New-York tribune., 1910-06-04
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contracts between the several companies
wcil as duplicates of the correspondence
between the officers, and the whole record
I'm the estimation of the prosecuting officials,
establishes a remarkably complete case
against the trust. Ii the case of the PfIla-
deiphia prosecution there are various fac
/ tcrs such as the statute of limitations
pleas of immunity, etc, which may prevent
/ successful ISSUE but 1t is believed that
these will not be encountered in the larger
suit In the Philadelphia case, Washington
| B. Thomas, Arthur Donner, Charles IL
Senff, John Mayer, and George Z. Parsons,
directors, and Thomas B. Harmed and Gus
I tave e. KisseIl have been indicted, but
there is considerable question as to now
| faT these men were responsible for the IL
legal transaction which was. in large meas
ure at least. personally directed by the late
! Henry o. Hayemeyer.
/ CHINESE SITUATION.-The admins
| tration is not disposed TO believe all the
alarming reports received from China, al
| though il is admitted that the situation
there is far from satisfactory. The idea
that conditions may become as serious as
they did in the Boxer insurreetion is depre-
C2teQ, ana nucn OF the present -
attributed to the famine conditions which
prevail in the Yang-tse Valley. 1t is fur
ther remarked that there is sort of Chi
nese return from Elba" club in and about
Nanking, composed of disgruntled states
men who have been deprived of their yellow
jackets and peacock feathers and who are
ever ready to improve every opI ortunity to
foraent discomfort with the Manchu ad-
ninistration. Nankng ii will be recalled,
was the old Chinese capital, and those who
were invited to separate themselves from
the administration of Chinese affairs have
remained in that vicinity. bewailing their
less of power and ever ready to make tro0-
Bile While the officials of the Department
OF State do not regard the situation as SO
grave as ii is painted in the press dis
patches, there will be no neglect of proper
precautions to protect Americans and their
property in China, and the naval vessels ca
the Asiatie station will lie on the alert 30
render assistance wherever il may De
needed.
SOUTH AMERICAN PEACE.-Both Ec-
uador and Peru have now advised this
government that they will withdraw their
hostile forces from the frontier tomorrow,
which is in accordance with the agreement
the United States, Brazil and Argentina
This constitutes a triumph for the iiplo-
macy of Secretary Knox. who has been
exertirg every effort to prevent host!lities
not only in the interest of peace, but TO the
end that the approaching Pan-American
| conference may prove an entire success.
| 1t has been obvious to Mr. Knox for some
time that these countries did not really
wish to fight but local conditions have
| been such that they were almost cong el1ed
to DO so by the demands of factions hostile
| to the existing administrations. Under
! these circumstances the Secretary has ex-
ercised his coed offices not only to Induce
! the administrations of the two countries to
I make peace but TO impress on the people
of both Ecuador and Peru the fact tlat not
only the United States, but the larger South
American countries, seriously deprecated
war, and has thus made easier the course
of the two governments.
MISS BoARDMAN AT THE CAPITOL.
Miss Mabel Boardman. who is the chief
promoter Of the usefulness of the Aneri-
can National Red Cross appeared be-
! fore the House Committee on Interstate
! Commerce to-day and expressed herself
strongly in favor of the Capitalization OF
| the several bureaus which have to do with
| the public health, but as bureau of the
! proposed department of national resources
rather than as a department by itself. Miss
Boardman said she favored the creation of
such department, and would even include
! therein all the bureaus now in the Depart
Tnent of Agriculture. This plan, Miss
! Boardman said she had suggested toI the
| legislative committee of the Committee or
| One Hundred of which she is member
| If this plan could not be achieved at once.
! however, Miss Boardman would favor a
department of health. and would urge that
| it contain a bureau devoted especially 10
the promotion of the welfare of children
The principal advocates of department OF
national resources would not go so far as
Miss Boardman, but would include in the
department the Forest Service and all the
! bureaus now part of the Department OF
/ tho Interior. G. G. III,