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THE WEATHER. Fair today, Sunday increasing cloud ipess, rain and -warmer in west por tion. . V rr , TT;; ADVERTING .'i ::ii 1 - y .J-i LLJ I I I JI : v' i HvlSiVf ImJV5 i-llPJi 111 I IL f I Ii 7- t I I I new it bring, you should b credited ' V, 'IJQOaX-139. Wlt 3ST. C., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1912, r - wrrmvP ro io.fl,r ' - ' -- - ; . - va ! RriFFRAGETTES 011 VVi - - ; - - pv X iimi niT niMninr LX9 l-MI KllllKllUh I ti VlULLiii iinim nuL British Women Smash Hun dreds of Costly Plate Glass Windows. POLICE COULDN'T STOP JHEM Seeing That Strikers Received Recog nition They Started a Campaign of Destruction Losses Were Very Heavy. London, March 1. Because the coal miners had been able to gain govern ment recognition of their grievances by threatening the business of the country, the suffragettes late today also entered upon a policy of menace to trade. And they carried it out sud denly and with au ardor that resulted in heavy financial losses; brought consternation to merchants of the most prosperous shopping district of the city and paralyzed business. The police were taken completely una wares and before they were able to muster their forces and restrain the women, streets wee covered with shat tered plate glass from the show win dows of stores. It was a window breaking expedi tion solely, and a thoroughly organiz ed one. Hundreds of windows in many of the most famous shops of the World and in several government offices and clubs were wrecked by the : suffra gettes. The damage will aggregate many thousands of pounds, but is largely covered by insurance against breakage. v . , One hundred and fifteen women were dragged to the police stations by police, or excited and Indignant mer chants. Many others, however, escap ed. All those arrested were released this evening on bail, coupled with a promise to refrain from further win dow breaking., ; : . .. v ' The trouble centered about Trafal gar Square, ranged along the Strand, eastward and westward, and up Re gent Btreet,Picadilly and Oxford street where are situated, the fashionable J Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the vet eran of many a suffragette battle, struck the first blow. In an automcH bile accompanied ' by ' - Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Tukes, she drove up . to the Premier's residence In. Downing street at 6 o'clock. The three women leap ed from the machine and drew out svones concealed in their muffs. 7 Four windows crashed in before the police, who are constantly on guard, could reach the women. ..The trio were ar rested, but while being led to tne sta tion, managed to heave missiles through the windows of the Colonial office. Pandemonium broke. out in the shop ping district at the same time. . The taxicabs were the favorite vehicles of approach used by the suffragettes and large numbers of innocent looking wo men were helped but of them by store porters. Without hesitation the wo men at once attacked the show win dows with bricks or hammers. The surprise of the porters was so great that a majority of the miscreants were able to lose themselves in the crowds before the guardians of the shops could collect their senses and restrain them. The women who did not use taxicabs merely walked along ' the' streets, cracking or smashing windows ith hammers, while crowds followed cheering or hooting. ; . The police were wholly unable to fleal with such a wholesale and wide spread outbreak and at least nine tenths of the window attacking army escaped. The air was filled with sounds of police whistles, yells, the slamming of blinds and shrieks of frightened shoppers, punctuated now and then with cries of "votes, for wo men." Whenever a window was shat 'red there the crowd surged, while ne employes of the shop rushed to "ie street to prevent the unprotected Roods from being stolen. Not even tie establishments of undertakers ere spared. systematically and quickly was .. ' "k,i.,uiii jjusueu mat il wao J ,yer before police reserves could e called out. Hundreds of extra po ""emen were on duty tonight protect the damaged buildings, while it ?usands of sightseers tramped Che ih t0 view tne havoc wrought by tne women. : The Rnffrotr- j . . i ik.i It 1. tv B6Clie .eauers aeciare mai ram r PurPose to continue their 111 PivRn- of wdow breaking until, e tfte POal minora V.MT tia iff, me?1 10 take UP tneIr claims for intl. r n oraer to Protect business -'-ici.s . ii1i?8ether- lr, suffragettes were ar- Icarioi.' f,non them many prominent o m me movement. ANOTHER TRUST COMPANY tj.. . ' eminent Banker Will Be at Head ut Larae institution . " RalK)ex!al star iTelegram.) ehor t?N- C" March I- The An tt!.rust Co., of Raleieh.. was char 5nc anl"lb: evening- for a general bank- 000 en , business, with a $500, crihoi .lauthorlzeC and $50,000 sub- k.k u lie Statempnt -'hofno- maAa rs in v LUW mosx prominent DanK head ftf S.tate wU1 be Pu at the open f , instHutIcn, which will be Amon? bu?iness within 60 days, ox r lTne incorporators are Albert . ' . J . ParWor Tv,. v hit r C ' E. Staterfield. W. A. lison ' V. Albright and J C. Al OLICE OH GUARD IFl PEKING and Desultory , Shooting Con- lues in Capital Mutineers Will be Arrested or Killed The Missionaries. Peking, March 2. Desultory shoot ing by( the mutineers continued throughout last night and at 3 o'clock this morning occasional shots contin ued to be heard, most of them in the distance. The electric lights through out the city were extinguished during the night and the streets were desert ed. . The old style troops and the po lice are guardingthe city. They are not doing patrol" duty but lie in wait at various points for looters. The mu tineers who remained in Peking after the first outbreak are being detained in barracks. .... Geh. Li Yuan Heng, commander of the Republican . troops at Nanking, who is interfering effectively with the Nanking government's orders, has telegraphed the Republi can delegates in Peking not to insist on Yuan Shi Kai proceeding to Nanking. Yuan Shi Kai has tele graphed the officials at Pao.Ting Fu, situated seven miles southwest of Pe king, to arrest or kill all the muti neers who went there by. train from Peking. k Yuan Shi Kai this evening, issued a note addressed to the foreign mission aries, merchants and other residents of the capital saying; s "The disturbance in the capital was quite unexpected by me and has filled me with sprrow. One of my chief du ties is to preserve order in the capital and in this I have been hitherto uni formly successful. Unto yeu, who are strangers in a strange land, I wish particularly to convey my. sincere re gret for the occurrence. Every measure of precaution has been taken now to prevent a repetition. , In the: vicinity 6f the legations eve rything has been quiet tonight. v i It is believed that Yuan . Shi Kai has lost some of his.'controj. No troops except the Manchus are to ' be depended on and .they evidently carq cniy to derena the, imperial and for bidden cities. Throughout the day looting of stores and residences .'by revolting soldiers basbeeh. going on in various parts of the' city. There have been several skirmishes ; between tne loyal troops and the mutineers in the .outskirts. The, majority ' of the", mutineers had left the central -districts' before , morn ing, "v'- '.' :' v:' ..',-ryV ..-'i - .looter sicapttfredriti: the act f curry on pivyemy - were xevum4 on the spot bjr loyal soldiers, several regiments of wnich are patrolling" the streets. ' The incendiary fires - which were started last night have now been ex tinguished or have died out. Tne loss is estimated at approximately $15,000, opp. . . . - : '. ' ,' The" number of casualties that have occurred among the civilians and sol diers is not known, but it is believed that the loss of life. has been heavy. Tne outbreak was a complete sur prise. . y - London Reports. London, Men. i. The British for eign office ' received a dispatch this morning from Sir John N. Jordan, British minister in Peking, indicating that .the outbreak in Peking was of a spasmodic character and intimating such a favorable' view of the situation that fear engendered by the first dis patches received here has been great ly allayed. Sir John cables that Yuan Shi Kai has notified the foreign legations that only two regiments stationed in Pe- kine are concerned in the mutiny and that he is confident that he win be able to control the situation. The British minister adds that the damage In the tartar city ,'js not near so great as was first reported. He has not asked for reinforcements to be sent to the troops acting as legation guards, nor did he refer in any way t the necessity or reinforcements, so that the British government does not contemplate the. dispatch of ' more trooDS to Peking. The British government considers that Sir John Jordan's report is so favorable that it eliminates all lmme diate necessity for international ac tion looking to the occupation by for elgn troops of Peking. PACKERS' TRIAL DRAGS Employes of the Defendants Testified Yesterday . Chicago. March 1. Another at tenant to connect two defendants with the active direction or tne neei seams deDartments of their business was made by the government in the pack-' ers trial today. Darius linignts. head margin atocountant for MOrris & Company, testified that he . prepared weekly summaries, of shipments and tnaririns for the ibeef department, but denied that th figures went to Ed ward Morris and Louis H. Heyman, two of the defendants. Edward L. Linting, tonnage clerk for , the same company, made' the same denial. : John: M. Chaplain, chief accountant for Swift & Company, was recalled to read statements of the total shipments of dressed beef in 1909 and' 1910, but the defense objected and Insisted that the companies' earnings should go in with the tonnage. The witness was withdrawn and the ; matter will be argued tomorrow. - ; Government Counsel Corneau read to the jury the minutes of the weekly meetings of the board of directors of National Packing Company from Sep tember 13th, 1904, to. February 14th, 1905, to show the k defendants atten dance "at the sessions, tv V v Chicago, March . 1 , Yusiff Mah mout, be Turk, ' eliminated Jess, Pe derson, Danish ichampion, as a con tender for the world's wrestling championship here tonight when ne defeated Pederson In" straight falls. v liifiSi Florida Land Salesman1 Saw a Proof of the Suppressed 4 Document. ' THE SECRETARY HELD IT UP House Committee on Agricultural Ex penditures Hears Interesting Sto ry Project Was a Gigan tic Swindle. Washington, Mch. 1. Thomas E. Will, a salesman of Florida Everglades land, told the House Committee on Ag ricultural Expenditures today that a clerk" in the government printing of fice showed him a proof of the sup pressed Wright report on the Ever glades in February, 1910. No conside ration passed. Will said, for seeing the proof. Later he and E. C. Howe, another Florida land salesman, were shown an Agricultural Department cir cular questioning the value of Ever glades land. Will said he and E. C. Howe then went to the department to talk ahout the situation. Will said Howe was "bold and . aggressive" in denouncing the circular as untrue and misleading. He said Howe threatened to take the matter to Secretary Wilson when 1 0. G. Elliott, chief of the Drainage Divi sion, defended the circular, but when Howe got. before the secretary he had little-' to say. Will; told of calling on Secretary Wilson a second time to urge the ear ly publication of the Wright report. I told them fellows I wouldn't do a damn thing for them until they quit righting among themselves,", Will quot ed the secretary as saying, ,as he brought: down his fist on r. the' table. Will said he "understood the secretary to mean it was because of political fights in . Florida that . he was holding up the Wright report. Just, before adjournment the proceedings were en livened with -a, clash between Will and Representative Ciark. of Florida. The former said ixe had gained the Impres sion in, a conversation with Mr. Clark in February, 1910, that the Represen tative desired to suppress the Wright report, while Senator-. Fletcher was equally desirous that it be published. He said Mr. Clark referred to the drainage engineers in "uncomplimen tary, terms", and had spoken of the Everglades project as "a gigantic swindle.'.' Mr. Clark entered a sweep ing denial and said his "uncomplimen tary remarks were aimed at unscru pulous" land sharks in their dealings with the public WRECK ON SOUTHERN. Three Killed and Many Injured Train Split a Switch. Birmingham, Ala., Mch. 1. Three persons were killed and 19 injured when Westbound passenger train No. 35 on the Southern Railway was wrecked at Oxford, 61 miles east of here this morning. Mrs. Augustus Denny, of Anniston, one of the vic tims, died at her home at Anniston tonight, as the result of burns. Her baby daughter also received burns which caused death earlier in the day. The wreck was caused by the passen ger, train splitting a switch and then sideswiping a switch engine on the siding. The dead are Mrs. Augustus Denny and baby daughter, Anniston, Ala., from burns, and Cora Roseman, colored.' ' " A relief train was sent to the scene from Anniston and the Injured were transferred to that city and placed in hospitals. The engine, mail car, bag gage car, day coach , and sleeper J left the rails and . traffic was delayed until 7 o'clock tonight. ARGUMENTS COMPLETED In Antli-T rust Suit Against Railroads ' and Coal Companies Columbus. Ohio. March 1. Final arguments in the government anti tiust suit against six railroads and three coaj corporations were complet ed late today and "the case given for decision : into tho hands of the three judges of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals who have been sit tlnsr as the United States District Court. The decision will probably be announced within the next six months at Duluth, Cincinnati or Grand Rap- Hs: the homes of the judges.. -The last areument in the case was made by Special Prosecutor Harrison. - . v . it . .11 j His chlel plea was on me anegea re straint of competition uy tne raiiroaas mentioned in the suit and their mu tual ownership of the Sunday Creek Company, the holding company for mo.OOO acres of coal lands. In con- lndlnfir. he asked the court "not to grant an order compelling tnese rail roads ito compete; but to grant an or der that will force them to compete. New Orleans. March - 1. Clarence S . Hebert, collector ot customs of this port, . was today appointed by President Taft as; referee in Federal DTYT-irvinf-moTl tR in- Louisiana, succeed ing Pearl. Wight, Republican National committeeman, wno sent nis resigna rinn . n th a x President ; last ' Monday. with the announcement of his allegi- n m to .former President Kooseveu A call has been Issued for & meeting of the 'Republican State Central U)m mittooMn this city March : 8th, at which time the matter of a Presiden tial preference primary: win - De set tied. FOUR PEOPLE HERE KILLED Reading Locomotive blew Up at Mun cey, Pa., With Disastrous Re- suits Station Badly Wreck ed and' Track!; Blocked. ' Williamsport, Pa.,March 1. Four persons were "killed t'wien a Reading locomotive, drawing Va fast freight, blew up in front of f tne station ' at Muncey about 10 o'clock tonight. All tracks were blocked and the station badly wrecked. ' ... . . Four men were killed, at Muncy, 1 4 miles south of her tonight when the boiler of a locomotive attached to a freight train blew irp. The dead are:.'..,.;.-. " S'W-!'-""' :-. William Fink, engineer; Harry Rob inson, fireman; Bolton-White, conduc tor; William Meyers brakeman. All the victims were in the cab . of the locomotive when,' the accident oc curred at a point about 10X yards north of the Muncy station. One side of the wooden station, was: complete ly demolished, but no one In or about it was hurt.. f V ' ' ' The freight -train vaa running at a high rate of. speed When the boiler blew up. The men "fere olown clear of the locomotive, Fink "being found some distance from the 'tracks. He lived 20 minutes. Thdj other men were killed instantly. -. THE MEXICAN . SITUATION Madero Says It's Better-rEnrile Plac- ed In Jail Mexico City, March While ad mitting ignorance of, the attitude of Orozco toward .the administration, at the moment, through lack of means of communication, President Madero says the revolutionary . situation throughout the republic,' --with the ex ception of Chihuahua, bas shown im provement since a week ago. El Paso, Texas, March .1. Enthusi asm in the Rebel camp at Juarez found expression today "in the appoint ment by the local junta of a consul in El Paso and the loading of supplies preparatory to the advance" on Chi huahua. ' 1 r -- Thirty -eight cars are being loaded with horses and seven hundred men under General Antonio. Rojas will be in the column which (Jeneral Inez Sa lazar expects to get under way tomorr row. On account of the necessary track repairing the troops train will not. arrive in the vicjnity of Chihua hua before Monday. viv . Gtmzato 'Enrtle "raelttof 1 tjf ' ih manifesto, in which .General Trevino was named provisional President, and in which there was a strong anti-Am erican note, was plated in jail today, according to a statement Issued at Rebel headquarters. TOO LOYAL AN ENGLISHMAN. Poet Watson Missed Dinner Because Shuster Might Talk. . New York; March 1. To those who wondered why William Watson, the English poet, was not present at the annual dinner of the Economic Club of New York last night after he had been announced as the guest of honor, it was explained that the name of W Morgan Shuster on the list of speakers had scared him away. The poet declared that he was too loyal an Englishman to listen quietly to an attack on her policy such as he felt Mr. Shuster would make if he touched on Persian affairs. Washington, March 1 In a game that was replete with brilliant plays and hotly contested from start to nn ish; Georgetown defeated Virginia for the South Atlantic basket-ball cham pionship here tonight by 21 to 16. The game; -which seesawed throughout, was not decided until the last lew minutes of play. , OUTLINES Two negroes - charged with.- killing Policeman Sanders ait Shreveport, La., were lynched last night. Roosevelt returned to his home yes terday. accompanied by a host of cor- lespondents in readiness to open the campaign. The iurv was dismissed In the Raines case, at Roanoke, Va., yester day, and alienists will examine the de fendant. 1 Four ' persons were killed and the station badly wrecked yesterdy iwben a Readme locomotive pulling a fast freight: blew up at Muncey, Pi. It i was announced yesterday - that Jim Flynn and Jack Johnson would fight; 20 rounds at Wendovar, Utah; July 24th. Soma desultory shooting occurred in Peking yesterday, but police are ncrw guarding the city and the mutineers have desisted in a measure from- loot ing. ' v Champ Clark stated yesterday he would accept no- invitation to leave Congress and . deliver speeches as he thought it was his duty to,, stay in Washington. The Democratic Ways and , Means Commlttea reported a free sugar, bill to - the Demiocratic caucus yesterday, and .also an. income tax bill, both of which were ratified by the caucus. Suffragettes In London encouraged by the- recognition received by; the striking coal miners, went on a ram page yesterday and destroyed thou sands Cif dollars' worth of plate glass fshop windows. , ' .New York markets: Money on cal steady,. 2 1-4 to 2 1-2 per cent;' rilling rate and closing bid 2 3-8 -offered at 2 1-2.'.. Spot cotton closed quiet, un changed. Flour quiet Wheat, spot strong, No. 2 red 1.03 1-2, elevator, export basis, and 1.05 z.o.b.) afloat Corn spot firm, No. 2, 78 1-2,, elevator domestic basis and export i i, nominaj, f .o.b. afloat. Rosin .and "turpentine quiet TEDDY LIFTS THE TALKING EMBARGO Correspondents Accompany Roosevelt Home to Open the Campaign. CRITICISED PRESIDENT TAFT The Colonel Declared He Had ' Not Rdad His campaign Manager's Statement Talked About Federal Patronage Oyster Bay, N. Y., March 1. The siege of Sagamore Hill began today when Colonel Roosevelt made his first appearance in his home town since his declaration of willingness to ac cept the Presidential nomination. A full-fledged battalion of correspon dents and telegraph operators came down from New. York with the Colonel ready for the xiampaign from now un til the Republican National Conven tion meets. For months the Colonel has declin ed to be interviewed while at Saga more Hill, but today he signalized his entrance into the campaign by lifting the embargo. He was perfectly will ing to talk but said that there was not a thing to say just now. The im: pression gathered was that ne was :oing to do some plain talking before the fight ends. ' Colonel Roosevelt was pressed for an. explanation of a rumor concerning the statement given out last night bv (senator Dixon, his campaign manager. in which President Taf t's administra tion was criticised sharply. He 'said he had not read the' Senator's state ment and was not qualified to express an opinion. "He had heard, however, that the coercion of Federal office holders in the South was cuarged, and said tbat when he was President he had never used his influence with of ficeholders for his own advantaged In fact-he had found it necessary to use fcisnfluetfee ficeholders from working1 for" his nom ination. in 1904 and 1908. ' The impression was general that the lmes of battle would -be drawn more sharply as a result of the broad side fired by the Roosevelt forces at President Taft. Colonel Roosevelt: made it clear, however, that he in tended to do .everything in , his power to avoid the appearance of attacking the President and to prevent the is sue from bepoming a personal one. At his" office in Naw York tonight Colonel Roosevelt talked over plans for the campaign with Amos Pinchot. brother of Gifford Pinchot and Gover nor Stubbs, of Kansas. The Governor was all smiles, and declared that -popular sentiment for Roosevelt was growing everywhere. Ke did not see how Roosevelt's nomination could be prevented. Colonel Roosevelt said he expected to spend the next fortnight largely at Sagamore Hill. His movements af ter that will depend upon how the campaign shapes itself. It is Colonel Roosevelt's desire to avoid long speak ing trips, if possible, but he intends to make short trips tor single speeches from time to time. He is being de- liicori with ronnonta trt visit. t.h WftSt before the Republican National Con vention and may decide to do so Roosevelt at Conference. New York, Mch. 1. Col. Roosevelt came in from Oyster Bay today for further conference with the political leaders engaged in furthering plans for his Presidential nomination. An nouncement of the selection of an ex ecutive committee with United States Senator Joseph M. Dixon,. of Montana, as chairman, was expected today to be followed by the announcement of names of an administrative committee to be formed with Truman H. Newber ry, of Detroit ex-Secretary of the Na-. vy, as chairman. Alexander H. Revell, of Chicago, chairman of the National Roosevelt Committee, says that Senator Dixon is to have sole charge of the political matters of the campaign, while Mr! Newberry and the administrative com mittee will look after the business and financial end. Senator Dixon will make his headquarters at Washington where, it is said, a general Roosevelt committee will be formed next week. Just what part Col. Roosevelt1 will take in. the campaign for nomination has not been learned. , . . Gov. Stubbs called on Col. Roose velt today to talk over the campaign. The Governor again declared that President Taf t's name 'would not be presented at the Chicago convention. (GOV. WILSON AT DES MOINES Icwa Suffragettes Poke Some Ques---' tions. a.t the Candidate Des Moines, Iowa, March 1. Gov ernor ..'Woodrow Wilson is scheduled to arrive here tonight to talk to Dem- rata who are ; gathering, from all narts of the State. ' Conferences are to be :held this af ternoon . among the Democratic lea gues which have openly pledged sup tvirt to favorite Presidential . candi dates, contrary to . the wishes of the State central committee. - . . State woman suffrage - associations have appointed a committee that win submit to Governor (Wilson :a letter asking for an . explanation of certain statements he is credited with. having made in criticism of woman suffrage.J CLARK REMAINS Oil THE JOB While Other Officers Are Going on Speaking . Tours, Champ Says He Will Stick , to Congress x Political Activities. Washington, March 1. While the Taft headquarters were todav on- nlouncing the approaching epeaklnrt tour of Vice-President Shetrman In Oklahoma and the Southwest, Speaker Champ Clark's managers were issuing an emphatic statement that Mr. Clark would not accept outside speaking en gagements because he did not believe a presiding officer should leave Con gress while it was in session. The refusal of the Speaker to ac cept invitations from Boston and else where to make political speeches was made the basis lor a statement from Mr. Clark about "absenteeism." "The vice of Congress is absentee ism," said the Speaker. "I am trying my everlasting best to keeD a auorum here for the transaction of public busi ness, and I cannot, with a straight face, and a clear conscience, insist upon oth er members staying here unless I set them a good example." The Speaker's only public appear ances outside of Washington before the adjournment of Congress will be before the Maryland Legislature at Annapolis on Marca 7. The Maryland capital will be the scene of a Presi dential 'free for all" next week. Gov ernor Harmon Is scheduled to speak Deiore tne Legislature on Wednesday, inarcn t, and uovernor Wilson will ap pear during the week. The projected campaign trlD of Vice- President Sherman into the Southwest is made in response to request from various organizations there. The dates for his speeches In Oklahoma have not been fixed, but he will go be fore Congress adjourns. He expects to visit Guthrie, the Choctaw and Chicka saw "sections, MoAleeter and Musko gee. . . The Roosevelt headquarters which were put in readiness here a few days asPO. will be formaJlv rvnpn Art tranflrrmr The fight is going to open immediate ly all along the line, Said Senator Dix on, of 'Montana, who has assumed per sonal management of. the National campaign for Colonel Roosevelt's nom ination, k Senator Dixon returned ' to Washington tonight from New York. whare he; was in, conference with Col onel f Roosevelt and upon - Tola arrival here conferred with Progressive Re- . meaeii tMcuormlck, director of the Roosevelt campaign who also has been in New York, will return to Washington tomorrow. STANDS FOR NO LIES Mirabeau L. Towns Slays He Has Had Confidence In the Prisoner New York, March 1. A number of witnesses are still to be examined by the grand jury which continued its in vestigation, today to ascertain if there was a conspiracy to send Folke E. Brandt, former man servant of the banker, Mortimer L. Schlff, to State's prison for a long term for first de gree burglary. Whether Mr. Schlff and his counsel, Howard Gans, will appear before the grand jury will not be determined until Judge Grain de cides whether the banker and his counsel would gain immunity by so doing. Mirabeau L. Towns, who has been representing ' Brandt from the begin ning said after reading Gov. Dix's statement that Brandt had applied for clemency, that he would stand for no .lies on the part -of Brandt or any one else, and that if he found that Brandt had been lying to him his po sition would change immediately. "I have Brand t positive statement to the effect that he never made for mal application to the Governor for pardon," said Mr. Town. "All I want is proof that Brandt lied to me when he said he had made no application for clemency." FRANCHISE GRANTED Raleigh Aldermen Vote, Trackage Rights A Police Fund 1 (Special-Star Telegram.) . Raleigh, N. C, March 1. Raleigh aldermen granted the Raleigh, Char lotte & Southern Railway Company a franchise tonight to construct through Glenwood and Boylan Heights, subu ban sections of the city, a track that will connect the Norfoik-Southern and Raleigh and Southport roads to be linked up in ..connection with the projected Raleigh, Charlotte & South ern extension controlled by the Nor folk-Southern", work to begin within a few weeks. - The aldermen of the city tonight voted to set aside $500 in the 1912 budget for the mayor to use through the chief of police in ferreting out vio lators of, the prohibition law: also to borrow $10,000 to be used in building sidewalks, property .owners to refund this, amounts being collectible as are taxes.' - ' . ; .., . PALLBEARER ARRESTED Charged WithMurder of Man He Was ' Assisting to Bury ' Gainesville, Fla., March 1, As he was preparing to become one of the nallbeaers at the funeral of Dr. H. C. Spencer here today, Harry G'. Welch was arrested on a warrant charging him with the murder of Dr Spencer. ' Welch is a native of New Haven, Conn- but has been living at the Spencer home for several years. His is the sixth arrest made . in the case growing out of the murder . of . Dr. Spencer near here last Monday. The coroners jury, is, still in session. White satin, trimmed with wide black satin cord and braid, is being exploited for, day gowns. .15 FREE SUGAR BILL Caucus 'Ratifies It, Also In come Tax Recommended by Underwood. IT WILL REDUCE THE PRICE Caucus Recommends That Excise Tax Levied on Corporations be Ex- tended to Individuals, and Co-Partnershlps. Washington, Mch. 1. A bill to put sugar on the free list, eliminating $53, 000,000 in annual customs revenue, and another to extend the present cor poration tax to include individuals and co-partnerships doing business of S5,-! 000 a year, or over, were ratified to night by the Democratic caucus of the House. The excise tax, so called by. the Ways and Means Committee, is in ef fect an income tax. The bill Is so drawn that it is expected to comply , witn tne supreme Court s decision against the constitutionality of an in- , come tax. Its effect would be to tax every person who earns more than $5, 000 a year, on the excess of $5,000, at the rate of 1 per cent. ' The estimate of. Chairman .Under- wood and members of the Ways and , Means Committee is that the proposed excise tax would bring in a revenue of between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000 a year. v Placing sugar on the free list the ' Democratic leaders estimate will re duce the price of sugar to' the consum er about a cent and a half a pound. The secret that members of the Ways and Means Committee had been so. closely guarding for several days was the provision to extend the corpo- . ration tax. In the caucus that bill was not ser- ionsly opposed 1 .The free . sugar bin, however, was . bitterly assailed , by Representatives from Louisiana, the cane; sugar State,' ana Representatives from sugar beet rowingrJSiates. 'whQlwere.;,absplved jrom.uie oona ot me caucus, rxo ioii call on the ratification of the bills was demanded. -' "T r Majority . Leader Underwood an nounced- that the - bills ; would be ' re ported to. the House in .'a few days. We simply took the corporation tax law and re-wrote it to include Individ uals and co-partnerships," said Mr. Un derwood tonight 'The bill, to : illustrate, simply means that I, whose business is that of a member of Congress, will pay to the government 1 per cent of my sal ary income over $5,000. The salary of a - Congressman is $7,500. I would therefore pay an excise tax of $25 a year." . . - . The president of the United States, should the proposed bill become a law, would pay 1 per cent on $70,000, or $700, his salary being $75,000. Chairman Underwood made a state ment to the caucus that he had been directed by the Ways and Means Com mittee to submit a bill to place sugar on the free list and another bill ex tending the present excise tax, now levied by law on corporations, to indi viduals and co-partnerships having an annual income of more than $5,000 a year. . . The bill removing the taxes, levied at the customs houses, on sugar," said Mr. Underwood, ."imported into this1 country will have the effect of reduc ing the price of. sugar to the consum er about 1 1-2 cents a pound." The statement further says that in the opinion of the Ways and Means Committee the large profits made by manufacturers and refiners of sugar . have been due to the customs tariff' and that placing sugar on the free list would reduce the profit would not de-' stroy the industry In the United States, but would result in a saving to the American people of $107,006,000. "The purpose of the excise bill pre sented to the caucus," Mr. Underwood said, "is to extend the tax on the do ing of business by individuals and co partnerships. The special tax will ac complish the same result as would have been accomplished by an income tax so far aS raising revenue is con cerned, but at the- same time the bill keeps well within the principles laid down by the Supreme Court in its de cision affirming the constitutionality of the corporation tax law.- "The bill does not in any way alter, amend or .repeal the corporation tax law as it now stands on the statute books, but provides that every person, firm or co-partnership shall be subject to- pay annually a special excise tax ' with respect to carrying on or doing business by such persons, equivalent to 1 per centum on the entire net in come over and above $5,000 received by such person from all sources- dur ing each year, and further provides that In computing the income of any person there shall not be included the amount received from any" corporation-, if the special excise tax of 1 per cen-' turn, now Imposed by law, has been . paid by such corporation, or stock company, or association. - . fin other words, the income derived . from dividends of a corporation on which the tax is now levied by law will not be subject to a further or ad ditional tax, - but 'incomes derived from other sources- of business- than those named in the corporation tax act will be subject to a tax of -1 per cent where the net income exceeds $5,000,. annually.' . . : . ; , . The statement' further says: "That if these bills become laws ' DE O R FAVOR " i : ' u ! ; 7 ' (' f 1 1 n !, : i ' i..: .: f, .71:.. si ! ""rift : a In 4 S , . s 1 i ..A I ": Ii .. k "J- "5
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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March 2, 1912, edition 1
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