North Carolina Newspapers

It I v 1 ' " " ' 1 - r k ! If! I Yr, In A2ybdcsw "FOR GOO, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Beg! Cfy f Ceo, VOL. XXI. PLYMOUTH,. N, C FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1911 NO. 30. vff 'Hi 1$ fi ll ilA ,lflV u r. n t I III I s I It V. 1 IE 1 J4P 8500,000 BOND ISSUE -STRONG OPPOSITION TO ANY LARGE APPROPRIATION 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 mi Smm (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- 1 1- 1 I J 1 f-. at - A - . puiacmans in uie aouiuera slulus lur the creation of forest reserves, it con tains no specific mention of such pur- . mi, - - a 1. : a. - a t. j . 1 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.