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A TARIFF OBJECT LESSON.
The Beef Trust is now furnishing
an object; lesson for the people of
the United States and one that they
should profit by.
One of the reasons
given for the
the price of
frequent advances in!
beef is "the scarcity of cattle."
They Bay there is a shortage on the
Western ranges, because the sheep
raisers have crowdedj some of the
cattle raisers oat. Tjhe cattle men
dispute this and say there are plenty
of beef cattle. ,,But - assuming that
the Beef Trust men jtill the truth
about the scarcity of cattle, and the
consequent higher prices, doesn't
this present an object! lesson on the
tariff that tho people of the United
States might study with advan
tage? There is a tariff on cattle
imported from other countries.
The' ostensible object of this
was to encourage cattle raising by
protecting the raisers' from compe
tition with the cattle Raisers of other
countries, especially Of Mexico and
Canada,, which are inch nearby
neighbors as to possibly become for
midable competitora.j If the cattle
raisers with pasturage that costs
tnem only a nominal charge cannot
raise cattle enough jto supply the
dem tnd for home consumption, why
should the American people con
tinue to levy a practically prohibi
tory tariff on imported cattle? There
- are thousands upon j thousands of
cattle roaming the hills and valleys
across the Rio Grande. These cat
tle are cheap becausej there is but a
limited market and jbut little de
mand for them. Before a tariff was
put upon them many were driven
across the Rio Grande to market in
this country but the! tariff stopped
that. !
Canada produced a good many cat
tle even bffore the opening of the
Manitoba region which with its vast
prairies, wnich in thej Spring, Sum
mer and Fall are covered with a lux
uriant growth of grass, is becom
in? a great cattle-raising region.
There are countless herds there
nov, and there wouldjbe many more
if profitable markets could be found
f r tnem. The tariff duties keep
t tie m out of this cjuntry and by
keeping them and Mexican cattle
out the Beef Trust men have a pre
tence in the scarcity of cattle for
practicing extortion upon the Ameri
can people. j
- Ifi as they allege, the stock men
run the price up onj them, because
cattle are scarce, removing the bars
that keep the Canadian and Mexican
cattle out would teach the Western
stock men a lesson and deprive them
of the opportunity to levy tribute
upon the packers, wb.o in turn levy
higher tribute on the American
people, thus compelling them to foot
the bill of cost after, they had been
voting for years to protect our cattle-
raisers by keeping cattle . across the
borders out.
In Mexico last Summer there was'
a shoit crop of corn In consequence
of a protracted drought. To pro
tect the corn growers there has
been a pretty high tariff on im
ported corn. Taking advantage of
the short crop some sharpers who
had been observing American
-methods sent agents into the corn
growing districts and bought up all
the corn in light, and when they
had secured as much as they were
prepared to handle the price was put
up at once. As soon as President
Diaz learned this he forthwith issued
ft proclamation suspending the du
ties on corn, caused I that fact to be
published far and wide, and in a
lew dajs train after train loaded
with corn went bowling in from
this country. The) price of corn
immediately went idown and the
harpers found themselves left with
Urge stock of corn on hand and
experience enough in the corn cor
nering business to, last them for a
life time. They will not make any
more experiments in cornering in
that country, where the venture did
not pan out as profitably as they
sometimes do in this conntrv. Presi
dent Diaz didn't hate the authority
to do that, but as 'he is the whole
thing over there, he took the chance
of going between the people and the
would be plunderers, foal i n rr nnn fl .
m etw&eu w mm mm
Qsnt that the congress would ap
VOL. XXXIII.
prove his action, which it subse
quently did, and authorized him to
do it again under similar circum
stances and continue the suspension
as long as necessary.
There isn't any one in this coun
try vested with the authority to sus
pend tariff duties on the necessaries
of life when grabbers corner them,
but if there were and (hat authority
was exercised as President Diaz ex
ercised it, it would very soon settle
the corner business, and the combi
nations which make millions by- tak
ing advantage of the people's neces
sities and making extortionate prices
for what they buy to et. If the
President of the United States was
vested with the authority to suspend
tariff duties on .the necessaries of
life when trusts or combines unrea
sonably increased prices it might
have as salutary effect as the timely
action of President Diaz had on the
corn case to which we have refer
red, provided the President of the
United States were quiok to act and
desired to curb the grasping com
bines. Bat there is more politics in the
tariff in this country than there is
in Mexico, and for that reason
American Presidents mightn't be so
quick to put the brakes on the
trusts. As nothing of this kind can
be done now, the people must look
to themselves for relief and to pre
vent repetitions of these plundering
advances in prices, made possible by
the protective tariff, thev can.
when the time to vote comes, vote
for Representatives in Congress who
will vote for the repeal of the pro
tective duties on the necessaries of
life, thus making them difficult if
not impossible to corner. That's
the way to protect the people from
the Beef Trusts, and other Trusts
of a similar character.
WIPIJTO OUT THE POLL TAX.
Some time ago Senator Pritchard,
as chairman of the Republican State
Committee, published a letter "to
the people of North Carolina" on
the subject of the poll tax in which
among other things he said he had
been "informed" that it was the
purpose of the Democrats wherever
they could do so to get the county
commissioners to release delinquents
from the payment of the tax "on
condition that they agreed to vote
the Democratic ticket at the next
election." The absurdity of such a
thing was so apparent it is astonish
ing that any man of presumably or
dinary intelligence would make
suoh an assertion and sign hit. name
jto it, as Pritchard did.
Bat there was a motive behind
that assertion which may be, in
part at least, shown by the follow
ing telegram to the Raleigh News
and Observer, from Marshall, the
county seat of Madison, Senator
Pritchard's county, under date of
the 17th inst.:
"Th Republican Commissioner" of
ths Medisoa county, have been re
leasing at eyery meetinar for several
mouth back an unusually large num
ber of lax-payers from to payment or
their poll tx Oa th first Monday
in April fi'ty-five were tnus. relets-!.
many of w iom bad considerable prop
erty, and w-rf few of whom -bad any
pifsical disability. The hoard then
a jmrned tom-etoo April 28. h, when
they exoect to release as many more
as they fit.
Tbe Maatson uountv xtecora -win
nrint ia this week's issue the releases
as made by tbe Board of County Com
mistioners. Tbe Democrats here are
determined to do tbeir utmost, even if
thev release every Republican in the
county from payment of his poll tax
Hvery effort is being made to get me
Democratic voters to pay. and it is
confidently expected that the Repub
lican majority in tbe county will be
reduced in spite of all - that they can
do."
Senator Pritchard doubtless knew
that this game was on in his county,
and probably in other Republican
counties, When he issued that ad
dress, as a sort of "stop thief" blind
so that the Republicans could have
it to say, when charged with it, that
they did it because they were "in
formed" that the Democrats intend
ed to play that game in the Demo
cratic counties. Pritchard lacks
good deal of being as cunning and
clever as he thinks he is.
But the Republicans are not go
ing to lose any votes if they can de
vise any plan to get them into the
ballot boxes, and this should stimu
late every Democrat or believer in
white supremacy and decent gov
ernment to pay his poll tax and save
his vote. '
The furniture manufacturing in
dustry of this , State has increased
in twelve years from a half dozen
factories with a capital of about
$125,000 to forty-five factories with
acaDitalof over $1,500,000. And
they are still on the increase.
There are $4 000,000 invested in
creameries in Minnesota, and they
pay out $8,000,000 a year for the
milk they buy. The product
amounts to 50,000,000 pounds o:
butter, worth $11,000,000. The
product has trebled in the past ten
years.
It is said that Gen. Miles will no
be bounced before the 1st of June,
when Secretary Root will return
from his jaunt to Cuba.
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H
THS 8UOAB TRUST DOWSED.
The Democrats in the House of
Representatives and- the "insur
gents" scored a victory Friday when
they rode over the Speaker's rulings,
removed the differential - from re
fined sugar from Cuba, and knocked
out the. Sugar Trust. The twenty
per cent, reduction in crude sugar
was right into the hands of . the
rrust, which had been urging that
all along. Beet sugar men fought it
because cheaper raw sugar would
give the Trust just that much ad
vantage over them. When they
found that the twenty per cent.
scheme was going through they
united' their forces with the Demo
crats who favored reciprocity
and hit the Trust this swipe. . It
wasn't with them a matter of prin
ciple or consideration for the people
of this country or of Cuba, but sim
ply a matter of preventing the Su
gar Trust from getting an advantage
over the beet and other sugar in
terests that they represented.
Twenty per cent, isn't much of a
reduction in the tariff but it is a vic
tory for the people all the same and
for Cuba also, for it is an entering
wedge and it will be easier to get
a farther reduction than it was to
get this twenty "per cent. There is
not much refined sugar made in
Cuba but there may now be some
inducement to engage in refining
over there, and that wonld result in
cheaper sugar for this country. It
would, however, be just like the
Sugar Trust to put up plants over
there and pre-empt, as far as it
can, that field. The significance
of this victory is that it is a starter
which may lead to something more
important. It is the first time in
tariff legislation that any consider
able number of Republicans have
oined with Democrats for reduc
tion of duties, and thisin itself is
significant of the progress of public
sentiment in this direction. We
shall now see what kind of a pull
the Sugar Trust has on the Senate.
High wood is an Illinois burg.
They had a high time at a recent
election and when the returns came
in. A pool room was the issue and
the anti-pool room candidate for
mayor came out with seven majority.
Then th9 festivities began; the anti-
pool room. women,led by the wife of
the victor, rushed upon him and
kissed him not once, but many
times, and then the anti-pool room
men rushed in, rescued him and
toted him triumphantly on their
shoulders all around the town, and
made the pool room people feel like
twenty-nine cents.
Rathbone may have been swiping
that Cuban postoffice money, of
which he was convicted, or not, but
Mark Hanna is his friend, and, pro-
sticks to him. He has succeeded in
arranging for the $100,000 bond re
quired and Rathbone will get out of
jail.
Investigation of the tax books
shows that 3,000 voters, white and
black, in Guilford county have not
yet paid their poll tax. If the popu
lation be anything like this in the
other counties of the State and the
delinquents do not pay up by May
1st, there will be a slim vote cast at
the next election.
'When the Beef TruBt fellows give
the shortage of cattle as a reason
for the advance in the price of beef,
they are pnzzled to account for the
fact that at Omaha the purchases
were 5,000 more for the week end
ing April twelve than they were for
same week last year.
An Albany, N. Y., negro was ar
rested the other day for stealing a
bicycle to raise money to go down
into Maryland "where watermelons
grow." Extenuating if not jus
tifiable provocation.
Washington dispatches say that
the Republican leaders have decided
to let both the Crumpacker bill and
the Ship Subsidy bill sleep for this
session. There was too much Re
publican opposition to both.
A Chicago man proposes to make
a cruise to the North Pole next
Summer with a fleet of three air
ships, of the dirigible kind, which
are now being built in that city. He
is sure he will get there. ;
Bid ADVANCE IN PEiNUTS.
Cosftdeotly Predicted They Will Oo Up
Qaarter of a Cest.
The following special to the Rich
mond Dispatch will be read with in
terest :
Norfolk Va., April 17. The
Qwaiiaey-Ounkley Peanut Company,
of Smitbfield. recognized authorities
on peanuts, issues to-day a statement
showing an advance on clean nuts of
i cent pr pound.
Thev predict that before the close of
tbe season the price will be muoh
higher. - . ' ' .
Fancy hand-picked nuts, they be
lieve, will bring 5 40 before August
It is stated on good authority that
there are not 5,000 bags of cleaned
nuts In Norfolk, while at this time last
year there were at least 40,000 bags of
cleaned ants here.
SEE
WILMINGTON, N. 0., FRIDAY, pAPRIL 25, 1902.
BERRY MOVEMENT.
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Great Preparations for Truck
Handling Now Going On in
I Shipping Circles. ..
THE SCHEDULE OF TRAINS.
Frait drawers' Express Has Made Ample
Provision for Saccessfil Baslsesi. il
"Eapties" Piliif Up All Alosj '
'.. . the Use Other Notes.
A station to station canvass up tbe
Wilmington and Weldon, down the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
and up the Atlantio and Yadkin rail
roads is not required now to convince
the individual of ordinary intelligence
that everything is being placed in
readiness for one 'of tbe biggest sea
son's business in the history of the
strawberry and vegetable industry in
this fam6us section of Eastern North
Carolina. -
Solicitors from tbe largest commis
sion bouses Nortb are pouring into the
territory and hotels j and. boarding
houses all along the line are chock-a-block
with guests, who are on the
lookout for early express shipments
and larger ones that will follow by re
frigerator service not later than May
1st .
The Fruit Growers Express, which
has charge of the refrigerator trans
portation throughout this section, has
alt the spare A. O. L. trackage in the
vicinity of Wilmington piled up with
empties besides the various side tracks
at stations throughout the strawberry
region. The icing stations are also
being provided with all necessaries
for an extremely heavy business and
and it only remains for a few days of
warm sunshine to put the "ball in
motion." !
With an eye single to serving ship
pers and the public generally, TheCaro-
Una Fruit and Truck Grouxrs' Jour
nal has condensed the strawberry and
vegetable train schedules into as small
space as possible and states that the
appended, table will be the schedules
this season of trains No. 80. otherwise
known as the Cannon Ball, and So.
18, better known at the Pick-TJp train.
No. 80 will leave Wilmington at 8:40
A. M. and No. 18 at 10:30 A.M. No.
80 will take on solid cars loaded with
300 crates for all points, and cars for
Buffalo, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Colum
bus, Toledo, Albany, Rochester, Mon
treat, Toronto, Syracuse, (Jtica, Hor-
nlllsvllle, Elmira, Wheeling, Detroit,
Erie and Scranton, loaded with 200
crates that is, any ears loaded -for
these points with 800 crates, will get
the benefit of the movement on the
Cannon Ball train each day.
The following schedule for these
two trains has been arranged:
CANNON BALL. DUX TO LIATE
Wilmington..- 8:40 A..
Castle EUynea; ...9:50 '
Rocky Point ...10:10
Ashtoo...... ...10:20 1
Burgaw... 1... 10:40 '
8outb Washington...... 11:00 '
Willard..... ,..11:10
Wallace...... ...11:30
Teachey a 11 27 '
Rose Hill.... ...11:40
Magnolia.. ......11:59
Warsaw J ,
Bowdenv
.....12:25
....12:38
.....12:53
.... 1:15
..... 1:85
..... 2:05
P. M.
CI
Faison
Mt Oiive........
Dudley..
Qoldsboro
PICK UP TBAIN PUS TO LEAVE.
Wilmington ....10:30 A. M.
Castle Haynes ...11:05
t
Bickv Point ...11:50
Aabtoa .12:10 P. M.
Burgaw ....12:40
South Washington...... 1:25
Willard. 140
Wallace 2:00
Teachey s 2:20
Rose Hill. . 2:40
Magnolia .... 8:15
Carl ton. ,.7. 3:30
Warsawj... r. 4 00
BowdenJ 4:25
Faison.... 4:50
ML Olive... B:45
Potts.... ....5:55
Dudley... 6:15
Goldsboro. 6 :45
Shipments by through train No. 80
and better known as the Cannon Ball
should reach the market one day ear
lier than shipments by the . Pick-Up
train No. 18.
These ' schedules will give three
hours and thirty-five minutes with
which to re-ice, classify, make up
trains and leave South Rocky Mount
on schedule time for the Northern
markets ; each day. 8hould there
be two or more sections of this train
and the time required to move the first
action does not aosoro tne tnree
hours and thirty-five minutes, it will
be run out ahead of time. Likewise
the other sections. This will put these
trains to Oaantico. the Southern term!
nns cf the Pennsylvania Railroad
promptly, and barring accidents, make
the markets North, East and West on
time and not lust any old time either
as has been the case sometimes in the
past Tbe cause -for these vexatious
delays In the past has been ferreted ont
and it ia therefore un to tne rennsyi-
vania Railroad Company to provide a
remedy for the evil of tbe delayed
trains. I .
The Cannon Ball train got ia its
work last season and the railroad offi
clals are determined to improve this
Tear over last season's record. In this
connection it might be well to note
that any shipper who Is loading a car
after the solid car train has passed his
sUtion. can -hold this car over until
the nextdav and finish in time for the
solid car; train, thereby making the
same market that he would have made
had he let the less than car load go
forward the dav before.
The Pick-Up train will be run In
twoaectiotis when tbe business gets
hear enough to justify it. That is
tn aaT. one train will Start from Wil-
mmirtnn at 10 or 10:30 A. M and run
to Rose Hill. After finishing at Rose
Hill it will go straight through to
8outb Rocky Mount t The .other train
will start from Magnolia or Warsaw
at about the same hour and finish up
thn roMd. arrivinsr at South Rocky
Mount about midnight These trains
will be handled, re iced, eta, in South
Rockr Mount the following morning
and run out aa extras. This will give
thm amnle time - in which to make
the connections and be on the markets
in onnA itime.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
I
pauy.
with which the Atlantic Coast
Lime
forms its northern connection
at Quantioo. bk no train from Balti
more on Sundays upon which berries
or otner pertsiabie freight can be for
warded for points On or reached via
tue Northern Central Railway. Owing
to mis lact smpments of berries for
warded on Piek-Up Train No. 18 on
Fridays and shipments forwarded on
Through Train iNo. 80 on Saturdays
lor a numoer pz points, wmcn are
reached via tbi Northern Central
'Bail war, will be delayed 24 hours.
Regarding the Southern Express
train schedules, Mr. W. J. Orosswell,
division superintendent, advues the
Journal that as soon as tbe Tolume of
buaineaa will justify it tbe Southern
Express Company will put on itas pe
dal tram, leaving Wilmington about
8:10 A. MJ stopping at all points
where there is any- business offered.
The first express train went outlast
year on the 27th. ! but it is expected
that the backward season will make it
two or three days or a week later this
year. Mr. Urossweli further says
that the Southern Express will give
the best service possible, and. as an
evidence of tlJs fact, they will put on
through messengers from Charleston,
8. C., and Wilmington, N. O.. to
Ptfiiadelpbiaand Jersey City; whose
duties will be to look after and guard
tbe welfare of the fruit in transit
LOCAL DOTS.
If you have not yet paid your
poll-tax for last year, and fail to pay
it on or before May 1, you cannot vote
in the November election.
Dr. Calvin jS. Blackwell has
'i
accepted invitations to deliver com
mencement addreues at Carthage
Academy, Carthage, on May 27th, and
at the Tineland Collegiate Institute,
Scotland Ntck, on J une 5th.
Subscribers , who receive bills
for subscriptions due the Stab are re
minded that it is not fair to expect a
publisher to supply them with news
for nothing. Many, however, seem
to think otherwise. As soon as a bill
is received a prompt remittance should
be made. I
Raleigh folks can now talk to
Newbern, Kins ton, MoreheadCity and
Beaufort over the Interstate 'phone.
This has been made possible by the
completion of the line from Qoldsboro
to Newbern. This makes 148 towns in
all that can be reached by this line.
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE.
Called to Meet at PayettevlHe Wedaesday,
April Mis The Members
Pursuant to official call, issued
through the press by Hon. O. O.Lyon,
chairman, the Democratic Executive
Committee of the hew Sixth Congres
sional District will meet in Fayette-
ville on Wednesday afternoon, April
80th, at 1 o'clock. The object of the
meeting is to call the Congressional
Convention for the purpose of making
a nomination for Congress and to take
under consideration such other matters
pertaining to the district as may come
before it Tbe new district as prescrib
ed by act of the last Legislature is com
posed of tbe following counties, which
are given with their respective mem
bers of the Executive Committee:
New Hanover W. B. McKoy.
Brunswick Geo. H. Bellamy.
Columbus H. O. Moffltt
Bladen O. O. Lyon.
Robeson Geo. H HalL
Cumberland H L Cook.
Harnett J. O. Clifford.
Mr. W B. McKoy is secretary of
the committee, and tbe other members
from their respective counties remain
as they were under the old plan.
NOT AN EMPTY DREAM.
Somsambollst Pell from Secood Story of
Faltoa House aad Was Isjared.
Jno. H. Hobbs, of Boardman, N,C,
a somnambulist while a guest at the
Fulton House, on Front street, Thurs
day night,' got to walking . in his sleep
and fell fifteen feet from the second
story at the rear of the building and
was painfully Bruised but not seriously
Injured. Otherguests were awakened
by cries of the man and Dr. F. H,
Russell was summoned to attend him.
Police Sergeants Burnett and Woolard
and Policeman Leon George assisted in
getting Mr. Hobbs back into the build
ing, he being a very large man and so-
injured that he was unable to walk.
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James Spruot Instltate.
The Commencement exercises this
year of the excellent James aprunt
Institute, of Eenansville. N. C, will
take place April 27th, 28th and 29th.
The annual sermon will be preached
Sunday, 8 P. M..! April 27th, by the
Rev. Dr. A. D. McOlure, of Wilming
ton, and the annual concert will be
given Monday evning following. The
annual address will be delivered on
Tuesday at 11 A. M. by the Hon.
Charles R. Thomas, of Newbern,
member of Congress from the Third
N. O. District j
Salt Agalast Sewerage Co.
Mr. George Hutaff, who was so bad
ly injured sometime ago by falling
into an open excavation of the Wil
mington Sewerage Company near
Oakdale cemetery, yesterday, through
his counsel, save notice of a suit for
damages which he will bring against
the corporation. ! Although no com
plaint has been filed, it is learned that
Mr. Hutaff will sue for $25,000. His
counsel are Herbert McOlam my, Eq
Bellamy & Bellamy and Russell &
Gore. !
Throarh tothe Besch.
The Wilmington Seaeoast Railroad
Company announces that hereafter all
trains on its line will be run through
tothe beach. The warm days that
should come some time soon will no
doubt attract larre crowds to this
favorite resort before the formal open
ing of the season.
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FROM RALEIQH TO WASHINGTON. .
Hew State Railroad Project- WaUsce Brick
aid TOe Conpssy Chartered.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, n. ol, April 17. At a
meeting of the business men of Raleigh
to-night $21,000 in 5 percent, prefer
red stock was subscribed for a rail
road between Raleigh and Washing
ton, N. C. a distance of 87 mites.
Tbe promoters expect to secure $50,-
ooo subscriptions in Raleigh. Citizens
of Wilson and Greenville will also
take considerable stock. Ths princi
pal promoters are CpC J. M .Turner,
late of the 8eaboard Air Line, and
Claude B Barbee. of Raleith.
Tbe Wallace Brick and Tile do . of
Wallace, N O., was chartered to-day
with $10 K)0 camtal. The incornara-
tors are Z. J Carter. T Q Hall, B. R.
Graham, D. K Boney aud J. S. West-
brook.
Sale of County Real Estate.
By deed filed for record yesterday
Mr. Pembroke Jones purchased for
$75 the life estate of Mrs. Belinda A
Larkins in the "Lar kins' Tract" of
land on Wrightsville Sound. Deeds
were also filed yesterday by which
John E. A. Grissom and wife, of Ma-
sonboro, sold to Samuel S. Souther-
land for $25 a ten acre tract of land
adjoining the farm of tbe first named,
and Geo. W. Rogers and wife sold to
Edgar W. Rogers for $150 a tract
on the Federal Point road at James A.
Montgomery's corner, containing
about 72 acres.
Aa Atlsntic Sesport.
A dispatch from Norfolk says: "The
belief is strong here that some arrange
ment has been effected between the
Seaboard Air Line Railway and the
Louisville and Nashville which will
afford the latter system an Atlantio
seaport, whioh may be Savannah,
Wilmington or Portsmouth. It has
long been known that above almost
everything else the Louisville desired
a seaport on the Atlantic coast For
that reason alliances nave been sought
repeatedly with roads possessing these
advantages."
CUBAN RECIPROCITY BILL.
Measire Seot to the Seaate-Predicted It
WUI Be AUowed to Die la Committee.
' By Telegrapb to tbe Hornina; star.
Washington, April 19. The Sen
ate is by no means decided as to what
it will do with the Cuban reciprocity
bill. The measure reached tbe Senate
a few minutes after that body conven
ed to day and was received with ex
ceptional interest which was made evi
dent by the private comments of Sena
tors.'
The bill goes to the committee on
Helattons with Cuba, which is com
posed of seven Republicans and four
opposition Senators, Air. Piatt or Con
necticut being cbairman.
Tbe best opinion is that the bill will
remain in committee for some time.
and a Republican Senator suggested
the possibility of an investigation into
tbe question of tbe probable beneficia
ries by tbe proposed reduction ir
made. '
There are not a few Senators who
predict that the bill will be allowed
to die in committee.
WAT El MAIN BURST.
Hoose Swept Awsy One of the lomstes
Killed aad Two Others Isjared.
By Tetegrapb to tbe Morning 8 tar.
Pittsburg, April 19. As the result
of the bursting of a water main of the
Pennsylvania Water Company, on
Frankstown avenue, Wilkinsburg, this
evening, Ida Eoglebardt. aged six
years, is dead, ber sister Lillian, aged
fifteen years, is so badly hurt that ahe
Is not expected to live through the
night and the children's father. Wm.
Englehardt has a leg broken and is so
severely hurt otherwise as to make his
condition serious.
The mam is 48-incn pipe and runs
lust above the Englehardt house.
which stood on the hillside. When the
main let go the force of the water was
terrific and the house was literally
carried away, leaving only a' portion
of the rear standing, which Mrs.
Englehardt and her youngest daugh
ter, Lizzie, managed to climb and save
themselves.
A SAN FRANCISCO TRAGEDY.
C. B.Hadley Declared to Be the Murderer
f the ls-Year-Old Girl Nora Poller.
,8r Telegraph to tbe Mornlna atar.
San Francisco, April 19. Chief of
Police Wiltman officially announced
to-day that the murderer of Nora Ful
ler was O. B. Hadley, for fourteen
years accountant in the . business
office of a San Francisco news
paper. On January 16th, the day
of the disappearance of Nora Fuller.
O. B. Hadley disappeared and has not
been seen since. Theodore Kllka, the
handwriting expert declares that the
man who wrote tbe name 'Charles B.
Hawkins" to the advertisement luring
Nora Fuller to her death was C. B,
HadleT.
Nora Fuller, a lCyear old girl, left
her home on January 16 to answer an
advertisement for a nutse girt a
month later her nude body was found
in a vacant house on Sutter street
She had been murdered.
EXCITEMENT IN PEKIN.
Aati-Forelga Feellag-Ramors of Troable.
Legstioas Preparing for Defence.
Br Cable to tbe Mornlna Star.
Pkkin, April 19. The populace is
becoming increasingly excited over
rumors that trouble is imminent be
tween the Imperial government and the
foreign troops, but the demeanor of
the Chinese continues friendly
towards foreigners, the best informed
of whom discredit the rumors of the
existence of an anti-foreign reeling.
The commanders of tbe guards at
the foreign legations met to-day and
arranged plana for defence should
trouble arise.
Ia the case of A. E Batson, charged
with the murder of six members of tbe
Earl famtlv. at Lake Charles. La., the
jurors failed to agree and the court ad
journed until Monday. Tbe court
room was crowded with ladies ana
many-of them shook bands with Bat
son and his mother during the court
NO. 26
MATTERS BEFORE
SENATE AND HOUSE
Numerous Measures of Minor
Character and Many: Pri
vate Bills Passed.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
Will Be Called Dp for Consideration Moa
dsy lo the Seaste House Proceed
Isfs-PortiflcstloBS Bill Passed. .
Cnbsa Reciprocity BUI.
by Telegraph to the Morning star.
Washington, April 19. Little
business tof national importance was
transacted by the 8enate to-day. Nu
merous measures of 'minor character
and nearly sixty private pension bills
were passed.
At S o clock eulogies were pro
nounced upon the life and character
of James Henderson Kyle, late a Sena
tor rrom soutn uaaota.
The Senate agreed to a conference
asked for by the House on the Chi
nese Exclusion bill. The Chair (Mr.
Frye) said that he felt bound to ap
point conferees who would represent
the majority sentiment of the Senate.
tie named Messrs. Piatt, Connecticut;
Dillingham, Vermont, and Clay,
Georgia.
The bill passed yesterday by the
House providing for reciprocal rela
tions with Cuba was received by the
Senate and referred to the Committee
on Relations with Cuba.
Mr. Frye gave notice that on Mon
day next immediately after routine
business he would call up tbe Kiver
and Harbor bill for consideration.
Bills were passed appropriating
115,000 for tbe establishment of a nsb
cultural station in Florida; to author
ize the construction of a bridge across
the Neuse river at Klnston. N. O. : au
thorizing the construction of a bridge
across the icmory river, in Tennessee,
by the Tennessee Central railway; au
thorizing the National Terminal Com
pany to construct a bridge across the
Cumberland river, in Davidson coun
tv: authorizing tbe construction -of a
bridge across the Chattahoochee river
between Columbus. Ua.. ana auiauia,
Ala., or in Columbus. Ga.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, intro
duced the following:
Whebeas. it has been currently re
ported that nearly the entire crop of
Cuban sugar has been purchased and
is now held by what is generally
known as the "Sugar Trust" and.
whereas, it is alleged that a cumber of
citizens of the United States have
acquired large holdings of cane-pro
ducing lanes in uuna ana are now
especially urging tbe reduction of duty
on sugar, under tne claim mat sucn
reduction will benefit the people of
Cuba, therefore, be it
Resolved, that the committee on
Relations with Cuba be directed to
make an investigation as to the truth
of such charges and to report to the
Senate.
The resolution was referred to the
Committee on Relations with Cuba at
the suggestion of Mr. Piatt Connecti
cut, chairman of that committee.
noose ot Kepresentauves -
After the turbulent scene of yester
day, marking tbe passage or the re
vised Cuban reciprocity Diu.tne nouse
settled down to routine business to
day. An opportunity was found, how
ever, for the two elements in the re
cent strueele to give expression to
their feelin irs.
This occurred while tbe Fortincation
appropriation bill was under consider
ation. Mr. Grosyenor, (Ohio) one of
the Ways and Means Committee
leaders, said that tbe amendment
which the opponents of the Ways and
Means Committee had engrafted upon
the Payne bill, not only wiped out tbe
differential on sugar but also did away
with tbe countervailing duty of the
Dingley law. Mr. Weeks (Michigan)
made a spirited rejoinder, in oenau or
those who opposed the Ways and
Means Committee, He frankly con
ceded that the motives of the opposi
tion had been to kill the reciprocity
bill.
The Fortifications appropriation bill
was passed and the conference report
the legislative appropriation out
agreed to.
High tension was manifest oy tne
members of the House to-day as a re
suit of the action of the House last
nieht in over-ruling the Ways and
Means Committee on the Cuban reci
procity bllL Chairman Payne took
the reverse philosophically. He point
ed out that the effect of the amend
ment was to take off not only the dif
ferential on sugar but also the coun
tervalling duty provided by the Ding
ley law, a result not intended by the
author of the amendment Under the
Dingley act an additional or counter
vailing duty is levied on sugars com
ing from countries paying a bounty
on sugar equal in amount to the boun
ty received.
Representative Morris of Minnesota,
who framed the amendment, is ex
amining the Dinglev and other laws
to determine whether Mr. Payne's
point is good. Mr. Morris said that
from his inquiry jo far be did not
think the claim was good, but if it was
the matter could could easily be reme
died by amendment
WARM WIRELGTS.
Robbers entered tbe Bank of Good-
lettsville. Tenn.. Friday night blew
the safe and secured $2,000 in cash. In
addition to looting the box of the
postmaster, containing $500 in stamps
and S90 In currency. There is no
clue.
Eighty-five men of Troop O, under
with 500 horses, composing the second
detachment of the Seventh cavalry,
arrived in Chattanooga yesterday
from Cuba. The troops went at once
to Cbickamauga irarr.
The iurv in the' case of Louis
Toombs, on trial in Chicago for the
murder of Annie Larsen, on board the
steamer Peerless, on the night of De
cember 31st 1901. brought In a ver
dict of murder in the first degree and
Toombs was sentenced to bang.
A Canton. China, dispatch says the
rebels are besieging nan King, an Im
portant city in the province of Kwang
Si, and it ia reported that the place has
already fallen. The telegraph wires
beyond Wu Cbow, between Canton,
and N an mng bare been cut
Interests repersenting the Ameri
can Cotton Uii company, the Vir
ginia-Carolina Chemical Company,
and the Planters Compress Company,
were In conference in New xork yes
terday. No statement as to the pur
pose of the conference was given out
S1TV OF EXPANSION.
Speech ol M.E. Isgalls ti the Bicet
of the Baakers' Clab la Chicago.
Plea for Free Trade.
' By Telegraph to the Horning star.
Chicago, April 19. The necessity
of expansion was the dominant Idea at
the banquet of the Bankers' Club,
whioh was held to-night at the Audi
torium hotel. The chief speakers of
the evening were President ME. la-
galls, of the Big Four Railroad Com
pany. Robert Lowrv. of Atlanta. Ga.. .
and Frank O. Lowden. of Chicago,
The principal address of the even
ing was delivered by Mr. Iogalls and
his views found earnest support among
msnearers. axr. xngaus said:
"If we make this nation aa rich and
powerful as it ought to be, if we '
would bring money and prosperity to
ourselves and to the future, we must
adopt some of the plans that were
outlined by Blaine in his day, and
were emphasised by ueKinley in his
laat message: we must adoot a svstem
of reciprocity by whioh we can
increase trade. A tariff wall
against the labor of Europe and
its competition may be necessary. It
certainty is considered so by a large
number of people; but the - same wall
that protects us upon that side is our
ruin upon tbe other, and we must cul
tivate the West Indies, the South
American 8tates and islands of the
Pacific by reciprocal arrangements
and relations which promote our com
merce. We must admit their products
free, in consideration of their purchas
ing from us,' and if this is done, we
have not ships enough upon the ocean
to carrv the commerce between those
countries and' our own, and there is
not money enough in the banks to fur
nish the credit and exchange.
We should then bind these coun
tries to us by ties stronger than any
legislation. They would be our
friends, our partners in business.
Anrl T fv fa mm T Man skaa wtYtt k 1 n mt hfi
trouble in any other partnership. With
the experience we have had in the
Southern States with negro suffrage.
are you willing to undertake the ad
mission of Cuba and Porto Kico, as
States, containing, as they do, a large
majority of colored peoptrt Neither
do I care to maintain a kindergarten
in the Philipines for the education of
eight millions of Orientals. Rather, J
say, keep the bands of foreign nations
off; hold the commerce of these coun
tries; furnish the transportation, fur
nish the ships; furnish the money and
the banking facilities for their trade;
and we will have commercial annexa
tion without the danger of political an
nexation."
Mr. Lowrv spoke in favor of expan
sion in general, and paid particular at
tention to matters in the South, draw
ing a brilliant picture of the prospects
and capabilities of tbe Southern States.
AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.
Prof. Nlcbolss Murray Bailer lastalled as
Presldeat With Imposing Ceremosles.
Presldeat Roosevelt.
By TelezraDh to tbe ttoralnz Star.
New York, April 19. Prof. Nicho
las Murray Butler was installed as
president of Columbia University
with imposing ceremonies to-day.
These ceremonies were attended by the
President of the United States and the
heads of the principal institutions of
learning in the country.
President Koosevelt arrived in this
city from Washington at 6 SO A. M.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Roose
velt, Secretary and Mrs. Oortelyou,
8urgeon General Rlxey and Dr. J. 8.
Urie. The President went at once to
the residence of his aunt Mrs. Jas. W.
Roosevelt, where be met Dr. Butler at
breakfast A few minutes after noon
tbe President left the house, accompa
nied by former Mayor Abram Hewitt
and escorted by squadron "A" and a
body of mounted police, and was
driven tothe university, arriving there
at 1 o'clock. As Mr.' Roosevelt ascend
ed the broad atalra of the library he
was greeted with loud cheers from a
great concourse of students which he
acknowledged by bowing repeatedly.
The Installation proceedings proper
took, place in the gymnasium to
which the students of the University,
the faculty and the guests marched in
imposing procession.
The procession to the gymnasium
was most impressive. The college
colors of the great universities of the
country, the solemn black gowns, off
set by the crimson of Harvard, the yei- -low
and black of Princeton, tbe dark
blue of Yale, the red of Cornell, the
blue and black of Pennsylvania.
blended with the colors of Oxford and
Cambridge of England, and the uni
forms of tbe military and diplomatic
officers formed a magnificent spectacle.
Bringing up tbe rear of tbe great
procession of learning and the most
conspicuous figure of all was the presi
dent of the United Slates.
NEQR0 HI0HWAYMEN.
Killed One Man and Wounded Another
Near Qreeosbarg, Pa.
Br Telecrapb to tbs Morning Star,
GREENSBUsa, PA., April 19.
While a number of young people,
were returning from a dancing party
early this morning, two masked negro
highwaymen held up the couple in the
lead and at the point of revolvers'
overpowered Charles McQulllis and
forced him to turn over his money
and watch. The others hurried to the
rescue. The highwaymen opened fire
and Alexander McNaught was shot
dead and Frank McQulllis seriously.
wounded. 'The robbers then fled to a
thicket and have not yet been captured.
It Is believed they were miners from
the Jamison coal works, where scores
of negroes are employed.
Thomas and W. B. Ogden. agents
of the American Tobacco Company in
London, are passengers on board the
Ounard line steamer Umbria. which
sailed from Liverpool yesterday for
New York. The Messrs. Qgden said
they were going to meet J. B. Duke,
president or the American Tobacco
I Company, in connection .with the
tobacco war.
The statement of the associated
banks for the week shows: Loan s$ 894, -491,400:
decrease $5 890.400. De
posits $952,774,200: decrease $4,577,-
200. Circulation $30,976,900; : in
crease $57,900. Legal tenders $79 439,-
800; lncreaseS523 ouo, specie fiz
600; Increase $336. 600. Reserve $244,
772,200: increase $860,100.
Secretary Long was before the
House Committee on Naval Affaire
yesterday and discussed tbe building
of new ships and other items of naval
expenditure. The secretary favored a
provision for three oatueanips, two
armored cruisers and several smaller
ships this year.
There is a movement on foot to re
organize the street car men'a union of
Norfolk. It is eenerally understood
that if the union is successfully reor
ganized an effort will be made again
to tie-up the cars or tne company.
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