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THE ASHEILLE CITIZEN. I THE WEATHER: BAIN. Head tha Toultry and ; IfeC" Classified Ada. ASHEVILLE, N. C WEDNESDAY .MOUXIXO. MARCH 8, 1010 rRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. XXVIL NO. 13a GATHERING FOR COMMERCIAL CONGRESS TODAY For a Greater Nation Through a Greater Sduth Is Pur pose of Meeting PRESIDENT TAFT IS TO SPEAK ON FRIDAY Most Notab'e Gathering of Business Men in South That Has Ever Been Held ATLANTA, Ga.. March 7. Incom ing train tonlKht brought hundreds of delegates and visitors to the South rn Commercial congress which opens here tomorrow morning for a three days' session. The city is gaily deco rated for the occasion and all ar rangements have been perfected tor the entertainment of the visitors and the expedition of business. ' This session of the congress, the third annual session of the move- nt, Is the culmination of efforts to kither together all the valuable busi ness interests of the South not only to show what has been accomplished s'nce this section was laid waste by the Civil war but to point out to the world the vast resources of the coun try as yet undeveloped.. To lend added dignity to the. occa sion the president of the United Prtee, Wm. H. Taft, and members of ( cabinet, the only living ex-preel-uent, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, gov ernors rum ii inn wuicih avatica and leading diplomats of foreign countries will be present to partici pate in the congress proceedings. It Is estimated that more than 50,000 visitor will be attracted to the city for the occasion. ; ' Among today's arrivals were John Hays Hammond, one of the most not ed mining engineers In the country and George W. Perkins, a leading financier of New Tork City. Col. Roosevelt will arrive Thursday morn ing and President Taft and his party will arrive Friday morning. , At a meeting of the reception com mittee of the Atlanta chamber of commerce,' the hosts 'f the congress, arrangements were completed today for the social features of the con gress. These will Include reception to visiting governor at the govern or's mansion, luncheons and dinners to President Taft and Col. Roosevelt and other prominent visitors at the Capital City club. Piedmont Driving club and University club. LITTLE PROGRESS IDE IN SELECTING CHAIRMEN Fitzgerald Expected to Land as Chairman of Appropriations NOTHING ON TARIFF WASHINGTON". March ".The democratic members of the house committee on ways and means made some progress today in their work of tariff procedure and the filling of chairmanships of committees, but after two sessions they had no an nouncement to make as to conccete results. Much of the time was spent going over the relative merits and fitness of the various men who ex pert to become heads of the com mittees. There were . various re ports in circulation about what the committee had done so far. Includ ing a vote of seven for Fitzgerald, of New York, and six for Burleson, of Texas, with one member wob bling, for the chairmanship of the powerful appropriations committee. but members of the committee de- j clared that no final vote had been i taken. Fitzgerald is generally ex-, perted to land the chairmanship of' the committee. The choice for the j agriculture committee is expected to j rest between Iever, of South Car olina, and Beall, of Texas. It was statej that the committee ; hss reached no conclusion as to the i tariff procedure and that nothing j definite Is to be expected until af-t ter all the democratic members of! the ways and means committee re turn here on Monday. , ATLANTA TROOPS MOVE ATLANTA, Ga Mar. 7. Pursuant to orders from war department the seventeenth Infantry, atatloned at Fort McPherson, left early tonight for Fort Sam Houston, Ban Antonio, Texts, i The regiment Is In command of Colonel J. T. Van Osdale. PROVIDING FOB A HTI LLKR Y GALVESTON. Tex., Mar. 7. Prep arations have been made for tent is and provisioning three provislif.al regiments of eosst artillery watch have been ordered to Galveston, The first of the Companies Is expected to arrive here Wednesday from Mobile, Ala. Four thousand artillerymen will be Galveston's allotment of troops at , Fort Crockett, UNITED STATES IS TO OCCUPY MEXICO AND END FIGHTING This is Construction Placed on Un- precedented Army and Navy Movements. British Ambassador Had Threatened Action. WASHINGTON. Mar. T. The most extensive movement of troops and war vessels ever executed In this country In time of peace is now under way by order of the president as com mander In chief of the army and navy, the objective being the country north of the Mexican boundary and the waters of the two oceans at ei ther end of it. Twenty thousand soldiers, more than one-fourth of the army of the United States, of all arms of the ser vice are moving toward the Mexican border; four armored cruisers com prising the fifth division of the At lantlo fleet have been ordered from northern waters to the naval station" at Guanatanamo, Cuba, and most of the Pacific fleet Is or shortly will be on its way to assemble at 5an Pedro and Ban Diego, Cal and. two thou sand marines are preparing 4he Guan atanamo station as their headquar ters. Great Training Game It was officially announced at the white house and war and navy de partments today that the purpose of this great mobilisation, unprecedent ed save In war time, is the training of officers and men under service conditions and practice In co-operation between land and naval forces. Unusual pains were taken by all of ficially concerned in the matter to give this color to the sudden activities, but these statements were accepted with Increasing reserve. There have been Important Joint maneuvers dur ing the last few years, but they have been planned far In advance and car ried out without a ripple of excite ment or even of evidence of interest at the white house. Today the execu tive offices were steeped with myste ry; the entire morning was given over to conference with officers of the war and, navy departments. This thick atmosphere of mylry, and the zealous efforts to mlntmlxo the Im portance of the business, lent a curi ous significance to the fact that Gen eral Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the army, In an effort to elude inter views, slipped out of on of the rear windows of the president's office, and beat A mtf retreat tBroutb; the ex cluded portions 'of the white house grounds to rear entrance of the war department. The real significance of these activities which have been confined apparently to the last 48 hours or less. Is though to relate very Spiritualist Daughter of Bishop Proven to Have Been Ordinary Fraud MUST PAY BACK LONDON, Mar. 7. Mrs. Elizabeth Home, the well known spiritualist and preacher of the ancient theory that the earth was flat, was assessed $17,600 damages In the Kings Bench division of the High Court of Justlre today for fraudulent representations regarding concessions In Madagascar. According to the allegations Mrs. Home's victims were many. She col lected In the neighborhood of J150, 000 on the pretense that she had a concession in Madagascar, that would yield gold and diamonds to the vslue of $50,000,000. The prosecutor In the present esse Is the owner of a livery stable In a suburban town. He was so Impressed with the stories told by the defendant that he regarded her as the "un crowned queen of MadagHSi-ar." It la expected that other suits will be pressed. Mrs. Horns is about 64 years and the daughter -of th isle Dr, Cowls, bishop of Aucland, New Zealand. . BIG OFFICII FOR INCLF JOE WASHINGTON, Mar. 7. "$300 a night for 100 nights" was an offer telegraphed from a lyieum bureau In Han Francisco to Representative Cannon of Illinois, the retiring speak er of the house today. "Tuo busy" was In substance the reply telegraphed back by Mr. Can non. The offer pres-rlbed that Mr. Cannon could name his own speaking dates on the circuit. 11D HII! KAMIMS SVFFKRKHS WASHINGTON, Mar. 7. To relieve the starving multitudes of China The jtirtbtlan Herald ef New York today Ist-nt $10,000 to the stati: department j for transmission to Shanghai. The amount will be cabled to the Amerl- ran consul general et fthsnghal for distribution to the famine sufferers. directly to the conditions In Mexico and to the growing belief that the situation there Is by no means so satisfactory a the Mexican govern ment would have It believed to be. There are persistent reports thst President Diaz's health has lately be come such as to alarm his adherents and that momentous developments are to beprepared for. Asked British Protection. One report which was current today was the Pearson syndicate,, heavily interested In enterprises In Mexico, had applied to the British government for adequate protection of themselves and other Interests In preparation for the chaotlo conditions which would almost surely follow any serious loss of prestige, to say nothing of the col lapse of ths Diaz government. It was said that , the British ambassador had taken up the question with the state department here with a sugges tion that unless ths United States took immediate steps to exhibit Its dlsposllon and ability to protect for eign interests in Mexico th European governments, moro particularly Great Britain and Garmany. would be com pelled to do so. Of cpurse no direct confirmation of this report was ob tainable, but the sudden burst of mar tial activity tave it color, Ambassador. De La Barra, of the republic of Mexico, who has been in New York, returned tonight to fulfill a social engagement and he returned at midnight to New York. He dis claimed any knowledge of any change in the International conditions of Mex ico and as for the health of .Presi dent Diss, he Insisted that nothing In the personal or official communica tions of ths president Indicated any thing but his usual satisfactory con dition of health. Moreover, ha stat ed that, apart from sporadic disor ders conneoted with the revolt In Iso lated parts of Mexico, the situation was normal. It was said that on reason for ths return of Ambassador D I Barra to New; York tonight was to meet thera tomorrow Scnor Limaatour ths Mexican minister of finance, who ar rived tonight from France. It was also said here today that another par ty to this 'meeting would he Porflo Diaz. Jr., son of the president, who (Continued on Page Three) AMERICAN BEEF SHIPPED TO SOLDIERS OF ENGLAND ISDECUREOWHOLESOME England's Secretary War So Declares in Speech in Parliament IRISH MADE ATTACK LONDON, March 7. Richard Bur dun Haldane, secretary of state for war, In the house of commons to day declared the supply of Ameri can beef -furnished for the British army is "excellent and wholesome food." This was his rejoinder to the at tack on the American product which was renewed by Denis Kilbride, John O'Connpr and Rowland Hunt. These three Joined In the suggestion that diseased animals were slaugh tered and shipped abroad to be con sumed by British soldiers. The war minister characterized the anxiety expressed as groundless and said that representatives of this government reside In Chicago where they supervised all meat shipments to England. He asked the Irish men If they would undertake to sup ply the army with the same quali ty of food st the same rates at which the war office bought excel lent snd wholesome food from America., ORDERS COl'XTERMAXDED I PENKACOLA, Fla., March 7 i While the lfith and 20th compaioes of artillery and the hospital corps at Fort Bamn.-jia were preparing to come to Pehsacola to en train for Oalsjeston, In compliance with r dera received yesterday, new orders were received countermanding those of yesterday. The officer In com mand, Cspt. J. B. Douglass, was In structed, however, to keep the troops in readiness to leave at a moment's notice. EMJXTED AS JI DGE. NKW ORLEANS. March T. Judge W. B. SommervMIe, of the Vlvll dis trict court, wss today elected as as sociate Justice of the Louisiana Su preme court. Judge Sommervflle succeeds Justtcs Nlcholls, whs recent ly resigned. A RICHARD A. BALLINGER RESIGNS AFTER BEING UNDER FIRE FOR THE PAST YEAR Famous BdMnger-Pinchot Controvert? Now Ended. Pinchot Adherent is Successor, , f Ballinger Gives Poor tteahh as Reasok and Says he WiJJ Fight Defamers. ' . President Tells Him he is Faithful and Honest. WASHINGTON. March T. The resignation of Richard A. Ballinger, of Beattle. . as secretary of the Interior was accepted today by President Taft and Walter U Flshsr, of Chicago,' was, appointed as his successor. It appears in- the correspondence be tween Mr. Ballinger and th presi dent, which was given out in full by the white house, that the secretary's resignation hae tacit Jn the presl denra'han(lWc Jsat, l-tast-4hrt It was held In suspense at tha urgent request of ths president and that the latter, at last accepted It only at the urgent request of Mr. Ballinger. ! hi tetter of resignation Mr. Ballinger glvea the condition of his health at the reason for retiring. Plndmt Man as Successor. Walter Lewie Fisher, Mr. Hnllln ger'e eueeeasor, who will assume, of fice as secretary of the Interior with fn a few days. Is a republican, and It was said at the white house that Senator Cullom, the senior senator from Illinois, was congratulated In regard to his appointment. Hi ap pointment gives two places In the cabinet to Chicago men, Secretary MacVeagh, of the treasury, being also a resident of that city. Mr. Fisher has been notably active In the move ment for the conservation of natural resources, and Is a vice president of the National Conservation association, of which Olfford Pinchot Is prml rieht. Officers of that association whose headquarters are In Washing ton expressed themselves as more than pleased with the appointment of Mr. Fisher. INTLIWUGISTSUW BASEBALL GAP.1ES REPEALED Big Leagues at Hot Springs Will Not Take Chances of Being Arrested HOT SPRINGS. Ark, March 7 Unless the legislature repeals the new law making Sunday baseball an offense ngnlnet the state statutes, the anti-season games between the Cincinnati National loagtio teams and the HI. Louis Americans will not be played. President Hedges of the St. Louis aggregation arrived here today and efter a conference with Clark Griffith of the Cincinnati team, announced that no chances of ar restees, ths charge of vhrtattoft of the law will be taken, Meanwhile the business men have become In terested In iho situation and tonight a committee left for Utile Rwk to urge the legislature to repeal the law. GHOWER&! WASHINGTON, Mar. 1. Forecast; North Carolina, rain and warmer Wednesday: Thursday generally fair, brisk northeast winds becoming varl- able. I i Spring Opening. This Is the statement which Mr. Ballinger Issued this afternoon and he refused to add to It: - llalllngi' Statement "J. shall Immediately return to my home st Seattle and after securing the necessary rest will actively take up my professional work. The president ha - fully ex pressed hie confluence In me In his letter that 1 have only to arid that t mtt,i1it-imk-ttmHniic Hhgrt-TWr-mS could haVg been more' loyally sup ported than I have been by the pres ident at all times, end he has my lasting affection and my support Jn so far as my feeble efforts may be of value. "I give up my post without any regrets except that of parting with most agreeable associations. In fact) I am as happy to be free of the bur dens of the office as I was reluctant to assume them. "The department In all Its bureaus Is In a better state of effective organ ization thsn ever in Its history, In which I take pride and wish to ac cord to the chiefs snd other officers a full measure of commendation for their energy, loyalty and devotion to the public service. Their ssslstsnce and co-operation has been of great gratification to me. Poor In Health and- Purs. "Tha great burden of department al work added t" the strain of, con. ' tending against assaults from wicked snd dishonest men has seriously In jured my health snd the cost of my detente has not been less than $2B,-000-vlravlng me it poor man. I T IS THE BEUEFOF MEXICO No American Property Has Been Damaged and Ru mors Cause no Alarm MEXICO r-ITY, March 7 The Mexican governmenl has no reason to doubt th! word of the state depart ment at Washington that the move ment of the 220,000 Amenesn soldiers to the border is for nothing more than military maneuvers designed as Instructions for senior officers. "We do not believe thst In the sit uation a It Is al present there Is any occasion for Intervention by the Unlled Slates or liny other power. No. Amerlc an property has hern dam aged by cither side and so far as I know, no complaint has been made by any American." Knrique C. Creel, mlnslter of foreign relations, com mented as sbove tonight upon the dispatch from Washington regarding the mobilizing of 20,000 troops In the vicinity of the International border. Nothing In the events which have trsnsplred In Mexico up to. the pres ent time In the opinion of Minister Crl would Justify Intervention. cxiiOAnrcn gvn doks work. NASHVILLE. Tsnn,. March 7. Suddenly Imbued with a eplrit of war on the eve of the departure of the United States troops to the Mexlcsn border, a dummy drill by a number of boys In the suburbs of the city to night resulted In th el n stent death of Mrs. Thomas McMIIIln, aged $0 years. The entire top of her head was blown off with a shotgun, thought to be unloaded. In the handf of McEwen Fpencer, aged II. ' ' "It la my purpoee to prosecute the arch-conspirators who have been fol lowing me with the assassin's knife. The country shall know fully the In justice or the attacks upon me." The retirement of Mr, Ballinger nd the appointment of hit successor bring to a, close the most sensational incident thus far of the Taft. admin istration; Indeed one . of the . moat spectacular battles In reoent political ItMtolVIf'tbeltli; difference in conception f policy toward the treatment of public lands, especially tha forest reserves, between Mr. Hal linger and Mr. Olfford Pinchot, then chief forester of the United States, whose bureau wss a part of the de partment of ' agriculture. Mr. Tin chot's view of these matter had been more In accord with those of Mr, Ballinger' predecessor, Jas, It. Gar field, Ctiargr Against Itlm. . The open warfare broke out when charges relating to Mr. nalllnger's administration of tha public lands, especially In Alaska and more partic ularly to the treatment by the gn eral land office ef the so-called "Cun nlngham claims" to coal lands In Alaska, were filed with the president by L. It. Glsvis, then field agent of the land office. Ag a result of these charges, Olavla was dismissed for In suhordlnatlon by order of the presi dent. Subsequently Chief Forester Pinchot addressed a letter to Senator Dolllver, In which he espoused the cause In which Glavls had fallen, and Continued on I'ae Threw) SIR WILFRID HER IN SPEECH FAVORED TREATY Declares for Reciprocity bvl Reaffirms Loyalty and Love to England OTTAWA, Ont.. March 7. The rec iprocity agreement was Indorsed, loy alty to Great Britain affirmed, annex stlon scouted, the development of Canada proclaimed snd friendship hetweei farmer and manufacturer recommended to Canada In the house today by Sir Wilfrid Lsurler, prims minister of the Dominion. In the first speech which he has delivered in the reciprocity debate. His views against annexation snd for good relations Were especially emphasised. It was once the conviction of every Amerlcen president, he asserted, . that Canada should become a part of the I'nlted States. Although It was flat tering, he eald, to American . pride that the territory of the republic should exetnd over the whole conti nent, he urged that his neighbors should remember thst Canadians were born under the same flag a the ancestors of the American people, a flag under which Americans may have suffered -oppression - but- wrhleh to Canadians has "been and Is more than ever the emblem of freedom. ' "If you founded a nation upon sep araratlon from Britain' he said, "re member that we Canadians have set our heart upon milldlng a nation without separation a'nd In this task we are far advanced." RKAR ADMIRAL DROPS PF.AD. BOSTON. Mass., . Marah T. Rear Admiral John C. Fremont dropped dead here tonight ... - LEGISLATURE HAS il ADJOURNED Oil ACGOUr.T OF WORK " "... -t' ". -V Anti-Trust Bill Finally Passed With All Teeth Carefully Extracted MANY BILLS PASSED IN CLOSING HOURS Agreement Is Reached For Final Adjournment Before Noon Wednesday RALEIGH. N. C Mar. t. The wb.- atttute or the Turlington house ent trust bill as it cam from th senate committee on Judiciary and psssed th senate today w concurred in by th house and It Is now railflsd. It I very materially different from th Turlington bill a It passed th house. Ho much so that Mr, Turlington say.' h could scarcely recognise It in that It teeth are. he claims, completely extracted. H w In (h Bhlr ta th house when th bill vsm up tor concurrence In- th senate substitute, lios of Harnett commented that th hill seemed to b all that could bs b gotten from th ssnst and h muvd concurrence. Roa of Cumber land asked him It thsr were any semblane of teeth or sven gum tn th revised bill, ;Th reply came, en dorsad by Turlington In th speaker' ehlr, "that lhr might b aotn part of turn left but they wer hleedtng terribly." iA passed, th bill he th features eliminated r that required offtoere of , corporation to take oath thst their t corporation are not violating the slate anti-trust Iswl the feature pro-' hlbltlng th use of. coupon prle and such in aiding sal of merchandise; the feature that would enable solicit or -of attorney 'general r to require books, and papers for examination without order of cuurt. Th require ment to be for a Judge to make such order for examination to bs made In the present? of the Judge. It cut out the feature that would award triple damagee-agRlnst trust In civ It cases, and reduces the fund that the governor Is to have att tit) com mand . for' working up the case fur tha- prosecution, In Impending .wi frunf f tO DO to 16.009. ; . : i If wa after a o hours debate this afternoon that the';' senate adopted th judiciary committee substitut for th Turlington houti .anti-trust bill by a vote of S3 to JO. j Advocate of th substitute, rloubly Senator Bas se tt, Haruell, and Graham, contended especially that corporation desiring not to vlolat the law wilt not b af fected, this' be) n th principal charge discussed, Thsy argued that corpora tion should be treated with th atn fairness ceordd to Individual. Sen ator Hohgood led , th fight for th Turlington bill nd othsr who spoke for It wer elenator Green, Holdcn, llasco, tang end Itaggett. Th aub atltut then passed "the second and third reading by unanimous vote and wss sent to the bouse, There ws concurrence and order for nrollmnb - " 1 Knmwpou Hills 1'swml, ' Bill were passed and ordered en rolled In tha senate this afternoon to fellow tat treasurer to give notes to not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand (dollar If th new revenu act 4oe not provide sufficient money to meet ths expense f the ensuing two years; establish school for youth fut colored criminal . at Aheviil (f'onthmrri on Pag Thov) IS VICTIM LAY DM El Seventeen-Year-Old Wife on Trial for Killing : Friendly Caller , KEPT SHOOTING Hill WHITBVILLB, S. C, March T , Th, most Interesting witness in Ui trial of Mr. Rosa Hayes, Charged with the murder of Robert Floyd, th young South Carolina medical tu- dent, today was Mrs. Mima, daughter .1 or the editor of th local paper, who ' printed an Interview with th defend- ant after her Incarceration. Counsel for the defense hotly contested the admissibility of th testimony. In th Interview the 17-year-old -wife and prisoner, admitted that h had been unusually friendly . with her victim .v and that as ha lay dying he had called to her in endearing term. Th tat further Introduced, witness as to tell of a trip th defendant and tier victim had taken last summer to a nviinyunup s"ivori sown wnvre invri had spent th night at th same hotelJ Ky-wltnee to th shooting swore that Mrs Hayes continued tiring 4- Kloyd after he had fallen and the had found nine bullets In Floyd's - body. Th state ha not yet succeed 4 ed in showing a motive for the crime though few of the fifty witnesses sum moned Ivav beep, examined.