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1(h P-ies 'teD-yj Weather Ta-Oay -v MET . J SUBSCRIPTION PRICE; $8.00A:YEAR. CHARLOTTE, N. C, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ffSI STAID SES ATE GETS GAY MUTT'S BILfc COMES TO GRIEF. Strict Party Vote Oast on Measure to Elect County Boards of Education Flab Bill Befuddles Member of House nd Consideration Is Post potted TlU -Ties Week is the In. dustry Stale or Local? uuday . Observance Amendment, Said to Be Directed at Nortliern Golf Players", Turned Down by Oonimlttee Itobe eon Codntjr Not to Be Dismembered ... Senator Pharr to Investigate Matter of Removal of Gaston court House. Special to The Observer. , RsJelgh, Feb. It. -The adjourn ment of the rtaneral Assembly to-day was in honor of the birthday of Abra ham Lincoln, a resolution having been pawed eariy in the day's session that the adjournment be in honor of this great statesman. Ths Senate had lively debate on the Brttt bin to elect county boards of education by the people, the argu ment making it hotter politically thao It did earlier In the week in the House, where a similar bill was killed. It took two hours of debate for the Senate tT reach a vote with the result that the bill was killed overwhelm ingly on a strictly party vote. FIBH BILL A STUMBLING BLOOft. After debating the fish bill for about three hours the House came to the conclusion that it could- not un derstand anything about It definitely enough to vote until the substitute offered by Mr. Holler, of Gates county, ceuld be printed and digested by each member In solitude, eo 'further con sideration was postponed until next Wednesday. Highland members Just could not grasp the situation from questions propounded to coast legis lators, who held widely divergent views on everything connected with fish; and the different standpoint confused greatly the members who did, not know the difference between a pike net and a mosquito net, to say nothing of Dutch and quad, or stake and drift nets, so that the side dis putes between the Ashing members bewildered the others, who finally gave up In despair. A 8TATB OR LOCAL INDUSTRY. The principal question at stake now Is whether the present system of Using- the nets of the counties that come under the Jurisdiction of the nah com missioner for the support of the com mission shall be continued, pt wheth er the expense shall be paid, out of the State Treasury and a State tax levied on fishermen or dealers, or both, in the nature of a privilege or license tax; in other words, whether fishing is a Bute or local industry. The latter proposition Is embodied in the substitute, "which also abolishes the oyster commission and puts its duties upon the fish commission. The committee bill exempU fifteen of the fishing counties, leaving only four to pay for the protection of the fish of North Carolina, and one of j those four tat In bid to eome out to-day. There fs a deficit f M0O In the shell fish commission finances, while the fish commission did make about $14 for the BUte. So said. Speaker Oraham. who inclines strongly toward making It a State-supported industry. ROBESON NOT TO BB DIVIDED. The Joint oommittee on counties, cities and towns, has decided to turn down both the propositions to dis member Robeson county, voting un favorable report for both the Hoke county and the North Robeson coun ty propositions. Representative Mc Leod will have a minority report for North Robeson and Representative McDonald, of Moore, for Hoke coun ty, so both will get a standing on the floor for debate. THE SUNDAY LAW. The SenaU Judiciary committee hag passed unfavorably on the bill intro duced by Senator Means to make vio lation of the law prohibiting work on Sunday a misdemeanor Instead of the long-sundlng penalty of $1 for each offense. The act atmed to be amend ed has been on the statute books since 1841 without amendment and Includes playing games. The sutement was made in com mittee that the amendment was aim ed at the Northern tourists at South ern Pines, who, it la alleged, play golf on Sunday and are charged with cor rupting the morals of that whole sec tion as to Sunday observance. Sen ator BUrbuck ventured the assertion that every member of the Judiciary committee had been fishing on Sun day and they cerUinly did not want to make themselves guilty of a mis demeanor. AFTER THE GOU PLAYER8. , Senator Lockhart suggested that the solicitor of that district or the local authorities might derive at least a good revenue from those Southern Pines tourists by hauling them up on indi vidual offenses at a $1 fine each. Rep resentative Dowd has a similar bill In the House, which has received fa vorable report from the House com mittee. However, the action of the Senate committee foreshadows death for the Dowd bill when it goes over to to the Senate. The committee gave unfavorable re port to the Brttt bill for a non-parti-San Jury commission in Buncombe, and reported favorably the Pharr bill to give corporations an insurable in terest. In the Uvea of their officers and employes and the Manning bills to provide for the payment of five ad ditional Western North Carolina Rail- road construction bonds of the 8haf--.. mvA fA th Issuance of refunding bonds for the State bonds Tailing cue in isio. .. LETT WITH SENATOR PHARR. The bill by Senator Love to allow a vote m Gaston county on tne re- las- to Qastonia was taraed over to Senator Pharr for investigation. ' - TW. Kill hv Can. Ia. Jamm trt Im pose' a penalty on express companies for failure to settle for eollect'on da livery shipmeut wit kin thirty days from date of shipments was discussed favorably and aet fori a hearing next vrnnav. The oenalt. I l&a. c.nrMmtitlva CadMi'K bill in the --nmw r.ttoe-w Terrene eystem - et registration and settlement of land ' titlea provide that any person de siring to have a "lltfe settled may py a certain sunt lnte,'a fund to be j 1 1. J k th fit at rh.MiniAn the Superior Court shell- appoint a committee of lawyers, to pass upon the title, after having given notice to all persons having , claim - upon the land to appear and state It, and thereafter If any further claim ' should Te Aubetantlatad the loss to be paid Out of the f undiso established. :. FORMER ACTION REVERSED. . The House committee on counties. cities and towns has detlded after all to report favorably '(the bill In- (Contiaoea en rage Three). COOrEK JVEY COMPLETED STATE ESTERS Ai pBJECTIOX. With the Twelfth- Juror In the Box. thf vwiJir-Buaciw Jiuru t vane iiaruijr Got VHiier Way When the State Attorney,- Halts Hie -Proceedings AttomeyV Objettloa 1 Beted Upon Keportu (Concerulng Two of the ; Tnrora and judge liart Gives Him - VutU To-Day 6 Produce tlte Proof : itonnc isoldter-Coairade of Col- onel -Oooper.- Among ;the Talesmen xcued by aba lefrne Nearly too Talesmen - Examined During Way's Hesslon. Naanviiie. Tenn.. Feb. 12. Hardly had the Jury been completed to-day In the case against Colonel Duncan B.,Coqper, Robin J. Cooper and John D. Sharpe. than the State served no tice that it might aeek td again de plete the box. This incident followed a wearisome day. -Nearly S to tales men had been called without securing th twelfth Juror, when suddenly and unexpectedly both sides accepted Wil liam Hows, a German farmer, 68 years of age. With alacrity Judge Hart ordered the sheriff to bring the com plete Jury Into court to be sworn. Then ' it was that .Attorney General McCarn interposed. He said he had Information tending to show that two of the men now in the box were In competent. This Information, he ex plained, came too late for use before. He asked until Saturday morning- to produce the proof,' If such proof ex isted. Judge Hart consented to the delay and the case will be resumed at m. to-morrow. Judge Hart announced this morning that he proposed to get a Jury If It takes another month. NEVER READ A NEWSPAPER. W. A. Bell, a farmer 60 years old. who had not read a newspaper for 12 years, qualified but was challeng ed by the defense. A. U. Burnett, a horse trader to whom newspaper readlngts an undiscovered art. and who la a close friend of John IX fiharpe, next qualified. The State ex cused him. J. H. Lloyd, who qualified, never believed what he saw in a newspaper because once he read In one that a certain grocery sold thirty pounds of sugar for a dollar. When he went to get the sugar the grocer told him it was a mistake. Since, he said, he did not believe anything In the "darn ed papers." The defense excused him. Gray haired, eray whiskered, with face deeply lined but erect and ac tive still, J. T. Horn. 95 years, one of Forrest's famous hard riding caval rymen, qualified as a talesman. He had not read the papers but had form ed an opinion. Col. Duncan B. Cooper, one of the defendants, was one of Forrest's offi cers too, but in spite of this the SUte accepted Horn as a Juror. The fact evidently aroused the suspicions of the defense for a lengthy conference fol lowed. Then to the surprise of ev ery one, they ohallenged him peremp torily. It was I.iO n. m. when the tweirtn Juror, however, was accepted and then came the announcement of the Attorney General', which caused an early adjournment. TOTJNO LADY FATALLY BURNED. Bottom Fall Out of Pot of Tar, Cens ing Blaze That Envelope Bliss Una Sykee No Hope of Recovery, Says Doctor. Special to The Observer. Elisabeth City, Feb. 1J. Miss Lin Sykes, a young lady about It years of age, met with an awful accident this afternoon at 1 o'clock at her home on Parsonage street, which will probably cost her her life. The young woman was heating a pot of tar on the cooking stove and when she lift ed the pot from ' the opening the bottom fell out, spilling the contents In the firs and all over the stove- Im mediately the room was filled with fire and smoke and the young lady's clothes caught on fire. Members of the family detected the fire, turned In, an alarm and went to the rescue of the young woman. They found her clothes and hair all burned off and her face and body In an awful condition. Dr. Mc Mullen was summoned and upon examination found that the young lady was most horribly burn ed. He is doing everything possible to relieve her suffering, but states to night that he fears she Is injured beyond recovery. , The fire company responded prompt ly and saved the house, with slight damage. WRECKED OFF GBORGIA COAST. Italian Bark Goes to Pieces on Wolf - - Inland khosja Tug Reacnee Cap tain and -Crew. Darien, Ol, Feb. 12. The Italian bark Paolo Angelo, Captain Bosso, out of Genoa for Jacksonville, Is a hopeless wreck on Wolf Island, 20 miles from Darien, with her back broken and the surf pounding the remainder of her top pieces. Captain Bono and his crew were saved after a hard fight by the tug J. C liaJone and were Drought to Darien. The vessel went 'ashore Tuesday night and her crew remained on board until yester day, when the tug found them and took them off." The vessel Is on her beam ends and during to-day was practically stripped by wreckers. The vessel la of 1417 tons burden and was last reported as passing Tarifa De cember 81st The Wolfe Island shoals known as the graveyard of the Geor gia coast waters would probably have claimed the captain and crew of the bark had not the distressed-vessel neen sighted and report made to Da rien. The Paolo Angelo was 40 take out a cargo of lumber. PconUnwtOeovs1 Ptlter,9e4 bl ; liiS 60a. . i;. . Cochran, Ga Feb. 11. John1 Stew, art. one of. the most widely known planters of-Palaskl oevnty, 4Jed -Jo-day from Ihe, effects of fata wounds Inflicted try hta son, Marian Stewart, aged 2 9, at the Stewart home last nights It is stated- the planter aa saulted young Stewart's brother and his mother and was in the act of at tacking Marian Stewart, when the tati ter shot to defeBd himself. Stewart was shot once In the head and in the breast, the wound in the head literal ly tearing off hta scalp. Young Stew art surrendered to the sheriff and was placed In JalL John Stewart was j-e garded as a peaceable ctUseo. , YEBDICT FOR A LABGE SUM HARRELSON AWARDED $9,000 Southern Railway Employe Who Was . injured and Surd t or 25,0O0 uots , Large Verdict la Guilford Court Police Run In a Covey of Alleged . Gambler Sale or Industrial News ; Next Monday Attracting Little At tention Hotel No. 8 to Be Built by Mr. Garland Daniel Police Officer - Lets a Negro Prisoner Get Away ,Boy Taken Off County Roads and Sent to Reformatory Greensboro Bonds Sold. Observer Bureau, The Bevlll Building. Greensboro. Feb. 12. Ons of the laraest verdicts in a Civil suit recorded In Guilford county In a lona while was returned to-day when a Jury in the Superior , Court awarded W. L. Harrelson is.ooo in an action against the Southern Rail way. Mr. Harrelson sued for iz,uuu for injuries received while In the em ploy of the railroad two years ago, when he had an arm broken and re ceived other Injuries of an alleged permanent nature. The suit was brought by Hon. W. W. Kltchln be fore be became a candidate for Governor, and In the trial the plaintiff was represented by Governor Kltchln's former law partner., Mr. P S. Carlton, of Roxboro,: and Stedman A Cooke, of this city. The Southern was repre sented by WUaon & Ferguson, as sistant division counsel. Of lata the Southern has been faring pretty well at the hands of Guilford Juries,, and the size of the vrdlct In the Harrel son case came as a' surprise to a good many people, though no one has ex pressed a doubt as to the honesty and fairness of the Jury's finding. The rasa -will be carried to the Supreme Court, as a malter of course. SCHOOL BONDS SELL WELli Tha high value of Greensboro, se curities was demonstrated again this afternoon when the board of alder men sold $30,000 of public school bonds at 108.5, the successful bidder being Thomas J. Boiger Com pany, of Chicago. The bonds are to run for thirty years and bear' Interest at the rate of t per cent, a year. The proceeds are to be used In the erec tion of a new public school building. There were fourteen bidders for the Issue, the firms bidding and the prices offered being as follows: Horns Sav ings Bank, of Greensboro, $81,700; Baker-Watson Company, of Balti more, $11,884; Security Trust Com pany, of Spartanburg, S. C. $11,836; Southern Life and Trust Company, of Greensboro, $12,000; Townsend, Scott St Son and Sutton-Strother Company, of Baltimore (a Joint bid). $3?, 408; Robtnson-Humphrey Company, of At lanta, $81.63; Western German Bank, of Cincinnati. 111,88; Wlel, Roth Co.. of Cincinnati. $31,801.38; Union 8avlngs Bank and Trust Com pany, of Cincinnati. $31,827; Portls Hough, of Cleveland, O., $31,600; Seasongood A Meyer, of Cincinnati, $31,887.60; New Flrat National Bank, Of Columbus, O., $82,276; McCoy Co., of Chicago, $82,176; Thomas J. Bolger Company, of Chicago. $82,415. The successful firm was represented by Mr. Z. V- Tgylor as attorney. PERMANENT ASSESSORS. The matter of the creation of a permanent board of tax assessors for Guilford county Is being discussed by county and city officials and many of the leading business men. The proposition la meeting with consider able favor, and H la not Improbable that the General Assembly will be asked to enact a law providing for such a board. A Joint meeting of the board of county commissioners, a committee from the chamber of com merce and a committee from the board of aldermen will be held next Tuesday night to discuss the subject at length. Mayor Brandt this after noon named the following members of tha committee from the board of aldermen: Capt. Nell Ellington, Capt. J. H- Walsh and Mr. C. C. McLean. CITY CHARTER DISCU88ED. There was another meeting to night of the board of aldermen and a committee of cltlsens to discuss the proposed new city charter. The com mittee, consisting of two members from each of the six wards, was ap pointed by a mass meeting hsld Tues day night and has given much time to a consideration of the general terms of the charter. It Is believed that the entire matter can be settled with .general satisfaction with one morej mass meeting and that no time will be lost In having the charter passed Jy the - Legislature. It is worthy of note that, whlleyCharlotte Is stirred from centre to circumfer ence by the charter question, the mat ter, has created only mild interest and no excitement In Greensboro. ALLEGED GAMBLERS ARRESTED. The police officers think they have flushed a covey of gamblers that has been ' operating in Greensboro' for some time. Warrants have been Jssued for several members of the gang, and to-day Tom West and E. L. Sykes, young men of the elty. and Will Carter, an overseer In the employ of the Proximity Manufac turing Company, were placed under bonds of $100 each for their appearance before Mayor Brandt to-morrow to an swer the charge of playing cards for money. The officers hsve their eyes on eight or tea other seen who are believed to have been members ef the party, and ether arrests are expected. The trouble that landed the defendants in the police court started Wednesday night.- when one of the players In a "social gams" claims to have been robbed of about $100 by West and 8ykes. Yesterday be played with the two men again, hoping to win back bis money, but came out a loeer again. Alleging that Wast and Sykes refused to play a fair game and cheated him, the victim made complaint at police head quarters and caused the warrants to be issued. . In addition to the charge of gambling, West and gykes are charged also with retailing liquor la violation of the pro hibition haw of the State. They are beJ ftndsr bonds of $100 each In this case. THB) LAUH ON A POLICEMAN. The members of the police force have the laugh on Offioer Marsh, who went to Durham yesterday . afternoon, for dim Eckel, the local negro baseball pitcher and all-round athlete, who Is charged wtth secret assault with Intent to kUL Policeman Marsh received his prisoner from the Durham authorities and started back to Greensboro In the wee ama' hoars of this moral&g. The negro was securely handcuffed, and such a thing as an scape never entered the head of the cop until, apon slighting frota-the tram here before daylight. Eeaej suddenly dodged behind a car and was soon test to sight In a big lumber yard Just south of the depot. V- SENT TO REFORMATORY. Arthur Moore, a ll-year-oid white boy (Continued on Page Eight) TAB HEEL WILL BE CONSUL 1 CHAS. LATHAM TO BE APPOINTED Son of Ex-Congressman Lands a Good Joh With Vncle Sam Will Bo Lo cated in South American Republic Senator MinnioiiH Gets Commit tee to Increase Salaries of K. F. D. and City Mail Carriers Charges Brought Against rowimaster at HayettriUe, Clay Couuy Mr. Over man's Secretary ft Well-Equipped Man For the position Newspaper Coiresoondents Will Go Down to Norfolk to Attend Festivities N Welcome to Fleet. of BY H E. C. BRYANT. Observer Bureau, Congress Hall Hotel. Washington, Feb. 12. Mr. Charlea Latham, son of ex- Congreasman Lewis C. Latham, of Greenville, will within the next few days be appointed consul at Carta gena, Republic of Colombia, at a salary ef $2,000 a year. He Is a brleht young fellow and in order to prepare himself well for the position mastered the Spanish language and stood a capital examination. Senators Simmons and Bankheaa, of North Carolina and Alabama, re spectively, made a good tight to-day In the Senate committee on post offices and post roads and succeeded In having $100 a year added to the salary of U. F. D. carriers, giving them $1,000 apiece inxtead o( $900. City carriers were raised to $1,200. Stuart W. Cramer, Jr. of Charlotte, has been notified to report to Annap olis, having passed the required ex aminations. It has been reported to the Post- office Department that the postmaster at Hayeavllle, Clay county, would not give Democrats blanks for tno ex amination for rural free delivery carriers. It 1 charged that the ex amination was not advertised. Owing to the trouble, of whatever nature. Representative Crawford, of the tenth district, requested that the examina tion be DUt off until the jsth or March, and the department granted it It Is possible that an Inspector will be sent down to investigate the matter. These matters are left with the postmasters for the sake of con venience. OVERMAN'S NEW SECRETARY. Mr. C. H. Martin, Senator Over man's new secretary, Is one of the best-equipped men for the place In the State. He Is a good stenographer, an affabl fellow and thoroughly ex perienced. He has been here eight years with Representative Pou, and knows every detail of the work, in the office and with the departments. Mr. Martin is a I great-great-great grandson of Nathaniel Macon, a famous North Carolina statesman. Fred L. Carr, the retiring secretary, will devote his time to private af fairs. He Is one of the most suc cessful business men of his age In the State, and might be accurately termed "the scholar In business." ated In 1808, he stood at the head of" a large class. In Green county he is considered a leading farmer ana merchant Having recently married, ha will settle down at Wilson and de vote his time to building a horns and making money. John D. Brown, of Salisbury, is Mr. overman's stenog rapher. He remains here to assist Mr. Martin. TO MEET THE FLEET. . 1JK-ea.t Dleasure and privilege to par .T.hU""d!.,f Jieie .'plt. r these fesuvltie. In honor Norfolk to witness the arrival of the American fleet which Is due on the Zia. Mr. Aivan 11. miiun. km. Harvev Wilson and others, of Nor folk, have been here and Invited the members of the press galleries to at tend the festivities of the occasion, and most of the scribes will accept. Extra boats ar being put on the Potomac to carry the crowd from here. Thomas J. Pence and I will be In the party of newspaper men. We go down Satsrday night, the 20th, and return the following Monday. Representative E. Y. Webb, of the Charlotte district, handed me the fol lowing Item, which he clipped from a newspaper some time ago: Til bet none of you folks know that the largest man that ever lived born and raised In North Caro lina," said a Tar Heel atglhe Hoffman House the other night. "HIS existence and dimensions are vouched for in the American Encyclopedia, says The New York Press. "His name was Miles Darden. He was seven feet six inches high, and in 1845 weighed $71 pounds. He was born in North Carolina In 1798 and died In Tennessee January 23d, 1857. Until 188$ he was able to go about his work In an artive manner, nut his weight Increased so fast' that after that year when he wanted to move about he had to be hauled In a two-horse wsgon. In 18S9 it is cnroniciea tnat his coat was buttoned around tnree men. each weighing more than 200 rounds, who walked together in it down the streets of Lexington, N. C, At his death he Is MM to have weighed not less then 1.000 pounds His coffin was 8 feet long, SB Inches deep, 31 Inches screes the breast, 18 across the head and 14 across the feet. These measurements were taken at the time and are matters of historical record." North Carolina Is always ahead Elder Hemphill and George Marcellns Bailey cannot boast of such men In South Carolina and Texas. FILIBUSTER STILL VIGOROUS. Prohibitionists Declare They Will Defeat Local Bills as Retaliatory Means Tret Vote Shows Division is S to 51. Observer Bureau, 1280 Berkeley Building. Columbia, 8. C. Feb. 12. The filibuster In the House of the local optlonlets against the Richards Stats-wide prohibition bill was kept alive and vigorous at both the morn lng and .evening sessions of the House to-day with the result that no busi ness was sccortpllshed outside of mere routine. Both sides are full of fight and appear confident of the final result. The. local optlonlats are satisfied that If they' can stay orr the vots till to-morrow night the bill will not reach enactment within the customary forty days, though there Is no -law . limiting . the session to forty days. The prohibitionists have a big stick swinging over the heads of the opposition In the shspe of a threat to withhold the passage of numerous local bills. Members are greatly Interested In both sides 'and say they ars willing to stay here indefinitely- There was ons vote on the bill to day that was more or leas a test of strength. It wu on Richards motion to table the motion of the opposition to strike out the enacting vo1"". Richards' motion carried $3 to II.' ' ALL1UAT0K DLVNEtt SERVED 1 l ONE THOUSAND AT THE BOARD : New Orleans Pulls Off lt Muclily- Ad vertitteu Twent y - H ve-Dollad-a- Plate Dinner One Thousand Citi zens Come Acro; With the "Douyh" and Enjoy the Pleasures of the Evening Mr. Tart Addresses Great Gathering of Negroes in the Morning and Spends the Afternoon ou the Links Sympathise With the Hlack Man In His Struggle and Drops a Word of Enr ouragenieni Ideates To-Day For Cincinnati. New Orleans. Feb. 12. President elect Taft breathed the distinctive at mosphere of New Orleans' hospitality to-day and to-night. His morning was devoted to the negro race, his afternoon to leisure and recreation, with the tension of entertainment as light as possible, but with the shades of evening there gathered about him the genial host, multiplied by emi nence, rank and distinction. The entertainment feature to-night was a Creole banquet when the fat tened oysters, the savorlneas of the cuisine, with Its hundreds of years of perfection and reputation blended with the honied words of compliment and oratory, music and floral tribute Into a scene of animation and vi vacity, tempered with respect and dignity. Mr. Taft was toasted by the Governor, the mayor, by cltlens 01 prominence and speakers of reputa tion. A feeling Invocation was pro nounced bv Cardinal Olbbons, who fs In the city visiting his brother. Mr. Taft responded in the spirit 01 me occasion. He talked of his desire as th Chief Executive to represent the whole nation, of his intention to make the representatives of the administra tion In the South represent the best element of the communities In which they lived; of his recent visit to the Isthmus of Panama, with a repetition of his hope for the completion of the canal within his administration. The, dinner was siven In the newiy decorated banquet hall of the Grune- wald Hotel, where Mr. Taft is quar tered. A thousand citizens paid me assessment of $25 each for places at the board and considerably over ball of these were present and from the early beginning until the late end ing the scene was one of brilliance and animation. The spacious corrl rinr. nf th hotel Dresented a brilliant scene during the evening, the assemb ling place of the many wno couiu u attend the dinner. Handsomely gownsd women wltn their escorts thronged the oorrldors and Mr. Taft graciously consented to an Informal reception which gratified the desire of hundreds to meei mux personally. . ., . . . a. nrn j the brUUlantly lighted and decorated banquet hall had been filled. Mr. Taft was ceremoniously ln- ested with the Jewel and tme 01 in Dnr,A nt tha PhlllDolnes" by the Tn-iii tmbiuador of Rsx, Judge Larry O'Donnell, the compll lent be ing a forerunner 01 tne carmv -son. . Mr. Taft accepted In the same spir it of fun, saying he would take the tniu. with the understanding that it would not Involve htm in the meshes of the constitutional provision agunai the acceptance of emolument or hon or from a foreign prince or potentate. CARDINAL GIBBONS' SPEECH. Cardinal Gibbons paid a cordial tribute to the President-elect, say ing; t her to assure this large and dis tinguished audience that I feel It a of the Presdent-elect of the United States. 1 have known Mr. Taft for sever al years and the more I have known him the better I nave jearnoa 10 u mire and esteem him. In common with thousands of others I have been fascinated by that genial smne tnai will not come off a smile that Is not artificial but Is the reflection of a heart full of benevolcpce ana over flowing with the milk of human kind ness. "The people of the United biaies have chosen for President a man whose devotion to his country is not rent rlc ted bv State lines or by sectlon- sl bias, but who loves his fellow cltl sens, whether tney come irura iu East or West. North or South, who will be President of the whole nation, who will administer the affairs of his country with even handed and Impar tial Justice. "When your honored guest was In Georgia a few weeks ago he won the hearts of the people there and he in formed them that he hoped that they would gle him their affections 384 days In te year, and they could vote for whom they pleased on the 345th day. "Judging from the enthusiasm of the residents of the Crescent City I believe they would bestow their af fections on the President-elect for 16b days and on the remaining day they would give him their suffrage, and In doing so they might travel farther and fare worse. "OUR WILLIAM." "Nearly 30 years ago on arriving at Queenstown fro mNew York I saw that the people of Great Ilrltaln and Ireland were In a high state of enthu siasm over the election to Parliament of Mr. Gladstone, who once more be came Prime Minister to England. The people greeted him everywhere with the affecttonato title of 'Our William.' "And I am sure that the gentle men assembled here to-night and the men and women of New Orleans and the citizens at large throughout ths United States will take equal pride in calling our honored guest by the fa miliar but endearing name of 'Our William.' " The invocation follows: "We pray thee, O God of might, wisdom and Justice, through whom authority Is rightly administered, laws are enacted ana judgment aecreea. assist with Thy Holy Spirit of coun sel and fortitude the President-elect of these United States, that nis ad ministration may be conducted In righteousness and be eminently useful to Thy people over whom he presides, by, encouraging dus respect for vir tue and religion; by a faithful execu (Ton of 'the laws Tn 'justice- and rnercy, and by restraining vice and Immo rality. Vouchsafe. O Lord, to bless us and these Thy gifts which we are to receive from Thy bounttrui nana. Christ our Lord, Amen." TALKS TO NEGROESL In his speech to the negroes who rrHtad him hr thousands at the ball park to-day Mr. Taft reiterated his heretofore well defined principles re garding the development ef the negro race and the settlement ef the race ourttlon. He save wholesome advice te the effect that the big question was to he solved by ths effort of ths Indi vidua! rather than by any promulga (Continued om Page Ssrm.ji LLNCOLVS SAME HONORED MEMORIAL CORNER-STONE LAID President Roosevelt, Surrounded by 6,000 People From Every Section of the Nation, Places tlw Foundation Stone of Lincoln Memorial Build ing Politic s, Hai fa and Sections Are Forgotten and All Alike Pay Tribute to the Memory of the Great War President Roosevelt Reviews the Life of the Sturdy Backwoods man Declaring Him to Be One of America's Two Great Men Ex Slave Assists in the Exercises. Hodgenville, Ky., Keb. 1:. Hence forth the birthplace of Abraham Lin coln is to be marked by a pile nf stone. The emancipator of a race, and more than that the liberator of the thought of a nation, builded his own monument In the heart of the world, and appropriately the physi cal structure which has now found a beginning at tho place wh'-re Lincoln first saw the light takes the Himpler name of a memorial.. It is ti he a simple but classic building of gran ite, and It Is hoped that it may be completed some time next fall, when the then President Taft will officiate In dedicating ft as the present Presi dent Theodore RooBevelt to-day offi ciated In laying Its foundation stone. The corner-stone laying; took place after appropriate forensic ceremonies which were participated in by the President of the United States, Gov ernor Augustus E. Wlllson, of Ken tucky, former Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, president of the Lincoln Farm Association; Hon. Luke E. Wrlghl.- Secretary of V.'ar, who spoke as' an ex -Confederate soldier; General James Grant Wilson, of New York, who represented the Union sol diers, and I. T. Montgomery, of Mis sissippi, a negro, and an ex-slave. With one exception the orators repre senting not onlv the conflicting sides In ths yreat sir., g'.e, but the present generation as well; the two political parties, and the white and black races as well as the different sections of the country, spoke from the same plat form with the Stars and Stripes flut tering over them. There were prob ably six or eight thousand people pres ent PRESIDENTIAL PARTY ARRIVES. President Roosevelt and his Imme diate party arrived shortly before 1 o'clock, after a drive over a heavy red clay road from Hodgenville, and five minutes afterwards Governor Wlllson called the assemblage to gether. The president was cordially and deferentially received. He was fre quently Interrupted by applause, but It was always well-timed, and never boisterous enough to cause either an apeeches were liberally applauded, noyance or much delay. Other Mr. Roosevelt arouse! especial en thusiasm when he mounted a chair and gave ths crow a better oppor tunity to see and hear him. In the main, he confined "himself closely to his manuscript, but at the beginning departed from It to make reply to complimentary allusions to himself by Governor Folk. . The extemporaneous part of ths speech was In part as fol lows: THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRES8. We have met here to celebrate fhe hundredth anniversary of the, birth of one of tha two greatest Americans; of one of the two or three greatest men of the nineteenth century; of one nt h rreatest men in the world's history. This rail splitter, this boy who passed his ungainly youth in tne dire poverty of the poorest of the frontier folk; whose rise was by weary and painful labor, lived to lead his people through ths burning names 01 a struggle trom wnicn tne nauon merred. nurlfled as by fire, born anew to a loftier life. After long years of Iron effort, and of falhire that came more often than victory, he at last rose to the leadership 01 the republic, at the momeng when that leadership had become 'the stu pendous world-task of the time. He grew to know greatness, but never esse. Success came to mm, nut never happiness, sav that which springs from doing well a painrui ana a vital task. Power was his. but not pleasure. The., furrows deepened on his brow, but his ryes were undlmmsd by either hate or fear. His gaunt shoulders were bowed, but his steel thews never faltered as he bore for a burden the destinies of his people. His great and tender heart shrank from giving pain and the task allotted htm was to pour out like water the life-blood of the young men, and to reel in nis every fiber the sorrow of the women. Dis aster saddened but never dismayed him. As the red years of war went by they found him ever doing his duty In the present, ever facing the r .h r.rl.-. front hla-h of V. . ... nvA ria,,ntlaji nf soul. T7n- broken by hatred, unshaken by scorn he worked and suffered for the peo- pie Triumph was his at 'he last ant DHtrciy xmu hq wcu it murder found him, and the kindly, patient, fearless eyes were closed for ever. OUR TWO GREATEST MEN As a people we are Indeed beyonJ measure fortunate In the characters of the two greatest of our public men Washington and Lincoln Wlde lv thoiia-h thev differed In externals, the Virginia landed gentleman and the Kentucky backwoodsman, were alike in essentials, they they were nhich alike In the great qualities rendered each able to render serv ice to his nation and to all mankind ,ch as no other man of his generation "aid ordfd render. Each had lofty Ideals, but each in striving attai n "L"': '"' '1.. said, member, of the Democratic, sessed inflexible courage In adver sity, snd a soul wholly unspoiled by prosperity. Bach possessed all tha gentle virtues commonly exhibited by good men who lack rugged strength of character. Each possessed also all the strong qualities commonly hlblted by those towering masters of mankind who have too often shown themselves devoid of so much as the understanding of the words by which we signify tho qualities of duty, of mercy, of devotion to the right, of loftv disinterestedness In battling for the good of others.' There have been other men as great and other men as good; but in all the history of man kind there are no other two great men as good as these, no ether two good men ss great. Widely though ths problems of to-day differ from the problem set for solution to Wash ington when he founded this nation, to Lincoln when he saved It and treed the slave, yet the qualities they show ed'ln meeting these problems are -aotly the same as those we should show in doing our work to-day. ' Lincoln saw In the future with the prophetic imagination usually vouch safed only to the poet and th seer. (Continued on Psge sJght). CAN AL LIBEL EU1TS BOB UP EX -CONVICTS STARTED TROUBLE Representative Loverlna; Again Brings l"p the Panama Canal Deal, Charging That Mr. Ralnoy Got His Information From The New York World Declare the (Stories of Iraud and Corruption Relative to the Canal Purututae Came From Ex -Convicts Whose Names, Alls see. Haunts and Plans Are Knows Side-steps When Asked to Name the Men, But Adds That Their Namea Are Before Jnrte and They WIU Be "Brought to Book." Washington, Feb. 12. That Rep resentative Ralney, of Illinois, got from The New York World his in formation regarding the Panama ca nal afTairs, which formed the sub ject of his recent speech and that ex- , convicts instigated the stories of fraud and corruption pertaining to the acquirement of title by the United states to the property, was the charge made to-day in the House of Representatives by Mr. Loverlng, Of Massachusetts. "May be," he said. "The World .lid not originate all the scanilulous stories it published, hut Its columns were public aud we do know that The World did give cred ence and circulation to them." Mr. Lovering declared that "the perpetrators of these false statements are known and the story of their do ings reveale a chapter In the history of blackmailing that Is rare in I he' annals of crime. These gentlemen," he said, "are known; their names are known; their aliases are known; their haunts are known and their plans are known." "Does the gentleman object to stat-. lng who they are?" Inquired Mr. Bur-" leson, of Texas. Mr. Loverlng protested that he was laboring under great difficulty rjecattset! of the absence of Mr. Ralney from the. chamber. He admitted that he did not notify the Illinois memSer that he was to speak on this subject. "I want to say," said he, "that these man. have been run down and brought. to book, and It turns out that many of them are ex-convicts, and their stand a good chance of returning to the penitentiary." CASES IN HANDS OF JURIES. . He was pressed by Mr. Shackelford,, of Missouri, for information as to wno these convicts were, but Mr. Lover-c lng would go no farther than to r'ate that before long they would- be pro duced In court. Their names, he, . said, had been brought before the grand Juries both at Washington and' New York, and at tne proper time would be communicated to the gener al public. How do yon happen to be ran-li ter with the secrets of the grand Ju ries?" Mr. Shackelford asked. Hut before he could answer, Mr. G aloes., of Tennessee, Inquired if he was i.ot a warm personal friend of WilUsnt, Nelson Cromwell. Mr. Lovering. ad- -mitted that he was. - Mr. Loverlng said, referring to Mr. Rainer:' "This gentleman has been' made a victim, or he is too willing to asperse such fair names as those of Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson, William Nelson Cromwell. Roger Farnham and several others. It was. he said, a "shameless prostitution" of the privilege of free speech which members enjoyed on the floor of the House. For this utterance, Mr. Loverlng; was promptly called to order by Mr.. Lawrence, of Massachusetts, his col league, who was In the chair, and admonished that he should observe the rules in regard to the use of per sonalities. Mr. Loverlng protested that he had . -mentioned no names except that of, Mr. Ralney, and those which had been, spoken of In the House and in the public press. OFFERED STORIES TO DEMO CRATIC COMMITTEE. Mr. Ralney entered the chamber and stated that an engagement would, prevent his remaining throughout Mr. Loverlng's remarks, but that he later would make answer should he find It necessary. , . Mr. Loverlng declared the evi dence was complete and "sufficient to sonvtct the blackmailers, who havs tried to work their game not only' on the gentlemen I have named, hut on both political parties." Last fall, he said, an effort wag made to sell the stories to the Demo cratic committees and that certalis leaders of that party took the mat ter under consideration but that they were not used because they could not be substantiated. He charged that for nearly two years prior to tnac time "these satne t JtSIn suing Cromwell with the expecmion that he would pay them a large sn I of money, varying irom a.vv w 125.000. He would pay to nave tneesr j o- . J by Mr Cromwe wtth stories suppressed." Mr. uovennsr an iMi,nini rn'fnaal "and the reTly that thev might do what they pleased wfllv their stories, for they were nothing: but lies." Those same people, he said, find In that Mr. Cromwell was deeply In- teresteri In Mr. Tart's- campaign. thought he would submit to pay something rather than have any publicitv at thftt moment. They said to him. Mr. covering aseeneo. even ; though there be no truth in this story. buy and bury It." It was at that time, he lrl. when thev had failed In all d'm"ni , ?JJi tal tb twk WM: i to Mr. Mack chairman of the Imf cratlc national commtttee. and offered , f -.g p nartv entered Into an agreement with Mr. Ralney "to exploit the sub pert on the floor of the House. This) he has attempted to no ny intro ducing a resolution of lnoulry." He ! rh , however. that Mr. Ralney j ..,msu1arly enough" had taken ! ! steps to brlnar about anv fnveetlgetieiw 1 .... h .iu. rtown?" he Inoutred. nj fy to secure his proofs jjaVe his Informants forsaken hlssf He tj,at "after these professional blarkmallera the fact la known that many of them were professional had failed to extract money n-om any "cvf thee""' sources thy aW,w thelr desperation, cause them to he published snd they appeared In The New York World." , . RAINEY DENIES CHARGES. " Mr. Loverlng could not say whether The World paid for the atorleasnd he stated that whether the gentle man from Illinois "got his Informa tion from The New York. World or directly from, these blackmailers does not matter." Rising in his place Mr- Ralney de clared that he had received no In formation from either source. ' "I -know nothing ef any blackmailers." be asserted. "Neither have I re- (Csotlaued sa rage ISxtt-J rl r
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