defend the Refugee in Court. The action of the United States Supreme Court in upholding the decision of Judge Baker, of the Circuit Court for the District of Indiana, frees Lynchehaun from any furLynchehaun was first arrested on a warrant from New York and taken there for trial. Lynchehaun was first accused on a warrant from New York and an attempt to take him there for trial' led to Judge Baker's decision in the habeas corpus proceedings that he should be tried by the United States commissioner of the district in which he was found. Judge Baker held that, although "neither the treaties nor the statutes say In so many words that the hearing shall be held in the place where the accused is found, but inasmuch as the law of the place where he is found, not only with respect to the substantial definition of the crime, but also with respect to the competency of the witnesses and the admissibility1 of evidence, is made controlling, it was also intended that! the hearing should be held at the place where he was found." Lynchehaun, who went by the name of Thomas Walsh, was arrested in Indianapolis last September by British detectives, who served a warrant on him from the district of New Work. However, after Judge Baker's decision, Lynchehaun was arraigned before United States Commissioner Charles W. Moores, In this city, who decided that Lynchehaun could not be extradited under the treaty, and the Irishman was released. British attorneys then appealed Judge Baker's decision to the United States Supreme Court in the effort to have Lynchehaun tried in New York. Lynchehaun was charged with the murder of his landlady in Ireland, Agnes McDonnell. He had been sentenced to a life imprisonment in the Maryborough prison, but escaped, making his way first to France and then to America, where lie was found by British detectives who followed Mrs. Lynchehaun to this country and to Indianapolis, .where she joined her husband. Upon Lynchehaun's arrest the Irishmen of the city Hocked to his relief. A committee was appointed, who tooH his case in hand and employed able counsel to defend him. Lynchehaun's attorneys were Addison C. Harris, Ferdinand Winter and Henry Spaan. It was proven by thes attorneys, after over two weeks of argument, that Lynchehaun's crime was a political one and not extraditable. After his release Lynchehaun lived with his family on Vinton street until seVeral weeks ago, when he disappeared, telling his destination only to his wife and a few friends. It is said that with the exception of -his wife only the committee that conducted his defense know of his whereabouts. Mrs. Lynchehaun was notified yesterday of the action of the Supreme Court and was greatly pleased. While the decision loes not affect Lynchehaun directly, it huts off a source of danger which has haunted him since his release. FEDERAL ATTORNEY GRIGS BY RESIGNS Was Under a Cloud, and His Dismissal from Office Had Been Recommended. WASHINGTON, May 2. Senator McCumber, of North Dakota, to-day presented to the President the resignation of Melvin Grlgsby, United States attorney for the Nome district In Alaska. The resignation has been accepted to take effect July L No Intimation is given as to Grigsby's successor. More than a year ago Attorney General Knox recommended to the President that Grlgsby be dismissed for disobedience of the orders of the department in leaving lis post without permission. Subsequently charges were preferred against him, in which it was alleged that he received $10.tio from the Pioneer Mining Company, of Nome,1 the allegation stating that the sum was to secure for the Pioneer Mining Company Immunity from I'niUd States prosecution. Grlgsby admitted the receipt of the money, half of which was in cash and the other half In stock in the Pioneer Mining Company, but said it was an attorney's fee. The case has been pending until this time. Democratic Sernean t-u-A rin. lU'LUTH. Minn., May .-Patrick McDonnell, a prominent contractor of this city, was to-day notified of his appointment as sergeant-at-arms of the Democratic national convention. Mr. McDonnell said to&L;ht that he would accept the post.

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And Action of the National Ad- ' ministration in Calling Out Troops Reviewed. PRINCETON, N. J., May 2. Before one of the largest audiences ever assembled In Alexander Hall former President Cleveland delivered the Stafford Little lecture to-night on "The Government in the Chicago Strike of 1S31." Mr. Cleveland was greeted with enthusiastic applause when President Woodrow Wilson introduced him, saying: "Mr. Cleveland stands to-day as the most prominent man in the United States and needs no Introduction, especially to a Princeton audience." The balcony was packed with undergraduates and townspeople, while the seats on the lower floor were reserved for professors and their wives, together with prominent visitors. Every word of the lecture was followed with the closest attention and appreciation by those present, and at its conclusion the Princeton students rose and gave a hearty "locomotive" cheer for the lecturer. Mr. Cleveland has held this lectureship ontpublic affairs at Trinceton for the past four years, but he has not been able to deliver an address since his speech on the Venezuela trouble in 1501. Mr. Cleveland subject was "The Government in the Chicago Strikes." He opened his address by briefly referring to some of the serious problems which faced his administration during the year l&yi, then taking up his subject in detail he spoke in part as follows: "Jn the last days of June, 1S9I, a very determined and ugly labor disturbance broke out in the City of Chicago. Almost broke out in the city of Chicago. Almost malevolence and danger. Rioting and violence were its early accompaniments, and it spread so swiftly that within a few days It had reached nearly the entire Western and Southwestern sections of the country. Railroad transportation was especially involved in its attacks. The carriage of United States mail was interrupted. Interstate commerce was obstructed, and railroad property was riotously destroyed. Attorney General Olney, in his official report, correctly defined the purpose and design of this outbreak in these words: 'To compel a settlement of disputes between the Pullman company and a portion of its employes, nothing else was meditated or aimed at than a complete stoppage of all the railroad transportation of the country, state and interstate, and freight as well as passenger.' " The speaker explained that the widespread trouble had its inception In a strike by the employes of the Pullman Palace Car Company, which began on the 11th day of May, 1S0I, and was provoked by a reduction of wages. The cause of the Pullman strikers was taken up by the American Railway Union. Members of the American Railway Union refused to ha.ile Pullman cars, or trains bearing them. At that time three-fourths of the railroad mileage of the country was under contract to use Pullman cars. MAILS OBSTRUCTED. "The same railroad companies which had contracted to use these Pullman cars upon their lines," said Mr. Cleveland, "had contracts with the United States government for the carriage of mails, and were, of course, also largely engagedjn interstate commerce. It need hardly be said that of necessity, the trains on which the malls were carried, and which served the purpose of interstate commerce were, as a general rule, those to which the Pullman cars were also attached. ".The officers of the railway union established headquarters in the city of Chicago, and from there gave directions for the maintenance and m,4agement of the strike. Reports soon came from various quarters that the mails were completely obstructed, trains were seized aud destroyed, and other violent disorders committed. Thereupon the attorney general immediately sent a dispatch to the United States district attorneys instructing them to see that the passage of regular trains carrying United States mails, in the usual and ordinary way, be not obstructed. Whenever there was interference with the malls, or restraint of commerce, the 'United States Courts were appealed to for relief. In Chicago the United States marshal was authorized to employ special deputies and special counsel for the government. In a letter to this special counsel, the attorney general, in making suggestions concerning legal proceedings, wrote: 'It has seemed to me that if the rights of the United States were vigorously asserted in Chicago, the origin and center of the demonstration, the result would be to make it a failure everywhere else and to prevent its spread over the entire country,' and in that connection he indicated that it mjght be advisable, instead of relying entirely upon warrants issued upon criminal statutes against persons actually guilty of the offense of obstructing United States mails, that the courts should be asked to grant injunctions which would restrain aud prevent any attempt to commit such offense." Mr. Cleveland then described the repeated but ineffectual attempts by United States Court injunctions and the use of deputy marshals to prevent riots and the obstruction ofommerce and mails. "The desrjerate and far-reachincr rhnrneter of this disturbance was not In the least underestimated ny executive officials at Washington," Mr. Cleveland said, "and it must be borne in mind that, while menacing conditions were moving swiftlv and accumulating at Chicago, like conditions inspired and supported from that central point existed in many other places within the area of the strike's contagion. "Of course it was hoped by those charged with the responsibility of dealing with the situation, that a direct assertion of authority by the marshal, or a resort to the restraining power of the courts would prove sufficient for the emergency. Notwithstanding, however, an anxious desire to avoid measures more radical, the fact had not been overlooked that a contingency might occur which would compel a resort to military force. The key to dispatches to the federal officers at Chicago from the attorney general may be found in the self defensive authority of our Nation to directly overcome resistance to the exercise of its legitimate and constitutional functions as related to the transportation of mails, the operation of Interstate commerce, and the preservation of the property of the United States, and in certain constitutional and statutory provisions. It was the intention of the attorney general to suggest in these d'spatches that immediate and authoritative information should lie given to the Washington authorities if a time should-arrive when, under the sanction of general executive authority, or the constitutional provisions, a military force would be necessary at the scene of disturbance. CALL FOR FEDERAL TROOPS. "The strike sitation grew rapidly worse. Utter defiance of court orders, lawlessness and rioting culminated in the formal retjest of the United States marshal, supported by the Judge and attorucys of the federal court for federal troops. This request was at once met by orders to the War Department, and soldiers from Fort Sheridan were soon on the scene. The dispatch containing the direction of this procedure concluded as follows: 'The mere preservation of peace and good order in the city i?. of course, the province of the city and state authorities.' An executive proclamation issued by the President calling upon all to refrain from unlawful obstruction, combinations and assemblages together with the wise use of the federai troops, and the enforcement of the processes of the federal courts resulting in the arrest of the officers of the American Railway Union, storped the rioting, the strike

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ended and commerce and the mails proceeded unobstructed." In concluding his explanation of the events leading up to the accomplishment of all the purposes of the government's interference, Mr. Cleveland said: "I hope I have been thus far successful in my effort to satisfactorily exhibit the extensive reach and perilous tendency of the convulsion under consideration, the careful promptness which characterized the interference of the government, the constant desire of the national administration to avoid extreme measures, the careful limitations of its Interference to purposes which clearly seemed . to be within its constitutional competency and duty, and the gratifying and important results of its conservative but stern activity." Then followed a most interesting part of the address, the reading of the correspondence which passed between President Cleveland and Governor John P. Altgeld, of Illinois. Of him. Mr. Cleveland said, "This official not only refused to regard the riotous disturbances within the borders of his State as a sufficient cause for an application to the federal government' for its protection 'against domestic violence," under the mandate of the Constitution, but catually protested against the presence of federal troops sent into the State upon the general government's initiative and for the purpose of defending itself in the clearlydefined exercise of its legitimate functions." 1 The discussion following was illuminating of the whole question of State's rights and federal supremacy, concluding with this dispatch from Mr. Cleveland: "While I am still persuaded that I have neither transcended my authority nor duty in the emergency that confronts us. It seems to me that in this hour of danger and public distress, discussion may well give way to active efforts on the part of all In authority to restore obedience to law and to protect life and property." "This," said Mr. Cleveland, "closed a discussion which in its net result demonstrated, how far one's disposition and inclination will lead him astray in the field of argument." ' In closing, Mr. Clevelan concluded with a brief reference to the legal proceedings which grew out of this disturbance, "and finally led to the adjudication by the highest court in our land establishing, in an absolutely authoritative manner, and for all time, the power of the national government to protect itself in the exercise of its functions." v " In sustaining the action of the United States Circuit Court which ordered the imprisonment of Debs and his associate officers of the American Railway Union, for disobeying its injunctions. Mr. Cleveland aid. "The Supreme Court of tne Uniter? States hrs written the concluding words of this history, tragical in many of its details, and in every page provoking sober reflection. Nevertheless, even those mot nearly related by executive responsibility to the troublous days whose story is told may at this time congratulate theml? ves that they have had to do with rt re out the wav and clearing the S now unchangeably established, that Kill hereafter guide our Nation safely and buwIJ in the exercise of all the funciiöns belonging to it which represent the people's trust." HEARST'S Ulli ROUTS CJ, fOEES Mayor of Chicago Is Beaten in Contest for Delegates to . State Convention. "MACHINE" IS, AT STAKE CHICAGO, May 2. In the Democratic primaries held to-day the followers of William Randolph Hearst score! a victory over the faction under Carter II. Harrison, which has heretofore been the dominant power in the Democratic party in Cook county. 'Of the delegates to the state convention the Hearst party secured 227, Harrison 195 and ten were instructed for John P. Hopkins, which means that .they will not be for Harrison under any circumstances, as Hopkins and Harrison are enemies of long standing, and sixty-four are uninstructed. Aside from the number of delegates to be secured for the state convention the control of the county macainery was at stake in the light. COLORED MAN STABBED IN FIGHT OVER WOMAN George Jamicson, colored, living at S2S Roanoke street, was seriously; stabbed in the back shortly after 1 o'clock this morning in a eiuarrel with another colored man, who is known to the police by the name of "Llttle Bill." Jamicson says he was knocked down and stabbed In the back. He has a long though not dangerous cut along the left shoulder blade, two black eyes and three teeth missing. "Little Bill" made his escape. The fight was over a woman. . . Jamleson was arrested by Officers Tomllnson and Rolen and brought to the Dispensary. He was weak from loss of blood, and refused to talk. CIRCUS FOLLOWERS ARE ARRESTED AS LOITERERS Two young men. strangers to the police, were arrested about 1:0) this morning, charged with loitering, and when searched by Detectives Simon and Manning one of them had three pocketbooks on his ierson. There was no money in either of them. The boys gave their names as Harry Davis, of Krle, Pa., and Harry Reeves, of Klwood. They were arrested on Southeastern avenue. They confessed to having been following Rlngllng Bros.' circus. Hoy Til u Klit to llue Fullowril Show. Entranced by the glamour of the scenes connected with yesterday's circus, it is feared that little Elwood Furgason, fourteen'yars old, of S19 South West street, has left his home and Is making an effort to follow the big show. The lad did not come home yesterday afternoon after being away all day, and his mother has asked the police to look for him. He is described as being very small and slightly built, and appearing to be not as old as he really Is. Died of Apoplexy. Mrs. Mary Hesse, living at 813 English avenue, died last night at 11 o'clock of apoplexy. She had been In 111 health for two years. Mrs. Hesse leaves a family of six grown children. Her husband. (Jeorge Hesse, has been dead for twenty years. Two sons reside in Chicago.

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5) NEGROES PRAY FOR THE ELECTIOMJF ROOSEVELT Bishop Gaines Asks God to Send the President Back to the While House. CONFERENCE OF A. M. E. C CHICAGO, May ?. A prayer that President Roosevelt might be returned to tn White House caused an unusual demonstration to-day duricg the opening exercises of the twenty-second quadrennial conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Shouts of "Bless him, O God," "Yes, yes." "Amen, amen," greeted the words of Bishop W. J. Gaines, of Georgia, when he Invoked the blessing of God on the President of the United States, "who has had the manhood and courage to stand up and do his tiuty at all times to men of every color and creed iu spite of bitter criticism. It consistent with Thy will. O God. when his term of office expires," continued the speaker, "send him back to the White House to serve another four years." , The utterance of this sentiment was the occasion of deafening shouts by ' the assembled delegates. Delegates from Africa were a center of Interest at the conference. These delegates, fourteen in number, are from the Transvaal. South Africa and west coast of" Ainca. wun two exceptions they are natives of the sections of Africa which they represeut in the conference. A formal programme, including a march of the bishops and delegates, preceded the organization of the conference. Bishop Henry Turner, of Atlanta, Ga., then called Dr. L. H. Reynolds, the secretary of the conference to the platform, and the conference was declared organized. Among the prominent delegates are Dr. James M. Townsend, of Indianapolis, who is mentioned for the bishopr.c. and Dr. It. F. Hurley, of New Jersey, also so mentioned. Bishop M. B.. Salter delivered the quadrennial sermon. MR. HEM EN WAY GOES SOUTH ON THE DOLPHIN "WASHINGTON", May 2. Secretary Moody, accompanied by Senators Hale, Penrose and Bacon and Representatives Ilemenway. Dalzell and My er, left Washington to-day on the Dolphin for a trln to Southern waters. The Dolphin will go first to Guantanamo. thence to Tensacola and New Orleans, returning to Washington in about ten days or two weeks. PASSENGER TRAM BUNS A WIII6 BRIDGE One Coach Catches Fire and Twenty-Five or More Persons Are Injured. , OCCUPANTS JUMP OUT CROOKSTON, Minn., May 2. Passenger train No. 13, of the Great Northern, running from Duluth to Larimore. N. D., ran into a burning bridge over ClearwaUr river this afternoon, resulting in Serious injury to twenty-five or more people, V4 no one was kille!, fo far as known C3 this time. Engineer Murray and .Fireman Regan both Jumped after running their train across the bridge. The last coach of the train caught tire, causing a panic among the passengers, many of whose lives were only saved by the presence of mind of Conductor Bryant, who ordered a systematic exit from the burning car. Several excited persons jumped from the car windows and rolled down an embankment a distance of twentyfive feet, receiving serious injuries. Among those whose names could be learned who were injured are: Engineer George Ralph, back hurt seriously; Joseph Fencer, of Crookston, both hands badly burned; President Laxall. of the Northern Raseball I-eague. and Mrs. J. N. Hanson, of East Grand Fork hands aud face seriously burned. ADMIRAL EVANS A GUEST OF THE KING NAPLES. May 2. King Victor Em mmuel entertained Rear Admiral Evans a dinner at the royal palace to-night. ThJ admiral sat in the place of honor, at th; right of his Majesty, who conversed with him during the entire evening, cspeclallj on naval matters. Columbia tu Have a rw Chair. NEW YORK, May 2. President Nicholas Murray Rutler, of Columbia University, today announced a gift, the amount of which, was not made public, from an anonymous source, for the establishment of a new professorship of philosophy. It was de cided by the trustees to offer the new chatr to Prof. John Dewey, the bead of th department of philosophy of the University of Chicago. K&trncU Time Limit. CLEVELAND, O.. May 2. Mr. John D. Rockefeller has granted an extension of six months In the time given to the Your.jc Women's Christian Association in which to raise IS". in order to obtain his .iJ gift. All but JS,(.kxj of the amount has been, raised. TRIAL ENDS argument as Q rape - Nuts 10 days proves Get th little book. 'The Road to V'eUvlUe," la euch pKg.

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