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-J ii.f ' .' Weather, Washington, Feb. 24 Forecast for North Carolina tonight and Thurs day: Fair tonight, preceded by rain in eastern portion; colder. j ESTABLISHED 1876. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEB 24, 1909. PRICE 5 CENTS SECOND. EDITION SEMTOR ICCKHMIT Would Amend BIow-Bassett Bill by Substituting His Own For It CAUSES CONTROVERSY Hon. Whitehead Klutt Again Pre sides Over Deliberations of Senate Today Several Petitions Intro duced Asking. For Repeal of the Homestead Law Many Bills Are Introduced and the End is Not in Sight Great Number of Local 15111s Come Up Again For Discus sion Today Legislators Are Very Busy and Are Rushing Matters. The senate was called to order by Hon. Whitehead Kluttz, president pro tem, at 10 o'clock, and Rev. F. M. Shamburger led In prayer. The journal committee reported no corrections and standing 'Commit tees reported number of bills. New Hills Today. New bills and petitions were in troduced as follows: Senator Kluttz: A petition from merchants and business men of Salts bury, relative to homestead exemp tion laws. Constitutional Amend ment. . Senator .Travis: .-.-.A' petition rela tive to married women's law. Constl fiti'Mi:'! Amendment. S. B. 1171, Senator Nlmocks: For relief of certain pupils of a school district In Cumberland. Education. S. B. 1172, Senator Morton: To es tablish aVecorder's court for Wash ington county. Calendar. .Senator. Ray: - Petition from citi zens of Henderson county relative to homestead law. Senator Fry: A petition from 38th district, relative to homestead. Senators Barringer and Pharr in troduced petitions to the same effect. 8. B. 1173, Senator Powell: To provide for election for bond issue in town of Henderson. Calendar. S. B. 1174, Senator Elliott: To protect dogs In Catawba. Game Law. S. B. 1175, Senator Hoiden (by re quest): To Increase salary of assist ant librarian of supreme coiyt. S.B. 1176,. Senator Love: To au thorize aldermen of Gustoula to sell certain property. Calendar. S. B. 1177, Senator Manning by request) : To require attorneys receiv ing contingent fees to be responsible for costs In certain cases. Judiciary. S. B. 1178, Senator Dockery: To empower certain towns of Lee coun ty to condemn lands for sewerage purposes. Counties, Cities and Towns. ". S. B.4179, Senator Gay: To amend section 2775, Revisal, relative to fees of coroner. Revisal. S. B. 1180, Senator Gay: To amend law relative to tax collecting In Northampton and Halifax. Re visal. - S. B. 1181, Senator Mills: To pro tect fish In Rutherford. Fish and Fisheries. ' 8. B. 1181, Senator Dockery (by request): An act relative to holding courts In Lee. Judicial Districts. S. B. 1182, Senator Scott: To vali date certain probates. Judiciary. 8. B. 1183, Senator Spence: For relief of C. F. Siler, ex-Confederate soldier. Pensions. X' "-. S. B, 1184,. Senator Spence: To appoint a member of board of educa tion of Randolph. Education. S. B.' 1187, Senator Latham: To fix compensation, of county commis sioners of Beaufort. Calendar. 8. B. 1186, Senator Blow: An act relative to dissolution of corpora tions. Judiciary. . 8. B. 1215, 8enator Starbuck: An act relative to discipline among con victs on the county roads of Forsyth. Penal Institutions. 8. B. 1216, Senator Starbuck: To allow expenditure of county road fund of Forsyth in cities and towns. Calendar. ., y -';.'. , Third' Reading. Tbe following bills passed their final reading: S. B. To drain Clark's Creek and Its lowlands, Lincoln county. 8. B. To amend charter of Golds boro. .'" ; ' ' . "'.' H. B. To Improve roads of Mt. Gllead township, Montgomery county. H. B.' To amend law relative to city schools Of Washington. H. B7- To establish graded school In Chapel Hill? ... ; . 8. B. To allow levy of a special tax In -Highlands.; :X ","'.'' ; H. By To . Incorporate ' Carolina Power and Transportation Company. H. 5, - To Incorporate Qlonwogd,, H. B. To Incorporate the town of Richfield. H. B. To provide totter working of roads In Moore. H. B. To amend law relative to bond issue in New Hanover. H. B. To authorize bond issue in Forest City. H. B. To authorize Brunswick to levy special tax. H. B. To provide for working roads in Graham county. H, B. To amend charter of Mt. Airy. - H. B. To incorporate Nebo, Mc Dowell county. H. B. To regulate levy of special tax In Rutherford. H. B. To improve public roads of Colly township, Bladen. H. R. A resolution of thanks to Mr. John Blue and Mr. J. W. Tufts, of Pinehurst for treatment of Joint committee sent to Montrose. S. B. To regulate setting traps in Colly township, Bladen. Educational Bill. - This bill which has been prepared by Senator Blow was read and ex plained by sections. The bill pro vides for the levy of a special tax on every school district of the state If needed to run a four months' school and also to provide for an equitable and just distribution of the state funds. for schools. The bill passed Its second reading. The following passed their final reading: 8. B. Abolish a term of court In Northampton. V ,; ! H. B.v For-rellef of surveyors in Scotland.. H. B. Relative to validation of a certain school tax election in Madi son. H. B. To amend law as to fishing In Onslow. S. B. To clrange law as to court calendar in Scotland. The Anti-trust Bill. ... . Senator lockhart took a hew movo on the opponents of his bill today at 12 o'clock, by offering as an amend (Continued on Paga Two.) NATIONAL CLUB CHANGES HANDS (By Leased Wire to The Times) Philadelphia, Feb. 24 At noon to day the Philadelphia National League baseball club passes Into the owner ship and control of James P. Mc Nichol and Israel W. Durham. All indications point to the retire men of William J. Shetsllne from active participation in the affairs of the club, ether as its president or as an employe, and the continuance of the team's supervision in the hands of William Murray, the present man ager. . STEEL CORPORATION ISSUES QUOTATIONS (By Leased Wire to The Times.) New York, Feb. 24. The United , States Steel Corporation today Issued the first official quotations In the re cent cut In all kinds of steel and the establishment of an open market In that trade. " Steel shapes were reduced K a ton and steel bars $4 a tonl Shapes are 'quoted at $130, plates at 1130 and steel bars at I 120. These prices are lower than they have yet been, quoted at by ' independent steel manufacturers and It was the opinion among equipment com Ipanles.nnd other concerns using steel 'today that these quotations were pret ty close to the bottom prices; It is expected that ' the steel trust will re duce steel pipes about $10 a ton. MIAN MURDERED; HAN TOOK CARBOLIC AGIO . (iiy Leased Wire to The Times.) Boston, Mass., : Feb. 24. A woman whose name1 is believed to have been McDonald, was shot and Instantly kill ed early today in the apartment house at 17 Cherry street, South-end. " A man in the same apartment, who, the police believe did the shooting, took carboUo acid and was ruabed to the city hospital. In a dying condition. An aged woman In the house was taken Into custody by the police as a witness. The tragedy took place In a rear room on th flwt floor of JUw house.' PROSECUTION PRESENTS H FULL CAREER ttnei Cooper's Entire Life Being Laid Bare to the Jury STRENUOUS OBJECTIONS Aged Wliit'-Haiittl Defendant Re ' snnies the Stand This Morning and Gives An Account of the Killing of .'.'..earmark Says Carmack Hid Be hind Mrs. Eastman With Pistol Drawn Only Five Shots Fired and Carmack Shot Two Colonel Coop er Turned Over to the State at 9:50 O'clock For Cross-exninlnu- ... tlon. ' (By Leased Wire to The Times) Criminal Court Room, Nashville, .Tepn., Feb. 24 In the presence of a packed court-room Colonel Cooper resumed the stand this morning and gave an account of the killing of Sen ator Edward W. Carmack. He said he was crossing Union street when I his son Robin nervously grasped his 'arm and sought to hurry him on. ' Instinctively I looked and saw Car mack." Colonel Cooper Ba id the impulse seized him to go over and talk to j Carmack; he would relieve the dis tressing situation that was worrying I his family so much. The colonel said he went across the street and ac costed Carmack on the sidewalk. The latter looked up and instantly reached for his weapon. Ap Carmack did so he (Carmack) hid behind 'Mrs1. East man and the witnessed called,' telling him ho was a "damned coward" for getting behind a woman with a pis tol drawn. Carmack sprang behind the posts. Robin sprang between them and Carmack fired 'tw Ice. When the witness saw Carmack shooting at Robin he drew his pistol, but did not fire it. Only five shots were fired and Carmack shot the first two. They were louder than the report of Rob in's pistol. The witness then went on to the Infirmary with his "son who was wounded. At 9:50 Colonel Cooper was turned over to the state for cross-examination by Captain Fitzhugh of the coun sel for the state. Captain Fitzhugh I had in front of him an immense pile of documents and records and he went into them at once. : The first question asked Colonel Cooper was who were his bondsmen in 1870 when he was clerk and master of chancery court of Maurv county. A certified copy of the bonds . were shown his and he 'Identified the bondsmen. Next a bill Alajl seminal Vi i in 11-o o it Vwt ' n nn urhlnll pro-confesso had been marked. Counsel for the defense objected strenuously to this evidence, claiming it was too remote and was irrelevant. Captain Fitzhugh answered that It was competent all right and was lead ing up to the matter of the credibility of Colonel Cooper. It seems that the state will present the entire career of Colonel Cooper to the Jury from the way they have started. A sensation was sprung this morn ing when following objections of the defense to questions being asked by the state and the jury retired. The state charged that they would prove Colonel Cooper had been a de faulter In Maury county In the sum of (100,000, and had all along been guilty of various acts of moral tur pldltude down to the present time, and that the state would prove these things. ''' - Captain Fitzhugh, for the state, gave notice that the state would chal lenge the bona fide nature of Colonel (Cooper's justification for the killing on account of outraged honor; . that tbe state would .show that there had been things brought up against Col onel Cooper during his long life that were ten thousand times worse than the trifling editorials written by Car mack and that Colonel Cooper had not seen fit to make resentment In those matters. Captain Fitzhugh, for the state, said he would show another motive for the killing than outraged honor. A long wrangle ensued along here between the opposing sides, the de 'fense claiming the matters were too j remote. . , v. , "- J The iate said the defense bad gone DBCK as iar as uie war ana wouia urge the war records to make good impressions on .the jury and the state certainly had a right to go back soma I Judge Hart, without deciding as 1 Y ; -(Ctratloea on Pn Two.) HEARING BILLS 10 PREVENT THE DEALSIN FUTURES Committee- on Agriculture Begins Jearing on Bills to Prevent Deals MANY FARMERS PRESENT House Committee on Agriculture To day (Began . Hearing on Biljs to Prevent Dealing in Futures on Ag ricultural Products, Such as Corn, Wheat, Cotton, Etc. President Barrett,; of Georgia, and State : President Neill, of Texas, of the Farmers'. Union, Respectively,, Were Before the Committee Speeches Were .Made in Behalf of the Bills. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington, Feb. 24 The house committee on agriculture today be gan the hearing of uills to prevent the dealing In futures on agricultural products, such as corn, wheat, cotton, etc. Representatives of the National Farmers' Union, including President Barrett, of Georgia, and State Presi dent Neill, of Texas, were before the committee. Representatives Henry and Smith, of Texas, made brief statements, explaining the position of the bills they have introduced on this subject. ; ' The Henry bill will be the basis of the measure, which will be Reported by the committee. It provides ' s, se-fere- -pmRfty'"'fot' any -telegraph- cefii pany, telephone company or common carrier, to transmit any information that has for its purpose speculation in farm products. Representatives of farmers' unions in eighteen states were in attendance. BIG ATLANTIC LINER STICKS Kaiser Wilhelm With 1000 Passengers Aboard Stuck Fast in Channel DENSE FOG THE CAUSE (By Leased Wire to The Times) New York. Feb. 24 The North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm II shoved her bow Into the mud and stuck fast today as she was coming up Gedney channel In the lower bay, cloaked lu a heavy fog. She has nearly 1,000 passengers aboard. The North German Lloyd officers beard from their stranded vessel by wireless. The captain sent word that he had run aground but that his ship was. not In a dangerous position. While the line's officials expressed no anxiety, regardlug the big Kaiser, they sent several tugs down the bay to find her, If possible, in the dense fog and help draw her oft the mud bank. The Kaiser was one of four liners which had been fog-bound outside Sandy Hook but she was the most venturesome. The fog showed a right to seaward about 8 a. m. and Captain Cupper ordered her anchor up and started for Gedney Channel, but the cloak settled ' down over everything more heavily than beforo and poured In from the sea. Captain Cupper was caught In It and the Kaiser could not keep to the narrow channel with nothing to see to guide her. ' The North German Lloyd officers received a wireless message from Captain Cupper of the Kaiser Wil helm II, saying the ship had been floated at noon with the aid of high tide and the company's tugs, and that he would Anchor until the fog lifted The yeerel to said, to to undamaged NOSE 10 REVENUE BILL SPECIAL ORDER AGAIN IN HOUSE Several Important Bills Re ported From Committees and Final Action Taken FLOOD OF PETITIONS Work of the Forty-second Day's Sos . sion of the House Body Met at 0:30 This Morning and Was Led in Prayer by Rev. M. A. Barber The Kill Requiring Corporations to Have Their Books Audited Was Reimrted Vnfavorably Attorney Will be Allowed Law Clerk if Com mittee Recommendation is Follow edPoll Tax Requirement Will Not be Cut Out Many New Bills. The forty-second day of the House of Representatives of the North Caro lina Legislature was called to order at 9:30 o'clock this morning by Speaker Graham, who presented, to conduct the morning devotion, Rev. M. A. Barber, rector Christ church. The journal of Tuesday was re ported as correctly recorded and vhe call for petitions, memorials and communications brought out the fol lowing: By Cox, of Pitt:' Petitions against and for stock law in Pitt county. The call of the committees of the house was made and the usual grist from yesterday's committee grind. The bill . requiring corporations to have. Jhelr .books, audited was reported- unfavorably. The bill to allow the attorney general a law clerk was reported favorably. The bill to cut out poll tax receipt as a pre-requisite to voting was turned down by the committee. The bill making the pas sage of worthless checks prima facie evidence of fraud received the en dorsement of the judiciary commit tee. Mr, Haymore and others filed a minority report on the bill extending (lie educational qualification to 1916, turned down by the committee on a second hearing. The bill to make all K. F. D. roads public roads met its death in the committee room, Bills Introduced By Doughton: To extend the time of construction of Winston-Salem and Southbound Railroad. By Doughton: To protect the state in building bonds on state construe-; tion of building. By Pitt: To repeal law as to Frenchville In Edgecombe. . By Murphy: : To create a new judiciary district out of Guilford and Alamance. By Rhodes: To allow Henderson county to elect tax collector. By Daily: : To regulate the com pensation of the Officers of Ruther ford county. By Majette: : For better working roads in Tyrrell. By Majette: To protect sturgeon in Albemarle Sound. By Lee: : To amend the charter of Clyde. By Sigmon: To amend the laws as to Morganton graded school. By Cook: To define the line be tween Posquotank and Camden. By Hayes: To amend the charter of Ore lilli. By McLeod: r To appoint a cotton weigher for Red Springs. By McDevitt: To empower Mar shall to provide a park. By Currie: To protect and en courage the growing of fruits and trucks. By Pickett: For relief of J. R. Williamson, of Alamance. By Shepherd: For relief of Miles B. Mercer, of Robesou. By Tomlln: As to macadam roads In Iredell. By Morgan: To amend the law as to market house In Elizabeth City. By Privott: To regulate fishing in Albemarle Sound. By Smith, of Harnett: To regu late courts In Harnett. ( , By Connor: To regt'late sale of tobacco In warehouses. By Connor; To allow school bonds for Wilson. ' By Wallace; To punish public drunkenness and profanity in Car teret. By Livingston: To prevent dump ing saw dust in Polk county streams. By McDonald, of Moore: To al low Moore and Lee counties to re new state Bchool money notes. By McDonald, of Moore: : To ex- ten time of stock l.vr MU.2S&ZJI& JWSlMuS v By Dowd: To repeal law at 1 tot pkf ut theie wlU be no change broad tie in CtarloUe VwmW. uj tbe statL J ; - - H , j j : ' t ...' .- -: -'''-J t.'.i A WASHINGTON ALMOST READY FOR BIG EVllT By Graham: Resolution as to widow of late Thos. N. Hayes, of Wilkes. By Graham: As to dormitory for colored orphan asylum at Oxford. By Buck: To allow J. Pith Ray to use certain law index. ; By Williams, of Dare: To change time of meeting of board of educa tion in Dare county. By Grant: To amend election law so as to make non-payment of poll tax only . ground for challenge on election day. By Grant: To punish registers for not registering certain electors. By Lee: To incorporate the South ern Assembly. Want Homestead Repealed. A shower of petitions from twenty eight counties were read in the house t)i is morning, asking that the home stead exemption in the constitution be repealed. The senate sent over an unusual large number of bills, the past two days' work, which were; read and re ferred, and minor amendments con curred in. Mr. Lemmond was allowed to in troduce a bill out of order, putting the county clerk of Union on salary. Barnes, of Hertford, asked and ob tained unanimous consent to put upon its passage, bill as to working roads in Hertford, this was done and the bill passed second reading. Mr, Haymore asked that bill 349, on which he filed a nlinority report, be set for Thursday night at eight o'clock. Mr. Hayes and Mr. Dough ton opposed such a course. Mr. Con nor said it meant a change in the constitution as stated. Mr. Haymore innisted on his mo tion." Mr. Grant spoke for the consider ation of the bill, saying it was a simple matter of right and justice to a large number of citizens Mr. Henderson said the matter was er was : imp-maiM ""' rr."x r' The motion was ost and the bill' is (Continued on Page Two.) SERIOUS FIRE IN WINSTON SALEM (Special to The Times.) Winston-Salem, Feb. 24. Resulting from the explosion of an automatic gas heater In Eagle Lodge hall, Are at 4:20 this morning did $3,000 damage as fol lows: $1,000 to Eagle Lodge; $1,000 to Frank ('. Brown Sons Company, Gents' Furnishings, and $1,000 to Brown Hogers Hardware Company, over store the fire originated. The para phernalia of Red Men's lodge was de stroyed. The firemen fought the llnmes' for two houm before they were extinguished, Fireman Tunius Martin was badly hurt by falling from a stalr way. YALE'S GRADUATES INVITED TO A SMOKER (By Leased Wire to The Times) Washington. Feb. 24 All living graduates of Yale, nearly 15,000 Ih number, have received invitations to a smoker and supper here on the evening of March 8, at which President-elect Taft, a graduate of ' the class of '78, is expected to be pres ent to receive the greetings of his fellow alumni. The entire upper floor of the New Willard Hotel has been secured. Al ready a large number of Yale men have signified their intention of at tending. It is believed that there will be at. least, 1,500 present. While Mr. Taft Is not down for a speech he un doubtedly will be called upon. NEWSPAPER WAR IS AMICABLY SETTLED (By Leased Wire to The Times) Columbia, S. C, Feb. 24. Columbia will be spared a threatened war In the evening . newspaper field. George R. Koester-who founded the Evening Record; twelve years ago, announced todaythat under an entirely amicable arrangement the majority stock held by ,hlmelf and asaooiatM had been transferred to James A, Hoyt and as sociates, composing a syndicate,, which contemplated eatabllnolng an oppfisl- ,;; - j' - , - '-a-'-.: .','.'!- City is Even Now a Wiet Before Inauguration ioQ Gala Attire HIGH HOTEL PRICES Inauguration Day Just One Week Off and Washington is Even Now Putting on Her Gala Dress Wash ingtonians Will Feel Believed. Prices Asked For Hotel Accommo dations Are Simply Monumental, and No Rooms Are, Let For Less ' Than One Week Washingtonjans Make Hay While the Sun Shines. (By Leased Wire to The Times) : Washington, Feb. 24 With Inaug uration day one week off today Wash ington is even now in gala dress, while every hour adds to the holiday appearance of the city decked In bunting and preparing as it has per- . haps never done before for the inau guration of William Howard Taft one week from tomorrow. It Is not only tbe brilliancy and importance of the event to which Washingtonians, like millions of their fellow countrymen, throughout the United States ' are ' looking with expectancy, but they realize that March 4, 1909, will mark the return of business conditions to what many people desire as a "safe and sane" basis; a deliverance from a certain form of "bondage" if: the term may be used, and a realization that strenuous methods are an erratic conception of the administration of public affairs which has existed for several years Is, happily; about to end.' ''-''"' -. ' '''t': ' .v" -w1iflea8filB6nI WT??f looking forward with a sense of re lief to the impending change of ad ministration they are not losing' "sight of the main chance. And yet, was there ever an Inauguration, certainly not for many years past, when Wash ington business men and others did not take advantage of the incoming visiting hundreds of thousands and put up the price of hotel and sight seeing accommodations, actual neces sities in fact anything which will stand the pressure to a figure which, i if it does not "stagger humanity" gives to the pockets of those who come here for the inauguration a very "tired" feeling. Many well-meaning ! ersons, Washingtonia"ns, of course. j will deny, with their hands on their I hearts and in their hands on their 'manner that no advantage Is to be j taken of the visitors in a financial 'way, but the country has heard such protestations preceding previous in augurations and so takes them, far what they know them to be worth. At the hotels, particularly those of the better class and more especially those that face on or are very near Pennsylvania avenue, along : which the inaugural procession is to pass on. its way from the capitol to t,he white house, prices asked for accommoda tions are simply monumental. No rooms whatever are let for less Jhan one week, dating from February 28 to March 5. No matter if a . guest merely wants a room for. inaugura tion day alone, it could not be ob tained unless the applicant, was will ing to engage It for the full time men tioned. tEven under such conditions rooms nave been engaged weeKs ana in many cases months ago at the more -fashionable hotels' on Pennsylvania avenue as well as at others near the line of march. The hotels have been quite Independent about renting their accommodations for well they kn6w that the demand would outstrip the supply many times over, as indeed It has. ;. : . X ; ' , v.c The committee on public, comfort of the inaugural committee, Itj.lsue, has listed several hundred boarding bouses and private residences where visitors can be accomnipdated, oqi In these cases, while th prices are very much less, naturally,, Jhan at, hotels, they are above the usual tariff,, la fact, It seems to be ingrained with the average Washlngtonlan to "make hay" while the Inauguration sua shines every four year. . , J,'v', They are making no exception to the rule Jn 1809. v r Pennsylvania avenue, one of the . finest thoroughfares In the , world,' viewed from ' the standpoint of .loca tion and surroundings, ia ; .already marked ith, grandstands' reeled at various points. ..Of course, tbe Ohole-J est stands are those directly oa the avenue la the Immediate, Tjplnltjf, of the white house, where President , Taft will fevlew the parade,, together ; wtth Vice-president. Sherman, after s he has taken the path, pf offlcf at t,h ' Continued; o Paje 8 yeo.) 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