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Washington, July 1 2 Forecast
for North Carolina for tonight
and ' Tuesday; Generally fair
tonight and Tuesday. ; " 1
ESTABLISHED 1871
RALEIGH, N, C, JWONDA Y, JULY 12, 1909.
PEICE 6 CENTS
WHATTHEPEOPLE
EXPECT OF CITY
ADMINISTRATION
.Reformers Are Expected to
' Get Results. Crusade
Against Vice
ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS
New Administration is Expected to be
Active in the Campaign Against
Vice East Raleigh Dives Most be
Closed Blind Tigers Exist in All
Parts of the City Officials Should
Follow Cases to Higher Court and
Secure Convictions Pool Rooms a
Curse Bettj:T Sunday Laws
Needed.
Last night at the Baptist Taber
nacle Pastor Adiel J. Moncrfef
preached an interesting sermon on in
temperance. As a prelude to the ser
mon Mr. Moncrief told the city fa
thers and the entire re'form adminis
tration what it is iTp to them to do
if they would make good on the plat
form on which they were inducted
""into office.
Mr. Moncrief began by disclaiming
any intention of criticising or reflect
ing on the old administration. Hj
has not been here long enough to un
derstand local conditions, but he was
aware ofthe fact that the better
class of voters a few months ago
found conditions under the old re
gime intolerable and relegated the
old administration, with a single ex
ception, to oblivion. The best people
of the city felt the urgent need of
change and bonding together, they
selected the best men in the city for
office hnd elected them.
From what he has been able to see
- and .understand of local conditions,
one of the greatest needs of the day
is economy. The affairs of the city
should be handled with as little ex
pense as is consistent with efficiency.
Further, Mr. Moncrlaf declared that
he could see that Raleigh needs
awakening industrially, for she is lag
ging behind many of her sister cities
in, progrefisiveness and business en
terprise. He wanted it understood
that he was not trying to assume a
position that did not belong to him in
addressing his remarks to the city ad
ministration, but was only trying to
do his duty as a moral leader of the
city.
He said that the first thing neces
sary to better government is a strict
enforcement of the criminal law
Bawdy houses and blind tigers have
existed for months under the very
noses of the city officials and they
have been either too weak or too in
different to enforce the plain provis
ions of the law. He said that he re
cognized the difference between
things suspected and real evidence
but that he felt as do the majority of
the citizens of Raleigh, that there has
been too much weakness in the exec
utive branch of the city administra
tion. Police officers have not done
their duty in an aggressive way.
There has not been enough energy
and effort put into the work of run
ning down violators of the law and
securing evidence against them.
He went on to speak of East Ral
eigh, a whole section of the city en
tirely given ,over to vice. No apology
can be made for this perpetual men
ace, to the manhood of the city. He
declared, that on the present admin
istration rested a terrible responsi
bility and that one of the greatest
works the people expected of it is the
entire destruction of East Raleigh.
Themiserable inmates of these dives
must either be converted to an hon
est way of living or driven from the
city. '
The people also have a right, he
continued, to expect that violations of
the prohibition law will be punished.
In the city police court there is a
daily procession of drunks. These
men buy whiskey in dives all over tha
city; under the very eyes of the offi
cers, and yet tie police court finds it
self Unable to convict. What the city
needs more than everything else is a
vigilant and determined police court.
When a conviction is secured und the
-case is appealed to a higher1 court, the
' officers should follow it up, using all
their powers to secure the conviction
of, the criminal In the court above.
They should realize that their work
inane
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is not done until the violator of the
law begins his sentence.
( Another thing which is -needed and
which the people have a right to ex
pect. Is a better Sundav law. The
1 sale of soda water, cigars and ice
cream on the Sabbath is as unlawful
as the sale of groceries and dry
goods. Drug store sales should be
limited to the sale of medicine. Only
those things absolutely essential to
life and comfort should be sold. -Pool
and billiard rooms, he declar
ed, were an unmitigated evil. The
moral character of the young manr
hood of the city is degraded by- the
associations and practices of these
places. The. city administration
should put these places under strict
est supervision or abolish them alo-
gether. The moral manhood of the
city is its best asset and should be
protected at any cost.
He ended his talk with expressions
of his great confidence in the new ad
ministration; believing that it will
make good on the platform upon
which it was elected, standing always
for the uplift of youth and the per
petuation of high ideals. -
Following this he preached a sermon-
of great power on the subject of
'Intemperance." Temperance he de
fined to be "a moderate use of that
which is good total abstinence from
that which is bad." He discussed In
temperance in eating, 'drink, using to
bacco, etc. His sermon made a deep
imprsssion on the big crowd present.
hArriman builds ships
Will Add Two Ships to
Savannah Line
i An Important Move, I Jt-lny; the
First Step of the Kind Since tfie
Financial Depression of 1007.
Compared With Morse.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
New York, July 12 E. II. Harn-
man, according to a statement just
issued, will begin work within a con
pie of months on two passenger
steamships for the Atlantic coast
trade. This will be the first step of
the sort since the financial depres
sion of 1907. The steamships arc
for the Ocean . Steamship Company
known as the Savannah line, and will
ply between New York and Savan
nah.
The Ocean Steamship Company's
statement says that the capital of E.
H. Harriman is backing the construc
tion. The new construction marks
the most important step he has taken
in his control of the Central of Geor
gia Railroad, made known only re
cently, when it was announced that
the railroad had been acquired by
the Illinois Central.
The Savannah line has been
owned for years by the Central of
Georgia, and in such ownership stood
for years as the property of the in
terests of J. P. Morgan..
JJach of the new vesels will be of
6,000 gross tonnage, and they will be
fitted as freight and passenger car
riers. Each will accommodate 136
first, 30 second, and 6$ third-class
passengers.
Control of the Savannah line adds
two ports to those Harriman steam
ships enter here and on the Pacific
coast. These are Savannah and Bos
ton. New York, Galveston, New Or
leans and Havana already have been
on the list by reason of Harriman's
control of the Southern Pacific. His
present position is finding compari
son in many quarters to the control
exercised by Charles W. Morse, when
the latter merged several coastwise
lines into the Consolidated Steamship
Company. The Southern Pacific and
the Savannah line were the only large
steamship lines between this port
and ports south of llatteras, which
Morse failed to get.
SIMOX NEWCOMB DEAD.
Famous Astronomer Died in Wash
ington Was Retired Anny
Officer. '
Washington, July 12 Prof. Si
mon Newcomb, the famous astrono
mer, died at a:2U 0 ciock Sunday
morning at his Washington residence,
of cancer of the bladder.
As Profesor Newcomb was a re
tired officer of the navy, with the
rank and title of profesor of mathe
matics, a military funeral will be
given his remains, under the direc
tion of the navy department. 1
Justice Moody III.
Washington, July 12 Justice
William H. Moody, of the United
States supreme court is seriously ill
with rheumatism. He has gone to
Hot Springs, Ark, for treatment. .
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DISCUSSES
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Representative Payne Sop
ports the Senate Joint
Resolution
WOULD MAKE LIARS
Payne Says An Income Tax Would be
Unconstitutional and That it is
Proper to Submit the Question to
th'e State!) Representative Clark
Says the Joint Resolution' Is a
Scheme to Keen Congress . From
Passing An Income Tax Law and
Asserted That There Would le h
Lively Fight in the States on the
Proposition Representative Pou a
Conferee on Philippine Bill.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington,' July 12 There was a
large attendance when the house met
this morning, in anticipation of a
lively debate on the senate joint res
olution to commit to the states an
.intendment to the constitution to
cause an income tax.
Representative Cooper, of Wiscon
sin, an insurgent republican, askea
to have the congressional record cor
rected. He said it appeared in the
Record last Friday that he paired
with Representative Clarke, of Flor
ida. He stated that he was not
paired, and had he been present iie
would have voted against the spec
ial rule to send the tariff bill to con
ference without debate.
The Philippine tariff bill was re
ceived from the senate, and on mo
tion of Representative Payne, of New
York, it was seat to conference.
The speaker appointed the follow
ing conferees on the bill: Dill, of
Connectivutt ;Needhum, of Califor
nia, and Pou, of North Carolina.
The house then took up considera
tion of the senate joint resolution
providing for an income tax.
Representative . Payne said he
would support the joint resolution as
it was proper to submit the question
to the states. In his- opinion an In
come tax would be unconstitutional
under our present form of govern
ment. The United States supreme
court had so decided and there was
no ground to believe, he added, that
the court would reverse itself. He
was opposed to an Income tax be
cause it was calculated to produce
liars and perjurers. It was the hard
est kind of a tax to collect, and it
would fall heaviest on the honest
man. The only time an income tax
would be necessary, lie declared,
would be in case ot war. or some
great emergency which does not now
exist.
Representative McCall, of Massa
chusetts, said there was no need for
such haste in considering the matter
and in his judgment an income tax
was not necessary
He said that an income tax would
destroy that section of the constitu
tion which provides there shall be no
direct tax and that taxes shall lie ap
portioned among the people. Ho sug
gested that it would give the smaller
states undue advantage over the lar
ger states. He termed the income
tax a political jack cade.
Representative Clark said he fa
vored the Bailey-Cummins income tax
amendment. The truth is, he de
clared, this joint resolution is but a
scheme to keep congress from passing
an income tax law. He asserted there
would be a lively fight in the states on
this proposition and that twelve states
could defeat it.
SUNSET LIMITED DERAILED.
Engine, Mail, Baggage, Chair Cars
Went Into Ditch.
El Paso, Tex., July 12 The Sun
set Limited of the Southern Railroad
due in El Paso from the east at 7:10
this morning was derailed at Aragon
at 1 o'clock. The engine, mail, bag
gage, and chair cars went into the
ditch. The engineer and fireman
jumped, the former escaping unhurt.
The fireman was injured in the back,
but not fatally. None of the passen
gers in the chair car was injured.
The derailment was due .to a spread
ing rail.
THE INCOME
MRS. THAW WILL
APPEARAGAINST
HUSBAND
INCASE
Says He Has Threatened
Her Life and She Don't
Want Him Liberated
HAS MADE AFFIDAVIT
Principal Barrier to Harry K. Thaw's
Liberation From Matteawan Will
be the Evidence of His Wife, Who
Will Testify That on the Occasion
of Her Last Visit to Her Husband
He Told Her if He Kvor Got Out of
the Asylum That He Would Kill
Her Says Slur is Afraid That if
Set Free He Will Carry Out Threat.
Affidavit in Possession of District
Attorney.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
White Plains,, N. Y.," July 12 in
what was believed to be a final at
tempt to release Harry K. Thaw,
slayer of Stanford White from Mat-
teawan, the inquiry into his sanity
was begun before Justice Isaac N.
Mills in the supreme court this morn
ing at 10 o'clock. A short, time be
fore the proceedings started the
Countess of Yarmouth, sister of the
prisoner, arrived in the court room.
She was accompanied by Mrs. Josiah
I'liaw, wife of Hie prisoner's half
brother. The aged mother, Mrs. Mary
Copley Thaw, joined the two young
women, taking a seat between them.
The one witness called was Rich
ard F. Lansing, a real estate dealer
of Poughkeepsie, who testified as to
conversation he had held with Thaw
in an endeavor to show that the
speech of Thaw was coherent.
Evelyn Thaw was not in the court
room when the proceedings began.
Lawyer Morschauser said he had not
a subpo: nae issued for her ap
pgariice. . ,
Oscar Mulford, who had been a
keeper in the Poughkeepsie jail when
1'haw was confined there, testified
this his demeanor and conversation
had been entirely rational. Thaw
listened eagerly to all the answers of
the witnesses. It is evident that the
quiet life he has been living nas
agreed with him and he is many-
pounds heavier than when last seen
in public. He was dressed in a dark
blue serge suit and wore glasses.
Mrs. Thaw, his mother, did not
speak to her son during the proceed
ings, her attention being rivetted on
the witnesses. She has aged greatly
in the past few months.
New York, July 12 The principal
barrier to the liberation of Harry K.
Thaw, from the Matteawan asylum,
criminal insane, it became known to
day is is wife, Evelyn Nefcbit iiiaw.
Young Mrs. Thaw has made remark
able allegations against, her husband
in an affidavit now in the possession
of District Attorney Jerome, and it
necessary will go on the witness stand
against him.
In her affidavit Mrs. Thaw swears
that her life would be endangered by
Thaw's release. She sets form that
on the occasion of her last, visit to
Matteawan to see her husband, Thaw
said to her:
"I will be outin a little while, and
when I am, I am going down to New
York and kill you."
Ho repeated this threat in various
forms, Mrs. Thaw swears, and she is
fearful that if he is set free would
carry it out. She says further in her
affidavit that Thaw's insanity is in
termittent. At times he spears to be
perfectly rational, but; he has his had
days, and on these days he is beyond
control.
Young Mrs. Thaw confides her
fears to her lawyer, Daniel O'Reilly,
and it was finally decided to lay the
the facts before the district attorney.
They will be used in an effort to pre
vent his release.
INSURGENTS COMMANDED.
Get Many Letters From Constituents
and Others Commending Them For
Their Position.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, July' 12 Tho ten re
publicans who voted against the pas
sage of the Aldrich bill in the senate
are not sorry they did so, for every
9,000
one of them is daily receiving evi
dences of approval of his course from
his constituents. The mail of taose
who are in Washington is filled with
letters, not only from constituents,
but from persons in other states
strongly commending the action of
the "progressives' in refusing to
vote for the Aldrich measure, while
there has scarcely been a single in
stance in the many communications
where the correspondents have indi
cated disaproval.
Members of the house classed lis
progressives have also been urged by
their constituents to follow the lead
set by the ten republican senators
and oppose the Aldrich schedules.
MAKING PETROLEUM BUTTER.
Standard Oil's, Lnt -st Product Will
Supplant the Milk Cow.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
' Alton, His., July 12 The first roll
of petroleum butter, the Standard
Oil's latest product of benevolent as
simflation, is to be turned out at the
Wood River Refinery near Alton.
Preparations are being bade to maim
facture the product here and the ma
chinery that will do the milch cow
what the automobile did to the horse
has been shipped.
The new product will be known as
petrol butter. It Is said to be of the
same consistency as lacteal butter,
but it is brown in color. It lasts a
great deal longer than real butter, it
is said, and does not become rancid.
THE REAL TARIFF BILL
is Now Being Constructed by
the Conferees
Conferees Will Hold Morning, After
noon, and Evening Sessions It is
Doubted if An Agreement Can he
Reached Inside of Ten Days or Two
Weeks.
Washington, July 12 The tariff
conferees did not meet yesterday.
Beginning today, however, the sit
tings will be pract'cally continuous,
commencing at 10 o'clock in the
morning, with a a hour for luncheon,
followed by an afternoon session, a
recess of two hours for dinner, and a
night -sifting." Even under this pres
sure it is doubted if an agreement,
can be reached inside of ten days or
two weeks.
While members of the conference
committee were not in session they
were not permitted to spend a quiet
or restful Sunday. The hotels are
full of men representing interests
touche'd one way or the other by the
bill and they are clamoring to be ta
ken care of in conference. LTndoubt
edly many amendments of vital in
terest to certain industries were per
mitted to get into the bill in the sen
ate, merely to avoid discussion with
the purpose of acting upon them defi
nitely in conference.
Tho struggle now is to keep them
in or modify tlmm to suit the inter
ests of the men behind them. The
real; tariff bill is now being con
structed and the men whose indus
tries are affected will leave no stone
unturned to retain any advantage
they have derived or to remove any
harm that has been done I hem. This
is the day for the lobbyist to get in
his work, and the lobby is well rep
resented just now in Washington.
RUMOR IS FALSE,
Union Pacific Doesn't Own or Control
Illinois Central, But Does Own
30 Per Cent of Stock.
(By Leased Wire to The Titjfies)
Chicago, July 12 Ownership by
the Union Pacific Railroad of thirty
nine per cent, of the stock of the
Illinois Central is given by J. T. Hara
han, president of the Illinois Central
as the probable basis for the rumor
coming from New York that the road
he represents is to be absorbed by the
Union Pacific. Mr. Harahan, how
ever, believes the rumor is absolutely
untrue.
"It is a fact that the Union Pacific
owns thirty-nine per cent of the Illi
nois Central stock," he said, " but I
have heard of no attempt on the part
of the corporation to get complete
control of the Illinois Central. I
know something about it. It seems
absurd that such a consolidation
should be reported while Mr. Harri
man is in Europe.
"I feel sure enough to make a posi
tive dijnial of this rumor. Such a
deal never has been considered and I
hardly think if is being, considered
now. The Union Pacific has held
stock in the Illinois Central for sev
eral years."
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JUDGEW. R.ALLEN
DELIVERSCHARGE
TO GRAND JURY
He is Particularly Strong on
Enforcing Prohibition
Law
FIFTY-EIGHT JAIL CASFS
Judge Allen Discusses the Origin of
the Jury System and Courts Ex
presses Strong Faith in Trials by
Jury Criticisms Comes From
Those Who Are Misinformed
l i'S'.s Strict Enforcement of the
Prohibition Law County Homes.
Caring for Poor Not a Charity
hut a Privilege.
The July term of Wake superior
court began this morning at 10 o'clock
with Judge W. It. Allen, of Goldsboro,
presiding. A grand jury was quickly
selected and Judge Allen delivered a
strong charge to it. Mr. Thomas A.
Partin, of Raleigh, was selected for
foreman.
Judge Allen did not follow the
beaten path in charging the grand
jury, but branched out in a new way.
He dill that the grand jury did not
-d to be given definitions of crimes,
etc., and lie only wanted to call their
ittention to a few matters which were
sometimes overlooked.
He reviewed the growth of society
and described the origin of the court
md its development from primitive
iges down to the present duy. "There
was a time," said he, "when there was
no government, no society, and physi
cal force ruled supreme. Finally it
became necessary for the weak to com
bine in order to protect themselves
against the strong. From this union
government began. The idea of unit
ing for the good of the community
took root and finally it was found
necessary for the individual to sur
render to the community rights that
were harmful to others and then arose
the necessity of having some tribunal
to pass upon these rights, and the
court originated. Thus, the court, is
essentially of the people and its only
aim and end can be the attainment of
justice."
Judge Allen's discussion of the duties
of practicing attorneys as officers of
the court was very interesting. He
dcdai-ed the first duty of the lawyer to
be the administration of justice, and
he has no right to resort to subterfuge
or trick to hoodwink the court and
jury for his client.
In a few well chosen sentences Judge
Allen entered a strong defense of the
jury system. He said that there was
at times much criticism of the ver
dicts of juries, but that he had found
in his long experience that juries were
generally correct with their verdicts.
Criticism, he declared, nine times out
of ten when investigated, comes from
the man who does not so to the court
riuim at all. but who stays at his place'
of business and bases his criticism on
rumors: and generally the man who
criticises is a man who shirks jury
duty.
The judge raked the shirkers of jury
duty without mere1. He said that the
average business man, when summoned
for jury service, took it as a joke. As
the time drew near it gets serious and
he consults his lawyer, begging him
to have him excused, and on the first
day of court he falls back on the fam
ily physician and is -afflicted with some
chronic disease.
Judge Allen spoke for several min
utes on law enforcement and called
particular attention to the prohibition
law. Since the people have spoken
there can be no difference of opinion
about the prohibition law and its en
forcement is a necessity. He warned
the jurors that they must be perfectly
free and unbiased; that they could
not go into the box as a prohibitionist
or anti-prohibitionist any more than
they could go into it as a democrat or
as a repuhbliean. They enter the box
as sworn citizens and as such must
strive for law enforcement. "I had
rather see liquor sold in every town
and city in North Carolina openly and
with the sanction of law," said he,
"than to see on our statute books a
stringent prohibition law disregarded
and unenforced. There is nothing
more hurtful to the morals of the peo
ple than a law not enforced. .Where
the spirit of defiance to the laws ex
ists life, liberty and property are un
safe." He pleaded for sensible enforcement
of the prohibition law and declared
that to fine a retailer of whiskey was
to encourage him in the sale of it.
Ho reviewed the different degrees of
homicide from manslaughter to mur
der in the first degree, explaining each.
(Continued on page' Two.)
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