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THE RALEIG
YENING TIME
VOLUME 30.
RALEIGH, N." C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1908
PRICE 5 CENTS.
HOT SPEECH ON
THE TARIFF BY
SEN
BEVERIDGE
What The Producers of Ainer'
ica Are Demanding
ADVOCATES Bill FOR
A TARIFF COMMISSION
Pennsylvania Senator Shells the
Dingley Schedules mid Presents
Pacts to Support His Assertion
That America's Tariff Must be
Adapted to Trade Needs If Vncie
Sam is to Gain Ascendency on the
Commercial Seas He Must (Jo It
-'-"' Strong on Common Sense Tariff
Legislation, Says the Senator.
(By Leased Wire 'to The Times.)
Washington, Feb. 5 Addressing
the senate this afternoon in a force
ful speech in behalf of his bill for
tariff commission. Senator Albert J.
Beveridge arraigned the existing
Dingley schedules in severe terms,
He presented facts to support his as
sertion that America's tariff iuust.be
adapted to trade needs and that com
mon sense must be applied K this
country is to succeed in the world
wide contest for commerce. Senator
Beveridge declared this country must
have more foreign trade.
"American producers demand," he
said, ''that the doors of other na
tlons that are open to their rivals ho
longer be closed to them."
A maximum and minimum tariff
was strongly advocated by the sena
tor from Indiana. By this plan Ger
man producers are selling more
goods abroad, he asserted, than any
other nation.
The classifications made by the
treasury department under the tariff
law were sharply arraigned by Sena
tor Beveridge. He declared nearly
all our classifications wcro a genera
tion old and not one was systematic
accurate, and up-to-date. Since -the
present law was enacted, ho do
clared, there had been (SO 0,0 00 dis
putes. -over classifications that had
gone to the board of general super
visors and part of them from there
to the courts. He attacked the pres
ent tariff law for want of plainness
,in classifications. V
'Compared with the scientific,
clear, accurate classification of the
German schedules," ho said, "our
classifications are confused, uncer
tain, chaotic. The German classifi
cation reduces confusion and doubt
to the minimum. Our classification
raises confusion and doubt to the
maximum."
Startling differences existed in the
tariff bill that Mr. Dingley reported
to the . house and tho Aldrlch bill
which was reported to the house ac
cording to Senator Beveridge and he
presented Illustrations showing thnt
such differences amounted in some
cases to 50 per cent. This wide dis
crepancy he held due to the lack of
such Informatl6n in the hands of con
gress as would be furnished It If the
tariff situation had been studied by
a competent body of experts.
PUBLIC
PRINTER
TILLING
ONCE
MOR
E
BOUNCED
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, D. C, Feb. 6. The sus
pension of Charles Stlllings of Bos
ton, public printer by President Roose
veit today, and the appointment of W.
n. Rossi ter, chief clerk of the census
bureau, a printing expert, to , take
clini go pending further action In' the
cise of Stlllings, are clear indications
thnt Stlllings' removal is at hand.
Ti'e Havenner report, showing an in
crease In the cost of printing, which
u made public In these dispatches.
last Monday, nnd the present congres
sional investigation into the audit sys
tem '.'Installed by StilllpgH, showing a
con'med condition of affairs if noth
ing worse, have convinced the presl-
cnl, it is said, that a change must be
mack quickly. Moreover, Stilllngs ha-
adopted rules and regulations tiliit
have offended the entire labor. element
and his retention would bo considered
affront to labor' in general. Hon.
Charles B. Landis of Indiana, chair
man, of the committee conducting Ih
p'-ejent Inquiry, into the audit system.
announced today after a long confer
ence with the president on the subject
that "Stlllings is Impossible. Ho will
(Continued on Pace Two.)
THE STORY OF A jTHAW'S
FIGHT FOR LIFE! GETS
SISTER
DIVORCE
Thrilling Tale ol How a Ship's Coynlcss 01 Yarmcuth Wen
Crew Woa Aiid Lost ' ! Her Suit This Afternoon
BIG ICE GORGE
STOPSALLSHIPS
AND COMMERCE
IFTEEN SAVED; 32&ST' EN&USIi COURT'S ORDER
Battled fur Thirty-six Honrs With The Court Grants the
the Flumes The Men, Half mediately by Default,
Starved and Xoiivly Frozen, Con
tinued the Straggle to Save These
Aboard a. Shh) Loaded 'With a
Cargo Lurnely Composed of Com--
Imstilile Material Capt. Finch's
Narrative of a Hsilr-Liftinjt Sea
Horror.
(By Leased. Wire to The Times.) ;
Boston, Mass., Feb. 5. With the ": ar
rival of the .-'White Star; liner Cymric
at her pier In Chaileatown early today
were related the first series of
Satisfactory Arrangement Between
Paities to Suit In I'luin I'nited
Slates This .Menus that Old Yar
mouth Has lienisuided and Will Re
ceive n Big IMle. of the Thaw
Mo'ney Controlled by the Countess.
(By Leased Wire to The Times )
Charleroi, Pa., Feb. 5. Ice, gorged
nearly twenty-five feet at lock No,
on the Monongahela River, near here
threatens to destroy six steamboats
and damage other craft. The gorge
extends three miles.
! Word has been sent to steamers
Divorce "Ini- down the river and upon their arrival
Because of an eIIOrl " De maue to get tne ooais
out of Immediate danger.
ROTTEN
HOSE
COSTS LIVES OF
TWO FIREMEN
? Inadequate Water Supply Is
Cause of Great Loss
(By Cable to The Times)
London, Jan. 5 '(Bulletin)- Tho
countess was this afternoon formally,
granted the divorce she has been
ti1P. suing tor in the English court, r-..
fearful fight for life which took place;-..: :,.-.'
aboard the St. Cutlibort, which was Old Rake Gets Mle of Thaw Money,
Saving the Winifnil's Passengers.-'
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Aniangansett, L. I., Feb. 5. Tugs
today reached the disabled British
steamer Winifred, from which fifteen
passengers were taken off early this
morning, by life savers and there is
little doubt now but that the steamer
will be saved. The ' passengers ; who
were Saved after the' vessel had dragg
ed her anchor for two miles and seem
ed on tho point of going on the rocks,
is now en route to Now York. The
tugs will tow the steamer to New York
for repairs.
OVER QUARTER MILLION
BURNED THIS MORNING
burned at sea and the daring rescues ,
of tlv crew of the big liner. i
; Many of the survivors of tho "Ill-fat-'
ed steamer are still in bud shape, suf-
fcrlng from burns and other injuries
and . were rushed to I lie hospitals an
toon na -llicy landed. Carefully wrapp
ed in blankets they were carried down
the gangway and placed In (ho wait-.,
big -ambulances. The injured men
! themselves Could not give even d mild
account of their sufferings fighting'
both flame and storm. Half of them
did not know what they were doing
and that more were not lost during
the mad fight to escape the blazing
storm-tossed furnace was due to the
stern methods emnloved bv the can-
Immense Buildings and Equipment tajn of tne st. Cuthbert, who held the
Consumed In Three Hours This men back at the point of a revolver.
For thirty-six hours the -men, bat
tled with the flames, half Frozen by
Of Big City of Trenton Called Out. .' tne Severe gale and starved, h iving
Reported" Thnt Three Firemen Are nothing to eat but a few cold-boiled
i pouiuies. i lie i. vuuiueii u lu.nuru
with matches, fusel oil and other com
FOUR BLOCKS BURN?
Great Steel Wire And Cable
Plants Destroyed Today
Morning Whole Fire Department'
(Bv Cable to The Times) I . , -' --
London, Feb. 5 The Countess of.-.'.. . ' .-,'.'..'.., :.,'i
rrit,;T?tSit-fAS HERO IN THE WAVES
day ia the divorce court before Sir .
I-irrell Barnes, but it was announced i'-. - ' ',;.'. : ..' . ..'
before the proceedings that a settle-' n, -,',':
ment had been arrived at and that WRGIl 111(1 DOIUlDiOIl MM
the countess would ne auowcu ro get
her ..-divorce immediately by default.
The proceedings therefore were
merely formal, and for the purpose
of laying; legal foundation for the
court's decree. .
The countess and the earl signed
the compact fixing the terms of set
tlement before the court opened'. The
earl agreed not to defend the suit.
It is be lieved that tne countess agreed
to a financial arrangement saiisfac
Cut Down Sctoner
Three Lives Lost and Others Barely
Escaped Death Off Virginia Coast.
The Jefferson Cut Down and Sub
merges the Schooner Emelie Rird-
' sail.; ' '.....-
The Fall of a Great Safe Wrecked
the Interior of a Five-Story Build
ing After the Flames Hud Gained
Headway -A Score of Firemen
Badly Hurt and Two Are Killed
Outright Particulars of a Great
Conflagration in New York City
This ; Morning After Three
Alarms Firemen Were Still Jug
gling With Frozen Hydrants und
Rotten Host Valuable Time
Wasted $250,000 Consumed.
i
Buried in the Debris.
(By Leased Wire to The '.Time.?.).
Trenton, N; J., Feb. 5. The great
steel wire and cable plant of John
A. Roebllngs Sons Company, which
occupied four square blocks
these fed food to the
tory to Yarmouth.
This probably means a settlement
of a big sum upon the earl. It Is
probable that, the trustees of the
Thaw estate in Pittsburg have con-
caught fire in one of Its main build-
bustibles and
Captain Narrates. Hai.-Hftlua-vPea sc"fl ,(), U!e "etnent.
Horror.
Captain .Finch, of the Cymric, told
a thrilllne- and detailed storv of the
here, sea horror and was loud in his praises
of the bravery of his men, who, time
and again, risked their lives by belns
ings at 0:10 a. m. today and in threa (..shcd ,:,,tnst th0 t,rnlnf? vessel
hours three of the
been destroyed and
plant, was threatened
buildings had jThe. fire. Captain Finch said, was dis-
most of the1
with destnic-1
covered by 1. J. .-Toughy, a second of
ficer of the doomed vessel, -who was on
watch about 3 o'clock Sunday morning
tion. land ho immediately untitled Captain
The whole fire department of Lewis: The -hitter rushed to the deck
Trenton was called out and tried to and was scorched by the flames, which
hem the fire in. but the latest word ."hot through- one of 'the. ventilators as
c., iiw, hnmhi. nin la thnt the he imi'Sed. Hardly had re reached the
fire Is putirely beyond control.
It is reported that three firemen
have been buriad beneath the ruins
of one of the burned buildings.
The flames started in the rope
shop of the plant.
The flames spread so swiftly
through the plant that the whole
building was afire before tho fire
men could get into action.
The two buildings adjoining were
soon a mass of seething flames. : ;
BnildiiiKs Wrecked By Dynainit.
Phlladslphia, Pa., Feb. 5. The
explosion of several tons of eellte, a
high grade powder, at the Repauno
Powder Works, - Gibbstown, N.-:Y.,.
about 4 o'clock this hiornlug wreck
ed one building and caused a loss
of $6,000. People residing in Ger
mantown, a suburb of Philadelphia,
17 miles distant, were awakened and
glass was broken for miles around
No lives were lost, and so far as
known no one was Injured.
The plant Is owned by the Du
Continued om Second Page.)
deck when there was a series ot ex
plosions In hatches Nos. 1 and All
hands were called to deck, but some
of the men who were forward at the
time-, were, unable to reach the after
part of the steamer as the forepart
was a mass of flumes.
Every effort was made to quell the
(Continued on Second Page.)
IIERE'STHESHOT
THAT WILL STOP
NAVAL CRITICS
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, D. C, Feb. 6. The re
port of Admiral Converse, in defenso
of the construction of the navy lias
been completed and Is ready for sub
mission to President Roosevelt. Hav
ing Veen prepared by the admiral, with
the view of publication, it probably
will bo given out by President Roose
velt to silence once and for ell the na
val critics, both within and without
the fold.
F
RANK
MiSEY
SAYS R00 SEVELT
AGAIN SURE
. (By Leased Wire to Tho Times.)
Washington. Feb. 5--Mr. Frank
A Munsey will say in the Washing
ton Times today:
"Ah analysis of the political situa
tion today, and a careful estimate of
the personal and running strength of
the various candidates In the presl
dentlal race, point emphatically to
TAGGART
YS
The whole of England, and more
particularly the members of the Brit
ish peerage .were as vitally interested
in the suit of the countess as" Ameri
cans, wero in the trial of her brother,
Harry K. Thaw, for the murder of
Stanford While.
It is regarded here as somewhat of
a sirango coincidence that no sooner
should Harry be acquitted of the
charge of murder and sent to a gov-
eminent asylum for the Insane than
the sister's suit, quite as sensational,
in a different sense, should be begun.
It was reported before the begin
ning of the Countess of Yarmouth';-,
suit for annulment, that the earl had
intimated through his attorneys that
ho would bo willing not to contest
the action if his wife would settle
upon him what he considered an ade
quate sum of money from her annual
income of ..$200,000 a year.
(T.y Leased Wire to The Times.)
Now York, . Feb. 5. Plunging
through White-capped swells in the
face of a piping and frosty north
wester, the Old Dominion liner Jeffer
son, in from Norfolk, cut, down the
old threc-unftUed schooner Ernie E.
Birdsall off the upper Virginia coast,
about ten miles northeast of Winter
Quarter Shoal lightship.
Mate Herbert M. Kobinson of Ma
chlasport, Me., and two of the crew of
the schooner lost their lives and Gap
tain Joseph L. . Bletta and three other
survivors owe their salvation largely
to' the persistent pluck of second offi
cer Frederick Bang, of the Jefferson,
who spent more than an hour In the
freezing sea and on .the .main top of
the half submerged schooner.
WAR CHIF.F WAS THE
i;XATOR'S GRANDFATHER;'-'
v'-..MEI)AL BY JEFFERSON.
TARIFF WILL
BETHE ISSUE
ATLANTA JUDGE
SAYS THAW WILL
BE LIBERATED
(By Leased Wire to The Tlnits.)
Washington, D. C, Feb. 5. Sena
tor Owen, of Oklahoma, called at
the whit. house this morning to
i show the president a large silver
medal that was presented by Presi
: dont Jefferson to his grandfather in
I ISIS. Around the rim is inscribed
"Msdal of peace and friendship pre
sented by Thomas Jefferson to
Thomas Chisholm, last of the Chero
kee Heriditary War Chiefs, 1S0S."
OCR TORPEDO FLOTILLA '
MAKES RECORD BI N.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New-York, Feb. 5. Rotten hose and
inadequate water supply cost tho lives
of two firemen, resulted in the serious
injury of twenty others and entailed
a property loss of over $250,000 in a Are
which completely destroyed the inte
rior of the five story building at 43
and 45 Worth street, late yesterday
afternoon.
The fall of a great safe wrecked the
interior of the building after the flames
had gained headway and fourteen
firemen Were caught in the debris. By
the heroic work of the firemen, all of
these, except one were rescued from
the burning building and taken to hos
pitals. Frank E. Gllngton, of truck company
No. 10, and John Conlln, fireman of en
gine No. 4, were the men who perish
ed In the burning debris. Efforts to
reach their bodies were unavailing.
Captain Andrew Sweet, who is in a
serious condition from Internal injur
ies, will probably die.
Just as the fireman began to fight
tr.e flames the rotten hose began to
burst. Almost as soon as the water
was turned on, a line of hose under
neath the Sixth Avenue elevated road
buist and the water shot up on the
structure, drenching the trains as they
pessed. A few seconds later another
hue of rotten hose burst in Worth
street and the stream quickly became
n torrent of icey water, which not only
Impeded the work of the firemen, but
cai;sed intense suffering in their cf
foits to check tho flames.
For fully fifteen minutes after the
engines responded to the three alarms
the firemen were struggling with the
frozen hydrants and not a stream of
v uter could be turned against the
bii'dding. In the: meantime the flames
.allied great headway. To add to this
troubles -the-cable' In one of the ele
vators burned and six girls had to
light their way dowii the smoke-filled
stairways.
Several of them fell fainting In the
i-reet ns soon as they reached the
rjieii air.
(By leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, Feb. E.Tho torpedo
Flotilla made a record run from
Buenos Ayres to Punta Arenas, ac
cording to a cablegram received at
the navy department from Admiral
Evans. In order to make sure of
catching up with the battleship fleet
tuo Flotilla 1 of t Buenos Ayrea one
day ahead of its schedule and arrived
(By Leased Wire to The Tim-,.) ; ' . theooln-
Chicago, Feb. 5. William H. Taft ,on of jlldKe H. D. D. Twiggs, one
and William J. Bryan are to bo the 0f the south's most credited criminal
candidates for tlie presidency on the lawyers, Harry Thaw will be re
same platform, Is the view of leased from the Matteawan Asylum
Thomas Taggart, chairman of the in a short time. Judge Twlgg has nt Punta Arenas four days ahead.
democratic national committee, Tho followed the famous case with the
whole Issue at the coming campaign eye and mind ot an expert, i
will be to his mind, the tariff. Voters "The first trial was mismanaged
are to be put to a choice between by Mr. Delmas," said Judge Twiggs,
Mr. Bryan's oratory and Secretary j "and his plea of dementia Ameri
Taft's avoirdupois. cana Injured his cause. He tried to
As Mr. Taggart regards the pres- Introduce evidence to show that
ent situation, Secretary Taft and Thaw was insane and pleaded the
Mr, Bryan are the certain nominees case the other way. The result was
of their respective parties. It Is his bewilderment for the jury,
belief that President Roosevelt will, "Llttloion took the only course
absolutely, control the coming Chi- opan. He introduced evidence to
cago convention,, which means Tufft show hereditary insanity and adrolt
as the candidate. Mr. Bryan, he ly tried to show that Thaw was not
says, Is likely to be the only candi- Insane now. Justice Bowling was
date before the Denver convention, necessarily compelled to send Thaw
Jap. Diet Increases Tuxes.
. ; (Special Cable tc The Times.)
Tokio, Feb. 4-By a majority the
government today succeeded In pass
ing a bill In the Diet increasing the
taxes on sugar, sage, alcohol, beer
and kerosene.
The fleet. will be conveyed
through tho remainder of the straits
or a part of th-3 way.
NOW WATCH THE
OYSTER
SOAR
MRS. LOGAN NOMINATED
(By Leased Wire to The Times,)
to the asylum, for if ho was subject .teamor. 'report' the worst' freeze of
, to inese paroxysms ne was a can- thn ,..ntpr i ihn h(.nnPpWi. nv
I'NCLE JOB FOR PRESIDENT, garous person to be at large. The with Ice formations extending from
jresult will be that Thaw Will be re-jsandy Point to the Susquehanna. At
Washington, D. C, Feb. B. Speaker tttlned until decency permits his re-! the head of the bay tho ice has ser
Cannon was placed In nomination by lease. His attorneys will make a 'urly impeded traffic. Sailing vessels
Mrs. John A. Logan at an informal re-; vigorous effort to free him. Thera havo bad to secure osststance of tugs,
will - be an examination by experts
I On the eastern shore Ico has massed
111 f i i j i i, j n union of the Illinois state association
win uv nruuiuiuMsu iu buiib ui uiin- ii.t mum. n i. t- .i... " "i -i'' , ,,j ,. reu. . i i
... ... I1l lUSIIl. 1111 UllllU JUC UV VIIC . H.lll K Hln., ll ! HCU U, lldlllU, A 1113 UfBKVl IJllll-
self. And ... his re-nomlnatlon wlirho nr h. ov .m . ran and there will be plenty of alienists . ,,.,,in,(H ..r. .,,1
mean his re-election by a majority : we need have no fear of a democratic who wU1 tender an opirtlon that he bo 8carce 0I1 lhc market until there is
of matchless dimensions. ' I president at the next election. ls not now insane." , a thaw. 1
GEN.STDESSEL
SPEEDY DEATH
(By Cable to The Times.)
1 Berlin, Feb. 5 A dispatch to a
news agency from St. Petersburg
says that General Stoesscl has been
sentenced to die for his action In
surrendering Port Arthur.
The Court Proceedings.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 5 The crown
prosecutor In winding up the court
martial of General Stoessel and oth
ers on trial for tho surrender of Port
Arthur, demanded that Generals
Stoessel, Rouss, and Fock be sen
tenced to death and that General
Smirnoff bo sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment In a fortress. .