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' MAINTAIN REPEAL
BILL TO BE PASSED
MINDS AMENDMENT
Opposition to the Repeal,
However, Is Growing
More Vigorous
POSSIBLE CONGRESS
MAY ADJOURN JULY 1
Leaders Plan to Postpone Antitrust
Legislation 1'ntil Next Session—To
Create Interstate Trade Com
mission Before Adjournment
Washington, April 12.—The toll exemp
tion repeal fight still holds the center of
Interest in Congress, with prospect of
further stirring discussion this week in
the Senate, where the inter-oceanic canals
committee will resume hearings tomor
row.
With little chance for final action on
the tolls issue for another month, Sen
ate and House members have been res
tive lest early adjournment might be im
peded. The plan of the administrative
leaders, though, to postpone anti-trust
legislation until next session, save for
the creation of an interstate trade com
mission, lias revived hopes that Congress
may get back to the country and into the
campaign for the election of senators
and representatives as early as July 1.
There is little likelihood that general
debate on the tolls issue will begin tor
another two weeks, the canals commit
tee purposing to give 11 days more to
hearings on the various bills introduced
and the House repeal bill. How long the
committee will deliberate after the hear
ings are concluded is indefinite, but re
peal champions will do all in their power
to get a record vote of the committee and
a report as early as possible.
Opposition Growing More Vigorous
Opposition to the repeal is growing
more vigorous, but senators supporting
the President insist that this opposition
is not extending itself. They, maintain
confidence that the repeal bill will pass
without amendment. Such democratic op
ponents of repeal as Senators O’Gorman
and Chamberlain retain the hope that re
peal will be defeated or that the bill will i
be amended so as to proclaim the sover
eignty of the United States over the Pai- I
anian canal.
Senators Owen and Simmons, leading |
the fight for the President in the canals
committee, expect to present important
information as to just what his govern
ment had in mind in negotiating the Hay
Pauncefote treaty with reference to treat
ing all nations on an equal basis in tin? ■
canal.
Some of this information they hope to
get from Joseph H. Choate, ambassador |
to Kngland when the treaty was nego
UJ&ted, anti Henry White, who was in
charge of the American embassy in Lon
don then. These and other prominent men
will appear before the canals committee
this week. Senator O'Gorman and other
repeal opponents plan to make capful out
of tlie Colombian treaty, which would ex
tend to the South American republic ill
use of the canal free of tolls for war;
vessels and n former Colombia treaty,
negotiated but never in force, in which
a similar provision was Incorporated and
which was acquiesced in by Great Britain, j
The first treat? was negotiated when
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APPOINTMENTS BY
Rt. Rev. Allen Announces
Appointments for Spring
and Early Summer
Mobile. April 12.—(Special.)—The
Right Rev. E P. Allen, bishop of Mo
bile, pontificated at the cathedral today,
lie also preached the Easter sermon and
save the papal blessing. The bishop’s
appointments for the spring and early i
summer are:
Monday, April 13, 8 a. m.—Profession 1
of Sisters of Mercy, convent of Mercy. ‘
Mobile.
April 19—Pensacola confirmation. ,
Church of the Sacred Heart. 7 a. m.;
St. Michael’s church, 10 a. m.; St. John's :
j < hurch, Warrington, 4 p. m.
j Monday, April 20—Visitation of Con- '
vent of Mercy, 6:30 a. m., Warrington.
I Tuesday, April 21—Visitation of Con
vent of Mercy, Pensacola. 6:30 a. tn.
Wednesday, April 22—Dedication of
church at Santa Rosa, Fla.
Thursday, April 23—Visitation of
Convent of Perpetual Adoration.
April 26—Confirmation of St. Paul’s
church, Birmingham.
April 27—Confirmation church of St.
Cyril and Methodius at Brookslde.
April 28—Examination of junior
clergy. Birmingham.
April 29—Visitation, church of the
| Sacred Heart, Anniston.
April 30—Gadsden, church of St.
[James, convent of St. James.
May 3—Dedication of St. John the
Baptist church, Montgomery. 10 a. m.:
| confirmation of St. John the Baptist
church, 3 p. m.: confirmation of St.
Peter's church, 7:30 p. m.
May A—Confirmation at St. Andrews
[church, 7 p. m.
May 5—Conference of the clergy. Mo
bile, 3 p. in
May 7—Examination of junior clergy,
Mobile. 3 p. m.
May 9- Visitation, convent of the
j Holy Ghost, 7 a. m.. Davis avenue, Mo
! bile.
May 10—Confirmation, St. Joseph’s, 7
a. m.: St. Mary’s, 10 a. m.; St. Vincent's,
4 p. m.
Maj 11—Confirmation at Little Sis
ters of th** Poor. 4 j). m.
May 12 Confirmation at Spring Hill
college, 6 a. m.
May 17—Confirmation, Selma.
May 18—Visitation of the Convent ol
Mercy, Selma.
May 21—Confirmation in Toulminville,
8 a. m.; St. Catherine of Sienna, Crich
to. | p. m.
May 24—Confirmation, Apalachicola.
May 25- Visitation of Convent of
Mercy. Apalachicola.
May 29—St. Mary’s school, closing ex
ercises. 1 p. m.
May 31-—Pontifical mass, cathedral.
10:30 a. m.: confirmation. 4 p. m.
June 1—McGill institute, closing ex
ercises. 4 p. m.
June 3—Ordination, cathedral, Mo
bile. 6:30 a. m.
June 3—Cathedral Girls’ school, 4 p. in.
June 7—Pontifical mass. Trinity col
lege, commencement, Washington, 1). C.
June J4—Confirmation. New Decatur.
9 a. in.; Huntsville, 7:30 p. m.
June 21—Tuscaloosa, confirmation.
June 28—Confirmation at Fish River,
Baldwin county. 10 a. m.: Bon Se
Cour, 5 p. m.
July 5—Confirmation at Summerdale,
7 a. m.; confirmation at Elberta, 4 p. m.
July 11—Confirmation at St. Florian.
July 12—Confirmation at Sheffield, 7
a. m.: confirmation at Tuscumbia, 10
a. m.: confirmation at Florence, 5 p. m.
Senator Root was Secretary of State.
•Senator Root, now a stanch repeal advo
cate. is expected to meet the charge of
inconsistency that some senators are
making with the explanation that Colom
bia as former owner of tin* canal zone
has a moral right to special treatment.
Trade Commission Bill
The fact that members of the Senate i?.
terstate commerce committee plan to
amend the proposed interstate trade com
mission bill to give that commission
authority to investigate tlie business of
interlocking directorates, holding com
panies, slock watering, destructive price
discrimination and like evils, has struek
a responsive chord in tin* minds of many
democrats in both Houses. There is a
growing feeling that the trade commission
measure will be the only trust legislation
passed at this session. Many democratic
senators believe a commission with broad
powers could be created without prolonged
discussion, but they are certain that any
attempt to put through hills to prohibit
interlocking directorates and holding
companies and to further supplement n *
Sherman law would precipitate debate
which would prolong the session all sum
mer.
Conferences between Senate and House
Baders and the President will be held
within a few days to determine proposed
limitation • of the trust legislation pro
giamine. Meanwhile the House interstate
commerce committee remains active ami
a trade commission clothed with the
power and authority to prevent “unfai
and oppressive competition,” is proposed
in a bill to be introduced tomorrow by i
Representative Stevens of New Hamp- j
shire. The interstate trade and foreign
commerce committee tomorrow will report
iti revised trade commission bill. Rep- i
rt ?•< illative Stevens' bill is designed to j
broaden the powers of the commission
as proposed in the committee measure.
• The trade commission has no admin
istrative power whatever under the pro
visions of the committee bill,” said Rep
resentative Stevens tonight. Its general
investigations are made for the purpose
of Information for explanation by, Con
gress. The special investigations merely
m*-« part of the work of the depart
in. ut of justice in connection with the
enforcement of the antitrust acts. Its
only power is that of Investigation and
recommendation.
Provisions of Bill
To clothe the proposed commission with
authority to regulate competition between I
corporations, the Stevens bill declares to |
I).* unlawful, ’’all unfair or oppressive]
(« mpetition in commerce” empowers the |
«ommission to prevent such competition 1
and provides: That, whenever the com
mission shall have reason to believe that :
; n\ corporation has been or is using j
any unfair or oppressive method of com- j
petition it shall issue and serve upon ]
-«‘d corporation a written order, at
least 30 days in advance of the tim«*i
s**t therein for hearing, directing said,
corporation’ to appear before the com-j
i mission and show cause why an order
shall not be issued by the commission j
restraining and prohibiting said corpora
tion from using such method of com
petition. and if upon such hearing the
commission shall he of the opinion that
tin method of .competition in question
is prohibited by. this act, it thereupon
shall issue an order restraining ami
prohibiting the use of the same. The
commission may at any time modify
or set aside, in whole or in part .any
c ider issued by it under this act.”
Anti-Injunction Bill
Plans for caucusing on the question of
pressing the Bartlett-Baeon anti-injunc
j tic n bill have been dropped on an un
do ('standing of the labot- group Jn the
House that when the antitrust bills shall
emanate finally from the judiciary com
mittee as an omnibus measure, there will
! be included some provision to limit the
Injunction power of the courts.
; Sc labor element action is dependent
i> Ion the probability that the general
trust legislation may he dropped alto
gether at this session.
. »s a compliment to Chairman Flood
• if the foreign affairs committee?, House
leaders have arranged to expedite con
sideration of the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill ibis week. Mr. Flood
will be married April 18, and in order
that Hie piloting of his appropriation bill
i through the House shall not interfere
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ELECTION RETURNS |
ST. CLAIR
Pell City, April II.—The following is
the official vote In St. Clair:
Hobson 436, Underwood 611.
Brown 430. Rushton 64, White £41.
Comer 462, Henderson 167, Kolb 157, Seed
264.
Chesnutt 68. Curry 164. Kilby 675.
Cobb 80, Greer 8u, Nunnelle 300.
Purlfoy 474.
Bradley 307, Graham 87, I^ancaster 160,
Smith 294.
Allgood 795. Wilkerson 148.
Greene 666, Martin 162, Pegram 22, Rid
dle 187.
Feagin 836.
Greer 184, Persons 133. Seymour 146,
Wade 424.
Cooper 622. Gaillard 613, Julian 240, Mc
Cord 227.
Anderson 862.
Gardner 818.
Boyd 384. deGraffenried 201, Ma.vflcld
457. Simpson 253, Thomas 213.
Abercrombie 867.
Brown 645, Thomas 213.
Goodwyn 361. Graves 504.
Burnett 731, Rainey 270.
Embry 772, M. C. Sibley 270.
Sheriff—Bradford 661, Treece 474.
WASHINGTON
diatom, April 12.—(Special.)—Washing
ton's official vote in Monday's primary Is
as follows:
Comer 346. Henderson 36, Kolb 359,
Seed 72.
Hobson 182, Underwood 625.
Brown 60, Rushton 168. White 635.
Cheetnutt 70, Curry 306, Kilby 325.
Cooper 419, Gaillard 563, Julian 237, Mc
Cord 104.
Cobb 94. Greer 60, Nunnelee 121, Puri
foy 470.
Greene 49, Martin 368, Pegram 134, Rid
dle 149.
Allgood 383. Wilkinson 308.
Bradley 130, Graham 43, Lancaster 213,
Smith 354.
Greer 113, Persons 158, Seymour 257,
Wade 167.
Mayfield 405, DeGraffenreid 318, Boyd
6(). Simpson 270. Thomas 259.
Thomas 341, Brown 372.
Goodwyn 343, Graves 352.
For Congress, First District—Gray 298,
Taylor 518.
LAWRENCE
Courtland, April 12.—(Special.)—The fol
lowing is the official vote cast In Lime
stone: jr
Hobson 679. Underwood 964.
Brown 126, Rushton 120, White 100S.
Comer 591, Henderson 148, Kolb 133, Seed
547.
Chesnutt 74, Curry 318. Kilby 741.
Cobb 147, Greer 216. Hunnalee 315, Puri
foy 681.
Bradley 225, Graham 75, Lancaster, 231,
Smith 611.
Allgood 696, Wilkinson 436.
Greene 121, Martin 671, Pegram 56, Riddle
389.
Feagin 1002.
Greer 492, Persons 169, Seymour 264,
Wade 217.
Cooper 695, Gaillard 544, Julian 4S4, Mc
Cord 264.
Anderson 1039.
Gardner 1003.
Boyd 119, deGraffenried 187. Mayfield 208,
Simpson 759, Thomas 488.
Brown 889, Thomas 284.
Abercrombie 10GR.
Goodwyn 271, Graves 815.
Betts 710. Bouldin 663, Garth .‘574, Glenn
282. Koonce 718, Kumpe 978, Malone 320,
Nathan 247, Patterson 632, Tally 311.
Almon 595, Ballentine 99, Callahan 559,
Walts 158.
Almon 191.
Green 848.
Day 387, French 430. Neely 5:49.
Berry hill 261, Carruth 265, Lee 320.
CLAY
Lineville, April 12.—(Special.)—The offi
H1 count of returns from Clay county
follows:
Comer 487, Henderson 178. Kolb 169, Seed
Oil.
Chesnutt 52. Curry 525, Kilby 1016.
Hobson 731, Underwood 1075.
Rushton 309, White 1216, Brown 156.
Cobb 268, Greer 199, Nunnelee 374, Puri
foy 807.
Greene 54, Martin 660, Pegram 44, Rid
dle 954.
Allgood 1232, Wilkinson 397.
Bradley 222, Graham 107. Lancaster 766,
Fhnith 577.
Greer 199. Persons 382, Seymour 197,
Wade 800.
Cooper 902, Gaillard 712, Julian 599, Mc
Cord 470.
Mayfield 402, deGraffenried 287, Boyd
588, Simpson 769, Thomas 1002.
Thomas 627. Brown 985.
Goodwyn 618, Graves 874.
For State Senate—John R. McCain, pro
hibitionist, 976: \V. H. Price, local option
al, 8*3. McCain carried Clay, Cleburne
and Coosa by 1038 majority.
For House of Representatives—D. C.
T-Jrlmns 613, W. H. Preston 323, W. R.
Pruett 899. Holmes and Pruett, prohibi
tionists, will be in the run-off.
CONFESSED* ROBBER
ESCAPES FllOM JAIL
Frank fiohle Leaves Prison Near
Pittsburg b)’ Mattress Rope.
Still at Large
Altoona, Pa.. April 12.—Frank G.
Gohle, the confessed robber of the Union
bank of Pittsburg, who was confined
in the Hollldayaburg jail awaiting sen
tence, escaped early today. A jail em
ploye found his cell empty and a rope
made from a mattress dangling from
the roof.
Gohle made the rope from his mat
tress, then climbed through window
eight feet above the floor. From the
window he drew himself to the roof,
fastened the rope to a chimney and slid
to the pavement. The sheriff and a
posse in automobiles spent the day
searching for the escaped prisoner, but
tonight he still was free.
Gohle robbed the Union hank, in the
heart oL the business district, at the
noon hmtr, March 23. He drove the
cashier and paying teller from their
cages, shot the casher and a depositor,
stuffed $3000 in a hag and escaped in
a stolen taxicab. He was captured at
Salem, Ohio.
RICHARD O’* MAURY
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
Galveston, Tex.. April 12.—Richard
(i. Maury, district attorney of Harris I
county, and who has been ^active ini
prosecution of recent antitrust suits
as special assistant to the state at
torney general, was killed w$u.*n the
automobile be was driving here today
struck a cow and was wrecked. Mr.
Maury was 36 years old.
Little Suffering From Weevil
Meridian, Miss., April 12.—(Special.)
Daily reports of the Meridian clearing
house show that the city has suffered
very little so far from the ravages of the
boll weevil in this sec tion. The clearings
show as well as they did last year, there
being Imt a slight difference In tne
amounts This is taken as a good Index
of tiie financial condition of the city.
with his plans, it has been arranged
that the diplomatic bill, carrying pro
vision for the expenses of the foreign
affairs of the government, aggregating
f4.rs9.UT7, shall immediately follow the
p* nding legislative bill.
Secretary Garrison, Chairman Adamson
of the I louse interstate commerce com
mittee and Representative Stevens of
Minnesota of that committee, still are
wrestling over the form that general wa
t. . power conservation legislation shall
take al this session. Tentative drafts
of bills have been prepared but so far
divergent views have not been recon
ciled.
Senator Simmons heads a Senate com
mittee. working on the same problem.
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THE TOLLS FIGHI
Says Hawaiian Sugar Grow
ers and Eastern Refiners
Chiefly Interested in
Tolls Exemption
Washington, April 12.—Secretay Redfleld
of the department of commerce tonight is
sued a statement connecting Hawaiian
sugar growers and eastern sugar refiners
with the Panama canal tolls fight, pointing
out that they are the shippers chiefly in
terested in the exemption of American
vessels from tolls. His statement followed
a recent trip to the Pacific coast and
Investigations by the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce.
“The question as to who will he the
largest shippers through the canal.” said
the secretary, “has perhaps incidental in
terest in connection with the discussions
concerning Panama canal tolls, if it s as
sumed that the carriers will, as they,
say, distribute the charges over the
freight tonnage carried, the question as to
which kind of freight might have to as
sume the burden has some interest. Pos
sibly, therefore, the answers to certain
questions may throw light on the situa
tion.
“Who are at present the largest ship
pers over the isthmus of Tehuantepec?
The sugar growers of Hawaii. To whom
are their shipments made? To the sMgar
refiners in and about New York and
Philadelphia. Do these shipments amount
to a great deal? In the last fiscal year
they were 528,000,000 pounds, or 264,000 net
tons.
“In the present method of shipment over
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec are there two
trans-shipments of freight—one on the
west coast of Mexico, another on the east
toast—and a railroad charge between?
There are, and the through rate from
Hawaii to New York must include the
cost of such transference and freight
charges.
“Would not tlie opening of the canal
do away witli these two transfers and
[he railway charge? It would, and doubt
less the sugar growers would be benefited
thereby and properly so.
“In view of their serious complaints as
to the effect of the placing of sugar on
Lhe free list in the near future, is It not
i ormal that the sugar growers should ex
ert every means in their power to reduce
the cost of transporting their product to
the market? That would undoubtedly be
good business."
SECRETARY HRYAN
REVIEWS AT LENGTH
THE TOLLS QUESTION |
(Continued from Page Oue)
'little plank,” and to the pronouncement
>n bounties and subsidies as the "larger
:dank,” and says: ,
“What opiate does the little plank con
ain that it can make those who accept
r oblivious of the larger plank? By what 1
ule of construction can the small plank
>e made binding and the large one ig
lored? The secret of the strange power
exerted by the little plank is to be found
n the fact that it carefully conceals the
r.eans by which it is to be carried out.
Had the word 'subsidy' or 'bounty' been
nserted in this plank, it could not have
secured the indorsement of the convention
because tlie contradiction between this
nlank and the larger plank would have
>een immediately apparent. If the same
■are bad been used in the drawing of
his plank that was used in the drawing
>f tlie plank on the merchant marine, it
vould have read as follows: ‘We favor
he exemption from toll of American ships
■n gaged in coastwise trade passing
Through the canal, but without imposing
idditional burdens upon the people and
without bounties or subsidies from the
public treasury.’
“But even if the platform had not con
ained within itself a complete refutation
»f the position taken by the advocates of
Tee tolls, the President would have been
Instilled in the position that he took by
lie changed conditions which confronted
Tim. A platform Is a pledge and is as
binding upon an official as the command
if a military officer is upon a subordi
nate—the statement cannot be made
stronger. But the subordinate officer is
sometimes compelled to act upon his judg
ment where a change of which the com
manding officer is not aware has taken
place in conditions. It is not only the
right of the subordinate to judge the sit
uation for himself where conditions have
changed since the order was given, but
it is his duty to do so. In the case un
der consideration the President takes re
sponsibility for an official act which he
regards as necessary for his country’s
welfare, and the people must decide
whether or not he is justified; and those
who refuse to act with him also assume
responsibility, and they, too, must abide
the judgment of the public. Such a change
has taken place since the Baltimore plat
form was adopted. Had the democrats In
convention assembled been confronted by
the conditions which now exists, and had
they kneton what those now know who
voted for repeal, no such plank would
ever have been placed in the platform. The
convention’s attention was not even
brought to the fact tliat a majority of the
democrats In the House had voted against
the free tolls measure and that it had in I
faetlbeen passed by a combination of a
minority of the democrats and a majority
of the republicans.’’
Planks Must Be Accepted
Mr. Bryan says that platform planks
dealing with international questions must
be accepted with the understanding “that
we act jointly with other nations In In
ternational affairs,” that even if the plank
had not been contradicted by another
plank in the platform, and even if it
“had not concealed a subsidy policy re
pugnant to democratic principle and his
tory." that even if conditions had s not
changed, a platform plunk should he
taken 'on International questions "as the
expression of a wish rather than as the
expression of a determination, for no na
tion can afford to purchase a small ad
vantage in the face of a universal pro
test."
“If a nation,” continued the secretary,
“desires to array itself against the world
it should be sure that the thing which
it is to gain is worth what it costs. The
President, knowing that every commercial
nation except our own construes the
treaty as a pledge of equal treatment,
would have been recreant to his trust had
he failed to point out to the American
people that our diplomatic relations would
be seriously disturbed by the carrying out
of the free tolls policy.”
Considering the repeal measure upon its
merits. Mr. Bryan said there were just
two questions to be decided:
‘ “First, is it desirable for the demo
cratic party to abandon its historic po
sition and become the advocate of sub
sidies and bounties? And second, if it is
desirable, what Is the democratic party
willing to sacrifice in international pres
tige and world influence in order to se
cure the advantage which these subsi
dies promise to a few people?”
338 for Repealing Clause
Washington, April 12.—First returns
from a poll Senator Gore is making of
delegates to the democratic national
convention at Baltimore on the canal
tolls issue were announced tonight by
the democratic national committee.
They showed 338 for repealing the
clause of the toll exemption act, 69
against reepaJ and 11 non-committal.
Debate on the repeal has centered
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OFFICIAL MAP OF THE WEATHER_J
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
IZc-rriisntfK>/rn Ola,,
O-fJ'fl IS, 1914- jtn
'EXPtXNATdHY'NOTES,
Observations taken atsp.m. ,75th meridian time. Air pressure reduced to sea level. Isobars (continuous llneil pses fhrqhdTl DOM®
or equal air pressure. Isotherms (dotted lines) pass through points of equal temperature: drawn only for zero, freezing. 90°. and 100°.
O clear; © partly cloudy; © cloudy: © rain; © mow; © report missing. Arrows fly with the wind. First figures, highest
temperature past 12 hours; second, precipitation of .01 Inch or mare tor past 24 hours; third, maximum wind velocity.__
Weather Forecast
Washington, April 12.—Forecast for Ala
bama: Fair Monday; Tuesday fair and
warmer.
Tennessee: Fair Monday: warmer west
portion; Tuesday fair and warmer.
Georgia: Fair Monday, preceded by
*howcrs near the coast: somewhat colder
ust and south portions: Tuesday fair and
warmer.
Mississippi: Fair Monday; warmer in
north portion; Tuesday fair and warmer.
Local Data
For the 24 hours ending at 7 p. m.
April 12, 1914:
Highest temperature . 83
Lowest temperature . "'2
Mean temperature . 9.8
N’nrmal temperature . 82
Deficiency in temperature since Jan
uary I . 293
Lain tall .13
1’otal rainfall since January 1. 11.86 ;
Deficiency in rainfall since January
t .5.88
Relative humidity (i a. m.-7 p. m.)—95-84
Weather Conditions
iiirmingltam, April 12.—(7 p. • m.)—The
onv pressure area that was central over
the western gulf on Saturday night’s
nap has moved rapidly northeastward,
,nd now overlies the extreme northern
Atlantic coast sections. Its passage
•aused general rains throughout the gulf
md Atlantic coast districts Saturday
light and Sunday, but on the map to
ilght the interior of the country is un
tier the influence of the high pressure
area that is central over the Mississippi
bo sin. This ‘ high” has brought clear
ing weather to all sections west of the
Alleghenies, except the gulf states, and
a cool change to most of the gulf states
and the Atlantic slope. Over western
portions of the cotton belt, and all sec
tions west and north of Tennessee, tem
peratures have risen somewhat, due to
the practically stationary pressure con
ditions and the light winds, together With
uninterrupted sunshine. Over the country
as a whole the skies have been fair and
the temperatures moderate. • While cloudy
and rather cool weather prevailed in most
southern states, with most stations east
of the Mississippi reporting rain during
the past 24 hours, the temperature change
hatr been less than seemed probable, and
tiie rainfall amounts generally light.
Summary of observations made at
United States Weather Bureau stations
April 12, 1914:
Temperature
Bowest
At for
7 p. m. day.
Atlanta, parUy cloudy .GO 54
Birmingham, cloudy . 59 52
Boston, clear . 46
Brownsville, cloudy . GO 60
Buffalo, clear . 34
Charleston, cloudy . 64
Chicago, clear . 38
Corpus Chrlsti, cloudy . 62 52
Denver, clear . GO
L»es Moines, clear . Go
Dodge City, clear . 56
Durango, clear . **
Jaiveeton, cloudy . 58 181
dutteras, partly cloudy . St
Havre, partly cloudy . “
Helena, clear .
H uron, clear . 84
Jacksonville, cloudy . *o •*
Kansas City, clear . »b
Knoxville, clear . j"
Louisville, clear .
Memphis, clear . j?*
Miami, cloudy .
Mobile, cloudy . ”
Mcdena, clear . 64
Montgomery, cloudy . ” *"
Nashville, clear . oh
New Orleans, cloudy . |J0
North Platte, clear . »
Oklahoma, partly cloudy .
Palestine, cloudy . ”4 y
Pittsburg, clear . 62
Portland, rain . b4
Raleigh, partly cloudy . 62
Rapid City, clear . 66,
Koseburg, rain . ^
Roswell, clear . 64 ,,
Salt Lake City, dear .. 5S
San Antonio, cloudy . 52 42
San Francisco, clear . 68
Snult Ste. Marie, clear . 18
Sheridan, partly cloudy . 62 ..
Snreveport, cloudy . 62
Spokane, cloudy . 56
St. Louis, dear . 04 *•
St. Paul, ulear . ^8
Tampa, cloudy . ^68
Toledo, dear . 43 ••
Vicksburg, cloudy . 60
Washington, clear . 60
Willlston. clear . 64
Wlnnemucca, partly cloudy .... 66
E. C. HORTON, ix>cal Forecaster.
Grand Lodge Assembles in
Biennial Session Tues
day Morning
Anniston, April 12.—(Special.)—'The grand
edge Knights of Honor of Alabama will
Msemble in biennial session in fraternal
mil at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning. The
following named grand officers will he
n attendance: L. Schwartz of Mobile,
jast grand dictator: A. F. McGhee of
\nniston, grand dictator; E. D. Brown,
grand vice dictator, Birmingham; T.
Gardner Foster, grand reporter, and A.
3. Garland, grand treasurer, Montgomery.
Supreme Dictator Edwin C. Wood of
\>w York ana Frank B. Sliger, supreme
porter and treasurer, of St. Louis, and
probably other supreme officers will at
tend the session. The grand lodge is
omposed of about BO officers and repre
sentatives.
Baltimore, Md„ April 12.—The Federal
league, with its numerous recruits from
the ranks of the National and American
leagues, will open here tomorrow n sea
son its officials hope will result in a
vindication of its claim to rank as a
third major league of baseball. Balti
more and Buffalo, which tor many years
have been represented only by teams in
the International leagues will play the
fist game In the contest for the cham
pionship of the new "big’’ league.
By act of the state legislature tomorrow
v.ill be a half-holiday, and indications
are that more than 20,000 persons will
tnx the capacity of Terrapin park if the
w*-athor is favorable.
Mayor James 11. Preston of Baltimore
will put the ball In play, and Mayor
Fuhnnann of Buffalo is expected to be
piesent, as also are Governor (Joldsbor
ough t»f Maryland, President James A.
Gilmore of the Federal league, Charles
Wteghman, hucker of the Chicago club,
Robert B. Ward of the Brooklyn club.
William Watkins of the Indianapolis
club, and other Federal league officials.
The lo< al club will be handicapped by
the absence from the game of Third
Baseman Kirkpatrick, who broke his an
kle yesterday. Walsh probably will take
his place.
Bible Institute in Meridian
Meridian, Miss., April 12.—(Special.)
Dr. and Mrs. Hn.mil 1. well-known Sun
day school workers of Nashville, will
be here to conduct a Bible institute at
the Central Methodist church for two
days next week, beginning Thursday
and lasting through Friday. All de
nominations have been Invited to par
ticipate In the work and the attendance
is expected to be large.
largely on the declaration of the Bal
timore platform for free tolls, and two
weeks ago Senator Gore addressed per
sonal letters to each of the thousand
odd delegates to the convention asking
for an expression of opinion on the
issue.
“Up to date the returns are alike
astounding to the champions and op
ponents of the repeal,” said the an
nouncement tonight. "Only two states
have given n majority against the re
peal. A number of them, so far as the
votes have been received, have declared
unanimously in favor of the repeal—
notably Texas and Pennsylvania. In
Illinois the vote to date is 24 to 2 for
repeal.”
\
NEGRO BUSINESS
LEAGUE TO CONVENE
Sessions Will Be Addressed Tuesday
in Montgomery by Mayor
Gunter and Others
IIy p. OWENS
TiiskeKee, April 12.—(Spoclal.^-Thp sixth
annual meeting of the Alabama State Ne
gro Business league, E. T. Attwell of
1 Tuskegee Institute, president, and R. L.
Mabr5r, Birmingham, secretary, will be
called to order ut the State Normal school,
Montgomery, on Tuesday, when welcome
addresses will be delivered by Mayor W.
A. Gunter and Bruce Kennedy, secretary
of the Business league of Montgomery.
The Negro Business league is composed
of 18 local leagues representing some 700
members located in Montgomery, Birming
ham. Mobile, Selma, Tuskegee, Talladega,
Anniston, Tuscumbia, Sheffield. Florence,
Decatur, Opelika, Uniontown and other
j cities.
The object of the league is to promote
the educational, industrial and financial
j uplift of the negro. The sessions, last
! ing three days, will be devoted to discus
sions on the influence of the negro in bus
iness, the health conditions of the negro,
building a railroad, real estate and land
getting, practical banking, the undertak
ing business, insurance, the duty*of the
negro teacher, religion in every day life,
the negro newspapers, cleaning clothes,
training for personal service, the prac
tice of dentistry, etc.
The organization stands for every phase
of endeavor in negro uplift of the state
and is composed of the boat and mtuft
progressive elements of the race, who
everywhere have the .sympathy and aid
of leading white people.
One of the most interesting features of
the meeting will be the reports on negro
progress during the year.
circuTtcourt IN
SESSION IN MERIDIAN
Meridian, Miss., April 12.—(Special.)
The third week of the civil term of the
circuit court was concluded Saturday,
and tli ecourt has three more weeks to
run. There have been no really impor- ,
tant cases, though there have been more
than 100 damage suits placed on- the j
docket for trial and some of them hav •
already been tried.
The only verdict of any- consequent,
that has been rendered in favor of plain- >
tiffs was an agreed verdict for $3000 in a
suit against the Mobile and Ohi6 railroad.
Daniels Going to Harrisburg
Washington, April 12.—Secretary
Daniels will go to Harrisburg, Pa., to
morrow to speak at a Jefferson day
banquet. |
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MERIDIAN TO VOTE.
ON SCHOOL BONDS.
Citizens Decide April 24
Whether to Spend $75,000.
for Improvements
Meridian, Miss., April 12.—(Special.)—On
April 24 the city of Mwrldian will vote
L.n a bond issue for $75,000 for school im
provements. It has been found necessary
to greatly increase the school facilities
of the city, owing to the great and
flowing attendance. *
At the opening of the present session
It was found necessary to refuse perm is- |
bkn to pupils living outside the separate
school district to atten«, as there were
not sufficient class rooms. To obviate
Ibis the board of trustees has asked the
people to vote a bond issue, so that prep
arations can be made to accommodate j
the country pupils who desire to attend
as well as those living in the city.
Thdre is no doubt that the bond issue
will carry, as the people here believe
that they have the best public schools
in the south and always freely give all j
money asked to support, improve and
maintain them.
Two Charged With Murder
Pittsburg, April 12.—Dr. C. C. Mere
dith, a Pittsburg physician, and Miss
Lucy I). Orr, a nurse in his employe, ar
rested a few days ago on an alleged*
charge oJ^mal-practice in connection
with the of Mrs. Myrtle Allison a
year ago. and released on bail, were re
arrested today, charged with the wom
an's murder.
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