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(THE MORNING OK-KOOXIAXf SATURDAY, MAY 21, " IQIO. -3 - SENATORS BEWAIL SUGAR FRAUD CASE' TAKES NEW PHASE from delegates representing ' everv state in the Union were made at the general sessions of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections today. The elimination of politics In the appointment of state governing boards of charitable institutions was strongly advocated in the LEADERS OF REPUBLICAN REGULARS AND INSURGENTS' WHO CLASHED IN THE HOUSE. CRAZE FOR discussion of the state administration of homes for the poor and unfortunate. . 55 NAVY Hale and Clay Lead Movement to Cut Down Battleship Appropriation. NO CHANCE FOR ECONOMY Small Xavj Senators Cry Alond at Kf forts of Nations to VI. ' With One Another and Quote Roose velt as of Same Opinion. WASHINGTON, May 20. That the United States has gone wild In the matter of armament and especially in the construction of battleships was as serted by Hale, Clay and Gallinger in tlu Senate today. These statements were made during consideration, of the naval appropria tion hill. The bill carried $133,000,000 and Hale predicted that within five years the annual naval appropriation would not be less than- $175,000,000. Consideration of the bill was not con cluded. (The opinion was expressed that the promised reduction of expenditures would not take place in the present srssion of Congress, and Hale and Gal linger, both members of the committee on appropriations, agreed that the ex-, penditures would exceed the revenues the next fiscal year. Country Wild for Armament. , Another feature of the debate was th citation of ex-President Roosevelt as an advocate of reduced armament. It was all brought about by an amend ment introduced by Burton providing for one battleship of the Odreadnaught type instead of two, authorized by the bill as passed by the House. . Clay was the first to assert that the country had gone wild in the matter of sea armament. "We have lost our heads," he said, "and if we do not stop we will bank rupt the nation." He said that the appropriation for the navy, proposed for the present year, averaged $2 per head for each man, woman and child in the country. By quoting Hale as authority for the statement that each of the pro posed battleships would cost not less than $16,000,000, Clay, aroused general interest. Gallinger expressed doubt and adduced figures to show the cost would not exceed $10,000,000. Hale Sounds Alarm About Cost. . Hale not only sustained Clay, hut added 'to his figures. He spoke of the vessels as completely armored and equipped, and said the total cost o.f putting one of these vessels in the water probably would be nearer $18, 000,000 than $16,000,000. He declared the fallibility of the naval board was such there could be no guarantee for the future. "That board never has been able to make a recommendation of type in these ships that has been good for two years in succession." he said. . After estimating that there would he a deficit at the end of the year. Hale said: . , "All this talk of the possession of a surplus revenue places us in a fool's paradise." He declared the United States had caught this Infection from England, where- conditions are differ ent. Jtoose.velt Quoted for Small Navy. Both HaJe and Clay referred to the address made In Christiania by Mr. Roosevelt, In which he expressed the hope there would be a diminution of armament. Burton contended that in her civil ization, isolation and resources the United States had ample protection. He referred to the Monroe doctrine and was questioned by Gallinger as to whether Germany would have kept hands off South America if the United States had not had a strong navy. Burton replied England and France would not permit German advances, to which Gallinger responded that with out navies they could do nothing. La Follett Scores Point. The Item to provide for the new bat tleships was opposed by La Follette when the debate opened. He took ex ception to an authorization of rail road bonds as a deposit by contractors to guarantee the fulfillment of con tracts for the construction of ships, and made a point or order against it. The suggestion met with immediate favor at the hands of the committee and it allowed the provision to go over. Gallinger, a member of the commit tee, stated that the amendment had been suggested by the Navy Depart ment. Before the battleship provision could bo reported again, other features of the bill were discussed, among them the action of the Senate committee on naval affairs in reducing from $2,500, 000 to $2,200,000 the appropriation for the naval station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Perkins, Lodge and Gallinger sought to have the House provision restored and were antagonized by Clapp. The Minnesota Senator said good policy demanded the erection of a big i:wal station in the Hawaiian Islands. After Gallinger and others had spo ken the committee amendment waa disagreed to, thus insuring the reten tion of the larger sum as carried by the House bill. GIRL PUPIL STARES AT HIM School Principal Complains and His Dismissal Is Sought. . NEW YORK. May 20. Because Prin cipal Thomas G. Cramer, of the Man hasset, L. I., Public School said that a 16-year-old -miss had stared at him, some 40 residents of the district. In cluding a clergyman and the head of the Board of Education, demanded his dismissal, but he is in charge of the school, and has been re-engaged for another year. That is taken to mean that the girl must cease staring at him, if she ever committed that fault. . . Mr. Cramer wrote to Charles E. Coles, of "Manhasset, president of the Board of Education, stating that Miss Georgia Coles, granddaughter of the president, had "stared In an Imperti nent manner" at him when he cor rected her for alleged misbehavior. . President Coles did not take kindly to the criticism of his granddaughter. A petition was circulated quietly, de manding Mr. Cramer's dismissal. But, when the matter came before the Board of Education for action all save its president voted to retain Cramer, and his salary was raised $100. - . ' - 1 ' "4. " r 4 - -3 "1 - J f f 1 J. v. , i X' 1 . ' I Former Checker in Employ of Company Gives Dam aging Testimony. WITNESS CALLED "LIAfV KEPRJSSiiXTATIVE SEHE.NO E. PAYNE. PAYNE 15 ARRAIGNED Move for Canadian Reciprocity Suppressed, Says Ames. THOUGH TAFT INDORSED IT Ames Secures Support of 77 Repub licans and President's Letter. Says Payne's Methods Sim ply Foster Insurgency. (Continued From First Page.) not change the situation In regard to your resolution." After expressing surprise that the petition of 77 Republican ' memberj should be disregarded, Ames' letter continued: Such Acts Breed Insurgency. "Your whole attitude has so lacked in common courtesy and a proper sense of proportion I feel forced to make this written protest. , "Your letter, - If freely translated, should be Interpreted to read: 'The desires of -many Republican members and the public be damned.' "It is just such hidebound intolerance of the desires and rights of others that is forcing members to advocate against their better judgment a committee on committees in the House to purge the House of such misuse of power. It is such domination and disregard of pub-, lie desire that is fostering the move ment of insurgency, not only in the House, but also the widespread in surgency with which we are now face to face." . ' Payne Makes Scoffing lieply. When Ames had concluded, Payne said he had informed Ames he believed the President should take up the Canadian negotiations and after that it would be time for Congress to act. Continuing, he said: "Now, I stated that to the gentleman, not with my hat in my hand, but as politely and suavely as I could, I did not exhibit any contempt of the gen tleman, who I understand Is to be next Senator from Massachusetts, if he gets votes enough. I did not do anything of that kind, but I treated him kindly." The value of machine runs was first ex emplified In the Franco-Prussian War. the Boer War. In South Africa confirmed the conclusions of the tacticians, and the Russian-Japanese oroved the correctness of 1 their -viewa TAFT UPHOLDS BALLINGER t (Continued from First Page.) The attorney also eaid the testimony bore out the contention made in the Cunningham affidavit prepared by Mr. Ballinger that there was no agreement with the Guggenheims prior to the loca tion of the claims. Mr. Ballinger, in a letter which was submitted to the committee this morn ing, wrote that Mr. Perkins' letter of June 19, 1909, inviting his son, Edward, to accompany him and Mrs. Perkins on a trip to Alaska during the Sum mer, probably had been inclosed by Mrs. Ballinger in a letter addressed by her to her son at Williams College, but he would endeavor to obtain the letter. Ballinger Gives Up All Letters. Ballinger declared he could not re call having received any letter from Perkins during September and that he had ajready given to the committee all letters betwieen Perkins and Him self that could be found. "There was no correspondence be tween Mr. Perkins and myself which had any business connection," wrote Mr. Ballinger, "and It was all purely a matter of friendly concern." After Attorney Vertrees announced that the defense rested its case. At torney Brandeis at once began calling witnesses in rebuttal. Frank L. Spaulding, a stenographer In the office of the field division at Seattle, who had previously testified for the defense, took the stand and contradicted several statements of the testimony of A. Christensen, who suc ceeded Glavis. Christensen testified he had never visited the grand Jury room in the Federal building, where the 26 mysteriously missing letters were found in a box containing Glavis" personal effects. He also swore he did not know Glavis' personal effects were stored there. Spaulding swore he had accompanied K- - , Wv ( " ijr , x i i I " v. t??y- C ; :; lL''r ) :: :w''" x, -JJ" --flrrrffr frtiri nrjinrftniirrilMirrasI w Representative Butler Ames. " ......T.-,TTtt, ...... Christensen to the grand jury room soon after Glavis' dismissal last Sep tember to look for his stenographic notebook containing dictation which Commissioner Dennett of the Land Office had given him on the occasion of a visit to Seattle last Summer, and said he told Christensen on that occa sion that the boxes stored in the room belonged to Glavis. Christensen's testimony that he never had asked Spaulding to find his note book was flatly contradicted - by Spaulding. The latter also testified today that he had carried some papers to the grand jury room and the miss ing Cunningham letters might have been among them. "What I want to know," said Rep resentative Madison, "is if those let ters were carried by you to the grand jury, whether it was by mistake or design on the part -of you or Glavisr "By mistake, of course," was . the answer. BALLOON FLIGHT FAILS CAPTAIN' HONEYWELL COVERS ONLY 450 MILES. High Altitude Is Readied in Attempt to Capture Lahm Cup for Long Distance. IONIA, Mich., May 20. The balloon. centennial, piloted by Captain H. B. Honeywell and his assistant. William F. Ashton, which left St. Louis yesterday in an attempt to capture the Lahm cup for long distance flight, landed today at the little town of Shiloh, .near Ionia. The balloon had been in the air 22 hours and had covered 450 miles. This does not ap proaeh the record. Crossing Lake Michigan earlv 'todav. the balloonists made good time athigh altitude. They arrived here late today and left tonight for St. Louis. Captain Honeywell said they kept at a high altitude all night because of rain storms below them, and passed Kenoisha at a height of KX feet. "We saw a tug chase us," he said, "but soon left it behind. During the morning the heat was intense and blistered our laces. "Passing Grand Haven Harbor about noon, we were saluted by the whistles of steamers on the lake. We passed four miles north of Grand Rapids about J. f. jm. , ROOSEVELT IS CANDIDATE Spanish War Order May Elevt ex President Commander-in-Chief. NEW YORK. May 20. Theodore Roose velt was mentioned today as a likelv candidate for commander-in-chief of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War, whose first meeting will be held in New York to morrow. Rear Admiral Oscar W. Farenholt. of San Francisco, is now commander-in- chief. BROTHER'S DEATH AVENGED Texas Man Kills Relative's Slayer as He Is Released From Jail. EL PASO, Tex., May 20. Released today after a year in jail for the kill-' ing of Fred Jackson, Madison Graham was shot and killed tonight by Mar shal Jackson, brother of the man he had killed. The men met on the street. Jackson opened fire without warning. Prosecution Believes It Will Be Able to Show Secretarq-Treasurer of "Trust" Was Cognizant of Underweighing Xals. NEW YORK, May 20. Henry E. Falk- enstein, formerly a checker employed by the American Sugar Refining Company, now a hotel detective, was the chief wit ness called by the Government today in the trial of Charles H, Heike, secretary- treasurer of the company, whd with live subordinates, is charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government by under weighing imports of sugar. Through this witness the prosecution brought out that records of the weights taken on the docks, many of which are alleged to have been fraudulent, were sent to the main office of the sugar trust in Wall street to the office of James F. Bendernagel, one time cashier, and then to the ex-refinery superintendent. Ernest F. Gerbraicht, both of whom are defendants. - Heike Cognizant of "Deals." On the strength of this, the Govern ment hopes to show that , Heike, as an executive of the company, must have been cognizant of the frauds. After establishing this witness' knowl edge of the conditions on the docks Prosecutor Stimson led Falkenstein along to tne day of the raid by Richard Parri- Government inspector, on the docks in November, 1907, when the false springs and other fraudulent devices attached to the scales are alleged to have been dis covered. Falkenstein said he was there that day and saw what went on. He connected Jean Voelker end James F. ' Halligan. Jr., two of the defendants, with the pro ceedings on the occasion. They were working as checkers, he said, and he also identified their - entries of weights on a day in the preceding April when the Government contends a sugar cargo was underwelghed. Falkenstein said copies of the records of weights taken on the docks were sent to Mr. Benedick, in charge of the main of fice in Wall street, and to Cashier Bend- ernagel's office. This last copy also went to the office of Ernest F. Gerbracht. the refinery superintendent. Bendernagel and Gerbracht are defendants at this trial. Falkensteln's testimony gave the first indication of the course to be taken by the Government in trying to show the in ner workings of the alleged frauds through the refinery office to the main offices in Wall street of the so-called augar trust. Move Reveals United States Plan. Falkenstein testified he was directed bv Walker, in Spitzer's absence, to pay full time to men checking the Government's weighers, when they were worked or were away because of illness or other reasons. The city weigher's checkers, he aid, were docked for whatever time they lost. Fal- kenstein's testimony was not shaken on oross-exam ination . When Falkenstein was leaving the stand one of the six defendants whom he point ed out later as Gerbraicht, called him "a liar." He flushed indignantly, answered that he had been testifying under oath and told the truth. Charities Would Cut Out Politics. ST. LOUIS. May 20. Verbal reports IT PAYS TO ROCK CRADLE Star Boarder Finds Roll of Money While Helping About House. ' NEW YORK. May 20 Whether TVor Laskl, prize boarder in the household or Charles Bakofsky, No. 154 First street, Elizabeth, N. J., was actuated by en ulterior motive when heoffered to rock the cradle in which "lay the Bukofsky son and heir, or whether he did not know at the time there was a roll of money under the mattress, is a Question that may never be solved. The reason that Laskl's personal ex planation cannot be had is that a few minutes after beginning to rock the baby he found the money ' and left town hastily. Some of his friends think he will go .to Europe, in some of the capitals of. which he will try to forget life in Elizabeth. Bukofsky told the police that Laski had always paid his rent In advance and had often helped about the house. "Taking . care of the baby," he was often heard. to say, "is like. getting money t me." After the sad occur rence of yesterday a new meaning seems to attach to this remark, and the Bukofskys are eager for the ar rest of the boarder whose cradle rock ing hand did not know what his 6trier hand was doing" in the Bukofsk.ys' cash reserve. DIVORCE GETS NEW GROUND Luck of Sporting Blood Cause for Separation, Says Rector. BOSTON. May, 20. A new ground for divorce was suggested last week by the Rev. Robert B. Parker, rector of the exclusive St. James' Episcopal Church of Providence, . who said that a lack of the sporting spirit on the part of either husband tr wife should prop erly constitute a good reason for sep aration. Dr. Parker said: "For a man to have a wife without true sporting blood in her veins or for a woman to have a husband without the true sporting nature, ought to be the grounds for a dlverce. The true sport never plays for money or gam bles in any way. It Is only the mon grel or half-breed who will go out and play golf for a dollar a hole, for that is the kind that has more money than sporting blood." Peculiar to Itself Hood's) Snrsn parllln Has No Equal as a Blood Medicine. "I think there is no other blood medi cine equal to Hood's Sarsaparilla. I have a family of five little ones, and have used it every Spring for twelve years. There is something about Hood's Sarsaparilla which other medicines lack. My husband was bothered with boils. He was so bad he could scarcely get around. He took Hood's Sarsaparilla, and it cured him." Mrs. Lillian Dixson, Pike, Ohio. Hood's Sarsaparilla effects its won derful cures, not simply because it con tains sarsaparilla, but because it com bines the utmost remedial values of more than twenty different ingredients. There is no real substitute for it, no "just as good." Get Hood's today in usual liquid form or tablets called Sarsatabs. THE VIEW The Jacobs -S tine Co. 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