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NJ ADOO Hears
CURRENCY TALK
McAdoo Sits In Senate
Chamber While Bill Is
Being Debated.
OWEN DEFENDS IT
Believes That Both Factions Will BE
Observation-Disclosures Talks
Today.
OWEN DEFENDS IT

| Washin gtoa, Nov. 24-Anothe1
precedent was established by the ad.
ministration today when Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo occupied a
seat on the floor of the Senate and
listened TO the opening of the, debate
on the CURRENCY question.
Among the public, but little inter-
est was aroused. Miss Jessie Will
son, the bride-to-be of tomorrow's
wedding, with her sister, Miss Marga-
ret Wilson, and some of the House
guests, sat for an hour in the Pre-
sident's pew. Scattered throughout
the other galleries were number of
tourists and the usual accompain-
ment of habitues.
Senator Hitchcock for the opponents
of the administration currency plan,
gave notice that he would address
the Senate tomorrow.
Senator Owen characterized the
pending bill as representative of the
most important question before Con-
gress since the days of the Civil War
He reviewed the unrest and disturbed
conditions prevailing for many years,
the wide difference in interest rates,
fluctuations in stock values, due to
the fact that credit had been affect
ed; ending finally in the panic of
1907. That panic, Mr.. Owen said,
showed that few men in New York
COULD shake the foundations of the
Temple" He declared that he would
not pretend even to believe that that
panic was an accident. He had two
objects, one was to enrich the men
behind it; the other to administer a
political rebuke to the administra-
ton then in power.
Discussing the party platform,
Senator Owen said it should read ::
I'VE oppose the Aldrich Bill or a
Central Bank" " in the campaign
text book, in some mysterious way
ooIu NIL OWCA, oil udu lOuuu II1
way into the sentence, making the
declaration oppose the Aldrich plan
For a central Bank"
Mr.. Owen insisted that the Dem
ocratic party was opposed to cen
trail bank per Sc and no other inter
probation could be placed upon the
platform. Since the 1907 panic
banking and currency reform had
been demanded and had been. under
consideration, said Mr.. Owen, and
the House bill was the opposite re-
suit of all the developed facts and
suggestions advanced. He did no
believe there would be great diff.
ficulty in the two factions of thu
committee reconciling their differen.
ces.
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ministers RAP
FOOTBALL GAMES
Methodists Pass Stronr
Resolution Against Inter
collegiate Contests.
APPOINTMENTS READ
Last OF Business Was Concluded Yes.
terday Morning and Minister'S
Left For Their Homes.
APPOINTMENTS READ

With the Wane of the sessions of the
Little RGek conference which came
yesterday morning at Lakeside church
the ministers of the conference went
on record as being opposed to inter-
collegiate football and passed such
resolution. This is probably the first
such action which has been taken by
a body Of ministers, and if such has
ever been done previously, the in
stances are rare. It is held that the
football feature of college life has a
serious effect upon education proper,
and that there is great expnse also en-
tailed. II is claimd that the games
have been productive of Sabbath break
ing, of profanity and uncalled for riv-
airy on the part of various educa-
tional institutions,
The resolution adopted is as fol-
lows:
Whereas, Intercollegiate football
is bringing much censure upon the
church and it is increasingly difficult
to prevent the athletic deal from
overshadowing the church aim in edu-
cation; and,
Whereas, intercollegiate athletics
make heavy financial demands upon
it's supporters and in encouraged as
an advertisement Of Christian educa-
ton, and is disintergrading rather
than constructive force in our. edu-
cational work; and
Whereas, much that is contrary to
Christian ethics is chargable to these
intercollegiate contests, such as gamb-
ing, profanity, Sabbeth dissertation
and acrimonious rivalry: therefore.
BE it resolved, That we recon-
mend to the trustees Of our colleges
that they abolish Intercollegiate foot
ball from our policy and practice in
the colleges under our CONTROL
Reads Appointments.
The last matter of business taken
up yesterday was the ready OF APP
pointments for next year. James
Thomas, who had been stationed in
Texarkana, comes to the First Metho-
dist church in the place OF Rev. J. w.
Harrell. Bishop Kilgo left yesterday
afternoon for his home, Durham,
North Carolina, but will return to
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C.. A. McNew was in Little Rock
yesterday on a business trip.
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COLLIER SUED FOR
$4,000 DAMAGES
E 3. Bloom Files First of
Series of Libel Suits
Against Planter.
CONSPIRACY CHARGE
Suit Grows Out Of Alleged False State.
ments Made About Bridge Com.
missi0ners.

In the Jefferson circuit court yes
terday, through Attorneys Coleman
tand CAN'T, his counsel, e. b. Bloom,
a member of the Jefferson County
Free Bridge Commission, filed suit
against T, IL. Collier, wealthy
planter OF Altheimer, this county, for
$4,000 damage The suit is said to
be the first of series Of damage
suits to be filed against Mr.. Collier
and others by members of the Bridge
Commission and grows out of alleged
defamatory statements made about
the commission, and signed by the
defendant regarding their action in
declaring a. majority OF property
owners had signed the petition fav-
oring the creation Of the Free Bridge
District in this county, to carry out
plans formulated through the enact
meht of special legislative act, au-
thorizing the construction of the Free
Bridge across the Arkansas River
near Pine Bluff.
7. H. Collier is the father of T.
j. Collier, president of the Taxpay-
ers' Protective Association.
| 1t is charged that on February II,
1913, T. H. Collier caused to be
signed and filed with C. H. Triplet,
M. A. Hudson and Reese N. Burks,
residents of this county and asses
sors for the Free Bridge District, a
writing, containing among other
things defamatory matters concern
ing the plaintiff. The statement
after reciting that the petition did
not contain majority of sig1ers,
read:
Fourth: That the members of the
Board of Directors of the Jefferson
County Bridge District, to-wit: W.
D. Hearn, P. p. Byrd, A. W. Num-,
Frank Tomlinson, E. A. Howell, E.
B. Bloom and F.. G. Smart, entered
a conspiracy to deprive your petit
toner OF his land and property with
out due process OF law
That at public hearing given
the petitioners during July and
August 1912, for the purpose OF de-
termining whether or not the petit
tons contained majority OF signers,
as required by law, it was found that
the petitions did contain the sigma
lures of a majority of property own
ers in the county, this ruling being
made by the unanimous vote of the
Commission.
The defendants statement also con-
tanned the following alleged defama-
tory words: Third: That the find
ing of the Board of Directors of the
Jefferson County Bridge District was
corruptly and fraudulently made, be-
cause it found to be true that which
was false, in that the petitions ask
ing for the building of the bridge did
not contain a majority in number, or
in value, according to the last county
assessment on file in the county
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Continued on Page Five.)
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Paris, Nov. 24--The sudden attack
of influence suffered by Queen Ena Of
Spain, who is now confined to her
room in the royal suite at the Hotel
Meurice, here, has caused King Alton
70 to notify Emperor Franz Josef of
Austria that he is obliged to postpone
his visit to the venerable monarch
at Vienna. Queen Ena is in no SER
ious danger.
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naval COMMANDER
TO INVESTIGATE
Rear Admiral Fletcher to
Report on Landing
Marines.
INDICATES ACTION
Move May Have to be Made in Order
To Protect Large Oil Interests
Around TampicO.
INDICATES ACTION

Washington, Nov. 25.-Rear Admir-
al Fletcher, in command OF the Unit
ed States naval forces in Mexican
waters, has been ordered to Tamp1co
to investigate the reports from there
that the conditions demand the land
ing of marines to protect oil inter
ests.
The fact that the commander {;
the whole fleet has been cent on a
mission to the storm center, indi-
Gates to most naval officials that
some decisive event is impending.
The order to Admiral Fletcher was
issued simultaneously with the call
at the White House last night Of
Sir William Tyrrell, private secre
tary of Sir Edward Grey, British min
lister for foreign affairs. Previous
to the visit of Sir William, however,
the State Department had dispatches
from Mr.. O'Shaughness, the Amer
lean charge at Mexico City, declar-
ing explicit information as to the re-
port current in Mexico City yester-
day that the United States proposed
pico.
Denies Reports.
Mr.. O'Shaughnessy was authorized
to state that the reports were not
true and it is understood that he was
also advisted of what took place last
night at the White House. Officially
it is stated that the visit of Admiral
Fletcher, who will go on the Rhode
Island, is to look into the situation
at Tampico. He probably win Or
rive before the British Cruiser, wh::h
is on the way from Barbados. Of
ficials do not explain why Mr.. o.
Shaughnessy wanted to know posi-
lively whether the United States in
tended to land marines. The only
theory here is that he had been aCSa-
ally asked and directed by the Huerta
government whether it was true that
any orders to land on Mexican soi4
had been issued or contemplated Mt
| Washington. 1t is also thought here
that he conveyed the reply to tn,
diplomatic corps at Mexico City and
possibly to the Huerta government.
Admiral Fletcher, when he ART: rs.
| Officials are Of the opinion thai
will summon conference of all con-
cerned and that the prime demand
will be for an absolute guarantee vi
protection of the oil properties. He
! will also receive at first had the rea-
sons for the demand that the prop
erty in the interior ought 10 be
guarded. Up to yesterday State De-
partment information was that the:e
have been no threats" to destroy
property, but merely that some indi-
viduals feared" that there might be
damage to their interests.
| e. A McNeW was in Little Rock
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view of the fact that all courts had
declared the act authorizing it's con-
struction and the finding of the Com
mission legal.
The Missouri Valley Bridge and
Iron Company, which has the contract
recently rebuilt the big steel bridge of
the st. Louis, Southwestern Railway
Company at Rob Roy, and has con-
structed some of the biggest and best
bridges In the United States. The con-
tract price is $625,00O which includes
approaches to the Free Bridge on
either side and railroad tracks there
on. The bridge is to be of the lift
span model, the lift to be operated by
electricity and so arranged that in the
event of change in the channel of
the Arkansas river, it can be read
justed so as to be lifted over the main
channel of the river at all times. 1t
will be constructed so as to accom-
tives of trunk line roads. The plans
were first submitted to the chief en-
gineer of the Cotton Belt railroad,
Mr.. Purden, at the request of the Of
ficials of that SYSTEM and were ap-
proved by them.
The Free Bridge will also be con-
structed to accommodate two sixteen
foot highways for wagons and pedes-
TRANS.
The contract embraces several i'm
portan provisions, among which are:
If railroad is built to the Free
Bridge site in time to handle the
structural steel for the bridge, the
contract price is to be reduced $4,000.
This reduction is to be made by the
contractors because Of a saving that
will result from transportation
charges.
The contract further recites that
since the date of the letting of the for
mer contract at $605,O00 the contrac-
tor will show to the satisfaction of
the engineers of the District that the
cost of material has increased 100000
and in the event such is not shown
to the satisfaction of the engineers of
the District, the contract price will be
further reduced $4,000 or SO much
thereof as such material has increased
in price since that date. This delay
and addVd cost of the structure is due
to the prolonged legal battle waged
against the Bridge by it's opponents.
The engineers of the District are
Hedrick and Cochrane, of Kansas City,
experienced bridge engineers and who
drew the plans and specifications for
the Free Bridge. 1t might be mention
ed in this connection that the contract
of the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron
Company contains provision, guar
anteeing that the plans and specifica-
lions as drawn by Hedrick and Coch-
rane are sufficient for the purposes
intended, The Missouri Valley Bridge
and Iron Company has also executed a
surety bond to the District for the
faithful performance of their contract.
It is generally known that the Cot
ton Belt railroad has already notified
the Bridge Commission OF its inten-
RON to construct line from Pine
Bluff to Sheriff., to connect with it's
Little Rock branch, in order to short
/ - ,.,,.,s1rv,sr,,nrH IN PAGE rWol
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|SPEERS CONFIRMS
SALE OF BONDS
First News Of Success of
Free Bridge Comes to
Graphic from ST Louis
.RONDS DELIVERED
Two Railroads and Interurban Assur.
ed For Jefferson COunty-COm.
missioners Confirm News.
$50 ~~* y +
> Free Bridge Bonds Sold =
Free Bridge Bonds Sold

ST. LOUIS, MO, NOV. "a
(SpeciaD-The William r.
Compton Bond and Mortgage
Company of this city today an
nounced that it had purchased
the band issue of the Jefferson
r. County Free Bridge District of
jefferson County, Arkansas, ag-
gregating 100000. The bonds
were delivered here last Satur-
day and the proceeds turned
over to John B. Speers, treasur-
er of the District. The bonds
we're purchased at par, bearing
5 per cent interest.
It was also announced here
today that the contract for the
Free Bridge over the Arkansas
River near Pine Bluff had been
awarded to the Missouri Valley
Bridge and Iron Company, of
Kansas City, which is one of the
biggest bridge building con-
Germs in the United States.
Material is being shipped to
Pine Bluff by this concern, pre-
paratory to beginning immed-
late work on the big structure.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-11-25

DR.. John l. Norris, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, preacher
Sunday at FL Dorado, while his pulpit
was being occupied in Pine Bluff by
Rev. p. C. Fletcher of Little Rock.
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Mrs. Robert II. Lower and daughter,
Miss Aline Lower, have returned to
their home, Hot Springs, after a visit
ITO Mr.. and Mrs. II. L. Howe.
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NOTICE.

All banks members of the Pine
Bluff Clearing House Association will
be closed Thursday. November "a.
Thanksgiving Day. legal holiday.
PINE BLUFF CLEARING HOUSE
11-23-4t BY NJ. e. BLOOM. Mgr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-06
GET 11.000.V0LT "BITE"
Boys, Fishing with Dog Chain
Narrowly Escape Death.

Harry Clan. eleven years old. OF No
Go, Baker avenue. The Bronx. went
fishing Yesterday. BY way Of tackle
he took with him a long section of
worms for bait His friend John
Koch. IL No. 1888 Gleason avenue. ac-
companied him. and the pair selected
the bridge Of the New York. New
Haven &, Hartford. at Garfield avenue.
as the most likely place for good fish
ing rhey sat down on the edge of
the bridge and dropped the chain into
the water.
They didn't catch any ash. but they
did catch something "A whole lot livelier.
The current OF the water carried the
chain against the electric feed wires
under the bridge, and the next thine
the Youngsters knew they were sent
spraying by ll,UOO-volt charge OF
elcctr,citv The shock threw Harry UP
I'm the air and knocked Johnny across
the ties.
The boys cries attracted a police
man. who called an ambulance. Both
were taken home little hurt. but badly
frightened. The railroad men said the
only thing that saved them from death
was the very force Of the shock. which
hurled Them clear of danger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-06

longer term for The head OF the depart
mcnt. and his remarks on the Mayor
came as somewhat Of a shock 10 the
committee:
Everybody knows that the Commits
sioner in the present administration
has not free hand said Mr. Prem
dcrgast. The Mayor is a strong
minded person. and when he came into
Office he thought he knew more about
the Police Department and could run
il better than ANYBODY else. He had his
own opinion Of how to do things and
thought that all would be happy, bIt
il has not turned ont so.
The reason is that the man he ap-
pointed Commissioner has not hal "a
free hand. In reality the Mayor has
been the Commissioner. and the a.
partmcnt has had two heads Under
such a condition good discipline cannot
prevail. and trouble is bound to en-
sue.
When The Mayor appoints man
head of the Police Department his ac-
tive administration Of the department
should end there. for the Mayor has
his own work to do"
If the Police Commissioner under
stood his work" he went on. he would
stop gambling at once. There would
have been no Rosenthal murder if he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-06

/ had mind trained 10 his work. ana
one little police lieutenant wouldn't
have fooled the entire Police Depart
ment'
Mr. Prendcrgast also was in favor or
submitting the question Of keeping
saloons open on Sunday TO vote OF the
people Of the city.
DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst thought
that the whole trouble centred around
the character of the Police Commits
sioner and the mVhod of selecting him.
lie said that to hold the right Kind OF
man the Police Commissioner should
have a tenure of at least seven. if not
ten. wears and a good. big salary. He
would have him removable only on
charges. and not a. the within 81 a
Mayor
Dr. Parkhurst was asked If he be-
leved in keeping saloons open on Sun
day from | TO | p. III. He said that he
found that bestiality reigncd in a saloon
after u. m
"In the last twenty -onc years" he
continued. rive kept in touch with the
conditions in the Police Department.
and my information has come from the
inside. from inspector down to patrol
man. While have studied il IT has
grown from bad 10 worse. and to-day
the disOrganZation is complete"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-06
WOMAN TRAPS SON-IN-LAW
Detective Work Wins Divorce
for Daughter.

once more the mothcr-in-law appears as
the clever detective aiding ner daughter
TO trap her recreant husband. In THIS
case-of divorce-thc mother-in-law with
the detective instinct was Mrs. Gertrude
Briggs. mother of Mrs. Marian Bishop.
who obtained a decree Of divorce ytster-
day from Edward l.. Bishop. teller IN
the Lincoln National Bank.
Mrs. Briggs was the chief witness for
her daughter at the trial She testified
she had suspicion that her son-in-law
was having tea parties with women AZ
thc Hotel Vanderbilt and the Park Ave
nLe Hotel She watched for him at the
latter hotel and saw Bishop slipping tea
with woman not her daughter.
Mrs Briggs told her daughters lawyer
who sent "a clerk L. the Park avenue
Hotel. The clerk followed Bishop and
the other woman TO the Hotel Normandle.
Later Mrs Briggs Identified the writing
Of her son-in-law on the hotel register.
Bishop consented To pay his wife SO "A
month slimony
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-06

who were actively engaged in "A Nigor-
Gus effort to lure them into houses Of
/ prOstitution Were women authorized
10 protect girls under such conditions
! this ncfarious practice would at least
prove less prosperous
without in any way depreciating
the value of the policeman il seems 20
; mo that no matter how worthy and up
right he is not qualified 10 deal with
delinquent girls without the help of the
woman. IT is quite the custom for him
to accept the mans point of view alone
and sex consciousness Is more or less
asscrtivc with him. The woman. rs 4
rule. while realizing the weakness Of
the man. is keenly alive to the dan
gers confronting the girls. She u.s.
therefore. likely to be watchful. and.
think. inclined To see the value of pre-
cautiOnary and preventive methods
thus saving both boys and girls from
the evils with which they are ,ur-
rounded.
Then too. when serious results are
unavoidable. the woman realizes that
TO punish the girl only is pernicious
practice. but that by forcing the man
way is open To reform conditions
Where there is equal guilt an equal
penalty should be imposed.
My contention that we need women
no ID ~
understand the woman's point of view
is proved almost every day in the len
iency shown by the courts throughout
the Union toward the men charged
with crininally assaulting defenceless
women. Only few days ago q pol, e
magistrate ia san Francisco was re-
called on a petition signed and circu-
lated by women because he reduced the
bail set by another police judge in the
case of Il prisoner accused of attacking
young girl. In California. however
women have the advantage Of possess
ing the vote as well as the recall, so
they have the means of protecting one
/ another.
I'm all the Pacific Coast states. by
the way, equal suffrage prevails: there
are many women on the police force Of
the various cities, appointed more par
| ticularly TO watch dance halls ani
moving picture shows. where boys and
girls congregate and meet with more
or less temptation. Last summer Il
convention Of policswomen was held in
/ oregon, and the reports of that meet
| ing proved the efficacy Of women in
this department Of public work"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-06
MRS. BELMONT URGES
NEED OF POLICEWOMEN
Her Sex Much Better Fitted Than Theirs to
Protect Girls on the Streets, She Tells
Wagner Committeeman

An effective way to reduce the white
slave" evil. in the opinion Of Mrs.
o. II. p. Belmont, would be to appoint
women TO the police force. This state
ment by the suffrage champion was
listened 10 with unusual attention by
the Wagner committee yesterday after
noon. The committee had asked Mrs.
Belmont to give her views as to what
would be the best in the way Of RENE
dial legislation for the Police Depart
ment.
In the light of recent Developments
and the appallingly increasing traffic in
girls for immoral purposes, said Mrs.
Belmont. Il have come TO believe thai
we are urgently in need of women on
. the police force.
AS the mother is the guardian OF
the children, both boys and girls. in the
home. which is universally conceded TO
be right and natural. | believe that in
stead of eliminating this good influence
at a critical stage in the life Of our
children-the children. of the nation-it
should be extended into the streets,
and that the municipality should be
represented by women qualified 10 fur
nsh motherly protection To girls in
public places.
Il believe that force of police
women should he assigned 10 the Nari-
Gus sections that are most congestcd at
night-nOt overlooking the lonely places
and that men and women police
should cooperate in every department
of the work
IL believe that when a man accOsts a
woman in the street the policcwonan
should he empowered TO compel the
policeman TO arrest the offender and
the policewoman testimony accepted.
| II is rarely that We hear of a man being
brought into court on charge brought
against him by a woman, while we con
stantly hear of women who are con
demned for soliciting simply on the
word of a man vino is usually more
guilty than the woman. In the case OF
| policewomen this fragrant injustice
/ could and would be materially lessencd.
IL was deeply impressed with the
crying necessity of women i'm this
capacity during the recent strike, when
the factory girls who were brought into
court for participating in the various
conflicts between strikers and strike
| breakers were dismissed by the mag
istrate at night. They were instantly
surrounded by cadets and PROGRESSES,