THE WEATHER ' FAIR VOL. XXV. NO. 149. NEW TARIFF BILL IS INTRODUCED IN THE LOWER HO USE Makes Several Popular Demand for Lower Duties. Aunclated Press.) WASHINGTON. March 17. The Jong awaited tariff bill was presentea u ha hniiiA nf renresentatlves todav by Representative Sereno E. Payne, of New Torh, chairman or me ways ana maana committee. An Increase of no nan (ton to ISO. 000. 000 in the an nual revenue of the country will, it is estimated, result from the changes proposed, making a total of about 1800,000,000. The bill contemplates downward re ..i.u. nrith minimum and minimum provisions which impose an average maximum OUiy or twenty per cnii in excess of the present tariff. The rec ommendations made by President Taft that an inheritance tax be provided and that a limited amount of tobac co and sugar be admitted free from the Philippines are Included in the bill. The measure also provides for the Issuance of Panama canal bonds to the amount of $40,000,00 to reim burse the treasury for the original purchase of the canal and re-enacts the provision for the Issue of treasury certificates, the amount being increas ed from $100,000,000 to $250,000,000. The bill was referred to committee. Some Striking Features. Some of the salient features of the bill follows: An additional duty of one cent per yard Is placed on mercerized cotton fabrics, with a small additional duty on lappets and an increased duty on stockings fashioned and shaped whol ly or In part on knitting machines. Coffee Is on the free list; tea is taxed eight cents per pound, and nine cents when brought in from other than the producing country. Iron ore is on the free list, a reduc tion from the present rate of forty cents a ton. The duties on manufac tures of iron and steel are materially reduced. Tin plate and steel rails are reduced. Hides are on the free list and dutlea on manufactured leather reduced; and shoes reduced forty per cent. Lumber and timber duties are cut la half. An inheritance tax is provided, esti mated to bring in $20,000,000. " Free Trade With Philippines. There is to be reciprocal free trade with the Philippines, with a limitation on the amount of sugar and tobacco annually to be Imported. Reciprocity with Cuba continues. The internal revenue tax on cigar ettes Is Increased from $3 to $3.60, and from $1.00 to $1.50 per thous and. Beer and whiskey are not touched. Nails, wire, hardware, tools, etc., are reduced. The cheaper grades of wool are re duced. L! RELATIONS WHO CAME TO HIS ASSISTANCE Refuses All Overtures of His Brother and Sister For Peace HOMICIDE IS CLOSED (By AsswIaUHl Press.) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 17. No further investigation In the tragedy which occurred last Monday evening at "Merry Mills," resulting In the death of John Gillard, an Eng lishman, is contemplated by the au thorities. The coroner's verdict, com pletely exhonerating John Armstrong Chaloner who was scufflling with Oillard In defense of the latter's wife when the fatal shot was accidentally tired, was filed this morning with the county clerk and commonwealth's attorney, Micajah Wood, said tonight that there was no probability of any further action being taken. OiUard's funeral toolt place today at Cobham, at Grace Episcopal church, of which Chaloner Is a mem ber. The burial service was conduct ed by Frederick Mills who was a member of the coroner's Jury, as the church Is now without a rector. Neither Chaloner, the victim s children nor Mrs. Gillard attended the funeral, the latter being unable to do so on account of the severe Injuries she re ceived at the hands of her husband. 6he Is now under the care of Dr. Mann Page, another member of the coroner's panel. Chaloner Paid Expenses. Though he was not present him eelf, Chaloner paid all the funeral expenses and his team bore the body to the church from "Merry Mills." There It had remained from the time of the tragedy until this morning. Several of his employes followed the cortege to the church. The Interment took place in the little church yard and waa witnessed only by a handful of people, residents of the neighbor tiood. ' Considerable Interest is manifested hers as to the probability of a recon ciliation being affected between Chal oner and his brother and sister, Rob- THE Concessions to Tallow, cotton seed oil and works of art more than twenty years old are placed on the free list. The pottery schedule remains about the same, but the duties on window and plate glass of the smaller sizes are increased, while the duties on the 'arger size are reduced. The tariff on wool of the first and second class, used principally In cloth. ing, is not disturbed, but on wool of the third class, known as camet wool it Is reduced also on the cheaper grades. The recommendation for plac ing wood pulp on the free list and reducing the duties on print paper with certain restrictions, made by the Mann committee of the house, are In corporated In the bill. The duty on refined sugar Is re duced five one-hundredths of a cent a pound and on dextrin, one-half cent a pound. A reduction of one cent a pound is also made In the duty on starch, with the exceDtion of potato starch. Zinc ore is assessed one cent per pound for the zinc con tained. The tariff on pig Iron Is re duced from $4 to $2.50 per ton. Collateral Inheritance Tax. The principal increases are made In the duties on lemons, coca and sub stitutes for coffee, coal tar dyes, gloves and coated papers and 11th graphlc prints. The new tariff bill is made on a maximum and minimum basis, with the provision that the mlximum rates are not to go Into effect until sixty days after the passage of the bill. Reciprocity provisions are contained In the paragraphs assessing duties on bituminous coal and coke, and agri cultural Implements, by which these articles are given entry free of duty when Imported from countries which permit the free importation of these articles from America. The Inheritance tax provision of the bill is similar to the New York state law. It provides a tax of five per cent on all inheritances over $600 that are collateral inheritances or in which strangers are the lega tees. In cases of direct inheritance the taxes prescribed are: On the $10,000 to $100,000, one per cent; on $100,000 to $500,000, two per cent; and on those over $500,000, three per cent. It Is estimated that $20,000- 000 annually will be derived from this tax. To Abolish Agreements. The maximum and minimum pro vision of the bill docs away with the necessity of continuing the foreign rade agreements. The abrogation ol these Is provided for In a section which authorizes the president to is sue notices of the termination of these ii.riririr.rir.-.- ......... mmmt (Continued on page Kour) GOVERNMENT HAS THE CUBAN REVOLT UNDER COMPLETE CONTROL Insurgents, 100 or More in Number Surrounded and Leader Dead ASKS FOR CLEMENCY (By Associated Press.) HAVANA, March 17. The Indica tions tonight are that the government Is now In a fair way to crush promptly the Incipient revolution which broke out In the province of Santa Clara Monday night. After withholding news of the trouble all day. the palace officials tonight announced that the father of two of the members of the band headed by .Sergeant Cortes, nf the rural guard, had visited General Monteaguedo, chief of the guard at Camajauunl and told him that the In surgents Implored the clemetucy of the government and were anxious to surrender on the promise that their lives would be spared. General Mon teaguedo, accompanied by a strong escort, thereupon started for the in surgent camp. The general expected to receive their surrender before morning. The Insurgents are now completely surrounded by a cordon of more than 1.000 ruralcs. drawn from the garri sons in various parts of the Island, in cluding Havana, but owing to the rug ged character of the country. It will be extremely difficult for the troops to come to close quarters with the in surgents. It is declared on apparently respon sible authority that Cortes is accom panied by fully 100 men mounted and well armed. More gratifying to the government than the prospective capture of the in surgent band was the arrest and sub sequent killing of former Captain La vastlda of the rural guard, who Is be lieved to have been the principal in stigator of the uprising. ILavastida was arrested last night by Major Art eaga of the rural guard and was charged with conspiracy against the government. While on the way to Remedlos un der escort It is alleged that Levastlda (Continued on page Bix) ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. ASHEVILLE, N. AN UNMANNED TRAIN DASHES INTO LADIES' WAITING ROOM Engineer and Fireman Compelled to Leap For Lives and Leave Boston Express to Plunge Through Walls of Montreal Station. Conductor Tries to Apply Air Brake But Not In Time to Avert Disaster (By Associated Press.) MONTREAU March 17. Four per. sons are dead and thirty others were more or less seriously injured as the result of the blowing out of a wash pipe on the locomotive hauling the noston express of the Canadian Pa cific railway this morning three miles out from the city. Scalding steam filled the cab and the engineer and Ireman were forced to Jump. The .rain, without a guiding hand at the throttle, dashed into the Windsor street station, through the garnlte wall Into the Women's waiting room and then into the rotunda where the the locomotive, after demolishing one massive granite pillar, was brought :o a stad-stlll by another. The four persons killed were sit ting in the women's wailing room. They are: Mrs. W. J. Nixon, Mon HISTORIAN OF THE Close Friend of Jackson and Lee Passes Away at Co lumbus, (J a. (By Associated Press.) COLUMBUS, Ga., March 17. Dr. John William Jones, who by his hls rlcal works and close association with General Robert E, Lee and Gen eral Stonewall Jackson gained the ;ltle "Historian of the Confederacy" Jled this afternoon at live o'clock it the home of his son, Dr. M. Ashby Jones, In Columbus. The. body will be carried to Richmond, hla horn ind the funeral will take place .Sat urday afternoon from Calvary Bap tist church In that city. The linme Jlate cause of his death was uraemlc soma. Dr. Jones was born at Louisa Court House, Va., September 25, lSSR. Ed ucated at the University of Virginia ind the Southern Baptist Theolog ical Seminary, he was ordained to the Baptist ministry In i860. He enlisted in the Confederate army as a private was afterwards chaplain of A. P. Hill's regiment und later served un der Stonewall Jackson, remaining in the army until the surrender. He was chaplain of Washington and Dee University when General Ie was its president. After the latter's death he prepared his book "Reminiscences of Robert E. Lee," at the family's re quest. Dr. Jones Is survived by his wife ind five sons as follows: Carter Helm Jones, Oklahoma City; E. Pendleton Jones, Hampton, Va , Frank William Jones, New York; M. Ashby Jones, Columbus, and Howard Lee Jones, Charleston, all of whom ire Baptist ministers except Frank W. Jones, who is editor for the Amer ican Law Book. MOROS ATTACKED CONSTABULARY (By Associated Press.) MANILA. March 17. A belated dis patch from Lake Lenao reports that a band of hostile Moros attacked Lieu tenant Furlong's detachment of con stabulary at Bordong on the 8th of March and arter a sharp fight, eight Moros and two members of the con stabulary were left dead on the field while two soldiers and one civilian were wounded. A company of the Twenty-fifth infantry and a detach ment of scouts have gone to the aid of Furlong's force. The day after the fight a constabulary soldier deserted after stealing Ave rifles belonging to members of tha detachment. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1909. Budding treal; Her thirteen-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter. Elsie Vllliers, twelve years old, of Montreal. A score of men wore knocked down when the train crashed through Into the rotunda. An Investigation of the cause of the i accident by General Manager McNIc- oll disclosed that the break In tho boiler was on the fireman's side. Fire man Craig Jumped at once and land ed in a snow drift probably unin jured. He ran dpwn the track after the train. Half a mile from where he Jumped, Craig, found the engineer lying unconscious, .bjt the .Hit skull had" been fractured. Why"be fore Jumping the engineer failed to bring J' train to a stand-still may never be known for Cunningham has not regained consciousness and is not expected to live. The train crew had THE IRISH CELEBRATE SAINT PATRICK'S Seventy Thousand Sons of Erin and Elsewhere Prance Around (iothani (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, March 17. St. Pat rick's memory was honored today In New York city by a parade which equalled and perhaps surpassed any similar effort in the past. More than forty thousand persons were In line, including members of about two hun dred organizations. The line of pa rade, more than six miles long, was lined with enthusiastic spectators who waved green flags and shouted ap proval as the marchers passed. Archbishop Farley and the heads of city departments who rode In car riages, dropped out of the line on up per Fifth avenue and reviewed the en tire parade from a stand erected for the purpose. 1 Brooklyn had a celebration nil Its own which rume near eclipsing the Manhattan event Thirty thousand men were In the long line of twenty divisions, which was reviewed at the borough hall hy representatives of the city and stab governments. Down on the water front the bat tery boatmen had their annual marine procession The most Important of the St. Patrick's dinner's tonight were those of tie- society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at Ielmonl os. the Ancient Order of Hibernians at an uptown casino, the Friends of Krln In the Bronx, and Ireland's American Friends at the Hotel Astor. FIGHTING OVER HI NDI.KY. WASHINGTON. March 17. Presi dent Taft today consulted with a dele, gatlon of Alabama lawyers who fa vored a re-nomination of Judge Hund ley for the northern district of Ala bama. The president did not commit himself. A hitter fight has been waged over this nomination for two years, the senate having failed to confirm Judge Hundley. ifATR WASHINGTON. March 17. Fore cast; North Carolina: Fair Thursday; Increasing cloudtnese and . warmer Friday; light variable wtnda OF STATION no idea there waa anything wrong until the train was nearlng the sta tion. Then the conductor, noting the excessive speed at this point applied the air brakes. They were not strong enough to hold tho train with the lo comotive pulling against them, but they did check tho speed somewhat. The husband of Mrs. W. J. Nixon is a train deapatcher of the Canadian Pacific at Medicine Hat. Alberta. He had secured leave of absence to coma to Montreal to get his family and they were all at tha aatton to greet him after six months separation. Nllfofl train arrived a short time after the accident. The mangled bodies of his wife and children were lying on the platform when he stepped from the train. NEBRIETY IS THEME Of Effects of Liquor Upon Phy sical and Social Conditions Discussed (By Associated Ires.) WASHINGTON, March 17. Alcohol practically has no therapeutic uses, Judging from the discussions at tho J semi annual meeting here today of the American soil.ty for the study of I alcohol and other drug narcotics. I Some of the medical scientists con ! tended that alcohol has not thcrapeu i tic uses, others that on the whom It 1 has few such uses, while another de clared that alcohol gradually Is be . log ( llinlnatea as tt drug. I papers were read by Drs. Henry O ' Marcy, of Boston, Mass.. honorary president of the society; Howard A. 1 Kelly, of Baltimore, on 'The Alcohol ic Problem In Kvery Day Life;" T. I. ! Crothers of Hartford, Conn., "The Future of the Alcoholic Problem." and W. B. Parks of Atlanta, Ga., In I a paper on "The Kffect of Alcohol on '. Temperament us it Relates to Race j and Nationality." said that many of the characteristics of the effects of al cohol on the body were governed by the race and nationality. ' To the Englishman alcohol brought ; repose und comfort; to the French ! man It created xeliement and lnt-r-ust; to the German It was anesthetic; to the Italian It was courage and force; to the Irishman It waa sense enjoyment; to the American, alcohol simply gives a ( ling of powei and capacity without any pronounced t) pes. The negro Is not an Inebriate as a , race. He drinks to ouict excitement land to give relief. The Jew Is not a ! race drinker. Alcohol to htm Is simp ! ly a sedative. The Russian takes al cohol In the place of food, and his drinking Is a very marked characler i Isllc. PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE NOT PRACTICAL (By Associated Press.) CHARLKHTON. K C, March 17. i Dr. Charles W. Eliot, the former pres ' Ident of Harvard university, delivered , an address here tonight before a largo audience In which he deplored the fact I that the public school systems do not ! sufficiently consider the necessary ' structure of democratic society and I those Industries which constitute the vital Interest of the community. He asserted that the public schools will never reach their highest level of ef ficiency until they undertake to edu cate children with special regard to the calling which they Intend to enter. DELAY IN VERDICT MA Y MEAN JURORS HAVE DISAGREED Judge Hart Left Court Early and Ordered The Jury Locked up for The Night. (By Associated Press.) NASHV1LLK, Tenn., March 17. With no Indications that the twelve men are anywhere near an agree ment, the opinion begins to prevail that a mistrial will be the termination of the famous caw against Col. D. B. and Robin J. Cooper and John Sharp for the slaying of former United States Senator K. W. Carmack. Judge Hart at 4 p. m. adjourned court and started for his country home. He said he did not think a country Jury with no way to get home at night would he foolish enough to bring In a ver dict tonight. "They'd stay over and get the night's lodging and break fast at the state's expense" he aald. Judge Hart began his charge to the Jury at ,30 a. m., and finished at 11.16, at which time the twelve men retired to deliberate. The typewrit ten charge nf sixty-two pages, about 400 words to the page, waa handed to Juror H. J. Hyde and according to custom In this county this makes him the foreman. Judge Hart has declared his In tention of holding the Jury together for a week or two If necessary. In order to get a verdict. Women Relative Present. Judge Anderson of the defense ex pected 4 verdict In thirty minutes or a mistrial. He would not discuss the delay tonight. The court's defi nition of an overt act was general In character and he Instructed tha Ju rors that they must decide whether or not the Coopers committed an overt act when they crossed the street to meet Carmack. As the court declared that no epi thet, editorial or speech was suffi cient to justify even an assault, Mrs. Burch and Mrs. , Wilson, Colonel Cooper's daughters frowned and the former's eyes filled with tears. The words "death by hanging" male the young woman wince. Mrs. Carmack, shrouded in black was in court, her ton on tha arm of her chair. A .half hundred women friends : stood or sat behind her and adjoining counsel for tha etate. Two privats detectives stood near Atfnrney General MoOarn's chair and kept a watchful eye on the crowd, and a score of special depu ties were distributed throughout the court room. Jurors Jolly. When the Jury retired two depu ties were placed on guard at the Jury room door and two more at tho foot of the stairs leading to the third floor, upon which floor the room is located. No one was permitted even to loiter around the foot of the stairs. The Jurors were given liinchcon at 12.80 and supper at B p. m. . After supper the Jurors returned to their room and bursts of laughter and snatches of song Indicated that the twelve men were not discussing defi nitions of murder or theories pf self- defense. Just before p. m., they summoned the deputies and announc ed that they would "turn in" for the night. Judge Hart's luirge. Judge Hurt's charge In purl fol lows: POSITIONS GIVEN TO THEMJKOfllTTEE Hold to Agreement to Force Speaker to Consult Minority Leader UNCLE JOE A Ml ABU- (By AsMM-lutcd Press.) WASHINGTON. Mitrch 17 The llrsl test oT the sincerity of those d iixo'TiH who hound themselves In caucus not to nee, pt any committee appointment unless approved hy Mr. Clark, the minority leu.ler. came w hen Speaker Cannon announced the personm ! of the committee on mlle ago In the house today us follows: Kennedy, (,f Iowa; I.ondlti, of Illinois; Garner, of I'ennsylvanin ; Lewis of Georgia, and Denver of Ohio Mr. Martlet! of Geornia. was promptly on his feet and called at tention to the fait that Mr. 1-wls was not a member of the house The speaker acknowledged his mistake and named Mr. Martlett. "I decline any such appointment" Mr. Bartlett hotly replied. The speaker announced that fact to the house and said that without ob jection Mr Martlett would be excus ed, which was done. The chair will name the gentle man from Kentucky. Mr. James,' said the speaker. "And the gentleman from Ken tucky refuses to act" Mr. James re marked with emphasis. The speaker called a halt to theei refusals by submitting the question to the house. He said it waa for the house to determine whether or not acting and put the question to the house, with the result that Mr. James waa excused. ease.-. v4S iiMn Associated Press Leased Wire Reports. I'RfCE FIVE CENTS 'The purpose to kill Is no leu pra- : medltuted. In the legal sense of tha term. If It was deliberately formed but a minute preceding the act by i which death Is produced than If It had been formed an hour or other . period of lime before. Tha question -of vital Importance la was tha mind : of the assailant at the moment of tha killing so far fruc from excitement or passion as to be capable of pre meditation, and was the death of tha' party slain the object sought to. ha accomplished ths end determined on?" Judge Hart defined heat of paasloD as excitement of auch a nature as would obscure the reason ot any- or-, dlnary man and render hint liable to do an act which might causa death. :, "Provtana thrsata by tha deceased, against the defendant or acta of hos-( tinty toward him. or previous abuse, of him, how violent so aver it may be. Is not such provocation as tha law recognises as sufficient to reauee an unlawful killing to manslaughter if the killing was done at such time after these things had been dona a a reasonable person would have re- gained self-control," Of reasonable doubt Judge Hart aald: "Absolute certainty la not da mundod by the law to convict of any criminal charge, but moral certainty, la required." Self IHenso, "Tho law of aelf-defsnta ta thug la fined by our supreme court; To ax cuss a homicide, tha danger ot death or great bodily Injury must althar be real and honestly believed to ha so, at the time and upon sufficient grounds. It must ba apparent and Imminent. To constitute this defense, tha belief or apprehension of danger must be foundod on sufficient circumstances to . authorise the opinion that the deadly purpose then existed and the fear that it will at that time be executed. The animosity of the deoeaeed against the defendants as indicated by words or ' actlflne the and before ie a proper matter for the consideration of the - jury, on the question ot reasonable ap prehension, but Jf the killing Is not doW under the fMl ie calculated to Inspire, or the tear Js feigned or pre tended the defense will not be avail: able. '. V '.'ri,'" As to (Vmsplraoy. . "It Is hardly necessary to say that the real or apparent necessity brought about by the design, fault or contri vance of the defendants la no excuee. OUl II ine iwsr u a mmm fdjuif imwm ' death or great bodily harm be Indica ted by the proof, then the grade of the offense would bo lessened though It would be Ineffectual aa sslf-defonse." Judge Hart said that ordinarily a ; witness who testifies to an sfflrmltlve , Is to lie preferred to one who testifies to a negative. ' ' V- Defining conspiracy the court said! "It Is not necessary, In order that thy ' become co-conspirators, that they . should talk the matter over and agree as to what portion each one ehould perform. It Is sufficient If there la . a tacit understanding between them, , The state Insists that John !., Sharp , (Continued on pegs Four) TENS FATHER UNO SON. IN COUNTY OF TRIAL So Many Contributed to Prosecute Prisoners That Few are Left fj 1 AIM) MAINTAINED JKHl'P, Ga., Marrh 17. In all probability the actual taking of tes timony In the, trial of former Shurlff W. M. Dyens of Wayne county and his son Archie Lyent for the murder of M. Fleming Bmlth will begin to morrow. " i I Klcven Jurymen are In the bog and a second special venire of talesmen lias been summoned. Aside from progress oT the selection of a Jury, chief Interest centers in One statement often repeated that a double guard has been placed at the Jesup Jail at night at the request of the former sheriff and hie eon. while fn the short walks from jail to court house and back again Tour .officer escort the defendants. The high feeling that swept through Jesup on the night or the killing of Hmlth has been re-aroused by tne beginning of the selection of the Jury for the trial. Tho chief bar to tha selection of a jury from Wayna county was the fact hat so many tersons residing In the county had contributed to a fund to be used In prosecuting the father and eon. It la probable that the final Juror wlU be obtained early tomorrow. ..-r ., . One talesman todaycbniesaed after being repeatedly asked that he had been employed by CoU. "WW W. Ben nett for the defense to "sound" proas pectlve talesmen In " tftynee county, but this man retained the answers he had received, not In a note book, but I In hie memory, . .-., (Contlnued on page Biz.)