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ASHEVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1911
VOL. XXVXL, NO. 287
PRICE FIVE CENTS
i
RE-APPORTIONING
BILL GOES SAILIfiG
THROUGH SENATE
bt Even Formality of Roll
Call on Final Vote as Op
position Was Futile
FUTURE MEMBERSHIP
433 INSTEAD OF 391
All That Stands In Way of
President's Approval Is Con
ference With House
WASHINGTON, Aug. J. Bearing
an Initiative and referendum feature
to safeguard against gerrymandering
In a number of states, the congres
sional reapportionment bill passed the
en ate today. It fixes the future house
membership at 431 with two more
when Arizona and New Mjxlco attain
statehood Instead of the present 31.
There was not even the formality of
a roll call on the final vote. Two
amendments, both offered by Senator
Burton, of Ohio, were attached to the
house measure- and on these a con
ference with the house will be held
all that stands In the way of President
Taft's approval of the bill, which la to
take effect March , IMS.
The Increase In the membership of
the house will mean an added expense
to the country of approximately 40,
009 a year. The salaries of the forty
two new members will aggregate
1315,000. Each will have at least one
clerk at 11,600, which will add $3,
000 to the total, mileage and other In
cidental expenses will still further In
crease, the sum, bringing it to the
amount first named.
No Reduction.
.Under this decennial reapportion
ment there' is to be no reduction in
the membership from any statf The
average congregational district will
contain over 17,000 greater- popula
tion than at present, the average dis
trict comprising-. ni,8ff under the
Bow plan. '
The Initiative and referendum nrn.
IV fjslon was tacked on to the bill Just
Jf fore its passage today. It was one
vlWT the Burton amendments. . It pro-
a7 ieWwiiWion any stateTthe
-districting, instead of being done
by the state legislature, as provided by
(he house blH, should be "in the man
ner provided by the laws" of the state,
thus leaving the re-dlstrlcttng subject
to the initiative and referendum laws
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INTEREST IN BIG $5,840 CONTEST
GROWS
Nominations Will Not Close for Several Weeks. But Today is
Best Time to Enter Names' Will Ap
pear Again Sunday
Amlbltlon is a great thing in this
world and counts for the most when
brought to bear at Just the right mo
ment This Is of all times the most
important and you should make the
very most of your ambition during
the Bargain Days. Never feel satisfied
with what you have done until you
can do more.
The business of conducting a suc
cessful campaign is a good deal Hke
any other business proposition, there
fore we are not surprised to hear
the following excellent Ideas from one
of the most sucoessful business men
In Aahevtllo. We would like all can
didates to read his views as expressed
below. They are exactly our idea of
what every candidate should do.
' Said the man when talking with the
Contest Manager, a few days ago:
"When I made up my mind to try for
one of your prises I saw at once that
It was more or less of a business prop
osition, and that my campaign would
have the chance of success if I organ
ised it on regular business principles.
"I'm a great believer la advertising
my own business, so my first thought
was to advertise to my friends that I
was determined to win. By letter,
phone and talk I got It pretty thor
! Micrhtv mrMd abroad thmt I was eotn
(fLo run and run hard.
4 1 "Next I said to myself; what counts
IS ersuauua. dv a grtftium
corps of workers among my friends
and made each' one pledge himself
to do what be could to enlist the
good will of his friends for me, and
to do what he oould in collecting
votes and subscriptions.
"Now," I said, "the man who gees
Into business thinking he knows it all
is short-sighted. The man who un
derstands the business thoroughly is
(he one least apt to make mistakes.
So, though I made all possible In
quiries at the start. I determined to
keep thoroughly posted as to the de
velopments, and yon will never find
me Ignorant of the Instructions con
tained in the announcements and dally
stories.
- "Above an i maae my motto,
Providence helps those who help
themselves,' and I am hnstllng right
elotur sot only to accomplish every
thing I can myself, but to let my
frlds see I am not sntrkjiig while
expecting them to exert themselves
for me. ",: -
Thfse J few days, partioalarry.
etui .3e4b Bars', art n. w
COTTON BILL GOES
THROUGH HOUSE BY
ENORMOUS VOTE
Indicating That President's Veto of
This Bill and Wool . Tariff Bill
Will he Over-ridden Republicans
Send Out Call for Help
WASHINGTON, Aug. t. Supported
by all the democrat and thirty insur
gent republicans, the democratic
cotton tariff bill, the "tbjrd of the
big tariff revision measures brought
forward by the democratic house of
representatives, passed that body
early this evening by SOI to IL The
bill cuts the average tariff on oot
ton manufactured .goods from 41 to
J 7 per cent ad valorem, a 11 per
cent reduction in duty that the dem
ocratic leaders estimate to redpee
revenues by about $5,000,000.
No Amendment.
Not an amendment was offered to
the bill, although the republicans at
tacked It rigorously on account of
alleged increases in certain items
over the rates of the Payne-Aldrloh
tariff law.
Scarcely had the cheer that greet
ed the passage of the cotton revision
bill subsided when Democratic Lead
er Underwood calling up the free
list bill as It passed the . senate a
few day ago, accomplished a strate
gic move, which surprised the, repub
licans. He asked for a conference on all
the amendments to the free Hat bill,
except that of "Senator QWonna of
North Dakota, putting cement on the
free list. He urged that the house
accept that amendment adding to it
lemons. Pacific coast republicans
made ineffectual attempts to stop
this sudden and unexpected putting
of lemons on the free list, but the
amendment carried. The change gave
the house democrats what they claim
ed to be an added advantage In deal
Ins; with the senate In the confer
ence committee.
Republicans Alarmed.
Tonight the republican lead em In
both houses of congress called In
absent members from all parts of
the country, in preparation for .a
threatened attempt of the democrats
to pass the wool tariff - bill over
President Taft's veto. The demo
cratic leaders In the house have as
serted within the.lst twenty-.fcur:
hours thai gJfoy'Jtovrfr;sossarr
two-thirds majojrtty to pass the wool
bill over the president's veto and
have been doing effective igjsatonary
work in the senate today. The re
publicans Insist they have enough
votes to prevent the' two-thirds ma
jority in support of wool bill. The
wool conference will start at 10
ar ail hustling so ss io make th
most of It."
Now that Is the way we like to hear
a candidate talk. There was sound,
common sense in every word. He Is
bound to succeed If he keeps up th
plan he has outlined. He may not
win the 11,170 Chalmers 101S touring
car, because someone else may be
hustling a little harder than he, but
he Is bound to win something worth
while.
The lis of Candidate Will Appear
Wednesday, Friday and Bandar.
Take advantage of the "Bargain
Days" schedule, which Is now In force
and secure every possible subscrip
tion during these harvest day. Th
wise candidate will make every mo
ment count from now until Aug. II.
RTJTE IK REGARD TO VOTING.
From date all candidates may
cast for Publication Certificate
Votes (1. .. slips Issued on sub-
scriptlona) to th amount of
1S.000 votes more than the lead-
er of the previous day of publl-
eatton. This rule mean that if a
leader In today's list has 10,000
votes, any candidate may vote a
4- sufficient number of Certificate "f
Votes to run his or her score up
4 to 11,000 over that amount.
4 Thl ruling doe not Include 4
4- paper coupons, only applies to 4
certificates.
4 , cyvs
4444444 4-44
How to Enter.
Send In your nomination. Tou will
find the nomination blank on another
page, which counts for 1.000 votes.
Only the first nomination blank can
be used by candidates.
Tou get 'votes' and subscriptions
anywhere from either district. '
Votes will be given on all paid Sub
scriptions. Call or send to the Contest Depart
ment of Th Cltiten for a receipt
book. The contest manager will be
glad to explain anything you do not
understand. Telephone or write to
him. if you cannot ealL and a repre
sentative will give jon full details.
Don't forget that oh lid re n can do
most effect" work la eolIctlnf eon
pons as well as securing many paid-
fOanflahnWTi a Bejim) ,,
BOOM
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o'clock tomorrow morning when the
committees of the house and senate
will meet to affect a compromise. It
Is possible the compromise can be
secured at one sitting of the com
mittee in which case the bill will
come back to the two houses tomor
row or Paturdajr. . Speaker Clark
tonight appointed, as a conference
committee on the free list bill the
same conferees who wilt act on the
wool bill. Representatives Under
wood, Randall of Texas, and Hani
son of New Tork, democrats; Payne
and Dalsell, republicans.
Bitter attacks on democrat io cau
cus methods by Representative Payne
of New Tork and other republican
leaders and a charge of Represen
tative Prouty of Iowa, repuollcan in
surgent, supported by Representatives
McCall of Massachusetts and Hill of
Connecticut, that the Underwood
bill mads enormous Increases in the
tariff on certain cotton cloth manu
factured In Southern mill, marked
the closing hours of debate on the
ootton bill.
Former Republican Speaker Can
non upheld the democratic caucus
policy, declaring that "this Is a. gov
ernment by party organisation, whlls
Representative Lenrott. republican
Insurgent, earnestly defended the cot
ton measure and denounced the at
tempts of his fellow republicans to
make It appear that the bill revised
any schedule upward.
Increases Alleged.
. Representative Preuty : said that
until today he had Intended to sup
port the cotton bill, ' but, "figuring
with his pencil "he found that the
ad valorem rates on eotton both
valued at between T and 1J cents, a
type of cloth manufactured almost
entirely In Southern mills, had actual
ly been Increased as high as 150 per
cent above the Payne bill rates.
Democratic Leader Underwood re
plied that ad valorem tariff schedules
had to be fixed on average basis,
Placing ssrtatn rates between , twe
UiiMkUtoP, Mtd . bottom, and . that Mr,
Pronty had" picked "out the sTagle
schedule under whloh there -was an
apparent Increase. He said that un
der this schedule last year Just II,
040 of the 1700,000,000 worth of oot
ton goods consumed In this country
were Imported. He claimed that Mr.
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G0fIOfT0NS OUTLINED BY
U. S. CIRCUIT COURT AS TO
INS OF A. T. CO.
Corporation Warned That
Receiver Will be Named
Under Conditions
PRELIMINARY PLANS
NEW TORK, Aug. I. Tne United
Stat circuit court, under whoa di
rection th American Tobacco com
pany will work out it dissolution,
handed down thl aft arnoon on the
mandate of th Federal Supreme
oourt an order outlining condition
under which th company may per
fect plans for dissolving. A clause
in th order enj olns th defendant
from doing any act which may fur
ther enlarge and extend the power
of th combination prior to its dis
integration. The order was handed down by
Judge Leoombe, Ward arid Noye.
following a conference held wltlM
Attorney General Wlckersham,
United SUte District Attorney Wise,
counsel fo r the American Tobacco
company, the British-American To
baoro company and the United
Cigar Stores company,
Preliminary plans of te disintegra
tion of the American Tobacco com
pany were submitted by its counsel
and discussed by lawyers In the
court. The three Judges expressed
an opinion regarding them, how
ever. After reciting the decree of the
Supreme court, the court serve notice
that It win tie up the company's
shipments or appoint a receiver as
ordered by the higher tribupal,
should counsel fall to submit an ac
ceptable plan of dissolution by Dec
ceraber SO, next, or sixty days there
from If the Circuit court should grant
such an extension: Leave Is given
counsel to apply, for more specific
directions In this regard and also to
any party to apply from tlms to time
for relief, which may seem la con
formity with th judgment of th
Supreme oourt. "
"Pending the dissolution of th
combination.'' th decree read, "and
th re-creation of a new oond itloa
honestly la harmony with th law,
all th defendant, thetr agents and
errant ar hereby restrained and
njoined from doing any act which
mlrnt extend or nlarg th power
of - th ecmblnetien by any meat
iJCntzaacsl s Pag ltJ.
BRYAN AND
THEY ARE RIGHT, NEITHER WILL BUDGE
Former Declares He WiU Civ Democratic Leader Opportunity "eo Discuss Other
Things"' Underwood Stands Squarely Upon Hi$
: ,;; "i a twr v
CHICAGO, Aug.' I. Voluntarily as
suming full responsibility for th edi
torial recently published In hit weekly
paper which caused Congressman Un
derwood, of Alabama, te brand him
a a "falsifier" on th floor of con
grea, Win. Jennings Bryan today re
plied to th attack and declared that
h intended to give th democrat)
leader of th hous an early epportu
ntty to""disetis som other things.
Mr. Bryan granted Congressman
Underwood: request thkt he make
public th information' oh which th
editorial was based.; Hs declared that
th Information on whloh th dtlor1al
was founded wa takes from a Wash.
Ington, dispatch pubIlsd..by-n,Otria-
tar, rysn.- -i take tor granted tnat
Mr. Underwood will feat th report
before th hous -and deny It"
Other Things to DtsonBs."
' If th report. I correct I have noth
ing to withdraw. If It I erroneous I
shall withdraw my criticism of Mr.
Underwood SO far as It Is baaed on
hi action In that particular ease.
Whatever the outsort) In this pertlo
ular Instance, I do riot withdraw my
oritlelsm of Mr. Underwood en other
MINORITY REPORT MADE
Nothing as to Differences
.Text Book Commission
Made Public
RALEIGH, N. C. Aug. . Bids by
book publishers for supplying text
books for the publlo school of the
state for the next five years were for
mally opened at noon today by the
stat textbook commission after which
th committee took recess until I
o'clock tonight to receive the support
of sub-committee which Is understood,
to have come In the form of a major
ity and a minority report, two of the
six, sub-committee men having signed
a minority report.
Nothing a to the character and the
differences in the report I mad
public as yet.
Governor Kltchln left thl afternoon
for Mist Hill. Mecklenburg county, to
be gone until Sunday and the state
textbook romnif:on will resume ses
sion Monday with th Indications ae-
crrdlng to (state .ahnrtntendent J.ty
ner that the final adoption will not be
concluded before the latter part of the
week.
Colonel Wood, stat auditor, mem
ber of the committee la out of the city
for the Confederate reunion at Wil
mington will be here .along wllth Gov
ernor Kltchln next week to tak a
hand In th adoption. -
The law requires all members of
both the cor'1'n and aub commis
sion to be present and vote.
REXOWWED 60TLnrOR DEAD.
BERLIN, Aug. S Prof Rein hold
Begas, (he most renowned sculptor In
Germany, is dead. He wa 10 years
old.
WASHINGTON, Aug. tr rorcti
North Carolina Unsettled with prob
ably Showers Friday and Saturday;
light to SMdarata rariabl .wtoda, ' "
nn
"Forewarned is Forearmed"
X ' J CJ
UND&RWOOD MAINTAIN
AuuoKAjryuji a suuvjriiy j
occasions. , end I Intend to take early
opportunity to give him som other
thing to dlMM. - . .4
"Tea. I read th report of Mr. Un
derwood's speech B th morning pa
pr aald Mr. Bryan. , "Th criticism
to whloh h refers is contained In an
editorial which X wTot myself.
' "Th report on which th editorial
wa based," contfued Mr. Bryan, "ap
peared last week about July SI. I am
not sur of In exaet dat but tt wa
not " arllv than Wednesday of last
week and later than Sunday , morning.
Th dispatch from Washington said
that Speaker Clark offered a resolu
lion a modification or a substitute
for, a reaolution by another mtmbar
Instructing th ways find mean comH
irm io ,proca who me jirepare
tlon of.othr bills, til dispatch Stat
ed that Mr. Clark was supported by a
number of other members, but that
Representative Underwood and Flts
gerald led a fight against th resolu
tion and defeated It.
Kitnhta Quoted. ,
Th editorial also quoted Con
grsssmsA Kltchlh as Insisting upon
the Introduction f a bill reducing th
tariff en or and steel and quota Mr,
Kltohln as oatitng attention to Mr.
LONG DROUGHT BRDKES
CHIBIOTTECETS RELIEF
Fanners Jubilant, Precipi
tation General, Prospects
of Continuation
CHARLOTTE, N. C, Aug. S Heavy
rains, whloh began early this morning
and have been general all over this
stricken section today and tonight
have broken the long drought. As far
east a RaJelgh, west to Ashevllle and
to the border line north and south
th precipitation ha been genvrou
with every prospct of continuation and
farmer are Jubilant In many eitle
and towns of the section, threatened
with water shortage, the situation has
been relieved by the bountiful rains.
Here people gathered In doorways and
on balconies and viewed the down
pour with as much enthusiasm a If
some notable procession were passing
the streets. With the reservoir and
settling basins filled to the brim; pure
water flowing through the mains as
of old, and a reserve supply ample
for needs held In readiness at the
new connection at Briar creek, the
authorities are happy.
With a pressure filter, of a half
million gallons capacity this-reserve
supply can be turned into th mains
at a moments notice and if the
drought continued would famish an
emergency supply for months. The
tank trln service will be continued
for the preeent to msi!e assurance
doubly sure, but the city will not rind
It necessary to call upon the adjacent
towns which have come nobly to Its
aid In the period of distress.
INORKDinLE FINAVCIVG.
RICHMOND, Va.. Aug, . The
.rand Jury Investlgftlng .the frauds
that led to the failure of the True
Reformers bank, an adjunct of the
Grand Fountain of the Order of True
Reformers, a negro fraternal order of
widespread connections, has encoun
tered what Is described as an Incred
ible tangle of Irregular financing.. A
state Insurance actuary states that the
details may never b unravelled. Wm.
R. Griffith, of WashJngtln, A. Hum
ble, of Lynchburg; Thomas New
some, ef Newport News, and Floyd
Ross, of St Louis, composing th com
mfttee appointed to ferret out the
fraud and produce Indictment of
thoee guilty appeared before th Jury
today to seek th iadichnnt of three
well-known Virginia negroes all aging
oonsplracy to plaster th fck -;
Answer as Made
or tutorial '
Uhdrvrood'' holdings la th tt
company, n4 a expressing th fear
mat in ease of fallur to proceed with
th reduction of th tariff on Iron and
steel uch fairur might b attributed
to Mr. Underwood's Interest tn th
bualn. . My dltorll wm tMd
upon this published rDort" ; ,
Mr. Bryan wa In th city between
train and Is new on hi way to Iowa.
UJfDERWOOD'S COimjSST, L
WASHINOTOW, Aug. S Democrat'
Id Leader Underwood, of th hous.
stood quariy today upon hi answer
to Wm. J, Bryan attack on htm in
connection with the iron and eteel
tariff schedules. . II had llttl eor
rnsnf, to mak upon M Bryan's Inters
View in Chicago today n whloh th
Nsbraskan again challenged hi posi
tion. - ,
. Mr. Bryan says "I ought to glv a
full report of : th . eaueu to th
hous," said Mr. Underwood. 'T did
glv such a report yesterday and my
statements were confirmed by th oth
er member of my party a to what
took place in th caucus, I hav not
n tho nwpp r 1 dUpatch upon
(Oontlnnod em Pg Fonr.)
GEORGIA z STATE CAPITAL
MAY BE MOVED TO MACDIJ
f -r ,
House Committee on Oonsti
tutlonal Amendment . Ap
proves This Measure
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. S. By an al
most unanimous vots th hous com
mittee on constitution) amendment
today approved the bill making pro
vision for the removal of the stat cap
ital to Macon. Several member who
voted favorably reserved th right to
oppoa th measure whan It reaohd
th floor of th house. Macon' conten
tion for the state eapltal I baaed on
th claim that It is tnor centrally lo
cated geographically and that South
Georgia is growing more rapidly than
other sections of the state.
PARLIAMENT BLDO.
AT TORONTO DAMAGED
TORONTO, Ont, Aug. I. Fir wa
discovered this morning at I o'clock
in th west i wing of th provincial
parliament building. Fifteen minutes
later the blase was reported under
control. The damag will not be
great.
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TO RATI FY TREATY
FOR STOPP
in
Arbitration Guaranteed Be
tween United States, Great
Britain and France
GREAT STEP TOWARD ,
WORLD-WIDE PEACE
Secretary Knox and Ambas
sador Snapped In Act of
Signing Duplicate Copy
WASHINGTON.' Aug. I.Prldnt
Taft will send to th senate tomorrow '
th general arbitration treaties be- .
tween th United Bute and Great
Britain and th United C State and
Franc, signed for this government
and Great Britain We, today nd .
Igned In Pari for th government, of
Franoe, ... .. ' i
Th brief message of, transmittal
to th senate r written and signed
by th president today, and tomorrow
it will 11 with th enat to ratify
what ha .bn termed th greatest
tep toward th abolition of warfar
that th world thu far has taken. ,
Th ceremony of signing th treat
let took place In th president' li
brary in th whit hou, ,.,'',,' ,
Small Formality, , , ,
Smalt formality attended th cere
mony. Secretary f Stat Knox. Brit
ish Ambassador Bryc, ' Counsellor
Chandler Anderson, of th stat de
part ment; Osmund Ovsy, second ee
rotary of th British embassy! th
Vlscomt Saint Phalle, of th French
embassy! two members of th cabinet,
a aoor of nwpapr tnn and three
photographer were presant, The .
treaty with Great Britain was signed
at 1.10 thl ' afternoon. Secretary
Knox and Ambassador Bryo signed
duplicate at th tame moment while
th photographer clicked their ram
era In accompaniment to the scratch
ing pen. Th French ; treaty wa
igned by Mr. Knox on tmlnut later.
( Tnfl Sign Message.
:' Th treaie out ef the way, Freel
dnt Taft took hi plao at, th dmk,
Bf or him were laid th two me
agea t th senate. Ife affixed h'i
nam and then, so far a the fxccuii e
'nd of th gorrnm I ncerne.i.
th matter wa concluded, The pre
Idenf library had been cleared for
th occasion. Only a flat mahogany
desk was left standing In one corner
Just under a window that looks out
over th whit hous ground and th
Potomac river, On th desk wsr th'
treaties, th messages to th senate,
an Ink wU with a golden eagle with
(Continued on Pag Tflvet
HEBO BUSSQ-JAP. FIGHT -
ADMIRAL TOGO 15 GOEST
OF THE ip STATES
Given Demonstrative "Wel
come When He Touched .
Foot Upon These Shoes '
GIVES INTERVIEW
NEW TORK. Aug. !. Th TTnited
Stat, at midnight tonight, formally
welcomed to It shore Admiral Count
CHalnaohiro Togo of th ' Japan
stop Ire and naval hero of th. Ruo'
Japan war. Th waloont was given
aboard th steamer Lusitenla at
quarantln by representaUve of th
state war and navy department and
a personal representative of Governor
Dlx. Following a fW warm word or
welcome on behalf of th nation th
delegation of American aocompnld
th distinguished Japanese In tug
to th revenue cutter Seneca rtandinr
hard by.
Seldom ha th lower bay witnessed
so re'markabl a midnight soene Th
whole ship sat up to bid th admiral,
good by. The rail wr black with'
hi fellow passengers a h stepped
tOoathtaed on pt seven)
send to The Citizen.