THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. MAX 13, 1910. TUFT ADV15EQ IN ADVAHGEOFLETTEB sad: TEARFULSESS10NIS HELD IN HYDE TRIAL LAUNCHED AT BROOKLYN NAVY-YARD. GLOVES V JABOTS NECKWEAR HANDKERCHIEFS VEILINGS UMBRELLAS HOSIERY MUSLIN UNDERWEAR PARASOLS CORSETS LEATHER GOODS Summary Bears Date on Which Subject Was Pre sented to President. Address of Attorney Walsh Has Four Jurors Crying at One Time. Entire Bldg., Cor. Fourth and Morrison Exceptional Offerings for Friday and Saturday 2 WRITING MERE FORMALITY Balllnger Reads Ijetter From Wick ersham Explaining Incident of Glavis Removal ScI1 to Be Xext Witness. WASHITfGTOX May 12. The surprise today in the Ballinger-Pinchot inquiry was the reading by Secretary Balllnger of a. letter addressed by Attorney-General Vickersham to a House committee, in which he made the admlnslon that he antedated the summary of the Glavis. charges which he prepared for the Presi dent. Wick era hnm says he -had discupsed the subject with the President and had sup plied him with a mass of information tearing on the subject, but the summary 'necessarily was made up afterward and properly bore the date upon which the matter It contained ; was presented to and considered by the President." Data Not Kept by Lawler. Coincident with the making public of l:ls letter a reply was received from Oscar Lawler, assistant to the Attoraey Oeneral for the Interior Department, also concerned In the preparation of the let ter of September 13. 1. exonerating Bal llnger and dismissing Glavis. stating that lie had kept no copy of hie memorandum. 3-iawler says he prepared a resume at the request of the President and delivered it to the Attorney-General. In compliance with a renewed request by Attorney 'Brandeis, counsel for Glavis, the committee again called on the Attorney-General for this memorandum. Glavis' counsel Is trying to prove that iLawler, practically an employe of the Interior Department, really "tried" the rase for the President and the Attorney :eneral, subsequent to the promulgation rvf the "verdict," and prepared a slrm mary In an effort to justify the Presi dent's action. Examination Nearly Ended. The cross-examination of Secretary Balllnger was almost concluded. At torney Pepper, counsel for ex-Korester Pinchot, will question him for a short time tomorrow on the withdrawal of nvaterpower sites. In all probability Mr. Balllnger will be excused from the stand et the end of the morning session. H. H. Schwartz, chief of the field Division of the General Land Oftce. will follow Ballinger on the stand. He is one of the "defense's" two important witnesses remaining. At the conclusion of his testimony to day, Balllnger appealed to the committee ito excuse him a soon as possible, as lie 3iad many important matters awaiting his attention in the department. "We are entirely at the mercy of counsel," replied Chairman Nelson. "We have been here 40 days now," added Senator Root, "and it is time the children of Israel were finding their way out of the wilderness." Nearly an hour was spent by Mr. Balllnger this morning In reading docu ments relative to decisions of the In--terior Department on the construction of the regulations prohibiting former employes from appearing: before the Department within two years after severing their connection therewith In the prosecution of land cases pending at the time they were in the depart ment. The documents showed that an in vestigation of the matter had been made at the instance of Secretary Uar tield after Mr. Balllnger and his ne phew, J. II. Balllnger, had sought to appear before the department in the Hayles case. The result was that the attorney recommended to Mr. Garfield that the matter should be permitted to remain in statu quo. Action Not on Records. Mr. Balllnger said there was nothing In the records to show what action Mr. Garfield had taken on that report. Me contended it was understood at the time that the prohibition anplied only to cases involving money trans.-vctions. Mr. Balllnger meanwhile had with drawn from the Bayles case, but "Jack" Balllnger was permitted to appear in It before the Department. Questioning the Secretary about his connection with the Cunningham claim ants, Mr. Brandeis referred the witness to a statement in his letter to the President that he had not been a legal "representative of the Cunningham claimants." Bellinger reiterated his statement that he had merely acted for them as a matter of accommodation. He said Miles C. Moore had not been correct in so referring to him in his letter. Referring to the testimonv before the committee of Henry M. Hoyt, ex-At-torney-Genei-al of Porto Rico, regarding his Interview with Attornev-General lekersham. to whom he went at the in stance of Glavi to ask him to review the Alaskan coal cases and to have him pass on them Brandeis read at some length from Hoyt's statement. Hoyt Is CitlcLsed. Ballinger said something about "that man Hoyt having exaggerated the clr cumsiar.cee of tliat interview.' "Why do you fwy 'that man Hoytr " "Because I don't believe lie had anv ground for his statements before the committee." "You mean to say that Mr. Hovt made an untruthful statement to the com mittee here under oath?" "If you want to put it that wav. I think he added color to the ctrcumstances of his meeting with the Attorney-General." When Brandeis suggested that the Sec retary was going a little far in making such a statement, inasmuch as he was not present at the interview, and had no mean of knowing Just what took place. Balllnger modified his statement some what, but reiterated his belief that Hoyt s testimony was exaggerated Brandeii. said he would like to have Attorney-General Wickcrsham called as a witness to tell Just what huppened At torney Vertrees said he had no objection and Chairman Nelwn said a subpena for the head of the Department of Justice probably would be Issued. Attorney Pepper began his cross-examination by questioning Balling?r about Ms views on conservation as compared with those of Pinchot. Pepper questioned the Secretary re garding the fale bill, which Balllnger advocated before a House committee, but which never was passed. The "prosecution" acserts that it would have legalized the Cunningham claims. Pepper and the witness engaged in a heated argument as to whether it would have allowed coal claims to be consolidated. FMnally Mr. Pepper an nounced he and Mr. Balllnger had "agreed to disagree." The committee then adjourned until tomorrow. - TV s lift ' V , -I . B'--tr .mmmF BIG SHIP LAUNCHED Dreadnought Florida Floats Before 50,000 People. GREATEST FIGHTING CRAFT Daughter or ex-Governor Fleming Is Sponsor for "Warship Which "Will Require 1000 3Ien Cost "Will Total $6,000,000. XEW YORK. May 12. The battle ship Florida, biggest of the American Dreadnoughts built thus far, was suc cessfully launched at the Brooklyn Navy-yard today in the presence of the Vice-President of the United States, the Secretary of the Navy, the naval attaches of all the powers and a crowd of 60,000 enthusiasts, whom In termittent rains failed to keep away. The 21,825-ton fighting leviathan, built to carry 10 12-inch guns, gilded down the ways to the strains of The Star Spangled Banner, played by the Navy-yard and the 29th Infantry bands, while the crowd cheered and hundreds of river craft tooted their noisy wel come. Ex-Governor's Daughter Sponsor. The vessel was christened by Miss Elizabeth Fleming, daughter of ex Governor Fleming, of Florida. Later when the Arkansas and the "Wyoming, now under construction, are afloat they will exceed the Flor ida in size by 3000 tons, a difference sufficient to make a pretty good little liner in itself. The Florida herself is by no means finished, for as she went off the ways today she was only about 60 per cent advanced to wards completion, which means that she was not much more than a vast empty hull, and still awaits the boilers and main and secondary engines and armor and equipment that go to make up the ship ready for commission. Probably there is not a battleship afloat that could tackle the Florida on even terms, when her commander's flag flies from the ungraceful, but formidable skeleton masts which will be placed upon her. that Is, provided the naval designers do not change their minds, as to the utility of this novel feature of marine architecture within the next eighteen months, by which time the Florida should be in commission. Ship AVU1 lie Watched. The ship is the first of any real Im portance to be constructed in a Gov ernment navy yard for a number of years and naturally her performance will be watched with keen interest by the private shipbuilders whr .-. r.n 1 building her sister ship, the Utah. In uni.i. o. a matter or fact the North Dakota, built by the Fore River Ship Building Company, and the Dela ware, constructed at Newport News with the Florida and Utah, will make what Is described as a unit in naval parlance, meaning that these vessels are practically of the same type and may be expected to operate together in naval warfare. The North Dakota and the Delaware are nearly 2000 tons smaller than the other two vessels, though the armament is practically the same and the smaller vessels indeed are rated at about a quarter of a knot faster.. The Florida is 521 feet. 6 Inches long her beam is 68 feet. 2H inches; she draws 2Sj feet of water and displaces 21.S25 tons in light order, while, when fully loaded with her supplies and am munition, she will measure up to 23,033 tons. Her estimated speed is 20 knots per hour, which would have been regarded a few years ago as the top notch for a s-wlft unarmored cruiser. She will carry 2500 tons of coal in her bunkers, which should enable her to make the round-trip across the At lantic at half speed. Parsons turbine engines, built in thet New York Navy Yard, of the enormous power of 28,000-horse-power, will maintain the high speed and the steam will be supplied by sectional boilers. Thousand to Man Ship. Just what the armor Is to be on these ships the naval designers will- not tell. That marks the adoption of a new pol icy in the American Navy, where here tofore it has been customary to set out in smallest detail in the chief con structor's annual reports the thickness of every inch of armor on the ship. It is believed, though, that the side armor will average about 12 inches and that it will be extended over a length of the ship heretofore uncovered and will be much wider than the or dinary armor belt, so as not to expose the under body of the ship when she rolls in a sea wave. It will take more than 1000 men to manage this great fighting machine; the minimum requirement is 60 officers and 954 enlisted men. The estimated cost of the ship Complete is 36,000,000 as fixed in the act of May 13, 1908. Her keel was laid March 9, 1909, so that the naval constructors have reason to be proud of the rapidity with which they have carried on their work. P01NDEXTER IS PUZZLER HOUSE HOES XOT UXDEKSTAXD i- HIS VOTES. After Helping to Strike Out Merger Clause Krom Commerce Bill, He Offers It as Amendment. ORJDGOMIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, May 12. The House of Repre sentatives did not take kin-dly to an amendment offered to the interstate com merce bill toy Representative Polndexter, of Washington, and knocked it out by a vote of 25 to 90. The amendment was in tended as a substitute for the "merger" Election, which had teen previously de feated by a majority of two votes, Poln dexter being one of the two majority. The whole procedure was somewhat puz zling to the Republicans of the House, and they have yet to find out what Poln dexter was striving to attain by hia votes. After devoting two whole days to the consideration and amendment of the "merger" section to the Mann bill, the House struck out the entire section by a vote of 131 to 129. This section was1 in tended to prohibit railroad companies from acquiring stock in competing rail road lines or steamship companies. Ko sooner had the section been elimi nated, however, 'than Mr. Poindexter pro posed an amendment which embodied substantially the same provisions as had been stricken out, though the language was not identical. He maintained that his amendment was different, but Repub licans and Democrats alike disagreed with him, and voted accordingly. Chairman Mann, in charge of the rail road bill, had a theory to explain Poln dexter's peculiar action. He declared that the section that had been eliminated from the bill w-aa very reasonable, and would have been of vast beneat to the Pacilic Northwest. "There was no part of the country." said Mr. Mann, "to which that section would have been of so much value as the great Northwest country on the Pacific Coast. "Now the gentleman -from Washington seeks to put part of that section back in the bill, I suppose so he may say he was In favor of a certain provision. When there .was a chance to put it in the bill and keep It In the bill, he voted to take it out. His vote for it, with one other, would have kept it In the bill." FLANNERY JTRIAL OPENS San Francisco's ex-Official's Case May Bare Pake Poolrooms' Work.. SAN RAFAEL, Cal.. May lO District Attorney Thomas P. Boyd, of Marin county, made his opening address to the jury today In Judge Lennon's court In the case of Harry P. Flannery, ex-president of the San Francisco Police Commission, who is on trial on a charge of grand lar ceny growing out of his alleged connec tion with the men who conducted the recently-raided fake poolroom in Sausalito. Flannery was ordered to furnish 35000 cash ball before the opening of court to morrow morning, when at 10 o'clock the taking of testimony in the case will be gin. The first witness wiii be Robert N. Wood, the young farmer of Selma, Cal.. who -was swindled out of 3SO0 in the Sau salito poolroom and whose transaction has been made the basis of the grand jury charges against Flannery and the actual poolroom operators. Wood will be followed by Joseph Abbot, leader of the poolroom men, who has made a confes sion in which he charges that relations existed between Flannery and himself In connection with, the poolroom business. CONNECTING LINKS LACKING Caee Rests, He Says, Upon Desire of Attorneys for Large Fees Will Xot Go to Jury Before To night or Tomorrow. KANSAS CITY. May 13. For almost seven hours today Attorney Frank P. Walsh addressed the Jury sitting In Judgment upon Dr. B. C Hyde. Mr. Walsh closed his address shortly be fore 6 o'clock tonight and at the night session Attorney John H. Atwood spoke In behalf of the state. Not a phase of the Swope mystery was left untouched t- Mr: Walsh. Mr. Atwood's address dealt more specifi cally with the Investigations made by the prosecution's scientists. He had made a "special study of this feature of the case. Frequently during Mr. Walsh's speech Jurors wept. At one time four of them were crying. Neither Mrs. Hyde nor Mrs. Swope could control their emotion as the intricate details of the case were laid bare. Connecting Links Lacking. Every charge made by the state against the physician, averred Mr. Walsh, lacked a connecting link to make proof of the allegation positive. This situation was due, he said, to the fact the entire alleged mystery was based upon suspicions, falsehoods, exaggerations and the desire of paid attorneys to make large fees. The cyanide feature of the state's charges, Mr. Walsh classified as one of the "eleventh hour" brand. No opportunity was lost by Dr. Hyde's attorney to bring the plight of Mrs. Hyde, who sat by her husband's side, before the Jury. She was re ferred to at least 50 times. Once Mr. Walsh alluded to her as "the brains of the. Swope household." The state's chemists were excoriated by the attorney. Dr. Victor C. Vaughn was termed "the hired executioner of Dr. Hyde." Verdict Must Be Clear. Prior to Mr. Jost's address last night. Judge Latshaw instructed the jury that It must either find Dr. Hyde guilty of murder In the first degree or innocent. First-degree murder is punishable by death or life imprisonment in Missouri. Indications are that the jury will re tire to consider Its .verdict Friday night or Saturday morning. Every door of the courtroom was thrown open this morning and the halls were packed with pushing, eager peo ple. Judge Latshaw announced that at noon he would exclude the spectators of the morning through a side door and admit a new crowd by another en trance. Attorney Frank P. "Walsh made the first closing address for the defense. Before the attorney spoke of any of the evidence in the case he attacked Mr. Jost for the nature of his address last night. In which Dr. Hyde was re ferred to as "this fellow," and Mrs. Hyde upbraided as a falsifier for the testimony she had given in behalf of her husband. Mr. Walsh's eulogy of Mrs. Hyde was extended. As he spoke of the defendant's wife. Juror W. C Crane cried. The whole Swope case, averred Mr. Walsh, was a "made mystery," built out of little straws, gathered in and builded up into a massive structure. Dr. Hyde was pictured as a victim of circumstances, "but a man who was brave in the face of dark charges against him. ' When Moss Hunton's death was men tioned, both Mrs. Swope and Mrs. Hyde were overcome, and, although they re mained in the courtroom, both wept copiously. LIQUOR SALES MUST END Saloons in Jarbridge, on Forest Re serve, Must Close. RENO, Nev.. May 12. H. J. Humph reys, United States Marshal for Nevada, last night sent Deputy Marshal Goode, of Elko, to the mining camp of Jarbidge, Elko County, with instructions to arrest all saloonkeepers of that camp. Jarbridge, which is close to the Idaho line, is located on a Government forest reserve, and the Federal law prohibits the sale of liquor on forest reserves. Fourteen saloons are doing business at the new camp, and their keepers all will be arrested. An Unusual Waist Bargain $3.50 and $3.75 Waists 1 : Our usual Waist values are evident in this superb collection of dainty Lingerie and Tailored Waists, in a seeininglyunlimited variety of styles to choose Jrom. Lace yokes and insertion, fine tucks and ruffles in every pleasing design, in cluding the fashionable plain tailored styles. We have also included t this price an odd lot of Taffeta Silk and Mohair Waists in black and colors, that AQ have been sold as high as $7.50; just an odd lot to clean up. 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