w4 f r WEATHER* The Star thr only afternoon Fair tonight and Wednesday; A II 'TI 917 ^^9^ I ^\ J « paper in Washington that prints temperature tonight about freez- v ml I yl I Wf I I Wf III I I I I I l\ I the news of the Associated Press, ing light to moderate winds. \ i\/ V\ * VW \ WJ^ 1 '-=^ : . .i I y M f . r / tOXTAWKC OS PAUK 10 CLOSIVQ . ^ XKW YOHK STO< K QI OT %TfQ\s. No. 18,696. ~ WASHINGTON, D. C.. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1911-TWEXTY-FOUR PAGES. ONE CENT. 1 TRUSTS SOLE TOPIC DISCUSSED BY TAFT; IN SHORT MESSAGE! i } Urges Federal Incorporation! as Means of Keeping Busi- \ ii ness witnin xne Law. ___ LAUDS THE SHERMAN ACT j AND DECISIONS UNDER IT Favors Supplemental Statute Making Offenses Plain. FORESEES PENAL SENTENCES! ________________ V Relieves Time Is Near When Offend- ers Against the Law Will Have to Go to Prison.Appendix Shows Prosecutions. i President's tliird annual message to y Congress, devoted exclusively to tiic M 4^ Sherman anti-trust act and the Question in general, was read in «'ontoday. The President de- fended the Sherman act a? interpret- ed by the Supreme Court of the United States, indicated plainly his opposition to the repeal or amendment of this statute, but suggested that Congress pass a fed- oral incorporation law and supplemental i legislation that "wouia describe and de- 1 nounce metho«3s of competition that are unfair." < To supervise corporations chartered un- ! der federal law, President Taft proposed i the creation of an executive bureau, or ; ] commission, with powers akin to those J < of the Interstate commerce commission, j J Tobacco Decree Effective- 1 i -Speaking of the much discussed dis- : e-.-lution of the tobacco trust, the Presi- ^ dent declared that in his opinion "not in « Tie. history of American law has a decree ^ icoi : effective for such a purpose been g entered by a court." J Portions of his message of January, I'.'l't, p/dfWs'inh 1 incorporation were i'f'-rrc-d to in this message. ' 1 renew," continued the President, * the recommendations of the enactment of u general., law providing for the vol- 1 uiitary formation of corporations to en- c in trade and commerce among the states and Mtn foreign nations. It is wen more manifest now than it was then 1 t»sat the denunciation of conspiracies in ' rt-HOtiint of trade should not, and doe? ] po mean the denial of organizations « large enough to be intrusted with our in- « teratate or foreign trade. It has been made more clear now than it was then ] that a purely negative statute like the ] anti-trust law may well l>e supplemented i by spec! tie provisions for the building up and regulation of legitimate national and foreign commerce." To Strengthen the Act. The supplemental legislation the President desires is explained in a paragraph. "The attempt and puri>ose to suppress a competitor by underselling him at a price so unpiohtable as to drive him out of j business, or the making of exclusive 11 contra' is wall customers under which ; ' they ar«' required to give up associations with other manufacturers, and numerous kindred methods for stilling competition . i effecting monopoly, should be de8' " ibed with sulftcient accuracy In a criin- j i?.«1 statue, on tlie one hand. ;o enable the government to siiorten its task by prose< tting single mMwlemeanors instead of an nitre conspiracy, and. on the other hand. !.> ..eiv. ike purpose of pointing out mors j .:i detail to -hc business community wnat ] in; st le avoided."" i Mr Tuft did not attempt fo set forth the details of the federal incorporation act 1 n. re< otuin- ntled, but suggested that com- 1 bin itlons of capital a llowed to h«omc < icderal orporation.s should he subject to , riuid rules as to organization and procedure, including eSective publicity, and * to th'- "etaaest nipeitlkOB" aa to stock ' nd 'ootid Is- tes by the nroj>o8etl execu- i tive bureau ar commission In the Com- i tneree and Isibor department. . I'^jeral Incorporation, the President declared, would not i-xempt any ronoern or 1 its ofijeers from prosecution under the < Mherman act for illegal acts. As Aid to Courts. t Such an act could be framed so as to < prevent "vexatious and unnecessary In- i ^aeion by the states," but yet permit con- 1 i nr.l Kv the states w ith tesneet to ruirelv i . * . lo<"al business. The courts should be em- < !>owered. the President said, to invoke the aid of the bureau of cor;>orations in de- ' T.-rmtmn^ the suitable reorganization of ©monitions dissolved hy decrees. This work, he pointed out. might be intrusted , to the proposed supervisory commission' hich "should be an executive tribunal of the dljcni'y and power of the. controller j ot the currency or the interstate com- j merce commission." I ] The fact that it dealt with only one sub- ! ;ect. that it was comparatively hr.ef and tha* accompanying it was an appendix showing trust prosecution* instituted by all administrations since the enactment of the Shcrinan act ftf WW ma»ic the mes- vage unusual. According to this appendix seven suits were brought under this act tn the administration of President Harrison. eight in Mr. Cleveland's second term, three under President McKiniey. fortyfour under Mr. Roosevelt in about seven and a half years, and thirty-seven, so far, in the Taft administration. Text of President's Message as Read in Congress Today The following Is the text of the President's message: To the Senate and House of Representatives: This message is the first of several which I shall send to Congress during the interval between the opening of its regular session and its adjournment for the Christmas holidays. The amount of information to be communicated as to the , operation.- of the government, tbe number of important subjects calling for comment bv the executive, and the transnils(Continued on Thirteenth Pnge j f \ SAYS HEM WIFE Andrew Gonzales Pleads Guilty to First Degree Murder. UNUSUAL SCENE IN COURT Accused Man Defiant, Saying Hei Wanted No Counsel. ATTORNEYS SAY HE IS INSANE Seven Persons Arraigned for Similar Crime Today, First Instance in Court's Historv.' ! Andrew Gonzales, who claims to be of Cuban birtli. pleaded guilty to mur- j tier in the tirst degree when arraigned this morning before Justice Barnard in Criminal Court No. 1', charged with fatally stabbing his wife, Madellene, last July. The plea was accepted by the court and the man remanded. Counsel was assigned liim. who will J confer with the prisoner and ascertain whether or not the plea should be j changed to "not guilty" and a trial had. When the clerk had finished reading the indictment Gonzales, throwing back bis head, said in a iirm voice. "Guilty." Jus-j tice Barnard inquired if the prisoner understood be was pleading guilty to a charge of tirst degree murder which might result in his execution. "1 did it." responded Gonzales; "1 am guilty and I want no lawyer." Legal Bights Preserved. Assistant 1'nited States Attorney' Hawken, addressing the court, suggested that tile mail he iTmanrtwl r.nrl that counsel lv assigned, despite the state-1 merit of the prisoner. He said that by tills means ;he legal rights of the accused cou'd best be preserved. Attorneys Charles H. Hemans and George F. Collins later advised with tiie 1 court, and. announcing they had been retained to defend the man, were instructed to confer with the prisoner and take such ' action as they might decide on. When the suggestion was made to Jus- tice Barnard that the plea of guilty in capital cases has not heretofore been accepted in tills jurisdiction, but that formal pleas of not guilty were uniformly rejulred here, he said: "There is nothing to prevent a man pleading guilty if he wishes Was not the plea accepted in the j *ase of the McNamaras? Before passing; sentence the courts always require an in- vestigutlon to be made to see whether the man be sane. If he is, he has as perfect a j right to plead guilty to this charge as to iny other." The crime of which Gonzales pleaded guilty, as charged In the indictment, consisted of the stabbing to death of his vifo, Madellenc Gonzales, July 21 last. Counsel for thy prisoner claim he is inlane and say they have papers to showhat he was legally adjudged of unsound nfnd a few years ago in New York. Seven Arraignments for Murder. Another unusual occurrence, and probibly for the first time in the history of he local criminal courts was the araign merit in one day of seven persons barged with murder. In addition to Gonzales, indictments for murder in the first degree were read to John Lee, charged with the killing of S'elson Conway; William Nixon, for death jf William Stewart: Willie H. Sabens, tor death of Ada Haynes; Wade Baker, tor killing Nannie Biker, and Belle Mills, charged with stabbing John Mills to loofl. All ontor^wl nlpuK nf r ftt iruiltv 1 Second-degree murder was the charge igainst James E. Thomas, who was held t»y the coroner's jury for the death of Robert II. Chesley. He also pleaded not fullty. HER COMMITTEE RESUMES HEARINGS i Further Inquiry Today Regarding Election of Senator in Illinois. The L«orimer investigating committee, ifter a few weeks' respite following Its meetings In Chicago, will resume its hearings in Washington this afternoon, with Fred G. Hull and F. I>. Brown of the Illinois Central railroad of Chicago an the witness stand. Mr. Hull la an { >fflelal of the transportation department »f the road and Mr. Brown Is a coniuctor. They were called to identify passes made out to Cliarles A. White j which were used on the road. White is the former Illinois state representative who made a so-called confession of bribery in the Lorlmer election. Committee to Meet Daily. The committee hearings will be held laily with a view to permitting Attorney Hanecy for the defense to call all the witnesses that he may deem necessarv. Tomorrow's witnesses will be George E. Oloss and Mrs. Ella Gloss, William tlturmer and K. J. Bell, all of Chicago, and Fred Zentner, a traveling man. These witnesses are expected to testify for the defense regarding conversations alleged to have been held by Witness Yarboro, a friend of White. AWAITS CONSULTATION. Subcommittee Holds Up Inquiry in Stephenson Election Case. The subcommittee of the committee on privileges and elections having in charge the investigation of the flection of Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin will not resume consideration of the case until the testimony is in shape for consultation. The hearings were extended and the testimony covers about 2.00b pages of printed matter. Most of It has been published, and is now being indexed. ] As soon as the volumes are coiQPlet- ed and the index in shape to be of uso the subcommittee will meet and try to agree on a report to the full com- mittee. Senator He-yburn. chairman of the subcommittee, has prepared a tentative report, but it, of course, will require the indorsement of his fellow investigators. It is not expected that the full committee will be called upon to take up the subject much before the Christmas holidays. Another Term for Auk&xn. The nomination of George C. Aukam to be Judge of the Municipal Court for another term was sent to the Senate today by the I*resWent. q HITS SECRET FUNDS j Representative Hamlin Scores the State Department, MENACE TO THE TREASURY Could Be Made, He Says, 41 Haven of Official Piracy.'' HAVE EXCEEDED ALLOWANCE » Expenditures Far Beyond the $90,- 000 a Year Voted by Congress. Wants Reports Made. Additional charges of the juggling and diversion of funds at the disposal of the Stale Department wore made on the floor of tho House this afternoon by Repre- | sentative Hamlin of Missouri, chairman j of the Hou.se committee on expenditures ' of the State Department, who investi- j gatod the Day portrait charges that at- j traoted so much attention during the spc- ' cial session of Congress last summer. Rising to a question of personal ! privilege, Mr. Hamlin today asserted that, the "secret fund" authorized for use in the State Department might bo made "the haven of official plracs*" under .the construction placed by the President and Secretary of State on the statute providing the fund. "Tt may be interesting as well as aston- ! ishing for the House to know," he said, "that during the last six fiscal years the State Department has used money from many funds in addition to the emergency fund, and they declined to tell how the; money was expended, but settled with the Treasury with a blank certificate of secrecy." Mr. Hamlin declared that during the last six years the State Department had expended secretly $7o2,9$l,52, or an average of $122,lH3.f»8 annually, although dur- ing that time the appropriation for the secret fund amounted to only $*>.OOM a J year. I Asks Report to Committee. Chairman Hamlin urged that here- ! after the items accounted for in this secret manner to the Treasury Department should be communicated to a committee of the House and Senate, which would hold them secret after looking them over. He has already introduced a bill intended to put this arrangement into effect. Discussing liis investigation recently j concluded into the secret funds of the State Department, Mr. Hamlin said: i "Congress, faMtnjj ^efce^ofore to exercise what I believe tb be its ihdispu table right in this regard, liae been -fruitful of great abuse, for there seems to have grown up in tho State Department thin pernicious I and dangerous practice of not only using } the money out of the emergency fund, but out of any fund, which we give them, J ana n lor any reason tney ao not care to divulge the purpose for which this money is expended they cover it up by a secret certificate." Then Chairman Hamlin mentioned eighteen separate and distinct funds at the disposal of the State Department., out of which the department had spent money for purposes which it did not care to divulge, and had covered the expenditure with a secret voucher. This, be contended, was against the law. "Keeping in mind." said Mr. Hamlin, that the statute creating the emergency fund was designed to enable the President to conceal from the public the details of such expenditures as might involve us in trouble with foreign nations, if the manner of its expenditure was known, but that as to ail other expenditures he must report specifically, it will certainly create surprise in the minds of people when they come to know that he expended $10,000 of the money we appropriated to participate in the celebration of the discovery of Lake Champlain and covered that expenditure in settlement with the Treasury with a secret certificate. Wholly a Domestic Affair. "That was wholly a domestic affair. There could not possibly have t>een any necessity for secrecy as to the expenditure <>f tliat money. We don't know whether this money was used in connection with that celebration at all, hut if so this $10,000 was probably used in paring ailroad fare, hotel hills, automobile nire, wine, etc., and yet, instead of furnishing vouchers to the auditor for the Treasury showing just what this money was used for. the President causes the Secretary of State to make a certificate solemnly declaring that "the nature and object of inis cxpriuuure is aeemed inexpedient to be made known.' | "To my mind this is a monstrous proposition, and one freighted with great danger to the welfare of the public treasury." Mr. Hamlin wanted to know what conclusion could i^e drawn from the refusal of the President and Secretary of State to take the people, or at least Congress, in'.o their confidence and explain for what purpose the money, or some part of it. was expended. "It seems to me," he said, "that they cannot complain if we draw the Inevitable conclusion that this money or at least some i-art of it has been improperly expended, and therefore they cannot dare to make it public. Tills conclusion is strengthened, I think, by recent occurrences." Mr. Hamlin then recalled the fact that during the inquiry in connection with the Day portrait mystery Secretary of State Knox had directed the disbursing officer oi the Sta.e Department not to furnish certain Information to the Hamlin committee. "It has been a matter of gome discussion as to whether the President has authority to refuse Congress or a committee thereof certain information, but this is the first time, I think, in the history of the country that a head of one of the statutory departments, subjected to be aholished by Congress at will, has presumed to d'rect a subordinate to ignore the mandau Kress, expressed through one of its standing committee*. On a Hot Trail. Referring to President Taft's executive order of July 7, 1§11. directing the Secretary of State and the subord nate officers of that department not to give information to Congress about the secret fund, even If demanded by subpoena. Mr. Hemn e d '"Hie comniittee was on such a hot trail that the President was appealed to, and issued that order, which was doubtless intended to protect forever these e xpenditures from the vulgar eyes of tha, public. ,ii that order the President arrogate* to himself greater authority over the exI penditure of public, money than is poej sensed by either bouse of Congress or any I {Continued on Second rage). \ I ^ zz . I 1 *lj0> i & 4jjg^ THE JACK! HH ON DISTRICT AFFAIRS! j Calls at White House to Lay! Memorandum Before the President. * in Commissioner Judson today laid before President Taft his views on Important > local questions now agitating the people | of the District ana aooin wuim nw,- dent Taft will send a special message to Congress. Presumably the individual i views of Maj. Judson were alone con- f tained In the document submitted to the j President. The Engineer Commissioner would not j disctiss his business at the White House ' or even admit that ho had submitted a j discussion of important District subjects. He did not have opportunity to talk with ! the President, who was overrun with ' callers and had the cabinet members ; waiting for him to enter the cabinet j room and open the business there. , Asks Further Information. ' i Maj. Judson waited some time until the \ President had a minute to receive the paper from him and to ask for further i information aJong certain lines. 1 Some comment was caused by the fact that Maj. Judson and not Commissioner Kudolpli, the president of the board of Commissioners, had submitted the pres- enfatton of District ciueslions, as would prooably have been the case had the {.aper represented the attitude of the en- 1 tire board, but it is known that the President will probably send for Commissioner Rudolph so soon as he finds time to give ( to District subjects. i Heard All Last Tear. !. Cast year, before preparing his reeom- mendatlons as to the District, the Presi- < dent t :nt for all three Commissioners and talked with them as a body. Commissioner Judson's appearance at the White » House this year without his colleagues of course attracted notice, which will probably lead to Commissioner Rudolph being asked to make an official call and presentation of views on matters vital to the uistrict. 1 l LOS ANGELES ELECTION. Heavy Vote Being Cast, With Women Active at Polls. LOS ANGELES, Cal., December 5.. Election day in Los Angeles dawned clear and bright and a heavy early rooming vote was polled. The voting places, 23S of them, were opened at « ' a.m. to remain open until 6 this evening. In those precincts where what is known as the "labor vote" was heaviest the early voting was spirited. Long lines of, men and women were In waiting. Be- ] cause of the heavy registration of women, many of the precincts were divided Into two or three voting places. Leaders tor both the "good government" and socialist forces claimed the big early vote presaged victory for their candidates. j ' =71 Do Your Christmas Shopping Early i EARLY in the day for your own sake and tne sake of the tired clerks. EARLY in the season for the sake of the fricnas you wish to remember. You can't choose well at the : last minute. 1 i ONLY 16 more shoj )ing days before Christmas. jj I|| / ^' I * . * A . f s SON DAY DEMOCRATIC I SPEAKER WILL IGNORE ! DEMAND FROM MARTIN If; 1 I v Speaker Clark fit the House of Representatives announced roday that he f would take no action on the petition i for the impeachment and expulsion ' from the House of Representative Mar- j tin W. Littleton of New York. The petition was filed by Henry B. j Martin of the Anti-Trust League. The Speaker's decision was based upon the ground that the petition contained 1 nothing of a pertinent matter of busi- ness for the House. LIKELY TO WIN WAGER. 1 Cripple on Walk From New York ' to Chicago and Back. YONKIJRS, X. Y., December Ralph ( Tompkins, a one-legged youth, who left New York city July W to walk to Chicago tnd hack on a wager of $500, was in this j sity early today on his return trip and ' * ?xpected to complete his journey before night. Despite had weather ho is only 11 twenty-four hours behind schedule. * Tompkins reached Chicago October 2 1 md left there two days later. He is nine- t teen years old and uses crutches. i \ CHARGED WITH FORGERY. j Son of Prominent Planter Arrested i After Chare Across Continent. XEW YORK. December .After a six- j week chase thut led from Chicago to San Francisco and other cities on tlio Pacific coast and thence hack across the continent, detetlves for the American Hankers* j Association today have under arrest here j James F. Long, twenty-three years old, said to be the son of a prominent planter of Robertsville, Mo., on the charge of having forged a check for $5,000 on the First National Bank of Chicago. According to an alleged confession. Long was given the spurious check to cash by F. L. Friek, since arrested, an employe In the brokerage lirm of Francis Brothers & Co. of St. Louis, of which former Gov. David R. Francis of Missouri is the head Frick furnished him transportation to Chicago, it is a<leged, whence he returned to St. Louis with the proceeds of the: check and, after giving Frick a part of 1 the money, started on his continental! 1 tour. He had but 10 cents In his pocket i and was hunting a job when discovered on Broadway by detectives. BATTLE WITH BLIZZARD. Bridal Couple on Honeymoon Trip Have Horrible Experience. MEEKER, Col., December 5..Lost in a. blizzard while on their honeymoon, John L. Hadden. an attorney of! Cambridge, Mass., and his bride of three weeks battled for eight days against the rigors of zero weather and deep snows in the mountains. The couple arrived, in Meeker early today, hazard and weak. Mr. and Mrs. Hadden were married in Boston and had decided to spend their * honeymoon in the open air. A week ago i Sunday they s.arted from Salt Lake City, j 1'tah, for Rifle, Col. The second day out they encountered the blizzard and be- I came lost. ] "If it had not been for my \vife," said Hadden. "1 would have given up. Hhe kept me encouraged, and only for her cheering words we never would have reached the ranch house twenty miles \ from Meeker, where we found " shelter j unfier several toes and many Angers had been frozen." The couple made the trip In a light c spring buggy. , 1 a f Ashore Off Ocean City, Md. 1 OCEAN CITY, Md., December C..The * Italian ship Fortuna, from Buenos Aires T tor Philadelphia, with a cargo of bone, ( stranded off here yesterday evening, c Her crew of twenty men were taken off this morning by the crews of the Isle of t Wight and Ocean City life saving sta- \ tions- I It is thought tlrtk vessel may he saved. 1 ' 'J i . . m " * I i ijgjr/ ^ ! y / X X' X" I )INNER. .-' 1 DISTRICT SUPPLY BILL TO BE PASSED EARLY Probably Will Be Ready for House When District : Recess Ends. The District of Columbia appropriation bill will probably be first of the big annual supply measures to be passed by the House of Representatives. Representative Burleson of Texas, chairman of the District subcommittee of the appropria- ions committee, who is in charge of the preparation of the measure for recommendation to the House, said this morn- * ng that he would call his colleagues on :he subcommittee together in a day or :wo and that hearings on the bill would nimediately be begun. "I am pretty well satisfied with the estimates." said Chairman Burleson. 'The members of the District subcommittee who went with the full committee ! to Panama considered the District esti- 1 mates and talked tilings over. But as :here was no quorum of the subcommit- :ee on the trip, everything was quite informal." Expects a Long Session. Mr. Burleson added the comment that his session of Congress begun yesterday .vouid probably be one of the most promoted in history. "1 wou>dn't be at all surprised." said be Texas member, "It next October found Congress still here find working hard. It s only necessary to review mentally the ! vast amount of work which Congress J must, accomplish before it adjourns to reach the conclusion that the session will Pe a great deal longer than even any one sf the unusually busy long sessions of re- rent years." j Mr. Burleson declined to discuss the estimates in detail, in view of the fact that his subcommittee has not yet even begun formal consideration of the Dis- trict budget, but did Bay, very frankiy, in discussing the recommendation of the, Commissioners for the expenditure of ieve ai hundred thousand do lars for the mrcnase of land for park purposes that te wits in favor of several of the projects urged upon Congress. Sessions During Holidays. Mr. Burleson's colleagues on the submmmittee which will prepare the Dis- ' rict bill are Representatives Saunders >f Virginia, Cox of Ohio, Taylor of bhlo and Dwlght of New York. Messrs. Burleson and Taylor are the >nly two members of the subcommittee vho have had previous experience In he local work. According to present plans, the Dis- rict subcommittee will begin work the a'ter part of this week and hold sessions straight through the holidays in irder that the District measure will be n shape to lay before the House upon he reconvening of Congress early In t lanuary. I EACH WILLS TO THE OTHER. Last Wishes of Woman Twins Who Died by Asphyxiation. HARTFORD, Conn., December 5..The villg of "the New Britain twins." Miss 2va Eno and Mrs. Ada Sanford, two sighty-year-old sisters, who were accllentally asphyxiated while on a visit to Mew York recently, leave the entire state of each twin to the other. Proracted litigation to establish which vould have probably died first Is avoid d, however, by the fact that there are dentical provisions also for the disposal >f the estate in case of the previous* leath of the chief heir. The fortunes left by the twins are said o l>e worth more than $200,000. They vcre greut travelers, and their personal >roperty includes trophies and souvenirs "rom every corner ot the globe. MUSI STAND TRIAL! i Supreme Court Denies Motion of Chicago Packers. J EFFORT TO DELAY HEARING p Highest Tribunal Asked to Review! Habeas Corpus Proceedings. ACTION OF U. S. DISTRICT COURT Denies Point Raised That Sherman J Law Is Unconstitutional as Criminal Measure. I The Supreme Court of the United States today refused to grant a stay of the beef packers' trial In Chicago until the court Is able to pasR on the constltu tonal qucs- ! _ tion raised by the packer? In habeas'*' corpus proceedings. The packers are cited to appear torn orrow In the United States district court at ® Chicago for trial on Indictments alleging criminal viola Ions of the Sherman antitrust law. Today's action by the Supreme | Court will permit the trial to proceed. The court's decision was the finale of a J long legal contest to avoid trial at this time. Shortly before they were first cited for trial, November 20, nine of the indicted packers sought to have tne United States circuit court at Chicago release hem from custody on the ground that the Sherman anti-trust law under which they were indicted was unconstitutional as a criminal measure, particularly In view of the recent interpretation of the law by the Standard Oil decision. Appeal From Decision. The circuit court refused to release them and an appeal taken to the Supreme Court. Chief Justice White individually refused to grant a stay of trial until the Supreme Court could review the proceedings before the circuit court. Attorneys for the beef packers yesterday asked the full court to grant the stay and to re- lease tne aerenoams on nan. Chief Justice White announced the decision. of the court when that tribunal convened today at noon. No opinion was rendered in the case, the Chief Justice contenting himself with the mere state- ment that the packers' motion was refused. Announcement today of the court's decision in the case was somewhat unexpected. Ordinarily the court would not have taken the matter under consideration until the ^Saturday conference. The fact that the trial of the case was set for tomorrow is supposed to have led the court to speedy action. Government. Beady for Trial. CHICAGO. December 5..United States District Attorney Wilkerson, who has I prosecuted the cases against the packe s, was elated at the news from Washington, i "The government is ready, as it has been for a Jong time, to proceed with t, e ! trial tomorrow morning. The Jury was ordered to report tomorrow, and I think the trial will begin.** ATTORNEY GENERAL ILL, INDIGESTION THE CAUSE 4 Attack Occurs at the Cabinet j Meeting-.Not Regarded as Serious. j I .. Attorney General Wickersham became suddenly 111 while attending ine camnei i session today. Dr. De Laney, President, Taft's physician, was summoned from the; War Department to attend him. Mr. Wickersham was reported not to be In serious danger. After working with his patient for fifteen minutes, with the President and other members of the cabinet doing what! they could to aid him. Dr. De Laney ordered the Attorney General to be re-. moved to his home. j Taken Home in Automobile. ! £( His waiting automobile was taken to. .. the rear of the White House and a small« ** gate, rarely used, was opened. Unas J sisted Mr. Wickersham walked to the au- tomobile. Dr. De Laney entered with hint and they wcro driven rapidly to the Attorney General's homo on 101 n fttreet. fi As an indication that the illness was | not serious the cabinet continued in ses- / sion. tl Due to Indigestion. At the Attorney General's home, Mrs. ^ Wickersham explained to a Star repor- jj ter that the illness was due to an attack of indigestion. « "He was not feeling at all well this morning." she explained, "and I ad- ; vised him not to attend the cabinet « meeting. He went, however, in spite " of my protests, and 1 expected to see him coming home very aoon afterward, j 0 So I was not surprised when be came with Dr. De Laney. He i» much bet- j " ter now, and the attack was not j serious." Officially Announced. Q The following official announcement was issued from the White House lato this afternoon: . "During the cabinet meeting this morn- T. ing. Mr. Wickersham, the Attorney Gen- 1 era!, suffered a slight attack of simple , indigestion. Maj. De Laney was called In and the Attorney General waa able to go j lO Ills IWUir. "Maj. De Laney stated later that the attack was not serious; that the Attorney 34 General would be all right in a few hi hours, and probably at his office tomor- 0] row morning." HOTEL GUESTS FLEE FLAMES. Z in All Escape Serious Injury at St. Jo- seph, Mo., Hostelry. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., December Flro pi in the Hotel Metropole annex early today e< was kept from the main building. All j* of the eighty-three guests in the annex got out of the building. Several women c jumped from second story windows to .. the grass of the courtyard. Men broke into, one woman's room and , found her overcome by smoke. No one was severely hurt. UJ cs w Tea Men's Appeal Denied. The request of eastern teg importers that the Treasury' Department adopt a ] more stringent test of tea t» detect artitt- T1 cial coloring wan dented by the Secretary of the Treasury today. The prerent te» method of analysis, adopted tu October th and uniform throughout the United th States, will not be altered. An appeal rei probably will be taken to jhe customs j court. K J ell JFE SENTENCE AND 15 YEARS FORJMTERS Penalties Imposed Upon McNamara Brothers in Los Angeles Court. AMES B. WRITES OUT CONFESSION OF CRIME 'lea of Non-Intent to Murder It Scored by Judge. OTJRT SESSION W\S BRIEF Neither Prisoner Has Anything to Say When Arriiened for Sentence.Statement b7 district Attorney Fredericks. McNAMARA TELLS HOW HE EXPLODED DYN \M1TE j LOS ANGELES, Decem, ber 5..James B. McN una- j ra's brief confession, penned by his own hand late yester- | day and be- ing many evi- dences of a man little skilled | in letters, was made public today. It is as follows: "I, James M. McNamara, defendant in the case of the people, having heretofoie pleaded guilty to the crime of murder, desire to make this statement of facts: 44And this is the truth: On | the night of September 30, j 1910, at 5:45 p.m., I placed in Ink alley, a portion of the | Times building, a suit case i ' containing sixteen sticks of ' i eighty per cent dynamite, set j to explode at x o'clock the I next morning. "It was my intention to in| jure the building and scare | the owners. I did not intend | to tajpe the life of any one. I sincerely regret that these , unfortunate men lost their lives. "If the giving of my life would bring them back I would gladly give it. In fact, in pleading guilty to muider in the first degree I have placed my life in the hands of the state. (Signed) "JAMES B. McNAMARA." The confession covers one siide of an ardinary sheet of | paper, and was written with a fountain pen supplied by one of the attorneys. It is probably the only written statement of the case that will ever be made by the writer or his brothei, John J. McNamaia, who pleaded ' guilty to dynamiting the Llewellyn iron works. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Decerner 5..James B. McNamara, conessed murderer, was sentenced to ife imprisonment here today by udge Walter Bordwell. His brother, John J. McNamaa, secretary of the International Association of Bridge and Strucural Ironworkers, who confessed a the dynamiting of the Llewel*on works, was sentenced to fteen years in the penitentiary. Twenty-one persons lost their ves in the Times' disaster. No ne was killed in the Llewellyn on works affair. Imprisonment will be in San luentin penitentiary. The court was in session only venty-three minutes . between 0:23 and 10:47 a.m. Crowd Gathers marly. Two hours before court opened aevral hundred curious men and women ssembled about the corridors of tho a.]] of records to get a last glance P the prisoners. A hundred men dotiled from the sheriffs force of uepu s marshaled the throng Into lino iong the several flights of stairs lead ig from the basement of the hall of koords to tho eignth floors, where jdge Bordwell's court is located. The McXamara brothers faced the -ospect of sentence with more than luanlmity They rose in good spirs and made rapid work of a big re&kfast of ham and eggs, coffee and untry sausage. James B. McXamara smilingly met ie greetings of bis guards, while >hn J. appeared to be more concerned >out his personal appearance than mal. He worried considerably betuse his trousers had not been pressed ith the proper creases. Joke With Their Jailer. Both men joked with Jailer Gallagher, ley told him they expected to be his lent* for some time longer, or until the ieral grand Jury finished g.eanlng from em the information which It Is believed e United States author! les are seeking ranting the "inner dynamite ring." Us the hours drew on the crowd on the Cfath floor of the hail of rq^ords aug-