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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
From Tho Tribune Bureau
Washington, January L..
War in War Department.

Hostilities short and sharp and Of a
character which would undoubtedly ncces-
state an official Investigation by SecTe-
tdry Stimson We're not the close Of tn
administration near at hand. are furnish
ing the chief topic of discussion To Tn,
few who are in the inner circle of the
War Department. They will afford a
great amount of interest to Others who
have been for some time looking TO see
the dove Of peace receive the coup de
grace in the Office of the CHIEF of staff
and who will learn the facts from The
Tribune
Dld General Leonard Wood. as chief Of
STAN seek TO eliminate Brigadier General
George II. Torney from the army and to
erect the appointment of a successor
more to General Woods liking? Did he
inform Colonel J. r.. Koan that If he
played his cards right he could succeed
General Tornoy as surgeon general, and.
to make good his NCrd. did General Wood
pigeonhola the application Of General
Torney for rcappontment. and thus com
pei the President 10 exert strenuous f.
forts 10 save for General Torney his com
mission? To these questions YOU will re-
ceive an affirmative or a negative reply
according 10 whom YOU interroGatc. But
'"dl the ooVe OF peace got an aWiui
fright when. at the demand of General
Torney Colonel Kcan confronted General
No'd IN Inc Office OF the chief OF stan,
ana mat When last seen that ahnghteI
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of War in due time the iact tnat General
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of the extraordinary conduct OF 'he APP
p1caucn >"t General l"Ih'N I"' I'"'
pointment in GLIDING the chiol OF S'"I
after II had been placed an MS hdi'"S ann
in wickedlE secr'tlnS itseh IN some ul.-
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desk until General Io.h'(, "h"er ''e I''
culiar ties Of the eNistnE law came very
near finding himself wholly OUTSIDE "'1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
WHlTRIOGE RAISES WAGES
Says Men on Cars Deserve
Share of Increased Earnings.

An increase in the wages Of the en-
ployes Of street railroad companies run
ming under the management Of the Third
Avenue Railway Company was announced
last night in a letter issued by +. W.
Whitridge, president of the company.
This increase is 10 take effect March |,
except where the men have not been at
work for n couple OF weeks and the COM
pany has suffered some loss because Of
their little vacation, for which it must in
part be rCcoupcd, and the increase will
therefore take effect i'm the case Of the
Yonkers men on June l." Conductors
and motormen during the first year will
receive q cents an hour and the second
year q cents an hour.
Announcement was also made Of an IN
crease In the wages of the employees Of
the Third avenue system. which shows
greater earnings AT the end of the first
year Of the corporate existence Of the
New Third Avenue Railway. The increase
is due 10 the care and general conduct Of
those who run cars. Mr.. Whitrldge says,
and in realization of this the increase is
given
The wage advance amounts 10 half
cent an hour to the men employed by the
Third Avenue. Forty-second Street the
Manhattanville and 81. Nicholas Avenue
the Dry Dock East Broadway and Bat
terry Railroad companies, and one cent an
hour to the employees of the Union Kail-
way Company. including the New YORK
city Intcrborough and the Southern Bou-
Ieyard Railroad companies. tine West
chester Electric Railroad Company. In
Guiding the New York. Westchester and
Traction Company and the
Yonkers Railroad Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18

Washington, Jan. 17.-State Department
officials were disturbed to-day over what
they fear may result in a disastrous COM
mercial war between Argentina and the
United States They have had reports
that Argentina is likely TO retaliate
against the United States for what II
believes is an unfair commercial advan-
take taken Of IT by this country.
Brazil grants to the United States
special differential on imports Of wheat
-four, which allows this country TO com
pete successfully with Argentina In that
field The State Department has been
Informed that this is being looked on as
unfriendly, and that there Is scarcely
suppressed sentiment i'm the Argentine
Congress. which, II is said. may break
out any time, I'm favor of retaliatory ac-
ton.
John W Garrett, minister from TINS
country to Argentina, IS In this city ana
has conferred with Assistant Secretary
Wilson and other officials. 1t was SAID
however. that his visit was not In con-
nection with the threatened commercial
war
Consideration is being given by the
State Department 10 vigorous editorials
appearing in the leading papers OF
Bucnos Ayres and other Argentine cities,
calling on their legislators 10 protect the
interests Of the farmers and millers OF
their country While officials here say
they are giving the matter careful
thought. no definite line of action has
been decided on.
Argentina bought from the United
States more than $50 coO worth Of agri-
cultural implements. automobiles, sewing
machines, elevators. typewriters and other
manufactured products I'm the year just
ended. they point out; and II this mar
hot ig lost to American manufacturers by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
FEAR ARGENTINA MAY
START A TRADE WAR
State Department Officials Hear Republic Is
Likely to Retaliate for Alleged Favors
from Brazil to United States.

a differential allowed TO Great Britain,
Germany. France or other foreign coun-
tries, il would be a serious loss. That, ii
is asserted, is what Argentina threatens
TO do unless the United States withdraws
in large part at least from the Brazilian
-four market, which Argentina considers
her own by right Of close proximity.
Further, the State Department has been
informed that Argentina may Withdraw
from the Pan-Americar Union at the next
Pan-American conference unless condl-
tions change. This, it was, said, prop
ably would deal the cause Of Pan-Ameri-
Canism a blow from which 1t would re-
quire many years to recover and when
would do away with much of the friendly
social ami commercial relations that nave
been growing for the last twenty-iour
years
Argentina, it is further learned, is pre-
pairing to establish in this city com
mercial propaganda bureau, similar 10
that which Brazil has maintained in this
country for some years. and when mas
served as a means Of keeping the buyers
and sellers of the two countries In close
touch. Brazil as a -four market for AT
gcntna means much 10 the latter country
It was said at the State Department, ana
as ! ore and more agricultural territory
yearly is being opened up in Argentina
the question of finding a. market for the
surplus is serious.
state Department officials expressed the
hope to-day that the threatened CONNER
cial rupture between this country ana
Argentina would be avertcd They de-
clarcd Argentina now sold to this coun-
try 100000 worth of products yearly
about Of half as much as the United
States sold there and that every effort
should be made by both countries to keep
ali the commerce they pOsscss.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
STARTS NEW OIL INQUIRY
Government Looking Into Usage
Indian Land Deal.

Washington. Jan. 1.-THE Depar'i'e".
Of Justice has begun an investigation oil
the alleged relations Of the Usage indian
Tribal Council and oil interests, which lea
Secretary of the Interior Fisher TO re-
move seven members Of the council re-
Gently. The question was referred to the
Attorney General by Secretary Fisher.
In statement at the time OF remoNai
the Secretary charged that the councii
had been Influenced by the Uncle Sam
OIL Company and three individual appli-
cants. who had tried to secure the lease
of eight hundred thousand acres OF oil
and gas land comprising the entire un-
Leased norton Of the Usage reservation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
US. TO SUE FOR OIL LANDS.
Government Will Test Title to
Thousands of Acres in California
VALUED AT MANY MILLIONS
Legality of Presidents Exten
sive Withdrawal to Come Be-
fore Courts in Los Angeles.

Washington. Jan. IA suit which Will
,cst tho title " hundreds Of thousands Of
acres Of oil lands I'm IN" West with values
running into tho millions. viii be filed at
Los Angeles by the federal government
within a few days.
Assistant Attorney General Knaehel TO-
dav instructed United States Attorney
Mccormick. at Los Angeles, to begin pro-
cccdings against claimants 10 l@ acres or
ou lands I'm Southern california, worth
s. 90 an acre.
Other suits will follow all 10 test tho
Legality Of tho extensive oil land With
drawal made hy President TAFT Septem-
her =. 1893 When questions were raised
as TO the Presidents power TO make TN"
withdrawal Congress gave him specific
authority by tho act OF June -, 1910. and
President Taft again withdrew the lands
July .. 1910. Between tho first and second
v.ithdra walls. however. many claims w"r"
,Iod under the mineral law. The govern
mont holds that the first withdrawal as
we'll As tho second. was legal and that
the title 10 those tracts Is lodged with
the United states.
Seeks to Recover Oil Withdrawn
Not only will the government ask the
c,oIrt To declare valid its title 10 the land,
but will also seek rccoyerios for all TN"
oil said To have been Withdrawn, the
quantity Of which must be developed by
the suit. The proceedings at Los Angeles
will be directed against all who nave
claimed or claim title TO the land' tho'
who have extracted the oil and those VINO
have purchased II.
The government will contest all claims
n the land or oils which may be ad-
yanced by these corporations and indlVid-
uals
Standard oil Company, National Pacific
OIL Company, Tarr & McComb dhc''
Taync q Bowler Company, Title lnsur-
ance and Trust Company. Thirty Thirty
,u,o Land Company, Southern Investment
Comranv. FL Dora OIL Company, klhs
Lumber Company and Sesme oil Com
pany. all Of California; Midway Northern
oil Company Los Angeles; MckittrIck
oil Company. Consolidated Midway oil
Comnany, Maricopa Northern OH COM
many and Maricopa Consolidated Oh 'oih-
many. all of Arizona, and Mary r frdh-
cis +, w. Lowell, James Bloom, william
< Kimban. Harry V. Maszena, Arthur
whitfield. Maude Whitfield, James T..
stone. John v Hoffman. VI r. norman
Edward Fox. Charles 4. Son. David .
Rachman. william r. Dunn. I. }. Green
N y Waite. Anna NJ. Waite, J. NJ. DAN
Tiger Daisy G. Danziger 4. l.. We'll.
Florence 6. We'll. \. b. Coulson. h. A.
Vutsee. G. G. Gillette, Sydney Smith,
+ r. McKinnie. Ora f.. Monnette, NJ. }.
Monnette. r. p. Davie and Julius Fried
all citizens Of California.
The Interior Department has refused tc
grant patents on any of the lands ana
there are many conflicting claims among
rorsous who base their contentious on
placer mining locate ms. ,,., a,a
The claims TO the lands are illegal ana
,I,a ovtr,ction Of the oil was wrong, &C
cofding to the government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
LAND SLIDE CH0KES CANAL
Giant Steam shovels Try to
Stem Avalanche of Debris.

Washington, Jan. H.-Great earth slides
have started again in Culebra cut, IN the
Panama Canal according to Information
received here to-day one Of the slides
alone is expected to throw a million yards
Of earth and rock into the canal unless
the steam shovel crews who ale working
desperately succeed i'm checking it.
Another slide at Cucuracha. which was
supposed to have halted two years ago.
again has begun to move rapidly and the
earth sank four feet in seventeen min
utes on the afternoon Of January 2, COW
ering two railroad tracks.
The engineers expected these move
ments and had allowed for them in their
estimates. but Il will take a full month $
work OF the giant steapi shoNels TO get
rid of the debris.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
TRAIN WRECKERS FAIL
Two Attempts Made on Central
Road Near WatertoWn.

Watertown. y. Y. Jan. 1.-Two at
fempts TO wreck trains on the ST. Law
renee division Of the New York Cen
traI Railroad were made just outside
of this city to-day. a passenger train
from Carthage ran into pile of ties,
but the cowcatcher tossed them from
the rails.
A passenger train which left here
later for Newton Falls was stopped
when a keg of nails was discovered on
the tracks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
READY TO HELP GOULD
Three Persons Want to Make
Good His Deficiency.
m Telegraph b M Tribnne.

Syracuse, Jan. F.-Although James NJ.
Gould, the former West Point football
star. arrested here last night for check
swindling, has been a prisoner only
twenty-four hours three persons have al
ready made inquiries concerning arrange
ments to make good Gould's deficiency
Nothing can be done. ii Is thought, until
Gould is taken TO Binghamton, where he
is accused OF having cashed a worthless
sl5 check at a hotel
Gould arrived I'm Syracuse yesterday
and succeeded in cashing check for SO.
His arrest followed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
THE DAY IN WASHINGTON

has been nominated. and, with the help
of the President and some good friends in
Congress, has been confirmed, and per-
haps SOME day the aforesaid affrighted
dove can be persuaded once more to take
up its abiding place in the room next to
that of the Secretary Of War.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
MEAT PRICES REMAIN SAME.

Prices for ribs and loins in the whole
sale market are the same this week as
last. namely. 10. 10 and 1917 cents pound.
Rounds are now liz. loi3 and 81. cents.
and chuck steaks 1917. 81 and 8 cents.
Last week rounds were II, II and 10 cents
and chucks II. 10 and CENTS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18

lover grades of paper and the principal
eXport trade accessible TO the United
states paper manufacturers was almost
held 10y those countries.
The paper industry in this country,
ne said us attacked I'm the home mar
kct by nearly every country i'm the world.
". are the dumping ground for every
paper and pulp manufacturing country
The increase of importations by the low
ering Of the tariff would amount 10 very
little ANY increase i'm duties would re-
suit I'm a large increase i'm revenue with
out serious interference with the guam
tity imported"
James l.. Fceney. Of New York, repre-
scntng the international Brotherhood or
Bookbinders. asked that the provision in
the present tariff law admitting free
hooks printed more than twenty years be
amended to provide that the books must
also have been bound twenty years. Mr..
Feeney said that ten years ago a thou
sand men were employed in art bin
deries" In the city Of New York, and to-
day only two hundred were employed.
lie credited this condition to the practice
Of sending old books ABROAD 10 De Iepouiu
BY cheap foreign labor and reimport-
ing them free.
Eben l.. Brown, OF the United states
PAPER Mills Watertown, n. Y, represent
ing the news print mills OF the country
said paDCr mills had increased the wages
OF their employees, and the price or pro
duction had increased. but by added ell
cheney the selling price, OF news PRINT ilnt
paper had been kept level during the ldst
ten wears The cost Of production, ne
said. had gone up from Sc to 50 a ton.
we are not here" he said, 10 r urge
the fixing OF tie duty on news PRINT
paper on q protection basis. But we DO
contend that as a revenue tariff the duty
should remain at 50 70 a ton. This would
be an al valOrem duty of about per cent
a really low duty
Mr. Brown argued that the wood pulp
and paper provision of the Canadian reel
procity act was Oppressive ana de-
structive to the paper industry In the
United States" and should be repealed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
Tobacco Men Heard.

The leaf tobacco boards OF trade Of
Philadelphia and New York, represented
respectively by John r. Young and JoNn
Duxs, advocated a reduction in the rate
Of duty OH imported wrapper tobacco
from 81 s. 10 81. and assessment of duty
on tobacco at weight at time of with
drawai from bonded warehouses. MT
Young asserted that while the tobacco
trust, by unfair methods, had forced
many manufacturers out Of business,
larger number had been compelled 10
drop out by the cost OF raw material,
especially OF the wrapper, made by the
81 s. duty. Both men contended that the
reduction would result in increased I'M
uortations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
Attacks Paper Makers.

Mr.. Norris asserted that the paper
makers had been coddled and enervated
by the tariff; that theSInternational Paper
Company had falsifed and juggled the
figures and had starved the market, that
there had been fixed prices for years
among the paper manufacturers, and that
ne could not buy a ton from the paper
mills at price within reason. He charged
that the paper makers had attacked the
credit Of projectors Of new enterprises
and had urged banks TO refuse them
loans, and that since 1898, when the In
ternational Paper Company was formed
the paper makers in substantially all
groups had been trying to regulate the
market by combinations and 10 maintain
neesss.
Mr. Norris stated that exports Of the
paper trade in 1912 exceeded the 1912 i'm
ports by more than 100000. The
paper makers" he said. fail 10 tell you
that while three-quarters of the machines
operating in American mills are fit only
for the scrap heap, nearly all the Canadi-
an mills are equipped with modern ma
chimes, made in America and manned by
American paper makers"
The witness declared that the Tariff
Board had punctured the labor protection
fallacy The average cost Of labor in all
Canadian mills, he said, was only eight
-onts less a ton than in the American
mills, yet Congress had retained So 10
duty on news print matter. 'professedly
j.: the interest Of labor" He charged the
American Paper and Pulp Association
with selling abroad at lower prices than
TO American consumers.
Mr. Hastings speaking for the Amer
lean Paper and Pulp Association, said
that in the industry there were eight nun
bred establishments in thirty-two states,
employing eighty thousand persons At
least s. per cent Of the production OF the
mills was Of a quality that could be i'm
ported into this country Of value OF not
over four cents pound at the point OF
shipment, thus coming in free under the
Canadian reciprocity law. lie said a large
proportion Of TIE importatons OF paper
and pulp were coming in free from Can
ada. and that pulp came free from some
other nations.
we as an industry" said Mr. Has
lings, ARE entitled to the same treat
ment as any other legitimate manufact-
uring industry in this country. II is inn
possible TO store any quantity Of paper
except at a pronlbitiye cost"
Competitors of United States.
Mr.. Hastings declared that while Can
ada was the greatest competitor OF the
United States, England, Germany and
Sweden ware large producers Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
TARIFF MAKERS URGED
TO CUT PAPER DUTIES
American Newspaper Publish
erS' Association Asks for Open
Door for News Print and Pulp.
MILL MEN IN OPPOSITION
Tobacco Dealers and Growers
Plead Both For and Against
Retention of Rates in
the Present Law.

Washington. Jan. l7-Substautial reduc-
tion 4 the tariff al along the line In the
wood pulp and print paper schedule and
retention Of approximately the existing
duties on tobacco. cigars and similar arti-
clcg constitute part of the Democratic
tariff revision programme to be presented
to the extra session Of Congress. This
was the situation as viewed tonight by
Democratic leaders. following two SEES
sions to-day and another tonight in the
marshalug Of testimony on schedules
N-pulps, papers and books-and F-to-
hacco and its manufactures.
Just how far the Democratic members
will go in cutting the paper schedule is
prohematical. So far they have not held
a conference on the subject, but the con-
sensus of their sentiment favors reduction
wherever possible in this part Of the
tariff law.
The committee probably will provide
for free admission of Bibles and other
religious works. A plea for elimination Of
the % per cent duty on Bibles was made
to-day by the Presbyterian committee of
publication. through r. T. Masill, its sec
rotary.
Most of the Democratic members of
the committee, if not all, regard the items
i'm the tobacco schedule as luXuries and
one of the most easily adapted TO revenue
raising purposes among the fourteen
schedules Of the tariff act.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
With big Tim" Passes Prestige of
the Once Mighty Clan Sullivan
Behind the Scenes with
Observation-Disclosures of the Stage
How the Machinery for Making
Newspaper Men Works

The Pulitzer institution has set out to do IN lart
fine auspices what is being attempted less ambit
and hall OF schools namely to equip young men
career by practical experience and lectures from e
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
ROYAL Auction Clinics

If YOU are expcrt-real alleged-or just tyro in
OF ROYAL Auction you will find the weekly article by Geo
instructive and interesting Read IT in The Sunday Trib
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
Kate Carew Interviews Author
of THE Heavenly Twins" in Club

Nine Sarah Grand proves to be- aside from her cgaret
Victorian figure well preserved OF body and spirit He
lie and OF womans role therein however, not mid
at ALL She thinks Americans have done English society
by breaking down the barriers OF British shyness III
iornent and her connection herewith in earlier st
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-25
SOCIETY" RACE MEET
PROVES UNIQUE EVENT

LEXINGTON. Ky. April ci-The one
day society race meeting at the
Hinata farm Of Clarence Lebus. four
miles from this city. today insuguratod
the spring race meetings for Kentucky
and was the most unique social event
ever given In Inc south. Guests OF 30
ctHi prominence came from an parts of
the country. Philadelphia. Boston, PITTS
buzz. Chicago, New Orleans and other
eltlsa we're well represented.
Governor McCrcary OF Kentucky was
guest or honor and horsemcn whose
names arc a. familiar In London. Vienna
and ST. Petersburg as they are In Amer
ics. ouicidtcd a. officials or racing The
thoroughbred horses entered were the
pick ~ the 500 quartercd here for the
annual spring meeting of tho kentucky
association. which will begin SATURDAY..
aud tho Jockeys Who rode them ia the
four trophy races were professionals
from the race track.
Psri- -mutuel betting machines from
the association track were used fnr the
betting and Thousands were wsEcrcd on
the result