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E GIFTS BYG0RP0RAT10N5 The Question of Punishment for Directors starts Warm 1 Discussion. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS " TO LAW VOTED DOWN Sharp Debate Over Section of Penal Law Providing for Punishment of Those Who Entice Employes From Government Arsenals or Armories. Washington, D. C, Jan. 14. The amount of the fine and the length of the term of imprisonment to be meted out to officers and directors of corpora tions for violating the law with respect to money appropriations for political pur poses furnished material for a lengthy debate in the House today in connection with the consideration of the penal code MIL ... . ! All amendments to increase the pen alty or enlarge the scope of the law, however, were voted down. These amend ments, without exception, emanated ' from the Democratic side, but the one that brought forth the most discussion was by Mr. Cockran, of New York, who wanted the fine fixed at $10,000, instead of not more than $1,000, and the im prisonment of ten years' instead of not more than one year. In the debate Mr. Payne, of New York, the Republican floor leader, charged that the Democrats and not the Republicans were delaying the bill by emittting po litical buncombe. His colleague, Mr. Fitzgerald, refuted the statement, and said that the Democrat were only seeking to improve on the bill. There was a sharp debate over the f (Continued on page Two.) NEARLY 600 SESSIONS LOOCE Reports of Officers Show Splen did Progress During the Past Year . " THEGXf-ORD ORPHAN ASYLUM Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 14. The North Carolina Grand Lodge of Masons con vened in 121st annual session tonight, with nearly six Jrfmdrcd representative of lodges in every section of the state In his annual address, Grand Master Francis D Winston declared his deter- . ruination to retire to the ranks and con gratulated the Grand Lodge on the splen did progress made, saying that the grand lodge temple is now an Assured fact, with the work of construction well ad vanced, and the membership in he state more than eighteen hundred. He ap pealed for a one hundred thousand dol lar endowment fund for the Masonie or phanage at Oxford, and paid a most elo quent tribute to the Masonie dead for the year, mentioning especially Grand Lecturer B. W. Hatcher, and recom mending that in future the office of grand lecturer be filled by the chairman ' of the board of custodians. The report of Grand Treasurer John O. Drewry showed 18,080 active Masons in the state j a gain of 100 per cent, in ten years; and over thirteen thousand dollars received, a gain of 300 per cent. The report of the Oxford orphan asylum showed 817 children being cared (or, 163 girls and 164 boys, and the in stitution's finances In excellent shape, showing 181,719- receipts, 955,828 dis bursement, and $5,891 balance on hand. The Grand Lodge will continue in session until Friday. SHIP'S OFFICERS THROWN FROM BRIDGE BY WAVE Norfolk, Va, Jan. 14 Captain Sample and the mate of, the British steamer . Dunnoly, bound from .Mobile to Rotter dam, which arrived fW port today for coal, were injured in v the itorm Sun day morning. .Both . were thrown from the ship's bridge by a mighty wave that struck the steamer. The bridge railing was carried away and the rigging and bul wark damaged. u--.; ; ( , McFarland Beats Xeyea. - ' '' Boston, Mass, Jan, 14. Tacky" Mc Farland, of Chicago, had the better of . "Bert"' Keyes, of New York, in V 12 round boxing bout at the Armory Ath letic Association tonight. McFarland proved himself much the cleverer of the two and punished his man badly in each round. Keyea took a terrlflo bating, but was so strong that he showed no signs of it at the flnlah., '! h"f-. s,M HOUS DEBATES 1 PA MASONS - ATTORNEY AT OPENING ALABAMA LAWS VIOLATED Eli BOND ISSUE, SAYS CULBERSON The Texas senator Makes Crave Charges In Course of Discus sion In Upper House. OFFERS RESOLUTION ASKING INFORMATION Declares That Act of Congress Under Which Award of Bonds Is Made Pro vides That All Citizens Be Given a Chance To Bid. Washington, D. C, Jan. 14. The re cent bond issue by the treasury depart ment was again the subject for discus sion in the Senate today, being brought forward by a resolution offered by Sen ator Culberson calling on the secretary for additional information concerning the reasons that Induced him to award bonds to national banks instead of to individuals, who, he declared, offered a higher price. Mr. Aldrich insisted that the resolu tion should not be adopted until after Secretary Cortelyou's reply to a reso lution formerly adopted by the Senate was received, but promised to aid in securing additional information if that reply was insufficient. Mr. Culberson's resolution went over under the rules. During the session Senator Tillman offered a resolution embodying a new series of inquiries concerning the finan cial situation. The Senate passed a bill annroDriatinir $3,000,000 for a site on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. opposite the grounds of the White House, for building for the departments (Continued on page Six.) -GENERAL OF E SQUABBLE IN COURT Exchange of Words Over Criti cism of the court by State Olflcers. CROWS OUT Or RATE CASE Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 14. The fea ture of the hearing of the railroad cases before Judge Thomas G. Jones, in the United States court today, were an ex change of remarks between Judge Jones and Attorney -General Gartier with re gard to the criticism of the court by the state officers. . Mir. Garber had said that the court would have no right to go into the mo tive of the legislation under discussion, neither would it be proper for the court to consider the allegations that the gov ernor had brought this about as a result of prejudice against railroads, or words to that effect. Judge Jones replied that it would not be decent for the court to criticise the governor of the state; neither is it decent for the same governor to criticise the judge of the court as the cases aire being tried. He eontiued: . "The matter is of moment because of a belief on the pari of the court that statements of Governor Comer in the past were in criticism of action taken by the court in granting orders prevent ing the enforcement of the new state laws." i' ... UPTON DENIES M IT CHALLENGING Fflh GUP CABLES FROM CEYLON THAT PUB LISHED STORIES ASS Ulf . FOUNDED. New York, Jan. 14 The Associated Press has received the following cable gram from Sir Thomas Lipton: "Slave Island, Ceylon, Jan. 14, 1908. "The Associated Press, New York: : "Untrue. Have not challenged. Too early. Size of boat no object. "UPTON." Admits He Is Wanted Swindler. Tampa, Fla Jan. 14. The Italian ar rested here at the request of the Cuban government, believed to be Barbato, al leged international swindler, today con fessed he was the man wanted.'! He said he borrowed . fourteen hundred dollars, which he Is accused of embczxling, in Havana. ina. An officer is coming from Ha for him. K vsna 7 JEROME FIGHTS EVIDENCE THAT E Invokes the Sacred Privileges ol Physician and Patient and Blocks Testimony. MAIN FACT OF FAMILY TAINT IS ADDUCED Thaw's Former Instructor and Nurse Offer Most Important Evidence of the Day's Session, Both Testifying As to , His Eccentricity. ' New YorU, Jan. 14. The attorneys for Hary K. Thaw, at his trial today, began relentlessly to build up the case of legal insanity which' they have inter posed in his behalf as a defense for the killing of Stanford White. The two principal witnesses of the day were Prof. Charles H. Koftiler, of Win ona, Minn., who acted as instructor to Thaw in the Wooster (Ohio) Universi ty1 in 1886, and Mrs. Amy Gozette, of San Mateo, Cnl., who attended Thaw as a trained nurse at Monte Carlo in 1807. They both told of the young man's ec centricities and declared that his man ner always was irrational. ir. John T. Dcemdr, of Kittaning, Pa., one of the Thaw family physicians, was also heard, as were t'ne attending physicians of three institutions for the insane where members of Thaw's fam ily, on both paternal and maternal sides, were confined. District Attorney Jerome, by unexpectedly invoking the sacred privileges of physicians and patient, blocked much of the testimony as to unsoundness of mind in the Thaw fam ily, but the calling of the witnesses and the questions they were allowed by the court to answer left the desired im- (Continued on Page Five.) TWO MEMBERS OF -JAP CABINET RESICW; DUTIES TAKENfTBE OTHERS Premier Tenders HIsReslgnatlon. Which Is Not Accepted, and Rivals Go. NO CHANGE TOWARD THE U. S. Tokio, Jan. 14. The the entire cabinet : averted today. resignation of was narrowly The premier, Marquis Saionji, tendered his resignation to tne Emperor this af ternoon, but his majesty declined to re ceive it, while the alternative, resigna tions of Yosliiro Sakatani, minister of finance, and of Isaburo Yamagata, min ister of .communications, were accepted. Masahisis Matsura, minister of justice, will combine the portfolio of finance and Keihara, minister of the interior, will combine that of the minister of com munications. This leaves the cabinet without any new elements and removes the disputants, who have beerf" the dis turbing factors for some time past, i The cabinet council this morning gave rise to some heated debates. Yama gata insisted upon the resignation of Sakatani, who is responsible for the budget introduced in the diet this morn ing. . v. ; An investigation of the situation convinced the. cabinet and cider states men that an increase in the taxation, (Continued on page Two.) .v. T I I ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE ASKS FOR STATE PROHIBITION Address Issued to the People of 6e Held at Raleigh, Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 14. The executive committee of the North Carolina Anti Saloon League had a three hours' ses sion, tonight and prepared the following address to the people of North Caro lina: :"y r ., - ' "We, ' the members of the executive emmittee of the Anti-Saloon League, af ter careful consideration, and after con ferring With leading and various citi zens of the state, are of the unanimous opinion that the . special session of the general assembly presents a fitting op portunity of securyig an act prohibit ing the manufacture and sale of liquor in this state. We believe a majority of the people of this state demand this leg islation, and the time has come for the enactment of the same.' With anything like unanimity among the temperance people of the state,, we believe the gen eral assembly Will pass such an act. . Tatnotic . mer demand : 1 that the Ask the Man TO BE T TO Citizens Decide to Authorize the Purchase of Exposition A'y- Euildlng. WILL BE REBUILT HERE WITHIN NINETY DAYS Long-Wanted Auditorium a Matter of Certainty Building Is Perfectly Adapted '"to Purpose Site to Be Chosen at Today's Meeting. It has been definitely decided thatilj Greensboro is to have the second largest l auanonum. in tne united states, cap able of seating twelve thousand to fif teen thousand people. Only one building in the United States will seat more peo ple, this being the Madison Square Gar dne, New York. : For several days the business men back of the' movement for an auditor ium for Greensboro have been consider ing the proposition to buy the Hippo drome building at the Jamestown Ex position, and moving it here. A com mittee consisting of C. D. Benbow, J. C. Morris, a contractor, and F. A. Weston, architect, were sent to -Norfolk to in spect tne budding and obtain a price thereon. Morris and Weston returned and yesterday submitted the proposi tion to the stockholders of the audi torium, and to the chamber of cOnmerce in joint session yesterday. They decided unanimously, by rising vote, to accept tne proposition. j. v. uenoow, wno re mained in' Norfolk to close the deal, should be directed to do so, was called up by long-distance telephone and in structed to close the transaction. By the terms of the proposition, as explained by Messrs Morris and Weston, the mammoth building is to be torn down, shipped to Greensboro and rebuilt within ninety days irom the time the purchase is consummated. The people of GTeensboro are jubilant over' the prospects', bi haVjjig the one building in the entire country that will rank with the great Madison Square Garden, of New York. Messrs. Morris and Weston report that the building is in fine condition. It is constructed of steel throughout, the frame made of steel beams and the sid ing of corrugated steel plate. It is 165 feet wide by 400 feet long. It is venti lated and lighted by windows which are adjusted from the floor without the use of step-ladders. Between 4,000 and 5,000 thirty -two candle power incandescent electric bulbs are used to illumiate the building. The seats alone are estimated to be worth nearly $5,000. The steel used in the construction of the building is said to have cost more than $40,000. From the floor to the nearest part of the roof is thirty feet, and to the high est part of the roof is eighty feet. The accoustics of the building are said to be perfect. Tests were made by the committee to determine this and the results were eminently satisfastory. The building is not only suitable for conventions and the entertainment of large crowds, but basketball games or tennis games may be played within its walls. Those who are putting their money into this enterprise expect that it will prove a profitable investment. ' Another meeting of the stockholders and chamber of commerce will probably be held today, when a committee will be appointed to secure a site for the loca tion of the building. A number of filaces have been suggested, but there tas not yet been any special attention given to the selection of a site. . Powers Rides Three Winners. New Orleans, La., Jan.' 14. In a close finish at the fair-grounds' track today, Bell Strome, an odds-on favorite, won the fourth race in a drive with Miis Strome. Out of five mounts Jockev V. Powers piloted three winners and two place horses. Weather clear; track soft. North Carolina Convention to Tuesday, January 21. whisky question shall be removed from partizan politics and settled forever in the interest of morality.. We, there fore, call upon all friends of temperance to use their influence with the general assembly and especially with their, im mediate representatives and urge them to vote for. prohibition, and we ask all friends of temperance to attend a con vention to be held in Raleigh on Tues day, January 21, 1908. The crystallization of public ; senti ment makes this the opportunity of our generation for settling for all time this great moral issue, and a week's activity may count more now than an ordinary lifetime of temperance work.' Let every man do his duty.". ' ' -This. address and .call is signed by John A. Oates, chairman- executive com mittees Heriot Clarkson, president state a (Continued on page Two.) ; m HIPPODROME BRDUGH BREENSBORO Who Advertises in the Daily E C. DUNCAN NAMED Mas receiver of s. a. l. by judge pritchard PRAISED BY THE PRESIDENT "i I 1 GOVERNOR MAGOON. ROOSEVEtTPRAISESTHE OF Announces That We Will Cer talnly: leave island by Feb. 1. im NEW OFFICERS IN POWER Washington, D. C, Jan. 14. In trans mitting to the Senate today the report of Provisional Governor Magoon on con dition in Cuba, the President said: "I cannot too heartily commend the action of the provisional governor and his civil associates and of the army in all its parts in connection with this Cu ban matter. I am glad to be able to say that we can now definitely announce that one year, hence,- by or before Feb ruary 1, 1909, we shall have turned over the island to the President- and Con gress, to be elected next December by the people of Cuba. - "Our word to turn over the island to its own people will be scrupulously re garded and through' their own President and Congress they will administer the government of the island a year hence." South Carolina Legislature Meets. Columbia, S. C, Jan. 14. The general assembly convened today and Governor Ansel's message was read. The pros pects are that no legislation in rcurd to railroads will pass this session. Pro hibition is not' recommended by Governor Ansel and' local option will stand. Conkle Easy for Gotch. v Buffalo, N. Y Jan. 14. Frank Gotch met Charles Conklo,' of Hamilton, Ont., ir. a catch-as-catch-can .wrestling match at Niagara Falls toniglit and threw Conkles "three times in an hour. Gotch won the first fall in fifteen min utes, the second in ten and the last in eight minutes. GRABS HAT, FALLS FROM BUGGY AND IS KILLED FLORIDA MAN MEETS DEATH PECULIAR MANNER WHILE DRIVING. IN Tampa, Fla., Jan. 14. John M. Ha thews, a turpentine operator, clutching at his hat, which had blown . off while riding in a buggy on Stemper road, eleven miles from here, lost his balance and fell, landing on his head in the road, break ing his neck. He died almost instant ly. Mathews lived at Stemper and had large interests in this section. 1 ' Killed Hug Catamount. Elizabeth City, KT. C' Jan. 14. Quite a curiosity in the shapesof a huge cata mount -was being shown here today by Ned v Casey. . It weighed twenty-three and a half pounds, and was killed by Mr. Casey in the Dismal Swamp, about eighteen miles from this dty, - tarn-. ..v W V" ! i . I i i V rmmm mmu wiMwirri' n H m M UVM Will at Once Relinquish Collector ship of Internal Revenue for the Eastern District of North Carolina. A Career of Marked Success. Edwin Carlton Duncan, collector of internal revenue for the Fourth internal revenue district, has been appointed a receiver of the Seaboard Air Line Hail way Company. : This intelligence was conveyed through private dispatches re ceived hero late yestcrdav afternoon bv Judge Spencer B. Adams, and was later !... 1 1 .1 : . . 1 . L i , i vuiiui meu u v uispu'ii-iies gem out uy me Associated Press. ; The appointment was made yesterday afternoon in Kichmond by Judge Pritchard. Soon after receiving the dispatch al luded to Judge Adams left for Washing ton, where lie, together with Mr. Dun can, it is assumed, will take up with Secretary Cortelyou, and perhaps with the President direct, the matter of Mr. Duncan's successor, a matter which, it is said, has virtually been agreed upon by those in authority. , There will be no shake-upi it is safe to day, in Mr. Duncan's ofiicial family, and the new collector, whose name will be divulged after the subject it taken up with the department t Washington, will simply assume the duties as he finds them, without any change in the manner of their administration. The news of the appointment of Mr. Duncan as receiver of the Seaboard Air Line Kali way Company was known in Raleigh, according to a telephone mes Page from that place, late yesterday af ternoon. In one message it was stated that Collector Duncan would Inst night leave Richmond, where he went yester day afternoon, for Washington, where today he will hand to President Roose velt his resignation as collector, to take effect immediately. Who will succeed him is a. matter of conjecture, the Raleigh message said. The announcement that Judge Pritch ard had appointed another receiver for this great railway will create no end of discussion, in fact, no event in hiinM circles of reeent years will be productive. vi ureaier comment in this state. When application was made to Judge Pritchard for the receivership two re ceivers were appointed, to wit: R. Lan caser Williams, of Richmond. Va., and S. Davies Warfleld, of Baltimore, Md. The former is supposed to represent the Williams and the latter the Rvan in terests. The publio is familiar with 167 AT LEAST DIED IN THEATER FIRE AND PANIC AT BOYERTOWN Further Details Only Add to Horror of the Disaster in Pennsyl vania Town Nearly Every Family Lost Some Member. Cold Delays Work of Rescuers. . Boyertown, Pa., Jan. 14. When night fall put a stop to the work of recovering the dead from the ruins of the Rhoadcs Operahouse, where last night's castas trophe. occurred, the roll of victims num bered 167. ' Whether any more, bodies are buried beneath the ruins cannot be postively Btated, but it is believed that the total list of victims will not go above 170. The ratio of women and girls to men and toys is about nine io one. The work of identification will not be begun until tomorrow, as most of the bodies are still lying in a confused state at the improvised morgues. The inhabitants of the little borough in the Berks eounty hills are tonight steeped in grief. The calamity has par alyzed the town of 2,500 people. The WILMINGTON GETS THE T MATTER DECIDED AT MEETING STATE COMMITTEE IN WINSTON SALEM LAST NIGHT. ;. Winston-Salem, N. G, Jan. 14. At a meeting of the executive committee pf the North Carolina Firemen's Associa tion it was decided to accept, the invi tation to hold the-annual meeting and tournament in Wilmington this year.' the meeting to be held in June. Salis bury contested for the meeting. The executive committee consists of the following: Capt. James D. McNeill, president of the association; Mayor A. H. Boyden, of Salisbury, first vice-president J, Frank Maddry, , of Durham, second vice-president; W,' C. VonGlahn, of Wilmington, secretary; Roland O. Taylor, of Winston-Salem, treasurer. Industrial News. He Know: the fact that these two factions haw long been at war with each other for the control of the Seaboard Air Line railway, and the fact that the court has deemed it wise to appoint the third receiver gives rise to the assumption that the other two receivers will not be in accord. Moreover, the action of Judge Pritchard in appointing Mr. Dun can as receiver, shows that he has -made a personal choice of a man for the man agement of this vast property who will represent the court and all concerned, and in whom all concerned have fullest connaence. Hon. E. C. Duncan was born in Car-' teret county, this state, MaTch 28, 1868.. Although from one of the most influen tial families, he was early in life thrown upon his own resources, and became boatman. He rose to the position of eatltain of a dfamaliin a rA aftll VaM hood he was given the management of the large land estates of his grand father, Thomas Duncan, and of Isaae Ramsey, and as a farmer .nd a 'busi ness man he displayed splendid execu tive ability. In 1889 President Harrison appointed him collector of the Port of Beaufort, and he held this position until Cleve land administration. In 1894 and again in 1S98 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Carteret county. He is not only the only Repub lican who has carried that eounty since the Civil war, but is the only man of either party who has succeeded in being elected to the same office in Carteret for two successive terms. President Me Kinley. on February 1, 1898, appointed him collector for the Eastern district of North Carolina to succeed Hon.- F. M. Simmons, who is now United Statea Senator. He has held this position tor the past ten years. ' Mr. Duncan has, for a number of years, been a member of the state Re publican exectrtive committee'',' anrf i4 now the national committeeman from this state. He is also a director on the part of the private stockholders of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad and is next to the largest private stock holder in the road. It is not thought that the acceptance of the receivership will cause him to leave Raleigh, inhabitants scarcely realine what has happened. Everybody in the place eithwi lost one or more relatives, or was inti mately acquainted with those who died in the fire. In several cases whole fami lies have been wiped out. : Ruins Covered With Ice. It was almost daylight this morning1 before the (lames were extinguished and rescurers were able to enter the ruins to remove the dead. The morning was bitter cold and by the time the benumbed and exhausted firemen began the taslc of disentangling the mass of burned beams and twisted iron, the entire ruins were coated with ice awl there was dan ger of the walls falling. It was sevca o'clock before the first body was rt moved. Coroner Strasser, of Reading, who had readied the scene last night with a de tail of men, was ready to tag the bodies and keep a record of the description of fvery corpse removed. The bodies wer so badly burned, however, .that there was little to describe them by, and it is safe to say that not half the victims will ever be identified. The second vic tim was taken from the ruins about ialf an nour after the first, and then thA work of recovery moved more rapidly. By noon the rescurers became thor oughly exhausted from the cold and hard work and for a time the work earns almost to a standstill. Fortunately, the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company sent W. H. Keffnr, superin tendent of the Reading division, to tha scene, and Mr. KefTer offered the compa ny's assistance to Coroner Strasser. Chief Burgess Kopler was unable t furnish men to help and Coroner Strass er immediately availed himself of th railroad's offer. , . - ' Within an hour the company had twd carloads- of laborers and carpenters on the ground- and -the -work- of recovering bodies mqved . sp rapidly, that victim were being taken from the ruins at tbl rate of tw6 every five minutes. ' , There were many different atoreis $ to the exact cause of the panic and fir and thwe were several rumors of ar rests, but the borough official and Cor uiir-i oLiurnrr burnout uenicu xnav enji action whatever had Scen taken. Th (Continued on page Tw.) v .: ,l
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