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!l - :M; l-.rf ' ; FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE BY LEASED WIRE. LA8T IDITION . 4:00 P. M. Weather Forecast KAIN AXD COLDER. m rrrr xrr .v.- ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1913. PRICS THREE CENTS .Vji v CABEmREPORT ATTACKS BOYD Internal RevenueCommissioner Is Unsparing of Denuncia tion in Review of the ' Williams Case. McNEILL INTERVIEW RELATED IN DETAIL Says Lawyer Mentioned Boyd and Probably Pritchard in Advising Him to Re ' verse Ruling. . FAMILY E OF FIVE TEH HEARTS Father, Mother and Ehree Children in Easton Pa. - Each Has Two. v ; .. (1AZETTB-XEW8 BUREAU, 1: . -; '-. WATT BUILDING, , i Washington, Jan. 17. In the'record of the N. Glenn WU 'llama liquor cose, which was laid be- fore the Cox committee ol the house yesterday. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Royal E. Cabell chartUuirizes the case as "a history of fraud against the Government, of debauchery or cm ployos, bribery of revenue offlcess and successful theft that would seem more in place in the Arabian Nights enter tainmont as a report of the adven . tures. of All Baba and his 40 thieves than as a record of fact in civilized government. :- . Cabell eays during the' time it has ';: been under consideration numbers of persons,- among them persons high in I political counsels and some holding J .." high positions, came to see him to re j quest leniency for Williams on account of his past political services,-: and in- S ' qulrles were" recejved also, occaslon- 1 ... ally, from persons politically opposed ', . to him. ' Referring to Mb interview with R. tf, McNeill, One of counsel . ; for Williams, ,'Mr, Cabell relates at ; length a conversation which he nays he had with McNeill. t ' :-' .... Conversation WltH McNeill. j ' ' " t Cabell says, In this conversation with McNeill, hat. McNeill told him j " , that his client had many powerful ' v " friends who would not stand quietly f by and see him injured or hurt "Mc- i--.Nelll told me.'V gays Cabell's report, ': '"that Judge Bo'il . was "tHe Intimate -. ' friend of Mr. Williams, and my recol , lection iff, though 1 'cannot be" entire ly positive, that, he ' Included- Judge - J Pritchard also." He stated that Dis ? triet Attorney Holton and Judge Boyd ordinarily train together in politics, 4 ' ' but that-Judge Boyd was not going J to permit Mr. Holton or anybody else to attack Mr. Williams." , i x . Referring aguin to the alleged con- f vernation between Cabell anil R. H. 'McNolll. the report says: ' Mr. Mc- f Nelll had previously said that he knew absolutely what the Judge would . rule; that the judge would not per ) mlt an.v of my' orders that had been I - ; made in the case to become effec- j . tlve." ' -". ". I - . Commissioner. Cabell at this point j - : savs he admits that he had become "thoroughly angry," but hs said prac tically nothing to McNeill that he had not written to both of the Judges. "I did not use the name of the deity or curse anybody, but-1 expressed myself In English as vigorous as I am capable of using in telling this attorney that If the Judges were using their official j tn8 yeari position lo pruietri a iuimcui ir.euo who had been detected in defrauding! .. the government they were not fit for a moment to remain on the bench." j Refused to See William. In the, course .of his record the commissioner states that in Septem ber. 19l, R. H. McNeill, an attorney of Washington, called at his office- and said he expected to be employed In , the case. The commissioner says he Informed Mr. McNeill that tbn tlimi order hnd been made nearly HO days pB5t that and nothing could b rc-n-sldcri-d . looking to any further oo.rt innimrt or amendment to the nrd r. The commissioner states tha two days thereafter McNeill came to an office adjoining his, " accompanied by N. Glenn Williams, and asked for inter-vli-ws. Continuing at this point the commissioner says:. "I slated to the sollrttor, who Is thoroughly fnmlHiir vli h the whole history of this cib-, that on nccotint of the fact that Wil liams or his counsel hnd caused to bj Im liided false statements about mo in the complaint In this cs flll Somo two years before, I did not ;nre to pre Wllllnms, put that would see Wn rnunsel." - The commlnNloner say ho Inforou o . , By Associated Press. Easton, Pa., Jan. 17. A family in which the mother and three children are each provided with two hearts, a case said to be unequalled in medical annals,- has been discovered here, ac cording to J5r. James Morgenstern. He has called several .fellow physi cians to examine the family and they have verified his statements.- ; In each case he found both of the hearts performing their functions, one in each side of the chest. The mother and children are normally healthy. The woman is Mrs. . Burton ', Perkins and her children are Anna, Allen and Doris, aged 13,, ll and respectively. It has been arranged that , one of the children shall appear for examination before the Northampton County Medi cal society at Its next meeting. TO THE. POITE Germany's Consent : to the Handing over of Document Drawn at London Giv- en To'day. SERVAIN ATROCITIES AMONG THE ALBANIANS Vienna Newspaper's Expose of Massacies Is Accompan ied by Demand for Eu-ropean-Investigation. V SUFFRAGE BILL PUREFODD ROW electpoincare im tut unncri nrrnDr nniiBT TO PRESIDENCY Wt II L IIUUJLI ULrUIlL UUUIII First Measure to Extend Fran chise to Women Ever Be . fore the Assembly - Presented. . Supreme Court to Settle Con flict Between Federal and Wisconsin Statutes as to Labeling. SHE WROTE 700 LETTERS TO Hi IN FOUR YEARS GOOD ROADS MEASURE : IN BOTH BRANCHES CRITICISM IS MADE OF SECRETARY WILSON I And He, a Doctor, Takes Court Action to Get Her to. . ' , Stop It. t Bills for Registration of Births Conviction of Grocers for Sell- and Deaths also Introduced ing Glucose Compound as . Insurance Rates At ' " tacked. 'Corn Syrup" Claim ed Unconstitutional LIST TEAR'S PROSPERITY NEVER BEFQREEQUALLED In 1912 the Country's Manufac turing Industries Made . ' Their Highest Records. , i ; " By Associated Press. ; .Washington, Jan. 17. Prosperity rnever-bef ore equalled In. th ' history of the country marked the irtanufao turing industries of the United States during the calendar year of 11Z, -ac cording to a statement Issued today by the federal bureau of -foreign and domestic commerce; . ' The ' bureau's statisticians based their declarations on the Importations of material used in manufacturing-and on the move ment of domestio materials from the points of production to the factories. These methods of measurement, said the report, "seem to indicate that the msnufacturing industries of the coun try In 112 made their highest record. In practically all articles, imported for use in manufacturing the quantities entering the country In 1912 I were greater than ever before, the move ments of Iron ore on the rreat lakes are reported larger than in any earlier year, and in movements of other do mestic products toward the factory the records also indicate extraordi nary activity In 1912," V Value of materials for manufactur ing Imported reached the record fig ure of more than $925,000,000 during Ru Aotiatei JnM. Constantinople, Jan, 17. The col lective note drafted by tho ambasaa dors of the European powers in'Lon don was presented to the - Turkish government today. .. London, Pan. 17. Germany's con sent to the presentation to the Otto man government of the note drafted by the ambassadors of the European powers in : London, - the absence of which has delayed the action of the powers, hug now been given. Instruc tions have reached' the German am bassador at Constantinople to partici pate with his diplomatic colleagues in handing the note to Turkey. ..; Vienna, Jan. 17. Twenty-fivle thou sand) Albanians have been "more or less wantonly killed in the Turkish province of Kossovo by the Servian regulars and irregulji-s since the in VRslon by Them of Europoan Turkey according to the Reichspost. - The newspaper demands the dis patch of a European commission to investigate the reports gf horrible atrocities. Special to Tha 0atte-T9u!. . ! Raleigh, ffarw 17. Today might be By Associated Press, Washington, Jan. 17. Thu fight be-! called good; roads day In the generul tweeh federal and state pure - food assembly,-' bills being introduced in I officials over the right of the Corn both i branches' -to- place convicts on Products company of No. 26 Broad- By Associated Press. New York, Jan. 17. Alleging that he had received 700 annoying letters fromMary Streamer, a Staten Island school teacher during the past four years,: Dr. Henry Goodwin, a prom inent Staten Island physician, obtain ed a summons yesterday -for the young woman's appearance in court In his affidavit Dr.' Goodwin set forth .that acquaintance began when M.1SS Streamer called him to extricate a needle which had been broken off lh her finger. She began correspon dence by a plea for the return of the (Un ntihlll, mflHH ?fult thA ntnta Vn lm and applrthe pttfceeds to, the public way. New York, to label one of its J needle and Ietter ater letter follow school fund and ;to give engineering I products as a corn syrup, rather than e(j th 700 missiles in all, treating GRAND ITU LOTTERY i: ,PR!ZE.IS iT'CLiEO Believed the Ticket, for 1,500,- 000 Francs, May Have Been ' Aboard Titanic. . ' IN THE GULEBRA GUT Month's Work Will Be Requir ' ed to" Get Rid of the . Debris. , By Associated Press. : Rome. Italy, Jan 17. No applicant has yet appeared for the first prise of 1,500,000 francs In the recent bank of Italy lottery. It is believed that the winning' ticket may have been lost when the Titanic sank last April, All efforts to trace the holder have Ipeen fruitless. A batch of other tick--eta which were sent to the United States on the Titanic was lost... - - ' - -J'- DOKSXT WANT IirSBAXWS , JiAMK ON IIKH Tfl M I1HTON K assistance to pouiittea. Senator Nlm ocks of Cumberland presented a peti tion for a statewide stock law, Sena- glucose" Was renewed today before I 0f every conceivable subject except the Supreme court, j, , I iove afTlirs, the' doctor declared. He The point in issue was the const!- alleged that one of the recent let- Premier Is Elevated to Fal lieres1 Place over Jules f Pams on the Second Ballot. HE DEMANDS APOLOGY ' FROM CLEMENCEAU Prospect of Duel Averted When Latter Explains Letters Construed as , Insulting. ' ' tor Hobgood .of fJullford presented' a tutionallty of the Wisconsin pure I ters had been threatening. bill for registration of births and I food law under whtcn two grocers mi deaths, also for Hlndergartens 1n the I that state were fined for selling the I common! schools. ' Senator Thorne of Nash presented a bill for extension of the charter of the JJorth Central rail way. ' Senator jm0K8 introduced a company s corn syrup" not lanellea in accordance with the state law, The state officials claimed that as the product contained more than 75 resolution1' to : Investigate Insurance I per cent glucose it should have been rates J : V. -v ; llabelled "glucose flavor ' with refln Representative i;iarK oi n iniro- ero ojiup. duced a resolution to amend the con-1 Attorneys on behalf of the grocors HMitlrm n that women mlcht vote. I contend that tho state law is in con- thls being the flrtt action of the kind fllct with the federal pure food law. I Flooding1 01 Sewers by lilgnest . . -- , . 1 V. 1 t.nd (linpi,fni-a i, n nrr a I f li 1 1 rtn a 1 That. I ever oetore - me -aiBiieitti. wBaeniuijr. u..v.u,v.vu..whU.. .. ReDresentatlve Kellum of New Han-1 point to tne laci mat y virtue or tne over introduced a- bill to extend the I teaerai pure iooq law, -me mree sec age of consent la cases : of carnal I retaries," Secretary Wilson of, the knowledee to 16 years. . Bunn of I agricultural aepanment, secretary WakA introduced a bill increasing "le I Cortelyou of the treasury department number of Judges from 1 to 24. j.iana, secretary Straus oi tne aepart of BurkeMntrotfuced a bill allowing I ment of commercd and labor, held the an insured to recover 25 per cent I prodgct was not misbranded It labelled more than hi DOliey. if the company I corn syrup with cane navor.' in re belongs to an insurance combination, I ply. attorneys for the state argue that the bill being designed to hit theltne tnree secretaries naa no autnority FEAR TYPHOID EPIDEMIC IN WAKE OF THE FLOOD Waters Since 1884 Caus ing Apprehension! Ry Associated Press. Evansville. Ind., Jan. 17.-With a steady rain throughout last night and this morning, and with a flood, stage Southeastern Tavsociatior, tl:fmf fiS Ea.lU.'.bi-!alW.U,thaOhla the fact that Dr. -WHey and the food and drug inspection board held other wise, i : .- h In the brief. Secretary Wilson . is criticised for' allowing the attorneys for the Corn Products company to ob- river was increased today. . While .the rainfall - was less than one inch, it presented . a new problem in caring for the homeless, . The river stpod at 46.4 feet this morning. tain copies of briefs bearing on the I , f ir, . ... ,. h ... ,!,. Nue to the flooding of the sewers has case while denying the state officials that privilege until Representative Nelson interceded T Chllllcothe, Ma., Jan. 17. Mrs. Edna Slbert, ,aged 70, was granted a divorce from Henry Slbert, aged 75, here today on a plea of non-support and' a contention that she 'did not want his name on my tombstone." Her maiden name, Edna Wiley, was restored. -- ' :'.,'',, The Siberts had been separated US years. . ' - !" " '.- -...' Father Officiate at Sister's 'Double Wedding. Ry Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 17. Oreat earth slides have started again In Culebra cut In the Panama cunul, according to Information received here today. One of tho nllde Vne Is expected to throw a minion ; .run oi prm uu rock Into th canal unless the steam shovel crews succeed In checking It. Another -slide at Cucuracha, which was supposed to have halted two years -ago, again has begun to move Mr, McNeill that the funis In tho cno rapidly and the earth sank four feet f By Associated Press. Chicago, Jan 17. Two. sisters were married by their father, In a double wedding here last night. Rev. Francis B. Cutler of the Ravenswood Baptist church married Miss Clarlbel Culter to Thorton A. Lewis of Detroit, and Miss Verba Cutler to Byron P. Rarnhardt, boys secretary for the Burlington, la, Y. M. C. A. The bridegrooms met for the first time at the wedding. v liams of Buncombe Introduced a bill for the registration of births and deaths. . - -' " -. - .' - Representative Clark -of Pitt today introduced a , bill to make railroads place cinder guards on all passenger coaches. Senator Hooks of Wayne In troduced a resolution requesting the insurance commissioner to furnish the assembly, by January 21, data on In surance rates, this intending to start an, investigation ! of r fire, rates, in the state, Raleigh, Jan. 17. In explaining the anti-trust bill he Introduced in the house Mr. Justice of Guilford says that it makes It unlawful for any person or corporation to enter into any con tract or have any combination in the form of a trust or otherwise, or con violation of this provision a misde-liail. iranSHUlS W lUllgress tjeanor, and any person, acting as the agntt of a corporation in violation ol this. provision is as guilty as if acting for. himself. The tine on any corpora tion cannot be less than 11000, and each week's violation Is a separate offense. It further provides that any con-1 By Associated Press tract or combination In the form of a I Washington, Jan. 17. In, response trust or conspiracy which violates the I to a recent resolution by Senator Gore, principles of the common law shall be I President Taft yesterflay sent to the a crime and punishable by fine and I senate a report on a new German tu- imprisonment in the discretion of the I herculosls serum forwarded to , the court. These provisions undertake to I state department by Consul, General make illegal the things which are iTharknra. made Illegal by tho Sherman antl-1 Mr. Thuckara stated that up to No- trust law and which are illegal at I vember Dr. F F. Friedman, one of the been expected in Borne quarter A large number of manufacturing plants have been covered with water, throwing hundreds of workmen out of employment. :''" Ml EVIL DISCUSSED BY ELIOTT OF Report on Friedman's Serum Treatment. Famous Educator Says Its Removal Involves Lasting of White Race. common law, and to make criminal the violation of the common law. Correcting the defects In the na tional law which crew out of the de risions of the Supreme court of the United States in the American Tobac co, cases and tho Standard Oil case, that these offenses were not illegal unless they unreasonably restrained trade, the Justice bill provides that in any civil oi criminal case prosecuted (Continued on page 4) principal exponents of the new cure, had treated 1182 cases, most of them successfully. Dr. Friedman, accord- : Bl AnooMtt Prn. , : nonton,' Jan. 17. "The lasting of the . white race Is Involved In the question, of the social evil," said Pres ident Kinerltus Charles Ellott of Har vard Vniversity In an address at the City club last night. "We have got to remove this evil," he continued, "or this country will not be ruled by the race that is now here. The family life of the white race la at staki in when the scrum can be supplied- In America. , i ing to the report, does not know Justly purity, healthfulness and fertility We have tried the policy of silence and the policy of segregation but there is no cure except the observance bv men of the same standards that almost all races demand of their wo men. WOMAN WEDS AT 105 Mrs. Marcclina Kltmxla, Paid to lie Wraltliv, Will Marry Man of 80. WANTrf HENRY IXDICTER. hnd leen anno over very thr.-ugbly sn'l thnt the olflce could not jonsld r nnv'nrilni or reinillng the onlr that . hnd bem Issued. The coti.n'.lwil n r described his Interview will McNeill hh follows: hnvK llvnuni Ret racial Ht Moment a. "Mr. McNeill continued the iiiiver Fi lli-n vlRnimi'ly and bewail to :et n- grv. He mU his client bail the rif'ht to ! h'-ard personally nd through nn attorney. lie referred to th- fnct tli.it 1 had been acched of wrnnirful eoniluH tnwnrd hln client on ie;iint . of desiring to defend the bonding company in the original rime, thnt in remplalnt In tills cane hud been stKn .l bv i-mlnently rexpectalile attorneys. ni'-nllonlnir Jtnls Kvniim bv narne 1 t 1,1 Mr. McNeill that Jmlxe l'jniim I, ait iinhlli'lv retracted the siiilernenls on, I hail mini" bin retract Inn a, mutt -f record, ,tiiit bad such Htntemeiiln n.,t been jtrnclcil further iiciimi Til I liave been 1 :1 b n III the mull 1 h . i I , be i-'i-r. utiMolut.-H' iinii'i'i thit wntil.l wiiriimt any i-i-h n , . 1 1, u : -i in i i.f n threat twinl -1 V, il!ianm er a nv mie ef Mk mum ( . I i . i : 1 : , ; W llll Ji'l-i li I'- i ? ... i i ! m th-- p. ... in 17 minutes on the afternoon or January 2, completely covering the railroad tracka- 1 The engineers anticipated these movements and had allowed for them In their estimate, but It will tuk a month's work of the giant steam shov els to get rid Of the debris. TARIFF HEARING Ril"rceMatlM of I'api'' ToIhkto Iiidii-irten hcrorp. ways ami .Menus Committee. By Associated Press. Washington, Jan. 17. Representa tives of the paper snd tobacco Indus tries nnpeored toilay before the him committee on ways and menns. A lnr(t reprenentntlnn of these interest ed in the pulp, paper, and book In iliiHtry. nfliitid ly schedule "M" of Ihe taiifT l.i w, were ready early to tj-'ifv, nnd iiitiniig silmlitled wlt-n,--iM were nun from Havana, Tarn ., , Jind 1,1'nr clllii. In re nn st'iiki'i u f..i- tt,e wtut'i.er 1'iul lliler, 'lr:r , , i , .,,,!,. ,, -i iiic an, I inipi.it- ,, . ,. -, v .. i, n-d ti - !- Turkey Trot and the Like Barred From Inaugural 'Grizzly B.iar , Gyrations, Bunny Hug, Tenderloin Move ments, Turkey Trot Contortions and Like Vulgar isms of Hoochee- Coochee" Are Forbidden .' By Associated Press.' Uis Angeles, Cal., Jan. 17, Mrs. Miircellna Ellsalda, 105 years of ake md said to be wealthy, concurred to lay In an application for-a marriage license-for herself and Plesantlno Uon, aged 0. The license was Is- ud. Leon said today he would at tempt to have a recent court order ippointlng Mra Claudia Lugo, a granddaughter,' the aged woman's le al guardian, set aside. Mra Lugo will contest the action. - Miincv Trust Commlltra ciiairman - Ua lU-fore Federal (irnnu Jury at Wanlilngton. Tranafor of "Wren's Newt" Ry Associated Press. Washington. Jan. 17. Should thcrs he an Inaugural ball, despite Presi dent-elect Wilson's wli'hes to the con trary, there may be no turkey-trotting, bunny-hugglng nor grly-bearlng, if the function takes place In the pen sion building. ' Hepreimntatlve Roddenberry today offered an amendment to the resolu tion authorising th use of the pension offices, which Is worded 'j follows: "That the grant of lh uso or ths pension building for trtu Inaugural hall Is eiprciMl)' upon the limitation that for tho prevention, of wets o' 111111111' Indecency the fallowing I called rtai'fr are aumilutely barred nii'l prohibited: "i;ilclv bear Kvrallnim, thf 'bnnny lm telulei billl num lit'. Ill" tof- l . t,,,t i iiVt'ti 1 !ii(ih' unit (i I'l,' -V 1 1 i convulsive movements suggestive of the degenerate revelries of ths segre gated rittHcts. Washington. Jan. 17. "There will be no Inaugural ball," declared Wll liam C. Eustls, chairman of the Inau gurnl committee, today, after an In. formal conference with hseveral mem bers over President-elect Wilson's let ter rronestlng that the committee con abler the feasibility of omitting tn function. The wlnhes of rrealdent-eleot W II- onv. will be complied with," snld Mr. uv.ls. The rommilti-e will take of lal action Inter. Trenton, N. J., J-in. I ".President elect Wllwon favors tihollxmhg tiie tn nii -ui il b.ill. This became knowl t.-idav when lie s. tit a letter t lllieni Coreornn i i-inn at ann iiiiian of Hi" ii iiiii-uiail B iMDOMtml Prtu. Atlanta, flu., Jan. 17.- Formal transfer of the "Wren's Nest," the home of the late Joel Chandler Harv rl. the author, to the Uncle Remus association, which plans to convert It Into a memorial museum, will be ef fected tomorrow. Payment for tho property has already been made to the dead writer's .helm. Among contributors to the purchaae 'lind, which was raised by tho asso- elation py public subscription, were Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew t arne- tle nnd John IX Rockefeller. tly Associated- Press. Washington, Jan.. 17. Chairman Pulo of the house money trust com mlttee testified before the , federal grand Jury today, asking the Indict ment for contempt of George Q. Hen ry, a New yorK uroaer, woo reiueu to tell the committee the name of 24 national hank officers, . who, he said profited 150, 000 in a syndicate flota tion of California petroleum stook Henry and bis counsel contend the committee has no authority to Inquire Into the affair. The rase promises to go to the Bu preme Court. I ' SETVATK AHOPTH RKKOI.VTIOX TO niORU IMI N AFFAIRS Tive Killed in lb.al FiploKloll. (Py Awoclalcd rriM1 Tanipa, Via.. Jan. 17 Three white men and (wo ncirrocH nre tiellevciivto have been kllli-il lal ihe Innn'ch Haiti" M -hell atul Sitli'l com t; ol'- ten's I'. "Ill In eMleliiav wli of Ihe Tami i, blew up i By Attociated JrM. Washington, Jan. 1 7.-flenitor Townrend's resolution lnRtruetlng Attorney-General Vlokernham td rnvrs tiKHte nfTalra of the Crow Indians if Montnna, liassed the senabj today without debate or opposition. By Associated. Press. Versailles, Jan. 17. Premier Point-are was eloctcd president of tho French republic by tlei;nHnnl ns wmbly here today, - i ' Versailles, Jan. 17.- Premier Ray mond Polncare received 429 votes and Jules Pams 327 votes on the first bal lot for the election today of a new president of the republic. - Another ballot was thus rendered necessary, as the number necessary for election la 436.'' - ".'.. ,' .-..'.-, . ', ':,'" Premier Raymond Polncare was In. -A . suited by ex-Premier George Clemen- -ceau at the opening of the national congress for the election of a pres ident. s Mr. Polncare at once appoint ed Aristlde Briand, the minister of ' justice, and L. L. Klotz, minister of . finance, to act as his seconds and to arrange a duel. , - The Incident between Polncare and Clemenceau arose out of a letter sent i by the former premier to Polncare, . the contents of which -Were consider ed offensive by Polncare, : The premier promptly sent his two- - second to ask for an explanation, and . -' . unless this should prove satisfactory. under the custom of France, the inci dent will result in a. duel. - Clemenceau made a satisfactory ex planation to M. Briand and M. Klots, who had been sent to him by Premier Polncare relative to the letter he e- eelved last evening from the ex-pre-mler, The Incident Is therefore con sidered , plef.---.. -nxr- Beputy de Monzle and Paul Ron- f cour, former, rnlnister of labor, "also , quurriiled in the corridors Of the pal ace and "M, JHonzle sent his seconds to M. Boncour. Senators and deputies of France t arrived In small groups throughout the forenoon today to take part in the election of a new president of the republic. President. Fallaries' seven. . year term expires on February 18. Nominally 887 representatives of the people were entitled to vote today ; In the national assembly convened In ' the ancient residence of the kings vt France. These official electors In cluded 697 deputies and 300 senators, v but, the number was reduced owim? to vacancies caused by deaths and resignations, or by Illness. Most of the senators and deputies came out from Paris on special trains provided by the government, a fw arrived in motor cars, or carriages. With them came some 1500 relatives and friends and persons notable in official society. , "' " i Premier Raymond Polncare and members of his cabinet arrived to gether several hours before the vling began. , Jules Pams, the mlntstor of agriculture, was not among them. He had sent to the premier early in tne morning a note containing his resig nation from the cabinet and notifica tion that he had accepted the candi dacy for the presidency of the re public. ' t , Premier Polncare immediately oec- Ignated Fernnnd David, at presunt minister of commerce, to take ovor also the portfolio of agriculture. The Interior of the palace, which dates from the time of Louis XIV., was brilliantly decorated. Tho floor ranged with I00 chain No special scnts wore assigned to the members of the two chambers who took their places In accordance with their po litical groupings. ' Outside the palace, in the spacious grounds, there was great animation all day, tho park being filled with mo tor corn and carriages, while many liveries, domestics and thousands of curious foreigner wandered about. These were interspersed with mount ed trooper Within the palace many lively luncheon and tea parties wero given by the various iunciionane, while some of the smaller rooms wero occupied by partisans of the various candidates discussing the tactics to pe pursued. The board lobbies wero tilled 'with senators and deputies, and hundreds of reporters, for all , of whom the government prov'dcfi to bacco, cigars and cigarettes. Considerable commotion whs caused by ft strantrer seeking to obtain en trace into the palace. When he was stopped by a gendarme and asked hl.i business, he pulled out a revolver ami shouted: This election should not take place.'' lie was disarmed and arreated. A number of other simpects also wero taken Into custody. The national assembly was opened at t o'clock thin afternoon by Af.tol nln lubot, prenldent of the en:i!o who rend the decree of convocation. Krone WttrtH I l Million. New Ry Associated Pre York, Jan, 17. The will of Jatne- It. i'tii, veteran ftock nuuet urate llM'.te ,.iy t n nd leave- turfman. hlf Cfllll S Hied III Mm I .1 I e f..r Kverjt Inch of ball was oeenpli ' ppectnior In men. I'verv b with en a iv a Hun of it." I ' u e In the -lent 111 I if I1 I .1 t ..! n I- . I- eh sf i -. i 1 1 : r ...I..
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