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CHARLOTTE N. C., WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 6, 191 I
* Oopr Daily—S Gent* Sunflay
* I Outside Charlotte 6 Cants a Copy Dally and Sunday.
Opening Session
Of The Baptist
State
Convention
’ttnductory Sermon Prtachtd
^ Ktv. Smtih Of ChaptlHitt
,}V. C. Dowd Presided—
jtai, C H. Durham Unanim
ously Elected President.
Othff Ojjicers Elected-Seat-
mg Capacity oj Church lax-
(d-Importnnt Preliminary
Ccnfirence of Pastors Dis-
aissid Church Problems.
i,. rbe News.
,ii.s.i>ra, Dec. 6.—^Tli« open-
. , u; the Baptist State Con-
held last evenln^T' The
, ; , r^ rmon was preached by
u. H L. Smith, of Chapel Hill,
t, ;t i ► nar these words: “Speak
T’ ■ ' ..ildren of Israel, that they
sam I
n TO ni
TODAY IN C0NQRE88.
connection that the state mission
board Is free from debt at the pres
ent time, but that It is likely that
this board will be compelled to bor
row money In the near future to pay
the missionaries, and that the amount
borrowed will be sufficient to re
quire the pajrment of three hundred
dollars or more as interest, annual
ly. He deplored the fact that the
foreign mission board of the Southern
Baptist convention is so much in
debt that the interest on the debt is/
112,000 each year.
Plan Suggested.
The plan which Mr. Maddry sug
gested to be followed in the solving
of thep roblem of the cultivation of
intensive work is the weekly offer
ing from every member of the
church. He recommended this plan
first because it is Scriptural and
that no improvement can^^be made
upon a Scriptural plan; then because
it is systematic, and will avoid the
strain of securing all the money for
the benevolences at the close of the
year. The pastor, he scdd, must take
the lead in this matter; he must ac
quaint himself W[lth ^e plan and
must work It.
Adherence to the budget system
Mr. Maddry said, will result in secur-
more money than the average
Baptist gives to benevolences each
week, the contribution of the average
Baptist at present being less than
j two cents per week. He urged also
j the importance of remembering that
j God is the preferred creditor of the
church, that He wants His part ol
the money first and wants it to be
given cheerfully.
He showed also that material bless
ing is promised to the cheerful giver,
that the plan of the weekly contri
bution is business like, saves the
waste of money now paid on interest,
and it inspires confidence from the
world. Men on the outside, he said,
watch the slack business methods ot
the church.
“Absentee Ohurch Members.”
By Associated Press. }
Chicago, 111,, Dec. 6.—Selection of a
jury in the United States district
court to try the 10 Indicted Chicago
meat packers on the charge of crimi
nal violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law was expected to begin today be
fore Judge Oeorge A, ''»'penter.
The packers are: ^
J. Ogden Armour, ^ iident Armour
& Co.
Louis P. Swift,
Co.
Edward F.
^ ildent Swift &
r d, of Charlotte, president
lonvention for the past
: k the chair. He appoint-
.■nt committee aivi
V. ■ enrolled. Ito»*ffien an-
:r 'he conventj^n^was ready
-ident anil sther officers
uilztj for bustne.ss. He
hat he thought the ex-
his predecessor, and the
In retiring fi*om the
of the convention at the
0 ars was excellent, and
' . ci follow in their steps.
to convention the
L.ui enjoyed in the office,
;; l.itlon of the universal
fii .=iurtesy from the mem-
0 ivui received.
' *. Kev. C. H. Durham,
' ! • n. and C. M. Beach
(1 f >r president, but upon
rlie nomination of all? p d King, of Kaleigh, fol
• r. Durham, of Lumber-1 Maddry, and the subject
(1 awn. and the secretary ( discussed was “Absentee
■n was instructed to church Members.” He said that
many church members fail to recog
nize their duty to take their church
lettefs with them when they change
their place of residence. He gave
figures to show that the past year at
least 8,000 Baptists'in this state had
their membership in churches aw^y
of the convention for
. ( “--’Hltnt, and he did
(‘f'oers were elected, as
iltB-
^iil. ;
Rev. A. 1, Justice,
Rev. C. W. Scar-
.. n .iid; Hilbert T. Steph-‘
Salpm.
civt.Hry X. B.
Brough-
' ‘‘i rrptary—Rev. Liv-
■ ' of Raleigh.
. II I^i'l^ps, of Raleigh,
je Audience Present.
from where the ylived. These people,
he said, failed to realize and recog
nize the real meaning of the king
dom of God.
President Poteat Speaks.
The last speaker of the morning
session was President W. L. Poteat,
of Wake Forest College, and his sut)-
n- f‘present last even-1 “The Preacher as Proph-
. a in>f capacity of the poteat said in beginning his
• ' M.iildins -o its ' address that he never had brought
vailaMe for stand-^ jq believe that the sermon is
! a mere incidenf^ of divine worship,
? ilresg of welcome to _ that, on the other hand, he believ-
.iS delivered by Gil- g^ ^jjg sQrmon to be the chief fea-
-I'H. The response ih I tnre of j^orship.
' r-f nvcntion was deliv-] »phe distinguishing featijre of the
h rlcs R. Waller, of prophet In the Old Testament, he
■ that above all else •was that he spoke the words or
an;ed to impress Win- his own words, that his
h th;if for which it spiritual insight was back of his
Tin*' which is its own. J jnessage.
' while he was glad de-j ..^^6 preacher of today,” he said,
getting closer to- ..jg prophet, with a message to
1 si'It of fhe spirit of Hb* I proclaim and a vision to portray.
10; ed among them, that! Afternoon Session,
t ne he saw a danger to ; During v the afternoon session the
first subject discussed was, “The
preacher from a layman’s view
(Continued on Page Two.)
la this connection, and that *
; n ir doctrinal points
i I; t- ; n* nrly obliterated. He
^ did not like to hear
thai jiiBt 80 a man belong-
: ■ h, it did not make any
l\t church he belonged
u dnr« make a difference.
P; stor’s Conference.
~ ' ■'4 session of the pastors’
-^6 called to order by Rev. gy Associated Press.
■ u!,, I). D.. and the first hour Huntsville, Ala., Dec. 6.—The case
n or. to a devotional study, con- jQim Knight, charged with using
■ ^ « V. J, B. Weatherspoon, of f^e mails in a scheme to defi-aud, was
He , rl this study upon the called before Judge Gmbb, of the Uni-
7 ncl of Knight
Began To-day
in Hebrews 6: 4-6.
'ic for general discussion
'he r.
ted States district court here today
Knight, head of the defunct cotton
cont.-rence was, “The concern of Knight, Yancey & Co., of
'ur^'h Finances.” and Rev. Decatur, Ala., was arrested after the
addry, of Raleigh led the failure of his firm for several million
i dollars. He was indicted Nov. 22,
r spoke of the Importance' 1910, and held under a $20,000 bond
■■m of the pastor to the f^r his appearance at the April, 1911
' ■'tem of the church. “All tgmi of the court.
. > r8 of the history of the j alleged scheme which Knight
f' : vention and of the indicted for It is said to have con-
inntion as a whole,” said giated of sending through the mails
; x'her-. have been evan- fraudulent bills of lading attached to
‘ 1' 18 this evangelistic drafts and insurahce papers. The
hn. made possible the buig ©f lading purported to represent
' ns we have had and shipments of cotton from Decatur and
^ ’he present time. I other points.
It was the custom of the railroads to
furnish Knight, Yancey & Co. with
blank blllf of lading. These, it is
charged, were filled out when a ship
, ment of cotton was to be- made and
-uccess which we have ^gg^ signed by the railroad agent. It
nomination is due to jg charged further that blank bills of
uiasses, but the prob-; lading were filled out in Knight, Yan-
U9 no\. and the great ^jgy ^ office and the railroad
^0 solve Is how to en- agents signature forged, after which
the people already ^^afts were attached and forwarded to
he financial obliga-1 Liygrpool cotton exchanges through
; us as a demonstra- brokers in New York. On receipt of
Idly fifty per cent! ^gg^ ^he banks paid the drafts, be-
in the work of ^he cotton represented was in
the present possession of the railroad.
present
evangelistic spirit
v'hiit we need especial-
iHt denomination at the
the t-ulalvation of in-
^ director Swift
vice-president
&
Swift ft Co.
Charles B.
Co.
Edward T a, president National
Packing Sc.. hieh the government
contends is the illegal corporation—
the trust.
Arthur Meeker, general manager Ar
mour & Co.
Edward Morris, president Morris &
Co.
Francis A. Fowler, director Swift
& Co. *
Thomas J. Connors, superintendent
Armour & Co.
Louis E. Heiman, manager Morris &
Co.
Rumors of new moves by the pack
ers were many. One was that the pack-
ers would appear and plead guilty.
This would make useless all the re
sults of months of investigation and
preparation on the part of the govern
ment would place the packers in no
greater jeopardy than an unsuccessful
outcome of the case, which otherwise
will drag on for months, and, many
contend, would put the packers in a
better position than they would be in
if they lost their suit.
Fines, it is believed, would be the
extreme penalty imposed by Judge Car
penter.
The extreme penalty which , can
be given the defendants in case of
conviction is a fine of $5,000, or one
year in jail or both.
By Associated Press.
Washington, B. 0., Dec. 6.
SENATE.
Not in ses8io»;'meets Thurs
day, 2 p. m.
Lorimer senatorial Inquiry re
sumed. ^
Anti-tmst legislation discuss
ed at senate comnilttee heav
ing.
HOUSE.
Met at noon.
John D. Rockefellw and Bev.
,F. D., Gates invited to appear
Monday before Steel Committee.
Government estimates at
tacked as misleading by ap
propriations committee chair
man. .
Diplomatic recalls urged by
Represeiitative Berger, socialist,
on account of Kussian passport
trouble.
World’s sugar prices probed
by sugar inquiry eommittee.
■ Tariff plans diseussed by dem
ocrats on ways ahd meuis com
mittee.
Congress probtiibly will not act
on Persian incident.
AND WILL BOYD
HRE
Special to The, News.
Raleigh, Dec. . 6.—The governor
grants pardon for Charles Houston
and Will Boyd, who have served one
year of a four year sentence for man
slaughter in Mecklenburg county, it
is declared by the prosecuting attor
ney and others now, that there isf
grav^ doubt as to whether the jyiCY^CLQit IS
men really took' part at all in the ^ ^
fight that resulted in the killing tor
which the two were convicted.
House Inquiry into
Prices Of ^g
from
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec, 6.—Prices of su
gar in all parts of the world were
inquired into today by the house
sugar trust committee.
W. P. Willett, a sugar expert, was
again summoned to tell the commi
tee what he knew of sugar prices
foregn cou^ifries and foreign markets.
Chairman Hardwick, of the commit
tee, received through the state de
partment statistics on sugar
some foreign nations.
The eommmittee arranged to hear
western beet sugar men at the con
elusion of Mr. Willet’s testim^y.
Washington, Dec. 6.—The first,meet
ing of the democratic members of the
house committee on ways and means
since aMournment of cjpligrese last
Chairman"*UnderwOod and his col
leagues discussed the general tariff
situation and considered the plan of
action for the session.
The committee will begin at once
the preliminary work of revising sched
ules. Included in the program for
tariff revision will be wool, cotton, iron
and steel, sugar agricultural imi)le-
ments and foodstuffs.
Senator Tillman
Kicks on Cab Fare
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 6.—Senator Till
man, of South Carolina, declared to
day he would not let any Wwhington
cabman impose on him; and when it
comes to making rates for traffic from
the postoffice to the white house fie in
tends to be his own interstate com
merce commission.
The senater arrived at the white
house this morning by way of a rather
dilapidated cab.
As he stepped out he turned to the
driver and handed him a quarter. The
cabman looked at the quarter and
then at the senatcwr.
“The rate is fifty cents,” he said.
“What. What?” said Senator Till
man. “Do you mean to say it is fifty
cents from the postoffice to the white
house?”
“Yes sir,” said the cabby. “You can
look at the rates inside for yourself.”
“Well,” said Senator Tillpmn, “it is
too much and I won’t pay it,” and
walked into the white house office. The
cabman turned away laughing but kept
the quarter.
Sugar Reduced 10 Cents a Hundred.
New York, Dec. 6.—All grades oi
refined sugar were reduced ten cents
a himdred pounds today.
TO-DAY, THE DAY;
PAGE SEVEN, THE PAGE
Fooling Congrns
By Associated Press.
Los Angeles, Dec. 6.—The stage
was set today for a federal grand
jury investigation in Los Angeles of
an alleged nation-wide djniamiting*
conspiracy.
The town, vexed and tom by the
newly concluded murder trial ot
James B. McNamara istnd the events
leading to it, would be glad to let go
of the whole aJSair, prominent citi
zens declare. Bttt it is felt that this
is out of the question. Among the
reasons necessitating the investiga
tion here, in the opinion of federal
authorities, are:
The presence of Ortle McManlgal,
who by his .own assertion was a par
ticipant in many dynamiting plots;
thep resence of James B. MdNamara
and his brother, John i. McNamara,
pending their departure for San "Queii-
tin penitentiary where they are sen-'
tenced to life and «fifteen years im
prisonment respectively.
And the amazing quantity and com
pleteness of evidence gathered
against the McNamaras which led
their chief of counsel to seek eager
ly for terms upon which his clients
might plead guilty.
It is knoWn that thep resent status
of the McNamaras has arisen as an
obstacle to their appearance before
theg rand jury. The evidence or
James B. McNamara, a confessed
murderer, it is said is not admissible
in a court of law and there is some
doubt as to that of John J. M'cIMa-
mara. The rules of grand Jury pro-
edure,* however, areh ot the same
as those which gpvern the taking of
evidence in court.
Detective Burns Talks.
Philadelphia, Dec. 6.—The McNama
ra brothers were responsible for ex
plosions in this city which damaged
structural iron works on several
building operations, according to Wil
liam J. Burns, the detective who ar
rived here today.
“Yes,” said the detective, “I am
positive that both of them w'ere re
sponsible for all the explosions in
this city on structural iron work
during the last few years and others
are implicated.”
Mr. Bums says the probe in this
city involved the explosion which
occurred about a year ago in the
safe of Harry Edwards’ fight promot
er, which was being reconstructed,
aibd another that damaged the iron
To Death By Mob
Of Land Tenants
hrigation Congress
Urges Drainage
By Assoeiated Press.
Chicago, Dec. 6.—“Too much water
is as much a blight to land as none at f
all,” was the pith of addresses given
before the 19th annual session of the
National Irrigation Congress today by
delegates who ar« interested in re
clamation of swamp lands.
That the overflow lands, located
chiefly in the southern and some of the
Pacific coast states should be drained
and made habitable and that the river
courses should be regulated has, ac
cording to B. A. Fowler, the president,
become as much a part of the propa
ganda of the congress as the irrigation
problem. ' •
Drainage as a basis for national de
velopment,” was discussed by W. L.
Park, vice-president of th^ Illinois Cen
tral Railroad and other speakers, in
cluding George S. Maxwell, executive
director of the Pittsburg flood com-
mist^on. Delegates from foreign coun-
tries/were to discuss conditions abroad
at tl^is afternoon’s session.
Lynching Patty Waylaid Ne-
'groes and Burned Two Men
And One Woman Alive—
Details ojt Crime are Meagre,
By Associated Press.
Peklhg, China, Dec. 6.—^Prinoe Chun,
the regent and father of the child em
peror abdicated today.
His place as guardian of the throne
is taken jointly by Shin Hou, a Man^
chu prince and former president of
the national assembly and Hsu Shih
Chang, vice-president of the privy
council.
Prince Chun has been the chief fig
ure in China since the death of the em
peror, Kwang Su, and the Empress
Dowager in 1908. From the dark days
which followed the death of those rul
ers emerged the ruler of China.
At no time was Prince Chun's re-
bakjg-4>lac«d--wupo8itioi:^fW^ He. tried to,hoW
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 6.—Chairman Fitz
gerald, of the House committee on ap
propriations today charged that Secre
tary MacVeagh had sent to congress
misleading estimates of the needs of
the government for the next' fiscal
year. Instead of constituting a sav
ing as indicated by the face of the
figures, Mr. Fitzgerald says the Treas
ury Department’s estimates call for
aggregate appropriations of $20,733,922
more last year.
The total of the Treasury estimates
according to Mr. Fitzgerald should be
$1,019,882,728 instead of $745,834,563.
Secretary MacVeagh’s figures do not
include anything for the postal ser
vice, estimated to cost $260,988,463, al
though this department is expected to
be self-supporting and Mr. Fitzgerald
said the figures do not include $13,-
109,701 to continue construction of
public buildings authorized by pre
vious congresses.
Lack
,.r . -'' ‘n one third of our
to these benevolenc-
^ Y them give prac-
Interest Condemned.
S' ^*^‘8 Jack of in-
GOVERNOR
HARMON
GUEST OF ATLANTA
T8h
Pr‘
Atlanta, Dec. 0.—Governor Judson
Harmon of Ohio was the guest here to-
i.nr« w Southern Corn Show. He
n nf iK arrived about noon and attended a
. luncheon given in his honor by the
^*icur- cham^r TOminerce. Later in the
■’ I'le forei*^" mission afternoon he reviewed the "King Com'
Wrry
and parade and made an address, much^
their u-nru order to which waa devoted to the “back to the
^ork. He said in thl«i»oIl" i^oT«mep.t.
JUS,
Some valuable city and coun- ♦
ty real estate advertised for ♦
sale, under execution. Clip these ♦
ads from the paper and jot down ♦
the date of sale. Some bargains ♦
are sometimes gathered In at ^
these “imder-the-hammer” sales. ♦
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Lost, Fotmd, Stolen and Oppor-^
tunities.
ON ALL THE PAGES EVERY ♦
DAY V
Live local and foreign news -
and store news from Charlotte’s -
live mstirchants.
’Nuf Ced
a delphia Rapid Transit Company’s
eleA^ated road on Delaware avenue
and on Market street.
This t work was being done by the
American Bridge Company. In these
explosions no person was killed or
injured. After the explosions‘sticks of
dynamite were found in an alleyway
near the building of the Pittsburg
Plate Glass Company in the center of
thee ity.
• Detective purns says he has knowl
edge that one of the McNamaras was
registered at a local hotel the .day of
the explosion in Edwards’ place
The detective further said that
Ortie McManlgal told him that he
came here under instmctions tO'
■blow up a railroad bridge but when
he found the structure was close to a
number of tenement houses he fear
ed there would be, loss of life and he
went away without dynamiting the
bridge.
Asked if any further arrests would
be made in what the prosecution at
I^s Angeles alleges to have been a
big conspiracy, Mr. Burns replied in
the affirmative but he would not men
tion any names. ^
'‘Will the arrests include any past
or present member of the structural
iron workers union?”
“I do not care to say but I will
say this—the national board of the
associatioh appropriated certain
sums to John J. McNamara and in
my opinion they knew the money
was to be used for dynamiting pur
poses
NAMES HARLAN INTERSTATE
COMMERCE COMMISSIONER.
Bjr Associated Press.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 6.—Presi-'
dent Taft announced today that he
would srend to the senate the name of
James S. Harlan, inter-state commerce
commissioner, to continue in that posi
tion. Mr. Harlan, who is a son of t^e
late Justice Harlan, of the supreme
court, will be renominated for a sev
en-year tierm.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
WICKERSHAM
BETTER.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 6.—Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham, who suffered an
attack of indigestion while attending
the cabinet meeting yesterday, was
reported improved this motn^g.
JHON D. INVITED
BEFORE COMMITTEE.
Washington, Dec. 6.—^John D.
Rockefeller and Rev. Fred D.,^ Gates,
manager of Mr^ Rockefeller’s chari
ties, were today invited by Chairman
Stanley, of the house steel trust in
vestigating committee to appear be'
fore the committee next Monday if
they care to do s6, to reply to the
charges by the Merritt brothers of
Minneapolis, conceriiing the $20,000,-
000 Mesaba ore properties in Minne
sota.
CONGRESS WILL NOT^ACT
ON SHUSTER INCIDENT
Fom Men Killed
In Tram Wteck
By Asociated Press.
Pittsburg, Dec. 6.—Five trainmen
were killed and a score injured, a
number of them seriously, this morning
in a wreck of two freights and an
expressstrain on the Pennsylvania rail
road at Devil's Bend, one half mile
east of Manor, Pa.
The dead are:
Engineer Frank Daily, of the ex
press' train, and three unidentified
men who were in the express cars.
Fireman John Myers was perhaps
fatally injured while several other
members of the three crews were
seriously hurt. Many others sustain
ed bruises.
Twenty-six out of twenty-seven val
uable horses which were b^g car
ried in one of I the express cars
were killed.
Debris was scattered over the
four main tracks and traffic was
tied up for hours.
The wreck was due primarily to
the stalling of ..an extra westbound
freight. A second extra freightf^which
followed ran into the rear of the,
first. The impact threw both trains
from- the track.
Before fiagmenv could be hurried to
give warning a fast Chicago train
carrying nothing but express .rushed
along the west bound passenger track
into the wreckage of the freights. The
.express train was thrown from the
rails and went over a twenty foot
embankment
By Associated Pfess.
Washington, Dec. 6.^—Congress will
not act on the Shuster incident in
Persia, according to the conclusions
reached by the democratic Readers in
the house
Officers of Georgia University Squad
Athens, Ga., Dec. 6.r—At the football
election here last night Robert Mc
Whorter and HoWell Peacock were
tied in the voting for captain of the
Georgia University squad. A new
Section wUl be lield toda]|^
Chinas* Regent
Abdicated Throne
Victims Werf^ied to Wagon
Carrying Cotton—One Mule
Burned—Took Placi Near
Clijton, Tenn.
By Asociated Press.
Memphis, Tenn.,^ Dec. 6.—Two ne
groes and one young negrress were
burned to death by a mob of white
land tenants who object to the occu
pancy of land J>y colored people, neai
Savannah, Tennessee, yesterday, ac«
cording to meagre reports rcelved here
today.
The lynching is said to have occu^
red ten miles from Clifton, Tenn., ^
the vicinity of Bobs Landing.
The three negroes were traveliu;^ «o
a gin with a lead of ^eed cotton. They
were wftylai^, held up and tied to the
wagon load of cotton, it is said, and
the mob after building a fire beneath
the wagon stood guard until the wagon
was consumed. The negroes’ team con«
sisted of two mules. One animal was
permitted to burn to death, acccHrd*
ing to the reports Received at Savan-«
nah while the other was shot to end
its misery. ;
to a middle ^ound, which pleased
neither the Manchu reactionaries nor
the native progressives. He has hand
led the present crisis with something
less than his old time vigor and recent
reports have hinted that his mind was
weakening
Wu Ting Fang,'the former Chinese
minister at Washington, who is now
one of the revolutionary leaders in
Shanghai, issued an appeal to Chun
a few days ago urging him to abdicate
in favor of the republic. It was re
ported later from Peking that Chun
was willing to accept a pension and
retire to Je Hoi if his personal safety
was assured.
Russia’s Attitude SuggeSfed
St Petersburg, Dec. o.—Comment
ing on the declaration or. Mongolian
independence at Urga, Mongolia, the
Novoe Vremya, which is used fre
quently to give 6 forecast of the
Russian government’s intentions says
that Russia should accept the ac
complished fact and recognize Mon
golia as an independent state. In this
connection the newspaper empha
sizes the Dalai Llama’s friendship for
Russia. ,
French Troops For Peking.
Hong Kong, Dec. 6.—A detachment
of French troops consisting of 200
men of the colonial infantry and a
battery of four guns arrived here
today and have since sailed for Pe
king. )
Crude Cotton Seed Oil.
Atlanta, Dec. 6.—Crude cotton seed
oil 31 l-2aS2.
CHARGED WITH WIFE MURDER.
By Associated Press.
Amerlcus, Ga, Dec. 6.—Mert S. Chll«
ders, under indictment for thfe murder
of his young wife with poison, was
brought here thi» morning from Lees
burg to await the opening of his seo
ond trial next Monday. ^
UNCERTAIN WHETHER REYES
iiAS LEFT UNITED STATES
By Associated Press.,
San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 6.—Re*
ports were still conflicting early to
days as to lehether" Gen." Bernardo
Reyes had Ifeft United States terri
tory. At his residence here the state
ment Was reiterated that the general
was confined to his room by illness.
Other reports say he crossed into
Mexico at Amaupllas. Mexican secret
service men are more than ever on
the alert.
WILL TRY TO PASS
HOME
RULE BILL
By Associated Press.
London, Dec. 6.—Premier Asquith
announced in the House of Commons
this afternoon that the government
would use all the constitutional means
at his disposal to pass a home rule bill
for Ireland during the life of the
present parliament.
Federation of Labor Meets.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec.6 .—The ways and
means committee of the American Fed-
eration of Labor met in the office of
Samuel Gompers here today. ^ The
meeting may continue through the day
and into tomorrow.
All phases of the McNamara case
are to be considered.
Death of Col Hawkins.
By Associated Press.
Upper Sandusky, O., Dec. 6.—Col.
E. A. Hankins, 68, who as a private
in the signal service of the union
army was the first to telegraph to
Washington the news of the comple
tion of Sherman's march to the sea,
died herel ast night.
B[H nn con
By Associated Press.
fhold goods from Charlotte, N. C., to
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Washington, D. C., Dec. 6.—The right Davis, W. Va., no published rate, as
of the states to penalize railroads for j authorized by the interstate commerce
refusing to receive goods for shipment laws, existed between Charlotte and
in interstate commerce was argued
today before the supreme court ot
the United States.
The question presented to the court
concerned particularly the state of
North Carolina. A direct attack was
being made on the constitutionality of
the statute, enacted in 1905 in that
state, imposing a penalty of $50 a day
on a railroad for every day it refused
to accept goods for transportation.
The principle^ involved was before
the court in two different cases. One
arose out of the shipment of a car
load of shingles by Reid ft Beam from
Rutherfordton, N, C. to Scottsville,
Tenn. When they loaded the shingles
onto a car and asked the station agent
at Rutherfordton to ship it to Scott
ville, it was declared that he replied
he knew of no such place. It provted to
be a flag station on the Knoxville and
Augusta railroad, to which no publish
ed rate existed. After several days de
lay, the goods were shipped. No dam
ages "were proven,to have resulted to
Davis, and the shipment was delayed
five days before a rate was obtained.
A jury awarded Mrs. Reid $25 damages
and $250 as penalty.
In both cases the defendant was the
Southern Railway Company.
The law is attacked largely on the
grcmnd that it was an interference by
the state with interstate commerce.
The 'supreme court of North Carolina
sustained the law as constitutional.
The court took the position that con
gress had not legislated in reference
to railroads receiving goods for ship
ment and theretore that the subject
was open to regulation by the states,
until congress exercises such a right.
A dissenting opinion, however, was
heard in the court.' ,
In the case arising out of the ship
ment from Charlotte to Davis, the su
preme court said that it was not ex
pected that the railroad should have
on file published rates from Charlotte
to every place in the nnion, and while
the railroad might be prohibited t»y
tjie shippers, but they recovered $3504the interstate commerce laws from
as penalty imposed by the statute for
refusal to receive the goods.
The second case'arose out of Mrs.
Lb Reid’s attempt , to shii> house*
shipping withoxit such a rate being
published, yet the laws did not pro-'
hibit the railroad from receiving the
goods. *