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WILSON, N. 0., TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1910.
VOL. 17 NO. 108
boilooter:
ST LL AT WORK
HAVE LOBBY AT CAPITAL TO PER
- SHADE STATE OF NEVADA TO
RETAIN GIFT
THE OUTCOME IN DOUBT
(By Thomas J- Pence.)
Washington, D. C., Jan. 28 The
North Carolina carpet bag bond loot
ers are making a desperate effort to
prevent the repeal of the "Bond Gift
Law" sneaked through the Nevada
State Legislature several years ago.
The Legislature of that State conven
ed this past week, and one of the
first official acts of the Senate was
to vote to repeal the law, which is
the same that Marion Butler and Wm.
F.Pettigrew had passed by the Legis
lature of South Dakota. No sooner
did the Senate act than did the bond
looters get busy. They have a lobby
at work to prevent the passage of the
measure through the House of Repre
sentatives in session at Reno, and
seem to be making some headway.
This information has come to Sena
tor Newlands, of Nevadajn a tele
eram .from friends in the State. The
distinguished Nevada Senator, is a
strong friend of the State of North
Carolina, and is exerting every honor
able influence to overcome the ef
forts of the bond looters lobby.
Senator Newlands' Attitude.
As showing the attitude of Senator
Newlands on the subject, that gentle
man has addressed Senators Simmons
and Overman the following letter:
'The enclosed correspondence
speaks for itself. Senator TaTlman is
one of the strongest men in the party
, in Nevada and I believe wm take hold
of the matter effectively. I-shall cer
tainly do everything in my power to
prevent this transaction being earried
out."
The activity of Senator Newlands
In trying to prevent the passage -of
this bill through the -House is made
clear from an. interview given, to the
press of his State, and in a letter ad
dressed to Governor Oddie, of Nevada.
In the interview -given the Nevada
State Journal, published at Reno, Mr,
Newlands said: "I hope this bill
will pass. The proposed donation of
these bonds is a scandalous job, to
which Nevada can not afford to be a
party and is an attempt to prostitute
the State to a most unworthy pur
pose. During reconstruction days
bonds were Issued in the most reck
less jvay by negro legislatures whose
waste, extravagance and fraud threat
ened the Southern States with bank
ruptcy. We have had tlie warm sup
port of the Southern States in irri
gation and other .Western measures
and only recently they voted for the
twenty million dollar bond , issue of
which the Truckee-Carson is the bene
ficiary. Apart from the dishonesty of
, the transaction, it-would be the worst
policy to do anything that would di
minish this friendship. Let us rather
follow the example of Rhode , Island
which not only indignantly refused a
, similar gift, but repealed a similar
law in order to accomplish It,
News of Lobby At Work.
What N aroused -. Senator Newlands
most was a telegram which he re
ceived from - State Senator prallman,
and chairman of the Democratic Cen
tral Committee of his StateTVhich ad
; vised him that a lobby was at work
in an effort to railroad the bill through
the Assembly. The following " is - a
copy of his telegram: ; -
v Carson, Nev, Jan. 23, 191L
Hon. F. G. Newlands,
: Washington,' D. C.
Lobby to defeat bill repealing bond
gift law in Assembly. Has passed Sen
: ate. Can you wire friends in Assem
bly to pass repealing law without de
v lay? " - , .' "'
Signed) CLAY TALLMAN.
Following the receipt of the tele
gram or Mr. Tallman Senator New "
lands sent a letter to Governor Oddie.
of which the following is an extract:
"I do hope the Legislature will re
peal the bond gift act. I send you
herewith a copy of a telegram which
I have sent to Senator Clay Tallman
and to the Journal upon the subject,
and I hope that the leading men ot
both parties will see to it that Nevada
Is not put in the humiliating and dis
graceful position of being made the
tool of speculators to force the pay
ment of fraudulent and dishonored
V
bonds upon a sister State, with whose
people it should be our aim to main-
1ain the most friendly relations.
"Very sincerely yours, . y,
(Signed.) "F. G. NEWLANDS."
No More Standing Room in New York
Theatres. .
New York, Jan. 30. There will be
no more standing room in New York
theatres. Theatrical managers were
notified by Fire Commissioner Waldo
that the prevalent practice of allowing
patrons to stand in the passageways
back of the seats is as much a viola
tion of the law as the prohibited
standing in aisles. He bases the rul
ing on a recent decision of the Su
preme Court which held it unlawful
to permit, patrons to stand in any part
of the house during a performance.
NEWS ITEMS OF
GENERAL INTEREST
Lillington, N. C. Jan. 30 The office
of The Harnett Reporter, including
the entire newspaper plant, was de-
stroyed by fire, which broke out here
shortly after 1 o'clock Saturday af
ternoon, entailing a loss of over $2,-
000. There was no insurance on
either office or outfit. v
Washington. Jan. 30. Announce
ment is made of the engagement of
Miss Lona Tillman, daughter of Sena
tor Tillman, of South Garcflina, to
Charles Sumner Moore, a lawyer of
Atlantic City, N. J. The wedding will
take place in April at Trenton, S. C.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 30. Dr.
Louis Toledo Herrarte, the Gautema-
lan minister to the United States, has
been appointed minister of Foreign
Affairs; in the cabinet of that country.
, Washington, D. C, Jan. 30. Deter
mined that the territory of the United
States shall not be used as a base of
revolutionary expeditions against
Mexico, the Washington government
has increased materially the American
military and customs forces guarding
the frontier.
- Key West, . Fla. J,an. 30. Aviator
J. A. D. McCurdy Saturday was again
forced to postpone his "flight from
here to Havana. High winds and a
rough sea, in which he feared . his
pontoons would be insufficient to save
him it he fell, were given as the
Washington, Jan. 3,0. The gunboat
Wheeling arrived in Guantanamo,
Cuba, Saturday This advice came to
the- Navy Department by wireless set
ting at rest the fears for the little
vessel's safety. No accident marred
the voyage to West Indian waters,
and all aboard the vessel are well.
Durham, N. C, Jan. 30. G. H. Dove,
a prominent lumDerman, was neia
without bail after a hearing Saturday
evening on the charge of murdering
his neighbor, Joe Roycroft, a farmer,
of Greenville . county, Friday. The
body of Roycroft was found Saturday
morning. ' Dove - admits they ; had ,' en
gaged in a fight but disclaims any
knowledge of how Roycroft met his
death.
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THE WEATHER p
Washington, D. C, Jan. 30. For
North Carolina: Fair and much colder
onlght; Tuesday fair and colder in
the east portion. Brisk to high north
west to north winds. . .
NG GEORGE TO LOOK I
BRINGS SUIT TO SALARIES
EDITOR WHO PUBLISHED STORY
OF MORGANISTIC MARRIAGE
MUST FACE TRIAL
PLEA "OF JUSTIFICATION"
London, Jan. 30. The news of the
world says that King George advisers
have instituted criminal libel proceed
ings with the object of ending once
and for all rumors which have been
freely circulated for years that his
majesty, whence Prince of Wales, was
moreanatically married to a daughter
of an Admiral of Malta.'
The defendant in the case is Ed
ward P. Mylius, who is said to be con
nected with the paper, The Liberator,
published in Paris, which printed the
statements on which the libel charge
is based. Mylius was arrested some
weeks ago, charged at Bow street,
committed for trial and sent to jail.
Subsequently, on his own application
to the vacation judge bail was fixed-
in the sum of $100,000.,
Justification To Be Plea
In the ordinary course the case
would be tried in the Central Criminal
Court but on application of the Crown
it will be brought up in the high
courts on Wednesday before Lord
Chief Justice Al vera tone and a spe
cial jury. " ,
According to a statement in The
Liberator, the defendant intends to
file a plea of justification, and also to
subpoena-the King as a witness." The
constitutional law, however, makes it
impossible for his majesty to give evi
dence in his own "Courts, notwithstand-
ing he may be anxious to do -so. -
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Practically all of the London morn
ing papers, publish stories on the in
tention of the King's advisers to car
ry the case to the courts on . tne
charge of criminal libel. It is note
worthy that the Morning Post, refer
ring to the arrest of Mylius on De
cember 26th, in a recent article, said
that he was charged with being con
cerned in the publication of - seditious
staements, but the paper made no
reference to the alleged morganatic
marriage, merely saying that tne al
leged seditious statements referred,
among other things,v to the policy fol
lowed by this country in Egypt and
India. -
Statute 200 Years Old.
The Post also publishes a long ar
ticle on the constitutional law In such
an . unusual case, saying tnat tne
police arrested Mylius during a legal
vacation and had abstained- from
charging him in a police court, ac
cording to the . usual procedure. Ap
plication was made to the ' vacation
judge in chambers, who issued a writ
of habeas corpus-and then committed
him to custody, fixing bail at $100,000
which the prisoner was unable . to
find. The result of this action of the
police was that Mylius was legally
committed without publicity, and unti"
recently the London papers have made
but brief reference to the case.
It is understood that the proceed
ings in the King's libel suit are taken
under a statute 200 years old.
TO BE PAID FOR PEACE WOUND.
Congress Will Give Worker Shot In
- .Springfield Armory $698-99.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 30. A shot
fired through the floor of the Spring
field Armory inflicted an injury on
Richard W. Clifford, for which Con
gress now proposes to -pay him
$698.93. ' Clifford was working at a
bench in the bayonet room, above the
room' where rifles were being tested.
The stray shot splintered bones in
his lft leg and incapacitated him for
work for several month. The ?7ous
Committee on ClIT,i;! has recommerj 1
ed a bill for his relief.
DILL INTRODUCED TODAY TO IN-
VESTIGATE THE STATE
PAY ROLL
SOME OTHER PROCEEDINGS
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 30. If a resolu
tion presented in the House today by
Spainhour shall be adopted after the
Committee on Salaries and Fees get
through with; it, those clerks and min
or officials in the service of the State
who attempt a raid on the State
Treasury every session of the Legis-
lature through appeals and demands
for increase of salaries,
will
back"
find
themselves : sitting "way
an
nursing a very sore toe. .
The resolution calls for the ap
pointment of a committee of five to
examine into the amount of money
paid by the State to its employes,
especially its poorly paid school
teachers, many of whom receive only
forty dollars per month for only four
months inthe year, and report to the
General Assembly the quality and
quantity of service renndered by the
aforesaid employes and the amounts.
they draw from the State with tne
object of equalizing the emoluments
paid State employes of this charac
ter. When it is understood that most
of the executive and judiciary, clerks
and employee (including a number of
both malei and female stenographers)
receive f rosi onehundred dollars per
month to two thousand five hundred
dollars "per year, and that some of
them do pot average the year round
over five to seven hours per day, of
real work, the public will understand
why the persistent demands on the
part of some (not all) of them for
perrenial increases is evidently being
resented, for in all probability it if
quite likely that these demands have
had much to do with the borning of
the Spainhour resolution, and it looks
like it Is going to pass, too.
In' the foregoing this writer does not
mean to convey the inference that the
executive and "judicial and other
clerical employes are a lot of idlers
far from it, on the part of some, for I
know a number who are hard workers
and earn every dollar paid them.
But it is the class who do not per
form nearly as much work (in oher
departments) and who are insisting
that they be put on the same salary
basis with the harder worked men be
cause the "dignity" of the positions
are similar, being of the same class.
Itwas noon before theCwjo houses
met today. Among the - important
bills are:
: By Judd: To reimburse the city of
Raleigh for expense incurred in the
fatal Standard Oil prosecution In Ral
eigh's august police court by Attorney
General Bickett.
By Taylor: Regarding crop liens.
By Oldfriend: Concerning sampling
of fertilizers and cotton seed meal.
By Norman: To amend the divorce
laws so as to make- ten year separa
tion a cause td apply even if there are
living children, provided they are 21
years old or married.
By Carr, of Duplin: For the pro
tection of the forests of North Caro
lina. V. ';.! '-"'.v ' -
By Ewart: To tax dogs and bache
lors in Henderson county.
By Stubbs: Enabling Williamston to
issue bonds. '
By Thornei Fortifying the legality
of the Pitt court house bonds so as
to satisfy the purchasers of the bonds
and get the money.
By Martin: For, a Teachers Train
ing School In the mountain section.
By London : ' Bill . to strengthen the
law making, telegraph" companies lia
ble for mental anguish through non
delivery of telegrairfj.
r By Erown, "of Cnlnmbusr Making
seven in the morning to flv' .a the
evening the time for ke mg polls
open.
The police commission of Asheville
was abolished in the . Senate and a
long calendar of unimportant bills
disposed of in the House.
LLEWXAM.
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Wood From Elm Planted by John
Quincy Adams in White House
Grounds.
Washington, Jan. 30. John Quincy
Adams, sixth President of the United
States, is credited with planting an
American elm in the White House
grounds during his Presidency. A
piece of. one of the branches of this
elm has been furnished to the execu
tive committee of the Southern Com-
mercial Congress by Col. Spencer
Crosby, U. S. A., in .charge of public
buildings and grounds. From this
fragment of an historic tree will be
made the handle Bf the gavel to be
used by the chairman of the South
ern Commercial Congress at Its meet-
k m Atlanta March 8th 9thf a'nd
10th. The head of the gavel will be
made up of sixteen pieces of wood,
each piece representing the forest
wealth of one of the sixteen Southern
States, united in the work of the
Southern Commercial Congress.
These contributions of wood have
come in every case from the Commis
sioner, of Agriculture of each ,
and are duly attested. North C :
Una made the first contribution, send
ing long leaf pine as her representa
tive wood. Georgia, Texas and Soutn
Carolina have also contributed long
leaf pine. Kentucky and West Vir
ginia have sent oak; Maryland, chest
nut: Alabama, persimmon: Missis
sippi, magnolia, etc. The contribu
tion of wood f 90m the White House
is significant, for it will unite he
Southern States, the Nation's Capital
and the memory of the gr . ,
England President in a gavel -whose
raps are expected """to lead to a new
union of the South along busines
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line lor the purpose or building a
greater nation through a ' greater
South.
General Julian S. Carr will respond
to the address of welcome from Gov
ernor Brown, of Georgia.
NO MERCY FOR DUTY DODGERS.
Government to Punish Criminal Cases
Against Undervaluers of Art. -
Washington, D. C, Jan. 30. It has
become known here that the Govern
ment intends to push a criminal pro
secution in the Duveen art undervalu
ation cases regardless of any civil set
tlements that may be made. The
Treasury Department is in position
to recover as much as $2,000,000 back
duties, it is said, but criminal prose
cution will be insisted upon neverthe
less.
Both members of the firm of Du
veen Brothers, which did business in
New York, are out on heavy bail and
are at present in England by consent
of District Attorney Wise.
TEST OF COAL VALUE.
Santa Barbara, CaL, Jan. 30. The
cruisers West Virginia and Maryland
will arrive off here, according to a
wireless message, and Immediately
begin a series of coal tests to deter
mine the relative fuel values of East
ern and Western coal.
The cruiser Pennsylvania will be
used at the same time to carry out
experiments to determine the practi
cability of man-carrying kites for
aerial scouting at sea.
COTTON MARKET
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The New York cotton market open
ed several points lower this morning.
January, 14.65; March, .14.70; May,
14.87; July, 14.88; August, 14.56; Oc
tober, 13.38.
At twelve o'clock the market stood:
January, 14.62; March, 14.72; May,
14.89; Jly, 14.91; August, 14,57; Oc
tober, 13.38. , ;
The market closed higher. January.
14.69; March, 14.77; May, 144; July,
14 94; August, 14.63; October, 13.44.
Spots in Wilson, around .14 5-8c.
NAVAL BILL
IS REPORTED
MEASURE CARRIES APPROPRIA
TION OF $125,42I,538--TW0
BATTLE SHIPS
OTHER SHIPS PROVIDED
Washington, Jan. 30. Carrying a
total of $125,421,538, the naval appro
priation bill was reported to the -
House Saturday by Chairman Foss,
of the Naval Affairs Committee. The
bill is $5,929,316 less than the current
appropriation and $2,044,621 less than
the estimates submitted by the Navy
Department.
The increase of the navy program
calls for an appropriation of $34,270,
816, of which $15,832,928 for the first
year is inserted in the, present bill.
This increase as adopted in the bill
comprises two battleships of 27,000
tons each at $11,835,408 each; two
colliers at $1,000,000 each; eight tor
pedo boat destroyers at $825,000, and
four sub-marines at $500,000 each.
The cost as given is estimated on the
basis of building by private contract
without restriction. The Department
had recommended a program that
would have Cost $27,352,316, Including
two battleships and the general board
had recommended a $87,000,000 pro
gram, including four battleships.
The bill increases the limit of cost
of the battleship Florida, now be
ing built at the New York navy yard
for hull and machinery exclusive of
armor and armament from $6,000,009
to $6,400,000.
Because of the extra expense the
bill repeals the provision in last year's
naval act which authorized one battle
ship to be built in a navy yard. 'The
contract for the Florida's sister ship
was let well within the limit of cost,
while the estimates for building the
Florida, for all purposes the same
ship, in the navy yard exceeded the
limit of cost for hull and machinery
by $1,500,000 or a total of $7,500,000.
Both these ships are directed to be
built uunder the eight-hour law re
strictions. The committee recom
mends repeal of this requirement and
also of the provision that not more
than one of the battleships provided
for in the last year's naval act shall
be built by the same contracting
party.
ork Of Raising The Maine.
Havana, Cuba, Jan. 30. Work on
the wreck of the battleship Maine is
progressing rapidly. Records are be
ing made in the work of pile driving
in Havana harbor for the coffer dam
cylinders. Five are now closed in and
.work is being pushed on five more. v
The obstruction which was met by
one cylinder and which was believed
to be a piece of armor plate proved
to be only some iron and metal frag
ments blown out of the vessel. They
have been removed by a grapple
dredge.
Seed Corn Contest a Success.
Wadeeboro, N. C, Jan. 30. The an
nual seed corn contest, held here last
week, was quite a success.' A number
of interested farmers were present.
and some splendid corn was exhibited-
E. S. Phillips and F. B. Newell, o? the
State Department of Agriculture, were
n attendance, and acted as judges.
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The first prize went to S. Z. Holder,
of Lilesville, and the others to C. A.
Winfree and H. H. Robinson.
Progressive Smithfield.
Smithfield, N. C, Jan. 30. Mr. G.
C. White, the civil engineer who has
charge of the plans for water works.
lights and swerage, will be in Smith-
field next Thursday night, February
2nd, and will explain the plans for
water, lights and sewerage to every
body at 7 o'clock in the court house.
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