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NUMBER 3141 SATURDAY JANUARY 17 1903 PRICE ONE CENT
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VIEWS OF THE COMMITTEE I
Present Chief of Fire pepartment Leg-
islated Out of Office Unless Amend
ment is Agreed to
Representative McClearv the chair-
man of the subcommittee of the
Committee on Appropriations to
day reported to the House the Dis-
trict appropriation bill for the com-
ing fiscal year The measure carries
an appropriation exclusive of the water
debt of 7617t4S of which the Dis-
trict share on the halfandhalf plan is
38Q7274aO The first named sum is
332e123 less than the estimates of the
Commissioners who asked for 10872372
The amount appropriated foi
for the current year is 8462
92327 or 87487 more than is recom
mended in the appropriation bill for
1904The
amount recommended for
department all of which Is pay
able from the water revenues is 132
206 being an Increase of S04 over the
appropriations for the water department
Jor the current fiscal year
Water Revenues Available
The report of the committee says
It is estimatedthat the water reve-
nues available for the fiscal year 1904
will amount to 402000 but it is pro
vided in the accompanying bill as it
Was in the acts for the current and eleven
preceding fiscal years that any sur
plus of these revenues over the appro-
priations made specifically therefrom
shall be applied to the work of extend-
ing the highservice system of water
distribution Under these Indefinite A-
ppropriations of the surplus water reve-
nues there has been expended to date
for extending the highservice system
of water distribution about t54H HJ
The estimated ultimate cost is 3S44
78 47
The total general revenues of the
District of Columbia for the gscal year
1904 it is estimated will amount to
5400900
The appropriatioBS recommaatbd in
the accompanying bill and pwyale from
the revenues of the District amount te-
la4 aeSftoafofhe foregoing sum ap-
propriations already been paeeed
the Reuse in legislative execu-
tive and judicial act and are estimated
tnder the sundry civil bill chargeable
next year to the revenues of the District
aggregating 590043
Advances From Treasury
Under the provisions of section 3 of the
last District of Columbia appropriation-
act authorizing advances from the
Treasury of United States for the
support of the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia it is estimated by the
Secretary of the Treasury that advances
will have been made by June 30 1903
amounting to 190172615 which ad
Tanees it is required shall be reimburs-
ed to the Treasury from time to time
out of the surplus revenues of the Dis-
trict of Columbia beginning July 1 1903
together with interest thereon at the
rate of 2 per cent er annum until so re
imbureed which reimbursement shell be
made within three years from said last
named date
By section 12 of the act of February
12 101 as amended by the last District
of Columbia appropriation a highway
bridge is required to be constructed
within four years from said date across
the Potomac River above the site of the
present Long Bridge at an authorized
cost of 9 000 of which sum 68SOW
bas been appropriated payable onehalf
out of the revenues of the District of
Columbia Proposals are about to be in-
vited sod contracts will soon
late for this work requiring tbe pay-
ment probably of all of the whole sum
which has bees appropriated or 284
000 of the District revenues before
tbe clave of the fiscal year 1904
The act to provide for a union rail
road station in the District of
now pending in coafereaee as
araeaded by the House provides for ex-
penditures aggregating at least 3770000
payable onehalf or 1855000 out of
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WEATHER CONDITIONS-
The weather has been cloudy and un-
settled over the greater part of the
country east of the Mississippi
The temperature continue above the
seasonal average east of the Rocky
Mouataiae
Fresh southwesterly winds will eon
tiBue along the middle Atlantic coast
tonight shifting to northwesterly SUn
day Steamers departing teday for
ports will have fresh southwest
wines aad cloudy weather to the Grand
Banks
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FIVE SAILORS DIE IN
TURRET EXPLOSION
Dispatch to Navy Depart
ment From Commander
of Tells
Result of Terrible Catas
trophe
Besides the Dead Four
Men Wounded
in Accident the Cause
of Which Is Now Under
Investigation
The Massachusetts Is Near
Culebra and Time of the
Disaster Is Supposed to
Have Been Yesterday or
This Morning
Through an explosion in the eight
inch turret of the battleship Massachu-
setts five men were killed and in
jured
The cablegram which reached the
Navy Department this morning loes not
say when the accident occurred but it
is supposed to have been late yesterday-
or early this morning The Massachu-
setts is near Culebra The following
dispatch from the commander o the
Massachusetts was received
San Juan P R Jan 17 903j
Secretary Navy Washington
Powder charge exploded accidentally-
in eightinch turret Massachusetts
Cause is being investigated by board
Hendrickson boatswains
mate F H Loesser apprentice S1 F
Malinowski landsman K Platt or
dinary seaman Robert Rule ordinary
seaman InjuredaW W A Schsrt ap
prentice A S Taeke cockswain J
G Patterson ordinary seaman A N
Dossett ordinary seaman
List of the Dead
The following is a list of the
with names of nearest relatives
FELIX HERBERT LOESSER enlisted
at New York October 4 UMH as ap-
prentice third class Born Brooklyn
N Y December 1 1SS4 home New
York next of kin Edward Loesser 213
East Eightysixth Street New York
STEPHEN FRANK IfALINOWSKI
Enlisted at Chicago Ill August 4 1966
for four years born August 2
1S2 home South Chicago 111 next of
iFraak Malfnowaki W31 KJntarto
Avenue Chicago 111
ANDREW HENDRICKSON Enlisted
at New York September 24 1969 for four
years born Norway March 13 1873
home New York next of kin Hans Jen-
sen Chritiansund Norway
KENNETH JOSEPH PLATT Enlisted
at Albany N Y August 16 1900 for
four years as landsman for training
born Dublin Ireland May G 1882 home
Troy N Y next of kin Sarah Platt
mother 369 Eighth Street Troy N Y
ROBERT RULE Ealisted at Cincin
nati Ohio March 1801 fer four years
as landsman for training born Cin-
cinnati Ohio May 12 182 home Mt
Washington Ohio next of kin John A
Rule father Mt Washington Hamilton
county Ohio
The Injured
ALEXANDER NEWTON DOSSETT
Enlisted at Durham N C for four
years as landsman for training born
Orange county N C July it IS
home Durham N C next of kin New-
ton Dossett father 1003 Pettigrew
Strtet Durham N C
JAMES GARFIELD
listed at League Island Pa March 27
3900 for four years as landsman born
Pittsburg Pa September 19 18S1 home
Iittaburg Pa next of kin Mr Bar-
bara Nagle next friend 27 Soho Street
Pa
ALBERT STEPHEN TAEKE Enlist
ed at St Louis Mo September 1899
for four years as landsman born St
Louis Mo May 19 1S7S home St Lojjls
Mo next of kin Mrs Mary Nagel
mother 2122 Miami Street St Louis
MoWALTER
WILLIAM AUGUST
at Chicago Ill
March 3 as apprentice third class
born Chicago February 12 1884
home Chicago Ill next of kin George-
P Sehert father 375 Cleveland Avlnue
Cleveland Ohio
The fleet sailing around Culebra and
Saa Juan consists of the Arethtssa Ala-
bama Atlanta Culgoa Gloucester Illi-
nois Indiana Iowa Kearsarge Olympia
Texas Vixen and Bancroft
First of Its Kind
Rear Admiral Charles ONeil chief of
the Bureau of Ordnance said today that
in view of the meager reports of the
accident it was impossible to discuss
the cause of the affair intelligently It
was the first act of this kind on boapd
an American ship of war he caid and
the Bureau of Ordnance was anxiously
awaiting details
Naval officials are very much concern-
ed over the probability that there was
no officer in charge of the turret when
explosion occurred There is a great
shortage of officers on vessels in com-
mission not enough to care for the bat-
teries and on a great many ships one
officer has been in command of several
gun divisions The fact that no officer
was named in the list of killed and
wounded indicates that there was none
is terret at the time of the ex-
plosion as not more than ten men
a turret crew and the casualties
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Alice Bentley Abandoned to
Death ConvalescentN-
EW YORK Jan Bentley
Bellevue Hospital patient who when
apparently dying or puerporal septicae
mia or blood poisoning was taken in
hand by Dr Charles C Barrows visit
ing gynecologist to the institution and
treated by the intrevsnous injection of
500 cubic centimeters of formalin of the
strength of 15000 still continues to im j
prove In fact her perfect recovery from i
the dread malady is already assured
It is twelve days since the patients
temperature and pulse rate dropped to
normal Now that convalescence has
been fully established it is only a ques
tion of days before she will be discharg-
ed from the institution as cured
At the time the daring experiment of
injecting a powerful antiseptic and dis-
infectant directly into the
was undertaken the patients tempera
ture was IDS degrees and her pulse rate
160 a minute The brilliant results at-
tained cannot but be regarded as as-
tonishing by members of the medical
profession and the laity alike
A private patient a woman who was
treated for poisoning at the Hah
ncmann Hospital last night by the Bar-
rows method of injecting formalin into
the veins was reported this morning to
be doing well
Girl Cashier and Man Killed
in Department Store
NEW YORK Jan search this
morning in the ruins of the big depart-
ment store at 21842182 Third Avenue
destroyed last night by a fire In which
two persons were killed reyealed no
more bodies
The fire started about 6 oclock yes
terday evening The police and firemen
anticipated that nans T
tfe found as soon as the ruins
cooled sufficiently for a thorough search
Miss Hormia Joseph twenty years old
cashier for the firm was one of the vic-
tims She worked In the office in the
second floor and could have made her
escape safely had she started when the
alarm was first sounded She delayed-
in an effort to save the firms books
Joseph Cottain fiftyfour years old
was in the basement aud every time he
started out was blinded by the smoke
He finally lost his way and was killed
by suffocation
Seventyfive girls and twentyfive men
were employed in the building
NEGRO WALKING TRACKS
KILLED BY ENGINE
Accident on Pennsylvania Railway
Near FourMile Run
Special to The Washington Times
ALEXANDRIA Jan 17 Samuel No
ble a negro about fortyeight years of
aga was struck by an engine and tender
south bound on the Pennsylvania rail
road shortly before 7 oclock this morn-
ing while walking along the tracks near
FourMile Run He was instantly killed
The remains were brought here
Noble a wife and three chil-
dren
ALLEGED SWINDLER
A DANGEROUS ANARCHIST
Prince Nachachidzine Escaped Death
Sentence in Russia Years Ago
GENEVA Jan 17 A man who
arrested here on Thursday on a harge
of swindling proves to be Prince Nacha
chidzine
The prince was sentenced to death
In Russia some years ago for consnir
ing against the Czar He managed to
escape however Afterward he was nr
rested in France for having explosives
in his possession and was sentenced to
three years imprisonment-
He known as a dangerous anarch
ist
FRIARS WANT HALF OF PAYMENT
FOR LANDS m PHILIPPINES
MADRID Jan Moret former
minister of the interior has gone to
Rome to induce the Vatican to divide
with the Filipino friars the 16000000
which it is said America proposed to
pay for the friars lands The Vatican
had intended to keep all the money
but Moret hopes to get 50 por cent for
the friars
Seaboard Florida
Fastest
twin to Florida all PuHmans Josv Washing
ten Mly 7 p ns arrives Jacksonville 130-
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SISTER REPUBLICS
Talks on Tariff to PanAmer
Ran Congress
PLANS INVOLVE CURRENCY
Would Have an Interchangeable Me-
dium and Common Language With
LatuiAmerican Republics
NEW YORK Jan Hon Leslie
M Shaw Secretary of the Treasury this
morning addressed the PanAmerican
customs congress meeting in this city
on tariffs He advocated closer felations
between all American republics He said
in part
American republics have much in
common little in competition and sel
dom anything in dispute International
visits like this and the free exchange of
Ideas ou grit and will redound to the
common baifent It Is fitting that rep
resentatlvespof these republics should
annually confer and advise each other
on all subjopis relating to customs ser-
vice f
Covers Wide Range
The administration of customs laws
is perhaps as complicated as anything
with the administrative
branch of the Government It covers-
a wide range of subjects I desire to
emphasize the Importance of one or
two of those
It has always been the policy of
the United States and it is also the
law as again and again announced by
our courts to resolve reasonable doubts
In favor of the importer I assume that
the same prevails In all countries-
In other however much individu-
als may differ on the question of strict
construction constitutional provisions
and legislative enactments all agree that
In administering customs laws a liberal
Interpretation is not only permissible
nigh imperative This rule
should apply I think with especial force
with reference to drawbacks
Can Afford to Be Liberal
The whole drawback scheme has been
worked out In tluTlnterestofthe exporter
Any country can afford to be liberal I
think with those who find a foreign
market for the product of domestic la-
bor There are always three
to theallowancs of a refund of cus-
toms datt iHft the actual payment
to be withdrawn second the
of domestic laber in bringing these
imported materials to an advanced state
of perfection third the discovery of a
foreign market for the article in its im-
proved condition and the actual expor-
tation of the finished product
Another subject is that of appraise-
ment Ad valorem duties ordinarily
levied at the market value of the articles-
In the country whence Imported There
are many articles of merchandise that
have no market value abroad for the
reason that they are produced exclu-
sively for the export trade
Customs Frauds-
A large percentage of the frauds upon
the customs revenues of a country are
committed on consigned goods and it
has always seemed to me that the fact
that goods are purchasable only In the
domestic market raises a strong pre
sumption that they are being underval
uedThe Secretary then emphasized the ad
vantages of increased commerce between
the American republics holding that the
United States should compete more stren-
uously for a larger share of the half
billion dollars worth of annual trade of
the countries represented in the con-
gress To this end he advocated im-
provement of the means of Intercom-
munication uniform standards of weights
and measures an interchangeable cur
rency and ultimately a common lan
guage
MONSTER COAST DEFENSE
GUN TO BE TESTED TODAY
Projectile Weighing 2400 Pounds to Be
Fired
SANDY HOOK N J Jan
muchtalkedof 16Inch breechloading
rifle the greatest coast defense gun ever
constructed undergoes her official
test today at the proving ground
For safety the gun Is placed about
two miles down the range where In-
case of accident only the sand trees
and underbrush would be hit by flying
pieces The firing crew and spectators
will take shelter in bomb proofs and
be carried to and away from the gun
by special train
The rifle is mounted on the strong
carriage which was provided for the
test of the Gathmann dynamite gun in
190L The muzzle is pointed seaward and
thc projectiles each weighing 2406
pounds will be hurled out into the
ocean
A preliminary warming charge with
of powder will be fired
first The full charge of
powder will be 640 pounds while 1140
pounds of brown prismatic powder will
be required to produce the same effect
OCEAN STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS
NEW YORK Jan 17 Arrived St
Louis from Southampton Nicolai II
from Copenhagen Pennsylvania from
Hamburg
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POSSIBILITY OF
STATEHOOD BILLS
Admission of Two Common-
wealths Contemplated-
A MILD ANTITRUST LAW
Cuban Treaty Ratification Said to Have
Support of All Republican
Senators
Senator Aldrich and Senator Platt of
Connecticut had a long conference with
the President this morning to discuss
the proposed program for trust legisla
tion and for the ratification of the Cuban
treaty which was informally agreed on
at the White House conference yester
davThe program now being arranged pro-
vides for the enactment of a mild anti
trust law for the ratification of the
Cuban treaty the passage of the Depart-
ment of Commerce bill and for the early
disposition of the regular appropriation-
bills
Senator Burrows of Michigan also call
ed on the President this morning After
coming from the White House Mr Bur
rows who was an original opponent of
Cuban reciprocity said
The amendment of the treaty In cer-
tain respects was all I wanted The con-
vention will certainly be ratified by the
Senate It will receive the vote of every
Republican Senator
There Is a that a compro-
mise on the Statehood bills will be ef-
fected in order to break the legislative
deadlock in the Senate This plan con-
templates the admission of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory as one State and
New Mexico and Arizona as another
KING LIK TO SEE
ST IOUIS EXPOSITION
ROME Jan is stated that as
soon as the HarrarSjibuti Railway has
been completed King Menelik of Abys
slnlp Intends to carry out his longcher
ished dream of visiting Europe
He will visit Rome St Petersburg
and London He will then so to the
United States reaching in the
progress of the St Louis Exposition
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STtOtJr5 PASSENtE1S
Indignant That Ship Was
Continued in Commission-
in Her Damaged Condi-
tion May Ask Damages
Wounded Ocean Greyhound
Limps Up New York Bay
After Thirteen Days at
Sea Resolutions Passed
NEW YORK Jan like a
thoroughbred horse that has thrown a
shoe the big American Line steamship
St Louis appeared oft Fire Island Just
before dawn of day at 6 oclock this
morning
After nearly two weeks of buffeting
with sea and wind her leaky boilers
preventing speed greater than five miles
an hour the wounded ocean greyhound
came pushing up to the Sandy Hook
slowly made her way to Quarantine and
then at 10 oclock started up the bay
for her berth at the foot of Vesey Street
The St Louis had made one trip too
many to keep to any sort of schedule
In the winter storms with steaming
power badly reduced some of her pas-
sengers thought themselves in luck to
get in as soon as ther did
As she came up the harbor craft along
the route saluted It was an ovation for
the St Louis and liar weathertossed
passengers who since January 4 have
lived aboard her
The big ship will go to the yards for
repairs after she has unloaded She has
steanted her powers almost to the break
ing point Her owners admitted yester
day before she was sighted that site is
badly in need of repairs
While the anxiety over the nonar
rival of the vessel was relieved last
night by the announcement that she was
steaming slowly Nantucket yet
everyone waited for report that she
off Fire Island This report came at-
C oclock this morning followed by the
news that thfe steamer Pennsylvania had
sighted the St Louis at sea that the St
Louis had her boilers leaking but no
assistance was needed
The St Louis arrived at Quarantine at
946 having made fairly good time from
Nantucket where she passed at C31
oclock last evening
The big ship left Cherbourg January
4 at 106 a m and arrived at the Sandy
Hook lightship at 634 this morning
making the passage in IS hours
and 20 minutes at an average speed of
knots an hour Her day runs were
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COAL SITUATION
10 STEAIER SCUTTLED
Brought Into Port byj he
Pennsylvania
SIGNALS IGNORED BY SHIPS
Drifted Five Days Helpless and De-
spairing Small Norwegian Ves-
sel Lost Propeller
NEW YORK Jan steamer
Pennsylvania of the HamburgAmerican
line which arrived this morning from
Hamburg Boulogne and Plymouth
brought into port thirteen distressed
seamen who were taken off the disabled
steamer Siggen in midocean
On January 15 in latitude 4142 longi-
tude 6424 the Pennsylvania fell in with
a small steamer lying helpless in the
trough of and flying signals of
distress Captain H Spliedt ordered the
course changed His vessel steamed
the craft and found her to be
the Norwegian steamer Siggen from
Sydney C B for New Haven with a
cargo of steel billets
Taken Aboard the Pennsylvania
The captain of the Siggen asked to be
taken off With his crew thirteen all
told he came on board the Pennsylvania
The shipwrecked men said that the
Siggen sailed from Sidney C B on
January 7 On the 10th they lost the
propeller As the weather was very
tempestuous the small craft became un-
manageable
After drifting 160 miles off shore a
period of five days in which time five
steamers were sighted and sigcalewiih
out reply they despaired of help It
was then the Pennsylvania hove in sight
Steamer Scuttled-
As the steamer was deeply laden and
a dangerous menace to navigation and
there appeared ap possibility of towing
her Into port the
were opened
There Is no doubt she went to the bot
tomThe Siggen was a small steamer of G70
tons register built in Norway In iDOL
She was commanded by Capt A Snevig
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Tutor May Have Been Bought-
or Scared Off
BERLIN Jan story is circu-
lated here to the effect that the Prince
and Princess of Saxony have come to a
partial understanding by which she
agrees to leave M Giron tile tutor with
whom she eloped and retire to the Cas-
tle of Count Thun at Tetschen there lo
remain until after her accouchement
In the meantime so the story goes
the divorce proceedings will be suspend-
ed
It is believed here that it is possible
that M Giron will either be scared out
of his alliance with the crown princess-
or will be bought off
A special dispatch from Geneva
Switzerland says
The principals of a number of girls
schools have complained to
ties that they could no longer take
out the girls for their usual walks be
cause they were shocked at seeing the
Crown Princess of Saxony driving with
Prof Giron
The Berlin police have forbidden the
sale of postcards having OR them per j
traits of the Crown Princess and Prof
Giron together
WILL NOT DENY PRACTICE
OR POLYGAMY
Apostle Smoot Silent When Asked to
Announce Himself
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SALT LAtCh Utah Jan 17 Apostle
Smoot who will be elected Senator was
crossexamined by a reporter ttoday
Here is what happened
You state that you as a Mormon
and as an apostle have neverbeen j sk
cd to practice polygamy or preach it or
advise others to practice It Will yval
answer another Question o you bd
lieve In polygamy-
I will not I will not I wont broke
in Sir Smoot before the reporter could
finish the question
you not answer the plain ques
tion Do you believe in polygamy
persisted the reporter
I will not answer I have been piis
quoted any my statements misconstrued
and thereby I have been injured la
Washington the apostle daalnrad as
he showed the reporter the door
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ward Tendency Anthra-
cite Obtainable at 10 Per
Ton Increasein Receipts
No Further Meeting of Sen
ator Stewarts Investigat-
ing Committee Be Held
Until Tuesday
For the first time la two months the
price of coal ia Washington is showing-
a downward tendency Anthracite coal
from the independent operators was ob
ble in several tastaacea today at
ae low a price SB M a ton while there
bas been a material increase la the
amount of Reading coal available for the
public There was also something of a
decline apparent In the price of soft
coal which be obtained at from
75 to 8 In several of the large yards
This change in the condition of the
marked is said to be attributed to a com-
bination of causes in which the mUm
ence of the investigation being conduct
ed by Senator Stewart and the members-
of the subcommittee on the District of
Columbia is no unimportant factor
Wherever the responsibility rested
for running up prices during the past
month It IB evident that a tendency has
developed all along the Mae to ease the
market and accept lower prices
In connection with this change In the
market it is safd the altered conditions
that prevail must not be lost sight of
During the first week of the month
Washington and all cities OB the East-
ern seaboard were affected by the scar-
city of coal on account of the holiday
celebrations of the miners These men
have always been disinclined to work in
the Christmas holidays and It was with
the utmost difficulty that the mines were
kept going to onehalf their capacity
With the holidays past they resumed op-
erations to the full capacity of tbefmines
and this week the coal been coming-
In rapidly The receipts of coal dUring
the present week have probably exceed
ed those of any similar period in the his-
tory ef the city
Weather Helps Conditions
Another element that has had an im-
portant bearfagp upon the local situa-
tion has been the weather The pass
ing1 of the cold ware has left a spring
Heemfcnr aBd1 others to economize in the
i use coal and secure a little in excess
of their immediate needs
In connection with the tables that
were furnished by Getters Agent Craw-
ford of the Pennsylvania lin s some
days ago the figures furnished the Dis-
trict Committee by J F Legge terminal
agent of the Baltimore sad Ohio Rail
road are interesting Mr Legge went
into the receipt and distribution of coai
over his line in detail but a summary
shows the following receipts in tons
D w b lafti ia 2
Anthracite 13741 i
Bituminous 9367 109uJ
Noreaer-
Antbmcite 38tyu 1502-
4ititwaknus dT9uS
A number of witnesses was examined
yesterday by Senator Stewart but little
of general developed The
only one of Ute operators or jobbers
who declined the invitatioa of the
to appear before was W
E Mason a Philadelphia coal skipper
who wired that his bnafaes gage
ments were such that be cout3 not
Come
The Price of CoaL
But little was developed from the
testimony of those who did appear ex-
cept that they were and tad been
charging the local dealers treat i to
SSO for hard coal at the raises and
from 3 to 6 for soft coal on the rails
in Washington Among those who testi-
fied were Charles D Norton of Charles-
D Norton Co Philadelphia W Beau
mount representing the arm of Whitney
Kemmerer of Philadelphia Charles-
L Hall of Hall Co Baltimore
and Benjamin H Read ef Baltimore
Mr Legge of the Baltimore and Ohio
specifically denied that Washington
discriminated against in the ship-
ment of coal so far as his road was con-
cerned He said one of the serious
In the movement of coal and
oUter freight was the shortage of cars
and the greater scarcity of locomotives
The Pennsylvania Raihroad it was ex-
plained had paid certain manufacturers
thousands of dollars that their orders
for locomotives sad cars might be given
preference
Among the other witaeeeee who ap-
peared before the committee yesterday
were Wllliaat B Bartor of Albright
Barker and President George Dunlop of
the Capital Traction Cofapsay Mr Dun
lop said his was heias supplied
with oNtl without difficulty en a con-
trast entered lute last April before the
strike occurred
W Hamilton Smith of the J Maury
Dove Company said they would be glad
vo place its books at the disposal of
the committee should it desire to as
certaia what disposition had been made
of the coal they secured from the Read
ing company
Another meeting of the committee will
not be held until Tuesday next when a
number of independent operators and
others will he examined Senator Stew
art is especially anxious to tad the rea-
son for soft coal heiag at aa high-
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