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THE SUNDAY CITIZEN THE WEATHER: RAIN. OA PAGES -k3 TODAY 70L. XXVIL, NO. 121, PJOSPECTFOIIIIII JCTBA SESSION IS LOOMING LARGER Present Session Canadian Reciprocity Bill Cannot be Reached NY MEASURES CAN NOT BE SIDETRACKED O 'ate Has All That it Can do In Two Weeks Which Now Refrain VSHINGTON, Feh. 18. An ex leMlon of congress looms very and probable .tonight. Unless .pident Taft and the friends of the Adlan reciprocity agreement are to to bring more than ordinary issure to bear upon the senate and ert the expenditure of any time fiatever by the opponent of the M.iiMnint nr friends either, for that t auer ii if airucuii 10 o iimw mu Y late can reach a vote on the sub It ct before adjournment two weeks an today. ahead of the Canadian agreement , consideration by the senate, in dltlon to ten general appropriation Ha are measures affecting tne fol wlng subjects: Popular election of senators, i Senator Lorlmer case. ' , Permanent tariff board. O General age pensions. Congressional apportionment. Fortification of Panama canal. Can't Sidetrack Them. Not one or tnese measures can oe letrack without a contest. Some of e measures must be left unpassed the Canadian agreement will die. .ere Is not time enough left for all d several senators whose knowledge the legislative situation cannot be ubted expressed views In accord 1th the outline given when they were asked today for statements as to what might be .expected in con nection with President Taffs demand Ithat a vote be taken at the present i 'session on the Canadian agreement, i' So far as can be learned no senator who hi talked with President Taft has been commissioned to announce ' positively whether there will be an ,' extra session in the event the senate ,', (nils to vote on the Canadian agree (. inent, J (general opinion Bow seems 'l to bi that there will be an extra session and, the only senators who re making preparations to go home (Con tinned on Pago Three) 'EAKENED BY SICKNESS IE TO MIKE SPEECH !nks Uobbing in Seat in Midst of Attempted Eulogy AFFECTING SCENE WASHINGTON, Feb., 18. So ef ected by his emotions and weakened y the illness with which he was trlckenduring the last session of congress as to be unable to continue. Senator Tlllmen, of South Carolina, sank sobbing Into his seat shortly after having begun in eulogy of Sen ators Alexander S. Clay of Georgls and Jonathan P. Dolllvor, of. Iowa. . - .. t9 (lna.run. moved penaiur i'ruu" " . hastily over and took a seat by the Hp th Caroltnan. A few words from on In a measure reiuii m f his nerves ij Mr. Tillman . i thereafter he feebly left nber. The scene was an ef- one, and members on the nd spectators in the gallery were moved. The attempt to -. length was the first Mr. Till, id made since his return to 1 , and his friends had feared Imlght prove too great a tax s impaired strength. ;'lllman's concluding words tar as we all called him. win lan. Great men are plenti hls country, but not as great , var. Good men are plentiful country, but not aa good as STiey both have left us and we at how soon our own time he I feel that with especial 'nut but I cannot go on .esldent, I have thoughts, but words will not come. So I will all 'OWB," 8HKEHAN DENIES REPORTS NEW TORK, Feb., 18 Three re- 2rts tnat wm. r rneenu nn'i wren iformed he roust withdraw hyp can tnr th United States senate. ,nnort In a-h nth nr tndav but Mr. Sheehan himself denied all of ! them tonight. The first report had it i that Chas. F. Murphy, tired of a 'hopeless fight, had given ten days to the man he hda supported for seven weeks. In which to win of quit. "That report H absolutely untrue" ' said Mr. Sheehan 'tonight "Mr. Mur ' phy has told ms nothing of the sort ' and- so far as I know, he is support . tug ma without reservation." I IS MEM EVEN Eti CIRCLES OE Gllli CLUB Great Dinner of Washington Newspaper Men Filled With Fun and Frolic DISTINGUISHED MEN WERE GUESTS OF CLUB Democratic "Committee of Fifteen" Appears and Starts Rival Dinner WASHINGTON. Feb., 18. That unique organisation of newspaper men, the Gridiron club, entertained its friends at dinner tonight, and it would be .hard to tell which got the most fun out of the (varied melange of wit and humor, of sense and non sense, that was poured forth the guests or the hosts. There were many men of high degree among the form er; men of stern visage with faces lined with the burdens of great pub lic charges and responsibilities; yet they laughed like school boys and chuckled and chortled with mirth at the merry quips and Jests of the scribes that unfailingly played upon the foiblea of some of their own number or hit off In a roaring skit some fatal weakness in the party policies. And the hosts had that keen sense of enjoyment that comes from a knowledge that one has purveyed successfully! to the utmost demand of mind and. matter and has supple mented a repast of the moat exquis ite viands with a feast of mingled humor and satire calculated to add infinite seat to the entertainment, Gridiron dinners differ from most other formal affairs of the table In the fact that a guest does not wade drearily through a heavy course din ner clear down to the coffee, and ci gars and onjy then, with brain more or less dulled, have an opportunity to listen tofloods of oratory. No: i at one of these banquets the fun be gin at the very seating of the guests and sparkles and crackles through the dinner, and Interrupts courses in i a fashion calculated, to drive a well meaning chef to distraction. . Flno Row Fulled Off. Tonight's dinner was no exception to the rule for almost at the outset there was what appeared to.be a fcitter. row over the inauguration of' Richard V. Cullhan, publisher of The New Tork Sun, as president to pre side over the dinners of the Gridiron club for the next year. Quite un- (ConUmied on Page Six) MOMENT IS AIMED IT REGARD TO POTASH TUXES Senator Curtis Will Press For Passage of His Act Now PROTECTS AMERICANS WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. Senator Curtis expects to press for passage at the present session of congress an amendment to the pure food act, which he introduced last session, on the ground that it would put In the hands of President Taft a weapon which he might use in dealing with the German government In respect to the potash and other disturbing questions. Secretary of State Knox has been called upon for a statement regarding the bill, especially for an opinion as to whether It would be effective In disposing of the potash question. TheHe proposed amendments to the pure food act would enable the pres ident to exclude from Importation the products of any foreign country when he is satisfied that such country, in violation of treaty obligations with the United States, seeks by repressive discriminatory or confiscatory meas ures to Jeopardise or impair the capi tal of the citizens of the United Htates legitimately Invested in such foreign state." In a statement Issued tonight. Sen ator Curtis quotes from a treatf with Germany giving to the citizens of this country protection in the pursuit of business performed in submission to the laws of Germany. He says that his amendment would reach the case of American capital invested in the potash industry In Germany. Continuing the senator says: "At present neither the executive, department of state nor any of the great departments of the United States government has any authority to guard American capital invested abroad under treaty guarantees, be vound dignified diplomatic remon strances." IX) RIMER IN SELF DEFENSE , WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. Senator Lorlmer gave notice today that he would address the senate next Wed nesday on the aueatlons involved in the charges of bribery in connection with bis election. ASHEVILLE, N. C, HOUSE 11 SESSION ATM1DNIGHTWITH LIVE FILIBUSTER Representative Mann Contin ues Tactltfs of Previous Day's Session 43 WAR CLAIMS BILL CAUSES TROUBLE One Man Prevents House from Taking Definite Action on Measure WASHINGTON, Fob. it. What promises to mark congressional his tory with a filibuster against the om nibus claims bill was begun at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and was still being' waged In the house late tonight. All day long and through the evening hours there were Inces sent motions,' frequent roll calls, a search for absentee members to pro duce a quorum, fiery speeches In which a warning finger was pointed to the national ela tion. Jibes, bur lesque and ouerries to the chair. Vocal solos, songs and funny stories furnished entertainment while the house waited for absent members. Speaker Cannon was absent during the evening. Representative Olm stead of Pennsylvania occupied the chair. The fight against the bill for its opponents resented Its being called a filibuster was conducted single handed by Mr. Mann of Illfhols, one of Speaker Cannon's lieutenants, while Messrs. Prince of Illinois, chairman of 'the clloms committee, and the re publican who reported the bill, and Sims of Tennessee, Clayton of Ala bama, Carlin Of Virginia, and other democrats solidly backed by their party voted for the measure. The hill as It Daased the senate car ried 12,352,941, including SS42.ft for the French spoliation claims, But the claims committee reported the bill to the house with the French spoliation features stricken out AS soon as epeauer cannon, rappea for order at 11 o'clock and before the chaplain hud offered prayer, Mr.. Sims of Tennessee moved that the house go Into committee of the whole to resume -consideration of the .war claims bill. : Then the- fight, began, Mr. Underwood of Alabama leading the forces In favor of the bill, and Mr. Mann those against It. Mr. Shcrley of Kentucky took -the ground that the recess of last night (Continued on Pago Four) INDICTMENTS RETURNED IE15T1N 10 FITTED Bonilla and Christmas, Chief of Staff, Are Included CAN'T REACH THESE NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 18. Indict ments were returned today by tho United States grand Jury against Manuel Bonilla, leader of the revolu tionary forces In Honduras, Lee Christmas, his chief lieutenant; Jo seph W. Beer and Flora n Davids, in connection with the alleged filibuster ing expedition on the Hornet which sailed from this port last December. The Indictments charge Bonilla, Christmas, Beer and Davids with fit ting out a military expedition against Honduras and that the men named conspired to have the Hornet cleared for Cape Graclos, but dh'erted the vessel to Whip Island, off the coast Mississippi where "they clandestinely took aboard rifles, machine guns and ammunition, boarded the vessel themselves and sailed for Three Points, near Port Barrios, where other arms and men were taken aboard and two boats taken in w for the Island of Roatariv tht by military force they did capture this Island, a part of the Honduran do main, all of which constituted a violation of ths criminal statutes of this country." . Following the Indictment of the Hornet a report gained currency that an Independent Investigation of the Hornet expedition made by the state department at Washington disclosed that both Ouatamala and Nicaragua governments had actively aided the Ilnnilla revolution in violating the Washington agreement. TOBACCO BEDS DUG TP LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 1 (.Re ports of the first night riding of the season came to the Burley Tobacco Union headquarters here from Nich olas county today. According to the reports severaS tobacco beds were dug op In the night .ani In one case a grave was excavated In the ml Idle of a bed. Nicholas county, long has been the locality for night riders, one man having been killed there in a night ride two years ago. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1&, 1911. " A-! t'i7M?''tfh' GROUND-HOG Jr' i ) jf SOUTHERN FAST TRAIN HELD UP AND . EXPRESS SAFE ROBBED B Y BANDITS Five Masked Men Dynamite Express Safe and Get About One Thousand DdQars. Stadon Agent Gagged and Signal Set. Passengets on Train Not 4 4 Molested, Conductor Telia Graphic Story. GAINESVILLE, Go.. Feb. 18. Southern Ry, train No. 88, the United States fast mail, sound from New Or leans to New Tork, was held up by five masked men at White Sulphur springs, four mile from here, at 1.15 o'clock this morning. The express car safe was dynamited and ths eon tents stolen. First reports said more than 8100,000 was taken, but South ern officials declare the amount was 1700. . None of ths passengers were mo lested. The robbers escaped in an automo bile and sre now thought to be In Hall county, probably . bound tor north Georgia where pursuit would be difficult. A posse is on the trail. : -The robber broks. down the door of the railroad station at White Sul phur, bound ths night oent and st the signal for the train to stop. A the locomqtivo slowed up one of the men entered the cab and ordered the engineer to proceed to Lula, a smull station several miles away. After a stop was made members of the gang entered the express car and while one held tho conductor and experss messenger at the jMnt of a gun, the others blew open the door of the safe, obtaining the money. Agent Terrlll of the Southern Express com pany, Deputy United States Marshall Landers, Detective Hatire of the DEMENTED Ml BUTCHERS HISWIFEANDSON-IN-LAW Uses Butcher Knife for Deadly Work in Early Morning and Escapes HIGH POINT. N. C, Feb., 18. Moses Speaks, weak minded, cut his wife to death thi morning with a butcher knife and then walked three blocks to where lils son-in-law. Will Miller lived ana killed him. No cause other than the man's demented condition Is assigned for the act. He escaped. Speaks, who hnH been feeble mind ed for years, was In an asylum near l'oston, Mass., s wrul years ago and was released apparently cured. A posse spent the entire day searching for the demented murderer. WOMAN CONVICTED OF HORSE STEALING NEW TORK. Feb.. 1. Mrs. Edna Henry Mann, a young matron of striking appearance was convicted of horse stealing In Long Island City today. She Is believes to be the first woman horse thief ever convicted in or about New York. Mrs. Mann broke down In court and confessed the theft, with a male accomplice, several horses and buggies. 6he was remanded for sentence. Her alleged accomplice Sidney Denning, is yet to be tried. Ha savs he is the son of a retired surgeon In the United Btts ntny. Each prisoner claims to have been under the hypnotic Influence of the other. 0WQWER& 1 -v ., ' Laying For Him. Southern Railway and Deputy Sharif! Little are with ths poses In pursuit. t , - . GOVERNOR OFFERS REWARD ATLANTA, Qa., Feb. H.Oovsrnor Brown tonight announced a reward of 1100 each for ths capture of the firs bandits who held up and robbed ths Southern Railway fast mail near Whits Sulphur springs early today, securing between 1700 and 11,000. Up to a late hour ths governor had not received an official report of ths hold up. Ths Southern Express company has offered a reward of 11,000 for ths capture of ths robbers,: i ' ' CONDUCTOR'S STORY CHARLOTTE, Jf. C, Feb. thought ths whole affair Was a practi cal Joke,' saolaimed Conductor Mau ney who was in sharg of the Bduth ern's fsst mall, No. If. held up near Gainesville this morning, when he ended his eventful run at his home here at ten o'clock. "When I felt the train coming to a atop near Whits Sulphur I know something wfc wroiat and seizing my lantern I alighted and started for ths engine. Just as I left the coach a husky masked man threw a pistol In my face and ordered me to throw up my hands. I knew some of ths fellows on the train were in a funny frame of mind and I knocked the GARTMELL OFFERS MCE if Champion Short Distance Sprinter From University Still in Game PHILADELPHIA. Feb. II.- "Nat" Cartmell, who while at the University of Pennsylvania, was tho Inter-colle-glato champion short dlstsnco sprin ter, and who has beaten some of the best men In England, sotit word to this city today from his home at ChapefHIll, N. C, that he was ready to un Lawson Robertson, of the Irish-American Athletic club, a rare for the American professional champ ionship. He says ho will rnce Robertson for $1,000 any distance from 130 yards to 500 yards on any fair cinder track. Cartmell's offer was brought out by statements In English publica tions attributed to Robertson thst Csrtmeli was unwilling to race any distance under 220 yards. DEAD AND ABSENT PEOPLE WERE VOTED NORFOLK. Va.. Feb., 18. With the poll books of two precincts under Investigation missing from a box that had been broken open, the grand Jury todiy was unable to act upon charges presented agaln't Judges of f-iecTion in inn uct,h.'. j fof August last, charged with voting dead and absent people, inn jury re porting Itself "blnckod" suggested adjournment until the common wealth may secure evidence upon whlnh Indictments may be returned. ENGINE SMASHED BUT NO ONE HURT CONCORD, N. C. Feb., !. The Southern's New Tork and New Or leans limited ran Into a switch en gine a mile from the dapot here to night, due to the mistake of a block operator who switched the train on the wrong trauk. Both engines were badly smashed and the train was de layed several hours, but no one was burb gun aside, exclaiming 'cut out that foolishness, , I've got to look ofter my train.' "Ths stranger, who acted , like a green man rt ths Job of train robbing, pushed the gun closer to my lacs and wtth,a string of oaths said s " 'You d fool, get back Into that car or I will blow your head off.' "Still unconvinced, I asked that man wielding ths gun what he was trying to do, and he answered, " 'We ars holding up -ths train and ars after what Is in ths safe in ths baggage car. Get back into that ear - quick.', . " t "Ths train was stopped Jn a deep cut, it was as dark as Egypt and no, help In tight and nil I could do wui to comply with the demand. A mo ment later X heard two terrific x plosions . In quick succession. A number of passengers started to rush out of ths train before I eould re strain them. Only two got off the train and they were quickly hustled bdok by the. robbers. One of them, John Bruce of New Orleans, was shot at, the bullet passing close to his face, He is on his way to East Walr lham, Mass.i he saw the robbers well and believes that he eould Identify several of them. We saw the men (Continued on Page Four) BATH TUB PEOPLE IRE PLEADING IMMUNITY BATH Officials of Alleged Trusts . Do Not Want to Go To Jail for Deeds DETROIT, Mfch., Feb. 1 In a plea which alleges that the Individual defendants in the government's cri minal cases against the so-called bath tub trust have been granted Immunity by the (vnirts of the government In the civil suit begun in Maryland, at torneys for the defendants today asked the local federal court to have the criminal cases dismissed. The plea declares that the eubir neas served on all the civil suit de fendants required are under oath and that the defendants filed such answer and that In these answers they dis closed certain facts pertaining to the things charged against them in the Indictments found by the grand Jury at Detroit. The Immunity statutes It Is declar ed In the plea declare Immunity for the persons who may give testimony or produce evidence, documentory or otherwise, ootu-ornlng the thing In cluded In the counts of the Indict ment. It Is alleged In behalf of the de fendants that these documentary an swers sworn to and properly filed In Maryland at the request of the gov ernment give Immunity to the defen dants regardless of whether they were actually called to tho stand to give testimony In the suit. District Attorney Watson filed a demurrer to the plea for dismissal. Arguments on the plna and the de murrer will be heard Feb. 2. FOPTLATIOK MOSTLY WHITE WASHINGTON, Feb. II. Tennes see's population Is composed of 78.11 per cent white people; tl.ti per cent negroes, and .04 other- colors. Of the state's total . pouulation of !,184,m the white people number 1.711. S60 and the negroes 47J.987. There are in the state tOO Indians, 41 Chinese, I Japanese, and Pe Korean. : " TRTC IVE CENTS E BILL IS Member Fifty Two Years Ago Appears on Floor of Houso and Gets Ovation ASHEVILLE CHARTER NOW BEFORE HOUSE Only Two More Weeks Remain of Legislative Session -. For Year 191! RALEIGH, N. C, Feb. J.I. The bill Just passed by the senate pro vlding Ashevllls commission form of government cams ever to ths house today and was referred to ths' com-., mlttee-on counties, cities and towns.' Ths session closed wHn a pleasing Incident In which Pr. Balrd of, Ashe vllle, member of ths house fifty-two years ago, wag Introduced by Hep resents tlvs Roberts, of Buncombe, and received an ovation as he was being escorted to' his old seat on the left of the hall, a seat now eo'" ounled. hv Dlllarfl nf flnllfurd. ' Ttinn Mr. Roberts read a statement from Mr. Italrd'in which he reviewed the'' past and 'paid tribute to many of the moat prominent of his colleagues In the legislature fifty-two years ago,. lit and only two others survive,. These are Col. N. 11. Whitfield of Lenoir and C'ul, Ambrose . Cost nor. of Llnrolnton. . At ths suggestion of Chairman Doutfhton of the finance committee, who la In charge of the bill, the house made ths revenue hilt a' special order for Monday the least possible delay being urged to get it through . without undue haste during ths two week of ths session remaining, : ' Ths Avery county bill Is made pe-, clal order for Tuesday night. ' The house passed the bill to pro-, hlblt putting felons stripes on pris oners convicted of misdemeanors. ' Cornwall, of Nash. Introduced a bill to create Jarvis county out of portion of N't h, Wake, Franklin,. Wilson and Johnston counties. Prac .tlcaliy the earns territory Involved In the Itansom county bill, the hearing on which is set by the sonate com mittee on counties, citle and towns for Tuesday afternoon, In the senate bill was introduced by Senator Ilohgood for the Incorpo ration ' of the Raleigh, Winston snd Western Railroad company. It went to the committee on railroads. One by Senator Barber would re quire ths Atlantic Cosst Una to run additional trains. The- house bill to abolish the of fice of treasurer of Watauga county failed to pass by a decisive majority snd the Mil to put the town of 8a liyla wholly In ths county of Polk passed third reading and was order-' ed enrolled. BUHLEY TOBAGGOSQCIETlf MUST STAND TRIALUNDER SHERMAN A!IT!-TRUSTUV Complaintant Wants Dam ages for Arbitrary P.ciae eM esa e IVV , IN CINCINNATI CINCINNATI, O.. Feb. Oeclar ing that ths presence of directors from Ohio counties on ths board of tlx Burley Tobacco society .oonstltu td a proper "finding" Of the torpor otlon of this state within ths mean In of the statute, Judge Hollister. In the United States District court today decided that the society must go to trial as defendant In a' suit alleging damaerrs under ths civil provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law. . The decision was made on a motion to squash a summons in ths suit mads on Clarence Lebus, president of the society, while he was in Cincinnati a year ago on personal business. The suit was tiled by E. O. Eshelby and" asks $125,000 damages alleging that' the society acted arbitrarily to raise the price of tobacco. - When nied in jieniucicy, a similar suit was dismissed on the ground that no element of Interstate commerce had been shown. Judge Rollistm , ruling today practically upsets, that. ClHlon. ;: "- J ' NICARAGUA t'NeETTLEII NEW OH LEANS, Feb, U.!-A pri-' rate cablegram received here today from Manatua, Nicaragua,, state that the country is tn a state of, unrest and; a general uprising against the E-. trado government Is brewing, s NIGHT RIDKRS BREAK J.llfa. v JACKSONVILLE. Fla., Feb., Id According to, advices received today 17 night riders, three of whom are serving Hfe sentences for murder e. csped from the Duval county juil midnight. On returned and a er was captured today by a P' SPECIAL ORDER ON MONDAY IN HOUSE 7. -A.
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