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ft n THE WEATHER. f. v. F i k- Far and warmer today; Sunday uni setled; moderate variable winds. fl . r.v , - n It VOL. XCI -NO. 122. WTLMIKGTON, N. -O.J SAXUKDApiOKlfrNG, FEBRtTARX 15,1913. ---4: WHOLE 3STIJMBER 1,248. :-: - tanni - IwMliB - rrn a -.10 . . . ' . . .. . ' ' ' " 1 - DIAZ VkiSrORIOUS After Tide of Battle Had Gone Against Him All Day Pres. ident of Mexico Abdicates ami Francisco DeLaBarra Will Succeed Him Temporarily--United States Officials Breathe Easier Mexico City, .Feb,' 14. Affairs in JMexico City, the theatre for almost a week for an innovation 6f modern warfare, took a sensational, turn to night when it . was authoritatively stated that President Madefo had agreed to resign if the Mexican. Sen ate so wished. ' The Senate was called into.session: at 8 o'clock; tonight to take action on this important situation It is be- z . . lieved the resignation Of Madero S nnw in the hands of the. Me-sican Prui- gress. ? V i 'I From the regions outside the capi- At the British legation, wheje Senor tal tne- new& was bad for the govern DeLaBarra took :re?uge Thursday, it ent- General Aguilar, an aged officer is said that Maderos resignation prac- qf tte rear army, who revolted a tically had been arranged for and that fe.w months ago, and Colonel IeLa DeLaBarra likely would succeed him Wave, also formerly attached to the in the Presidency.' regulars, who have been In. revolt for Later Senor DeLaBarra. Jl tomobile stopped " and made a brief address, assuring the crowds , that a peaceful settlement was" certain and would probably - be reached before morning. He had I been' In consulta tion with both Madero and . Diaz re garding a quick settlement to avoid in tervention. . ' - . ' At 6 o'clooi tonight General Huerta, the Federal conhnander, gave the or der to cease firing, j Soon detachments of Federals were seen marching from their positions to tlje government base near the palace, theirgups slung on their backs. ' - " -,-"'; ; ; The laws of Mexico- malce it neces sary for the abdication of a- Presi dent to be submitted to .Congress and for this reason omcial announcement-. of the resignation of Madero would be. considerably delayed, even if . already decided upon.: . . v Another development of the; early evening was thWig4on Hernandez, as -Minister of , the Inte-li' nor Whether hostilities will bere8m!,lBU u ?"r- sj-iuun ed tomorrow;? ttaturaHy ' depends ' on the action of the' President and Con-,1' gress or upon the aggression of the rebels. . ' . In case of" dilatory tactics it is not impcssible that Diaz may decide to force the action. ' He jepeatedly has said that nothing- short of resignation of the President would satisfy-, him' that Madero must; resign or., himself -would die fighting. . ' Another interchange of., notes took' place today between General "Huerta and the rebel commanderl That "of Huerta was of. conciliatory, character. It offered Diaz permission to retire in peace with his men. - ' Diaz replied that he would continue to fight. Tide Turns Against Madero It was the advance of the Federals down Balderas street early in the day which provoked the first sharp repty from the mutinous zone. Diaz waited until the Federals were far down the line, then threw into their ranks a hail of shrapnel' and swept them with machine gun fire. Few left the street alive. ' . The government troops attempted to carry the rebel, position from other directions, but always" with the same results; the soldiers fell under a ter rific fire or were -driven back to shel ter. ' . , v - At 2 o'clock in the afternoon a gen eral order to cease fighting was given, but for two preceding, hours the fire from the government lines practically had been suspended. General DeLa Vega, commanding the lines directly to the east of -the -rebel position, ad mitted he was unable to advance. Failure had been ; encountered in all quarters. ? --y- - It was coincidental with this cesa tion of the firing that a battalion or the 20th Infantry revolted. All out a handful of these Federals succeeded in ioinine 'Diaz'" " - This battalion was 'stationed along Independcia street. ; -The men sudden ly turned upon-their .officers and shot them, but the sound of these shots did not attract eeneraU attention in. the heavy fusillade. Then the entire bat talion broken for the .rebel lines, reaching them' in' safety Thirty-eight of them were overpowered, however, by loyal troops and were marched to the - palace. - v - ; " . Although the firing-on both "sides was lighter today, the . total - number of shells used was enormous and the incidental destruction of property great. The loss . of, Jife among non- W(Bre sent t0 Ambassador Wilson in the combatants as a result of the snelUng , Mexicall capitai . , It wap said no defi probably was less than on the .ttertnlte-lnBtructIons would be sent to Mr. cays, because every one wno uau strength enough moved out of the dis tricts near ' the scene of. the" opera tions and by reason of the fact that tne rebels confined their artuiery -fc-Jmenfubn "the "sudden and dramatic tion largely to the streets likely ;to.turnj itt Mexican raffair3. i President be used for an assault. .Taft, when the neWs' reached Wash- Bullets whis,tled in all parts of the ington; was at dinner at the home of city. They were fired across; the town Secretary -MacVeagh. He was notified by both sides from housetops and the devel gp at once by white other places wherever sharpshooters Houge attaches and soon afterward could be i stationed. . On account of the heard from the' Secretary of State, effort of government troops to ad-j Tn h the President's 1 comment vance, this fire was heavier than, us-1. - - nnt nhiiP it "wa ctt ual and deep Inroads must have been made on the arsenal.munitions to kep- nu auu m, guu -wv. wnat ,was promised. . again oy- tne government to,a day of terrible punishment, forebecomm at his oiMniim riWo flrtiiierv conducted the attack n half heartedly although his infantry- at times showea desperate courage... Rebel shells ' were thrown at the National Palace and occasionally hurl ed across the town toward the Fed eral battery on the Paseo Reforms I near the Colonia Railway station, but ..ux mo uiusi pan uiaz waited until tne u'eaerais s " VtT A"r . s " approacnes. vwwn. piouc luuuiuerduie umes and as often the streets were ffertiToi. Itt 1 ,1 1 , They were assisted by Francisco Pra- dilla, the government chief -of-arms in that city. "Passengers from Guadala jara report that no -telegrams receiv ed there have been delivered and that the editor1 of one paper which publish-: ed an account of the . mutiny, in Mex- Keo City was promptly sent to Jail 6n a? charge of disseminating seditious matter. But in spite cf this the peo ple were crying1 "Vivas" for; Diaz.. All trains " leaving the capita , today :; were crowded with . refugees :iOf!-every na tionality, but Mexican fugutiyes ."pre dominate. . . ' " "' : . '-' Relief in Official Circles. Washington, Feb.- 14. The news of Francisco 1 1. Madero's voluntary relin- quishmeint" of : the Presidency of Mexi , hF reaUef 1, 9 ciffle?, 10 had : been hourly growing more tense. The - announcement, coming at the "-5 .r" hardly was surprising, stantly to clear the -ri It- served in- 'storm clouds that came nearer as the. 1. iuiWiereuUB ou uie W f United States seemed in- evita'ble. State Department officials since the opening of the fight in the Plaza be fore the Mexican National Palace last Sunday have eagerly waited night and day for official and unofficial advices from the scene of the conflict and the government was fully,prepared to meet, any situation which migbt arise. As a result of the co-operation of the Navy and War departments the -combined forces already were in readiness for Mexican service. Coincident with the receipt of the news of Madero's abdication, a wireless message was flashed to the Navy Department here announcing ' the arrival off the Pacific Mexican port of Mazatlan of the crui ser Colorado, the first of the six Amer ican warships to reach its destination off the shores of the revolution-torn Republic. - i " " Five other warships, are now on their way towards Mexican ports and Acting Secretary" ' Win throp said to night that in T. all : probability - they would ; continue to their destinations Not. less, prepared was the armyijtlon under the Erdman act, now pro- The entire first brigade of the first division, 3,000 strong, was under marching orders and awaiting the com mand of "Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, to entrain from their respective stations in New York and proceed to Newport News, Va., ;where four army transports are fujly equip ped and provisioned to set Out for the gulf of Mexico to augment the naval forces. . . The cruiser South Dakota should be off "Acapulco, for long a storm centre of the revolution, not later than Sun day. As they are all so near their des ignations, acting Secretary Win throp said it would hardly be expedient to attempt their recall immediately; It probably will be determined to leave at least one warship off the Pa cific and one off the Atlantic coast, while the others may return to their routIne duties or perhaps be pressed into Central American service - where conditions, it is feared, forecast a gen eral uprising, have been almost lost sight of on account of the concern of officials over Mexican affairs. - Secretary Knox was early in consul tation with Assistant Secretary. Hunt ington .Wilson, of the State Depart ment tonight immediately after the an nouncement of President Madero's res- lignatioh and the hurried despatches Wilson until he had officially reported the abdication. . . ; , . . . In the absence of such a report the h at tnere mIght be a conference of cablnet officTais 4ater in the flight.. It was hot e2arded as nrobable. how hat " nlan nromulgated by efr'atny 1?a ?J ; V: " : (Continued on,Page;8. i S. v . -i RELiNQUiSHES THE PRESIDENCY, i r T - , - ', ... :, ... - -. - , -X: . ;v - ' -J i:gmm - FRANCISCO I. MADERO - - ........ ... .. -. .. . ... - ... President of Mexico Who Resigned Yesterday. i h in ANOTHER OFFER TO FIREMEN Managers of Eastern Railroad Take V Steps to Avert Possibility of Strike; Arbitration Board . 4 . Proposed. " V NewyYork, Feb. 14. A new possi bility of peace between the 54 Eastern railroads and their 34,000 firemen who have threatened to strike for higher wages and revised working conditions appeared tonight with a fresh arbitra tion proposal by the 'railroads and the break that seemed; imminent during the day was ; averted temporarily, at least. . The railroads, which have insisted upon' arbitration by a, board of . seven men similar to that which decided the dispute with the engineers last year, while the firemen demanded arbitra- pose arbitration by a board of six members, two representatives , of the roads,' two of the firemen and two dis interested members to be appointed as the, Erdman Act provides.' ThC roads offer also to retain in the arbitration proceedings all other fea tures of the Erdman. Act, which the fireman 'may desire. ' The. railroads' proposition given out by the conference committee of man agers .was immediately submitted to the Federal government officials who have been trying to bring the parties together and at' once placed by the mediators before representatives ot the Brotherhood of. Locomotive Fire men and Enginemen. The 'roads made their new move af ter a day of many conferences. When a break seemed almost inevitable and the firemen, made it known that they had a. strike order in readiness and in timated ; they would ' wait no longer thai inidnight for some concession, President Brown, of the New York CentraL sent out a hurried call to such presidents of the other affected roads as could.be reached. Several respond ed and? conferred with . Mr. Brown. When the presidents adjourned they said they would hot take the matter out of the managers' hands. . . Thus fortified by the action, of the managers ' resumed their conference tonight..'- J: , A ; representative of the managers explained that one point for Which the firemen, particularly have contended was embodied in tie' offer. Under the Erdman Act .witnesses majv be sub poenaed and penalties for false testimony-enforced. . These provisions, it was stated,' the roads were willing to adopt. . " At-a late hour. Judge Knapp, of tne United States Commerce Court,, and G. W. W. Hanger, acting commission er of labor, the Federal mediators, were still 1n conference with Presi dent Carter, of the Brotherhood 'of Firemen and Enginemen and other representatives of the firemen. First series stock Orton Building & Loan opens today. James -& James, 1115 1-2 North Front. - (advertisement.) SEARCH AND SEIZURE LAW Weatherspoon Bit! Passes Lower House of North Carolina Gener al Assembly, After Acrimo nious Debate. (Special Star Telegram. J Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 14 At mid night, after ail amendments had been voted down,-save two by Mr. Dough ton, of Allegheny, one requiring that information furnished officers be un der oath and the other reducing the offense to a misdemeanor for the sec ond violation and leaving it optional with the court to impose a fine or im prisonment for the second offense, and another by Mr. Kellum as to grape culture, the bill by Mr. Weatherspoon, of Scotland, providing the 'search and seizure law in North Carolina in the enforcement of prohibition, passed the lower House, of the North Carolina General Assembly and will, now go to the Senate. The discussion had waged in the House since the . conclusion of the (Continued on Page 8.) O U T LIKE S Representative Roddenberry, of Georgia, delivered a hot , attack upon Democrats of the House yesterday for their ''extravagant appropriations." The bath tub trust was yesterday found guilty of criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade by av.jury in the U. S. District Court at Detroit, Mich. -. To avert the possibility of a strike of their firemen, the Eastern railroads' boards of managers yesterday made another arbitration' offer to the fire men's icommittse. President Taft yesterday vetoed the Dillingham-Burnett immigration bill, disapproving of the measure solely because of the provision imposing a literacy test on all foreigners seeking a home, in" America. James Purcell, the gambler, who furnished sensational . evidence "at the New York aldernianic graft hearing several daysago, shot and skilled his 17-year old daughter yesterday while quarreling with his wife. "General" Hosalie Jones' army of suffragettes marching -from New - Yori to Washington reached Trenton, N. J .,- yesterday and made a request on Governor. Wilson for ah audience .af ter arriving at -Washington. President Francisco I. Madero, "of Mexico, resigned yesterday and Fran cisco DeLaBarra will serve as provi sional President " until " some one is elected. Trie announcement of Ma dero's resignation was hailed with de light by the State Department, which sees an "end to the possibility of inters ' Ventinn. New York, Feb . 14 o Money on" call firm, 4 1-2 to 5 per cent; ruling rate and "closing T)id -4 ; offered at 4 1-4 Spot cotton closed quiet- Flour about steadv.' Wheat firm: No. 2 i.Q8 to 1.09 1-2. Corn firmj 56 3-4, Turpentine 1 steady. Rosin craieti; - PRESIDENT VETOES IMMIGRATION BILL Taft Disapproves Measure Because of . Literacy --. Test Provision . EFFORTS TO OVERRIDE VETO Senators ; Dniingham and Simmons - ' Lead Fight to Have the Bill, j, Pcsset'v by Twc-thirds Vote 'A Jn Both Houses Washington, Feb. 14. President Taft today vetoed the Dillingham-Burnett Immigration Nbill, whIch would revolutionize "the immigration policy of the .United"; States by imposing a literacy test' i gen all foreigners s'eekr ing a home in America. In a short' message to the Senate in his own'haiid writing, the President announced his : di'sanproval of the measure scleiy because of the provi - sion which wo aid lock the' doors , of too United States against the alien whd could net road some language or dialect. - ". ' - - The veto mess-ire was, accompanied by a letter.to the President from Sec retary NageJ, derbunc'lngr the literacy test as a radical provision ."based upon a fallacy- in undertaking to ap ply a test which is not calculated to reach the trouble' and to find relief from a danger which; really does not i exist." ; , ; The President , adopted i the secre tary's position, v Senate and House ; leaders lost no time in arranging for an effort to over ride the veto. As sooh as the mes sage, was read, Senators Dillingham and Simmons and Representative Bur - nett, leading , the ' cqngresional sup porters of the. measure made arrange ments to take' it up in the Senate on Monday and in the House on Tuesday. With Senator Lodge, they, were confi dent that the bill. would ? be passed easily in both houses , by. thenecs- ary two-thlrdsr vote; i ' - - " Opponents and proponents " of the proposed law waged ! a .Tigorous , cont test in hearings before the President for the last 10 days. ' Organized labor warmly supported the-bill, while sev eral organizations, particularly Jewish societies, recommended its veto. For eign nations protested against the pro vision for detailing immigrant inspec-, tors and matrons on vessels flying for eign flags, but Secretary Nagel held that this was not a controlling objec tion to the proposed law. This is the second time that a liter acy, test for immigrants has beenfve toed by a President, Grover Cleveland in 1887 likewise having refused to ap prove a bill barring aliens who could not read and Write, , In vetoing the bill the President said: ' "I do this with great 'reluctance. The bill contains many valuable amend ments to the present immigrant law which insure greater certainty in ex cluding undesirable . immigrants. The bill received strong support m.both houses and was recommended by an able commission after an extended in- jestigation and carefully-drawn con tusion. But I cannot make up my mind to sign a bill which m its chief provi sion violates a principle that was in my opinion to be upheld in dealing with our immigration. ; I refer to the literacy test. For the reasons stated in Secretary Nagel's letter to me I cannot approve that test. -The secre tary's letter accompanies this." Secretary Nagel 1 said the literacy test was defended as a practical meas ure to exclude a large proportion of undesirable immigrants from certain countries, the final purpose, being to reduce the quantity of cheap labor m the United States. He added: "No doubt the law i would exclude a considerable percentage of immigra tion from Southern Italy, among' the Poles, the Mexicans and the Greeks. This exclusion would embrace, probab ly in large partv undesirable but also a great many desirable people and the embarrassment, -- expense, and diftress to those who seek, to enter will be out of all proportion tq, jfny good that" can possibly be promised for this measure. ; i -f "My observation leads . me to the conclusion that so far as the merits of the individual, immigrant are; con cerned, the test is altogether over estimated. The people who A tome from the countries named," are fre quently, illiterate because of opportun ities having been- denied them. The oppressions with which these people have to contend with in modern times is . riot religious, but it' consists of a denial of the opportunity; to acquire reading and writing. Frequently the atteiript , to learn to read and ; write the language of the particular people is discouraged by the government and those immigrants ' in coming to our shores, are really striving to free themselves from the conditions under which" they have been' compelled to live,": ;:;;v;- -- " " ' Regarding industrial conditions, the secretary said America needed labor and the natives were unwilling to do the work which aliens come over to do. : .:- ' Admitting there was congestion itt some places and a dearth of labor In a very much larger area, the secretary declared that , no sufficiently ; earnest and intelligent effort had been made ; , . ' - (Continued oil Page 8.) "BATH TUB TRUST DECLARED GUILTY Conspired Criminally in Re straint of Trade, Says Federal Jury WILL BE SENTENCED TODAY Trust Was Dissolved .-Last November, the Criminal Case Being Retrial. , "The First Resulted in Dis- . agreement. , ... t Detroit," Mich., Feb. 14. The so-called "Bath Tub Trust"-today was found guilty of crinrtnai conspiracy in re straint of trade by a Jury in the United States District Court here. The act as charged is a misdemeanor and the penalty provides imprisonment not ex- iceeding one year and a fine, of ?5,000 1 or otn - - T . ' . ' ' x ' i l h&s, November the so-called trust l?as d?ssoIvei,by the Supreme Court iV a cYl inatituted at Baltimore, fii511??"1, ase. today ' wasa re-trial, the first trial having resulted m a dis- jseet After the announcement of jthe ver dict Judge Clarence W, Sessions, ad journed court- until tomorrow at 10 o' clock, when he will pronounced sen tence. It was the second anti-trust case decided in favor o the govern ment in the local court within the last week, "the other catse being against the -"boot and shoe last trust." . 'The jury required four hours to reach a verdict. , .c , .The, following are .the defendants found guilty: Theodore Ahrens, of the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., of Louisville, both individual and cor- yvjitttjuii luuiunju; Misse l. uuryea, oi "New York; E. li; Dawes, of the Stand ard Sanitary Manufacturing tCo. ; Fran cis J. . Torrance, of the Standard jMan ufacturing Co.; T. R, Barnes, ol the Barnes Manufacturing Co., of. Mans- ifield O.,.. both epcporatlon jmd .individ 'uatindiQted: Howard TrXfates, of, the mevrum, ioweu uo., or New .York, Doth individual and corporation indict ed; Frank G. Borden, of. the National Sanitary Manufacturing Co. of' Salem, O., bothindividual and corporation in dicted; A. Weiskitted, ' of Baltimore, both individual and corporation indict ed; Lloyd G. McCrum, of the McCruin, Howell Companyr Herman Hoelschler, of L. Wolff Manufacturing Co:, of Chl cazo, both individual and corporation indicted; J.. E. Wright, of the v Wheel ing Enameled . Iron Co., of Wheeling, W. Va., both individual and corpora tion indicted; th'e Humphreys iManu facturing Co., of Mansfield, O.: J. L. Mott Iron Works, of New York; Mc- vay 6c waiKer company, or 5raddock, Pa., aad the Union Sanitary Manufac turing Co., of Cornellsville, Ind. Eight defendants pleaded nolo con tendere at the first trial and today they were summoned to. be ready to appear in court tomorrow morning for sentence. They' were J. H. Caldwell and J. J. Mahoney, of the Cahill Iron Works, of Chattanooga; W. C. Win- field and A. G. Ward, of the Day-Ward Co., Warreh, O.; J. A. Frauenhelm and AV M. Frauenhelm, of the Kerner Man ufacturing Co., Pittsburg, and J. W. Arrott and A. H.Oline, Jr., of the Unit ed States Sanitary -Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburg. : Ahrens, Dawes arid Duryea were discharged-at the first trial by Judge An- gell, but they said they preferred to stand trial with their friends, now that they "Thee sentence. .When action was first, brought against the defendants the Federal judge returned 'two indictments against them, charging that by crimi nal conspiracy they controlled - 83 per cent, of the annual output of enamel ed ware; by patent license agreements combined to restrain trade in manu facturers and jobbers' plumbing sup plies; refused to sell to jobbers , who handled goods for the so-called Inde pendents and attempted to make uni form prices throughout the country: The conspiracy charge which comes. under Section 1 of the Sherman law, was the one on which the defendants were tried. ": - The government contended that in April, 1910, at a meeting at -Mt. Clerii ens, .Mich., .the defendants put into ef fect, a conspiracy which they had form ed which resulted in' the making of the unlawful patent licenses. ' Edwin P. ; Grosvenor appeared for the government, assisted by District Attorney Clyde .Webster and former! District Attorney Frank Watson. Spe cial Agent Joseph R. Darling secured the, evidence' for the government.' SENTENCE IS DEFERRED. Will Not be Passed on Cash Register . Officials for Several Days. Cincinnati, Feb. 14. Sentence will not be passed ', for several days' on President John "H. , Patterson and 28 other officials and ernployes of tie Na tional Cash Register Company convict ed of. criminal -violation of - the .Sher man anti-trut law,- according to . a statement made by " United States Judge. Hollister today. John S. Miller, chief counsel for the defendants, said : "We are anxious to argue " the ' motion for a new trial as soon as possible. ; - The court- will : not pass sentence until, the argument for a new trial is disposed of' " - - h ? . FISH BILL E No Fish Commission in North Carolina Accordmg to Vote Yesterday STATE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Report on Rate Conference Made State, Primary Bill Special Order For Thursday -Confederattt Soldiers Pistol Bll - (By Wm...J. Mart Raleigh, N. C, Feh. 14.-fThe lower? branch of the North Cardlma General Assembly today voted down the bill to create a State ;,Fish dcknmission; which came up with . unfavorable re port from the House Committee and which had a tavoraoie repotx rrom tne Senate Committee on Fisb, and Fisher. ies Mr. Rodman advocated the hill . as did Mr. McNider. Jj , Mr. Wallace spoke-against the bill; also Mr. Kellum, while Mii; Williams, of Hertford, icon tended in aiivocacy. of . the nieasure that the fishiig industry is gradually dwindling in . If orth Caro lina , waters on .. account oC; the ' unre-' strained greed of some claejses of fish ermen. The bill was voted down' 84 ; to 19. .-' " fj .; . Representative Justice rfiled the re- ' port of., the Special(Commiision as to the conference Wednesday? : with rail-,, rdad officials qn the question of relief, from, alleged freight, rate Idiscrimina tion s. in inter-State commence and the. desire, of the commission tfa te pow ers , and , scope of the commission to T be enlarged, as appears more fully in the House proceedings beljw. ly , In the. Senate K Mr. Long in-. troduced ' a resolution for : the appointment by Governor Clalg of five Confederate soldiers at least three of whnm to hfivn hfip.n nartlcirjants in the . KILLED LOWER US battle to visit the battlefields with the . -. ; ' ! I ? -Historical :Cbntmissiimadlmai'Uie ;-:; i..f:?f nnsitinna rwvMinifld Pir Nflrffi '-Carolina . - i"XiMH-t'Ai $?i troops, expenses to e pafd by the -State. ; The purpose is that the part : borne by North?' Carolina troops in the ; ' battle may be seen by tQe crowds at the 50th anniversary nexttear. Senator Nimocks'. bill restricting the sae 'and use of .concealed weapons passed second reading. If requires ' dealers to keep complete records, de- ' scriptive of weapons sold ,'ajid the pur- chasers, and prohibitssale jto persona l under 16, and requires purchasers to . show permit from tg-tfn ot jcounty au-1. 1 thorities certifying to the trustWorthi- ness of the purchaser and- granting T him permission to possess tie weapon. In deference to the wishes of several, Senator Nimocks agreed to not press ; , final consideration until J tomorrow. Senator Evans, of Pitt ve "notice of an amendment to include - persons giving pistols as prizes in 4?ing games-., and the like. V The widow's home bill Vent over for final reading after passing second reading. It appropriates $'10,000 for a home for needy wives and Iwidowf! of Confederate veterans. , f : , v The Educati6rt Bill. . .. The Senate Committee .ohjEducatlon took a vote on the bill to provide- for a minimum school term of six months in every county in the Statel.and as a result will report the measure favora bly, blit several members wjre not sat isfied as to the means by which the thing "could be financed, and Senators Peterson and Bryant reserved the right to oppose the bill for that reason. Of course ho -Senator Is against the pur pose of the act.) Action om the com pulsory attendance bill was deferred. Winston's Charteri Senate Judiciary Com mitee No. 2 " appointed Senators Little,! of Wake, Bridgers and Bryant to lodjfc into; the bill of Senator- Jones to. amend the charter of Winston. It appears that there is a contest between the city and the railroads over the! matter of bridges. Diphtheria Anti-Toin. , v The Senate Committee Ion Public Health will report 'favorably! the meas ure' to provide for the. furnishing of diphtheria anti-toxin at cost. Torrens Land. Titlls The Senate Judiciary ommlttee , Will vote next Wednesday! afternoon, at 3:30 on a Torrens systemybill. There are now two bills under consideration, one by Senator Daniel, embodying- the recommendations of the Ntbrth Caro lina Bar Association proyldSng forop tional registration of-land titles, and pitting the machinery of operation In a Especial land court; the otler by Sen ator. Ivie differing in thattj it creates no. new court, but places pie control ; with the Superior Court. IIs thought that the I vie bill will be acceptable to all parties. . . ' . Senator Pharr's bill to authorize the city of Charlotte tp subscribe for and purchase stock Jfn the Chafi-lotte Fair. , Association was acted ittpoa favorably ; by Senate Judiciary Committee No. 1. i Bonds for Hospitals. :r That committee will als$j' report fa-, vorably the bill to enable bounties to vote bonds and special tax for the es tablishment and m'alntenaafce-of pub- t lie .hospitals .and training (schools for t; nurses. ' The same committee turned -down Senator Peterson's bilj to amend the usury; law of 1907 so to to make it a misdemeanor to charge1 a usurious . rate of interest-1 on loans om- notes or. other things o value, U nder. the law ; mm 3 I ill 't -