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THE ASHE1ILLE CITIZEN TEE WEATHER FAIR CITIZEN WANT ADS BRING RESULTS kVOL. XXIX., NO. 259. ASHEVILLE, N. C, WEDNESDAYiMORNING, JULY 9, 1913. TRICE FIVE CENTS 5 ftT THE REPUBLICANS Secures Analysis of Tariff Re vision Bill Prepared by Senator Smoot AlOST OF ANALYSIS IS ONLY ARGUMENT Bill Will Probably go to the Printer Tonight-Checking up Now WASHINGTON, July 8. Senator fclmmons, chairman of tho finance committee, turned a trtek on republ ican leaders, when he got his hands on a lengthy analysis of the demo cratic tariff bill which had 'been pre pared under the direction of Senator femoot, pointing out what the repub licans claim are serious defects In the measure. Senator Smoot had delayed for a month the introduction of the analy sis, despite insistence of Senator Sim mons that it be printed. On the last day of the caucus, when the republi cans were assured the democrats were through with th bill, Senator Smoot .consented to send the document In Kor the printer. But the democrats Wve not yet printed their bill and lhave a day or two to make correc tions and laugh at their opponents, Enasmuch as debate will not begin un il next week. hlmnions Studies Document. , Knowing that the republican docu ment might contain valuable point ers, Senator Simmons directed the finance subcommittees to go over their schedules today, while (he pored over the Smoot analysis to check up with the subcommittee to morrow. Senator gimmona heard some weeks ago that republican lead ers had cautioned Senator Smoot to hold back the analysis. "Don't send It in yet," they urged. "It will give Us away." Then the finance commit tee chairman determined to lay In wait 'for the document and today he pounced upon it before It went to the printing office. He found the result of Senator Sraoot's careful labors .of 1 e, niouui, kudu uj " i and assistants. He saia some or ine Analysis point out errors that could be corrected, but that much of the document was found to be argument. The bill probably will not go to the printer until tomorrow night as the subcommittees still are checking up for corrections. Meanwhile Sen ator Simmons Is completing the com mittee report on the measure. Estimate of ltevcnue. Senator Simmons today received Ifrom the commissioner of internal revenue an estimate of the revenue to be derived from the income tax as re vised by the democratic senate cau cus. The house estimate, on the ba sis of a fiat exemption of $4,000, was 470,000,000 a year. -On the basis of a $3,000 exemption for single per sons, $4,000 for taxable married per sons, with an additional $500 each for .-(Continued or .Page Two." BARRIER IHT BQLL WEEVIL 18 SOUTHEAST Would Have Federal Gov ernment Prohibit Cotton in Wide Belt. SAVE MILLIONS WASHINGTON, July 8. Plans for ,tlie federal government to raise a barrier against the boll weevil of the enuthwi'stern cotton states invading the Atlantic coast stales are being drafted by Sennor Smith, of South Carolina. Secretary Houston, at the department of agriculture, id said tc have given the proposition his tenta tive approval. Senator Smith's plan Is for the federal government, with state co operation, to prohibit the growing of cotton In a belt which would separate the Atlanrt'0 coast states from the southwestern states. As the boll weevil migrates only from cotton field to cotton field, the senator believes thii belt would save the states to the east cf It from the pest, which has cost cotton-.talflm.ift the ?fulhwest mil lions of dollars annually. The boll weevil already Iras swept over Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Is said to be traveling n.rward into Alabama. Senator Smith is preparing to urge upon the ecnate that this narrow belt will be a practical barrier if Immediate ac tion is taken to establish 1J. If effec tive, It . would protect most of Ala bama and all of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina from the weevil. The barrier to be effective must be fifty miles wide, It Is Relieved. The growing of cotton In that zone would be prohibited, but the farmers could raise any other crops. Senator Smith's plan Is to have the erlf r,tl c&remmer.t, CQrwecta,. foe farmers In this xonq tor., not Blasting cotton SO SUM I TURNS RG1K "LOBBY" COMMITTEE SEES WALL STREET WITH LAMAR'S EYES Man Who Admits That He Band ied Metis Names About on the Streets Says He Was Only Play ing the Wall Street Game. WASHINGTON, , July . The sen ate lobby Investigating committee took a look at Wall street today through the spectacles of David La mar. The dapper operator on the 'bear side, who admits that he ban died out In the market place the names of men high In congress, took the commltleo completely Into hl confidence. For all the machina tions he contrived there were, after all, he swore, but two reasons. He wished to cause an "explosion" which would bring the Wall street men whom he fell were antagonistic to him "Into the open" and he wished to Insure the re-employment of Ed ward Lauterbach, his lawyer friend, who had fallen Into disfavor with the mighty of the street. Xi Other Consideration, Although the commlttoe tried to develop that there might have been some other consideration Involved, Lamar denied such an allegation as often as it was made. He was on the stand for several hours and although tlve senators wielded the scalpel at various times, they uncovered noth ing that Lamar did not wish to re veal. Time after time he seemed to be on the verge of soma admission to which patient questioning had brought him, but he veered away, and no persuasive or lawyer-like threat ening could bring him back again. He was only playing Wall street's game, he said, when he made such frequent Ue of the telephone and talked about .what might be done in Washington through prominent mem bers of congress. It was the game he had known most of the twenty-five years he had been In the street, he said, but ho was through with It now. He was sorry for the publicity that had been given to the representatives of influence in congress, but except for that he thought thU the end Jus tified, the means. The explosion had occurred, he added, and his enemies had been dragged Into the o-pea to prove charges - circulated for many years In the financial district against himself and Lauterbach. He summed up his whole story In a few words when he said: Tho Wall Street Game. "It was the Wall street game I wss playing. In Wall street you don't act like you do on a New Jersey farm." Later, he added bitterly: "I am the only villain In Wall street. All the others are actuated by th6 highest motives and possets the highest Ideals.". Lamar's examination was finished today and both he and Lauterbach were allowed to go with the under standing that if wanted they should appear again. With their departure the commit- I L State Must Know That Road Will Be Completed, Is Resolution. CRAIG APPROVES RALEIGH, July 8. In future rail road companies that secure convict labor from the stato in exchange fori-w r. was eiecieu maim stock In the railroad must give bond i exalted ruler oi the Benevolent Pro . , Mitective Order of -Bilks' to succeed for the completion of the road, and , B ( Supwlort Wla the convict lMor must represent onlyW. Leach was opposed by J. Cock-one-fourth of the construction wont j roan Boy(J of Baltimore. The Vote actually in progress. Th.s ui the eflcct . was ij(.a(;h i,ni), Boyd 392. Grand of a resolution adopted by Governor ! Hecretury Fred C. Kobinnon, of Grand Craig and council of slate in confer-- Duice, " loWa, " was re-elected In a (slice today with prison director. The j tr,rCe--orriered light only road thai has yet met the cur.- . Tno ejection the feature of the dltuwts is U. Wau,.iga and VadiJn, : lllty'-s 8,;S!ii(jns f the grand lodge. At which is to have 100 additional con- , the coriCi.iOItl adjournment was victs. It is working 31 now. Oilier j taktn um:; tomorrow when the re roads now using convicts are invest!- ; port of u,e 'committee appointed to gating the possibility of meeting the tonHi(jer tr,e advisability of erecting a conditions, "these being the Elkin and j new national home at Bedford City, Alieghany, States Air Line anj the ' Va., was made a special order of Transcontinental. ' business The state's prison board of direc- j other officers chosen today are: tors made pu.blio tonight Ha report I Grand esteemed : leading knight P. and that of Superintendent y.ar.n op- j h. Shields, Clacksburg, W. Va. posing any further state aid through; Grand esteemed loyal knight H. H conv'lct labor In railroad construction, ; Jennings, Bridgeport, Conn, and insisting that article V, section ! Grand Esteemed lecturing knfcht of the state constitution directiv for-j e. Jl. Dlckerman, Tucson, Aria, bids U unless approved by vote of j Grand inner guard, Edwin J. Kelly, the people. However the council of Cheyenne, Wyo. state is insisting on retaining the eye-j Grand trustee for five years, a V, tem as to present contracts where j Perott, Indianapolis. promoters are meeting the terms re-i Grand trustee for two years, to fill quired by legislative, acts for such aid. The prison directors report that the prison is now absolutely without l Vs., James R. Nicholson, 8prlngf)e)d, funda except the railroad stock, thatj Mass. is pronounced worthless, and running judge John J. Mitchell, of St Paul, expenses of the prison amount up-(Minn., was appointed" to the grand wards of $15,000 pet month, and nojfrum by Grand Exalted Ruler Mills revenue except this railroad stock for to succeed Perry A. Shanor, of Sis labor in sight until far into the fall, . tersvllle,. Pa. the staie to probably have to put up a grand treasurer was not elected. 183,000 or more for prison maimed a' choice will be made tomorrow, name by January 1. On the other j Atlanta withdrew from the race for hand there are numbers of appllca-the lff'14 convention before the grand tlons for convict labor at 11.60 cah lodge went Into session and the dele- 1 ccr fl&T that, wumd au;cKly.erea,i,B.l,lga,ifa.lweri iinanlmtma fox re.aver, surplus for the prison as the railroad fetock contracts were terminated, tee took up sugar lobbying again for three hours with a short excursion Into the land of the wool lobby, Charles D. Westcott, a Washing ton attorney, who lives In Cuba took, took up the sugar story again. He told of an unsuccessful effort he made to get Cuban planters to put up $25,000 (or the expense of a fro sugar campaign In Washington te offset the efforts of th antl-fraa sugar. II declared thai his effort j failed after he had believed H sue-1 cessfully launched and gave It as his opinion that the "sugar trust" had been responsible. He said the "trust" accomplished this end by Its Inllu enoe with Cuban banks, which eould force the growers to do what they wished by refusing to extend -them necessary credit. He added that the Agrarian league, to which every Cu ban grower feels obliged to belong, was dominated by the "trust" and that acting In compliance with the "combines'" wishes It had opposed a free sugar campaign. Cross Examination. Westcott was put through a search ing cross-examination by Senator Cummins about these statements. He finally said that he personally did not know anything about trust domi nation In Cwba, but his statements were made on Information given by growers. He read to the committee a letter from K. It. Hawley, president of the Cuba-iAmerlcan Sugar company of New York, which he tild was allied with the "trust" In which Hawley opposed free sugar, arguing that Cuba benefited more by the preferen tial no enjoyed 'indr reciprocity than he would with free sugar. Senator Nelson caused much amusement when he questioned West cott aibout a letter he wrote "to Sec retary to the President Tumulty In the winter, urging that Mr. Wilson keep tip the fight tor free sugar. The witness said that shortly after he wroto the letter the lines of the tree sugar advocates in .the ways and means' committee of the house were "stiffened." "Your letter stiffened up the free sugar tiring line?" said Senator Nel son. "Well, It stiffened shortly after 1 wrote It." "Are you sure the president ever read it?M "No, sir." ; Acted as Starch. "Well It acted as a sort of starch on those wavering members of the committee," continued Senator Nel son, while the chairman of the com mittee," cotninued Senator Nelson, Continued on Page Seven.) EDWARD LEACH ELECTED GUI EXftLTEO RULER OF CUIDIODEE If ELKS Given Great Majority Over Only Opponent Robin son Again Secretary. OTHER OFFICERS ROCHESTER, N. Y July . Grand Treasurer Edward Leach, of vacancy caused by death of Mayor Charley C. Schmidt of Wheeling, W- t Esurller In the day the grand bfil- cers made their annual reports. i'tJ- ilSfA. vyJ SECRETARY M'ADOO WILL ASK FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED IRREGULARITIES IN TWO BANKS Decides to Refer the Investigation to the Department of duct the lnve8tigation'Prompt Action of Secretary Restores Con fi dence in Pittsburgh Kuhns Resign, . WASHINGTON, July I. Secretary McAdoo will ask Attorney General MoReynolda within a few days to In vestigate-alleged Irregularities In the conduct of the Ftrst-tiecond National bank of Pittsburgh, which closed Its doors yesterday, 'The secretary today definitely decided to refer the situa tion to the department of Justice and is now engage! in the collection of all the facts connected with the manage ment of the big bank to prepare the attorney general for an Inquiry. John Skelton Williams, assistant secretary of the traajufyv 'edey . returned from Pittsburgh, where he "superlntendtd the closing of the bank and reported that the Institution had been "freely mismanaged," necessitating a refer ence of tho conditions to the depart ment of Justice. Thomas P. Kane, acting comptroller of the currency, by long distance telephone late today advised Secretary McAdoo that the receivership was progressing satisfac torily and reiterated that the gen era I banking conditions In Pittsburgh were sound. Treasury official con tinued not only confident that there would be no more trouble, but m phaeised the belief that the closing of the First-Second bank actually had Improved conditions In Pittsburgh by removing a doubtful element from the financial system. The latest reports to the treasury department Indicate that the lowiee of the First-Second bank may reach 1 5, ft 00, 0 00, because the entire capital and surplus of the l.ank now seem to have been wiped ot. These advices were accompanied by assurances from officers of the bank that tho deposi tors, whoso claims total about $38, 000,000, probnMy Would be paid In full, br nearly In full, through reali zation on the hunk's asaets. SHELL PASSED CLOSE TO THE PfiESjDENT'S YACHT President Has lilade No Complaint or Comment on "Near Accident." WASHINGTON. July S.While both the officers of tne president's yacht, the Mayflowtr, and officials of the navy department are reticent con cerning the "near accident" to the vessel luit week, when a" shell from the proving grounds at Indian Head. Md wan said to have narrowly miits ed the ship, which had President Wilson on board, It is believed an i vestigation of the affair will be o: dcred. It was declared today the shell itself passed over the Mayflower at safe height, but that the danger was cauced by the dislodgment from the shell of the rotating band, which fell close to the veiwit. So loud was the screech of the shot that the May flower's crew is said to have rushed on deck to ascertain the trouble. At the time President Wilson was aid to have been sitting on the after deck with Dr. Cary L, Grays, his physician. Ho far as Is known the president made no comment or com plaint on his return to the white house. Numerous protests have been made In the past against the firing of the big guns at Indian Head. River captains declare the lives of their pas sengers and crews are endangered by the trials, and although no accidents have yet occurred, contend that there have been many narrow escape from disaster. , THE VYKATIIER. WASHINGTON, July . Forecast for North Carolina: Fair and warm- u canrwnY; I nursaaT. fair airep; showers exxreme west portion; light 4 noderata.Mutheaxt to south wIaos. We Jfave With Us This CONDITIONS ALMOST NORMAL. I PITTSBURGH, July I. To the de cisive statement of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, Issued last night is attributed the restoration of almost , normal conditions In financial Pitts burgh tonight, despite the closing yes terday of the door of the First Second National bank, an institution which had been accredited one of the; strongest in the country. While the situation was tense in the financial world yesterday and little Information as to possible developments was "ob tainable, the flat statement of facts of the secretary mvrti'td develop an overnight optimism that grew as to day advanced. The closing of the FIrt-8oond bunk was naturally fol lowed by suspension of Its affiliated hank, ths First National, of McKees port, and the appointment of re ceiverships for the banking house o( J. H. tt W. 8. Kuhn, Inc., whose prin cipals were the majority stockholders of both Institutions and a like action with the American Waiter-Works and Guarantee company, an enterprise fathered by the Kuhn Interests. Run on Bank. Another Kuhn Interest which was affected the Pittsburgh Hank for Savings suffered somewhat from the complication, a run being started on It yesterday, chiefly by, small deposi tors. This continued and somewhat Increased early today, but It appeared to abate as the day wore on. Crowds assembled uiBotit the bank building and the sidewalk about the building was roped off with mounted police prancing their horses within the lines on the sidewalk. . The people were forced outside the ropes into the mid dle of the street. The crowds were made up mostly of curious specta tors. The small groups of depositors MEAT PACKING BUSINESS BILL BEJNVESTIBATED Thorough Inspection of All Establishments Through out Country Planned. WASHINGTON, JULV 8. Meat packing establishments throughout ; thB country are to bo subjocted to t sear?hing inspections by well known i experts elMd by the swretary of ; agriculture, from outside of the gov i ernment service. This step follows j criticism of federal meat Inspection torn various sources, and Hfiretary ' Houston announced today that Its ob ject fcas to Increase the efficiency of the service and U foster public onfl- ! dence. j. The secretary made public the names of three college professors who have twen' chosen to visit and report to him personally upon conditions ex isting In packing plants In New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois and Missouri. l)T. W. T. Sedgwick, profi-ssor of bacteriology and sanitary engineering In the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Is to Investigate plants at Boston, Worcester and Brlghtwood, Mass, and New Haven, Conn. Dr. W. A. Moore,- professor of pathology at Cornell university, will got to Phil adelphia. New York, Buffalo and Pittsburgh and Dr. J.. A. Connaway, of the Missouri Agricultural college, to Kanw City, fit. Louis and fit, Jo seph, Mo., and National Slock Yards, Illinois. "Jt la my desire," said the secre tary In his Instructions to experts, "that you report to me fully and! frankly the conditions as you find them at the various packing estab lishments, together with such recom- ment co ths servlc as in vour Judg ment may teem best" Week" - Justice Which WW Con that entered the hank were promptly paid 160 upon demand, aa yesterday, and required to give the legal notice of 10, 10 or 10 days' notice to with draw other amounts ' abovs stated figures. Yesterday MT.009 was with drawn from the bank, while the de posits were (27,000. Today's figures In this relation were not obtainable, but It Is 'assured the withdrawals to day were under yesterday's figures. There were report that a million dollars had been shipped to ths PUts- burgrh Bank for 'Ravings today from Philadelphia, but this WMjtot verified snd -wa dlacredtted by clearing" house members who verify the statement of the bank made yesterday that this bank has 15,000,000 ' In cash and 18,000,000 In qulok assets, enabling it to meet any stress or emergency. , Killing Resign. About noon the announcement waa made that J. 8, Kuhn, the president and W. 8. Kuhn, the vice president hud resigned and that W. J. Jones, tho former secretary and treasurer of the bank, had been made presi dent, with A. N. Voegtly, former as sistant to Mr. Jones, m secretary and treasurer, while L, M. Plummer, a director, was made ytc president From the time of this announcement during the rest of the banking hours the run perceptibly abated and the crowd disappeared, until at closing lime the streets near the bank dlf fered from no other business thor oughfaree. Expected statements aa to the American Water-Works and Guar antee company were not forthcoming today, the delay being attributed to the delay in the appointment of the fourth receiver, which Federal Judge ( Continued on Page Sli) , Military News Lacking to Some Degree -Bulgarians Said to Be Retreating. LONDON, July I. The Balkan war, having rfow been regularised by for mal declarations, It Is understood that the powers will make no attempt to meditate.' The official gazette at Bel grade published tonight notice of a formal declaration of war against l llulgarla. Military news was lacking today, Servian dispatches admit a strong Bulgarian column has Invaded Servia at Konagevats, which town they oc cupied after setting Are to the adja cent village. Cholera has been brought to Belgrade by the wounded, orjiclal Greek dispatches claim a great victory at Dolran, where the Bulgarians, recently reinforced, were In superior strength to the Greeks. The latter assert that a whole dl vision of Bulgarians was destroyed and that the Bulgarians fled In such confusion that they even left behind loaded guns. This victory Is consider ed of great importance because Dolran was the Bulgarian victualling center and ail the provisions fell Into the hands of the Greeks. It Is re ported from Sofia that the Tenth Bulgarian division, which reinforced General Jvaiiofr, was brought from the Tshatalja district This would In- dVcate compliance with Turkey's de mand that the Bulgarians evacuate Turkish territory. ha.. Bulgarians .are taking Uieof- ferwlve against Ntsh, according to an nouncement front 0ofl 1 IS KILLED If FULL OF HIS BIPLANE High up In the A!r. tho Md chine Collapsed and Plunged Earthward TENTH AVIATOR IN SERVICE TO DIE "Warm Air Current" Bellevo6 To Be Responsible for Call's Death UOC8TON, Te, July I, Lieut, Lorsn JL call, of the United Stales aviation corps, waa killed early today by the collapse and fall of his biplane north of Texas City. He had started his flight from the aviation field in the second army division mobilisation camp. The accident occurred several miles from the troop camp, Tho machine was completely wrecked and the of ficer w dead when plckl up. Lieut Call was regards as one el the beet army aviators. Yesterday he made a tt-mlle flight In IS minutes, Warm Air Current. ; The dangeroue thing, known lo aviators as a "warm air current" Is held responsible for Cull's death. The young lieutenant rose from" the avln. tlon field bordering the gulf early :ba morning, turning his biplane noi !i ward and flew over the level streWhea near the artillery camp at an altitude of bout 00 feet. He was plainly vis ible to several soldiers who salt liU biplane seemed to be running smooth ly. Without warning it turned its noae downward and plunged almot straight to the earth. The Imnt broke nearly every bone l.i Call'g body. The "warm air" theory was adani ed by officers of the aviation cm in, who were familiar w.th the tevitrr over which Lleutatint Call flety. While a hoard Will be named to In vestlgate, the view Is expressed tr-nt nothing remains about the wreckage te show the accidents real cause TKNT1I FATIMTT. WASHINGTON, July I. The esi, t Lleutenaat Call today makes & total of ten in the Interest of government aviation work, nine fatalities being credited to. the army and one to ths navy, since experiments in aerial nav igation waa started with heavier than air machines at Fort Myer, Va., H 10, The list la a follows! Lieut Thomas K. Relfrldge, deshed to death at Fort Myer, Va., Septem ber IT, 10. Lieut E. IS. Kelly, (round to dratn beneath his machine, Hah Antonio, Texas, May 10, 1911. Lieut. Lelghton W. Haalehurst, plunged to death at College Park, Md., June 12, tilt, A. L. Welsh, professional lhstrm9r, killed In fall at ChlCAgo, Beptomber 11, lilt. ' "- - Lieut L. C. Rockw-ll, killed when plane refused to wort at College T'erk, Md., September tl, lflJ, - Corporal Frank fl. floott, killed In (Continued on Page W PEACE OVEHTURES CEASE TBIMHMEtSl Believed That 100,000 Me? , Will Walk Out After Meeting Saturday. - MEN ABE BEADY NEW YORK, July I. Peace vir, tures here today between forty-five, eastern railroads and one hundrej thousand members of the ' Order of ' Ituitroad Conductors and the Brother hood of Kallray Trainmen, after the employes' . representatives In corrfsr. ence with the railroad managers an nounced that ninety-five per cent or the men had voted to strike for in creascd wages. . ; Final action on the proposed tie up remains with the general committee of one thousand of the conductor and trainmen's organizations, and a meet ing lias been called for Saturday, Jl is the unamlmous opinion In operating circles that the strike vote will be ratified unless the companies offer In creased wages or agree to arbitration. During negotiations today the Erie railroad and two subsidiaries, the New Jersey and New York, and the New York, Susquehanna and Western, withdrew, leaving forty-two roads In the conference. The Erie system . claims the increase , demanded repre . sents an' annual cost to three roads of 1200,000 and that the system 1 1 paying this sum would suffer In safety appliances and equipment' The managers' conference commit tee will meet Monday to consider the decision of the employes' general com mlttee. The railroads are then ex pected to make their ultimatum. It was said today that the Erdmas arbitration act was not mentioned at the conference but comment among ' railroad and union representatives to. night hwe4 - a general , ejepectatioa . that the men would appeal for arbU 1 AVIATOR traUoQ before deciding: to walk out.