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VENEZUELAN REVOLT t : PLANNED BY CASTRO K\v * •

former Dictator Came to Amer 11 ica to Pit Out Filibustering

- Expedition^;, i £ S'W • f ,::%r I .

/. :f! . V New York, Jan. 6.—The principal rea. • eon Cor the apparent drastic action of ^ the government in the case of" former

President Clpriano Castro, of Vene-j zuela, It was learned last night, was

, that General Castro, while avowing his _ .' , »ole purpose for coming to America was

, -to see the country, really had planned 5 to fit out a filibustering expedition

tiere Agents of Castro have been watched.

While Castro was on the high seas •men declaring they were hts agents reported to agents here that there were three yachts for sale at Charles­ton, S. C., which would form the nu­

cleus of a good navy to start trouble •In Venezuelan waters.

It is believed Castro was to have obtained some munitions of war In this country. Rifles were to have been placed aboard at some port elsewhere

VALUED COMMUNION 1 SERVICE IS STOLEN

Cathedral Altar Desecrated By Chicago Thieves—Two Sus

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Chicago, Jan. 7.—Vandals desecrated the altar and stole the communion ser­vice from the chapel of the Episcopal Cathedral, of St. Peter and Paul today.

. A short time later, the loot was recov­ered in a rooming house and two men arrested charged \\ith the crime. A ser­vice of reparation was held, with Dean Walter T. Summer, officiating, to re-atore the chapel to its condition ol sanctity.

The robbers entered the cathedral by breaking a window. The crash of the glass awoke ' Sister Jeanette In a dor­mitory adjoining, and she notified the dean, but as he hurried into the chapel the robbers escaped through a window with the gold and silver pieces they had taken from the altar.

The men arrested gave the names oi Philip Roger and John Walencic.

HEROIC LAD SAVES BROTHERS FROM FIRE

Girl Burns to Death and An. other Injured In O'Neill ;

Disaster.

O'Neill, Neb., Jan. 7.—Mae Daly, a domestic in the family of Dr. P. J. Flynn, was burned to death h'ere last

• night, and Susie Pamb was badly in­jured, when the Flynn residence took fire from an oil stov6 and was par­tially consumed. Dr. Flynn's little boy proved himself a real hero Dy wrapping his baby brother in a blanket and tak Ing a smaller brother by the hand and carrying them both to safety.

Dr. and Mrs. Flynn went out to spend the evening leaving the children in charge of servants. They were put to bed and later the oil stove lighted Later the stove took fire. The servants were overcome with the smoke and the little boy saved the children.

ROCKEFELLER BASKS IN BAHAMA SUNSHINE

Much Wanted Millionaire Be­yond Jurisdiction of Pujo

Money Committee.

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Miami, Fla., Jan. 7.—William G, Rockefeller, wanted as a witness before the Pujo money trust investigating committee is a guest at the Hotel Nassau, Bahama islands, according to persons arriving here today from the Islands. Statements by steamship of­ficials were that Mr. Rockefeller sailed from Miami on the steamer Miami last Thursday after arriving here from Palm Beach in the private car of President Parrott, of the Florida East Coast railroad. _ .

GIRLS ARE TAUGHT TO . MAKE GOWNS FOR $3.50

San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 7.—At the San Francisco Girls' high school is an exhibit of 63 pretty dresse's, made by 63 girls in the freshman class of the institution Putting to shame many store creations costing more than $25 the dresses are a silent rebuke to the muckrakers who say there Is something

• wrong with the educational system of the country.

Every .dress is a dream of artistic lines, substantial sewing and combina­tion of colors. And no frock cost more than $3.50. Many cost less than that amount, which was pronounced'the

• limit of money" which might be ex­pended for materials. ^

CASH REGISTER CASE PROCEEDING SLOWLY

V Cincinnati. Ohio, Jan. 7.—United States District - Attorney .- McPherson;

,* estimated that it would require three »more weeks for the government to

present its testimony when the trial > *• of John Hi Patterson and 29 other of-

i&j# flclals of Che National Cash Register -company, was resumed in the United

, - i States district court here today. i Hughie Chalmers, former general man­

's ager of the company, was expected to be one of) the important witnesses

^ to testify ,foV the government during rffl the present week.

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HUGE CONSPIRACY OF CAPITAL SEEN

Samuel Gompers, Labor'Lead­er, Defends So-Called Dyria-. mite Conspirators.

Washington, Jan. 7.—Samuel Gom­pers, president of the American Fed­eration of Labor, speaking Monday be­fore the'Senate sub-committee on ju­diciary in favor of the Clayton antl-injunction and contempt bills gave an­swer to criticisms aimed at the organ­ization of workers which he heads be­cause of the trial and conviction for dynamiting of officers of the Structural Ironworkers' union.

'If ever the time shall come," said Mr. Gompers in the climax of his ad­dress, "when government by dynamite shall be attempted (and let us hope and work that it never shall come) we will have as Its main cause the theory land policy upon which is based gov­ernment by injunction—personal gov­ernment foisted upon our people In­stead of a government by law."

Won't Desert Fellows. In closing his statement which in­

cluded an assault upon emjfldyers' and manufacturers' associations; particul­arly the U. S. Steel corporation and the National Erectors' association, Mr. Gompers declared that organized labor would not repudiate the Structural Iron Workers' union and "leave them helpless and at the mercy of organized capital and insatiable,"uncurbed greed for profits."

"Though all censure those whom men may deem guilty of dynamitp con­spiracy," the federation leader con­tinued, "No one feels the terrible con­sequences of the Indianapolis trial more keenly than the men of organized labor. There have been added heart­ache and sorrow to our already heavy burdens. The men accused and sen­tenced cannot suffer the penalties alone—upon them and all worklngmen fall the suffering and penalty.

Conspiracy of Capital. "But what of the conspiracy of or­

ganized capital—the conspiracy to mur­der the liberty of the toilers, to tear from them the means of protection by which they have bettered their condi­tion, to leave them bare and defense­less In the competitive struggle? Is not such a conspiracy sufficiently das­tardly to Incur some odium? Should the conspirators with their hands stained with the life blood of men's ambitions, happiness and liberty, be accorded nothing but honor, power, respectability? Should they be allowed to continue to manipulate the powers of government, the administration of justice, until the oppressed find the burden Intolerable?

"More wise it is to seek social justice while yet we may. The judge who pre­sided at the trial realized one of the issues—government by injunction, law­less, autocratic, Irresponsible exercise of governmental authority, according privileges to the strong and denying justice to the weak."

Judge Anderson, who presided over the trial of the iron workers, was re­ferred to particularly by Mr. Gompers, when he declared that "our whole so­cial organization seems to be on trial."

Takes Rap at Court. "Even the judge who tried the case,

snugly a&aured of personal irrespon­sibility," Mr. Gompers said, "fatuitlous-ly declared that 'the evidence in this case would convince any impartial per­son that government by injunction is to be infinitely preferred to govern­ment by dynamite.'

"The worthy judge had blindly chanced upon one of the causes but had failed to realize casual relation­ship. The words to him were simply a conventional epigram—he does not know that there is a law of life, jus­tice as immutable as the law of gravi­tation of attraction and repulsion, a law of life which meets tyranny and Injustice. The inaptness, aye, the un-warantable character of this utterance of the judge—shows how far afield from the case he went to take another slap at labor."

Mr. Gompers defended the American Federation of Labor as a force for bet­terment of conditions and resented the attacks made upon it since the begin­ning of the dynamiters' case.

"We have been Investigated," he said, "from the first insinuation of our ene­mies that our movement to get the 'men higher up' and because of their directly and indirectly connecting my name with these men supposedly 'higher up' I have declared my readiness- at any lime to submit for examination by any representatives of constituted author­ity, or by a committee of any respecta­ble body of citizens, every - document, |>aper or account, financial or other­wise. I have challenged, and now ihallenge, any of our enemies to show lhat there has been unlawful conduct br any connection, directly or remote, with any violence In connection with liny labor controversy or otherwise.

"Mr. Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, was summoned to appear before the grand iury. He took with him not only the financial accounts and transactions of the American Federation of Labor, but his own and after a thorough scrutiny and investigation they were returned lo him and are now at our office. Not a scintilla of evidence or suspicion of wrongdoing could be discovered; not a scintilla existed or exists."

The federation leader referred to .statements made by John Kirby, pres­ident ot the National Manufacturers' association; William J. Burns, detec­tive, who caused the arrest of the Mc-Namaras after the Los Angeles Times explosion; Harrison Grey Otis, editor of that paper; and others whom he characterized as "enemies" of organ­ized labor and continued:

"You will see that I have quoted the worst enemies of organized labor, my mott conspicuous and relentless ene­mies, men who would, if they could, send me to Jail, or consign me to the gallows. I have not even referred to the regard, respect or confidence of my friends, of the men and women who believe in me, my work, and my mo­tives. But, pray, will any one point to a single act, aye, to a single act, utterance of any sort of my worst ene­mies of a constructive, liberty loving humanitarian character? Anybody can be a man hunter;' anybody ban be a negative™force;' anybody can be a no­body."

Mr. GomperB said he would have the public consider - the convicted iron workers "with the understanding mind and the spirit taught by the teacher of old and said, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.' "

,„,e CONTROL OF EXPRESS i I nUL ur t-AI 111—OO BOOMED BY.HITCHCOCK

j| Washington, Jan. 7.—Radical recom-mendations will shortly be made by Postmaster General Hitchcock that

£:•*"!« the government conduct the express ~ business jiovV jJoYie by the express com-

spanles. Mr. Hitchcock is convinced the government cannot stop at the new

:i-A parcels --it la*, but must go Oi« : whole length.' iSU If

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CONDITIONS IN MEXICO ARE GREATLY IMPROVED

Washington,Jan. 7.—Conditions in Mexico generally and especially in the border states, are reported better in advices received at the state depart­ment ovur Sunday from American consuls In Chihuahua and Sonora. These arc to the effect that there have been no fresh outbreaks and from the American embassy In Mexico City tho news indicates dispersal of the rebel hands operating the south and. oast of the capital. -r

PATTEN LOSES CASE | IN SUPREME COURT

CSotton Plunger's Case Sent Back to Lower Court for

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Washington, Jan. 7.—By upholding certain* disputed counts against James h. Patten and others, charged with a violation of the Sherman anti-trust law ii running a cotton corner, the supreme court of the United States sent the case against the men back for trial in the lower court.

Patten, Eugene Gates, Frank B. Hayne and' Wm. H. Brown were in­flicted in New York On charges of con-Bpirlng on January 1, 1910, to "corner" cotton by extensive buying on the New York cotton exchange, as a result of which "the price would be enhanced and ultimately bring arbitrative and excessive prices."

The conspiracy was described as cal­culating to yield $10,000,000 in profits.

The alleged violation of the Sherman law set forth in the Indictment In eight different ways in as many counts, the defendants being liable for trial on any one, but the United States circuit court for southern New York held fourcounts Insufficient, as not stating an offense. The government appealed from that decision to the supreme court.

Fight On Two Counts. Because of similarity in the counts

held insufficient, the controversy in the supreme court narrowed down to the validity- of the third and seventh counts.

The third count had been attacked successfully as insufficient because it merely stated an alleged conspiracy to buy cotton, and omitted to charge agreements to withhold cotton or to sell in any particular manner. The lower court said the defendants were pot charged with "power to control the market."

The seventh count was the one spe­cifically charging the defendants with "running a corner" on cotton futures. The lower court held that such a cor­ner did not produce effect direct enough on Interstate commerce to bring It within the Sherman anti-trust law.

Justice Vanderventer in announcing the opinion said the supreme court at this time, under the law was not au­thorized to review the lower court's construction or Interpretation of the indictment as such, but only the lower court's interpretation of the statute. Therefore, he added, the court passed by these points raised by the govern­ment.

Back to Lower Court. The justice said the government had

conceded in arguing the case that in order to effect a corner there must be a "withholding" from sale of the cot­ton bought. Therefore he said, the con­troversy turned upon whether the In­dictment charged a "withholding."

As to that point the decision of the lower court could not be reviewed at this time, • the justice added although the point might be reviewed If the case were proceeded with. For the present the decision of the superior court must be considered as sufficient.

He then passed to the holding ~ of the lower court that "running corner" was not a violation of the law because the restraint was too indirect and not. voluntary. "We hold that the restraint need not be voluntary, but In the light of the Standard Oil case may be in­voluntary."

Justice Vanderventer said that the injury to the public was the same whether the effect was voluntary or involuntary.

Justice Lurton announced a dissent­ing opinion in which Chief Justice White and Justice Holmes concurred.

The case will now go back to the federal court of southern New York for trial or other proceeding.

The decision of the supreme court settles the Important question that a "corner" of any commodity is a re­straint of Interstate commerce and may be a violation of the Sherman anti­trust law. Today's decision does not determine the question of the guilt of Patten or the other defendants, but Bends the case back to the lower court for trial on the facts with the Import­ant principle of law established that If a corner in cotton Is proved the Sherman statute Is ̂ violated.

IMPORTANT RULING IN HIGH COURT DECISION

Washington, Jan. 7.—The supreme court today announced the decision that the United States judges of the Eighth district and not the district judge in Missouri should enforce the recent decree of the court holding that the St. Louis Terminal company has violated the Sherman anti-trust law.

In so holding, the court decided that the expedition act authorizing the calling together of circuit judges to pass upon important cases was not repealed by the Judicial code which went into effect a year ago.

Government officials claim that this will be decisive of the point raised by navigation companies In Alaska, charged with violating the Sherman anti-trust law and officials of the United States Shoe Machinery com­pany under similar charges; that the criminal appeals act was repealed by the code.

The effect of these claims would bo to prevent the supreme court reviewing decisions of lower courts, which an­nulled counts in indictments against the parties.

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LAW IS ANNULLED. Washington,' Jan. 7.—The Minnesota

reciprocal demurrage law of 1907 was today annulled as unconstitutional by the supreme court of the United States. The court held that the federal gov­ernment had legislated on the subject and so taken away all power. If any existed, from the states to legislate on !t as far as Interstate commerce was concerned. Several states have similar laws. f

MERGER DISSOLUTION PLAN IS TURNED DOWN BY COURT

Washington, Jail. 7.—The supreme court today held that the plans offered by Union Pacific attorneys for dissolv­ing the Union Pacific-!Southern Pacific railway merger do not comply with the dissolution decree. The proposed trans­fer of stocks, the court held, would not meet with its demand.

REVOLUTIONARY /ERDICT FAVORS THE RAILROADS

Washington, Jan. 7.—Railroads and express companies today won a revo­lutionary decision in the supreme court when it was decided that contracts limiting to small sums' their liability for loss on shipments were not sub­ject to state laws, but to Interstate laws. It was further held that con­tracts limiting liability to a small sum in return for a low rate were not in violation of the interstate commerce laws, particularly the Carmack amend­ment. Scores upon scores of such con­tracts have been held void under state laws.

BLOWN TO BITS BY BIG NITRO CHARGE

Body of D'ead Man Mutilated By Explosion Is Found South

of Sioux CityPfl

Sioux City, la., Jan.* : •— The mutilated body ot a man thought to be Thomas Gulher, of Manchester, la., a laborer who had been employed on the farm of A. IT. Tuttle, was found Saturday afternoon in a cornfield three miles south of Morningside on the Lakeport road, directly across the road from the R. W. Carter farm. The upper part of the body had been torn to fragments from an ex­plosion of nitroglycerin.

The police are working on the theory that the man was one of the party that committed a series of robberies at Winnebago, Neb., and was murdered by companions. It is thought that he was ehot flr|rt and then the explosive was placed on his chest and set off. A long fuse and a quantity of soap was found near the tbody. Particles of thfe.,mah.'8 fur. overcoat, his dap, clothcs t and body were' found^for ,60 feet* around the body. Corn stalks within1, a radius of'16 feet of the body were -blood bespattered.

Dynamite In His Trunk. A piece of paper, bearing the name

of A. U. Tuttle on one side and' fig­ures on; the' other side showlnfe" tl^'at he was' employed^as a cornhusker, lead to;-the identification of the body. The police visited the Tuttle farm and found in Gralher's trubk a large quan­tity of dynamite. Mr. Tuttle will visit the Dickinson undertaking parlors some' time this afternoon to identify the body if possible.

Coroner J. E3. Garver and the police visited the spot this afternoon and the body was taken to Dickinson's. The lower half of the corpse was lnt&ct and on it was found- a Savage .82 caliber automatic pistol. It was load­ed, but none of the cartridges was discharged. About $2.60 in change was found in his pocket and also a pair of plyers.

Think Him a Robber. The police think that Gulher was im­

plicated In the robbery of the poptof-fice and two stores at W|nneba&o, Neb., last night. They are working on! the theory that he was miirdetfed by his partner. The tracks of the two men w;ere found entering the'eorn fiqld. A light covering of snow was over the tracks. Fresh wagon trackB also were discovered leading from the scene to the Gregory farm and again leading away from there.

W. G. Maddey, a farmer, reported this discovery to Coroner Garver this afternoon. The foot tracks indicated that one of the men entering the field was intoxicated. The tracks were ir­regular. J. Wassunk and Mrs. R. W. Carter, who live on farms near the scene of the supposed crime, told the coroner that they both heard the dis­charge of a gun and the report of the explosion at about 1:10 o'clock this morning.

The theory of suicide 1s scouted by the police. The fuse leading to the nitroglycerin was too long for a man to use for self destruction, they think. Investigation starting from the Win­nebago robbery has been started by the coroner and the police.

Entered Three Places. Two robbers at Winnebago last

night blew the postoffice safe and robbed two stores of that town, getting away with considerable loot. The qity marshal of Winnebago today enlisted the aid of the Sioux City police in lo­cating the fugitives.

About $35 In cash and a considerable amount in stamps was taken from the postoffice. At the store of J. S. Horak & Co., cash and clothing amounting to about $70 was stolen. The other store entered was that of John Ashford. The loss has not been estimated, al­though It is known to be large. A meager description of the robbers wai> furnished.

FOUR AUTO BANDITS t COMMIT BOLD THEFT

Secure Plate of Jewels, Battle Police and Escape By Wild

Flight.

DARING' BRIGANDS? BATTLE HERDSMEN

Portugese Smugglers Kill Nine and Wound 14 Cowboys and

Escape With $90,000 '̂ • \ . . <

Valenca Co Mlnho,; Portugal, Jan. 8.— A daring bani of smugglers on the Portuguese-Spanish frontier carried oil $90,000 In cash tod^y after a fierce bat­tle with a cattle raiser and 40 of his herdsmen, during Iwhlch nine of the cowboys were killed , and 14 severely wounded, most of them fatally.

Jose Murllhass, a weU kpoyra cattle breeder in the province of Mlnho, had been for several weeks passlng from fair to fair atid had disposed of three herds of bulls. He then started tor home with the Portuguese equivalent of $90,000 In bank notes aid cash with him, his 40 armed herdsmen acting as guards.

While he was passing close to the border between Portugal and Spain to­day he. was suddenly attacked by a large band of armed smugglers, who lred on his party from behind rocks ihd thickets. The herdsmen ^turned the fire wth vigor, but were Anally forced to flee.' They caftried oft Murll­hass, who had been seriously wounded, but left the whole of the money and 28 of their comrades on the field, nine of them dead and most of the others fatally injured.

The civil guards of the entire pro­vince have, been called out and are searching for the smugglers and the treasure, but no trace of them has been found. '

TERRIFIED MANIACS KILL ONE MAN AND INJURE NINE

Blvas, Portugal, Jan. 6.—One person was killed and nine other seriously in­jured today by five terrified maniacs released by firemen from a burning insane asylum In the outskirts of this city.

Altogether 36 lunatics were set free and they rushed howling through the streets for some time. Thirty of them, however, were easily gathered together and confined in the municipal building, but the other five, arming themselves with iron rods secured in a scrap heap, attacked everybody in sight. After five hours they were recaptured.

TARIFF BOOSTERS;

OF ENGLAND LOSE Unionist Party Split and Liber­als Are Assured Contest of $fl, British Government ? <tl|f

Chicago, Jan. 6.—Fifty detectives searched today for the four automobile bandits who invaded the downtown dis­trict last night, after robbing a north side Jewelry store of $1,200 worth of diamonds, fought two revolver battles with the police and caused terror by firing Into crowd? of shopgers on one of the city** principal streejts. Patrol man Fred Stricken, who attempted to arrest the fleeing robbers, because they had no tail light on their automobile, was shot and beaten. He was report­ed in a serious condition today.

Two men were taken into custody in East Chicago on suspeclon of being Implicated.

A roundup of suspicious characters in all parts of the city resulted in the arrest of 30 men. Detailed descrip­tions of the four bandits furnished by Patrolman Frederick Stlcken were' telephoned to every police station in the city.

ADLAI STEVENSON, JR. - SHOOTS YOUNG GIRL Bloomlngton, 111., Jan. 6. — Adlal

Stevenson, grandson of former Vice President A. E. Stevenson, last night accidentally shot and killed Ruth Mer-wln, aged 14, at a party at the home of his father, Lewis G. Stevenson, Some of the boys at the party attended military academies, and during the evening decided to give some of their drills. They found an old rifle, and, as they thought, took out all the car­tridges.

During the drilj, the weapon, while in- the hands of young Stevenson, was discharged, the bullet striking the Merwln child in the forehead, causing instant death.

TAFT WOULD ARBITRATE m, DISPUTE OVER PANAMA

New York, Jan. 6.—President Taft, referring this afternoon to the dispute between thiB country and Great Brit­ain in the Panama canal matter, said that he was in favor of submitting the question to the Hague tribunal for ar bltration.

GEN. SAWTELLE DEAD. < Washington, Jan. 6. — Brig. Gen.

Charles G. Sawtelle, U. S. A„ retired, died here today aged 79 years.

London, Jan. 6.—The project of im­posing. taxes on food Imported into the British isles, put forward by Bome of the leaders of the opposition in the house of commons, has created such hopeless dissensions in the unionist party as to render almost certain, it is said, the retention o^ power by the lib­eral government for the two years necessary to overcome the resistance of the house of lords to the home rule bill.

On the other hand, the wrangles among" the unionists afford some temp­tation to the government to make an appeal to the country on the chance of coming back Into power with an in­creased majority.

This, however, Is a course of action which has little likelihood of being sanctioned by the members of the IrlBh nationalist party, because it would de­lay the passage of the home rule bill and would even risk the return of the unionists to power, thus shelving home rule altogether. '

Will Push Program. On the whole, therefore, the chances

now appear to be that the ministers will decide against a dissolution of parliament and will push on their leg­islative program, especially as David Lloyd George, the chancellor of the ex-cheqper, has practically overcome his difficulties with the medical profession and has secured almost enough doctors to work the new Insurance act.

According to one of the papers, 266 members of the unionist party in the house of commons now have abandoned the idea of taxing food, leaving only 17 advocates of food taxes, under the leadership of Austin Chamberlain.

If this estimate is a correct one, the recent campaign against food taxes has been extraordinarily successful and, Andrew Bonar Law's position as leader of the unionist party has become somewhat difficult, as he publicly advo­cates a policy abandoned by the bulk of his party.

HUNDRED GRAVES ARE RAIDED BY THIEVES

Ghouls Desecrate Cemetery and Escape With Many Sacred

Objects.

Paris, Jan. 6.—A big gang of ghouls desecrated the cemetery of Clichy-Levellos Just outside the gates of Paris last night. They sacked over 100 of the tombs and stole a large number of sacred objects from the little chapels erected over the graves to which rel­atives of the dead come to say their silent prayers.

The news became known in the capital this afternoon and caused a sensation. None of the bodies in the cemetery was disturbed by the robbers, of whom no trace has since been found, although a large force of police has been sent to hunt them down.

"AUTO FOOT" LATEST SMART SET DISEASE

St. Louis, Mo.. Jan. 8.—The automo­bile foot Is the latest in St. Louis. The cause is the opposite of that from the policeman's flat foot, which is caused by too' much walking. The cause of the automobile foot is too little walk­ing. But the effect is about the same.

BOOTS ON FREE LIST. Washington, Jan. 6.—Representative

Cox, of Indiana, today introduced bills to put on the free list boots, shoes and all other leather. They were referred to the ways and means committee which will begin hearings on tariff re­vision Monday.

WALSH IS ENDORSED. Boston, Jan. 6.—Lieut. Gov. Iiavld I.

Walsh was endorsed as the party's candidate for governor at the annual banquet of the democratic state com­mute tonight. All of the committee­men pledged support_to his candidacy.

SELF GOVERNMENT FOB PHILIPPINES

Wilson Will Lead Effort to Get Bid of Unole Sam's Burden

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BY JOHN 8NURE. " '»M Washington, Jan. Now that Got-

ernor Wilson has come out. in favor of the independence of the Philippines. there is no longer any serious question entertained here that the United State* is going to get rid ot the Islands.

It the Jones bill passes, It will pro­vide for the independence ot: the Isl­ands in eight years. That is, the blU as it stands now has this effect. The theory ot it is that in ^elght yean^ time the Philippines would "be ready for independence and self government.

Probabilltles are that no legislation will be passed this session. It It did. President Taft would veto it. But it doubtless will be enacted In the regular session a year from this winter. It ia • doubtful tt congress disposes of a mat­ter of this importance at the extra session next spring. -

Settle Future Poliqf;'^ The discussion over the future ot ;

the Philippines will raise some highly Interesting and Important questions as to the future policy «f the United States in the Pacific.

If the neutralization of the Philip­pines can be effected, that will make it sure the islands will not fall Into the hands of a foreign power, such aa Japan. If it Is not brought about, it the islands are not made a neutral region, then there is not much ques­tion what will soon become of them.

While there is no end of talk about the islands deserving independence and being qualified for It, if congress turns them loose it will be not be­cause most members of congress think they would be better oft tree, but be- f cause enough members of congress, want to get rid of a burden to tho United States to be willing and even anxious to give them Independence. The sentiment that will dictate the policy of congress apparently will be,, c not the welfare of the islands, but the beat Interests of the United States as congress conoeives them. ^

The Jones bill, if passed as it stands, does not make Independence dependent on neutralization. In other words, it: J the Jones bill passes, independence will come whether neutralization does or not. ,

Not Much Sacrifioe. The opinion has been widely held in

congress for years, without regard to partlanship, that the United" States would be much bettier off financially and strategically if it was rid of the, Philippines. The notion that it would be any sacrifice for this country to ( give up the islands has never had much • of a hold on congress, though there is a feeling among some members that''^ If the United StateB gives the islands up it ought to get compensaton, ought., to get back sdme of the money it ha%Jpf sunk. sitf

When the debate over the Philip- % pines comes up there will probably be some interesting evidence on"the quea- ;; tlon of /the fitness ot the islands to v govern themselves. Some of the mem­bers of the Insular affairs committees are looking into this question. Evi­dence Is plentiful to show -that once the islands are turned loose, unless mantled round by the safeguard of a neutralization agreement, they will soon be In turmoil.

Tribes Bitter Enemies. In the first place, there are a large

nuqiber of tribes. In Luzon the Ta-galos are the chief tribe. They are competent for self government. But In Paxiay and other islands to the south df Luzon, are the Vlsayans. They are a powerful body of people, but are Jealous of the ^Tagalos. About the first thlqg to be expected once the Philippines try self government Is war between the Tagalos and Vlsayans. Nor will the Mohammedan Mora quietly submit to either the Tagalos or the Visayans. Here the door to more trouble will open. And there will be other tribal difficulties, as folks who have experienced the islands understand, even if those who have studied them at a distance of 10,000 miles do not.

It is undoubtedly true that If the great powers would neutralize the Isl­ands and keep a firm hand over them, Buch conditions would be obviated. But they are not likely to be otherwise. •;

May Fall to Japan. If there Is no neutralization and the

islands get into an upheaval of strife and revolution, then It Is not likely Japan will let the chance pass un­noticed.

Some plain speaking will be in­dulged In when the debate comes on. A lot of talk about' the glory of giving independence to the islands will be in­dulged. But there will also be some speech of a more cold blooded but probably more honest sort It will be to the effect that the longer the United States stays In the Islands the more money it will be out, that this coun­try should drop the Philippines and let the Filipinos shift for themselves no matter what becomes of them, that we should absolutely drop them and refuse to worry about them longer or have any more responsibility for them, and that if Japan or some other na­tion grabs them that will not be our lookout, nor will It weaken our grip on the Pacific; that the Islands are a liability and not an asset and unless ready to keep them as a liability wo should part with them.

SOLUTION IS THOUGHT NEAR IN MURDER CASE

Chicago, Jan. 6.—Solution of the mystery surrounding the murder of Joseph H. Logue, a diamond merchant, found shot and stabbed to death In his downtown office several weeks ago, was believed by the police to be near when a negrc ex-convlct known as "JackT ..*> was taken into custody today.

The man under arrest was seen loitering about the office of the diamond merchant 20 minutes before Logue was found slain, according to the police. No efforts have been made to question the prisoner and It was declared that he would be given the "silent treat­ment" for several days.

MEXICAN MEETS KNOX. Washington, Jan. 6.—Pedro Lascur-

ain, minister for foreign affairs for Mexico, talked with Secretary Knox at length today over the state of the revo­lution arid the Madero government's guarantees to protect American lives and property. ™

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NOTED CONFEDERATE DIES. ® New Orleans, Jan. 6.—Judge Em 11

Rost, aged 73, secretary of the diplo­matic mission of the confederate states to France and Spain, which was headed by his father. John Rost, died here yes­terday-.

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