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r - V t. "7 ife- THE ERAEDo : : : ' 1 : : ; : : - T. G. COBB, Editor and Owner. thk m o r.c an tn rjjl o or Heated Nov. 29. woi.l. Subscription Price $1 Per Year in Advano ' " ' L " c -! . - - . VOL. XXX. MORGANT0N, N. C, MARCH 11, 1915. - " ; NO. 42 ' r : . : 1 1 . .... V -- '- 1 1 . .. .1 , 1 , , ..I. - i. 1 J? 4 V. I CONGRESS ADJOURNED LAST THURSDAY. Amount of Appropriations $1, 120,000,000 Approximately Several Million Under That of Previous Congress Ship Bill Fell By the Wayside, as Did Several Other Important Ones. Washington Dispatch, 4th. Congress adjourned to-day sine die. The Senate adjourned at 12:04 and the House at 12:18. The total aprpopriations of the session was approximately $1,120, z00,000, several million under the rec ord of previous congresses. Two appropriation bills failed. After refusing to accept the Indian bill the Senate reversed itself and passed it but the House refused to agree to minor amendments added at the last moment. In the closing hours President Wil son signed the Seaman bill, the neu trality resolution empowering him to prevent ships leaving American ports with supplies for belligerent warships, promoting Col. Goethals to be a ma jor general for his services as buil der of the Panama Canal. The administration ship bill, the Philippine bill, the conservation bill, the rural credit provisions of the ag ricultural bill, the ratification of the treaty with Columbia fell by the way side. In the Senate several members, long prominent national figures, among them Senator Root and Burton, step ped back into private life, as the-curtain fell. In the House of Repre sentatives, Underwood said goodbye to take a seat in the next Senate. Three score of Representatives fell by the wayside. Before the House adjourned today the clock was turned back fifteen, min utes to allow clearing up of some "mi nor business. Drainage to Increase Cleveland County's Output of Corn. Shelby Dispatch, 6th. One of the few instances in which public work is carried on at a less expense than was anticipated is the drainage of Buffalo creek and its trib utaries. The districtVsras formed about two years ago and a bond issue of $108,000 voted. The drainage com missioners have been faithfully work ing on the reclamation of the land with two big dredge boats for a little over a year. Chairman A. H. Cline says the work will be completed in two months and there will be left something like $25,000 in the treasury which will go to paying the interest on the bonds to the relief of the tax payers of the first year's tax. Buf falo at one time was as rich as the valley of the Nile and was referred to by the uplanders as "going to 3 Egypt" when they went touy their corn fromjthose. living along the rich bottoms. For a quarter of a century the land has been practically worth- i; less from the standpoint of agricul- J ture because of the overflow from the creeks. It is estimated that now since the bottoms have been drained and the land reclaimed, it means be tween 50,000 and 60,000 bushels more of corn to be produced in Cleveland county. Breakfast at Marion. Asheville Dispatch, 5th. Of much interest to the traveling public will be the announcement that the Southern Railmay Company has arranged with the Union News Com pany to serve light breakfasts on passenger train No 15. The waiter will board the train at Marion each morning and will serve the break fast to those who desire this t service rather than to rise early-at Hickory to receive their morning meal. Space ha been provided in the baggage car for the preparation of the meals. Another Edison Building IS Burned. West Orange, N. J. Dispatch. The only building of T. A. Edison's ffreat plant here, remaining undamag ed from the fire last December was practically destroyed by fire early to day. It housed valuable phonographic records but most of them stored5, in a fire-proof vault were saved. The inventor himself worked in his laboratory shortly after midnight. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained. CLAIM AGAINST THE U. S. North Carolina May Get $100,- 000 of an Old Claim. Washington Dispatch to Greensboro News. A positive effort is now being made in Congress to place the State of North Carolina on a parity with the other States cf the Union in the mat ter of the refundment to her of money and expenditures in the payment and equipment of the State militia called into the service of the United States during the war of 1812 to 1815. A bill in the nature xf an amendment to the general deficiency bill, author izing and directing , a readjustment ana payment ui iueSe u, trcduced in the House of Representa- . tives by Representative Page. Sen- ; ators Simmons and Overman are j i j. j? : loosing alter tne passage m xne oen- ate. The bill provides that the Secre tary of the . Treasury be authorized and directed to reopen, examine and audit the claim of the State of North Carolina on account of advances and expenditures made by the' State in the war of 1812-1815, with Great Britain, and ascertain and determine, in accordance with the rule applied in the settlement of the like claim of the State of Maryland under pro visions of the act of Congress approv ed March 3, 1857, the amount remain ing unpaid and due to the State of North Carolina, on account of ad vances and expenditures and appropri ate whatever sum is found to be ne cessary for the payment of said claim. During the war . with Great Brit ain the seyeral States then compris ing the Union made certain advances of money and expenditures in the payment and equipment of their mi litia .called into the service of the United States. A large portion of the expenditures so made was re .funded to the States out of regular appropriations' "made by Congress for the support of the army. Further refundments were made under an act of Congress, approved March 3, 1817, directing the payment of "balance due certain States." Additional refund ments were made under special acts acts of Congress, in which each par ticular State was made the beneficiary Subsequent to these refundments of the principal of the sums thus expend ed by the States, Congress has from time to time made provisions for the payment of interest charges incurred and paid by those States which had found it necessary to borrow money to meet the original obligations. The Federal government has recog nized the proper expenditure by the State of North Carolina for the pay ment and equipment of militia and has refunded to the State the sum of S77,000. No settlement, however, appears ever to have been made mith the State for the interest charges which she incurred and paid on money . borrowed in order to meet these ex penses. The records of the State show that North Carolina was oblig ed to resort to loans in order to meet these obligations. The public Treas- Urer, by various acts of the Legisla-1 ture during the period froml812-'15, was authorized to, and did, borrow large sums of money to meet the above-mentioned expenditures, as well as for the operating expenses of the State erovernment. The records of the Treasurer's office show that the State was borrowing from the banks and paying interest on approximately $100,000 during parts of this period. It is contended that the State of North Carolina is entitled to a set tlement and refundment of the inter est charge: incurred by her on these loans and in acordance with the same rules as have been applied in the settlement of like accounts of. other States. Upon the passage of this bill by Congress, the Treasury Department will audit and adjust the account in accordance with the directions con tained therein and the amount found to be due this State, reported back to Congress for specific . appropria tion. It is contended that an audit of the account on the same basis as to interest as the audits of the ac counts of other States have been made, will show that North Carolina is clearly entitled to something more than $100,000. Speaker Anderson, of the Tennes see Legislature, died Tuesday night of last week of uraemic poison. It's a coincidence that the Speakers of both the North Carolina and Tennessee Legislatures have died while the Legislatures were in session and with. in a few days of each other. WILSON POSTPONES TRIP TO EXPOSITION. 1 . Vice President Marshall Will Represent President Wilson at Formal Dedication. Washington Dispatch, 5th. , Vice President Marshall will go to San Francisco to represent President Wilson at the formal dedication 0$ the Panama-Pacific Exposition March 20. The President still hopes to visit' the exposition later. - The Vice President left to-night. for Cleveland, and later will go to Indian- apolis before leaving for the coast. Assistant Secretary Phillips of the State Department, chairman of the Government Exposition Board, also kft for gan Francisco to-night to take part in the exercises in honor of resentatives of foreign government. President Wilson reluctantly gave up his plans for going to the. coas't this month, but decided he was need ed in Washington to direct the nego tiations for the protection of Ameri can interests during the war. He may go later. , The Vice President conferred to-day with Secretary Bryan and Mr. Phil- lips, who discussed the trip last night , , , , -- , xL xx. n , , . .L : able acts of General Obregon at Mex with the President. The invitation to . the Vice President to represent the President at the exposition followed and he accepted. Secretary Daniels stated to-day that he intends to carry- out his original plan to visit the Fanama-Pacific Ex position next July, making the trip on a v.arship via the Panama Canal j about July 1. There probably will be a number of distinguished guests in the Secretary's party. Woodmen of World In Session at Durham. Durham Correspondence, 8th, Greens boro News. , About 300 delegates to the State convention of the Woodmen of the World are here for the annual meet ing. To-night the formal opening of the convention was held at-Trinity church. The main auditorium of the building was packed with Durham Woodmen, delegates and visitors. Sovereign L. L. Tilley, Durham, was chairman of meeting. Mayor W. J. Brogden, of Durham, delivered the address of welcome. "Woodmen's function in the world was to clear away the ftfrests," he said. "That is the prime meaning of the word, and to-day applied to the order the Wood men are supposed to clear away the prejudices, ignorance and other things which tend to make civilization7 any the less bright." The response was made by Gen. B. S. Royster, of Oxford. He said he believed the mayor had peeped into the book, for he told the Woodmen things they should have , known. He asked the delegates to see to it that they got something out of these meetings to carry home to their lodges. The first regular meeting of the convention will be held to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. (Mr. W. T. Clark, district deputy, and Messrs. R. E. Coleman and Oliver Webb are attending the meeting from the Morganton camp.) Water for the Hospital Charlotte Observer, 7th. The Appropriations Committee did fairly well by the State institutions did better, perhaps, than many had supposed it could do under existing circumstances. The needs of all were met and no bond issue was talked of. The Observer is glad that the State Hospital at Morganton will b enabled to secure a much-needed supply of water, the committee having set aside 60,000 for that purpose This insti tution also comes in for an appro priation of $5,000 maintenance fund jpver the appropriation of last year, though the increase should have been a little more liberal, considering the increased demands upon the facilities of the hospital. But the need of wa ter works, was the most pressing, and the institution should be thankful that this long-desired equipment is to be provided. Four hundred North Carolina farm boys have enrolled in the new organ ization known as the Pig Clubs, which is being conducted by the animal hus bandary division of the North Caro lina Experiment Station. J. D. Mc Vean, in charge of the work, states that since January -1st 200 have enrolled. U. S. DEMANDS BETTER ... CONDITIONS IN MEXJCO. - Change of Policy of Our Govern- ment Indicated. Washington Dispatch, 8th. . New and urgent representations, amounting practically to a warning, have been sent by the United States to General Carranza demanding an improvement of conditions in Mexico City. x Diplomats familiar with the note American Consul Silliman has been instructed to present to Carranza in-' terpret it as an entire change of pol icy on the part of the Washington' government toward the Mexican gov ernment. The communication to Carranza, drafted after a conference between President Wilson, Secretary - Bryan and Councilor Lansing, was guarded with secrecy pending some word from Carranza. It was said by some officials that the note contained the strongest rep resentations ever made to Carranza and indicated that the American gov ernment was rapidly losing patience 1C 1 Those who know the contents of the communication said it did not set forth and was not the nature of an ultimatum but pointed out the se rious consequences that might follow if the welfare of foreigners continued HP De aisregarueu In diplomatic quarters there were more manifestations of concern over the Mexican situation than at any time since the American forces were landed at Vera Cruz. The foreign diplomats conferred among them selvesJ1 -Some of the diplomats ex presssed themselves as satisfied that the note would produce results. "Two Years of Wilson. Asheville Citizen. . It is a glowing tribute which the New York World pays President Wil son in an extensive review of two years of his administration. While the President and his friends must have experienced a feeling of deep disappointmentthat the ship purchase and child labor bills failed to reach enactment, there is still before the country a splended record of achieve ment. For the public prints bear evidence that no four years of preced ing congressional sessions reached greater accomplishment along nation al lines than did the Sixty-third con gress which has passed into history. It is not too much to say that Presi dent JWilson, rather than congress it self, was responsible for legislation which brought about reforms of far reaching character. He did not use a club, yet his strong personal in fluence undoubtedly brought into be ing th8 Underwood-Simmons tariff law and the banking and currency law. Above these, perhaps, may be ranked President Wilson's signal vic tory over the warlike interests in saving this country from war with Mexico. This, of course, was not leg islation of any character; it was, how ever, a diplomatic triumph which throughout the future history of this country must reflect the greatest credit on the present chief executive. These achievements were reached in the face of the most bitter opposition, and despite the fact that the presi dent was not always sure of his own household. Well does the New York World say that President Wilson "has given his office a new and unaccustomed dignity." "The old-fashioned lobby at Washington," it declares, "has be come as extinct as the dodo." This was accomplished without the use of fireworks and political claptrap. Al ways it was the quiet, but firm insist was it was the quiet, but firm insist ence of the president forging to. the front, demanding that respectful hear ing which is never given to the dema gogue in high places. President Wil son, confronted 'on his entrance into office with ' problems of the most mo mentous character, addressed himself to " their solution with the highest patriotism and courage." Tact and wisdom marked his progress as he took up -and brought to successful is sue the graver questions of the hour. Now that the curtain has fallen on the first half of his administration, it is fitting and proper that press and people stamp his record with a clear seal of approval. Try News-Herald watch results. ads and WILSON STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE. "Red Buck" Says That He Has Kept His Own and Helped to Keep the Nation's Head. - Washington Correspondence Charlotte Observer, 6th. . ' ".The first Congress under the Wil son Administration has passed into history. It is how part of the rec ords of the United States. The tar iff act, the anti-trust laws, the Feder al reserve act and much other val uable legislation has been put on the books. President Wilson says that the work of the Sixty-Third Congress was well done. The Observer Corerspondent has kept close tab on the President, Con gress and the Executive Departments since President Wilson came in. In his capacity as representative of the Observer and the New York World he has been in position to observe all along the line. In this story he will undertake to present some facts that do not crop out in ordinary news iter?.. ' President Wilson is .stronger to-day than he was when he was inaugurated. There has been some question about the correctness of the tariff policy of the Democratic party, but if the Un derwood-Simmons law is given a-fair test it may prove the greats blessing that its friends say it must be. If there is an issue in the United States now it is over the tariff; it is not over President Wilson. The European war has brought the average Ameri can citizen, who thinks well of his family, his home and his country, and will shoulder a gun and go to battle, if necessary, to a realization of the fact that Mr. Wilson will steer the ship of State with a cool, clear head, and keep it off the rocks. There is no desire among some Americans for war with any of the foreign countries now involved, in the W5.P of'NatforisT There is an abidlfaith in Mi Wil son's ability to protect the honor and integrity of the Nation without plunging the United States into war. That is what his people think. - Futile Efforts. Republicans who are partisans first and patriots next have tried for two years to undermine the Democratic President. They have not succeeded; all that they can say is that thc Dem ocratic Administration has caused hard times, which means, of course, that nothing short of the eld Repub lican tariff will bring back prosperi ty. President Wilson has kept out of entangling alliances. He has no pets upon which he lavishes favors. He has no enemies that he would punish. The newspaper men of Washington have great respect for Mr. Wilson. They have not had to record that any one has called him a liar, or that he has described anybody as a liar or a malefactor. The White House has not been the breeding place of Roosevelt phrases since Mr. Wilson took' pos session. Quiet, thoughtful, and de liberate, President Wilson has been President for two years. He wears no other man's collar. No member of his Cabinet would even think of try ing to dominate him. He dominates by sheer force of character, ability and a keen, true sense of right and wrong, but does it in an inoffensive way. After he has given his word, whether it be "yes" or "no," those who know him take it as final unless they can produce evidence to chanbe his mind. There is nothing harsh or grating about the President He is hospitable, mannerly and gracious but not "easy." True to Her Sex. National Monthly. An old colored woman was sitting with knees crossed in the slipe de partment of a large store when a young woman clerk stepped up to her. "Aunty, what size of shoe do you wear?" she, inquired "Well, honey! I kin wear eights and I generally wear nines; but dese yer I'se got on are twelve, and de Lord knows day hurt me." r Thad R. Manning, "for many years well known as a newspaper man of this State, ttied in Henderson last Thursday. He had been confined to his bed for three years. He was 58 years old and was the founder and up to four, years ago owner of the -HendersonGold Leaf. He was at one time president of the North Carolina Press Association. NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST Brief Notes of Recent Happen ings in North Carolina. The Buncombe county boys' cor club has a membership of 156. Ex-President Taft will deliver thre lectures at the State University, be ginning March 17th. The Junior Oratoricals were he! at Davidson College last week, abou 45 orations being delivered. John Kenderick Bansrs. humorist V journalist and dramatist, is visitinj j Asheville, stopping at the Grove Par A Hill' y Grimes & Murphy, Hickory's - ne druggists, opened up for busines Monday. This makes the fourth dru; store for Hickory. Etta, 4-year-old daughter of 1 and Mrs. B. L. Umberger of thf cinity of . Concord, threw paper i fire, the flames set her clothing afir- and she was fatally burned. Auburn H. Setzer, who recently re turned to Hickory from Congo, Af rica, lias purcnased a jod printing outfit and will open up a' job printing plant ir. Hickory in the near future Jesse P. Walker, a Brunswick cour tyoutlaw, who killed the she'" , Brunswick in 19C?y broke A ' next year and has since succeV. escaped the law, was captured Sun day. Representative Doughton has rec ommenaea jonn u... miner lor coirl j.j ti x nr;n r T i master at Concord Mr. Miller's nl. ination will be made within a sh time. The candidates who failed ar. John B. Sherrill and Mr. Widenhbusi DurhanJi thatcl tition. Kj . B. N. Mann, a merchant of Durham was found on a street in that Monday night in a dying condi expired in a few "hours.. Ris head-w&.f sashed and assault by jobbers wai suspected, but later it was though'; he had been struck by an automobile The cotton platform and a few ove: 800 bales of cotton were destroyed bl fire last Friday night at Monroe. Th origin of the fire is not known, put i is thought that it .caught by a spar! from one of the engines on the yard as the main track is about 150 or 20( feet away. T. W. Allen, of Mecklenburg coun ty, lost 53 bales of cotton by fire Ia;; Thursday morjins: about 2 o'clock! The cotton was stored in a tcnam house near his home. The fire, it i. thought, was of incendiary origin. The house was completely destroyed There was no insurance. The records at the customs houscl in Wilmington show that during the! month of February the export-! amounted to almost twice what they! were in February of last jrear. The! exports February of this year amount ed to 1,763,550 and for the same! month last year $985,300. Cotton sent to England last month totalled 21,2G.- bales, to France 13,119 bales. Cotton I seed cakes to the amount of 4,704,000 pounds were sent to Denmark. In view of the need of reducing the high cost of living in these strenuous times of war and rumors of war, North Carolina Sorosis, an or ganization of club women, has sug gested to the young ladies of the senior class of the Wilmington High bchool that their commencement dresses be made as inexpensively as possible this year and this suggestion has met with the cordial approval of the teachers and it is expected that the sugestion will be adopted. A prize has been offered by Sorosis for the most attractive commencement dress, the cost not to exceed $2.50, the material to be purchased from a Wi migton merchant and preferably of North Carolina- looms. Wilsonian Ideas of "Society." In an address at Washinbton re- cently PresidentJKs"avs-hisr opinion of whatfisi called "high so ciety." "It is veryamuring sometimes," said the Presdent, "to see the airs that high spiety gives itself. The world couga r dispense I with high so ciety and' never miss it. ;- High society , is for those who have stopped workingt and no longer have anything import ant to do." "What r America has vindicated above all things else is that native ability has nothing to do with social origin." . ; i A