THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY. MAX 13, 1910.
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LAUNCHED AT BROOKLYN NAVY-YARD.
GLOVES
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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
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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.
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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.
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Saturday is usually the misses' day and to feature this day, we have
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Brokaw Files Appeal.
MUTEOLA. Li. I.. May 12. W. Gould
Brokaw today riled an appeal from the
decision and decree of Justice Putnam
St. Louis Shoe Shipments
Shoe Factory Production Week End
ing April 30th.
The shoe shipments from St. Louis for
the week ending April 30th were 16,910
cases. There were maxle during- the
week 540,998 pairs of shoes. Forty
nine factories reported. About 21,000
shoeworkers are employed by St. Louis
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