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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
BRITISH LABOR PARTY
FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Unions Instruct Representa-.
tiVes in Parliament on Fran
chise Question.

LONDON, January 3O.-The British
labor party today officially declared it.
self in favor of woman suffrage. BY a
vote of $50 to 437 a conference of the
representatives of most OF the trades
unions of the United Kingdom adopted a
resolution instructing labor members Of
parliament to oppose any franchise bill
in which women We're not included.
The significance to the woman suffrage
movement of this resolution is very great.
The trades unions have between 2.OO OO0
and 1905. COO members. nearly all of whom
are electors, and their attitude would car
ry enormous weight in case woman slf-
frase were made a plank in the progra m
of any party at general election.
Resume Outrages.
The suffraSettes resumed their window
breaking and post box Outrages on a
small scale last night, but their endeav-
ors were sufficient to maintain a state
of nervous apprehension among the shop
keepers and the large bodies of police
and private watchmen guarding the
streets and buildings
The windows in some of the government
offices and in the offices of the Hamburg
American Packet Company we're broken
A few arrests were made
Many packages have been found i'm the
various post offices. which on being open
ed burst into flames. Soule of them
were addressed to Premier AsQuth and
Chancellor Lloyd George.
Leader Freed From Cell.
Mrs. DesparJ, leader of the militant
suffragettes. who. with two woman COM
! ma nj raI tn, n
imprisonment on the charge of resisting
the police. was released last evening
some unidentified person paying her fine
of SO. Mrs. Despard, who IS sister of
Gen Sir John French. had refused to ac-
cept the option offered by the magistrate
of paying 1ne and was sent to Jail.
On being notified of her release the
Suffra Sette leader said:
Whoever paid that fine was no friend
of mine. But / am going out to fight
again
Asquith Assailed in Scotland.
DUNDEE, Scotland. January 3O.-Weli
organized bands of suffragettes raised a
paidemonium during the ceremony of con-
ferrlng the freedom of the city of Dun
dee on Premier .Asquith here today. The
premier had hardly risen to acknowledge
the honor when shrieks of Traitor.
Traitor responded through the hail.
Stewards and policemen We're soon
busily occupied in throwing the women
out Of the building. HowlS of You
brutes. You brutes!'' and sharp scrim-
images marked the passage through the
hall of each group.
One woman sprang over the front of the
gallery and was saved from falling
among the crowded audience twenty feet
/ below only by the fact that several men
seized her by the skirts and held her sus-
pended.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
Willing to Trust to Memory.

Representative Redfield wanted to know
whether public officer receiving money
from corporation which was under the
supervision of that officer in however
modest amounts and for however legiti-
mate purposes should make the receipt a
matter of public record or should only
keep the matter in his head.
lngham replied that he saw no wrong
in the last course being followed.
But suppose you died or went
aWay?" asked Mr. Redtield.
Mr.. Ingham replied that he never re-
ceived money in this way without tell
ing the other employees in his office.
and that they would remember it.
Mr.. Redfield then asked the witness
If he personally examined all the ac-
counts of his subordinates when they
were sent away to make Investigations
of insurance companies. MIR. lnghanl
replied that he did not examine all of
them.
What is to prevent them from max
ing false entries as to their expenses?
asked Mr.. Redfeld.
Nothing replied Mr. Ingham. But
1 do not believe that they would do So
L could not watch all their movements
personally to See if they had really eX-
pended the money as they reported" He
added that there was no fixed limit as
to the expenditures per day by the en-
ployes of his office. but that it usually
ran around s. or So day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
Both Held Great Men.

1t is to be regretted that in Washing
ton there is no memorial either to Ham
ilton or to jefferson, for those two great
names are indissolubly linked with the
foundation of our government. Both were
great men i'll the truest sense. Represent
ing as they did different schools of polti-
cal thought. their services to this nation
were only the more emphasized by their
divergent views upon governmental af-
fairs. Lack of commemorative ma arble
shafts has not deprived them of their
riShtful places in the country's history.
The memorials proposed in this measure
represent a grateful peoples tardy, but
none the less sincere, recognition.
Early in the first session of this Con-
gress the Senate unanimously passed bills
authorizing the erection of memorials to
Hamilton and jefferson. This measure
joins the two Senate bills and your COM
mittee recommends that it be passed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
LOCAL CASE CAUSES
AMENDMENT TO BILL
Williams Anti Trust Measure
Changed as Result of Gas
Company's Suit.

The complaint in the equity suit brought
In the local courts yesterday by the
Georgetown Gas Company against the
Washington Gas Light Company Is cited
in statement given out today by Rob-
ert S. Reed of New York in advocacy of
an antitrust bill which he drafted and
which has been introduced in the Senate
by Senator Williams of Mississippi
Since the introduction of the original
Williams BILL Mr.. Reed said in the
statement, "a great deal of time and
thought has been given to the effort to
determine the essential charter restric-
tions to be required in order to prevent
the use of the corporation as means
to evade the antitrust law. Publicity
and business independence should be
made the essentials of corporate organi
zation. Corporate monopoly does not rest
solely Oh the holding company as such,
nor upon Watered stock as such. 1t lies
deeper even than the 1nterlOcking direc-
tors. The evil in these must be corrected
But the basic evil is the power of COM
petltlVe or secret cOntrOl over two or
more corporations.
Cites Local Case.
.'The morning news contains a very apt
illustration both of the basic evil and of
the necessary remedy. l refer to the
equity suit brought by the Georgetown
Gas Company to cancel the stock control
alleged to be secretly held by the WASH
ington Gas Light Company. Until the
right sought to be enforced in that suit
is clearly written in every corporate char
ter, neither the public nor the minority
stockholders will be safe against competi-
tive control and it is competitive control
that leads to monopoly.
The latest revision of the Williams
BILL drafted some time ago, requires the
state charter Of every corpora ton en-
gagged in interstate commerce specifically
to exclude from membership every person
or corporation representing directly or
indirectly a competitive interest, and also
to require the actual ownership of all
stock to be fully disclosed on the books
of the corporation, with effective penal
ties. including the forfeiture of the stock
itself. These proposals, L believe, go
ward removing the fundamental dangers
in the corporation it affects interstate
commerce.
They also would effect the least possible
injury to corporate enterprises that are
organized and conducted
There is some danger that We will reform
the shadow and upset honest business
without reaching the substance of cor
porate monopoly. Our effort from the be-
ginning has been to reach this essential
evil and, so far the drafting of the
bin goes I believe we have about sue
ceeded The same principle can be ap-
piled to the control of comp etitive ma
tional banks by an amendment of the
Ma tional banking act, and the corporation
made. as it was intended to be, a safe
agency of legitimate business"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
STATUES To JEFFERSON
AND HAMILTON URGED
House Committee Approves
Bill Appropriating 100000
for Memorials.

Favorable action on the bill to erect in
this city memorial statues to Jefferson
and Hamilton was recommended to the
House today by the committee on library.
The bill carries authorization for 500, 900.
The report states: There has been a
persistent and growing demand for some
sort of memorial in Washington to the
two great American statesmen-Thomas 8
Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. This
demand found expression in the forma-
ton of the Alexander Hamilton Memo
rial Association. whose purpose is sug-
gested by its name, and in an act of the
Fifty-eighth Congress creating a commits
sion to procure plans and designs for a
statue of Thomas Jefferson to be erected
in the District Of Columbia.
The Alexander Hamilton Memorial AS
sOciation, formed in 1905, has worked dill
igently toward the accomplishment of its
purpose, and its members are to be con-
graduated on their patriotism But the
erection Of q memorial to Alexander Ham
ilton should not be left to individuals.
Rather should this tribute be paid him
by the nation. The association has on
hand nearly 5000, which will be turned
over to the commission created by this
act to be used in part payment of the
cost of erecting the Hamilton memorial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
WEATHER.

Fair and warmer tonight. Fri
dav increasing cloudiness and
warmer: moderate south winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
NEXT IN ORDER
Tuesday Evening Set as Time for
Counsel for Companies to Begin.
ALFRED M. BEST CRITICISED
James F. Stone OF Philadelphia
Places No Confidence in Informa-
tiop He Has Given.

The insurance Investigation hearings
before a subcommittee of the District
committee OF the House. which have
dragged through more than a month.
ended today. Next Tuesday evening was
tentatively set as the date upon which the
arguments of counsel for the insurance
companies under investigation should be
gin. and it is expected that these argu-
ments will be completed Wednesday.
James r. Stone. president of the Ameri-
can Union Fire Insurance Company of
Philadelphia. was put on the stand by
counsel for the companies, and gave tes-
timony to show thai Alfred NJ. Best of
New York is considered biased In his re-
ports upon organization and operations
Of insurance companies by officials of
many companies. that his methods of ex-
tracing information for his journal from
insurance companies is nothing more or
less than persecution
Mr.. Best appeared before the commit
tee earlier in the investigation to testify
that the methods adopted by the First
National and Commercial Fire Insurance
companies - under investigation - We're
very undesirable.
During the examination of Mr.. Stone.
Chairman Ben Johnson Of the committee
took occasion to say that he considered
Mr.. Best a 'presumptuous, self-constitut-
ed aribter regarding insurance matters,
in whose demands other people acquiesce
because they fear his paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
To Submit Evidence in Writing.

When the committee met this morning
it was decided that q. c. Glover, Charles
J. Bell and E. J. Stellwagen should be
permitted to submit in writing the ad-
ditional information requested of them
by Chairman Johnson. instead of appear
ing in person to give this information.
George w. Ingham, superintendent of
insurance for the District. was the first
witness on the stand. Under questioning
by Representative Prouty. Mr.. Ingham
developed the fact that he had made no
public record in his office Of the amounts
paid him by Tuttle, Wightman G. Dud-
ley, insurance underwriters for expenses
on trips which Mr.. Ingham had made to
Alabama to investigate statements in re-
gard to the First National Fire Insurance
Company. Mr.. Ingham said that he kept
the figures in his head, and then sent the
insurance company an itemiZed bill after
he had expended the money. He said
that this was the custom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
Close Attention to Work.


1ulsomeness. that TO preceding ways and
means committee ever gave closer or
more conscientious attention to the work
IN hand than Chairman Underwood $
committee has besowed upon the hearings
now ending. 1t has been Mr.. Under
woods aim all along to get at the facts,
commercial facts. free from political bias.
He wants to write tariff bill which VIII
reduce the unnecessarily high rates of
duties in the interests of the consumer.
but does not wish to injure any legiti-
mate American industry.
Practical demonstration of this policy
VIII be given in some instances by fixing
rates which will, in fact be protective.
Ine lace Industry is one which W ii re-
ceive fostering, and in case will the
committee put out the fires under the
boilers of extensive Industries. That is
TO say. in the committees opinion, the
rates decided upon should not operate
destructively.
The ways and means committee realize,
however. that they VIII not have it all
their own way in the 1inal makeup of the
bill They expect TO have to yield to the
views of the Senate in some schedules,
and while they Will not write their sched-
Ules low In order to have something to
trade on they Will be prepared TO see
some articles boosted
There is sugar The House in all prob
ability will pass free sugar bill. but
ways and means democrats, with a sigh
of regret, to be sure. admit that the SEN
ate will clap on a duty and they will
have To swallow it. But Il is certain
" that 1t Will not be as high as the pres
rnt tariff
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
SOME EXCEPTIONS LIKELY
Changing Conditions in Trade and
Industry Necessitate Revision.
NOT TO INJURE BUSINESS
But Leaders Want Measure That
Will Be in Interest of the
Consumer.

lntimation comes from authoritative
sources that the tariff revision to be
recommended by the ways and means
committee will follow the general lines
OF the bills reported a the last session.
some of which died in the Senate and
others passed up to the Presidents veto.
There will be exceptions. however, al
though they will not be numerous or
radical in extent. Such exceptions will
be due 10 the fact that the committee
has found changing conditions in trade.
industries and demand since the former
bills were written.
Indeed, the hearings of the ways and
means committee, which have continued
throughout January and conclude tomor-
row. have served to demonstrate to COM
mitteerGen the oft-repeated assertion that
the tariff should not be as the law of
the Medes and Persans. but should be
flexible and responsive to natural muta-
uons of supply and demand labor cost
and other elements affecting il.
The men who have been following these
hearings closely also sat in the hearings
IaSt session. and they have had their at
tent,on called to specific instances of al
tered conditions occurring within eighteen
months.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-08
new RAILROAD
OFFICIALS NAMED

San Francisco. Aug. 30-Ap-
pointments incident to placing un-
der one operative management the
Denver and Rio Grande and West
ern Pacific railroads were announc-
ed here tonight as follows:
Frank A Wsdleigh. to be pas
senger traffic manager, with offices
at Denver.
Lomax. to be assistant pas
seger traffic manager with offices at
Sn Franisco,. NJ Johnson. tc be
vice president in charge of traffic
with Offices at st Louis, Mo.
a S Hughes, to be general traf-
tic manager with offies at Denver.
H NJ Adams. to be freight traffic
manager with Off ces in San Fran
cisco. Appointments to be effective
August J..
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-08
S. P. MEN VOTE FOR STRIKE

San francisco. August. mime
ty-six per cent of the trainmen and
conductors employed on the Pacific
division o. the Southern Pacific
system have voted to strike unless
their differences with the mango
ment over the terms of employ
ment, rating and seniority allowed
on the company's eleetrIDed lines
can be adjusted.
The result of the vote which
stands 1916 in favor of stirling TO
ls7 against. was made public here
t night.
The grand officer and the Joint
general committee of the Brother
nood OF Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen. feeling that their inter
ests are vitality wrapped up in the
same conditions which face the
conductors and trainmen are now
on their way to San Francisco to
take up the problem from their
viewpoint. and will arrive Friday
night or Saturday morning.
!. Southern + c officials an
nounced tonight that they will in
vok the meditation of the national
government through the Newlands
act, to settle their differences with
their employers.
In the meantime the engineers,
hremen and enginemen have re-
quested the conductors and train
men to defer final action until
their own attitude can be deter
mined and an united stand taken.
Approximately $500 men are
involved and the territory affected
extends south from Portland Ore,
to the Gulf of Mexico and west
from Ogden and FL Paso.
The result of the vote was COM
m%unicated to the company yester-
day and thirty hours later no reply
had been received.
Friction has arisen between the
company and the men because of
the company's announcement that
hereafter it will be its policy to
segregate its electric lines as separ-
ate unit of operation, distinct from
the main steam lines.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-08
NEWS FROM SOUTH FORK

Mrs L S Bryan who has been Wis
iting Mr. and Mrs + L Hunter. the
Clayton family, AMI other fripnds
for several weeks departed for
Golden. Colorado, where she ex-
poets to make her home. She will
place her son, Raymond. in the
school of mines there. We wish
them God speed. =
Hlyton & Hanna's big auto
freight truck was in the valley a
few since for a load Of grain. 1t
is surely a handy vehicle.
Mr. James Rattazzi and his sister,
and his sister Miss Della, of Eu-
reka, Nevada. nephew and neice of
Mrs Arthur l. Clayton arc visiting
at her home.
1t is rumored that one of our
pretty and accomplished school
ma'arns will be married next
month to a yOung gentleman of FL
ko.
A party Of surveyors were
brought out from Elko. a few days
ago by Joe Lang. TO examine the
water conditions formerly survey
ed for the electric power plant.
They have returned to Elkc.
We understand the strip of un-
surveyed land along the Ruby
range in this valley, between the
forest reserve and that formerly
surveyed, is o being surveyed.
Frequent showers of rain are in
terfering materially with nsying
here.
Mrs W. A Porch and Mrs A L
Clayton returned from Elko Sun
day.
Gualterio.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-08
HOTEL ARRIVALS
Gualterio.
At the Hotel MAYER


Jas Burke, Bullion; II Hersbberg-
err, W. P;HT Speedie, w. p, H II
stone, W. p. Sidney Lee, Mrs Dor.
termau, P~ortola.
At the Elko Hotel
DR. M f Morrison and wife, City
Mrs Frank WARDROBE, San Francis
co; II Raymond, City; Joe Baliee,
Carlin; T. 0beduck, Seattle; L C
Conell. Visalia, G L Morrow and
wife, Lamoille.
At the Commercial Hotel
iii Hall and wife, Reno; G. Gus
Ia, Reno; C w Morris, Ogden: S T
Balling. ogden; F Durbyshire,
Wells; F w Wilson, l. P Thomas;
Geo Hall Salt Lake; Geo Adams,
San Francisco; f. NJ. Johns. Chi
cago.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-08
CAMPING PARTY

Mrs Chauncey Griswold, and her
mother, Mrs Johnson. Mrs Chas
Noble. Mr. and Mrs Art Smith, Gee
Wolford and Chas Hank as chef
start north tomorrow on a camp.
ing expedition. 1t is expected that
fish will take tn deep water and
game hunt for cover when this
party start for the haunts of fish
and game.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-08
MEXICO BIDS FOR HER FATE

The time is near al hand when this
nation must intervene in Mexican
affairs. The situation was very
nearly unbearable when il first
began to be evident that American
citizens cannot safely appear in
that country, but the unbearable
situation came desperately close TO
the breaking point when the Mex
leans shot an American Federal
official engaged in the discharge of
his duty in that country. That
was pushing long continued pat
fence Sc far that something is very
likely to snap.
There is a theory among civilized
nations that each one is responsible
for the safety of its citizens wher-
ever they may roam. Uncle Sam
cannot forget this rule even in the
''NSASSb VI lhG pCdCe TIC uGSlTGS.
He cannot forget it because even if
he should other nations would not
forget it concerning their own citi-
zens and if there is to be interven-
ton it must come from country or
else the Monroe Doctrine must be
considered a dead letter.
We fear that the MeXicans are
rushing upon their own undoing.
The United States uoes not desire
a protectorate over Mexico, nor
does it yearn for annexation. but
if the people down there cannot in
some way be inoculated with a
greater wisdom than they now pos
sess to, one or both of these ends
the situation is likely to come
Salt Lake Telegram
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-08
COUNTY commissioners

County Commissioners Griswold,
Peck and Patterson are holding a
called session of the county com.
missoDers court to consider the an.
pointment of a road commissioner
under the new law. There are
several applicants for the Job. The
Independent hopes the best man re,
ceives the appointment.
Later-John Short, of Ruby Val.
ley was appointed this afternoon.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-08

A letter received yesterday by
Mr. Booher from A l. Mauk says
that his hands and feet are palsied
and that he is unable to work.
He also says that his mind is
failing and that he does not expect
to last much longer. He is at Green
River, Wyoming, and is under the
care Of The Odd Fellows. Mr.
Mauk's many friends here will be
saddened by this news.
Mr. and Mrs Eugene Bess of Can.
on City, Colorado are spending
the week with their cousin, Mrs
Kellogg. They are en- route 10
Portland, Oregon.
Geo Clayton of Lone Mountain
is in town today.
f C Riddle the apple grower of
Star Valley was in town yesterday.
Wallace Toombs and wife, Taylor
johnson and friend have returned
from II hunting and fishing expedi-
ton at Pecks Park at White Rock.
Mr. johnson is Manager for the
Verdi Lumber Co in Elko and Mr.
Toombs is connected with the Rein.
hart Co.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-08
J. c. Durham, State Agent
27-31 East Plaza s.: oct, Reno, Nevada
Live Agents Wanted in Unoccupied Territory
Democracy N psath.

Democracy N Death-
While we are reasoning CONSUMING
HE, life IL sonej and death, thoagh
perhaps they receive him diffczentlJ.
yes treats alike the fool and the
philosopher.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-08-08

Take the Responsibility.
Don't throw sand into your cwn
eyes Wy nndIng an excuse for you1
mlsta,;ca In someone else.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-12-25

it bespeaks we'll for the Americansm of Coryels Ferry
Community that word reached the of the British
at Trenton or the plan might have failed
Portions of Washington's army were encamped at
Neelys Mills in the woods at the foot of Lurgan
Road, nearby; others in the valley between Bowmans
Hill and Jericho Mountain, and still Others including
Washington himself the South side of Jericho,
what is now known as Woodhill.
The marvellous transportation of the American army
across the Delaware that dark and cold Christmas
night 1776 stands testimonial to General Brays' skill
that time can efface No such undertaking has since
been demanded of man. has any approaching it
in magnitude been carried through with the precision and
that engineered by Daniel Bray remains