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GATUN DAM SOLIDEXPERTS DECLARE

Pofat Out Reasons Why Lock Type

I Better Plan Than Any Others

Effect of Report

By JOHN SXTJJW

it would be an inexcusable

feiy to change from the proposed

lodk canal to a sea level canal is

the statement of President Rooseveltin transmitting to Congress todaythe report of the engineers who vis-

ited Panama with PresidentelectTaft

More than this the President de-

clares to Congress that the reportnot only determines definitely thetype of canal but makes it evidentthat hereafter attacks on the jocktype are in reality attacks upon thepolicy of building any canal at all

In this emphatic fashion doesPresident Roosevelt seek to spikethe guns of Senators Kittredge Foraker and others who are bent onmaking a desperate assault on thelock type of canal before the sessioncloses and their terms in Congressend How far the report of theginecrs will go to silence these criticsand others remains to be seen

Ho Clisnce for bingeIt to at least certain that it less beery

e out oC the ousfl-th lock vpe of canal to be choppedsMfrst fat this Congress or attm near future

It is given as the Judgment of rtendsof tbe lock canal in both houses thatthis sport of the eminent engineerswho aoootnpanied Mr Taft It Ir

that the lode canal will beconstructed and that nothing short ofa great disaster to the look canal atsome time in the future can accomplisha shifting to the tealevel jpiaa

Ia their report the ay theygiven special consideration to the

of the Gatun dam and thefeaatbUitr of constructing and main-taining a for retain

water at 86 feet above sea levelTheir verdict is an unqualified and un-ettutTOcal declaration that Oatundam is feasible

Meet Approval of AU

The type of dam now under eonsCruction is one which meets with ourunanimous approval say the engineersin their report It is declared the damas proposed not only will be sufficient-ly stable but goes far beyond the limitsof what would regarded as safe insay leas Important structure

The engineers hold that the Gatundos can safety be reduced in heightay Jl feet This would make the

115 feet or 30 feet above thenormal level of the water against the

Mot least striking feature of therepeat of the engineers is that they pre-dict the completion of the canal byJanuary declare a some-what earlier completion Is probable ifall well

Various in the plan of thefinal are sanctioned which areIn detail in the report the chief beingthe moving of locks on the

of the canal from La Bocaon the shore of Panama bay to Miraflores about four miles inland

Give Military JUamni-MOttary reasons are the principal

eoes for this change The subject ofincreased width of the canal is dealtlift la the report

The of the canal forcesiff highly commended The engineers

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WEATHER REPORT-

It is considerably colder in tbe SouthAtlantic and the greater portion of themiddle Atlantic States low tem-peratures continue in the Gulf States

valleyThe weather will be generally fair

Thursday in Newand the northern portion of the middleAtlantic States

departing today forhave brisk westerly

diminishing Wednesday nightwith generally fair weather to theGrand

FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICTFair tonight temperature about tt

degrees fair slightlywanner light westerly winds becoia

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READING Pa Feb 17 A c-

has all earmarks of a murder andsuicide took place in A taxicab earlythis morning when the lives of MissStella Rocktassel a wellknown youngwoman and George H Knaut weretaken

Knaut called for a taxicab at theArcade Hotel shortly before 2 oclockand directed the chauffeur to drive themto Miss Rocktassers home When within a square of the residence a shot rangout aii3 a bullet past the chauf-feur A moment later the driver

Knaut shouted to him to driveto the hospital

The cab was rushed to Reading Hos-pital but just as it reached that Insti-tution a second shot was heard Whenthe door was opened the woman wasfound dead her covered withblood and with a bullet wound in theright side of her head The man wasalso dead having been shut through theheart

who was a I Mephone inspectora revolver yssterday saying he

wanted it for a masquerade balL BothKnaut and Miss Rocktassel are weltconnected

CRITICISM HEAPED

UPON ARCHITECT

Ralph Says Taylors Once Is

Too Slow With

WorkSarcastic criticism Is heaped upon

the head of the Supervising Architect ofthe Director Ralph of theBureau of Engraving Printing ac-

cording to the testimony given by thedirector before sundry civil

of the Souse Committee oa Appro-priations

Director Ralph is impatient at thedelay in setting the new structure underway Congress has appropriated 12000000 for that purpose but apparently thematter is held up in the architectoffice

It supervising architect will takehold of this matter with some vimsaid Mr Ralph there is no reason inthe world that building should notbe completed in fifteen or sixteenmonths It is a simple proposition a

structure with noof gingerbread on it The Chinese gov-ernment will a new bureau of engraving and printing before we will

GUILT HAND POINTSTO DEPOSED VIZIER

Failure to Defend Against

Charges Taken as

AdmissionCONSTANTINOPLE Feb Mtaad

of publishing m todays papers his de

Turks as he bad promised to do form-er Grand Visier Klamil Pasha told tbenewspaper men that he would waituntil public opinion had calmed down

His failure to make a statement hasinjured his standing greatly as theYoung Turks are charging him withbeing unable to refute their accusationthat he was plotting to reestablish des-potism

Hilml Pasha the new grand vizierhas made representation to the diplomatic corps that he will do everything-in his power to bring about a

accord between Turkey and Aus-tria and between Turkey and BulgariaHe said that as soon as possible hewould resign the ministry of the Interior

DEWEY NOT GOINGAdmiral George Dewey president of

the general board of the navy called onthe President and the Secretary of theNavy today to personally express hisregret at not being able to accept theinvitation to accompany them to Hamp-ton Roads for the review of the Atlanticfleet next Monday Admiral hasbeen suffering from sciatic rheumatismall winter and this was his first visitto either the White House or Navy Department in several months

SPEEDER FORFEITS 5Clinton William charged with vio-

lating the speed law forfeited S InPolice Court this morning He was ar-rested on Pennsylvania avenue by Po-liceman Conners

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Brought In

SHERLEY THROWSBOMB INTO CAMP

Exposes Fact That Special Act

Gives No SaJtry at All to

The

Secretary-

The complicated situation whichhas ever presented itself in the historyof the Government has been precipitatedby passage of th Knox enabling

The effects of that bill came tolight in the House today amid the wild-est disorder and the greatest dismayof the Republican forces and those op-posed to the measure

Briefly the situation is After havingreduced the salary of the Secretary ofState back to 18000 both houses axenow called upon to agree to the con-ference report on the legislative execu-tive and judicial bill which Increasesthe same salary again

On December 10 the legislative execu-tive and judicial bill was reported tothe House It vas without theincreases in salaries of December 1LThe Senate received the bill on January14 and after Increasing the salary pass-ed the bill on January 22 The bill thencame back to Ue House for conference

Obstacle DiscoveredWhile this was on the obstacle in the

way of Knox serving was discoveredand on February 15 the enabling meas-ure was passed fixing the salary of theSecretary of State at I8C90

Today the House was called upon toagree to the conference report on thelegislative executive and judicial billIt was then discovered that this billMakes the salary of the Secretary ofState 12000

Since this action succeeds that of theenabling bill if passed It Kould havethe effect of nXcoc 1200 andagain involving the carne obstacleanJnst appointment as Secretary of

By the puculiar irony of tate itseems absolutely necessary that tbill be provisionand then amended another enablingact before Senator Knox could be madeeligible

Cannot dung ItBy the rules of Congress it is

for the conferees themselvesto change the salaries This would benew legislation and such must be votedupon in both houses it is understood

Since the bill passed both housesjust what will be done to

the matter Is a problem over whichthe Republican leaders will probablyspend heartrendering hours and exhaust every parliamentary expedent

The Legislative Executive and Ju-diciad appropriation bill of coursemakes appropriation orJy for one yearIf it is passed in its present form theSecretary of State he may bewill draw that amount for twelve-months when in the ordinary courseof events if Congress did act then voteto continue th 12 00 the enabling actwould take effect and the salary beautomatically reduced to

No two parliamentarians of the Houseagree as to what can be done to correct the most complicated balled upsituation ever encountered in the

It is likely that th only way out ofthe matter is to send the bill back toboth houses and then repeal the Secretary of State salary provision send itback to conference and finally agree to

itCYCLISTSCOLLIDE

MAN BADLY HURTSuffering from conriiftsion of the

bran WiMam English twentyeightyears old of 716 A street northeast isa at En Hospita

English was riding a bicycle at NewJersey and avenues and collided with another cyclist Both menwere thrown from wheels

FRAT MEN TO DINE-In honor of the fiftyseventh anniver-

sary of the founding of the Phi KappaPsi Fraternity the Washington alumniassociation of that organization willcelebrate the event on Friday eveningwith a dinner at the Normandie HoteL

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CHILD LABOR BILLSWHIPPED BY LOBBY

North Carolina Legislature Dominated by Cotton Mill

and Remedial Measure Permitted to Pass OnlyAfter Being Purged of Chief Items

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RALEIGH N C Feb 17 Jhndlabor has the complete approval of theNorth Carolina Legislature Despite ap

tiona of the humanitarian societies andhundreds of men and women the Legislature today at the behest of the SatoCotton Manufacturers Associationpractically emasculated the bill whichwas designed to an end to the employment of boys and of thirteenand under in the mills

TIle measure was reached en order offinal reading today Up to th last

It was expected that It wouldas framed and would raise the age

limit to fifteen yeas and throw suchsafeguards about the employment ofminors that it would lw tor the

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The Merest lobby in the history of theState however was not to be deniedRepresentatives of the Sop textile millsin the Commonwealth to town yes-terday and all that day throughoutlast night and today labored with thelegislators Appeals and threats wereused and when the Legislature met itwas plain that the lobby had won

All drastic sections of the bill wereeliminated by vote The age limit wasleft as at thirteen the

prohibiting minors male and fe-male at is amended toinclude only females under fifteenboys under fourteen while the employ-ment of children twelve yearsover to aid their parents or other rela

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Says Iowan

When the Senate met at 11 oclockthis morning the fight over tile navalapPropriation bill which has been

on for the last two days waspromptly resumed

Senator Hale was eager to press thebill to passage and the insurgents werestill up in arms and not disposed to letthe bill be disposed of without thresh-ing over Its provisions further

Senator Cummins of Iowa the suc-cessor to Senator Allison got the floorat the outset and made the point of noquorum A call for a quorum followedSenator Cummins then addressed theSenate at ength In support of the or-der of President Roosevelt to removethe marines from the warships

The Iowa commended SenatorHale for his patience in the protracteddiscussion of the naval bill and eulogizedPresident Roosevelt Senator Cumminssaid that in his State the people lovedRoosevelt and were not In sympathywith the criticism against him

Halt rebukes KimSenator Cummins references to the

Presidents order removing Che marinesfrom the warships led Senator Hatesharply to defend the committee andhimself against any charge of criticisingthe president and he rebuked SenatorCummins for his words

Senator Hale took the ground that Inputting in an amendment to the bill torestore the marines the committee wunot been seeking to criticise the Prdent but had intended to assert theright of Congress in the mater

In his argument Senator Cumminsquoted from the testimony of Rear Admiral Evans before the Committee onNaval Affairs wd also from AdmiralDewey snowing that each of these emimcnt commanders is in favor of theorder issued by the President He saidthis opinion seemed to be coincided inby practically every mss who must fightthe battleships in case of a contingency

The Senator from Iowa then enteredinto an argument to that theamendment proposed by the committeewas not only bad as a matter of policybut that it was actually in contraven-tion of the Constitution

He asked if any Bens would attempt to say that the President the con-stitutional OommanderinChief couldnot issue any direction for the army andnavy providing Congresii issued a prohibition against it

Makes StrongHe ofejeeW strongly s r attempts

to say by indirecttou in air apprt4malion bill how the marines should beused If any effort were made to dic-tate the marines should be usedit should be done by a separate meas-ure The Senate Senator Cumminsheld was not proceed ag fairly andopenly in this matter

Senators Fulton McLaurln Tinmanand others joined in the argument Inopposition to the views of Senator

In the course of the discussion

Senator Tillman that Marine Corpsmeant that the corps was to be used atsea that the word marine had reference to the sea

It is delightful to learn from theSenator from South Carolina saidSenator Cummins that the word

has some relation to theBorah Upholds Rim

Senator Borah of Idaho followedCummins with a constitutional ar-

gument upholding President Rooseveltsorder to t emove the marines from thebattleships A for a quorom wasmade Just before Senator Borah be

Georgia took exception to a number oSenator Borates statements and ques-tioned him repeatedly

After Senator speech theSenate voted on the amendment to

the marines to the battleshipsThe amendment was retained in thebill by 51 to li t

Size Is XHscusMoThe question of the sc at the battle-

ships was then taken ap When the bUtwas up last night an amendment bySenator was fixing the

df the battleships at 21000 tons inof 26000 This amendment was

rjrrifd in Committee of the WholeSenator Lodge reserved a separate voteon this feature of the bill In the SenateAfter the disposition of the question ofthe marines tile battleship provisionwas taken up ai 1 Senator Lodge spokeIn favor of the 26OUOton ships

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CHICAGO Feb 17 Joseph MedillPatterson has renounced socialism andproriiaed to be good

Mr Patterson grandson of the lateJoseph Medill four renouncedhis to the Republican partyand supported Edward F Dunne theDemocratic for mayor Hesevered all connection the newspaper founded by his grandfather andbuilt up his father R W PattersonLater n publicly enounced himself tobe a Socialist he has returred tothe Chicago Tribune fold

Patterson served as commissioner ofpublic works under Mayor Dunne edited-a socialist newspaper and made a venture into literary his mbet recentwork A Little Brother of theRich which attracted considerable at

cow SMASH S SLEIGHALLENTOWN Pa i i Slate

dale has a cow that cbj ivito her ownreflection She belongs t J Charles Kernwho bought a new sleigh and left itstanding where bossy cor id see herselfin the surface

She took exception to the reflectionand butted to pieces

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pany Walk Out in aBody

NEW WAGE SCALECAUSE OF TROUBLE

Livery T B Are Used to CarryIts Contracts at Union

Station

With all the formality and decorum ofa deliberate assemblage chauf-feurs employed by the Terminal TaxicabCompany today went on strike Withina few hours the company had pressedforty single and double livery teams in-

to service and was endeavoring to car-ry on its contract with the

Terminal Company to transportpassengers and baggage about the city

The taxi drivers appeared at the of-

fices of the company at fJO thisthe usual hour for reporting They

literally walked right in turned aroundand walked right out again only

to place a written resignation uponthe desk of Superintendent MarshallThe resignations were on printed formssupplied by the grievance committeewhich could not effect a compromisewith General Manager Tickling

Cause of StrikeThe men are striking because of a

new wage scale put into operation lastMonday under which the men receive90 per cent of their collections and

their own gasolene instead of20 cents an hour and gasolene free

under thj old scaleThey declare that they cannot make

a living under the new wage scale Thecompany assert that the men who wantto work can make a good living andthe only ones who will lose are thosewho spend their time Joyrtttog-

Ho Excitementstrike was the roost quiet order-

ly and peaceaLle laying off that hasever been seen in the city There wasnot even a murmur of excitement andthe garage even yet is cast in the deepest gloom and quiet

The chauffeurs walked in this morn-ing in the usual manner and turnedin their resignations as they each morn-ing previously had turned in their time

Then they dispersed going to Us sirhomes or going out looking a fobIn A few minutes the garage wasFor the first time in many months

of the machines disturb tiestillness of the early morning In twosand threes the men strolled around tothe companys offices at 1101 Vermontavenue in their storm coatsand badges bade farewell to the officetOMe there and departed

Ifo Trouble ExpectedThe men say today that they have

no intention of interfering with thecompany or of obstructing its businesn

We have no particular interest inthe matter said one of the

as we have simply terminatedour connection with the company Ifthere is any man who can support him-self much less a family on the newwa e scale offered by the company hecan certainly feel that he hi at perfectliberty to take our places so far as weare concerned Our union althoughnewly organised numbers in its mem-bership all the chauffeurs in the cityexcept those in private employ sandthe company can get no competent-to take our places even if they shouldIncrease the wage offered us

i was declared by companytoday that the new wage Sri percent of all collections the men to payfor their own gasolene was made neces-sary the conduct of some of the menwhom the company found it impossibleto control It was said that in payingthem f fiat rate of cents anhour settle in operation until twoday ago tho company had to menwhite they were skylarking and

riding The practice could notbe controlled and the company couldnot keep tab The new wasadopter a merit system

Cant Earn LivingOn the other hand the men maintain

that it is impossible to earn a livingworking on the 20 per cent basis Theysay that frequently they have to standhour after hour without getting a farebut that the company has tab on themevery minute they are out of thegarage There is a ticket check systemby which the time is kept

The men were represented in their ne-gotiations with the company by a

of four of which John H Bellis chairman The other members wereClarence E Bullman Thomas W Mattingly and Albert A Boas At 30

oclock the committee called upon Man-ager Pickling and asked him if thecompany stood pat upon the newscale They were given an answer inthe affirmative and left Later thecommittee distributed among the menthe resignation form which badhad printed The resignations weremade out turned in this morningThe form is as followsJere FicklinT

General ManagerTerminal Taxicab Company

Dear Sir I hereby resign posttion as chauffeuf with the TerminalTaxicab Company to take effect fromthis date February 17 1909

SignatureOfficials cheerful

General Manager J Pickling whenBeen at tI companys garage thismorning seemed to accept the situa-tion philosophically and to regard thefuture as cheerful

The Terminal Taxicab Companyhe said will not be at all damagedby the toss of its former chauffeursAlready we have seven of our thirtysix cars in operation and we expect-to get the rest of th a on the streetwithin a few days In the meanwhilewe are today operating about fortysingle and double livery teams and to-morrow we shall likely double thismi m her The only m which our

crippled is that we-n t answering any calls except

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NEW YORK WORLDOWNER IS INDICTED

ON LIBELPulitzer of New York arid Develan Smith of

Indianapolis News Must Answer for Comments

Made Concerning Men Who Acted in Pur-

chase of Panama Canal Rights

BENCH WARRANTS ARE ISSUED BY JUDGE

Papers Will Be Forwarded to Gotham and Defendants

Will Have Hearing Before

Employes of the Two Papers Also Involved

Indictments for criminal libel the first step in whatpromises to be one of the biggest Ifljgal ijroeeedings ever instituted in the United States we3 returned today by theUnited States grand jury for the District of Columbiaagainst Joseph Pulitzer owner of the New York WorldDelavan Smith and Charles R Williams proprietors of theIndianapolis News and Editors Caleb M Van Bttren andRobert H Lyman of the World staff

The Press Publishing Company publishers of theWorld was also indicted

Bench warrants were issued this afternoon by JusticeGould of the Supreme Court for the arrest of the indictedmen

The indictments are an outcome of the inquiry set onfoot foil owing a special Presidential to Congressdenouncing the newspapers involved eau of statementspublished by them alleging corruption in euiuiaction withthe disbursement of the 40000000 paid by the

for the properties of the French Panama Canal Com

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names o Charles P Taft brother of thePresidentelect and Douglasbrotberralaw of presieVsnwere prominentlymalloa ws that part of the tnllltonpaid by the Government had founds its

speculatorsWttlfaun Nelson Cromwell counsel for

the Trench company raise occupiedconspicuous place in the aUegsdJan

The inquiry wfctah resulted m the in-

dictments have been expectedsince the Inception of the investigationof the charges exactly one month ago

At that time Mr Roosevelt declaredthat steps would be taken to bring to

STORIES

SAYS CROMWELL

Declares Publication WasThreatened During

Campaign

William Nelson Cromwell in 4 state-ment issued this afternoon declares thecharges upon which the i ndlctmentsagainst the New York World and In-

dianapolis News editors were belled wereinstigated by blackmailers but saysthe World did not know of that fact

The statement followsCromwells Statement

While the grand juhy had thisunder investigation I could not with

proporlety make any public statementBut now that that body after long andfull investigation into every feature ofthe ease has found all the publishedallegations la connection with the

OL the canal property to be whollyfalse and have indicted some of theparties responsible for the circulation ofthese feel that I am freeto

to say in the most positivemanner that the stories respecting thePanama canal purchase bythe New York the Indianapolisyews and other papers and for whichthese editors are Indicted were not le-

gitimate newspaperwere and premeditatedwere made with foreknowledge ofinfamous source and after specificwarning by me of their falsity

Stories ConcoctedThe stories thus published were con-

cocted over two and a half years agoby unscrupulous parties in New Yorksome of whom have criminal recordsin an attempt to blackmail me At thattime these parties made a demand uponme to pay them a large sum of moneywith a threat that if I did not complythe stories would be published I in-

stantly and indignantly denqucced thestories as false in every respect re-

fused to entertain their demands anddismissed the miscreants This attempt-to blackmail me was temporarily drop

but was renewed again andAugust last when 1 was active in thepolitical campaign At that time someof the same people with theirenlarged again attempted to blackmailme and aagin nut before me the al-ternative of paying them 125800 for thesuppression of the stories or havingthem

Refused Demands-In answer to my indignant refusal

they stated that even if they couldsubstantiate the stories and overt if

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ttsse it was thought the Guyfor USA Inves-

lia Mfptoon Cromwell or Douglas Rob-inson have been behind it

The accused men have maintained thatthe saline proceedings was a flagranteffort to oreetide eosjstttotionallyguaranteed right of freedom of the

TIle maximum penalty for the offencewith which they are charged is a lineof UM or five years in prison or boiii

The Frees Publishing Company Pulitser and his editors are Indicted in fivecounts Smith and Williams are Indicted ht six counts

Jvry Present BIlLJohn T Devtee foreman of the grand

jury followed by twentytwo othergrand Jurors entered Jostle Gould s-

court at 12JI oclock and presented thetrue bill

The court received the indictmentsstudied them for three ortour minutes and then handed themto Clerk Hawkins District AttorneyBaker then asked tile eourt to issmbench warrants for the arrest of thnatural defendants and summonses

the corporate defendantsAttorney Henry B Davis who ha

acted as counsel for tIM New Yorknewspaper men was present and uponMr Bakers request declared he didnot believe the issuance of the war-

rants necessary After conferring withhim however the District Attorney repeated his request to tne Justice whoordered the warrants

A certified copy of encit ixl tot men t

accompanied by the beech warrant winbe sent to New York tonight where a-

hearing will soon be held before tfnltiMStates Commissioner John JL Shields tothe removal of the defendant to thisjurisdiction for trial

Koottreits llamaThe name of President Roosevelt ap-

pears in the fourth and fifth countsthe indictment The first count charg s

libel against Charles P Taft Robinsonand CromwelL The second chargelibel against Charles P Taft Cromwtuand JtPierpont Morgan

THhe third recites alleged lihoi

against Charles P Taft RobinsonCromwell RooseveltH is theIn the fourth eotmt and libel aleg i

against him is etted together with oftenses against Presidentelect TarCharles P Taft Robinson and Cronv

welL In the fifth count the Presidentname again leads the Hs and is fol-

lowed by those of XUhu Rooteon Charles P sad Cromwell

Attorney Henry B Davis will leavthis city for New York tomorrow whethe will coafer with members of ttPress

Mr Davis fired the fir gun on thefendants side when he stated this

that his clients will fight againremoval of the case to the District

Counts of IndictmentsThe first count of the indictmer

against th World readsAnd the grand Jurors aforesaid ucon

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