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Evening star., 1909-05-28
TAFT AND YALE DAY PROGRAM
PRESIDENT TO BE LION OF
PITTsBURG MEETING.
Drinking Fountain to Be Dedicated
at Pittsburg-Speech at
Jewish Temple.

PITTSBURG, May 2s.-The fifth annual
convention of the Associated Western
Yale Clubs, which will be attended to-
morrow by President Taft. Secretary of
State Knox and many other notable
men. began here today.
Excepting a smoker at the Pittsburs
Club tonight the days program is un-
important While today is Yale day
the important events in connection with
the convention will not take place until
tomorrow, Taft and Yale day."
President Taft will arrive here Satur-
day morning at $50 o'clock. going to the
home Of Thomas K. Laughlin, Jr.. Wood
lawn road Mrs. Laughlin is a sister of
Mrs. Taft.
An hour later the President, escorted
by Secretary Knox, Mayor McGee. Con-
eressman Burke and William N. FreW,
President Of the Associated Western
Yale Clubs, will leave the Laughlin home
Taft will assist in the dedication of a
drinking fountain erected by the Daugh-
ters Of 1912.
On his way to the park the President
will visit the Rodeph Shalom Temple.
Rabbi DR.. J. Leonard Levy. pastor.
There he will make a short address to
the congregation at noon.
The guests with the entire convention
body will board a special train for
sewickley. fashionable suburb. from
TO the Allegheny Country Club. A buffet
luncheon, golf. tennis, base ball and
other sports viii be INDUCED in.
In the early evening the party will
return to the city for the annual ban
Clubs at the Fort Pitt Hotel
The President will remain in Pitts
burg until Sunday evening when he de.
parts for Gettysburg. Pa. Sunday morn.
ing President Taft will attend services
OF he Efrcf INIT nrio II H.
afternoon he will be taken over the city
in an automobile.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
PATIEN CLEARS FIVE MILLIONS
FAMOUS DEAL IN MAY WHEAT
OVER TOMORROW.
Farmers and Small Spectators
Have Made Big Profits by Fol-
lowing His Lead.

Special Dispatch to The Star
CHICAGO, H.. May 2S.-The curtain
will be rung down tomorrow-the last
day for trading in May wheaton Jim
Patten.s now-famous deal.
Lower prices yesterday and compare
lively little interest In that option to-
day. coupled with the fact that only the
customary short Saturday session will
be held tomorrow, make 1t certain that
the illuminating display of fireworks is
at an end and that the deal will go down
into history without further blare Of
trumpets.
AS near as can be estimated the win
nings of Patten and his associates have
been a cool $1,000, 900. All figures on the
profits of the followers of the big bull
leader are purely guesswork. but 1t Is
safe to say they are in good many mil
lions.
OF course the famers also have profited
by the high price and have also reaped
handsomely by the manipulation of the
market, or the natural result OF short
supply, as Patten terms 1t, whichever II
may have been.
Many Fortunes Made.
The tales of magnificent profits from
small beginnings made by occasional In
vestors are countless-only second, in fact,
to those of profits made by farmers who
believed the Patten predictions Of high
prices Some professional spectators
have also piled up colossal profits AS 9
rule, most of this latter class was skepti-
cal of Patterns success and have con-
tributed to the losses.
1t is fair to assume that Patten and his
immediate associates in the big deal
cleared up profit of approximately =
cents per bushel on 20 OO6, 900 bushels. and
that the big speculative following OF the
PRINCIPALS won from 10 to 15 cents on q
somewhat larger holding.
The principals whose aggregate con-
centrated holding proved the center OF
encouragement of all OF the owners OF
wheat the world over are believed to
have been J. A. Patten. w. II. Bartlett
Frank p. Frazier and George w. Patten
Reason of Success.
These held their wheat intact through
many months, thus throwing the balance
of power in favor of the owner of the
wheat the world over, because OF the fact
that the years supply was closely adjust
ed to the absolute demand.
May wheat today rested around S1.32
after the advance three days ago to
s1.35h, the high point for years. There
was fair activity in the other months this
morning. July sold at 1.16 on first trades
rallied to SILT. September sold at $1.OS3,
and held at $10SA.
Liverpool was again weak and lower
because Of rains reported over Germany
Evening star., 1909-05-28
LOCAL FINANCIAL NEWS.

There as some trading In United
States bonds on the local stock exchange
today. 800 registered 3s going At the
New York market quotation OF 101h The
railways were little higher. two lots OF
Washington Railway. and Electric Com
pany at s9S. whereas they had been Of
fered at 80
There were $1,000 worth OF Potomac
Electric Consolidated IS sold at 1884.
Washington Railway and Electric. pre-
ferred sold in small lots from eos to
9O4s. the latter being the closing figure.
Lanston, which had been hanging at Is
for several days with no trading, moved
up to 15A and 1874. at which prices two
lots of 100 were sold.
There was inquiry for Mergenthaler at
2Oph, but none forthcoming. Ihere was
a trade for the first time in q period in
Mitchell Mining. two 1OO-share lots going
at and 9 cents. though there was some
spHrring. the buyer declaring he had Of
fered cents for the nrst lot.
The exchange on adjourning today closed
till next Tuesday in honor of Memorial
day.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
BALTIMORE GRAIN.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md. May 2s.-WHEAT-Steady
No. red winter. i.4sx 80; July. ileA al. .1eh;
steamer No. 2 red. l.45%al 4o; receipts, LOIS
CORN-Steady; spot contract. S0kaS04; May
sOAaSOs; July, 77a77H; steamer mixed. 76ka
76h; receipts. 11,329 bushels; southern yellow
corn, so.
OATs-Dull and easy; No. 2 white. e4aea1s
No. white. 63a63tb: No mixed 6ca62h; 70
ceipts 6. S62 bushelss exports. 90 bushels.
RYE-FirmesH No. 2 western export, 0011a0lh
No western domestic. 90ka91h
HAY-Dull. unchanged.
GRAIN FREIGHTsDull. unchanged.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
CRASHED INTO sEAWALL.
Ferryboat Founders About in Dens
Fog, With Broken Rudder.

NEW YORK, May 2s.-After founder
ing about with . broken rudder in q
dense fog In the most crowded portion
of the East river todays the ferryboat
shiEnecoek smashed into the seawall sur
rounding Governors Island. The boats
forward overhang was badly smashed and
the end OF her hull was lodged upon the
rocks at the base of the wall. SO that she
could not back Oft.
Not more than a score of man passen-
gers were on board. and they stepped
from the damaged overhang to the sea-
wall and walked ashore The movement
of shipping was greatly delayed by the
fog.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
Presbyterians at Knoxville.
LONDON MARKET.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special CablegTam to The Star.
LONDON, May %. - Consols were
steady In the late afternoon. Foreign
securities closed at the best prices on
support from Paris. Japanese govern
ment bonds had a particularly good
tone. Speculation. however. was al
most monopolized by dealings in
kaffrs. which continued buoyant and
reached q booming condition on the
curb. Copper shares suffered no re-
action. Notwithstanding considerable
pFoiit-taking.
American railway shares finished
firm at the ofdcial session. Prices rose
further on the curb, under the lead Of
bourses were Arm.
Evening star., 1909-05-28

Eek. Div, 2N per cent
. tEx-div.. 2 per cent.
Closing Quotations.
At the close OF the stock market the
following stocks had changed In price
since above quotations. there being nc
change In balance OF the closing prices:
RAILROADS.
Atch.. Top. and s. Fe, COM, 1904.
Baltimore and Ohio. COM, 114N.
Canadian Pacific. 1905.
Chicago and NV. COM, 1S4A.
Erie, COM. Ban.
Erie. 1st pfd. 52k.
Great Northern, pfd, 146H
Illinois Central. lat.
1nterboro Metropolitan. pfd., 46
kansas City Southern, COM, 46%
Mo-, Kansas and Tex. CON-. AZ.
NJ. s. P. and s. s. NJ. com. 1491s.
Missouri Pacific, IS.
New York Central and Hud. r.. 1sO.1.
Norfolk & Western. 3d.
Northern Pacific, 147as
Pennsylvania, 1347s.
Reading. conn.,, 1854.
Rock Island, COM, 32ss.
Rock Island. pfd.. TON.
st. L. & San Fran. I'd pfd., ass.
st. l.. & S. W.. pfd., IS.
Southern Railway. CON-, 31ss.
Texas and Pacific, 341s.
Third Ave, 29ss.
Union Pacific, pfd.. 1S9h.
Wabash. COM, 211a.
Wabash, pfd., 53k
Western Md. 20as.
INDUsTR1ALs.
Amalgamated Copper. S5k.
Am. Beet Sugar, COM, 3SSl.
Am. Can, COM, 1871.
Am. Car & Foundry, com, 58i2.
Am. Cotton Oil. COM, 55s.
Am. Loco. CON-. 5S1s.
Am. Smelling g. Ref. com, 94h
Am. Tel. & Tel, 14Oss.
Anaconda Copper, 51h.
Central Leather, CON-, 30.
Col Fuel & Iron. CON-. Az.
Corn Products Ref, conn.,, G6.
Corn Products Ref. pfd.. 91%.
DistiIlers Securities, 4O4.
Great Northern Ore. 74k.
International Steam Pump. 401s.
Mackay Companies. pfd.. 1875.
National Lead. COM, S67s.
Railway Steel Springs, COM, 44b.
Rep. Iron & Steel. CON-, 29A.
Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron. com. SSx.
Tennessee Copper, AN.
L. s. Realty & Imp, COM, "a.
II. s. Rubber com. 3s.
u. S. Steel. CON-. CAS-.
Va.-Car. Chem. COM, 50h.
Western Union Tel. 75h.
BONDS.
U. s. Steel I'd SIS, 1051s
Evening star., 1909-05-28

LIVERPOOL May 2S.-Closing: Wheat
Spot No. red western winter. nominal:
futures barely steady; July. Is 1l&d;
September. SIS 4Xd; December, ss 2Md.
Corn-Spot firm; new American mixed
via Galveston, G 71sd; futures steady;
July, IS SID.
Hops-In London Pacihc coast). steady.
E2af3.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
Rebukes Tennessee Courts.

The report rebukes the Tennessee courts
for presuming to pass judgment upon
matters Of church doctrine. 1t recognizes
the right Of courts to pass upon disputes
concerning property, but where a re-
ligious belief Is concerned the report con-
tended that this shall be adjudicated in
the church councils.
The assembly also reaffirmed the recon-
mendation of the assembly Of 1905. at
which the union Of churches was effected.
The report OF the committee was based
on the legal action begun by anti-consoli-
dation members of the Cumberland
church wherein they were supported by
the Tennessee courts and given posses
sion OF valuable churches which other
wise would have become the property OF
in these suits that the union forced men,
bers of the Cumberland church to recog-
nize doctrine different from the one to
which they had originally subscribed.
Assembly Rule Rescinded.
The assembly today rescinded the ac-
ton OF the last assembly making 1t i'm
perative that the retiring moderator be
ex-offlcio chairman of the committee on
bills and overtures. He will be chairman
only OF the executive commission.
A resolution also was adopted making
1t illegal for a commissioner to serve on
both judicial and executive branches Of
the assembly at the same time.
The assembly heard short addresses
from Bishop H. w. Warren OF Colorado
and Bishop w. M. Mcdowell OF Chicago.
both OF the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
Washington Stock Exchange.

Ssles.-Resusr call. I2 o'clock noon-U. s. reg.
washington M mr. Rsy. and Elec IL. 81 900 At ssx,
81 900 at Sq3a.
Potomac Electric Cons S.. $1,000 at 1854.
Washington Rwy. and Elec. pfd., % ut e0st.
% at 90s. at Soia, 2 at 9OK.
Lanston I,se Mo'nctypem I'd 100 at t. l6H ~ 100 & lSH'
Union Trust 5 at 131h.
After call-Washinston Rwy. and Elec: pfd
2 at 90&. l at 9o%. 8 at 6OsS. 2 At 90x, %
at ROA at 90A at 9Ok.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK, May 2S.-The cotton mar
ket opened steady at unchanged prices to
4 decline OF five points with the active
months selling about 2 to points lower
during the early session under renewed
liquidation for over the holidays. although
cables were considerably better than due,
further rains were reported in the central
and eastern belts and the English spot
sales were encouragingiy heavy. Offer
ngs were not heavy, however. and shortly
after the opening prices rallied to about
The closing figures of yesterday on shorts
covering.
Futures opened steady. May, 11.1Da
Ills. July, 1880: August. 1898; Septem-
Der. 1887; October. 1885: December. 1885;
January. 1881; March. 1888.
The market was quiet in the late fore
aoon. with prices barely steady at net
lecline OF about 5as points under a con-
dnuation OF pre-holiday LIQUIDATION.
Spot cotton. quiet: middling uplands.
l1.40: middiing gulf. 11.6o.
Estimated receipts at the ports today.
1000 bales. against 1890 last week and
l0323 last year. For the week. 10000
bales against IS, S31 last week and 64,5SS
ast year. Today's receipts at New Or
cans. 3.4f4 bales. against 1000 last year.
Ind at Houston. 1922 bales, against ,3O8
ast year.
;. Liverpool Cotton Prices.
LIVERPOOL, May 2s.-Closing: Cot
bn-Spot. good business done; prices un-
changed: American middling. fair. ga;
TODD middling. sos: middlin 5.Ss: low
niddling. SO: good ordinary. 5.4l; or
linary. sos. The sales of the day were
5000 bales. of which 1000 were for spec
,lation and export. and included a. 200
american. Receipts, 6.00O bales. includ-
ng ] 400 American. Futures opened quiet
md closed barely steady; June. 573
tune-July. 5.73: July-Ausust. 5.79h; Au-
.ust-September. ST. September-Octobe
L75: October-November. 5.731a; Novem-
ier-December, 5.72h; December January
LIa; January-February. 572: FEBRUARY
Harch. 5.72is: March-April. 5721s.
Evening star., 1909-05-28

Bar silver steady "a 5-16d per ounce.
Money, la2 per cent.
The rate Of discount In the open market fol
short bills 10 Hal S-l6 per cent.
The rate of discount In the open market fol
three month bills is liaal s-16 per cent.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
New York Exchanges to Close.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. May 28-The local stock
and commodity exchanges will be closed
Saturday and Monday, with the excep-
tion OF the produce exchange. which will
remain open Saturday.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
Fat Paw Envelopes at Homestead.

PITTSBURG. May 2s.-Over 5000 men
employed In the Homestead Steel Works
for the irst time In eighteen months re-
ceived we'll filled pay envelopes today.
The payroll amounted to 100000
Evening star., 1909-05-28
Assembly Rule Rescinded.
AMERICAN UNITAR1ANs.
Annual Anniversary Week observ
ances End at Boston.

BOSTON, Mass, May 2S.-The annual
anniversary week observances Of the
American Unitarian Association and its
ahiliated organizations ended today. To-
days sessions included the annual meet
ing OF the Unitarian Sunday School So
ciety and the convention and festival OF
the Free Religious Association, and will
end with q banquet Of the American Uni
tartan Association at the Hotel Somerset
tonight.
The meeting of the Free Religious Asso-
citation was presided over by Edwin D.
Mead of Boston. The principal addresses
were made by Col. Thomas Wentworth
Higginson Of Cambridge and the Rev. Ed
ward Cummings OF Boston. The centennia
theme for some Of the speakers. and
steps were taken whereby the association
will hold special exercises in observance
OF Darwin's anniversary.
Presbyterians at Knoxville.
KNOXVILLE. Tenn. May 2S.-The gen.
eral assembly Of the United Presbyterian
Church today discussed departmental and
committee reports. The reports OF the
ministerial relief committee showed thai
the church Is doing much for maintenance
OF its superannuated preachers and others
in need. A review of the publication an6
Sunday school work occupied much time
The church is giving special attention te
Sunday schools. and its publication sys
tenn has also undergone extensions during
the past year.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
Debate WAKES Warm.

The debate waxed warm when an effort
was made to fasten the origin of the bill.
Mr.. Olmsted declared that he copied 1t
word for word from the Philippine act,
after noting the suggestions by the Presi-
dent In his message to Congress.
Mr.. Douglass (Ohio) in answer to Mr..
Borland confessed his inability to state
just who induced the President to act,
and upon being pressed for statement
as to his view of the matter Mr.. Borland
charged that the proposition originated in
the mind of some interested party and
that its purpose was to decide a political
controversy, and thus reverse the action
of the people at the polls. He contended
that Congress had no right to meet a
crisis in the island by a permanent act.
In the opinion Of Mr.. Parker IN. J)
both sides of the House were agreed that
the Porto Rican budget of last year
should be continued. The bill was strong
ly supported by him.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
The World of Finance and Trade.
Washington; New York; London.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET

Furnished by w. B. Hibbs & Co., bank
ers and brokers. Hibbs building. members
New York Stock Exchange, Washington
Stock Exchange ana Chicago Board OF
Trade.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
CLASHES WITH STATE| MORE FACTS WANTED
Presbyterian Assembly Cri Disposition in House to Post.
cses Tennessee Courts pone Porto Rican Legislation.
CONDEMNS UNION DECISION MAY GO OVER TO WINTER
Reuked for Passing Judgment nsur Affairs Be Taken Up
Matters Of Doctrine. December Session
RELIGIOUS BELIEFS INVOLVED INQUIRY LIKELY MADE
Pending Bill Rorland
ognize Who Defends Attitude Of
Tad islanders
Disposition in House to Post
pone Porto Rican Legislation.
MAY GO OVER TO WINTER
Insular Affairs to Be Taken Up at
December Session.
INQUIRY LIKELY TO BE MADE
Pending Bill Opposed by Rorland,
Who Defends Attitude Of
the islanders.

Porto Rican affairs will certainly en-
ga &c 'the attention Of Congress at the De-
cember session and amendment Of the
organic law OF Porto Rico, known as the
Foraker act, is inevitable. 1t is demon
strated by the strong sentiment expressed
in the House in favor Of limiting the
pending remedial legislation to one year.
Many representatives on both sides of
the chamber take the position that the
pending i'll. If not 50 limited. will
have the effect OF restricting one political
faction in Porto Rico in favor Of another.
Representative Fitzgerald of New York
will offer an amendment to the bill now
under consideration providing that 1t
shall remain in force not longer than one
year.
When Congress meets next December
and the committee on insular affairs Is
appointed Porto Rfco's troubles will be
aired and a more perfect law framed. At
that time q contest will come on the ques-
tion of enlarging the political liberties of
| the people of Porto Rico. which probably
will be made q party issue. There is In
disposition among members of the House
to go at length into Porto Rican affairs
at this time, especially as there is lack of
full information on conditions existing In
the island.
1t is not unlikely that resolution may
be passed at this session providing for an
of the House and Senate some time dur
ing this summer or next fall. a report to
be made when ongress reassembles in De-
cemhAr
Evening star., 1909-05-28
Presbyterian Assembly Criti-
cises Tennessee Courts.
CONDEMNS UNION DECISION
Rebuked for Passing Judgment on
Matters Of Doctrine.
RELIGIOUS BELIEFS INVOLVED
Cumberland Church Forced to Rec
ognize Tenets to Which They
Had Not Subscribed.

DENVER. Col. May 2s.-The church
locked horns with the state today, when
tho General Assembly Of the Presbyterian
Church in effect condemned the action Of
the state courts of Tennessee In setting
aside the union Of the Presbyterian
Church Of the United States of America
with the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church.
The assembly's criticisms of the courts.
which was unsparing. was based on the
report of the COMMITTEES on church coop
GRAFTON, which report was written by Will
liam Henry Roberts. DID,, LID. the
stated clefk Of the assembly. chairman OF
the committee and for more than twenty
five years regarded as the law-giver of
the assembly.
It set out In effect that of the three es-
tablished doctrines with respect to the
relation OF church and state. they being
the Roman Catholic. wherein the church
Is superior to state; the theory recognized
in England and some parts Of the United
States, that the state is superior to the
church, and the Calvinistic. wherein
church and state possess distinct juris-
dictions. the latter is the preferable view.
and will be held to In the Presbyterian
Church.
Evening star., 1909-05-28
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

CHICAGO, May 8.-Bullish enthusiasm
in wheat was on the wane during the
early trading today. Trade pointed to
a quiet termination OF the celebrated
deal in May wheat News OF the day
favored the bears. cables being weak,
local receipts larger than expected and
crop reports from the southwest more
optimistic. The market opened unchang-
ed to ssah lower. May being 1872 and
July at 116lt to 1.161s. Later July sold
up to l. 1slaa1 164s. but weakened again to
1.161s. while May sold off to 1.31Z.
May corn opened Nc lower. at Tx, and
sold Off to 72h. July. which opened q
shade to NC lower. at 69M to 60A, sold
at 69as. May oats opened v to IS lower. at
SO. and July at 521s to 53. Later May ad-
vanced to 60. and July for time held
within the opening range.
Provisions at the start were q shade to
SC lower.
The wheat market rallied toward mid
day on reports of damage to the Kansas
crop. July advancing to 1.171z. At the
was considerable reaction on profit t-takine
and the market closed about steady, with
July shade higher at 1.15A. May was
one cent higher at 1.33.
The corn market became strong later
in the day owing to an improved de-
| mand for the cash grain. May advanced
to 741s and July to 6sA. The close was
strong, with May up v and July as higher
at 69ss
| Close: Wheat-May, 1.33: July, 118M
September. 100; December. 1O6z
Corn-May, 1888: July. 69Na68A; Sep
| tember. 67sa67ss; December 57h.
Oats-May. 60: July, 52% a52N; Septem
ber. 43Aa Aa4S7s; December. An.
| Pork-May, 1857; July, 1851; Sep
tember. 1879.
! Lard-May. 10.s2,s: July. 1Os2h: Sep.
tember, 10.921sa10.95; October, 1O.921zs
1895.
Ribs-May. 1O22Ii: July. 1Oleh: Sep.
tember, .22iaa1O.25: October, 1920.
| Rye-Cash, S9aS91a: September, 81.
| Hay-Cash, 73ha75.
Timothy-September,4 400.
/ Clnyor-Mov
Evening star., 1909-05-28

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~ 421a AZ 42A
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1885 1875 16A 1914
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42H 42h 41R AZ
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1904 1D1a 100 1905
Evening star., 1909-05-28
New York Grain Prices.

NEW YORK. May 2S.-Flour: Receipts,
1852 barrels; sales. $500 barrels; steady
but quiet.
Wheat: Receipts, $4,000 bushels. The
wheat decline was continued this morn
ing and early prices lost y to Sc per
crop news from the west. July. 1.23ba
1.24h; September. LA 13-16a1.15A: De-
cember, 1.127Sa1. .1Sk.
Rye-DulI; No. western, 81: fob. New
York.
Corn-Receipts, lo.l25 bushels.
Pork-Firm