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VOL. III. NO. 81
LAST EDITION.
GBEENSBOEO, N. C., THfDAY, JANUARY 9, 1908
LAST EDITION.
PBICE FIVE CENTS
'A
LOWER HOUSE'S
CURRENCY BILL
IS AGREED UPON
XV Measure Provides for Retirement
of National Bank Bond
Secured Currency.
ASSET CURRENCY TO
TAKE ITS PLACE
Chairman Fowler, of the Fall House
Committee, Says That. Now. Is the
Proper Time for the Carrying Out of
Many Needed Reforms.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 8. The sub
committee of the House committed on
banking and currency to which was en
trusted the framing of a bill to increase
the elasticity of the currency reached a
conclusion today, and will report favor
ably to the full committee a hill drawn
by Chairman Fowler, of the committee.
The bill will be introduced by Mr.
Fof ler and referred to his committee,
where it will be the working basis for
the framing of bill.
The bill provides for the complete re
tirement of all present outstanding na
tional bank bond-secured currency and
authorir.es in lieu thereof a currency
based upon general assets of the banks,
in this way;
' The comptroller of the currency will
designate throughout the country cer
tain redemption cities, so that there
shall be a redemption city within at
least twenty-four hoars reach of every
national bank. The national banks will
indicate to the comptroller of the cur
rncy to what redemption city thev wish
to bo joined. The comptroller will then
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01 STATE DELEGATION
LAIN FORJVAR IN WORLD
Meeting of North Carolinians In
Congress Adopts Resolutions
to This Effect.
THE PEOPLE SHOULD UNITE
BY JOHN E. MONK.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 8 At a meet
ing of the North Carolina delegation in
Congress today, a resolution was
adopted favoring tho substitution of
law for war, and also suggesting that a
peace conference be held in the state
lor the purpose of uniting the people
upon those Ideas which must form the
basis of any international house of jus
tice. The resolutions in full follow:
' "Whereas, it is proposed to hold a
North Carolina peace congress on the
first annual meeting of the North Caro
lina peace socioty, for the purpose of
uniting the people of North. Carolina
upon those ideas which must form the
basis of any international house of jus
tice that can hope to substitute law for
war, in whole or in part;
"Resolved, by a meeting of the North
Carolina delgation in the United States
Congress, that the holding of such a
peace congress in North Carolina is
heartily approved, and will be promoted
in all proper ways consistent with the
duties imposed by membership in the
national legislature.
Resolved, further, that the members
of Congress take this opportunity to ex
press the hope that the people of North
Carolina, without regard to political or
religious opinion, will unite to make the
proposed peace congress worthy of the
cause of justice and law, a substitute for
injustice and war, and worthy of the
jiervious history of our state in all truly
progressive and practical movements in
augurated in the interest of humanity
ana for the establishment of right.
"Resolved, further, the North Carolina
members of Congress will gladly serve
with the proper lawmakers of the state
as the legislative committee of such a
congress.
Ilayne Davis, formerly of Salisbury,
now of New York, is taking an active
interest in the movement to settle dis
putes among nations by arbitration, and
it was at his instance that the North
Carolinians passed the peace resolution
today. '
FOR $100,000 PUBLIC
BUILDING AT FAYETTEVILLE
Washington, D. C, Jan. 8. Represen
tative Godwin today introduced a bill
appropriating $100,000 for the construc
tion of a public building at Fayetteville;
also a bill providing for regular terms
of the Circuit and District courts at
Fayetteville.
Representative Thomas offered a meas
ure Authorizing a survey of that part of
Rogue Sound contiguous to the town of
Morehead.
Yes, Advertising Does Pay.
GOVERNOR CALLS
EXTRA SESSION
FOR JANUARY 2
Issues Pro clama Hon Convening Leg
islature for Purpose of Straighten
ing Out the Railroad Rate Ques
tion Writes Letter to People at
Same Time.
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 8. Governor
Glenn tonight, after a session of the
council of the state, Issued his procla
mation for a special session of the gen
eral assembly of North Carolina, to be
gin on Tuesday, January 21.
The proclamation elates that the spe-,
cific purpose of the extra session is to
change, modify, straighten or repeal the
railroad passenger rate of 2Vi cents a
mile passed at the last session of the
legislature.
With the . proclamation Governor
Glenn issued a letter to the people of
the state, in which he sets out the
specific act to be presented to the legis
lature, saying that the terms offered
by him to the railroads have been ac
cepted by all but one, and this road (the
Atlantic Coast Line), accepts all the
terms except an agreement for an intra
state rate, saying it has no power to do
this, tho governor adding, "but doubt
less circumstances will regulate this rate
as requested."
He states that the legislature will be
asked to increase the 24 cent flat rate
to 2'i cents, with a charge of 15 cents
extra for passengers who fail to buy
tickets, an. I to repeal the present law
and the penalties. If this is done the
railroads agree to the flat 2V4 cent in
trastate rate, and also to issue 2,000
mile books, intrastate, interchangeable
with solvent roads, good for heads of
firms and employes' not exceeding five at
two cents a mile.
One thousand mile books, intrastate,
limited to one person at two cents a
CALL ISSUED FOR A
JOINT MEETING OIG
CDTT0NDRGMII7ATIDNS
One-Third Curtailment In All
Lines Yarn Manufacture
. Is Probcble,
AT CHARLOTTE JANUARY 18
Charlotte, N. C, Jan. 8. An import
ant call was issued today for a joint
meeting in this city of three big cotton
Organizations, the Southern Soft Yarn
Association, the Southern Hard Yarn
Association and the executive commit
tee of the North Carolina Cotton Manu
facturers' Association, the meeting to be
convened on the 18th instant.
This great gathering of cotton manu
facturers is rendered imperative on ac
count of the slackness In the yarn mar
ket. It is approximately over two mil
lion spindles.. A one-third curtailment
in all lines of yarn manufacture is most
probable, as such has been effective
since November 20 in many mills, and
the outlook is so far from what the
manufacturers desire, that they will in
all probability agree that the three or
ganizations continue on one-third
curtailment.
The curtailment now in effect has al
ready had a good effect on the market,
it is generally admitted.
Fire In British Steamer.
Queenstown, Jan. 8. The British
steamer Ikbal, from Galveston and New
port News, for Liverpool, passed Brow
head today and signalled that there was
fire in her hold, but that it was under
control.
SEA-
0PEN5 JANUARY
LAST ARCH TO KNIGHTS KEY COM
PLETED AND TRAINS S00N WILL
BE RUNNING.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 8. The Flor
ida East Coast railway will, on Jan
uary 10, open the new road from Miami
to Knights Key, the last arch having
been completed a few days ago.
Already steamers are plying between
KnighU Key and Key West and Ha
vana, making the trip in six hours, and
on and after January 16 the magnifi
cent tourist trains will run through
t4 Knights Key.
It is expected that the traveling time
between New York and Havana will be
shortened one day by the new route,
known as the Sea-Going Hailroad. ,
mile. Five hundred mile books, intra
state, at 2 cents, good for heads 'of
families and dependent members, names
to be furnished.
All except 600 mile books to apply
to interstate travel in companies' lines
in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama,
and on other roads if they agree. All
books are to be good for one year and
to be redeemable, charging for the part
used 2Vi cents per mile.
Governor Glenn says that he consid
ers those terms as just and equitable,
and that it is better for the state to
accept and to advance the rate from 2
cents to 2Vu cents, as intrastate mileage
books at two cents are obtained. Ife
states that it is agreed those rates arc
to prevail for one year, and if found ob
jectionable, power is to be given the
state corporation commission to modify
them subject to appeal, and that the
railroads agree to pay $17,500 toward
the expense of convening tho legislature
and for court costs.
"I tried to get the family mileage
books fixed at two cents," says the
governor, "but the railroads contended
witli some force that this would vir
tually put a rate of two cents in vogue
in this state, which was too low. The
state agreed to the 2 cent rate for
this class of mileage book. South Caro
lina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennesse, and
probably Virginia, will havo the same
rates, thus giving a uniform system
throughout the entire south, which is a
thing very much to bo desired."
GRAND LODGE MASONS
CONVENES IN RALEIGH
NEXT TUESDAY JAN. 14
Rerort Will Be Most creditable
In the History of the
Fraternity.
18.000 MASONS IN THE STATE
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 8.-The North
Carolina grand lodge of Masons : will
convene in annual session next' Tues
day, January 14, continuing in session
through Friday. Grand Secretary John
C. Drewry says the report of the pro
gress of masonry for the past year will
be the most creditable in the history of
the fraternity in this state, showing
among other things, that the membership
has grown upwards of fifteen hundred,
bringing the grand lodge of Masons in
the state to about 18,000. The funds
raised for various purposes will be
much in excess of any previous year,
this too, aside from the money raised
toward meeting the nxpcnsc of the erec
tion of the grand lodge temple going up
in this city, which has been gratifyingly
large.
This term will bring to a close the ad
ministration of Hon. Francis D. Winston
as grand master, so that there will be an
election of a successor. This means that
Hon. S. H. Gattis, of Orange county,
now senior grand warden, will bo ad
vanced to the high otlice of grand mas
ter, bringing about a general promotion
down through the ranks of the grand
officers. The administration of Grand
(Continued on page Two.)
NO FARTHER FATALITIES
FROM SOUTHERN RY. WRECK
List of Injured Is Now Nearly 100 and Hopes Are Entertained for
Recovery of Those Most Seriously Hurt.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 8 The deaths as
the result of the wreck of section two
of the Collvcr special, on the Southern
railway, which went through a trestle
near Hiram, Ga., yesterday, remained at
three this morning. ;
Mrs. Emma Hoover, of : Cleveland,
Ohio; Miss Florence A. Studebaker, ' of
Cleveland, and Dr. R. W. Griswold, of
Ashtabula, Ohio, who were the most
seriously hurt, are tonight said to be
resting quietly, and hopes are enter
tained for their ultimate recovery. All
the others injured aro doing well and
the doctors expect their recovery. Tho
list of injured reached nearly 100 to
day, many of the hurts being of a minor
character. ,
A sk the Man
N DENOUNCED
FARMERS AS
FINANCIERS' PLOT
Money Power and Speculators
Blamed for the Periodic
Depressions.
SAY GOVERNMENT
SHOULD ISSUE MONEY
Declare That Congress Should Enact
Legislation Requiring That All Money
Be So Issued, and That Citizens With
Land Collateral Can Sorrow.
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 8. Important
resolutions were adopted by the Farm
ers' F.ducational and Cooperative Union
of America at its session today. The
committee on resolutions' -made' the fol
lowing report, which was unanimously
carried:
'Ve. your committee on resolutions,
find from our examination of the many
resolutions that have been submitted to
us for consideration, that fully, !)0 per
cent, of the same pertain to the present
financial depression, and we have col
lected from the number the following
resolution, which we think covers the
main scope intended by the many reso
lutions submitted to us; and in sub
mitting this resolution the committee
recommends that it do pass, and same
be referred to the national legislative
committee of the Fanners' Union in
Washington, and they be- requested to
urge on Congress the immediate passage
of such a law:
"Whereas, the history of our country
shows that panics are frequent and are
considered by the best financiers to be
due at regular intervals, greatly to the
detriment of the debtor class,
"Therefore, be it resolved, that we
ask Congress to pass a law by which all
money shall be issued by and under the
direct control of the government, and
that all -citizens, with land collateral
shall at all times have the privilege of
borrowing at not to exceed 5 per cent,
per annum. '-'.-.-.
"Be it further resolved, that we fa
vor the immediate issuance of not less
than $500,000,000 of legal tender treas
ury notes and the lending of tho same,
together with any surplus that may be
in the United States treasury, direct to
the people to aid them in marketing the
present cotton crop.
"Be it further resolved, that we fa
vor the passage of a law by Congress
prohibiting the buying and selling of
cotton futures, and all other farm pro
ducts, or gambling in agricultural pro
ducts in any manner.
"Be it further resolved, that we de
nounce the soealled money panic as a
conspiracy on the part of the money
power and speculators for the purpose
of serving notice on the farmer , that he
must be contented to allow others to
price his products."
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
MEET IN SAVANNAH
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 8. The sixteenth
annual convention of the National
League of Commission Merchants began
here today. Gov. lloke Smith made the
principal address.
He discussed "'Transportation Prob
lems," and urged amending federal and
state laws so as to make the state rail
road commission and the interstate com
merce commission absolute judge of all
fnots in cases presented to them without
the right of appeal, except upon ques
tions of law.
President Charles A. Muehlbronner, of
the league, made his annual report.
Receiver for Lumber Company. :
Houston, Tex., Jan. 8. As a result of
the suit of W. F. N. Davis, brought re
cently to recover a one-fourth interest
in the property, J. M. West has b.n
appointed receiver for the Trinity
County Lumber Company, a concern
with a capital stock of $000,000.
Most of the 200 passengers who were
aboard the train are at Atlanta hotels
today, having bruises and contusions
treated. That their escape from death
was remarkable all admit. Only the
heavy construction of the Pullmans
saved them when the trestle gave way
and let four cars into the mud of the
nearly dry Copper Aline creek. Ono
car cracked in the center, pinning Jack
Roth and his wife, both of Eric, Pa.,
between the seats. Both held up the fall
ing berth until he could exlrie.ito him
self nnd crawl through a window with
Mrs. Roth. The cars did not turn over
in their descent.
Most of the passengers will remain in
Atlanta for several days nnd then re
turn to their homes. A few wfll continue
their trip to Cuba and to points in Flor
ida. .
Who Advertises in the Daily
ACT ON
BEGUN
TO
EQUALIZE RATES
The North Carolina Corporation
Commission Starts Ball
Rolling,
DEMANDS THE GRANTING
OF VIRGINIA CITY RATES
Pioceedings Begun Before Interstate
Commerce Commission for the Pur
pose of Obtaining Opportunity for
Competition With Neighboring Cities.
BY JOHN E. MONK.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 8. The North
Carolina corporation commission today
began an action before the interstate
commerce commission against the Nor
folk and Western, the Louisville and j
Nashville and the Big Four, which
roads, it is alleged, discriminate in the
matter ' of interstate freight rates
against North Carolina towns.
The petition states that the railroads
named charge ''approximately, fifty per
cent, higher rates in North Carolina
than in Virginia. The Norfolk and
Western has direct connections from
Cincinnati and other points west to
Winston and Durham and intermediate
points.
It is claimed that rates equal to those
in Virginia would enable reshipmciits to
all North Carolina points and would re
sult in the building up of a jobbing and
wholesale business in the state, and
which is now conducted largely in Vir
ginia as a result of the favored rates.
The petition filed is the inauguration
of the movement which the state com
mission has had under consideration for
the past year looking to a reduction of
freight rates in North Carolina.
Action was taken against the western
roads because of a belief entertained by
the commission that the mere statement
of the conditions prevailing in the two
statu sustains the conventions made.
The petition was filed on behalf of the
North Carolina commission by Chairman
Franklin McNeill. Chairman McNeill
returned. to Raleigh- tonight.
Taylor Family Marriage.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 8. Miss
Katherine Taylor, daughter of Senator
Taylor, of Tennessee, nnd Matthew H.
Taylor, son of Robert Taylor, of Tren
ton, Tenn., were married here today.
L
EFFEGTSDRGAS1ZATI0K
Governor Swanson In His Message
Urges the Need for
Economy.
LITTLE BUSINESS IS DONE
Richmond, Va., Jan. 8. The general
assembly of Virginia organized at noon
today by the election of Richard K.
Byrd speaker of the House and Edward
Echols president pro tern, of the Senate.
The i .her officer for the two houses
nominated bv . the Democratic caucus
last night were' elected..
ilie governors message was then laid
before both houses.
After the reading of the message and
the introduction of several bills both
houses adjourned.
L
FOR CEDAR FALLS
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $15,000.
COTTON PICKER COMPANY
FOR HENDERSON.
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 8. The Cedar
Falls Manufacturing Company, of Cedar
Falls, Randolph county, was chartered
today with $125,000 capital authorized,
for operating cotton mills, the incor
porators being J. S. McAllister, L. K.
McAllister and John Swcaney, of Spray.
Another charter is to the N. M. Hen
derson Cotton Picker Company, of Hen
derson, capital $100,000 authorized, and
$5,000 subscribed, by X. M. William
son, L. W. Barnes, J. L. Cnnin and A.
V. Babbitt.
- The Rowland Hardware Company, of
Rowland, Robeson county, Alex. Wat
son, president, secures an amendment of
charter, changing the name to the Row
land Hardware1 and Supply Company.
MAKE ROADS
six men are
selected for
the jury
Three More Chosen and Special
Venire of 300' Men Is
Exhausted.
PROSECUTION'S ALIENISTS
TO BE USED BY DEFENSE
Men Who Testified Against Thaw's San
ity in Former Trial Will Be Sub
poenaed To Aid Defense.- Thaw Will
Be Saved Even If For Madhouse.
New York, Jan. ?.: The work of secur
ing a jury to try Harry K. Thaw a
second time lor killing .Stanford White,
was half completed when court ad
journed shortly before six o'clock to
night. The original venire of 300 special
service jurors had been exhausted at
that hour and the customary night sit
ting was not held. Two hundred addi
tional talesmen have been ordered to re
port tomorrow morning.
The oath of service was administered
today to three men. making six in all
who have been finally accepted. Three
provisional jurors were also in the box
at the closo of the day's session. An
other series of these abitrary removals
reduced the panel when all twelve seats
had been filled at four o'clock and six
chairs were left vacant when it was fin
ished. The defense has now exerted
eleven of its thirty challenges and the
prosecution eight.
The sworn jurors, in their respective
positions, are Charles E. Gremmels, ship
broker, foreman; Arthur R. Naething,
(Continued on page Six.)
"A PREFERENCE FOR MEN"
CAySE OF DEMOCRATIC
FAILURES IN CAMPAIGNS
Distinguished Guest at Dinner of National Democratic Club in
New York on Jackson Day Makes Indirect But Well
Understood Reference to the Peerless One.
New York, N. Y., Jan. 8. 'Speaking to
the topic -"Why is the Democratic
Party Divided?" Morgan J. O'Brien, ex
justice of the appellate, division of the
New York Supreme Court, who was the
guest of the National Democratic Club,
tonight, declared that if the causes that
have divided the party were summarized
it would be found that "they have been
due to our failure to stand firmly for
Democratic priciples, to a preference
shown by some for popular drifting sen
timent, contrasted with sound doctrine,
nnd to a preference for men rather than
a reverence for party traditions."
The dinner, which was primarily in
celebration of Jackson day, it was an
nounced by John Fox, president of the
club, was the first of a series at which
national and local Democratic ; issues
would be discussed. The discussions, it
was further said, would in effect be ed
ucation, to help Democrats to. decide
wisely the future course of the party.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland, who
was unable to be present, sent his com
pliments in a letter in which he ex
pressed the conviction that the situa
tion confronting the people had directed
their attention more to their relief from
conditions that alarmed and startled
them than to the empty satisfaction of
partisan supremacy.
Kx-Justice O'Brien, after referring in
highly complimentary terms to Mr.
Cleveland and by inference to hx-Jns-tiee
Alton B. Parker as an ''ideal can
didate," said:
'The aims and principles of the party
have been so frequently stated in plat
forms and public addresses, and so well
LOCAL OPTION LAW
VAUDSflYS COURT
MANDAMUS TO COMPEL ISSUANCE
OF SALOON LICENSE IN ALA
BAMA TOWNS DISSOLVED.
Decatur, Ala., Jan. 8. The petition
for mandamus presented by M. E. Wood
ward and others to compel the. probate
judge of Morgan county, Ala., to issue
saloon license in the two Decaturs, was
dissolved in the Circuit Court here t,odny
bv Judge D. W. Spenke. This was a
test of the constitutionality of the local
r-ption law, under which was held the
recent election, which voted liquor out
of Decatur and New Decatur after Jan
uary 1, 1908. It is tho first of a series
of such eases in various counties and
prohibitionists regard it as a great vic
tory. The saloon men will appeal.
Industrial News. He Knows
FIVE LOST WITH
SAILING SHIP
Schooner Goes to Pieces Within
Thirty Minutes After
Striking.
WO MEN SAVED BUT '
ARE UNABLE TO TALK
One, An American, Is Too Exhausted to
Tell of the Wreck; the Other, a Ger
man, Cannot Speak Eonugh English
to Make Himself Understood.
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 8. A message re
ceived here over the United States sea
coast telegraph wires today from Capo
Hatteras, on the North Carolina coast,
reports the stranding and loss on tho
treacherous Diamond Shoals yesterday
of an unknown schooner, out of whose
crew of seven men five perished and
two were saved.
The message, which fails to give the
name of the lost vessel, reports her to
have been a schooner bound from Long
Point, Me., to Charleston, S. C, laden
with fish scrap.
The captain of the vessel was among
those who were lost. The two men who
escaped are reported to be foreigners,
who heard those aboard say that the
vessel was forty-two years old.
The schooner, according to the dis
patch, went to pieces within thirty min
utes after she struck on the shoals, dur
ing the fierce gale which swept the
coast, registering a wind velocity oft
Hatteras of seventy-five miles an (hour,
(Continued on page Two.)
summarized in Jefferson's first inaugural
address, that it is unnecessary to repeat
them at length, but in passing it is
proper to note that whenever the party
has stood firmly and unitedly for these
principles, we have never met with a de
feat, and it has only been when the
party has been divided, because of tho
hope that success would result from fol
lowing some shifting popular sentiment,
or some new and impracticable reform,
that we have met with overwhelming
and deserved defeat. To ascertain tho
cause of this, we need but look careful
ly into the campaigns that have been
waged and contrast the men and the
measures that were successful with the
kinds that existed at the time of de
feat." . '
Saying that he. had been informed that
one of those invited had declined an in
vitation to the dinner because the speak
er's views on certain public questions
were opposed to those of Mr. Bryan,
Justice O'Brien said that it was just
such intolerance that had been the great
est stumbling block to the success of
the Democratic partv. He added.
"I extend to Mr." Harry W. Walker
the compliments of the season, and I
ask him to read, learn, mark and in
wardly digest the statement made by
Samuel J. Tilden in a letter written to
Daniel Manning in 1884, that 'neither
the Democratic party nor the republic,
for whom that party is the best guar
antee, is now, or even can be, dependent
upon one man for their successful pro
gress in the path of a noble destiny.'"
Former President's Letter.
The letter from Mr. Cleveland fol
lows: . -
"I very much regret that I am inex
orably obliged to decline the courteous
invitation 1 have received to attend the
Jackson day dinner to be given by tho
National Democratic Club on the 8th
instant.
"I nm intensely Interested in every
effort to revive genuine Democratic sen
timent, and to restore the Democratic
courage, consistency and confidence,
whose necessity to our party's success,
and usefulness has been so often demon
strated in the past.
"It is but natural that those who
have followed all their lives the Demo
cratic standard should longingly desire
their party's success; but this success
cannot be gained by either shouting our
party name or attempting undemocratic
experiments.
I am profoundly impressed by the
conviction that the situation now eon
fronting the people of our land has di
rected their attention more to their re
lief from conditions that alarm and
startle them than to the empty satis
faction of partizan supremacy.
.-, "Our country needs conservatism, re
cuperation from nervous prostration,
reinstatement of constitutional observ
ance, buoyant but none the less safa
and prudent Americanism, surplus, ear
(Continued on page Two.)
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