Newspapers / The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, … / Dec. 4, 1906, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
FuD Leased Wire Service of the Associated Pruss. Loads 'all North Carolina Afternoon Papors in Circulation LAST ttfiTlOTR. ALL THE MARKETS. THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES VOLUME 27. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY RALEIGH, N. O, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1906. SIXTEEN PAGES TODAY PRICE 6c ROOSEVELT'S DISCUSSION OF LYNCHING EVIL EMINENTLY FAIR TO SOUTHERN PEOPLE That Subject Real Feature uf His Message to Con gress Today DEMOCRATS FOR SOME FEATURES DOCUMENT OTHERWISE WHIRLWIND OF WORDS The President Deal With Every Phase of National Life Severe on Corporation,! and Judges and Those Who Reduce tlio Human Race. Advocates Income and inheritance T.ix Condemns C.intpnign Con tributions Wants More Power for Interstate Commerce Commission. Silent on Panama and the Tariff. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, D. C, Dec. 4. Presi dent Roosevelt's, message was trans mitted to congress at noon today. The most Important features follow: To the Senate and Mouse of Repre sentativos: As a nation we siiil continue to enjoy a literally unprecedented pros perity; and it i.; probable that only reckless speculation and disregard of legitimate business methods on the part of the business world can mate rially mar this prosperity. t No congress in our time has done more good work of importance than the present congress. There were several matters left unfinished at your last session, however, which I most earnestly hope you will com plete before your adjournment. Corporation Campaign Contributions. I again recommend a law prohibit ing all corporations from contribute! iug to the campaign expenses of any party. Such a bill has already passed one house of congress. Let individ uals contribute as they desire, bur lei us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contribu tions for any political purpose, di rectly or indirectly. Government's Right of Appeal in Criminal Cases. Another bill which has just passed one house of the congress and which it is urgently necessary should be enacted into law is that conferring upon the government the right of ap nea 1 5n criminal cases on questions of law, This right exists in many of the states; it exists in the District of Columbia by act of the congress. It is of course liot proposed that in any case a verdict for the defendant on the merits should be set aside. Re cently in one district where the gov ernment had indicted certain persons for conspiracy in connection with re bates, the court sustained the de fendant's demurrer; while in another jurisdiction an indictment for con spiracy to obtain rebates has been sustained by the court, convictions obtained under it, and two defend ants; sentenced to imprisonment. The two cases referred to may not be in real conflict with each other, but it is unfortunate that there should even be an apparent conflict. At present there is no way by which the govern ment can cause such a conflict, when it occurs, to be solved by an appeal to a higher court; and the wheels of justice aro blocked without any real decision of the question. I cannot too strongly urge the passage of the bill in question. A failure to pass it will result in seriously hampering the government in its effort to obtain i justice, especially against wealthy in dividuals or corporations who do wrong; and may also prevent the government from obtaining justice for wageworkers who are not them selves able effectively to contest a case where the judgment of an in-j ferlor court has been against tbem. 1 have specifically In view a recent decision by a district judge leaving railway employes without remedy for violation of a certain so-called labor statute. It seem an absurdity to per mit a single district judge, against what may. be the judgment of the Immense majority of his colleagues on the bench, to declaro a law foi-j evnnly enacted by the congress to bej unconstitutional," and then io deny to the government the right to have the supreme court definitely decide the question. it is well to recollect that the real efficiency of the law often depends not upon tlje passage of acts as to Which there is great public excite ment, but upon the passage of acts of (Contained on Page 0, 3nd Section.) ;i j - n wmmi M The President's Message Strange Story of a Girl and Read in Congress CLOSE ATTENTION PAID WHY ONE SOUGHT HER isamp Clark Declares Thai the Pres ident in His Views on the Inherit ance and Income Thy Has Stolen a flank from the Democratic Plat- fDI-IUt (By the Associated Press;) Washington, D. C, Dec. I. Fol lowing the reading of the journal in the house loday, the committee ap pointed by the sneaker yesterday to join like committee front the sen ate to wail upon the president re ported that thoy had performed that service and that he would communi cate in writing to tfie congress. The notice, after waiting for n few min utes, on motion of Mr. Payne of New York, took a recess to ut.es. Close and careful iitti corded tho reading ol i message by the member The galleries showed gi REFUSES TO GO BACK TO MOTHER RAWLINGS AND MOORE HANGED Two Men fifteen tnlu- ition was ac e president's of the house, ai attention. The president's views oh the inherit ance and income taxes pleased the democrats. Representative' Champ Clark erf Missouri expressing the sen timent that the "president had stolen, taken away and converted to his own use another plank of the democrats." Serious consideration was given to that portion of the message relating to the .Japanese question. The house adjourned at 2:46 p. in. 'tret aro rsv. PRESIDENT R THE JAPANESE SITUATION The Japanese school trouble In San Francisco is referred to incidentally in the president's message. Among other tilings, he says: "The courtesy of the Japanese, nationally and individually, has be come proverbial. To no other coun try lias there been such an increasing number of visitors from this land as to Japan. In return, Japanese have .come here in great numbers. They are welcome, socially and intellect ually, in all our colleges and Institu tions of- higher learning, in all our profession;! I and social bodies. The Japanese have won in a single gen eration the right to stand abreast of the foremost and most enlightened peoples of Europe and America: they have won on their own merits and by their own exertions tfie right to treat ment on a basis of full and frank equality. The overwhelming mass of our people cherish a lively regard and respect for the people of Japan, and in almost every quarter of the union the stranger from Japan is treated as he deserves; that is, he is treated as the stranger from any part of civ ilize! Europe is and deserves to be treated. But here and there e most unworthy feeling has manifested it self toward the Japanese the feeling that has been shown in shutting them out from the common schools in San Francisco, and in ;u titterings against them in one or two other places, be cause of their efficiency as workers. To shut them out from the public sc hools IS a wicked absurdity, when there are no first-class colleges in the land, including the universities and colleges of California, which do not gladly welcome Japanese students and on which Japanese students do not reflect credit. We have as much to learn from Japan as Japan has to learn from us; and no nation is fit to teach unless it is also willing to learn. Throughout Japan Americans are well treated, and any failure on the part of Americans at home to treat the Japanese with a like cour tesy and consideration Is by just so much a confession of inferiority in our civilisation.'' The Senate Proceedings. Washington, Dec t. President Roosevelt's annual message to con gress occupied the attention of the senate as soon as Jie opening pre liminaries were concluded today. This included the receipt of mes sages from the bouse reciting deaths of several of its members. The committee appointed to notify the president that congress ' was in session made its report through Sen ator Hale Of Maine. The reading of the message began at 12:11 o'clock. Many senators were in their seats and the message received careful at tention. Baron Rosen, the Russian ambas sador, accompanied by two members of his embassy staff, occupied the diplomatic gallcrj during the read ing of the message. The reading of the message was concluded at 2:47 o'clock.. Senator Ctillom immediately took the floor, but yielded to Senator Raynor of Maryland to introduce a resolution on the Japanese situation, which was read and went over until tomorrow. The same action was taken with ref erence to the Foraker and Penrose resolutions of yesterday relating to the discharged negro troops. ADAMS AND SAWYER MAY NOT BE HANGED FOR MUTINY Col. Harry Skinner, United States district attorney lor this district or Xor)h Carolina, left today for Wash ington to confer with President. Roosevelt and Attorney General Moody In reference to Adams and Sawyer, the two negro sailors con demned to death for mutiny and killing on the high seas aboard the schooner Harry Berwlnd. The last respite granted by the president was until December IS. This was the second time the men had been respited. Great pressure has been brought! to bear upon the president in this case, and it is said that it is very tin- j likely the prisoners will hang. Nu merous petitions have been present-1 ed to the president. A number ot ministers in Wilmington believed that the negroes were innocent vic tims of circumstances and should be pardoned. A very huge element of conservative citizens thought the sentences should be commuted to life Imprisonment. The seafaring population and the marine service men have held that they ought to hang as an example. Judge Purnell, In whose court at Wilmington the negroeB were tried, and District Attorney Skinner, who prosecuted them, join in the recom mendation that the sentences be commute,;. Col. Skinner's visit to Washington today is, in response to a request from the president. TOR LOWN RICH BOOTY TAKEN BY A RAIL BAN! (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Dee. 4. A- dispatch to the Record-Herald from Palestine, Texas, says: It was learned yesterday that the train robber probably wounded by the express messenger on a Cotton Belt train Saturday night near liylan siding, secured $110,000 from the messenger's safe. The Pacific express officials refuse any informa- tlon, claiming it is impossible at present to state the amount taken. I A glance at the messenger's book, 1 however, would tell the amount j stated above. About 580,000 it is I learned, was from the local treasury deuartment of the Cotton Belt at .Tyler and consigned to General Treasurer S. C. Johnston at St. Louis. UP BY POWDER Winston-Salem, w. c. Deo. 4. At Pino Ridge, twelve mites north of Mt. Airy Sunday afternoon, five men and a boy. whose names were not learned, were in a store kept by a Mr. Boyles when one of the men. who was smoking a cigarette, threw It in a keg, of pow der, which exploded, horribly burning every one in the store. The building and contents were destroyed. MONEY ON CALL TO TWENTY PER CENT. (By the Associated Press.) New York. Dec. 4. Money on call was quoted at 20 per cent., but fell to IB shortly before dhe o'clock. A MEMORIAL OF GRAXT GOES VP IN FLAMES. (Bv the Associated Press.) Yokohama. Dec. 4. The town hall in this city, a memorial on Gen eral Grant's visit t this city, woe ir.ir.iiv Ho! invert bv fire earlv todav. ) The cause of the Are is unknown. Heard He Musi Face Grate Charges in Connection With Her Disap pearance' He Found Her, mid Both Were Arrested by the Sec oael Man in the Case. (By Southern Bell Telephone.) Wilmington, X. :. Dec. 4. Claiming that sh" was cruelly and inhumanly treated at home by her mother, Lula Taylor, the sixteen year old daughter of Mrs. Efjle Taylor of Fayetteville, is resisting efforts of ths city officers here io return her to the cafe of her mother. Sonv two weeks since. I.r.la Taylor, a cotton mill operative of Fayetteville, secretly left her lioine, Otic Archie Turner of the same city, was charged with iic-r abduction. His trial resulted ,n acquittal. Subsequently Turner Ileal d that grawr charges were to be brought against him in connection with the disappearance of the girl. He left Fayetteville to find her, goin G-otd&horo, The search then fruitless. He arrived ii Sunday and found Miss boarding house near th Cotton Mills. Without process of law he compelled her. it is said, to leave tin house w it!i him. The two were arrested on a warrant sworn out by Marion Williams, who it is alleged, wishes to marry the girl, After the couple had been taken to the city hall, the Fayettevtlle officers were notified that the girl had been found. Turner was given a hearing for his part in the case and discharged. The girl was held pending the arrival of of ficers from Fayetteville. The man Williams was questioned, and It developed that he is a married man. His wife is said to be living near Fayetteville. Last night shortly before the arrival of the Fayetteville train Woodus Hel ium, attorney for Lula Taylor, had a habeas corpus issued commanding the mayor and the chief of police to have the girl in the superior court this morning. At a hearing before Judge Jones at tl o'clock today the case was continued until 7:30 tonight. LIKE A STORY OF THE DEAD ALIVE They Are Execoted for the Murder of Willie and Carrie Carter llirici, a Suicide, Pronounced BOTH MEN SWEAR Dead by a Physician THFY IflF IMfflCFIIT IIILI II II I- II1IIUUUIII Rawlings' Wife- and Daughters Visit Him in His Cell, But Are Not Present at the Execution A Brief History of the Crime for Which the Two Men Have Met Death on the Scaffold The Feud Over Boundaries, the Visit to the Car t.T Home and the Flash of Guns in the Darkness. LIVES TWELVE HOURS Two Hours After the Physician's Dictum the Supposed Dead Man Called for Water, Frightening Landlady Senses. Almost Out of Her (By the Associated Press.) Valdosta, Ga Dec. 4. J. G. Rawl ings and Alf Moore, a negro, were (By the Associated Press.) Chicago, Dec. Victor Ulrlei, who shot himself yesterday, died to day, surviving twelve hours after he 1 .1 ... I 1.1, . ,.;,, hanged here today for the murder sucan. He shot himself in the tern-1 Die. the bullet going through his of Willie and Carrie Carter in Juty, first to jsivun. proved j Despondent because of a love af- Wllmington j fair, Ulricl after barring his door Turner in a attempted to end his life. The shot Wilmington WM heard by Mr!1 Rose Berblinger, in whose home lie roomed, and a 1905. Both stepped upon the scaf fold without a tremor, they stood on the trap together and fell together. Rawlings in his last statement de clared that he had told the truth doctor was called. j and that his sons had no connection The doctor, Mrs. Berblinger as- wjth the crime. Moore also declared sertod, seized the apparently dying that he had told the truth, again in man, and after dragging him across sj6ting that Milton Rawlings had the room, probed the wound with fired the fatal shots. his fingers and asserted that the man was beyontl relief. Mrs. Rawlings and her two daugh ters visited the husband and father The physician departed, and the during the morning. They remained policemen returned to their station. jn the jail but did not witness the Mrs. Berblinger closed the door of execution. the room and went about her work. sketch of the Crime. She was terrified nearly two hours Tne crjme for which J. C. Rawlings later when she heard a moan. Run- and Alf Moore were hanged today pre ning to the door she threw It open sented unusual features. J. G. Raw- and saw Ulrici moving his hands lings and W. L. Carter were neighbors and calling for water. twelve miles from here. Both were Screaming with terror, Mrs. Berb-! Baptist ministers. Several years ago a , . , ,, , dispute arose as to the line between moned physicians, the police were again notified, and Ulrici was hur ried to Mercy Hospital, where ar operation was performed. JUDGE PURNELL ON TENANT ACT TO BAR NEGROES Overlooked Statutes FROM THE ARMY Believes N. C. Legislature ! A Bill introduced by Slayden of Texas THE I3TH AMENDMENT A DANGEROUS ELEMENT If Judge Requires Person Who Re ceived Advances and Failed to Live Vp to Contract to Work for Party Making Such Advances, It Would lie a Case of Peonage. In his charge to the grand jury in the United States court this morning Judge Purnell referred to the land lord and tenant act passed by the last legislature, and said he believed the legislature overlooked the statutes when they passed such an act. Judge Purnell led up to the matter by say ing that he was not going to talk about the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, which had been torn to pieces so by the courts that, it amounted to little or nothing, but he was going to speak of the thirteenth amendment, the amendment which freed the slaves, and which refers to involuntary serv itude. His charge was as to peonage. At first, ho said, this was thought to apply only to the extreme south west, that being where peonage was largely practiced, but It was event ually held to embrace the entire coun try. He mentioned a law passed a few years since by the Georgia legis lature, and which was held to be un constitutional when carried up to the supreme court of the United States. It was here that Judge Purnell re ferred to the landlord and tenant act passed by the legislature of 1903. He said If a magistrate or judge re quired some person who had received advances upon agreeing to do certain (Continued on Fifth Page.) So He- Declares the Xegi'o to Be ill an Explanation of His Bill He Refers to the Twenty-fifth infan try as Having Shown Racial Hos tility. (Bv tin' Associated Tress.) Washington, D. C. Dec. 4. Rep resentative Sladen,,of Texas, today introduced a bill which provides that, "On or before the thirteenth day of June, 1907, all enlisted men of the army who are negroes or of negro descent shall he discharged from the service of the United Slates and thereafter no negro or person of negro descent shall be en llsted or employed in the army of the I'niled States." In explaining his hill Mr. Slayden said: "The bill speaks for itself. It was not introduced for buncombe. My purpose is to give the congress of the United States an opportunity to purge the army of an admittedly dangerous element. To say that the negroes are brave is not an argu ment against this measure. Many men have been brave. In fact most men are in the matter of fighting. The Commanche and Sioux Indians are as brave as men can be, but no one would seriously suggest that we ultimately have regiments of them, put guns in their hands, and station them in companies of white troops toward whom they entertain inher ent race hostility. The 25th infan try is manifestly imbued with the same race hostility, and events have shown It to be quite as dangerous as the Sioux or Commanche would be." their respective farms. Litigation and bad blood resulted. Carter was wound ed by a shot from ambush, and had Rawlings arrested on the charge of at tempted murder. A few days, later, on June 13, 1905, a night attack was made on the Carter home. " Tyo of the children, Willie and Carrie Carter were shot just outside the house, and shots were fired without ef fect at Carter and his wife and another daughter. The wounded boy managed to drag himself to the house and inform his parents that Milton and Jesse Raw I lings had shot him. He died the next day. After shooting the children the at tacking party attempted to set fire to the house, but were fired upon and driven off without further casualties. A coroner's jury found that the crime had been committed by Milton and Jes se Rawlings and Alt Moore, a negro. The latter confessed, telling of a plot which had been planned by the elder RawiingS for the murder of the entire Carter family and the burning of their house. J. It. Rawlings, the elder, took no im mediate part in the crime, having gone to Valdosta to divert suspicion. The trial, which lasted two weeks, result ed in a verdict of death for the elder Rawlings, his sons Milton and Jesse and Alf Moore. A third son, Leonard Rawlings, was given c. life sentence ns an accomplice. Then began a fight for life. Every le gal expedient has been reaorted to. causing the day of execution to be postponed from time to time as each successive temporary advantage, was gained by the defense. The verdicts in the case went to the higher court, then to the United States supreme court, then to the state su preme court on an extraordinary mo tion and then to the board of pardons. The verdict below has been sustained in each Instance. Governor Terrell's refusal on Monday to interfere with the execution of the death sentence to day destroyed the last hope of escaping the full penalty of the law. The cases of the two Rawlings boys, who are un der sentence to be hanged Friday, will come before the board of pardons Thursday. AMERICAN WOOLEN INCREASES CAPITAL (By the Associated Press.) Trenton, N. J., Dec. 4. The Amer ican Woolen Company today filed papers with the secretary of state in creasing its capital stock from $65, 000,000 to $75,000,000 by adding $10,000,000 to its present Issue Of $-5,000,000 of preferred stock.
The Raleigh Times (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 4, 1906, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75