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Perkins, Mccormick and Deering Will Be Given "No Immunity Bath
 By Government.
IN T R U $ T IN 9 IRY
Criminal Prosecution lnlinatrd William II. Jones. Ottogtnnriaa.
 Appears aS Witness.

Chicago, Sept. l6. Thor, is to be no immunity tath for George \ Perkins, Cyrus Il. Ncrormt Charles Deering or other leading spirits in the org ani2ation of the ln- ternational Harvester Company, which the government charges was framed ill violation of the sherman antitrust law.
 Neither Perkins, Mccormick nor Eeering. il was announced today. will be called as witnesses in the pend ing civil suit to dissolve the Corpora- ton, in which the initial hearing of evidence was held in Chicago today They will not be permitted to testify on the ground that such testimony would grant them immunity.
 This announcement is the first inti nation that the government is cou- templating the possibility Of criminal prosecution against the men responsible for the formation of the large combine, which the gov ernment charges violates the Sher- man anti-trust act.
 Joseph R. Darling, special agent of the Department of Justice, in charge of the preparation of evidence against the Harvester Company, made 1t known that Perkins, Mccormick and Deering were not to be summoned.
 The attitude of the Department of Justice towards Mr. Perkins, thus re- vealed is of special interest because of his position of chief financial packer of Theodore Roosevclt's cam paign and leading exponent of the d. .trines of the Third Party.
 'Such evidence as the government wants in the civil suit will be obtained from subordinate officers of the In ternational Harvester Company and from men, who though actively con cerned in the promotion of the trust, have taken no active part in it's man. agement for years and are thereby protected from possible prosecution by the statute of limitations.
 William H. Jones, almost an octo- genarian, came from retirement of several years in response to a sub- poena today to tell about the organ ization of the combine. He is still vice president of the Harvester com pany, but has no active duties.
 Mr. Jones was questioned before Special Examiner Robert Taylor, of Duluth, in Judge Landis' court room. The interrogatory for the govern ment was concluded by Edwin T. Grosvenor, assistant to the attorney general
 Charles S. Funk testified that prior to the formation of the International Harvester Company, the Warden Bushnell and Glessmer Company, with which he was connected, did not make uniform prices through all oth- CT dealers.
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L. (. SAUNDERS TO
 MOVE TO THE CAPITAL

l.. C. Saunders, who has made his headquarters in this city for several years, has purchased home in Little Rock and will move his family to that city about October 1. Since MT Saunders was appointed to the posi- ton of supervisor of agents for the Security Life Insurance Company he has been forced to do much travelling and he decided to move to that city.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-17
S5,oOO FIRE LOSS AT FURNITURE HOUSE SHELBY AND lNDERSON.S WARE. HOUSE ON WEST SEfOND WAS BURNED YESTER.
 DAY, PaSSerhy and Cigarette Is Blamed Loss Partially Covered By
 Insurance.

A lighted cigarette or match care lessly thrown ny soma passerby into window is thought 10 have caused the lire that completely gutted a furniture wareaouse at the rear of Shelby and Aaderssn Fu1n ture Con- pany, Second avenue and Walnut street yesterday aftern2cn a 5:45 o'clock. The loss 5 estimated by MT. Andersen. at about $5,000, par- italy coversd by insurance.
 The flames was discovered by MT, M nler, of the firm of Miniter and Baker, jus opposite he warehouse On Walnut street. When first ssen tae blaze was conf ned to one corner of the building but rapidly gained head way in the highly comEustible ma CT ial stored n. the build ng and by the time the fire department arrived the furniture was burning fiercely.
 The firemen soon had he f re un- der control but not u-til a heavy l. ss was susta ned A great volume of smoke poured from the building and many citizens thought a great cen Migration was in progress.
 MT. Andersen, member of the firm, sa d it was fully fifteen m nutes after the alarm was turned bsfcre tn 3 departments arrived. The register at fire station No. 1 registered the call at 5,45.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-17
LOYALTY OF THE
 McVAY BROTHERS

+ In the conference held at Star . + City yesterday between attorneys . < for the McNays, at which it was :
 + agreed that the defendants : s' should plead guilty, it was decid- . s' ed to let Cullen take 15 years . * and Ed 10. When this was agreed . + to Ed baked. He declared that his .
 * brother should suffer no more :
 4 than himself. I'll agree to plead . + guilty" he said, eff you take ? 1-2 : + years off Cullen's sentence and : x put it on my ten. We'll go to .
 * prison for the same length of . + time" This was agreed to and . x the men walked into the court ; + room and were sentenced. ;
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After Judge A. B. Grace, presiding over the Lincoln circuit court at Star City, overruled a motion of the de- fense that sought to have him dis qualify himself on the ground that he was to be used as a witness by de fendants, Cullen and Ed McVay, un- der indictment for murder in the first degree, yesterday entered pleas of guilty to a second degree murder charge and were sentenced by Judge Grace to twelve years and six months each in the state penitentiary. The pleas were entered after lengthy conference between Col. George W. Murphy, J. NJ. Shaw, Lewis Rhoton and A. J. Johnson, counsel for the de- fense, and District Attorney T. Havis Nixon
 The Mcvays shot and killed J. W. Ethridge, of Fall Back, Miss, as he was leaving the court room in the Jefferson county court house in this city on November 20, 1911, after the opening statements had been made in the case of the state against Ethridge, who was to be tried for the assassina- ton of Albert McVay, brother of the defendants of yesterday, at his home in this city on the night of July }, 1908. John M McVay, another broth CT, who was tried for the murder of Ethridge at the last term of the circuit court here, is under death sentence and is now in the state penitentiary awaiting execution. The cases of Gull len and Ed McVay were taken to Lincoln county on change of venue.
 The defense sprung a surprise last week. when they summoned Judge Grace as a witness. At the same time they filed motion to disqualify Judge Grace, that they would prove certain facts by him and re- viewed the testimony that they would seek to draw from the jurist on the witness stand. It was their purpose to have another occupy the bench during the trials at Star City, but Judge Grace, in his ruling, held that there was no law authorizing him to disqualify himself and that should he do so it would be an ob- struction of justice. He declared that the defense could not prove cer- tain facts by him, for he knew noth- ing of them. He said he had no pre- judice for or against the defendants and that he would give them fair and impartial trial
 Immediately after the court over ruled the motion the conference was held by the attorneys and the pleas of the McVays followed.
 In oyerruling the motion Judge Grace said: s.I..s sc
 "The force and effect of these opin- ions seems to be that tic cfauit 5udga cannot be, eauired to leave the benca and testifyaas a witness in a Vsses pendin8 G his court. II csr- cnntinuaA gnp papa Eour
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-17
R0USANDS GREET |OvERN0R WILSON bmocratic Nominee Given Magnificent Ovation On His Trip to Chi
 cago.
HOLE TOWN WAS OUT
1p e Hit With IEdiana Crowd
 |When He Termed Senator Bey- eridge "HumOriSt."

thicago, Sept.. Ex-Governor Will $ trip through Ohio and Indiana his way to Sioux City, Ia., by way Chicago today was the most highly tessful that he has made in his bpaign. Everywhere along the line candidate was welcomed with hendous enthusiasm. Whether by Arrangement on the part of the knign committee or because the h hauling the governors private was an exceedingly slow one, s were made at all the jerkwater ns. Word had travelled on ahead the governors approach and vds turned out to meet him at ev- station.
 Omewhere near Logansport, Ind, FFowd consisting of Mayor David siekle, State Senator Fred kist- and other prominent citizens |fded the train and informed the |didate that the entire town was Ining out to welcome him. Sena- Kistner. who is Democratic er of Logansport, told the gover- that Senator Albert J. Beveridge been attacking the Democratic llnee as the instrument of the eY, and that. no one had under
 to controvert the. statements. ernor Wilson lost no time in do- so himself. He told the crowd had known Beveridge for a good " years but had not until now Iaed that he was a humorist.
 ae governor proceeded by logical lment to prove that the third represented in Indiana by Bev- ge, was fostering practically all posses and was anxious that the esnment should enter into part hip With them. This made a big with the crowd, which was ply in sympathy with the Demo- c nominee. They crowded about rear platform before the train ed out and hundreds of them k hands with the governor.
 nator Kistner told the governor Indiana will undoubtedly give 100000 plurality.
 ae governor had not planned to
 any speeches until after leav- Vhlcago. In fact he did not
 that he was expected to speak x from the rear platform of his sle car. His first speech was to been made in Sioux City. Today ellyered four speeches from the end of his car. In several places crowds had been waiting from
 morning until noon just to get a pse of the nominee.
 e governor scarcely finished vast this morning before the sment began.
 governors train arrived in
 so at 5:15 D. m. The candidate Aet by Joseph E. Davies and oth- lsmDers of the campaign commit
 me governor left for the west in ttn evon;no
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Enter Pleas of Guilty to Ethridge Murder When
 Judge Grace Over rules Motion.
AFTER A CONFERENC CE
Judge Grace Ruied That There is No Law Authorizing Him to Dis
 qualify Himself.

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Chicago Sept. l6. 1hcfl is to bc
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T. E. Buck left yesterday for Nc Gehee and otter DO rts south on the Iron Mountain cn business.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-20
THE PATENT LAWS
Abuses Under Our System Which Need
Correction.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: The letter from Mr.. Loveland on
Patent Monopolies" which you publish
this morning Is very fair statement or
the intent Of our patent laws. but he fails
10 take into consideration the very grave
question whether the operation Of those
laws has been Just what was intended IN
their adoption. For one thing. II is no.
torious that there are numerous instances
where the real inventor profits to a far
less extent than the man who finances his
invention. and, so far as the public benefit
is concerned, although there is no ques-
ton that the patent system has greatly
stimulated invention, there are far too
many instances OF where IT has been used
to smother invention by giving the power
to hold valuable device out OF use entire
ly, as was done when the Bessemer Asso-
citation bought UP the rights in this coun-
try to the Thomas Gilchrist basic process
Outside of all this, however. there is still
another point involved, In that 1t is al
ways doubtful how much of an invention
has greatly grown In the Individual inVen-
tors brain and how much he has derived
more or less unconsciously from those who
have gone before him. This point Is very
clearly indicated by the fact that IN the
New-York tribune., 1912-03-20
BEHIND TIE TINES.

New Mexico's first Legislature evi-
dently contained when 1t assembled at
Santa Fe a certain number Of states
men who hadn't read the newspa-
pers carefully. and consequently hadn't
learned how dangerous the ''jack-pO
ting" habit has become in these days OF
the dictagraph and the omnipreSent pri-
vate detective. From the names of the
four Representatives who were arrested
for accepting bribes and then forced t)
resign their offices ii may be inferred
that they are more familiar with ne
Spanish than with the English language,
and so failed to find instruction in the
perils, Illustrated so lhvishly in the daily
press, of taking what looks like good
money whenever and wherever II IS Of
fered. If they had profited by the warn
ings Of the LOrimer and other investiga-
tions they would have been much more
scary about participating In any cash on
delivery transactions In the very shadow
Of the State Capitol. They would, at
least, have insisted on preliminary
pleasure jaunt to Los Angeles or Kansas
City.
1t is encouraging. however to think
that the latest bribery scandal in con-
nection with the election Of United States
Senators was due largely TO the inexperi-
ence OF raw hands at the legislative
grist mill. New Mexico is a beginner
and has not yet mastered the sophistica-
tions Of up-to-date politics. Everywhere
nowadays the legislator walks over
hidden pitfalls. He is surrounded by
false friends anxious to worm them
selves with fatal results into his conf
dence. He never knows when his indis-
Greet remarks are being recorded for the
benefit Of a future grand jury. He
long ago ceased to accept checks even III
payment Of sums won at the poker table,
and he trembles in his boots every time
be sees a package of bills such as the
celebrated Deacon Moe had a penchant
for carrying, lest it may drop acciden-
tally into his pocket and be identified sub
sequently through certain marks intend
cd to tell its history and show its origin.
The way Of the average legislato,. has
become, willy-nilly, straight and narrow.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-20
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
(From The Tribune Bureau.


Washington, March 19.-The French Am
bassador and Nine. Jusserand and mem
bers of the embassy staff, with large
number of other diplomats, attended the
annual st. Joseph's Day dinner at the
home of the Little Sisters Of the Poor.
They donned aprons and assisted in dis
pensing the good things, even feeding
some of the aged inmates who were un-
able TO assist themselves.
The japanese Ambassador and Visoount-
ess Chinda returned this afternoon from
New York.
The German Ambassador and Countess
Won Bernst torff occupied box at the Bos-
ton Symphony concert this afternoon, and
had with them Representative and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth Mrs. a. z. Gardner
and Count du Monceau, Of the Belgian Le-
CATION.
Albert Klenlin, German second secre-
tary, and Nine. Kienlln entertained at din
ner tonight the Spanish Minister and
Sehora de Riano, the French Naval At
tache and Viscount Benoist d'AZy, the
Counsellor of the German Embassy and
Nine. Haniel Won Haimhausen, Mr.. and
Mrs. John L. wilkins, Miss Julia Meyer.
Miss Switzerland, Miss Yvonne Townsend,
Mr.. Morgenstierne of the Norwegian Le-
cation. and Baron Hardenbroek and Mir.
Won Buow, of the German Embassy.
Count Ivan Csekonics. Austrian first
secretary, entertained informally at din
ner tonight.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-20

will NOT only gain directly through
increased remuneration, but indirectly
through the general cheapeninS of the
nroducts of industry which he mas 10
huv and that all citizens will beneht
from cheapening Of the processes Oh
government. The problem Of court re-
form gains from being regarded as one OF
efficiency rather than one OF pollucs.
For the purpose of saving time and
money. making justice quicker and
cheaper, recalls of both varieties are seen
TO he totally inadequate.
There is the possibility OF economy 9l
effort in any branch Of human endeavor'
whether II be one Of the processes OF SELF
government or of industry. And the
waste Of clumsy rule of thumb produc'
tion handed down from the indiyidualist
stage of society is multiplied many fold
in the highly organized situation to-day,
where the efficiency Of each is condi-
toned by the efficiency of many others.
Moreover, the interest Of society In max
ing human efforts count to their utmost
is enormous. If in some way the human
productive capacity could be multiplied
as it was by the great inventions changes
for the better, social, political and eco
nOmic. would result as great as those
which sprang from the Introduction OF
machinery. The way upward has always
been the way of increased efficiency.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-20
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
IFrom The Tribune Bureau. J

Washington March 19.-The Attorney
General and Mrs. Wickersham returned
from New York to-day.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, with
Louise Homer as soloist, filled the New
National this afternoon with distin-
guished audience. Among the bo.holders
were Mrs. l.. H. Letter, who entertained
the British Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce;
Mrs Charles T. Hughes, Mrs. Harriet
Blaine Beale, Miss Stevens. Mrs. Calderon
Carlisle, Mrs. James Mcmillan and Mrs. I.
T. Mann. Others In the audience were
Mrs Henry Cleveland Perkins Mrs. Nc
Kim, Miss Boardman, Mrs. Henry Cabot
Lodge Mrs. John Hay, Mrs. Robert Ely,
Mrs Robert Hinckley, Mrs. Beekman Win
throp. Mrs II. H. Ward, Mrs Nicholas An
derson, Mrs. John e. Reyburn, Mrs Pres
ton Gibson, Viscount and Vlscountess
Benoist d'Azy. the Ger ian counsellor and
Nine Haniel Won Haimhausen, Mrs. Buck
ner Randolph, Miss Winslow and Miss
Sargent.
Mrs. Homer, Miss Mabel Boardman and
Edward Box were the guests of the Ma
tional Press Club at reception this af-
ternoon which was attended by large
number of invited guests.
The Playhouse was filled this morning
with music loving audience to hear
Ernest Hutcheson in an all-Chopin pro-
gramme. In the audience were Mrs. Wal
ter Tuckerman, Mrs. Henry Cleveland Per-
kins, Mrs Andrew Peters. Mrs. Buckner
Randolph, Mrs. Il. II. Ward Mrs Edward
Gheen, Mrs w. W. Wotherspoon, Mrs.
william Barret Ridgely. Mrs. w. Sinclair
Bowen, Mrs. Sidney Ballou. Miss Jane
Hunt and Miss Sophy Selbert.
Mrs Frederick w. Huidekoper enter
tained at dinner tonight
Mrs Richard Townsend entertained a
dinner company OF thirty-tive, the French
Ambassador and Nine. Jusserand and the
Attorney General and Mrs. Wickersham
being Of the number.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Legare went to
New York to-day and will sail tomorrow
10 spend three months In England and
France.
Sir James Grant. NJ. p, will arrive here
On Thursday from Philadelphia where he
represented the Canadian Royal Societ"
of Arts at the centenary Of the Philadel-
phia Society OF Arts
Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury. Of Philadel-
phia, is visiting her son-in-lew and daugh-
ter. Mr.. and Mrs. Brooks, and will be>en-
tertained here several days.
Mrs. Arthur Shipman, OF New York, will
New-York tribune., 1912-03-20
VIEW SUBWAY LEGISL4IION
NEEDED.

The subway problem is so complicated
that the legislation passed a couple OF
years ago which was expected to open
the way to supplying rapid transit 1or
this city proves TO have been lnaue-
ouate. The new subway bill that has
lust been introduced has the purpose or
legalizing many details of the proposed
bargains with both the lnterborough
and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
panies. 1t opens Franklin avenue,
Brooklyn. to the erection OF an elevated
railroad. provides legislative authority
needed in some Of the operations neces-
sary to the third tracking OF elevated
railroads, legalizes the pooling OF re-
ceipts agreed upon with both companies
and contains provisions regarding the
recapture OF subway lines leased by the
city at the end Of periods agreed upon
in the lease
In addition to these provisions the
proposed bill authorizes the preferential
payments agreed upon with both or the
transit companies. 1t does this by pro-
yiding that the rental paid for subwayS
by operating companies may take the
form of a proportion or percentage OF
the receipts. and, further, that the pay
ment Of this share may be deferred. the
operating company having precedence
over the city in the distribution Of earn
ings. Statutory power TO make a bar
gain for a preferential payment is ap-
| Sricb agreement
is contemplated by the rapid transit act
as it now stands. The constitution ap-
| parently does not stand in the way of
such payments, and they are clearly
necessary in order to obtain the salts
+ factory operation Of the subways now
building The bill should be passed at
the present session Of the Legislature in
order to facilitate the work OF proyid-
ing further means of rapid transit
New-York tribune., 1912-03-20
.ANGLO.GERuAN NAVAL RIVALRY.


The comments which are made In Ger
many on Mr.. Winston Churchills mas
terful speech on British naval needs con-
firm our remarks a few days ago that
nation which plans its armaments pro-
portionately TO those of some other ma
tion inevitably incurs the suspicion OF
rivalry and potential belligerence. That
Is, however, suspicion, and more than
q suspicion. which has rested upon most
Of the important countries Of Europe so
long as to have become commonplace
Apart from that feature Of 1t, the speech
was apparently void Of offence. 1t was
really more of a mathematical statement
and demonstration than anything else.
Nor does IL seem that even In the re-
spect which we have noted 1t should
cause serious offence to Germany. There
Is no sufficient reason 10 believe that
either side thinks of plunging into war
But neither is there any cOncealment OF
the well known fact that each Is arming
against the other more than against any
third power. II Is very well TO say, as
The Cologne Gazette says, and IL Is
true. that Great Britain must decide
from the point Of view Of her own inter
ests what increase OF her feet Is neces-
sary. and that Germany must do the
same. But everybody knows that the
point OF view of either nations own In
terest looks directly and particularly at
the military and naval preparations Of
the other. The recognition and even the
temperate public statement Of so we'll
known a fact should not be offensive. II
It were. there would he cause for trouble
i'm large proportion of the public utter
ances of Europe.
II must be borne IN mind, moreover,
that the naval needs Of Great Britain are
sharply differentiated from those Of Ger
many, and are indeed unique among
those Of the nations Of Europe. Tenny-
son epigrammatically set forth the gist
Of the matter in one Of his political
poems: The feet Of England is her all
in all" That as Mr.. Winston Churchill
reminded his hearers the other day, Is
literally true. II Great Britain were
beaten at sea, she would lie entirely
beaten She would be helpless and con-
quered. Germany, on the other hand,
might be beaten at sea and yet be un-
conquered and comparatively unharmed.
She was beaten at sea in 1ST0-'71. yet
she marched conquering armies to Sedan
and to Versailles. That is the considera-
ton which makes the German fleet far
greater menace to Great Britain than the
British feet can ever be to Germany.