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SO
EEVISE OA STABD FAT.
Some of the Republican Senators
recently held a conference at tho
Hot Springs, in Virginia, to talk
oyer the position the party should
take on the currency question, the
tariff, &c. Concerning this confer
ence the Philadelphia Press pub
lished the following from its Wash
ington correspondent:
"Tariff, rather tban finance, was
tbe subject discussed by Senators Aid
rich, Alliion and 8pooner at Hot
Spring', Vs. They are members of
tbe 8enate Finance Committee, but
Mr. Spooner said to-day that the con
sideration of a financial bill had not
been undertaken.
"An impjrtant feature of the meet
ing was tbe consideration of the tariff.
Tbe question was presented in the form
of a plank to be adopted by the Iowa
Republican convention, which soon
meets. Mr. Allison will write the
tariff plank, and it is proposed to ex
press tbe sentiment of Iowa Republi
cans so there can be no mis taking the
meaning,
"There have been consultations be
tween Senator Allison and Governor
Gummias, and there is unanimity of
Jiurpose to correct the misunderstand
ng of what has been termed the
'Iowa Idea.' Mr. Allison, In the con
ference with his colleagues of the
Senate finance committee on this sub
ject, showed tbat tbe real 'Iowa idea
la not at variance with tbe views uni
versally possessed by the Republican
-leaders.
"Iowa Republicans, as well as other
leaders in the West, oppose opening
the tariff question in the next national
campaign. Buch revision as may be
necessary, It is maintained, should be
undertaken by the Republican party
at a time when the people are 'not ex
cited over a national election when
uncertainty might affect business.
This is the view of Eastern and West
ern Republicans, and it is believed
that the Iowa platform will declare
that policy."
Upon this the Washington Star,
another Republican paper, com
ments as follows :
If Senator Allison convinced Sena
tor Aldrich that no difference exists
bit een the revisionists and the stand
pa' i-ra he accomplished something
vf-v unusual. Tbe public Is of the
op site opinion. Why the "Iowa
id " if it but xpresses the generally
acv p'ed interpretation of the tariff
sli-miont What is the discussion
abut? Why should so experienced a
nun as the senior Senator from Iowa
hate been selected to draft a Bute
platform if the tariff plank is simply
to advise letting well enough alonet
Tbs merest tyro in politics could do
that in very acceptable phraseology.
Of course there is" difference. The
revisionists not only hold that the
tariff should be revised by those who
believe in protection and want that
Solicy perpetuated, but that the time
as come when the work should be
done. In their opinion, justice and tbe
business interests of the country both
require it. The standpatters hold tbat
nothing should be done on the sub
inct at all as long as the country
continues prosperous. Tariff revision,,
even to a very limited extent, would,
they assert, throw everything out of
plumb and produce uneasiness in tbe
business world. Hence the phraie,
"Irt well enough alone." The one
aid hopes for revision not later than
the first session of the Fifty-ninth Con
gress. The other side would appear to
be desirous of making it conditional
up -u tbe return of the democratic
pa ty to power.
As to what the strength of Gov.
Cummins may be at home, time will
soon tell. Tho state convention is but
a few months. 8u far as is known, he
has not changed his tariff views, as
the result either of any conferences
held iu Iowa or here iu Washington.
He.nda for revision now as be did
las, year, and surely if he is successful
agan in this year's race be may be ex-
Bioted to stand lor revision next year,
ur, as The Star quite recently stated,
tbe "Iowa idea" is not confined to
Iowa. Ii has strong support ia many
localities west of the Alleghf ni, and
It will make itself heard acid felt at
the next republican national conven
tion. The Republican party machine
managers have set themselves de
liberately to work to relegate the
"Iowa idea" and talk of. tariff re
" vision nntil after-the next; Presi
dential election, taking it for grant
ed that if they carry that election
they -can relegate it Indefinitely
or lay it npon the shelf. This has
cropped out prominently in the
speeches of Secretary Root ana sec
retary Shaw, and in the speeches of
President Roosevelt in his swing
'round when he alludes to-the tariff.
Other prominent Republicans, agree
with them, and as far as we know
. only two Got. Cummins, of Iowa,
and Representative Babcock, of
Wisconsin-contend for tariff re-
. vision, although they would limit it
to comparatively few articles.
Counting the heads, as far as they
are visible, these two seem to be a
hopeless minority.
A short while ago Gov. Cnmmins
and Senator Allison had a confer
ence, the result of which was that
they came to some sort of under
standing ' that the "Iowa Idea" would
be recognized in the platform to be
adopted by the next Republican
State convention, the tariff plank in
which will be written by Senator Al
lison by agreement with Got. Cum
miis. This plank will declare that
when it becomes apparent that tariff
reduction may be made without detri
ment to the industries Involved then
reduction will be advisable, and
should be made. This is pratlcally
what the Iowa Republican platforms
have declared for the past two years,
the "Iowa idea" about which so
much has been said, and which as a
matter of fact Is so very cautious and
eonservative as to practically amount
to nothing, for there is nothing
mandatory in it. What gave it
force, and about the'only thing that
did give it force, was the interpre
tation by Governor Cummins in his
speeches and interviews, in which
he held out the idea that it declared
for prompt action in reducing, the
tariff duties on articles that 'no
longer need protection, especially
upon such as are snipped abroad
and sold for less money than the
same articles are sold for at home.
He believes in protection, but only
when protection may be necessary,
and therefore he . believes that this
work should not be Indefinitely
postponed, but should be under
taken and carried out in good faith
by Congress when it meetB.
There are thousands of Republi
cans throughout the conntry, es
pecially in the West, who believe,
the same, but the leaders have de
termined that this question shall be
relegated, and they will find a way
to convince Governor Cummins and
Mr. Babcock of the expediency of
that, and the Iowa idea will figure
very little in Republican 8peoch.es,
save in the indefinite, non-committal
way in which the buncoers now
talk. -
NEW 'PHONE SERVICE:
things to be done to accomplish and
facilitate this, one of which was
greater diversity in' manufacturing,
another prompt, persistent and
energetic efforts to open up more
avenues of trade with otfier count
ries, and as a means to this end,
the establishment of centers in
foreign countries where samples of THg IMPROVED SWITCHBOARD
Southern Bell Telephone
Telegraph Company's Sys
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the products of this country may be
exhibited.
This is in line with the advice
given the New England millers
some time ago by Mr. Vanderlip,
ex-Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury, and also with the suggestions
of some of our consuls to which we
made reference in an editorial yes
terday. There is good business
sense in these suggestion. If our
mill men hope to build up a trade
in other countries they must adopt
the methods to do it and not let
their competitors get and hold the
inside track. ;'
I-
NIf bt it II
Old Exchsage Deserted Last
O'clock sad Its Now "MstaHIc C!
calf." If Yon Plense An Is
spectloa of the Building.
That Indiana chamber maid who
refused to make np a bed on which
Booker Washington had slept, said
she didn't dislike Booker Washing-
ten, but that all coons looked alike
to her. She is a Republican in pol
itics, too, but her parents -were
Southern people who migrated to
Illinois. She has been offered lots
of jobs, but thinks she will take one
offered her by some one in Houston,
Texas. There is too good stuff in
that girl to pass her life in the hum
ble capacity of chamber maid.
A negro has recently been ap
pointed postmaster in a Maryland
county. A Virginia negro, too,
and the Republican Congressman
from that district is - so worked np
about it that he has asked for the
abolition of the office as unnecessary,
to get rid of the negro p. m.
JONES MURDER AT .WILSON. SCANDALS IN TBE
P.O. DEPARTMENT
PROGRESSIVE W1LMINQT0N.
Qrsad Jury Possd True BUI Against All
As Men Arrested Pastcra! of the
... Slsla Vaa AsOdd Fellow."
THE COTTOV BOTHERS.
The Southern cotton spinners
.who met in Charlotte the past week
resolved as a matter of necessi
ty to curtail production, the reason
given being the high price of the
raw material as compared with 'the
price of manufactured goods.
Whether this high price is in conse
quence of a shortage in supplies, or
of the manipulation of the market
by speculators we do not know, but
the spinners attribute It to manipu
lation, in which they are probably1
correct, and in which they are some
what corroborated by a New York
press dispatch published yesterday
that there were Indications that the
"local clique" was about to close its
deal, when the price will doubtless
go down. This is one of the results
of speculation in futures and corner
ing, by both of which the few profit
and the many suffer.
A statement was made in the ad
dress of the president of the Asso
ciation that while the average cot
ton crop of the country is about 10,
000,000 bales, at least 100,000,000
bales are annually sold by the spec
ulators who never deliver a bale.
They sell what they haven't got and
don't expect to have to other spec
ulators who do not expect to re
ceive what they buy, but to make
money by selling at an advance or
by squeezing the men who sold and
same with
The discovery that an old miser
who recently died in Los Angeles,
California, left $142,000 in cash in
a safe deposit box, has brought
to the front 900 "heirs" and an al
leged widow, and all the precints
have not been heard from yet.
Mrs. Sage says she is so glad that
Russell never smoked. Maybe she
wouldn't let him. Russell is glad,
too, when he thinks of what a lot of
money he has saved by letting the
other fellows do the smoking while
he enjoyed the odor.
It is reported that Gen. Viljoen,
a Boer, has purchased a tract of
land in the State of Chihuahua, in
Mexico, upon which 1,000 Boer
families will locate. This is pretty
long "trek" for them, but willldoubt
less be a good one.
Columbia la hard up for money
and wants to squeeze some of that
$40,000,000 canal purchase money
out of the canal company. This is
said to be the reason why she is go
ing so slow in ratifying the treaty.
A New Jersey man wants $25,000
damages from a vigilance committee
which hanged him two years ago. It
seems from this that they made a
bad job of the hanging.
CURRENT COMMENT.
can't deliver. It is the
other atanle I The United States has reach
crops, in which the sales amount to ed a point in its career as a world
x. i. i- AnnA I power where it will either have to
many times as much as is produced. I w Wjmiriin, ftiiiftnC6 with
Occasionally the producer may
be benefited some by this speculation
when prices are run up, but gener
ally most of the crops have passed
out of the hands of the producers
before this happens, so that it is
practically only the manipulators
who can control the market, or are
shrewd enough to know 'when to
catch hold and when to let go who
profit by it. Cotton manufacturers,
millers and others suffer by it on
account of the increased cost of the
materials they consume and the
public suffers by Jt on account
of the increased cost of the
things it needs. And yet there
seems to be no way to prevent or
even check this injurious specula
tion and cornering.
A HEW ENGLAND MAN'S V ISWS
Among thespeakers at the recent
meeting of cotton spinners In Char
lotte waf Mr. E. W. Thomas, for
merly President of the New England
Cotton Manufacturers' Association,
which shows that he is a man of high
standing among the mill men and
therefore his views are entitled to
more than ordinary consideration.
Speaking 6f the possibilities of
the industry in the South he said it
was not at all incredible that with
the raw material at the doors of the
mills, the South may become in the
near future the cotton-manufactur
ing center of the worldi In which he
simply agrees with many others
versed in the cotton Industry and
competent to speak upon'it.
That was asserted twenty years
ago when the South had scarcely
entered the arena as a manufacturer,
and has been repeated frequently
since by Northern ana ooumeru
men, when the South had not one
fourth the mills she has now. .
But he said there were many
form an "entangling alliance" witn
Great Britain and Japan or let Rus
sia have free-rein in China. Mobile
Register, Hem.
Mr. Cleveland is. perhaps,
trying to profit by experience, in
avoiding a direct answer to the
question. In his first inaugural he
met the question of a "second" term
by a flat declaration that one was
sufficient and subsequently found
that he had been too precipitate
about it. Norfolk Ledger, Dem.
The beef combine ia beefing
about cattle being short as its pre
text for short-changing the con
Hnmfir some more. It will be noted
that Deacon Rockefeller never finds
it necessary to take the public into
his confidence when he chooses to
bore deeper. Atlanta Constitution,
Dem. .
-Postmaster General Payne,
who nretends to be so anxious to
get at the bottom of thelrottenness
in the Postal Department, promptly
cuts off the official head of the first
subordinate who " falls to prove
charges of irregularity. As the
witty Frenchman said of the execu
tion of the British Admiral Byng,
this act of Mr. Payne's is probably
designed "to encourage the others
who have charges to make. Nor
folk Landmark, Dem.
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE CORSES.
Mansfer Bslley Sails State Temperance
Convention to be Held Jsly 7th.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. Q, May 14. Manager
J, W. Bailey, of the executive com
mittee of the State Antl-SaloonLieague,
Issued a call to-day for a State temper
ance convention, July 7th. He calls
the State convention for the purpose
of marshalling the temperance forces
for the conflict close ai nana ana ior
recognition of the executive dep"
ment, pulling one ur mun ui
field ill their time. The state
ment is maue tnai mero w
amount of temperance senUment in
the SUte and In its unorganiied situa
tion cannot be coped with on P"?
basis. It also 'contains a w..iik iu-i
a small attendance will be taken as a
sign that the Interest Is not great.
The new plant and metallic clrcf It
system of the Southern Bell Telephone
and Tnlnmranh Dnmnanv In thili rftV
is now complete and all 'phones wtllbe
hereafter, operated from the company's
handsome new building, next to the
northwest corner of Second and Prin
cess streets. The old exchange b A tb?
third floor of the 'Atlantic National
Bank building; was abandoned at 10
o'clock last night and the operators
are now making conversation by wire
possible from their handsome new and
Improved switchboard on the seeded
floor of the new building. The cod-
Dinv has snent a vast amount f
money in Wilmington since Jan. 15 th,
this vear. and that the service has
been Improved one hundred per cent
No one who has tested tbe nev
'phones will gainsay.
Through the courtesy of Mr. T. 8,
McManus, the affable local, manager
of the exchange, a reporter for the
Star last night was shown over the
new building. The new structure is
of brick, trimmed with stone, and is
especially designed for the purpose to
wbich it is being devoted. It has two
stories and basement, the latter being
used as a storage room of tbe
company where all aorta of supplies
are kept. The underground cables,
recentlv laid in the business section
are also brought into the building In
the basement, the wires being carried
up through the floors, encssedlin
leaden pipes.
The first floor is devoted to offices
for the manager and clerical force of
the local exchange and longdistance
liner. Handsome furniture is being
placed there and all other modern ap
pliances are being Installed.
At the rear of the offices is a room
where are located the storage bat
teries, the motors for charging the
batteries, the cables connecting
with the operating room above. The
batteries and motors are duplicated,
so that if one set gives out another is
put into operation by the shifting of a
switch. To guard against emergen
cies the batteries are so constructed
that thev will run for many hours
without being changed. The power
comes direct trom the splendid plant
of the Consolidated Railways, Light
and Power Company, beinjr paM
by tne metric system.
The second floor is the operating
room, wherein is the new switch
board, the most' perfect piece of mec
hanism yet devised in the way of
facilitating the work of telephoning. A
single operator at the new switch
board is capable of doing double the
work possible under the old system
and wilb400 per cent more satlsfac
tion and less annoyance. There is no
"talking back" to "Central" and only
one person can speak to ber at a time,
whereas under the former plan there
was a frequent babel of voices out of
which the patient operator could get
nothing. Another great advantage Is
that tbe operator can tell in an Ins
when two numbers are through con
versing, an Impossibility before with
out breaking in on the conversation of
tbe subscribers. There are no "trunks"
as in the old system. A person call
ing for the conection takes the receiver
off the hook at his home or place of
business and instantly a tiny 24-voIt
light appears over the number of your
telephone. "Central" gets the num
ber for which you ask, and another
light flares up. The moment the call
is answered both lights goes out that
is, when the conversation-is over. A
dozen female operators are em
ployed during the busy hours of the
da. Tha onerators speak in soft
tones, there being absolute freedom
from noise and confusion.
The head 'phone used by the opera
tors is of, an entirely new pattern.
Eaeh operator has her Individual head
gearif such a term can be employed.
The contrivance Is detachable, and the
moment the operator finishes her work
for the day she takes her 'phone and
puts it away until she returns. The
'phone lias a transmitter, which the
operator wears around her neck, and
which is never more than three inches
from her lips. She does not have to
bend over and stretch to a receiver it
is right with her all the time.
Mr. McManus gave a splendid de
scription of the workings of the new
exchange, in which he had all sorts of
thines 10 say about each 'phone being
connected this and that way and how
the man at the "trouble counter" could
locate exactly a "break," but to a lay
man, a trip through the building only
disclosed a forest of wires and tele
phones and bells and all other appurte
nances for talking.
The building is furnished through
out with Baboock's Improved Fire Ex
tinguishers and every person In the
building knows how to use them.
The Bell Company now has 790 sub
scribers, but should tne list grow
to 2,900 the new switchboard will be
able to accommodate the "string."
For the long distance work a calcula
graph Is employed a wonderful in
strument recording to the second the
length of any conversation. The new
system is a wonder and Wilmington
is to be congratulated tbat it is com
pleted.
' ' by TatosTapn to u Moraine Btat.
HA LEi a h, N. O., May 15. A spe
cial from Wilson, N. O., says:
At 50 o'clock this afternoon the
grand jury of Wilson county, Judge
Brown, presiding, after investigating
the killing of T. Percy Jones, found a
true bill for murder against George
Whitney, GUI Ward, W. H. Rlcb,
John . Allen, J. B. Plver, W. W.
Barnes, W. P. Croom, Lawrence
lfja T (P D.m Tlm Plhnan anil
8am J. Walls. -'
Nearly every lawyer in Wilson is
Employed by the defence, and it is
given out to night that there will be
i application to Judge Brown to
morrow for the release of the men 6n
ball. ....
- The funeral of Jones, the man who
was slain, -took plaee to-day. He was
buried by the Odd Fellows, xf which
order ha was a member.
The dead man was related to Sena
tor J. K. Jones, of Arkansas. It is
stated that he was his nephew. The
father of the dead man is an ex-state
senator of Arkansas. .
Raleigh, N. a, May 18. A special
from Wilson at 1 o'clock this (Satur
day) morning says:
Fearing an effort on the part of tbe
prisoners' frirnda to attempt their res
cue, the sheriff of Wilson county tele
graphed Governor Ayooek for per
mission to call out the troops. This
waa promptly accorded and at 1
o'clock the Wilson Light Infantry ia
assembled in the armory holding it
self In readiness for a call. A few
groups of people are seen on the
streets. The town is quiet.
Formal Charges Made by Former I
Cashier Tulloch of the Wash
ington City Office.
REVIEWED BY GEN. PAYNE.
Porto Ricsn Service-Letter Box Schemes.
Illegal Vouchers and Payments
Physicians Carried on Rolls.
A Rlni ia the Salaries.
THE CHADB0URN SHOOTING.
Mr. 0. S. Reld Osve Bond and Came to
Wilmlsitoa Saturday, Accompanied
by His Brother Sell-Defence.
Mr. Q. ,8. Reld, of Chadbourn, the
prominent trucker and business man
who Wednesday, May 13th, shot and so
seriously wounded Chester Edmonds,
who is now in the Hospital bare under
the ca"e of Dr. D. W. Bulluck, arriv
ed in the city Saturday afternoon ac
companied by his brother, Mr. J. O.
Reld, of Norfolk. Mr. Raid gave bond
at Vf hiteville last Friday, the 15th,
and is now in the city on a business
trip and presumably casting about for
counsel to represent him in the trial
which will be held as soon as Edmonds
is able to leave the Hospital.
Mr. Reld claims self defence as justi
fication for the shooting and says both
Edmonds and his brother jumped on
him and it was either a case of shoot
or be killed. He expressed a hope
that bis victim would recover but said
he saw no other course to pursue
upon the occasion of the affray. The
men were making at him with a heavy
iron nail poller and the brother of the
wounded man did finally deal him a
heavy blow over the head, the effect
of which ia now plainly visible on
Mr. Reld.
Ur. Oreen Locates Here.
Dr. Toomas M. Green, a popular
young Wilmin gtonlan and a son of
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Green, of
this city, has resigned his position as
resident physician at St. Joseph's Hos
pital, Baltimore, Md., and has return
ed to Wilmington where he has loca
ted for the practice of his profession in
which he is eminently skilled. Dr.
Green graduated with distinction at
the University of Maryland several
ara ag? and haa since that time held
the responsible position which he has
resigned to return to his old-home.
The Stab joins hundreds of friends in
wishing him tbe great success his su
perior talent merits.
LOCAL DOTS.
Mr. Thos. D. Meares, Jr., is at
home from the University.
License was issued yesterday
for the marriage of Charles F. Prldg
eon and Nellie Cumber, daughter of
G. F. Cumber, all of Wilmington,
and Joseph M. Winner, of Federal
Point township, and Elizabeth Oliver
of Wilmington.
Mr. A. E. Blake, the well
known wholesale and retail peanut
dealer, will in a very short time remove
his business from its present plaee on
North Water street, to his truck farm
on Market street road, just beyond the
National cemetery.
Kinston Free Press: "The
committee of arrangements or the M.
E. Sunduy school have selected Tues
day, June 2nd, as the date for the
Sunday school excursion to 'Wilming
ton. The fare will be $L75. A suffi
cient number of cars will be had."
Fayetteville Observer, 16th:
"Mr. A. T. Tripp, who has been ship
ping clerk for the Armour racking
Company here, leaves for Wilming
ton this afternoon to accept a position
in the Armour office there. He will
be succeeded here by Mr. G. B. Thees,
of Wilmington."
Fayetteville Observer: "Deputy
U. 8. Collector Sam King, of Eliaa
bethtown, and Mr. Osstine Martin, of
White Oak, who comes to visit his
aon. Mr. A. E. Martin, were passen
gers on the Highlander which arrived
last eveninsr. Mr. King succeeded
Mr. Sutton as deputy collector and the
latter succeeded Mr. King as postmas
ter at Elteabethtown." -
Miss Allie . Morris, who went
to Davidson, N. 0., fifteen months ago
and entered the sanitarium of Dr. J.
P. Munroe, president of the North
Carolina Medical College, for treat
ment for a throat trouble, from which
she has been a great sufferer for a
number of years, has returned lo
Wilmington entirely recovered. Miss
Morris has a host of friends here who
will be !delithted to learn of her re
covery.
By TelegrapHjo the Morning Btar.
Washington, May 16. The formal
chargea of Seymour W. Tulloch, cash
ier of the Washington city postoffice
for many years until his removal four
years ago, alleging irregularities in
the postal administration, were sub
mitted to Postmaater General Payne
to-day. Mr. Payne and Fourth As
sistanl Postmaster General Brlstow
went over the statement in detail.
Postmaster General Payne, reviewing
the chargea ot Mr Tulloch, said :
"The great bulk of irregularities of
which Mr. Tulloch complains was the
result of the government talking over
the postal service of Porto Rico. Mr.
Tulloch refers to troubles caused by
the payment of tbe Porto Rlcan ac
counts through the Washington city
postoffice and makes some other in
sinuations, as for example, the pro
motion of letter box schemes, etc., but
there ia no evidence, nothing but
words. All that will be of any service
whatever to the department in look
ing up matters in connection with the
investigation la comprised in inree
pages.
''The bulk of the statement, how
ever, consists of an accounting of his
own grievances and of comments on
his own removal. He deals in glitter
ing generalities in criticising ex-Postmaster
General Smitb. He refers to
vouchers and payments of certain
people wbich he claims to have been
illegal and makes a pretty severe attack
on the comptroller of the treasury. He
makes some reference to the alleged
smothering of the examination of ac
counts of tbe local office, bat offers no
new evidence or documents to substan
tiate his allegations, merely referring
to certain people, certain vouchers and
certain accounts.
"There ere no particularly new
points, except an explanation of what
he heretofore hss said in a general
way. I am greatly disappointed that
the document will not be of any help
to us. ,
"Mr. Tulloch mentions a rumor
about the department that a cablegram
had come to the department which
said: 'Papa, send a transport here
quick. Iamalck;' but that is given
only as a rumor.
"There are some things of course that
look on their face to be wrong and
that need explanation. The bulk of
the offences alleged is that vouchers
were charged to the wrong accounts.
Allot the items which were not al
lowed by the comptroller were finally
audited except less than $100. We will
look into the records of these matters,
of course." -
Postmaster General Payne said am
to the charge that physicians were
carried on the rolls of postoffices with
out authority, that there had been
fifteen or twenty such cases In the
United States. This was a matter of
administrative policy, he aaid, and en
tirely within the province of the post
master general; but that he himself
last Autumn restricted employment of
physicians to postoffices whose reve
nues aggregated $1,000,000 a year.
"Mr. Tulloch," continued air.
Payne, "refers to the return postal
card scheme of the Economic Postage
Association, which never was adopted,
and insinuates 'we are unprepared to
find Mr. Beavers and Mr. Machen com
mending the plan.'
"Mr. Tulloch charges that there is a
ring in the salaries and allowance
division of the Postoffice Department,
without whose approval noth
ing can be done, saying the ring con
aisted of the head of the department,
the first assistant postmaster gen
eral and the postmaster general.
Well, those officials were the only
ones who had anything to say about
such matters anyway. He says that
some man was carried on two pay
rolls; but the laws specifically pro
vide that an employe can draw irom
two pay rolls if properly authorized, if
his aggregate salary does not exceed
$2,500. Mr. Tulloch mentions alleged
junkets of officials and employes who
went to Cuba and Porto Rico to install
the postal service there. How does
Mr. Tulloch- assume to pass on the
question whether these gentlemen
simply went on a junket? He refers to
man who was annointed to a place In
Porto Rico, but who got drunk in New
York on the way. Well, once In a
while a postmaster defaults and gets
drunk and Is dealt with according to
his deserts. Mr. Tulloch haa made the
atatement that the Cuban administra
tive troubles were as notnmg compar
ed to Porto Rico.
"There has been only one case of
wrong doing of an administrative offi
cial in Porto Rico, and tbat was a
clerk in the Ponce postoffice, who de
faulted for about $3,000.
"Mr. Tulloch refers to appoint
ments of laborers, charwomen and
cleaners as evasions of the civil ser
vice law. These places are not In the
civil service. He says that they per
formed no duties at all or often did
work along a line not authorized. We
are now investigating a charge that
three women carried on the rolls as
charwomen performed no service.
"All that indicates any wrong in
the Postoffice Department or in the
Washington postoffice, Involving loss
to the government or the integrity of
an official, will be investigated by Mr.
Brlstow; but I am not going to lnTet
tigate a stump speech. Much has
been made of the statement that
Comptroller Tracewell called off
one 01 nis men irom an in
spection of the Washington Ipostoffice
accounts, because it was alleged that
he was reaching wnai migro ne caueu
'pay dirt' Comptroller xraceweii, in
hia letter to me. says that the inspec
tion had been fully completed before
the man was taken on ana wai nis re
port was already in and all the infor
mation wanted had been gotten. Mr.
Tracewell says he himself inspected
the New York postoffice accounts.
"Now, once: for all all, I want to
say that this Investigation of the affairs
of the Postoffice Department will go
on to the end, will reach into every
place and in every direction where
there is reason to believe anything
wrong may be found. The investiga
tion will be pursued relentlessly. Any
thought of hushing up the investiga
tion is a pure gratuity on the part of
the person who furnishes such
ma tion."
Mannf sctnrers Record This Week Contains
a Qood Word for the City.
Under the significant caption "Pro
gressive Wilmington," the current
number of the Manufacturera' Record
says:
The report of Mr. Jas. H. Chad
bourn, retiring president of the Wil
mington (N. O.) Chamber of Com
merce, at its fiftieth session, is a note
worthy summary of good results flow
ing from persistent, energetic and
well directed efforts of business men
for the upbuilding of their com
munity. Mr. Chadbourn shows how
tbe Chamber has a general oversight
of the business of the port, establish
ing rules governing trade and ship
nine: he describes the methods for
keeping a thorough record of all com
modities dealt In by the city's mer
chants, the liberality of the Chamber
jn spending money to promote Wil
mington's interests, noting especially
tne preparation of a. volume setting
forth the many advantages of Wil
mington and its vicinity for manu
facturing, for business and for resi
dence, and its interest in attracting
new industries and sustaining those
already established. He said that
never before were the prospects of
the city so bright, and he revealed
the reaaon for that in his additional
statement that the merchanta of Wil
mington have more public spirit than
ever before,, are more united in their
public efforts and present a solid
front in bringing Wilmington for?
ward as a commercial and industrial
center and as an export city.
ANALIZINQ RALEIGH BEER.
Companies Chartered by Secretary of
State One by Wilmington Parties.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. O., May 15. The
French Grocery Co., of Lumberton, is
chartered with $35,000 capital author
ized; $8,000 subscribed. The incorpo
rators are Geo. G. French, W.F.French
and S. Z. Lewis.
A charter is Issued to the Afro-American
Mercantile Co.,Wilmington. I.G.
Barnett and W. A. Jordan are among
the incorporators. Capital subscribed
is $1,200; authorized $50,000. The com
pany names merchandise, manufactur
ing, agriculture, etc., among the pur
poses of the incorporation.
The Enueid uotton Mill uo., oi cn
field, Halifax county, Is chartered,
with $13,000 cspltal subscribed and
$50,000 authorized. Walter N. Brown,
of Enfield, is the principal Incorpora
tor. Samples of all beer on sale In Ra
leigh were gathered to-day for analysis
by the State Chemist. The result is
the discovery that certain beer is
poisoned by excessive preservatives,
especially formalin and salicylic acid.
The State Chemist will soon make re
port of all analyses.
HABEAS CORPUS PROCEEDINGS.
SPIRIJreKIlISE.
Lumberton Bdiei
esontan: At tne
meetintfof the directors of the Lum
berton Cattoil Mills, . Tuesday, it
was decided to increase the size of
the plant, and consequently the
stock from 175,000 to $175,000.
Fremont Visitor: Thos. B.
Hooks, near town, reports a three
legged guinea hatched on his place.
He says that the extra leg and foot
are perfectly formed and the guinea
gets about as lively as any of the rest
of the brood.
Mount Airy News: The berry
crop will be a good one this year.
Ths wheat prospect is extra
fine in some sections and in other
places very poor. It looks fairly
well in this immediate section, but
farmers generally are not figuring
on a very large crop this year.
Monroe Enquirer: Sinoe it
has been decided that it is impossi
ble to get the obstruction put of one
of the artesian wells, the aldermen
have decided to have another well
bored and Mr. L L. Cracker, of
Mannington, West. Virginia, has
been instructed to purchase a drill
ing outfit and oome and bore the
well.
Sanford Express: Some of the
farmers in this section have ploughed
up their cotton and planted the sec
ond time. The cool weather pre
vented it from coming np.
While some of the other mills in
the State have but little cotton on
hand, the Sanford Cotton Mill has
enongh stored away to last till Au
gust. About all the cotton made
in this section. has been sold, and
while it is bringing 11 cents none is
brought to market.
Raleigh News and Observer
True to his promise Robert Ragan,
of Durham, who disappeared Thurs
day and left a note to his father and
two brothers saying that his dead
body would be found in the reser
voir at the Erwin Cotton Mill, end
ed his life night before last. His
body waa fished: out of the reservoir
named Friday morning abont eight
o'clock. Dr. B. W. KUgore
has made an analysis of a beer which
is being bottled in this city and finds
that it is heavily charged with pre
servatives, especially formalin and
saleclld- acid, which makes it very
injurious and causes sick stomach.
The name of the beer is not given
out. v Wednesday night Mr. J.
W. Holly, watchman at the Norfolk
Lumber Company's plant in Camp-
bleton, was suddenly approached by
a masked man, knocked down and
robbed of his watch. Mr. Holly's
nose was broken and he was other
wise badly injured. The robber
then ransacked the company's mon
ey drawer and desk, but it is not
thought that he got anything of
value. Mr. Holly says he recogniz
ed the robber, and a warrant has
been issued for his arrest. 1 .
UTLEY TOOK HIS CHECK BOOK.
Hesrisg la the Haywood Case Postponed,
Wilcox's Second Appesl.
Special Star Telegram.
Raleigh, N. C, May 16 Associate
Justice R. M. Douglas of the Supreme
Court, Issued an order today, post
poning the hearing of tbe habeas
corpus proceeding case against Ernest
Haywood for killing Ludlow Skinner,
from May 21 to 28th., giving as a rea
son that to hear the case on the 21st
would probably Interfere with the per
formance of his official duties In hear
ing andHelermining cases at the end
of the Supreme Court docket.
It is understood that the Wilcox
case from Elizabeth City will be up for
argument on second appeal about May
21st, hence the postponement of the
Haywood habeas corpus case.
The defence is summoning upwards
of five hundred witnesses for the Hay
wood trial.
DUPLIN COUNTY TELEPHONE 60.
His Life In the Penitentiary Will Not be
Altogether DIsszreeable.
Its AshevlUe correspondent sends
the Charlotte Observer the following:
"J. P. Kerr, who has returned from
a meeting of the penitentiary dlrectora
at Raleigh, aays the directors wit
nessed an unusual sight at the prison.
Young Utley, of Fayetteville, who
-killed a hotel clerk ,." uu
just been taken to T'SR
visitors were mating ineir reguiax-ur r
spection. The prisoner, who Is of a
wealthy ana weu-xnown lamuy, iook
his check book with him, for he has
something like $40,000. The warden
regarded the book as superfluous and
told the young man so, but tne matter
was flnaflv compromised by a deposit
of forty or fifty dollars with the prison
I officials, who said that his young
prisoner could purchase a utue iruii
occasionally, but that he would have
to eat at the same table and the
same food that was given the other
Jtrlsonera who, while they had been
ess fortunate In the accumulation of
the goods of this world, had now been
brought to the same level by being in
the same nlace. The directors left Ut-
I ley chopping wood and eating pea
nuts.?'
Traffic Afreement Arrsofed Yesterdsy
With the Southern Bell Compsny.
H. L. Stevens, Esq., president of the
Duplin County Telephone Company,
operating lines connecting Kenans
ville with Clinton, via Warsaw, a dis
tance of something over 20 miles,
spent Saturday in the city and closed
traffic agreement with the Southern
Bell Telephone Co., by which both
systems will have the uss of the ex
tension for its patrons at the usual toll
rates.
Tbe line is now id process of con
struction and will be of the regulation
standard, the 'phones being of the
long distance kind, the same as put in
by the Bell Company. Mr. Stevens'
company will develop other territory
for. its lines and will keep the con
struction going until all parts of the
business territory in that section is
covered.
Norfolk Landmark: "Mr. Ken
neth M. Murchlsbn, Jr., of New
York, is In the city for a few days.
Mr. Murchlson Is the architect for the
new Virginia Club building, now In
course of erection on Granby street."
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A Baltimore Notice.
The Baltimore Sun editorially aays:
"The city of Wilmington, N. 0., Is
growing and prospering. At a recent
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
it was shown that the city's bank re
sources are now $$450,032. Its cotton
trade the past year amounted to $14,
471,720; IU grocery business footed up
I $7,000,000; dry goods, $2,200,000, and
fertilizers ei.otd.uuu. nununpuBi
total trade amounted to $85,146,720.
A large amount of building is going
on, and a number of factories are be
ing erected. President unauoourn, ox
the Chamber of Commerce, in his an
nual address pays a high tribute to
President Henry Walters and the At
lantic Coast Line, which has been a
leading factor in the development of
Eastern North Carolina."
More Youthful Barilsrs.
Last Wednesday afternoon between
1 and 2 o'clock, while Mr. W. a.
Eckles was at dinner, from his junk
store, Chesnut between Front and
Water streets, his office was nroaen
open by youthful negro thieves who
i had secreted themselves on the preml-
I ses, and a tin box containing between
$25 and $30 was stolen by them. It
was the third time since last October
that Mr. Eckles place had been broken
open in much the same way.
JONES MURDER AT WILSON.
FIts ol the Men Indicted Admitted to Ball.
Citizens Insist on Thorough Investi
gationSpecial Term of Court.
Bi Telegraph to the afomuur Btar.
WrLsou. N. Q. May 16. Ball was
to-day granted to five of the men In
dicted for the murder of Mr. T. Percy
Jones, the Arkansas Insurance man
killed herein his room ny a moo
Thursday morning. The men to
to whom bail haa been granted in the
sum of $1,200 each are: S. J.Walls,
W. P. Croom, Lawrence Morgan, John
Plttman, T. J. Bass. A special term of
court to try the case will be asked for
by the bar. im l A
In connection wiin i"!Vutu";u"
board of aldermen of wiison io-aay
discharged Policeman Snakenburg for
i gross neglect oiauiy; u.v.b- j-incemanTB-rank
Felton for ten days.
and-deprived or nis omcia iuum
Peter Nichols, depot watchman.
The citizens insisi on a inwK -
vestlgation. There was no
last night to release the prisoner, as
the militia were on duty.
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