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THE WEATHEB:
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VOL. XXVII., NO. 91.
dominated by Acclamation at
The Democratic Caucus
Last Night
IT MEANS EARLY
ACTION ON TARIFF
Committee on Ways and Means
Also Selected Without a
Hitch
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19. Repres
entative Champ Clark of Missouri
the democratic leader of the house
.and receptive candidate for the dem
ocratic nomination for the presidency,
was tonight nominated by acclamation
for speaker of the house In the 62nd
congress. This, with the selection of
a committee on ways and meaca to
make an early preparation of tariff
legislation for submission to congress
Immediately, upon the beginning of
the next session In December, when
tne nouse becomes democratic, was
G AM m
IN
FROM
MISSOURI
IS NAMED SPEAKER
one of the features of a caucus of the
democrats the old and new members
of the next congress held in the hall
of the house at the capltol Lonlght.
About 210 democrats were present.
Mr. Hay of Virginia presided an- Mr.
Aahbrook of Ohio was secretary.
Akin Absopt
Francis Burton Harrison nt New
York called the attention of the cau
cus .to the fact that the name of
Theron , . Akin, representative elect
from New York had been called twice
In the opening roll call. Mr. Harri
son announced that he ha"1 been in
formed that Akin had declared that
he. would not enter the caucus tonight
and that Akin said he would vote with
the republicans. Mr. Harrison there
fore, aked that Akln'r name be
stricken from the roll of democrats.
Mr. Clayton, who was the regular
chairman of the democratic caucus,
gave up the chair to Mr. Hay of Vlr-,
ginla, and-made a speech. He said:
'It has been suggested that the first '
important., duty .-which ..will : oof root ,
o tn vftfr tiext "house or representa-'
ttves wtll.be the consideration and
passage of tariff legislation demo
, cratlc legislation not measures pre-
y pared bj1 the beneficiaries of protec
tionism or formulated according to the
dictation of selfish and special Inter
ests, but such legislation as will show
a proper regard for the tax payers
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(Continued on Page Three.)
11 MEMBER
DECLARES THAT CAUCUS
WIS REALLY A FRAME IIP
Choice Line of Endearing
Terms Bristles In Every
Sentence of Letter
"A CRUEL MOCKERY'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. Some
thing of a sensation was created in
the house today when an open letter
of Representative Dies of Texas, a
democrat, attacking tonight's caucus
and dubbing It a "cold'deck for the
coming caucus, a feast of state dish
es," was read by Representative Cal
der, a New York republican.
An effort was made by Representa
tive Heflin of Alabama to head off
the reading of the letter but without
avail.
The letter denounced the caucus as
a "frame up" and the democrats who
supinely bowed down "before these
self sustained successors of Ceasar"
as "fellow worms." as "Catalines In
cog," and declared that the handful
of men who framed up the commit
tee rewards were "early birds, Cata
lines In miniature, usurpers and con
spirators" who "Impudently stuck this
cut and dried slate" before the noses
of gentlemen.
The letter held that It waa cruel
mockery to summon the new mem
bers to Washington merely to vote
as they were told. "Worms Inclined
to turn wijl have an opportunity at 1
tne caucus." read the letter whic h I
added that
"would be a
the symbol of
ring In the nose.'
union
JEWISH FUND WAS
QUICKLY RAISED
NEW YORK. Jan., 19. One hun
dred and one thousand dollars to
ward a proposed J150.000 fund for
building new departments at the
Hebrew Union college at Cincinnati
was subscribed today Just before el
ection of officers and adjournment by
the twenty second council of the
anion of Hebrew congregations. In
addition Jacob H. Schlff subscribed
15,600 for the extension work of the
schools and synagogues of the Union
congregations and agreed to pay
Similar amount to the work annually,
THE
OVERMAN SCORES
' DEFAMERS OF THE
N.C. MOUNTAINEERS
Declares That The Reports Sent in
By Government
And Obscene.
WASHINGTON, Jan., 19. That
Secretary Kagel, of the department
of commerce and labor, has sup
pressed much of the reports of
agents or the labor bureau because
of their revelations 'concerning the
prtvhte lives of people In North Caro.
Una and other southern states was
asserted In the senate today by Sena
tor Overman. He stated that some
of the reports were so revolting in
character that, if printed the law
prohibiting the circulation of ob
scene literature would prohibit their
transmission through the malls. The
statement was elicited In connection
with an Inquiry from Senator Bever
idge as to the publication of the In
vestigation into the employment of
women and child labor made a few
years ago by the bureau of .labor.
Responding to Mr. Beverldge,
Senator Smoot, chairman of the com
mittee on printing, said that owing
to the extended length of the report
publication would necessarily be
postponed until the middle of 'the
summer. He said that the report
would cover twenty volumes.
Mr. Beverldge expressed Impa
tience over the delay, and, while he
was engaged In a colloquy with the
IHXh senator Mr. Bailey Interrupted
with the observation that If the In
formation coming to his ears was
correct the report should never be
published.
It was at this Juncture that Mr.
Overman made his statement con
cerning the course of Secretary Na-
gel. "I heard of the vile character
of some of these reports", he said,
'and went to Mr. Nagel about them.
He told me that the revelations
were such that he had felt called
upon to suppress them. It would
seem that some of the agents had
gone Into the mountains and had
taken It upon themselves to Investi
gate tho private affairs of the people
when the law authorized an Inquiry
only Into labor conditions".
"Just so," commented Mr. Bailey,
"whenever we allow one of these
meddlesome officers to get their
noses into Utefronjt jlric-ra of the
bonM' of tv1e fiiev u-imuw
to go farther than they should."
"The people of North Carolina",
said Senator Overman, "have been
reviled by men and women who
ought to know ibetter, but when we
send these hyenas, paid by the gov
ernment, Into the homes of our
mountain people, to repay the hos-
pwallty accorded tnem oy vue ni
scurrilous lies, I say that the limit
ot patience nas oeen nwncu. mo
OPENING GUN IS FID
IN THE FIGHT FOR THE
FORTIFICATION OF CANAL
Hobson, "The War Lord",
Declares U. S. Should
Fortify Panama
CONFLICTING VIEWS
i
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 The
opening guns In the fight for the for
tification of the Panama canal were
fired and war talk held full sway
during the first two hours of the ses
sion of the house of representatives
today, although the postoff . e appro
priation bill ostensibly was under
consideration.
Representative Relfer, of Ohio.
spoke In favor of the neutralization
of the canal. He was replied to by
Representative Hobson, of Alabama.
General Kelfer declared thnt the
fortification of the canal would be
an act of war and a violation of all
the treaties affecting the waterway.
Mr. Hobson said that in the stress
of war the stronger power always
sets treaties and International law at
naught. General Keifer declared
that there could h no peace foot-
j ing on the Isthmus If the canal were
i fortified. It would be necessary to
keep a war force there at nil times.
Mr. Ilobgon said he could not un
derstand how any American was wll-
"nB lo say tnat tnl8 nation was too
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wholly an American proposition and
which, If neutralized, would lay the
west coast of both North and South
America at the mercy of Europeon
nations.
EXDORSK AIiDHim PLAJT
WASHINGTON. Jan. 19. The na
tional board of trade today substan
tially endorsed the principles of the
Aldrich plan of monetary reform by
adopting the resolutions offered by the
chamber of commerce In the state of
New Tork, the Merchants' association
of New Tork. and the New York pro
duce exchange recommending a
"central banking organization," Ten
tative plans were drawn for a mone
tary league of business men to be or-
ganlzcd by the national board.
ASHEVILLE CITIZEN.
ASHEVILLE,
Agents Were Vile
publication of these reports, exag'
gerated and untrue, would be giving
circulation to vile slanders on my
people. They ought to be suppressed
and must 'be suppressed."
Senator Bailey followed Senator
Overmaa In a like vein. He said
that these agents who went sneaking
among an unsuspecting peuple paid
no particular attention to truth as
long as they presented some kind of
report to hold their fobs.
RICHMOND HOLDS
LEE CELEBRATION
RICHMOND, Va., Jan., !. With
weather conditions perfect except for
the tang of winteij in the air and the
frost under foot, Richmond tooay
celebrated the birthday of Robert
E. Lee. The observance of the "day
was perhaps more general this year
than ever before. All state and city
officials suspended or partly suspen
ded business, and all the banks ob
served the legal holiday. The big
public feature of the celebration was
a military and civic parade this ar
ternoon. In this the Richmond light
Infantry blues, the Richmond How
itzers, the Richmond battalion of the
first Virginia regiment, the two
cal camps of United Confederate
veterans and the sons of veterans
took part.
MOTIONS TO QUASH
CHICAGO, Jan. 19. Motions to
quash the Indictments against them
were made In the Federal District
court by the paskers under Indictment
here today. The packers set forth
that the "Immunity bath" admlnls
tered In 1906 by Judge Humphreys
still holds good and that no action of
thelr's prior to that year can be used
either as explanation or evidence In
the present case. On these grounds
the packers allege that Indictments
drafted against them were Illegally
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BKOKK RKXXHID
DOUAI, France, Jan. 19. Iouls
Bregt, tho French aviator, broke the
world's speed record for a monoplane
witn a passenger today. He made a
night of fifty kilometers f.11 miles!
in a minutes and 54 seconds, and
one hundred kilometers In one hour,
nine minutes- and 28 seconds.
E COURT TAKES
U PEEP AT THE BOSTON
HRIET, OF TRUSTS"
Would Ascertain If It
Comes Under Provisions
Corporation Tax
HOLDING REAL ESTATE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 The Bos
ton variety of 'trusts" was subjected
today to the scrutiny of the Supreme
court of the United States In order
to ascertain If it camn within the
orporation tax provisions of the
Payne-Aldrich tariff act of 1909. Its
consideration followed Immediately
fter the conclusion of the oral ar
gument of the constitutionality of the
tax included in fifteen different cases
before the court.
The "trust" question was raised bv
beneficiaries of the Cushlng real es
tate trust and the "department store"
trust of Huston. The beneficiary in
the latter case was the Maine Baptist
Missionary convention.
The court was told by Morefield
Story and Burton E. Amet, who ar
gued the cases.' that under the laws
of Massachusetts corporations cannot
be organized for the expressed pur
pose of holding real estate. Hence
persons desiring to associate together
in purehasing reul estute had formed
a Joint fund and put the legal title
to the property purchased In the
hands of trustees.
It was clalnned that these trusts
were not within the meaning of the
words "corporation, Joint stock eom
pany and association." as used In the
corporation lax provisions. It was
further contended that they were not
"organized under the laws of the
United States or of any state or ter
ritory." MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
FT. MYERS. Fla , Jan., 19 H.
Stewart Bosenquet a member of a
distinguished English family, and a
man of considerable wealth met
death here in a mysterious manner
several days' ago, his body being
found today Just off the railroad
docks In about ten feet of water.
Whn found the body waa In an up
right position against some piling.
The general belief Is that he fell
overboard while In a fit
N. X FRIDAY MORNING,
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NEW CONCRETE BRIDGE TO WEST
ASHEVILLE NOW ALMOST FINISHED
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Magnificgnt Stmcturt Spanhing The French Broad Enduring Specimen of Th- Eri-
gineerU Art.
Linking the City of Asheville to
West Asheville In closer union that
thpy have ever been before, the new
county concrete bridge which spans
the .French Bread, and which was
ordered by tho county of Buncombe
during the administration of Mr. J.
E. Rankin, la practically romploted
only a part of i'tha side railings ro
malnlng to be. erected. The street
car tracks of the Asheville .Electric
company already cross the ' bridge
and are steadlljf moving forward to
their Asheville tormina . Jsrret s
store. The brlUgY-a tt -U nwro-
day, designed and erected under the
personal supervision of Mr. C. B
Clake, of C. B. Clarke & Co , bridge
builders of Baltimore, Mil., is a verl
table triumph of the engineer's art
and it will stand for generations. Mr
Clarke assumes all responsibility for
-the strength of the design and the
strength of the construction, until
finally accepted by the county. '
The bridge hns 14 spans on the
east approach, the largest of which
60 feet, and It covers four tracks
of tho main line of the Southern rail
way. These are followed by two
great arches, 150 feet each, spanning
the French Hnmd fifty fet, above the
urface of the water. The west ap
proach Is composed of four spans
eadlng Into what Is known as the
Tahkeeosten Landing." The tota'
cngth of the bridge la 900 feet with
roadway of .'10 feet, and s sidewalk
ve and a half feet lnwldth. Th-
EVELOPMENT MEN ARE
TO
Men Who Sought to Estab
lish Resort Taste The Pill
of Adversity.
JACKSON. Miss., Jan. 19. Thomas
Sibley and J. ('. Masters, promoters
of the Albemarle Development com
pany of Albemarle, N. C, whii. were
arrested here several days ago charg
ed with having used the mails to de
fraud; left here tonight In the custody
of Deputy United States Marshall
Collins of Jackson and Post Office In
spector Bulla of North Carolina for
Charlottes, where they will be Impris
oned pending trial. It Is stated that
a score of men charged Jointly with
Masters and Sibley of having misused
the mails have been located and that
their arrests will follow within a few
days.
KIIXKD BV EXGI.NK.
CLAYTON, Ga., Jan., 19. Wm.
C. Scruggs, a prominent farmer of
this county and former member of
the legislature waa struck and killed
here tonight by an engine on the
Taiulah Falls railroad. The dead
man waa a noted character In north
east Georgia.
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FAIR
WASHINGTON, Jan.. 19. For
North Carolina: fair; slightly warmer
In western portion, ,
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A
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JANUAR Y 20, 1911.
The New West Asheville Bridge.
Expected to be Officially
Next Month.
roadway l of hltullthlc, the tide
walks of concrete, with aide railings
of the came material. In the entire
length of the bridge no' steel or
woodwork Is exposed to view,
IliHraji Year Ago, '
The work of construction began
February 1, 1910, and It la expected
that the bridge will be efflclally open
ed February I of this year. The
progress of construction was Inter
rupted by the heavy floods of last
September, when the French Broad
river "ran amuck" and reached the
reasrd" heigiifttf-H . JaU" uw
bed. One of the arches waa almost
completed and -the false work for the
second had been put up. The flood
rarrled away tho false work of both
arches, causing a delay of not less
than three months and Inflicting
damage to the extent of $8,000, all
of which was the contractor's loss
and not the county's.
Tho total cost of the bridge to
the county In round numbers will
reach $70,000, which Includes the
hridffo complete, ready for traffic.
The maximum force employed. In
construction was 100 men, all of
which was local labor with the ex
ception of five foremen and engi
neers who "belong lo the permanent
organization of tho contractor. No
aerlona nccldenta marked the pro
gress of the work.
The entire weight of the bridge
will not be less than 12,000 tons. It
Is built of reinforced concrete. In
paul morton, pres. of
eouitiiblelife; is dhd
Dies Suddenly in the Hptel
Seymour New York
He Had Hemorrhage
NEW YORK, Jutv 19. Paul Mor
ion, president of the Kiuitable Life
Aseurance soc iety and secretary of the
navy under Theodore Roosevelt, died
of cerebral hemorrhage In the ho
tel Seymour here tonight. His wife
and bis elder brother, Joy, were at
his side fifteen minute after ho was
stric ken, but he never regained con
sc loiiHness and at a quarter 'to seven
o'cloc k, an hour after he was strick
en, be died. The coroner's office Is
satisfied that the death resulted from
natural causes and there will be no
autopsy,
Mr Morton himself had no Idea
that bis life was In danger, but his
family, his physicians and a few close
friends knew that his Condition was
precarious and that If he did not take
care of himself grave result would
follow.
In the ante room of the Hotel
Seymour while Mr. Morton was talk
ing, stood Thomas Fortune Ryan, K.
J. Ilirwlnd anil Then, J. Shouts, all
of whom bud ben summoned by
telephone, Mr. and Mrs. J. Hopkins
Smith. Jr , a dauvhter and son In law,
had Joined Mrs. Morton.
The body was removed to the home
tonight, hut no statement of funeral
plans was given out.
FREIGHT KATE AKGrMEXT
WASHINGTON. Jan., 19. Upon
the conclusion of the argument of
the proposed advances of freight
rates In Wester Trunk Line associa
tion territory today, Chairman Clem
ents, of the Interstate commerce
commission announcedejthat the car
riers had consented further to poet
pone the Increases from February 1
to March 15, In order to afford "the
commission n-leiuatn time In which
to deal with tho great question presented.
Opened Early
which all tension strains are taken
by steel; only compression -Is -allow
ed to come on the concrete. It baa
been found that concrete and steel
bound together perfectly, forming
tne nest coating and protection to
ateel yet 'discovered. .
Mr, Clarke's Work.
The designer and builder of the
bridge, Mr. C. B. Clarke, ha Just
oeen awarded the contract for a eon.
crte bridge connecting Wyman
park in DrutcVa HljU park fct SalU'
mora, , He he erected two . fine
forjdimtfaahlngtoiE ."0,fi nd
twenty, mile of bridges' In various
section of the country etand today
na monuments to hit .work. Mr.
Clarke first began to . build ', arch
brldget for the Big "four railway ten
years ago. He la a graduate, of
John Hopklna university and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technolo
gy. Probably no man In the United
States has had more experience In
the designing and construction pf
large concrete arch Bridget.
Ae- the result of the entrance of
the atreet car lines Into West Ashe
ville real estate In that section hat
taken on a decided boom and In
some rases prices have more than
doubled. It Is expected that the
first car will go across the bridge
early next month. The polea are
going up rapidly and the tracka are
steadlty creeping forward. The open
Ing of the line will be made a "red
letter" day In West Asheville.
IT
Senator Fletcher Tells the
Senate That Ballinger la
Not Fitted for The Job
WASHINGTON, Jan., 19. "That
the present secretary of the Interior
Is not the man best fitted for the
office he holds", wa one of the in
dictments made by Senator Fletcher,
of Florida, against Secretary of the
Interior Ballinger, In an address In
the senate today In support of the
Purcell resolution, declaring that
tho eec retury should no longer be re
tained In office. The aetiator pre
faced his remark with an admit
tance that no question of criminal
guilt has been Involved In the charg
es against tivcrelory Ballinger. In
further Indictment of Mr, Ballinger
Senator Fletcher declares:
"That his conduct and association
and Influences JuMIr aroused miayk:
lun; that he has been and la Inclined
to favor private interests rather than
caro f'jr those of the public.
"That while no actual corruption
Is Shown, It can scarcely be said that
he I guiltless of official wrongdoing
of a nature warranting criticism."
"That he wa not In sympathy with
the advocate of conservation a de
fined by the president and hi prede
cessor and by direction and more or
less deception, he set about doing
that which causes serious Injury.
'That he ha been unfaithful, both
to the public, whose property he has
endangered, and to the president,
whom he ha deceived."
HOMES AWAIT CLAIMA.YTS.
NORFOLK, Va., Jan., The
embalmed bodies of the nine victims
of the explosion aboard the battle
ship Delaware at sea Tuesday were
till In the naval hospital morgue
today awaiting Instructions from
their relatives in distant states and
cities.
Citlxen Want Ads Bring
Results. ,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BILL LOOKS TO
STATE llflTHE
LI
Senator Boyden Offers Meas
ure Providing For Road
Commission & Engineer -
BELIEVED THAr THE
BILL WILL GO THROUGH
House Passes a Bill to Bar
Employers From Hinder
Ing Their Employes
RALEIGH, N. a,' Jen. II, A bill
to create a atat highway department
composed of a atat highway com mis
alon and atat highway engineer, to
co-operate with counties and town-
ship in the : oonstruotlon of good
roada waa offered in the senate today
by. Boyden of Rowan, with every as
oranoe that it will be speedily enact,
d. It proytdea for one fourth of the
coot of the road improvement in co
operation construction to be born by
the state, and three fourth b the
160 D
countlc benefitted, the state to levy
tax of one fourth of one mill on
very dollar of taxable property for
the statt'a fund. Another bill by the
earn senator asked for an annual p- ,
proprlaUon of one hundred thousand
dolfars-for the maintenance of the
atate university and seventy five thou
and dollars annually for two years for
-T na Permanent Improvement
The house oaased a bill tn mi(
labor organisation from, exaction by
employer that tbey dd not iota un
ions, Among 'the new bills, in the
house wa one by Rose of rumbxrlaml
to authorise the Supreme court to In
crease tne aalery of the Supreme
court reporter to IM00. By Home of ,
Johnston offered one to authorise the
board of agriculture to pay debt for '
A. and M, agricultural building out'
of oil tax revenue which ha aecumu
lated Without Drovlsloa far anntlc.
t ConoernlU , Fire ' Insurant
The hoUB aoiamlttaa an MUim.
tlone and r)vanee heard arguments -lat
veniii on the pptuion to
create a legislative oomtnisalnn to ittrf
vestlgat the conduct of Ore insurance .
companies In this atat a tironnsNil -
la the blllbysJCooncs of Onslow, who
Is chairman of ths committee, the
hearing to be resumed on Wednesday
of next week. Col Walker Taylor of
Wilmington, prominent local aaent to
Insurance, was the orlnelnal umhit
clearly stirring decided aentlm.nt
gainst the necessity of any Invsstign .
tlon, but merely reciting .the condi
tions snd leaving it to the legislature
s to the existence of the necessity, '
He insisted, however, that an Invest!
tation would raise the. presumption
In the public mind that there waa
something wrong as to Insurance In
this state, which Is not ths fact, as
ha views the situation. ' He exnlalnsd
the work of the southeastern ttrllf
association as scheduling and equslls- '
Ini rates for the convenience and
economy of alt the companies rather
than in any wise a trust, Furthsr.
mors, that ths companies It represents
do less than fifty par csnt of the busi
ness In this state so that It could not
b a trust in sny wy, Of lit Insu
rance companies licensed to do busi
ness in North .Carolina anly 71 are ;
(OonUnned On Page Ms.)
ECtflRE THAT POSTAL
ECBWIS INJOBISfi
EFflCTO Of SERVICE
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Congressman Small and
Others Take Crack at
Hitchcock's Management
LL-JUDGED ECONOMY
WASHINGTON, Jan . lt-Post-
master General Hitchcock's economy
aminlxtratlon in the post office de
part cm-nt rame In for sharp eritiolsm
the hands of several members of
the house of reDresentatlvee todav
during tho consideration of the post
office appropriation bill.
Representative Small of North
Carolina, Hartlett of Georgia, Borland
of Missouri, Saunders of Virginia on
the democratic slds and R presents
Uve Rteenerson of Minnesota, on the
republican side declared that the
economy plana were seriously affect
ing the efficiency of the postal ser
vice, especially on the rural free da
livery and star routes and took Issue
with the officials ot the post office
department that ths postal denct was)
being wiped out without detriment to
the service. ' --
Mr. Small declared that tho rural
service was . being discriminated
against and that while the department
did not hesitate to create a deficiency
In one branch of the service. H waa
declining to spend tl. 700,000 of tho
appropriation allowed by congress for
an increase in the rural routes.