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Show yOU ML No. 108 $ubliBtrft Daily at (Ogbru. lltal; 23 SENATE TUESDAY, APRIL 28 1908 FOURTH MESSAGE OE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT FOR BIG FLEET T TO Turned Down By four Battleship's Heatf Vote President Is Satisfied. D. C., April 27 -O O TpHnlxHIlone :Head of the Nation the WASHINGTON, April 28. iyr an Roose-fd- t, helming vote. President programme failtt dld ln th - Ju,t ed la the Sen1The amendment for four HooM wae introduced by Senator th flht tor lU dPtlon nd P1M led by Senator Beveridge. vu vote were cast for the programme, the number largelelected y being made up of recently to voted Senator geaatora. Fifty the Houee and the recommen-ditio- n of the Senate naval committee battlesta jgvor of building only two lp " bat-tlMh- ip Twen-ty-thr- ee in-yy- ed sup-pa- rt hip Beveridge Leads the Fight -The debate on the battleship amend neat iaeted three daya to the exclusion of all other matters. It was begun by gr..tnr Beveridge with an eloquent appeal far the support of the President and a suggestion that the larger navy night he needed for war. Members of the committee upbraided the Indiana gtnator for this veiled hint of war frith another country, and sought to chim admit that ha meant Japan. tP-f- At times the discussion came near becoming acrimonious, especially sharp exchanges occurring between Senator The forAldrich and Mr. Beveridge. mers reference to Mr. Beveridge excited Senator Smith of Michigan to beprotest against the Senate chamber ing made a "slaughter house for the young senator from. Indiana." Two Ships Each Year Senator Allison there la a understanding among the Senate lead era for the authorisation of two battleship each year until the American navy la regarded as sufficient to meet any demands that may be made It was developed by during the debate that well-defin- It upon 8imSG!Tx'Ui, ed " to congress the fourth message of session, ln it the Preldent makes an- other plea for the enactment of a law limiting the power of courts In Issuing Injunctions and for an amendment to the anti-tru- st law. The situation in both the senate and the house were such that the mes-aag- e received but went attention. Ths message arrived late in the day and the house waa so tied up under its new rules that it could not officially receive the message, while the senate waa In the midst of consideration of the naval appropriation bill under the j te rule when the document reached that body. Unlike the house, the senate permitted the formal presentation of the message, but it could not at that time be laid before the senate, and by the time the naval bill had been disposed of the hour was so late and the attendance so small that no attempt waa made to read the document. The first few lines only had been pronounced by the clerk when it was suggested that the further reading should be postponed. Hew it Works in Boston In the course of hla message the President refers to the finance committees report of Boston relating to certain practices of corporations with that city. In this report from Boston it Is alleged that collusive bids were submitted by structural steel dealers The President says he submitted the report to the bepartment of Justice for investigation and action under the anti-tru- st law. The report on this Boston case le given In full ee an appendix to the message. Would Like Mere Power . In the course of hla mesagr President Roosevelt eays: Power should unquestionably be lodged somewhere In the executive branch of the government for permitting . combinations which further iho public interests; but It must he remembered that as regards wealthy combinations, through which most inteten-minu- r-state business today la din the burden of proof should be upon them A a finally passed the hill carried apto show that they have a right to ex1121,115,151, propriations aggregating ist and provides for the construction of National Incorporation l.aw and two two battleships and colliers, No Judicial tribunal has the knowlthe purchase of three additional edge or the experience to determine In the construction of submarines, the first place whether a given comand other necessary craft; 'and inbination la advisable or necessary In creases the pay of officers and enlisted men, as well as Incrsaslng both the pay and the strength of the marine col-He- rt, Demands Greater Power lor exempted ii - fn-r- I'-- ii t iholr action restrain trad i':.- - rr,-,.- . mt may auch excmpilmi aonM in nil Deal With iindinbility make the law u.i on- -i iiu-- i tional. lie maintain the run; i f l.ilior to combine, to strike ai il to Attention Paid Labor. enter into trade agreement .vpli employer. On thi point he -- ay: Ended Daya of "But we Khnuld sanction ncith.-a w uid boycott nor a blacklist whl.-PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN A SEPECIAL MESillegal et common law. The mea-- , ;;.he SAGE SENT TO CONGRESS LATE YESTERDAY PAYS PARTICUurc advocated ere in the inti-iv-- t of decent and eoriwiratlon LAR ATTENTION TO COMBINATIONS BOTH OF CAPITAL AND In union. They are i the LABOR. public Interest, for in my Judgment HE DEMANDS GREATER POWER FOR THE EXECUTIVE A the American people have definitely made up their mind that the duy of TO DEAL WITH GREAT CORPORATIONS. corporal ion I over. HE POINTS THE WAY TO A NATIONAL CORPORATION LAW. In urging the enactment of legislaHE DEMANDS THE ABOLITION OF THE ABUSES OF THE INtion limiting the power of injunct inns as punishment for conteniit the PresiJUNCTION IN LABOR CASES. dent says that in contempt rases save A CHILD LABOR LAW FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. where Immediate action Is Imperative trial should be before another Judge. TEMPORARY FINANCIAL LEGISLATION. White Men are BtiaJ APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSION TO CLEAR THE WAY FOR They are blind," he says, who fall A REVISION OF THE TARIFF. to realise the extreme bitterness caused among large bodies of worthy rlti-sen- s AN APPROPRIATION TO MAKE THE HEPBURN LAW EFby the use that has been repeat-edl- y FECTIVE. made of the power of injunctions A POSTAL in labor deputes. SAVINGS BANK LAW. I ask that It be some limited such in way as I have IN THE APPAESTABLISHMENT OF FOREST RESERVES pointed out In previous mesmges." LACHIAN MOUNTAIN SYSTEM. For Tariff and Money Held There. , the Executive to Corporations to Special Law-BrvaV- r h i law-abidi- ly -- Greater New York Excited Over a White and Black Banquet I XKW YORK. April "h -- The meetof the Cosmopolitan ing t.lub last tween the while and logroeH. has ing for its purpose intermarriage between the whites and negroes has caused much excitement. Rev. Madison O, lVters, who wa a guest of the club and who left unceremoniously before the program waa fiuishvd, said to- day: No Intermarriage For Hiss "I had no idea when 1 attended the meeting that It was proixmed to advocate intermarriage. underMy standing was that the meeting waa to bring together differvpt races In nler to protest against the spirit of caste in a general way. There Is no such tiling as equality even among the negroes themselves, but I do believe the American people must do justice to the negro on his merit. Perannslly It would be needle for ni to say that I do not believe in Intermarriage of the races." Study m Black and White Mr. rPters said that the sight of white women seated as they were seated last night surprised him. II said he had attended religious conThe ITesIdent further expresses the ference and had seen whiles and belief that congress will at thia ses- blucks eat at the same table; but had sion enact a child labor law for thr never seen go carefully arranged plan District of Columbia; that steps will carried out with black men and white be taken for an Investigation of tariff women alternating around the banconditions by an appropriate commitquet table. tee of Congress and government exDr, Waehingten ia Mum. perts preimratury to a revision of tariff schedules by the congress to be IliKiker T. Washington was greatly elected next , fall; that temporary agitated over the story of the tosmo-pnllts- n financial legislation will be enacted to banquet, especially over Mine provide against possible emergencies; of the statements given out. lie sent and that a commission of experts be word to the hotel clerk that he should appointed to Investigate thr entire sub- not be dlslurlied. A call at hla room ject, to recommend legislation which later brought the resHinse that Dr, will put nur financial system on an Washington has nothing to say." efficient and permanent basis." Miss Mary White Overton today A Faw Other Things said: ft was a gathering of high The President also recommends the minded men and women with a noDI establishment of a Fwtal savings bank purpose. Fersonally I am not In favor system; ample appropriation to ennble of Intermarriage. I dont believe that commerce commission project waa favored by any whit perthe Inter-stat- e to properly supervise and control the sons present last night. The great accounting syatems of railways; and trouble Is that the noblenese of the ths establishment of a forest reserves purpose of the Cosmopolitan club Ik In the Appalachian systetm. not appreciated by those, too narrow and biased to appreciate Iho wrong don8 t colored men." law-evadi- g, . the Interest of the public. Somebody, ever upright and able a Court is it whether a commission or a bureau, tin- cannot act constructively, only der the department of commerce and destructively ea an agency of the government and this mans that labor, should he given thin power. My belief Is that ultimately we th courts are and must always lie unshall have to adopt a national Incorpor- able (o deal effectively wtlh a problem ation law, though I am aware that Ibis like the present which requtns constructive action. Therefore It is (.tear may be impossible at present." that unless a national Incorporation Dual System a Failure. Discussing the Impossibility of main- law can be forthwith enacted sometaining dual control by congress and body or bodies in the executive serthe states and pointing out how it la vice should be given the power to pats upo romblnattoni and agreements ln corImpossible to control lnttr-iiK- t to 1nter-stKoote-ve- lt relation commerce, and In Pretident this way porations combination or agnement such evefy aays: not thus approved should tie treated At present the failure cf congress as a violation, of the law and prosecuto utilise and exercise the great powers conferred upon it, a regards inter- ted accordingly. Issuance of securities state commerce, leaves this c immeive by any combination doing' should be under g iver ament to bs regulated not by the states nor business . . on "UIrv yet by congress, but by occaviuoal Nice Words for Labor necessarily Inadequate and action by the federal Judiciary. How- Speaking of the efforts to have l.ilxr niga-livel- y. at Inter-stat- , j one-side- d I e corps. E The President's Program ARE AFTER THE Two battleships ai year la what President Roosevelt eaya he has acc- omplished through hla fight for his naval programme. Had he been victorious In having four auch ships authorised at thia session, the United States could have' dictated terms of disarmament to the nations of the world. This statement, made tonight following the pannage by the Senate today of the naval bill calling for two new battleships, la understood to reveal the President's source of strength in the naval fight which has been waged strenuously. Furthermore, so two ships thin year with the promise of two ships each year to follow, which the President has accepted as a bona-fld- e stipulation on the pert of the Senate, means simply a programme which will place the United States In the front rank' of naval progression, tat which fails to pace It ln tion of dictating a cessation .aggression. the posi- of naval EF Hi PERJURY WASHINGTON. D. C, April The inter-stat- e commerce cwnmtalon today sent to the senate a report charging that acquisition of coal lands In Colorado and Utah by the Pleasant Valley Coal company snd Utah Fuel ft Iron company 21 attended by fraud and 7 tarjury and with violence And to disregard of the rights of In- - v dlviduals." J i report says that the en- tiw capital stock of 12.250.000 of the Pleasant Valley Coal oonjpany Is owned by the Utah rnel company. The latter la capitalised for tll.000.5M and Is by the Rio Grande Western company, which la owned by th Denver ft Rio Gmnde railroad. The report ,! chargee the railroads with illegal rebates and other O ,pclai facilities to these com- The Denies. . OGDEN SAUCER TRACK At a well attended meeting held ln the Weber club rooms last evening the City Improvement league elected officers for the ensuing year, received a report from its special committee on the High school matter and adopted resolutions setting forth Its position as to a new High school building. The officers chosen are Prof. Frank M. T Angus Driggs. president; Don Wright, first Prof. Cheap Treatment for Officers and Maguire, second L. S William Allison, secretary; Men of the Fleet Causes Hodgson, treasurer. J. C. Nye. John 8. Lewis, Prof Complaints. Frank M. Driggs, Rev. J. E. Carver, Rev. P. M. Cushnahan and City Engineer A. F. Parker, acting as a special SANTA BARBARA, April 28. Scant committee, submitted the following as courtesy to officers and enlisted men Its report: of the great fleet la the record of the Mr. President ' and Members of the here. It first day's official League: j costs 812 a day for a room; 16 cents Gentlemen: We, your committee apfor a piece of pie; 10 cents for a postal pointed to confer with the board of card. When Admirals Thomas, Bperry education asking said board to resuband Emery and their subordinate offi- mit the question of hounding the city cers returned the visit of Mayor Ware to building a High school, beg leave there were fewer members on the re- to report' ae follows: First We held a meeting with the ception committee than on the officers staff. The admirals were presented board of education and discussed with with boxes of crystallised fruit and pots them the needs of the new High school of carnations. and grade schools, the probable causes The Bailors are unhappy. Today they of the defeat of the recent call for wired Mayor Harper of Los Angeles, bonds and the advisability of resubmit"Nothing doing here. Get ua trans- ting the bond question to the people of ferred back to Loa Angelea" Ogden. Second In company with the presiSociety is being royally entertained at the exclusive cottage hotels, but dent of the board of education and the no represents tlves of the fleet are In superintended t of schools your committee visited and Inspected, while In sesattendance at any of these functions. Far Revenue. Only sion, the High school and the MadiSeveral hundred Blue Jackets were son reboot. Third We believe that the recent missing from quarters this momlnas little caused surprise absence Their question of voting to issue bonds to the men feel that they are being mis- build a new High school waa defeated, treated here. They claim that the because of. the fact that many of our spirit of the entire entertainment, with cltiaena did not realise the needs of but few minor exception, has been our public schools and because of for revenue only. wrong Impressions which gained cirThere to a reception In honor of the culation at that time. officers at the McCall home thia Fourth We find the hoard of educaand a dance at the country tion to be composed of excellent men club this evening. whose every desire la to give Ogden best school system possible and to the FOUR MAY HAVE PERISHED do It as economically as can be. They 28. Mrs submitted this question to the people, LAPORTE, Ind., April chil- believing it to be the beat, easiest and three her and Belle Gunnerson tomost satisfactory way of solving the dren are believed to have perished deThe Issuance of bonds aeems which problem. fire day In an incendiary the ua cheapest way for the poor of thle city. to stroyed their home north . LEMONS FOR JOLLY TIGS vice-preside- vice-preside- fun-maki- . af-rai- on man to give hla children a spiendiift High school and a better education. It to not right right to deprive our growing boys and girls of the best. The burden of an increased tax would fall upon the big corporations and heavy property owners, who are not opposed to the movement. This additional tax la an Insignificant sum when compared with the Immense benefits to be derived by the young men and women who are to be our future cltlxens. Joseph Hair of Midway Killed in Think of the greater result with proper Mount Rock Mine NearvHeber facilities and with practically no Increased cost The gentlemen comprisCity This Morning. ing the board of education do not wish to resubmit the bond question, although they know. Ogden must have (State Journal Special.) more room for Its High school and the SALT LAKE CITY, April 28. Joseph grade schools as well, and they will not ask citixens to vote for bonds again Hair, employed In, the Mount Rock unless they are assured that the ques- mine near Heber City, was virtually tion will be approved and supported. blown to pieces In the underground Fifth We find that every available workings of that mine this morning, room In the High school la filled to its and Elijah Watkins waa seriously if fullest capacity and that halls and cloak rooms are partitioned off and not fatally Injured. Hair and Watkins were working a utilised for class rooms. We find also that undesirable basement rooms are the 2,000-folevel, Walklns being at of necessity occupied by classes every work some distance from Hair. The school hour of the day and that the latter waa warned, so It le aald, before stairways leading from the first floor he went Into the mine, that he waa and are dark to these basement rooms narrow and very much hinder the ex- working near an old powder hole fn the change of classes. Even the main mine that bad never been exploded. stairway are so arranged as to cause TwUy he struck his pick into the pow. a congestion of students at the end of fcr hote and a terrific explosion class period. These conditions k)Wed Halrs head waa blown off and would be far from satisfactory In csss . death wa .,8tanUlwmi I oI flra Watkins waa badly bruised and he Sixth 'The present High school j was almost blinded by gravel being building does not provide sufficient blown fn hla eyes, but It to believed he room for chemical physical and other will recover. laboratories, for domestic science, art Both men lived at Midway. Hair, and manual training classes, for cloak who was 20 years old, leaves a widow rooms, or a suitable library. The audi- and seven children. torium is not large enough to seat the The funeral of Hair will be held al entire school. There la no gymnasium Monday Wednesday afternoon. for the proper Indoor physical education of boys and girls. There is but ITALIANS WILL NOT one room for this purpose and that a SEE OLD COUNTRY small basement room with old plank NEW YORK, April 28. Six Italians, floor, poorly ventilated and with no apparatus whatsoever. The toilet rooms who Intended leaving tomorrow for should be more suitably arranged for Europe to return to their old homes, sanitary as well as moral reasons from which they had been absent for And besides this there Is no campus or some time, were asphyxiated in a hotel here today, as a result of blow- tli (State Journal Special.) SALT LAKE CITT, April 28. John Chapman, who owns tho saufrr track at Saltair, Iver Redman, who has leased the Suit Palace track, and Harry Heagren, are all said to be after the Ogden saucer track. Heagren la said to be In the lead aa he has signed up contracts with many of the big riders, and thus he has the "bulge," in sporting parlance. MOSAIC LAW IN FORCE PITTSBURG, Pa., April 28. Wliliai McLeod McDonald, alias Smith of Gosport, England, was hanged here today for the murder of his common law wife, Mrs. Bessie II yslop, whose throat he cut with a raaor September 18, 1987. STEEL EARHIHGS ot fol-eve- ry (Continued on Page Six.) ing out tho gaa CUT ONE F NEW YORK, April 28. The new board of the United State Steel corporation this afternoon organised by electing the retiring officers. A regular dividend of 1 4 per cent, on the preferred stock waa declared and a half of 1 per cent, on the common stock. The report for the quarter ending March 81 net earnings of last showed 8-- 818,228,005 against 839,122.402 for the same period of last year. VICTIMS OF THE CYCLONE HELENA, Ark., April 28 Seven survives of the steamer :Helena, that was turned over In a cyclone here resulting In the death of twelve show people, are In a serious condition today. The remaining 78 members of tho Wright Exposition company are |