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A TORRENT OF TEE BEST
SENTIMENT IN THE STATE
Mighty Plea Before Committee for Temper
ance Legislation.
ONE VOICE AGAINST IT'
A Woman’s Voice Raised for the Home —County
After County Heard From—Mr. Bailey’s
Eloquent Speech—Sledge Hammer
Blows by Mr. McCall.
The Senate chamber was crowded yes
terday with the best people in North
Carolina.
There were representative men from
all parts of the State. They belonged to
all professions, and were all there for one
purpose, temperance legislation.
Some of the best women in North Caro
lina were there too on the same noble
errand, and one of them. Mrs. M- C.
Woody, of Guilford College, made a plea
that could not fail to touch the heart and
appeal to the reason of every one pres
ent.
These people were not here to support
the London bill, the Watts bill, the Smith
bill, or any other particular bill. They
were here to show why the liquor traffic
should be restricted and repudiated in
North Carolina, and to ask for some leg
islation that would accomplish that end.
It was a wonderful meeting, and its
effect can but be far-reaching.
From county after county, as represen
tative men were called upon by Mr. J.
William Bailey, the manager of the
movement, came clarion calls, ringing out
with the strength and tone that come of
substantial backing.
Among them was the fine note of the
woman's voice, pleading for the home, the
oldest of all institutions and the founda
tion stone of all government.
One voice alone was lifted against this
mighty torrent of the best sentiment in
the State, and that was the voice of a
man w-ho said he was the paid attorney
of the saloon men, and who said that he
considered the selling of liquor in country
districts an unmitigated evil.
That was Mr. T. C. Guthrie, of Char
lotte. At times during his speech when
he was queried as to some of his argu
ments, the applause for the temperance
side was so prolonged that he had to wait
before he could resume.
Once he remarked sarcastically, dur
ing an unusually long round of laugh
ter and hand-clapping: “Go on. Don't
stop. Don’t mind me in the least.”
Another time he sa: “I never got so
much applause before in my life.” That
redoubled the laughter.
It was shortly after 3 o'clock when Sen
ator Vann, chairman of the Joint Com
mittee on Propositions and Grievances,
called the committee to order.
First, by reqest of Mr. J. W. Bailey,
Mr. J. M. Rhodes, of Littleton,
for the North Carolina Conference,
numbering 180 ministers and 67,000 mem
bers. He said they had decided to sup
jK>rt the London bill, and their request
was that that bill should be passed just
as it was. He stated that Senator Lamb
had their memorial.
Senator Lamb then read from the me
morial and stated that it called for ab
solute prohibition. The committee of the
Conference, he said, had since decided
to accept the London bill.
Rev. S. B- Turrentine, of Greensboro,
of the central committee on temperance
of the Western North Carolina Confer
ence, then addressed the committee. He
said he represented 74,799 churoh mem
bers, who felt that the time had come
when they should be relieved of the
weight of the liquor traffic, which, as well
as drunkenness, was a fearful burden
upon the people.
Then Rev. M. L. Kesler. of Scotland
Neck, representing the Baptists of the
State, spoke for his people- There were
back of him, he said, 173,000 white Bap
tists, and 1,000 preachers. They belonged
to the rank and file of the cole, who al
ways did love liberty- He brought the
message asking for temperance legisla
tion. There was no whining sentiment in
this- The people were voters.
Dr. A. J. McKelway. of Charlotte, for
the Presbyterians of North Carolina,
raid he had tested the sentiment of his
people, and this movement had recom
mended itself to them. He believed he
cculd say without fear of contradiction
that an overwhelming majority of these
people were heartily in favor of the Lon
don bill. He recalled the fight four years
ago, and said the people of Mecklenburg
ne\er resigned an opinion, when once
the., made up their minds. There were
3,r.(.0 names on the petition then, and still
favored the movement now, not on
ly for Charlotte.' but the whole State.
Mrs. M. C. Woody, of Guilford Col
lege, said she belonged to the oldest
church in North Carolina, but she did not
come to represent that. She came to rep
resent the oldest institution in the world
the home. (Applause). She was not ac
customed to speaking before tribunals of
this kind. The women of the State were
used to pleading before a very different
kind of court, and in every home women
were praying that tW|f London bill might
bo adopted.
The two oldest institutions In the coun
try, the home and the Sabbath, were be
ing intruded on. What did it mean?
What had come over our State? Why
The News andObserv ~
was is that half of the distilleries in the
whole country were crowded into this
State?
The distilleries were fast ruining the
country districts. What if they were un
der government control? What is the
government but the minister of the home.
The home is the basis of it all.
Mr. T. F- McVey, of the Pleasant Hill
Temperance Society, Alamance county,
the oldest temperance society in the
country, spoke next. He said he had been
delegated to say they put their full and
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EBSCIIBG STATION AT HATTER AS.
The De Forest Wirelese Telegraph Company
Begins the Work.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Beaufort, N. C., Jan. 28.—A station is
being erected at Cape Hatteras by the
American De Forest Wireless Telegraph
Company. G- H. Barbour, executive en
gineer, left here this morning for that
point with a cargo of building material
and the work is to be pushed to an early
completion. The tower is to be 200 feet
high.
The station is to be used for ship busi
ness and is one of a number of stations
along the Atlantic seacoast that are being
established by this company, which is
the strongest rival the Marconi system
has- The De Forest people have stations
at Black Island, six stations in and
around New' York and have underway
stations at this oint, Key West, Ha
vana, San Juan, Bermuda. Tests recent
ly given by this company before the na
val board were highly satisfactory and
following in the work of the recent pur
chases by the different departments of
the government speak volumes for the
merit of the system. Advantages contend
ed for the De Forest system. Powers
sending devise, automatic receivers con
tinues working, high speed having a max
imum of fifty-eight words per minute.
The system included sending, receiver,
call and tuning devices, the latter insur
ing secrecy of messages. Hatetras is the
key to the shipping world and is the most
dangerous point on the coast. This sta
tion will be most advantageously located
near the coast.
It is quite probable that Dr. Edward
Muncil, of Brooklyn. N. Y., who is here
prospecting, will establish a sanitarium
on Bogue Sound, near Wildwood, this
county.
Ran Into Open Switch.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Asheville, N. C., Jan. 28.—The grocery
store of M. E. Garren was broken into
and robbed last night. The robbers have
not yet been caught.
The wreck of train No. 11 from Salis
bury, was narrowly avoided last night.
The train was late, ran into an open
switch and was derailed and the pas
sengers shaken up. Fortunately it was
running slowly.
The report is current today in railway
circles that Superintendent Loyall, of lb 3
Asheville division, will succeed General
Superintendent of Eastern Division Sands,
who resigned today.
Engineer Dies of Injuries.
(By the Associated Press.)
Roanoke, Va., Jan. 28.—Engineer A. T.
Spencer died hero today of injuries re
ceived in a collision of the Roanoke and
Southern Division o fthe Norfolk and
Western Railway, last Saturday night,
near Roanoke, when Mr. M. C. Wiley,
another engineer, was instantly killed.
Buried by an Avalanch*,
(By the Associated Press.)
Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 28.—Near
art City today an avalanche tore the
big shaft house of the Quincy mine to
h„Hna E ‘ ght workin « on the shaft were
” . ln the r ains. A large force of
lsworking in the hope of rescuing
some of them ali\fe. b
Alleged Embezzler Captured.
(By the Associated Press )
New Orleans, La., j an . 25.-Detective
George D. Totten, of Somerville, N. J
today captured in this city George Rin
gleman who is said to be wanted in
Somerville for the embezzlement of $2 -
000 from the Central Railroad.
The Torpedo Boat Flotilla,
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 28.—The torpedo boat
flotilla, which took part in the naval
manoeuvers in the West Indies, arrived
at Norfolk today. The fleet consists of
the Decatur, Bagley, Biddle, Stockton
and Thornton.
Washington, Jan. 28. —The House to
day made slow progress wth the Indian
Appropriation Bill, covering only about
eight pages in over four hours. Among
the amendments adopted was one ap
propriating $4,000 in settlement of the
claims of the Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indiajis of North Carolina, against the
United States.
HALKIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSI>A"V MORNING, JANUARY 29.1903
ILL DIVORCEES
MAY RE-MARRK
Senate Passed the Baldwin
Bill on Roll Call.
DISPENSARY ELECTIONS
Senator Woodard’s local Option Plat —Three
Bills Important to Greensboro —fen Hu
man Bodies for Dissectioi. —Edgt-
ccmba Dispensary Bill Today.
The most interesting debate of the ses
sion, the introduction of several bills of
decided importance, a royal welcome to
Senator Griffith of the Thirty-sixth dis
trict, and another avalanche of temper
ance petitions characterized the deliber
ations of the Senate yesterday.
The last desk on the center aisle was
assigned to Senator Griffith of Yancey,
who has just been chosen at a special
election to fill the vacancy caused by the
killing of Senator-elect Wilson. Before
the Senator entered the chamber Door
keeper Batts placed a magnificent bou
quet of roses upon his desk. Senator
Griffith is one of the youngest
members of the Senate. He is a mer
chant and a staunch mountaineer
Democrat, who succeeded in redeeming a
district hitherto Republican by
2,000. When the Senate met Mr.
Webb moved that the oath be adminis
tered to him, but after some discussion
it was decided to defer this until after
12 o’clock since the board of canvassers
of the Thirty-sixth district would meet at
that time- This was done and when Sen
ator Griffith went forward modestly and
took the oath at 12:30 there was a round
of applause.
WOODARD LOCAL OPTION BILL.
Senator Woodard, of Wilson, introduc
ed a bill to amend the present local op
tion act so as to permit “the establish
ment of local dispensaries wherever de
sired by a majority of the qualified voters
in the locality to be affected.” The bill
begins with a preamble reciting that
much legislative time is now harmfully
consumed with local questions and the
Democratic policy is to let the people
decide their local matters, hence this bill
provides that upon a petition of one-third
of the qualified voters of a town, town
ship or county the county commissioners
shall call an election on the Tuesday af
ter the first Monday in June, on years
when the General Assembly meets, and
the qualified voters shall cast ballots
either “dispensary” or “license.” If dis
pensary carries then no liquor license
shall be issued in such territory.
BODIES FOR DISSECTION.
Senator White, of Franklin, introduced
a bill which provides that the professors
of anatomy of the medical schools in
North Carolina shall constitute a State
board for the distribution of dead human
bodies of persons who die in prison and
jails, other bodies required to be buried
at public expense and of those who suf
fer death under law for crime. Those
bodies are to be sent to the colleges ac
cording to the number of students In such
colleges. It exempts the bodies of those
who die in homes for the Aged and In
firm, in insane Asylums, in Soldiers Home
and such bodies as are claimed by rela
tives. A penalty of SIOO to SSOO is pro
vided for failing to carry out this act.
The committee on health unanimously de
cided to report this bill favorably.
DEBATE ON DIVORCE BILL.
Senator Baldwin's bill making it lawful
for all persons divorced for abandonment
to remarry came up as the special or
der. The committee offered an amend
ment that no person should remarry un
til three years after the degree was re
corded. This was adopted and considera
tion was postponed until 12:30. At that
hour Senator Baldwin spoke for the bill.
He began by saying there are two kinds
of divorce, one from bed and board, and
the other from the bonds of matrimony.
The law grants a divorce for abandon
ment but prevents the guilty party from
remarrying. The Legislature had made
abandonment one of the grounds for di
vorce. He had not introduced a divorce
bill and never would, though this bill
had been misunderstood. Ho explained
that this measure was only to remedy an
inequality and prevent the innocent from
having celibacy fixed upon them as a pen
alty. He recited instances where the law
forbidding remarriage had worked a great
hardship. He characterized as absurd a
law which prevents reconciliation, for
since the "woman can remarry and the
man cannot, the woman can marry any
one else except the husband from whom
she was divorced-
Senator London, of Chatham, wanted to
enter his earnest protest against any bill
to loosen the marriage ties. Ho was op
posed to giving the guilty party a right
to remarry.
Senator Woodard, of Wilson, said that
the law regarded marriage merely as a
civic contract. He doubted the consti
tutionality of any act which would dis
solve one party from that contract and
at the same time keep the other bound.
Any civil contract save marriage is brok
en when either party is released. He
could not see anything impolite and un
just in allowing both to remarry. An
absolute divorce to wife ought to mean an
absolute divorce to husband also.
“This bill is a radical departure from
the law of Christian civilization,” de
clared Senator Henderson, of Rowan.
Under the old English law there was no
cause for a divorce that did not exist
prior to the marriage. In fact there was
then no divorce- If certain impediments
existed before the ceremony then the
marriage was afterwards simply declared
nul and void. North Carolina held to
this old law until thirty or forty years
ago, and now the Old North State has
steadily declined, and the effect of this
bill will be to bring this State to the
very lowest depth of degredation of the
marital relation- The bill is in defence
of expressed opinioh and views of every
religious body. Furthermore there is no
reason for this bill, because the guilty
person can now' go to another State and
remarry. However, he asked the Senate
not to let the State stamp such second
marriages with his approval. Mr- Hen
derson then quoted the words of a Metho
dist preacher of Winston-Salem, in which
he regretted that the Senator from For
sythe had Introduced such a bill. Hardly
a preacher can be found in the State who
would not denounce this measure.
“Does the Senator remember the letter
of Rev. Dr. Hufham on this subject?”
asked Senator Woodard. ‘‘There are some
exceptions,” replied Senator Henderson.
“If we pass this bill we may expect a
bill to follow to extend the time of di
vorce for abandonment,” said Mr. Hen
derson. and “for my part,” he continued,
“I think that we ought to go back to the
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LIFT TTBLICKIOE
The Foreign Envoys Cable
Their Governments.
U'ge Prompl Accep'anceof Bowen’s Last Prop
osition in Order That Blockade May
be Raised.
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 28.—The Italian and
British Ambassadors and the German
Charge d'Affaires, at a joint conference
today agreed to cable their governments
urging a prompt acceptance of Mr.
Bowen’s last proposition to enable the
lifting of the Venezuelan blockade at
once. In this cablegram, which was sent
at noon, it was suggested that the con
sideration of the tils of the proposi
tion be postponed <mtil aftVr tile- signing
of the preliminary protocol.
Signor Mayor Dos Planches, the Italian
Ambassador, as the ranking representa
tive of the allies, called on Mr. Bowen
this afternoon and informed him of the
dispatch of the joint cablegram to the
powers, and expressed the hope that it
would expedite the arrival of the final
answer.
Mr. Bowen declines to discuss the de
tails of his plan until the blockade has
been raised. Late this afternoon he gave
out a brief statement of the diplomatic
debt of Venezuela/- and the methods for
its future adjustment. In round numbers
this debt amounted to something over
514.0ft0.000 and consisted of claims which
had been previously adjusted.
Mr. Bowen’s plan provides that thir
teen per cent of the customs receipts of
all the Venezuelan ports shall go toward
the payment of this debt.
From (he highest authority it was
learned tonight that the publication by
the London Foreign Office of the fact
that Great Britain, and not Germany
sought the alliance against Venezuela,
was brought about by representations
from the German Foreign Office. It is
said that Germany had threatened to
publish the diplomatic exchanges between
the Gorman and British Foreign Offices
unless Great Britain immediately should
ered the responsibility for the alliance.
This threat was induced by the anti-
German feeling aroused in the United
States by events in Venezuelan waters.
DEATH OF J. I. SPARKS.
Blood Poison Follows tha Bite of a Toting
Lion.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Winston-Salem, N. C., Jan. 28. —Mr. ,T.
I. Sparks, the wealthy showman, who
was bitten on the arm last week by one
of the young lions he was raising at
Vade Mecum Springs, died at the hospi
tal here this morning from blood poison,
caused by the wounds inflicted. The re
mains were expressed to East Brady, Pa.,
today, where they will be interred. Mr.
Sparks had invested several thousand
dollars in the summer resort at Vado
Mecum Springs, and he had decided to
make it his home and build him an ele
gant residence at this place. His broth
ers ,who have been managing Mr. Sparks’
circus for some time will, with others,
carry out the plans outlined by the de
ceased brother at the Springs.
William Neal, a young negro man, while
resisting arrest today, was shot in the
left leg by Policeman Pratt. It is only
a flesh wound.
Baby Eaten by Bears.
(By the Associated Press.)
Richmond, Va., Jan. 28.—A Bedford
City, Va.. special says:
A few days ago three black bears at
tacked the children of a mountaineer
named Parker, living on the road from
Mono to Arcadia, on (he Janies river,
and killed and ate his two-yearold boby.
Parker’s three children were playing in
the edge of the woods only a few hun
dred yards from the house, when sud
denly the bears made their appearance.
The animals were very bold, and the
two older children rushed madly to the
house, forgetful of the baby. The fath
er and mother rushed to save the little
one, but already '♦ ht ’ bears had torn the
Ik ad from the body of the child and were
greedily devouring it. |
NORTH CAROLINA
TRE .FIRST STATE
To Require Trained Nurses
to be Licensed.
PEIITIONS POURING IN
Smiih Introduces Another Liquor Bill—Act to
Legalize Senatorial Primar)—Discussion
Over Picking Berries or Flowers
on Another’s Land.
No doubt the record was broken in the
House yesterday for petitions on any one
subject.
Member after member would get up and
send in, not single petitions, but great
bunches of petitions.
And they were practically all for tem
perance legislation in one form or
another, many being specifically for the
London bill.
There was one lone and solitary little
one against the London bill.
A feature of the day was the passage of
Mr. Drewry’s bill requiring all trained
nurse 3 to be licensed by the State.
Thus North Carolina has the distinc
tion of being the first State in the Union
to require trained nurses to be exam
ined by a State Board before they are
allowed to practice-
The bill provides that until January
Ist, 1904, nurses shall be eligible for li
cense and registration who are twenty
three years or over, who hold certificates
of training from some incorporated hos
pital or from a State Hospital for the In
sane, or who can furnish proof of four
consecutive years of experience in a hos
ital.
A State Board of Examiners of Trained
Nurses is provided for, consisting of seven
members, three physicians, appointed by
the Governor from a list of seven sub
mitted by the State Medical Society, and
four licensed nurses, members of the
North Carolina State Nurses’ Associa
tion, from a list of nine submitted- This
board is to examine the candidates for
license. It is to be elected l’or three
years.
Representative Smith, of Gates, intro
duced another liquor bill, covering the en
tire question.
An act to legalize the Senatorial pri
mary was introduced by Representative
Offman, of Randolph. It provides that
at every general election prior to the
time to elect a. United States Senator, the
judges shall provide a box for the ballots
for Senatorial candidates- The vote thus
cast shall bo counted in the same manner
as other votes.
Another bill by Mr. Offman requires
every applicant for a teacher’s certificate
in the public schools to furnish to the
county superintendent a certificate of
good moral character signed by at least
five reputable men in the neighborhood.
One of the Republican members, Mr.
Dobson, of Surry, introduced a bill to
prevent birbery at elections, making it a
felony to bribe a voter, instead of a mis
demeanor, as section 54 of the election
law makes it.
About the only discussion of the day
was over a bill by Mr. Daniel, of Vance,
to prevent the picking of berries or flow
ers bn lands of another without consent
of the owner. Judge Graham and Dr.
Riddick fought the bill, in the name of
the poor people, and it was finally lost.
THE DAY IN DETAIL.
Speaker Gattis called the House to or
der at 10:30, and prayer was offered by
Rev- Mr, Croxton, of Monroe.
PETITIONS.
Daughtridge: For temperance legisla
tion.
Daughtridge: For temperance legisla
tion.
Foy: For temperance legislation.
Guion: For temperance legislation.
King: For temperance legislation.
Aiken: From Baptist and Presbyterian
churches of Brevard, asking that no law
he enacted whereby a bar-room may be
established in the town of Brevard.
Shelton: For London bill.
Ricks: For temperance legislation.
Goode: For prohibition in North Caro
lina.
Price of Rockingham: Against London
bill.
Willis: For temperance legislation.
Parker of Wayne: From 7 churches of
Friends for London bill.
Riddick: For temperance legislation.
Daniel of Vance: For temperance leg
islation.
White of Jones: For temperance legis
lation.
Hooker: To forbid distilling on prohi
bitive territory in North Carolina.
Hunter: For temperance legislation.
Deeper: To prohibit manufacture and
sale of liquor within 2 miles of all church
es and schools in Cherryville township,
Gaston county.
Deeper: For temperance legislation.
Ricks: For London bill.
Mcßae: For London bill.
Blount: For temperance legislation.
Hughes: For temperance legislation.
Newland: From women of Brevard
that no liquor be sold within corporate
limits of town-
Newland: For temperance legislation.
Williams: For temperance legislation.
Duncan: For temperance legislation-
Kinsland: For temperance legislation.
Newland: From citizens of Wilkes for
a Teachers’ Training School in Western
North Carolina.
Humphrey: For the repeal of certain
taxes in Rockingham county.
Craige: For child labor law.
Price of Stanly: For temperance legis
lation.
White of Halifax: For temperance leg
islation.
Vann: For temperance legislation.
Drewry: For temperance legislation.
Davidson: For temperance legislation.
Fuller: Eighteen petitions from Dur
ham for temperance legislation.
Abell: For temperance legislation.
Davidson: For appointment of J. E.
Gregory as additional Justice of the
Peace in township No. 13, Madison coun
ty.
McNeill: For London bill-
McNeill: For London bill-
Roberson: For temperance legislation.
Roberson For temperance legislation.
Britt: For temperance legislation.
Newland: To place Phillip Walsh on
pension roll.
Luther: For temperance legislation.
Self: Three petitions for temperance
legislation.
Carlton: For temperance legislation.
Erwin: For temperance legislation.
Self: For temperance legislation.
BILLS REPORTED FAVORABLY.
For relief of sheriffs and tax collec
tors.
To prescribe method of restoring estates
to lunatics, idiots and inebriates-
To protect fish in Elkin River, Wa
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MEN FLUMWARD
One Blown Sixty Feet Into
the Air.
Parts of Boiler W« ighing a Ton or More Hurkd
Over Buildings a Thousand Feet From
Fxplosion.
(By the Associated Press.)
Anniston, Ala., Jan. 28.—A large boiler
in the malleable foundry of the South
ern Car and Foundry Company blew up
today, killing six persons and injuring
probably twenty others, several of whom
will die.
The dead:
THOMAS BIRCH, pipe fitter.
IKE HARDY, core maker.
J. A. FORTE, boiler maker.
THREE COLORED MEN.
The fatally injured arc:
White, W. H. Lewis, helper; Clyde
Price; colored, Anthony McKinney, C.
F. Hall.
Tom Birch was on top of the engine
adjusting the piping when the accident
occurred and was blown sixty feet into
the air. J. A. Forte, the boiler maker,
was blown to the top of a neighboring
shed and instantly killed. Ike Hardy
was hit by a flying piece of the boiler
while seventy feet away and instantly
killed.
Parts of the boiler weighing a ton or
more were blown over buildings a thou
sand feet from the place of the explo
sion. The cause of t.he explosion fs not
known.
Increase of Judges’ Salaries.
(Special to News and- Observer.)
Greensboro, N. C., Jan. 2S. —The Uni
ted States Senate bill, which the House
passed yesterday, increases Judge Boyd’s
salary and that of all other district
judges from five thousand to six thous
and dollars.
Rev. T. J. Ogburn, mission secretary
for the Methodist Protestant church, has
returned from a trip to Ohio and other
Western and Central States in the in
terest of the cause of missions in his
church.
A large committee of citizens went
from here to Raleigh today to work for
the London bill. In the party w-cre C.
H. Ireland, Dr. S. B. Turrentine, J. N.
Lcngert, Dr. J. E. Brooks, R.ev. J. H.
Rich, T. C. Hoyle, A. W. Cooke, William
Love, and D. W. Cochran. Messrs. A.
M. Scales and J. Y. Joyner, who were
already in Raleigh, xvere also appointed
last night on the Greensboro commit
tee to work in behalf of the bill men
tioned. The following Avere appointed as
a permanent committee to raise money
and do other work necessary to keeping
up a stiff fight from this section for moro
stringent legislation against liquor: C.
H. Ireland. J. M. Hendrix. E. P. Whar
ton. A. W. Cooke, G. A. Grimosley.
Eugene West and John R. Stew r art,
prominent saloon-keepers, went to Ral
eigh today io take a hand in the fight
against liquor legislation.
MEMORALIZ3 LEGISLATURE-
Presiding Elders and Eoard of Missions Ask
for Passage of London Bill.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Wilson, N. C., Jan. 28.—The Presiding-
Elders and Board of Missions of the
North Carolina Conference, are now in-a
mid year meeting at Wilson. This morn- j
ing they passed the following resolution: i
“The Presiding Elders, who have sup
ervision of the work of the Methodist
Episcopal church. South, in the eastern
half of North Carolina, and the Board,
of Missions, who have care of the Home ‘
Mission w'ork in the same territory, now
in joint session in Wilson, N. C., having
found that one of the chief, if not th n
chief obstacle to all social, moral and
religious advance in this State is th»‘
whiskey traffic, memorialize the General
Assembly of the State of North Carolina
to enact the bill now pending, introduced
Into the Senate by Senator London.”
The Senatorial Situation.
There is no change in the Senatorial I
situation, and no one is able to make
any predictions. The caucus will meet
again tonight. i
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PRICK FlVfc CK'TS.
BEVtKE BUMPS
INTO BETS' NEST
Rawlins Refers to Cruelties
in the Philippines.
BEVERIDGE TAKES IT UP
Carmack Leaps In o the Ring, Characterizing
the Charge That Democrats Had As
saiUd the Army as the Meanest
and Dirtiest Made.
(By the Associated Tress.)
Washington. D. C.. Jan. 28.—A .sharp
debate was precipitated in the Senate to
day when Mr. Rawlins called up his.
re, I Solution offered yesterday, directing
the Secretary of War to furnish the
Senate the proceedings of a number of
courts martial in the Philippines. In the
course of his remarks Mr. Rawlins re
ferred to the dispatch of Father Augus
tine and said he was murdered in cold
blood. This aroused the ire of Mr. Bev
eridge, who demanded specifically to
know who had committed the cold blood
ed murder. Mr. Carmack entered the
debate and characterized the charge,
which, he said, repeatedly had been made,
that the Democrats were assailing the
army as the “meanest and dirtiest” of
any that had been made against that
party.
Mr. Rawlins said he had not specifi
cally charged any person with having
committed cold blooded murder but his
statement was based on affidavits on file
in the War Department. it is the old
charge," said he, “that we have called
attention to tortures and thereby have
been arraingning the American army. It
is a false and infamous charge and I
will cram it down the teeth of the men
who have falsely given it utterance. T
brand the statement as Infamous if not
cowardly. It is simply an attempt to put
me in a false position which I will not
occupy.”
“If that is the best explanation the
Senator can give,” remaked Mr. Bever
idge, “for his remarkable language here
I think the best friend the SenaToY; has
would advise him to accept Vho alteray.-
tivo of silence.” \
Mr. Hoar interrupted and asked if it
was fair to impute to anybody a desire
to attack the American armv when the
government of the United States itself
ihrough its military authority has made
such charges.
Mr. Carmack characterized the charge
that the Democrats were assailing the
army as the “meanest and dirtiest” of
all that had been made. “It has been
the very vermin.” he said, “of this de
bate and I am a little surprised to find
it crawling in the hair of the honorable
Senator from Indiana.
“Jake Smith is no more the American
army than the Senator from Indiana is
the American Senate and not half as
much as he thinks he is.”
Whoever made the charge, he said,
consciously took a falsehood upon his
lips when he spoke it. He declared tha*
the Senate Committee on the Philippine,
had refused to investigate the facts of
the murder of Father Augustine. There
had been a policy of suppression, he as
serted, and in the case of one witness
who, lie said, had testified falsely before
the committee he had been allowed to go
unpunished. He insisted that whatever
action had been taken by the President
and War Department had been because
they were driven to it by the minority
of the Senate.and that even then no
single fact was brought to light.
Replying, Mr. Beveridge said Mr. Car
mack had made his charge because the
investigation did not result as he (Car
mack) had hoped it would.
Mr. Carmack again reverted to the in
vestigation by the Committee on the
Philippines as to the conduct ot the
army in the Philippines, and said that
it occupies but four days, o? seven hours
each, “although the Secretary of War
with his usual loose and lavish unveraci
ty had said it occupied five months.
Mr. Proctor defended Captain Cor
nelius M. Brownell, who is charged Ip the
Rawlins resolution with being responsi
ble for the death of Father Augustine.
Mr. Proctor declared that Father
Augustine was the head and front of the
insurrection in his district. From his
standing in the church, he said, Father
Augustine was able to divert contrary
to the canons of the church, its revenues
from their legitimate purpose and use
them to further the insurrection.
Mr. Proctor replying to Mr. Tillman,
said that Captain Brownell had been
mustered out of service and that the
acting advocate general had held
, that he could not now be court martin led.
I Mr. Tiliuan interrupted and said if Cap
tain Brownell is innocent of murder he
might not be able to prove It, but that
those who desired to do so should be al
lowed to produce evidence showing that
he is not innocent.
I Mr. Proctor said that Captain Brown
ell was iustified in taking the steps h«
did. He had, he said, seen men hanged
for a much less violation of the ruDs
of war than Father Augustine was guilty
of.
Mr. Tillman declared that “for the
honor of the American armv T wnu^ 1 to
God Father Augustine had been shot b v
a drum head coimt martial instead of
tortured to death.”
The Statehood bill was taken up nt ft
o’elock. and Mr. Lodge spoke in oppo
sition to it.
> An attempt by Mr. Aldrich to divide
♦ lie business of the Senate with the
Statehood bill failed, and the Senate at
| 5:15 o’clock adjourned.