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■yrr-i-yiT- \\ ited, For Rent, For Sale, Lost, Found, Stolen—Use The News “Want Ads”—One Cent a Word / Edition THE CHARLOTTE NEWS Latest Edition 13. NO. 6934 CHARLOrrE. N. C„ WEDNtSDAV EVENING. JANUARY 25, 1911 p-D TP'tr t In Charlotte. Z cents a Copy Daily-5 Cents Su JT XVJ , Jutside Charlotte, 5 Cents a copy Daily and Sunday. nday Issue Will Discubsed At Big Mass Meeting ^!kYV/AY> I «TT } Indebedness, If More if Added, Payment of ".rdially in Inter- Now Received /ates $200,000 'LXpenditu res Eat up This I i cns for the !*i it> oi the is- almost dotible taxaiion. Whether the bonds are iir>siied or not, more revenue is needed, and more revenue will be jiotten. Charlotte is improving so rat)’dly that the $200,000 now allowed it tor civic improveuients, is not half adetiuaf e. r.ut whatever bo the outcomc of the situation, tliore is not a person in (Mialrotte that docs not demand the rxtc'nsion of the water system. Bonds lor tiiis work will likely be issued. Editois Gather In Winston By Associated Press. \’’inston-Suleni. N, C.. Jan. 25.—The two days' midwinter session of the im of $1 I ^'fi’ih Carolina Press Association op ined here yesterday. Addresses were dtMivered bv former .lud>?e (leorge 1’- I’ell. Arciiibald Johnson, of Tliomas- vllle; U. Eller, of this city; Locke C’rai.c:, of Asheville, and others. An in formal smoker was given for the visi tors last nl^iht by the board of trade. 7'he excursion planned to Charleston S. C., Tiiurs-day was abandoned. 'viola GCmLEMEN fV/E WITH iJb TDNI&HT HOW .JDM£S LOOKED r ; A1=TER TH£ P MAD KU5H /•I PQR, CHAT^UCJTTH- !S 6>Gr cHOUG-H TOAvFOBX> two SV.Hi_L ATn\A.C”nC)N^ ON THE ,5A>t I C-UF?>S HAVE TO UP IS THE peanut AMD sr£T A BIHD's, EVE VIEV\/ ii'.-U!. will In- I'lWt activi ly li to do tnure rullin;; the ral discu.-- jill i rol'aiiility u ;d lie v-ariy ! . a boi-.d ii+s’ie i' ill!' a:- pi.blic ihero . . >i (losit ion to i‘ i I'Mposi!ion. Yet . • It. is ;iiii.,s;l( (l .... d •'II- bi':t»‘r, 'i f - u,', , >\ien- i ’ 1 (1 r iiiipi’uve-! in iui-i'iii.ii with] ! ii(Av j I I :: an advocate j : ■ ' liiUds, bit! I ,1 ■■ . ;u.roiii:lily ' .... *‘UtU'.'tii’, so-1 ;,.fu appoiiitod ■.o| By Activity in Mexico. Associated Press. .1.- llure should ' is to be done ! :;t arf'ts are ■ i. t’.ii!ks. In • 'ity .Mtorir y •. !■. :a> • 'liis i(k‘U ■ iil.y l'..':’i'd among ;-in;il men, "Cn’. Too Low. ... til. (Jn • n City ■ I.I.! ,1''T’'.( :1 by . f ; at. 1. tlu- 'indi- ■ ; itii.-; iiicoine ..civ ii b ca'.iM' laxa- ' pro;:erl' ass^>?sed :.)ii mnd'' iirom- :• ro hai U tt ' ' ht'ir •i ;'5( ^ , i’l ■'•iiv.-i’i'• i I .or 1- • !i ..1' •!".., f(>r . i.-. .■■'Vi.fii ;i) as !'i* trut* Val'.’.a- ' 'l.a: i> iu)int- ; 1 Lt) be founl- 'i'ax all of •,Milri be ta.xed, r«' w'.U be no cry- • ' Ilf so nianr L I- i'iu«, however. ;• I P that ('har- : ( !. nds, for the l-> in-.dt belter. I Revenue, • in all source^ 1 r. livery year ii ' the city has P>1 I’a^^o, Tex.. Jan. 2.").—Demencio Padilla. JeiTe politico of San Is;nacio, 0pi)0site i*'ort l-inncock. 'I'p.x., 40 miles east of ibis city, was taken prisoner .Mon()u\ ni.i;ht togc'.iier with 2r> federal ruiab's. Ar.tonio Carasco. insurrccto leader, has .-|00 men oncantiied nine miles from tiiat ]M)inl. and menaces the town of Cruadr.litre. .All the families have (ioss>-il ironi (luadaltipe into Texas. A company of I’uited Stales troops liom .i''ort Hl'ss. this city, jnc- deployed alon^ tlie river (ipposite San li;nacio. 8 I IN [im m We* are nkhN. )MTHE 6US^H£S^ fc^R)R HOKiEY-OH f 'TN K{ Benjamin W. Hooper Inaugurated Governor Of Tennessee Final Session of Schenk Trial ON THINGS THEATRICAL! F EBSL OF EiO _ I f U' By Associated Press. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Jan. 2."..—Six men were fatally in.jitred in an ('xi)losion to day in tho Htuiiistown No. 10 colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal Company at Pittsion. The mine is on fire. Death in Rockingham. Special to The Xcws. Rockinjiham, N. C., Jan. 25.—Mr, Z. F. Long, one of the most prominent citizens Of P.ockinphani, member of the film of Z. !•’. Long & Co., Ports- nioutli. V!i„ died here at his home on Washington street, tliis morning at 2 a. m. Mr. Long’s healtli had been bad ever b' ing ungble siiu'c he suffered a stroke of pa- • ine. i'ud*n* ralysis. about a yi'ar ago, nevertheless .r Hawkins his death was a great shock to Iho \ !1 live witiij ^vhoie community, as no one suspected t.-r ihe first I tho end was so near. ni.s- family connection here is large. Mr. i.ong was an extensive planter and lield considerable stock in nearly ev- try cotton mill in the county. Phillips, a banker. His mother is now living in 1 .os Angeles. Cal. Besides Mrs. Frevert, the sister with whom he made his home in New York city, there is a second sister, Mrs. McLel- land, living in Indiana, and a third, Mrs. Oliver Kinsey, living iii Ger- gia. He has one brother, Edison W. Phillips. di iide. , fi.ljlem, think, t . !h‘ii a new 1 , !ty value.-5 c T-^ and it is . : b.'.K'r cond;- ; lid I'f eqnailza- ii'n.iei'ty assesri- ;(bl- figures. | ^ ■ I iic«)i)le be al-1 ^ ■' i.r"position of ^ Of tills vast ♦ ii-‘ '\,i.nded for ' for sewer ox- >''inarK-nt srtreels | r S' hool condi- «> VOTING AT ALBANY. ♦ Bv Associated Press. y bonded to the ' ■ i.0' bonds and > n bo’ids alone, y \v;il amoimt to Mi i’lg in the i .V th which to \ ,d the only so- t ♦ Albany, N. Y.. Jan.' 25.—Sev- ♦ ♦ enth ballot for United States ♦ senator; ♦ ♦ Democrats: — Sheehan. 85; ♦ Shepard, 11: Kernan, 4: Lit- ♦ ♦ tleton, Douglas, 3; Gerard, ♦ ♦ 2: Parker, 1; Glynn, 1; Herrick, ♦ ♦ 1: Dix, 1. ♦ ♦ Republican:—Depew, 79. ♦ ♦ Total vote cast, 193. ♦ ♦ Necessary for choice, 97. ♦ -Neai Beet Bill mght Up In The louse- Other Bills .luiilciary commit- :"f.p housf* today .(If of no;ir-beer ’ . arolina with ap- litv and it was onii.iiiti-c on liquor ■ divorce after ten ' «-i;hcr party were by the judiciary I Wake, was in i' towns to . M ■ subject to ;‘i'.na!ity by ’lie I "f Buncombe, re- iilHDit.s lo ('mploy conductors of two years training as iTrakeman and requiring “full crews” on all trains. Members of th.^ house discussed the Stubbs i;ill for a constitutional con vention. The debate was opened by Stut)bs, outlining the necessity of con vention revision. Battle of Wake, op posed the convention and favored sub mission of amendments to a vote of the people. The disctission extended jar into the afternoon. The senate after voting down an amendment by Graham, of Oraijge, to the governor’s salary bill, to make it SC).OUO iiassed. The Gardner bill for SC.,0(»0 instead of $4,000. There were two votes against It, Graham and Seig- mond, who advocated $5,000. Continued on Page Ten. By Associated Press. New York, Jan. 25.—The body of David Graham l’hillii)s, the slain novel ist. probably will be laid to rest in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. The body of Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, the poet-musician, who slew Phillips, v.hi( h was borne to the railway station in .lerse.v' City just as tlie novelist was breathing his last, will be buried in Washington today. New York. Jan. 25,—The funeral of David (Graham Phillips, who died in Bellevue hospital shortly before mid night li'om I he effects of an assas sin's bu'iet v.ill be held, according to an aniioanci'ment this morning in the i'lotc;-tiini EpiScOi>al Church ot the Transfiguration, affectionately known to many as tlie “Little Church Around the Corner.” The services, will be in cliarge of the Rev. Dr. George C. Hcughlon. pastor of the little church, which, since its esLablishment, has been dedicated to the use of those wiio toil in the fields of art and letters. Tlie arrangement for the burial, etc.. ate all in the hands of Senator Albert Beveridge, who was one of the writ er’s most intimate friends, Mr. Phillips death came so late In the night that many of his colleagues in literature and business did not heai’ of it until this morning. As the news reached them, their personal regret was increased by their feeling, ex- pressed almost unanimously in the brief statementsr which the.v gave out, that he was killed at the beginning of a carec;- that meant much for Amer ican letters, they dwelt particularly on the promise that he had shown and the certainty that he was likely to give expression more and more to the ideals .of the men among whom he lived. Robert W. Chambers, the novelist, wlio had been, perhaps, his closest as sociate in New York city, said: “He was one of the best men. He was high minded and true, one of the tinest Ameri-'an writers. His best work seemed yet to come—be was just finding himself and had struck a vein that promised richly for the future. Miss Hildegard Hawthorne, speaking of her personal acquaintance with Mr. phillips, said: “The desire to work out the ideas of his coiuxiry and his age was always uppermost in his ambition and he was growing rapidly toward his idea in this direction that his friends had already alloted him a lofty i)lace in letters. We believed him destined to lasting fame as the exponent of Amer ican life and the problems that beset it.” It was a curious coincidence that while Mr. Phillips was breathing his last in this hospital room a silent pro cession from a nearby undertakers was carrying the body of his assasin, Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, to the railway station in Jersey City. The cas ket with its strange load of tragedy was put aboard a train at midnight and M'as shipped to Washington, where the body of the young fanatic will be buried tomorrow. That Mr. Phillips assailant was de mented appears to have been demon strated conclusively not only by the curious testimony of his diary and notebooks, but also by his appeals to Mayor Gaynor's secretary and other officials for protection from persons whom he believed were hounding him. Tlie entries in the diary showed that he had translated to personal abuse the authors picturesque characteriza tion of a class in his novel on Wash ington life. “The Adventures of Joshua Craig, ’ and under this misconstruction had conceived a hQmicidal hatred of which the victim was unaware. Mr Phillips was born in Madison, Ind., in 1867, was a Princeton grad uate and not married. He was one of the Indiana group of story which includes Booth George Ade, Meredith Charles Major and others. He had writ ten ‘’0 novels—many "best sellers’ among them—and numerous magazine articles. His father was T T T Messrs. J. B. and B. N, Duke, cap italists, promotors, men whose mil lions are being lavishly used in the j iovmer pushing to completion of a chain of electric , interurban railways where- b> ci’ie!- ■' I towjis in the Car(/linn.s may be inseparably linked, are in Charlotte today. They were closeted with Mr. W. S. Lee, vice-president and chief engineer of the Southern Power Company, of which they are the founders and the leading spirits, all the morning and couid not be in terviewed for publication. All the way from Greensboro to Greenwood, the one in North Carolina and the other in South Carolina, the promotors have met with a hearty reception and a generous co-opera tion by the citizens of all classes. In Sptirtanburg, where the proposition of the interurban road was put to the chamber of commerce and the ciiizens in general a few nights ago, a contribution of $ll.o,000 was made, and each of the mills nearby gave so much per spindle. Spartanburg, however, was not so generous as was Charlotte, for citi zens here, believing in the enterprise and recognizing what it will mean to all the people, responded in a lavishly free contribution. It was given out that the Messrs. Duke are here todaj' to consult with Mr. Lee regarding some work on the different plants in course of con struction. They will be here until Thm-sday nighf and before leaving will have Bomthing to say about the fertilizer plant to be built at Great Falls and which is to ftirnish fertil izer by artificial means from the air. Mr, Pfaehler, who is in charge of *he work on the plant, said today that the article in The News of yes terday w^as the most comprehensi ble one that had been written re garding the great enterprise. By Associated Press. New Orleans. Jan. 25.—Organized labor today felt the restraining force of the SiJernian anti-trust, law when a jury in the Vnited States circuit court here returned a verdict of guilty against memiiers of the New Orleans dock and cotton council, a central or ganization of labor union icinesenta- tives, charged with conspirafv to in terfere witii for(M^n commerce. The convi'led men arc James Byrnes, foriiit;- prt.-ident of tlie coinv cil and at i)ic;sent state laiior commis sioner of Louisiana: Philip Pirarsaw, (iresident of the local coal wheelers ui.ion, and I.'. S. Swaa, form- ev presideiii of tlie Longshoiemen’s uni()n. The lacier two are negroes. 'i'he remaining- si\cy-four indicted niember" of the council were acquitted. The crime alleged was committed three years as^o during the iiongsliore- men's stril^c. The men were i^rought to trial Monday, more than twcj years after the iudi^'tmenis had been leturn- ed against them. It was charged that tlie n'nmbers of tiie Nev/ Orleans dock and cotton coun cil, rejircsentiiig IM bibor unions of the city, met in special session on Dec. 2(5, 1907, and consi)ired lo im.erfero w'ith foreign commerce by agreeing to an order directin.g members of the local coal wheelers union employed by Coyle & Co. to refuse to coal the steamship tiabil because non-union longshoremen liad been engaged to load the vessel. As a result of that meeting the un ion coal wheelers refused to assist in coaling the Habil. The verdict of the juiy caused little surprise to those who listened to the charge of Judge Grubb. He told the jury that an “outsider” such a& a central labor council Iiad no right to interfere between employ er and emplo.ye; that an order issued by such a body directing laborers who had no grievance against their em ployer to refuse to coal a shij) was an interference with commerce and that the effect of such an order was in the nature of a boycott and in violation ot the law. A conspiracy to commit a crime is unlaw'fui, said the court, whether the crime is effected or not. Tlie violation is in the nature of an agreement rath er than in what it:- accomplished by it. Gov. Biease to Speak. By Associated Press. Charleston, S. C , Jan. 25.—Governor Blease has accepted the invitation to s])eak oil “South Carolina” at St. Pat rick's day banquet of the Hibernian Society here. Vice-President Sherman has already accepted the invitation to speak on “United States.” Madrid, Jan. 25.—The cabinet has decided to present to parliament s-oon a bill regulating the religious and other associations. WATCH NEWS WANT PAGE AD By Associated Press. Wheeling, W. Va., J:>.n. 2r,.—Wh:>t probafdy will l;t' tiie filial session of the'trial of Mis. Lauia Farnsworth Schenk, charged with poisoning her husband, John O. Schenk, opened to day. Tonight it is expected tlie case will be in the hands of the jury. A speedy verdict is .aniicij)ated. S. O. Boyce, senior counsel for the defense, who was in the midst of his argument wiien the liour for adjourn ment arrived last night, will resume. Mr, Boyce had reached a point last night where he was to take up the testimony o fthe witness. Paniel C. Phillips, the iiiano salesman, who told of various clandestine meetings with Mrs. Schenk. Attorney S. O. Boyce continued bis argument for the defense this morn ing. He launched into a speech against the piano salesman, Daniel Phillips, who, be declared, wormed his way into the confidence of Mrs. Schenk only to betray her. Attorney Boyce closed his argument at 10:r»0 a. m. and after a brief re cess Prosecutor Handtan opened the final address for the state. Mr. Boyce declared that if Dr. J. W’. Myers, who testified to having sold lead poison to Mrs. Schenk had been lionest, he would have gone to the prosecuting artorney and told him of selling Mrs. Schenk sugar o" lead and asked an investigation when it be came su.s-pected Schenk had been pois oned. , Mr. Boyce characterized Eleanor ZoecViler, tkie deteitive nurse, as a witiiess who was employed for the sole pui'jKise of squirming her way into the affections of Mrs. Sclicnk and playing the part of a .Tudas. It develoiied lieve today that the United States senate, through the se lect committee of the senate to in- ves'tigate the administration of crimi nal law by fedei'al oifK^ers. had taken notice of the trial of Mrs. Schenk. It h'as been maintained iiy the defense that the “-’Mrd degree” methods have been used by the attthorities for th(; l)urnose of extorting alleged (.-onfes- sioiis or testimony against the defend- i ant. Attorney .1. J. P. O'Brien, for the de fense, on Sunday received a telegram from Louis .1. Carmody, of the commit tee of the senate to investigate the administration of criminal law, in ■>,-hic-h lie asks whether "there is any thing to show third degere • methods used by the prosecution. Am watching this case carefully and will appreciate anything yon may do to hel]) me.’ ’Attorney O'Brien iast night sent this reply: “W'onld not advise investigation un til after verdict,” Pros-ecutor Handian refused to dis cuss the matter btir made a general denial of use of a “third degree” meth ods. For the fit si time since .Itidgo Jor dan issued his dt'cree barring women from the court room while the trial was in progress, he rc-lenied this morning and permitted a woman news writer to sit, with the reporters. From a point of vantage in the clock tower yesterday a numl)er ot women took positions where they could see and hear all tliat transpired. When Pro.secutor J. ii. Handian be gan his address for the state, Mrs. Schenk, who had retained her usual calm, demeanor during the greater jiort By Associated Press. Nashville, 'i'enn,, Jan. 2.'i.—Benjamin W. Hooper, who headed the republi can ticket in this state last November, but drew the support of thousands of voters of various politi'al altiliations, was inaugurated governor of Ten- nesce today. Governtu- Hooper'» inaugural ad dress oi)ened with a plea for tlie ces sation of political strife in Tennessee. “I do not seek a i>olitical arcadia—a civ- milieniiim." he declared, ‘but 1 Cio beg of the people of the state and their le.gislative represt'iilalives that we ad vocate ami practice the settleinent of our political differences within legal and constitutional limitations.” The inauguration took place in the Ryiiian auditorium instead of at the capitol, in order that the thousran^ds of citi:'.ens who came to Nashville to witness Uie exercises might gain »i- mittance. Members of the state senate, tho house of representatives, the siijiremo court and the inaugural committee oc cupied seats on the stage. A short farewell address was made by the re tiring governor, M. R. Patterson, when the oath of office was administered t6 Governor Hooper by Cliief Justice J. K. Shields. After taking the oath of office Gov ernor Hooper delivered iiis inaugural address, in which he said: “It does not behoove u!-^ to see our selves with self-laudation, either on ac count of our glorions history and tradi tions, or because of the magnificent natural resources of our state. We are entitled to credit eitiier for a proud or distinguished ancestry or for tho unexcelled variety of our climate, products and resourcesr. It is only the manner in which we are conserving and developing our resources and the degree of liberty, enlightenment an i opjiortunity that we are giving our neoiile that, can confer distimtlion upon our citizenship, establish our rank as a state and tix our place in history.” In referring to tlie public school sys tem, Ciovernor Hoopt'r declared that ■'conservation of fores-ts and mines sink into insignilicance wIk’U c(jni|)ar- ed with the conservation of the minds of our Ijoys aiid girls.” He advocated g(jod schools, go(»d roads, improve- ni( nts in tin* states agricultnra! depirt- ment wliich, 1;(' said, should not bo^ made a rest, cure saniiariuiu for down, and out ]ioiiii( ians, aud urged lliat tv- er.v hand in the sc.-vice of the slate g(jvernment, work for a business ad- ininistiation. In conclusion he took ui> the ques tion of pr(thit)ii ion, saying; ‘•'('lie isolated olfense of an occa sional booi-k’ggM' is a smail nuilter, btif the ojxM), ))ublic and unliindered sale of whiskey in the wiloons of our cities in violation of law' is organized anarchy and cainiot be tolerated by ihe sell-res])ecting ciiizenshiii of a sov- eieign state. “'I'he (luesti^m that is before us now does not so miK-h involve- the wisdom of iirohibition law as it doet* the ad visability of iicrmitting a community tf) decid*' what, laws it will obey and -•.vhat statutes it will igiiofe and nulli fy, The doctrine of state; iiullitie-ation was crushed i>y Andrew Jae-kson many years ago, and the doctrine e>f city nul lification eieserves no better.” Plan Congressional Reapportionment l^y Associated Press. of the morning, gave way to seibs. | D. C, Jan, 2.-}.—A cau- It was argued by the prosecutor that|^.^ij^ ,-epui)licaiis of tho hous(! to Mrs. Schenk took her husband \ unon what action to tako from the hospital because her oppor tunity of poisoning him was being BEFOIIT ON SUPPiy OF C 0 T T D N By Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 25.- -The census taken from her and she attempted to take hJm from another hospital for the same reason. She was onl.v pre vented from carrying out her plans, he said, by her arrest. SHEEHIIN FORCES SMFICHTVIITII By Associated Press, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 25.- of William F. Sheehan -Adherents went into tellers Tarkington, Nicholson, lad writ sellers’ David Graham As has been announced in ♦ The News two names appear ♦ daily, beginning today, in the ♦ W'ant Columns. The parties ♦ whose names appear will be ^ offered two tickets to Edisonia ^ or Amuse-U theatres, if called ♦ for before 4 o'clock the follow- ♦ ing day. This arrangem.ent will be in effect one hundred days. ♦ The names are being registered ♦ as they are received in The ♦ News office and announced in ♦ order that they come in. If ♦ you have made application and ^ your name does not appear the ♦ first day. or the second or third, ♦ it is evident to you that there are others entered before you. ♦ Watch the Want Ad columns, ♦ your name will appear. Use ♦ the application blank on another ♦ page and get your name on the ♦ register. WATCH THE WANT ♦ AD PAGE. ♦ bureau’s cotton report issued today j joint le.gislative session tejday for shows the supply for the four months ' ' period ending December 31, 1910, to have been 11,832,520 bales, made up of 1,040,040 bales of stocks at the beginning of the period; 10,731’504 bales ginned and 60,976 bales iraport- ed. The distribution was:_ Exports 4,- (i73.940; consumption 1,570,442 bales; stocks at close of December 5,582,- 138 bales. ' Segregation of stock at close of December was: Held by manufacturers 1,356,436; in ’ independent warehouses 3.027,210; held elsewhere 1,1198,492 bales. Luis Sanchez Captured. By Associated Press: Chapin, Texas, Jan. 25.—Luis San chez, wanted in Mexico charged with several crimes including the stealing of cattle and them urder of an en tire family was captured at Mission, Texas, yesterday and imprisoned at Chapin. During the pas't two years Sanchez has won out in several brushes with ppsses. the seventh ballot to name a l.rnited States Senator considerably encour aged by the statement in Mr. Shee han’s favor issued in Buffalo last night by Norman E. Mack, chairman of the democratic national commit tee. Democratic “Insurgents” on the other hand, believed Mr. Mack's de claration would have no more ef fect than one to the same purpose put out last Sundoay by Winfield A. Huppuch, the democratic state chair man. Mr. Mack declared the action of the caucus which chose Mr. Sheehan as the candidate for senator should be binding upon all democratic leg islators as a matter of political prin ciple. The effect of the national chairman’s stand was somewhat dis counted because he has been re garded as favorable to Mr. Sheehan, Yesterday’s rumor that Tammany hall was preparing to drop Mr. Shee han if he did not acquire the neces sary extra votes by Friday's ballot, was heard again today but it still lacked authentic confirmation. upem on the j)r0!)0sed legislation for a con gressional reapportionment in tho light of the new censtis statistics was today called for Thursday night, Feb ruary 2nd. LaFollette Elected. By As&ociated l^ess. Madison, iW's., Jan. 25.—United States Senator LaFollette was today formally re-ele;cted in joint session of the Wisconsin legi.slature by a big majority. i 15 EMCTtO in w,)i.sn By Associated Press. Charleston, W. Va., Jan. 25.—That there will be an outbreak similar to that yesterday when the two houses of the state legislature meet in joint session to vote on two l.'nited States i^enators was the repejrt circulated around he stare i)e>use tiiis morning. It was thought that unless some thing more definite than the charges of bribery in the caucus, made ye.-^ter- e]ay were forthcoming, Wiiiiain Chil- tcn. the deniocratic caucus nominee fejr the long term, and Clarence Wat son, for the short term, would be de clared c*ected. Both denied the charges of briijcry n.ade ^n the lower house. Tlie republican members w'ere not expected to participate in the joint session. I r'. I ate