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Readjjv 3 WEATHER Fair on the coast, local showera and cooler in the interior today; Friday fair. VOL. m. NO. 158 AUTI-HETHK GAMBLING BILLS FAIL OF PASSAGE Measures Embodying Hughes' Recommendations Are Defeated By Tie Vote; ONE ADVOCATE OF THt MEASURES DISAPPEARS iwi Up Again After Mysterious Ab sence tasting All Horning Governor Kay Call Special Session to Consider Desired Legislation. Albany, N. Y., April 8. The vote of Senator Owen Cassidy, of Schuyler, Re publican, late today caused a tie vote of 25 to 25 and defeated, for the time at least, the two Agncw-Hart bills em bodying the recommendation of Gover nor Hughes that the legal protection be abolished which since 1895 has guarded public gambling at race tracks, whereas it la a felony elsewhere in the state. Lieutenant-Governor Chanler, in the chair, by casting his vote to break the tie upon a parliamentary motion which but for him would have resulted in kill ing the bills for the rest of the ses sion, saved them for another vote at the discretion of their introducer,: Senator Agnew, at any time when the order of business permits him to call up the mat ter. If by any means the friends of the bills can gain a vote from the opposi tion and at the same time hold the twenty-iflvc they had today,they might yet pass the bills and send them to the governor. Governor Hughes mado no secret of his disappointment over the result of . the day's struggle. He would not inti- ( Continued on Fags Two.) v . 1NSTRUCTSF0R TUFT Body Is Virtually Unanimous Against Continuing Negro In Party Councils. SLEMP IS AGAIN CHAIRMAN Lynchburg, Va., April 8. The Vir ginia Republicans in state convention here tonight after electing Col. William Lamb, of Norfolk, chairman, adopted resolutions reaffirming Republican prin ciples, indorsing the Roosevelt adminis tration and instructing the four dele gates at large to use all honorable means to secure the nomination of Wil liam H. Taft at the Chicago national convention, the resolutions as reported being unanimously adopted. After numerous nominating speeches for delegates at large and a call of the counties and cities, the following were chosen: C. B. Slcmp, of Big Stone Gap; Alvah H. Martin, of Norfolk; S. G. Proffitt, of Floyd, and S. Brown Allen, of Staun ton. The alternates: John B. Kimberly, O. B. Oakley, Henry Bowen and B. B. Bowen. State Senator Noel, Pennington Gap, and Gen. J. B. Roller, of Harrisonburg, were named electors at large without opposition. Congressman C. B. Slemp was re elected state chairman without opposi tion. At midnight the convention ad journed. The convention was practically unani . moua against continuing the negro in the party councils in the future and ad dresses favorable to this never failed to arouse enthusiasm. Practically the same feeling was ap- ' (Continued on Pag Two.) SEABOARD ENGINEER IS BADLY SCALDED AND CUT EXPLOSION OF WATER GAUGE ON B. SCHOTT'S ENGINE NXAS M0NCURE, If. C. ' Raleigh, N. O, April 8. B. Schott, freight engineer on the second division of the Seaboard Air Line, was -terribly sealdsd and out by. particles of, gUss about ths face this afternoon' by tha ex plodon of the water gauge on his en gine near Moncure, thirty-miles south of Raleigh. There is strong indication that hh eyesight is lost. Schott was brought to his horns hers and is being treated by 6afcoard surgeons. Be has a wife, but no okildrea. .f: ' . ; LAST EDITION NAVAL BILL IS SENT TO HOUSE BY COMMITTEE Measure Authorizes Two Instead of Four Battleships and Eight Submarines. APPROPRIATIONS CARRIED WILL TOTAL $103,967,518 Hobson Submits Minority Report On the Bill, In Which He Urgently Pleads the Cause of a Bigger Navy and Tells What He Regards As Why, Washington, D. C., April 8. The naval appropriation bill authorizing the construction of two instead of four bat tleships and eight instead' of four sub marine torpedoboats, and carrying a total appropriation of $103,967,518 for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, was reported to the House today by Chairman Foss of the committee on naval affairs. The total appropriation recommended is $22,518,841 less than the aggregate estimates submitted by the department, and is $3,663,918 more than the amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908. The bill carries an item of $1,000,000 toward the construction of submarine torpedoboats and an item of $445,000 toward . the construction of subsurface torpedoboats. Provision is made for the enlistment of 6,000 men to man the fol lowing ships which are to be put in commission within the next few months: The California, Mississippi, Idaho, ' New Hampshire, South Dakota, North Carolina, Montana, Chester, Birm ingham and Salem, and for 1,600 men (Continued on Page Six.) r INLAND WATERWAY PLAN, AGAIN IS.DISCUSSEfl WITH THE PRESIDENT Boston and Key West Project Gone Over at the White House by Those Interested. MR. ROOSEVELT FAVORS IT Washington, D. C, April 8. The pro ject of a great inland waterway from Boston to Key West, Fla., was again discussed with President Roosevelt to day, members of the House from states interested being present. They were Representatives Moore, of Pennsylvania; Small, of North Carolina; Golden, of New York; Ganger, of Pennsylvania; Capron, of Rhode Island, and Burton, of Delaware. About a week ago a bill was intro duced in the House providing for the survey for a sixteen-foot inland water way from Boston to Beaufort, N. O. Representative Moore, of Pennsylvania, recently returned from a trip through Florida and portions of Georgia. At Savannah he met Secretary Straus, Representative Small and others deeply interested, in the project. Mr. Moore informed Secretary Straus that from his investigation he believed it feasible to connect up the various waterway arteries so as , to permit of vessels going from Boston to Key West. A sixteen-foot channel would not be necessary from Beaufort, N. C, to Key West. It is now proposed to amend the bill recently introduced so as to provide for a survey of the entire Atlantic coast as far as Key West : The President repeated what he has so often declared that he feels a deep concern in the Improvement of all wa terways in this country that will aid in furnishing additional transportation. LILLET GHARGE PROBE HALTEIITILL TUESDAY ILLNESS OF REPRESENTATIVE OLM STED'S -DAUGHTER PREVENTS HIS ATTENDING MEETINGS. , Washington, April 8. The special com mittor of the House appointed to inves tigate the charges made by Representa tive George. G. Lllley, of Connecticut, against the methods of the Electric Boat Company to obtain legislation, will hear no more testimony until next Tuesday. When , the; committee ; met -today, Chairman . Boutell announced that the continued illness of Mr, Oldsted's daugh ter prevented ', bis attendance at thfs time, and owing to that fact and the further fact that the oommltteo desired time in which to prepare evidence in its proper 'order, an adjournment would be taken until the data mentioned, ; , GBEENSBOKO, L DAY'S SESSION Great Address Last Night by W. C. Pearce. of Chicago. 111. 0 Forward." REPORTS SHOW PROOFS IN ALL LINES C ' i HE WORK Interesting Addresses By the Rev. B. W. Spilman, of Kinston, and the Rev. Dr. J. O. Atkinson, of Elon College At tendance Greater Than Ever Before. Burlington, N. C, April 8. The sec ond-day's session of the North Carolina Sunday -School Association closed to night with a great address by W. C. Pearce, of Chicago, his subject being "Forward." The address was a review of the present day movement in the or ganization of Sunday-school work and a forecast of the lines or endeavor planned for the immediate future. This after noon Mr. Pearce spoke on "The Mak ing of a Teacher," meaning, of course, a Sunday-school teacher. Both addresses were helpful, uplifting and inspiring. Two addresses of unusual merit were delivered by the Rev. B. W. Spilman, of Kinston, this morning. He spoke on "Studies of Jesus as a Teacher, How He Made People Listen to Him." Tonight his subject was "Marks of a Well-Organized Sunday school." Mr. Spilman's remarks were plain, pointed and prac tical, winning for the speaker a higher place than ever as a Sunday-school specialist in the estimation of his home folk. Another address of special interest was "The Pastor's Relation to the Sun day School," by the Rev. J. O. Atkinson, D. D., of Elon College. At four o'clock this afternoon, con ferences were held on 'County and Township Officers," organized adult class work and primary and junior work. At the morning session reports were made as follows: On the work of the elementary department, by Mrs. E. R. Michaux, of Greensboro; on teacher's training, by T. B. Eldridge, of Raleigh, and on home department, by Mrs. Frances P. Hubbard, of Randolph county. The reports of Miss Maud Reid, office secretary, and N. B. Broughton, chair man of the executive committee, showed advancement in the condition of the or ganized work and improvement in the state of the finances. There is progress in all lines, particularly in the organiza tion of new movement adult classes. The ', work of the office secretary has in creased greatly and with it there has come an enlarged responsibility, also much cause for encouragement. The attendance of delegates was much increased today) and the record for num bers at any previous session has been so far eclipsed that even the most op timistic Sunday-school workers cannot suppress their astonishment. The weather is ideal and the hospital ity of the Burlington people is un bounded. ' SUNDAY CM W NEBS SECOND REPUBLICANS IN HOUSE ADOPT FURTHER RULES AGAIN ST DEMOCRATS After One of the Stormiest Sessions in the History of the Lower House More Drastic Limitations Are Placed Around Min ority as Further Check to Filibuster. Washington, D. C, April 8. Today's session of the House will go down as one of the stormiest in its history. The sum total of the day's proceedings was the adoption of several additional rules to further check the Democratic filibuster, and the passing of the two resolutions introduced by Speaker Cannon calling on the department of justice and the department of commerce and labor for certain information regarding the so ealled paper trust. ' There were nine rollcalls during the IS DF PRESIDENT OF BIRMINGHAM COL LEGE WARNS METHODISTS AGAINST IRONMASTER. . Birmingham, Ala., April 8. Dr. J. H. McCoy, president of the Birmingham College, today made a forceful address before the Birmingham district confer ence of the' Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in which he warned his hearers ithat educational gifts from . Andrew Carnegie were a source of danger. . He spoke for religious schools and de clared that some schools were relin quishing their principles and seeking to undenoininationalize themselves for the sake ' of endowment. Following his speech more than (3,000 was secured for .his college; - C, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1908 Principals in Notorious Gould Divorce Proceedings DTJSTIN FARNUM. MRS. HOWARD GOULD. I WINSTON-SALEM CASE AGAINST N. & W. TQ BE HEAR Answer of Interstate Commerce Commission to Committee ofCitiienj. TWIN-CITY NEWS '.NOTES Winston-Salem, N. C, April 8. The following telegram was received this afternoon from Mayor O. B. Eaton, who is in Washington, D. C: "Interstate commerce commission will continue to hear separately our coal-rate case against the Norfolk and Western railway, the date ard place to be fixed later." This is gratifying news to Winston Salem business people, who feel that much better results can be obtained in a separate hearing of their case against the Norfolk and Western. Clement Manly represented the business inter- (Continued on Page Two.) day, five of them on the new rules. The Democrats exhausted tneir resources ne fore they were made to feel that the Republicans by sheer force of numbers had them beaten at every point. The debate brought all of the leaders of the Houso to the front. The Demo crats were again charged with making the special rules 'necessary by reason of their filibuster, while the Democrats re asserted, that they at last are causing the majority to enact legislation. At five o'clock the House took a l cess until 11.30 a. m. tomorrow. After a debate which consumed a large part of the day in which the lead ers on both sides participated, and in which there were niany sharp passages, though in perfect good nature, the House today passed a new rule enabling the Speaker to declare a recess at five o'clock every day for the remainder of the week .without a rollcall. Notwith standing the rigid rules already in force, the Democrats lorceu five rollcalls on the rule. The debate was participated in by Jje Arraond and Williams on the Demo' cratic side, and Sherman and Dalzell on behalf of the Republicans. Beginning the controvery, Mr. De Ar niond said that evidently it had be. come offensive to the Republicans to have a rollcall, notwithstanding the re quirements of the constitution. - He at tributed their reluctance to a desire not to bo forced on record. He admitted that the adoption of the rule would de monstrate that the Republicans could pass any bill they desired to pas, but urged that it would also place- square ly upon them the responsibility for all lauure to legislate. . Mr. Sherman responded that the Re Continued on Page Two.) fl St PARATELY ALL-FOILS' BAT PRANK Wljmm Hews. M CLEMSON STUDENTS f0iMM DISIilSSEB FOR PART IN $f 309 Boys Who Took Part JW'il Of the In Affair Only Four . Dismissed. ONLY ONE IS ACQUITTED Clcmson College, S. C, April 8. Two hundred and fifty-seven students of Clcmson College were this morning dis missed from tho institution. This num ber, with the forty-nine members of the junior class dismissed on Saturday, ag gregate 303 dismissed on account of the All-Fools' day escapade, when 309 ca dets absented themselves from the campus, drills and classes from 7-45 a. in. until 0 p. m. ; Of the 30!) participants only four were not dismissed. One of these was suspended until September, one acquitted of the charge and two will be dealt with by the commandant. The testimony in the cases of these young men differed widely from tho tes timony in the other cases. The discip line committee met last night at eight o'clock in the president's office. The session lasted until one o'clock this morning, when it was announced that the committee had determined upon the punishment of the parties in the escapade. The committee had been holding sessions three times a day excepting Sunday since last Wednesday one week ago. At 7.45 o'clock this morning when the corps form in line for their regular daily drill Commnndant Minus had his ad jutant publish an order directing the participants in the escapade to turn in at the quartermaster's department all collego and government properties in their possession. After all the property had been turned in to the quartermaster, the boys, as directed by Commandant Minus, congrc- rtitrtil in lia nhonnl Affni nil tlA no .lets of institution were seated and! after the regular chapel services were, concluded, President Mell made a short . talk, stating that though ho was sorry ; for the boys dismissed yet discipline. had to be observed. When ho had ' fin - j ished he handed Cadet Adjutant Tin-! dell an order to be published at once. This order provided for the dismissal from the college of forty -three members of the preparatory class, 132 members of the freshman class and eighty-two members of tho sophomore class. Tho mojority of the dismissed cadets have been anticipating such a sentence for several days. . The faculty will be compelled to re vise the classes now. Many sections in the freshmen and ''sophomore classes were almost totally wiped out. The re visions are .now being mado and every thing is progressing smoothly and with out friction. There are about 400 students left in the institution. SHOOTS YOUNG WIFE , AND KILLS HIMSELF New York, April 8. Without warning and apparent motive Albert Heiscr, a baker, suddenly drew a revolver at the dinner table tonight, flrcd two shots at his young bride and then sent a bullet through his brain, at their home on Lexington avenue. Mrs. Heiscr, who was twice wounded in the body, is not ex pected to recover. he told tho police that her husband 9iad been jealous of her, but could not snv why he had attempted to take her life. LAST EDITION HOWARD GOULD, Whose Sensational Answer to His Wife's Divorce Suit Sets Gossips' Tongues Awagging. FAHNUM THREATENS TD SUE GEORGE GOULD OVER DIVORCE SUIT CHARGE Actor Indignant at the Allegations Made by Millionaire Who . Is Suing Wife. EVEN NEW YORK IS SHOCKED New York, April 8. With Dustin Farnura, matinee idol and formerly star of 'The Virginian," not only denying the allegations made against him by Howard Gould in answering the suit for separation instituted by his wife, formerly Kathcrinc lcmmon, but threatening libel proceedings against the young millionaire, the tiould family is once more in trouble, um.o u u u .uu t, ,s with the problem of making bets whoth-.i ill i . i i : er .un,e youiu . ', ' !m ,f la,r.0' 01 te calcium ana waewa; l"u u"S!e '""sfc "fnonal divorce answer which .cw V)k llas .ncard. ln yr9- V,19 aceusft tlo"B 'Mt.h" who and I-armim, as - 0"" A"Jfges of drunkenness, pro- fanity ftnd improper conduct, gave (Continued on Tage Five.) II ALABAMA SHERIFF NEGRO MARCHES OFF WITH OFFI CER, FROM WHOM HE TOOK REVOLVER. i Anniston, Ala., April 8. News has just , reached here of the kidnapping to day of J. 0. West, a white man, who was acting as a special deputy sheriff, bv Will Cunningham, a negro, whom ho was attempting to arrest near Lincoln, in Talladega county. It is said that while West was read ing the warrant to the negro the latter seized the deputy's revolver and marched him away towards the Coosa river. Posses hav been organized and blood hounds placed on the trail of the negro, but nothing fras been, seen of either West or the negro since. Cunningham is said to be wanted in Georgia on s. serious charge. 7fJ-vNeyA paper ell the peopTagpr ' people all the time. -Re-it and keep posted. PRICE FIVE CENTS FOR RAGES MUST President Roosevelt Declares That Railroads of South Are Not Now Complying With Law. URGES ACTION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Directs Proceedings By Injunction In the Case Unless Some Other Course Is Deemed Preferable By the Officials of That Department . ; , WashingtonJ). C, April 8. President Roosevelt today made public his letter of April 2 to the attorney -general direct ing proceedings by injunction to com- i pel certain raili: ids of the south to fur- niah equal accommodations to white and i negro passengers. I Tho text of the President's letter is as I follows: "To the Department of Justice: "I forward herewith the report of the interstate commerce commission contain ing its order of Juno 27, 1907, and the report of the failure of the railroad com pany to obey this order, under date of March 26, - ii)08, together with a letter of the commission of April 1, 1908. It appears that the Xashvillc, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Company has not complied with the order of the commis sion to furnish the same facilities to ne gro passengers paying first-class fare that are furnished to white passengers paying first-class fare. 'i'rom time to time various com plaints have been made to me by repu table negro people to the effect that the accommodations furnished to negro per sons on certain railways are filthy and inadequate compared to the same ac commodations furnished white passen gers paying the same. fare. The com mission has taken what is unquestiona bly the right grounds:. That where sepa rate accommodations are provided for white and negro passengers, the accom modations for negro passengers shall be as good as those furnished to white passengers for the same money. In other words, while there is nothing in the law which forbids separate accom modations, these accommidations must be equal. "This principle of equality of accom modation is set out explicitly in various state laws. : For instance, the code of the State of Alabama provides that there shall be equal but separate ac commodations for tht. white and negro races, by providing two or more passen ger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger cars by parti tions. "The action of the commission has simply been to insist that the accom modations be equal in convenience and comfort, for the same money, wherever the separation is made. In this partic ular case where the railway has neglect ed to comply witih the order of the com mission, it is important that compliance wit'h this order be immediately obtained. I suggest that you proceed to iniorce the order by injunction proceedings unless in your judgment some other course is preferable. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." The matter has been entrusted to Solicitor-General Hoyt, who expects to decide in a few days on a plan of ac tion. - TEXAS OPERATORS AND MINERS REACH AGREEMENT Fort Worth, Tex., April 8. Represen tatives of coal operators and miners of Texas will tomorrow affix their signa tures to an agreement which will in sure peaceful operation of the mines until April 1, 1909. I"" Tho miners will bind themselves to. k d . u ending April 1, lm UU(, cticnlly the J1 tioiin and under almost the identical wage scale prevailed for tho previ 01)fl p gcttlement of dis. ous year. putes was reached early this evening. Governor's Wife Leaves Washington, , ' Washington, . D. C, April 8.-Mrs. Q wflV of the governor, who friends here for sonw time, left for home today. LANGDON SMITH, NOTED CORRESPONDENT, IS DEAD FAMED AS NEWSPAPER MAN AND WAR CORRESPONDENT; WAS EXPERT TELEGRAPHER. New York, April 8. Langfdon Smith, newspaper man, war correspondent and one ! of the best known special writers in New York, died tonight of malignant erysipelas in his home in Brooklyn, aged '' fifty years. He served as war eorre- 1 spondent in Cuba during the Cuban in surrection, and also throughout the Spanish-American war, being present at the battles of Guantanamo, El Oaney and San Juan. '. : . More than a score of years ago Mr. Smith was known as one of tha most expert telegraphers in the world. Ht u' born in Kentucky. - , TRAIN SERVICE BE EQUALLY GOOD
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