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VOl, XXXVIII No 8b. WILMINGTON JN G., OCTOBER 27. li05. 01.00 PER YEAR i AGAINST LYNCH LAW President Discusses Race Problem at Little Rock. J IS HE "BIG STICK" Enthusiastic Demonstrations by Thous ands of Persons. The President Visited Fort Logan II. Root. His Guard of Honor Being Composed of Former Confederate and Federal Army Veterans Then an Address Was Delivered Before i 0.000 Persons in City Park A Ijmeheoii Was Tendered the Presi dent at the Masonic Consistory. Little Rock, Ark., October 25. Pres ident Roosevelt spent seven crowded hours in and around Little Rock to day, and his journey irom Fort Lo gan H. Root on the north side o) Arkansas river to the city park m Little Rock was; marked by enthusias tic demostrations of welcome by thous ands of persons who lined the streets While in Little Rock the President d& nlivered two speeches, in one of which he denounced lynching, eliciting hearty applause. After the President's address before 40,000 persons, in the city park :u Little Rock, the party was taken to tha Albert Pike Masonic consistory where a luncheon was given to the President. This function ended at 3:30 o dockland the visitors then en tered a special irain at the Rock is land station to return to Memphis. GOVERNOR JEFF DAVIS GREETS THE PRESIDENT. Governor Jefferson Davis was tnv first to greet the President when the latter left the train this morning at Big Rock. A reception committee which included United Slates Senators James H. Berry and James B. Clarke Mayor W. E. Lemon and President George W. Rogers, of the Little Rock board of trade and twenty other prora-v inent citizens united with the governor in welcoming the chief executive and his party. Carriages were taken to Fort Logan II. Root on the summit of Big Rock, overlooking the city of Lit tde Rock, overlooking the city of Little Rock, across Arkansas river. A salute of 21 guns was fired at the fort and the President, after inspecting r.hs buildings, the grounds and the garri son, companies E and F, thirteenth United States infantry, spent half u hour in the officers quarters as r.h9 'guest of Lieutenant Colonel A. C Sharpe, commardant, and the other officers of the post. CIVIL WAR VETERANS FORM GUARD Ob HONOR. When the Pre?ident left the officers quarters he shook hands with the guard of honor, composed of 12 Union army veterans, headed by Colonel A S. Fowler, and 12 former Confederate veterans, headed by fdrmer Governor Daniel W. Jones. This guard had met the Presiden tial party and accompanied it to the army post. They rode in pairs, each former Confederate by the side of a Federal army veteran. Each of the vet erans was given a verbal greeting by the President, who remarked on ap proaching the group, "Gentlemen, 4t does me good to see the blue and the gray riding together." He called each veteran "comrade." As the Presidential party reached the Arkansas river bridge the blowing steam whistles was the signal for cheering in Little Rock, whose prin- cipal thoroughfare. Main street was ' picturequely decorated with flags -uid hunting. The ?reat outpouring of peo ple was evidence that the cloudiness and cool weather could not interfere with the popular welcome. From all parts of Arkansas, people had come to .greet the President. EXERCISES AT THE CITY PARK. As the party entered the city park undei the arch bearing the inscription "Little Rock Greets You," twenty-one white doves were liberated from the apex of the arch directly over the Pres ident's carriage. This feature caused great cheering and the President smii-d- The exercses at the city park opened at 11:30 o'clock. Governor Davis delivered an address- of welcome in which he drew a word picture of the resources of Arkasaa, touched lightly on the race question, and assured the President that the pao ple of Arkansas were glad he had come among them. The governor's tribute ' o southern women was applauded by ht Prpftirtp-nt Whpn reference was made by Governor Davis to the famous ""rebel yell," the proceedings were in terrupted by a manifest desire on tho part of the many in the crowd to give a semblance of this yell. The President :seemed pleased with the effort. STAND BY THE SQUARE MEN. The President spoke substantially as -.follows: "Thank heaven we are free now from ill ; all the danger cf territorial antajon-J i i3ms. Now we must see that there shall never come any antagonisms of the classes or antagonisms between I capital and labor. Treat each man ?c-, cording to his worth as a man. DDn't hold for or agairst him that he is eith-? er rica or poor. But if he is rich and crooked ncld It against him; if not ricn but crooked, then hold it against him. But if he is a square man stand Dyi him. Distrust all who would have any-j one class placed before any other. Otn-i unscrupulous rich or the unscrupulous; poor who gained the ascendency, w-o substituted loyalty to class for loyal ty to the people as a hole." REFERENCE TO THE RACE PROB LEM, j Referring to the race problem, toj which Governor Davis had alluded, ti-a ; President said: "Tne worst eneinj'of the negro race is the negro crimnal, and above all criminal of the hideous type so, of tea; hideously avenged. Every repjtah'e: colored man owes the duty to hiuisfr'fj and to his race to hunt down tli:ui criminal. Now 'as to the white man's! side: Now to avenge one hideous crime j by another is to reduce the avenger t to the beastial Ieel. Another thing j which makes this lynch law so abhOT-j rent is thai three-fourths of the crime for which it is icoked ara for others! than tl-at npuinfit 'hp -ummon nf hfi country. Gove: nor, you and I and all others in authority owe it to our peo ple to drive (,ul th reproach and the menatu of lyncn law in the United State. We car. afford to be divided on Questions of mere partizansbip, t"?r compara-Jveiy the difference of taiift and the 'n fern-; are of no 'jur. quen?e After all the rezJ question :s that of decency in the life of the home and honesty in puoiic life. It myites little difTe:ence in the long run wheth er a Democrat or a Republican is Pres ide if. In: v make? every difference t have all ctir pi tlic officials hoiest and clean. The candidate, is tho candi date or tb i.-any. but the Presided: il ha is worth his saU, is the President of the? whole t trifle. You can't rH go a public life until you have go-jd priv.-.te llfp. The P:riden;-.al party passeri through ith dtnsely packed' with cheering men, women and children to the Albert Pike Consistory, where fhe luncheon was ir;en. Judge U. M. Rose, formerly president of the American Bar Association, in an addiess, said that President Roosevelt had proved himself the President cfi every man, woman and child under the protection of the American flag. The President joined in the applause which greeted the remark. The President was wildly cheered as he rcse to respond: As the President sat down the cur tain trek of where he was seatei .s ceuutu and a tableau was presented. ifnty-nve boys, ia.vi attired in ?. sador ..it formed gm p, which spec tacle cn the pr'Ci(eui l applause. .THE NAVY IS THE "BIG STICK." He rose and said he believed his auditors knew hew he felt about the navy of the Un'ted States. The navy of our country, ne said, was the Unit ed States' "big stick," which would never be used against the weak, un less tho weak put themselves in a position like a bad child, wherein chastisement was necessary. He added that the "big stick" would be kept in such condition that the necessity lor its use against the strong would never arise. Lieutenant Governor Lee responded to a toast "The State of Arkansas, and the Presidential party went to the Rock Island station along a route which was lined with people. The special train lef. for Memphis at 4 o'clock. LAST STAGE OF JOURNEY The President Arrives at .Memphis frnd Soon Leaves for New Orleans. Memphis.. Tenn., October 25. Presi dent Roosevelt and his party arrived tonight at 8:30 o'clock from Little Rock. The President's itinerary did not include a stop here longer than was necessary to switch his car to the Illinois Central tracks, the original programme being that he would pro ceed at once to New Orleans. These plans were somewhat modified when a when a large crowd of citizens ap peared at the depot and loudly cheer ed the President and called upon him for a speech. The President acknowl edged these greetings and from an im provised stand he made a short address dweVing upon what constitutes good citizenship. An unexpected greetingjto the Pres ident was the firing of aPresidentiai palute by General Peter Tracey, who upon the occasion of the President's former visit to Memphis, recelv3d him at the depot with a salute of 21 guns. The trip from Little Rock to Mem phis was uneventful. The President entertained the departing newspaper men at dinner on his private car and bade them a cordial good bye. Report of National Ginners Associa y tion. Dallas, Texas. October 25. The re port of the National Ginners Associa tion estimates the amount of cotton ginned to October 18 to be between 4.-J 400,000 and 4,500,000 hales. The report Indicates a crop of under 10,000,000 r bales Several Persons Wounded. St Petersbrug, October 25. An en counter took place this evening bo twGn strikers and engine drivers who were preparing to take out trains. Re volver shots were exchanged, and a I Quniber of persons were killed or ' wonnded. AFFAIRS OF MUTUJU-i f I Committee of Trustees Will Investigate Company TO BEGIN WORK AT ONCE Men Appointed are Prominent in Business World. The Committee Wag Appointed at a Meeting of the Trustees Yesterday, and Was the Result of Uie Insurance Investigation Almost an Entire Day Given Over to tbe Examination of Actuary 3IcClintock of the Mu tual Adjournment Then Taken Until November 8th. New York, October 25. More start ling than the testimony before the legislative committee investigating the methods of insurance companies today was the announcement by President Uichard A. MeCurdy, of the Mutual Life Insurance Company that a com mittee of the board of trustees of his company had been appointed to inves tigate the company and its methods. The members of the committee aref William H. Truesdale, Effingham B. Morris and John W. Auchincioss, all prominent in the financial and busi ness world. This action w'as taken at a meeting of the board today, and was tlie result of the insurance investigat ing committee. The matter was brought before the board by President MeCurdy, and the committee will be gin its work at once. Still another interesting development in insurance matters was the state ment issued today by President Mor ton of the Equitable Life, showing ihat the receipts of that company for nine months o fthis year exceeded the expenditures by $16,723,197, an In crease of over $500,000 compared with the same period, last year. Receipts from premiums of policies for the third quarter this year were over 1, 000,000 less than in 1004. After an entire day given over to the examination of Emory McClintock, ac tuary of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and to reading column after column of figures, the legislative com mittee adjourned until November 8, the day after the municipal election This extended adjournment was taken to enable the members of the commit tee who are candidates for re-electiou to the assembly to meet their constit uencies and conduct their campaigns. The testimony of Mr. McClintock was of a technical nature. A number of his explanations brought out the fact that his ideas were in many respects at variance with the established meth ods of insurance companies, and that of his company in particular. This was especially apparent when the sub ject of deferred dividends policies was being inquired into. He said the word "deferred" was ambiguous, and mis leading, as it implied that dividends were accumulating or were paid at the end of each year. The company, he said, reserved the right when it wrote a. policy to say what amount should be appoitioned at the end of each divi dend period. Mr. McClintock also said he was strongly in favor of limiting the amount of business a company should write. He said an attempt had been made to come to an agreement with the New York Life and the Equitable Lift to limit the amount of business done by each company to one billion dollars. This was finally increased to $1,500, 000,000, but James H. Hyde, of tu Equitable declined to enter the agree ment and then George W. Terkins of the New York Life objected. Mr. Hyde's reason was his ambition to make the Equitable the largest insur ance company in the world. Mr. Mc Clintock thought that a law limiting the amount of business would be a , good thing and felt sure the Mutual Life would lend its support to sucn legislation. These views are contrary to those expressed by President MeCurdy of tho Mutual, when he was on the stand. Mr. MeCurdy did not think that any company's business should be limited even at the point when that business failed to be profitable to the company. Mr. McClintock also thought that a law compelling the declaration of divi- dends at stated periods would be no- ; tv ise. As to the method of computing the dividends that should be paid on a policy, he said the apportionment was made upon his judgment. It was not a matter of accurate calculation, but was based on the experience of previ ous years. The interest earned by the company or the increase in the market valuation of the securities held by the company, Mr. McClintock said, were not taken Into consideration In appor tioning these dividends. He said that In 1903, when the dividends were re- MADE SENSATIDnAL CHftHGES Delay in Census Bureaa V Balletin ' Caused Complaint, i DIRECTOR NORTH EXPLAINED Secretary Hester Had Information That the Report Was Delayed So as tq Allow Certain Parties Time to Sell Cotton Mr. North Replied That the Rciiorts Were Completed as Soon as Was Possible and the Men Compiling it Were Locked In a Room With a Guard on tlie Outside. Washington, October 25. The cen sus bureau issued a bulletin today placing the cotton ginned in the United States up to October IS at 4,&10,72S bales. The statement is based on re ports made by the bureau's special agents in the field. No estimate is made of the total crop for ; the year, but figures are given out concerning crops of former years. These figures show that up to this date in 1904 the product of the gins had reaciied a total of 0,417,894 bales out of a total of 43,092,279 bales for the year. In 1905 the total production was 10,045,015 bales and the ginning out put up to October 253,700,248; in 1902 the total was 10,S27,1G5 and the output to October 25, was 5,083,000. Today's report covered 2G,3G4 ginneries, and the statements upon which it was prepared were, supplied by telegraph by 702 special agents in the field, most of them representing one county each. The fact that the bulletin was not issued until 2 o'clock, two hours after the usual time, caused some complaint front brokers in different cities, and some of these which reached the bu reau before the document was given to the public were of a sensational character. They- are summarized in the following from Secretary Hester of the JCew Orleans cotton exchange: t;, New Orleans, Oct. 25, 1905. Hon. S. N. D. North, Director of the Census, Washington, D. C: Much disappointment and dissatis faction here at delay in issuing gin ners report at 2 p m. ,Bache and Com prfyof New York, wire Hay ward, Vict and Clark, of 2ew Orleans as fol lows: "David Miller has just made the statement to the effect that the ginners report has been delayed from 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock, so as to allow more time to certain parties to sell cotton and says he will stand by the above." One rumor here is that the report will show counting rounds as half bales G,500,100. All kinds of rumors are being spread and parties are sell ing the market down under suspicion o fsomething wrong in your bureau. I send this because I think it proper you should know it. The David Miller re ferred to was the receiver of Sully and Company and is a prominent member of the New York cotton exchange. M. G. HESTER. To this Director North replied: Washington, D. C, Oct. 25, 1905. Henrv G Hester, Secretary New Or leans Cotton Exchange, New Or leans. Telegram received. Nobody in this office knows even approximately at the moment how many bale3 ginned the report will show. The men engaged in compiling it are locked up and the door is guarded on the outside. More, than half of the telegraphic reports from the country agents were received this morning and their compilation prter :tb 2 o'clock was a physical im possibility. NORTH. This telegram was forwarded before the bulletin was given out and after it was issued, it was stated that some of the reports from the agents were not received until 10 minutes before 2 o'clock. The ginning product for the present year to date by states is stated as fol lows: Ainhnmn (Ul.133 bales. Arkansas. 117,511. Florida 38,007. Georgia 1, 058.1G7. Indian Territory 79.222. Ken tucky 177. Louisiana 141,780. Missis sippi 311,472. Missouri 8,575. North Carolina 325.298. Oklahoma 95.2S0. South Carolina 039,974. Tennessee 02, C25. Texas 1,417,450. Virginia 4,0;1. Annual Meeting of Votins Trustees of Seaboard Air Line. New York, October 25. The annual meeting of the voting trustees of the Seaboard Air Line railway was hell at the company's office in this city today. The objact of the meeting was to select a board of directors to be voted for at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in Petersburg, Va. Nr.vember 9. The old board of directors were renominated without change, but John Skelton Williams en tered a protest against the election of rho.'nar F. Ryan, J. A. Blair, J. B. Den nis, T. J. Coolidge, Jr., and J. M. Barr dnced, the market value of the com! pany's securities had decreased. In 1904, however, the securities rose in value so that eight millions of dollars. lost by the decrease the year before were regained and a million in addi tion. The dividends were not increas ed for 1904, however, yet they were not cut. . He was still on the stand at adjourn ment. . " S JR( J SERIOUS 1 Crucial Situation Confronts Russian Cant MINISTERS III SESSION Under Coont Witte Trying to Find Way Oot of Tronbie. Tlie Emperor's Ministers Spent he Day and Far Into the Night in Con sidering the Acute Situation That Confronts the Country Strike on Railroads is Practically Com plete and tlie Industrial Strike Has Assumed Large Dimension" Man v Public Gatherings of a Strongly Rev olutionary Cliaracter. St. Petersburg. October 26. 4 a. m. Confronted by a situation more crucial than any since the beginning oiTthe political and social upheaval of Rus sia, and which at the time this dis patch is filed shows no signs of amelioration, the emperor's. ministers under the leadership of Count Witte, spent nearly all of yesterday in con ferences in the hope of finding some way out of the crisis into which the revolutionists and the socialists havo cast the country The general strike on the railroads is complete except in a few border provinces, and St. Petersburg. Moscow and other large cities are almost as closely beleagured as if they were in vested by besieging armies. At the same time the industrial strike has as sumed large dimensions, and the tur bulent elements in several localities are offering open resistance to the troops. The ministers who had been in ses sion during the day. resumed their meeting after a short interval for din ner and continued their deliberations until long after midnight The- result of these deliberations is not known. The ministers were summoned to meet, not as the committee of minis ters, of which CountWItte is presi dent, but as council of ministers, of which Cpunt Solsky is nroperly the chairman, and the selection of Count Witte to preside which was done by direction of the Emperor, shows that a ministerial cabinet is actually. though not formally, an accomplished fact. It is understood that an edict formally establishing a ministerial cabinet, which will bear the old name of "sovyet" or council will be ' pub lished in the Official Messenger Satur day next, together with an imperial rescript addressed personally to Count Witte. entrusting him with the simul tanously created position of premier. The Findland railroad to Helsing fors. and the steamers constitute St. Petersburg's only means of communi cating with the outer world thl3 morn ing. The postal authorities are now refusing to accept ordinary mail, and commercial correspondence Is at a standstill. The strike is complete In the great factory region on both banks of the Neva above the city, and in sev eral other industrial quarters. Forty thousand men are out. but they are conducting themselves in a most or derly manner. The store clerks union tonight proclaimed a two weeks sym pathetic strike for political reasons, but it is probable that it will be par tially obeyed. Prudent inhabitants are laying in stocks of provisions so as to prepare for emergencies. As a conseauence the prices of provisions have risen sharply. Large meetings, mainly of workmen, were held last night in the University, and the higher schools, after which the sentiment was unanimous for con tinuing t strike on the railroads to the bitter end. The proceedings at several of the meetings, were of a strongly revolutionary character the orators calling on their audience to rise and say all "chlnovnik ' and the police and to meet the troops with armed force. The sp3:hes wwo re ceived with enthusiasm. The police were powerless to lntrfcr?. the precincts of the university being for bidden ground to them under an im perial ukase. EACH CLAIMS OTHER GUILTY Autopsy to be Performed on Body of Charles G. Smith. (Special to The Messenger.) Raleigh, N. C. October 25 night the body of Chas. G. Smith, murdered by a fakir In the Union Rail way station here Saturday was brought back from Petersburg upon or der of Dr. Tbos. M. Jordan, the cor oner of this county. An autopsy will be held tomorrow. Dr. Jordan has summoned a jury. Another brother of Smith is here, another brother was here when he was shot The body has never been buried. The two men alias Morris and Lelliston, or Littleson make ne defense, but each claims the other is guilty. One hundred and fifty dollars is of fered, by the governor for the arrest of John A. Huffman, of Wilkes county, who beaUhis wife, inflicting severe injuries about three months ago. fMm Chicago dan Asks for Appaiatcsat of a Receiier. OVKU $3,000,000 IS INVOLVED Ccorsrc J. Gould and Joseph Ihuniry, Jr- Appear a Defendant- Juration U IVfore Judce IUclianU SUtlns xm a Circuit Judco of Appeal. Cincinnati, O.. October 25. Which railroad corporation or great moneyed interest has gotten into the center of West Virginia coal fields through the Little Kanawha syndicate I om of the questions pending liefore Judge John F. Richards, sitting as a circuit judge f appall. The tight for that great railroad and coal mining prop erty ixigan in ctmrt today. Over OOO.OiiO is involved In the contest. George J. Could and Joseph liamsey, Jr.. recent rivals for control of th Wabash system apiiear a defendant but each has serrate counsel. Tho plaintiff L John Chicago, who subsvrill the syndicate who a ska f.r ih. pointineut of a nx-oiver for the prop erty. The coal holding of this svndi cate Include .Vi.uuo acres near Fair mont, and :JT.M) acres in Ollmer, Braxton and Iewis eoniitw Th lines of railroad immediately concern ed are the Little Kanawha, tlie Park- ersburg bridge and terminal company. Which was to bridge tho Ohio at that city-, tlie Rurnsville nnd K;it Al-Tt til A Ruckiianiion and Northern, the Rellng- tou and Northern, the Rvansvllle. Ma rietta and ParkersbiiRr. and tlie Ma. rietta, Columbus and Cleveland. Tho plaintiff alleges that the plan was to make a continuous line of railroad of these integrals to supply outside mar- Kets rrom their coal holdings. Mr. Jones alleges that the money has been squandered, that Mr. Ramsey has built the Green county railroad in which Mr. Gould did not Join, but which Mr. Ramsey is endeavoring to sell at a price harassing to the other properties of this company, the wholo combination being lumped. Mr. Gould's subscription to the scheme was $3,000,000, Mr. Ramsy's $300,000. and other defendants. W. E. Guy $300,000; J. T. Rlair $100,000 and E. D. Fulton Ximom IMiilntlff states he does not know other syndicate subscriptions, but does believe seventy per cent.' thereof has not been subscrib ed, nie attorneys ror the defendant raised the ouestion of tho itirisdfetion of the court and the entire day wa devoted to argument of that point. Judge Richards announcing on ad journment that he would give his de clon tomorrow. SOLD BY JOSKP1I ItAMSKY Lttlc Kanawlia Syndicate Hands and Railroads Purcliased by the Pitts burg and Lake Erie Company. Cincinnati, October 25. Tlie Times Star today publishes the following: "The Pittsburg and Lake Erie rail road comiany has purchased the Lit tle Kanawha syndicate coal lands and railroads which are in litigation in the United States circuit court of appeals in Cincinnati. Tlie Times-Star has absolute authority on this jiolnt. The sale was made by Joseph Ramsey, Jr., former president of tlie Wabash sys tem. Mr. Ramsey and George Gould did not differ on this proposition. "The Pittsburg and Lake Erie is a Vanderbilt line. It will come into the new coal field through Pittsburg. The several railroad lines are Integral parts of the Little Kanawha will be used by the Vanderbllts to make a new line through Virginia to the Atlantic Sea board. Tills Is one of the greatest railroad deals of recent times. It ia understood the VanderbllLs with their new property, will co-operate directly with the Chesapeake and Ohio. PRICES FALL AND RISE reaa Report. Ncf York, October 25. The report of the census bureau issued to lay caused sensations; fluctuations in the late session of u day's cotton market. Before the report was issued the mar ket bad been very nervous and unset tled owing to rumors that the report would f.how fully t"00,000 bales ginned and prices just befoie the report was issued showed a net loss of about 1U to 20 points with January selling at 10 23. Inside of tea minutes after tn figures were pnbhshe J January sh?t up S7 points to 1C.70 and even With tpc. hightst pom r"6r yesterday morn ing. The market was feverishly ex cited with shorts active buyers an ft 'Jigs taking oa fifh lines of small crop theories. On th? bulge leading bears became very assresslve, however hu1 tbe market le-icted almost as rapidly as it kal ac'ranced. Wu?a arcnn.it 10:50 for January the market turned very strong f Mm on an over whelming volume of general burlng and the market vent up to a new high U vol for the movement with Janiary falling at 10.75 or a, net advance of ITi rcinis anJ a recovery from the lowest pj'nl it the EC&iicn or 44 points t.'.!J a bale. lhe closing was steal at a net advance of 18 to to points. v Tha tales of the day were estlmatsd at lC0,C0O bale&