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BOUT INQUIRY
Special House Committee
to Hear it.
LILLEY MAKES CHARGES
Said Company Had Men on the
Coast Who Visited Chamber!
of Commerce.
BOATS OF INFERIOR QUALITY
H DacUrtd tht Company Did Not
BuQd Boata. It's Only Buainaaa B-
ing to Sacurt Contracta (or Boata
and Than Sublet the contracta.
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WASHINGTON, March 12.-The
f ill.u nl.mnriiie boat llKIUirv W
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beuuii In earnest today by a special
house committee. Beginning at 10
o'clock the committee continued it
work during the latter part of the
day. Representative Lillcy wo heard
at length. He began hia testimony by
reading a long statement, part of
which he outlined the charge in de
tail. Lillcy'a statement follows:
"I propose to show that for several
years prior to the Leslcr investiaation
the Holland Boat Company and its
succesnors, the Electric Boat Com
pany maintained in Washington an
omanized lobby for the purpose of
influencing legislative appropriation
in favor of the Submarine boats built
bv the company and that it had un
der annual retainer C. E. Crcecy, gen-
era Enna Hunton. former u. a. sen-
Butler. S. C. McNelr,
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"Tii.t Inr .i-vi-ral vears tunu u.
'frost, vice president of the said com
turtiv. has been a continous visitor
at Wajhinnton during congressional
and has socnt large sums of
"in furnishing entertainment
to members of congress, his expenses
along this line amounting to thou
ami of dollars.
"That the senate amendment to the
appropriation bill of March 2, 1907,
was prepared and drafted by the at
torney for the Electric Boat Com
pany for the purpose and with the
intention to eliminate competition in
submarine construction and to pre
vent the secretary of the navy from
exercising any discretion in awarding
contracts for submarines,
"That a thorough investigation by
an impartial committee will show that
large sums of money have been spent
bv the Electric Boat Company, its
ficrenta. contributed to
I'll Hi 1 a s 'o
campaign funds of members of con
gress who favor and have favored
' the Electric Boat Company monoply
of submarine construction; also that
Wire sums of money have been spent
' to accomplish the defeat of members
of the naval committee who dm not
the Electric Boat Company.
' "That an examination of the books
and records of the Electric Boat
and of its predecessor, the
Holland Boat Company, will, show
that large sums ot money nave uccn
;,i trm thir treasuries for the
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ntvnvA ouroose.
"That continuous and repeated ek
forts have been made by representa
tives of the Electric Boat Company
and its predecessors to influence the
Action of the otttpiais oi mt uy
'department and that such efforts in
the past were so persistent ana noto
rious as to call for the condemnation
and criticism of high officials of the
navy department, whose testimony
can be secured by the investigation!
committee.
"That from 1893 up to the present
time these efforts of the Electric
Boat Company and Holland Com
pany have resulted in absolutely sup
pressing any possibility of competi
tion in submarine construction and
securing and awarding of all con
tracts either by specific appropriation
or by legislative appropriation, skill
fully drawn to this company without
possible competition.
'That it can be shown by former
Investigation before the naval com
mittee of the house upon which no
report was made to the house of rep
resentatives that the Holland Boat
Company and the Electric Boat Com
pany have been engaged in reprehen
sible efforts to influence members ot
coniiress and officials of the navy
lnar.mtnt in favor of their boats
and aooroDriations therefor.
"That it can be shown upon Inves
tigation that certain representatives
of leadinir newspapers have been sua
sidiaed and paid by the Electric Boat
Company for favorable, newspaper
articles and reports in behalf of said
company
"If these things are not actually
without the pale of the law, they are
wrongful practices and tend to throw
.li..rili imnn the COMirCSt of the
United States.
"I cannot be expected to have
presidential knowledge of all these
transactions.which if they exist must
necessarilv remain in the secret pos
session of the officers and agents of
the Electric Boat Company and of
those with whom they have conferred
in the prosecution to influence con
trionat legislation.
Mr. Lillcy repeated to the commit-
AMENDMENTS
(Continued on page 8.)
ENDORSED BY LODGE
Pending Currency Bill Approved
in the Senate.
SERVICABLE IN AN EMERGENCY
Said it Did Not Prevent the Enact
ment of General Currency law,
Which ha Hoped to Se Realii ed
In the Future.
WASHINGTON. March 12-Sena
tnr I.oIue todav strongly endorsed
the uendinir currency bill in the Sen
ate and declared it would be most
serviceable as an emergency measure
and did not prevent the enactment of
a neral currency law which he de
clared he hoped to see realized in the
future on the basis of a central bank.
Senator Painter opposed the cur
rency bill especially condemning the
nrnnnsition to insure bank deposits.
Refcrrina to Dcpcw's recent remarks
about the "Niaht riders" and barn
humificr in Kentucky, both Painter
ami McCreary condemned such law
lessness and denounced the tobacco
trusts. The bill to require American
supplies for the Panama Canal to be
carried in American bottoms was
again considered today but was not
acted upon.
KILLED BY TROLLEY CAR.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12.-
Seven-year-old Howard B. Gard, who
lives with his parents at w Avon
trP!.' Oakland, was crushed to death
under the wheels of a Telegraph
avenue car yesterday evening at
TeWraph avenue and 49th street.
Tu foiniiv recently arrived from
British Columbia.
Post Office Appropriation
Bill Attacked,
LENGTHY DISCUSSIONS
Section Relating to Pneumatic
Tubes Amended as Not Con
fined to Certain Cities.
REFORM SYSTEM OF WEIGHING
Finally Vigorous But Ineffectual
Fight Was Madt on the Proportion
by Cobel to Increase the Appropri
ation by $2,000,000.
WASHINGTON, March 12. -The
postofftce appropriation bill had rough
sailing in the house today. Its prog
ress was halter at every turn by
amendments upon which there were
lenethy discussions. The attacks were
begun on the .section relating to the
pneumatic tube service which was
amended so that the extensions of
such service should not be confined
to the several cities named in the
bill, but that they should be made
wherever the postmaster-general may
think best. The house was a unit on
withholding a portion of the pay from
the railroads for transportation of the
mails until a correct system of weigh
ing should be established, a provision
to that effect being incorporation in
the measure. Finally a vigorous but
ineffectual fight was made on the
proposition by Goebel to increase by
$2,000,000, the appropriation for pay
ing the expenses of railway mail
clerks while traveling on the busi
ness of the department. The amend
ment was, strongly advocated by
Murdcrk. Still other amendments
were in sight when the bill was laid
aside for the day. '
the bay as soon after daylight as the
steering points of th? , entrance Re'
dondo Point, on the south, and En
trada Point, or Sail Rock, on the
north could be picked up by the
navigating officers. These sailing or
ders should at noon have put the fleet
into Man-o'-War Cove, behind the
rocky peninsula leading down from
the north and serving as one of the
unusual means of protecting this fa
vored harbor. This peninsula also
contains the little adobe settlement of
Magdalena and the improvised cus
tom-house, which has been opened by
direction of the Mexican government
to enable traders from the north to
carrv on business with the officers
and men of the fleet, who, for a period
of a month or more, are to be practi
cally cut oil from the rest of the
world.
GREEK LETTER SOCIETIES,
CHICAGO. March 12. Members
of fraternities and societies com
mnnlv known as Greek letter so
cieties will not be allowed to attend
high schools in Chicago after the
end of the present, school year, ac
cording to a rule adopted by ' the
Chicago Board of Education last
night. The vote was 16 to J In favor
of the rule.
GUILTY OF MISCONDUCT.
NEW YORK, March 12.-EUen
Von Hagen, whose accusations
against Raymond Hitchcock, the
comedian, resulted in his indictment,
repeated her accusations today. The
girl, who is now in the care of the
society, told of the nights she spent
in Hitchock's home at Great Neck,
L. I, and of her visits to the furnish
ed rooms in this city where the de
frnil.int had temnorarv lodgings. On
each of these excursions he was ac
companied by either Flora Whiston,
aged 16. or Elsie Voecks, aged 12
years. In opening his address toaay
the prosecutor charged Hitchcock
with being guilty of misconduct with
all three of the children. - '
ROLLING THE IVORIES.
CHICAGO, March 12. The com
mittee in charge of the National
Amateur Billiard championship at the
Chicago Athletic Association met yes
tcrday and arranged the schedule for
the opening games. As a result of
the opponents, Dcmarest, the present
champion, representing the Chicago
Athletic Association and Jackson oi
the Illinois Athletic Club, are paired
for the opening for Saturday night
Monday afternoon, Gardner of Bas-
saic, N. J., and Conklin, of the Chir
raoo Athletic Association, are to
e -
meet, while Monday Poggenberg of
New York, is to play Wright of San
Francisco. Tuesday afternoon the
loser of the Dcmarest-Jackson game
will nlav the loser of the Gardner
Conklin match. "
DIRECTORATE
Four Stockholders of the
Union Pacific.
FOR RECOVERY OF FUNDS
Copies of the Petition Have Been
Sent to the Directors by
Attorney Waldstein.
STRONG FINANCIAL INTERESTS
5 2-5 seconds, or 2-5 of a second fast
er than it was ever run before.
But his greatest achievement was
accomplished at the New York Ath
letic Club's games Tuesday night In
his boat in the 70 yards hurdle he
hung up the mark of 8 4-5 seconds
and in his final won easily in nine
seconds. The record of 9 1-5 sec
onds which had stood for 14 years.
What caused his sudden intention
to go west is known . only ; to his
closest friends and they refuse to
divulge it , ..
Waldstein Who Was Counsel for
Stuyvesant Fish in His Recent At
tempt to Control Illinois Central,
Said Fish Was Not in Movement
ALIA FOUND GUILTY
Slayer of Father Leo Condemned
to Die.
PUNISHMENT FITS THE CRIME
Alia's Counsel Claimed That Experts
Had Not Sufficient Time, Without
Corroborative Testimony to Deter
mine Mental Condition of Prisoner
DENVER, March 12. Giuseppe
Alia, who shot Father Leo Heinrichs
in St Elizabeth's. Catholic. Church in
this city Sunday, February 23, was
today found guilty of murder in the
first degree. Hanging was fixed by
the jury as the penalty. The verdict
was announced at, 2:45 p. m.
KILLED OVER 2000 STRIKERS
. NEW YORK, March 12.-Four
stockholders of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, all residents of
Connecticut, have made a formal
demand upon the directorate of the
Union Pacific that an action at law
wil be commenced without delay for
the recovery of funds alleged to have
been unlawfully diverted from the
treasury of the company.1 According
to Attorney-General Leonard Wald
stein, who said he represented the
signers of the demands, copies of the
petition had been sent to the directors
today. Waldstein appeared as one of
the counsel for Stuyvesant Fish in the
latter's fight for the control of the
Illinois Central but he said Fish was
not behind the present movement
Waldstein also explained that the
action was not to be construed a9 an
attack against Harriman personally.
Waldstein said that while but four
stockholders only are signed to the
petition, powerful financial interests
are behind the move. In the petition
are contained the allegations that cer
tain officers and directors of the
Union Pacific have profited unfairly
through the sales of the securities to
the Union Pacific. Reference is mad
to the refusal of Harriman to testify
before the interstate commerce com
mission as to whether the Illinois
Central stock sold by him and by
Rogers and Stillman had been ac
quired by a syndicate or pool for the
puropse of a sale to the Union
Pacific. . :: , ,
FLEET AT MAGDALENA BAY.
SAN DIEGO, March i2.-While
no additional word has come by wire
less from the South today, and none
is expected until .well into the night,
when the strong light waves of the
sun may make way for the either im
pulses of the wireless flashes, it is
believed here at noon that the
"American battle fleet," as it has been
officially referred to by President
Roosevelt, is safe within the island
guarded harbor of Magdalena Bay,
and that the 16 big ships are riding at
anchor in the blue waters of this
most isolated but now most famous
of the Mexican ports.
The last word received from the
fleet at the wireless station here was
to the effect that the ships were off
Magdalena, probably a distance of 50
miles or more, and would r.team into
Machine Guns Used by Chilean Sol-
'diers Against Nitrate Strikers.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 12.-
Machine guns operated by the gov
ernment forces of Chile in a great
conflict with strikers at the Nitrate
beds and in the city of Iquique laid
2500 men low, most of these being
killed, according to advices received
yesterday by the Norwegian steamer
Christian Bors, arriving direct from
Chile. ,
Business at Iquique, which had
never before been seriously disturbed
by anything but earthquakes, was
naralvzed when the ' great army of
workers went on a strike. One fra
cas after another occurred until sol
dicrs and strikers met in the streets
of Iquique and on the outskirts and
onenlv defied each other.
Being ordered to drive the army of
men away and disperse them, the
soldiers opened fire while they were
' massed and literaly mowed down the
men. They had little opportunity to
fight back, even though they had
been armed,-the assault upon them
was so sudden.
This took place on January 1 and
was followed by two or three day
of oppressive gloom in, the commun
itv. while the funerals of the killed
were taking place.
SERIOUS CHARGES.
OAKLAND7 March 12. Mrs.
Isabella J. Martin arrived here last
night from Weaverville in the ens-
tody of Detective Hodgkins and was
lodged in the city prison. The woman
is accused of having concocted the
plot to blow up the home of Judge
Frank B. Ogden more than a year
ago and is also .suspected of having
planned to destroy the lives and
property of other magistrates because.
she considered them her enemies.
EYE-GLASS VENDERS.
NEW YORK, March -Fraudu
lent venders of eye-glasses are over
running New York and are " being
driven here from other states which
have enacted optometry laws within
the last two or three years, said E.
Le Roy , Ryer, president of the
Physiological Section of the -Ameri
can Association of Opticians at a
meeting yesterday of the New . York
branch of the society. The associa
tion asks for a law to stop the fraud.
ANTI-TRUST LAW
Conference Being Held at the
White House.
WOOD PULP IN CANADA.
OTTAWA, Ont, March 12.-Mr.
Lewis of West Huron moved in the
house yesterday that an export duty
be placed on wood pvflp to force the
United States mills to come to Can
ada to manufacture instead of im
porting Canada pulp wood. Dr.
Roland nnnosed this, saying that
there is enough spruce and balsam
areas in Canada for Canadian use and
export purposes.
SMITHSON COMING HOME.
MANY NOTABLES PRESENT
;' ' . ',.,.i.i!.j..ti.r:
Change in the Law, it is Expected,
Will be Proposed Along Lines Sug
gested at the Conference oi Civic
Federation Held in Chicago.
WASHINGTON, March 12.-An
important conference was held at the
White House last night and in a sense
continued today, respecting the
amendments to the Sherman anti
trust law. Changes in law, it is ex
pected, will be proposed along the
lines suggested at the conference of
the Civic Federation held in Chicago
a few weeks ago. No concrete results
were reached and it is likely that
other conferences will be held. Par
ticipating in the conference were the
President, Secretaries Root and Gar
field, Attorney-General Bonaparte,
Herbert Knox Smith, Commissioner
of Corporations; Former Mayor Seth
Low of New York; Samuel Gompers;
Victor Morawetz of the Santa Fe
Railroad and F. L. Stetson of the
firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.
, NEW YORK, March 12. Forrest
Qmithcnn th wnrld's greatest hurd
ler, has decided to quit New York. He I ter1 at length and urges the govern
TATSU INCIDENT SUBSIDING.
TOKIO, March 12. The demand
of the press and the public of Japan
for aggressive action against China
in connection with the Tatsu affair
is subsiding.
The Asahi. one of the most influ
ential newspapers, discusses the mat-
says he will leave this city today for
his home in Portland, Oregon, where
he will remain indefinitely. It is
doubtful whether he will ever return
to New York. Since Smithson came
East for the national championships
at Jamestown, Va., last year, he has
added a world's record and an Amer
ican indoor record to his credit and
defeated the fleetest and best jump
ers in the country. ..Last week at the
Georgetown . University meet at
Washington, he established a new
America record over the 50-yard
course by covering the distances in
.ment to seriously consider the moral
side of the case, and not to press
China to extremes.' It thinks that
Japan should exercise greater vili
lance concerning the export of arms
destined for the , use of insurgents
against a friendly government.
This view is gaining ground, and it
is understood that the minister of
war, General Terauchi and Vice-Admiral
Saito, minister of marine, are
opposed to aggressive tactics. The
British Minister, Sir Claude Macdon
ald, has held lengthy conferences
with Foreign Minister Hayashi. (