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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
Senate Votes 80 to "a Against
Amendment to Appro-
priation Bill.
ACTION BRINGS TO END
FIGHT OF THREE DAYS
Party Lines Disregarded in the Bal.
1oting-Bankhead Submits
Compromise Amendment.

BY vote Of SO to "a the Senate this
afternoon held that the amendment to
the post office appropriation bill pre-
venting the Postmaster General from
changing rate zones and weights for the
parcel post ser1 ice unless first authorized
by Congress was not in order since it
was general legislation. This action
brings to an end three-day fight in the
Senate for the adoption of this amend
ment, in which the Postmaster General
had been severely criticised for doing
away with the fifty-mile zone, decreas-
ing rates and increasing the weight limit
to fifty pounds in the parcel post service.
Party lines were disregarded in the
vote. The result is considered a victory
for Postmaster General Burleson. The
point of order against the proposed
amendment was made by Senator Shep-
pard of Texas. The amendment had the
support of the post office committee of
the Senate.
Bankhead Submits Compromise.
Following defeat of the amendment.
Senator Bankhead, chairman of the post
office committee, submitted a compro-
mise amendment which would prevent
increasing the weight limit on parcels
post packages above fifty pounds, the
existing regulation.
In explaining the amendment Senator
Bankhead declared 1t conceded that the
Postmaster General had not exceeded
his authority in changing parcel post
zones and rates, but that it would COM
pei him to get authority from Congress
before he could extend the weights, a
course which had been contemplated.
Owen Plan Acceptable.
An amendment to require railroads
to furnish parcel post facilities to the
government at as advantageous a rate
as that given express companies was
presented to the Senate yesterday by
Senator owen when the post Office ap-
preparation bill was under debate.
Democratic members of the post office
committee said the proposal was ac-
ceptable to them. 1t will come up for
vote probably tomorrow. when the en-
tire appropriation bill may be dis
posed of in the Senate.
Senator Bristow concluded his attack
on the action of the Postmaster Cen
eral in abolishing the fifty-mile zone
and extending the old ifty-mile rates
to a 150-mile zone. Senator Clark of
claimed by the Postmaster General for
the parcel post business in the last
year would vanish into thin air when
the new contracts for rural mail and
star route carriers were relet.
''The American people know this will
cost something. but they would rather
pay the additional cost to the govern
ment than to Tom Platt's express COM
pany." retorted Senator MARITIME.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
MEMORIAL TO KUEHN.
Services in Honor of Young Wireless
Operator Who Sacrificed Life.

NEW YORK, February 27.-Memorial
services in honor of Ferdinand Kuehn.
the young wireless operator who lost his
life on the steamship Monroe after CIV
ing up his life-saver to one of the woman
passengers. will be held in the auditorium
of the East Side branch of the Y. NJ. c.
A. Sunday afternoon.
John Bottomley. vice president of the
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company Of
America, will probably pay tribute to the
bravery of Kuehn on behalf OF the COM
pany, and other speakers will be mem
bers of the crew of the Monroe
Four petitions are being prepared
through which efforts will be made to en-
list the Carnegie hero fund commission
in the matter of recognition of the boys
bravery and the care Of those he left.
Kuehn's name was placed few days
ago on the honor roll of public school No.
40. where he was once pupil and where
he began his experiments with wireless
telegrapher.
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SAYS WIFE CONFESSED
HER LOVE FOR ANOTHER
W. c. Ellis, in Chicago Testimony,
Avoids Any Reference to How
He Killed Her.

CHICAGO, February 21.-With a wealth
of detail concerning conversations with
his wife in the days just before he killcd
her in a Chicago hotel last fall. but no.
word directly touching the manner OF
her death, William Cheney Ellis today
held the attention OF the court and the
listeners In his trial for wife murder.
He eteadfastly declared that his wife
had confessed her love for another man.
and that he had pleaded with her to re
turn to their Cincinnati home. whcro their
two little children awaited them. and
where he was a respected and prosperou-,
business man
That night we went to the theater.'
he said. When we returned I tried to
put my arms around her. but she re
pulsed me. / asked her-I implored her
to go home with me To our two children
She said she could not help il and ths
she couldn't see how she could treat me
that way, because I had always been
good to her.
On Verge of Collapse.
Pale and apparently on the verge or
collapse. Ellis continued:
Il don't remember anything further"
said Ellis My home had been broken
first thing l knew l found myself in bed
with my arms around Mrs. Ellis. I had
on her kimono And-and-and-I saw
my darling wife was dead.
Il got the knife and cut my throat
and wrists. Then l ca led Mrs Eber
sole and asked her IL she would not
come down right away. I told her
something terrible had happened. She
said. Don't let 1t happen until l can
come down 1t is too la.e. We're dying.
said. After that l cut my throat and
wrists again. Then the officers came.
Mrs. Ellis was the highest-minded
woman I ever knew" said Ellis. "Sh0
had no wrong thoughts. She simply
was infatuated with that man. Fred
Caldwell of Brantford Ontario. She
was never the same after we met him
that summer.
Refused to Return Home.
1T was while We were at dinner here
the night l arrived in Chicago that she
confessed her love for him. / had asked
her to go back to Cincinnati and she
refused. I love Cauldweil and he loves
me- she said. We have been correspond
ing and If you don't let me see him now
1 will run away and see him another
time
II told Mrs E lis that she ought not to
stay here unless she had her sister with
her. She said her sister would laugh
at her or else think that something was
wrong She said that il she found out
she really loved Caldwell she would
come and tell me and we would get q
divorce. but all the time she was good
woman"
This was the end of Ellis direct testi-
mony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
CREW TERROR-STRICKEN.
Snow and Ice Encountered by Ger
man Steamship Scares Lascars.

PHILADELPHIA, February 27-Ter-
ror-stricken at the sight Of snow and ice
encountered by the German steamship
Ockenfels of the Newfoundland banks
the crew Of fifty-eight Lascars deserted
their posts and for four days refused to
leave the engine room of the vessel. As
sisted only by the messboys and cooks
the officers Of the ship were obliged to
do all the seamen's work as well as navi-
gate the vessel on the voyage to this port.
The cold was so intense. according to
the ships officers, that waves froze into
solid ice almost as soon as they broke
over the rails of the vessel. The steamer
arrived here yesterday from Narvik,
Sweden, with cargo Of iron ore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
Gen. Villa, Satisfied With
Present Authority, Not to
Push Attack on Torre0n

CHIHUAHUA, Mex, February IA:
an explanation Of his continued delay in
attacking the federal army at Torreon
800 miles south of here, close advisers OF
Gen. Francisco Villa opined that the rebe
leader was quite content with his pres
ent supreme authority and that he would
not push southwark until necessity seems
to require 1t. Practically all Of Villas
army is scattered south along the railroad
to within a few miles of Torreon. and its
positions of being on the verge Of attack
! ing the federals have been unchanged for
weeks.
Only feeble indications Of Villas inten-
have appeared. Meantime reports are
current that the Federal army has been
strengthening its defenses and fortifytns
the railroads south and east Belief has
been growing that the federals under
Gen. Refugio Valasco would assume the
offensive and send troops north to check
the rebels.
Impartial military observers agreed to-
day that the rebels have lost ground by
their delay. Waited upon by representa-
rounded by ducal pomp Of soldiers and
civilians, Gen. Villa, after having risen
from the position of bandit within
few months, has been welding the powers
OF dictator NO eHoft mas Deen IMAGE
to conceal his dictatorship. and 1t has
been said his delay in moving southwark
was actuated by desire to extend his
power as head of the government
Friends of Gen. Villa recalled that before
his recent victories he said that to cap
ture and hold this state capital after driv-
ing out his enemies was the height of his
ambition. 1t was from this city that Villa
was driven out many years ago as a
bandit and from here Diaz soldiers were
vainly sent to capture him.
Little credence was given here to often
repeated reports that Gen. Carranza in
tended soon to travel from Sonora to
assume control of the government in Chi
kuahua. Gen. Via has insistently re-
ferred to Gen. Carranza as the first chief
of the revolution, but 1t has been thought
Carranza would delay his arrival in Chi
huahua, if he comes, until Villa has
moved southwark.
Villa has surrounded himself by men
who accept his word as law. 1t has been
openly stated that for Mexicans to ex-
press opinions adverse to Villa warrants
execution and not to obey orders should
be punished by Imprisonment A Mex
lean conductor was put in prison because
he was late with a train ordered by Villa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
Up. WHITNEY TO TESTIFY.
Millionaire to Resist Indictments for
White Slavery.

SAN FRANCISCO. February I'll.
Parker Whitney. clubman and million
lire, was prepared today to go before the
grand jury and make vigorous effort to
prevent indictments being returned against
him on a charge of white slavery, brought
~ Miss Genevieve Hannah.
Whitney will exhibit gripful Of letters
rom Miss Hannah by which he says he
will show the grand jury that he held out
no matrimonial promises to her when
she accompanied him from New York on
4 trip across the country.
Miss Hannah left for Chicago by way
If New Orleans last Tuesday. John w.
Preston, United States district attorney
said 1t was probable that her testimony
would not be required.
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ton in q work which 1t is doing in the
interests of civilization and likewise that
1t will fix its attention upon the grave
consequences that come from revoking
the decree that prohibited until recently
the expectation Of arms.
This government expects to comply
with its high duty to humanity and with
the functions of a representative state
that forms part of international society
by soliciting by means Of this note re-
Election by our neighboring country re-
garding the sad consequences the arm
ing of rebels. who do not respect lie,
honor or property has brought and will
continue to bring"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
BRYAN AND OWEN TO TALK.
Will Address the Virginia Progress
sive Democratic Ieaoue

RICHMOND. Va. February Ex-senator
Robert L. owen is scheduled to address
tonight the opening session of two-day
meeting of the Virginia Progressive DEM
ocratic League.
William Jennings Bryan is to address
the general assembly tomorrow at pm.
and the league at S:15 Pm, on Progress
sive Democracy"
Following this, Secretary Bryan and
Senator Owen will be guests at a recep-
ton by Gov. and Mrs. Stuart. The Sec
rotary of State will return Monday morn
ing to Washiagtou
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
Newspaper Men in Contempt.

NEW YORK. February 27.-George
Burdick city editor. and William Curtin
ship news reporter. for the New York
Tribune were adjudged in contempt by
Federal Judge Hand today for having re-
fused recently to answer questions con-
corning their source of information rela-
tive to smuggling cases. accounts Of
which their paper printed. Each was
fined $500, but the court said the de-
'endants would have opportunity to purge
themselves should they desire to answer
the questions before another grand jury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
MATTRESSES ARE ARRESTED.
Chicago Policewomen Surprise Girls
Expected Tolerance for Sex.

CHICAGO. February q. Six union
mattresses were marched of to the police
station by two policewomen yesterday
from in front of downtown restaurant
against which the mattresses declared a
boycott several weeks ago.
Policewomen Loucks and Boyd said the
Mattresses appeared at noon in front of
the restaurant carrying American flags
and Immediately began to shout to per-
sons entering the place: Don't go in
there; they have non-u union help"'
81 told them to go away" said Officer
Boyd. They refused and then Mrs.
Loucks and I decided to arrest them"
The mattresses were booked on charges
on disorderly conduct and conspiracy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
Italy Favors Proposed Treaty.

ROME, February 27.-The italian
foreign office today notified Thomas
Nelson Page, the American ambassador.
that Italy is favorable in principle to
the signature OF a new arbitration
treaty similar to that concluded be-
tween the United States and Bolivia as
proposed by Secretary Bryan The
draft of the treaty had been submitted
to the permanent technical commission
Of the Italian foreign office. which
within a few days will pronounce it's
opinion. ,-,---4-.k.---...~,-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
UNEMPLOYED START MARCH.
Two Hundred Leave Richmond, Cal.
for National Capital,

RICHMOND, CAL, February 27.-Two
hundred unemployed mon. equipped with
blankets and cooking utensils. left here
today on a march to Washington to pc
tition Congress for work
The men recruited at San Francisco.
across the bay. On their arrival they
were fed by the local authorities. The
men expect to obtain rations from the
various towns on the line of march.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
British Steamer Being Eoated.

NORFOLK. Va. February 27.-With
continued good weather wreckers today
made additional progress in their work of
.hoattng the stranded British steamship
Rtyersdale, south Of Cape Henry. and the
sachem, north Of Cape Charles. The
Riversdale is being gotten farther into
deem water on every tide. The Sachem
has been drawn 400 feet across the, bar
on which she lies and must be moved
400 feet more before she is freed. Her
cargo is still being removed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
TRAPPED BY TRIBEsMEN.
Gendarmes Cornered in Their Bar.
racks at Kazerun, Persia.

TEHERAN. Persia, February ga
detachment Of $50 gendarmes Is cornered
in its barracks at Kazerun by a large
body of tribesmen- The battle began
yesterday. and continued. with desperate
fighting when the latest reports left the
scene today. The commander Of the
gendarmes Mai. Ohlsson, a Swede, was
killed yesterday.
The assailants are Vasrid,wan riflemen.
Kazerun. the scene of the fight. Is In the
province of Ears ffty-nve miles west of
Shiraz Reinforcements have been dis
patched from Shiraz, and detachment
Of British marines from Bushire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
GoMz's ENEMIES TO UNITE.
Political Situation in Venezuela Still.
More Complicated.

WILLEMSTAD. Curacao. February 81.
Reports from Venezuela indicate that
the political situation is becoming still
more complicated. 1t is rumored that
the leaders Of tho various factions In
opposition to President Juan Vicente
Gomez have reached an agreement to
act together.
A dispatch received here today aayl
Col. Samuel McG1ll who is q native Of
Chile, but holds tho position Of prinr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27

cipal instructor to the Venezuelan army.
has been placed under arrest. DR..
Leopoldo Baptista, former Venezuelan
minister Of the interior interior and Gen;
war, left here today for Porto Rico.
1t is said they have gone there to meet
Gen. Jose Manuel Hernandez, leader of
the Venezuelan national party; At the
partisan Of Cipriano Castro, left for
Trinidad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
Mellen's Case Up on Law Points.

BRIDGEPORT. Conn. February a.
The charge Of granddaughter brought
against Charles S. Mellen. former presi-
lent of the New Haven Railroad Com
,any. as a result Of a collision Of e1-
press trains in which several persons were
killed, came up in the criminal side OF
The superior court today on the plea of
jurisdiction entered by counsel for Mr..
Mellen. As questions of law only ware
under consideration at this time, Mr.. Mel
len was not in court -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
Does the Vanishing Act.

The operator yelled at the dancing
girl, who grabbed a fur coat and ran
down the steps in the direction Of a
waiting sea-going hack.
The moving picture machine man grab
bed up the legs of his instrument and
Owed into the cab beside his friend
But it was not a policeman who wore
the badge. It was a Capitol guide He
said the dancing exhibition was a whole
lot better than anything in Statuary
Hall, and that he came out ION purpose"
to see it and was awfully sorry when he
found that it was his badge that scared
the little girl away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
to require the fling of annual reports
from all corporations under its 5uris-
diction?
How Far Should Powers COP

How Far Should Powers Cor
If SO, to what extent should these
powers go?
Or. should the commission be given
limited power at the outset, with the
idea that its authority may be added
to, as experience warrants?
Or, should it be given Immediately
power to advise as to the legality OF
various forms of contracts or proposed
plans of corporations upon application
Of parties concerned?
Other questions are under considera'
ton and may be added. The members
of the special committee are h. G.
Rhett, chairman; DR.. Charles r. Van
Hise, president of the University OF
wisconsin; C. G. Matthewson. w. l.
Saunders, L. D. Brandeis. Henry r
Seager and Guy E. Trip: John II
Fahev. president of the National Com
merce Chamber. is meeting with the
committee.
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On Insane Hospital Board.

On the recommendation of Secretary
Lane the President has appointed Brig.
Gen. William C. Gorgas. surgeon general
of the army; Rear Admiral William {.
BREASTED, surgeon general of the navy;
Mrs Archibald Hopkins. Lewis E. Smoot
and Mrs. Kate Morgan Sharpe as visitors
to the Government Hospital for the In
sane. This will bring four new members
to the board, Mrs Sharpe having served
in this capacity since November 8. 1906.
Under the direction OF the Secretary OF
the Interior. the board of visitors exer-
cises supervision over the expenditures
and general operations of the hospital.
Miss Katharine NJ. Moon and Joseph
Carter of Brunswick, Nd, were married
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
DANCE ON CAPITOL STEPS
SUPPLIES YARDS OF FILM
Exhibition for Moving Picture Eff
fects Rudely Interrupted by
Man Wearing a Badge.

While Congress stormed and ragged
within the Capitol on the subject of the
Mexican war, the parcel post, District
tax rates and trust regulation. a busy
and Woodworking little dancing girl defled
the laws of the United States by tripping
toe dance on the steps at the east
front of the Capitol in a costume that
would have brought Congress to the front
doors in a rush-had some one suddenly
announced the fact from the galleries.
The dancing exhibition was for the
benefit Of a motion picture operator
who ground out several hundred va DIS
Of films without taking the slightest
interest in the exhibition. He might
have ground out many more yards had
not a man with a badge appeared on
the steps.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-27
Lippitt Voices His Views.

welfare ought to be prohibited involved
him In a discussion with Senator Lippitt.
who thought language of that sort would
be merely transferring the responsibility
Of decision to a commission or a court.
THAT would be simply leaving to some
one else said he, 1.-THE problem of de.
Gliding the matter which we are charged
with deciding We are supposed to define
the point at which fair competition ends
and unfair competition begins. There are
SO many advantages of combination OF
one side and 80 many disadvantages CT
the other that I don't believe that with
our present knowledge and experience ".
are competent to frame any satisfactory
legislation"
He thought that cooperation. which he
recognized as inevitable in spite of law
was resulting In low fices: Presiden
high prices were generally the result
Newlands Opposes Amendments.
Senator Newlands explained that the
bills to amend the Sherman act In regard
to what should constitute unfair competi
ton were being framed as administration
measures and that personally he be-
iieved the Sherman act should not be
amended In that respect.
The special committee Of the Chambe,
of Commerce Of the United States, now
meeting daily at the national headquar
tiers of the chamber In the Riggs building
continued its sessions today with the an
nouncement that the report 1t is to for.
mulate will be ready within the next tive
weeks and will soon thereafter be sen,
out for vote.
| 81 hxyf ID IN
istration Will not be included in one ref.
erendum, It Is stated. The scope ano
mower of the proposed interstate trade.
commission will be dealt with first as {
separate matter, since this question is
the one that is receiving first considera
| fion before the House and Senate com
mittees.
Other Bills to Come Up Later.
The other tentative bills, dealing with
amendments and additions to the Sher
man act. interlocking directorates ant
holding companies will be handled by tn,
committee in another set Of questions ant
recommendations, which will be prepared
later.
| The committee has as yet given these
| additional bills little consideration.
I The questions which the committee i.
considering for submission to the mem
bership follow:
should an Interstate trade commission
be created at this time, taking Owe
the powers Of the bureau Of corpora
tons?
its jurisdiction to corporations OF Ger
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce, irrespective Of size!
Should the commission. In addition Z
its power Of investigations nave pe"e