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VOL. XXI. PLYMOUTH, N' C. RIDAY MARCH10. 1911, NO. 38.
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WORK IS FINISHED
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1011 A
MATTER OF HISTORY LAWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
PRESIDING OFFICERS' ' WORK-
Senators and Representatives Mani
fest Esteem Held For Speaker and
Lieutenant Governor Torrens Bill
Shamelessly Murdered. Governor's
Salary $3,000.
Raleigh. The first of final cere
monies for adjournment ' was when
members of the house presented to
. Speaker" Bowd a splendid silver ser
vice as a testimonial of the regard
jmd esteem of the members of the
house. Mr. Turlington of Iredell pre
sided for the ceremony and Mr. Dil
lard of Cherokee was spokesman. In
a chaste, eloquent and brief address,
he presented the testimonial as com
ing from appreciative hearts for the
Speaker's impartial, able and kind
administration of his high and re
sponsible duties. Speaker Dowd was
deeply affected, expressing in most
appreciative terms his appreciation
for this manifestation of esteem.
Members of the house stood while the
speaker was responding and applaud
ed greatly.
The house passed the Torrens land
title bill similar to that the senate
recently defeated and sent it by
special messenger to the senate for
its action. The house vote was 67
to 11.
The house passed the Pothel bill
to regulate crossings of railroads
and electric lines with an amendmen'
that it do not apply to towns of less
than 5,000. .
The house defeated 60 to 2S the
Dillard bill to create a state game
commission.
The house also passed the bill re
quiring additional educational quali
fications for medical licenses. This
measure was defeated in the two pre
' vicus session of the assembly. It
passed this time almost without op
position.
Insurance Investigation Off.
The Koonco resolution from the
house for investigation of the conduct
of fire insurance companies in North
Carolina caused debate. The senate
voted to refer to the insurance com
mittee. .
The senate passed the committee
bill to reapportion the senate mem
bership and sent it to the house
The only change is that it combiner
Edgecombe and Halifax counties in
one district with two senators, there
by making 33 instead cf 39 districts:
in the senate.
The house resolubn passad to in
vestigate the sale of the Atlantic &
Yadkin railroad to the Atlantic Coast
Line and its dismemberment in divis
ion with the Southern was voted
down by the senate over the stren
uous protest cf Senator Hobgood.
The senate concurred in the house
amendment to increase the Gov
ernor's salary to five instead of si?:
thousand dollars.
It was announced by Senator Gard
ner that a classification cf counties
as to pauper status by the state
treasurer lifted sixteen out of the
pauper class and placed them in the
surplus column.
The Hobgood bill to allow life in
surance companies to withdraw se
curities from the State Commissioner
of Insurance only with the consent
of the policyholders affected, the bill
to. provide for an additional clerk in
the Governor's office and Increase
the salaries of the others, and to
provide a reformatory for colored
youths passed and were sent to the
house.
House Changes Reapportionment.
The house passed the senate bil"
making a reapportionment for the
state senate, the only change the
house made in the bill as it came
from the senate being that Lee coun
ty was changed from the twenty
first to the fourteenth district, so as
to make the fourteenth, with Samp
son county in it, Democratic.
The house took up the congres
sional apportionment bill as it came
from the senate and, on motion of
Williams of uBncombe, voted to
transfer Catawba from the eighth to
the ninth district. This change was
Applied for Regular Soldiers.
Adjutant General R. L. Leinster,
has made application to the United
States War department for a com
pany of regulars to de detailed to
Raleigh during May for the purpose
of demonstrating a great variety of
military maneuver for the benefit
of the officers' cainp of instruction
that is to be held there for officers
cf the North Carolina National Guard
as a sort cf initiation for the new
rifle rang? Just 'completed. A wide
scope of irJsitary srvice will be demonstrate;.
advocated by Speaker Dowd and
others. The senate concurred.
The senate gave final reading to
the bill to chano the name of law
clerk in the attorney generald's of
fice to assistant attorney general. In
cluded among the raft of local bills
passed and sent to the house were:
bills to provide engineering assis
tances to counties in. the construction
of good reads; allow one dollar a day
extra to legislative clerks. Bills rat
ified : to incorporate the Durham &
Danville railway; establish the North
Carolina School for the Feeble
minded; incorporate the Davidson
Intorurban railway company.
The senate considered for nearly
two hours the Hobgood bills to pro
hibit railroad companies from exact
ing liability release contracts from
employes, the bill having the effect
of breaking up the relief association
cf the Atlantic Coast Line. In the
end tho roll-call vote was 2G to 7
against the bill. Senators advocating
the bill were Hobgood, Bassett and
Graham, while those opposing were
Hartsell, Johnson, Thorne, Armstrong
and Barnes.
When-They Woke Up.
The sensation of the . session was
the discovery that the senate had
unknowingly passed and ordered en
rolled the Torrens land title bill,
which had passed the house earlier in
the day and sent to the senate, no
senator grasping its meaning by the
conundrum reading of the title by the
reading clerk. The senate several
days ago killed the senate bill on this
subject by a decisive majority, and,
when it was discovered that it pass
ed "unbeknownst" an identical bill
from the house, a wave of excitement
ran through the senate chamber, but
the oversight was soon corrected by
a vote to reconsider and recalling the
bill from enrolling clerk's office.
This incident put all senators on
their guard and the careful scrutiny
given each measure given- promise
of no recurrence of such a blunder.
Primary System Defeated.
After two hours of the most spir
ited argument of the whole session
the house tabled the Hobgood bill
from the senate for a state-wide pri
mary to apply to all counties and all
parties with primaries on the same
day and voting places. The test vote
was cn an amendment by Mr. Dough
ton to exempt any county or any
party by vote of county . executive
committees. This was a roll call
vote- and was 68 to 36 for the amend
ment. It was after this amendment
was adopted that Mr. Ross, in charge
of the bill, moved to table on the
ground that the amendment defeated
the very purpose for which the
friends of the measure sought its en
actment. Senator Bcyden's appeal in behalf
of tho Confederate veterans won, the
annual appropriation to the Soldiers'
Home being fixed at $40,000 instead
of $30,000, as recommended by the
appropriations committee and passed
by the house in the general appro
priations bill. This was the only
amendment, made, three others being
voted down.
Turlington house anti-trust bill wa3
received and Senator Hobgood asked
that it go on the calendar as it is a
copy cf his bill now in committee
hands. Senators Graham and Bassett
objected, declaring that this is too
important a matter not to be duly
considered by committee. It was re
ferred to the judiciary committee. '
Esteem Senate Presiding Officer.
Lieutenant Governor W. C. New
land was presented with a handsome
silver service by Senator Thorne on.
behalf of the senators of both parties
a3 a token of their esteem and love
for him.
Senator Starbuck, Republican lead
er, made a graceful talk, thanking
the presiding officer for hia fair rul
ings and expressing the high regard
the Republican members have for
him.
Senator Hyatt also expressed hit
appreciation of the worth of the pre
siding officer, who was deeply moved
and made a graceful speech of ac
ceptance. The machinery act passed third
reading and was sent to the house for
concurrence in the senate amend
ments.
The joint legislative committee on
agriculture voted to report unfavor
ably the bill by Speaker Dowd for
the consolidation of the State Agri
cultural department and the A. and
M college, and to recommend that the
legislature provide a committee to in
vestigate the ad7i?ability of such a
merger and report to the next legis
lature. Triangular High School Debate.
In a contest spirited from start ito
finish, Mr. Carey J. Hunter, Jr., Mr.
Clifton Beckwith, Mr. Philip Wooli
cott, and Mr. Oliver Smith won places
on the team to represent the Raleigh
High School in the triangular de
bate between Charlotte, Greensboro,
and Raleigh.
The query was: "Resolved, That the
Federal Government Should Levy a
Graduated Tax on Income, Carrying
Constitutional Objections."
The debate will be held in the dree
cities on the niht of April 14th.
SUMMARY OF THE
WHAT WAS DONE AND LEFT UN
DONE BY THE NATIONAL
LAWMAKERS
RESULTS IN EXTRA SESSION
rew Things of Importance Were Ac
complished in the Last
Short Session.
Washington. In the retrospect the
Sixty-first congress, which has just
txpired by constitutional limitation,
appears to have been distinguished
by three things: the revision of the
:ariff in the so-called Payne-Aldrich
bill, which was passed at an extra
session in the summer of 1909; the
large amount of important legislation,
much of it upon the recommendation
of President Taft, enacted at the reg
ular session cf 1909-1910, and the ex
ceedingly small product of the "short
session," so-called, now closed.
The interval between the last two
sessions was marked by the political
upheaval registered at the general
election of last November, which
changed a large Republican majority
in the house of representatives, cut
the Republican majority in the sen
ate almost to the vanishing point and
incidentally effecting striking changes
In the senate personnel.
The failure of this session to enact
much important legislation has re
sulted in the practical certainty that
the new Sixty-second congress will be
called almost immediately in extraor
dinary session, especially by reason
of the strong desire of President Taft
to secure action upon the pending
reciprocity agreement with Canada, to
the consummation of which the con
tracting parties pledged the utmost
efforts .cf the two governments.
In strong contrast with the support
which the Taft administration receiv
ed from the Republican majority in
the matter of legislation in the regu
lar session of 1909-10 is the fact that
at the present session the majority
has been anything but united; the
reciprocity agreement was passed in
the house by the aid of a large pro
portion cf Democratic vote3, while in
the senate the rift in the majority be
tween the "Regulars" and "Insurg
ents" has been an important factor
in its sidetracking and in the conse
quent summoning of the extra ses
sion. To this division in the majority was
largely due the most dramatic fea
ture of the previous long session the
protracted . and sensational conflict
last spring which ended in material
changes in the rules of the house gen
srally interpreted as "the overthrow
of the speaker," and which after a
bitter fight lasting many hours and
including an all-night struggle, stop
ped only just short of the actual un
seating of Speaker Cannon. While
the acrimcny between Regulars and
Insurgents neither began nor ended
with tho battle over the rules, that
v as its most conspicuous episode, and
there has been little peace between
the factions since in either house.
Iln the senate the most sensational
feature of this session was the un
availing effort, in which the Insurg
ents wore most active, to unseat
William Lorimer as ' junior senator
from Illinois, on the ground of alleg
ed bribery .n connection with his
election by the legislature of that
state in the spring of 1909. The ech
oes of this battle are still reverberat
ing, and its bitterness added friction
to the closing hours of the senate
session.
Another important recent action of
the senate was the defeat of the reso
lution embodying a proposed amend
ment to the Constitution of the Unit
ed States to provide for the direct
election of senators by the people.
This resolution received more than
a majority of the senate, but it need
ed a two-thirds vote, and fell short
by only 4. Had tho senate passed, it
the house almost certainly would have
done so. The friends of this propo
sition entertain little doubt that it
will pass the next congress and go
to the senate for ratification or de- j
feat.
The output of this session in the
way of general measures consists
chiefly of the appropriation bills, and
several of those seemed in danger
Burglars Get Fortune.
Dartona. Fla. A series of robber
ies culminating with the burglary ot
the home of Mrs. Roger Whinfield at
Seabreeze, is estimated to have net
ted a gang of burglars more than
50,000 in jewelry. According to tho
report of Mrs. Whinfield, jewelry val
ued at 125,000 was secured from her
home. Including a pearl brooch and
two diamond pendants worth $10,000.
This robbery followed the burglariz
ing of the homes of E. R. Hotchkiss
here and J. D. Price at Ormond.
SIXTY - FIRST CONK
more than once in the tense sit
uation of the last few days, when
long hours passed away in filibuster
ing on one side or the other.
Thousands of bills have been intro
duced and several thousand more
came to the closing session as a her
itage from the first and second ses
sions. In all, there were between 35,
000 and 45,000 measures before the
congress when it came to a clobe.
Failure eo enact many laws was not
due to lack of raw material.
These are some of the more import
ant measures, outside appropriation
bill3, that the final session of this
congress enacted Into law:
Providing for forest reserves in the
southern Appalachian and White
mountains.
Providing for the Inspection of boil
ers on locomotives.
Providing for the purchase or erec
tion of embassies, legations and con
sular buildings abroad.
An ocean mail bill passed the sen
ate, but the house did not manifest
enough liking for it to send it on to
the white house.
Barren as the final session may
have been of fruitful legislation, the
Republican leaders point to the pre
ceding sessions as more fruitful. '
For the first, or extra , session, they
point to: .' ,
The Payne-Aldrich tariff act, with
its maximum and minimum features
and corporation tax provisions, and
its customs court.
The resolution providing for an In
come tax amendment to the Constitu
tion. For the first regular session they
refer to laws for:
Establishment of postal savings
banks.
Admission of New Mexico and Ari
zona to statehood.
The most extensive census evei
taken.
Creation of the commerce courts,
and sweeping amendments to the in
terstate commerce act.
Ballinger-Pinchot investigation.
Conservation legislation, including
authorization of withdrawal of public
lands to preserve water sites, and au
thorization of the issue of $20,000,000
in bends for completing irrigating
projects.
Legislation designed to suppress
the "white slave trade."
Publicity of campaign contributions
at election of members of the house.
Amendment to the employers' lia
bility act of 1908; supplemental safe
ty appliance act; requirement that
railroads report accidents to interstate
commerce commission, and establish
ment of a bureau of mines.
Reorganization of lighthouse serv
ice. Authorization of expenditure of $28,
000,000 for public buildings.
HIGH LICENSE IN ALABAMA.
One Saloon in Birmingham for Every
3,000 Inhabitants of the City.
Montgomery, Ala. The house of
representatives passed the Smith bill,
which regulates the sale of liquor In
Alabama by a vote of 5S to 27.
A number of amendments were of
fered and few adopted. Walker Per
cy of Birmingham got in an amend
ment fixing the saloon license in his
county at $3,000 and the number of
saloons to one for every 3,000 inhabit
ants. His amendment to take the pow
er of appointing the excise boards out
of the hands of the governor failed.
The Smith bill fixes the license in
Mobile and Montgomery at $1,500 and
In Mobile one saloon to every 750
people, and .in Montgomery one to
every 1,000.
Excise boards are created to con
trol the sale of liquor, and the Wiley
pure food regulations are adopted to
govern the quality of liquors to be
sold. This measure is said to be the
most stringent ever enacted in any
state In the Union.
"Hookworms of World'
Chicago. "The Hookworms of the
World," a fraternal organization
among members of the National As
sociation of Retail Hardware Dealers,
will be organized at the next annual
convention to be. held in Little Rock,
Ark.
Wyoming Bars Prize ' Fights.
Cheyenne, Wyo. Governor Cary
vetoed the Umshler bill legalizing
prize fights of 25 rounds' in Wyoming.
Merger of Cotton Mills.
Boston, Mass. One millions dol
lars has been subscribet'. by Bcstcu
capitalists for the proposed merger
of nine big cotton mill industries, all
valued at $10,000,000, to be known un
der the consolidation as the Parkers
Mills company. This will be the third
largest concern of its kind in the
world, being exceeded in number o
spindles only by the Amoskeag corpo
ration, of Manchester, N. H., and the
New England Cotton Yarn company.
The mills which it is proposed tc
merge are all in Scuth Carolina.
CGiMuncbS ELEVATES PEARY.
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Robert E. Peary.
WAS A WHIRLWIND FINISH
CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTION
MENT BILL PASSED BY HOUSE
HELD UP IN THE SENATE.
Explorer Peary Given Thanks of Con
gress Higher Postage on Maga
zines Killed in the Senate.
Washington. There was no con
gressional reapportionment by the
Sixty-first congress. The reappor
tionment bill fixing the number of
representatives at 433, which passed
the house earlier in the session, met
with serious opposition in the senate.
and wa3 not brought out by the com
mittee having it in charge.
Robert E. Peary, civil engineer in
the United States navy, was elevated
to the roll of fame by congress, plac
ed on the retired list with the rank
of rear admiral and the highest pay
of that grade, and extended the thanks
of congress "for his Arctic explora
tions, resulting in reaching the North
Pole."
The pay of a rear admiral of the
corps of civil engineers is less than
that Commander Peary is now re
ceiving, so he does not benefit con
spicuously in a financial way from the
action of congress. However, only
six men have been given the thanks
of congress in the past thirty-five
years.
The senate passed the postofflce ap
propriation bill, carrying about $258,
000,000, after striking from It the pro
vision increasing to 4 cents a pound
the postal rate , on the advertising
sections of the large magazines.
Among the amendments adopted In
the postofflce appropriation bill was
one by Senator Swanson granting 30
days' leave of absence annual to the
rural free delivery letter carriers.
The codification bill, providing for
the abolition of circuit courts of the
United States and containing an
amendment put on by Representative
Bartlett of Georgia, which revives
about eight million dollars of South
ern war claims, finally passed all the
stages of legislation
OVER 30,000 PLAGUE VICTIMS
Famine Follows Disease in China's
Starving Thousands.
Peking, China. Famine and the
plague are sweeping over China. The
known deaths from tne plague num
ber 30,000, and, according to the offi
cial statistics, the death rate aver
ages 200 daily. But the officials have
little knowledge of the conditions in
the interior, or, if they have, they
are not permitting the facts to be
known.
It is impossible even to estimate
the number of deaths that have re
sulted from lack of food. Dr. Samuel
Cochran, an American, who is engag
ed in the work of relief, writes:
"One million people will die before
the first crop is harvested. This will
be scanty, because the people have
not the strength to till the soil, and
no animals remain for plowing."
So far Japan and America are the
only foreign countries that have con
tributed to aid the sufferer?
Myers, Montana's Senator.
Helena, Mont. Henry L. Myers
(Dem.) of Ravali county was elected
United States senator to succeed Sen
ator Carter on the seventy-ninth joint
legislative ballot.
Princess Slain by Her Lover.
Rome, Italy. Princess Dl Trigona,
a lady-in-waiting to Queen Helena,
niece of Marquis Di Sangiuliano, the
Italian minister of foreign affairs, and
cousin of Princa Di Scalea, secretary
cf state in the foreign office, was
murdered, in a small hotel in thi-
city by Lieutenant Baron Paterno, a
cavalry officer, who then killed him
self, rrincess Di Trisona was ouo
of the moKt beautiful ladies-in-waiting
to thfrjiueen, and'waen Queen Helena
was informed of the tragedy sh
fainicd.
CONGRESS MIS IN ' '
EXTRA SESSION APRIL 4
PRESIDENT CALLED NEW . CON
GRESS IN THE FACE OF MOST,
TREMENDOUS PRESSURE, A
TARIFF MAY BE REVISED
Democratic Leaders Realize Thaf
There Can Be No Sudden Re- j
duction of Tariff Duties, ( tf
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Washington. Within the hour foV
lowing the close of the Sixty-flrstj
congress President Taft issued a proc
lamatlon calling the new congress to
meet in extraordinary session Tues
day, April 4.
At that time he will submit for rati
iflcation to a house overwhelminsty,
Democratic and to a senate barely,
Republican the reciprocity agreement
with Canada. The McCall bill, carry
ing that agreement Into effect and!
passed by the house, met death at
the hands of the old senate, which1
had been freely predicted for it.
The president, well warned if not
entirely reconciled to the fate in store;
for the measure was at the capital
to witness the obsequies. The bill
was not allowed at any time to comei
up In the senate for a moment's coaj
sideratlon.
The permanent tariff board bill
rorcea to us passage tnrougn a re
luctant senate was hurried over ttf
the house, there to be strangled by.
a Democratic filibuster. The presi
dent, in the room reserved for him
in the senate lobby, heard the news
with resignation. Congress provided
funds to continue the work of taa
temporary tariff board for another,
year. i
It was at the requ.est of the Demo
crats of the house and senate that
President Taft fixed the date of the
extra session as April 4. " .
There is little doubt now that the
Democrats of the house will under
take to revise at least two or three
of the schedules of the Payne-Aid-'
rich tariff act, and there Is every rea
son -to believe that these bills will
be favorably received in the new sen
ate the increased Democratic and;
Inaurgent strength in that body giv
ing a majority to the principle of a
further revision of the tariff down
ward. It is supposed also that so
lung a. a iuu new btueuuia uuea uuh
flagrantly violate the policy of protec
tion, President Taft will not withholds
his approval of it. He has announc
ed, however, that if a general revis
ion, in violation of the protective poW
icy, should be inaugurated, he would
not hesitate to use the power of the,
veto.
How long the extra session will last
is problematical. While the new con
gress may promptly ratify the reci-
are in favor of withholding confirma
tion until two or three new tariff
scedules are ready. If tariff differ
ences should arise between the nevr
house and the senate, the" session ud
..I 1. 1 u i i . .
ijuesuuuiiui; wuuiu u a luug one.
In this connection, however, the In
teresting fact wa,s developed that the
president has a constitutional right
to bring the session to an end in case
the two houses of congress cannot
agree upon a time for adjournment.
Such action, it is admitted, would be
revolutionary, and there Is thought to
be little likelihood that any president
would care to invoke the power vest
ed In him by Section 3, Article 2, ol
the Constitution.
Flew 125 Miles Over Ocean. '
Nice, France. Lieutenant Baguf
accomplished a sensational and dan
ing feat by flying over the Mediterra
nean from Antibea to the little island
of Gorgona, off the Italian coast. H
covered a distance of more than 20C
kilometers (124.5 miles), establishing
a new record for over-sea flight. This
he did without the assistance of tugs,
torpedo boats or any other craft to
guide him or add to his confidence bj
their presence.
$1,000,000 Fire in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Minn. One of th
most disastrous fires this city hai
ever known destroyed the Syndicate
block' on Nicolette avenue, between
Fifth and Sixth streets, at a loss es
timated at $1,000,000.
Flower sncwer for Lorimer.
Chicago. Admirers of Senator WIl
liam Lorimer to the number of sev
eral thousand greeted him here upos
his return from Washington. Twc
hundred and fifty automobiles, form
Ing a parade, escorted the senatoi
from the station, to his residence
Senator Lorimer was accompanied bj
fcrmer Judge Elbridge Hanecy and
five detectives, who met him at Fori
Wayne, Ind. When he passed through
the station it required seventy police
men to keep the crowd from swarm
ing over his escort.