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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-04
BEEF TRUST THE NEXT
House Judiciary Committee
Decides to Undertake
Investigation.

The House judiciary committee decided
in executive session today to undertake
a preliminary investigation of the beef
trust"
The committee agreed to report the Ed
wards resolution calling for the investiga-
ton. but before doing SO a private in
quiry will be made. The committee does
not purpose now to call any of the men
heavily interested in the packing indus
try or to undertake any sensational In
vestigation Of packing house conditions.
Committee to Seek Data.
The Department of Justice will be asked
for all books and papers and other in
formation gathered in recent prosecutions
OF the beef packers. and the Department
of Commerce and Labor will be asked for
data on the meat industry. The commit
tee expects to get from government
bureaus the prices to consumers of meats
and the relation to the supply Of cattle
and meat animals in the United States
and the prices paid farmers for them.
Chairman Clayton will appoint a sub
committee to make the preliminary sur
vey of the investigation.
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Oyster said that many business men Of
the District of Columbia would like to see
factories in this city. or rather in the
suburbs.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation OF Labor. also de-
livered an address.
1.-The workmen's compensation bill is
the best, most generous bill, proposing
better and broader laws than this or any
country has ever SEEM" he said. 1T Is
not ideal and does not go as far as we
would like. but it is far better than any
federal law or any act in force In any
OF the states of the Union.
Mr.. Gompers said that all business or
the country was represented In the Presl-
dents cabinet and that secretary of a
department of labor, who at all times
could have access to the President. would
be able to further many movements in
the interest of the working men and
women He said that a secretary to in
vestigate labor conditions exclusively
would find a large field OF work and
could present the matter to government
officials in tangible form.
The convention lost no time in getting
down to business today and will meet
morning, afternoon and night for three
days.
Miss Gertrude Beeks of the National
Civic Federation of New York will give
a stereopticon lecture tonight on HUI
manitarianism in Industry" Other speak
ers will be P. Hoff,. commissioner OF
labor of Oregon; DR.. A. j. McKelway OF
the national child labor committee. and
G. W. w. Hanger, chief statistician of
the bureau of labor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-04
TO HOLD MONEY TRUST
HEARINGS IN NEW YORK
Illness of an important Wit
ness Causes House Commit
tee to Change Plans.

The money trust Investigation will be
taken up in New York Thursday. The
banking and currency committee of the
House today came to that decision. Pre-
liminary hearings will be held in the
New York clearing house and the New
York Stock Exchange.
The committee changed its plans when
one of its counsel, E. II. Farrar Of New
Orleans. stated that an important witness
was physically unable to come to Wash
ington. The committee declined to dis
close his name.
Future Hearings Here.
Mr. PujO and the committee made it
plain In a statement issued after the
meeting that the committee would not
suit itself to the convenience Of witnesses
hereafter, and that hearings will be held
In Washington Of all witnesses sub
poenaed so far as is practicable
The committee will spend Thursday
Friday and Saturday in New York, and
decided that to hold the investigation OF
the clearing house and stock exchange
methods there would simplify the inves-
tigation.
Chairman Pujo has endeavored to get
quarters for the committee in New York.
and hopes to get some accommodations in
one of the buildings owned by the United
States in the financial district.
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KENYON FAR IN THE LEAD
Returns From Most Iowa Pre-
Cincts Still Missing-Gov-
ernorship Fight Close.

DES MONIES. Ia, June 4.-Returns col
lected today from so precincts in the
state outside OF Des Moines and Polk
counties showed that United States Sem
a;or w. 5. Kenyon OF Fort Dodge re-
ceived $1,000 votes, and Lafayette Young
OF Des Moines approximately 1900 votes
in those precincts in yesterdays Iowa
primary.
In Polk county. with four Des Moines
precincts and fourteen rural precincts still
uncounted this morning. Senator Kenyon
led by 3.445 His total vote thus far tab
ulated in Polk county was 6.955, and
Young's was $3.50.
Ii will be late today before the returns
from a majority OF the precincts have
been compiled.
The governorship contest on the republi-
can ticket was extremely close. Although
George w. Clarke held the lead in the re-
turns at hand. campaign managers for
= q. Holden declared they expected
Holden would be returned winner.
The democratic vote throughout the
state was the lightest that has been reg
istered in a number of years. John I.
Hamilton. on the face OF incomplete re-
turns led Il. g. Dunn of Mason City Tor
the democratic nomination for governor.
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SHOOTS SELF AT HOTEL
Tracy D. Bennett Tells Police
Women Caused Him to
Commit Act.

Tracy u. Bennett. twenty years old and
unmarried. shot himself this afternoon
while in a room at the Raleigh Hotel Hs
is at the Emergency Hospital. where 10
Is said his chances for recovery are
slight.
The shooting occurred shortly before
$50 O'Clock Bennett. who is piano
tuner and who has been employed by
various music houses in Washington.
used small revolver the bullet from
which passed into the left breast.
Women the Cause. He Says.
Bennett was fully conscious when he
reached tho Emergency hospital. where
he was rushed Immediately after the
shooting To the question of po-
liceman. who asked the reason for tho
deed. Bennett replied with the single
word. Women
The policeman says he then asked
II he was in love with a woman, td
which Bennett replied:
No; but women are the cause OF
this
Surgeons at the hospital were prob
ing the wound in Benefits chest at a
late hour in the effort TO locate tho
bullet. The wounded man retained con-
sciousness when placed on the operat-
ing table.
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Gratified at Success in Ohio.
E. H. HUBBARD DEAD.
Expires Suddenly After Apparent
Victory at Primary.

SIOUX CITY. Iowa. June 4.-Repre-
sentative E. II. Hubbard Of Sioux City
died suddenly this morning at the home
Of John c. Kelly, editor of the Tribune.
Mr.. Hubbard was candidate for re-
nomination in the republican primary in
the eleventh district yesterday against
George c. Scott of Sioux City, and early
returns indicated that he had won the
nomination.
Ebert Hamilton Hubbard had been a
familiar figure in the House of Repre-
sentatives for several years, as he rep
resented the eleventh Iowa district in the
Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty tirst and Six
ty-second Congresses Previously he had
been prominent in Iowa state politics,
having been a member of both bodies of
the general assembly. His father. Asahel
Hubbard, was member of the House of
Representatives from Iowa from 1862 to
1869.
Mr. Hubbard was a member Of the
committee on expenditures in the Depart
ment of Justice and of the committee on
insular affairs. He was born in Rush
vile. Ind. in 1S49, graduated from Yale
in 1872. married Eleanor Hermance Cobb,
June 8. 1882, and leaves four children.
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GOV. HARMON CONFRONTS
FIGHT ON THE UNIT RULE
Wilson Men at Toledo Oppose
Instructing All the Ohio
Delegates.

TOLEDO. Ohio, June. 4.-Gov. Judson
Harmon faces a bitter fight on the adop-
ton of unit rule In the Ohio democratic
state convention. which is to meet for
organization this evening at 7:30 o'clock
and adjourn until tomorrow morning
when six delegates-at-large to the Balti-
more convention will be elected and a
state ticket nominated.
His friends insist that he is entitled to
the undivided vote of the states forty.
eight delegates in the democratic national
convention, for the reason that he de-
feated Woodrow Wilson in the recent
preference primary for President by a
plurality Of nearly 1900. and are pre-
pared to make a determined fight for the
adoption of the unit rule. In addition to
this they point to his record as governor
for two terms. and urge the "favorite
son" argument.
forty-two district delegates and insist
that inasmuch as they were elected at
direct primary they should not be
bound by instructions for Harmon under
the unit rule.
They are said to be willing to indorse
Harmon for President and give him a
complimentary vote at Baltimore. but do
not want TO be tied up with instructions.
Firm for Unit Rule.
State Insurance Commissioner E. H
Moore, campaign manager for Gov Har-
mon, is standing firm in his demand tina,
the state convention shall adopt the un-
modified unit rule and give Ohio's forty.
eight votes at Baltimore to Harmon. He
declares that go of the 952 delegates Will
vote 10 support mis- contention.
The indications are that Representative
James NJ Cox Of Dayton will be nom
mated for governor on the first ballot
lie lains more than COG votes. His only
opponent is Oliver II Hughes of High
land county.
TIE state central committee will or
eanize and consider The contests brough,
by the Wilson adherents in the fourth
and sixth districts before the close OF
the day.
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District Building Operations.

Building operations and repairs In the
District during May reached q total esti
mated value of 81 $50. $50. of which amount
81. 433, T94 represents new construction
while S165. $50 was for repair work. &C
cording to the monthly report of Building
Inspector Morris Hacker. Both in build
ing operations and repairs the northwest
leads the other sections of the city.
The distribution Of the improvements
was as follows: New NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
$114.675: southeast. $15.575; northwest
S42o, $40; southwest. $1,000; county. $S75..
O34 Repairs-Northeast, So. 256; southeast
81 1856: northwest, $50. 324; southwest, $12-
$50; county SIS, 216
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GIVEN RARE PRIVILEGE.
Congressional Medal for Capt. Ros'
tron Carries Right to Floor.

The thanks of Congress and con-
gressional medal to cost $1,000 for
Can't. Arthur Henry Rostron OF the
steamship Carpathia are recommended
in a Senate bill which the House COM
mittee on merchant marine and fisheries
agreed to report favorably today.
The thanks OF Congress are given the
sea captain for his valorous rescue or 104
survivors OF the Titanic disaster. The
congressional medal is rarely voted for
an Individual 1t carries with IL the floor
privileges Of both House and Senate. Gen.
q. o. Howard is the only man who now
has the privilege of the Senate floor.
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HEIRESS-LOVE MEETS DEFEAT.
American Golfer Plays Badly and
in Ill-Luck.

LONDON, June A combination OF
bad play and ill-luck completely upset all
forecasts of Fred Herreshoff's chances OF
winning the British amateur golf cham
pionship at Westward Ho. and put the
American out of the contest in his first
game today. d. A. NJ. Brown. the Isle
of Wight player. beat him by up and
to play.
w c. vanderpool. the only other Amer
lean competing met similar fate at the
hands OF II. l.. McNicholl Of the Royal
North Devon Club being beaten by UP
and 8 to play.
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nag and Haunting IL al a bull. There 10
no sense in H. What Is the use7 You
can so through the pasture just as well
without the red flag. You have no need
for the red flag. 81 does not keep the
rain or YOU. II does not keep the sun
on YOU: IL does not do any good: and it
makes bad impression on the bull.
There Is no sense I'm this Rome built
magnificent baths. the baths of Caracalla.
the greatest fool among the emperors.
were the greatest of them, but they, &C
least, built them for the people
onlv about twelve pages OF tho two
hundred page hill had been completed
when the Senate adjourned
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ADMITS TITANIC SPEEDED
]. Bruce Ismay Thinks Capt.
Smith Justified in Oriv-
ing Vessel.

the British court of inquiry today that il
had been planned TO drive the Titanic az
fill speed during a few favorable hours
of her maiden trip, and that he consid-
cred Capt. Smith fully justified in going
at full speed through the ice region as
long as weather conditions made IL pos
sible to see ice ahead.
The Senates investigation of the IL
tanic disaster cost S6.6Oo, according to a
statement riled WITH the Senate today.
1t shows that j. Bruce 1smay, managing
director of the White Star line. received
$l3 for travelling expenses and witness
fees About s.. 800 was spent for stenog-
rapners' fees and about 81. loo for mile
age of witnesses and travelling expenses
of the members of the investigating COM
mittee.
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|M0CK WAR THRISGAS PROVES DEADLY 0PPOSED 1ORENTMG
I%
|s
CRITICISM"
/ Board of Utmost Overcome Aranem for
Appp
of wreus t. Store
j by The Maquea
Eiqht Persons Perish From the
Poisonous Fumes,
FIVE DIE IN GRAIN WELL
Fireman Who Attempts Rescue of
Bodies Almost Overcome.
CINCINNATI DAIRY FATALITY.
Illuminating Gas Causes Asphyxia-
ton Of Three Occupants Of
New York Residence.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. June Alive
persons persisted as the result OF being
overcome by gas fumes In a grain well
at the dairy of Jacob Sachs In Fair
mount, this city. today.
A fireman who went into the pit to
get out the bodies was also overcome
and lies at the city hospital in serious
condition. Two Of the dead are women
List of the Victims.
The dead:
Mrs. Anna Espelagge.
Mrs. William Koester. :.
Jacob Sachs.
Joseph Niehoff
Robert Atkins.
a city fireman.
Four of the victims forfeited their
lives in efforts to rescue Jacob Sachs
the first victim.
Estermann was overcome while being
lowered into the we'll by means of a rope
He was pulled out and rushed to the hos
pital The firemen then used graphing
hooks and brought the bodies to the sur
face.
The pit. or we'll. was used by Sachs fol
the storage Of wet malt feed which he
fed to his mich cows. The grain hao
fermented and generated deadly gases
which caused the death Of the five per-
sons. A ladder was the means Of en-
trance and exit.
Three Dead in New York.
NEW YORK, June 4.-The bodies OF
Mrs. G. NJ. Warner. her son. twenty-siz
years old, and her granddaughter. two
years old. were found today In the War
ner home in the Bronx. All had been
killed by illuminating gas. Cracks In the
windows and doors were stuffed with
paper.
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CHAMPION AS RUNAWAY.
Chicago Boy Leaves His Home for
the Seventy-Eighth Time.

CHICAGO. June 4.-Raymond Williams.
Chicago's champion runaway boy. is miss
ing from his home, l6 Elizabeth street.
for the seventy-eighth time in four years.
Mrs. Marie Williams. the lads mother.
asked the police last night to search for
him He left home Sunday afternoon and
failed to return. The boy is now twelve
years old. He has run away SO often and
has been found i'm so many different
places that he is now known to nearly
every policeman in the city.
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BOTH SIDES CLAIM CONTROL.
Wilson and Underwood Men Opposed
in North Carolina Convention.

RALEIGH. y. c., June with dele
gates from various parts of the state
arriving throughout the day interest be-
came keen today in the democratic state
convention which will meet Thursday.
Supporters OF both Gov. Wilson and Rep
rasentative Underwood are claiming a
majority OF the les delegates. Announce
rnent was made today that the Wilson
delegates would meet In caucus tomorrow
night. The Underwood delegates also
Will caucus then and Representative Hef-
In Of Alabama will address them
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ration for publicity Of the hearings Is de-
clared by his supporters now here to IN
dictate that the Taft MANAGERS believe
their contest cases are strongly prepared.
Position of Southern Delegates.
Edwin W. Sims. who is acting head OF
the Chicago Roosevelt headquarters until
the arrival Of Senator Dixon. made pub
lie a telegram received from Oscar r.
Hundley, a Roosevelt leader In Alabama.
Mr. HundIey said that the two delegates
from the third Alabama district instruct
ed for President Taft had given out a
written statement that they would sup
port Roosevelt. because they believed 30
per cent OF their constituency favored his
nomination.
The southern delegate situation was dis
cussed by two members OF the national
committee who reached Chicago yester-
day Henry s. Chubb. committeeman
for Florida, declared ii was "a reflection
on the integrity OF Florida republicans
to hint that they would not stand by their
instructions for President Taft.
'Floridas twelve delegates are instruct
ed for Taft said Mr.. Chubb. land they
will vote for him through thick and thin. :"
Gen. Powell Clayton. committeeman for
Arkansas, said southern committeeman
and delegates would organize before the
convention to fight any proposal to re-
duce the representation OF southern
states.
Southern Representatives Prepared.
The attempt made four years ago to re-
duce representation to the basis OF the
republican vote cast in the southern
states caught the southern delegates and
committeeman unprepared. he said. but
should IT be attempted again 1t would be
fought in the convention.
Among the committeeman who arrived
yesterday besides Gen. Clayton, Mr..
Chubb. and Cecil Lyon of Texas. was
Sidney Bieber Of the District of Column
bia, Roosevelt supporter.
Ward to Lead Roosevelt Forces.
CHICAGO. June 4.-The Roosevelt
nittee will be led by William l. Ward.
committeeman from New York. according
to information received here today. The
inability of S. A. Perkins. committeeman
from the state Of Washington. to be pres
ent because of an accident, has raised
the probability that William Barnes. Jr..
Mr. Wards chief antagonist in the New
York delegation. may hold a proxy in
the committee and marshal the Taft
forces to the fight in that body.
This development was the most inter
esting feature in today's pre-convention
developments. Madill Mccormick. Mr..
Ward and other Roosevelt leaders will
reach here in the morning.
The organization of the Roosevelt COM
mitteemen has already begun. Senator
Dixon will personally direct the so-called
delegates committee" which is to he
paign among incoming convention dele
gates.
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NO GENERAL CLOSING.
Government Employees Belonging to
Organizations Excused Saturday.

President Taft will not issue any order
closing the executive departments Satur-
day afternoon on account of the Column
bus statue ceremonies. but he has di-
rected cabinet officers to excuse govern
ment employees belonging to organizations
taking part in the program.
These excuses will be made upon appli-
afinn
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and declared they were not attributable
to the present tariff law.
Civic Responsibility.

Senator Burton predicted that no radi-
cal changes looking toward civic better
ment would follow such reforms as the
primary, the initiative, the referendum
and certainly not the recall, unless there
be a widespread awakening which shall
arouse the citizen to a new and abiding
sense of his responsibility to the state
and to the community of which he is a
member.
Certain benefits indirect in their
nature would no doubt result from the
adoption of some of these changes" he
added. nor shall we fear that revo-
lutionary or destructive changes will
follow properly safeguarded methods
for direct legislation. Propositions
would be presented under the initiative
which would no doubt cause a rude
Jolt to many well meaning conserva-
tive citizens"
He urged the adoption Of such a
measure as the so-called short ballot.
which substitutes for a confusing list
of unknown candidates for variety of
offices, the duties of which the elector
does not usually understand. a brief
list OF names of those who are better
known.
"A further benefit" he said. would
arise by diminishing the number of
elective offices and increasing those
appointed
Challenges Opponents.
THE disadvantages arising from these
conditions" said Senator Burton,
have rested with a heavy weight upon
the republicans of Ohio and the ma
ton. But let us not be discouraged
We confidently challenge our opponents
for a comparison of records and are
ready to appeal again to the American
people to determine to whom the guild
ance of the affairs of the nation shall
be intrusted next November The
United States owes its wonderful posi-
ton in the front rank of the nations
of the world to the wise policies and
benefcent administration of it's affairs
by the republican party"
Passing by the record Of the party's
earlier achievements. the days of its
unsuccessful. struggle under Fremont and
it's matchless record under Lincoln and
his SUCCESSORS" Senator Burton traced
the course of events up to the present
campaign.
THE future will bring new issues, new
questions must be solved" he said. in
closing. THE patriotic citizen will hesi-
tate long before he turns over this fabric
of government from that political organi-
cation which has proved many times and
in many emergencies it's ability to meet
the demands of a great people, which Is
becoming more and more the one mighty
and progressive nation of the earth
IF legislators have yielded to corrupt
ing influences they have been detected
and punished. Ohio is keeping step with
the march of progress. We can look be-
yond our own confines and safely chal-
lenge comparison with any other COM
monwealth.''
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POLICE FACING MYSTERY
Bomb 0utrages in New York,
to Which There Is
No Clue.

NEW YORK. June 4.-Three bombs
We're exploded almost simultaneously
early today in the vicinity of sth street
and 4th avenue. in the lower East Side.
No one was injured, but considerable
property damage was done. The police
as yet have not fixed responsibility for
any OF the explosions.
Cigar Store Front In Ruins.
The first bomb blew out the front of
a cigar store at SIS 4th avenue. While the
police were investigating this there was
a second explosion a short distance far
Their up the avenue, where the front OF
a paint shop was blown out and much OF
the contents OF the building damaged.
Shortly after this a third bomb was
set off few blocks away. SCATTERING
all the windows in the front of a cafe
Waterman In the building was blown
from his bed. but was uninjured.
Additional outrages.
Today's explosions add to the already
long list OF similar outrages which
have been committed in this city in the
past two years. 1t Is estimated that
upward Of 125 bombs have been set of
in New York in that time. Some OF
these have been attributed to partici-
pants in a so-called gambling war"
and others to the Black Hand.
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Welcoming Address.

The address OF welcome was made by
Capt. James F. Oyster. president Of the
Washington Chamber Of Commerce. Capt
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Twelve Dollars for Bath.

"a populist down in my state once
made a calculation by which he proved
that when the baths were here In the
old Capitol it cost So to battle senator
and SIS to shave a senator. The graft
is not worth while. outside Of every other
consideration: 1t is as foolish as mans
going down into a pasture with red