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-. I ..." ; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES LAST EDITION 4:00 P. M. Weather Torecast: Fair and warmer. VOL. XV. NO. 100. ASHEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 4, 1910. So PER COPT JJewaf HIIIISWII'S RIMI BILL mama It Creates i of Com merce" for. Consideration of Appeals from Commerce Commission Orders. THE HOUSE MAY ACCEPT THE SENATE'S AMENDMENTS This Would Probably Permit of the Ad journment of Congress in Three Weeks, by Avoiding a Conference. K . Washington, June Ar- u conference between Represen tative Mann and Senators Ald rlch. Elklns and Crane today It was suggested the house might accept the senate amendments to the railroad bill and a con ference be avoided. If this course is taken It would' permit Ihc adjournment of congress within three weeks. nana Washington, June 4. The railroad 1,111, passed by the senate Inst night, returns to the house, where it was passed several weeks ago. While still bearing the title and number of the measure passed by the house, it has been radically amended by the sen ate and the stage Into which It will pass is that of conference-consideration by a Joint committee which will seek to reach a ground of agreement between the houses. It is not anticipated this confer once will . begin before Tuesday "When the house convened It was ex pected the bill would come from the senate, and Chairman Mann .of the committee on interstate commerce, which had the house bill In charge, okl moveilieseni irom, mm kiiuw amendment of a committee of confer ence. The house conferees were ex pected to be Mann of Illinois, Wagner nl Pennsylvania and Adamson, demo crat of Georgia. The senate being adjourned until Monday cannot appoint conferees to day. They are expected to be Chair man Klklns of the committee on Inter-' suite commerce, who introduced the bill; Alilrich and Foster (democrat) of Louisiana. It Is probably the re port will not be made until congress disposes of some other administration measures and nears the date of final adjournment. Senator Lafollette, one of the Republican "insurgent" leaders, gave warning that republicans would be unable to get a conference report ! adopted by the senate if the amend ments added to the bill at the Instance of democratic senators and progres sive republicans were stricken out in conference. The senate passed the railroad bill at 9:55 o'clock last night It had been under discussion for more than 12 weeks and practically no other business except appropriation bills was considered In that long period. Only 12 votes, all of these by demo crats, were recorded against the bill. The practical unanimity with which the measure wai passed wa due to the radical changes made in the measure from the form In which It was drafted by Attorney . General "Wlckersham. following numerous conference at the White House on the subject of amending Interstate commerce laws. All Insurgents who opposed many features of the original bill voted for It last night. Through the elimination of the pooling and merger sections, and by reason of tho adoption of many amendments In the Interest of ship pers, the progressive republicans claim to have won a algnal victory, and most of the democrats express themselves as- favorable to the large portion of the measure. Debate Ended at :50. Had It not been for the retention of tho sections to create a court of commerce It Is likely that the vote for the bill would have been unani mous. Debate ceased at 9:50 o'clock when Senator Elklns. chairman of the Interstate commerce commission moved to take up the bill which was passed by. the house and after strik ing out the body of that measure to substitute the matter agreed upon by the senate. In that form the bill was voted upon with the result that It was passed by a vote of SO to 13. No republican voted against the bill and six democrats Voted for It They were Messrs. Chamberlain, Clay, Gore, Paynter, Simmons and Stone. The democrats - recorded against It were Messrs. Bacon, Fletcher, Fras- Jer, Hughes, Money, Newlanda, Per cy, Purcell, Hayner, Shlvely. Smith of Maryland and Smith of BoutH Car olina. Just before the voting began Senator La Follette, one of the "In urgent" republican leaders, served notice on the senate that unless the conferees made a determined fight for retention of amendments procur ed by progressives and democrats. It could not hope to approve the con- rerence report. - r The new law Is to take effect In 0 nys after approval by the president Gore Create a Division. , Mr. Gore made an impassioned speech entitled "Whence ' Came This Elll? lie, HHi.t certain sections prac Continued on rago Four, BY THE SENATE IS SURRENDERED BY BONDSMAN Browne, Minority Leader in Illinois Legislature, Charged With Bribery, Taken into Custody. Chicago, Ills., June 4. Lee O'Neill Browne, the legislative minority lead er waiting trial on bribery charges, was today surrendered by his bonds men. Browne was Immediately taken Into custody. Habeas corpus pro ceedings are anticipated. Browne's bond was $15,000. OF ARRESTED FOR IHf Mrs. Doxey's Troubles by no Means En ded Dr. Doxey to Be Tried in Next Two Weeks. St, Lotiis, June 4. Mrs. Dora E uoxey was acquitted last night on the charge of murdering William J Erder. She was arrested early today on a warrant charging bigamy. The verdict was returned after al most nine hours' deliberation. Judge Orlnn discharged the defendant. Mrs. -Doxey wept hysterically ns her acquittal was announced. The charges against Dr. Loren B. Doxey, who was charged Jointly wltrV his wife of the murder will come up for trial within the next two weeks. In 1899 the acquitted woman was married to Robert L. Downing of Joy, Ills. Dr. Loren B. Doxey was the family physician and attended her four children, who. died. She was married to Doxey In Burlington, la.. In August, 1906, after Downing had di voreed her. Mrs. Doxey came to Ht. Louis In April, 1909, at the time she was alleged to have married Erder who died July 1.0, 1909. Miss Kate Erder, a sister, caused her arrest in Columftia, Neb., on No vember 14, on the charge of poisoning Erder. Grand Jury Indictments were returned December 17, charging Dr. Doxey and Mrs. Doxey with murder in the first degree. Mrs. Doxey denied giying Erder arsenic and said she was not married to him. She pleaded that Dr. Doxey had made her a morphine eater, thus accounting for her con duct. OPTIMIST JAS. J. HILL HEF U S ESJTOBE ALARM ED There Is no Excuse for Alarm on the Part of Anybody-Wall Street Un duly Excited, He Says. New York, June 4. James J. Hill. the railroad magnate, noted as an op timist, Is undisturbed, despite the government's action to restrain rail roads from advancing freight rates. and the Wall street situation. "The present uneasiness In Wall street is more fictitious than other wise," he declared; "there is no ex- cuse for alarm upon the part of any body." RATES ON PATRQLEUM New Tariffs Filed Today Average Ad vancels 2 1-2 per Cent This State In Territory Affected. Washington, June . 4. Advanced rates on petroleum and petroleum products from Chicago, Ills., and from Whiting, Ind., ' have been made by railway lines operating In the south eastern territory, Tariffs are Wed with the interstate commerce commission and the ad vances become effective July 1. The tariffs apply to North Carolina, South Carolina, Kr.tucky, Virginia, Alabama, , Georgia and Tennessee. The Increase averages 2 H per cent THE WEATHEIt For Ashevllle and vicinity: Fair to night and Sunday; warmer Sunday. For North Carolina Generally fair tonight and Sunday; warmer In west em portion Sunday. Light north winds, becoming variable. Two Mlmionarlc Are Drowned. Bombay. June 4 Howard Bishop and Mihs V. Williams, American Bap- tint missionaries, were drowned while Sea bathing today. Inside History of the "Jackpot?' ItlsExpecte&Will Be Told Today GROUP OF ILLINOIS THE BUDS until I HOWL Appeal to "Man in Street and Farmer" Saying They Are About to Be Ruined and Others Will Suffer. NO DANGER OF A PANIC, v SAY THE MANUFACTURERS Illinois Association Charges a Concert ed Movement to Frighten and Deceive the People. Chicago, June 4. Simultaneous ap peals to the people were made yes terday by the western railroads and by the Illinois Manufacturers' asso ciation. The railroad submitted their brief "To the man in- the street urtd the farmer,'"- hinting hard times ' If the railroads are not permitted to In crease their frelRht rates. The man ufacturers tell the people not to be deceived, ns there is no danger of a panic, and . laud President Taft for his action In obtaining the Injunction halting the proposed Increase In rates. On behalf of the railroads, Slnson Thompson, head of the railroad pub llcity bureau, put forward "four rea sons why railroad rates must be rals ed." According to Mr. Thompson, the railroads In the last two years are $220,000,000 behind on maintenance; they paid S130.000.000 more annually for labor; they paid $100,000,000 more annually for interest, they lost $25,- 000,000 annually on passenger traffic with the total result that they are $730,000,000 to the bad In two years." Hallway rates must bo advanced because many companies otherwise will face bankruptcy, said Mr. Thomp son. 'This is a result which the In junction granted at Hannibal on a side issue Irrespective of the Justice of the advance on ex-pnrte repre sentation, without notice and without preparatory weighing on the subject may expedite, but is powerless to en Join. Tlirratcns Hard Times. "Why this Is so may be briefly stated In terms that the man in the street. In the workshop and on the farm can understand and appreciate. In the end It Is this man In the street who must bear the brunt of any de struction that befalls the American railway system. Mr. Thompson quoted railway sta tisttcs ns far back as 1897 to prove the contention that the railroads face ruin unless rates are advanced, Mr. Thompson declares that the ship pers have been grossly deceived, and he charges the associated shippers bureau of Cincinnati with practicing the deception. "For more than 10 years," declare Mr. Thompson, "The charge has never been made seriously that the average freight rates on American railways were unreasonable per se. On the' contrary It Is the test of all Investigators that they are the lowest In the world. If they have been un reasonable for 20 years, and the ser vice Is more costly, now, then It Is self evident that any slight advance now cannot ' make them unreason able. The resolution adopted by the 111 nols Manufacturers association charges the officers of certain rail roads with being In a concerted movement to make the people believe that the shippers and consumers are making unfair demands and that an other financial crisis la Impending. The manufacturers call upon the peo ple to hold up the hands of the gov- ernment and demand that "the whole question of advance or the reduction of freight rates should at this time and all future times be presented to the Interstate commission for final adjudication.' ' - Will Appeal to President. Detroit June 4. The president last night confirmed the report that on Monday next at Washington he will give a hearing to a large delega tion of railroad presidents who feel aggrieved over the Injunction suit re cently brought by Attorney General Wicket-sham to prevent an Increase In freight rates by the Western traffic tconwnulfft. ' ' The details of the ert- 'tsymuj J (Contluued on page 1). OFFICIALS CONCERNED IN . IttONIUND SOKnX. WHITE. Springfield,, lite., June 4. At to- lay s session 'of the grand jury it Is expected that much Inside history of the nailed legislative "Jackpot" will be .ioard. The inquiry has been di rected toward contributors, collectors and receivers of funds Intended to defeat legislation affecting the fishing interests. J ne grand jury questioning con cerning the .fish bill, which failed to pass the 46th general assembly, will be productive of more important re suits than have developed since the legislative Inquiry began Is the ex pectation of State's Attorney Burke of Sangamon county. Information given the prosecutor, he said, has supplemented fragments known by him before and has com pleted a chain of evidence from men wiio paid sums of money to defent the bill to the man who is charged with having "held out" the sum given him instead of having passed It along to the "jack-pot. The witnesses examined previously by Mr. Burke, parts of whose testl mony fitted into the chain of Infor mation, were Flshpommissloner Nat Pfipen,' Fish "ft'at'.! Elmer Caldwell and Representative .A. Foster, chair man of the ,1sh and game committee, Gov. Denien, following a confer ence with State's Attorney Burke Is- sjied a strong statement In which he denounces executive corruption which be believes widespread and from his attitude It is believed that many more sensational developments will shortly result. In part, Gove. Deneen's statement Is as follows: "It Is manifest from the Informa tion which has been published that executive corruption has not been confined to the members who have so far confessed their connection with it. The very existence of the so-called 'jack-pot' pre-supposes an organization sufficiently strong num erically to control the course of legis lation and to collect and distribute a corruption fund. 'There are dj members In the house and El In the senate, and It is apparent that a very extensive organ Ization would be necessary success fully to carry out such a conspiracy acalnst the nubile Interest, as has been , shown to exist by the confes slons already made. 'The character of this organization and its leadership In Indicated by the fact thatt hose who confessed were not sure as to the specific bills for which they received bribes. The In vestigation, therefore, must go back of, these men to the men Who traf ficked In legislation and knew the particular measures for which the bribes were burnished and the source from which bribe money was re ceived. "The taint of guilt should be traced from the members who received the bribes to the persona or corporations who gave them. The whole nefarious plot should be exposed and all con nected with It prosecuted and all who are Innocent relieved from the burden of unjust suspicion." T ARE ANNOUNGED Kansas City Dry Goods Firm and Iowa Railroad Company, Go to ' the Wall. Kansas City, June 4. Receivers for the Jones Dry Goods company, one of the largest retail concerns In this part of the west, was appointed In the Federal court today. . - FIRE, PROBABLY INCENDIARY, - BURNS OVER HALF A TOWN Many Houses In Hyden, Kv In the I'cnd licit, Prstroyetl, and Ixms Is Estimated at 73,00O. Islington. Ky., June 4. A Hyden, Ky... special says fire has destroyed over half of the houses In that town. The loss is estlmeted at $75,000. Hayden has been the scene ef feud warf."e for many years. The fire Is bUieVid to bn of lnceiullnry origin. FAILURES BRIBERY SCANDALS. .Senator John ORODiSKJt VtsatMsi.Ci.Uiat ..r ..1 -J.- L Cure for Larger Troubles in Agricultural Life Is in School System, in Opinion of Wil lett W. Hays. HE OUTLINES IDEAL PLAN FOR FARMERS' EDUCATION Typical Rural School of the Future Will Have a Ten Acre School Farm He Be lieves. Crookston, Minn., June 4. Wlllet M. Hays, assistant secretary of the United States department of agricul ture, told the Northern Minnesota Development association. In session here that "the world Is looking on while we farmers plod along hi our unorganized, unsystematic, half hearted way, and the world believes that were our people broader and better trained we could usoduce much better yields than we AW, and we are forced to admit," he added world Is right. "that the Basis and Opportunity. "Whether our activity be religious, social, political or economic," he con tinued, "we are on a 15-bushel basis with a 25-bushel opportunity. The blood of our people, the hereditary potencies of our wheats and the pro ductive potentiality of our soil !ind climat"- warrant a rapid increase of wheat yields up to 25 bushels per acre and of other farm products In proportion; and even more rapid should be the growth of Intelligence, home living and social advancement generally." The cure for these larger troubles in agricultural life Is in the school system, according to Mr. Hays. He proceeded to describe In detail the svstem which. In his opinion, would bring order out of the present chaos In the organization of country life. He declared that, except In Isolated cnaes where the broader method Is not practicable, the old-fashioned one-room school house, should give way to the consolidated school. The latter would provide accomodations for students within the surrounding five or six square miles. It would contain three or four rooms for an elementary school, one for the high school classes and a large room for laboratory and practice work and for vocational studies." The Typical School. The typical consolidated " rural school," continued Mr. Hays, "will have a ten-acre school farm. In this northwest country half of the farm will be developed for a combined campus and farmstead. In a timber belt on part of the farm experiments will be conducted with forest trees In plot mixtures, which help to solve the tree problem for groves to pro. tect our farm homea. Within this protected area will be playgrounds for the students; and tt will contain ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers, fruits and vegetables and beautiful grass lawns. There will be a cottage for the principal of the school. The other five acres will be devoted to field crops. Crop rotauor will be demonstrated here. Methods of cultivation will be taught New varieties of grains, grasses and other varieties of plants will be tested, as also small fruit, shrubs and fruit trees." The speaker advocated that farm boys and girls during their teens spend six months In school and six at home on the farm each year. ' "Under this plan," he said, "the consolidated rural school will have a full attendance during the six winter months. The children in the first six or eight grades would start earlier In the autumn and remain In school later In the spring. Under this plan the pupils who are old enough to help on the farm not only would assist In solving the labor problem but during their years of youth, when they can learn rapidly, would gain the knowl edge and the habits of the farmer and the farm homemaker. They would require one, two or possibly three (Continued tin page S) H ra special legislative; might reopen i WIDOW OF CUSTER UlilLSJTIITOE President Taft Present, to Aid Michigan People in Paying Honor to Memory of Hero. Monroe, Mich., June 4. President Taft today Joined with the people of Michigan paying tribute to the mem ory of Major General George Arm strong Custer. He stood beside Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer, the civil war soldier's widow, as she tugged at a long streamer of cavalry yellow ribbon, which released the flags and unveiled a splendid bronze equestrian statue of General Cuater. The president made a brief address, giving Custer high credit for his valor and deeds in war. The orator of tbe occasion was Sen ator William Alden Smith. Prior to the Custer ceremonies President Taft visited St. Mary's college and academy where he made a talk to the girl students. Mr. Taft left at 12:15 this after noon for Jackson, Mich. BY Nicaraguan Government Troops Com manded by General Chavarri Are in Retreat 8an Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, June 4. William P. Plttham, an Ameri can, who laid mines at Bluefiolds for the Insurgents, has been captured by government troops and will be tried by court martial. Defeated and Put to Flight. Bluefields, Nicaragua, June. Ad vices received here state that tha In surgent forces under General Mena at Kama huvo defeated and put to flight the government troops com manded by General Chavarra. OlTklul Advices. Washington, June 4. Senor Cast Hi lo, the Estra government's represen tattve, received advices this morning stating that General Mena defeated General Chavarra at Elcree, com pletely destroying the enemy. Mailrlz Government Warned. Washington, June 4. The state de partment has taken cognizance of an Associated Press dispatch from San Juan Del Sur, that William Pittham, American, captured by Madriz troops, would lie tried by courtmartlal. A telegram to the Madriz government Is sent stating that this government expects fair and humane treatment for Pittham. BIG ITS HINDRANCE TO Such Is the Position Taken by Ministers of Elizabeth, N. J. Crusade Against Them Is on. Elizabeth, N. J., June 4. A cru sade against big hats worn by women at church services has been begun by pastors of the leading churches In Elizabeth. The necessity of "reform In this respect Is urged. The minister declare that the big hats constitute a hindrance to the salvation ot souls In the churches. YOUNG EGYPTIANS SHY Violent Protest Against Sentiment Ut tered by Mr. Roosevelt In Lon- don Is Issued. Oeneva, Switzerland, June 4. The young Egyptian committee has Issued a violent protest against the sentiment expressed by Theodore Roosevelt In his London speech, in which iltf, Roosevelt declared Great Britain should show a firmer hand In Egypt. The committee declares the speech was an Insult not only to Europe and Egypt, but to the whole civilised world. Michigan Bank llroa. -J Kalamazoo, Mich., June 4. The Citizens State savings bank of Plain well ' was closed today. Cashier Bhepard is charged wKh Investing IKS, 000 In Texas lands without the directors' approval. SESSION . - "Ill The Governor Issues Call, on Account of Failure to Sell Bonds, but State Bankers May Re . . lieve Situation. BANKERS WILL CONSIDER SITUATION NEXT WEDNESDAY If Legislature Meets, It Will Likely Secure Twelve Months Loan to Take up Bonds Due July 1. Gazette-News Bureau, Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Hollemon Building, Raleigh, June 4. Governor Kitchin has Issued a call for a special Be 'slon of the legislature to convene June 14 to consider the inability of the state treasurer to dis pose of the proposed Issue of TCI.4B0. 000 4 per cent. 40 year bonds. When the bids were opened ' Mar 28 onlv $1,219,000 had been subscribed for. The special session will likely secure 1 a twelve months loan to take up the balance. This Issue is to take up the Issue of 1SS0 maturing July 1, next. The state bankers have been called to meet next Wednesday to render what assistance they can towards tak. ing up the balance of the bids that will be received until next Friday. If successful In this method the call for a special session will be re voked. The governor's proclamation fol- owr: To the Honorable, the General As sembly of North Carolina: "By and with the advice of the council of state an extraordinary oc casion having arisen, I, W. W. Kltoh- in, governor of the state of North Car olina, In the exercise of the power conferred on me by the constitution " of the state, do issue this, my procla mation, convening the general assem bly rn extraordinary session on Tuee-" day. the fourteenth day of June, 110, at 11 o'clock a. m., and do hereby notify and request the senators and members of the house of representa tives of the general assembly of North Carolina to meet in their respective halls In the capltol of the city of Ral eigh, at said time, for the purpose of considering the emergency resulting from the Inability of the state treas urer to sell. In accordance with chap ter 399, public laws of 1)09, entitled an act to authorize the Issue of state bonds to pay oft the state bonds which fall due on the .first day of July, 1910, sutllclent bonds to pay the present outstanding bonds of the Is sue of 1880, which mature July 1, 1910, and of. enacting legislation to enable the , state treasurer to secure sufficient funds to pay said last men tioned bonds at their maturity. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the great seal of the state to be affixed. Done in the city of Raleigh, this the third day of June, 1910. "W. W. KITCHIN, "Governor. "By the governor. ALEX J. FIELD. "Private Secretary." The firut attempt to sell the bonds May 18 brought in bids for (1,763,000 and these bids were declined as the full Issue was not subscribed. At the opening of the second bids May tt, the bids were for $1,219,000, ranging from par to t . 4. These were ac cepted, leaving $2,211,000 yet to be subscribed; the act authorising the bonds requires that those be sold at not less than par. SPECIAL LF.GISLATIVE SESSION MAY NOT BE NECESHART itegarciing tne call lor a special session of the legislature to meet at Raleigh, June 14, to consider ways and means to float the refunding bond Issue the opinion exists in certain quarters that the special session will not be necessary. Those who hold to this view believe that the state banks will come to the aid of the state and take up the little more than two mil lion dollars In bonds yet to be sold. The state treasurer has Issued a no tice that additional bids will be opened June 10, and has also urged the state bankers to be present and see what can be don to relieve the situation. Should the legislature be convened June 14, as per the call of the gover nor, there 1 said to be a movement among some of the prohibitionist ot the state to da something looking to the "outlawing" of "near-beer, " that delusive substitute for the old-time 8chlltx, Pabst and other standard brands, which ha had such great sale In the Old North State. This is the substitute which Attorney Gen eral Blckett, In arguing a case In 'the Supreme court characterized as "It look like beer, taste Ilka beer, and ' - On the other hand, there are ru mors that since the prohibition laws were enacted by a special session of the legislature, an effort looking to Its repeal mxy b made. It Is believed, however, that should the special session convene, little, If anvthlnir. more than makinr arranse- ments to float the bond issue will be done, because the. Reunion Is to con vene Just ten days before the general primary of thl' .rtenmcrfl jmrty ami those of the lftsnrlnlure ho ore k U-Ci-tilinu. 1 va i i. 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