Republican News Item VOL. XYI. NO. 3 PROSPECTS FOR PEACE BRIGHT Diaz and Rebels Practically Agree on Terms. RIOTS FOLLOW TAKING OF CITY Insurrectos Kill Forty Rioters to Re store Order In Pachuca Banks Were Dyna nited. Francisco I. Madero, the provisional president of Mexico, and Francisco Carbajal, the federal peace commis sioner, both declared in Juarez, Mex., that the prospects are bright for peace, that the next few hours will bring delinite results. Madero has agreed to recede from his demand for four cabinet members and accept three —the portfolios of war, justice and gobernaeion, the lat ter meaning the control of the govern ment of the states. The insurrectos also get fourteen of the twenty-seven governors. Diaz only wished to concede the in eurrecto" one of tlie cabinet offices, who at first held out for four. Me was willing to permit them to have theportfolio of gobernacion, which is aow vacant, the incumbent of which will have more to do with restoring peace throughout the country than any other man. Without the ministry of war and the portfolio of justice, however, the insurrectos say they will be handicapped. The insurrectos wish to completely overhaul the courts. The insurrectos immediately after peace is declared will form a political party to be called the "Progressive" party, and as soon as peace is com pletely restored and Diaz has resigned a national campaign will be launched, wilh Francisco I. Madero undoubtedly as candidate for president. It is declared that the peace pact, while virtually agreed to, will not bo signed until Diaz and Madero have agreed upon the cabinet gppnintens and the governors of the different states, so that there can be no chance of another break alter the insurrecto army has been disbanded. The army is to be held together and a truce is to be first declared, to be niade nation-wide if this is possible, so that there will be no further fight ing while the presidents are attempt ing to get together on the officials to be named. The insurrectos .ire to be given the free use of the telegraph wires, it is stated, so that Madero can communi cate with his men in all parts of the republic before naming those he wishes for the different positions un der the government. Madero, although perfectly confident of peace, declares that he is preparing for war. Forty Rioters Killed at Pachuca. The iorce of federal troops which was being rushed to Pachuca, the cap ital of the state of Hidalgo, captured Sunday by the rebels, turned back on orders from Mexico City. The rebels have imprisoned C.ov ernor Rodriguez and named Joaquin Gonzales provisional governor. The rebels in their efforts to re store order killed forty rioters. Rioting and pillage occurred at Pa chuca. The rebels became drunk and defied their commanders. The towns people in terror barricaded themselves in their homes and remained in con cealment. The banks were dynamited. The city is quiet, but business Is at a standstill. All of the banks have been wrecked, though the vaults are still intact. The state records and other governmental documents have been burned. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, IF-A.. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W. C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDF.R, Cashier. Net Profits 75,000, DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Wm - Frontz, John C. Laird,. C. W. Sones, Banking Business. W.C.Frontz, Frank A.Reeder, Jacob Per, Lyman Myers, W. T. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j A s . Ball) John Bul , uals and Firms solicited. 1 Safe Deposite Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per cent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. GENERAL G. W. GORDON. Commander-in-Chief of United Confederate Veterans. MEUINCOLII FOR BRINGING ON WAR Confederates Also Receive Greetings From Tafl. "Dixie" melodies, sung by choirs from all parts ol' the; south, overshad owed routine business at the opening session of the United Confederate Vet erans' twenty-first reunion in Little Rock, Ark. General Gordon, the commander-in chief, announced that a telegram of greeting had been received from Pres ident Tatt. It is the first message of this sort to lie sent to a Confederate reunion by a Republican president. The veterans cheered generously and shouted: "Tell him that we knew we were right." It. C. Cave, of St. Louis, the orator of the day, declared in the course of his address: "I hold that the respon sibility for the Civil War, with all the blood and treasure that it cost and all the desolation and ruin that it wrought justly rests upon Abraham Lincoln and his advisers." Mr. Cave asserted that he spoke not in bitterness, that he was simply dis cussing the facts of history, and that he accepted the changed conditions brought about by the war. "Neverthe less," exclaimed the St. Louis veteran, "when the Confederacy fell, the repub lic as formed by the fathers perished. The states were robbed of their inde pendence and became subject prov inces of a centralized national author ity." Dickinson Quits Taft's Cabinet. Jacob M. Dickinson, of Tennessee, will be succeeded as secretary ot war in the Taft cabinet by Ilenry L. Stiai -3011 of New York. The new secretary of war is an in timate friend of ex-President Roose velt and a progressive. He was de feated for governor of New York last fall. The announcement of Mr. Dickin son's resignation and the selection of Mr. Stirnson as his successor was made at the White House. Mr. Dick inson's resignation will become effec tive immediately upon the qualifica tion of Mr. Stimson. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1911. PRESiOENT COT SHORT HIS VISIT Only Three Hours in Harrisburg Owing to Wife's Illness. ADORES.[O TRAINMEN'S ONION Spoke of Trades Unions and Defined His Position In Regard to Govern ment Clerks Joining Federation of Labor. When President Taft arrived in Hariisburg, Pa., to address the con vention of the railway trainmen he was greeted at the station by Gover nor Tener, of Pennsylvania, and a committee of the brotherhood of Rail way Trainmen. As he stepped from his car the president was presented with a badge of membership in the general lodge of the brotherhood and a gold badge of membership of the local lodge. Owing to Mrs. Taft's illness the president remained in the city but three hours. In the few hours he was in Harris burg the president motored through streets that were lined with thousands of people, silent for the most part, be cause they had heard through bulletins posted about town of Mrs. Taft's ill ness; visited Representative Olmsted for a half hour and made a speech to several thousand people. The speech was delivered to the tenth biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen of the United States and Canada. The president was introduced by Governor Tener. It was a straight froni-the-shoulder talk, the president made, but the delegates seemed to like it. The president kept close to his text. He spoke of trades unions, their good and bad points, but he wound up by defining his position in regard to the affiliation with the American Federa tion of Labor or organizations of gov ernment clerks. The question, he said, is most likely to come up in congress. It presents a serious problem, which the president declared demanded the attention of the whole people. He said in part: "I think some persons have gone to the extreme of holding that tlv>re ought to be no combinations of gov ernment employes permitted. I think, however, that in all governments, and I have given some examination to the subject, the government employes are permitted to combine and have asso ciations for their betterment, but the proposition now is that such combina tions should be allowed to affiliate with trades union organizations made up of the employes of private employ ers, and to use the same methods in securing better terms of employment that are recognized as lawful and justifiable in the ordinary trade union; in other words, that it is entirely proper for combinations of postal em ployes and others to combine in an association to affiliate with the Ameri can Federation of Labor, and then to hold in reserve as an instrument for enforcing their claims, presented to congress for increased compensation, or the betterment of terms in other respects, the boycott and the slrike, which are instruments recognized by the American Federation of Labor and supported and justified by it when used by the trades unions affiliated in such federation. "This presents a very serious ques tion, and one which, if decided in favor of the right of government employes to strike and use the boycott, will be full of danger to the government of the republic. "The government employes of France resorted to it, and took the government by the throat. The execu tive was entirely dependent upon these employes for its continuance. "I do not think that reasonably minded trades unicn men who are fully alive to t'io n - essity for rigor ous means to enforce their rights in their controversies with capital and with their employers will fail to see the broad difference that exists be tween their case, in which they are contending for the betterment of their livelihood against the naturally selfish motives of their employers, and that of the class of government employes who are privileged not only in the amount of their compensation, the less number of hours of their employment and the greater permanency of tenure and who serve the government of all the people, the very existence of which will be threatened should they com bine together to quit the government service all at once and paralyze the benefit and the equal benefits that the government is properly supposed and held to confer upon the people at large. "It is likely that this question Is going to he made an issue in con gress and it calls for the most earnest consideration." "The government employes are a DiivHeued class, whose w.ork is neces- KROCK-00TBL0W FOR OIL TROST Supreme Court Orders Standard Company to Dissolve. MODIFICATION IN DECREE Six Months Instead of Thirty Days Allowed For Breaking Up of Combi nation Guilty of Conspiracy and Mo nopoly In Restraint of Trade. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey must dissolve. This was the decision of the supreme court of the United States. In a decision delivered by Chief Justice White the government won its long and hard fought dissolution case brought under the Sherman anti-trust law in that the Standard Oil company was guilty of conspiracy and monopoly in restraint of trade. The decree of the lower court was affirmed, but was modified in particulars, which Chief Justice White said were very slight indeed. Associate Justice Harlan announced a dissenting opinion. Chief Justice White began the de livery of tlie opinion, but before the findings of the court were reached he read a great part of a 25,000 word re view of the litigation and the evi dence. This kept the crowd of emi nent lawyers and government officials in the court room in suspense. The decree of the lower court was modified so that there need not be "an absolute cessation of interstate com merce in petroleum and its products by such vast agencies as are embraced in the combination, a result which might arise from that portion of the decree which enjoined carrying on of interstate commerce not only by the New Jersey corporation, but by all of the subsidiary companies until the dis solution of the combination by the transfer of the stocks in a_ or dance with the decree." The court also extended the time from one to six months in which the dissoslution must take place. Probably the most important propo sition of law laid down in the opinion was that the words in the statute "every restraint of trade" are not to be literally construed, but are to bo construed in the light of reason. On this point the court held that the position of the government that the supreme court had decided that any qualification of this phrase was precluded by previous decisions of the supreme court was erroneous. Of the first two modifications the language of the chief justice's con clusion was: "We construe the sixth paragraph of the decree not as depriving the stockholders or corporation of the right to live under the law of the land, but as compelling obedience to the law. As therefore the sixth pa a graph as thus construed is not amen able to the criticisms suggested that was obviously right. "We think that in view of the mag nitude of the interests involved and their complexity that the delay of thirty days allowed for executing the decree was too short, and should he extended so as to embrace a period of at least six months. "So also, in view of the possible serious injury to result to the public •from absolute cessation of interstate commerce in petroleum and its pro ducts by such vast agencies as are embraced in the combination, a re sult which might arise from that por tion of the decree which enjoir.od the carrying on of interstate commerce not only by the New Jersey corpora tion, but all the subsidiary companies, until dissolution of the combination by the transfer of the stocks in accord ance with the decree should not havo been awarded." Blinded by Wallpaper. Mrs. M. J. Anderson, aged thirty five years, residing at Homestead, I'a., will probably lose the sight of her right eye through ebing poisoned by tints in wall paper. She is now at a hospital suffering greatly. She was having her rooms papered and the gilt and red coloring matter brushed from the wall entered her eyes, causing them to become so in flamed that within a few hours she was totally blind. Physicians declared that the coloring matter in the paper caused all the trouble. nary to carry or. the government and upon whose entry into the government service it is entirely reasonable to impose conditions that should not be end ought not be imposed upon those who serve private employers." Hawaii Wants to Be a State. A petition for the admission of Ha waii to the Union as a state was re reived by the senate from the Ha waiian legislature. It was referred to .he committee on territories. LABOR MEN AND COUNSEL Alton B. Parker, John Mitchell and Samuel Gompcrs. ; •' . \-/ -L * .- - * 4ir, J/w/r/rr/sX W *-yyjr;o,<)jp. . Walter Duryea broke his back in diving, in August, if.Jt'i. !!•» s;:~nt the rest of his ii!e in a harness, but de spite his slender 'h.-ibl on life man aged his affairs whh gre.it shrewd ness. PEANUT WAREHOUSE GUW;3 200,000 Bushels Conruive - and 112 lares Ctiil Racing. With the loss nlre:uty of noniiy a quarter of a million and tiie !i .:;ies yet raging, what is believed to lie Ine biggest peanut (ire in the worid s his tory began in Suffolk, Va. More than 200,000 bushels ol' pea nuts have been consumed, and the five-story warehouse of Bnin & Co. has collapsed, causing many miracu lous escapes. There ate no known la talities. The loss on peanuts will exresd $200,000, and the damage already sus tained on the building is $20,000. The insurance is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Tin Plate Mills Close. Six hundred employes of the Hum bert mills of the American Steel and Tin I'late company, in Council*. i'.le. Pa., have been notified that their ser vices will be no longer required af ter May 20. The announcement was nlso made that the works at Scott d tie would goon half time after Saturday. Pocono Mountain Hotel Destroyed. Fire destroy*. 1 I'nc Montanesca, the lorgest hotel in the Pocono moun tains, near Stroudsburg, Pa. The loss is |200,00C Tbs hotel, which was near the Delaware Water flap, h <1 a ff. 'i ionable clientage. Prepnrati ;ni v, e>-* being made to open it for the season.