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. I- III 11 111 1 ryr rN y y v sv VOL. XXXIX No 38, WILMINGTON N. C, MAY 15, 1906. S 1(J0. PER YEAR pi 4 if ' 1 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT BY SE S Allison's Amendments to Rate PARTY LINES WEREDRAWN Sensational Features Were the Order of the Day Democrats Charged With Doing: Little to Meet the Demands of the People for Railroad Legislation Bailey's Criticism of the President Was in Response to a Speech by Mr. Carter Contrasting His Course With That of the Texas Senator Senator LaFol lette Continued to Vote With the Democrats The Debate Will Prob ably Continue Through Next Week. Washington, May 12. The senate proceedings today were devoted exclu sively to the consideration of the rail road rate bill and they included many interesting and some sensational fea tures. Of the latter class was a state ment by Senator Tillman covering tha details of his and Senator Bailey's ne gotiations through ex-Senator Chand ler with the president regarding the rate bill and Senator Lodge's reply for the president to the statement. Scarce -ly less exciting was an attack made upon the president by Senator Bailey and a deefnse by Senator Carter. In his statement Mr. Tillman said that the president had referred slightingly to Senators Knox, Foraker and Spooner, and in his answer Mr. Lodge said that the president- nad characterized the statement as a falsehood. Senator Baiiey s criticism of the president was made in response to a speech by Mr. Cater lauding the chief executive in high terms and contrast ing his course with that of the Texas senator and other democrats who had, he said, done comparatively little to meet the demands of the people for railroad legislation. Mr. Bailey ac cused the presiuent of variability and said that instead of being a man of iron he is a man of clay "and very common clay." The actual accomplishments of the day consisted in the completion of the consideration 01 the Allison amend ments covering the questions of a re view by the courts of the orders of the interstate commerce commission. There were several of these provis ions, and all were accepted as present ed or suggested by the Iowa senator, showing an almost perfect agreement among republican senators. Indeed, one of the noteworthy features of the day was the practical unanimity of the republicans. They not only voted al most solidly for the Allison amend ments, but were just as nearly united against opposing propositions. Senator LaFollette continued to act with the democrats The session began at 11 o'clock and continued until almost 6. and when an adjournment was reach ed there was still a prospect of much debate for the next week. Senator Bailey's speech was one of the bitterest attacks that has been -made upon President Roosevelt during the debate on the railroad rate bill. Senator Bailey charged that the execu tive had surrendered his position advo cating "an effective measure" and had abandoned his demands for tariff ie vision. The speech was in reply t$ Senator Carter, who had defended the President against criticism, saying that no one could charge him with cowardice. In the course of his remarks Sen ator Carfer referred to the democratic party as a party of negation and noth ing more. He declared that the party had been frightened into a chill at the prospect of action. He charged that neither Senators Bailey nor Raynor, in all their congressional career had done anything to secure effective railroad rate legislation. When Senator Bailey gained the floor he charged that the Montana Sen ator's ebulition was due to the fact that he had been mentioned by Sena tor Rayner in hisvspeech yesterday as one of the president's special ambassa dors. He defended his own record on the ground that during his congres sional service his party had been m ZZZ . firf f,r r Tf during uie time me aemucrais weiem , , j, i.:n T Bill Adopted tne mmomy, ne naa inLruuuceu a l.ui . , - , to regulate the railroads, the senator ?- and verT wmmon cl at said, he would have been performing tnat an act of buncombe. He repeated During the consideration of the rail charges of inconsistency on the part road rate bill in the senate today Seo of the president in his legislative pro- ator Tillman made an attack upon the gramme saying that the absolute rate," president. He referred to the Long first contended for had been deserted amendment saying that he did so with for the "maximum rate" and that the the purpose of making an explanation, president had changed his position cnHe said that senators probably would ARRAIGNED BAILEY AND TILLIiNi the subject of suspension of rates pend ing a reversal by the courts. Taking up a statement made by Sen ator Carter that the president had dur ing his campaign for the presidency displayed matchless courage in defying the railroad power of the country, Sen ator Bailey said of the president's atti tude in that election: "Has the senator from Montana ex amined the record on that question? As he did the record of the senator from Maryland and myself? What will the senate say when I tell the senator from Montana that in his messages cf 1902 and 1903 the president was as si lent as the grave upon the question of regulating the railroads; that standing i nthe presence of the American peo ple pending the great contest of 1904, he spoke never a word in its favor, either in hisletter of acceptance or in his speech of acceptance. "Only after his election in 1904 did he challenge the railroad power ... in mortal combat; did the senator from Montana know that when he declared that the president had exhibited the mervelous courage in defying it prior to his election?" Senator Carter replied that in a pub lic address delivered in the city of Min neapolis before his nomination the president had in clear, distinct and un equivocal terms announced his posi tion upon the subject and likewise upon necessary anti-trust prosecutions and legislation. In reply Senator Bailey said he dia not know the president had discussed the railroad question in his speech at Minneapolis, but he had examined the president's public messages prior to the election and had found nothing of that character in them. Senator Bailey said that the presi dent's secretary had written to the editor of a publication known as "Freight" in the summer of 1904, de claring that in his letter of acceptance the president would "speak out" on the railroad Question. He said the president's promise had not been re deemed. Continuing, he said: "I do not say that the president put it in his letter and then when his as tute political advisers told him that the railroads would not contribute, that he cut it out, I will not say that although there are many men unchari- table enough to say it. 1 only put De fore the senate and the country the fact that his secretary said the presi detn would speak on it and he did not speak on it. "Perhaps these insurance companies which were contributing the trust funds of widows and orphans to secure his election owned so many of these railroad bonds that they deterred not the president, but the president's ad viser's from incorporating in his letter a message of hostility against the rail roads immediately preceding the elec tion. Mr. President, I love a brave man. I love a fighter and the president of the United States is both on occasion, but he can give up with as much alacrity as any man who ever went to battle either civic or political. He fights fu riously when it is a physical contest, I grant you, because that is a question of courage as well as endurance, but he seems to have no endurance in these political contests' here. Why he was going to revise the tariff and his friends called him off, and then that great voice that was filling the nation with a demand for tariff revision sud denly sank into the gentleness and weakness of a whisper. "Then he was going to have the railroads regulated and it was an nounced that congress would be con vened in extraordinary session to deal with it, but the great leaders assem bled with the president, prayed with him a little while, and no call was is sued for an extraordinary session of congress. He waited until the regular session and five months ot that nas elapsed and still no legislation. And when we do get a bill, God save the country from such a bill as it will be. "If the president had been this he roic figure which the senator from Montana would have us believe he was, you know what he would have done. He would have summoned these re publican leaders to a conference, from the house and the senate, and he would have said to them: " 'Gentlemen, I am not talking to y?u now as the president of the United States; I am talking to you as Theo dore Roosevelt, the republican. I am talking to you as a republican. I want to tell you that I happen to have learn ed tha unless you "pass a good bill the president of the United States in tends to veto it.' And they would have passed a bill fulfilling in some degree the laudable exvectations of this peovle. If congress had failed to do it and he had vetoed the bill they pass-, ed and then convened them in extraor dinary session to pass a good one, he would Have written his name side by side with the names of Jefferson, and Jackson, and Lincoln, and others among his illustrious predecessors "But. Mr. President, let us nave no more talk in the senate and talk in . . . ... , XT the country about this iron man. H be surprised to know that he had been in conference with the president. He then, contrary to his usual practice. read a statement of his negotiations regarding the bill as follows: "On Saturday, March 31, I was in formed by ex-Senator William E. Chandler that President Roosevelt had sent to him a note asking him to call at the White House that evening; that he had obeyed the call and had been told by the president that he desired uiruugu uiui 10 get into uuiuuiuuiumuu with me as the senator in charge of the fo II Trko A ijta K511 an1 tti tVi StonaivT Bailey representing the democrats of the senate for the purpose of ascertain ing whether there could be such united action among the friends in the senate of the Hepburn bill as would make a sure majority in its favor and against injurious amendments. Mr. Chand ler said the president named various republican senators who he thought were true friends of the .bill, but said that it might require all the demo crats to defeat obnoxious amendments. Mr. Chandler said the president has stated that he had come to a complete disagreement with the senatorial law yers, who were trying to injure or de feat the bill by ingenious constitution al amendments, naming Senator Kuox in addition to Senators Spooner and Foraker; that the president stated carefully and deliberately the basis upon which he thought there should be co-operation, viz., an amendment ex pressly granting a court review, but limiting it to two points; (1) an in quiry whether the commission had act ed beyond its authority ultra vires and (2) whether it had violated the consti tutional rights of the carrier. Mr. Chandler stated that the president re peated that he had reached a final de cision that the right of review should be thus limited; that thus far he would be unalterable." Proceeding he said that Mr. Chandler had 'said that the president had assur ed him that he would be in favor of a restriction against the issuance of ex parte injunctions to meet the wishes of Senators Tillman and Bailey. After informing Mr. Bailey of the nurnose of the Chandler interview, Mr. Tillman said that on the next day he had told Mr. Chandler that in his and Mr. Bailey's opinion there would be no difficulty in coming to an under standing on the basis proposed by the president. "On the evening of Monday Mr. Chandler told me he had so assur ed the president and asked him not to be disturbed by the newspaper items growing out of the talk about Senator Long's amendment published in the newspapers as one 'agreed upon at the White House conference on Saturday." He then said that he and Mr. Chand ler had continued their conferences and on April 5th the ex-Senator had gone to the White House to make a favor able report to the president On April 8th Mr. Chandler told him that he had conferred with Senator Allison, asking him to intervene in the conferences then in progress and that the Iowa senator had agreed to do so. Later Mr. Allison had seen the pres ident. On April 13th Mr. Chandler had advised that he (Mr. Tillman) and Mr. Bailey see the attorney general. Con sequently they had met that official on the 15th, finding themselves in perfect accord with him except as to a small difference in the matter of injunction. "There was absolute accord from the first on the proposition that the court review should be limited to the inquiry whether the commission had exceeded its authority or violated the carriers' constitutional rights." Mr. Moody had then agreed to sup thP senators with a memorandum of his views and had done so, "and we have the original of it," said Mr. Till man. . , The next day, Mr. Tillman said, he had seen Mr. Moody and had as sured him vaat twenty-six democratic votes could be secured for the compro mise proposed and had told him that it would be necessary to get twenty republican votes. "It was understood that we should work together to get thP votes necessary to pass the com promise. The attorney general had ex-v pressed doubt of getting enough repub lican votes to assure the acceptance of the Bailey non-suspension proviso, but had said that he felt sure of the Over man amendment Mr. Moody had, he said, assured him that it was the fixed purpose to insist upon the Long amend ment and he (Mr. Tillman) had had no suspicion of a change of fronts until May 4th when the president had his interview with the assembled newspa per men. The reading of the statement evoked many sallies and some laughter from senators. There was especial merri ment over a statement of assurances by the South Carolina senator that the president need not be alarmed over newspaper reports. He had, he said, told the attorney general that there was the danger ofthe result as to the bill if the president should adhere to Lis plan. He then had the clerk read the Moody memorandum covering the points agreed upon as the basis of amendments. Mr. Tillman's time expired before he had completed his statement He wa3 permitted to proceed by unanimous consent He said that he and ex-Senator Chandler had been informed at the same time of the president' change of attitude. They had gone together to Mr. Bailey and all three had repair ed to the residence of Mr. Moody," the fourth conspirator," and had found him apparently entirely innocent of knowl edge of the change. He admitted that he had hesitated about entering, upon the negotiation with the president because of his "just indignation for a past wrong," but he had concluded to pocket his pride in the interests of a great cause. He also said that Senator Allison had promised (Continued on Fifth Page.) IMPORTANT FEATURE DISCUSSED Revision of the 25 Articles of Religion of the Church SENTIMENT IS MUCH DIVIDED Debate Unfinished When Hour of Ad journment Arrived Election of Three New Bishops Recommended by Committee- Rule to Prohibit Use of Tobacco by Young Pastors. Birmingham, Ala., May 12. The feature of today's session of the Meth odist Episcopal General conference was the further discussion of the most important question that has so far come before the body. It is proposed to name a commission with one of the bishops as chairman who shall confer witth similar representatives of other branches of Methodism looking to a revision or re-statement of the 25 ar ticles of religion of the church. The debate began yesterday and to day it was so animated and the senti ment seems so divided, that it is prema ture to make any predictions as to the probable action. Dr. W. A. Lambuth, missionary secretary of the church took a decided stand in favor of the commission for revision. He defend ed Dean W. F. Tillett of Vanderbilt theological school, chairman of the committee which submitted the recom- merdation. C. M. Bishop, of Columbia, Missouri, Dr. R. E. Blackwell, president of Randolph-Macon college, J. E. God bey, of Little Rock, and George R. Stuart were among the prominent men who favored the resolution while such men as Collins Denny instructor in Philosophy in Vanderbilt, Dr. F. Rich ardson, of Fountain City, Tenn., R. H. Mahone, of Memphis and Dr. W. B. Murray, i of Jackson, Miss., President of Millsays college were vigorous in their opposition. The debate was un finished when the hour of adjourn ment was announced. The Episcopacy committee recom mended the election of three new bish ops and the temperance committee presented a report which calls upon pastors to do all in their power to stop the spread of the tobacco evil and calls for a rule which will prohibit the use of tobacco entirely by young pasters. All local protestant pulpits will be oc cupied by visiting pastors tomorrow. J At today meeting of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, the committee on Epis copacy today made a report recom mending the election of three new bishops. The report, it is thought will be taken up Monday. The commit tee recommended the continuation of Bishop John C Granberry and O. P. Fitzgerald on the superannuated list. The committee also recommended a twelve months exemption from active duty for Btehop A. Coke Smith be cause of poor health. The salaries of active bishops were fixed at $4,000, superamvated bishops at $2,000 each and widows df deceased bishops at $1, 000 each. Rev. B. F. Lipscomb, of Petersb"rg, Va., conducted the opening devotional exercises and Bishop A. Coke Smith took the chair for the day. A mes sage of felicitation from the Epworth League Union, of Washington, vwas read. ' The committee on education in a report regarding Vanderbilt Universi ty, Nashville, says: "There can be. no question as to the ownership of the University by the Methodist Episcopol church, south, or as to the charter right of all the bish ops, but in view of certain questions we recommend the appointment of a commission of five laymen to inquire into and determine the present rela tion of the Vanderbilt University to the Methodist Episcopal church, south; to take legal steps if necessary to perfect the transfer of the Univer sity from the patronizing conference to the general conference of the Meth odist Episcopal church, south; to de fine the charter right of the bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. and when so defined the bishops are herebv instructed to enter on the name.' OIL MILL FOR MAXTON The Mill to be Built This Summer. The Scottish Chief is authorized to state that a cotton oil mill will be built in Maxton this summer, and will be ready for operations by the first of next season. The site has been pur chased, and the neecssary stock sub scribed. The company will be capital ized at $60,000, and the capacity sixty tons. It will be located on the Sea board Air Line and A. C. L. railroads, on the 5-acre lot purchased during the past week from Dr. J. D. Croom Scottish Chief. ETERNAL VIGILANCE The Only Way to Make Prohibition Effective. j "Eternal vigilance is the thing' says j a Lumberton man who is a close ob : server. He says that on Monday and Tuesday evenings of this week a negro came up from Wilmington, a valise in hand. It did. not take a Sherlock Holmes to tell from his actions that the valise contained whiskey. Now, this negro is selling this whiskey in small quantities in town and by this means is making his living. It is the duty of every law-abiding citizen to see that an end is put to such conduct as this. The town officers will greatly ap preciate any information about the matter. The Robesonian. The Southern Baptist Convention. Chattanooga, Tenn., May 12. Th Southern Baptist convention today de voted seevral hours to the affairs ot the Sunday school board. The re jnainder of the session was given up to the welfare of the seminaries under the jurisdiction of the convention. STANDARD OIL GO. AND RAILROAD Witnesses Disclose Tricks of the Company TO BREAK DOWN COMPETITION Employees of Railroads and Manufac turing Companies Bribed Wire and Nail Mill Compelled to Shut Down Because of Grit Placed in Oil Pur chased of an Independent Company. Chicago, May 12. Investigation of the interstate commerce commission into the relations between the Stand ard Oil Company and the railroads was concluded this afternoon, as far as this is concerned and will be resumed in Cleveland on May 24. F. S. Hibbs, of Peoria, who was f r 13 years in the employment of the Standard Oil Company today how the agents of the Standard Oil Company tricked customers into thinking that the product of their com pany was superior to the product of independent companies. He gave the names of men whom h e had bribed to give information of the busi ness of competitors, and on cross ex amination declared "the Standard Oil Company is doing all of those things today." Other witnesses told of orib ing employes of railroads and manu facturing companies and one instance was related where a wire and nail mill in Indiana was compelled to shut down because grit had been placed in the oil, purchased of an independent con cern, at the instance of a salesman of the Standard Oil Company. Illustrating a number of tricks which he said were used by salesmen and agents of the Standard Oil Company, witness Hibbs said: "In testing the oil of a rival com pany," said Mr. Hibbs, "we used a new chimney and the magnesia in the glass makes the chimney look cloudy. For our own use we had an old chimney with the wick perfectly dried out and not too long. We used to rub a mois tened finger across the wick of the competitor and after it burned a shorc time the damp spot would be reached, the light would grow dim and there would be sputtering. All this time our light would be burning brightly. Car wicks were trimmed so as to make a thin flame and those of the competi tors we trimmed . as to make a thick flame. The thinner the flame, the whiter the light. Then we would often bend down the lower part of the burner and let air in under the chim ney which would cause the lamp to smoke. Some times we would fill up some of the ventilating holes arouud the burner with chewing gum. "I resorted to those tricks only when a competitor was selling oil in a town and I wanted to get rid of him." The witness named five towns in Il linois where he had convinced custom ers that the oil of the Standard 01 Company is superior while as a matter of fact it was inferior. The witness gave specific Instances where he had bribed railroad employes while he was in the employ of the Standard Oil Company to get informa tion regarding shipments made by the Royal Oil Company, he said he had paid a freight hand of the Iowa cen tral railroad $2 a month to get him cer tain information. He said the com pany always urged agents never to re member names or facts connected with the obtaining information about ri vals. The witness then detailed a plan he had used to make trouble for the Standard Oil Company. He would induce a business man to give him a fake order for oil and then show it to the agents of the Standard Oil Com pany, who would give him a present to get him to buy oil from the Stand ard Oil Company. NO JUNIOR ORPHANAGE The Law Committee of the National Council Decides Against it. State Secretary S. E Vance today received report from the law committee of the National Council Junior Order United American Mechanics, on the amendments to the state constitution as passed at the last meeting of the North Carolina Council in Salisbury, 'ist Fehmarv. In its report the Na- ftional committee approves article.? 2, i section 2, making junior past stat council and state treasurer members ct the executive boards, but disapproves and declares the amendment to art'cie 5, section 2, increasing the per capita tax for the purpose of building and maintaining an orphan's home in the state illegal and. unconstitutional. The committee cites various articles and sections of the national law, as well as the opinion of Judge Audenried, of common pleas court, in the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ex ri-L Woods et al vs. Wobensmith et al. It appears that the building and main taining of an orphan's home is uncon stitutional from the fact that, it is not one of the objects of the order and the members can not be taxed to. pay any thing that is not so named by the coun cil. The national council has for one of its objects the building and maintain ing a national orphan's home and can therefore tax the state councils for such purpose. Winston Special to Greensboro Telegram. Mr. T. E. Brown has gone cm a busi ness trip to Chicago. A1IUR0ER MYSTERY Body of An Aged Woman Found in Trunk DEATH Br STHUEHUTIDn Wiihelm Meyer and a Woman Ar rested for the Crii,.e The Victim Was a Mrs. Vogcl of Wll dunger The Trunk Was Left With an Express Company at Frankfort-on- the Main With Instructions to Keep it for Three Months Meyer U a Furniture Dealer and a Native of Germany The Man UcfuMxl to Talk and the Woman Was Apparently Ignorant of the Crime for Which She Was Arrested. Frankfort-on-the-Main. Germany, May 12. The details of a mysterious and revolting tragedy, for wh ch Wii helm Meyer and a woman named Christian! will be arrested on the ar rival of the Hamburg-American Line steamer Graf Waldersee at Nev Voik today, were revealed this aftrn.on. Meyer left Frankfort. April 2 4 and left a trunk and other baggage with an express company, saying that the trunk contained clothing and that he wanted it kept for three months, as hti was going abroad. The trunk was iinally opened by the police and found to contain the half decayed body of an aged woman, covered with chloride of lime. The body turned out to be that of a Mrs. Vogel. of Wildungen. In the Principality of Waldeck, who had been missing since the disappearance of Meyer from that place. She came from San Francisco to Wll dungen with Meyer two years ago. The latter is a furniture dealer 31 years of ase born in Germany. Mrs. Vogel was reputed to have been very rich. Latterly she quarreled with Meyer and asked for police protection. The murder was committed by strang ulation. Meyer spent several days in Frank fort and wrote to the ChristianI woman who comes of good Wildungen family to meet him here whence they disap peared together. Inquiries made by the police established the fact that the couple sailed for New York from Hamburg April 29, registered as from New Orleans. New York, May 12. Meyer and the woman were arrested by federal offi cers at Hoboken when the Graf Wald ersee reached her dock today. They were at once brought to this city and arraigned before United States Com missioner Shields who had issued war rants for their arrest. The man re fused to talk and the woman professed not to know why they had been arret ed . Meyer and the woman were both committed to jail without bail, until Monday when the German consul In this city will appear against them. ihe oraf Waldersee was met at the dock by Deputy United States Marshal Bernhardt and another deputy who at once put Meyer under arrest. He made no resistance when the handcuffs were placed on his wrists. The woman who accompanied him was registered on ship board as his wife but confessed to the authorities that her real name was ChristianI. As soon as she real ized what had been done she began asking the marshal the reason for the arrest and from her auestlons it eeem ed as if she was entirely Ignorant of the crime of which Meyer is accused of having committed. CADETS ENTEKTAIN GOV. GLENN Charters Granted to Com panic at Dunn and Lumberton Insurance Commissioner Young I let urns From Richmond. Raleigh, N. C, May 12. Charters were today granted to the Dunn Com mission and Supply Co., Dunn, N. C, with an authorized capital tock of $25,000, and with U J. Best, F. Smith. Jr., Mrs. R. S. Best and E. S. Smith, Incorporators. The Alluvial Land and Lumber Oj.. Lumberton, has total capital stock of $25,000, and is incorporated by W. B. and A. Barker and W. D. Neves, all of Lumberton. Hon. J. R. Young, insurance com missioner of the state, has returned from Richmond, Va., where he deliv ered an address before the Virginia As sociation of Fire Insurance Agents. Governor Glenn was last evening host to a party of 40 young men, cadets at the Agricultural and Mechanical col lege, who are members of his Sunday school class at the Presbyterian church. The Southern's Double-Track , The Southern Railway double track going southward Is in town. The force has laid the iron to the lower cross ing and can be used a little later wa the ballasting Is done. In the mean time the grading is being done In ac tions between High Point and Spencer and this end of it will be almost com pleted 'by fall. High Point Enterprisa. Mr. R. F. DeVane. of Red Springs, j Is registered at the Orton. 2