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The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
GER MANY DEFIANT
IN POTASH CASE
Tariff War with America the
Probable Outcome.

Berlin. Nov. 5-A tariff war is in sight
over the breaking of Of the potash nego-
tiations. The minister of commence called
on Ambassador Hill this afternoon with
a letter signed by Herr Kempner, chair
man Of the German potash syndicate, re-
jecting the American terms and not show
ing a trace OF conciliatory spirit toward
the American offer TO bear one-half the
difference in price imposed by the potash
law: in other words. agreeing 10 have
prices fixed 80 per cent higher than stipu-
lated in the contracts. II is calculated
that this amounted to a willingness TO
pay s2.000,O00 yearly for seven years.
Herr Kempner called for further pro-
pOsals in his letter In harmony as re-
CARDS quantities and prices with the pro-
visions OF the German potash law" add
ing that until the syndicate was in pos
session OF these it would be unable 10
make counter proposals. The latter sim
ply reaSseTted the hitherto Obstinately
maintained position of the government
and the syndicate.
The Americans tonight unanimously
agreed to break off the negotiations and
TO prepare for a speedy departure s
A Bradley will so 10 Paris tomorrow
night and Mr.. Davis, of the American
Department of Commerce and Labor
will go to Vienna, probably Monday after
cabling his report to Washington
II is quite clear 10 every one here that
the Americans are Disguised with the
attitude of the German government. II
is no secret that this feeling is largely
shared at Washington regarding what
amounts to an international breach OF
faith. 1t is equally evident that the con-
duct of the German government and the
syndicate has been inspired by the be-
lief that the Americans were attempting
a game of blum.
When they find they are mistaken and
hear further from the United States
government they may adopt another tone
but doubtless they reckon on the fact
that they would still have ninety days
before the eventual withdrawal OF tho
minimum American duties of German
imports could go into effect and do not
intend TO yield until the last minute.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
FATHER SERVED
IN WAR OF 1776
Aged Woman Is Only Pen.
SiOner of the Revolution.

Mrs Phoebe NJ. Palmeter. eighty-nine
years old, OF Brookheld. y. Y, pensioned
by a special act OF Congress as the
daughter OF Jonathan Wooey. who served
in d New Hampshire company, is the
only pensioner On account Of the Revolu-
tiOnary war remaining on the rolls. ac-
cording 10 a statement in the annual re-
port OF the Commissioner Of Pensions.
made public yesterday.
The last widow pensioner' OF the Rev
olutiOnary war was Esther s. Damon, or
Plymouth Union, VT, who died Novem.
Der Il, 1905, aged ninety-two years. The
last survivor Of the Revolutionary war
was Daniel F. Bakenan. who died at
Freedom. Cattargagus County. y. Y.
April 8, 1853. aged 109 years. 6 months. and
days The last surviving pensioned sol
der Of the war OF ISL was Hiram Cronk.
OF Ava. y. Y, who died May IS, 1875.
aged les years.
Ohio led the States in the amount paid
by the government TO pensioners there.
More than Sl6.0o0000 was disbursed 70
&, 81 pensioners in Ohio. The sum OF
ST. $4,000 was paid 10 S9.227 pensioners
in Pennsylvania. New York had 1SZ2i
pensioners on the rolls during the year
They received SlS. lG0,000
1t Is estimated by the Commissioner
that the sum of si075. CO. J69-Si has been
disbursed in pensions since the fOunda-
ton OF the government This sum is
divided as follows: War of Revolution,
SO. Gee o00: wer OF 1872 si5.S0S.e76; Indian
wars, Si0,Si7.. i9; war with Mexico, 1886
76S; civil war. So. s37. SSH; war with
Spain and Philippine insurrection. $50, 49,
20; regular establishment, SlS,50S,0lS; I'M
classified. SIC, 4S6, 600
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
POLITICAL SKEPTICISM.



Corruption in political life is real
ly skepticism. 1t is distrust. dis
use which has lasted SO long that
1t has grown into disbelief of politi-
cal principles. Of the first funda-
mental truths of the sacredness Of
government and the necessity OF
righteousness. And where has such
a disbelief come from? We all
know we'll enough. II is from the
narrow view which has looked at
machineries and magnified them till
they had hid from view the great
purposes for which all machineries
exist. II a man tells me that 1t
IL absolutely necessary that such
or such a political party should be
maintained, whether its acts and
its men are righteous or unrIght-
eous, or else the government will
fall, that man Is an unbeliever, He
has lost his faith in the first prin-
eiples OF government. and he has
lost 1t by persistently tying down
his study and his soul to second
causes, to the mere machinery OF
party.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
REvERSES $500 VERDICT.
New York Appellate Court Acts on
Conspiracy Case.

On the ground that a secret concession.
resulting in the suspension of criminal
prosecution without public action. differed
so widely from ordinary court action in
case. Justice Bowling. of the Appellate
Court, at New York City, yesterday re-
versed the $3.50 verdict obtained by Jonn
C. Cuttings. a Washington attorney,
against Dayton p. Tanner, who was in
dicted with Frank 8. Romans IN 1907 IN
this city for attempting a common law
conspiracy. in which they planned TO in
duce a DR.. Kemp TO put up 5000 10
break af arc bank in New York City, at
which Tanner claimed 10 have been for
merly a dealer Tanner was 10 instruct
DR.. Kemp in the mysteries Of card deal
ing.
Cuttings was retained by Big Nit Bill
Henning, OF New York. who said he rep
resented Tanner and Romans because he
had been District Attorney ID. w Bakers
partner some ten years before lie was
offered $500 10 have the indictments
squelched. which he did in a way, but
he only received 500 OF the promised
fee. Cuttings had the indictments pigeon
hOled. the defendants agreeing 10 keep out
of Washington. This, however, was not
the letter Of the agreement and was SC
held In the Appellate Court yesterday.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
NAVY employees ON LEAVE
ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE

President Taft yesterday referred TO the
Navy Department a request from the
navy yard employees. asking an execu-
tive order granting time to the men TO
go home for voting
The Navy Department ruled that such
an order would not be legal, and the
President told c NJ Shinn. OF the West
Virginia Republican Association, who
presented the request. that he could do
nothing in the matter A compromise.
whereby those employees who will have
leave coming before the end OF their
service year may go home. was ar
ranged.
Judge 4. c. Carson. OF the Supreme
Court OF the Philippines. was recon-
mended 10 the President yesterday for
judge OF the new Commerce Court His
name was presented b. State Senator
Fulton. Of Richmond: Judge J. II. Har-
rison, OF RappahannOck; ID. c. OFlah-
erty. OF Warren. and Greed NJ Fulton,
% this city. Judge Carson is a Vir-
ginian.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
MADE FOES BEAR EXPENSE.
Newspapers Opposing Roosevelt Paid
Bulk OF His state Expenses.

New York. Nov. 5-The Republican
State committee is running the Stimson
campaign in an economical manner. and
It considers its master stroke the econo-
my practiced in Col Roosevelts "trip
about the State.
In arranging for the coloners tour the
Republican managers made provision for
the transportation and convenience of
representatives OF several newspapers.
The entire cost OF the trip was calculated
and divided among the newspapers send
ing reporters. Il was divided with such
care and exactness that the lions share
OF the expense fell upon the newspapers.
most OF which have been consistently op-
posing the colonel ever since the cam
paign opened.
The cost Of the coloners last trip was
as nearly as can be learned about 81, 500,
OF which the newspapers contributed
something like $500. That is what the
Republican managers regard as the very
highest form OF high finance-and also a
good Joke upon the hostile newspapers
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06

train for New York, and is due there at
9:45 tomorrow morning. He Will go d.
rect To Sycamore Hin. and will remain
there until Monday afternoon. IT is ex-
pected that Ezra Prentice and Lloyd
Griscom will come down in the afternoon
10 talk matters over with him In regard
20 the last whirl Monday night
MIR. Roosevelt is in pretty good shape.
His voice has not developed any huski-
ness within the past two days, and he is
anxious TO lambsst Mr.. Dix and Tam
many once more before he seeks utter
retirement In Oyster Bay. He promised
he would retire Don't forget that.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
IMPERSONATED DEAD BROTHER
Charges of Pension Frauds Brought
Against IilinOisan.

Bloomington, Ill, Nov. 5.-Charges that
James Greenup has been defrauding the
Pension Department of the United States
for eighteen years by impersonating his
dead brother, obtaining approximately
$3.50. were filed to-day by Pension Ex-
aminer c. F. Cain.
During the civil war, the Greenup fam
lily lived at MacOmb. Martin, the elder
son, enlisted In the army. Returning
home at the close of the war he fell Ill
and died. The family moved to Kansas,
where James. the younger son, applied
for pension in the name of Martin.
The identity OF the recipient of a 81
monthly pension was discovered when he
became involved recently In transactions
with the Post-ofilce Department as a
rural mail carrier
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
DIR. Monagham Grows worse,

Portage, Wis, Nov. 4-The condition OF
DIR. J. O. Monaghan. the publicist and
lecturer. OF New York City, who suf-
fered from a stroke OF apoplexy while
delivering lecture here last night. is
very grave. according to his physicians.
DR.. Monaghan is conscious, but some
what dazed. DR.. Monaghan was consul
at Mannheim, and later at Chemnitz,
Germany
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
WICKERSHAM IN OHIO.
Defends Tariff and Makes Defense
of Tariff Law,

Springfield. Ohio. Nov. J.-AttOrney Cen
eral George w. Wickersham addressed a
fair-sized audience here this afternoon at
a meeting presided over by n. Fl. Fair
banks, county chairman and brother Of
Charles w. Fairbanks.
Mr.. Wickersham made a strong plea
for the support of President Taft In
Ohio. He defended the tariff as no; per-
feet. but as the best that could be
framed, and asserted that it was strength
ened by the commission feature. He de-
ried that it was responsible for the in
creased cost of living. but laid that TO the
combinations of trusts
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
OBITUARY.
Peter Hermes.

Pittsburg. Pa. Nov Peter Hermes.
president of the Ohio and Pennsylvania
Milk Company and reputed to be a mil
lionare. died at the Homeopathic Hos
pital this evening as the result OF an
automobile accident. He was driving in
his car around the corner at Center ave-
nue. into Liberty avenue. when his ma
chine struck a heavy wagon He was
thrown out and he struck the curb on his
head
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
Lieut.. Won Trenit. at Annapolis.

Special 10 The Washington Herald
Annapolis, Md. Nov. 5.-Lieut. Won Ire
pitz. of the German navy, son of the Ger
man minister of marine. who is on a
tour OF this country, came over from
Washington to-day and made an inspec-
ton of the Naval Academy He was I'M
der the escort ef Commander Ritzman.
naval attache OF the German Embassy in
Washington He was received by Capt
John NJ. BOwyer. superintendent of the
Acad smy. shown through the several de-
partments. and afterward was entertain
ed at luncheon at the superintendent E
resil snce
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
SEES REPUBLICAN VICTORY.
Secretary Meyer on Way BHck from
Visit TO Guantanamo.

Savannah. Ga. Nov. 5-"Of course. the
Republicans are sure TO win, said Sec
rotary of the Navy George Won L. Meyer
this afternoon. The Secretary has been
down through the Southeast and is just
back from the United States naval sta
ton at Guantanamo. which he declared
10 be the ideal spot to defend the Panama
Canal in case It became necessary.
II have been out of touch with matters
in the country for a few days, but when
I left the outlook was favorable to Re
publican success at the polls. he said.
Guantanamo is a great naval base.
II is ideal in every particular to take
care Of the great and wonderful canal.
which. / regret, l did not have time TO
see. l am hurrying back to Washington.
where / will meet the President by APP
pOintment at 1890 O'clock tomorrow.
I viii be at home on Tuesday to vote,
and after that settle down to the routine
duties OF my Office.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
securities Commission Here,

The railroad securities commission. of
which President Hadley. of Yale. is chair
man, appointed to investigate questions
pertaining 10 the issuance OF stocks and
bonds by interstate railroads, has
opened it's office at Washington.
Public hearings Will be held. the first
one probably on November IS.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
student. Big TOBACCO Users.

Ann Arbor. Mich. Nov. 5-student in
the University of Michigan has just made
the rounds Of the different places where
cigars. tobacco, and cigarettes are sold
and has found out that students at the
university smoked last year 1920 cigars
81. $50 boxes of cigarettes. 52.OOO packages
OF smoking tobacco. including $4,000 pack
ages of cigarette tobacco. 1000 packages
OF cigarette paper, and 6,SS0 cuts of chew
Ing tobacco.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
Rpa Claims Show Republicans Less Hopeful than Democrats

his slender purse. The men who really
brought the disgrace upon Illinois are not
running for office. they are Indifferent 20
party, controlling both as they do. Hence
IL may justly be said that this Illinois
election. except as 1t affects the Con-
gressionai delegation. is OF no importance
whatsoever to the nation at large.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
win TaIk on Everglades.

DR.. Thomas Elmer Well VIII lecture
on THE land of the promise" next Tues
day. Thursday. and Friday at SOC Ninth
street northwest. The lecture treats of
the Everglades OF Florida. a vast and in
credibly fertile tract in Southern Florida,
reclaimed by the State.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06

Syracuse. n. Y. Nov. 5.-Lyman c.
Smith. multimillonaire typewriter manu-
facturer. died here tonight, aged sixty
wears
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06
VOTERS
FACING A PROBLEM
Is the State Indifferent to
Charge of Corruption?
GRAFT WILL BE REPUDIATED

"YitaI Principles of Republican Self
government Is on Trial." Accord
Ing to Those Who Favor Honest
BaIIot-State's Disgrace Il Due 90
INSCRIPTIONS Rich Men OF Chicago.
The Washington herald., 1910-11-06

The trouble with Illinois is Chicago.
which dominates the State. and the trou-
BILE with Chicago is that II is dominated
by few rich. modest. retiring, and I'M
scrupulous men who control coal conf
panies. its electric light and gas COM
panies. its public service corporations
generally. They thrust into the open the
politicians big and little on whom public
ob;urgation is periodically heaped. but
who do their bidding and spend their
money. The Doodle used to elect Lorimer
did not come from him. The lavish out
lay of cash 20 keep Browne from the
penitentiary could never have come from
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-17
LUMBERMEN ASK LAW To
INSURE DAMAGE CLAIMS
Injured Workers Lose Amounts
Gained in Lawsuits to the
Lawyers, Is Claimed

SEATTLE, Wash, July 16.-Lumber-
men of Western Washington, through
the legislative committee of the Pa
cific Coast Manufacturers association,
yesterday launched a campaign for
the enactment by the legislature of an
employers liability law whereby en-
ployes of all kinds will be paid for
injuries received in the performance
of their duties, regardless of how the
injuries were received and without
costly personal damages litigation now
so frequent The lumbermen propose
to arrange for a statewide conference
of employers, employees and representa-
tives of organized labor and others to
shape the legislation desired.
I'VE desire to do away, so far as pos
sible, with the animus of personal dam
age suits and take out of the hands
of unscrupulous attorneys a business
which depriyes the injured of what is
rightfully theirs, said Paul Page, one
of the lumber manufacturers commit
tee. "We want the men injured in the
mills, logging camps, on the railroads,
in the shops and elsewhere to receive
every penny due them and not the
pittance they now so often receive in
case they are injured.
I'VE believe that the amount of
money yearly spent in personal dam
age litigation, together with the large
sums paid by employers to liability in
surance companies would go far to-
ward making every injured working
man comfortable"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-17

the court room. Johnson volunteered
to fill his place and secured the convic-
tion of Ruef
Politically Johnson stands for the
same things for which Bell, the Demo-
crat, is campaigning.
Anderson might be termed the reg
ular Republican, though both Stanton
and Ellery are affiliated with the or
ganization of the party to a greater
or less extent. Curry is making his
campaign on his personal following in
the state, which is unusually large.
The number of candidates for sur
veyor general nominally has been re-
duced by the withdrawal of c. H.
Holcomb, the Democrat.
Holcomb wrote the secretary of
state, asking that his petition and ac-
companying check be returned, which
was done yesterday.
The matter is causing considerable
comment here, however, in view of
the opinion handed down by the at
torney general today, maintaining in
the case of a county officeseeker that
the county clerk lad no power to
withdraw his name from the ballot or
to return his petition and check.
The opinion held that the primary
law gives no power for withdrawal,
and it is believed here that this inter
pIeldllOH VIII Apply equally 10 Sldle
offices.
The following is a list of the men
whose petitions for nomination which
entitle them to appear on the primary
ballots are already on file with the
secretary OF state. In some instances
the full requirements of the law have
not been complied with in detail, but
it is expected that these men will all
appear or the ballots, oversights hav-
ing been corrected before midnight
With the nominating petitions of
forty three prospective candidates for
state senator and of 1870 seekers for
seats in the assembly on file with the
secretary of state, the legislative ticket
for the primary election at which
twenty senators and eighty assembly
men will be chosen was about COM
plete at o'clock tonight. No candi-
dates have presented papers here from
four senatorial and eighteen assembly
districts, but as these are embraced by
San Francisco county, and petitions
have been duly recorded there, the list
is complete with the exception of such
as may be forwarded by county clerks
before midnight tonight.
The enormous task of recording these
huge bundles of petitions, checking af-
fidavits, certificates and filing fees is
not finished in all cases, delayed mails
or misdirected envelopes holding back
the work.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-17
MRS, YERKES SEEKING
To COLLECT s5,G99,530
Woman Claims That Chicago
Traction Company Owes
Her Huge Sum

CHICAGO, July 16.-Chicago's trac-
tion muddle yesterday assumed a new
aspect when the directors of the Chi
cago Railways company were informed
by attorneys for Mrs. Mary Adelaide
Yerkes that they are fully liable for
50, 69953O indebtedness to the estate Of
the late Charles T. Yerkes.
This new coup was sprung by Mrs.
Yerkes' attorneys at a hearing before
the probate courts for the withdrawal
Of the consolidated bonds of the Yerkes
estate from the reorganization commit
tee of the Chicago Railways company.
In addition, the prediction was made
in open court by Mrs. Yerkes' lawyers
that the Chicago Railways company
will never dare carry the so-called
Harrity judgment recently returned by
Judge Ball in favor of consolidated
bondholders to the supreme court. III
stead it was declared that full value
would be paid the bondholders.
"The Chicago Railways company is
capitalized for 800, 000," said Attorney
Levi Mayer, representing Mrs. Yerkes
1T has acquired a bonded indebted
ness of $62, 900, 900 which at present eX-
ceeds $50, 900, 900. The company Is d
solvent property and is worth $75,000,0OO
Under the laws of Illinois directors
are personally and individually respon-
sible for this $50 1000, 900. If the COM
pany is not solvent and cannot pay
judgment on $6,75O,O0O the directors are
liable"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-17
EIGHT MAKE RACE
TO HEAD TICKETS
Candidates for State Offices File
Petitions with SeCre-
tary of State
HOLCOMB is OUT OF RUNNING
Time for Making Application for
Place on Ballot Closed
at Midnight
HOLCoMB is OUT OF RUNNING
Associated Press !

SACRAMENTO, July 16.-With five
Republicans, one Democrat, one Pro-
hibitionist and one Socialist in the race
for nomination for governor, the en-
tries for California's first election under
the direct primary law will close at
midnight tonight. Nominating petit
tions for all state offices except the
legislature are virtually in and the
men who will fight 1t out during the
period that remains until August 16,
the date of the primary election, are
already in the field
The legislative ticket probably is also
complete, but the office of the secre-
tary of state is so swamped with work
that it Is impossible to secure COM
plete list of aspirants for state sem
ators and assemblymen. There is no
record of the petitions on file beyond
the entry book of the secretary's office,
and this will be in constant use for
new entries for many hours before the
official list can be compiled.
The main interest in the coming
election centers in the fight for gov
ernor, and since Theodore Bell, the
Democratic aspirant, has no opposition
at the primaries, the real struggle is
among the five Republicans-Hiram
Johnson, indorsed by the Lincoln
Roosevelt league and to be supported
in the field by Clifford Pinchot; Philip
stanton, speaker of the assembly;
Charles f. Curry, secretary of state:
Alden Anderson, state superintendent
of banks, and Nathaniel Ellery. John
son Is the insurgent candidate. He
came into particular prominence dur
ing the trial Of Abraham Ruef in San
Francisco, when Francis j. Heney, the
special prosecutor. was shot down In
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-17

clerk notice of his withdrawal from the
race, stating that a number of Demo-
Gratis are supporting a Republican can
didate, Ira Conran, and that he will not
get square deal from his party.
Ahern had filed his petition for nomi-
nation and affidavit
Attorney General Webb gave District
Attorney Wachhorst an opinion that
Ahern cannot withdraw his petition
and that his name must be printed on
the primary ticket. The opinion is that
while the county clerk can receive and
file Aherns application to withdraw,
he can do no more, because when the
petition was filed it passed out of the
hands of the petitioner and cannot be
withdrawn by him.