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7 ATT K VOL. XXVII. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY. MARCH 4. 1909. No. 7. EDITORIAL BRIEFS This seems lo be the season of the year for whitewashing. If the Solicitors should not be put on a salary then why not? The latest version is that the ma chine party can do no wrong. This Legislature has put every body In the State under bond3. We will now have an inspector of oils. One more Job for the office seeker. For sale: a Democratic platform. Good as new in fact it has never been used. If the Select Committe found noth ing wrong, why did they, too, make certain recommendations? Many members of the Legislature want to amend the State prohibition law, but they are afraid to take off the lid. The Standard Oil is again in court and the prospects are that they will have pay more than railroad fare this time. The News anl Observer does not like the Bassett substitute to the anti-trust bill. Can it .be that there is something in the name? If things keep up the way they are going the editor of the News and Observer will be left standing on the platform by himself. The Revenue Act passed by the Legislature taxes everything in sight. And still the Democratic politicians talk about the "robber tariff." The face of General Grant adorns the new $50 gold certificates now be ing issued by the Government. Fear we shall never see his face again. The News and Observer calls the select committee's report a "clean bill of health for North Carolina." Just wait until the voters pass upon that questions. A dispatch says that Mr. Bryan does not see any chance for a revis ion of the tariff. We are sorry that Mr. Bryan's tight is failing. Some of the Democrats are talking of Judge Harmon for President in 1912. Don't think you can Harmon-ize Bryan with any such proposition. "As they are saying nothing about it, it must be that the trust is not maintaining a lobby at Raleigh. Durham Herald. Probably the trusts do not see the need of outside help. Whitewash must be mighty cheap about the State capital just now as It seems to be so plentiful. Wil mington Star. Well, it was cheap cheap as dirt but there has been such a great demand for that commodity recently that it has gone up. A man named Culliver has intro duced a bill In the New York Leg islature permitting the sale of whis key in that State from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Sundays. As a rule, we do not believe in abridging peoples rights, but that man Culliver ought to be sent to Sunday-school. After the select committee made their report to the Legislature "showing" that the committee of 1907 made a mistake in their criti cism, the Senate ordered the State printer to print 2,500 copies o the select committee's report and the House ordered that the State have 2,000 copies printed. Are they going to use them for campaign purposes? Saturday while the writer was up around the Capitol he found certain members, for a certain reason, prac ticing on a very tuneful song. The writer rembembers only the chorus, which was as follows: "O the whitewash man! O the whitewash man! If your feelings are a-hurting, can he help you? Yes, he can. O the whitewash man! O the whitewash man! Everybody's Air. ith the white wash man. Ill Tit.. Besides being a timely and iu song, we submit the above to the Charlotte Observer as near poetry. INAUGURATION DAY President Taft Will Take Oath of Office Today. GREAT CROWDS IN THE CITY George Washington, the First Presi dent, Outlined the Ceremonies Which in General Have Been Fol lowed From Tliat Day to This Washington's Idea of Simplicity Has Henn Followed by AH the Chief Executives How a Presi dent in Inaugurated. Washington, D. C, March 2. With inauguration day near at hand the population of this city to-night is from 75,000 to 100,000 greater than usual, and by to-morrow night this surplus probably will have been doubled. Of the 31,000 members of civic and military organizations who will participate in the inaugural parade, about one-third already have arrived within the shadow of the Capitol dome. By to-morrow night fully nine-tenths of them will be here. How Washington Was Inaugurated. Washington, D. C, Feb. 28. His tory again will repeat , itself next Thursday when William Howard Taft bows his head over the Holy Bible and takes the solemn obliga tion which shall make him for a stated period, the Chief Magistrate of the United States. The ceremony of the induction of a President into office is distinctive ly American. Conceived into the minds and hearts of the Nation's Father's, while they yet were in the throes of a great revolution, it i3 grand in its motive sublime in its simplicity. Through the lapse of years, since the establishment of the American Government, substantially no change has been made in the ceremonial form, although elaborate and beautiful accompaniments, in recent years, have become notable features of this most important of American functions. In the time of Taft, as in the time of Washington, the spectacle bears the same simple impressiveness. Here no emperor, or king, or dictator, ar rogating to himself, "through the law of -succession or monarchial expedi ency," the powers of government: but the creature of a willing, enthusi astic and homogenious people taking upon himself, through the expression of his peers, the responsibility of carrying out their mandates and di recting the execution of their will. Yesterday he was one of a hundred million people; to-day, yet one of the people, but chosen for a brief time to direct their destinies and to pro tect and defend their nation. Washington's Idea. It was Washington who, to a large extent, devised the plan of a Presi dent's inaugural. In this respect, as in others, his work has stood the test of time. It will endure, too, for so long as the nation may live, in its original form of beautiful and Im pressive simplicity. Washington was Inducted into of fice at New York. At the time of no tificatoin of his election, he was re siding at his beautiful country home, Mount Vernon. He proceeded to the then' seat of government on horse back. In coaches and in eight-oared barges. His journey was a triumph al march. No such scenes of enthu siasm ever had been witnessed in this country as attended his progress. The country people gave him hearty greeting by the road-side; In Phila delphia the citizens had decorated the streets and buildings elaborately and he rode on a splendid milk-white charger beneath triumphal arches; and in towns and hamlets farther east his pathway was strewn with flowers by women and children. Details of the ceremony attendant upon the administration of the oath of office were worked out afer h,is arrival in New York. It took place in the old Federal building, which then was the seat of the Congress, and the oath was administered by Chancellor Livingston. The first President was waited upon by com mittees of the House and Senate at his temporary abiding place and an escort of regular United States troops accompanied him to the "Capi tol," He was driven in a handsome coach and as he had no predecessor, he was alone In the carriage. When the announcement was made formal ly that Washington had taken the obligation which made him the first President of the United States, the multitude waiting outside of the building gave itself up to an enthu siastic demonstration. Speecehs were delivered and patiotio. songs were sung, and that night there was a dis play of fireworks. . The second inauguration of Wash ington took place in Philadelphia. While the ceremony was more elabo rate, in its accompaniments, than the first had been it remained, as always in its essential form, simple and im pressive. Washington was conveyed to the Capitol in a handsame coach drawn by six white horses. His attire was notably elegant, being of black velvet, with diamond-studded buck les, silk hose and cocked hat. - Senator W. B. Jones has been elected city attorney for Raleigh to succeed Mr. Wm. Snow, who " has moved to Lumberton. PRESIDENT WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Will Take the IN GALA ATTIRE Washington all Ready and Wait ing for the Inauguration. CONGRESS HARD AT WORK President-Elect Taft Bnsy With a Stream of Callers President Roosevelt Will Leave Washington This Afternoon for Home and Will Complete Preparations for His African Trip Foreign Countries Anxious to See and Greet Him Congress Will Be Unable to Com plete Its Work Which Wrill Prob ably Fall on the Special Session. Special to the Caucasian: Washington, D. C, March 2, 1909. The nation's capital is already in gala attire for the great inaugura tion on Thursday. The trains from every quarter of the country are lad en with people and the great new Union Depot, the largest and hand somest depot in the world, is taxed to its capacity to accommodate the throngs that are pouring in. The streets are lined with bunting and also literally alive with people from ocean to ocean. Unusual prepartaions have been made by the committees in charge of the inaugural ceremonies, and if the weather will only smile with favor on that day there is every prospect that it will be the largest and most imposing inauguration pa rade the nation has ever seen. Congress is working overtime in an attempt to close up some of the most important business pending, but it seems almost certain that some important matters, including the census bill and possibly an ap propriation hill, may fail to pass and will have to be taken up in the ex tra session. Many of the newly-elected Con gressmen who will take their seats In the extra session called for March 1 5th, have already reached town with their families and settled for the ex-! tra session. President-elect Taft is here, and is of course flooded with a stream of callers, though he says that he is resting while he is waiting for the inauguration.. President Roosevelt was tever so busy as he is during .these closing days of his administration and will leave Washington at once on Thurs day after the inaugural ceremonies for his home and there complete rapidly his preparation for his hunt ing trip to Africa. The President has received not only a number of invitations to lec ture at the leading universities in Europe, but many requests have mm. W4' Oath of Office at been made that he permit special at tention to be shown him while abroad. He has expressed a desire that he be permitted while abroad to travel as a private citizen, but it seems clear that his wishes in this regard will not be submitted to. There probably has never been a President of "the Uiitied States whose name was on the lils of so many peo ple, of so many cobi tfies, and of so many tongues and 1; tionalities. His strong and interest ng personality has indeed attracted the peoples of the whole earth. THIRTY DEAD IX MINE DISASTER Terrific Explosion in Coal Mine. Xear Pitteon, Pa. Big Firo Which Has Broken Out Prevents the Rescue of the Imprisoned Men. Pittston, Pa., March 2. A terrific explosion occurred at 8 o'clock this morning in the fourteen-foot vein, No. 14 colliery, of the Erie Company at Port Blanchard. Fifteen victims, most of them in a dying condition, have been taken to the hospital, and it is believed that at least thirty are dead in the mine. A big fire has broken out in the vein and prevents the rescue of the imprisoned men. TENNESSEE SENATORS THE STATE. LEAVE They Leave in Order to Defeat the Recently Enacted Elections Laws. Nashville Tenn., Feb. 26. That thirteen members of the State Sen ate have fled the State to defeat the purpose of the recent election laws passed over Governor Patterson's veto, is believed in well-informed circles to-night. j The thirteen members were this afternoon declared in contempt of the Senate by that body and the Sergeant-at-Arms was instructed to go in pursuit of the absentees. Later. Several of the Senators are in Kentucky and declare they will not return home until the leg islature adjourns. Mrs. Coulter Burned to Death in Her Home at Sanford. Sanford, N. C, March 2. The people of our town were grieved to hear of the heart-rending accident which happened to Mrs. J. P. Coul ter this afternoon. About 3 o'clock a neighbor went in to secure a dress pattern, finding Mrs. Coulter cold In death lying upon the floor wrapped in curtains and rugs, which Mrs. Coulter had evidently wrapped about her to extinguish the flames which charred her body, burning her to death while in her room. Mr. and Mrs. Coulter came here a year ago from Newton, N. C. A bill passed the House Monday night to incorporate Fuquay Springs, Wake County. Noon Today. TALKS OF TERM President Roosevelt Tells of Nation's Strides. PROGRESS IS SUBSTANTIAL Navy Has Been More Than Doubled; Panama Feats Far-Reaching; An thracite Strike Settled; Forest Re serves Quadrupled; Irrigation Ad vanced; Army Improved; Alaskan Dispute Adjusted; Waterways Im provements Realized Necessity, and Many Other Things Add to Chief Executive's Happiness. Special to The Caucasian. Washington, D. C, Feb. 28. A statement was given out last night from the White House, at the re quest of newspaper men containing a condensed statement of some of the leading accomplishments of Pres ident Roosevelt's administration. The brief summary or a most re markable administration Is as fol lows: "The navy of the United States has been more than doubled. It has now done what no other similar fleet of a like size has ever done Viz: circumnavigated the globe and it is also in far more efficient battle trim than when it started out a year ago. "The Panama Canal. No feat of quite such far-reaching importance has been to the credit of this coun try In recent years. "The peace of Portsmouth was a substantial achievement, as was also the part played by the United States in the Algeciras conference. "The settlement of the anthracite coal strike was a matter of very great moment to the American peo ple from the standpoint not only of industrial, but of social reform and progress. "The forest reserves of th coun try have been trebled or quadrupled; the Forest Service has been re-or ganized and placed under the De partment of Agriculture, and there have been created a number of reser vations for preserving the wild thinea of nature the birds and beasts, as well as the trees. t Irrigation Progress. "In the matter of legislation, the national irrigation act, which is re sulting in the development of the semi-arid States, of the great plains and Rockies, is an achievement sec ond only in importance to the crea tion of the homestead act itself. . "Th administration of the civil government in the Phllllpplne Isl- ( Continued on Page 4.) IULKl.VS IN XK.U YORK. The Major Didn't Fary New Jmwy New York ;rrU Harbor I lob "Burked am a Sf rrrt OmiUag aad a PoltrraMUi Appcvarrd; So Armtt. but a PlraABt ArqualntaiM Wm Formed. Correspondence of The Cauraiian Eaterprlie. Now York. March 1. 10. Me an' Bob hv bin trrckln' acrost the upper part of Penniylvabia an' through th State ot New Jersey even since we left Philadelphia, an at lat we air In New York. We didn't mke any long stops In New Jersey. Hit may be a party gude State fer sum thine an', hit may not. They iz sum large towns In the State but they air not very noted fer anything exsept manufac turing and general cu&&ednss, so we k-pt movin' eriong. Me an Bob air out fer big game. We started ter see the elephant an' we air goin ter see Mt or bust a trace. The first thing we struck close to New York wuz Jersey City. That is a big city. Hit iz located Just south ov the lower end ov New York known as "The Battery." an' is cut off from New York by the mouth ov two rivers. East River an North R'.ver, an New York city Iz built rite between them two rivers. Hit 1 a mile or more acrost the water ter New York. New York hez a deep an' largo harbor fer hit extends fer wiles up the two rivers and lz partly rait and partly fresh water. Brooklyn, now a part ov New York, ivc located just east ov New York, the two cities bein' divided by East River. But they air connected by three preat bridges an' by numerous steam ftrries. New York an Brook lyn voted ter consolidate a few years ago an' air one now. New York added a million to her large popula tion by that move alone. But, ov courte, Brooklyn wuz wlllin' the hole thing havin bin done by vote. Me an' Bob went over from Jer sey city to New York on one ov them steam ferry boats, but you kin ride rite into them at one end an' stop an when the boat touches land at the other side you kin ride out an' Ko our way rejoicin. When I struck land at the other side hit looked like hit mite be court week in New York fer they wuz so many people movin' erbout, an' they wuz awl movin' too. People don't stay still long in this grate city. Bob he sorter tried to git scared, but I hurried him erlong. I inquired the way ter Broadway, the greatest business street In the city. I boon reached that street and start ed up hit. But they wuz so many street cars, cabs, carriages, drays. an' ortormobilles dashin' erlong an' so many people walkln' like they wuz goin ter a fire that Bob got sorter exsited. "Kepp quiet. Bob." sez I. "This is not Bilkinsville an' hit iz not Phil adelphia; but Just hold your grip an we will land somewhars or find the reason why." Bob did purty well till we got up ter 14th Street an' then he "buck ed" rite on a street crossln' an then he wouldn't go forward nor back ward. Hit seemed like hiz legs wuz growed ter the street pavin'. A big policeman cum waltzln' up an' he sez: "Old man, don't stop on that crossin' don't you see that hun dreds ov people air tryin' ter git by you?" "Let 'em crawl under, go erround or climb over the top ov me," sez I; "fer my ortermobill iz out ov gaso lene an' hit won't go a step till hit gets ready. They ain't ennuff blast ed perlicemen in this blasted town ter move him either." The cum up close an' he looked at Bob an' Bob looked at him an' I could see that Boh wuz wantin' ter turn erround so az ter git hiz heels in gude range ov the policeman. "Faith an' be Jesus, I beleeve that animal would eat me erlire," sed the policeman. "You air Irish, ain't you?" sez I. "Faith an' ov course I am," sez the policeman; "Irish from the crown ov me bead ter the soles ov me shoes." "So am I," sez I. "Me father wuz English, but me mother wuz Irish, an they ain t nothln that divides England and Ireland now. England an' Ireland an' the United States kin lick the world," sez I. "Shake," sez the policeman, an' he cum rite up close an held out a paw az big az a ham frum a 300 pound hog. "My name iz Bilkins, sez I. "an' Bilkinsville, North Carolina, iz my postoffis when at home. But I am out see in the world now. I am takln in New York an' then I am gein' ter England, Ireland an Japan an' awl erround an' I am goin ter ride this mule." "Shake ergin," sez the perllce man. "You air the real thing, Mr. Bilkins. My name is Mike O'Riley, ov the Broadway Division, an I live ud on 35th Street. Your first visit to New York, I guess, Mr. Bilkins? "Yes. I am goin' ter look over this town a little an' then I'll mount one ov them boats an go acrost the At lantick an spend some time in old Ireland an' if I see any ov the O' Rielys I'll tell them that you air doin well." He give me his home address an made me promise ter spend an even- in' with him, an he sed he would 8 how me more ov New York after supper some nite than I could see in a week goin' erlone. "By the way. Captain," sez I, (Continued on Page 4.) THE TRUST BILL Solicitors S&Ury BUI Reported Favorably by Committee. A TREMENDOUS BOND ISSUE Sprrial LrcUlaUie Cummtttee r Hack un (lie Hrpun of the Special Ctmttlr Appuiartcil by Um lfg iUaturr ot IIW7 lo tMtktig4 the SUU Offlcf mil to tHibotU I" the People lite IYMHiun to Rr nutF th CspJUU to rentM.ro IU"lrtrd Favorably by lmtnitlr liurfcWt Atui-Trut Bill killed In the 8ml. Subjection "A of the IxK-khart anil-trust bill was killed In th Sen ate Thursday and the Ulow-lUwtt sub-ction "F" was parsed. It wit! be remembered that subnotion "A" made it Illegal for firms or corpora tions to agree to rale or lower the price ot commodities, wht! u !- -tion "F" provides that firms or cor porations shall not form a conspira cy to control the price of commodi ties. The Committee on Proposition aod Grievances Saturday reported favorably the proposition to submit a vote of the people on the removal of the Capitol from Kalelsh lo Greensboro. The Select Committee appointed by the present Legislature to exam ine into the report made by the spe cial committee appointed lu 1507 to examine the State office, have made their report and "exhonerated" the offices criticized by the former com mittee who had spent two months. with the aid of an expert auditor. In making a thorough examination of all the accounts, vouchers and rec ords. The following Is the legislative proceedings in detail: SENATE THTRSDAY. . The following bills were Intro duced: By Sherrill: Petition for the re peal of the personal and homestead exemption. Constitutional amend ment. By McCall: To appoint justices of the Peace for Burke County. The following bills passed their third and final reading: S. B. To prohibit the sale of cer tain narcotic drugs to habitues. H. B. To authorize the Commis sioners of Gates County to levy a special tax. II. B. To authorize the Commis sioners of Green County to levy a special tax. S. B. To re-establish the office of treasurer of Wilkes County. 11. B. To authorize the commis sioners of Chatham County to divide said county into townships. S. B. To fix the salaries of the county officers of Rockingham coun ty and Increase the school fund. S. B. To allow the citizens of Gas ton County to hold an election to ex press their will concerning the re moval of the county seat from Dal las to Gastonla. The anti-trust bill was then taken up as unfinished business. After a lengthy and somewhat heated dis cussion a vote was taken on the bill. The Lockbart sub-section "A" was defeated and the Blow-Basset sub stitute, known as sub-section "F," was passed by the Senate, and the bill sent to the House. Other bills Introduced: By Wray: To protect birds dur ing breeding season in Rockingham County. By Wray: Declaring rural free delivery routes in Rockingham Coun ty to be public roads. By Matthews: Relative to Samp son Superior Court IX THE HOUSE. Bills introduced: McLeod: To amend the primary law for Robeson County. Bras well: To increase the number of commissioners of Nash County. Cox, of Wake: To provide for a proper examination and checking of the departments of State. Smith: To regulate hunting in Harnett County. Floyd: To amend the law of J SO 8 relative to sale of brandy In Frank lin County. Wooten: To amend the stock law In Lenoir County. Grant: To amend the revlsa! of 1905 relative to hunting on lands of another without written consent. Taylor: To provide for a travel ing auditor for North Carolina. The Gordon bill providing for a bond Issue of a half million dollars to carry out the act of 1907, provid ing for permanent improvements, passed its second reading. Paased Final Reading. To authorize the Issue of bonds to fund and pay off the Stale debt. (Provides for an issue of $3,400, 000.) To allow Cleveland County to Is sue road improvement bonds. To allow Cumberland County to issue bonds and levy special tax for construction of bridges. To provide for laying oat public roads in Guilford County. To ullow Hertford County to levy special tar. To allow Union County to Issue road bonds. (Continued on Page 2.).
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