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UNBAY CITIZEN I THE WKATHER 1 FAIR . in VOL. XXVUI- NO 56 ASIH3VILLE, N. C., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1911 PRICE FIVE CENTS DETECTKLIIf PRIVATE PARTIES An Early Visit From Santa IflT'lAl'TOB AFFORD HOUSE AN OF EXHIBITPURPOSES T THE A 9 TODAY v SPELL 0 F ECONOMY Sifulol REPflESENTATIVES ROUGH LOAD SAWDUST EXCI TINuMOAlE iV Resolution However to Reduce Mileage Allowance by Half Falls to Pass MEMBERS INDULGE IN , PERSONAL REMARKS InvestlgatlnflCommltteesCosl' lng Nation Many Thousands ' Every Month WASHINGTON. Pec- Id. A re quest L for . am additional 150,000 for the tirf.aB of the house of repre sentative and an attempt on the part of -the economy committee., to cut In two th mileage of senators and re presentatives today- tnTw -0e -hous into a debate on expense that l considered propheTTc of the sessions that arTto come. 4 ' Republicans charred the democrats with having lost track of their econ omy program. The reply from the 'democratic aide was the Introduction of a resolution by Representative Palmer, of Pensylvania, leader of the economy board, . tb .cut . ie ' annual mileage allownaoe from twenty cents' per mil to ten cents per mile. The democratic fprces split on the pro position and the plan was voted down II to Its. Subsequently on a mo tion to1 recommit the urgent defll olency appropriation bill to the ap propriation committee with lnstruc tlons to cut down, the mileage, the Palmer forces again lost it to 121, Chairman Fitzgerald of the appro priation committee " explained the $60,000 deficiency appropriation for the expenses of the hpuse by .giving some of the monthly . expense ac counts of the investigating commit tee Cost of Invest lira ttons The Stanley steel investigating com mittee, he said, was spending lt,70 a, monSi, While extra stenographic expenses were costing I2.0QI a month. . .." -. t ' - Be said tho' house was paying J I cents a -folio? tor x xW stenograph work wen he knew offers had been made to the commute to do the work for l cent a ' folloV I-jtot 'ichilr. man Stantav - the stel lnvestlgaN lng commltt"oftered to explain the expenses of S committee to any member of l.'.o Kouse who wanted to inquire a-bont them. Members '-dulged In personal lan guage whenTie proposal to .cut down I the mileage was taken up. Repre sentative HuEJhrey, of Seattle, said Mint members who lived near Wash ington were always trying to econo mize for the government at the ex pense of the members who lived far away. He declared that even the allow ance of 20 cents per mile did not pay the expenses of Representative La Follette of that state who brought his family to Washington each year. "Premium om Bachelors" "You propose to penalize members Who have famine" he declared, "and to place -.sbrem1um on bache lor. Any member of congress who fConttnwd on Fw Eight I HAWN OF NEW ERA SEEMS NOW CLOSE AT HAND IN KENTUCKY FEUD DISTRICT Enthusiasm For Education Works Revolution Among the "Bad Men" BIG NIGHT SCHOOLS WASHINGTON, Pec. H An en thusiasm for education has . aelsed Rowan county, one of th eastern mountain and feud counties of Ken tucky, according to a detail report of the work there to the United State bureau of education. Nearly everybody In the county regardless of age seems to be going to. school, the report says. It adds that the pu pils range In age from It to It, mny of them being past, sixty and some mora than seventy year of age. ...ight schools were opened as an experiment for two , weeks In Sep tember; but the desire for educa tion spread Ilk wildfire so that the schools continue. The younger chil dren attend during the day; th pa rents and older children at night. "No illiterates In Rowan county," Is th slogan thy have raised. It as expected when the schools stsrt , ed that three hundred might enroll: msieaa mere are i.zutf. une woman 7 J years old, said 8tata Supervisor Coates, In charg of the ' rural schools said: "I am 7 years old and now for th first time I can writ to' my children out west." "Those men at on time tried to kM roy fatheV eald Mrs. Cora Wil son Stewart pointing to some men at a recent educational meeting. "Now fy are among my beat friends; they are throwing themselves wHh their M seal into this new light for dBOAtlML" ... . .;..'."-''' .-. ' Government Inquires Into $1. 000 Find Usod "Organ ization Purposes" TELEGRAMS SENT IN CODE ARE CITED Relation of Ironworkers' Fund to Fees Paid M'Manlgal Is Being Probed INDIANAPOLIS. Ind Pec. II. The $ 1,000 paid monthly' to John J. McNamara as secretary-treasurer of the x International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, for "organization purposes" . and for which . he was not . required to give any accounting was Inquired into to day by. tH government officials who are conducting the. dynamite. Investi gation before the federal' grand Jury. The relation of the fund to fees' given Ortle E. McManlgal, the 'coneased djyiamlter, for his work In blowing up structure erected by non-union workmen also was traced. . McManlgal under the name, of J. W.MoQrnw, bought ,100 quarts of ex. plosive near Albany. It was deliv ered to him In a. wagon outsldo the city, drfven by him to an empty ftouse at Muncle and there packed in saw dust. He confessed h 'afterwards used some of the nltro glycerine for explosions at Perorla. 111. . , r Sawdtut "Proof" ; The similarity of some of the saw dust found at Perorla to that found at Muncle and In the wagon, led to the linking up of the evidence by detective and the transaction were gone over today to ascertain what money' had ' been" paid' for' expenses. Another point taken - up by District Attorney Miller was tie-promise by McNamara,, according to McManlgal, to employ more men to have explo sions occur on the mm day of with in jtho an oOOTj at eitle jwldely eporated.. J. A. Q. Badorf, a detee tlv oraployod by, thaJSatlpnat .:.JCmck tors' association who worked n ihll grand jury tot several hours, i Aoord MQjfaisfD charged by McManlgal had explosion occur at Omaha, -Nb and at Columbus, Ind., on the-same night " It was In this connection that McNamara is chraged by McManlgal with having said, "I want them, to go off about tho same time, so they will wonder how the fellow was in Omaha and Columbus the same (Oonanned on Page Flv) SATS INDUSTRIAL PANIC THREATENS IS RESULT OF : COIL MINING SITUATION Secretary of American Min ing Congress Says Things Must Change WILL URGE REMEDY WASHINGTON, Pec. 1. Serious danger of a general industrial panicj throughout bbe United SUtes Is like ly to become a reality as a result of too bituminous ooal mining situation, in the opinion expressed here today by J. V, Callbreath, Jr., of Penver. Col., secretary of th American Min ing congress who la In this city to open permanent headquarters for the mining organisation. Mr. 'Caflbrcatn'ooclared this panic was likely to come unless some reas onable plan could be adopted by which the bituminous coal opera tar could T permitted to get to gether under the supervision of a trade commission similar to the in terstate commerce commtsslen or oth erwise, so as to prevent the ultimate bankruptcy of many of th bitumi nous coal producers. This bankruptcy, be asserted, was bound t come be cause of th cut throat competition which now compelled most of thene producers to etl their coal at an ac tual loss: and as I76,O00.0OO Is In vested Th th industry and 1.600.00 .r d.nisnt rflr-H. , L. , ' ' , --" on It, the results of such bankruptcy . , . . , . I he added; would be widespread. i The situation 1 similar," he con-i tlnueaT ""to. the chaos which would ex. 1st If our railroads were under the manage'ment of 1,000 different com panies with no power to agree upon transportation rates and with the ability to handle double the available business." Among tho legislation which the mining congress will urge from Its headquarters here will be some law to remedy the bituminous coal situa tion. . Th American Mining Congresa. Mr. Callbreath said, would demand that the operator: have a fair profit but at tbe aams time tiat the con suming public havo Its coal a cheaply-, a economical' operating expeneea would allow and. also . that th. lives of the mine workers be amply prO- Almost S 1 .000.000 Offered for Hull of illfated Srtlp for - This Purpose . PRESENT INTENTION TO SINK PART OF IT Difference of Opinion In Con gress as to Whether. This Plan Is Advisable WASHINGTON, to authorise- the s Pec. 1 Efforts lie of the hull of the battleship Maine to private par-' ties who desire to exhibit it at v rlous ports of the United States and charge an admission fee to visitors, were defeated In the house of rep resentatives. The urgent . deficiency bill, carrying an appropriation of $250,000 to to eomolete the work of ralslsg the Maine, after a hard fight, passed the house without change. It waa admitted in -th da- bate that offers approaching 11,000. 000 have been ' received from exhi bition interests for the rear portion of the hull -which can be fitted up urfth mt m1lr V,ari mm A trim A frTtm Havana to th unit state. chrtT - s,asa a i ifs a aiu a, a-iin va ihliuub committee admitted that it I th present Intention of the government to tow thev rear part of the' hull, out Into th ocean and sink It, with the naval honor that goes to a gallant battleship. .' "I believe It wewld be better for th people to get what we can for the ship." declared Representative Macon, of Ark., who opened th fight for the , sal of the null. ' "There are plenty of nowlty seek' r and Coney Istsndltes, who would likely take the old carcass where It 1 and pay a good price for. it, in order to get it over here and charar so much per took at It, or sell piece of it to 'curio hunter at so tnudi per curl.'' -. ; i " Mr. Macon' proposal to cut out th appropriation to complete th work on the Maine we defeated. .fe( jmjem l "1 rnt , opinion , th Amron people would not tolerat making a public howf that old vessel,"-ssld Mr,.?t Fltsnrerald.1 Ther are soma thing that are sacred to th people, and . among them, are the remain of men or of vessels lost in defense of th nation. "I would deplore the American government attempting to make prof it out of the ship merely to gratify th idle curiosity. Representative (Pontlnoed on Page Flit) FMINENT STATESMEN EXTOL "Cflli 010 HIT OF THE SUPREME COURT Galaxy of Tributes Paid to the Late Associate Jus tice Harlan GREAT TRIBUTE WASHINGTON, Pec. 1 Many prominent lawyers today. In memor ial exercises In the supreme court of the United States Joined In a galaxy of. tributes to the late As sociate Justice John M. Harlan. Augustus K. Wlllson, who who re tired from the gubernatorial chair of Kentucky this week presided and made the opening address. Solicitor General Lehrmann as chairman of a committee on resolutions said Jus tice Harlan participated In the con sideration of more cases tnan any other man that ever sat on the su preme court bench. He said Justice Harlan rendered - th opinion of the court In 700 cases during his thirty three years on the bench, besides giving many dissenting opinions. Senators Bailey, Root and Brad ley were speakers. Governor Wlllson told how forty one years he had worked as office boy for Juclire Harlan and said It had not been easy to understand how an advocate of such a tremen dous earnestness and power could ....,.. . juusr. tie re- rerred to Justice Harlan as the ..,.,. ,,, , .... . , grand old man of the united States - nd t rh , irfi - i.i "No man In all our history." said the speaker, "not even Abraham Lincoln, was. In th best spirit of the expression, more truly the man of the people, more naturally and lnstinotly part of the people In blood and bone, life character and temper. In their ideas and their feelings, their like and their dislikes, their hopes and their fears and their joys and their sorrows." " REV Eel RFXTHrrnXGT MEXICO CITT, Pec. 14. -A opectal dispatch to tho Heraldo iron) Monte rey say a falgt officta! of that place: ha received ward from th consul at Galena Nueve Lean, that General Reyes has arrived tsar and is en gaed la reeruitla . , ABROGATION CONSIDERABLY WILL lRegordless of Any Protests ate Will Adopt Resolution Tomorrow" Russian Ambassador Threat-" ens to Ask for Passports and Quit This Country ' . WASHINGTON, Pec. 10. A pro test by Russia today against th abro gallon of th treaty of 111 wltW that country In th -form proposed by th Sulzer resolutloii, , .overwhelmingly adopted In the house of represen tatives, was (allowed tonight by the declaration of senate leader that in modified term a resolution declaring th treaty al- an and would be put through, the senate before the ad journment of .that body oa 'Monday next, v.... .. ... . Ther wer V nmt , senator who want' ao far a Id say that th ftulaet resolution, containing- wrlau reoleaut aid ur-jm "gujritiwHKim wff vn m Pfrhurg governniont. ? would. b adopted without mndmat, bu the consensus oi opinion .was tnat 'the ena,t would strip the resolution of everything but a declaration of abro gation. Th point upon wMch all seemed to agree was that the aenat would act on Monday regardless of any protest that might be made and regardless of the negotiation that have been In progress between Wash ington and the Russian capital. .Ambassador's Threat It was reported In Washington to night that If the senate should adopt the house resolution which baldly de- SHUUIT. NOT EXPECTING i ANT TARIFF HOSTILITY PayinS Little Attention to Secretary Knox's Threat of Same BERLIN, Pec. "10. Tho German government sees no ocasalon to con cern Itself with the threat of tariff hostilities between Germany and the United States contained in the let ter written by Secretary Knox to Representative Oscar Underwood, chairman of the ways and means committee of the bouse of fepre- sentatlveo in ivhlch tbe secretary suggests that the tariff act should be nended so as to provide additional duties or to prohibit importations of food from any nation which places restrictions en the entry of American good. Th aiiothorltles' will await action by congress. The government! 'has received nothing In the way of preparation for action either through the embassy here or through Count Von Bernatorff, the German ambassa dor at Washington. A report, how ever, has been asked for from the German embassador. Public opinion is veryJTtfle concerned about the mat ter, particularly In view of Repre sentative Underwood's declarations In the 'house of representatives taking an unfavorable view of Mr. Knox's proposal. Whst additional comment apoears in the pewspapers takes an unafavorable, vexed tone. MAY SETTLE HORSE CASE WASHINGTON. Pc. 1. The ap plication of Chas. W. Morse, th con victed New Tork banker, for a com mutation of hie linear sentence on Lacoount of the serious condition of his health, probably wilt be disposed 'of by President Taft early next week. H. M. ttougherty. counsel for Morse, discussed th case with official of the department of justice today. . The settlement of the matter awaJU a report to Attorney General Wjck ersham from the army physician at Fort McPbereon, Oa, whers Morse wa removed for observation giving a comprehensive expert opinion as to the state ef tie banker's health, THFi WKATHER . WASHINGTON. Pec. 10 Forecaat: North Carolina: fair; eOlder Sunday; Monday . fair;- moderate' wet wind tiacomiari vej-iabl Monday. RESOLUTION Registered by Russia Consensus of Opinion is That Sen- elare chat Russia violated her treaty pledges, th Russian ambassador, George, BakhomtelT, would ask for hi passport and quit th ovntry. Although th Incident had b care fully guarded,! foeoom known today that at a whit 'hous conference last night Ambassador Bakhemteff ' frad expressed both to Prudent Taft and Secretory Knox, tt rl of Bt, Pt raburg that th language of tho But sor resolution was object lonable. The conference, a long ' and earnest one, wag- followed today by second con ference between Pteeidfnt Taft and 8oretiy Knos. ' Thl fcitn Terence Is turn, 'waa followed by on at ths state department between Mr. ' Knng and Hio'-r Russian ambaaaadorl .ffowa ;. of tha Russian stand qulakly :; W v ' through th city and craatsd a.decVl t afoaatloa eepeclall'y at tho capi tal. ' Th senate was Dot in lon. but th)r were a number of hurriedly called conference at which the situ ation waa fully discussed. Senat and house leaders .wer frequently togeth er during th afternoon. ' Chairman Suiter, of th toeus committee on foreign relation, declared tho was nothing in hi resolution which could be construed as an Insult to "Sensi tive Russia," and urged the senate N.y. HEIRS LEADERS SPEAK Over Eight Hundred Mem bers and Guests at An nual Banquet NEW TORK, Pec. II More than 800 members and guests of th Nw York Southern society listened to' speeches delivered at their annual banquet tonight by Champ Clark, speaker of th house of represen tatives; Oscar W, Underwood, chair man of the way and mesne commit tee of th house, and Judoon C. Cle ments, chairman ef tho lntsratat commerce commission. Judge Clement urged publicity a an effective mean for regulating vio lation of th Interstate commerce laws. Mr. Underwood apok on tho tariff and reiterated many of tilo wall known arguments, condemlng th th republican theory of tariff making. Speaker Clark confined hi remark to th progress of th South and pre dieted that It would some day be th most thickly settled portion of the United States. Seated at th guest tat'jl wer th presidents of most of the Southern state societies of New York city. Gov ernor Wm. Hodges Mann, of Virglnls. and many prominent New Yorkers not affiliated with tho society. . CHOKES TO DEATH ON MEAT NEW YORK, Peo. II After be coming unconscious ' from strangu lation, caused by a piece of meat in his windpipe, Michael Hogaa, for-ty-einht year old, " a driver of Nr. 122 1'ast One Hundred and Twenty first street, died in a Btllswus Hos pital ambulance yesterday. . It wa whll eating 111 lunch on a pier at the foot of East Forty second street that Hogan sucked th fragment of meat into his windpip. Several workman ran to Hogan' as sistance and sent in a call for aa ambulance. Pr. Wyli. of ellvu. responding. ', The police say th aurgeon did not . perform tracheotomy, then b eauaa the condition wer not suit able and hoped t be wble to got his patient to the hospital , before he succumbed., ffogaa died before the am butane had, xon more than four block. MODIFIED PASS SENATE to adopt it without any modification wntvr. OabiMi ummoned Tho. first artlr vr th anhounc mnt that' RuMia 'had becom arous ed over tho proposed action of th American oohgrww la cutting off all , cemmerclaj and treaty relation with that oountry, and that International complication anight ensu, soon wm followed by another thrill when all menvber of- tho cabinet wr sum me led . t th wtilte tious lot In th afternoon for a pcll meeting, OfTlcWniy It we stntcd thit the) rr ' I nt tiltetlng whs to .4um timlly Oi to president 'mag t0 depart montal affair duo tg go to oongress nt Thoroday.' Th meeting lasted for more than, threo hour and th mooaag waa dlaousoad ' In detail, throughout tho day an, effort ' : wa mado In offldai uartr to ailnimi rn importaac or to Russian am baa aaaor sou on. - "Russia mad no r formal ; protest against tn abrogation of th treaty or agalnct ' th flahter resoluMoa," de clared Beorotary ofStat ,Kno,' fol lowing th forenoon conferenc. H (OswMner on Pago Flvo)i EVERT MOVEMENT OF GEN. RETES HAS BEEN 17ATGHE0 This Oountiy - Ceannot be Made Base i of Movement Against'Madero" ' WASHINGTON; Dec. ' 11,Oon.ral Bernardo Reyes, , th, supposed leader of another revolutionary movement In Mexico, I at Galena, - Neu'vo Leon, Mex., It I admitted, in official quar tera her. The whereabouts of the Mexican havo been known to official th war department and department ei junto tor several .aays. . General Reyes Is under th our vellance of agent of, tho department of Justice and th southern border of tho United Stat Is, toeing watched closely to so that this country is not being . mad tho baa of any nostll movement against President Madero. General Reyes, - who i tinder in dictment at Laredo, Tex, tor alleged violation of neutrality. Is out on 110. 000 boil. He wilt not bo wanted for trial until April. Eugsn Nita, United State mar shal at San Antonio, Tex., wfeo ar rested General Reyes In connection with th Laredo Indictment, ha been her several days and ha discussed th border situation with official of too, department of justic. WOULDN'T OAHftU WITH HTM SALISBURY, N. 0., Pec. lNewa ha bn received here to the effect that Jim Bernhardt, colored, killed Lucy Hobeon, Colored, at a festival at Bear Poplar. Sowan county, last night bacauss oho would not danco with hlra. lt Is said that Bernhardt fired a load of shot through the f woman' body, after .which ho Waa placed in te Rowan county-Jail hor to 'await trtat . - According to reports' ther wa plenty of liquor, , aard and , rasor at ths meeting. . CHARITY, WORKER PIES WILli AM SPORT, Pai Pexs. Mrs. Llillsm Phelmar Lindsay, aged 44, a writer who contributed to many of the leading magatlnes died in hospital today after a long Illness. . Sb waa formerly f Atlanta, Oa. and Chattanooga, Tenn.. and th organ tsar, of , Sunshln , Club throughout th south. Most -of , her life had been work,' devoted- to , eherityff Sh r T.lt Between Republican Leader Mann and Missis slppl Conoressman ; DEBATE WAS OVER THE, SALE OF THE MAINE Interchange ' Threatened ' to Have Unpleasant Con sequences - j WASHINGTON, Pec. ll-A .harp ' claah betn lUpraaenrtatlv Jam R. Mann, of Illlnola, republican lead- j r of th hou and uRprenUtlv Thomaa U. -8100, democrat of Ml. , slsslppl, gv the hou an xcltlng r moment today. What many member e eharactarlaad a a challenge waa I hurled by Reprauntattvo sisson at th Illinois member, who, h sold, waa protected - by .th rule of th house from, what Mr." Blaaon would Ilka to do. or say to him. "I do not : ask for any protection by th rules of the house, '' retort Mr. Mann, . aharply. Th houa broke Into: an v uproar whtoh , soon quieted and - consider. tlon of th appropriation bill pro ceeded without further hoaUlltle be tween, th two member Tho Interchange, which threatened for a moment to hav unpleasant eonaequencea, resulted from , Mr. Bleson'i effort to secure thadop tlon of an amendint permitting th hull of th Main to b old to pr- , vat concern. leader Mann' "Inclination'' "1 am' surprised that ths gentl- man has- not Included In his propo sition tho : Mlllng of th ibone - of tho seamen who died In ths'.Valne," ; said Mr, Mann, "Both Would bring larg sum of money," ' "Mr. Chairman, I have never de el In d to resent an Insult when it I offrd," aald Mr lMton when ' h regained th floor. "On th con-'. trary.i I have lwv been - willing nil ready to t'i -. to ' , but tho r-V (if 1 . t- ii permit m perhaps m uo sk. nui to awy 'thos thing that are nvcos- aary to ,b said. 'If th gentleman from Illinois ha any deslro to - In any . way . cast any reflection either upon m or my mo tlve In thl matter, than : I want to say. to him ; thr ' ar time her Mr. eisson who had been ln. lng. forward oa Ms dk and speak ing with great deltberatUA paused and. looked about -tho chamber. Mr. Mann waa listening-intently, . - : : :- 'It would b,perhap. better for mo not to state just , exactly my Opinion !, about that matter," contin ued ' Mr. Slsson," bscause ' I might , ubject myself- to a .rloloitlon " of - tho ' rules . of thl hou: ut on numr. eu occasions h ha seen J-flt and proper not ; only - by: hl word - but , by . hi . manner to b -offenslva to I member of thl house and I do not think, Mr. Chairman, -that .It -I at all becoming In tho . gentloman to mak thi aort . of an insinuation when h I protected by.th rul oft-, th hou." ' ' ' ' ; Th .democrat applauded the Ml-. siasippi man. Mr.' Mann waa on hi feet t one with hi Tttort that ho asked for no protection of the house. Th two member - kept 'aloof dur ; lag tho balanc .of th day. - . ri . iubaha: fibers iriitv BDTICCEPTPRDPBSITIC:: OF Consider it Unwise' to Lose Title to Their Cotton 'as Provided OBJECTION EAISED MONTGOMERY, ''aI,-Dc.J Id. h. Taking th Initiative In v; this .atata,'; Montgomery ; county .' farmer . fin . a mas meeting today emphatically d- ' clined to aocept tho offer of th New y, Tork syndicate of bankers headed top : Colonel Robert M." Thompson to ad:' , yance 111 a bale upon cotton hold for an advanco In price. ; : ' -. Objocttoa was raised on the ground : that It ' la unwise for the Southern .': , farmer to give up title to 'their cot, , ton as th syndicate' contract pro ide. ; .- -j -n?'.: The New York bankers .offered to advance 135 on each five 'hundred pound tal Issuing -. la ; rotnrn - an '.. equity certificate. The fawner wa given the right to U thU-carua-. cat at the market price or th cot- , ton at any time up to January I 1911, th aum h wa to receive b ing th than market price foe th eta- , plea lea tat plua II storage charre and II par ent of th advance over th price of tho cotton at tihe time the certificate wa ieeued. At the meeting hern this "'.rnooti It was Mated -that .; .:. ar in unuRiially gun ! , . aai tu Invostlgattona t'--- -v ft - - ,y 1