The News and Observer
VOL. XXXYIII. NO. 64.
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INCOME TAX DECISION.
CHICAGO TAPER PRINTS SI
PREME COURT DECISION
THREE DAYS IN ADVANCE.
HOW DIO IT LEAK OUT?
The Law Held Good in General Terms,
but Income Derived from Realty,
Rents and 31 uuicipul Ronds are Ex
cepted--Conlroversy Over the Cap
ture of Jefferson Davis Hotly Waged
in the Post—W hat Did the Confeder
ate President Wear When Captured ?
Special to the News and Observer.
Washington, D. 0., April 6.
A Chicago morning paper prints ten
columns of a detailed account of the de
cision of the Supreme Court in regard to
the income tax. It is claimed that the
act will be held good in general terms,
but exception will be made as to in
comes derived from realty rents and
municipal bonds.
The rule of the court is to hand down
decisions on Monday, so that there is a
day in which people may speculate on
the question whether or not the Chicago
paper is bettor informed than the Su
premo Court. If it proves itself more
previous, there comes up the already
mooted question, how did the decision
leak out ? It would seem in these days
that even Supreme Courts are suspected
by heterodox papers of being made of
very much the same sort of stuff as
other tolks.
The Chicago papers will not reach
■Washington before Monday.
This is first time such a prediction
of a Supreme Court decision has reached
Southern ears.
Senator Ransom's Health.
Todays Washington Post: “The an
nouncement in the Post yesterday that
Minister Ransom was indisposed at the
time of his arrival at the City of Mexico
has aroused some concern. For several
years Senator Rinsom has not been in
the best of health The vertigo to which j
he is subject when undergoing unusual j
excitement has compelled him to be un
usually careful, and one or two attacks
in the Senate chamber might have proved
serious but for prompt relief. Before his
departure for Mexico he was warned of
the possible danger to his health from
the high elevation and rarefied atmos
phere of the City of Mexico, and was
urged to have an examination of his
heart and lungs. He is now quite ad
vanced in yc-ars and it is feared that he
may experience some difficulty in becom
ing acclimated in his new location.”
* * *
The Washington Post has contained in
a number of its recent issues different
versions of the story of the capture of
Jefferson Davis. The controversy is go
ing on between members of the Fourth
Michigan Cavalry and is chiefly over
the dress of Mr. Davis at the time of
his capture. The controversy has at
traeted the attention of many people
and the writers, it seems,have not ta'ren
the greatest pains to portray the truth.
In the issue of March 27th was an ac
count which has been contradicted in
the issue of April Ist. In the latter
issue is an account written by George P.
Butler,late sergeant Company E., Fourth
Michigan Cavalry which purports to
be an interview with James H. Jones,
the body servant of Mr. Davis. In re
gard to the dress of Mr Davis the writer
says: “No man ever heard an honest
4th Michigan cavalryman say that Davis
was in boopskirts, for be was not. But
he d d hare on, when he came out of his
tent in the gray of the morning of that
memorable day, a water proof cloak
which came to his heels, and a shawl
over his head, and a pail on his arm, as
he was passed out of the tent by Mrs.
Davis as her old mother who wanted to
get a pail of water at the branch near
by. He passed by the guard at the tent
door, and got several rods before he was
halted. I got this to-day from the man
who was the body-servant of Davis at
the time and who helped him to dress
on the occasion, now an employe in the
stationery room in the Senate end of the
capitol.”
Jim Jones was born and raised in
Raleigb, and is one of the few whose
word is never doubted. He was from the
beginning of the war to the im
prisonment of Mr. Davis at Fortress
Monroe, a most faithful body servant,
anl this was acknowledged by Mrs.
Davis last year when she gave him a
strong cane the handle being made from
the antlers of a buck killed by Mr. Davis
a silver band binding it tightly to the
cane. On the silver is engraved “To
James H. Jones, (the faithful bod y
servant), in sacred memory fiom Mrsw
Jefferson Davis.”
Part of Mr. Butler’s statement is true,
but that Mr. Davis had on his arm a
pail, and that Mrs. Davis attempted to
pass Mr. Davis as her mother are totally
false. Jim Jones denies having said
anythiug of the kind and says further
more that he has denied those two state
ments for the past thirty years and that
the leading newspapers of the country
have printed his accounts time after
time. The so-called dress that Mr. Davis
wore on that memorable occasion was a
brown waterproof cloak; the shawl was
a brow n one of the same kind as the
gentlemen’s shaw l which was so common
worn in that day. Mr. Davis had w'orn
this feame costume every day after leav
ing Richmond, and it was in no way a
digsuite. During the conversation
which Butler had with Jones not a word
was spoken of a pail nor was Mr. Davis’
name mentioned. In the same issue of
the Post William P. Stedman, late of
Company B, Fourth Michigan Cavalry,
speaks of Mr. Davis’ dress as a disguise,
and claims to have been the man who
first laid hands on President Davis.
There is no one living who denies that
he was the first who captured him, but
that a man so near Mr. Davis should
have made such a mistake as to call
his regular costume a disguise is ex
ceedingly strange. This costume and
also a net cap was worn by the
Confederate president on account of his
neuralgia. The statement was made
in the Post that the Confederates were
ail asleep at the time of the ar
rival of the Northern troops. This is
flatly denied by Jim Jones, 1 who was
awake, and gave the alarm of the ap
proach of the troops. Every man in the
place wSs?HwaKe, and dressed when the
troops arrived. Among those whom Jim
Jones awaked were Col Joseph Johnson,
Gen. Regan, who was afterwards United
States Senator, Col. Lovette, afterwards
Governor of Texas, Col. Wood and Col.
William Harrison, who was Mr. Davis'
Private Secretary, It is only justice to
the old colored body servant that the
truth, as he tells it, be printed. He has
been misquoted, and desires the truth to
be known.
* * *
Col. F. A. Olds, of Raleigb, who has
been here tor two days visiting his step
daughter, Mrs. R. E L. Bunch, leaves
to-night for Raleigh. Col. Olds is North
Carolina correspondent for the Washing
ton Evening Star and is talking over the
North Carolina situation with its editor.
Greensboro Wins the Team Shoot.
Special to the News and Observer.
Greensboro, N. 0., April 6
In the team shoot here between the
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
aid Greensboro, each team shot at 250
bine rocks. Greensboro broke 178, Char
lotte 160 and the University of North
Carolina 144. A high wind was blow
ing at the time, and it was hard to make
a good score.
Cashier Grady Stole $20,000.
Lancaster, Pa., April 6.— Thomas M.
Grady, tor many years cashier of the
First National Bank of Marietta, Pa., is
a defaulter for a large amount, estimat
ed at about admits his
guilt and says he lost the money in
stocks. He nad been connected with
the bank for 20 years.
Magruder Appointed Teller.
Washington, April 6. —Comptroller
Eckels to day appointed C. C. Magruder,
of Indiana, former chief of division in
the third auditor’s office, teller in the
Comptroller’s office at $2,000 per annum,
vice Major Amos Webster, removed.
Major Webster was on Gen. Grant’s
staff during the war and was at one
time chief clerk of the Treasury Depart
ment. His resignation was requested
some time ago.
Oscar Wilde and Taylor in Unstodv.
London, April 6. —Oscar Wilde’s
friend, Taylor, was arrested and taken
to the Bow street police station this
morning.
Oscar Wilde was arraigned before a
magistrate this morning and charged
with inciting young men to commit a
foul crime and also with having actually
committed the crime himself.
Taylor was also placed in the prison
er’s dock charged with being accessory
to Wilde’s crimes.
Hilly Mahone Goes Under.
Petersburg, Vh., April 6. —ln the of
fice of the clerk ot the corporation court
of this city there has been recorded a
deed of trust from Gen. Win. Mahone
to Judge Edmund Waddell, Jr., of Rich
mond, as trustee, conveying to said
trustee certain property in this city be
longing to Gen. Mahone. Among other
property conveyed by the deed is the
r< sidence and* property on Market
street, at present occupied by Gen. Ma
hone and family, including all the per
sonal property and household and kireh
en furniture of every description. This
deed is made to secure certain notes
amounting to about SBO,OOO.
Yr sterday’s Baseball Scores.
At Lynchburg - Lynchburg 3, Balti
more 13. Batteries: McKema, Kagey
and Ferguson; Hofftr, Esper and Rob
inson.
At Riohun nd Richmond 5, Boston 15.
Batteries: Nichols, Srivetts and Gan
zell; Weils, Knorr and Tanrmhill.
At Danville —Danville 1, Pittsburg 6.
Batteries: I ugden and Hawley; Jordan
and Mack.
At Petersburg—Petersburg 2, Phila
delphia 11. Batteries: Packard, Haines,
Hayder and McClung; Taylor and Buck
ley.
At Portsmouth-Portsmouth 4, Lan
caster 8. Batteries: Callahan, Yeader
and Antlner; Hollman, Mulligan and
Vetter.
At Norfolk—Norfolk 7, Washington
13. Batteries: Bernard and O’Hagan;
Anderson and Ilasamer.
At New York--New York 7, Yale 5.
Batteries: Meekin, Rusie, Gorman,
Farrell, Sehriver and Wilson; Carter,
Trudeau and Greenway.
At Lynchburg—Roanoke 0, Phila
delphia 6. Batteries: Fisher, Lloyd
and Clark; McGill and Clements.
RALEIGH, N. C., SUNDAY. APRIL 7, 1895.
SOUTHERN--SEABOARD
“BOYCOTT** RATES l SSED
IIEE IRE INTER-STATE COM
MERCE COMMISSION.
SOUTHERN WANTS TO CUT RATES.
It 3lust Do This to Meet the Cut of
the Seaboard at Competitive Points.
Richmond Chamber of Commerce
Takes a Hand In the Fight, and
Wants Rates Arranged so as to Give
Richmond a Slice of Traffic—The
Commission Takes the Matter Under
Consideration.
Washington, D. C., April 6.—Com
missioners Morris m, Knapp, Volseyand
Clements, of the Inter State Commerce
Commission, gave a hearing this morn
ing on the application of the Southern
Railway Company to charge less for lon
ger than for shorter distances for the
transportation of passengers in order to
meet the cut rate established in passen
ger traffic by the Seaboard Air Line.
Trustee Ryan appeared for the Southern
Company and L. E. G. Watts for the
other line. A. S. Goodman represented
the Richmond Chamber of Commerce
and a number of the officials of both
railways were in attendance.
Sol II ;as, assistant to the president of
the Southern, was the first witness
examined by Mr. Ryan. He explained
how the Seaboard Air Line had cut its
rates, giving byway of illustration the
following examples: The rate under the
old tariff between Richmond and At
lanta via Weldon, was sls 50, while un
der rhe new tariff it is $9 80. Under
the new tariff the rates between Rich
mond and Charlotte, Southern Pines.
Sanford, Raleigh, Henderson, Durham,
Warren Plains and Weldon, all in North
Caro in », being less m.der iha old tariff
thau $9 80, are a lowed to remain un
changed, wh”e the rates to and from
Abbeville, Greenwood and Clinton, all
in South Carolina, being under the old
t riff more than $9 80, are reduced to
exactly that sum.
Exammed by Mr. Walts, Mr. Haas said
he was positive that the Southern Co.
had not asked the Pennsylvania Rail
road not to join the Air Line in dispos
ing of it’s rickets. Mr. Haas said ho
could not say that the cau'e of t he South
ern's petition was that the air line had
taken from it the bulk of traffic between
competitive points. He told Mr. Watts
that he had understood that the Air
Line people had stated that they could
afford to carry passengers from New
York to Portsmouth, Va., for 50c. if it
would make the Southern lose a doi:. \
A number ot posters of the Air Line,
one heavily labelled “Boycott” were
shown by Mr. Watts, and Mr. Haas said
the Southern Company never resorted to
such improper methods of advertising.
He denied emphatically that any South
ern tickets had been sold with his knowl
edge tr. rough scalpers.
W. A. Turk, general passenger agent
of the Southern, also denied that Lis
road had ever asked the Pennsylvania
not to take charge of Scab >ard Air Line
tickets
T. J Anderson, general passenger
agent of the Seaboard, testified that the
Pennsylvania road bad withdrawn the
Seabor.rd tickets from sale, aud in self
defense the Seaboard was obliged to pur
chase tickets from the Pennsylvania in
New York from that point to Weldou,
and to reduce the rates from Weldon to
Atlanta, selling the Pennsylvania tickets
and its own ticket as one through ticket.
The tickets were purchased regularly
and openly and not through scalpers.
Southern tickets, he said, wer
tor tale in Atlanta by scalpers. These
tickets were sold originally in Memphis
for a through trip to Washington from
that point and were disposed of in At
lanta by the holders. The p urchaser of
the tcaiptr ticket had his purchase
honored by the Southern road from At
lauta to Washington. Mr. Ryan for the
Southern denied that this statement wan
fair; the most of his tickets were sold in
Atlanta by scalpers and not by the South
ern road. The witness said that General
Passenger Agent Wood of the Peunsyl
vania n.fu ed to allow' tiekots over the
Seaboard from Washington South io
be sold jU New York in connection
with Pennsylvania railroad tickets but
such an arrangement was in effect with
reference to Southern tickets from
Washington. It was this discrimination
that partly brought about the cut rates
established by the Seaboard, and Mr.
Watts interjected that this was the gist
of the w hole controversy. The Louisville
and Nashville road, said Mr. Andersou,
had also declined to enter iuto such au
arrangement with the Seaboard on the
ground that it would injure its friendly
relations with the Southern. A recess
was taken.
When the commission reconvened,
Mr. Anderson was cross-examined by
Mr. Ryan. Mr. Anderson produced a
ticket trom New York to New Orleans
via the Pennsylvania Railroad, Southern
and other roads, and claimed that as a
piece of evidence it showed that South
era Railway tickets were manipulated
through scalpers.
Mr. Anderson said he did not know
why the Seaboard tickets bad been with
drawn from sale in Pennsylvania offices,
but from a long correspondence with
General Passenger Agent Wood, of the
Pennsylvania, the only reason he could
discern was that he (the witness) had
not answered Mr. Wood’s telegrams
promptly. He denied that he had re
cently taken a trip to place Seaboard
tickets with scalpers in Memphis, Mont
gomery, Birmingham, New Orleans and
Chattanooga, but Mr. Newman, of his
j road, had placed orders for tickets with
i scalpers. Commissions were paid these
scalpers.
K. H. (foodmar, Secretary es the
! Richmond Chamber of Commerce, pre
sented resolutions of the Chamber re
i questing that the application of the
Southern Company be refused, and that
the Commission issue an order to the
Seaboard to adjust all its passenger rates
on a reasonable basis.
Mr. Haas w'as re called and questioned
by Commissioner Morrison as to what
good it would do the Southern road if
it was allowed to cut its rates. He w r ou!d
| not put him-elf cn record as to what
| rate the Southern would make if it were
j allowed to cut. It was necessary in
| self-defense for ihe Southern to reduce
, rales to keep the Seaboard from getting
its business away, ft would be no use
j for thy Southern to cut its rates after it
had lost its patronage.
In a brier argumeni Mr. Watts ad
j nutted frankly that the cut rate was
j established by the Seaboard as a retalia
! tiou against the Southern road because
| the f armer had been forced out of the
! Southern Steamship and Railway Asso-
I ciainr, and thus lost much of its freight
business
This concluded the case aud the mat
ter was taken under advisement by the
commission.
WAKE FOREST VS. TRINITY.
A Third Easy Victory for the Home
Team hy Score of' 11 to 5.
1 Special to the NeWs and Observer.
Wake Forest, N. C., April 6.
Manager Carpenter brought out his
team on the local freight this morning.
Game was called at 11 o’clock A good
crowd greeted the contesting nines at
the Athletic Park, but there was little
excitement over the possibie i.-sae, for
the record of their two previous games
had preceded them. The playing was
not very spirited on either side.. The
three brilliant plajs were a home run by
Riley in the second inning, a catch by
Curtis in centre field, aud one by Daniel
in centre field. Wynne made a safe hit
every lime he batted. Smith pitched
the first half, Taylor the second. Mr.
Sol. P. Holding, of Wake Forest, um
pired the game with satisfaction to both
sides.
I give below positions and the score
by iudiugs :
wake forest. trinity.
Kimbad, Id, Wade ss
Daniel, cf, Andrews 2b
Honeycutt, c, Keefer, c
Stafford, 2b, Lanier, lb
| WynCe, if, and ss, norner, p
Holding, 3b, Riley, if
Taylor, ss. and p, Jones, 3 j
Smith, p. aud lr, Curtis, cf
Fenner, rt, Caldwell, If
Wake Forest, 2030 03 2 4 0-14
Trinity, 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3-5
After dinner the young gentlemen
from Trinity were escorted through the
College buildings. They left for home
on the afternoon mad. We shall be
glad to see them here again.
President Taylor and Prof. Poteat at
tended the meeting of the Warren
Union at Macon the closing days of last
week. Prof. Poteal gave his lecture on
‘ the Thirty Silent \ r ears” in the Baptist
church at Warrenton Sunday morning,
March 31st. At the same time Dr. Tay
lor preached at Macon.
The April meeting of the Wake Forest
Scientific Society was held in the chemi
cal lecture room Tuesday evening last,
Vice-President Lanneau in the chair.
Prof. C. E Brewer gave a report on the
discovery and characteristics of the new
element (?) Argon in the atmosphere.
Prof. Poteat followed in a paper on
“Animal Fictions in Literature and Cur
rent Popular Conception.” The meet ing
was well attended.
Lust night the Literary Club, meeting
at the residence of Prof. Carlyle, studied
two of the longer of Keats’ poems “The
Agues” and “Hypeiiou ”
Tickets have been distributed an
nouncing the marriage here, April 25th,
pf Mr. Oiho K Holding and Miss Han
nah Lanneau
Mrs. James M. BrinsoD, of Colorado
Springs, Colorado, arrived last night.
She is on a visit to her mother, Mrs.
Carter.
Mr. John A. Oates, who is editor of
the North Carolina Baptist, of Fayette
ville, and who is applying lor his degree
from the College iu June next, was here
yesterday and to day standing two ex
aminations.
1 noticed at the Athletic Park to-day
Mts rs. S. Mclntyre, of Louisburg, Bruce
White, of Franklmton, aud J. C. Clifford,
of Wakefield.
Mrs. Cox, of Haywood county is visi
ting her daughter, Mrs.(Lanneau. I‘rof.
Lanneau has been confined to h : s room
two days past by a severe cold.
American Starch Works Burned.
Columbus, Ind., April o. — The Ameri
can Starch Works, one of the largest
plaats in the country, its buildings cov
ering more than ten acres, burned this
morniDg. The fire originated in the dry
room on the fourth floor. In fifty min
utes from the time fire was discovered
the building was a wreck. Loss, $200,-
000;insurance, $85,000.
1,000 More Troops Landed] in "Cuba.
Havana, April 0, (via Key West,
Fla —One thousand additional troops
arrived via steamer Santander from
Cadiz last night, making 12,000 Spanish
troops landed. Martinez Campos will
laud at Santiago upou his arrival, as
that is near the seat of the present
trouble. There is no defiuite news here
of the rumored estrangements iu the in
terior.
Barrato, the notorious bandit, was
garroted here this morning.
TO SACK THE TEMPLE
SHAFFER’S CHARTERt ONTAI'S
i A SNEAK SECTION***f AXING;
& CHURCHES AND CHARITIES.
ORGY OF THE MONEY CHANGERS.
The Feast of the Belshazzars to he
Paid for by Levy on the House of
God. —Views of Prominent Raleigh.
ites on the Monstrous Conception,—
31 r. Gray Hopes the Statue on the
Monument Will Escape Poll-tax.—
Citizens Were not Permitted to Rend
„ the Itiil and W ere Allowed Only J 5
Minutes to Discuss it—A Dastardly
and Dark Lantern Disgrace.
To the brow of the Honorable A W.
Shaffer, ot this city, there will be added,
if possible, another rhododendron when
the public shall have waked to the la
tent energies of section 37 of his Fusion
Charter for our capital. The section
was printed yesterday in the midst of
editorial comment, and was discovered
by Mr. Holding at the meeting of the
Board of Aldermen Friday n'ght look
ing as innocent as the heels of a nar
row backed mule, with apologies to the
mule. Here it is :
“Section 37. That all real and per
sonal property, whether held and owned
by churches, religious organizations or
societies, schools, benevolent organiza
tions or otherwise, shall be taxed as
other real aud personal property is taxed
by this charter.” g ;
When this charter was presented to the
statesmen lately assembled there was a
meeting of the committee having it in
charge, at which meeting there were
three committeemen present, according
to the statement of Mr. Charles Johnson
given below. They were Senators Rice,
Norris and Forbes.
Several gentlemen of this city came
to the from, self-appointed, for the gen
eral good, and presented themselves to
the meeting of the segmentary three for
the purpose of discussing the merits of
the proposed charter. They were given 15
minutes for discus-ion ami the reading ol
the bill was forbidden then. They, there
fore, were unable to read it and "did not
know its contents when pas ed. But
there were contents to it, a part of
which is section 37, which speaks for its
elf. They would tax the very tomb
stones of our cemeteries for the purpose
of Daving the $6,000 extra expend of
their subordinates during the session of
the Assembly. But the interviews on the
subject will speak lor themselves
gotten partly from some of the geu
tlemen who weut before the
committee, Mr. Shaffer was not
one of these men, but here is what he
as the fountain source gave forth to me:
Said Mr. Shaffer, “1 copied that section
word for word from the city charter in
force before with my own hand. The
intent was to tax church property other
thau that used for church purposes.”
The seraphic iuteut of Mr. Shaffer wis
equaled only by that of the Ambrosial
Uielmau who left off “his intent” much
as was omitted the “intent” of the ex
postmaster of Raleigh.
in stating the ease Mr. J. N. Holding
said: “The Constitution provides that
the'Legislature may exempt from taxa
tion property of churches, schools, be
nevolent organizations, etc. Under this
prov ision the property of such churches
and other organizations had not been
taxed by the city nor by the State and
county. The present charter, however,
makes it mandatory on the part of the
city government to levy the taxes. I
didn’t know it was there until last night
at the meeting of the Board of Alder
men, when I was surprised to discover it,
I think it a deliberate strike at the moral
aud educatioual status of the coimnnuby.
The tax rate being $1 23 to the SIOO, ttn-
Tabernacle, if it were assessed at $20,-
000, would have to pay $246. The Y\ M.
C. A. will have to pay on furniture, fixt
ures and books. Taxes will have to be
collected out of the Catholic oeme cry
aud out of so much of Oak wood as is
within the eiiy limits. Then com s Rex
hospital, and all the churches. It is
needless to mention more. The First Bap
tist Church, valued at between $40,000
aud $50,000 will have to pay over SSOO.
Then come the Masonic frat rnities, etc.
It strikes at the foundation of morality
because these are fashioned out of public
contributions and aie for the public go< d
solely.”
“We were told,” said Mr. Alf A.
Thompson, “when we appeared before
the committee, that it was simply a
change of election of the mayor by ihe
people and a change of the ward lines.
We were imposed upou and 1 never read
the bill. We were figuring the exun
sion of the city limits. I think it an
outrage, All the churches having been
exempted made them equal before.”
Mr. Charles Johnson reiterated what
had been said by Mr. Thompson, and
added riiat “the bill was rushed through,
we having been allowed ouly fifteen min
utes to discuss it, and were not allowed
to read the bill before the committee,
three only of whom were pre.-eut,
namely : Rice, Norris and Forbes. As
I am a candidate for the Board of Al
dermen, 1 will say right here that even
if elected, 1 would resign before I would
ever vote to tax churches.”
j|Mr. It. T. Gray, being asked h ; s views,
said:
“As, no doffit, many other eiriz -us of
Raleigh do, 1 reproach myself for l.ot
examining the bill to amend the charter
of the city when it was on its parage.
I was tcld that the only material changes
made in the existing charter were in ic
sjrect to the aidermanic divisions and
the mode of electing certain officers of the
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
j city. If attention had been called and
j objection raised to the provision taxing
! religious and benevolent organizations,
I have no idea that the Fusion Legisla
; ture, reckless as it was, would have re
j tained the obnoxious section.
The tax is a monstrous and
unheard of imposition upon the
j organizations affected by it. I do noj
| believe that property held by such or
j ganizatious in excess of their actual
I needs, that is, held for investment and
accumulation of profits, should be ex
j emptfrom taxation; but property actu
! ally set apart and exclusively used for
religious, charitable and educational
purposes and from which no profit is de
i rived, ought not to be taxed. The Rev
i enue Acts of 1887 aud subsequent years
; made this distinction clearly, and the
! Constitution, by empowering the General
I Assembly to exempt property held for
i such purposes, recognized the propriety
' of so doing.
The idea of taxing John l’ullen’s
j Church, Rex Hospital, the “Stannie
Wynne Fund,” the little accumulations
of the “Kings Daughters” and of the
various Parsonage Aid and Missionary
| Societies, the silver communion services,
baptismal fonts and organs, Sunday
| school libraries, and even Oak wood
i cemetery association. There will be a
tax, I suppose, even upon the beautiful
monument which the Ladies Memorial
| Association has ereoted at the head of
Hillsboro street but there is some conso
lation in believing that the three figures
of Confederate soldiers thereon will bo
exempt from poll tax.”
Rev. J. N. Cole being asked his opin
ion, said : “Church property used for
j the worship of God and for the spiritual
good of men is a contribution by Chris
tian people to the good of theii race,
and to the glory of God, and is without
pecuniary gain to them, and, therefore,
from a Christian standpoint, it ought not
to be taxed. Wifen churches hold
property from which they derive an in
come, it may be right to tax it.”
Said Cashier Jerman: “I don’t be
lieve church property should be taxed,
but all schools except free schools should
: ! be taxed.”
Stalwart Republican, John Nichols,said
“I did not know it was in there; I never
read the bill, 1 was not in sympathy
with the movement. I think they’ll
have to change it. I don't think you’ll
i get a Board in Raleigh that will tax the
| churches. What's mandatory is not
always obeyed.”
Mr. Ernest Haywood said “it was a
scramble to get what we could. The
police-board and city extension were bug-
I bvarw, city meaning a taxation
of all our factories, the Peace Institute
and Bt. Mary’s.”
President BrowD, of the Citizens’ Na
tional Bank, said he had thought the tax
ing power spoken of was discretionary
and not mandatory. It ought,however, in
no ease ever to be enforced— unless
somebody compels them to do it at the
“point of the bayonet,” added Mr.
Brown with a smile.
“In my opinion,” said Mr. John B.
Kenny, “any government which would
tax churches, schools, or benevolent so
cieties, is not a fit government for re
spectable people to live under. The
promoters, or liiose who favor such a
bill, should be tarred and feathered, and
run out of the community. Frank
Stronach’s drum corps might be em
ployed to enliven thy occasion of their
exit.”
It maybe added that, of course, there
is no such monstrous provision iu the old
charter from which Mr. Shaffer said he
: copied this section of his. and it may*
not be time ill spes.t for Mr. Shaffer to
find out who made the variation, the
! “ilileruan omission” which threatens to
cause statesman Shaffer to wish ho had
never- gone into the charter business*
BEGINNING OF HOLY WEEK.
Fa lin Sunday Services Today.
Today is Palm Sunday, the beginning
of Holy Week. It commemorates the
Saviour’s entry iuto Jerusalem o i his
last eventful journey when the multi
tude received him with loud hosannas
and threw palm branches in his path
way. This is the last week iu Lent and
the* lessons and sermons for each day
are based upon the accounts of the tr ial,
condemnation and death of the Sa
viour given in the four gospels.
Thursday commemorates the institution
of the Lord’s Supper. In Roman Catholic
churches the services of the Tenebrae
are observed, and include the chanting
of Psa’ms and the singing of the lamen
tations of Jeremiah. Good Friday is the
great, last of the Chuich on account of
the tremendous event ia the history of
the world which it commemorates. Al
tars are di aped in purple or black, and
it is the ody day iu the year upon which
Mass in the Reman Catholic churches or
the Holy Eucharist in advanced Episco
pal churches is not celebrated. It is the
custom in many churches to have a ser
vice lasting during the hours of the Sa
viour’s passion, with meditations upon
His seven hut. words of sayings.
To Futertala Ihe Mill Men.
Special to tin New* and Observer.
Wei.don, N. C., April 6.
Our citizens met in the town hall last
night for the purpose of perfecting ar
rangements to entettaiu the New Eng
land mill men who will arrive here
Monday evening. Messrs T. L Kmry
and Paul Garrett were appointed a com
mittee to meet them in Raleigh and ex
tent to them in behalf of the town an
iuvitation to remain with us a while and
inspect our Jwater power which is sec
ond to none in North Carolina. Mr. J.
T. Evans has a water power within the
corporate limits which *if developed
would be very valuable.
Our citizens will do all in tl eir power
to make their stay pleasant.