THE AS HEYILLE CITIZEN f THE WEATHER: I FAIR. Complete Associated f Press Reports I VOL. XXVIL, NO. 160 ASHEVILLE, N. C, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS 2? 0 1 0? BPAPUNOtl STAND REFUSES TO ANSWERQUESTIONS Editor of the Chicago Record Herald Will Not Violate Con fidence Shown INVESTIGATION INTO LORIMER'S ELE' Iluriois Senate Commlutc will Make Another Effort Af ter Information SPKINUFIELD, 111.. Miirch 29. II. H. Kohlsaat. publisher of The Chicago' Record-Herald, told the senate Investigating committee today that he knew 1100,000 bad been used to procure the election of Wm. Lorl mer to the United States senate. He refused to five I2i commftte the source of his Information; notwith standing the committee has the pow er to Imprison him because of his refusal. When Mr. Kohlsaat was first railed to the stand he was asked where he obtained his information on which he wrote an editorial saying, "1100.-! 000 had been rained to elect Lorl mer." Declined to Answer. Mr. Kohlsaat declined to answer a number of questions. He said he could not violate a confidence. At torney Heal y put direct questions to him asking If his informant had said he was asked for $10,000. "I decline to answer," he said. "Did he say that nine other men had been asked for 110.000 each?" "I refuse to answer." "Is he a resident of Chicago?" 'I decline to answer." "Is he alive now?" ."Ha Is." "Would you denounce any citizen who takes the stand you have taken here?" asked Senator Burton. ' Would Not Violate Conntlenre. "Any man who will violate a con fidence Is not worth a snap. I would not let my court reporter violate a confidence. No newspaper man can violate a confidence. That Is my code dfx woeaJst "' - Tee have been demanding thin Investigation and now you refuse to aid ua?'; "I appreciate the position but I will not violate this confidence," concluded Mr. Kohlsaat. ; The committee then went Into ex ecutive conference. Every one ex cept Mr. Kohlsaat, Attorney Healy and members of the committee were ordered ' out of the room. The questions were again put to Mr. Kohlsaat in this secret session. Again he refused absolutely to an swer. The doors were then reopened and Mr. Kohlsaat wasjglven a third op portunity to answer tthe questions of the committee. Tills , he again re fused to do. Mr. Kohlsaat whs oy- cused until 10 o'clock Thursday I morning, April ti. He was informed by the committee that its members here agreed that he must answer! the questions regarding the money. CARNIVAL OF SPEEO U Ten Thousand People See Automobile Races on Jacksonville Beach NUMEROUS ENTRIES JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Mar. 29. More than ten thousand spectators lined the Atlantic-Pablo beach today to witness the second day's automo bile speed carnival. Close and excit ing finishes characterized the events. especially the ten mile free-for-all j handicap, In which the leaders cross- ed the wire well bunched, with only a few seconds separating them. In the five mile open national Championship, Tower and Evans in Warren-Detrolts, captured first and second places, respectively. In the ten mile open class B. Herbert Wil son, of Jacksonville, drivin's a Cole. f , defeated Hughie Hughes in his Mercer. In the ten mile open race for cars j of 301-4 50 cubs? inches Merz and j Wilson in a National fought It out for first honors and Merz won by four seconds. The ten mile open free lor all lurnisnea seen ecne- nent. Although Burman in a Bu-1 Ick Suffered clutch trouble after mak ing the turn at the five mile opst when leading, he managed to finish second to Wilcox, with a National nllne seconds ahead of Ulsbrow's Pop Hartford. In the two ten mile free for all handicaps. -nine cars started. Hughes In his Mercer won the first event, while Wilcox In a National lighting It out desperately with Disbrow In a Pope-Hartford crossed the wire a , fraction of a second ahead of him In th second event. NEW YORKCAPITOL PARTIALLY BURNED IN EARLY Priceless State Documents Destroyed and Beautiful Building Badly Dam- aged. Damage About Six Mil lion Dollars. ALBANY. X. Y.. Mar. 29 Five mil lion dollars probably could repair the damage done by tire in the state cap Itol today, but money cannot resioie the historic records which were the pride of its state library. After exam ining the exterior walls with a tran sit, State Architect Ware declared to night that the maseive pile of gran ite was as plumb and true as ever. The flames licked up the state libra ry, the court of claims, the assembly library and document rooms, most of the offices of the excise department and the quarters of the senate fi nance committee, and water and smoke took up the work that the flames laid down and the damage from this cause extends to every part of the building. The fire was still burning tonight In the ruins beneath what was once the beautiful cloud- painted celling of the state library reading room and the water kept pouring in from seven lines of hose. Water still dripped through the call ings In nearly all parts of the west wing and cascaded down the stone stairs but the tire was subdued and the work of repair had already lo gan. A hundred national guardsmen stood guard in the deserted corridors tonight and fifty policemen patrolled the streets outside to protect the dis mantled end of the building. . Will Belay Govoromentt Next to the financial loss the chief effect of the fire will be Inevitable delay In the machinery of state gov ernment. Although the senate cham ber stands practically untouched and a few thousand dollars can restore the meeting place of the lower house to Its former beauty, a week or long er may Intervene before legislative business can proceed in its accus tomed channels. There was talk to night of a receas and only the con stitutional requirement of taking a dally ballot until a United States sen ator is chosen keeps the legislator here. Such a recess was expected IJ the sanatorehlp tangle cotjld,; P rav'elleffH'omorrow. " A. 5 ' .'.' Today both house met In the city hall across a short stretch of park from the rapltol building, the senate In the common council chamber am! the assembly in the county court court house, where the Joint, session also was held and the same arrantsn ment will be followed tomorrow. The. burnrd out department forces found temporary quarters where fney could. Five or Nix Million low. Discussing the fire loss, State Ar chitect Ware said tonight: "Based upon the original cist of the cHpitol the extent of the damage would bo between five and six mil lion dollars, but In view of more eco nomical methods of construction which can be employed In the restor atlon this amount can be materially reduced. Mr. Ware will recommend that when the burned out portion Is re stored the Interior be remodeled to THE PLACE OF ST GOODS FOR THE INDIANS Took Inspected Cases From Government Warehouse Is Charge Made ARREST FOLLOWED NEW YORK, Mar. :9 Charged with conspiracy to defraud the Uni te'! States Indian service of the In- lerlor department by substitution oi shoddy trousers for those of standard j iiualit) . Arthur Hope, a wealthy j clothing manufacturer of Newark. N. I J., wns arrested today on a federal j warrant. Iioo held a sub-contract r..r fo-ni-hi,,,, , i,.thin the Indian service and it is alleged that with Charles H. Furnian. chief clerk in the United States Indian warehouse In this city, he conspired to remove from the warehouse several cases of standard goods which had pasaed in spection and substituting for them cases of shoddy goods. The arrest followg tho recent In dictment of the firm of Welnstein and Maher of this city on similar charges. They are on ball and Kose also was released on bonds of 12.000 tonight. It la said that the looting of the warehouse has been systematic and that several contractors have been Involved In the alleged conspiracy. Chief Clerk Furman has turned a government witness In the- cases. OLD MAN OL'ILTT OF MIRDER, INDEPENDENCE. Kan.. March 29. A. A. Turskett, 70 years old. a wealthy business man of Caney. Kansas, tonight was found guilty of murdering J. t. 8. Nee ley. a mil lionaire oil operator of Lima, Ohio. The Jury was out about 27 hours. Th verdict was second degree mur- MORNING suit the other departments which will occupy it. The state architect offici al description of the fire damage fol lows: "It would appear that the entire state library located on the third and fourth floors, Including the northwest and southwest pavilllons are com pletely destroyed. This Includes also the court of claims and some of the committee rooms of the senate and assembly. The celling of the senate appears to be Intact and apparently no damage, except slight water dam age, has occurred at this point. The western side of the assembly hall In cluding the ceiling, has suffered a slight fire damage and considerable water damage. Many departments on the first and second floors In the western portion of the capttol have suffered more from water damage than from actual Are. On account of the dangerous condition of some of the Interior walls and farmer throughout the western section It would be Inadvisable to use the of fices Immediately under them. The state carried no Insurance as the cap ttol building had been regarded as ab solutely fire prbof. It was, m fact, not the building that burned, but n contents, the fourth floor space In the west wing did nearly four times the service It was originally intended for." -Was Mko Rabbit Warren, In places this part of the building was like a rabbit warren, with the employes of the library and the pu pil of the library school working In box-Ilk apartments surrounded by wooden shelves loaded with books and pamphlets. When the Are starting among the papers In the assembly 'li brary, reached this portion of tho building it swept ahead with a fury that fused like wax, sandstone, gran ite and marble. Most precious, from the historian's standpoint, of the fuel the flames found In their path were the II man uscript folio voJumesXJlmjIUiaip official records or the governor's of . the city of New Amsterdam cover. Ing a period from 1610 to 1474. Vhese were In course of translation by A. J. F. Van Laer and his translations were burned with the orglnal Dutch docu ments. In addition to these the state lost the correspondence of Governor George Clinton. 6,000 pieces In all and the original letters of Sir Wm. Johnston and Dnntel f'. Tompkins. In the office of the regents examiners 80,000 examination papers received from the high schools of the tte were destroyed hut the priceless co lonial and Washington and Llneotn relics In the custody of the education department were In the big safe on the ground floor and were uninjur ed. These Include the orlgtnnl manu script of Washington's farewell ad dress, the original of Lincoln's eman cipation proclamation; all the origi nal copies of the state constitution and the Major Andre papers. BASEBALL MAGNATE DRAWN NTO INVESTIGATION BY CINCINNATI CUD JURY Kilgore May be in Contempt for Telling Herrmann Jury Secrets GRAND JURY REPORT CINCINNATI, O, Mar. 29. The I name of August Herrmann, grand ex alted ruler of the Elks and chair man oi me .-vanonaa uaseoau com- mission, waa drawn into the grand j Jury Investigation today when that mody made a report to Judge Frank Onrman of the Common Pleas court. , " "' wne.ner nayaru n.wB.,ur crai manager or tne i incinnau ana Suburban Bell Telephone company. ... was In contempt of court. Both Hermann and Kllgour have I been before the grand Jury. On th , occasion of Kllgour's last attendance. ! he stated, according to the report I today, that his father was in poor health and he asked to be excused i In order that he might "acquaint his parent with the circumstances of his j testimony and to prepare his mind i for what might follow." ! Kllgour la said to have promised : to return on March 1. but has not appeared since. The report then con tinues: "The said Bayard Kllgour In viola tion of the grand Jury to him given, did repair to th office of August Herrmann, who at that time had been summoned to appear before us In reference to the same matters. "And. Bayard Kllgour did further Intimate to August Herrmann a cer tain fact, on which the said August Herrmann would probably be ques tioned by the grand Jury; to-wlt, the fact that August Herrmann was then arid there and theretofore In the en joyment ' of gratuitous service from Telephone company of which Bay ard Kllgour was general manager." ah. V d .4IMIMA1K Al"UTfftP "H-ri rr NEW TORK. March 28. Fire Marshal Beers has begun at Klre hall a formal Investigation Into the lire In the Aach building, at Wash ington place and Greene street, In which about 150 persona, employes of the Triangle Shirt Waist company, IVtA Mi d".". M-t mostly girls, lost their lives. DIs-! spect the scene - of the fire. Fire trlct Attorney Whitman expressed j Commissioner Waldo and Chief Kd the belief that there is material for ; ward Croker hava publicly expressed WAR BETWEEN ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE IS A CRIME SAYS ASQUITH Solemn Pact of Peace" Should Between Nations are in Common. Premier of Great Britain Eulogize , Taft. Suffragette Create Disorder. LONDON', Mar. 29. At a great the English lIlil belongs not only meeting of churchmen and states- to the subjects of King George but men In Albert hall this evening ti to the whole English speaking world, celebrate the torceiitennary of tlio One of the truths which has been revision of the England translation slowly realised and which now It Is of the bible by a commission which j believed Is flrmly rooted In the faith completed the so-CHlled King Juins of Christian men snd women on both version In 1611. Premier As'iulth nml.xldos of the Atlantic Is that war be Whltelaw Held, the American am- 1 tween ICngllsh npoaking people would baesudor, who were tho principal ; be not only a crime against olvlllxii speakers, seised the opportunity to ( tion but an unforgivable breach of eulogize the arbitration movement, j those few commandments which are Suffragettes Interfered with the I enshrined in the New Testament on proceedings and when the prime minister rose they unfurled banners : bearing the Inscription 'votes for wo men." The banners were torn up after a free fight. War I a Crime. In his address Mr. Asoulth snld SPECIAL INVESTIGATION OF FOREIGN CONDITIONS! Trade Conditions in Foreign ! Countries Will be Given I to Manufacturers WASHINGTON. Mar. 29. -Enr the ! 'benefit of American manufacturers and exporters tnc uureau oi ninnu- I factures is extenoltiR 1th special In vestigations of tra'ln conditions In i foreign countries nnd today an- nounced th p0mm,nts i three new commercial agent". It. M. Oilell. of New Conconl. X C, an eipert on cotton textiles ami one oi w e jortufJai and wm attend the eighth ,nternational cotton congress of the : u.,.r ertin ...im.ers anfl manu-' I. ,.... , utt.!,.. t ii mini i'm''i ov ... May aft(.r whli h he will travel In 1 rt"h'e.fl A(rlr the Dalkan states' fl c, lexamler lr of New York. ' ( ieaVe Han ranrlsco in a fort- . ' ,. a .... . u , nlvht tnm Chins. l,nnn AiiRlrnll,i . ... , ,',,, ,h(. t,r, trade In machinery, machim- tools and other similar productB. J M. Hause of Greenchoro. N. C. already has started for Manchester. England, to Investigate cotton textiles manu- : factures. FAIR WASHINGTON. March it. Fore- - M cast or North Carolina: Generally Man ta Is promoted to commercial si falr Thursday and Friday; dlmln- I perlntendent ot the third district wlln ishing west winds. headquarters at Jacksonville. Scenes of New York's ( h-u, V, (t lllM Xtt ' -ij"- a sweeping Investigation by the grand Jury to determine who Is responsible for the conditions that prevailed In the building conditions' that are said to bn common to most of the tall fireproof factory buildings In Manhattan. Ths grand Jury will In. be Sealed Between America and EnglandsEverything which nations have been bred, Should Heal Solium I'act. "There surely could not be a more worthy, mure .appropriate, a more splendid monument of this tercen tenary year than that It should witness the scaling of a solemn pact i between us. which would put an end A CONTINUED DEADLOCK Caucus Meets Just Long Enough to Adjourn Till Ten This Morning ALMANT. N. ,Y Mar. 29 The lMra frmioti f tho rc-convened dem- ocratlc senatorial caurus lasted to- I i nlKht Just long enough to permit J Henator t'ullen in move for nn n 1 - j J'lurnrncnt until 10.30 o'clock to- ! morrow mornlog tfutny thst ftii i TV... A.i.i.,nli.n ,.f wouM he rr-nrhrd v her"by the In- surgenrs (.uld t.e made to feel their : (.lwir , 0,,,.nrin)r in a body wn. ... . .. ' no' rtn!lx-.J. .None or trie ..ui ami; oul Insurcents attended. ! (,n" n"'i"r afloat tenlirlit '"" Murphy favored j Judge 1). Cady Merrick who whs snld I 'to !mw figured on th1 list of ten sul mltted lapt nlsht by the Insur- winning of the first regular session gents. It wih snld, hiiwt-ver. that i of the 6l!nd congress on the first kimthI of tlie Insurgents would not Monday of next December. To this pledge themselves to Merrick but 1 end the country will be canvassed prefer John l. Kernan. There were : Bria- much literature will be, dlstribut perniKtTit report that overtures have j No definite day, however, has been made by them to the republl- j been fixed for the further considera tion tth view (,, eleetlng Mr. Ker-i Hon of the subject but It Is under nan i.nless th- regulars acede to 1 Btood thst Senator Aldrich will state ttietr proposals tomorrow. WKKTKKN I'XION fllVXUEH ATLANTA, Sa.. Mar. 29. An j nouricement was made today that I, I J. Maxwell lll succeed B, P. Man j cock as dlstrlet superintendent of the I Western I'nlon Telegraph company i lit Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Hancock j Is mover to Atlanta as traffic spec ialist under the division commercial i superintendent, 8. L. Hurts, tor the past six years local mansger st At- Horror. 1n i "t " ' ' I ' ..,., IT a ln.jr.it V 'Y I their Indignation at what they term the laxity of factory Inspection In this city. Mayor Oaynor has Issued an appeal for help for the families of the victims. These were some of ths results o fthe deep feelings of hor ror and sympathy aroused by the worst disaster New York has had since tha General Slocum steamboat tire. The accompanying photos show views of the scene Of the Are. The bole In the pavement was caused by the Impact of falling bodies, reveal Ing tha force of their fall. Tha ele vator door shown was pushed aside by t rantio girls, and sixty of therh plunged down tha shaft over 100 feet to their death. Fire Chief Edward Croker did hot hesitata to express tha alarming opinion that that wars many buildings In the city every bit as dangerous as tha Aach building, "There are buildings rated as A re proof, thsra are of Ac buildings," h said, "that ar likely to Stir ths people any day over, ft big loss of life, I predicted this loss of life, and t predict an ven greaW loss of lit unless flrfl escape ar (nit on all buildings In which there ar a great number of persons, such a this one." ; once for all to the hldsous ana tin thinkable possibilities of fratricidal strife." Speaking of how the Bible furn Inshed the strongest and most In destructible bond for present praotl cal unity In the alms and aspirations of the English speaking family, Am bassador Rld said: Community of Aspiration. "While that community of alma and aspirations endures, starting as It doss from our common possession and use of this book and supported by the same language, th same oom omn law, ths same parllmentary in stitutions, ths same civil rights and largely th sam blood It Is th greatest single guarantee for th (Continued on Psgei His) COMPLETES CDNFERENCFS After Two Days' Session With Bankers Committee Adjourns for Present WAflHINOTON, Mar. 2 After a conference of two days with tb cur- " t . K A .. r r. n " ' , Bankers association, the monetary committee adjourned today to meet t the call of Chairman Aldrloh, Ths conference nns Deen aevoieo 10 n xeneral snaiyals of the Aioncn cur- rency bill. In the main the provl ver night Hgreemcnt UmH of ,hn ,an olltnBd by Mr. Aldrich have been found to be ac- eeptable to the bankers, but they "" cnanges in pnaseoi-- "gy in ot tier port ions or me measure . ,.ongerahIe attention has been ...... glvon to a few of the features of t(1P bm. The plans of the commls- ,(',, embrace an active campaign for the summer with the view of having he measure completed by the he the case quite fully In a speech which he Is preparing to make In Boston early In April. He and. other mem he rs of the commission probably wm visit many of th large cities during the spring, snmmer and fall. COTTON MILLS HOLD RANfiLEMAN. N. C, Mar. it. The properties ef the Randleman Manufacturing company and the Na omi Kails Manufacturing company, both bankrupts, were sold under, the hammer Jy orders of tho court yea- terdny. Doth plants were purchased i by J. E. Gilmer of Wlnston-BJm'j th prlc MfregmUd tm.tOQv . GUDGER OPPOSED TO RECIPROCITY AS Tenth District Congressman Says He is Open to Argu ment, However IS INDEPENDENT AND WILL DO OWN THINKING Many Congressmen are Arrlv ing for Convening of th " Extra Session , v Cltlsrsi Bore a, (By II. E. C. Bryant). , WASHINGTON, March t.-r-R resentativ , Oudger blw In Ilk a summer res yesterday and set tied In his offlae, room lit, th Hous offlc building , and want light to work.1 H had been to Panama t see the cansl and his brother, Hei- ' klah Oudger. who still retains hi position, although he hag pot been reappointed, Mr, Oudger Is very enthusiasts aver th r work, en tha canal and says it will bs computed two years earlier than expected. 'What about reciprocity. It I re ported her that yott ar not In fa vor of th treaty with Canada; Is that true?" he waa asked. . , "I hav not mad up my mind; nnally." satd h, "but I am inclin ed to eppos it . - ' "it la this way t Thev would put wheat on th free , list but lv a duty on flour and put cattl on th fr lint and leave a duty en beef. Th farmer Is tha loser end th manufacturer ths gainer. That la th way I see It, Thay tell u that th coat of living will b reduced by this reciprocity treaty. WhyT Do you est wheat and oattl or flour and beafT" ,',.''-' ' Mr. Oudger admitted, however, that ha I own to argument. "One thing certain," h added, "t am going to b Independent I will do my own thinking." ... Representativ ffmall passsd throngh th city yesterday, tarrying for moment only, and rteprepent.' trv' Kltchln a,nrt Po rrh : i ! i a Hurt night. r'S'... ' : Mr. Kltchin paid today that th country; could rly , on th house,' democratic as It Is, to do th prop--r thing by th paopla. H said that tha consumer was going to hava bis turn, ,, Many of the congressman ar ar-' riving dally, All of tha democrat will be her for tha caucus Batur. day night ( . FUNERAL PROCESSION OF ii & 4 Bodies of Majority Will be Carried in Great Process': olon Through Streets , RELIEF FUND ADDED NKW TCRK, March- ll-Thlrtr' woman, unstrung by rltaU of Sat urday's fir horror, were removed late tonight from a mamortaj mas meet ing for th victims ot th Was b Ing- ' ton place Are In Grand Central Pal ace, suffering so terribly from hys teria that ambulance surgeons war called to attend them, , and to if . move som to th hospital. Over 1,000 parsons were present at the meeting. Th meeting was under th auspices of. th Bhirt Walta and Dressmakers' Union. f Arrangements for a funsral do j ' monstratlort in which 110.000 svm. r pathlxnrs will be asked to Join; Iden tification of four mora bodies, leav- -Ing but It now unknown; the awl ling of th relief fund to nearly 150,. . 000 and the effort of the district at-, torney's offlc and the fire marshal to fix the blame for the catastrophe wore activities which followed Bat- , -urduy's fire horror today,- .. It is proposed to take the bodls . of must of th 141 victim through'' th streets of the cilY Monday in a ' great funeral procession headed by a chorous of seventy singers frpm ' the Jewish choirlatet union, .follow 1 ed by the surviving employes' of the Triangle Waist company and as 1 many sympathising workers as can b Induced to Join, It is suggested ' that the procession pass (from th morgue by ths Washington , tlae building where th Br occurred. Twenty-lie survivor told their ' stories of the catastrophe to assistant district attorneys today - and appear- " ed before th first marshal, DinsJi Luffechltx told th district attorney that when th fir alarm was first given she signalled ''tire, firs -escape," by a writing machine to the girl on the ninth Boor and followed ' this with a telephone message. Laughter greeted her at the other end of th receiver, she said, In a moment more she ran and maff? her escape. AGGIKS WERE EABY "; ajissassssBSBissss. ""- CUNTON. Mlc.i "Ma, : 2. Th last game of the series between A. A M. and Mississippi college r- in. an easy-viptory" for score t to J. . . .; . NOW OUTLINED

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