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Vol. VIII RALEIGrH, N. C. TUJUSDAY, JANUARY 28. 1902 No. 145 BLO WNUPVf NAM1TE Big Hotels Badly Shaken. Men and Women Kill-, ed and Injured. Excitement in the Street! Vs v Yurk, Jan. -7. -The neighborhood -!2d street and Fourth avenue was lit: t:t!!Iv wrecked shortly after-noon today ;i el persons were killed and fully more or less injured, by a terrific ex-n!.;-iuii of a largo quantity of dynamite u tin rapid transit subway excavation I s !" iiirth avenue between '41st '-and 42d 5 '.-.is, 'i'!i dead are: . Cyrus Adams, cashier of the Murray Jin! Hotel cigar stand. iaiaes Carr, waiter at the Murray Hill l'.-.tel. .. n nee A. Iline, a school 'boy, of 'I'.iii iivjftuii. Conn., who had come to this city t have a broken arm set; died ;.r Relievue Hospital.. Jirodt-rick - Robertson of Nelson. B. C, t .. most iromiuent mining man in Brit ih Columbia, was killed in his room a: tin- Murray Hill Hotel. William Tnbbs, engineer on rapid tran i ;i nil el hoist, was blown to the ground jii,! aim jst instantly killed. ALt ii and women were killed or hurt ! i the three hotels near by the Murray li '.'A, the Grand Union and ithe Manhat tanin which all the windows, were 1:. vn out and ceilings fell. ' F.very stove and office building and private dwelling for blocks around, from Third avenue to Fifth avenue, frofn 3Uth ?frott to 4od street, shook from the. ex osion. lost windows and doors, and in 5 :ne of them persons were injured. Pedestrians in the streets were knock Tel down by the blast or struck by flying rocks and beams, and the whole vicinity was in a state of panic and terror for many minute after the disaster, bnt it .was in the Murray Hill Hotel that the excitement of fright was greatest, and Senator Money Would Let the Philippines Go General Wheaton Taken to Task for Strictures on a Minority Commit tee Report "Washington, Jan. 27. "I "would let them go to the devil and look out for themselves," was the avowal of Mr. Money of Mississippi in the Senate to d;;y, as to what his program and policy would be in dealing with the Filipinos If his party were in full nower and con trol of the government. It was ex pressed in answer, to a question asked with much seriousness by Mr. Hale of Maine, who disavowed any political mo tive in asking it and who afterwards confessed to much sympathy with Mr. Money's yleas. Mr.Foraker of Ohio asked Mr. Money whether he would let the Filipinos go to the devil immediately: and explained that he asked the question because he saw that the minority of the Philippines Committee favored holding control of the islands until certain objects Were .ob tained. At an earlier period in the proceedings the newspaper report from Manila of General Wheaton' s strictures on Profes sor Schurmann's Boston speech, and on the minority report of the Philippines Committee was brought up by Mr. Du bois of Idaho and became "the subject of a somewhat lively discussion. Soon after the Senate convened to day. Mr. Lodge, chairman of the Philip pines Committee, favorably reported a resolution authorizing that committee to make an investigation of the Philippine question, and for that purpose to sit dur :njr the sessions of the Senate. The solution was referred to the Coinmit !"' on Contingent Expenses. In introducing a resolution providing f tin appointment of a committee of f -r.rrts ;o ascertain the cost of an isth-''.'.-. cm;,;.' tunnel five miles in length by ,vb it js known as the Darien route, .Mr. Scott ot West Virginia gave notice tint ar some later time he would ad c!;p? fiip Senate upon the subject. -Mr. Dubois of Idaho, rising to a ques tion of personal privilege, directed atten tion to ft press dispatch from, Manila cnoting General "Wheaton as criticizing sum- remarks of Dr. Schurmann in a speech at Boston, saying that the opinion is prevalent in the Philippines that inn were sent to prison In Manila for .' ring less. "I think," said Mr. Dubois, hat. in view of the statements in this --Hspg'r-h. the President ought to repri ni.vid General Wheaton and those officers in the Philippines who are criticizing the Senate for its action or statements re r; pil nig the Philippines. I do not know W General Wheaton is. but he nroba "blv is some charity boy appointed to V'pst Point by a Senator or Represent a 'i' f and since supported by the. govern nrnt. Such remarks as he is quoted as "Tvin made are, however, outrageous "''1 indecent." - I.i id go of Massachusetts suggested that it would be wise to ascertain before c.ri.p,;, Wheaton was reprimanded " briber he actually made the statements -il.-uted to him. General Wheaton. hf said, was an officer of ability and . b irnerer. and no hasty "action should be -1 '"') iti such a case. Mi'-' Teller I do not think there's any r"brt that General Wheaton said Avhat is H't-ibnted to him. Mr. Ti0li-p i'her may be a groat deal ef "doubt of it. the effects of the explosion most disas trously felt. -,: One guest -of the hotel J. Roderick Robinson, a . wealthy British Colum bian was killed in his bed, on the first floor, at the corner nearest the scene of the explosion. John Pabs, an engineer, was killed in the street, directly over the spot where the explosion occurred. The explosion created the greatest ex citement up town, and .within a few moments after the occurrence a crowd of many thousands had gathered at the scene. ; Everywhere persons could be seen run ning about bleeding from cuts and bruises. Men and women could be seen running out of buildings in the same condition,"' for- many of those in the houses close by were injured by flying glass and by the debris hurled through the windows. t Immediately fafter the explosion hurry calk, were sent for ambulances and po lice reserves and the work of removing the injured and dead was begun. Teams were pressed into service and the hos pitals were thrown open. - The shock was felt :u Harlem. For several blocks each side of .Forty-first street the tunnel was wrecked. Tons of rock and dirt were thrown into the streets and panic ensued. Police and hiernen were sent o the. scene :to bring about order. The rapid transit tunnel is being con structed under the old Metropolitan tun nel in Park avenue. Consequently the explosion wrecked both tunnels. When the firemen arrived they went into the tunnel, but found no trace of any dead bodies. A block away they found Emerson Jones, a negro workman, dying. He had been working in the tun nel near 41st street and the concussion hurled 'him many feet and injured him badly. There was lying over the tunnel a large pile of timber. The heavy beams were tossed high in the air aud several fell to the street a block away. The dynamite which caused the dev astation was stored in a shanty built on the curb in front of the Murray Hill Mj. Teller, continuing, said such a situation as had arisen was one of the blessings growing out of conditions in the Philippines. A paddock, he asserted, .'as to be placed upon the mouth of every man, Congressman or private citi zen, and all criticism of the administra tion's Philippine! policy was to be si lenced. .He referred to the criticism of Senators who had antagonized the ad ministration's policy in the Philippines, declaring that they had been charged even with treason. "I suppose," said he. "that no Senator after a while will be able to read on this floor the Decla ration of Independence .without subject ing himself to a charge of inciting trea son." He said that if Professor Schur man's speech 'was published in the Phil ippines it was known over there that he proposed that the Filipinos ultimately should have their independence. "Any body." he asserted, "who will criticize ri,n'iittir-in in tbfif sneech would criti cize the Declaration of Independence if he dared to uo so. Mr. Lodge said Mr. Teller's statement concerning the Declaration of Independ ence was silly. What Mr. Schurmann said 'in Boston did not, in his opinion, concern the Senate. In response to inquiries by Mr. -Rawlins of Utah, Mr. Lodge said he did not know whether newspaper dispatches sent from Manila were censored or not, and he did not know whether the War Department had or had not taken steps to ascertain whether Gen Wheaton had made the statements attributed to him. Mr. Carmack, of Tennessee, question ed the right of any officer of the United States Army to criticise either the' ac tions or the utterances of any private ci uzen. ,ur. Tillman, of South Carolina, in terrupted to say that the general com manding the army 'had -been reprimand ed by fife President for agreeing with the admiral of the navy upon a question on which air the people, of the United States were absolutely agreed. Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts contend ed that no unsupported newspaper re jKrt of a matter of this kind ought to be accepted by the Senate. He there fore deprecated the introduction of the Manila dispatch- into the Senate pro ceedings. He thought the whole matter ought to be eliminated f romv considera tion, as. he believed it entirely, likely that General Wheaton would be re proved if he had made any statements he ought not to have made. When ' the ' Philippine tariff bill was taken up Mr. Rawlins questioned Mr. Lodge about acts of the Philippine Commission which w;ere designed to pre vent the discussion of Philippine inde pendence in the Islands. ' Mr. Lodge. said such acts were passed, but they were for the purpose of sup pressing the insurrection: that it was desirable that peace should be estab lished before' independence .of the islands and other questions be discussed. Mr. .Money ridiculed the cant and hyprocrisy which imputed to provi dence, or oestiny, the present condition of things in the islands, and he ex claimed. "We, the heirs 'of all the ages, are turning our backs upon our glorious record, and imposing our rule upon a people about whom we have rfot the (Slightest concern in the world. We have gone to the good'old rule, the rob Hotel. It is supposed that a small lamp fell from ,a shelf and ignited . the explosive, which is being used in the i-anid transit tunnel. The street was so dark that people nearly stopped short and began to grope their way. As the cloud began to settle down men could see what the lamp that fell from the shelf in the powder shanty had done. 'Windows were vacant and staring; the clocks on the Grand Central station knocked out of their sockets; here and there a window frame half out of its place, all cock-eyed: eonlices all down. The amount of the explosive which was stored in a shed in the street near the shaft from the tunnel is variously stated. Mr. Jerome and Fire Chief Crocker said that they learned that 3.10 pounds of uitro-glvcerine had been delivered at that point " today. Mr. Jerome estimated that 100 pounds at least were involved in the explosion which made the wreck. On behalf of Contractor Shaler it was stated that there was more exrdosive in' the place than was allowed by law 02 pounds. It was further said that in asmuch as it was shown that the explo sive was set off by bein set on fire by a lamp accidentally, upsetting, the con tractor is not legally or indirectly to blame for the catastrophe. If it is conceded that there was but the lesal quantity 02 pounds in the place -which blew up, then there is also to be considered the authoritative state ment that permits for the delivery of the same amount of explosive have been issued to the contractors wherever blast ing is necessary along the line of the tunnel. The loss to property cannot well amount to less than $1,000,000. The Murray Hill Hotel w as the worst sufferer by the explosion. The powder shanty which blew up was right under its windows. The front of the hotel was practically demolished. The holes where the windows ivere remain, but a lot of labor will be required in every window space before a sash can be fitted into it again. From the front the place looks exactly as if it had been gutted by fire, except that thestaina of the smoke and water are missing. In stead there are great blots of mud, earth, and mortar which were hurled up from the platforms below. ber plan, that 'they shall take who have the power, and they shall keep who can.'" Mr. Piatt of Connecticut said that he did not wish the occasion to pass without expressing his emphatic;- dissent from the principle on which the remarks of the Senator from Mississippi were founded. That Senator did nof deny the right of the United States to acquire the Philippine islands and to exercise sovereignty over them, but argued that whenever the people of those islands de sired independence it was the right and duty of the "United States to give it to them. That was a doctrine which no government could subscribe to. At the close of the discussion the Senate, at 4:40, proceeded to executive business. At 5:20 the doors were opened and the Senate adjourned until tomorrow. A Paternal Dill Killed Washington, Jan. 27. The House chaplain, in his invocation today, feel ingly referred to the death of the wife of Representative Davis of Florida, which occurred last night. The House went fnto committee of the whole on Mr. GrowV bill. He showed by letters from teachers in a school in Philadelphia that it was feasi ble and practicable to teach deaf and dumb infants to use and understand ar ticulate speech, and the object of the bill was to extend the knowledge of this fact among the mothers of the land, that if they will treat their -unfortunate deaf and dumb infants as they do those pos sessed of all tieir senses, the little ones will-be great gainers. Officials and em ployes of deaf and dumb asylums decry the proposition, said Mr. Grow, for if no dumb children grow up no asylum would be needed Othello's occupation would be gone. Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio opposed 'the bill on the ground that it was not in the jurisdiction of Congress to legislate along the lines of the measure and that the states in their separate capacity are experimen'ing in their own -istitutions to secure, the same result. The passage of the bill was antago nized by a number of gentlemen on coi'stitutional grounds, that it was fed eralism or centralization and paternal ism run nrul. The enacting clause was stricken out and in that .hape the bill was reported to the House. - At 4:4." adjournment was taken until Wednesday. : END OF SCAPEGRACE He Shoots a Woman Before Taking Himself Off Chicago, Jan. '27. Dr. Harry J. Zeig ler. of ,iancaster. Pa., fatally wounded his: wife Anna and then killed himself at the Wellington House. In a note he declared that he and his wife had de rided to die. and that as he lacked nerve Mil. Zeigler had promised to commit the deed. The woman, before being removed to-the Samaritan Hospital in a dying condition, declared that the shooting was done by her husband. The physician and his wife arrived at the Wellington House this morning. The two were young and apparently happy. They retired to their roim and were not seen Until about 3 o'clock this afternoon when a call came from the room. Clerk Cone sent a bell boy up stairs. When he arrived he found the woman tugging art the door. Blood was! streaming from a wound in the back of her head. - Lancaster, Pa., Jan. 27 Harry J. Zeigler; who killed himself and wife in Chicago today, was ' an adventurer and no physician. He was wild and way ward even as a boy and was hardly 21 when he married Harriet Baker of this place. They soon parted, but were never divorced. -The -woman Zeigler killed was not his legal wife.V After leaving school he joined the schoolship Saratoga at Philadelphia; but wearied of the strict discipline and loft fh shin' TT eiion Tentered the service of the Reading Rail road, out taree years ago enlisted here in the regular army and was sent to the Philippines.- where J he was employed in the hospital service. . -s- ;. -MINORITY VIEWS Ground of Opposition to the Philippine Tariff Bill Washington, ; Jan. 27. Senator Car mack today submitted .; from the . Committee on Philippines on mo x iinijjiuc A xarirc diij. jt states that opposition to tEe measure is not based on any mere question of revenue or any theory concerning forms and prin ciples of taxation, but because it vio lates eonstittuional rights and transcends the limits of conRf!tiif-irTiii rvi-r... 'rv.,. objection of the minority is against the wnoie poncy or-colonial empire, also to the control -by this government of vassal provinces, to the spirit of military aggres sion and of war for the sake of spoils. The report says that the bill reported joy tne majority ot the committee is a i characteristic manifestation nf sneh n policy and spirit. . . " s- Prince Henry's Southern Tour Atlanta, Oa., Jan. 27. The itinerary in the South of Prince Henry, as ar ranged by Charles E. Harman, General Passenger Agent of . the "Western and Atlantic Railroad, is announced, as fol lows:: '-" .':' . ' ;'-' 4, The prince and party will leave Cin cinnati Satnrday night, March 1, over the Queen and Cresqent, arriving in Chatta- i j Gangl Commission to Be Heard by Committee Washington, Jan. 27. There will be a thorough investigation of the canal question by the Senate Committee on Inter-oceanic Canak before any bill is reported to the Senate. This waa de cided upon at . an interesting and some what, livelv; .rrvetingof the committee this -morning,- every "one of the" eleven members of the committee being pres ent. Chairman Morgan stated that it had been decided to have the members of the Isthmian Canal Commission ap pear before the committee and submit all the information in their possession on which they based their recent report recommending the selection of the Pana ma route. This determination was reached only after considerable discussion and very much against the wishes of the chairman and certain members of the committee. The purpose of having the testimony of the Canal Commission is not so much to learn why they recommended the Panama route as to. gratify the curiosity of some of the members who are anx ious to know what induced the commis sion to change their minds, the presump tion being that the commission has orig inally favored the Nicaraguan route. There is no evidence of this, however, as' in the first report the commission plainly indicated that had they been able at the time it was made to submit the defini'te offer of sale from 'the Pan ama Company that was made later and included in the second report they would Chicago's Tribute to the Hero of Santiago Chicago, Jan. 27. Admiral" Schley and Mrs. Schley this morning visited the public school which has been named for the adnrifal. as the beginning of his day's stay in Chicago. Admiral and Mrs. Schley were accom panied to tlii school by President -Hunger of the Hamilton Club, President Graham II. Harris and Vice '.President Thomas Gallagher, of the Board of Ed ucation, and Superintendent of Schools Cooley. - The trip-to the school was made in carriages direct from the Auditorium an nex, and npo!i the arrival of the party at the school the admiral found the teachers and scholars ready with an elaborate program in his honor, including singing and speeches. Admiral and Mrs. Schley were kissed by a large num ber of the -children in the school before they made their escape. Passenger Tra i n Held Up and Express Safe Taken Charleston, S. C, Jan. 27 Near : Branchville, sixty miles from Charleston 'on the Southern Railway, seven robbers ''tonight held up the passenger train from Charleston and made a. clean sweep of i the express car. About 100 shots were fired. The express and mail cars were' I uncoupled and the engineer was forced ho run a mile toward tne swamps where Uwo iron safes were removed from the I express car and loaded on a wagon in nooga at 6 o'clock Sunday morning, March 2. The morning will be spent iu a visit to Chickamauga Park, and in the afternoon the party will leave over the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis for Nashville, en route to Louisville.' Chattanooga, Tenn.. Jan. 27. Mayor A. W. Chambliss has appointed a com mittee to arrange for la reception of Prince Henry March 2. 3 , ; - Ransom Paid London, Jan. 27. A dispatch from Sofia, Bulgaria, today says the ran som of Miss Ellen M. Stone and Madame Tsilka. her- companion, has been paid to the -brigands, and that the captives are expected to be released today. " -S- PATTEN HELD HIS GRIP A Speculator in Oats Who Could Not Be Shaken Chicago, Jan.'; 27. S farting in an effort to shake Jim Patten out of his holdings in May oats, the -price dropped almost 5 cents in thirty minutes, resulting for a time in a state of trade in the oat pit that might be termed a anic. - Patttn refused to become -rattled and . held on to his holdings... ..Various conditions are frequently given for big slumps and rises in the price of the different commodities in the grain pits,- But this one seem ingly hinged on the fact that some wide awake bear took notice that Patten was late in arriving at the board. , Mr. Patten is supposed to be engineer ing a sort of corner in May oats and is credited with owning millions of bushels. The raid started with the price at 44 to 44. Within7 twenty minutes the quo tations were 39VL cents. Flurries in that cereal continued all the morning, but the good support brought into the mar ket resulted in a reaction backv to 43 cents. Then there was ziar-zagging be tween 41 and 42, therMay article closing finally at -42 to 424. ' The other markets felt the raid, nnd pork in the provision pit lost Go-cents a barrel. Wheat and corn also showed weakness. . have then declared in favor of the Pan ama route. The subcommittee is to ascertain whether the Panama Company could give the United States a clear title if the offer should be accepted. The examina tion of the members of the Canal Com mission will take place before the full committee and probably will begin next Monday. There are eleven jpembers, and according to their present views, seven are in favor of the Nicaraguan route. Senator Hanna, who strongly opposes the adoption of the Nicaraguan route, said today that unless there should be a decided change of opinion in the committee a bill providing for the selection of the X-icaraguan route will eventually be reported to lie Senate, but not until there has been a complete inquiry into the whole subject. In the Senate sentiment is rapidly crystalizing in favor of seriously consid ering the good faith and practicability, of the Panama offer. Another incident took place in the committee today that was not mention ed by Chairman Morgan dn his statement of the proceedings. This was the, read ing of a letter from Andrew Carnegie containing arguments in favor of the Panama route or recommending the acceptance- of the Panama offer as a wise and sensible business proposition. The letter, . after-being read in full, was re ferred to Senator Harris' sub-committee, and the Senator is now considering the advisability of preparing a reply to it. From the school the party went di rect to the Grand Army Memorial Hall for a reception, and to receive engross ed copies of resolutions of welcome from the German societies of the city. The presentation was made by a committee of thirty leading German-American cit izens. The great event of tbeir trip follow edthe public reception to the people of Chicago in tha Auditorium which began at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and lasted' until it became time for Iiear Admiral Schley to dress for the banqfTFt given tonight by the officers of the Naval Battalion of the Illinois National Guard. The festivities in his honor wound up with a review of the Naval Battalion in its armory tonight. Hear Admiral Schley and his wife will leave in the morning for Iouisville. waiting. Two years ago "a similar rob bery occurred at Bartow. Warren, who was arrested for the crime, escaped af ter killing the main witness against him. He is still at large and is supposed to have been in hiding where the train was stopped.' " . Telegrams from Branchville tonight stated tnat the robbers were not masked and escaped, after which the engineer went back for the rest of the train. The passengers. were not molested. j. Keith .'CpiiflrJhc Our Senators and the Isth mian Canal Rountres Hears the Minnesota Case Argued 1 TIIO.TIAS J. PESCE. - - " 1. Washington, Jan. 27. Special The Senate today confirmed the nomination of B. F. Keith to be collector of the port of Wilmington. Keith is here ar rayed in a glad smile. The great cham pion of silver broke the-news today that sixteen to one is a dead issue. Talking with a friend, he said expansion was the great issue. The Senate has not yet acted on Skin ner's nomination. Other nominations confirmed j !the Senate today were: D. P. Dameron, postmaster at Ciinton; McMurray Furguson, postmaster at Littleton; Octayius McLean, postmaster at Maxton: Jcsi M. Sitterson, postmas ter at -WillrianisuOn; L. L. Brinkley, post master at Edentr; J. F. Dobson, post master at Goldsboro; Geo. W. Keed, postmaster at Biltmore; A. B. -Hill, postmaster at Scotland Neck. The President sent to the Senate to day the following nominations: James W. Mullen, to be postmaster at Charlotte, N. C; Edwin L. Ware, to be postmaster at King's Mountain. Hon. Geo. Ilonntree of Wilmington, who is counsel for the State in the South Dakota bond cases, arrived in the city today to hear the argument in the case of the State of Minnesota vs. the North ern Securities Company before the. Uni ted States- Supreme Court. The feature of the case that interested Mr. lioun'tree is that involving the question of orig inal jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court in controversies between States and citizens or another State. The question, which bears directly upon the suit of South Dakota vs. North Car olina, was argued by ex-Attorney Gen eral John W. Griggs and other distin guished lawyers. Judge Johnson of Philadelphia, who whs reported :to have received a ten thousand dollar fee from North Carolina railroads in the hearing of the taxation case, was present ana filed a brief. ' - - The probable action of the Senate in selecting a route for the isthmian canal is one of deep interest here. Sena-tor Prl.ccb.ard was today named a member of the sub-committee to consider all le gal questions involved in the transfer of the Panama canal. Other members of the committee , are Senators Foster, Turner, Kittridge and Morgan. The two North Carolina Senators have favored the Nicaraguan route all along, but the Panama proposition is receiving their careful attention. Senator Pritch ard said today he could not say how he would vote until he fully considered the situation. He stated that he-did not propose to be' swept 'from his feet be cause of theantagonism to the Panama offer. Senator Simmons has not yet ful ly investigated the. Panama scheme. Senator Pri: chard went to the Sen ate Committee on Forests and Forestry today for the purpose of arranging for a hearing some time this week on the bill for the establishment of the Appa lachian Park. The committee will give an. early hearing. Collector H. S. Harkins, of the West ern District, is here. He says he came to see the Commissioner of Internal Revenue on department business. Mr. Harkins says he knows nothing of the charges preferred against him. Senator Pritchard says he has no information as to these charges, though they have been forecasted for -a number of weeks. Representative Kluttz introduced bibs today for the payment of $.,652 each to II. C. Dockery and A.. If. Boyden of Salisbury, executor of his . father, Na thaniel Boyden. They provide payment of salaries for service in the -Fortieth States Cannot Interfere with Interstate Commerce Provision of Kentucky Con stitution Held Invalid by the Supreme Court Washington, Jan. 27. The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Peekham, today held invalid that section of the Kentucky constitution prohibiting a greater charge by railroads for a longer than Tor a shorter haul under similar conditions. The suit was brought against the Louisville & Nashville -Railway by T. R. Eubank & Co., tobacco dealers, tn rwnvflr excess of freiffht on tobacco shipped from Franklin. Ky to ' Louis ville. The rate paid was -: cents per 100 pounds, while from Nashville, Tenn., to Louisville, passing through Franklin, tha i nto w:k hut- 12 cents, and he sued to recover the difference, l.'i cents per 100 pounds on some 140,000 pounds. The Cir cuit Court of Mnipson county, upnoiunif; the validity of the provision, .found againt the railroad, and the latter ap pealed to the Supreme Court, attacking the constitutionality of the provision. After reviewing the various rates. Jus tice Peekham said that in -this case, the State claimed only to regulate its local rates by the standard of the interstate rate, and said the former should be no higher than the latter. The direct effect of .that provision was to regulate the interstate rate, for to do any interstate business at the local rate were impossi ble, and if so it must, give up its inter state business or else reduce the local rate in proportion. Thatvery result was Congress. Mr. Kluttr savs Conev. has frequently paid such claims Representative Bellamy had 'the flooi of the House today replying to Mr Lacy of Iowa, chairman of the Committee on Public Lands. The subject under discussion wag a measure that confer on registers of laud power to sumino witnesses. 'Mr. Bellamy attacked the feature which mado failure to att'nd an indictable -misdemeanor. Ho the officers should have power to sum mon by capias only. ne pointed out injustices that might arise with so much authority reposed in au officer. Conference en Crumpackcr Rill At a meeting of Southern Republicans held tonight, in Senator Pritchard's room at the Senate Annex, the Crumpscker bill for cutting down southern repre sentation was discussed as well as meas ures introduced by Representatives Bai tholdt and Gibson, which southern Re publicans hope to offer iu amended form as a satisfactory substitute to the Crum packer bill. No decision 'was reached tonight and adjournment was taken until a further meeting. Senator Pritchard said there was absolutely nothin" to give out as everything discussed "was tentative. The plan is to en.net legis lation that will control features of elec tion laws, especially contested election cases. This will be opposed vigorously by Democrats. Southern Democratic Congressmen will hold, a meeting with referene to thesa measures as soon as anything tangible results. Among those present at" to night's meeting were Senator McComas of Maryland, Senator Klkins of West Virginia. Senator I'ritcliard and Rep resentatives Gaines, KarthoKlt, Joy, Gib son, Moody and Borcing. State, Geologist Holmes is here, having come from St. Louis, where he went to look after a North Carolina exhibit at the exposition. He says he met with much encouragement and received sucii inducements that the Stale will mako an exhibit. He is here in the interest of the Appalachian Park bill. Gleaning Irani Capitol Lobbies Spencer Blackburn tonight addressed members of the Washington Junior Or der. Today's arrival: Ex-Judge A. C. Ave ry of Morganton, J. W. Lynch of Kln ston, J. W. Ferguson of Wayncsville, E. C. Duncan of Raleigh. W. M. Gilo and Superintendent Hayes, of the Sap phire Improvement Company. Mr. W. S. Davidson of Texas, a brother of Gen. T. F. Davidson of Asbevillo, i here. He is from Beaumont and is in terested in the oil business of that boom ing territory. Mr. Davidson is urging, legislation. that will permit foreign tang ible steamers to engage in the coastwise trade'for at least a period of live years. Representative Thomas has been iu formed that Special Agent S. D. Bos, who has been establishing rural delivery routes in his ' district has lKen ordered elsewhere because of the prevalence of smallpox in Sampson and pressing worl? elsewhere. Mr. Thomas has the pronii that another agent will be sent to the dis trict in a short time. Two routes hav been established at Clinton, one at Gar land, two at Turkey, two at Wnrsaw and one at Belgrade in Onslow c.uinty. Col. Alfred Williams of Raleigh made a hit with President Roosevelt, when the delegates of the National Guard As--sociation called at the White Hons. The guests were being presented, Hiid when Colonel Williams was introduced the President wanted to know if he was a descendant of the family by that namn that distinguished itself at Kings' Moun tain. General Royster tells it that Colo nel Williams replied that he was present in person on that historical ownsion. Whether this was true or not the answef was one that pleased the President. fo he slapped his hand on Colonel WiU lianis' shoulder and gave him a most cor dial greeting. . , , .,. Senators Simmons and TYitehnrd wdj keep a-close eye on the S12.r,Q0 appro priation 'for a biological station at Bean fort when the Urgent Deficiency bill comes up in the Senate. The conference" on such measures is generally a slaughtcf house for amendments. 'John Davis, formerly of Wilmington, whose church troubles put him in t.h4 asylum, is here practicing law. He it said to be entirely restored to health. a hindrance to, an interference With and a regulation of commerce between the states, carried on. though it might he. by only a single company. As construed by the State court, and so far as it was made applicable 1o v aflf-ted t7 interstate commerce, the Supreme Court holds that section of the constitution o Kentucky fixing rates to be inralid. The vice of the provision lay in tto regulation of rates between p'mH wholly within the State by the rotes which obtained between points ouMde of ana those which were within too fttate. The fact which vitiated the prov'rfjl Trn that it comnclled the carrier to rngn- late, adjust or fix his interstate rate with some reference at i-' - within the State, thus enabl.ng the State by constitutional prov.isinn or h lation to directly affect an- " to regulate, to some exw-nt. t he inter state commerce carrier. regulation the eonMinu ion ! j States gave to the I-cd-ra "' f. Justice -Brewer, on behalf r self and Justice Gray, dissented hold- , ing that the Federal V; '4lli'i : not in express terms re.tn.ct th powe of the State over its internal .w The State legislature, therefo.e had full power over local rate-. -nhjeet onlj to the restriction that it nld re qire a carrier able compensation. A.fi lated for local t a - , M Jj adopt; The local rates we.e a.one tt.9 matter regulated.
The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Jan. 28, 1902, edition 1
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