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VOL. XXVIL, NO. 93.
NEGRO QUESTION
FOiSSUBJECTOF
SPEEGHJN SENATE
Clark of Montana Waxes Bit
ter Against Senators
From South
SEES BUGABOO IN
PROPOSED LAW
He Is Man Who Does Butler's
Work on Floor of The
Senate
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. In lan
guage so plain that some times It
was bitter, Senator Carter, of Mon
tana, opposed the adoption of the
resolution as reported by the senate
judiciary committee providing for
election of senators by popular vote.
He charged Northern senators who
support the resolution with Igno
rance and Southern senators with at
tempting to saddle upon the country
constitutional disfranchisement of ne
f;ro; voters. Mr. Carter claimed that
the election of senators by direct
vote' and taking out of the constitu
tion the right of congress to make
any law or regulation for the pro
tection of senatorial elections against
fraud, violence, or corruption, were
so indlasolubly united In the resolu
tion that the people of the polls
oould not separate them In order to
express their choice. He contended
that the resolution when sent to the
committee on Judiciary carried only
the simple proposition of having sen
ators elected by direct vote and that
the other proposition had been adopt
ed as & "rider" Jn order to get the
support of senators who favored giv
ing to legislatures the right of dis
franchising negroes.
Negro Question Again.
"The occasion demands plain
speech and forbids evasion," said Mr.
Carter. He said that certain sena
tors, "not content with the success
obtained .4n. suppressing the negro
vote through a curious variety 6f
state -constitutional provisions and
legislative devices," now seek abso
lutely to deprive the general govern
ment of all power to protect the elec
tion of members of the senate "from
such fraud, violence or corruption as
may taint a senatorial election North
or South.
He said that the adoption of the
amendment would (five substantial
though limited, national sanction to
Continued on Pago Four)
ONE AND ONE SIXTH M 1LES
WAS NEAREST PEARY GOT
T
Experts Work Out Chart
From Perry's Data of
Trip
INSTRUMENTS ERROR
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. That
Captain Robert E. Peary came within
l. m'.lea of the North Pole near
enough to establish his claim of hav
ing been at the exact spot, is the
decision of . the house committee on
naval affairs which has been con-
siderlng the bill to retire Captain
Poary ' with the rank of rear
admiral.
The basis of the committee's find
ing Is the chart prepared by Hugh
C Mitchell and C. It. Duvall of the
United States coast and geodetic sur
vey, and based on Peary's observa
tions. This chart shows that Peary went
to the left on nearing the pole due
to an error In his Instruments. La
tcr he crossed toward the pole, his
nearest point being 1.6 miles.
A minority report submitted by
Representative' Roberts, of Massa
chusetts, does not question Captain
Peary's performance but arraigns the
National Geographic society's commit
tee, which he claims announced its
findings after only a cursory exami
nation of Peary's proofs.
"Had such a chart been worked
out," said Mr. Roberts, "and given
to the world by the committee of
the geographical society the contro
versy that has raged throughout the
world would undoubtedly have ended
then and there,"
The majority report recommended
the passage of the Hale-Bates bill.
giving Peary the thanks of congress
nd creating him a rear aomirai on
t the retired list.
A fight is certain to develop in
the house over the proposed legisla
tion. Representative Macon, of Ar
kansas, has indicated that he
oppose its passage on the floor,
will
QUARANTINE RAISED
CONSTANTTNOPLK,. Jan. !1. The
shipping quarantine against Constan
tinople was abolished today and clean
health bills will be issued. Since the
outbreak of the cholera In September
last, there have been 1.13S cases with
7&J deaths. -,"
FORTIFICATION OF
CANAL IS URGED BY
PRESIDENT TAFT
Declares His Love
Hatred of War. But at Same Time
Urges Protection of Panama.
NEW YORK, Jan. 21. President
Taft tonight began an earnest cam
paign for the fortification or the
Panama canal. His entire speech at
the annual banquet or the i-ennsyi-vanla
society in New York was devot
ed to this subject. He bus high hopes
that congress at this session will de
clare In his favor and appropriate
IS.OOi' 000 to begin the work.
In the senate, the president lias
been told, the sentiment in favor of
fortification is almost two to one.
The house seems pretty evenly divid
ed, but not along partisan lines. Most
of the members apear to have an
open mind, however, and are willing
to be convinced by, the side mat
makes the better presentation of Its
case.
Will I'ko All HIn lnlliH-iHft
President Taft will bring all his In
fluence td bear in favor of fortifica
tions, in his speech tonight he sata
that there were absolutely no treaty
obligations in the way of fortirying
the canal; that the United States had
every right and reason to protect
what was purely an American water
way. To the Pennsylvania diners the
president In part said:
President's Spwh
"I am going to call your attention
to the discussion now pending in con
gress as to whether the Panama
canal ought to be fortified. In 1850
we made the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
with England, which Contemplated
a canal built by some other than the
contracting parties. Hy that treaty
with England we would neither of
us own any part of the land through
which the canal was to be built and
we would neither of us fortify It and
we would unite together In guarantee
ing Its neutrality and would Invite the
rest of the nations to become parties
to the agreement. The cruise of the
Oregon of 12,000 . miles along the
Seaeoast of two continents fastened
the attention of the American people
upon -tn- absolute necessity for
canal as a military Instrument. Th'
lesson brought about the modification
of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty for the
very purpose of securing the right on
(he part of the United Slates to own
the land through whleti the canal was
to he built; to construct the canal
itself and to regain the power to for
tify the canal which It had parted
with In the treaty of lHSO.
"The purpose and assertion of the
right of the people of the United
HtateB to fortify the ennnl nre shown I
WAS BEATEN TO A FRAZZLE
BUT BARNES CAME BACK
Vindication For Crowd
Which Teddy Downed
In N. Y.
WOODRUFF SMILES
MOW YORK, Jan.. 21 -Wm.
Bftrncs jr. of Aliianv, whet led the
fight against Theodore Itoosevelt last
fall In the Saratoga convention, was
chosen chairman of the republican
state committee here today to suc
ceed Ezra P. Prentice resigned. The
position had been offer.! by cable to
James WadHworth Jr., former speak-
of the assembly, but he was out
of reach and no reply had been re
ceived from him at noon when the
committee met.
"Does your election mean that the
state committee will be against Col
onel Roosevelt In 1912?" Mr. Barnes
was asked Immediately after the re
sult of the balloting became known.
"Not necessarily", he replied.
"Will the committee lie for Presi
dent Taff.'"
"It Is reasonable to suppose so" he
asserted.
Timothy L. Woodruff, former state
chairman, took much the same view
of things.
"Don't you think", he was asked,
"that In view of what happened last
fall this smacks a little of what the
boys call 'getting square'"?
"No", said the smiling Mr Wood
ruff, "I don't feel that way at all, bot
at the same time 1 am not one bit
sorry that it may be taken as a vin
dication". For the first time In many years
the balloting was held behind closed
doors.
ROUGH HOUSE AT
NEGRO FESTIVAL
nBEKKVIltB. B. C. Jan.. 21. At
a ncarro festival tri Anderson county
three were killed and eight. Injured
In a wholesale fight which occurred
at the home of Claude Ware, a negro
tenant on the Jackson plantation.
The dead negroes are:
Will Wvatt. Alice Boawmnn and
Jim Pressly. the names of the Injur
ed not having been 1erned.
Details are meagre, though It Is
fated the Oeht started when one of
the negroes from a nearby roadway
opened nre on me var uum .. .
For Peace And
again In the passage of the Spooner
act In 1902. directing the president
to build the canal and to make proper
defenses. The treaty with Panama
reaffirms the treaty with England,
made in 1900, and expressly gives the
United States the power of fortifica
tion. Again under our treaty with Eng-
land and other countries it Is we who
guarantee the neutrality of the canal.
It Is not the other countries that
guarantee it to us. We have to pre
serve that canal as a means of transit
to belllgerants in time of war as long
as we ourselves are not enguged In
the controversy.
Then it is said the fortifications
are going a cost 150,000,000. The
estimated cost of the fortifications for
the canal Is $12,000,000.' It Is also
said that It will cost 15,000.000 a year
to maintain it. Thislls also an error.
I have consulted theVar department
and they advise me that the cost of
maintenance of fortifications and mil
itary establishment In time of peace
would not exceed a million dollars.
"I yield to no one In my love oi
peace. In my hatred of war, and Id
my earnest desire to avoid war. If
I have my way and am able to secure
the assent of the powers, I shall sub
mit to the senate arbitration treaties
broader In their terms than any thai
that body has heretofore ratified, and
broader than any that now exist be
tween the nations. In laying down
my office I could leave no freatei
claim of gratitude of my countrymen
than to have secured such treaties
But I cannot permit myself In the
enthusiastic desire to secure univer
sal peace to blind myself to (he possi
bilities of war. We have not reached
the time when we can count on tht
setlemcnt of all International contro
versies by the arbitration of a tri
bunal." The Pennsylvania dinner was also
notablo for the presentation to An
drew Carnegie of the society's goli
medal awarded annually for ''dis
tinguished achievement." ' Mr. Carer.
negte made appropriate acknowl
edgement. other speakers were Jos, Choate
former ambassador to Oreat Brltlan
anil Governor lix. Among those si
the president's table were Dr. Henr
S. Drinker. president of Lehigh
university; Dr. Albert BiiKhnell Hnrt
Hartford; Captain Peary, Jno. Wan
namaker. Senator Boise Penrose, At
torney General Wickersham an
I Chan. I. Norton, secretary to thi
president.
OF D SAN DOMINGO
Dispute Has Come Out of
Unsettled Boundary
Line
MAY ARBITRATE
POUT AC PUFNCK. Haytl, Jan. 21
Orders for the mobilization of
troofis in the department of the north
have been issued. Meantime soldiers
are hurrying to the Dominican fron
tier.
The republic Is much wrought up
reeling that Haytl will he compelled
to fight out lis boundary dispute with
Santo Domingo.
It is reported that the Dominicans
are much vexed at the attitude of the
Haytlen government and that the
Dominican generals jon the retired list
have received notice to present them
selves for military duty. The French
nd German ministers nre still work
ing energetically with the possibility
of bringing about a peaceful solution
of the difficulty. The Haytlen gov
ernment, it Is said. Is disposed to sub-
mite the dispute to arbitration.
WANTS OIK HELP
WASHINGTON. Jan. 21. The good
offices of the Cnltcd (States govern
ment are being sought by President
8imon, of Haytl. to prevent war be
tween that republic and Hanto Domin
go, according to a telegram frim
Henry W. Kumiss, American minister
to Haytl.
Haytl has offered to submit the ter
ritorial question to arbitration Im
medately, adds Mr. Furnlss, provided
both governments withdraw their
troops from the frontier and that
Santo Domingo suspends all construc
tion work on the highway which Is
beir7 built over the territory in dis
pute and which is the Immediate
cause of the controversy. The situa
tion is very grave, says Mr. Furnlss'
telegram to the state department.
IlKMOCKATIC CI.VB TO MEET
WASHINGTON, Jan. II. In pre
paration for the national political
campaign of 112, a call hae been
Issued by the board or directors of
the National Democratic League of
clubs Cor a conference tobe held
tu liiuuuwyviu
; WMl WL 'Si 1.377.
RECIPROCITY
CANADA
Commissioners For United
ant Work and Reports Wft be Jubmitted to Two Govern
ments This Week.
WAHHINUTON, Jan. 21. "The ne
gotiators have reached an under
standing which, when Certain for
malities are complied with, will be
made public at Washington and Ot
tawa. It Is thought this may be done
next Thursday."
Though potent, tb'ls Joint state
ment. Issued by the commissioner,
representing Canada and the I ' n It
States, was all that could be learned
at, adjournment of the meeting to
day. These two weeks of negotia
tion, however, brought about a re
ciprocal trade agreement. The Ca
nadian reciprocity conference which
terminated today, was preceded by
severul other attempts which came
to naught, the lust beilng about ten
vears ago,, when Kir Willjed Ijiurif r.
the Canadian premier, lo-aded ;i del
egation of prominent Canadians
that came to Washington during the
McKlnley administration and at
tempted, to secure a reciprocity ar
rangement on a very limited scale.
BODY OF UK
Many Distinguished Associ
ates of Financier Attend
Funeral Services
NEW YORK. .Ian. 21. -lioul.le
funeral services for Paul Morton
president of the Koultuble l-llo In
surance society, and former secre
tary of the navy, were held today.
The public service at Kt. Thomas
Episcopal ehunh on Fifth avenue,
was attended hy his many former
associates at Washington, and by
prominent financiers and business
man In this city. Theodore lloose-
vlet. who appointed Mr. Morton to his
cabinet in 1H; Victor H. Met.alf
(Continued on Page Four)
WASHINGTON. Jan. II. Fore
caet- North Carolina: unsettled
eeher with probably rain and cold
er Sunday: Monday unsettled; cold
er In east portion; moderate variable
wind .
President Urges Canal ProtCQtjqnf ,
NEGO TIA TIONS I WITH
ARE FINALLY CONCLUDED
State and Dr'ion of Canada Complete Their Import
Failure attended tbls movement, prin
cipally because the reciprocity Idea
was hopelessly Involved with other
Important ruW i ts, such us the regu
lation of the m;,l iiMberlea and the
delimitation of the Alaskan oounda
ry, which aroused th., national spirit
on both sides of the boundary tu s
point that m I an abrupt close of
the ncgnlMt i., ih
PrvM'iit Mucin, m IHfftfPiit
'liu' iirewnt ino'inrtt differed
from others i it ha t preceded in
the absence ,.f l -u drasn nut ne-
hoti'tlon for It la s fiH't that the
important agreement announced was
reached wlih .i a remarkably short
space of lime, considering ths" Im
porlunie of the subject mstter. In
fact. tfuH reciprocity negotiations
really occupied murh less than I
years time, even allowing for ex
tended preliminary soundings and ex
changes before the point of actual
negotiation viis reached. They may
tu. suld to hove grown out of
the
Arrests Followed Confes
sions Made to Boston Tru
ant Officers Yesterday
ll'iSToN, Jnn., 21. Tho address
r Fred I Width, of Chicago, r-
gardlng morality among pupils of
high school age delivered In that city
Thursday night was recalled tonight
h. n 14 Klrls ranging in age from 12
to 111 years were taken Into tho Choi
sea Juvenile court on charges of be
In wayward children. Two men
aged (" and respectively, are un
der arren charged with statutory
crime, and tho police assert that
many other men are Involved. The
revelations are alleged to have been
made to a truant officer by high
school girls, who had repeatedly ab
sented themselves from the sessions
and frequented lodging house, where
it Is assorted lh met elderly men.
The court will consider what to
do with the children next Wednesday.
TUIF,I TO "KHOOT VP" TOWS.
IHAITON, Ga., Jan., 21. Horace
Springfield, a young white man who
was shot down Thursday evening by
Chief of Police Fincher, after ho had
tried to "shoot pp" the town, died
today n the result of hi injuries.
When Springfield defied arrest Chief
Fincher emptied a load from a hot
fualnta tua teg- .
conferences between the United Stales
and Canada Incident to the allows nor
to Canada of the minimum tariff
rates' under the Paytie-Aldrloh tariff
act of lo. Canada was one of ths
last Important countries or dependen
cies to take advantage of that sec
tion of the tariff act.
lYewldcrit Taft Endorsed II
President Taft sounded the first
official note of the wish of the Unit
ed Hlates to meet these desires In
his notable speech at Albany last
soring, when In the presence of Karl
Grey, the governor general of Can
adn, he voiced the general demand
In tbls country for a reciprocity
treaty with Canada. Bo well was
this suggestion, received in the press
that Hecretary Knox felt justified In
making a concrete- proposal to Cans
da that commissioner should be P'
pointed to see what could be done
towards framing a reciprocity scheme
Continued m Pag Hlw
PAY ENDRMDUS SAURIES
In Future Plan Will be to
Make Maximum Fifty
Thousand a Year
jsr.w ronK, Jan., 21. it came
nut as a Wall street presumption to
day that the day of fancy salaries for
tho heads of corporations Is past and
the maximum benccforth will be
150.000. The action of the United
fitatea Steel corporation directors In
recommending that James A. Farrell,
Its new president, receive 50,Ood in
stead of the ItOO.OOO paid to W E
Corey, resigned, was the first symp
toms of reduction. The death of
Paul Morton, who received IKO.OOO
as president of the Equitable Life
Assurance aoclety, removes another
of the few rruen whose services has
commanded unusual salaries, and
gossip In financial circles had It to
day that the Equitable trustees were
considering a reduction to $50,000
in tho case of Mr. Morton's successor,
who is as yet unnamed.
A record In high salaries was es
tablished In 1S0E when Ulehard A.
McCurdy"s aalary aa president of the
Mutual IJfe Insurant- company was
increased from 1100,000 to 1160.000
a year. The Armstrong committee's
investigation brought
rArinctfnn.
and Charlea A.,Peabody, the present ' ing more ana more rormiaaoie.
head of the Mutual IJfe, now drawa Neither aid Is without Internal dia
fcut 150,009 ft year. , , onalona, , . .
E
IN LEGISLATURE
Would Regulate All Phases of
All borts of Insurance
In State
IMPORTANT BILL TO
PREVENT MONOPOLY
Attempt to Place fire Insur
ance Under Anti-Trust
Law Palling
rtAltEIGU, N, C. Jan. II. Thart
was Introduced In the senate today a
bill by JUnnmotid, o( Union county,
to prevent monopolies of gas and
electric llghu and power by provid
ing that no oorporstlon engaged In
the business shall put In operation -rates,
whr thsrs Is competition, for
driving competitors out of business, .
and where rate are cut they shall ,
not be allowed to be Increased anain
and must apply to all points sorvsd
by ths corporation reducing th rate.
For violation of ths act Is la pros
posed to forfeit th right of eminent
domain. . ,. - ,
Th aenato and house bo'.h rsceJv.
ed tha report of th legislative com
mission appointed' two years mo to
investigate th advisability of apply
Ing the Toren system of land title :
In North Carolina, Th commission
urge thla legislature to enact aom
auph law,
Insurance hill wer Introduced hy "
Turlington, of lrdli, making Inaui
anc agent personally -liable for In
auranc placed In unlicensed oom-
pan lea , and requiring eitlien using
unlicensed companies to pay th ta
on their premium.
Ross, of Harnett, Introduced a bill
requiring standard, provision for all
health and accident pollclea of in- .
sursnce; Williams, of Buncomb. on
relating to th Investment of capital ,
of real stat title of Insurant! at .
owing Investment of capital In tltl
abstract aftar 160.000 ha bseit In-
vested In, aeouritte apecirtad. In aeo
(loa 7I1. 'A trg -number of pure
ly local bill passed both houses.
A bill by ' Weatherspoon of Scot
land county. Introduced today,' pro
poaea to establish tha "valued policy",
for fir Insurance In thla atat, requlr
Ing that buildings b valued when in?
aured and In of total to that
full valu os paid unlesa fraud Is
proven, thla la In Una with tha rec
ommendation of Governor Kltchlo,
but wilt be opposed by th state com '
mlssloner of Insurance and all com
panles. " '.' .-;v,..v- -y, 'f'-j
An Important bill Introduced In tha
senate by Senator Thorns, of Nash,
la In relation to casualty corpora
tion and liability loss reserve- This
I tha bill agreed upon by th atata
Insurance commissioner of th Unit
ed States and prohibit casualty com
panies from assuming risk beyond
their assets. Another Important In
surance bill I by Senator Hobgood,
of Guilford, authorising home In aur
ance compimlea to deposit aa securi
ty note or bond secured by mort gage
on real estate In other atats
as well as In North Carolina. H1IU
another Insurance bill of Importance
OF
AS POSSIBLE SENATOR
C0MPIICATKSII0IT1.
Desperate Struggle Will
Come This Week In Tenn-.
;'; essee
factions : SPLIT
NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Jan., 11. It
seems to be generally conceded
among the political leaders now as
sembled hero that tha supreme atriur
gin 'between the fuslonlsls and the
regular democrats over the United
States senatorahlp will Come In tho
general assembly next week. It la
also the opinion that unless the fu
sloniats Induce Luke Lea to run and
center upon him, that they wilt be
unable to elect a man representative
of their .cause. 1 H. A. Enloe la still
In the field, yet fusion leaders,' It Is
said, do not believe that he can win
As to the regutara It la asserted a
supreme effort will be made to elect
Ex-Governor Benton McMlllin Mon
day or Tuesday. There are ground
for believing that McMlllln'a chances
will be weakened by the entrance of
Colonel L. D. . Tyson, ex-speaker of
the house; Thomas R. Freaton, the
Chattanooga banker, K. D. McKeller,
of Memphis, and Speaker Nat Baxter
jr.. of the senate;
If McMillln fall to win early next
week, it la eald the regular will di
vide, most of them going to Nat Bax
ter Jr. There are reports that two t
of three Independent democrats may
vote for McMillln, for fear that un
less they svccept him Governor M. It.
Patterson will be elected. Th Pat
terson ahadow la undoubtedly becom.
more and more
INSURANC
MANY AND
VARIED