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1WIELE CITIZEN. Circulation . A A A Daily Over OjU UU : ASIIEVILLE, N. C, THE SDAY, MOANING, SETTE MBER 19, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS vol. x3yn:,NO. 332 THE WEATHEE ; I M IL-JT jV A li , .FAIR'- '" I ITT j XVkj RUSSIAN PREMIER PETER A: STOLYPIM DIESFRlilli towards the End. Stoiypin Suffered Greatly. Was Con scious all the Time PREMATURE REPORTS v OF PREMIER'S DEATH Representatives of Jewish Communities Panic Stricken Fearing Outbreak KIEV, Sept. 11. The Russian pje jnler, Peter A. Stoiypin. died tonight from bullet wound received at the hand of an assasln during a gala 'performance at the Municipal theatre Thursday evening. The official time of his death was announced at 10.1 J p. m. it.lt p. m. New Tork).v Almost until 'the last the premier waa con scious, and for half an hour during the eaj-ly part of the evening his wife alone was at his tcdslde. . Towards the end Stoiypin suffered greatly. He groaned Incessantly and ., threw himself about on the-couch on which he lay. Finally the heart actio became weaker, and. as -the body( grew cold, the prelmer realised ';' that death was overtaking him. At a lucid Interval a priest administer-' ed extreme unction, '"'" ", 4 1 Died Peacefully The Metropolitan t'lavlan blessed , and consoled him fn his ' last mo. ments.:' His last wards were. '"Light me up." Half an hour before his 'death, Stoiypin asked the doctors to turn him on his aide. He died peace fully, surrounded by several of his re- , latlves and stats officers., " AH hope' of the premier's recovery was abandoned this morning. Satur day nliht Indications oX peritonltlc were noted wftch became aggravated Sunday. The bulletin; Issued by the attending physicians erly this eve ning declared that the patient's condti , tlons was hopeless. Prematura re-.. . ports of the premier's death were current for hours before It occurred. Several missions and embassies were Vjisted by these reports pd,jnatMed fT fojrwnmenta .Th .authorities rf e-t flrst , decided to. conceal - the,, jnews of the premier's death until mom j Ing, rearing outbreaks. This- was found to be Impossible and after the announcement waa mada n fh. . fJtentlon of the authorities was cen- (Contiimed. on Pago Eight) LEADER OF OPPOSITION ISSUES Fill APPEAL JEISnEEIPBOCITy Borden Says That fcis Hopes Are Bound up with Hopes of His Country "HOPEFUL OUTLOOK' HALIFAX, Jtf. R., Sept. II. R. L. Borden, the opposition leader, issued a final appeal to the people of Can ada tonight to defeat reciprocity. The appeal In the form of a signed state ment declared that the people under stood that they are now called to de termine not alone of a mere question Nor today but the future interests of .Fiionicu iu uueraia ana conservatives alike and saya he speaks not as a party leader but as a Canadian citlsen whose hopes are bound up with the hopes'. of his coun try. While he says that the outlook is full of hope, he believes "that we are In truth standing at the parting of the ways" and he therefore begs the people to cast a soberly vote for the "preservation of our heritage, for the maintenance of our commercial and' political freedom and for the perma nence of Canada as an autonomous - lUUU V nation within tha British empire. ONLY IN KIMONA .WOMAN LEAVES TRAIN WABASH. Ind.. Sept 1C While I passing through the outskirts of the city, a mile from the station where the train had, stopped, Mrs.' John Henri, wife of a wealthy s Kansas City manufacturer, waa awakened by ' a Pullman' porter early Saturday and told to alight from the fast west bound passenger train. Grasping ier klmona and not stop ping to think that she was not due to - 'reach her destination until evenlBg, ah e. obeyed the order and left, the train, at a treet crossing. As '.he ' .train pu)led out she realised that she jy'wu the victim of a mistake made by IIW uuriVl? will II.U lllicuucu CTMllliK " a Wabash woman who had been car-! : ried by the station. ,. 1 . ! ' Hurrying Into a nearby house. Mrs.! Henri.-'who was en route home from . New" York, after a trp to Europe: bor rowed a dress and hat and took- si later train for bar Oestlnatrtn., HAWKINS INQUEST THROWS NO LIGHT ON GIRL S DEAT! Authorities Hoping Against Hope ThattToday Will Bring Forth Ev idence of a Decisive Nature. Story Of GirTs Watch. HENDERSONVIIXE. Sept While the resumption of the coroner's Inquest in the Myrtle Hawkins case, which waa again adjourned until I.SO o'clock tomorrow afternoon, today re vealed, no new developments of a startling nature, the county of Hen derson, through the testlWohy of Wal lace Iteddln. sought to establish the fact that Qeof-g Bradley, who, ac cording to his own statements on the stand last Friday, "kept company' with Mrrtle Hawkins for several months before his marriage, waa seen with a woman on Thuraday evening of the week before last, the day of Mis Hawkins' disappearance from botne. -r . Bcddin's Testimony. Reddln, on the stand, said that on Thursday evening of last week he saw Bradley and a. small woman walking together along tfce Lake Osceola road. Bradley and the woman were talking in an earnest manner, he said, but he could .not distinguish the Unor of their conversation. The woman was bareheaded, said' 'he witness; He was certain that his mef ting, with the Couple was on Thursday because he returned a. buggy which he,. had,,. bor rowed from a neighbor on that day. In answer to continued questioning Reddln declared that early In the aft ernoon of Wednesday he had met MISS Hawkins, whom he knew, walking alone on Oscedia roadi Eut he could not identify the woman he saw walk ing with Bradley on tha M"f the following .day as , being Myrtle Hawkins. ;. reatnre of Inttres. Another feature of strong Interest In this afternoon's proceedings was the testimony of Lucy Wright, daugh ter of Mrs. Reuben Wright, who says she heard ev woman': scraming on Wednesday night at midnight Miss Wright says that while wr lng on Saturday morning she fotuid a watch . jt, .niiiarnv" ; of the lake. The witch, which was later identllled as being th property oi myrne -kins, hsd stopped at half lt nine. tha-heyhad sftsB, Myrtla and George Bradley walkmg down the lake road on Wednesday and Thurs day afternoons. The county today, through the law yers retained by the Hawkins fam ily, direct, d Its questions along chan nel, aeeking to "how that another TWO DAYS AFTER CRIME NESRO WILL BE BROUGHT BEFOBE BAR OF JUSTICE Knowing this People of Warrenton Decide to Let Law Take Its Course FATHER NOT . KILLED WARRENTON, N. C' Sept. 18. Quiet prevailed today, following tho reported determination of an attempt to lynch Geo. Marshall, the ne?ro who attempted to ravish Mrs. 3. E. Chaplin at Vlcksboro near here. The Warren county grand Jury organized today and formally Indicted Marshall. The negro waa immediately arraignd and his trial set for tomorrow after noon at t o'clock. A special venire of 60 men was ordered. The author ities tonight denied .reports of a near lynching. - J. W. Abbott Mrs. Chaplin's fath er, who want to her rescue and was shot by the negro, was not killed as was reported. Today it was thought he would recover. ROBIXSOX FOR LONG FLIGHT ST. LOUIS, Sept IS .Hugh K. Robinson, the aviator, has been nomi nated by the Trans-Mississippi River Flight association to make the Min neapolis to New Orleans hydro po aeroplane flight of 1,(17 miles. Rob inson will start from the sub-surface-of Lake Chalon Wednesday morning, October 11. He y ill ttr- for a purse of II9.000 raised by the river cities In which he Is to give hydro-aero-planing exhibitions. His trip down the river will be In easy stages. The start is timed for the opening of the deep - waterways convention In Chi cago. , .Every effort will be made to call attention to the lenjth and pos sobllitiee of t'.ie Mississippi river and the Importance of cities located on It Jf EITHER WILL DIE. CORDELE, Ga.. Sept Is. Mrs. J. T. Hudson, who Is was alleged was shot yesterday by ber husband, who afterward shot himself, will recover, Hudson's wound was not serious.- Ac cording to a statement made by HudK son today the shooting was accidental Hudson says only one shot was fired. tfi. bullet plowing through his shoul der and entering his wife's body. This statement It is. said, has been corrob orated by Mrs. Hudson. ' Hudson was released today an s small bond. --. - "trained nurse," whose name was not given, had been doing duty in the lake section last week. No Warrant. There waa no further 'talk tonight about warrants being drawn up and served, and unless a, stronger case Is made out than la at prsent apparent there is not likely to be any arrests. Seldom In the annals of crimlnol ogy has. a. case presented mo many baffling features. The discovery of a certain evidence among the blood stain d garments of the dead girl still further complicates matters and man) theories which have been jealously guarded by those working to solve the mystery of Myrtle Hawkins' death have , ben cast aside.. AnotheV "trained nurse" featured In the street, gossip today but that theory has been punctured and the woman In question. like all her predecessors, has been en tlreiy eliminated from official consld eratton. Letters i from Cranks, From authentic reports tonight It Is morally' certain that Miss , Estelle Grant, the trained nurse from At lanta, whose name , was wrongfully connected in some of . the public prints with the Hawkins ca'e,-will be heard from again, as her father and her uncle, ex-Conreasman Grant, de clare that they will seek redress in the COUrtS. : ," The letters and other finds, men Honed In yesterday's Citlsen, were not produced at today's hearing, but they will probably be read today., As In the famous Beattle case several? let ters have been received from outside cranks and amateur Sherlocks who advance pet theories and evince an ability and willingness to unravel the mystery. " , When tbn Watrh Stopped. The screams o'f a woman In agony, heard by two persons last Wednee day night, or claimed to have been heard, have gone down In the weeding out process since they could not have been the crtrs of Myrtle Hawkins, who was alive and welt on the Thurs day' mTrpmKoHrrirtTC-'"Be ytmd-a question of tJouM -'the . "girl 'disap peared from public view and. from the scenes of earth soma time .after sundown on Thursday venlnt. She was probably dead by 9.10 o'clock on that night, as her watch, found In the (Continued on page five.) OF A.C.L. GAR REPAIRERS WILL BE EASILY SETTLED And That There Will Be No Possible Occasion for Sympathetic Strike STATEMENT ISSUED WILMINGTON, N. C. Sept. 18. Following a conference here today between R. E. Smith, general super intendent of motive power of the Atlantic Coast Line, and E. M. Dough ty, of Charleston. 8. C,' chairman of the grievance commttee of the In ternational Association Forkers, re garding the walk out of car repairers and inspectors In the shops of the company at Rocky Mount, N. C, Flor ence, 8. C. and Wilmington, it is believed that the rVfferencea between the men and the coTnpany will be set tled and that there will be no occa sion for a sympathetic strike of oth er crafts. The officials here are ad vised that the railway trainmen has issued a statement to the effect that rhey are not affiliated with the ear workers and are not affected by the walk out ' Mr. Doughty went to Rocky Mount tonight -for a conference with the men and no developments are ex pected until tomorrow. HUNGRY BEARS RAID TOWN. HOQWAM. Wash., Sept 11. Not alarmed at his proximity to the haunts of man, a .bjg black bear tore his way Into a pig pen owned by Jack Sparling located near his residence In the out skirts of Hoouism. and before Spar ling could Interfere had killed one, of the finest hogs In tha yard. Sparling ran to the house for his rifle, but be fore he could get It the bear escaped Into the woods. There are a great many bears In the woods In the vicinity of Hoqutam this season and during the last few weeks they have become " particularly bold, as a result of the shortage of the wild berry crop. TWELVE REPORTED KILLED . LAREDO. Tex.. .Sept J I. Twelve followers of Rleardo Flores Magon and three men of the ' Maderlsta forces representing the federal gov ernment, are reported to fcava been killed In a battle foutht near the town of Camargo, Mexico, last night sernrdlng to telegraphic advices here tonlgbl, - -- v NEW VIGOR IS PUT INTO CRUSADE 10 PEfiSil CLERKS Committee .of One Hundred lakes up Work After Sum mer Vacation GENERAL DJCK SENDS OUT LETTER APPEAL Wants Every State in the Un ion to Have Representative tn Committee WASHINGTON, sept H. With re newed vigor tha ttommlttse of 100, appointed several loon tha aaro by launch a movement for better con- dIUons and higher- salaries for , em ployes of the federal government .to day took up the Work which has been lagging during tha summer months. Pointing put the ned for such an organisation, and .showings that unless a systematic , ff ott to, Impress u pon conrea th urgent 'necessity for im mediate assistance to the J50.000 no. ernment' clerks, , the commute, through Its managing director, for mer Senator Charles Dick, of Ohio, haa written letter to the represents' tlve men of tho larger cities of the i-oimtiv, d In nil ;ths states, asking for support , t For Henetit Of An Clerks. 1 ."As tha movement started by the commute of 100 is for the benefit of all clerks In the. government classi fied service, : whether employed In Washington or iflsewhere, an effort la being mad to have-In the member ship of too. committee a representa tive of ' overy ftato ?qf the utilon," Gen. Pick says in his Utter. ; "'With the completion' of 'this preliminary work and' the conretilng of con (trees tn December, It t .Intended to wage i arrefive campaign In behalf of the government clerks. .v "As Is generally known, within re. cent years, the pay of the army, the navy, the president cabinet members, senators, representative In .fact for atl employes of the government except In the classified service has been in creased. ' , . - ASPECTS SfilllSH TO Says There's No Tendency ; Toward Smaller Battle ships as Was Reported . NEW YORK, Sept.ll. No sign of any tendency among BrltUh naval ftuthorltlon to favor reduction In slxe of warships was found by Geo. Von L. Meyer, secretary of the nsvy, who haa returned from a vslt to the Brit ish navy yards and private shipbuild ing plants. ThrouKh the courtesy of the British admiralty Secretary Meyer was given every opportunity to study thoroughly the naval method in the British Isles and he came, back par ticularly Impressed with the humane methods with which deserters and other military and naval prisoners are treated. Steps already are being taken, he says, to est&Miah detention bar racks jj this '" country along the lines of thosa at Aldershot and Portsmouth. "Thero are build. ng In Knjtland and other countries," he said "large, fast armored cruisers of 27.000 tons and ZS-knot speed with which we have, -as yet nothing to compare. I have read In some American papers of a ' reaction toward smaller battle ships In ths British nax-y but 1 saw no signs of such a tendency." Mr. Meyer said he was more than ever In favor of fewer government yards in this country and that he wanted the rank of vice admiral re. stored to the servl. .. He hopes con gress soon will pass a naval person nel bill that will give to the navy younger admirals and captans. "My observation." Mr. Meyer said, "have strengthened my conviction. That we can do all the necessary work for the naw in a less number of yards and that bv the change we will gain not only greater economy but greater efficiency. My observa tions also are that all the European navies hav the proper number of admiral of Sultana rank. Whereas In our own navy we l ave no officers of higher rank than rar admiral. I am of the optnjon thai we should st least have vice admirals if for no other reaspn than to give to the United .-States proper recognition when our fleeis meet tho fleets of other nations." - WASHINGTON. Sept II. Fore cast: North Carolina, generally fair Tuesday and ' Wednesday, ' except probably showers Wednesday night In west portion; cooler wst and cen tral portions Wednesday; light va riable winds. - ... m iiu'iii i aw WITH VIGOR TAFT DEFENDS SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S. i 'Trusts" Subject of First Set Speech Of His Long Tour Announces Unqualified Opposition to Amend ing Sherman Anti-trust Law. DETROIT. Mich.. Sept 1. Pres' dent Taft today plunged Into the po litical phase .of his long trip through the west and deliveredone of the set speeches which may have a deter mining effect 'upon his future. Mr. Taft chone the "Trusts" for his first appeal to the pciiiiie. and outlined tits position regarding this fver-pren nant issue, hi a kjcouti speech ha answered the charge that he hat used patronage to further his own ends and boldly challenged the men who had made tha charge to come forward and Join him In an exten sion of the civil service to practi cally all of the appointive offices un der tha government Mr, Taft's free use of the words, -"I challenge." gave a campaign ing to his utterances which seemed to delight hi hearers. Oppotira Amendments -.; The president announced his un qualified 'opposition to any amend ment of tho Sherman anti-trust law dosigned . to overthrow the ' rule of reason laid down "5 by tha " ITnltwd States Supreme court In tho Standard Oil and Tobacco, trust oases, and challenged Wm. J. Bryan and all oth r critics of ths court to cite a re strain of trad which they would conv demn and whloh would not be con demned under Mr. Justice White's definition of the law. ' Mr. Taft de clared that ; tha department of Jus tice at Washington is conducting an Investigation of all' corporations sua. pected of operating In defiance of tha anti-trust1 law and added that the statute as Interpreted by the Supreme court, would be round sufficient to Cause the breaking up of any Illegal combinations. , Tha president, entered Into the defense of the Supreme court with mora than his usual vigor and his speech was frequently ' Interrupt ed with applause. Ths "trusts" speech cam near tha close of nine busy hour spent by the president- In-1 and about Detroit Whersver he went 10 Detroit proper today, at Pontiae and trie state fair grounds,, Mr Taft was compelled to -moke !,; wny.xhrough 'Sanaa crowd. ', R1a - welcome Into Michigan,' which. la regarded as wav. erlng on the brink of insurgency, seemed to please tha president Im mensely and he waa In a happy mood when he left at 4. SO p. m. for Sag inaw, where a half hour stop? was made, and for Bay C?Ity, where hs spent the remainder of tho avenlnif, and dedicated the' now armory, Two Senators Present . Mr. Taft spends four days in Mich igan, swinging tomorrow up to Sault Ste Marie. He was greeted hers to. day by both Senators Smith and Townsend. Governor Osborne, - de tained .at Lansing, sent a warm mes sage of welcome. The president's day was filled with Incidents. He arrived in a downpour of rain, but while breakfasting at the Detroit club, the clouds begsn to break away' and by the time he started for Pontiae by special trolley train, the sun had coma out and the skies were blue up to the hour of his final leave-taking In the late afternoon. There were ONLY THREE WITNESSES HEARD IMS CASE Physician Told pf Finding Evidence of Poison After Pump Was Applied LEE8BURO, Oa., Spt. It. Only three witnesses were heard today In the preliminary trial of it. P. Ken nedy, of Smlthvtlle, charged with the1 murder of Mrs. Mort S. Chllders by poison on August 15. The hearing Will bo continued tomorrow. Dr. W. T. Simpson, one of the physicians . who was called In .when . Mrs. Chllders cried out that' she had been poisoned testified to the young woman's con dition and the finding of evidences of poison after the stomach pump had beon applied. A:.t,iiw.r witness was the young hua- band. Mort B. Chllders. He told of' having purchased some medicine for his wife and having cautioned her, before he left Smlthville for Ieea burg, to be sure to take her. medi cine. It was this medicine In which the fatal dose of poison had been placed. Chlldors testified that he was not present when his wife died, hav inb seen detained on the road with automobile trouble. BABY BROTHER KILLS HIS LITTLE SISTER CHARUTTTE. 8. C. Sept. It. The peculiarly atrocious burning of the two-year-old child of E. O. Friday, a roeprous farmer of Iredell, by her brother, four years old, "came lo flM today. The older child deliberately Ignited a small torch and applied It to tho clothing iri - Tior'IVe tfjinv. When asked his reason for commit ting the fiendish act the child re plied, "Just because." He has been caught repeatedly In the act of set ting flro to furnishings of the house and is possessed of a mania (or fire. crowds at the atstlon as early as 1. 10 o'clock and neither the rain nor the police, who drew a dead la half a block away, seemed to dampen their enthusiasm. At Pontlao tha president was greeted By a big throng but it waa at the opening of the stats fair later In the forenoon that he faced his largest audience, In the midst of a splendid display ths president spoke of tha value of scien tific farming. Following an Introduction by Milton McRea, the president of tha Detroit Board of Commerce, Mr. Taft waa In' terrupted by an enthualastlo admirer who called out: From an Admirer Threo cheers for the next presa. dent of tha United Statea," .t - Tha president smiled Indulgently and then with something of a twin kle in hla eye. he replied: ' . "My friend. I fear that you are not a prophet" Ths live miles of streets leading In to Detroit horn tho fair grounds were lined with people and tho prest. dent was given a noisy greeting as t passed by. It was at tho board of commerce luncheon that President Taft took up tho trust question. Tho function, held In an immense pavil ion, was. attended by approximately 1,100 business men or tho city, Mayor Thompson and President McRao of tho board, In brief speeches of welcome, and introduction, re. terred to President Taft's afforts for rsolproelty,. which Is heartily favor, d in Derolt, but . their enthusiasm and praise did not swerve Mr. Taft from his determfnatlon to oar noth ing on that subject a mil the Cana. dlan elections aro completed neat Thursday evening. Following tha luncheon camo an automobile parage through tho city and a brief visit to tha convention of United States In tsrnai rsvsnuo officers whore tho president spoke regarding patronage, thus adding another political touoh tn hta vUtt ,: - .. . . . . ... r mcu . . . ... j nwj nay vnsrgea-me wit astag patronage to aecompJCT something.' ho said, "jf i have, 1 am not con. sclpus of It. But I challenge tha man who mads tho charge to come forward and Join me In explanation which will enable me to put ovary local officer, be he t postmaster. In ternal rsvsnuo collector of customs, or anybody else filling ah office of of tha United States under cfcfelflsd civil service. But they won't do it -at least they won't do It now." f tt I had tho making of the laws of this country, tho first thing I would do would' bo to include In tho civil service overy collector, deputy collector and everybody connected with ths Internal revenue system In local collections and put tho whole service on an affective, non-partisan basis. I know that it would bs a source 6f economy. I know that it would give tha president a groat deal more tlma to devote to other dutles; I know that It would save a good many congressmen their seats and I know that It would tend to the eloa vatlon of tho public service." RICE ADDED TO LIST OF FOODSTHAT INCREASE Harvest Prospects in Texas Poor, Says Association Secretary NATCHEZ, Miss., Sept. It. Hon duras and Japan rice will advance in price an average of tt cents a baa on Sept. 80, according to advices re ceived by T. D. Brown, president of i, tn ilwls!ppl Hlver Hire Growers' association, from A. C. Wilklns, sec re. my and gtnrral manager of the Boutherjj Rice Growers' association. For No. 1 grade, Mr, Wilklns says, 13.25 will be announced, The Increase extends to No. , which will be ti.sO. Except in the vicinity of Houston, Tex., sgd west of that city harvest prospects are poor, according to Mr. Wllklne. The Carolina rice crop haa been practically wiped out he says, and calls attention to the high pries ' of the foreign cereal. PROTEST TO PRESIDENT. KNOtfVItAE, Tenn.. Sept. It At a meeting of the Jfnoxville Federa tion of Churches todav Parsldent Heber D. Ketch am was Instructed to prepare and send to President Taft and to Secrstary of Agriculture Wil son, a letter protesting against Sec retary Wilson acting - as . honorary president of the International Con gress of Brewers which meets In Chi cago next month. ' HAJJDOT GETS DECISION." MEMPHIS. Tenn.. -Sept. It. Joe Mandt of New Orleans, was awarded tne decision over Tommy Kllbans, of rtoTeisnf. after eight rounds of fsst fighting before the National Athletic ciud. it was Mancot a ngnt irom me start Kllbans was badly battered but fought gamely, 1 E Conference of Southern Bank, ers. Exporters and Cotton Men Have so Decided v STRONG RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED AT MEETING Representative of Foreign In terest Present to Explain Workings of Scneme ' NEW ORLEANS, Sept, It.- nounolng the Uvojfpool cotton bills of lading validation and central clear ing house plan as an etraordlnary and unique Insurance against, ths re suits of the negligence of the Euro pean Cotton buyers in dealing with Irresponsible firms, and declaring it a reflection upon the honesty and la. tegrlty of the Southern cotton ex porters, the conrsrance of southern bankers, exporters and cotton men held t the cotton exchange today adapted . decisive resolutions placing themselves on record as being unal terably opposed to the scheme and refusing absolutely to have anything lo do with it ' - The plan wae branded ae being re pugnant to sound business principles, offensive to reputable and honorable business men in that tt assumed all cotton shippers' are dishonest until .the, New Tork .validating bureau has pronounced them otherwise. A bill tent resistance through a thorough organization of Interests was ' sug gested to fight the Liverpool scheme. Charles P, Height, of New York, rep. resenting the foreign interests,' went Into exhaustive detail tn explaining the workings v of the proposed cen--tral clearing jhotise. The conference was enlivened ; at different times whan Mr. Height felt that his mo tivoe were impugned and his state ments questioned. Following a preamble which d. dared that 'foreign buyers In cam binatlon with " certain New York banking Interests bad "undortaken to dictate, toMthe. southern .cotton ship pers and bankers over the ' eruu t protest bf the latter, the - method of billing export cotton," and branding It a plan of unique insurance. The. resolutions adopted In pat were: Resolutions Adopted . "Rssolved, that although the mem bora of this conference - deplore the lose entailed by the fraudulent prac tices of two certain cotton firm in the recent past,.- and although they declare in favor of and will render active support' to any and all rae. onable.' Just and legitimate reform Ill fllUkM , as , I ftp , warding , cotton, still the central bu. reau plan In question, both In - ltg original and amended forms, Js hear tily condemned as being repugnant to sound business pronciplot in that It propose to invest1 'bills of lading, with a statue entirely Independent of considerations of ths character and," solvency of the shipper; dtscrlmlna. tory in that it Imposes burdens and hardships upon the cotton exporter and possible costs -upon ths cottos) s .!. . 1 lataajms sa.aaa . niiitai SBMiW rnnai . producer, from ail of which the ship, psr and producer bf every other oora modlty is free; offensive In that It assumes that alt cotton shippers are ' dishonest until the New York valldat. Ing bureau has pronounced them oth erwise, unjust in that tt propose te place self respecting and universally respected merchants under the same ' obnoxious survellsnoe that It bestowg on questionable parties; and Anally, futile In that the fiat of the central bureau certifying to the one virtue' of genulneneas of signatures, would -place Irresponsible' and 'dishonest '' shippers In a position of vantage from -whloh they could practice a multi ' tudo of collateral irregularities prog nant with greater injury to the eot ' ton trade than the Isolated danger of forgery. ' 'That the remedy for the condl tlons complained of lies in enforcing " (Continued on pager eight) KHIE GOES BACK INTO : II C01UHJ0HITY OF EXACTLY 20 VOTES ." '' ' -.-:"-" 'J .; . ,' ' . .' ; ,c ' v. Governor and Council Makr Final Decision and " There Is No Appeal REMARKABLY CLOSE AUGUSTA. Me, Sept II. Complete official returns from the special elec tion of last Monday. ' when Mains voted On ths question of the repeal of the --eonstrttttlona! prohibitory - amendment -as canvassed by the gov , ernor and council tonight showed a majority of twenty vote In favor of repeal. - - ! - Various discrepancies were found In the offl-lal returns as compared with the tabulation compiled by tha 1 secretary of utate's office. The latter Indicated majority for repeal of n i. CENTRALBUR ftUS BRANDED itS BEING UNS0UN0BU5INE5S