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IF": . i : THE WEATHER. READ THE WANTS Fair in east; rain Friday or Satur day night in west; Saturday fair and cooler in interior; moderate southwest to west winds. To kee i your Interest 11t In worldly thing (a the want, and neeeMitlea and hope of the people around yon -ma If tbo "Want" Ada. a part of your dally readlnjf. m Villi. yFLOXJMDEtJl VOL. IiXXXVn NO. 97. WILMTNGTOK, K. C; Fltf DAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1911. WHOLE NUMBER 13,504, ,- i 1 r- MRS. EDDY'S WILL - r TO BE Opinion of Prominent Law yers As to Cla ?rProvid Gift forLjx DECLARED TO BE UNLAWI !n r. The Founder of Christian Science Left $2,000,000 to Mother Church- Comes Under Laws of New Hampshire. Concord, N. H.. January 12.. That the residuary clause in the will of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, founder of the i unstian Science Church, is null and vivd. is the onminn of Mc-TTnitprt fitnton S.nator Wuliam E. Cnanler, Hannis AO V Taylor, of Washington, D. C, professor creaUng a permanent tariff commis- of constitutional and international sion "having functions and compen- law at George Washington. University, sation analogous to the ' inter-State and others as given out for publica- comision:'! u , , . . . , The President renewed his plea for turn here tonigqt. JThe clause pro- harmony in his address tonnt de. vides for a gift of about $2,000,000 to claring that what he was most anx- the First Lauren of Christ, Scientist, ious to avoid was the failure of tar- of Boston, known as the "Mother iff commission legislation at the pres- Church " ent session because of any differe- . " . , XT TT . , . ence as to the details. He declared A statute of New Hampshire prohib- that ne would not mention .the bm it ins a bequest to a church of over that' bears the name of the Ohio Con- annually, is the basis of the gressman," except that it seemed to opinion which is written by Professor nim " constitute a very well-drawn Taylor. Referring to the residuary compromise upon all the differences clause as "null and void," the opinion of detail that have existed between says: the supporters of various measures." as to the void gift, the testatrix The Longworth bill referred to by diJd intestate and its subject matter the President, according to the ad passed, on her death, to her next of mission of its author, is an incorpora kiu, under the New Hampshire statute tion of silent features in the Lenroot of distribution." In the closing para- and the Goode bills of the House and grapu the op.a.on advisas the attor- the LaFollette and the Beveridgs ney for the next of kin tnat such bills of the Senate and provides for agreements and contracts as they inquisitorial powers for the tariff made with cue testatrix and h.r trus- commission as. well as the safeguard tees in her life time bind theu only ing of information obtained, to recognize, as valid such provisions The National Tariff Commission of her last w.i as are legally valid." Association early today bad. practical- o that extent," continues the opin- y endorsed the Longworth bill in ion, "you are bound, and are required, a resolution sent to Congress de t join witn Ihe-execu tors- in. request- mariding - taimedlaieJy tariff commit ing the probate court of New Hamp- glon iegiSiation and it was in ampli shire to admit such will to probate in flcation largely of the resolution of solemn torm, in order that all its pro- tfie a8sociatlon tnat the preeldent v s:ons mar prevail,' so f ar as they are gpoke tonight. The Association had not forbidden by law. After you have declared for a tariff commission so acted and performed every part of wh erg and functIons 8nould the agreement you have entered into, . anaineoui to the Inter-State Com it wui remain for the courts of equity. ? J ,;,: 6 6 C Federal or State, to construe the will mvCSKr.f tho ?nt ,h in order to determine whether the re- Many nember ' thte Senate ad siduary clause is valid or void." Houte were present at the banquet Mr. Chanler, as counsel for the "next nd th 8Peake" weJe Sena; friends" m his letter to Professor tors Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Taylor, reviews the facts regarding Cummins, of Iowa and Representa ivlrs. eddy's w... and estate, and the tive Longworth, of Ohio, next friends " suit, which resulted in There are those who oppose tne Mrs. Eddys placing a large sum of Existing tariff and criticise it severe money in trust for her son, George W. ly " said President Taft. "There are CI lover, of Lead, S. D., and h.s chil- those who uphold it as a fair measure dren. He men describes his signing on the whole. Now it seems to me the agreement by which the "next that both may logically and properly friends' " suit was settled, and adds: lr. Streeter fGeneral Frank S. Streeter. of .Concord) drew the agree- nunt for my signature. When signing i took it for granted tnat Mrs. Eddy would not, in giving away her proper- ty, undertake to violate public law. If I had thought she had already done so Ijy attempting to create a Churcn with an endowment of two millions of uoiiars, l should not nave signed." Late today a petition was med in the Supreme Court here by ex-Senator t.aanler and other attorneys, asking the court for a construction of Mrs. Kddy's will, particularly the clause re- lating to the residuary estate. ihe petitioners also pray for an in- nZlnf thianrnniYv S'IKllSSS n!n,? cumstances that are useful in fram X LS Vrresid ng a tariff bill. Matters that kind clause. - ae matter given out for publica lion here consists of a letter from Mr. W" er. Chanler, in hi3 letter to Profes- sor i aylor, reviews the facts regard- ing Mrs. Lddy's will and estate, and ihf next friends'" suit, which result- t'd in Mrs. Eddy's placing a large sum of money in trust for her son, George v. (Mover, of Lead, S. D., and his chil- (lien. He then relates his signing the agreement by which the "next frionds' vlr. suit was settled and adds: O i. , T, . r-, Streeter, of Concord), drew the agree- ment for my signature. When signing, 1 tnnk it fnr irronto.! V,o 1,1,1,, WOUlu not. In civlne nwnv Vior nrnn. Vu i Jiad thougnt that she had already done so bv WmnHn n nr-aJ i one so by attemDtine to create a Church with an endowment of two millions of dollars, I should not have signed." J he opinion rendered by Professor Taylor and endorsed by Mr. Chanler and the otuer attorneva hniri tho wiu is void, and savs: As to tue void will, the tentntH-r died intestate, and its subject matter iassea, on her dea .j. to her next of hin' under the New Hampsnire stat- "ie oi distribution." The Grand Theatre is the nlace An meet your friends. Chan .or to Hannis TayW. professor "ne mu puws iq resu u u. m of constitutional tnd international of th commission will be such law at t.eorge Washington University. tnat Congress will have sufficient Washington, D. and a repay from information to reach a general aver j rofessor i aylor. i It contains the age of fairness and justice, and that opinion that lira. Eady s will is void the people will have a reliable means and to Professor Taylor's signature to of judging of the correctness of the the opinion nave been added those of action of Congress. Then If Oon--Mr. Chanler, Attorneys John W. Kelly, gress shall depart from the economic or i ortsmouth, and DeWitt C. Howe, theory of a majority of the people in of ooncord, wao were associated with the action taken upon this reliable Mr. Chanler as counsel for the "next information offered, the people will friends," and William L. oambers, a have resources to the method adopt lawyer. of W'asu.ngton. ed so often in the past that of turn TAFT FAVORS TARIFF BOARD Progress In Movement for Permanent CommissionPresident Talks of Tariff Matters Features. Washington, Jan. 12. Significant progress was made today in the move ment for the creation of a permanent tariff commission. Not only did President TaCt in an address at the vTMiauet of the National Tariff' f!om- zJ&on openly endorse the Long worth bill characterizing it "as a con ciliatory measure embodying all the important features that are neces- Bary to make the commission effec tive" but early today he sumoned the Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee to the White House and urged them to harmonize their differences. The National Tariff Association closed its session today with ' the unanimous adoption of a resolution f ?2L2; T3 ffT support the creation of a commission whose findings, if the former are right, will indicate the necssity for tariff changes: and that the latter may well and consistently support the same commission with the hope and belief that the investigations will show that the present tariff is not unjust or unequal in its operation or if so, that it is only so in the case Df a few schedules, i am not of those who expect that the tariff commission is going to re- form the wnole situation in such a way that we are to reCeive from them wlth mathematical certainty the ex- with mathematical certainty the ex- adt difference in the cost of produc- Mrttl y,ar.a OTw1 ahrrt!11 nr Pir. are necessarily matters not of exact ascertainment, but of judgment and general average. But I do hope that I If At 1.111 J.1 ..11. ing out the party in power and put- ting In a new party to carry out the then prevailing popular theory.' But it is of the utmost imoortance that the action both of Congress and of the people shall be taken on reliable evidence. ' ' Anhino. v.at n n mair tv.o . avtlAnrtA aft1 tVi nrr rl n al j-vn a frrm ta freer fmm Twtiitimi !. """ 'I quite agree with this association , .winn w rnn. I" " ' gress of separate schedules or sep arate subjects , matter affected by the tari 80 " J0. , 2!wlP on one schedule frm being unduly In fiuenced by promised action upon another. It is impossible to , avoid this in a eeneral revision. 'What I am in favor' of is a bill which will get through both Houses without acrimouious dispute over un- llmportant features or tne diii ana I without arousinK either jealousy or I suspicion, or partisan and unreason- able criuclsim. ; 1 "The present tariff board is working well, but it is dependent wholly on oyosmiMva rtrrier iiu) An ' RTinrODriation. lt hnnM made Permanent in some Jform so thatanr Congress, ' which OIL TRUST'S SIDE TOLD BY fil 1 Argument Against Dissolu tion of Standard Before the Supreme Court CHARACTER OF ROCKEFELLER Asserts That Standard is Committing No Wrongs Explains How the Company Grew Kellogg Speaks Today. Washington, Jan. 12. 'Standard Oil attorneys today argued before the Supreme Court of the United States against the proposed dissolution of the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, as violative of the Sherman anti-trust law. For three hours John G. Milburn, of New York, addressed the court. Tomorrow Frank B. Kel logg, of Minnesota, will present the government's side of the controversy. The arguments will not be conclud ed until next Tuesday, j Mr. Milburn endeavored to show what alleged wrongs the affirmance of the dissolution decree of the lower court would incur. In his history of caotic conditions in the oil business between 18G0 and 1870 due, ha said, to an over produc tion of refining capacity, Mr. Mil burn introduced to the court the char acter of John D. Rockefeller. "There was out there in Cleveland," he said, '"a young man in the early 60s' with a small amount of money which he had saved, who possesed the gift of genius. He had the genius for business and there is a genus for business just as there is a genius for war, or poetry or painting. That man was John D. Rockefeller. He saw that this overproduction of re fineries was to be met by volume of business so as to withstand the lower ' He then told how Rockefeller allied himself with Andrews, a practical oil refiner, and how with the exercise of Rockefeller's genius for business and their consequent good standing among financiers, they 'grew rapidly. Mr. Milburn dwelt particularly up on period of acquisition which he closed in 1879 the trust agreement of 1892 and the new arrangements of ownership in .1899. Acquisitions nev er had been made, Mr. Milburn told the court, with an intent to restrain or to monopolize interstate trade. Most of the purchases .were made, he said before 1879. , "We thought fhlat it was only the decent thing to do if a man came to us," said Mr. Milburn with a proposi tion to sell out to buy his plant at its apprised value. Often it was practi cally worthless, and we could have permitted it to go to dry rot in his hands." He denied the charges of the gov ernment that the Standard Oil had the advantages of such preferences from the railroads during the period of acquisition, that it should now oe punished. The contracts between the railroads and the Standard were not in restraint of trade, he contend ed, "when viewed in the light of the days in which they were made." His remarks about the re-organiza tion of the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, in 1899, which is the thing which the decree of the lower court would " undo, was summarized by Justice Hughes. The net result," suggested Justice Hughes, "is that the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, after 1899 stood in the place of the trustees, and those who held the certificates issued by the trustees thereafter held the stock of the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey? Precisely," said Mr. Milburn. "It is quite simple when you understand it. You see there was the same body of common owners of the property both before and after 1899.' At this point, he referred to the ar gument of the Standard upon which it is pinning its faith, in the present controversy, that the new arrange ment of 1899 did not suppress compe tition in any way, because the proper ties before 1899 were not competing tney being owned by the same per sons. One object to the decree which Mr, Milburn voiced was that by compel! ing the Standard, of New Jersey, to give to each of its stockholders a pro portionate share in each of the cor porations whose stock it held, the small holder of stock would be ser iously embarrassed. For instance, the man who owned one share of stock in the Standard of New Jersey, would get script for twenty-eight cents worth of stock in one company and $2.50 worth in another. This wouid not be marketable, he suggest ed. Furthermore, he ma'dei;the state ment that the decree would be ruin ous to much of the properties, be cause the companies had no inde pendent existence. may desire' to avoid the useful source of information which it will furnish shall have to take the responsibility of ; repealing the law." , To, see pictures in a new and up-to-date theatre, come to the Grand.: .. ? CLARK EXPLAINS RULES FIGHT Democratic House, Leader's Statement as to Voting for Cannon Posi tion of Democrats Con gress Situation. Washington, Jan. 12. A statement outlining the view of the Democratic party in the House as to the meaning of the recent rules fight setting forth the precedent that would have been set if the Democrats had voted to ov errule Speaker Cannon at that time was Issued today by Representative Champ Clark, the Democratic leader of the House, arid probable Speaker of the next Congress. The .statement fol lows: "There is a tempest in a teapot about how the ) Democrats voted on Monday on the question of sustaining Speaker Cannon's ruling. Some of the papers have : been" ' charging that the Democrats reversed their action of the 19th of March.' . This is an entire mistake. Every"; Democrat who made speeches on the proposition pending on the 17th, 18th and 19th of March, 1910, took particular pains to state that the precedent were in favor of the Speaker's ruling on that occasion, and that what we were then doing was revolutionary in its character. I used this language on that occasion. There is no use to mince .matters about it. It is a revolution. Individu ally I am not afraid of revolution, for people of our blood always revolution ize in the right direction. "The difference in the situation is that in March, 1910, we were fighting to accomplish a great result," namely, to liberate the House from the domi nation of an oligarchy of five, of which the-Speaker was .one. In fact, in the slang phrase.of the day, 'He was It.' that was the committee - on rules. The despotism of that old com-, mittee on rules composed of five men of which the Speaker was chairman- had become intolerable, and we were entirely justified In t upsetting all the precedents that were ever made to emancipate ourselves. "The question last Monday was an insignificant squabble between Judge Fuller, of Illinois, and Hon. James R. Mann, of Illinois, both Republicans, neither one an insurgent,, each deter mined to have hit own way'. Each one had a bill that he a wanted to 'get up. and that is &1F thrfc.was to It. There was no principle inToivea r-wnateTer. f By our votes we said that the Speak er's decision was sustained by the precedents and we also said by our votes that the matter in controversy was not of sufficient consequence to revolutionize the House. "There is no inconsistency whatever in our votes in March, 1910, and last Monday. The Speaker can get all the pleasure out of it he wants, which is very little, I think. The appeal from his decision was taken by a rampant Republican, Hon. Joseph Holt Gaines, of West Virginia, a stand-patter of the stand-patters. If the Democrats had overruled the Speaker by their votes, and thus creating a precedent then in the 62nd Congress the Republicans could have used this precedent thus established to arise each day with various amendments to the rules and by this conduct prevent any tariff leg islation or any remedial legislation of any character." CENSUS IN TENNESSEE. Increase in Population of 30.7 Per Cent, in Cities Over 5,000. Washington, Jan. 12. Tennessee municipalities having a population in excess of 5,000 made an average in crease of 30.7 per cent during the last ten years and contributed 54.3 per cent to the State's total increase In population of 164,173, according to sta tistics of the 13th census issued today. Of the larger cities in the State Chattanooga showed the greatest per centage of increase, it being 47.9 per cent. Next Is Nashville, with 36.5 per cent.; Memphis with 28.1 per cent.; Knoxville with 11.4 per cent., and Jackson with 8.7 per cent. Jacksonville, Fla., January 12. With about four-fifths of the vote cast in Tuesday's election accounted for, W. A. Blount maintains his plurality over N. P. Bryan and J. N. C. Stock ton, .n the senatorial race. Blount's vote is 10,7 10; Bryan's . 7,366 and Stockton's 6,465. OUTLINES. Damaging evidence against Mrs. Schenk was given at the trial at Wheeling, W. Va., yesterday by the nurse who attended her husband, the wealthy packer, when he was ill- John G. Milburn appeared" before the Supreme Court yesterday in. behalf of the Standard Oil Company and spoke against the dissolution of the compa ny. He introduced to the court the character of John D. Rockefeller- Several Washington lawyers, stated yesterday that the statuary clause In Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy's will provid ing a gift of $2,000,000 to the "Mother Church" is void. They declare the same to be unlawful More than 20 Mexicans were killed In a battle be- tween a band of insurreetos and Diaz troops yesterday Champ Clark, leader of the House minority, yester day explainew the action of tie Dem ocrats in recently upholding Speaker Cannon.- New York markets: Mon ey on call easier 2 1-4 to 3 per cent, ruling rate 2 7-8, closing bid 2 1-4, of fered at 2 1-2. Spot cotton' closed quiet, middling uplands 14.90, mid dling gulf 15.15. Flour was steady with demand only moderate. Wheat easy. No. 2 red 1.00 7-8 elevator, and 1.01 1-8 f.o.b. afloat: Corn firm, new No. 2, 54 nominal f.o.b.; afloat Oats spot dull,; futures closed 1-Sc lower. Turpentine easy. ; i '. - s. -: ':: II TESTIFIES AT SCHENK TIL Nurse Dealt Unsparingly With The Accused in Her Testimony HAD LOST LOVE FOR HUSBAND Says Mrs. Schenk Told Her She Want ed "Young Society Blood." Tes timony as to Arsenic in Water. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 12. It was woman against woman at today's ses sion of the Schenk trial when Alma J. Evans, a professional nurse, testified against Laura Farnsworth Schenk, and described the circumstances that influ enced her to suspect that John O. I Schenk was being poisoned by his ! wife. Her testimony dealt unsparing ly with the accused woman. It was. Miss Evans who attended Schenck during his illness and the State brought,! on direct examination, the statement from her that Mrs. Schenk had lost her love for the weal thy pork packer. She testified that time and again Mrs. Schenk instruct ed her that if Schenk died suddenly to go to his trousers' pocket as soon as the breath left hi3 body, get the keys to his safe deposit box in a local bank and notify- her before the Schenks knew of the death. "You don't know those Dutch devils like I do," the witness said Mrs. Schenk exclaimed on various occa sions when referring to members of the. Schenk family. The State also brought out through Dr. Charles Glaser, of Johns Hopkins University, that the first bottle of min eral water sent him for an analysis contained three and six-tenths grains of arsenic to the half gallon, and that the sample of hyomel quinine which Schenk was also taking contained sev en grains of sugar of lead to the ounce. Miss Evans "further testified that dirhimy' bottles of medicine were kept in the bath room of the suite oc cupied by Schenk at the North Wheel ing Hospital while the real remedies being given Schenk were kept in an other part of the building, that the bottles were placed there as a decoy and that the accused was given an op portunity to "doctor" them. Mrs. Schenk went into the bath room, lock ed the door, and remained inside for 15 minutes. The defense, however, apparently scored when it was testified by Dr. Hupp that the medicine in the room had not been tampered with, also on cross examination of Dr. Glaser, that a second bottle of mineral water, tak en from the room in which Mrs. Schenk was locked for some time, had not been tampered with. The allegation that the wife at tempted to poison the husband after he had been removed to the hospital, the defense contended, is shattered by the fact that broth and other articles of food prepared by Mrs. Schenk and taken to the hospital, were not given the patient, but were preserved and analyzed and no trace of poison was found in them. Miss Evans further testified that Mrs. Schenk selected the undertaker who was to have charge of her hus band's funeral. "I won't have any Dutch funeral," she quoted Mrs. Schenk as saying, naming the under taker who would be employed by the Schenk family and the one whom she had picked out herself, who conducts the most exclusive establishment in the city. At another time the witness testified Mrs. Schenk told her that "John is too old for me. I want a young socie ty blood," and that the accused confid ed to her that John was too much of a business man" to suit her because she thought she was "entitled to break into society." on account of . her wealth. A detective nurse, Mrs. Nota Klein, was placed on the case soon after Schenk's removal to the hospital for the purpose of trapping Mrs. Schenk, the defense declares, and Miss Evans said that Mrs. Schenk became very friendly with the second nurse at once, not knowing her identity. Miss Evans was subjected to a most searching cross examination, but her testimony was not shaken in any marked degree. During the tetimony of Miss Evans hostile glares passed repeatedly be tween the accused and the witness. Another line followed by the de fense was an attempt to show a con spiracy on the part of the Schenk fam ily aealnst the accused, especially on the pact of F. Albert Schenk against his brother John's wire. Miss Evans testified if such conspir acy existed she never was aware of it. IREDELL FARMER KILLED. In AttemDtina to Get Off southern Passenger Train. Asheviile. N. C. -anuary 12. R. E Rudacil, aged 40, a prosperous farmer of Iredell county, was instantly Kinea today in attempting to get off e rap idly moving Southern .railway passen ger train at Elmwood, his home, where the train makes no stop. Mr. Rudacil got on the train at Hickory, N. C His head struck, the rail, breaking 'his neck, and death was instantaneous. the body was pic -eo up anieu to Salisbury. ,Tne body .will r ven to i-anwood for in termer' IMA MANY FELL IN MEXICO FIGHT Desperate Battle Between Insurreetos and Diaz's Troops Twenty Said to Have Been Killed Details. Comstock, Texas, Jan. 12. More than twenty men were killed in a desperate battle between the Mexican Federal soldiers and a small party of insurreetos on the bank of the Rio Grande opposite this point yesterday. The insurreetos has only 18 men and for three hours they held at bay about 75 rurales and about 100 infantry sol diers. When darkness ended the battle the insurreetos held the field and the Federal troops had withdrawn a couple of miles and camped. The in surreetos left a couple of hours later for their mountain headquarters fifty miles away, carrying their wounded with them. Of the 18 Insurreetos, two were kill ed and seven wounded.. E. S. O'Reil ly, correspondent with the insurree tos, received a slight wound in the thigh. Twice the rurales charged the in surgent position once coming within fifty yards but each time they were repulsed. The correspondent counted eighteen soldiers that were carried from the field .during the battle. The arrival of twenty more insur reetos in the last few minutes, of the fight saved the defenders and pre vented what probably would have been a massacre of the little band. The original party of the insurreetos numbered 40 men. They had been on a raid through the district south of Las Vacas getting horses and re cruits. For two days a party of sev enty rurales had chased the band and on the night of January 10th tae party went to the river to water their jaded horses and rest They had eluded the government forces. The next morning twenty of the band started for a ranch about 12 miles away to get more horses. The camp of the insurreetos was discover ed and a company of seventy infan try men was mounted and sent to the support of the squard of rurales. When they appeared the "camp of in surreetos preparations were made to give .them ai hot "reception, 'tuxf -of the rebels -were set-at work packing extra ammunition and rifles on mule back. The eighteen remaining insurreetos took position in a line across the trail of the advancing soldiers. The firing commenced at a distance of about 300 yards. The insurgents poured a volley from their thirty calibre rifles into the enemy and three, soldiers fell. The soldiers replied with their Mauser carbines and the battle was on. After an hour's continuous fight ing the Federal received reinforce ments from their main body and a charge was made on the insurreetos. As they advanced the defenders of the pass sent a storm of bullets into their ranks, firing' cooly and making every shot count The Federals ad vanced a short distance and then re turned to their original position. The firing continued and one by one the band of insurreetos dropped from the ranks either dead or wounded until only nine men remained workng their guns. Again the soldiers charged, this time approaching within fifty yards of the gulley where the insur reetos were concealed. Not a man gave way, but continued firing de liberately until the soldiers again re treated. Both in the charges and re treats the rurales kept up their line in good order and showed po panic. The steady fire and good aim of the insurreetos was more than the sol diers could stand and they shrank from closing for a final assault. The battle started at 4:20 o'clock and continued steadily until 7:30. As darkness approached the twenty 'in surreetos, who had been sent for hor ses appeared on a neighboring hill approaching at a gallop. The bugles of the soldiers blew a retreat and they fell back about a mile where they "took a stronger position in a shallow canon. The field was left to the insurreetos and the band of 18 had ' successfully held at bay nearly ten times their number for three hours. The insurreetos buried their dead, cared for the wounded, packed1 their eqiupment and two hours later start ed across country for El Burro, the mountain where they have establish ed their stronghold. WOMEN MAKE PROTEST To Taft Against Placing Reformatory Near Mt. Vernon. Washington, January 12. President Taft was appealed to today by a dele gation of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association to intercede in tue con struction of the proposed new reform atory for the District , of Columbia, the Site of whicn has been chosen at Belvoir, va.. a few miles from Mount Vernon, the nation's most historic landmark. Tne delegation was head ed by Miss Harriet C. Comegys, re gent of tne association, and was ac companied , by Representative Carlin, of Virginia. , The delegation contended that inas much as vast sums of money had been expended for the proper care of the surroundings of Mount Vernon, they considered it their paramount duty in safeguarding this place of national im portance ano 10 preserve its surround ings from desecration. : The President, gave no decision in the matter, but promised to .take up the matter wi in the comrr,asio-7B of the District of Coiumoia-. ;-s -; PEOPLE TO ELECT THE COMMISSION Both Plan and , Members of City Government to Be ! Submitted to Vote SO DECLARES MR. KELLUM Interview With New Hanover Repre sentative Legislative Proceed- ings at Raleigh Yesterday. ; Constitutional Bill. . ' (Special Star Correspondence. Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 12. Representa tive Woodus Kellum, of New Hanover, says that in view of the great interest there is in Wilmington. as to the pro posed commission form of government and the desire to know the position of the New Hanover delegation here, he will say for himself that he has, after mature consideration, decided that he will contend for a bill that will pro vide the commission form, when adopted by a vote of the people, and also for the people to elect their com missioners. He does not, however, believe the Battle bill, .providing a general law that may be adopted by any city of the State, will meet the peculiar needs of Wilmington. . He is waiting to see what sort . of bill the association of North Carolina city officials, known as the Municipal Association, will have when it meets here next week. Other Proceedings. ' - In the House the Stubbs joint reso lution for a constitutional convention was made a special order for Wednes day, January 25th. . It has a favorable report from the committee on consti tutional amendment. A fiery discussion developed in-the House over the proposed investigation of the conduct -of fire Insurance com panies in North Carolina, the" Judicial ry Committee having returned it with the recommendation that . it go- the ProDOsitIbR--aQd. Grievances -Comiait' tee, Koonce, cialrman thV author pi;r the resolution, Which proposes that the Legislature appoint a commission' with court powers' to' compel " the attend ance of witnesses," etc. The' demand was made that it go to the Insurance Committee. Koonce protested, charg- , ing that this committee was made up largely' of Insurance men, who might be unduly influenced. This was re sented by Woodson, of Cleveland, and others, Woodson charging that Koonce, a lawyer, knows nothing of insurance matters himself, although author of this bill, to deal radically with insurance interests. He and those fighting with him contended that the practical insurance men of the Assembly were the ones to pass upon the bill. Koonce won out on the vote, getting the bill to his Proposition and Grievances Committee. In the Senate, Mr. Graham introduc ed important bill as to bonds for tak ing care of State bonds falling due January 1, 1913, and authorizing the State treasurer to borrow money to pay the difference between the amount appropriated at this session and the revenue received," or If the loans can not be made, he is authorized to. issue bonds not exceeding one milion dol lars. Senate Ninth Day. The Senate met at 11 o'clock, Rev. Hight C. Moore, editor of the Bibli cal Recorder, offered prayer. Senator Barham, of Wayne, was al lowed to withdraw his bill relative to the speed of automobiles. On motion of Senator Hobgood, of Guilford, the bill creating a commisr sion form of government for Greens boro.was recalled from the engrossing clerk's office and ordered sent to the House without engrossment. Introduction of Bills. Graham, of Orange: To provide for the payment of all appropriations dur ing the session and for the redemption of bonds falling due January 1, 1913, by authorizing the State treasurer, up on the approval of the council of State, to borrow money or if satisfactory. loans cannot be made, to issue bonds not to exceed one million dollars. Re ferred to judiciary committee. Lemon, of Union: To amend the law relative to escapes. Revisal. Reinhardt, of Lincoln: To conserve the cattle supply of the State. Propo- sitions and grievances. Hurdle, of Caswell: Changing the pay of jurors in Caswell county. Ju diciary, j Barham, of Wayne: Relative to the speedy of automobiles and penalty fon violation. Propositions and grievan ces, i . Fisher, of Polk: Authorizing thd commissioners f Polk to purchase land or a county, home and issue bonds to: pay for same. Judiciary. Cobb, of Robeson:- Changing' tha name of the Indians known as the Cro atans to Cherokees and providing sep arate apartments for the Insane in the insane asyjum at Raleigh. Judiciary, Haymore, of Surry: Revising the charter of Elkins. " Counties, cities and towns. . . ... . . . ) Cobb, of Robeson: Establishing a re corder's court for Robeson county. Ju diciary. The joint resolutions relative to thd death of Representative John L. Stu art, of Montgomery county, and in re lation to canvassing the vote for State officers and the bill appointing justly ces of the peace in Hertford county were ratified. . y . The House bill creating the officej . - -4 , v, V'. ::fV v. . Hi 'IV , hi' ft. -vii ; .mm mm s v.
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Jan. 13, 1911, edition 1
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