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, I Vwpinfl' .vtHsstingly at it , . V , I . I th won. vrtiilng metu in ' II I HE m w Mil h Mi' tin n j 7 i a r ii ri r n i i i utioa r th cat. ins w - . -sc mm mi tm II Tl f . I I I m. V A ' a r Vol. xlx. No. 157 ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS SENATOR MORGAN AGAIN FLAYS PREST ROOSEVELT SENATOR MORGAN. enerable Soo of Alabama, Un mindful of Weight of Years Once More Rebukes Adminls tration For Its Attitude in Panama Deal Withering Denunciation. inert senator; ueciares That Panama Had no Right to Ap point "Vanilla Bean ' Minis, ter to This Country and Characterizes Such Action is a Grotesque Affair. Washington, Due. P. Bfjiutor Telle.' mniletcd hi speech In opposition 'to Cuban reciprocity bill .toduy, unU I'liatur Morgan also was heard In op po ll Ion to that measurei The Alabama nator devoted the greater space of his ttention to the rnmuna, cunul proposi tion, lie cnurgeu mai me unite! lutes hud broken fulth In falling to bey the Spooneilaw,;und warned Cu rt that the same course might be fol ded by the United States towartls hat I'ounliy In cuse the pending bill liould become a law. After u suggestion that the .J'cnitise 'solution for an Investigation of tlr. iiostollice department be considered, , Ind a statement by Mr. Collum that I tie Cuban bill should have the right of Ivuy, the sennte took up the Cuban bill vhen the routine business was eom- bleted. Mr. Teller continued his speech b- Sun yesterday. He again took up the uestion of the nctivity of General IVuod, while acting governor of Cuba, In behalf of Cuban reciprocity with tic befure the enterprise hud gone far. ami thus accomplished the purpose of the Innis-continental railroad In prevent li'T the cuiiHti'uctioii of any cuiml. Discussing the President's message, he M.ild the- chief executive had failed to execute the "Kpooner luw because It wus distasteful to him." and declared that he had nut succeded In formulat ing any satisfactory excuse for his course. He predicted that the time would come when Cubu would "cllr me threads that restrain her and bind her to us and again float off Into th sen or liberty." In such uu effort, he continued, Cuba ' might find n friend In Germany, which might follow our example and create a state of Inde pendence in u night and then unnex ll with sunrise. No doubt there would lie fighting, for who, ho asked, "Is mor. eager to fight than F.mperor William or our own strenuous President ?" On for the "Bn." He spoke of tin? negotiation of tin Panama canal treaty us a groti-sow act and declared that Panama had "no more right to apioint n minister to tin l lilted Slates than that country had to consecrate a saint." So far as the concession made Ii Cuba In this bill is concerned, he said It would not be regarded by the Cu bans in anything but a serious light whatever the result may be. "The Cubans will not," he said, ' re gard It as a ludicrous act In a French vaudeville, hut will accent It serlouslv Mr. Morgan said that Cuba would do well to give curcful heed to our pur pose in the legislation under consider atlon. They should not follow the old aduge not to look n gift horse in the mouth, for in this case, "the gift horse Is u bronco which streets them with whinny and may send Ihcni away with a kick." Returning to the Panama situation tt V M . X ligure showing the amounts paid news Lapers for advocating this policy. ' In conclusion, Mr. Teller said the five 1-e.arg clo ue. could -hftve -ho weight be- f.iUBe no IfgTslatlv'e TJOdy fan bind thff: let of a future body.. That clause was Imt In ni a sop, he said. , MoroaiV Attack. 77- Mr. Teller hm followed by Mr. Mor gan, who also opposed the. bill. Mr. Morgan took occasion to refer frequent- to the Panama canal treaty, nnd In lhat connection .again freely criticised pvhat he termed "Presidential usurna- linn." He declared that the United Rates Is becoming affected to the con vltli coveteousness and he said th rountiy seemed to be nulveriiig with Uoubt as to whether It should go ovi r Mr. Morgan said that the Viiltc! St;ites is practically at war with Col omnia as the result of the fact thai the President had fallen Into a trap He was endeavoring, he s;ild. to pre ! vent the senate from falling into this same trap. He referred again to M j r.urau- arllla, and reviewed that I man s history, as a contractor on the old Panama canal said he had con fulled States. He said there were ofTi-1 traced wisely and well, and had left lial records to show that the Cuban '"e Isthmus a rich man. Mr. Morgan government had paid to exceed $li.000 said that his whole purpose was tc In that Interest during General Wood'"! warn the senate agdlnst ratifying administration. He declared that llieMreil' 'be negotiation of which he bress of both the United States and characterized as a "most wretched, a ruba had been utilized in supporting i mostunom inable and a most horrible llw policy of reciprocity, and nuoted ! transaction." . . ., Aoiwunstauiiing tnm wus the ouse the senator continued, the senate I sleeps over this breach of the Monroe (doctrine, while the president of France lilJldhe President of the United States stand over the recumbent figure and sing' in unison their solemn and sat I Isfled amen. 1 He then -proceeded to say that only I yesterday he met n great 'Democrat who "had a place In our uffairs only l second in Importance, to the presiden Icy, and had made a name for himsell in diplomacy (evidently meaning form j or Secretary of State Olney i. who had I liowed his head as he said 'for the first time In my life I have to con fess that I am ashamed of the attitude of my country." r"' oi-pursue me neiier course 10'-1 p.jj,). i v. m, um naiiunsi xuiiiers. ro iar ....!.,.:..,. ...t.u ...... 1 . m . vm ici.itiuun 111111 iruui I cuiicei nen, ne ivoumj nox oe so , ,,,,.., s f.. , Imeiilj as to yield to H temptation simply ,,c.onol,lp interests are concerned. 01 r wianvc ine commercial interests 01 : hi i, .i,nto,i im sniie. ne asserted that the I nlte ltates would do much as it pleased lltli the island of Cuba, arid added "Shr 1 lion- fettered to the decks of our wor ships as firmly as Pi'ofossor Iingley'.' oup-ht to be admitted as a state." Mr. Morgan slopped speaking a 4:40 'jniid the senate went into executive ses- hdrship was ever uttuched to his house- I boat." Cost of Canal. He expressed the opinion that the I- of the Panama canal In Its early stages would be so great as to cause wmgrcss to stop the appropriations sion and ten minutes later adjourned, APPOINTED SUB -COMMITTEES Washington, D. C, Dec. 9. The house ways and means committee to day appointed the following sub-corn mlttecs: On customs, customs districts and Continued on page 6) FATHER WHO KILLED HIS SON GETS VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER Colunil lor court here tonlirht a lurv returned verdict of voluntary . niansluuKht' against Ii. H. Durton. u mun who wa:- trial for killing his 17 year old son killing occuired in this city Sep teinber 3. 19! The father alleged that the son cursed him and threatened to kill him and Mini before he knew what lie was doing In had drawn his knife and stabbed the boy to death. James Hurton, another son. was a prosecuting witness In the case. Deputies and Clerks Have Little Surprise Party Trinidad, Colo.. Dec. 9 While ii mini- The shooting continued at intervals for W of deputies and clerks were driving minutes, though no one An as inju. c). 'Dm nervv... . o-T , f: Fheriff Clark and posse wfre preparing uerNNjnd to Tobasco, at 1 o clock tQ )o.ive fo,. tn sct.ne OM 8peciai train "fternoon, they, were tiled on by hen word Nvas received that reinforce "ru men hU benlnj , roPks. and nients of guaids had arrived from To- msh. The le.,..tir. . i,B,... hlf a mile aNvay. and the ambush nni nun uULUMCL UUULI TESTIFIES IN WOOD CASE Wasliington, Dec. 'J.--When the senate ommiltee on military affairs lesumed ts investigation of the Wcoil case to day Colonel Edgar Dudley, professor ot law und history at West Point Military Academy, who Nvas judge advocate gen eral at Havana during General Woo 1 idministratiun as governor general, ap peared to supplement testimony givi esterday. He sumhitted a copy of pinion rendered In Havana at the re quest of Oeneial Wood, loneeinlng Uie ippllcation of the Jul Ala! company or a concession to operate an amuse nent amphitheatre. This opinion d; ,Iared that the com'ession should not be granted on the ground that It. would h 1 violation of the Koraker amendment. General Tasker H. IMIss was then re al I led. General Uliss said in reply to ip.ies- lions that he strongly opposed the ad mission without payment of duty of the diver service purchased in New York by the Jul .Mai. He received mandatoiy nstructlons from General Wood to ad mit the silver service, however, una obeyed them. Alexander Krye. u ho was coinmls- sinner of education in Culm under Gen eral Wood has been sumino'iied to testi fy before' the committee. OF RUSSIAN SQUADRON London. I)ec. 10. No fuulier new s has been received here showing lhat the re ported arrival of a Kussian s"o,uadron at In .1:1. 1 1 dm has significance. Tin names of the vessels which' have arriv ed at (-hamulpho are not given. Pis patches to the " Daily Telegraph from Tol;lu and Nagimki. tinder d ue o Weda-Mliy do not even mention th 11 rival of the situadixm a! the Corea) pert. The Telegraph's o 1 esp.mdeio sdales lliat the situatlxm has undergont 110 change tTCcpt for an Increase i. the tension duo to the protracted iiegii-' llailons. They also ve('it that the Japanese government Is buying war materials abroad-: " ' - COSTLY BLAZE. COLOMBIANS LOOK ASKANCE AT THE TREATY ll.iiiola. IV". 7, Nla Colnii. Dec. it. A prominent and "ell Informed hIIc .an. who is close to the goNcrhincnt, nn heu ipicsl ii.iieil lolav by l he A smell I l'rf eoi 1 espoiidenl, declined lo WIN.- anv rprcHlon of opinion con- enilng the ratification of the canal icily liy the kon ernnieiil of the lie nildic of I : 1 1.1 111:1 . The following ex irc'loii of the altitude of the C0I0111 Hn giermiii nt. however, is aulhorlx I. the Hirlct ceii'.oiship preventing fulli-r leiMut: "I'rw slateuciit Issued by Culled Slates Secretary of State May In ex- laniitl.iii "( the violent liipenliis on Die Isthmus of Panama, has produced 1 most unfni tun, ile and disastrous Impression In political and diplomatic ln . s here, by reason of Its cuntradlc ions and II" lack of sincerity and log- II : I UllllK'll I . "The Itogola press has answered Je-cetaiy Hay's statement In the most on Iih tni; manner. The central gov inn en Is actlag and will continue to ct with dignity and honor, but It has icen dei idol to conibnl the iudepend- ice of the Isthmus of Panama wllh- cessation. Americans here contin ic to enloy , ompli'te security despite 1. In ilguation of the people. ii ATLANTA" IS ON COMMITTEEMEN LOOKOUT FOR IN WASHINGTON BIG GAME , AND DENMARK TOO! Washington, lice. II. M. I Hum u 'al lla. tlie mlnisler of Panama, has re- ii i-i In formal ion that the govern mill of Iieiimark has recognized the .lew republic. Colon, Dec. S. The Cnlti-d Stale cruiser Atlanta is still patrolling til eastern coast of S.in III. is. and keeplnit .1 lookout for ipi atiempt of any Colom liluii IriMips to make a landing on th. isthmus. The Atlanta Is n-o endeav ring to asceiialn if the Indian know anv tiling of the nioNeniciiM of I l oop.- Tiom the Interior aeios tin- frontli-i and is ulso seeking Infoi in ulon con .riling tli alleged louccntruilou of Co .omblHii Hoops at the mouth ef All.iti liver, 011 the Gulf of Darlen. The Alia lo liver, being In Colombian teriiior the Atlanta, of course, could 110I Inlcr fere with any movements of Colomblai troop iheie. The report brought to l.iigu:iyra Ii.. he French steamer Versailles, froir avunllla to Hie effect licit Colonibia I learners have landed 1.1UO men near Up mmt h of the Atrato liver to open a vay over the Ii.uien mountains lo th Hthmiis, ninnot Im couth nicd here. The Ci'lted States kuiiIkiuI Ilanciofi efl today to patrol the wel"rn end ol lie San l!las toast In co-o'.n 1 nlloii nil! he Atlanta. TAKING NO CHANCES. M uncle. Ind., Dec. '.i.A laeity young winnaii. who came .into the office of County Clerk Mansfield, followed by a bash ful young man, nnd asked for a marriage license yesterday, insisted on paying $2a"0 for the document, notwithstanding she was told lhat the regular price Is but "Two dollars is too cheap for It and besides I was always 1 old that J-'.r-o Is the price, and I don't want to run any risks," she remarked, ns she put down I wo silver dollars and a fifty cent piece 011 the counter. I I'lioi (1. Ga.. Dee. iie-:t roved the itnna tory. Loss f 1 0(1,000 mm. !'. Fire tonight Midi harness fnc insuraiice ?Ua.- ROETGEN MEN MEET j Philadelphia, Dec. it. The unnuul 1 meet nil? of the Hoetgen society we ! held here today. .1 number of promln e'lt medical men attending. I he general topic of dismission nviip the possibilities of the x-ruy Jn medl 1.1I scleiic". Among the seakers today ( ii'i Dr. A. V. Price. Cleveland and ) Dr. Win. Krausli. of Memphis. STUDENTS APOLOGIZE. Madison. Ind., Dec. !. Members of hi- rTiirioVer college sophomore class oda.V sent an apology to President Fisher and the faculty, for holdiirt heir party -.contrary to rules, in the ollege lmildiiig. The order of suspen sion was then revoked. The other lasses have not affected a reinstate ment of suspended members, but x pecl a settleinent. STANDARD OIL GOES UP TO PAY FOR ROCKEFELLER'S XMAS GIFTS Pittsburg. Pa., 1 and Producers and I ries today advance Pennsylvania oil 1 price up to ?1.!'H, the In Kji.'i. Tiona, Corning, v. ere also advant'd 1 lower' grades NV.-re put gradual dei reuse in p 1 tilting the drawlii'; 1 1 ; to be responsible 1 t'.-Thc Stand ird liners ( lil compa llie iii"talion of ins. bringing the diest sini e May. ml New Castle, cuts, while tli" up 1 cent. The n I in t i 011, necessi :i'i sloidts Is sutd the advance. Opcralors hao colliidelitly expeete.l the advance and predict oil in Unocal- future. Very little new terrltorj is lieing discoN'ered. The Standard (lil company loda.N makes the following limitations: Penn sylvania ?1.W. Tiona J.O-".. Corning 1.7ii Xc'v Castle $t."7. North Lima $l.:;s Suulli Lima $1. Indiana $I.S:i, Whili II louse $1. Somerset $l.:i:i; Itaglund fit cuts. J. P. MORGAN AND OTHERS FILE BRIEFS Advance Guard Arrives For Friday's Meeting REPRESENTATION AT NEXT CONVENTION Will be One of Big Features to be Considered MOVEMENT ON FOOT TO REDUCE NUMBER OF DELEGATES FROM THE SOUTH WHAT PAYNE THINKS. Washington, Dec. alf of Messrs. J. P. '..icon ami Daniel S. tuts, w ilh others In -A brief in be Morgan Robert I.aiiiont, uppel- the case of the 'nlted States vs. the Northern Secuii- .es company, nvus filed in the United '.lutes Supreme court today by Atlor eys Francis Stetson and David Wll ox. They claim that the so-called erger was entirely Uiwful, and say: These transactions have consisted i.erely in the organization of a lawful orporatiou of New Jersey and In .the ile to, mid purchase by it of pro li ny hW fully salable. All, acts done in -lat Ion lo the organization of the .'orthern Securities company and lo he purchase by ii of the shares of lock of the railway comimnlcs. iiild ii the sale thereof by the owners ere expreasjy uthorlod by law. The gal effect of the transaction ha bout) hut the owner of the stock 'in on a o; lie 111 II way companies . ha ; acid the nine to the secuiilles company, and as received therefor stock of the se urilies company, which company onviis he stock not merely of one of the ailw'ay companies, but the stock- of oth. So that each Individual who as transferred his property lo the eeuiilies company has obtained thereon- something entirely different, nimely, 1111 Interest In a company hold ig slock of the other railway torn 'any as well. It is manifest that in he fullest possible sense this consu mes a sale of the property." WnxhliigUin. Dec. U. Krpubllcun na tional committeemen are arriving tu Wusiiington for the timidrlennlal moot, inaj which opens Friday at the At Hus ton. The question of representation in he next convention, us. expressed In. circular letters sent -out by- General lirayton, of Rhode' Island, Is 11 topic' of no little interest to toe committeemen. Musi of the committeemen who have arrived agree Unit they have no author ity to auy what the basis of representa tion shall be In the cull to be Issued for the convention. The most the commit-' leeinen can do, they Bay, la to pass A resolution recommending a basis which' will 1 educe the number of' delegates from ihe South, be adopted. Thla view .it the situation. In considerable part, is shared by Postmaster General Payne, member of the committee from Wlscn-i-dn. Mr. Payne la the futher of thi Idea ."or reduced representation and urged it stoutly at the Philnd.dphla conven tion, v ' .' "I still favor my plan and believe it night to be udopted," said Mr. Payne tonight, ."but I am aware that It Is a matter 011 which Ihe committee must pins or, but the committee, n I under-st.t-'d il cannot take nny decisive av ion. ' ; " '' ' opinions regarding the date forhe ' co:iN notion seems to favor the' Tuesday neaiest the middle of June, The eentl nieht in favor of Chicago as the' con vention city Increases, ho that among the delegates now here It Is regarded as . foregone conclusion that that city will v "e selected. : : " ' LAND FRAUD CASES. Portland. Ore., Dec-. !. Judge liel inger III the circuit court today over iile l the demurrers in the land grunt raii'ls cases, and Horatio A. McKtnley, A. D. Puler. Marie I. Ware, Guy ioff and Kiniiia L. Watson, under In 'ietment by the grand Jury, charged 'with conspiracy to defraud the Culled Slates, will be brought to trial. THIEF CAPTURES: TRAY OF DIAMONDS ..t !.. from the wagon and returned the fire ' party lied. No arrests were made. COMPANIES MAY BE NEXT MOVE inde ' De-'' 'A move to merge the Pndent telephone companies into tmjependent Telephone AsstKlatlo.i larted at a meeting of that organ twem' The IIan 19 to organize the dif t ir tw"1Ian'e, '"to one corporation Perate each company In its re- ' e IwHtory on the same basis hs Uiiyj suoh un organixotlon would 1i-i 8 of noll'u'! worth of otriv 'dl part of "llnols, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Wiscon- A committee was appointed by the chairman of the convention to learn what could be done along ihe line of consolidation. -N While the discussion of extendiu? connecting lines lo Chicago Has In pro- ins caused ny tne "declaration of one of the defegates thatj a representative or tne oppose"" pany was In the hall. The outsider w I summarily ejected by the sergeant-at- . tu ins. ftp yg St, Louis, Mo., Dec. 9. An unknown mun hurled a stone through the win doN of the K. H. Kostknmp Jewelry comiKiny tonight, 'seised n truy of dla iroiul rings valued lit $8,000 and es caped. Two clerks gave ehuse. and fired shots, but the man ran Into an e itry way and escaped. Later the police arrested Sumuel K. Keiidrick, a laborer, nnd Thou. Trens lor. his brother-in-law. on suspicion. NOBODY HURT. Madrid, Dee. S. King Alfonso r Lisbon this evening. left SNOW IN NEW YORK New York. Dec. 9. The heavy snow storm that prevailed over northern New York today has turned into a blinding blizzard und extends over the entire vt'utsklli mountain region. At Snraiitic Lake in the Adlronduks, from x to 10 inches of siionv fell. Interrup tion of t raffle is reported at various points. PRESBYTERIANS AIM TO r BRING ABOUT CHURCH UNITY New York, Dec. 9. The Joint commit tee of representatives of four branches of the Presbyterian faith met here to day to discuss the iiueslion of church unity in nccordaiice with a restitutio. 1 passed by the general synod of the lie4 formed Presbyterian church, at Phila delphia last year. The ileleu'al inn appointed by the Gen eral Assembly of lie- Presbyterian church of the Fulled States of America consisted of the Rev. D-s. William Henry Roberts, of Philadelphia: Rob.-,--F. t'oyle, of Denver: Moderator of tin Gelierul Assembly Charles A. Dickie, o.' Philadelphia: Reuben II. Hartley, ot Laporte, Intl.; Douglass P. Putnam, ol Princeton. Ind,; and F.idt is Wiltu 1 Merh' Smith, of New York; Klisha H Perkins, of lialtiinoie: Kiiwln S. Wells of Lake Forest, 111., and Reuben Tyler ' of Cincinnati. "The Generul Synod of the Reformed church In America, tvas represented by the Rev. Dr. J. Preston Searle, of Nrv Uriinswlrk. N. J., and the Rev. Dr. Joa-. cliiin Klineiidorf. of New York. From the General Assembly of tin? 1'nited Presbytet Ian church were pres ent the Rev. Dr. Andrew Henry, of 1 Jersey City, and the Rev. Dr. J. C, I I'eiiller of Philadelphia. The representatives of the General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian church in Noith America, were the Rev, James D. Steele. Ph. D., of NeNV York? ihe Rev. Dr. David Steele, of Philadel phia, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Winters, f Pittsburg, and the Rev. Dr. David Me Kinney. of Cincinnati. CALIFORNIA MOB PLAYFULLY JUG- GLED WITH BIG HEALTHY CLUBS I Stockton. Gala., Dee !i. -Armed withiBniler armed escort today, ' near Sill-' ! clubs, a mob of about fifty strikers Jpn.. and ordered them out of the Vlcin j from the Royal mine at Hobson turned : 1ty. The order nvus quickly obeyed. I back fortv si tike breakers nn ho were I More trouble is expected. - I I ' : ' Stirring Em Up. Four Small Children Burned .. . ; t p to Death as They Slept Manchester. 'Conn,. Dec. . A mes sage from Nxi' th Conventry, a sin ill villuge about lfl miles from here, states that while Fred. Olds, a farmer, and his wife were visiting; friends tonight, his house caught lire and four small children who had been left in bed were burned to death. . .
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