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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
ESCORT NABUC0 BODY
BRAZILIAN BATTLESHIP MAX.
ING READY AT NORFOLK.
Remains to Leave Washington for
Norfolk on the Mayfower To-
morrow Afternoon.

NORFOLK, Va, March 15.-Everything
was today being put in readiness aboard
the Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes
for the arrival of the body of Ambas-
sador Nabuco on the morning Of the 18th
instant. It's transfer from the Mayflower
to the American cruiser North Carolina
will take place Immediately upon the
Mayfiower's arrival, and the program is
for the North Carolina and Minas Ge-
raes to get under way for Rio de Janeiro
Thursday afternoon or Friday morning
at the latest.
The Minas today dropped back into
Hampton roads from her anchorage in
the mouth of the Elizabeth river, where
she was coaled, and under skies of blue,
though with temperature not far from
the freezing point, her crew were finish
ing up the work Of painting and cleaning
ship, begun yesterday.
Practically all her officers who went to
New York, Washington and other cities
are today back on the ship. Capt. Alze-
vedo, Brazilian naval attache, returned ia
Old Point from Washington today and
spent several hours with Commander
Neves on the Minas.
Military and civic honors will mark the
transfer of the body of the Brazilian am
bassador. Joaquin Nabuco, from the vault
In Oak Hill cemetery to the armored
cruiser North Carolina in Hampton roads
Tomorrow afternoon about = o'clock the
body will be placed on a gun caisson al
the cemetery and escorted by a troop OF
cavalry to the Washington navy yard
where it will be placed on the President
yacht, Mayfower, and taken to Hampton
roads to be transferred to the North Car
olina, by which it is to be carried to Rio
de Janeiro. The American warship will
be escorted to the Brazilian capital by the
new Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes,
cial purpose A guard of honor consisting
of members of the diplomatic corps and
representatives of the United States gov
ernment will accompany the body from
this. city to the North Carolina. E. L
Chermont. one OF the secretaries of the
Brazilian embassy, will go to Rio on the
North Carolina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
BRITISH NAVY PROGRAM
ANNOUNCED IN COMMONS
Expenditure of Over $2OO, 900, 900
Is Proposed for the Building
Of New Battleships.

LONDON, March 5-Introducing the
navy estimates in the house of com ].
mons yesterday. Reginald McKenna,
first lord Of admiralty. expressed regret
that he was unable to hold out any
hope for the future of a decline in
the estimates. He defended the present
large increase, which he said had been
rendered necessary by the building
programs OF foreign nations. An ex-
penditure Of over $500, 100000 was i'm
perative to properly safeguard the Sc
curity Of the country and to provide
against contingencies.
Mr.. McKenna explained that, count
ing the Australian and New Zealard
ships, which would still be in British
waters, Great Britain would have ia
the summer Of 1912 twenty-five Dread
noughts, while in the following Jan .
uary, FIVE Dreadnoughts In addition to
this years program would be added TO
the feet, and thus Great Britain's Sc
curity through this type OF ship would
be absolutely safe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
FATAL EXPLOSION ON BOAT.
One Man Killed, Two Mortally In
iured and Vessel Sunk.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March 15.-John
Varble Of Fort Fulton, Ind, is dead, two
men will die, another is missing and the
towboat r. L. Aubrey of the Peoples
Coal Company, Pittsburg, is at the bot
tom of the river as a result 'of the ex-
plosion OF the boats boiler last night on
the Ohio, five miles above this city.
Capt. John w. Buttontield of Pitts
burg and John Dorsey, a fleet hand of
Jeffersonville, are in the Jeffersonville
Hospital and cannot live, and Porter
Lewis, the boats fireman, who was In the
boiler room at the time Of the explosion,
is missing. Varble was pilot of the ves-
sci.
Twelve other members of the crew were
blown into the river by the explosion and
were rescued by the crew of the steamer
Fulton.
The r. L. Aubrey left Jeffersonville for
Cincinnati yesterday. The boat sank al
most Immediately after the explosion and
the six barges she was towing f1oa<ed
down the river.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
AMERICAN HORSES UNPLACED.
Entries by Belmont and Whitney
Lose at Lincoln, England.

LONDON. March 15.-The Brooklesby
Trial stakes. handicap of two SOW
ereigns each, with one hundred SOW
ereigns added, for three-year-olds and up
ward, distance five furIongs, run Lin
coin today, was won by Corinthian.
Coastwise was second and Rawera third
Twenty-six horses ran. Among the
starters were H. P. Whitney's Yorkville
Belle and August Belmont's Hasty Pud-
ding, but they were unplaced.
The Lincolnshire handicap of 1 800 SOW
ereigns. for three-year-o and upward,
distance the straight mile, was won "
Cinderella. Forerunner III was second
and August Belmont's Norman Ill, third
II. p. W,hitney's Delirium started hot
favorite with the odds at 4 to /, but
managed to pass the post only in fourth
place. The betting was to l against
Cinderella, 40 to l against Forerunner III
and SO TO ! against Norman Ill. Twenty
seven horses started
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
MEXICO MAY GET ISLAND.
Cession by United States in Return
for Chamizal Zone Likely.

Ell PASO, Texas. March 15.-Intense ex-
element was aroused yesterday by a
telegram from Mayor Joseph U. Sweeney
of Ell Paso, now in consultation with the
State Department at Washington, on the
Mexican boundary dispute to the effect
that the department was considering a
proposition to cede San Ell Izario Island
in the Rio Grande. thirty miles below
FL Paso, to Mexico In consideration OF
the REIMBURSEMENT Of MeXico's claim to
the Chamizal zone.
The Chamizal zone includes all the
southern portion of Ell Paso. 1t has 5000
American inhabitants and is valued at
$5.00O,O0O 1t has been recognized as
American soil for fifty years. San FL
Izario Island contains several thousand
acres, and was declared American terri
tory by the boundary commission in 1897.
FL PaSo citizens are circulating pe-
tftion protesting against the suggested
cession.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
WORK Of BLACK Handlers
TERRORIZE WORKERS ON THE
ROCKEFELLER ESTATE.
New York Detectives Aiding State
Authorities in Search for Gang
Of Thugs.

NEW YORK, March 15.--New York
detectives today are aiding the West
chester county authorities in trying to
run down band Of Black Handlers which
has terrorized the workmen on the John
D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills
and whose latest exploit was the kidnap-
ing Of the four-year-old son Of Leonard
Decarlo. The boy was found several
miles away from home in the custody of
two woman agents of the blackmailers,
who became frightened and ned when
questioned by a trolley conductor. The
trolleyman's suspicion had been excited
by the crying of the child and the wom-
ems actions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
National Bowling Congress.

DETROIT, Mich, March 15.-The out
of-town men finished their rolling today
in the tenth annual tournament of the
American Bowling Congress. and tonight
and tomorrow will see nothing but De-
troit bowlers on the alleys. The 2,SSO of
the Cosmos of Chicago is generally be-
lieved to be good enough to win the first
prize of $500 for the fiye-man team event.
Fort Wayne, Kansas City, Cleveland,
Cincinnati and New York We're among
the principal cities represented on the
days schedule.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
Action Was Anticipated.

It ie known that representatives Of the
general managers committee have been
in Washington for several days, prepared
and fully authorized to make the appli-
cation in the form it was presented to-
day as soon as failure of the negotiations
at Chicago should be indicated
1t is expected in Washington that the
representatiy es of the employees will CO.
operate with the railway officials in the
effort to ADJUST the controversy by medi-
alton, as they heretofore have indicated
their willingness to submit the dispute
to the mediation Of Chairman Knapp and
DIR EetIl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
Police Have Clues.

;, The gang now operating on and near
the Rockefeller estate is believed to be
the sam. Us that which four or five years
ago was i,,ve stigated and it's operations
temporarily checked by the late Lieut.
Petrosino. The terrorized workmen on the
estate can be induced to say but little
about the blackmailers' extortiOns, but
the police are working on clues that it is
hoped will result in the final breaking up
of the gang.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
METHODIST COLLEGE BURNS.
Students Escape From Collegiate
Institute at Fort Edward. N. Y.

GLENS FALLS, y. Y, March 15.-The
Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, at Fort
early today, entailing a loss of S75,OOO
The students. seventy-five in number,
escaped, but a watchman was slightly in
jured
seventy years ago by the Troy Methodist
Conference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
Strike May Take Place
REGARDLESS of Mediation

CHICAGO, March 15.-The date and
hour of calling the strike of the f1remen
IL the western railroads were decided
upon by the union officials committee to-
day. and the committee adjourned until
this afternoon without announcing the
time when the strike would be called.
President Carter OF the union said that
In his opinion the committee would order
the strike regardless Of the mediation
proposal.
This afternoon the committee OF union
officials will assemble, and if a telegram
from Chairman Knapp is received It will
ceived it is the expressed determination
of the union committee to conclude its
business after deciding whether to make
public the date of calling the strike, al
ready fixed on.
Text of the Ultimatum.
The ultimatum of the union committee
was sent last night to Chairman w. c.
Nixon of the managers committee. ;.
reads as follows:
wv. C. Nixon, chairman of the mana
gers committee. Chicago.
Dear Sir: Your letter Of aMrch IA,
| wherein you say the managers commit
tee reaffrmed its former refusal to arbi.
| trate all matters in controversy, has
been received and has been given serious
consideration
1.-The refusal of the managers commit
| tee to arbitrate article and article on
| the plea that another organizations In
| terests are involved will not he accepted
| by our committee for the reason that we
are only requesting the restoration of a
rule and practice which our members
railroad managers advocated the nullilca.
| tion of such rules. thereby depriving GER
| tain enginemen of rights which are ac-
corded to every other employe In the serv-
| ice of the railways represented by the
managers committee.
Our committee authorizes me to ex.
| press to the managers committee regre,
that our conferences are thus brought te
close without having reached a solution
of the matters in dispute and to advise
you that our committee has authorized
the men affected to withdraw from the
! service. (Signed)
"By order of the committee,
wv. s. CARTER,
| president Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen."
Surprise to the Enginemen.
| News from Washington that the con
troversy would be submitted to media
/ tion under the Erdman act came as q
surprise to the officials Of the firemen'l
and engineman's union, while they were
| in session 10 decide on the hour when tn.
strike should be called.
! While no direct intimation of the time
| for calling the strike was given by the
union officials 1t was intimated that the
date for calling out the men would give
| them time to reach their homes before
receiving notice to quit work. Others
| may be given hint not to start out or
long trips.
/. Many of the firemen are on such run.
| and some of them could not get back u
| Continued on Eighth Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
Chicago Idle St. Patrick's Day.

+ CHICAGO. ILL.,, March 15.-The city
council passed an order last night max
ing March IL holiday in honor of the
visit Of President Taft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15

y-Three Persons Drowned.
LISBON. March ia Portuguese bark
sailing from Pico, one Of the Azores Is
lands. has been lost and thirty-three per-
sons drowned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
UPHELD BY BOWERS MAY AVOID STR|KE'
Submits Defense of Corpora Western Railroads Ask Gov
ton Tax Provision. ernment Mediation.
MANY ARGUMENTS USED |ENGINEMEN FIX ON DATE
to Be May Time Spite
Carrying Business of General Managers Move
NOT DIRECTLY PROPERTY SURPRISE TO UNION
in
ced-No Unreasonable Search Awaiting Notice Chair
or
Western Railroads Ask Gov
ernment Mediation.
ENGINEMEN FIX ON DATE
May Go Out at Time Set in Spite
Of General Managers Move.
SURPRISE TO UNION OFFICIALS
Committee in Session in Chicago
Awaiting Notice From Chair
man Knapp.

Mediation under the Erdman act has
been requested Of the controversy that
has arisen between the railway lines oper-
ating westward out Of Chicago and their
$1,000 firemen and enginemen. The appli-
cation for mediation was made by the
railroads. The request will be granted.
Immediately after Chairman Knarp OF
the interstate commerce commission ar
rived at his office today representatives
Of the railroad general managers COM
mittee presented to him the application
Of the railroad officials for mediation OF
the trouble. The application was form
al statement Of the lines involved in
the controversy and was signed by W.
c. Nixon, chairman OF the general man
ayers committee.
The request was for the mediation OF
the difficulty that had arisen on the sub
jects of wages, hours of labor and con-
ditions Of employment between the for
ty-seven roads involved and the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En-
ginemen.
It was requested in the application
that the mediators, Chairman Knapp and
DIR. Neill. commissioner of labor, enter
into communication with w. S. Carter,
president of the brotherhood, with view
to an amicable adjustment OF the
trouble.
To Begin Immediately.
Chairman Knapp assured the represent
atives Of the general managers that he
and DIR. Neill would take up the matter
Immediately, and, if necessary, would go
to Chicago in an effort to adjust the
controversy.
Chairman Knapp and DIR. Neill had a
conference during tie early part Of the
day to determine upon what they would
do. Chairman Knapp was engaged in
the morning in some important confer
ences with other commissioners of inter-
state commerce. It appears not unlike
ly that, II the telegraphic communication
with President Carter is satisfactory, one
or both Of the mediators will leave
Washington today for Chicago.
The application for mediation made by
thee general managers committee is COM
prehensive in scope. 1t includes not mere
ly the question, Of wages, which is the
crux Of the dispute, but also hours of Ia
Dor and conditions of employment. In
fact. it covers every phase Of the diff
Guilty that has arisen between the roads
and their employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
Some Proprieties Observed.

Some resorts have a manager who will
call down the young man who forgets
himself so far as to place his arm across
the shoulders of the girl he is entertain
ing. And there are other places where
they are not quite SO careful.
But despite any qualms of managerial
conscience in matters of this kind. the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
Democrats Garry Maine Cities.

PORTLAND, Me, March 15.-Democrats
won the mayoralty election in three of
the five Maine cities balloting yesterday.
They recapt,rred Augusta and made big
gains in Bangor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
Franchises Not. Included.

Finally. on this point Mr. Bowers con-
tends that franchises cannot be the sne.
ciiic subject OF the tax. as no tax is i'm
posed in any way unless business is
actually done.
The second point Mr.. Bowers seeks to
make Is that the tax is not a direct tax
upon the shares Of the stockholders nor
upon their incomes The reasons given
for the tax not being a direct tax on
property are held to apply to the claim
that il Is not direct tax on the shares
of income OF stockholders.
The third point is that tho tax does
not become direct in the special case of
a company engaged in the business of
landlng or dealing In real estate Five
OF the hfteen cases for consideration by
Ine court involve such corporations Mr.
Bowers claims that they raise no con.
sttuuonal question, but only the query
as 10 whether they are engaged in car
rying on or doing business" II any
corporation IN not so engaged II is not
iedcneo Dy the statute, he argues
Ihe fourth point Mr.. Bowers seeks to
establish IS that the tax Is not an infrac-
tion of the general power of the states 10
authorize the formation of corpora tions
and joint stock companies Even II the
tax were on franchises OF a state cornora
tion, he says, it still would he a tax on
the legislative power of the state. Cor
porate franchises, he adds, grow out of
an offer by the state and the act of free
choice of election by the person to whom,
the of1er Is extended. Hence, he con-
cludes, franchises are created not by the
state, but by the persons who accept
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
Refers to Income Tax Cases.

In his consideration OF cases bearing
upon the point of whether the corporation
tax was direct tax or an excise, Mr..
Bowers refers to the famous income tax
cases. He says these cases have been
interpreted, undoubtedly with the con-
currence of the entire Supreme Court, as
referring to a tax imposed upon property
solely by reason of its ownership.
That must mean,' says the solicitor
general, "a tax upon property by reason
Of its mere existence or ordinary enjoy
ment. though the property Is not put to
some special use. A tax upon business is
not tax imposed upon property, solely
by reason of its ownership. for II the
property is not put to business use no tax
falls upon 1T or its income
1t Is in the argument that the tax is
not direct one that Mr.. Bowers first
considers the claim that, inasmuch as the
tax is not levied on partnerships or indi-
Niduals, but is put on corporations and
joint stock companies, it is therefore as
sessed on franchises. The, distinction be-
tween partnerships and individuals on the
one hand and corporations and joint stock
companies on the other is explained as
not proceeding from the presence or abb
sence of franchises. but from the wide
and important diversity of legal rules
affecting the two kinds of business" of
these two groups
Even If this tax were regarded merely
as tax upon the exercise or use of
franchises continues Mr. Bowers lin
stead OF pelng tax on the entire con-
duct or transaction of business under
many special conditions, II would be al
logether different from a direct tax on
ihe franchises themselves A tax upon
the use of franchises in business is no
more direct tax upon the franchise
,han q tax upon the use of property in
10 used"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
May Tax State Corporations.

No authority exists, Mr.. Bowers con-
tinues, that holds or even suggests" that
the United States cannot tax the fran
chises OF a state corporation, established
for ordinary business purposes, on the
theory that such federal tax will inter-
fere with legislative independence OF the
states in their own sphere.
1T does not follow, and is not true
he contends, that the United States may
not by taxation burden or hamper the
operations of n state law, because a state
may not by taxation burden or hamper
the operations of a law of the United
States"
This statement is explained the
CONTINUED on Eleventh Page)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
Reasons Given.

These reasons. together with the deci-
sion of the Supreme Court in the Spree
kels case, which the solicitor general ex-
plains as holding that a tax declared In
the statute to be laid on business i'm an
amount equivalent to certain percent
age Of the income is an excise tax on the
business, are taken by him as sufficient
10 show that the corporation tax is an
excise on the transaction of business.
However, he proceeds to cite cases to
prove that although the tax were laid on
the income of business. it would still be
excise upon the business. A list of In
heritance tax cases is cited to shaw it is
excise tax.
IF a tax upon the exercise of the right
TO receive property, personal OF real, by
inheritance is not direct tax on the
property. though (as was true Of all the
federal inheritance tax laws the inher-
tance tax is measured by the value OF the
inherited property" says the solicitor
general. 'tit must be equally true that a
tax upon the exercise Of the right to use
property in one or another kind OF blsi-
ness-especially under the peculiar condi-
tions and advantages of corporate busi-
neSS-iS not a direct tax"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15
Submits Defense of Corpora
tiOn Tax Provision.
MANY ARGUMENTS USED
Declared to Be Excise Levy on
Carrying On of Business"
NOT DIRECTLY UPON PROPERTY
Shares of Stockholders Are Not At
fected-No Unreasonable Search
or Seizure.

The governments defense of the con-
stitutionality of the corporation tax pro-
vision of the new tariff law was submit
ted today in printed form to the Supreme
Court of the United States. 1t is the
work of Lloyd W.~Bowers. solicitor gen.
eral, but bears also the signature Of his
chief, Attorney General Wickersham.
Upon it the government will shape its
oral defense of the law, when the cor
poration tax cases come up for argument,
probably Thursday.
The first point sought to be made is
that the tax is not a direct tax upon
property. but is an excise tax upon "the
carrying on or doing business The dec
laratons of the statute. as we'll as deci-
sions of the courts. are relied upon to
support this point.
As to the statute, Mr.. Bowers says in
lis brief that it shows the transaction
Of business to be the subject of the tax
and that the income of the business is
used merely as means of measuring the
amount of tax. which rests not upon
that income. but upon the occupation
from which il is derived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-15

CONTINUED on Eleventh Page)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
LINCOLN
WlscAssE1.

Mrs. William Graham of Dresden was
in town Wednesday.
Mrs w. G. Hubbard visited the Old
Ladies' Home in Bath Friday.
Mrs. Pendleton is very ill at her home
at Flag Corner.
The Maine branch of the Woman's Aux
Hilary held its quarterly meeting at St.
Philips church Monday and Tuesday.
George Webb, who has been in the
Maine General Hospital for treatment the
past month, has returned home feeling
nicely.
Mrs. L. II. Dorr and Mrs. r. A. Bick-
ford of Dresden Mills, We're in town the
first of the week as delegates to the Wo-
mans Auxiliary held here.
Miss Bessie Maloy, who has been visit
ing in Dorchester, Mass. is now very
seriously i'll in the Massachusetts Cen
eral Hospital.
Herbert Pushard is visiting relatives in
Massachusetts.
Mr. Wesley Siegars, an aged resident of
of this town, died at his home on the
Sheepscot road Thursday morning after
a long illness.
Mrs Mason has been called to Boston
by the illness of her daughter Bessie
Maloy.