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Mm "it ' ' '.lit... on yo r i . live i v t- id Orri.r to i ingle eupy. , f ..o 1 i. y and Friday for Kuicl.a and vicinity. mm X a i v m i ' ; , VCL CXI1I. N0., 104. . s:."iASii!;:G blovs SIIAnERSOUTIIERIl POWER STRUCTURE CAntu MIaaJ t?MM ui liation Placed by Company- On Property t PROPOSED RATES. ALSO zi TO WORK DISCRIMINATION Monopolistic Policies Ct South ' ' era , Power Company Scored ' by Attorney! of Opposition; Interstate .Character of its Business Set Up as Bar to State's Jurisdiction . . , ' Saraahlng Wow by attorney for tht opposition yesterday crumpled ap th carefully built etruetur oa which 'th Southern Power Company is bating its i . claim for a forty par eent ,iaerea la power ratea in North Carolina, and ia 1 th final session for srgument before tha commiaaiom today, attorney of eot- toa milla and municipalise involved ex " poet to wipo away tha debria. V - From $75,00000 claimed by tht ppw ' or company, the reasonable worth- of ita property for rata making purpoaea, hat bean eat to 3S,000,fjO, existing di- crimination in North Carolina and pro "'' ' pqsed discrimination againat tha State in xaror ox oouia uarouna in on mn - naked for baa been revealed, while the '.. jurisdiction of the commiaaioa to act ia see ha keen seriously questioned. After, the ar rum eat of B. 8. Parker , of Graham, appearing" f or cotton 'mill yerterday morning, Judg George Pell, '' , Corporation Commissioner, aaked the at- - Ury brief on thia iaana . J ' - ' Mr. Parker offered tho IrsV argu ment yeatarday. H was followed by "-tag the 'North Carolina Public Ser V vice Company J. H, Bridgert of Hea- vdereon, i. L. Crowellof Ooneotd and Judge J. Crawford Bigg of Balelgh. Allege Interstate Banna. .' ' If the butia of the Southern rower company is um meni wu1 meree, I'd like' to know what ii inter cuts commerce," aaked E. 8. Parker, of Graham,' opening the argument for ' - the eottoa an ilia when the hearing re turned before the Corporation Commis sion yesterday morning. ?:v i-'r-f-:,--Mr. Parker followed the liae of argu- meat- of Judge W. Pv Bynam before the1 eoart Tuesday afternoon, drawing a , . distinction between transporting power , Into the State and disposing ft H after " -Jt i brought ero,'i,','.,'.,'i- ' 'J W haven't aa expert thsVean toB the differae between power generated ' U North .Carolina .aad power gener ated in Sooth Carolina,' commented W. ' B. CB. : Boblasoa, attorney for the Souther) Power Company, ta : gnawer to ?ib. Parkera eontoutlca that U terv T iee of the power company devoted to the publie use ia North Carolina should . be separated from that devoted to the .public uss in Bonth Carolina, if the Vommiaaioa undertake to Sr ratea. ; "hen if you are coming before the - North -Carolina Corporation : Commi ' ioa taking thU body to Sx your rate V yon ought to change your-tyrtem," re torted Mn, Parker. - He maksUUed , hi belief that the - Commiaaioa oa. the record a ao power to tx rateat but he wat ready to eoa i cede ed to uphold the- poeltioa that the Corporation- Commiwioa haathe power to eajl for' the iaformatioi oa the-operation of ' the company ex eluairely in North Carolina and upon thia information to Sx ratea. -'- ' ' Plnye Bth Sta. - ' f After a refereaee to the eaae pe ing before the Supreme Court between k uintkm Power ComoanT aad the Vnblio Serriee Company of Greeaaboro aad High Point, ana tneaa two munuu- palitiee, Judge George Pell aaked what i queatioa waa inrolTed ia that eaae. . XWhy that nae' replied Judge . Bynum, "ie ia the nature of a maa damut aetioa'to eompefr the Southern i r.mnanv ti furniah aarrieo and J ' -oae Of , the chief eontentloae of the TV Southern Power Company ia that the company ta aotog internal buioo. " .Mr. Hobinooa arote oa pereoaal priri . lege then to c plain that whea the la- l.aaiata aaAtn ITt APflal flUlULSBLlUaa ffM rawvu ia the antwe ia tha eaae, ,oa behalf of the Bouthera Power'Company, the Com- rnUiion did aot Jiare the Denent ox we Hoprcme Court' l deeulonv But Judge i n,tTA Ttiff. - alio roDreaentmc ort:!i intereets, interpoaed with, the romlndcr that the aMwer-ia th eaae wa filed ia November and the Supreme Court' oeiioa wa ia April. During , thia exchange, Mr. Parker hid ttepped aaide. ; . . " . . . ThU Un t my row,! he explajned, S but whea it waa, over, continued hia argument.' -': ' The Stat liae haa e place ia a quea tioa of diaemmiBatwn,' Mr. Parker . arguaV poUting oat that if th Cor . poratioa Commiaaioa ahould allow the ' taereaae aaked for. Vorth CaroUaa auU aad other iaduttriea wiU tuffet the handicap of greater "power eoate than ompeUtiT. ptant. ia South Carolina - Thia he eeid, would not only allow the diaeriminatiod, but would put the ' Commiaaioa ia, th attitude of aanetion- in iU ' The tame principle waa in volved, be re-iaded the Commi-ton, when that body went before the Inter etate Commerce Commimioa f matter of freight rate discrimination ' ia favor of Virginia eitie and againat North Carolina interest. ' Mere Ahoat Valuea. f Mr Parker devoted eoarderable ' time 'to the valuatioa of the property of the Bouthera Power Compaay Hxed by J. O. WhiU Vo, and intro- duced i tvidene ' by the Sonthern - Power Company ia com pax boa with fhe alleged tax value of the propertieia North and South Carolina. He argued that whereat tbe Bouthera Power Com. . mainUiaa that the Commiaaioa & aW . rat. laW ea VVfiM. wheccat the total invertment ia the lr ms i WWW, . the Commimioa would be giving vital- Stv'to ttoek 'that ooet nothing, thereby nrlfhinf the ttochholdrfra of the South- i i ' (Coatinaod ge .Two.) DCTEEN PAGES TODAY.. ;, RALEIGH. N. Dbniels TeltK Story of Navy's ' Achievements In the World War , . - v- -. Caller at State Department in Cate Afternoon of January 3 1 , 1917, Starts Things Happening and .Washington Is Never ?' Same Again: Former Secretary Reveals Secret Document . in Which Germany's Decision to Launch U-Boat Campaign V Ia Shown to Date From December, -.1916. ' 1 A caller at th 8UU Department ia the late afternoon of Jan. II, , . ' 1917, atarta thing happening, aad Washington ia aevet the-cam again , , Pormar 8eeretary Jmalela foreafaadowa atartling 4iaelouret a nar- v . ratiT of Navy 'r part iaswar ia writtea Eareal aocret document die-' eovrd aiaeavatmiotie ia which Gormaay'a deciiioa to launch U-boat -eampalga ia ahewa to data from Doeember, 1916, aad the poaaibiQty of . American intervention ia diacouated Dan tela tella for ftrat time how do- tailed plan for moftilioatioa of United Bute navy wa iiaued to' all ,J . chip and atationa at th very bear whea th German aubmarinot began v - their woatoa atafeult ea eivUiaation Formet Secretory aoUd without -' 'Waiting "for cabinet meeting Whea President tummoacd him th Navy , wa ready.-. J . H '.''- .. ' . , ' .CI' By JOSIPHCS OANIBU; - ' ": ." rorma aWeracary th Navy 1IU to 1MU . " fc oweruM utt. to an v. teak minimi a an ! i t t - . ' - - - , :.. ' ' ' ABTICLE J. ; V 1 I ' ... . s. . . i l v . --.'- - , About o'clock oa the aUrnoonf .Wednesday, Jan. SI, 1917,. a dapper little man presented himself at th office f th Boeretary of SUte. , . , T Prom that moment life waa never the same agaia ia' Washington. Events, incident and episode of treaaeadoua Importance and public interact occurred ia th, aavy department, aa ia all other departments, until the day whea cer tain commissioner from Berlin signed their names to a doenmeat which Marshal Pock presented to them ia th forest of Seali. -v s, ? ; - - i A Secretary 'of ui Navy . I lived tnrougl thee crowded", month ia the atmosphere of iuppreesed exciUment which is inseparable from th capital of a great nation at war. A friend recently asked at my impression of eight years as secretary f the. aavy. I replied, "Four year of ejuiet then; a oa all idea, .to make BbennMi't expression aautical.'' . ' ' DepartmeBrheadt upoa whoea prompt aad eflleient action tremeadoue inter est depended tad t keep their own head . amid tha rumof aad . intrigue, criticism aad conflict of advice which whispered or thundered ia their ear. They had to keep their head through day and night of anxiety, whea they war seeding preeioaa live' over eeat ot peril and into enterprise of danger. They had to keep their heads wtva tuddea emergoacy demanded instant deeiaioa and action. .'.'.'vv' I . GWsarlnaMe Facta; :v - - T am going to tell th etory ft ihoo thrilling day a w mm aad lived them ia th nevy department, da present 0JH things that.hSTs never yet been told about the part the navy played. ' 'I want yea tot know' eretoia insid facta eoacerning th meeeage wtieh that dapper little ma, carried ta the ttM departniaat,. whereby he Jolted Wash, ingtoa rat of it routine, aad I am going to give yoa a view: of th momenta cabinet meeting -which followed his I rin tell yoa the etory of a eertaia IB. W. Davidaoa, who went to Loadoa before .- United State declared war, aad of th eoaveraatioa 1 had with him bfor b loft. ' Ton will recall th dispatch you read three year ago concerning -th giant German gun which, from a remote dis tance and carefully -concealed base, Wa killing.womea and children ia Par im Toa will remember, the ihoek of Lor ror yoa felt when jfoa read how shells had fallea iln the little ehureb of St, Gervaiae oa Good Friday, 1B18, turning th sacred precincts Into a hideous tUmblea, Do yoa knew, thatth Uaited State pliyed a part ia ending tie bombardment of Pari! It will inter eat yoa to learn bow our navy contri buted to the relief of U hell haken French eapitaL y ' Nation with Chili's BearC Aad I will tell yoa a Joyful tale. America is yet a young aetlon. and it baa a Btrong, eleaa ehild hesrtT That it wly, perhaps, when K went to war ita tailor baaad some of their code signals oa : nursery rhymes. - Only a ehild-, hearted nation would have thought f that.' No, Germaa eould think of tuck a thing, and In that very fact lay tie oacfulneea ef their aignala. They were apart of uor Intelligence aervice. Just what part will tell you before, my stoTy end. - ' .. '": . - We h&ve beard a lot about the im portance of cable lately ,'ad a little island, about, tea mile longT ia th Pa cific, bearing th eomi opera name of Tap, baa assumed a prominence out of alt proportion to it tic and commercial valu merely horaase it ia a convenient cable emtio. , ; Tea would think from all thi talk that eaglet ar abeolirtely essential to .th maintenance of world-wide - com municatioat. Beyond doubt they are of tremeadout Importance, aad no aa tloa can afford to neglect ite interests in- the matter of tubmatine telegraph. - Not Mpoadeat on Cable.' But-what would yea think if I told you that bad Germany been able to sever the cable by whietl th United State wat linked to London bad Pari and American head quart re at Chaur moat, we eould Wverthelem bav corn munieated almost instantly with Lloyd George, or Clemeaeeau, r Gen. Perch ing t In like manner, tathough with more difficulty, we could reach .every Blip in th United 8tate navy, where over stationed, from' th 'China tea to the-Bay of Biaeay. - - ; The miracle which made thia possible was created within a rVw moqtha after w entered the war, aad ite sccamplish ment lifted from our shoulder on of the big aaxitiet which bad beea almost constantly present -th f est thss tome enemy raider r snbrasriss might eat theraUea, leaving as isolated from ear soldier . ia France, our allies and our fightiag equardon in wa none waters. ; 2 want to tell yoa in some detail bow ilia miracle wak worked and about th great wi relet station which- can fkb radio mesaaget around the world. , Iadlan''Wlrle Bystonn. " Tbe early pioneer weeding his way with his wagon train across oar west era prairies saw in the smoke signals of the tndiaa th earliest Amerieaa at tempt at eommualeating over lonr dit- Uinecs It it B far Cry from the smoie signnw ox in uani io ine iiory ox in is world-girdling radio station. - Where was Hf Who tmUt ttt Those ar qu cation - that wiU be answered later on. . , . When it some to -bunting, va i m.hii hmhim aa Clemeaeeau, 'the tiger of France, bunt ing the tigers of India, got fewer thrilia than any gob of Unele Sam'a navy on board a destroyer chasing submarines. Lumbering along through, the jungle on aa elephant for a big eat ia tame work compared with (tutting " the wave at forty mile aa boar ia pureuit of a foe whoa presence it known to jrou only by th vibrations which th water carries from hi DroDeller. ' ' W shall go ea sueh a huat bf or my story if ended, aad I will tell you bow tbe presence or th eubraarine.ln adja coat water wat detected, aad how we were able oftea to distinguish ea type ef vessel from . another . though" both were boaeath th wavea. - ' " There will be many interesting per sonalitie in this narrative, aad I shall attempt to give close-up glimpse of men who were conspicuous ha the life of Washington aad of European cap Mala. Joffre, Lloyd Georg, Albert of Belgium, Clemenceau," Ueorg f ng land. 'the Prince of Wale, Lord North eliffe, Lord Beading, Admirals . Beatty, Jellieo aad D Boa; Marconi and the Prince . .Udine ,. ar . among . those , who moved in and out of the picture. Aad peaking of Prince Udine, 'I. moat not forget to tell yoa kow he aaugM'tht monexoBr -,v - . .. Here'a the Dapper UttU btaa.'' 4 Bat now. to get back ,t the dapper little individual who presented bimaolf at tho offie oof th Secretary of State oa Wednesday, Jan. 51, 1917, aboatyA o'clock la the axuraooa. ' Thia genthnana earn with a message for Secretary Laneiag .which bad beea waiting deuvery xor twelve uays. inal message made American oatranee into th war inevitable and sealed th doom of kaiterism. It waa conveyed by Count von BcrnatorS and it announced the be ginning of unrestricted TJ-boat warfare by Germany oa tha morning of th fol lowing day.. -Y" We know now that von Bernatorff re ceived Germsny't official declaration of merciless aubmann warfare ea Jan. 19. Oa that day tho Berlia foreiga office alviaed him in eode of th policy Which had beea decide upoa. - r Ua the tarn day Zimmermana, the Gera. foreign, minister, dispatched t Mexico ait xamoua proposal that car raata't country should make aa alliance with Japan, launch a war against the Uaited State aad recover tbe "loot ter ritory of: New .Mexico, ' Arixoaa and Texas, . I shall bav more to any about that again. - - ... CormaaK Secret Kevoaledy Why did BernstorlT withhold the ta aqanoement until the eleventh boilrf Doubtless under speeifis orders from his government and because' Germany hav ing decided to abandon all restraint aad raa all. risk, wanted, to -gain for her new policy the full advantage of ur ttriae. i A nrematu're announeesient would have been warning to her victim and occasion (or delay in execution, it wuold bav opened tho way for aegotla tiona, 'and the Germany . desired io avoid. ' This view ia lullv auscaiaed bv a secret document, unknown then, to the Amerieaa' government or to any of it alliea, but discovered months, after the armistice. It it dated "Berlii Dee. 22, 1911" a little more.thaa.a month be fore tho - date oa which unreatneted U-boat warfare begausnd it addressed to B 3580-1. It if marked "strictly tecret.'"-.-' v ' . Admiral Holtsendorff Von Holtxen dorff etief of the German admiralty waa It author.. .. , . ' - The -doeumeat aamed Feb. i a the data for turning th U-boats loose bb der ordera to spar nobody. ; It declared England would be (tarred ia fv month or by. July 1. It declared the alliea would b forced to surrender by Aug. L - Thee exact date were given.' ' The f rat date it the 'only ne whicb stood th teat of events. , . 'Kxaected America to Fight. . Th probable entraaee of th United Htate aa a belligerent waa foreseen, ana von Holtaendors thus expreeeed him self a ' to .the. influence ah would be likely to- exercise ' npoa the ' "tread of the war." - ' 1 I ' "Aa regards tonnsga this influence would be negligible. It it not to be ex pec ted that mors than a small fraction ef the tonnage ef the central powers lying I America and many other neu tral harbors conld then b ealisted for the traffic to England. a ' "For the far xtv.u-t part ef thai thip ping eaa be damaged in uch-a way ttin it eaa be damaged in tueh a way tilt first iow 'tuofcths. There would also bt a crows to b found for hem."' Let If Interrupt Admiral von Holtxen dorff a moment to eall attention to the fact that' everything the German eould do to make th oadmiral't prediction com true wat don is adtncetrf Feb. 1.- Before making hia call apon SSpre- Ury Lansing, on the last day of January. Deraatorff bad given initrartinn. Ciat th enginee ef all German ship lying in American harbor mutt be destroyed, (Coatinued Page Two.) C, THURSDAY MOItNlNG, COLLEGE STUDENT; Wake County Grand Jury Re t turnsTrue Bill Against ; - N.-C State-Junior ;; MUST GIVE $200 BOND FOfi APPEARANCE IN MAY Action of. Grand Jury) Follows Special Charg ' by Judg , George Connor Who Also Takes Occasion toBap Law . and )rder League in .- State for Alleged Conduct " ' - ..v '- ' .-' ' The -Wake "sou a ty grand jury yester; day returned a true bill charging hating againat K. BMcComb) of .Hickory, Junior at the BUto College' of " Agrl culture, and Engineering, the indictment being an outgrowth of the recent out break of basing at the Institution.1- Soli citor Norrit . asked for aa instanter eapiaa I for McComb, witb ' Instruction to the eheriff that the student give bond to tho extent of 1200 for hit ap pears nee. for trial nt the next term of criminal const in May. ' Judge - Georg W. Connor ' called - la tbe grand jurora at the opening.: of court yesterday morning and mad ym obaervationa , regarding basing, . the liouor traffic and the lew regarding pur. chase and possession of. pistols and other weapons. . Judge rjonnor eon' demned baaJng'espeeially in State.ln stitutiont, ' but made no reference to a spocifl instance. .He read th statute making baling a misdemeanor,, and told the grand jurors that it wat not. neces sary for Ahem to wait for a bill from th solicitor, butlhat they had author ity to investigate any instance of ha ing. that cwme to their attat,ioa. The true bill against McComb wat returaed later la the day. 1 ' t i .The bill of indictment charged that McComb by "force aad arms unlaw fully gad wilfully 'did anytfy, frighten,' scold, .beat, ,. harass tun subject .to personal indignity one W. B. Loffln," a freshman at the college, and did d vise, procure, abet and assist other per sons whose name ar to the jurort un known to annoy, frighten, beat,' karase and subject, to' personal indignity en W. B. Loftin" in violation of th Stat statute'-arainst haxine. i . . . ..; No other aamea- of eollega etudentt wert teat to th grand jury in tbe solieitort bill of Indictment. Whethef or not th inveatigatioB of th Waning outbreak has been completed -by Mr. Norrit waa- not made kaowa. Aa the grand Jury adjourned yesterday, it to mtamewwrt)eaMawat moy win pry further into thW maUer at' the txt term of court, Witaessei before the grand -Jary yesterday ia regard -to the B. Lofrin, ivaa HoUamaa, W." tt.Pfic aaa Jt. o. utepiiena. - -. Dr. Biddlck Mabst Statement i - In view of th indictment of McComb, nr. w. v. -Biddiek, president of th college; last night stated that he hoped tha- 'people of the. State would give blm tueh consideration a, is given all youth, who ar accused of violating a statute." . Continuing his .statement in regsrd to th hating outbreak, Dr. Biddick aaidt . r.- 4 ' ' - "This matter, after bring inveitloated by th faculty, was turned over to th tolioitor by th college authorities. It wa aot aa unusually barbaroua exhibi. tion of hasing.lt looked to the faculty that they would be unableHo discover tha guilty parties aad they deeidet to tab advantage of the law paased ia 1913 for- the purpose for whicb it was Intendedto protect boy from -CJieir own xouy. , ' , "Several other eollege la th ttat haw previously .appealed to the law after a deatb or serioua aeeident.' Thi law waa. paased in rder that college might, not hate to wait until th ordl. nary sriminsl law wat violfrted.- Pro filing by th experience of other ln- i-Miiuions, in eoliege tut norltica were trying to prevent a simllsr occurrence at the Stat College. While .laing, aa ' we all know, is sometime under taken in a apirlt of fun, nevertheless if continued It invariably lead to .torn terinut accident. ; . This so-cslled outbreak of basing doe not mean that, rowdy urn 'it ram pant at SUto College. It waa the see oad instane cine about the vf irst of last October, the other initance taring occurred on the aamenlght of th re grettable iacideat at TrinityJ There' it definite ' infonnationx that only seven or eight etudentt engaged la this last episode of bating, at) State College; whicb it aot a largejercentage ia com pariaoa witb the thouaaad or mora tu dent now attending the iattitatioa. 1 Th vast majority of th itudeata knew nothing about th outbreak aad did aot eadorao it . ' "Tbe eollege autlorihV hsv alway don everything in theiA power to pre- bvent haaing and tbia lait step : Wat taken to further earay out thi pur- pos." Condemn Basing. - Judge Conner in his talk to tbe grand, jury ia regard to basing called attention to the fact tt at bating in college and other institutions became so widespread that -it wa aeces aary for tbe legislator of th etste to provide a law making it a misls meaaor. He read th atttut to the graad jurort tad explained. Ite algnift- eaae. Th judge told th graad jurort that it - waa wiihla . their . authority to mak4 general , inveetigation of any hating, if they deemed it advisable, without waiting' for a bill J from, the solicitor, as it waa . om timet difficult for- th eolidtot to se en re enough definite evidence id cases of thit kind to warrant' indictments. Judge Connor stated ttat 'baaing out- breaks hsd raoussd th people to the pointy of indignation, and he condemn ed such practice in educational Insti tutions, especially the institution maintained by public taxstioa. The judge also called attentloa' to th alarming - condition la th city, county and adjoining eountiet growing - ' (Continued oa Ptgf Th.) ARIL j 4, 1921. BYDEMOGRATS OR TARIFF QUfSTIQl, Minority Lcalcr Claude Kitchin founds Clarion Call to De- mocravy of Nation ( . POSITION ENDORSED BY MEMBERS IN CONGRESS HortB Carolina Conftessman Spares If o Words of Denun ciation xof Republican Policy of Protection for BIf Trusts; Kates Proposed in Hew ' . Tariff Unprecedented h v. -,..(. - Tha News and Observer Bureau. . r ,603 District National Bsnkf BMg. . By KDWABD B. BUTTON, . (By Special ' Leased Wins.) ,4' Wsshington, April 1J There b to be ao back, tracking on Dcmoerati prin ciplea In. th House of Bepresentatives und the leadership of Claud atitehta ef North Carolina. That fighter for the tenets ef the party did not even aeed hit minority report- on the emergency tariff, .legislation to show that he .meant holiness whea he declared that la pur. pose, of the Republicans .was to pass soma tariff measure under whip aad spur that would, be of benefit to the special interests. And he struck blow after blow when in th minority report he showed, th fallacy of the poeitioa takea by th Bpubljeans, that it waa a fraud and, a enar which they iwere practicing upoa tho ' Amerieaa people when hy argued that it would benefit the great body of th people. Thia afternoon th Democrat ot tbe Hout eaueuased upon th matter, aad the positioa heretofore outlined by Congressmsa Kitchin waa endorsed la th fullest degtee. Th caucus wat la lernioa for a long time, aad there waa much debate on the matter of the emer gency . tariff bill introduced by Repre sentative Young, a measure working- over the Fordney "emergency measure and ia some respect ven worse that thaV After much deliberation ia wbich among other thing it ' waa sought to hav tha reaolution adopted concerning the neeition to be takea bv the Dem. eratic members to read " "request" ia place of "instruct." th latter won,, aad by a vote ef 79 to 29 waa adopted, the 29 being only obtained in part by rea son of th fact that there wat tome Sympathy witb. . individual Demoaaat among the 41 who had at .the tim ef action en th Fordney bill voted tor it. A finally dopted it ia U the language of Congressman Kitebia, by whom it wa pffered, and reads t ... - - , Kitcbta Resolattoa AdoateeT. ' ; ;Bolvtd, llrtt, that the Democrat of w House ia-ctosnt aieenrblsd reaf firm th traditional policy of th Dem- oeratie party ia favor-of a tariff zbnj "Belolved, Second, ttat th DemoertU t th - Hons are hereby instructed to oppose aad vote against tht ' Touag emergency tariff bill. Tbe minority report that Congressman BUtchin reported when the Republican endorsement of th Touag emergency tariff bill wat reported to the House today is a trumpet call to th democracy to adhere to the faith of the fathers ot democracy. Ia.it Mr. .Kitchin did aot spar word in denunciation" of th policy ef the Bepablieaa party and the false light ft held out to th Amer ican people. - It i so strong a report, it It to full of the fundamental of the Democratic doctrine oa the tariff that I hope that Democratic paper will print it la lull. .. . Ia bit protest against the proponed Kepubllean emergency tariff bul be de elared that th principle and policies of th Democratic party for a hundred years forbsde Democratic approval ef the bill, aad impelled tbem to vigor ously protect Hf paesage. a8orh aa ap proval, . be declared, ""would be aa urgent Invitation to th farmer of th country especially, of th West aad South, to go bodily into the Bepubliean .party the, party of protective robbery as tbe only means of their future aal ration. . "And he ehowed that the rate proposed ar higber than tha Dingiey act gaye, or the Payne-Aldrieh aot which the. Bepubliean platform ot 181 1 de clared were too high, rate even higher than any ever made into law, higher ratea' than la any tariff bill ia all the world - la a. civilized country ia the last 250 years. , . ' ' Fraud Upoa Th Faraser. '' Congressman Kitchin's report set eat that the bill., practiced a fraud upon the " farmers, that the Republicans found that they could aot perform their platform pledget of restoring high prices for corn, wheat. live stock aad other agricultural products, they are now preparing to break latta witb both farmer of the West and the consuming masse of th East, "and to keep faith with the sugar trust, th meat trust aad the woolea trust and the wool specula tors, th direct benefieiarle of the pending bili." ' If the bill doe what it claims,' sad the prio of products rise thea "the pending bill will add to the present cost of living 2,000,000,000 all of this amount will go to swell the fortunes of the profiteers and speeulttort." He emphasised that ths Mil would aid tbe trusts, that the sugar trust alone would benefit aa increase of 9125,000,000, that it wat not in - the interests of the farmers with erop planting tim at hand. And here are some thing be (aid that seta.elelr tbe issue and shows the sttituds of tbe Democratic party, a part of the minority report made by Mr. Kitchin x ' ' , N Back Track By Democrat "We take this opportunity to res surf th Democracy of th nation that th - Democrat in Congress will tnke no back track oa the tariff. To ui, Be publiean protection is no better now than when the Tildea platform of 18711 denounced H as a masterpiece of in justice, inequality, and fa's pretense. It it no better now than wSea th Cleve land platform of .1HG2 -denounced it a fraud a robbery of th great majority of-the American people for Ute' benefit MContiaaed oa Fag Two.) SIXTEEN PAGES -TODAY. PHYSICIAN DIES WHILE V WAKING UP HOTEL GUESTS Entire Block of .Wooden Bulld- infs Wiped Out by Fire at' -v Southern Pines fi Sonthern Plae. April 13. Dr; W. F. Prtt,' age 67,' well known local phyal eiaa and pioneer citixen,' died of heart faUnr . whil; aroosig guest at tt Southland hotel whea fir brek out la a ba since black, cauaing a lose of $75,000, partially eovered by lasaraaee, early thit moraiag. - Dr. Swett waa a aativ of Conaeetieott, but bad lived bora for SO years. Be ia survived by a wife and'aeveral children, one of whom ia a ttudeat at St. Mary, Baleigb. He will be baried Friday with " Masonic tonors. . ' - Mrs. 'Neva Paiae, night operator for th City Telephone ' . Company, stuck herloeally to ber post calling neighbor ing town for help and warning town building burned, fire breaking through people of danger while rear of exchange near ter. Bh wat forcibly removed from ber poet by one of the employe of the company. She i a native of Vermont, coming to Southern rcnea 13 rears as-o. 1 ' M) Th fir started abont S 'eloek ia tbe vicinity of th Perkins Hotel aad quickly swept through the block. . Tke volunteer lr department wa ens meated by those from - Plneburtt tnd Carthag-bt witb little lueees. . Th losses at near aa eaa be estimated are I Harry Lewis, stock of gooda and building, 915,000; B. E. Wiley, f 1,500; Th Parkin Hotel, '125,000; Hdra Furniture Company, 95,000; J. F. Bey nolds, S7J500; H. T. Howe, 91.000; J. M. Windham, $1,000; Tom Camerea, i,ouv; a. v. rtauy, .t,uw. uimr msller losses were suffered with bo Urge amount ef insure acs. Th satire tquar wat of wooden, buildings and it is all gone with th exception of the MUIt building. New York bankers Will Lend If Money it Kept on De- posit With Them Unofilcial reporta from .'the mission, ot Governor Cameron Morrison aad Stat .Treasurer B. Bv Lacy to Nsw Tsrk to market aevaral millioa dollar ot Stat boada for road building and institutional - buildings, Indicate- that little ' progreea baa been mad toward placing tb eeurjtie, - and that Uey wiS Ntarn latei ,1a tbe week to hf th rogarb ot their trip before a meet ing of Ue ConaeU at Stat. . N , present , roariet,h . beenf ouad for five per, eeat boada, the intorest rat axt4 by th Bsaeral Assembly la tb iastrnmsat ay which they ar aa tborUed, aad tht counter proposal bat beea mad to kad tb Stat money at 6 per eeat on abort torn note, with the pro viaioa. that th money will be kept oa depoeit in New Tork bank nntil it It needed in' th State. Mo ' anrnrtaa - m-iaxnreaaed In aae quarter at Ue Inability of the GoVTraor and the Tressorsr to negotiate th aal of boada at are per can t and to many municipal aad county officials, th pro posal . to beep money loaned Ma New Tork bank ia aot aew. Many bond broken have tied auch condition to money let ut en county aad municipal boada, it waa said yesterday by a well knowa banker .in Raleigh ea buslaess. pTobabls return of tbe. Governor aad the Treasurer and a meeting of the Council of. Stat Sstnrday moraiag to discuss th report they wiB bring with them was forecast in - administration circles yesterday. , Vo member at the Council, cared to discus either th re port thst come back ahead ef the mis sion, or to hazard a guest aa to the probable attitude . toward maintaining all borrowed money) on New Tork deposit. It ia expected that tome op position will develop, i Except for roads aad custodial ia ttitationt, it wat tuggested by. a mem. ber of the Board of Trustees of the State Uaiveraity that university alumni would buy State bonds to th extent of half millioa dollars, or eaough to get the Improvements at Carolina well under way before winter. How far thia program might b followed by other educational Institution ia a matter of conjecture. . .k Little difficulty ha beea experieaeed by county aad city officials ia disposing of considerable, issues of six per cent bona authorised by the Generl As sembly, and some of them have been told at a premium, it was pointed out yesteraay by tbe visiting banksr. , DR. A. B. HAWKINS DIED THIS MORNING Loaf One Of Raleigh's Best Known And Most Promi nent Citisens Dr. Alexander B. Hawkins died t hia, residence on North Blount street at S:25 thia meraing. Jr. Hawkin had beea ia falling heallhy4or tbe paat six week and hi death waa aot en tirely unexpected, . ft)t. Hawkin wa la hia ninety first year and until very recently had re tained bis vigor in a degree remark able tor one. of bis years. Tb arrangement for th fnnertl hav aot beea completed but will V announced later. .-- PEACE RESOLUTION IS - INTRODUCED BY KNOX Waal ingtoa, A pril 15. In liae with the recommendation in President Hard FIND TROUBLE IN ' BORROWING MONEY ing's message, a resolutioa to end the lthe new Methodist Protestant oolleg stat of wsr with Oermnny and AustriaTtand indicated at 8 o'clock thia after... wa introduced today by benator Knox, of PerJisylvaniax It i titular to the one adopted preyioutly by Congress and yl toed by-former President Wil son, lit will be reported favorably la a i fewday by the foreign relation litte and then . brought p for to after disposal ot th Colombian y, according to Senator Lodge, of ihusetts, Bepublicaa leader. PRICE: FIVE CCTJ y-gfc'.J SCHEDULED STRIKE ndustrial Peace in Great Brit ain Now Hanging 'Ontv " Slender Thread LLOYD GEORGE SENDS LETTER TO LEADERS Aska for Seasons for KerassJ : of the GoTernment't Offer to t Settle . Dispnte; Strike of Transport Workers and Bail: way Men Is Finally Set for Friday Night -i . t ; , London, April 13(By the Associate! Pratt.) Premier , Lloyd . Qeorge ha provided tb leader of th 'Triple Al liance with another opening 1 for re newal of negotiations in the miners atrike, and the general striks, ot rail- waymea aad transport worker la tup- ' port t it, by asking for th grounds ef ' their refusal of the government' offer. And any influence the labor leaders wh . ar outaide th orbit of th actual con flict may be able to exert oa th dis putants aeemt for the' moment to ba the remaining alender thread apon whicb ' industrial peace' hangs. That such attempts at mediation will con tinue and that there are stifl two daya oeiore ui .general ttribe become operative are the, only hopeful tigna. After th receipt of th announcement of th "Triple Alliance- that ita mem hen would be called from their work Friday night, Premier Lloyd ' Georg. ' seat the following reply to th allisncc : - - . - rremler eeaaa Msesag. "Dear Mr. Thomaa (Oeneral Seeretarw . of tha Bailwar VaioeTand ' Mr. WiU llama, UteereUry of -the Transport WorkerrFederatioa) i ' "I am la receipt of your latter. Tha ' deeiaioa yoa report la a grav on. Tost threaten Friday night to dUloeito tha wbol ot tb transport aervice of thi) ' eouatry, ao eaeential to the life of tha nation. " ' . , y- .. p "I ahould like to know the ground ea whisk yoa ar determined to inflict such a -serious blow. a yonr fellow eoantrymea. "Toara faithfully, ''' v , , (Signed) - "LLOYD GEOBGE. . Th-Trlple AUiaaee" tat nntU ft late boar tonight, and it was decided ta send a reply to tb Premier's lettoc Thursday 'morning, when' the ialibara liea ot th alliance are retained., ' . Apaear Hopeloat, A manifesto issued by th Miser Federation tonight stents to ren.lcr any possibility of , rnwd ! negotiations , hopeless, apart from such yielt'tg On the aide of tb gomnment at th min- " r tbmelve aay . they saa hardly expect. Tbe government yesterday met the miner half way by agreeing to giv aueb financial amistanee a would be accessary to start th regulation of wage oa a national basis. The miners,' however, ' insisted on acceptance a Is (f th peeling of profits, which ; tha government throughout bad declared t b impossible. ' . t Thi irreconcilable attitude I depriv" Ing tb miner of any support in tha press, and apparently ia tending ta alienate tb sympathy of a largo see-. . tiof of the public, who had beea im pressed during tb course of the dis pute witb the justice of the miners' ' claim tor greater consideration than the owner had given in recent sge offer. f ' -Labor Behind Minenv - . Organised labor, however, ia atesdily consolidating on the aide of tho, miner. The Amalgamated Hoeiety of Locomotive Mea and Firemen, whose attitude pre viously had -beea doubtful, decided to- ' day to strU witb th 'Triple Alliance." The executive of the Bailway Clerks Association also recommended joining the strike. The Electrical Worker of London, but not of the whole-kingdom, threaten to strike. There is still some question aa to whether a atrike of all the member of the "Triple Alliance'' ia possible Byiday. According to tb con stitutions of ths respective sections, th railwaymen may be called on to strik without a ballot, but the transport work srs are required to take a ballot befor a atrike ia called. A manifesto issued late tonight by th "Triple Alliance, in' which thit body emphatically supports tbe minors' ' claims, contends that such reductions in the miners' sarnjngs "no trad union in the paat ever accept," and declare) that, if accepted, "it Would ba a dis grace to trade unionism of' the world." COTTON PLANTING GETS UNDER WAY IN SOUTH Washington, April 13. Cotton plant ing waa being accomplished in th Pied- moat section of South Caroflina tad : waa being-continued in Georgia, Ala bama and Mississippi, according to th Weekly Crop bulletin issued today by the weather bureau. The week was mostly cool In tb western portion of the cotton belt, say ... the bulletin and preparation of toil 1 for planting wat somewhat delayed. Little field work wss accomplished ia eastern Oklnhoma, while planting pro grassed slowly in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. Misture is needed ia torn southeastern localities where germina -tion baa beea delayed by dry soil. BURLINGTON GETS $60,000 FOR METHODIST SCHOOL; Burlington Apr. 13. Reports from the tea canvassing teams sent oat ever . Burlington todsy to solicit pledge for soon that about 60,000 bad been pledge ed .for th new educational institution by the people ot Burlington. - Tb cam paiga hat boon extended to Graham, Haw Biver aad Mebane but a report from the town were availabl st a bat hour thi afteraooa. Ta cam paiga will continue through Tharad.iy and Friday. The goal net for the eoua if it 3X,000 tal tb afW eollog. , PREMIER PROVIDES OPENING TO AVERT
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