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1 ' Ir. T. W. Bickett Will Speak in Salisbury Monday, lift P ,LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: FAJR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY, NOT (JITIE SO WARM THE POST RECEIVES IN ITS OFFICE DAILY LEASED WIRE REPORTS OK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWS SOURCES ARE NOT EXCELLED BY ANY NEWS PAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA. C3 Tl SPEAK OUT! LET POST WANT ADS ACT AS YOUR SPOKES MAN WHEN YOU WANT HELP, WANT TO SELL, OR WANT TO BUY. THEY GO HOME. I ' , VOL. 12. NO. 211. SALISBURY. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. SKYT. 8, liMfi. PRICE TWO CENTS r y . : IHt CUNIIKtSS IHU ulliKtboAUJUUKNo l tL NEW YORK MUCH GOOD WORK WITHOUT A DAY r-:: , The Congress Which Adjourned Today Was One of the Most Constructive. A REVIEW OF THE FIRST SESSION 6F SIXTY FOURTH Large Expenditures and Much Constructive Legislation Mark ed the Long Session. Washington, Sept. 8. The first se sion of the Sixly-fuurth Oniirivs. uhi. li ail jimt lied today was eom ern d chietlv with national When the jjavel fell Congress hm lii(cteil re-(iri;anization ami re ((uipmetit of the Army and Navy '.'or defense of the country at the unpre- cedente.. cost of .il'.oo.iMiO.OOO with authorizat ons that w ill increase the total in thrie years tu neatly $St0,- 000,000. With all other expenditures, appropriations we-e brought to the frran J of $l,C:n,5S:,6!S2, greatest ayreate :n the country's history and exceuiins that for the last fiscal year by more than half a billion dollars. Kxpenditures, necessitated iy pre paredness and the calling into action of milhary (forces to meet the Mexi can emergency demended revenue leg islation in the incomes, creating an inheritance tax, munitions tax and miscellaneous excise taxes to raise 2K),000,1X10 and by directing sale of j $130,000,000 Panama Canal bonds. L'ongress established a Tariff Com-1 m ssion; a Uovernment bhippin Boar ! to rehabilitate the American merchant, marine; a Workmen's Com pensation Commission to administer a new uniform compensation law; a Farm Loan banking system; a Child Labor law; enlarged tile system of self-government in the Philippines and cnact:d many other important laws wh ch had Seen contemplated by the administration. The session was disturbed through out .by frequently recurring threats of foreign complications from the European war and immenence at one time of a diplomatic i.reak with Ger many; intenference with American mails and commerce, invasion of Am erican soil and killing of Americans ly Mexican bandits, and danger 6.' actual war with Mexico. Later in the session trouble arose in the Senate over tile nomination of Ixiuis I). Brandeis, of Boston, to suc ceei the late justice Iamar as a member of the Supreme Court. Weeks of investigation and deliberation by the Judiciary committee ended in con firmation of Mr. Brandei by a large majority. . Most important legislative enact ments of the session, exclusive of laws for national defense, included the (following: Government Ship Law: .Appropri ating $50,000,000 to operate sh ps in foreizn and coastwise trade when un able to lease' them to individuals or private corporations. Child Labor Law: Denying inter state commerce to products of mines and quarries employing children un der 16 years of age ani faictor'es, mills, canneries ana other establish ments employing children under 14 years. ' Rural Credits Law: Establishing a Farm Loan Board in control of a sys tem of Farm Loan Mortgage Banks. Workmen's Compensation Law: Providing uniform sick and accident benefits for employes of the Federal Government, and 'benefits to depen dents 'n case of death. Emergency Revenue Law: Provid .ng. 'for doubling the normal income tax on the lowest class; making an ad itional surtax ranging from one per cent on that portion cf incomes exceeding $20,000 to 13 per cent on amount of. incomes in excess of $2, 000,00; levying a graduated tax of one to ten per cent in inheritances ranging from $50,000 to $5,000,000; a ten -per tent net jrofit tax on manu facturers, of munitions, five per cent net .profit tax on manufacturers of materials entering into munitions: a lieene tax 'on actually invested capi tal stock ct' coroo'-ntions capitalized at more than $99,000; wine, beer and liquor excise taxes and miscellane ous rtamp taxts. Good Roads Law: Providing for co-operative Federal a d to the States for construction of highways, and ap propriating $75,000,000 to be spent in five years. Postal Savings Law: Amendment increasing the amount which indi viduals may deposit from $500 to $1. 000 with interest :anif an . addit'onal $1,000 without Jntewst. - Federal Reserve: Amendments, in cluflmr the Clayton anti-trust law permitf ins; , officers and directors of. (Continued on Page 6.) At 1(1 O'clock Thin Mnrnino-the I I t . L - , a 64th Congress Came. v. I ; ? ' ' I Ofc' 1 ' f ' ' 1 I APPROPRIATIONS WERE VLJ ' Wt; 1 . LARGEST EVER MADE $ T ,jPJ - The Appropriations Made by This 1 f fjuywww; yfmm" "T'-j lf . .; 1 Congress Will Run Well On "'t W ' - To wards Two Billion Mark. I ! 47"7 i ' K (By Associated Press.) I . vJ.V'"' V, J ? ftufeL . J I Wasliwi-ti.M, Sept. 8. Congress fc'v " i$ ; ' " -JSt alj..u.nc.,l sine die at 10 o'clock this- ; - T ' ' Shi' V ST A I Hy Associated Prfss.) Washington, Sept. S. Congress adjoii'iieil sine die at 10 o'clock this' moinin and the appropriations ma liy this record ,' rea.iinjr conreBs will t: ards lar nui-k. j ' oneress as the session close' had txar. . $1,626,439,210 I "ul"""ru ' dollnrs, which with obligations already authorized for the future makes a t,ta of 1,858,384,485 dollars. Those ljrures were announced in a I speech by Representative Fitszgrtrald, , 1. . i- V -V-l. 1 k.. resentative Elliott, Republican of Massachusetts, the lrst defending the appropriation and the. latter attack ing the record as the greatest expen diture ever made by a Republican ad ministration. Only a small proportion of the members were on hand to watch the session die. Most of them had hur ried home at the end of the late ses sion last night or even days before, and a month after the political cam paign is finished in November they must retur nfor the short session. The Senate began its session at 8 o'clock this morning, following an ad journment at 1 this morning upon the passage of the emergency revenue bill. At the outset Senator Lewis sought to have passed the Spanish war wid ows pension bill. Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia announced that such a measure could not be passed if he could prevent it. The House convened at 8 o'clock, a. m. Speaker Clark, Leader Kitchin. Republican Leader Mann and a small number of members on both sides of the floor were present to watch the windup. Speaker Clark and Republi can Leader Mann exchanged the us ual felicitations, and Speaker Clark in addressing the House referred to this session of Congress as a long, tedious and laborious one. "No ses sion of Congress in my recollection,", he said, "stayed in session 'so many days and worked so many hours." Soon after the President reached the eapitol the revenue bill was ready for his signature. The Senate adopt ed me concurrent resolution for a 10 3 clock adjournment which had al ready been passed in the House. The President held a reception in his room 9s a line of Senators and Representa tives passed through while he signed bills. At 9:30 the Senate appointed Sen ator Kern and Senator Smoot to no tify the President that congress was ready to adjourn unless he had some further communication to present They were joined by Representative Fitzgerald and Mann of the House committee and the joint committee waited on the President at 9:35. Sen ator Kern notified the Senate at 9:45 that the President had nothing furth er to communicate. Thereupon Sena tor Nelson of Minnesota offered a resolution of thanks to the Vice Pres ident for his impartial conduct in pre siding over the Senate. The resolu tion was adopted and the Vice Pres ident thanked the Senate in a brief address. The Senate then adjourned sine die at .9:55. , ' PRESIDENT LEAVES WASHINGTON. Mr. Wilson. Will Address National Woman Suffrage Association To night and Then Go to Shadow Lawn. Washington, Sept. 8. President Wilson left Washington it 1' o'clock this aftrenoon for . stayi which may extend until after the November also. tion. He expects to arrive in AtlajLJ tic City at 5:45 this afternoon and to night will neak I efore tha National Woman Suffrage Association. After spending the night in Atlantic dtj he will motor to the summer White House, Shadow Lawn, at Long Branch, N. J., for an extended stay. The President was busy at the time of his departure with work incident to the adjournment of Congress. President Sign Workmen's Act. Washington, Sept. 1. President Wilson tonight signed the federal workmen's compensation act passed recently by Congress, providing re lief for government employes injured at their work. If in-e. I morning anil tm- appropriations nia.ie I j? ' s I if 11 J J B , this r,,,r conswi.. I hT" ' W Vs. 1 . I run wen WAanis uu iwu l-iiiiuh uuj- i - v f tK: rJr'jr M II I1- A- U I. lf'l I , , . AiU IbS lilt J,v:S mpuw IS IN PROGRESS fiH AT A CROSSING Southeastern Rumania the Scene of One of Fiercest Struggles of the Present War. GERMANS MAKE REPEATED 2FT0RT TO GAIN- GROUND On the Verdun Front the French Troops Were Subjected to a Severe Counter Attack. (By Associated Press.) The beginning of a great battle in southeastern Rumania is reported un officially from Petrograd. The Rus sians are said to have taken the of fensive over the entire Dobrudja, at tacking the Invading Bulgarians and Germans from the Danubs to the Black Sea. An undated Bulgarian official report announces important victories for the invaders in this re gion. It is said the German and Bui garian forces have captured a forti fied town 50 miles southeast of Buch arest and three towns on the Ruman ina Black Sea coast near the Bulgar ian frontier. Scfia concedes that Ru manians have occupied the important Hungarian town of Orsova The official Petroyrad report today indicates that the Russians may have embarked on an important enterprise on the northern end of their front. It was announced yesterday that the Russians ha," crossed the Dvina river north of Dvinsfk and occupied a part of the German pos:tion but it appeared that only a small force was involved. Announcement today shows that these forces were of sufficient size to engage in sustaining fighting with the Germans whose repeated attempts to dislodge them are said to have been unsuccessful. German troops along the Somme front last night made repeated ef forts to take back ground won by the French in their latest advance south of the river. Paris announced that the German assaults availed nothing and that the French everywhere held their ground. On the .Verrun front also French troops-were subjected to a counter attack, the cfrject of which was to reconquer the German first l-ne position northeast of Verdun which the French took yesterday. These efforts were unsuccessful the French official report says. British troops on the Somme front are comparatively inactive. Further north near .Duinchy the British raided German, trenches and London says inflicted- severe losses on the occupants. ':. s An unofficial Bulgarian statement of September 4th dealing with 'ear lier phases of the invasion of Eastern Rumania tell of the -defeat of the Rumanians in two, engagements and report Successful Bulgarian advan ces along the Rumanian Black Sea coast.- : . On the front below Lemberg" in eastern Galicia a further fetreit .by Austro-German forces is' reported "by the Russian war office They4 are said to have fallen kback to the west bank of the last rivet before Lemberg to the south of which is Available for defensive purposes, f . , ' j I r x vera . I r - X. ?v v v - I z v 4 ff,; I Tiin i nro i noT I i a a t K rNCS ftON$TANt Ng Crown Prince George of Greece be comes king by the abdication of his father, and former Premier Venizelos, the real power in the nation, will be the man behind the throne. For nany months a bitter controversy as been waged between the majority if the people led by M. Venizelos gainst King Constantine, whose raining has been German and whose jueen is a German, the sister of th caiser. Her influence has thus re ulted in his loss of his throne. OF FOREIGN LOBBY Alleged Activities to Defeat Re taliatory Provision Rules Sen ator Curtis of Kansas. REED SAYS TIME FOR THIS GOV'NMENT ASSERT ITSELF Senator Lewis, Democrat, Would Have Action of Japan Against China Looked Into Also. Washington, Sept. 8. The resolu tion by Senator Curtis, of Kansas, directing the Senate lobby committee to investigate the activities of the al 'eged foreign lobby opposing a retnl iatory provision of the revenue bill against Canadian fisheries' passed bv the Senate. The resolution was adopt ed after the Senate had disposed of a similar resolution by referring it to a committee. The new resolution adopted pro vides for a report at the next session of Congress. Senator Reed, a Democratic mem ber of the lobby committee, said he believed it high time for the Ameri can government to show other nations that it regarded as offensive any ef fort to influence legislation in con gress.- Senatori Lewis, Democrat, urged that if anything be investigated it be the recent demands fof Japan on Chi na. He declared that apparently they In retaliation to the attitude of thi? country toward the, admission of the Japanese. Russia, he said, was a par ty with Japan and sought retaliation because of the abrogation of the American commercial treaty. SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. J5. "The city school board has chosea Monday, September 25th as the date for the open- iag of the Salisbury public 'schools. "All departments of f ' the several institutions ,' will' :open oa that date. AN INVESTIGATION G.Kearns and John Merritt Were Killed When a Southbound Train Struck Car. A THIRD MAN WAS MOST DESPERATELY INJURED Claud E. Merritt a Brother of One of the Dead Men Injured at the Same Time. Parties in Albemarle on Thursday brought word in last night of a most distressing accident which occurred a short distance above the city of Al bemarle on Thursday evening when a Southbound train struck an automo bile in which three men rode. Two of he men were k'lled, while the third was desperately hurt and was taken to Albemarle for truattment. The correspondent of the Post fur nishes the following report on the ae- ci'ent: Two men are dead and another seri iusly injured as the result of a col lision of a Ford motor truck and pas- 'enirer train No. 63 of the Winston Salem Southbound railway, which flc curred late this afternoon just north of the city. The dead are: G. K. Kearns and John Merrit, both of Al bemarle. The injured is Claude E. Merrit, a brother of John Merr.t. Full details of the accident are hard to get. It seems from the best in formation at hand that Kearns an the two Merrits were going at a rath er rapid rate when they started to cross the Wmston-Saleim Southoound railroad at a deep, cut near the home f G. F. Smith, just north of the citv( ina ONI 'oi aisctwer me comings n am until too late.; ' It Is stated that the train force did not see the truck until the train hit it. Kearns was killed outright, his neck btinz bro"4en. while Merritt survived only a few minutes, death ensuing be fore he reached the city, although both Kearns anf Merrit and likewise the jnjured man, were rushed as rap idly as possible into the station, a distance of about, a mile, and then up town for medical attention. Kearns was about 30 years old and leaves a wife and two children, while Msrrit was about the same age and alo leaves a w'fe and two or three children. It is thought that the in jured man will recover unless com plications set in. ! WOMAN SUFFRAGE ' ASSOCIATION MEET. Vote Down A Resolution to Support Only Those Candidates Favorable to Anthony' Amendment. " (By Associated Press.) Atlantic City, N. Sept 8. The National American Woman Suffrage Association in convention here today defeated ' by an cverwhelmlng vote the resolution that the association in the present national campaign pup port only those candidates fort na tional office who pledge support to the passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment to the Federal constitu tion. ;.: '.v.-..-:.; ,; i It isn't quite enough to look on the bright sid of life. . You have t( keep 1 poluh'ng it up. V i .-1 ' - STREET CAR STRIKE i The Situation Seema to be Better So Far as the Road is Concern ed, More Cars Running. SHONTS SAYS THE STRIKE HAS PROVEN A FAILURE Elevated and Subways Cars Run ning All O. K. But the Surface Cars Have Given Trouble. (Hy "ssoriuted Press.) New York, Si'pt. 8. Having frus trated the effort of the Mtriking em ployes to tie up elevated and subway curs the Inter Imrounh Transit Coin- pany today tui lied its attention to it's surface lines which have been crippled since Wednesday. All cars on the surface lins were withdrawn lust niht at 8 o'clock after remaining in operation throughout the day a bare L'O per cent. Subway and elevated trains ran last night and this morning as usuul. 'curing that these could not be de pended on patrons of the lines re sorted to the many jitneys that had been mobilized, but today patrons are returning to the cars. There has been small disturbances, but no serious action. Some friends of the strikers have thrown stones at cars from the roofs of houses. Shonts Says Strike is Failure. New York, Sept. 7. Subway and elevated transportation lines on Man hattan Island were being operatrd tonight on what officials of the Inter borough Rapid Transit Company said were virtually normal schedules, al though It was admitted that service on the surface lines of the New York Railways Sompany was seriously .af fected by the traction strike, called last night. Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough, issued a statement late today, in which he said the strike was a failure and that if police pro tection continued as good as it had been throughout the day, the city was assured of normal transportation fa cilities. Disorders that occurred in various parts of the city resulted in only minor injuries to a few persons, ac cording to police reports. Disruption of service on ' surface lines diverted much of their usual traffic to the elevated and subway lines and during the rush hours this evening there was considerable con gestion. Mayor Mitchell arrived from the Pittsburg Training Camp tonight and with Oscar S. Straus, chairman of the Public Service Commission will to-! morrow take up the strike situation. William B. Fitzgerald, organizer of the Amalgamated association and Frank Hedley, general manager of the Interborough. testified at a hearing on the strike before the public ser vice commission. Failure of the union to tie up the subway and elevated lines is attrib uted by some union men to the fact that thousands of strike breakers congregated here and in nearby cities in preparation for the threatened Nation-wide railway strike, were available to the Interborough. Orje policeman was placed on every subway and -elevated platform in ad dition to uniformed men already theref. after' Theodora Rousseau, May or Mitchell's secretary:notined the po lice department that he had Men In formed of a plot to blow up the sub way. All persons carrying bundles and parcels were watched closdy by detectives. A.DAMSON LABOR BILL WILL BE MADE POLITICAL ISSUE. New York, Sept 7. Hughes Presi dential campaign directors will appeal to voters to repudiate the Aj'amson labor act, not as an eight-hour law, ut as a raised wage law This has been decided at confer ences among Nation! Chairman Wil cox; Chairman John W. Weeks, of the Senate Campaign Committee; Sena tor George T. Oliver, of Pennsylva nia; Senator Charles B. Warren, of Michigan; National Committeeman Parsons, of New York, and others. At the. conclusion of the meeting, which lasted for hours, Chairman Wilcox, explaining he had not yet per fected an official statement, asKed Senators Weeka and Oliver to voice the Republican view. - Another Decline in Epidemic ' (By Associated Press.) New York, Sept 8. A sharp de cline In infantile paralysis cases was shewn today in figures announced by the health authorities. The total new esses was 48 or 13 less than yester day, while the deaths was 15, also a drop of 13. TO CHECK AUTO IN CITY Aldermen Instruct Police Head to Enforce Law Regarding Driving of Autos. TO PROTECT NEW PLANT FILTERING New Street Lighting Contract Slightly Revised and Geti Sig nature of Mayor and Clerk. The board of aldermen met In reg . ulnr monthly ses0;st the city hall last night at 8 o'clock, Mayor Wood son presiding and all members being , present except Al ermen Beaver and' nennesree. The minutes of the laat, regular and ' of several call meetings were read :, and approved. Mr. R. W. Tiernan of the Spencer shop force was present In behalf of a large number of wage earners aek- : '.ng the board to use its Influence to have I.X'sl 't(';or employed in the con struction of the three new school buildings' and the new water plsut and other' municipal improvement now under way, and thus keep as much of the bond money, voted by the people of the etty, in the city. Assurance was given that this rule had always teen followed wherever ' possible in all municipal work and would be one in these Instances.' -Mr. McDanlel, living in a small cot tatre owned by the city in Chestnut Hill cemetery, asked that material be furnished for some needed improve-, ments and that he wopS .iums the. labor part of the same. This was re ime. This ft rred to the cemetery committee.' The finance committee, through t chaitman, informed the board that a report would be found published in this afternoon's Post , ' ., ' " - Th ordinance committee submit ted the following ordinance, which was put on its first Hading: Be it ordained, that it shall be unlawful for two persons of opposite lex and not married to bed together in the city of , Salisbury. Penalty prescribed on. conviction is $6. This ordinance, it was explained by Sergeant Oaufolt of the police force,. was requested by him in order that he may deal with certain characters who are Causing comnlaint, though it is general in its " application. v - The city was authorised to adver tise at once for bids on street paving in sections already lsta6lihe,l as pav ing districts. The report of the voice committee showed good records for all officers fDr the month. Some amusement was occasioned by the reading of a letter received bv Chai-msn Ludwick of the, police committee and coming from "John Doe" at Charlotte. Enclosed in the letter was a Salisbury policeman's badge f certain number with the In fsrmation that the sender had taken it off of a Salisbury policeman wh le on his way to catch a late night train, the officer being asleep, and that "I ' could have taken his gun, but didnt want to -io that" Sergeant Cauble , stated that the badge (belonged to a patrolman who had lost it one night last week while on his rounds inspect ing the street light outage and that the officer at once called on him for another badge. The board was satis fled the fcadge sent in by the annony mous letter writer was the one lost by the officer on the aDove occasion and was returned in the manner it was as a joke. At any rate they never had any-idea paying .attention to an annonymous letter. " ' The building committee reported that within the past two ; months, since its last report, permits for new buildings approximating 100,000 hai been issued. . ' , The sewer committee stated that a . sewer line is to be installed on North Fulton street from Kerr to Cemetery streets, and that a tnis was in the vicinity of the site of the' new water : filtering station, it would recommend, that connection of all property on th's line be made compulsory. , This wss passed by the board and the clerk directed to so notify the proper ty owners on this block. " i ; The fire committee v reported three calls for the department during the , month of August, one of these at the Southern stock pens, outside the city limits. The property loss was small compared to that endangered. . Alderman Norwood called atten tention to the fact that many wagons used in hauling dirt and gravel through the streets of the city were not in acordance to ttat prescribed by an ordinance. These loose bodiei veh'clei allow dirt and gravel to si 't through on the streets, making tc- i dusty or muddy and the gravel ir; pri ons to Improved streets. Cert i streets where this hai been done re cently were specified end the o" . ' (Continued on Fs 6.) SPEEDERS