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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
Congress AdjOurns for the Holidays After Lively
 Maneuvers
HOUSE UNABLE TO
 SECURE A QUORUM
Adjourns Without Hearing President s Message-Arehbald Defense Fails to Conclude Evidence-Immi-
 grafton Bill to Conference
THE DAY IN CONGRESS

Senate: Convened al noon.
 Went into executive session to con slider confirmation of presidential nominations.
 Court of impeacfmrrt resumed trial of Jpoge Archibald at l:s0 D. m. and adjourned at 3s4e T.. m until Jan uarv q
 Message from President Taft per taining to postoffices, interior. agri- culture and commerce and labor was read
 Adjourned at 4:45 T.. m until noon January .,
 House; Met at ncon. adjourniug all hour later on account of no quorum.
 J. P. Morgan continued testimony before money trust Investigating com mittee.
 Interior departmen. expenditures committee passed loport censuring Robert G Valentine, former commis- sionef of Indian affairs, for his con duct prior to his resignation.
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ALABAMA CONGRESSMEN TO
 REMAIN AT WORK IN RECESS
Only Bankhead and Blackmon Return Home-M Underwood Suffering From Cold-Suggested That MT. Underwood Remain in House During Extra Session. Then
 Take Cabinet Place
By c. E. STEWART

Washington, December 19-(Special.) J. Most of the Alabama delegation will re- main in Washington during the recess of Congress and take the opportunity afforded them by the holiday vacation to get rid of a large accumulation of mail. Senator Bankhead left Washing ton for Alabama yesterday and will spend the holidays at home. Representative Blackmon left tonight and will spend Christmas with his family. Senator John- ston declares that he will spend the time between now and the reconvening of Congress January at work
 MT. Underwood will endeavor to get at least a week of much needed rest before taking up the strenuous duties of the tariff hearings which commences early in January. Mir. Underwood was confined to his home the most of yes terday and today with severe cold, but he is much better tonight.
 Cabinet Talk Continues
 The cabinent talk continues unabated, and there is much speculation as to the available timber in the House for the leadership in the event MT. Underwood was offered and accepted the treasury ranking democrat after March {, on the ways and means committee. is being dis cussed, as is Representative A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, also on the ways and means committee, and in perfect line
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Noted Financier On Stand For Fi0e Hours Tn Money Trust Probe.
 Is Remarkable Hearing
DOES NOT MIND COMPETITION.
 BUT PREFERS COMBINATION
Gives at Length His Views Competition Combination Go Operation and Control in Industry and FinanceNot scious of Power He Yields and is Not Seeking Con-
 trol He Dscares-Answers Questions Readily

Washington December 19J Pierpont Morgan today told the money trust investigating committee of the House that all the money in chrlstendom and all the banks in csendom gould not form monopoly that would control money Mr Morgan disclame knowledge that he weldd power in modern financial circles and declared emphacay that sought no such power.
 For nearly five hours Ire chief witness called by the mtee its probe of the ntricacies of modern finance with stood fire of questions that covered phases of financial operation In respects of the most remarkable hearings about the halls of Congress recent years with Mr. Morgan the type and embodiment of financial operations colossal scae and the committees counsel Samuel Inter the representative of the element which seeks probe to the nnermost the conditions under which vast Financial operations conducted.
 Gives Views on Competition
 MT. Morgan gave length his views competition, bnaon, cooperation and control in industry and fnance particularly the latter He declared that he did mind pettion but that he preferred combination in his opera tions. He emphatic in his declaration that there Is way get a monopoly of money.''
 Throughout the long examination to which Mr. Morgan submitted with evident willingness there not moment when interest Jagged Short sharp questions and with striking rapdity While the cooques at times emphatic there serious clash between Mr. Nor gan and Mr. Untermeyer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
Turkey Decides to Continue NegotiatiOns-Fresh h.
 structiOns En Route
SOME DELEGATES ARE
 DISGUSTED AT DELAY
Conference Now in Same Position of Portsmouth Onference-Dissat- isfaction at Attitude of Italy
 in Supporting Austria

London. December l9.-rhe peace eon- ference was in session only short time today. The Turkish delegates announced that fresh instructions had been dis patched from Constantnople by special courier; therefore. adjournment enni Saturday was taken. by which time the instructions should reach London.
 News comes from the Ottoman capital tonight that the government is empower ing the delegates to proceed with the ne7 gotiations with the Greek. as well as the Balkan plenlpotentiares ThiA decision tends toward peare as there has oeen a suspicion that the Turks were maneaser~ ing for time so that they might strengthen their army.
 The conference now s in exactly the same position as the Portsmouth eonfer- enee after the nrst weeks work fhe different parties are daily feeling the way before striking q decisive blow.
 Rechad Pasha strongly recalls count Wittes shrewdness, while the Greek pre- mier Venivelos can be compared With ko- mura on account of his cool attitude and unshakabIe ealmness There are 3ther very interesting personalities Dr. Da- nen. chief of the Bulgarians is like a'1 American politician; Navakovteh. the eN- premier of SerVia, is an experienced statesman. the Montenegrin, NIiyusoNitcN, a keen diplomatist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
Town Incorporated

Montgomery, December 19-tSpecial.)-- Secretary of State Cyrus B. Brown has been informed of the incorporation of the town of Mckenzie of Walker county The election authorizing the incorpora- ton was held on October 2S last.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20


 into my office and have given him a check for million dollars when knew he had not a cent in the world" MT. Morgan was led at some length into statement of his views on combina- tion and concentration of financial affairs. He reiterated that he was an advocate of combination and cooperation, although he did not object to competition. Without you have control" he said, you cannot do anything ''Is that the reason you want to control everythlng?" asked Mr. Untermyer. T want 10 control nothing" retorted the financier.
 There is no way one man can get a
 Continued on Page EighD
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
Wilson Will Offer Him the Place and He Will
 Accept It
WILL AID IN SUCCESS
 OF ADMINISTRATION
Daniels and Burleson RegarS sSs Two Other Sure Members z oTS inet-Bryan Favors O
 Place to Oscar UnS
By [. E. sTEwA.tT

Washington, December 19-(SpeeialA- William J. Bryan of Nebraska. thrice de feated for the presidency as the nominee of the democratic party, and in the pop ular mind the most potent factor at Bal timore in bringing about the nomination of Woodrow Wilson, will be offered 1 portfolio of state in Wilson's cabinet. a.sd he will accept it.
 This information comes from such a source that it can no longer be doubted. Speculation regarding Mr. Bryans prob able attitude toward the administration has been rife since the election in No vember, and an endless controversy has been waged over what he would do. Op- position to him as cabinet officer has developed, but in justice to him, it may be said that his supporters for the pre- miership of the cabinet have far out numbered the opposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
Fought Desperately

Boehler ensconced himself in a room- Ing house on the principal street of Mem phis and armed with rife and two pis- tols engaged in a desperate battle with the officers from 3 o'clock this morning until nearly noon today
 In their efforts to dislodge him the police fired through the ceiling in the room below that where Boehler. who returned shot for shot. had taken his stand. Shift ing the base of operations 10 the fourth story. they fired through the floor A squad of men stationed on an adjoining room riddled Boehler's room by shooting through the rear windows Finally d sheet of iron was obtained. hole bored through it and the floor above the man at bay and amid the roar of his fusillade a quantity of formaldehyde poured into the opening. When il was believed Boeh- Ter was sufficiently overcome the aper- ture was widened With a last effort be- fore surrendering to the fumes of the drug, he raised his weapon, but at that instant the watchers above riddled his body with bullets.
 3oehler was hurried to hospital but died on the way.
 Boehler came here from Indiana In houseboat. He separated from his wife In a boarding house. She had apartments with her 4-ycar- old daugh- ter. Occupants of the apartment house heard the scuffling. The child was the person to disclose the crime with the announcement Papa has killed mana"
 Mrs. Boehler was found lying on the floor with her throat slashed. She died within a few minutes.
 According to the child. Boehler, after cutting the throat of the woman, delib- erated a moment, then washed his hands and left before the officers reached the place. Boehler was traced 10 his rooming house on Main near Adams street. where he had entrenched himself after driving his roommate from the place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
Congress Adjourns


 Washington December l9.-Congress adjourned for the Christmas holidays to day after some lively maneuvers to get President Taft's messdse into the record secure action on the Presidents appoint ments and bring prococdngs in the Arch bald impeachment trial to point where they may he disposed of early in Jan uary The House was unable 10 get q quorum and adjourned Lfter r minutes session without even having received the Presidents message.
 The message waited for four hours te secure entrance into the Senate. When that body convened at noon the repub- lican senators asked for immediate eon- sideraton again of their demand for an executive session 10 take up appoint ments. The democrats consented to the plan and until the impeachment trial automatically took the foor at 30 O clock the Senate fought over the filling of pres idental offices. with the debate carried yn psaind tightly closed doors. It was not tntf the impeachment court adjourned about 4oclock that Inc Presidents mes sage was received and read.
 Both Houses of Congress adjourned to meet on Thursday. January 9 The Sen. ate. sitting as a court of impeachment will reconyene Friday. January 3. The House money trust committee, winding up it's session with j. ? Morgan at $50 adjourned until o'clock Monday, Jan- uary 6. Practically el business of Con- gress will stand in absyance througii- out tho holidays and majority of tho members of both House. will leave Wash. ington for the vacation
 One Appoint ment Confirmed
 The Senate confirmed but one appoint ment, that of John H. Brown. as postmas- ter at Concord. N. H., in the hour and a half of executive debate No action was taken on the re-appointment of Ed gar D. Clark, whose term as interstate commerce commissioner expires Decem- Der 3l. Senator Hoke Smith, acting for many democrats, offered a resolution for the confirmation of army and navy az pointments, but the republican senators insisted on starting at the head of the list for the consideration of postmastars.
 Objections by Senator Hitchcock, dem ocrat, that the postoffice appointments had not received consideration by the full membership of the postoniee committee, drew the declaration from Senator Lodge that, if this point was forced. it would be embarrassing throughout the administra- tion of Woodrow Wilson Senator Lodge declared that the Senate had always fcl- lowed the precedent of confirming post office appointments on the recommenda- tion of the sub-committees or individual senators to which they were referred. Senator Hitchcock finally withdrew his objections, but no action was taken on any of the other postoffice appointments.
 Figures presented by Senator Shoot to show in previous changes of administer tions the Senate always confirmed the ap- pointmeDts of the retiring Presidents. me. a sharp rely from Senator Hoke Smith II declared that President Taft had sent over 1900 appointments to the Senate dur ing three weeks of this session, while President Cleveland sent in but 100 ap- pointments during the whole three months of the last Congress of the first Cleveland term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
BOEHLER DEF|ES
 MEMPHIS POLICE;
 IS SHOT ID DEATH
After Killing Wife Barri- cades Himself in ROOming House Parsons Is
 MOrtally Hurt

Memphis December l9.-Spaulding I. Parsons, drug clerk. and Patrolman Jesse Wooten are in the hospital, probably fa- tally wounded. and the bodies of Adolph ]. Boehler. timer, and his young wife are In the morgue as the result of q series ef tragedies in Memphis, beginning last night with the murder of Mrs Boeh- Ter and ending with the death of Boehler, who vas shot by squad of policemen in room in which he had barrieaded him self early today.
 Parsons was wounded by q riot gun in the hands of sergeant of police, who believed his victim was Boehler. Wooten has a bullet in his right lung. He was shot while the officers were endeavoring to capture Boehler, who a few hours pre- vionsly had killed his wife by cutting her, throat because She had applied fof a divorce
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
Considered Lot of Details

We went over an infinite lot of detail.' said the governor after he had spent nearly two hours with them. "As in all other cases the corporation statutes have been amended and added to until
 they have become badly complicated. We hope to disentangle this mass Both Judge Van Syckel and Chancellor Walker are experienced and have had Lot to do with decision relating to the corpora- ton laws. so they are valuable guides
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
Concentrated on Corporations

The governors day was concentrated for the most part on the corporation question: Repeated charges were made during the national campaign by both Colonel Roosevelt and Gov. Hiram John son that Mr. Wilson had failed to put into effect any legislation curbing trusts that were chartered as Jersey corpora tons, Though his opponents devoted many speeches to this argument Mr. Wilson never made a speech Of reply. Once he teegraphed briefly to Senator O'Gorman of New York however, an answer that was made public, in which he declared that as the state legislature always had been republican in one or both branches, he had been unable 10 put through his promised programme Of reform He added also that evils com. plained of in connection with the trusts mostly concerned federal Jurisdiction
 The governor took no further epgniz- ance of the question during the cam paign, telling his friends, however. that he always had intended reform and would begin 1t If he could get legislature that was democratic In both branches His wish being fulfilled, the governor sta cted to work in earnest today, calling to his aid Edwin Walker, chancellor of the state and Judge Bennett Van Syckel formerly of the state supreme court These men with Governor Wilson will draft the next legislation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
Original Promoter of Harmony

Furthermore, from the same source comes the information that MT Bryan is now the original promoter of harmony. He proposes to hold out the olive branch of peace to all those who may have diff fered with him and with whom he has differed in the past and is going to lend all his powers to making President Wtl- sons administration a success. and aid it in redeeming the pledges made to the people.
 Three cabinet officers may now be con- sidered certainties: two other than Mr. Bryan. One of these Is Josephus Daniels of North Carolina. one of President Will sons strongest pre-convention supporters, and the national committeeman from that state. MT Daniels not only took an ac- tive part in the re-convention campaign for President Wilson, but he was also very active during the campaign following the nomination.. Just what place will be offered to MT. Daniels is not known, but | It Is certain that he win be hl toe cab tinet.
 The other sure bet is Representative Burleson of Texas. Like MT. Daniels, Representative Barieson was an original Wilson man. and in addition was the man ager of the national congressional cam paign.
 Leader Underwood's Position
 Outside of these three. cabinet timber probable of final approval is still a mat ter of the profoundest speculation Talk that will not down is that Leader un- derwood will be offered a cabinet position. It is declared that MT Underwood will be offered the Secretary of the Treasury ship and, furthermore. that this will be done with the full approval of MT Bryan. MT. Dnderwood's friends are divided as to the wisdom of his taking a place in the cabinet, but it may truthfully be said that a very large majority of the mem bers of Congress are very much opposed to Mir. Underwood giving lip the leader ship at this time. They declare that his services in the House cannot be dispensed with until the tariff programme of the extra session has been carried out. Mr. Underwood declines to discuss the cab inet possibility by saying that he cannot decline or accept a place until 1t is of fered him
 With the return of the President-elect to the United States, and with Bryan in New York in conference with him. vast interest in future developments is aroused here and Congress may properly be termed a hotbed of gossip and the patching place of all kinds of stories.
 One thing. however. may be counted as a dead sure thing William J. Bryan will be Secretary of State
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,contnued on Page Eleven,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
GOVERNOR WILSON WILL RECOMMEND
 CHANGES IN LAWS
Studies Corporation Laws. Announces He Will Meet Bryan Saturday or
 Sunday

Trenton, \. J., December l9.-Presldent- elect Wilson bored studiously for several hours here today over the corporation laws of New Jersey, with a view 10 rec ommending radical changes in them to the legislature. After he had worked most of the day in his capacity as gov ernor, he listened to a formal appeal by United States Senator Overman of North Carolina that Josephus Daniels. na- tional committeeman from that state for nearly 20 years, be appointed Postmaster General in the Wilson cabinet The Pres ident-elect made no comment. He an- nounced also that he would meet William J. Bryan for the first time since the election on Saturday or Sunday. either at Trenton or Princeton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-20
Some Delegates Disguised

After the sitting today some nf tho Balkan delegates expressed disgust al the way affairs were dragging while i've arr mics and three besieged towns were en- during all the sufrerings of war and the respective countries were the prey or desolation, misery and death, a}
 A Bulgarian delegate observed that the Turks were much mistaken if they de3 layed the conference. hoping Co straugtlieu their army with troops from Asia. phese endorsements were chiefly composed of undisciplned Bashi- -Bazouks who 9woul8 prove q serious danger to the TursA
 Tn the meantime the allies are conc4 trating greater forces along the Tchatal front to enable them, if war is resplof t io arrive at constantinople within days.
 Tho prevailing opinion is that the VI rious postponements are aiming q, ihtFf Vention by the powers Turkey hon< To obtain better terms through the pow7 CTS. some of whom have predoninant interests in the ottoman empire Besides. Turkey would consider f. less humillasins to eede territory on pressure from the powers than at the command of those Balkan states which were depicted .o the Mussulman world until recently as neg ligible quantities.
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The Balkan delegates. especially the Servians and Monteuegrins. express dis satisfaction with the statement made Wednesday by Marquis Di San GiulanO. the Italian foreign minister concerning the aims of the triple alliance and re- mark that Italy had Il unique position towards the Balkan states. having her- self risen from nothing to nationality through the union of kingdoms They ex- pected her support in similar movement by the Balkans, whose resurrection Is now occurring, as predicted by the great ltal- ian thinker and agitator. Giuseppe Mag zini, when in his Slav letters in the mid die of the eighteenth century he fore saw the Balkan peoples uniting to eNpel Turkey from Europe.
 In Voicing their objections, these dele gates point out that the Italian govern ment has followed a policy strongly fa- voring Austria by renewing the triple alliance seven months before the date Of it's expiration and has made its state ment thereon just at the moment when the fate of the Balkans was being de- cided. while al the same time the Italian people are favorable to the Balkan cause and the Italian reigning house is inti- mately bound to that of Montenegro and Seryia.
 The Greek proposals will be more com- plicated than those of tho other allies. because they include the question of which Greece alone among Balkan states, enjoys in Turkey with tho great powers The capitulations S;i- nally imposed on Turkey by the republic of Genoa, in 1553 include exemption from taxation for foreign subjects. special courts and other privileges Greece is ready to accept clause in the treaty with Turkey promising to renounce the right to capitulations when the other powers do the same.
 Another Greek delegate arrived today He brought impirtant papers to Premier Venizelos. He is Rizo Rangabe whose father. the writer. poet and archaeological was called the Victor Hugo of Greece
 Turkish Admiral Killed
 Athens, December i9.--Vice Admiral Halil Pasha, formsrly minister of ma
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Turkish Admiral Killed

Athens. December i9--Vice Admiral Hall Pasha, formsrly minister of ma
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Says Money Cannot Be Controlled

Mir. Morgan again declared that money could not be controlled. He added that many men had great credit who had no money.
 ''Is that not because it is believed they have money back of them?" asked Mr. Untermyer.
 No. sir, it is because people believe in ths nan. have known . man to come
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1912-11-12
20 odstotna dividenda sladkorne
tovarne v Avstriji.

Racunski zakljucki Sladkornih
tovarn kaIeio skoro izkljucno,
kakSne oderuSke dobitkc so spra-
viii sladkorni Judi oh kOncu ro-
slovnega leta. Xxi Sc .ie koncal : 80
septembrom. Observation-Disclosures
akcijska druzba IA sladkorno in
dustrijo Y Przeworsku j. sklenilo
preteklo poslovno leto : Gistim
dobickom ~ %milionov kron. Cd
tega Sc no placala dividenda 20
odstotkov. to lie 1000 X "a vsako
delnico. Sladkorna rafinerija V
Opavi no ma svojem obcnem zbo-
ru Xxi Sc vrSi V kratkem. izkazala
30 odstotno dividendo. Sadska
sladkorna tovarna no izplaCala "a
preteklo p%oslovno leto 1913 odstot-
kov. med tenn ko nj laniI i~zplacala
nObene dividendc. Obc zadnji to-
varni ste last Anglobanke.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1912-11-12
SoDRUGoM TAJNIKoM Ma
ZNANJE!

Vzlic temu ola je bilo re diva
KRAFT naznanjeno V nasih glasilih,
da je 2 oktobrem poslati ma 81.
tai. tudi State in County pri-
spevke. vecina hubov vendar nj
poslala tajniku tozadevnih pri-
spevkov. Opozarja Sc torej, da
vsi klubi to store z novembrom.
V vseh dr5avah, kjer obstoje
naSi klubi - izvemSi drzave
Montana. kjer je treba poslati
l0c wee - poSljejo vsi klubi pc Sc
wee ma mesec 81. tajniku. Maj Sc
To vpOStcva. da no enkrat red.
Tajnistvo zveze.