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VOL. XXXV.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY; NL G., DECEMBER 4, 1912.
NO. 17.
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Congress Is Told of Improvements in Consular and
Diplomatic Corps and Good Results of Un
cle Sam's Efforts in Latin America.
Washington, Dec 3. President Taft
submitted to congress today the first of
everal messages. It was devoted to our
foreign relations and In part was as fol
lows: To the Senate and House of Represen
tatives: The foreign relations of the
United States actually and potentially af
fect the state of the Union to a degree
not widely realized and hardly surpassed
by any other factor in the welfare of
the whole nation. The position of the
United States in the moral, intellectual,
and material relations of the family of
nations should be a matter of vital inter
est to every patriotic citizen. The nation
' a.1 prosperity and power impose upon us
duties which we cannot shirk if we are
to be true to our Ideals. The tremendous
growth of the export trade of the United
States has already made that trade a.
very real factor in the Industrial and
commercial prosperity of the country.
With the development of our Industries
the foreign commerce of the United States
must rapidly become a still more es
sential factor in its economic welfare.
"Whether we have a far-seeing and wise
diplomacy and are not recklessly plunged
Into unnecessary wars, and whether our
foreign policies are based upon an intel
ligent grasp of present-day world con
ditions and a clear view of the potentiali
ties of the future, or are governed by a
temporary and timid expediency or by
narrow views befitting an Infant nation,
are Questions In the alternative consider
ation of which must convince any
thoughtful citizen that no department of
national policy offers greater opportunity
for promoting the interests of the whole
people on the one hand, or greater chance
on the other of permanent national in
Jury, than that which deals with the for
eign relations of the United States.
The fundamental foreign policies of the
United States should be raised high above
the conflict of partisanship and wholly
dissociated from differences as to domes
tic policy. In Its foreign affairs the
United States should present to the world
a united front. The intellectual, financial
and industrial interests of the country
and the publicist, the wage earner, the
farmer, and citizen of whatever occupa
tion must co-operate in a spirit of high
patriotism to promote that national soli
darity which is indispensable to national
efficiency and to the attainment of na
tional ideals.
The relations of the United States with
all foreign powers remain upon a sound
basis of peace, harmony and frlendshpl.
A greater insistence upon justice to Amer
ican citizens or interests wherever it may
have been denied and a stronger empha
sis of the need of mutuality in commer
cial and other relations have only served
to strengthen our friendships with for
eign countries by placing those friend
ships upon a firm foundation of realities
as well as aspirations.
Before briefly reviewing the more im
portant events of the last year in our for
eign relations, which It is my duty to do
as charged with their conduct and be
cause diplomatic affairs are not of a na
tuer to make it appropriate that the sec
retary of state make a formal annual re
port, I desire to touch upon some of the
essentials to the safe management of the
foreign relations of the United States and
to endeavor, also, to. define clearly certain
concrete policies which are the logical
modern corrollaries of the undisputed and
traditional fundamentals of the foreign
policy of the United States.
Reorganization of the State Depart
ment. At the beginning of the present ad
ministration the United States, having
fully entered upon its position as a world
power, with the responsibilities thrust
upon it by the results of the Spanish
American war, and already engaged nl
laying the groundwork of a vast foreign
trade upon which it should one day be
come more and more dependent, found
Itself without the machinery for giving
thorough attention to, and taking effec
tive action upon, a mass of intricate bus
iness vital to American interests in every
country in the world.
The deparement of state was an archaic
ad inadequate machine lacking most of
the attributes of the foreign office of any
great modern power. "With an appropria
tion made upon my recommendation by
the congress on August 5, 1909, the de
partment of state was completely reor
ganized. They were created divisions of Latin
American affairs and of far eastern,
near eastern, and western European
affairs. To these divisions were called
from the foreign service diplomatic and
consular officers possessing experience
and knowledge gained by actual serv
ice in different parts of the world and
thus familiar with political and com
mercial conditions in the regions con
cerned. The work was highly special
ized. The result is that where previ
ously this government from time to
time would emphasize in its foreign
relations one or another policy, now
American interests in every quarter of
the globe are being cultivated with
equal assiduity
Merit System In Consular and Dlplc-
matic Corps.
Expert
knowlede-e and nrnfo8nn.l
training must evidently be the essence
of this reorganization. "Without a
trained foreign service there would
not be men available for the work in
the reorganized department of state.
President Cleveland has taken the first
step toward introducing the merit
system in the foreign service. That
had been followed by the application
of the merit principle, with excellent
results, to the entire consular branch.
Almost nothing, however, had been
done in this direction with regard
to the diplomatic service. In this age
of commercial diplomacy It was evi
dently of the first importance to train
&n adequate personnel In that branch
t the service. Therefore, on Novem
ber 25, 1909, by an executive order I
waeed the diplomatic service up to
grade of secretary of embassy, in
clusive, upon exactly the same strict
on-partisan basis of the merit sys
tem. rigid examination for appoint
ment and promotion only for effi
ciency, aa had been maintained without
exception in the consular service.
Successful Efforts in Promotion of
Peace.
In the field of work toward the
deals of peace this government ne
gotiated, but to my regret was unable
to consummate, two arbitration trea
ties which set the highest mark of
the aspiration of nations toward the
substitution of arbitration and reason
yr war in the settlement of interna
tional disputes. Through the efforts
of American diplomacy several wars
ave been prevented or ended. I re
to the successful tripartite media-t-on
of the Argentine Republic. Brazil
ana the United States between Peru
and Ecuador; the bringing of the boun
wy dispute between Panama and Cos
ta Rica to peaceful arbitration; the
staying of warlike preparations when
oa the veree of hVnriT V , '
ne verge of hostilities; the stopping j
4,1 Ie Dominican Republic were
IS TACT'S SUBJECT
of a war in Nicaragua; the halting of
internecine strife in Honduras. The
government of the United States was
thanked for its Influence toward the
restoration of amicable relations be
tween the Argentine Republic and Bo
livia. The diplomacy of the United
States is active in seeking to assuage
the remaining Ill-feeling between this
country and the Republic of Colombia.
In the recent civil war In China the
United States successfully joined with
the other Interested powers in urging
an early cessation of hostilities. An
agreement has been reached between
the governments of Chile and Peru
whereby the celebrated Tacna-Arioa
dispute, which has so long embittered
international relations on the west
coast of South America, has at last
been adjusted. Simultaneously came
the news that the boundary dispute
between Peru and Ecuador had entered
upon a stage of amicable settlement.
The position of the United States in
reference to the Tacna-Arlca dispute
between Chile and Peru has been one
of non-intervention, but one of friendly
Influence and pacific counsel through
out the period during which the dis
pute in question has been the subject
of interchange of views between this
government and the two governments
immediately concerned. In the general
easing of international tension on the
west coast of South America the tri
partite mediation, to which I have re
ferred, has been a most potent and
beneficent factor.
China.
In China the policy of encouraging
financial investment to enable that
country to help itself has had the re-
j suit of giving new life and practical
application to tne open-aoor poucy.
The consistent purpose of the present
administration has been to encourage
the use of American capital in the
development of China by the promo
tlon of those essential reforms to
which China is pledged by treaties
with the United States and other pow
ers. The hypothecation to foreign
bankers in connection with certain in
dustrial enterprises, such as the Hu
kuang railways, of the national reve
nues upon which these reforms de
pended, led the department of state
early in the administration to demand
for American citizens participation in
such enterprises. In order that the
United States might have equal rights
and an equal voice in all questions
pertaining to the disposition of the
public revenues concerned. The same
policy of promoting International ac
cord among the powers having similar
treaty rights as ourselves In the mat
ters of reform, which could not be
put into practical effect without the
PRESIDENT TAFT.
common consent of all. was likewise
adopted In the case of the loan de
sired by China for the reform of Its
currency.
Central America Needs Our Help in
Debt Adjustment.
In Central America the aim has
been to help such countries as Nica
ragua and Honduras to help them
selves. They are the Immediate bene
ficiaries. The national benefit to the
United States, is two-fold. First, it is
obvious that .the Monroe doctrine is
more vital in the neighborhood of the
Panama canal and the zone of the
Caribbean than anywhere else. There,
too, the maintenance of that doctrine
I falls most heavilv lmnn th TTtiIoh
states. It is therefore essential that
the countries within that sphere shall
De removea irom me jeoparay involved
by heavy foreign debt and chaotic na
tional finances and from the ever-pres
ent danger of International complica
tions due to disorder at home. Hence
the United States has been glad to en
courage and support American bankers
who were willing to lend a helping
hand to the financial rehabilitation of
such countries because this financial
rehabilitation and, the protection of
their custom houses from being the
prey of would-be dictators would re
move at one stroke the menace of for
eign creditors and the menace of revo
lutionary disorder.
The second advantage to the United
States is one affecting chiefly all the
southern and gulf ports and the business
and industry of the south. The reDubllcn
I of Central American and the Caribbean
possess great natural wealth. They need
only a measure of stability and the means
of financial regeneration to enter upon
an era of peace and prosperity, bringing
profit and happiness to themselves and at
the same time creating conditions sure to
lead to a flourishing interchange of trade
with this country.
I wish to call your especial attention to
the recent occurrences in Nicaragua, for
I believe the terrible events recorded there
during the revolution of the past sum
merthe useless loss of life, the devasta
tion of property, the bombardment of de
fenseless cities, the killing and wound
ing of women and children, the torturing
of non-combatants to exact contributions,
and the suffering of thousands of human
beings might have been averted had the
department of state, through approval of
the loan convention by the senate, been
permitted to carry out its now well-developed
policy af encouraging the extending
of financial aid to weak Central American
states with the primary objects of avoid
ing just such revolutions by assisting
those republcs to rehabilitate their
finances, to establish their currency on a
stable basis, to remove the custom houses
slaDie Dasis, to remove the custon
from the danger of revolutions by
arrang
ing for their secure administration and to
establish reliable banks.
Agricultural Credits.
A most Important work, accomplished
In the past year by the American diplo
matic officers in Europe, is the investiga
tion of the agricultural credit system in
the European countries. Both as a means
to afford relief to the consumers of this
country through a more thorough devel
opment of agricultural resources and as
a means of more sufficiently maintaining
the agricultural population, the project
to establish credit facilities for the farm
ers is a concern of vital importance to this
nation. No evidence of prosperity among
well-established farmers should blind us
to the fact that lack of capital is pre
venting a development of the nation's ag
ricultural resources and an adequate in
crease of the land under cultivation; that
agricultural production is fast falling be
hind the increase In population; and that,
in fact, although these well-established
farmers are maintained in Increasing
prosperity because of the natural increase
in population, we are not developing the
Industry of agriculture.
The need of capital which American
farmers feel today had been experienced
by the farmers of Europe, with their centuries-old
farms, many years ago. The
problem had been successfully solved in
the old world and.it was evident that the
farmers of this country might profit by a
study of their systems. I therefore order
ed, through the department of state, an
investigation to be made by the diplo
matic officers In Europe, and I have laid
the results of this Investigation before the
governors of the various states with the
hope that they will be used to advantage
ra. thetr forthcoming meeting.
Increase of Foreign Trade.
In my last annual message I said that
the fiscal year ended June SO, 1911. was
noteworthy as marking the highest record
of exports of American products to foreign
countries. The fiscal year 1912 shows that
this rate of advance has been maintained,
the total domestic exports having a valu
ation approxiamtely of $2,200,000,000, as
compared with a fraction over J2.000.000.000
the previous year. It is also significant
that manufactured and partly manufac
tured articles continue to be the chief
commodities forming the volume of our
augmented exports, the demands of our
own people for consumption requiring that
an increasing proportion of our abundant
agricultural products be kept at home.
In the fiscal year 1911 the exports of arti
cles in the various stages of manufac
ture, not including foodstufis partly or
wholly manufactured, amounted approxi
mately to $907,500,000. In the fiscal year
1912 the total was nearly $1,022,000,000. a
gain of $114,000,000.
Advantage of Maximum and Minimum
Tarriff Provision.
The Importance which our manufactures
have assumed In the commerce of the
world In competition with the manufac
tures of other countries again draws at
tention to the duty of this government to
use its utmost endeavors to secure im
partial treatment for American products
in all markets. Healthy commercial riv
alry In International Intercourse is best
assured by the possession of proper means
for protecting and promoting our foreign
trade. It is natural that competitive
countries should view with some concern
this steady expansion of our commerce.
If in some instance the measure taken
by them to meet it are not entirely equi
table, a remedy should be found. In for
mer mesasges I have described the nego
tiations of the department of state with
foreign governments for the adjustment
of the maximum and minimum tariff as
provided In section 2 of the" tariff law of
1909. The advantages secured by the ad
justment of our trade relations under this
law have continued during the last year,
and some additional cases of discrimina
tory treatment of which we had reason
to complain have been removed. The de
partment of state has for the first time
in the history of this country obtained
substantial most-favored-natlon treatment
from all the countries of the world. There
are, however, other instances which, while
apparently not constituting undue dis
crimination In the sense of section 2, are
nevertheless exceptions to the complete
equity of tariff treatment for American
products that the department of state
consistently has sought to obtain for
American commerce abroad
These developments confirm the opin
ion conveyed to you in my annual mes
sage of 1911, that while the maximum
and minimum provision of the tariff
law of 1909 has been fully Justified by
the success achieved In removing pre
viously existing undue discriminations
against American products, yet experi
ence has shown that this feature of the
law should be amended In such way as
to provide a fully effective means of
meeting - the varying degrees of dis
criminatory treatment of American
commerce in foreign countries still
encountered, as well as to protect
against injurious treatment on the part
of foreign governments, through either
legislative or administrative measures,
the financial interests abroad of Amer
ican citizens whose enterprises enlarge
the market for American commodities.
I cannot too strongly recommend to
congress the passage of some such
enabling measure as the bill which was
.recommended by the secretary of state
In his letter of December 13, 1911. The
object of the proposed legislation is, in
brief, to enable the executive to apply,
as the case may require, to any or all
commodities, whether or not on the
free list from a country which dis
criminates against the United States, a
graduated scale of duties up to the
maximum of 25 per cent, ad valorem
provided in the present law. Flat tar
iffs are out of date.
Congress should fully realize the condi
tions which obtain In the world as we
find ourselves at the threshold of our
middle age as a nation. "We have
emerged full grown as a peer In the great
concourse of nations. We have passed
through various formative periods. W
have been self-centered in the struggle to
develop our domestic resources and deal
with our domestic questions. The nation
is now too mature to continue in its for
eign relations those temporary expedients
natural to a people to whom domestic af
fairs are the sole concern. In the past
our diplomacy has often consisted. In
normal times, in a mere assertion of the
right to International existence. We are
now in a larger relation with broader
rights of our own and obligations to oth
ers than ourselves. A number of great
guiding principles were laid down early In
the history of this government. The re
cent task of our diplomacy has been to
adjust those principles to the conditions
of today, to develop their corollaries, to
find practical applications of the old prin
ciples expanded to meet new situations.
Thus are being evolved bases upon which
can rest the superstructure of policies
which must grow with the destined pro
gress of this nation. The successful con
duct of our foreign relations demands a
broad and a modern view. We can not
meet new questions nor build for the fu-
ture if we confine ourselves to outworn
dogmas of the past and to the perspec
tive appropriate at our emergence . from
colonial times and conditions. The open
ing of the Panama canal will mark a new
era in ;our international life and create
new and world-wide conditions which,
with thfelr vast correlations and conse
quences, will obtain for hundreds of years
to come. We must not wait ior evenis 10
overtake us unawares. With continuity
of tiuroose we must deal with the prob-
lma of our external relations by a diplo
macy modern, resourceful, magnanimous.
and fittingly expressive or we nip iueau
of a great nation.
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The White House.
December 3, 1913.
EWS OF THE WEEK
IN EPITOMIZED FORM
THE LATEST HAPPENINGS OF IM
PORTANCE TERSELY
TOLD.
EVENTS THROUGHOUT WORLD
New of Greatest Interest From All
Farts of the World Related
in Paragraphs.
Southern.
Governor Goldsborough of Maryland
has announced the appointment oj
William P. Jackson, Republican na
tional committeeman from Maryland,
to succeed the late United States Sen
ator Isidor Rayner from that state.
Bonds having a face face value ol
$140,000, together with cheques and
a small amount of coupons, that dis
appeared In Kansas City, Mo., Juna
5, when two registered mail sacks
were stolen while en route from the
postoffice to the railway station here,
have been found on the city dump by
three laborers.
Savannah's (Ga.) corn club exhibi
tion opened in the First regiment
armory with in the neighborhood oi
250 exhibits from eighteen counties
in that section of Georgia. Despite the
very bad season the boys' corn clubs
of that section of Georgia did very
well and the show is a great success.
Mrs. Susie Harris Boynton, widow
of James J. Boynton, who succeeded
Alexander Stephens as governor ol
Georgia, died of pneumonia at hei
old home at High Shoals, 10 miles
from Athens, Ga.
Seven negro convicts, armed with
three shot guns and a pistol, escaped
from a negro convict camp at Lad
son's, about 15 miles from Charleston.
S. C. The- guard ;-at the camp, was
roughly handled, and a negro whe
carried the news of the escape to the
telegraph operator at Ladson's nar
rowly escaped being killed.
The North Georgia Conference ol
Methodists adjourned at Carrollton
Ga., after having made all pastoral
and presiding elder appointments.
W. T. Harris, sheriff of Des6ta coun
ty, Mississippi, was- killed and G. W
Treadway, a farmer, was probably fa
tally wounded in a revolver battle be
tween Treadway and-his two sons and
Harris and a posse who were attempt
ing to arrest the older man on s
charge of resisting officers. Ear!
Treadway, one of the sons, was ar
rested and a special guard of citizens
has been thrown about Olive Branch
Miss., jail, to prevent mob violence
while several possses are pursuing
his brother, Murel. The shooting oc
curred at the Treadway home. Wher
the elder man fell, his arms and hii
shoulders riddled "with bullets, Ear
submitted to arrest and Murel made
his escape through a rear door.
W. B. Blakey, an Americus, Ga., lin
otype operator, charged with murdei
in the first degree, has been jailed
for shooting a Greek concessionaire
connected with the carnival whict
has been exhibiting in Americus.
Posses totaling nearly eight hun
dred men, with two packs of blood
hounds, are searching the swamps 1J.
miles south of Collins, Miss., for a
lone burglar who shot and dangerous
ly wounded two men and burglarized
half a dozen residences and stores.
General.
Parts of a giant bird, which wing
ed its way over North America 3,000,
000 years ago, have just been brought
to the American museum of naturai
in New York City by Professor Gran
ger, who has been making fossil inves
tigations in Wyoming. The bird, ac
cording to Professor Granger, was th
largest feathered creature that evei
existed in North America. The frag
ments brought here consist of the
bones of the feet, found in the Bi
Horn basin east of Yellowstone Park
Andrew Carnegie, in a statement
announces that all but $25,000,000 ol
his fortune, which will be disposed ol
under his will, will be left to the Car
negie corporation of New York.
Carl Riedelbach, alias Carl Warr,
called by the police the "Human
bomb," was bound over to the grand
jury by Police Judge Williams, and a
few moments later the grand jury was
investigating the case. Riedelbach's
bond was fixed at $20,000. Riedelbach
was not represented by counsel. He
took a deep interest in the hearing
and frequently interrogated the wit
nesses. At the request of Chief Se
bastian, Riedelbach made a drawing
of the infernal machine with which
he caused a panic at the central po
lice station in Los Angeles. Cal.
Ohio and Indiana crude oil has ad
vanced three cents a barrel, making
the quotation the highest for this kind
of oil for a century. North Lima oil
is now $1.13 a barrel and Indiana oil
$1.08.
- Edward Moss, chairman of the big
gest vaudeville combine in Great Brit
ain, is dead.
The schooner Three Sisters became
waterlogged and sunk in a terrific gale
that swept Green Bay, Wis. Four oi
the crew were drowned. The three
Sisters had been navigating ' Green
Bay and Lake Michigan for more than
40 years.
Chicago detectives are searching
for a trio of bold automobile bandit?
who made a whirlwind raid - through
the residence district on the south
side and secured over $6,000 worth of
valuables.
The accidental killing of a man in
Lowell, Mass., twenty years ago was
given by John Frank Hickey, in a
signed confession at Buffalo, N. Y., as
the staring point of a career of de
bauchery and crime during which he
muredered two boys and assaulted
many others. Hickey's victims, ac
cording to his confession, were Ed
Morey of Lowell, Mass., poisoned" with
laudanum over twenty years ago; Mi
chael Kruck, 12 years old, a New
York newsboy, strangled in Central
Park in 1902, and Joseph Joseph, the
17-year-old son of Joseph Joseph, a
merchant of Lackawanna, killed in a
similar manner, October 12, 1911.
Three superdreadnaughts and nine
first class armored cruisers will very
shortly be presented to the British
government by the independent rul
ers, princes and nobles of India if
they can carry out successfully a plan
recently drawn up by them to collect
funds for the purpose ' among them
selves. The president-elect, accompanied b7
Mrs. Wilson and the members of his
family, attended the oldest Presbyte
rian church in Hamilton, Bermuda, of
quaint setting. The pastor prayed for
the success of the close of the Taft
administration and then prayed for
the success of Mr. Wilson's adminis
tration. Women from th West, South, North
and East, delegates to the conven
tion of the National American Woman's-
Suffrage association, realized
their principal ambition in Philadel
phia when they exercised their right
of franchise in choosing officers of
that association for the ensuing year.
They will preserve a non-partisan at
titude to all political parties.
The possibility and danger of a
greater war than that between the
Balkan states and Turkey absorbs
public interest far more than the first
out of diplomacy between the bellig
erents outside of Constantinople. The
steps toward mobilization which Aus
tria and Russia are taking, although
but preliminary precautions, have
made possible a vision of the vast
consequences, which, as far as Great
Britain is concerned, are considered
nothing less than appalling.
Pigeons are becoming so thick in
Brooklyn, N. Y., that merchants are
complaining to the police that they
are carrying vegetable away from
display shelves of stores.
The new trial on-appeal of the 106
Koreans who were convicted in Seoul,
Korea, on September 28, of partici
pation in a conspiracy against the life
of Count Terauchi, the Japanese gov
ernor general of Korea, has begun.
The plan of having Americans ad
minister the customs affairs of Nica
rague as provided for in a recent loan
contract made by that government
with New York bankers, has resulted
in a vigorous protest against F. W.
Wilson, chief of customs at Bluefields,
Nicaragua, by the entire commercial
contingent of that" city.
Sentence of death in the electric
chair has been pronounced upon the
four New York City gunmen convict
ed of the murder of Herman Rosen
thal at the instigation of Charles Beck
er, the former police lieutenant. "Gyp
the Blood," "Lefty Louie," "Whitey
Lewis" and "Dago Frank" appeared
then before Justice Goff in the su
preme court for sentence.
Andrew Grochitz, of Newburgh, N.
Y., after being a prisoner for thirteen
days in a car of apples, into which
he had crawled at Newburgh, was re
leased when the car was opened at
Sioux City, Iowa. His feet were'froz
en and may have to be amputated. He
had eaten nearly a barrel of the ap
ples. He has a wife and five chil
dren in Hungary.
An explosion which wrecked the
dry starch house of the Corn Products
company's plant at Waukegan, 111.,
killed twelve workmen, injured 27 oth
ers, several of whom will die, and
caused about one hundred - thousand
dollars' worth of damage: The ex
plosion tore the two-story frame top
house from the five-story building, and
scattered bits of it for fifty yards in
all directions. The body of one- of
the men killed was blown across the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad
right of way onto the hillside in Oak
wood 'cemetery. All of the injured
were coated with starch, which had
to be washed off before their injuries
could be attended to.
Washington.
Appropriations of nearly two hun
dred million dollars for pensions to
veterans of American wars will be
necessary at this session of congress.
The unusual sum exceeding all appro
priations of former years, will be nec
essary to make up a deficit of nearly
twenty million dollars, resulting from
the increase of pensions by the Sher
wood bill last winter and the propor
tionate increase of the general pen
sions authorized by this act.
The United States is still the
"bread basket' of the world, accord
ing to the bureau of foreign and do
mestic commerce. Exports of corn and
meat fell off sharply, but more than
a hundred millions of bushels of
wheat were sent abroad during the
past ten months.
Senator Isador Rayner of Maryland
died in Washington, D. C, of neuritis
after a prolonged illness. Official
Washington was largely represented
at the funeral. President Taft and
members of his cabinet attended the
funeral, and committees from both
the houses of congress, as . well as
many Marylanders prominent in of
ficial, social and civic life, were pres
ent. Senator Rayner was one of the
striking figures of the senate. lie
had been a member of that body for
eight years, and was one of its very
strongest debaters and a recognized
authority on constitutional law.
EXPIRING
SESSION
MS . ASSEMBLED
IN BRIEF PERIOD FIFTEEN AP
PROPRIATrON BILLS MUST
BE PASSED.
THE TRIAL OF ARCHIBALD
The Democratic Policies to Be Shaped
and Plans Made For the-Entrance
of the Wilson Administration on
March 4.
Washington. The expiring Sixty
Becond Congress assembled at noon
Monday, for its final work of legisla
tion. In the brief period remaining
before constitutional limitation brings
it to an end and turns many of its
members back into private life, 15 ap
propriation bills, carrying over $1,
000,000,000 for the support of the Gov
ernment, must be passed; the im
peachment of Judge Archibald of the
Commerce Court must be tried in the
Senate; many investigating commit
tees must conclude inquiries and make
their reports; and scores of legisla
tive matters must be disposed of.
Throughout the session attracting
as much attention as the actual work
of legislation, will run the prepara
tory work for the extra session to
be called soon after President-elect
Wilson takes office March 4.
Committees, pursuant to this, will
thresh out questions of tariff, our-
I erncy, and anti-trust legislation, aim
; ing to have Democratic policies
shaped, and Democratic plans made,
before the new Administration comes
into power.
It is assured, say the legislative
i leaders, that there will be no tariff
legislation this Winter. Neither is
it expected that the currency or anti
; trust problems will receive much at
' tention in the House or Senate, the
principal work of the session being
confined to preparation for the Dem
ocratic Administration and the en
actment of some of the more import-
' ant bills pending on the calendars of
the two houses.
Cabinet Crisis Arises.
Tokio. A Cabinet crisis has arisen
over the refusal of Minister of War,
Lieutenant General Uyehera, to accept
a Cabinet decision rejecting the
scheme for increasing the military
forces in Korea. After a number of
extraordinary sittings, Premier Saion
informed the War Minister that the
Cabinet adhered to its position. Gen
eral Uyehera then indicated his in
tention to resign. It is doubtful
whether the Emperior will accept his
resignation. The press and general
public support the Cabinent Lieu
tenant General Ulhera was apointed
Minister of War April 3, 1912, to suc
ceed General Isnomoto, who died the
previous day.
Hyde To Ask For New Trial.
New York. Counsel for Charles
H. Hyde will make their first move
to get a new trial for the former city
chamberlain, found guilty of bribery
as soon a she is sentenced. Mean
while the envicited man will have to
stay in the Tombs, although up to the
present time he had not been lodged
in a cell. He is occupying quarters
in a part of the building formerly
used by the warden. Hyde is too big
a man to be accommodated comfort
ably in one of the cells. These are
only six feet long, while Hyde is 6
feet 3 inches tall and weighs over 200
pounds.
i Wilson Advocates Later In-augural.
1 Hamilton, Bermuda. -Woodrow Wil
son is willing to take the oath of office
as president of the United States
without ostentation March 4 and that
the formal ceremonials be postponed
until the last Thursday in April. To
that extent he has endorsed the prop
aganda in favor of a later inaugura
tion which has been advocated in and
out of congress in order that the event
might be conducted at a time when
the weather -is usually good.
To Celebrate Battle of Gettysburg.
Washington. The war department
is making plans for the feeding and
sheltering of army veterans, Confed
erate as well as Federal, who are to
attend the encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic on the battle
field of Gettysburg next July when the
fiftieth anniversary of the great bat
tle will be celebrated. Orders assign
ed Capt. Harry F. Dalton as assistant
to Major Normoyle here who is charg
ed with the military arrangements.
Both officers have been authorized to
proceed to the battlefield.
Mexican Border Situation Worse.
Washington. The situation on the
Mexican border has been rapidly
growing worse. General Steever has
protested to the war department
against any reduction of the border
patrol such as was about to be order
ed. Many of the insurgent leaders'
have developed great activity, adding
their quotas to the considerable force
which under General Salazar ' has
been operating in the country be
tween Columbus, N.. M., and El Paso
They have thrown the whole border
into a state of disturbance and unrest.
FROM ALL OVER THE STATE
Short Paragraphs of State News That
Has Been Collected For the Peo
ple of the State.
Thomasville. Wheat crop in thia
section has never loeked finer at thii
season of the year than at present and
everything points to a big crop to har
est next year. The factories are ai
running full time and a number are
running at night on extra time in or
der to supply the many orders now
coming in.
Lillington. Responding to invita
tions previously sent out, about"' seventy-five
ladies and gentlemen gath
ered ait the Caviness hotel to betake
of the feast of good things prepared
by the Daughters of the Confederacy
and map out the work of raising funds
for the erection of a monument to
the Confederacy.
Kinston. W. L. Turnage, of Greene
county, sold several loads of tobacco
here recently, the product of five
acres, at the remarkable price of $1,
653.58. There were 7,008 pounds of the
weed, which was cured in seven
barns. The sum paid Mr. Turnage
other charges.
Stantonsburg. The first meeting oi
the Stantonsburg township teachers
was held here recently in the high
school building, Prof. W. J. Sloan
presiding. These meetings will be
held each month and all the teachers
In this vicinity w.ill be asked to par
ticipate. The patrons and friends oi
the school are also invited."
Kinston. In a review of the past fis
cal year's work, Rev F Swindell Love,
pastor of the Queen Street Methodist
church here, told his congregation
that they had raised over nine thou
sand dollars in cash and that the
membership had been increased bj
seventy-five during the past twelve
months.
Charlotte. Fire in the furniture
store of W. T. McCoy & Co., on the
third floor of the W. F. Dowd build
ing, South Tryon Street, caused a loss
of some four or five thousand dollars,
and but for prompt closing of fire
doors and the efficient work of the fire
department would have spread and
;torn a big hole in the map of Char
lotte.
Raleigh. Beginning several daye
ago the Wake county branch of the
Aycock association took up the rais
ing of the $2,000 promised by thi?
county to the memorial to Governoi
Aycock and the hope is to have the
amount ready in the next fifteen days.
Of the $2,000 that Wake is to raise,
pledges for $1,500 have been secured.
These range in subscriptions from $20J
down.
Asheville. From 15 to 20 members
of the United States Secret Service
are in the vicinity, of Asheville, inves
tigating the recent forest fires, which
have devastated so many acres' of .tim
ber land in this section in the past
few days, besides v endangering the Y.
M. C. A. Assembly grounds, near Black
Mountain. Private detectives for the
Vanderbilt estate at Biltmore are also
in the field, making private investiga-t
tions.
Asheville, Worn and disheaveled,
and aparently dazed from an over
dos eof some sort of drug, Walter
Trexler, the" young man, whose disap
pearance from, home several days ago
caused his parents so much anxiety,
was found wandering around in the
Haw Creek section of the county by p
deputy sheriff. An examination of
the young man showed him to be suf
fering 'from an overdose of cocaine,
and he is being detained in the city
jail, pending his improvement.
Raleigh. In convening a two
weeks' term of federal court here
Judge Henry G. Connor expressed the1
wish that the state of North Carolina;
might have entire charge of the en-,
forcement of the prohibition law and
that the federal court was entirely
free from having to deal with distill I
ing and . blind tiger cases that now
come up in great numbers. However,
he charged the jury that due atten
tion be given to these classes of of-
fenses, and that they be dealt with
in a spirit of fairness and good judgj
ment.
Kinston. The committee in charge
of the campaign for the sale of Red
Cross seals here decided to order 15,
000 from the state headquarters in
Charlotte. This is the largest amount
ordered by any town of Kinston's class
In North Carolina. ;
Butler and J. A. Michale, were Bhot,
Butler and J. A. Mchael, were shot;
and it is reported that two or more;
negroes were hurt in the shooting bat
tle, which took place at a construction
camp on the Carolina and Yadkin
Valley railroad in a remote section
and very few particulars are obtain-"
able.
Raleigh. An exchange of courts is
ordered by Gov. Kitchin between
Judge H. P. Lane and Judge Bragaw
whereby Judge Bragaw will hold the
Washington court two weeks begin
ning Dec. 2 and Judge Lane will hold
the Robeson county. court two weeks
beginning Dec.: 2." .". ' .
States ville. The home of Harvey
Troutman, a farmer living some miles
west of Statesville, was totally de
stroyed by fire recently, with a por
tion of its contents. The fire starter1
from a defective flue, xhile all the
members of. the -household, were al
church except Mrs. Troutman.