The Detroit Times (Detroit, Mich.)
March 25, 1908

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PLANS OF CITY SERVICE LEAGUE EXPLOITED ON EDITORIAL PAGE All Here And All Clean EIGHTH YEARf NO. 152. mN THE MODERN INDUSTRIAL WORLD* combinations are absolutely* necessary; they are necessary among business men, they are necessary among laboring men, they' are becoming more and more necessary' among farmers. Some of these combinations are among the most powerful of all instruments for wrong doing. Others offer the only effective way~ of meeting actual business needs.’ —FROM THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. PRESIDENT PLEADS IN MESSAGE THAT HEPBURN BILL PASS Labor Measures Favored More Than —in Any of Roosevelt’s Previous Communications to Congress- Modify Injunction Law. WASHINGTON, March 26.—1n his anxiously awaited message to con gress today. President Roosevelt makes a strong plea for the pa&age of the Hepburn bill, which aims to modify the Sherman anti-trust law so that the contracts and agreements between corporations, which are now Illegal under the present anti trust law, will be legal under the proposed new leg islatlon. After cloaking the message with several matters, such* as child labor In the District of Columbia and the adoption by the government of an employ ers' liability law, the message recommends that temporary Injunctions against labor unions’ striking should be prevented and that an Injunction in such case should not Issue until n week after the application is made. Then, diving into the anti trust matters, the message urges the revis ing of the Sherman act. The president suggests to cougress the passage of a law (the Hep burn bill) which will legalize contracts and agreements made by combina tions of corporations which are now held to be in restraint of trade and illegal under the Sherman act. The message suggests that this could be done by the combination of corporations which desire to make such a contract in restraint of trade submitting the proposed contract to the com missioner of corporations, acting unaer the secretary of commerce and that if the secretary approves the control it becomes legal and is sanc tioned. The president says such a law is necessary because of the con ditions prevailing “in the modern industrial world." The message, which follows, devotes great space to this recommendation and apparently it is the meat of th& communication. t'> 9 4 First* Urges Child Labor Law For t»he Entire Nation The president flan: I calf your attention to certain meas ure* a* to which I rtitnK th*re sinmtd flllUn by the o#flr«iii before tho (lom of the present session. There la ample time for their consideration. As regards moat if not all of the mat ters, bills have been Introduced into one or the other of the two houses, and It la not too much to hope that action will be taken on# way or the other on theae bills at the present session. In my message at tne opening of the present session, and. Indeed, In various messages to previous congresses, T have repeatedly suggested action on mdst of these measures. Child labor should be prohibited throughout the natlou. At least a model child labor bill should he passed toe the nfatHri or Columbia. It ta. llu. fortunate that in the one place solely dependent upon congress for Its legis lation there should he no law whax ever to protect Children by forbidding or regulating their labor. I renew my reconfmendatlon for the Immediate re-enactment of an em ployers' liability law. drawn to con form to the recent decision of the su- Sretne court. Within the limits In- Icated by the court, the law should be made thorough and comprehensive, and the protection H affords should embrace every class Os employe to which the power of the congress can extend. In addition to a liability law pro tecting the emplbyes of common car riers, the government should show Its faith by enacting a further law giving compensation to its own employes for Injury or death Incurred In Ifs service. It Is a reproach to us as a nation th'at In both federal and state legislation we have afforded less protection to public and private employes than any other industrial country of the world. I aiso jirge that action be taken along the line of the recommendations 1 have already made concerning Injunctions in labor disputes. No temporary re straining order should be Issued by any court without notice; and the petition for a permanent Injunction upon which such temporary restraining order has been Issued should be heard by the court Issuing the same within a rea sonable time—say, not to exceed a week or thereabouts from the date when the order was issued. It Js worth considering whether It would not give greater popular confidence In the 1m IX GOES DEEPLY INTO PARK BUDGET mmammmmmmam COUNCIL COMMITTEE LOPB OFF $207,000 RESURFACING OF LA FAYETTE CUT OUT. There was a terrible wielding of the blue pencil In the meeting of the council committee on parks and boule vards, which worked on the park es timates Wednesday morning. More than 1207,000 was cut from the orig inal park budget of |618,888. leaving tin have already urged on your attention, It has now become important that there should be an amendment of the anti trust law, because of the uncertainty as to how this law affecta combina tions among labor men and farmers. If the combination has any tendency to restrict Interstate commerce. All of these combinations. If and while existing for and engaged In the pro motion .of innocent and proper pur poses. should be recognised ae legal. As I have repeatedly pointed out, this anti-trust law was a most unwise ly drawn statute. It was perhaps In evitable that 'n feeling after the right remedy the first attempts to provide such should be crude; and It was ab solutely Imperative that some legisla tion should be passed to control, In the (Continued on Page Bight) JUDGE GRAY EYES THE WHITE HOUSE DELAWARE JURISTS NAME TO BE PLACED IN FIELD FOR PREBIOENT. NEW YORK, Marco 26. —Announce- ment was made todav that Judge Oeo J. Gray, of Delawaro, will soon be placed actively in the field for the Democratic nominallou for president. This announcement was made as a remit of several c-oafemncea that been held in this cl: y recently by prominent Democra’s who regai and Judge Gray as the only logical candi date that can unite all factions of the party. V.X k i Judge Gray’s son, who hss been !n this city for sometime, has met many of the local leaders sod hss informed them of his father’s willingness to ac cept the call. Just h%?w the judge wIU announce his candidacy has not been decided upon as yet. but It ta thought likely that he will comt Out In a pub lic speech and declare himself an a competitor of Wm. .1. Bryan and Oov Johnson, of Minnesota. Suppressed Divorce Suits. Suppressed suits for divorce were filed Wednesday morning by John W. vs.JHplda Jones; Rose vs. Frank Pre DO, and Maretta va. Moiitt J. Wells. Meat of the Message. Here are the main reeommrudu r Hem made by PwsWtlt Rouse* fit la bis message to eongreesi That a bill (the Hepburn meas i ure). which alms to modify tne i Sherman anti-trust law. he passed, i making legal the contracts and agreements between corporations wlvlch are now Illegal under the present anti-trust law. Thpt chljd labor be prohibited throughout "the nation, and that a model child labor law be passed for the District of Columbia. That, as previously recommended, an employers' liability law be en acted. drawn to conform to the re cent decision of the supreme court, so' as to protect every class of em ploye to which the power of con gress can extend. That temporary injunctions against labor unions’ striking should be prevented and that an In junction, In such a case, should not Issue until a week after the appli cation is njgde. That the tariff be revised, as pre viously recommended: that con gress appoint a committee to gather detailed Information on which con gress may act In the fall, on as sembling, and that congress put wood pulp and paper manufactured therefrom, on the free list. That a postal savings bank bill be adopted. That an Inland waterway’s com mission be appointed, as previously recommended. CAPT. M’OQNNELL WILL NOT BE RETIRED “BIG FUSS MADE OVER TRIVIAL MATTER,” DECLARES COMMIS SIONER SMITH IN ANNOUNCING THE INCIDENT CLOSED. “Capt. McDonnell will not be re tired.” With this positive statement to The Times, Police Comwilaalmutr gives the lie to a widely-circulated re port that the veteran officer’s displace* rnent as chief of the central detective bureau had been decided upon. “A big fuss has been made over a trivia! matter,” continued the commis sioner "To be sure, the captain made a grievous blunder ih accepting the pawn check for Mrs. Welch’s ring. It was breach of discipline, bat not such a breach as would warrant me in removing the captain, whose record for honesty and integrity Is un impeachable. And there was nothing about the transaction that called his honesty into question. No one re grets the incident more than the cap tain, and I am quite sure such a thing will not happen again. It has been a good leaaon. “The captain, then, will remain In his present position?” ”Yos, he will remain. The Incident is closed.” Though he la under no obligation to give up the ring, Capt. McDonnell says he would not think of keeping it after what has happened. “I never want to see it again,” he said. Tin ring, however, will not be turn ed in«o the tffillce pension fund. LEAVES HOME 8Y WINDf ROUTE WOMAN LOCKED IN ROOM ES .CAPEB AND HUSBAND FEARS SHE HAS KILLED SELF. a After her husband had refused to accompany her to a nickel theater and locked her in a room at their home at No. 119 Cass-st., Mrs. Frank Ck>ar escaped by Jumping through a window Tuesday night, and nothing has been seen of her since. Mr. Cloar reported the Incident to the po lice Wednesday morning Ind asked that a search be instituted for his wife. He fears she has jumped Into th* river. Cloar told the police that one of hio reasons for reporting the mat ter was that he wanted to be free from all suspicion In case his wife be fount dead. Mr. Cloar says a neighbor woman has '.H-en coaxing his wife to go to the cheaper theaters and It was for this reason,, he declares, that he refused to accompany her Tuesday night. Mrs. Cloar was only partially dressed when she made her sensational flight through the window pane. y Cloar says that his wife told neigh bor-;. after leaving home, Tues day night, tint aha waa going to drowu berself. He thlnka she Is tern; porarMy deranged. .Vf*a PrlPtl»f—t>nnf kiffit Tl*»| Printing C«, li John R.-SL Phons lUi WEDNESDAY, MARCH *s,' 1908. Some if the Havoc brought IVhen a Suburban Car Rams 'Building L _ HI i I BBSmSiI— Tbe virtue akoiu Ike •pveuuarr of Solomon Hllbertlelu'i alure at Mo. ISM Mleklutti-nve. alter krlnv ranamed kjr a big aubnrkau oar, wklefa JumiKid tbo track while Iravellitg at fall apead toward the city, Tnooday afteraooa. A portion ot tko demolished car la nlao ahuwa. Forty people were Injured la the accident. GERMANY REFUSES D. J. HILL AS AMBASSADOR SITUATION UNPARALLELED IN THE HIBtORY OF AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS—TOWER HAS NOT YET RESIGNED. WASHINGTON, March 25.—A bomb oomUI not a greater state Os excitement in the state department than the report that the appoinmen of David Jayne Hill as American am. bnssador to Germany to succeed Charlemagne Tower u not acceptable to the German government, and It la said there that there must be some mistake, as the depaitment whs In* lormed by the German government be fore Mr. Hill's appointment was an nounced that Mr. Hit? would tre per sons non grata at the kaiser's court. Today’s information creates a sltua tion unparalleled In tne history of Am erican diplomatic affairs. Although Mr. Hill has been named for the place the state department uas not been In formed of Ambassador Tower’s Inten tion to resign nor haa his formal res ignation been received Mr. Hill was a college professor at the age of 29. He served ten years as president of the University of Roches ter (N. Y.). resigning that position to travel In Europe and study Interna tional law. His work in organizing a school of diplomacy In connection with the George Washington university at tracted favorable notice, and In 139* Mr. McKinley made him assistant sec retary of state. It was said In Wash ington that he was not liked by Presi dent Roosevelt, and when the latter sent him as minister to Switzerland, it wus said to be a case of reducing him. Twif years later h*e was transferred to the more important post of minister to the Netherlands. Mr. Hill has made a special study of European relations, has a charming manner and epeaks Oerman fluenth Mrs. Hill la descended from German forefathers, but the family hns hern American since the revolution. She combines wit, beauty and a fascinating personality. and speaks German. French and Spanish as fluently as she does her native tongue. SUES HUSBAND’S ESTATE FOR ALIMOnV Mrs. Maggie Martin, who before her divorce and re-marriage was Mrs. John Thison, of Woodmere, is suing the estate of her husband for $1,200 alimony, granted her when she was awarded her divorce. The money was to be paid in Installments of 915 week ly. Since the granting of the decree Thison died, and at the time of his death his former wife had been paid only SIOO. Mrs. Martin put in her claim before the commissioner, who refused to allow it. She then appeal ed to the circuit court, and the case is in progress before a Jury in Judgo Donovan's court. The defense claim that when Mrs. Martin remarried she gave up her right to further alimony. TRADING ST AH PS WITH COFFINS IS ChICAGO*S LATEST —jr=} _ CHICAGO. March 25.—" Trading Stamps with Every Funeral" is tho placard that one may expect to see soon In the windows of up to riaie Chicago undertakers. That two or three funeral director* on the northwest aido of the city have adopted the trading tamp system to increase business was revealed when a bereaved widow canceled an order at H. M. Rolston’s because he would not give her "green" stamps. Millionaire Lumberman Dies. CHICAGO. March 25.—Irenua K. Hamilton, a plonctlr millionaire him berman of the middle w ost, died from heart disease Tuesday. 7 OF THEATRICAL TROUPE OROWN IN DHIDJYEB BARGE WHEREON FLOATING BHOW MEMBERS LAY SLEEPING CRASHES AGAINST THE BTONE WALLS OF LOCK. MARIETTA, 0.. March 25.—Seven members of the Ktaenbartb*Hender son floating theatrical troup, were drowned in the Ohio river when the barge on which they were sleeping crashed against the stone walls of lock No. 18. The barge was being towed by the tteamboat Columbia, and was starting out on a season's trip. The current is strong just above the dam and swung the barge, with the towboat behind It, against the locks. —It was partly enmh ed between the towboat and the locks and the water, rushing into the hold through great rents, quickly filled It. The seven men had no lime to escape and went to the bottom of the river, trapped like rats. Troup’s Oldtime River Feature. Tho troup was one of those which. In summer, travels from one Ttvcr town to another, anchoring at the shore and giving shows for two of three days, then moving down stream to the next town. They are an old time feature of the Ohio and Missis slppl, much famed lu stories of that stream. The Elsenbarth-Henderson troup was starting out for Its »rtrr and allowed to go unmolested, -The theft has been reported to Cal datfcc* i Uvs department, LAST EDITION

ON E CENT ONE DEATH RESULTS FROM TROLLEY ACCIDENT '«fS MICHAEL GROCHOVIAK PAMBI AWAY IN WEBT SIDE HOSPITAL —FORTY INJURED WHEN CAR r- ~i RAMB BUILDING. vJvJB urr or injured, In Wilt Side hospital—Mra. E. A. Hallldgy, 6K. Napoleon. Mlcb.. shoulClar broken, possible concussion of brain. onditlou serious, but will probably re cover; Carl Ristow. 66. Romulus. Mich., cut anti bruised about head and chest. In St. Mary's hospital—Mrs. Gustave Plotoke. No. 620 llilnois-st.. injured about head and may have concussion or brain, condition serious, but will re oottaaj- Mss. AaaU Mealier, Orandy-ave., daughter ol Mrs. Plotoke, right shoulder dislocated; Mrs. Msry Edwards. 42, No. 212 lawton-avt., scalp wound, snralncd back; Mian Min nie Arraheim, 38, Plymouth. Mich., con tused side; Mrs. M. Pataock. 6». Ply mouth, Mich., sister of Miss Armhetin. fractured shoulder; F. O. HuflPord, Per rysvlli©, 0.. lacerated wrist, brulssd; Walter Hutford, 8. son of F. O. Huf SSbSlNwfeAl nail r%|raU«^ i •rt«i at**lirtma. itoaSSkht^tkk People who make fools "•SHI salves never fall to attract UtfaaEfcgha