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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
ADDING MACHINES
MAY CAUSE ACTION
Sale to Government Causes an
Investigation-Burleson
to Prosecute.
rFrom The Tribune Bureau

Washington, May 1.-Criminal action
may develop as a result Of a dispute be-
tween the Postmaster General and the
Burroughs Adding Machine Company,
involving a claim of $45, PIG 50 by the
government for alleged violations Of con-
tract on the part Of the corporation in
supplying adding machines.
Postmaster General Burleson submitted
the controversy to the Attorney General
on March IS, with a view to determining
whether there was ground for indct-
nents against officers Of the company
Attorney General McReynolds referred
the matter to United States Attorney
Clarence r. Wilson, who has summoned
witnesses to testify before the grand
jury.
It is charged by Mr.. Burleson that the
company furnished second hand or
used" machines to the government and
charged the price submitted for machines
''up to sample" He says in a letter to
the Attorney General that 326 machines
not up to the standard were delivered
under the contracts for the fiscal years
1903, 1910, 1911 and 1912, and that demands
for a rebate from the company have been
refused in violation Of an alleged agree
ment.
William f. McCombs. chairman OF the
Democratic National Committee, and Leo
NJ Butzel, OF Detroit, are counsel for the
adding machine company. The conten-
tons Of the company are:
That in all the companys contracts 1t
is stipulated that any machine will be
taken back if it does not do its work
satisfactorily in every respect.
That in all the history of the company
no machine has failed in this manner,
and no request has been made that a ma
chine be taken back.
That ali machines are sold on trial TO
new customers.
That 100000 worth Of machines are
now in the hands OF prospective custom
ers.
That 1t IS a fixed custom TO give pro-
spective customers thirty days in which
TO determine whether the machine is
satisfactory.
That machines tried in this way and
not sold are shipped back TO the factory
and their component parts distributed
for use in construction of other machines.
That upon this practice rests all the
claim of the government that old or worn
out machines were delivered.
That the government has never assert
ed that any machine delivered has failed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
MILLION LOSS A
YEAR IN PRINTING
House Committee Tells of Waste
and FavorS Reforms in Gov
eminent Office.
From The Tribune Bureau.

Washington, May 1.-Estimating that
the government wastes about N,o000 an
nually IN printing useless documents and
material. the House Committee on Print
ing filed a bill and report to-day recon-
mendng reforms in the Government
Printing Office and curtailing the ex-
travagant publication Of documents which
few read.
The report, filed by Representative
Barnhart says there are approximately
1000 tons of useless printed documents in
government establishments and store
rooms here Within the last six years, &C
cordng to the House investigators, more
than 100000 uncalled-for volumes have
been printed at enormous expense.
The House committee proposes that the
Government Printing Office be made di-
rectly responsible to Congress, and that
the Joint committee on printing be en-
powered 10 eliminate duplication Of work
and unnecessary printing of all kinds.
The committee estimates that 100000 a
year can be saved simply by curtailing
the leave to print privilege under which
Congressional orators extend their re-
marks in The Record
Complaint is made of the wholesale pub
lication Of documents, which in some In
stances are franked out by members Of
Congress, only TO be discarded By the re-
cipient. or which pile up In the govern
rent storerooms ultimately 10 be sold as
waste.
The committee recommends limitations
in the number Of Congressional directories
printed, as we'll as restrictions in the
printing Of private claims bills, volumi-
nous reports on field operations from
sundry bureaus of the government, and a
general cutting dcwn OF documents which
are printed by the thousands only TO be
circulated in small quantities. The elimi-
nation Of embossed letterheads In the gov
eminent service and the use OF cheaper
paper for the frankable matter sent out
by the ton by Congress and the depart
ment are other economies suggested. The
various economies enumerated will total
at least $4,000 a year. according TO the
committee.
An increase TO sixty Job compositors
from 20 TO IS cents an hour is recon-
nended; II is also proposed that the pub
lie printer get $500 instead Of 1880; that
a daily table OF contents OF The Record"
be published. together with daily bull
letin OF committee hearings. the total in
creases suggested amounting 10 about
S.. 600 year.
The report filed by Chairman Barnhart
is critical Of certain past administrations
OF the Government Printing ONCE. slleg-
ing that one public printer installed ex-
pensive mahogany furniture In the Job
composing room; that extravagant prices
were paid for typesetting machines
bought several years ago, and that pub
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
COAL DEALERS DENY
RESTRAINT OF TRADE
Three Subsidiaries of Lehigh
Valley File Answers to Gov.
eminent Suit.

Three more subsidiaries of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad filed answers yesterday
in the Federal District Court TO the gov
ernment's Sherman law suit against the
road and it's subsidiaries charging mo
nopoly and restraint of Interstate coal
trade. They were the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company, the Coke Brothers Company,
Inc. and the New York and Middle Coal
Field Railroad Company.
All deny that they were parties to a
combination in restraint Of trade. The
Lehigh Valley Coal Company admits only
10 per cent output OF the coal lands
along the Lehish Valley road and denies
that it acquired the lands by the infu-
ence OF the railroad. 1t admits that FIVE
Of its directors are directors OF the Coke
Brothers Company Inc. and 1t admits
contracts with many OF the Independent
coal operators along the Lehigh Valley
road. This II says. benefited the mines.
the shippers and the consumers by re-
ducing the cost Of distribution.
The company denies the sale OF the ma
1ority OF its stock TO the Lehigh Valley
Railroad or that II leased a portion OF it's
coal lands to the road. II also denies that
II absorbed the properties Of the Luzerne
Coal and Iron Company and the Green
Land Coal Company TO suppress competi-
ton. as was charged in the complaint.
The New York and Middle Coal Field
Railroad and Coal Company denies that
il sold its majority stock to the Lehigh
Valley Railroad or that IT leased a por-
ton OF It's lands 10 the road. The answer
OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
will be filed next week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02

kept in the Office OF the treasurer OF the
New Haven road, he said. he turned over
10 his successor IA treasurer of the BIZ
lard company, II. V. whlpple. Mr.. Hem
ingway said he resigned as treasurer at
the suggestion of MIR. Billiard or Mr..
Robbins.
When he retired. he testified, the COM
pany had $40. 10000 notes outstanding.
What were the assets OF the company
at that timo?" asked Mr.. Folk.
81 do not know OF any except the de-
bentures of the New England Investment
Securities Company" answered Mr. Hem
ingway.
Mr.. Folk endeavored TO show that these
debentures were exchanged for the Billiard
company notes. but Mr.. Hemingway
would not say So The notes and the de-
bentures were equal in value. he said.
Mr. Hemingway said he became d.
rector OF the Boston & Maine Railroad in
1908, when Billiard became stakeholder
in the road. and resigned about the time
he retired as treasurer of the Billiard
company.
80 you we're a dummy for Mr.. Bill
lard?"
Eyes. II you want to put it that way"
What was the Billiard company ere
ated for?"
II do not know, except 1t was to take
over the debentures'
"You know there was a law In Massa-
chusetts forbiddng the New Haven from
owning trolley lines in Western Massa-
chusetts. Now was not the Billiard COM
pany formed to evade that law?'
ut might have been for that purpose.
The Billiard company made no contri-
button to political parties. the witness
said.
Mr.. Folk asked Mr.. Hemingway II he
had drawn a check for 100000 in connec-
ton with the Metropolitan Steamship
Company.
Il do not remember IT," was the reply.
He said he did not recall any dealings
with the steamship company.
Further questions along this line were
objected to by Homer 5. Cummings, at
torney for John L. Billiard, who main
tanned that Mr.. Hemingway and the other
officials of the Billiard company who
declined 10 answer questions put to them
several weeks ago. were within their
rights.
Philip J. Doherty, of counsel for the
commission, then questioned the witness
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
No Federal Grain Inspection.

Washington, May 1--By vote OF 81 to
20 the Senate tonight defeated the bill OF
Ser ator McCumber providing for tho
federal inspection and grading OF grain
entering into interstate commerce. and
designed to secure uniformity In stand
ards and classification Of grain. The bill
has been before the Senate for more
than year and has been the subject OF
,,,,cb discussion in the last few weeks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
TO LOCATE ALASKA ROADS
Secretary Lane Names W. O.
Edes and Lieutenant Mears.

Washington. May l-Secretary Lane an
nounced to-day that President wilson
had appointed William c. Edes and
Lieutenant Frederick Mears as members
OF the Alaskan Engineering Commission
which is TO have charge Of the location
of the railroads in Alaska. under the re-
Gently enacted Alaskan railroad act
Mr.. Edes is chief engineer OF the
Northwestern Pacific Railroad. IN Cali
fornla Lieutenant Mears Is chief ensi-
aeer OF the Panama Railroad. and was
suggested for the Alaskan WORK py
Colonel George W. Goethals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02

lie printer Installed an audit ana cos'
keeping system operated by private con,
tractors that cost the government Fi's,l'
in less than two years. The prinuhs once
has to this day hardly recovered from
the disorganization and confusion oceA-
stoned thereby. Companies composed Oh
the same individuals as the audit system
were awarded contracts for printing sup
plies"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
H.minuway on Stand.

Mr.. Hemingway took the stand and de-
scribed his connection with the Billiard
company, of which he was treasurer until
last fall f. D. Robbins. he said, was In
strumental in organizing the company.
The company was holding concern with
an original capital Of $4,000, later In
creased 10 100000 The books, he said.
were under his supervision. lie ala NOT
remember getting 100000 from the New
Haven for gold notes OF the Billiard com
many The books and keys TO the vault
where the Billiard company securities were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
Measure Opposed by Only
One Member of the
Subcommittee.
LEGISLATION EXPECTED
TOPASS THE SENATE
Prohibits Watering Stock and
Interlocking Directorates--
Provides Fines.
Iron The Tribune Bureau. ]

Washington, May 1.-The Senate anti
trust bill, which is generally regarded as
the limit to which the administration will
go in carrying out the purposes enun-
cIated in the Presidents antitrust mes
sage, was laid before the Interstate Com
merce Committee to-day by sub-com-
mlttee which had devoted weeks OF labor
to drafting 1t.
Only one member OF the sub-commit-
tee-Senator Brandegee-voted against the
bill as It stands. II is expected that there
will be sufficient Republican support to
pass the measure in the Senate with little
modification. II It can be brought to a
vote during the present session.
The Senate bill provides for the estab-
lshment of an interstate trade commits
sion similar TO that proposed In the House
bill. It also proposes legislation supple
mental to the antitrust law for the regu-
lation of big business. which is now the
subject Of consideration by the Judiciary
Committee Of the House.
This supplemental legislation proposed
In the Senate bill includes the following
provisions:
THAT no corporation shall engage In
commerce. if upon its board Of directors
or other managing board or among its
officers there is any person who is mem
Der of the board Of directors or other
managing board Of another corporation
engaged in commerce and carrying on
competitive business.
THAT no corporation shall engage in
commerce If il owns, holds or controls,
directly or indirectly, the whole or any
part of the capital stock or any other
means of control of any other corpora
tons carrying on a competitive business"
ThreefoId Damages Provided.
Persons injured by the violation Of these
prohibitions may bring suit for the recov-
cry of threefold damages.
The "guilt-is-personal" theory is en-
bodied in a section which declares that
whenever a corporation violates any OF
the provisions Of this act, the offence
shall bo deemed to be also that of tho In
dividual directors, officers and agents OF
such corporation authorizing or ordering
any Of such prohibited acts" fine OF
5000 or Imprisonment for one year, or
both, is the penalty for the violation
Some compensation for the restrictions
upon their activities in interstate COM
merce and the regulation of stock Issues
is afforded corporations which comply
with the law A clean bill Of health from
the proposed Interstate Trade Commission
or the Interstate Commerce Commission,
as the case may be, will guarantee them
protection from suits TO enforce the law.
The sections prohibiting interlocking d.
rectorates and holding companies and
regulating stock issues contain the pro-
vision that no suit shall be brought TO en-
force the law against corporations which
file with either commission. within one
year from the passage Of the act, petitions
alleging that the competitive conditions
which render them subject TO the law do
not exist in their relations with other
corporations. The bill requires that the
commission shall make prompt investi-
cation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
%1a.Mees'0HGEe

NEW LEADING HOTEL & Favourite
Resort of Distinguished Americans. Pri-
yate bathrooms. a running cold q warm
water i'm bedrooms. Room & Full Board
from So Proprietor. ". LFHR.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-29

man named Jones was talking
to his friend Brown one night. when
the latter casually mentioned Smith.
a mutual acquaintance,
Makes me think OF an experience
Smith had few weeks ago." laughed
Jones "He dreamed that he was an
Indian, and getting out Of bed. he
wrapped blanket around himself and
started TO walk through the woods.
Woke up about three hours later and
found himself ten miles from homo
and no car fare in sight"
"You don't mean I'll" was the
amazed rejoinder Of Brown. How In
the world did he get back?"
THAT was easy" was the cheerful
reply OF Jones. HE lay down under
q tree. dreamed that he was an Indian
again and walked back"
The Detroit times., 1914-12-29
BY gibson GARDNER.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.--What Is
preparedness in the navy and army,
and what policy the United States
should adopt as TO the size and kind
OF navy and arm8 are questions de-
cided at present by a few civilians
learned in the practice OF the law and
practical politics. The committees In
the house and senate on naval and
military affairs are really the com
mission on national Defense" insofar
as this country has any such institu-
ton. These gentlemen prepare the
annual budget for the army and navy.
and therefore they hold the purse
strings and are the real power to
which the great departments OF navy
and war bow. Before these commit
tees admirals and generals and CHIEFS
/ OF stan and members or the general
board truckle and wheedle.
Congressman Gardner was INVITING
on facts when he said 10 the naval az
fairs committee. "You gentlemen must
bear in mind that am neither prls-
oner at the bar nor an admiral The
! committee was INDUCING in It's custo'
mary practice OF browbeating. The
congressman happened 10 be con-
gresham and TO be immune from ar
rest and immune also from having his
departmental appropriation cut down.
| Therefore he did not fear to talk back
to this committee.
| Ordinary admirals and generals do
not dare to express opinions contrary
to well-known prejudices OF the mem
bers OF these committees. The latter
are experts in bullying and cheese
pairing and delight TO show their pow
er by giving or Withholding in petty
ways what is asked or recommended
by department experts. The man who
holds the purse strings always is the
power.
These committees--our council OF
national defense, as the Democratic
platform names it-are made up OF
veteran members OF the house and
senate and are graduates not In mill
Itary matters but In the gentle art OF
getting elected 10 congress and stay
ing there, Most OF them are lawyers
They are men who are known TO the
country at large. Take, for instance
the chairman OF the naval affairs com
mittee OF the house. Lemuel p. Pad
gett. He comes from Tennessee. and
was born and brought up in the small
town OF Columbia. He Is go years old
a lawyer, and graduate OF Erskine col
? lege, OF Due West. s. c. He practiced
law in Columbia many years. and
finally was elected TO the state sen
ate, He was member OF the national
monetary commission, and has beer
In congress eight terms-16 years
This may make him good member
OF the council OF national defense. but
lit would appear to make him better
lqualiled for the committee on how
The Detroit times., 1914-12-29
KILLS WHITE DEER;
SELLS 1T FOR 5000

KENDALL, wis. Dec. 2s.-one OF
the prizes shot during the hunting
season just closed was that Of white
dear. killed near Ladysmith, Sawyer
county.
man bought It for 5000. his pur-
pose being to give 1t into the hands
Iof taxidermist for mounting. II Will
If properly mounted. be worth $500 TO
$500.
The extra value OF the white deer
Is due to the fact that 1t Is exception
ally rare. II Is freak animal. one
was shot In Wisconsin about 20 years
ago, and one about eight years ago.
Besides the one shot last week, there
Is but one other white deer known 10
exist.
1t is also stated that there Is jet
black deer Of huge proportions Stalk
ing through the Wisconsin woods.
This sort of deer also is a freak. and
would be worth much II captured
The Detroit times., 1914-12-29
Real Movie Pictures

Let us give you some movie pic
lures from serious, active life, with
human tragedy that Is real, with
blood-rhnning that is genuine. with a
final climax that you may get, at any
time, maybe soon.
Act I.
Tampico. Mex. Time. April %, 1914
Scene IA squad OF bluejackets'
people are covering behind barrlcad
cd doors, for villainous looking Mex
leans, armed with guns and knives.
are parading the streets, yelling TOT
the lives OF the gringoes." Women
and children kuddle together, treln-
bling and in tears, behind these bar
ricaded doors, for the doors are weak
and the defenders few. There is little
food or water. and the children whim-
per. Through the long hours there
come threats OF burning and throat
cutting and other threats that make
the crouching women shudder with
horror and their defenders hold their
hands over their ears. The smell OF
petroleum torches comes through the
cracks in windows and walls and the
growing OF the mad mob grows loud
er and moro horrible.
Act ~.
Tampico Bay, showing the British
cruicer Hermione and the German
cruiser Dresden at anchor.
Scene IA squad OF bluejackets'
German bluejackets, leaves the Ger
man cruiser Dresden. They march
into the presence of the authorities OF
Tampico, and their commander says:
"If you do not at once clear your
mob from the streets. will rake your
streets with she'll"
Scene 1.-THE Americans. men
women and children, who are In those
barricaded houses walk aboard the
German cruiser Dresden and the Brit
lsh cruiser Hermione. and not greasy
Mexican dare hurt a hair OF their
heads, and the German bluejackets
and the British bluejackets are very
good TO those American men. women
and children. and finally land them
safely II their own country.
Act ~.
The Southern Pacific ocean.
Scene I.-That same cruiser Her
nione Is pursuing the battered cruis
Dresden, 10 sink II and put an enc
o,ever to those same German blue
ackets.
And the fpal act will be the act o.
rood men dying.
Alas, the intermisslon between
mems saving and mems slayins is very
brief!
The Detroit times., 1914-12-29
From Another Point of TieW

said he, "csn best be treated in
figures" and then he read.
(which goes to show U.s." he
concluded, whittier we are drift
, ing"
After the program had been fin
fshed, Phil. was approached by q
short man Of snowy hair. who
compilmented him upon his re-
marks and told him how he had
Interested him, particularly with
his statistics on "Llfe and Its Con-
servatlon.'
81 must compliment you" said
the little man, land az a slight
evidence Of my appreciation, may
ask you for copy Of your
speech In full. IL should be given
the widest publicity"
PLEASED, assure you" said
Phil. you represent one Of the
newspapers. ! supposer
"No," said the little man, a" am
In the life insurance business"
Married men In prison who hav,
made II a practice TO look TO the chap
lain for q comforter. will In the future
probably stick to eiderdown.
Do we understand that our govern
ment rs still peeved over that seizure
OF John D. Rockefeller's load Of oil
"Blakeley, see is again writini
for the newspapers"
Good What's he doing this timer
HE is on a standpat sheet and Il
writing daily column called "Th,
Voice OF the People"
England. In other words. Is simpl,
asked to remain neutral toward oul
neutrality
It's too bad, though. that we couldn'
have had municipal ownership In tim,
70 start the new year right
1914.
Following which resolutions wer'
adopted.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-29
A Whole Lot In 1t

There's going to be a lot OF whaling
away al President Wilson because he
proposes to buy some ready-made mer-
chant ships instead of spending all the
money in American shipyards.
Private capital" in the hands Of
American shipbuilders is timid. 1t
wants subsidy. an exclusive fran
chise, q bonus, an infant industry
nursing bottle of some sort, and It is
going to set up the usual hypocritical
wall for the American shipyard work.
ingman, II II does not get IT, And
while IL Is building the ships. posi-
bly, at pool prices as ship armor has
been furnished, Uncle Sans opportun-
ity can slide by.
However. Woodrow apparently has
the main idea in mind. Uncle Sam
needs q merchant marine at the ear
Hest possible moment and. nobody else
furnishing 1t. he furnishes II HIM
self.
But" say the subsidy-hunters, "a
merchant marine for the president
emergency, which Is to disappear
when the emergency Is past. Is OF very
slight advantage to the United States"
They're fooling themselves. Once
possessing a merchant marine. Uncle
Sam may always have one. There
are reasons. That Alaskan coal must
be hauled down. A government mer-
chant marine might be made insur-
ance against pool on rates via Pan
ann canal between ship owners and
transcontinental railroads. There's
a lack OF GOLFERS and transports for
the navy and things like merchant
marines would be good to have when
the country has got to support an
army OF the unemployed" More
over, Il IL naturally most difficult to
cut out a branch OF governmental
operation once Il is started.
Economically, there are tremendous
possibilities and probabilities In I'm
Gle Sans entry into the business Of
transporting goods. Present emer-
gencios" very, very often mean per
manencies.