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iw noruii no Largest in Country's History—Outline of Import- ant Legislation Enacted. Washington, Special.—Now tlyit billion-dolhir sessions of Congress are the rule, little other than ap propriation legislation can be enact ed during the short sessions, and the one ending I his week is no exception. The nppiopriations for the session probably will be the largest on re cord, exceeding the $1,005,000,000 of tho fiist session. As only one of the fifteen general appropriation bills of this session Irs been sent to the President for his s'gnaiurc, an ac curate statement of the amount to be appropriated is impossible. Scarcely r.ny of the general poli sies of lie i:ntry v.ere touched up on this t,(ss.V:i. Ifcc E:c:c7clt Row. The discission in both houses of the scciet service and of the Panama canal and in the Senate of the Brownsville affair and of the Ten nessee Cral and Iron Company pur chase lias brought the administration of Theodore Roosevelt prominently in view. The veto of the census bill, because the employes for the taking of the next census were not to be placed under civil service regulations, was another interesting chapter of the session. The veto of several dam bills, because they did not recognise the principles advanced for the con servation of water powers, attracted much attention. An appropriation of $300,000 for tho relief of Italian earthquake suf ferers was made at the beginning of (he srssion. The passage of a law for the sup pression of the opium habit in this country, it is hoped, will exert a wide moral influence. A law was passed for the preservation of the Calaveras big trees in California. Another act authorised enlarged homestead en tries in the arid region of the West. Fcnal Code Revision, It practically is assured that the monumental work of revising and codifying the penal code laws of the United States will be completed at this session. An agreement has been reached by the conferees of the two bodies. As a result of this, legis lation. the United States government will, through a "rider," enter the ifield of regulating the interstate ship ment. of intoxicating liquors. An 4mendment to tl>e mil* v.• interstate "C. O. D." shipments of intoxicating liquor, and pinviti-.- lor the Trrfrkin? nf the packages of swh liquors in interstate commerce .with the bona fide name of the consignee and the nature of the contents. Sev eral of the so-called "Ku Klux" laws are stricken from the statutes by this revision. The statehood bill, admitting Ari zona and New Mexico, it is conceded, cannot pass this session. The fate of the Ualliger ocean mail Bubsidy bill rests with the House. It provides for subsidizing mail linos to South America, Japan, Asia, the Philippines and Australasia. Many Bills Will Fail. Among important measures regard- "UNCLE REMUS'" FA Atlanta, On.. Special. "Snnp Bean Farm and the Sign of the Wren s Nest," as the late Joel Chan dler Harris styled his home, is to be purchased hv the friends of "Unele Remus" a:-,d presented to the public as a memorial to the distinguished writer. The ladies' auxiliary of the Uncle Remus Memorial association has undertaken to raise funds for BLOODY RIOTING ATT /Lisbon, Bv Cablp.—The carnival celebrations held in Lisbonlmt week resulted in serious rioting and a num ber of encounters with the police dur ing which numerous people were more or lews injured and about 200 arrests were made. The assassinations of February IBT, TIIOS, wore repeatedly enacted at various point's throughout Lisbon by nersons made up to rep resent the late King Carlos and the Crown Prince, Queen Article. Prince Manwland the regicides. Scota and Buissa, ns they were attired on the day—ef the tragedy, while other REPORT OP NAYAL COMMISSION GOES TO CONGRESS Washington, Special. President Roosevelt's' commission on naval re organization. whose final report went to Congress Saturday, outlined a new departmentr.l Bvstem, which the Pres ident declares is sound and conserva tive and in full accord with Ameri can policy. The President says it recognizes the complete supremacy of the civil power aa regards the mil itary, no lr»# than th* civil or mano- •»! as certain of failure to pass are the Burke wireless telegraph bill; the Weeks forest reserve bill; the Carrier copyright bill; the $.*00,090,- 000 bond issue for improvement of waterways; changes in the govern ment of the isthmain canal zone; Federal inspection of nav.il stores and grains, and suppression of gamb ling in cotton futures. The Senate approved an agreement with Great Britain, relating to the uses, of the boundary waters between the .United Stales end Canada. In the House there lias been organ ised epen insurrection against the rules, but in the Senate the opposi tion did not go beyond some sharp criticisms by new Senators. The :r,cvorr.flit v.;,s designed as a warning to future sessions. In the House it will have the Immediate effect of tho efjfat ilishmcnt of a "calendar day" for the call of bills on the union cal endar every Wednesday. About 33,000 bills were introduced in the two houses, and 6,500 resolu tions presented. Facts and Figures. About 275 of the public bills will become laws. There will be about 175 private bills enacted. The latter, however, are 1 estimated to represent about 5,000 private bills introduced, as many of the private bills finally passed were amnibus bills. About fifty resolutions were finally agreed to. Early in the Sixtieth Congress, the President declared himself in favor of: A national child labor law; an employers liability law; anti-injunc tion legislation; amendments to the Sherman anti-trust law for Rood cor porations and for labor unions; finan cial legislation; postal savings bank; revision of the tariff; waterways commission; regulation of water rights on navigable streams. When the Congress ends there will be no national child labor law, no postnl savings bank, and no addi tional regulation of water "rights. However, a child labor law was en acted for the District of Columbia. An employers liability law has re placed the one declared unconstitu tional. A commercial currency law was enacted and a monetary eommis* s : on is investigating the subject of further financial legislation. Active steps looking to a revision of the tariff have been taken. All through the present session the House com cittee on ways and means lias been considering a tariff bill to lay before 'he special session to convene March 'sth. Tim waterways commission bns made an investigation looking to .tiiA 0 f water rights on naviirable sTreaml! —- Some Special Features. Tn each session two giant battle ships were authorized. Aerial navi gation, however, was not recognized in (ho appropriation bills. The in crease in ilie pay of those in the gov ernment service was another feature of the Congress. At the same time the purse strings of the Treasury were losened so that widows of the men who fought for the nation will be assured of a pension. Among the prominent investiga tions authorized were those of tho Brownsville affair, the secret sen-ice, submarine legislation nnd the paper industry. The waterways, immigra tion, monetary, Brownsville cimmis sion were created. M TO BE MEMORIAL this purpose and already they are meeting with much encouragement. One room in the home will be fitted up as a library and will contain a collection of the writings of Mr. Harris; in another room will be pre served many of the personal effects of the author; another will be used for a collection of the colonial, Revo lutionary and Civil war relics. HE LISBON CARNIVAL groups carrying coffins containing skeletons to represent King Carloi and the Crown Prince gave represen tations of the funeral procession to an accompaniment of blasphemous sops^. ;■ The police were completely taken ptv surprise and when they attempt | ert to stop the scandalous prooeed i intrs the rabble fought them. | The police finally had to mak« lover of nature and the adjaccnl swords. Thev charged right and left, j and a panic followed. Troops had tc be summoned. rapturing; side of naval administra tion. It; contemplates for the Sec retary a general council, a military council and the redistribution of tin duties of the present bureaus in five divisions, the chiefs of which are to compose the grand council who aw to be the assistant Secretary, thret flag officers and another flag officer, naval constructor or civilian with technical trailing. MRJAFTMISOUOTED Makes a Vigorous Protest Against Misrepresentation. REVISION SHOULD NOT DELAY Corrects Newspaper Esport—Sets Forth His Views on Plan of Mak ing Tariff Schedule. New York, Special.—President elect Taft made a vigorous protest Friday night against what he said was an absolute misrepresentation in certain New York afternoon papers as to what he had said during the day in answering questions regarding tariff revision. • He had he said, that the present business depression was un doubtedly due in a large measure to the fact that the taxiff is to be-revis ed at an extra session of Congress to meet March 15th; that it was of the highest importance that this work of revision should not be delayed, but executed with all possible diligence. Mr. Tlfxt also said he favored the idea of a permanent tariff commis sion, tiie plan for which should be worked out with delibration, the du ties of such a commission to be to make a carefnl study of the operation of the proposed new tariff law, to the end that suggestions might be made in the future which would tend to placo the whole question of tho tariff on a more certain and scientific basis. THE NEW CABINET. Unofficial But Reliable Annocement Made. New York, Special,—All qaaltfica tions of uncertainty in the prediction that Friinklin MaeVeaph of Chicago has been selected by Mr. Taft as his secretary of the treasury, are hereby removed. Mr. MacVeagh acepted the pKee Wednesday and thereby the Taft cabinet was made complete as heretofore announced by the Asso ciated Press. The cabinet as complete with the of Mr. MacVeah rS'Wfoli IOWS: J Secretary of State—Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania. Secretary of the Treasury—Frank lin MacVeah of Illinois. Secretary of War—Jacob M. Dick inson of Tennesee. Attorney General George W. Wickersham of New York. Pastniaster General—Frank H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Navy— George Von L. Meyer of MassuehsettfC Secretary of the Interior—Richard A. Pullinger of Washington. Secretary of Agriculture— James Wilson of lowa. Secretary of Commerce and Labor -—Charles Nagel of Missouri. With his postmaster eener'nl. Frank H. Hitchcock, Mr. Taft took n five mile wnlk through Central park in the biling wind Wednesday. He saw a number of New York city financiers during the day. but said the calls were those to express friendship and had no other significance. Ha Them was a genuine reunion of the Taft family nt the Henry W. Taft residence. Hutchins Jn Sa* Condition Washington, Special.—Capt. TTnm llton Hutchins, who was relieved of his command of the battleship Rear* sarge by Admiral Sperrv just before the fleet left Gibraltar, is to be exr amined by a special medical board which will look into his mental and physical condition. His mental con dition is said to be most pitiable. It was because of the pre at nervousness under which Captain Hutchins labor ed that he was, at his awn request, relieved of his command. Contract Let Per Statue of Columbus. Washington. Special.—The Colum bus Memorial Commission has award ed the contract for making a statue of Colnmbus to be erected in the plaza of the Union Station in this eity to Lorando Taft. of Cicago, s relative of the President-elect. Con gress has annropriated SIOO,OOO foi the Columbus memorial which, in ad dition to the statue, will comprise s large architeetuml fountain. Alabamlan Shoots Down Daughter'# Ass-ilant. Birmingham, Ala.. Special.—While handcuffed and sitting in the sheriff's office at Bessemer Friday morning, Jim Brown, a negro, was shot and in stantly killed by James Robinson, white, father of the girl Brown had attempted to assault on February Isth. The ajttack occurred without warning, Robinson firing four shot* into the negro before deputies stand ing near could interfere. Robinson surrendered. The negro was being talcen To Bessemer for preliminary trial. Columbus Has a |SOO 000 Blsse. Columbus, Ohio, Special.—Fire, which started with two explosions just before 3 o'clock Friday morn ing, destroyed a four-story building here and spread almost instantly to a five-story brick building adjoining, extending from the point to Front street and destroyed that and its SENATORS FLEE THE STATE Thirteen Members of the Tennessee Senate Leave the State in Order to Defeat tfce Purposes of the flection Laws Passed Over the Governor's Veto. Nashville, Tenn., Special.—That 13 members of the State Senate have fled the State in order to defeat the purpose of the recent election laws passed over Governor Patterson's veto is believed in well informed circles. - The 13 members were Friday after noon declared in contempt of the Senate by that body and the ser geant-Kt-arms was instructed to go in pursuit of the absentees. It is declared further that the ab sentees will remain away during the remaining 22 days of the legislative session, thereby leaving in the hands of Governor Patterson the election machinery of the State and defeating the expressed will of the majority of both houses in passing over the pro test of the Governor laws designed to deprive him of this authority. The joint resolution providing for a joint legislative session Friday for • the purpose of electing the members of the State election boards as pro vided for in the recently enacted laws, and a State Treaurer and State Comptroller, was vetoed by Governor Patterson Friday.- There was no doubt of its passage over his veto but the action of the 13 members of the Senate j'i remaining away from the day's session, thus preventing a quo rum, renders action on the veto mes sage impossible. If the membeir remain away until the ei)d of the regular session, it would then be necessary for the Governor to call a special session to enact appropriation laws and elect • Treasurer and Comptroller. The special session would be prevented, I under the constitution, from consid ering any matters not specially men tioned in the call for the extra ses ■ sion and of course the Governor U not expected to refer in his call t« election matters. STRONG DEFENCE OF PRESS. Governor of Kentucky Pardons Lonisville Paper that Scored Offi cials. Frankfort, Ky., Special.—One ol the strongest defences of the freedom of the press in criticism of public of ficials ever delivered in the South was written bv Governor Augustus E. Willson Thursday in granting a par don to the Herald Publishing Com paly, of Louisville, publishers of the Louisville Herald, for an indictment in the Calloway ijnd in Trigg Circuit Courts of' Western Kentucky, aharg- ' ing the paper with criminally libel ling Judge Thomas P. Cook and Com monwea.'th's attorney, Denny P. Smith. The two oflhials preside irf the district in which the greater part of the night rider troubles in West ern Kentucky occurred, and the pa per vigorously scored them for fail ure to perform their duty in prose cution of the lawless element. Gov ernor Willson wrote upon pardons to the newspaper .company this reason: "Because the long series of crimes in this district, which have not been punished under these officers' admin istration, make it necessary for the press to criticise all who can be held responsible. "If the Courts do not put an end to the rule of crime in the counties in which the Judge and Common- : wealth's attorney arc "elected to up hold law and order, the only hope of permanent relief from such condition I is in elighteged public sentiment aroused by the press of the country, and instead of punishing the news papers, which make a fight against ( such conditions, it should be regarded i as fulfilling its duty." Bill to Help Prohibition. Washington, Special.—Following the prohibition agitation in Tennes see, Representative Brownlow of that State Saturday introduced in House a bill to enable the States bore effectively to enforce their laws on the prohibition of the sale and | manufacture of intoxicating liquors. The bill provides for a surrender to the States of full control of the liqnor traffic. The Ohio Won the Steaming Trophy.' N Fort Monroe, Wn., Special.—The bpttlesbip Ohio sailed Sunday for Yom The third squadron, which met the returning battleshipps OPO thousand miles at sea, sailed Monday for Guantanamo whence il probably will go on a West Indian cruise. The Ohio sailed away the proud winner of the ■" steaming trophy" of the voyago around the world. The rules for the contest, which was one of economv in coal and water consumption .for ibe entirt? trip were laid down .-oon after the ships left Hampton li-.ads fourteen monts ago. - " Uniform Child Labor Laws Desired For Sonth. Baton Rouge, La., Sjjecia).—The call of Governor Sanders, of Louisi ana, for a Southern States child Ü bor conference, to be held in .. New Orleans March 29th, 30th and 31st lias brought favorable responses from the Governors of Kentucky, Tennes see, . Mississippi and North Carolina who have forwarded a .list of dele- t ' Natives of India bare held for ce» turies that tfce waters ot the River Ganges are blessed and healing to those who bathe therein. A scientist says: "I have discovered that the water ot the Ganges and the Jumna Is hostile to the growth ot tbe cholera microbe, not only ow(pg to the ab sence of food materials, but also ow ing to the actual presence of an anti septic that has the power of destroy ing this microbe." Home madeigas from cork refuse ia used by Spanish peasants in the cork oak region. As described by I* Lodian, the process conßista in filling several large tea kettles with the waste bark, and placing each in turn over the fire during the evening, burning the volatile gas as It escapes from tha spouts. The carbonized resi due forms tbe fine black-brown pig ment known to commerce as "Spanish brown,"' The electrodes of flaming arcs are carbons containing fluorides of alka line earths or other mineral sub stances in the vapor of which the arc Is greatly lengthened, increasing the light. Alfred Wohlauer, a German, finds that the common arc owes nine ty-five per cent* of its light to the incandescent crater of t{ie upper car bon, but twenty-flve to thirty-five per cent, of the flaming arc is due to the luminous vapor. The dew Is condensed out of the air in contact with surfaces below a cer tain temperature. A'f night the sur face of the earth and all things on it. and especially the smooth surfaces of vegetable productions, are con stantly being cooled by radiating. If the sky it covered with clouds, the radiation sent back from the clouds nearly supplies an equivalent for the heat thus parted with, but If tbe sky be clear, no equivalent la supplied, and the surface of the earth and things growing on It become cooler than the atmosphere. If th« night also )>e calm, the small portion of air contiguous to any of these surfaces will become cooled below the so called dew point, and its moisture de posited on the surface in the form of dew. v Paper From Okra. Early next week John T. Moore, of Macon, will send to a paper manu facturing plant in Virginia a quantity of okra chaff. Thlt will be the begin ning of an experiment of Mr. Moore's, and if it works out it may mean a fortune. If it falls through the loss will be practically nothing. Mr. Moore is of the opinion that okra can be used in the manufacture of paper as easily as wood. In both cases the material must be reduced to a pulp at the paper factory. The question Is can okra be grown (fheap enough to make it a successful com petitor with wood? There is still another step lacking In the solution of the problem, and that is a machine that will separate the okra fibre from the stalk. Mr. Moore has now a machine in his pos session that he thinks will do this work, before he goes any deeper into the iexperiment he will send the chaff to Virginia and await results. In that State another step Jn the ex periment will be taken. If okra is found 'to be available and can be grown at a reasonably low cost. Mr. Moore intends to push It forward. At the present paper, especially pa per used in the printing of dailies, costs a great ileal, and almost twico the price of not many years ago. Now, if okra can be raised cheaply and will prove a good substitute, there may be fortunes in the manu facture of okra paper.—From the Ma« con (Qa.) News. Without Stopping. Hans came in from his ranch to buy a horse. "I've got the very thing you want," said Ike Bergman: "it's a fine road horse, five years old, sound as a quail, $175 cash down, and he goes ten miles without stopping.'* Hans threw up his hands In protest. "Not for me," he said—"not for me. I wouldn't gif you five cents for him. I live elgbt miles out, and I'd have to walk back two miles." . AM Old Crime. r Breaking into houses where fun erals ha»tcjiut taken place and plun* derlng them Is spoken of by the Berliner Tageblatt as the latest trick of the thieves of that city. While this may be a new form of criminality in Berlin, says the writer, It is really only an Imitation of an incident de scribed in Dion Casslus as having taken place 2500 years before Christ, Gold and Silver Guns. The maharapah gaekwar of Baroda has melted down and converted Into bullion the celebrated gold anif silver cannon of Baroda. Of these costly but useless toys the silver guns ot a former gaefc were the inspiration. | In order, to "go one better" than his predecessor the late gaekwar had the gold guns cast and mounted at a coat It Is said, ot $500,000. No Separate Legislature. Mrs. Cobden Sanderson is very re sentful of the suggestion that the women of Englantl have a separate legislature. It was a major-general in the army who suggested the plan, but the ladies will "have none of it, and declare that It would be meat absurd. Lady Warwick Is also op posed to the Idea, as are tha other Oon'ts—Suggestions to Road Supervisors. .' Cy ROBERT A. MEEKER, State Su;,erviiw of RM4S, Hiw Jtrsiy. * Don't leave grass and weeds on the shoulders and in the gutters. Don't dig the mud out of the gut ters and throw it upon the road. Don't leave dirt in piles on the road. Don't tht-ow grass and weeds upon the road surface. Don't dump stone or gravel on an old road without first preparing the surface to receive it, because you thereby cause wilful waste and woeful want. Don't place now material on the road without leveling and shaping it so that tbe grade and cross section ot the road will be unchanged. Don't expect travel to spread and r6ll the new material; one-half of the money spent is wasted by thia method. Don't put new material on an old hard road surface before first picking or loosening the old covering. It is good for tbe quarryman and gravel owner, but bad for the taxpayer and road user. Don't try to do work without proper tools. Don't leave your scarifier In tbe •bed. Don't forget to use your sprinkling wagon. Don't'let your steam roller be idle. Don't think any old tools are good enough for road work. Don't use dull picks, broken shov els, doll scraper blades or broken and leaky steam rollers. Don't waste your rainy days. Don't let water stand on your road. Don't try to repair a road in dry weather without a liberal us* ot water. Don't allow culverts or pipes to be come choked up. Don't allow the outlets ot under* drains to become stopped up. Don't let water get under a road. Don't let ruts form. Don't let tbe road lose its original cross section. Don't let the shoulders get higher than the centre of the road. Don't tall to widen your fill# at every opportunity. No better placb for the mad, grass and weeds taken off the road than on the sides of high embankments. Don't use guard rails if you can get dirt to widen your road. Don't bury a stone road under mud. Don't crown your roads so high that no one will travel on tho sides. Don't forget that the entire wid,th of tho road la intended for use. Don't expect a road to take care of Itself. Don't fall to locate all good repaid material lying on or near the road. Don't wait until you are ready to go to work before you procure the necessary materials for repair. Don't be constantly changing your road- gang. - Don't let experienced men go sim ply to give someone a job. Don't lose sight of the fact that road repairing is a trade and must ba learned. Don't guess at the amount of ma terial required—measure and know. Don't depend on some one else to tell you what tho condition of your roads is.. Don't fail to visit every road under your care at least once a week. Don't refuse to try any «new ma terial that may be offered, unless the same has been proven bad. Don't*think there Is nothing more to be learned about road building. Don't forget that nobody knows tt all. Don't think because you do not hear the comments that your Work is not being praised or criticised, as tho case may be. Don't look down on your work. Don't lose sight of the fact that good roads art one of the greatest factors la the development of any country. Don't forget that churches and schools cannot thrive without good roads. Don't be satisfied with anything j)\U the best. —From the Good Roads Magazine. Hoodoo Dinner. A dinner to celebrate the thirteenth wedding anniversary of a New York couple took place Friday, November 13. In order to emphasize the dis belief in hard-luck superstition, the guests had to walk under a ladder to reach their places at the table; they the salt cellars air over- turned, the prongs of the forks point ing the wrong way, .and many other things which come under the head ot "unlucky." At each plate, however, there was placed, as an antidote, a four-leafed clover, and this and the undoubted happiness of thecelebrant* seemed to remove any fears as to the many hoodoos. Duke of A brunt's Wealth. Some of the Information given by the newspapers with regard to the pecuniary resources of the Duke of Abruzzl is In the nature of fiction. The Duke Inherits $50,000 a year from his parents, most of the money coming from his mother, who was m great heiress. He also has an allow ance of $20,00(0 a year from the 1 Italian treasury. -
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