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Summa 1890. 81 ,829.O7
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-30
CORPORATIONS MUST
OBEY, SAYS MERSHON

LANSING, Mich, July S0.-State
Tax Commissioner Mershon says he
will enforce the law which requires
that corporations In the state must
file with the secretary OF state exact
statements OF their property valua.
ions.
'"The law applies to corporations as
we'll as private individuals" says Mr..
Mershon, and we intend TO have IT
enforced. We have called in Deputy
McGill, of the attorney-general's de
partment, and we expect an opinion
as to just what We can do with those
who do not obey the law"
Mr.. Mersho nthinks the commission
has power to remove local assessing
officers, principally supervisors. who
do not enforce the law and try to cor
rect inequalities in the rolls.
Mr.. Mershon says the small home.
owner Is really the one who is over
taxed This kind of property owner
really has a kick coming" he said.
but We hear the least from him"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-30

of murder, general crime and police
graft, told TO the grand jury at an
extraordinary session last night, re-
suited In Becker's indictment, and to-
days probe which promised revela-
tions that will shock the nation.
For fourteen days the city has been
filed with rumors that the most amaz-
Ing graft conspiracy ever conceived
was TO be exposed as the result OF the
murder Of Rosenthal. II was not until
last night, however. that the matter
shaped into concrete form. Then
Jack Rose agreed TO tell all and his
example in confessing was followed
quickly by Webber and Vallon. The
tale, they told was so>remarkable that
the grand jury contented itself with
the indictment of Becker for murder
In the first degree and he was arrest
ed in uniform at his desk In the Tre-
mont station house. Arraigned before
Judge Mulqueen in general sessions
court, through his attorney the police
official pleaded not guilty. He was
granted week In which to change or
amend this plea
When the grand jury re-convened
today II resumed the consideration of
the story OF graft told by the three
confessed accomplices who said they
had arranged the Staying OF Rosenthal
at Becker's behest and because he
told them every resource OF the police
tContinued ON PAGE Eighn
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-30
STATE TREASURY IN
PROSPEROUS CONDITION,
SAYS ANNUAL REPORT
Balance in Available Cash at
End of Fiscal Year Amounts
To $3,722,6O8.21
FEES FROM BANKS LEAP
Healthy Condition Is Due Prin-
cipally To Gov. Osbon's
Campaign For Economy
FEES FROM BANKS LEAF
From a staff Correspondent.

LANSING, Mich, July 30.-Accord
ing 60 the annual report OF State
Treasurer Sleeper, which will be for
wardcu TO Gov Osborn within few
days. the states finances are in a
prosperous condition. The receipts
for he fiscal year ending June 30
1912 amounted TO $14 4,190. .498.57.
The amont received from the vari
ou- county treasurers was Sc. .7SS,
627.l3, compared with s5,ll6.131.3l
during the previous year. Last year
the state treasurer received S27 1893. .46
from the sale of hunters licenses
compared with $50, 0,286.45 the previous
year The examination fees from the
board OF registration In medicine in
creasec from $500 10 $S,273.
The fees OF the banking commits
sioner for examining banks increased
from $31,2S0.90 to S65,573.60 while
the rctaliatory fees OF the insurance
commission increased from s3l $1,000
to S4J,S53.26. The fees and licenses
from the state dairy and food depart
ment Increased from $10,261.31 to SILL
1880 while the nonresident whole
sale liquor licenses decreased from
pfO, Jl.Of W % 10000 hb IOlhPdl SN
with the previous twelve months
there was an increase in the motor
vehicle license fees received by the
secretary of state from $90,lS9.94 to
Sl33 ,5S0.S0.
WheL the books were balanced at
the CnG OF the last fiscal year there
was $1,746,9S46l in the general fund
while the balance in available cash
At the close OF the present year was
$3,722, ,60821. This was made pos
sible largely through the efforts OF
Gov Osborn who trimmed appropria
tioas and made every effort to
economic in the matter of expendi
lures
In some instances the receipts in
the specific tax fund were smaller
than year ago. The fees from fire
insurance companies increased from
$2i6,54i.6S to $252.S2S.71; life insur'
ance fees increased from $235,0S3 to
$25t,2iS.34; railroad taxes increased
from 34,221 ,403.03 to $4,267, ,141.8 80
telegraph companies decreased from
$54,077.5J to $39,71S.43; telephone
taxes decreased from $513,066.4S to
1895, ,l0l0T, and Inheritance taxes de
creased from $504,97S.S4 TO $36S,
676 70.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-30
GROCERS EXCURSION
TAKES PLACE, WEDNESDAY

The Detroit Retail Grocers' as
sociations annual excursion VIII be
given, Wednesday on the steamer
ITashmoo 10 Tashmoo park. and Is ex-
'pected to draw a big crowd.
An attractive year book has been
issued BY the association. giving In
addition 10 the athletic program for
Wednesday valuable compendium
OF laws and information OF interest
10 the trade Included In the list Is
the Detroit basket and berry box or
dinance. the Michigan trading stamp
law, the garnishee law and the new
law affecting white phosphorus
matches.
The year book OF l7G pages appears
in handsome paper cover and IS
printed on heavy glazed paper. As
an evidence OF It's popularity II car
ries more than a hundred paS0s OF
advertising.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-30
c. OP. SPLIT CAUSES
DIVISION IN FAMILIES
Brothers Candidates On Differ
ent Tickets; Ditto, Father
and Son

II is a case of brother against
brother in the Fourteenth ward con-
test for alderman Charles NJ and
George w. Wesch are brothers, and
marched side by side in the ranks OF
the g, o. p. until the late unpleasant
ness set the respective supporters OF
Taft and Roosevelt reaching for each
others throats. Now the brothers ap-
pear as candidates upon opposing
tickets.
Charles NJ. .Wesch clung to the old
regime and ran up the banner oil
President Taft, while Brother George
numbered himself in the multitude
that rebelled against the conditions
ruling in the Chicago national con
vention and allirned himself with
Theodore Roosevelt Thus II happens
that the name Wesch appears twice
in the list of aldermanic candidates In
the Fourteenth ward. Charles VI. is
listed on the regular Republican
ticket, while George NJ opposes MIN
on the ticket of the National Pro
gressives.
And in the list OF candidates fol
city estimator another family division
disturbs the unity that formerly EN-
braced A. " Phister and his son Al
bert Here It was the father who
threw his lot In with the Progressive
and became a candidate for the Ma
tional Progressive nomination for es
timator in the Fourth ward, while Al
bert Phister, Jr., Is running for the
Republican nomination for estimator
in the Sixth ward.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-30
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP MUST
Be MAIN ISSUE IN MAYORAl
CAMPAIGN, SAYS JEFFRItS
Can't Be Sidetracked BY Other
Matters Dragged in To
Divert Attention
RECORD AS CRAFT FIGHTER
Il Drove City Official To Mexico
and Put Police Captain
in Jail"
RECORD AS CRAFT FIGHTER

Pointing TO his own aldermanic rec.
ord in the Moreland case, Police JUS
tive Edward j. Jeffries declared be-
fore two large gatherings OF voters,
Monday night, in the Ninth and Elev-
enth wards, that IL elected mayor on
the Democratic ticket he could be de-
pended upon to do all the work neede
In the cleaning up OF any graft condi-
tions. emphatically and he declared
that municipal ownership would re-
main the principal issue OF the cam
paign, no matter what other questions
might be brought up at the last min
ute In an effort to divert attention.
The Judges remarks evidently refer
red to the part taken by Mayor VIII
liam b. Thompson in last weeks brib-
cry revelations, and the mayors en-
tertng the race for, the Democratic
mayoralty nomination the day after
the coup was sprung
Il drove a city Official TO Mexico
when ] was in the common council,
and when some OF the newspapers and
all the public officials were against
me, said Judge Jeffries. And | didn't
have any modern dictagraph TO work
with either. II was just a plain pick
anu sHONel lot me,
And, later, when | was elected po-
lice judge the Free Press and Journal
tried 10 stir up trouble between the
police department and me, and they
had Commissioner Fred w. Smith at
the head OF the department. | want
TO tell you that 80 per cent of the
stories printed about disputes between
the police and the court were entirely
fictitious and siply designed TO get the
law and order people OF this city
down on me.
But whey my friends got worried
and came and asked me what | was
going to do told them TO wait and
see, that | was elected for four years,
that the fight had only begun and that
all wanted by friends 10 do was to
sit steady and not rock the boat.
And then what happened? Along
comes a woman named Annie Smith
with some diamonds and brooches and
inforation. Again | didn't have any
distagraph to work with, but put a
police captain in jail and there would
have been others but for miscue
I'VE got a new police commissioner
and we got an improvement in the at
titude OF the police toward citizens
who get into trouble. | hadn't taken
the police court bench with the idea
OF making trouble with the police.
knew they would charge me with that,
and | was resolved to get along peace
ably with the officers as far as ] could
without being a coward And as |
say, the stories printed In the papers
were exaggerated and in many cases
unfounded.
The actual fact is that where we
used to have three and four and Ave
citizens every morning complaining
about the brutality OF the police, there
is nothing OF that kind now The po-
lice have learned how to put human
touch Of sympathy into their treat
Continued on Page Eight
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-30
WALTER SMITH BROWNS
WHEN LAUNCH is SUNK
Mystery in Accident in Which
Steamer Kirby Figures APP
pears Cleared Up

II Is thought that the man supposed
TO have gone down with the motor
boat. sunk by the steamer Frank 4.
Kirby, off the Pittsburgh coal dock.
Sand wich, Sunday night, was Walter
Smith, 3S years old. who lived at No.
279 Mckinstry-ave. Smith has been
missing since Sunday night. when he
left Sandwich in his boat to return
to Detroit. The bow of his craft and
three life preservers, all marked
Beatrice" the name or Smiths boat.
were found Monday, near where the
sinking occurred.
Smith took mis- wife and three chill
dren to Windsor In his motor boat.
Sunday afternoon, and placed them
on C. p. r. train for Elmstead,
where they we're 10 visit. Then ne
went 10 Sandwich 10 visit his uncle.
who colducts the Royal Oak house.
Late Ia. the evening he started back
10 Detroit. His relatives are con
yinced that il was his boat which the
Kirby struck
Harbormaster Ellison is dragging
for the body.
II. B. McGregor, no. 547 Sixth-st.
is a brother-in.law OF smith.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-30
PASSENGERS IN PANIC
WHEN SHIPS GRASS

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., July 30
The Eastern steamship City OF Rock
land and the giant Collier Chisholm,
of New York crashed in a fog hortly
after 2 O'Clock this morning, 20 miles
east OF Thatchers Light. The bow
Of the steamer was crumpled and the
$50 passengers, among whom were
100 women and children were thrown
into panic. All were quieted shortly
after and an hour later were trans.
ferred TO the steamer Belfast OF the
same line. The Belfast, which was
going from Boston to Rockland, took
the damaged ship in tow and is taking
her TO Boston Three tugs have put
out from that port to meet the two
ships
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-30
WITH LIEUT., BECKER
IN Tolls, INQUIRY
|. INTO GRAFT GOES ON
Jack Rose, in Sensational Story
Says Police Officer Ordered
Rosenthal Killed
SAYS HE COLLECTED
TRIBUTE FROM GAMBLERS
Grand Jury Investigation Into
Scandal Is Aimed at Other
Men Higher Up

NEW YORK, July 3O.--A score OF
police officials all above the rank or
sergeant we're facing indictment for
permitting law-breaking In return for
a price when the grand jury went into
session today. A number OF citizens,
including some high in political life
and we'll known throughout the coun-
try were also involved. More than
dozen men of national repute In the
sporting world had fed the city over
night. In cell In the Tombs. rest
lessly pacing up and down like q
Gagged animal, was the central figure
In the scandal. the worst in the his
tory of New York, Police Lieutenant
Charles Becker, indicted directly for
the murder OF gambler Herman Ros-
enthal two weeks ago today In the
very heart OF New York's white light
district
In carefully guarded cells In the city
prison in West Fifty-fourth-st., were
Jack Rose. Bridgey Webber and Har-
ry Vallon. gamblers, whose confession
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-07-30
REPORT DEFENDS ISMAY
| IN LEAVING SINKING TITANIC
Would Have Been Needless Sac
rifice," 1t Says-Many Les
sons Are Drawn

LONDON. July 30.-Excessive
speed caused the loss OF the Titanic,
in the opinion OF LORD Mersey, who,
as chairman of the English commits
sion of inquiry into the disaster, made
his report public today.
Arrangements for launching and
manning the great liners lifeboats
were improper. insufficient and made
quate, his lordship said, and though
the boat drill itself was good, as was
discipline at the time of the wreck,
more lives would have been saved
had the organization been better.
The charge that Sir Cosmo Duff
Gordon bribed the crew OF his life
boat to row away from the drowning,
was held to be unfounded.
Managing Director Bruce Ismay, OF
the White Star Co, was under no
moral obligation to remain aboard the
Titanic until the vessel sank, accord
! ing TO the commissions findings, and
! had he done so, the only result would
! have been the needless loss OF an
other life. The handing OF the Bal
| tics ice message by Capt. Smith TO
Ismay Is held to have been irregular,
and Ismay's retention OF 1t improper,
but under the circumstances the COM
mission thinks the incident had moth
ing TO do with the subsequent naviga-
/ tion of the ship.
| The lookout for ice was inadequate,
the report says. Extra lookouts should
have been stationed at the masthead
and at both ends of the bridge.
The evidence shows, the report con-
tinues. that the practice OF steaming
full speed ahead through an icefield
at night was bad. but under the cir
! cumstances the commission feels un-
able TO blame Capt. Smith, who,
though he made a grevious mistake.
cannot be held guilty of negligence
In the commissioners Judgment,
the third-class passengers OF the Tt
tahic were fairly treated. The con-
duct OF Capt Rostron and the crew
Of the Carpathia, In Tescuing the t.
tanic's survivors is commended as
admirable
The investigators are convinced
that the lights sighted by the Cali
fornian were the Titanics and the
opinion Is expressed that the Califor-
nian could have pushed through the
ice without serious risk and saved
many, II not all. OF those on board
the sinking vessel
Regret is expressed that lifeboat
No l, from the Titanic. failed to at
tempt rescues OF the drowning. The
commission recommends the basing
OF life-saving accommodations on
steamships on the number OF pas
sengers rather than upon the vessels
tonnage
Fire and water-tight door drills. the
recommendation continue, should be
held Immediately after departure
from port and whenever ice has been
reported. speed should be reduced at
night or the imperilled vessels course
altered to take IL out OF the path of
danger
Recommendation were also made
for an International conference TO
agree on regulations for life-saving
appliances and wireless equipment.
sight tests for lookouts. police sys.
TENS aboard ship TO enforce order and
obedience. and day and night reliefs
of wireless operators.