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HOUSE HOWLS WITH LAUGHTER
,' - Champ Clark Gets the Floor
- ' for Three Hoars be Keeps
Dall Timeat Bay.
Washington, Jan. 5. "Champ
Clark ' Democracy" was ex
pounded to the delight and en
tettainment of the House for
- three hours to-day by Mr. Clark,
of Missouri, and constituted the
. "f. feature of the debate on the
- Philippine tariff . bill. .;; Mr.
. Clark's speech took a wide
range and -during " its " progress
-he labeled -his political beliefs
as above in answer to a ques
tion as to what kind of a Dem
- -.' ocrat be really was. He talked
Of the Philippines and favored
. ' the pending bill; be discussed
: the general tariff question and
'in particular the German tariff
situation, He ascribed '.future
greatness to what be termed the
great "stand pat disciples- one
of these. Secretary Shaw, whose
?' record as Secretary of the
- Treasury included, he said.
, classifying frogs' legs as poultry
and ponies as "household ar
ticles" for the collection of
. revenue, was a logical Republi
can Presidental possibility un
less the mantle should fall on
"the gray and grizzled speaker,
Uncle JoeCannon."
Illustrating changes in the to
bacco industry, Mr. Clark
caused laughter on both sides of
tne cnamoer oy aecianng mac
v there were in his district 150
. brick houses . and 100 brick
' barns all equal in architectural
.beauty to the executive offices
occupied by President Roose
velt. all built out of the profits
of tobacco raised and sold during
the civil war for more than one
dollar a pound.
f i TARIFF GRAFT THE GREATEST
Having his attention called to
the "sugar trust" by a question
from Mr. Broussard (La,) he de
clared dramatically: "I'll tell
you about : the sugar trustif
you beet sugar people over here
will vote with - us to wipe out
the differential tariff of 26 cents
- on .refined sugar, we will kill the
sugar trust as dead as a mullet."
A' question which was " im-
. measurably greater in impor
tance than the. Philippine sugar
question, - Mr. Clark declared,
was the German tariff situation
v and the Dingley tariff in general.
He quoted Governor7 Cummins,
of Iowa, as sayin? that all of
the insurance stealing and other
irregularities ? were not a tithe
to the stealing that is going on
under the Dingley tariff law. '
J Referring to t tie "stand pat"
' doctrine held by the Republi
cans, he said:
"'That phrase Senator Harrna
stole from the poker . table. If
' he were alive now he would see
that the ' Republican party has
a bob-tailed flush on the tariff
: question now.". ' ?
Speaker Cannon had taken a
seat directly ; in front of Mr.
Clark, who, looking directly: at
the former, .said: :'..;;;:
. , ROOSEVELT AND CANNON,
- "The newspapers " say Presi
dent ' Roosevelt and Speaker j
Cannon have entered - into a
modus vivendi by which the
Speaker wilt permit or facilitate
railroad rate legislation during
;tbis session if the President will
not send in a message in favor
of tariff revision." - ' '
"Does the gentleman believe
"that; statement asked Mr.
Grosvenof, after the langhter
had quitted.7' ; v ;v
- "I am notion the witness
stand," was the answer "But
President Roosevelt. entered , in
to a modus, vivendi with Presi
dent Morales, of Santo Domin
go,, and Morales has taken to
the woods,"modus vivendi and
all." ; (Laughter.) Mr. Clark
asked of Mr. Payne (N. Y.)
"Are we to have a public
building bill this session?"
"I don't know." -
."Well, why don't you know?"
"."Because I am not interested."
"That's just it. You have
yours." (Laughter.)
IS A CHAMP CLARK DEMOCRAT.
Mr. Clark then addressed him
self to the "kindergarten" mem
bers of the House and advised
them to take notice. If there
was necessity for an appropria
tion to carry on river and har
bor work already begun, it
might be had, but not a cent
for new work or public build
ings. - ' . .
Mr; Watson (Ind) wanted to
know what kind of a Democrat
Mr. Clark was.
"I am a Champ Clark Demo
crat." he rejoined amid hearty
laughter.
First asking any Republican
if he considered free trade a
crime and getting an affirmative
answer from Mr. Mahon (Penn.)
Mr. Clark asserted: You are
just the man I am looking for,
I want to pump something into
you." He then read a 'para
graph praising Thomas H. Ben
ton tor ms ettorts to put salt on
the free list.
"Is that free trade doctrine?"
"No," interjected Mr. Gros-
venor.
Ob, you know who wrote it."
rejoined Mr. Clark. "But
here," pointing to Mr. Mahon,
''is the man I am after. He
will have to admit that the man
who wrote it is a criminal."
NOT DEFENDING PRESIDENT.
Mr. Grosvenor explained that
President Roosevelt in his
younger days bad written tne
sentiment.
I am not a defender of the
President," said Mr. Clark.
Nor I," interjected Mr. Gov
ernor.
"Well, I am glad of it," con
tinued Mr, Clark, "for I do not
think he wants -to be defended
by having the baby act pleaded
for him. He would not do that
himself.";
Neither can any Republican
Representative call him a
criminal, for if he did the Presi
dent would cut off his 'pap'
(laughter), and a Pepublican
Congressman without 'pap' is
nothing."
Mr. . Clark, in closing after
holding the floor for three hours,
predicted that the frank discus
sion of the tariff which he be
lieved would result from the
consideration of the present bill
would be of great benefit to the
country. -
The fight against the bill was
opened ' in the interest of the
beet sugar industry by Mr.
Fordnev.' of -Michigan. He re
called the Republican member
ship to its pledges on the stand-
pat tariff planks of the party.
The House adjourned at 5
Nr. 0. P. Hutchison Glves.in In-
teryiew on Recent Changes
Tha Broad Tire Law Some
Improvements. . ;r :''
Complying , with a; request of
the Charlotte Observer. Mr. D.
P. Hutchison, who is Chair
man of the township road com
mittee, has given out the follow
ing communication relating to
changes in tbejoad Jaws and
improvements in the methods
of construction: '
"The road tax for the county
is now 25c instead of 18c on the
$100 - taxable ' property. This
latter is expended by the town
ship in keeping up the public
roads. The highways, except
in Charlotte . township, are
looked after by the county com
missioners. "Mecklenburg county has now
some 150 miles or more of
macadam and is adding to it the
rate of 12 miles per annum ; 45
miles of this macadam is in
Charlotte limits.
"The act of the Legislature of
1901, chapter 340, taxing all
new tires under certain pre
scribed width varying with the
size of the wagon, from $1.50 to
$5 per annum was amended b
the Legislature of 1905 (chapter
820) - so that the uses of wide
tires' shall receive a bonus in
proportion to the size of the
wagon as provided in chapter
340, instead of taxing! the user
of narrow tires.
"The petition which brought
'about the change above men
FOREIGN IMMIGRATION.
The Tariff Keeps Oat Cheap
Goods bat not Cheap labor
A Note of Warning Against
Present InfJox 0! Foreigners.
! Reprinted by request o( a member of the
junior uroer u, a. m.
tioned was ' inspired by parties
who had either been sued or
threatened with a suit for failure
to pay the narrow tire tax. It
is very much to be regretted
that any change was made,
other than that the county
should have been included.
The use of the broad tire
was growing and I know no
instance in which it was not
satislactory. Applying to the
whole county in ten years the
narrow tire would have been a
thing of "the past. The life of
the narrow tire being only about
that of the broad tire, did not
cause the latter to be looked
upon with much favor by the
dealer or smith.
"In the matter of read build
ing and repairing, Charlotte
township has reduced the
crowning yi of an inch to the
foot, better results having been
obtained from the almost level
road. In single track roads a
width of ten feet and in double
16 .feet is used, with an earth
track on either side. Concrete
i9 largely used in the construc
tion of bridges and culverts, the
county now having two bridges
of 50 feet span, with roadway of
52 and 60 feet one of 28 and
another of 23 feet, with road
ways of 1 and 24 feet respective
ly in case of great length of
span. Concrete abutments and
piers, witn steel superstruction
with concrete floor is qsed, thus
giving practically a permanent
structure."
It will be observed that taxes
have increased. Nobody can
recall that anybody in the coun
ty objected to this increase.
When the proposition was first
made to levy a road tax, thete
was a great opposition to
it, but now whatever is neces
sary to maintain and extend the
good roads, meets the support
of the whole county. The farm
ers are above all things sup
porters of the good road con
struction, and they not only
cheerfully pay the original tax,
but support and increase all tax
for road purposes.
o'clock until to-morrow.
Pnt on 17,679 Horse Shoes.
Charlotte Observer. " ' .
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? Mr. W. H. TToung. who con
ducts a blacksmith ' shop on
North College street, is the
champion horse-shoer in the
State, and probably in the South.
During the year 1905 he, with
f his help, drove on 17,679 shoes.
Even this number, however, is
smaller .than the total for 1904,
which was 18,185. Mr. Young
probably handled more , than 8,
000 horses and mules during the
year in putting on the number
of shoes given. The price for
putting on shoes is 15 cents
each, making- the receipts .for
the total number $2,651,85.
The Governor is a Good Preacher.
Greensboro Record. -Vy.
- Regarding the pastorate of the 1
First Presbyterian church , just
made vacant by the resignation
of Dr. Smith, it is given out that
00 one has yet. been secured.
Probably waiting on President
Roosevelt, who is said to be
eager to enter the ministry after
his term expires, or Governor
Glenn, who is already ; preach
ing. ' A meanin' of no disrespect
to either, we may be permitted
to say that it will take both of
them to fill the retiring pastor's
shoes and then they will not be
full.; -.v: ;
in lS'Jo, a time when -every
vote was needed, the Democrat
ic party in its national platform
said: "We bold that the most
efficient way of protecting Amer
lean labor is to prev.-nt the 'ira
portation of foreign pauper labor
1 . 1 r . 1 . . 1 .
10 compete who 11 in me nome
market," and the Republican
party. in its national platform the
same year said: "For the pro
tection of the quality of Ameri
can citizens and the wages of
our Amencan working men
against the fatal competition of
low priced labor we demand that
the immigration laws be thor
oughly enforced and so extended
as to exclude from entrance to
the United States those who can
neither read nor write."
Samuel Gompers, President of
the Amencan Federation of La
bor, says: "The tariff keeps out
cheap foreign goods. It is the
employers, not the working men,
that have goods to sell. Work
ing men sen labor, and cheap
labor is not kept out by the tar
iff. The protection that would
directly help the workers is pro'
tection against the cheap labor
itself. The strength of this
country is the intelligence and
prosperity of our working peo
pie, but both the intelligence
and prosperity of our working
people are endangered by the
present immigration. Cheap la
bor, ignorant laoor, takes our
jobs and cuts our wages."
President Roosevelt, in his an
nual message to Congress on
December 3rd, 1901, said: "The
second great object ot a proper
immigration law ought to be to
secure by a careful and not
merely perfunctory educational
test some intelligent capacity to
appreciate American institutions
and act sanely as American citi-
r a n c "
The people, both native-born
and naturalized, demand the
early restriction of immigration
by a law to be enacted at the
coming session of Congress, or
will make this the burning issue
in each Congressional district
next year.
We are well aware of the fact
that immigration is a menace to
our country, and its restriction
a matter more worthy of con
sideration than any political
issue this country has ever had
. While there are already laws
governing foreign immigration,
yet are not enforced in the
right measure, and to-day our
land of American Freedom is
overflowing with all classes of
the lowest , degraded imitations
of humanity of foreign countries,
and still coming at the rate of a
million a year. Note the fol
lowing statement:
New York. More than 1,000.
000 immigrants from all the
nations of the earth arrived in
America and made this their
place of "residence during the
fiscal year.
All records have been broken.
The alien influx continues to
day in most astounding num
bers. The forthcoming year,
from present indications, will
sweep on America's shores a
tide of humanity equivalent to
the population of all of the great
cities of America with the ex
ception of Chicago and New
York.
Ellis Island alone received
821,169 men, women and child
ren. Southern . Europe .contrib
uted nearly 75 per cent or what
would 'equal the population of
the cities of Cleveland and Cin
cinnati combined.
Agents of the ocean steamship
lines despite the revelations fol
lowing official' investigations,
are still sowing the seeds of de
ception throughout Europe and
luring the ignorant peasant to
their ticket offices with their
glowing stories of streets flowing
witb milk and honey.
The proportion of men to
women was two to one. The
immigration officials say the in
creases trom all nations were
about in proportion to recent
foregoing years. Sixty per cent
came trom Italy, Austria, and
Hungary, vast numbers were
destined to the big cities of the
country, and there seemed to be
a proportionate decrease to tne
northwest and the south.
It has become a common oc
currence for 6,000 immigrants to
pass through the railed isles of
the Ellis Island bureau in
single day. ine Russian war
has contributed a large number
of refugees, but not as large
as might be expected on ac
count of the strict Russian
border surveillance.
"The indications are that the
forthcoming year will break the
remarkable record just estab
lished,".said Robert Watchhorn,
the new commissioner at Ellis
Island. "If the increase is in
proportion, by June. 1906, we
will have added l.ZSU.UUO to our
population from foreign coun
tries."
Do we as American citizens
desire a continuance of such
measures? Will we American
citizens allow the Dago the
other riff-raff of Southern
Europe and the "Coolie" labor
ers who will work for a matUr
of nothing and live on the re
fuse of the cess-pool and the
garbage dump to replace
American labor, and take out
earnings back to foreign lands,
or assist more filth and vice to
and on our shores? A large
percent of immii ration is made
up of outcasts, criminals,
anarchists thieves and off
scourings Ot the earth, wno are
forced to leave their own land,
and still are allowed to land up
on American soil. Isn't it
time that we begin to take
measures to stop this inflow of
foreign scum? Every true
American naturalized or native
born, regardless of nationality,
partisan or sectarian affiliation,
will answer, yes!
The Junior Order of United
American Mechanics, the great
Benevolent and Patriotic Order,
has taken this bold stand. "Re
stricted Immigration" is the
strong plank of its platform.
- A Goldsboro dispatch esti
mates that in Wayne and ad
joining counties not less than
$100,000 . was received during
thirty days before Christmas for
holly that was shipped to north
ern markets. One man says he
W. T. Calton. William Gettis
and others are said to be getting "cleared $1000 in less than thirty
ready to build a $250,000 cotton days making crates to ship it in.
mill . at . Lattimon jor which Therewasalso a quantity of
$200,000 of the stock .has already mistletoe shipped. ' . ' '
been taken. . "" 4- .
Be Sure to Use
Only
Cream of Tartar!
Balrinfl Powder
Food made with alum
baling powder carries alum
to the stomach unchanged.
Saen&ts have positively"
" demon&rated this and that
such food is partly indi-
ge&ible and unheal thfuL
YORK AND Y0HKVILLE.
What's Doing Among our Neigh
bors Just Across the Line.
Yorkville Enauirer, 5lh.
Business continues dull as to
what it was before the holidays;
but it is much better than it was
at this time last year.
The game of the cotton bears
now will oe to oreaK up tne
Southern Cotton- Association.
That is the factor that is keep
ing up prices.
The Catawba Power company
expects to complete its line to
Tavora mill today. The Victor
Oil mill will have electric power
by next Monday or Tuesday.
The deposits in the Savings
Bank of Fort Mill on December
30, 1905, aggregated $65,065.18
as compared with $53,370. id a
year ago, an increase oiqn,oa.-
96. "Most of the money in the
bank belongs to farmers.
The arrest and practical con
viction of Henry T. Roddey, a
white tiger, by Policeman San
ders last Tuesday, was one ot
the neatest pieces of police work
that has come under the obser
vation of the reporter in quite a
while.
A telephone message from Mr.
G. L. Suggs this morning is to
the effect that Catawba river is
12 o 13 feet above ordinary wa
ter at Wright's lerry. J h e
freshet is because of the heavy
rains of the past week extending
into the mountains.
The Piedmont Telephone com-
pany is not inciiuea to begin
extensive improvements until af
ter it gets a franchise. It is un
derstood that if the company can
get a franchise it will commence
rebuilding the system in March.
The subject of providing build
ing lots is worthy of the best ef
forts of the . broadest minds in
Yorkville iust now. There is
plenty of land in and around the
town, of course, and it is suita
ble for bnilding purposes; but
little of it is in available shape.
If the 'matter could get proper
attention, the difficulties in the
way could easily be removed.'
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