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$(re Asbcxnlle (feette '.New. THE ASSOCIATED PEESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION. 4:00 P. M. Weather forecast: Tartly Cloudy. ' -6 VOL. XV. NGS ASHEVILLE, N. O, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 21, 1910. 3c PER COPT Washington, March 21. When Speaker Cannon called the house to order today scarcely one-fourth of the members were present. The galleries were almost tilled. Immediately after the chaplain had concluded his pray er, a buzz of conversation arose. Rap ping the membtrs to order angrily the speaker reminded them that the unan imous consent calendar, which was ihe order of the day, "was not a safe calendar, unless the house considered It 'n an orderly manner." The unanimous consent calendar, referred to by Mr. Cannon, Is a part of the new Fitzgerald rules adopted by the house about a year ago. Some semblance of quiet being re stored, the house proceeded with con sideration of a number of small bills on the unanimous consent calendar. Members generally paid little attention to business before the house but con tinued to tnlk of the political situation. Itcyulnrt. and Democrats Satisfied., The regular republicans and demo crats appeared to be satisfied with the outlook. So did the Insurgent mem bers who had voted last Saturday to depose the speaker. The only element which seemed to contain dynamic pos sibilities were those "Insurgents," who had voted to retain Speaker Cannon Insurgents Threatening. They were serious and In some in stances threatening, some of them de clared they would not enter the re publican caucus unless they knew who were to constitute the new rules com mittee. It was reported that the in surgents, angered by Speaker Cannon's speech of Saturday night denouncing them as "cowardly members" were ('.rafting a new resolution proposing a committee or committees to select an entire new set of committees in the bouse. The republican and democratic cuu i uses have not been called but will occur during the week. Iteoresentutive Wilson, democrat, of I'ennsylvaniu introduced a resolution authorizing the new rules committee t revise, amend, simplify and codify the rules or the house. The Titanic struggle over, the ipcakershlp of the house of representatives, which reached its climax late Saturday In the de struction of the sneakers power In the committee on rules and the de termination by the house to recon struct that committee, yet leaving Mr. Cannon the speakership Itself, may l.ave marked, not so much the ending of a three days' battle, a the begin ning of a great political war. Wondering Whether They Wandered. Hardly anybody here thinks that the condition of affairs after the mo mentous battle represents any satis factory conclusion. The speaker and his friends appear to Interpret the re lusal of the house to depose him as Justifying them in claiming to have wrested victory from defeat, endorse ment from repudiation. Not a few of the Insurgents Who voted for Mr. Can non's retention are wondering today 11 they made a political blunder: whether their anti-Cannon ism con-" stltuenti will not indeed hold their re taining him in the speakership to have nullified their vote to eliminate him from the rules committee. Ketumetl to the Fold? The republican regulars complacent Iv claim that the insurgents who vot ed for the speaker have returned to tin parlv fold. The democrats taunt these Insurgents with having been re . ..ant to the logic of their Insurgency. Nobody seems entirely happy about the outcome. Even In the senate, the regular! are apprehensive lest the In surgent conflagration may be about to spread to that house; the Insurgent enntnra re wondering whether they have made the most of their oppor- L t unities. A Cannon Taunts Thrm. mm ... c Speaker Cannon s ucnuni jf" " Saturday night before the Illinois re publican association. In which he con temptuously denounced the Insurgent members of the house who stood b him In the final tight, as "cowardly members of congress, without ne . i.. . no hois, nits i i" BP EaV f itfB 1 iiPl each Insurgent who voted against Cannon for speaker. They heard with surprise the vote of Norrls when he cast in favor of Speaker Cannon. A murmur of comment passed over that side of the chamber. They taunted the insurgents who flocked over to the Cannon supporU IS EMBARRASSING REAL WAR JUST BEGUN FORTY-TWO KILLED 1GR0P OF 1818 THEIR POSITION IN REPUBLICAN CAMP? IN TRAIN WRECK! COTTON REPORT Rumors That Angry Insurgents Threaten to Propose Committee to Select En tire New House Committee. Twenty-Five Others Injured When Rock Island Train Left Track in Iowa. PHYSICIANS AND NURSES SENT BY SPECIAL TRAIN Counting Round as Half, Inclu ding Linters, 10,363,240 Bales 49,488 Yet to Be Ginned. I Will the Republicans of This ; District Endorse the Taft Administration? SOME TRUSTY KNIVES ARE BEING WHETTED JOSEFBL first one ROOSEVELT WILL NOT G 110,000 But Pensions Are Granted Today to the Widows of Presidents Cleveland and Harrison. Most or (hair the Casualties Occurred Cur Ttvu Sleepers Were Also Wrecked. in HAD LITTLE INFLUENCE UPON THE COTTON MARKET POLLED PROPS SKI FELL m Klein Makes Good His Threat, and Pittsburg Again Is in Throes of a City Graft Scandal. Proposition to Favor Local Option Also Likely to Bring on Trouble. j Market Active but Nerous and Unsettled at First, Later Became Quite Active. another beside which the would be but a skirmish. "I can speak for no one but myself, but If this is to be our reception, 1 am dene. We are not cowards. We of the Insurants who cast our votes against unseating Cannon were the bravest men In that house. It took consummate courage and it will prob ably cost me my seat In congress. But If we are to be met with calumny be cause we have sacrificed ourselves to save the country from chaos and dis order and to prevent the ruin of the republican party, then 1 am in favor ,,1 carrying this war to the finish." This member said he had talked with one or two others of the Insur gent leaders who voted to save Can non and they were in a similar frame of mind. "When I read In the papers this morning the Bpeech which Speaker Cannon delivered before the Illinois association, my blood boiled with In dignation," said this insurgent. Adoption of Norrht Resolution. Late Saturday afternoon by a vote of 191 to 155 the republican insur gents voting solidly with the demo crats, tho house adopted the resolu tion of Representative Norrls (repub lican) of Nebraska, requiring a reor ganization of the rules commiuec, in creasing its memhersnip iron, me ten and declaring the speaker ineligi ble to membership therein. By the curiously identical vote of 191 to 155 but with a decidedly dif ferent personnel 'of alignment the house defented a resolution of Hcpre sentatlve Burleson of Texas, declar ing the speakership vacant and or dearlng an Immediate election of a successor to Mr. Cannon. Great tumult and disorder raged around Mr. Burleson as he Btood by hi. H..k near the center of the house after sending his resolution jn.ir nnil its nurnort he -amo llls democratic colleagues snrrounucu him mime urging him to force his resolution to a vote; others declaring that ho had precipitated things too hastily. Kitchln of North Carolina, Hurd wlck of Georgia, Garner of Texas and Shaeklelnrd of Missouri, who ha as sisted him in drafting the resolution, all shouted amid the tumult to pay no attention to the panicky requests for a withdrawal of tho resolution. Seve ral Insurgent republicans ran over and entr. ated him to withdraw. It Is untimely; It la suicidal, the Cried through the din. "Don't offer this now. Don t do it this evening. Wait till we have had time to think It over." begged Hln .h,.w of Nebraska, clinging to llurle- a ... ..tin., it. in e.n. eon s arm aim - . Ilurleson paid no neea. ne o.."- .. pleaders off, and kopt his eye ..head at the wall in front of the speaker's desk, where Sherly of Kentucky was franucauy "'-"" that the motion to adjourn nad pri ority. jii u..,m,.r. -ri... sneaker was sieaun. lag his desk with the gavel but the ......... liari V uuniiMC hi".. - nil nver that sine oi Washington. March 21. The senate comimttee on pensions has agreed to report favorably bills to grant pen sions of $5000 a year to Frances F. Cleveland and the widow of ex-President Harrison. The committee declined to report the bill which would place ex-Presl-dent ltoosevelt on the retired list as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, and give him $10,000 a year for the remainder of his life. Dos .Moines, March 21. (Itiillclin) V. W. Cherry ot Princeton, la., one of the passenger- on the Hock Island train, telephones to tlie Dally Capitol that the number ol dead was 12 with i the Injured list probably as great j Cherry said he lieliod remove :I7 dead Washington, March 21. The census from Ihe wreck.. , j cotton report shows the crop of 190!i MarsBplltown.v. a., March 21. to bo 10,303,240 bales, counting round Thirty-two known dead, which may j as half bales, and Including llntera; be Increased to 40. and 24 Injured, compared with 13,432,131 for 1908. several fatally, Was the result of a Cotton estimated by glnners as re wreck of a Kock Island train being j inaining to be ginned and included in detoured on the Chicago Greut West ern tracks, four miles north of Green Mountain, today. March 2 1. The official BANKS PAID BIG MONEY TO GET PUBLIC FUNDS MABRAY AND HIS GANG SENTENCED FOR FRAUD hi Ten ol the Swindlers Get Two Years Prison Term and Fine of $10,000 Each. Chicago. report received at the headquarters of the Chicago anil Great Western railroad here gives the number of dead in a derailment accident of the Chicago, Kock Island & Pacific train at Gladbrook, la., this morning as 14. Twenty-live persons were injured. Nearly all the casualties occurred in the chair car, although two sleepers were also wrecked. A special train carrying all available physicians and volunteer nurses was dispatched to bring the dead and injured back to Marshalltown, la. The train was Consolidated nf two others both known as the Twin City express, one having left Chicago at 4:15 p. m. and the other St. Louis at 2:15 p. m. yesterday. The washout of a bridge near Cedar Kaplds made necessary a detour of the Chicago, Hock Island & Pacific train over the Chicago & Great Western tracks, and the two trains Wre made one at I'oilar lluplds." ' 92T, 715. G70 02,711 I.S97.7C1 208,800 1.106,170 047,747 571,370 statistics for 1910 is 49.488. Iteport by Slates. Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi Noi th Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina 1,100,107 Tennessee 248,778 Texas 2,549,417 Other Stales 02,001 Bound bales included are 150,090. sea Island 91,500; llnter bales, 3 14,- 57 9. The average gross weight of bales is 480.5, and the number of gin neries 20, GC0. Market Opened Steady. New York, March 21. The cotton market opened steady ut a decline of three points, to an advance .of one. point. The report of the census bu reau had little apparent influence, and the market, while quite active, was nervous and unsettled at a slight advance from opening figures. Business Inter became less active. and prices ruled about thn lower to three higher. points to the known. who responded murage t L in,, men with their votei to wnnt im-y , believed to be their duty to the party mmmA. awf c . M . Bl.LtJ I him . . ........ mnn wtl'.i " . ........ t,..n,ilitt in. I I I. Ill IPll. I II ... The feeling umong trt, mm Is one of the bitterest resenimem th utiltiiil unturned towards tbein If this la to be the manner oi 'reatment for saving the republican refueea xl. "thla awed by blows i . , I .'mm the house republicans were shouting to the clerk: ,.!..., "Kama They referred to the - resolution which' Burleson had sent to the desk, the contents of which they did no know although everybody suspected what they were. Half a hundred had left their seats and were shouting In the aisles when Hurleson a few minutes later pressed for the adoption of his resolution. Kodenburg ot Illinois eiuur ... from the rear, yelling at the top of his lungs: .,,,. Vote on It. now jou. . 14 1. fiiinfj. What's the mutter-win. tlonV - .. . n.. u-ua Inalien aooui, nt-F k. f.nnl , i f I ha ..-.II h reneneu Hie ." house, where ne ronu.. V"" for vote. Norrls, In rroni or me demanding recognition and ii. . . j i vote on his motion id ujuU.... all uurta of tne oemovri.v ii Withdraw it' Let's WW i " " kim nut nnw!" Just as vehement were the shouts: "No; flon i wiimi" - u... ..,.n loud cries from the re ....,,.. .Me when the democ-nta oted against an adjournment Some l came from regular re publican, who began to feel that the insurgents wouio r question Of throwlt Th democrats c Council llluffs, la., March 21. John C. Mabray and nine others con victed of fraudulent use of mails in connection with fuke racing schemes are sentenced to two years in the pen itentiary and a 110,000 tine each. Mabruy and 15 of his asoclates were found guilty yesterday in the United States District court of illegal use of the malls to promote "filed" sporting events. The Jurors disagreed as to Robert E. L. Goddard of San An tonio. Those found guilty are John C. Mabray, Ijeon Loser, Tom S. Hobln son. Wllbird Powell, Clarence Class, Kdward Leach, Edward K. Morris, (colored), Clarence Forbes, Harry Kobes. Frank Scott, Ed. McCoy, Win ford S. Harris, llert It. Shores and William (Ole) Marsh. With the conviction of these de fendants the government believes it has broken up the most monumental swindling combination which has ev er operated. Statistics have been gathered which show the receipts of the combination since its organiza tion about ten years ago to have ex ceeded $5,000,000. Foot racing, wrestling, prize light ing, horse racing and wire tapping were the specialties offered victims on whjch to make "easy money." The victim usually was first approached by an actual friend who had been previously solicited by a regular "ateerer" as he was known. In most Instances, representations were made that the "steerer" had a cousin who was secretary to a coterie of men of great wealth who were traveling over the country for pleas ure. The victim was told that this "secretary" was angry at some alleg ed Ill-treatment and had undertaken to swindle his employers out of large urn. nf money. The victim was in cited to assist and when he accepted was In turn swindled on a sporting event which proved to be "fixed" against him Instead of In his favor. HIS HUN IT N IS SATISFACTORY SENATORSIMMONS Bulletin is Issued by Physicians With Respect to the Condition of Senator Daniels. RESIGNED TODAY That Is, He Will no Longer Serve on Committee Investigating the High Cost ol Living. Daytona, Via., Marcli 21 The fol lowing bulletin, on tho condition of Senator Daniel, was issued this mom ma: "Senator Daniel's condition shows little appreciable change over last evening, at which tlmo be showed some Improvement. There has been some muscular twitching ol the paral yzed leg. generally speaking, his con dition is satisfactory." lie May Recover. Lynchburg, Va., March 21 Dr. B. A. Waugh, the family physician of Senator Daniel, who returned here today, expressed the belief that the senator would recover from his pres ent attack If there was no recurrence of cerebral hemorrhages. loiter HeHrt Not ho liooil. Dr. C. C. Ilohanon this afternoon j aid Senator Daniel was passing into: a deeper state of coma, which sxn'-' ne ends Yale Corporation Meeting IICO llie pill. nil "am us had been hoped this morning. Washington, March 21. Senator Simmons or North Carolina has re signed from the senate committee which is investigating the cost of liv ing. Senator Smith of South Caro lina was appointed to the vacancy. TAFT IN NEW HAVEN; NEXT STOP PROVIDENCE HUNGARIAN DEPUTIES HURL HANDY MISSILES Banquet Scheduled lor Tonight. Indications are that when the re publicans of the Tenth North Carolina Congressional district assemble here the lirst Saturday in April to nominate for the lower house of congress there will be something doing. While there is no little opposition here and there to the renomination of Mr. Grant it is said to be a fact that Mr. Grant will win a renomination and that he will win it unanimously. It Is not so much the nomination of Mr. Grant to r.uceeed himself in congress that is interesting some of the "faithful" as it is the probable action of the conven tion in the adoption of resolutions. In the language of a republican, speaking privately the other day, the conven tion is going to find itself "betwixt the devil and the deep blue sea" when It conies to the adoption of resolutions. From the Grant standpoint It Is admitted that the At thing to do at that convention will be to adopt a res olution anent the administration of President Taft in the usual language, to-wit: "We endorse the wise and patriotic administration of Hon. Wil liam Howard Taft, president of these United States of America." etc. But will that be done? And, again, in the event an effort is made to pass through the convention such a resolu tion of endorsement of Mr. Taft will not some old-line republican scramble !tn his feet and ask "How about that Connor and other democratic appoint ments?" It Is this phase of the situa tion that is likely to produce some thing of interest when the Tenth dis trict republicans meet. Should the republicans throughout the district in convention assembled fall tT detect .fie "wise and patriot'"- administration of Hon. William How ard Taie" and prevent the introduction or passage of such a resolution what will be the result? How will Mr. Grant on the stump or through the press make reply to democratic criti cism that while the president stood by Mr. Grant the present representa tive In congress wan unable to give Mr. Taft in Mr. Grant's own conven tion a whisper of endorsement from his people? Referring to this phase ot the approaching republican con gressional convention an old-line re publican a few days ago declared that If a resolution endorsing Mr. Taft was mtroouceo ne wiiuiu wnc lloor and light it to the nnlsh. Con tinuing he suid it looked as "though Hell would break loose about the time Mr. Taft's name was mentioned." The whole matter of course has to do with Mr. Taft's appointment of democrats, including Mr. Connor, to succeed tho late Judge Purnell. The republicans of fbls mountain district, some or them at least, are bitter against the president for that act. They resent Mr. Taft's inference In appointing a democrat that a decent rcpuDiicau a lit and competent republican could not be found in all of North Carolina to fill the Judicial place made vacant by the d:;ath or Judge Purnell. Concerning this matter of the ap pointment of Judge Connor by Mr. Taft a prominent republican was ai. ed if it was true he would make the race for a certain office or any office this year. In reply he said "No." And the "no" was emphatic. He said in ..fiv.-t what would be the use to make I a race for an office and ask the suf-1 rrage of the people when the presiaeni n republican president had by ac tion if not by word, declared that re publicans in North Carolina are not Hi to bold office? "Do you thing that I am going to let my friends, the enemv. hammer out my political brains at this time by reason and as a result of that Connor and other .i..mnernt!e a.i.iolntmenb ."' That was His Statement Shows That Six Banks Paid $102,000 to Be Selected as City Depositories in 1908. Pittsburg, March 21 Greater Pitts burg is again in the throes of a coun cllmanlc graft scandal. Captain John ny Klein, about to be taken to tho western penitentiary under sentence for receiving money in 1903 for his vote in the selection of a city deposi tor, has made good his threat to "pull don the props and let the sky fall." District Attorney Blakely told the whole story to Judges Frazer and Co hen In the criminal court today. Tho public prosecutor told the court that Klein's statement showed six banka had in 190S paid $102,000 to be elected us city depositories. The entire matter Is now under consideration by the grand jury. THEY Pi 10 G. P. 15000 SHELDON So Kreemcr of Insurance Company Testifies Before Insurance Official. New York. March 21. In effect to llnd out who the "politicians" were Who shared in the fund raised by liro insurance com; anies Ur Influencing legislation at Albany in 1)01, Superin tendent of Insurance Hotchkiss today resumed his investigation. William N. Krcmer of German-American Fire Insurance company continued his tes timony today. He was a member or tho laws and legislation committee of the Now York bourd of fire under writers in 1901. "How many times has your com pany contributed from 1901 to the present to funds to be used In connec tion with legislation at Albany?" ask ed Mr. Herrell. "We paid I2T.00 on April 23, 1902. and J250U on December 8, 1904." He said these contributions were made to George P. Shelton, "in con nection with legislation at Albany." in compliance with Mr. onrnwue "very insistent requests:" and that then- wns a pressing demand for the money." He said that other com panies contributed to this fund. PHILADELPHIA STRIKE MiyBESETTLEDTDDAT Much Depends upon Action Taken by the Traction Company'slOiroctors 1 This Afternoon. T New Haven, Conn., Murch 21. President Taft, who arrived here at :49. went directly to wom, :;-" effect and he attended a meeting oi ws. - .V.-. wnai pcrnups umno . . GIRL'S SISTER TAKEN INTO CUSTODY She Had Been Missing Since Discovery of the Body Last Friday Night Magyars Outdo Themselves. Flinging Ink Wells, Books, etc. Some Heads Cut. -loin them on the n out he vote of hall, where Yale corporation. Kndlng his swing through the norm central and eastern section of tne country, the president will arrive in Providence tonight as the cust of honor at the annual banquet of the New Kngland Manufacturing Jewelers and Silversmith association. Philadelphia. March SI. Whether a settlement of the street car etrlk" come todas depends much on what action the directors of the Phil adelphia Hapid Transit company will take at their meeting this afternoon. The striking motormen unci conuui- Itelative to tne rumor .m " . - , ... r(,1M,i,.ma that llcitor Mark urown , ii " -1'. ,...,itit..i do i.ol eoniain an i-Ainwm Akron. O., March 21. Catherine Manse, aged 16, for whom the police of several Ohio cities nave neen searching since her sister BUsabcth, aged II. wus found dead In the Manse home in Masellll n rrioay nigni, was taken Into custody of the police here today. CllleJ Krtle of the Masailiion ponce arrived here this afternoon wun a ...,,r,,ii ..hurt hi catnerine su with murder. THE WEATHER. Budapest. March 21. Stormy as havo been the sessions of the Hun garian chamber of deputies, the Mag yars today outuiu tncmseives aim inn , wells, books and other handy missies' wen hurled at the heads of minis-1 ters until the latter toon reiuu ... flight. Both the premier and minister or agriculture were struck by Hying Ink wells and their neaoa cut. INTERNATIONAL BALLOON TROPHY CUP 18 MISSING SUIT FOR OF PACKING CONCERNS m,.ti,l Pearson. So .,,,1 Thomas s Kolllns would be the nominees of the republicans for the legislature a well known republican de -lured Saturday that Mr. Urown and Mr. Itollins had both declared they POO kj not accept a nomination for the . nii h. did not believe '. . w hat he thought an "open shop .11 1 v . . . . I of committees of employes amuaicn with the Amalgamated Association of Street and electric Employes. It Is be llevcd the directors today will endorse the last proposition made by President Kruger to the men. which called for Instituted Along With Indictment National Packing Co. and Subsidiaries, of Placed Aboard Oceanic at South ampton. MlsMins; When Thai Ves sel Beached New York. Pearson had too mucn punm-ai .. other kinds of sense to go Into a fight j for the state senate, say, at this time. In reference to the rumor that the republicans In the county convention for local option In re- card to the liquor question It Is said that should an attempt to auopi .ui-u a resolution be made by the republi cans of the county such men as Col. I.uak and Judge Prltchard, out-and-out prohibitionists would to say the least frown upon such a move. In fact It Is believed that Col. Uisk would fight the proposition vigorously on the convention floor and refuse to Chicago March 21. Hlmuhuneously , be governed by the convention with the return of Indictment, tod.yi.hculd a Iota! option plank be Incor- .ll,i the National Packing company porated. AKTKK THaaOE MONTHS LIFE Itclirenient Due SO Honllsatlon That Merchant Marine Subsidy Meas ure Was IHiomcd. Home. March St. The Italian cabi net resigned today. The retirement of the ministry which was formed De cember 10. 1909. with Baron Sidney Sonnlno as premier, was due to n realisation that the government's mer cantile nun in stibeldies measure wto doomed to defeat. OFK IHHI l.l XOIt. Forecast until S p. m. Tuesday for Asheillt and vlolnlty: Partly cloudy weather, with moderate temperature, toulfht and Tuesday Paris. March SI. The American Express company, which forwarded the International balloon trophy, says the cup was placed on board the steamer Oceanic at Southampton and the company holds the bill of lading. The express people cannot under stand the failure to llnd the trophy when the steamer reached New York. and Its subsidiary companies, charging violation of the anti-trust law. United States District Attorney 81ms also nied a hill In eciulty for dissolution of the alleged trust The bill names not only the National Packing company, but the Armour, Hwlft and Morris companies and In dividual who dominate and control these concerns. ii i this Connor appointment and the proposition to adopt a local option plank In county and state convention that la giving republicans hereabouts at least much concern. In fact some republicans, speaking privately, de .u that as a result of that Connor appointment they dc not believe It possible to carry Bunoombe county (Continued on page S) Assouan, Upper Egypt. March ill. Col. Theodore Booaevelt and party Is sin in i for Uixor on the regular ei press train this morning. They shoul reach Luxor this evening. aipi.inc Court Adjourns. Washington. March' XSI The Hi preme court of the United Hut tew UK recess until Monday, apni i.
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