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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
FAvORS FEDERAL BOARD
Judge Knapp Advocates Arbi.
tration in Industrial Wars,
All Branches.

The creation Of federate board OF
mediation and conciliation ultimately to
arbitrate industrial warsfn all branches OF
business was advocated today before the
House interstate and foreign commerce
committee by Judge Martin A Knapp,
who presides over the United States Com
merce Court. Judge Knapp and Charles
P. Neill, Commissioner Of Labor. the lat
ter also advocating such a commission,
are the arbiters under the existing Erd-
man law.
The committee is considering the ques-
ton of extending the mediation and
arbitration features of the existing law
to include the coal mining industry. So
important does the committee consider
the question that it has not printed the
proposed measure. except for the use OF
its members.
"Exacting and Burdensome."
Judge Knapp declared the work i'm
posed on Commissioner Neiil and himself
to be Every exacting and very burden
some,' and. with its growing importance
andvoiume. impossible Of proper fulfill
ment by officials to whom it was merely
Incidental"
Judge Knapp favored commission
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
Beef Packers Case Goes Over.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, April IS
The hearing OF the beef packers in the
states custer suit before Special Com
missioner Daniel Dillon, set for today,
was continued until May 1. because at
torneys for the packers were arguing
cases in the federal courts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
House Eulogizes Deceased Member

Eulogies on the life and public services
of the late Representative Madison of
Kansas were given yesterday by the
House Sunday. May l.. has been set
aside for services for the late Repre-
sentative Gordon of Tennessee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
Opposed by Independent Interests.

This plan of reorganization was
disapproved by the independent to-
bacco interests, who were the real
complaining parties. 1t was disap-
proved by the attorneys general OF six
sovereign co-growing states, and,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15

1.-The Lost World" rs gaining legions Of
new readers each week. See Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle's great serial In our next
Sunday Magazine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
MASSAGE.

SCIENTIFIC MASSAGE BY ANNA B. JOHNSON.
For rheumatism, paralysis and poor circulation:
magnetic massage; alcohol rub appointment by
phone North 1895 Address 1914 18th st. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
Arrested After Tussle.

After tussle, the policeman reports, he
was placed under arrest and sent to the
tenth precinct station, where he gave the
name of John Mitchell. He is colored,
about five feet seven or eight inches tall
and weighs between 40 and 1870 pounds
A bunch of keys was. found in his pos
session, the police say, one of them evil
IDENTIFY a skeleton key made from a but
ton hook, and all of them found to fit the
letter boxes or doors of persons who had
been robbed at one time or another. 1t is
claimed.
The police say that the man has been
seen hanging around several places where
robberies have been recently reported and
this directed suspicion to him. Police
man Lippold is the man who shot Charlie
Mitchell, q colored man. September 3 last
whom he found in house No. "a Grant
place. He says the man now arrested il
brother of Charlie Mitchell
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
ARREST CLEARS THEFTS
CoIored Man, Captured in Flat,
Believed to Be "DupIi-
cate Key Man."

what is believed by the police to be an
important arrest in connection with re-
cent robberies by duplicate key men" at
the Netherlands and other apartment
buildings was made this morning by Po-
hceman Charles w. Lippold. in Nathan
B. Franks apartment, No. "a, in the Cow
ington, 1854 Columbia road.
The policeman had been watching a
man hanging around the place for some
time. When he saw him let himself into
Mr.. Franks apartment, CONVINCED that all
was not right. Lippold demanded admis-
sion, and upon being denied forced the
door. The man he was searching for, he
says, was found huddled up in a corner
of the room. where he tried to hide him.
self beneath rugs and other things he had
pulled over him,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
that could devote it's entire time to the

Government interference in the coal
industry. he declared, should be the
first advance step in extending the
scope of the law. Commissioner NeiIl
agreed with him. The COMMITTEES took
no action. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
H|TSAT W|CKERSHAM
Senator Pomerene Arraigns
the Attorney General.
IGNORES LAW, HE SAYS
Calls for Criminal Prosecution Of
Oil and Tobacco Trusts.
SCOTS AT REORGANIZATION
Doubts Efficacy Of Method Adopted
to Restore Freedom of
Competition.

Attorney General Wickersham was Sc
verely arraigned in the Senate this aft
ernoon by Senator Pomerene. democrat,
of Ohio in a speech in which he de-
clared that the officials of the Standard
Oil Company and the American Tobacco
Company should be prosecuted criminal
~ under the Sherman antitrust law. He
was urging the passage of his resolution
directing the Attorney General to be-
gin the prosecutions
The criminal provisions of the statute
are just as much a part Of the law of
the land as are the civil remedies Sena-
tor Pomerene asserted But the Attor-
ney General. the head of the Department
of Justice-the man who sits at the cabi-
net table and is faithfully sworn to dis
charge the duties of his office-takes it
upon himself to attempt to enforce the
civic provisions of the statute and to
suspend its criminal provisions at will"
fragrant Violation of Law.
Senator Pomerene claimed that the
opinions of the United States Supreme
Court, in the civil cases against the
two trusts, show that the court was
of the opinion that these two companies
knowingly. deliberately and defiantly
violated the provisions of this law
What excuse can be given" he asked,
after reading from the opinions, for
failure to prosecute the officials of these
combinations, who have for twenty years
and more been flagrantly and willfully
violating the law of the land? 1t is not
a case of uncertainty of the law. 1t
Is a case of the open defiance of the
law The Attorney General has not
hesitated to enforce the criminal pro-
visions of the Sherman statute in other
cases. Why does he do it here? In
other cases he has acted upon what, I
dare say, is purely ex parte testimony
ana no criticism can be made for so
doing. In these cases there has been
an adjudication, and the court has de-
cared that the statutes have been
violated.
The truth Of the matter is that the
department has failed to enforce the law
In the past. and these great corporations
nave presumed upon their vastness and
power as guarantee against any prose-
cution by the government Under the
force OF public opinion the civil suits
We're begun and the government has won.
Is that victory to be thrown away now?
Ii the Department of Justice is really in
earnest, ought not this criminal provision
TO be enforced, in order that it may be
an example to all others who may be
tempted to violate the law in the same
manner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15

il I am rightly informed. it was dis
approved by some of the associate
counsel OF the government. The in
dependent tobacco interests number
invested millions 81 dollars. Their
business has been jeopardized for
years by the operation of the American
Tobacco Company. Their representa-
sovereign states protested against the
approval of the plan and pleaded with
the Attorney General to take an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court. Their Pc
refuses to continue the litigation,
mooted though 1t was, and has taken
no steps, so far as the public knows.
looking to a criminal prosecution of
GRAVITY violated the law of the land
Surely, when the Attorney General as
sumes this attitude the officials of the
Standard Oil Company and the American
with the Attorney General that they would
scarcely speak to him before the reor-
ganization, are not in position now to
complain.
Advance in Stock Values.
This is clearly proven by the stock
quotations of the two companies. In No
vember. 1903, when the suit was begun
against the Standard Oil Company its
stock was quoted at $3.50 per share. After
the decree of the Supreme Court was
handed down dissolving the corporation
and declaring it to be a trust the stock
was quoted at $679 per share, and within
few days 1T sold as high as $3.50 per
share. and the price of oil has been con-
Stantly increasing.
Does this look as If the thirty-three
companies into which the Standard Oil
Company has been dissolved are actually
competing? What benefit is the public
receiving from this so-called. dissolution?
"Or, let refer to the American To-
bacco Company. The par value of it's
stock was 500 per share. The highest
price to which 1t had risen before the de-
cson Of the Supreme Court declaring it
to be a trust in violation of the Sherman
antitrust law was 1928 per share. After
the decision of the Supreme Court it fell
to it's lowest point-$364 per share
In closing, Senator Pomerene fired this
shot:
"A just government and faithful Off
Ger cannot permit it to be said that the
rich and the strong are favorites before
the law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
DANCING.

0LOvERS 6l3 22nd ST N.W.-PRI. LESSONS,
60c. Waitz and 2-step guar. In g lessons. Glass
ballroom: rent. S. Orchestra. Phone W. l129.
PROF. WYNDHAAI. Sl6 18th NW-CLAeS
1880; dancing $3.50 to II 80 every Tues, Thurs
Sat. eyes,: teaches all dances; private leasons
any hour: lessons. 6Oc: for $3.50. Phi M.S670.
ASSEMBLY DANCES. WED. AND SAT- EVKN..
Natl Riaes Armory: two orcAestras: contins.
Gus dancing. $50 to II. Dayisons' Academy.
ne 9th NV: lessons any hour; class and daass
1ues. ewes: Boston taught. Phone NJ. ASA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
Method of Reorganization.

Referring again to the decision Of the
Supreme Court in the American Tobacco
case, Mr.. Pomerene continued:
THE Supreme Court said the combina-
ton, in and of itself, as well as each and
all of the elements composing it, whether
corporate or individual, whether consider
ed collectively or separately violated the
law.
us 1t conceivable that the Supreme
Court would dissolve this combination
and its constituent elements, which were
found to be violating the law. only to let
them again recombine under the sanction
of the law? Are they to be permitted by
a lower court and the Attorney General
done or to legalize what the Supreme
Court had declared was illegal?
The plan approved by the Attorney
General permitted a reconciliation into
fourteen separate organizations Of a bust
ness which heretofore had been owned
and controlled by more than 200 separate
firms and corporations Can such plan
be recreation of new condition that
is honestly in harmony with and not re-
pugnant to the law?' The Attorney Gen.
eral must have understood that the Su-
preme Court had ordered dfsorganiza-
ton and not reorganization or a re-
combination.
True the plan approved provides that
the fourteen companies which are au-
thorized shall not have the same direc-
tors, but they have the same stockhold-
ers, among whom are the twenty-nine In
dividual defendants. They have the same
community of interest In all Of these cor
porations. Is 1T to be supposed for one
moment that they are going to elect di-
rectors who will act out of harmony with
the wishes of the stockholders who elect
them? Are these fourteen companies,
with many of the same stockholders and
with directors of their choosing, going to
compete among themselves as we under
stand the meaning of the word compete =?
Will any company do anything that Is 60
ingto jeopardiZe the interests OF the
other companies or Of their stockholders?
To answer these questions in the affirma-
tive is to deny all the knowledge that we
can derive from human experience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
JUNK AUCT|ONED OFF
Wide Range of Articles in An
nuaI Post Office Sale.
MANY REEK- WITH HISTORY
Pictures of Former Officials of De-
partment Included.
Low PRICES ARE THE RULE
Facetious Bidders Enliven "Knock-t
ing Down" Of Worn-out Furni-
ture and Fixings.

''Such is fame" sang out the auctioneer
as he held up a well executed crayon
of an elderly gentleman with ''sideburns.
Thirty cents cried a bidder, and por.
trait of Postmaster General Gary which
has adorned the walls of the Post Office
Department for a number of years pass
ed out of the list of government junk dis.
posed of at a sale on the sidewalks OF
the department at noon today.
1t was interesting junk, though, for,
said Supt. Shaw of the department build
ing, some Of it fairly reeks with history.
There, for instance, is a group contain
ing Postmaster General b. NJ Key. DIR.
Macdonald, who succeeded his compan-
ion-in- photography Blackfan. as super
intendent of foreign mails; former Post
master General James N. Tyner. A. D.
Hazen, one time third assistant post
master general: T. n. Vail, general super
intendent of the railway mail service; D.
B. Parker, once chief post Office inspec-
tor; Col. J. o. p. Burnside, once disburs-
ing clerk: Chief Clerk Knapp and the
famous Gen. Brady Of the star route
fraud cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
Prosecution of Night Riders.

senator Pomerene reviewed the condi-
lions which led up to organization of the
night riders"-an organization of farm
ers with an agreement not to sell all
their product to the American Tobacco
Company, las a protest against the ex-
actions of the American Tobacco Com
pany."
The Attorney General sent a special
agent from the Department of Justice. y
continued Mr., Pomerene. ito prosecute
these night riders and eight Of them
farmers-were indicted, tried convicted
and fined in the aggregate, $500 for, a
violation of the Sherman antitrust law
so 1t appears that while these farmers
bound themselves together, under the au-
thority of a Kentucky statute, in order tc
defend themselves against the exactions
of the powerful American Tobacco Com
pany Trust, they were. prosecuted, while
the men who organized the American To.
bacco Company and made a combination
OF over s3OO.00OO0O in property and assets
and by cut-throat competition forced
their competitors either into bankruptcy
or to sell to the combination, are to 20
unwhipped to Justice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-15
Even "old Glory" Included.


famous Cen Brady Of the star route
fraud cases.
Even "Old Glory" Included.
oven "Old Glory was included in the
cast-off material disposed of, while down
at the lower end of 18th street passively
stood a demure Porto Rican donkey and a
snorting cowboy pony. both dead ones,
that were too poor to. be added to the
post office collection in the Nationa
Museum and too good to be put to de-
struction. Some of the woman clerks who
| witnessed the sale shed tears at the loss
of the donkey.
"The only rocking chair ever in the
Post Office Department" said Supt
Shaw as the auctioneer called for bids
on modest looking rocker that
swayed the corpulent figure of George
w. Beavers long ago. There also was
the suite of mission furniture that Or
namented the womens rest room at the
Jamestown exposition, and a time
| clock, "a relic of barbarism that once
disgraced the city post Office" said
an old clerk standing near.
OF no use in the Hitchcock administra-
| ton Of the postal service several leather
covered davenports inviting tired bones
! to rest also were included In the junk.
Wide Variety Of Junk.
Bronze chandeliers, no longer useful or
ORNAMENTAL: wornout desks. denuded of
| their metal trimmings; water coolers, oil
heaters, piping. machinery, sample letter
boxes, wire baskets, metal dating stamps,
rugs, carpets. chairs. pictures. frames.
case settings, distribution cases and what
not made up the remainder of the cast
off material that stretched down 18th
street to C. to 10Th to Ohio avenue, and
then started back again.
There was q flip auctioneer and
facetious bidders, professional pidders
sentimental bidders, historical bidders, in
| fact ali sorts of bidders to enliven the
auction sale with their comment. And
one dark-hued bystander could not resist
the temptation to hand 1t to democracy
when the demure little donkey fell be-
meath the hammer. IF he only had
Teddy on him. he'd be de whole BUSH
ness" calculated the facetious colored
man.
The sale brought low prices, as a rule.
an exception being when several bidders
scrambled for large collection of worn
| out electric lamps.
1t was the departments annual junk
sale, and many things of Unpleasant
| memory" 1t is said. were disposed of in
the sale.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-08-08
BUNKER HILL AN ILLUSTRATION

The old reliable Bunker Hill Sullivan Saturday Aug
ust again distributed it's regular monthly dividend of $6
500 making the total dividends disbursed to date $365o15o
and from information obtainabe this property is yet in its
infancy Here illustration of the permanency of min
ing investments in the Occur dAene district and nowhere
there be found another lead producing district which has
a mine comparable to the Bunker Hill From the amount OF
development work going this section many Of the
opinion that few properties of this class may soon be
opened up in this district and this year will very likely the
truth of this statement proven
One thing is absolutely certain to prospective investors
and that that there mining district in the country that
offers better opportunities to the investing public than the
Coeur Aenes thing that has work to the disadvantage
of the mining industry of this great sveead producing dis
rct is the lack of interest taken in advertising 1t has often
been said by people living here who have had occasion at
ous times visit of the eastern states that when they
mentioned the Occur Aenes many people would Immediately
ask where having heard tell of before There
should be campag of advertising of sort started at
which would let the outside world know what opportun
tiles there in this district for those looking for mining in
vesments.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-08-08
METAL MARKET STIMULATES DEVELOPMENT.

The most noticeable feature of the renewed interest
being taken in mining circles is the crowds that be
each evening in the hotel lobbies There is hardly train
arriving Wallace that does not bring party numbering
from five to 20 people who interested in
other in of the properties this district Among the
arrivals this week many odmes who have been out Of
the country for the past several but who still inter
ested in many of the prospects under development and
who are making preparations push work their holdings
as fast possible The high prices being paid for met
ais to great extent responsible for the renewed activity
along the development line and there doubt but what
1912 will be the banner year the output of this district at
the present rate production All of the larger producers
are working to their full capacity and increasing their
working forces fast is possible to do All of the
properties in the Nine Mile district that not already work
mo are making preparations to get busy The Mullan dis
+c Is doing more than it has since 1907 and the entire dis
trict IN and about Wardner and Kellogg better.
with existing conditions everyone working who wants work
1T good living salary can see nothing but prosperity for
the Occur 'Alene district.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-08-08
BLACK HORSE WILL INCREASE OUTPUT.

The entrance of the Black Horse Mining company to the
list of producers will give substantial boost to the output OF
the Occur dAene district and especially to the North Side
where the property is located great deal of credit due
the management of this company when the able manner In
which the affairs Of the company have been handled and the
amount development work that has been done within the
past wear is taken into consideration The mill has been run
ming one shift for the past few weeks turning out high grade
lead concentrates and several have been shipped to the
shelters The raise which started from the lower work
ngs some time ago completed and it is said that there
enough ore blocked out keep the mill working two shifts
steadily and the force will be increased development pro
crosses and from the Black Horse will take rank with
the dividend payers of the Occur dAlene district is now
conceded by those best posted mining development IN tins
district that the year 1912 will producers added
the already long list than previous in the existence
of the camp.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-08-08
MUCH ACTIVITY ON SUNSET.

At no time the history of this district has there been
snch activity in the region Sunset peak present. there
being scarcely property that locality which not working
and working full capacity Among the most prominent are
the Iacede Senator Cark property the Amazon Manhattan
the Atlas and the Interstate 1t reported that the last nam
cd propery has made Of the most important strikes that
has been made the district in time The main tunnel
now in distance of about 5000 feet and has been in ore for
the last 100 feet and the face OF the tunnel is SUN III
GOOD ore The Interstate adjons and recently consol
dated with the Callahan property which is considered one OF
the most valuable groups in that section The Callahan has
been steady producer for several and although has
been operated on an extensive SCALE the output can DC
creased materially with very little expense.