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?l)f Smitljfidii Rrralfc fiuge one dollar pee year. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.' , single copies five cents. VOL. 22. SMITH FIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1904. XQ. 40. THE WEEK IN CONGRESS. A Brief Review of What Our Na tional Lawmakers are Doing, Condensed by The Washing ton Post. 3 W K1?N ESUAY-SKN AT K. Panama was ap;aiu the princi pal subject of consideration in the Senate, and as on Tuesday the debate was spirited. Today there were only two speakers, and between them they held th> floor for about four hours. Mr. Carmack opened the proceeding's, with a set speech in pointed criti cism of the President's course, and was followed bvMr Spooner in defense of the President's ac tion as law abiding and in de fense of the President himself as a "patriotic, brave, and true man." Mr. Tillman frequently interrupted Mr. Spooner, and there were a number of sharp en counters ^between them. When the Senate adjourned the Pana ma question was still before the; Senate, and it was aunounced that the discussion would be resumed tomorrow after the dis position of the Post-office De partment inquiry resolutions. HOUSE. After a lively aeDate, lasting three hoarse, the House in Com mittee of the Whole, by a vote of 7-s to <>r>, struck out of the legis lative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill the paragraph providing for the salaries and expenses of the Civil Service Commission and clerks employed under the commission. The action was taken on mo tion of Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, i He was supported by both He-! publicans and Democrats, both in speech and on the vote. Those who spoke in opposition to the civil service system as it now exists were Messrs. Hepburn, Grcsvenor, of Ohio, and Hart lett, of Georgia, while among those speaking for the service! were Messrs. Cooner (Republican) of Wisconsin, and Gillett (Repub lican) of Massachusetts. Notice was given by Mr. Hingham, in charge of the bill, that a yea and nay vote will be demanded on the amendment striking out the provision for the expenses of the Civil Service Commission when j the bill is reported in the House. No conclusion was reached in committee on the legislative bill THCR8DA Y-SEN ATE. The Senate listened to speeches by Mr. Newlands and Mr. Depew on the Panama Canal question, and to a speech by Mr. Latimer in advocacy cf the adoption of h plan for the improvement of the public wagon roads of the coun try. Mr. Newlands spoke in criticism of the course of the President in Panama, declaring that it was an act of war and hi contravention alike of the treaty of 1846, of international law, and of the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Depew, on the other hand, praise 1 the President's policy as patriotic, and justified it under precedent and law. He reviewed the history of Panama and detailed the facts connected with the negotiation of the Hay-Herran treaty, con tending that Columbia had over reached herself in her rejection of that agreement. The consideration of the Post office Department investigation resolutions was postponed until next Monday. HOV8E. The House passed the legisla tive, executive, and judicial ap propriation bill, carrying an aggregate of $29,711,700, and then adjourned until Monday next. This is the second of the big.supply measures to pass the House. The House by a vote of 88 to 182, also refused to sustain the action of the Committee of the Whole, which Wednesday adopt ed an amendment striking out the paragraph providing for the salaries and expenses of the Civil Service Commission, tliusj restoring the item in the bill. Amendments adopted in com mittee increasing, in one instant, the salaries of territorial officers i I in New Mexico and Arizona, and reducing the salary of the direc tor of the census in another, met similar fates in the House. An amendment to the bill was adopted restricting the use of government horses and carriages to the President, his secretary, and cabinet officers. KRIDAY-SKNATK. Today's session of the Senate began with the passage of a number of bills on the calandar and closed in like manner. The intervening time was given over to a speech by Mr. Telller on the Panama Canal question, was devoted to the contention that the course of the President in connection with the recent revolt of Panama had been contrary to precedent and in contravention of international law. The House was not in session today Congress was not in session Saturday. MONDAY?S K N A T E. The post-office inquiry resolu tion and the Panama Canal question divided the attention of the Senate today. The first half of the session was given up to the inquiry, and Senators Hale and Gorman were the speakers. Mr. Hale made a plea for the re ference of all the resolutions lookiug to an investigation to the Committee on Post-offices, and Mr. Gorman repeated his as surances that he would be satis fied with tnat disposal of the question. He denied any inten tion to appear as a prosecutor of the Republican party, with which Mr. Hale accused hiinf Mr. Hale expressed the opinion that the departmental inquiry had been more thorough than' would be a Congressional investi gation. 1'lie question went over until today with the understanding that after a few more speeches the resolution would be allowed to go to tlie committee. The discussion of the Panama Canal question was confined to the continuation of Mr. Teller's argument that the course of the I 'nited States in the recent revolt of Panama was contrary to in ternational law and sound morals. HOUSE. Today was District day in the House, and all the local bills on the House and l aiou calendars were taken up and passed. Aside from the consideration of District bills, the only important busi ness was the presentation of a report from the Committee on elections No. 1, by Mr. Haines, of West Virginia, declaring that Joseph A. Conry was not elected a member of the House from the Ninth district of Massachusetts, and that John A. Neither, the sitting member, was elected and is entitle to bis seat The reso lution was adopted unanimously and without debate. Doth the contestant and contestee are Democrats. Mr. Long worth, of Ohio, was recoguized for fifteen minutes, and defended Cincinnati from the attack recently made on that city by Mr. Daker, New York. Mr. Dartlett, of Georgia, secured recognition, and had read a let ter from M. VV. Louis, who was recently dismissed from the divi sion of supplies in the Post office Department, charging that Mr. Dristow, the Fourth Assis tant General, had violated the civil service law. At 1:38 the House adjourned. TUESDAY?SENATE. The Senate required less than a minute today to dispose of the motion to refer to theCommittee on Post-offices the various reso lutions lookintr to an investiga tion of the Post-office Depart ment. The question had been previously debated for hours at a time, but when the motion was put yesterday no Senator mani fested any disposition to further discuss it, and it was adopted without negative vote. The adoption of the motion occurred early in the day, and after the jmssage of half dozen bills, the Senate returned to the consideration of the Panama question. Mr. Quarles spoke for almost two hours in support o J the course of the administration and was followed by Mr. Patter sou, who criticised the Presi dent's course in Panama. Mr. Patterson was subjected to many interruptions, and had nor con-' j eluded when the Senate adjourn ed. HOl'HK. The House spent the day con sidering the Hepburn pure-food bill it was not completed when the House was ready to adjourn, | and on motion of Mr. Hepburn, a recess was taken until 11:55 to morrow. This will retain the bill before the House without in- \ terruption for consideration to I morrow. .lust before the recess an amendment coming froyj the Democratic side was adopted inserting the word "willfully" I relative to the sale of prohibit! d and adulterated goods by retail ers, which would make it incum-1 bent upon the government to prove knowledge ou the part of i retailors that the sale of such | goods was contrary to law. The principal speeches of the day were made by Messrs. Hepburn and Mann in favor of the bill arid Adamson and Clark in' opposi tion. CLAYTON CHIPS. Mr. J oho W. Taltoo was here j Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Debnain, of | Selma, was here Sunday. Mrs. Frank Jones is improving after'a severe case of pneumonia. Clayton is glad to welcome Mr. and M rs. Monroe J ones. Mr. John L, Parrish is having1 i another dwelling erected here. Mrs. Priddv, of Keysville, Ya., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. i W. Carter. We learn that the Clayton Furniture Co. will soon move to Smithfield. Messrs. Lon and Kd Jones spent several days with parents i here this week. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Belvin and Mr. John T. Pullem, of Raleigh, were visitors here this week. Messrs. R. B. Whitley & Co. are moving their stock and will soon be ready for business. Mr.'J. H. Johnsonhaspurchas ' ed a nice lot from Mr. A. J. Kllis and will soon tweet a handsome [ residence. Quarterly conference will be held at the Methodist church next Saturday and Sunday. Presid ing Elder Moore will preach Sun-; ! day. We are sorry to chronicle the death of Mr. John Smith, son of . Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith, which occurred suddenly Tuesday morning. Miss Verta Garvis, of Greens boro, left for her home Monday after spending some time with the Misses Barnes. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Griffin left Wednesday morning for Rich mond, Ya., where Mrs. Griffin will receive treatment. Mr. II. J. Crocker, a very pros perous farmer living near here, tells us he has "another girl," weight 11% pounds. This makes six boys and five girls. Grand concert of musicke, Fri day night, January 20tb, at town hall. Doors open at 7:80 performance begins at 8:00 sharp. Grandest thing going?old time songs, old time plays and old time cosnimes. Admission 15c children, 25c adults. Don't miss it. % t" ELIR. Ordinance Against Smoking in Yad klnvllle. For the benefit of our country friends we would say that this town has seen fit to pass an or dinance prohibiting smoking of a cigar, cheroot, pipe, cigarette or any smoking material in any store inside tne corporation. Ho when you come to town and want to smoke, you will have to stand on the street corners or hang on the court house fence.? Yadkinville Ripple. STATE NEWS NOTES. Short Items of Interest Clip ped and Culled From Our F.xchanyes. In the jear 1903 about MOO distilleries and 100 bar-rooms closed in North Carolina. During the past year Governor Aycock granted 80 pardons against 99 grauted ten years ago. Gaston county leads the State In laud valuation, being $13.42 j per acre, and Dare the least?93 cents per acre. Fire at Tyron, Polk county, Sunday morning destroyed /two stores and a residence. The loss is $7,000 or $8,000. Editor Nelson, of the Yadkin ville Hippie, is a carrier on one of; the rural mail routes recently es tablished from Yadkinville. About 90 saloons went out of business in North Carolina Jan-S nary 1st. Liquor is sold now in about 40 towns in the Shate. 1 The town of Lincolnton will vote on the 10th of February on the question of issuing $30,000 1 of bonds for water works and sewerage. The Cleveland Star Publishing Company, with a capital of $10,-1 000, has been organized at Shel by and Editor Clyde II. Hoey is president. Representative Thomas has introduced a bill in Congress to increase the pay of rural delivery j carriers from $000 to $800 per year. Work began last week on the Sisters of Charity Hospital at Greensboro, which is to cost al least $100,000, and itisexpeeted : to be completed by early fall. ' There are now employed in North | Carolina 040 carriers on the rural routes. Of these about 000 re ceive $000 a year, about 25 re ceive $.100, and 15, less than $500. The total amount per year paid out to these carriers is about $375,000. The Charlotte Observer says that all the cotton mills in Con cord, eight in number, will here-1 after, for an indefinite period,run only four days in a week. The I curtailment is on account of the scarcity und high price of cotton and the low price of manufactur ! ed goods. The Atlantic Railway Compa ny, which made a bid several months ago for the lease of the Atlantic & North Carolina Hail way, wh:ch it filed with the Gov ernor, and which later made an other bid for the lease, which is considered better than the first one, has withdrawn its bid, so! that matter is closed forthepres-! ent, anyhow. A dispatch from Keidsville to the Raleigh News and Observer says that L. M. Neal, one of the! best known citizens of Caswell county, died at his home at Van ceyville Friday, hie death result ing from a sudden shock on the receipt of a telegram stating that his son and only child was at the point of death at a hospital at Knoxville, Tenn. The Chronicle Hays that Col. W. E. Holt, of Charlotte, is the largest owner of stock in tliej North Carolina Railroad Com;>a-, ny, having 750 shares. The' stock is now quoted at $ 175. The second largest holder of stock in this road is said to be the Hon. < Jos. Choate, the eminent New York lawyer, now minister to Knglau^ who has 700 shares. The buildings of the Oxford Female Seminary were entirely consumed?by lite Monday. There was uo accident to anyone. The girls were at breakfast when the fire was discovered. The school was just opening the most pros ?erous year of its existence. here were eighty-five boarders, and there was not room for an other. There is ten thousaud dollars insurance, but the loss was much greater. We are told there were 590 sa loons closed in the State of Vir ginia last year. MR. POU' IN CONGRESS. ? Our Congressman Makes a Short Speech on Civil Service The House spent some time iu discussing the civil service Wednesday of last week. During the discussion Mr. i'ou made a short talk that attracted at tention. He spoke as follows: "Mr. Chairman, the spoils system may be bad, but with respect to the Democrats here in Washington 1 do not believe that any system can be much worse than the one now in force. We are told that there some 27, 000 employees in Washington. They soon become practically professionaloflice-holders. Wash ington is getting to be an edu cational center of vast impor tance. There are great universi ties and colleges here, and there are thousands of young men and women all over the country who | would be glad of an opportunity to come here, hold a government position for a while, and have the benefit of these institutions of learning, and 1 believe that the solution of this whole question is involved in an amendment to the present law providing 1or a term of office as to theemployees who hold office in Washington.: i know of no reason why a person ' who holds a clerical position here might not hold that position for a term of years as a Member of Congress does. "There are thousands of young men all over the country who would be proud of the opportu nity to come here and hold one of these positions, say, for three or four or five years. The ad vantage of that, Mr. Chairman, would be that at the end of the term of office the person holding the position would then retire to the ranks of private life and be of service to his community; but while a person holds a position for life he gene rally soon becomes unfitted for any other position, and 1 believe the Government would get better service if the employee knew he would hold the place for a term of years only. We will soon be confronted with the proposition to [tension the ofiicials who become incapaci-: tated to work, a>'d it seems to me that the distinguished chair man of the Civil Service Com mittee could well devote his energies and utilize his large knowledge with respect to this question in the preparation of a bill carrying out the suggestion which I am making. "I believe, with respect to tl e offices outside of the city ol Washington, that the old policy is the best?that is, to put the, entire responsibility upon the party in power. When the Repub licans are in power let them have the places and let them shoulder the entire responsibility of] government. And when the; Democrats come into power next year we will do likewise. A Mem ber of Congress has to fight for his seat every two years. The position he holds is certainly as important as that of the em ployee in the various Depart ments here. What possible objection can there be to this change? Let the applicant stand an examination, as he does now, but let hini understand that at the expiration of his term of office he must stand his chance for reappointment just as if he had never held a place under the Government. "Under the present system it is almost useless for a young man or woman to apply foraposition here. All the places are tilled, and filled for life almost. The only vacancies are those caused by death. "1 submit it is against the spirit of our institutions to con fer appointment and power for lile upon a preferred list of per sons to the delusion of every body else. Washington is a beautiful city. It is an education to anyone to live here. The very opportunity of living here for a while would be an incentive to endeavor to boys and girls in | every State in the Union, but, under this Itepublican law, to them the door of hope is closed. "This proposed change in the law could easily be surrounded with safeguards which would guarantee the very best service to the Government. For instance, persons required to do technical or expert work might be exempt from the provisions of this amendment. "One thing is very certain. The present law is not giving satisfaction, and recent develop ment in the Post-Otfice Depart ments indicate that* he present ' law does not guarantee either efficiency or honesty in the ad ministration here. (Applause )" SEL(VIA NEWS. Mr. M. A. Hooks went to Ral eigh Sunday. Mr. Dolph Atkinson is having a sal ? stable built, 40x110 feet. Mr. Fabius Busbee Pointer Whitley spent Sunday here. The Misses bailey left for their home in I.awrenceville, Va., Tuesday. Mr. Robert Millard Nowell and Miss Marjorie Smith went to Pine l>evel Sunday. Mr. C. W. Richardson left Wed nesday for a short visit to his old home. Mr. James I). Jeffreys, M. ('. Winston's popular silk salesman, spent Sunday at his old home. Sam Godwin, of the firm of Godwin, Futrell & Co , will leave next Monday for Atlanta to pur chase another load of stock for our market. Mr. M. C. Winston has bought the old J. W. B. Watsou "Pine ville place" consisting of twenty five hundred acres. It is rumoied that a cotton mill will be erected on this place. Several members of the Raleigh Lodges of Odd Fellows camebere last Monday night to assist Olive Branch Lodge. No. 37, initiate some candidates. After :he initiation an oyster supper was served. Rev. .1 0. Guthrie pr ached two excellent sermons here last ? Sunday. He will preach at San ders Chapel next Sunday morn ing aud at Smith's Chaje 1 in the afternoon. He will be here again on the first Sunday. The Selrna Manufacturing Co. elected officers Monday; M. ('. Winston, president; R. M. No * ell, vice-president; C. W. Richardson, secretary and treasurer. The di rectors are N. E. Edgerton, R. M. Nowell, L. D. Debnarn, John W. Futrell and J. A. Spiers, Jr. Our new hotel is now opeu for the accommodation of the pub lic under the management of W. H. Stallings. The name is The Merchants Hotel. The president of the company is R. B. Carring ton; M. C. Winston, vice-presi dent; R M. Nowell, secretary nd treasurer. Mrs. H. if. Carriugton gave t.n "At Hopie" complimentary to the Misses Bailey, of Lawrence ville, Va., and her niece, Miss Lois Bass, Monday nigh*. Nhss Rosa Bryant Richardson won the first prize aud Robert Millard Nowell and partner, Rob Gibson, won the boobv, which was a Jew's harp, ou which Mr. Gibson play ed Home. Sweet Home. Should your city desire to pur chase lights let me advise that you do not get the kind that Selma has, for our lights only burn well on moonlight nights. We have been in the dark for a week now; but, as moonlight nights are coming wewillbeO. K. (>ur lights are like the News and Observer?never on hand when we want them. The stockholders of the Ilank of Selma held their annual meet* ing yesterday, the 19th, re-elect ing the bourd of directors, con sisting of M. C. Winston, R. B. Harrington. R. B. Whitley, C W. Richardson and W. li. ? all, who met and elected M. C. Winston President, and L. I). Debnain Cashier. The bank now has a surplus of $2,400 and is doing a good business. Sknex. A man may not be perfect, but when he is with bis wifeshe thinks he isn't very far from perfection.
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