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THE ASH TH3WEATHE3 PAIR AND COLDER. CITIZEN WANT AD3 BRING RESULTS 1UUJD XjL L IJCjIJ VOL. XXIX., NO. 128. ASIIEVILLE, N . C . , FRID AY MORNING, FEBRUAR Y 23, 1913 . PRICE FIVE CENTS, 111(1 LETTER IS All Ready For The Call PRESENTED TO THE IfJ-l FINALLY DECIDED TORRENSmEASURE PASSED f.SEIWTE AFTER LONG BATTLE MDDGU REPORTS READ TO SENATORS BI 1CHIGAII III 1E1TTERFIE1 , : . y COMC ON P El ICW3 LETS ' - GO DOWN rND PUSH THOSE v.S MEXICAN GREAStRS IN THE MIS MOiJEY COMMITTEE Measure Is Similar to the One Adopted In the House REVENUE BILL IS MAKING GOOD PROGRESS important Document From Activity of Americans In Caus lng Revolt Is Subject Discussed ' TZC GREAT INTEREST IN Has Been Before Interstate Financier Causes Big stir In .Congress BANKING SYSTEM Commerce Comlsslon 4 Long Time Ashevllle Water Bill Is Pass ed by the Upper -House RALEIGH, Feb. 17. Th Torrens land title bill similar to th on that haa already pasted in the house, went through the eenate today and aa aoon aa the differences in amendment by the house and senate can bo adjusted the measure will be ready for enroll ment and ratification. It leaves the Torrenlxatlon of tlt'es optional and puts the machinery In the superior courts In the counties in atead of In a state Torrens systam court. The vote was II to I and everybody explained their votes, numbers voting 'for It under protest because they did not believe It would give the benefit that was being claimed for 1L .'The bill la to be effective January 1, 1114;--: Revenue BUI Vp. The house made progress In com tnlttee of tha whole on consideration of the revenue bill on second reading. In adopting the sections on inheritance changes were made exempting from taxation f 10,000 for widows and 15,- 000 for each child. The tax on Inheritances by broth ers and sisters was raised from $ S to $5 on each f 100 the same change wis made aa to Inheritances by cousins. Rate aa to more remote kin, tnclucl . Ins grand kin was advanced from $5 to 17.60 and the tax on Inheritances by others than relatives and corpora tions, including religious ana cnaru able Institutions was advanced .from 17.1(0 to $10 per hundred. Maximum income exempt form taxation - was frnade 11,250. Sections Including iz were adopted, an amendment ny uon nor to penalise disclosure of Incomes - listed was wnnarawn. Important Act Introduced. . Chairman Williams of the house fl nance committee introduced In the house what he declared to be by far , the most Important measure that is to .engage the attention oi xne twtrouij this session, coming too, with the un animous endorsements of the finance committee. It la "an act for the re assessment of real and personal prop erty In North Carolina and for fixing the tax rate. This reassessment Is to begin May 1 and Is to ve at actual value of property In money. The bill prescribes that the 191S tax rate state, county and municipal . shall neither of them be fixed for 118 at rates that will yelld more than the aggregate of the taxes collected for 1S1 plus flv per cent, except for provldlpg wnatever is necessary ior assuring the six months minimum school term and the aggregate for 114 shall be more than eight per cent in excess of the "ltll aggregate of taxes." Senator Weaver has int reduced a bill to amend the act of ltll as to title insurance companies. The senate passed a bill to author ise Ashevllle to purchase . lands to Improve Town branch. House Adopt Report The house tonlrht adooted a re port of the special legislative com mission on the results of the confer ences thus far (with the railroad ofC- (Continued on Page Seven.) HEW VICE PRESIDENT VISITS PRINCETON IS Reception Committee Will Meet . Official . and Wife 1 on Arrival. AN ENTERTAINMENT. TRENTON, N. J.. Feb. 2 J. President-elect Wilson hsd as his guest at luncheon today Vice President-elect Thomas R. Marshall, of Indiana, and Mrs. Marshall, who stopped here on the way to Washington. Mrs. Wilson was unable to come fro Princeton because of the press of household duties incident to the de parture for the national capital. Mr. Wilson has completed his work aa governor and came to the state house today to clear up some of his correspondence on natlonan affairs. . WASHINGTON, Feb. J 7 .When Vice President-elect Thomas R. Mar shall and Mrs. Marshall arrive at tha Unon station here shortly after noon tomorrow they will be met by a recep tion cotn'mlttee and . escorted to the hotel where they are to reside during heir stay In the capital. The reception committee, headed by Henry B. Mac Far land will repre sent the Inaugural committee. In Mr, Marshall's party there are only Mrs. Vanlun tag fcet TntlA 1 "; IS FULLY DISCUSSED Full Investigation Is Courted Big Money Magnate He Says Vmr YORK, 'Feb. 17, A general denial of the existence or possibility of a "money trust" was presented to the house money trust committee today In a. long letter from J. P. Morgan and company, at tha Invita tion of the committee. Upon the receipt of the Morgan letter today Chairman Pujo gave out a letter .written to Morgan and com pany, saying that the Invitation to Morgan and company had been ex tended January IT, and that the com mittee had been at work on its report for a month. . - ."Tour memorandum," the reply concluded, "manifestly comes too late to be of value." The Morgan letter laid at the door of the present banking and currency laws the responsibility for any "con centration" of money and credit that may exist In Its conclusions as the commit, tee's activities, the letter said: Text of Letter. "We venture to submit the consid eration that, in a strong publlo opin ion, such as exists In this country, there ilea the greatest safeguard of the community always assuming that congress will evolve a baslo system of banking which Is scientific and sound as at the present time, ours ad mittedly is not Tha publlo, that Is, the depositors, are the ones' who. en trust bankers with such Influence and power as they today have in every civilised land and the public la unlike ly to entrust that -power to weak or evil, bands. v ""-rfi mVS'';'m' V . . Attack is Made.. That part , of the money trust reso lution declaring that it is ("generally believed" that groups of financiers "create, and compose companies" was particularly . attacked by the letter. Morgan and company set forth that any withholding of money or credit by one man in any market,' would be . "promptly relieved by the auto matlo flow of credit from some al together foreign source." "We regret" aald the letter, "that a belief , so incredible, so abhorrent and so harmful to the country, should for a moment have found lodgement any where. And we welcome your Invitation aa an opportunity for us to state that to the extent of our ob servations and experience, there Is not even a vestige of . truth in the Idea hat In whole or In part tha finan cial convulsion of 107 was brought on through the design of any man or men." ' " ' The letter further pointed out that the Individuals "to whom is attributed the power to create panics," were the ones to suffer most by the severe shrinkage In values of securities dur ing the 1907 panto. - - ' T THAW BRIBERY HEARING T Governor Sulxer Takes Prompt Action in Matter of Asylum Head. INVESTIGATION ON. ALBANY, Feb. d7. Without wait lng for a report from his committee of Inquiry which ha been investigat ing the latest Thaw scandal. Governor Bulser today sent a letter to Colonel Joseph P. Bcot, superintendent of ths state prisons directing the removal of Dr. John W. Russell, superintendent of the Mattewan state hospital, whe-e Harry K. Thaw Is confined Colonel Bcott tonight said he hal not yet received the letter. Aclon by Colonel Scott waa made unnecessary however, by the resignation of Dr. Russell, which was telephoned th'f afternoon from Mattewan. The resig nation was accepted at once and Cal enel Bcott designated ' Dr. Roy 1.. Leak, first assistant physician at the 'hospital, to take charge of the insti tution temporarily. The government sent another letter to Charles 8. Whitman, district at torney of New Tork together with a copy of the testimony taken by the committee concerning the offer 1 f (20,000 which Dr. Russell says was made to him by John N. Anhut, a New Tork lawyer If h tfrculd aid In releasing Thaw. The testimony al Included Anhut's denial and his coeu. ter' charges that Dr. Russell wanted to know "where h came in" on the 125,000 which Anhut admits he recelv. ed from an agent of Thaw as a "con tingent retainer" to free Stanford THE PROPOSITION Witness Says Certain Amer leans were lined up With Madero WASHINGTON, Fab. 17.-nator Smith, of Michigan, chairman of the senate special oommtttee appointed to investigate alleged activity of Amer leans in inciting and aiding Mexican revolutionists since 110 today pre sented to tha senate a huge volume of testimony taken during the com mittee's hearings along the Mexican border last fall. Most of tha testimony had been made public, but the official publica tion today placed it for the first time In tha hands of senators. A volume of more than 10 printed pages covers xamlnatloa . of more than 160 witnesses, many of whom expressed the belief that the United Btatea had shown partiality toward the Madero forces; that the neutrali ty laws had been violated In their behalf, , but strictly ' enforced against the Orosco forces when Madero came Into power. Witnesses Examined. . ' I The volume presented to the sen ate today contained no statement of conclusions, or summary of the evi dence by the committee. Many wit nesses expressed belief that lafte American Interests centering In the financial circles of New York, had aided the Madero forces. The com mittee Is understood to be seeking further information on that point Edward C. Houghton, manager of a big ranching and mining company In Chihuahua, 4old the committee that Salaxar, one of the rebel leaders In the rebellion of last year, had told him "that the American government had allgneJltself with Madero. to thfht the liberal cause, and that con sequently there would be no more ruarnntes to . American . or - foreign interest. . - .' - ' . 4 MAKE TUBERCULOSIS TEST. 4 , WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Bur- ceon General Blue, of the publlo health service, has been so de- 4 4 lured wlrh requests from suf- 4 4 ferers of pulmonary tuberculosis 4 4 for permission to offer themselves 4 4 aa subjects for tests of Dr. Fried- 4 4 mann's tuberculosis vaccine, that 4 4 he today made an official an- 4 4 nouncement that under no clr- 4 4 cumstances would the publlo 4 4 health service give the vaccine to 4 4 any one until It had been tested 4 4 In the government's hygienic lab- 4 4 oratory here. 4 4 Director John F. Anderson, of 4 4 the laboratory went to New 4 4 Tork today to get the cultures 4 4 Dr. FtledmanUVias turned over 4 4 to the public health service for 4 4 laboratory tests. 4 - 4 ' j-'-1 y y a ? PRESIDENT GIIPER5 15 SPEAKER BEFORE THE UEETINGDFliORKERS None but Delegates are Al lowed to Hear Labor Leader. RYAN PRESIDES. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Feb. 17. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, had a cbnference with several offlclsls ' of the International association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers here to day and also addressed a meeting of the Iron worekrs" convention. Pre cautions were taken to admit only accredited delegates to the convention to hear Mr. Gompers. Guards sta tioned at the doors carefully scrutin ized credentials of each delegate be fore admitting him. Mr. Gompers d&cllend to make known the proceedings, except to say he had expressed a b!lef that all of the thirty-three men sentenced to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kaa.. as conspirators In the McNam ara dynamiting plots were Innocent. He said. In addressing the Iron work confident that the United States cir cuit court of appeala would grant new trials. THE WEATHER, r WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. -Forecast; for North 'Carolina: fair and colder Friday; Saturday probably foTrVlsk wesVwlndai""" ' j Ym I UNI TEDS TA TES NOW CONVINCED THAT MEXICO IS Movement of Soldiers to the " ' ; of Government Now Seem Likely m Trouble Zone. Y:Vv-.: , ; , War Newsof Day. ' .'--v- WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Al- though the United 8tates troop trains are steadily rolling southward con verging on Galveston, It was made evident today that the heart had gone out of tha movement under the In fluence of ha growing conviction that tha provisional government In Mexico Is tTolng to be able to maintain Itself, which seemed to be the general tenor, of tha reports to the state department from its consular officers in Mexico. Neither tha Mexican embassy hers nor the state department has heard any Information from the Huerta gov ernment in Mexico City of Its an- nounnea IntcnHptj l sendear Em lllo Rabasa'to the United States as ambassador to succeed Senor Clerro, who resigned hit post early this year. This circumstance creates no surprise as the ' present administration is on the eve of retirement and it Is taken for granted that if President Huerta has decided to send Benor Ratoasa here he will make inquiry later to as certain It his representative Is per sona grata to the administration with which he will have to deal , Won't Recognise Regime). Although quiet reigns In Sonora that stste hss given notice that It will not recognise the Huerta regime untw Large Delegation Will go Out to Meet "General" Jones .and Amy. WASHINGTON, Feb. :7. "Oener al" Rosalie Jones and her "army" of "hikers" from New Tork are expected to be within striking dtstanc of the capital about noon tomorrow and they will be met by a large delegation from the suffrage headquarters here, head ed by Miss Alice Paul, executive head of the suffrage movement, and other leaders who will ride out toward Hy- attsvllle and escort them Into Wash ington. A troop composed of twenty cavalry women, who are to take part In the pageant Marh 1, will form the official escort. There also will be a battalion of young women marchers who are members of a local tramp ing club. Arriving In Washington the hikers will march through varlou streets to the suffrage Washington headquar ters. A short time after reaching the headquarters a large open air meeting will be hold and "General" Jones will make the chief address. GUILTY OF MURDER. SALEM, Mass., Feb. 27. William A. Dorr, of Stockton, Cat, was found guilty today of the murder of George Marsh, of Lynn. The Jury waa out two hours. The body of Marsh, who wsa 77 year old, was found in th marshes near the boulevard In Lynn, April 11, 11Z. He had been shot Suspicion first fell on Dorr when he returned to his home In Stockton, Cal., after a hurried visit In the east. In summing up. District Attorney Atwlll ssld that the death of Mart, was a murder, deliberately planned by Dorr, who believed that with Marsh dead he would profit by a legacy which would revert to his aunt . MATCHES POISON CnTLD. , GREENSBORO, N. C, Feb. 27 A dispatch toV.Rht from (f.umberton. N. C. saya that Dorothy Brltt, five year old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Wester Brltt prominent citizens or Robeson county, died this afternoon as a remjltoteat1ng numbefjf match baada eater dai aft ar anna. NOT ANXIOUS South is Not tobe Stopped it haa demonsrated Ita ability to con trol the situation throughout the re public Tha governor pf Sonora, who has that stat under' full control, wail ordered by tha state eongress to fy the federal capital that for the pres ent Sonora will remain spectator and when a government la established and the state government Is officially notified. It will recognise the new or-der.'- - '' " '': . - Consul General ' Bhanklln report from Mexico City that the following are safe: Mrs. M. Alper; Mrs. Pearl K. Haines: Joseph H. O'Brien and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver W, Blrd;Walde- Imaa lindgren and Mrs. eredlth-. ., ORDERS TO AVIATORS. ' WASHINGTON, ; Feb. 17. -When the army aviators, now In their win ter camp at Augusta, (la., proceed .to Oalveston. Texas, that branch of the signal corpa for the wlrst time will participate In the maneuvers of an en tire division of the United States army. Brigadier General Oeorge P. Scrlven, chief signal officer, la awaiting with much Interest the results of the work of the aviators. The officers who will go to Galves ton aa soon as orders are Issued, are Csptsln Charles DeForest Chsndler, Many are Injured and Much Property Destroyed by High Winds. ATLANTA, Feb. 17. Four persona are known to have .perished, many were injured and property valued at several hundred thousand dollars dam aged by a severe wind and rain storm which swept Alabama, Georgia and Florida today. Tha onlv known fatalities occurred at Omaha, Oa where three negroes were killed when a building In which they were working collapsed and In Crenshaw county, Alabama, where Ru. fus Sumerlln, waa killed In a building collalpae. Greatest property damage In Oeorgla occoasloned by the storm was reported In the southern section of the state.. At Mllledgeville, (la., nrnnff build ings were demolished. Twelve female prisoners were Injured when th atatj structure ' at that - plare collapsed . Forty children In the llopewoll sehon' near Mllledgevllle had a miraculous escape when the building was blown down. Only one child was Injured. Three children were aerloutly Injur; od iwhen the Bridge achool. near Curdele Qs,. was blown down. There were more than SO in the school house when the accident occurred MUST NOT DESECRATE FLAG. WASHINGTON, Fb. 17. The sen ate today passed Senator Webb's bill to prevent the desecration of the American flag. The measure would prohibit the placing of a word, figure mark, picture or design or aavertise ment of any nature upon any flag, standard or ensign of the United States and provides a fine of 1500 or impris onment for not mors than six months for such desecration. The bill also would prohlbtt the mutilation ot the American flag. ALLEGES THIRD DEGREE. CHICAfJO, Feb. 27. Th trial ot Charles Kramer, alias Conway, and his wife for the alleged murder ot Mas Sophie Singer, of Balltmore last October got under wsy today. An al leged confession pleading self defense th defense contends, was wrung from the Con way afterJ jleeples Juror under, dure, FOR A WAR However. No Reorganization In charge of tha school at Augusta, and Lieutenants Graham, Sherman, Klrtland and Miling, Lieutenants "Call and Ell! nr ton. now at Palm Beach. notl-fle.. and Captain Fredrt:k B. Hen - nessy, now in Washington. They will "have with them ssvon machines. In eluding one iiydro-asroplane, now at Palm Beach, . ,.,,..,"".' ,T : ' SEVENTEEN ARB EXECUTED . ' MEXICO CITt, Feb., !7.-even teen Zapatatlataa who carried their vocation and tooting and murder 16 the edge of tha federal district, I mllus from the capital were captured today And axoiiUdwv The rursJes encountered the rebels at early dawn today and defeated them. Later Juan Vargas, command er of the ru rales, sent a terse mes sage to President Huerta In which he said: "X have eh honor to report the ex ecution of seventeen bandit taken In outlawry and rebellion," ("PEACE CONFERENCE POSTPONED LAREDO, Tex.. Feb. 17. Th peace conference her between Huerta emissaries , and . Nuevo Laredo rebel authorities scheduled for today was postponed until tonight. Appears Again Before the New, York Police Graft Investigation ; V NEW TORK. Feb. 27. Rotten Does In New York's police department, declared former Mayor MoClellan, testifying today befor th legislative committee on police remedial legla atlon. Is centered In the higher offi cers. During his administration, six year ago, he declared th system was so entrenched that on one occasion he found only one policeman who would tell him the truth. "The system fooled even the presi dent of the United States the other day," he said, referring to the time President Tart attended a lieutenant's dinner which developed Into a "ratifi cation meeting for a wretched crook." TRIAL ENDED. PARIS. Feb. 27. The trial of th gang of 22 automobile bandit who held Pari In terror for month ended today. A verdict of guilty waa re. turned against eighteen of .the pris oners on counts Including, murder, arson and robbery. . Four of th wxused, Icludlng three women accomplices, ver found not guilty. Among the Indictment were no fewer than 22 murder, th victims being motor drivers, bank messen gers, freight agents and policemen. Four of the twenty-two banitiia w.r. sentenced to death by th Guillotine. The condemned men are Dleudonne, Callemin, Scudy and Monies, against whom a, number of murder were proved. BODY IS IDENTIFIED. SALISBURY, N. C. Feb. 17.- strange young white man found in flying condition with his head badly crushed beside the rail. trap k near Lexlngtoa last night and brought 10 oaiisDury on a special train was tcday identified aa James Johnson ot Bessemer City, through th efforts of the railway officials. His mother ws located near that place today. His father Is a mining engineer In Montgomery county. The body was prepared for hurl nfl ahlpyd to BeMNDUQ City tonlghv FORMER FJAYOR LVCLELLAN m LEIDIKS 1'ilTliESS MANY MATTERS UP . BEFORE THE LAWMAKERS Appropriation Bill Is One ofj Leading Matters Now Under Consideration (By Geo, II. Manning.) WASHINGTON, Feb. IT. Th In terstate commerce commission toduv dismissed the complaint of th Win ston-alem board of trad against th Norfolk and Western Railway company, declaring that th rat of It. 10 per ton tor coal shipment from th Pocahontas fields In Virginia and Wt Virginia to Winston-lem, N. C waa not excessive or unreasonable. The cas was argued belor Com mlesloner Judson C Clements, on Au gust 9, 1111, and a decision In th cas handed down today. J. Ev Alex, ander, J. U Ludlow and J. L. Gra ham appeared en behalf ot th boar ot trad of Winston-Salem. : APPROPRIATION BILL VP. WASHINGTON. Feb. I7.-Hous and senate today gave th annual ap propriation bill ft vigorous push tow ward oompletlon and made marked In-roada upon a mass of legislative matter that haa crowded the calen dar f congress, Th last appro' prlatlon measure, th general dm flelency bin passed the house early In th day, and that body ha onl conference report to act upon fronf now until adjournment' - - , After a session lasting until 4 lu m; today th tenat reassembled at 18 o'clock and moved rapidly throuth th agricultural and th sundry civil appropriation measures. Tonight th legislative deck presented more ot a oleaned UD aptiaarance than th gresslonal leader had dared to hop w ' , Bl Plkhtl r'xnertrfl,' "'. ' . ' ., Th senat had not acted on th naval or general deflclenoy bills tody snd a lively right was expected ever th battleship question when the nav al bill come up. It was expected tonight, however, that it would b possible to complete an of th bill carrying th ll.OOO.OOfl.ooo a m,. of federal appropriation befor ad journment next Tuesdsy unless th two house become deadlocked In th conference committees over some ot th controverted matter. After all nlaht imlnn ' i,k a bitter strursle over nuhiiH lin ing appropriation bill carrying an in- " or nearly 111,000.000 over th U8,000,00 bill as passsd by th house. On sweenlne -.--w. iJ serted Just before passage at th suggestion or Senator Kent, of in. dlans, prohibited th (section of building or the purchaa of a sVj for postofflc purposes exclusively In any city where the postal receipt were less than 110,000 a year,. DEFEAT IS DEPLORED. V WASHINGTON. Feh. tf ..... of the Navy Meyer today deplored Jh defeat of the two battleship program In the house and expressed the belief (Cmirtwwvl on Vnrr Seven, t 11 mm is CAUSE OF SEKSJl 3 WITH SENATE L7ELIBEB5 . 1 ' y f i : ' President-elect Says He Witf Spend Much Time at t , Capital,. .J 1 VIEWS OF SENATORS.: WASHINGTON. F.h ir....L discussion was nreltiltitt ' 1. gresslonal circles today by published laiemem creoiiea to President-elect Wilson that he Intended to spend pan of each working day In th president' room at th capital, to keep in ckW loucn wun legislative affair. Sued action on the part of th president, would overturn a precedent which his restricted the president' visit to the capital to th hut. hour of ft session 01 congress. , , Democratto leader today discussed' th reported plan ot Mr. Wilson wltU reluctance tnough many seemed to favor It, "If President Wilson wishes to com to the capital and advise with cv. gresa, he will be welcome," aald Sen ator O'Oorman. , : ' , "The closer th president and con.j gresa can get in the transaction of puoiic Diisiness, tne oetter it will oe, ' said Senator pomerene of Ohio. H's expression was concurred In by Bens-' tor Johnson of Maine.' The chief reason for the long stV llshed precedent keeping the presl-j dent In the white houp a mile awavj from th capital Is said to be a sen-' 'tlment in th house and senate to what ha been interpreted a "presi-j deatiai encroachment" u poa the irJ ota at acUoa of oonsrel