1 V0L XVI> YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY MARCH 3, 1909. NO. 1.
NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS
Occurrences gf Interest Gleamed From All Sectious gf the Bes|
TVr Heel State
EDITOR VARNER’S EXCURSION.
Takes Train Load of Farmers From
Davidson County to see Mecklen
burg Roads.
Charlotte, Special.—A splid train
of prosperous farmers, some of them
accompanied by their wives and
children, arrived at the Southern de
pot Friday morning from various
parts of Davidson county, and
spent the day taking in the sights
of the city and having such a time
as many of them have never exper
ienced before.
It is the only time in the history
oi the town in all probability, when
the farmers have taken it by storm
The party traveling on a special
train, furnished for their private use,
and knowing that they were the
guests of honor and the centime of in
terest wherever they went, could not
but feel jubilant and as they began
to pour out from the cars upon their
arrival here it looked as if they were
going to cover the whole face of the
earth around the Southern depot. A
large number of the people of the
city were on hand to see the novel
sight of a train load of well-to-do
farmers, some of them coming to
spend their first holiday in a city,
and to take note of the farmers in
the lime-light, where they had
been placed through the effoits
of Mr. II. B. Varner, editor of The
Lexington Dispatch, who had each
member of his party carfeullv tagged
with a blue ribbon, so that the pub
lic might be positive in its identifi
cation of the members of the agri
cultural excursion.
inc plan ot bringing as many of
his fellow-farmers, as ho styles his
party, to Mecklenburg, was conceiv
ed by Mr. Varner several months ago,
and the selection of fifty or sixty
special guests was accomplished
through a newspaper contest. The
idea to bring the farmers here at
once became very popular with the
farmers of Davidson and the trip for
many weeks has been held in keenest
anticipation by many of them.
The ’dea, as planned by Mr. Var
ner, to bring the farmers to the
county and give them a first-hand
view of the roads of this county, is
considered the best method yet bv
which to increase interest in good
roads and to arouse enthusiasm for
better road facilities.
The party numbered more .than
100. More than half of them were
designated by the blue ribbon as
Mr. Varner’s prize guests, the others
taking an equally deep interest took
advantage of the time and occasion
to see Mecklenburg good roads. After
riding over the city in trolley cars
and into the county in automobiles,
buggies, etc., and viewing the coun
try around from the top of the
Realty building, where they could
view the Blue Ridge and other inter
esting scones, they repaired to the
Selwyn hotel where speech making
was in order besides a luncheon at
12 and dinner at 6 o’clock. The
party left for heme at 0 p. m.
Ready to Develop Power.
Hickory, Special.—Col. M. E.
Thornton, president of the Water
Power Electric Company, of Hickory,
N. C., has at last arranged for his
company to acquire the shoals above
his, and having options on the
riparian rights above it can now pro
ceed with the construction of the
dam across the Catawba river at
Hickory for the development of his
proposed hydro-electric plant. The
, initial installation will be for $6,500
horse power. Col. Thornton has gone
to New \ ork to complete arrange
ments for construction and equip
ment to commence at once,
Cotton Gin is Burned.
Spencer, Special.—A cotton gin be
' • ionging to Kluttz and Linn, near
Spencer, was destroyed by fire short
ly before daylight Tuesday morning,
entailing a loss of $2,500. with no
insurance, The owners believe the
fire to have been of incendiary origin
as tho plant has not been operated
for ten days. There is evidence that
hlght riders have gotten in tbeir
work in Rowan county.
Durham to Have Far'd Firemen.
Durham, Special.—Final prepara
tions were made by the board Wed
nesday night for the paid and par
tially paid fire department, when a
combination hose and chemical wa
gon and another 1,099 feet-of hose
wore ordere. The orders were sent off
Wednesday. This made a total of
2.500 feet of hose ordered since the
beginning of the new year. The new
paid firemen will go on duty on Mon
day. Four at each station and seven
runners to a company, who will be
partially paid.
Carthage Buggy Co., in Hands of a
r Receiver.
Carthage, Special.—On application
of a number of the creditors of the
Carthage Buggy Co., made to Judge
W. J. Adams in chambers here last
Saturday night, C. S. Brewer was
appointed temporary receiver and the
case was continued to March 3rd for
a further hearing before Judge Biggs,
on application to make the temporary
receivership permanent,
SETTLEMENT WITH SEMINOLE.
Southern Life Insurance Company
Returns $109,786 and Complicated
Matter is Ajusted.
Fayetteville, Special.— Consider
able interest has been felt in a com
plete transaction by which to the
Seminole Securities Company, for
South Carolina has contemplated the
transfer of a block of stock of the
Southern Life Insurance Company of
this city. On account of misunder
standings in the details of the trade
the transaction was canceled an de
clared “off.” The Southern Life In
surance Company has now settled
with the Seminole Company for the
amount of money received from that
corporation, by returning to the re
ceivers of the securities company
$109,785. This leaves only the re
maining details to be closed up in
order to complete the final settle
ment and cancel the entire matter.
The members of the agency force of
the Southern Life are congratulat
ing themselves on a satisfactory set
tlement of this somewhat delayed
transaction as it enables them to re
sume the successful execution of the
business which was temporarily in
terrupted by this unfortunate compli
cation.
Two Fatal Accidents.
Selma, Special.—Selma and vicin
ity was the scene of two horrible
accidents Monday. Arthur Ilare, the
son of Mayor Hare, and a young man
of bright promise, accidently shot
himself with No. 22 rifle. The doc
tors say his bowels were perforated
in six places, and very little hope is
entertained for his recovery. Abra
ham Batten, an uncle of the man
charged with the murder of Charlie
Brown, was found dead Tuesday
afternoon, shot through the head. His
gun was found on the opposite side
of the fence, and it is supposed that
in crossing the fence the gun went
off it falling on one side and the
body on the other.
Cotton Mill Floors Settle.
Concord, Special.—With a creak
and a slow downward movement, the
three floors of the north end of the
big Gibson Mills, located in the north
western part of this city, sank to a
depth of probably six feet-Saturday
afternoon, caused by the crumbling
of a pillar which subsequently
caused the giving away of the beams
underneath the building, probably
affecting the foundation. There were
four hundred hands at work in the
immense structure and when they
realized what was taking place a
mild panic ensued, although not one
sustained the slightest Injury, though
two or three young women fainted.
Woman Was Blacklisted.
Wndesboro, Special.—Suit for
damages in the sum of $50,000 has
boon brought by Mrs. Emma L. Rich
ardson against P. T. Rhyne. 'Mrs.
Richardson claims that she has been
blacklisted by the Retail Merchants’
Association wrongfully and asks
damages from Mr. Rhyne, a meat
dealer, because of libel resulting. The
suit is a novel one, the first of the
kind brought here. The Retail Mer
chants’ Association, is a new organi
zation for the protection of local
merchants and their rule is to refuse
credit to those whose names appear
on the blacklist. The standing of
the association will largely depend
on the result of the suit.
Dunn Lawyer Killed by Train.
Dunn, Special.—On Broad street
crossing at 7:30 Saturday freight
trains, shifting and hacking, ran over
Hon. W. A. Stewart, a prominent at*
torney, crushing him to pieces,
Twenty Pound Baby.
Wadesboro, Special.—Wadesboro
has the biggest baby yet reported in
the State. This baby is the child of
Waiter Little and wife, well known
colored people living here and weigh
ed Sid pound* when born lost Mon
day. The child 1* oppsorently doing
well. Tlje parents or* the produeat
couple in the town.
Pot of Gold Pound.
Washington, Special.—A .iar of
coins, aggregating $1,225. which is
alleged to be part of the money
stolen from the Forsyth Bank and
Trust company of- Kernersville, N.
0., was dug up from bneath a dwell
ing Wednesday where it had been
buried in that city by the robber,
a wording to advices received by the
detective bureau here. Deputy
Sheriff Robert Flint of Kernersville
left here for North Carolina Wed
nesday Avith Gaither Bodenhamer, a
young man avIio Avas arrested by the
Washington police charged Avith hav
ing stolen more than $2,000.
Reception to Legislators.
Raleigh, Special.—The formal re
ception by Governor and Mrs.-Kitfch
in to the members of the General
Assembly was held Tuesday night
under especially pleasing auspices,
hundreds'" of people of Raleigh, who
have paid their respects to Governor
and Mrs. Kitchin since the inaugura
tion being >among the invited guests,
WITH N. C. LAWMAKERS
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Doings of the State Legislature Con
densed—Interesting Items from
Day to Day.
The following are. some of the new
bills offered in the Senate Monday:
Ormond: Amend article 8 of the
constitution relating to corporations
other than municipal.
Ormond: Amend Chapter 100, Re
visal, relative to domestic insurance
companies.
Starbuck: Permit judgments on
appeal bonds where bankrupts are
defendant.
Doughton: Amend 4007 Revisal re
lative to the annual appropriation for
education.
Fry: Incorporate Southern Assem
bly.
President Kluttz announced to the
Senate that the Attorney General had
furnished a ruling that the power and
authority of the President Pro Tern,
to ratify bills in the absence of the
Lieutenant Governor was ample and
sufficient.
A resolution was sent forward by
Mr. Scott that when the Senate ad
journ it do so in honor of George
Washington. This was put upon its
immediate passage.
The following new bills of general
interest were introduced in the House
Monday:
Gaston: Amend Revisal 450 rela
tive to the prosecution and defense
bonds in cities and counties.
Graham: Regulate the distribution
of samples of proprietary and patent
medicines from house to house.
Dowd: Amend Revisal 2870 in re
gard to building and loan associations
so as to limit their authority to bor
row money to an aggregate equal to
one-third of the capital stock.
McNeely: Make all roads now
traversed by rural mail delivery
routes public roads.
The revenue bill was, on motion of
Chairman Dowd, taken up, the House
going into committee of the whole for
this purpose. Representative Koonce
was called to the chair.
Wrr#n Section 32, real estate egents
was reached, there was a discussion
over persons not attorneys being tax
ed for drawing deeds and contracts
for pay, but it was decided to adopt
the section as it is now in the law,
several amendments being voted
down.
At 12:30 o’clock the committee of
the whole arose and reported progress
through Section 32.
Mr. Hayes offered the resolution
that w'hen the House adjourn it do so
in honor of George Washington.
On motion of Mr. Dowd the reve
nue and machinery acts were made
the special ord<?r again for Tuesday.
At 2:30 the Ylouse took recess till
8 at night.
The night session of the House
was enlivened with spicy debates on
local fish and liquor questions, with
the result that the bill to regulate the
placltg of stationery nets in Neuse
and Trent rivers, Pamlico county,
was sent back to the committee; and
the Buncombe bill of Mr. Weaver,
tightening the prohibition law in that
! county with the purpose of prevent
ing the near-beer establishments of
Asheville from selling intoxicating
liquors under cover of their legiti
mate business, was tabled amid ap
plause. The Buncombe bill called
forth a vigorous protest from Mr.
Morton on account of the provision
allowing search of premises.
The Burke county bill had passed
prohibiting illegal sale of liquor after
Mr. Sigmon had removed the section
allowing search of premises for pos
session of more than two and a half
gallons. Mr. Weaver offered an
amendment to his bill that made a
regular search warrant necessary in
order to examine premises after com
plaint made, but still the opponents
were not satisfied and after king be
bate killed the'bill.
The Senate discussion of anti-trust
legislation, “teeth” and no “teeth,”
or rather what character of “teeth”
shall be given the present anti-trust
act, began Tuesday, continued for
two hours and then went over until
Wednesday, when it was resumed ad
infinitum. There were two speeches
Senator Lockhart for his original
substitution "A" bill and Senator
Bassett, of thft 11 Blow-Bassett sub
stitute,' which superseded the Lock
hart bill in taking favorable report
at the hands of the judiciary com
mittee.
Among the bills introduced in the
Senate was one by Senator Lockhart,
authorizing the Corporation Commis
sion to regulate hydro-electric com
panies.
The House was in committee of the
whole again most of Tuesday on the
revenue bill, and the first going-over
is not finished yet. The most impor
tant results were taxing automobile
dealei's $25 privilege tax; including
marine railway in the section taxing
ship brokers; putting the $25 tax on
liverymen who sell more than five
horses in six months; increasing the
tax on sewing machine manufactur
ers and dealers from $350 to $450 and
raising the 50-cent fee for each agent
to $2 applying the peddlers’ tax to
all those having free or paid shows
to draw business, and exempting
blind peddlers from the tax; reducing
the tax on lighting-rod agents from
$50 to $25; reducing the slot machine
tax from $2.50 to $1.50 and exempt
ing those where drinking water is
sold at a cent a glass; including un
der "packing house tax of $100 all
wholesale dealers in meat packing
house products who own and operate
cold storage plants in the State and
exempting all not handling over 25r
uuu pounds a year* putting Orl deal
ers in beerine, near-beer attd all
drinks containing as much as one
half of one per cent alcohol a tax of
$20.
Mr. Hayes’ bill for the division of
the acts of the Legislature into pub
lic, private and public-local was pass
ed on final reading. It is understood
that it will save from $2,000 to $4,000
to the State in binding.
The Senate on Wednesday passed
many local measures, reived a great
number of new local bills and spent
two hours discussing the anti-trust
legislation before recess was taken to
S p. m., when the anti-trust bills were
under discussion again. Senator Or
mond, for the Lockhart bill, and Sen
ator Travis, for the Bassett-Blow
substitute, were the speakers. Sen
ator Lockhart stole a march on the
opponents of his sub-section “A”
bill by offering it as an amendment
for all but the enacting clause of the
Bassett-Blow substitute.
Among the bills largely of local
nature was one to incorporate Caro
lina Railway and Power Company.
The House, after a spirited discus
sion, voted 52 to 4S to table the Em
pie bill that had already assed the
Senate to rohibit selling quail in the
State, etc.
The consideration of the rvenue
bill in committee of the whole for
second reading was completed and
the bill put through ready for the
final grind of third reading. The
graduated tax on cigarette dealers
and manufacturers was raised so that
it will bg.$250 for 230,000,000 cigar
ettes and range up to $1,500 for 500,
000,000 iigarettes output. This was
a most important change.
The House committee on public
buildings and grounds decided by un
animous vote to recommend the en
alrgement of the Capitol building at
a cost not to exceed $500,000 and the
erection of a new agricultral build
ing to cost $150,000, the total bond
issue to be $650,000.
A great number of petitions were
introduced in printed form from
numerous counties of the State ask
ing for an election on amendment to
Urn constitution as to the homestead
exemption.
With the unlucky number of 13
votes cast in its favor to 33 against
it, sub-section “A,” of the proposed
antitrust legislation, went down in
defeat Thursday afternoon in the
State Senate after the biggest argu
mentative contest that has character
ized this session of the Assembly and
not inferior to that of the famous
contest in the 1907 Legislature when,
undet^ie leadership^!! Hon. Reuben
ReisL^^ Rockingham, yub-section
wtuoiyEgungeiJ^frotnjyfic anti
trust legisIa!jton”"un je^g®arrow mar
gin of one vote. Jf K
The Senate passer on final reading
the genral educational bill, carrying
machinery for special tax in all coun
ties, with increased State appropria
tion for maintaining four-mouths
school in every school district in the
State.
The House on Thursday cleared the
calendar of a goodly number of local
bills on thi'd reading. The two fol
lowing are of public interest:
The House Thursday night passed
the firemen’s relief fund bill on final
reading, after discussion.
The bill to issue bonds in the sum
of $500,000 for carrying out the pur
poses of ti e Bickett act of 1907 to
enlarge and equip the State hospitals
for the insane was laid before the
House. Se\ eral members of the mi
nority began to ask questions about
it and Dr. Gordon for the committee
explained that it would include $250,
000 obligation already incurred in en
larging the hospitals at Morganton
and Raleigh, and leave enough for
some appropriations to the other in
stitutions for permanent improve
ments; then no further sums would
be needed for improvements for the
next ten years.
There wore some questions by way
of objections asked that brought out
a most forceful defense of the bill
by Senator Doughton. The bill pas
sed its second reading.
In both branches of the Legisla
ture Friday was read the report of
the select committee appointed to
romper the sensational report of the
auditing committee of the Inst Legis
lature that investigated the offices of
State Treasurer, Auditor and Insur
ance Commissioner. The report is
signed by all the members of the
joint committee, including the Repub
licans, and is of great length. It
finds that all the Auditor’s warrants
criticized by the auditing committee
were fully authorized by law, and as
to the voucher for the Goldsboro Hos
pital for money to repair building, it
states that no such warrant and no
such voucher number can be found on
the Treasurer’s and Auditor’s books,
that the hospital owes nothing for
furniture or repairs, but does owe for
supplies authorized by the Governor
and Council of State. In the matter
of Fish Commissioner Meekins noth
ing secret dishonest or disadvantag
es to the State was done.
As to the Insurance Commissioner
the report finds as a fact the state
ment of the auditing committee that
no evidence of any character of dis
honesty is disclosed on the part of
any one handling the funds or securi
ties, and that there is no suggestion
of any such.
The statement of the expert ac
countant that he could not make an
absolutely correct statement of this
account without going back and
checking up the entire business since
the establishgiept of the office is er
rotteotis in its belief; that the state
ment of the expert that no cash book
hart been kept showing accurate re
ceipts and disbursements of funds is
very misleading, as the commissioner
does keep a day book in which is a
record of all receipts in detail while
his bank book as Insurance Commis
sioner shuws all disbursemcntsvand a
separate ledger account shows dis
bursements of the fund for the inves
tigation of fires.
The Senate consumed some time on
a bill to change the countv seat of
Mitchell and on the Blow educational
bill and passed a number of bills of
local interest.
The House, in committee of the
whole, on the revenue act, decided to
increase the pension ad. valorem tax
from 4 to 5 cents, and the poll tax
from $1.29 to $1.32 so as to he able
to increase the appropriation for pen
sions.
The special order was the bond is
sue bill for an issue of $300,000 for
carrying out the purposes of the
Bickett act of 1007 for enlargement
of the State Hospitals for the Tnsane.
With an amendment by Speaker Gra
ham the hill l passed its final reading.
STUDENTS nEAFUAFr
The President-Elect Delivers the
Principal Address-at the Washing
ton Birthday Exercises at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Special.—-Hon. "Wil
liam IT. Taft, President-elect of the
United States, Monday was the prin
cipal speaker at the exercises in the
University of Pennsylvania commem
orative of the birth of Washington.
He chose for the subject, of his ad
dress the “Present Relations of the
Learned Profession to Political Gov
ernment.” He discussed at consider
able length the influence which the
learned professions m this day, have
upon national and minieipal govern
ment. In brief pari:, he said:
Jt is the duty of every citizen to
give as much attention as he can to
the public weal, and to take as much
interest as he can in political matters.
"The first profession,” said Mr.
Taft, “is that of the ministry. Time
was when the minister of the com
munity was the highest authority as
to what the law should be and how it
ought to be enforced; but the spread
of education and independent think
ing, the wide diffusion of knowledge
by the press, the disappearance of the
simple village life, have contributed
radically to change ihe position and
influence of the ministry in the com
munity.
“During the administration of Mr.
Roosevelt, and under the influence of
certain revelations of business immor
ality, the conscience of the whole
country was shocked and then nerved
to the point of demanding that a
better order of affairs be introduced.
In this movement, the ministers of
the various churches have recognized
the call upon them to assist, and they
have been heard in accents much more
effective than ever before in half a
century. The greatest agency today
in keeping ns advised of the conditions
among Oricntrl races is the estab
lishment of foreign missions. The
leaders of these missionary branches
of the churches are becoming some
of our most learned statesmen in re
spect of our prop?r Oriental poli
cies. ’ ’ ’
Judge Taft, discussing teachers,
said that “their relation to politics
and government is of the utmost im
portance, though indirect.”
io the writer, in whatever capacity
he may labor, Judge Taft attributed
great influence, either for good or for
bad. Referring to the newspaper
press he said:
"Its power of public instruction is
very great; but when it panders to
the vulgarcst taste f orsensationalism
and becomes entirely.irresponsible in
its influence for good, its pernicious
tendency Is obviated only by the pow
er of the people to protect themselves
against it by a safe discrimination
and a healthy skepticism.
Judge Taft paid a high tribute to
the profession of medicine, because it
had contributed to the preservation
of the health of all the people. Hn
pointed out that the profession had
been exalted by its great discoveries
and by its assistance in the expansion
of our government in the tropics and
in the construction of the Panama
canal.
The law, said he, is in a wide sense
the profession of government.. Realiz
ing the defects and weaknesses he
still regards the profession of law as
the most important in political gov
ernment.
National exigency seems, said he, to
call forth the men peculiarly fitted to
meet the lequirements of the situa
tion.
Awful^Crimes of a Farmer.
Mondoviy Wis., Special —Hans B.
Hanson, a farmer living near Strun,
cut the throats of his four children, a
boy and three girls, whose ages range
from 5 to 15 years, Monday with a
butcher knife. He followed this crime
by stabbing several horses and cows,
firing the barn and house, and then
cutting his own throat. After killing
his children Hanson went to the barn
and stabbed several horses, cows,
calves and pigs and killed a cat,
DOINGS OF CONFESS
Summary of Important Proceedings
Enacted From Day to Day.
The Indian appropriation bill oc
cupied almost the entire time of the
Senate Saturday and was passed with
appropriations aggregating over $9,
000,000. Of this amount about $1,
500,000 was added to the bill by Sen
ate amendments.
Two more of the annual supply
bills, the diplomatic and consular and
the mailitary academy measures, were
passed by the House of Representa
tives Saturday in a comparatively
brief time.
For two hours and a half Monday
the Senate discussed the postal sav
ings bank proposal but an attempt to
reach an agreement as to a day for
voting cn the measure that Senator
Carter, of Montana, is urging, failed.
The reading by Senator McLaurin,
of Washington’s farewell address
consumed the first hour of the ses
sion. Senator Aldrich obtained the
consent of the Senate to a resolution
continuing the committees of the
Senate as they now exist until their
successors are chosen in the next reg
ular session.
The agricultural appropriation bill
was taken up. The Senate adjourned
at 4:40 p. m.
A second speech by Mr. Rainey, of
Illinois, reiterating his former state
ments concerning the Panama canal,
and a bitter arraignment of Mr.
Rainey bv Mr. Burton, of Ohio, fur
nished the principal incidents in the
House of Representatives Monday.
After the Illinois member had spoken
for an hour in further denunciation
of William Nelson Cromwell, Mr.
Burton took the floor to make reply.
He vigorously defended Mr. Crom
well, Charles P. Taft, President-elect.
Taft and others whom Mr. Rainey on
a former occasion had made objeets
of his attack. Mr. Rainey, he said,
had furnished no proofs of wrong- do
ing in connection with the purchase
KJL lilt; X iiiiiiiiin Wcinai Iituicuiac, uut
instead had conjured up wrongs and
buttressed them with slander and
falsehood, thereby placing himself on
a level with “the scurvy politician.”
Mr. Lovering, of Massachusetts,
joined in the discussion and insisted
that Mr. Rainey had proven nothing.
The incident was closed by a decla
ration by Mr. Coekran, of New York,
that persons whose reputations were
attacked in the House should have an
opportunity to defend themselves in
the same place.
Following the sending of the army
and Indian appropriation bills to con
ference, consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill was resumed,
and it was pending when the House
at 6:12 p. m. adjourned.
> The President is authorized to ap
point a court of inquiry to determine
the qualifications for re-enlistment of
discharged soldiers of the Twenty
fifth Regiment who were accused of
shooting up Brownsville, Tex., on
(he night of August 13tli-14th, 1006.
The Aldrich bill for this purpose was
passed in the Senate bv a vote of 56
to 26.
The Senate also passed the fortifi
cations bill, with appropi-iations ag
gregating $S,320.113 and the diplo
matic and consular bill, carrying $3,
646,386 of appropriations.
Appropriation bills mainly occu
pied the House Tuesday. The sundry
civil bill was considered but progress
with it was slow. The fortifications,
legislative, executive and judicial,
diplomatic and consular and postof
fice appropriation bills were sent to
conference.
Mr. Clarke, of Florida, unsuccess
fully attempted to* secure an investi
gation by the committee on the judi
ciary into the writing of the recent
letter by Secretary of State Bacon
apologizing for Mr. Rainey’s remarks
regarding President Obaldia, of Pan
ama. Mr. Clarke’s object being to as
certain if Mr. Bacon’s reference to
Mr. Rainey constituted an abuse of
the privileges of the House.
The agricultural appropriation bill
was under discussion in the Senate
dux'ing practically the entire session
Wednesday. Senator MoCumber, of
North Dakota, discussed at length
the right of Congress under the con
stitution to fix standards for grain,
and declared tlint present practices
makes impossible the sale of Western
grain at the prices to which it is
really entitled.
With its war paint on, the House
of Representatives Wednesday by
sweeping majorities many times de
fied the Senate by rejecting its
amendments to the legislative appro
pi-iaticn biil providing for salary in
ci’eases for the President, the Speak
er, the judiciary and for the creation
of the offices of Under Secretary and
Fourth Assistant Secretary of State.
Party lines were obliterated com
pletely.
It was a regular field day in the
lower body where oratory and con
fusion vied with each other for hon
ors.
Engineer Scalded to Death.
Greenville, S. C., Special.—In the
wreck of Southern Railway express
No. 35 from Washington to Atlanta,
at Harbins, a block office 50 miles
south of here, early Monday, Engi
neer W. J. O’Neal was scalded to
death and Fireman Joe Clay, negro,
was injured so badly that he will die.
Both men were from Atlanta. The
engine and baggage car turned com
pletely over and the passenger coach
es turned on their side.
MUMMISQUOTED
Makes a Vigorous Protest
Against Misrepresentation.
REVISION SHOULD NOT DELAY
Corrects Newspaper Report—S?ts
Forth His Views on Plan of Mak
ing Tariff Schedule.
New \ ork, Special.—President
elect Taft made a vigorous protest
Friday night against what he said
was an absolute misrepresentation in
certain New York afternoon papers
as to what he had said during the day
in answering questions regarding
tariff revision.
He had stated, he said, that the
present business depression was un
doubtedly due in a large measure to
the fact that the tariff is to be revis
ed at an extra session of Congress to
meet March 1.5th; that it was of the
highest importance that this work of
revision should not be delayed, but
executed with all possible diligence.
Mr. Taft also said he favored the
idea of a permanent tariff commis
sion, the plan for which should be
worked out with delibration, the du
ties of such a commission to be to
make a careful study of the operation
of the proposed new tariff law, to the
end that suggestions might be made
in the future which would tend to
place the whole question of the tariff
on a more certain and scientific basis.
THE NEW CABINET.
Unofficial But Reliable Annoccment
Made.
NewjT York, Special.— All qualifica
tions of uncertainty in the prediction
that Franklin MacVeagh of Chicago
has been selected by Mr. Taft a* his
rsecretary of the treasury, are hereby
removed. Mr. MacVeagh acepted the
place Wednesday and thereby the
Taft cabinet was made complete as
heretofore announced by the Asso
ciated Press.
The cabinet as complete with the
selection of Mr. MacVeah is as fol
lows :
_ Secretary of State—Philander G\
Knox of Pennsylvania.
Secretary of the Treasury—Frank
lin MacVeah of Illinois.
! _ Secretary of War—Jacob M. Dick
inson of Tennesee.
Attorney General — George W.
Wickersham of New York.
Pastmaster General—Frank H.
Hitchcock of Massachusetts.
Secretary' of the Navy—George
^ on L. Meyer of Massuchsetts
Secretary of the Interior—Richard
A. Ballinger of Washington.
Secretary of Agriculture—James
Wilson of Iowa.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Charles Nagel of Missouri.
W ith his postmaster general, Frank
H. Hitchcock, Mr. Taft took
mile walk through Central
the biting wind Wednesday. H
number of New York city financiers
during the day, but said the calls
were those to express friendship and
had no other significance.
There was a genuine reunion of the
Taft family at the Henry W. Taft
residence.
Hutchins in Sad, Condition.
Washington, Special.—Capt. Ham.
ilton Hutchins, who was relieved of
his command of the battleship Kear
sarge by Admiral Sperry just before
the fleet left Gibraltar, is to be ex
amined by a special medical board
which will look into his mental and
physical condition. His mental con
dition is said to be most pitiable. It
was because of the great nervousness
under which Captain Hutchins labor
ed that he was, at his own request,
relieved of his command.
Contract Let For Statue of Columbus,
Washington, Special.—The Colum
bus Memorial Commission has award
ed the contract for making a statue
of Columbus to be erected in the
plaza of the Union Station in this
city to Lorando Taft, of Cicago, a
relative of the President-elect. Con«
gress has aonropriated $100,000 (ov
the Columbus memorial, which, in ad
dition to the statue, will comprise a
large architectural fountain,
Alabamian Shoots Down Daughter’!
Assailant.
Birmingham, Ala., Special.—While
handcuffed and sitting in the sheriff’s
office at Bessemer Friday morning,
Jim Brown, a negro, was shot and in
stantly killed by James Robinson,
white, father of the girl Brown had
attempted to assault on February
loth. The attack occurred without
warning, Robinson firing four shots
into the negro before deputies stand
ing near could interfere. Robinson
surrendered. The negro was being
taken to Bessemer for preliminary
trial.
Columbus Has a $500,000 Blaze.
Columbus, Ohio, Special.—Fire,
which started with two explosions
just before 3 o’clock Friday morn
ing, destroyed a four-story building
here and spread almost instantly to
a five-story brick building adjoining,
extending from the point to Front
street and destroyed that and its
contents, causing a totahloss conser*
vatively estimated at $500,000,