VOL. XXXIX No 29.
"WXLMI.N (tTON NT. C, APRIL J 8, 1906.
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Tillman Wants Date Fixed for
Final Vote
SPDOTJEP. SPEAKS TD-
The General Debate Will Probably
End This Week
Aldrich Cliallcnjred Statement of Till
man That Discussion on the Rate
Bill Was "Lagging" Session Mostly
Devoted to Conference Report on
Indian Affairs Several Tilts Oc
curred Between Tillman on the One
Side and Teller and Clapp on the
Other The South Carolina Senator
Contended That the Indians Had
Been Defrauded.
Washington, April 11. In the senate
today Mr. Aldrich expressed the opin
ion that the end of the general de
bate on the railroad rate bill would
become apparent before the end of the
present week and that then an agree
ment upon a day for a vote could be
reached. The statement was made in
response to a request by Mr. Tillman
for such an agreement There was no
other discussion of the rate bill during
the day, owing to tue fact that no sen
ator was prepared to speak. It was
announced that Mr. Spooner would re
ply tomorrow to Mr. Bailey's speech
of yesterday.
The session was almost entirely de
voted to the consideration of the con
ference report on the bill providing for
the final settlement of the affairs of
the five civilized tribes of Indians and
in connection with that there was a
sharp controversy over an amend
ment inserted by the senate which pro
vided for the ratification of the dis
bursement of $186,000 of the loyal
Seminole fund made by Special Agent
J. E. Jenkins and Administrator A. J.
Brown. The debate turned upon the
exceptional fact that the house was in
sisting upon the retention of a senate
amendment from which the senate was
apparently anxious to recede. The de
bate was characterized .by a number
of spirited passages between Mr. Till
man on the one side and Messrs. Teller
and Clapp on the other. The South
Carolina senator contended that the
Indians had been defrauded, while his
opponents urged that if they had been
the proposed legislation did not deprive
them of their rights under the law.
No conclusion was reached.
Mr. Teller defended the action of
the conferees and in the course of a
sharp colloquy with Mr. Tillman, ex
pressed apprehension that before the
matter was disposed of, the South Car
olina senator would accuse him of
stealing something.
"The senator expects nothing of the
kind," responded Mr. Tillman, "I con
tradict him flatly."
Mr. Teller, responded tiiat Mr. Till
man's arraignment of the committee
-did not come with good grace from a
.senator who confeses that he knows
nothing about the question. "If," he
.said, "the senator were even a good
corn field lawyer, he would know that
the Indians lose nothing of their rights
by the adoption of the senate provi-
.sion."
While the conference report was
pending, the railroad rate bill was laid
before the senate and Mr. Tillman
made another effort to secure an agree
: ment to fix a date for a final vote on
the bill. In doing so he made com
plaint that the debate on the rate bill
was "lagging." Mr. Aldrich challeng
ed that statement, saying he had never
known a time when the debate on so
important a measure, had been so con-.-tinuous
and so well sustained.
"if he said, "the senator is able to
.sustain his zeal for a few daysnmtil
'some more important speeches are
made, I hope we will 'then be able to
reach an understanding. I should say
that before the end of the week f we
ought to forsee the end of the general
discussion."
The bill was then temporarily laid
aside and. the discussdonof the report
on the Indian settlement bill was re
sumed. Mr. Tillman attacked the
Seminole 'payment provision : declaring
that congress 'should protect the In
diana "against thieves who we pat in
charge of their property
Mr. Tillman 3aid that if the secre
tary of the Interior had permitted him
self to be duped in the matter of the
payment of the Indians, he was not fit
for his place. He contended that the
suits for the recovery of the money
should be prosecuted by the govern
ment "The question," he said, "re
plying to Mr. Clapp, "is whether some
lawyer has not come up here from
fridlan territory and bamboozled the
government"
"If the .senator has been bamboozled,
it was when he was asleep at then
switch and let the provision gq through
the senate originally," responded Mf.
Clapp snarly. s
"It the senator from South Carolina
has been asleep at the switch," said
Mr. Tillman, just as pointedly, "it was
when this bill was stolen from his
committee by your committee. The
bill should have, been considered by
the committee on the five civilized
tribes, of which I am chairman."
"That," Mr. Clapp said in reply,,
"would have been a sorry spectacle."
The senate adjourned until tomor
row. ABUSES OF THE COAIi TRADE
Rates Fixed by "Traffic Associations"
Composed of Various Coal-Carrying
Railroads It Was Denied That the
Purpose of These Rates Was to Sotp
Competition.
Philadelphia, Apri 11. That rates
are fixed by the "Traffic Associations"
composed of various coal carrying
railroads was the admission drawn to
day from railroad officials at the final
hearings of the inter-state commerce
commission's investigation into alleg
ed abuses of the coad trade. Through
os. G. Searles, coal traffic manager
of the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany, who is also chairman of the
iall rail traffic association, it was
Jearned that this organization not
only fixes the percentage of tonnage
alloted to each railroad, but also es
tablishes the rates. Counsel for the
commission produced the minutes of
a meeting of the Tidewater Bitumin
ous Steam Traffic Association held on
September 19, 1900. The record shows
that a resolution offered toy the Nor
folk and Western Company, permitt
ing that company, and the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad company to carry
tidewater coal at the rate of ?1.25 a
ton, was voted down and that the rate
was fixed at $1.40 a ton on Mr. Searle's
resolution. At that meeting the Nor
folk and Western railroad complained
that their interests were being in
jured by differentials in freight
rate3.
Mr. Searles admitted that there
had been an agreement as to the ton
nage to be allowed each road and that
if one road shipped more and an
other less, a settlement was made.
He said that there had been no set
tlements since 1896. In explaining
the establishment of . rates, Mr.
Searles stated that each company
fixed its pTice which was later agreed
to by the members of the association.
If any company should reduce the rate
he said it would demoralize the gen
eral situation. -Mr. Searles denied
that there was an understanding to
maintain rates between all rail and
all water assoiciations for the purpose
of preventing competition. It was
shown by the records that the rate
on soft coal was increased in 1900.
Since then there has' been no change.
Mr. Searles denied also that the pur
pose of these rates was to stop com
petition. W. W. Atterbury, general manager
of the Pennsylvania railroad, was re
called today and produced the docu
ments relating to cars ana tonnage
which the commission asked for yes
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Paid $17,500 fcr"a Horse. t
Memphis, Tenn., April 11. An
nouncement was made here today that
Paul Itainey, owner of the Lippah
staple, had purchased from Earner
Schreiber, of St Louis, the two-year
old colt, Horace K, by Bannock Burn
Miss Lynah. The purchase price is"
given as $17,500. The coll will be
taken to New York. Mr. Rainey has
also purchased from K eerie Brothers
their contract on the services of Jock
el Herman Radtke, paying, it is an
nounced, $20,000.
Schooner Foundered.
Boston, Mass., April 11. The' Port
land steamer Bay State, which ar
rived here this evening, brought news
of the loss of the schooner Sallie B.,
Philadelphia for Bangor, and four of
the crew. The vessel foundered in
Massachusetts Bay yesterday. v
LIVELY DEBATES Hi THE HOUSE
The Postoffice Appropriation Bill
Under Consideration
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THE PRESENT POLICY ATTACKED:
Page, of North Carolina, Opposed Ap
propriation for Special Railway Mali
Facilities Sharp Controversy Be-
tween SmalL of North Carolina, and
Macon of Arkansas The System
Hostile to the Rural Service Post
masters in Southern States Were Ig
nored. Washington, D. C, April 11. After
nearly ten days of general debate
with the postoffice appropriation bill,
the vehicle for the discussion of a
wide range of subjects, the house to
day reached the consideration of the
bill itself an hour having been given
to the reading of the measure, Thare
were a number of live debates during
the day but little progress was male
with the bill under the five minute
rule.
Mr. Page, of North Carolina, op
posed the appropriation for special
railway mail facilities on the ground
that the section which he represents
did not need the appropriation. In
cident to the discussion of the special
appropriation Mr. Page spoke about
the revelations in regard to the
weighing of the mails.
He said the very moment the repub
lican party became the beneficiary
of the pilferings of these men then
the edict went forth that the writers
of articles showing up the situation
have become men with the "Muck
rake," and in future "you will find
that the magazines will not any more
have the privilege of the penny
postage."
An echo of the dispute between
Mr. Small, North Carolina, and Mr.
Macon, Arkansas, which attracted
much attention yesterday growing
out of the special .appropriation for
the Southern railway, broke forth
when Mr. Macon arose to' a question
of personal privilege. He said that
the newspapers had given Mr. Small's
side of the controversy in which he
(Macon) had been accused of libel
ing the president of the Southern
railway but they had made no men
tion of the libel which Mr. Small had
put upon aim. Mr. Small sought to
interrupt but Mr. Macon, waved him
aside saying that as he (Small), had
refused to be interrupted he in turn
would not permit an interruption,
now, "but with all the force I can
command, I want to resent to the
leath, the charge that I have libeled
anyone."
Mr. Small again sought to inter
rupt, but the gavel fell as Mr. Macon
uttered the sentence "You are no
gentleman."
"I guess I will be able to survive
your imputation," was all Mr. Small
said in reply.
That the present policy of the post
office department was hostile to the
rural free delivery service was main
tained by Mr. Lever, of South Caro
lina, "and yet the head of this depart
ment, stands as the special champion
of the republican party," he con
cluded. Mr. Finlay, of South Carolina, made
a general speech on the excellent
character of the postal service. It
was, he said, the best in the world.
He also held that the department
seemed hostile ''to the rural service.
Forty-nine routes had been discon
tinued, 18 of which were in the south.
A count of the pieces of mail deliver
ed was now going on, he said, which
might result in the further abandon
ment of routes. He believed, how
ever, that in the future there would
be less cause of complaint on this
point
A class of persons totally ignored
by the bill, Mr Rixey of Virginia,
remarked, were the referees on post
masters in the southern states. He
insisted that when the people of his
district wanted a certain person as
postmaster he had a right to go to
the postoffice department and make
their wishes known but he objected as
did his constituents j to the sugges
tion of the department to see the ref
eree in this particular district He
thought this absolutely un-American.
The house adjourned until tomor
row. James A. Bailey Dead.
New York, April 11. James A.
Bailey the show man, formerly of Bar-
num and Bailey died at his home in
Mount Vernon today of crysipilas.
A FIGHT FDR " S
1000.000
Dowie Will File in the Courts
Bill in Chancery
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AS A PRELIMINARY MOVEMENT
The "First Apostle and His Adherents
Will Go to Zion City Soon Bowie's
Nurse Deserts Him The Apostle
Recrets That the Lord Gave Him a
Son Whom He Named Gladstone.
and Threatens to Reveal His True
Character.
Chicago, April 11. At the conclusion
of a day of conferences between repre
sentatives of the opposing interests
of Christian Catholic church in Zion
the statement was made late tonight
that the whole controversy would
probably be settled by conciliation.
Both sides to the dispute, according to
Attorney Emil C. Wetten, John Alex
ander D6wies legal representative are
anxious for an amicable adjustment
of the whole dispute.
This announcement was made my
Mr. Wetten tonight atter a confer
ence with Dowie, following .Wetten"s
return from Zion City where he held
a conference with General Overseer
Wilbur Glenn Voliva and other leaders
of the revolt against Dowie. Earlier
in the evening a statement was given
put from Dowie's apartments that the
whole matter would be ta-ken into the
courts tomorrow for settlement, but af
ter the consultation with Attorney
Wetten on his return from Zion, there
seemed to be a sudden change in the
warlike attitude which has all along
been assumed by Dowie and his ad
visers. Chicago, ' April 11. John Alexander
Dowie and his counsellors tomorrow
will begin the fight to regain the $20.
000,000 said to be involved in the con
trol of Zion City, by filing in the courts
a bill in chancery, petitioning that the
transfer of Zion City properties made
to Deacn Alexander Granger by Gen
eral Overseer Glenn Voliva as attorney
for Dowie, be set aside.
The grounds upon which the petition
will be- based will be that Voliva
Granger and Mrs. Dowie endeavored
fraudulently and illegally to despoil the
"First Apostle" of the property which
he claims." The court will also be ask
ed to issue an injunction commanding
that Voliva be prohibited from in any
way handling the estate. What other
legal steps may be taken have not yet
been decided on.
These legal steps ' are only prelimi
nary, however, for Dowie and his
friends intend to go to Zion City soon,
according to Deacon James E. Peters
who together with Deacon John A.
Lewis has been a constant atendant
and adviser of the "First Apostle"
since he left Mexico on his trip north.
Dowie lost an adhereent today in
Miss Elizabeth McLennan who has
accompanied Dowie as a nurse on the
long journey to regain his health.
Miss McLennan went to Zion City af
ter a heated intervi:TV, in which she
told Dowie that she could no longer
remain as a member of his party, be
cause she believed that Mrs. Dowie
and Gladstone had been shamefully
maligned by the "First Apostle" in his
speech delivered from the car steps in
St Louis two nights ago.
In referring to a threat which is is
asserted that Gladstone Dowie made
intimating that if his father did not
cease in his attacks on Mrs." Dowie,
Gladstone would reveal certain 'deeds
said to have 'occurred in tt in Aus
tralia, Dowie today said:
"I remember nothing particular that
ocurred in the year 1877. I know of
no reason why any exposure of my
acts during that period of time should
cause me to be afraid. Coming to
think of it however, there is one
thing that happened in the year 1877,
which I greatly regret, and that is that
the Lord gave unto me a son whom I
named Gladstone. ATJ my life I've
tried to give him counsel and supply
him with money but my efforts in
leading him in the paths that I would
have him walk have been without
avail. Now, unless this young man
ceasas making threats and in
sinuations, I will be forced to reveal
his true character to the world, it will
be a. story of degeneracy that will be
shocking. ?
Church. Destroyed by Fire.
Norfolk. Va., April 11. Ocean View
church, inter-denominational, at Ocean
View, was destroyed by fire about 7
o'clock tonight
The damage is $3,000
The building
is a frame structure and was entirely tion of L. G . Funkhouser as postmas
consumed by the flames. j ter at Roanoke, Va.
MINERS AND OPERATORS
Scale Committee Complete Their Reply
and Will present it to the Jllnc
Owners Today It is Believed the
Miners Have Made Concessions.
New York, April . 11. After haVing
the counter arbitration plan of the an
thracite aperators under, consideration
nearly all day, the general scale com
mittee of the hard coal miners com
pleted the draft of their reply and
will present it to the committee of
mine owners at the joint session to
be held here tomorrow. The strict
est secrecy surrounded the work of
the committeemen. It is believed the
miners have decided to accept the
operators' offer that the anthracite
strike commission take up the dis
pute, but will ask that the tribunal
be permitted to consider the original
demands with certain important mod
ifications, i t
The concessions said to have been
decided , upon are that, instead of an
agreement being entered into between
the operators and the United Mine
Workers of America it be made with
the anthracite mine workers, that the
check off be limited to the wage
workers who agree to an assessment
to defray expenses incurred in carry
ing out the miners part of the agree
ment instead of all the mine workers
union and non-union being com
pelled to contribute, and that the du
ration of the agreement be left to the
commission.
If this proposition is accepted it
would leave the commission free to
take up the demand for an increase
in wages; an 8-hour day; uniform
pay for all classes of employment
paid by the day or month, recon
struction of the concilliation board
and a number of minor grievances.
The operators want to limit the in
quiry to wages and, a method for the
adjustment of complaints.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Nathan Isaacs Jumps From Bridge
Into the East River May Recover.
New York, April 11. Nathan
llsaacs, of this city, today jumped
from the middle of the center span
of the new Williamsburg bridge into
the East river, 135 feet below and
was quickly taken out of the water by
the crew of a ferry boat. His cloth
ing W4f torn to ribbons, his shoes
were torn from his feet and he was
terribly bruised by the impact of
his body upon the water. Isaacs was
unconscious when rescued, but soon
revived and may recover. He made
the leap at an hour when the morn
ing rush of Brooklyn people to their
work in the stores and offices of Man
hattan was at its height and scores
of. people witnessed his drop into the
river. Isaacs-said that he had been
too ill to continue work as a tailor
and that he had expended all his sav
ings before he attempted to take his
life.
Isaacs was also depressed by the ill
ness of his mother in Russia and by
the recent death of his brother in this
fJ - He is said to have been a grad-
uate of a Russian university.
BOUND OVER TO COURT
Norrls Held In $1,000 Bond
Charge of Anson.
on the
(Special to the Messenger.) .
Raleigh, N. C, April 11, 1906.
The magistrate here held Norrls, a
prominent merchant of Raleigh, in a
thousand dollars bond to appear be
fore the superior court in July on the
sharge of burning a country residence
owned by his wife, to obtain the in
surance. The case is pressed by the
insurance department and local in
surance company. His attorneys ex
press the belief that the grand jury
will not return a true bill. They
accuse the chief witness against Nor-
ris of having himself set fire to the
house and say he was the last man
iat the place before the fire. The
case is very sensational. Thomas
rented the place last year, sub-let It
and had to pay fhe rent He offered
Norris a thousand dollars for It but
fifteen hundred was demanded.
Appropriation for Moore's Creek Bat
tleground. Washington, April 11. The senate
today passed bills appropriating $5,000
for the improvement of the monument
on the Moore's Creek battlefield. North
Carolina.
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To Protect the Sponge Industry. ,
Washington, April 11. The senate
today passed bills prohibiting alien?
from gathering sponges in American
waters and prohibiting the use of
diving apparatus in the taking of
sponges.
Nominated for Postmaster.
Washington, April 11 The president
today sent to the senate the nomlna-
ITALY'S HORROR
Lass of S2O.O0O.OOO by TJaunt
VmiIbs Eroption
Conditions in Section Affected Are
Greatly Ameliorated
Scientist are of the Opinion That the
Volcano Has Stcnt Itself People
are Advised to be Calm Troops En.
cased in Clearing Roofs of Aslto
and Sand An Expenditure of Many
Millions of Dollars and a Force of
100.000 3Ien will be Required to
Raze Houses Rendered Unsafe by
tlie Eruption.
Naples. April 11. Reports of the
destruction of two towns, Sarno and
San Genarro. the former having' a
population of more than 8.000 have
proved to be without foundation. " At
Sarno 5.000 persona from nearby vil
lages and farms have found refuge.
otajano where many lives were lost
on Monday, is now practically buried.
There is great difficulty in ascertain
ing the actual condition of affairs in
that part of the stricken district near
est the volcano.
The tram and railway tracks are
deep under sand and ashes, the roads
are obliterated, and even the fisher
men .who ply their calling on the bay
of Naples are afraid to venture out
on the water anywhere in the, vicinity
of Vesuvius. Ail these conditions make
It difficult to give an intelligent esti
mate of the loss of property. One esti
mate is that 520,000.000 damages has
been done and that 60.000 persons
have been rendered homeless. Every
where in Naples and Castellammare
and in the lesser towns nearby out of
the danger zone, are beggared refugees
who only a few days ago were prosper
uos and happy, though living almost
underneath the shadow of that per
petual menace, the volcano of Mount
Vesuvius. For these people whose
homes and crops have been destroyed,
there is little consolation in the state
ment of scientists that ultimately the
valleys and hillsides will become as
fertile as ever they were. Until com
munication can be restored and search
made of the houses in the afflicted dis
trict, it will be impossible to deter
mine how many people have perished
by this eruption.
Robert Underwood Johnson, associ
ate editor of the Century Magazine,
who has been an eve witness of the
events here the last few days, said
today to the Associated Press:
"Each day it becomes more Impos
sible to visit even, at a distance the
afflicted districts. The ashes have
reached preposterous proportions, fil
ter Into everything, block the trains,
trams, automobiles, carriages and
horses. Only the soldiers seem to
overcome the obstruction.
"Before the Interruption I took a
train for Torre Annunziata. On ar
riving at Torre del Greco the heavens
seemed to open and we were soon half
burled in ashes and hot cinders. The
train drew ud in total darkness, reliev
ed only by lightning flashes. Thus we
waited events. Soon the darkness
took purple and yellow tinges, the de
tonations became louder than the loud
est thunder clap and the ashes burnt
our eyes. It was a perfect picture of
Dante's Inferno. The train could not
proceed, so thick were the ahes on
the track and Just at this point the
train broke in half and the poor wom
en fugitives, thinking they were about
to "lose their lives began to chant
litanies for the dead, giving a last
weird touch to the infernal scene.
"Carbineers came to our rescue and
proposed to take us to the sea. We
then found we were on a bridge with
the sea on one side and Torre del
Greco on the other side. In the dark
ness we desended hand in hand, form
ing a human rope, and a false step
would have meant death. The port
was so choked with asties that rmall
boats could not navigate.
"Wearily we trudged back to the
station to find there was no prospect of
another train. We had then been five
hours in that plight, so. seeing that
heroic measures were necessary, with
a companion I trudged miles In two or
three feet of ashes to Portlcl. where
finally we found a cab which brought
us to Naples."
Naples, April 11.. The 'Mattlno In
its Issue today asserted that Sarno, a
town in the province of Salerno has
been destroyed.
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