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THURSDAY, JAN. 10, 1907. H. A. LONDON, Editor. The General Assembly of North Caroliua convened in biennialses sion yesterday at 12 o'clock, as required by the constitution of this State. The Senate was called to order by Lieutenant-Governor Francis D. Winston, and the roll of the Senators-elect having been called they were sworn in by him and the Senate was then organized by the election of the following officers: A. J. Maxwell (who ha? been the efficient chief clerk for the past six years) was re-elected chief clerk; 11, L. Ballou, of Ashe county, reading clerk, aud L. 13. Pegram, of Raleigh, re-elected doorkeeper. The House of Representatives was called to order by Mr. 'Frank D. Hackett, the chief clerk of the last House, who called the roll of Representatives-elect, who" were sworn in and proceeded to organ ize by the election of the follow ing officers: E. J. Justice, of Greensboro, Speaker; Frank D. Hackett, of Wilkesboro, re-elected chief clerk; F. 13. Arendell, of Raleigh, re-elected reading clerk, and John A.Lisk, of Montgomery county, doorkeeper. The election of Mi. Justice as Speaker of the House will give very geueral satisfaction through out the State, aud especially to those who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. He is a son of Judge M. H. Justice aud is a worthy scion of a uoble sire. He has served in bjth branches of the General Assembly aud was one of the most useful members. He is a lawyer of much ability, and a legislator of large experi ence, and a most high toned gen tleniau, who will gracefully and efficiently discharge the duties of the responsible position to which he has been elected. All his com petitors for the position were de serving of the honor, and this makes his election the more com plimentary. This Legislature is overwhelm ingly Democratic, there being ou four Republicans out of the fifty Senators and twenty-four Republi cans and one independent out of the one hundred aud twenty Rep resentatives. No political party has ever before had so large a majority in the Senate of this State, and yet before the election the Republican speakers and pa pers were boasting how greatly they were going to reduce the Democratic majority. With power comes responsibili ty and the greater the Democratic majority the more careful should the Democratic members of the Legislature be intheir proceed ings. As has been proved by the past experience of all parties in this State the people of North Carolina will not tolerate the ex cesses or abuses of any party or ' set of men, but will promptly re buke any unjust or ill-advised legislation. .Therefore we hope that our legislators will act just as cautiously and prudently as if the Democrats had only a bare majority. Let them all act with an eye single to the best interests of our good old State and all its inhabitants. By .so doing they will receive the approbation ol their constituents aud the ap proval of their own consciences and prove that the Democratic party is indeed and in truth the party of the people and for the people. Much advice, good, bad and in different, will be given the Legis lature now in session, and there fore The Recoud must be excused for making at least one sug gestion, and that is, do not put off until the latter part of the ses sion its important business. It is the custom with nearly all the Legislatures to defer until the middle or latter part of the ses sion the consideration of the most important matters coming before them. The work of every Legisla ture starts ofi slowly and towards the end there i3 a psrl'eot rush. Of course the committees must be appointed and consider the bills before any laws can be en acted, for the best work of legis lators is done in committees. Therefore the committees should be appointed promptly aud all bills should be introduced promp tly, so that ample time -aiay be given for their due ciUratio and discussion. Too many bills are introduced near the end of every session aud rushed through without due consideration. It would be an incentive for prompt action (and prevent the rush of bills later) if this Legislature would at once adopt a resolution that no bills should be introduced during the last two weeks of the session. Do not idle away the first days of the session and then rush with unseemly haste the en actment of laws during the closing days! Another suggestion we take the liberty of making to our leg islators, and that is, do not have so many clerks and other em ployees as many of our Legisla tures have had. When the Fus ionists had control of the Legis latures of 1895 and 1897 they had an army of employees swarming around the capitol, who actually got in each other's way and did nothing but draw their pay. This bad example was followed to some extent by the succeeding Demo cratic Legislatures, which em ployed more "laborers" &c. than were needed. We hope that this Legislature will inaugurate a re form in this respect. 13 lack burx 's latest fiasco proves l.'im to be a blatant buffoon and blustering bully, and it is to .be hoped that he is now relegated to the rear. Soon after his defeat for Congress he boastingly claimed that he would successfully con test his opponent's election, al leging all kinds of frauds and all such rot. And yet after all his boasts and threats he did not even file the required notice of contest (which of course he never had any idea of making) and so the "drummer boy" has beaten an ig nominious retreat. But the most disgraceful part of his perform ance was his attempt to back down from the consequences of his vile libel on Gov. Glenn, when threatened with criminal prosecu tion, by trying to put the blame on his irresponsible henchman, Perkins. His conduct is so dis graceful aud cowardly as to de serve the contempt of all decent men, irrespective of party. The January number of The Wake Forest Student is very ap propriately entitled the "Lee Centennial Memorial Number," being filled with most interesting sketches and reminiscences of Gen. Lee, written by many veter ans who served under and person ally knew him. It was a most happy idea to commemorate the centennial birthday of Gen. Lee in this manner and the manner of its execution is most highly cred itable to the College whose stud ents have thus honored them selves and their alma mater. Raleigh is crowded this week to overflowing. The Legislature begins its session, which always draws a large number of aspirants for offices, and besides this the Grand Lodge of Masons is now in session there, which is attend ed by a still iarger crowd. It i a great pity that our Capitol city has not more hotel accommoda tions for the crowds which so frequently are obliged to assem ble there. Norte Carolina Cotton Mills. EaleigU Correspondence Charlotte Oierrer, Bth. The State Commissioner of La bor this evening issued his annual statement regarding cotton, wool en aud knitting mills. It says rapid strides were made during the year. Textile institutions from which returns have been received "number 318, which compared with returns of last year, show an in crease of 31, 21 beiug cotton mills. Operator and operative appear to be at peace with one another and few differences have arisen which would tend to retard the progress of North Carolina as a manufac turing centre. In a number of in stances two or more mills are re ported as one institution, bo the actual number does not appear in this compilation, but the returns are accurate. The 318 mills sho w authorized capitals of $41,278,1(50, 2,558,114 spindles, 52,747 looms, 5,237 knit ting machines. Four Killed in Explosion. Kaaosha, Wis., Jan. Jan. 5 In an explosion in the grinding mill at .the Laflin and Rand Powder Mill Company, in Pleasant Prai rie. Kenosha couuty, four persons were killed outright today and two were fatally injured. Two others were badly hurt. One of the dead is Ralph Anderson, the other three are Russiaus, names unknown. Wifciitya UtUr. rrrou Our KsalrSrrM9a4Mi!. WaiLiutf ton, Jan. 8, 1SI06. Commissioner of Corporations Garfield is now engaged in a study of water and rail transportation, rates with a view to seeing wheth er the water freight rate cannot be used in many localities to keep down the rail rate. The theory generally accepted by the public as a fact, is that water transpor tation, being so much cheaper than railroad, there is a great tendency to cut freight rates wherever rail and water lines come into active competiton. This is true enough, but the-point in Mr. I Garfield's investigation so far is that these systems of transporta tion never really come into com petition. It seems that the rail roads own or control practically all of the water lines and they are thus able to keep up the price of water-borne freight to approxi mately the same point as rail freight. This has been brought out by the Interstate Commerce Com merce Commission in a number of its investigations recently. It has been shown that a number of the trans-continental railway lines either actually own trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific steamship lines or else own the controlling inter est in their stock, while they are run ostensibly as separate com panies. This is particularly true of the Canadian Pacific, the North ern Pacific and the Great North ern. Turning to the coastwise lines, practically all of them are either owned or controlled abso lutely by the railway companies. Railway companies operating to adjacent foreign countries such as Canada and Mexico, own the steamship lines which would com pete with them to these countries. The same is true of freight lines on rivers, canals and lakes. In fact, it has been found that the railroads have combined to prac tically kill freight transportation on the lower Mississippi. One instance in point was re cently brought out when the In terstate Commerce Commission was investigating the transporta tion of coal into Washington from the West Virginia coal mines. One witness testified that he was offered coal at the mine by some of the independent companies at such a low rate that he believed he could sell it at an immense profit in Washington. He found, however, when he came to make terms with one of the railroad companies that the freight on the coal would just exactly eat up all his profit. He then tried various combinations with the different railroads running into Washing ton, but fouud to his surprise that all of their rates, even though he routed the coal from West Virgin ia into Washington by way of Richmond, came to exactly the same figures. He then tried the scheme of water transportation. There was a very low railroad rate from these mines to the Sea board at Newport News, but he found after taking his coal to Newport News, that the railroads so thoroughly controlled the Po tomac River transportation that it would cost , him exactly the same to bring the coal to Wash ington by rail and water as though he had shipped it by an all rail route. It is expected that Mr. Gar field's investigation will result in recommendations to Congress ten ding to entirely divorce railways from control and ownership of water freight routes. Quite an interesting report has been received by the Phillippine Commission as to the conditions in the islands and the outlook for the coming year. It is stated that the situation is better than it has been at any time since the Ameri can occupation. The improvement is most noticeable in the decline of ladronism, that is to say, the bandit reign "tof terror that has so long been tho curse of all the Phillippiues and particularly of Luzen. From all accounts it ap pears that most of the bandits have been reformed through be ing buried. The provinces of Ca vite and Batangas, which have al ways been strong centrep of lad ronism, have been entirely clear ed of bandits and Aguinaldo, the one time head of the insurrection, has actually leased 1500 acres of land from the government in these troubled provinces and has now settled down as a peaceful culti vator of the soil. There has been a good deal of trouble in the island from locusts, droughts, hurricanes, acd therhiu derpest. But though the hemp crop was damaged to the extent of $4,000,000, the new species of hemp introduced by the Agricul tural Department have proved ex cellently adapted to the needs of the islands and the crops as a whole have been good. There is a comfortable treasury balance to the credit of the insular govern ment, and the only thins: now wanting to complete the happi-j ness of the natives is a little bet-! ter tariff relation with the United j States. The tobacco crop has fal-i len off, the leport says, through lack of an adequate market, none j of it being shipped to the United States owing to the prohibitive j rates of the Dingley tariff. It is j stated that could the i-ates on tr bacco, sugar and hemp be rednctd the comraen-H of tjip islands would jpic. up juimediately. Si&ttri Sprfcatof Out. f ru Ui btULu sew u4 obMrver. feb luti. Under its vtw mauageiuent it looks like the Seaboartf Air Line is to extend its liues and develop a great system along the broad lines that were planned when the present lines were united some years ago. There was a great dream of a great "Southern sys tem in the men who united the properties. 1 Lately, beyond the Birmingham extension, no build ing has been done and no new lat eral lines acquired. Now, the Sea board has purchased the Macon, Dublin and Savannah, and by a little building will have a direct line from Atlanta to Savannah, connecting with ocean steamers. The Seaboard has also boujerbt the "Three O's railroad," built from Marion, North Carolina, through Rutherfordton to South Carolina. The building of the Sea- boaad's new line (called the South and West) from the coal regions of Virginia and Tennessee thro' the wildest section of the moun tains will give it, by the comple tion of a few links, a direct line from the coal fields via Mariou to Savannah and Charleston as well as to Wilmington via Charlotte and Rutherfordton. The building of the South and West road will develop a beautiful mountain sec tion of the state, rich in minerals and timber. With these additions the pres ent Seaboard management will de velop into one of the first systems in the South, and enable it to be a mighty factor in Southern devel opment. S, A. L. Robbers Arrested. Huntington, W. Va., Jan. 5. Percy Martin, of Atlanta, Ga., was arrested here to-night charged with being one of the bandits who held up a Seaboard Air Line train 8 miles south of Richmond on New Year's eve. He admitted his guilt and delivered to the officers a $500 diamond ring which had been taken from, one of the pas sengers. He told where most of the money can be found. Martin says that he and his pal, arrested in Richmond and now in jail in Mecklenburg county, Va., planned the robbery in Washing ton, D. C. Martin came here about three years ago from Atlanta, and was employed on the Chesapeake & Umo as a newsboy. Martin will be held awaiting the arrival of the Virginia oiliciale. There was a re ward of $G00 offered for the ar rest of tho bandits. Riddance cf Rogues. Washington, Jan. 5. The au thorities in -the Philippines are determined to rid the islands of all undesirable characters an.l to this end they have decided to ac count for all dishonorably- dis charged soldiers. It is stated that after their discharge the men have been accustomed to hans: around the garrisons and they add to that class of the population which is neither a credit or a profit to the islands. The military courts that here after sentence soldiers fo dishon orable discharge will also impose a term of imprisonment and dur ing this time the offender will be transported to the United Stales. In this way it will become impos sibleforadishonorably discharged soldier to be at liberty on the is lands and it will rid the Phil ippine community of their unde sirable presence. Killed in Oil Mill. Special to Char lotto Ob.-crver. Clayton, Jan. 2. Vernon Ellis, aged 18, son of the chief of police of this place, and employed at the Clayton Oil Mill, was killed and horribly mangled by the shaft ing in the ' mill Monday night about G o'clock. The last known of Ellis is that he had gone to the upper story of the building to work on some bearings, when, it is supposed, he was caught in tho machinery and ground to death before any one knew of his where abouts. When he was discovered both legs were chopped Into bits. He lived about two hours but never regained consciousness. Three Suffocated id Fire. Delhi, N. Y., Jan. G Three lives were lost in a fire that des troyed the American Hotel here early today. All were suffocated. They were permanent guests ajb hotel. The fire was discovered in the apartments of Mr. Winter aud his wife 011 the third floor, and by the time the firemen ar rived the structure was a-mass of flames. O'Connor also occupitd apartments on the third flJor. The other guests escaped' by leap ing from the -windows in their night clothes. Nejra Troops to Pfailippiaes. Washington, Jan. 5 The Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and thp Twenty-fifth Infantry, including all the negro o)cli;MS in" the regular; army 'in. this enntry, have, ben ordered to prepare for service iii the Philippines and will sail at different times betweeu March 5th and June oth of this year.-.. The only other regiment composed of negroes, the Twenty-fourth In- fan try,- is now doing service in the Philippines. Artatiai Wil Fr EirtMsikt. its rri(MO Cfcrwtfal . ' It has just been discovered that the upheaval of April 18 did . fun ny things to the wells in the court yard at the rear of the San Fran cisco Mint. , For years prior ' to April 18 thee had been ordinary, well behaved wells, yielding wat er plentifully when a steam pump was employed. But now tuey are spouting artesian wells, from which a steady stream of water flows when no pumping is done. This was discovered yesterday when the pump was taken out for repairs, the courtyard being flood ed within a short time. The w?lls wer bored many years agov and are about 175 feet in depth. There was apparently a subterranean connection between them, for the pumping of water from one lowered the water in the other. Normally, the water was within thirty feet of the surface, and that was the condition when the pumps 'were taken out last March. Yesterda3r, for the first time since March, the pumps were again removed, when it was discovered that the water flowed freely. World's Naval Pageant. Washington, January 8. In re sponse to a request transmitted to other governments by the State Department at the instigation of the Navy Department nearly all foreign countries have accepted the invitation oi the Jamestown Exposition Company to be rep resented by a military or naval display. The only official inform ation received in Washington so far, however, is that Chile will send two ships; Italy one; Portu gal one; and Sweden one. Belgium will send a delegation of army of ficeis, so will Guatemala. Argen tine will participate. Persia and Denmark have advised this gov ernment that- they will not partic ipate.' Unofficially it is stated that Great Britain, Trance, Ger many, Japan, aud possibly Rus sia, will be represented by fleets of modern warships. Fatal Fire in New York. New York, Jan. C. Three fire men were killed during the fire that burned out 'the interior of Hill's paper warehouse on Roose velt street tonight. Just befoie the third floor of the five-story structure fell all the men were ordered out of the buil diug. Firemen Campbell, Siefert and Lenuon, who had leeu work ing within the walls failed to re spond and a subsequent round up of the firemen established the fact that the thiee were beyond doubt buried in the ruins. Cold Wave at Manila. Manila: Jau. 8. A cold wave is sweeping over Luzon and the ad jaceut islands.. The temperature at Manila is 55.C, while at Bagulo, the capital of the province of Ben guet, itis 30. This is the coldest weather ever experienced in the history of Manila. The nearest approach to it was in 1872, when the temperature was 5G.C. The natives are suffering great dis comfort, as they are unprovided with proper clothing for the changed weather conditions Congress And Collisions. Washington, Jau. 7 Senator Carter introduced a joint lesolu tioii today providing for a joint committee of four senators and five members of the House to in vestigate and report to Congress before January 1, 1908, its find ing as to the cause of collisions on railroads and the best means i oi obviating them. The committee is to during tho recess of Con gress and to have a fund of $25, 000 to defray expenses. Charlotte Observer: While sit ting in her home talking with her ! children last night at 9:30 o'clock j Mary Mendenhall, a colored wo j man who lived at No. 300 East chair and died without ever speak ing again. Death was due to heart trouble. Coroner W. A. Gresham went to the home to assure him self that theie had been no foul play and decided that ' an inquest was unnecessary. .The woman was well known among her race and owned the house in which she lived. Joseph B. 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