ESTABLISHED 1871.
RALEIGH, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1909.
PEICE 5 CENTS
ALDRICH READY
TO APPOINT THE
Bepbbta $U Will Take
Part in Conference On
tbe Tariff Bill.
DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS
Senator Aldrich Has Practically
Picked the Senate Republican Con
forees on tbe Tariff Bill They
Will be, (Besides Himself, Hale,
Penrose and Smoot New England
Will Predominate in the Commit
tee Aldrich and Hale Will Look
Out tor tne interests or ineir rc
tlon The Democratic Conferees.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, July 6 Senator Aid
rich has practically picked the sen
ate republican conferees on the tariff
bill. , According to his present plan
they 'will be, besides himself, Hale ot
Maine, Penrose f Pennsylvania,
Burrows of Michigan, and Smoot of
Utah.
This will give New England two
members, the North Atlantic divis
ion, one, middle west one, and the
far west one.
Senators Aldrich and Hale will
look out for the manufacturers ot
their section; Penrose will take care
of the great manufacturing and min
ing interests of Pennsylvania and
neighboring states; Burrows will not
neglect the beet sugar and lumber
interests among others, while Smoot
will show the proper solicitude for
the mining intervals of the Rocky
Mountain section and the fruit grow
ers pf the Pacific sloue. The demo
cratic conferees on the part of the
Senate will doubtless be Daniel of
Virginia, Money of Mississippi, and
Bailey of Texas.
Speaker Cannon has not indicated
whom he will select as the house con
ferees but the probable republican
slate will consist of Chairman Payne
of tne ways and- means committee;
Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Boutell of
Illinois, Calderhead of Kansas, and
McCall of Massachusetts, who is a
Btrong revisionist. Boutell will rep
resent the middle west. Should the
speaker change his slate in any way,
he probably would substitute Need
ham of California for Calderhead.
The senate met at 10 o'clock.
The amendment offered jointly by
Senators Burkett of Nebraska, and
..Bacon of Georgia, to exempt from the
corporation tax religious, educa
tional, and beneflclent societies, not
organized for profit, came up for dis
cussion. Senator Clark, of Wyoming, want
ed to know if Trinity Church corpor
ation of New York city would be ex
empted. He had been reading in a
magazine which said that Trinity
Church corporation was a rich organ
ization and. owned many tenement
houses from which it received large
revenues.
Senators Kean, of New Jersey, De
pew and Root, of New York, defend
ed the Trinity corporation. Senator
Kean said the profits of Trinity
Church did not exceed a million dol
lars. "Do you mean they reach a million
a year?" asked Senator Hale, of
Maine.. " v
"I mean," replied Senator Kean,
"that the profits amount to hundreds
of U lusands of dollars annually, but
I d lot believe they reach a million
a
.senator Depew said the Trinity
corporation was not organized for
profit. It .received in the colonial
days a land girant, which is now
yielding large profits, but these do
not go to any individual.
' Senator Root said as soon as the
money came into the coffers of Trin
ity it was immediately Invested. He
explained that the Trinity corpora
tion was not one church but : many
and that the profits were used in
church extension, and in building
new chapels and churches.
Senator Clark said he Inquired be
cause he understood this corporation
u the greatest landlord in New
York city, and that its tenement
houses, which yield vast revenues,
were not conducted in a way credi
table to a church organization. He
suggested that a corporation of that
sort ought to pay a corporation tax.
"The Burkett-Bacon amendment
was then adopted ana provides mai.
the corporation tax shall not apply to;
labor organizations; fraternal and
beneficial societies; orders or asso
ciation)! operating under lodge sys-l
tarns and providing for payment of
t JIM, sick, accident and other benefits;
domestic building or louo associa-
tlon,' organized and operated exclus
ively for the mutual benefit of their
members, and any corporation or as
sociation organized and operated ex
clusively for religious, charitable or
educational purposes, no part of the
profits of which, Inures to the benefit
of private stockholders or individ
uals. ' ' '
At 1:15' o'clock the senate as a
committee 'of the! whole, completed
consideration of all pending amend
ments, and a recess was then taken
until 3:30 this afternoon, when the
bill will be reported to the senate
and open to amendment. Indications
are that the bill will be passed the
last of the week.
MONUMENT TO PROTESTANTS.
In Honor of Christian Heroes Who
Gave lTp Their Lives For Protest
ant Faith.
(By Cable to The Times)
Geneva, July 6 The foundation
stone of the monument to the
Christian heroes who gave up their
lives to spread the Protestant faith
was laid here today. It follows the
celebration of the 400th anniversary
of the birth of John Calvin, which
fell yesterday. The monument will
commemoratll? the Protestant spirit
and is a memorial to the work and
influence' oT such men of Coligy, of
France; Knox, of Scotland; Milton
and John Calvin.
An effort is being made to raise
$150,000 for the erection of the me
morial, and of this sum Geneva has
already collected $40,000. It is ex
pected that the United States will
contribute $25,000.
LIFE ON ISTHMUS.
District Judge Says Moral Conditions
Are Fine.
New York, July 6 Edgar S. Gar
rison, a district judge on the isthmus,
arrived on the steamer Colon from
Panama today. He said that the
morals of the isthmus had the morals
of New York beaten forty different
ways.
"It is not once a year that I have
to send an American to jail," he sa'.rl.
"Life on the isthmus is fine. Condi
tions have improved wonderfully
there and, work on tbe 'canal is pro
gressing so rapidly that It looks as if
the canal will be finisher, ahead of
contract time."
LEE AND WASHINGTON
Virginia's Contribution to
Statuary Hall
Lee Statue Already Completed and
That of Washington Being Made
Both Statues AVill be Presented To
gcthcr. (By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, July 6 Ex-Judge Geo.
L. Christian, of Richmond, Va., and
State Senators Ron P- Halsey, of
Lynchburg, a nephew of United
States Senator John W. Daniel, and
R. B. Davis, of Petersburg, passed
through the city yesterday, on their
way home from Providence, R. I.,
where, as members of a special Vir
ginia commission they Inspected the
bronze reproduction of Houdon's
statue of Washington, to be pre
sented to the national government.
' This statue, together with that of
General Robert E. Lee, already com
pleted, will constitute Virginia's rep
resentation in statuary hall in the na
tional capitol, provided the federal
government wall take Lee's with
Washington's, otherwise Virginia
will not be represented at all, accord
ing to members of the commission.
"It is both or none,' said a mem
ber of the commission. "The legis
lature felt, and its commission hear
tily agree with It, that Virginia, in
offering Washington and Lee has se
lected two of her sons without peer
In the history of the country for ele
vation of character and ability, and
if the government should reject the
statue of Lee because he was the
commander of the Confederate arm
ies the commission is empowered by
the legislature to withdraw the offer
of the Washington statue. A second
offer at some future time, either of
these two or of any other Virginian,
Is unthinkable."
The two statues are now in the
Gorham Foundry, at Providence. Ex
Judge Christian, an ex-Confederate
soldier, said before sailing by the Old
Dominion line for Richmond, that
the commission regarded the Gorham
cast of the Houdon marble well-nigh
perfect and wholly satisfactory." The
model was made from the Washing
ton statue in the capitol at Rich
mond by a new process, and the ef
fort was regarded in some quarters as
ah experiment. Every precaution
was taken at the time to protect the
Houdon statue, the only one of Wash
ington made from life in existence. '
The statue of General Lee, de
signed by Edward V. Valentino, of
Richmond, was cast earlier and the
presentation of both will take place
early in the coming winter.
THE PRESIDENT
CENTRAL FIGURE
AT TICONDEROGA
Scene in Great Celebration
Shifted Today From Crown
Point to Ticonderoga;
A NOTABLE PAGEANT
President Taft Will be the Central
Figure of the Celebration Tomor
row and Thursday as Well as To
day Famous Ticonderoga the
Scene of the Celebration Today
Scenes of Celebration, With 8plen-
did Fireworks Displays, the Thous
ands of Visitors, the Patriotic
Speeches and Thrilling Reprodnc
tions of Conflicts Make Notable
Pageant.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Ticonderoga, N. Y., July C Presi
dent Taft gave the honor of his pres
ence to the tercentenniary celebra
tion of the discovery of Lake Cham-
plain today. From Crown Point,
where Governor Hughes stood in the
shadows of the ruins of Old Fort
Frederic yesterday and applauded
the re-discovery of the lake by a
Twentieth Century Samuel DeCham
plain, the scene shifted today to Ti
conderoga , a spot famous in two
American conflicts and countless In
dian wars.
President Taft will be the chief
figure in the exercises today, tomor
row and Friday.. At all the stopping
places on the lake In the vicinity of
Crown Point, Ticonderoga and Bur
lington there will be produced Indian
pageantry.
Tomorrow Plattsburg will be;Tfce;
center of activities and on Thursday
Burlington, Vt. On Friday the scene
will shift up to LaMotte, near tht
Canadian line.
The scenes of the celebration, with
the myriad .fireworks displays, he
thousands of visitors, the patriotic
speeches and the thrilling reproduc
tions from French and Indian and
British conflicts make it the most
notable pageant ever held in the
United States.
Closely guarded on all sides by
secret service agents President Taft
and his party arrived at the old fort
this afternoon and were greeted by
more than 5,000 persons who braved
a drenching shower to greet him.
Half a dozen secret service men,
mingled with the crowd, while half a
hundred special deputy sheriffs
strove to keep the gathering in check.
State troops were lined up on each
side of the tracks as the Taft special
drew in. Cheers went up as the pres
ident showed himself.
A reception committee welcomed
the president as he alighted from the
train. The little gunboats Burling
ton and Plattsburg, of the United
States naval flotilla, lying just off thu
shore, fired the presidential salute.
Automobiles conveyed the distin
guished visitors to the fort, some two
miles away.
In the automobile with the pres
ident were his military aide, Captain
Butt, Adjutant General Henry, How
laud Pell and David Williams. One
of the secret service men occupied
the seat next to the chauffeur, while
the others followed in other cars.
The rest of the president's party,
which included Right Hon. James
Bryce, the British ambassador, and
M. Jesserand, the French ambassa
dor, were also escorted in motor cars
to the fort.
Twenty thousand persons greeted
the president at Fort Henry. He and
his party were first taken to the West
barracks, where it was that Colonel
Allen demanded the surrender of the
fort "in the name of the Great Jt
hovah and the Continental Con
gress." The president was met by Mrs.
Stephen H. Pell, whose family has
owned Fort Ticonderoga and the sur
rounding six hundred acres since
1818 and who, with the aid of her fa
ther, Robert Thompson, has under
taken at their own expense, the great
work of restoring the historic site.
Mr. Taft complimented Mrs. Pell
upon the fine patriotic spirit she has
shown in her purposed nationaliza
tion of the old fort. After viewing
the barracks and ruins around, the
presidential party was escorted by
United States marines to the speak
er's stand. There Governor Hughes,
of New York, and Governor Prouty,
of Vermont, were waiting to welcome
him. The cheering was renewed and
the bands played national airs. Less
than one-twentieth of the spectators
were able to secure Beats.
" After bis add rets the president and
(Continued on page Two.)
UPCHURCH SUES
MESSRS
W0UE
AND PEEBLES
Much Trouble Brewing in
Raleigh's Happy Official
Family.
THAT UNLUCKY CAUCUS
Alderman Unchurch, at the Expense
of St rring Up Strife Among His
; Brethren, Goes at Two of Them
With an Army of Five Lawyers
Alleges Malicious Prosecution and
Asks for Damages Was Arrested
for Cursing on the Streets and Ac
quitted Nothing in the Chars w
Many Other Suits Started.
An interesting suit, has been begun
in the superior court of Wake county
entitled J. Sherwood Upchurch vs.
George L. Womble and E. D. Peebles.
Appearing for the plaintiff are Wal
ter L. Watson, Douglass & Lyon,
Bart M. Galting, and John W. Hins
dale, Jr. The suit is for damages
for malicious prosecution and will be
hard fought.
It arises out of the trouble brought
about by the exclusion of Mr. Up
church from an aldermnnic caucus a
few weeks ago.
It will be remembered that the
board of aldermen held a caucus for
the purpose of selecting officers and
from this meeting Mr. Upchurch was
excluded. Later, cursing was heard
on the street and a warrant was
sworn out for Alderman Upchurch,
charging him with doing the cursing.
It ig stated that Alderman Womble
tet&Wsae warrairC-tssnedr - -
When the case came up for trial,
Alderman Womble stated that he
knew nothing about it or, at least,
"nothing that; would stand in the
law". Alderman Peebles, when put
on the stand, could give no informa
tion of value for the state. He said
he heard the cursing and thought it
was Upchurch doing it, for he recog
nized his voice.
In the trial it appeared that curs
ing had been done on the street at
about the time when Alderman Up
church was said to have done it by a
number of young bloods engaged in
an affray. The case against Alder
man Upchurch was very properly dis
missed. Mr. Upchurch claims that the pros
ecution and arrest was prompted by
malice and had not the slightest
ground in fact. He promises to fur
nish some Interesting reading before
the matter is settled.
Other suits have been begun as
follows:
Rhemstein Dry Goods Company
vs. A. T. Finch and J. W. Sanders,
trading as Finch & Sanders. J. W.
Hinsdale represents the plaintiffs.
P. A. High and Stella High vs
Simon Yelloday and A. T. Alexan
der. E. J. Hill, of Durham, repre
sents the plaintiff.
J. D. Dodd vs. Atlantic Coast Line
Railway Company. Aycock & Win
ston appear for Dodd.
London Assurance Company vs.
North Carolina Railroad Company!
and the Southern Railway Company.
The plaintiff is represented by C. B.
Denson and Shepherd & Shepherd.
W. V. Moss vs. H. H. Wolcott and
H. M. Kerr, receivers of the Norfolk
& Southern Railway Company. M.
A. Lambert and W. L. Watson, attor
neys for the plaintiff.
W, L., Brogden vs. George D.
Meares, M. Ashby Lambert represent
ing the plaintiff.
A. C. Ray vs. Durham Lumber
Company, B. M. Gatllng representing
the plaintiff.
SENATOR KEYERIDGE'S VICTORY
Wins Signal Victory In Senate on the
Tobacco Question.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, ! July 6 Senator
Beveridge has won a signal victory
in the senate through his presenta
tion of the tobacco question a few
days ago. - '
Yesterday the sub-committee, to
which the matter was referred, heard
a delegation of cigar manufacturers
and their representatives and then
formulated its conclusions, ' which
will be submitted to the full commit
tee today and reported to the sen
ate. "
While the amount of taxation sug
gested by Mr. Beveridge is not ap
proved in detail, the principle for
which he contended has been in
dorsed, and his Bpeech on tbe tobacco
question will be instrumental In
turning into ; the ' treasury Bcveral
millions of dollars a year from a
source that appears to have been en
tirely overlooked.
The presentation made by the ci
gar manufacturer yes'.erday was euch
that the sub-committee decided not
to increase the tax from the present
$3 . rate to $3.40. Increases, how
ever, were agreed upon on practical
ly all other forms of manufactured
tobacco.
VANDERBILT WINS.
Capitalists Have to Give Up Their
Lease to the Pisgah Estate.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Ashevllle, N. C, July 6 The Bilt-
more Rod and Gun Club, formed by
Chicago capitalists, to enjoy what
would have been the largest game
preserve In America, the 85,000 acres
of Pisgah forest, near here, have
yielded to George W. Vanderbilt's in
sistence that the 10-year lease at
$5,000 a year, made by Dr. C. A.
Schenck, former head of the Vander
bilt forestry department, was made
without authority. They have agreed
to cancel the lease, but are negotiat
ing direct with Mr. Vanderbilt for a
new lease.
FRANCIS W. CUSHMAX DEAD.
Congressman From Washington State
Died This Morning in New York.
(By Leased Wire to Th.; Times;
New York, July 6 Frarcis W.
Cushman, representative in congress
from Washington state, died at 5
o'clock this morning, 'n Roosevelt
Hospital, from pneumonia. At ins
bedside at the time were, besides the
doctors and nurses, United States
Senator Samuel H. Pyles, of Wash
ington, and Andrew S. Burleigh, of
this city, a lifelong friend.
Congressman Cushman underwent
an operation a short time ago and
pneumonia resulted. Senator Pyles
and Mr. Burleigh, who had been with
the patient almost constantly since
his condition became serious, said
they would make arrangements for
the sending of the body to Washing
ton. Associated Charities.
The Associated Charities is very
much in need of some supplies now
for a sick patient now under its care.
Sheets, pillow-cases, towels and other
supplies ja.x$ needed . and will -be
thankfully received.
FLEW ACROSS CHANNEL
Mysterious Flights Across
England Explained
Flying Airship That Has Been Scar
ing and Amusing England Alter
nately For Past Several Weeks Ex
plained by Dr. Boyd Flew Across
Channel.
(By Cable to The Times)
London, July 6 The Daily News,
which has been one of the chief ridi
cnlers of the mysterious night flying
airship which alternately scared and
amused England a couple of weeks
ago, now prints a story asserting that
it was a real and great vessel, which,
if it has accomplished all the inven
tor says it has, removed all fear of
England falling behind in the race
for aerial supremacy.
The News says that the mysterious
vessel is now housed in a huge shed
not far from London. The owner
and inventor is Dr. M. B. Boyd, who
Is well known In aeronautical circles.
He began the trials of the present
vessel on March 9 and made his first
long voyage on May 9. It was on
May 18 that tho mysterious flyer was
reported from Belfast nnd according
to Dr. Boyd it was not an imaginary
vessel, but his airship.
"That night," be says, "we flew
across the Irish Channel on a line
which is about 90 miles from shore
to shore. It was a continuous flight
at an average speed of 32 miles an
hour."
The doctor say he has also made a
trip of 350 miles with only one des
cent. Dr. Boyd describes his dirigible as
beipg oval shaped, divided into three
bags, the works being placed between
them. It has wings like an aeroplane
on each Bide. There is no suspended
car. The ship is only 20 feet long.
The motors are of 300 horse-power.
Dr. Boyd has submitted his inven
tion to the war office, which will send
officers to see him fly when certain
alterations have been made in the
vessel. These include its lengthen
ing to 200 feet, and the increasing of
the horse-power to 500.
Church Business Meeting.
Tonight at 8:30 o'clock a very im
portant, church business meeting. will
be held in Central Methodist church,
and tho pastor expects every member
to be present, unless detained by
sickness. : Matters ' of vital import
ance to the church and every mem
ber will be considered.
NATION PAYS
SACRIFICE TO
GLORIOUS 4TH.
Forty-Four Deaths Were Re
corded and Thousands
Were Injured
EVERY SECTION AIDED
Number of Fatalities Not so Great as
Last Year But Number of Injuries
Reported is Greater This is Ac
counted for Because of a More
Careful Enumeration of Accidents
by the Police and the Greater
Number of Towns Heard from
Three Deaths and S84 Injuries in
New York .Many Fires.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, July 6 Forty-four
deaths and a record number of injur
ed was the nation's tribute to the
"Glorious Fourth." Three persons
were killed in this city, and thena
were three hundred and eighty-four
hurt, many fatally. Two of the vic
t.ms here were little girls, and the
third a ten-year-old boy.
The celebration was responsible
tor more than a hundred fires, the
total damage being estimated at
more than $50,000.
Every section of the country con
tributed to the harvest of death and
injury, and it is expected that1 thel
death list will be greatly swelled in
the next few days. Careless handling
of fireworks and toy pistols, cannon
explosions and the use of high ex
plosives were responsible for most of
the casualties. According to reports
already at hand thousands were in
jured. Effect, of. More. Rigid. Xaws.JV'
Chicago, July , 6Mpre rigid; lays -and
growth of sentiment for a sane
celebration of the Fourth of July
have had their result all over the
country in reducing the number of
killed and wounded in the annual
holiday.
Full returns of the two day cele
bration this year show a falling' off
in the number of killed of twelve
from the record of 1908. There were
44 fatalities reported up to this
morning against 56 last year. The
number of injured totals 2,361
against 1,899 last year.
The apparent increase is accounted
for by a more careful enumeration
of the accidents by the police and ex
tending the count to the smaller
towns. There was an Increase in the
tire loss, the total reported being
$724,575 as against $257,960 last
year.
YOUNG WOMAN SLAIN.
Father and Son Arrested and Sent to
Jail Without Bail.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York July G Arrested, fol
lowing tho finding of the body of a
young woman who had been beaten
to death in the hallway of No. 436
East loth street today, Bragio Cali,
proprietor of a saloon on the ground
floor of the building and his son,
Phillpo, were arraigned before Cor
oner Shrady today and remanded to
the house of detention without bail.
Philipo Cali, who was sleeping on
a billiard table within a dozen feet
from where the body was found,
when arrested told the police that he
had heard a quarrel in the hallway
several hours before the discovery
of the body betwwen a man and a
woman, but; had paid no attention to
it. It is believed that the young wo
man was attacked and slain during
this quarrel.
STRIKE IX PALERMO.
City in a State of Siege as Result of
Strike of Maritime Workers.
(By Cable to The Times)
Palermo, July 6 This city is in
a state of siege, the result of the gen
eral strike of maritime workers and
others. Today the government has
a cordon of troops about the city
guarding every avenue of entrance.
Squads of troops are placed at every
railroad station and the strictest dis
cipline prevails. t
There were desultory outbreaks of
rioting today, but the police and sol
diery found themselves able to cope
with the rioters. All stores' and
shops are closed and business is at a
standstill. . ',-':
North Carolina Postmasters . r.
(By Leased.' Wire to The TJmesj
Washington, July i Fourthclass
postmasters were appointed. toda as
follows :
North Carolina
L. Church.
-Idlewild, Thomas