FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 150.
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EXECUTIVE SESSION
This Week
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CUT COFFEE.
PHONES 711 AND 3871 BRANCH PHONE-713
Of the Senate Largely Consumed
by Discussion.
WAR CLAIMS I ARE UNPAID
A Bill to Reorganise the Public
School System of the District of
Columbia by Placing it Under the
Control of a Director.
THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON.
ill Ami Mmlimm
CONSUL AT HARBIN
Refuses to Recognize Russian
Administration.
IS AWAITING INFORMATION
When the Data Arrives it Will be
Given Prompt Consideration and
the Attitude of This Government
Will Again be Stated-
WASHINGTON, April, 2.-Pro-found
interest is manifested in dip
lomatic circles over the situation
which has grown out of the refusal
ef Fred D. Fisher, the American
consul at Harbin, who since taking
office in January 1907, has refused to
recognize the Russian administra
tion in Manchuria. Especially among
the representatives of the European
countries having comercial connec
tions in Manchuria was the matter
a question of paramount importance
and it is understood they have sup
plied their chancellories with a com
plete statement of the case as it ap
pears in the American press.
Secretary Root is awaiting certain
information from China bearing on
Tarious aspects of the concessions
given by that country for railroad
having a bearing on the treaty of
1866, which figures in the present
case, before making a reply to the re
presentations of the Russian govern
ment. When that data arrives it will
be given prompt consideration and
the attitude of this government re
garding its position respecting for
eign rights in Manchuria will again
Be stated.
called upon to give their aid in com
batting the measure, and with unified
action on the part of the financiers
of three cities, it is expected that a
formidable showing against the bill
will be made when the house com
mittee on banking and currency be
gins its hearing on the proposed law
next Monday.
GASTROENTERITIS
Cause of Fatal Illness to be Investigated.
CHICAGO, April 2. A coroners
investigation of the death of Wm.
the boy's fatal illness so clouded
the boy's fatal illiness so clouded
with doubt that the physicians in
charge of the case will make an in
quiry into the purity of the ingredi
ents used in an old fashioned remedy
administered by his mother.
A treacle, a mixture of molasses
and sulphur, is one of the two sus
pected sources of poisoning. The
other is that artificially colored candy
provided the deadly element.
The jury found death had been
caused by gastoenteritis resulting
from ptomaine poisoning.
A second child of the family, Char
les Myers, seven years old, was at
tacked by the same illness about the
same time as his brother, who was
13 years old, but a more hardy con
stitution is expected to pull him
through.
ALDRICH BILL
Bank Presidents Will Make an Effort
to Have it Killed in The House.
CHICAGO, April 2. A combined
attack upon the Aldrich Currency
Bill by some of the most powerful
financial interests in the country will
be the outcome of an important con
ference of national bank presidents
held in Chicago yesterday.
"Unwarranted" and "crude" were
some of the adjectives applied to
parts of the measure as it now stands,
and it was unanimously agreed that
every effort be made to prevent its
passage by the house of representa
tives in its present form.
Many St. Louis bankers will be
FIDDLED HIS WAY OVER.
NEW YORK, April 2.-Henry
Berchman, a 17 year old boy fiddled
his way across the Atlantic on the
North German Lloyd liner Kaiser
Wilhelm Der Grossc. The boy was
sent abroad to study the violin three
years ago. His father sent him a re
mittance to come home on the Kaiser
but the money went astray, and the
boy, knowing that his parents would
expect him home on the Kaiser,
boarded the vessel at Bremen.
After the ship was well away from
Port, the lad, carrying his violin,
made his presence known on board.
He explained to the officers that his
father would pay his fare on his ar
rival, but that if that was not satis
factory he would like to work his
way over by fiddling. Permission
was given him to play away, and so
as a sort of official fiddler he came
across gratis.
WASHINGTON, April 2-An exe
cutive session of the Senate today
was largely consumed by the discus
sion, without the passage of a bill to
reorganize the public school system
of the District of Columba by placing
it under the control of a director ap
pointed by the national commissioner
of education superceding the board
of education composed of citizens of
the District of Columbia.
A bill relating to the settlement of
the claims of the states on account
of the disposition of public lands was
again taken up and the Bacon amend
ment for settling the accounts of
owners of cotton seized by the gov
eminent during the civil war amount
ing to $S,000,0(X) was considered but
without results on either bill or
amendment.
APPROPRIATION FOR FORTS.
WASHINGTON, April Z-An ap
propriation to carry into effect con
templated fortifications for Puget
Sound as planned by the Eiulicott
and Taft boards, has been agreed up
on tentatively yesterday by the sub
committee of the senate committee
on appropriations which is consider
ing the general fortification bill.
When completed this work will rep
resent an outlay of between nine and
ten million dollars, of which more
than four million dollars already has
been appropriated.
NEVADA BANKING SCORED.
FURNACE STARTED.
HELENA, Mont., April 2.-The
American Refining and Smelting
plant at East Helena, which a few
months ago suspended nearly all op
erations because of depression in
metal markets, yesterday reinstated
sixty former employes and started
another furnace.
Officials and State Examiners Con
demned by Grand Jury
GOLDFIELD, Nev., April 2.-The
Esmeralda County grand jury, hav
ing investigated the affairs of, the
State Bank & Trust Co., yesterday
found two indictments against the
president, T. B. Rickey, charging em
bezzlement. The report scores the
State bank examiners and implies
that their failure to act 'was owing to
Rickey having made the State a pre
ferred creditor and having made the
State's account secure with market
able bonds and stock which were con
verted into cash.
The grand jury finds "that the re
habilitation committee, so called, is
composed of attorneys and relatives
of the board of directors of the
wrecked institution, and that their
expenses and salaries are being paid
out of the remnant of the depositors'
money."
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