Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 356, 30 October 1911 — Page 3
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1911.
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STEEL TRUST OUR WILL KJSUMED Eyes of Political and Financial World Centered on Washington. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. The eyes of the entire political and financial world will be focused on Washington this week, when the Stanley investigating committee of the House resumes its probe of the United States Steel corporation, with a view to learning the methods of the monster corporation and determining what
the Sherman anti-truat law. Interest is accentuated by the Sep
tember panic on Wall street, the great
est since that of 1907 and cauHed en
tirely by rumorB that the steel corporation was preparing voluntarily to
dissolve to avoid danger of prosecu
tion, and what 1b said to be a partial confirmation of the rumors in the story that the Finanantic concern is to give up its lease of the Great
Northern ore properties, the largest
of the kind it holds.
The methods by which the corpora
tion was formed will be exhaustively
delved into by the committee through
the calling as witnesses of some of the
most prominent men in the country. To Call on Carnegie.
Andrew Carnegie is expected to be one of the first called to the witness
stand. J. Pierpont Morgan and Jas, J. Hill will follow him, according to in
dications. Before they conclude their
testimony, it is expected, financial
manipulation unequaled in magnitude in the history of the country will have
been related.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, is ex
pected to testify as to the alleged poli
cy of the Bteel corporation to exclude
organized labor from the mills and fac
torles. It is said that the corporation
forbids employes to organize for their own protection and that they are discharged when an effort to organize be
comes known.
Chairman Stanley, of the investigat-j
Ing committee, until recently, has been busy with the gubernatorial campaign In hiB home state, Kentucky, and it Is declared, the committee members have not devoted much time, since their adjournment last August, toward planning the lines of the continuance of the probe. However, the intention Is to inquire into every phase of the steel corporation and the investigation iu expected to exhaust the subject so that its findings can be of assistance to the Department of Justice In event that the legal department decides to take up the case. Alarmed Directors. The possibility of this, it is Bald, alarmed the directors of the steel corporation and led to the drastic steps on their part, which were rumored dur
ing September and whicli caused the
break In the steel stock, on September 22 that threatened to precipitate a repetition of the panic of 1907. It was rumored that Elbert- II. Gary, chairman of the direction fearing for the future, sold short 70,000 of his shares In Steel Common, that the corporation was about to cut the wages of its over 20,000 employes! that the organization was preparing to voluntarily dissolve and reorganize so as to be safe from attack under the Sherman law and with this end in view; Attorney General Wickersham had been consulted for advice, as to what should be done in order to bring the corporation into
such shape that it would conform entirely with the law, as interpreted in the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust cases. These rumors brought about an almost unprecedented condition in
Wall street. On September 22, half of the total securities dealt in were those of the United States Steel corpo- j ration, and the loss In them was de- j clared to have exceeded $55,000,000 in i
the one day. The steel directors continued to deny that there was any intention to ' change Its organization and asserted that they were apprised the corporation was not in violation of the antitrust law. However, on October 19, it was learned that the corporation DON'T EXPERIMENT You Will Make No Mistake if You Fellow This Richmond Citi- . ztn's Advice.
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APPORTIONMENT OF
DELEGATES MR
Declares Senator Bourne in a
Statement which He Issued Today.
each of the 46 states be allowed four delegates at large, this will take out 184, leaving 866 to be apportioned and the basis would be one delegate for each 8865 votes or major faction. To be more than fair, I have assigned an additional delegate to Mississippi although it has not a major fraction. I submit to all fairminded men that this plan should be adopted.
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WASHINGTOX, Oct. 30. "The
present plan of apportionment of del
egates to the Republican National Convention is misrepresentative, unjust and un-American," said Senator
Jonathan Bourne, Jr., president of the National Progressive Republican League, in a statement issued today. "No fair-minded man will defend it; no self-respecting voter will silently submit to it. "Equality is the first principle of citizenship in America. One man's vote should count for just as much as any other man's vote. The right of selection is of infinitely greater importance than the right of election. If the political boss or maciiine selects the candidate, then the right of the people to elect is practically nullified. Five states, Oregon, North Dakota, Nebras
ka, New Jersey and Wisconsin have '
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THEATRICAL CALENDAR. At the Gennett. November 4. "Dear Old Billy." November 7 "Baby Mine."
At the Murray. All Week Vaudeville.
"Dear Old Billy."
Mr. Will J. Davis, manager of the Illinois Theater of Chicago, referring to "Dear Old Billy," declares it to be "the best farce and best company seen in Chicago in twenty years. Mr. Percy
German comedy is always funny and
when furnished by a real German com
edian is a scream. The young lady of the act, a fine looking young woman
with a beautiful wardrobe, most cer
tainly knows how to feed a comedian. Dorothy May is a singer, popularizing Will Rossiter's latest song hit "I Love to Live in Loveland With a Girl Like You," and it may be justly said that Mr. Rossiter was most fortunate in securing such a singer. Besides this
one number Miss May is also giving several other popular selections in a most pleasing manner. Harvard Judge has one of the best novelties in vauJeville, doing a dancing and walking act upon a ladder. Walking on a ladder is no easy trick and Mr. Judge stands alone in ability in this line. The motion pictures round out a most excellent bill.
Hammond, dramatic critic of the Chi-
since the 8th of lest November, enact-1 ca Tribune says: "It is a facile ex-
ed in substance my presidential pref- ample or P1 and one ue worerence law which provides for party thy f Mr Hawtreys Past " The De" primary elections and instruction of ! troit Free Press 6as: "Anybody who
Mrs. Zee Runge McRea (upper) and her husband, J. P. McRea (lower). Mrs. McRea is now on trial at Opelousas. La., charged with murdering Allan Garland, a student, and a member of a prominent family. Mrs. McRea in her defense after her arrest stated that she killed the youth in defense of her honor. The case will be bitterly fought by both sides, the
pont Morgan; Judge' E. H. Gary, chairman of the steel corporation; James A. Farrell, its president; Charles M. Schwab; Grant B. Schley, of the Ten
nessee Coal and Lron company; Leonard C. Hanna, of Cleveland, brother of Mark Hanna; and Oakley Thome, president of the Trust Company of America, which was called the "sore spot" during the famous panic, were others who testified during the summer. Stanley Starts Probe. A congressional investigation of the steel corporation was first advocated by Augustus O. Stanley, representative of Kentucky, on June 20, 1910, when he introduced his resolution in the House, then Republican. Repre-
. ! r.r.tnri;nir that t sentative Ktaniey is a uemocrai. his
the murder of the youth was done de- j motion died in the Rules committee
liberately and in cold blood.
would cancel its lease of the Great Northern ore properties. A Monopoly in Oro. It has been held by legal opinion that, if the United States Steel corporation has transgressed the Sherman law. it was undoubtedly in -the mono
poly created by its control of ore, and j in congress according to what seemed that any plan of reorganization con-1 necessary after the facts became templated would deal with the segre- j known. On May 16, the Democratic gatlon of the ore interests from the j House passed the resbiution and the manufacture of steel. The corpora- j committee was appointed. It is com-
tion's leases of ore lands of the Great posed of the following nine representa-
Northern railway,
of the House. Early in 1911 he intro
duced another motion, practically the same as the original one, and providing for five Democratic members and four Republicans to form a committee with power to investigate all the dealings of the United States Steel corporation so that the methods of these giants of business world could be
learned and legislation be introduced I
national relegates. Yet those states with presidential primaries are only allotted one delegate to every six to
nine thousand votes cast for Taft and Shsrman in the last Presidential election, while South Carolina will have cne delegate for every 220 votes cast for Taft and Sherman. In order to have absolute equality among Republicans in representation in the National Convention, the. delegates should be apportioned among the states on the basis of the last Republican vote for President. Instead of that, the apportionment is now on the basis of total population, so that Democrats in some states help to swell the representation in the Republican convention. What makes the matter more unjust and more vicious is the fact that in states having the largest excess of such misrepresentation the delegations are under the control of a
federal machine. It is not only unequal representation but tyranny. Arrangement Unfair. "In Florida 888 Republicans have as much voice in the selection of Nation-
thinks an Englishman has no sense of humor should see 'Dear Old Billy"; it is the best imported farce since 'Charley's Aunt.' The audience shrieked with laughter. Hawtrey is immense and his support is admirable. "Dear Old Billy" will be seen at the Gennett on Saturday, November the 4th, matinee and night.
"Baby Mine." The town is laughing yet. It started to laugh at the Gennett theater the other night and nobody can tell when it will get over it. The more you think about it, the more you laugh, and the more you want to laugh. It's all about "Baby Mine." The most absurdly ridiculous play ever staged in this or any other city. Those who failed to witness
the first performance of "Baby Mine" should rejoice in the announcement that this comedy, which is making all the world laugh, will play a return
date at the Gennett theater on Tues
day, Nov. 7th. They will then have an
opportunity to witness this excruciat
ingly funny play, so that Richmond's
laugh fever may be even more wide
al candidates as 10,000 Republicans in I SDrad than now. Taken all in all "Ba
Colorado. It takes 11,000 Indiana Re- j t,v Mine" is without a peer as a laugh
publicans to balance 448 Louisiana Re- j producer and it goes without saying
publicans. Mississippi Republicans to j tnat tne Gennett will have a packed
the number of 218 have as much rep- j house when this hilarious comedy re-
resentation in the National convention i turns to town.
as 11,000 Republicans in Michigan. It
takes nearly 12,000 Republicans in Ohio to equal in nominating power 220 Republicans in South Carolina. What do Republicans in Ohio, Michi
gan, Indiana, and Colorado think of that? Yet the system was perpetuated in the last Republican National Convention by the Federal steam-roller over the protests of delegations
At The Murray.
Despite the inclement weather a
j large crowd was on hand this after-
I noon to greet the return of the Bama
Bama Girls, the act that proved so popular last season. They come to us this year with new songs, new dances,
new costumes in fact everything new with the exception of the cast. Miss Josephine Fields, the dainty petite
young Miss, who filled the part of the
soubrette so perfectly is again with
the act and as sweet and dainty as ev-
i from states.
"While absolute equality would require an apportionment based strictly upon the last Republican vote, I think
no one contenas ior tnat. i ne pian er w j McGraw is still furnishing proposed in the last Republican Na-; th come(i v for the act.
THE ARTIST WON. His Nerv and His Drawing Combined Mad the Editor Meek. The editor had given the artist an order to illustrate the story and bad
drawn a rough diagram of the kind of
sketch he wanted. It must show a deer vaulting iu a high leap over a clomp of bushes. The artist read the niauuscript. made the picture and sent it in. It was well done. The deer was a magnificent fellow, with a pair of antlers that the most ambitious buck might well be proud of. The editor took one look at the drawiug and then in disgust returned it to the artist.
with a letter stating that the figure must be redrawn because "the story plainly states that the buck was a yearling, consequeutly he would have had only spike horns and not the kind of antlers you hare depicted." The artist was not. however, dismayed. He stood pat for antlers. With courage born of immovable conviction he returned the drawing unaltered to the editor and wired him: "Composition demands antlers. Change manuscript to 'three-year-old buck. " The editor was struck so dumb. by this manifestation of nerve that he actually took time to study the drawing. He let his imagination picture the spike buck iastead of the majestic a u tiered beauty and meekly decided that the artist knew a thing or two. so the editorial blue pencil was brought into requisition, the buck gained two years in a less number of minutes, and the periodical lost nothing by the change. New York Press. A Big Claim. "He's got n lot of nerve, hasn't he? "I should say. Knows the art of bluffing his creditors, doesn't he?" "Bluffing his creditors! Why. man. he claims he can bluff his wife!" Toledo Blade.
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they continue until the ore was exhausted unless terminated by January 1, 1915, under the option reserved by the steel corporation, which had this option if it gave notice by 1913. By the Great Northern lease, the corporation was required to mine at least 3,750,000 tons this year, or to pay for that much anyway, a total amount of $3,697,500. By relinquishing this lease, it is said, the steel corporation officials believe they will leave no loophole open for prosecution unless the Tennessee Coal and Iron merger of 1907 brings them within the meaning of the law forbidding the formation of maintenance of a monopoly. It was regarded as certain that the Stanley committee would dig deep into the subject of ore production and into the railway control of ore fields alleged to have been maintained by the steel concern. The change was made before the committee last summer that the corporation had practically absolute control of the iron ore production of the United States. This, however, if formerly the fact, was changed by the cancellation of the lease it is said. It was also charged with controlling much of the rich Cu
ban ore and much of the Mexican ores. It was alleged not only to control the raw material, but the transportation lines as well, both rail and water, which reach, the oil fields. Dominates the Market. It was by these means the investigating committee was told last summer that the corporation maintained a monopoly of the steel business, of the United States. The charge has never been sustainedthat the corporation controls enough of the output of the American mills to dominate the steel market, but by owning the ore, the railroads and the steamship lines, it was declared the concern was in a
position that could not be assailed by j competitors. It was the chief purpose, therefore, i
of the Stanley committee to direct its attention to these branches of the steel business when the hearings are resumed. How deeply the committee will probe this phase now, cannot be aid, because of the relinquishing by the corporation of its largest lease. One thing that is certain to be investigated further, however, is the manner in which the corporation was organized, and the historic merger with the Tennessee Coal and Iron company. Much testimony has already been given on these points. Former President Theodore Roosevelt told how he permitted the merger, when he believed it was the only way to check the spread of the panic of 1907. John W. Gates, the famous "bet-a-million" financier, now dead, also testified about the merger; George W. Perkins, former partmer of J. Pier-
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