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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
MUST GIVE CORRECT NAMES.
New Regulation for Naturalization
Of Foreigners.

All persons arriving in this country
after the passage of the act Of Congress
Of June .. 1906. who desire to apply for
naturalization papers. will hereafter be
required to obtain from the Department
of Commerce and Labor a certificate
showing their correct names and the
dates, places and manner of their arrival
In the United States, and this certificate
must be attached TO the petition for nat
uralization papers at the time the petit
ton is filed.
To render it possible to obtain this
certificate with the least possible deay
and expense, the naturalization regula-
tons have been modified SO as to pro-
vide that the alien may apply to the
clerk of the court where his petition is
to be filed, and he will procure the GER
tificate from the department. and attach
it to the petition at the proper time.
recent circular OF the Department Of
Commerce and Labor giving the forego-
ing information states that immigTants
often ccme TO this country under ether
thAA then own uAmoA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
FIGHTING FOR DELEGATES.
Democratic County Conventions Be-
ing Held in Oklahoma.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, February IL.
One Of the first tests of strength be-
tween aspirants in the democratic party
for the presidential nomination from
which definite results may be obtained Is
in progress throughout Oklahoma today.
County conventions to name delegates
to next weeks state convention are ur-
der way. Supporters of Champ Clark de-
clare they will have at least two-thirds OF
the delegates selected. Politicians who
have been forwarding tho campaign for
Gov. Wilson Of New Jersey assert the
claims OF the Clark supporters will not be
borne out by returns from todays con-
ventions.
Clark adherents have pushed their coun-
ty conventions campaign for specific In
structions In favor Of tho M:sourian.
Wilson workers have contsnsed them
selves by campaigning for uninstructed
delegates Clark bureau heads in the
capital today declared tho state conven-
ton will send a solid delegehon IN
structed for Speaker Clark. to the Baiu-
more nesting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
Baltimore and Ohio r. r.
LEAVE UNION STATION

LEAVE UNION STATION.
ROYAL BLUE LINE.
"EvEnY OTHER HOUR on THE ODD HOUR
TO PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK.
NEW YORK TERMINALS. LIBERTY ST. AND
W. Esd STREET.
100. 1900 Royal Special. 5 hours). too
(Royal Specially. al. 90 an. 100, 800 (Royal
Limited; hours,. 90. 500 pm. asa rs
traise. eleepers on sl2.l5 night open at l0.0o
PhIladelpbi. and Atlantic City. f7.oo. 49,.
eli 90 am, 100 300. f4.00 pm.
EVERY HonR On H THE HOUR"
.a.s. t:;oo. tssS. %; 10 49, .asa
ti106. 800, l1.15. t20o. 300. 80. $3.ee
f4.oO, $4.45. 800, f50S. $50 e %, ~,
t7.o0 800. 100. 1000. 1910. III 10. s12lt
sisht
WESTWARD.
CINCINNATI; ST Louis and IoUISvILxA
30 ,% a. Z n "a 10 'ialo nis. 4
'ia4o night a.leeper ready 10 % p.m:l
WHEELING. %. 10 an. $50 pm.
eehedules Of local trains ut ticket ofBces.
DAILY. Except Sunday. fSundays only.
TELEPHONES at following Ticket O0ess.
14l7 9 q. s.w.. Main 1891: 6iy Pennsya1Aalo
ave-. Main 27s: Union Station. Main 1850.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
WILL SEND BACK BODIES
Of Cannon AND GROCE
Nicaragua to Act in Case Of
Two Americans Who Were
Put to Death.

SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua, Feb
ruary 1.-THE bodies Of Leroy Cannon OF
Harrisburg, Pa, and Leonard G. Groce OF
Galveston, Tex, who were executed by
order Of President Zelaya in 1900 after
they had been captured with the revolu-
tionary army. will be exhumed and sent
to the United States March &.
The proposed visit to Nicaragua next
month of Secretary of State Knox is dis
cussed here with great interest.
While movement is on foot to have
the bodies Of Leroy Cannon Of Harris
burg. Pa, and Leonard G. Groce Of Gal
weston. Tex, both Of whom were execut-
ed in 1909 for participating in the revolu-
ton against President Zelaya OF Mica
ragua, brought to the United States. it
has not been finally decided that it will
be done. 1t was declared at the State De-
partment today.
A message from the American legation
at Managua, announced the proposal to
bring the bodies of the men to the United
States. The State Department Is now
tempt to ascertain the wishes Of the
families Of the two men in the matter
before taking final action.
Captured in 1900.
It was during the revolution in 1909
against President Zelaya that Groce and
Cannon we're captured by the forces Of
Zelaya and executed. The Americans. 1t
was charged, were charting the country
for the revolutionists and laying mines in
the rivers for the destruction Of govern
ment troopships. They were tried by
summary court-martial and shot Novem-
Der Is. despite the protests of Gems. To-
ledo, Medina and Irias.
Gen. Toledo went SO far, after Zelaya
declined to stop the execution, as to order
Capt. Claves not to command the firing
squad which was to put the two men to
death. Chaves 0beyed Toledo, and was
put In jail.
Held Personally Responsible.
Later Secretary of State. Knox handed
passports to Felipe Rodriguez, the Mica
raguan charge daffaires in Washington.
and announced that the United States
government would hold personally respon-
sible the slayers of Cannon and Groce.
Following the defeat of the Zelaya
government Zelaya fled from Nicaragua,
going first to Mexico and thence to Eu-
rope. After having made pea with the
new Nicaraguan government The United
States government said 1t would insist
upon the prosecution Of Zelaya if he ever
should return to Nicaragua.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
Freedom for ireland.

80 we're goin' to have what they call
q measure Nv home rule. don't know
how big measure it'll be. Jawn Cred
mond) has lived so long in London that
he may not know how much freedom tn
Irish can stand. We've got pretty good
heads rr this here form " intoxicant an
I hope we'll get at least q quart. Free
dom is like dhrink. Hinnissy. If We take
amy at all We might as well take enough
to make We happy FIR awhile" Watch
the special features section OF The Sun
day Star tomorrow for ''Mr. DOoley" ''On
the Orange Revolution
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
CHARLES J. BECKMAN DIES
SUDDENLY OF APOPLEXY
Civil War Veteran Was for Many
Years in the Government
Printing Office.

Charles j. Beckman, a civil war vet
eran, and for twenty-five years an en-
ploye Of the government printing office,
was stricken with apoplexy at o'clock
this morning at his home. 43O 4th street
northeast. and died five minutes later.
He returned from his work at the print
ing office as usual yesterday and last
night telephoned to his daughter. Mrs.
Pauline Sabin. wife Of Bishop Oliver C.
Sabin Of the Evangelical Christian Scien-
fist Church, that he had never felt better
in his life. About s o'clock this morning
he awoke and complained to his wife Of
a severe pain in his chest He died before
anything could be done to relieve him.
Funeral services will be held Monday at
IL o'clock at the home, the Union Veteran
Legion, of which he was q member. being
in charge. Burial will be in Arlington
National cemetery.
Mr.. Beckman was native Of Bavaria,
and il he had lived until April 1 would
have been seventy-two years old. He
came to this country shortly after the
outbreak Of the civil war and enlisted in
the United States army.
He served under Gen. Sherman and
participated In many OF the big battles Of
Of the war. At the battle of Ringgold,
Ca, March q. 1868, he lost an arm.
but re-enlisted after his wound healed.
He was honorably discharged from serv-
ice March 10, 1884.
After the war; Mr.. Beckman moved to
Council Bluffs. Iowa, where he engaged
in the wholesale leather business. He
married Miss Pauline w. Vogler of that
city in 1870 and in 1890 he came to
Washington to accept position In the
government printing Office, where he
served until his death.
Mr.. Beckman's health had been failing
of late years, but he had always been
able to keep steadily at his duties,
despite q stroke Of apoplexy he suffered
tAout two years ago.
He IL survived by his wife and four
children, Philip and Gustave Beckman
Mrs. John w. Unger and Mrs Oliver c.
Sabin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
Spring STRIKES DUE
Sign Of Season in New York,
Says Lincoln Steffens.
ONE ALREADY Is PLANNED
Cloakmakers Exception This Year
to General Unrest.
PROBLEM IS YET UNS0LvED
Periodical Walkouts Typical to the
Garment-Making Industry
in Big Cities.
ONE ALREADY IS PLANNED
PROBLEM IS YET UNSOLvED

Lincoln Steffens, the sociologist. who suggested
the golden rule' solution OF the Los Angeles
dynamiting cases, has undertaken the writing Of
series Of articles on the labor situation in this
The Star and twenty -one other newspapers pub
lished in different cities.
It has been agreed between the newspapers
and Mr.. Stefens that he Is to 60 wherever the
facts call him, and to report them freely AZ he
sees them and feels them. Mr.. Stefens Is not
to be biased by the policies Of the newspapers
In which his articles appear, nor are the news
papers to be considered bound by the opinions
he advances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17

cloak-making business What that was
We shall see some other time All that
need be pointed out hero and now Is that
there is a way, which the shirt waist max
ers. both capitalists and labor, see. OF pre-
venting the periodic strike in one trade
and yet they cannot adopt II in their al
lied trade until they have had one more
periodic strike. In other words. they can
not control controllable forces outside o.
themselves, so-they fight one another
and we look on and let them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
HOUSE PASSES ARMY BILL.
Appropriates $50, 1885, 57, Abolishes
Five Regiments, Consolidatss Offices.

The army appropriation bill, carrying
q total Of $e6sS8. 7b7 and obtaining
amendments consolidating the sfE,oes of
tho adjutant general. inspecto. general
and chief Of staff. aboiishing five regi-
ments OF cavalry and lengthening the en-
listment term from three years to five
years. was passed by the House yester-
day afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
Chesapcake s. Ohio Lines

400 PM. Daily C. & o. SPECIAL. Solid
train to Cincinnati. with Pullman sleepers to
Louisville. Cincinnati. Indianapolis st. Louis.
Pullman and chair cars to Chicago
l1:10 PM. Daily-F. =. v. LIMITED to the
West, Southwest and Northwest. Pullman
sleepers to Virginia Hot Springs Cincinnati
and Louisville. Cincinnati sleeper open for
occupancy 10 pm. Dining car all trains.
Oh1ces: 513 Pa. ave-, 1889 ct.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17

The dwelling and it's contents belong
ing to Lawrence Ennis, situated 1--WE
miles south OF Manassas. Va. were de-
stroyed By ire originatiuG from . de-
leot1vo 0uo ThuTo0Ay. TIA 0ua50inG WAs
Noeup3e1 ~ thA PARENTS q ~ OW0oA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
BY LINCOLN STEPHENS.

Those periodic strikes which are a sign
OF the spring in New York, as blowing il
In the country. will soon be breaking out
there now. One was authorized during
the week ended February 8; the 1900
shirt waist makers voted. 5000 to 400, to
strike. Another. the ladies' tailors, was
regarded as unavoidable. There was un-
rest In the concentrating industry gen.
orally. But the cloakmakers were an ex-
ception. No strike Is looked for in that
trade in New York. and this exception is
a remarkable case of no news being very
interesting news.
used to report these periodic strikes
every year for years. and the biggest was
always the cloakmakers. That was from
fifteen to ten or eight years ago. They
were picturesque, those fierce, seasonal
uprisings. They were terrible. too. And
they were ridiculous. We newspaper men
often wondered that business men could
not solve a problem which required SO
regularly every year. and, as we could
see, always from the same causes and in
the same way. Business suffered.
Financial Losses Heavy.
The financial losses were said to be
heavy. the decentralization Of trade was
like that Of a confiagration and the mis-
cry of the workers, which we had to see
in the tenements, was heart-breaking.
But the situation wasn't met in my day
and these strikes have been happening
ever since, with this one exception, the
cloakmakers. And they had the most ter
rifle strike in their twentyyear war two
years back.
The shirt waist makers, who were mad
to go out last week. had a strike two
years ago, which attracted the attention
of the whole country.
Has the problem Of the periodic strike
been solved in one trade of an industry,
and not in the rest2
The process that produces the periodic
strike Is typical and plain. The industry
itself is seasonal. In Cleveland, Ohio. the
manufacturers say they have spread out
their work in such ways as to keep their
plants and their employees busy the year
round. We shall go there later; probably
when the big strike. which was settled
there few months ago, breaks out again.
The Cleveland fight isn't finished, and
may be the industry there has its busy
and It's slack seasons. Certainly the
cloak manufacturers of New York. and
practically the whole Of the ready made
garment industry, have alternating sea-
sons of business and dizziness regularly
each year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
Secretary Meyer Goes Home.

Secretary Meyer has gone to his home
in Hamilton. Mass. to see his SON. q
student at Harvard. who had one OF
his legs fractured in two places a. Q
result Of a recent coasting accident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
Unions Can Do Nothing.

The manufacturers union can do moth
ing, and neither can the workers union.
That also was. organised during the
strike or. If 1t had been started during
some previous strike. It had got In tts
membership a1rssh for ths dght After
tn eetxlemen4 he msmbs1s tailed - e.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
WOULD HOLD RAILROADS
TO BILLS OF LAD|NG
F. B. James of Cincinnati
Speaks in Support of POM
creme Measure.

| The Pomerene bill, making interstate
| railroads liable on bills Of lading, even
| though the station agent did not have
the goods In his possession when he Is
| sued the bill, was advocated today be-
| fore the Senate Interstate commerce COM
mittee by F. B. James Of Cincinnati. He
urged its wealth Of detail as compared
with the Clapp-Stevens BILL advocated
by Prof. Wllliston Of Harvard University.
1t was urged that railroads should be
protected against a shipper who had re-
! ceived a bill Of lading for goods from
altering it by putting in the words ito
order" thus making it negotiable. where
as, when issued, it was non-negotiable.
Mr. James pointed out that the Pome-
rene bill prohibited the railroads allowing
a negotiable bill of lading to remain out
| standing after delivering the goods other
provisions. he said, forbade attachment of
goods or the stoppage during transit
| while a negotiable bill Of lading was out
standing.
Code on Bills of Lading.
"Oh. the Pomerene bill does not merely
correct the decision Of tho Supreme Court
Of the United States in 1888 in holding
railroads not liable for the station agents
acts but 1t Is in reality code on bills of
lading, suggested Senator Cummins.
I'VE are not only DESTROYS of correcting
a past decision, but future decisions OF
the supreme courts and other courts" re-
piled Mr.. James
Prof W1lliston was called on to &C.
knowledge the parentage of both the
Clapp-Stevens bill and the Pomerene bill.
The latter, he said, was prepared for the
state commissioners on uniform legisla-
ton. Pressed to choose between the two
bills, Prof. Williston said he preferred the
C1app-Stevens bill. Not being a code. as
the Pomerene bill wass he said there was
not the constitutional fear attached to It
which some believed surrounded the POM
creme bill as an interstate measure. Fur
thermore, he said, he had been Informed
the Pomerene bill. with its more ex-
tensive features, could not pass the House
committee on interstate commerce or the
House itself.
Favors Other Measure.
Frank A. Horne Of New York, repre-
senting refrigerator interests. spoke in
favor of the Clapp-Stevens bill.
After Frederick H. Price Of New York
spoke in favor Of the Clapp-Stevens bill
on behalf of millers, the hearings were
adjourned until March 1, when the rail-
roads will be heard. At the same time
grain dealers of the west will be given an
opportunity to express their views on the
subject
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
Typical of Busy Season.

The strikes occur typically at the begin
ming of the busy season. The workers
go or stay out, join or rejoin their unions,
and let their leaders negotiate for terms.
It's a crude, apparently senseless method
of collective bargaining. conducted by
the unions, enforced by fighting and dis
order, and modified by distress and
treachery. For the workers, men, women
and children, often grow impatient and
frightened, as the negotiations drag, and,
despite the union pickets and the vigil
ance and even the force of their fellow
craftsmen some of them make individual,
private agreements. The manufacturers,
on .fs.ir part, have union or an associa-
ton Of their own, and their representa-
tiveS act for their common interest, meet
ing the union leaders and driving hard
bargains. But among the bosses also
there is eagerness to get to work, and
there are always some Of them that go
behind their association to make direct
contracts with either the union leaders or
with individual workers To go through
a few such negotiations Is enough to take
away your faith in human nature unless
you can see how great the temptation Is
to be dishonest and disloyal, and how
many men and women on both sides are
true.
Somehow. finally, however, a treaty of
peace is signed up, and a bargain struck.
The people go to work, rejoicing, and the
machines whir. Enormous quantities of
all sorts of wearing apparel are turned
money; the workers, II they got any
more than a living wage, pay up their
debts buy food and clothes, and-busi-
ness is good. Prosperity reigns for sew
eral months. all through the busy season,
from four to six to eight months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17

Henry WaltnSfs Ior Sky years a w dSH.
ingtonian. and assistant to De Lancy
Gill, chief of the illustration department
Of the bureau of ethnology, died last
night at his home. 415 L street northwest.
The funeral will be held Monday at 2:3o
pm. from the house. Mr.. Walther
was one Of the best known Germans
in Washington, was a veteran of two
wars. in spite Of the fact that he was of
quiet retiring disposition, and was an
artist in several lines. The eighty-six
years of his life were filled with romance
and adventure.
Took Part in Polish Revolution.
Mr.. Walther was one Of the Polish revo-
lutionists in the famous outbreak of 1s4S
and was an acquaintance and associate
of the late Carl Schurz. He was badly
wounded in the battle Of Xions. Poland,
in 184S, and was one of the few survivors
Of that affair. On that occasion the
Polish revolutionists, armed mostly with
scythes and pixies. were surrounded by a
German froce of about 10000, including a
large detachment of cavalry.
The revolutionists were cut down. and
Walther, who was scarcely more than a
boy, was seriously wounded in the head,
hand and foot. The hoof of one of the
German cavalry horses crushed in his
skull, and he was left on the field for
dead.
A party of peasants who found him
nursed him in hiding till he was well
enough to escape from the country. He
was able, and arrived in Washington in
1852. That was the first year The Star
was published. He bought a copy on the
street, and. knowing no English, began
to study the language from the columns
of the paper. He kept up his subscription
to the paper to the time of his death.
Enlisted in Union Army.
Mr.. Walther was IN Richmond at the
outbreak of the civil war and efforts were
made to enlist him in the German regi-
ment that was raised by the Confederacy
there. But he did not want to enlist on
the southern side, and on coming to
Washington he enlisted In the German
brigade being raised in the District. He
fought under Sigel in several engage
ments and was a member Of Lincoln 8
body guard at his second Inauguration. At
the close of the war he was elected the
secretary of the German Veterans So
ciety here. a position which he held for
years.
In 1908. when the memoirs of Carl
Schurz were published. Prof. Holmes,
Prof Hodge, Mr.. Gill and number Of
Mr.. Walther's superiors in the bureau
of ethnoiogy obtained copy of the SchurZ
DOOk, ana presented II 10 MN OH Tie STA
tieth anniversary Of the battle of Xions.
The first volume of the work is largely
occupied with the revolution of 1S4S, and
Mr. Walther priced the gift highly.
In spite of his several wounds, Mr.. Wal
Their was q vigorous man, almost ath-
lete. He had the habit Of winter SWIM
ming in the river up to the last few
years, and even at the last he nearly
always walked to his office in preference
to taking the cars He was a thoroughly
educated man in German. He knew Pol
ish, and had a good knowledge of Eng
lish. He wrote German verse though this
was an accomplishment known to few Of
his friends. He was a water-color artist,
though he painted for his own amusement
entirely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17
Charter Fee, $500.
Brief Mention.
rectal Corresnondence of rhe stsf

A largely attended meeting of Potomac
Lodge Of Odd Fellows was held at it's
hall last night, at which time the second
degree of the order was conferred on a
Cess of five candidates In addition con-
siderable routine business was disposed
OF
'"rhe American Girl Tableaux'' pre-
sen,ed last night by q number Of young
pAenA II the young peoples building Of
was largely attended. The proceeds will
be turned over to Troop 1. Boy Scouts.
The Alexandria German Club gave a
dance in the auditorium Of the Elks'
Home last night which was largely at
tended. No more dances will be given
by the club until after Easter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-17

tend its meetings: they were busy and
tired; they did not pay up their dues.
and the revenues of the union fell on.
and, worse still, the officers, knowing
that their members were dealing with
their employers to break the union scale,
felt themselves lacking the moral sup
port necessary to go forth and stand up
for the terms Of the union contract with
the manufacturers union.
There are variations In this process and
other elements that enter In. There Is
constant influx Of immigrants, who must
find work to do at once. The labor mar
ket in this industry is almost constantly
overstocked. Indeed, that is why the In.
dustry is here. And on the employers
side there are little capitalists who, fresh
and scared and keen as the hunger they
are trying to escape, spring out OF the
ranks Of labor into little sweatshops.
These fellows often get their first capt.
tai out Of their workers. They drive cred
it to the limit. pay low rents for back
rooms and also they steal designs. They
can make the difference between success
and failure by shaving wages. Oh, never
so little. For see: They have worked
at a machine for $A and s1S week.
They start out for themselves with TWEEN
ty employees. Suppose they can make
profit of $40 a week at the union scale
Of wages But cutting 1t 10 cents day
on each employee they can increase their
own profits to $24 a week. That's better
than working for wages. One OF the
grievances of the shirt waist makers was
that some of the manufacturers charged
them from 20 to 25 cents q week each
for the electric power that ran their ma
chimes