w i w UV Mi vol xxix, RALEIGH, N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1911. No, 29 m ii ii ii 1 a i i 1 FDITORIAL BRIEFS -Tkol In the slot and near nrn rrfnrl , I dv ' r r-j - - - iwmvratic party will first ' ' o 'or'n to govern itself, i Washington. D. C., July 2S.Dem-l u' 1 , ocrats of the House of Representees ! - Kitchin, Clark, and Ay-iafter a prolonged caucus to-day ratl-i rr,VVvinK to Hwat the "pie." i fed b mor aa a two-thirds major-! - - ' lty the cotton tariff revision bill! .v, ..-ought In the South has beenaed Democratic members) v w of the Ways and Meant Committee.! oun Alabama and Texas baTe reduclng by nearly one.fealf tno "ACt. rv,. hriB been passed In the Sen- M campaign and things are marking up. It is to be supposed that Governor Ki'rlm is running for the Senate on H: "orsonallty." B,fore ho was elected Governor. i Kitchin promised to put the trusts Lc-hind t ho bars. It may be that they can't wear their Democracy straight because it a3 made crooked. If th trusts In North Carolina are behind the bars, they are selling liquor, and not "doing time." Wilmington's chief-of-police was kicked by a horse and the other city officials are about to be kicked by the recall. Simmons' clerk says that Simmons has done no wrong. Do you suppose he could say otherwise and still hold his job? The Greensboro News might re member that the discredit of Sim mons does not mean the discredit of tho State. A head-line in the Greensboro Tele gram says that "Governor Kitchin an swers his critics." Probably meant to say that he replied to them. The Greensboro Telegram says Sim mons is left without a leg to stand ou. Won't it be awful if he now has to meander around on his head? The News and Observer says that Governor Kitchin has been "asleep at the switch." And, so has the party that he represents lookout for tho wreck. Bryan has askjjd all the Democratic candidates for President thirteen questions. Wonder if the Colonel knew that thirteen was an unlucky number? Governor Kitchin intimates that the editor of the News and Observer is mad with him because he (the Governor) refused to take orders from Josephus. Governor Kitchin doesn't believe that the News and Observer can fool the voters. Well, Mr. Kitchin should see that he doesn't aid the News and Observer in trying to fool them again. One writer says that Simmons is Popular because of his vast activities in "red-shirt" times. If we could not be popular except among the law less, then we would prefer no popu larity. A staff correspondent of the New York Sun says that the majority of toe Representatives from North Car olina are engaged in smothering pros perity. That is putting it in a con cise form. A Democratic exchange says that ttis country is going to the bad rap- ldly- Oh, don't take it so to heart the Senatorial campaign will be over n little more than a year, and possi- by a Republican will be elected after all. i According to Senator Lockhart. the emocratic Senate of 1909 could not ave been Persuaded to adopt "the en Commandments." Pretty bad ate, wasn't it? And still, it is only bother sample of their "Democratic good government." The Greensboro Telegram says it evident that a large number of Pie in this State would rather swat enator Simmons than anything else the Why not' since is order of the day to ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC POW-WOW. - va ft i . . a ... 0 u iwmion or Cotton " JrmwrM I TO- tent Congrcmaji Webb Get Cold Feet. 1 schedules of the Payne-Alrich law on manufacturers of cotton. The bill will be introduced in the House to morrow and its passage expedited. The bill was not ratified without protest and a vigorous effort was made by many Democrats to upset the party legislative program and to prevent adjournment of the special session of Congress by blazing away with tariff revision all down the line even ,f Buch action would throw the session into the late fall. Representative Webb of North; Carolina offered a resolution urging postponement of action on the cot- ! ton measure until the Ways and S Means Committee should first report! bills reducing the tariffs of Iron and steel articles, sugar, meats and flour, brick and dyes and dye-stuffs. After his resolution was voted down, other! members pleaded for extension of the; tariff program, urging especially re vision of the iron and steel, rubber and sugar schedules. Though all resolutions were de feated, no decisive action on the time of adjournment was taken. COTTON OX EXCHANGE DROPS. i'riees of New Crop Options Drop Two lkllars a Bale Heavy Short Sell ing. New Orleans, La., July 25. The worst smash of the session in the cotton market came to-day without any warning. The loss on the new crop months, the principal object of attack by the bear side, amounted to exactly forty points, or $2 a bale. August, in which all that is left of the "Solid crop interest is centered, lost 30 points, or $1.50 a bale. The decline was caused by heavy short selling which hardly let up for a min ute during the day. Under the pressure the market gave ground steadily and on the way -down stop loss orders from those traders who had gone long in anticipation of the now long-delayed reaction were con stantly reached. This swelled the gelling. The market had next to no support and what buying orders there were came from shorts who wanted to realize points. The decline began in Liverpool and that market was so much under ex pectations on the opening here that initial prices were 8 to 10 points down. Without anything that look ed like a recovery or a reaction of consequence, prices fell until on the actual trading they were 30 to 40 points under yesterday's final quota tions. The close was 14 to 45 points down, bids and offers considered. Short selling has been very free of late, but in no such volume as it was to-day. The gossip of the floor was all bearish. In the early trading the feature of the news was extremely pessimistic claims made by English traders. They cabled over that the position of cotton was beisg affected by English politics, by impending strikes and by the failure of Monsoon, which was causing fear of another famine in India. This was the last day in the period to be considered in the report on condition which the Government will make on August 2, and bearish gossip in connection with this report intensified the effect of the poor trade accounts from the oth er side. At times selling was heavy by out side longs who came into the market on the reaction theory. Quotations on cotton are now sur prisingly cheap when compared with the price prevailing only, a few weeks age. From the highest of the season there has been a drop of 256 points, over two and a half cents a pound, or over $12.50 a bale on the July deliv ery, the position that the bull clique at one time threatened to push up to 20 cents. On the new crop posi tions the decline has been almost as great, October having lost 228 points, or $11.40 a bale. RAINS SAVE THE CROPS. Worth Bullions of Dollars to the Corn Crop in the West. Chicago, 111., July 24. Rain over all the Western States between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains has saved millions of dol lars to the corn crop. Agriculturists say that the saving of the corn crOp means an era of prosperity more val uable than anything .that wills come from the reciprocity treaty. Start ing west of the Rockies, the storm swept towards the east, touching some sections lightly and treating others where it was badly needed to a downpour .that made the countryside hilarious. PASSED CANADIAN BILL Senate Adopted Reciprocity Measure by Vote of 53 to 27 NO AMEN DM t NTS TO BILL Tlii Action Settled the Whole Can adian Reciprocity Question ao Far as Congreac la Concerned Gaa adiAn Parliament 31 oat Ratify Pact Refore It Become Effective aa a Whole The Paper Section of the Bill Becomes Effective at Once Three Democrats Voted Against the Bill. Washintgon, D. C, July 22. The reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Canada, em bodied in the reciprocity bill that proved a storm center in two sessions of Congress, passed the Senate with out amendment to-day by a vote of 53 to 27. A majority of Republicans voted against it. Of the 53 votes for it, 32 were Democratic and 21 Repub licans; of the 27 against, 24 were Republicans and 3 Democrats. This action settled the whole Can adian reciprocity question so far as Congress is concerned, and save for executive approval and the Canadian Parliament's ratification, made the pact the law of the land. Coneressional nrar.tir'A u-Ill rtplavi the affixing of the President's signa ture until next Wednesday, when the House is again in session. The reci procity bill, having originated in the House, must be returned there for engrossment and for the signature of Speaker Clark while the House is sit ting. The Canadian Parliament has not yet acted on the agreement. With one exception, the provisions of the bill as passed by Congress will not become effective until the President issues a proclamation that Canada has ratified the pact The exception to this procedure is the paper and pulp section of the bill, which it is j announced will become immediately 5 Mr. Huston said his company par effective when the- President signfticipated'ihthe'dlscusslons leading up the law. Democrats against: - Bailey, of Texas; Clake, of Arkansas; Simmons, of North Carolina. "I am much gratified that the bill is passed," said President Taft. "It indicates the increase of mutually beneficial relations, between Canada and this country." "It was easy," said Senator Pen- rose. Congress will adjourn, he predict ed, not later than August 6th or 10th. Wool Schedule. A bitter struggle is expected in the Senate next week over the wool tar iff. A wool revision bill already has passed the Democratic House. Sev eral substitutes have been offered in the Senate and a vote will be taken Thursday next. No sooner had the reciprocity bill passed than Senators began to prepare for the attack on the tariff. The wool bill was made the unfinished business and will be taken up Monday morning. The in dications are there will be a Demo cratic conference before the vote on the bill Thursday. The indications to-night are that the House bill will be voted down without effort to amend it, and that subsequently the La Follette wool bill may be adopted as an amendment to the House free list bill, to be finally dealt with when the free list votes is taken Aug. 1st Every threatened change in the re ciprocity bill was defeated by the con sistent union of Democratic and "reg ular" Republican forces. The Dem ocrats with but few exceptions voted against amendments by Senator Bai ley, one to put the farmers' free list in as an amendment to the recipro city bill and the other to Incorporate a reduction in the tariff on cotton bagging and cottoa ties. John Norris, chairman of the Com mittee on Paper of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, in a statement issued to-night, said: "The paper section of the bill be comes effective immediately upon ap proval by the President and paper made from' timber cut on privately owned lands will come in duty-free without awaiting Canadian action. In that respect It differs from the gen eral reciprocity section which will not go into effect until the President shall proclaim that Canada has re duced its duties in accordance with the agreement between the United States and Canada." Senator Simmons voted against the final passage of the fcill. His own amendment reducing the duty on fresh &nd cured meats received 16 votes, while 64 were cast against it. Mr. Simmons amendment lowering the rales on duty on our and cereals failed by a vote of 17 ayes to 63 noes. Senator Overman, of North Caro lina, withheld his vote on' his col league's amendments. ajcothcr TttttsT tJi ixdictiid. I oar ladictxaenu !teCera4 Agaiftrt the Wall Taper Tna.t at 0irUjd, OSiio. Tent iBditiaesu r-j turned by the Federal eras 4 Jury at! Clerelaad, Ohio, which ha Umn la-! rtllxaunx aa alleged wall prr! tratC The iadlctseou charge a ca Piracy In rtatraint of trade uadtr i proTwioca oi me soersaan asu- trust law. The indicted partiea are all official! of Wall pa&er iobbi&r! houaes. The tpeciSc charge agalcit the in-j dieted men U that they net in i Cleveland oa May 30. 1910. and after j tecret aeailoa notified wall paper manufaeturera of the country that Iff they told wall paper to five and tea cent stores, the jobbers would boy cott the manufacturers. The significance of this action, the Government alleges, 1 that the four men constitute the executive commit tee of the National Aisoclatlon of Wall Paper Jobbers. According to Federal officials three hundred five and ten cents stores throughout the country were affected by the alleged order of the jobbers. The indictments follow a grand jury investigation of several weeks' duration. ADMITS ALLEGED POOL. President of One Steel Corporation Says Pool Was Formed to Over come Competition Said Labor Was Too High Compared With Price of Ore. WTashintgon, D. C, July 25. For mation of the steel plate association of the United States in New York in the autumn of 1900 to overcome de structive "competition" was admit ed to-day before the House steel trust investigating committee by A. F. Huston, president of the Lukens Iron and Steel Company, one of the or ganizers, who Identified a copy of the agreement. U: "Where did you see this agreement before?" asked Representative Beall of Texas, displaying a copy now on the official record of the inquiry. "When it came from the printer." "Who sent it to the printer?" "I did," replied Mr. Huston. to the agreement and of the organi zation of the association. He said the purpose "was to try to avoid destructive competition." "Prior to that time," he explained, "we had had a period of destructive competition. Common labor was at GO cents to $1 a day, the price of steel was down to a cent a pound, and in j selling, the value of ore in the ground was not taken into consideration at all." Further admission of the existence from November 2, 1900, to Novem ber, 1905, of the steel plate associa tion along lines similar to the ad mittedly illegal pool projected in an agreement, copies of which were burned in 1900, was made by W. C. More-land, of Pittsburg, secretary of the Arm of Jones & Laughlin, Lim ited. Mr. Moreland submitted an account of his company with the steel plate association and said his records con tained actual figures of moneys paid to Willis L. King, of Pittsburg, treas urer of the pool. Mr. Moreland said he did not know why the pool ceased in 1905, nor what other firms were in it. THREE KILLED IX. GRAHAM. Ed. Bryson Killed His Two Compan ions at a Card Game, and Bryson is Killed by Deputy Sheriff. Waynesville, N. C, July 25. On last Friday night, in Graham Coun ty, at Yellow Creek, where Ed. Bry son lives, Elliott Bartlett and Tom Ftizzel went to spend the night with Bryson. After supper they engaged in a game of cards and played all night, it is said. Bryson elaimed sixty cents, when they said they only owed him thirty cents. Bryson then said they were not treating him right. Then one of the others said they would have to quit then, but they did not quit, and played on till a quarrel arose over the game, whereupon Bryson drew his pistol and killed both Bartlett and Frizzel. Bryson then made his es cape and went to a friend's house on Hazel Creek, about ton miles distant. Deputy Sheriff Sherman Jenkins was soon hot on the trail of Bryson, and located him at his friend's house, and while attempting to arrest him he resisted to such an extent that the officer with his 22-calibre rifle shot and killed Bryson. So there are three men dead In Graham County over cards for the paltry sum of sixty cents. Another Negro Lynched tn Louisiana. New Orleans, La., July 24 Caught by a posse after twice escaping, Miles Taylor, the negro who shot five white men Saturday at a saw-mill In Clai borne Parish, was lynched late last night, according to reports to-day. WIRE TRUST IS GUIlTY Sever! Firms Admit Tint They hid Violated Sher man Anti-Trnst Law TUTftT V-SE V EM Fl H E T 1 mttl IOtVtM NWtU The Sentence 1U4 Vrom $1,000 - - . . 10 si.w taca ana Ctaat in liar a OS This Caae lodge L Theca Time With Ftnet, Bat afttUWCod; in Future Treat Had Entered la to a Conipiracy to Iteatralai Trade and Ftx Noa-CkHupcilUve Rate. Nw York. July 25. The Federal! !ta IKJftT.US.ttd tea years a. Government to-day scored heavily laj The caaltr of farms ia St to was its effort to break up the alleged MI0.120, a eoopr4 with S.7JT. "wtre trust" when thlrty-aevea of the t Gf. iacreaae of I! rr eighty-three mea indicted Joce Ilthj6 The land increased ta U9 ttm withdrew the plea of "not g-ullty" and SSS,0JJ,60 acres u? tnTQ,0t- ia accepted sentence without trial oa ! 110 or I per test, but a Urgr la- pleaa of "aole contendere. Judge Archibald, In the United States Dla trlct Court Imposed fine of from $S 000 to $1,700 and costs in each case. The action came la the face of vig orous argument agaimt the accept ance of the plea by United States Dis trict Atorney Wise. It had never been accepted In this court, he declared, and he protested against a precedent. "The best authorities," he said, "characterize it as a plea Indicating a compromise between the defend ants and prosecuting attorneys," and he denied that any such compromise existed. "The facts In this case are flag rant," he continued. "This set of; men representing practically an en tire industry. In open and perfectly clear of a United tates statute com bined to restrain and control trade. The case against them Is so clear and open that the most eminent counsel in this country have advised them that it would be fruitless to attempt to -enter a defense." The court, however, accepted the pleas and remarked: "This Is what j you might call a trado offense. It is an onense which oy tne act 01 con gress Is against the Interest of the business world. It sems to me I am not going out of the way when I say that just what was meant by this law has remained in considerable uncer tainty up to this time. We now know exactly ,or very nearly, what it means; and from this time on there will be no excuse, but I feel justified in look ing upon what has occurred in the past in this light and therefore I cer tainly regard this as calling for noth ing except a proper vindication of the! law by a fine." Sentence to pay the costs and a fine of $1,000 in each case was then pro nounced with the provision that where a defendant had been fined In one case the fine should be $100 of each additional case. It Is alleged that eighty-three in dicted members entered into an un lawful combination to restrain trade, and that continuously from June 1, 1908, to some later date, "were knowingly and wilfully engaged in this combination, the purpose of which was to fix arbitrary and non competitive prices both for the pur poses of raw product and for the sales of their manufactured goods." William P. Palmer, Presiaent of the American Steel and Wire Com pany; Herbert L. Saterlee, soa-in-law of J. P. Morgan; Frank J. Gould and Chas. F. Brooker, Republican Na tional Committeeman, from Connec ticut, are among the forty-six other alleged members of the Association who have pleaded not guilty to the indictments. ; TWO HOMICIDES AT BLE WITTS FALLS. Pistol Shot Interrupts Coroner's In quiry and Makes Another Neces sary. Wadesboro, N. C, July 25. Blew- itt's Falls, where several hundred la borers are engaged In constructing the mammoth hydro-electric plant oa the Yadkin River, was the scene this afternoon of two homicides, the sec ond coming while the coroner's jury was Investigating the first All par ties are negroes and the direct causes of the fatal quarrels are unknown. Early in the afternoon, following a brief controversy near Battle's store, Tom Burns shot and killed Gilbert Tucker. The coroner assembled his jury and was inquiring into the shooting when a negro whose name is unobtainable shot another member of his race five times through the stom ach, death being instantaneous. There was no apparent disturbance and the cause of the second shooting is some what of a mystery. The scene of the second killing was near Battle & Bat tle's store. The assailant took to the woods and is probably now making; his way toward, parts unknown in! company with Tom Burns. Burns used a shot-gun; the second death-dealing weapon was a pistol. tlrv If awl It ft la ctJ Oare&sta. esasrkei uurrs!. Witw ? s&.r uts;&! sum2 dtrux i Cfct4Ua rccifocisy. t& C3Ma sra arkat zt ta Uirt faral fm .utuu of U i lft!f4 akk ffcfct , I. fmt tsore tlw doaUei ta ! 1 .. - jcreajMpa fill pmr f,at. !a ItiO xUt r vaU4 at tJ.H.JJ.e5ft. a4 Mtarw t tm thirteenth e&t&t iiot tay are me orth S:!.llS.fM.&e0. Farm land, fans tmlt&eg a&4 I farm laplescau of the eosatry are j valued at UM&Mi3.e9. cosr4 crease, IS per cent, is noted la im proved acreage whtc, la 1 f 00, was 4H.O0.000 acres, and in 1110. 477. 424,000 acre. More coaiplcuouf than the Increase ta the cumber of acres of faros has bee a the increase ia the improved values of farm property. The Un4 la farms roae la value from $12.0(1, 023,000 in 1900 to $2t.2S2.S21.00 ta 1910, aa increate of US per teat, aad during the same period the sver age value per acre of all laad ta farms rose from $ 1 1. CO to $22. &0, or 101 per cent Farm buildings, which la 1900 were valued at S3,5f6.61 4.000, tre reported In 1910 as worth $.294. 025,000, an Increase of 77 per cent Farm implements and machinery re ported In 1910 as worth $1,261,817. 000, and ten years previously as worth $749.77S,000, show an tncrrsse of 68 per cent REV. B. L. PADGETT ARRESTKD. Principal In Recent Sensational Slan der Cae tn Cleveland County Court (Itargrd by Atlanta Author Itlcs With Kloptng With Mt torn-Year-Old Ctrl of Kins Mountain. A special dispatch from Shelby, N. C, to yesterday's Charlotte Observer tells of the sorry predicament In which two preachers are found. Tho special says: "Shelby, N. C, July 25. Rev. B. L. Padgett and pretty Miss Carrie Stockton, of Kings Mountain, arc tn the custody of o fleers in Atlanta, ac cording to The Atlanta Journal to day, the preacher being charged with eloping with the sixteen-year-old girl. Looking for one Methodist preacher from South Carolina, who. It was re ported, had eloped with a young gtrl and was headed for Atlanta, the police raided a little Madison Avenue hotel and pinched not the South Car olina preacher and the girl for whom they were searching, but an entirely different pair. Padgett and Miss Stockton are In custody and Rer. J. H. Newton and Miss Tessie Moore, likewise sixteen years of age. are the two for whom the cops are still look ing. "Padgett is quite well known In this section of North Carolina, espe cially In Shelby,- because of a sensa tional charge of slander lodged against him by Miss Stockton's fath er at Kings Mountain, where he was holding a meeting. Mr. Stockton, a respectable citizen of that place, charged that Padgett wrecked his home while he boarded there and slandered him. Criminal action was Instituted in the Cleveland County court, but the case was of such a bad nature that the lawyers advised a compromise. "Now it appears that the Stocktoa girl has joined the holiness preacher fa Atlanta and they were found in ad- joining rooms in a hotel. A peculiar circumstance of the case fs that Pad gett says he knows both Rev. J. IL Newton and the Moore girL He takes bis arrest calmly and says that he could stand his part of it all right if It did not put the young lady in such an embarrassing and likely-to-be-zaU-understood attitude. He says he was on his way to Greensboro. Ga., to as sist one of the pastors in holding a revival when he stopped off in Atlan ta to look things over. He admits that he knows the Stockton family well and that the girl Joined him be cause he is her 'spiritual adviser,' "The Journal says the city will probably prosecute them if the North Carolina and South Carolina author ities do not wish to extradite them. Preminer Lanrier Delivers TJltlmation to Canadian Parliament on Reci procity Measure. Ottawa, Canada, July 24. -"Yon must permit a vote to be taken in Prallament on the reciprocity agree ment or we will take- tho Tote of iho Canadian people without delay. This was the nltimatlon Premier Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier address ed to the conservative opposition of the Canadian Parliament to-day.
