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TH BAY" CITIZEN fg VOL. XXV. NO. 173. asiie villi; n; a, suhday morning, aprie n, im PRICE FIVE CENTS. ft. u THE WEATHIB ; pair ' TARIFF BILL MUSI GET VETOED SAYSTAR That Is It Must Come Up to 'Promises Made During Campaign REVISION THAT IS REALLY REVISION Generally Understood Tha No Half Measures Will 60 With President. (By Sheldon S. Cllne.) Washington, April 10. Is It going to be possible to get through the sen ate a tariff bill which will meet the approval of President Taft? Will 'President Taft veto a bill which does not meet his approval? These are questions which are per turbing . the minds of senators and representatives. When statesmen go to the White house to discuss the tar iff, the president beam mem and smiles genially, but as a rule he dos not comit himself. Early the game he announced that he would veto any bill' which did not square with the promises of revision contained in the platform upon which he was elected, and- so saying he put it up to con gress to frame a bill which would so square. Must Be Square Mr. Taft frankly admits he Isn't a tariff expert and doesn't think he ought to sit In judgment on specific schedules. That is the business of congress and he means tnat congress shaft attend to it. But he has a pretty definite idea as to what the tariff plank: In the republican piauorm meant, and he expects the tariff bill aa a whole to measure up to that promise. The Payne bill doesn't do It. .-: In order to get the measure through the house at all, concessions had to be made to special Interests so that -ttoaWK-Wfa-JSrWHa sottattcs no one. Will It fare better In the senate? Senator AWrlch says revlsloa Is to be downward, but the special Interests are Just as strongly entrenched In the senate as they are In the house, and in lh senate application of "gag" rules I not In fashion. Concession ""will have to be made there, or pas sage of the bill will be delayed in definitely. (Continued on page four. WB SITS TIFT BIO SCHOOL IN WHICH TO THIINJH HIS JOB With Such Preceptor as Roosevelt School Was 1 Made Even Worse CENSUS BILL PASSED WASHINGTON, April 10. Assert ing that he had hear dit reported that President Taft would veto the pend ing census bill If It did not provide for placing the appointments of cen sus employes under the civil service commission, Senator Bailey, in a speech. on the bill In the senate to day declared that If the president "had thus early in his administration undertaken to coerce congress, he would find that the experience of the last seven years was a holiday com pared with what the next four years would be." Mr. Bailey said: "I am one of the men who sincere ly hope that the president will distin guish himself in his great office. I hope that his administration will be an unmixed blessing to all the people, but I do not hesitate to say that no man ever had a less desirable prepa ration for it than the present occu pant of that high office. He went from the bench, where the tendency la toward a certain kind of tyranny. There Is scarcely a federal Judge in the United States of twenty years' service who has not become arbitrary Irritable and sometimes tyrannical. I do not mean that this experience would corrupt him In the ncnse of making him venal, but it tends to cor rupt him In the sense that it teaches him to oppose his will against all ob stacles. "This distinguished gentleman went from the bench to the Philippine Is lands, which country is without any constitution and where his single will waa the will of a great people. He deserves the highest eulogy that hu man language can frame, or human Ilpa can pronounce. If in the sur roundings he kept burning in his breast tha divine fire of constitutional liberty. He came back and then en tered the war department, and took absolute control of the greatest work of bulldisg a canal on the tethmus. BE SQUARE OR RECOMMEND HIGH BRIDGE TO EXTEND FR OM A TKINSdN S T. Is Most Expensive of Two Plans Prepared But In The End. A Dridge or reinforced concrete. 60 reet long, 105 feet ahove the French Broad rivjr. extend m-; from the old Atkinson place to the rnoo. site quarry bluff, costing about $100,- 000 and with approaches making 1 trotting grade" from Pack square through West A&hevllle is the firs'. choice of the special bridge commis sion which at Its meeting yesterday morning so decided to report to the county commitslunr There Is a Becond choice, but I Is stated that the commissioner were of of the unanimous opinion that the ccunty should build for the future and not merely for the present, a brldg. which will require no substitute In later years, which will not call for excessive cost of maintenance, and which wlti be no second Smith's bridge nor makeshift. Therefore 'he commission recommends the costly bridge provided funds necessary can be secured from the sale of the (50,- 000 county bonds authorized, and from other sources (private subscrip tions, sale of street car franchise. etc.) The location was proposed by the special sub-committee of which M. It. Reed is chairman, which had before It the report of Engineer Chas. E. Waddell, and the general plans call for the grading of Spring street from West Haywood street (or Patton ave nue) to an easy grade 0 Atkinson street which turns oft to the north oi it, the opening of a new roadway to the high clin just at the railway trestle, and a new roadway, up the easy Incline from the opposite cliff parting to right and left to reach both the main West Ashevllle macad- m and the road through Emma to Leicester. , The Second Choice. The seoond choice of location is from Park avenue near Depot street to the Tahkeostee place In West Ashevllle, a length of 920 feet and a height of 44 feet, approximate cost ot steel construction f 60.0(10. -Th: plans call for a viaduct over Depot street to reach a new roadway to be pened from Cocke's pond to French Broad avenue about Aston park, a ew roadway on the west side of the river to be opened to Crowell's store hlch can bo done at little expense. Mr. Waddell reports on this location that it Is the most desirable so far as the center of West Ashevllle is con cerned and that It Is convenient to the passenger and freight stations but TO DEFEAT IN CONTEST T Sons of Eli Hit Up Fast Stroke Which Seemed to pede Shells Progress LOST BY TWO LENGTHS (By Associated Press.) PHILADELPHIA. April 10. In the first boat race between the two uni versities in twenty years, the Univer sity of Pennsylvania eight-oared crew defeated Yale this afternoon by two lengths. The crews rowed against a three-quarters head wind the entire distance, and under these circum stances the time of 8 minutes and five seconds was very good for the Bille and a half course. Vale reversed matters In the prelim inary race for Becond eights, the Elis winning from the Pennsylvania Jun iors by one and one-quarter lengths it- 8.18 2-5. Yale for the first time used an English shell and English oars Never in the history of rowing on the Schuylkill ha-s a crowd of such magnitude or collegiate affiliation witnessed a boat race hire. Not only was there an unusually large contin gent of Yale and Pennsylvania men from this city, but hundreds of Yale and Pennsylvania graduates from New York and other cities came to see the contest. The race left no doubt about the superiority of the Pennsylvania eight. Both Julian T. Curtiss. the chairmen of Y'ale's advisory rowing committee, rnd Coach John Kennedy declared emphatically that the better crew bad von. Captain Howe of Yale, wild hL crew had rowed its best and had been defeated fairly. The race for the 'Varsity eights was last on the program, and the start was delayed until after five o'clock to let the wind ral mdown. A strong southwest wind blew all morning and showed little disposition to stop as the crews paddled up to the starting point Yale's Fast stroke. Both crews got an exceptionally good start, the Yale men getting their oars into the water a fraction of a second ahead of Pennsylvania- The Ell s started with a stroke1 of J. t the minute, arhlle Pennsylvania row- TILE'S CREW GOES DOWN ARGUMENT CONCLUDED Means Economy that unless the new street to French Broad be opened a bridge at this lo cation will not Improve heavy hauling conditions from West Ashevllle unless this be diverted by way of Southslde avenue because he states that Park avenue la steep, slippery and narrow. Depot street cannot be used because to get the necessary elevation above the railway tracks .the approach to the bridge must be over It The third site proposed, between the two named, and from Roberts street met with no consideration. Concrete Preferred. The engineer's report presented by the" sub committee was careful and detailed, and pointed out the advan tages and disadvantages of the loca tions, Mr. Waddell being careful to Inform the committee that he was not a bridge engineer and approxl mated costs on the basis of steel bridges on the basis of similar existing bridges. An interesting feature was the comparison of steel and concrete as materials for bridges. The former were stated to be unsightly noisy, sub Ject to rust, costly of maintenance and furthermore that practically every dollar spent In their construction was carried away. Concrete was describ ed as graceful, dignified, lasting Indef- inltely, quiet, costing practically noth Ing for maintenance and because of the character of material used in con struction practically all of the money required would be kept here. The cost of concrete is higher at the time of construction, but much less In the end. The condition of Smith's bridge wus stated to be bad; some of the iron work being rusted, and the structure being "pretty thoroughly worn out, but It was stated that if relieved of heavy traffic by a new bridge it could be made to last tor years. Cheaper In End. After the meeting of the commis sion some of the members said t)at they were Impressed with the Idea trout the county should build no make- shift; that if the county had tullt all Its bridges of concrete it would have saved 25 percent by now despite the heavier coat; that the expense of in w bridge would be heavy and there fore the county should build once for all, and that It would be better not to hujld now than to build a bridge which would be but temporary nd cost more In the end. (Continued on page two.) IN DISSOLUTION SUIT Kellogg Ridicules Plea of Pub i- Beneficence Made by Octopus DECISION IN AUTUMN ST. LOUIS, April 10 Shortly after four o'clock this afternoon Special Assistant United States Attornev General Frank B. Kellogg concluded his last address In the trial of th government's suit to dissolve the Standard Oil company of New Jersv as an unlawful combination In re straint of trade, and another chapter in one of the most famous cases In the history of the country's juris prudence was completed. The fea tures of the case yet to come will be the decision of the four Judges of the United States court of appeal' and the final decisl on of the Justice of the Supreme court of the United States Neither side will rest the Is sue short of the decision of the court of last resort. It is not expected tha; a decision will be rendered befor early r.ext autumn. . Before finally adjourning the Judge signed an order granting Judgr Franklin B. Ferris of St. Louis thr special examiner in the rase, 120.001 and expense for his services. Of th' $22 000.000 "Trainor loan" which he seald he could never trace. Mr. Kel logg claimed that when John D. Arch bold testified that he understood thai the transaction was a mere matter ot bookkeeping. The lanswer was ar evasion. 'That the Standard has heen sue eessful. I do not deny." he snld. "that It was ruled by real us. I do not den But the (renlui Has been that of th combination and monopoly that eai pile up millions If unchecked an egged on by the greed and power ot ipen." After denying that the Standard had been a pioneer In the export business Mr. Kellogg said: "Combinations have not made our country great: It has been done b the genius of the Individual. That alone has made us great and will con tinue, to do so. unless we become thr servants of monopoly." They say that Mr. Rockefellr had faith. So did Captain Kidd. and he flew the black flag on the ocean, a these men hare flown It upon th' land." said Mr. Kellogg. Senator Bs ley of Texan Who Can't FIRESIA FATAL SHOT m DRUNKEN FRENZY , John Burchfifeld Shoots Zeke ' Wound, Because He Was Asked to Pay Carriage Hire of Fifty Cents. For no apparent reason other than that he Insisted on having his hack fare, "Zeke" Roberts was shot and mortally wounded by John Burchflela at the lattor'a home on Magnolia ave nue shortly after eleven o'clock last night. Roberta was carried to his home, 18 Pentand street, and at three o'clock this morning was reported a. dying, n The polios were notified of the hooting a few minutes after It had happened, and when a squad went out Burcbfleld was found sitting In his home as If nothing out of the ordinary had happened. He appeared to be In the last stages of drunken nesa and Jested with , the . officers about his dead telling them peered the man waa dead and If no! he hoped an. The ball from Burehflelds pistol, a forty-four calibre, entered Roberts left temple, tearing a hole half an Inch In diameter, and lodged some where Inside the head. The wounded man waa driven to his home on Pen land street by Karie Jtsmbo, who was In the carriage when the shooting occurred, and there was attended by Drs. Whlttingtnn and SVvltr. According to witnesses, BiirehfleM engaged Earl Ttambo to carry him from the square to his home and Roberts, whose father, Elmer Rob erts, owns the hack as well as several others, accompanied him. When they reached the house, It was stated. Burchfield started Into the house without offering to pay the charges, fifty cents, and when RMierts asked him about his fare, said he was not going to pay It. Roberts insisted, but to each of his arguments Hurrhflel.1 had an answer. Finallv n,ir.i,n..i,i became angered, drew his nlstoi and shot Roberts, who was sittinsr In th.. LEGAL VANDALISM fflBflUITI BAR Dismantling of Judge 'k Homo Under Court I'ro fcfis May Upsult in (Jood ATLANTA. i; . inrii in.Th.- rtii- mantllna of tie house ir ih- I'nitwi State, Circuit Judge W. II. Kheppard, under a Juntlr. i-ourt writ, today led to a movement to create the (Ti oi people's attorn. . The'dutlm ( tiii offlcr. are reprenent por ie"iile who are sueil and greatly roriKfll hut who hav no mean to mpluy counsel It i- )'inted out that If a t'nlted State Judge can he made the victim of xueli practices, there mum be hundreds poor persons abused In a similar w The idan now be ing considered to have each me in ner oi me I' H nar rrmtrihute n small sum aim ally to he paid to me younir, but oomp. t tit lawyer who will he .' the srvl- of those who helieve th " have been wronged The bar hw lation, when it me.-t next week to t :. r.e action un the Xhen- pard affair .'i also act upin the Df.onle's ntt'irnev Idea. Alreadi enough metb' rn have agreed to con tribute to ioure the appointment or the attorney. WASHINGTON'. April 1. Fore cast for North Carolina: Fair Sunday and Monday with alowly rising tem perature; moderate northeast to east winds. .' ' "sC-cpIng Doga lie." Roberts, Inflicting Mortal carriage, only a few 'feet away from Burchfield. Only one shot was fire J Took Arrest Coolly. When police headquarters were no tilled of the ((rooting, a aquad was sent out und the alleged murderer was found in his home. When I was reported that he had been cap tured. Dr. Dunn went out In his auto mo'blle and brought him to the city hall, where he Nvas locked up for th night. Apparently. Burchfield could not realize the gravity of tha act ho ha juei commuted, nor tha serious no 'I0" J1, w Hlawlfs was Jn th room, but plucklly hmd "iw emotion though It was plain ah real. Ied that her husband waa In trouul. and she helpless to save him. At flrsl the man appeared to think someone might attempt to harm him, and talked about his rights to protect nimseii. no realised tnat he was going to jnll and asked to bs given a few minutes alone with hi wife, When Romine suggested that they go nnil hunt his pistol, he said he was willing, but the pistol was his and he wanted to keep It. The pistol was found about ttilr'v feet behind his house in a plot of Ploughed ground where h had thrown it after the shooting. Only one shell was exploded. When asked If he did the shooting he said: "I shot him right up here," pointing to his temple. "I expect he's dead about now," fie added. On the way to the jail, and after he had 'been locked up, he talked about the shooting and several times wished Rolwrts dead. As far as Is known, th men had never known each Hither before. Fire Department Called Out fo Rescue Her From Her Loftv Perch NKW YOHK, April 10 A thrllllnn MniKgle to save n mad woman from suicide oreured tonight on a ledge o! a MfiJaj .ir window of the hospital for women at Eighteenth street and Se ond ayenue. The woman. Mrs Nora Mickey, twenty-tight years old. v, aK linally saved from Jumping to tie- street by the pluck of a doctoi und a h,re, arid wit): the help of th hie department. Mrs Mickey who had been a pall'-n' for several weeks became suddenl) Insane toniKbt. and In the temporary absence of the nurse, thrust her feet through the heavy plate glass win dow panes In tier ward. Through the Jagged hole thus made she poshed her body, cutting herself frlghtfull. and crept to the edge of the sill, six ty feet above the sidewalk. Hli was about to Jump when Or. Crans ton Conkling and Nurse MicDonuld had heard the crash of glass, came runnliiK and caught her by the arms. The woman struggled, streamed and tit. but they held on. Other doctors and nurses came to their aid and sheets were twisted about the woman who was now dangling in the air re sisting rewue with insane fury. The doctors and nurses Ave in num ber, could do nothing but hold th woman, and some one In the crowd of thousands who had gathered In thr street be low realised this, for an alarm was turned in and the Are ap paratus came clattering to the scene, ladders were run up and the, woman 'was carried to safety by firemen. INSANE SENATE BILL WILL REDUCE TARIFF IS 'S Bungling Work of House Done Over By Experts on the Country's Trade WOMEN GET HOSIERY PUT ON THE FREE LIST Plan For Permanent Tariff Bureau Combining Depart ments Comes In Later. (By Associated Press.) WAHHINOTON. April 10 The Sen ate tarltr hill, so far as rates are con cerned, was completed tonight, but It was decided that In making a report Chairman AMrlch will announce ii-scrvntion on certain Important schedules fur futuro action. These reservations will Include hides, steel rails, wood pulp and crude petrol eum. Chairman Aldrlch asserted tonight that the senate committee had mads a more general revision ot rates than was done by the house committee on ways and means and that reductions In schedules had been made on a far greater number of articles. This did not mean that there would bs a re duction of revenues but that there would be recommended a ttnna fide revision downward of th tariff. The great number of changes which will be recommended are due largely to the fact that while the Payne hill revised rates on certain basic articles the revision did not extend to related articles. For Instance lead ore was reduced In the Payne bill and the several manufactures of lead ore re main unchanged. Tha senate com mittee made general reduction on the un worked material. Similar changes wer made in many other schedule which will account for tha many amendments that will be presented In the senate. , ., .,,,.:.-, .t In the report which will b mads to the-aensAswbJda will go on th (re list as provided by tha Payne bill, but tha question of fixing a rat In ae cordnnee with tha 'sentiment of th senate aa expressed through a can vass taken by western senator will be taken up In the near future. Trust ArtMe Ijrft Open. A similar condition will be report ed on steel rails. The Payne rate nre ti.il per ton, which Is one half the existing rate. The . commute was Impressed with the arguments made by tho steel manufacturer that this rate should be Increased, but It Is known that considerable opposl- lon to such action will be manifested In the senate. No decision has been reached on the subject of wood pulp and this fact will be announced by Henator Aldrich when he report (he lll. The same I true of crude pe (Continued on page four.) RAILROADS DECIDE TO FIGHT MISSOURI RATE LAW TO BITTER END Meeting of Presidents of 18 Roads Does Not Even Consider Compromise NO MORE CONCESSION'S (By Associated Press) BT I.ot'lH. Mo, April 10. That the railroads of Missouri have made all possible coneesnlons to the slate authorities In the mailer of passen ger rates and will resist tl.c Injunction suit tiled Thursday In Bt l.onl ws the gist of an announcement made today at the clote of the first sen-don of a gathering of executive offlcl il of ih eighteen systems Interested There will be no compromise offer of rates as Governor Hadley hoped "Every railroad corporutl in made defendsnt In the suit for niun lion was represented at todiy's meeting," said Dr IJ I. W'lm-licll. pr-sl'lcnt of the Hock Inland. "We w-nt nvr the ground thoroughly, and decided that there was nothing else left to uh but to go Into court and present our ria sons for trying lo put the new rate Into operation. We did not ,-onsl I r a counter proposition to the gover nor. How could we do so legally'' He has had us enjoined from agree ing on one schedule of rates with three cents as maximum. We were told It was Illegal and in violation of our charters. We might lie g-jUt of discrimination as previously chars ed. Ho we decided to call in the law yers and tell them to see what they can do." Frank Hagerman of Kansas City, special counsel for the eighteen rail roads involved atet with the attor neys of the roads after th confer ence and formulated a replf to the chargea In tha petition 01 .d for the governor by Circuit Attorney - Jooe Thursday. ALDRICR CLAM CASTRO DEPORTED T Tries Every Expedient to Avoid Being Carried on Ship board According to Orders DOCTORS FIND HE IS NOT VERY SICK Refuses To Dress And Is Borne Aboard Ship on Stretcher ( Asaaalat . , FORT DB FRANCE, April U.C1. prlano Castro, sx-presldsnt of Van xsuela, waa Ignomlnously expelled to night from tha Wand of Martinique by the b'rench aovernmnut ' ti. n. teited to the last against Ms agpul- sion, nut nis protests were In vain. Ha I now on board' tha French Una steamer Versailles bound for Bt, Na. aire. . Official notice was served on Castro this morning of tha decision of tha French government that ha . must leav the island within. nine hour from the receipt of such notlc. and that the commissary of polio at Fort Ue France had been charged "with tha execution of th order, Th ex-presi dent was furious with Indignation and strove throughout th day for aom excuse that would b satisfactory whereby he would not be compelled to obey the order, and to thla end lata In the day aununonsd lawyer and physician to certify that he waa un able to leav th country. Th gover nor of Martlniqu ana th f-ublia prosecutor, however, refused an ex tension of the tlm, and about Ave o'clock the commissary of poltce, ac companied by a large fore ot gen- -- ' " " u . . . .V. OT ,1V, W Castro was stopping, fo remove him orcinry ir necessary to the steamer, , Til affair created a arest sans. Hon and long before the polio mad their ppMranat-4h toot crowds had gathered which later wer Joined by th coneuie) representing the var ious foreign power, who showed great Interest In th expulsion Of what on of them term "fhe common eneMy of peace." , i It became necessary foe tha nnllea and sendarmes ta taut rlM nm. ures to hold the crowd In check, who had by this time become riotous outside the hotel, Th sx-president railed against the French government and th local authorities, denouncing (hem for forcing upon him th alter native of deportation or Imprisonment' fur six months, if declared that n would not budge, and that It woiHd bv necessary to take blm , abroad the steamer on a stretcher. This the commissary or poilc. who Anally en tered Castro's room, with an eecort (Continued on paga seven, V AGAINST HASKELL FOR Makeup of the'Orand Jury? Ground for Court's Ac tion; Renew Cana , DEFENDANTS RICH tlf Associated Pre.) Tin.HA. Oklr... April 10. Federal Indictments against Gov. C. N, Has kell of Oklahoma and six other prom inent Okluhomas charged with fraud In Muskogee town lots were quashed today by Judge John A. Marshall of Utah In the United States Circuit court. The court quashed the Indict ments on the ground that they wer returned by a grand Jury composed of twenty-three men under the fed eial law. Instead of by a Jury of six teen, as provided for by the Arkansas Iw, which was held to be In force In Indian Territory by federal enactment at the time when the alleged fraud were committed. Hylveetcr Hush, special attorney general who worked up tha esses for tin- government, stated after the opln li n was handed down that he would again present th" matter to th grand Jury, submitting it without delay to the body now In session. The defend ants affected by today's decision bo sldes Governor Haskell, Include Wil liam T. Hutching,- lawyer, born la Virginia. He had been offered a Best on the bench of the Supreme court of the state of Oklahoma but declined It. -. All Are Wealthy. The aggregate wealth of th seven men Is said ta be over I,(X0,0. The indictments against them num bered thirteen and they were return ed at Muskogee atyr a lengthy grand Jury investigation conducted by Syl vester Rush, of Omaha, witnesses be- (Continued on pag three.) VAINLY RAILING A 00 ER OF FRENCH - (Continued on page seven.) (Continued on page, Six.)
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