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VOL. IX NO. II
Salisbury. N. C. Wednesdays February 26th, 1918.
Wm4 H. St&wart, EDITCn
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WHAT THE WEBB BILL MEANS.
Sinilor Tkoratoa. it Oppomt if Proklbl
Hoi, Belief is tm Stitti Skoatd Control.
When the bill to regulate the
inter-State shipments of liquor
was under consideration 10 the
United States Senate on the 10th,
Senator Thornton of Louisiana
poke in favor of the measure.
Hu remark! will be of mtereit
to those on both sides of the
qaestion in North Carolina. He
said :
"Mr. President, 1 presume
that other Benators hare had a
common ezperienoe with myself
in the, matter of receiving requests
to Tote against the pending bill,
generally known at the Eenyon-
Bheppird bill and generally under
stood to ha?e for its object the
prohibition of the shipment of
liquor from a State in whioh it
is lawful to sell it, to a 8tate in
whioh its sale is not legalised ; an
understanding based on a popular
error, tcr the bill does not prohibit
such shipment, but does subject
it to the authority of the police
power of the other State when it
enters its jurisdiction and before
it reaohes the consignee, provided
it bad been purchased for the pur
pose of violatiug the laws of the
State.
"Powerful political influences
from my own State, whioh is not
a prohibition State except in
spots, hare be9n brought to bear
on me by those who have been
my personal as well as politioal
friends, in thereffort to have me
vote against the passage of the
bill, the parties generally basing
thejir opposition en the twofold
gronad that it was unconstitution
al and a violation of the right of
personal liberty. To all I have
ansTrered that I ooald not do so
consistently with my views of the
- rights of the respective States of
"If either of these objections
appeared to- me well founded, I
would vote against the bill, for I
have taken an oath to obey the
constitution of the United States
and I am now, ss I have ever been,
a strong believer in the right of
i the personal liberty of the indi
vidual citizen .
"But while there may be a
doubt jn my mind as to the con
stitutionality of the bill, that
boubt is not sufficiently strong to
make me vote against its passage,
for I cannot justify myself in
taking the position thatonless a
legislator was absolutely sore of
the constitutionality of an act
submitted to him it is his duty to
Tote against it, even though he
thought the motive for its incep
tion was proper and the result of
its passage would be benefioial.
"I hold, rather that I have no
tight in such a case to attempt
to block what I considered proper
legislation, but that it would be
my duty to assist .iu its passage
and let the oourts pass on the
mooted question. And so in this
storm the safe harbor of uncon
stitutionality is not open to me
for entrance. So much for that
part of the question.
"As tor the second part of the
proposition, it will not be disput
ed that the right of the personal
liberty of the individual oitizen
is subordinated to the greater right
of, the State to oontrol that liberty
within such bounds as are con
sidered proper with referenoe to
the well being of the community
at large. The right of a State in
the ezeroiae of its polioe powers
to regulate the liquor traffio with,
in boundaries or ta suppress such
traffic entirely will not te denied.
(This bill permits the States to
.
exercise tne same police power
over liquor shipped into its terri
tory from another State that it
could exercise over it if the ship
ment originated within its terri
tory, a power that cannot be ex
eroisad exoept for the purpose Jof
preventing the violation of its
own laws.
"The effect of its passage wil
be to prevent the general govern
ment from lending the force of
its laws, either to aiaiit the citi
Z9ns of one State to violate the
laws of another or to assist the-
citisens of the other 8tata to
Hoist Rtfues to Piss Bill-Oi sr Tift
Veto.
Washington, Feb . 19. The
Home today refused by a vote of
213 to 114 to pass the Dillingham
Burnett immigration bill over the
President's veto. Five votes
changed from the negative to the
affirmative would have given the
twc-thirds necessary to over-ride
the veto.
Opposition to the measure was
renewed as soon as Representative
Bumett of Alabama, ohairman of
the Immigration Committee,
moved that the bill be reoonsid
ered and passed over the Presi
dent's veto.
Representative Qoldfogle of
New York and Ourley of Mana
chasetts delayed aotion for about
two hours by demanding the read
ing of the bill, covering 20 print
ed pages, the President's message
and the message from the Sanate.
Representative Burnett, appeal
ing to the House to over-ride the
veto, declared that Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Nagel's re
port, upou which the President
based his aotion, was "bristling
with misinformation and mis
statements."
The following shows where the
opposition comes from and why
Taft vetoed the bill:
Rome, Feb. 19. There has
been considerable press comment
here on the subject of the Burn
ett-Dillingham immigration bill,
the clauses of whioh caused a dis
agreable impression. The Gior
nale D'ltalia referred to the pro
posed legislation as "offensive to
human brotherhood." It added
that American oitizens would
have been the first to regret the
passage of the bill owing to its
consequences on the labor market
in the United States.
asset Tkrosgk Sills&Brr til M nit
ssi i Ptrssi.
John Eagle, nearly 73 years
old, who lives on the old Mooks
ville road, several miles north of
the city, was in town Saturdav
and told of an unusual exper
ience, a peouliar one to him. He
left home Sunday morning,
January 19th. accompanied by his
son, for Faith to attend the fun
eral of his brother Moses Essie.
and while en route from one point
to the other, passing throush the
main streets of Salisbury, saw
only one man, a neighbor, before
reaching the oity. He says he
has been iu Salisbury many times
and at all hours of day and night,
but never before passed through
without seeing a single person.
He left home at 7 o'olook .
violate the laws of their own.
believe that while the eeneral
government should be supreme
in the exercise of the authority
conferred on it by the constitu-
tioo, the States composing it
should be snnreme in the exarctaa
of the authority reserved to them
by the constitution. I believe I instead 01 ftt,zoj,uuu taxes in
further that it is the duty of theftead of $3,250,000 State taxes as
States to stand ready to assist the!
general government in the exeroise
of its constitutionallT conferred
powers and that it is equally the
duty of the general government
to stand ready to assiBt the States
in the exeroise of their constitu
tionally reserved powers to the
extent not only of refraining from
enacting laws'that may tend to
obstruct the nroner State authori-
ty, but also of amending or re
pealing any existing laws that
may have auoh a tendenoy.
"Holding suoh views, I cannot
vote against the pending bill, bnt
must vote for its passage."
The bill whioh finally passed
the Senate was the Webb bill,
the same that passed the House
and was prepared by Congress
man Webb of North Carolina.
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PROBABLY A NEW ASSESS
MENT OF PROPERTY,
Tie Bill ti Ririsi Sillsbin's Charter
Pisstfl Hoisi. Bill bj Suitor Brown.
Raleigh, Feb. 22. The sub
committee of the Joint Finance
Committee of the Legislature is
contemplating a wide departure
i
in administering the tax laws,
Yesterday they decided to have
an entirely new assessment of
property in North Carolina the
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ooming year. They also decided eussion and took Its place on tne
to create three new fat offices, calandar for finat?mding 8atur
three Tax Commissioners, at sala- day .
ries of $8,500 each, to take this I
new assessment and tee to the col-1
leotion of the taxes.
The news of the decision of the
subcommittee has caused no little
comment. Party leaders say that
new assessment of property, fol
lowing so olosely on the heels of
the assessment just had, will be
fatal to the Democratic party in
the close counties.
They say that the assessment
made last year by .the Corporation
Commission raised property valu-
ation $128,000,000. which was
$28,000,000 more than was expect
ed, and that we ought to be satis
fied for awhile.
The members of the subcom
mittee say in reply that with the
new six-months school law a new
assessment is absolutely necessary.
Replying to this, the opponents
of . the reassessment say thatthe
Corporation Commis iton ha8
pointed out the way to raise $636,-
000 more n taxes with a- reassess-1
men! which ii imnlr nffiainnt
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over the State against the idea of
a reassessment, and it is expected
that a battle roval will take Dlaoe
on the floors of the
when the maohinery
two houses
act is pie-
dented.
There is muoh opposition to the
creation of the three new Tax
Commissioners at handsome sala
ries, for, if the reassessment should
be defeated, there would be very
little for them to do but draw
their pay.
Raleigh, Feb. 22 The Joint
Finance. Committee on Finance,
Senator J. P. Cook and Represen-
Rep
tative R. R. Williams ohairman.
has completed its draft of the new
revenue and maohinery bill that
are- to be introduced in both
branches of the Legislature early
next week, haying plaeed the bills
in the hands of the State printers
for introduction in printed form.
In the meantime, members of the
committee will make no statement
of definite provisions of the bills.
An increase of at least $850,000
in ne State's revenue is aimed at
in tne bills without raising tax
levies 00 property. This means
omethmg like $4,000,000 taxes
present. Readjustment of the
machinery aos is the principal
means counted on to be especially
! effective in collecting revenue on
i incomes, inheritances, franchises
anu xinureu Bourses, rne com
1 m
mittee expeots $100,000, instead
of $40,010 from incomes; $100,-
1 000 om inberitanoes, instead of
$&0,OW; $160,000 from franchises,
instead of $51,000.
Only 14 more days remain for
this session and two of these will
be Sundays, and the adjustment
of the revenue and machinerv
bills will be the absorbing work
for the remainder of the session.
It is oonoeded that there will
be a speoial session next Fall and
indications are that it will be de-
: cided to create a State Tax Com
mission, nave a complete new
property assessment ; in the mean
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time with the pledge that no more
taxes shall be raised under the
new assessment this year than
last except as required to provide
the six-months sohool terms.
It is learned that the new reve-
lnue bill provides for a franchise
1 tax on corporations of one-tenth
$300 000 STATE HDS FOB ROADS
Four Per Cent Koterje 6a Isssid Semi
AH
Raleigh, Feb.21. Bya vote of
81 to 5 the Housejjaised the Kel-
lnm bill providing for fSOO.UOO
four per cent State bonds issued
by counties at J per cent, ior
for road ouiiuiogi w
run for 41 veart. -PT wnica wme
the one per cent sinking fund
will have providedlfor liquidation.
It is the bond istua plan worked
out by W. S. W ilson of the De-
Ptment of State,; ana enaorsea
by the State Uignwey Association
And other road-building interests
of the 8tate. The bill passed sec-
ond reading withyary little dii-
In the Senate the, resignation of
W. E, Hooks as engrossing clerk,
ill health being asngned as the
cause was received and W. H.
8awer of Raleigh .'was elected in
his stead. Mr. Sawyer was a can
didate for the place at the begin
ning of the session
The six-months minimum
school term bill from the House
was further disoutsed by the Sen
ate and passed on second reading
44 to 1. Or rather, this was the
vote on the adoption of the Bryant
amendment empowering oounties
17 peeiai nvtr per
cent tax
for county purposes when county
authorities deem this necessary m
connection with tha operation of
the school term act. The bill
passed second reading unanimous
ly.
of one per cent of the capital
stock, a very decided increase
over the present rate, meaning
that a number of the larger cot
ton mills in the State, for in
stance, will par as muoh as $1.
500 additional franchue . taxes
fni-liso, tne ,OMl : carries onanges in
sue luuDuiv Hnuii ox cue uiiui
ilk I vndnilftd Jtn tMwl
tional incomes that reaches three
r- . r T 7c:z7C:rrr:
per cent for incomes of $5,000,
maohinery to assure listing
not accomplished in the past.
The inheritance tax soales and
enforcement are being similarly
haudled in the bill. The com
mittee is understood to be making
io preparation for any bond issue
ijt the present heavy indebted
ness, and business interests seem
apprehensive that the plan is one
to take all permanent improve
ment indebtedness out of current
taxes instead of issuing bonds.
The proposed reassessment of
nronariv n to include both ad.
jastment of much complained of
inequalities and between different
sestions
and similar properties
and plaoing all on the bosks at
full va'ue, instead of the
present low assessments. In short,
it is believed the Ohio plan is be-
ins followed .
Raleigh, Feb, 22 The House
passed a j unt resolution offered
today by the Joint Finanoe Com
mittee for a spec al legislative
commission to be named to m
vestigate the status of the State's
holdings in the Atlantio & North
Carolina Railroad and the ofier of
E. O. Duncan to purchase the
stook at $75 the ahare and report
to an adjourned or special session,
or to the next regular session of
9liuw :
Tha resolution
goes to the Senate for adoption.
The House passed on nnai read
ing the Kellum bill for th State
to issue semi-annually $810,000
State four per cent bonds to cover
oounty five per cent bonds for
road building, and tne bill goes
to the Senate.
The House pasted the Kellum
bill to rezulate eleotions in Wil
mington, a comprehensive oorrupt
nraotioes aot. Great numbers
of publio local oalendar bills were
passed.
Senate and Mouse win meet in
ioint session Tuesday to elect
trustees of tne university 01 nortn
Carolina. The Senate has set the
Torrens land title bill for special
oider Tuesday.
The bill requiring railroad com
panies to ereot sheds for outside
employes at shops was, on motion
of Senator Jones, taken trom tne
oalendar and referred to the Com
mittee on Railroads in order that
the Coast Line attorneys might
be beard on it. There was ob
j motion from Senator Wakefield
and others, but the rules were
suspended. It will be heard Tues
day afternoon at 8 o'olook in the
Senate chamber.
The bill to incorporate Salis
bury and repeal the present char
ter has passed the bouse.
A bill by Senator Brown : for
a road law and tax levy in Rowan
Oounty has been offered in the
Senate.
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GENERAL HUERTA, TRAITOR,
RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.
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COIWlll Alt, SlJS U. S. Si OB Id Alt.
Mexico-City, Feb. 28. Francis
co 1. Madero and Jose Pino
Snares, deposed President and
lyit9
President, respectively of
the Mexican Republio, were shot
and killed today when an attempt
waa made to resoos them from an
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automobile that was transferring
them to the penitentiary.
News of tha deatL of Madero
and' Snares was confirmed by
General Huerta. Previously it
had been announced that the
transfer from the Palace to the
penitentiary had been made suc
cessfully. Two of the party that attacked
the automobile were killed iu the
exohange of shots.
Large crouds assembled at the
scene of the killing. White wov
en wept and there were signs of
disapproval, the oity generally is
quiet. The guards at the peni
tentiary have been increased and
no one is permitted to see the
bodies of the slain men .
Major Cardagas and two other
offioers who were in charge of the
guard of rurales escorting the
automobile, have been imprison
ed pending an investigation by
the Attorney General.
The bodies of Madero and Suarea
are being held in the penitentiary.
Relatives and friends are making
efforts to recover them.
General Huerta in an official
statement said that when the at-
fcamnt in numi thorn ii m&da
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maaero and snares tnea to es-
oape. "The Government," he
continues, "promises that society
shall be fully satisfied as to the
facts in the case. The command
ers of the ejeart are now under
arrest."
The attempt to resoue Madero
and 8uares, the offioial version
says, was made about midnight
when the party escorting the
prisoners was approaching the
penitentiary.
In contrast to the widow, whose
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cnrtce
grief was of a pitiab silently
xpressed in sobs, Mer
cedes Madero, a beautiful young
woman, eduoated in Paris, who
has been a brilliant leader of
society since the revolution of
1910, was dry-eyed and tigerish
in her emotions . By the side of
the two women whose husbands
had been killed, the girl hurled
accusations at the offioers who
barred the entrance.
"Cowards?" "Assassins?" she
called them, her voice pitched
high. The offioers stared impas
sively.
"1 out Tne men wno nred on
a defenseless man? Yon and your
superior offioers are traitors?"
No effort was made to remove
the women nor did the offioers at
tempt to silenoe them. Seuora
Madero continued weeping and
the girl did not cease her hysteri
cal tirade until the arrival of the
Spanish Minister and the Japanese
oharse, who came to offer their
services .
The Minister spoke with the
offioers in charge but was told
that on aooount of the autopsy i
would be impssibie lor any one
to see the bodies. Later in the
day they said the request would
beoomplied with. The Diplomats
then oonduoted the women away
from tho penitentiary.
Madero's father and Rafael Her
nandez, former Minister of the
Interior, and other friends made
efforts early in the day to recover
the bodies and it was said this
afternoon that the American
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson
had interseted himself and secur
ed the promise of Minister de la
Barra that the bodies should be
delivered tO their families for
Princeton, N. J., Feb. 28
Presidentelect Wilson was shock-
ed to hear the news that Madero
i EX-PRESIDENT M
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and Suarez had been killed in
Mexico City.
"It's too bad," he sighed when
he first learned of the shooting
through Associated Press dis
patches. He refrained from com
ment saying he would main
tain his policy of silenoe until he
had taken office.
While nothing has oome from
Mr. Wilson to indioate what his
attitude will be, he has kept him
self consistently informed of de
velopments by a careful scrutiny
of the newe dispatches, display
ing at all times: a keen interest
in tne progress 01 events in tne
trouble-ridden country.
known. had
Mr. Wilson, it is
hoped from the first that Mexico's
problems would find amicable
settlement without the least in-
erferenee;from the United States.
He raalizes the gravity of derolop
ments, however, and is studying
the situation most, earnestly. lb
even deolared among some of
is triends tnat ne may nasiaa
he announcement of his Cabinet
o that he oould avail himself at
ac of their counsel on a situat
ion that will require the immedi
te attention of the new admin
istration.
Washington, Feb 28. The
killing of Francisoo I. Madero
and Pino Susies, deposed Presi
dent and Vice President, General
Huerta had assured American
Ambassador Wilson of the safetj
of his prisoners from just suoh
attacks, created a painful im
pression in administration oircles
here today.
When the first feeling of sur
prise had passed, it was realized
by officials that this last tradgic
event bad added greatly to the
gravity of the situation and un
doubtedly had placed an addition
al strain upon the already tense
relations between this Govern
ment, and that in the Mexican
rcapitat. BHil, -a Presidential t
himself declared the event in it
self was not sufficient to demand
was not sumcient to nemana
any departure from the policy of son will haTft n0. cause to 00m
strict non-intervention, which so Dia;n of annreDaredness if theun-
f ar has governed his Admiuistra-1
tion. I
London, Feb. 23. The morn I
ing newspapers aenounciog sne
tilling of Francisw Madero and over the success 4 of the revolt of
Pino Suarez as senseless and his nephew, Felix Diaz, in Mexi
barbarious. The Standaad in but thus far he has not been
an editorial stigmatizes 11 as
an "indefensible crime, imposing
load of infamy on President
Huerta's administration."
The Standard deolares thit
American intervention in Mexico
oan hardly longer be delayed and
that British opinion will be
wholly sympathetic to any aotion
on whioh the Washington Cabinet
will likely decide.
The Daily Graphic says the
shooting of Madero and Saures
shows that nothing has changed
in Mexioo and that nothing will
be changed until either Diaz
atises or the "big stiok" from the
North realizes its duty "in these
anarchic wilds."
New York. Feb. 22. Before
President Taft leaves office on
March 4 he will have ooncentrat-
ed at Galveston, Tex., close to
10,000 United States troops ready
to board transports there and de
part for Mexioo on a few hours'
notice. The President, here to-
night to attend a banquet of the
American Peace and Arbitration
League, is just as much opposed
to intervention as he has been for
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uuwever, us ua wm imj iud
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tab cards on the table" so that
when Mr. Wilson becomes Presi-
dent if a crisis arises, all he will
have to do is to play them.
Through Secretary Hilles, the
President announoed tonight that
the dispatoh of a brigade of troops
to Galveston today ws a part of
the original precautionary plan
and that it would be followed by
another order which would send
between B.uuu sua uuu more
regulars to the boundary. Gal
veston is within three days of
Vera Cruz, the seaport of Mexico
Oity. Four transports will be
tmav thara to take " troana Smith
j if . contingency arise, and
with battleships on the Atlantio
1 and Pacifio near Mexican ports
A FARMEfl'S SPLENDID HEMES.
Hire's SiaitalBt Tlit Klglt hi EcsliteU
ly ill trial 6oesif til.
Editor Caboluta Watobmast
Having noticed a statement in
the oolums of your paper of eoenv
date, regarding L. W. Safrit, who
sold during the year 1912, $116
25 worth of eggs and.butter, and
Lee Ketohie selling $148.20.
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neither of whom were running a
dairy farm and poultry yard and
also a statement from H. J. Boss,
of Rockwell, stating that he had
sold during the year 1912, $181.-
91 worth, and that he waa neith-
f rttnning P
rj jiu, ma it uy one coma
beat that he would like to hear
from them.
Now, I would like to give
tatement in reply to the above, -uotboastingly,
of Mr. Oflin Cruse,
one of Rowan's most substantial
farmers and business men, who
is neither running a dairv farm
ir poultry yard, oi which he sold
-luring the year 1912; butter
$260.00, eggs $52,00, milk $18 00,
hiokens $40.00, cattle $115.00,
pork $66.88, pigs $54.75. Total
$601.08.
The above amount is a certified
statement of whioh Mr. Cruse
raised and sold during the year
1912, from his cattle, hogs, and
poultry, to say nothing of hii pro
ducts and vegetables sold off his
farm, and canned goods, such
as tomatoes, beans, corn, apples,
peaches, etc.
Now, if Brother Venus, or any
one can beat tnat tor a farmer.
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expeoted happens.
n&ira. Kcrvnt ,Fb: Qan.
p0ffirio Diaz, the exiled ex-Presi-
dent ot Mexioo. iahighlr elated
ihflnAnfiad k. lt to the extent of
oauain- nim , 0DItau his trip up
Lhe Riyer Nije ,
Tni.. G.n.ral Diaz visited the
LmoM Temple of Danderah and
tomorrow wiu ieaTe Luxor by boat
for CAiro He u exoected to ar-
riwm hftM in -uonfc . waak:
General Diaz does not contem
plate leaving Cairo before Maroh
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Mexioo City, Feb. 22. Francis
co 1, uaaero'i wue atooa oexore
Gen yiotoriano Huerta, the Pro
visional President of Mexioo today
and pleaded for olemency for her
husband. She left the National
Palace with no assuranoe for his
safety and she was forced to fore
go the consolation of conversation
with the imprisoned, exrnler.
whcB9 guMds aM enforcing rigid-
ly the order of lnoommonioado.
General Huerta trsated the
downcast, frightened womtn with
every courtesy, but he explained
in hnr that, in via of ihn in
yestigations to which ex-President
Madero would be subjected, his
1 fete was in other haccnr, ibtimat-
lD wugreis prooaeiy wouio
renaer tne nnai ueoision.
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i ana other DOttMri POlUtS ltt
Mexioo, where rumors of dissatis-
fection with the new Admimitra
are re, more reassuring newe
reached the Capital today.
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