THE CHAELOTTE NEWS JULY 23, 1911,
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Lakewood
IT’S COOL,
:!ren’s Day
July 26th
• .:..ly 6. will be Child
La;;cwood again. The
; -f s D.-sy was a grand, un-
- ; 'oe'S. The hundreds and
. hildren who visited the
■ : .>• V of the manage-
I ir.mr time and an even
. is pnfioipated on .luly 26,
tile i-hildren of Charlotte
■ ’ liilrv'n of oCncord. Salisbury.
>i>nroe, Davidson. Hunters-
'I-'M-p-ville. Statesville. Hne-
' H'-'ius. Rock Hill. Chester
" ’ \t-- "ther cities and towns
• - h ('I the city are invited.
■■V’ J'l' nninsement features of
.. ''''ats, launch, roller-coaster,
‘ ind, etc., will he free for
i"lUs from 3 to 5 o’clock and
ri ^e a special concert arrang-
a number of special free at-
>. Po>' parties v\ho wish to go
:r the mf>ining and remain all
: !uc ra-Mes and t=eai will be
;« ! Sppcial employes will be
’-?d .-re that nothing is left un-
:’.af vouli contribute to the com-
and pleasure of the young folks.
AND
Nowhere in the State is there a place in every way so desirable for Picnics
and Excursions as Lakewood Park. It has many acres of cool, shaded
grounds free from brush and rubbish and laid out in pleasant walks along
which numerous comfortable seats invite to rest.
Forty-five modern pressed steel row boats, staunch and safe, are at the
service of those who enjoy rowing and a launch that will carr>^ parties with
safety makes the circuit of the lake every hour. A band concert is given
every afternoon and night by the celebrated Italian Band of Ten Pieces.
The Roller Coaster which is the largest and most costly amusement device
in the State furnishes exciting and thrilling amusement that old and young
enjoy. There is a splendid Merry-Go-Round here and on the Midway are
a score of attractions that furnish innocent fun and excitement that all en
joy. There are tables provided free; there is an abundant supply of cool
spring water and large shelter house that furnish protection in the event of
rain. Special police preserve perfect order at all times and careful employ
ees are constantly watchful for the safety of visitors—especially ladies and
children. Sunday schools and organizations of other kinds are invited to
use our grounds for picnic purposes free of cost. We will take pleasure in
arranging special band concerts and other attractions free for those who
will give us a few days notice in advance of their coming.
The Farmer’s Picnic
and Reunion
August 9, 10 and 11th
Will give three days of relaxation and
amusement to several thousand farm
ers from all parts of the Carolihas who
will take advantage of this great gath
ering to renew old friendships and
secure for themselves, their wives
and daughters a season of deserved
and -needed rest and recreation.
The merchants of the city will offer
special sales at this time so that those
who come may combine business with
pleasure to do advantageous buying.
Arrangements arc being made to se
cure special rates from railroad
points within a radius of 100 miles.
Prominent speakers are being engag
ed for each day and amusing games,
sports, races and free attractions are
being planned to make this the great
est and most enjoyable gathering of
farmers ever ehid in Charlotte.
It is Pleasant Here.
. It is Safe
Cincinr\8Lti Amusement Co., Charlotte,
Free Concert Every Day and Night by Italian Band. Free Moving Pictures Every Night Showing Latest Pictures.
Dancing Every Night in the Pavillion, Music by Special Orchestra.
Terniones Must
Wait Outside Until
Next Congiess Meets
ATHAN WINFIELD.
'.‘lv 22. -Arizona and
• : .'o remaining terri-
[>.: t"iundarif^s of the
r- dr^tined to wait un-
I--P meets before they
i..od. Neither one of
' IV,I ted to the union
'■ extra session.
1.-: ^;.;te of the fact that
liave been knocking
• ' '; • union for twenty
■ • in spite of the addl-
' an enabling act has
■ :i.stii iitional conven-
mnstitutions have
. *■ d laMfled by the peo-
c lity lies in the fact
aa‘..' to incorporate in
■'j' I", the power to rc-
' for this stumbling
. ..ri^«j would have re-
u H* the last session of
•r it they would be ed-
■ a I'horized to organize
> -^t ites.
'M-i- ifiTiains and will
(it the amendments
L- art proposed by the
. • i' I I that body. Sena-
1 ' -an. (hairfnan of the
- ‘ (III territ*irifis, ba^j
•i > that the senate
I f ♦() thf proposition
li ' i- • f('r admitting An-
' If H doadlock and a
;.(• h t
;i ' •• HI' nation is jiisi
n.'t under the origi.i-
■ draftf'd and ratified
' ladif al feature
^ ■•■ Ilop j)rnviding thf;r
;,! 'o the judiciary of the
state, as well as to any other officers
in the commonwealth.
This feature was bitterly attacked
in the last congress when the consti
tution was submitted for the approval
of that body. This approval was neces
sary, as well as that of the president,
before a proclamation admitting the
territory to the union could be issued.
This fight over the recall centered
in the senate. The house agreed to
leave the matter entirely to the peo
ple, but the senate refused to do so.
As a result the vote on the admission
bill was postponed until the last hours
of the congress. Then it was that Sena
tor Owen, of Oklahoma, seeing that
New Mexico was about to be admitted
and Arizona was not successfully fili
bustering against both measures and
prevented their passage.
This brought the matter over until
the organization of the sixty-second
congress. When in extra session .was
called, the advocates of statehood
both in and out of congress, prepared
to press the matter along with reci
procity. The democratic house in cau
cus placed the measure on its pro
gram, and in due time both of them
passed.
The house amendments to the enabl
ing act however, provided that Arizona
should vote again on Its constitution
and if after a general vote th3 people
still wanted the recall of judges, then
their constitulion was to automatical
ly become operative. This measure
seemed to have the approval of the
president at the time it was introduc
ed. At any rate the house committee
which considered It went -upon the
assumption that the president
would such sign such a measure.
Now, however, the senate commltte#
on territories has reported out the
house bill with the announcement
that an amendment will be offered to
the Arizona enabling act providing
that the territory shall vote again on
its constitution, and, if it rejects the
recall of judges section, the territory
may become a state automatically.
There is a wide difference therefore
in the two propositions, one provides
that the troublesome section- may be
Incorporated if the people say so, and
the other provides that the people
must positivel reject it. There seems
to be no ground Upon which the house
and senate may get together. Within
the short time now remaining of the
session.
This is the present legislative situa
tion. Congress is now expected to ad
journ within another month, and it
will be impossible to pass the house
measure in the senate on account of
the filibuster already threatened. This
filibuster will operate as the previous
one did. It will keep New Mexico out
of the union just as it kept that ter
ritory out before.
These,two territories are linked in
this legislation for political reasons
solely. New Mexico is republican. Ari-
zoua is democratic. When they are
admitted the political division of the
house and senate will be unchanged.
Two new democratic senators and two
new republican senators will take their
seats. One democrat and one republi
can will begin service in the house.
Therfeore the democrats are oppo
sed to the admission of New Mexico
until Arizona can be proclaimed a
state also. The republicans are against
the admission of Arizona until New
Mexico can receive statehood. That
is why the two territories are coupled.
That is why one party filibusters
againts one territory in order to pro
mote statehood for the other.
Theso western people, however, are
rot discouraged. They have the pledw-
of both national parties in favor of
statehood. The last national conven
tions adopted platforms indorsing the
movement, and the citizens of tlio
territories will keep on demanding
statehood until they get it.
The next session of congress will
find the issue on top again. It will have
to be wrestled with all over again, and
the recall of judges will be again de
bated with vigor and much use of time.
Arizona could solve the whole pecu
liar problem by declaring voluntarily
for the renunciation of the recall sec
tion. This territory, however, is no-
inclined to yield on this point. It want s
the recall, and will demand the right
to frame a constitution according to
the ideas of its citizens.
Altman Believes
In Stimulants
London, July 22.—At a dinner ten
dered the air-man of Europe at the
Savoy- Beaumont, the famous aviator,
gave vent to some strong personal
advice on the subject of flying.
“One hears much of the evils of
alcohol and tobacco aa cruel strain
upon the nerves,” hesaid, “but I
would have you ask the airman of that
Surely it Is they who should know
what nerves are, and Vhat is good
for them. Let me tell you there are
many timer, that I would not know
what to do without my tobacco and
my cognac after I have experienced
a difficult flight. My nerves would
without it go—pouf!—like that.
“After, I say, but not before, for it is
not good that an aviator should be
come too excited just before setting
aut upon a flight.”
ASKS KNIFE FOR SUICIDE.
Darby, Pa., July 22.—Realizing the
enormity of his crime, which he
partially confessed, and fearing to
face his intended victim, Alfred
Wade, alias “Buck” Wade, the negro
convict who attempted feloniously to
assault Mrs. Howard PhiUips, of Gar-
/ field avenue, Llanwellyn, Sunday af
ternoon, begged Deputy Constable
Joseph Williams to give him a knife
on the way from Media so that he
could cut his throat.
“I don’t want to go back to Darby
to se that w'oman,” Wade begged,
“and if you will give me your knife
and remove one of my handcuffs I’ll
kill myself right now.”
House Democrats to
Call Halt In Theiy
Tariff Revision
By RODERICK CLIFFORD.
Washington, July 22.—The house
democrats have about decided to call
a halt in their plans to undsrtak^^ a
general revision of the tariff at the
extra session, this recent decision be
ing based upon the apparent attitude
of the senate not to vote upon any
tariff legislation other than tha: which
is now before it.
The ways and means committee of
the house is now at work on its bill
revising the cotton schedule, and ihis
measure will be probably brought into
the house and passed. This does not
mean, however, that the house will
insist that” the senate take action on
the cotton bill before it adjourns. The
democratic body will be content in
the event the senate votes upcn Can
adian reciprocity the wool bill aud
the farmers free list bill.
There is a general understaiAiing
at both ends of the capitol building
that the senate will have to take accion
upon these three measures before ad
journment is possible. The passjige
of Canadian reciprocity is assured and
it is by no means improbable that Ihe
senate through a coalition of demo
crats and insurgent republicans, will
also pass the bill revising the w'oolen
schedule of the Payne-Aldrich law,
and the farmers’ free list bill. These
two latter bills, however, are apt to
be amended in the senate by some
of the Insurgent republicans, but it is
not believed that the amendments wi']
be such that all differences cannot b *.
straightened out in conference.
On the other hand, there is a report
which follows president Taft’s recent
cruise with a number of the senate
leaders of both parties, that the presi
dent will veto all tariff legislation at
tempted at this time. As an \excuse
for this action, it is understood that
Mr. Taft will plead that the tariff re
visionists should await the report of
the tariff board, f’o that as it may,
the democrats ei ’;e house are bound
to demand ac(ic;;i -L the hands of the
upper house body on the three bills'
named. It was first intended by the
democrats that tJieir legislative pro
gram would not be considered com
plete until the senate had taken defi
nite action upon tne schedule,
the sugar schedule, the iron schedule
and others. It is only ‘w'ithin the pasL
w^eek that the word has been passed
among the house democrats that they
the willing to halt operations tempor
arily if the senate will make some
disposition of wool and the free list.
This does not mean, according to
the democratic leaders of the house,
that the tariff revision plans of ttie
democrats are not to be taken up with
renewed vigor at the beginning of the
regular session in December. In the
event that it becomes apparent that a
republican senate and a republican
president will frown upon all further
attempts to amend the present tariff
law, the house democrats simply will
bide their time, and will be«in right
where they left off, once the new cou
gress is reassembled.
The democrats feel that a prompt re
vision of the cotton schedule is neces
sary, but the farmers’ free list bill
and the bill revising the much de
nounced schedule K—the w'oolen
schedule' of the Payne-Aldrich bill is
deemed of paramount importance. The
house democrats propose to stay here
all summer rather than miss an oppor
tunity to put on record the action of
the senate on these two important
schedules. Representative Underwood,
the chairman of the ways and means
committee, on the other hand, has let
it be known that his party will con
sent to an adjournment, even though
the cotton schedule is temporarily
sidetracked, in the event the senate
gets down to business and votes on
the wool bill and the free list bill. '
This latter plan, however, does not'
indicate that the house has stopped!
work on tariff revision. The ways and
means committee is now hard at work
on the bill revising the cotton sched
ule. The cotton schedule will be ready.
for report within a few days, aud it |
will mean a cut of about forty per cent '
in the present rates on all cotton!
goods and laces. The bill will be acted'
upon by a democratic caucus, aud
will be brought into the house and
rushed through that body, irrespective
of what reception it may later re
ceive in the senate.
The hot weather in Washington has.
particularly precluded the chance that'
the senate will consent to remain
longer in session after it votes on re
ciprocity, schedule K and the freej
list bill. The latter two bills have now i
been over at the senate end of the'
capitol for two months, while the d^a-;
bate has dragged along on reciprocity,
which was sent there sodn after the
extra session convened in April. The
senate realizes that it must either
pass or kill the wool bill and the free
list bill at this session. It Is willing
to compromise with the house and
take action on these two measiures In
the event that the house, in return
will agree to adjournment after such
ao'tion is taken.
The democratic leaders of the house,
while they are willing to sit out the
hot summer in Washington, are nevsr-
theless willing to make some con
cession to the perspirfng senate, .and,
as a consequence, the cotton bill’'will
probably go by the boards until next;
December, v/hen both bodies, on the
eve of a presidential campaign, will
start in for another long legislative
seige. ‘
The situation has been thus sununed
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