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RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2, 1912. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Double the Nxjmber of Paid Subscribers in Raleigh of any Other Newspaper. TuT OTAHIlV MIL 01 HULL I S1EEL REPORT Vol. LXXII. No. IT. EVIDENCE IK GRACE TRIAL ALDERMEN WILL PASS MEET jority Report of the Steel Committee Submitted to House Today m STEEL TRUST J. P. Morgan and His Associates Are Held as Being the Beneficiaries ot Enormous Profits The Gary Discoveries Criticised For Pres ident Roosevelt Censured For Making the Steel Trust Absolute Control of CorKirntions By Federal Government Not Ap proved. Washington, Aug. 2. The report of the majority of the committee of the house of represntatlves directed more than a year ago to investigate the United States Steel Corporation was submitted to the house today bv Represenative Stanley, of Ken tucky, chairman of . the committee. The report was signed by the chairman and Representatives Bart lett, of Georgia; McGillicuddy, Maine; Beall, Texas, and Littleton, New York, democrats. Representa tives Gardner, Massachusetts; Dan- forth, --New York; Young,, Michigan, and Sterling, Illinois; republicans, dissented from the report, of the majority. Representative Sterling submitted his individual views In a minority report and Representative Littleton, democrat, dissenting from the recom mendations of the majority for amendment of the Sherman anti trust law, filed his views. Representatives Gardner and Dan forth will unite in another minority report which Representative Young will sign and add to it his own findings as to the facts surround ing the organization and operation of the steel corporation. The report of the majority deals with the steel trust from its incep tion and describes the various steps by which J. P. Morgan and his as sociates built up the corporation. In addition to recommendations for legislation suggested as remedial, the democratic members of the com mittee made general accusations against the men responsible for the organization. J. P. Morgan and his associates are held up as being the beneficiaries of enormous profits realized from the over-capitalization of the subsi diary companies of the steel corpor ation and later of the corporation itself..'.., Judge E. H. Gary and his din ners to steel manufacturers are credited with a scheme by which prices and territory were controlled by the steel trust after pooling agreements were discarded. Former President Roosevelt is in dicted for making the control of the steel trust absolute and is charge I with being responsible for the gigan tic stature which the trust has at tained. The United States Steel Corpora tion flayed as an enemy of organ ized labor, accused of lowering the sociological conditions of lis nm : ployes and of contributing to Ameri can Industry workmen and work methods un-American and foreign to the best Interests of labor. Principal stockholders of the steel corporation are accused of exerting a powerful and Injurious Influence on the business of the United States .(Continued on Page Six.) SIDEWALK ' By Howard THE SEWING MACHINE. The sewing machine is a mild-looking household utensil which is used to keep woman in a contented frame of mind and prevent her from becoming a mere butierfly of fashion. After a high-spirited wife has played on the pedals of a sewing I J V 4 1 I of lts stitching on the hop step and jump principle, lAv- r I which caused its output to look like the hem s' utifrhlne In a irnnnv anek. It took Mr. Howe sev- I.--. ..... Jl the beds arid keep ants out of the refrigerator. Some women make clothes on it which Dt Just as well as if they had been ordered from a house-wrecking concern. The latest s,tyle machines are run by electric motor, with self-starter and automatic cut off. A woman can feed a bolt of blue denim iu to one of these machines, and it will emerge at the other end in serried ranas ot form-fitting overalls, while she is peeling the potatoes or swaying in rhythmic cadence with the family wash. The sewing machine runs neck and neck with the carpet sweeper as a pleasing and appropriate birthday present, as it reminds a wife that wpman'f work ever done 11 ba lve t0 be 0,009. year? p!4. All In and Arguments of Counsel Are Being Made Today Atlanta, Aug. 2. The completion of the arguments and the court's instructions were all that remained, before the jury was called upon to decide whether twenty-five thousand dollars life insurance tempted Mrs. Daisy Grace to shoot and attempt to murder her husband, Eugene. An nouncement was made today that Eugene Grace would soon file a di vorce suit. It was said that charges might be brought against Rebecca Sams, the mulatto dressmaker, who testified for the defense, accusing her of tam pering with state witnesses. Grace, who has heard the trial from his cot, was not present this morning in the court. Outside of branding it as false, he has made no further comment on his wife's statement that ho was shot by a revolver in his own hands during a scuffle with her in their home over papers which would have given him control over her proper ty. Grace, under Georgia laws, can not testify against his wife. Mrs. Grace's counsel. Attorney Moore, charged that the urosecu- tions' lawyers wilfully withheld evi dence. The charge was made todav while the woman's lawyers were ar guing for her acquittal. He accus ed the prosecutors with executing a theatrical plot" when they brought Grace, wounded, into court, saying (Continued on Page Seven.) HIS CORRESPONDENCE Sea Girt, N. J., Aug. 2. Through stacks of back correspondence Gov ernor Wilson waded cheerfully, lacing constant interruptions from callers. Wilson said he felt about his correspondence like the frog that tried to get out of the well. Every time it jumped up one foot, it fell back two. Letters by hun dreds, bearing upon the approaching campaign, flow into the summer cap ital. The governor will give his personal attention to all of it. Wil son declares he is in excellent health. His recent yachting trip had a ben eficial effect. His advisers have sug gested another sea trip. Three vis itors from Washington talked with the governor, Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia; Senator Culberson, of Texas, and Representative Henry D. Clayton of Alabama. Culberson dis cussed pending legislation in con greBB, requiring publicity before elections of all campaign contribu tions. Louisiana Bull Moosers. New Orleans Aug. 2. Roosevelt supporters met today and organized the progressive party in Louisiana and named dedlegates to Chicago. John M. Parker, a former democrat, announced that he would go to Chi cago to urge the adoption of a plank in the bull moose platform making It "strictly a white man's party." Connecticut Conventions. Hartford, Conn., Aug. 2. Gov ernor Baldwin will be re-nominated at the democratic convention Sep tember eleventh. The republicans assemble September tenth. They are at sea over a standard bearer. SKETCHES L. Rann. . machine for ten hours, she win not De inclined to count the pulsing accents of the cuckoo clock as her husband ascends the stairs in his stocking feet and a state of trepidation. The sewing machine was invented In 1845 by the late Ellas Howe a Massachusetts Yankee who had grown tired of holding his suspenders in place with ten-penny nails. His first machine was a crude af- oli l.tvfno- a varv nlmrt wlinollinnA and rilMntr mnat everal years to perfect a machine which could be used without introducing leg cramps into the fam ily circle. If Mr. Howe could como back to earth now, he would not 'recogulze his child. The modern sew ing machine will do everything except sweep under. DROUGHT IN THIS Inquiry was today made of Mr. James Batts, so well known as a corn-grower, as to how the drought had damaged his test acre, which was so promising up to a compara tively recent period. Mr, Batts says that the drought has been very severe in his particular section ot the county, having lasted about a month, and lie feels sate in saying that it has damaged his corn hity uer cent. But for this damage there are people who believe that he would on this acre nave ueaten nis record of 1909. , Mr. H. H. Can went down to see his corn, and he has this opinion. Mr. Carr is a corn raiser himself, on his larm in Mary land, where he plants the Batts corn. Mr. Batts, talking over tne phone today to the chamber ot com merce, said that the drought was so errant in hu tmrticular location that he finds it is affecting the trees, SENATE IN 'EXECUTIVE' SESSION. Mugdalcna Buy Discussion Brings Up State Secrets. Washington. Aug. 2. Before the oon.la ltrnpooriorl fnr With the Ma dalena Bay resolution, the discus sion began to touch so close to gov ernment secrets that the door? were closed.. The body went into execu tive session. Lodge, calling up the resolution, which is framed to. rec ord the United States' disapproval against any acquisition of property by foreign interests on tne western hemisphere, which eventually might honnnio n military or naval base, de clared its passage was In the inter est of peace. After a three hour debate nemnu closed doors, the senate 51 to 4 sitnnteil thn Lodge resolution de fining the attitude .of ' the -.United States in disapproval or tne acquisi tion liv fnriirn Interests of anv territory of the western hemisphere which might be used as military or naval bases or menace me ap proach.es"- of this country. WILLSON WILL NOT KESKiN GOVERNORSHIP OF X. J. Seagirt,) N. J., Aug. 2. Wilson today formally announced that he would not resign the governorship during the presidential campaign Leading democrats urged him to fol low Orover Cleveland's precedent Thn eovernor la deenlv interested In several Jersey state problems pending. Wilson gave attention to day to the problem of the organiza tion of the national democratic na tional committee. Wilson was in formed that his running-mate. Mar shall would be here Wednesday for the notification ceremonies. "That is good," commented the governor. Death of Mr. G. L. Bernhardt. (Special to The Times.) Lenoir, Aug. 2. For more than a week the people of the town and county have inquired dally about Mr. G. L. Bernhardt, whose serious Illness was announced a few days ago. Early yesterday morning he died after a lingering illness from paralysis, at his home here. He waB the senior member of the Bernhardt Seagle Hardware and Furniture Co., who are well-known throughout this section of the state. ' YOUR SINS WILL FIND YOU UNIFORM ATEWiLL BE SATtSFACIORY Id develops that the uniform' rate for assessing the I'.aiismiBaion lines of the Carolina Power-& .Light Co. of Ha;i?igh, through Its subsidiary corpora ion, Th adkin Power Co., by the corporation commission fol lowing the recent, conference of the officers ; of tin; corporation, the tax assessors of eight counties and the corporation commissioners, .will be satisfactory to all parties concern ed in spile (if the fact that 'the-' rate or schedule is considerably lower than that insisted on by some coun ties. Lee county for instance, was demanding an ' assessment ' rate of $5,000 per mile while the lines only cost -$3,000 per mile for construc tion." The schedule of assessments agreed on bv the commission is $1,800 per mile for the double cir cuit steel towers, $1,200 per mile for single circuit steel towers and $700 per mjle for single circuit polo lines, : WOItii PROGRESSING RAPIDLY New Administration Building; Con struction Well Along Is of Su perior Construction. Work on the interior of the state administration building is now pro grossing rapidly. The architect Mr. Marye, was here this week and paid the building contractors, John T. Wilson Co., well deserved com pliments for the construction. The roof is of concrete and is said to he one of the best pieces of work Hi the country, in fact it is said that the building is superior to th? new ones ercct'Ml a few years ago at Washington, D. C., for the senate n,d the house of representatives. The state library will be on the first floor of. "the building, the historical department a id the hall of history on the second and the third mid fourth floors will be used hy the supreme court, the library of the lat ter being on the fourth floor. There will be two elevators in the build ing. There is no woodwork and (hp steel doors and windows will lie the color of mahogany, to match that wood, which will be used for the furniture. Today the man who did the fine carving of the ornamental stones in the building arrived here and Is going over this, making some of the curving over the niain en trance holder. The main entrance faces the caniiol square. The view from the building is very fine, nota bly from the roof, which is the same height as that of the Masonic Tem ple. . ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL I Again Reported to the Somite With Features Objected to By President Left Out. Washington, Aug. 2-. With prac tically all the features upon which President Taft based his veto, ellm luated, the army appropriation bill was again reported to the senate, by the military affairs committee, car rying approximately ninety-four million dollars, six million more than the house proposed, The sen ate committee struck out the house provisions, changing the enlistment tenure from three to five years. The provision Inserted in conference, to legislate Major Goneral Wood out, was not in the reconstructed bill. . J OUT..?- ACCiDMTMLV SHOT Wnshing'pn, N. C, Aug. 2. News reached this city this morning of the accidental shooting of Mr. Jesse Purser, of Small, N. C, this county, while out deer hunting yesterday af ternoon. It seems that he and Mr. W. ('. Tuten .were hunting ttjether and sighting a deer, Mr. Tuten fired and one of the buck shot struck a tree ami glanced, entering the abo mcn of Mr. Purser." He-was 'operated on last night and the intestine was found to be perforated in eight places. His condition is critical. The shooting was purely acci dental. MUKDEIt IX CHARLOTTE .Men Quarrel Over Well of Water and One Shoots the Oilier Fatally. (Special to The Tillies.) Charlotte, Aug. 2. -James 11. Davis who was shot Wednesday morning by Wade H. Bailey, a well known citizen of the Atherlon Mill section of CharloUe, died in the Presbyterian hospital last night and now Bailey faces the charge of mur der. Bad feeling is said to have existed between the two men for some time,, resulting from a dispute over a well of water used by both. Wednesday morning Hie two met in the street and Bailey took Davis 10 task lor certain remarks alleged to have been made, According to Baileys story Davis then attacked him, heating him over the head with his fisis. Bailey,, who is one armed seeing that lie was being over powered, drew Ins gun ami shot Davis three times. Bailey will plead sell-detense. PROCLAMATION TO FARMERS. (.overnor Mniiu Asks Tbeni to (inflict- ( Consider Enrichment of Soil. Washington, Aug. 2 A proclama tion, the lirst of i s kind ever is sued in Virginia, ami probably the first ever issued in the I lilted States was issued by Governor Mann to day calling ut;on Virginia farmers to set aside August, fourteenth as the day of gathering in their court houses to consider how they may enrich and improve the-soil. Secre tary .Wilson was advised .of '.thn': proc lamation, this morning. During the last five years the department of agriculture has been working along demonstration lines in Virginia making a special feature of encour aging the rotation of crops and the introduction of legumes, especially clover and alfalfa. Ten Workmen Killed. Nuremberg, Bavaria, Aug. 2 Ten workmen were killed and thirty Injured, in the collapse today of a power station under construction here. Strike at Boston. BoRton, Aug.' 2. Strikes affecting four-hundred workmen became ef foctivo in seven brass and : iron foundericB here today, over a wage dispute. A married woman has to stand so ni n'c h with her husband that all other troubles in the world seem easy, Board of Audit and Finance Objects to Automobile For Chief The regular monthly - meeting of the board of aldev.men will be held tonight, and it -ected that sev eral important mihs v 'will be con sidered. Anions otliK -r Iters the action of the board oy( .y "'t and finance wit h regard, to Uha, fire department and equipment-??,, ''1 come up. This board held a mfy, ing last night and suncvioned tor ttiV' most part the program of t lie board ot aldermen for. the new fire .fight Ins equipment. They objected, how ever, to an automobile, for the chief ot the fire department,' :ml to one motor ..truck. The -board of alder men recommends three. The, board ot audit: and fiuniicethinkstAVO will be enough.. It Ik not .thought tliat. there will lie any '.serious hitch in the pro gram,' and iliat the two hoards will he able to get together. Tins will probably lie Hie most iiiilioi (anl mailer bcloiv Ihe hoard, thoueli there are i;.- to be oilier-; ot importance. Street Car Strike Threatened. Chicago, Aug. ".. Over twelve thousand street car employes are votii.g . wliel kc.f to .--trike ior ' mo'.'e v.-i'.gi's Kbail. .be ih i-iai' 1. Tile tr--Mien, contend , i!i:;t- their- wagea are less than eigreV hundred dollars! an tuuifly; v lii!- ii -;j;i ul' livini; !'6V the. average:, f-saiiiv is t'-1'' hi- liuii dred dq'Uirs . annually. ANOTHER ARREST IN i 111 HAL New York. Aug. 2. "Whitey Jack", Lewis, one of the four men accused of shooting down Gambler Rosenthal, underwent a third degree grilling to gain further ..Information that would' supply ---'corroboration of tile confession of "Bald Jack" Rose, Harry Vallon and ''Bridgie" Webber, that Police Lieutenant Becker sought Rosenthal's death. Lewis, whose real name is Prank Zidenshue, was arrested yesterday at (''elisclimans, N. Y., while about to lake a train for -the west. Lewis would not say where lie had been hiding. He declared he would prove an alibi. He asserted he was ut of the city when the murder occurred. Detectives are on the trail of the other "gunmen" wanted in the case. including "(lib the Blood" and Lefty" Louis, Becker remains non-communica- tive, To all questions he replied': , "I've nothing to say." He read theniewspapers thoroughly..- The man who steals a girl's heart is liable to Servitude for life. 1 fX' a IMPLICATES POLICE OFFICIAL IN MURDER. .Lick Rose, self-conl'essed so-bctween" In Ue "System" by which crooked police officials collected, aciordlng to Rose, $000,000 yearly for protection from utinibliiig house keepers, who, with "Brldgey" Webber and Hurry iillon, made un open confeKslon to District Attorney "WhlU mint, a kiitivlelgiiig that lie gathered togetbi-r the criminals who mar del -l llcrmun Rosenthal, the gambler-Informer, but only after he had been onlei'ed to do it by Lieutenant Charles A. Becker, of the New YorsJ lxilice force, whom Rose declared to be the police official for whom ha collected the ruft. ' WOOL BILE Leaders of House and Senate Agree On Bill Similar to One Vetoed WILL AGAIN 60 TO TAFT Conferees Will Sleet Tonight and Agree on Bill Similar to That Vetoed By Taft Last Summer Iron and Steel Hill to Be Passed Today in Accordance With Pre. ari-ii n ged Progra m Demoora tic Progressive Alliance in the Sen nfe nud House Democrats Get Together. WaKliinptcn, Aug. 2. An- agree ment between the democratic lead er;; of the house and senate to frame a i on. promise wool bill similar to the one .President Taft vetoed last snniim r, vvs reached today - follow i.ig a meeting of the conferees on ihe iron and steel bill. The latter was exiiofte:! to be passed by both houses today. The wool tariff conferees probn l ly will meet tonight. Senator Sim iTinis, representing the democratic progressive alliance in the senafe and Representative Underwood, agreed to stu-h a compromise. The iroi and steel tariff conferees pro ceeded today in accordance with the pre-arranged program. The compromise on the wool bill w ill be on a basis of 29 per cent on the raw wool instead of 20 per cent as in the house bill and 35 per cent in the La Follette bill. The house resumed consideration of the cotton tariff revision bill to reduce the du ties approximately 21 per cent. Un derwood expected it would pass to day. Taft Fails to- Meet Issues, Roosevelt. Says Oyster Bay, Aug. 2. President Taft failed to meet the live issues in his acceptance speech, Theodore Roosevelt said. Roosevelt charged that Taft was afraid to commit him self upon the big questions of the hour, such as the collection of tolls on the Panama canal. Roosevelt's "confession of faith" in Chicago next week, is a speech in which he says he takes more interest than la any he ever delivered. Two Hudred Dollars a Word. Patterson, N. J., Aug. 2. "I'll get even with you." Perry Wein berg paid two hundred dollars & word for making this remark. Wein berg was sentenced to 18 months by Judge Martin for robbing his em ployer of twenty dollars. While be ing led out, Weinberg uttered a threat toward his accuser. The court heard the remark and called the pri soner back, Imposing a thousand dollar fine.
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