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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
PRESIDENT TAFT
WILL NOT FILL
Mr.. RElD'S PLACE

Washington, d. c.. Dec. lG.-Presi
dent Taft today announced through
Secretary Hilles that the post OF am
! bassador to Great Britain made va
cant by the death of Whitelaw Reid
will not be filled by him. This an
ncuncement followed 4 conference be
tween the president and Secretary
Knox.
London. Dee. 1G.--The British gov
crnment to the government OF the
United States says that Il British hat
tleship should convey the body Of ,hc
late American ambassador to his l,,,
tive land.
Premier Asquith, in announcing this
decision of the government formally
in the house OF commons today pad
graceful tribute to the dead diplo.
mat.
1t has been arranged to hold a ne
mortal service for the late ambassa-
cor in Westminster Abbey at noon On
Friday.
VI al itStStil6 " pif 1LNti lti tue
presidents decision. He believes that
the important diplomatic questions in
yolving Great Britain and the United
States can be handled separately III
Washington by Mr., Knox and James
Bryce, the British ambassador He
understands that Presdent-elcct Will
son is also considering Il man for the
London post and he does not wish to
appoint some one who can serve at
best for only few months.
The president had first been in
clined TO make an appointment, But
delibaration with Mr., Knox brought a
decision to the contrary
The post at London will now be va
cant until March and it will be the
first time in many years that the
United States has been without an am
bassad0r in London.
The ambassador died at his Lon
don residence, Dorchester IIoUse,
shortly after nool yesterday Of pul-
nYnary Oedema He had been ul-
since 9 O'Clock in the morn
ing.
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Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
WALL STREET

New York, Dec. 1G.-Speculative
sentiment was on edge today owing
to uncertainty whether decisions
would be announced by the supreme
court in the Minnesota rate and the
anthracite cases. Bear operators
made a determined attack on prices
and were aided in unsettling the mar
ket by heavy fall in copper metal
abroad, which was reflected in extern
sve liquidation copper shares here
Last weeks low prices for the i'm
portant issues were broken through
and losses ran from to 5 points, with
Reading the chief sufferer Commits
sion house business was on large
scale and a considerable portion Of
the session was due to further liqui-
dation of out of town holdings Bonds
were heavy.
Excited fluctuations in Reading fol
lowing the news from Washington OF
the supreme courts decision in the
anthracite case. The price jumped to
les 3-8 compared with 15S ii and 163
at last weeks close. Other issues al
so mounted buoyantly. Union Pacific
sold IL above Yesterdays close and
full recoycries were effected else
where. After the first excited bidding
was over the market fluctllaled few
erishly and fell back / to / IL points
The market closed strong. Reading
mounted to 16S, making the days
movement in this stock about 10
points. Union Pacific sold four
points above Saturdays close and
there We're advances elsewhere of / to
3 points in earlier weak stocks. Snort
interests We're squeezed badly in the
reading movement, as the earlier
slump in that stock TO 16S Ia was at.
tributed mainly to concerted bear
pressure.
The improvement came more orde-
ly in the late afternoon and prices
went UP smartly without the feyerish-
ness and wide fluctuations that pre-
vailed earlier. Reading scared to
166 rs: Union Pacific touched 157 1-2;
Steel &c and Amalgamated 73 "a.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
w. C.. Z. Y. FIGHTS
LIQUOR SHIPPED
INTO DRY STATES

Washington, d. G., Dec. 16.-With
galleries packed with leaders Of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
and their supporters the senate today
devoted itself to the consideration of
the KenyOn-Sheppard bill to prevent
the shipment of Intoxicating liquors
into dry states" Delegations seek
ing support for the measure had spent
the early part OF the day in visits to
their senators urging its passage
Equally determined others opposed
its adoption. The bill came up today
under unanimous consent to give it
immediate consideration. The meas
ure as the senate considered it is
Representative Sheppard's bill as it
passed the senate and now carries
amendments proposed by Senator
Kenyon.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
Shall IT Be PEACE
OR SHALL IT Be WAR
AFEW MEN SHALL SAY
BALKAN ALLIES AND TURKS SIT ABOUT Table WITH FATE OF EUROPE IN
THEIR HANDS, FOLLOWING the FORMAL WELCOME OF The KING OF
ENGLAND, WITH SIR EDWARD GREY SITTING ON The LID
SIMILAR SCENES TO one when
jAPAN-RUSSIA CONFERENCE MET
- ish prisoners.

lsN prisoners.
The allies in return are prepared tt
grant complete amnesty to the Mus
sulman population in the territory
they annex for any acts of hostilit!
during the war. The return of al
prisoners. the recognition of the
spiritual sovereignty of the sultan
over Ottomans becoming subjects OF
the Balkan states, and the free admin
istration by the Mussulmans of theil
pious foundations in the Balkans
To these conditions, has now been
added the taking over by the Balkan
states OF that part of the Ottoman
public debt, corresponding to the ter
rtories which they annex. unless the
powers controlling the Ottoman debt
allow them 10 deduct that part from
the war indemnity imposed upon Tur-
key, which would thus remain the
only debtor.
The peace delegates adjourned i'm
mediately after luncheon until tomor-
row. 1t has been arranged that the
chair shall be taken alternately by the
delegates representing the five ma
tons concerned and this is to be done
alphabetically. Bulgaria will thus be
The first and Turkey last,
London, Dec. 16-The Greeks are
asserted to have lost a cruiser and
two torpedo boats and the Turks a
cruiser and a torpedo boat destroyer
in the naval battle off Lemnos today,
according to report which has reach
ed here by way OF Rome.
Vienna, Dec. ia government or
der, calling for tenders for the prompt
delivery Of 100000 tons of patent fuel
at the Austrian naval ports has been
posted about the city
London, Dec. 16.-lt is officially an
nounced the bassadorial "converSa
tons in regard to the Balkan situa-.
ton are to begin tomorrow at the
British foreign office.
The ambassadors of France, Ger
many. Russia, Austria Hungary and
Italy, in the course of these "conver-
sations' go over the whole ground OF
the status of European Turkey as a
result of the war, including the ques-
tions of the interests of the great
powers arising out of the change in
the territorial situation. There is no
fixed program, and efforts will be
made to avoid touching on questions
in regard to which some of the pow
ers have taken up fixed stand and
which they do not consider to come
within the scope of the discussions.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16

Washington, y. c., Dec. 16.-The
government today lost its fight before
the supreme court of the United
States to have the anthracite coal
carrying railroad and their affiliated
coal companies declared to be in a
general combination in violation OF
the antitrust law
1t won a victory in getting the court
to strike down the G5 per cent con
tracts whereby the railroad coal com
panies" buy the output of 'independ'
ent" miles. Justice Lurton, in an
ncuncing the opinion said the con-
tlacts were plainly in violation of the
law.
The court also held the railroads
had violated the law by attempting to
shut out Of the anthracite region a
competitive road through their control
Of the Temple iron company.
Ns tC minor combinations of rail
roads and coal companies charged to
be violating the law. the court dis
missed the action, without prejudice
TO future suits, because it held it not
fan to require those groups to make A
defense in an action primarily against
d general combination
Justices Bay, Hughes and Pitney
took no part in the decision.
There were no dissenting opinions.
In an opinion announced by Asso'
ciate Justice Lurton, the court hold:
First: That the general combina
lion alleged by the government to en-
isl between the defendant roads for an
apportiCnment for total tonnage to the
seabCard by an agreement in the ma
ture of a pooling arrangement has
not been established and therefore the
relief sought by the government upon
assumption of such combination is de-
MED
Second: The court finds, however,
that the principal defendants did
combine, for the purpose of cutting
out from the anthracite coal fields
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
Dear Sir:


Santa Fe New Mexico
Dear Sir:
There has been an apparent ten
dency during the past few months il
the columns OF the New Mexican tt
advocate the single tax system CT tax
alton for New Mexico. While | an
aware that there is a strong moVemeni
throughout the country to encourage
legislation looking to the immediate
application Of this system OF taxation
in several states. ! am OF the opinion
that the time has not come in this
state for the adoption Of such radi-
cal change. me single tax, or as ii
is sometimes called, the tax on the
"unearned increment is such Il reVo'
lutionary change in our state and
local system of taxation that it could
not be achieved, even if desirable,
without a long and consistent course
Of education OF the public during
which we would still be suffering UNI
der the present laws of New Mexico
which are inadequate and ineffective.
II seems to me that we should en-
deavor first to obtain legislation
which exist in our laws at the pres
ent time. and if, in course of years,
the single tax system is adopted in
other states and proves successful,
then it will be time enough for New
Mexico TO consider its adoption. For
the present, howev4A let us conllne
ourselves to the most immediate nee
essities of the state and attempt as
far as possible to achieve legislation
which will increase the revenues of
the state and yet will tighten our load
by more equitable distribution OF
the burden of taxation.
The problem before New Mexico is
one which has existed, and still exists
10 some extent, in every state in the
union and has been met, and i'll part
solved, in most of the states. In New
Mexico our greatest need is to change
the system of local assessment SO
that the present inequalities and
abuses which have practically nullified
the laws as they stand upon our stat
ute books will be done away with.
While our law requires that the as
SCISSOR shall return property at its full
cash value, it is matter of universal
that no property is ever
returned at it's full cash value, and
that in fact property is listed ordi-
narily at valuation from one-fourth
to one-tenth of its cash value. Also
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
DEVTER-SALT LAKE
TO BUY NOFFAT ROAD

Denver, Colo Dec. 16.-The Den
yer & Salt Lake railroad company
with $10,000,000 capital stock was in
corporated with power to acquire the
property of the Denver, Northwestern
& Pacific road, commonly known as
the "Moffat Road Lawrence c..
Phipps of Denver and Charles Boett
cher, represent the Denver Railroad
Securities company, and Tyson Dynes
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
TWO SENATORS FILL CHAIR.

Washington, ID. G., Dec. 1.-THE
chair of the presiding officer of the
senate, vacant when that body con-
vened today, was filled for the rest of
the session by the adoption of a plan,
through which Senator's Gallinger
and Bacon will alternate in terms of
two weeks each as president pro
tempore until March 4.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16

OF Denver represents the note hold.
ers protective committee on the direc-
torate. Newman Erb, Dr. f. S. Pear.
son, w. W. Walden and Leroy w.
Baldwin are the other members OF the
directorate. The old board retires
from management, without representa-.
ton. Erb is named as president of
the company, and DR.. Pearson as
chairman.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
DIR. ALSEERG SUCCEEDS
DR. WILEY

Washington, ID. c., Dec. 16.-Presi-
dent Taft directed Secretary Wilson
today to appoint DR.. Carl Alsberg, a
chemist in the agricultural depart
ment chief of the bureau of chemis-
try to succeed DR.. Harvey w. Wiley.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
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UTILIZE WATER POWER

y Secretary Fishers principal
y recommendations in his annual
y report to President Taft:
y Adoption of comprehensive wa
- ter power policy for all streams
\ in United States,
y Comprehensive classification
Z Of public lands, and administra-
I ton in accordance Herewith.
& Enlarged application of leasing
y principle to the public domain
\ generally
= Amendment TO mining law Civ
y ing prOspectors exclusive right
=, for term Of years of possession
y and prospecting within limited
y area.
: Legislation for development
+. Of transportation facilities and
=, coal lands in Alaska.
= Comprehensive leasing law for
y coal, oil and other mineral lands.
= Withdrawal from entry of pub
= lie lands in west to protect head
v waters of streams.
:, Legislation for retirement and
= pensoning of civil employees OF
y the government.
- u = = 4
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
BUTTER.

6O I RI.
Elgin, ILL.,, Dec 16.-Butter firm 34c.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16

Santa Fe. n NJ, Dee. 1G. 1912.
TO the Editor of the New Mexican,
Santa I'e, New Mexico
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16

Continued on page three).
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-12-16
UTILIZE WATER
POWERS OF NATION
SAYS MR.. FISHER
PUBLIC LANDS AND BETTER ADMINISTRATION WITH RESPECT TO THE
LANDS LEFT WITHIN GRASP OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
COMPREHENSIVE LEASING LAW
FOR COAL AND OTHER MINERALS

= ore limited resources and govern
mental facilities Of the individual
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-04-19
POLISH FAVOR WILSON.
Bishop Rhode Says He Has Respect
And Esteem of the Polish People.

Washington, D. G., April l2.-Rt.
Rev. Paul Rhode, the only Polish
bishop in the United States, has
given his unqualified Endorsement of
Gov. Woodrow Wilson ON the part Of
his fellow-countrymen who are now
citizens Of the United States. The
statement made by Bishop Rhode,
who lives in Chicago, touches upon
of a passage in Gov.
Wilson s history of the American
People and follows his addresses in
Illinois and Wisconsin in which he
gave his true estimation of Polish.
Americans. The statement follows:
Observation-Disclosures who have had
the pleasure of listening to Governor
Wilson s speeches feel that the mean
ing of the passage in his History Of
the American People to which excep-
ton was taken has been largely mis-
construed. I am glad that Governor
Wilson, who in all respects has the
esteem Of our citizens Of Polish birth
and extraction, took occasion to ex-
plain his mind and to place himself
in the proper light with our people.
"(Signed.) PAUL RHODE"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-04-19
FINDS ONLY WRECkAGE
OF FLOATING PALACE.

For the rest, the scene as the Car
pathia came up was one of desolation
All that remained of the $10,000,O 900
floating palace, on which nearly 1,4O0
passengers had been voyaging luxur.
iously to this side of the Atlantic,
were some bits of wreckage
The biggest ship in the world had
gone down. snuffing out in her down.
ward plunge, it appeared, hundreds of
human lives.
A significant line in the Cape Race
dispatch was the announcement that
Of those saved by the Carpathia nearly
All were women and children. Should
itaprove that no other vessel picked UP
any passengers Of tho sinking liner
this might mean that few of the men
ON board had been saved, as the pro.
portion of women and children among
the passengers was large. The same
facts would likewise spell the doom
OF practically the entire crew of 500.
In the cabins were $50 women and
Children but it is not known how
many there were among the 740 third
class passengers.
II the first cabin there were 12S wo-
mea and Is children and in the Sec
ond cabin 70 women and children.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-04-19

Most of the survivors Of the Titanic
are women and children, and accord
ing to reports, all who persisted are
men. Amid the evidences of sordid
struggle for wealth on every hand, and
in world tainted by commercialism,
it is with thrill Of pride one reads of
how men have faced death so bravely
and so well, and have willingly died
that the weak and the helpless might
live. Millionaire and Storage immi-
grant, officer and deckhand, were
united in the face or peril. Life was
dear, very dear to them, but life at
the expense Of the weak would have
the sea are full of stories
fore was the tragedy so tremendous
Many years ago an English transport
earring troops foundered in the Indian
ocean. The women and children were
placed in boats and the young officer
in command placed his men on the deck,
drew them up in military array, and
just before the vessel sank, asked them
to give a parting cheer to old Eng
land, and with the echo Of that cheer
still ringing, the survivors saw that
gallant band go down with the ship.
Tn the Mediterranean an Italian ship
went down under somewhat similar
circumstances, and the captain directed
his men to salute their country's flag
as they went down to death, after hav-
ing placed the women and children in
boats. Every seafaring nation has its
story of herosim Of the sea, and if
there be times when the mind has be-
come unhinged because of surrounding
horrors and deeds of shame have been
done, where men. forgot their man.
hood these are often all few. The great
majority Of sea disasters have shown
that in the presence of death all the
nobler traits of man have come
to the surface, and the fierce
competition for wealth and
power for glory and fame, which
is characteristic Of ordinary life, yield
to competition and emulation in the
finest instincts of the soul. There is a
significance in this, hope that time
may come when the competition for
sordid things may give way to COM
petition for the better things, when
each shall be anxious to- outstrip his
fellowman in doing good. Pure
Utopia, some will say, and contrary to
human nature, Maybe so. Human nature
may not change, but the channel of it's
desires may be changed, and there are
depths in. human nature and possibili-
ties for active good sometimes only
revealed by great and awful disaster.
That 3 one of the lessons Of the I'll
tanic.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-04-19

The awful disaster to the Titanic
seems like warning to mankind from
Tie elements not to be presumptuous.
Man has attained great mastery over
wind and wave. He has not conquered
Them. So far had the ingenuity of man
gone in the construction Of leviathans
Of the deep, that it seemed as if there
were no more peril for those who go
down to the sea in ships.' Yet, after
ali, there is probably more real danger
In long railroad journey, with de-
sective rails and weak cars, than in a
voyage on the ocean, where science and
skill have united to make travel safe;
sEhe Titanic disaster has demonstrated
rain the potency of Marconi's in
IGNITION as saver Of life, for with
ant & the lifeboats would have swamp
~ amid the floating zee, or the surviv-
srs persisted of exhaustion before
nescue. ..ssy.ls.. S-.' =
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-04-19
SETTLERS FLOCK INTO STATE.
Railroad Man Says Springs Movement
Exceeds Former Years.

St. Cloud Times: Twin city railroad
men say that the movement of settlers
to Northern Minnesota thus far in the
regular spring settlers season has far
exceeded that Of other years. Owing
to the wide dissemination Of informa-
ton by the state immigration depart
ment in certain North Central States,
the class Of farmers coming to settle in
Minnesota is. said to be better this
year than ever before. ~.
eve had one party few days
ago. said one Of the agents, econ
sisting of sixty people and twenty
cars Of settlers movables. This
shows that the intending settlers are
of the right class, men who are bring.
ing in their stock and equipment, and
are prepared to make good in Mime MINI
sofa. - ". l. II I'll 2z. ii. nj {
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-04-19

BRYAN DECLARES HE u
d. M tss52 sSss al; \. NOT "a CANDIDATE
New York, April Is. Beginning b .
speech which many of his hearers
characterized as the greatest effort Of
his life, just before Saturday midnight,
Col. William Jennings Bryan swept the
diners at the Jefferson day dinner Of
the Democratic club off their feet and
for more than an hour discussed the de-
velopments Of the present campaign
with q :fervor that resulted in the most
unprecedented demonstration ever seen
in the organization, heretofore known
SO far as Bryanites are concerned, as
the "enemy's country" Bryan follow
ed Woodrow Wilson,; who caught a
great cheer when he was introduced as
the man "who had just carried Penn
sylvania. But the Jersey governor g
utterances were soon forgotten when
Bryan launched into declaration of
his legislative principles and declared
that today the democracy of the nation
was the only real, party Of progress.
~ am, surprised at the depth of the
feeling here in conservative New York
for progressive principles, - said Bryan.
"And I am pleased when I recall that
tu0oo 61c t00 V0Iy UOCt11uoS Cu<AV / pro-
claimed here and which were repudiat-
ed right here.''
Bryan also paid his respects to Col.
Roosevelt and President Taft. ut
makes no difference which of them the
;; republicans nominate,' he said "each
has killed off the other.' -
Bryan protested emphatically that he
was not presidential timber this year.
"When was a candidate, believed
that I could poll more votes than any
other democrat. Now I believe that
there are other democrats who can poll
! more votes than could. You thought
I fought hard for myself. Just give me
a progressive candidate to fight for in
the coming campaign and see what I
will do for him.
Bryan assaulted the newspaper owners
who fight in the dark and declared that
the country must demand publicity of
the ownership Of newspapers.
'"There is no greater menace to this
country than the newspapers owned by
the vested interests" he said. "They
chloroform their readers while their
owners pick their pockets. Who can
defend the man who stabs regulations
in the dark and f1atters in the opens''