North Carolina Newspapers

THE WEATHEB: SNOW. VOL. XXVII., NO. 89. EIGHT ARE KILLED Ofl BATTLESHIP BY Wireless Brings News of Ac cident on Battleship Delaware VICTIMS ON DUTY IN BOILER ROOM Bodies Rescued From Clouds of Hissing Steam by Mem bers of Crew WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Eight men met Instant death and one man was so horribly tourned that hie prob ably will die as a result of a boiler explosion aboard the battleship Del aware at t.$ o'cock this morning, the cause of which is yet unknown, according to a wireless message to night to the navy department from Captain Gove. The Delaware was on her way to Hampton Roads from Guantanamo, Cuba, and had been designated to transport the body of Senor Cruz, late Chilean Minister to the United States, back to Chile instead of the South Carolina, whose propellers met with a mishap. On Duty In Boiler Room The nine victims were on duty In the boiler room wben the accident occurred. A terrific shock sent the crew scurrying below and nine bod lea were dragged from' the cloud of hot steam that hissed through the ship. The names of the eight men killed were wired to the navy de partment but the ninth who was hurried from the boiler room with traces of life In him was described as- unidentified. A board of officers of the vessel was appointed toy Captain Gove to inves tigate the cause of the accident. Cap tain Gove's message to the navy de partment tonight follows: "At t-tO a. m. January 17, three back headers, numbers B,. 9, 10, of boiler 0" in fire roo mfour blew oul explosively, killing eight, and injuring I one wihK) will probably die, these b-j Inff 'aW tar-ms ""TU ! room. Board of officers appointed immediately to investigate and re port Not yet reported. Extent of damage ts ten back headers injured In boiler 0 Cause not yet placed. The Dead. The dear are: Charles Henry Harp of Violet. Ky., Wm. Morris White of Vicksburg, Miss., Columbus' Porter (Continued on Page Four) IT PREMIER OF FRANCE II Commotion Created by Murderous Assault on Briand ONE MAN HURT PARIS, Jan. 17. A mad man sit ting among the spectators In the gal lery of the Chamber of Deputies to day .suddenly drew a revolver and fired two shots at Premier Briand. The premier escaped being injured, but Leon Mlram dliector of public relief, received one of the bullets in the leg. M. Gutstehau, under secretary of marine, who occupfed a seat direct ly behind that of Briand, happened to look toward the man Just before the shot was fired. He saw the dl-r-vtlnn in which the weapon was aimed and knew intuitively that ne priemler's life was threatened. He sprang up and urged the pre mier to protect Wmself to lean ever his desk, but Briand refused. (The next Instant two shots were nnd M. Mlram fell over Into Elrand's arms, a bullet haning pass- i ed through trie fleshy part of his let j ind he rolled to the floor. The CTe at est commotion ensued, among j tne deputies, while several spectators sprang upon We madman, who still held the revolver In his hand. They hore Mm down and sevral of the deputies, running into the gallery. I struck at him. Then It was discov ered by policemen who came to his rescue that the man was M. Gisolme, a well known Individual who once bad made an unsuccessful attempt upon the Jlfo. of the British consul at San Sifiastian, and had It n In carcerated In an asylum for the In sane. Amid all the uproar M. Briand maintained his equipoise, apparent ly having become quite accustomed to being made the object of attack. As In the case of the attempt to do him injury I nthe Tullleries gardens last Noirember, the premier himself went to the aid of his assailant. Following his arrest Gisolme de clared ha had wished he had killed Briand. He said that he hated all deputies and was sorry that some of them had, not been wounded by his Shots. ( BOILER EXPLOSION THE TARIFF SPECTER THROWS SHADOW ON FESTIVE BOARD Jackson day Gathering of Democracy Feels' its Presence Also at The Big Mass Meeting. BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 17. The gaunt specter of the tariff, with all the vicissitudes it brings from with out and within a political party, stalked boldly through the Jackson day gathering of the democrats In this city today. It made its presence felt at the mass meeting at the Lyric In the afternoon and It would not down at the bountiful feast which was spread at the Fifth regi ment armory tonight. But the Issue was fairly met by all the speakers. Some frankly acknowl edged that there would he differences of opinion among the democrats on this subject as there had been among the republicans. Senator Bailey, for Instance, while declaring that har mony of action must be the watch word of the democracy, if they main tain the advantage won at the last, election, took direct issue with those democrats who favor piecemeal re vision of the tariff. Champ Clark, ofl Missouri, speaker-to-be of the house of representatives, had Just announc ed that the sentiment amon; demo crats In the house seemed to favor plccemea.1 revision schedule bv schedule, If possible, but Item by time If necessary. "And the most obnoxious items first," exclaimed Mr. Clark. Every Schedule) Bad. "As between rotten apples. In sisted Senator Bailey, "there Is ' no choice. Every schedule In the Payne-Aldrlch law Is bad." Gov. Harmon of Ohio, one of the most prominent figures In the day's gathering , also pounced upon the tariff. The day passed as the democratic leaders wished it might, without an attempt from any quarter to launch a boom for the presidential nomi nation In 1912. Senator Bailey paid Champ Clark, the democratic leader of the house, the tribute of placing him In the presidential class. "If Champ Clark makes a better speaker than Mr. Harmon makes a governor, we will nominate him for president," he .declared amid enthu siasm at the Lyric meeting. "But," he added, "If Governor 4 Harmon makes a better governor'Hmir'Champ; Clark makes a speaker, then we are going to nominate Mr. Harmon." The tariff was acknowledged as the factor which brought about the J defeat of the republican party in the last campaign and with equal frankness the democratic leaders acknowledged that If they did not deal wisely with that Issue and fulfil the hopes of the country, democratic success would be short-lived. And ELECT! OF LODGE BT MUOBITY OF ONE SEEMS PROBABLE RESULT TODAY But There May be Pro longed Deadlock in Leg islature DEMOCRATS HOPE BOSTON, Jan. 17. Although backed by eight majority In tho up per branch of the legislature, Unit ed States Senator Henry Cabot LodRe failed by three votes to obtain a re endorsement In the house today, but if there is no shift during the night the Joint convention tomorrow will send him back to Washington for a fourth terns with a majority of Just one on Joint ballot. Mr. Lodge polled 24 out of 40 votes In the sen ate, but In the house only 117 out of the 240 members lined up for him. The result In the senate was as had been anticipated for several weeks so that Interest centered main ly In the vote of the house where the excitement was Intense. There were no Indications of any backslid ing among the republican members this evening. The democrats wore equally a staunch In thrlr determination to stand by their party candidate and some of the more optimistic of them declare the senatorial situation would be deadlocked for some time. Governor Kugene X. Ko.ss, who sat In his room at the. far end of the building, refused to comment as to the result, although for months he has fought Mr. Lodge on the stump nnd repeatedly predicted his de feat. Speaker Walker, of tho house, to night sent a letter to the four mem bers who cast' their votea for him asking them not to vote for him to morrow. MAGNATKS OFF ON JUNKET LITTLB ROCK, Ark.. Jan. 17 After adopting several tentative schedules, all of which will be sub mitted to the Southern league mag nates at the annual spring meeting, the mergers of the schedule commit tee proeeeded to recuperate this after noon by going on a hunting trip In eastern Arkansas as guests of Presi dent W. M. Kavanaugh. The spring meeting will be held In New Orleans during Mardl Gras. ASHET1LLE CITIZEN. ASHEVILLE, N. while they were not discussing the lanu nun scnuu. jiuvii nuu iiumuiu spirit, the democratic leaders were calling out shouts of laughter and rounds of applaus by their witty, and at times, vitriolic attacks on the grand old party. New Nationalism Tnnmn. Colonel Roosevelt came in for a large share of the maledictions hurled at the republican party. For mer Senator J. C. S. Blackburn, of Kentucky, at the afternoon mass meeting, declared that the "new nationalism" enunciated by Colonel Roosevelt was tilled with treason "deeper and durker" than any charg ed against the South from '61 to '65 Governor Harmon was the first speaker at the afternoon meeting, which was called to order by General Vanlder and preclded over by XJov ernor Crouthers of Maryland. Governor Harmon sounded a key note when ho declared that "per sonal preference, jealousies and am bltlons must not be allowed to spring up and breed confusion In council or action." He sharply criticised re publican extravagance and marveled at the patience of the American peo ple In submitting so long to repub lican rule and a republican tariff sys tem. Mr. Clark, In his address, warned his fellow democrats that It was the failure of republican party to keep Its pledges, especially with respect to the tariff, that brought about Its de feat and the democratic party must live up to its promises In every re spect. Must Carry Out Pleilgc. "If the republican party had car ried out Its pledge," declared Mr (Hark, "'no' power on earth could have dethroned It. We must not fall Into the same error." Mr. Clark referred to the new tar iff law as the "Payne-Aldrlch-Smoot monstrosity." Senator Palley declared that dem ocrats were all of accord as to the ne cesslty and the extent to which the tariff should be revised and the prln clple which should underly that re vision. The difference of opinion, h asserted, would be on the method of revision. "For my part," he declared, "t believe that the only way to revise a bill like the Payne-Aldrlch act Is to cut Its head off and to cut it off as soon as you get to It. "Every schedule In It Is bad. 1 am not willing to lake out ono and leave, another there. Take them all out as between rotten apples, there is no choice." BILL NYE DAr WILL BE OBSERVED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF N. CAROLINA State Superintendent Joy ner Designates Fourth Wednesday in February PENNY COLLECTION RALEIGH, Jan. 17. Wednesday, February 22, has been appointed by Hon. J. Y. Joyner, state superintend ent of public instruction, as the "Bill Nyo day" in the public schools of North Carolina. A special hour will be set asido on that day for tha teach ers to read to the pupils a biography of Bill Nye, and a brief program of his writings will be carried out. Superintendent Joyner has been in correspondence with the Bill Nye me morial committee of the North Caro lina Press association for some time, and the final arrangements were com pleted today after a conference with Mr. J. P. Cook, treasurer of the com mittee. The program for use in the schools, embracing the Instructions from tho state superintendent to the county superintendents and the teach ers Will be sent out by tho commit tee In ample time. Incidentally, the movement contemplates voluntary contributions from the school children to the Bill Nye memorial fund, which Is to be applied to the erection of a Jackson Manual Training School at Concord. Kvery child In the state it tending a public school, will be asked to bring one penny or more on Thurs day following Fill Nye day, which will be applied to this purpose. (Superintendent Joyner Is taking most kindly Intrest in the move ment, and has responded nobly to tho petitions of the committee, a co-operation which Is heartily appre ciated by the committee, as well as by the editors of the state, who are deeply Interested In the memorial cause. KIIODKS NCHOLAR LV MEXICO MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Jan. 17 Q. O. Thompson of Cltronelle. at pres ent in Mexico, In Chihuahua, the hearth of the "revolution district, was named as the scholar from Alabama to get the Rhodes scholarship at Oxford university. There were four applicants. C.,- WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1911. I t Now GREAT ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL BANKS PLAN PROPOSED BY ALDRICH To be Known as Reserve Association of America Which Shall be Fiscal Agent of Government WASHINGTON Jan 17. (Senator Aldiich'a long stucled plan for reform- ing the currency w stem of the United States became pi illo today wben it was laid before tile National Moneta ry commission. Briefly, It propisod a great associ ation of national banks to be known as the Reserve association of Amer ica which shall b the fiscal agent of the government, Issuing circulating notes, fix a uniform rate of exchange, rediscount commercial paper and deal in bank acceptances and government securities. :v JL',iMi, -; .,. ... Capital ef gMM.OOO.OOn The senator's plan was presented In printed form, as Mr. Aldrlch had been hurried off to the South by his preparations the day before. In his letter of transmittal to Vice-chairman Representative Vreeland, the senator wrote the the plan presented was purely his own and not necessarily that of the commission. Much good had been found In the government banks of Kurope, he said, still none of them would bo applicable to needs in this country. He declared he be lieved the good results which they ob tain can be reached without the cre ation of a central bank and expressed tho conviction that his plan would reach those results without being open to the criticism that might well he brought against such an Institu tion. In somo respects Senator Al drlch's plan seems to be a high de velopment of tho law Of 1908 which bears his name, giving to national banks of approved standing the au- horlty to issue additional currency n times of emergency secured by proper collateral. He proposes that the reserve association of America shall be chartered with a capital or J300.000.000 which shall be suhscrlb- HESS lliO PULPIT BOTH SCOfiEDJYGOV. BLfJSE South Carolina's Governor Bitter in His Inaugural Address Yesterday COLUMBIA, S. C Jan. 17. Cole L. Blease, of Newberry, today was sworn in as governor of South Caro lina, succeeding M. P. Ansel, who has held that office for the past four years. Mr. Bleans seemed rath er weak, and had the reading clerk of the house read the inaugural ad d ress. After Mr. Blease had keen sworn In by E. 8. Dunbar, N. P., and mag istrate, C. A. Smith, lieutenant governor-elect, took the oath of office. Ira B. Jones, chief justice of the state Supreme court, administering It. Later In the day other state of- (Continwd on Page Four) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. Forecast: North Carolina, snow or rain Wed nesday and Thursday, . continued moderate northeast . wind. c 3 o a - o O 3 o ooa o e 'tvVV max f o 0 0c JJa "y to Get the Pig in With a Capital of Three Hundred Million Dollars. ed by national banks relative to their capitalization. Half the capital shall be paid In and the other half remain on cull. Only the United States gov ernment and banks owning stock Id the reserve association would be de positors therein. No interest would be paid on deposits. The government however would deposit its cash bal- ance and all Its receipts in the asso ciation and all disbursements would be made through it, In much ths same way as the bank of England manages the finances of Great Brit ain, 7 ... ..a-.jh Tnkf I'p Honda. The c.isociaiton womd offer to buy the United States bonds how owned by the national banks' for circulation of bunk notes and assume tho re demption of tho notes they secure. As fast as national bank notes were pre sented for redemption, notes of the association would take thetr places which would bo covered by one third gold or other lawful money and the remaining portion by bonds of the United States or other bankable com mercial paper. In substantially tho same way as the bank of France operates from the state to tho department, the ar rondlsxement. the canton and finally the nt'la commune. Senator Aldrlch'e plan Is to have tho operations of the remove association centralized st Washington, where a governor, ap pointed by tho president and remov able for cause, will be in charge with a board of forty-live directors. Tho organisation would extend to branch es, each In charge of a manager and board of dreetors. and these branches In turn would extend to local associ ations of national banks which make up tho whole. DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE OF LOCALGOVERN.UENTUPHELO New Government of Alaba ma Would Have Repealed State Prohibition Laws. MONTOMERY, Ala., Jan. 17 Aside from the rending of the lengthy first message of Oovcrnor O'Neal In which he discusses With much vigor the policy of his ad ministration to have the prohibition laws repealed and put the state back under the old democratic doctrine of local option, the legislature was occupied with few matters today, adjourning out of respect to the memory of Turner, who died yes terday. Senator Moulthrop ..offered a resolution that the legislature In vestigate the charge brought by Governor Comer against United States Jf4trlct Judge, Thomas G. Jones, In his last message relative to the court's action on rate laws of Alabama. Tho senator said If the charges were true thny were an outrage on decency. The resolution was referred. Representative Butt, of Montgom ery. Introduced the first liquor bill of the session.- It provides that liquor may be sold In towns of 15,000 or more Inhabitants. A formal vote was taken electing United States Senator Bankhead to succeed himself. SKN.VrOU ALDRICH IS SOUTH BRUNSWICK, Jan. 17 Senator Nelson A. Aldrlch of Rhode Island, arrived hera this morning and irent at once to Jekyl Island to be the guest of friends at the "The Million aires" club. He said that bs was her merely for a rest. the Pen. To that and the United States would be divided Into fifteen financial dis tricts, in each of them would be a branch of tha reserve association. In each branch there would be local associations of national banks. Each must be composed of not less than tan banks and each would elect Its own board of directors. Each local association In turn Is entitled to ,one director on the board, ef the branch, in which It operates. Td the board of each branch will then be added an sddhhrmrt rrotnbwr ot directors g.uar to one-third the number of local asso ciations represented, who shall fairly represent the Industrial, commercial,' agricultural and other Interests of that community. They must not be offi cers of banks. The branches each lu turn elect a director to the board ot the reserve association and the other thirty are then chosen In .ha fallowing wayi Government of Association, Six ex-offlelo members shall be the governor of the reserve association, who shall be chairman of the board; two deputy governors of the associa tion, tho secretary of the treasury,1 the secretary of commerce and labor and the comptroller of the currency, I Twelve more will be elected by repre sentatives of the banks of each dls trlct. Ths board ss thus constituted will then select twelve additional directors making 45 In all, who shall represent tho Industrial, commercial, agricul tural and other Interests of the coun try, none of whom can be officers of banks. Thus tho operation of such a sys (Continued on page sis.) FBAZIER IS PRACTICALLY OUT OF SENHORSHiP RACE General Luke E. Wright Still Fails to Make Public His Intentions NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Jan. 17 While he has issued no formal state ment of his Intentions, It Is prac- tbmlly certain that Senator James B. Frazlcr la no longer in the race to succeed himself In the United States senate and that his name will be withdrawn tomorrow. This de cision on the senator's part was reach. It Is reported, because of the action of Senator Base and Represen tatives Terrell and Rogers, of the senator's county In voting . for Mc MllUn today, after they had voted for Frazler for five ballots, Tho reported retirement of Sena tor Frailer was followed almost Im mediately by a rumor that the fu slonlsts -would center on ex-Congressman B. A. Enloe, present chairman of the state railroad commission, and would endeavor to elect Mm tomor row. Up to II o'clock tonight General Luke E. Wright had not made known his Intentions, although It was said he would be voted for In tomorrow's joint session. LUMBER Bl'SIXESS BAD NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17. That the lumber business of this country is In a very serious condition was the statement In the annual address of Pres. J. Lwls Thompson of Hous ton, Tex., before the Gulf Cwast lum ber Exporters association- which opened Its session In this city to day. The Industry has suffered from overproduction, said President Thompson. Citizen Want Ads Bring Results. ; PRICE FIVE GENTS OF So Argues Attorney for Stand ard Oil Company Before court COMBINATION HAS MADE PRICES LOWER Sarcastic Reference Made to Utterances of Roosevelt I About Court ; WASHINGTON, Jan., 17 In a brilliant oratorical effort, John O. Johnson, leading counsel for ths Standard Oil organisation, concluded today the long oral arguments be fore the Supreme court of the United Slates on the proposed dissolution ot the Standard Oil comesnv of New Jersey as In violation of ths Bluer- man anu-trust law. In marked contrast with Mr. John. son's effort waa the plain, unpreten tious summary of the government's Ida of tha case by Attorney General wickers nam. "Nowadays we hear a great deal of what are stigmatized reactlonary courts'" said Mr.- Johnson, "by which I Understand the courts that go to the statutes as printed and to th volumes of decisions by which the law is settled and not to the files of newspapers or to tha speeches of oratorical demagogues, Prices Would Be IIIglM, "In a moment of hysterical con templation of the sins of others for -ws ars never so apt to axagerat our own-w are apt to mistake the extent of others and; the remedy to be applisd. In the case of these largo corporations tha need is not for their extirpation. By their r mere largeness ths country does not suffer. Without these corporations prices would ba higher; hundreds of mil lions of men would be deprived of employment and-our foreign' trade (more and more dependant upon our manufactures because of the alarm ing Increase of growth of our P"Pu-tatfon,-"Wrrtrtrbnsunies -ur sgrlcitU tural products) -would be destroyed, We should - have no cbanc : In - ths competition f ' tern world ffor: trade with a rival like Germany, ths most Intelligent ot tnem an, wnicn vy set tled system fosters the combination which you ars asked to condemn criminal," Mr, Johnson then replied to ths warning of Mr, Kttllogg that unless the Sherman law was enforced the Standard would drive all Indepen dents out of business . within !v- "Mr. Kellogg need not tear. , any overfohdness for these corporations' by Judges", sttld Mr. Johnson, "and hs hardly need lose any sleep over' their receiving any favors from Jur ies. Let ths channels of commerce bs open for all who. may desire to enter, whether with ocean steamer or dug.out, with Rockefeller wealth or with naught but thwlr brains and thelf hands, unfettered by their own Improper restraints and unlnterfered with by tha abuse of others: and all will have besn dona that la wise. Be yond that lies that antagonism of Ir repressible economic necessity and of disaster, ths length and breadth of winacn no man can " -, UKGQN5T1TUT1DHAL1TY1 OF CORPORATION TAX IS ARGUED BEFORE COURT Sovereignty of States is In vaded By This , " -nr. Tax WOMAN SUES WASHINGTON. Jan. 17 Tha final assault on the constitutionality of the corporation tax provision ot the Payne-Aldrlch tariff art of 1903, began today In tha Supreme court of the United States. For two hours Maxwell Kvarts, of New York, ark ued that tha taw was void. Ju Ilcn TV Davie, also of New" Tork, continued the assault. , Tomorrow Frederick W. Lehrmann. solicitor general for ths department ot Jus lice, will defend ths law. ' Mr, Everts appeared as counsel for Stella P. Flint, general guardian of Samuel N. Stone, Jr., owner ot stock In ths Stone-Tracy company, of Windsor, Vt She sought to pre vent the corporation from paying tho tax. .i --- ' - .-'" The attorney contended that ths tax wag unconstitutional principally because it fell upon tha corporate franchise of ths company. In so doing It Invaded the sovereignty of tha state, bs urged. While ths lsw on Its face said it was a tax oa the "dolhgs ot business," Mr. Everts told the court that "the burdens of this law, falling on ths defendant cor poration because it has a corporate charter, i and because It acts in a corporate character, are burdens up on tha right to b a corporation and t ttcf as such." ETIRP CORPORATIONS 5 mrr the remedy