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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
HOUSE DISCUSSES SALAAIES.
Microscope in One Hand and Appropri-
 ation Bill in Other.

Washington, March 20.-The house to-day did business with microscope in one hand and the bill making appro- priation for the salaries of it's officers and employees in the other. The result was that, although five and one-half hours were spent in reading the legisla- tive appropriation bill for amendment, less than twenty-five pages of the measure were completed. The spirit of economy in little things was all absorb ing. Points of order were made and many of them were fatal to the pro- posed increases in the salaries of off, cers, janitors, doorkeepers, messengers and laborers. A point of order which made the salary of coal weigher in the engine room of the house $720 a year instead of $82O, as proposed, caus- ed constitutional debate of more than an hour on the point as to whether the house could do as it saw fit in the mat ter of fixing the salaries of it's enl- ployes. The conclusion seemed to be that it could, and that it prescribed it's own action by It's rules. However, these rules prohibited increasing a sal ary without provision of law,
 The final round for the day was de- bate as to whether the house could get as good packing boxes as the senate did for it's members, and finally a move was made to eliminate packing boxes entire ly from the perquisites of members which failed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
MOROCCAN DELEGATES TIRED
WEARY AWAITING ARRIVAL OF THE ETERNAL TOMORROW.

AIgeciras Now Reports That a Basis
 for the Adjustment of the Rival
 Claims of Germany and France Has
 Not Been Found--Head of American
 About Speedy Agreement.
 Algeciras, March 2O-A basis for the adjustment of the rival claims ol France and Germany before the confer ence on Moroccan reforms has not yet been found The Associated Press learns from one of the most interested of the elegates that the Austrians are preparing a further police project which 1t is hoped will contain q sug. gestion less objectionable to France than the Casa Blancapropositio while at the same time safe-g guarding the in ternational principle. The proposeC guarantee consists of an Inspecting general with full powers, nominated bs the powers, to which he shall be re HlOiASlblCa k1lApuIh llAl0 SAANpllAT AOL VI feet reconciliation of femnan ant French issues, then Russia will intro duce an amended plan, which will b' discussed simultaneously with the Aus trian plan until a final understanding Is reached.
 Meanwhile Henry White, the chief o the American delegation, is taking tn lead of the other neutral delegates il active endeavors to effect a speedie settlement than the one suggested. Most of the delegates are absolutel, wearled whilst awaiting the arrival o the eternal tomorrow, when an ar rangement Is promised but which 1 daily put off again as the result of ap parently amending pour parlers at tn various European chancelleries. It stated this evening that this week wi see the end of the conference, but tn impression is growing that a settlemen is much nearer than is admitted by tn delegates, who generally display ex treme reticence. The French is th only quarter where pessimism is showr the general opinion decidedly rejectin the idea of a rupture.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
DOUBLE TRAGBDY.
Year of welded Life Ends in Murder
 and Suicide.

New York, March 20.-Joseph Byland, a bartender, and his wife, Mary, were tonight found dead in their apart ments in West Fifteenth street. Bly, land had been shot twice through the body and a revolver lay by his side. The body of the woman showed no marks of violence. The couple, who had been married a year, had quarreled frequently and Mrs. Byland to-day de- termined to return to the home of her parents. The discovery of the bodies was made by her brother, who called to assist in her in moving. The police believe that Byland, finding his wife about to leave him, killed her with a blow on the head and then shot him. self.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
DREADNoUGHT THE THING.
Dewey Favors New Type of British
 BattAeship.

H1NhREbEAUs
 Washington, March 2O Great battle- ships like the 1S,000-ton English battle- ship Dreadnought are the crying need of the American navy, according to Admiral Dewey, who appeared before the house committee on naval affairs to-day to discuss the future of the American navy. At least two 18,000- ton battleships, with ten twelve-inch guns each, should be authorized at once, in Admiral Dewey's opinion. He would have these of American design. and thinks that we should be creative rath- CT than initiative in developing the navy.
 Admiral Dewey also believes that ex- tensive experiments with submarine boats should be carried on. In case of attack by foreign navy an American harbor of supply would be necessary, and submarines, in his opinion, are ad- mirably adapted to prevent a foreign foe from gaining such a supply harbor. The admiral does not favor additional cruisers and arrnored cruisers, but be- lieves scout ships of the Monitor type should be built.
 Admiral Dewey thinks battteships should not be kept constantly in com missions He would rest in harbors where small crew could keep them i in condition This would result in q great saving to the machinery Crews could be trained satisfactorily on smaller and less expensive ships, in his opinion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
AGAINST o'BRIEM.
Former Fairfield County Sheriff Cannot
 Practice Law.

Bridgeport March 2O.-Judge Rora- hack, in a decision handed down to-day in the superior court, dismissed the ap- plication of Matthew P. O'Brien for ad- mission to the Fairfield County Bar association, which matter was the sub ject of hearing in the superior court recently. The petition is dismissed on the grounds that O'Brien had fair and impartial hearing before the bar com mittee, thus sustaining the contentious of the committee in full O'Brien, ill his suit to compel the Fairfield County Bar association to admit him as member, claimed that he did not have a proper hearing before the committee The only thing for O'Brien now to do if he desires to carry the fight any fur ther, will be to appeal to the supreme court of the state.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
MITCHELL REVIEWS HIS
 DEMANDS ON OPERATORS
SUBMITS AS CONCRETE PROPO- SETON THOSE OF FORMER
 CONFERENCE.

By Strictly Partisan Vote They Are
 Rejected--Hatter Referred to Joint
 Scale Committee-President Baer Agrees to Meet Miners Committee to
 Again Discuss the Situation in the
 Anthracite FieIds--Addresses Letter
 to Mitchell.
 Indianapolis, Ind, March 20, The second joint conference of the coal op- orators and miners of the central com petitive district, comprising the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania, which is the result or President Roosevelt to effect a perma- nent peace in the coal industry throughout the United States, adjourn ed this afternoon after referring to de- 1rands of the miners to the joint scale committee, which will begin it's delib- erations tomorrow.
 On motion of President Mitchell, the rules of the previous joint conference recurring that the vote of the operators on ''all main and principal questions be cast as unit, were adopted rms action empowers F. l.. Robbins, retlr- ing chairman of the operators, and Thomas Lewis vice president of the United Mine Workers, to prevent any action on the wage scale which they do not favor The operators named a joint scale committee representing the various states interested and then President Mitchell delivered brief ad- dress in which he outlined his views as to the purpose of the extraordinary joint conference, at the close of which he moved the adoption of the scale of wages demanded by the miners in the ioint conference which adjourned Fep- ruary g. The motion was lost on a strictly partisan vote, the operators voting unanimously in the negative, while the miners voted as unit in ia vor of it's adoption.
 On request of the operators the scale was read. It embodied demand Tor a general advance of 12 1-2 per cent. ln wages: for a run of mine basis; for flat differential of seven cents ton between pick and machine mining; the exclusion of boys under sixteen years of age from the mines, and for an eight hour day.
 Tohn H. Winder of Ohio, the newly elected chairman of the operators moved the adoption of a resolution which provided that the present wage scale with all attending conditions be adopted for period of one year begln- ming April 1. This was defeated.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
TRIP FOR THE RoOSETELTS.
Going to Florida and Then for Cruise
 to west Indies.

Washington, March 2O.- Accompanied
 by her sons Archie and Quentin and her daughter, Miss Ethel, and possibly by her son Kermit, who is at school at Groton, Mass. will leave Washington the latter part of next week for Florida, At some convenient port there possibly Fernandina, they will go aboard the converted yacht Mayflower and make a cruise to the West Indies. They will visit Cuba and Porto Rico, stopping at both Havana and San Juan, It is ex- pected the party will be absent ten days or two weeks. The MayfoWer left Washington yesterday for Fernandina.
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WALLACE FOR SEA LEVEL,
Views of Former Chief Engineer of
 Panama Canal.

Washington, March 20.-John F, Wal lace, formerly chief engineer of the Isthmian Canal commission, appeared to-day before the Senate committee on inter-oceanic canals as an advocate of the sea-level type of waterway He was asked to give his views and pre- faced them with a general statement.
 In advocating an approximately straight sea level canal, of ample width and depth as the best type, MT. Wal lace urged that any other plan which places restrictions upon the probable permanency of the canal itself as well as upon the speed and the size and number of vessels passing through it, must render the canal far less valua- ble; that the only deterrent factors in this connection are relative time and cost, and that in approaching the dis cussion the question of how much mon- ey the American people supposedly are willing to invest in the canal, and how much time they are willing to wait fol it's proper accomplishment should be considered.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
Shipping News.

New York, March 20.-Saileds Steam CTS titonia, Naples, Trieste and Ffume: Rhynland, Antwerp; Weimar, Naples via Halifax.
 Slasconset, Mass, March 20.-Steamer Grosser Kurfurst, Bremen and South ampton for New York, 150 miles east of Nantucket lightship at 2:50 ?. m; will probably dock about ?. m Wednes- day.
 Dover, March I9.-Passed; Steamer Chemnitz, New York for Bremen.
 Naples, March 17.-Sailed; Steamer Cftta di Torino, New York.
 Lizard, March 20.-Passeds Steamer BresIau Bremen for New York.
 Leghorn. March 14.-Sailed: Steamer Citta di Palermo. New. York.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21

Officers Reported Massacred-Fortress
 Said to Have Fired on the City-No
 Confirmation of M. Witte's Intention
 to Retire from the Premiership Is Ob-
 tainable--COndition of His Health
 Said Not to be Desperate.
 St. Petersburg, March 20.-Most serl- sational reprots are current tonight that the execution of Former Lieuten- ant Schmidt, which has made deep in precision throughout Russia, has been followed by an extensive mutiny of sailors at Sebastopol, the massacre of tkeir officers and the fortress firing up- on the city. The truth of the story is doubted, this being the psychological moment" for the appearance of such wild reports No press dispatches con- firming the story have been received. but if the report should prove to be true the absence of these might be account ed for by the imposition of censor slip.
 The alleged news came in the form of two cipher telegrams to a prominent member of the social revolutionary party, such as the revolutionaries have sometimes been able to transmit through accomplices in the telegraph offices when the public, and even the government, has been unable to com- munlcate. As translated and displayed at the offices of radical newspapers here the telegrams say briefly that the sail ors, infuriated by the refusal of Emper- ow Nicholas to pardon Lieutenant Schmidt, and their fellow sailors, rose in their barracks and seized and i'm prisoned the majority of their officers. The dispatches add that the city of Se- bastopol is almost entirely in flames.
 It is also stated that student at the technological institute has received a similar telegram.
 The admiralty affects ignorance as to the occurrence of any such affair, The papers, in view of the menace of the new press law, which provides that they may be closed up for spreading false reports affecting the army or navy are afraid to take chances by pub- fishing the story tomorrow.
 ! St. Petersburg, March 20.-No confir- nation of the reported intention ot Count Witte to immediately retire from office is obtainable at the premier chancellery, but on the contrary the possibility of his relinquishing his task | pending the meeting of the nationa assembly is not admitted. In fact there Is a disposition to treat Count Witte's reference to M. Kokovsoff, which ere 2 ated such a stoir in the council of the empire yesterday, as an ironcal thrust 2 at the overweaning ambition of the for } mer minister of finance It is also de l n.ed that the condition of Count W1tte , health is desperate. He is more or les' constantly a sufferer, but no alarming Z symptoms have developed,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
To start Up Again.

Naugatuck, March 2O.-It is announce ed here tonight that the Goodyear Me tallic Rubber Shoe companys plant, which has been closed for about a month on account of slackness of trade, will start up again on April 16 on full time. At that time also the Goodyear India Rubber Glove company's plant, which has been running but four days a week, will also start on full time.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
REGULATION OF DANCE HALLS
Massachusetts House Passes Bill by
 Overwhelming Majority.

Boston, March 20.-By a rising vote of 154 to 1 the Massachusetts House to- day substituted for an adverse report of a committee bill to regulate the use of dance halls throughout the state. The measure is designed to keep boys and girls from objectionable dan- cling places, and is result of recent public agitation in thts direction 1T Boston. The bill provides that no per son under seventeen years of age shal be admitted to public dance halls where an admission is charged, unless ac- companied by a parent or guardian Certain dances given under proper aus pices are exempted.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
Leave to Withdraw.

Boston, March 2O.-Leave to wfth- draw was reported by the legislative committee on public health to-day on a petition of Frederick W. Peabody, providing that all persons who prac- tice the art of healing must be regis~ tered by the board of registration in medicine. The bill was airnedspartfcu- larly at Christian Scientists. The re- port was unanimous.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
Most Cremated.

Cincinnati, March 2O.-The body of Johann Most was cremated in this city to-day. There was no religious cere- nlony. but some of Most's comrades de- livered addresses before the cremation. Mrs. Most will take her husbands S ashes to New York at once and a mem oriaI meeting will be held there in a few days.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
AUTO RAGING HOARD.
That of the American Association An-
 nounced for 1906.

New York, March 2O.-The following will constitute the racing board of the the year 1906: Jefferson de Mont Thompson, chairmani William K. Van- derbilt, Jr, A. C.; B. Russell Thomas A. c. A.; Samuel Walter Taylor, A. c. A; A. G. Batchelder, New York Motor club; SIM. Butler, A. c. A.; H. l.. Bow den. B. s. A A.; Boston; R. Lincoln Lippitt, R. l. A. C., Providence; Frank G. Webb, L. I. A. C.; Ira G. Gobe, Chi cago Automobile club; George l.. Weiss, c. A. C., Cleveland; B. R. Green, Dallas Auto club, Dallas, Tex as; Dr. w. H. Bergtold, c. A. C., Dem yer; L. P Lowe, A c C., San Francisco.
 Technical advisers to the board: Pe- ter Cooper Hewitt, of New York; E. R. Thomas, of Buffalo; A. L. Riker, of Bridgeport, Conn; Henry Ford, of De- troit.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
sherman Would Not Refuse.

Washington, March 20. Representa- tive Sherman of New York said to-day that although he is not seeking tElt chairmanship of the republican con- gressional committee, he will not de cline it in case the joint caucus of re- publican senators and members of tht house designates him for the place,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
MoODK HAS HIS SAY.
Attorney General Refers With Sarcasm
 to Packers Plea.

Chicago, March 20.-Attorney-General Moody spoke nearly all day in the hear ing of the immunity pleas advanced by the packers, concluding his argument just in time to allow him to take train for Washington.
 He declared with considerable sar- casm that the pleas of the packers were not well founded, and that they could not be entitled to immunity be- cause they had given their evidence of their own free will and had not been placed on oath nor subjected to com- pulsion of any kind.
 Attorney Miller, for the defendants' made a brief reply to the attornel-gen- eral before court adjourned. He will continue his argument tomorrow
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
Knows Nothing of It.

Indianapolis, March 20.-F. R. Bur- nett, Indianapolis manager of the Re- public oil company, when shown a story, published in the Indianapolis News, to the effect that the Standard Oil company had taken over the busi- ness of the company he represents, said to-day. T know absolutely nothing about it. The publication was based upon information received by telephone from an unknown source.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
NEW SCHEDULE IS ADOPTED.
MEETING OF THE CONNECTICUT
 STATE BASEBALL LEAGUE.
c, J. Danaher Presides in Absence of whitlock and Tracy--No Change in Holiday Dates-Managers Agree That the Salary for Each Team of the League Shall Not Exceed s1,sOO.

the Salary for Each Team of the
 League Shall Not Exceed s1,sOO.
 Bridgeport, March 2O,-An important meeting of the Connecticut State Base ball league was held at the Windsor hotel this afternoon, at which an en- tirely new schedule was adopted In the absence of both President Sturges $. Whitlock, of New Haven, and Vice. President William J. Tracy, of Hart ford, c. J. Danaher, owner of the New Haven franchise, but resident in Mer- iden, was elected chairman. Those present were; Daniel O'Neil, Spring field; J. J. Madison, Holyoke; Bert Daly, Hartford; c. J. Danaher, of the New Haven club, H. R. Durant, Wa terbury; c. H. Humphreys, New Lon- don, and James O'Rourke, of Bridge port, who also represented Norwich,
 It was decided that the championship emblem should cost hereafter $25 in stead of $15 Mir Madison, of Holyoke, agreeing to stand the difference. The next matter taken up was the consid- eration of a new schedule submitted by Sydney Challenger, of Bridgeport The only changes made in it were a few games between Bridgeport and Hol- yoke. It was also agreed by the man. agers, including O'Rourke, to place the salary limit of each team at $1,800 pel month.
 The holiday dates are the same as announced heretofore. The opening game of the season will be between Waterbury and Bridgeport, at the for. mer's grounds, April 26. The closing games will be on September 8, Eacl team has ten Saturday games at home | including six doube-headers. Eacl team also has eighteen games witt every other club, with three double headers at home and three abroad, ir respective of postponed games. Thert are IF playing days for each team anC ] 126 games in all, including holidays The schedule is considered an improve ment over the former one, in that thert are no single trips down east.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
DECLINE WAGE INCREASE.

French Miners Conference Acts on
 Owners Offer.
 Lens, France, March 20.-The miners congress to-day rejected the company s proffer of an increase of 10 per cent in wages. The action of the congress, however will be submitted to the ref erendum of the 1000 strikers.
 The congress has issued manifesto calling on the miners to remain calm and not to listen to revolutionary agi- tators, urging that thus they will best serve their own interests and render more likely an improvement in their condition.
 The strikers are still excited. Tu- multuous demonstrations occurred this evening, but there was no intervention of troops.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
Twenty Cent Assessment.

Pittsburg, March 2O.-Telegrams re- ceived here to-day from Indianapolis stated that John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers had decided upon an assessment of twenty cents a week for the local miners, to be used in case a strike is called April l.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
$40, 900, ooo FOR PENSIONS
Takes Senate Less Than Twenty Min-
 utes to Vote Sum Away.

Washington March 20.-In less than twenty minutes time the senate to-day voted away $40, 10000 of the public funds The sum is carried by the pen sion appropriation bill which, being a brief document, was made the subject of very little discussion
 The raIroad-rate bill was laid aside for the day and the major portion of the time was devoted to the consider ation of the Notifications appropriation bill.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
DECIDE TO STAND TOGETHER
HOUSE "INSURGENTS0 TO FIGHT
 SPEAKER CANNON

Will Oppose His Plan to Send State-
 hood BilI to Conference--WiIling that
 Such Course Should be Taken With
 the Senate Measure--WiIl Not Sup-
 port Any Rule Designed to Shut Off
 Debate.
 Washington, March 20.-Thirty "in- surgent" republicans met in Represen- tative Babcocks committee room to- day and agreed to stand together in op- position to Speaker Cannon's plan to send the statehood bill to conference. The insurgents say they favor send ing the bill, as amended by the senate, to conference, but will not support any rule designed to shut off debate and prevent the house from instruct ing it's members of the conference as to how to vote. Representatives Bab- cock Mondel and other leaders in the 'insurgent'' faction insist that the speakers plan will railroad the bill to the conference in such a way that the house members of the conference must insist on the bill practically as it was framed and passed by the house.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21

John R. Gubbins was born In 1889 in Ireland and in 1886 was high sheriff of County Limerick. He won the Down. shire plate on J. D. Whyte's Fairyland in 1870, won the Weller cup at the Down Royal meeting in 1883, and in 1897 he won the Two Thousand guineas, tho Derby and the St. Leger with Galtee More. In 1902 Mr. Gubbins won the Derby with Ard Patrick.
 Galtee Morewas bought by the impe- rial Russian stud in 1899 for $10OoOO and in 1904 was sold to the imperial Germau stud for $65000.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
MOSCOW BANK ROBBERY.

Masked Men Take $43250O of the In-
 stitution's Money.
 Moscow, March 2O.-The Credit Mu- tual, one of the largest banks in Mos- COW, was mysteriously robbed by mask ed men at dusk tonight, the robbers securing $432,5OO It was an extreme ly daring job. The facts already devel- oped raise the suspicion that the rob- bery was committed by or under the di rection of some one at present or pre- viously employed iH the institution.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-21
ANrI-SULLITANTTES YIN
Result of the Democratic Ward Cau-
 cuses in Hartford.

Hartford, Conn.,, March 20-The dem- ocratic ward caucuses held tonight for the purpose of electing delegates to the democratic city convention to be held Friday night, developed hot fight be tween the faction fayoring Ignatius A. Sullivan for mayor and the anti-Sulli- van faction. in which the anti-Sulliyan faction won out by getting six wards and a half of another,