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BURLINGTON N C, FEBRUARY 3, 1909.
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WASHINGTON LETTER,
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From our itejnilar Correspondent.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 30.-
The prominence accorded by the
Press to the resignation of Secretary
Root and the discussion , of the stib
ject by public uneu ancl journalists
is merely 'expressive of the great in
fluence be has had on public affairs
during hia ten years residence in
Washington. ; That he will continue
to influence public affairs from a
different but no lessimportant stand
point is a matter of gratulation to
the country at large. It has been
long indeed since the greatest state
of the Union has. had an equally
great representative on the floor of
the Senate But Elihu Root can
never be merely a representative of
even so great a state as New York.
He has bad too much to do with
national and international affairs, to
become merely a provincial rep
resentative. In his recent address
in Albany,he said that he would
4dvocate a parcel post if New York
State was in favor of it. That NevH
xorK otare win ne in iavor oi n,
there cannot be the slightest doubt,
and Mr. Root doubtless knew, this
when he made the remark.' The
man whom he succeeds in the Sen
ate has long ben known as the re
presentative of the express compan
ies the companies that have skim
med the cream of the postal profits
and left the nation a yearly deficit.
The Postoffice Department, with its
thousands of rural carriers bringing
letters and newspapers to so many
homes, might with immense help
fulness to farmers and suburbanites
and immense profit to the nation,
deliver parcels as is done in Eng
land, Germany, France and in every
every other civilized country in tde
world.
Washington is busy with prepara
- tion for the inauguration ceremonies
which will take place in scarcely
more than a nionth from now.
Everything has been prearranged
except the weather. The fourth of
March is down in the weather re
ports for a "disagreeable day and a
number of ineffective attempts have
been made to change the inaugura
tion day to anothei date. It is
understood that there will be a con
densation of the procession or parade
which has on previous occasions
been far too long drawn out. The
Avenue is wide and seventy five or
a hundred men can easily march
abreast on it. Such hao been the
vanity of civic and military prganiza
tions for eouopieuousness, that some
have actually insisted on marching
single file, causing the specators on
the Avenue to wait frequently three
or four hours until the whole pro
cession passed
The President, it is said, will
make a breach in the old custom of
riding with his successor to and
from the Capiiol. He will, it is
understood, accompany the President-elect
to the Capitol and see him
inaugurated, but instead of return
ing with him to the White House,
will make a beeline for the Union
""Station and thence to Oyster Bay,
sailing a tew days thereafter from
New York to a Mediterranean port
on his way to Africa. The Presi
dent announced this program :y ester-
day when he accepted the offer of
the New York Republican Com
mute to act as his escort on the
route from the Capitol to the station.
The leaders of the Senate and of
the House have held a conference
with reference to the legislative pro
gram for the remaining thirty days
of this session and it is plain , that
their purpose is not to p'errnityfne
enactment of any general legisla
tion beyond the appropriation bills.
It has been the intention of the
House to pass statehood bills for
Arizona and New Mexico, but the
Senate does not favor this action.
The time for convening the special '
session for consideration of the tariff
has been pretty definitely fixed for
the tenth of March, or six days after
Yf vas made after cousulation with
Senator Knox, wbp, as his chosen
fcveretary of State, is supposed to
represent President-elect Taft, now
absent iu Panama. Mr. Tuft w.li
TAFT LANDS AT COLON.
The President-Elect is Greeted by
the Officers and Citizens of Pan
ama With Cordiality.
Panama, Jan. 29.- Presidents
elect Taft today made his eighth
trip across the ithmus and"very
where was greeted with marked de
monstrations, of good will With
ihis party Mr. Taft landed this morn
ing at Colon and pnceeded by spe
cial train to Culebra, where tonight
he is quartered at the residence of
Lieutenant Colonel Goethals, chair
man of the Panama canal commis
sion. His reception by the Panama
officials botht Colon and Culebra
was most cordial. Tomorrow Mr.
Taft will visit the site of Gatum
dam.
The United States cruiser North'
Carolina on which Mr, Taft sailed
from Charleston last Monday and
the convoy cruiser Montana, arriv
ed at Jolon at. 10 o'clock this morn
ing after a voyage that was marked
by splendid weather conditions. All
the members of the party were in
good health.
Colonel Goethals, Joseph Black
.burn, Governor of the canal zone;
Col. William C. Georgas, chief san
itary officer of the zone, and other
prominent persons immediately
boarded the North Carolina from the
tug Christobal and welcomed the
President-elect, who, at 10:40,
o'clock, landed at Dock No. 2 ad
joining the Panama Railroad offices.
The first person to shake the hands
of Mr. and Mrs. Taft when they
lauded was Governor Porfiro Me
lendez, of Colon, who introduced to
them Mayor v Benigno Andrion,
Chief of Police. Arango and other
Panama officials
Mr. Taft and his party immedi
ately boarded a train which was
waiting and left at .noon for ; Cule
bra. , Arriving there the President
elect was-received ceremoniously by
the members of President Obaldias'
Cabinet. During the afternoon Mr.
Taft had a couferenc with the en
giueers engaged in the construction
of the canal, and a visit to the Ga-,
turn dam was planned for tomorrow.
The President-elect and his party
will sail from Colon for New Or
leans next Friday.
Everything But Money.
The editor of the Trcvorton, Pa.
Times seems tw be plentifully sup
plied with everything foa the win
ter except mony. In a recent edi
torial he said: "We have taken
wood, potatoes, corn, eggs, butter,
ouions, cabbage, chickens, stone,
lumber, labor, sand, calico, sauer
kraut, second hand clothing, coon
skins, and bug juice, scrap iron, shoe
pegs, rawhides, chinquepins. tan
bark, dogs, sorghum, seed, jarware
and wheat straw n subscription,
and now a man wants to know if
we would send the paper for six
months for an owl. We have no
precedent for refusing, and if we can
find aman who 9 out of an owl
and wants one, we'll do it.
This brother has been score for
tunate than many other poorly
clothed, one-eyed editors. He has
no just cause for complaint.
Barbed wire 3 cents per lb. at
Graham Hardware Co., Graham,
N. C.
probably approve this date and it
is favored by Speaker Cannon and
Republican leaders as a desirably
early dale for work on the new tariff
bill.
Much interest is expressed with
reerence to the very lofty tower for
wireless' telegraphy which it is pro
posed to erect in Washington for
the purpose of communicating with
ships at sea to a distance of three
thousand miles. Bids have been
submitted from seven farm? and it is
probable that a Pittsburg house
offering tor furnish the apparatus
and tower for $1826Q(Kwill get the
contract. ' The tower will probably
have a construction somewhat simi
lar to that of the famous Eiffel tow
er in Paris; -though -it is not expect
to be as high as this structure. ' I
THE M DADS
8200,000 TURNED
FOR A MONTH
Five of the City Pa's Says Children, You Can't
Fool Us With That Loop of Yours.
Messrs. Scott, Freeland and Hawkins Vote to
Give the Tracti6riGoidpany a Grade Line so
That They May Begin Wwk--The Advice of
the City Paid GounseFjis Ignored The Ordi
nance He Drafted is Defeated. V
The Gity Fathermet last night in adjourned session
and heard the request? of Bur-GraOlaw Traction Company
which were asking the Pa's to compel the street commission
which has supervision of i the construction of the Railway to
say what they would demand of the Company. But as to
the grade the fathers said no. ..So the street committee may
spend their, time with the construction force of the car line.
Of course Prof Stout meant no offense to the large audience
of the leading citizens of the town when he said that he saw
the trigger in the trap that'Mr. Murray was netting, and that
he, tor one, would riot Jbe ensnared, and that the audience
was unfortunately not 'so bright.
Men of our town, you had better stay at home hereafter
or keep quiet and look wise when your fathers are so near.
MORE ON THE
People of the State Are Interested
in Proposed Change in the
Constitution.
Winston Journal.
We. believe that the people of the
State are interested in ti e announce
ment that the homestead exemption
clause in the State constitution is
liable to be referred: to a vote of the
people for modification. Assuming
that it is of interest to them, we feel
that they are entitled ioknow some
thing ot it and for this reason shall
discuss it briefly.
f Thos1 in ivor of the modifica
tion of the law contend that it
works a hardship on the man who
wants to pay his debts and who
desires to borrow money without
being rich. If a farmer, for instance,
owns property to the valne of $1,
500 to $2,500, this amount can
readily be covered up under the ex
emption provision as it operates at
present, and his credit in consequ
ence is of no value to him except
through the money lender.This
man charges brokerage fees and a
lawye charges for drawing' up a !
deed of trut. The borrower' wife
must sign the paptr, thus incurring
further notary fees. When the deed
is finally drawn the cost to the bor
rower will be 15 to 25 per cvnt. on
the dollar, depending oo the size of
the loan. OnH the ot)ier haud, if the
laws are modified and he has the
privilege of waiving his homestead,
as is the case in many other states,
the man of small meaus could take
his note to any bank and, with his
wife's indorsement, borrow money
at the rate of 6 per cent., the legal
mte of interest, , and the banks of
any city would be glad to have such
paper. The proposed change would
elimiuate all exorbitant fees
Any honest man would not be
aver3e, witty the proper restrictions,
for the change to come about, as the
property owned would give him a
basis of credit that he would fihd to
advantage in case of misfortune. It
would be a good thing for all tax
payers, whether (opposed to or for
the measure, to communicate with
their representatives in the ,legisla-
tare on the Subject.
homes:
SAY NO;
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INDUSTRIAL NEWS PASSES,
TO BE PUT ON MARKET.
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Greensboro, Jan. 29. The Daily
Industrial News, which has' been
operated under a receivership since
November 14th, wa suspended this
afternoon by order of the United
States Dis rict Court. The receiver
had been ordered bv the court to
advertise for sealed bids to be open
ed today, but only one bid was re
ceived, that being put in by E. C.
Duncan, of Raleigh, who named
$.15,000 as -the p"ice he was willing
to pav for the property.
Duriug the term of the receiver
ship, Mr. Dnncan, Judge S. B. Ad
ams and others have advanced the
receiver $3,312, to meet current ex
penses and the bid of $15,000 was
made with the understanding that
the money tl us advauced was to be
counted as a preferred claim Judge
Boyd refused to confirm the sale on
these grounds, whereupon Mr Dun
cab's bid was withdrawn and the re
ceiver waft ordered to s-upend the
publicatian of the paper and adver
tise the property tor safe for 15 days.
The indebtedness of the company,
according- the claims presented to
the receive?, is $21,600, of which
araoiint $8,000 is secured by a mort-e-afre
on the nrcDertv. Oue of the
lamest uuse'U red creditors is Post
master R. D. Douerlas. of Greens
boro, who' Las fifed a claim for $.1,
400 for ser"ines as editor of the pa
per for two years, being succeeded
by W. A. Heldebrand in October,
1907. several months after he had
been appointed postmaster of Greens
boro. Dies at the Age of 115.
Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 29.
Henderson' Cremean., knowti to bf
the oldest man in West Virginia,
"and . probably to oldest man in the
United States, died today at the
home of his grandson, Clark Cre
means, near Point Pleasant, Mason
county, aged 115 yearsT He was
strong and hearty to the time of his
death, falling by the roadside on his
wav home from the grocery store.
He was removed home and died a
few minutes latqr. His father and
mother are said, to have been the,
ffet couple married west of the
Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia.
His mother died at;120; his wife at
101. ne never tasted. liquor or to-
, - Xbacco in his Jife:
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OUR RALEIGH LETTER.
Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 1 .It seems
that the majority members of the
legislature are determined to in
crease salaries somewhere. There
was first a very determined eftort to'
mcrea&e the Governors salary, tfcat
tailing they made an effort to in
crease the salary of Commission of
Labor and . Printing and finally
succeeded in raising same from
$1500 to $2,000. I he effort to
place the solicitors oh a salary of
$2,750 after a great many "amend
ments had been offered some adopt
ed others defeated. ' The bill, was
finally defeated on third readingl&y
a small margin.
The next increase of salaries was
that of assistant Librarian who was
gettiug $15.00 per month and, want
ed his salary increased : to $30 00.
After the adoption of an amendment
to make salary $2000 the bill pa'ss
ed, final reading and was sent to
the Senate. :
It seems that the idea of an early
adjournment, f it ever was con
sidered seriously, ias been aband
oned, and it now looks like no ad
journment until the full-sixty days
expire and there may be as' usual a
great rush of bills near the close of
the session. " A
This Legislature is so far a little
shy of the trusts they are great
trust busters during a campaign;
but now there is disposition on
their part to handle the trusts very
gently if at all. Sub. Section "A"
is the thing that, is causing them
much uneasiness. Josephus is urg
ing them to pass it and the majority
members don't care to get tangled
up with it and they are afraid not
to obey Josephus. So it is uncertain
just what will be done. They, are
now standing on the bank shivering
and will probably not jump in un
less pushed in hy the "old unrelia
ble" who is threatening to slip up
behirid them and push them in.
The mjijority here seem to have
a fixed policy on but one thing,
they have set down on all bills
looking toward local self-government
have reported unfavorably, all
bills that have been introduced, (in
cluding one for Alamance) allowing
the people to elect their school
boards. There is a bill of that
nature applying to the whole State
came up Saturday with a minority
report, and is set as special order
for next Thursday, when there will
probably be "something doing" all
along the line. I notice that some
of the Democratic dailies are saying
that the Republicans are laying up
some mighty good campaign thunder
and I heartily concur in that opin
ion and a similar opinion is enter
tained by a great tnauy of the Demo
cratic members, yet they are power
less to prevent-it with Josephus be
hind them lashing around the legs
Piping his whip over their heads.
GIRL IS BURNED
AT FAVETTEVILLE
Miss Claude Youngblood Meets
Awful Death.
Fayetteville, N. C, Feb. 'l.
Miss Claude Youngblopd, the 1 9-
year old daughter of N. E. Yohng-
blood, a railroad engmeefVof thifj
was burned to death yesterday after
noon as a result of her clothing
catching fire from ond open stove.
The voung woman was in the sil
ting room her home, in which room
htr father had just left her a few
moments when 4 in some way un
known her clothes caught fire from
the stove and on Mr. Youngblqod's
return he was met at the door by
his daughter in a mass of flames.
. Physicians were hurriedly sum
moned and everything possible done
for her, but the injuries were so
severe that she died late yesterday
afternoon. .
v'Theuneral was conducted at 4
o'clock this afternoon by the pastor
of the Frst Baptist Church
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Graham Hardware Co., Graham,
N. C.
JAPS LEAVING? ,
NOT GOING.
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Secretary Strans Says His .Official ;
Figures Are Correct. r v
Washington, Jan. 2P. Secretary
Straus today forwarded a letter to
Senator Frank P. Flint, of Cali-:
fornia, in which he discussed the
statistics of the Department ;f Com
merce and Labor covering thejini-'
migration of the Japanese to "tbe
United States .and the emigration of
Japanese from the United States.
In-the course of his letter Secretary
Straus says: '
"You will observe) that the entire
number (Japanese) admitted was
12,413 for the calendar year 1907, '
while the entire number admitted
was but 4,477 for the calendar year
1 908. You will also bear in mind
that te executive - order of the
Pres'dent was issued on March 14,
1 907, but it took a considerable time '
to prepare the regulations provided
for by that order, and to put those
regulations into efftet, and -for the -Department
of State, both here and
through our ambassador to Japan
to arrive at a definate understanding
with the Japanese government. . 1
"I desire furthermore to direct
your attention to the - fact that the
entire immigration for the year be
ginning with November 1, ,1907, 1
and ending with October 31, 1908,
was 5,016, while the departures for.
the same period were 5,832, leaving
at increase of immigration -for that
year of 185. ' -
"It is further to be observed that
beginning with the month of June,
1908, to October 1908, - the emi
gration of Japanese from the United
States exceeded the immigration to
the United States by 1 ,542, show
ing distinctly that the trend ofUmi
gration. of Japanese is from the
United States, which is further
shown by the marked decrease of
immigration during the months re
ferred to of 1908, as compared with
the same months of 1907.
"The press reports which I have
seen contain statements made by
some of your people in California
that these figures are inexact. I
desire emphatically to state that they
are absolutely correct and the proof
thereof, which is On file iu the de--partment,
clearly demonstrate, the
accuracy of the figures.
"It has further been intimated,
as I see from reports tbat there is a
large surreptitious influx of Japan-
ese over the Mexican and Canadian
borders. I 'am justfied insjfying
that this is not true, for obvious
reasons. That there are some few
scattering surreptitious entires is
quite probable, but the number is so
small that it cannot be consequen
tial. . ' i.
"Finally I yish to call your at
tention to the fact, which the state
ments above referred to indicate,
that the arrangement which has
been called th 'gentleman's aerpc
meut we have with Japan, in mv'
judgement, is working more effec
tively thau would result from any
restrictive laws, because of the effec
tive embargo Japan has placed upon
the, departure of Her Subjects from
Japan." l ,
STORM ON CAROLINA C3A3T
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Steamer Lost on Diamond Shozls
, Lookout Lightship Drags
Her Anchor.- .
Elizabeth City, Jan. 30, The
Diamond Shoals lightship rp rts
that an unknown steamer founder!
during the storm today, about three v
miles northwest of the "lightship. "
No boats from the steamer or wreck
age is to be seen and the ftf - th
crew is not known. The wind i
blowing. from the southwest at (he
rate -of forty-five miles an Holt and
the sea is rough: .
-he steamer City of Savannah,
which passed Cape Lookout bomyd '
south this morning, reports that the
Cape Lookout lightship is off her,,
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