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HARLOTTE, N. C. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1903.
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NO. 5464
NEWS.
THE GOVERNOR'S
MESSAGE IS READ
Senator Justice Introduces a
Bill Prohibiting Manufac
ture and Sale of Liquor
in Towns
SENATORIAL GAUCAS
TOMORROW EVENING
Mann's Bill Prohibits Any
Legislator Accepting Office
Created by the Present
Legislature
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. S Senator Jus
tice introduced a bill prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of liquor, ex
cepting in incorporated towns of five
hundred inhabitants, and making the
minimum state, county and town li
cense $500 each.
Senator Mann offered a resolution
that no legislator shall accept an office
created by this legislature.
The House passed a resolution to in
vestigate a number of employees. The
bills introduced were as follows: By
Scott for another building at the A. &
M. College; by Graham to extend the
time for adjusting the State debt.
The senatorial caueas will be held
here Friday night.
Governor Aycock's message was de
livered to both houses shortly after
they were called to order. The sub
stance of the document follows:
The Honorable, the General As
sembly: I welcome you with much
pleasure to the Capital of the State.
With the beginning of your labors my
own are appreciably lessened. You
come to your work fresh from the
people with a knowledge of their
wishes and with a sincere desire to
meet their just expectations and de
mands. The year just passed has
been one of great prosperity to the
people of the State .Farmers have
produced good crops and received
reasonable prices for them. Industries
have increased and manufacturers
have been kept busy. Labor has had
steady employment at fair wages and
the State has probably never enjoyed
a period of more general success. The
State Government, however, has been
embarrassed by a want of sufficient
revenue to meet the appropriations
provided for by the last General As
sembly. It will be one of your first
duties to devise means by which the
expenditures of the State will coma
within the revenue. I am of the opin
ion that the Revenue Law now in
force under the new assessments
which will be made next June will
supply all the demands for current ex
penses. The Revenue and Machinery
Acts of the last Legislature were much
criticised at the time of their pas
sage, but experience has shown that
with a few modifications they are per
haps as good as can be made under
our Constitution. The adjustment of
taxation so that the burden shall fail
equally upon all and in proportion to
the ability to pay is one of extreme
difficulty; if indeed it is not alto
gether impossible. There has been
much complaint of the inequality of
assessments in our State. Farmers
and merchants complain that the cor
porations do not pay their proper part
of the taxes for the support of the
Government, while some of the cor
porations insist that they are taxed
in excess of the taxes levied upon
other property. The laws now in the
statute books provide for equality of
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IE ROUSE TO
BE FAIR! PALACE
Diplomatic Reception Will
Take Place This Evaning
and Will Be a Sight
Worth Beholding
Washington, Jan. 8. A small army
of florists and greenhouse men are hard
at work at the White House putting it
in shape for the diplomatic reception
this evening.
Palms, ferns, smilax and blooms of
many varieties have been transferred
from theGovernmenthot-houses and by
the time electric lights are switched
on the newly remodelled home of the
President will be a scene worth be
holding. Two thousand invitations
have been issued.
II
COMMISSION WEARY.v
Will Hold Longer Sessions To Ex
pedite Hearing.
Philadelphia, Jan. S. It has been de
termined to expediate as far as pos
sible,1 the hearing in the coal strike in
quiry and the members of the anthra
cite strike commission this morning
opened the third day's session at 10
o'clock and from now7 on in the morn
ing session will be three hours and the
afternoon two and a half hours.
The examination of witnesses which
claim they have been assaulted by
strikers was resumed this morning. On
the witness stand before the strike
commission today. President Mitchell
testified that the three miners convict
ed of the murder of Daniel Sweeney
belonged to the union.
Big Coal Land Deal.
Morgantown. W. Va.. Jan. S. The
iron and steel manufacturers of Cleve
land, O., through their agent W. R.
Murray yesterday closed a deal for six
thousand acres of coal land off the Free
port, Morgantown and Kingwood rail
road. The companies will unite in
building a coke plant to supply their
factories. The price paid was thirty
dollars per acre.
Gambled With Employer's Money.
London, Jan. S. In the Guild Hall
court today George Hunbert, a 27 year
old clerk was charged on his confess
ion with stealing 15,000 pounds while
employed by Brown and Shipley,
American bankers. The hearing was
adjourned. He lost the money on stock
betting.
MPORTMT CASES
FOR Hf COURT
Three Murderers, Probably a
Fourth, Will Be Tried Next
MonthThe Bishop Case
is On This Docket
The next term of the criminal
branch of the Mecklenburg Superior
Court will convene in Charlotte Mon
day February 9th, Judge Shaw will
preside.
At this session of the court there
will be three murder trials and prob
ably the fourth, if Ell Alexander, the
negro who killed Oliver Weddingion is
captured.
True bills have been found against
John Dodge, who on November 3, was
charged with the murder of Lizzie Pat
terson. A true bill lias also been found
against John Carter, who is charged
with the murder of his wife, Maggie
Carter.
The case of Arthur L. Bishop, charg
ed with the murder of Thomas J. Wil
son, will come up for trial and it will
probably be the first of the three mur
der cases to be heard.
While a true bill has been found
against Jorn Dodge, the jury
will hardly convict him on a
capital crime, as the dying
statement of the woman in a meas
ure, exonorated him. Dodge was at
the home of the Patterson woman, the
night of November 3. While there he
and the woman had some words. Late -Dodge
pulled out an old pistol and
flourished it around. He claims that
the woman had done nothing for him
to take her life and that the tragedy
was the result of an accident. Just be
fore death ended her sufferings the
Patterson woman stated that she did
not think Dodge intended to kill her.
The case of John Carter, the colored
janitor of the North State Club, charg
ed with the murder of his wife, Mag
gie Carter, will attract a large number
of the better element of the colored
population to the court room durir :
the trial of the case. Carter and his
wife were very well-to-do negroes and
while the tragedy was a revolting one,
there will be a great effort made to
save Carter from the gallows. Several
of the best lawyers at the Charlotte
bar have been retained to defend Car
ter. Ell Alexander, the negro who killed
Oliver Weddington, is still at large.
News readers will recall the fact that
this tragedy was enacted in the Provi
dence section, the 7th of last Novem
ber. The sad tragedy that connects Ar
thur L. Bishop, the young Petersburg
traveling man, with the death o?
Thomas J. Wilson, is still fresh in the
minds of the public.
To Hear Kentucky Charges.
Washington, Jan. 8. The Interstate
Commerce Commission meets in New
York January 15th to hear testimony
in the Kentucky railway merger case.
This is the action brought by the rail
way commission of Kentucky against
the proposed consolidation of the
southern railroads.
Sternberg to Succeed Hollebein.
Berlin, Jan. 8. It is officially an
nounced that Baron Von Sternberg,
German Consul at Calcutta, succeeds
Von Hollebein as German ambassa
dor to the United States. Sternberg
sails for America Saturday.
New Treaty With Germany.
Berlin, Jan. 8. It is reported the
Government will negotiate a new com
mercial treaty with the United States
in the spring.
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FIGHTING S H i OF
THE HAGUE COURT
Germany and England Now
Anxious to Secure a
Settlement With Castro
Offhand '
WOULD ARRANGE MATTER
THROUGH MINISTER BOWEN
Matos Scores Castro, Charac
terizing Him as a Real Sav
age, Whose Word is Not
Worth Anything
Washington, Jan. 8. The State De
partment today received a memor
andum from Minister Bowen at
Caracas stating that Venezuela had
accepted in general the terms and
conditions for arbitration laid down
by the powers. It was officially ad
mitted at the department this after
noon that the present proposal of the
powers is for a conference in Wash
ington in which Minister Bowen
should act as the representative of
Venezuela for the purpose of settling
the entire difficulty without further
delay.
Washington, Jan. 8. The Govern
ments having claims against Venezue
la are now endeavoring to secure a
settlement with President Castro with
out referring the dispute to The Hague.
Hague.
Germany particularly objects to the
Hague on account of the cumbersome
ness of its machinery and the neces
sarily long time that it would require
for an adjustment of the claims by that
tribunal.
Both England and Germany w-ould
prefer to arrange the whole affair by
diplomatic negotiations through Min
ister Bowen at Caracas.
In view of this new trend of the
negotiations Castro's reply to the lat
est communications of the powers is
awaited with considerable interest by
the State Department.
MATOS SCORES CASTRO.
Willemstad, Curacao, Jan. 6. Gen.
Manuel A. Matos, leader of the Vene
zuelan .revolutionists, made the follow
ing statement:
"The present misfortunes of Vene
zuela come from the presence at the
head of the Government of a man des
titute of morals and of administrative
ability a real savage. Castro was a
man entirely unknown, who arose by
chance to the highest magistracy and
has never learned anything because he
listens to nobody and never studies.
He has always been the same. His ar
bitrary actions in the interior have
been the cause of the uprising of the
wbnlq nation. There is no cruelty
which has not been inflicted by him
upon all who have been considered
enemies of his authority. He has
placed in unhealthy prisons soldiers,
merchants, farmers, young and old
men, and has carried his cruelty even
to putting them in irons of 40 pounds
weight.
"Defenceless cities have been sub
jected to pillage and bombarded with
out clemency for the crime of having
been occupied by the revolutionary
army. Similar arbitrary actions toward
foreigners have been the cause of the
common action of the several Europ
ean nations in order to protect their
citizens. What is happening today in
Venezuela is without precedent, be
cause an uprising of such magnitude
could have been caused only by a sol
dier of fortune as cruel and as ignorant
REMORSE FINDS
CROWNPRINCESS
Shows Signs of Repentance,
But Swears to Kill IHer
Babe Before Saxon
Court Has It
Rome, Jan. 8. The Pope has in
structed. Abbe Max of Saxony to make
a final endeavor in His Holiness' name,
to bring about a reconcileation be
tween the Crown Prince of Saxony and
the Princess Louise, who eloped with
the French tutor.
Vienna, Jan. 8. Despatches received
here from Dresden say it is reported
here that the Crown Princess has begun
to show signs of repentance for the
elopement.
Sensational developments are expect
ed when the princess' child is born.
She swears she will kill it rather than
allow it to go where she was unhappy.
The Saxon authorities will try to ob
tain the child by every means at their
command.
as General Castro. Venezuela has fer-
tue soil and has been able to retain
her financial equilibrium, her foreign,
exchange, to facilitate commercial
transactions and to fulfill all her na
tional obligations. The natural income
of the Republic, without increasing the
taxes or burdening industry, has given
Venezuela sufficient to pay her expen
ses and to have a surplus which will
; permit the paying of debts and the de-
"Venezuela considers the actual con
flict, exterior and interior, as charac
terized by the man who has created
such a situation, and that if once this
man disappears the nation will return
to its morals and its credit, and with
this the easy solution of all the diffi
culties will be found. Therefore it is
clear that when once the liberating re
volution, in which resides the national
sovereignty, is triumphant Great Brit
ain, Germany and any other civilized
country will come to easy terms with
the- Republic. There is no doubt about
this.
SNUBS LIKE BLOWS TO WIFE.
Court Grants Divorce Because Hus
band Would Not Kiss Her.
St. Louis. Jan. 8. Judge Warwick
Hough has granted a divorce to Delia
R. S. Crowe from Thomas Crowe, a
railroad engineer. Mrs. Crowe, former
ly a school teacher, testified that her
husband, from three months after their
marriage, repulsed her caresses and
when leaving the house would kiss her
sister and refuse to kiss her. In his
decision the Judge says:
'"Contumelious words, especially
when accompanied with a contemptu
ous demeanor, may amount to an in
dignity which would be felt by a sen
sitive mind with far keener anguish
than might follow the infliction of a
blow."
Coal Strike Leads to Suicide.
Mahonoy City, Pa., Jan. 8. Worry
over his loss of earnings during the
coal strike caused John Costock, a
colliery fireman at Silver Brook, to
commit suicide at his home by shooting
himself. He leaves a widow and six
children.
VEST RESOLUTION
IS BEFORE SENATE
The Philippine Constabulary
Measure Receives Consid
eration in Preference to
Important Things
Washington, Jan. 8. Two House
bills, one amending the internal rev
enue laws relating to distilled spirits
to bonded warehouses, were passed by
the Senate today.
The resolution of Mr. Vest, of Mis
souri, to place anthracite coal on the
free list was taken up by the Senate at
12:30 o'clock. Mr. Aldrich, against the
bill, was the first speaker.
The House, in committee, of the
whole, gave consideration to the Phil
ippine constabiltary bill, which aims to
promote the efficiency of the Philip
pine constabulary by giving the rank
and pay of a Brigadier General of the
army to the army officer in inferior
rank in command of the service and
rank and pay cf a colonel to officers
serving as assistant chiefs of service.
PUPIL STABS TEACHER.
i Cutting Affray In School Because
Boys Got No Candy.
j Washington, Pa., Jan. 8 The great-
est excitement prevails in the little
i town of Harveys, in Greene county,
! over a cutting affray, which occurred
at the public school there yesterday.
I The teacher of the school, C. R. Clut
t ter, attempted to punish Arnold Mc-
Clellan, aged 17, when one of the boys
drew a pocketknife and stabbed the
! teacher several times. Clutter is in a
serious condition.
i The trouble was a result of the
i teacher's refusal to treat the pupils on
j Chrfetmas. It is a custom among the
! country school teachers in this section
I evert . ear during the holidays to give
! thepr-piis a treat of candy. Clutter
j neglected to da this last week and the
; pupils requested it. He still refused,
i and a riot ensued.
! STOLE SUNDAY SCHOOL CASH.
Person Who Took It Twenty-Five
Years Ago- Now Returns It.
Somerville, N. J., Jan. 8 The clerk
of the First Baptist Church, in Som
erville, has received a letter accompa
nied by $25 as a conscience gift from
an unknown writer.
The writer says he appropriated a
collection of $1.50 from the Raritan
Baptist Sunday school when he was a
boy, and he has had a troubled consi
ence over the theft more than 25 years.
The Raritan Sunday school was a
branch of the Somerville Baptist
Church and was disbanded a quarter
of a century ago.
Friends Get Col. Johnson Title.
Washington, Jan. 8. At the earnest
solicitation of his friends, who want
to be able properly to call him "Gen
eral" after he retires to private life,
Lieut.-Col. J. A. Johnson has postpon
ed his resignation from the army for a
few days. Col. Johnson is assistant adjutant-general.
Through the efforts of
his friends the President has agreed to
appoint him a brigadier-general. He
will resign the next day as General
Johnson.
THESE ROBBERS,
PROFESSIONALS
Four Safe crackers Captured
at Columbia Thought to Be
Ones That Worked
This Section
WERE LEADING FAST
LIFE WHEN ARRESTED
They Are Held For Higher
Court There-Believed the
Right Men Are Now in
The Toils
Charlotte police think that the four
professional safe crackers who have
been nabbed in Columbia, S. C, are the
ones who have been doing the dirty
work in this section.
The four men who have been jailed
in Columbia, gave their names as
Charles Howard, Edward Dugan,
Thomas Nolan and William McKinley.
The four are also thought to consti
tute the gang who rifled the vaults of
the Savings Bank at Fort Mill and
committed other robberies in Upper
South Carolina and certain sections of
this State.
For some time it has been known
that such a gang have been operating
between this city and Columbia. Many
think that these four men have been
in Charlotte, and that, too, very re
cently. In its account of the capture of these
crooks the Columbia State of this
morning says:
The prisoners were arraigned before
Mr. Lide yesterday afternoon and were
locked up in the county jail as they
could not raise the amount of bail,
$20,000 for each man. The preliminary
examination, to be held at a date not
yet fixed, will be conducted before Mr.
James Verner, who was just recently
appointed United States commissioner.
The officers will not give any of the
evidence which points to those men as
the ones guilty of the crimes enum
erated, but they 1 evidently have
enough upon which to operate. The
developing of the evidence will be the
work of the secret service men.
Before their formal arrest each of the
suspected crooks was asked many
searching questions. The officers say
that these men have the bearing of
professionals and their own statements
show that they have been in Columbia
some time. They denied being con
nected with any of the numerous rob
beries in the State and say that they
have not been outside of Columbia ex
cept to the carnival in Charleston.
They likewise denied having ever trav
eled in neighboring States.
These men. or some of them, have
led a fast life here. They have squan
dered thousands of dollars. Nolan is
said to have lost $1,500 at cards in one
night. Since their several arrests pei
. ;n tnwn who were thrown with
them have been telling marvelous
yarns of the extravagance of some of
these worthies, how they would throw
out a greenback in payment of drinks
and then refuse the change, how they
spent their money on men and women
whom they fancied. Such acts as these
would tend to show that these men, if
guilty of the charges preferred, have
been living in Columbia for months
and had become venturesome in their
fancied security.
The government men who have been
working on the case are very compli
mentary in their references to Chief
Daly and the way in which he engi
neered the case.. Officers Strickland and
Thackham, the city's detectives, are
also receiving due credit for their ser
vices in spotting and shadowing the
alleged crooks. No bank or postoffice
in South Carolina has been secure in
RGHERS PLEAD
F
Ask More Generous Loans by
England, Cattle at Cost,
General Amnesty and Abol
ition of Special Police
Pretoria, Jan. 8 At a meeting of
prominent burghers held yesterday ad
dresses, which will be presented to
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain and
the legislative council, were adopted.
The addresses make the following re
quests:, General amnesty and retention of the
Boer laws regarding the natives. More
generous loans by England, selling to
Burghers at cost price all cattle import
ted into the country by England and
the abolition of Baden-Powell's special
police.
Rnthn told the Burmhers he had col
lected 105,000 pounds in Europe for the j
distressed families. '
URTHEH
A
late months, and if these are the ermltv
f
parties who have committed so many t
depredations, then the State is well rid
or tnem, ana the officers are indeed to
be praised.
QUITS WITH STANDARD OIL.
Country Justice Gave Monopoly Some
of Its Own Medicine.
Seneca Falls, N. Y., Jan. 8. Justice '
of the Peace Charles Higgins, to give
the Standard Oil Company a little of
its own monopoly medicine, quietly
bought up all the copper flag in the
marshes at Cayuga Lake. The Stand
ard uses a large quantity in the manu
facture of oil barrels, and many years
ago, Higgins says, drove a mean bar
gain with him.
Last year there was a shortage of
flag and this year the Standard came
to him for its supply. He put on a
fancy price, but the trust objected.
"You pay my price and in advance,"
said Higgins, "or you get no flag." The
trust came" to terms.
REBEL CHIEFS SUBMITTING.
Some Of Them Offer To Make Peace
With Castro.
Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 8. As a di
rect consequence of the Government
troops' victory at Guartiers six leaders
of the Matos revolution have requested
to make their peace with President
Castro and his administration. Among
these revolutionary chiefs are Generals
Battalia, Antonio Fernaandez and
Crespo.
Further details of the battle have
reached here. During the four hours'
engagement 117 insurgents were killed
and many were taken prisoners.
SEVEN ARE DEAD i
EIGHT1LL DIE
Local PassengerTrain Crash
ed Into Freight Near Mc
Keesport Last Night With
Awful Results
Pittsburg, Jan. 8. The condition of
the victims of the wreck on the Pitts
burg, Virginia and Charleston railway
last night, who were taken to a Mc
Keesport hospital, is unchanged this
morning. The bodies of the seven
dead are still at the Duquesne morgue.
Cf the injured eight will die.
The passenger train in the wreck
was the West Elizabeth accommoda
tion, which left Pittsburg at 3:20 p.
m. It w7as on time and had a clear
track, according to the displayed sig
nals. At the siding at Cochrane it ran
into the rear car of an extra freight
which had taken the switch, but failed
to clear the main line. The official.?
cf the road attribute the disaster to the
failure of Patrick uinn, the rear
brakeman of the freight, to see that
his train had fully cleared. Quinn has
not been located.
The dead are: C. E. Stroud, hag-gage-master,
Elizabeth accommodation
of Homewood; C. M. Boenner, brake
man cf accommodation, Pittsburg;
John Stewart, passenger, residence un
known; two unknown foreigners, kill
ed outright; two unknown foreigners,
died on way to hispital.
The injured are: T. D. Cook, will
probably die; Sam Sullanoksky, shoul
der blade fractured; Peter Kimosky,
burned; John Smith, seriously injured;
Mike Gentill, slightly injured.
FIRED ONE CHURCH TWICE.
Prisoner Said To Have Confessed He
Objects to Catholic Edifices.
Ogdensburg. Jan. 8. A man giving
the name of Henry Bath, aged thirty
years, ' and who says his home is in
Massachusetts, is under arrest in
Brockville, charged with arson in hav
ing attempted to set fire to St. Fran
cis Xavier Church, in Brockville, on
New Year's Day and last Friday.
On being accused of the crime he
confessed, it is said, giving as his rea
son that he thought no Roman Catholic
churches had a right to exist in a Pro
testant country.
GREAT NEW YORKER DEAD.
No Coffin Ready Made Large Enough
To Bury Miles In.
Cgdenburg, Jan. 8. R. W. Miles,
aged fifty-four, a farmer, who died on
Saturday, was the largest man in Nor
thern New York. He weighed more
than 400 pounds.
No coffin large enough could be
found in any stock. While the under
taker was embalming the body a spark
set the roof of the house ablaze. The
fire was put out with small damage.
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Roosevelt to Be at Canton Banquet.
Washington, Jan. 8. President
Roosevelt will attend a banquet to be
given by the Canton, O., Republican
League on Jan. 27, in honor of the
birthday of President McKinley. The
President will leave here cn the night
of Jan. 2G and return on Jan. 28.
Corbin Grand Marshal at St. Louis.
Washington, Jan. 8. Ad jt.-Gen. H.
C. Corbin will be the grand marshal of
the parade at the opening of the St.
Louis Fair on April 30, 1904. Lieut.
Col. Edward A. Godwin, who is now
on duty at the Fair grounds, will be his
chief of staff.
S WOULD DIG
TOE PANAMA DITCR
German Syndicate is Endeav
oring to Euchre the United
States Out of Control of
Proposed Canal
NEGOTIATIONS COME
TO AN ADBRUPT HALT
German Intrigue Believed To
Be Responsible For the De
lay on the Part of South
American Folks
Washington. Jan. 8. In official eir-
! cles here it is admitted this morning
that there is foundation for the state
, ment that Germany is endeavoring to
euchre the United States out of the
control of the Panama canal.
Recent cablegrams from Europe have
indicated that a syndicate composed
principally of German capitalists stood
' for the property of the Panama Canal
company as soon as the option of the
United States expires. The syndicate
saw that the canal was a profitable
business enterprise and apparently has
attempted to obtain possession of it.
German Intrugue, in behalf of these
German capitalists is believed to be re
sponsible for Colombias delay in nego
tiating the treaty with the United
States wrhereby this country would se
cure control of the canal. Negotia
tions, which have been pending since
June, have come to an adbrupt halt.
JUDGES WITHOUT SALARIES.
West Virginia Change Appears To
Leave Them Payless.
Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 8 The
discovery is made that the recently
adopted Constitutional amendment has
left the judges of every State court in
West Virginia without a salary, from
the Supreme Court of Appeals to the
lowest criminal court.
Before the adoption of the amend
ment salaries of judges were fied by
the Constitution. The amendment re
pealed that section of the Constitution
and provided that the salaries of all
judges should be fixed by the Legisla
ture. It is contended now that the for
mer Constitutional provision having
been repealed and the Legislature not
having fixed the salaries under the new
amendment to the Constitution, every
judge in the State is without a salary,
and will be until the Legislature fixes
the new salaries.
( ATTORNEY RUTH WANTED.
Newport News Woman Swears Out
Warrant A Silk Factory.
Newport News, Va., Jan. 8. Attor
ney Charles H. Ruth, of Washington,
who came here four years ago as coun
sel for the Washington Block Asphalt
Company, is wanted by the police to
answer to the charge of embezzlement
of $300 belonging to Mrs. Mary John
son. Mrs. Johnson swore cut a warrant
for his arrest this evening.
She sued a railroad for damages and
the case was compromised for $600.
Her share was $300, and she alleges
that Mr. Ruth left the city without
paying her. Chief Johnson has
wired Chief Sylvester to lock out for
Mr. Ruth. Mr. Ruth announced publicly
that he intended to leave, but no at
tempt was made to arrest him.
Malleable Iron-Casting Combine.
Pittsburg, Jan. 8. The malleaole
iron-casting combine deal, which fell
through because of lack of support,
will be taken up aj'ain after it has
been ascertained what Congrosess will
do cn anti-trust legislation.
ROUSE DISCUSSES
L
Congress Will Be Asked To
Empower Committee to In
vestigate the Entire Sub
ject of Transportation
Washington, Jan. 8. The coal situa
tion became the subject of a discussion
before the House committee on Mer
chant. Marine and Fisheries today with
result that a resolution will be intro
duced in the House asking Congress
to authorize the committee to investi
gate the entire subject of coal trans
portation. The matter came up when Chairman
Grosvener called up the McCall resolu
tion to suspend the coastwise laws of
the United States so as to allow foreign
vessels to carry coal for a period of
ninety days, unrestricted by any pro
vision of existing laws. The resolution
will be drawn up by Littlefield, of
Maine, and will be introduced by Gros
venor.
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