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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
DELUGED WITH APPEALS TO LOOSEN Up
{ Continued on Page 80

Associated Press to Bismarck Tribune.
Washing ID q. March IA. Flor
more than As hours the White House
and treasury department have been
flooded with appeals for the president
and Secretary Cortelyou to take some,
action to avert the threatened dis.
aster,' in the financial railroad world.
It can be authoritively stated, how
ever, that President Roosevelt will not
change his attitude toward the rail-
roads. though It Is admitted that the
administration has no intention Of
entering on an extremely radical at
tack on railway corporations,
While It is known that the visit of
Ell Pierpont Morgan TO the White
House last Monday night to induce
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15

the president to issue reassurfng
statement to the country in regard to
the administrations attitude toward
railroads, and the apparent failure Of
the fnancier's appeal has had much
to do with the panicky conditions that
swept over Wall street today, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has repeatedly said
that he is not an enemy Of railroads
and that those that obey the laws have
nothing to fear from the government
While II has not been. definitely de-
cided, the president may issue state
ment outlining his attitude after he
has conferred with Presidents NC
ECreas Newman, Mellen and Hughitt on
the railroad situation.
& The conference with the four rail-
road magnates. which was granted by
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
MADE GOOD
PRESIDENT ISSUES ORDER BAR
q RING PASSPORT JAPs IN Ac-
coRDANcE
WITH HIS AGREEMENT WITH SAN
Il FRANCISCO. DELEGATION LAST
MONTH
sssocia.ed Press . Bismarek Tribune.

Associated Press to bismarck Tribune.
Washington, D. G., March "A Com
plying with the provisions Of the i'm
migration act approved February Goth
last, President Roosevelt today issued
an executive order that such citizens
of Japan Or Korea. to wit: Japanese.
or Korean laborers skilled and I'M
skilled, who have received passports
to go to Mexico, Canada or Hawaii
and come therefrom, be refused per-
mission to enter the continental terri
tory Of the United States. This order
/ was issued by the president in full
illment of his promise to Mayor
Schmitz and his associates from Cali
fornia when negotiations regarding
the Japanese school question were
4 had in Washington.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15

and skiffs Hundreds of business
houses are flooded. In q number Of
instances the water is almost up to
the second floor. II
Four theaters are surrounded by
water. The water has DESTROYED or
greatly damaged the power plants Of
all four theaters Guests in the
Colonial, Lincoln annex and Anderson
hotels are either marooned or COM
PEELED to use skiffs to and from the
building Trolley service between
IPittsburg and Allegheny was suspend
ed early today: Placards announcing
the Inauguration of a special train
service to Allegheny are displayed all
through the town. AT the depots are
thousands OF people endeavoring to
| board trains. Patrolmen are endeav-
| oring to restore order. Trains are
running hours off schedules and are
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15

the president at the earnest request
of Morgan will be held the early part
of next week. It is generally under
stood by those close to the president
that the railway officials will urge
Roosevelt to- take some steps to
"allay the public anxiety now threaten
ing to obstruct railroad investments
and construction and as to the rela-
tons between railroads and the gov
eminent" y.
Since Morgan's hurried trip to the
White House the president has held
numerous conferences with Chairman
Knapp and other members Of the in
terstate commerce commission, in
order that he may be In a better posi-.
tion to present the administrations
side of the question when he meets
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
TO The RESCUE.
SECRETARY or TIRE suRY HELPS.
FINANCIAL cENTERs IN MONEY
MATTERS
oc;a,ted PressI to Bismarck Tribune.

Associated Press to Bismarck Tribune.
VI Washington, y. O., March Il The
secretary Of the treasury has in
structed collectors Of customs at
places where It Is found to be desir-
able to deposit their customs receipts
with national bank repositories al
ready established in the same cities as
custom houses. The secretary has is
sued a circular nnouncing that he
will redeem with interest to July Isl
any registered and coupon bonds. four
per cent, 1907, to an amount not ex
ceeding twenty-five million dollars
The bonds may be presented at once
for redemption The secretary alst
has announced that under the circu1a,
OF October 20, 1906, the SIS 900. 900 il
currency required TO be reduced ma,
be retained with the security now O.
deposit.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15


Pittsburg, March 1.-THE great /:
!: est flood in history Of western !:
I: Pennsylvania, West Virginia and !:
/: eastern Ohio Is being experienced !:
tonight The water continues to 4:
rise two tenths Of inch an hour.
The crest of the food is expected Ito
reach here about midnight when IS
feet will be recorded. This stage is
13 feet above the danger mark.
This afternoon the 30-mile gorge at
Parker, Pa, broke and is moving to.
wards the city. An immense gorge
in the Clarion river has also started
The ice is soft and little damage is
expected.
The whole lower down town dis,
trict3 Of Pittsburg is under water and
people are moving about in wagons
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15

the railroad presidents next week.
The administration is firmly con-
WINGED the great unrest in financial
circles has been brought on by the
argments advanced by the railroad
interests in trying to prevent hostile
legislation" in various states and not
by the attitude that the federal gov
eminent has taken to enforce the
laws regulating common carriers. AL
though believing that conditions in
New York are due to nothing for
which the administration is RESPONSE
BILE the president believes he has done
everything that consistently can be
done to give relief to the money
market by the order issued by Score
tary Cortelyou yesterday, followed BY
! the order of today.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15

packed to the platform steps. Passen-
gers trying to board trains are unable
to make their way through the crowd
and are compelled to either stay in
the station or train shed or walk along
the railroad tracks for considerable
distance.
The trolley, elevator and telephone
service is demoralized. Electric
light plants in many buildings are out
of commission Within the last thirty
six hours fourteen fatalities, directly
due to the flood, have occurred.
The damage to perishab1e goods and
property in the Pittsburg district alone
is estimated at 100000 In addition
much destruction is done to property
in western Pennsylvania and west
Virginia. At Connellsyille, Pa, dam
age to the coke region is estimated to-
night at $2,Ooo,OOO.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
FLOOD LOSSES At PITTSBURG And VICINITY
FOOT Up MANY Millions. WORST {
WORST EVER

Over 100000 persons are temporary
out of employment. The Westing
house Works, employing 10000 men,
are Shut down
All the mines along the Menonghela
river are flooded and 10000 miners
are affected The steel and iron mills
are at a standstil and fully 10000
men are idle. Hundreds of stores and
business houses in the down town
section are partially submerged.
The food directly affects over
100000 people. All the railroads en-
tering Pittsburg are crippled. Tele
graph and telephone service. is Grip
pied and force Of men are pumping
water from the dynamo room of the
Western Union Telegraph Go. in the
First National bank building, which
is located at the corner of Wood
street and Fifth avenue, the most CEN
trail point of the business district.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
BIT | TER VAR
CATTLE MEN SERVE NOTICE ON
SHEEP MEN TO sKiDoo THE
RANGE
LATTER ARM TIL EMsELvEs AND
SAY THEY Will STAND THEIR
GROUND
,4sociated Press to Bismarck Tribune.

Associated Press to Bismarck Tribune.
Sheridan, Wyo, March Il. The.
situation between the Gentlemen and
sheep men has reached q critical point
and notices have. been posted at all
sheep camps in northern Wyoming
warning herders to take their focks
and get out Of the country on pain Of
death. 83 SAW
These notices were posted at camps
and wagon outfits at cross roads and
at other public points The movement
lis 50 widespread that notices ap.
peared the same night at points two
hundred miles from each other.
The sheepmen are armed and viii
resist any attempt to make them leave
the country. a meeting OF flock
masters has been called to take meas
lures to protect the focks.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
Go TO WORK
LOUISVILLE RAiLvgAY EMPLOYEES
WILL. RETURN TO WORK
TODAY

Louisville, KY March IA by a
unanimous vote tonight eight hundred
striking union employees Of the Louis
vile Railway company. decided to ac-
cept the terms agreed upon by their
executive committee and officers Of
the company All the strikers win SO
back to work and full service on the
city and suburban lines operated BY
the company will be resumed BY 10,
morrow noon.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
PessilIlistiic Talk Of Railroad MAJ
mates Throws the Scare
Into Investors

road companies from the onset Of
indignation and public disap proval and
even threatened confscation.
Speculative operators saw this view
OF the situation confirmed in the
mysterious and overwhelming out
pouring Of stocks which they attribut-
ed to capitalists who hold controlling
interests in great railroads. The sup
position that railroad capitalists held
this opinion Of their precautions situa-
ton has been fostered by their atti-
|tude before the public, and the COM
plants and even appeals through pub
lie channels which they have been
making recently
There came into the excited market
Today also a rumor that differences
had arisen between Kuhn, Loeb & CO.,
and 81 1T. Hartman which had
prompted q call upon that capitalist
Ito take up his vast holdings Of stocks
with that firm This rumor was ai1.
/ thoritatively denied, but the fear II
engendered had Its part in the
| decentralization Of the day
4 The excited market was accom-
4 panied by "a rise in the call loan rate
Ito TWENTY-FIVE per cent, and the time
loan market was practically ,ln
4 quitable. This gave rise to fears o.
Il oyerstrained credits in one direction
land another, the rumors pointing
Iespe cially to the market for copper
/ securities. Bankers asserted withou
i reservation that the most exhaustive
land painstaking stud Of conditions
a failed TO show any threat Of money
ftrouble or embarrassment IN spite 81
4 the numerous losses represented b,
the shrfnkage in quotations. This il
considered the most remarkable
feature Of the present remarkable
situati Al
4 Undo ubtedly scrimination agains
3 some stocks IN collateral for loans
and their throwing out, had to do witt
much Of the severe selling pressure.
Yesterdays fears Of foreign trouble
were proved entirely unfo unded by to
u
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
DISASTROUS FLOODS IN OHIO

hour and nears the high water mark
of 1890. when the most disastrous
food known ID that section occurred.
Mayor Deacon tonight swore IN a
large force of special policemen and
gave orders to confiscate boats Of
owners demanding excessive ferry
charges IN the flooded districts. Some
families. It was charged, had been
compelled to pay as high as $3.50 to
be rescued from q water bound resi-
dence. Il III
A heavy downpour Of rain CON
tinues at Coshocton. AT Newark and
ffsonfsnsYed IN m ssp q
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
PEGGENBURG
WINS NATIONAL AMATEUR Bill,
LIZARD CHAMPIONSHIP 81 NEW =
RECORD MADE
Associated Press 70 Bismarck Tribune.

Associated Press TO Bismarck Tribune.
New York. March 15.In playing
on his tie with Mial this afternoon
Peggenburg made a new national
amateur record in 142. balkline
billiards, BY running out the necessary
800 In seven innings. He defeated
Mial 800 to 1872. Demorest won the
amateur championship.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
AT WHEELING, TOO.

Wheeling, w. Va, March 10
Wheeling is in the midst Of the worst
flood since 1884 Tonight at o'clock
the marks show A feet and rising four
inches an hour. This completely
isolates the city from the rest of the
world, every railroad and trolley line
having suspended today, and there can
be no resumption of communication
by railroads before Sunday or Mon
day. q.
In Wheeling and surrounding towns
it is estimated the flood has wholly or
partially submerged 5000 houses and
that nearly $4,000 people have been
driven from their homes or to upper
floors.
| The situation is more serious ON
Wheeling island and in Benwood and
South Wheeling, where thosuands
have been compelled to leave their
homes and seek refuge on higher
ground. Hundreds of sick persons
4 have been moved from the flooded ris-
trict, and every wheeled and floating
conveyance in the city is commanding
a premium. Many cases of rank ex-
tortion are encountered and much
Indignation is expressed over this
feature of the flood
The villages Of Majorsyille and
yicela ont in the Wheeling creek val
ley. are reported to have been wiped
out by a sudden freshet early this
morning. 1t is reported that nearly
one hundred houses have been sub
1 merged
GRAu DEAD.
{ Paris. March 14Maurice Gran.
well known inpressario, Is dead.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15
General Trend Of i Legislators D 5
Toward Regulation and
Control Of Railroads
And Futile Efforts Of the
Captains Of Finance
to Change
This Line Of Investigation
Work Causes Slump '||l
in Prices

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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-15

GRAu DEAD.
Paris. March I4Maurice Gran.
we'll known inpressario, Is dead.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-05-09

law? Did he know Mr.. Harri-
man to be an undesirable citi.
zen when he was a guest at the
marriage of the Presidents
daughter: Did he know him
to be an undesirable citizen
when he was invited to the
White House on other occasions
and when correspondence was
passing between himself and
Mr.. Hartman with reference to
the presidential campaign and
New York politics? Did he
know Mr.. Hartman to be an
undesirable citizen when Mr..
Hartman was collecting cam
paign funds? If not, then is
not the Presidents judgment
based solely upon the accusa-
tions which are being tried in
the courts, and the truth of
which has not yet been judici-
ally determined?
The complaint against Mr..
Roosevelt is not made in de-
fense of Mr.. Meyer, Mr.. Hey
wood, nor Mr.. Hartman, but is
in defense of official propriety,
involving what is very close to
every good, patriotic citizen.
Mr.. Roosevelt is not less SUBJ
ject, holding the high office he
does, to criticism for reckless
ness and radicalism, than is
the ignorant agitator occupying
a less responsible position. He
declares that a Square deal''
means treating all offenders
alike. He cannot, therefore,
object to being criticized for
that recklessness of expression
which he criticises ir those of
humber position. AS to the
courage displayed in his thus
repeating, with greater en-
phasis, his denunciation of
men as undesirable citizens, it
might have required greater
courage for him to have re-
tracted to the extent of ex-
pressing regret for having
madepublic his private opinion
of men whose characters are
undergoing the test of judicial
examination. His letter is
adroit rather than courageous,
and is calculated to obscure the
real issue--that of the propriety
of his action-and on examina-
tiou the letter seems to disclose
either an obtuseness on this
point which is extraordinary
for a man in his position or
else a deliberate, demagogical
disingenuousness.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-05-09
"TEDDY" SIDESTEPS.

All political conversations in
the national capital, these days,
are confined chiefly to the mud
die in the republican party
anent the Taft boom and the
Presidents altitude thereto, a
third term for Teddy and the
row ne has kicked up over. the
Hartman matter and the ac-
cusation against the imprison-
ed miners out in Utah.
The correspondence between
Roosevelt and Hartman was
the sensation of a day or two
here, but when it got uncom-
fortably warm for Teddy and
people began to ask questions
and point out that the Presi-
dent had deliberately cut out
some parts of the letters he had
written to Hartman or vice
versa, and that Hartman had
evidently told all the truth and
that Roosevelt had not, the lat.
ter side-stepped quicker than a
wink. He sent for a whole
bunch of newspaper CORE.
spondents here and told them
a huge cock-and-bull story
about five million dollar con-
spiracy to defeat him and his
policies and had it sent broad
cast over the country. OF
course, that stopped all talk
about the Hartman CORE.
spondence and everybody went
to talking about the great al.
legged conspiracy to defeat the
great II AM" and it was in
tended to have just exactly that
effect. We all know that Mr..
Roosevelt is a good politician
and knows how and when to
get to the public with some.
thing he wants the public to
talk about. He did exactly the
| same thing a year ago last win.
ter. When he got into that
tangle with Tillman, Bailey
and Chandler concerning the
railroad rate bill and came out
of it with some of his tail feath.
ers plucked, he Immediately
iswitched the talk to the beef
barons and the meat packers OF
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-05-09

express MS opinion OF other ln-
dividuals, subject only to the
penalties which the law at
taches to slander and libel.
His opinion, then, as to the
guilt or innocence of an ac-
cused person upon the trial of
that person. But as Chief
Magistrate of the United States
his publicly expressed de-
nunciation carries with it the
weight of his great office.
The injury resulting from
such recklessness of utterance
on the part of the President of
the United States, serious as it
may be to the individual
against whom it is directed, is
chiefly to the community at
large and to the office which
Mr.. Roosevelt holds.
Comparatively few persons
are interested in what may be-
fall Meyer, Haywood or Harri-
man, but the whole country is
concerned in the preservation
of the dignity and character of
the presidential Office, and the
observance of proprieties by
any man holding that Office.
Mr.. Roosevelt defends his
course in publicly denouncing
these accused men by declaring
that the persons who have pro-
tested to him against his action
are guilty themselves of trying
to interfere with justice, and
he condemns this action. If 1t
be trueit should be condemned,
but can it be cited as justifica-
ton for similar action on the
part of the President of the
United States? What is i'm
proper for a private citizen is
infinitely more 80 for the Presi.
dent of the United States.
If this recklessness and ruth.
lessness of procedure on the
part of private individual
renders him an undesirable
citizen, may not radicalism,
recklessness aud a ruthless
disregard of proprieties render
a man an undesirable Presi-
dent? The qualities which Mr.
Roosevelt attributes to these
men are not desirable in a citi.
zen. Neither are THEY desirable
in a President. They are less
excusable in a President. Mr..
Roosevelt says that it 10 absurd
to suppose that because a man
is on trial for a given offense
he is therefore to be freed from
all criticism upon his general
conduct and manner of life
But is it a function of the Chief
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-05-09

Executive to pronounce upon
the desirability of American
citizens, whether on trial or
not?
Is it for him to determine
and declare who are and who
are not desirable citizens?
His judgment may some
times be right, as to this, but it
may be wrong in as many in
stances, acd whatever his
opinion might be as a private
citizen, he as President of the
United States has no right to
pass his individual judgment
to the prejudice of either the
most powerful or the humElest
American citizen.
Mr.. Roosevelt declares it to
be as foolish to assert that his
denunciation was designed to
influence the trial of Meyer and
Haywood as it would be to as
sert that it was designed to in
fuence the suits that have been
brought against Mr.. Hartman.
Whether 80 designed or not,
his denunciation of these men
is calculated to influence the
trials of both Meyer aud Hey
wood, and the suits that have
been brought against Harri-
man.
If it is not the accusation of
murder brought against Meyer
and Haywood aud the action of
which Mr.. Hartman is accused
as the basis of the suits
brought against him, what
then is it that has caused Mr..
Roosevelt to conclude that
these men are not desirable
citizens? If his conclusion is
based on these accusations
then his denunciation is an as
sumption that the accusations
are true. If it is not based on
these accusations, when did he
acquire the information upon
which he concluded that Moy.
er, Haywood and Hartman
were undesirable citizens and
why did he not denounce them
before these indictments and
suits were brought? He was
we'll acquainted with Mr.. Harri.
man prior to the charges that
have been made against him.
Was he also acquainted with
Meyer and Haywood, and
familiar with their regulations
prior to their having been in.
dicted for murder7 Did his
discovery that these three men
are undesirable citizens coin.
eide in time with their being
accused of violations of the