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VOL. 28. SMITHFIELI). X. C.. FRIDAY. JULY '2,1. 1!><>9. NO. 21
RICH MEN IN U. 3. SENATE.
Thirty-Eight Millionaires In Upper
House. The Thirty-eight Are Able
to Swing Any Proposition They
Desire. Would Allow Their For
tunes to Influence Them in Vot
ing An Income Tax.
Washington. July 15.?There are
thirty-eight millionaires in the United
States senate. Some of them are
multi-millionaires. The thirty-eight
are able to swing any proposition
they desire. Is it reasonable to pre
sume they would allow their for
tunes to influence them in voting on
an income tax?
Representative John A. M. Adair,
who comes from a little town in In
diana. answered this query in one of
the most remarkable speeches that
has been made on the floor of the
bouse in months. The country gen
erally will never read Mr. Adair's
speech, however. The great press
associations, closely allied to the re
publican party, do not "handle"
speeches like Adair's even when
made in the American congress.
Speeches of men like Lafollette, ev
en, are frequently ignored.
"The action of the senate in deal
ing with the tariff, emphasizes the
fact that we have too many million
aires in that body," said Representa
tive Adair. "As I am informed,
there are now in the United States
senate thirty-eight millionaires repre
senting over $140,000,000. What can
the people expect at their hands but
legislation designed to aid the speci
al privileged class.
'It is a shame and a disgrace, Mr.
Speaker, that under our system of
taxation the poor laboring man who
has a wife, and four or five children
to support, contributes more toward
the expenses of the government than
does the millionaire, who has no
proud to raise a family and has no
one to clothe and feed except a wife
and a poodle dog.
"The state of New York has a tax
commission, consisting of fifteen
members, and that commission has
made a report showing that the
wealthy class of that state only pay
tax on $1 out of $30, while the poor
man, who cannot cover up his prop
erty, pays tax on every dollar he is
worth. There are no more loyal and
patriotic people on earth than those
who work for wages, and they are
willing to pay their just share of the
government expenses, but they do
object to wholesale discrimination
Mr. Speaker, I believe the future
of thiss country depends on the en
of this country depends on the en
actment of legislation that will give
equal rights to all men and special
privileges to none. Under our pres
ent system of tariff taxation, and in
the absence of effective anti-trust
legislation, stupendous trusts and
combinations have sprung, which
have transferred a majority of the
wealth of the country into the hands
of a few people.
"There surol t is jin ih alarm in the
fact 4,000 men nov own over 85 per
cent of all the wealth of the coun
try, and each one of the balance of
the 90,000,000 people owns less than
$500 in property. The records shows,
sir, that fifty-one men, who have
been the beneficiaries of special leg- j
lslation, now own $4,000,000,000 of
this country's wealth. It is a la- j
mentable fact that one thirty-fifth of j
the entire wealth of the United {
States is therefore concentrated in
the hands of fifty-one men, and
these men are today dictating the
legislation of this special session of
congress,
"The power to rule men by in
tellectual and moral force, the test
of statesmanship of a former day.
13 fast passing away, while wealth,
the uncrowned king, arrogantly rules
In a domain where it is only fitted
to serve.
"Now comes a new tariff bill,
which promises to bear heavily on
practically all of the people, and es
pecially those who work for wages.
Senator Lafollette has shown that
on clothing alone the people will be
robbed of $120,000,000 annually, and
this is but one of a thousand Items
where similar extortions will be
practiced.
"The cotton manufacturers are
given a prohibitive duty and have
an absolute monopoly on their fin
ished product. On $6.25 worth of
cotton cloth, such as is used by
the plain people, there Is a tax of j
$1.57; under the Dingley law 100
yards of unbleached sheeting was
taxed $4; while under this bill it
is taxed ?6.06; and the same is
true all through the cotton sched
ule. Three dollars' worth of ordi
nary cotton stockings is taxed $1.65.
The woolen schedule is worse. On
a woolen suit of clothing costing
$15, there Is a tax of $6.08. Twenty
five yards of worsted, valued at
$60, are taxed $7.10. Twenty-five
? yards of cheap flannel, valued at
$8.75, are taxed $5.25. Seven and
a half dollars' worth of cheap wool
en hats are taxed $4.76.
"If this bill becomes a law the
sugar trust will continue to rob the
American people of $55,000,000 an
nually, and the woolen manufactur
ers will continue to exact from the
consumers over $100,000,000 each
year in excess of what is a fair prof
it; the United States Steel corpo
ration will continue to exploit the
people of millions annually while the
400 trusts set out in Moody's Man
ual wi buid up colossal fortunes
wrung from the pockets of the work
ing people.
"Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the
[ laborer, who will be compelled to
pay more for the necessities of life,
and who already has a hard time
to feed and clothe his family, I pro
test against the passage of this bill.
On behalf of 9,000,000 poor working
girls, who will be compelled to pay
more for their dresses, more for
their hosiery and gloves, more for
every thing they wear, I earnestly
protest against the passage of this
unjust measure."?Raleigh Times.
FAILED TO CROSS CHANNEL.
Daring Flight of Herbert Latham,
French Aviator.?Accident to Mo
toi?Machine Settled in the Chan
nel Like a Wounded Bird.
Calias, July 19.?Herbert Latham,
the French aviator, made a daring
but unsuccessful attempt to cross
the English Chanel in his monoplane
this morning. He got away splen
didly under perfect conditions, from
the top of the Chalk Cliff at San
gatt, and covered over half the dis
tance at an average height of 500
feet, when the motor slowed down
and he was obliged to descend.
The air space of the wings howev- j
er, kept the machine afloat and the
monoplane, lying like a wounded bird
was stretched out on the water when
the French torpedo Boat Destroyer
Harpoon, which had kept abreast
throughout the journey came along
side and picked up the aviator. Mr.
Latham was not wet and still sat on
the saddle, which is located above
the wings and behind the motor,
calmly smoking a cigarette.
He immediately announced that he
was not discouraged by the failure
and would try again as soon as the
machine was repaired. The iajuries
to the monoplane were slight, the
principal damage being caused when
it was hauled aboard the torpedo boat
destroyer. The motor is intact.
The watchers on both shore had
an anxious hour after the machine
was lost to view behind a thin veil
of fog on the French side, and ap- j
was reported at Calais that the Har- |
prehension was not allayed until It
pon was returning with Mr. Latham i
uninjured, aboard.
On landing the aeronaut was giv
en a frantic reception.
The failure of the motor is attrib- j
uted to a bad carbureter on the j
monoplane which, when 400 feet in j
the air, began to descend. When the
machine was 200 feet above the wa
ter M. Latham shut off the power, !
and the machine glided dowin gently, |
alighting on the waves with hardly a
splash.
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TO AVOID CAPE HATTERS.
Nearly Five Mllet of New Inlarii
Waterway Completed.
Beaufort.N . C., July 19.?Nearly
five miles of the inland waterway
from Beaufort to the Neuse River,
designed to avoid the dangers of nav-!
agation off Cape Hatteras, have been
completed. The dredging boat Is
now located in a creek, where much
difficulty Is being encountered. When
the canal, with its 10-foot channel, is
finished, it is believed that not on
ly will It offer better protection to
life and cargoes Id the coast com
merce, but that It will result in an
important saving in time and expense
The district of Columbit holds the
record of all the States and Terri- (
tories for density of population.
COTTON AVERAGES ONLY 72.
Lowest Conditions Ever Known at
This Date. Rains Will Only
Make Plants Shed More Rapidly
?Little Chance to Make Crop
From New Growth on Account
Boll Weevil?Condition Likely t o
Show Further Loss.
Memphis, Ten., July 19.?J. A.
Taylor, prseident of tbe National Gin
ner's Association, today issued the
I following special report on the cot
ton crop:
"Reports from about half our cor
I respondents under average date of
the sixteenth, indicate condition of
172 and under. This is the lowest
condition ever known at this date.
Some parts of Alabama, Mississippi,
! Louisiana and Arkansas show slight
; improvement, but others show de
terioration. Texas shows heavy de
j terioration on account of severe
drought and hot winds. Scattered
rains have fallen since these reports,
but in most cases have come too late.
I It is the consensus that rains now
will only make the plant shed more
rapidly and there is little chance to
make a crop from the new growth
on account of the weevil. Heavy
rains in Georgia and the Carollnas
have caused a small loss in condi- {
tion and that region. Oklahoma
shows considerable loss in about half
th estate due to hot, dry weather;
the other half about holds its own.
Reports from the weevil district are
that the damage being done now is
much less than in June but with
rains the damage will increase. The
condition will likely show further loss
between now and the 25th, unless
there are general rains of two to
three days in Texas."
IN THE AIR 31 MINUTES.
Aeronaut Curtlss Makes a Record
With Heavler-than-alr Machine.
New York, July 16.?Glen H. Cur
tlss, the aeronaut, made a flight of
31 minutes' duration in his aeroplane
at Hemstead Plains, Long Island, to
day. He alighted without mishap,
saying that he could have remained
in the air for an indefinite period.
His flight is believed to be the long
est ever made in a heavier-than-air
machine in his country, except by
the Wright brothers.
Curtiss' record flight was the sec
ond of two which he made today.
The first was under conditions far
from ideal, fog hampering the avia
tor to such an extent that he alight
ed aaer remaining in the air about
12 minutes. In the second at
tempt, made after the fog lifted, Cur
tiss, with his machine apparently un
der perfect control, circled again and
again the three-mile course over
Hemstead Plains, finally alighting as
gracefully as a bird, amid the cheers
of the crowd which had assembled
to witness the flights.
Orville Wright made a flight of 74
minutes and 24 seconds at Fort Myer.
on September 12, 1908. At Le Mans,
on December 31, 1908, Wilbuij Wright
remained in the air 2 hours and 9
minutes.
A Million Dollar Mill.
Rockingham, N. C., July 19.?"Coin
cidental with the sale of the Rock
ingham Power Company and the
statement that this great hydro-elec
tric plant will be pushed to an early
completion comes the announcement
of Messrs. W. B. Cole, William En
twistle and others that they will or
ganize and build a million dollar mill
at Rockingham without delay. Other
mills and enterprises will follow.
"The best town at all." is growing
by leaps and bounds."
WOMAN DIES AGED 112 YEARS.
She Had Documents Which Prove
She Was Born in 1797.
Lewiston, Me., July 17.?Mrs. Mar
garet McCarthy, New England's old
est woman, and probably the oldest
woman in the United States, is dead
today, at the age of 112 years.
Mrs. McCarthy was born May 10,
1797, at Minewah, County Cork, Ire
land, and had documents which prove
her age.
Levant L. Mason, who has been in
the Jewelry business In Jamestown, ?
N. Y., for more than 60 years and
who has been located at one place
for half a century, has announced
that be was goiDg to retire.
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EARTHQUAKE KILLS MANY.
Towns Wrecked and Hundreds Hurt
in Greece. Many Buildings in |
Village of Upousisti Torn to Splin
ters and Great Crack Left in
Earth.
Athens, Greece, July 17.?Earth
quakes brought death and destruction
again to day iu the Grecian province
of Ells.
Two persons were instantly killed
and fifty injured, of whom several
have died, in Upousisti. Almost all
tho houses In that village collapsed
and the earth is cracked open. Mol
ten lava 1s flowing from the fissu ?>.
Four persons were killed and twen
ty-four injured at Damlza, which is
iu ruins.
Other villages, Including Liopesl
and Maiinski, were badly damaged,
but it is not known yet how many
were lulled tr injured in them. The
terror-stricken villagers have taken
refuge in the fields and have no
shelter. Relief trains are being
rushed from here.
Reports from the prefects show
that the casualties in Thursday's
earthquake were not so numerous as
was first feared. It is known that
twenty-six persons I< st their lives.
Twenty-three bodies have been re
covered from the ruins of Hava.'i
where more than 2U 1 oi.ses were de
molished.
Eighty persons were injured at
that village. Three persons were
killed at Ponhioti and ten were in
jured at Analaiva.
The quakes caused more or less
damage at other points.
CAPITAL OF $970,000,000.
Proposed Merger of All the Tele
phone Corporations.
New York, July 16.?The merging
of all the Bell telephone companies
of the country into a gigantic corpo
ration. representing a capitalization
of $970,000,000, is believed to be
foreshadowed in the action taken by
the American Telephone and Tele
graph Company in providing for the
absorption of the stock of the New
York and Now Jersey Telephone
Company.
Although no official statement
could e obtained today, it Is believ
ed that the New York aud Nev Jer
sey Telephone Company will accept
the offer of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company to exchange
its stocks share for share. The
plan has the approval of the direc
tors of the New York company.
The New York and New Jersey
Telephone Company is generally re
garded as one of the subordinate
companies of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, although
the latter owns but a small part of
the New York Company'3 capital
stock. Another subsidiary of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, the New York Telephone
Company, is, however, a large holder
o New York and New Jersey Tele
phone stock.
Under the terms of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company's
offer the New York and New Jersey
Company's stock, which pays 7 per
cent, dividend, must be transferred
by August 31. The authorized stock
issue of the New York and New
Jersey Company is $50,000,000, with
a funded debt of $1,195,000.
MAN ASSAULTED AN EDITOR.
Ho Was Fined $500 and Given Six
Months' Imprisonment fop His
Deed.
Yorkville, S. C., July 16.?W. H.
Windle, a wili-to-do farmer, living
near Fort Mill, York county, today
was convicted of assault and battery
of an aggravated nature, the Jury
recommending him to the mercy of
the court. He was sentenced to si*
months' imprisonment or a fine of ?
$500. Windle was tried for an at- '
tack on W. D. Grist, editor of the 1
Yorkville Enquirer. Windle took '
offense at a statement published in '
the Enquirer. '
WAITED 20 YEARS FOR BRIDE. ?
Harvard Man at Last Weds Singer
Whose Health Broke Down,
Los Angeles, Cal., July 17.?In the
wedding of Miss Anna Fuller, of
Long Beach, and H. Conrad Bier
wirth, of the German department at
Harvard University, which took place
at Azusa, a suburb of this city, yes
terday, a romance extending over
two continents and more than a
score of years was brought to a
happy culmination.
Miss Fuller and Prof. Blerwlrth
Dint in Berlin twenty one years ago
and two years later became engag
ed. She was then completing her
musical education, wi u the promise
of a brilliant operati': crreer beforj
her. When about to make her a -
but in grand opera she broke down
in health and return J to Americ.v
She came t.i California two yeaiM
ago. Recently sho recovered and
the long-delay< d niar'iage was ar
ranged. Through all ihe years lu
which they were forced to reir.nin
apart Miss Fuller always Insisted
that her sweetheart's place be set
at the table for every meal.?Wash
ington Herald.
LIBBY PRISON OWNER DIES.
Also Member of Grand Jury that
Indicted Jefferson Davis.
Muskegon, 'Mich., July 17.?Wil
liam Fay, part owner when the civil
war broke out of the tobacco ware
house which became famous as Lib
by Prison, and a well-known scout
after his Union sympathies forced
him to leave bis home in Richmond,
Va., died today at his home at Lake
Harbor. He was born in Massachu
setts in 1822.
Fay was a member of the grand
Jury whic* indicted Jefferson Davis
for treason.
STILL RAIDED AFTER 43 YEARS.
Moonshiner Lived in Cave for Half
Century. Sight of train and Au
tomobiles Terrified Him When 1
Taken to City for Trial.
Wheeling, W. Va., July 19.?Wliat I
is said to have been one of the most
sensational raids ever made by gov
ernment officers in this State was
that of a few nights ago, when Unit
ed States marshals, with a force of
revenue men, captured a moonshine
distillery in Wetsel county, near the
Marlon county line.
According to the revenue men, the
alleged "speakeasy" has been in ope
ration for forty-three years, the man
in charge, Christopher Bewer, being
seventy-two years old. One night the
first part of the week a big fight
took place at the "still" and half a
dozen men were wounded. Ed. Har
nett and his brother, Will Harnett,
fought a duel with knives, and Ed.
was fatally stabbed. His brother is
in the county jail at New Martins
ville.
The officers got wind of the affair
and a posse surrounded the place.
Before any resistance could be offer
ed, Brewer and his son Wesley were
arrested and brought to this city.
When the Brewers arrived here
they were terrified by the sights
they saw, and clung to the officers
like children. Neither Brewer nor
his son, who is forty-seven years of
age, had ever ridden on a train and
never before had seen a steam en
Bino or a irony car. They did not
know wbat an automobile was.
In the plea put up by Brewer, he
stated that he had been manufactur
ing the stuff for forty-three years,
the process being to take rhubarb and
potatoes, scald them, place them in
a "mill" bag, and crush the juice out
of the mixture and then sweeten it
with sugar and place it in barrels.
The authorities say this is the worst
drink thay have ever captured in a
raid.
Brewer is said to have lived in a
cave In the mountains. He was
known throughout the country as
"Julep." A complete distilling outfit
was captured by the officers.
The two men were taken before
United States Commissioner Boyd,
who held them for the Federal grand
|ury. Brewer had lots of money on
bis person, and was able to give the
necessary security. When he left \
the courtroom and got on the street
lie was so bewildered he did not j
know which way to turn. He had
to be escorted to the railroad sta
tion by Marshal Williams, and clung
to hi3 hand all the way.
At the first census but six cities
reported a population of approximate
ly 8000 Inhabitants. Compared with
this number, in 1900 there were 2S6
litles and towns in the same area
laving a population of 8000 or
?ore> t - ? ? ? ?
?
HUDSON RIVER TUNNELS OPEN.
New Jersey Now Three Minutes
From Broadway?Two Tubes to
Carry 220,000,000 Passengers a
Year?System Will Cost $70,000,
000?First Train Passes Under th#
River.
New York, July 19.?Two new
tubes of the Hudson and Manhattan
tunnel system were opened to traffic
today, those being from the Church
street terminal in New York to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Station in Jer
sey City. Two weeks from today it
is planned to complete this system
by opening the transverse tunnel con
necting the terminal of the river
tunnel at the Pennsylvania Station
with the Erie and Lackawanna Sta
tions. The extension of the New
York uptown pair of tubes from
Twenty-third street to the Grand
Central Station is promised in two
or three years.
When these uptown extensions are
finished it is estimated that the to
tal cost of the system will be $70,
000,000. It Is figured that the traf
fic of the new tunnels from the first
will be 100,000,000 passengers a year.
The capacity of the system of eight
car trains operated at minute and a
half intervals will be 220,000,000 per
year.
Today's event was marked by a
celebration in Jersey City which fol
lowed the arrival of the first tunnel
train this morning. As the train
sped under the river every steam
craft and locomotive up and down the
great waterway let loose its whistles.
Twenty bombs were successively ex
ploded above the station train shed.
On reaching Jersey City the guests
in the train were taken in automo
biles to the City Hall, where speech
es were made. All the public build
ings in both cities and many of the
downtown stores were decorated in
honor of the event. Jersey City Is
now "three minutes from Broadway."
SPANISH PRETENDER READ.
Don Carlos de Bourbon Reigned from
1872 to 1876.
Rome, July 18.?Don Carlos da
Bourbon, Duke of Madrid, pretender
to the Spanish throne, died today at
Varase, Lombardy, aged sixty-one
years. His pretensions to the Span
ish thrfine were based on the ground
that Isabella, daughter of Ferdinand
VII, who was Don Carlos' grand un
cle, and Christina, mother of Alfoneo
XII, owing to the Salic law, were
debarred from the succession.
Don Carlos took up arms in 1872
and reigned as Charles VIII over the
greater part of Northern Spain until
1876, when, being surrounded by the
forces of Alfonso XII, who had recent
ly been proclaimed King at Madrid,
he retired Into France.
As the undisputed senior male
heir of the house of Uourbon, he had
a distinct right to the throne of
France in the event of the restora
tion of the monarchy. He was fre
quently invited by the French royal
ists to put forward his claim, but
he always abstained from doing so.
RELIEF OF THE NORSEMEN.
Evidence that They Visited North
west as early as 1339.
Evidence that Norsemen. visited
America long before Columbus discov
ered this continent has been found
by a Wisconsin man. Prof. Holand,
who unearthed a stone in a Minne
sota county which was undoubtedly
buried there by the men of the
North in 1339.
The inscription on the stone, trans
lated, tells of the invasion of the
wilderness and a meeting with the
red men, "carrying dead and threat
ening evil." It also states that the
party left the stone at a point "for
ty days from the ship's landing."
which was probably on the shores of
Hudson Bay. The party evidently
feared the Indians, for a prayer to
heaven to protect them from the sav
ages was cut deep into the stone.
Ten men were left to guard the
ship, the inscription reads.
Prof. Holand believes that the stone
is a genuine relic of the Norsemen's
visit to Minnesota. It was found
buried deep in the roots of an an
cient tree, and could not possibly
have been placed there during re
cent years. ?Evening Wisconsin.
Taking this entire country into
consideration, the density of popula
tion per square niile U ??.$,