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\- -y &: ' " ; < I. ^: . REFUSED A BRIBE And Was Promptly Fired By Colorado Legislature. V * ^ A SENATOR'S HARD LUCK f ? w w I ? t ? ? w ? -w WWW > > . w wv v . . - x-Governor Peabody Files Notice of Contest Against Adams and Specifies Charges to Sustain His c Contention. The Colorado senate Thursday; by a party vote, seated James B. Dick in pl&ce of Senator Robert M. Born. Dick was unseated by the democratic' majority during the contest over election of United States senator two years ago. Senator Bern refused to give up his seat and was forcibly ejected by the sergeant at arms. Senator Daniel Healy, who was seated two years ago in place of Jesse F. McDonald, now lieutenant governor, was also expelled by a vote of 18 to 15, the same as Bora's case. Senator Horace T. De Long, repupli-can, protested against the action as unconstitutional. The democrats al- ; lege that a two-thirds vote is neces. - nary to expel members, and may apply to the supreme court for redress. T? ? nn nf tVi A I AH a s>u*vciUT;ut uu uw* w*. v?v senate Healy declared that an attempt had been made to bribe him. He saiu that on Saturday during the Joint session he was called into a private roonrttfTu "was told tnat if he -would vote for tne confirmation of Judge GotTdard he need have no fear of* being unseated. The senate membership is now twenty republicans and thirteen democrats, with three vacancies. ?<,:f Contest r^Ted by Peabody. Notice of forihrr Governor Peabody's contest against Governor Alva Adams for the office of governor was ^ filed before the legislature during the day. The complaint sets forth the allegation that the ballots for Adams on the face of the returns as finally canvassed was obtained by means of a conspiracy in Denver and several I ~ counties. The legislature is petitioned to open the ballot boxes from a number of Jrv precincts. It is ^*eged the frauds in some precincts were so extensive and varied it that would be impossible to segregate the true from the false ballots. ' It is charged that 10.000 names were used in Denver on elections, and ; that the registration books contained at least 15,000 false, fraudulent and mythical names. It is further set forth that 10,000 totes were cast by > repeaters in the city. Charges of ballot box stuffing, substitution of prepared ballots for those v " cSSt by voters and miscounting by election judges are also included In the specifications of fraud. Another charge is that, in order to defeat Governor Peabody, ballots already mark; v: v. ed with a cross for Adams were handed by the election officers to voters who were known to be republicans, j Peabody asks to have ninety-five Denver precincts thrown out, and claims that the vote of the county should show 6.300 plurality for him instead of 4.903 for Adams as canvassed. & The accusation is made that in , Pueblo 1,200 aliens were voted for j 2" in nine precincts, and that 300 republican voters were prevented from cashing their ballots through the *cts of watchers appointed by the district judges. ' whipping post recommended. "\ .* .? ____ Chief Executive of Oregon Makes the Recommendation in Message. # The Oregon legislature, in session at Salem. Thursday, listened to the reading of Governor Chamberlain's message. The message carried a I recommendation that a law be rassed establishing whipping-posts for wjfebeaters. A great demonstration followed the reading of this clause in .the message, the applause lasting for ' - .several minutes. i =r ? company did big businesss. _____ i Georgia Railway and Electric People To6k in $1,600,000 Curing 1904. The -gross receipts of the Georgia "v--. Railway and Electric Company at At' lanta for the year 1904. on which the company pays the city a tax of 1 per cent amounted to the slim of $1,600,000. This amount covers the receipts from t?e street railway, gas light, steam-heating companies ? in fact, all j the properties owned and controlled I under the name of Georgia Railway j and Electric Company. A QUEEN OF SMUGGLERS. If- ? | Mrs. Chadwick Dealt in Precious , Stones to Almost Fabulous Extent I The Cleveland Plain Dealer in Mon-1 day's issue says: Investigation into the charge that Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick smuggled large quantities of diamonds, gems and other precious stones into this country, has developed the fact that the woman dealt In precious stones to an almost fabulous extent. \ I I:: < v POKER FOR GENTTLES. Defense in Smoot Investigation Put Up Versatile Witness, Who Talks of Morale of Mormons. Testimony intended to prove that j the Mormon morale is of the highest type and to refute the word of wit* nesses wno nave aeciarea me wu- i trary to be true> was offered by ooun- I sel for Senator Reed Smoot a. Washington Wednesday. W. J. McCon- ' nell, formerly a United States senator I from Idaho, and twice governor of fcis state, and Representative B. L. French, a member of the present congress, and re-elected for another term, I were the day's witnesses. ^ It was the opening sasssion of the defense in the Smoot investigation. { Senator Knox, a new member of the * committee, attended for the first time. ] The committee room was crowded. j There is a sentiment in the committee in favor of pressing the investigation to a conclusion, and with that end in view it was aanounced that ] beginning Thursday longer sessions of 1 the committee will be held. Both witnesses examined , denied t many statements directed against the j Mormon church and its alleged inter- 4 ferences in political affairs. < Mr. McConnel described his occu- i pation as former merchant, jolit'elan ! ] and lawyer for his friends. He was a j senator of the fifty-first congress and j ( was governor of Idaho from 1S9C to ' } 1896 inclusive, serving two succes-' j sive terms. He is a member of the ! i Presbyterian church. | t * ** - ? -? A_ | T-fle winiess was asaea to uwuius , the political conditions and took up | early days when he said he had lob- , i bied before the legislature vhen the j ^ first effort was made to disfranchise j the Mormons. Ho declared that he ; was prejudiced against Mormons. l*t that he found that most of the gen- { ; tiles were practicing "the science. , which in our country is called poker." ( He said he had never known Mormons to gamble and drink. He followed this testimony with a review of his < acquaintance with Mormons during ! . the agitation against the religion in ! , Idaho. He assisted in bringing about j ( the repeal of the test oath of citi- ; zenship and afterwards went among j the Mormons on a lecture tour. He ! < had observed, the people, he said, and ! < their morals was of a high, praise- I , worthy character. j ; Senator Knox asked counsel to In- ( form him as to what part of the case the examination of Mr. McConnell ] was relevant. Mr. Worthington said ; he was unable to answer that conun- < drum, but that a great mass of ir- ] relevant testimony was admitted' for .1 the protestants to which objection had been made and overruled. He said the testimony of. Mr. McConnell #: was in reply to this and practically ! to that of Charles H. Jackson, chair-1 man of the Idaho democratic committee. who testified that no candidate for office, democratic or republican, 1 could stand against the Mormon church. TEXANS WILL BURN COTTON. I ? Agreement Reached to Destroy Stir- : plus of One Bale Weekly. | An agreement to burn their share j of surplus cotton was rerMied at a ] mass meeting of the farmers of the j ; Brazos, Texas, region, A committee ; of three took a bale of cotton and ap- j plied a match, and as the flames raged j the following resolution was passed: "Resolved, That we burn a bale of; cotton every Saturday until we burn ! at least fifteen bales of cotton, our! part of the two million bales request- j ed to be burned by the people in the cotton belt of the United States." MISSOURI SENATOR ON RACK. Niedringhaus Must Explain as to ; Whether He Bought His Seat. In the Missouri house of represen tatives Wednesday a resolution was . unanimously adopted providing for the 1 appointment of a committee to inves- i ( tigate the charge that contributions i , had been made to the campaign fiwd ! for the purpose of securing the elec- | tion of Thomas K. Niedringhaus of St. j , Louis, as United States senator to i I succeed Senator Oockrell. i RATE QUESTION PARAMOUNT. ! President Determined to Give Mors Power to Commerce Commission. i President Roosevelt continued Wed| nesday his conference with members ! of congress on the subject of tariff j | revision and legislation providing f6r an increase of the powers of the interstate commerce commission. One ; statement, given out, is that unless congress, at the present session, I should enact legislation looking to a* regulation of railroad freight rates, an I extraordinary session of the fifty-ninth J congress will be called by the president to deal with that problem. RAILROAD TO GOLD FIELDS. Seattle Business Men Will Undertake Construction of Line to Yukon. ; SpattlA hiialnftss mpn and ranltftlists are to undertake the construction of a railroad from Valdez, Wash., through the Copper River valleys to a point on the American Yukon. Within a few days articles of incorporation will be filed at Olympia. The company will have a capitalization of $5,000,000. ' * FRENCH CRITICISE For Harboring Ship? of the Russian Sqiad.on. STOESSEL AT NAGASAKI Vanquished Hero of Port Arthur Arrives on Japanese Soil ? Closing Act 0f a Great War Drama. The Japanese transport Kama*aru from Port Dalny, January 11, with Greneral Stoessel and others aboard, irrived at Nagasaki, Japan, Saturday. Preceded by a few police officers, and followed by his retinue, General Stoessel slowly wended his way up the lill to a prettily situated bungalow on Lnasa hill, where he will be quar:ered. Half way there some dozens of Russian officers, finding that their late :hief was arriving, ranged up from all iirections and saluted in respectfu1 silence. The party then entered the I louse. The closing act of the great drama mused a feeling of sadness which was lot dispelled by the glorious weather, beautiful surroundings and kind receptions accorded to the Russians by the Jananese. ' French Are Criticized. A Tokio special says: The French ire sharp'y criticized for permitting the ships of the second Pacific squadron of the Russian navy to make a prolonged stay at Madagascar. ThereTore, the Japanese people and press, realizing the peculiar position in which France was placed, were not Jisposed to judge her actions too severely, but The Asahi recently said: "It is no longer possible to overlook the French non-neutrality nor her disregard for the obligations jof a neutral nation. Coaling the ships of the second Pacific squadron in Frfench porta has culminated in allowing Rear Admiral Rojestvensky to remain for 12 Jays, awaiting reinforcements, and In the use of Madagascar as a base of operations against the Japanese fleet, now reported in the Indian ocean. "Such action is nothing less than hostile, and if France is sincere in her promises of strict neutrality, the ships of the second Pacific squadron ought long ago to have been sent away or disarmed. "Further temporizing for the purpose of rendering assistance to Russian vessels must be considered a serious breach of neutrality." _ v ONLY THREE DAYS COURTSHIP. Wife of-Brodie L. Duke Explains Circumstances 0f Her Marriage. Mrs. Brodie L. Duke, whose marriage to Brodie L. Duke, a half brother of the president of the American Tobacco Company, was followed by her husband's commitment to a sanitarium and proceedings to inquire into his sanity, made a statement at New York Saturday of the circumstances under which she met and married Mr. Duke. ^ Mrs. Duke declared that she wanted to be set right ^before the public. She told bow she met Mr. Duke as the result of an effort to secure * loan on tobacco lands in Texas, said she was dumbfounded when Duke proposed marriage to her, that Duke had promised to give her stock and bonds, but had never given them. 0 FOUR BILLS PER. MINUTE. House Breaks All Records in Putting Through Pension Legislation. Pension legislation at the rate of 459 bills in one hundred and eight minutes was indulged in by the house Saturady, the result being the smashing of all previous records of the house as to legislative nimbleness. Unanimous consent held sway for nearly an hour and not a measure presented under this head came under tho han of an nMopfinn ask for intervention. Ajnerlcan Company Has Grievance Against Costa Rlcan Government The American Banana Company, through Mr. H. L. McConnell of Mobile, Ala., and associate members, have asked the State department to Intervene In their behalf on account of the Costa Rican government having interfered with their planting, railroad, building and other operations in the territory now belonging to-Panama, but at one time under the jurisdiction of Costa Rica, and have asked for damages in the sum of $2,210,000. will talk three days. Program 0f New Orleans Cotton Corv vention Issued by President Jordan. President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Growers' Protective Association, has just announced the official program of the Southern Interstate Cotton convention, which la to be held at N.ew Orleans, La., January 24-26. Very important features are down for consideration. i A "RUSSIAN BLUFF. ' ~ la British View of Charges Brought Against China Alleging Violation ' of Neutrality. A London dispatch says: The Russian gavernment's note regarding Chinese neutrality has not yet reached the British foreign office In diplomatic quarters the circular is regarded as a move to forestall complaints of Russian transgression of Chinese territory coming from Ja pan, but not as indicating any immediate or serious act.on on Russia's part in the near future. The very fact that there has been no haste , in presenting the circular to Great Britain might indicate that this is the correct view. Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minister, who has not yet received official notification of the circular, visited Foreign Secretary Lansdowne Saturday afternoon, and the Associated Press understands that they discussed the circular informally. Minister llayashi prior to his visit to Lord Lansdowne said to ^he Associated Press: "The Japanese havo not replied to the innumerable allegations of breaches of neutrality and of international'law charged by Russia since the war. but the Japanese government probably will reply to this formal charge." Baron Hayashi thought, however, that it was in line with other charges and similar to "the yellow peril" scare. He said Great Britain, the United St3tes and Germany all had as great interests in China as Russia had and. being well represented there, knew from their own agents whether it was necessary to interfere. ? % NEW BREED OF ANARCHIST. \ Ross ecu Dubbed by Officers as "Ame.r. ican Patriotic Fanatic." "Gessler Rosseau," who was arrested in Philadelphia several days ago with an unloaded infernal machine in his possession, has admitted to the police that he is the man who attempted to destroy the statue of Frederick the Great in Washington, and also that it was he-who sent the trunk containing the infernal machine to the British steamship Umbria at New York in May, 1903. The prisoner gives no reasons for the attempted outrages except that "thei*e are too many foreign affairs in this country." After having Rosseau under fire all afternoon the police classed him as an "American patriotic fanatic." PANAMANS AGAIN ANGERED. Adoption of Barrett's Suggestion I Would Be an Insult, They Say. ! Representatives of all political parties in Panama have asked American ; Minister Barrett to withdraw the suggestion he made to the Washington government that the functions of governor of the canal zone and minister to Panama be combined in the person of the governor of the canal zone. It is argued by the memorialists that the dignity of Panama as an in| dependent nation required a separate legation. talbot inquiry collapsed. Investigating Board Finally Declare? Itself Without Power to Act. There will be no investigation for th?, present at least of the cnarges -preferred by Rev. Irvine against Bishop Talbot of the Central Pennsylvania diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church, says a dispatch from Reading. Pa. "A lack of canonical authority" is the conclusion of the eleven members who attended Saturday's meeting of the board of Inquiry. The full membership consists of sixteen. f money voted for fast mail. Usual Fight Made Against Appropriation Was of No Avail. The usual fight against the special appropriation for fast mail service to the south was made in the house committee On postoffices and post roads, but the committee by a vote of eleven out of sixteen put the item in the post- j office appropriation bill. _________ family perish in flames. Man, Wife, Two Children and Servant ! Meet Tragic Fate. William T. Miason, a lawyer, and hi3 family, consisting of wife and two children, Ellen, four years old, and Marion, six months old, with a servant, Annie Wells, lost their Iivps in a fire which partially destroyed the dwelling occupied by them in New } York early Sunday morning. Although neighbors say they heard ui iuuiuci ana uuigiais, tut; police found nothing to indicate that the fire was not accidental. The whole family appears to have been suffocated. RACE PROBLEM IN TRANSVAAL. Committee Agrees That Colored Vote in South Africa Be Reatricted. A dispatch from Johannesburg says: A forecast of the report of the native affairs committee is published by The Transvaal Leader. It shows that the committee is fully agreed that a .limitation must be placed on the colored vote, which, it will show, by startling evidence, is becoming a%serious menace. # AFFAIRS Of mm I I The Subject of a Message to Congress by President. < Aot/o rnn unor i ATiTlinr < aor\o run munL lmiiiuul 3 i ? , Would Reduce Commission to Three 1 Members?Asks Direct Control < 0f All Matters Relating to the Great Waterway. 1 President Rocsevelt, in a brief mes- ' sage transmitted to congress Friday : the first annual report of the Panama canal commission, together with a letter from Secretary Taft relating to Panama affairs, recommends that he be given greater discretion, as he is charged with the responsibility of construction of the canal. The board of canal commissioners, he says, should be reduced to five or preferably three members, whose du- ' ties, powers and salaries should be assigned by the president. The president's message, in full, is as follows: "I transmit herewith the report of the isthmian canal commission, accompanied by a letter of the secretary of war, under whose supervision I have by executive order placed work of the commission. "I concur with the secretary of war in the view that the present provision of law, by which the work of building the canal has to be done only through a body of seven members, is inelastic and clumsy, and -I earnestly recommend a change so that the president, who is charged with the responsibility of building the canal, may exercise greater discretion in the organization of the personnel, through whom he Is to discharge this duty. "Actual experience has convinced me that ft will be impossible to obta.n the best and most effective service under the limitations prescribed by law. The general plans for the work must be agreed upon with the aid of the best engineers of the country, who should act as an advisory or consulting body. The consulting engineers should not be put on the commission, which should be used only as an executive - instrument for the executive and administrative work. "The actual work of exec; *vg the general plans agreed upon by the commission after reaching the conclusions of the advising engineers, must be ' done by an engineer in charge, and we now have an excellent engineer. It is, in my judgment, inadvisable, there* fore, to restrict the executive's choice of commissioners to representatives of the engineer corps of the army or the navy. The commission should consist of five, or preferably of three members, whose respective duties, powers and salaries should be assign* ed to them by the president and who should be placed und^r the member of the cabinet whom the presient desires. Qf these men the one appointed as administrator of the canal strip should also serve as minister to Panama. THEODORE ROOSEVELT." In his letter Secretary Taft says the commission has dene a great deal of the work of organization and preparation to build the canal. Decided progress has been made in the verification of the data obtained by the French engineers, and in procuring new data necessary to enable the engineers of the commission to determine the proper plan for the canal. POSSIBLE ROW WITH HAITI. Uncle Sam Demands Release of Convicted American Citizen. The American minister at Port au Prince has informed the government of Haiti that the United States government refuses to' recognize the validity of the sentence to vfteen years at hard labor pronounced by the Haitien court against one Jaeger Huber, an American citizen for alleged complicity in bond frauds. The united States demands the annulment of the sentence, under pain of energetic intervention. BRISTOW IS SIDETRACKED. Taken from Postal Service and Given Another Job by Roosevelt. Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assiseant postmaster general, has tendered to the president, his resignation as an officer of the postal service, to take effect on the 20th instant. By an executive order, issued late ! I Friday afternoon, President Roosevelt { designated Mr. Bristow as a special' j commissioner to make an investigation into the present trade conditions and freight rates between the Atlantic End Pacific coasts and other sections. BIG GLASS WORKS BURNED. Loss Is Estimated at $250,000?500 Men Are Now Idle. The immense plant of the St. Louis 1 Plate Glass Company at vaney .rant, twenty miles west of St. Louis, was partially destroyed by fire .Wednesday, Entailing a loss estimated at [ $250,000. Between 3C0 and 500 em| ployees will be out of employment ! until the plant can be rebuilt. - v ^ VV, > i .. \ \ - ? . ' *? > V;' ' v.,'.'" " . '..r ,.'i>t tHTN* ALLY Of JAPAN? So C*clarca Russian Government |f* Note to Power* Charge that * Neutrality is Violated. A Paris special says: The AssoTl? Iaawmh ii nlli ii !! ii I ! BP 4 - ? XTCD9 i caiuo au^uviiviM4f?4/ ''-m&EBUM :hat Russia'* note addressed to the - '/vaa j|eS powers relative to China's breaking ^ neutrality gives what Russia claims to 'S~0&\ be absolute proof of Chinese breachbs. The three main complaints or?: > First?That the islands of Miaotao, in the straits of Pe-Chi-Li, opposite X Port Arthur,, have been constantly X'v3f$S| used by the Japanese without Chi* aese interference as a strategic base ; .r5jg9 and a harbor for Japanese torpedo Second?That the Chinese army on the border has accepted the .command. of Japanese officers. Third?That Chinese firms have been constantly working la behalf of ; % , the Japanese, supplying them with provisions/military accoutrement and .:'/? general war stores. j The note lengthily sets forth 'the /do ^ tails and complains that China j no* given satisfactory explanation of , I - jfe breaches of neutrality, and that'thtwo-. fore Russia notifies-the powers that './j She Intends to use complete liberty ^ of action in regard to tne iuiure aoo8? A Warrington dispatch says: Coon^^H-\f Cassini, the Russian ambassador, caH- ;Sf: ed at the state department Friday ^ talk with Secretary Hay, respecting the formal and general protest'Imgde-,by Russia against alleged riolatkw of neutrality by China during 'tha > present war. The ambassador ' hrf Seen informed by his government by cable that the full text* of the R*? sian circular note or protest-was now ; i ||? on the way to him and he was strucjted to submit it to Secretary. .V* Upon the first announcement of Russian intention to file this protest, It was apprehended here that it mighty be tho forerunner of some posittYwH^/Jg action oh the part of Russia; which would vitiate the agreement entered jw into by the belligerents at the br?ak of the war to restrict hostilities''/$ to a certain well-defined area, which undertaking was affected through ther?V\j$ United States government with the hearty cooperation of the powers aid. * Now, however, the belief obtafha that the action of Russia in 'dispatch^M^^ log this note to the* powers is ed not to indicate immediate ac^btt toward obliging China to remedy: the^V' maftor nAmnlnlnod nf at nroeonf Ht*fr " l^rSrHK rather to. have on file a record ofr a'.W grievance against the Chinese ment which can be brought up'fe? < yi||a consideration at the conclusion of tilities and during the negotlaHww r^f^ which will effect a. permanent settle* J:, Jig ment of the eastern emhroglio. - ^11 DECLARE POLYGAMY DYING OUT. 5| One Wife All-Sufficient for Mormons M Jg of Younger Generation. S^sl Three witnesses for the dafeM the Smoot case at Washington day testified that polygamy is dying r out in Utah so rapidly that^thbre ijs^H no need of prosecutions. It was de- , , clared that the younger Mormons are all opposed to polygamy, and that if : they thought it wa^ being taught 38; there would be a revolution in the |g It was admitted that Sdnator Smoot $ 'M had to get the consent of the church to become a candidate for senator. -5 ^ TO PRESERVE STATE'S INTEREST || Important Resolution Introduced 'In North Carolina Legislature, ^ An important resolution was "Introduced in the North Carolina leglslar, ture Friday providing that a special'; ^ committee of that body shall advise ,p|f| and confer with counsel employed by Vg&m the state in the noted South Dakota bond suit ease, and recommend such %''"i action as will best preserve North|1 Carolina's interest in the bonds on . which South Dakota's Judgment was obtained from the United States sa- r'fM preme court. v-:.| SORE TROUBLES OF DUKE. || Old Man's Family (n9ists on Keeping Him in Insane Asylum. , The effort to gain the freedom of >* Brodie L. Duke by means oT habeas ,'-v; corpus proceedings was defeated tern* 'M Dor^riiy at New York Friday by the J ^ legal representatives of the Duke's family, and struggling in the of half a dozen attendants and making vain efforts to call for his conn-sel. Mr. Euke was dragged out of the court at the conclusion of the fro- rpedings, and hurried away, in a. car* ^ riage, to a private insane asylum to Amityville; L, I. . FRENCH TO RAISE COTTON. Wish to Supply Home Market from Foreign Colonies. The French colonial association of 'i Paris is carrying an extensive propo* _.? Wja ganda for the purpose of dispensing with the importation of American cotton by the development of cottongrowing in the French colonies of ! , J Madagascar, the Soudan and Daho- . ; ^