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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGL Vt CrMit Coupon CUT THIS OUT. FF.IUIl ARV 20. ttJIi O'CLOCK NEW YORK CITY. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2G.

1900. VOL. 70. SO. 5G.

24 PAGES, INCLUDING PICTURE SECTION. x. THREE CENTS. ment $124,000. while the annual loss FAMILY NEAR DEATH.

REGENTS CHARGE FRAUD; TAFT ON TARIFF I.OCAI, WEATHER PROnABII.ITfE. Fair and allarlitly warmer tn-ntsrht; Saturday, partly cloudy and warmers possibly now ttnrrlpn llKht to moderate southwest to south winds. Would Bar From Mails Mr. Roosevelt's Farmers' Uplift Message. 1111 iiimiNM 1 4TH AV.

SUBWAY tion of Board of Esti mate Is So Interpreted. ADOPT PAVING ORDER Resolution to Co Ahead With Improvement of Flatbush Avenue Extension. BITTER SUBWAY FIGHT Action on Recommendation of Chief Engineer Lewie Coler and Metz Resolutions Up. jw an a Hearing stive ruseu on 'he Fiburth avenue subway this afternoon by st select committee, consisting of Presl- dent McGowan. Controller Metz, Presi- dent Coler and President Ahearn, the Board of Estimate at its meeting this morning pa.ied a resolution to go ahead with the pavement of the Flatbush avenue extension regardless of the subway.

This oct'on was tsken on the dation of Chief Engineer Lewis, who submitted a long report stating that the Manhattan Bridge will be completed before it Is passible to construct a subway and pave the Tho bridge will be of little use, if any. for year or two, Mr. Lewis stated in his report, unless the improvement of the street is arranged for at once. The question for the bo.ird to decide. MR, Lewis said, was whether to proceed with tho street Improvement without regard to the subway, so that the bridge can be used when completed, or allow it to re ffiTH KNFI I main unused for several years while wait- of lne gnme attitude, although no for-ing for the possible construction of thP I mt expression of opinion can bo had subway i until a formal request is made upon the After' some deliberation, Ihe board de- commission to submit a form ot mtot cidod to accept Mr.

Lewis; st and half sect.ons of the proposed tlon, and authorize the pavement of the; ro with the Metz resolution Btreet regardless, of the subway. Tt) wjn necessitate the: abrogation of the cost of the paving is $124,000. The reso-: contracts which the commission has al-iHtlnn na.iu.rl hv the board calls for the ready entered Into for the first and hs u. eY I diock trom Aasssu street iu ru.ivn (treat. The Water Department Is also instructed to arrange for tho laying, of a later main at once.

The select cbmralt-'tee'ot the board 1b also 1 -a report on the franchise. implications that have been made for the Manhattan Pridge. That thf actloc taken by the b-ard tp-j sounds the possible deathkneli of th hrougb Inability to use tbe Manhattan Bridge will be very much greater. In view of the above circumstances, I have prepared and am submitting to the board on this date a report on- the paving of the Flatbush avenue extension, and it the board concludes that It Is better to proceed with the Improvement of this street and thereby insure some return In public utility from the Manhattan Bridge upon Its completion, than to wait an In. definite time for the construction of the Ha pid Transit subway, during which time tho bridge would remain practically useless.

I would recommend that the paving of the street be at once authorized without regard to the allotment of local im- i provement authorizations for this quarter, and that the president of the Bor-I ough of Brooklyn be requested to proceed at once with the regulating, grading and paving of the street, and that the select committee to which was referred I ho question of franchises for the use of the bridge and the Flatbush- avenue extension be requested to make a report to the board," Bitter Tight Over Fourth Avenue Subway Coler and Metz Resolutions TJp. The City Hall this afternoon is In the throes of another light over the F.iurth avenue subway. Th select committee of tho Board of Estimate, consisting of President McGowan, Controller Metz, President Coler and President Ahearn, are holding a public hearlnR on two resolutions which were introduced at the meeting of the board on December 11. Each resolution has Its adherents, and from present Indications the hearing is going to end in one of those bitter controversies whieh usually mark every discussion of th Fourth avenue subway. President Coler is the author of one resolution.

It-requests the corporation counsel to move for thw dismissal of all injunctions restraining the Board of Estimate and Apportionment from acting on tbe Fourth avenue, subway contracts. The purport of Mb. Coler's resolution is to nermit the construction of the entire sub- way from the approach of the Manhattan Bridge to Fort-lrBt street. South Brook- Ivn- 5. oniroiier ivxeia inirouucen uluui resolution.

It requests the Public Service Commission to submit to the Board of Estimate forms of bids for constructing tbe first section of the Fourth avenue subway and part of the second sertion to Fulton street, so as to enable the city to complete the approach to the Manhattan Bridge. Mr. Metz's idea In having this part of the subway built Is for the yurpose of paving the Flatbush avenue extension so that It can be used for traffic purposes. Mr. Metz's resolution also calls upon the corporation counsel to move before tho court for a modification of the Injunction so that the first and half of the second sections will be eliminated.

Probably Ihe strongest opposition will develon against the Met resolution be fore the hearing Is over this afternoon. All the civic organizations In South Brooklyn- are opposed to every scheme which does not provide for the construction, of me entire subway. The Public Service Coinnvssion is understood to be sections. A new form or contract win b8T be drawn and advertised for bids. Then the bids will nave to De opened, the financial standing of the successful bidder thoroughly examined by the Finance Department, and then the appropriation- by ths Board of Estimate of tho necessary money Mj ram This proceedure will, at least take 4 couple of monthSj From whT co-.

bo fronted the principal argument by 'the advocates tbe construction of the whole route of the subway will be Controller Metz last statement on the debt limit ending December 81. This placed the dty borrowing capacity at $48,600,000. Four million dollars of this increase was derived through the Sinking Fund. The Fourth avenue subway advocates will argue that the controller's own statement demonstrates that tho city Is far from being and that enough money is available to build the whole route. Owing to the fact that Borough President Coler is bUBy In court, the select-committee of the Board of Estimate could not take action this afternoon on the Fourth avenue subway question it was called upon to consider.

Informal discussion, however, reveaieu that Controller Mez, who was for building one section and a half of the subway, now seems to be In favor of building Just the Hist section, which ends at Wllloughby street, nd having that used as a terminal by the trolley cars from Manhattan so that they can bring passengers all the way to Willoughby street instead of dumping mem out plazi at Nassau street. This system, Mr. Metz said, ought to be useful until such time as the rest of the Fourth avenue subway is completed, when the trolleys will, of course, evacuate In favor of through trains. HEGEMAN PLEADS GUILTY. Man Who Cut Grandmother's Throat When Refused Money.

Samuel Hegeman, 30 years of age, of Prospect avenue, pleaded guilty this morning to assault In the first degree in the County Court, before Judge Dike. Hegeman is the man who cut his grandmother's throat on February 16 last, after a quarrel with her over some money that he tried to get from her. The grandmother Is Caroline Lehard. She was so badly injured that she was taken to the hospital and not expected to live, but is recovering. According to the detectives who have been Investigating Hegeman's life, he has been loig a drunken, worthless fellow, and his attack upon his grandmother in her own home was an especially vicious one.

He went there and demanded money from her and got $40. When Mrs. Lehard was kissing him goodbye, it is said, he drew a knife and stabbed her In tho neck. Upon his arraignment this morning he pleaded guilty to the Indictment as charged, and he will probably be sentenced to a good long term in Sing Sing on Monday next. NEW WHEAT PIT RECORD.

Price-Reached at Chicago for May Delivery $1.17 3-4 Per Bushel. Chicago, February 26 New high record marks for the season were established to-day in the wheat pit when the May delivery sold at Sl.17 per bushel, and the July at This price for the May delivery Is within four cents of the best mark reached during the memorable Gates campaign In 1905, when the price touched $1.2114. The high prices prevailing for the future deliveries are due to a large extent to the constantly advancing tendency in the price of the cash grain, which is being eagerly sought by millers at all of the leading grain centers in this country. Congestion in the May delivery brought about by manipulation by several leading operators on the board here, however, is responsible partly for the advance. CURLERS HOMEWARD BOUND.

Liverpool, February 26 The Canadian curlers, who have had a highly successful tour in Scotland and England, left here to-day for home on the steamer Empress of Ireland. Torkliih Batlia. ft, A for SS. Always cpan; prlvatt rouma. V-3i Clinton at.

Mother and Two Sons Overcome by Escaping Gas. Because of a loose gas cock on a stove In the kitchen of their home, Mrs. Catherine Kramer, 60 years old. and her two sons, William and Charles, were overcome early this morning, and might have lost their lives had not a neighbor smelted tho. gas and investigated.

Conrad Frieck, who lives In the same house with the Kramers, at 30" Stockholm street, was going to work at 6:30 clock this morning when he smellea gas and traced it to the door of the Kramer flat. When he got no response to his knocks he burst In the door. The Kramers were in bed, unconscious. Frieck ran for a policeman after open ing the windows in the' flat, and ur. Graves from the German Hospital was summoned.

He soon revived the unconscious family. It was learned that Mrs Kramer arose early this morning to heat some water, and then went back to bed. When she turned off the gas the cock was loose and slipped open. SUICIDE ON AN STATION. David Rufeisen Learned That Police Were After Him and Shot Himself Dead.

After walking up and down the platform of the terminal station of the Third ave nue elevated railroad in the Bronx for nearly an hour, early this morning, David Rufeisen, 18 years old, of 42S Courtlandt avenue, the Bronx, went into the waiting room and pulling a revolver from his pocket fired a shot through his head. He died Instantly. R. Rufeisen of 336 East Eighteenth street was communicated with, and sail he was an uncle of the suicide. The young man's family, ho said, were in Oderfurth Xadash.

Austria, and were wealthy. Young Rufeisen was rather wild, he said, and bis father sent him to this country about three years ago ln order that he might eventually go into the drug business. Young Rufeisen was employed in the drug store of Philip Hcrsman, at 807 Courtlandt avenue, the Bronx, and through the proprietor If was learned that Rufeisen undoubtedly committed suicide because he learned that detectives were about to arrest him on the charge of grand larceny. Much stuff, he notified the police, had been missed from the store, and evidence pointed to the young clerk. Yesterday, one of the clerks met Rufeisen and told him that the police were looking for htm.

"I don't rare." Rufeisen Is said to have replied. "They'll never get me." PAY OF HAINS' PROSECUTORS. Compensation for Former District At. torney Darrin and Elmer S. White Fixed by Justice Crane.

Supreme Court Justice Crane to-day fixed the compensation it Elmer S. White, the Brooklyn lawyer, wno assisted In the prosecution of Thornton Jenkins Hains, tried recently at Flushing for the killing of William Annls, at $2,000. Justice Crane also fixed the compensation to be paid the other counsel ln the case. Ira G. Darrin, who ivas district attorney ln Queens when the trial started, gets $2,000 for his services as special prosecutor from January 1 to January 15.

when the trial ended. Cary B. Fish ard Emlle E. Raibgeuer get $200 each, and James A. 'Dayton $500.

Fish and Rath-geber were in tho case only after January 1. White put In a bill for 603 hours work on the case. He divided this time by nil hours, stated by him to constitute a Day work, ana 64 11-12 aays at each. Justice Crane cut White'B bill from $2,767 to the amount named above, saying he could not be bound by agreements as to compensation made by counsel. NAVAL CONFERENCE ENDS.

Code to Regulate Naval Warfare to Be Published on March 20 in Each Country Affected. London, February 26 Tho delegates to the International naval conference that has been In session in this city since last December, to-day completed the formality of signing and sealing their findings. The code to regulate naval warfaro, to draft which the conference was summoned, will be published simultaneously ln the capital of each country represented, on March 20. R.ar Admiral Charles H. Stockton, one of the American delegates, will sail for home on March 3.

He will take with him the documents for America, which are to be submitted to the Senate. Professor George Grafton Wilson, the other American delegate, will spend some weeks on Hie continent before returning home. The conference was summoned by Great Britain. Its primary purpose was to determine as many definite principles of maritime international law as possible, and capable of being used for the government of the proposed international prize court, under the twelfth convention of the second Hague Peace Conference, held last year. WILL APPEAL TO GOVERNOR.

Washington Life Receiver Will Determine His Right to Take Over Company's Assets. Albany, X. February 26 A question having been raised as to the right of the State Insurance Department to take over the assets of the Washington Life Insurance Company and conserve them until conflicting rights and wishes of the policy-holders can be determined, Superintendent William H. Hotchkiss an nounced to-day that he would appeal to Governor Hughes and the Legislature, and if necessary have legislation enacted at once to remove any doubt that might exist. Superintendent Hotchkiss returned tq-day after practically completing the transfer of a larre portion of the assets of the company to himself as trustee.

"The balance of the assets sufficient to ve3t me with title to everything that the Washington Life Insurance Company would have had on the 24th day of February. 1HU9. had it not transferred its property and business to the Pittsburg Life and Trust Company." says a statement given out by Superintendent Hotchkiss. "will be turned over as soon as the exact amount can be ascertained by examiners who are now in Pittsburg. "With regard to the pending controversy in the Supreme Court 1 note that those who even now still seem to desire a receivership have raised the question as to my power to take over these assets and conserve them until conflicting rights and the wishes of the policy-holders can be ascertained.

therefore, deem it my duty to at once bring the facts to the attention of the Governor and the Legislature to the end that should there be the slightest, doubt as to which I have nono concerning my legnl power to assume charge of and administer this, trust, such action may be promptly taken by the law-making power as will settle that doubt." The Train to Buffalo. th "HiiffaloniRji." I an instantaneous "hit." Buffet Sleeping- Car with Observation Smoker. Uesbrosses St. P.M.. nnrt W.

AM St. 9:15 P.M.; arrive Buffalo A.M. Phone 63W Mad. Adv. TRAIN IN DITCH; ONE DEAD.

Victim of Wreck at Van Horn, the Engineer. Des Moines, February 26 The Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul overland limited train going west went Into a ditch at Van Horn, at 2 o'clock this morning. It Is reported that several were killed. Chicago, February 26 At the general superintendent's office of the Chicago.

Milwaukee and St. Paul it was stated that the westbound overland limited train had been ditched at Van Horn. and that the engineer. C. H.

Brown, had been killed. There were no other fatalities, the officials of the company asserted. Tho cause of the wreck has not yet been ascertained. GILCHRIST MUST EXPLAIN Ordered to Appear Before Justice Kelly in Supreme Court, Was Wandering; In Corridor Near Jury Rooms While Decision in Suit Was Pending. Ex-Senator Alfred J.

Gilchrist has been commanded to appear to-morrow morn lng before Justice Kelly. In Part I o' the Supreme Court, and explain his be havior night before last in the court house, for, so It appears from the rec ord already taken In this particular mat ter, It looks as though the well-known Republican politician and lawyer came mighty near committing a serious of. tense. Late yesterday afternoon Justice Kelly hd Court Attache James Flaherty before him and questioned him closely about the episode which brings ex-Sen ator Gilchrist Into court to-morrow. From the facts learned to-day there was a trial of a case In Part I before Kelly on Wednesday.

It was the suit of John Clarke Reld and Julia Reld against the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company to recover damages for personal Injuries. Lawyer Gilchrist was one of the attorneys for the Reids. The case was concluded at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and tho Jury retired. At 5 o'clock, when word was received from the Jury that no agreement bad been reached, Justice Kelly ordered a sealed verdict. According to Court Officer Flaherty it was about 8 o'clock that Gilchrist ap peared In the long corridor where the Jury rooms are, and started to Interview the attache, who immediately informed Gilchrist that he had no business where ho was and ordered him downstairs.

Gilchrist was very offensive, Flaherty testified on the witness stand, and had to be forcibly put down below the Jury room floor. Information concerning the unusual proceeding on the part of the lawyer was told Justice Kelly yesterday morn ing, and he ordered Gilchrist before him at the adJournftfU, i.f the court yesterday afternoon. A''fiiat t.ilie" he heard what Mr. Flaherty had say and then told Gilchrist to come Into court tomorrow morning prepared to defend himself against the serious charge against him. MAY EXPUNGE COOK SPEECH.

Colorado Man's Tirade Against Presi dent Likely to Be Taken From Congressional Record. Washington, February 26 Almost the first subject to occupy the attention of the House of Representatives to-day was the speech made yesterday by Mr. Cook (Colorado), attacking the President. Mr. Tawney (Minn.) offered a resolution call ing for the appointment of a committee of five to make investigation and report as to the advisability of expunging the words from the record.

Messrs. Fitzgerald (N. and Clark sprang to the forefront with arguments that the resolution was not privileged. Mr. Clark maintained that a dangerous precedent was being established, and he charged that the resolution was simply the establishing of a press censorship In the House.

The resolution was adopted by a viva voce vote, and the Speaker announced the following as the committee to conduct the Investigation: Mann (111), Perkins (N. Foster (Vt), Clayton and Howard Mr. Goebel of Ohio to-day favorably reported to the House of Representatives the ship subsidy bill passed by the Senate. The House to-day again got down to I work on the sundry civil appropriation hill, with every indication tnat its con sideration would be concluded before nightfall. Various increases in salaries provided for officers of the board of managers of national soldiers homes were stricken out on points of order by Mr.

Macon The House ovtrwhelmingly voted down an amendment by Mr. Fitzgerald (N. striking out the provision prohibiting canteens at national soldiers homes. BAD GANG ROUNDED UP. Twelve International Thieves, Who Stole to Aid Anarchist Cause, Captured by Swiss Police.

Zurich. Switzerland, February 26 The police of this city have captured twelve members of a dangerous band of International burglars who have been operating on the continent. At the same time two men who recently robbed a bank of $200,000, were arrested at Prague, no-hernia, where a large proportion of this booty was seized. Another section of the gang has been caught at Turin. The men all claim that the proceeds from their efforts were to be expended in furthering the anarchist cause.

CHICAGO FIREMEN HUET. Chicago. February 26 Two firemen were injured by a falling wall during a fire which destroyed the Albert Dickinson Seed Warehouse No. 2 in West Taylor street to-day. Three girls were knocked down in the rush of fifty others for the stairway, hut were rescued by policemen The loss is placed at insurance covered.

LUCKY BALDWIN VERY LOW. Los Angeles. February "6 The condition of E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin is unchanged to-day.

He is very low. Secure. Pnllmnn Arrnmmoiliitionn nnw to the Inauguration at Washington. A telephone call, "Madison 13:," wilt brina-tlrkets to omce, hom or club. Bplendld train servlcs via rennijlvanla Railroad.

Adv. a He Has Implicated Another Professor at St. Francis College, Police Say. EXAMINATIONS MADE EASY. For a Consideration, Exams.

Were Conducted and Regents' Certificates Obtained. The arrest of Charles G. Christie, A.M., a professor of French and Spanish in St. Francis' College on Baltic, near Court street, last night, by Detectives Roddy, Murray, Cunningham and Ward of the headquarters force, was kept a secret until late this morning, because the man had Implicated others In his alleged wrongdoings, and there was another professor In the college whose ar rest was necessary to completo the caso. The charge against Professor Christie was that he had falsely certified to supposed examinations of candidates for college entrance; and behind tho prosecution was the State Department of Education.

In brief, the charge was that some ambitious embryo professional men had been getting their entrance "points" without working for them. The Investigators for the regents had been working on certain susplciouB conditions concerning tho certificates from St. Francis College for some months. In the course of their Inquiries they discovered that the management of the college was not in any way to blame, nor was it In any way Involved; that as far aa the Franciscan Brothers were concerned, none of them was implicated, and that the men who were sending the false certificates to Albany were not of the religious staff of the Institution. The man who did most of the work on the inquiry Is Harry DeWltt DeGroot of 11 Linden avenue, who Ib an Inspector ot the Stale Department of Education.

The papers were In French and Spanish tnd Intermediate algebra. College entrance examinations are ordered by the State Board, every six months. In January and June. A regents' certificate is required for entrance to any of the colleges which teach law, medicine, dentistry, and prospective students, who have not had the advantage of a college education may fit themselves for a state certificate by home study. To get a certificate he must pass an examination and win a certain number of The examinations are usually held in a college, and one of them wan held at St.

Francis' College, on January 29 last In tho preceding June the state examiners found that on a certain day on Joseph Schleln seemed to have taken two examinations simultaneously, one at the Grand Central Palace In Manhattan, and the other at St. Francis College. Mr. DeGroot was sent to look this up, for both of. the Schlelns had given their ad-dreBs as at 207 Smith street.

A visit revealed the fact that there were two Joseph Schlelns. cousins, one 29 years old and the other much younger. There is a drug store rt Smith street, which is run by the elder of the Schlelns, and the younger is' his clerk. It was tho elder who took tho St. Francis' examination, and he said he was plugging for en trance-to a dental college.

In the courso of a conversation with the elder Schlein. Mr. DeGroot got a hint that the certificate from St. Francis was not received on the level, and then he began to poke questions at Sclilein which resulted In a confession that one of the professors had, for a consideration, coached hira and nad even supplied the answers to the questions in "fourth-year French." Acting on information thus received, Mr. DeGroot, with his police allies.

Rod dy and Murray, took the two Schleins to tbe Adams street court veslerrlav afternoon and affidavits were made. The state inspector also had Schlein's "fourth year French" examination paper, which was used as an exhibit. The affidavit of 'Schleln No. 1, as the elder was desia- nuted, was to the effect that the paper had not been filled out at anv epneral examination, but at the residence of Pro fessor Christie, at 276 Warren street. The whole thing was done in one of Mr.

Christie's rooms. The accommodatina- professor had Biipplied the entire thi.ie. and then after the paper had been writ ten out and signed by Schleln. made certain "mistakes" In the papers which "mistakes" were marked In blue pen-cllings, and the credits were given in red (nk. The young man did not get a perfect mark." That would never have done; He had a good one, though, something over 90, which was reduced by the negenis- examiners to something over 70.

The professor was locked tin last, nlsht. He was grieved over his situation and readily told Mr. De Groot all about it, in volving anotner or tne professors and about a dozen youne students, some of whom have received their college entrance certificates. Christie, who I 53 years old, is a native of France, of Scot tish-French parentage, and he has been employed in St. Francis College for some years.

He said that the other professor was the man who tempted him. This other professor much Christie's Junior in point of service in the school. To-day Mr. De Groot was preparing to have the other professor arrested, and the affidavits on which a warrant is to issue for his arrest were made in the office of Assltant District Attorney Smith, who is very much interested ln the caflcs. One of the witnesses who was taken before the assistant district Attorney to-day is a medical student firsfyear at the Long Island College Hospital-named De Yoanna.

This lad is the son of a physician. His evidence was to the effect that he had studied under the other proressor ana nan paia nun for tutoring, but had not taken the regular examination. The answers to the questions in the examination were supplied by this professor, he said. Mr. DeGroot said to-day to the reporters that the present case had had the effect of unearthing a plot of great magnitude to deceive the regents.

He declared that It had not been going on for Very long time, probably a year, and intimated that in this time a number of certificates had been issued by the State Department on worthless papers. "Of course." said Mr. DeGroot. "tho certificates issued on these fraudulent papers will be recalled and the sufferers will be the students themselves." There Is no disposition, it is understood, to cause the arre3t of the students who took advantage of the "get-educa-tion-easy" methods. They will suffer In having their certificates withdrawn.

Christie was taken before Magistrate Dooley. who issued the original warrant, later In the day. Tt is likely that he will be given a hearing. ONCE RICH; DIED PENNILESS. Los Angeles, February 26 Portius R.

We re, at. one time a power in tho business world ot Chicago and later a foctor in business in the Northwest, is dead here. At the time of his death he was virtually penniless. At one time controlled the Cilohe grain elevators in Chicago and throughout the Northwest. Later he started the North American Transportation and Trading Company.

He was forced into bankruptcy in Seattle. Mr. Weare was onio of the first to exploit the Klondike when it wis opened. Expects Important Changes by Extra Session, He Says. TOGO INTO EFFECT SOON Thinks June 1st a Likely Data for Some Relief From Present Schedules.

A REASON FOR QUICK ACTION. Business Is Waiting on Congress and There Should Be No Delay Letter to Sereno E. Payne. 1 President-elect Taft came out tn-dn for immediate revision of the tariff. Mr.

Taft said he favored the appointment of a commission to study the matter and give Information to Congress, but first of all favored revision itself. He said the thing obsessing all minds at present was Immediate changes in the present law. He gave the inference that, he was favor-oble to wholesale revision. Mr. Taft stated that he felt that the schedules of tho tariff as they stand now were onerous to business, holding it with a force of a drag brake.

He said he wanted the tariff matter disposed of an quickly as possible and believed that the special session of Congress could settle it by June 1. He agreed in part with the recent convention in Indianapolis, which called for a tariff revision commis sion, but said that such a commission should not be aooointed now. us It might block the plan for revision to come before the present session of Congress. Mr. Taft simply made public a letter that he sent to Sereno E.

Payne, repre sentative in Congress from New York. who has the tariff matter In charge in the House. In this letter Mr. Taft said: A tariff commission would be harm-. ful or useful as its functions were de scribed the bill.

My own ideas hav been there ought to be a perma nent commission of tariff experts, to keep themselves advised by all the. means possible of the cost of producing the articles named in the schedules of foreign countries and In this country. I think that what we lack Is evidence, and some such means might very well used to secure it. "I should be the last to advocate a commission with any power to fix rates, If that were constitutional, as it would not be, or with any function other than that of furnishing the evidence to Congress upon which from time to time it might act. "Am this In (he primary rennUHe for the relief of present I TVRnt to have It disponed of at once.

I am honefol thnl three mill lie important revisions ln the existing srhednlrs made by oncres in, this extra session and I look forward to 1 a the date when most of the changes will become effective." President-elect Taft is of the belief that the present halt in business is due to the uncertainty over the coming tariff legislation, and that Congress would in all probability expedite its consideration ot the tariff schedule as rapidly as possible, in order that business may quickly adjust Itself and resume its normal trend. This opinion was expressed to-day to James W. Van Cleave, president of the National Manufacturers Association, ana H. E. Miles of Racine, chairman of the tariff committee of the National Manufacturers' Association, who called upon Mr.

Taft as a part of the committee from the recent National Tariff Commission Convention in Indianapolis, to urge his co-operation in the immediate creation of a prominent tariff commission to aid Congress in the adjusting of schedules in the coming tariff legislation. Mr. Taft told Mr. Van Cleave that ha desired to have further Information con cerning a commission of tariff experts, and would give it his every considera tlon. The present lull in industry, Mr.

Taft said, was undoubtedly duo to Impending tariff legislation, but that ha thought with that knowledge in view Congress would conclude its deliberations at, an early date, possibly in June. Tariff changes always halt business for at time, was the opinion expressed by Mr, Taft, and the sooner such legislation was drawn and adopted, the better for the country. Mr. Van Cleave said after his confer ence with Mr. Taft that the President elect expressed his belief In a tariff com mission to consider changes in tariff schedules from year to year.

Ho said that he also thought Congress woul.l finish with the tariff bill by June. National Committeeman Charles F. Brookcr of Connecticut, Ralph Peters, president of the Long Island Railroad; General J. C. Underwood and John Bar-riit, president of the Bureau of American Republics, were callers on Mr.

Taft today. The President-elect and his brother, Charles Taft, had luncheon this afternoon at the Holland House. Mr. Taft enjoyed a comfortable rest at the residence of his brother in, Manhattan last night and arose at 8 o'clock: this morning. At 9:30 he was visited by George J.

Wickersham, just appointed attorney general of the Taft Cabinet, and they consulted for soma time. He has finished work on hlB inaugural address and devoted a portion of the day to some magazine articles that he had promised to write. Others who called during the moraine: were John Barrett of the Bureau ot Ceneral American Republics: Louis C. Hay. F.

L. Hearn, Alexander Cameron, Charles F. Brooker, national committeeman from Connecticut; Ralph Peters, president of the Long Island Railroad: General J. Underwood, James W. Van Cleave, president o( the Manufacturers Association, and F.

Miles, who was chairman of the Tariff Revision Convention recently held in Indianapolis under the auspices of the Manufacturers' Association. The President-elect and his brother lunched at the Holland House. To-night Mr. Taft will attend the dinner of tho Peace Society to Secretary Root, at tha Hotel Astnr. To-morrow morning Mr, and MtB.

Ta' will leave for Washiugto. COMMISSION'S REPORT, TOO. Senator Declares Documents Should Be Barred Because of Alleged Obscenity. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, February 26 Senators and Representatives are having hard work these closing days of Congress to restrain their deBlres to strike at the White House.

In the Senate to-day Senator Tillman introduced a resolution calling on the Post Office Committee to investigate and report whether the report the President's farmers uplift commission, and the message accompanying It, ought not to be barred from circulation through the malls because of alleged obscenity. Senator Hemenway has been buried In his committee room for the past two days. writing a reply to the President's attack on him of last Monday, in connection with the Secret Service. Both tbe Senate and House are busy adopting resolutions Intended to put out of business the various special boards and commissions which the President has appointed from time to time. In order to preserve a semblance of fairness the House to-day took steps to wipe out of the record the speech made last night by Representative Cook of Colorado, In which the President was fiercely assailed.

Mr. Tawney himself made the motion that a committee be appointed to see what portions of the objectionable speech should be ex-purged. Mr. Tawney is responsible for the Mouse putting into the Sundry Civil bill this year the limitations on tbe Secret Service which originally displeased the President and provoked the whole row between the White House and Congress on this subject. Mr.

Tawney did not yield a single Inch on this proposition and the House has stood squarely behind him. There Is a report here that the President will veto the entire bill becauBe of this paragraph. The Senate was clearly astonished at Ihe Tillman resolution, but there was no discussion of it and It was referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. MRS. BEN TEAL GUILTY Theatrical Manager's Wife Nearly Collapsed in Court.

Sentenced to One Year In Penitentiary for Attempted Subornation of Perjury In Gould Case. The Jwry in the trial of Irirs. Margaret Teal, wife of Ben Teal, the well-known theatrical manager, for attempted subornation of perjury in with the divorce suit of Helen Kelly Gould against Frank J. Gould, came Into court before Justice Foster, in the Court of General Sessions, in Manhattan, at 12:20 o'clock this afternoon, and rendered a verdict of guilty. Mrs.

Teal had evidently been Informed in advance that the verdict would be rendered against her. for she made great effort to retain composure. When the court clerk asked the foreman whether or not the Jury bad come to a conclusion, and the word "Guilty" was pronounced in a tone audible all over the court room, Mrs. Teal sank to her knees, but was lifted to a chair by two court attendants. She then burlea ner race in her muff.

A recommendation for clemency, signed by all of the Jurors, was thon presented to Judge Foster. All this time Juror No. 6, Mr. Wright, was noticed to frequently put his hand over hlB and it was soon apparent that he was crying. "Have you anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced now?" said Judge Foster to Colonel Haire.

Mrs Teal's counsel then made a number of motions looklna: to the protection of his client, and they were all denied. Then Judge Foster said: Margaret Teal you have had a fair trial, and the recommendation of the Jury that you be shown tleraencv shall receive due heed from me. I will not add to jour suffering by referring to your past record, with which the district attorney has acquainted me. I have been greatly impressed by the touching bearing of your husband during this trial. You deserve punishment, however, and the sentence of this court is that you undergo an imprisonment of one year in the penitentiary." Mrs.

Teal was by this time almost in a state of collapse. Several of her friends, as well as her husband, were in court when sentence was pronounced. Colonel Haire announced that he would apply at once for a certificate of doubt and endeavor to get his client out on bail pending appeal. When the Jurymen were discharged they said that all during the night they stood ten to two for conviction; that thia morning one more was won over to the ma jority, and that after an hour debating the verdict was made unanimous ana an signed the clemency recommendation. JOBS FOR MC CAHSEN MEN.

Leo Mooney Deputy City Paymaster. Mr. Barrett nn Auditor. Leo Mooney of the Twenty-third As sembly District, Brooklyn, was to-day appointed deputy city paymaster at a salary of $2,500 per annum. Mooney is a strong McCarren man and has been fighting Patrick F.

Lynch for the leadership of the district. Francis X. Barrett, who held the posi- autlon of deputy paymastaer, has been made an auditor at a salary of $3,500 a year. Barrett is In the Twelfth Assembly District and is also a McCarren man. SPERRY AT WASHINGTON.

Washington. February 26 Rear Admiral Sperry, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, spent to-day In Washington in consultation with naval officials respecting matters connected with his com- fmand. Owing to Secretary Newberry presence at the cabinet meeting tne admiral deferred his visit to the Navy Department until noon. WOMAN DRANK IODINE. Mrs.

Roland Anderson, 23 years old, of 517 Hancock street, attempted suicide yesterday by swallowing iodine. Mrs. Anderson has been a sufferer for some time trom nervous troubles. Dr. Hazel-wood removed her to St.

John's Hospital, where it was said that her case Is not serious. Fourth' avenue subway seems to be the! universal opinion in Mannattan. it. rogarded as absurd to assume that after Ihe pavement on the FlatbuBh avenue extension Is once laid down and surface oar are running over It, that it will be ripd up again to build the subway. To 'do this would seriously Interfere If not entirely stop tho.

traffic over tbe Manhattan Bridge. Even if viewing the situation created this morning with the most optimistic hopes, it is thought hardly likely that a subway will be built the extension for some to come. Chief Engineer Lewis summed up the actuation in these words to the board in presenting his report- "No human agency can prevent the Manhattan Bridge hanging up in the air useless for at least a year and probably longer If an attempt Is made to build a subway under the Flatbush avenue extension between now and the date that the span is to be thrown open for traffic." Mr. Lewis' Mr. Lewis, in his report, said that on April 19, 1907, the Board of Estimate and Annortionment adopted a resolution au thorizing th: regulating and grading of the Flatbush avenue extension from Ful ton street to the approach to the Man hattan Bridge at Nassau street.

"I under stand" he continued, "that no contract has been entered Into for this work by the president of the borough, and that it is being held until the rapid transit subway in this street shall have constructed or at least until it shall have been definitely determined whether or not it is to be built In the near future. There is pending before the Board of Estimate and Apportionment a resolution providing for the paving of the roadway of this street. Further than this, there are before the Board of Estimate and Apportionment applications from the Brook, lyn City Railroad Company for a franchise to build and operate a double track railroad in the Flatbush avenue extension, and also from the Brooklyn Heights P.ailroad Company, the Third Avenue Railroad Company, and the Metropolitan Street Railway Company to operate surface cars across the Manhattan Bridge. "A general report upon the use of the Manhattan Bridge and its approaches by surface railway companies has been presented to the board and referred to a select committee, but no report has yet been made by the committee for the obvious rcaBon that If a rapid transit subway is to be built in this street the surface railway tracks cannot be Installed until this work shall have been completed. "If tho remarkable rate of progress thus far made in the building of the Manhattan Bridge is continued, that bridge will be ready for public use in about one year.

If work were to be commenced Immediately upon the construction of the four-track subway in the Flatbush avenue extension, it would be impossible to complete it within the same period. After this would follow the regulating and grading of the street, the construction of surface railway tracks under franchises not yet granted, and the paving of the roadway, it is quite apparent, therefore, that if this subway Is to be constructed, nothing can possibly prevent a delay of at least one year, and probably more, after the completion of the Manhattan Bridge before it can be made available for public use by means of the street which has been laid out and acquired at enormous expense to serve as an approach to this bridge. It is impossible to predict at the present time when the way will be clear for the construction of the subway, and the question which must be met and determined now is whether the Manhattan Bridge shall be practically unsed for a years or two after Its completion, or whether the work of regulating and grading and paving the Flatbush avenue extension shall be at once proceeded with and the question of franchises for the use of this street and the Manhattan Bridge by surface transportation lines shall be at the same time taken up and settled aid the question of the future construction of a Rapid Transit subway in the street be put aside. "1 am most reluctant to suggest the placing on any street, of a pavement wh'ch may be badly mutilated, if not destroyed, by subsequent construction, but tba estimated cost of the entire pave- I.