The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-12

c January 3, was agreed upon in the e c House today. Tariff legislation will . (, be deferred until after the Christ Q . mas recess. . SxooesocooccOCccococCCcococ Washington, December 11.-Those who appeared today before the House com mittee on foreign affairs urging abroga- | tion of the 1892 treaty between the | United States and Russia declared that | the alleged discrimination against Amer | jeans had not been confined to Jews | alone, but were extended to include Cath ollie priests, Protestant ministers and l American missionaries.
 Louis Marchall of New York, counsel for the Jews, cited the case of Bishop Hoban of Scranton, Pa, who, he said was denied a passport from the state department. He said Oscar Hammer stein was not 1allowed to enter Russia to engage talent.
 Jacob Schiff the New York banker showed letter received from Elihu Root when the latter was secretary of state, saying no satisfaction could be obtained from Russia. Oscar Strauss, former ambassador to Turkey and a member of the Roosevelt cabinet. denied any personal knowledge that American interest was influencing the state de- partment in it's treatment of Americans. Samuel Dorff, representing Solomon Foster of Cincinnati, secretary of the American Rabbfs associations; w. G. McAdoo, chairman, and Bernard Nolan, secretsry of the National Citizens asso-
 citation; Abraham l. Elkus, a regent of the New York State university, and Leon | Sanders, representing the Jewish Ma 1 tional Fraternal congress, were speakers. 1 The committee will continue hearings to- morrow.
 Mayor Suxberger of Philadelphia re- ferred Senator Casteberry to the Rus sian system. He said the only loss to the United States by the abrogation of the treaty might be the one per cent Of American foreign commerce. Louis Mar shall declared that conditions In Russia were worse than ever before and that Jews could not be prosecuted more.
 Senator Culberson and others will be heard by the Senate committee on Tor eign relations on Wednesday in support of the Culberson resolution to abrogate the treaty.
 Steel Hearing
 Independent steel manufacturers today aired before the House steel trust in- vestigating committee complaint that the freight rates charged by railroads owned by the United States steel corporation discriminated in favor of that concern.
 F. c. Baird. freight traffic manager of the Ressemer and Lake Erie railroad, and George D. Dixon, freight traffic manager of the Pennsylvania railroad. were wit- nesses. The latter declared that Charles NJ. Schwab, president of the Bethlehem Steel company, had complained against discriminatory rates, and had threatened to built d terminal railroad to overcome shipping disadvantages. MT. Baird testi- fled that in the Pittsburg district the rates were fixed in conference.
 MT Schwab of the Bethlehem com pany," said MT Dixon, was formerly president of the United States Steel cor- poration and knows all about how these rates are made. He wants the same thing for Bethlehem
 Representative Bealle asked Mir. Dixon also about changes made in the rates by agreements and the witness answered that to get business they were forced to meet competition.
 Figures were submitted from the inter- state commerce commission showing that the Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad. capitalized at $500.O00 with an operating revenue of s1SO0,000. and net income of Si6OO declared an annual dividend of 334 per cent on it's capital stock
 MT. Baird explained that this railroad. only eight and one-half miles long, op- erated under a lease of the Pittsburg. Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad. little more than 20 miles in length The Bes- semer and Lake Erie road received 26 cents a ton out of total charge of 96 cents a ton on ore from Conneaut to Pittshurg. The 26 cents covered the haul for eight and a half miles only of the total of 214 miles.
 Economic View of Trust
 John Bates Clark and J. Lawrence Laughlin, professor of economics in the Columbia university and the University Of Chicago, respectively, told. the Sen ate committee on interstate commerce today their views of meeting antitrust problems. Professor Clark suggested a general industrial commission with pow CTS similar to those of the sinterstate commerce commission Professor Laugh lin contended that size and monopoly were no restraint of trade if they were based on natural monopoly, and that pub licity would show whea and where mo- nopoly is artificial and when and where to interfere.
 Francis L. Stetson of New York advo- cated government commission to pass in advance upon the character of indus trial corporation which threatens to mo- nopolize the field in which they may be operating,
 MT. Stetson said he would not advocate repeal of the antitrust laws.
 ..The sherman law is enshrined in the minds of the people and there would be such distrust of the motives of those at- tempting to repeal or modify that the effort would do greater harm than good"
 The committee win meet again to- morrow.
 Whether the Senate Lorimer invesli- gatng committee will go into the alleged reasons why the International Harvester company and Mccormick family were or,- posed to him, may not be decided for several days. Judge Hanecy. counsel for Mr. Lorimer. has indicated that he will
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