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'I XY d H VOL XL NO.-6 WILMINGTON, N. C; JANUARY 18, 1907 81.00 PER YEAR or J X - i THE END II SIGHT Compromise Resolution Offer ed by Foraker. SEiTOR CASK'S VIEWS Criticised Republicans for At tempt to "Dethrone" President. Declared He Must be Renominated or Platform Returned to Democratic Party Heartily Supporled Presi- 0 lent in His Action, in Discharging Negro Troops No Truth in Report That the President had Personally Solicited His Support in the Matter. Washington, January 16. Senate leaders tonight regard the end of the Brownsville discussion in sight and it is confidently expected that before the close of the week a compromise reso lution offered by Senator Foraker just before the close of today's sesion will be adopted. Mr. Foraker had the floor to make what he today expressed the hope would be the concluding speech on the subject. Whether he speaks to morrow or Friday, it is expected that a vote will soon follow. Mr. Foraker today offered a substi tute for all of his previous resolutions on the Brownsville affair, as follows: "Resolved, That the committee on military affairs is hereby authorized and directed by sub-committee or otherwise to make and have printed the testimony for the purpose of ascer taining all the facts with reference to or connected with the affray at Brownsville, Texas, on the night of August 13, 1906. Said committee is au thorized to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths; to sit during the sessions of the senate, and, if deemed advisable, at Brownsville or elsewhere; the expense of the investi gation to be paid out of the contingent fund of the senate." The language of this provision is satisfactory to Senator Lodge and other supporters of the administra tion. The feature of the debate today was the arraignment by senator Carmack of republican senators who had criti cised the president for his action in the Brownsville matter. He regarded it as an attempt to "dethrone" the president as the leader of the party, declared that either the president 3iAt be renominated or the platform o.n which he stood returned to the demccrati. Senators Stone, Money and Knox followed, each upholding the authority of the president to take the action he did, and each favoring an investiga tion of the facts connected with the Brownsville affray. Senator Carmack in his speech an nounced that he heartily supported tne president in his action in discharging the negro soldiers. The action of the legislature of his state taking the same position, met his personal views. Mr. Carmack then paid his respects to the president as follows: "I think it proper to say that any re ; port that senators may have heard that the president personally solicited my support in this matter, that he urged me to forgive and forget cer tain energetic personal remarks and begged me to stand between him and those twin enemies of his administra tion, the senators from South Carolina Jl Ohio, is a gross exaggeration. I ,v):i not say that it is an infamous falsehood because such language be longs to the vocabulary of presidential controversy rather than that of sena torial debate. "Nor is it true, as senators may have heard, that I have been moved to undertake the president's defense because of my infatuate ddevotion to the man. I have a great admiration for that strong, brave, large minded gentleman, the secretary of war. My admiration for the president is more temperate and subdued. In the lan guage of Hamlet it waits upon the judgment. The president once said that he would see a certain member of the Tennessee delegation in hades be fore ha would do anything for him a remark entirly gratuitous in view of the fact that the person supposed to have been referred to had never aaked a favor at his hands, but with supteme indifference to his good opinion bad criticised him when he was wrong and with like juidifference to Uio good opin ion can support him when he is right. "So far. as the negro race is con . cerned the only charge that ca?i be justly , made against the president is that he has loved the negro not wise ly but too well. There is something pathetic in the president's plaintive recital of all that he has clone and at tempted for the negro race. I see there -Js mo man in this country today, not SHEPPARD Oil "STiDPATISIT "Stand Pat" Only Another Name for Dry Rot. STATUS OF REPUBLICAN' PARTY. Accustomed to Limitless Powers it lias .Drifted Into a Complete Paralysis. Stands Helpless Before the lroblems of the Present and the Retribution of the Future. Washington, January 16. -"The democratic party is as eternal as jus tice, with which it is synonymous, as indestructible as truth for which it stands," was the key note of a speech made today in the house by Mr. Shep pard of Texas. For an hour and a half Mr. Sheppard held the attention of the house while it had under considera tion the District of Columbia appro priation bill. Incident to his coming out for Bryan for the democratic nomination of 1908 Mr. Sheppard paid his compliments to the republican, party and especially to the "standpatters". Speaking of the "stand pat" prin ciple of the republican party, he said; "Accustomed to limitless and per petual power the republican party has drifted into a complete paralysis, a hopeless inertia. Stand pat is merely another expression, for dry rot. Swol len, with the spoils of office, corpulent with the wine of power, distended with the dropsy of corruption, the republi can party drags its huge inflated body across the halls f state helpless among the trophies of the past, before the problems of the present and the retribution of the future, while its coward lips wail out 'stand pat, 'stand pat', 'stand pat' although the pillaga of the people never ceases 'stand pat' although the wealth of the republic is by a ruthless tariff law transferred from the millions who support to the masters who exploit it; 'stand pat' although the republican party refuses to lighten the tariff taxes which it first imposed as a temporary burden in the years of war to double and redouble as a permanent tyranny in the years of peace 'stand pat', although the tariff law itself provides for a reduction ot its charges; 'stand pat', although the enormous' rates incite the antagonism of the old world and imperil our for eign trade; 'stand pat' although Mc Kinley pleaded frm the doorstep of the grave for lower tariffs; 'stand pat' although patriotic republicans of Massachusetts, Iowa and all the coun try united in the general prayer for less oppressive schedules; 'stand pat', although our loftiest principles, the very soul or the republic, the principles in the name of which our country was consecrated in the blood and tears of patriots has been abandoned in repub lican policies abroad; 'stand pat', al though the currency situation is black with impendent danger; 'stand pat', although the expenditures of the re publics monies has become a riotous dissipation, a wanton waste". To Test Coins. Washington, January 16. The pres ident has designated the commission ers to test and examine the weight and fineness of the coins reserved at the several mints during the calendar year 1906, pursuant to the previsions of -Section 3,547 of the revised statutes. Among the commissioners named are James Lewis Howe, Washington and Lee University, and Captain C. E. Gardner, Jacksonville, Fla. even the senator from Soutn Carolina, who is so universally and ho bitterly hated by the negroes as the man who closed the Indianola postoffiffice ana dined with Booker Washington. All that he has done for the negro, all the evidences of friendship he has shown in the past, have been utterly forgotten because he has not shown that sympathy with the criminal negro which pervades the negro population of this country from one end of it to the other." He then turned his attention to Sen ator Foraker saying: "I can remember with what frantic energy he used to wave the blooey shirt a shirt dyed with the crimson current of his own rhetoric; I r mem ber how he used to go ragng over the land, a bifuricated, peripatetic volcano in perennial eruption, belching fire and smoke and melted lava from n:s agoni zed and tumultuous bowTels. I can re member how. in public speeches ne spattered the gall of his bitterness upon the south until I came to think that the senator wished all the white people of the south, men, women, child ren, and babes at the breast, had but a single neck, that he mignt sever It at a blow. I would not have to go back 40 years to make any inquiry into the senator's pedigree to prove by sncn evidence that the senator from Ohio is the last man to sit in judgment in a case of murder where a negro was the murderer and a southern wiilte man was his victim. "But I will not do the senator such injustice as to judge his heart by the testimony of bis own mouth; andf when, niy southern friends ask me if the senator from Ohio is really as rabid and as bitter as he seems, I tell them, no his ferocity is purely ora torical; it is simply the lingering force of a tyrannical habit which continues to have some power over the tongue long after It had been expelled from the heart." PEOPLE OF KINGSTON IN A PITIABLE CONDITION Hundreds of Lives Lost Provisions Badly Wanted Fires Break Out Again Negroes iLooting Rum Shops Forty' five Invalid Soldiers Burned to Death in Hospital. Washington, January 16 Official news of the disaster at Kingston, reached Washington slowly today. The first report did not come to hand until well along in the afternoon when a dispatch was received at the state de partment dated "Jamaica, 3:31 p. m., January 16" and signed "American Consulate", stating that Kingston had been destroyed and hundreds of lives lost and that food was badly needed. The signature to this dispatch was mis leading, for the consul is absent cn leave from his post. It was assumed at the war department that the vice and deputy consul, William H.. OrreU, at Kingston had sent the dispatch. A reference in the cablegram to the fire proof safe is understood to convey as surance of the safety of the consular records and papers. It was a is re garded as possible that the message might have come from Nicholas R. Snyder, the American consul at Port Antonio, on the island of Jamaica.. However, the dispatch was regarded as warranting the taking of instant measures of relief. Indeed, the navy department had been in advance in this matter for through Captain Beehler, the officer in charge of the naval sta tion at Key West, wireless communi cation was early established between the navy department and Admiral Evans, commanding the Atlantic fleet at Guantanamo, Cubal, and when Sec retary Root later indicated the desir ability of sending warships at once to the distressed island, it turned out that Admiral Evans had anticipated in structions and had started on a tor pedo boat destroyer, the swiftest ves sel in the American fleet for Kingston ordering two battleships to follow as soon as they could. The appeal for food supplies directed attention to the fact that under ordi nary circumstances none of the gov ernment supplies could be used for outside relief save by special authori ty of congress. That fact, however, did not prevent Secretary Metcalt from ordering two supply ships with full cargoes of food, at once to Jamaica, leaving for tomorrow the question as to how the supplies are to be given to the needy inhabitants. The wrar department up to the close of business had not acted upon the application for food hut it is assumed that in anticipation of the passage of the necessary legislation by congress, it will at least take measures to get supplies to the island ready for the dis tributing agencies. There are stores of food at San Juan, Porto Rico, and at Havana, that might be used for emer gencies leavin the department to draw later upon the large stocks at New York. Washington, January 16. Captain Beehler, at Key West, has informed the navy department that he has received a wireless dispatch from Guantanamo, stating that Admiral Evans, command ing the Atlantic fleet has sailed from that place on the torpedo boat destroy er Whipple, for Kingston, Jamaica, to ascertain conditions and extend such aid as may be necessary. A later dispatch states that the bat tleships Indiana and Missouri have followed Admiral Evans. The supply ships Celtic and Glacier, which are now attached to the At lantic fleet and which are fully pro visioned, have been ordered to proceed with all haste to Kingston where their cargoes of food will be distributed among the needy. Santiago, January 16. Kingston har bor, as the result of the earthquake, is closed to shipping, but Bowden is open. There is need of quantities of provisions. Famine and pest conditions prevail, and there lis misery every where. Both the rich and poor at Kingston are homeless. London, January 16, 7 p. m. The following cable dispatch has been re ceived from a press representative who accompanied Sir Alfred Jones and his party to Jamaica: "Fires broke out again tonight. The negroes are looting the rum shops. At least 500 persons have been killed. There are weird and terrible scenes. Forty-five invalid soldiers were burned to death in the military hospital. Sev eral shocks were felt today". The above dispatch is not dated. Washington, January 16. The fol lowing cablegram was received at the state department this afternoon: "Jamaica, January 16, 3:31 p. m. "Secretary of State, Washington: "Fearful earthquake followed by fire. Kingston destroyed. Hundreds of lives lost. Consulate probably destroy ea. Fire proof safe. "American Consulate." The last sentence of the dispatch is supposed to have referred to the con sulate papers. St. Thomas, D. Wr. I., January 16 Reports received here from Jamaica say it is estimated that one thousand persons have been killed by earthquake and fire and that 90000 person3 are homeless. The damage to Kingston alone is placed at fully $10,000,000. St. Thomas, January 16, noon Later advices received here from Jamaica de clare that all people have been warned to keep away from Kingston. The stench there is described as awful. There is no fodder for animals and famine i9 imminent. Money is useless. The banks have 'been burned but the vaults are supposed to be safe. The misery on all sides is indescribable. Rich and poor alike are homeless. Pro visions of all kinds are urgently need ed. It is impossible to say where any body can be found. Sir James Fergus son, vice chairman of the Royal Mail Steamship Company is among the kill ed. The loss of life is very great, but the exact numbers are not yet known. The dead are buried under smouldering (ruins. The mercantile community suffered most severely, warehouses falling upon them. Many professional men are dead or injured. The negroes are looting .Ghastly scenes are being witnessed. All the shops have been destroyed and all the buildings in and around Kingston are in ruins. Very few of them are safe to live in. A message tonight from Sir Alfred Jones which confirms the worst fears. This message is addressed to Eldor, Dempster and Company and is as fol lows: "Kingston was overwhelmed by an earthquake Monday afternoon at 3:30. All the houses within a radius of ten miles have been damaged and al most every house in the city is de stroyed. Fire broke out after the earthquake and completed the work of destruction. It is estimated that one hundred persons have been killed and one thousand injured. The public of fices and hospitals are in ruins. Anions the killed are Sir James Fergusson, Many prominent merchants and pro- j fessionalmen and a great many natives j There were no fatalities at the Constant Springs hotel. WAS A DEFAULTER. Late Congressman Adams, who Com mitted Suicide Last .Year, Charged With Raving Embezzled $10,000. Philadelphia; January 16 The late Congressman Robert Adams, Jr., of this city, who committed suicide in his apartments in Washington last year by shooting!, was today declared in the orphans court here to have been a defaulter to the amount of $70,000. The startling assertion was made dur ing the argument in surcharge pro ceedings brought against H. Carlton Adams, surviving executor and trustee of the estate of his father, Robert Adams, Sr., by his step-mother, Mrs. Robert Adams!, Sr., and his step- sis ter, Mrs. Charles Moran. of New York. Counsel for H. Carlton Adams told the court he would show that Con gressman Adams had appropriated to his own use $70,000 worth of bonds be longing to the estate of Robert Adams, Sr., and to H. Carlton Adams. It was stated the congressman and H. Carl ton Adams had keys to a safe deposit box in which the alleged missing bonds had been kept and he as far back as five years ago, H. Carlon Adams dis covered that Pennsylvania Canal bonds were missing. He. notified his brother Robert, and the matter was fixed up. Subsequently H. Carlton Adams' con dition became such that he could not attend to business and matters were left in the hands of the Congressman. A broker testifies that Congressman Adams had pledged Pennsylvania Canal bonds valued at $10,000 for a loan of $2,900. Of the remaining bonds valued at about $60,000, no trace has been found. In proof of his assertion the attor ney for H. Carlton Adams produced in court a letter from the suicide con gressman, written in Washington the day he ended his life, in which he said he was sorry he had caused a "mess" and urged that H. Carlton Adams be not held responsible for any securities that might be misled. FIRE AT STATES VI LLE. Flouring Mill. Wheat Elevator and 2,000 Bushels of Wheat Destroyed. Loss $83,000. Charlotte, N. C, January 16. The plant of the Statesville Flouring Mill at Statesville, N. C, including a wheat j elevator and two thousand bushels of wheat; was totally destroyed by firs today. The plant of the Gaither Lum ber Company, the Morrison Lumber Company and the Southern railwriy pass enger and freight depots, nearby, were damaged to some extent and sev eral loaded freight cars of the South ern burnt. The plant, the capacity of which was 400 barrels daily, was one of the largest in the south. Sponta neous combustion was the cause. Loss $S5,000, partially covered by insurance. Go today to cut sacrifice sale of Donnelly & King's. Bankrupt stock. PROCEEDINGS III LEGISLATURE Many Important Deasures Intro duced in Both Bodies. ASSESSMENT OF BANK STOCK. Fmorable Report 3 lade on Dill Fixing Salaries of Solicitors at $2.100 Rill Introduced to Validate Deed .Made by Officials of Southiort. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C, January 16. The sen ate convened at 11 and Rev. Dr. M. M. Marshall of Raleigh offered pdayer. Favorable reports were made by committees on bills to fix the time ior summons of witnesses beforo grand juries; to require reports as to persons who have not paid poll tax; to fix the salaries of solicitors at $2,100. Bills were introduced as follows: By Daniel, to divide the state into 18 judicial districts; by Burton, to amend the revisal as to land entries, requir ing both persons to give bond when protest is filed. By Hoke to regulate the division of tolls of telephone mes sages between different companies; also to amend the law regarding widows allowances Bills passed final reading as follows: To amend the act of 1903 authorizing Brunswick county to issue bonds: to allow Elizabeth City to issue bonds for a market house. To allow any llcersed minister to perform the marriage cere mony. To amend the charter of the Salem southbound railway. To pro vide for assesment and taxation of cap ital stock In banks. This was the bill of Graham of Orange, who said It placed banks on the same footing as all other corporations, as for examnle mills, etc., and makes the law conform with the constitution. He said that the law as it stand laxing banks was a clear violation of the constitution. The non-resident is paid for by the bank but this comes out of the funis of the residents, and the latter pay additional tax. The bank pays for all, and under the national banking act the state is allowed to tax non-residents. in the place where the banks Is locat ed, and places the non-resident share holder on the same footing as the re sident ones. THE HOUSE. Speaker Justice called the house to order at 11 o'clock and Rev. G. B. Starling of the Methodist church offer ed prayer. - Bills w:ere Introduced as follows: By Owen to increase pensions. By McNeill to provide a state board of examiners for railway telegraphers and to pre vent the scalping of witness tickets in criminal actions. By Taylor to validate a deed by the mayor and board of ald ermen of Southport By Julian to pro vide a more complete punishment for carrying concealed weapons. By Har- shaw, to protect citizens at public gathering from head-gear and head ornaments, and from pompadoured hair. By Harris, to prevent railway collisions and to provide for the hand ling of trains by the block system. A message came from the governor transmitting the report of Insurance Commissioner Young, which was at once referred to committee on Insur ance and also a letter from the treas urer Df the United States relative to titles of land on which public bullfl ings have been erected or are to be erected by the general governmnt. The house took up the Anti-Lobbyist bill, requiring persons interested in promoting or opposing legislation for a compensation as agents or attorneys t register their names In a book to be kept open for public inspection in the office of the secretary of state, to gether with the name of the person or corporation employing such agents or attorney, the bill coming up on third reading, having passed second reading yesterday afternoon. Julian's bill fegarding carrying or concealed weapons make It manditory on a judge when a person 13 convicted of this offense to imprison him not less than 30 days nor more than C months and the bill contains the provision in the New York law that any person, upon application to a sheriff or chief of police and upon giving satisfactory reasons can procure a license to carry a pistol for a period not exceeding one week. The most important bill introduced during the day was one to enlarge the powers of the attorney general, so as to control certain corporations, de stroy trusts, and to put solicitors on salaries and require them to act as assistants to' the attorney general un der certain circumstances. The following bills pased their third and final readings: To authorize the county of Durham to Issue bond3 for permanent road building. There wa3 a long debate over a bill permitting parties confined In jail awaiting trial in court upon appuica tion to be allowed to work on the roads instead of remaining In jail and the time so served to be credited to the prisoner upon conviction and sentence or If fined, the amount at the usual rates of employment be credited or upon acquittal the same to be repaid him for his labor providing that con victs clothing shall not be worn. On motion of Douglas the bill was laid on the table. The house ad pour n ed at 1:45. BEFUSED THE ROLE Hoose fJusf Pull Own Chest nuts Out of Fire. BELIED Mil THE SEDffTE To Shoulder Blame for an ln crease of Salaries. Senate Could not Sro It That my Had Acted Tart of "Monkey" on SowrM Occasions---Sorrow and in. diguatkm lrcvsill Among lU-pnx m atives An Increase of Salaries Would Cnuso no Serious Corunwnt la Any Part of tlc Country. (Special to Tho Messenger.) Washington, January 16. There is sorrow at the south end of tho capitol where meet for purposes of debate and legislation the direct representatives of the people. Tho sorrow is of the fieif pitying kind and Is mingled with In dignation, tho latter directed at tb.a senators who represented the sovereign states at the capital's other end. And it Is all because the senators re fused to give tho representatives some thing the representatives refused to take for themselves: to wit, on addi tion of $2,500 to their yearly stipends. The house, by its course, had said to the senate: "Wo want this additional pay, wo ought to have it, but aro afraid to take it; you voto It to us, and let our constituents cuss you In stead of us. Your terms are longer and the people cannot get at you direct ly." That was all very nice and logical, from the view point of tho house. But the senate could not see it that way. It was recalled that year after year, at the behest of temperance organiza tions, the house passed a resolution abolishing tho sale of intoxIcatinK liquors at tho capitol. It was a well understood part of the game that tho senate would kill the resolution, and year after year It did kill its- Bnt at one session, about three years ago, tho senate decided it was tired of the house's "monkey business," and quiet ly and unostentatiously It concurred In the houso resolution. There was sorrow then at the house end and a disposition to charge the senate with bad faith; but the senate stood pat, and under the dome today, it is not possible to buy intoxicants. That bibulous members manage to keep their supply In their committer rooms has no bearing at all upon the subject. The part hard to understand is why there should be any hesitancy either In the senate or houso about Increasing the salaries of members of congress. It is doubtful If there would be any seri ous amount of criticism In any part of the country. Not only has Wasn ington become a world capital and a "City Beautiful," but it has become about the most expensive plac In the country to live. Members of the diplomatic corps aver that living is more expensive here than in any capi tal of the world, with the possible ex ception of St. Petersburg. Out of his salary of $3,000 a year a senator or representative must pay hL? campaign expenses and contribute to numberlea charities. H. is lucky to have $3,500 a year left for his family. That doesn't go very far In Washing ton. It will enable him to live, or course In a modest sort of way, but unless he ha:- a private Income Tie is absolutely barred from participation in society, except to attend the White House retentions and an occasional j "combination" affair at one of th second-class hotels. Society plays a large part, larger than most j-ople believe In the running of this or any other government; and the poor man in Washington is tremendously handi capped, no matter how brilliant hl mental attainments. It i.-i notorious that a poor man can not afford to accept a diplomatic post, because our diplomats are not ade quately paid. It Is getting to be true of the United States senate, and In tho house cloak-rooms th ame thing ii talked. A time will come no doubt, waea congress will have the courage to vote Itself more salary, but the time U not yet. Either the country will have to be educated up to the point of clamorous ly endorsing such a project, or men will have to come to congress who have more back-bone. To Investigate lioofcrr Waliington'A School. Montgomery, Ala., January 1C In, the houso today a resolution was pre sented authorizing the governor to ex am in a the books and accounts of the Booker Washington negro school at Tuskegeo and to report to tho state. This school receives a Email appro priation from tho statet but U sup ported by contributions from philanthropists.