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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. THE WEATHER: Citizen Want Ads Bring! Results. , ypL. XXVII., NO, 120. AHEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS IHTI-OPTIOfl BILL IS BEFORE SENATE FOB FITIAL ACTION Aimed at Gambling In Futures In Cotton and Stocks of Country IMPOOTAlfr CLAUSES ARE STRICKEN OUT -jCommIttee 'Reports Measure w? Without Any Recommend ations of Any Kind WASHINGTON, Feb, 17. By rot of I to S the senate commu te on interstate commerce today re ported without recommendation to the senate the Scott anti-option bill whloh is designed to prevent gamb ling in cotton future. The failure of the committee to make recommendation to' the aenate resulted from the conviction on the t lrt"of several member! that a mea asjfJniur of such importance should be given more consiaerauon man was possible under today's .decision to vote.- Strike Out Three Sections. Three sections of the bill as It passed the house were eliminated by the senate committee and some of th friends of the measure say that the changes would make the measure non-effective. The sections struck out are those which would authorise gents of telegraph, telephone or ca- Cfole companies to administer oaths In Jheir efforts to ascertain whether messages offered for transmission were in violation of the laws direct ing that books, newspapers, pamph lets, letters or other writings or pub lications contalnhrK quotations might Induce the margin of cotton con tracts should ' be non-mallable end providing that the- postmaster general upon evidence satisfactory to hlm elf might return mall to "the sen ders when he believed it to be un lawful under the proposed act. 1 The action of the committee was preceded by a hearing which con sumed the entire forenoon. Representatives of the New Orleans Cotton exchanges and exchanges at fork and Chicago trained their Hcunk--VMu th U -tovUw ftMrtwK Ther attacked th Wll as being hurt ml to the farmer and of being im possible of enforcement so far as its evident purpose is concerned. ; The principal arguments against the bill were made by Judge H. H. Farrar, representing the New Orleans exchange, and W. B. Thompson, its president '' f; THREEHUNORE.D REBELS IN i MI LINE OF Troops Sent to Protect J Property of American $ Company INSURGENTS ACTIVE MEXICO CITT. Feb. -h 7. Three hundred rebels believed to be a por tion of Orosco's band, are in the neighborhood of Moctexuma on the Mexican Central railroad, according to advalces received here today. They are camped there, it is said, to advices received here today. Is feared an attack upon Moctezuma Is planned. A dispatch from Tor reon to El Heraldo said that In re sponse to an appeal from Assistant anager Foster of the American 'Smelting Securities company of Aior- co, which was threatened ny an arm ed band, the governor of Durango had sent 100 soldiers to guard the property of that company. The rebels fled upon the approach of troops. A short distance north of Velardena they held up a passenger train and searched the passengers for weapons. W, J. Hamilton, a representative , of the Guggenheim was assaulted and robbed of a small amount of money. Further advices stated that Guen came, in the state of Durango, Is In the hands of rebels who have deposed the government officials and robbed the public offices. A special to EI Day to from Chlhuhua said that tele graph wires had been cut again be tween there and Joares. ' Va fmm the south today was to the effect that about 100 rebels had destroyed wires between Jochlmllco and Metpec in the state of Pueblo, along the line of the San Rafael and Atllxco railway. The Twenty-flfth battalion of In- f fantry from ' Qulntana Roo arrived Jjresterday at Vera Crux, BOX MEN ADJOCKV - MEMPHIS, Tenn..,Feb. lT.-rThe convention of the national association of box manufacturers concluded to t day with a brief .business session. As to the reciprocity with Canada which ; 1 Was th subject of an extended debate reatardagL th association did not go en record, Individual expressions, however, were largely adverse to the propositi on. SENATORS WEDDED TO PRESENT MOpE OF THEIR ELECTION Measure Providing For pirectElec tion by The Vote of The -People Seems Doomed to Failure iri present , Session of Congress. WASHINGTON, Feb.. 17. En meshed in an apparently - hopeless tangle over the joint resolution pro vidlKg .for the election of United States senators by direct vote, and in the face of positive opposition from the champions of the measure, the senate adjourned a few minutes be fore o'clock today. It had been the hopes of the friends of the measure that a night session might be held and that at least a vote would be taken on the Southerland amendment retaining the control of senatorial elections in congress. As a matter of fact, how ever, no progress was made save that three speeches on tl)e subject were delivered. These were by Senator Raynor in opposition to the Suther land provision and by Senators Car ter and Heyburn in support of it. Heyburn Still Objects. A number of senators engaged in an active propaganda in favor of an agreement upon a definite time for a vote, and the announcement was made at last that Mr. Heyburn was the only senator whose assent to this arrangement had not been obtained. It was even hoped that he would consent; but when he was approach ed on the subject he declined, say ing that he would not agree to vote on the main proposition until he should know the fate of the Suth erland amendment. When, therefore Mr. Borah, the other Idaho senator, in charge of the resolution, asked for an agreement to vote next Wednesday. Mr. Heyburn promptly objected. One objection is of course sufficient to prevent unanimous agreement, and because of the attitude of his colleague, no course was left to Mr. Borah except that of pressing the measure by ask ing the senate to stay for a night session. It looked for a time as if he would succeed In getting- such session, but all hopes In that direc tion were soon dissipated. Mr. Galllnger moved an adjourn ment. The friends of the measure rallied and on a roll call voted the motion down but when a few min ute' later Senator Nelson, who bad Uee- eiry-ll- -day- ter gt -ah opportunity to apeak, made a pi for a night's rest before beginning, the objection to closing the session faded away and as a result the sen ate went Into executive session ad journlng soon afterward. Will Bo Taken Up Today. K was understood that the elec- tlon question would be taken up at an Brick Crashes Through Li brary of Fifth Avenue Residence HURTS MRS. SCHOLES NEW YORK, Feb., 17. Angered when refused aims at the door, a tramp retired to the street and hurl ed a brick through one of the library Windows of Miss Helen Gould's Fifth avenue residence tonight. Miss Gould was In an adjoining room and was unhurt, but Mrs. Edward Scholes, standing near the window, was struck squarely on the head and escaped serious injury only because of an abundance of hair. As It was she was knocked prostrate and a large bump raised at the base of her beggar but he escaped. Miss Gould begger but he escaped. Miss Gould, who was in an adjoining room with two children, rushed into the library when she heard the crash and the butler summoned the police. Mrs. Scholes refused medical attention and explained that she was not badly hurt. The butler told the police that an unkempt man, apparently under the Influence of liquor had lurched up to the house shortly before 7 o' clock. He rang (he bell , until the butler answered Uir-n demanded to see Miss Gould. The butler -told him. that Miss Gould was engaged but the man insisted that she had helped him before and that he was In dire distress now. He was so persistent that when the bntler attempted to shut the door he placed his foot in the opening and withdrew It only when the heavy door squeeze It painfully. As the stranger left the butler says he heard him curse luxtJ ly and ft- minutes later the brlrV came hurtling through tho window. ANNEX AURORA BOKEAMS WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Presi dent Taft talked territorial expansion at a dinner at which Ambassador Bryce of Great Brltlan and other diplomats were present. In what he termed "the annexation business," he suggested as an initial movement the Immediate acquisition of the Aurora borealls. The president dropped in during the evening at the dinner given in honor of the secretary of state. Mr. Knox, by Representative David f. Footer, of Vermont chairman of the house committee on foreign relations. J early hour as possible tomorrow. In view, however, of the fact that an other order of business has been ar ranged for 20 o'clock tomorrow there .may be a change of program. President Taft was ippealed to to assist In getting a night session on tho resolution in the interest of thhe dispatch of general business; but word came from the white house that he had not been able to do any thing in that direction. At the close of the sitting the friends of the measure were by no means as hope ful of getting a vote at any time dur. lng the session as previously they had been. In' the course of his speech, Mr. Raynor warned the senate against any Interference with the franchise regulations of the Southern states, which insure the supremacy of the white race 0n the South. For the protection of Ks ' own membership the senate could not afford a change, he urged. "It is for your own wel fare and for the welfare of the union that the SoUth should maintain her institutions from .the Invader's touch and that you should keep your hands oft the pillars' of the temple". In reply Mr, Carter aald that while there might not now be any dlspo sltlon to interfere in the perplexing difficulties which confront the peo ple of the South, still there was no desire to deprive the negro by the general government in the exercise of his rights. The only contention, he said, was whether the black man should be protected against discrim ination on account of race color or previous condition of servitude. No revolution was contemplated. HUNO FOR MURDER MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va, Feb. Franck Stevenson, a negro, 17. was hanged at the state penitentiary here shortly after 6 o'clock tonight for the murder of Ml!s Blagman .in Mercer county May,. 1907, after stays f .,xction, -.h - keen grartJ n three bceasfohs. The trap was sprung by three different men pressing but tons, neither of whom will ever know whose linger released the trap. Stevenson was declared dead 12 1-2 minutes later. The negro declared before he left his cell that the killing Was In self defense. CLAIMSBILL'S PASSAGE Representative Mann Suc ceeds in Delaying Action In House MAY MEAN ITS END WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. With only eleven legislative days remain ing, the house of representatives was held at a standstill today by a fill buster planned and conducted by Representative Mann of Illinois. It often has been asserted by Speaker Cannon and othi-rg that a majority of the house could do what Is pleased but today's events proved otherwise. It wee private calendar day under the rules and the business In order was the consideration of the omnibus war claims bill, which already had been passed by the senate. The bill largely affects Southern claimants and the democrats, with the assis tance of a large number of republi cans, endeavored to pass It. At times the majority In favor of the bill was ss high as 140. but Representative Mann was opposed to the bill and by dilatory tactics he succeeded In pre venting action on It, although the house was In session from 10 a. m. until 9.25 o'clock tonight, At that hour the advocates of the measure secured a recess until 11 a, m, to morrow under the assumption that the legislative sitting of today would then be -resumed. It developed after this action, howeves, that they prob ably defeated their own purpose, for 11 o'clock now Is the regular hour for meeting and It Is believed that Speak er Cannon will hold that tomorrow's sitting is a new legislative "day. If he is' successful In maintaining this rule, the omnibus claims bill Is dead for this session of congress. The fight over the omnibus claims bill probably will be renewed tomor row and If the advocates of the mea sure can hold the majority th-y mus tered today there Ir likely either to be an over ruling of the speaker or another filibuster. WANTS EXTRA SESSION NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 17. The bouse of representatives today adopt ed a resolution urging President Taft to call an extra session " of congress) March . 1111, for the purpose of making an "immediate downward re vision pf the tariff upon the neces saries of life." SEN. MARTIN INTRODUCES SEARCH AND SEIZURE LAW FOR THI&COUNTY Private Residence Are Exempted From Provisioni. Agitation of Mileage BookNui sance Simmere Down to Nothing. Genera) Revenue Act About The Same ; : as Present One.--New Bills Are Introduced - 1 RALEIGH, N. C, Feb. IT. The) senate passed today and ordered , to be sent to tho house for concurrence the bill of Senator Martin to provide commission form of government fof Ashevllle. ' , Sen. Martin, Buncombe, today Intro duced In the senate a bill making the keeping of intoxicating liquors, for sale In Buncombe county " misde meanor. Possession of more than two gallons is made evidence of the act. The bill further provide that war rant of search may be Issued by any Judge of the Superior court, judge of police court ot mayor of a .town exercising, criminal . Jurisdiction, , to search any-premise! fof such liquors. plajo;,ud aflTSa. m.lm vete residence can be searched un der the act. ' General Revenue Bill ' The revenue bill Is '. completed by ths finance committees of thu sen ate and house and Just presented to the house in printed form makes very few changes In the act passed two years ago. It Increases the tux on horse deal ers from 126 to (60; tax on peddlers of clocki, stoves and ranges from S2S to $50; reduced the tax on sew ing machine manufacturers from 1450 to $200, and Increases 'the tax on n ta r-ftM, 19 1 1 tin- InnrvoiM the tax on piano and organ dealers froml $60 to $100 and local dealers tax from $10 to $20; It Increases the tax on express companies for municipalities from $25 to $60. These are practically all the ma terial changes In the1 act. Some of the other acts are changed as to wording, but not Involving actual taxes Imposed. Must Have Two Windows Senator Cotten's bill to provide the Torren's land title system for North Carolina, hanging tire. In committees LEE P1GKI COMPANY Concern in Nasb"le Alleg ed to Have Enormous In debtedness Due NASHVILLH, T.nn., Feb. 17. Th Tennessee Pat-kins; s.nd Provision company, a $2,000,000 concern locat ed In Nashville, Aas thrown Into bankruptcy today' on petition flled t... TTr, v Ifarrv F. Rosseneli and J. J. Tlerney, all of Nw Tork, representing claims aggregating $250,000. The papers were tiled by Sullivan ft Crom-wnll, New Tork, and Stoke ft ptakeH, Nashville. Notice was served on Wm. , Cummins, al-i-ri head of the company, Petl- .1 .-. tii. .1 (he concern Is In solvent and has been for some time. No statement pf the actual 110111 1 1. nhi.inai.ia ii.nlht. Cummins. UCB . r . . .. - who was the man behind the now defunct Carnegie Trust company or New Yorlf. and I. is been known here as the prop under the packing house, , v.. in Kauhvilla several days. i-t... Pnr-klna; and Provision company has been understood to be doing a profitable Business or a mn n,vn rfnllara or morn a year. Cum mins has so far mf.de no statement in regard to today s proceedings. FAIR WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Forecast for North Carolina: Fair and warm er Saturday.' Sunday fair, fnllownd tnr ram and colder at nighf sllghj south- n. A In The Breakers. for some time, gets a report without prejudice from the judiciary commit tee, ;.'.'. .';'..-.. - When first .Introduced It went to the committee on agriculture and re ceived . a favorable report with re commendation that it be referred to the judle(qry, .committee and now, af ter being in the hands of that com mittee for two weeks or more, it goes back to the senate to b fought out on the floor. ; Senator Green, chairman, , and Ban ator Leramond are appointed as sub-committee of the senate commit tee on railroads to redraft the sub stitute for Senator Baggett's bill to require 'mileage pulled on trains..', The whole thing ' had- simmered Taaww,iua - .naU..ta.vteflUlra.aU - roads to have two ticket window in II towns, of two thousand and mors Inhabitants. Many New Bills Forty seven new bills went Into the hopper of the house today and elwbleen in the tenate, probably quite as many as have been Introduced during any day of the session, with only two njore weeks remaining 'for legislation. Koonce. In the house, introduced bill to amend the anti-trust laws of 1907 and 1809 by adding the pro visions of the Bheman act of con gress and to further give prosecutors forty per cent of the fines Imposed for violation, and changes the defini tion of trusts as to Include telegraph and telephone companies In their charges of tolls. Shtpman, In the bouse, and Hob good, in the senate, Introduced bills for state primaries as to all parties on the same day to Include county and state officials and members of UMAR WASHINGTON WAS NOT SOLD TO Sensational Story is Abso lutely Denied by Both Father and Son MACOJSf, Ga Feb, 17. The utate ment that Lamar Waanmgton was sold by hi father, W, If, Washing Ington to his unole, th late If, J, Lamar, which ha been published In connection with new of the suit the younger Washington Is now prosecut ing to secure a shar of hi uncle's estate,' was denied today by both father and son, in a signed state ment they declared the story of the "sale" to be "absolutoly false," and to support their denial gave put a telegram from Mis, Valerie Lamar Harris, daughter of H, J, Lamar. Mrs, Harris wired from her home In New Tork yesterday as follows: "Sensational newspaper hoax re garding alleged sale of Lamar Wash ington In childhood to my father to my knowledge is absolutely false and ridiculous." Tbe story now dented was that II. J. Lamar paid W. H. Washington $10,000 for the priviMge of adopting his son, INVESTIGATE ACTIOS OF MILLS OOLUBIA. S. C, Feb. 17. Sena tors Strait and Croft today Introduced In the senate a concurrent resolution requesting tbe South Carolina delega tion in congress to move by resolu tion pf otherwise for a federal In vestigation of cotton mill methods to find out whether agreement to curtail constitutes conspiracy In restraint of trade. The resolution which will be con sidered tomorrow ssks that South Ca rolina congressmen seek from the at torney general of the United States a report as to whether these asso ciation which , pf late especially, have been deciding to curtail pro duction az aqttng WJthln th provi sions of th federal law. congress, Including expression as to United State senators. , - It Includes provisions to prevent fraud and corruption n primaries and makes it a misdemeanor for e voter to vota ono party ticket In primary and then vote for the opposing par ty in ths election. , The house spent two hours discus sing salaries for the republican Bounty of. Wilkes and then allowed the bill to. go. oyer without nnaJ vota. . ' The senate spent two hours debat ing the bill to establish state farm Ufa schools and it passed seoond read ing witif re-referred to the com mitlee on education to ba -printed. Sentiment seem to favor ths bill. .isV ib 4UMb.tt ,n jtM goy don-Bikes stat , hifhway commission bill, con sidereal opposition developed and af ter discussing it for two hour the further consideration was postponed until next Tuesday. Senator, Barham presented a bill authorising any county to levy spe cial tax to supplement the school fund with a view to equalising the sohool fund in the rural districts. A bill by Senator Hawking would regulate the control of fraternal so cletles. Fifteen bills were ratified, the one creating Hoke county being amonf the number. The conference committee made a report on th Kent anti-near beer bill that th house accepts senate amend menta to the bill and It was adopted, and the bill was enrolled for rati fication. At Senator Cobb's request a sub stitute 1 being prepared by th sen' (Continued on Imre Four) PROHIBITION STATUTES WIPED OFFTBE BOOKS Alabama Nov Has Neither Laws Forbidding on Al lowing Sale of Liquor MONTOOMBRT, Ala., Feb. 17. By a vote of 2! to IS this evening the Alabama senate passed th Park lo cal option bill Just as It came from the house, When Governor O'Nell signs the bill every prohibition law on th book will be repealed apd a pocullar situation will arise. There will be no law prohibiting the sale of liquor on th statute books and none allowing It, The Parks bill does not become effective, until bills aro passed rogulatlng the sale of liquor and no wet or dry election can be held until these regulation statutes are enacted. CHARGEO WITH Ml'RDEH WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Thomas Noell, alias William Warren Noel!, was arrested here tonight on a war rant charging him with the murder of Nellie Anderson at Shawsvllle. Va., on February 10. The police wer notified yesterday by th shrlff of Montgomery county that Noell wa in Washington. Detective were put on his trail and he waa taken Into custody tonight as he wa entering hi boarding place. He will be beld pending the arrival of the Virginia authorities. PLAGUE HAS KILLED THOUSANDS PEKING, Feb. 1?. The vlceory pf Macho rla tl mates that the fatali ties la Manchuria from the bubonic plague already have reached $5,000, while he foreign office believes that inside th great wall there have been 10,000 more deaths. According to th general belief, however, the num ber of fatalities will be nearer double those 'of the official estimate, , SOUTHERN RAILWAY DECLARES DIVIDEND AFTER THR EE YEAR S Board of Directors Authorize Payment of Ono Per Cent . on Preferred Stock MANY IMPROVEMENTS , . ; ARE BEING PLANNED Additional Rolling 'stock Will be Purchased and Other : Improvementsviado- NKW TORK. -Feb. T.-Th first dividend to b paid on th preferred Hock of th Southern Railway com pany sine October of HOT I to b distributed on April it, th director of the road having declared a divi dend of one per cent today, c Th payment I mad tor no spsctflo perl, od and President llnley said that It waa th intention of th mang ment ' to maintain payment in ' th futare, although no Information we obtainable to what yearly rat wa contemplated. Extensive improvement Including ipansion of freight facilities at Im portant point wer authorised by th board, and' the president was em powered to take up th quMlono( purchase of additional rolling stork, Mr. rinley said that since details of th Improvement planned had been determined upon h wa not in a position to state at which point change would b mad. , .. -1 , H aoid; ' "As the action of the board Indicate, it haa adopted th nnlirv nf luumint eUvtdHndH An th preferred stock on a very conserva tive basis in th' expectation that with a cuntlnuaao , of favorable condt tlon th .rat' of 'dividend may b gradually Increased until th full div idend can again " b property pnid. Thi resumption of dividends will not result r in any modification -of th present progressive policy of the com pany with respect to operation, main tenanre and Improvement of th property,". :': .; .( -. Resumption of dividend on th preferred tok wa made posslhl by improved earning of th rond. In ,tnw1it month ended rvcemher S ( tii net Income 'lnreni J t i.vt 000 over th corresponlng period of th correspond log-year. In; all of HOT th company paid four per cent an It preferred stock but t th tlm of th panic It suspended divi dends. Between 10 and 1007 It paid Av per cent annually , It nrr haa paid anythln on it common tock. tKYi' lOAWNCfR MTIfTJ 111 1 nuuu1ut.11 u in nun m M m s& ) ii Ik m m mmtm mm mm One Dies From Wound, and Other Is Badly Hurt In Leg , MTJEDEREE ESCAPES ORBaNvauii, 0. c? vr vt- Bcofe of men, prtvat cithvetss, po-' Ilcemen and deputios, arroad Kr th teeth, are soou ring the ooantry be tween Ureetrrille and th mottntain of North Carolina toolght In search, of rthe lop stranger, beflered to b a professional yeggman. ' who thl morning letwit and I o'oiock engaged In a desperate partol Anal, In th passenger station of th Co. lumblu, and Greenville railway, with officers Jonhnson and Ounnells of th city police force, ia which Ounnalia received wound front which b died at 0.40 o'clock this morning while Johnson wa shot through th rlrht leg. : Perhaps never befor in th his- : tory of th city has OrnIU bn ' so excited. The tragedy of , thi morning, wnicn cost in nr or a unliaraily popular and faithful of Acer, coming en th heels of th as- ' sault upon th Ufa of Tom Cureton. . th oldest policeman on th fore, ? Tuesday morning by O. W, . flton- vi,hr tn n allMvaft arunkikn ttrtr. was heightened by an assault mad a fw hour later today upon th I If " of another member of th ' pollc , forco by an aggregation Of dtsrepu. . table men and women, as th officer attempted to place one of th weoanQ " of the gang under arrest for commit-' SALUPA, N. ,C. Feb, , 17.Twa . white men, oee of whom I supposed to be the murdeser of th Greenville, 8. C policeman war captured In' th mountain near here lata tonight -hv an automobile nous : hadsid .hv L the Greenville mayor, ' Th poas with their ' prisoners, : Immediately started back to OreenMUe, The men ' hired a team her to drive across th mountains and were overtaken i y the officers. A- ,:, Ulo.OffUwa Help. . Patrol i. McConnell and Jones. Deputy Bierltts Lj-da'ind. Mitchell and Mai. Lawrence Young left yester. day afternoon at six oklook on special train for, South Camllnn Whera they will oln eincar of t ; . (Contlmsed on Para Four