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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
FEUDS IN LEGISLATURE
Senators and AssembIymen
Losing Their Temper.
NEWCOMB MEASURE KILLED
Burlingame Legislation Marked
for Slaughter-Brackett
in the Fray.
Bv Telegraph to The Tribune !

Albany. MAY S-The strain of the long
legislative session ard the many untoward
events of this year are telling on the legis-
lative mind. and more particularly leg1s-
Iative temper Peace. harmony and cour-
tesy. which usually ooze from every 1egis-
lstor until the atmosphere drips with a
saccharine vapor. have been blown out OF
the Capitol There Is a very fair prospect
If affairs go or as they are at present, that
in week or so the Senate and Assembly
will be at each others throat. while in
6ividuals in each House will be revealing In
feuds enviable to Kentucky. mountaineer.
In the Assembly the fight to-day was
turned on Senator NewComb. His bill de-
signeds to assess on New York City at large
the cost of an extension of Riverside Drive
awoke the sumbering dogs of war
Messrs. Brennan and Wilsnack led the
fight Attacks we're made on the unfortu-
nate Senator as well on his bill H1g-
gins. Conklin ard Murray rallied TO. the
support Of the unlucky measure, but the
House was in killing humor. 1t slaugh-
tered the bill, voting 50 to 16 to strike out
the enacting clause.
Senator BurIingsme's legislation is also
scheduled for slaughter. because Westches-
ter and Erie County Assemblymen think
he is holding up some of their local bills
Incidentally, he is doing whatever he can
to wage war on Senator Wainwrights leg
islation and apparently he went out OF his
way to-day to be discourteous TO Senator
Bracket He refused to move a couple of
his bills and when Bracket said they were
very important and asked why he did not
wish action taken on them. he virtually
told Bracket to mind his own business
Bracket isn't averse to good fight. so IN
teresting developments are expected.
Bracket himself managed to step on
Senator Newcomb's corns to-day. The lat
ter asked question. breaking into the mid
die of one Of. Brackets arguments. He
didn't get the answer he wanted. Later
he rebuked Bracket for discourtesy. which
caused the Saratogan to apologize IN
speech in which he said hitherto he and
Nevcomb always had hitched because he
supposed they were ''the worst cranks in
the Senate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
LUCIANO CoNTERNo DEAD
Well Known Bandmaster, Who Served
Under Commodore Perry.

Luciano Conterno. the bandmaster. died
on Wednesday night at the home Of his
son. No. sis West 145th street. after an
Illness of more than two months follow
ing stroke of apopleXy.
Luciano Conterno was born in Clermout
Ferante, France ION September ;. 1893
When only nine years old he entered the
United States navy as a cabin boy and
drummer. He served during the entire
period Of the Japanese expedition under
Commodore Perry.
In 1860 Mr.. Conterno enlisted in the 9TH
Regiment and went TO the front on the
first call of President Lincoln On his re-
turn from the war MIR Conterno was APP
pointed bandmaster of the sd Regiment
From 1878 until 1894 he was bandmaster at
the Brooklyn navy yard.
Mr. Conterno leaves four sons and one
daughter. The funeral will be held to-
morrow morning at 10 o'clock I'm the
Church OF our Lady of Lourdes in West
l42d street The burial will he in Holy
Cross Cemetery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
"HOSPITAL ANGEL" IN WANT
Government Wont Help Her, So
Senators Raise $1,000.

Washington Nav 5-Her Uncle Sam will
not reimburse Eliza Hoskins Farris, the
angel Of the hospital" for self-sa crificing
devotion To the Union cause. even though
a. eighty-four years of age she is in want
Nevertheless. Senator Bradley. her lifelong
friend. has now in hand s1.05n, which he
will send 70 her Immediately.
II IS Z pretty human interest story. dram
atized to-day amid the grind OF the Sen
ate machinery. Senator Bradley had a bill
to appropriate 81 90 for her. It went to
the Committee on Claims. from which few
bills return He told that leather hearted
committee this story:
Miss Eliza, as she MAS then. was the
daughter Of q Kentucky slaveholder who
vas willing 70 sacrifice his property rather
than have the Union disrupted. Camp Dick
Robinson, Union recruiting camp was
near his place. His son became 4 colonel
in the Northern army. and his daughter
Was permitted to turn their home into
hospital for Union soldiers. In addition to
furnishing supplies to the hospital. Miss
Eliza was in constant attendance on the
wounded She became known as the
angel Of the hospital
Miss Eliza married. Her husband died.
and through fire and other misfortunes.
her entire estate as dissipated. AS Mrs.
Eliza Hoskins Farris she now lives at
Lancaster. Ky. alone and failing rapidly.
Mr. Bradley told the story eloquentlv, but
the committee would not favor the bill II
would set 4 bad precedent.
Senator Srloot is a member of the com
mittee He did not vote for the bill. but
after the meeting he thought a lot about
the poor old woman Finally. he went 10
Mr.. Bradley and said:
Say. Nhv can't We go into our Jeans
for that 81 .on7 I'll give S1ha
On the back of an envelope Mr.. Bradley
put down: 'smoot, 800 then he wrote his
own name and the same figures. It was
only few minutes before others came
around. and soon the envelope also bore
hundred dollar subscriptions from Senators
Guggenhem, Elkins, Bourne du Pont, De
pew, Smith, of Michigan, and Oliver, and
$50 subscriptions from Carter, Buckley and
Briggs
The angel OF the hospital" will get the
deserved relief. and no bad precedent will
be esta blished TO haunt the Senate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
PrBL1c SERVICE BOARD WINS
Roads Must Get Consent to Issue
Enuipment Trust Certificates

Albany May 5.-Railroad corporations
csnnot issue equipment trust certificates
without the approval Of the Public Service
commission. according to a decision of the
aIa d.c,aed was that begun by the
r,,-h,ic Service Commission, I'd District.
aoatne+ the Nev York Central lines for
LING Snooo.eDO of these certificates with
~, securing the approval of the commits
,ior The company commended that the
certiAcstes were not the obligations Of the
r.nroaa company. as are stocks bonds or
cher evidences of indebtedness within the
terms of Section % Of the Public Service
Commission law, inasmuch as they were
tssued hv the Guaranty Trust Company
- =. ~, the railroad company.
This decision will not affect the validity
- ,be enuipment trust certificates. but Will
- I,1ta IL clear that the statute applies 10
I,,ch securities and settles a controversy
wnifb mas existed since December. 1895.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
MIX-UP ON INCOME TAX
Assembly Rejects Inquiry Reso-
lutinn-On Table. Says Speaker.
IRv Telegraph 70 The Tribune. ]

nv Telegraph 70 The Tribune
Albany, May By vote of IS to "a the
Assembly rejected to-day the resolution
reported by the Rules Committee providing
for q legislative commission 10 inquire into
the advisa bility of a graduated income tax
in this state Much chagrned at this &C
ton Speaker Wsdsworth ruled that this
rejection of the Rules committees report
merely laid ii on the table whence it could
be taken at any time His ruling was greet
I'D by storm of hoWls and protests from
the Democrats and some Republicans who
had voted against this on the ground that
it was a backhsnded blow at the federal
income tax proposition.
When Speaker Wadsworth handed down
the resolution there was = long wrangle
about procedure. which ended only when
he ruled that it was before the House for
action Then Assemblyman Parker, Of
Washington County. presented an amend
rnent TO it to restore IT to its original form,
As presented by him it had declared that
the Legislature 'favors a graduated tax
upon incomes. the proceeds of which shall
be applied TO the payment of the expenses
Of the state.
This amendment was beaten. 81 n 81. Mr.
Frisbie, minority leader. then moved that
the report OF the ttulSS committee ne r.
iected This stirred up hot debate on
the lines Of previous arguments on the
merits of the federal income tax. Mr..
Chenler declared he was in favor of any
kind of an income tax with proper re-
strictions and maintained that he va the
only Assemblyman who had paid an in
come tax in foreign country Mr. Mer-
rift majority leader. said the state didn't
need to impose an income tax now. but
might in the future, and the question was
we'll worth looking into.
When Il came 70 voting. the House itself
got tied into q hard knot in its own red
tape The report of the Rules Committee
was rejected Then the Speaker declared
the resolution before the House, and de
spite objections his ruling stood. Next
motion to recomnt the resolution was
made and declared lost After that mo
ton 70 reconsider the vote by which 1t
cred. and finally. with due ceremony, the
resolution replanted in Rules Committee
by unanimous consent"
In the Senate Senator Hamilton succeed
ed in introducing his resolution for the
state income tax. It was referred to the
Finance Committee.
The Senate judiciary Committee tonight
decided to report Senator Davel4 lrt s reso-
luton providing for the ratificau non of the
general belief that the Senate will kill the
resolution a the Assembly did
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
MASONs' NEW GRAND MASTER
Visit Of Orphans Brings Contributions
of $4,000 for Utica Home

Robert Judson Kenworthy. of this city.
was duly installed grand master of Masons
for the State of New York in the grand
lodge room of sthe Masonic Temple yester-
dav afternoon This ceremony. including
the installation of the other officers, was
performed in the presence of masters Of
lodges from cities in almost every county
In the state Justice X Nelson Sawyer the
retiring grand master. was the installing
officer.
AS direct result OF the visit to the grand
lodge on Wednesday of tho ninety-two or.
phan children from the Masonic Home n
Utica. affording the assembled Masons a
practical demonstration OF the work being
done up there, 5000 was contributed yes
terday for the home at Utica.
Resolutions were adopted authorizing the
trustees OF the Masonic Temple TO improve
the o3d street corner by razng the present
building and erecting upon the ground an
other Masonic structure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
ANOTHER ATTACK ON VAIL
Hotchkiss Says He Intended to
Mislead Department-Denial.

Poughkeepsie. y. Y Nav 5-Superin-
tendent Hotchkies of the State Insurance
Department in a letter written to the dj-
rectors of the Duchess Fire Insurance
Company, made public to-day, again crit
icises President Lewis H. Vail. whose re-
moval the Superintendent has recommend
ed. One OF The charges made by the ST.
perintendent in his letter 20 the directors
is.
On December .. 1909. in response to a
request by Tie department that il be fur
nlshed information as to the assets OF ne
OLD company-thls to the end that in
quiries from California claimants might
be answered-ex-Presiden Vail wrote The
present superintendent: Il can assure you
that there Is very little left, probably not
more than enough 10 take care of out
STANDING claims and a fair compensation
ing and winding up the affairs of the old
company when the facts were. as then
known 10 him. that. though the outstand-
ing claims did not amount TO more than
1900 there was upward of $50 900 of as
sets unquestionably vested in the old com
pany, 10 say nothing OF outstanding and
coilectihe claims in its favor against the
lev company 70 the amount of Sl5.OO0. and
upward of $4,000 IL securities held BY
Frank B. Lawn and belonging either 10
the cold company or 10 It's stockholders IN
the Judgment Of the department the state
him 20 mislead the department IN such
representations as y would make 10 per-
sons inqul-ing or II concerning the con
dition of the old company.
The Superintendent makes fourteen spe-
c'fc charges and in closing his letter he
So vs.:
The Z poye does not by any means include
all % the transactions OF President Vail
which subject him TO criticism. Those
given are, however. In the judgment OF
the department, sufficient 80 warrant the
statement that he has beer guilty of many
practices which make 81 impossible that
10 be longer intrusted with the executive
management of your company. This - en-
phatlcaDy so when IL is recalled that ne
excused many Of these Irregularities by the
statement That ether company officers have
done the same thing. and that, anyway, no
loss has resulted 10 any one.
For the q boye reasons Mr.. Wallis useful
ness as the executive Of your company is
st an end and its further continuance in
business with MIN as its head is, in the
judgment Of the department, out OF the
question.
President Lewis H. Vail said tonight
that he would make q fun answer to each
ard every one Of Mr.. Hotchkisss speci-
hcations He denounced the Sup-rinteld-
ents letter as full Of misrep. esenta tions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
INCOME TAX MEN HOPEFUL
Senate Must Still Vote on Resolution
in Massachusetts,.

Boston. May 5.-Advocates of the income
tax have not yet given up hope of plac-
ing Massachusetts on the affirmative side
of the question, despite the adverse action
of the lower branch of the Legislature yes
terday Under the rules of the Legislature
the Senate also must act on the report
of the joint committee on federal relations
whose decision against the tax was att
fed in the House yesterday by vote of
126 to l01, out Of total membership of
$40
IF the Senate differs from the House and
substitutes the resolution favoring a tax
on incomes for the adverse report, and
then adopts the resolution. the House must
again act on the question.
The majority against the resolution in
the House yesterday was so decisive that
no attempt was made to-day To obtain re-
but the income tax support
ers insisted that they had not given up the
fight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
MORE TETLOW "WIVES."
Pittsburg Police Think He May
Have Forty.
r6v Telegraph to The Tribune J


Fittsburg, May 5.-Interest in the case of
Colonel James T. Tetlow, who has gone
to New York with eighteen-yesr Ethel
Jordan. and who has been sued on a
bigamy charge by her sister, who believed
herself to he his wife. reased here to-
day when wife No I came forward from
West Virginia. ard wife No. was placed
by runor in South Dakota In the mean
time wife No. /, who appeared yesterday
in the person of Anna Rohl Tetlow, of the
North Side produced data to show that
she had been at one time publicly &C
knowledged by the colonel as Mrs. Tet-
low
The police say that if half the tales told
by the wives already found are true. Tet-
CIV has probably forty different women
calling him husband in different parts of
the United States Tet1ow and Ethel Jor-
dan. his companion. wrote a joint letter
to Ptttsburg paper from New York yes
erday denying that he had married Clara
Jordan. who Is suing him here.
In the same mail, sent from the Grand
Central Station. New York, Tetlow writes
wife No. ?. addressing her as Mrs.
lara Tetlow, saying: What's the use Of
licking? We're both happy" The letter
is signed James
Anna Pohl. who appeared yesterday as
wife No. !, turned over her marriage GER
i1cate and some data to the police to-day.
One postal card sent her in fellows hand
writing recently is addressed 70 Mrs.
Anna Teresl TetIpw," and reads: We will
always be sweethearts. won't We? Don't
you love Your hubby, Anna? I'll bet you
DO And I love you, too This is signed
col"
Edith Ebling. of Leatherwood. w Va. as
serted to-day that she was married to Tet-
ow in Wheeling or July 10. 1905, and
ived with him in Pittsburg more than a
year. "He few when I showed him a
letter from another wife ir Sioux Falls"
aid Miss FhIine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
CHILD WELFARE DINNER
Committees in Charge of Fall Exhibit
in Conference at Harvard Club.

The general committee in charge Of the
Child welfare Exhibit gave a dinner. fol-
lowed by a conference. last night at tie
Harvard club. at which many men promi-
nent in sociological work in this city were
present The Child Welfare Exhibit, which
will be held in November at the list Regi-
r,ent Arnory, is expected to give vivid
and comprehensive picture of child life in
the city of New York
Tho New York Child Welfare Committee
hoe heen incorporated to study the subject
and six committees are now actively en-
paped in gathering data. George E. Ide
presided at the dinner last night. and adj
gg ~ u.ere made by DR.. Walter l.. Har-
" profeasor T. r. A. Seligman. Pro-
lessor Charles r. Richards, Professor AL
hcI-t zoe and Roy Smith Wallace.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
BILLS SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
Canal Terminal Commission Gets An
other Year-Trip Abroad Assured.

Albany. May 5.-Governor Hughes to-day
signed the bill of Senator Allen extending
for a year the life of the commission ap-
pointed a year ago TO investigate the ques-
ton Of providing canal terminal facilities
and authorizing an inspection of water
terminals abroad. The commission receives
additional $1,000 for the continuance of
its work.
The Governor also signed these bills:
Senator Hill. appropriating 100000 for
the year beginning October ! next, for the
construction and Improvement Of high
ways.
Mr.. Oliver. providing for the sale Of per
sonal property TO satisfy the liens of keep
ers of hotels. apartment hotels. inns board
ing and lodging houses. and for the sale at
public auction after six months of I'M
claimed articles covered by liens.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
PRAISES PRIMARY LAW
Senator Bourne Tells of Results
in Oregon.
ELECTION OF CHAMBERLAIN
Interference by Republican Com
mittee Officials Alleged-Dis-
cussion of Patronage.
. IFrorn The Tribune Bureau ]

Washington. May 5.-A speech by Sen
ator Bourne. OF Oregon. this afternoon
praisins the election Law OF his state.
brought on a general debate on the aues-
ton of representative government. which
dealt especially with the effect on the
Southern States Of the present system of
selecting federal officials for that part of
the country Mr.. Bourne defended the
primary system of Oregon, and referred to
an alleged effort on the part of certain
officers of the Republican National Com
nittee TO defeat the election of Governor
Chamberlain to the Senate after he had
carried the primary. He said that one OF
Mr.. Hitchcock's assistants had promised
federal appointments to certain members of
the Legislature if they would disregard
their pledges to the electorate This refer
ence TO the Postmaster General started a
discussion regarding federal patronage
Senator Bacon complained of the referee
system, in vogue in the South. while Sen
atoT Carter made some suggestions for
elimina ting politics from the Postoffice De-
partment and appointing all postmasters on
merit.
Mr. Bourne declared that his state has
evolved the best form of popular govern
ment that exists in the world to-day" He
defended the election by the Oregon Legis-
lature of his Democratic colleague. Senator
Chamberlain. charaetertzing it as the
( highest kind of evidence of the efficacy of
the law Mr. Bourne said
At the general election in June Senator
Chamberlain defeated Mr. Cake. notwith-
standing the state was Overwhelmingly Re
publican, thereby developing from the
Democratic candidate into the peoples
choice for United States Senator. The nor
NAL Republican majority in Oregon, I
think, is from 1000 to $1,000 With full
recognition of Governor Chamberlain abil-
ity and fitness for the office the fact that
for nearly six years he made the best Gov
ernor Oregon ever had, and considering
that undoubtedly he is the most popular
man in our state. 7 deem Ii but just to
the law and proper answer to the Criti-
Cism of enemies of the law that il de-
stroys party lines and integrity TO state
received the votes of several thousand Re
publican enemies of the law. who believed
that in selecting Governor Chamberlain.
Democrat they would prevent a Repub1-
can Legislature from ratifying the peoples
Selection, obeying the peoples instructions
and electing United States Senator the
individual, regardless of party. that the
people might select for that office. Thus
they hoped TO make the primary law and
statement No. 1 odious and sought Ito ere
ate what they thought would be an impos-
sible condition by forcing upon Republi-
ca n Legislature for confrua ton the popu-
larry designated Democratic candidate for
United States Senator.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
ADOPTS DAUGHTER AT rs YEARS
Child" Is 40 Years Old and Assumes
Rights of Heir.

Pittsburz MAY 5-Judge John D Hay
maker entered an adoption order IN an
unusual case to-day which makes Ida
Selma Light, forty years old the daughter
Of Mary l. Mcintosh. who * seventy-stx-
Neither woman has ever married ard
neither has heirs.
The order Of court gives the adopted
woman the rights Of child and her a1d
dirscte that she shall be subject to the
duties of such child.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
NEW GRAFT CONFESSION
Whites Story Corroborated,
Saws Chicago Prosecutor.

Chicago. May 5.-After the grand jury,
which is Investigating Senator Lorfmer
election, adjourned today States Attorney
Wayn1sn declared he had obtained con-
fession from a member of the state Lesis-
lature who, Wayman says, admitted re-
ceiving $1,000 for his vote for Senator Lori
mer. This mans story. which is alleged to
confirm Representative Charles A Whites
charges of bribery. was related to the Grand
jury to-day, wayman said.
Summoned to appear before the grand
Jury. Representatives H. ]. C. Beckmeyer
and Henry A. Sheppard called at Mr.. Way-
mans Office to-day. Harry Alderman. A
merchant OF CentraIia. ILL.,, also appeared
In addition TO those named. the States At
torney declared that Representatives Mich
ael S. Link and Joseph s. Clark would pe
witnesses.
Link Clark and Sheppard are alleged by
Representative White. according to his con-
fession as printed in THE Chicago Trib-
une," to have been at st. Louis last sum-
mer when the legislative Jackpot was dis
tributed. Great secrecy as to the testimony
OF the witnesses is being maintained.
Springfield. ILL.,. May 5.-That the clash
of authority between State Attorneys Way
man of Cook County and Burke of San
canon County over jurisdiction in the in
vestigation of alleged legislative bribery
might interfere with justice. is the opin-
ion expressed to-day by Attorney General
William H Stead in letter.
1T appears from public statements"
says the letter, that promises and pay
ments were made both in Springfield and
Chicago
II think the investigation should be pros
ecuted vigorously in both places and the
authorities should work in harmony. so
that the charges may be thoroughly sifted,
to the end that all innocent persons may
be indicated and the guilty persons, II
any promptly and vigorously prosecuted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-06
PRIMARY MEASURE ADVANCED
Direct Nominations Long Step Nearer
In Massachusetts,

Boston, Nay 5.-A long step toward di-
rect nominations was taken by the Senate
to-day in passing 10 q third reading the
tiT which makes this provision for mem
'ers OF the Legislature, provided it is ac-
cepted b. the voters at the next election.
Agitation for direct nominations OF po-
l-ical candidates has been in progress for
come years. and within the last ten years
ras been made 10 apply 20 Senate and
Louise OF Representative candidates in Bos-
ton ana several other districts
The bill. which the Senate acted on To-
Gay oy vote OF q TO 70. was Drawn by
Speaker Walker Of the House, aad becomes
operative IL the fall OF 1911 1t has vet TO
-, si-e the approval % the House