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WILSON, ,N. C. FRIDAY, .FEBRUARY 10, 1911.
VOL. 17 NO. Ill
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SETS FORTH POSITION OF SOUTH
ON AMENDMENT PROPOSED TO
ELECT SEN. BY POPULAR VOTE
PREFERS BILL DEFEATED
Washington, D. C., Feb. 9. The
South would prefer the defeat of the
resolution calling fir the ' election of
the United States Senators by direct
vote of the people to its passage, if
amended as Senator Sutherland, of
Utah, has proposed, so as to place
control of such elections in the hands
if Congress. So declared Senator
Percy, of Mississippi, in a speech yes
terday. Mr. Percy addressed himself exclu
sively to the consideration of the
Southerland amendment He con
tended that in the provision of the
Constitution giving Congress supervi
sion over the election of Senators the
power of control is only formal. II
could extend only to legislatures and
not to the ordinary voter, exercising
his right of franchise in case of
popular election of Senators. As i'
now stands it is an emergent power
to be used by Congress only in case
of the failure of a Legislature to act.
"Yes," said the Mississippi Sena
tor, "by the alchemy- of Senatorial
logic it has been transmuted into one
of the chief bulwarks of the govern
ment." The acceptance of the Sutherland
amendment would give the Nations'
Government a votal control over- the
electors and might be so employed as
to result in the appointment of super
visors of elections, which would b
most objectionable, the Senator main
tained. He declared that never ex
cept during the 24 years from 1870
to 1834 when election laws were re
sorted to to protect the negro vote
in the Southern States had the na
tional power of supervision been in
voked in the matter of the election
of members of the House of
sentatives.
"Never in all that time was there
a day when the geenral welfare would
not have been prompted by striking
those laws from the statutes."
Referring to the effort of twenty
years ago to pass, the Force Bill, Mr.
Percy declared that legislation along
the lines then contemplated would
have resulted in chaos, whereas with
the Southern States left to their own
devices of government, there had been
continued prosperity for both whites
and blacks. '.-
"I believe," he said, ."that those
dark days have gone never to return
and yet we find warrant for" appre
hension in the threat of the Senator
from New York (Mr. Depaw)
Senators voting for the resolution
would feel the result of the negro
vote in the doubtful States. It indi
cates a desire to curry favor with
that vote and it. may afford a suffi
cient incentive to attempt to control
elections."
While, however, he considered that
the day was far distant when any
political party would undertake to en
act Federal laws for the control of
State elections, nevertheless it was
felt that too much caution could not
be exercised.
Taking up the Suthersand amend
ment, Mr. Percy said:
"The extension of the Federal pow
er as contemplated by the Sv
amendment, it is a price greater than
the South is willing-to pay-for the
light of electing . Senators by direr
vote."
The addition of the amendment
therefore, would inevitably result in
the defeat of. the resolution.
In conclusion Mr. Percy declare1
that the South recognized the f-"
' any attempt to repeal the fift
amendment to the Constitution stV
said hat such' a-course would -
PROCEEDINGS OF STATE
LEGISLATURE TODAY
SENATE KILLS DIVORCE LAW PASS
ED BY HOUSE-BILL TO ERECT
MONUMENT TO DAUGHTERS
Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 9. Today an
other flood of petitions were intro
duced in both Houses against clubs
handling liquor.
Among the new bills are:
To erect fire-proof buildings to pre
serve valuable records and museum
relics, etc.
By Kellum: Authorizing the loan of
money on shares by partners.
By Thome: Relating to costs in
civil cases before magistrates.
.By Turlington: To encourage road
building jti North Carolina.
By General Carr: To pay off the
indebtedness of the Soldiers' Home
and also to erect a monument in the
Capitol Square to the Women of the
Confederacy.
General Carr delivered an eloquent
speech favoring the latter bill.
The Senate committee killed the
House bill which changed tin years'
separatiin "within" the State to "ten
years anywhere," by reporting it ad
versely today.
The Roberts bill reducing the years
from ten to five will, if it passes its
third reading in the House, be killed
in the Senate, according to a state
ment made at noon- today by Senator
Pharr to your correspondent.
The Piedmont ciunty bill consumed
most of the time in both houses of the
Legislature today.
The Biennial Divorce "Disturbance."
- Every, session of the General As
sembly of recent years there has been
more or less excitement over the at
tempts that are regularly made to
change the .existing stringent divorce
law of the State.
A few days ago the House passed
a bill placing the man on the same
equality in the proving of a single act
of adultery as that applying to the
woman, and as that was tightening
the hands there was not registered
he usual protests from ministers and
others who have figured as opponents
of any change in the present law.
Nov', however, the kick has come
and it is a vigorous one from that
element, because of the passage in the
House on second reading thig week of
the Roberts bill reducing the time
couples living apart continuously
shall be entitled to divorce from ten
to five years. Conseqquently, there is
the liveliest sort of fight on and the
Senate is commanded to kill thebir
when it reaches that body, if the
House persists in giving the measure
a final third reading in that body. At
this writing It looks like the
of oratory ' that is booked to be turned
loose on the subject will surpass
even that of several other sessions in
the past.
Conspiracy To Kill The Mikado.
Tokio. Feb. 8. Rumors of a new.
conspiracy against the life of the Ja
panese Mikado are circulated in the
wake of a report that a number of
American anarchists .had arrived at
Yokohoma on board the steamship
Tenyo It is known that the Japanese
police have redoubled their vigilance
in the past forty-eight hours and that
a number of secret arrests have been
made. According to the rumor in cir
culation, American anarchists have
joined hands with the Japanese radi
cals to do away with the Emperor.
The second plot is allaged to have
been hatched in the United States.
THE WEATHER
; Washington, D. C, Feb. 9- For
North Carolina: - Rain tonight and
colder In the west portion. Friday
fair and colder in the east portion.
Miderate, variable winds becoming
brisk, northwesterly tonight.
be undertaken by that section o .
country.
NEGRO CAPTURED NEAR HOOKER'
TON MAY BE ONE OF WEST'S
NOTORIOUS GANG.
IS NOW IN WILSON JAIL
Following the excitement yesterday
caused by the report that Louis West,
murderer of Deputy Sheriff George
Mumford, had been captured by a
posse near Hookerton, in Greene
county, came more details of his de
scription which disproved the early re
port that he was Louis West. How
ever, the negro who gives his name
as Adrian Williams, admits he knows
some of the members of the West
gang and he will be held by the Wil
son county authorities.
Williams was brought here
night on a special and placed in th.
Wilson jail. He is also wanted in
Hertford county, where he broke jail
last week. The charge against him
there is shooting, but not fatally, a
negro woman. Williams admitted to
day that he is guilty of that charge.
The sheriff of Hertford county ' this
morning wired the officials here to
return Williams to that county, but
this will not be done at once, as it is
believed he knows something of th
gang of thieves, although he was not
in Wilson on the day of the murder.
Further details of the capture ot
Williams as furnished by Major Pace
who has been active in the searcl
for West, is that he was taken by a
posse consisting of Messrs. R. T.
Watson, R. R. Jones, Will Beaman,
B. R. Beaman, Herbert Beaman and
Oscar Harper, and turned over by
them to a Wiison posse led by Mr.
Lee Perry, who brought him to this
city.
Williams admits he is the same
man fired at by Mr. John Hatten, a
rural mail carrier, near Ridge Springs,
and Mr. Hatten has identified him as
the man he shot at. However, it is
now known that Mr. Hatten did not
hit him in the leg, as . he thought.
Williams says the posse came near
capturing him Tuesday night and re
cognized Mr. J. Archie Clark as the
man who fell in a ditch only about
ten feet from him. Mr. J. Will
Gardner was with Mr. Clark at the
time.. This was several miles distant
from where Williams was finally cap
tured. : Williams told the posse that
he was running only because the
crowd .was after him and he was
frightened. But -today he .admitted
that he broke jail in Hertford county.
Thus far Louis West has success
fully evaded the officers and hopes of
his early capture are diminishing,
though there is hardly a doubt that he'
will betaken as officers all over the
country. are on the look out for him.
There is no known clue remaining as
to his whereabouts except that he had
been seen near Kenly and near Fay
etteville. Efforts. will not be aban
doned for his capture but will be pur
sued quietly and systematically.
The negroes Fred Lane and Tom
Smith, also charged with connection
with the crime, and wanted in Cum
berland for. the Huske Hardware store
robbery at Dunn, will also be held
here. It is probable that one or both
of them were in Mary Young's house
when Mr. Mumford was killed.
This morning Mayor Briggs receiv
ed a threatening letter from a party
who signed his name Louis West. Of
couse it is not believed that the
writer wa3 West,
Today an" arrest of another negro
supposed to be .connected .with the j
gang, is reported as made in Green-1
ville. The man arrested there is said
t be the one who tried to dpc :. j
: sl of one of the stolen pis'ols to
Mr. James Ellis. ''
CAIISEOF
INCREASED INLAND MOVEMENT
CAUSES TRADE TO BELIEVE 1910
CROP TO REACH 12.000.000
PRESSUE FROM LIVERPOOL
New Yirk, ; Feb. 8. Week after
week the insight movement of the
chop continues to show such a gain
over the movement of last season
that the trade have finally been
obliged to increase -their estimates of
the yield of this season to above 12,
000,000 bales, even 12,250,000 bales is
thought probable, while some few are
so impressed by the movement as to
look for a possible crop of , 12,500,000
bales. This, constant increase in the
movement has been in the face of ad
vices -of only a small amount left in
the country, and it has been there
fore more difficult to explain. Final
ly the pressure upon Liverpool be
came so heavy that the market could
no longer absorb even the small
amount of its own stock, which has
been owned abroad and broke away
from the American basis of 15c for the
Spring positions. In turn, our mar
ket holding, as it did, the hedges
sold against the Liverpool stock, was
crushed down, until the liquidation
by holders finally brought about the
decline to 14.30 for May, this noon.
From this point there has been a
harp reaction, and tonight the trade
are looking forward to an advance
?n Liverpool, which will arrest . the
decline.
Thai market is relatively the cheap
est market ruM.he world, so that Tve
must expect it to take the lead in
any upward movement. It would ap
pear as if a portion of the large busi
ness in Manchester was in anticipa
tion of an active demand from the
East, which did not materialize, so
:hat the Manchester merchants sold
cotton in Liverpool against their pur
chases of yarns and cloths. While we
hear of the adverse influence of the
plague in China upon the Manchester
market, we doubt if this factor has
as yet had any great effect upon busi
ness, because the trade in Manches
xer is largely with Southern China,
while the plague does not yet appear
to have spread South of Tien Tsin.
At the decline to a basis ot 14 1-2
cents there is a general disposition
to regard the- decline as at an end,
on the theory that the world will need
and consume all of the American cot
tin we have raised this season on
such a basis of value. This we con
sider the question now before tb
trade for their decision; the market
advanced nearly three cents a pound
on the belief in a very short crop and
has declined about a cent a pound on
the disappointment felt that the yield
had been underestimated.
Now . the market passes under the
control of the question of consump
tion and of the prospect of a large
average and a good start for - the
coming crop.. Fluctuations will occur
from other conditions, but the final
value of the remainder of this crop
will be determined by the influences
which we have stated. In connection
with the question of consumption, we
find the trade journals now discuss
ing the extent to which the prevail
ing fashions have curtailed the use of
textile goods; a curious feature to
which we called your attention last
August. However, if the merchants
who Jiold small stocks of goods are
of the belief -that the new crop has a
good start and is likely to sell in a
lower vbasis than now prevailing, they
will continue to buy from hand to
mouth. Such a course would bring
about" a gradual decline, as spinners
would not find the demand to jusify
large purchases of citton. On the
her "hand any facts1 which would
.'jnpp th""s opinion, "and which would
Indicate another year of small cotton
NEWS ITEMS
GENERAL INTEREST
MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE HAP
PENING THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTRY
El Paso, Texas, Feb. 9. Americans
are lighting in the ranks of the Mexi
can iiisurrectos who are ready to take
the city of Juarez. Under the banner
of General Orozco, the young revolu
tionary leader, are a number of Am
erican soldiers of fortune. Among
them ape former members of the
United States Army.
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 9. Convinced
after tests that they are beneficial to
the insane, the State Board of Chari
ties has ordered moving picture ma
chines in all Kentucky asylums.
Rutherford College, N. C, Feb. 9.
The commencement exercises of
Rutherford College will take place
May 9-10. The annual sermon will
be preached by Rev. William S. Lam
beth, of Winston-Salem; the literary
address will be made by Dr. Williarr
P. Few, of Durham, and the alumni
address by Rev. L. Berge Abernethy.
of Canton.
Winston-Salem, N. C, Feb. 9. The
athletic association has offered the
management of Twins for the coming
baseball season to Charles A. Clancy,
now coaching for the North Carolina
University team. It is thought he wir
accept. He managed the Fayetteville
team in the Eastern Carolina League
last year.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 9. Prof. R.
L. Flowers, of Trinity College, is here
for the purpose of inviting 'he
dent to attend the commencement at
-Trinity .College. The invitation wil-
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probably be extended iC lay. -Charleston,
W. Va., Feb. 9. By r
vite of 14 to 11 the Senate laid on
the table the House joint resolution
asking for an investigation of charge?
of corruption in the "recent election of
United States Senators. "
Washington, D. C, Feb. 9. By un
animous vote, the Committee on In
dustrial Expositions of the Senate yes
terday decided In favor of San Frar
Cisco as the city for the holding of the
Panama Canal Exposition.
Descendant of Macbeth Dies.
. London, Feb. 9. Earl Cawdor, for
merly first Lord of the Admiralty, and
one of the most prominent railroad
men of Great Britain, died yesterday,
aged sixty-three.
He was a descendant of Macbeth
Thane, of Cawdor, made famous by
Shakespeare. The Earl was one of
the most prominent noblemen of the
United Kingdom and last year was ap
pointed a member of the household of
the young Prince of Wales.
COTTON MARKET
The New York cotton market open
ed today from seven to twelve points
lower, making new low record for the
season. The opening was: February,
13.99; March, 14.05; May, 14.19; July,
14.21; October, 13.D5; December,
12.96.
At noon the market was several
points higher: March, 14.05; May,
14.25; July, 14!28; October, 13.14.
The market closed , still higher:
February, 14.05; March, 14.15; May,
14.32; July, 14.35; October, 13.17.
Receipts at the ports yesterday, 31,-
259 against 37,484 last week and 9,
417 .last year. For the week 150,000
bales against 182,598 last week and
90,830 last year. Yesterday's receipts
at New Orleans 5,452 against 159 last
year and at Houston 6,765 against 2,-
493 last year.
crops would bring -about an active de
mand for cotton goods.-
. HUBBARD BROS. & CO.
EXTRASESSI
PRES. TAFT STATES HE WILL CALL
NEXT MONTH IF RECIPROCITY
AGREEMENT IS NOT PASSED
NORRIS EXPLAINSsSECTION
Washington, Feb. 9. John Norris,
chairman of the paper committee of
the American Newspaper Publishers'
Association, appeared today before
the Ways and Means Committee of
the House of Representatives with
facts and figures in support of the en
actment, without the change of a
syllable, of the wood pulp and paper
provisions of the Canadian reciprocity
agreement. Mr. Norris declared last
night emphatically that there was no
truth in the published stories to the
effect that these provisions admitted
of doubtful interpretation as to their
meaning. He expressed the opinion,
moreover, that the agreement verba
tim as it stands would be ratified by
the House by at least a two thirds
majority.
Will Confound Opponents.
Mr. Norris said his statement to
the committee would show the re
ciprocal benefits of the paper clause,
and insisted that he would "confound
the papermakers who are trying to
nullify the treaty by amendments to
the paper clause." He w;ould show,
he said, that that clause as expressed
in the treaty "furnishes the only
method by which free puly wood can
be supplied to "American paper mills
and b3' which the industry can be
protected from diversion to Canada."
Tb degree,, to which the adminis
tration' will use ins"behalf of the enact
ment of the treaty its "utmost ef
forts to bring about such changes by
concurrent Fegislation, as promised
in the agreement, was made plain in
reports brought from the White
House by Senators who talked with
the President.- These reports left lit
tle room for doubt that should Con
gress adjourn without having ratified
the agreement, the President will
forthwith convene the new Congress
in exfraordinary session to consider
the matter afresh.
The reciprocity matter has moved
into the foremost place in the legisla
tive purview, and the President shows
every disposition to keep it there if
he can. It is said upon excellent au
thority that Mr. Taft believes the
present Congress will act favorably
in both houses upon the agreement
and that there will bo no necessity
for an extra session. Every indica
tion now forecasts Its adoption by
the House by an overwhelming ma
jority; the only doubt appears to be
whether those Senators radically op
posed to its enactment will be able
by obstructive tactics to prevent
adoption by the Senate. The Presi
dent apparently entertains no such
doubt.
The speeches "which Mr. T"
deliver on the brief western trip upon
which he enters tonight will be de
voted, It is said, practically entirely
to the advocacy of the reciprocity
agreement. He spent most of the
day at work upon their preparation.
Taft's Attitude Plain.
If administration Senators had any
doubt about the attitude of President
Taft toward the Canadian reciprocity
agreement it was removed when Sena
tors Crane and Car er returned to
the Capitol yesterday from a confer
ence with the President at the White
House. The message which tb""
Senators brought to their colleagues
was that there must be a vote on
the agreement at the present s
of Congress will be called back in
extra session almost Immediately
ter adjournment on March 4th.
The Two Items offered by Oettin
ger's as- specials for next week are
sure to be cleaned up quickly.
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