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STANDARD OIL AND
MORGAN
CONTROL
La Toilette Paints Dire
Picture.
POWER ALL HELD BY A FEW
Industrial Capitalization Now
$81,000,000,000.
HAS THEM ON THE LIST
Reads Names or Financiers Wield
ing Various Degrees of Power.
Commends Both Roosevelt and
Bryan for Stand Taken.
WASHINGTON. March 34. Upon the
conclusion of Senator La Follette's speech
on the Aldrich currency bill in the Sen
ate today, a plan was decided upon by
which Senator Aldrich will tomorrow
move to take up the bill and continue its
consideration until It has been disposed of.
Aldrich asked for unanimous consent to
dispose of the bill before adjournment
Thursday, but to that proposition La
Follette objected, on the ground that he
feared debate would be curtailed ty such
procedure.
The colloquy which resulted in Aldrich's
announcement followed the conclusion of
the third and last Installment of La Fol
lette's speech In opposition to the Aldrich
bill. !-a Follette declared the statement
that the Industries of this country were
controlled by less than 100 men had been
attacked as sensational. Declaring that
such was not the case, he said that he
jiad be.cn too conservative, and that in
fact a much smaller number of men dom
inate the Industries.
Centralization of Power,
Along with the enormous increase in
the trust-power was gone a steady pro
cess of centralization in the control of
that power until now the "entire sit
uation is initiated by the Standard-Oil-
Morgan combination," he declared.
The old fights between these two pow
ers have been laid aside. Mr. Morgan's
picture adorns the wall of the Inner room
of the Rockefellers at 26 Broadway. . In
combination today they are working to
gether to gather in the smaller powers.
Mr. Hill has been taught that he must
xiot oppose the big ones. The Standard
Oil got In on the Great Northern ore deal.
The Gould Interests are being swallowed
up by the combine. Morse and Helnze
were neatly pocketed during the recent
panic. The smelter trust was given a
drubbing and started in the same direc
tion. The Vanderbllts can no longer retain
their New York Central control, and
themselves see the handwriting on the
wan,
The Senator quoted John Moody to
show an enormous growth In trust
consolidation and capitalization in four
years. In 11)04 Moody placed the cap
italization of the industrial franchises
and - railroad trusts at over 120,000.
000,000. That amount had increased
more than eleven billion, or more
than 55 per cent. The $81,000,000, 000,
he said, did not represent the finan
cial combinations, banks, trusts and
insurance companies.
Lists of Powerful Men.
La Follette read several lists of em
inent financiers to whom he accorded
arious degrees of power in the con
trol of industries. He included Sen
ator Depew, of New York, as among
those who exercised large power and
held ninny directorships in the form of
delegated power exercised by them in
a mere representative capacity. Depew
was In his seat and general laughter
followed the mention of his name.
La Follette named as next after
Morgan and the Rockefellers a group
of 14 men who. he said, were "big
operators and men of large power and
Interests in their own rights."
These mou, he said, find their best
- interests "in working in harmony with
Morgan and Standard Oil." No com
bination which they could form among
themselves or with others could cope
with that power, he declared. In this
list of 14 he placed W. K. Vanderbllt.
August Belmont, Frederick Weyer
hacuser, Henry C. Frlek. J. Ogden
Armour. George Gould, Jacob Schlff, E.
H. Ilurrlmnn, Thomas Ryan. Louts S.
Swift. John J. Astor. James Speyer, J.
J. Hill and W. H. Moore.
Mars of Lesser Magnitude.
A second class of men In the list were
the "stars of lesser magnitude," but
men of wealth and power who work in
the combine, are a few of the higher
rank of attorneys and bank presidents of
the system. This group follows: CH.
Podge. C. H. McCormlck, Stephen S.
Palmer. Biayton Ives, C. A. Pea body,
U. F. Baker. J. F. Dryden, J. 8. Post.
H. Taylor Pyne, T. H. Hubbard, G. G.
Haven, W. J. Oakman, F. J. Berwynd,
J. B. Duke. P. A. Valentine, W. D.
Sloan, Adrian Iselinger. Frederick Crom
well, Q. W. Young, c. Ledyard Blair, D.
Guggenheim. V. P. Snyder. A. H. Brady,
Kdwin Hawley. D. O. Mills, Charles
Steele, J. J. Waterbury. Oliver Ames.
Nathaniel Thayer, E. H. Cary. John C.
Ijiflin, John R. Hageman C. H. McKay,
F. W. Vanderbllt, J. J. Mitchell. T. J.
t'oolldge. Thomas Dolan, Samuel Lea,
Charles Lanier, James C. Fargo, D. O.
Held. Henry Walters. Norman B. Ream,
W. H. Hlgcinson, P. A. B. Widener and
F. B. Morris.
Of the third group, including the re
mainder of the lists. Senator La Follette
said:
' "While some of them exercise large
power and hold many directorships, it
is & delegated power exercised by them
in a mere representative capacity."
Appeals to Progressive Men.
La Fallotte argued that the Aldrich
bill would only serve to strengthen the
great money power of "Wall street. He
concluded his speech with a strong ap
peal to the "progressive men" in the
Senate to stand together and beat the
bi;i. He spoke of the activities of the
President and Mr. Bryan in combatting
with, wrong-doing among high finan
ciers. "Whatever difference there may be in
party policy or personality between the
President and Mr. Bryan, they are
striving each in his own way for cer
tain fundamental truths. Whatever
mistakes Mr. Bryan may have made in
policy, whatever mistakes the Presi
dent may have made in compromising
legislation, they are believed in by the
people because they are fighting to pre
serve the principle that the Nation
s'
. .
hi ii i sf'asiir i ' -i rn nl J
t t
The Late Duke of Devonnhtre,
s One of England1 RJcheMt Land
Owners and Leading Statesmen.
should be governed by the people."
At the conclusion of La Follette's re
marks Teller said he had listened to
his narrative on the enormities of the
pending bill with interest and said
some of the difficulties He complained
of were already provided for by laws
on the statute books, Instancing laws
for the punishment of derelict bank
officials.
ROBBERS MAKE ESCAPE
Surrounded by Posse, They Break
Away for Death Valey.
t rvn Vnv March 'M The men who
robbed Edward Hoffman, the manager of
the Coalition Mine, near itawniue ouduhj
morning, and who were surrounded by a
i.n sti inri a v nlcht. rave their pursuers
the slip and escaped to the southward.
It is thought that tney are neaaea ior
Death Valley. This suspicion is con
firmed by the theft on Monday morning
from a ranch at the head of Fish Lake
Valley of three fine horses. Fish Lake
Valley opens into Death Valley. The
posse is still in pursuit, but there Is lit
tle hope of their capture.
CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 58
deprees: minimum. 43. '
TODAY'S Rain; fresh southerly freeze.
Foreign.
IJochelte's swindles cause panic on Paris
stock exchange. Page
Von Buelow predicts continuance of Euro
pean concert. Page
Drury Lane Theater in London burned.
Page ...
National.
La Follette says Standard Oil and Morgan
control money or Nation. Page .
Williams warns Republicans that fllibuster
lnic will continue till they introduce
needed laws. Page 3.
Fleet makes rapid progress with - target
practice. Page o.
Invitation of China to fleet accepted.
Page 3.
Roosevelt orrters suppression of anarchist
paper. Page
Bryan eager to become Democratic candl
"date. Page 1.
Tart men claim majority of convention
pledged. Page o.
Cushmn" wants to be Senator. Page 5.
Domestic.
Montana Sheriff killed by horsethief, who lb
cornered by cowboys. Page
Immense effect of Supreme Court decisions
on. rate laws, rage i.
Sport.
Beavers have good game. Irish beating
Dutch. Page 4.
American automobile reaches San Francisco
and Is given public welcome. Page 4.
Parlne Coaet.
Henry springs surprise which corners Ruef.
Page 2.
Ruers ball reduced and he will soon be
free, page 3.
Stevens' lung pierced by bullet, but recovery
is oossible. Page 2-
All the. 24T offending Stanford students to
be suspended. Page
Dr. Augustus C. Kinney dies at Oakland.
Page 3.
Boy found at Spokane is not long-lest Cecil
Brlttaln. Page I.
Oregon Supreme Court sets precedent in
telephone damage case. Page (1.
Stletz Indians secure bad whisky and
tragedies follow. Page (1.
McMlnnvllle wll lralse S.'iOOO advertising
fund. Page 6.
Commercial and Marine.
Oversupply of cascara bark depresses mar
ket. Page 17.
Wheat turns strong again at Chicago.
Page 17.
Eastern wool markets dull but steady.
Page 17.
Stock speculation animated and Talues rise.
Page 17.
Steamship Eureka will operate between
Portland, Coos Bay and Eureka. Page 16.
Portland and Vlelnity.
Schwarxschlld A Sulsberger will probably
withdraw application for franchise.
Page 13.
Indictment against George O. Brownell dis
missed by Judge woltertan. Page 11.
Three of. Title Bank officials plead not
guilty. Page 13.
Two men commit suicide with poison.
Page to.
Council committee recommends revocation
of hydraulic elevator franchise. Page VI.
Grand Jury charges four with fraudulent
use of mails. Page 12. '
Trial of Btckerton . divorce suit is begun,
to.
SPOKANE BOY HOT
CECIL BRITTAIN
Examination Convinces
Anxious Father.- -
GETS TRACE OF KIDNAPERS
Confession of Prisoner .Gives
Police Valuable . Clew.
TAKES JESSE LAD HOME
AVaif Found in Railroad Construc
tion Camp so Much Like His Own
son Walla AValla Photographer
"Wants, to. Provide for Him.
SPOKANE, Wash., March 34. (Special.)
R. J. Brittain, photographer, of Walla
Walla, whose son, Cecil, then five years
old, was kidnaped from his parents at
Toll Gate In the Blue Mountains, in July,
1905, and who left home for Marshall,
Wash., a few days ago, in the belief that
his long-lost boy bad been located there,
is now thoroughly satisfied that he made
a mistake, arid that the boy whom he
thought to be his own is really Jesse
Hart, the son of Mrs, L. M. Hart, a
variety actress.
The police, who hold the same opinion,
yesterday obtained a new clew as to the
real kidnapers of Cecil Brittain, and
hopes are entertained by them that the
information secured may lead to the so
lution of -the mystery of the clew that
was furnished by James Breen, now con
fined in the city jail awaiting trial on a
forgery charge. Breen is said to have
seen three men riding horseback and
making away with a boy answering Cecil
Brittain's description about the time the
latter was spirited away. The police are
keeping secret the information said to
have been dlvluged by Breen and refuse
to give out any further statement than
that a clew -had been furnished.
Father Deceived lor Time,
What led Mr. Brittain "to believe for a
time that he had found his kidnaped
child was the striking resemblance be
tween Jesse Hart and Cecil, and the
fact as asserted by the latter's father
that the Hart boy resembles his own son
in almost his every act. Abundant proof,
however, was furnished by Mrs. Hart,
whose stage name is Mabel Lavelle, that
Jesse Hart is really her own son. She
established by several witnesses that her
boy was staying at the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. E. O. Steelman and attending
the Franklin School here March to July,
1906, at which time Cecil Brlttaln was liv
ing with his parents in Walla Walla. A
scar on the Inside lower Hp and another
on the instep of his right foot carried
by Cecil Brittain and a slight deformity
in his back were eagerly sought for yes
terday on the person of Jesse Hart, but
there was not the slightest trace of them.
"Is this your mamma?" was the ques
tion put to little Jesse yesterday morn-
Ing by Chief of Pollca Rice, during a
conference In his office at which Mrs.
Hart- and Mr. Brlttaln' were present
''Tes sir, it Is," was the Quick response.
"Is this man your papa?" asked the
Chief, pointing to Mr. Brittain.
- "Well, I should say not," answered the
child, smiling. i
Little Jessie had just been put to bed
when a visitor called at the residence of
the Steelmans and asked if he might see
the boy. The youngster soon appeared,
however, looking handsome and intelli
gent even if he was minus shoes and vest.
"Whose boy are you?" he Was asked.
"I'm Mrs. Hart's boy," he - answered,
a smile lighting up his blonde features.
Going to Live With Brittain.
"Did you ever see Mr. Brittain before?"
. "No, sir, . I never did, but I'm going;
down to Walla Walla to live with him for
a while because he has horses, and I like
horses. But I'm going to write to mamma
and my little sister every day. And if I
don't like it down there I'll come back."
Mrs. Hart gives a complete record of
the whereabouts of her son from March
19, 1906, four months before Cecil Brittain
was kidnaped, to March 8, 1907, when he
ran away from home and, after visiting
a boy friend, Roy Miller, ' on the Medical
Lake road, went to a construction camp
near Cheney, where he was taken in
charge by J. A. Kippart, a rancher, who
believed that he had found Cecil Britr
tain
. Feared Truant Officers.
After staying with ' the rancher for a
short time the boy ran away - one even
ing and found a home in the construc
tion camp. He explained his running
away from the rancher by saying that
he thought he was being held for the
truant officers. He applied for work at
the camp and was to have been, given a
job tpralng a switch at $2 per day if
Kippart and Brittain had not recaptured
him and brought him to Spokane.
Young Hart Is a sturdily built young
ster, short in stature for his age, with a
clear, fair complexion, brown hair, soft,
dark eyes and a broad pair of shoulders.
WILL SUSPEND ALL - 247
YVHITAKKR INDICATES FATE OF
STANFORD STUDENTS.
Committee Will Announce Decision
Today Appeal to Jordan
"Already Prepared.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., March
24. Professor Clark, chairman of- the
student affairs committee, announced
this evening that he would issue a state
ment tomorrow morning in regard to the
cases now under investigation. He gives
no intimation of - the committee's prob
able actton. It is surmised by the stu
dents that at least a, part of the 217 will
htr-nlsmiRSed. . . .-' ... s.
Dr. Jordan,' president rif the University,
refuses to talk on the question. The
original 12 students suspended have pre
pared an appeal to Dr. Jordan in case
the committee does not reinstate them
tomorrow. No student body meeting will
be held until the decision is announced.
A statement made by Professor A.
C. Whitaker, a member of the student
affairs - committee. In an informal ad
dress today before a body of the stu
dents. Is taken by the students to
Indicate that the decision of the com
mittee tomorrow will be for suspen
sion of the 247 students who have con
fessed participation in the parade.
Professor Whitaker said in effect tnat
it was only natural that the 247 should
be suspended, as they were as guilty
as the 12 already suspended by the
committee.
Two Brokers Fall.
BOSTON, March 24. C. J. Foley & Co.,
stockbrokers, closed their business today
and Weldener & Co., stockbrokers, made
an assignment. The amount of the com
pany's liabilities was not announced.
. NO STOPS, GOVERNOR! -
BRYAN EAGER FOR
THE I
Works Tooth an cL Nail
for Prize.
CHANCE BETTER THAN BEFORE
Conditions Different From
Those of 1906 and 1900.
PEOPLE MAY TURN TO HIM
Well man Thinks Country May Pre
fer -New Administration to "Do
Nothing Patchwork, Makeshift
Republican Congress.",
BT WALTER WBUJIAN.
- CHICAGO, March 24. (Special.) Mr.
Bryan believes he" is to be the nominee
of the Denver convention.
Mr. Bryan believes he will stand a
much better chance to win at the polls
than in either his first or second battle.
Mr. Bryan has no intention of stepping
aside in. favor of Governor Johnson or
any one else.
Mr. Bryan would regard as an unnec
essary intrusion, almost as an affront,
the candidacy of any other Democrat
before the Denver, convention; and any
other Democrat who does urge his
friends to press him as a candidate must
not expect to have the friendship of
Mr. Bryan in the years to come.
Mr. Bryan is from now on going to do
a good deal of traveling about the coun
try looking after the interests of the
Nebraska candidate for the Presidency.
Such is the private platform of Air.
Bryan as it' became known to his friends
during his recent sojourn in Chicago.
Not that Mr. Bryan openly avowed it,
even to his intimates. The leader of
Democracy is wonderfully clever in par
rying sharp inquiry with smart reply
which sounds well and seems to answer,
but doesn't. No one in the world is
more, deft than he In making an epigram
or a truism or a fine sentiment serve in
the place of a categorical response to a
pertinent - or- Impertinent Question. But
the foregoing, without any doubt, accu
rately represents Mr. Bryan's real at
titude of mind.
Bryan Working for Nomination.
He is not in any state of Indifference.
He is not simply drifting along. He
wants this nomination, wants it very
much, and intends to get it. The peo
ple who think Mr. Bryan soft and easy;
who think he does not care very much
one way or the other; that he is too
proud to work for his own success, and
that if they only make noise enough
about their opposition to him he will
"make a star play" and step aside, may
as well face the truth first as last: Mr.
Bryan is out for the nomination in dead
earnest. He means business. It is
possible' he may be pushed aside, but he
will do no sidestepping.
Mr. Bryan's confidence in his nomlna-
OM
NAT ON
tion would be good evidence of the great
probability of that occurrence, . even
without and corroborative circumstances.
Because Mr. Bryan is no longer an ama
teur politician. His eye-teeth have been
cut. He is now a veteran, fat, bald, a
grandfather, worldly-wise, without any
question the shrewdest politician in the
Democratic party.
He is also the best-informed man in his
party. There Is no other that can ap
proach him In this respect. Mr. Bryan
travels more than half the time. He
visits almost all parts of the country.
He is in touch not only with state and
local leaders everywhere but with Demo
cratic public opinion everywhere. He has
an enormous correspondence. Wherever
he goes he carries a stenographer with
him.
Chance Better Than Before.
Mr. Bryan's strong belief in his nom
ination Is not based upon mere hope, or
rambone, or conceit, or glittering gener
alities. He knows his party; he knows the
facts. - His conlidence raises a strong
presumption that he is altogether correct.
Is Mr. Bryan's belief that if nominated
he will have a better chance of election
Par--
Victor N. Metcitlf, Sob of Secre
tary of the Navy, Who Under
cocflj Operation for Appendl-.
cltls.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 24.
Victor N. Metcalf. son of Sec
'retary of the Navy . Victor H.
Metcalf, was successfully oper
ated upon today at Lane Hos
pital for appendicitis. He was
reported this evening as resting
easily.
than ever before also well grounded?
This is a most interesting question. It
is too early far too early to attempt
any seriously considered answer to it.
, But even this -early in the year one
may have an Impression, based upon a
good deal of observation and analysis.
And in my opinion Mr. Bryan is entirely
justified in his belief.
There can be little room for doubt that
Mr. Bryan's chances at the polls will be
better next November .than they were
either in 1896 or 1900. This by no means
says he is going to be elected; it does not
even say that his chances wll be as good
as Taft's. They may be or may not, but
it does say simply that,' compared with
his first or second race, Mr. Bryan now
has much more ground for hope than on
either of those occasions.
Here again, -aa chance will have it.
Mr. Bryan's view of the future coincides
with mine.
We are not now making any estimate
whatever as to the outcome of the elec
tion; we are only comparing the Demo
cratic chance, broadly,- with "the Demo
cratic chances in recent campaigns.
1. Mr. Bryan, was at a tremndous dis
advantage in 1S96 In two Important par
ticulars. -
2. He was wrong, hopelessly,, absolutely
wrong, on the money question, and the
intelligence of the country decided
against him. . ' .
People May Turn to Bryan.
The country was not very prosperous:
had but a short time before had a panic,
many people believed the Democratic
(Cleveland) administration was" responsi
ble for It, and McKinley was hailed as
the advance agent of prosperity.
In 1900 Mr. Bryan was again unfortun
ate In two events which exercised domi
nant influence upon the public mind:
1. Prosperity had returned, and the Re
publicans, of course, claimed all the
crediffor it.
2. The country had been engaged tn a
successful foreign war, McKinley and his
administration were immensely popular,
heightened by a wave of patriotic exulta
tion which swept over the land, and the
Democrats, Mr. Bryan included, made a
bad business worse for themselves by tak
ing a stand as to the Philippines and
American soldiers in the Philippines which
many regarded as the reverse of patriotic
This year? Let us reserve decision In
detail till the proper moment shall have
arrived. But in passing consider for a mo
ment certain facts.
There has been another panic. The ef
fects are still here. It is not a Democratic
administration that is responsible for it
this time. The people want prosperity
again. Will they trust a do-nothing,
patch-work, make-shift Republican Con
gress to bring It back? Or will they in
resentment turn to the other party,
whose leader is no longer mistrusted as
a radical?
I do not know, and do not at this time
have even an impression. But It seems
very clear that Mr. Bryan Is right he
now has a better chance than he ever had
before.
The Republican party has not now the
same thing it had in 1900 and 1904. when
the opposition stood no chance at all.
This year is a lighting year, and no one
ean blame Mr. Bryan for wonting to go
to the front once more.
DTJNN TO NOMINATE BR VAN
Omaha Lawyer Selected to Make
Speech at Denver.
OMAHA. Neb., March 24. (Special.)
Ignatius J. Dunn has been selected by the
Nebraska delegation to the National Dem
ocratic Convention at Denver to nominate
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NEW
DAWNS
FOR RAILROADS
State Regulation Utter
ly Killed.
EFFECT OF LAST DECISIONS
Supreme Court Makes Federal
Power Rule.
CONFIDENCE IS REVIVED
Decisions in Minnesota- and North
Carolina Cases Make State Leg
islation Nugatory Further
Suits May Destroy It.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-1 Special.)
It has required a second day's consider
ation for men in public life in Washing
ton fully to grasp the sweeping character
of the decisions handed down yesterday
by the Supreme Court in the Minnesota .
and North Carolina railroad rate law
cases and to realize their important ef
fects In restoring confidence in railway
securities and bringing back the prosper
ity of the Nation, temporarily checked
by the money stringency of last Fall.
As a result of these decisions, a brighter
era for railroad property is dawning.
The immediate results brought about
by the decisions are:
1. No state, through its officers or its
courts, can enforce a rate law passed
by its legislature pending the settlement
of the law's constitutionality by the Fed
eral courts, when direct appeal is made
to the latter.
Great Power of Injunction.
2- The rate laws of two states have
been wiped out completely and every
other state in the Union that has enacted
rate legislation is in doubt as to whether
its law is valid.
3. The overwhelming power of a Kcdcrerr .
injunction to restrain, not the action of
state courts, but individuals from .pro
ceeding through mandamus In the state
courts to enforce1 that which the Federal
court seeks to stay, has been established
by the highest tribunal in the land. And
this is only another way of declaring
that the. power of a state court Is nu
gatory, once the Federal authority Inter
feres. .
"4. - Any rate law which charges a state
through its officers with the duty of ad
ministering it is open to Federal inquiry
the moment the state attempts to force
the law, and such interference is not a
contravention of the constitutional pro
vision giving a state immunity from
prosecution.
The right of a stockholder in a rail
road corporation to appeal to the Fed
eral Court when he feels he is being
illegally Injured by a state law is clearly
established. ...
Destroys State Regulation.
The results likely to follow the de
cisions involve not only political possi
bilities affectfng state regulation in gen
eral, but they involve that confidence in
railroad prosperity and In railroad in
vestments' which, railroad managers
have complained, has been shattered by
an epidemic of railroad-phobia which
has demonstrated itself in an eruption'
of 2-cent passenger fare laws and the
like. Briefly - stated these t results will
probably be:
1 Speedy testing of some state law on
the ground that state regulation, per se.
Is unconstitutional because an interfer
ence with interstate commerce, the sole
regulation of which Is vested by the
Constitution in the Federal Government,
and the sustaining of the contention.
2 Removal thereby of all future fear
of attack upon the railroads by state
Legislatures and consequent raising, of
the embargo upon improvements, exten
sion of lines and other, constructive
work.
SUSTAINS ROAD'S DKMUKRKU
Suit Brought by Livestock Men Al-v
leging infringing 28-Hour Law.
DENVER, March i4. Judge R. E.
Lewis, In the United States Court to
day, sustained the demurrer of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company to
the complaint brought by the United
States for alleged infraction of the
livestock shipping laws.
The Union Pacific, together with .
the Colorado & Southern, was charged
with keeping a shipment of sheep
more than 28 hours aboard the cars.
The suit was started at the instigation
of the American Livestock Associa
tion. Remove Tourist Agents.
CHICAGO, March 24. Personally con
ducted excursions to California, which
for several years have been a feature
of the service offered by the transconti
nental railroads, may be abolished. A
special meeting of the Interested rail
roads has been called for today to con
sider the matter. The lines that are fa
voring the discontinuance of the prac
tice say that the system has outlived
its usefulness. It Is understood that the
Harriman lines, the Santa Fe and the
Rock Island will advocate the change. '
The Burlington, it is said, will oppose it.
John Good, Cordage King.
NEW YORK. March 24. John Good, ex
president of the National Cordage Com
pany, died at his home in Brooklyn today.
He invented a hemp-packiner machine
from which he obtained royalties amount
ing to more than 2, 000,000.