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POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY.
VOL. XI.
MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1909.
NO. 19.
Madisoii
County Record.
MR TiFT'S MFSSflfiF
President Not Satisfied With
Affairs in Porto Rico.
INCAPABLE OF SELF GOVERNMENT
49iuatlon of Unusual Gravity in Porto
. Rico The Island Without Support
After June 30 Next Time Em'
Proven That the United State Haa
Gone Too Test in Extension of Po
litical Power in Manas.
President Taft Monday sent to
Congress a special message recom
zaending legislation at the presen ex
tra session, amending the Foraker act
under which Porto Rico is governed.
The President directs the attention
of Congress to affairs on the island
laying particular stress on what he
terms "a situation of unusual grav
ity" developed through the failure
of the Legislative Assembly of Porto
Rico to pass the usual appropriation
bills, leaving the island without sup
port after June 30 next.
Porto Ricans have forgotten the
generoisity of the United States, the
President says, in the desire of cer
tain of the island's political leaders
for power, and he adds that the pres
ent situation indicates that the United
States has gone too fast in the ex
tension of political power to the Porto
Ricans. He concludes that the abso
lute power of appropriation should
be taken away from "those who have
shown themselves too irresponsible to
enjoy it."
The President suggests to Congress
the wisdom of submitting to the ap
propriation committees the question
of qualifying some of the provisions
of the fundamental act as to the re
spective jurisdictions of the executive
council and the Legislative Assembly.
But no action of this kind, the Presi
dent says, should be begun until the
Foraker actbe amended so that "when
journ without making the appropria
tion necessary to carry on the gov
ernment, sums equal to the appropria
tions made in ho previous year for
the respective purposes shall be
available for the current revenues,
and shall be drawn by the warrant of
the auditor on the Treasurer and
countersigned by the Governor. Such
a provision applies to the Legislatures
of the Philippines and Hawaii and
"it has prevented in those to conn
tries any misuse of the power of ap
propriation." The President reviews, the estab
lishment of the present government
for Porto. Rico by the Foraker act.
He . says the statue directing how ex
penses of the government are to be
provided leaves some doubt whether
this function is not committed solely
to the executive council but in prac
tice the Legislative Assembly has ap
propriated for all the expenses other
than for salaries, fixed by Congress,
and the President adds, "it is too
late to reverse that construction."
. The President says that ever since
the institution of the present Assem
bly the House of Delegates has nni
formely held up the appropriation,
bills until the last minute - of the
regular session and has sought to use
the power to do so as a means of
compelling the eoneerrence of the
Executive Council in legislation whioh
the House desired,. In the last -regular
Legislative Assembly the attitude
of the Execuive Council in refusing
to pass bills, led the House of Dele
gates to refuse to pass the. necessary
appropriation bills.
.Mr. Taft discusses the acts of the
Legislature and of the council in de
tail and says the facts recited demon
strate the willingness of the Repre
" sentatives of the people in the House
of Delegates to subvert the govern
ment in order to secure the passage
of certain legislation. . , ' V , ,
Tha iliTMfinn-whnVliAr fKt rilfmosed
legislation should be enacted into , law
was left by the fundamental act to
the joint action ' of :" the Execuive
Council and he House of Delegates
as the Legislative. Assembly. The
House of, Delegates, says the Presi
dent, proposes itself to secure this
legislation without respect to he op
position of the Executive Council,
"or else pull down the government.''
This growing spirit shows that too
great, power has been vested in the
delegates, The message presents an
exhaustive economic review 'of con
' ditions cn the island, its trade and
its wealth, its improved educational
facilities. ': . f :. .' ;-.; -
' It points out that" "ihere never was
time in the history of tho island
when the average prosperity of the
Porto Ricans Las been higher, his
opportunity greater, his liberty in
thought and action more secure." Foi
the first time in its history,
The President points out that if tne
P.orto Ricans desire a change in the
form of the Foraker act this is a mat
ter of congressional consideration,
dependent on the effect of such a
change on the real political progress
on the island. '
Such a change, he says, should be
sought, in an orderly Way and not
brought to the attention of Congress
by "paralyzing the arm of the exist
ing government." The fact of the
Porto Ricans forgetting the gener
osity of this government "should not
be .an occasion for surprise, nor in
dealing with a whole people can it be
made the basis of a charge of in
gratitude." "When we assumed guardianship
over them and the guidance of their
destinies we must have been conscious
that a people that had enjoyed so
little opportunity for education could
not be expected safely for themselves
to exericise the full power of self
government and the present develop
ment is only an indication that we
have gone somewhat too fast in the
extension .of political' power to them
for their own good.
Changes In Turkish Cabinet.
Constantinople, By Cable. Hilmi
Pasha and Mollas Sahib were Wednes
day installed respectively as Grand
Visier of tbe empire and Sheik-ul
Islam, or head of the faith. The for
mer succeeds Tewfik Pasha, and the
latter Zia Eddin Effendi. The chan
ges in office were made with the usual
ceremony. In the imperial hall or
dering the changes the Sultan ex
pressed his firm desire for the restor
ation and maintenance of peace.
Newborn Paper Mill in Full Blast
Newbern, N. C, Special.
Saturday's issue of the morn
ing paper, The Newbern Jour
nal, is printed on paper manu
factured at the plant of the Car
olina Paper & Pulp Mills, located at
Newbern. The paper is about the usu
al grade of newspaper and shows up
very well for the new plant. The ca
pacity of the plant when in full oper
ation will Be from 75 to lOOxtons per
day.
Nine Pennsylvanians Drown.
- Wilkesbanre, Pa., Special. Six
men, a woman and two children were
downed Sunday afternoon in the Sus
quehanna river near this city by the
capsizing of a rowboat, in which they
had started far an outing. As the
boat drifted into the swift -current it
began to dip water. The occupans be
came panic stricken and called franti
cally for assistance. Boys at play on
the bank heard the screams but be
fore a boat could be secured the row
boat in mid-stream bad filled and sank.
' NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Owing to the enterprise of three
Americans the roller skating craze
has struck Berlin.
Robert P. Vandevelde arrived from
Europe to make a business ot Intro
ducing rich Americans into European
society.
Striking hakefs on tbe east side,
New fork City, beat men who had
taken their places. Arrests were fol
lowed by small fines.
A showBf pictures and ' plans to
impress on New Yorkers the value
of a city beautital was opened In the
Twenty-second Regiment Armory.
The bravest, calmest persons tn
Adana during the massacre were the
pupils and teachers- of the girls'
school conducted by American mis
sionaries.. .
.The body of Kuang-Hsu, the Em
peror of China, who died In Pekln in
November, began, amid impressive
,ceremonies,v its' eighty-mile journey
to the Western tombs.
Henr7 Li Stlmson, special assist- '
ant United States Attorney, who Is in
charge of the Government sugar
eases, admitted that criminal prose
cutions would be Instituted..
. One part of Brooklyn, N. T., can
vassed shows the' percentage ot non
churchgoers to be 35.6. Of Jews, 74
per cent, are non-churchgoers; ot
Catholics, only ll.ft per cent.
Field Marshal Ghasl Moukhtar
confirmed the reports ot a plot to kill
11 fni-olcrnnra tn RnnstantinoDle. the
massacre being frustrated by the 4
timely arrival or tne saionican army.
- Exceptional cordiality in England
greeted the birth of a Princess of
Orange on account of, a feeling that
tho birth of an heir to the Dutch
throne had given German aspirations
a setback. r :
" SPRAYING SUCCESSFUL.
All of tho trait trees on the sta
tion , grounds were sprayed ; with
caledde, one part to fifteen parts
of water; In the ifall of "1906. When
examined on March 29 very tew liv
ing scales could e found. Mr. Ives
also sprayed nearly hit of his orchard
of several hundred trees with ecale
cide. The result were satisfactory.
At Mr. plant's orchard about seven
hundred trees besides those 'record
ed in the stables were sprayed with
calecide by the' owners, and the
scale was kept well in check cy the
treatment Prof. W. . E. Britten,
aimertean Cultivator.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
kerns of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable v
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Lire Beau Covering Events of Hex
or Less Interest at Horns ana
Abroad.
Simon Bilstein celebrated his 100th
anniversary in St. Louis, Mo., Son
day. He worries about nothing, drinks
a gallon of whiskey a week, with
never a drunk and smokes and chews
tobacco.
In tbe storm along the upper waters
of Long Island Sound and along the
Connecticut shore Monday night, four
men were drowned, four barges r went
to the bottom and three barges were
piled hp ashore.
At Birmingham, Ala., early Sun
day morning Mrs. W. E. Leodford
was instantly killed and her daugh
ter fatally hurt by a runaway team,
which veered and threw them just
in front of an approaching car.
Twenty-five men narrowly escaped
and 23 mules were burned to death
in a coal mine at Smithdale, Pa.,
last Sunday.
The principal feature of the Con
federate veteran reunion in Memphis
will be the unveiling of the statute
of Gen. Stephen D. Lee.
Criminal proceedings are to be in
stituted against the Sugar Trust.
It is estimated that 250 people were
kilted in last week's storm with
double that number injured. The
property loss can hardly be even ap
proximated. Mrs. Eugenia Greenbaldt, of De
troit, is suing, for a divorce on the
ground of desertion. She says her
husband continually cried for his
mother till he finally returned to the
mother and stayed.
Former Governor J. C. Beckham
has become editor of the Kentucky
State Journal, published at Frank
fort. Foreign Affairs.
Castro now seeks to get damages
from the French Government, not
for expelling him from Martinique
(for it has a right to do tnat)Dui
for taking him to France without
consulting his wishes as to where he
would go.
Dr. Manuel Amador, first president
of the Republic of Panama, died last
Sunday at the age of ' 75.
It now seems cepr in that the new
turn of affairs inConstantinople was
hastened to ay plot to massacre
all foreigner?' ; Aturday, May 1st.
Ex-Presid sevelt killed three
lions with4 . if shots and his son
Kermit killed? iine with three shots
last Friday. He has killed several
since and will probably be called the
lioii killer.
The Emperor of China died las
November. On May 1st his body was
started on the 80-mile journey to
the western tombs. The body of the
Dowager Empress will remain in
Peking until fall.
', The portrait of Christian 14 oi
Denmark was sold in London , last
week for $330,000. It is understood
that the purchase was made for an
American. It was painted 372 years
ago by Holbein. Under the Dingley
tariff, it would cost $66,000 to ome
it into port. It will probably come
in free.
Several, dump cars loaded with
earth fell from the Culebra track at
Panama last Saturday and resulted
in 9 deaths of alborers.
The Wright Brothers,' Wilbur and
Orville, have i sailed from ' France
where they have been displaying their
aeroplanes to return - to their homt
in America. .
The Shah of Persia has announced
-the grant of a constitution for Per
sia and steps are being taken for
elections of delegates for .the forma
tion of the instrument that he thinks
will restore order in the empire.
'TJje German government has gone
to employing feminine sleuths. It is
thought that woman's intuitive qual
ities will serve her well in. the detec
tive sphere. , s
Washington Affairs.
' Miss Mary "Jhomas, 65 years old,
who was for many years an employe
in. the department of Justice was
dismissed from the service to take
effect March 3rd. She .died last Fri
day night, her friends say of a brok
en .heart- .'' :';"'A
i Unskilled' laborers were called for
last Saturday to supply about 250
places. There were about 4,000 ap
plications' for positions ranging from
$250 jfk year to $650. . ' ,
General staff officers'and 160 sol
diers left Monday - to study the
science of war from' the battlefields
of Virginia. "
WASHINGTON NOTES
The most important happenings in
the nation's capital Monday were as
follows :
Urging Congress to take away
from Porto Ricans the political power
which has inspired them to "put per
sonal ambition above patriotism."
President Taft sent a special message
to the national Legislature recom
mending the amendment of the For
aker act under which the island is
governed.
The Senate upheld, by a vote of 44
to 35, the recommendation of its
finance committee by declining to re
duce by quarter of a cent a pound
the duty on "pig lead," thereby in
dicating the majority's voting
strength on important tariff schedules.
Export duties on certain articles
are provided-for revenue raising pur
poses in the Philippine tariff bill,
which was reported to the House by
the ways and means committee.
A commission of lunacy probably
will be asked for by the defense, it
was announced, to inquire into the
sanity of J. C. Davis, the Washington
lawyer, who with his brother, M. C.
Davis, was arrested here on Saturday
on charges of swindling, involving
neaply a quarter of a million dollars.
President Taft continues to follow
his avowed policy of selecting those
he considers to be the best men to
fill important Federal offices, irre
spective of their political faith, in J
sending to the Senate the nommaion
of Henry Groves' Connor, a Democrat,
to be United States judge for the east
ern district of North Carolina.
The most important happenings in
the nation's, capital Tuesday were as
follows:
The important "commodities
clause" case was decided by the Su
preme Court of the United- States,
which while sustaining the' govern
ment's contention that the Hepburn
rate law was not unconstitutional,
held that a carrier may own stock in
a producing company and at the same
time transport the product of that
company.
Representative Hollingsworth, of
Qhio, presented in the House Monday
a resolution protesting against the
placing of the pjcture of Jefferson
Davis on the silver service to be pre
sented to the battleship Mississippi
by the people of her patronymic
State.
The appointments of Oscar S.
Straus, as ambassador to Turkey and
W. W. Rockhill as ambassador to
Russia were announced.
Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, Wednes
day continued his tariff speech and
again he secured the undivided at
tention of the Senate.
Recalling that Mr. Aldrich had said
Tuesday that it would be shown to
the Senate that no changes increasing
the cotton rates had been made by
the Senate committee on finance, Mr.
Dolliver said that if that was a cor
rect statement, he would expect all
of the italics carrying Senate amend
ments to be stricken from the meas
ure. The fact was, he said, that
these cotton rates were increased. -He
then read from a New York news
paper, which he added had for
''Ijfenty years been watchful of the
spiritual side of the Senator from
Massachuetts" (Mr. Lodge), state
ment to the effect that Mr. Lodge
had said, that as reported front the
committee on finance, the cotton
schedule, as amended by the Senate
committee, was "of great value to
Massachusetts." The same article,
he said, also appeared in a Boston
paper. .
Mr. Dolliver said Mr. Lodge was
quoted as saying that "the sd valorem
rate in cotton had been incrased."
Mr.' Lodge said that that must be
a misquotation. "It is stated," he
aaid, "the ad valorem rates had not
been increased."
Indicted For Conspiracy.
New York, Special. Indictments
rfor conspiracy were found by the
Federal grand jury here Friday
against Oliver Spitzer, who was sup
erintendent of the docks of the Amer
ican Sugar Refining Company in
Brooklyn, and six other employes of
tbe company alleged to have been im
plicated in tbe sugar underweighing
frauds charged by the government in
its recent suit against the sugar' com
pany. Kidnapers on Trial
. .Mercer, Pa., SpeciaLi James H.
Boyle, charged with the abduction of
Willie Whitla, of Sharon, Pa., was
placed on trial Wednesday afternoon.
Court adjourned for the day one hour
later, after a jury had been selected
temporarily. Little difficulty was ex
perienced in securing a jury, - Each
man was closely questioned and only
27 were examined before the box was
1 filled. ' It is believed the trial can be
concluded befoM the end of the pres
ent week. .. ... x
WASHINGTON NOTES !
RELIEF W0RKAT ADANA
Armenian Representatives Assured
That the Authorities Will Prosecute
With Vigor the Investigation Into
the Armenian Massacres and That
the Guilty Will Be Dealt With
Summarily.
Constantinople, By Cable. The
government is taking hold of the re
lief work in Adana province with vig
or. It was announced that $150,000
had been sent there.
The Grand Vizier and Ferid Pasha,
the Minister of the Interior, received
a deputation of Armenian clergy
and laity Saturday, headed by Ar
tehareni, provisional representative
of the patriarchate, who was assur
ed the government would inquire
thoroughly into the Adana massacres,
and severely punish those guilty of
inciting them.
A number of notable Armenians
met here Sunday and submitted to
the government the following re
quests :
First, that the murderers of Chris
tians be punished; second, that stolen
property be returned, and indemni
ties be paid for property destroyed;
third, that tbe women and girls who
were stolen be returned, and also
that men and women who were com
pelled forcibly to adopt Mohammed
ism be allowed to resume their origi
nal faith; fourth, that the investiga
tion conducted under the chairman
ship of the governor general be sus
pended and that a new investigation
of the disorders from their com
mencement be made by a military
commission; fifth, that Christians be
permitted to participate in the local
police establishment, and sixth, that
Armenians be allowed to participate
in defraying the cost of erecting a
monument to those who have fallen
n the army of liberty.
The agricultural bank has arranged
to loan $75,000 without interest to the
farmers of Adana province, to aid
them in planting new crops.
Practically all the refugees at Lata
ka, Syria, have returned to their
homes or are ready to go. The weath
er in fine and warm and crops are ripe.
John 0. Davis Arrested.
Washington, Special. There were
sensational developments Saturday in
the case of John C. Davis, a member
of the local bar, who was arrested
Friday on the chorge of having ob
tained money under false prtenses.
The amount, which Davis is alleged to
have misappropriated 'n transactions
with his clients, mostly women, was
thought at first to have been small,
but Saturday notes, aggregating $50,
000, said to have been given by Davis,
were exhibited to United States Dis
trict Attorney Baker, and it is ru
mored that the amount finally may
reach $100,000. Martin C. Davis, a
brothel- of John and secretary of a
local building and loan association,
was arrested Saturday on a charge of
conspiracy.
A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C,
says: Davis created a sensation in
this State in the early ninties, result
ing in his incarceration in the State
insane asylum here from May 24,
1892, to November 30, 1897. He was
a lawyer in Wilmington, and a promi
nent and a zealous member of the
Methodist church. He furnished the
money to build a Methodist church
and placed in it costly chimes. He
spent money freely. Then came pom
plaints from clients involving money
matters, said to aggregate about $30,
000. He was arrested and the case'
was a noted one in the judicial an
nals of the State. His counsel set up
the plea of insanity. The jury found
the acoused insane. He was then sent
to the insane asylum here. Upon his
release some years later he went to
Washington and in many ways since
tried to make a reparation in some of
those from whom he was charged with
fraudulently obtaining monev During
the past two years he has been send
ing occasional remittances 'to those
with who he bad dealings in Wilming
ton. His defense will be insanity in
the present trouble.
Kidnapers Sentenced James Boyle
For Life and His Wife 25 Years.
Pittsburg, Pa., Special. James
Boyle and his wife, Helen Boyle,
were lodged in the Western, peniten
tiary. here; Monday night, the former
under a sentence of life imprison
ment and the 'atter sentenced to serve
a term of 25 years.
It has been decided, so far as Mrs.
Bayle is concerned at least, that no
appeal will be asked for.
Demurrers Are Overruled.
Muskogee, Okla., Special. Federal
Judge Campbell Saturday overruled
the demurrer of the defendants in the
so-called Mott 'civil Creek Indian land
suits, brought by the government
against Governor Charles Haskill and
other prominent Oklahomans. The
decision involving as it does the legal
ity of millions of dollars' worth of
lots, created great consternation here.
Not only is Governor Haskell and as
sociates involved in the charge ' of
fraud, but ; about 1,500 ' subsequent
purchasers of lots are vitally interest
ed, !
MASSACRE ATHARN!
Every Man in the Place a
Slain.
RESCUE OF WOMEN DANGEROUS
Women and Children Spared Latter
From Widow of Clergynua Tells
Horrible Story of Oondltlaat
Having Nothing to Eat the Sort
rors Are Living on Grass Like Ani
mals Moslems Are Trying to Fore
the Women to Become Mohaime
dans. Marash, By Cable. A letter re
ceived by messenger from Hani, say
that every man there has been lolled.
Only women, girls and boys under
10 years of age have been left alive.
The chnrches and houses were plua
dered and most of them were burned.
The letter, which is from the widow
of a clergyman, says:
"We have nothing to eat or wear.
We are living on grass like animals.
Worse than this, the moslems are try
ing to force the women and girls to
become Mohammedans. Already
some of the women have been carried
away."
Lucius O. Lee, a missionary here,
says:
"We are trying to send food to
Harni, although it is dangerous, and
to bring away the women as welL"
Much excitement has been caused
here by the attempt of the authori
ties to arrest some of those who have,
murdered Christians.
At Hodjin, notwithstanding the
presence of the troops, the situation
is desnerata nwino fr, thtt r.f fnA
and medical supplies. The troops ar
rived just in time, as the besiegers
had succeeded in setting fire to a
house on the edge of the city. Tho
fire spread, but as the breeze was
blowing away from the town, only fiva
buildings were destroyed. A heavy
rifle fire was kept up against those
who tried to extinguish the flames. .
The Mohammedans outside the
walls who seemingly numbered many
thousands, pushed their attaek ener
getically against the inhabitants, kill
ing and wounding many. They were,
so eager to get inside the city and
plunder the place that they did not
observe the approach of Toufti Bey
and his troops until they were doss
upon them, whereupon the Moham
medans flt'd precipitatedly, carrying
off all the oat tie outside the city.
A Beirut dispatch says: The situ
ation at Suadia and Deurtyul again
is critical. Further anti-Christian
outbreaks are feared. Five hundred
Turkish troops have been dispatched
to those two points. Tbe British bat
tleship Triumph, with the British con
sul on, board, left here this morning;
for Deurtyul.
Played Twenty-One Honrs.
Charlotte, N. C, Special. A feat
which was really remarkable as a test
of physical endurance alone and
which attracted the attention of hun
dreds was that of Henry Williams
who, after being byponitized Monday
night , a bout 10:30 o'clock and being
put to playing a piano in the window
of the Stone & Barringer Company,
continued to play it until near 8
o'clock Wednesday night, when he
was stopped by force, being taken te
the tent. Foj- nearly twenty-two
hours, for not ayiecond did he let nn
his pounding of the keys on which he
had played scores and perhaps hun
dreds of compositions. He straggled
to get back to the stool and when on
the street fought desperately with his
four, companions until the band start
ed up. He then walked away peace
ably to be awakened. He played with
close-shut eyes.
Roosevelt Bags Two More Lions.
Nairobi, British East Africa, By
Cable Theodore Roosevelt went lion,
hunting again Wednesday, and before
the- chose was over, two more biff
lions had fallen before" his gun. These.
animals were encountered and lulled
in the tall grass. Mr. Roosevelt now
holds the record for lion killing in tho
protectorate. Since Saturday of last
week a total of five lions and one
lioness have been bagged by him. ;
Killed Negro in OIL
Albany, Ga., Special Ely Holmes
a. desperate negro prisoner in the Lee
eounty jail at Leesburg, was shot t .
death Wednesday afternoon in a hand
to hand fight with Deputy Sheriff H.
D. Logan, in a dark cell in tbe jaiL a
fight in which the loser could not
leave the cell alive. Both men real
ized this, according to Depnty Logan
and f when his chance came he killed
the negro. He had entered Holmes
cell and the negro attacked him, it
was said with a stool, beating the of
ficer unmercifully before the latter
eould draw his pistol f