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tA- - .: i'. .. .. . " . ... fr-"-' '",-, "i.-t" ' "S , . ' ' - - . 1 .1 ' ir.f..V- . .t Wilmington's Only 9 . Leased Wire- Associated Press Nepaper v 11 OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE; h 'M i y - -v- ! 'r ' wiLMf yroN, n. c, Friday morning, February 11; 19214 o f M TH OF TORNADO IN A GEORGmtiOUNTY THAN 30 KILLED GARDNER AND MANY OTHERS ARE INJURED ! School House WitK 82 Children and Three Teacners in it, , ' Is Demolished . LAND SWEPT CLEAN Section of Country Five Miles Long Is Left Barren off- " Houses and Trees OCOXEK. Ga., Feb. 10. A tornado that struck the Gardner settlement, one mile from here shortly after the noon 'hour today, brought death to two white persons ana neariy av negroes, and serious injury to Ave white per son." and more than a score of ne- i s retell oi iana caiciiuiiik iram . rr 1 1 Try ' I Oconne almosi 10 xoonsuoru, in Mn- ington county, neariy nve mues ions and about a half mile wide, is as bar ren as a prairie stomgnt, not a- DUiiaing nor a tree being left standing. Amon the dead Is Benjamin Franklin Orr, H-year-old youth who was decapitat ed," ' ; The only other white person who met death in the tornado is the 3-vear-olrl daughter of El L... Minor,' manager of Sheppard's commissary at the plant of the Cleveland-Oconee lum- company. Eighty-two children and two teach ers were in a school building, on the edge of the Gardner settlement when the tornado struck. The building; was literally twisted to pieces and the frag ments scattered for miles anAin-d. Children ware picked up by the wind and tarried for some distance, but it is officially announced tonight thaV on ly one child vas seriously hurt. Ap proximately 40 houses were bown down in the Gardner ' settlement. The Sheppard brothers' commissary was the general office of the Cleveland-' ueonee Lumber company, wnich was untouched by the stormv " The 15-acre plant of the-lumber cora-f pany which practically own, .he set tlement site of Gardner, was not se riously damaged by the wind, although niiions of feet of lumber piled in the bards was scattered. The tornado spent its force locally immediately beyond the plant .of. the lumber company, in the settlement of 0 houses and .four stores. y .Most of the people residing in this section were negroes, the white peo ple of the town residing on -higher ground, a short distance away. These npjrro houses and stores faced the tracks of the Savannah division of the Central of Georgia railroad. In the rear of the house was an open field, extending for nearly a mile from the Cconee station to the lumber mill. It was into this field that men, women "fl children were carried to their death from their seats at dinner tables. Ten minutes after the tornado wiped W the Gardner settlement, a Central M 0ortna local freight train, vunnlns- from Savannah to Atan arrlv'i1 nn scene. . W. O. Kline, of Wadlev. conductor In charire of the train, view- the bodies scattered about the round. The conductor ordered -Vilsi - tnrnmo- jue detached from the train and with bis crew hastened to Tennille, 11 miles '8y for aid. Pna nh oa iiroro rtnmmanm Jepred from the Wrightsville 'and Tennille railroad and four doctors and persons were obtained in t,he re icf party. The train returned to WOnee as Snporiilv an nncgihU Doctors found one little netrro bov 'th a hoard driven into his forehead. lhp" removed the board and eave tem porary aid . The youth was alive to- "'Kht and it is thai- Via wllf live. . The hor'y of a three-ve.ar-old ns- ro infant was found at the roots of 1 tree, the. tnn nf nrViirli mH hn twisted off. The child's head had been '"'lied in. having been carried head "itmoRt rrorn its home against the was cut in tree. Que two. negro's body A n I man aim Ilia WUC WUnd (lead more tlmn mn vonli frnm IPPrei TV. 1 n. l.n If. n w A thai. .- . " J nome, lyin ig side .by, side.i.n. the ' '41. Bodi ps of several small negroes were in trpS nut rf !' notVi nt ttlft found t'rnado. bping suspended on the nie linriioa .1, ...,.o ui giuwii negroes wero "rown into the field in a smi-circle tnn in tlm or, ; JH fr , ,, J oiuuu line a siaiue, iuu CTtened to m-ove for hours after Inf 1... ., - 1 L , lli r. ...... 1 lit . i i X . . naci passea. . .. nong me raiiroaa ai he v wr'rf capped off at different If'-' fr om the Erround. was a oiMow ""11! ho.ii t- 1 rjf;a of one of .thB wrecked A 1 . ; "inR to residents of the cora Hill"! "l0 clouds lowered Just as the ' of the lumber plant left their " linner. The atmosphere -be- tiftneiy hot and because of in many homes lamps '" lighted, when the tornado -n.iii. bin! 0 tiprcj-vn j., . ... . . . . in... . c,irg .. u 118 Baw a string-or doi IIHr 1 A . udrii ' iowara mm. 'X'nen as Wf.ro . ueciarea, me dox cars "conri . rsed and when he looked , a comin m' he Ba'd they were again fc'unri t0ward him. ' These cars were rails ave been blown from the '-llicVpno iu.i - v. 1 Hath escaped, death m , tne "tatiP.o storm were, in many in-. Th,".pJ , ". Packed of .their feathers Whu many animals killed. .. flrar tI mpk,n"' C' ' Thompklns ueorge juora iana MORE Issue Flood Warning 7 For Southern States v WASHINGTON, Vh. lO-Flood warning have been Issued for the rtTer ot South Canritaa, . Gcorsia,. Florida ; an4 eastern Tesimiee, the weather bureau announced tonight, Storm warning were ordered dl nlayed on the Atlantic coast at and between 5 Hatteraa, North Carolina and EasfporV Maine because of a storm of marlced lntensttr reported cestrsJ'jwr-WMt Virginia and mrtng; east-northenstwaraV It la attended "by Increasing easterly' winds. ;'...:-.,.";.-:- The disturbance waa central, over IiOnlatana Wedneaday ' night and moved . northeastward with . greatly Increased' Intensity - being attended Lby general precipitation , from . the JNisatanlppl valley eastward except In the Florida peninsula. . Clearing weather' la' forecast " to--morrow for the southern state. ; RED CROSS HURRYING RELIEF TO OCONEE, GA. Supplies, Medicines and Nurses Sent to the Storm-Stricken Districts ATL4ANTA. Feb. 10. Arrangements for relief of the- victims .of today's tornado at Oconee, Ga., were made here tonight by the American Red Cross which ordered automobile loads of food sent from Sanderville and medical sup plies and nursea from" Atlanta. Reports received by Legare Davis, assistant manager of the Red Cross here; were that 27 persons-in all were killed, one being an unidentified white hoy and . the remainder negroes. Mr. Davis sald damage ; also - appeared to have been done at Gardener a small settlement about a. mile from Oconee. . The greatest loss of -life was in a negro settlement; it was' reported hers, and out, of '46' houses only 'two ware left standing. Some 75 injured negroes were . being cared for, some lh one of - , JXhesa--houe--and ..others ..we're.- sdAta be without shelter. - TTreir suffeiirgs were .increased hy, a. heavy -rain" that folldwe'a' the tjornador, - .The Red Cross supplies and nurses left here tonight and Mr. "Davis said they w'ere expected r,to reach Oconee about v2 or 3 o'clock, tomorrow . morn ing. .. ... V BODIES OF 1; NEGROES IN . TREES HALF, A MILE AWAY SANDERVILLE. Ga., Feb. 10. An eje-witness of the tornado at Oconee who arrived here tonight with some of the injured said that the bodies of ten negroes lodged in trees, were car ried a half mile from the path of the storm. The wind was of such violence, he said, that one negro's body was cut in two, when it came in contact wltn a tree. Twenty injured persons, five of whom are not expected to live, were brought here and to Tennille. CLOUDBURST OCCURS AT TOWN OP THOMPSON, OA. THOMPSONS Ga., Feb. 10. A cloud burst, struck here at 6 o'clock tonight. OCMCLGEE'RIVER. IS RISING' AND RUNNING OUT OF BANK MACON. Ga., Feb. 10. TheOcmulgee river reached a stage of. 20.5 feet here at 3 o'clock this afternoon, sending it out of its banks here. A continued rise was expected during the night. SAVANNAH RIVER IS 88 FEET AT AUGUSTA NO FEARS FELT AUGUSTA, Ga., Feb. 10. At 7:30 p. m.. tne Bavannan river .l -n ujs usia was 38 feet. There is no danger, how ever, if the city proper, although farm lands below here are, flooded. OCONEE RIVER HAS PASSED FLOOD STAGE OF 22 FEET MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga:, Feh- 10. The Oconee j -river - reached 22.4 feet today and continues to rise. Fiooa stage is 22 feet. r ., ' ' I W . I I Ml I NO LIGHT ON DEATH BV POISON OF LIEUT. RUPP NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 10. Although it had worked all day In an effort to establish facts in connection with the death, of Lieut. D. A. Rupp, (ivtarte-rWaeteT; Chief of Utilities and personnel officer at Langley flel, who was found dead from -poisoning In his quarters Wednesday night, a board of inquiry..' tonight was understood still to be far from ready to , report on the case; - Rupp .was found dead in his bedroom when Mrs. .Rupp started to retire at about 11 o'clock Wednesday night. He hadenquite ill for several days. ' - ' f - CANADIAN BOAT LOSES TO " , . 7 AMERICAN, ' NEW , CHAMPION . 3ILAMI. . .Fla., " Feb. t 10. A new world's " record for open displacement boats was established here today when if.n -owned for Webb Jay. of. Chi- rum iimtehed the Carl G. Fisher gold Mnh. frnm Rainbow; owned by, H. B. a.:ijjii.- viy ,, - wrested the . fmerican championship from ' the Canadian craft over a two ftwuNcourse for a distance Of 50 miles, timelJiour and 8 minutes. . V "pxjT HOSPITAL ' AT NORFOLK" NORFOLK, Feb. 10. Treasury ap provaT. of , a site here fpr ie $900,000 public v health service hospital autho rised by congress ha been grven, ;a5 cording to a telegram tonight from the acting secretary. Edwin 'Laporte. Tho hospital will be for. the treatment pf sick and disabled .soldiers, sailors, RESTRICTION S ALIEN 'MlidiKBJMQIif DRASTIC INI NEW BILLIA VICTORY FORiCAUSE Another -' Emergency . Measure V Approved and Reported By Senate Committee AIMED AT EUROPE Limit. Admissions Annually to 5 ; Per Cent of -Nationals ::- . Already Here WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Restric tlons on -; Immigration, said hy com mittee .members to be mere drastic thstn those proposed in the house or Johnsdn ill,-.- are contained in . an emergency measure approved and re ported by a joiht senate committee to day, ; : The, measure decided on as a substitute f of '.the bill passed several weeks s.gp by the senate would be come effective next April 1, and con tinue lh. force only until June 30. 1922. During the 15 months the bill's re striction would be effective, senate leaders are confident permanent im migration legislation would be en acted and in the. meantime the pre dicted flood of aliens would be stopped. Limit U Five Fer Cent The bill," as reported by the senate committee, would limit the immi grants admitted to the United States annually from . any one cohntry to 5 per cent, of the nationals of that country in the' United- States at the time the 1910 census was taken. The measure,, however, specifically pro vides that it shall "not be construed as amending, repealing or modifying any law or agreement: now existing which forbids the admission of any alien of any nationality or geograph ical, boundary." This provision was in terpreted to mean that treaties now existing (between the United States and China and the tUnlted States and Japan would not in any wise be affected. Senators who have studied the Im migration questicm tonight pointed out the principal difference between the Johnson bill ancT'the senate. ..measure. The latter, they, declared, would ex clude more . aliens than the Johnsbn bill, 300,000 being estimated as the maximum number, of admissions in the first 12 months of the senate measure's existence: ; -Admissions of relatives and dependents, - authorized by : "the ' " r' J AJmedi.t Enreneann . , i "Another difference between the two bills was pointed to in the provisions' for" determining . what classes of im ni grants would be, admitted. The house voted to treat all nationalities alike. The apparent disposition in the senate as indicated in the bill re ported today, is to legislate only against European Immigrants. In this connection. Senator Colt, of Rhode Island, chairman of the committee, de scribed the bill as "one of temporary use only, and intended to apply to European countries." Statistics, he said, showed that 80 per cent, of all immigrants come from Europe. $Tloor leaders expressed doUbt that th-bill would pass at the present ses sion hecause of the congested condi tio, of the senate calendar. COMPENSATION PLAN - ABOUT AGREED UPON Employers and Employes Get Together on Bill Morning Star Bureau Yarborongh Hotel. By R. E. POWELL RALEIGH, Feb.. 10. Employers and employes came almost to an agreement today on . a workmen s compensation law and the . prospect that differences between the two forces will be smooth- I ed out within a week caused postpone ment of any committee action today. Joint hearing "before1 the two judi ciary committees, ' of the house this afternoon disclosed an attitude on the part of both capital. and labor. to. get together on the law. and urge its pass age, ;fbls time with perfect concord between the forces principally inter ested. There will be opposition on the part of some of the. law-inakers and a week's delay is calculated to help reduce the size of the fight " against the bill. The Deianey bill with some modifi cations is. practically what was agreed upon in a. conference of all concerned. Representatives .of .mills . and manufac turers gathered here with labor repre sentatives and workea witji the Meck lenburg senator's bill all morning. As a Tesult ,of ,an .aprwacli of .compro mise, F. S. Spruill, of Rocky Mount, appeared before the committee. . this afternoon and asked delay of consid eration until next Wednesday night. The major differences still existing between the employes and employers is the ''Clause - providing - for- payment of compensation wnere there are no de pendents left -by the injured. Both sides have agreed to raise the com pensation from 55- to- 80- per- cent -of the average weekly wages for periods designated in the bill. ', SIMMONS DEBATES TARIFF BILL WITH ARIZONA MAN WASHINGTON, Feb, 10. The Ford ney emergency tariff bill got another breath of air In the senate today af ter having been shoved, forward, and pulled back almost daily for, a week without .haying been the .subject . of debate. At the close of today's con sideration of the measure, however, it was ' agreed to let it r He over until Saturday. j : vy ' , . The only actual' progress today was in the adoption of f a senate .financial committee amendment to extend., pro tection to long staple or Egyptian ;cot tOn ;6f one and one-eighth . inches ,lh length instead of a minimum of one ana J three-eighths. The vote .was 4 to 12, jLnd came after Senator Simmons, North Carolina v and Ashurst, Arlxona, , both Democrats, had . engaged , a ', colloquy house measure.. they said, would more' under 'the senat et'f- ; occupyin'moat-of the afternoon. RAILROAD LABOR: HAILS DECISION OF BOARD AS Continuing National Agreements During Present Hearing Is Surprise UPSET UNION PLAN Action of the" Board -J JEjeaves , Labor Little fooBut File Statement ; CHICAGO. Feh. 10v Decision of the United States railway labor, board to day that the national agreements shall remain in force until .completion of 1 the present. hearing was characterized tonight by railroad employes as a vie-. toiy. ... The ruling came as a surprise both to railroad and labor . representatives and upset plans of union officials for a bombardment of the railroads' re quest for immediate abrogation of the agreement. Fortified with a legal battery headed by Frank P. Walsh, : the labor repre sentatives appeaerd today to answer the request of W. W. Atterbury, speak ing for the railroads, for quick abolW tion of the national agreements. The board's decision against granting. the request left little fof the labor men, to do except file a statement prepared by B. M. Jewell, president of the rail road employes' department of the American Federation of Labor. Would Crush Labor This statement and an amplification by Mr. Walsh, charged the railroads with being a party to an attempt at wiping out collective bargaining and crushing all labor organizations. When they .had finished, they were unprepar ed to proceed with the regular rebut tal of the railroad evidence objecting to the national rules and the hearing .went over until Monday, Mr. Jewell's request for : time in which to prepare, his testimony met with protest from the railroad repre sentatives, but he promised to canvass the situation tomorrow and advise the board on Saturday when he would be ready, to proceed. . "T4'haye been up in an airship for ten days-and a committee of 18 men has been woi king day and night on this reply to Mr. Atterbury," said Mr. Jew ell, "We are wholly unprepared to proceed now." r - v Y Atterbury Urgea" Action $oth sides of, the - contrQversy . ex pressed : grtmicah :X!kktt&Wk would " proce ed -Ini tKg " regular' 'teajiriet. W. sW. Atterbury speaking : for r the railrpads, declared that "if there was urgency on January 31, when I Made the request of the board, there is still more now. December, reports from the Interstate commerce commission show that 115,000 miles of railroads did not earn their operating expenses and fljeed charges for that month." The railroads have contended that abrogation of the national agreements would mean a big cut in their operat ing expenses. W. Jett Lauck,. consulting economist for the labor men, however, declared the real issue was not the rules them selves; "but what they concretely sanction, the principle of collective bargaining on the basis of union recognition." "When this principle has received the board's sanction, no further dis turbances or acute controversy will accur on the roads," Mr. Lauck said. The board's ruling today reviewed the power delegated to it under the trans portation aot and declared its duty to be that of deciding. just and reason able wages, salaries and standards of working conditions. It said that pend ing the outcome of the rules hearing which was separated by agreement from the wasre hearing which ended in the 'award 'of last July, the national agreements promulgated under federal control would, remain in full ro"rce. Pleas for their abrogation on account of financial, inability to pay wages awarded by the board was the matter outside the board's jurisdiction, the ruling said, and should go to the Inter state Commerce' Commission. Common Labor Unchanged The executives' request for permis sion' .to 'pay common laborers son the basis of the Scale prevalent in dif ferent localities was also denied and leaves the basic railroad rate 87 to 48 1-2 cents an hour. i A The ruling pointed out that the transportation act provided that It was the duty of carriers and employes' o confer over disputes and said that it did not appear any attempt had been made to readjust the wages of un skilled labor and therefore declared that the' bbard was without Jurisdic tion. ... 1 ' The Jewel x and Walsh charges sim mered down . to declaration of a con spiracy on the part of the Industry to crush the labor unions and reiter ated charges that New York banking interests were so interwoven with the nrprpsTH were su 1 11 tci w u veil w i l n liio eminent tvrfl th-ts r"r.,rr;:" ;i "" ;n,,rr ; r; the banking interests controlled 92 of the leading jroads. of. the ceuntry, with 76 per cent of America's railroad mileage. - ' - Mr. Walsh asked that the interlock ing directors- be called - before the board for interrogation, but did not make wholly clear just what would be .gained by, their testimony. The board took the request under consid eration. '" The . labor board will sit In executive session tomorrow and Saturday and will setthe, date for , continuing the rules hearing,, dependent upon the labor's side proposition for presenting their' testimony. - " , . BOARD REFUSES TO MAKE ORDER 1ST A. B. AND A. CASE CHICAGO, Feb,- 10. The railroad labor board tonight refused; to grant a motion by" 'employes of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic- railway that the hearing pn the request of that road to reduce wages be thrown out on j the ground that ij:.did not , legally. cOfrtA under the jurisdiction' ? theiboard. 4 v The ' employes contended , that the road did not" contest the .reasonable ness .' of ;ithe -,' present, wages but. had maintained only that it could not pay - v- --(Contlnaed on Page Two) HOUSE VOTES TO TAKE UP ONCE MORE ITS TICK BILL Will Hold Up Reconsideration: However, Until Senate Disposes of V Measure to Eradicate Fever Tick in Eastern Counties. Bill Offered to Allow Women to Vote, With, out Educational Qualifications Morning Star Bureau, Yarborongh Hotel., Br R. E. POWELL RALEIGH, Feb. 10. With Represen tative Matthews of Bertie insisting Uhat.it was a "parliamentary: mon strosity," the lower house of the 'gen eral assembly today voted to recon sider its vote on statewide tick eradi cation and to withhold discussion pend ing the action of. the senata which.w! at the time considering the measure. . The motion to reconsider was on a viva voce vote but a test' vote taken on the motion -of Representative Mat thews to table the original motion which was made by Bolton of North ampton and seconded by Murphy of Rowan, showed 49 for and 57 against A Repeal Grandmother' Clause Representative Christopher's bill to repeal, the "grandmother" clause of the state constitution by a referendum vote was today laid before the house. The bill would allow women to vote without possessing the educational qualifications as under the "grand father", clause, sthe constitutional amendment to be submitted to the voters in 1923. Women under the pro visions of the bill would be required to register on or before 1925. -The proponents of tick eradication watched gleefully the parliamentary maneuvering of Pete Mutphy slngerd handed, carried the Bolton motion to victory over the protest of tha Mat thews of Bertie and -other opponents of the' measure. .Mr. Murphy inter rupted; the representative from Bertie, who first moved, the motion to recon sider be tabled., and then withdrew it; and said . that, there was nothing ir regular about tKe proceeding since- the motion was made within the time TTSiit. Mrr Matthews did not understand the' motion which called for reconsideration and at the same time asked, that dis cussion be held in abeyance, pnaing action by the senate. The motion, carrying; both provis ions, said Mr. Mupphyr was " f or ' the house to decide upon. Speaker Grier ruling with him. The motion was put after Mr. Matthews'' proposition to table had been Voted down, and car ried. The adjournment" was taken, however, before the senate had com pleted consideration of the bill. " T Recompense Innocent Representative Leach introduced a bill to provide pecuniary .remuneration fof" persons ' convicted - and imprisoned under the criminal lawn of ' the; state! andJst? -rjpardoned when It7isr iBowThisrJ! neousiy convictedThe governor; the commissioner of jrablic welfare, and the secretary of state are constituted a board to be known as "the restitu tion board," which, shall hear -and pass upon all claims brought under the provisions of the. proposed , law. In the event the prisoner is proved tp be Innocent of the crime for which he was convicted and punished toy im prisonment, the board shall determine the amount of relief the. applicant is entitled. All claims must be filed within five dayB after he has been( par doned or has served the sentence, and the remuneration, the bill provides, shall be "of an amount sufficient . to make a fair remuneration for his ser vices for such time as he was actually confined by imprisonment, together with any fine which may have been in flicted as a part of the sentence of im prisonment, and any court costs which he was compelled to pay, with inter- SAYS STATE WILL GET NEW REPRESENTATIVE Congressman Small Stirs In terest By Assertion At State Capital Morning Star Bureau, t Yarborough Hotel. By R- E. POWELL RALEIGH, Feb. 10. The statement here today- by Congressman John H. Small that North Carolina is certain to get one new congressman under the reapportionment, carried a lot of .' in terest among the general assembly politicians and brought forth . new names for the "at-large." Mr. Small was here In .connection with the drainage legislation the pres ent session will be asked to enact. The , Huddlestbn, Democrat, Alabama, to the law, as it now is, wiir have to be effect that mtnfe Aerators had in amended so as to define drainage dls-f dulKed ln -wholeBale, looting of the tricts as political sub-divisions of the publlc ana thati the National Coal state. Unless so defined, bond attor-1 aB80ciati0n has something to do with neys have. not looked with favor upon Rxing thft prlces.. took up tne entire the improvement bonds. 'day . " . The first district member, who will j MrHuddlesfon's statement was flatly be succeeded March 4 by the famous denled by J Jy A; Morrow vlce presl Hallet Ward, . is assured tnat tne siaie i dAnt of tha Anal asftnHittnn; at A wViti . n. t j revive anota.r nKio.. is-Ws-opinion, as wu as ine opinwu OX neiuDeru HlS gpuDjw naniuuiji that the eleventh member will be se lected from the state-at-large. There isn't time enough for this general as sembly to redistrlct the state. The most formidable candidate whose friends haveput him in the running is John C. Sykes. or Monroe. The Union man is declared to be ambitious and his friends here assert that he will be announced in plenty of time. Mr. Small himself entertains ambitions to "lu'" !".X..t:V.Tr ,,,:rT:-:: v7!w '-eaiunr.y attorney" eastern members would like to see him back in harness. , Sykes strikes . the happy medium be tween the far, east. and far west Up Asheville way, one hears that Sol. Gal lert. senator from Rutherford,, woujd like to run. In fact, it is known that Gallert has been considering the mat ter " seriously, but is ' not inclined to talk about it now. He -feels highly honored when his friends press him. . f ' ?-,v o - . ' . tXBWIS DEFEATS BABA HASHIN COLUMBIA S. C,' Feb. 10. Ed. Strangier" . Lewis, r champion heavy weight, wrestleri; defeated Baba. Hashfn in two straight falls here tonight,-the first in 28. minutes as the,, result -of a fU'lnjcheadloxAnAe.soojBd-ia-lJ. est." The bil provides that the amount to be paid shall be calculated on the basis of the average wage or salary paid. to persons of similar qual ifications during the period in which he was imprisoned. ' Read BUI Tuesday Consideration o the Doughton-Con-nor-Bowie road bill." will be started in tthe house Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. ine, senate . tqday ,wOrked until 3 o'clock in passing 11 local bills, Tun ning through the second roll call, and the introduction of Seven, new bills and debating tick; eradication", which was postponed at .the end of two hours discussion;, and in quarreling over the minority' rep6rt of . the finance com mittee to reduce the personal property -exemption .-from 'f3Q0 '.to'' $100. After wrangling; Wnd getting into parliamentary' tangles which Lieutenant-Governor Cooper waa unable to -straighten put, -the -amended minority report was finally, Adopted and passed the second; reading: During the course of the debate cthre motions to adjourn were made; and f wo of them failed, when Sumner Burgwyn forced a roll call. The third, time the weary senate sustained the" motion to 'adjourn, the objection' was raising:, to putting the bill on third reading by Senator Lam beth, of Davidson eounty.- " At the close of routine business there was a motion to postpone imme diate consideration; of the special ot der, tick eradication, today, but to wait until the house had disposed of the matter. Swain "of Terrell renewed his assaults on tick eradication, offer ing an amendment which exempted the seven counties, in, Jis district, on which he orated Somewhat along the same line of his SDeech aerainst the stock law. The senate paid little attention themselves out of It. to his speech and voted the amend- Not all the leaders . deplore the ap ment down. With the close of the de- I parent likelihood tlfat Hoover is to be bate, Harry Stubbs made a speech call- 1 omitted from the cabinet. A few are ing on. the senate; to postpone consid- aggressively opposed - to him, but th eration until the house had acted. His speech was so effective that he turned what seemed -to be certain- victory for the. tick eradicators. ' The vote for postponement untjl; Wednesday was 26 to 20. ' ; - Reduce Tax. Exemption Following the passage of a number of . local bills. Burgwyn called up the miftority, report on his bill to reduce 1 the personal property -exemption from . $300 ;.tp $25.-. Luns Long' opened the uuiB,U) - -(Mil, x.uiu dvnuuuu l emptioh wjb; raised, tor $3C0 it was in- i hand as a result of listing property in January instead of May,, The special session changed ahe listing, time back j excuse for "the high property ' ex-' emption. ..' . .- , . VarBer, of KObeson,- objected to , the bill because Ahe. Democratic executive committee had sent, Out' literature ahd the campaign speakers had used this high property exemption" as" a party pledge - during'- the campaign. He did not believe It should be' violated now, since it would amount to a , party pledge. The debate from' this point all revolved around the point .ot whether or not the negroes and loafers of the eastern counties would be made to bear their proportionate part of the tax ation burden, , or whether the cotton mill' operatives of the Piedmont Sec tion, who had no more--than $300 worth (Continued on Page Two) ORGANIZEDLABOR NOT FOR THE -BALDER BILL Gompers Pears c the Restrictive Features, Recalling Lever War-Time Act f ... . ..- ' .j-.-. . ... WASHINGTON,1 Feb. 10. Unless trades unions are "affirmatively and definitely" .-. excluded from the Calder bill for government regulation of the coal industry, - organised labor's . oppo sition to it will be unyielding, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, today told a sen ate committee. The federation chief's statement, to gether .with , prolonged and al time heated contest before the committee over an .allegation by Representative the representAtive said he had steno - -w . transert '.of ' 'director. meet ings in ' which : prices were discussed. Chairman LaFolIette took, a hand. He called . upon. W. B. Reed, . secretary of the 'association, to produce original copies of . all .such- records but was in formed that all of them had been de 8troyed fefter - beln g summarized in formal - minute, books. The -association's lawyer examined j aU the records Mr. rC(1 satd, before j went into permanent form, and chairman LaFolIette - suggested this Mr. Morrow , asserted .that , agents -of the Calder 'senate--Committee on re construction had ("spent two days and two nights in .our offices" and that he had Insisted that every., association record be examined by them. Mr. Huddlestbn agreed to return to morrow, withthe transcript in his pos session, although-he told the commit tee he could. -not say how it came into his possession.' '.' ' - - - President; Gompers , repeated his general-, objection- to' the regulative legislation, saying; that the Sherman antl-thrust JaV 'and liver act for war 'time food and ; fuel control had been turned ? agatnst labor.- Provisions .of .theCalder blllp"i mo. far as they may be applied teUabor. he- said.v'would, be a step-backward.' PARTY LEADERS TIRED OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT MR. HARDING'S CABINET Want Him' Either to Name HW ' Men or Say That He Has : Made His Choice A v V is strongly; urged '." .. - - - - ".". -- ; '. Advise That His Inaction May; Create ; An Impression of Indecision By MARK StXLLIVAW -(Copyright. 102U by The Star) WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. The Re pubUfajr- leaders ylew. this beginning oi xne Misx lap of . Harding's cabinet making with some concern. Tha causes of their apprehension are re lated ohie,fjy to the public impression that' may be made, by the names aa finally selected, by the manner of their selection, - fey - the selecting of some men -and the apparent turning" down of others. -. . Harding: has been strongly urged that, due to the manner in which news of the cabinet-making reaches the public, , an impression may be created, of indecision. He has been, advised, either to close the list and announce) it at once, or . else to make a public" statement that the list Is complete, even though he should not announce it until March. 4. ; . .. 4 Quite apart from the public impres sion, what is called "the trial, balloon?' method of selecting 'a cabinet, the put ting up of names to be shot at. hats caused severe distaste on the part, of some of, the targets, both some who have survived and others who have either fallen out of the race or taken duik or tne more prudent ones are eager for the party to Jiave the great asset of public favor which Hoover" presence in the-cabinet would be.' It la true that the: omission of Hoover su ' perficially seems a present likelihood; but it.-Is by. no means a certainty. Harding .has cjung tenaciously to the; idea oz- taking Hoover in, and no sug- gestion Of any- alternative to' Hoover as Secretary f . commerce. : has ever'; emanated . from ? Harding ' personally HUM Y cr nizuseil - 18 UnuersXPOa XO:: nave 'P- it is, apparent . that Harding's thought The. present putting forward of T John Hays.Hammand for. this department comes from , a - very , small group V oC leaders 'close to Harding who have all along opposed putting Hoover In tha they have become alarmed at the lack of any alternative name for. the com merce department .in Harding's mind. Hammond's name i now put forward on the -familiar apolitical axiom that' you can't beatsome one with no one.i ''""" Another omission . from the cabinet slate as it now stands which troubles the more prudent party leaders is that; of ex-Senator George Sutherland ' of Utah.' In the early stages.. Sutherland" name appeared frequently in connec tion with both ,. the attorney general's office and the Interior department. Then, for a time, the inner gossip said that Sutherland was to be saved for., the supreme court. There is much nonsense about this." For months : it has been said that. Harding will have four vacancies on the supreme court ') to fill. EJx-President Taft started it in ' an article he wrpte during t'le carrt paign, in which he asked whether the -public would .prefer, that Harding should; fill these vacancies or that Cox ' should do It. Cox promptly took . tho argument up, reversed it, and made frequent use of Jt during the campaign. There is little or nothing in it. Hard- ' ing may as likely , have no supreme " court vacancies at all to fill as hav four. The terms of justices of the su-. . preme court do not come to an end automatically, at any fixed time. It Is ''. true that four of the Justices fulfil, the conditions under which they can ;" , retire if they wish -to do so. . These. , conditions are that they- shall hav ' ' reached the age of 70. and shall have served ten years. The four are White, Holmes, Day., and McKenna. But all' four are in normal, health and are no,t ; oppressed by tjieir' work. The oldest r. of the court is. Holmes, and. In an in tellectual senses he might also be cal- . -ed the youngest. All ..this speculation about candidates for. appointment to.; : the supreme ourt is wide of the mark, is in bad taste certainly,, and. of douht ful public usefulness as well. -, , ' , The latest suggestion about Suther land Is that, If omitted, from the cabi net, he should be put in the office that ' is essentially ' the most important" purely legal office' in the adminlstra- , '-' tlon,- namely, solicitor . general. Tha ' duty of this official Is to act as coun- ' v" sel for .h government'-In lawsuits. ; He Is the governments' active lawyer. ' During the next administration tha I -governmnt will be a party to lawsuits aggregating literally many billions, off '" .. dollars. There are ' billions Involved v In contested claims and more ' billions , ' involved in disputed' taxes. It is not ; too much to say-that during the next' .., few years) the difference between tha government being represented by a-'", first claas lawyer and a less efficient one will mean net less than a billion , dollars' to the treasury. -: ' . '- Sutherland is tlfi vrsally, recognized as a man of perfect equipment, both . as to character and legal ability. .; But Vi there might well be In this case, as ih Y so many others,' the 'difficulty of get- . . tlnr a successful1 lawyer- of cabinet size to take an office subordinate in ; . honor and deficient In remuneration. Huflrhes Leading. Figure . v . t In the cabinet slate as it now-stands practically -the only -name that carries - ': widespread onVictlon ? based' on' pub , lis knowledge on "a national scale .! t.-i that of Hughes. Tbls is not denying that several fof - the. others 'are very, able men, but there is a difference be tween ability - which the' puhllc . Is fa-. V miliar with t and.--that . which ; must ; ' await . public acquaintance. It is - on - , the i.fornte, . Qbyiouelr. ' that Hardlftf . must rely for theUnltlalpubllqlmv pression -vi ii oATlinet. ..',. - . -t v - 'M 1 I; fri4-fi: 0.-' mm n i-4 It ;,i' li, i n I a VI -lit, -Mr 1 i t 7-h 'I ) y r v - - - - . . - a t r..i.t.f:...-. V. 3 .. 7 ' V;'-
Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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