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New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
POWERLESS AGAINST MERGER.
MINNESOTA UNABLE TO FIND COURT
WITH JURISDICTION OVER NORTH
ERN SECURITIES COMPANY.

ST Paul. March 13-"The Pioneer Press to-day
says that attorneys for the State In the prosecution
Of the so-caIIed merger of the Great Northern ana
Northern Pacific Railway companies have about
decided that the State Is in a helpless condluon
owing to the inability to find court with Jurlsulc-
ton. 1t is said that the decision of the United
States Supreme Court refusing to take original
Jurisdiction the suit practically barred the state
from bringing action in any of the lower iederai
courts To bring the suit in the State courts 1t Is
said would be Ineffective, because the Northern
Securities Company is a foreign corporation and
therefore amenable to State courts IF the case
were brought in New-Jersey, the home or the
Northern Securities Company, the same obstacle
would be encountered-namely, that the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific were foreign cor
pOrations in the eyes of the New-Jersey court
II the State should bring proceedings in quo war
ranto TO forfeit the Great Northern companys
charter It would he incumbent upon IT to prove an
actual consolidation Of the two roads to bring IL
within the purview OF the State statute prohibiting
such consolidation.
Attorney General Douglas Is said TO have favored
issuing q frank statement OF the case TO the pubic.
but in this he overruled by his associates.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
NO POLITICS IN IT. SAYS Low
MAYOR DECLARES THAT RECLASSIFICA-
TION LAW is ABSOLUTELY
NECESSARY.

Mayor Low talked freely yesterday ABOUT the
salaries bill final passage at A4DahE, ue-
claring with emphasis that the Dill Is business >
,,ronositiou pure and simple. and not pohucal
,,,eesure He denied that any radical changes were
contaminated. and said there had never been any
irtentio. Of merely making clean sweeps IN the
ci.y departments 49,.
Mayor said:
We find IN the present Civil Service four hundred
and seventy separate classihcatiOns, many of them
meaningless and useless We ind a great t dlIlet-
fo- the same class II work. When attempted
10 make Up a schedule Of offices and salaries
for the budget We found that under eAlstlis "a as
we could not equalize salaries, either by lncreaS-
10 change The existing condition unless we can OBJ
tain the legislation asked for. Our plan is very
sHsteem thst now exists in the Police Department
ana the Departneni OF Street Cleaning, where the
employees are uniformly graded, and the salary OF
every person In a grade Is ine same; En-, ..e e.n
We want 90 DO away with the title 'conhden-
fisl" applied to secretaries. clerks, messenger
or other employees. That ute. or elassihcation mas
range classification where the title OF the office
and that an in the competitive class Will be placed
II The Finance Department there are auditors
Of accounts. who are in the exempt class. and in
some OF The departments and bureaus there are
cashiers. under the present classification. who
handle very little We wold change that classih-
ent system is eNtrefnel! complicated and unsatls-
factory. There is no good reason why clerk in
clerk IN another department, doing precisely the
same work should receive 81 500 year; Such diff
ferences exist. and canrOt change them unless
we obtain the legislation asked for. We have pre-
pared a tentative classihca tion in which we have
ten grades for clerks
I have asked the State Civil Service Commission
20 attend conference on the subject week from
next SATURDAY.. 1t is also intended that If the bill
becomes a law public hearings will be held by the
Municipal Civil Service Commission before the new
classification goes into effect. ! wish impress
the public and the present employees Of the city
that no radical change IS contemplated. The
whole matter has been considered in an impersonal
way
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
". s. wCORNICK WOULD ACCEPT.
TELEGRAPHs WILLINGNESS TO SUCCEED
SECRETARY HITCHCOCK IF THE
LATTER SHOULD RESIGN

Los Angeles March 13.-Willlam 8. Mccormick Of
this city, has teegraphed to Senator Thomas
Kearns Of Utah. at Washington. that he will ac-
cept the position Of Secretary OF the Interior in
President Roosevelts Cabinet should vacancy
occur through the resignation Of Secretary Hitch
cock.
Mr. Mccormick asked before he left salt Lake
City on March 1 II he would take the Cabinet port
folio were IL offered him. but he would not then
make positive reply. At that time he telegraphed
10 Washington that his answer would be sent from
California. whittier he was then bound. Soon after
reaching Los Angeles Mr Mccormick received an
other request for expression OF his sentiment
toward acceptance Of the high government honor
After further delberation he has replied that he
would accept.
An that has been done" said Mr.. Mccormick. "is
that Senators Kearns and Millard have asked me
whether I would accept the place. and answered
that II the President offered II would accept
Washington. March l3.-Senator MiHard confirmed
the report that he had asked w S. Mccormick II
he would accept an appointment as Secretary OF the
Interior but said that I'm doing he had acted en-
tireIy upon his responsibility and that he had
assumed represent the President or any one
else He added that he had heard many rum0rs
Interior Department and Mr.. Mccormick being, in
his judgment. especially suited for the place. he
had asked him II he would accept II the place
should be rendered TO him.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
CANTOR PRAISES STEWART.
HE GIVES THE PRINCIPAL ADDRESS AT THE DIN
NER OF THE NETWORK LUMBER
TRADE ASSOCIATION.

The members of the New-YorI Lumber Trade
Association to the number of more than two hun
dred sat down to the sixteenth annual dinner OF
the association last evening in the Astor Gallery
of the Waldorf-Astor Seventy OF the most
prominent lumber firms in the city were repre-
sented at the dinner. Among the guests present
were Jacob A Cantor. Pendennis White, president
OF the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Asso-
citation; Building Superintendent Stewart William
X. Corwine. secretary of the Merchants Associa-
tion John n. Scatchcrd, OF Buffalo. and Rollin NJ.
Morgan. The president OF the association, Richard
s. Wright, presided.
President Wright. in his Introductory remarks.
predicted that the legislation at present pending
AT Albany In reference to building and tenement
business among the lumber dealers and builders.
lie read letters of regret from Governor Odeu and
Mayor Low.
President Cantor was introduced as the first
administration he said that il was vet too early
70 Judge OF IL 1t Is only in its infancy as vet
Dut there Is one thing to which it is pledged and
that is an honest and judcious expenditure or the
puphc moneys Mr.. Cantor paid a compliment Ia
Superintendent Stewart and said that he anna
lngS department had been worked in the last two
months as no other department mot worked in
a political sense Qaughter) but in building mn the
department. and in fulfilling it's duties I'm muncinaI
street signs. also. briefly touched
on by the borough president. He said he was on
Iast week by n member Of the board but wanted
a sign that would be beautiful by day and SER
Elcehble by night In closing Mr.. Cantor said that
he was sure that the end of the short term 30
the present administration II would be the uni
versal opinion that IL the best adminisrat tion
in the history OF the city.
Other speakers were Pendennis VVbita yViI,;,,,
X CorWine. Mr.. Scatcherd. Building SuDerintani
ent Stewart and Mr.. Morgan.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
ATTACKS POTTER AND RAINsFORD.
CIsE LAW WITH SIX DETECTIVES.

Dr. Isaac * Funk the Prohibiuonlst and Al
fred r. Page talked on the excise question and
Sunday opening at the Peoples Institute meeting
in Marion Hall, in One hundred -and-twenty-ffth
St. last night.
District Attorney Jerome. Police Commissioner
Partridge and Mayor Low declare" said Dr. Funk.
that It is impracticable TO close the saloons on
Sunday. 1t has been stated that there not
sufficient policemen to close all the saloons with
out the police negecting the enforcement Of other
laws. II has been stated that President Roosevelt
said he only succeeded in closing the saloons for
three Sundays by using all the men on the force,
and the police while watching the saloons. could
not enforce the other laws OF the code. / did not
believe this statement. and l wrote TO President
Roosevelt. and received answer from his sec
retary. who said the President had never made
any such statement.
IF the city officials Of New-York will give me
half dozen detectives next Sunday l VIII guar
antee TO give half the force holiday. and the
law Will be enforced. Who wants Sunday OPEN
ing? If the labor unions. the churches and even
the saloons are against Il, then who wants it?
Why, Dr. Rainsford and Bishop Potter They are
unanimous for H."
The burden OF the argument made by Alfred R
Page was against Sunday opening, because. he
said. II 1T was Illegal to sell groceries and the
necessares Of life, IL not right TO make an
exception OF liquor, one Of the luXurles II the
Sunday law could not be enforced it ought to be
repealed.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
SITUATION or THE IRON MARKET

Cleveland, March 13-"The Iron Trade Review"
in it's current issue says:
The excitement that showed in the pig iron mar
now. The heavy buying that time put some
producers Of the market. Others are doing out
with q Sparng hand what iron they have for sniD-
ment this year. II would appear that on foundry
some recent figures indicated, but buyers are not
stampeding the market to their remoter
wants. The conditions are not altogether easy to
views o producers are still
exemphed in selling poliCies-on the one hand a
conservatively maintained price: side by side with
It the policy Of asking advance the urgency of
inquiries suggests
II is a fact however, that the bulk Of the iron
far consumption would outruu productive capacity
If transportation troubles could be ended IS
problem whose solution is most difficult So S
the P1ttsburg district is cOncerned-and it's in
fuence on the situation is almost commandng-the
prospects for early betterment in the freight
ment not encouraging Meantime prices are
being affected and the holding down process is not
fully successful
Among recent pig iron business in the Central
West purchases of basic iron by the United
States Steel Corporation for third quarter delivery
at N6 at furnace the price paid recently for Bes-
semer iron for third quarter. Both irons have cut
loose from this basis, however, sales outside Of
the associated furnaces. high $l7 and Sl7 25
furnace being paid for Bessemer iron while for
baslc some furnaces are holding for higher figures
later in the year The matter OF coke contracts for
the second half OF the year IS up with some fur
naces. and S2 % has been paid for -Connelsvie
coke. as against 81 so and 81 for the half. and
be 81 80. against 81 25
Ore buying Is also going at A steady pace
after the quiet interval that followed the rush
OF contracting. Foreign steel is small factor in
bars have been sold for delivery in the Pittsburg
district at $50.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
PUBLIC BATH MASS MEETING.
SPEAKERS CALL ON PEOPLE TO FORCE AD-
MINIsTRATION TO FULFIL PLEDGES.
PLEDGES

One OF the first Of a series or mass meetings
under the auspices Of the Citizens Union for OBJ
tanning local improvements held last night in
Pacific Hall. No. 200 East Broadway. r. Fulton
Cutting spoke generally the hygienIc virtues of
frequent baths, and said there should be three or
four more bathing places open winter and sum
mer in the district. W II. Baldwin jr president
of the Long Island Railroad. told OF the historic
baths in Rome and their effect on the health Of the
people.
John De Witt Warner addressed the meeting on
the course to be pursued in order get the i'm
provements. He said the Citizens Union platform
called for public baths, open winter and sum
mer and that he believed a strong united petition
10 the Mayor would obtain prompt attention Mrs
LetherldGe. of the Educational Alliance made a
brief address on the effect Of cleanliness school
principal speaker of the evening after narrating
what had been done in foreign and domestic cities
for public baths, said that this State did not lack
legislation on this subject The law Of 1895 declared
establish and maintain such number Of public
necessary Continuing. he said in part:
I understand it to be the intention of this
mlnistration to provide. in accordance with its
anteelecton pledges, increased facilities for public
baths But 1t is human nature to be rich in prom
lses when seeking favor and scant In fulflment
to man, to these our public officials, what de-
command-and If need be threaten, taking care to
those wbos ant bave boyn Wy 4 PGneading
Now II IS for you to declare that State mandate
It's present good intentions. shall bear fruit and
the work of establishing public baths open all the
year through be pushed vigorously forward. Thus,
with physical and mental health renewed through
ceansed bodies. the people will inteligentiy
consider the great problem of democracy-which
is theirs to solve.
The Rev Or. Zef a worker In the Educationa!
Alliance said:
do not let us be awed by the political buffers
whom we have placed in power They there for
the purpose Of finding and applying remedies for
all social problems
The last speaker was the Rev. DR.. DennelI NJ
Block secretary OF the District Citizens Union
who presented resolution, which was adopted
requesting the city to provide public bathhousa
in the vicinity OF the block bounded bv Chrystie
Forsyth Bayard and Canal SITS. to supply the needs
OF the community.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS

ALBEMARLE-F P. Fish. of Boston, and Will
lam Barnes. tr.. chairman OF the Executive Con-,
mittee Of the Republican State Committee of Al
bany: BECkINGHAM-The ~ Hon. F. NJ KnoheI
ambassador from Holland TO the Chinese Court a :
Pekns. CAMBRIDGE-Baron Won HeneeImiiIer
tAusITo- hungarian Minister Washington F'TTTTTi
NENUE-Senator Nelson W. Aldrich OF Rboda
Island. GILSEY-Professor Alexander Graham
BEL! OF Washington. HOFFMAN-J B. Ivon
Ftafe Rat6 Printer Of AlbaHy and Frank Campbell OF
Francisco. ERIAI.-Ex-Con gressmnn g "1i'
" walker. OF Illinois. and Judge E. p Coyne Of
IIeheseo. MANHATTAN-Capta c. F. Goodrich
Il s; n; ex;Govern0r Charles Warren Lippitt' OF
I{pe T1ee tsianq ana Thomas Spratt, OF Ogdensburg
1icTSoRRYH TSoRRYHAARREmCaPtSn ARE r G Davis, L. s A.
DOht- STORIA-EX-Governor Morgan q; RnIL
icy. or Connecticut. and John n. Scatcherd of Buf
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
NEW-JERSEY NEWS
BOY TRIES TO KILL MOTHER
WAS ONCE IN INSANE ASYLUM AM
AGAIN BECOMES A MANIAC

Paterson, March Is (speciaD.-Fredsr,c,, ?,
Plumb eighteen years old. was COMMITTEES a.
the county Jail to-day on a charge of atten,,t
ing 10 murder his mother. The boy was :,
NOTES Plalns Insane Asylum last year. but was
discharged as cured. He has been living ar r.
nome IN Mountain View with his mother and
stepfa ther.
Last night the boy became a ravine r.,,,.
He knocked his mother Gown and bs.. =
until she was unconscious. He swore thai -
would Kill her and he looking for an ~, u
When MS stepfather appeared. The man ba5 :
hard fight to subdue the boy When pT,S
was overpOwered he was bound TO a chair ..s
Kept there until this morning. when he 1
brought to the county Jail. was
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
HOMESEEKERS' RATES TO CALTFORNI1.

The Southern Pacific Company announces a rate
Of s99 80 from New-York to Los Angeles or San
Francisco and return, good the first and third
Tuesdays OF March, April and May. These rates
known "Homeseekers' Rates" and are sun
Elementary to the one-way Colonist Rate OF so
the lowest regular second class being $S7 75-on a
round trip ticket for 500 5O-the lowest regular
round trip being A43 go
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
WILCOX JURY SELECTED.
TRIAL OF THE ALLEGED MURDEREk Or
NELLIE CRoPsEY WILL BEGIN


Eliza beth City, N. c.. March 13.-The court
which will try young Wilcox on charge OF
numbering Nellie Cropsey. whose body was
found in the river, after weeks of search in this
vicinity and throughout North Carolina sat all
dav in the effort to get an unbiased and i'm
partial jury. The number was made up at last
late in the evening. There were twenty pre-
emptory challenges by the defendant and three
by the State. Seven uninterrupted hours were
given to the selection of the jury.
Evidence will begin early tomorrow morning
The courtroom was crowded to sufocat1on
throughout the tedious process of selecting Il
Jury.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
JEROME'S EXCISE BRIEF
HE ESTIMATES THAT AT LEAST $4,000
MEN BREAK LIQUOR LAW ON SUNDAY.

I1E1 I4S Ina 1%Eo A1-A1 ~ A@l%EAo1 AcN'ONN
MEN BREAK LIQUOR LAW ON SUNDAY.
District Attorney Jerome yesterday sent to the
members of the legislature copies of brief he
had prepared and which he said contained all
the arguments he had to present in favor or the
bill to open the saloons in this city at certain
hours on Sunday. His brief contains sixteen
arguments. Among them are the following;
In the city of greater New-York there are a
large number Of people who 40 nor coH]SLuJr ] f I'M in
moral to enter saloon and take a drink oL III. III,
toxicating liquor on Sunday: Ihere are 49, 1D0I1
ence shows it is not an overstatement TO say that
SmFhaf% &C OF them are GngngSd age r akfng two men to
saloon and twenty customers we have a. oitbar it
break the law themselves or connive at ana en-
courage its infracton All well Informed persons
tell us that this estimate is rldlcuI0HsY td
ative and that two hundred and fifty tho thGuSaRa ta
the smaller number and we have in a single com
munity $4,000 persons who will not yield & wiling tb6
these persons nearly all voters and that usually M
IN TINS Glty mucn m srlaiLer t,n IL becomes per-
fe2ty plain what must be the political tate OF any
doing what they wish to do and what they do not
The effect of the present is to do irreparable
damage to the community by tending to degrade grace
their self-respeCt and their respect Tor an law.
The effect Of the proposed change would 9 lie 1r IN S in
measure ostraczed in their own social set T. 2nd ae
that they less worthy because of the occupation
of their fathers. ,,
Any familiar with conditions here knows th2t
for years the power vested in the police by pubhc
opinion OF neglecting the enforcement or hquor
laws has enabled them not only to collect very
large sums from the liquor dealers but in a large
measure to control their political activity NO
complaint is made against them when they nesiect
enforce the law this subject, because public
opinion does not favor enforcement, and when Tor
sinister reasons they do make arrests they nave
a perfect defence against COmplatnt-they say ,
what is true. that they only doing their sworn
duty. There has not been. and under our inStitu-
tions cannot permanently be, any check on theip
because mayors and district attorneys are eleC
locally, and their political life is sure TO pe sIlUT
when they try to compel enforcement OF such a law
The effect the community through the He-
bauChinE Of the police by the present law It'oIlhs
blackma is very serious.
Mentally. morally and physically. the average
patrolman when appointed Is superior to the aver
age man Make him part Of system which sells
''protection liquor dealers alone. ana you
at inculcate disrespect for law ana llS, oP-
servance and make him feel that what siouIu ne
a most honorable calling is far from that. lraln
seven thousand such men with the powers
they have to such theory and then scatter thern
geographically over the city about in proportion, 10
population and the effect you Will have in lowering
the general moral tone is incalculahle
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
COMPLAINTS or SHORT WEIGHTS.

Mayor Pagan Of Jersey City has received num-
Der OF complaints recently about storekeepers who
II Is alleged short weights. The Mayor had a
long talk yesterday with z. A. Roeds. inspector OF
weights and measures. whom ne urged TO De active
in the prosecution OF dealers whose scales weights
and measures were not up to the legal standard
An ordinance provides fine of $50 for every short
weight. measure scale.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
RUSSELL TALKS OF HARMONY
IF HILL RUNS FOR GOVERNOR THINKS
HE WILL BE NOMINEE FOR
PRESIDENT.

At a meeting of the Brooklyn Democracy Club Of
the XXth Assembly District William Hepburn Rus
sell. Commissioner of Accounts. last night, delivered
a speech Democracy versus Republicanism."
The newspapers, he said, had been too quick in
criticising Mayor Low. Time had not been allowed
him to regulate the municipal machinery and to
efface the evils installed by the previous adminis-
tratOn. Mayor Low" he said, lis the right man
for his position, and feel convinced that before his
term is all Democrats who voted for him will
not be sorry for having done So"
OF national politics he said:
In national affairs the Republican party breaks
faith and the plighted word of its late lamented
President in order that the beet sugar industry
shall suffer by free trade with Cuba. and, in
stead of seeking establish the sovereignty of the
people and the beneficent rule of the Federal Con-
stutiOn in the Philippines. il eXalts the flag above
the constitution and substitutes military for civil
rule in fact, if not in name
Turning to local affairs he said
Next September we Democrats OF New-York City
Will to the polls together and night out our party
differences in the party primaries. The executive
committee then chosen will be the central power OF
the Democratic party in the greater New-York.
and thereafter we will have Democratic party, not
"A "hall' and not boss"
In the State organization the unQuestOned leader
ship of Senator Hill is recognized, and should
he consent to head the Democratic ticket I'm the
state II would only be a question OF time until he
should head it in the nation
Mr.. Russell predicted Democratic harmony in city.
State and nation.
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
OSCEOLA COMPANY RgyJCENT

Boston. March 13.-A motion for the appointment
of investigating committee 20 inquire into the
management of the Osceola Mining Company in the
last year. offered at the annual meeting of the
stockholders Of the company here to-day was voted
down and the annual report Of the directors was
accepted. The motion made after a sharp de-
bate. Mr.. Bigeow. the company's president fatty
declined TO a question put by ex-Attornev
General Knowlton, who wished TO learn the names
Of those with whom the agreement not TO sell COP
per below II cents made
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
ST JOSEPH & GRAND ISLAND ABSORBED,
WESTERN REPORT THAT UNION PACIFIC HAS IT
DENIED IN THIS CITY

WESTERN REPORT THAT UNION PACIFIC HAS IT
Is DENIED IN THIS CITY.
st. Joseph. Mo, March 13.-The ST. Joseph and
Grand Island Railway. the connecting link between
this city and the Union Pacific overland route has
been absorbed by the latter road. At a late hour
last night 1t learned that a majority of the
stock of the road had passed the hands of the
Hartman interests. The road formerly part
OF the Union Pacific, but upon the reorganization
OF the latter road the Grand Island became an in
dependent system and has since remained So The
absorption Of the Grand Island by the Hartman
interests will give the Union Pacific a direct en-
trance into St Joseph its own tracks
The report that Union Pacific interests have abb
sorbed the st. Joseph and Grand Island is denied
on high authority in this city. A year or two ago
it rumored that control OF the ST. joseph and
Grand Island had passed TO the Chicago Burl!ne-
ton and Quincy road The line is 25I miles long
extending from St. Joseph No, to Grand Island
Neb. The road has SAG 600 common stock s. 4e7 =
600 first preferred and S.430,O00 second preferred
stock
New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
APPOINTMENTS By COUNTY CLERK

County Clerk Thomas L. Hamilton yesterday
found good berths In his Office for two prom
inent Republican organization men. Frank K.
Bowers, Of the xXXIVth Assembly District in
charge Of the speakers bureau at Republican
county headquarters in the last campaign was