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PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, JANUAKY 13, 1911,
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House Committees Plan to In
crease Membership.
AFFECT ON DIFFERENT STATES.
Bill Introduced In House of Represen
tatives to Reapportion Membership
Not Many Changes in South Re
ferred to Census Committee. '
Washington.' Congressional reap
portionment uSdtjr tha new censnflg
ures so as to increase ths membership
of the Hduse to 433 is the plan ten
tatively favored by the House com
mittee on 'c&isus. This figure would
protect each State from diminished
numerical' representation and is ex
clusive of Arizona and New Mexico.
The apportionment bill introduced
by Chairman Crumpacker fixes the
membership of the House at 433.
The apportionment of the member
ship of the House amongst the va
rious States,- under the proposed ' ar
rangement, will be as follows:
Alabama, 10; Arkansas, 7; -.California,
11 $ Colorado, 4; 'Georgia, li;
Idaho, 2; vlniionis, 27; Indiana, 13;
Iowa, 11; Kansas, 8; .-Kentucky, IV;
Loulslan, S;Maine, Maryland, 6;Ma
sachusetts, 16; Michigan, 13; Minne
sota, 10; Mississippi, 8; Missouri, .16.;
Montana, 2; Nebraska, 6; Nevada, 1;
New Hampshire, 2; New Jersey, 12;,
Kew York 43 r North Carolina, 10';
North Dakota, 3; Ohio, 22; Oklahoma
8; Oregon -3; Pennsylvania, 38; Rhode
Islaud-3 ; South Carolina, 7; South
Dakota 3;' Tennesee 10; Texas 13;
Utah 2; Vermont, 2;. Virginia 10;
"Washington 5; West Virginia 6; Wis
consin, 11; Wyoming 1. ; V "
This represents an increase over
, the present membership in the House
. as follows: '
Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Geor
gia, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, ' Min-
. nesota, Montana,, North Dakota, Ohio,
, Oregon, , Rhode Island, South Dakotat
Utah and West Virginia,, one each;
Illinois,, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Texas and Washington 2 each; Cali
fornia and Oklahoma 3 each; Pennsyl
vania 4 and New York 6.
A majority of ttie members of the
committee believe this plan of ap
portionment will prevail.
INITIAL CARRIER LIABLE.
Carmack Amendment is Declared
. Constitutional. New Law.
Washington. The. new policy of
law, making an initial carrier, of inter
state commerce liable for loss of ship-
ments while in transportation, not
r only on its lines, but on those of con
necting carriers, has been declared
constitutional by the Supreme Court
of the United States. The policy was
incorporated-, in the so-called "Car-
mack amendment" to the Hepburn
rate law, enacted by Congress in 1906.
... One objection to the law was that
.it interfered with the freedom - of
contract. Justice Lurton replied that
there was no such thing as absolute
freedom of contract."
"Contracts which contravene public
policy," said Justice Lurton, "cannot
be lawfully made at all and the power
to make contracts may1 in -all cases be
regulated as t6 form, evidence and
validity as to third -persons. : The
power of government extends to the
denial of liberty of contract to th
extent of forbidding or regulating
every contract which is reasonably
calculated to injuriously affect the
public 'interests." -
V" Danced Into Motherhood.
" IfZmericus, Ga. A few hours after
she had sung and danced at a. local
theatre, a Japanese chorus girl gave
birth to a boy.
After National Corn Show. -Columbia,"
S. C Launched by Mr.
R"t.herford P. Hayes, of Asheville,
on of the late President Rutherfprd
B. Hayes, a campaign to. have the
next annual meeting of the .National
Corn Association held in Columbia
has been taken, up with great enthu-
:. slasm by .Mr. -A. P. Hudson, of New
berry, president of the South Carolina
" . Corn Breeders' Association, and also
head of the South Atlantic Corn Ex
position held last, jnonth in Columbia.
Other prominent men wiHaid. . .
Fines Don't Stop Wealthy Men.
Washington. "Fines are not effec
tive against men of wealth. Imprison
ment Is necessary." So declared
President Taft in a statement in
which he denied the application for
commutation of sentence in the case
of J. S. Harlan, manager of a great
lumber and turpentine company do-,
ing business in Florida and Alabama,
who was indicted and convicted on a
charge of conspiracy to violate the
peonage statue of Florida. Harlan
was given IS months and fined $5,000.
DUE TO FREIGHT RATES.
A .
Millionaire Says That People Are Bled
to Pay Dividends on Nine Billions
of Watered Stock.
Akron, O. Declaring that excessive
freight rates are responsible for the
high cost of living, Ohio C. Barber,
the millionaire match magnate, has
sent a letter to every member of con
gress demanding reforms.
In .addition to the regulation of
freight rates, he demands that laws
be passed that will effectually limit
railroad and industrial capitalization.
He declares the freight business oi
the railroads costs each family $87 a
year. This latter, coupled with the
other earnings of the railroads, he as
serts, has boosted the average rail
road cost per family to $127 annually.
Barber starts his letter to the con
gressmen with th,se, three demands:
"What i3 the matter with Ameica?
"What is the matter with congress?
"Why has the seat of goevrnment
been transferred to Wall street?"
Continuing, he says: "Personally,
I appreciate fully the importance of
stability of vested rights in property,
corporate or personal.
"But I vigorously contend' that the
commission of excesses in the capital
ization of corporate companies for
feits instantly the right to claim face
value for such capitalization in the
levying of a tax upon the . American
public, for the payment of dividetfdij
upon this watered stock. And in this
offense the railroads always have setr
the pace.
"Conceived in the master minds of
Huntington, Morgan, Hill and. Harri
man, this policy has been' worked out
to a nicety. These- clothed the
scheme in the pretty catch phrase of a
'community of interests' and cleverly
set about to grab all the through
trunk lines of railroad from coast
to coast. . .
"They argued plausibly, and with
truth, that these trunk lines were" the
great arteries which maintained the
life of commerce; that they were a
necessity for quick transportation.
"Approximately nine billions of this
18 .billions of railroad capitalization-
is fictitious: purely and simply water
ed stock upon which the people of
the United States are taxed in rail
road rates to miantain the annual div
idends. "Despite thi3 tremendous -stock wa
tering, the railway net earnings have
advanced steadily and the aevrage
dividend rate has more than doubled
in the last 15 years.
"In 1894 the dividend rate was 1.66
per cent. Last year it averaged 3.68
per cent and ths railroads earned a
net income of $S52,153,280.
"And the. people paid the freight!
'Railroad presidents indignantly
deny that freight rates affect the-cost
of existence. Jame3 J. Hill and W. C
Browne declare low acreage produc
tion by the farmer 4s responsible for
high prices.
"Trust magnates disagree. All seek
to shift the responsibility. S. R. Gug
genheim says it i3 extravagance on
the part of the laborer. , Ogden Ar
rn6ur says It is the law of nature. ,
"This one problem of railroad
freight rate's is the great economic
question of the agev Were it fairly
solved all other lines of commerce
and- trade would soon adjust them
selves and a more equitable distribu
tion of the products of business would
result.
"What are you going to do about it?
"Yours In militant sincerity,
(Signed) "O. C. BARBER."
Rats Eat a Prisoner.
, Fort Worth, Texas. William Wig
gins, 75 years old, was found dead
in the emergency ward of the citj
jail here, death having resulted from
the lc-33 of blood sucked from his
body by rats. When discovered one
eye and a hand had been eaten off
by the rodents.
Takes Viney From Superstitious. '1
Atlanta. Will Williams, a negro
who sprang into' notice not long ago
when he was given a workhouse sen
tence for driving a tack into an old
negro man's head on the pretense of
Curing "him of blindness, is back in
the spotlight again. This time he is
charged with swindling a negro wo
man who called him in to "attend a
sick child. He rubbed the child vig
orously with a rock, collected a fee
of $1.50 and departed. For this of
fense he was fined $100.
Hardtack .For Rebel Leaders.
. .vftio Janeiro. According- toCandido,
leader of the recent revolt in the
navy, and 44 other mutineers have
met sudden deaths. Candido suc
cumbed to gangrene while a prisoner,
26 of his' associates died, from sun
stroke while engaged in repairing the
fortress on Cobras island and 18 oth
era were suffocated' in their cells in
the prison on , Villegainon island. A
rigid censorship is maintained by the
government since the revolting ciry
was put dowa.
DIFFERENT DEATHS.
1 2,608 Suicides Money Em
bezzled Increased.
LEGAL EXECUTIONS ARE LESS
Number of Deaths by Personal Vio
lence of Ail Kinds, Except Suicides
end Lynchings, 8,975 Record Given
by States Women Lynched.
Chicago. Statistics for the year
1910 . show there was a marked in
crease in the number of suicides and
homicides and a decrease in the num
ber of lynchings. The amount of
money embezzled increased 300 per
cent.. - , -
Suicides- numbered 12,608 as com
pared with .10,230 in 1903. The pro
portion' of suicides as between men
and women remains' about the same,
being 8,252 males and 4,356 females.
Physicians, a3 usual, head the list
among professional men, the number
beig 51, as compared to 27 in J.909
and 42 in 1908, and clergymen next,
11 of them having taken their own
lives.
The number of deaths by personal
violence of all kinds in 1910, except
suicides and lynchings, was 8,975, as
compared with S.O? in 1909. This
record is not confined to such Cases
of murder and homicide as result in
arrest and trial, but include deaths
by every form of violence. The prin
cipal Caups of these- deaths were:
Quarrels, 4,049; unknowja, 984; liquor,
.798; by highwaymen, 930; jealousy,
,6i2; infanticide, 125; highwaymen
'killed, 73; ; resisting arrest, 100; in
sanity, 225. v , .
The most striking feature of these
figures is the increase in murders
.committed by thugs, thieves, burglars
and, hold-up men, the number being an
increase' of 33 over that of 1909.
" The number of legal executions is
slightly less than the number in. 1909,
being 14 compared with 107 in the
latter year and 92 in 1908. Classified
by States, the record is as follows: i
Alabama, 6; Arkansas, -7-; Califor
nia, 2; Connecticut, 1; NortlV Dakota,
1; Florida, 4; Georgia, 7; Illinois, 2;
Iowa, 1; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana, 4;
Massachusetts, 1; Mississippi, 3; Mis
souri, 3; New York, 9; New Jersey,
4 ; Nevada, 1 ; North Carolina, 2 ;
Ohio, 4; Oklahoma, 1; Oregon, 1;
Pennsylvania, 9; South Carolina, 7;
Tennessee, 4; Texas, 6; Virginia, 11;
Washington, 2. There were 37 execu
tions in Northern and 67 in Southern
States and in these cases 50. were
whites, 53 negroes- and 1 Indian. The
crimes for which they were executed
were murder, 94; criminal assault, 9,
and attempted criminal assault, 1.
The number of lynchings shows a
decrease, being 74 as compared with
87 in 1909, 100 in.,1908 and 68 in 1907.
The number of lyn.chings in the var
ious States was:
Alabama, 8; Arkansas, 9; Florida,
17; Georgia,. 12; Kentucky, 1; Louis
iana, 3; Mississippi, 5; Missouri, 2;
North Carolina, 1; Ohio, 1; Oklahoma,
2; South Carolina, 2; Tennesee, 2;
Texas, 7; Virginia, 1; New Mexico, 1.
Of the total number there were 9
whites and, 65 negroes, among the
latter 3 women. There was but one
lynching in the North, in Ohio. There
was one In Illinois in 1909. --
The record of embezzlements, for
geries and bank wrecking shows a
material increase over 1909, being in
round numbers about $25,000,000 as
compared with $8,0.00,000 in 1909 and
$13,000,000 in 1908.
Carnegie Turns Loose $1,250,000.
Berlin Announcement is made that
Andrew Carnegie had given $1,250,000
for a ''Carnegie foundation for life
savers' in Germany.
West Virginia Complications.
Charleston, W. Va. The death of
Senator Elkin3 adds to the political
complications in. West Virginia. The
Democratic Legislature, which al
ready was charged with the duty of
electing a successor to Senator Nathan-
Bay Scott, Republican, and
wifich, for the first time In years, has
a large Democratic majority, Is now
confronted r with two Senatorships.
Governor Glasscock, Republican, has
"the power; to appoint a Senator to
succeed Senator Elklns .temporarily.
ThlrdBank Ruined by Robin..
, New York A third bank across
which the shadow of Joseph G. Robin,
the indicted promoter, had fallen has
closed its doors, and the State super
intendent of banks is in possession
of theiCarnegie Trust Company, an
institution capitalized at $L500,000,
having wide Southern and Western
affiliations. An application for the
appointment of a committee to take
charge of the personal estate of Robin
was Jdenied his sister, Dr. Louise
Robiaovitch, by Justice Goff.
FIRST LINK COMPLETED.
Celebration of the Completion of Im
portant Link of Inland Waterway ;
Canal From Maine to Florida.
. Wilmington, N. C. Twenty-five
hundred people, including many men
prominent in State and nation, attend
ed the public celebration pt the com
pletion of the first link of the propos
ed inland waterways canal from
Maine to Flprida, on the- banks of the
waterway near Beaufort, N. C. The
celebration was preceded by a parade
of naval and government boats head
ed by the revenue cutter Pamlico.
Senator F. M. Simmons of North
Carolina, master of ceremonies, wel
comed the visitors and paid tribute
to Capt. Earle I. Brown, corps of
United States engineers
The canal has been under con
struction since 1907 and was complet
ed last December. It shortens the
distance from Oriental, Newbern and
other points to Beaufort and Southern
points about 90 miles and gives double
the depth, of water. The canal is 90
to 250 feet wide and 10 feet deep at
mean low water, which at high tide
will give about twelve feet. The
length Is twenty miles, five of which
were cut through dry land, the re
mainder by dredging and straighten
ing Adams and Cranes creeks. It con
nects 3,100 square mile3 of naviga
ble,' sound waters and 1,700 miles of
navigable rivers as well as giving an
inside route to coastwise vessels en
abling them to avoid treacherous Hat-
teras and Cape Lookout. '
SENATOR ELKINS SLEEPS.
Body Laid to Rest in Town That
Bears His" Name. .
Elkins, W. Va. Under a brilliant
winter's sky the body . of Senator
Stephen B. Elkins was laid to. rest
on the crest of a wind-swept hill over
looking the town that bears his name.
As the bronze coffin was lowered into
the grave the great, concourse of
mourners uncovered, standing silent
in the presence of death. The simple
service at the cemetery was preceded
STEPHEN B. ELKINS.
U. S. Senator from West Virginia.
by services at the Davis Memorial
church. The Rev. Dr. Barron, pas
tor of the church, officiated, and Dr.
Wallace Radcliffe, of the Presbyter
ian church In Washington, at 'which
Senator .'Elkins was wont to worship,
pronounced tle, f eulogy. When the
coffin was removed from the special
funeral train which had brought it
from Washington. It was placed on a
flat, low-bedded open wagon, heavily
draped in black and drawn by two
powerful horses, likewise accourted.
The ma-rch. to the church, then began
Immediately behind, the catafaulque
were the members of the Senate com
mittee led " by Senator Scott and
Bailey. 'Behind them followed . the
House delegates. All were afoot.
After the church services the journay
to the grave was made In carriages.
Fire Loss $300,000.
Troy, N. Y. The business section
of Greenville, N. Y., a village of 5,000
inhabitants abotJt fifty miles north of
this city was swept by fire with a loss
of $300,000.
: Flames Cost a $1,000,000.
Little Rock, Ark. Fire originating
in the Hollenberg Musical Company's
building, destroyed the entire block1
of business houses here, the loss 'on
the buildings and stocks of goods
amounting to $1,000,000.
Soldiers Aidtd Prisoners to Escape.
Atlanta, Ga. Privates A. J. Lamb
and Henry Hollaenger of Company E,
Seventeenth United , States Infantry,
were positively identified as the men
who supplied Harry Langdo,n with the
saws which enabled Langdon and four
companions to escape from the Fulton
county jail.- . The Identification was
made by John. Wlthrow, a convicted
wife murderer, who was one of the
jailbirds. As a result of the evidence
obtained a court martial probably will
be ordered.'.
Proceedings of the Senate and HotI
-Governor's Message a Compre
hensive Paper Constitutional
Convention Provided For.
The North Carolina General As
sembly got right down to business at
the very beginning of the session.
The election of Hon. W. C. Dowd
to the " Speakership, and Hon. J. .M.
Pharr President Pro Tem. of the
Senate was a signal honor conferred
upon Mecklenburg. ''$J?
Special Interest attached i6Mh
speech of,, acceptance by, Speaker
Dowd, especially his reference to in
creased support to State educational
institutions, he having been president .
of the Baptist State Convention that
protested against increased support
as detrimental to denominational col
leges. Governor Kitchin's Message
Governor William Walton KitChin'a
message is a document of 37 pages
and treats the whole scope, of State
affairs. He makes an urgent, plea for
an investigation of the operations of
fire insurance companies ' and dis
cusses at length State-wide prohibi-,
tlon, which has been in force in this
State for the past two years. He re
commends, the incorporation into the
State laws of the principal provisions f
of the federal ranti-trnst law
for legislation" authorizing L
pipy counsel to. assist in V.
tlon-vof tioists. . t
He also recommends an '
the number .cf supreme cm
reducing of passenger f;:r
roads to two , cents "a rr.
placing of public service
selling heat an,d light to
under th'e corporation c
He reeomniendsV too.
p6wer of the governor '
tional amendment, tb.hy;
State in which the gove "
have that power. Other
amendments proposed,
elimination of the wr
and substitution of il
Between the States"
power of the leglBl.,
ing of local and sp
granting of corpor;
cial act. .
He urges that lb f
be' prohibited an 1 '
done that .the h V
license to sell In'.
near-beer license
Also that in ;..
wares or merchant',
the State or any ; i
that it be prov:.U-l '
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dependent manuf.... :.
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