North Carolina Newspapers

WHH11 1 1 II 1 1 II Mil-Hi t nzziszu ccu:;ty heccxd, I . EIhed Jan 23. 1901. I " p iilliui iiiliiiUHi: ; . . : .Ifo Mediae r I I rxxNca DHOAD NEWS, f EuLlit.jMy 16. 1907. ; ', I ConaliUteL : : Nov. 2nd, 1911 Mini inn n him-t-H-H: Through wLkh jrov reach &9 people of M&digon Covotv. P f Advertising Riles on Application H I 1 H 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 ! Ml7 THE ONLY NEWSPAPEIMN MADISON COUNTY. vol. xv. ; MARSHALL. MADISON COUNTY. N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 2. 1913. NO. 18. 8- J f Direotory. ,'. Madison County. ' Established by th Legislature Be don 1860-'61. . . ;' Poulation, 20,132. ' . County Seat, Marshall ' ' . ' 1646 feet abore tea level.' New and modern Court Houae, coat . 133.000.00. , New apd modern jail, coat $15,000.00, New and modern County Home, coat 10,000.00. i Officer. , Hon C. B. Maabborn, Senator 26th District Marshall, N. C - Hon. James E. Rector. Representa- Ure, Hot Springs, N. C. , N. B. McDevltt Clerk Superior Court. Marshall. N.,C, ., v.W. M. Buckner, Sheriff, MarshalLN. C. Zad Q. SprlnkJe, Register of Deeds, Marshall. Hi C. ' ' C F. Runlon, Treasurer, Marshall, N. C R. F. D. No. I. R. L. Tweed, Surveyor, Whit Rock, N. C. ;,' '-. ; Dr. Chaa. N. Sprinkle, Coroner, Marshall, N. C. Mra. Eliza Henderson, Jailor, Mar . halL N. C. John Honeycutt, Janitor, Marshall -' N. C. Dr. C. N. Sprinkle, County Physician, . Marshall, N. C. James Haynie, Supt County Home, Marshall, N. C. 1 Home located about two miles south' - west of Marshall. ., Court. Criminal and Civil, First Monday be ' tore First Monday in Marco. uom- mencing Feb. 26th. 1912. ClTll nth, Monday after First Mon ' day In March, commence May 20, 1912, ' ' (- - Criminal and Civil, First Monday after First Monday la Sept Com- , mence Sept 9th, 1912. Civil 6th Monday after First Mon day In September. Commence Octo ber 14, 1912. BOARDS. ' i County Commissioner. W. C. Sprinkle, Chairman, Marshall, ' N .C. .--- ' ' R. A. Edward, Member, Marshall, N. C, R. F. D. No. 3. Reubln A. Tweed, Member, Big Laurel, N. C J. Coleman Ramsey, Atty. Marshall, Board meet first Monday In every month. 1 ( ; . ' Road Commissioner. A. K. Bryan, Chairman, Marshall, N. C. R. F. D. No. 2. , JUARaiuyrSeoMUflUMra HffiJ . N. C R. F. D. No. 2. Sam Cox, Member, Mar Hill, N. C. ft F. D. No. 2. O. W. Wild, Big Pin, N. C. Dudley Chipley, Road Engineer, Marshall, N. C. George M. Prltchard, Atty., Marsh mil, N. C Board meet first Monday In Jan rr. ADrlL July and October each year. ' Board of Education. Jasper Ebb. Chairman, Spring - Creek, N. C. . -; y ?' Thos. J. Murray, Member, Marshall, N. CR. F. D. No. 3. W. R. Same, Marshall. N C R. F. D. No. 2. -v'V'- Prof. ; M. C. Buckner, " 8upt of School", Mars Hill, N. C R. ' F. D. NO. 2. ' , - . , Board Meets first Monday in Janu ary. April, July and October each year. . : College and High 8chools. Mars Hill College, Prof. R. L. Moore, . President Mars H11L N. C. Fall Term begins August 17, 1911. Spring V enn A begins January 2, 1912. Spring Creek High- School. , Prof. ' H. A- Wallin, Principal, Spring Creek, N. C, 8 Mo. School opened August 1, 1911. ' .-n Madison Seminary ' High , School; Prof. J. M. Weatherly, Principal, Mar-, hall, N. C R. F. D. NO. 3. 7 Mo. School began Octber 2, 1911. Bell Institute.- Mis Margaret E. Griffith, Principal, Walnut N. C, 8 Mo . School began September 9 1911. Marshall Academy. Prof. R. Q. Anders, Principal, Marshall, N. C. 1 Mat School began Sept 4, .1911. ! Notary Public. ,: J. C. Ramsey, Marshall, N. C, Term expires Jan. 1, 1914. J. H. Hunter, Marshall, N. C, R. F D. No. 3. Term expires April 1, 1913. .- X. F. Tllson,' Marshall, N. C, R. F. - D. No. 2. Term expires April 3, 1913 O. J. Ebbs, Marshall, N. C. " Term expires April 21, 1918. ; - J, W. Nelson, Marshall, nV C Term - expires April 25, 1913. Roy L. , Gudger, : Marshall, ' N. C. Term expires May 3, 1913. ' . k" Geo. M. Prltchard,. Marshall, N. C. Term expires May 25, 1913. , ". Dudley Chipley, Marshall. N. C. . Term expiree July 29, 1913. - - W. O. Connor, Mars Hill, N. C Term expires. Nov. 27, 1918. J. A. Wallin, Big Laurel, N. C. Term expires Jan. 24, 1914. '. D. C. Bullock, ' Stackhouse, N. C. Term expires Feb. 22, 1914. D. P. Miles, Barnard, N. C. Term expires March 14, 1914. s 3. G. Ramsey, Marshal, N. C R. 4 - Term expires March 16, 1914. J. E. Gregory, Joe, N.;, C. Term ex plre Jan. 7, 1914. - ' , i . Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek, N. C Tern pvrires Sept 24, 1914. C. C. Iwn, Bluff, N. C Term ex ; ' , r, r'l. ! r - k. c C. .,;..: . , , r; J 'II. 1.. .i. a: . ;.:ot:a at f ,C t I t....r: y be.Vr the sec i 11 T Li eu.l b:olU at 11 a. a SOCIOLOGISTS ARE IIIIJUAL 60CIAt,WORKERS POURED INTO ATLANTA FROM ALL 8ECTION3 OF THE SOUTH. DELEGATES ARE WELCOMED Chancellor Klckland, of Vanderbllt, Mad the Response Governor V Hooper Not Present Atlanta, Oa. "Night breaks to morn- tag." when1 w have tucb men at have ppdfeen tonight, aald Mrs. Anna Rus sell Cole, founder-of the Southern Sociological Congress, after the first meeting of that body In the Wesley Memorial church, surrounded by hun dreds of members of the congress. From thirty-two states men Jour neyed to be present at the opening of the second congress founded through the munificence of one who has been called "the first lady of the south.' One thousand men and women edu cators, churchmen, laymen and socio logical experts from every corner of the union were gathered in the his toric building when .the second con gress opened. These same thousand rose and sung "America" with all the est that they could sing, The church had been appropriately decorated for such an occasion an occasion which brings forth the best of the nation, to promote national health and righteousness. The Amer ican flag, the American eagle and the American shield were everywhere to be seen. - Draped in graceful folds over the speaker's stand hung from the balconies, suspended from the walls the red, white and the blue; signify lng a united nation, banded together for common good and progress. Gov. Joe Brown of Georgia, in his happiest mood, and at the conclusion of a graceful speech, said: "I earnest ly hope that the grace of God will be with you that his spirit will be with you in all your undertakings. Mayor Woodward was roundly ap plauded at the conclusion of bis ad dress of welcome when he said: , "I hop that you will deal with, the prob lem which confront you with good. old-fashioned common senBe. Fanati clam has no room here. Reason must guide your footsteps." "Chancellor Kirkland of . Tennessee said, In part "We must never forget that all of the work Is to be done in one spirit In the spirit of Justice and of love, of human suffering and of human affec tion. MRS. APPELBAUM LIBERATED. Jury Give Her Freedom After Being Out for Just Thirty-Six Minute Atlanta, Oa. Freedom came to Mrs. Carrie Scott Appelbaum When the Jury had been out but 36 minutes before clearing her of the crime of murder ing Jerome A. Appelbaum, her hus band. With the verdict of acquittal came a collapse that stopped her as she was shaking hands with the jur ors and sent her to the Baptist Taber nacle infirmary for a complete rest from the terrific strain of two months, in Jail and three' days in the crowded courtroom listening to the awful de tails of the shooting and the accusa tions flung at her. She had fainted previously during the trial, but she held up through her I recital to the Jury in which she de clared ; that she had known nothing from 2 o'clock on the morning of the tragedy, when her husband placed his pistol at her side and threatened to kill her if she did not give him her Jewels. unUl she awoke in another room at the Dakota hotel and found herself termed a murderess. 20 Year Given Yeggmen, Dahlonega, . Ga. Convictions . and sentences of twenty yors each were secured by the state against the four men whom it Is alleged broke Into the Lumpkin County Bank on February 14 and were frightened off Just after they exploded the safe." lue ' jury which convicted them recommended that the offense which' was technically that of burglary, be treated as a misdemeanor, but Judge J. B. Jones, presiding, stat ed that he could, hot follow the recom mendation. Brye Bid America Goodbye. New York. James Bryce, on the eve of his departure for home, after I six years as ambasasdor to-the Unit ed v States from England, said his farewell to the American people in an address here before the Pil- grim' Society of the United States. I He referred with feeling to his cor- dial relations with the three presi dents who had been in office during his service la Washington, and said be bad no words to convey his cense of kindness which he bad received in America. '. , Country Within Right. " Washington. Divergent views re garding the right of th United State to exempt its coastwise vessels from the payment of Panama canal tolls were expressed in papers read before the spventh annual meeting of the fy of I- lational ' rs t v, 1 J : .i i s : -!, tO ..l re 1 c - i t rr i I r . v. a t - if . . : a owr r cJ I. .3 v.'ver Tu'.ui are dv i n.ft" gsraUtf tit canal. llil SESIOI CAPITOL OFFICIALS' DIFFICULTIES I C-D TlMC."3 ) j 500,000 WORKERS WIN VOTE BELGIAN GOVERNMENT ACCEPTS A RESOLUTION WHICH PRO VIDES FOR SETTLEMENT; Victory of Strikers Mean Abolition of Plural Voting In Belgium. Brussels, Belgium. Owing in great part to the advice, of the king, the governmenlt accepted the compro mise proposed by the Liberal leader, F. Masson, and the great -strike for manhood suffrage, which on account of the remarkable discipline main talned, the solidarity of those who Joined in the movement and skillful organisation, is unique In history, will be called off. ,v 'tv A week ago the Belgian premier, Charles de Broqueville, declared: No government could yield to a I strike of this nature. To yield would I be to abdicate." Nevertheless the strike of (00,000 workers seems to have made sufficient impression on the government to in duce, it to unbend from its uncompro mising attitude far enough to insure the termination of a situation which has already cost the country more than f 14,000,000, and is dally driving away from manufacturers customers they may never win back. - The leaders of the Sociaalist trades- unions and : their followers gained their point, which was to make the government take up for consideration a change of the Belgian parliamenta ry franchise with its hated system of plural votes for the wealthier and more educated classes. TO FIGHT OVER TH E SPOILS Greece and Bulgaria Rapidly Drifting to War. V.': London, , England. Bulgaria and Greece are rapidly drifting towards war over the possession of Salonlki, The Greeks have mobilized every available soldier and concentrated one army in the neighborhood of Salonlki, while another Is being landed at Or fani, In the Gulf of Orfani, to watch movements of Bulgarians at Drama and Kavala. The victorious Epirus army from Janlna is being distributed along the new strategical front from Salonlki to Orfani, In the meantime the : Bulgarians have suspended passenger traffic be tween Dedeagatch and Salonlki and are utilizing the railway for concen tratlon of troops In the neighborhood of Drama close to the Greek position. They have now brought one division each .from Adrlanople. Tchatlja and Bulalr, and it is estimated that the Bulgars now have 90,000 soldiers fac ing the Greeks and a Servian force, supporting the Greeks, which' 1 as sembling along the railway " For Reform of Currency. . Washington. Chairman i Owen of the senate banking and currency com mlttee, called its members together, and advised them of results of lnfor- madl conferences with President Wil son. Secretary McAdoo and Chairman Gla88 the house banking commit tee on subject of currency reform. working informally, obtaining the View of the president and his advis ers, Senator Owen and Representative Glass have been looked upon as the men who will frame a measure to be known as the Owen-Glass bUL ' ' Bees Create Panle In Macon. : . Macon, Ga. A swarm of bee cre ated a panio on Cherry street between Second and Third and tor more than an hour people on that popular thor oughfare were kept dodging. A num ber of people were stung. The bees were scattered over an entlr block until a BRr man bern tarring on a itf-r r'Hiii and then they swarmed ' ! r i if -'nmoWlev Tie nero d;c"J- t i ha v 1 ! : 9 to l,ar f i f r his use ell .'y Briir- 1 ad y g .od box and in a f.w n ' u; s bal U; en tire swarm uu!y Lou sett 'II' m m i r , 1 1 i i wwww w- & - jr.vxsctt PRESIDENT IS CONCERNED RESOLUTION TO PASS ALIEN LAND MEA8URE AGAINST JAP8, DISAPPOINTMENT.' The Question Will Likely Go to the United State Court a a Last Resort Washington. News of the deter mination of the legislative leader in Sacramento to frame and pass alien land-owning bill, directly dis criminating against the Japanese, un officially conveyed to the white house and state department was received with grave concern and disappoint ment Such a development had not been expected In view of the first favorable comments in California up on th president's suggestion of that regard he 'had for the preservation of the friendly relations between this country and the Oriental nations. Sacramento, Cal. Governor John son gave out a statement regarding the pending alien land, legislation. This is the first statement the gover nor has made on the subject He said In part: .. 'Callfornlans are unable to under stand why an act admittedly within the Jurisdiction of the California leg islature like the passage of an alien land bill oreates tumult confusion and criticism and why this local act of undoubted right should become an In ternational question. Of course the California legislature would not at tempt to contravene any treaty of the nation nor to do more than has been done by the federal government itself is many other states. To say that California must do less or be subjected to harsh criticism and the charge of disrupting friendly rela tions wtlh foreign powers is to deny to California what has been freely ac corded to every other state in the Un ion and what has never been ques tioned with any other state. MAIN LINE LEVEE BREAKS Surging Water of th Raging Missis sippi Destroy Great Embankment Vloksburg, Miss. The first serious break in the main levees of the low- er Mississippi river occurred ' when the Woodlawn levee Just north of Mayersvllle, Miss., went out ' With In a few minutes the creavsse was 200 feet wide, and the space through which the waters are pouring is in creasing. - ' . " "" ... .Parts of four Mississippi counties will be flooded and the property dam age which 'will result is estimated at more than five hundred thousand dol lars. Practically all of Isqulna coun ty and parts of Warren and Washing-! ton counties will suffer heavily from the overow. As a result of the break 10,000 ' or 12,000 people will be rendered homeless. Isthmian Canal Pact Attacked. Washington. A demand for the ab rogation of two treaties with Great Britain bearing upon Isthmian canal rights, presented to the senate in a resolution by Senator Chamberlain, brought a new element into th ca nal controversy now in progress be-! tween t-tls country and Great Britain over the rights of the United States to exempt American coastwise ships from the payment of tolls. The Cham berlain resolution would require the president to terminate th' Hay-Paun-cefote and the Clayton-Bulwar treaty. Mitchell Named by Gov. 8ulzer. Albany, N. T. John Mitchell, for mer president of the United Mine Workers -of America and vice presi dent ot the American Federation of Labor, was designated by Governor Sulser to be state labor commissioner. The nomination was sect to the sen ate. If the nomination is confirmed Mr. Mitchell will have charge of the reorganised labor depart -.;ont unJer laws 1 tv's year oa t'a recom mendation (f i 9 state r.c.ry inves tigating C 1. 1 9 t 1 cf f f- fee Is f-ur yc j 1 t ,". I.1AIIY ARE KILLED Li BODIES OF MANY OF THE TIMS HAVE BEEN RE COVERED. ' VIC. OVER 100 MINERS DEAD Those Who Escaped Crawled on , Their Hands and Knees Out of th Deadly Fumsa. .. Pittsburg. : f arTi live of 100 miners, possibly more, paid th toll of a disastrous explosion in the Cin clnantl mine of the Monongahela Riv er Consolidated Coal and Coke com' pany at Finleyville, Pa. Over three-score of workmen in the mine made thrilling escapes, crawling most of the time on their hands and knees through deadly gas fumes and over debris. Many bodies were located by resca lng squads of the United States bureau of mines, the Monongahela River Con solidated Coal and Coke company and of the Pittsburg Coal company.-' As the rescuers found bodies they were carried to the entries. . The rescue work was hampered by afterdamp. Fire which followed the explosion has been completely sub dued. Three entries of the mine are entirely choked with debris. The force of the explosion was ter rific A fifteen-ton motor was turned over. Many -feet of mine track were twisted and ripped from th ties. Only a few of the miners who reach' ed the surface could talk. Suffering from burns or fright tne miners only knew that an exolosion had occurred. land that the large number of men are I either killed by the explosion or as- I pbyxiated by the afterdamp. . FORTRESS OF SCUTARI FALLS Action of Montenegro In Defying th Power Cause Critical Situation. London. News of the fall of Scuta ri to the Montenegrin army has been received with extraordinary demon stratlona in all th allied capitals, no tably Belgrade and the Bulgarian pre mier has sent effusive congratulations to the Montenegrin premier. The first .effect of the fall of the fortress has been the extension of the International naval blockade to Du- razzo, but what will be the next step of the powers in facing the new sit uation it is difficult to foretelL Ac cording to the view prevailing at St Petersburg,' the coercion of Montene gro would not be an easy matter. Belgrade. Not even Servian victo ries during the war caused anything like the scenes of enthusiasm which were witnessed here over the taking of Scutari by Montenegrins. Business was at a standstill, while the whole population gave itself over tp rejoic ing. Lawyers, merchants, soldiers and workmen danced in the streets to the strains of music. ' Wine may almost be said to have been flowing in the gutters, for everywhere barrels were broached, and all were free to drink to the victory of the Montenegrins and the glory of "Greater Servla," , Bryan Ordered to California. Washington. President Wilson di rected Secretary of State Bryan to proceed to Sacramento to co-operate with Governor Johnson and the mem bers of the California legislature in framing a law regarding the ownershln lot land by aliens that would not con flict with the treaty obligations of the United States, particularly with Japan. I am going in the hope that we may be able to find the best solution of the difficulty," said Secretary Bryan to the press. "I feel sure that they in California will enter upon work with the same, spirit of co-operation as the president and I do. I am hopeful, in deed, that we will be able to arrive at the wisest solution." Great Britain Seeks to Grow Cotton. London. Protection for the cotton trade of Lancashire by fostering' the supply of cptton independent of Amer ica was the gist of Chancellor Lloyd George's argument on introducing In the bouse of commons a resolution per mitting the British government to guarantee a Soudan loan of 315,000,000 for the development of cotton growing along the Nile. ' -r-' Owner of Titanio Losea In Court New York. The federal district court dismissed the petition of the Oceanic Steam Navigation company, limited, as owner of the White Star liner Titanic, for a limitation of lia bility resulting from the loss of the Titanic The court held that the com pany's liability is to be determined by the law of Great Britain, which would make the owners of the Titanlo liable for about 33,000,000. The Ocean ic Steam Navigation company sought to have its liability fixed by the laws of th United States. ' More Pay Given Firemen. New York. Eastern railroad firs' men are granted an increase of pay estimated at from 10 to ,12 per cent by the award of the Erdman act arbi tration board In their case. - Othet claims of the firemen are allowed, but the demand for; two firemen on ljirge locomotives Is denied except in case of necessity. Another request foi which the firemen fought namely, the standardization of wages, based on thf III HE EX f 0 we . 'it oi locomotives on drivers, wat trail ted, . , FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE - 8hort Paragraph of State New That Ha Btcn Condensed For People of th State. Henderson. Vance couny voted 3200,000 bonds for good roads by a ma jority of 622. Returns are in from all precinct, except Dabney, which did not vot. Ashehoro. A band of fortune-tell lng gypsies stopped a few days in town and were relieved of about $150 whloh they left with officers here as appearance bonds for next term of superior court v - China Grove. In pursuance of call vby the .mayor th citizens of China Grove -sa4JM-d 1a ii-UMM-eet lng to nominate candidate for mayor and five aldermen. ' The meeting was a representative one and was presided over by Mr. O. M. Hanna. Winston-Salem. Another Democrat ic primary is necessary to nominate a candidate for mayor of consolidated Winston-Salem. The primary recent ly resulted in this voted: O. B. Aaton, 450; J. L. Ludlow, 466; R. I. Dalton, present mayor, 398. The second con' test will be between Eaton and Lud low. Forest City. The advocates of the bond issue proposed In this county for road improvement are making a concerted effort to arouse favorable sentiment in this section. Messrs. F. B. Rankin, J. Q. Adams, James Carson and Supervisor Valentine made short speeches in behalf of the issue at a meeting several days ago. - , Ashevllle. Charles Robinson,) a young man of Bryson City, was the victim of a serious accident several days ago, when he fell beneath a moving train on the Murphy division of the Southern Railway, being severe ly crushed. He was rushed to Ashe vllle and was taken to the " Mission Hospital where his left leg and right arm were amputated. Mt Airy. The reports from recent heavy frosts indicate that the fruit In the valleys of this section, is killed,, but that on the ridges the apples are not seriously Injured. In the three largest orchards the Sparger, Cove land and Granite City there remains an average crop. Early vegetable were killed, but th tobacco plants are safe. - - . Mount Airy. Hon. George Peun, member of th state railroad commis sion, but now confined in a Phlladel phia hospital, has wrltten a cltlsen of this place assuring Mount Airy ot new and modern passenger depot This is the result ot a long-standing effort to secure decent quarters for those who are forced to wait for the trains. . . ' Salisbury. Fire of unknown origin which started in the second story of a drug store of D. C. Swearlngen, in China Grove, destroyed the drug store ,the general store of Holshouser and Siert and damaged the building and stock of the China Grove Hard ware Co., Pemberton and Yost .gen eral store, and also damaged the res taurant of J. E. Cllne, located near the scene of the fire. Hickory The Ninth District Medi cal Society . met here recently. , The meeting was opened with prayer, af ter which the physicians were given cordial welcome by several of the citizens of this city in short addresses which were responded to by Dr. David Hill, of Lexington. The opening address was delivered by the presi dent Dr. Isaac M. Taylor of Morgan ton. .. Spencer. Engineer R. S. Sigman of Spencer has been retired J by : the Southern Railway Company on a sal ary for life. So far as is known, he is the oldest engineer in the railroad service in this country and is the first to be retired for life. Mr. Sigman be gan bis railroad service Hearty sixty years ago, at a time when coal-burners were unknown and only wood was used for steaming. Ashevllle. The stockholders of the Western North Carolina Fair Associa tion held their annual meeting recent ly and named October 7, 8, 9 and 10 as the dates for the next annual exhi bition. , Following the meeting of the stockholders the directors chose the following officers: President E. D. Weaver; first vice-president, G. S. Ar thur; second vice-president W, J. Cooke; secretary and treasurer, ' D. Harris. Charlotte. Charlotte is booked for another big convention In June when the Tri-State Furniture Association composed of furniture manufacturers of the Carolina and Virginia, meet here to discuss common problems pre sented In the manufacture and sale of furniture. " s ': f Spencer. The Spencer board of al dermen passed an ordinance requiring all dogs to be muzzled after May 1 with a fine of 25 to be Imposed on all who allow their dogs to go without a muzzle. The action was taken with a view to protection of children and others against vicious or rabid dog. Waynesville.--Joe Sutton, 17 years old, is In Jail here awaiting trial at the July term of Haywood criminal court on a charge of attempting crimi nal assault upon bis eight-year-old niece in Big Creek, a remote section of the county.- i. - . Hendersonvflle. Th Henderson vllle authorities have purchased from J. S. Cox flv acres of land Just out side the city's limits to be' used as a garbage farm, the consideration be ing J500. Heretofore the city has not had a regular dumping ground, de positing the refuge matter at most convenient places. DEBATE OH TARIFF BECOMES ANIMATED 8TRINGER CALLS UPON PRO GRE88IVE8 TO STAND BY THE UNDERWOOD BILL. ' PLANK OF THE PLATF0RH Th Income Tax Was Th Subject 4 A Prolonged . Dlsetviig in T Lower Branch of Congres Denied Thy Represent "Protection Party." Washington. Confronting Progres sive members of the house with plank in the national platform of their party pledging them to immediate re vision of 'excessive tariff schedules' without waiting for their proposed! non-partisan tariff commission, Rep resentative Lawrence B. Stringer, a new Democrat from Illinois called up on the third party representative In the, houae to support the Underwood bill tt they wished to carry out their party declaration. First defending the Progressives against onslaughts of both Democrat and Republicans and declaring that they represented more than 4,000,000 voters and have the right to claim that their party was "the second party in this nation," the Illinois Democrat emphatically denied that they represented a "protection party.' "You tell me that the Progressive psjrty favors a non-partisan tariff commission," declared Mr. Stringer. That is true, but that plank In the Progressive platform concludes by saying: 'The work ot the commission hould not prevent the Immediate) adoption of acts reducing those sched ules generally recognized as 'exces sive.'" Waving aloft the quotation and ad dressing himself to Victor Murdock. Progressive party leader in th house. Mr. Stringer continued: ' I call the attention of the gentle man from Kansas to the statement that If he and the Progressive mem rbers of this body, whom he leads, de sire to carry out the declaration of their own platform, and t believe they do. they will be compelled by the logic of these declarations to Join with In the passage of this . pending measure." :: , - ' ; ; --v , v - May Participate In Politic. " Washington. Retired naval officer are not debarred from taking part In - politics. Secretary Daniel believe. Th same rule will apply to army' of ficers. Some time ago Senator John son .of Alabama - complained that .' Rear Admiral Wadhams, retired, had been lecturing in Alabama, on a need for a big navy. Indirectly the sena tor thought that this was calculated to help along Representative Hobson in his campaign tor a senator's seat Want Federal Aid For Road. , Birmingham, Ala. The executive committee of the United States Good Roads Association appointed ' a spe cial committee to go to Washington to urge Federal aid for good road before congress. The committee con sists of United States Senator J. H. Bankhead, Alabama, chairman; Dell' M. Potter, Clifton, Arizona; Tom L. . Connor, St Louis; E. J. Watson, com missioner of agriculture of South Carolina.. -i'--':"-it '-: ' Commissioner ' of Corporation. . - Washlngton.-nJoseph E. Da vies, sec- i retary of the Democratic ' national committee, has declined to be govern-' or general of the Philippines and ha been selected for commissioner of corporations to succeed Luther Con- ant Jr. His nomination, tt was said would go to the senate soon. ; ' New Postcard Order. ' Washington. Postmaster General Burleson ordered that unpaid, misdi rected, unmailable and unclaimed postal cards as well as postcards de posited for local deliverry be return-' ed to th sender when they bear card addresses. Twelve million postcards annually, it is estimated, will be re turned under the order. . Bigelow Sends In Resignation. Washington. Dr. W. D. : Bigelow. assistant chief of the Bureau ot Chem- lstry, wnose nam figured In the con. troversy which followed the resigna tion of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, has left the government service. Before 1 be oame.to the bureau he was connected with various educational Institutions. Correspondence between Dr. Bigelow and Dr. Carl Alsberg, chief of the bureau, divulges that Dr. Bigelow la to become chief chemist ot a research, laboratory to be established her tv th canner association.. Garrison tefer Appointments. Washington. Secretary Garriana announced that he intended to pott pone the nomination ot a successor to Brig. Gen. Walter S. Schuyler, cm:i- manaer of the Eighth Army tri, i at San Francisco, who retired, u; the retirement May 15 of Brig. C l Frederick A. Smith, commander f t h Fifth army brigade at On-' t. r , secretary Is considered to n untenable t-e etUus of C i. Crozler, r ' ' -1 of the Col'oga, j, . - ,r lead i ' : cases t