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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
Many Members Still Anxious to
Speak on Measure.
WOOL AND WOOLENS
The Next Subject to Be Taken
Up in House.
Senate Meets for the First Time
Since Monday.

Washington, May 4.-House leaders
today expressed the hope that the So
called farmers free list bill can be
brought to a vote on Saturday. Many
members are still pressing for time to
debate the measure, however, and
there may be further delay.
Chairman Underwood of the Ways
and means committee is anxious to get
the free list bill away so that his COM
mittee can go ahead with its proposed
revision of schedule ''K' of the Payne
Aldrich bill dealing with wool and
woolens The free list bill debate co1;-
tinued today.
The senate met to day for the first
time since Monday last. A fight had
been expected over the reopenine of the
Iorimer investigation following the ac-
ton of the senate committee on ex-
penditures in voting to favorably re-
port the LaFollette resolution so far
as the expense of another inquiry is
concerned but Senator LaFolIette an
nounced late yesterday that he would
not press it for consideration today,
preferring to await the return of 4
number of senators who are out of the
city. He is anxious to get a record vote
on the question as to whether the Lori
mer matter shall be referred again to
the committee on elections or whether
mittee named in the LaFollette resolu-
ton and consisting entirely of new
members of the senate.
Senator Borah in charge of the fight
for the direct election of senators had
announced he would today endeayor
to have the resolution embodyine that
legislation made the unfinished busi-
ness in the senate. The resolution re-
Gently passed the house and was IA
vorably reported by the senate Judi
ciary committee. AS the first measure
| to receive committee consideration in
the senate, there was every reason to
believe that this resolution would be
given the right of way pending discus
| sion of Canadian reciprocity by the
senate committee on finance,
| An attack on the Republican policy
of protection marked the continuation
of debate on the free list bill in the
house today. Representative Clayton
of Alabama denounced the imposition
| of which he declared were "prohibi.
tive'' duties.
| "The Republican party" he said
makes a tariff to restrain the Ameri.
can market; to give unnatural and un.
equal benefits to the favored interest
that have been fostered by the protec-
tive system and to allow them to ex.
lploit the American consumers by
charging them excessive prices"
He declared that Governor Wood.
Irow Wilson had given most timely ex
lpression to the Democratic policy wher
he said that programs had taken the
tplace of phillipics.''
The program that the Democrat:
are putting through in the house wa.
pointed to by Mr.. Clayton as proof o.
that assertion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
HIS TRAMP LIFE ENDS.
e. A. Brown, Millionaire, Urges Need
of Municipal Lodging Houses.

New York, May 4.-Edwin A. Brown
of Denver. famed as the millionaire
tramp because of his excursions in
search of information as to how the
"other half lives, is in New York to-
day at the end of his last excursion in
overaIIs. He is through seeing the
seamy side of life from the inside, he
other means his work of impressing
for the worthy poor.
prison walls in every section of the
country, always on the sole charge of
not having enough money to buy food
or a bed. The need of municipal lodg-
ing houses and similar institutions is
the same everywhere, he says. His
final trip. just completed, was through
southern cities.
Southern Trip Completed.
81 had hitherto visited, as a home
less man, every section except the
SOUTH" he said on his arrival here,
land I felt that my experience would
be incomplete until I had made a cir
cult of that section. I started in as a
tramp in Cleveland last fall. From
there I went to Cincinnati, Louisville,
Memphis, Mobile, Houston and Dallas.
Most of the southern cities are with
out facilities for sheltering the penni-
less stranger. Everywhere, however, I
found the people hospitable and deep
ly interested in helping the friendless. ="
Mr.. Brown will sail next month to
Europe to study the tramp problem in
Germany.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04

Hill, and the Stubbs mansion, too In
the big edition published by the K. U:
seniors no attempt is made to conceal
the cause of several pages of anguish.
Right fervently the seniors recite that
Roscoe's plea for economy hit the
wrong spot.
The big 400 page annual is being
published this week The evening OF
May Is, fifty ''newSies" will invade the
K. L. auditorium in the intermission
between the first and second acts OF
the annual senior play. Then they VIII
announce the advent Of redhot greet
ings right off the press. There VIII be
some wondrous things in the 1911 eol-
tion. Perhaps it. will be the greatest
college publication ever printed IN the
west. In the edition are nearly $50
cartoons and about 100 half tones.
But above all is the college attack
of the chief executive. In g, two column
cartoon by Maloy, Stubs is painted as
Brutus and Kansas university as Gao
sar. Then in a second cartoon the
student body pokes fun at Roscoe be-
cause Of his slaughter of appropriation
bills for educational institutions. The
slap at the governor by the 'Jayhawk-
err is one of the big screams of the
edition. 1t will probably arouse more
general comment in the state than
any previous effort made by a college
publication.
George w. Russell, who is in To-
peka experimenting the mechanical
end of the publication is highly pleased
with this years showing.
I'VE expect the 1911 Jayhawker to
be a great success" declared Russell,
land anticipate an unusually heavy
sale. 1 believe the work on the edi-
tion is in every way superior to any
thing ever produced by a Kansas
school. An especially good showing
has been made by a number of anna
teur cartoonists.
'SThere has been much discussion
among the student body" continued
Russell, concerning the attitude of
the governor and the state administra-
ton toward appropriations for educa-
tional institutions. This is especially
true in Lawrence, Mr. Stubbs' home
town. 1 think there is no question but
that the Jayhawker has gone on record
in mighty certain tones"
The press work and composition on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04

troduced to show that the young cou-
pie did not arrive in Olathe until 8
o'clock, too late for any possible church
services. Then he spoke of the moth
er's absence
This is the most pathetic case 1 have
ever tried,' he said. The death of the
young girl was a sad one"
The eagerness of the prosecutors for
notoriety, the attorney for defense said,
had been responsible for the laying bare
of Frances Peters shame, which should
have been hid from the world.
Mr.. Brewster said testimony would
be introduced showing that Frances Pc
ters had not been an innocent girl be-
fore she met Bickel and that she was
accustomed to the use of antiseptic tab
let's.
when L told him the tablets con-
tanned mercury, the young man SEEM
ed much surprised" DIR. Greene testt-
fed. Then he asked me if the drug
gists had any right to sell such medi-
cine. He desired to know whether
Frances would get well. informed him
that she probably would die. My God,
l will kill myself if she dies!' Bickel
exclaimed" >"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
CLOAK OF PIETY USED.
BicIxeI Thus Accomplished Ruin of
Girl, State Attorney Says.

Olathe, Kan, May 4.-Chancy Little,
county attorney, set forth the state s
accusation against Bickel here. He as
serted that the young man, DIVINITY
student and editor of the religious pub
lication, had induced the girl to ac-
company him to Olathe on pretense
of hearing him preach.
Under this cloak of piety and right
eo1sness," the attorney said, 'Blckel
led this young girl to her ruin ana
DEATH
Mr.. Little did not refer to the alb
sence of the girls mother at the trial
but laid great stress upon the fact that
Frances had been her mothers support.
AS the attorney told of the happiness
the young people had planned ana then
of the death of the girl tears were seen
coursing down one jurors cheeks. Mr.
Rrewster said testimony would be in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
STRIKE IS SPREADING.
Pennsylvania Railroad Continues to
Fill Vacant Places With New Men.

Pittsburg, Pa, May 4.-The Penn
sylvania railroad shopmen strike is
spreading. About three hundred men
employed in the shops of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago rail-
road on the north side Joined the
movement today and it was said men
along the lines between Pittsburg and
Alliance, Ohio, would also go out to-
day. Two hundred men quit work at
the Verone shops on the Conemaugh
branch of the Pittsburg division. The
railroad company continues to place
new men in the different shops. No
disorder has been reported.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
Treat All Offenders Alike.

committing it are members of labor
union.
Treat All Offenders Alike.
''This is an iniquity as gross as it
would have been if when three years
ago the sugar trust was indicted for
swindling operations in the New York
customs house the forces of organized
capital had been put behind the in
dicted men on the ground that the at
tack on capitalists guilty of crime
meant an attack on all capital.
Undoubtedly there have been re-
peated cases where representatives of
capital have thus endeavored to prevent
successful assault on abuses commit
ted in the interest of capital; and in
every such case no matter how
wealthy or influential the offender the
Outlook believes that he should be
condemned.
TT now takes the same attitude when
the question is one of Identifying the
cause of unionism with alleged murder,
that it has always taken when the
question was one of identifying the
cause of capital with alleged corrup-
ton; and it appeals to the honest and
lawabiding laboring man exactly as it
appeals to the honest and 1awabid1ng
business man; for both are first of all,
American citizens whose attitude tow
ards the fundamental principle of NOR
ality and good citizenship must be iden-
tical.
1.-The question of organized labor or
organized capital or of the relations of
either with the community at large,
has nothing whatever to do with this
issue. All we arc now concerned with
is the grave and vital questions of fact
whether or not the accused men have
been guilty of murder and of murder
under circumstances of peculiar foul
ness and atrocity.
whether we do or do not approve
the policy of the Los Angeles Times
and the Outlook very heartily disap-
proves of its policy on certain matters
has nothing whatever to do with the
question; the stern repression of muir
derouS violence above all under circum-
stances Of such cowardly infamy as
always accompany the use of dynamite
must, of necessity be a prime need of
any civilization calling itself such.
whether the man attacked is capi-
talist or a socialist, wage Garner or
a professional man. has nothing what
ever to do with the question; and
whether the man attacking him does
or does not belong to any organization
whether of labor or capital, whether
social or religious has nothing to do
with the question. The one and only
question as to the guilt or the inno-
cence of the men accused. Any man
who seeks to have them convicted If
they are innocent is guilty of a crime
against the state, and any man who
seeks to have them acquitted If guilty
| is also guilty of a crime against the
| state. (Signed)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
BASEBALL WEATHER.
Western League.

Topeka at Lincoln, clear, 3:45 p. m.
Denver at Wichita, cloudy, 10:15 a. m.
Des Moines at ST. Joe, clear 3:45 p. m.
Sioux City at Omaha, clear, 3:45 p. m.
National League.
New York at Boston, clear, $3.50 p. m.
Brooklyn at Philadelphia, clear, $3.50
p. m.
st. Louis at Pittsburg, clear, $3.50 p. m.
Cincinnati at Chicago, clear, $3.50 p. m.
American League.
Boston at New York, clear, 4 p. m.
Philadelphia at Washington, clear,
$3.50 n. m.
Chicago at Cleveland, clear, $3.50 p. m.
Detroit at St. Louis, clear. $3.50 p. m.
American Association.
Indianapolis at Milwaukee, clear,
p. m.
Toledo at Kansas City, clear, p. m.
Columbus at Minneapolis, clear, 8
p. m
Louisville at st. Paul, clear, $3.50
n.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04


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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
WIRE BURNS HIS HANDS.
Barely Singes Corbitt's Skin, Kills An
other Man Instantly.

Albany, N. Y, May 4.-Trying to get
a fallen telegraph wire out of the way
of passing horses in Green Island, last
night, James Duffy was electrocuted.
Ten minutes later Merritt Corbitt, not
knowing that Duffy had been killed,
picked up the wire and carried it to
the gutter, remarking as he dropped 1t:
THAT wire was hot; it burned my
hands"
The current that had killed Duffy had
barely singed Corbitt's skin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
They just Could Not Stand 1t.

New York. May Although they
admitted in the police court at North
Bergen, N. J., that they had exceeded
the speed limit while motoring along
the Hudson county boulevard. An
thony j. Drexel, jr., the husband OF
Marjorie Gould, and Allan A. Ryan.
son of Thomas H. Ryan, were let off
with suspended sentences. Howard
Gould, who was with Drexe1 when he
was arrested, told the court that "a
little dinky machine" had passed thems
"and we could not stand for that"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
lAirship Blown Away.

Bitterfeld, Saxony, May 4.-The
dirigible balloon Parseval 1 on return
ing with party of officers of the army
and government officials from Leipsic
last evening was about to land when
the motor broke down and the airship
swept away to the northwest, driven
by a strong wind. The occupants ex-
perienced few uneasy moments. but
the pilot pulled the rip cord and re-
leasing the gas from the bags made a
skillful landing in the darkness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
Weather Is Pleasant.

This is almost an ideal spring day A
ten mile an hour breeze is blowing from
the southwest, and Topekans who shiver-
a leisurely fashion instead Of hitting a
brisk pace with hands in pockets. 1--WE
have almost passed the danger stage from
frost" said the weather man. "OnIy
once has there been killing frost in "a
years after this date and then it did dam
age only in the low lands. The indications
are for unsettled weather with possibly
showers tonight or tomorrow-warmer to-
The hourly raadiuOS-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04

the 1911 Jayhawker is being handleo
from the Office of Crane & Co., of To-
peka. About $500 copies of the edi-
ton will be printed this year. Nearly
all of them will be distributed among
university students.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
SHOT FOR STUBS.
Il. U. Seniors Make an Assault
on Governor.
Print Expressive Cartoon in
Their Annual.
PICTURED AS BRUTUS.
Placed in Attitude of Stabbing
Caesar X. U.
Fun Made of Executives Sena-
tOrial Ambition.
PICTURED AS BRUTUS.

Governor Stubbs and the state ad-
ministration fare badly in the 1911 edl-
ton of the Jayhawker, the ofticlal an
nual of Kansas university. AND the
home of the JayhaTker overlooks WIND
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-04
Weather Indications.

Chicago, May 4.-Forecast for KAN
sas: Unsettled weather with probably
showers tonight or Friday; warmer to-
night.
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Continued on Page Eight.)
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cause the men who are charged with
committing it are members of a labor
Ini0n
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-13
SUTHERLAND IS ON
THE OPPOSING SIDE
Utah Senator Takes His
Stand on the Primary Sys-
tenn in Wisconsin.

MILWAUKEE. Oct. 12-Argument as
IA whetner the largeuess Of a candidate 6
eypeuscs for nomination 10 congress was
to be taken as "A presumption that the
money was used wrongfully. occupied a
great portion of the senatorial invesu-
potior Of United States Senator stephen
sons election today,
After It had been testified ny witnesses
thai instead OF Sl07,7e3, Senator Stephen
son might have expended S22o:oOo Tor
nomination at the primaries in l9os. ana
after II was figured out on basis given
that all the four Republican candidates
might have expended an esSregate OF
ss60, 900 Charles II Littleiield, counsel ior
senator Stephenson. raised the question
whether the amount was TO be considered
evidence of guilt on the part OF the SEN
aior who Is charged with bribery,
Congress may say senSoo,aI oond sia odo
but there is no logic in the world whicn
wiz show that just because he spen,
more than $4,000. The money was uscd
rorruptlv.'' said Mr.. Littlerield.
senator Hepburn, the chairman. an
nounced that tho committee would inquire
INTO the facts OF the expenditures. regard :
less of what they. aggregated, -,
.J am not convinced that congress "as
i,stIficd in limiting a senatorial condl
daic-s expenditures TO 10000, ne added
senator George Sutherland SAID ne
Thought the amount spent by Senator
Stephensou warranted an inquiry along
the line that It was unreasonaoly iaiee,
"The fact that the senator spent tnat
,rcat amount OF money was probably que
tn + dhc conditions in Wisconsin resulting
from the primaries" said senator suhher, u nc
n,n or ,i,c effects of the primary system.
onS Mr. o' titteiield then asked D T.. Rlordan
of Ashland, Wis. whether Senator Stepn-
enson WAS justified In spending slDI ,a9.
"In could have spent great dcal moro
10 advantage. perhaps 100000, said
George Gordon. n United states atlor :
,,oy flr the western Wisconsin district
rcyIoIslv had testified that 500 for each
OF ihc 200 precincts in the state would
bavc been n fair expenditure for organ
izinz the Stephenson FORCES.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-13
CANNON DENOUNCES
THE RECALL SYSTEM

NEWMAN, H.. Oct. 12,-Former
Speaker Cannon at home coming cclc-
bration here tonight, sssailed the recall
system. Samuel Gompers and some OF the
press. Picturng a community in which
the recall operated and in which ncwspa-
pers had free rein, the ex-sPeaker ex-
claimed:
"My God, what would happen? You
would have even more towards in public
Office than you have now.
Relating his experience with reform
ers." who. he said, offered a panacea FOR
civic !Is and had the "only right road
10 government" he declared:
when l see one OF them. / always
clasp my pockctbook tight and walk rap
idly away,
Gompers. he referred to as Il Dull
dozer.
Particular denunclation was made Of
the recall lie declared that Lincoln
would have been q Victim OF the sys
tenn had II been In force then and he
characterized tho recall as a weakening
influence. that would prevent strong
men from cXercising their best judgment
in the face Of popular criticism at times
when public clamor became such as TO
demand a high courage 10 act even with
ont tha danger OF a recall.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-13
ALLEGED TRUST IS
BROKEN BY DECREE
Electrical Combination Oh
ject of Sweeping Judg-
ment in u. S. Court.

WASHINGTON. oct. 12.-By the
sweeping decree entered in the United
States circuit court at Toledo today, the
backbone of The so-cal!ed electrical trust
was broken and. in the judgment OF At
torncy General Wickersham. the govern
ment was equipped with precedeuts OF
genuine value In its prosecutions of COM
mercial combinations forbidden by the
Sherman law.
Meeting the government charges that
the trust controlled the electric lamp
business OF the country regulating by
agreement prices at which all lamps were
sold the decree sewers all relationship
between the General Electric company
and the National Electric Lamp com
pany. The latter concern and all its
subsidiaries are ordered dissolved
The important principle was laid down,
according TO the attorney general, that
once lamp Is sold by a manufac,ur-
er, the price at which it Is rcsold by a
dealer or jobber must he open TO free
competition.
The decree was acquiesced in by tine
defendant companies, and this gives the
government the moral certainty that
there will be no appeal, After the SUI
preme courts decision In the Standard
said the electrical companies expressed
\ willingness to withdraw their original
answers and Submit TO 81 decree
The matter was considered by the de-
the defendants throughout the summer
tho decree which was filed today being
evolved as satisfactory To the govern
ment.
Similar DEGREES against other combl
nations are likely 10 follow shortly. with
the acQuiescence OF the defendant con-
Germs.
The Investigation out Of which the suit
grew. the attorney general said, dis
closed eleven other patent pools OF
similar nature, by which the prices OF
various electrical devices and supplies
were liked and 10 which some Of these
defendants were parties. Sut since tho
institution OF this suit all these pools
have been voluntarily dissolved
The investigation also disclosed gem
era! trade and patent agreement between
the General Electric company and the
Westinghouse Electric d Manufacturing
company. the TWO largest electrical con
Germs in the country, covering substan-
tially their whole business but this
agreement. since the institution OF the
governments suit. has expired by lin
ltatiou and has not been, and, II Is be-
lioycd, viii not he renewed,