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I INTEDDnOEFENSE" Culberson of Texas Takes Up Cudgels in the Senate. CASE OF NEGRO TROOPS Texas Senator Asserts That President Was Entirely Right in Dischargcharging Colored Soldiers at Brownsville. Senator Culberson of Texas was the first speaker in defense of President Roosevelt's action in discharging, without honor, the Brownsville battalion of colored troops, and re viewed the whole subject exhaustively in a most interesting speech in oonafa Thnrsriav morning. VU^ OtWUVW ? ? ? ^ w. Senator Clay is scheduled for a speech ill which he will follow Culberson in support of the president's action. Senator Culberson scored a point that was appreciated immensely by the galleries, when he said it was no more essential whether the battalion was discharged because they were negroes than it was whether the controversy arose in the senate because they were negroes. Although a senator from Texas, Culberson is very close to Georgia. He was himself born in Alabama, but his father came from Troup county, Ga., and his mother from Columbia county, Ga. He is closely related to many prominent Georgia families. His speech, the first gun ia the contest, brought about by tne Foraker resolution, was listened with interest. Senator Culberson said that he would have kept quiet but for the fact that great injustice had been done the people of Brownsville. Mr. Culberson said the conduct of . the negro soldiers had been very irritating to the Brownsville people, cn tn fho wnmfin. Ho* AUU uv vv Telated that on August 4, last, the <Jay before the shooting up of the town, a criminal assault .had been committed by one of the soldiers on the wife of a reputable citizen, and said that no arrests had been made for the crime. Mr. Culberson defended Captain McDonald of the Texas Rangers, to whom Mr. Foraker had referred because of Major Blocksom's reference to him as a man who was -'so brave that lie hvould net hesitate to charge hell with a bucket of wafer." Mr. Culberson also said he knew Major Blocksom to be a gentleman. In defending President Roosevelt for his dismissal of the troops, Mr. Culberson said the fact that the troops were negroes had nothing to do with their discharge. Confusion as to the legal questions Involved was, he said, responsible for the statement that the president had no authority to make the discharge. The president's legislative authority ana the authority given him by the articles of war clearly covered the case, and made his action legal, he* declared. He contended that discharges lor criminal offenses are covered in the articles of war as are also the charges made to effect punishment. To establish the motive actuating the negro soldiers in creating the alleged disturbance, Mr. Culberson read resolutions recently adopted by' negro citizens of Boston,vhich admitted that the soldiers ,;shot up" the town and said they "were determined to do for themselves what the uniform of their country would not do?protect them from insults and punish at the same time the -authors of their misery." Disclaiming any partisanry for the president, Mr. Culberson created a wave of meriment by saving: "I have nothing to do with the president in this matter. I care nothing about him. 'My personal relations with him are about as coridal as those of the senator from Ohio." (Mr. Foraker.) In all fairness, Mr. Culberson said, the country ought to know that the report made to the president was reliable. EDITOR HEARST SWEARS OFF. Says He Will Never Again Be Candidate for Political Office. William R. Hearst reiterated Thurs- I clay to a committee of the Independ- 1 ence League in New York that he ' , will never be a candidate for office again. Mr. Hearst said: "1 myself will net be a candidate ?or any office, but I am as much interested as ever, and more interested than ever in the promotion of the principles of the Independence League." I FIX A MINIMUM PRICE Is Recommendation of the Louisiana Cotton Planters. The Louisiana branch of the Southern Cotton Association, in its third annual convention at Alexadria, on Wednesday, adopted resolutions favoring the fixing of a minimum price of j cotton, and that cotton seed oil be given more attention by the Southern J Cotton Association. I z BOMB WRECKS BANK. Man Refused a Loan Takes Deadly Vengeance ? Cashier and Himself Torn to Pieces. Two men dead, a score of other3 injured, two of whom may die, and the beautiful interior of a bank building laid in ruins, is the result of a bomb being dropped in the Fourth Street National bank at Philadelphia Saturday by a man who had demanded a loan of $5,000, for which he could show no collateral. The identity of the perpetrator of the outrage was for a time wrapped in mystery, for lie was blown to piesces by his own engine of death. With the finding of his personal effects Sunday, there i3 little doubt that he was Rolla Steele of Gamer, Iowa. The other man killed by the explosion was W. Z. McLear, cashier of the bank, who had been talking to the stranger and ha& refused his request. Among the most seriously Injured are: William Crump*, colored, private messenger to the president of the bank, badly mangled, and may die; William Wright, bank employee, may die; Thomas B. Rutter, Lansdale, Pa., fractured skull; * Frank LaBolde, clerk; A. F. Dominici, clerk; C. R. Poton, clerk; Miss Juha Brady, stenographer. Steele called upon R. F. Rushton, president of the bank, who is also ni-ocWont nf thp Phil.irl^lnhia Cilearinz yivomvuv V*. *>**v ? ?.? w | House Association, shortly before noon and asked for a loan of $3,000. Tlie president quickly sized him up as eccentric and turned him over to i the cashier, with the idea that the | latter would have him taken from the j building. Before leaving .Mr. Rushton i Steele showed him a picture of a wo- j man and a child with the Amark: j "Ain't they all right?" A few moments later there was a terrific explosion which shook the big j building and completely wrecked the interior of the bank. Cashier McLear was in his office when Steele threw the bomb and was instantly killed I With the exception of his right am and shoulder he was not mangled The most seriously injured is William Crump, the colored, messenger, who made a heroic attempt to seize the object which Steele was about to drop from his raised hand, but he was an instant tob late. The messenger is badly torn and if he survives his terrible, injuries he probably will be blind. The Fourth Street National bank is the largest financial institution in the j city and occupies the greater portion j of the first floor of the Bullitt build-! ing, on Fourth street, between Chestnut and Walnut streets, in the heart of the financial district The explosion was, terrific and it caused tremendous excitement in the crowded building and the street. - The explosion oceurred^a few minutes before 12 o'clock, at a time when the bank is usualy well filled with persons in a hurry to transact business before the bank closes. No one saw Steele enter the bank except E. F. Shanbacher, the vice president,who was passing out of the building on his way to luncheon. i BICKERING OVER SUBTREASURY. Southern Cities at Daggers' Points in Fight for Location. A strong delegation from Alabama is in Washington to secure the location of the subtreasury in BinningI bam. The delegation, headed by exGovernor Joseph T. Johnston, consists of Charles J. Allison, G. W. i Pratt, E. W. Barrett and Colonel E. E. Russell. They held an informal caucus with Congressman Bankhead of Ala! bama, at a dinner at the New Willard Sunday night. Binningham is in the fight to a finish, and if Georgia, or any other state, remains out of the caucus of j the south caster^ state delegations, | those taking part will seek to have the decision of the caucus approved by Secretary Shaw. If the secretary does not approve the selection or the caucus so held, it is intimated that Congressman ! Bankhead will defeat the subtreasury bill before the committee on way3 | and means of which he is a member, j If Georgia remains out, as her dele| gate believes she has a right to do, j a bill naming Birmingham, Ala., or \ Columbia, S. C., could no doubt be ' defeated before the finance committee ! of the senate, of which Senator Ba[ con is a member. The fight has reached an ugly stage, and the widespread agitation over the matter has becoipe almost bitter in its intensity. None of the contestants are prepared to admit that they will yield, but none claim to have enough votes to 1 elect. j 3 M'CREA SUCCEEDS CASSATT i As Head of Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburg. At a meeting in Philadelphia Wednesday, James McCrea of Fittsburg, first vice president of the Pennsylvania lines, west of Pittsburg, was elected president of the Pennsylvania Railroad company by directors of the latter corporation, to succeed the late A. J. Cassatt. ' ' . . .. - . THIRTY-FIVE KILLED Another Rail Horror Wherein Death Held High Carnival. BLUNDER OF OPERATOR Trains on Rock Island Road Crash Together and Long List of Victims Added to Almost Daily Quota. . Thirty-five persons, all Mexicans, but three, were killed, fifty-five per sons were injured and bodies cf thirty Mexicans were incinerated early Wednesday morning in a, head-on collision of two passenger trains of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad near Volland, Kans. The wreck occurred while both trains were running-slowly on a curve in a cut where the grade was steep. All the killed were on the southbound train except a tramp, who was on the baggage car of the northbound train. This tramp, a negro porter and a workman accompanying a gang of Mexican laborers, were the only American killed so far as known, although a passenger says that a woman and a child were burned in a tourist car. There were thirty-seven Mexicans and five Americans, comp9sing a gang of railroad workers, in the smoking car of the southbound train. The Mexicans were pinionea uncier the seats, and the dcors were jammed so they could not get out. In the chair car also many passengers were held down by the seats. The train caught fire from the gas tanks. Then came the cries for help among the Mexicans in the smoking car, and the people pinioned fast in the chair car. Every man and woman on the train tried to rescue the unfortunates, but the flames soon became too hot to permit of approaching the car. The injured were removed from the chair cars with less difficulty, and apparently all were rescued alive f*am these cars. In an hour and a half from the time of the wreck the first relCef train from McFarland, Kans., with surgeons and helpers, reached the scene. Another relief train from To peka and two wrecking trains soon arrived, and all of the dead and in! jured that had been taken from the I wreck were removed to Topeka, where | the injured were placed in hospitals, j The foremost tourist sleeping car of | the southbound train also burned, but | all the occupants escaped serious in! jury. ! John Lynes, 19 years old, telegraph operator at Volland, wbo let the southbound train get by his station, where it was to pass the northbound train, was arrested and gave the following statement before being taken to jail. "I had been awake all night, and was sober. At about 4 or 5 o'clock the dispatcher gave me four orders for the southbound train to meet two trains at Volland instead of at Alta Vista, as previously arranged. The southbound train headed into a switch and let one train pass, backed out of the switch and headed down the r.ain track without waiting for the other train. I thought it was going to stop to take water as trains have been doing, but instead it went J>y at about 10 miles an hour." Five minutes before the trains crashed together the operators for hundreds of miles along the line of the Rock Island system knew that the collision was certain, as Lynes had wired from Volland that he had let No. 29 pass, but there was no earthly means of preventing the disaster. Lynes wired: "No. 29 has gone, and I have gone also." I ' ?? urAn nrr nnrusr.ft OU rkAA r nc/11- vr Gruesome Reminders of Rail Horror Near Washington. In an endeavor to identify the mangled bodies of the victims of the Terra Cotta wreck, a gruesome discovery was made at the Washington morgue Wednesday. What was supposed to be the mangled body of a man proved to be the composite remains of several of the unfortunate victims. The heap contained a piece of a baby's skull, a man's foot, badly crushed and encased in a shoe; the hand of a woman and a portion of a human face; also fingers, toes and other ' "* ? ? - ^ Vi rvl. pariS 01 woiueu auu vuixuicii o uwies and those of men, all ground into the black coal dust, and with pieces of garments mixed in the mass. FLOOD IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS. Worst Freshets Kncwn in 20 Years and Great Damage Results! The floods through central Arkansas are the worst known in twenty years. Little Rock and Hot Springs are practically isolated. Many farmers in the vicinity of Little Rock have been driven from their homes, and hundreds of cattle, hogs and live stock have been drowned. / THE BLOCK SYSTEM Used by Southern and B. & 0. to Be Fully Probed. COMMISSION TO INQUIRE Recent Horrible Accidents Lead to Action Under Authority of Resolution Passed by Congress at the Last Session. An inquiry into the operation of the block signal systems of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and of the Southern railway was instituted at Washington Friday by the interstate commerce commission. In making the inquiry, the commission is acting under authority of a resolution of congress adopted at the last session, calling for a report on the working of the railroad block system generally, specific instances of which appear to be a failure of the block signal device, or, as one of the oommissiomers expressed it, the failure of the human end of the device, to prevent accidents involving loss of not only property, but life were afforded by the recent disastrous accidents on the Southern railway at Lawyers, Va., god on the B. & 0. railroad at Tera Cctta, D. C. Officials of both the Southern and the B.& 0. were subpenaed before the commission to give it such information as they might possess. If, after the officers or these lines have been examined, it be deemed desirable to . do so the commission may call officials of other lines on which wrecks recently have occurred, on account of the apparnt disregard of the block signals, or the failure of the system to accomplish its purpose. The following witnesses have been summoned and were present: Charles Selden, superintendent of telegraph; John G. Wilson, assistant general attorney; C. S. Potter, third vice president; J. E. Dent, train dispatcher; J. W. Xeily, Jr., trainmaster; H. S. Padcord, trainman; F. P. Patenall, signal engineer, and Thos. Fitzgerald, general manager, all of the B, & O.; J. S. Hitchcock, a locomotive engineer of Washington, and Eli C. Forrester, of Denver. SEA30ARD GETS SHORT LINE. Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railway Purchased Outright. At a meeting of directors and stock holders of the Macon, Dublin and Savannah railway in Macon, Ga.. Thursday morning, the Seaboard Air Line acquired the former road. Negotiations had been pending for several weeks. The Seaboard was represented in the meeting by Pres. Alfred Walter, Vice President Garett and General Counsel Watts. There were present also General Manager T. K. Scott of the Georgia railroad and the Macon, Dublin and Savannah. This will give a line from Macon to the sea at Savannah. The Maccn, Dublin and Savannah connects at Vidalia with the Seaboard Air Line. The Seaboard already has a line Into Atlanta, and there are now surveyors between Macon and Atlanta lining out a new road just between the tracks of the Southern and the Central of Georgia. It is rumored that there is also a trackage combination between the Seaboard, the Atlantic Coas* Line and the Georgia railroad. The Seaboard Air Line acquired the Macon, Dublin and Savannah by ac tual purchase. The price of the road and conditions of the sale were not made public. A DOUBTFUL PROCEEDING. Savannah Cotton Men Do Not Believe Charges of Fraud. The members of the Savannah, Ga., cotton exchange do not believe that Harvie Jordan and Congressman L. P. Livingston will be able to substantiate the charges of fraud against the New York cotton exchange. WANTS PUBLIC TO DECIDE. Atlanta Liquor Dealers Favor a Prohibition Election. The Retail Liquor Dealers' Association of Atlanta has declared in favor of holding a prohibition election. This action was taken at a meeting held Wednesday, when resolutions to that effect were adopted. It Is frankly recited in the resolution that the retail dealers do not desire prohibition, but wish the matter to be settled definitely by the public. AT FIFTY CENTS PER COPY. The President's Panama Message, IIlustrated, Can 3e Had. To meet a great public demand for the recent message of the president to congress narrating the events of his trip to t.lie Isthmus of Panama j last fall, the government printing office has prepared an edition with seven appendices and ?.v/enty-six fullpage illustrations, which will be srld to the public by the superintendent of documents upen aplicaticn for 50 cents per copy. A CZAR OF RAILROADS Is Multi-President Harriman, Accord* ing to Developments Before Commerce Commission. Modern methods of combining and consolidating the mammoth railway systems and extending the principle of community of interest, were delved into Friday at great length by the interstate commerce commission, which began ia New York city an inquiry into the so-called Harriman lines. The object of the commission is to determine whether the Harriman lines, or any of the railroads of the country, are consolidated or combined in restraint of trade. At Friday's hearing It was brought out, and admitted, that the Union Pacific Ra'ilroad company, the South ern Pacific company,trie Oregon snort Line and the -Oregon Railroad and Navgation company are practically under the same administration, Mr. Harriman appearing as president of each company,-with only slight Variations in the lists of other officers. It was further shown that the Southern Pacific company owns the Pacific Mail Steamship company, and that the Southern Pacific company and the Harriman interests are in control of the Portland and Asiatic Steamship company. All three of these companies run steamers either between San Francisco and Portland and the Orient. It is said that the Occidental Steamship company is extinct, but it rtill operates two steamers. On the Atlantic ocean it was shown that the Southern Pacific owns the ; lines of steamers running between New York and New Orleans, formerly known as the Morgan line. The Union Pacific, by means of an agreement siged by Mr. Harriman and Senator William A. Clark, has- a trafLc arrangement with the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake railway, extending over a period of ninety-nine years. The San Pedro cannot raise or lower its rates without the consent of the Southern Pacific company, which, it was stated, does not own one dollar of stock in the Sau Pedro company. The Union Pacific exercises joint control with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railway over the Chicago and Alton railway. The agreement is that the Union Pacific shall have charge of ther road one year and the Rock Island the next. The Union Pacific owns 268,123,100 worth, of stock or 29.59 per cent of the capitalization of the Illinois Central railroad. The Union Pacific also owns $50,802,300 worth of stock of the St. Jo* seph and Grand Island railrcad, which is 37.37 per cent of the whole. UP TO GOVERNOR FOLK. i - 4 Unless He Interferes Mrs. Myers and Hottmann Will Hang. Judge John Phillips, in the United States district court at Kansas, denied the application of the attorneys for Mrs. Aggie Myers for a writ of habeas corpus. Thi3 means that Mrs. Myers, who is now in jail at Liberty under sentence of death for the murder of her husband, and Frank H. Hottmann, in jail at Kansas City, for complicity in the crime, will be executed on January 10. unless Governor .Folk intei feres. WAR CLAIMS CONSIDERED i By House of Representatives in Committee of ^he Whole. The house Friday considered In committee of the whole the question relating to war and other claims. The claims embraced in the bill are for j stores and supplies furnished the i army of the United States during the civil war by northern sympathizers in southern siates. It carried a total of $981,000, of which amount $320,027 are for French spoliation claims. Costly Fire in Mine. A fire which started from the flash of a miner's blast in the Ellsworth mine No. 3, at Cooksburg, Pa., owned by the Lackawanna Coal company, caused a loss of $400,OfO. SAME OLD ANARCHIST. Alexander Berkman, Just Out of Prison, is Again Nabbed. Alexander Berkman, who las sum ?J rf o fo'w nr4o. mer was reieuseu uum o O pilO" on after having served fourteen years for an attack on Kenry C. Frick, following the Homestead, Pa., riots of 1892, Emma Goldman, and two others, were a rested in New York Sunday by detectives who broke up an anarchists' meeting in the East Side. Emma Goldman made the speech which moved the police to action, while Eerkman exhorted the audience to disobey the command to disperse. NOBEL MEDAL ARRIVES. Gift of Norway to Roosevelt Received j at the White House. The Nobel prize medal, recently conferred on President Roosevejt by the Norwegian storthing, has been received at the white house, having | been transmitted by American Minister Fierece at Christiania. With the medal is a dipldma setting forth the award. The prize money,which approximate something over. $37,000, ha* ' net yet arrived. \ HORDESjtf ALIENS | Came to Our Shores Duringia the Year 1906. ' ^|i FIGURES ARE 1,166,3$3|9 Character and Intellectual Grade of . ~J| Immigrants Not So High as In ' '|| I the Past?How the Newconv 2 ers Were Distributed. ; A Washington dispatch says: The fiscal year ended June 30, 3&U6, prokj|l| n o/">l mt-'nrr all TnrmMt'^fSw UUV^CU a 1 V Wi u VV*v^ WAUg mm?m figures on the subject of imin{graUon?^j J according to the annual report J% Frank Sargent, the commissioner gfiB&Ki eral of immigration. During that Pi^ 3 riod, the report says, the population >~|| of the united States was increaatNL^J by the admission of 1,100,735 grant aliens, and 65,618 non4mniii|sl 1 grant aliens entered at its ports, m ing the total admission 1,166,353. Thjjj^H increase over last year's record Of 059,735 (1,026,499 aliens, plus transits), was 106,698. During the cal year 1905, 11,480 aliens ware jected, and during the past year l&y|-a| 432. Of the immigrant aliens, thafrjjflSS^ those who intended settling hi tt^MM United States, there were 764^4^?^ males and 336,272 females; 3 The tendency of immigration durlngl^H the past few years to gather ItBjpl steady increase principally from countries of southern Europe is refe^^j "Without exception," the says, "the countries from which Jfl formerly obtained the greater parti^H^^P our foreign population, and whldijn^-ifl inhabited by races nearly akin to own. supplied ns with a smaller ber during the past year than darigjlgSH 1905?Ireland, 19,950; Sweden,: Germany, 3,010; Denmark, 1,120, ' Scotland, 1,111 fewer. On tb^ hand the four 'most considerable are Italy, 51,5641; Russia, 30^mB^^8 Greece, 8,974, and Turkey (in EtariMjlM and Asia), 5,165. The liomigMj|^| * from Austria-Hungary amounted.^^^S 205,138; Italy, including Sicily afp Sardinia, 273,120; Russian empire ajffijj Finland, 215,665; China, 1,541; Japrafl 13,835, and the West Indies, i3,^@f||| The immigration from southern eastern Europe the repent says, ?p| result of general unrest. eadjm|SB among the laboring classes lip fTiii^ffW sections, which is encouraged or mK^I fomented by the steamship scouring the coimtry for pasaeajlgB^fl and the commission says more^^SK^B tic measures are required to discontinuance of these steamfljwifaM practices. x-"otH That the physical and mental,ties of the immigrants we are ceiving is much below that of who have conje in former 'yeat^BroraB The north Atlantic and norjSi'i^^pB tral states, together, received 9f)fji I cent of the entire immigration of the south 4 per cent. As in previib^^B years, the hulk of the^ immigragiffipB were destined avowedly to a the large centers of population,"i3ffl|- j|H 708 claiming New York state, 19S^p^H assertedly were going to Pennsj^^W^j nia, 866,539 to Illinois and 73,S6^j|||jg Massachusetts. - ' H BAD MEN IN PHILIPPINES ,J|M To Be Subjects cf Warfare on Part 48^ Government Authorities. The authorities in the PhiHppiMBaB are determined to rid the islands all undesirable characters, and totfljBfl end they have decided to accotdlt^eftSB all dishonorably discharged soldtinplfl It is stated that, after discharge, men have been accustomed to hiw|||3i around the garrisons and they addr^^^H that class of the population neither a credit nor' a proht to * im i i ^'i, ' Andy Honors Indfan Andrew Carnegie has given $5O,O0jj^H| to build a creek memorial hall 19 mulgee, I. T., in honor of the celeb)Pii^^ ,l ed Creek chief, Esparhacker. LIVES LOST IN HOTEL BLA^^^H Two Men and a Woman Failed to E* cape from Burning Structure, ^ Three lives were lost In a fire destroyed the American hotel at hi, N. Y., early Sunday morning. TbraH dead are; William Winter, druggisti|P|l Mrs. Mary Winter, his wife; ^^Ifi O'Connor, tailor. ^ All were suffocated. They were pei>Jw mancnt guests at the hotel. Jj The fire was discovered in ttoJlj-Jj apartments of Winter and his wife ott the third floor, and oy the time firemen arrived the structure was ?>191 mass of flames. _ SWINDLER COMES TO GRIEF. Flower Nabbed by Detective* Aftlf*|| J Four Year* of Pursuits R. C. Flower, alias C. G. Daln*T>i^H who has been a fugitive from York since 1903, where he is waaj??jj|| to answer charges of grand and swindling creduilous Investor*-'^ out of about $1,000,000 on gus mining operations, was arrest^^pj in Philadelphia Friday. '"'"m