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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-23
FARRELL TOLD INVESTIGATORS
HIS IDEA OF GOVERNMENT
CORPORATION CONTROL
Differs FROM CARNEGIE
Declares Carnegie Testified About
Matters of Which He Knew
Nothing at All.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-James ].
Farrell, president of the U. s. Steel
corporation protested before the
Stanley investigating committee today
against the publicity of the manufac-
turers cost of steel products in this
country. as ruinous to foreign trade
Of domestic maj tufacturers. The
steel corporation ideas also differed
with the suggestions previously made
by Ebert II. Gary, executive head Of
the steel corporation and Andrew
Carnegie and others.
Presidtnt Farrell stated that the
Gary Dinners at which all steel
manufacturers assembled to discuss
the trade had no influence in fixing
or maintaining prices, though he
thought they had influenced in MAIN
tanning the stability of the market.
81 do not believe, he said, that
the prices of two steel manufacturers
in the United States today are alike"
why has Il. Fl. Gary said that the
day of competition has passed." ask.
cd Representative Beall.
Steel Prices Very Low.
Il think he referred to destructive
competition" said Mr.. Farrell. ::As
a matter of fact steel prices today
are very low. There is no doubt
reports soon to be made of some cor
porations will show that they are not
getting the cost of manufacture out
of present prices"
Are you one of the apostles OF
this new cult, advocating that the
government control corporations, as
was suggested by Judge Gary, Mr..
Carnegie and others?"
II believe there should be a pub
licity of corporations, that this should
show profits and losses, and general
conduct of business said President
Farrell. 1T think that there should
be a supervision. but | believe that
it would be impractLcable almost inn
possible for governmental board to
fix prices. even to fix maximum pric-
es. To determine the cost of articles
manufactured in the steel business
alone requires a corps of hundreds Of
experts.
Eavors Supervisory Board.
Il would have a supervisory board
which would have authority to in
vestigate all corporations for the pur-
pose of preventing, not only unusual
ly high rates, but also unusually low
rates. which should result in batter
business and wages"
Mr.. Farrell said he did not believe
the Sherman law should be repealed
but that 1t should be clarified so that
business men would know exactly
what to do.
When asked about the recent state
ment of Andrew Carnegie that II was
obvious that there was some sort Of
combination among steel men today
TO maintain prices. President Farrell
said:
II understand that Mr.. Carnegie
said that. but Mr.. Carntgie has not
been i'm the steel business fer eleven
years. You gentlemen probably were
surprised at the disability he dis
played.
This was the only positive state
ment he did make" said Mr.. Farrell.
laughing. Yes. about something he
knew nothing about" fttorted Mr.
Farrell.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-23
rAcKEY GETS A GOOD MATCH

KENOsHA, Wis. Jan. 22.-Packey
Mcfarland Of Chicago and Eddie
Murphy Of Boston tonight were
matched for ten rounds here Fsbru-
ary 2.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-23
LOCAL WEATHER YESTERDAY

The temperature: Maximum So;
minimum rs. South wind. Clear.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-23
Supreme Court to Rest.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.-The SUI
preme court OF the United States to-
day announced it would recess from
January 80 to February |.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-23
owns The TRANSPORTATION
AND ORE SUPPLIES TITUS suG.
GESTING SEGREGATION BN
THE GOVERNMENT
A SUPPLY FOR 50 YEARS
Prices of Lake Ore Have Been Main.
tanned for Many Years AT I'm
reasonably High Figure.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-Unreas-
enable profits are made on iron orc
of the lake region, excessive earnings
flow into the treasury of the L. 5.
Steel corporation from It's ore trans
portation facil ties which suggest the
necessity, from The standpoint of pub.
lie policy of segregating the ore of
the railroads and giant corporations
and larger profits are made by con-
steel combinations, according to re.
ports of the steel industry by Her
bert Knox Smith, commissioner Of
corporations, made public tonight.
The report was presented to Pres
ident TAFT and sent to the House COM
mittee on ways and means for con-
sideration for the proposed steel tar.
iff on which the democrats will eau.
Gus tomorrow. The pr ces of Lake
ore. the report declares, have been
kept for many years at an unreason-
ably high lever compared with the
cost of production.
In connection with the excessive
profits realized by the steel corpora
ton from its ore and railroad prop.
critics Commissioner Smith says the
control of public agencies carries
with ii such possibilities of abuse that
the question is raised whether the
public interest in this inquiry does
not require a segregation of the ore
railroads from the steel corporation"
The report is based upon an inventory
of two-thirds of the country's produce
ton of iron and steel from 1902 to
1906, inclusive. From 1902 to 1901,
Mr.. Smith says these five years fig
ures substantially present condition
also.
Has Excessive Ore Supplies.
''ln 50 far as the steel corporation
enjoys monopolistic powers" the re-
port state, 1T lies chiefly in its hold
ings of ore and Its railroad transport
tation facilities. This company, the
report declares has acquired unduly
large ore reserves, holding at the
close Of 1910 at least fifty years sup
ply, at the present rate Of consump-
ton exclusive OF the Great Northern
ore properties, the lease or Whlch was
cancelled effectually January /, 1918.
1t is said the corporation has fully
1850, 100000 pounds of ore in the
lake regions. The excessive profits on
ore. the report says, has been keeping
competition handicapped. in
the production of pig iron and steel by
concerns which must go into the open
market for their ore.
The transportation profit Of sixty
cents ton realized by the steel cor
poration on its own ore, over its prin-
cipal ore carrying railroads, and in
lake vessels from 1902 to 1906 was
"grossly excessive the report al
leges. AS evidence of this 1t is added
the corporation recently reduced the
rates on its two principal ore roads
The report adds:
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-23
\ Real Taft Afaflr.

This district will elect two delegates
to the national convention and two
alternatives. Among those who are
mentioned for the honor and whose
names will 90 before tomorrow's con-
vention are j. S. Murray. of McAlester:
Victor NJ. Locke, Of Antlers, governor
of the Choctaw nation; Walter Harris,
OF McAlester;. A. +. Butler, Of Du-
rant; w. II. Keneman. of Madill. and
A. T.. Perry, of Coalgate. although the
latter emphatically denies that he is a
candidate.
Regarding the Roosevelt report Ed
Perry tonight stated upon his word Of
honor as man and gentleman. that
he has not received any letter from
either Roosevelt or Hitchcock asking
for instructed delegates for Roose-
Welt.
Mr.. Perry stated also that he
thought the report was circulated by
his enemies
1t will be Taft convention. une-
quiyocalN. and to a man-that much
seems certain.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-23
Fourth District
IS AbL FOR Taft
REPUBLICANS WILL SELECT NA-
TIONAL DELEGATES AT COAL
GATE TODAY.
FALSE REPORT Circulated
That Convention Would BE Instructed
by Letter from Hitchcock for
Roosevelt, Is Denied.

COALGATE. Okla, Jan. 22.-(Spe-
cialD-On the eve of the first CON
gressional republican convention to
elect delegates to the natioanl conven-
ton furry OF excitement was caus-
ed here among the delegates who have
arrived and others who We're here to
attend the Fourth Congressional con-
vention, by the circulation C< "A report
that Ed Perry, Of McAlester, chairman
OF the convention. had received word
from Theodore Roosevelt and Post
master General Hitchcock to instruct
the delegates for Roosevelt.
However. the report was ~phati-
cally denied tonight by Mr. Perry him
self and everything has assumed a
harmonious aspect that BODIES well
for smooth sailing in the convention
tomorrow.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-23
Has No Letters.

The report emanated from McAles-
ter during the day that Perry himself
had given out the Roosevelt story and
had asserted that he v,Ss in possession
Of positive evidence to back the as
sertlon. II is said by some that Perry
really did make such statements to a
few parties, but II is practically
known for certain now that he has no
letters OF the nature that he was
credited with being In possession Of.
Tomorrow's convention, which. as
far as can be learned, will be the first
Of its kind this year to be held, will
undoubtedly go on record almost
unanimously I'm favor Of Taft. About
100 OF the 150 delegates to the con-
vention are already here and one dis
sentlng vote against Taft has yet TO
be heard.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-23
HOTELS CRowDED-Tulsa ha

twenty-one flrst-class hotels ana
rooming houses, They contain 793
guest rooms, yet II Is the exception
when late train arrivals do not finr
everything fllled,-E. Il, Tucker, man
ager Information Bureau.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-01-23
HAwKEyE BOOsTiNG-Although

but four times the size Of Tulsa, its
people have raised and are spending
$3.50 600 to tell every reading Amer
lean why we should pack up and
move to Des Moines.-E, T, Tucker.
manager Information Bureau.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
THE EASIEST WY.

According TO Governor Chase :. Os-
horn of Michigan Senator La Toilette
is q Progressive who believes in max
ing progress along "the easiest way
Even the most lion-hearted reformers
before this have been known to prefer
IN follow the line of least resistance Ill
demolishing old abuses, and there is no
Inherent imprObability in the Govern
or's ayerment that Mr.. La Toilette Sc
lects with not q little circumspection
the political dragons which he purposes
TO slay. 1t will be interesting TO see
how the Wisconsin Senator meets tne
charge that he shrewdly picked out
railroad domination as proiitable
thing to war against in Wisconsin
while closing his eyes to the equally
Objectionable domination Of the brew
cries and the saloons.
Governor Osborn is himself some
thing of a Progressive and showed the
ouality of his progressivencss last spring
nv supporting the Canadian reciprocity
agreement on its merits as a nanonai
policv. in spite of the fact that there
was a good deal Of opposition TO IL lor
local reasons in his own state. Mr. La
Toilette announced that he favored
Canadian reciprocity in principle, put
managed to find grounds for opposing
the compact before COngrcss-thc oniy
one which there was any chance What-
soevep of getting Canada to accept
Observation of the Wisconsin Senator's
tactics at that time may have Ied MT.
Osborn into further search for evil
dences of easiest way" progress. At
any rate. he frankly admitted yester-
dav that he was puzzled TO account '0r
what seemed to him Il tendency on Mr.
La Folletfe's part TO take up those
.thinrs which might he termed popu-
"lar and that contained the least dan
ger to himself" The Governors uh-
fiattering conclusion in the matter was:
I have noticed also that while Senator
Ia Toilette did great work IN RIDING
Wisconsin of corrupt railroad DONNA
ton, he has never said anything against
brewery domination in that state. Really
as between the two | should prefer rail-
road domination However 1t was good
politics TO fight the railroad in Wiscon-
sin. but it would not have got Sena-
tor La Toilette anywhere probably II ne
had fought the brewery saloons
1t is a great thing TO know when TO
fight and whom 10 fight. Even Gov
ernor Osborn will admit that Don
Ouixote would probably have been able
TO win office on n reform platform II
he had known how to keep RoSinante
always cantering along "the easiest
way"
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
People and Social Incidents

7 pany OF young people at dinner this sv.r-
| ing Their guests were Colonel and Mr..
| Spencer Cosby, Mr.. and Mrs. Wa,tsr
Tuckerman, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan wyetb
Mr.. and Mrs Huntington Jackson. Miss
Marion Oliver, Miss Sophy Johnston. Miss
Martha Bowers, Miss Hunt, Miss Hinckley
Miss Marie Stevens, Lieutenant Mcraulev.
Mr.. Riggs, Mr.. Bingham, Mr.. Ellis. Will
lam Marrow Newton Gulick and Chauncey
Hackett
Mrs. Herbert Shlpman. Of New York,
arrived to-day TO visit her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Edison Bradley.
Mrs. Oliver Cromwell went to New York
to-day for a short visit pertaining 10 her
trousseau. Her marriage to Edward r.
Stotesbury will take place In her Wash
ington home on January s, and will be
private only the members of the families
and very few intimate friends being ex-
pected.
Miss AiIeen Gorgas daughter Of Colonel
William &. Gorgas, sailed to-day from
Panama for New York, and after short
visit to her mothers family in Brooklyn
and New York. will come to Washington
to visit Miss Frances Hodges, the debu-
tante daughter OF Lieutenant Colonel
Harry Hodges, who is stationed in
Panama. Miss Gorgas has spent part OF
each winter in Washington for several
years.
Robert T. Lincoln and his family have
arrived in Washington for the remainder
of the season and are established in the
old home Of the late General Bates, IN "
street, which was occupied for many years
by ex-senator and Mrs. Depew.
Representative and Mrs. Swager sherIey
have returned here for the season, and
are established at the Dresden. Mrs sher.
ley will hold her first reception next Tues
day.
Mrs William Belden Noble is again IN
her Washington home, after having spent
the last eighteen months with her son-in-
law and daughter, Lieutenant and Mrs.
Sherman Miles.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
AN EFFORT TO SAVE LIFE
The Tenants Union Regards as Such
the Sullivan-Shortt Bill.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter Of President Miller TO the
taxpayers Of the Borough Of The Bronx
published this morning was read ana con-
sidered by members of the Tenants union
committee on homes, whose object Is u
relieve the deadly congestion Of population
In our city by discouraging the forestaliers
Of home sites whom they believe 10 be re-
sponsible Although the evil we are COM
batting is most drastic, we desire to use the
mild means contained in the Sullivan
Shortt bill as the nearest remedy at mana
The gradual removal of the penalty that
prevents the building of houses provided
for In this bill is not an experiment, only
an innovation here The same remedy has
been successfully applied at Vancouver,
+. c. None of the dire consequences proph-
esied by President Miller have appeared
there Nor was the expected decrease In
the values Of land apparent The wondrous
stimulus to the creation OF improvements
actually increased the value OF land Other
cities in Canada are adopting the same
method OF taxation I'm self-defence to keep
all their workers from moving to Van
couver.
What President Miller calls an unnatural
Increase I'm buildings, which, competing
with one another, makes rent reasonable,
has not worked harshly in Vancouver. The
unnatural vacancy of convenient building
sites. due to the greed Of the owners thereof,
is the very evil which the Sullivan-Shortt
bill proposes to- mitigate. Is it natural to
see, as you may in many places In The
Bronx, block OF tenements surrounded
hy.a arrae of vacant
Mr.. Miller complains that we are trying
to frame laws TO overcome the law of sup
Fly and demand. What are he and the other
taxpayers, or forCstdllers, doing to increase
the supply OF land? We need not ask what
they are doing to limit the supply, to make
land artlilcially scarce. The property OWN
ers are warned by President Miller that
they must protect their interests through
their Senators and Assembymen. May we
not warn the tenants OF The Bronx that
they must defend their own lives and the
terribly congested lives of their neighbors
in Manhattan through their Senator's and
Asscmblymen?
The Sulllvan-Shortt bill is a life defensive
measure that ought to take precedence OF
all other measures before the Legislature,
0nd should receive the support of all unsel-
FISH citizens.
CORNELIUS DONOVAN, President.
New York, Dec. 81, 1911.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
as no STAyDARDIzING corr.

As TO TAND1RDIIiNG bOIT'
Why standardize the golf ball: If
Standardization had been adopted 'n the
days when the Scotch played the game
with feather-stuffed spheres golf would
never have reached the enormous level
opment that 1t has attained to-day. In
ventions have improved the game. The
lively ball has added to its delight. Even
the duffer can now boast of the "two-hun-
dred-yard drive while the heart of the
good player Is set upon one of three
hundred yards. With traps and hazards
the game may always be kept sufficiently
difficult. no matter what distance annihi-
lating invention the future yields.
1t is Just because golf is not stand
ardized that it has such attractions for
its devotees. There il room for ipdi
vidualism. You may put with an instrr-
ment modelled upon safety razor. The
revolt which followed rule from St
Andrews barring that putter showed now
dear is individuality I'm golf The ball
You use may be filled with wound rub
Der, with wafer. compressed air or a
dozen other things. Each one Of the
hundred kinds of balls. with pimples,
dents or warts on its surface, flies fur
thest. travels most truly. stays best on
the putting green from an approach shot
and puts best, in the opinion Of rs dew
Otees.
BESIDES there Is always the lure of
something better, the ball that will really
do all the things that each player asserts
bravely of the one that he for the mo-
ment pins his faith upon. Golf is really
search for perfection. for the perfect
form" the perfect swing, the perfect
way Of playing the approach shot dead
TO the hole" the perfect putter and the
perfect ball. I'm other things men are
content with less than perfection, but not
in golf. Why shut the door TO the ideal
in the timid belief that when the ideal
is realized the game will be no more?
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
JUDGES BEGIN NEW TERMS
Justice Hotchkiss and New Sec.
retary Get Poor Quarters.

Justice Henry u. Hotchkiss. who was
elected last November to tho Supreme
Court, took his seat yesterday. Justice
Cohalan and Justice Pendleton, who were
occupying their places by appointment
from Governor Dix and were elected last
November To a fun fourteen-year term,
and Surrogate Fowler, who also was sery-
ing under appointment by the Governor.
entered on their elective terms
Justice Hotchkiss, being the junior Of the
justices, had to take the only place that re-
mained for him as his chambers, room
somewhat smaller than that usually occu-
pied by the office boy In business office.
There his honor and his secretary will
have TO go over briefs and law books and
Justice Hotchkiss will have to write his de-
cislons.
The Hamilton Athletic club gave gold
mounted ivory gavel to Justice Hotchkiss
I'm his chambers. Assemblyman Alfred
Smith made The presentation. but the rest
of the delegation had TO stay outside be-
cause the other members could not get
into the room or booth"
Justice Hotchkiss appointed as his secre-
tary j. Hampden Dougherty, jr. The job
pays $500 a year. Dougherty is the son OF
a well known lawyer. He was graduated
from the Harvard Law School In 1909
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
Yr4y "pLAYIyG DOUBLE"P

1t is not surprising that the Manchus
suspect the Prime Minister Of China of
playing double There are. indeed,
three major reasons why they might
naturally expect him to do so. One is
their own proneness 10 play double
and their inclination. shared with most
other people in the world, TO Judge
others by themselves Another Is the
familiar practice of doing that same
thing in which Chinese statesmen and
politicians commonly indulge. The
third is the well known record of Mr..
lie career has been one Of the most
versatile opportunists in the world,
turning from one side 10 the other with
the utmost expedition and nonchalance.
He was thus regarded as having be
trayed the Emperor and the reformers
to the formidable Dowager Empress
in the last reign, and for that cause
has since been regarded with distrust
and resentment by many Of the reform
party.
4 discriminating estimate, however,
will hold Yuan Shih-kai 10 be not a
traitor nor trickster but an oppor-
tunist In the more creditable sense Of
that term. TO one aim and principle
and cause he is unswervingly loyal,
and that is the welfare of the Chinese
Empire. When the urging of reforms
seems TO tend to that end he is the
most strenuous of reformers. When re-
forms have been inopportune and i'm
practicable he has been conservative
almost to reaction. That he is at heart
reformer is not to be questioned in
substantial and significant reforms in
late years in China have been due to
his initiative. And that, by the way. is
another reason why the Manchus
should not have expected him to be a
thick and thin supporter of their re-
dictionary and moribund rule.
At the present time Mr.. Yuan is con-
fronted with greater perplexities and
difficulties than any other Chinese min
lister, at least in our day, has known.
He is in situation which demands the
exercise % an opportunist policy. 1t
Is going TO be hard task to save
China from disruption, chaos and for
eign intervention-perhaps impossible to
hold the whole empire together-and in
undertaking that task single-handed
he will need TO use every aid that he
may be able to enlist and to seek al
ways the line Of least resistance. II is
an open question whether it would be
better to rehabilitate China rs Il repub-
lie or as constitutional monarchy, and
II Mr.. Yuan hesltates TO commit him.
self unreseryedly to either side he Is
New-York tribune., 1912-01-03
ALIENS WITHIN ORR GATES

This city has long been unique in the
extent and variety of its alien popula-
ton. Nowhere else I'm the world do so
many natlonalities mix In large masses
and In no other metropolis is the ratio
Of foreign born to native anything like
so high. New York's exceptionally rapid
growth in the last two decades has been
due in large part TO the steady inflow
Of immigration, and with each years
advance the city has become more and
more alien in tongue and blood.
A Census Bureau bulletin just issued
gives some interesting details Of the
alien invasion. In 1910 this city had
4,766,SS3 inhabitants, Of whom 1926.9O0
were foreign born whites. Including
Chinese, japanese and West Indian ne.
groes, the foreign born population Prob.
ably aggregated 100000 in round num-
bers. Nearly 40 per cent Of those whom
the census classifies as New Workers are
of foreign birth, and they with their de-
scendants in the first generation, are in
a large majority in the foremost AmerI-
can city. 1t is true that the first sener-
alton is already far OH the way toward
Americanization, but the fact remains
that this city continues as native in spirit
and tendencies as 1t does solely through
the grip which our civilization takes at
once on those newcomers on whom It las
free opportunity to work. The public
school is undoubtedly the most powerful
Of the agencies which shape the newer
generation into conformity with the ma =.
tive model.
The Census Bureaus report discloses
a marked change since 1900 In the char
acter OF the city's alien population. For
merly the two chief foreign elements
here were the Irish and the Germans.
They entered actively into the life OF the
city and directly affected its politics and
its standards of living: Now both irish
and German immigration has been
checked. The number of German born
here decreased between 1900 and 1910
from 324,19S to 279,200 and the number
OF Irish born from 275,073 TO 252,50o.
Those two natlonalities have now been
outnumbered by the Italians, who have