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The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
NO WORD YET OF WALKER
NEW BRITAIN BANK TREASURER
 IS STILL MISSING.

Various RumOrs About His Diaappenr-
 ance Start Wild Run on Institution
 All Demands Met--Bank Prepared
 to Meet All CIaims-Over Seven Mil
 lions in Deposits.
 New York, Feb. 11.--No word had been received up to late hour tonight from W. F. Walker, who mysteriously disappeared here on Saturday. AL though his son, A. F. Walker, and A. J. Sloper, of New Britain, have searched all of the hospitals and the 1norgue. they have. been unable to get any trace of the man.
 MT. Walker said tonight that a let ter received in New Britain signed "E. R. Merrimum" was of a rambling sort and that he found 1t impossible to make anything of it. The telegram announce ing the death was signed 'Merriman."
 New Britain, Feb. 11,-Various ru- mors about the disappearance of w. r. Walker. treasurer of the Savings bank of New Britain, had the effect of start ing @ wild run on the bank this morn ing. 1t did not amount to much at first, but it was feared by the bank officials and other responsible citizens that when the alarm spread among the fac- tories the employees would become fool ishly stampeded and seek to draw out their money
 The bank has deposits of S7,O0O,0O0 and is as solid as Walnut hill. The doors were thrown open at the usual time this morning by Cashier Older shaw. MT. Oldershaw expressed hope that no one would fooliselly start a pan ic, but he gave notice that the bank was prepared to meet all demands on it. The run on the bank did not assume great proportions and all depositors were paid as they presented their pass books.
 No trace has been found of the miss ing man according to a message receiv- ed tonight at the Walker horne from MT. Walkers son, who is in New York It wa submitted tonight that there had been received at the Walker home a letter, supposed to have been written by the sender of the telegram which an- nounced that MT. Walker had been killed, but the contents of the letter were not disclosed.
 Following meeting of the board of directors of the Savings Bank of New Britain to-day 1t wss stated that every thing was all right, so far as a super ficial examination could determine Elk perts are still going over the accounts, however.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
THAW DID NOT KNOW
 HIS ACT WAS WRONG
TESTIMONY OF IXPERT ON IN- SANITY GIVEN LATE
 YESTERDAY.

Dr. Charles G. Wagner, Superintendent
 of the New York State Hospital for
 Insane, at Binghamton, on the stand
 Answers Hypothetical Question
 Covering Every Detail of the Testi-
 mOny Up to the Present Time-Je-
 rome Blocks Direct Testimony of
 Evelyn Thaw-Famous Note in Evi-
 dencc.
 New York, Feb. 11.-Answering hy- pothetical question covering every de- tail of the testimony up to this time in the Thaw trial, including Mrs. Eve lyn Nesbit Thaw's narration of her life history to the defendant, Dr. Charles c. Wagner superintendent of the state hospital for the insane at Binghamton, N. Y., declared on the witness stand late to-day that in his opinion Harry K. Thaw did not know that the act was wrong when he shot and killed Stanford White on the roof of Madison Square garden.
 Dr. Wagner stepped aside for later cross-examination by District Attorney Jerome, and as court adjourned for the day 1t was announced that the defense would proceed with the testimony of other alienists tomorrow morning.
 The taking of Dr. Wagners opinion of hypothetical question the man under consideration being the author of the letters which have been intro duced as emanating from Harry Thaw during the period of his arrangement with Evelyn Nesbit after their return from Europe in 1903, following a day of almost continuous legal sparring be- tweent Dolphin M. Delmas, for the de- fense, and Mr. Jerome, for the prose- cution.
 Mir Jerome effectually blocked the completion for the time being of the direct testimony of Mrs. Evelyn Thaw by insisting that before she could go any further, competent testimony as to ThaW's unsoundneSs of mind should be placed before the jury. MT. Delmas tried to carry forward the young Wife's story, but the district attorney was on ms ueeL Wlln all fODJbCllOH tO SVSIy question asked. Mrs. Thaw had been recalled as the third witness of the day. One of her predecessors was. J. p. Lyon, vice president of the Union Ma tional bank of Pittsburg, who stated that he had received Harry Thaw's will from the latter's own hands some time prior to April 1, 1906, and had held it in a safe deposit box until late in November last, when he directed his secretary to forward it to John B. Gleason of Thaw's counsel. MT. Glea- son followed MT. Lyon on the stand, and said he had received the will by mail on December Il, 1906, and that ab- solutely no charges had been made in the instrument during the time it had been in his possession. MT. Jerome ad- mitted the progress of the will from MT. Lyon to MT. Gleason without the necessity of bringing the formers sec retary as witness. MT Delmas did not offer the will in evidence to-day, however, owing to the fact that it has not in it's entirety been proved as hav-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
EITHER ONE OR OTHER
 MUST MODIFY VIEWS
CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE ON JAPANESE SCHOOL
 MATTER.

Mayor and Members of School Board
 of San Francisco Discuss the Question
 Meeting Adjourned Subject to the
 Presidents Call - Divergence of
 Views Quite Apparent = Another
 Meeting Likely Thursday or Friday.
 Washington, Feb. 11.-As the result of an hours conference at the White House this afternoon at which Presi- dent Roosevelt, Secretary of State Root, Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco, and the members of the school board of that city participated, Mayor Schmitz late tonight made a state ment summarizing the situation,
 When asked the direct question whether the proposition submitted by the San Francisco delegation called for the exclusion of Japanese coolie labor from this country, Mayor Schmitz re- plied
 We are not making a treaty. and have not discussed with the president the question of excluding the Japanese from this country by treaty. On Sat urday we heard the presidents views and to-day we presented our side of the question at issue.
 "It now remains for us to modify our views in order to reach an agreement with the president, or for MT. Roosevelt to modify his views to reach an agree ment with us. To-day's conference a'd- journed subject to the call of the pres ident and do not believe that we will be called to the White House again un- til Thursday or Friday
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
WILL PURCHASL BONDS.
Secretary of the Treasury Gives No-
 tice.

Secretary of the Treasury Gives No-
 tice.
 Washington, Feb 1.-The following was issued to-day:
 "The secretary of the treasury here- by gives public notice that he will pur- chase United States registered and coupon four per cent. bonds of the pub lie loan of 1907 to an amount not ex- ceeding $25,0OO,0O0, and will pay there- fore 101 12 flat. Holders of the bonds desiring to vail themselves of this op- portunity to sell their bonds to the goy- ernment should forward them to the secretary of the treasury, division of loans and currency
 Registered bonds must be assigned in due form to the secretary of the treasury for purchase, and the assign- ment must be dated and witnessed by one of the directors indicated in tn note printed on the back of the bond. Where payment is to be made to any other person other than the payee, the assignment should be to the secretary of the treasury for the purcase for ac- count of-(here insert the name of the person to whom payment is to ba nlade)."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
WILL PROTEST AGAINST
 TIE MODUS VIVENDI
PREMIER BOND IS TO IypRo- DUoE 4 SET OF RESo-
 BUTTONS.

VIII Object to Its ConcIusion-De-
 clares Against Its Renewal Next
 seasOn-Demand VIII be Made That
 No Arrangement for Permanent
 Settlement be Effected by Newfound-
 land With the United States.
 St. Johns. N. F., Feb, 11.-Premier Bond will introduce a set of resolutions in the colonial legislature tomorrow protesting against the conclusion of the modus yivendi arranged with the Unit ed States and declaring against it's re- newal next season. The resolutions will urge the imperial cabinet to ratify the bill for the regulation of foreign fishing vessels, enacted by the colony in 1906, but suspended later by the Brit lsh government A demand will be made that no arrangement for per- manent settlement of the fishery dis pute be effected unless provision is made that the terms of settlement shall be ratified by the colonial legislature before becoming operative.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
GRtAx MORAL LESSON
Providence Ministers in Favor of PuB-
 fishing Thaw Evidence,

Providence Ministers in Favor of Pub-
 fishing Thaw Evidence.
 Providence, Feb. 1.-The Union Fed- eration of the Evangelical ministers of Providence and it's vicinity at a meet ing to-day took action favoring the publication of testimony in the Thaw trial Rev. T. E. Bartlett, of the Paw tucket Baptist church, one of tho speakers, declared that it was inadvis- able to lose the effect .of the greatest moral lesson of the age'' by failing to make it public, and at the conclusion of his remarks it was voted unaninous- ly not to grant the request of Mrs. Cheney, of Providence, that the feder- ation protest as a body against the publication of the testimon The fed- eration, however. expressed itself as fully appreciatihg the sincerity of Mrs. Cheneys motive
 In the course of his remarks Rev. MT. Bartlett said: The tenor of the testimony of the Thaw trial is one of the best indications in recent years of the easy manner in which young girl may be led astray under such condi- tions as exist in one of our great cities to-day"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
NO NECESSITY FUR
 GOVERNMENT REGULATION
PRES. BAER OF READING ROAD ADDRESSES PENNSYLVANIA
 LEGISLATURE

Fixed and Rigid Rules Can Harass and Annoy but Cannot Beneiicially Assist the Varying Demands of Business Declares the Growth of the Railroads
 During the Past Fifty Years Has
 of the state.
 Harrisburg, Feb. 11.-In a letter pre- sonted to the Pennsylvania legislature tonight President George F. Baer of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway company, writing on the subject of railroad legislation declares there is no necessity for government regulation other than to prevent unreasonable discrminations.
 Government regulation" he asserts, "because it must be by fixed and rigid rules, can harNss and annoy. but it cannot beneficially assist the varying demands of business"
 1 MT Raer's letter to the legislature was called forth by the general legisla- tion affecting the railroads of the state { is to be passed at this session. he says, that important legislation affect inG the railroads of the state is to be passed at this session He declares the growth of the railroads during the past | fifty years has been the measure of the development of the state,
 "In the development of railroad trans portation,' the letter continues, it is doubtless true that mistakes have been made, Here and there some dishonesty has been disclosed but it is trfling compared to the magnitude of the work and the enormous sums of money re- ceived and expended Because ofecare- ful business scrutiny, the average hon. esty of officers and employees is now be- low that of the community"
 President Baer asserts that the pres ent prosperity of Pennsylvania could not exist "had it not been for the good service and reasonable rates establish cd by the railroads. Both passenger and freight rates, he says, have been reduced from time to time to far below the rates authorized by charters. The letter continues:
 "The laws of trade are the inexorable factors in fixing rates Railroads are perhaps more interested than anybody else in developing business along their lines Only in this way can they get traffic, and to get that traffic they must fix rates which will enable the man { fufacturers, merchants and producers of every kind to sell their products in the markets of the world.
 If you study the railroad transporta- tion of other countries and compare 1t with our own, you will find that not withstanding the greater density of population in many European countries (which naturally should bring about lower rates) the fact is that our rall- road transportation is the cheapest and best in the world.
 Much of the capital invested has
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
VENEZUELAN CORRUPTION.
Bold Attack Made on It by Former
 American Consul

Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. g, via Will lemstead island. of Curacao, Feb. H. The boldest attack on alleged Venezue- Ian government corruption ever record ed has just been made by Rudolf Dolge, the ex-American consular agent here, resident director here of the orinoco corporation and secretary of the Unted States commission on Venezuelan claims. Mir. Dolge has filed with the govern ment long exposure of complicity of certain payment of cases in attempting to rob the corporation of it's immensely valuable rights in the Orinoco delta. Tn order to avoid causing any embar- rassment at Washington Mir. Dolge has presented his resignation as the con- sular agent of the United States at Caracas to Thomas P, Moffat, the American consul at Laguaira.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
COMMITTEES ARE NAMED.
RLPUBEICANs PROCEED TO TRANSACT CITY BUSINESS

Democrats stllI Hold dAIo0f--ContagiOus
 Diseases Hospital Committee Urges
 $1OOOO0 Bond Issue but Leaves Site
 Unscttled-Committee Named to Con-
 fer With Street Railroad Company for
 Six Fare Books for Twenty-five Gents
 --Other Business Done.
 In obedience to the call of the mayor, the republican members of the board of aldermen assembled last night to transact city business. The democratic members still persist in their refusal to take any part in the proeeedings, and none of them was present. The presi- dent of the board, wsio was elected by the republicans at their last meeting announced the standing committees, and included in them a5l { democratic representation. The chairmanships of the appropriations, commercial and manufacturing interests retrenchment and reforms, and water committees were allotted to democratic aldermen. A democratic alderman was asked about the matter of serving on these committees last night, but he said that lle would refuse to serve until the mat ter had been cleared up. The principal reason that the democrats did not at tend last night was that they did not wish to take part in the seating of the new alderman, Berne A. Russell, who they claim, was illegally elected. They assert that the resignation of MT Brown has not been properly accepted and assert that all the business that has thus far been transacted by the republicans has been illegally done,
 After the meeting had been called tc order by President Johnson last night letter was read from ex-Aldermar Brown, dated January 1T, stating that inasmuch as some question had ariser as to his resignation, he repeated in the letter the words sent in the tele- gram received by the mayor early ir January announcing his resignation The resignation was accepted
 MT. Russell, who was elected last Tuesday, was sworn in by the mayor g week ago. so that this formality was unnecessary last night However the election certificate was read and ac. cepted.
 Nle committee on contagious disease: hospital, which held a hearing a shor time ago on the Water street site, re- ported to the board recommending that the legislature be asked to authoriz, the issue of bonds of $100,000 for tht erection of a contagious diseases hos. pital, but the matter of a site to bt left for the committee to decide at z future hearing The report was tabled for printing in the journal
 A special committee was appointed to confer with the officials of the Con solidated Street Railway company ant try to induce them to sell trolley book:
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
BERhY SPEAKS AGAINST SHOOT
Holds Senate Has Right to Exclude
 Any Member.

Washington, Feb. 11.-senator Berry of Arkansas addressed the senate to- day in opposition to Senator Reed Shoots retention of his seat. MT. Berry disclaimed any personal feeling against MT. Shoot He confined his argument primarily to discussion of the consti- tutional power of the senate to expel Mr. Shoot, holding that any senator could be "excluded' by majority vote of the members of the body.
 MT. Berrys opposition to MT. Shoot was based on the doctrine of polygamy, which, he said, was advocated by the Mormon church. It was true that MT. Shoot was not nor ever had been a polygamist, but MT. Shoot had admit ted, he said. that revelations to the early leaders of the church not only permitted but commanded polygamy.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
EXPEDITION TO SOUTH FOLK.
New One to Lenve England Next Ocs
 tcber

London. Feb. 11.--A new British ex- petition to the South Pole will leave England next October under the cons mand of E. H. Shackleton, who was third lieutenant on the Discovery Ex- petition" to the Antarctic. The pres- ent enterprise has influential support, and it will follow up the lines of the Discovery Expedition in an endeavor to reach the geographical South Pole, in addition to landing party at Mount Melbourne to attempt to reach the mag netic pole A novel feature of the yoy- age will be the employment of motor car built for ice traveling.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
$4,OOO DAMAGh BK FIRE
pr. Marvin smith and Brown & Dur
 ham Company Suffer Loss.

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 The fire department was treated to two bell alarms in rapid succession last night At sos a box alarm was sent in for a fire at the home of Dr. Marvin Smith, 73 Pearl street, and at S:19 an alarm was sent in from box 25, calling some of the apparatus which had re- sponded to the earlier fire to extinguish a fire in the building occupied by the Brown & Durham company, corner of Center and Orange streets.
 The first fire was a stubborn one and did considerable damage to Dr. Smiths house. He estimates his loss at $1o00. This fire started ir the cellar and had gained considerable headway before discovered by the doctor, who at first sent in still alarm. The fire was too much for the chemical apparatus to extinguish, ana bell alarm followed.
 The fire worked it's way up to the first story and entered the doctors of flee, burning out two rooms and doing considerable damage to his medicines. 1t did not reach the second floor,
 The fire at the Brown & Durham building started in an unused elevator shaft at 10 Center street. The shaft was filled with camp chairs and boards and was not near any combustible ma terial, so that Its origin is something ot a mystery. The fire was well under way when the firemen arrived, and il took over an hour of hard work to subdue it. The flames reached the sec ond floor and almost completely de- stroyed the stock of oilcloth which is kept there. Some damage was done to the office of Brown & Durham, which is next to the elevator shaft, by smoke and water.
 Tha loss is estimated at about $3OOO The place is insured.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
COMING PEACE CONFERENCE
PROR DE MARTENS DISCUSSES
 MATTER WITH GREY.
Latter to Take Up Question With British Premier and Ambassador Reid -Date of the Peace Meeting May be Fixed for June 15-Disarmament and Limitation win Form Principal Prob- Iems.

NlAtu lCf JU6e uAU
 Limitation Will Form Principal Prob
 1ems,
 London, Feb. 11.-Professor de Mar tens, who has arrived here in pursu- ance of his mission to convass the sentiment of the powers relative to the programme of the coming session of Tho Hague conference. held lengthy conference to-day with Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary. This will be followed later in the week by conferences with Sir Henry Camp bel-B Zimmerman, and it is expected also with Mir. Reid, the American ambassa- dor, with the latter of whom Professor Martens will further discuss the inten- tions of the United States in relation to The Hague tribunal
 Professor Martens in the course of an interview with the Associated Press stated for the first time that as re- suit of his inquiries the date of the meeting of The Hague conference prob ably would be fixed for June 15, with sessions lasting for two months. luGIG CcLl U6 DO QQupL AlltLb lAlC question of diarmament and the limi- tations of armaments will be the piece de resistance of the programme" said Professor Martens, and if either the British or the United States govern ments have really decided to place this question on the programme the powers will be obliged to discuss it. cannot | imagine that any one power would ob- ject to the extent of making this ques- tion the cause of a serious political complication.
 With regard to the results of my mission so far, I may say that Ger many, France and Russia all hold that the question of disarmament is not yet ripe for discussion, and, further, that even tile limitation of armaments not being a practical question, no good can come from discussing it; but this op- position on the merits of the question does not go to the extent of opposing any consideration of the subject if the United States or Great Britain insist upon such consideration.
 "The United States has reserved the right of placing the question of disar- mament before the conference, but have not heard as yet whether the Washington government has actually decided to do this or note
 Turning to the question of the Drago doctrine, Professor de Martens said:
 This matter has provoked some mis- understanding and bad feeling. If the doctrine is to form guarantee to any power not to pay it's debts naturally it will not evoke very much sympathy, and from this point of view l do not think it will be approved even in the United States. The doctrine was ac- cepted by MT Hay Ghe late American secretary of state) with considerable reserve.
 "1f, on the other hand, the doctrine will have the effect of referring to The Hague instead of causing a resort to force questions which can be settled by arbitration, it can only be very useful"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
Queen Liliuokalanra ClnIrn.

Washington, Feb. 11.-vice President Fairbanks to-day laid before the sen-. ate for Liliuokalani, former queen of the Hawaiian Islands, a second addi- tion to the petition filed by her in 1905, praying for the settlement of her claim for sovereign lands taken from her at the time of the acquisition of the islands by the United States. She asks, in this addition of 150 typewrit- ten pages, that action be taken at the present session of congress.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-12
FARRELL RESIGNS.
Second Vice President of the Equitable
 Out.


 New York, Feb. 11.-Gage E. Tarbell, second vice president of the Equitable Life Assurance society. has rendered his resignation to take effect March 1 next, the date of the annual meeting. MT. Tarbells resignation has been &C., cepted by President Paul Morton, who in a public letter thanks him for his loyal support adding that in all the ex- I,aminations the Equitable has passed through not the slightest suspicion in- dicated any wrongdoings on the part of the retiring officer.
 MT. Tarbell is to become the head of a realty operating company and will also be prominent in the affairs of the Garden City Estates" of Long Is land. He will continue as a director of the Equitable society in which he is in sured for the sum of $500,0OO.