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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-13
WHITE UPSETS PLANS
OTHER LEADERS angry.
Lieutenant Governor Not Ready to
announce Commission Il apartments
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Albany. May l2-No announcement as to appoint
ments any OF the legislative committees which
TO investigate various subjects viii be made
until after May &c. because Lieutenant Governor
White viii not have his list OF appointments ready
before that time. When he told Speaker Wads-
worth. Senator Raines and the Democratic leaders
IN each house that he would take up the subject on
that date they were much disturbed the delay
and some Of them made no pretence of hiding their
anger
Five commissions are 10 be appointed-one to IN
vestigate direct nominations: another the advisa-
biiity Of putting telephone and telegraph companies
under the Jurisdiction Of the Public Service com
missions. including also legislative probing OF the
commissions themselves; New York City charter
commission, commission TO Investigate employers
liability and the condition of the unemployed and
consider the advisab ility OF board Of fiscal
control for institutions. Speaker Wadsworth
the Capitol to-day with his list Of ap-
pointees about ready Assembiyman Frisbie, the
minority leader in the Assembly, had prepared MS
list OF Democrats for the minority places, as had
Senator Grady for the minority Senators They all
expected conference. when the states would be
fixed and announced
Then The Lieutenant Governor knocked their
plans sskew with the announcement that he had
been unable TO consider the matter since adjourn
ment. and had engagements which would keep
him away from the Capitol until me last Of TINS
month Four disgruntled legislative leaders swal-
lowed their Impotence TO get a somewhat disa-
&reeADie lOD uEllSleu- assuring Rllt
Governor that he surely would have plenty OF
names 70 consider before the date fixed by him
for a decision
Senator Meade is expected TO head the direct
nominations commission. of which Senator HaT-
vey Human who introduced the bill. undoubtedly
viii be q member. There is some talk about
Senator Grady beirg named the minority Sen
ator. Assemblymen Green and Phillips are pretty
sure OF appointment. with Beverly P. Robinson, a
proba bility for the third Republican Assembly
man. Assemblyman Frisbie, minority leader, and
Assemblyman Oliver will probably be the Demo
cratic representatives.
There IS a sharp scramble for places on the New
York City Charter Commission Senators AEneW,
Brough and Travis all have requested appoint
Inent. Senators McCarreH. Wagner and Shulz are
among the Democratic possibilities There has
been little discussion Of the Assembly contingent
though many Of the New York City mmters have
asked for appointment Senator Davis. Of Buffalo,
is considered probable head for the Public Ser
vice Investigating Commission, and there is con-
siderable talk that Speaker Wadsworth may ap-
point Mr. Yale, Of Putnam. in whose committee
the telephone and telegraph proposition was killed
for two years, to head the Assembly delegation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-13
sULzBACHER WRITS DISMISSED.
Jerome Compares Arson McCook Beard to
EVELYN abandonment Ruled Out

Justice Davis. in the Supreme Court, yesterday
dismissed the second writ of habeas corpus and
the writ Of certforari obtained for Joseph H. Suz-
hachar who is now on trial before Judge Malone
+, the Court Of General Sessions. on charge OF
,-;,,i,, witness 10 leave the state. He suggested
t,at in ca Sc OF conviction. il would be well Tor
counsel for Suzbacher ask the Appellate DiVi-
sion for ruling the question raised on the
writ Mr. Iittleton having argued that the case at
- ms M vast importance, rot only to his eli
80 h,,, 70 all defendants similarly placed
district Attorney jerome compared Anson Me
f,ook Beard a son n-law Of James j HILL 70 Eve
l,-,, -rbaU ar Jerome said that Mrs Thaw tes-
+5ead "a everything that anybody else had told
-, -, Mr. BEARD was on the stand for the de-
fence Al the time and James W. Osborne protest
"a 17e comment was ruled out by Judge Malone.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-13
LITTLE TIM" SULLIVAN ExoNERATED
Reports Show That City Property Was Not
Left at Alderman's Home.

Mayor Mcclellan yesterday received from William
b. CrowelI and Josiah A. Slower Assistant Cor
poration Counsel reports on findings made by
Ernest Y. Gallaher Commissioner of Accounts. in
conjunction with the Bureau Of Municipal Research.
concerning city property supposed to have been
delivered 10 the home OF Little Tim" Sullivan, in
East 18th street.
The reports fully exonerated Alderman Sullivan.
incidentally the Mayor is annoyed that his own
time and the time of two assistants in the Cor
poraton Counsel's Office should have been taxed
with the investigation OF III founded stories at
time when he is rushed with important hearings.
Probably Commissioner Gallaher will be called
sharply to account for error Of judgment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-13
UNCLAIMED ESTATES MANAGER HELD.

The manager and secretary of the New York
branch of the 'Chancery Funds Recovery Associ-
alton who were arrested Monday evening. charged
with running IA business without having registered
AT the Office of the County Clerk. came mp before
MAGISTRATE Finn in the jefferson Market court yes
ter,lav afternoon for examination. Charles A. Whit
ney the secretary discharged John Phillips
the manager, was held in $500 bail for trial
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-13
say ABBoTT's DEATH ACCIDENTAL
First Reports Intimated That Killing Fol
lowed Panama Police Fight

washington. MAY l2-AccOrding 10 a dispatch re-
ceived az the Washington Office of the Isthmian
Canal Commission to-day. Charles NJ Abbott, fore
man Of the shops Crstobal, met his death ae-
cidentaIly yesterday
This is al variance with the press reports from
the zone which the effect that Abbott ;
death vas the outcome Of a fight following the in
vasion Of the Canal Zone by the Panama police
10 ind out who had maltreated their comrades
earlier in the day-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-13
FUTURE OF HAMS.
Mcintyre Says That He Should
Hare Been Court MartiaIled.

John I Mcintyre, when he for new
! trial next Monday. will contend that Captain Peter
G. Hams jr still under federal jurisdiction, and
at the time he killed William +. Annis, and
therefore should have been tried by court martial
! and not in a civil court Mr. Mcintyre spent yes
terday examining the law the subject and col
latng cases which would support the view that
an army officer Hams under federal jurisdic-
ton. If he killed Annis outside of government
territory.
There are several cnses similar that of Captain
Hams it Is said where the courts have ruled that
the civil tribunals Of the place where the crime was
committed had no jurisdiction.
The point is novel one" said Mr.. Mcintyre.
but l think l quote decisions of the courts
which will prove that Captain Hams should have
been tried by military and not civil tribunal"
Mr.. Mcintyre also said that there were sufficient
errors during the trial to found appeal in the
ease should the usual motions for IA new trial he
denied He conferred with General Hams and
Major Hams what legal steps should be taken
aside the conviction. The father OF the con
officer is especially disappointed at the out
of the trial he confidently expected the
jury would hold that his not responsible
for his act when he shot and killed Annis.
District Attorney De Witt. who prosecuted Cap
tain Hams asserted emphaticay yesterday that
the conviction a sound ana would never be
reversed appeal
Army men do not consider seriously the state
ment made by captain Hains's that new
trial will be asked for the ground that he IS
not amenable TO any state law. Colonel II O. S.
Heistand, adtutant general OF the Department Of
the East. said yesterday that Captain HainS's
present status that II officer OF the army
absent In the hands OF the civil authorities
Ihis T. regularly recognized status. ana Captain
Hams IL still carried the rolls officer of
the United states army.
From The Tribune RGreau.1
Washington, May l2-The fact that Captain
Peter G. Hams, jr.. convicted yesterday of man
slaughter, had comparatively few acquaintance
among the army men now stationed in Washing
Is rrob for he Ia nf
which has been taken in his and the dearth
of which has followed his conviction
The conviction makes no difference in Hainss
status T. the army When he first arrested
he designated absent in custody Of the civil
authorities" which means that he ceased TO draw
pay His will stay on the rolls with this
designation. however. until action is taken
by the War Department. If the conviction OF Cap
tain Hams is upheld IL is probable that retiring
board will be appointed 10 consider his case and
that he will be wholly retired"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-13

REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE TO MEET

The Republican State Committee will hold IT'S
quarterly meeting at the home or Franklin Muir
ply chairman of the committee. in Newark next
wednesday afternoon al l O'Clock, according to
notices sent out yestrdsY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-13


,ensa, colonel LAwRENGE BRrTF ron on, Fr99 <,
co,o5.r LEVI Hunt from 18Th to ioth Cs1airy
Colonel Cl'NlAFFE II. MURRAY. from 10Th TO 18Th
Detail 'eq,aln EugENE wHLrMoFE, n,sd lea
captain william +. pLArr from watertown Arsenal.
Captain EDWARD N sHiNKIE. from Renlca Arsenal
June l. 20 Frankt0rd Arsenal .
Following assignments regiments Of officers recently
Gromo'sl ordered captain AkPERT pIL 1bISI
q 6 FF HG tr, AfRERT E
NftR n Id3 ' R1 !Gt@q5N corps Of
10 Washington June T. for iorsry duty; thence
First ian 5snS T. sa A Iq fPT fRP"s sh In
fantry recruiting officer. from Fort slocum to Fort
First Lieutenant JOHN WATSON. sth cavalry. detailed
spotter FOR cavalry team In national match to
r-,, ~ ~ iS0S W sTT-cKFY medical r..
CORPS. from philippines August Is. to san
First lieutenant JOHN II. MGINNEss 9th Infantry.
First LteatSna"! WALTER II SMITH signal corps from
second lieIienant CHARilss " Mcclure 7th In
fantry from Fort Wayne. May 20. 20 san Francisco,
second SIk e tenar5 WILLIAM G MOTION LIST Infantry
to Washngton examination Cor Tetir1meRS ,r7 So,
Cavairy four months: captain FRANK J. MoRRoW
Gapsn R6R m&if sRa reg "a Hfan2
inc officer. month from June Il.
NAVY.
Lieutenant r. T. MBNNER, detached navy yard. New
May 70 IE es N'%e esdseg tn. West virginia
home. leave one month ,
I f5@ssa f L. MsHEEHT and ANDERSON
Ensign ". II. LEE. detached the Yanktou; TO the Ala
Ens sn (. CLAUDE, to the rad uea9 49, r,,n..
MidshIpn.an ". + COCHRANE. detached the Vermont;
Midshipman r. h STEWART, detached the Tngey: to
,rilshipman u A HopGMAN detnched the Tacoma:
10 Rhode Island.
Midshlpman Il. T. HUGHES detached the Iehnessee ~
Mtis snT ai5' Sii Vfaj% Tacoma
Nebraska
MidshIpman r. IL Iiiti &c, detached The th"" isahd.
q e Tacoma
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Nebraska.
MidshiUman g NJ K isl N'ti. d~'hchrh tue '''e''h''
10 Tacoma.
Midshipmau y. IT. WHITE. detach"i the Ne"aShA' 10
a.
Nilshlpman q. A. III Moan. detached the Tacoma: 20
ConnCrti-ut
Paymaster 7 " LEi'TZE. detached tue NTW lamp
shire; t. naval medical school hospital Washing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-13

ORDERS IssUED.-The following orders have
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-05-13
DEATH BLOW TO DRY" MISSOURI.
Prohibition Bill Hopelessly Deadlocked Be
tween House and Senate.

Jefferson city No. May 12.-The Missouri Senate
refused 10 day to recede from the rider amend
ment 10 the prohibition joint resolution, and asked
the House for a conference committee This Is
taken generally to mean the end of legislative
ton on the subject at this session, the House
has refused to pass the bill with the amendment.
only one ballot lacking to carry the motion TO
recede to-day.
effectiveness OF prohibition II carried the polls.
The Senate ccnferrees will be under instructions to
make nos concessions 10 the House. AS the action
of the House is in no mood to compromise, the
general opinion is that the measure will die in
ference The Assembly is expected to adjourn on
May Il
Springfield, ILL.,. May 1.-THE House refused to-
day 10 strike out the enacting clause of the local
option bill This bill. In effect, nullihes the present
local option law
The Appeal., 1909-12-04

spirit of manhood which led him tc
aspire to higher and better things.
This unfortunate tendency Rev. Gil
bert is laboring to reform and to make
the Afro-American perfectly resigned
to become simply a newer of wood
and drawer of water fer the eau
slams.
Rev. Gilbert would make the Afro
American more humble than Uriah
Heap. Just as he was in the times of
slavery, perfectly willing to accept
the white man as massa.
THE APPEAL is fearful thai this
attemp tof Rev. Gilbert to reform the
race is a little too late to effect that
purpose.
Senator Stone seems to be laboring
along the same line of policy by swat
ting the waiter who is not sufficiently
expeditions in bringing his steak. He
sees in the dilatory movements of the
waiter, the awful effects of the teach.
ings of Northern white teachers, abo-
litionists and rarpetbaggers.
Those eminent statesmen, Tillman
and Vardaman have already called the
attention of the country to the same
subject. In the opinion of THE AP-
PEAL, Rev. (?l Gilbert is a. f1unkey
who deserves tho cOntemnt of everv
self-respecting AfrO-Ame"ican.
The Appeal., 1909-12-04
DIR. ELIoT,s NEW RELIGION.

DR.. Eliot's new religion" is nothing
new. being simply the old blatant in
fidelity of CELSIUS and Porphyry, Vol
taire, Rousseau and Tom Payne.
1t may be summed up thus: No
heaven. no hell, no miracles, no
saints. no prayer, no Immortality, no
divinity Of Christ, no Gods image in
man, no value in the sacraments, no
nothing.
The Doctor says that his new reli-
gion will have nothing supernatural
about it, but child can see that it is
supernaturally nonsensical.
The Doctor is most pronounced in
fidel and shows upon every occasion;
for instance, when he recommends
Byron's Manfred and Shelley's Beat
rice CeCnci, both of which are chock
full of the most revolving immortality.
They are both as unclean as Manon
Lescault or Rcusseau's Confessions
Under proper co Instruction of the
law, neither Manfred or Beatrice Cen
ci is transmissible through the mails
The Appeal., 1909-12-04

terest to the Afro-American. Among
the prominent members was Superin.
tendent of the Illinois Central, Mr..
Dow, who declared:
1.-The question of substituting women
walters for Afro-Americans had been
taken up at former meetings Of the
association, but it was decided that
women would be unable to do the
work satisfactorily. The Lake Shore
road and others employed white men
instead of Afro-Americans for while,
but all returned to the original sys-
tem."
This may seem a very unimportant
incident, but it is one Of great signifi-
canoe, since it refers to the matter Of
gaining a living. It is the testimony
of the railroads of the country to the
established fact that in certain lines
of industry, the Afro-American has no
rival. 49,
The Appeal., 1909-12-04
LOBSTERS THAT BORE WELLS
Are Boon to Australian CoIonists,
According to Story Told by
the Traveller.

HOLSTERS dispel drought in Aus
tralia."
The speaker extracted with his sill
yer pick delicate morsel from the
huge scarlet claw.
Australian colonists, at the height
OF a drought" he said, "often find
their dried springs miraculously flow
ing again. Fresh-water Holsters work
that miracle.
In every creek and spring, you see,
there are large lobster settlements.
II these Holsters fail to find moisture,
tney perish. Hence, when their
streams dry up, they follow the water
down into the earth. They dig, dig,
dlg-Just like our Panama canal work
ers-and in the end their strong claws
pierce through the soft clay covering
OF some hidden spring, and a rill of
sweet, fresh water bubbles up"
He lighted a cigarette and gazed
through the open window at the moon
lit sea.
Some thousands of lobster artesian
well borers, working away frantically
IKE that, day and night" he said, ARE
pound to discover enough springs to
break any reasonable drought. Los
Angeles Times.
The Appeal., 1909-12-04
White SLAVERY.

An underground railroad, by which
white slaves are spirited away from
st. Louis and brought under cover
into Chicago, as elaborate as any by
which black slaves ever were brought
into the North during civil war times,
has been unearthed by former States
Attorney Clifford G.. Roe.
We should like to see some of the
ante-bellum Southern clergy who used
to show from the Bible that slavery
was an institution existing by special
design of the Almighty, apply their
arguments to this new phase of the
subject. They would be specially ap-
plicable and could be used with
scarcely one change of thought We
regard it as their imperative duty,
and, besides it would pay as the other
did in days of yore.
AS the Afro-American was forced
by circumstances to entertain correct
views respecting slavery. he may be
relied upon to do all in his power to
help throttle the hideous old monster.
THE APPEAL would be delighted to
learn of some Afro-American who was
enabled to render his white brother
efficient service in the matter of put
ting an end to this atrocious traffic.
The Appeal., 1909-12-04
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1909.
a REVEREND FLUNkEY,

Scoring the mal-address of the car
petbaggers and the biased tendencies
of Northern teachers under whom
Southern Negroes have been wrongly
educated, Prof. John Wesley Gilbert
of Augusta, Ga, implored the Arkan-
sas Southern Methodist conference,
which is in session at Morilton, Ark,
to aid him in correcting these evils.
Prof. Gilbert is a Negro, and is con-
nected with Payne College in This
home city. He said that the teachers
sent down from the North know moth
ing of the real need of his race. and,
that as aresult, false perspective
was given his people and miscon-
ception of their place in the body po-
litic.-Associated Press Dispatch
The Reverend Gilbert's meaning is,
of course, simply that Northern teach
ers inspired in the Afro American a
The Appeal., 1909-12-04
THE EFFICIENCY OF AGED
CLERKS,

AS to the comparative value of old
and young clerks, the report of Sec
retary MacVeagh's efficiency commit
tee was to the effect that many of the
old clerks of the Treasury Department
are among the most efficient of the
establishment, making up through ac-
curacy and experience any lessened
usefulness that might result from a
decreased output of work.
This is in precise accordance with
many ether facts having bearing
upon that subject. While there have
been many wonderful instances of pre-
cocity upon the part OF young men,
yet it is a known fact that much of
the choicest literature is the work of
very old men. And so in all depart
ments of human endeavor, the old
veteran holds such a prominent place
that his services cannot be dispensed
with.
Recently, while witnessing the per-
formance of one Of the finest musical
bands in the world, we noticed spe-
cially that the majority of the per-
formers were grayhaired and bald
headed.
In fact the efficiency of any set of
men cannot be judged by the ages Of
the individuals, since many men are
The Appeal., 1909-12-04

Anent the subject of vagrancy in
the South. the New Orleans Times
Democrat remarks:
'''In Georgia law was framed aim.
ed at those Negroes, and apparently
it reached them at first. All other
Southern states followed in the foot.
steps of Georgia, and splendid results
were promised from this legislation
1t was expected to furnish a much
more abundant supply of labor dur
ing the busy farm season of the year;
to put an end to the drain of large
idle class, doing nothing and provid
ing nothing and to reduce the depre
dation and other petty crimes of the
idle Negroes.
'But for some reason or other the
law has never worked as it was ex
pected to do, but has dropped into a
state of desuetude. 1t is admitted by
all that it is a good law and that it is
constitutional; it was built on prac
tical lines, and has been tested and
found fit"
If the Southern states will ever
have the good sense to pass laws
aimed at vagrants and loafers of all
classes, they will, probably not fall
into "a state of desuetude," but there
will be a fair probability of their en-.
forcement. A law aimed at "those
Negroes" is a fraud upon it's face and
ought to fail.
The Appeal., 1909-12-04
SIX OF ONE; HALF-DOZEN OF
OTHER,

Ex-senator Money of Mississippi re-
Gently said:
mo man is disfranchised by the
constitution of Mississippi, but a ma
jority of the Negroes have disfran-
chised themselves through their fail
ure to meet the requirement that all
taxes must be paid two years previous
to registration
1t is doubtless a fact that a great
many of the Afro-Americans of Mis-
sissippi have not the intelligence nec-
essary&to know the value of the right
of suffrage and it is not surprising
that they disfranchise themselves. The
white brother, however, in more en-
lightened communities than Missis-
sippi often does the same thing and
will not take the trouble to go to the
polls, except under the impulse of
great excitement. For instance, the
present deplorable condition of things
in Chicago has been brought about in
great part by thousands of good citi-
zens disfranchising themselves.
The Appeal., 1909-12-04

The New York Tribune highly com
mends Representative Ransdell of
Louisiana for preaching the gospel of
diversified farming to his constituents,
but adds:
An indictment of southern agricul-
tural methods when uttered by south
ern lips is not likely to be either well
come or effective, but the appeal of
the same plain truths when preached
by a southerner is clearly shown by
the commendation which Mr.. Rams
den's remarks have received in the
press of his section
The remark is much less true than
it would have been if made twenty
years ago, but the fact is that the
Southern people are rapidly breaking
away from their Chinese-like conserv-
atism and are beginning to suspect
that somebody can teach them some
thing. So they are quite cordial in
The Appeal., 1909-12-04

During the last decade, the number
of persons killed from walking on
railroad tracks mount up to about 5O,-
900. This is an appalling fact, but
the blame does not entirely rest,
where we are inclined to put it, upon
the railroad officers It is due in
great measure to the carelessness of
the people who suffer and to the alb
sence of good roads. The track is, in
thousands of instances, the best or
most available road between points.
We were once in city where, on a
certain occasion, the track was the
only possible road from our stopping
place to the depot. So thousands of
people continue to walk the track,
despite the fact that it is a punishable
trespass. But the law is never en-
forced, and the thing, killing included
goes on.