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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. THE WEATHER :. . ' 'PAIR ' Leased Wire Reports. . Associated Press iVOL. XXV. NO. 154. ASHEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1909. PRICE FIVE CENTS. OF ENORMOUS CROWD OUT JO GREET THE That New Spring Bonnet OLD DAYS OB SHOWS DEFECT OF GREAT EDUCATOR In Scholarly Address Dr. Eliot Taft Shows Tendency to Re vert to Old Method of Consulting Senators Bears Especially Hard on Cotton Crower and Pro tects Manufacturer Outlines Needs and Tendencies of Modern Schools. GOOD OLD WAYS MINORITY REPORT 6000 PARCELLING PROPOSED TARIFF HOUSE WANTS BACK ITS PREROGATIVES The Rural Postmasters Once Nucleus of Organization Taken From It. (By Sheldon S. Cline.) WASHINGTON, March 22. 'Hap py Day. Oh! Happy Day," IsUhe fav orite song of the United States sen ators. They refer o the day William Howard Tart succeeded Theodore Itoosevelt as president of the United States. The immediate cause of their rejoicing la the announcement that the president will Interpret the constitutional injunction that presi dential appointments shall be made "by and with the advice and consent of the senate" to mean that senators shall be consulted before appoint ments are; made. During 'Roosevelt's administration, especially during the latter part of It, senators did not figure very conspic uously as patronage dispensers. Mr. Roosevelt accepted senatorial recom mendations as to the fitness of candi date Cor office whsn the recommen dations fitted in- with Mr. Roosevelt's own views; when the recommenda tions did not fit the senators were ignored. This was far from pleasing to the senators and the senate refused to confirm a large number of the Roosevelt appointments. Taft's Reasons. There are two reasons which prompt Mr. Taft to reverse the Roose velt policy. One is that the pres ident believes the men the states have selected to represent them In the senate are reasonably well qualified to pass on the merits of candidates, and the other is that the president cannot sea the' tense of making nom inations airfl" hae them held up in the senate. 80 far as the Influence of Senator Is" concerned. It is sajd, ' the ad ministration "starts with a clean late. There are not now any "administration"- or anti-admlnlstratlon" senators. Whether there shall be ny In the future remains for the future to determine. It goes without saying that republican senators will rrriv,ymnnivinnmmim (Continued on page Six.) HEREAFTER WILL LOSE STiKIN PARTY New Rules Bind Members to Stand by Decision of Colleagues EASY ON OFFENDERS WASHINGTON, March 22. After hours of bitter wrangling the demo cratic members of the house or rep resentatives in a caucus which was In session until after midnight by an overwhelming vote repudiated the democrat supporters of the Fitxgerald amendments to the rules which were adopted at the opening of a special session of congress over the opposition of minority leader Clark. After adjournment Representative Fitzgerald asserted that the "Intro duction and proposal of the declara tion by the caucus was a manifesta tion of the same Idiotic leadership that has characterized the democratic party for fifteen years," The first discussion arose In re gard to the pulshment of "bolters." The committee reported In favor of dropping "bolters" automatically from the rolls of the caucus. An at tempt was made to alter this, and to provide that no "bolter" should be dropped until after his name had been duly posted, but it failed. Representative Fitzgerald was present and addressed the caucus. His remarks were listened to atten tively and no hostile demonstration was made. Several other "bolters" also attended the caucus. The committee of fifteen recom mended that hereafter a two-thirds vote of all the democratic members of the house In a caucus should be binding upon every democratic mem ber, unless he notified the caucus. In writing, that he would not be bound, or unless the subject "dealt with was constitutional question, or the mem ber was already pledged to his con stituency to vote otherwise. Tha statement contained a criticism of Speaker Cannon for appointing on committees "democrats who were not In accord with their party." The fact was brought out that after a long tight the committee had decided not -jto criticise except generally, any or the demdera's who voted on the opening day of the special session for the Fitzgerald amendments y An assembly which tilled every seat to the topmost gallery, crowded every aisle, ibanked to the outer doors and left hundreds outside unable even to glimpse the stage greeted D.-, unartes w. isilot, president of Har vard university, at the Auditorium last night. It was the largest audience the great Auditorium ever held, any estl mate of numbers based on Its seating capacity of 8,250 being simply sug gestive because of the many hundred standing or trriable to get into the building. It was she greatest au dience which has greeted the renown ed educator in all his southern tour. 'It was an amaxing audience, especial ly If it be considered that it came to hear a discourse on the dry subject of "Education, Past, Present and Fu ture." Asheville paid a tribute to it self as well as to a man who was In troduced as 'The First Cltlsen of America." Came In Droves. Long before the hour set for the address people began to move to the Auditorium, and before eight o'clock the timid ones who doubted" if Dr. Eliot would be greeted by an audience In Size worthy of Asheville were dis mayed at the prospect of people be ing unable to even see. the speaker. Schools, lodges and other organiza tions attended in bodies and from the stage on which were seated the mem bers of the Pen and Plate club one looked on thousands In front. Dr. Eliot had been the club's guest at a banquet at the Battery Park hotel where he had spoken briefly, urging as a topic for future discussion "Gov ernment by Commission," which he advocated. In his address Dr. Eliot expressed some novel thoughts and some strik ing thoughts, such as his statement that freedom creates not equality but inequality; and that there should be variety of churches, many, not one, but all tending toward one ideal; the approval by him of the latter Idea of many churches feeing suggested by Dr. It, F. Campbell's sermon Sunday. Dr. Winston Felicitous. President Haywood Parker of the club Introduced Dr. Geo. T. Winston who in Introducing the speaker of the evening paid him a tribute beautiful in eloquent expression and thought. saying In brief that Dr. Eliot had been called at the threshold of man hood to the presidency of a great un iversity and at the clone of his charge IT MYTH BEACH FOR Experts With Their Trim Cars in Readiness For 7th Racing Event BEACH WILL BE ABUZZ (By Associated Press) DAYTONA. Fla., MareJi 22. Every thing is In readiness for the open ing tomorrow of the seventh annual automobile tournament and rares. and every one Interested in motor car, motor cycle, bicycle or aero plane epeed trials and races -are look ing forward to the Daytona Beach tournament with pleasureable antici pation. Ingles M. Eppercue. manager of the Cadillac Interests In New York and Newark arrived this morning from Jacksonville and has entered a Cadillac "thirty" In which he will participate in all the amateur events. The car arrived this afternoon from Deland where It was shipped and then driven to Daytona owr the h.ird shelled roads. De Palma's Fiat Cyclone arrived here early this morning and was given a trial spin over the course this afternoon. George Robertson, who will drive the Benz racer in -all the professional events during th present meet, had his ear out this afternoon on the course. David Bruce Brown, the millionaire sportsman and automobile enthusiast. Will drive a car in all the amateur races and Is going to make a stren uous effort to establish new world's records for the course. Kllpatrlck, who will pilot the large "Red Devil" is having a hard time with his car. getting new parts made and adjusted. The car was badly damaged In handling en route from New York to Daytona. However the car Is expected to be In perfect run ning order for tomorrow's races. Herbert Lytle. the noted racer who has been here since Friday, will in all probabttlty drive a Bulck. He had been entered to drive a Renault, but on account of some misunderstanding the car has not arrived.' n. T. Kelsey. IrHalrman of thje .board of control of the National Cy cling association, arrived hers Sunday Continued, on page Four) It had passed from a provincial col lege to a world university. He retir ed from the school room to power, dignity and standing unparalleled in American history, the first citizen of the republic. Turning to Dr. Eliot he said that the people of, the mountains welcom ed him, remembering that Robert 12. Lee had left the battlefield for the school room and that a man born in this country, David L. Swain, had for 33 years been at the head of the North Carolina University. Dr. Eliot Siieaks. Dr. Eliot was greeted by the rising of the vast audience and a storm of applause. It was a rare pleasure, he said, to be so introduced, though an impossible standard was set for an old man by Dr. Winston. "When we are young," ho said, "we seek the applause of our elders, but when we are old we seek the ap plause of a few contemporaries and those younger." 1 "The School of the Present, and. the School of the Future'' he announced as his text. "How does the school of yesterday differ from the. school of to day? In one respect by the greater number of subjects taught now. Sixty years ago there was no training of the senses to exact operation. Today there Is sumo teaching in this direction drawing, which is admirable training for eye and hand, and music, one of the seven subjects which constituted the Baccalaureate degree 4 00 years ago. Under the Puritan administra tion music disappeared. The training of the ear results from the training in music. Manual training teaches ac curacy of touch and perception and with it often goes training In domestV arts.. It is only through our senses that we acquire knowledge. Another school is the teaching from the kin dergarten through the university by doing. When I attended Harvard, memory and a certain kind of dis crimination were trained. There was no laboratory work then-r-the teach ing by doing. Now English composi tion Is not taught by some one telling the student the theories of proper language but by actual writing;. Years ago the medical student attended six lectures in sucecssion, doing nothing; now Uie student is taught by practlc largely. Because of this 140 teachers are required for 160 medical student. (Continued on page Six.) DEBATE ON TIE TARIFF BILL BEGINS IN LOWER ROUSE OF CONGRESS Payne Spends Four Hours Explaining Features of Measures lie Fathers AND FINDS IT PERFECT (By Associated Press.). WASHINGTON. March 22. The tariff bill held full sway in the house of representatives today. The meas ure promptly put b;fore the body Im mediately after convening, and In an ticipation of the opening of the de hate there was practically a full at tendance of members while at no time during the session was there observed to be a vacant seat In the galleries. Mr. Payne, of New York, chairman of the committee on ways and means made an exhaustive speech In explana tion of the bill, the time he was ac tually on his feet being four hours and ten minutes. Then, somewhat fatigued, he suspended until tomorrow. He got well under way with his speech before he was Interrupted, and from that tme on he was subjected to a cross fire of questions, all of which he en deavored to answer. In the course of his remark Mr. Payne, in speaking of the maximum and minimum features of the bill, pre dicted that France, Germany and otr er European countries would hasten to so equalize their duties on American products that they would derive the benefit of the minimum rates offered. Revenue Producer. Mr. Payne said there was hope that during the first year of the bill there would be no deficit, but if the revenue should fall short, "we have In the treasury $135,000,000 of available cash assets to meet It.' In the course of his remarks Mr. Payne was Interrupted by Mr. Rucke. of Missouri, with the Inquiry if it was true that the liquor interests were strongly represented at Washington during the preparation of the bill and exerted their influence to prevent an additional liquor tax. Mr. Payne de clared that no such lobby appeared before the committee nor had any briefs been filed with It bearing on the subject. Mr. James, of Kentucky, wanted to know why the tax had not been re moved from tobacco In the hand or (Continued en sag feur.) KIDNAPPED BOY IS RESTORED TO FA THER ON PAYMENT OF RANSOM Little Fellow Sent Into City Alone on Car and Hunts Through Hotel For His Dis tracted Father. Boy Treated Well By His Captors, Is In Perfect Health (By Associated Press.) CLEVELAND, ., March 22. -Little Willie Whit la, who has caused the po lice of the entire country endless wor ry since he was kidnapped from school In Sharon, Pa., last Thursday, was re turned to his father at the Hollenden hotel here -tonight at 8.80 o'clock. In compliance w.lth an arrangement entered into between the kidnapped boy's father and an agent of the kid nappers here today, the boy was placed on a street t ar 011 the outskirts of the city and Started to the hotel shortly after 8 o'clock. Two boys, O, W. Ramsey and Edward Mahoney, recognized the lad jon the ear and tak ing him In charge, conducted him to his father, who was in waiting. The boy wandered about the hotel lobby unannounced for several minutes, ask ing bell boys for his fnthor, before the latter knew his son ftas In the big foyer. The moment the anxious parent heard that a strange boy was in the hotel ihe rushed across the lobby. grasped him in his arms and smoth ered his face with kisses. An attempt had been made to dis guise the lad. He wore a Pair of smoked glasses and a large tan cap which was pulled down over his ears, and the father said it would have been difficult to have recognized the boy in such a garb had he passed him on the street. ON TRIAL FOR MURDER Alleged Triple Murderer Must Answer For Cold Blooded Crime (By Associated Press.) AMITE, La., March 2 2. With the court house surrounded by state troops, the trial of Avery Blount, charged with tin- murder of Buxy Breeland, his wife and step-daughter, Mrs. Joe Everett, near Tlckfew, on the night of Januaty 29, was begun hi re today. OarfieM Klnchen, alleged t-i have been impli -ated In the murders with Blount Is mi i II a fugitive from justice? This afternoon, Ben Klnchen. a brother of Gnrlield Klnchen was in dicted by the urand jury ami- placed under arrest charged with being an accessory to tin- murder. Three days before the Br eland tragedy, lien Klnchen killed Joe Everett, the hue band. of the woman who was am bushed with h'-r mother and step father. He claimed self-defense and was exonerated hy the grand jury. According t" lireeland's dying state ment ho was shot down from ambush, feigned death, and saw Avery Blount and Garfield Kinrhen come out of the bushes, take Mrs. Everett's baby from the buggy and then fill the bodies of both women with shot. The Jury will probably be completed tomorrow. WASHINGTON, March 22. Fore cast: North Carolina: Fair Tuesday and Wednesday with slowly rising temperature: light north winds be coming variable. Gleefully Tells Story of Abdduction. Was Well Treated. Willie Is in perfect health. He says that he has been well treated and ever since his capture has been con stantly in doors. He believe he was taken from Sharon to Warren and thence to New Castle, Pa. It Is hU opinion, expressed in a happy school boy way, that he was In Ashetabnla on Saturday night at the time his father was to leave his $10,000 in Flat iron park. Wnltla, senior, refused to state whether he had paid the ransom or not. He said that he received a letter today from the kidnappers t his home In Sharon saying that If he call ed at a confectionery store In the east end of Cleveland he would be told how to secure his boy unharmed and "well fed." Shortly after noon he left Sharon for Cleveland. He was unac companied. His Immediate family and the private detectives he had In his employ he apprised of the pro posed secret meeting, but insisted tha. he make the trip alone. Every one of them was warned that he must be al lowed to go unheralded, and no at tempt at the rapture of the kidnap pers now be made. Whltla was cer tain that If he spoiled the plans of his son's captors tonight he would never see the lad again. His experience at Ashtabula served as a warning. OF THE SMOKY CITY Millionaires and City Conn cilnien Classed as Perjur ers and the Like (Hy Assoclulcd Pre) PITTHBl'Bd. P.. March 22. Hlx Indictments, three for conspiracy, one fur perjury and two for bribery, wre returned late this afternoon In the courif llmanlac graft cases upon which the grand jury of the rrlminal court has been deliberating for sever al Mays. Without waiting for war rants to be served, four of the Indict ed m n surrendered themselves and gave bond. ne otlir telephoned that he would appear In the morn ing and give himself up while the sixth Is now trawling In Kurope. The men indicted arc Pallas C. Dyers, mllliomilrs manufacturer. In dicted Jointly wilh Councilman John V. Kllen. twice convicted In the graft cases, and Councilman W. H. Weber, on a rharge of conspiring to secure the passage of a street paving ordi nance; !" A. Griffin, vice-president of the Columbia National bank, c harged with perjury In one of the recent graft trials; Councilman Cnas. II. Stewart, charged with soliciting a bribe of 12,r,00. and H. L. Bolger, hotel proprietor, charged with being an accomplice of John F. Kllen, In demanding and accepting a bribe for which Kllen already has been con victed. Dallas c. Byers left for Europe for his health about the time the graft investigations began and has -not re turned. The perjury charge against Griffin Is in connection with a re cent councilmaniac graft trial, in which It was alleged his testimony was not borne out by facta He to day resigned his position as vice president of the bank. The grand jury is still in session and It Is said further developments are expected. John F. Kllen who was In jail on a contempt charge was released today on a writ of habeas corpus. Paid tlio Money. About i o'clock. this afternoon be went to g. 'candy store in the east end. With him he carried the 110,000 expecting that It would be demanded of him there, He was met by a wo man who detailed to him the terms of the kidnappers. With all tha eager ness of a distracted parent Whltla agreed to them Immediately. Detec tives In his employ say that he paid the money, but on this point the fath er declines to commit himself. Half an hour later he returned to the Hol lenden hotel and awaited .develop tnenta, .. ..'.: As he waited In the hotel lobby ahd corridors, Whltla was In a highly ner vous condition. A few newspaper men walked over to talk to him. "In Heaven's name, men, do not say anything to me. I am on the verge of nervous prostration," Jie said, "l expect the boy will be back tonight, but I cannot state positively whether he will be returned safe and sound. Do not ask me to reveal the alleged settlement. That might ruin all ol the plans." For more than an hour Whltla anx iously waited In the lobby smoking black cigars and muttering to him self. jContlnutd on paq two.)., 1 AT THE PIE Southern Members Trove That Cotton States Are Entitled to Slice (By AsnorlaU-d Press) WASHINGTON, March 22. The cotton states want some of the pa tronage "pie" and want It badly. Representative Hull, of Tennessee, introduced a resolution In the house today culling on the secretary of state. If not Incompatible with tilt public Interest to Inform the rongresr whether the cotton states are being deprived of representation in the dip lomatic and consular service In the cotton purchasing countries If so Mr. Hull wants the secretary to trans mit any facts of information that might be suggestive of a remedy for Ibis condition of affairs. In the preamble of the renolutlon Mr. Hull asserts that Alabama, Ar kansas. Oklahoma. South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia now have smaller representation In the diplomatic and consular service than Ihcy have had at any time In the history of the government, lie polntr out that the states he names annually Insure the balance of trade In fawr of the Cnlted Stales by rising and exporting cotton to the amount of over 1435,000, odd In value. It Is as serted that these states have not s single represetilatlve In any position of responsibility in the diplomatic and consular service. SONS OF OLD ELI REAPING REWARDS WASHINGTON. March 22. Presi dent Taft late today announced the appointment of Lloyd Bowers, of Chi cago, to be solicitor general of the United States, filling ' the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry HoyL The appointment of Lloyd W. Bowers to the solicitor generalship Is another recognition of President Taft's alma mater Tale. President Taft and Mr. Bowers were graduated from the -university a year apart. Ths presi dent today nominated for Indian In spector 2. Lewis Dolby, of Virginia. REDUCTIONS MORE APPARENT THAN REAL Needy standard Oil Retains Its Protective Duty of 99 Per Cent. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON1, March K 2. -That the Payne tariff increases ths cost Of living: that it It crude, Indefinite, see tlonal and prohibitive; and that It IS an open challenge to a trad war with every other nation on sarth, art soma of the criticisms of that measure mad by the democratic members o( tha ways and means1 committee In ths minority report submitted to ths bout by minority loader, Champ Clark, to day, ... .:; .,. -:M The report Is a severs arraignment of ths revision which ths Payns bill proposes, Ths countervailing duty provisions for coffee and petroleum, the maximum and minimum features, ths Cuban reciprocity clause, tha wool en, f glass, agricultural : and auger schedules art bitterly attacked, . "There ars many changes, for tha most part minor changes." says tho report, "of tha Dlngley rates, some up and some down, ; Most of tha change in a. downward direction .are reduo Hons mors apparent than real, tho' Payne rates "being as prohibitive In their results In many cases as tha tMngley rates." Declaring ' that a tariff Is a tag paid by the consumer and that the only function of . a tariff law la to raise revenue to supply ths needs of ths government, the minority members of the committee Insist that Instead of an Increase of taxes or new Issue of bonds. ; th correct remedy 4 for the growing deficiency in the revenues la ' tHje cutting down of the expenses of running the government ' ,. ' May O0 Barefoot. . . "The bill la In many respects, crude. Indefinite, sectional ; nd prohibitive. It seems to ua from our examination, which was necessarily hasty, that on the whole It Increases ths oost of II v Ing. For example, It will Increase the price of hosiery about 10 per cent, and certainly nobody will claim that hos iery is luxury In this day andjren eratlon. In numerous Instances the protection exceeds' tha entire labor cost of production,": '; ','i5T The report maintains that tha tariff arrangement with , the rPhliipplnea should bo considered In a separate measure and not In the general tariff bill. The claim that the bill la a sec tional one, made by tha democratic members of the committee, Is based" (Continued on page Four) SIX MEN IN BALLOON MAY BE LOST IN THE Nothing 'Heard; 'of Them Since They Disappear ed Two Days Ago m:UKF PARTIES OUT (Hy Associated Press.) 1A ANGKLKS, Co!., March It. For more than DO hours friends of the lx men who ascended from Tourna ment park In Pasadena at t o'clock Hatunluy afternoon In the big balloon 'America" have been without word of them or the slightest knowledge of the fate that has overtaken the Intrepid aeronauts. As far as Information goes, no human being has caught sight of the huge gas bag sines it rose above the park enclosure. In sight of S.000 persons. The balloon, carried by a stllT bseeze, sailed Into the low hang ing clouds that lay far down on the mountain sides, and disappeared. The belief that some tragic fat has befallen the men who formed the party has led to the formation of many relief expeditions into various parts of the Sierra Mndre mountains, direct ly over which the strong current car ried the balloon when It had reached an altitude of a few thousand feet. There are three distinct mountain ranges before the Mojave desert la reached, fifty miles north of ' Pasa dena. If the balloon sailed over thla fifty mile stretch of mountain chatna and cams to earth on the Mojave desert, there Is hope that tha occu pants of the basket after tramping many miles may be able to reach shelter. If the balloon waa not able to croa the Slerre Madras and was brought down among the mountalna and their Intense cold, the men ara la danger of death, . . ,. . '
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