THE ASHEHLLE CITIZEN. THE WEATHER: . FAIR CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS VOL. XXVII., NO. 301 ASIIEVILLE, K C, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS MORE SENSATIONS SPRUNG BY WILEY N INVESTIGATION Q Charges That Three Cabinet Officers Virtually Endors ed Form of Bribery HIRED CHEMISTS TO MAKE AFFIDAVITS His Testlmonal Proving Fully As Sensational As Any body Had Dared Expect WASHINGTON, Aug 17. Dr. Har ley W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, created a sensation to day before the house investigating committee when he charged that three cabinet officers, Bitting aa board of review, had reversed the government' ruling in a corporation case after the corporation had offer ed money to chemists to endorse Its food product. The caso was that of the Corn Products company, whose right to apply the name of "Corn Byrup" to glucose, the bureau of chemistry Bn(l tne hoard of food and drug inspection had denied. Dr. Wiley testified that when the bureau and the board had agreed that the name was a misapplication, the cor poration had offered money to a chemist to make affidavits that corn syrup was a proper descrip tion. Shortly afterward he declared, the board of three cabinet officers, Secretary of -the Treasury Cortelyou, Secretary of Commerce and Labor Btraus and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson set aside the decision and sustained the contention of the cor poration. That ruling, he added, till stands. The Corn Products com pany, aald Dr. Wiley, charged that he had been "very busy" in creat ing sentlmont against Us products. Ho acknowledged that he had writ ten to every state chemist whose duty it was to enforce the pure food laws. He aald he did not receive one an swer favorable to "Corn Syrup." Ho wllll resume the .stand tomor row. ' FIRST BALE COMES CHEAP WADESBOHO, N. C Aug. IT. 'The first Sale of the, new --cotton crop to be sold In North Carolina was sold here this afternoon at 12 l-i cents a pound, the bale welgh: lng 470 pounds. The cotton 'as raised on the farm of Mr. John S. Watkins, near Wadesboro. It was bought by Leak & Marshall. POBLICITY BILL PASSES HOUSE IT TRUE mmm to n Opposition Could Not Vote for Federal Regulation of Primaries NOW GOES TO TAFT WASHINGTON. Aug. 17. The house today adopted, 283 to 27, the conference report on the campaign publicity bill. The report already has been adopted by the senate and the measure will go to the president at once. The action of the house was taken In spite of strenuous protest by aejfew southern members who Ini elated that the primary election fea ture of the bill waa an Infringement upon state's rights. As finally adopted the bill stands practically as It was amended by tjho senate. It requires that all candllates or the senate or house either In gen eral elections, primaries or nominat ing conventions, shall file statements of their expenses not more than 15 nor less than ten days before the elec- tlon or nomination. Expenses of can-jC my love and tell him how sorry II to retain the governorship until cer dldates for the senate are limited to I am our will was not God's will." and j tain legislation was accomplished. 110,000 and those of candidates for j he locked himself in his room and i The reason given by the governor the house to t6,000 and candidates I threatened to commit suicide if his I for his retention .of the office was are required to say what positions or door was forced but did not have the I his anxiety to see passed an antl- Iknonors tney have promised in an ef- j llfort to Influence votes. Personal trav- ! staling expenses and official fees do j lot have to be listed. i Representatives Hardwlck, Bartlett md rtlchardson led the fight against the bill declaring that they wanted publicity but could not vote for fed era; regulation of primary elections in their states. Kepresentatlve Rucker, of Missouri, author of the original bill and chair man of the committee, insisted that the would not interfere with regula tion of primaries by the states. MAX KILLED IX DEH.TX5fEVT LULA, Ga., Aug. 17. One man was killed and several slightly hurt about noon, today when a Southern railway freight train from Char lotte. N. C, to Atlanta, left the rails near here. Engineer C. B. Jones, of Atlanta, waa killed. Two brakemen and the fireman were Injured. The track waa torn UP for (00 feet. What caused the train to leave the track la not known. PRESIDENTS VETO ON WOOL WILL BE EASILY Great Applause Greets Underwood's Announcement Taken up Immediately And Pass ed By Big Majority. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Hepubll- absentees are ordered to be on hand can applause which greeted President i tomorrow. The democrats expect. Taffs veto of the wool tariff bill as It was read In the house late today was followed by an outburst of democratic cheers when Majority Leader Under wood announced that ha would call up the bill tomorrow and move Its passage over veto. The president's veto message reached the house while the roll was being called on Mr. 1'nderwood's mo tion to concur in the senate amend ments to the free list bill. When the conference reported on that bill Its final executive stage was an nounced, the reading of the presi dent's message was begun, each mem ber following the president's words from printed copies of the veto which had been distributed. WTien the read- Ized the measure a blend of an Ing was concluded Mr. Underwood avowed tariff for revenue and antl arose. protection measure with a professed Mr. Speaker, he suld, "I do not desire to ask that this message from the president lie referred to the com mittee on ways and meuns. I ask niai iv lie V11 me furunci B mint! aim iv. nnMe. fh.. t m ,.n n ,h- hi- tomorrow immediately after the read ing of the Journal, and move to pass It over the president's veto." Cheers From Democrats. Cheers and shouts from the demo cratic members greeted the an nouncement. Representative Garrett, of Tennessee, when quiet was re stored, asked unanimous consent to Incorporate in the record a portion of President Taft's speech at Winona, .Vtynn., In the last campaign. In which he described the wool schedule of the Pavne-Aldrlch tariff bill aa "indefen- sible" Republican Leader Mann Mann asked unanimous consent to, Incorporate the entire Winona ties In the last congress for the sub speech in the record, which carried, mission of adequate Information upon The democratic majority tomorrow will make a determined effort to pass the bliy over the veto. They have hopes that they will be able to do this. Representative Mann and other republican leaders expressed confi dence tonight that this will be Im possible. Representative Efwlght, the republican whip, has told the pres)-, dent that"the majority will hat be able to muster enough to carry 'he bill by a two-thirds vote. On the recent passage of the compromise bill in the house the vote was 206 to90. Absentees Coming In. Many members of both parties reached Washington today and all TESTIMONY IN FLEK L UNO IS GETTING WORSE Fleming Makes Diverse Charges Against Wife. Does Not Spare Self RECESS ORDERED RALEIGH, N. C, Aug. 17. Percy B. Fleming was on the witness stand undor cross examination this evening when Chief Justice Walter Clark an nounced a recess for the day In the sensational hearing of the petition of Mrs. Fleming for a writ of habeas I corpus involving the custody of the Although it was rumored that Gov two children and In which Fleming ' ernor Smith would call an extra ses replies by attacking the fitness of Mrs. Fleming to have the care of tho children. Fleming testified to eighteen months of happy married life In spite , of alleged extravagances, he said, she! ATLA.VTA, Ga., Aug. 17.The ill-forced-him to thet made him Insolv-, lotted fifty days of the 1911 session ent when he had been worth 110,000 was noted, among other 'things, for at the time ho married. the election of Governor Hoke Smith He testified that his wife wrote a I an tnrted States senator and his de Mrs. Wood in 190S at Beaufort: "aivot termination despite some oDDoiitian nerve. He said Mrs. riemlng would! curse, that she visited the bacheJor 1 home of Bartwell JVIse, meeting M. I W. Tyree. a photographer, there. Tyree had stayed at his house drunk and he and Bartell Wise and! Tyree were drinking tl ere and fought on account of these jealousies, he said, he having cut one or tnom with a knife and gotten his shot gun only to find them gone when he came with it. Afterward they made up and Flem ing asked Tyree to talk to Mrs. Flem ing about the way she waa doing. He said John Winder, Jr.. was too Intimate with his wife. That Winder same to the house one night and took Mrs. Fleming and Miss N'armle Rogers for a two-hour auto mobile ride when they were to only take a spin around the square. That he locked the house up and the two had trouble In getting In on their return at 11:30 o'clock. He denied that he drew a revolver on Mrs. Fleming that night as she (Coattsraed oa Page ftu) DEFEATED That It Will Be with their full quota of members present, together with the 30 repub licans who voted for the bill, that they can develop a two-thirds ma jority. Republican leaders assert that many of the fnsurgenta who voted for the bill will not do so over the presi dent's head. The house and senate disposed of the free list bill as agreed upon In conference, and It was signed tonight by Vice President Sherman and 8peaker Clark. It will be sent to the president tomorrow. President Tnft today curried out his threat to veto the wool tariff bill. In a special meage to the i houee of representatives he character protection bill. President's Defense, In explanation of his course Presi dent Taft said the bill was not In r , ... r . . . , harmony with the platform on which I he was elected. Furthermore, he de dared that the American people are deeply Impressed with the conviction "that the Interest of the consuming public can be properly guarded only by revising the tariff one schedule at a time and then ujon' accurate and scientifically acquired Information. That there Is a widespread belief that many of the rates In the wool , sohedule are too high and In excess of any needed protection for the wool grower and manufacturer Is admitted i by President Taft, .and he says he shares the belief. Asserting that De cember was the time fixed by both the republican and democratic par- schedule K with a view to his adop tlon, the president says there Is no public oxlgency "requiring revision in August without adequate lnforma tlon." After declaring that the business of the country rests on a protective basis and emphasizing tne need of t Xllbt.,ouxcHo litformatinst-ier leg islative action, the president promises that the tariff board will be ready to report In December and argues that the failure of the present bill should not be regarded therefore as taking away the only chance for reduction Conlmfrt on Page Bis.) EXTRA SESSION RUMORS RIFE OE GEORGIA SUNS T Failure of Senate to Make Vuts in Appropriations Q-ien as the Cause NO APPOINTMENT ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 17. The Oeorgla legislature adjourned at a late hour tonight, the house at 11 o'clock and he senate at 12:55. The appointments of Governor Smith were returned to him unopened b? tne nate. sion of the legislature he gave no ln tlmntlon of his purpose In that direc tion tonight. IUMORS RITE OF EaVTRA SESSION lobbying bill, and In this he was satisfied. Other important events of the session were: Defeat of a bill by commlttM prohibiting sale of "near beer-' dbs- sage of a bill making possession of federal liquor license prima facia ev Idence of conducting sale of liquor, refusal td admit women lawyers to bar, enactment of Georgia's first game and fish law; making It pos sible for cities to adopt commission form of government; proposed to re move capital to Macon; creation of office of state auditor; creation of department of labor. Final adjourn ment of the session tonight was de cayed because of opposition In the senate to consideration of certain appointments sent the senate by the governor. It waa said early tonight that the appointments might not be confirmed. Rumors that an extra' session would be tailed were rlfo tonight. Failure of the" senate to make what the governor coneldered a sufficient cut In appropriations waa given as the basis of the ru- AMD IDE THAN HALF THROUGH HIS Actual Time In Air Has Been Exactly Thirteen Hours And Fifteen Minutes FLIES 643 MILES IN 793 MINUTES Entry Into Cleveland as Thril ling as Ovations Accord ed at Other Places CLEVELAND p.. Aug. lO.-WIth another gala t his credit of 121 miles, Harry H. Atwood arrived In Cleveland this) afternoon on his mon oplane flight. troth St. Louis to New York. ""'lit He covered the 123 miles between Toledo and Cleveland in an actual flying time of tiro hours and twenty minutes. '''hi" "Just an easy canter," said' At wood, as ha :ttpx-. from his bi plane In a park on the Lake shore of the city. "In live duys New York will see me hop over Its tallest sky-scrapers and glide Into the sand at Coney Island." The Boston), has now travelled 41 miles from his starting point In St. Louis. He Still has 622 miles to fly to. reach his" destination In New Tork. He therefore has gone Just ten and one-half miles more than half of the l.J mile trip which he says will show , the possibility of a futtfe oceaa-y-ocean fllghA. His total time actually In the air since he left St. Louie last Monday Is IS hours and It minutes. ThriHlng Entry. Blowing of whistles and the cheer ing of people 'crowded on the roofs of office buildings made Atwood: entry Into Cleveland shortly before I o'cloek a.trrrlHlng as the ova tions accoroeo f nim at Pt. Louis, Chicago and , Toledo. Coming with the "up-hiir'wkant listial wMh him when approaching a city the airman oared to an attitude of 1.800 feet where envelope In the misty atmos-L pnere tne blp'ane was only Indis tinctly visible -.to the thousands o( 1 -Tliat an aerena'it cannot quickly turn out tne spot arranged for his landing In a strange city was as-aln evidenced When Atwood by mistake at :l p. m. descended at Edge water Park In the Western section - --r.-n.,ll..i.ll.l -.- ..r-,- .o.m-,-1 -.ni.m inn... fCOlHlnnrl on Pate Mix I fiOWIC MHIJIGE OF PflESOTOF TBIlin Romance Began in Col lege Years Ago, Bride Graduate of 1906 Class DURHAM, ,V C. Aug. 17 A ro- manco which l.an a few years ago In a class rnnrii at Trlnllv ....li-.. here, culmlriHt..! t.. night in tho rlage at Mart'nsvllln, Va . of I'resl-1 dent Few. of Trinity, and Miss Mary j Kearney ThnrrH." a member of the j class which was rraduated from h I Institution in l '':. Tho association that begun whin Miss Thomas as Trinity studer.i. was a membor of one Dr. Few'H huiaes, soon ripened into a friendship which presently gave way t' n attachment of n deeper sort. Ml Thomas la thu daughter if farmer Representative Lines Thomas l Virginia, and fol lowing gradmiil'.n from Trinity studied at Columbia university and travelled exteim! ly. Dr. and Mrs Few will resblf in Durham. TXHiO NOT TO OO. ROSTOV. A'J 17. Admiral Count Togo, the Japii'- sea fighter, worn out by feasts iir l receptions, broke down physlcal'i ' 'day and cnneelle 1 his proposed '!: to the North Atlantic equuiir r engaged In ma. neuvnrs off Pr 'ncetown. He com plained of a H:: - attack of Inden tion and through -'it the day remained in his room r"ng. Plans for to morrow are d p -. :nt entirely on how the admiral fee t The abandonment today of the visit to the Atlantic wns a great d1se.ppi.ln- Rent not only to the Amerlcsn officer iiut to the admiral himself, who sen' messages of regret to Acting Secretn-v of the Navy Reek man W'lnthrop ard Rear Admiral O.1- ( terhaus. In command Of the fleet. I WASHINGTON. Aug. - IT. Fore cast for North Carolina: Fair Fri day, except showers in west portion; Saturday showers; light to modems winds, mostly southwest ' ' TRIP TONEW YORK TRAEFIC OF ENTIRE UNITED KINGDOM WILL BE CRIPPLED If Men Respond to Genertl Strike Order Issued-All Depends Now upon Number of Men" Keeping In Line""-Army on Move, LONDON, Aug. 17. The strenuous, i The chancellor admitted that to almoat desperate efforts the liberal day's negotiations and Premier As government has made to prevent thelqulth's offer to form a royal commls greatewt conflict between capital andfslon to effect a settlement of the labor that Knglamt ever has witness-1 strike had resulted In a mlaunder ed are trembltng in the balance to- standing on the part of the men night. Representatives of the four f which yet might be put straight. But organisations comprising the anial-fthe spokesmen of the railway em gamstcd Society of Hallway Servants! ployes refused to accept Mr. Lloyd Issued a strike order tonight calling j George's view of the situation and In out the 100.000 members of their al-! slated on calling the etrtke, even lied unions. The men were asked to strike "immediately.' Though the membership of the unions ts leas than one-sixth of the entire force of railway workmen, It Includes the highest skilled labor ers employed by the companies and if they all keep In line they wtlL be able to cripple the traffic of the en tire United Kingdom. The vital question In the situation now Is how )arg,o a' proportion of the men will respond to the strike order. No one can. answer the question or even attempt to summarise the sit uation tonight. Nes Definite Information. At midnight neither the board of trade, the railway managers nor the union leaders has any definite Infor mation of bow far the men were re sponding to the strike order. Tel egrams were pouring In that a thousand men had struck here and five hundred at another place, but the meesages were based largely on guess work. As far as London Is concerned the strike has not visibly affected traffic as yet. All trains are moving as usual and the only dis turbance reported was a small row between union and nnn-unon men at the Bt. Fancraa mat on. Let to night the executive committee of the Strikers Issued a statement saying: Results from the provtnees point to an OArty decisive victory. The leaders, however, cotfld not glvve details supporting fhls asser tion. Strike SUvrd Off. The government had been success ful In Its attempt to stave off the strike which had been set to begin at I o'clock thhtTWorntng ana tomgnj David Lioyd0orge, the chancellor of ho Tcheniier. eteppeu imo th I breach in tne house of commons after the day s conn itiii b i i" r . Um. -.i, m failure In an endeavor fur"-" to delay Ih walkout :,l,r.e1u,U:ntT1hr0c"n.'r"v:r.;.l SEABOARD AIR LlUli WRECKED ONE FATALITY Five Passengers Seriously, Though Not Necessarily Fatally, Hurt WILMINOTON. N. C. Aug. IT. Miss Ilessle Jones, of Montgomery, ai m.mntlv killed and five seriously, mar-'oiher passengers were though not necessarily fatally. In Jufd when HeaboariJ Air Line pas- sengcr tram No. 40, from i nariouo and Atlanta to Wilmington, was wr.-in.ii this afternoon five mfles east of Lurnberton, N. C. The chair car and sleeper In whl.h were trav eling a number of passengers Vound to Wrlglitsvlllo Ileach, N. C Tor tho week-end, were derailed and turned over. ' Tho Injured were taken to Bladen boro, N. C, for treatment. The wreck Is said to have been caused by a "rail kink" following a day of Intense heat. After receiving temporarily medt cl attention at the scene of the wreck the injured were brought here tonight and are being cared for by physicians, with the exception of I'ullrnan Conductor J. B. Hill of this city, who Is thought to have recelv ed Internal Injuries, none sre sel- ouhJv hurt. The Injured were; J M Fltzpatrick, Wetumpka. Ala, " I Dunnlaon, Fafayette, Ala. May Dennlson, Lafayette, Ala, F. A Vernon, Cusseta. Ala. Mrs F. A Vernon, Cusseta, Ala. Isivid fprldgafi, iPullman porter., W'.lmlriKtnn. George Drown, Atlanta. colored, j Pullman porter. J It Hill. Wilmington, N. C, Pull-1 man rondu''tor. Geo Benson, Wilmington. T. B. Jar mx. Tarboro. N. C. Mrs W". W. Jones, Watumpka, Ala. fiarah Burnson, colored, maid of Mrs Juries. Dtipree Hunnycutt, Athens, Ga. It. H. Mulllns. Helms, Ala. , ALIENISTS IN BEATTTE CASE RICHMOND, Va.. Aug 17. Ar rangement have been made by thej prosecution In the case of Henry O. Beattle. Jr.. the alleged wife mur-' derer, for the attendance at the trial i next Monday of several of the best i known alienists in Virginia. They1 include Dr. W. F. Drewery. super-1 Intendent of the Central State Hos- pltal for the insane at Petersburg, j and Dr L. G. 8. Gamett of Staun ton, superintendent of the Western I BUtt Hospital. though the negotiations had not been definitely broken off. Premier As qulth's proposition was to form a roy al commission of three members, one from the railway companies, one from tlfe strikers and the third, the chairman, a man w-l known for his Impartiality. The railway companies' representatives accepted the proposi tion but the employes rejected It. Da vid Lloyd-George announced In the house of commons after tho confer ences that the men thought the pro posals of a royal eommlslson waa the usual scheme to effect delay and that he believed that was the reason they would not accept It. A dramatic fea ture of the affair la that England's rarmy Is en the move. Its activities might b described as nearer a mob ilisation than at any time for sums years. The government Is deploying troops to meet the emergency all over the country. At Aldershot tonlgnt 15,000 soldiers were loaded on tl trains. The authorities refused to make public their destinations but a large proportion of them have come to London, and are encamping in the parks and near the railway stations. Four thousand Infantry ara In Vic torla Park, In the sast end of London and the center of its itioit turbulent population.' Infantry Raising Tent. Three thousand Infantry ar rais ing tents In Ksgsnt Park, another 1,000 In Hyd Park, 00 are guarding the general postofflee and another 600 are encamped at the Tower of London. The only London railway station where soldiers ara In evidence la Clapnam Junction, the center of several suburban Ilnea, which tU stents sruards are picketing. Else nere treops re Dtn mtd t Wttn teglcal polnta all over the oouptry. The government's plana to eee with the strike seem fully arranged Tne tunneis ana me im.i wn ' " .the Chief point, which it purpose. renting on Pag. .. LINCOLN BEACHEY STILL Man Who Flew Here "Cut Cuts in Appropriations Given as the Cause CHICAGO, Aug, IT. Results In aviation field: Nine miles speed contest for bi planes: Lincoln Heachy, won. Time 13 minutes 34.4 seconds. J. A. D. Mc- Curdy, second; time, 13 minutes 40 seconds. Fastest lap of one mile and a third. Lincoln Heachy, one minute 27.08 seconds. Starting: John J. Friable, 131 feet t Inches. Bomb Throwing: J. A. V. McCurdy, S polnta of pos sible 14. Passsnger carrying speed con test for monoplanes: Joseph J, Sopwlth, It minutes 44.12 second. II K A CUT'S NARROW ESCAPE. CHICAGO. Aug. 17. An appeal to the United Htatee courts to settle a claim that Is said to bear the same re lation to the aviation world that the Helden patent case did to the auto mobile Company In the United States District court against the Interns-' tlonal Aviation Meot association. Its officers and members of the executive committee claiming an Infringement of patent by every one of the two score aeroplanes at the meet and ssk- srs"ewasi (Continued on Par Rlx) Nominate Candidate Nomination Blank Go od for 1,000 Votes. The Ashevillc Citizen $5,640 Subscription Contest Candidate Address Telephone No. Only One Nomination Blank for Each Candidate Will Count at 1,000 Votes. f Cut out and bring or send to Tho Citizen. ' ' COALITION BREAK INDICATES EARLY E Republicans Absented Them selves From Senate. Leav ing Insurgents Ruffled DEMOCRATS PASSED BILLS ON OWN HOOK But as Vetoes Are Certain And Coalition "Busted" Will Be Of No Avail BREAK FOR ROM WASHINGTON, Aug. IT. A shrewd movs of the regular republl cans as unexpected as it waa sffeo. tlce today suddenly threw the demo crats into complete control of the ten ate In their own right and forced ' them absolutely to abandon their coalition with the progressiva rtpub- ' llcans. uut of the chaos and the uproar came a bill to revise the eotton ached ule of the Psyne-Aldrleh tariff law, It was the bill at nested by the house but saddled with amendments to re vise the iron and steel, the eotton machinery and chemical schedules ot the tariff law, coupled with a prov. ' slon for reciprocal fret trade In bitu minous coal across the Canadian bor der. . ' The bill at emended will go back to the house and probably will be tent to conference. li It emerget from this ordeal and goes to the white house it unquestionably will moot the fate ot the wool revision bill which was vetoed today by President Taft. HrpnMMiu &cv, - Democratlo votes alone war cast lh favor of the bill. The regular re publicans deliberately absented them, selves from the chamber and thus left , their progressiva colleagues in a. hopeless and hlplM minority. The Insurgent, taken completely by sur prise, were thrown into raga. Al ternately (hay : denounced what they tormtd th treachery of the dsmo erats with whom thsy had been In alliance, and Inveighed against the regular republicans for the part they had ptayid In the new combination which had brought about a revolution In the senate as startling and sense-' tlenal as the coalition which earlier had robbed the regular republicans of their supremacy In the upper bouse' ef congress. , In vain the Insurgents Invoked alt- -but-forgotten rules of the senate to compel tho regular to attend and te cast their vita, fsnstorlal eourtesn. (fVwtlnaed em Page) rivo) goldsbh mm Offenses Said to Have Been Taking Valuables From, the Trunks .' ' BOTH LOCKED UP RALKIOII. N, C, Aug. IT. At Ooldsboro, N. C, tonight railroad da-: t act Ives for the Norfolk Southern arrested W. O. Cooper and ai Wll mlngton John Cssey, both well known young men of Ooldsboro on the charge of larceny. The alleged offenses ara tald to have consisted of purloining Jewelry, money and other valuable from tha trunks of passengers, The two men have been employed as baggage mat ters on the Norfolk Southern. Both are tonight locked up pending a pre liminary hearing. PRONOUNCED BCICIDE NEW TORK, Aug. 17. Chas. Na thun, a clothing merchant of Fort Smith, Ark., was found dead In hi room at a local hotel today with bullet wound In hi temple and re volver nearby. The coroner pro-. nounced aa acae of suhrlde.