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| Cartoon by Macuuley, in tho Now York World.
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WHAT FIGHTING WILL BE OVER
»l AT THIS SESSION OP CONGRESS. I
Whether this will be a long or short Reunion of Congress is a moot ques-
V| tion among the lawmakers, but all agree that it will be a militant session.
i Here are some of the troubles that must be fought out:
| "What is a Republican?" Regulars vs. insurgents.
\ 1 "Postal Havings Banks." President, Insurgents anil Democrats vs.
 Senator Aldrieh et al.
\ "Investigating the Sugar Trust." Progressive Republicans and some
I I Democrats vs. White House, Department of Justice and reactionary legis
j lators.
""Smashing Nicaragua and taking charge of it." Jingoes vs. anyone who
I ! gets in the way.
"What shall l>e done with the tariff?" A spectre that will not down.
I I Taft vs. anyone who mentions the subject. «
L "Federal control of interstate commerce." The. railroads vs. the country.
"Shall women vote?" The ladies, with no one to oppose them openly,
y but horrid man can smile and smile aid be a villain still, and the women
; know it and are not going to take any chances.
| Masbington
•IJVKN FROM
NEW JERSEY."
• Representative Hughes, of New
Jersey, was standing in the lobby of
I' . the Houbo when ji guide passed htm
In company with a couple of women
visitors. _
"That"is Representative Hughes, of
New Jersey," said the guide.
"Is that so?" said the woman,
"Why, Laura, they have them from
•11 over, oven New Jersey."
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' INSURGENTS TO
HARASS CANNON.
The Republican insurgents of the
House of Representatives have
evolved a plan by which they hope to
put through a bill at the present ses
sion of Congress creating a postal
How Cannon Greets Insurgents,
■avings bank and at the same time
routing the leadership of Nelson W.
Aldrich, of Rhode Island, and Joseph
C. Cannon, of Illinois.
In laying aside their plans to op
pose the responsible leadership in the
House and Senate the insurgents have
•elected one of the measures whose
passage at this time Is reeonunendeti
r .mrgently In the annual mccsage of
1 •President Taft.
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f FEARS DULL
SESSION.
1 The minority leader in the House,
■Representative) Ch?mp Clark, of Mis-
Si aouri, predicts an inactive session if
the desires of the Republican leadqrs
«re carried out.
"We may be hero a lons time," naid
Mr. Clarke "but the present intention
mt the Spekker nnd his advisers is to
do little more than pass the necessary
approDrloMon bills and adjourn.
"T
Heath Do tics Upheld o*lß«JU
morean Who Died in England.
London.—The Houße of Lords, the
highest court in Great Britain, dis
armed the appeal of the executors of
the estate of Mr. W. L. Winans, of
Baltimore, who died In England in
1497, against the levy of death duties
on part of the estate. The executors
claimed the retorn of $650,000 duty
rwM under )irnr«>*t on for*l*rri hoT>d , ».
10 hearer. which, tiiey set lortu, mo
CotnmieEloneis of Revenue
crats and the 'insurgents' to forco ac
tion on some pf the important meas
ures which will be Introduced. I look
forward with great confidence to the
coming Congressional elections. I
have not mapped out a particular pro
gram to bo followed at this session,
but I am determined to do all I can
to force some general legislation."
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TOLD MEMBER
TO "BEAT IT."
Tiie whiskers of Representative W.
U. Ellis, of Oregon, got him in the
limelight of publicity in the last ses
sion of Congress and Incidentally in a
mix-up with a doorkeeper. In this
session Mr. Ellis' lack of whiskers
has produced the same result.
Mr. Ellis came to Congress with a
fine array of brown whiskers. Later
they turned white. This was natural
enough, but when he turned up at the
extra session with whiskers shaded
between a red and a pink a doorkeep
er told him that none but members
were allowed on the floor.
Mr. Ellis showed up In the House
with no whiskers. When the strange
looking man took his seat a doorkeep
er spied him and invited him to "boat
it."
"Why. I am Representative Ellis,
of Oregon." said the statesman.
"Oh," said the doorkeeper.
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BAILEY PROPOSES "
NIGHT SESSIONS.
Rome interest was injected into the
Senate proceedings by the announce
ment of Senator Bailey, of Texas, that
he had bccomo enamored of the cus
tom of the British Parliament, of
meeting in the evening. The Texan
said he realized the futility o" asking
the Senate to conform to that custom
jest now, but urged that the custom
ary rule providing that the Senate
shall meet at "12 meridian" be
amended to read "2 post meridian."
Mr. Bailey did not put his suggestion
in the form of a motion, and the
usual rule was adopted. It is a safe
prediction that "the British Idea" will
find little favor in the upper house,
although Its sponsor purposes to press
his suggestion later on.
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WILL START(iE
THE COUNTRY.
Reports of the extent of tho whit'
slave traffic in connection with immi
gration have been prepared by the
Immigration Commission for submis
sion to Congress, which will startle
the country. If tho story of condi
tions as they aro found to exist by
the special agents of the commission
do not.stir Congress to action the
members of the commission will be
greatly disappointed iit the effect of
the results of their investigations.
At a special meeting of 4ho com
mission the report was laid before
tho full membership for approval and
practically completed. It will lin laid
beforo Congress very soon, probably
before January 1. It is the plan of
the commission to give to Congress
the result of its work by subjects in
stead of in one bulky volume. Since
the authorization of the commission
ends with March 1 this must be done
during the present session. Follow
ing the white slave renort will come
Prince Frederick of Germany
Gives Up His Title to Wed.
Berlin. The renunciation by
Prince Frederick von Sayn Wittgen
stein of his princely rank has been ga
zetted. The renunciation was at the
direction of the other male members
of the family, and in accordance with
the law of the family, established in
1607, which provides that any mem
ber marrying beneath hi* rnnk shall
lose his inherited riehf of title. In
1803 Frederick married Marie Loui*e
Vert' p". a young voaizu of the mld
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one upon "Steerage Conditions," let
affecting immigration, and one on
"Immigrant Homes."
Representative Mann, of Illinois,
chairman of the Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce, intro
duced his promised bill for Fedferal
suppression of the "white slave"
traffic through the power given Con
gress over interstate and foreign com
merce by the Constitution. It makes
it a felony punishable by a fine of
SSOOO or imprisonment for five years,
or both, to induce or coerce any
woman or girl to go from one place to
another "In Interstate or foreign com
merce" for an immoral purpose,
whether with or without her consent.
The purchasing of a ticket on any
common carrier to enable a woman to
travel for such a purpose is almost
made to come within the baa of the
law.
In the case of a girl less than eigh
teen years of age the penalties are
doubled. It aluo directs
sloner-General of Immigration to ob
tain and keep a complete record of all
women immigrating to this country
for immoral purpor.es, and provides a
penalty of S2OOO fine or two years In
prison, or both, for persons harbor
ing such a woman and refusing to file
her record with the Commissioner-
General of Immigration.
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SENATOR DIDN'T
SEE THti JOltE.
On tho Senate's opening day Sana
tor Depew came in three minutes be
fore noon. He smiled to his wife up
in the gallery, frisked about'shaking
hands, and finally settled down to tell
J t»
j I
Depew Commending His Jo&6.
Senator Burrows a joke. Mr. Bur
rows did not seem to find the point,
but Mr. Depew opened-, his mouth
wide and laughed enough for both.
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KEYNOTR IS
CONSERVATISM.
Conservatism is noticeable in the
views expressed by meriibers of both
houses of Congress. Even those who
only a few days aso loudly pro
claimed their purpose to institute
sweeping Investigations into trusts and
controversies admitted that, on reflec
tion, they bad determined to niako
haste slowly. Senator Borah, who
had announced his purpose thorough
ly to ventilate the affairs of the Sugar
Trust and its violations of the cus
toms' law, said ho would Introduce ji
resolution calling for uu Investiga
tion, but would permit it to '.'lie on
tho table" pending the conclusion of
the prosecutions being conducted by
the Department of Justice. Repre
sentative Campbell, who purposed to
introduce a similar resolution in the
House, admitted that he had decided
to consult tho Attorney-General be
fore doing fo. Senator Nelson, who
intended to father an investigation of
the Ball In sor-Plnc'uot controversy, has
for the present, aCfrast, thought bet
ter of it. Representative Hitchcock,
o? Nebraska, a Democrat, introduced
n resolution calling for an investiga
tion of the General Land Office, which
went to the Committee on Rules.
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SENATE'S liONti
AND ,SHORT OP IT.
During tha reading of tho P: -Sm
dent's message in tho upper c.Uanjbpr
when Senators Penrose and Guggen
heim shook hai'dt; it tickled the gal
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lertes and iuade somaio? their asso-
pause to take stock. Mr. Pen
roso is sonn six aud a half feet tall
and constructed in proportion, while
Mr. Guggenheim does ttot go far be
yond tuo five-foot mark and is alight
physically.
Laborer Meets Death AVhen
Pail Falls on His Head.
New York City.—Antonio Martini,
forty-three years old, while at work
on the ground floor of the ten-stor.v
building at 133 West Twenty-seventh
street, was struck on the head by a
loaded tar pall which had become
detached Tfom the hoist at the eighth
floor by contact with a projecting
piece nt Bccntling. Ho waa killed
In |t ant I r.
A gang o' tar and felt rcofer* wr.s
at work on the of the elg'ith
~~ "
Bad Roads a Tax.
Good roads, the adoption of busi
ness principles by the farmer and the
co-operation of the agricultural in
terests with the railroad, banking and
industrial interests of the country
were urged in an address at Dallas,
Texas, by Mr. B. F. Yoakum, chair
man of the board of directors of the
'Frisco-Rock Island Railroad system.
He was the orator of "Prosperity
Day" at the State Fair and the sub
ject of his address waß "The Farmer
and Business."
"The public speaker or candidate
whose argument lies in the condemna
tion of corporations and wealth and
whose method is to instill a feeling
of antagonism Is not a true friend of
the farmer or of the country," he
said. ■
"This Is not saijl In defense of cor
porate interests or wealth when mis
used, but in defense of the spirit that,
should prevail with all men and all
classes in trying to develop a feeling
of closer relations and substantial co
operation.
"If the demagogues are given to
understand that their talks will be
of more Interest and will reault in
more good by discussing plans and
methods of upbuilding, of the im
provement of public highways, of
making acres mor) productive or
other substantial developments of the
country, and by encouraging closer
co-operation among the
the merchants, the bankers and the
transporters, their efforts .will be iu
the right direction and will result iu
much good.
"Whether accomplished through
existing organizations or by other
methods, an organized system upon
business principles (hat will promote
the interest of tljo farmer is in
evitable.
"To procure bankers' nssistar.ee,
corm i. and acceptable business meth
ods must be devised. Some start
must be made which will give the
farmer the same advantage which the
owner hRs who borrows money on re
serve piles of coal, stocks of ore or
lumber. Any plan undertaken will
not be perfect in its origin, but will
be improved upon as it matures.
, "The manufacturers are organized,
transportation is organized, the bank
ers have a systematic method of
handling their business. The pro
ducers of the ravy agricultural ma
terial (the annual production of
which amounts to 55,000,000,000,
cotton alone approximating $600,-
000,000) are not working under a
systematic organization through
which they can co-operate to tholr
best advantage.
"An organization of the farming
interests cannot IJO made as effective
in any other way as tii rough co-opera
tion with its next idoor neighbor, the
railroad. The two interests by work
ins together creato. for both the rail
road and the farmer a beneficial busi
ness condition that brings the farm
ers' organization In closer touch with
the financial and business interests of
the country. The co-operation of the
three classes without politlral lnter
ferencs is essential to a full measure
of success. If the farmers' organiza
tion will co-operate we will placa a
man in each State served by the rnil
roads I am associated with to help
work out plans of co-operation with
the agricultural interests. It. will bo
his duty to attend meetings in every
county or district, in the State to dis
cuss ways and means of advancing
the interests of both, working in hnr
mony in every way with that oin ob
4eci.-ia--vi.ew.
"I believe in fair and ctiuilabia
taxation, be it inheritance, income or
otherwise, but I believe in keeping
our tax nidney at homo for go.sd
roads and purpose* rather than
sending it to Washington to add to
the extravagance fund of the Federal
Government, the necessity for wh'ch
is increasing with alarming rapidity."
Lunch ami Dyspepsia
It is very important that the meal
eaten at recess be a warm one, r.nd
whenever possible it should bo pre
pared and eaten at home. Until a
child is ten or twelve years oid it
must havo its dinner or principal mral
of the day at noon. The rest of the
household may dine in the evening,
but for the youngster so heavy a re
past near bedtime is certain to bo
deietorious. A bundle of cold sand
wiches will not serve as a substitute
for the midday dinner, for the child
needs not only tho warm,. home
cooked food, but also tho walk home,
the bit of play on the way and the
hour's forgetfulncss of lessons. —De«
Uncator.
Lest After Meal*.
Hurried eating of meals, followed
Immediately by somo employment
that occupies the whole attention and
takes up all or nearly all of the phy
sical energies, is sure to result ia
dyspepsia in one form or another.
Sometimes it shows itself in exeesslvo
Irritability, a sjre indleatlou ..that
nerve force has been exhausted.—•
Doctor.
Alniost all of the current fnsh'i.n*
run backward, and It is not surpris
ing to hear from Paris that an at
tempt is bcir.r; niad; to rcvivn orna
mental gloves. Gloves in many old-
Uin? designs are ?;iown in Tarls
shopr. and th-»most popuiar are those
atteiiicd after gloves wo:u by Mary
Qaceu o; SaaU.
OLD NORTH STATt NtWS ITEMS.
Woman Trespasser Killed.
Asheville, Specjal.—A telephone
message from Dillsboro to The Citi
zen Sunday, night states that a wo
man named Belle Frizzle was killed
and her companion Cole Bard serious
ly wounded by a shotgun in the
hands of Elijah Children near Dills
boro Sunday afternoon. . It is said
that Bard and the women were tres
passing on Children's premises when
the latter ordered them to leave.
Children, who has given himself up
to the authorities at Dillsboro, alleges
that the couple then began to use
foul language in the presence of his
family. He returned to his house for
a shotgun, with one barrel of which
he killed the woman, and Mounded
Bard in the arm and chest with the
other. Children claims that both the
Frizzle woman and her companion
were intoxicated.
Deed of Motherly Heroism.
Marion, Specials-One of the great
est acts of heroism which has occur
red in this county in years was that
of Mrs. John Lewis of Vein Moun
tain, who sacrificed her life Friday
afternoon to save her three children
from being burned to death. Mrs.
Lewis was standing before the open
fire place and lier clothing caught
fire. She started to rnsh for the bed
in the room intending to smother the
flames. Her children who were in
the adjoining room rushed to their
mother's aid. For fear that the
clothes worn by her children would
catch fire Mrs. Lewis leaped through
a window and ran for several hun
dred feet before falling exhausted
and dying.
Their Child Fatally Burned.
Winston-Salem, Special. Before
Mrs. E. D. Foltz could respond to the
agonized cries of her 4-year-old
child, Bessie, Monday evening at 0
o'clock, the little girl was burned to
a crisp over her whole body. The
physician says she cannot recover
anil has but a few hours to endure
her awful pain. The mother had
stepped out of the house for a few
mortwjits, leaving Bessie with her in
fant wrol her. Her dress got too near
the fire in the grate and in an instant
the child's clothing was a mass of
(lames.
Judge Allen Criticises Officers For
Failure to Stop "Tigering."
Kinston, Special.—Superior court
convened Monday morning at 10:.H)
o'clock with Judge O. 11. Allen pre
siding. The term is t»r one week
for the trial of criminal cases only,
of which there is an unusually large
number for Lenoir county. There
art? about one hundred and fifty cases,
including a number for failure to
list taxes. Judge Allen devoted a
large pari of his charge to the jury
to the matter of liquor nelliug. He
criticised the local oilicers for failure
to stop "blind tigering."
Bust of Hon. W. A. Graham.
Haleigh, the mar
ble bust of W. A. Graham, which is
to he placed in the Capitol by the
State Historical Society, arrived
from Italy. It is the work of the
gifted sculptor, Kuckstulil, who has
given it a great deal of care. The
date of the dedication will be an
nounced later. It came from Carrara,
Italy. Artist F. W. Kuckstuhl ot'
New York is hero to superintend its
placing in a niche. This bust is one
and one-eighth life size and rep
resents Graham at the time-'of his
resignation of the office of Secretary
of the Navy when he was at the
height of his fame.
Io 96 But Hole ana C'.sar Headed.
Gantonia, Spetial.—One of the
most remarkable women in this sec
tion is Mrs. Krixena Jackson, wife of
Mr. D. J. Jackson, who lives a mile
north of Clover, in York county,
South Carolina, and just a short dis
tance across Ihe line fcotn Gaston
county. Saturday she celebrated her
9tiih birthdav. Mr. Jackson is 87.
Big Coal Land Deal Reported.
Sutton, W. Va., Special.—A deal
has been made here whereby 5,000
acres of coai lands change ownership.
The lands are situated in Braxton
and Nicholas counties and they were
acquired by the Hirch Coal anil Coke
Co., which was recently granted a
charter. The total consideration, it
is stated, was about SIOO,OOO, making
the transaction one of the biggest
coal land deals ever made iii Braxton
county.
Wheeling Has $250,000 Fire.
Wheeling, W. Va., Special.—Fire,
'vhich was discovered in Ihe Univer
sity Club on the top lloor, destroyed
the sis-story Ponrd of Trade Build
ing early Saturday. The Court
theatre on the ground floor and all
the business' concerns occupying of
fices in the building, sustained losses
which is > estimated will aggregate
$250,000.
Road Bonds By All Enecot 1 Vote.
Aberdeen. Spcci;d. Sand Hill
township voted on a $25,000 good
mad l end issue Monday which car
ried with only one dissenting vote. ■
Valuation of Property.
Kaleigh, Si>ecial. —Secretary Hanry
Clay Brown of the North Carolina
tax commission announces if* valua
t ion of property as ,$576,11:1.170, an
increase of *744,857 over the pre
vious year. Railways and other pub
lic service rc.rporat : on valuations to
tal $88.505.711; real estate. $288,300,-
143; personal property. $172,745,166.
County taxes total *2,651,01)1 j muni
cipal. $2.473.766; State $.1,494,712.
Ti>" incov.e taxes yielded only $36,-
383.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
The marking of the graves of the
Confederate dead who died in Nor.
litem prisons probably will occupy
all of next vey, and Secretary of
War Dickinson Monday asked for
un extension of time for performing
this work after February 26, when
the legislative authority will expire.
Gen. William C. Oates is the commis
sioner charged with the duty of
marking these graves and Secretary
Dickinson says that while Gen. Oates
has been diligently at work the task
is still incomplete. He thinks, how
ever, that it can be finished within
the next calendar year.
The crop reporting board Tuesday
estimated that the newly seeded area
of winter wheat is 7.9 per ceut. great
er than revised estimated area shown
in the fall of 1908, equivalent to an
increase of 2,449,000 acres, the indi
cated total area being 33,483,000
acres. The condition of winter wheat
on December 1 was 95.8 against 85.3
on that day last year.
With total resources of $50.19 per
capita of population, the banking in
stitutions of the Eastern or Middle
Atlantic States lead the country. The
New England States come next "with
$433.60 per capita; the Pacific States
are third with $347.78; the Middle
Western fourth with $190.65; the Far
Western fifth with $161.35; the Sou
thern sixth with $71.19. and island
possessions tail off with $5.22 per
capita. The United States as a whole
shows banking resources per capita
0f.5237.24, with the island posaes
sions included the rate is lowered to
$215.37.
There will be -introduced in the
Senate early in tli? present session
a bill to place Chinese immigrants
upon the same basis as other immi
grants to the United States. It is«
now being prepared by Senator Dil
lingham, of Vermont, chairman of
the Immigration Commission. The
measure will not give to Chinese the
right of naturalization. Under the
Chinese Exclusion act coolie labor
is not admitted to the United ¥>tate*
from China. Merchants, students,
travelers for information or
pleasure ar exempt from this law.
It is the plan of the new measure to
practically repeal the provisions of
the exclusion act.
Puzzling as ever is the problem
confronting the local authorities re
lative to the case of John R. Early,
the alleged leper, now detained here
on the charge of going about in pub
lic while; afflicted with a contagious
disease and the complications in this
now famous ease continue to mul
tiply. Early wants to go on the stand
at the trial. This the court will not
allow unless it is shown that Early
has not a contagious disease. He may
be kept indefinitely.
President Taft joined with Andrew
Carnegie in the dedication of the new
building of the Carnegie Institution,
in Sixteenth street Monday evening.
He is a member of the board of trus
tees. The ediflee, recently completed,
cost over- a quarter of a million dol
lars.
The Standard Oil Trust is given a
knockout blow by Secretary of War
so far as its life in the
army is concerned, iu an order is
sued by him Saturday prohibiting the
purchase by the army of any oils or
by-products manufactured or sold by
the Standard Oil Company or any of
its subsidiary agencies.
It is proposed by the war depart
ment to send the Wright aeroplane
owned by the Government to some
Southern city, probably San Antonio,
Texas, for aeronautical experiments
during the winter. Lieut. Benjamin
Fotilois will have charge of the ex
periments. The aeroplane is now at
Fort Mayer, Va.
Dr. W. C. Woodward, district
health officer, received a letter Tues
day from Dr. Edward Eplers, of Nor
way, the famous leprosv expert, who
examined John R. Early. Eplers de
clares that Early undobutedly suffers
from leprosy ar.d that a bacterialogi
cal examination of blut>d shows the
presence of leprous baccilli. He
says that in 10 or 20 years Early will
show a typical case of leprosy.
Importations of hides and skins in
to the United States will aggregate
approximately one hundred million
dollars for the present fiscal year.
Those articles, therefore, rank second
in value in the li>t of importations.
Sugar is the one article the importa
tion of which exceeds in valu? hides
and skins. In 1900 the quantity of
hides imported was 207,000,000 _
pounds; this year it will exceed 300,-
000,000 pounds. Nearly one-third of
the value consists of goat skins, half
of them coming from the British East
Indies.
Senator Newlands, of Nevada, Fri
day introduced a bill for the expendi
ture of $30,000,000 for auxiliary
ships for the navy. This would pro
vide for 30 vcssls, including trans
era and scouts wherever they can be
era an dscouts wherever they can be
in use. In time of peace these ves
sels could be used, ho says, in open
ing up trade routes to South Africa,
South American, New Zealand, Aust
ralia and the Philippines.