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WILSON, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1911.
VOL. 17 NO. 117.
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HOBGOBD BILL WITHDRAWN AS
ITS DEFEAT WAS CERTAIN-NO
INS. INVESTIGATION
NO ADJOURNMENT TODAY
Raleigh, N. C, March 6. The Tur-liiigtoii-Bickett
trust bill was the sub
';(. t of consideration this morning by
tii e Senate committee, beginning an
hour before the Senate convened.
While awaiting the report of the com
r.iAtee the Senate worked to expedite
time on the calendar.
The House spent the morning hour
and most of its time till noon pass
ing bills of (middling) quality, among
them being one to amend the present
law and to better protect owners and
sub-contractors against contractors.
Wake, Durham, Rowan and Guilford
members demanded the passage of
the bill with enthusiasm, but the oth
er 96 Counties are exempted. The
House, in its general slaughter today,
killed one of the best bills on the
calendar, that providing for two State
auditors to examine the books of all
the county officers of the one hun
dred counties and report to the Cor
poration Commission. The viva voce
vote was very close, according to
sound, but Speaker Dowd promp'ly
declared the motion to table carried
and there was a dull thud of the dime
novel variety as its decapitated head
fell into the guillotine basket.
One good bill that escaped the exe
cutioner was that making the penalty
ten years in the penitentiary on con
viction for seducing a' blind or deaf
and dumb woman.
At noon Chairman Graham, of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, stated to
this writer that no report would be
made today on the Turlington or any
other "trust-buster" bill, as the com
mittee will not complete its consid
eration this evening or tomorrow. It
looks squally for the measure, as it
has been for the last three sessions..
The Senate passed the anti-club li
quor bill introduced by Brown, of
Columbus, and as amended hy the
committee. It differs slightly from
the House bill, but an agreement will
be reached and the bill ratified.
Raleigh, N. C, March 6 Two hours
were spent by the House in one of
the most spirited arguments 'Of the
whole session Saturday night on the
Hob good primary bill from the Senate
for a State-wide primary law to ap
ply to all counties and all parties with
primaries on the same day and voting
places at the same place and then the
bill went to the table.
A test vote was made : on an
amendment by Doughton to exempt
any county or party by vote of the
county executive committee. This was
a roll call vote and stood 68 to 36 for
the amendment.
Then Mr. Rose, in charge of the
bill, moved that it be tabled on the
ground that the amendment defeated
the purpose for which the measure
was desired.
Speakers against the bill were Her
hert, Republican; Ray, Doughton, Tur
lington, Connor, Dillard, of Cherokee;
Tucker, Roberts, of Buncombe; Wil
liams, of Buncombe; Hageman. Rep
resentatives from the west appealed
especially that they be not saddled
with this primary la .-, Doughton,'
especially insisted that this was a
time for rest from any such drastic
political measures.
The House Saturday passed the
Torrens land title bill similar to that
the Senate recently defeated, and
sent it by special messenger to the
Senate for their action. The House
vote was 67 to 11.
The House passed the Pethel bill
to regulate crossings of railroads and
electric liner; with an amendment that
bit do not apply to towns of less than
,000. I
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The HnUKe defpntr-rl f.A tr ?J V.'.
Dillard till to create a State s-.nv:
commission.
Senate Kil!s Koonce Bit!.
The Senate had a sharp tight over
the Koonce resolution from the
House for investigation of the cru
duct of fire insurance companies in
North Carolina. Senator Baggett in
sisted on immediate consideration.
Others insisted that the resolution he
referred to the insurance comnite
for report. Baggett declared thi-?
would mean the death of the bill. The
Senate voted to refer to the.-nsur-ance
committee.
'No Railroad Investigation.
The House resolution that passed
Friday night to investigate the said
of the Atlantic and Yadkin Railroad
to the Atlantic CoaU Line and its
dismemberment in division with tne
Southern, was voted down by the Sen
ate ever the strenuous protest' of i-en
au Hcbgood.
The Senate concurred in the ilcise
amendment to increase the Governor's
salary to ?5,009 instead of $0,000.
Machinery Bill Passes.
The Senate passed on the second
reading the machinery bill, malting
only a few slight changes in it as if
came from the House. It took its
place on the calendar.
It was announced by Senator f :m3
n-r that a reclassification of counties
as to pauper s-atus by the State
Treasurer lifted 16 out of the pauper
class.- and placed them in the surplus
column.
The Hobgood biil to allow life in
surance companies to withdraw se
curities from the State Commissioner
of Insurance only with the consent
of the policyholders affected, provide
for an additional' clerk in the Govern
or's office and increase the . salaries
of the others, and to provide a refor
matory for negro youths .passed and
was sent to the House.
Lffte in the session the House pass
ed the Senate club locker bill, the
Senate having tabled the House bill
which better guards against the for
mation of Psevdo clubs "by blind
tigers, and it was enrolled for ratifi
cation so this at last settles the ques
tion: club members can continue to
keep their "individual bottles" there
and the non-club bibbers can con
tinue to imbibe at home, unmolested
by the new- lawr.
The House this afternoon also pass
ed the Kellum clam and shell fish bill
with the time changed to extend from
November first to March fifteenth.
An exciting scene occurred at one
thirty in the House when Williams, of
Buncombe, moved to reconsider the
vote by which the State primary bill
failed to pass. Dillard, of Cherokee,
promptly moved to table Williams'
motion, and amidst much confusion
and excitement the motion was adopt
ed and the State primary was buried
for the present time.
Fight In State Capitol.
Raleigh, N. C, March 6. Following
theO announcement in the Senate Sat
urday night of the vote which passed
the bill to elect the Board of Alder
men of Raleigh at large instead of
by wards, there occurred in the ro
tunda of the Capitol an incident not
on the program, a fisticuff between
Alderman J. Starwood Upchurch and
City Attorney Walter Clark. A bit
ter fight had been made by advocates
for and against the bill, which its op
ponents contended was framed with
a view of defeating Alderman Up
church. It seems that he and City
Clerk W. W. Wilsr. were having
some words over the -sult, when
Clark joined in and ir x jiffy he and
Alderman Upchurch were pummelling
each other, but they were separated
before either was injured.
Lexington, Ky., March 6. Three
children, and si man. were killed and
six other persons injured when. a
boiler at the Blackburn-Gambill distil
lery, on Howard's Creek, Breathitt,
county, exploded Saturday? The chil
dren were playing about the dist-1
lery when the explosion occurred
The other victims were employes.
jAlWN GAVEL
MAKES i VALEDICTORY ADDRESS
AFTER SERVICE AS SPEAKER
FOR EIGHT YEARS '
DEFENDS HIS COURSE
Washington, March 6. The vale
dictory of Speaker Cannon in laying
down the gavel after his eventful
term in the Speakership referred to
his selection eight years ago, after
nearly thirty years' service in the
House. Four times, he said, he had
received the vote of a majority cf the
House and became Speaker. He re
called when he first marched down
the aisle to become Speaker when
the present Senator, John Sharp Wil
liams, of Mississippi, introduced him.
"From that time to this," said Mr.
Cannon, "I have never forgo ten thai
my duty to the House was to obey its
will and enforce its rules and pre
side with courtesy and impartiality."
Suggesting that all legislative bodies
are controlled by a majority, he spoke
woe to that man or to that minority
that refuses to abide by and conform
to the will of the majority.
"Because," he said, "until a new
majority is made, the present ma
jority voices the will of all the people
subject, yes, to criticism, but such
criticism leaves with me no heart
burnings and in life, whether it be in
church or state, or in legislative
bodies, the seeming troubles of those
clothed with power and responsibility
come not from the majority, but
from the minority.
"I have served in this body for al
most a generation," said Mr. Cannon,
"and to me it is the greatest body
clothed with power on earth, and
with its co-ordinate branch, the Sen
ate, supreme in matters of legislation,
save alone as limited by the constitu
tion, the fixed law, and by the veto
of the executive. I have abiding faith
that whatever' political body is in
power the privileges of the House will
be maintained as defined in the con
stitution against all comers. In their
maintenance rests the freedom, the
security and the liberty of 90,000,000
of people.
"I leave this place not with regret,
l have performed the duties of this
office according to my best judgmen1"
under the rules of the House. I do
nor. leave the House with malice in
my heart toward any colleague, to
vard any member with whom I have
served.
"My friend, the Speaker-to-be, the
gentleman from Missouri, Mr. Clark,
believes that my departure' is my
final departure as Speaker of the
House. I agree with him. At the age
of almost 75, in the course of nature,
I could not hope to occupy this great
place again, and would not if I could;
but I am so fond of my friend from
Missouri, the Speaker-to-be, that I
mean to serve under his gentle rule
as a member of the House and look
on."
COTTONJIARKET
The New York cotton market open
ed this morning a few points higher.
March, 14.17; May, 14.37; July, 14.21;
August, 13.71; October, 12.57; Decem
ber, 12.42.
At twelve o'clock the market was
much lower: March, 14.04; May,
14.25; July, 14.18; August, 13.62; Oc
tober, 12.46; December, 12.33.
The "market closed much lower:
March, 13.96; May, 14.14; July, 13.99;
August, 13.47; October, 12.37; Decem
ber, 12.26.
Spots in Wilson, 14.25 for good
grades.
Mr?. George W. Morgan, of BaTey,
Tvnt. yesterday in Wilson visiting Mr.
and Mrs. George. L. Morgan.
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THOSE CHARGED WITH "FAMOUS
HOPKINSVILLE RAID TO AN
SWER CHARGES
SOLDIERS GUARD WITNESS
Hopkinsville, Ky., March 6 With
Judge J. T. Hanbery presiding, the
Christian Circuit Court has began a
six weeks' term which promises to
be notable by reason of the import
ant so-called "night rider" cases
which will-begin today. Dr. David A.
Amos, reputed leader of the secret
clan which terrorized this region dur
ing th tobacco war, Guy Dunning, ex
chief inspector of the Planters' To.
bacco Association; John ' Robinson.
Newton Nichols, Irving Glass and J.
B. Malone will face juries on the
charge of participation in the sensa
tional raid on Hopkinsville the night
of December 6, 1907, when the to
bacco houses and other property
valued at a quarter of a million dol
lars were destroyed, two persons shot
a tobacco buyer dragged from hi?
home and whipped, and residences
where lights burned riddled with bul
lets. The cases have twice been post
poned. When first called, Milton
Oliver, chief witness for the prosecu
tion, was unable to appear, as he was
suffering from a buckshot woun.
his hip, -an attempt having been made
to assassinate him shortly after his
confession before the grand jury. Ill
ness of attorneys for the defense
caused a continuance of the trials at
the last term of court. Both side?
now profess eagerness for. the cases
to be heard.
Oliver, a Lyon county farmer, whe
turned Stage's evidence, is expected
here tomorrow, guarded by the sol
diers who have been constantly at his
side, day and -night, for nearly a year.
Armed troops were stationed about
his farm when his crops were plant
ed and a detachment of militia ac
companied him to Eddyville when he
marketed his tobacco. Recently he
fsold his farm for $4,000 to a Trigg
county man, and after testifying here
expects to remove with his family to
a distant State.
Oliver admits that he was formerly
a member of the night rider band,
but says he proposes now to tell the
whole truth in the Hopkinsville trials
whatever the consequences may be.
Train Service Began To-Day.
Wadesboro, N. C, March 6. Regu
lar train service on the Winston
Salem Southbound railroad began this
morning. The schedule as announced
provides for one train each way for
the present. The trains will leave
Wadesboro at 7:10 a. m. and reach
Winston-Salem at 4:00 p. m. South
bound trains leave Winston-Salem at
7:00 a. m. and will reach Wadesboro
at 3:15 p. m. The distance between
the two terminal points is 88 miles.
This service is temporary in arrange
ment and a better schedule will be
announced when the roadbed becomes
a little more safe.
APPROPRIATELY NAMED
Smith has a lovely baby girl,
The stork left her with a flutter,
Smith named her Oleomargarine,
For he hadn't any but her.
Judge.
THE WEATHER
Unsettled Weather Still.
Washington, D. C, March 6. For
North Carolina: Unsettled tonight
and Tuesday with not much change in
temperature and moderate west
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IV.
OS.r.toAN UNIVERSITY LIFE. j
(Continued.)
(By Ivarl R. Moench, Ph. D.)
"Gaudeamus ig-tur, Juvenes dun
- sumus;
Post jucundam juventutem,
Post molestam senectutem,
Nos habebit humus."
"Let us rejoice whilst we are young;
After a pleasant youth,
After troublesome old age,
The earth will claim us."
In order to continue in the proper
spirit our last article concerning Ger
man University Life, the words of the
oldest student Latin song are running
in my mind, and after humming all
the verses cf this immortal melody, I
feel in the right spirit to continue
my art'cle from last week, raid to
tell the readers of the Times some
thing of the unique influences so dif
ferent from America, which sur
round the German University stu
dent. It must be felt in order to be ful
ly appreciated ,for in my estimation
after much travel and school experi
ence in different countries, nowhere
on the globe does University life so
appeal to me as that in my native
land. So often has our University
life . been misunderstood and misrep
resented that I not only feel it is my
sacred duty to defend and to explain
some of the old customs maintaining
at our universities, but the joy of re
counting the reminiscences, whenever
the opportunity affords, so fills me
with joy that I feel this seeming ego
tism will be pardoned by the reader.
The last article found the German
student finishing his college career
aftern nine years of hard labor under
the strictest rules of discipline. With
his testimonius maturitatfs in
his pocket, which means- that
he is prepared to enter any
university in the Empire, foi
example let . us say that, by the ad
vice of fa' her and teachers, he enter?
Leipsic University. Almost instantly
the college boy finds the bonds or
discipline which held him so closely
to home and college, unloosed, and
he is as free as a bird, for his life
in- the. University will soon deter
mine the metal of which the young
man is composed. Therefore, he does
not stand under ironclad rules and
regulations, for it is presumed that
the rigid discipline of college life has
trained his mind and fixed his habits,
and that now the time has arrived
for evolution and development and
these cannot expand in all their beau
ty and glory unless there is freedom
of thought and action.
With the blessings of parents and
.friends, and the largest sum of money
ever before in his pocket, however a
quite insignificant sum compared
with the amount given the American
boy when he leaves home for the
university, the German student be
gins his university career. The first
thing after arrival in the Uni
versity city, he rents a room
according to his means, registers his
name on the university roll, pays his
matriculation fee, and receives his
card, the most important document
for the next three or four years as wo
will see later. Let us suppose that
he has decided to make philology
his life's work. He will, of course,
map out his plane of study for the
first semester (half year) with the
assistance of some professor to whom
he has been specially recommended.
He then visits in turn every professor
whose lecture he wishes to hear, and
pavs to him. a certain stipulated sum
which he receives due recepit, or
.kes such arrangements with the
i -ofessor as are acceptable to both.
He is now ready to begin work.
Text-books are no longer required
since the entire course of study
consists of lectures.
The students "keeps for each pro
fessor a separate notebook, in which
he makes memoranda from which ho
is supposed to rork out carefully at
home the various themes discussed in
the lectures. Necessary referenca
books are recommended aud these
must be provided by the sudent. A
(Continued on Page Eight.)
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LUNtiittM
ADJOURNS
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY FAILS TO
PASS AND TAFT CALLS SPEC
IAL SESSION
CLOSING SCENES STORMY
Washington, March G. The Sixty
first Congress, heedless of one of the
most important legislative tasks set
before it, came to an end shortly af
ter noon Saturday. Within the hour
following. President Tuft had issued a
proclamation c all in:
new Congress
to meet in extraordinary session at
noon Tuesday, April 4. At that time
he will submit lor ratification to a
House overwhelmingly Democratic
and to a Senate barely Republican,
the reciprocity agreement with
Canada. The McCall bill carrying
that agreement into effect and passed
by the House met at the hands of the
old Sena e the death that had been,
freely predicted for it.
The President, well warned if not
entirely reconciled .to the fate in
store for the measure, was at the
Capitol to witness the obsequies. The
bill was not allowed at ny time to
come up in the Senate for a moment's
consideration. The permanent tariff board bill
forced to its passage "through a re
luctant Senate at 8:30 o'clock in the
morning, was hurried over to the
House, there to be strangled by a
Democratic filibuster. The President,
in the room reserved for, him in the
Senate lobby, heard the news with
resignation Congress provided funds
o continue the work of the tempora
ry tariff board for another year.
At Democrat's Request.
It was at the request of the Demo
crats of the House and Senate that
President Taft fixed the date of the
oxtra session on April 4th. The new"
Democratic Ways and Means Com
mittee of the House, which is also to
serve as the new committee on com
mittees, will meet to take up its lat
ter duties. A full caucus of all the
Democratic members of the new
House will not be held until April 3.
In the meantime the plans for the
extra session will have developed.
There is little doubt now that the
Democrats of the House will under
take to revise at least two or three
of the schedules of the Payne-Al-drich
tariff act, and there is every
reason also to believe that these bills
will be favorably received in the
new Senate the increased Democra
tic and insurgent strength in that
body giving a majority to the princi
ple of a further revision of the tariff
downward. It is supposed also that
so long as the new schedules do not
flagrantly violate the policy of pro
tection, President Taft will not with
hold his approval of them. He has
announced, however, that if a general
revision, in violation of the . protec
tive policy, should be inaugurated, he
would not hesitate to use the power
of the veto.
How Long Will It Last?
How long the extra session will
last is problematical. While the new
Congress may promptly ratify the re
ciprocity agreement some Demo
crats are in favor of withholding con
firmation until two or threo new tariff
schedules are ready if tj . differ
ences should arise be' ween th new
House and the Senate the r.es. jn un
questionably would be a long one.
In this connection, however, the
interesting fact is developed that the
President has a constitutional right to
bring the session to an end in case
the two Houses of Congress can not
agree upon a time for adjournment.
Such a ction, It is admitted would be
revolutionary, and there is thought to
be little likelihood that any President
would care to invoke the power vested
in him by Section 3-, Article 2 of the
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