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VOL XXXV.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C., MARCH S, 19J3- ,
NO. 30.
WILSON INDUCTED
INTO HIGH OFFICE
Inauguration of Twenty-Seventh
President Is Witnessed by
Great Crowds.
MARSHALL SWORN III FIRST
Simple Ceremony In Senate Chamber
Followed by More Impressive
Affair on East Portico of
the Capitol.
By GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington, March 4. In, the pres
ence of a vast throng of his .fellow citi
zens, Woodrow Wilson today stood in
front of the east portico of the capitol
and took the oath of president of the
United States. Thomas R. Marshall
already had been sworn in as vice
president, and with the completion of
the ceremony the ship Of state was
manned by the Democratic party,
which had been ashore for sixteen
years.
As the new chief executive' of the
nation stood with bared head, Ed
ward Douglass White, chief justice of
the Supreme court, held before him
the Bible always used in the cere
mony. Mr. Wilson placed his hands
upon the book and in a voice strong,
though somewhat affected by emotion,
swore to support the Constitution and
the laws of the country and to perform
the duties of his high office to the best
of his ability.
Thomas Riley Marshall swore feal
ty to the Constitution and to the
people in the senate chamber, where
for four years it will be his duty to
preside over the deliberations of the
members of the upper house of con
gress. 1
Severely Simple Ceremonies.
Both of the ceremonies proper were
conducted in a severely simple but
most impressive manner. The sur
roundings of the scene of the presi
dent's induction into office, however,
were not so simple, for it was an out-of-door
event and the great gathering
of military, naval and uniformed civil
organizations gave much more than a
touch of splendor to the scene.
In the senate chamber, where the
the oath was taken by the man now
vice-president of the United States,
there were gathered about 2,000
people, all that the upper house will
contain without the risk of danger
because of the rush and press of the
multitudes. It is probable that no
where else in the United States at
any time are there gathered an equal
number of men and women whose
names are so widely known. The
gathering in the senate chamber and
later on the, east portico of the capi
tol was composed, largely of those
prominent for their services in Amer
ica, and in part of foreigners who
have secured places for their names
in the current history of the world's
doings.
The arrangements of the ceremonies
for the inauguration of Woodrbw Wil
son and Thomas Riley Marshall were
made by the joint committee on ar
rangements of congress. The senate
President Woodrow Wilson.
section of this committee was ruled
by a majority of Republicans, but
there is Democratic testimony to the
fact that the Republican senators
were willing to outdo their Democratic
brethren in the work of making or
derly and Impressive the inaugural
ceremonies in honor of two chieftains
of the opposition.
Ride to the Capitol.
President Taft and President-elect
Wilson rode together from the White
House to the capitol, accompanied by
two members of the congressional
committee of arrangements. The vice-president-elect
also rode "from the
White House to the capitol and in the
carriage with him were the senate's
president pro tempore, Senator Bacon
of Georgia, and three members of the
congressional committee of arrange
ments. The vice-president-elect took the
oath just before noon in accordance
with custom and prior to its r taking
by the president-elect. Every arrange
ment for the senate chamber pro
ceedings had been made so that they
moved forward easily and with a cer
tain ponderous grace.
Marshall Sworn In.
The admission to the senate cham
ber to witness the oath-taking of the
vice-president was by ticket, and it
is needless to say every seat was'
occupied. On the floor of the cham
ber were many former members of
the senate who, because of the fact
that they once held membership in
that body, were given the privileges
of the floor. After the hall was filled
and all the minor officials of govern
ment and those privileged to witness
the ceremonies were seati-I, William
H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson, preced
ed by the sergeant-at-arms and the
committee of arrangements, entered
the senate chamber. They were fol
lowed immediately by Vice-Presidentelect
Thomas R. Marshall, leaning
upon the arm of the president pro
tempore of the senate who, after the
seating of the incoming vice-president,
took his place as presiding officer of
the senate and of the day's proceed
ings! . : , -.
- The president and the president
elect sat in the first row of seats di
rectly in front and "almost under the
desk of the presiding officer. In the
same row, but to their left, were the
vice-president-elect and two former
vice-presidents of the United States,
Levi P. Morton of New ; York and Ad
lai A. Stevenson of Illinois.
When the distinguished company en
tered the chamber the senate was
still under its old organization. The
oath of office was immediately admin
istered to Vice-President-elect Mar
shall, who thereupon became Vice
President Marshall. The prayer of the
day was given by the chaplain of the
senate, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, pas-
! :
Vice-President Marshall.
tor of All Souls' Unitarian church, of
which President Taft has been a mem
ber. After the prayer the vice-president
administered the oath of office
to all the newly chosen senators, and
therewith the senate of the United
States passed for the first time in
years into the control of the Demo
cratic party.
Procession to the Platform.
Immediately after the senate cere
monies a procession was formed to
march to the platform of the east por
tico of the capitol, where Woodrow
Wilson was to take the oath. The pro
cession included the president and the
president-elect, members of the Su
preme court, both houses of congress,
all of the foreign ambassadors, all of
the heads of the executive depart
ments, many governors of states and
territories, Admiral Dewey of the navy
and several high officers of the sea
service, the chief , of. staff of thearmy
and many distinguished persons from
civil life. They were followed by the
members of the press and by those
persons who had succeeded in secur
ing seats in the senate galleries to
witness the day's proceedings.
When President Taft and the president-elect
emerged from the capitol
on to the portico they saw in. front
of them, reaching far back into the
park to the east, an immense con
course of citizens. In the narrow line
between the onlookers and the plat
form on which Mr. Wilson was to take
the oath, were drawn up the cadets
of the two greatest government
schools, West Point and Annapolis,
and flanking them were bodies of reg
ulars and of national guardsmen. The
whole scene was charged with color
and with life.
On reaching the platform the presi
dent and president-elect took the
seats reserved for them, seats which
were flanked by many rows of benches
rising tier on tier for the accommoda
tion of the friends and families of the
officers of the government and of the
press.
Oath Administered to Wilson.
The instant that Mr. Taft and Mr.
Wilson came within'sight of the crowd
there was a great outburst of ap
plause, and the military bands struck
quickly into "The Star Spangled Ban
ner." Only a few bars of the music
were played and then soldiers and ci
vilians became silent to witness re
spectfully the oath taking and to
listen to the address which followed.
The chief justice of the Supreme
court delivered the oath to the president-elect,
who, uttering the word3,
"I will," became president of the
United States. As soon as this cere
mony was completed Woodrow Wilson
delivered his inaugural address, his
first speech to his fellow countrymen
in the capacity of their chief execu
tive. .
At the conclusion of the speech the
bands played once more, 'and William
Howard Taft, now ex-president of the
United States, entered a carriage with
the new president and, reversing the
order of an hour before, sat on the
left hand side of the carriage, while
Mr. Wilson took "the seat of honor"
on the right. The crowds cheered as
they drove away, to the White House,
which Woodrow Wilson entered as the
occupant and which William H. Taft
immediately left as one whose lease
had expired.
'
PRESIDENT. WILSON
FOR JUSTICE ONLY
His Inaugural Address Calls on
Ail Honest Men to Aid in
His Task.
WILL RESTORE, NOT DESTROY
New Chief Executive Says Change of
Government Means the Nation la '
Using Democratic Patry for
Large and Definite Purpose.
Washington, March 4. Looking
upon the victory of the Democratic
party as the mandate of the nation to
correct the evils that have been al
lowed to grow up in our national life,
President Wilson in his inaugural ad
dress today called on all honest men
to assist him in carrying out the will
of the people. Following is his ad
dress: There has been a change of govern
ment. T It began two years ago, when
the house of representatives became
Democratic by a decisive majority.
It has now been completed. The sen
ate about to assemble will also be
Democratic. The offices of president
and vice-president have been put into
the hands of Democrats. What does
the change mean? That is the ques
tion that is uppermost in our minds
today. That is the question I am go
ing to try to answer, in order, if I
may, to interpret the occasion.
New Insight Into Our Life.
It means much more than the mere
success of a party. The success of a
party means little except when the
nation is using that party for a large
and definite porpose. No one can
mistake the purpose for which the
nation now seeks to use the Demo
cratic party. It seeks to use it to in
terpret a change in its own plans and
point of view. Some old things with
which we had grown familiar, and
which had begun to creep into the
very habit of our thought and of our
lives, have altered their aspect as we
have latterly looked critically upon
them, with fresh, awakened eyes;
have dropped their disguises and
shown themselves alien and sinister.
Some new things, as we look frankly
upon them, willing to comprehend
their real character, have come to as
sume the aspect of things Ion? believ
ed in and familiar, stuff of our own
convictions. We have been refreshed
by a new insight into our own life.
We see that in many things that
life is very great. It is incomparably
great in its material aspects, in its
body of wealth, in the diversity and
sweep of its energy, in the industries
which have been conceived and built
up by the genius of individual men
and the limitless enterprise of groups
of menv It is great, also, very great,
in its moral force. Nowhere else in
the world have rioble men and women
exhibited in more striking form the
beauty and energy of sympathy and
helpfulness and counsel in their efforts
to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering,
and set the weak in the way of
strength and hope. We have built up,
moreover, a great system of govern
ment, which has stood through a long
age as in many respects a model for
those who seek to set liberty upon
foundations that will endure against
fortuitous change, against storm and
accident. Our life contains every
great thing, and contains it in rich
abundance.
Human Cost Not Counted.
But the evil has come with the
good, and much fine " gold has been
corroded. With riches has come in
excusable waste. We have squan
dered a great part of what we might
have used, and have not stopped to
conserve the exceeding bounty of na
ture, without which our genius for en
terprise would have been worthless
and impotent, scorning to be careful,
shamefully prodigal as well as admir
ably efficient. We have been proud of
our industrial achievements, but we
have not hitherto stopped thought
fully enough to count the human cost,
the cost of lives snuffed out, of ener
gies overtaxed and broken, the fear
ful physical and spiritual cost to the
men and women and children upon
whom the dead weight and burden of
it all has fallen pitilessly the years
through. The groans and agony of it
all had not yet reached our ears, the
solemn, moving undertone of our life,
coming up out of the mines and fac
tories and out of every home whee
the struggle had "its intimate and fa
miliar seat. With the great govern
ment went many deep secret things
which we too long delayed to look
into and scrutinize with candid, fear
less eyes. The great government we
loved has too often be.en made' use of
for private and selfish purposes, and
those who used it had forgotten the
people. -
At last a vision has been vouch
safed us of our life as a whole. We
see the bad with the good, the de
based and decadent with the sound
and vital. With this vision we ap
proach new affairs. Our duty is to
cleanse, to- reconsider, to restore, to
correct the evil without impairing the
good, to purify and humanize every
process of our common life without
weakening or sentimentalizing it.
There has been something crude and
heartless and unfeeling in our haste to
succeed and be great. Our thought has
been 'Let every man look out for him
self, let every generation look out for
itself,' while we reared giant machin
ery which made i,t impossible that any
but those who stoOjd at the 'levers of
control should hkveua- chance to look
out for themselves.. , We haA not for
gotten our morals. "We remembered
well enough that vwe had set up a
policy which was. meant to serve the
humblest as well as the most power
ful, with an eye single to the stand
ards of justice and fair play, and re
membered It with pride. But we were
very heedless and in a hurry to be
great.
Chief Items In Program.
We have come now to the sober
second thought. The scales of heed
lessness have fallen from our eyes.
We have made up our minds to square
every process of our national life
again with the standards we so proud
ly set up at the . beginning and have
always carried at our hearts. Our
work Is a work of restoration.
We have itemized with some degree
of particularity the things that ought
to be altered and here are some of
the chief items: A tariff which cuts
us off from our proper part in the
commerce of the world, violates the
just principles of taxation, and makes
the government a facile instrument in
the hands of private interests ; a bank
ing and currency system based upon
the necessity of the government to
sell its bonds fifty years, ago and per
fectly adapted to concentrating cash
and restricting credits; an Industrial
system which, take it on all its sides,
financial as well as administrative,
holds capital in leading strings, re
stricts the liberties and limits the op
portunities of labor, and exploits with
out renewing or conserving the nat
ural resources of the country; a body
of agricultural activities never yet
given the efficiency of great business
undertakings or served as it should be
through the instrumentality of science
taken directly to the farm, or afforded
the facilities of credit best suited to
its practical needs; water courses un
developed, waste places unreclaimed,
forests untended, fast disappearing
without plan or prospect of renewal,
unregarded waste heaps at every mine.
We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means
of production, but we have not studied
cost or economy as we should either
as organizers of industry, as states
men, or as individuals.
Matters of Justice. '
Nor have we studied and perfected
the means by which government may
be put at the service of humanity, in
safeguarding the health of the nation,
the health of its men and its women
and its children, as well as their rights
in the struggle for existence. This "is
no sentimental duty. The firm; basis
of government is justice, . not .'pity.
These are matters of justice-- There
can be no equality or opportunity, the
first essential of justice in-the body
politic, if men and women and chil
dren be not shielded in their lives,
their very vitality, from the conse
quences of great industrial and social
processes which they cannot alter,
control or singly cope with. Society
must see to it that it does not itself
crush or weaken or damage its own
constituent parts. .-The first duty of
law is to keep sound the society it
serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws,
and laws determining conditions of
labor which individuals are powerless
to determine for themselves are inti
mate parts of the very business of jus
tice and legal efficiency.
These are some of the things we
ought to do, and not leave the others
undone, the old-fashioned, never-to-be-neglected,
fundamental safeguarding
of property and of individual right.
This is the high enterprise of the new
day; to lift everything that concerns
our life as a nation to the light that
shines from the hearthfire of every
man's conscience and vision of the
right. It is inconceivable that we
should do this 'as partisans; it is In
conceivable we should do It in ignor
ance of the facts as-they are or in
blind haste. We shall restore, not de;
stroy. We shall deal with our econ
omic system as it is and as it may
be modified, not as it might be If we
had a clean sheet of paper to write
upon; and step by step we shall make
it what it should be, in the spirit of
those who question their own wisdom
and seek counsel and knowledge, not
shallow self-satisfaction or the excite
ment of excursions whither they can
not tell. Justice,, and only justice,
shall always be our motto.
Task Not One of Politics.
And yet it will be no cool process
of mere science. The nation has been
deeply stirred, stirred by a solemn
passion, stirred by the knowledge of
wrong, of ideals lost, of government
too' often debauched and made an in
strument of evil. The feelings with
which we face this new age -of right
and opportunity sweep across our
heart-strings like some air out of
God's owi. presence, where justice and
mercy are reconciled and the judge
and the brother are one. We know
our task to be no mere task of politics,
but a task which shall search us
through and through, whether we be
able to understand our time and the
need of our people, whether we be in
deed their spokesmen and interpre
ters, whether we have the pure heart
to comprehend and the rectified will
to choose our high course of action.
This is not a day of triumph; it is
a day of dedication. Here muster, not
the forces of party, but the forces of
humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us;
men's lives hang in the balance ; men's
hopes call upon us to say what we
will do. Who shall live up to the
great trust? Who dares fail to try?
I summon all honest men, all patriotic,
all forwardlooking men, to my side.
God helping me, I will not fail them,
if they will but counsel and sustain
me!
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Complete Review of Happenings of
- - Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.
If Clinton M. Roczkowski, the two
and a half-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. M. Roczkowski, of Albany.
Ga., recovers from frightful burns, it
will be because his sister, six years
old, had presence of mind to dash
several panfuls of water which she
drew from a hydrant, over the little
fellow's burning garments.
Policeman John Gibby was shot and
killed at Cornelia, Ga., by two tramps
whom he had put under arrest. The
two tramps, who were negroes, were
lynched. Many women and children
were- present at the lynching.
Both the army and navy recruiting
stations in Atlanta are experiencing
record enlistments. The army station
has enlisted something over sixty men
for one month and the navy twenty
eight men. .
Giles W. Farris, . Oklahoma state
printer, was impeached by the Okla
homaN senate on charges of forgery
and the approval of illegal claims.
O. V. Sisson, a well known farmer
of the vicinity of Talladega, Ala.., was
fatally injured when an .old ex-fire
horse with which he was plowing
heard a fire alarm and suddenly dash
ed away in answer to the old call.
The horse was formerly connected
with the local fire department "; and
was accustomed to gallop off with his
mates at the sound of the alarm.
Another was added to the list of
antarctic tragedies by the news re
ceived at Sydney, N. S. W., of the
death of two members of the expedi
tion commanded by Dr.. Douglas Maw
son. The party left Tasmania in 1911
accompanied by a large body of sci
entific men,- to explore thoroughly the
regions around the southern magnetic
pole'. . Once again the British army
is affected by the loss of a brilliant
officer, Lieut, D. E. S. Ninnin.of the
famous Royal Fusiliers regiment.
Switzerland has suffered a severe loss
in the death of Doctor Merz, a promi
nent scientist and sportsman.
General
On July 1, next, the . collect-on-de-livery
feature will be added to the
parcel post service.
Fire destroyed the Dewel hotel at
Thirteenth and Farnam streets, in
Omaha, Neb. At least a score and
possibly more of persons lost their
lives. -
For haif an hour after he had killed
George Ev Marsh, an aged manufac
ture of "Lynn, Mass., William Dorr
drove up : and down the Lynn boule
vard 3Kith;the body propped up -beside
him" jn: the single seat of his - run
about.' The state alleges that Marsh
was murdered; so the defendant might
profit indirectly through a trust fund
which -he "thought would go to his
aunt. - '
The flight of Ernesto Madero and
Francisco Madero, uncle and father
of the late president, became known
in Mexico City. Ernest Madero had
attempted to induce the troops to
join in a new. revolt and orders had
been issued for his arrest. The Ma
deros reached Vera Cruz and went on
board a Cuban gunboat.
Robert S. Vessey, former governor
of South Dakota, in a church address
at Chicago, predicted that the entire
West would give suffrage to women
within a few years.
Hundreds of inhabitants of the
province of Fu Kien, China, have been
killed while offering armed resistance
to the" government troops engaged "in
destroying poppy plants. In I many
districts of China the people have
recognized the government's stern
purpose and have themselves rooted
upon the poppies.
Emilio Madero, a brother of ' the
late "president, has been shot and kill
ed near Monterey, according to infor
mation received here. With an escort
of 35 men, Madero, it is said,, was at
tempting to join the rebels holding
Nuevo Laredo, when, he was overtak
en by troops sent by General Trevino.
The reports do not indicate whether
Madero was killed in action or was
executed.
I In accordance with orders received
from Washington, the old ftnonitor
Puritan, now at the Charleston, S. C,
navy yard, will be stripped of all her
fittings and prepared for use as a
target. Built in 1876 the Puritan did
good service during the Spanish war.
The widow of Capt. Robert F. Scott,
the antarctic explorer, will henceforth
be known as .Lady Scott; King George
bestowed onher the same rank, style
and precedence as if her husband had
been nominated a knight commander.
A number of counterfeit ten and
twenty-dollar bills have made their
appearance at Jacksonville, Fla.
Henry Langford Wilson, president
of the Archaeological Institute of
America and professor of Roman ar
chaeology and epigraphy in Johns
Hopkins university, died of pneumo
lia at Pittsburg, Pa.
IN
The fifth box car loaded with a
portion of the skeleton of an Atah liz
ard started from Jensen, Utah, for
the Carnegie museum in Pittsburg. It
is estimated that. ten more carloads
will be necessary before all the bones
of thevgiant dinosaur, which is being
excavated on the banks of the Green
river, are assembled in Pittsburg. The
bones are quarried in blocks out . of
solid rock and the blocks cased for
shipment. The skeleton measures 84
feet in length.
John Beal Sneed, a wealthy west
Texas ranch owner, was declared, -not
guilty of the murder of Al Boyce, Jr.,
at Amarillo, Texas, last September.
Sneed shot Boyce to death on a down
town street in Amarillo at what was
said to have been the first meeting of
the two men after Boyce had eloped
with Mrs.-Sneed about a year, before
the killing. Al Boyce, Jr., was the. sec
ond member of the Boyce family that
Sneed hat killed on account of de
velopments following the elopement.
The new nickel of Indian head and
buffalo design, will be put into general
circulation. Already the treasury de
partment has received applications
from banks for more than two mil
lion of the new coins. '
Guyaquil, Ecuador, was violently
shaken by a long earthquake. The
tremor lasted about 70 seconds. The
inhabitants rushed from their houses
and the streets soon were thronged
with panic-stricken men and women,
many of them kneeling in prayer.
There was no damage nor loss of life.
Governor Sulzer of New York has
been informed of an alleged plot to
assassinate him. The governor re
lated that a man with head swathed
in bandages called at the executive
chamber and was referred to Owen
U Potter, his legal assistant. To Mr.
Potter the man, whose name the gov
ernor would not divulge, said f that
while In an abandoned cider mill he
had overheard two men discussing a
plot to kill the governor. When the
conspirators learned of the presence
of the governor's informant, they as
saulted and robbed him.
Washington
The Webb liquor bttl, prohibiting
the shipment' of liquor into "dry"
states, was repassed in the! senate
over the president's veto. There was
only a short debate.
The rejoinder of the British gov
ernment to the last American note
regarding the - Panama canal zone
tolls question was delivered to Secre
tary Knox by Ambassador Bryce.
Though naturally of great interest to
sfedfetary Knox, he will make no ef
fort to 'consider it, but will allow the
negotiatioii's"6n the American side to
be continued by his successor office.
The new president Jias made his po
sition plain latejy to several Demo
cratic senators. He has made known
to Democratic senate leaders most
closely in his confidence that he fa
vors the passage of Senator Root's
amendment to the Panama canal bill
to repeal the provision exempting fill
American coastwise ships from "pay
ment of tolls.
" The ' bill to create a department of
labor with a cabinet officer at its
head passed the senate after less
than an hour's consideration. The
measure had previously passed the
house, but amendments in the senate
will require its perfection in confer
ence. One amendment would put the
new children's bureau . under ' the - di
rection of the -secretary of Jabor.
President Taft sent to congress his
much-discussed "budget" message. He
Tecommended the adoption of a budget
system of relating ; proposed expendi
tures to expected revenues and de
clared that congress would be greatly
benefited by having before it such a
statement before it began' the' annual
grind upon appropriation bills. The
"United States, he says, is the only
great nation in the world which did
not use the budget system and in
consequence it "may be . said to be
without plan or program." He indi
cated that owing to the ' late day at
which he was able to transmit his
message he expected little legislation
on the topic from the present con
gress. In a special message to congress,
President Taft urgently recommended
immediate appropriation of $250,000
for the first annual payment to Pan
ama under the terms of the treaty by
which Panama gave to the Unitedj
States permission to build the Pan
ama canal. The treaty provided that
in addition to $10,000,000 in gold paid
for the canal zone in -annual sum of
$250,000 was to be paid as long as
the treaty existed, beginning nine
years after ratification of the treaty.
The first payment is due February 26.
The bill to prevent Washington ho
tels and taxicabs from "boosting" the
rates during inauguration came up in
the house and was ushered by a
sharp fight to get a quorum. Finally
the house passed the bill, carrying a
penalty of ,$25 fine, revocation of li
cense and requiring an offending ho
tel or restauranter to furnish free
board to complainants while prosecut
ing cases.
The government might have gain
ed thirty-six million dollars in the
last twenty-six years had it collected
interest on all its deposits and what
it might have deposited in banks and
still retained a working balance of
thirty-five million dollars in the treas
ury, according to - the conclusion of
a report of the house committee on
expenditures in the treasury depart
ment. The committee recommended
that the ways and means committee
or the banking and currency commit
tee report a law compelling deposit of
excess government funds at interest
under a competitive bidding system.
GREAT BRIMS
ULTIMATUM TO U.S.
CHANGE. OF ADMINISTRATION
CUTS SHORT DISCUSSION OF
.- . CANAtS. SUBJECT.
NOTE COMES FROM BRYCE
The" Ambassador Asserts That The
Hay-Paunce'fote Treaty Holds Until
iThe TbJts.,, Have Acutally Been
(Levied. Note a Set of Observations
i : - .
Washington. Great Britain's final
word to the' Taft Administration on
the Panama Canal tolls dispute, made
public insisted that a case of settle
ment under the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
has arisen but that there would not
be time to discuss the subject further
before the United States government
changed hands.
Secretary of State Knox acknowl
edged receipt of this communication
without committing the state depart
ment to an answer reserving to his
successor the decision of the question
of whether it is proper to make such
answer at all or to await another
communication from the British gov
ernment continuing the argument.
This latest British note, which was
submitted to Secretary Knox, instead
of being a communication from Sir
Edward Grey, the foreign minister,
was a set Of "observations" by Ambas
sador Bryce:
The note follows In part: . . .
"His Majesty's Government is un
able before the aministration leave
office to reply fully to the arguments
contained in your dispatch of the sev
enteenth to the United States Charge
D Affaires at London, regarding, the
A J 1 11 A. T I .
uiuci ciiuc ul upiuiuu mai una ariscu
between our two governments as to
the interpertation of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty, but they desire me in the
meantime to offer the following ob
servations with regard to the argu
ment that no case has yet arisen call
ing for any submission to arbitration
of the ponts" " in difference between
His Majesty's. government and that of
the United States on in the interpreta
tion rtf t Vi (Tav.Paiinififnta t-reatxr ho.
cause no actual injury has as yet re
sulted to any British interest and all
that has been bone so far is to pass
an act of Congress under which action
held by His Majesty's government
to be prejudicial to British interest
might be taken.
People of Nicaragua Tired of War.
New Orleans. "In Nicaragua the
people are - tired of war and strif.
They Wan$ peace And the opportunity
to improve their condition and devel
op their country," according to Gen
eral Juan Jose Estrada, former presi
dent of Nicaragua, who was in New
Orleans en rotue to New York. Gen
eral. Estrada added that he did not
believe there would be any more revo-.
lutions in his country and thought
that the enmity to president Diaz
would be overcome "when the people
in Nicaragua realize that it is against
.their own good to instill anti-American
feeling."
Killed Trying to Avert Wreck.
Danville, Va. William M. Poteat,
white, married, aged 43, was struck
by a southbound passenger train near
this city while trying to remove a
hand car from the track to avert a
wreck. Negro hands jumped from
the car but Poteat was killed trying
to remove it from the rails.
General Orozco Wants Peace.
El Paso, Texas. Gen. Pacual Oro
co, Jr., the commander-in-chief of the
northern revolution, heretofore silent
regarding his stand, in the Mexican di
lemma, declared at his camp near
Ahumada that he desired to arrange
peace by negotiations.
1
Turks and Greeks in Savage Fight.
Athens, Greece. A detachment of
300 Turkish Infantrymen fought for
six hours against a body of Greek
troops near Janina and surrendered
only after 112 Turks had been killed,
including eight officers.
VTCDD Dill DCCUmCB i-clW WCSpiie I alt
Washington By a vote of 244 .to
95 the house repassed over President
Taft's veto the Webb bill prohibiting
shipments of intoxicating liquors . into
"dry" states. The senate passed it over
the veto and the bill now becomes
law. Only one other time in the last
15 years has Congress over-ridden a
ill . L L n:n r rt m
presiucni d veiu. ims was wuea ma
Rainey River dam bill was passed over
T..nlJn D.A...lt
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President Taft based his veto upon
the ground that the bill was uncon
stitutional. Colombia Rejects Proposasl.
Washingtdn In a message, review
Ing the controversy . with Colombia,
President Taft transmitted to the sen
ate a report which declared Colom
bia's flat rejection of preliminary set
tlement proposals by the United
States have closed the door to fur
ther overtures on the part of the
United States. The report suggested
that a hope prevalent in Colombia
that the incoming Democratic admin
istration would agree to a settlement
on more liberal terms, was responsi
ble for Colombia's attitude.