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Gfte Gbatbam "Kccotb. tbe Cbatbam "Record. ' H. A. LONDON EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1.50 Per Year STRICTLY IN ADVANCE NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS Occurrences 0 Interest GIeaned Frem All Seeiisue 9 the Busy Tar Heel State STONEWALL TRAINING SCHOOL. City School Superintendents and Principals' Association Hear Val uabb Addresses. Raleigh, Special. Declared to be the best meeting since its organiza tion in 1SS9, the North Carolina As sociation of City Superintendents and Principals Monday closed its session of three days which has been held in the auditorium of the Raleigh Hich School. In 1SS9 the associa tion began with a membership of seven and it has increased till now its membership numbers sixty-two. T;;e meetings in Raleigh have been pleasant and profitable, the discus cions in themselves showing that ed-u-r.tional interests are advancing in North Carolina, and that there is no f.-bsrenient of the spirit of progress whhrh seeks to make the schools of thi- State the very best in the coun try. The session of Monday was an especially interesting one, for in ad dition to the discussions there were helpful and inspiring addresses by State Superintendent of Public Iu stnuiion J. Y. Joyner, Dr. W. L. P. :-;it. president of Wake Forest College, Mr. J. P. Cook, chairman of the Hoard of Trustees -of the Stone wall Jackson Training School.- At the session there also occurred tho election of officers for the ensuing j ear. President Supt. L. C. Brogden, of Kinston. Vice-President Supt. Ilarrv How ell, of High Point. Secretary Supt. C. TV. Wilson, of Scotland Neck. Prof. Ccok was heard and the fol lowing was adopted : - "Whereas, tho State of North Carolina now has a Reform School, under the charter name of the Stone wall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School, where incorrigible boys and youthful offenders under the age of sixteen vears may be placed and taught correct habits and j receive instruction in the several branches prescribed in the Public 1 School Law. and taught one of sev eral useful trades: and, ''Whereas, the Board of Trustees of said school have succeeded in se curing property and buildings worth more than thirty thousand dollars, j of which the State contributed only ten thousand dollars ; and j "Whereas, this is a long needed ' work in our educational system, re- j lieving many schools of disturbing j problems and yet offering a well- i founded hope for saving to the State j iif ef ul citizens that otherwise would : become expensive criminals; and j "Whereas, it reflects the progres-' sive and the moral spirit of the poo-' pie of our State; now, therefore, the Association of City Superintendents of North Carolina, in convention as sembled, do 'r-.l,. 1 rnL.A !L ill. x. 111x1 it views wua pride and satisfaction the great work accomplished by the Board of 'Trustees of the Stonewall Jackson i Manual Training and Industrial, School of Concord, for the wayward j boys of the State;' and that we here- by pledge the said board and naan-j figement our heartiest sympathy and coral support in this humane and important educational work. ; "2. That we unite in expressing, the hope and belief that the present General Assembly will deal kindly i find generously in its provisions f or j ike maintenance and development of th:s great work so long delayed in our good State. Explosion Damages Repaired. Spencer, Special. The mammoth shop buildings of the Southern Rail way Company in Spencer are being repainted in connection with the re pairs made following the powder magazine explosion here October 1st. The repair work has been com pleted and when the painting has heen finished the buildings will pre sent a new appearance. Hog Gained Five Pounds Daily. Vinston-Salem, Special. A hog that gained in weight five pounds a day is the exhibit offered by Mr. John Vawters, of Centerville, a suburb of 'is city. Mr. Yawters says that he bought a hog last November, when it weighed 212 pounds. He kept it 56 -'ays, and it weighed just 4S5 pounds. Witnesses substantiate Mr. Vawters, should any doubting Thomases come lorwnrd. An average of two pounds ft day is considered fair for a hog to 3m in training. Vanderbilt's School to Close. f Asheville, Special. Baltimore Par h school, established and maintain ed by George W. Yanderbilt for 12 'ears, will be discontinued at the end f the present term and the building will be leased to an Asheville teach er, who will conduct a boys' school j-'re, because competition of a near ly public school has reduced the at tendance from one hundred last term l twenty this term. mm 1VA VOL. XXXI. FROZEN TO DEATH IN BOAT. Edward N. Wright, Accidentally Hurt, Skull Being Fractured, said Dies of Injuries and Exposure to Weather. Washington, Special. Startling news was received in this city Tues day morning to the effect that Mjr. Edward N. Wright had been frozen to death while in a gas boat en Pamlico river Monday night en rpute for this city. The gas boat Lena was located near the Black bouy about one mile from this city and was towing, a raft of logs to tkis city. Upon boarding the boat the search ing party found young Wright lying in the bottom of the boat, with blood spattered all over the interior and his body frozen, his skull bsing crushed in. There were no evidences of foul play. It is believed that his head was causrht in the macfeinfiw and his wound and the extreme eold caused death. KILLED WHILE HUNTING. Newbem Lad the Victim of a Dis tressing Accident Trigger of His Gun Caught on Briars and Hia Death Results. Newbern, Special. Howard, the 15-year-old son of Rev. J. N. . IJ. Summerell, pastor of the Presby terian church here, met with a dis tressing death. He went hunting and when he had not returned at the time appointed his parents became alarmed. A party of citizens went in search of the boy, and the dead body was found in tho marsh near the county home, five miles from Newbern. The gun had discharged its load, which lodged under tho boy's jaw and his brain was perforat ed with shot. The trigger had evi dently caught on a briar in the under growth and caused the discharge. Fought Wth Shotguns. Asheville, Special. In a fight with shotguns between John Llewellyn and four of the Hurst bo.ys on Big Ivy, near the Madison and Buncombe lino early Wednesday morning, ac cording to a telephone message from Mars Hill Wednesday afternoon, John Llewellyn received Avhat are considered mortal injuries. The fight between the Hurst boys, sons of Wil liam Hurst, of north Buncombe, and LleAvelljTi ocurred at a point about three miles from Democrat and an equal distance from Mars Hill. It is understood that the Hurst boys were not hurt, or at any rate serious ly. ' Llewellyn, it is said, was shot twice in the abdomen and the head. When the news reached Mars Hill Llewellyn was still alive, but it is said that he would die. The trouble between the men, it is alleged, grew out of a dispute over some land. Warrants, it was stated, had been issued for the Hurst boys. Kept Officers in Cold. Newbern, Special. A negro named Shade Morning held the chief of police and three officers at . bay all Sunday night and until 8 o'clock Monday morning." The negro bad a row with his wife. Hester Morning, and when tho officers appeared he shut himself upstairs and threaten cd to kill the first man wha attempted to enter the bouse. All Sunday night the officers stood on guard the cold est night of the winter. Monday morning, Officer Griffin went to their rescue and succeeded in arresting the man, although he shot at them dur. ing the attempt. He was tried and sent up on two charges, and as court is in session he will likely be sent to the roads this week. Burned to Death. Fayetteville, Special. Miss Claude Youngblood, the 19-year-old daughter of N. E. Youngblood, a railroad engi neer of this city, was burned to death Sunday afternoon as a result of her clothing catching fire from an open stove. . Results of the Blizzard. High Point, Special. Monday af ternoon a three-inch water pipe on the third floor of the Redding build ing bursted, flooding the building and causing several hundred dollars dam age to furniture and the building. Another accident due to frozen pipes was at Bascom Hoskin's place. A fire was being built in the kitchen to prepare breakfast when water back, which was -frozen, exploded, tearing the range to atoms and the flying pieces tearing out the door and two windows. Members of the fam ily had just left the room, thereby escaping an awful death. Small Prescription Business. Winston-Salem, Special. Whiskey prescriptions filled at the four white drug stores in Winston in January numbered cnl 117. It may be re marked that in Greensboro last month there were 500 prescriptions filled. The druggists here say they have had comparatively little bother with people wanting liquor without prescriptions. Every prescription, they say; was for medical purposest PITTSBOBO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. 0., WEDNESDAY. jfERBUARY 10. 1909. N0126. WITH N. CJWMAKtRS Doings of the State Legislature Con densedInteresting Items from Day to Day. In the House Mr. Coxe, of Anson, introduced by consent out of order a bill to establish the Morven High School. The following bills passed third reading: Resolution to pay the expenses of the committee on Deaf and Dumb in visiting Morganlon. Amend charter of the Western Carolina Power and Transportation Company. ' Incorporate Carolina-Tennessee Power Company. Incorporate Asheville & East Ten nessee Railroad, 60-mile 'branch of the C. C. & O. from Muntdale, in Yancey county, to Asheville. The bill to amend Revisal 2C34 so penalties for unreasonably delayed freight might be sued for by any par ty damaged as well as the consignee was, on motion of Mr. Coxe, of Wake, re-referred to the judicial committee No. 1, as several parties had notified the committee that they desired to be heard. Mr. Gfvin explained that the present law allowed , only the con signee to sue for the penalty. The usual routine of business in volved acts of merely local interests. In the Senate Wednesday not with out a long debate the Senate passed finally the Emple game bill, prohibit ing the sale of quail and mountain pheasants in North Carolina for two years, with an amendment by Senator Peele limiting the killing by a hun ter to fifteen birds on a single day. The Senate passed the State drain age bill for reclaiming swamp and overflowed lands. No oppositon was manifested. There was some discussion of Sena tor Gay's bill to punish public drunk enness in the State, but it was not deemed necessary in view of the pro hibition law and was voted down. Senator Pharr and Representative Cox, of Wake, both introduced bills looking to r.n adequate forestry bu reau for the State, with several as sistant foresters to travel over the State and look out for necessary things to be done to preserve and pepetuate the foresfeg. An appropria tion of five thousand dollars is asked. A new bill by Mr. Dowd in the House restores to heads of State in stitutions the nominating power in selecting employes taken from them two years ago and prevents the em ployment of relatives of superinten dents or directors. A reformatory and amnual train ing school for negro criminal j-outh is embraced in a bill introduced by Mr. Murphy, of Guilford. Many colored eitiens have contributed sums for the purpose, one woman having given eight hundred dollars. The object of the bill is simply to incor porate the school, so that contribu tions may be -'properly received and handled. Senator Doughton by request sent forward, out of order, a bill to create the new County of Avery out of por tions of Mitchell and Watauga. After an animated, lengthy hear? ing the House committee on manu factures and labor voted to report unfavorably the Hinsdale bill. The feature of Thursday was Gov ernor Kitchin'a message transmitting Superintendent; Mann's letter as to the finances of the State prison, and recommending that some $63,000 be paid back to the penitentiary from the prison funds in the hands of the State Treasury, being the "money turned over for the liquidation of the prison bonds, and that the tSate pro vide other means for set-tiling the bond issue. The message was plae ed in the hands of the committees of Senate and House on penal insti tutions. In the. Senate matters of general interest were in part : Render secure from damage by fires such woodlands as are above the 2,000 feet contour line in North Carolina by authorizing the Govern or to appoint fire wardens to be paid by the landowners. House bill to amend the Revisal as to the time for advertising or pub lishing notices; in cases of caveat, making this four instead of six weeks. Amend the law as to standard keepers, inserting a new section in the Revisal. Amend the Revisal by allowing sheriffs fees of $25 for illicit distil leries seized, this fee to be payable to other police officers seizing distiller ies. Incorporate the John Charles Mc Neill Memorial Society. House bill to fix liability of banks to depositors for paying raised or forged checks (six months limita tion.) The following are among the new bills introduced in the House: Grant: Amend 806, Revisal, as to issuing of injunctions by preventing an injunction stopping a sale under execution. Dowd : Prevent working on the Sabath. Corrects apparent error in present law and makes violation as misdemeanor instead of punishable by a fine of $1. Weavers Authorize appointment of women as notaries public. Mr. Weaver suggested, in order that his bill might be sure of a favorable le port, that it ba referred to a special committee composed of the gentle men from Caldwell. Mr. Harshaw; the gentleman from Caswell, Mr. Henderson, and the gentleman from Surry, Mr, Haymore. it Ay Linney: Except brandy from the operation of the prohibition law. Al lows citizens of Alexander county to sell brandy made, from fruit grown on their own land. The following bills were among those passed on third reading: Incorporate Asheville & East Ten nessee Railroad Company. For relief of Mrs. Emma Alice Howard, widow of "e-Sheriff Eugene K. Howard, of Granville, allowing her to collect back taxes. In the Senate on Friday certain bills and resolutions were introduced as follows: Manning: Petition from certain Confederate soldiers for increased pensions. Long, of Person: Amend Chap. 224, Public Laws of 1907, relative to working prisoners on- the roads at their own request. West: Petition from citizens of Macon county with request for Con federate monument. New bills introduced out of order were as follows: Barringer: Allow cleaning estab lishments a lien on articles cleaned until the bill for the work is paid. Dawes: Return to the State peni tentiary $68,356.70 from the State Treasury, this being desired for use in maintanance of the prison. The bill had been prepared by the joint committee on penal institution' and Senator Dawes asked its inv odiate, passage. This was done an' the bill was sent to the House for action there. Elliott: Incorporate the Denver & Lincolnton Railroad Company. Fry: Amend 2S36, -Revisal, rela tive to work on the Sabbath. - Barringer: Provide for the main tenance and support of the A. & M. College fo rthe colored race. In the House there was a flood of bills among which are the following: Hanes: Allow defendants in civil actions on appeal to make the same plea or defense in the Superior Court as they would have been entitled to had they been present at. the former trial. Weaver: Authorize the creation of railroad companies for the trans-, portation of certain classes of freight by relieving them of the obligations of common carriers. Foy: Relief of Pender county flood suffers. The following bills passed third reading: y Permit Seaboard Air Line Railway to condemn part of Brunswick street in Wilmington for terminal purposes. Senate bill to render secure from fire forests lying 2,000 and more feet above sea level. Senate bill directing State Treas urer to return to the State prison a sufficient sum from its earnings for 190S to. support it for 1909. Provide for compensation of judges holding special terms of court, at rate of $100 a week. Amend slot machine act of 1907 so as to exempt from tax those dispen sing drinking water only. In the the Senate Saturday among the number of bills of local interest was one by Mr. Holden to expedite the trial of causes both civil and criminal, and relative to challenges. At tho request of Chairman Dough ton, of the committee of agriculure, the bill to regulate the registration of stock and poultry feed was re-referred to that committee in order that there may be a further hearing as to its provisions February 15th. The substitute for the Berham and Starbuck bills to equalize peremptory challenges in the trial of capital cases and abolish the practice of the State in standing aside jurors to the end of the panel, providing that the State have twelve and the defendant eigh teen challenges, passed its third read ing. House bill to allow the board of agriculture to sell test farms and give title. Amend Revisal relating to fees of comers so as to allow fees of $3 in case no foul play is found and a jury not necessary. The bill to provide better protec tion for the employes of railroads do ing interstate business and assuring them the rights of personal property exemption came up with favorable re port from the committee. It was Senator Bassett's bill. Senator Fry spoke in opposition to the bill and Senators Bassett and Barringer for it. The bill passed final reading. A resolution by Senator Lee rela tive to the death of Representative Hayes providing that when the Sen ate adjourn for the dav it do so in his memory, was adopted. In the House Mr. Harshaw offered a resolution in memory of Thomas, N. Hayes, member from Wilkes, news of whose death had reached the House. The resolution expressed the grief and sympathy of th House of Representa tives, a provision that it be spread upon the journal, and that the House adjourn at 12 o'clock in his memory. Adopted at once unanimously. On motion the Speaker appointed Mr. Caudill, the colleague of the de ceased member, and Messrs. Grump ier, Carver, Buck and Tomlin a spec ial corcmitee to represent the House at the funeral at Purlear, in Wilkes county, the home --of the Representa tive whose vacant seat is now draped in mourning and garlanded with a wreath. A joint resolution offered by Mr. Morton was adopted unanimously to the effect that the State pay the funeral expenses. The following new bills offered: Taylor: An end Revisal 370, rela tive to bringing new actions after non-suit . Foy:-Joint resolution to pay expen ses of sub-committee visiting insane asylums. Connor: Repeal Revisal 4792 and require assessment insurance compan ies doing business in North Carolina to make deposit with the State Treas ure.. Perry: For greater protection and comfort of the traveling public. (Substitute for similar bill which Avas mislaid). Provides for screens to windows of hotels and boarding houses and railroad cars. Livingston: Require attendance or public schools in Tryon white graded school district, Polk county. Gordon: Amend Revisal relating to public health. (Enlarges power? of State board of health and increas es appropriation from $2,00-3 to $10. 000, putting secretary in the field providing for assistants and active work). THE LARGESTWMSHIP Tnc Battleship Delewaro Launched at . Newport News Saturday Descrip tion of the Great -Sea-Fishier. Newport News, Ya., Special. The great battleship Deleware was suc cessfully launched from the yards of her builders, the NeAvport NeAvs Ship building and Dry Dock Company Saturdajr. The lauching was witness ed, by 5,000 people. Compared, with the battleships, .completed or under construction, of the navy of any foreign country, the Delaware surpasses all. She is one of four sister ships authorized by Congress which will form an indomi table squadron. The other vessels are the North Dekota, being built at Quincy, Mass.; the Florida, which will be built at the New York navy yard, and the Utah, to be built at Camden, N. J. The Delaware is to cany as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any. known vessel of its class; will have a speed of 21 knots, which is believed to be the highest practicable for a vessel of this type and class, and will have the highest practicable radius of action. The arrangements of her main battery guns is such as to permit a broadside fire 25 per cent greater than that of the broadside of any battleship now built, or, so far as is known, under construction. Her defensive qualities, other than those dependent upen armor protection, are such as to give the maximum degree of; protection to all the vital portions by means of unusually effective eom partmental sub-division, so that in conjunction Avith her armor protection the defensive qualities of this vessel are believed to bo distinctly superior to those of any battleship hereto de signed. The hull is protected by a water line belt of armor 8 feet in width, whose maximum thickness is 11 inches. This armor belt gives effec tive protection fo the boilers, machin ery and magazine spaces. The side fboA-e the main armor belt is protect ed by armor 7 feet 3 inches wide and of a maximum thickness of 10 inches. AboA-c the main casement armor amid ships the side is protected by armor of 5 inches thickness, which effords protection to the smoke pipes, the ma jor portion of the secondary batter ies of of 5-inch guns and the hull structure. Mr. Taft Leaves Colon. Colon, By Cable. President-elect William H. Taft and party left here at 6 o'clock Sunday evening on board tho cruiser North Carolina for NeAv Orleans acompanicd by the cruiser Montana. , Just previous to embark ing Mr. Taft gave out the following ! "I em not prepared to make, a statement as to the results of the trip to the isthmus, except to sa' that we have found the work progressing ill a most satisfactory way; the organi zation better than ever before, tiie esprit de corps excellent and the de termination of all, even the humblest laborer, directed to the building of the canal. I am sure that this has impressed itself upon every one of the board of visiting engineers as it has upon me. "With reference to the type of the canal and the continuance of the present plans, the engineers promise that they will be able to hand me their report by the time we land at New Orleans." Razor For Suicide. Asheville, N. C, Special. Telling Avife that he was going doAvnstairs to .shave, James M. Hyatt a prominent business man of this pkee, Sunday morning shortly after 8 o'clock pick ed up his razor and other shaving ma terial, went down stairs, locking the doors and slashed his throat with the razor, dying soon after the act was discovered by Mrs. Hyatt. No cause other than ill health can be assigned for the rash act. General News in Brief. Charlottesville, Va., suffered from a disastrious fire on Friday, the 4th. The loss is estimated at $250,000. Subpoenas have been issued by Judge Landis for a new trial of the Standard Oil Co. Judge Landis be fore imposed a fine of $29,240,000 on the company which succeeded in get ting a new trial. It is proposed at this late day to gather the ashes of Major Pierre Charles L' Enfant, the French engi neer, and bury them at Arlington and to have a suitable monument in rec nomitinnnf bis services to Gen. Wash ington in planning the Capital City. AY DOINGS OfCONGRESS Summary of Important Proceedings Enacted From Day to Day. Senator" Teller, of -Colorado, on Wednesday addressed the Senate in support of Senator Bacon's resolu tion declaring that the Senate has a right to any information in posses sion of the executiA'e departments, and cited various precedents to sus tain his contention. He claimed that only in exceptional cases is the Pres ident warranted in withholding in formation and declared that Congress had never failed to respect such ac tion on the part of the executive when it has been based on considera tions of public interest. The Senate remained in executive session during most of the day con sidering the nomination of Dr. W. D. Cram, to be collector of customs at Charleston, S. C, and at '5:27 p. m. adjourned. General debate on the agricultural appropriation bill in the House af forded critics and defenders of the Department of Agriculture an excel lent field day. Mr. Lever, of South Carolina, led off with an attack on the appoint ment and work of the referee board of consulting chemists in the depart ment. Mr. Heflin, of Alabama, asked on behalf of cotton growers for a governmental monthly report on the consumption of cotton. . Mr. Sturgis, of West Virginia, urged an extension of the forest service. Mr. Humphrey, of Washington, took an exactly op posite vieAV, Avhile Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming, declared the bureau of forestry the most autocratic govern ment bureau outside of Russia. Mr. Bartholdt, of Missouri, urged the is sue of bonds for inland waterway improvement and Mr. Candler, of Mississippi, complained of the tariff -On agricultural implements. Chair man Scott, of the agricultural com mittee, closed the debate Avith ex planatory remarks on the work done by the department during the past year. While the bill was under considera tion under the five-minute rule, an in crease of $500, to the salary of Solic itor George P. McCabe, making it $4,500, Avas stricken out on a point of order. An increase of the salarv of Di rector Willis B. Moore,of the Aveath er bureau, from $5,000 to $6,000 suf fered a similar fate. Before the bill Avas taken up in general debate the House passed the Senate pension bill for Federal judsres. The monotonous tones of the read ing cleark of the Senate as he labor ed through the bill of OA'er 100 pages making appropriations for the Dis trict of Columbia constituted the 'hief, feature in the proceedings of that body Thursday. There was an evident intention on the part of the authority to lengthen the time neces sary to dispose of the measure, it be ing the only obstacle to an executive session for the further consideration of the nomination of William D. Crum to be collector of customs at Charleston, S. C. On the Democratic side there was a persistent demand for the most care ful reading of the bill and oeasional Iy members of the minority became inTolved in a spirited debate on items usually left to the judgment of the committee reporting the measure. When the Senate adjourned at 5:18 o'clock the reading of only half of the bill had been completed. In the House the forest serviee got its usual annual drubbing Thursday, the criticism! against it coming prins cipally from Mr. Smith, of Califor nia, Mr. Cook, of Colorado, and Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming, all of whom charged extravagance in admlnistra tion and the extortion of money from miners, farmers and even the owners of bee hives. Mr. Cook attributed to Mr. Pinchot, the chief forester, the ulterior motive of scheming for Sec retary Wilson's seat in the Cabinet. Both Mr. Pinchot and the forest ser vice were vigorously defended by Messrs. Mann, of Illinois, and Weeks, of Massachuetts. All attempts to amend the bill in any important particular failed. Its consideration was about two-thirds completed when the House at 5:20 p. m, adourned. The Senate Friday concluded con sideration of the District of Colum bia appropriation bill, carrying an aggregate of about $11,500,000. A conference report on the urgent defi ciency bill was agreed to. It appro priates $12,000 for tho "purchase, care and maintenance of automobiles for the President," and $150,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue to combat the foot and mouth disease in horses and cattle. A resolution was adopted directing the committee on military affairs to investigate military posts and various phases of army administration. After en executive session, in which the nomination of William D. Cram to be collector of customs of Charles ton, S. C, was considered. Private claimants by the score had their innings in the House of Repre sentatives, the whole session being given over under a special order to their consideration. The debate was not without its incidents, both humor ous and exciting. Mr. Mann provok ed the House to laughter by question ing the value of two Kentucky thor oughbred horses, and he charged htat the committee had accepted the valu ation of the animals as fixed by "an idiot" as against that of the claim ant's committee to conduct his af RATES OF ADVERTISING; Oae Square, ono Insertion $U One Square two Insertions.... Lf One Square, one month........ .f For Larger Advertise ments Liberal Contracts will be made. fairs. But it was left to Messrs. Hep burn (Iowa) ; Macon, of Arkansas; and Gaines, of Tennessee, to furnish the exciting feature of the proceed ings. The Speaker became involved In the controversy and was called up on to make a ruling, and then Mr. .Haines threw the House into an up-, roar by charging that the rules pro hibited a "square deal" to claim .mt:. The President's mcssajre vetoing the census bill Avas read just before idjournment. The splendid qualities of mind nn character of the late Senator William B. Allison, of Iowa, 35 years a United States Senator, and eight years a member of the House of Representa tives, were the subject of many eulo gies in the Senate Saturday. Nine teen Senators spoke in praise of the public serArices of Senator Allison and during most of the day the number of Senators in their places on the floor and the attendance in galleries was large. The delivery of the eulogies consumed the entire day. The Sen ate adjourned at 4:56 p. m. r Under special order, the House of Representatives considered the bill amendatory of the national bankrupt cy law. By way of a substitute Mr. Clayton, of Alabama, offered an amendment repealing the bankruptcy laAv of July 1st, 1898, with a proviso that proceedings under the laAv begnn prior to the time the act shall take ef fect shall not be affected. The first business of importance to claim the attention of the House of Representatives Avas the President's message Aretoing the census bill. Mr. Crumpacker moA-ed the reference of the bill and message to the census committee. The committee on rivers and har bors improA'ements practically has completed its consideration of the bill providing for emergencies for surveys and for maintenance, Avhich is to be reported within a few days. The bill carries a total appropriation of slight ly less than $10,000,000. A survey for the Atlantic deeper waterways pro ject, which contemplates an inside Avater route from New York to Flori da, is provided for, as well as a sur vey for the.intercoastal canal through Louisiana and Texas, to connect the Mississippi and Rio Grande rivers. Having for its object the preA'cntion of the importation of deceased nnr sery stock a bill has been introduced by Representative John R. Lamb, of Virginia. It provides that all nur sery stock shall be sub.iect to inspec tion by experts of the Department of Agriculture, at such points of entry as' the Secretary of Agriculture may designate. Bryan Denies tho Story. Jacksonville, Fla., Special. Wil liam Jennings Bryan reached Jackson- A'ille at 7 o'clock Sunday morning from Deland and emphatically denies the story sent out regarding the alleged automobile accident near Tar pon Springs, in Avhich it was said that he avss badly injured and under treat ment in a Tampa hotel. Tho Rico Supply Estimated. Houston, Tex., Special. A. E, Groves, secretary of the Texas-Louisii ana Farmers' Association, has given out an estimate of the rice now held hv f aimers and by mills. According to hi figures there are 800,000 sacks of clean and rough rice in Louisiana and 917,000 in Texas, of which latter 510,000 is rough. Mr. Groves csti cates that 300,000 sacks will be need ed fcr eecd, leaving a total aavllable supply cf 1,417,500 sacks. Macon Has $40,000 Fire. Macon, Ga., Special. Fire originate ing in a cottage on Wilder street in south Macon, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, driven by a stiff wind rapid ly spread to adjourning dwellings, re sulting in the complete destruction" of twenty-six residences, the loss on buildings and personal property amounting to approximately $40,000t Will Push the Prohibition Tight. - Birmingham, Ala., Special. Jubi lant as having driven the "rum de mon" from Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi and Tennessee, the workers of the Anti-Saloon League are gathering here for a con ference at which they will agree up on plans for carrying the warfare in to the remaining "wet" States of Dixie. The Alabama State Anti-Saloon League will hold a jubilee meet ing here the latter part of the week. Earthquake Post Cards. New York, Special. Orders con tinue to pour in for the official me morial post cards issued by the American-Italian Generpl Relief Com mittee and it is thought that millions of the cards will I- disposed of in the next few months, resulting in an immense addition to the fund for the relief of the Italian earthquake vic tims. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, August Belmont and other famous New Yorkers are vice chairmen of the" re lief coiniiittee. The receipt of 700,000 application for old-age pensions at the beginning, thlmks the New York World, more than Justifies the apprehension of crit ics of the new - British publlc-ald measure,