The Searchlight (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 385, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 8, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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Washington, D. C., May 4-—Follow-
ing a brief speech by Mr. Nelson on
tho railroad ralo bill Mr. Tillman
spoko at length In an efTort to show by
criticism of Individual judges that tho
power of granting Injunctions by In-
ferior United States courts «5iorW be
taken from them in interstate com-
merce commission ca.;ca and he was
followed by Messrs. Paeon, Bailey, Tel-
ler and Foraker in speeches of some
length.
Mr. Tillman's speech consisted
mainly cf quotations reflecting upon
th? conduct federal judges in differ-
ent parts of the country. While he
v,". - M- i in bo engaged in contro-
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Mr. Bacon cr tic'
Mr. Tillman as calculated to produce
a false imprc -ion in tho country and
was in turn censured by Mr. Bailey
who held that 1 ho offico of judge
is entitled 'o the srroate t respect thcro
should be no reverence for judges as
men.
Senator Tillman, when the tiff be-
tween him and Mr. Spooner had drawn
to a harmless close, returned to his
strictures on certain federal judges.
Some Rank Instances.
He considered tho case of Editor
Jose?h'U® Dan'els of the Raleigh, N. C.,
News and Observer, who he said, had .
been thrown iuto prisfTn for criticising
the appointment of a receiver for the
Atlantic & North Carolina railway by
Judge Purnell. Mr. Tillman said he
could review instances in his own
state of acts of tyranny and indecency,
but the judge committing them is dead
and had settled his accounts else-
where. The senator said he also knew
some cases in Georgia but he would
take up tho case of Circuit Court ^
Judge Pardee in enjoining the Florida
Railroad commission from instituting
Milt to icompel tho Louisville & Nash-
ville railroad to reduce its fares from
4 to 3 cents a mile. He charged tli it
Pardee ought to bo Impeached for his
course. If impeachment proceedings
were brought to the Senate Mr. Till-
man predicted that there would not
be votes enough to impeach although
tho judge were proved guilty of vio-
lating his oath of office.
The Judge Swayne Fiasco.
Mr. Tillman next paid his respects
to the Judge Charles Swayne of Flori-
da, whom the Senate refused last ses- j
eion to impeach. Mr. Tillman then (
closed with an apology, explaining ■
that the situation was such as to re- j
quire the administering of some ^
"physic." He would not allow the j
judges to "roam up and down the land,
doing whatever railroads want and re-
fusing to grant relief to the people.
YANKEE BLOOD IN HIS VEINS.
Washingtton, D. C., May 4.— Offi-
cial and social circles in the national (
capital are considerably interested in
the appointment of Baron Herman von ^
Hatzfeldt-Wilderburg to succeed Bar-(
on von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen as
first secretary of the German embassy
here. Baron Hatzfeldt will doubtless
find the Washington post, agreeable
as he has a strong strain of American
blood in his veins, his mother having
been a Miss Helen Moulton, of Albany,
Now York.
The nobility of Europe, though it
has furnished stories of love, romance
and intrigue stranger than are to be
found in the pages of fiction, seldom
has furnished a stranger life romance
than that in which the parents of Bar-
on Hatzfeldt figured as principal?. Di-
vorced for state reasons, remarried for
love, and in her old age the object of
a unique sacrifice, tho mother of the
new secretary of tho German embassy
experienced at once more sufferng
and more honor than falls to the lot
of most American wives of titled hus-
bands.
Baron Hatzfeldt is the only son of
tho late Count Paul Hatzfeldt, who
va for many years German Ambas-
sador of England. His mother was
),, ! n V ii!'.on, i..lighter of Colonel
Moult, n, of Albany, N. Y. Her mother,
Mrs. Moulton, was the daughter of an
old French dancing-master, who in the
early part of the ninteenth century
was professor of tho terpsichorean art
to the fashionables of New York. His
name was Metz and his dauglitei s
Christian name Cesarine. She was
celebrated In New York for her beauty
and fascination.
When the daughter, Helen, was
about ten, years old tho family went
to Paris and there made Its home.
Charles Moulton, the father, became
associated with Baron Haussmann,
who built the boulevards and trans-
figured Pari?, and was swept high on
th? tide of sudden wealth. The family
were thrown into tho most exalted so-
ciety of the empire. The son mar-
ried a B ston girl, Miss Lillie Green-
ough, who enhanced the distinction of
tho family with her vocal and other
accomplishments. Charles Moulton,
her husband, was killed in a railroad
accident at Philadelphia some years
ago, and she afterward married Baron
von Hage-mnn, the Danish minister at
Washington.
Mis9 Helen Moulton meanwhile was
earning social trimphs cf her own.
At court she first met Count Hatz-
fioldt, secretary to Prince Otto von
Bismarck, then the Prussian Ambas-
sador in Paris. Count Hatzfeldt was
nearly 20 years' Miss Moulton's senior,
but he was under forty and age had
dealt lightly with him. He was the
son of that Countess Sophie von Hatz-
feldt, who was the friend and patron-
ess of Ferdinand Lassalle, the Jewish
philosopher and social democrat.
Miss Moulton returned the affection
which Count Hatzfeldt made known
to her, and they were married with
every circumstance of grandeur. As
the representative of Germany at
Madrid, Constantinople and other capi-
tals Count Hatzfeldt acquitted himself
brilliantly and his rise in the di-
plomatic service was rapid.
But a change was soon to come.
Bismarck desired his protege, Hatz-
feldt, to become foreign secretary and
remain in Berlin. In this position Hatz-
feldt would be a personage of conse-
quence at court, and it was necessary
that.he should be acceptable to roy-
alty. It was necessary also that his
wife should be acceptable. But Coun-
tess Hatzfeldt's mother had been an
actress In America, and the views of
the Empress Augusta regarding such
matters prohibited her being received
at court. Bismarck told Count Hatz-
feldt that the situation demanded that
he should divorce the countess. The
count ss herself urged her husband
to comply with Bismarck's demands,
and they were d'vorced, but remained
ever constant and warm friends. The
counto: n accepted the situation in a
philosophical spirit, and devoted her-
self to the education of her children.
Bismarck tried to induce the Count to
marry the daughter of a Berlin banker,
who had supplied the money to pay
his debts, but the Count would not.
Hatzfeldt's excellent work in the
f reign office paved the way for fur-
ther lvonoYs and his career was crown
ed with his appointment as Ambassa
c1 ;• to Great Britain. When Emperor
William broke tho power of Bismarck
and dispensed with the counsels of
tha: great statesman, Count Hatzfeldt
hast! ned to repair tho Injustice which
at the bidding of tho man of blood and
iron, he had inflicted on his wife. They
were remarried in the presence of a
distinguished company, including the
Dowager Empress Frederick and two
of her daughters.
Their son, Baron Hermann von
Hatzfeldt, is now 29 years old and has
sttarted well on his diplomatic career
At one. time it was reported that he
had decided to abandon tho Kaiser's
diplomatic service to enter the em
ploy of one of tho leading banks ot
London, but he evidently reconsidered
the matter and decided to continue
in the footsteps of his distinguished
father.
cording to tbo result of the Investiga-
tion, rarely, If ever, pays the lawful
rate for transportation. He favors as
an element of competition the passing
of a law similar to that passed by the
House putting alcohol used in arts on
the free list and keeping the oil, and
coal lands of the Indian tribes, or on
public domain, In the government's
hands, to be leased only on such terms
and for such periods as will enable tho
government to entirely control them.
What Garfield Has to Say.
Commissioner Garfield says, in ad-
dition to tho facts covered in the
President's message, that while tho
Standard's claim that the location of
its refineries and the use of pipe lines
are natural advantages to which It Is
justly entitled ie partly true, these ad-
vantages were In part obtained by
means of unfair competitive methods
■after years of fierce industrial strife.
Garfield says tho changes effected by
the investigation have put the inde-
pendents upon a fairer footing and
made competition possible in territory
heretofore inaccessable.
STANDARD OIL SCORED.
Washington, D. C., May 4.—The
President today transmitted to Con
gress the report of Commissioner of
Corporations Garfield, giving the re
suits of his investigation of the subject
of transportation and freight rates in
connection with the oil industry. That
the Standard Oil Co. has been bene
fitted enormously, up almc-st, to the
present moment, by secret rates, many
of which were clearly unlawful, the
President's ?ys the report shows bene-
fits secured thereby amounting to at
least three quarters of a million dol
lars a'year. "This three quarters of
a million'dollars represents," said the
President, "profit Standard Oil obtains
at the expense of the railroads, but of
course the ultimate result is that it
obtains a much larger profit at the ex-
pense of the public.
"A very striking result of the in-
vestigation has been that shortly af-
ter the discovery of these secret rates
by the commissioner of corporations
the major portion of them was prompt-
ly corrected by the railroads so that
most of them have been done away
with."
The statement add® that the De-
partment of Justice will take up the
question by instituting prosecutions
in at least certain ca es. The Presi-
dent continues:
"But in addition to these secret
rates the Standard Oil profits im-
mensely by open rates so arranged as
to give it an overwhelming advantage
over its independent competitors."
It is unfortunately not true, he says,
that the Standard Oil 1? the only cor-
poration that is benefitted, and is bene-
fitting, in wholly improper fashion by
an elaborate series or rate discrimina-
tions. The sugar trust, he adds, ac-
PRINTS OF THE THUMBS.
Now York, May 4.——Prints of ten
fingers with the question ' Who is this
man?" were sent recently from police
headquarters here to Scotland yard.
Back came the answer ysterday to
Inspector McLarughlin, with the name,
criminal history and photograph of the
man. Inspector McNaughton, of Scot-
land yard, had the man "to a dot." It
was a remarkable test of the English
system of keeping criminals' records,
adapted from Mark Twain's hint in
his story of "Pudd'nhead Wilson."
A man was arrested in the Waldorf-
Astoria on April 6 on suspicion that
he was a hotel sneak thief. He gave
the name of Harry Johnson, and
seemed to be an Englishman. There
were no charges against him at that
time. Inspector McLaughlin reason-
ed that he might be known to the
English police.
The usual custom has been to send
a photograph, Bertillion measurements
and full description of such a prisoner
to Scotland yard and ask for an iden-
tification. Inspector McLaughlin de-
cided in this case to send merely the
finger prints to test that method of
identification, which has not been used
here.
The Scotland yard inspector's re-
ply said that the prisoner was un-
doubtedly James Jones, also known as
Daniel Nolan, a hotel thief, who had
served eight terms of imprisonment.
Ills photograph was a good likeness of
"Johnson."
While the police here were wait-
ing for the answer from London they
found two patrons of the Wallorf-As-
toria who had been robbed. Nolan
was tried and convicted last Friday
for this offense, and he is already in
Sing Sing, beginning a sentence of
seven years.
TO OFFSET WAR
Pittsburg, Pa., May 4.—One thou-
sand dollars for a book on peace—
simply an elaboration of Gen. Sher-
man's famous utterance, "War is
Hell"—for a story that will effect war
as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" did slavery—
$1,000.
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