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I, NO. 48
N. C. .fcUNDAY MOr NING, jANUAR 15. 1911
Tbc Deiective*s
naging Evidence
In Schenk Trial
at
nsaiional Testimony
jrd in Noted Murdei
■ ns That oj Woman
' Who was Employ-
‘//S. Schcnk*s Alleged
'S
SECOiD SPFLCH
New York, Jan. 11.—Oovernor-elcct
oodrow Wilson, of Now Jersey, to
night made his second speech in his
campaign against the candidacy of
former Senator Smith, who desires to
tr, (1i>t Tlfr United States Senator Kean.
Tu Krei ilc/ a, Smith s
J^Qy Offet camp in Newark, before an au-
Jhe
’id Dodar Bribe Etc,
dience that filled me auditorium
The fact that two jf the Essex
county delef^ation who were pledged
Jan 14. '•! vvish*^*^ Smith have liroken away and the
' 1 rumor that others are weakening ad-
I ded to the interest of the meeting,
liuui.sand dollars : The governor-elect, in his fight for
j james E. Martine. who was llto choice
il have to wear a , at the primaries, reiterated all the
tau' ral to lieep | things he said against Sinith last
iivirg my t^mile ot | week. In the home county of Smith,
i where he is the ahsolute boss of the
.'i i!. Si’hmk, who iai; declared that not a tliousand persons
r i 'iSiining her mil-| wanted Smitli, and said his removal
!. .1* iin t). Schenk, ifioni tlie senatorial idtnat'on was no
la 1:» ii'us, aa well as ni{ire of a capital operation so far as
equal signi-j the democracy was concerned than
Klinor Kiitie, a de-, w’ould l,e the removal ot a wart in a
• >’ .,1111^; to the testi-; public clinic.
\1: mi the witness j
1 ■ " i-y :l;e simulated'
I I'.-'c (Inective, the
. uavf lu r full conli-1
■ far as to deliver '
', ,s as t>) liow and
.■ was to administer
:,u what siie was to
'-iry told with the
' “f an experienced
I.' >if :he most stirring
.^he narrated it, she
fr>'in time t«) time at .
:uit the latter never!
i f'i>t her heiid down-
■\ made n'tes whicl\|
MES H
GIRL
.iAHLOT
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Ms.
PRICE 5 CENTS
CHILDREN OF THE SCHENKS.
Virginia and Robert Schenk, children of Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk,
who is on trial at Wheeling, W. Va., charged with poisoning her million
aire husband, John O. Schenk. In testimony given by a witness for the
prosecution it wa> stated that the little boy had also shown evidence of
having received the same poison that his father had been givenn, but it ir
believed that it was administered to him by accident.
On about the 15th of December Miss
t ) her lawyers. But; Isabelle Johnson, sixteen years old.
. al i-he had steeled | disappeared mysteriously during the
'^lirrht fragile lon\'-; from her home there at the Chad-
early thi''ties Her j wick .Mills. Her parents were unable
• a child and it to find any clue,, whatsoever, as to
. trom het mannpr whereabouts, and knew not wheth-
;;iive won the conn-: , ...
^*1' she were living or dead. They se-
■ lirr ln«‘ai’ation as cured the services of the Branch Pe-
* 'T'ti :if'tii;s: undt'r the ^ tectivv' AgeriCy liere to trace her if
IMi'so) utor and i,ossible. Mr. Branch found out that
t : I 'II .^.r.ming thp . , ,
.1’^ snspe-ted woman. I and fol-
r> ^r> -•'■i.ting thit Al-' couple through several
a  b(. n t>’vine to get towns in South Carolina, finally locat-
h 'r in -ivn som« pa-■ ing them in Gastonia.
' i n Mrs. Schcn!; . This was about .January 10th.
The nu'n i rovod to be John Guiliy,
who had be^'n selling some cheap
stuff thereat the mill at the time
of the disappearance. The girl stat
ed that si • and the n\an ' were mar
ried. He is now locked in the jail
tlure hi Gjstonia, awaiting trinl. it
\if .\lbert comes
is a will, tei-
i.’i.p, Th'-'U nn some
!>■! -uit -'f the sick
' • "I't ut;*i! I arrive
.I'-’.l (tie, (TO 1 ri his
, • n h nf
'■ Tli"V oi;en his
0' U,-, and if Al-
tiP will go, grab
1 I and devote
'•JO ■’
:i". 'Micr nursp, previ-
» ' Viavlng had the
” n’ o\n the keva.
'■'fr tohl the de-
’■r'. iruv life wiili Mw
1 • h‘u Miss Kling
1 ] -lip e'-.cla'med:
i;. ' \v]ia> kind of a
• ' t "fl ’o'i .me, he
.1 I r mavbe to cure
'! 1 h',>'l die. 1 re-
whMl Miss
a:;d Pay.i that he’s
i'' icornt Miss KHne
■ ‘■ ii.i( n'ial talk wi’h
■ •side the hospital.
•' -Imrt automoI)ile
nr,'« told Mrs. Schenk
‘Hin prevented Albert
I :i' get the sick
I • >. ill. At this, siie
« liii)p‘d lier on the
il' .id ft^r you, Miss
Aliuiny, N. Y.. Jan. 14.—Mrrf. Edith
Melher, the young widow' who confess
ed to tile Rochester police yesterday
that she had slain her five-year-oid
son, George, by giving him jioison, be
cause she could not support him, ar
rived here late this evening in ciiarge
of a detective. .Mrs. Meli)er was hur
ried to the jail in a closed carriage.
Site was weak and nervous and con
stantly on the verge of hysterics.
There was no demonstration on her
arrival at the railroad station, but a
. .-.rear crowd surrounded poiic he:’d-
1 aviiig developcvi that he is already quarters wh-n she arrived. |
ill and that she would have to go
to her. He accompanied her to the
train on Thursday and she told him
she might never return.
It is believed that Mrs. Melber’s de
fense will be insanity. Her sister, Mrs.
William L. Simmons, of Sryacuse, has
a number of letters wiiich, she says,
indicate that Mrs. Melber was not in
her right mind.
ciaiiiicd as husband by tv.-o other
women, v;ne of whom claims to be
his original and actual wife. Miss
Jobrsou ’? with her jiarents here,
and int. 1 e.-ting deveU)nien!s are ex-
ptrud to result at the trial of the
u('ar hn band that took her away
fiom home.
In siieaking of the murder of her
Bu/ie JVof/ts In
Brokejs Office
London, Jan. 14.—It is at the insti
gation of his wother-iu-law', Mrs. James
Henry Smith, that the Duke de Vizcu—
ctherwioe Prince Miguel de Bragauza
—has been, going to a stock mroking
ofTicc in this city every (i ;y at 10 and
returning to his home at 5;30, like an
ordinary clerk.
The Duke’s desires fit in wdth his
o-‘hcr-in-law’s wishes. He w^nts to
ecoine :n all round’ busin- ss ioan,
iil'.e "S-ient” Smith, and has been
son to Police Matron Kerber before j •^^ii!;ordinatir;g his r-ersonal comfort to
! -hat
'.’r: oh-e.
mm SMS
her
t!
r:
y yf»M told
• !iros-('Mtor,
■i* iply told it to her
'■■■I' ^ti'l further.”
poi;> 1 ?"
h'-r li;''!f‘d for Al-
l'*r uu’.iapi»y life
I) volunteered
' ; i"ii I '.cry night tiiat
i."d by a niessage
' ■ ■ . i- dead. And tln re
I s KMne, when I feel
' ■ !iiv I'lf,' ”
li'^'r tif'in: ‘Well, why
!.nv( pv»ry otianre.’
■ iiie a moment and
' ■‘u'*' r rp[)IjH(l: ‘I don’t
. lan nnderstand how
tbo ina:tcr.'■’
*l' 'III faiip to give hin»
n 'i;pd,
• ^ and said: ‘Well, I
ifi'liy (uorgh, Mrs.
11: dfbt ai;d I’ve got a
a iitiu child to support.
'I me, but—I don’t
i -:h givp mo away.’ ”
I >flaltn i .Mrs. Schenk,
i’g in the world to be
' ' M n\p i d never give
’ nt would you take to
■ f fituff.’ ”
>'> iiave $.",,000,’ I told
BSmESlllP
siie left Rochester, she sobbed:
“I tl;o\2bt it was better for him| He has visited, in quite an honor-
to die than to face the struggle I: ; ry car acitv several banks, but his
have liad.” jrt;:ck broking experience has boon
Once during the five hours’ trip from, ^Mned mostly wMth Basil Montgomery
Rochester, she spoke to the detective, Company.^ He has become convinced
about the dead child, saying: that intimate knowledge of financial
“I want to see Georrre, I want to land commercial matters wdll enable
go to his funeral, and I do wt’natn. liis to conduce l^s personal affairs
go to his funeral, and I don't want j without outside help,
my folks to be allowed to bury him. j His Duches.s, Avho was Anita Stewart,
They would not ca? for him in life, j of New York, is pleased that he has
why should they be allowed to do so j taken interest in “city w'ork” (Lon-
now that he is gone. I want my black i don’s word for “Wall street”), for he
clothes brought from Schenectay to will be more caj able of looking after
me. because I must go to my baby’s her dollars. He intends to. keep up his
funeral.”
Sh told the detective once on the
banking and stock broking studies for
another five or six months, at any rate.
Camden, N. J., Jan. 14.—Uncle Sam’s
navy was today increased by the ad
dition of the most powerful fighting
vesspl in the world, wlien Miss Mary
L. Macon, daughter of Congressman
Maeon, of Arkansas, broke a bottle
of champagne over the bow of the
new batt’eship named for that state, i child, or w’hether she had
aud s^nt It sliding gracefully down suddenly become insane. '
the ways into the Delaware at the j gjjg far from being a proi)os?ess-
yards of the New York Shipbuilding | jjig w'oman. Her clothinpr is of cheap
Comj)any, in this city. [material and fits her poorly. Her eyes
On the stand with Miss Macon w'ere are dark and set clote together and
train that she had not on^y knelt and j By that time he hopes to satisfy Mrs.
kissed the lit’^^le cold face as it lay j James Henry Smith regarding his efii-
on the snow but had said prayer be- ciency in finance,
fore she left it. { —^
Other than the brief conersation [,
about who should care for the deadj T/xnao
child, and her w'ish to see it, she
made no reference to little George.
No one who has come li; close touch
Mrs. Melber l^as been able to figure
whether her act w'as inspired by spite
against her relatives, who she know
7en Year Sentence
high olliicals of the navy department
and oflicers of all .grades, resi)lendent
in their uniforms, as well as a sprink
ling of Washington ai^d Philadelphia
society. Owing to the' hurried ar-
one has a pronounced caste. Her
mouth is small, and her lips thin. Her
nose is thin and tends to turn up at] ‘ •
the end and her neck is thick and
short. She wears eye glasses. Her
Orangeburg, S; C., Jan. 14.—John
.1. Jones, the Branchville law'yer, w^aj’,
I this afternoon sentenced to ten years
and one month in the penitentiary
for killing Abe Pearlstine in December
last. The jud,ge stated that although
the sentence was severe, a commuta-i
tion might be recommended later. Mo-
trial W'as overruled.
rangements made for the launching the hair is dark and straight
'■ slip replied, ‘I haven’t
I’ I’ll give iou $1,000.’”
state of Arkansas was not officially
represented.
I'he new' battleship has a displace
ment of 2G,000 tons, the next in size
being four battles..ips of the British
navy—the Conqueror, Monarch, Orion
and Thtindered—which each have a
displacement of 22,500 tons.
When completed the vessel will car
ry an armament of 12 12-lnch guns
at a main battery, and will have more
power and destructive force than any
vessel in the navy. It is even question
able whether the new' 27,000-ton bat
tleship authorized at the last session
of congress, will have as powerful a
battery.
The Arkansas will be equipped with
the military fire control masts which
Keen observers noted the woman’s
strange actions during the coroner’s
inquest held after her arrival here.
W’hen Vroman, the clerk who sold the
poison to her, came into the room,
Mrs. Melber recognized him at once
as though she was pleased to see him.
Without a corroborating witness her
own confession would not send her to
the electric chair, but this did not
seem to trouble her. She was unable
to say w'hat she had done with the
boy’s hat and coat, which were miss
ing. She show^ed no emotion during
the ordeal.
The police, w’orking on the theory
that Mrs. Melber killed her son be
cause he was an obstacle in the way
of her marriage, today questioned
Howard Kirk, of Schenectady , a
plumber, who was said to be engaged
Election in Montana.
Helena, Mont., Jan. 14.—T. J.
Wal;h, democrat, took the lead in
the senatorial race today w'hile Sena
tor Carter lost seven votes over yes
terday. The ballot resulted: Carter
28; Walsh 30; Conrad 12; scattering
28.
Necessary for choice 50. No elec
tion.
Agricultural Appropriation Bill.
Washington, Jan. 14.—The agricul
tural aijpropriation bill was com
pleted today and it will be reported
tg the house immediately by the com
mittee on agriculture. It carries $15,-
500,000 in addition to. the. $3,000,000
of permanent appropriations.
have become a feature in the navy
since these masts withstood the test i j^gj. Kirk denied this and said he
, of gun fire on the monitor Florida sev- never had any intention of marrying
'ii-inurred to this, but eral years ago. The vessel will also mj-s. Melber.
fi a«rrp if Mrs. Scbrnlv | be equipped w'lth apparatus for car- “j r,aw' her the night she returned
■' thr' poison and give i rylng 400 tons of fuel oil.
p!ii\is(! to pay nmre In length over all she will also ex-
h( nk refused to give ceed any other, being 554 feet; her
in V riling but said she bveadtii at the load water line being
’.-itiiff.’ She al.so .said|'J2 feet. She will heve a bunker ca-
instf ad (if fleeing the ; pacit.v of 25,000 tojis, independent of
' 'Hi Page Three.) uh ' 400 tons in the oil tanks.
to Schenectady after she had killed
the boy,” he said. “I saw her again
Saturday and Eunday and Monday.
Tuesday I did not see her, but I met
her W’^ednesday night and she seem
ed worried. She told me she had re
ceived news that her aunt was very
♦
♦
THE WEATHER.
♦ Washington, Jan. 14.—Fore- ♦
cast for Sunday and Monday. ♦
♦ North Carolina and South ♦
♦ Carolina, cloudy Sunday; Mon- ♦
♦ day unsettled and colder; ❖
♦ moderate westerly winds. ♦
♦ ►
IIIIIDCIITES
POLVtUMI
New York, Jan. 14.—“Polygamy is
the most feasible of all panaceas that
have been put forward for the cure of
the divorce evil.
“I favor polygamy for those who
w'ant it.
“Poiygamy would be a boon to’^the
tens of thousands of spinsters In this
country who at present lead a life
that is incomplete/without the mascu
line companionship which they crave
and to which they are entitled.
“Polygamy is openly practiced in
Utah and is becoming les-s and less op
posed as the Gentile minority of the
population^f LTtah w'itness its mani
fold beneflrts.”
It is not an elder in the Mormon
church who is speaking; nor the
shade of Brigham Young, or even one
of the 43 children of Joseph Smith.
Mrs. Mortimer M. Menken, wife of
a prominent Metropolitan attorney, is
the one woman in a city full of suf
fragettes and “modern women” who
dares to raise her voice in defense
of the plural marriage system. Mrs.
Menken, who is a member of the
Equal Franchise Society, the Political
Study Society, and the Port Parlia
ment, attended the mock meeting of
the “women governors” of the latter
organization at the Waldorf-Astoria on
Friday. Each of the women present
represented a state—Mrs. Menken
was the “governor” of Utah and she
threw’ the audience intx) a panic w'hen
she boldly declared herself in favor
of polygamy.
Today Mrs. Menken received a re
porter at her home in WeS't End ave
nue.
She laughed heartily when asked
if she favored the adoption of poly
gamy for all w'omen.
“My beliefs are hardly as drastic as
that,” she replied. “The subject is a
hard one to discuss sensibly. People
are so liable to lose their heads in
condemning polygamy and the s-ect
that practices it. Now I did not say
1 should advise all men to get them
selves a half dozen wives or women
to band themselves into clubs of a
dozen or more members and marry
some man.
“But. from my first-hand observa
tions in Utah, I believe that poljgamy
mrkes for morality. You should travel
in Utah and you would observe that
polygamy is becoming more and more
openly practiced. It is even spreading
into the surrounding siates, Idaho in
particular. And the Gentiles in Utah,
w'ho comprise one-third of the total
population, are nov/here near as bit
terly opposed to ttie plural marr’age
system as they were formerly.
“As the people are beginning to rea
lize the many benefits to be derivea
from polygamy. Polygamy .for in-
p^ance s'ettics the labor question. In
Utah you see the husband his four
or six or eight wives, as the case
may be, tilling the soil in perfect har
mony. All take a personal In'.erest
■'n the farm and the re.sult is .hat the
:a.;aly is independent.
“You ask me if the w'omen are not
jealous of one another; If the hus
band does not ‘play favorites.’ ”
“It may be so in some cases. But I
have not observed it in Utah. They
look upon the system of plural mar
riages as a part of their religion and
they respect their co-wives as well as
their common husband.’
“As for another pressing problem of
the day: There ia no divorce or prac
tically none in Utah. It’s lill a matter
of common sense. A wife could hardly
accuse her co-w'ife of being a co-re
spondent, could she? Thus polygamy
practically eradicates the divorce evil.
In Utah I have found that polygamous
husbands are the most moral, the most
respectful and self-respecting men in
the world. Their number of living wives
tends to make them so. Their every
interest Is wrapped up in their fam
ily. They have nothing but the fam.ily
and the church to think about. The
tenets of their church, w'hich to them
is dearer than life itself, tell them to
live in amity and peace v/ith their
wives and they follow the mandate of
the church to the letter.
“There Is another aspect of the
matter. I am not advocating the adop
tion of polygamy all over the coun
try and as for myself personally I am
perfectly satisfied to be one wife of
one husband. But statistics tell us
there are more women than men in
this coimtry. In Massachusetts alone
there are 80,000 more women than
men. Now', purely upon a mathemati
cal basis there are not enough men
to go around. What does this mean?
It means that many thousands of w'om-
en—the less favored by chance or
nature—mus-t pursue a lonely path
to the grave of eterrxity. W’’ould not
these women be better off as one of
a bevy of wives of a God-fearing, hon
est, honorable man?”
What Congiess
Did Saturday
W’ashington, D. C., Jan. 14.—In the
house:
Greater part of the session was giv
en over to debate on the army appro
priation bill. During the discussion
ivepresentative McLachlan, of Cali
fornia, presented a review’ of the
United States coast defences by Fred
eric Louis Huidekoper, w^ell know’n
n-ilitary critic, showdng that the Unit
ed States is not prepared ti^ success
fully resist an invasion on the Paci
fic coast.
The Mann bill, giving the president*
control of the Panama canal, was in
troduced.
The senate was not in session today.
Tawney Dwells Upon
The Extravagance
Of Roo sevelt
emiMEiT STRIKE
NEIllILf SEITIED
Chicago, Jan. 14.—The strike of
the garment workers of Chicago,
which has been drawn out for many
weeks and which was participated In
by nearly 35,000 workers, was prac
tically settled today w’iaen an agree
ment W'as signed with Hart, Schaf-
ner and Marx, the largest of the
clothing manufaciurers which will
result in 10,000 employees return
ing to work within the next ten days.
It was predicted the restoratit.n of
peace between the union and Hart,
Schafner and Marx will mean the
speedy settlement of the strike dif
ficulties between the union and the
smaller shops and end the long con
test.
The main points to the agreement
follow:
All striking employes shall return
to work W'ithin ten days.
There shall be no discrimination
on the part of the employers between
union and non-union w'orkers.
All grievarres shall be adjudicated
by an arbitration committee. %
The arbitration committee shall fix
a method l)y which future grievances
shall be settled. The findings of a
majority of the committee shall be
binding upon both parties to the
greement.
During Roosevelt Regime MilU
taiy Expenditures Amounted
to Two And a Quat ter Billion
Dollars—Interests oj Tne
Nation Sacrificed,
IITEIIIPUO
LIST HIEHT
This morning about 1 o’clock, Will
Dacus. an emj)loye of the Cnlvine Cot
ton Mill, while returning Xa his home
along Graham street near the Yar
brough and Bellinger Company’s plant
vvas confronted i).-.' tw’o negro men
who demanded that he “shell out.” He
told the men that he had nothing and
then a third man, who had slipped up
behind his unnoticed struck him with
a palling from a fence inflicting a se
vere w’ound on his head. Mr. Dacus
was nocked from his feet by tlie force
Nor Was Spirit of Wholesale
Extravagance Confined to
This One Respect — Was
Evidenced in All Avemes of
the Government,
Nev/ York, Jan. 14.—"During the
two administrations of Theodore
Roosevelt the eiienses of the govern
ment on the military account alone
were two anj a quarter billion dol
lars,” said James Tawney, of Mln-
reapfdis, w'bo for six years has been
chairnnin of the committee on approp
riations of tlie house of rei>rer:enta-
tives. Mr. Tawney v,’as at the Waldorf
Astoria yesterday. He came over from
Washington to deliver an address at
the (’ooper T'nion meeting of the New
York Peace Friday night.
"That is part answer to your ques
tion as to the cause of the rapid and
enormous increase in the cost of the
Federal gt.vernment,’’ Mr. Tawney
went on in resi)onse to an American
reporter’s request for Information oii
this subject and its co.gnate, how to
reduce nallotial exjienditures.
“When we emerged from the four
years of civil war—tlie bloodiest and
costliest strife of modern times—t.he
national debt on that account w-as
only three billions.” he said. "So you
see the seven and a half years of
Roosevelt ism In a time of profound
lieace and of i)rodl,gous industrial and
business activity in spite of the man
and his ways, co;-.t the people of the
United States almost as much in
treasiire for war i)urposes as did the
civil war.”
The man who for six years has
gripped the nation's piirpose strinas
anl is row about to leiire to priv
ate life, having been defeared for re-
nominatlon tx> congress last Novem
ber, reels off figures pertaining to tlie
government’s finance with a fluency
born of fifteen years of hard w’orl;. In
congress. During four years of his ser
vice at the head of the a])]>ropriations’
committee, he constantly was striving
against what he calls “Roosevelt ex
travagance.” Ilis effort was not con
fined to tlio militai-y l)ndget, I)ut it al
so included scores of (jt)ier items lu
1ii« ii.nnual appropriation i)iHs tliat
h;td been j>ut in at the behest of
force of blow’ but recovered quicklyand ! , .... , ,,
. • , 1 I Otir s IS now a bihion dollar govern-
b ai led lunntng. closely pursued by j mont,” .Mr. ''i'avv n'y rpsumpd. refiee-
the three men. He ran into the yard Uively, “the only one in the world, and
and on the porch of a man who lives i only one the world has ever
cn that street and called for help. Her'"''''''' /I®"'"’'
, , . govei-nment under the regime of Theo-
was striick several times by the manj^iofg Roosevdt, with his iniperiallsHc
■with the stick and the others w'ithj Ideas and his now nal ionali;;m, which,
their fists. He attempted to defend!‘‘^-*iough enunciated by him only re-
himself with a pocLet knife and
thinks he succeedea in cutting one ot
his assailants.
Before help arrived he had been se
verely beaten about the head and
shoulders and after coming to the po-
live station and reporting the occur-
rt.nce he had to be taken to the hos
pital and put under the care of phy
sicians.
The attempted holdup was all the
more daring because the negroes w-ere
not armed and made the attack appar
ently on the spur of the moment. Mr.
Dacus is sure lie will be willing to rec
ognize the culi)rlts if ho sees them
again and as he was able to give a
fairly accurate dLcription of the men,
he w’ill be given a chance to Identify
them in the immediate future as the
b^st men on the police force were at
once dispatched on the scene.
MB ID
TIE TOILS
Jackson, Miss., Jan. 14.—In default
of bail in the sum of $5,000 each, I. C.
Sibley and H. C. Masters, w’ho were
arrested here on charges of using the i tion of government on a private busl-
mails with intent to defraud in connec- ^ess basis sounds W'ell to the Inex-
cently, nevertheless w’as put into prac
tice by him before he left the V/hite
liouse.
“The most serious pruhlein that con
fronts the statesmanshljj of the coun
try at ])resent is to cut down the ex
penses of the national establishment.
Before this can be accomplished tw'O
vitj'.lly essential thln.gs will have to
be done. We must first get back to
the old bearings by which the ship
of state was steered before President
Roosevelt took the aggressive leader
ship of the movement to saddl upon
the Federal government functlonrf
and exjjenses that properly belong to
the state government, and .'ire so de
fined In the constitution.
“The next thing to do will be to
j)are down w'ar expenses. Roosevplt
centralization and Roosevelt militar
ism are so interlocked—the two al
ways go together—that they are al
most inextricable. It w'ill require a
high order of statesmanshij) to untan
gle them and get us back on the old
ground. I doubt that my democratic
brethren who are to control the next
house will be able to make much head
way.”
Senator Aldrich was quoted some
time ago as decla.rlng that if he could
have full control he would be able to
cut the expenses of the government
fully three hundred millions a year,”
Mr. Tawney was reminded.
“Senator Aldrich told me recently
that he didn’t say quite that, was the
reply, “and I doubt very mtjch that
bo or any gioup of men could make
so big a reduction, at least, not at
once.
“The talk of putting tho administra
tion with the promotion of a concern
know’n as the Albemarle Development
Company, were remanded to jail here
today to await orders of Federal
perlenced, but to the experienced it
is all moonshine.
“Of the billion dollars the Ameri
can people annually pay for the sup-
Judge Niles for transfer of the cases 11 alone of their Federal govern-
to the jurisdiction of the United
States court for the w’estem district
of North Carolina.
After hearing a statement from Post-
office Inspector John W. Bulla, of
North Carolina, United States Commis
sioner Mosely announced that the two
n.?n would be allowed bail. Mr. Bulla
had presented a large quantity of doc
umentary evidence in support of the
contention that the development com
pany was being promoted in a man-
ment, more than 710 millions are spent
for wars we have had or wars we
are preparing for.
“In other words, more than 71 per
cent of the revenues collected annual
ly by the government is paid cut on
the military account in all forms—
pensions, the army, the navy, fortifica
tions and so forth.”
“The pension roll, which now cost't
something more than ..100,000,000.
bound to decrease substantially in a
short time. So we will not consider
ner fraudulent under the federal sta-' as a factor of very great impor-
tutes. Sibley and Masters, after con- tance.”
suiting counsel, expressed the desire
to answer to the charges before the
“Before the Spanish war, w'Len the
ai my was nearly a third its present
western North Carolina United States | size, its average annual cost for eight
district court. j years was less than $24,000,0$0. in
Order for the transfer probably will j 1&03, under the second year Roose-
be made next week. (Continued on Page Three.)