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STIKIODAY
The Insurgents Want the Privi
lege of Offering Amend
ments MANN IN THE BREACH
When Representative Henry Offered
the Democratic Rules He Stated
That the Republicans Would Have
the Privilege of Offering a Substi
tuteRepresentative Norris Asked
for PrvHege of Offering Amend
ments on Oround That Insurgents
Would Oct No Show From Regu
lars. -
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, April D The second day
of the extra session of the Sixty-second
congress opened with a wrangle over
the. rules to bu adopted by the new
house which developed Into a filibuster
led by Representative Mann, minority
lender.
After the routine business had boon
transacted, Representative Henry,
vhuirnmn of the. new rules committee,
sent to the desk a special rule pro
viding that the new rules of the house
should be the order of the day; that
four hour debate should be bad upon
the.ni, and that the republicans should
have the privilege of offering a sub
stitute for the demooratlo rules.
Representative Norris, of Nebraska,
leading insurgent, wan immediately on
his feet. '
"I ... wajii to know If We will not have
themselves probably will occupy the
a Chance to offer amendments," asked
Mr. Norris.
"We present these rules as a party
inoaau.ro, and will allow your party-to
present a substitute for them' re
plied Mr. Henry.
.Mr. Norris declared that this would
be entirely unsatisfactory, nnd Indi
cated that the changes desired by the
Insurgents might not be Included In the
republican substitute resolution,
"I guess you can fix that." said Mr.
Henry, who Is now the democratic
steam roller man;
"From past experiences I don't know
that " we can," said Mr. Norris. "We
would like to have the privilege of at
least offering amendments . to these
rules. As to our . party substitute I
bave not seen It," -..
Representative Mann, the minority
leader, stepped into the' breech and
with the suggestion that a forty min
utes debate be had before the Henry
resolution was adopted, inaugurated a
filibuster! The debate on the rules
themselves probably will occpuy the
entire session today.
CARTES HARRISON
HAS BIG MAJORITY
(By Leased Wire to The TJmesO
Chicago, April 5-For the fifth time
Carter Harrison today is the- CMeagjp's
choice fop mayor. H& was elected ;over
Charles E. , Merrlam, republican, by a
plurality of 17,133 and Monday will be
Inaugurated for a four year term. He
received 177,923 votes again Merriam's
100,791..
The big; plurality was more or less
of a surprise to politicians who ex
pectcdtho race to be much closer.
By , his election for the fifth time
Harrison has. equalled the feat of his
father, the first Carter H. Harrison,
who also Horvcd four ; terms running
and then was elected for a fifth term.
The election will result in a cleaning
out of the city hull which for several
years has, been the center of a numr
"bahof graft charges.
Aerilam, whose candidacy for mayor
wan tpade possible by bis work at the.
: head , of the. Mcrriufn commission In the
city council, which spent J80.000 In ex
posing the city graft, probably owes
his defeat to his connection with this
body. : Ho wan appointed to the chair
manshift by Busae and was regarded as
friendly to the Buss administration.
With the exception of William E.
Rodriguez, socialist, who polled 21,759
votes, the other candidates bad scarce
ly enough to count. They were Wil
liam A. Brubaker, a prohibitionist, with
2,338 votes, and Anthony Prince, social
ist labor with 1,067.
Harrison carried with him forty-one
democratic candidates for the city
council, leaving a majority of twelve
'In that body for his administration.
Besides this, Francis D. Connery, dem
ocrat,, was elected vily clerk and Henry
Stuukert, democrat, city treasurer . -i
The election was the quietest Ih many
years.- ,'-''-... '-. ... ,
According to of fleers-of tha election
commission and county courts the bal
knitiff was raw from election frauds.
MAY PAY FOR COTTON
New Law Opens Way to Col
lect War Claims
About $300,000 Belongs to North
Carolina and Her Citizens AiH
Southern States Interested North
. Carolina Patronage Senator Mar
tin Minority Leader.
- Times Bureau
Congress Hall Hotel,
II. L. C. Bryant.
Washington, April 5 "The act to
codify, revise and amend the laws re
lating to the judiciary," said .Senator
Simmons yesterday, "passed March 3,
1911, section 162, confers upon the court
of claims the right to hear and de
termine claims of all persons whose
property was taken subsequent to June
jl, 1865, under tho captured and aband
oned property act, so called, where the
property taken was sold and the net
proceeds thereof placed In tho United
Slates treasury, and requires Hint the
net proceeds be turned over to the
owners thereof on the Judgment of the
court of claims, which is given full
Jurisdiction in said claims and the act
expressly waives the statute of lim
itations applying to actions for such
property."
This will make Interesting reading
for 'North Carolina people for they are
entitled lo more than J3C0.O00 of money.
: The act. declared Senator Simmons,
i covers what are known as the cotton
seizure claims. He called attention to
i the fact that, as shown by executive
i document No. 23, on the 43rd congress,
second session, the state of , North
Carolina in her own right has a claim
of 331 bales seized at Thomasvillc. Gu.,
August 15, 1865, this evidently being
the cairn that Governor Glenn tried
to collect, but owing to a defect In the
law, as then existing, no considerable
progress was made. But, in view of
recent legislation, there seems to be
no difficulty in the way of collecting
the claim now.
In addition to this claim various and
sundry citizens of the stnte are en
titled to recover money received for
about 1700 bales of cotton seized by
D. Heaton, supervising special agent,
New Bern, amounting to about $300.0CO.
, Senator Simmons thinks that the
proper claimant of this cotton can get
his money by bringing suit and estab
lishing ownership,
Several sessions ago Scnutor Simmons
Introduced a bill referring these cotton
claims to the court of claims.
This cotton was collected as follows:
From Capt. J. D. Stubb, at Raleigh:
E. H. Willis, Plymouth; Capt. C. A.
KLyon, Graham; W. H. McChesney,
Warren county; William Sloan, Char
lotte; J. Worth, Graham; Capt. C: A.
Lyon, Greensboro; Capt. William
Heath, Halifax.
Collections . were made from, Don
nelly & Co., James Dawson, L. De
Uebian, It. A. Young & Co., and W.
J. Gopp. '.-'.
All cotton producing southern mates
are Interested- In this law.
The North Carolina delegation, not
including- Representatives Pou and
Godwin who 'are to be chairmen of
committees, will have about $11,000 In
patronage to give out, that being about
tJ.OOO to: tho congressman. This will
go to constituents for service here In
Washington. In other words that is
tho Old North State's share of the pie
resulting front an old time democratic
victory. There is nothing wrong about
It- Somebody must : perform certain
duties at the national capital. .North
Carolinians are showing a commendable-
desire to do their part.
The - Tar Heel representatives met
Monday and discussed; the matter but
came to no definite conclusion. The
committee provided by the party caucus
will, have a say in what the, state is
to get.- .;.-.'.'.: '
The entire delegation' Is here; Sen
ator .-.Simmons came Monday. .Senator
Overman arrived the day before. ,
A great battle with muffled1 guns
has been waged here over the minority
leader of the senate. Senator Thomas
S. Martin, of Virginia, one of the
smoothest of the smooth politicians.
Will be ch6sen. Some cunning hand
has put him In the lead without much
effort. It is said now- that he will win
hands down. The election will be held
Wednesday or Thursday.
This means that- the "progressive
democrats" the ones led by Owen and
Gore of Oklahoma have fallen before
the guns of Senators Martin, Simmons,
Foster and others.
SEARCH FOR WEAPONS.
Visitors to Vatican Will be Searched
As Result of Outbreak.
(By Cable to The Times)
Rome, April B After. today every
visitor entering the Vatican will be
searched for concealed weapons. The
authorities decided upon this course
as a result of the outbreak cf the sup
posed maniac, Pletro Pizantl, In St.
Peter's yesterday, when he Hred sev
eral revolver shots at the canons who
were engaged In the recitation of the
beviary "in choir". Pizantl was
again examined by the police today.
He admitted the attempt at assassi
nation, declaring that he had tried
to kill . Papal , Secretary Cardinal
Merry Del Vol and Cardinal Ram
poll i; .
"I hope my action will- encourage
other anti-i'lcrlfttls," he declared to
tho police.
CAPITOL BUILDING AND INTERESTING FIGURES IN NEW CONGRESS.
At the top mi Senator ISoisc I'on
rosc, of IVnnsylviinia (on the rivjit),
who, as chairman l the I- malice
Committee, will have charge ot the
tariff legislation in the senate, ami
Hepiesentatlvc ictor Bcrgor, of
Milwaukee, the llrst and only social-
THK Ri:CII'IS()('ITV lill.L.
President Taft Awaiting With Inter,
est Democratic Action on the Hill.
Washington, April 5 President
Taft Is awailuif? with inteivst the
action of the sixty-second congress
with reference to the ono mutter lor
consideration of which tho session
was called the ratification of the
proposed reciprocity .-agreement be
tween the I'nited States and Canada
Considerable comment and sur
prise has been caused by the fact that
Speaker Clark, in outlining the dem
ocratic program, made no reference
to reciprocity.
The democrats have said, however,
that they will pass the proposed
agreement before the end ot the ses
sion. The president's message will be
sent to congress today. Reciprocity
with Canada will be the only issue
discussed. The message will be In
sharp contrast, to the elaborate proj
gram outlined by Mr. Clark.
SPEAKER CLARK AND
RECIPROCITY Bill
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, Apill 3 Speaker Clark
today denied he .had intentionally omit
ted reference to Canadian reciprocity
in outlining the -democratic, program
yesterday.
"I have been for Canadian reciprocity
25 years," he said. "I do not know
when Mr, Taft became converted but
when lie sent his reciprocity bill to
the capltol nil .democrats- except fivo
voted for it, and he could not pass it
through a republican senate,-: The dem
ocrats are for reciprocity but I couldn't
mention every thing in a live-minutes
speech yesterday. .1 was talking on the
promises '.made by the dcinoevH be
fore election and It is a political trick
whenever anyone attempts lo make
capttul out of the fact that I did not
refer to reciprocity .which-, the- democrats-
have favored since .1X041"
(JHARLOTTE'S NEW S1AVOR.
Dr. Charles A. lllund to Succeed
Mayor Hawkins.'
(Special to The Times.)
Charlotte, April 5 Jn a hutly con
tested primary yesterday Dr. Charles
A. Bland defeated T. W. Hawkins, the
present encumbent," .for the democratic
nomination for mayor of .Charlotte,
winning by a majority of 188 votes.
Tho workers for both candidates were
quite active throughout the day and
a large vote was polled.' The following
were nominated for aldermen:
W. F. Stevens, J. P. Carr, W. S.
Matthews. H. F. Stokes, J. W. Lewis,
C. M. Strong, W. .. Vatsou, A. M.
Gulllett, F O. Landis, R. J. Sifford. J.
C. Hunter, W. W. Phifer. E. S. Wil
liams, IS. I Maspn, J. L. Sexton, E, W.
Thompson, J. C. Montgomery,, o. L.
Dunn, J. A. Austin, V. Lj Klslcr and
L, W. WngaU,
a.
i.-t in Congress
lieloiv, troll! lelt to
riuht, urf: Repiv.sentatiie Oscar In-
Brains of the Camorra Tells
Story
'riolcssoire Papi" Prolosscs His In
nocence of Crime Is-'lreasurer of
the Cainorro Is Wealthy and Has
Boastful on the Stand.
- (fly Cable- to The Times.)
' Vlterbu. Italy. April 5 'the treasurer
of the - Neapolitan Cuinona, (iiovanni
ltapi- icputed to l)e the real brains
of tlie terrorist organization.- took the
stand in the -Assize court today and
added his professions of innocence to
those of his fellow defendants who have
testified before him.
Ilapi stands next in interest to Kh
l ico ,ifano, 1Im' ; president '-. of "Hie
beautiful society." He Is -rleh," owning
gsmbling hoiisis and money lending
inslittitlons in Naples, Home', Ostein!
and Paris. .
: lu early life Uiipi was school teaeli
r hence is frequently kiMUvn as "I'io
fessor ltapi." a name wliteh he il1;
liglils to use.
When the Canionlsl treasurer 'begun
testifying today he was the center of
interest from President Bianchi, of
the court, down to the spectators. Ap
pteclating the aiteiitfon he was at
tracting Itapl - spoke In a loud, boast
ful tone of voice, waving his -'arms
above Ills bead. : Ho was stylishly
dressed in a new suit of fashionable
cut' which lie had .made especially , for
this oceusnJIi,
- "I am a man of aristoclalic con
nections ami I feel this disgrace keen
ly," cried- llie witness. "I am innnoccnt
of all. charges against '-me and I can
assure this honorable .court iioou my
woid as air honorable gentleman, that
I know , nothing' of the, murders : of
(lulinaro t'uot'Cullo or his wire Tbeas
urer . !albintl, of the city -of. Naples,
Is' -my warm', friurid: and we both move
In tin; same circles of society. Would
he associate with' n criminal? Would
'he prize--my-.friendship as I do his if
1 was a murderer or a thief'.' If I was
nut innocent I would never have come
Into Italy from France, llius risking
urrost." '
Rupl t unfed frequently to the liews
pupcr corresiioudenls . addressing Ills
remarks to tlieni rather than the
court, '. - ; -
ltapi. who Is the beau Brummcl of
the Camorra declared that his arrest
was the result of a conspiracy on the
part of the Carabineers. As he made
this ' charge -De Mitrinis, one of the
prisoners In the steel cage, began to
shout In a loud voice "So are we all."
Gennaro Abatcmaggio, upon whose
confession the Indictment of Rani was
found, smiled cynically at the denials
of the "professore."
No Itookmaking at Norfolk.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Norfolk, 'April 5 There will be no
tolegraph) wires into the Jamestown
Jockey Club race track for the race
meeting which began today. This was
to prevent apy possible , violation of
law, state r interstate.
(ienvood, of Alabama, cliainnan oi
the Ways nnd Means Coiiiinittce ot
he House, who will frame all tariff
legislation; Champ ( lark, the Speak
er of the House, nnd Senator Cum
iiiiiin, oi Iowa, one of the leading in.
surgi-nts in the Senate.
IXSl lUilCNTS OS COMMITTEES.
HesRlarH (irimt. Them Their Demand
Kor Comnnttce AssignmentH.
Wa:di!nat;in, April 5 After sevr
urjil secret, conferences, in which
they agreed to iicl as n unit, the -progressive
senators, Borah, Bourne,
Hristow, Brown, Clapp, Crawford,
Cummins, Dixon, Gronna, IjaFollctte,
Poindextor, and Works, have forced
the old guard republicans in the sen
ate to neenrd them full recognition in
all committee assignments.
Tlie progressives insisted upon the
right to designate their own mem
bers to such conimiUee assignments
as they niav select lor them. This
approaches the revolutionary in the
senate but.it has been accepted bv
the regulars.
( loudhui'st in Kentucky.
(By Leased Wire to Tho Times.)
Lexington, Ky., April ."over a mil
lion -dollars damage lias been done at
Middlehovo, Ky., .and vicinity by a
cloiulbtirst. No lies are reported lost.
T
AT
(My Leased Wire to The Times.)
; Springfield,. : Ills., April a H, fl.
Kohlsaal, publisher of the Chicago
Record-Herald today test Hied before
the state senate investigating -com-,
niillee, that Clarence S. Funk, of the
lnernational Harvester Company, wus
the inan who told him that pool of
$1C0.i) had been raised to elect Wil
liam Lorimer to the United. 'States' sen
ate. ."
Kohlsaat's. testimony Was a bomb
shell in . -the court room where tho
hearings are being held.
: He took the stand under a threat
of being sent to, jail for contempt )f
he refused to divulge the name of his
Informant. .'',
The lnternntional Harvester Com
pany is one of I lu;' biggest corporations
in tho world. ;
ARIZONA AGAIN.
Joint Resolution to Admit Arizona
und New Mexico Introtlucud. ' . '-'.-(By
Leased Wire to The Tillies.)
Washington, April is The first fight
between the administration and the
senate insurgents today when a Joint
resolution by Senator Norris Brown,
of Nebraska, culling for the approval
of the constitutions adopted by the
constitutional conventions of the terri
tories of New Mexico and Arizona and
admission of those territories as states
of the union was introduced in the sen
ate. , There Is little opposition to tho ad
mission of New Mexico as a slate, but
Arizona has proved to be obnoxious to
President Taft and nany rep'ubllcans
In the house nod senate because- th
constitution of the territory - seeking
statehood provides for the initiative,
referendum and recall.
DEMOCRAT ARE AriuiY
Will Introduce a New Recipro
city Bill
Republicans Stole a March on Them
Ky Introducing the Mct.nll Hill
New Hill Will Embody All the
Principles of (he Original Hill.
(By Leased Wire to Tlio Times.)
- Washington, ..April 5.Anry , be-;'
cause the Republicans stole a march i
on them by Hcpresentative McCall. !
ItojHihlicuM, of Massachusetts, -introducing-
th" McCall ..Canadian reci
procity bill m tiio House, Democratic
representatives set out Lodav lo oil
set tins thiit oi Democratic, thunder
bv framing a reciprocity bill of their
own which they will substitute tor
the original McCall bill. Despite the
tact that Speaker Clark did not men
tion reciprocity in his "speech ot
pledges' .in accepting the Speaker
ship of the House, -. Lie Democrats
are apparently committed to it
through t.iPir platform of tariff
changes.
President Taft is said to be entire
ly s-r.tisfied with tne outlook for his
ret measure m the present Congress,
his feeling of security being strength
ened bv the compact organization ot
the progressive Republicans in the
upper chamber.
According to the tentative plans
under discussion by Democratic lead
ers, the new reciprocity bill, framed
lor introduction by a Democrat, will
embody all the principles of the orig
inal McCall bill, the changes being
of no primary importance and only
written into '.the ' measure to allow
of its introduction and precedence
over the McCall bill.
The new reciprocity bill will prob
ablv be introduced in the House
within the next fortnight by Repre
sentative I nderwood, of Alabama,
chairman ot the House Ways and
Means committee. It is unlikely that
there will be .much delay over the
measure there due to the fact that,
in the discussions of the last session
of the Sixty-first Congress the var
ious features and clauses of the act
were gone into in detaiL These dis
cussions developed all the informa
tion necessary to a thorough under
standing of the measure.
Presient Taft desires quick action
on the measure on account of the
fact that business in the Canadian
parliament is being held up pending
the action ot the American Congress
upon the reciprocity pact.
The Democratic reciprocity pact
will not encounter real danger until
it reaches the Senate. There are both
Democrats and insurgents in the up
per house who are hostile to the
measure and they are carefully plan
ning its --annihilation just as it was
killed in the .Senate. -in the last Con
gross. .. ; ' ;
This plan in the Senate is to de
feat the measure with an amendment
including articles not mentioned in
the original draft. The discussions
of the "most favored nation" feature
of tho Canadian reciprocity act in
both Paris and London since the ad
journment of the last Congress will
be used by opponents of reciprocity.
They will point to the possibility ot
tariff embroilments with foreign na
tions if concessions are granted to
Canada w hich arc not given to other
nations.
However, despite all these fea
lures. President Taft evidently, looks
for success In the Senate as well as
the House.
A new element which gave rise to
considerable discussion today devel
oped from the Democratic plan ot
introducing u new reciprocity, meas
ure,' The main quetslon which is
being asked is:
"Will President Taft affix his slg
nnture to a Democratic ; measure?'
No one volunteers an answer to this
query at I ho .present'. - However, it is
generally believed that redprocU
in some form will he established tit
the present session.
North Carolina Postmasters.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, April 5 The president
sent to the senate today the following
nominations for United Slates post
masters:
John M. Burrows. Asheboro; Warren
V. Hall, North Charlotte; Moses L,
Buchanan. Concord; Frank D. Dickey,
Murphy; John G, Brown, Red Springs.
New Brunswick Opposes Reciprocity.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
, Eredericlon, N. B., April 5. Tbo
New Brunswick legislature today
voted down indorsement of reciproc
ity between the United States, and
Canada by a vote of 16 , to-2&. Lib
erais composed the orposltloh,
PRESIDENT'S
MESSAGE IS
VERY SHORT
' - - '
It Deals Only With tilt Reci
procity Agreement With
Canada
THE MESSAGE IN FULL
President Sent His Message to CofH
: gross Today Immediately AftCC
Noon He Urges the Immediat
Pussuge of the Bill for tho Benettt
of Both Nations MesMge Con
tains Only 578 Words, tho Short
est Ever Sent to Any Openliuf of
Congress.
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Washington, April : 6. President
Taft today sent to Congress a me
sage bringing immediate consider
ation of the reciprocity pact with"
Canada, lie urged the passage of
the bill lor the benefit of. both .na
tions. The message was the shortest
ever sent by any president at the
opening of Congress, containing" only
5 78 words. Reciprocity was tile only
issue taken up by the President,
The message was sent to Congress
mniediately after it met at noon .to
day and after routine business In the
Senate had been disposed of, the
reading of the menage began.
Tho Message.
To the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives; --
I transmitted to the Sixty-first
Congress on January 26, last; the
text of the reciprocal trade aSfe? (
nient which had been negotiated un'
der my direction by the Secretary of.
State with the representatives or the
Dominion of Canada. This agree
ment was the consumation of earnest
efforts, extending over a period of
nearly a year on the part of both
governments to effect a trad ar
rangement, which, supplementing as
it did the nmicable settlement of
various questions of a diplomatic and
political character that had. been
reached, would mutually promote
commerce and would strengthen the
friendly relations now existing; -
The agreement in its intent and In
its terms was purely economic and
commercial. : While the general sub
ject was under discussion by the
commissioners I felt assured that the
(Continued on Page Two.)
DEFENSE OF BATH
TUB TRUST OFFICIALS
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
Detroit. Mich., April 5-Full plans
for the defense of the thirty-two. in
dicted bath tub trust members; who
will be placed on trial in federal court
May i6, have been made at a con
fcience here of tho law offices of
Stephenson, Carpenter & Butnell 'and
ovcry one of the defendants 'a rep
resented personally, or by. attorney
Besides the members of the local
law firm there were present , Attorney
Noble, McLaln and Messlmcr, of MW
York: Attorney Patterson and focrntr
Lieutenant Lyon, of Pittsburg; .
torney Moses of Chlcugo; At,t0rh(iy
McFall, of. Indianapollsr Attorney
Brucker, of Mansfield, O., and-Mtorney
Carry and Judge Flllus of Warred. .
Among the bath tub men at the meet
ing were Messrs. Ahrens, of Pittsburg;
lloelschcr, of Chicago, and Reed Car
penter," -of Warren. (. : f .: ',
Al the utLorneys wcro fcatumcd that
they will be able to put up a Strong
detenso of the indicted men. They1
contend that the case hinges on lr)o
exact classification of the Arrett ,PvU
enl, for the use of which license ,Wre
Issued to 16 Indicted firms thus creat
ing tho alleges trust.
Lotting Suffragettes Off.
(By Cable to The Tlmei.) '
London, April 5 The. British.. JtaV-..
eminent will not Institute legal pro
ceedings against the suffragettes lh
evading the enumerators. This an
nouncement was made in the house bf
commons today. John Burns, the Idbor
leader, in addressing the. hous, MIA:
"I am sure that the attempt ot tUe
women to evade the census- tsjtefs '
will have no apprecWWwefKtwpen
the statlhllcs rln.i to the small Amw-
oer wrro- rere- not' counted: Th kov