"V, Ste X r TY COLLECT5 4 1 !. ffWENTIETHI (YEAH, DURHAM, K C, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1913. PRICE ONE CIZ7Z MfifH y flRWU 8 Dfi BITTERnFIBHT tectionipryingnu uet together HifE3 ISSUEDpS GALL Shoe Machinery t6 Go on the Free List XCTION TAKEN BY THE CAUCUS There Were Many kicks But Under- wood Shows His Ability to Run ""the Caucus and Is Deter mined, to Do It By JAMES J. MONTAGUE Washington, April, 11. Just by way of a forecast of the succession of sensations which will be sprang before- the new tariff bill becomes a law. Three distinct fights were brought out in the house and senate during the discussing, of the sched ules., The net result was overwhelming evidence that the radicals are in con trot of the house and that the bill as j drawn will go swinging, through.. No A such result can as yet be predicted in the senate. The first rebellion was that of the Ohio wool, congressmen, who or ganized a revolt in the house caucus, issuing a call to all ' wool and sugar men to Join them in open revolt. The second wad the placing of shoe machinery of the free; list by which action Mr. TJnderwpjjcTi serves notices on the conservatives that he can run the caucus as he pleases and intends I to -do 'it.,.' The-third was the discovery by thelmunity law in the case of Rojas and senate finance committee that the I chemical schedule of . thfr-present bill was drawn by the; sarna-man, Her-1 stein, who drew the schedule in the I last bill and who is charred with hav-1 ing, rad many "Serions''rOversighit8. The committee has hired a new ex- T pert and a savage attack will be1 made I on Herstein when the bill comes to the floor. This expert, was severely arraigned by Senator Overman, of North Carolina, during the discussion of the old bill last July. The Ohio wool men after their in ability to secure any. recognition for their merino raising constituents, went out of caucus this afternoon with blood in their eyes and deter- , mined to make a battle. When they concluded a half an hour's violent indignation meeting they issued the following call, send ing copies to both sugar and wool men: "Those who believe that th.e orlgK na! Judgement of the ways and means d committee in placing a duty of 15 per " cent raw wool was more just to the farmer than free wool and more in accordance with. the platform decla ration and who desire to aid In the fight for a return of it least this du ty to the present bill, are urged to meet in the majority room of the . house of representative building at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. This letter Is hurriedly forwarded to you at the request of numerous members vitally interested. The members who signed this call are Representatives Sherwood, Clay pool, NathricR, Ashbrook, Francis, Bost and White, all of Ohio, These men are between two fires and they know it. While they have na direct information that they will Rubbed into line by use of the wrsiueuiiai patronage, wnicn 18 what happened to the Taft tariff Insur gents, they feel sure something like it is sure to happen. Underwood is now sure that he can outvote them in caucus and pass the bill; but they are afraid he may. get angry and make a lot of trouble for them In committee appointments. On the other hand, if they do not make a fight for free woo! they will not be re turned. Indignation among them was at a white beat today and It Is certain they will make a separate effort to defeat the bill as a whole if some at tentlon Is not paid to their demands. The restoration of shoe machinery to the free list In the'eaucus fur nished another evidence of the now er of the radicals appointed out ex clusively by the International . News Service, "one of the Jokers of the bill was the elimination of this Item from the list of machinery to be adl mitted free. The American Machin ery company of Massachusetts con,- trols the price of shoes throueh Its I monopoly of machine patents and thus I far the supreme court of the United States has been powerless. Patting shoe machinery on the free I" iur. woma nave a Dated the mononolvl ..... I and every one was surprised whenl this was not done. I101" rnhng tall about crtain per-1 expected to reach a new high figure Members of the senate finance on ,n Philadelphia conspiring tolby the time Washlngtonians got committee which have deferred con -I aiaerauoa oTHhe chemical bill unfcil 1 1 nlJcc- ln oisuici autaontieii oay dinner, only In the fruit and fU.ewv experts caa pans on ft today 'rOTnm0Dlclt1 ""itfl Philadelphia witnlfish market have prices remained the wr concerned Ter the report that oort thai foreign manufacturers of extracts are related over the duty on vanilla beans tonka beans and other raw materials used in making of extracts. These mterials have been free sine 1875. I An inquiry has been set on foot to find out how they happend to carry la duty this year. Here are a few incidents that hap pened In the house caucus today: XTn Aohf nan mrt In tha rQ 1111 C against placing steel rails on the freelflOOCl conditions Are list but Representative Thomas, of fentiucMy, opposed ineffectually the" duty on hooks and eyes. "It would be better for the peace and harmony I of married men," he said, "if there I were no wire hooks and eyes. If a I I free list kills the industry I am for I putting them there. Any man who I fumbles with hooks and eyes button- ing the back of hIf wife's dress i3 UNDER CIVIL SERVICE. Plan to Include the Whole Postoffice ' Department. Washington, April 11. The reor ganization of the postoffice depart- Iment with provision made for the selection of employes from the post master general to the most humble member of the staff through the civil service was advocated today of Sena tor Norris. General Norris will in troduce a bill providing for these re forms when the senate convenes to morrow. Under the terms of that measure the postmaster general will be se lected for a term of from three to four years and could be removed only for cause, while the lowest employ would have an opportunity to rise in the service were he diligent. TRIED FOR TREASON. It Is Thought That Rojas Will Be Convicted. Mexico City, April 11. The hear ing of treason charges, against Man- luel RoJas was continued before a district court Judge here- today. It is thought the hearing will be complet I ed tomorrow and It is felt in certain I quarters here that sufficient evidence I already has been submitted to war- rant the Judge in asking the cham ber of deputies to suspend the im- that the charges will be pressed against him. The charge of treason is based up on the appeal made by Rojas to President Taft to intervene in behalf of President Madera and. .Vice-Presi dent Suarez. GIRLS NOT TO BLAME. Cannot Escape from Influence of De . graded Homes. Milwaukee, Wis., April 11. -Ac cording to Miss S. T. Breckenridge, probation officer of Chicago,' eighty per cent of delinquent girls are a high grade of imbeciles who cannot be good.. "The girls are not moral" said Miss Breckenridge, addressing the social service institute, here to day, "and it does no good to put them on probation and then send them back to degraded homes. They can not be good. It is the duty of the state to pay the board of such girls in some respectable home while she is being trained in an industrial line of some kind." DEER DESTROY CROPS. Farmers Want State to Reimburse) Them for Loss. Utica, N. Y.. April 11. Farmers in the Adirondacks section declare they have suffered heavy loss to their prop erty from bands of deer which roam over the farming land In search of green food and farmers of this sec tion are now planning to ask the state to recompose them for their loss. The . deer have become plentiful since the rigid enforcement of the game laws. The cold spring made grass late In sprouting in the moun tains and the deer were forced to the Iowlands for food TO EXAMINE CLERKS. Civil Service Commission Will Hold! Efficiency Trials. Washington, April 11. JThe civil service commission announced today that the trial system of efficiency ratings for the 25,000 or more clerks In the departmental service in Wash ington, and thousands scattered throughout the United States would! be Instituted immediately. The rating I that may be made under the-, trial I system will furnish a basis for all fu ture promotions. It is the stringest effort yet made to prevent Individuals from retaining positions through po litical influence when ability Is lack ing. WHITE HOUSE CRANK. Woman Was Adjudged Insane by Dis trict Authorities.. Washington, April 11. The first Dite houB crank to he arrested dur- ing President Wilson's administration J M Juiged insane here today. Shelductlonists is Helen Keller. 37 years old, who! arrested on March 8 after an in-flre ,:,,.. - - . I. ! A . I truu" lv pmiucuu In court today the Kelley woman I ner from coming Into a $S5.O00 riw "T,nK the women returns returned, ARE EXPECTINGH LEiEEMREAK Still Critical MISSISSIPPMS FALLING Incoming of Back Water Will Cause a Rise THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS Railroads Are Rushing Clay and Rock to Banks of Big Stream to Strengthen the Weak ened Levees. Memphis, Tenn., April 11. Flood conditions on the lower Mississippi continue critical at certain points. At Beulah, Miss., a break is expected momentarily. The embankment be gan caving but was reinforced by I piling. A thousand men are working on the levees there, The situation around Helena is grave. Water from breaks further north now is rtinning back into the Mississippi at the mouth of the St. Francis. A 55-foot stage is predict ed for Helena. The levees there still are holding after being raised. South of Helena the levees are being strengthened at many ppints, espec ially at Modoc, where a weak spot developed. Railroads are sending car after par of clay and stone to num J erous points while men constantly are patrolling the levee line. At Memphis and points north the river began to fall at the rate of 1.10 of a foot an hour today. Weather observers believe that this fall will not be maintained, however, as back water pasisng through the Arkansas breaks soon will begin coming Into the Mississippi. Hickman, Ky., reports a weak place hi the- Reelfoot levee at Two-Mile; Every mile of the dyke is being watched closely. , More than 10,000 persons, hungry and homeless, are being sent from the flood country in St. Francis basin to places of safety. Probably one-third of that number will be in Memphis before the end of this week. Cairo, III., April 11. After being closed twelve days all business hous es and saloons will be permitted to open tomorrow. The flood situation was much brighter today and resi dents of Cairo now feel that the dan ger is over. Omaha, Neb., April 11. The Mis souri river at this point rose three feet last night, making a rise of near ly six feet within forty-eight hours. Reports from Sioux Cjty and other up river points are that the crest of the flood will be several feet higher than the present height. The crest will not reach Omaha until Monday. A tremendous volume of water from the rapidly melting snow which fell recently is pouring down the Missouri and cities along the lower stretches may look for very high water. LIGHTSHIP ASTRAY. Frying Pan Shoal Slop Slipped Her Moorings. Norfolk. Va., April 11. Frying pan shoal lightship No. 94, torn from her moorings by a southwest gale, is at the mercy of a high sea off this treacherous coast tonight. Her mar chinery and steering geer out of com mission the lightship twice today struck the beach and bounced off again. Carrying oil for the purpose of calming the sea while taking off the lightship's crew of twelve men. the revenue cutter Seminole and the buoy tender Cypress left Charleston with the expectation of reaching the help less craft some time tonight. The lightship's wireless call was so weak it would not have reached land had not the Clyde liner Mohawk heard it The Mohawk spread the message ov- er the seas FOOD PRICES ADVANCED. A General Rise Reported in Washing ton Yesterday. Washington. 'April 11. Though a tariff reform bill warranted by ear nest advocates of democracy to re dure the high cost of living is even now under consideration at the na tional capital, food prices in Wash ington today took a slight upward tendency as if flaunting the red flag of protection In the face of the re- AH meat cuts rose from three to cents per pound. Prices for new mo vui vegeuoies aiso snowed a J , . . . . slight rise In prices and poultry was around to the purcbae of their Sun same or gone slijhtly lower. FIGHTING TAMMANY. President Says All Sides Will Be Heard When: Tim Comes. Washington, April 11. Further op position to Tammany Hall and its machinations particularly as affect ing up state politics in New York was manifested ' at the ' white house today in the visit of former Repre senative Stephen' B. Ayres, of New York. He told the president that he did not think it good for the democratic party in general that Tammany should be consulted about up state appointments apd added that he hoped the organization would get as little help as possible from the ad ministration. . As is the case of Franklin B. Roose velt, assistant secretary of the navy, who called on the mission yesterday, President Wilson tola Mr. Ayres thai no appointments of this kind had come before him as yet but he might be certain that when they were to be disposed of all sides would be given an opportunity to express their posi tions, in the matter. FEW JOBS OPEN. Nearly Two Hundred Postmasters to Be Appointed. Washington, April 11. The ap pointment of 196 postmasters to exist ing vacancies in the postal service was discussed with President Wilson by Postmaster General Burleson at the cabinet meeting today and again later in the afternoon. The post master general thought that the "emergency vacancy" that is those which have existed for sometime and are in crying ' need of executive should be the first to be filled. The president agreeing with him. the postmaster general compiled a list of 19S of these offices with the appointes as suggested to him and confered thereon with the president. The names of the successful candidates will not be known until the nomina tions for the postmastership go to the senate. May Be Another War. London, April 11. The Chronicle's Vienna correspondent learns: "There is a danger or a new war breaking out between the allies them selves. Bulgaria and Greece are fast difting into amed conflict over Sa- lonica. Roth sides 'are massing troops in that district to support their claims. "France and Russia are said to support Greece's claim to the. seaport but the other powers favor Bulgaria.' ON THE PROGRESSIVE It .Will Follow TarirV Legis lation MATTER PROGRESSING NICELY President Has Discussed the Matter With the Leaders in the House and Senate. Washington, April 11. it .was learned tonight that the drafting of hanking and currency reform legisla tion has gone much farther than is generally supposed and a measure in corporating the reforms in question will be positively introduced and pass ed at the present session. President Wilson has given his idea as to reform he wishes to Institute and his ideas have been amplified and learned through a series of quiet con ferences between himself and the house and senate leaders. The sub ject has been kept in the background however, because the president de sires to concentrate on the tariff. The banking and currency reform will be included in an administration bill which will be the subject of an argument between the house and senate banking ami currency com mittee and President Wilson before it is Introduced. The plan favored for effecting the changes in present hanking and cur rency law will provide for independ ent reserve association which con stitutes a constant market for com mercial paper, substitution of a standard style of paper money in place of the various bank notes and issues, and an international agree nient to change the price of gold at the mint. The bill will eliminate the central bank idea and it is probable that no guarantee of bank deposits will be included. In .substitution for the lat ter clause a fund t meet the obliga tions of Insolvent banks up to the amount of the bank's assets is under consideration. It is expected that the currency and banking reform measure w;il be In troduced in congress shortly after the personnel of the house banking and currency committee is made known on May I. Chairman Omen, of the senate banking and currency committee, and Congressman Carter Glass, of Vir ginia of the bouse banking and cur rency committee, are aaid to be both at work on bills covering this legislation. Cashier of Claremont Bank Arrested BROUGHT JO RALEIGH Claims He Was Only an Em ploye of the Concern lilAY TURN STATE'S EVIDENCE The President of the Concern Was Arrested Yesterday in Birm ingham and Will Be Borught Back to the State. Raleigh, N. C, April 11. Special. Cashier Demit Lafoon, of the Bank of Claremont, was brought here and committed to the city prison today to await trial on the warrant of State Qank Examiner S. A. Hubbard charg ing him with implication in the banking frauds perpetrated by the States Trust company, Wilmington, whose banks at Claremont. Angier and Macclesfield were closed by the corporation commission the past few days. He Insists that lie had no crim inal connection with the operations of the States Trust company, was em ployed at a salary by th States Trust company to serve as cashier of the Claremont bank. He says if he had been connected with the scheme in any criminal way he could easily have "skipped out as have President Smith, Vice-President Tarver and othrs, of the company. He was taken up to the offices of Attorney General Bickett this morning for a conference with the attorney general, members of the corporation -.commission and the state bank examiners. While nti official statement to his effect has been made it is probable that Iafoon will turn state's evidence against the officers of the States Trust company in the- hope of demonstrating his freeness from criminal intent ' in the service he rendered as cashief of I Claremont bank. Ector H. Smith, fugitive president! of the States Trust company, of Wil mington, perpetrators of the most amazing fraudulent banking scheme North Carolina has ever known, is un dcr arrest in Birmingham and the corporation commission . sent an of ficer after him tonight armed with a requisition on the governor of Ala bama. They have information that Vice-President Tarver is in Augusta and expect his arrest there at once. The corporation commission had a letter today from busines? men of En glehard, asking about the States Trust company and stating that they had been induced to subscribe $.0uo stock in a local bank as they thought. but that when the stj-k was deliv ered it proved to be in the States Trust company. Cash and notes had been paid for this stock and if the company was not all right they want ed to know what steps to take to re cover money and notes. They had been assured that the town would he nVovided with a bank cf $10,oon cap ital and that the local Interests should control it. There is no consolation in the way of prospects of recovery of money that the corporation com mission could offer the Englt-hard cit izens. There- were probably twenty towns in the state that were being worked in this way, the commission ers find. The corporation commissioners are more and more convinced that if they culd have perated a few months long er the state would hav been touch ed for a million or more dollars. They were operating an endless chain of finances in rediscounting . notes and were arranging for having notes dis counted by northern banks as well as beginning to involve legitimate banks of this state in their liberal discount propositions. Friends of Dr. Albert Anderson in- sfst that Dr. Anderson is sure of the election as superintendent of the Central hospital for the insane here when the directors meet in adjourn ed session May 14. no matter wheth er 1L II. Salisbury, t!" Kitchin ap pointee, or A. B. Croom, Jr.. the Craig appointee to the same place on the directorate, is seated a a result of the pending contest ha, caused the deferment of the reorganization and election of superintendent Tuesday. According to their claims Mr. Salis bury, a supporter of ?v. I J. licot. the .present superintendent, or Mr. Croom. known to be for Ir. Ander son, can be seated and i-till there is a majority of the nine directors who will elect Dr. Anderson. Be that as it may. If Dr. Anderson ;s elected then there is litigation ahead involving tnt right of Dr. Picot to bold on for a term of six years from January. 112, when he was elected to succeed !r James McKee, deceased. Dr. Picot and his counsel. Judg Manning, in sist that the taw specifically state that the superintendent of the hospi tal must b elected for a term o! six years and that the directors, when they chose a successor to Dr. McKee, had no right to limit the term of of fice of Dr. picot to the unexpired six year term of Dr. McKee. J. B. Sumner, who travels from Atlanta, has reported to the police that he was knocked in the head and robbed of $212 last night in a negro house out on the Hoiloman road near Raleigh and charges a negro woman, Sallie Duiley, with the crime. He admits that he was drinking at the time. He was carried to the house by a hackman. The woman is held by the police and others believ ed tojbe accomplices arc- being look ed for by the police. Sumner was very painfully injured. The ceremony of laying the cor nerstone for the new parish house of Christ Episcopal church, being erect ed at a cost of $30,000 and with the splendid old Christ church, at the southeast corner of capital' square, hasjust been held and the hullding will be speedily completed. Bishop Cheshire participated in the cere mony and there were hundreds of parishioners and others participating. A special hearing has been arrang ed for in the officers cf the corpor ation commission in Raleigh April 2a to close the Rockingham-Seaboard Air Line railroad case involving the petition of citizens to require physi cal connection between the Seaboard and the Rockingham railroads for the interchange of freight, the commis sioners not having completed the hearing at Rockingham yesterday. A charter is issued for the Colonial Investment company, of Henderson- ville, capital $100,000 authorized and $7,000 subscribed by S. S. Critten den, P. F. Patton and W. A. Smith for general real estate and development business. Governor ctaig has gone to Char lotte for a conference of the legisla tive commissioners rn freight rate adjustment and the Charlotte ship pers preparatory to the general con ference here April ISth with the railroad companies for the first defi nite move as to adjustment since the legislature adjourned. A requisition was issued today by Governor Craig on the governor ofl Tennessee for John Emitt Gilley who is wanted in Surry county for the abandonment of an afflicted child which he Is amply able to support. He is under arrest in Bristol awaiting the arrival of the North Carolina of fleers. ' Colonel Thomas Stringfie'd, of Waynesville, .inspector of small arms. and Captain A. Croig, Jr.. of the Unit ed States army, were here today on their wa yto New Bern to inspect the coast artillery there tomorrow They will inspect Wilmington company Coast Artillery April 14 and then In spect Troop A., Cavalry Lincofhton, April 10 and troop B Asheville. April IS. This will conclude the inspec tions for the year. Companies of the guard have been found to be well up to the average. However there are prospects of one, or more dis- bandments when the returns are all in. POLITICAL TRICK. Is Charged in Connection With D. R. Convention. Washington. April 11. That by the operation of a political coup the con vention strength of Mrs. Charles B. Bryan, of Tennessee, candidate for the president generalshin of the Daughters of the American Revolu tion, is to be thrown at the last min uate to Mrs. William Cummin Story of New York, ostensibly a rival as pirant, is the charge made by sup porters of Mrs. John Miller Horton. of Buffalo, a third candidate. The story is denied. One hundred .young women and girls will act as pages during the D. a. k. convention which convenes here next week. Mrs. Edwin Clark Gregory, daughter of Senator Over man, of North Carolina, is chairman of the committee on pages. Among the pages are daughters of society leaders of every state. MAY RETIRE BACON. Will Have to Go Into an Election to Retain His Seat Washington. April I. The ratifica tion of the constitutional amendment for the direct election of United State senators may mean that Sen ator Bacon, of Georgia, chairman of the powerful foreign relations com mittee. may have to retire from the rt-nate. Senator Bacon's term expired March I. He ws nominate at the primaries last fall and in the r course of events his election would have been consummated by the lg islature that convenes in June. The ratification of the constitutiouan amendment takes such authority away from the legislature and an en tirely new election is necessary. Sen ator Bacon is now serrinr bv an- pointment of the governor. The Pope's Condition. Rome. April 11. Pope Pius to night shots a marked Improvement over his condition f yesterday but it Hill far from vonvalescot accordina to reports from the Vatican. The cardiac condition Is ssid to remain in a sever form and the attendant phrsiciaas believe that the weakness of his heart with consequent depres sion will coatiaie for sot time. 1 l.IELSJG LIESPEECII First Public Ultancq About thNivy SHIPSBbIA PEOPLE v Want Country to Feet That Navy Is Its Own THE INCREASE OF THE Wt The Demand for More Battleship Must Be the Result of a De mand from the People of . the Country. Washington, April 11. In his first speech on the defense of the United, States since he bacame a member of President Wilson's cabinet, Josephos Daniels, secretary of the navy, told a large gathering of members of the navy league at the annual banquet, of that organization tonight that he saw no occasion for a great agitation over the present condition of tho American navy and that a strong con structive naval policy would have to wait upon a demand from the people Secretary Daniels sal din part: "If we can convince the people of the United States that the navy is theirs and that you and I are here as their servants to carry out their wishes and interests in regard to it, I will feel that my services here have not been in vain. I don't want the people to feel that the navy is an chored somewhere away from the in a far midocean of professionalism, but is moored alongside the Ameri can home and for its protection. I want them to know about it, not on ly its glories of the past, but its present efficiency and its future pos sibilities. .'.' "Every great thing must come, from the outside; as for instance camo the constitution of the United States, the abolition of slavery, prohibition- hi the south, the Spanish-American war which McKinley tried patriotically lit vain to avert after the thunder of the exploding of the Maine had been gin ned into the ears of the people. .The greater navy must come in this way. The secretary may suggest and the general board outline a policy, but the real propaganda must come from the people from the men of Iowa, of Virginia, of North Carolina, of Ten nessee of Connecticutt and the oth er states. r "The man who is confident is apt to put up a- strong fight did he have to gfiht and make good his self-reliance, but I am hot sure the spirit of self-reliance and confidence is not s much better attitude for Americans, unwise as it may seem, than at at titude in which we are endangering ourselves now in the eyes of the world of underestimating and mini mizing our strength and indirectly advertising ourselves as weaklings. STRIKE IS SETTLED Street Car Men to Return te Work id Buffalo Monday. Buffalo. N. Y.. April 11. The street car strike is over. Tomorrow morn ing the majority of the 2.000- con ductors, motormen, linemen and track men who have been on strike since Sunday morning will report for duty. The decision was reached this after noon after an all day session between the mayor and representative of the traction company and the strikers. The company finally agreed to rec ognise union and meet a committee from the men in a few days to set tle a schedule and working condi tions. Inasmuch as recognition of the on ion was tbe princiole demand of tka trikers agreement was quickly sign ed and the strikers offered to retirn, to work in forty-eight hoars. The company requested the men to report for the usual runs tomorrow mora- ng and at 7 o'clock the service which has been totally demoralised for six days will be resumed. i THE BODY ARRIVES. Body of Pierpont Morgan Now Lying) In State. New York. April 11. The body el J. Pierpont Morgan lies tonight amid banks of red roses in the library of the Morgan residence surroaadad by many of hik beloved art treasures, Mrs. Morgan and her daughter. Asm. looked for the first time tonight apoe the fare of the dead husband sad fa ther. The body will lie fa state la the Morgan library adjoining his late res idence nam shortly before the fun-. era! services at St. George's Monday. Only meaabers of the . inuedWtety family and a few cioea personal friends were permitted te iw the body. , The liner La rraace. heart a the body of Mr. Morgan, arrived at V pier here this a-teraooa, - .