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The Washington times., 1902-03-11
Third Change in the Cab
met IS Announced by
the President.
mr.. LONG RETURNS TO THE Law
Decided to Retire Months
Ago, But Awaited End
of Schley Case.
NEW SECRETARY A BACHELOR
NEW SECRETARY A BACHELOR
Interesting Career of the Bay State Man
Who Will Assume Navy Portfolio May
Was in Direct Line for the Toga-
; Change in Cabinet Not Unexpected.

Hon. John d. Long yesterday handed to
President Roosevelt his letter of resig-
nation as Secretary of the Navy. I'M
mediately afterward it was announced at
the White House that Representative
William Henry Moody, of Massachusetts,
had been offered and accepted the port
folio of the Navy Department.
Secretary Long retires with an enviab,e
record of five years as the head of
the Navy Department. and with his course
of action in the deplorable Schley con-
troversy bearing the approval of the Ad
ministration. His retirement was in no
way brought about by the cause celebre.
He made up his mind to retire to private
life and TO resume the practice of law as
a member of the firm OF Long & Hemen-
way, Boston, before the Schley Court of
Enquiry was even ordered.
Change to Take Effect May I.
The letter of resignation is so worded
as TO take effect upon May l, or sooner
should the President SO desire. The
change CT administration will, in all
probability, take effect at that time. The
reins of the Navy Department will fall
into the hands of Mr.. Moody, young and
vigorous New Englander, who has been
prominent in the House ever since his
first term and who is considered thor
oughly representative of the section of
the country which he will represent in
the Presidents official family. He will
be the only bachelor member of the
Cabinet He is forty-eight years old.
Third to Leave Cabinet
Mr.. Long is the third member CT the
Cabinet who has resigned since the open
ing of the Roosevelt Administration. Mr.
Charles Emory Smith was the first to go.
Secretary Gage, of the Treasury Depart
ment. was the next member of the Cabinet
to withdraw
With Secretary Long out of the Cabinet
Secretary Wilson will be the only mem
Der Of the Presidents official family who
was member of that body at the OPEN
ing of the first Mckinley Administration
Mr.. Long has long Intended to retire to
private life. His official career has been
eminently successful and brilliant, but it
has held no glitter for him for the past
year or so, and it was generally under
stood that PresideL: Mckinley would
make change in his Secretary of the |
Navy within year after his second in |
auguration. But when President McKin- |
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THE RETIRING SECRETARY.
Resume of Services of Mr.. Long as Head
of Navy Department.


John D. Long. poet. scholar. and poli-
tician, was born in Buckfield, Oxford
county, Me-, October 27. 1888, of good old
New England parentage. His prepara-
| tory education, of which Mr.. Long has
written several humorous magazine arti-
cles. was received In the common school
Of his native town and the Hebron Acad-
emy, in Maine. At an early age the fu-
| ture Secretary of the Navy showed re-
markable aptitude for the classics, the
| close and arduous study of which char
ecterized his later collegiate education at
| Harvard University. from which he was
graduated in 1857. at very youthful age.
After receiving his bachelors degree Mr..
Long taught school for two years in
Westford Academy. Massachusetts,, with a
view to later studying law. He was
finally graduated from the Harvard Law
School with much honor and has since
practiced in Boston.
His Legislative Career.
In 1875 John D. Long began his active
political career in the Massachusetts,
State Legislature. and was speaker of the
House in 1876. 1877. and 1878. In 1879 Mr..
Long was elected Lieutenant Governor of
the State. and in 1880, 1881, and 1882 he
was Governor. His administration as
chief executive OF Massachusetts, was
characterized by the honesty and ability
which are SO inseparable from the man.
AT the end of his third term as Gov
ernor of Massachusetts,. Mr.. Long was
elected to the Forty eighth and reelected
to the Forty-ninth Congresses.
After leaving Congress Mr.. Long con-
tinued the practice of law as senior mem
Der of the firm of Long & Hemingway.
During the interim of his service in Con-
gress and his advent in the Cabinet of
the late President Mckinley he devoted
much time and attention to the transla-
tion of the Latin classics. He also made
several poetical contributions of merit.
Popular With Opponents.
At present Mr.. Long is the president
greatly interested in all matters per-
tanning to his alma mater.
During his active participation in Mas
sachusetts politics John D. Long was ex-
tremely popular, not only with his party
but with his opponents as we'll The
story is told that during one Of the large
political parades of the Republicans,
when Mr.. Long was running for re-eIec-
tion as Governor, large transparencies
bearing the following paraphrase of a
well-known maxim were in evidence:
Man needs but little here below, but
needs that little Long"
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he made an exhaustive report upon the
| question Of pay in the Railway Mail Ser
vice. and was prominent In making and
carrying out appropriation bills. as a
member OF this important committee. He
is now member Of the Committee on
Insular Affairs.
Made Dewey an Admiral.
In 1899 he offered. in opposition to the
Naval Committee an amendment which
gave to admiral Dewey his present rank.
He was chairman of the special COM
mittee. appointed at the close Of the
Fifty-sixth Congress. to investigate House
employees. Early in this session he Of
fered resolution in regard to the ques-
tion Of representation in Southern States
which have passed laws disfranchising
the negroes.
MIR. Moody resides with his father at
Haverhill. Mass. He is a member of the
Metropolitan Club. of this city: the Uni
versity Club. Of Boston, and other ex-
elusive clubs. He is a director of one or
more banks, and is regarded as one OF
the strongest men in Massachusetts.
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more cartel and no more bounties. Cuban
sugar will then stand on an equality with
the sugar of the world.
This would make action on the part OF
Congress unnecessary.
Secretary Shaw Is considering the sit
uation in regard to sugar bounties by the
evasion of our countervailing duty law by
combinations Of sugar producers in for
eign countries. The particular case in
point is that of the German sugar cartel
The matter has been called to the at
tention of the Secretary of the Treasury
by the communications of the United
States consular and diplomatic represen-
tatives through the State Department
and by several members of Congress, who
declare that in the case OF Germany, at
least, the effect of our countervailing
duty provision in the tariff law is lost.
The experts of the Treasury some time
ago reached the conclusion that the
United States Government is powerless to
impose a countervailing duty the object
of which is TO compensate sugar pro-
ducers in this country for the competi-
tion afforded by foreign sugar trusts and
not by the foreign Governments them
selves.
The United States does impose a coun-
tervailing duty, amounting to q trife
more than a quarter of a cent a pound,
to compensate for bounty of that
amount paid by the German Government
to the sugar importers of Germany. The
German cartel, however, which is in eff
feet bounty paid by the combine of Ger
man sugar producers, amounts to about
half a cent a pound.
Some members of Congress. among
whom is Representative Long of Kansas,
who called on Secretary Shaw yesterday,
believe that If it were possible to i'm
pose a countervailing duty as high as
half cent pound on German sugar. the
amount of sugar imported into the United
States from Germany would be materially
reduced. The degree of protection which
beet sugar producers OF the West desire
would then be afforded, some of the
Western Congressman believe.
IT is possible that Secretary Shaw will
take some official action in the matter.
He is satisfied. however that nothing can
be done without change in the Law or
without an international agreement
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE
CLERK UNDER ARREST
w. H. Denlinger Thought
Mentally Unbalanced.
Taken Into Custody on Charge of Being
Disorderly-To Examine Into His
Mental Condition.

Mr.. William H. Denlinger. forty years of
age, living at 1928 I Street northwest. one
of the oldest clerks in the employ of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, hav-
| ing been appointed at the organization of
that branch of the Government service,
was taken into custody yesterday
morning by Detective Sergeants Helan
and McNamee on warrant sworn
out by Mr.. Il. S. Milstead, of the In
terstate Commerce Commission, charging
him with disorderly conduct. He was
locked up at the First precinct police
station after a running fight with the de-
tectives
May Be Demented.
The real cause for the mans arrest.
however, is that for some time IL has
been the belief OF the clerks friends that
his mind has been affected. Il IS said
that only last summer while Denlinger
was living with his mother in-law in this
city he went to local store and pur-
chased six revolvers with which to shoot
himself
For some time past his mind has be-
come worse and it is said he has caused
the other clerks in the Interstate Com
meree Commission considerable uneasi-
ness
Although his annual leave had all been
used up by him. Mr.. Milstead, the chief
clerk of the Commission, it is said. Sc
cured him thirty days leave in order that
he might go away and rest up. but this
Derlinger. it is said. refused to do.
Taken Into Custody.
His condition reached such a stage that
yesterday morning Mr.. Milstead swore out
a warrant for him. The warrant was placed
in Detective Helan's hands to serve. Ac-
companied by Mr.. Milstead he went to
the Interstate Commerce Commission and
took the man into custody.
Mr.. Denlinger was accompanied by mis-
wife to the First precinct station and
walked along peaceably until that place
was reached. Upon being taken up to
witness room, however he became yio-
lent and it required the united strength
of several policemen to place him behind
the bars.
The police surgeons examined the pris-
oner late yesterday afternoon and he was
sent to st. Elizabeth's Asy-
ium for the Insane.
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SERVICE OF TAX BILLS.
Question of Agency of Owner Involved
in Case Now Pending.

Messrs. Hufty & Hufty few days ago
forwarded TO the District Commissioners
an affidavit of Mr.. Charles Early with
reference to special assessment against
lot 9S, square 1856.
The Assessor has reported that the bills
were served en- Mr.. Early by one of his
inspectors. and that he admitted at the
time that he was the agent of the owner
of the property.
Commissioner Ross has recommended
that the papers be referred to the
City Solicitor for his consideration of
the facts stated in the afIidavts of the
inspectors who served notice and for ad-
vice as to whether under the circum-
stances Mr.. Early was such an agent of
the owner as justified the service afore-
said.
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he does retire he will be succeeded by q
New England man.
Justice Shiras, of Pennsylvania, has al
ready made known to the President the
fact that he will retire il October on the
expiration of ter years OF continuous serv-
ice. and the Pennsylvania delegation is
ready to urge the claims of ]. Hayes
Brown, of Lancaster Pa, a member of
the Supreme Court bench of that State, to
the vacancy.
There has been some talk here about
the probability OF Secretary Longs ap-
pointment to a place on the Supreme
Court bench. and it is possible. though not
probable, that, should Justice Gray re-
tire, the President might extend the hon.
or to Mr.. Long. But, as Justice Gray
evidently means to remain on the bench
long after he is eligible to retirement,
Just as Justice Field, of California did
there will be no opportunity for the Pres
ident TO appoint Mr.. Long, even if he were
disposed to do so.
.s, Mr.. Long and the Ermine.
II there should be a vacancy on the
Federal bench in Massachusetts during
President Roosevelt's term OF Office it is
probable the President will appoint Mr..
out his career as a jurist. for which he
is eminently qualified by education, train
ing, and temperament.
While Representative Moody's appoint
ment as Secretary of the Navy is general
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REPRESENTATIVE MOODY
TO BE SECRETARY OF NAVY

ley died and President Roosevelt as
sumed the reins Mr.. Long consented to
remain. though with tacit understanding
that he would before a great while with
draw.
The unfortunate Schley controversy
brought much adverse comment upon the
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IN SOUTHERN PACIFIC WRECK.
MI. and Mrs. Edward Fuller Passengers
on Inflated Train.

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward J. Fuller, of this
city were passengers IN the Cannonball
train. of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
which was wrecked near Sanderson. Tex,
carly Friday morning Mr.. Fuller is as
sistant superintendent of the Railway
Mail Service of the PostofIice Department.
In the crash, as the train left the track,
Mrs. Fuller was injured. ;ier leg vas
broEen. and she was severely cut and
bruised. Mr.. Fuller escaped unhurt.
Mrs. Fuller accompanied her husband
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for trip to California. They boarded
the ill-fated train somewhere beyond
New Orleans. Friends in this city, on
learning of the wreck, became anxious
but a telegram received yesterday by a
Government official gives the true condi-
tior of affairs incident to the wreck. The
despatch states that Mrs. Fuller. while
suffering from her injuries and s1ock. will
soon recover All baggage belonging to
Mr. and Mrs. Fuller was lost in the
,..rppk
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served on the bench for more than ten
years.
Justice Gray. however. much to the dis
appointment of several ambitious candi-
dates and ;hei: friends. gives no signs of
any intention OF retiring but, en- tic con-
trary. talks OF returning to the bench as
soon as sufficiently improved, physically.
to be able to do so. OF course, whenever
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tween Secretary Long and the President
relative to the Secretary's resignation:
Washington, March Q, 1902.
My Dear Mr.. President: VIII you ac-
cept this as my resignation of the Secre-
taryship of the Navy-to take effect on
the 1st day of May next, or sooner. of
course, if you shall at any time so wish?
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mr.. VEST OPPOSES SHIP SUBSIDIES
Continued from Second Page.)

to mail steamers is made necessary by
| her studendous colonial system. This sys-
TEN makes it imperative that mail lines
to all parts of the world shall be main
| tanned"
| Mr.. Vest ridiculed the assertion of the
advocates OF the bill, that the payment
of subsidies to the deep sea fisheries will
| furnish seamen for the merchant marine
and the navy. He said that the present
engineers, and that there are almost no
seamen employed by them.
The Tax on Lumber.
Mr. Vest alluded to the tax on lumber.
cratic Senator's had voted for the two
dollar -per-thousand-fe tax on lumber
when the Dingley bill was before the
Senate.
Mr.. Vest replied that he could not say.
He knew that he did not. And the fact
that any Democratic Senators did vote
for il only showed the enormous force OF
tariff combinations.
Mr. Tillman interpolated the remark
that he had voted for the lumber tax, and
had stated at the time that 1t was steal.
and that he did so because he proposed
to get out of the tariff bill the share which
his State should have. and because that
was the only way that 1t could get any
thing out of the bill. [Laughter.l
Mr.. Vest had Il letter read from ex-
Senator Edmunds, holding that a provi-
sion that agricultural products must be
carried by subsidized vessels would be un-
constitutional 1t was written while that
question was under consideration in the
Frye Hanna bill of last Congress.
A Pertinent Query.
If shipping interests were to be subsi
died. said Mr. Vest, why should not the
mining. the farming, and other interests
be subsidized? The Senator from Maine
had, said Mr.. Vest, remarked with his
usual courage and frankness that subsidy
meant protection. And he could have
said, Mr.. Vest continued, that protection
meant subsidy.
The mill owners in the United States
were protected by a tariff OF 80 per cent
against "the pauper labor of Europe" and
yet they sent their goods to those pau
per laborers country and sold them
there at 20 to 40 per cent less than they
sold them to the people of their own
country.
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Government Transportation Rates.

The Comptroller of the Treasury de-
cided yesterday that the Government is
entitled to the lowest rates available to
the public for the class of transportation
requested and furnished local rates for
local transportation and through rates
for through transportation.
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Admiral Remey Homeward Bound,

Rear Admiral Remey cabled the Navy
Department yesterday from Singapore
that he was sailing thence In flagship the
armcred cruiser Brooklyn, for Colombo,
Ceylon. on his way TO New York.
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head Of the Secretary of the Navy and his
subordinates. There was talk that he
would be forced to resign, but Secretary
Long declared he would never retire un-
der fire. President Roosevelt sustained
the Departments course in his answer to
Admiral Schley's appeal. and thus was
given the opportunity for Secretary Long
to retire gracefully.
He called at the White House early
yesterday morning and submitted his let
ter of resignation. This was a mere for
mality, for he some time ago notified the
President of his intention to soon resign.
When Secretary Lorg last week visited
Boston and participated in -hc exercises
in honor of Prince Henry he made final
arrangements to return to the Hub and
resume the practice of law as a mem
her of the firm Of Long & Hemenway, of
which he ceased to be an active member
the opening Of the first Mckinley Admin
istration.
MI Moody Not Surprised.
Mr.. Moody was rendered and accepted
the Navy portfolio on Sunday. President
Roosevelt summoned him to the White
House and ii is understood formally in
vited his acceptance. Mr.. Moody was not,
of course. taken entirely by surprise. in
csmuch as his name had been freely men
toned in connection with the position
for two or three weeks.
Following is the correspondence be-
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Mr.. Vest placed the word of Mr.. ]. ].
| HILL president of the Great Western
Railway Company, and the other authori-
ties whom he quoted, against those of the
| International Navigation Company and
MIR. Baker, of the Transatlantic Com
| pany, quoted by Mr.. Frye the other day.
Those Interested in Subsidy.
/ 81 would as socn," he said, leave this
question of whether a subsidy is needed
or not to these people. who will pile up
millions by it at the expense of the tax
| payers, as l would leave the fate of a
| wounded deer to the pack OF wolves that
had MANNED it,
When he came to the Senate, he said,
nearly twenty-five years ago. he heard
the statement of the shipyards that II
they had free raw material they could
compete with the world
I'VE gave them" he exclaimed, free
raw material. and now here they are de-
manding subsidy, holding up their hands,
and. like mendicants, begging the Ameri
can people to sustain the shipping in
dustry.
IF this subsidy be given to them" he
said. lit is but the beginning of the end.
am sure that the dream of ocean su-
premacy which has been so gorgeously
painted VIII never be realized under the
provisions OF this bill.
Il hope that the time will come when
the glory and power of this country will
be greater than that of any other people
on earth. If we make good our promise to
the world and to coming generations of
liberty, equality, justice to all and eX-
elusive privileges to none we must have
no unjust and unequal Determinations
We must have government of the people
and for the people and their children for
ever"
Mr.. Tillman Speaks.
Mr.. Tillman also spoke on the bill yes
terday. He attacked the measure as in
the interest of monopolies, and denied
that it would accomplish the purpose for
which it purported to be designed.
He alluded TO the proposed combination
of Atlantic steamship lines. and suggest
ed that the passage of the bill would be
followed by the carrying out of that com
bination. He cast some ridicule on the
auxiliary feature of the bill as to subsi-
died ships by showing that the cost of
the four steamers of the International
Company which were used by the Govern
ment during the three or four months of
the Spanish American War was 81 1854. .S35,
a costly luxury, he said. which had better
be dispensed with in future.
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TARIFF CONCESSIONS
FOR CUBA MAY PREVAIL
Leaders Whipping Republi-
cans Into Line.
SUGAR REBELS MUST YIELD
Party Lash Being Applied to Gain
Unanimous Adoption of Plan of Ways
ard Means Committee Reducing Rate
on Sugar.

Slowly but none the less surely it is be-
Republican members of the House is set
ting in toward the Ways and Means Com
nittee's proposition to grant tariff reduc-
fions to Cuba.
II net the 20 per cent reduction, then
something else intended TO give relief to
Cuba will be thrust down the throats of
the beet sugar men by sheer party force,
and all they will be able to do is to
Iquirm, kick, and protest.
The Party Lash.
II has been a long time since the party
lash has been so vigorously applied. 1t
has been long time since the occasion
demanded II, long since there has been
such well-organized force of insur-
gents
The beet sugar men have up to the
past two or three days had the leaders Of
the House going" as the situation is ex-
pressed in slang parlance. They have been
very certain of their ability to defeat any
proposition to reduce the duties on Gu
ban imports.
While they have not weakened any in
their claims the leaders supporting the
WAYS and Means Committee have been
exerting every possible influence TO whip
the uncertain ones into line. They have
left nothing undone 10 secure support
for the committee.
Beet Sugar Men Few.
The actual beet sugar men in the House
number about forty. They have been re-
lying for support upon those Republicans
who are opposed to any tariff legislation.
and who therefore are on a sympathetic
strike with the men from the beet sugar
States.
The men from the Eastern and New
England States and Pennsylvania, for in
stance, have no drects interest in beet
sugar They are supporting the beet
sugar men because they do not want any
kind o. tariff legislation. They believe
that reduction for Cuba would be but
an opening wedge.
While the -comInittal. the neutral,
and those opposing out OF sympathy are
being brought into line one by one. the
WAYS and Means Committee has not yet
achieved a victory. They have still much |
work TO do and IL is very likely that they |
may be forced to make some concessions. |
and that a compromise of some sort may
be the outcome Of the conference tonight, |
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ly commended there are those public
men in Washington who wonder why the
President did not choose man more di-
reetiy interested in national affairs and
one Of more extended reputation
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Countess of Warwick Hurt.

LONDON. March 10-The Countess OF
Warwick, the well-known society leader.
was thrown from her horse while hunting
in Essex today. She was badly bruised
but no bones were broken
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THE NEW SECRETARY.

Nr. Moody was born in Newbury. Mass,
December %, 1858. His early education
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HILLS HEARING POSTPONED.
Prisoner Remanded to District Jail Until
Saturday Next.

The hearing in the case of Louis B.
Hills, who was arrested in Baltimore
and brought to this city Sunday to stand
trial for obtaining money under false