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Mill III III MM MM IIHIHg The Medium 1 h-ihed in ihe County X Through which you reach the people of Madison County A ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION niitiiiiii.il inniiini t i a yar in Adtiance Z Job PrintiM Promptly and NeMly Don t It I "1 IT "I f Madison County Record, POLITICAL REFORM AND THE QEHERAL UPBUILDINGrl OF MADlSdM COUNTY; VOL. XII. MARSHALL, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY i", 1910. NO. 8. -1 1,'V : '"'i 1 1 i ' i i .... i. .... ." ' i . , , , j gasagteggj UNDER Just now Arizona and New Mexico are knocking loudly for admission into the Union and they will, in all probability, be tbe last applicants to seek such admission. From the best information obtain able there is probably a population of 400,000 in the Territory of New Mexico at this time. It is 260 miles north and south, by 348 miles east and west and contins 122,580 square miles, within its borders. It is estimated that an actual val uation of property within the Ter ritory would represent more than $300,000,000. In addition to this, there are many homesteads under cultivation and many mining claims where patents have not yet been is sued and which are still exempt from taxation. There are probably 400 miles of railroad recently con structed and exempt from taxation for six years. It is extimated that there are nine billion tons of coal in the Territory. The value of these resources, not yet subject to taxation nd of undeveloped resources, is probably not less than $500,000,000. The school census taken in 1908 showed 9.1,894 children of school age, the school buildings alone being esti mated to be worth $1,000,000. Re ligious denominations show an en rollment of more than 6,000 pupils. In New Mexico agriculture is mainly conducted by irrigation alone: the river valleys of the San Juan, Bio Grande, the Mimbres, the Can adian, the Cimerron, the Gila, the "Pecos and their tributaries. Commercially, the Territory shows about 3,000 miles of railroad in operation, tpn daily newspapers and -one hundred weekly papers. There ! are forty-one national banks and nu merous Territorial and sayings lianks. Arizona was a part of the terri tory that was acquired from Mexico Try the treaty of Guadalupe Ilidlgo, February 2, 1848. and by the Gads den purchase of 1853, and was. a part of the Territory of New Mexico, from which it was separated and or ganized into a Territory. It is 378 n.iles long by 330 miles wide and contains 112,920 square miles, and it is belioved that when the census of the present year is taken it will si ow a population of -about 200.000. It has grown rapid ly since the census of 1900, as indi cated by the receipts at various postoffices in the Territory. The population of Arizona is al most wholly that of Americans 69 per cent being of that nationality, 13 per cent Mexicans, 11 per cent In dians, and 6 per cent foreign nation alities. Both of the great political parties in the last campaign pledged them selves to the admission into Hie Union of New Mexico and Arizona. May Save Big Sum. There may be a complete reorgani sation of the Treasury Department. It is expected that by an expendi ture of $100,000 the Treasury will save at least $1,000,000 a year, and probably a great deal more in operat ing expenses. The work of the var ious bureaus is to be gone over care fully and various economies now in -contemplation effected. All this is contingent, however, upon the appro priation of the $100,000 which As sistant Secretary Norton, of the Treasury, has asked the House Ap vronriat ions Committee to include in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill for the fiscal year 1911. Tor Southern Bazaar. The Confederate Memorial Asso - ciaKon, composed of many of the prominent Southern people of Wash ington, will hold a bazar at the old Masonic Temple February 28 to March 5. Tbe proceeds will go to pay for its home. Martin Wants Investigation. Representative Martin (Dem.) of Colorado, last Monday introduced a resolution declaring the recent sale of 55.000 acres of friar land in the Philippines which he alleges to have been made to "a representative of the Havemeyer sugar interests," to lie a violation of law, denouncing the department of justice for upholding it, and demanding an investigation. 9156,674,000 For Pensions. The pension bill, carrying $105,, 674,000, was reported to the House last week from the Committee on Appropriations. It represents a cut from the estimates of the department of only about $175,000,. Tbe appro priation W about 15,000,000 less than last year. Wireless Station For Wilmington. Senator Overman, of North Caro lina, has been laboring with tbe Wavy Department to get an order for a wireless station at Wilmington, and last Mondav be got it. the station to V located on Frying P-a shoalr m The fact that Thomas Jefferson, then President, declined to appear in court and produce certain papers in the trial of Aaron Burr for treason, taken in connection with the attitude of the Senate and House on the man damus of Judge Wright to the Joint Committee on Printing in Congress to appear in the Supreme Court of tbe District of Columbia last -week, aroused interesting comment among some of the officials of the Depart ment of Justice who- were looking over the court records bearing en the case. Mr. Jefferson was asked to bring, among other papers, a letter from a general who was believed to have knowledge of Burr's alleged treason able designs upon the Southwest, but the President contended that as tne PYopiitive officer of the Government he was exempt from the process of the court. The documents do not disclose just how the incident ended, hut an official and it was his recol lection from reading this history of the trial that the President's atti tude was upheld by the courts. Bun was tried at Richmond, Va., in 1807 and was acquitted. The papers, now more than 100 years old, were loaned by Judge Ed mund Waddill .of the United Dis trict Court at Richmond, to Chief Clerk Field, of the Department of Justice, to form a part'of the exhibit at the Alaska-Youkon-Paciflc Exposi tion at Seattle last year. They were returned safe and sound some time ago. Attorney-General Wickersham ask ed that they be kept here a while, as he was anxious to look over them carefully. He has now finished with the papers, and they will be returned to Richmond. While the ink on some of I hem has faded considerably, yet most are readable with the naked eye, and the indictment itself, in scribed in a clear, distinct hand, is easily deciphered. America a Thirsty Nation. Americans must be a thirsty na tion judging from the imports of drinkables as 'set forth in a state ment just issued by the bureau of statistics of the department of com merce and labor. The United States drank the essence of more than a billion pounds of coffee in 1909, val ued at $83,000,000. That was about a dollar's worth of coffee for every person in the United States. Tea is not such a favorite. Only a little more than a hundred million pounds, valued at about $16,000,000, came in. But in spirits, wines and malt liquors the nation touched its highest record for importation in 1909 and consum ed foreign products of that kind to the value of more than $26,000000, more than twice as much as was im ported in 1899. South American supplied most of the coffee, Asia most of the" tea and Europe most of the wines and liquors. The United States is the worlcl.'s largest coffee drinker and Great Britain is the world's greatest consumers of tea. Every person in the United States used on the average of 11 pounds of coffee during 1909, but the use of tea remained about unchanged from tbe previous year. Proposes Canal Celebration. Washington as the scene of a great T-workl exposition to mark the com pletion of the Panama Canal in lyiD was proposed by Representative J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, at a dinner in his honor at the Com- j mercial Club last week. . He declar ed the south side of Pennsylvania ! avenue "an avesore to every visitor" j and should be cleared of buildings and made the site of the national ex position. Tbe Pennsylvaiiiaii advo cated making at least one building j of the exposition a permanent monu- 'Jment to a new commercial epoch. Teachers Are Very Scarce. The Civil Service Commission is having difficulty in meeting the de mand for teachers in the Indian Ser vice. While female teachers in the boarding schools are needed, the greatest demand is for married male teachers to take charge of the day schools. The latter are usually paid $6 a month for ten months of the school year, which begins Sept. 1st. - Cotton States Want Share. A resolution asking the Secretary of State to inform the House whether the 12 cotton-growing States have representation in the diplomatic and consular service in the countries that purchase American cotton, particu larly England-. France and Germany, vaa introduced last week by Repres entative Hull, of Tennessee. Francis is Vice-President. Former Gov. David R. Francis of Missouri was last week elected first vice president of the Southern Com mercial congress at a meeting of the executive committee of organization. CHANGES SUGGESTED. Intratate Commerce 'Commission Ob ject to One Judge's Authority. Washington, SpecaL -In a formal statement submitted to.' President Taft and to the House and .Senate committees Monday, the Interstate Commerce Commission has suggested certain changes in the interstate commerce measure now pending in Congress. The bill, as a whole, is approved by the commission, and, in its state ment the commission expresses its gratification "that this measure enw 1 bodies most, if not all, of the princi, pal recommendations heretofore mada to the Congress, except the valuation. of railroad properties, and also con tains provisions of great importance which in their general scope are unanimously endorsed." However, the committee recom mends "that tlie bill be so amended as to contain the explicit statement that the commerce court shall have no jurisdiction or poer over orders of the commission not now possessed by circuit courts of the United States. "We are of the opinion that a sin gle judge of the commerce court should not be empowered to stay an order of the commission," and the suggestion is made that such a stay may be granted only by the court or a majority of the nidges thereof." In the suspension of tho proposed rale the commission desire;, one hun dred and twenty days instead of six ty days, as proposed in the bill. It is maintained that the commis sion should have power to compel through routes and joint rates whenever in its opinion they are re quired by public necessity. "J If it is the intent of Congress to give shippers the right to ehoose be tween two or more routes, in the routing of traffic, the commission be lieves that intention should be ex pressed plainly iji the proposed law. Concerning the purchase of one road by another roqd. the r-ommis-sion soys: "We see no reason why the prohibition .that one road should not be extended so as to prohibit tbff acquiring of any interest in a com peting water line" and an amend ment is. suggested to include water lines. A ''similar amendment is pro posed to prevent ,the control of com peting lines by a holding company.' APPALACHIAN EXPOSITION. Will Be Held in Knoxville September 15 to October 8. Knoxville. Tenn., Special. The Appalachian Exposition-, to be held in this city September' 13 to October 8 of the present' year, is being pre pared in the interest of the industrial and commercial development of the entire Appalachian mountain region. This includes portions of east Ten nessee, western North Carolina, south west Virginia, West Virginia, south eastern Kentuckv, north Georgia, north Alabama and a part of South Carolina. President Taft will visit the show. West Virginia Wins Victory. Washington. Special. The State of West Virginia Monday won a substantial victory over the State of Maryland in the long-pending dispute between those States over the boun dary lines between them, when the Supreme Court of the United States announced its opinion in the matter. Attempts to Kill Uncle. Burlington, N. C, Special. Sun day morning Will and Robert -Lee Burch attempted to kill and rob their unele, Chas. Bradshaw, ou the way t the Southern depot at Spray. : ' Simmons Gets More Appropriation. Washington, Special. After a hard fight and a heated discussion before the committee on commerce Monday Senator Simmon secured the adop tion of an amendment to the House river and harbor bill providing for 9615,000 for the eight foot project from Wilmington to Fayetteville. One hundred thousand dollars of this sum is made immediately available. Wadesboro, Special. F. W. Hurl burt, representing New York City capitalists, was here Monday investi gating a proposition to build a hydroelectric plant ou Rocky River. The proposed plant is to develop 6, OOOnorsepowert Engineers estimate that the cost oi the plant will be less than $3,000,000. Renewed Hope For Tillman. Washington. Special If the Sen ator's condition continues to improve he may be able to leave for his home in South Carotins in a month or sir weeks, but hardly before. SPEECH RET URNS Senator Tillman's Condition is Improved Say Physicians HIS AFFLICTION REGRETTED. For the Past 15 Yean He Has Been a Dominant Figure in National life. ''"'. Washington, D. C. ; Special The Condition of Benjamin Ryan Till man from South Carolina, who was taken suddenly ill'-'" here'-; hurt Thursday with paralysis, and aphasia, is a , little more encouraging,., says Drs. Bibcock and. Pickford, his at tending physician's Saturday. His case is extremely grave, but chances for recovery is better than ever. It will be several days before the crisis is passed through, though. He may recover from the paralysis and regain the use of limb, but, it is said, aphasia will likely leave him the saddest token of his illness. It is almost impossible for him to artic ulate at the present time and it is feared that the power ot speecli may never fully return. If this be the case, his forceful tongue will never again find its echo in the halls of Congress. The Senator is surrounded by his entire immediate family. Henry C. and Sallie May Tillman, his son and daughter, reached the bedside of their father early Saturday from Greenwood, S. C. His wife, their eldest son, Benjimin R. Tillman. Jr., and two daughters. Lpna and Sophia, have been with him since the incep tion of his illness. Messages of sympathy continue to pour in upon his family and since the seriousness of his condition be came generally, known, bis apart ments have been besieged .by inquir ies, delivered in .person, by. telegram and by telephone, denoting the ad miration and high regard in which tP ilevNir .is.PPularly he.!d- Sunda'-nis physicians stated that the symptoms which caused partial paralysis had disappeared and im provement has commenced. The Senator spoke to one of his physi cians. The heavy affliction that has be fallen Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, is cuse for grief throughout the South and for sin cere regret all over the nation. For the past fifteen years Senator Tllmari has been a dominant and picturesque figure in our national life. Few men have ever matched such powerful impulses with such a keen, and accurate intellect. It is this rare blend of temperament that lias distinguished him. Senator Tillman spent the first thirty-nine years of his life on the farm, with the exception of a brief mouth or so in 'sixty-four, whe he joined the Confederate army as a boy of seventeen and was forced through a critical iilness to retire. At a time of life when most political leaders are nearing their zenith, he was just beginning his public ca reer. In South Carolina, as gover nor, he opened a new chapter in the history of that State. When he first entered the United States Senate, there was a rather general expecta tion that he would prove disappoint ing. But swiftly and steadily he won the respect of his eolleages. He proved himself " more than a match for those wlro ipet him in debate and, more than this, he proved himself a statesman rich in constructive' thought and purpose. Food Trust Must Answer. : ,New York, Special. The grand jury" 'of Hudson county. New Jersey, Frjday of last week, instructed Pros ecutor Garvin to indict the National Packing Co. and its directors. ' Pro ducts have been kept in cold storage for several years in some instance, says the grand jury. Must Line-Up Congressmen. Washington, D. C, Special-V" President Charles S. Barrett, of the Farmers' Union, who has been here for several weeks, has issued an open letter to all State divisions of the as sociation of Southern planters, call ing upon them to get in behind in gress in behalf of specified legisla tion whieh the union is working foi before Congress. He asks that eaeh member write their Congressmen and representatives a letter at once con cerning the legislative needs. STREET CAR MEN STRIKE Serious Disorder Follow in Phila delphia Saturday and Sunday. Philadelphia, Pa,, Special. Sud denly Saturday a , strike was de clared in this city on the Philadel phia Rapid Transit Company lines by the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employ es, which resulted in serious disorder among the striking carmen and po lice and firemeni Two cars were burned, and' a score more attacked. The crews"-manniug the cars were foreed to. abandon them. Except in tbe eentral part of the city, cars were at a standstill, those running were heavily protected. The car company dismissed about 200 of the men, and this seems to be the caase for the strike. . . Sunday rioting in every section of the city followed the attempt to run cars. Passengers and crews were drove from the cars and cars burned by strike sympathizers. Finally all cars were withdrawn. The mayor of the city will enforce the riot act. LIFE IN SOUTHERN MILLS. Winslow, of South Carolina Answers Attack of Northern Press. Columbia', S. C, Special. A. S. Winslow, a well known mill superin tendent of this Slate speaking before the Southern Textile Association last Saturday scored the writers oh child labor conditions who attempt to draw unreal pictures of conditions in " the Southern Textile plants. .- . The subject of this paper was "Benefits and Opportunities of Southern Mill Life." The speaker drew strong comparisons between life on a small farm and life in a modern col ton mill. He dealt fullv with the lack of the modern conveniences educational faetilities in, the past and those of the present. He also discussed at length the financial, improvement which the people had secured by go ing to work in the cotton mills. The. paper was the -strongest1 paper everf read on Southern mill life. Over 300 .delegates rom all sec-4 tions of the South attended the ses--sions and it '.was agreed that the' next session of the association would be held in Augusta, Ga., in July. W. P. -Hamrick, superintendent of the 01 y in pyc mills of Columbia, is the first vice president of the associa tion, the other officers being as fol lows; C. " F: McCall. president, Greenville: ,1:11. Bagwell. Charlotte, second vice president ; W. J. Mc Donald, .Monroe, Oa., third vice president; V. P. Bogan, Spartanburg, fourth vice president; E. E. Brown, Rocknfgham, N. C, secretary, G. E. Escolt, Charlotte, assistant secre tarv; David Clark, Charlotte, treas urer. The board of governors is composed of the following: T. M. Mclntyre, Gastonia, N. C; H. H. Boyd, Charlotte, N. C; A. M. Ham ilton. Spartanburg: Z. B. Mangura, Gibsonville, N. C. ; J. M. Davis. New berry: X. T. Brown, Raleigh; W. W. Becknell, Florence. Ala.: M. G. Stone. Spartanburg; T. F. Cuddy. Clio; J. S. Osteen, Greenville; J. S. Drake, Lancaster; B. J. Dobbins, C.rolcen, N. C. NEW PROGRAM. President Taft Demand Only Four Measures at This Congress. Washington, Special. The an nouncement from the White House Saturday that President Taft had by his own motion cut down to four the number of administration measures he would demand at the present ses sion of Congress is received by lead ers with unmixed feeling of relief. A schedule, including only the bills to amend the interstate com merce laws, provide for the regula tion of the issuance of injunctions, start Arizona and New Mexico on the road to Statehood, and to vali date the . withdrawels of public lands for conservation purposes, is regarded as quite possible of attain ment. Most of these measures, it is believed, can be . put through the Senate. To Be a Coal Center. Spartanburg, S. C, Special. The Clinchfleld Coal Corporation is to establish general offices here March 1st. This means that this city , will be made the distributing --point for this big fuel company in the future for the large i territory it embraces, Twelve families or more will move from Charlotte, N. C, and Roanoke, Va.. on account of the change. The Charlotte and Atlanta offices will be closed. Charleston will be the ex porting port, while Spartanburg will j sell the entire product of the mines. TBE RACE QUESTION Solution Lies in the Prosperity of the South. IS WHAT PRESIDENT TAFT SMS Conference on Industrial Education Hold in Washington Many Pro mi neat Speakers. Washington. Speeial. la tho prosperity of the .South lies the solu tion 'of the race problem, in opinion of President Taft, who participated last Friday night in a conference of educators and philanthropic-ally dis posed men and women of Washington, on industrial education in the South at the residence of Miss Mabel T. Boardman. "There are two things working to ward the solution of the negro prob lem," said the President. "One is the development of interest among the better class of Southerners in the education of the negro and a consciousness of the fact that nothing will so much help the South as such education. The other important fea ture is the increase of the wealth of the South. "The South until the last decade, had a dreadfully hard time to sup port the government of her States without education, but now the South is getting richer. I am de lighted to have 15-eent cotton, w-hether it be high or not, because it means the prosperity of the South, the development of her educational system and the working out of the most difficult problem ever presented to a people." Thomas Nelson Page presided at the conference. Among other speak ers were James H. Dillard of New Orleans, president of the Jeanes fund; W. W. Finley. president of the Southern Railway, and Dr. H. B. Frissell, president of Hampton insti tute. AFTER THE NIGHT RIDERS. Federal Grand Jury Indicts Twelve For Conspiracy. Cincinnati, 0., Special. The first blow struck by the United States against alleged "night riders" was delivered last week when a Federal grand jury at Covington, Ky., re turned indictments against twelve men of Dry Ridge, Ky., for con spiracy in restraint of trade. One Of the men iudicted is John S. Steers, a member of the State Legis lature. The indictments charge that the defendants conspired to prevent W. T. Osborne from shipping four hogs heads of tobacco from Dry Ridge to Cincinnati on November 26, 1907. They are charged with hairing in timidated by threats of violence both Osborne and the station agent at Drv Ridge. The object is declared to have beep to compel the grower to pool his tobacco instead of selling it to concerns outside of Kentucky. The Federal government will pros ecute the cases as arising under in terstate commerce. GRAIN MARKETS NOW. Hearing on Cotton Exchange is Brought tc a Close. Washington, Special. The inves tigation of transactions in futures on exchanges and boards of trade, which has been proceeding before the House committee on agriculture dur ing the past week, swung from the cotton exchanges to the grain mar kets. Both sides on the question of the proposed legislation to abolish the speculative operations in the New York Cotton Exchange. Delegates from ' the grain forums of Chicago, Philadelphia, Duluth and Minneapo lis voiced their opposition to the pending bills. For the $750,000 Cut-Off. The Norfolk and Western Railway Company have awarded the contract to Major Joseph H. Sands, of Roa noke, for the construction o tha Petersburg cut-off, or low-grade line, nine miles in length. The work will require several months, and is to he gin right away. It will cost in the neighborhood of $750,000. There were 21 bidders. Cotton Spinners Co-Operate. Manchester, By Cable. The Ameri can section of the Federation of Mas ter Cotton Spinners have decided by unanimous vote to continue the short time running until April 26. It is reported that the owners of four million- spindles outside the federation will co-operate. , No Prayer in Schools. Rockford, 111.. Special Jndga Donnelly granted a temporary injunc tion restraining school teachers of frnm rpadinf the Bible and repatitrr the Lord' Prayer in pet lag their schools.
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