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PLYMOUTH,. N, C FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1911
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A TAX COMMISSION.
SOCIAL CLUBS CONSIDERED
State Highway Commission Bill Fav
orably Reported With Amendment
Reducing Maintenance From $20,000
to 210,000 Hoke County Can Form
Raleigh. The senate spent two
hours debating Senator Eoyden's bill
appointing a state building coinmis-
sion and authorizing a million-dollar-bond
issue to erect a state administra
tion" finding in Raleigh, and, owing
to the opposition developing, the
friends of the bill decided to offer a
substitute calling for a $500,000 bond
issue for this purpose.
General Carr introduced a bill to
create a tax commission and state
board of equalization.
A bill by Taylor of Brunswick
would reduce the number of state cil
Inspectors kept in the field by the
slate board of agriculture.
Southern Gets Demands.
The Southern railway company
wins out In its fight on the Ray bill
that would exact forfeiture of the
charter of the Tennesee & Southern
railroad if the lino from Franklin is
not resumed and pushed to comple
tion within a specified time. The
committee offered a substitute giving
the company ten years in which to
complete the line.
The senate bill allowing mutual
firo insurance companies to be formed
by parties engaged in the same line
of business with twenty-five risks re
ceives favorable report from the sea
ate committee on insurance, which
also reports favorably on the bill re
lative to investment of capital of in
surance companies as to title guaran
tees. Senator Long'3 bill giving the right
for search where liquor is presumed
to be kept for illegal purposes is re
ported with prejudice by the commit
tee on revisal.
Senator Cotten's bill prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of non
safety matches 5.n North Carolina I3
bitterly opposed by match manufac
turerers of New York, Ohio and many
other states and representatives of
these concerns attended a meeting of
the senate committee on propositions
and grievances and made a vigorous
protost. The bill was referred to a
eub-eemmittee. -
Social Clubs Pecter Committee.
Senator Brown's bill, which i3 de
signed to break up the lecker system
in clubs, seems to be pestering the
committee considerably. The mem
bers have discussed it in a -number ot
meetings, but each time the bill goes
to, a sub-cemmittee for further spe
cial investigation.
The Eoyden-Sikes state highway
commission bill, as merged and agreed
upon by the jcint public roads com
mittees and favorably reported, also
receives a favorable report from the
joint committees cn appropriation,
with an amendment reducing the ap
propriation for maintenance of the
commission from $20,003 to 10,000.
The joint appropriations committee
also heard a delegation cf prominent
negroes of Charlotte on Senator
Pharr's bill asking for a $5,000 appro
priation for the proposed reform and
industrial training school for colored
youths. Senator Pharr's bill amend
ing the general Insurance laws of the
state, carrying a small appropriation
for messenger service and other office
expenses of the Insurance Commis
sioner, gets a favorable report.
As showing the speed with which
the house works, thirty-seven roll
call bills were passed within one hour.
' The bill heretofore passed Iby the
senate' creating Avery county out of
portions of Mitchell, Caldwell and
Watauga receives an unfavorable re
port from the house committee on
counties, cities and town3 by a vote
of 6 to 5, with a minority report
headed by Representative Koonce.
Since the meeting his minority report
has been circulated amcng the ab
sent members of the committee and
Planning Railroad to Raleigh.
Greensboro. A plan is on foot by
parties for a railroad from Winston
Salem to Raleigh, to connect with the
Norfolk and Western at Winston
Salem and the Raleigh and South
port at Raleigh. The road is to strike
High Point from Winston, thence on
to Greensboro and Burlington, diverg
ing there on its route to Raleigh, mak
ing n shorter route from Greensboro
to tils capital city.
now has the signatures cf twelvt
members. The full committee num
bers twenty and two of these hav
not signed either report. The bill
will be bitterly contested on the floo
of tha house.
state law allowing $20 fees so far as
Senator Graham offered a rcsolu
tion of respect for the late Col. N. A
McLean of Lumbeton and it was
unanimously adopted by a rising vote
and sent to the house by a special
messenger.
Nnt In th "P.mnor ClaRS."
Rfiiiator Ivie arose to a Question of
personal privilege and called attention
to the report of the state treasurer,
which he charged was unfair to cer
tain counties in 'the state by reason
of the fact that it did not give those
counties 'credit for the taxes paid
direct into the state treasury, as well
as by sheriffs, thus placing these coun
ties in the pauper list, when they
should not be so called. Senator
Long, arising to a question of personal
privilege, said he wanted to be class
ed with the plaintiffs in this case, as
his county had suffered the humilia
tion of tho name "pauper" unjustly.
Senator Bassett felt suro ample jus
tice would be dene to all counties in
11 revised report which he understood
was being prepared and when dispo
sition is made of a joint resolution on
thi3 subject now in the hands of the
committee on propositions and griev
ances. Anti-Trust BIN With '.'Teeth."
Another anti-trust bill came 'into
the house through Turlington of Ire
dell, who pronounced It to have the
most ample "teeth." It codifies the
present-anti-trust law so much criti
cised as being ineffective; makes sub
section "F" sub-section "G" and makes
it read "conspire or agree" instead of
"fonspire" only to restrain trade. It
gives the attorney general the power
to examine witnesses and prosecute
for contempt of court when any re
fuse to testify; places $10,000 fund at
the disposal of the governor with
which to pay tho expense of wonting
up cases, the attorney general and
the solicitors to prosecute. All for
eign corporations are required to file
affidavits July 1 each year they hav
ing in no wi3e violated the anti-trusr
law.
The unfavorable report came from
tho house committee on propositions
and grievances for the Koonce bill
for a legislative commission to inves
tigate the conduct of . fire insurance
companies in North Carolina. Mr.
Koonce filed his minority favorable
report and the resolution was mado
11 special order.
The house refused to concur in the
sonata amendments to the near-beer
bill and Hoffier, Cato3 and Kent were
named by Speaker Dowd as confer-
nce committee.
. Hobeood in the senata Introduced
an anti-trust bill that add3 tho eesen
tial features cf the Sherman act to
the present law. ,
Asiisville Gets New Government.
The bill establishing a commission
form of government for Ashevillc
nets a favorable unanimous report
from the senate committee on coun
ties, citie3 and towns. -
The senate bill creating Hoke coun
ty out of portions of Cumberland and
F.cbescn passed third and final read
ing in the house by a vote of 73 to 9.
An amendment changing the bound
ary and lessening the territory of the
new county was killed by a decisive
majority.,
Bills Favorably Reported.
Favorable reports camo from com
mittees as to many bills, Including
Wooten bill for placing solicitors on
salaries; state bill for taxing dogs and
encouraging sheep industry; provide
institution for feeble-minded; provide
for the examination of school chil
dren. The last two were again re
ferred, this time to the committee on
appropriations.
Rewards Bill Deferred.
The Spainhour bill to allow sher
iff and prosecutors 20 to $40 for
convicting distillers was argued for
considerable time and action deferred.
Then the Dillard bill repealing the
it applies to ' Cherokee county was
defeated after Speaker Dowd made a
lengthy speech against it on the
ground that whatever law of the kind
is on the statute books it should ap
ply to all counties alike. Connor and
others explained their support of the
bill on tho. plea that it was a local
measure and the desire of the rep
resentatives should control.
This bill was ratified: Prohibit
public drunkenness in Transylvania,
Forsyth, Robeson, Graham and Pitt
counties.
Baptist Minister as Author.
Shelby. Rev. C. A. Jenkins, pastoi
of tho First Baptist church, is authoi
of a new book, which will be from thf
hands of the publishers In about
ninety days. The title is "The Bride's
Return." This is the second book by
Mr. Jenkins. A few years ago he
Issued "Good Gumption," which tai
been sold extensively over the State
He is one of the foremost Eapt'd
ministers of the t tate.
NORTH IS HYPOCRITICAL
ABOUT NEGRO QUESTION
SENATORJ30RAH OF IDAHO MADE
SOME POINTED REMARKS
ABOUT RACE ISSUE.
RACIAL PREJUDICE IN NORTH
Borah Claims ,That Northern People
Deal Less Leniently With Ne
gro Than Southerners.
Washington. Senator Eorah, in a
speech urging the adoption of his
resolution looking to popular election
of senators, indulged in some amaz
ingly frank and vigorous comment
apropos cf the hypocritical attitude
of some people in the North and tho
Republican party toward the negro.
That prejudice against the negro is
just as intense in the North as in tho
South, and that the North plays the
hypocrite in its contentions . to the
contrary, was boldly asserted by Sen
ator Eorah.
"We ought to cease this surfeiting
the negro upon the soporific applica
tions of rhetoric," he said.
"We ought no longer to put into
the Congressional Record and embalm
their tender protestation given from
year to year and from campaign to
campaign."
Mr. Borah holds that a man get3
his right of suffrage from his state,
and that the resolution he has offered
will not interfere with thi3 situation.
Of course.the Sutherland amendment,
WILLIAM E. BORAH.
United States Senator from Idaho-
winch lie opposes, seeks . to change
this and extend tho power of congress
over state elections for United States
senators. .
The Idaho senator's pronouncement
cn the .race question was made in re
sponse to the recent assertion of Sen
ator Root that without the Sutherland
provision the resolution would deprive
the Southern negroes of Federal pro
tection in the exercise of the fran
chise. Mr. Eorah dissented from tho
Now York senator's view, and, in do
ing no, used language which elicited
congratulations from many senators.
The Idaho senator expressed deep
regret that the race question had
bOen brought into the controversy,
and at-serted that its introduction was
intended only to imperil the resolu
tion. -I wonder how long the North i3
going to play tho hypocrite and the
moral coward on this question," said
Mr. Eorah, and added that that sec
tion always had assumed more wis
dom and more tolerance in dealing
with this problem than iiad been dis
played elsewhere. lie insisted that a
call of the roll of the Northern states
in which there is an appreciable num
ber of Negroes would demonstrate
that the North had not dealt more
leniently with the Negro than had
other sections.
"The Northern states havi exhibit- j
ed the same race prejudice that has
been shown elsewhere," he asserted.
"In the North we burn the negro at
the stake, and there, as in other sec
tions, we have our race wars. We
push our negroes to the outer edge
of industrial world. We exhibit the
same prejudices, the same weakness
es, the same intolerance, that is ap
parent in the Southland."
Balance of Trade.
- Washington. A balance of trade of
over $303,000,000 in favor of the Unit
ed State3 against its foreign credit
ors, an increase of over $174,500,000
on the foreign trade of the country
and the establishment of a new high
mark for exports, is the record of the
United States trade with foreign na
tions for the first seven months of
the fiscal year, a3 shown by a state
ment issued by the department of
commerce and labor. This showing is
considered to be duo to the higher
price of cotton.
EMERGING FROM
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(Copyright. 2911.) :
PACT AGITATES ENGLAND
Annexation of Canada by the United
States Is Feared in Great
Britain.
Washington. To offset teh Canadi
an annexation talk which the admin
istration fears might affect the reci
procity agreement, the house commit
tee on foreign affairs, by a vote of 9
to 1, reported adversely on the reso
lution introduced by Representative
Rennet of New York for the opening
of negotiations with Great Britain
looking to the annexation of Canada
Mr. Bennet was the only member who
voted for the resolution..
The committee's action followed
conferences of Chairman Foster, ol
tho committee and Acting Chairman
McCall of the ways and means com
mittee with President Taft.
London, England. Whether, as 13
suspected in some quarters, Congress
man Bennet of New York had no
more sinister motive than to embar
rass the reciprocity forces in his own
country, there is no room for doubt
that his Canadian annexation resom
ticn introduced in the house of rep
resentatives has greatly disturbed cer
tain minds on this side of the At
lantic.
Ottawa. Ont. The continued talk
of annexation kept alive by the op
position journals is causing deep re
sentment in Canada, and, -according
to some of the leading supporters of
the government, may jeopardize the
reciprocity measure now before par
liament. While the Liberals have ac
cepted the. mess" of President Taft
to Representative McCall as the true
sentiment of the feeling that has been
aroused in the Eominion cannot be
ignored, and it is understood that Sir
Wilfred Laurier will make a state
ment which will set at rest forever
the idea that annexation of Canada
by the United States is possible.
London, England. The Morning
Post bases an alarmist editorial on a
Washington dispatch declaring that
American public men openly predict
that reciprocity will lead to the even
tual annexation of Canada by the
United States.
t Ottawa, Ont. Commercial union,
followed by annexation to the Unit-'
ed States, is the inevitable meaning
of the pending reciprocity agreement
as interpreted by the conservative op
position in the Canadian parliament.
This sentiment dominated a speech
by George E. Foster, who, under the
conservative government, was finance
minister and tariff maker. His speech
It was the opening of the wedge,
he said, which would be driven home
until there was absolute free trade
between Canada and the United
States, with a tariff wall against the
rest of the world.
Alabama Senate for Local Option.
Montgomery, Ala. By a vote of 21
to 12, the Alabama senate passed the
Parks local option bill just as It came
from the house. Oovernor O Neal
signed the bill, and it is now a law.
Alabama Creates Banking Department
Montgomery, Ala. The state senate
passed the bill creating a state bank
ing department and providing for the
rigid inspection of all state banks.
It 'was slightly amended as it came
from the house, and the bill will be
come a law.
Cotton Mills Curtail.
Bseton, Mass. A number of New
England cotton mill, which have not
participated in the general curtail
ment movement recommended by the
Arkwright club of this city, will go
on a short-time basi3 because of un
favorable market condition. Many of
the mills, North and South, have stop
ped from 20 to 30 per cent of the
machinery, according to advices re
ceived in Boston mill offices. The
New Bedford Fine Goods mill3 have
been reducing the output for several
weeks.
VVINTER QUARTERS
SOUTHERN TRAIN HELD UP
FIVE MEN LOOT EXPRESS CAR ON
SOUTHERN TRAIN NEAR
GAINESVILLE, GA.
Safe Was Cracked and $700 Taken,
the Robbers Missing $50,000 in
Another Safe.
Atlanta. Five masked highwaymen
held up and robbed the Southern rail
way's fast mail train at White Sul-
pur Springs, six miles north of Gaines
ville, Ga.
Police headquarters in Atlanta was
immediately reached over long dis
tance telephone and informed of the
robbery. To Capt. J. C. Joiner it was
reported that the five men boarded
the train and, at the point of pistols,
commanded the engineer to hold tho
train. While he was held, others of
the gang boarded the express car and
cracked the safe, getting seven hun
dred dollars in cash.
Neither the United States mail nor
the passengers were bothered.
The robbery occurred on train No.
36, which was bound for Washington
and New York from New Orleans.
In the express car were two safes,
one containing $50,000 and the other
only $700. Explosives were placed in
both, but the fuse of the smaller went
off quicker and knocked the fuse out
of the larger, and, in their haste, the
robbers made a get-away without fur
ther attempt to get the larger spoils.
The train was flagged with a red
lantern and as soon as it came to a
stop, two of the masked bandits
boarded the cabin and ordered En
gineer Fant to throw up his hands.
He complied and before a gun could
be leved at the negro fireman he had
leaped from his seat and has not yet
been heard from.
Just as the other three, men were
about to board the express car Con
ductor Mooney alighted. He was told
to get back on the train, and with
the warning, "Keep cool, brother; if
you behave you won't be hurt." He
did so, and the highwaymen went
about their business.
MILLION DOLLARS STOLEN.
Exchange Bank in Rome, Italy, Loot
ed by Bandits.
Rome, Italy. The great Exchange
bank near the stock exchange was
looted by burglars. The burglars kill
ed the two night watchmen, who were
attempting to defend the vault of the
institution, and escaped with a vast
sum of money. The crime was he
most daring in the history of Rome.
The burglars secured, it is said.
more than a million dollars. There
were at least five men in the game,
and they had either a wagon or an
automobile to carry away their booty.
Among the funds stolen were many
bags of gold, which could not have
been carried through the streets with
out arousing suspicion. When the
bank was opened a few hours before
business the two watchmen were
found dead. The alarm was sounded
Immediately, and every policeman in
the city was placed upon the case.
Trust Owns All Timber.
Washington. Concentration cf the
control of the standing timber In a
very Jew hands, vast speculative hold
ings "far in advance of any use there
of," an enormous increase in th val
ue of this diminishing natural re
source, "with great profits to Its own
ers," and Incidentally "an equally sin
ister land monopoly," and a "closely
connected railroad domination"
these are the findings reported by
Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of
corporations, In a report on the lum
ber Industry In the United States.
FOREST RESERVES TO BE
CREATED IN THE SOUTH
SENATE PASSES MEASURE FOR
CONSERVATION WORK IN ,
' APPALACHIANS.
$10,000,000 IS TO BE SPENT
Lands Will Be Purchased and Cut Up
Into Forest Reserves by . the (
Government.
Washington. The Weeks forest
reserve bill passed carrying an appro
priation of $10,000,000, to be expend
ed in the next five years at the rate
of $2,000,000 a year to secure land
on the watersheds of the Southern!.
Appalachian and W'hite mountain
rtrrct ir rkQi4lrtnlit an1 Atharo wVlOtfe
deemed needful, and the hard work
of eight years was crowned with suc
cess. ' XJ
The measure was adopted by a vote
of 57 to 9. Three Democrats voted
for the bill.
The supporters of the measure who
have carried on the long, tedious and
what seemed at times, almost hope-;
less, contest, are jubilant over tho
final victory. That President Taft
will sign the bill Is considered settled
beyond doubt. -
The bill passed the house of repreH
sentatlves last sesion, and as it waa
accepted by the senate without' any
change, it lacksonly the signature of
the president to elevate it Into a stat
ute. While it is understood on all sides
that the purpose of the bill is the ac
quisition of lands in the Wrhite moun
tains of New England and of the Ap-
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puiacmans in uie aouiuera slulus lur
the creation of forest reserves, it con
tains no specific mention of such pur-
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ing is found in the general powers
conferred by the bill. The carrying
Into effect of the provisions of tha
bill is placed in the hands of a com
mission to be composed of the secre
tary of war, the secretary of the in
terior and the secretary of agricul
ture, and two senators and two mem
bers of the house. !
The pehase of land is placed la
the hands of the secretary of agricul
ture, and is confined to all such areas
as may affect the headquarters of nav
igable streams. No purchase is to be
authorized until passed upon by the,
geological survey. The land once ac
quired, it is to be cut up into forest
reserves as may seem best for admin
istrative purposes.
FARM ANIMALS WORTH MORE
Interesting Figures Furnished by De
partment of Agriculture.
Washington. All farm animals, ex
cepting sheep, showed an increase la
average value per head on January 1
last, compared with their value on
that date in 1910, according to the
department of agriculture. Mules
showed the greatest increase in val
ue, it being $5.78 to $125.62 per head.
Values of other animals were:
Horses, $111.67, an increase o
$3.4S; milch cows, $40.49, an increase
of $4.79; sheep,. $3.73, a decrease or
3d cents, and swin $9.35, an increase
of 21 cents.
The highest and lowest average
value per head of farm animals by
states are given as follows:
Horses, highest in Massachusetts
and Rhode Island, $148; lowest, New;
Mexico, $a0.
Mules, highest In South Carolina,
$173; lowest in New Mexico, $S2.
Much cows, higaest in New Jersey.
$53.50; lowest in Alabama, $25.
Sheep, highest in Connecticut
$5.60; lowest in Mississippi and Lou
isiana, $1.90.
Swine, highest in Maine. $13.10 :'
lowest in Florida, $4.60.
Oldest Tarheel Dead.
Charlotte, N. C. Henry Parminter,
veteran of the Mexican and Civil
wars, and the state's oldest citizen,
lacking but fifteen days of having at
tained the age of 108, died at his
home here of grip. His wife died In
1909 at the age of 101. Among his
descendants are several great-greatgrandchildren.
He was hale and hear
ty up to a few days of hi-s death, and
retained every sense accurately.
Gould Quits Missouri Pacific.
New York. Pressed by the Rocke
feller and Kuhn-Loeb interests, George!
J. Gould is shortly to relinquish the!
presidency of the Missouri Pacific
Railway company, a position in which;
his father, Jay Gould, placed him-
eighteen years ago. He will be suc
ceeded by a railroad man not vet
named, who, to quote one of the new,
interests in Missouri Pacific, will 'cat.
drink and sleep on the lob." Mr. Gould
himself announced hi3 retirement
which will take place just as soon as
his successor chosen.