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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-24
THEMERCHANT MARINE
MEETING OF COMMISSION CALLED
FOR NEXT TUESDAY.

Senator Gallinger has called a meeting of
the merchant marine commission for next
Tuesday to consider what further report
shall be made to Congress and to talk over
plans for expediting the bill for the rehabili-
tation of the American merchant marine
1t is earnestly desired to get the subject up
in Congress before freight rates and tariff
get the legislative situation in snarl.
Friends of the project say that the main
difficulty ahead is not so much to work up
majority in the House and Senate, but to
secure the consent of the leaders to the
legislation. Once the bill has the sanction
of the Speaker and of the republican steer
Ing committee of the Senate for right of
way, 1t is believed it can secure the vote to
pass it.
The question which will have to be set
tied with the leaders is mainly one of rev.
enue-whether 1t will be wise fiscal policy
to pass a bill in the present stage of the
revenues. The friends Of the measure pro-
posed to be passed this session say that it
will not seriously affect the revenues, as it
is form OF indirect taxation which does
not appear Immediately upon the balances,
and therefore that the question of revenue
will work itself out as the bill becomes CT
feetve
The commission estimated that it's bill
WouId lnyoIve an expenditure the first fiscal
year or S8,Oo0,605. A portion of this sum
would be chargeable against the postal rev.
enues, and there would be a set-off In the
way of increased port charges.
Inc commission consists OF Senators Gal
linger Lodge, Penrose, Martin and NAL
lory and Representatives Grosvenor Minor
Humphrey, Spight and McDermott, with
Mr. winthrop l.. Marvin secretary.
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Did Not Accept Resignation.
THE PEORIA SHORTAGE.
Dougherty Pleaded Guilty to Five
Charges of Looting Funds.

PEORIA, Ills, November 24.-Newton c.
Dougherty, for years prominent as edu-
Gator and financier, pleaded guilty today TO
five of the forgery charges against him in
connection with looting the school fund Of
thousands of dollars. He will be taken to
Joliet penitentiary tonight or tomorrow.
Judge Worthington pronounced sentence of
from one to fourteen years in the peniten-
tiary on each of the five counts, the same
TO be concurrent.
In the court room there were two hundred
spectators who had heard that Dougherty
would plead guilty. Attorney Irwin ad-
dressed the court He said that Dougherty
had turned all of his property over to him
and that he Qrwin) had been given right of
attorney to settle the affairs of the pris-
oner. He added that Dougherty's property
would amount TO more than the school
board defalcations. He admitted that
stood willing to take his punishment.
Judge Worthington replied as follows:
II find 1t necessary to send him to the
penltentiary as the law provides. II will
be a severe punishment In count No. 200
the sentence will be confinement in the PEN
itentiary at Joliet, Ills, for an indie etermin-
ate term, not less than year more
than fourteen years, solitary confinement.
In counts 81 24o. 2I3 and 244 the same SEN
tence. That is all
While the court vas speaking, DougheTty
locked straight ahead of him. He did not
move and he said nothing when sentence
was pronounced. He was taken back to
jail.
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EXCEEDED THE REQUIREMENT.
Report Regarding the Speed Trial OF
the Virginia.

The navy trial board has reported to the
Navy Department by telegraph that the
propelers of the big battleship Virginia,
during her speed trial yesterday off the New
England coast, made IT revolutions more
than was necessary, according to the
calculation. to send the ship along at the
contract speed of nineteen knots per hour
This report is one of the results of the new
method of testing the speed of naval ves-
sells by what is known the standardized
screw system. Instead of measuring off a
course of certain length and then timing
the ship over that course the naval engi-
neers, by a series of preliminary expert
ments. running the ship back and fourth
over a measured mile. determine exactly
how many revolutions of the propellers are
necessary to propel the vessel at certain
stated speeds. In the case of the Virginia
these experiments showed that 1898 revolu-
tions per minute meant exactly nineteen
knots and. as today's report indicates that
the propellers actually exceeded that num-
ber by II 1t Is estimated the ship just ex-
ceeded the contract requirement by mar
gin of somewhat less than one-hundredth of
a knot BY this standardized-screw method
no allowances need be made for wind or
tidal currents, so the results are quickly
reached.
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"PENNsY'' MAIL TRAIN WRECKED
One Trainman Killed and Five Others
Injured Today,

HARRISBURG. Pa, November 24-One
trainman was killed and five others injured
in wreck on the Pennsylvania railroad at
Thompsontown today. The wreck was
caused by a rear-end collision between two
freight trains going west. The mail train
leaving Harrisburg at $40 am. ran into
the wreckage, blocking four tracks and de-
laying traffic several hours.
E. G. Huntzbergerm of Harrisburg. a
freight brakeman, who had just been pro-
NOTED to fiagman, was killed in the collision
between the freight trains.
The injured are William Z. Moore, f. L.
Dunn of Altoona, engineer and firemen, re-
spectively of the freight train; David john
son OF Harrisburg, engineer of the mall
train; G. w. Baker of Harrisburg, conductor
of one of the freight trains, and Clarence
Edmond, a Pullman porter None OF them
is seriously injured.
All the coaches of the mall train were
wrecked. but no damage was done to the
mail The wreck between the two freight
trains is believed to have been caused by
the failure of the engineer of one train TO
see the rear end of the other on account OF
the heavy fog.
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COMMISSION MEN DEMUR.
Declare Missouri New Game Laws Are
Glass Legislation.

ST LOUIS. November 24-Commission
men of ST. Louis are up in arms against
the new game laws recently enacted py
the state legislature, the statutes being
characterized as illegal from the fact
dealers allege, that they smack of class
legislation.
ST. Louis firms. it is said, are sending
out printed matter telling of alleged dis
examinations the new law makes against
the common people in favor of influential
and wealthy gun clubs. The pamphlet
declares that clubs have Influenced legis-
lation In forty-fve states and territories.
The notices say in part:
Not only is every citizen of st. Louis
deprived of the right TO buy game or have
f shipped to him from any point in the
state or have it in his possession at any
time but he is prevented from receiving
any game from any other state or city
so that st. Louis is the only large city
In the United States so hampered and i'm
posed on
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OFFICIAL LEAVE TAKEN.
Consulting Engineers Call on the Presi..
dent and Secretary Taft.

At the meeting of the members of the
board of consulting engineers of the 18TH
mian canal commission yesterday after
noon, the rough outlines of the report to be
made by them to the canal commission were
drafted.
The members of the board called upon
Secretary Taft this morning at 10 o'clock
and took official leave of him, after which
they went to the White House and were re-
ceived by President Roosevelt
The final meeting of the board took place
this afternoon. Their work has been done
and the meeting will probably end with a
few words of thanks by the chairman. Gen.
Davis, and a response by NJ. Guerard, the
dean of the European delegates.
The foreign members will not leave
Washington until Monday morning. Sum
day night they will be entertained by Sec
retary and Mrs. Taft. Beside the members
of the board 1t is expected that the am
bassadors from France, Germany and Eng
land and the minister from the Netherlands
will be present at the reception.
The members of the board have words OF
praise for Mr.. Bates of Chicago. who fur
nished them with charts and data in con-
nection with them.
When asked whether they felt annoyed by
the uncompimentary remarks as to their
decision for sea level canal made by per-
sons fayoring lock canal, one of the for
eignz members said;
1--WE care very little about those remarks.
Wherever We go in this world to give out
advice we are accustomed to meet with
severe criticism and opposition. The rail-
roads in Europe are just as much opposed
to canals are those in the United States
Besides, fIman nature is the same all over
the world, and 1t is quite the ordinary thing
that men who perhaps have never in their
lives seen a lock or a canal will give US
wonderful advice. after We have studied g.
question for three months and have stud
led it with the greatest care. We have
done our work here as best we knew how.
and have met with the greatest courtesy
from all officials and persons connected with
the board The criticism of persons being
absolutely unfamiliar with the whole prob
lem cannot interest us greatly nor do any
harm to our reputation. The next meeting
of the foreign members of the board will
probably take place in January in a city
to be designated later. Brussels was con-
sidered, but no decision has been reached =
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Naval Movements.

The torpedo boat destroyers Hopkins.
worden. Truxtun, Stewart and Macdonough
have arrived at Pine Beach; the protected
cruiser Galveston at Tompkinsville. the tug
Uncas at Boston. the collier Labanon al
Lambert Point. the armored cruiser Colo
RADIO at Newport News. the torpedo boat
Stringham at Annapolis and the collier
Saturn at San Francisco.
The protected cruiser Des Moines has left
Guantanamo for Santo Domingo City. the
protected cruiser Charleston has left Hamp-
ton Roads for Guantanamo. the armored
cruiser Pennsylvania has left Hampton
Roads for Philadelphia. the tug Nina has
left Newport for Boston and the torpedo
boat destroyers Bainbridge and Barry have
left Cavits for Hongkono
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-24
BIG CONTRACT FOR RAILWAY.
Philadelphia Builders to Construct 100
New Street Cars.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BUFFALO, N. Y, November 24.-Presi-
dent Henry ]. Pierce of the International
Railway Company OF this city announced
this morning that the company had just let
a contract with Philadelphia car building
concern for 100 new street cars. to cost
100000.
Mr.. Pierce also stated that all the street
cars In Buffalo ultimately will be replaced
by this new type of Oar. and that the COM
pany was now completing 100000 car
building plant for the construction by the
company itself of trolley cars of the new
type. The standardizing of the street cars
In Buffalo viii cost the company several
millions OF dollars.
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DESIRU EhS AT PINE BEACH.
Several Will Come to Washington tt
Be Fitted With Gun Sights.

Announcement is made at the Navy De-
partment today of the arrival at Pine
Beach from Providence of the fotilla de-
stroyer of the North Atlantic feet consist
fng of the destroyers Hopkins, Worden.
Mecdonough, Truxtun and Stewart, under
command of Lieut.. Commander Marbury
Johnson. The fiotilla has just completed
target practice at Provincetown and went
to Pine Beach to engage in drills and evolu-
tions preparatory to the cruise to the Car
ibbean sea in January when the flotilla will
accompany the first squadron of the North
Atlantic feet to the winter drills in the
West Indies.
Within the next few days the Hopkins,
Worden and Truxtun will come to the
Washington navy yard to be fitted with
new three-inch gun sights. They will be
accompanied by the Stewart in command Of
Lieut. Roscoe c. Buimer, which will re-
ceive her three-inch guns.
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BUILDING A BIG DAM.
Herculean Engineering Task in Prog
ress Near Yuma, Cal.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, November 24.-TWo
hundred men, divided into day and night
shifts: twenty teams. hauling brush and
sand; two pile drivers. humping away al
most incessantly; two stern-wheel steamers,
CARRYING construction materials and com
m!ssary stores from Yuma-these forces,
under Superintendent ]. Tolin, are engaged
in the herculean task of building 6o0-foot
dam across the west channel of the Colo
RADIO river four miles below Yuma, by which
the California Development Company hopes
to bring the Salton sea to a standsiill ana
eventually restore the Salton sink to dry
bed
II the dam is success the Southern Ia
cific railway In time will be able to aban-
don Its sixteen miles of "shoo fly track east
of Salton and resume Its main line IL 1t ls
a failure forty miles and perhaps more or
"shoo2 fy's may have to be. built. and the
whole Imperial country may be deprived or
Its swply of canal water, and the Colorado
river may be diverted Through the river
Padrones into volcano lake, thence to find
its way northward through, the new river
into the Salton sea. What that would mean
may be conjeetured from the damage al
ready done by the flooding of the great
sink
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FORCED TO SHOW HANDI
Resignation of Balfour Re-
garded Foregone Conclusion I
BY LONDON STATESMEN
RESIGNATION OF MARQUIS OF
LONDONDERRY A FACTOR.
Two Hours Session Of the Cabinet To-,
day-ouestion of Method of
Dissolution.


LONDON, November 24.-Today's cabineti
council, which, although not originally
summoned for that purpose had to decide
the question of the resignation or tempo
rary prolongation OF the retention of Office
by the Balfourian ministry was attended
by all the members with the exception OF
the Marquis of Salisbury. president of the
board OF trade. Only a few score of tho
public gathered in the vicinity OF Downing
street TO witness the assembling of the
ministers, and there was no denonstrat tiorr
1t was regarded as a foregone conclusion!
that the cabinet was going out and the
only public interest was In the manner of
its going out, whether the premier and his
colleagues would take precipitate action. or
decide to remain IN office for little while
longer TO wind UP the business actually I'm
hand.
Mr.. Balfour's hand. It is understood. was
somewhat forced by the resignation of the
Marquis of Londonderry, the president Of
the council and president of the board of
education, which rendered few days
ago. The question Immediately arose
whether the collective resignation of the
ministry would not be preferable to its
gradual disintegration.
The session of the cabinet broke up soon
after O'Clock in the afternoon. after a
couple OF hours deliDeration.
Did Not Accept Resignation.
AS the Marquis of Londonderry was pres
ent at the cabinet council IT is evident that
Mr. Balfour did not accept his rendered
resignation, and the lord president of the
council probably withdrew 1t when informed
that the cabinet would not again meet par
Lament with the idea Of transacting further
business. The ministers have not yet glyen
an intimation of the actual date of the dis
solution and appeal to the constituencies.
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TO GO OUT OF COMMISSION.
The Oregon and the Massachusetts, to
Be Displaced.

AS soon as the historic battleship oregon,
now under orders to return home from the
Asiatic station, reaches American waters
she viii be sent to a government navy yard
and placed out of commission for thor
ough overhauling. Having served in the
first line, she will, when commissioned, be
placed in the second line of defense, use
being found for her in home waters. The
out-of-date battleship Massachusetts, now
at the New York navy yard, will be put out
of commission soon. Her place will be taken
by the battleship Indiana, which is now
completing extensive repairs.
What ships shall take the place of the
Oregon on the Asiatfc station has not been
decided. but 1T has long been the intention
to send out to the far east next spring two
protected cruisers of the Galveston type.
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throughout the trial. but has offered only
one or two suggestions in court 1t has
been explained that his jurisdiction over
Meriwether is nullified not only by the fact
that the alleged offense occurred on gov
ernment reservation, but by the fact that
Meriwether will have had his trial at the
hands of naval authorities.
The test case In this line referred to by
the authorities was that of Captain Nc
Kenze, court-martiaied for hanging Mid
shipman Spencer on the brig Sommers
many years ago. This was a precedent
making case and the accused was protected
from further proceedings by the action of
the court-martal.
The, testimony this morning was tedious
and developed little not shown In the uiedi-
cal examinations of the previous day. The
most interesting development came late in
the morning, when it was shown by the
records of the academy that it was possi-
BILE for the searching physical examination
of candidates to overlook serious organic
disorders which would cause sudden death
after the student had entered the schoo,
This testimony was the first thing of i'm
portance in favor of the defense that had
developed in day and a half of ex
amtnations., 1t was in line with the ron
tention OF the defense that the death NJ
Branch was an extraordinary Occurrences
and one that could not be fairly charged
to the immediate effect of the fight with
Merfwether.
Special From Staff Correspondent
ANNAPOLIS, Nd November o4-rba
court trying Midshipman Meriwether po,.
causing the death of Midshipman BRANCH
moved this morning into much more COM
modious quarters than 1t has heretofore oc-
cupied. The little cramped room In the old
construction building with Its noisy steam
pipes that went Off like watchman,s rattIes
and frequently drowned the voices Of court
and witnesses was abandoned for the big.
airy club room In the officers mess. PIC
lures of Washington. Jefferson and Adams
decorate the walls and there ars seats and
tables for every one instead. Formerly sew
cral men were forced 10 stand ao and make
notes against the wall
The provost came in with Aeriwether a
few minutes Lefcra the court convened
The accused was very quiet and occupied q
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to negation of the heart being carried
there. would you change your answer"
I would not said DIR. Stone mistakes,
of course, may occur
Mr. Munroe asked witness IL he remem-
bered the death of Midshipman Battle of
North Carolina, member of the first class
DR.. Stone said he recollected the case, and
that partial autopsy was performed, but
denied that Battle had died of heart dfs-
ease. saying his recollection was that death
was due to an Injury OF the head received
in hazing on the Santee about a year before
Death Of Midshipman Clark.
A death certificate OF Lawrence F. Clark
of New York, midshipman of the acad-
emy. was then placed in evidence. showing
that after passing the physical examina-
ton for the academy he had been admitted
and died of heart disease within ten days
thereafter
The production of this case was EVIDENT
ly surprise 10 the prosecution. all the
medical testimony heretofore having been
to the effect that the ply sjcai examination
Continued on Second Page.)
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seat at the right of she Judge advocate be-
tween his naval and Civilian counsel The
list of witnesses for the prosecution is
lengthening out. nine men, most of them
midshipmen, being on the card for today.
Witness after witness was recalled 10 verify
their previous days testimony.
Corroboratc Other Physicians.
The first witness of the day was DR.. Nc
Cormick of the Academy Hospital. who was
with Branch when he was operated on. His
testimony was merely d repetition of that
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whether or not he remembered the con-
-versation relative to his employment by
the National Securities Company, as re-
lated Yesterday By Charles II. Brooks,
witness for the prosecution.
NO" almost shoated Burton, intently
leaning forward as if to emphasize his
answer.
Contrary 10 the procedure of the govern
ment- during the former trial, at the close
of the direct examination the witness was
cross-examined by United States District
Attorney Dyer.
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Steamer Partially Burned.

DETROIT, Mich. November 2i-The old
time wooden freight steamer Saginaw. own
ed by c. W. Kotcher of Detroit. was par
tally destroyed by fire today while passing
up the ST. Clair river. A lamp exploded
In the engine room, spreading fire In every
direction. and the flames were beyond con-
troll In few moments Ernest Minton, q
fireman, who was In the freehold, narrowly
escaped suffocation. The boat was beach
ed, and the fire consumed the boat from
amidship to the stern. The loss is about
SIS. 600.
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Return of Col. Edwards.

Col. Clarence r. Edwards. chief of the
insular bureau of the War Department, has
returned to this city with Mrs. Edwards,
who arrived in New York day or two
ago from Europe. where she has been un-
dergoing a course of treatment for the
past year. They will reopen their house
at TITS Massachusetts avenue northwest
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TO ASK FOR AUTOPSY
Discision Of the Meriwether
ourt-Martial.
REQUEST OF DEFENSE
TODAY'S TESTIMONY MOSTLY
MEDICAL.
Admiral McCormick's Presence as a
Member of the Court Challenged
by Judge Advocate.

It is never safe to prophecy on a court
marital verdict, but the impression is gain
ing ground that whatever other punishment
is meted out to Midshipman Meriwether
he will be dismissed from the service. When
the court-martial is through with him, how
ever, it will be impossible for the civil au-
thorities to touch him. District Attorney
Rose of Baltimore has been present
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conferring with Secretary Taft.

Gen. A. L. Mills, superintendent. of the
Military Academy, has come 10 Washing
ton to confer with Secretary Taft and other
officials of the War Department regarding
the work in progress ON the new buildings
at West Point.
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Ocean Steamship Movements.

NEW YORK. November 2i-Arrived:
Pennsylvania. from Hamburg.
QUEENSTOWN. November 24-Arrived:
Campania, from New York.
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Would Not Answer Complaints.

The eyes of all In court were fastened on
Burton as his counsel. Lehman. asked him