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WEATHER Fair today and Sunday; light winds mostly south. The News A paper for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. VOL. III. NO. 195 LAST EDITION GKREENSBOBO, N. C, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1908 LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS SENATE REJECTS TO DELAY IITY Extended Debate on Power of Congress Over Interstate Commerce. NO VOTE UPON THE COMMITTEE RESOLUTION Upon Motion of Aldrich, Senate Prompt ly Goej Into Executive Session Bill to Date Canning of Meat Products Discussed. '- . Washington, D. C, May 22. The open session of the Senate was concluded to day with an extended debato on the power of Congress to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, and a negative . vote of 23 to 32 was taken on a motion to adopt the Foraker substitute for tins interstate commerce committee resolu tion extending the time when the pen alty provision of the commodity clause of the Hepburn railroad rate law is to take effect. Tho Foraker substitute provided that the prohibition against railroads trans porting across state lines coal or other articles produced by them, shall apply only to property acquired since the pas sage of the Hepburn rate bill May 29, lOUt). The committee resolution applied to all products without limitation con cerning tho time of ownership. After the substitute was lost and be fore a vote on the committee resolution could be called for, Mr. Aldrich moved that tho Senate go into executive ses sion. ' Tho bill to place the date of canning (Continued on Page Two.) PLAN Li Marsh s Death From Hydrophobia May Throw New Light on Disease Experts Will Hold Autopsy Over Body of the Brook lyn Manufacturer. New York,'1 May 22.r-Owing' to the peculiar r ' of the hydrophobia which caused the death of William H. Marsh, the rich Brooklyn manufacturer, an autopsy is planned in an effort to see if some new light cannot be thrown on the dread disease. It is not at all clear how Marsh became infected as he , wag not bitten by the mad dog, whose wound he was dressing, and the only abrasion on his body through which he could have become infected, the doctors say, was on his thigh. The Medico-Legal Society, which does not believe in hydrophobia, will also in vestigate the death of Marsh. Its presi dent, Clark Bell, is coming in for con siderable criticism from the physicians for his staement that it was not hydro phobia but fear that caused' the death of Marsh. Bell insists that an autopsy will aid in establishing the correctness of the Medico-Legal Society's position. The prominence given the Marsh case has caused apprehension in the minds of Bcores of people who have been bitten or scratched by pet dogs, and the Pas teur Institute, though it seeks to allay unnecessary fear, is preparing for a rush of patients. Courage Brought Rest. Dr. Cullinan, who attended Marsh, says that the afflicted man's tremend ous will power and heroic courage en abled him to maintain a show of rest fulness in his last conscious moments. Powerful opiates were given the man, but these, the doctor says, were not re sponsible for the almost complete calm that marked Marsh's last moments. Ramsay' Marsh, his twenty -one-year-old son, is undergoing the Pasteur treat ment, he having been exposed to infec tion. Miss Edna Thompson, the ste nographer at Mr. Marsh's factory, who , now admits that she was bitten on the chin by the dog which caused her em- . ployer's death, has thus far refused to take the lull treatment, altnougn urged to do so by the specialists. When the doctors of the Pasteur In stitute treated Mr. Marsh last Monday they asked him if if anyone else had come in contact with the dog. He said that his son and Miss TtOinpson had petted the animal while it was in his factory in Robinson street. . i . Miss Thompson t and Ramsay i Marsh went to the Pasteur Institute on Tues day' to be treated. Miss Thompson did not tell the doctors then that the dog had bitten her, but she now admits that such was the case. She said that the Pasteur Institute doctors ; bad asked her to undergo a complete course of treatment, exte.nd- ing over twenty-three consecutive days, but she felt . that she could not spare the time. . Not Alarmed. Miss Thompson is an attractive young woman of twenty-five years. She was formerly a school teacher in New Eng land. When asked if. she was . not frightened after - seeing the dreadful fate that had befallen her employer, she saia: "i am sure I am all right, and I am not going to bother with the Pasteur treatment. If I have . been poisoned I can't help it. - I have not frit any of the symptoms yet." Sammy Marsh is taking the complete CAMPAIGN GIFT PUBLICITY BILL PASSES HOUSE Stinger in the Shape of an Amend ment Reducing Southern Repre sentation Raises a Fearful Howl From the Democra cy and Meas ure Is Finally Adopted by a Sir Party Vote. Washington, D. C, May 22. A cam paign contribution publicity bill, em bodying an amendment by Mr. Crum packer, of Indiana, providing for a re duction in the representation in the House of Representatives in those states having disfranchisement , laws, was passed by the House today by a voto of MO to 125 following a lively debate. The measure was brought up under sus pension of tho rules and but forty min utes were allowed in which to discuss. The southern members in particular were biter in their denunciation of the apportionment provision of the bill. Mr. Williams, the minority leader, was espe cially vigorous in his attack characteriz ing the bill as being an attempt to re vive the conditions of reconstruction days. On account of the Crumpacker amendment the Democrats voted against the hill in its entirety. In brief, the provision regarding pub licity of campaign contribution is made applicable to the national committee of all political parties and all committees, congressional campaign committees of all politisal parties and all committees, associations, or organizations which shall, in two or more states. Influence the re sult, or attempt to influence-'the result of an election at which representatives in Congress are to be elected. The Crumpacker amendment provides for the reenaetmcnt of certain sections WILLIAM H. MARSH, Flatbush Inventor, Who Died After Heroic Struggle Against Rabies. course of treatment. While there is.no need for his being alarmed, he says he is not going to take any chances. He was his father's right-hand man at the factory and will fill his place there. The brave man who faced death so calmly passed quietly away while his wife and children were at his bedside. Every hour that the inventor lived after he became affected with the terrible dis ease was ono of extreme mental and physical agony to himself and misery to his family. Although opiates had been adminis- (Continued on Page Two.) FLED 30,000 MILES; LIS SYRIAN, WHO KILLED FELLOW COUNTRYMAN AT ROANOKE, . GETS FIVE YEARS IN PEN. Roanoke, Va., May 22. After a trial lasting Jive days the jury tonight' In the case of the Commonwealth vs. Moses Ferris and Sam Assaid, charged with the murder of Frank Assaid, a Sy rian merchant, who was tabbed to death in his place of business here a year ago, returned a verdict finding Ferris guilty of second degree murder and fixing his punishment at five years Ferris admitted stabbing Frank As said, but claimed he acted in self-defense. 'After tho tragedy Ferris escaped to South America, where he fought ex tradition for several months after his arrest in Argentine Republic. Ferris traveled thirty thousand miles after the killinsr, before he-was landed in Roanoke jail, . - of the old federal election law, except that the idea, of the Force bill, author izing the use of troops at the polls, is eliminated. It also ' provides that the director of the census shall submit) to Congress a report on population, show ing the number of male citizens, white and black, in each state and the number disfranchised, for the purpose of enab ling Congress to ascertain the apportion ment in representation to which such states may lie entitled. Mr. Crumpacker explained his amend ments by saying they were designed against fraud and intimidation in elec tions. He undertook to nay, he declared, that no member of the House would ob ject to a law whose only purpose was to secure honest elections. In the opinion of Mr. Rucker, of Mis souri, if anything were wanted to demon strate that the leaders and managers of the Republican party in the House were guilty of deceit and false pretence, the bill supplied that want. "It is horse play," remarked Mr. Hard wick, of Georgia. Reduction in representation, he said, had no terrors for the south. The Re publicans, he asserted, need not deceive themselves on that proposition. "Heavy as is the price," he exedaimed, "unfair and unjust as we believe it would be to exact this pound of flesh, yet if the peo- (Continued on Page Two.) BALLOTING FOR BISHCP STILL OCCUPYING THE METHODISTGONFERENCE No Choice Reported as Result of' Fifth. Sixth. Seventh and Eighth Ballots. NEGRO CANDIDATE DROPS OUT Baltimore, Md., May 22. While bal loting and reporting effectual ballots for bishops today consumed much of the time and absorbed much of the interest of the delegates to the Methodist Epis copal General Conference, in the inter vals and in committee meetings there was not a little, important work done. Xo choice was reported as the result of me nmi, sixth, seventh and eighth bal lots. ' Perhaps the most notable showing of tlio hollnfa ,.. !, ...1 . ......... o ..n.i ,iiu IUJJIU imVUItVU III the standing of the Rev. Homer C, .stunts, who, with 195 votes on the fourth ballot, advanced to third place with 427 votes on the seventh ballot. The leading negro candidate, the Rev. Jl. C. K Mason, withdrew from the con test. The Rev. W. A. Quavle. of Chi cago, advanced to second place with 450 votes, and though showing a net loss oi nine votes, tne Kev. Wilson L. Lewis. of Sioux City, Iowa, took the leading place in the poll,' the Rev. Edwin H. Hughes, of Green Castle, Ind., falling back from tho first to the fifth place. A report to the conference unanimous ly adopted by the committee on the state of the church, embodied a lengthy statement setting forth the attitude of the church to tho laboring classes. It declares for equal rights. and privileges for all people in all 'stations in life, for the abolition of child labor, for the sup- (Continued oi"Wge Two.) ' TOBACCO GROWERS TQ MEET AT DANVILLE TO TAKE ACTION TOWARD CONTIN UING FIGHT AGAINST THE TOBACCO TRUSTS. " Danville, Va., May 22. A large num ber of tobacco growers from throughout the bright belt of Virginia and North Carolina aro expected to 'assemble here on next Wednesday to take an active part toward continuing the fight against the tobacco trusts which was inaugura ted several years ago. Tho meeting hero is in pursuance to a call issued some ' weeks ago by the board of directors of the Mutual Protec tive Association of Bright Tobacco Growers of Virginia and North Carolina. The directors have ' decided to recom mend to tho farmers that they pool the entire crop of 1008 tobe held at a price 1 of fifteen cents per -pound, and not to plant any, tobacco for 1009. . SE REJECTS SHIP SUBSIDY AMENDMENT Practlr jI Hope for Leglsla at This Session Abandoned. r STOFFICE BILL BACK TO CONFEREES Little Likelihood That Lower House Will Yield to the Senate, and Indica tions Now Are That There Will Be Nothing Done. Washington, D. C, May 22 Practi cally all hope of a ship subsidy was abandoned today when the House, by a vote of 145 to 150, rejected the confer ence report on the postoflico appropria tion bill containing a provision therefor, and on which the principal fight was made. The bill was sent back to the conference, and there now is little pros pect that the House conferees will yield to the senate. By a strict party vote of 160 to 125, a campaign contribution publicity bill, with an amendment providing for a reduction of representation in the House from the southern states, was passed. The Democrats voted asainst the bill be cause of the amendment. - By way of further cleaning up pend ing business, the omnibus pension bill conference report was received; the con ference report on the District of Co lumbia appropriation bill was agreed to, and the Senate amendments to the general deficiency and military academy appropriation and omnibus Indian land bills were all disagreed to and tho bills sent to conference. The suggestion that gained wide cur rency last night that John Sharp Wil liams, of Mississippi, would today aoan don his filibuster in the House, was ap parently dissipated when that body met. Mr. Overstreet, of -.Indiana,- called up ! the conference report on the postolhce appropriation bill, and Mr. .Williams was prompt to demand the reading of the report. Under a motion by Mr. Overstreet to agree to the report, the only opportunity afforded was to accept or reject the report in its entirety. Mr. Overstreet made a strong plea for the mail subsidy provision of the bill, while Mr. Moon, of Tennessee, the rank ing minority member of the postoffice committee, bitterly opposed to it. The subsidy feature was opposed by Stafford, of Kansas; Small, of North Carolina, and Finley, of South Caro lina, and the system of weighing mails provided for in the bill was condemned by Mr. Murdock, of Kansas. Mr. Hobson, of Alabama, vigorously supported it, saying it Was a matter of national importance as distinguished from a gratuity to private interests. When the time came for a vote, Mr. Williams insisted on a rollcall, and the yens and nays were ordered. The con ference report was rejected, yeas 147, ii.i ys 155. So close was the result that on re quest of Mr. Overstreet, a recapitulation was ordered. This disclosed tho vote as follows: Yeas, 145; nays, 156. There upon Mr. Overstreet moved to disagree to the Senate amendments and ask a further conference, which motion brought to his' feet Mr. Moon, who insisted that having been defeated, Mr. Overstreet could not, under the rule, be recognized to make a motion in connection with the bil!. Speaker Cannon, however, overruled the noint. The amendments then were disagreed to and a further conference with the Senate asked. On this proposition Mr, Moon did not demand a rollcall. Art Students' Reception. Winston-Salem, NYC., May 22. Tho art students' reception in South Hall of Salem Academy and College last evening was a rare treat to all lovers of the beautiful, lor mere was a coilec tion of artistic treasures such as may not be seen more than once a year, "when the Academy kindly opens its doors and Miss Siedenmirg cordially welcomes in terested visitors. -':...- HOU LAMPHERE INDICTED WITH DEAD WOMAN Man in Indiana Murder Farm Mystery Under Charge of Mur. dering Seven People-Indictment of MraY Gunness Unusual. La Porte, Ind., May . 22. In return ing seven true bills against Ray Lam phere this afternoon, the La Porte coun ty grnnd jury also indicted Mrs.'.Belle Gunness for the murder of Andrew Hel gelein, of Mansfield, 8. D. No warrant was issued for Mrs. Gun ness, as she was declared officially dead by the verdict of Coroner Mack, but to vote a true-bill agajnst Lamphere as an accessory in the killing of Uelgelein, it was necessary to indict Mrs. Gunness as the principal. Lamphere now stands before the bar of justice 1 officially charged with arson, five murders and being an accessory in the Helgelein mur der. " ' .' Separate bills were returned against Lamphere for the murder in the first de gree of Mrs. Belle Gunness and Tier three children, Philip Gunness, Myrtle Soren son -and Lucy Sorenson. The unusual feature of the seventh NEGRO EVANGELIZATION IS DISC USSED BY GENERAL PRESB YTERIAN ASSEMBL Y L f THE REV. MELTON CLARK, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Where the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church Is In Session. BRYAN URGES CURRENCY ISS U A BLE BY STATE ANDNATION ALBANKS Should Be Issued by the Government and Loaned to the Banks, He Says Declares That Security for Deposit -Must Be Guaranteed. Chicago, May 22. William J. Bryan made a plea before the Bankers' Club of Cliicago tonight for an emergency cur reney that would enablo state as well as national banks to relieve money stringency and sounded a warning that the people would demand the govern ment bank unless absolute security for deposits can be assured them. He spoke on "Th Hanking Husiness" before several hundred members on tho occasion of the 104th regular meeting of tho club. ' On the subject of enuigeney currency, Mr. Brayn said that he believed that this currency should bo issued by the federal government and loaned to the banks. One reason advanced for the belief was that the state bank could be given the same assistance in . time of need as tho government institution, "I do not know," he said, "why a state bank should not be thus aided in the matter of relieving distress. In my opinion tho state and the national bank should be placed on the same foot ing when it comes to the question of securing emergency currency." He said that he believed thit our present banking system with 20,000 in dependont banks, more nearly meets mo needs of - tho people of. this country than a system like that of the Bank of England would do, but be declared thai the system needed a general overhaul ing. . "The thirf; for us to do," he said, "is to take the system we have, examine true bill is its indictment of the dead woman. It reads: "The grand -jury presents that Belle Gunness, late of the county of La Porte and State -of Indiana, on the Mth of January, 1908, did unlawfully, feloni ously, wilfully and .with premeditated malice, kill and murder Andrew Hel gelein, the means and manner of such killing being to grand jurors' unknown." Lamphere probably will not be ar raigned until the cases are set for trial. Bench warrants, issued by Judge J. C. Richter, were served upon , Lamphere in jail tonight. i , - The digging today , under .the direction of Sheriff Smutzer, resulted in the un earthing of a human skull, which to night it was decided belongs to one of the bodies dug up in the chicken yard two weeks ago. Jit that time three skeletons were found in one 'hole, but there were only two skull.. :. .-,. EM ERGENCY it, correct its faults and mak spond to public sentiment, for i it re i! any one thinks he can ignore ment, mut Lerson will leani ins mis- take when it isj too late." On the question of affording security to the depositor, Mr. Bryan declared that the temptation to gamble wai the source of most of the great bank fail ures, and suggei ted tho necessity for a law that would remove this -temptation from persons who handle other people's money. It is not enough, he said, to make banks reasonably secure.. We must provide a banking system, he said, not only for "reasonable" people, but for "unreasonable" ones, and called it a short-sighted policy on the part of bankers to resist a just demand from fifteen million peoplo for absolute se curity. "If the banks of- this country refuse to give this security," he continued, "it is they and they alone who will be re sponsiblo if this government is given to establish a government bank. If tho government savings bnnk comes, the $500 deposit limit will not last through more than one session of Con gress. -'-. "If you bankers refuse to cive the security the people '-'demand there can be no doubt of tlie future popularity of the government savings bank. I would rather have a guaranteed bank than government banks, -but when tho time comes I will stand with the 15,000.. 000 depositors for the Uink of absolute security." T TO PRISONER TAKEN FROM LOUIS BURG TO RALEIGH FOR SAFE KEEPING. Raleigh, X. C, May 22. After being guarded all last1 night in the Franklin county jail at Louisburg to prevent a lynching, Hugh alias Dollar Davis, negro, was. brought to Raleigh and lodged in the Wake county jail, a special commitment order being granted by Governor Glenn, The negro some days ago shot and dangerously wounded Po- loceman Arpes, of Louisburg, because of a' grudge he had against him. He fired two shots to bring the officer from his house, and then shot him down he came out. Tho preliminary trial was held before the mayor of Louisburg res terday, and Davis wareommitted to jail in aeiauic pi tu,uuu Dona. - Discussion Continues This Morning Reports from Executive Committees on Colored Evangelization and Ministerial Educa tion. President of Assembly Home and School Submits Re portCommissioners Take Excursion to GuilfordBat tleground This Afternoon. Yesterday's session of the general as sembly of i the Southern Presbyterian church was devoted largely to the dis cussion of negro evangelization. The re port of the executive committee for that branchiof mission work asked for larger appropriation, in order that the work might be extended. Probably the feature of the discus sion was the address of Dr. Curry, of Memphis, Tenn., who is chairman of tlhe standing commitee on colored evangeliza tion. He said that if the negro is ever evangelized the white people will have to come into . closer contact with that race. He said that some white people are kept from performing their duty to the , negro by fear of social standing. Others are not afraid to recognize hira as a man, one of God's races of people, possessing an immortal soul and all of the human powers and instincts The report on negro evangelization is the first to come from any of the standr mg committees. It was expected that the report would be discussed and dis posed of last night, but the discussion evidently took a broader scope than had been anticipated, and adjournment was taken in order to give time for a fuller discussion. A number of negroes occu pied pews to the right of the pulpit and took much interest in the discussion concerning their race. The report recommends (1) that a joint conierence be held between negro ministers and white miniters; (2) the cooperation with the Reformed Church of America, which has recommended the evangelization of the negro race, and instructing the secretary to correspond with the proper authorities of that church; (3) that Dr. J. J. Howerton'e sermon at the opening of the general assembly be furnished the executive committee for publication; (4) approval of the plan 'of the executive committee to establish auxiliary schools, provided they do not abolish or interfere with the academic department of Stillman Institute; (5) preaching often to the negroes and establishing Sunday schools for them; (6) that the ladies foreign and home missionary societies consider work among the negroes as needing their aid and prayers; (7) that the as- (Continued on Page Two.) SELLS 33,000,000 IN S. A. L Receiver Warfleld Disposes of tho Entire Allotment to National City Bank. New York, May 22. S. Daries War field, of Baltimore, one of the receiv ers of the Seaboard Air Line railway, who has been in this city negotiating for the salo of the issue of $3,000,000 of receivers, certificates of the Seaboard Air Line, announced tonight that he had closed negotiations with the National City Bank for the purchase of the entire issue of such $3,000,000 certificates. Mr. Warfleld slated that the present issue of certificates is made to provide for the interest payments on underly ing bonds, to pay the interest and prin cipal matured and about to mature on tho various car trusts, for certain new construction, and a number of other pur poses designated in the decree of the court that authorized the issuance of the certificates. HOUSE FAVORS PLAN FOR CURRENCY COMMISSION Washington, D. C, May 22. The House committee on banking and cur rency today voted by a substantial ma jority to recommend the passage' of the Aldrich joint resolution creating a cur- ; rency commission, which passed the Sen- : ate yesterday. ; ' ' ' During the consideration of the reso lution in committee amendments were suggested increasing the size of the com mission beyond the eighteen members stipulated. . These amendments ': were voted down on the ground that to make any .change. in the resolution as it came , from the Senate would provoke a, con- ; ference, end this it waa desired to avoid.; Negro Murderer Hanged. ' ' 1 Marlboro, S. C, May 22. Jim Hal-1 loy, a negro, was nanged here today for tihe murder of his wife in 1907. The sheriff had over one - thousand, applica tions for cards of admission to the exe cution. i BODS
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