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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
ATTACK Is MACE
ON Mr.. MOSELEY
RAILROADS ALLEGE THAT HE HAS
BEEN UNFAIR IN COMPILING A
STATEMENT OF RAILROAD AcCI-
DENTS AND CAUSES.

Washington, December 20-(Special)-
Charging that he has misstated the facts
about railroad accidents, that he has Jug
gled statistics in order to make them
show that railroad travel is much more
dangerous in this country than abroad,
and that he is a special pleader for the
labor unions and against the railroads,
western railroads have opened war upon
Secretary Moseley of the interstate COM
merce commission.
A pamphlet attacking Mosely has been
received here for general distribution. 1t
charges that Moseley prepared a table of
eighty-six cases, compiled from the re-
ports of the railroad companies In which
he alleged that accidents were caused by
the excessive working hours required Of
men, 1t is alleged that all of these eighty
six cases were all the instances that could
be found in the accident records of five
years which served the purpose of prov
ing that men were worked too long hours.
The pamphlet proceeds to analyze these
various cases in order to show Secretary
Moseley has been unfair in his discus
sion of them. In reference to 1t, Mr.. Nose
ley says:
I'm the facts concerning these accidents
as furnished to the author of the PAM
phlet there are some statements that do
no appear in the reports to the commits
sion under oath, and other statements
that conflict with statements made in the
official reports sent to the commission. It
Is hardly necessary to point out that in
all these cases, If the facts are as stated
by the author of the pamphlet, rather
than as stated to the commission, the
official making the report to the commls-
sioh In the first instance Is guilty OF per-
Jury"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
GO into CONCERNS
OF new YORK LIFE
JEROME WILL NOT TELL SCOPE
OF INVESTIGATION
EXAMINED AS TO PRUSSlAN
DEAL.

New York, December 20.-George w.
Perkins was the first witness before the
grand jury today when the investigation
into the concerns of the New York Life
Insurance company was resumed.
District Attorney Jerome was uncom-
municative as to the scope of inyestiga-
ton and neither of the officers of the
company who had been before the grand
jury was willing to give any hint of the
line of the testimony.
Darwin p. Kingsley, vice president of
the New York Life Insurance company.
was examined at length by the grand jury
regarding the so-called Prussian deal. The
company as the price of continuing to do
business in Prussia, was compelled to
charge off three blocks of stock, which
were not acceptable to the Prussian Off
Gals The report sheet for the year filed
with the insurance department of this
state showed that these blocks of stock
had been sold to the New York Security
and Trust company. a subsidiary con-
cern of the insurance company, for $S,500,
0O1. 1t is alleged that there was never
bona flde sale and that the deal was
put through by the use of a porter, and
NJ Mattison, chief clerk to the treasu-
rer, E. D. Randolph, the insurance COM
pany taking notes for the stock,
G. w. Perkins was recalled this aft
ernoon and remained with the grand jury
two hours and half His examination
had not been completed when the jurY
adjourned for the day, and he will appear
before them again tomorrow, II is the
intention of the grand jury to sit all day
tomorrow and also of next week to con-
tinue the insurance investigation
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
WOULD CELEBRATE
THE EMANgxyelION
BISHOP wALTeFeo ,uEs A CALL
TO NEeRoEles CRY ALOUD
AGAINST T e:NJusTIcEs RE-
GENTLY PEI. zTRATED.

New York, December 20.-Bishop Wal
ters, president of the AfroAmerica Coun-
ell, today issued call to negroes to eel
ebrate on January l the forty-third an
niversary of the issuance of the Emanci-
patton Proclamation by President Lin
coin. lie declares that if Afro-Americans
should fail to assemble on the birthday of
their freedom ard commemorate the is
stance of their magma charta they would
show themselves lacking in appreciation
of the great gift. They should let the
world know, he says, of the progress the
race has made on moral and religious
lines, and that they are not a race of
criminals" as some in high places are
striving to make the world believe"
I'VE should cry aloud he declares
against the injustices which are being
perpetrated against us by the enactment
of the Jim Crow car and disfranchise-
ment laws in the south. We should let the
world know what an injustice has been
done the race by the dismissal of inno-
cent negro soldiers at the behest of race
prejudice; men who have for years fought
in defense of the flag and for the honor of
the country Let us speak of our wrongs
until they are righted.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
Awaiting News.

Vieksburg, Miss, December 20.-Accord-
ing to the latest news obtainable by long
distance telephone from places near Gold
Dust landing, where the steamer w. 7.
Scovell blew up yesterday, the list of
dead and missing totals fourteen, and the
injured include four white men and sew
eral negroes.
The white dead are:
Capt. John A. Quackenboss, master.
Vicksburs.
L. Wade Quackenboss, Vicksburg.
Clerk Joseph Smith, Yazoo City.
Leyal Yerger, Jackson.
The other ten dead and missing include
negro deck passengers and roustabouts.
The white injured:
T. Roberts, assistant pilot, Vicksburg,
serious.
John Roberts, pilot, slight.
Charles MeKenna, passenger, painful
Il. Butterfleld, slight.
Captain Quackenboss leaves a widow
and daughter and the younger Quacken-
boss a widow. Both were very prom
inent here
Cub Pilot J. NJ. Wilkinson, who arrived
here last night says the boiler of the
Scovell was blown 300 yards from the
boat and landed in a field.
The arrival of the next steamer from
the scene OF the accident is awaited with
much anxiety here. This will probably
he tomorrow morning.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
OF PACIFTC COAST
NOTBLUFFEDB DBYROOSE WELT

San Francisco, December 20.-Mrs.
Flora B. Harris now residing at Toxic,
and widely known as a missionary. re-
Gently addressed communication to the
San Francisco board of education, in
which she deplored San Francisco's at
ttude toward Japanese in public schools
and criticised what she termed the pro
vlncial spirit" of the local officials. She
deprecated the attempt to classify the
Japanese as "orientals" and expressed
surprise that the children of any for
eign resident should be excluded from
the public schools
The board of education has framed a
reply which will be mailed to Mrs. Har-
rs. This reply asserts that the japanese
have not been excluded from the
schools, despite the fact that no less
parsonage than the President of the
United States has instigated a similar
assertion in framing a message to Con-
gress. and Notwithstanding the wholly
unfair report made of the school incl
dent by the Secretary of Commerce aud
Labor, Victor II. Metcalf
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
BISHOP SAYS FRANCE
IS RULED BY INFIDELS
Trouble Between Church and State Is
Because of Hatred of All
Religion.

Little Rock, December 20.-Coajudtor
Bishop John p. Morris of the diocese OF
Little Rock, who returned today IRON a
trip to Rome and Paris, said that the
trouble between the state and church in
France is because of the intense hatred.
not only OF Catholicism, but to all rellg-
ion.
France is ruled by inhdels entirely"
he said. THE reason is that the French
are a peculiar people-one sect follows the
Bourbonists one the Orleanists and ar
other the Bonapartsts, with the result
that the conservative party Is so divided
that the intldel party controls the gov
eminent The whole controversy ia
prompted by opposition to religion in any
form. 1t Is not only an antl-Catholic
movement but IL Is ami Christian. Tie
men In governmental control are Dent
upon the destruction OF Christianity, ard
with aethelsts and agnostics have not
God. or religion. 1t is a threat to Christ
ianity OF universal import.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
Hilary Herbert Refers 10 Roots
Advocacy Of Capitalization
JELKS' RACE ISSUE REMEDY
Defends Presidents Dismissal of Negro
Troops-Descendants of Grant and
Lee Will Uphold Him-col.
Catfey Presided.

New York, December 20-HIiary A. Her
bert, former Secretary of the Navy, was
the principal speaker at the annual din
ner of the Alabama society held at the
Hotel Astor tonight Col Francis G. CAT
fey. president of the society, presided.
In his speech Mr.. Herbert referred to
the recent speech of Seertary Root in this
city in advocacy of increased power of
the federal government
THE state of Alabama" said Mr.. Her
bert. was built in that memorable era.
1S01-1S25 AS to what were the proper
functions of state, and as to the true
meaning of the federal constitution, the
leading Alabamians were thoroughly inn
bued with the ideas of the Philosopher
Statesman Thomas Jefferson In federal
politics that was the day of the states
rights, the federation constitution was to
be strictly construed. Baldwin in his in
citable Flush Times of Alabama and Mis-
sissppi,' facetiously hits off this doctrine
by saying that the constitution was "A
thing of that curious virtue that its eX-
cellenee consisted in not allowing the gov
ernment to do anything
'What a difference between the teach
ings of jefferson and the pronuncament
of Secretary Root in this city recently,
when the titular chief of the present cab
met, made an announcement which ap-
pears to mean that the constitution ought
To be construed so as to allow the federal
government to do anything and every
thing that a state government ought to
do and fails to do"
Mr.. Herbert touched upon the race is
sue in the south. and pointed out as a
remedy for friction between whites and
blacks in the south the action of Cover
nor Jelks in exhorting the good negroes
to strive to keep down crime among the
bad ones.
Mr. Herbert defended the action of
President Roosevelt I'm dismssing the
three companies Of negroes on charges of
1aeting at Brownsville, and added:
"W hat the Preside I did I ~. Grant
ana Robert Z. Lee did, and I am sure
that although there may he few senti-
mentalists who can never forget the color
line. and will therefore still criticise, all
those who followed Grant during the civil
war, and their descendants. and all those
who followed Lee during the civil war
and their descendants. will rally around
Mr. Roosevelt and uphold what he has
done"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
FUNERAL OF BISHOP M'cABE.
Simplicity Marks Services-Bishop
Andrews Pays Tribute.

New York, December 20.-Simplicity
marked the services at the funeral OF the
late Bishop C. C. McCabe in st. Pdurs
Methodist church tonight. Many promi-
nent Methodist clergymen and laymea II
New York and Brooklyn were present
Bishop d. A. Goodsell of Boston read
the funeral service. With him were
Bishops Bashford of China; Neey Of
Buenos Ayres, and E. G. Andrews, re-
tired with Rev. Drs. Eckman, pastor OF
st. PauIs, j. NJ. Buckley and William V.
Kelly.
Bishop Andrews paid affectionat te tfiE-
ute to the dead bishop
There has been only one chaplain ard
bishop. and none like him., he said. HE
had all the impulsiveness and energy OF
his celtic ancestry. He lived in the world
and he had profound love OF home and
friends and his fellowmen. He was a
man of action and was never meant for
the cloiSter'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
FOURTEEN DEAD
FROM EXPLOSION
One of the SCovelPs Passengers
Gives Account
THREE BLOWN TO PIECES
Wade Quackenboss In Last Moments
Called That He Would Come to
Mckenna and Give
Him Aid.
THREE BLOWN TO PIECES

New Orleans, December 20.-Speciais
from Vieksburg tonight still place tie
dad and missing from the explosion on
the steamer w. T. scovell at fourteen.
The first accounts showing the probable
fate of those missing, including the cap
tain and his son. were given by Charles
McKenna, one of the Scovells passoh-
gers, today, after he had been rescued
from the unconscious state produced
by his burns and injuries.
McKenna says that those missing were
probably either scalded to death, or
drowned, being carried down with the
boat and that he believes also that some
of them were killed outright by the force
of the explosion. 1t Is expected that
many of the missing bodies will be found
in the forward part of the steamers
cabin, which is now under water, and a
relief party will leave here tomorrow
morning with the necessary tackle TO
raise this part of the submerged struc-
ture.
McKennas story is as follows:
Il was standing near the clerks office
in the Seovell when the boiler blew up
and the only thing that saved my life was
the fact that the boiler blew one way
while I WIS sent the other. Capt. Jena
4. Quackenboss and his son Wade ard
the clerk, Joe Smith. were all directly
over the spot where the explosion oc-
Cured, and God forbid, but I believe they
were all blown to pieces. except Wade
Quackenboss. l heard him after the eN-
plosion calling to me in his last none
Impulse TO give me aid, and | heard HIM
dstincly say: rs that you, Charlie? Wait
there and I'll try to get to you.'
AT this time" Mel<enna continued, 'I
had almost smothered with the steam
and smoke"
From this point McKenna's memory is
not clear about what occurred, except
that he was carried down under water
and felt if he were being pinned down
under the boat for a moment. Immediate
ly afterward he rose to the surface aa1
was pulled out of the water by rescusr.
There seems little doubt that Wade
Quackenboss went down in the rush tnae
carried Mcl<enna under 1t is feared,
however, that not all the missing Will
be found in the sunken boat.
The fact that Captain Quackenboss'
body WAS found floating about 200 yards
from the scene of the explosion makes IL
apear that some of those on board were
blown into the river.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
Continuing, the reply saws:

Continuing, the reply says;
THE fact that the President of the
United States, basng arguments upon
erroneous assumptions, frames against
loyal people scathing criticisms regard
ing matter which is purely one of local
concern, does not in the least deter the
people of the Pacific coast. who after all
are doubtless the best judges of their own
immediate needs and welfare. Neither do
the misleading deductions and recon-
mendations of a politician high in au-
thority when voiced through a document
which plainly sought the light of favor,
and not of truth. impress the people of
this locality with any sense of doubt as
to their rights as free born Americans,
or as to the justice of the stand they
have taken.
''The board of education will not re-
code from its position whether the Pres
ident of the United States has been led
into error and now applies emphatic Ian
guage to the people of this state, or
whether ambitious secretaries dstort
plain facts and shape documents that
may perhaps be formidable in political
sense"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
Patrick Not Surprised,

Osslning, N. Y, December 2O.-Patrick
said tonight that he was not satisfied
with communication and would at once be-
gin his fight for freedom. A writ of ha-
beas corpus will be applied for, it was
said in the United States court, making
Warden Johnson the defendant
The first news Of the action of Governor
Higgins was taken to the prisoners cell In
the death house in Sing Sing prison by
his wife. Mrs. Patrick left New York i'm
mediately on receipt of the news from
Albany, and upon her arrival here she
was permitted TO go at once to her nus
bands cell.
Patrick seemed not at all surprised to
learn that the governor had interviewed to
save his life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
OPPOSE PENSION SCHEME.
Civil Service Plan Believed to Be Bad
Policy for Government.

New York, December 20.-A blow to all
schemes for old age pensions for civil
service, whether in the state or national.
was delivered today by the National Civil
Service Reform league, which made pub
lie the result of its exhaustive study of
the subject.
The league finds that any pesion scheme
founded on government aid Is bad. a
civil pension list on the English basis
would cost the national government s19,-
100000 a year for the classified service
alone, and s25,000, 900 for the whole service,
whereas at present the governments loss
from inefficiency of its employees who are
65 years of age. expressed in salary.
EQUALS 81, 100000 a year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
VATICAN ISSUES
NOTE OF PROTEST
Will Be Published Today, Declaring
That Dignity and Religion Have
Been Outraged BY France.

Rome December 20-rhe vatican has
issued note of protest against the course
of the French government and forwarded
1t to all papal representatives abroad. A
summary of the note will be published in
the Osservatore Romano tomorrow even
ing.
The note is calm and dignifed in tone,
and protests primarily that the dignity OF
religion has been outraged by the French
government preventing the head of the
church from communicating with the
French hierarchy by the expulsion from
France of Monsgnor Montagnini who
was secretary of the papal nunciature at
Paris
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
Would Amend Rate Bill.

Washington, December Ex-senator La
Toilette introduced bills to amend the rail-
road rate bill passed during the last ses-
sion of Congress and adding one section
TO provide for the investigation of the
valuation of railroad property. The pro-
posed amendments are along the line of
amendments offered by the Wisconsin SEN
ator, while the rate bill was under con-.
sideraton in the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
Wants More Five-Dollar Bills.

Washington, December 2O.-Representa-
tive Fowler, chairman of the House COM
mittee on banking and currency. intro
duced bill today removing tlN limit
placed by law upon the quantity of s.
national bank notes which may be issued
Under the present law only one-third Of
the bank notes may be Of the s. denom-
funtfan
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ONPAY
FOR SOUTHERN MA CHINISTS

Washington. December a.-Alfred p
Thorn. general counsel of the Southern
railway and P. J. Conlon, vice president
of the international Association of Ma
chinsts. two of the arbitrators selected to
determine the wage schedule paid ma
ehinists on the Southern railway. have
agreed without calling on the third ar
bitrator. The award follows:
That the Southern Railway company
grant to the machinists at all the shops
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
DEBATE RELIGIOUS LAW.
The Premier Insists on Rapid Solution
of Entire Question.

Paris. December 2O-The chamber of
deputies today decided to take up the
debate on the new religious law tomor-
low. The postponement demanded by NJ.
Pelletan, radical socialist. led today to an
energetic outburst from Premier Clemen-
ceau, who characterized this demand as
a maneuver of false friends, desiring to
embarrass the government.
The premier insisted upon a rapid So
luton of the entire question as the gov
ernment was facing a difficult situation
in an effectual manner owing to the
insufficiency of the present law. The
chamber agreed with the premier.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21

of the company, except Birmingham and
Sheffield, an increase of cents an hour
over the pay such machinists were recelv-
ing on August 81, 1906 to the machinsts
at the shops at Birmingham and Shelf
field an increase of IL cents per hour and
to apprentices at all the shops an increase
of 1 cent per hour.
The wage scale as fixed by this arbltra-
tion is to be effective as OF September /,
1906 and shall remain in effect until No.
vember 5. 1907.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
Examinations for Rhodes Scholarship

Washington. December 20.-The bureau
of education has been advised by DR.. X.
G.. IIarkin OF the Rhodes trust that the
next examination In the United States of
candidates for Rhodes scholarships VIII
BE- held on January II and Is The EXAM
nations are held in each state and terri
tory
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
Mississinpi Breaks the Record.

New Orleans, December 2o.-fhe New
Orleans levee board tonight reported that
the Mississippi river has been the highest
in twenty-nlne years for this season dur
ing the past few days, but that the wafer
is now falling. The highest was fourteen
feet on the guage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21

Carlsbad n. NJ, DecelnpSi ~ hS W
ter works were shut down today for lack
of coal. The entire city was without wa
ter at noon. The Pecos Valley railway mas
but few tons of coal to run trains.
There probably will be no return trains
from north or south unless they can get
coal at Pecos and Amarillo, Tex.
Helena, Mont, December N-OWlng 10
the coal shortage the Helena LlSht anu
Railway company has announced that II
will close it's gas works tomorrow even
inc or early at least. For the past sew
eral days gas has been made from kero-
SONG Int This is no longer available.
While the fuel supply is limited, there
has been no actual suffering III Helena.
upon few men, but because this ques-
tion embraces a great, broad principle of
constitutional law and constitutional lib
erty. 1t is a precedent if 1t should be es-
tablished that will apply to white men as
well as black men, and it applies to the
whole country.
Mr. Foraker repeated several times dur
ing his speech that he believed the Pres
ident has been imposed upon. But, he
added: Il believe he is a big enough man
and a just enough man to undo what ne
has done when he finds out the true SIT
uation'
Mr. Foraker went into elaborate delehse
OF the Sixtieth Ohio regiment, wnich the
President cited as a precedent III the cdse'
He said that not only did TINS case iur-
nish no precedent, but that there was no
such precedent anywhere to be found.
When he had concluded he gave notice
that he should modify his resolution ask
ing for investigation should the military
committee deem it necessary, so as to
make 1t mandatory in the committee TO
go 'n.o the n,. llla'te, tho hniidsv l,,S recess
Lodge Defenos tne rresioent.
Coming to a defense of the President,
Senator Lodge remarked that he was not
one of those who on the approaching of
a new subject made up his mind in adj
vance He preferred to reach his con-
cll,sion after he had examined the evil
dence. This he had not had time to do.
He had read enough of the testimony to
ascertain that there were two sides to
this question and he should like to be in
formed about both sides. There was a
question of justice involved not only to
the men discharged, but the President
and the Secretary of War. who had given
much time and consideration to the pain
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21
PLANTS STOP FOR LACK OF COAL
Water and Gas Works Shut Down In
the West.

Carlsbad, n. NJ, December 2o.-The wa
fer works were shut down today for lack
of coal. The entire city was without wa
ter at noon. The Pecos Valley railway has
but a few tons Of coal to run trains.
There probably will be no return trans
from north or south unless they can get
coal at Pecos and Amarillo, Tex.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-21

Helena. Mont. December 20.-Owing to
the coal shortage the Helena Light ana
Railway company has announced thal II
will close its gas works tomorrow even
inc or early at least. For the past sev-
eral days gas has been made from kero-
sene. but this is no longer available.
While the fuel supply is limited, there
has been no actual suffering i'll Helena.