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. yT - ...... ... SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $8.00 A YEAR. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. r HIKOEIXY STAKWKG PAT TVUXIAMS ISSUES STATEMENT The Minority Leader In th House Kamrt the Price Demanded of the " " Republicans For Refraining From FUibustcrltis--5Ir. Williams De clares That ' Certain Legislation i -commended by the President is r t f, Important That Partisan Lines ' I ' jinot Be- Drawn and These Measures the Democrats Will En force and . Support The President Mas Only to Deliver 25 or SO Votes in the House to Slake Sure the . Enaction of Thin Legislation. Washington, March . -26. Repre eenitatve John Sharp , Williams, of Mississippi, asv leader ol the minority In the House of Representatives, . to night issued to the press a written statement defining precisely the atti tude of the Democratic .party in the House, toward legislation urged toy President Roosevelt In his message at Congress at the present session. , The statement describes what Re publican legislation the Democrats will support, what they . will oppose, and what concessions they demand on the part of the majority as the price of refraining from an organised fill buster throughout the remainder of the session.- - '. ' - '. -' - -7 j Mr. Williams opened his statement toy saying: "Some things In the Pres ldent'sTecent, message are so imme- dlately important to the interests of,Tna Judge had a(Jjourned court t0r ths entire country as to pass the! the day and the court room was de- bounds of partisanship and to make it etousable. if not necessary, for me to say soroetning concerning mem wuniwere recalled by telephone and tho the view of assuring the President; court room was soon refilled. . Sm- himself and reasonably inclined Re- e Tt publican members of the House and . .. tne pountry. or tne support ana en dorsement, or the opposition of the In so far as Democratic minority. the things urged by the President are good, things I would like the country to know that all he dias to do Is to deliver 20 or 25 Republican House votes In favor of them. " These, con Joined with the solid Democratic votes, will put them through." Mav Williams ' notes the following measures as ' ones which will "com mand virtually the solid Democratic vote, within constitutional limits.'' DRAWS THE DEAD LINE. To compel publication of campaign contributions. Prohibition of child labor in the District of Columbia and the Terri . torles. ' , -, I: , An' employer's liability Jaw', drawn to conform to- the recent decision of the 6ureme -Court. : . . Federal liability to government em ployes. , t. . A law to prohibit the Issuance of Injunctions without." notice to the rarty enjoined. .. , ' Removal of the tariff on wood pulp sind printing paper. Imposition of a Federal charge for every water power rignt grantea on a navigable stream. Those principles and measures urg ed by the president with which Mr. Williams, as minority leader, takes Is ' sue are enumerated as follows: - The penalising of the boycott. . The right of. the attorney general to1 nominate receivers when a com mon carrier is thrown Into the hands of a receiver. v J ;The modification of ths Sherman anti-trust law so. as to permit within limitation the maintenance of trusts end the making of trade agreements' between combinations of capital. The appointment of a commission to prepare data for a revision of the tariff. .. ... ' Mr. Williams frankly states that he does not know whether a malority or the minority favors the creation of a permanent waterways commission. : ' r ' AS TO CHILD LABOR. . Referring to the President's dec laration that child labor ought to be prohibited throughout the nation, and his recommendation that "at least a model child labor- bill should be pass- . ed for the District of Columbia," Mr. ' Williams says; . ' . ', . - "Child labor ought to be prohibited : throughout the nation, but the States are sole authorities having constitu tional power to prohibit it. : If those who could protect the children on the land, and through them the genera tions to come, would waste less of their time In the useless agitation for Invalid n3 unconstitutional Federal legislation and would devote more of their time in the several States, it would do etter fer all, But the President Is right In saying that we can aet for the District of Columbia, end for the Territories as' well, and ' that wo ought to do it." 1 EMPLOYER'S LIABILITY LAW. 'Commending the President for his recommendation for "the immediate re-enactment ef an employer's liabil ity law," Mr. Williams skys: "There Is no excuse for the delay on the part of Republican members of the House Judiciary committee to report an em ployer's liability law. Their delay at least arouses. If It does not Justify, a fuepiclon that they are having a lot of useless" bearings simply for the pur pose of using that bil as a buffer to prevent the serious consideration of ther bills before the committee. For example, the Clayton bill to put an end to temporary restraining- orders of courts invalidating State laws, and the various bills there pending to rume-nize the police powers of the "States in dealing with aleohollo stim ulants when Introduced Into prohibi tion territory. I have glen notice in the House that no legislation shall be enacted by unanimous consent until sn employer's liability bill is at least reported for the consideration of the House," ; - J AS TO IXJO'CTIOXS. ' Respecting pending bills to prevent the issuing of injunctions without prior opportunity for the enjoined party to be heard, the minority lead er says: "Of course. I take it that pobody will understand the President or me to mean that there should be any limit upon temporary restraining orders when intended to prevent the immediate destruction of property, life or limb. When I say property I do not mean dudicially construed property rights.' " One of the most vigorous portions rt Mr. Williams' statement regards the boycott. After opting the Pres ident's declaration that "nothing Fhould be done to legalize a blacklist or boycott that would illegal at (Continued en I'r Four). BEKTOX'S SLA YES TO HANG ,. SAM MTRCHISON CONVICTED I The Negro VTho on Sunday Afternoon,' February 23d. (shot to Death the Chief of Police of Fayettevilte Found Guilty of Mnrder In First Degree, But Sentence Has Not Yet Been Passed by Judge Lonjr At- torneys Asked For Second Degree; Verdict, Bat Solicitor. Sinclair Show-1 ed Beyond Doubt Premeditation of the Crime The Details of the Shoot-1 trig as Told by Witnesses on the ,. Stand. 'V " Special to The Observer. Fayetteviller March. 26. Sam Mur chlson, alias Melvln. will pay with his life for tfie murder of James H. Benton, which crime he committed on Sunday afternoon, February 23d, last. In Superlo Court this after noon he was found guilty of murder in the first degree after a trial x tendlng over two days. The Jury ren dered its Jterdict in thirty-five min utes after retiring to the jury , room. The accused shewed considerable nervousness when brought back into the court room to receive the -erdl-jt. but after It was rendered he sank; back Into his scat without evidence of emotion. 'R was 5:45 o'clock when Judge Long gave the case to the Jury and 6:20 o'clock when that body announc- fl that A VAfYIt aA 1i,an . vaa.,Ti.1 serted when news of the agreement came from the iurv nwim wi 'nnn.i jSh? attorney's ----- . o - ' Xr" "J ir" "i.i- . JKti ZS; . was convicted was noticeably atro-'.. .Te t1oryL1ft tfl tra?'d M re' " w--jr from him," he declared, "and hold- lnessential details the same as that, lnK tr.tlT commissions , fromim, he with which newspaper- readers i be-;Btands ln a posltion to wieldJ pow came. familiar at, the time of Its ooj, erfu, lnflence on them, though they currence. The murder was commit- Are the representatives of a distinct ted in the early afternoon of a beau- department of the government." tiful Sabbath day at the home of ther The President, he charged, was not police chief who was the victim of the content with the exercise of the same assassin's bullet. ' ' (power exercised by Washington, Jef The narrative told to-day was In ; ferson. Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and brief that Murchlson earlier in the McKlnley, "but; in bis overpowering day of the murder had difficulties ambition reaches out with eager hand with several negroes ln the neighbor- and exercises powers nbt dreamed of hood of Chief of Police Benton's' by them. . , h0mi ih- lhl Tnt f'f" WHERE' THE JUSTIFICATION f . wounded on of them, John Range. j . and threatened the life of another, I "Where does he get this author Ida Johnson: that the Johnson wo- Jty," Mr. Beall demanded. "How does man fled to the house of Officer Ben- ton for protection: that the latter dent, he said, adopted two defenses, heard her complaint and started out! One was that there was an inherent of his house In search of Murchlson; 1 power belonging to, all sovereignties that, he met the negro. In his (Ucm- aparr from any power xonferred by ton's) back yard and that Murchlson 1 the constitution, the other was that at once shot Benton without th ex-1 tnroSh Judicial Interpretation there change of a word. Inflicting a mortal j be vested In- Federal pvern- wound. from Which the officer: d!edent Power to do things it had not within an hour. The murderer then , made his escape, but was -shortly-cap' tured by one of the many passes which started In pursuit of him. The attorneys for the accused did not ask for an acquittal, but aly for . .tl-'i a verdict of fnaecrM oroeriw penalty. His attorneys, Messrs. pavis & Brothers, are highly commended for their able defense, ; but Solictor Sinclair made out a case ni prm'sni- tatlon too-strong for tnem O' oxer come. , . , - , .' BRYAN AT THE CAPITAL. Me Acknowledges the Charles of a Mairuimv Writer That He Has Re duced Polities to a Money-Maklns; Profession. . -u Washington," March 2. William J. Bryan arrived in Washington . to day from Richmond and' addresses the Ancient Order of Hibernians here to-nlsht. , Mr. ' Bryan spent some time during the afternoon at the Capital' among his friends in the House and Senate. Mr. Bryan's appearance ln the lob by of the House was the signal for Democratic members to tourry from the floor to meet and greet him, and for an hour and a half the Nebraskan held an Informal reception, v Asked by the newspaper men if he wished to reply to the assertion made lately by a well-known magazine writer that he had reduced the busi ness of political, campaigning to a practical money-making profession, Mr. Bryan said: , . "There is really very little In the article that could be' called offensive. It is true that I have combined paid lecturing with practical politics and that I have made money by lecturing and otherwise speaking in public. But I have not made nearly as much as has been asserted. Politics Is about the only occupation that permits lec turing here and there in connection with it. The lecture platform com bined with active politics has been assumed of late by a number of pub lic men as a means of earning the money necessary to self-maintenance. I have no complaint to make of the statement that I devote -part of my time to speaking In public for pay." SENATOR TILLMAN IMPROVING. Feels That He Will Not Be Strong Enough to Resume Work This Ses sion and Fricnls Are Urging Him to Take a Long-Needed Rest. Columbia, S. C, March it. Dr! J. W. Babcock, of this city, who . is Sepatpr Tillman's closest medical ad viser, reiurnea irum ino eenaior home at o'clock to-night Just before leaving Trenton, Dr. Babcock said that senator Tillman dictated the following statement: "I am improving, but Improving slowly. While I do not recognize any indications of organic trdbble, I feel that I will not get stron enough to resume work ln Washington this ses sion." . Dr. Babcock thinks that Senator Tillman is getting slong as well as could be expected. When he reach ed there to-day the Senator had been out on the piazza and he did not seem at all exhausted from his exertion. He had no fever and his pulse Is abso lutely normal In every respect, beifg 72 to the minute, soft and regular. The nausea and vomiting have en tirely disappeared. His appetite Is returning and the numbness has dis appeared from his faee and hands. He la much less depressed than he has been and is taking a hopeful view of his case. His family and physi cians have been urging him to take a long-needed rest, and he is reluc tantly coming around to their way of thinking. This afternoon he received a letter from a colleague in Congress begging him to take a rest of six months at least. , - ITBES1DENT HIS TARGET . ' : MR. BEALL, OF TEXAS, SEVERE. In an Impassioned Speech, Replete With Epigrams, a Representative Front the' Lone Star State Makes a Bitter Attack on the Chief Execu tive, Chancing That He' Is Usurp ing the Powers Delegated to HUn by tlie Constitution Declares That the President Has Repeatedly At tempted to Influence tbe Judiciary and Cites the Instance A Store Distrusting Situation. He Says. Was Never Itucsscd by the People of Any Nation. HOUSE 8CMMAKT. More coals of Are were heaped upon President - Roosevelt's., head In the House of Representatives yesterday. ; In one -of the most scathing arraign ments of a public officer eyer heard In that chamber, Mr. Beall, of Texas, charged the President with having been guilty of "a disgusting " usurpa tion of power" not only toward the national legislature but the Judiciary - as well. Congress had, he said, ab dicated to him its powers, and the judiciary of the country felt the ef fect of his influence. God and the. fu ture alone knew, he declared, just' what niche he was to occupy , in the temple of his country. The agrlcul tural appropriation bill was conslder- - ed for amendment and when It was ' laid aside for the day, there had been stricken out the provision for . new ; weather stations in the States of, Texas, Kansas, Virginia, Michigan, Vermont, Missouri and Indiana. At S o'clock the House adjourned. Washington, March 26. Charging lnlT tTn J? r?ven t to hi usurped the powers given to mm Dy "?f constitution and had repeatedly that the President nad flagrantly " MTl PJ JJlIS JE! hiie it," SS.-tS pSdSrt appointed three Judges of the Supreme Court of , the United na R majority of the United j ji,. a..a . "Drawing their sourceof authorlty he Justify his actions ? The Pres.- P0"0'e D.L Tbe. President was denounced- for Insisting on a Jail sentence for Rob ert N. Harper, a druggist of this city, convicted of violating the pure food and drugs act, while the sen enco wai suit penumg. as regara- ed the case of Judge Wilftey. he said. tence was still pending-. As regard the President had insulted the legis lative branch of the government by writing a letter to the Judiciary com mittee, while the case was still un der investigation, , declaring Judge Wllfley Innocent r of the - charges against him. "That letter," he ex claimed, "was simply' the will of the big : stick over "that committee and the membership of the House." ' He regretted the committee had not as serted its. Independence by - sending the message back as an Insult. ' A DISGUSTING SITUATION. ; ' : After all, said Mr. Beall, the Presi dent was. not entirely to blame , be cause the Senate and House "sit with folded hands. Having abdicated the authority given to them they sit supinely at his feet." In his opinion a more disgusting usurpation of power was never witnessed by the people of any nation. ; , r . Congress, he declared, no longer was a legislative department. ' "It la simply a machine to record the will of the man at the other end of the avenue," and it did not deserve any more respect from him or the people than it now received. "He wields the big stick with one hand," ' Mr. Beall continued, "and a fountain pen with the other, and he raises havoc with both. He - is . a broncho buster and a trust buster, the only difference being that In busting a broncho he blindfolds the animal and in busting- a trust he blindfolds himself. He can draw the finest bead on a wild cat but can't get a Deaa on xne constitution at an. He Is a contradiction. He declaims against race suicide, out Insists upon keeping a tariff on rafety pins and baby buggies. ; ; . SEVERE AND EPIGRAMMITjtC I "He cultivates the artistic: He whitewashes Paul Morton and Is now frescoing the reactionaries with a tint of blue. . - "He can see a war cloud before breakfast, but gets color-blind before lunch time. - . ' - "He Is generous; Given the power by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to make treaties, he is willing to relieve that body of this onerous duty and do.it all himself. "He Is a magician He can trans form our 'Uncle Joe,' a roaring lion before us in the House Into a purr ing kitten at the White House. - "He Is the Sandow of the century; he can hold the Senate In one hand and the House ln the other and keeps'both in the air most of the time. . " "He can even name a presidential candidate," Mr. Beall declared. "He is the strangest combination of wis dom and folly; of honesty and ob stinacy, and of the patriot and the politician, of courage and rashness; and of the spectacular and the grotesquese that this republic ever saw, and Just what niche he is to. oc cupy in the temple of his country's history God and the future alone can ten." . . ., . THE AGRICULTURAL BILL. When the .agricultural appropria tion bill was read for amendment in the House to-day Mr. Macon, of Ar kansas, endeavored to have inserted as a new provision his bill prohibit ing the dealing ln futures In agricul tural products, but the rhalr sustain ed a point of order against it. Mr. Scott, of Kansas, In chsrre- of the bill expressed his entire sympathy with the proposition which, however, he Insisted, should be acted on independ ently. Mr. Mann, of Illinois, rled a storm of discussion by directing at tention to the fact thst all of the eight new weather -stations provh'ei by the bill were to be placed in tlat- having representations on the eiri- ' - - AFFAIKS AT CAPITAL CITY I I THE HEARING ON RATES TO-DAY Judmn C Clement, of the Iitter- . Mate Commerce Comiitim-on, Will Hear Evidence ln tlie Freight Dis crimination Matter Reward of 100 Offered For .Nepro Who Sliot . Deputy .Mtu-lial Reese Charter Granted to an Electric Power Con cern at Icaksvtlle Supreme Court Library Now Has 17.13S Volumes Senator Simmons to Speak hi Prohibition Campaign as Olten as i-osMtie Exciting chase Artcr Thief. ... . . Observer Bureau, . - The Holleman Building, -Baleigh, March 26. This afternoon the attorneys for the State and the corporation com mission" met at thp office of the latter and conferred as to the hearing to be held by the Inter-State commerce commission to-morrow, beginning at 19 a. m. In the United States Court room before Judson C. Clements. This gentleman is the. Southern member of the inter-State commerce commis sion and is from Georgia. At the office of the State Labor Commissioner it is learned that there is some increase of work ln the State. It Is said that the sawmill people make more complaints about the panic than perhaps any other class, saying it is the real thing and has nit them hard and caused a Dig drop ln prices. The number of volumes in the Supreme Court library is now 17,136, this being a gain of almost 600 a year on an average for the past four years. The number of volumes In the State library Is 41,000, end counting books wmcn the United States sends tne gain is something like 1.000 a year. ELECTRICITY ; FOR LEAKSV1LLE. A charter Is granted the Leaksville Light, Power and Milling Company, to furnish electric power, etc;, the amount of the capital stock being $40,000 ' and E. B. King the chief stockholder. -i v The State Superintendent Of Fub llv Instruction has Issued a very well prepared "and Illustrated pamphlet with designs for public school houses, this- taking the place of one which was Issued soma years ago. The United States Department or Justice offers $100 reward for the capture of Jim Staley, . the negro moonshiner who shot Deputy Aiaranai Henry Reese. It ought to be easy to identify, and capture Staley as he was shot twice. Several peopIeTraw him at Sanford the evening of the day on which the shooting occurred. United States Marshal Dockery says that moonshintng Is certainly Increas ing ln this district and that the moon shiners are becoming bolder and more -desoerate. Not so much is going on now as in the winter, but more than at this time last year. Durham and Johnston are the worst counties ln the district for moonshin tng. while Robeson leads in retailing. On the 2d day of April the cadet corps at ths A. & M. College will be Inspected by an army officer. , The number of students Is now 150, of these about 1 00 being in the corps. There are i no - new 5 developments as to the supposed colony plant for eDlIemics and other deficients. The commission which has this matter in eharra has not met In some time. When It does meet no doubt the loca tion will be decided on. Thomas 8. Rollins, of Asheviue, is appointed t a member ' of the central campaign 'committee of the State Anti-Saloon League. , SENATOR SIMMONS TO SPEAK. Senator Simmons will speak as of ten as possible in this campaign, says hla secretary, , A. D. , Watts, - who 1 is here for a day v or two. ;. J Capt. Jack Beasley, of the police force, and Automobillst Brewer had a run to-day which was quite out of the common. Early this morn ing a well-dressed young wnite man about 20 -years old stole a bicycle from a store of a man named Carroll here, the wheel being a new one. The thief had an hour and a halt the start of them and had coverea over 12 miles when they came up with him near Apex, Just as he was on the point of trying, to make a sale of ' the machine to a negro. The thief was about pumped out ana ne had nothing whatever to say when he was bagged. He gave his name as Gordon and saia ne was irum Atlan ta but that he came here from Nor folk. Beasley and Brewer brought him back and he waa stowed away ln the station house. . SudL W. B. Streeter, or tne norm Carolina Chlldrens' Home Society, was here to-day and , wnen questioned talked about Its very Interesting and valuable work. t - has provided homes, for Zi cniiaren ana auuut IS others are now being prepared for entrance Into such homes. Such places of preparation are located at Raleigh, Greensboro, Aahevllle, etc. CHARTERS GRANTED. A charter is granted the Johnson- McCubbln Company at Salisbury, which will deal in real etate, build hnuxa and factories, etc., capital stock $180,000, the atockholders be ing Thomas P. Johnson. J. S. McCub blns and T. H. Vand-rfor-J. Another charter goes to the Carolina Paper Box Company, of Winston Salem. $26,000, the stocKnowcrs oewg , w. B. Hemingway and others, all fr .n Norfolk. A commission it Issued to Willey C. Rodman, of Washington, D. C, as major of the Second Regiment, vice Sellers resigned. " ' "" . The resignation of James . Lew- Is. first Heutenint, Company E, 8ec- . ond Regiment, Goldsboro. is accepted. he having removea to en ay moujii. Weather Bureau Seismograph's Rec ord an uutnquaice mmx-k. Washington. March 26. A slight earthquake was recorded on the Weather Bureau seismograpns at Washington ..on the afternoon ;or March 2Sth, 1908, beginning at 2 hours, 1 minute, S seconds p. m., 75th meridian time. While the disturb ance was of comparatively small In tensltv. the principal phases charac teristic of earthquake records were very sharply defined. It would appear ; from the records that the origin of this disturbance was not over 2.400 miles from Washington. This would place the epicentre in the Pacific ocean west of Mexico or In north western South America, or possibly within the western portion of the United States. cultural committee. Mr. Scott, however, maintained thst sll of them were placed in the bill on 'the recommendation of the Sec retary of Agriculture and the chief of the weather bureau. .On a point of order by Mr. Perkins, of New York, the several new sta tions were stricken from the blil. Then stations were proposed to be In. te,i in T x, Kna.i, Virginia, Mkhigan, Vermont, Missouri and In UNITED STATES PLAINTIFF LUMBER COMPANY IS SUED. Uncle Sam Brings Suit Against Lum ber Company For Iosnetion of iiljr Tract of Land la This State kludge "Priu-hard leanes Temporary Order ItcHt raining Trepasdiig on I -amis ln Omlow County A. B. Andrews, Jr.. States Position of Southern In the Tax Case, and Mr. Webb. County Attorney, Makes a Counter Statement Brother Of Secretary Tuft In AshevUle. . ( Special to The Observer. Ashevllle. March 2. A suit was docketed in United States ' Circuit Court here to-day entitled "United States, plaintiff, vs. the HIawassee Lumber Company and R- Martin, de fendants," the United States issuing for possession of five' thousand acres of land In Clay county near the Ma con county border and $1,000 dam ages. The complaint, signed by Dis trict Attorney Holton, alleges that the defendants are In wrongful pos session. Little Is known here of the suit further than that the land In litigation is valued at about $30,000. RESTRAINING ORDER ISSUED. Judge Pritchard to-day on com plaint of J. C, Foster, of Norfolk, Va., Issued an order temporarily re straining one Michael Padgett and his employes from further trespress Ing on the lands of the complainant, located ln Onslow county, this State, containing, it is alleged, ' valuable standing timber of pine, cypress and Juniper. x ' The restraining order Is made re turnable before Judge Pritchard- at Richmond April 17th. In the course of the complaint Foster alleges that Padgett and certain of his employ. have wilfully entered upon - and are trespassing on the lands of the com plainant and doing great damage By removing turpentine and timber. It alleges further that Padgett has de clared that he will continue his dep redations and war upon the lands until restrained by some order ot the courts; "that he Intends : to make your orator 'pop a cap' If It becomes necessary, meaning thereby that he will resort to a shotgun policy If your orator attempts to Interfere with his depredations." Prof. Horace D- Taft, principal of the Taft School, of Watertown, Conn.. and brother of Secretary of War Wil liam H. Taft, candidate for the Re publican presidential nomination, left for Washington this afternoon. after spending several days in the city. Prof essor Taft, before leaving for Washington, was asked relative to his brother's candidacy. He said that he could give only his personal views since he is not In politics. "In Npw England," said the educator, "hrotner's prospects seem to be very favorable and it la the popular opin ion tnere tnat ne will win out at Chicago on the first ballot. Of course New York will go for Hughes, In diana ror Fairbanks and Pennsylva nia for Knox, but nevertheless broth er is far in the lead." ; . ,. i Professor Taft does not In ths least resemble his War Secretary brother. - As one man to-day laua-h- lngly expressed.lt. he "expanded the other way," Professor, Taft being very tall, standing fullv six feet and four inches ln his stocking feet Pro fessor Taft Is an entertaining conver sationalist with a winsome smile and an abundant supply of humor. -, - ROAD'S POSITION STATED. A. B. Andrews. Jr.. Of Raleigh, whn has been here several days interest ed in the suit of the Southern Rail way against the county tax collector of Buncombe, which he won, to-day sought to make plain the railway's position ln the matter, saying that "Involved in these two ' suits (the Buncombe and Mecklenburg) is the sum of $15,000 and when a tax is claimed to be illegal, surely any tax payer nas tne ngnt to ask the court to decide that question for It before paying out such a large sum of mon ey. Owing to reduced earnings the Southern Railway Company has been rorcea to lay orr quite a large num ber of Its employes, particularly train crews, and the amount It has involv- ed in these two suits, $15,000. re n re sents approximately all expenses and charges or a train for making 100 trips from Ashevllle to Salisbury, which train service has been forced to be reduced to cut down operating expenses." MR. WEBB'S STATEMENT. County Attorney Charles A. Webb to-day ln a statement relative to the matter declared; "The Southern Railway is stmniv trying to take advantage of what may be termed a technical error on the part of the county, if it is an error. If the Southern gains the case, it cannot possibly benefit them. tor tney win some time have to pay these taxes to make up the deficit at some future time, but they will have succeeded in putting an additional dollar on every poll tax, which win Increase the poll tax to $7.60 upon any cttlsen of the county who resides in tne city of Ashevllle." , Mr. Webb, who resigned as sneelal counsel for the Southern when this suit was brought against the county, will fight the case in the Supreme Court. : ; . TO BE ASKED TO REVOKE ORDER Attorneys Representlnsr the Complain mnim in eowui tannina llxpcnary Suits Will Appeal to J pel go Pritch ard to Invalidate the injunction on the Ground That It Is a Violation of the Kleventh Amendment to the Constitution. Atlanta, Ga., March 26. At a con ference here to-day between attor neys the complainants In the suits against the South Carolina dlxuen- eary commission and Attorney Gener al Lyon, of South Carolina, It was decided to ask Judge Prlt-chard, of the United States Coort. for a revoca tion of his order enjoining the South Carolina dispensary commission from disposing of the $800,000 in its pos session and appointing receivers for the dispensary. j.-. The petition for a revocation of Judge Pritchard's order will result from a decision of the Supreme Court of South Carolina to the effect that the act creating the commission con stituted that body the agents of the State, and, therefore, any suit sialnrt the commission Is a suit against the State, which is contrary to the elev enth amendment of the constitution ef the United States. The application for the revocstlon of the order Is msde upon the estab lished rule that Federal courts will recognise the decisions of the nlghc-st courts of the (State, construing Its own statutes as binding upon Federal court. Attorney General Lyon a.-com psn led by Attorney-KeMer, left fo Abbe ville to-plsrht, wh?re the p'tl lon will be laid before 'u le PrStc'n't t -morrow. . SMITH'S BIGHTS DEBATED - 1. SENATE FINALLY ADMITS HIM Many Senators Object to the Seating . of the Hctiator-fcJect From Mary land on the iround . That His Uectlon Was Irregular Mr. Ray per Makes an Earnest Plea For Ills Colleague, and He U Finally Admitted, Though tbe Question of His Right to the Scat Is Aot Finally DispoNed Of The Senate Again Takes Up the Al.lrlch Bill Amendment Prot ised by senator Simmon Is Defeated Oilier Amendments Proposed and De bated. SENATE SUMMARY. Although Senators went to the Capi tol yesterday expecting to devote their time to consideratlng the currency blil their attention was diverted to ths credentials of Senator-elect John Walter Smith, of Maryland. " The re sult of a long debate was the admis sion of Mr. Smith to his seat - The currency bill was' ttieri taken up and amendments were considered. At t:12 o'clock the Senate adjourned. Washington, March 26. Although the Senate met to-day to devote tne entire session to the currency , bill, within nve minutes after being called to order the credentials of Senator Elect John Walter Smith, of Mary land, became the - subject of a dis cussion that consumed nearly four hours. ' The result of the extended debate on the propriety of swearing In Mr. Smith was a vote ot 84 to 28 in favor of receiving his credentials and leaving the regularity of his election to be considered by the Senate committee on privileges and elections and by the Senate later. Mr. Itayner presented the cre dentials of his colleague and asked that he be sworn In. Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, chairman ot the com mittee on privileges and elections, objected to the admission of , the Senator-elect on the ground that the law requires that two Tuesdays shall Intervene between the time notice of a vacancy ln the Senate is given and an election. As the late Senator Whyto died at 7 o'clock on Tuesday and his successor was chosen on the following Tuesday, Mr. Burrows claimed that the law had not been complied with, and suggested that he be not allowed to take his seat, , RAYNER S EARNEST APPEAL. Senator Rayner made an earnest appeal for the reception of his col league. He claimed that the statute had) -been complied with; that to deny his colleague his. seat would make necessary an extra Legislature of Maryland at a cost of $60,000, and that even if the contention of the chairman of the committee on privileges and elections should prove to be correct Senator-elect Smith should be sworn In and his rase considered by tne proper com mittee. 1 Many speeches were made and when a vote was .finally taken $4 Senators favored swearing In the Senator-elect, about 12 of them being Republicans, and 28 favored excluding mm. This) temporary con elusion of the case gives Mr.- Smith his seat, but does not finally dispose of the Question of his right to re tain it. The committee on privileges ana elections will now take the mat ter up for consideration. ALDRICH BILL AGAIN. Soma progress waa made toward the disposition of the Aldrlch cur rency bill to-day, notwithstanding the fact that it was not taken uu until late in the cession, which was continued until an unusually late hour. When adjournment was reached several . amendments had been considered and dlsDosed of. . Senator Simmons . spoke . at length on nis amendment reducing the in terest to be paid on the emergency currency to one-fourth of one per cent, auring tne first three months of Its issue and one-half of one per cent, auer tnat period. i speaking of the attitude of New York bankers on the pending bill Mr. TXenikW r mm A m IaMai. tnat tne ivew York Bankers' As sociation disapproves of the proposed legislation ana isvors an asset cur rency. -. , Mr. Culberson, of Texas, snoke against the bond feature of the bill. MR. SIMMONS LOSES OUT. The amendment nroDosed . bv Mr. Simmons was defeated. Senator Nelson renewed his amend ment requiring banks to pay Interest on deposits of government funds at a rate or not less than one per cent a month. Earlier in the day this amend ment had received the endorsement of the committee on finance and was therefore slated for acceptance. Mr, Clay, of Georgia, moved "to Increase to 2 per cent, the minimum Interest to be. charged, but the mo tion was defeated 17 to 36. An amendment to the Nelson amendment by Mr. McLaurln pro viding that the rate ot interest paid by national banks shall be uniform throughout the United States was accepted. Mr. Culberson, of Texas, offered an additional amendment re quiring Interest to be paid during August September, October and No vember at the rate of 1 1-2 per cent; December, January, February and March at S per cent., and April, May, June and July at $ per cent, which was defeated. , In advocating this proposition Mr. Culberson referred to j. Plerpont Morgan as "sponsor for this bill." NKLSON AMENDMENT GETS IN. The Senate adopted the - Nelson amendment as amended by Mr. Mc Laurln by which the Interest on ds-' posits Is fixed at not less than 1 per cent ... - Mr. Lodge's amendment Including bonds of the Philippine government and those of the City of Manila among securities to be accepted was adopted 81 to 18. This amendment had received the endorsoment ot the finance committee, as had also the one next to , be offered by Senator Johnston, of Alabama. This pro vision required that 4-8 of the IS per cent reserve of banks out of reserve cities shall be kept ln lawful money in the vaults of the banks and also that one-third of the amount kept in the vaults msy be In the form, e-f securities of the class named ln the bill. As thia amendment met with some opposition a proposition allowing it to go over until to-morrow was ac cepted. - r First Solid Car of Truck Sh'pped. Wilmington. March 26. The Mrt solid car of lettuce and rsdUhes from the east Wllmlng ton section went for ward to-day end was trim the fvi of Messrs. XVSUiam K. Pprlnirer. D. F. Kline and W. II. Mtila & ,on. The prices North are some better, lettuce now bringing fro-n It lo : i0 a Ki ket and r4ihe from 2 t 2 l-i t-r-: a t-.im-h. .The outlook f r r- vr ; I wry promising in all I'r '-! s-i i -n BBOOfTS CLEANS UP HOLT A RED-HOT JOINT DEBATE An Immense Crowd at Greensboro' Sees Solicitor A. L. Brooks Over whelmingly Defeat In Joint Dehato Prof. J. Allen Holt Every Charge Brought by Holt Sueceswfully Met Preliminary Hearing of Alleged ,, Infernal Machine Sender Postponed Manager of Prohibition Campaign In Guilford Says the County xiil tio "Dry" Annual Meeting and Flection of Officers of Lodge of Elks. - -y i :- - - Observer Bureau, The BevllI Building. Greensboro. March 26. An Immense crowd filled the court house to-night to hear what was ad vertised to have been a Joint , debate between Prof. J. Allen Holt and So licitor A. L. Brooks, candidates for Congress. ; Professor Holt opened with a speech of an hour's length. ' the burden of which was that Solid"' , tor Brooks bad taken excessive fees that belonged to the school funds. In reply Brooks read letters from As sociate Justice Brown, Judge Ward, Solicitor Graves and others sustain ing his position ln relation to fees in set fa cases. Professor Holt charg ed that Brooks had taken fees In Durham and Guilford counties that he was not entitled to receive,, where upon the solicitor established that the docket had been settled In Durham and read a. letter, from' the clerk of Guilford court to the effect that ha , had taken less fees here than .he was entitled to receive. The crowd . wat with Brooks throughout and gavo , him one of the greatest ovations any i man has ever received here. Pro fessor Holt was left In a pitlabla Plight. , HEARING POSTPONED..- Hardin Germany, the young mill operative committed to lull Satur day charged with sending through, the mail an infernal machine ad dressed to Mr. Ceasar Cone, president of the Proximity and Revolution Cot-, ton Mills, was to have been given a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Wolfe this af ternoon, but on account of the sb-v, sence of District Attorney Holton the, matter was postponed until next Tues-' day .afternoon. The feeling against the prisoner is very pronounced among the Proximity and White Oak employes, many of whom were pres ent when the case wai. -ailed this at- . ternoon. ' Judge Boyd to-day signed an order directing F. W, Thomas, of Ashevllle. referee in bankruptcy, to call a meet ing of the creditors of Charley Mas cart, bankrupt, of Ashevllle, for the 81st Instant to consider a proposition to compromise the debt of the bank rupt at 50 cents on the dollar. The referee Is to report to the court on April 6th. ' - - Mr. John C. Kennett, who Is to manage ths prohibition campaign In this county, to-day opened headquart ers ln the law office of Thomas J. Murphy, Esq. In a talk with The Ob server correspondent Mr. Kennett ex pressed his confidence In the success of the prohibition cause ln Guilford, saying it was only a question as to the size ot the majority. .When ask ed as to. the probable majority Mr. Kennett said It was too early to make anything like an accurate estimate., but, he thought the county should, give prohibition a majority . ranging anywhere, from . L00O , to 2.000. In the State election of 1881 Guilford gave a majority of 1,487 against pro hibition. . .-, ,v -, . The county board of elections has appointed the registrars and Judges to conduct the prohibition- election in the 87 precincts ln this county. The annual, meeting of the Greens boro, lodge of Elks was held last night, when the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: John N. Wilson, exalted ruler; G. S. Bradshaw, esteemed leading knight : W, T. Gayle, esteemed loyal knUht: F. P. Marshall, esteemed, lecturing; knight; W. I. Underwood, secretarv; T, L. McLean, treasurerr Isl dor Cchlffman, tyler; Garland Dan iel, trustee; D. H. Collins, representa tive to grafld lodge; L. J. Brandt, al ternate representative. The business meeting was followed by a social e. slon. The lodge now has a member ship of 260 and is In a most flourish ing condition. NAVY NEEDS MORE MONEY. Secretary Me tea If Call For M.OOO.Oon DpHcleney Amiroprlatlon Which the House Committee Agrees to Report Favorably. Washington, March 26. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf to-da statement to the , eub-commltte nn deficiencies of the House committee on appropriations la support of hi' recent request for a $3,000,000 defici ency appropriation, to be made at once in order that work on the battle ships now building might not be In. terrupted. He enlarged upon bis re cent communication to th rammiii,. showing that the department is al ready indebted to the extent of $500. 000 -to contractors and contending that serious results would follow - if the money was not. appropriated. The. deficiency Is due to the fact that the last naval appropriation bill carrk-1 two million dollars less , than w is called for by the department's esti matea The sub-committee voted tn retwt favorably to the full committees to morrow the $2,000,000 deficiency es timate. . LUMBER MIIXS MAY CURTAIL, That Course Is Recommended !at the Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Pine Association Ofliccrs Elected For the Coming Year. Norfolk. Va.." March 26 The North Carolina Pine Association controlling all the leading lumber mills in east ern Virginia, Maryland, North ant South Carolina met in annual session here to-day with sn attendance of about 100 leading lumber manufu-- turers and mill men in the f -ur States present The reports showed more than os half of the mills of th association are closed flown as a result ot pre.-. -.-.t conditions with the normal output if lumber cut In half. Price. howevr, are reported to b better than in tht last few months. The following officer were elerted: President. E. C. Fosbur. N..rf-i"K-. Va.: Vln-'n' vl- e presinnt. I Camp: N'rth Carii-ni v p-- . J. A Brown: Sout t t'aro.. -i t pre' !.rt. J t! fr.rrv: f ' I. ISoper, N"!'f'..(: tr, .1- : -Morris, North ran-': - 1. IV.-- ere ' - I . : " ri '' -t . - i 1.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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