WAS BUSY SESSION t- V--- r' ""' - 1 " '"".3. ' 1 Congress Just Closing Made a V Record of Hard Work MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES iBailroad Rate Bill and Meat Inspec ' tion Bill Will Soon Become Laws Before Adjournment Pure rood Bills Will Have Been Passed by Both Houses One New State Has Been, Added to the Union and Other Legislation Enacted. aaukiiivuf opecii. important measures exttending federal regula-. tion and control have been enacted at the first session - of the Fifty-ninth congress, now rapidly drawing to Ja close. The railroad rate bill and tHe meat inspection bill will soon beconje laws and before adjournment both houses of congress will have passdd pure food bills which, though dissim ilar in terms, are both based on the same principle of federal control. It is the present intention to try and ad- , just these differences before adjourn ment. There has been no marked di . vision on, party lines in effecting the above results, the difference being only as to ways and means rather than as to policy. Besides" branching off into this new field of legislative endeavor, the pres ent session of congress has made it self important in other 'ways. It has added one, and perhaps two new States to the union, and by so doing disposed of four territories. Great re sults to the people are expected from the removal of the tax on denatured ! alcohol.- If predictions are fulfilled, i heat, light and power to be supplied by alcohol made from the confields of the country, from sugar beets, and sugar cane, from fruits and other vegetation. Panama Canah By a deft turn of legislative points of view, the questions which have per plexed congress for some time regard ing the Panama canal have been set tled. 1 he president may dig a lock canal as fast as he pleases. A joint resolution was agreed to requiring canal -supplies to be of American man ufacture. - An act making a much needed reorganization- of the consular service, was passed. Nothing was done in the Santo Domingo controversy and the legislation affecting our colonial pos sessions was meagre and unimportant, although tariff revision for the Philip pines received the attention and ap proval of the house, and an act was passed revising the tariff collected by the Philippine government. A onn. " ageact. was passed. But congesstalked about our own tariff, law. Thousands and hundreds of thousands more words than have been uttered at ahy other one session of congress werej compiled in The Congressional Iteord. Nearly 20,000 bills were introduced. It has been im possible to hold the ' appropriations down to much less than $900,000,000, although r 1 ' economy ' ' was the watch word from the start. Permanent an- nual appropriations increased during -V -the session nearly .$5,000,000, making a total permanent annual appropria tion of $140,000,000. The meat in spection bill carried a permanent an nual appropriation of $3,000,000 and the same day the house passed the bill adding $1,000,000 "to a like amount an- - nually for the support of the State r militia. Important to the South. Important to the Southern States was the enactment of the general quarantine bill providing for coopera tion of State and federal authorities in suppressing yellow fever. President Roosevelt was given $25,- 000 to pay traveling expenses for him self and invited guests. The private pension legislation of the session was heavy and many hun dred acts will be signed before the end comes. , . v The Jamestown, Va., tercentennial is expected to be recognized by law before the session ends. Organized labor succeeded in seem ing the enactment of the 4 employers' liability bill.'-' The eight-hour bill got no further than a favorable committee action and the anti-injunction, bill was postponed until next session. . , Congress authorized the construc tion of the "biggest battleship afloat," with the provision that before ; the plans 'of the ship are submitted or bids received or accepted the plans of the ship must be submitted to con gress at its next session. Hazing Rebuked. Hazing in the naval aeademy was given a further legislative rebuke by . tary of the navy discretion to dismiss or otherwise punish hazers at that in - ' stitution. An anti-hazing bill and a bill wind- ing up the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes were among those passed. Ten bills relative to the courts ot the United States were passed. These related to the establishment of addi tional courts, procedure, etc., includ v ing one to give' full understanding in i " criminal cases to the witness and r ,r party seeking ' information regarding s - the subject of iromunitv. "', A law :wasC passed which will re suit 4 in appropriate ! marking being made over the graves of Confederate veterans of the army and navy who died in Northern prisons during the Civil war. The wearing ot the .in signia of the G. A.R., or other Soldiei organization by others than mmebers of said organizations, was made -a mis demeanor, with appropriate punish ments. Alaska was given the right to send a delegate to congress. The ship sub sidy measure did not become , a law. An omnibus bill authorizing the er ection of a number of aids to navaga tions became a law. Fatal Crash on Coast Line. Norfolk, Va., Special In a rear end collision between trains on the Atlantic Coast Line at Ahoskie, N. C, Engineer O. O. King, of Ports mouth, Va., and Brakeman Walter Carter, -of. Windsor, N. C, were kill ed. Conductor Meacham and an un known man were injured. The acci dent happened while one of -the trains was shifting cars. The en gine of one train and six cars were badly damaged, as were the caboose and six rear cars of the other train. Georgia Postmistress Knocked Down and Office Robbed. Atlanta, Ga., Special. A special from Dallas, Ga., says Mrs. Sallic Golden, postmistress at that place, was knocked down and rubbed. A masked man entered . the office with a knife in hand and told her if she screamed he would kill her. Attempt ing to escape, she was knocked down by two blow, on the head, thrown in to a closet 'and the rober then-took the money 4in the office and escaped. There is no clue to the robbery. Case Against Standard Oil. Washington, Special. Practically the entire session of the cabinet was devoted to the consideration of the proceedings likely to be begun by the Department of Justice against the Standard Oil Company. It is well un derstood that these proceedings have been under consideration for some time but the precise nature of them will not be known until Attorney Gen eral Moody makes a statement which he promises to do some time soon. Town of 13060 Destroyed. New Orleans Special. Cablegrams reporting the destruction of Sagua la Grande a town of about 13,00C inhabitants in Santa Clara province, Cuba, were received here by Stauffer. Helman & Company. Twp messages were received, the first announcing that the town had been flooded and the second saying that it had been entirely destroyed by fire- The mes sages came from the firm's represen tative at Havana. No additional in formation has been received. Railroad Commission Reduces Freight Rates. Frankfort, Ky., Special. The State railroad commission ordered, a reduction of 25 Der cent, in freight rates. The matter of freight rate regulation has been un der investigation for six months past. The opinion of the commission sustains the contention of shippers in all sections of the State that the shippers have been discrim inated against and that the entire State has suffered. NEWSY GLEANINGS, A Belgian doctor is prescribing hot s&ir as a cure for many infirmities. Congress has now voted to buy a special vessel for the destruction of derelicts. The Cape to Cairo Railway has now reached Brokenhill, 201$ miles from Cape Town. Both parties in the Republic of Panama are appealing for American aid in the elections. General Greely has made arrange ments for the gradual withdrawal of troops from San Francisco. Germany is the largest producer of potatoes in the world, growing as high as 48,000,000 tons in one year. Republicans celebrated in Philadel phia the fiftieth anniversary of the first National Convention of the party". The number of immigrants arriv ing at New York during May was 120,951: at Boston, 9066; at Balti more, 8708. The victory of Captain Hobson in the fifth Alabama District was won by using President Roosevelt's greater navy policy as a slogan. ' . Germany is building a consulate at, at Canton, China, and when complet ed it will be the finest Government building of any Nation represented in that country. There are 104 capitalists in New York, the number of whose director ships aggregate 2S57. This is an av erage of more than twenty-seven for each man. Owing to untimely low tempera ture in Japan, sericulture has suf fered further rheavy damage. The loss on silkworms, in the Gifu dis trict is estimated at $500,000. . The Department of Commerce and Labor reports that the foreign com merce of the United States 'for- the fiscal year will probably be the larg est in the history of the Nation. An Illinois man is suing a. financial journal for libel for saying that he intended to abandon his plumbing business to enter the banking busi ness. Considering what a cruel blow this was to the financial standing ot a plumber, suggests the Atlanta Con stitution, it r is probable that he witt WILL VISIT PANAMA President Roosevelt Decided to :t'. See Few Himself WILL GET INFORMATION DIRECT Announcement is Made at White House That the Chief Executive : Will Sail on One of Navy's Big Cruisers in Latter Part of October or Early November, to See Wheth er Dirt is Flying Will Confine Visit to American Zone. - Washington, Special. President Roosevelt will visit the Isthmus of Panama to make a personal investi gation of the work of construction of the Panama canal. This announcement was made at the White House by Secretary Loeb after a conference with! the Presi dent. It is expected the President will leave Washington for Panama the latter part of next October or in the early days of November. He will be absent about three weeks. The trip probably will be made on one of the big cruisers of the navy, but what vessel will carry the President and his party is not yet known. None of the details of the trip has yet been worked out. Beyond the bare decision to make the trip, the President has reached practically no conclusions. It is likely he will be accompanied on the journey by Sec retary Taft and Chairman Shonts, of the Panama canal commission, but even this has not been ! determined definitely. J Wants to See For Himself. The President long has desired per sonally to inspect the route - of the canal and to make himself personally familiar with the great undertaking of constructing the waterway. The decision announced today, that he will visit the American zone on the Isthmus of Panama, was not reached hastily but has been under considera tion for a considerable time. It is the expectation that . the President will be able to spend at least a week on the canal zone, and in that time he . will familiarize himself with the situation bv a studv of it at close range. He believes a personal visit to the canal zone will enable him to gather information that will be of immense advantage not only to the canal work itself, but to Congress and to the American people. Above all, it will enable him to handle with an absolute knowledge of the situation the great problems which will con stantly be arising in connection witk the work of canal construction and administration. - $60,000 Factory Fire in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Special. Fire de stroyed the plants of the Atlanta Spring Bed Company and the Atlan ta Iron and Brass Bed Company. The loss is estimated at $60,000, fully cov ered by insurance, At one time it was feared that the tanks of the Standard Oil Company, which ad joins one of the plants, would be ig nited, but quick work by the fire de partment checked the flames in that direction. Wages Raised at Fall River Fall River, Mass., Special. The' cotton manufacturers of this city have granted their operatives a 14 per cent, increase in waees. About 25,000 hands are' benefitted. The new scale, which will take effect July 2, is practically the same as that pre vailing previous to July 1, 1004. As the other New England cotton manu facturing centers follow the lead of Fall River, as a rule, the change is expected ultimately to effect all cot ton mill workers in this section. Run Down and Killed by Train. ; Roanoke, Special. W. A. Hinchee. aged 74 years, a former citizen of Roanoke, was run down by a passen ger train at Lithia, Botetoutt coun ty, on jthe Norfolk and Western, and instantly killed. He was quite, deaf and failed to hear the signal as the train approached. j Dr. Denny Re-elected. j Nashville, Special. The book com mittee of the M. E. church South, met here and re-elected Dr. Collins Den ny, of Nashville, secretary. Ilev. J. M. Moore, of Dallas, Texafe, was electer as editor of tlu Christian Advocate and Rev. S. M. Goodbye was re-elected as assistant editor. Rev. L. F. Beatty was re elected assistant to the Sunday school editor. Plans have been prepared for the erection n-F n -miKlisViincrlinncfi at Dallas, Texas and the facilities of the publishing house in China will be increased. Hit by Stray Bullet. Columbia, Special. In a shooting affair, on' Washington -street near Gadsden Thursday afternoon, Matil da Fieids', an aged colored Jwoman, was struck and seriously wounded by a bullet intended for a negro man. named Silas , Payne. The shooting was done by Walter Bailey, also colored, and was the result of a threatened assault upon Bailey's fa ther, a colored minister. ISPEAKSFORf HIMSELF Taking for His Text the Statement That He is Being Described as ; Conservative, ' Nebraskan Declares That Radical measnres Against Private Monopolies Are Necessary to Save Legitimate Wealth From Odium. MTrondhjem, Norway, By Cable. William J. Bryan has arrived here to attend the coronation of King Haa kon. Mr. Bryan, taking for his text the statement that he was being de scribed as. conservative, said: "I am not ( responsible for the phrases used in regard to me j but t: am responsible for my position on public, questions. .That position ought to be well known. Take the trust question for instance, as it seems uppermost just nowi My po sition is, that private monopoly is in defensible and; intolerable. That was the Democratic platform 'in 1900 and the plank was incorporated in 1904 and it is the only tenable posi tion.1 "There is some talk of controll ing the trusts you might as well talk of controlling burglary. We do fcot say men shall not steaL a little bit, or in some particular way, but that they Bhall not steal at all. It is so of private monopolies. It is not . suf ficient to control or regulate them they must be absolutely and totally k destroyed. Corporations should be controlled and regulated, but private monopolies must be , exterminated, root and branch. Now you can call that a radical doctrine. Yet it is more conservative to apply this rem edy now than to wait until predato ry wealth has by its lawlessness brought odium on legitimate accumu lations. "What used to be called radical is now called conservative because people have been investigating. The doctrine, has not changed but public sentiment is making progress.5 ' Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will spend a week in Norway and will then go to England. HAIL THREE FEET DEEP. Terriffice Storm Sweeps Over Por tion of Orange County, Causing Thousands of Dollars Worth of Damage to Crops. Durham, Special.-r-From parties who were in the city today particu lars of a hail storm that did great damage in the northern part of Or ange county Tuesday night were learned. The loss was something fearful, large planters losing every thing. The hail belt was from three quarters to amile in width. The storm did not last more than 15 or 20 minutes. In that length of time thousands of dollars worth of prop erty was destroyed. t?In some places,' 7 said Mr. S. T. Pittard, who lost his entire crop of tobacco, oats, cotton and corn, 'the ice was piled three feet deep yesterday morning. This was in ditches, or places- where it was rifted.' ' Continuing, he said that yesterday morning one of his neighbors gathered a guano sack full of the hail stones and carried them to Hillsboro, a distance of 11 miles. "When he reached Hillsboro,' ' said my . informant,' " the stones were as large as guinea eggs. This gives you some idea of the size of the stones when they fell, these being gathered after lying on the ground all night." Telling of some of the losers, Mr. Pittard said that he lost his entire crop of tobacco, 90,000 hills; all his corn, oats and cotton. Fate Cooper lost from 80,000 to 90,000 hills of tobacco, Joe Hurst from 50,000 to 60,000 hills, Rufus Wilkins 35,000 hills. John Saterfield, D. L. Wells, William Ellison, Will Wright, Chas. Wilson, Mrs. Anderson and numbers of others lost practically their entire crop. All or these parties lost corn, cotton and oats, m addition to the large loss on the tobacco crop. The first hail belt was 11 miles north of Hillsboro, near Carr's post office. Here the belt was little more than a half mile wide. At Caldwell, a distance of nine or ten miles, the loss was fearful. The average width of the belt was probably from three quarters to one mile. The storm went intowards the western part of Person county; - One year ago this same section was visited by a fearful hail storm, ana wind' storm and the damage occasion ed to. the tobacco crop was fearful. This year some ' oT those who lost a year ago -are-' again losers, but in most instances the storm belt was a little removed from the old belt and the losers this year ,as a . rule. rare those who i escaped the destruc tive storm a year ago. Mr. Pittard said that he; did not know what the farmers in this belt would do. The oat crop is not worth I cuttin and the corn is left stand- in .many instances without a single blade left on the stalks. China Fays for Missionaries. ' Paris, By Cable. China signed a treaty according complete satisfac tion, to France for the massacre, of Six French Jesuit missionaries at Nan-Chang Kiang-Si province in February last. China $200,00 indem nity to the mission and $400,000 in-, demnity to the deceased missionaries' families, builds a memorial hospital, and punishes the. ring-leaders of the rioting. ' - GUESTS OF EMPEROR f ' V . ... -r . ' Mr. and Mrs. Longworth Are Royalty Entertained FELICITATIONS QUITE GENERAL" After Dinner the Party Went on Quarter Deck to Witness the .Illu minations. Kiel, By Cable. Emperor William-, when he was certain of the day on which Mr. and Mrs. Longworth would arrive here, telegraphed to Princess Eitel Frederick asking if she could iot come to Kiel at once so that Mrs. I Longworth could be entertain- ed aboard Emperor ?s is the the Hamburg, the improvised yacht. It emperor's I rule never to invite women on board his vessel unless the empress or one of the imperial princesses are present. Empress Augusta Victoria,- it is un derstood, desires to remain near the crown princess, and Princess Henry of Prussia is taking a holiday in Ba varia, and Princess Eitel Frederick, who also is a bride, had arranged to go on a cruise in the Hamburg with the imperial party after, the regatta, but upon receiving the emperor's tele gram she came from Potsdam immed iatetly, arrivinng here Saturday even ing with Prince Eitel, and Mr. and Mrs. Longsworth were invited to dine with the emperor. It was quite an American evening. Besides Mr. and Mrs. Longsworth, Al lison, Howard and George Mott were present. Princes Eitel was "amiable and Emperor William jollv and com plimentary to America and Ameri cans. After the dinner the emperor and Princess Eitel with their guests and the emperor's staff, went on "the quar ter deck of the Hamburg to witness the illuminations. The club house, the hotel and other buildings- were out lined in electric lights, and the 16 bat tleships, 10 cruisers, 12 merchant ships and 100 yachts in the harbor were strung with incandescent globes 'while many searchlights played about made a gorgeous scene. Just above the room in the hotel, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Longworth, were the Stars and Stripes in colored lights. A great assemblage from Kiel and neighbor ing towns crowded the water frount to witness the illumination. Mr. and Mrs. Longworth were de tained by Emepror William until after 11 o'clcok. The illumination ended with every warship sending up blaz ing rockets.- To Mark His Grave. Bristol, Special. Tb success of Congressman Brownlowrs bill to es tablish a national cemetery atXJreene ville means that the grave ol Presi dent Johnson is to.be properly cared for by the government after more, than a quarter of a century of neg lect. The bill provides for the care of ten acres oY ground surrounding the grave. This property will be taken in charge under the usual regu lations governing - national cemeteries and will be converted into a beauti ful spot. Last of Hearing. Washington, Special. The last of the . hearings for the present by the Interstate Commerce Commission in connection with its investigation into the relations of the .railroads with the coal and oil traffic was held here and marked the practical completion of the inquiry as regards the Eastern bituminous fields. Hearings will be, resumed in the fall. The commission in the meantime is preparing its re port" on the facts developed for the consideration of Congress. Child Shot to Death. Marshville, Special While play ing on the bed with, someother little children Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, little Dolly Harrill, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. Sid Harrill, was shot and almostinstant ly killed by the discharge of a gun, which was in some way dislodged from the position it had in the cor ner. Murder by Millionaire. New York, Special. Stanford White, a member of the firm of Mc Kim, Meade & White, architects, was shot an instantly killed during the performance at Madison Square Roof Garden. The police state that the murderer was Harry Thaw, a mem ber of a well-known Pittsburg fam- iiy. General Deficiency Bill. ' '- Washington, Special. The general deficiency appropriation bill, the last of the great supply bills, was complet ed by the House committee on appro priations 'and reported to the House. The bill carries a total of $10,245,509 to supply deficiencies in the various depatments of the Government. Republicans nominated ' Fletcher D1 Proctor, son of Senator Proctor, for Governor of Vermont.' CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS What is Being Done Day by Day By the National House and Senate, Goes to Conference. I move to suspend the rules, dis charge the committe of the whole House on the state of the Unipn rom thee consideration" of the Senat amendments to the agricultural ap propriation . bill, disagree to ... all the amendments except number 29 (the meat inspection amendment), to con- cur in amendment recommended by the colnmittee on agriculture, and ask for a conference with, the Senate on the disagreeing votes." ' Interest was shown in every part of the House when . Mr. Wadsworth made the abave motipn. , The reading of the meat inspection amendment was begun, nearly every member pres ent ' following the .reading with bill in hand. Mr. Wadsworth in explaining the changes made in the substitute said that the changes were mostly in ver bitage and then took them up seria turn. He called attention to the elim ination of the court review clause and date of inspection. , One Dissenting Vote. Mr. Wadsworth 's motion to send the bill to conference was agreed to with the single dissenting vote of Mr. De Armoud. The Speaker appointed as conferees Mr. Wordsworth,. Mr Scott, and Mr; Levejr, of South Car- olina. Mr. WilliamsMississippi, interpos-. ed a vigorous protest at the last ap i. pointment, the chair having passed over Messrs. Lamb, cf Virginia, aid Bowie, of Alabsma," both -being, ap posed to the committee amendment, while Mr. Lever favored it. Mr Williams said it was a "slap in the face" of Mr. Lamb and he protest ed. A vigorous conference was held at the desk between the Speaker, Mr. Williams and Mr. Wadsworth. The Speaker withdrew the conferees tem porarily, but later reappointed Messrs- . Wadsworth and Scott and substitut ed Mr. Lamb for Mr. Lever, the lat ter having asked to be excused. When the bill was turned to the Senate, Senator Proctor, chairman of the committee on agriculture, askec? that the "meat inspection amendment, be printed and tbat the bill lie or the" iable. Score of Bills Pass House. Twenty bills of more or less gen eral interest were passed ..by the, House under suspension of the rules. Among them were measures appro priating $25,000 for the traveling ex penses of the President, which ex cited considerable debate; providing for the subdivision of lands entered under the reclamation act: increasing the efficiency bureau of Insular Af fairs by conferring the rank and. pay of a brigadier general upon the cfiief of the bureau, and regulating the checking of baggage by common car riers. The joint resolution Increasing the terms of Representative to four years, and the bill amending section 51,16 of tho Revised Statutes 'rer mittins: national bnnlon" associations to make loair, on rcnl estate as se curity and limiting the amounts of such loans, failed to'rcceive the neces sarv two-thirds vote. , The House also passed a rule to begin the consideration of the pure food law .and- after 12 -hours, of de bate to vote" on the-substitute to the Senate bill .without ' intervening mo tion. Senate Holds Nisht Session. The meat inspection provision of the agricultural appropriation bilT was made the snbject of discussion in the Senate. The question came up on a motion by Senator Proctor toVranf the conference requested by the House, and speeches were made by Messrs. Proctor, Beveridge and1 Lodsre against some features of the House amendment, and by Senator Warren in opposition to drastic leg islation. Mr. Lodge took occasion to defend American morals as quite as good as those of Europe. The bill went over without action. There, were two speeches on the Panama Canal, one by Senator Mor gan in support of the level plan and the other bv Senator Perkins "in op position. The Senate held its first night ses sion, which was devoted' to the con sideration of tbe sundry civil appro priation bill. For Traveling Expenses. The bill appropriating $25,000 '.'to defray the traveling expenses of the . President for the next fiscal year was called up under suspension- tf the rules in the House by Mr. Tawney, of Minnesota, chairman of the ap propriations committee. The sundry civil bill carried an item appropriate ing $25,000 for the traveling expenses of the President, which .went out ort a, point of order. Mr. Watson, of Indiana, then in the chair, and who sustained the point of order against the item, introduced the--bill which the House had under consideration! news Notes. v J The j. S, Young Company, of Bal timore, and the Mac Andrews and Forbes Company, with certain officers, were indicted in New York, charged; ' with . violating the Anti-Trust law in the licorice paste business. The crew and one rjasseneer of the Italian steamer Vincehzo Bonanno, ashore near Fire Island light, were taken off in the brWhes buoy and .lifeboat. ' jf U A "; .f-:; K.:-' Ar.xiL ,wr? :--ri.iK '7t;i,yjA.r--. iv n". -..,::, . ... "if AT . -f fj 'vf J - r t . & . -v .-v.--