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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLx FELDER ACCUSED New Dispensary Commission Swears Oat Warrant For Him. CORRUPTION CHARGED Action Follows Resolution fL S 8* < ?? A?-**< ?Session at Columbia?Requisition Papers Filed and Hearing Held in June. A warrant charging T. B. Felder of Atlanta with "offering and at tempting to bribe a State officer and. with conspiracy to defraud the State of South Carolina was sworn our Wednesday at New.berry by B. P. Kelly, secretary of the new dispen sary commission. The warrant was sworn out before J. C-'Sample and was placed in the hands of Sheriff Buford of that county. A dispatch from Atlanta says Sher iff Buford Thursday afternoon con sulted Governor Brown and filed requisition for T. B. Felder. The hearing will take .place before the governor on June 20. Col. Felder remains apparently indifferent to the entire proceedings and only reiterat.es that the governor of South Carolina is trying to cover up his own sins by directing a fight on him. The warrant against Mr. Felder was sworn out following the adoption * of the new dispensary comm-ission: "Whereas, certain information hav ing come into our possession, which .we are advised is sufficient upon which to secure a conviction. "Be it resolved, that tbe secretary of this commission is hereby instruct ed to immediately swear out a war rant for the arrest of one Thomas B. Felder for offering and attempting to bribe a State officer of the State of South Carolina and for conspiracy to defraud the said State." The commission has given no offi cial statement as to the State official Mr. Felder is charged with attempt ing to bribe. The swearing out of the warrant follows sensational counter charges on the part of Mr. Felder and the governor of South Carolina. The governor recently made public a letter purporting to l-ave been written to h. h. Evans, former chairman of the State dispen sary board of control, by T. 3. Fel der, offering to "frame-up" a deal for $50,000. The letter in question was signed "T. B." This letter was secured from h. h. Evans by the gov ernor. Just what kind of informa tion the commission has against Mr. Felder is not known. The commission met at Columbia Wednesday. Several weeks ago an order was issued requiring Mr. Fel der, a member of the firm of Ander son, Felder, Wilson & Roundtree of Atlanta, to come to Columbia on May 28 and tell what he knew of the acts of the governor as private oitizen, State senator, ?and chief executive In connection with the dispensary situ ation. Mr. Felder did not come to Columbia Wednesday. The commis sion accordingly adopted the resolu tion directing that a warrant be sworn out against him. Mr. Felder sent a letter to the commission in which he explained his position. The letter of Mr. Felder follows: May 26, 1911." "Mr. James Stackhouse, Chairman, and Mr. B. Frank Kelly, Secretary State Dispensary Commission of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C "Gentlemen: "Receipt of your valued favor of the 1 9th instant is hereby acknowl edged. I have been absent from the city for the past week or 10 days, conducting some investigations on my own 'account anent the matter re ferred to in the second paragraph of the series of resolutions adopted by, your commission at a meeting held in the city of Columbia on the 19th in stant, a copy of which you1 caused to ? be transmitted to me here. "After mature consideration, i have reached the deliberate conclu sion that if 'your governor' could with propriety create a commission who are 'all friends of mine and per sonal "supporters' to investigate-the members of the old commission, the ?attorney general of the State of! South Carolina and the agents, at-j torneys and employes of the old com- j mission, and to make 'a rigid inves-j tigation of all of my (Bleas's) acts! as State sentor, private citizen and j governor of the State.' I could with equal propriety resolve myself into; a committee of one to make invest!-{ cations as to the said Blease, his! allies and affiliates. I think It will be conceded that my jurisdiction is I equally as broad es yours: that I have the same authority to subpoena wit nesses, compel their attendance, and to give evidence touching the prem-j ises, as you possess, and I feel that 11 may say. without undue arrogance, i that my 'findings of both law and fact' will be just -as binding and carry j with them the sa.me degree of weight and respectability as yours, that my investigations have been j quite extensive, thorough, exhaustive and most satisfactory to me, and J when made public will, in all human! probability, disqualify for service some of those now seeking to pass official judgment upon the aots of my associates -and myself. To some of you this statement may prove en "In conclusion, permit me to say ipmatical, while to others it will be most clear. "It does not suit the convenience FOR DUTY ON WOOL HOUSE DEMOCRAT? AGAIN PULL TOGETHER IN CAUCUS. Party Declare for Duty of 20 Per Cent, for Revenue Purposes, Fifty Per Cent Reduction. r A Washington dispatch says th??. le? Jr'j5* ^hatanee of the action of the'I/eu^.. * 10 OUSi! caucus Th?rs-' day night is that the Democrats inj ffifce *Hb?dy are keeping up their rec- j ? Use ~ ?u tjje extra session I the best _ he party has played | for two decades. Republican hopes of a serous Dem ocratic split are again blasted by the magnificent Democratic leader ship in the House, the proposed Dem ocratic revision of the wool tariff and the Underwood bill, being, unan imously approved by the Democratic causcus at midnight, twelve hours af ter it had been made public by the ways and means committee. . Through a resoluion, which leaves the Democratic party open in the fu | ture to renew its advocacy of free trade in raw wool, but which com mits all Democrats to the support of the present bill as a revenue meas ure, that measure was put through the caucus Thursday. The final vote on the approval of the Underwood bill was made unan imous, but the following members were excused from a pledge to sup port the caucus action: Representa tives Rucker, of Colorado; Ash-| brooke and Francis, of Ohio; and Gray, of Indiana. The resolution agrees on -a. free raw wool tariff, but was finally voted down and the revenue deriving bill was adopted. The need for a duty, the resolution stated, was due to Republican ex travagance, whicii made necessary large revenue. Speaker Clark took the floor and supported the resolu tion, which had been framed in the' conference. TO PENITENTIARY TO-DAY. W. T. Jones to Begin Serving Life Sentence for murder. The Penitentiary authorities were informed that W. T. Jones, the Union County man given a life sentence for unoxicide, would reach Columbia Frida.1/ from the Union County Jail. Jones has been in the jail since July, 1S0S, when he was arrested charged with the poisoning el! his wife. He will be placed in the State Pententiary tenceshrdlu cmfwy vbg cfwyaxflqak to commence the serving of his life term. Jones is not an old man, be ing less than 45 years of age. He has, therefore, barring future exe cutive clemency, probably many years to serve In the State prison. To-day was exactly two weeks since the Supreme Court decision was hand ed down. The remittitur went to Union Monday, seven days after the decision, Jones has lost on appeals j to the Supreme Court and recently Governor Blease refuse to extend exe ecutive clemency. of my committee to meet with yours at the time and place indicated, but if we can mutually agree upon a dif ferent time and place, for an inter | change of views, information and con fidences, I feel quite safe in saying that the resuit will be most pleasing and profitable to the people of the State of South Carolina, if not to you and 'you.s.' "Whlie making no unconditional promise to do so (for I must in these matters consult and largely yield tt> the wishes oi! others more vitally in terested in the outcome of this con troversy than I can possibly be, and I may add, whose views have deterred me from doing so heretofore), still if unrestrained, it will ,be my pleasure to deliver in the not distant future a veritable 'broadside' "With assurances of my most dis j tinguished consideration, I have the honor to be "Yours very truly, "T. B. Felder. "Chairman of the Anti-BIease Inves tigating Committee.'' Several matters w>ere discussed ftti the meeting of the dispensary com mission. The secretary announced that it has been decided to employ j Holman & tfolman of Charleston as! attorneys for the commission. The claim of S. W. Scruggs of Spartan- j burg for -about $4,000 will be con-j sidered. Mr. Scruggs claims the; above amount for delivering a wit-1 ness to the old commission and At torney General Lyon in connection with the graft, prosecutions. It is j also probable that the Carolina Glass' company case will come before the j commission. -? ? ? - Plunges Over Embankment. Three Pullmans and an observa tion car of the "Southwestern Limit-' ed" that left Memphis for Kansas: City Thursday night plunged over; an embankment when the train was wrecked between Lacygne and Pleas-1 onton, Kan., Friday. Reports declare no passengers were killed. A few of them sustained injuries, however. Never Missed a Day. Lewis Sly, one of the graduates of the Franklin. Pa., High school, attended school for 13 ye>ars with out missing even much as half a day. He was publicly commended by school officials. ORANGEBI PROBE TRUST MAGNATE CRIMINAL ACTIONS PLANNED, I SAYS WICKERSHAM. Attorney General Questioned by the House Committee on Expenditures. Says Juries Loath to Convict. Tne recent decisions of the Supreme Court in the Standard Oil and American Tobacco Com pany cases will result in a sweeping attempt to secure criminal oonvction of violators of the anti trust law, according to Attorney Gen eral Wickersham, who appeared re cently before the house committee on expenditures. Mr. Wickersham was asked why the government, thus far failed to lodge any "trust magnates" in prison? "We have done the best we oould," he said, "but thene has been an un willingness on the part of junies and courts to sentence men to prison un der the anti-trust law. Until the Supreme Court laid down its expla nation of the law, in the cases just decided, this reluctance was well un derstood, and the law has always been open tc question. "Juries are becoming more willing now, however, to convict and judges who have been reluctant to Impose prison penalties now have these de cisions to sustain them." Criminal prosecution pending, against the meat packers, he added, and the milk dealers, the naval stores and window glass combinations and other alleged violators of the anti trust law, he said, would be followed by other prosecutions. He stated that the government had definite plans. When asked why there had been no prosecutions against the heads of the Standard Oil and tobacco com panies, he replied that "it has been practically impossible to convict them. Now, however, we have an in terpretation of the Anti-Trust Act up on which we can proceed.'' The atorney general was closely questioried by Mr. Ball as to the cot ton cases in New York, but he re fused to disclose the government's ?brought against those seeking to elevate the prices of raw cotton rath er than against the spinners and tne "bears" who were trying to. depress future acts. Asked why actions were it, Mr. Wickersham said the govern ment had believed it much easier to reach the seven men controlling the raw cotton pool, against whom it had information. "The Staub? of Limitations has) not run against the others," he add-' cd. "If the government is sustained in this firs: cotton case, the other combinations will be attacked. "Has there ever been an invest!-) gation of the attempt of 'bears' toj depress cotton prices in New York or New Orleans?" Chairman Ball j asked. "Not that I have heard of," he replied. NEW YORK MURDER MYSTERY. Woman's Rody Found in Rath Tub. Husband Suspected Detectives delving into New York's latest sensational murder mystery, Thursday night succeeded in finding the remains of -a woman in a bath 1 tub. There were two sets of letters, one apparently from the father, and the other from the mother of the vic tim, each writer addressing the mis sive to a different person at differ ent addresses. The woman who signed herself "mother" dated her letter from Blue Island, 111., and forwarded them to ..Mrs. Henry A. Schieb, or Mrs. Lil lian Schieb, at 187 West 63rd street. Letters from ?father" were dated "37 Thomas street, Springfield, Mass., and sent to Mrs. Hugh Sherman, to 267 West 78th street. The body has been identified as that of MrB. Schieb, by the victim's husband, Henry A. Schieb, whom the police have looked up on a technical charge Of driving his employer's automobile without a license. Schieb was plied with questions! for three hours. He is said to have I admitted, that he himself wrote a j letter addressed to himself signed "Anna," which the police took from his pocket when he was arrested. "I was going to show that letter to my wife when she came back,'1 he is; quoted as having said, "to prove ma* j other women liked me." His hand writing tallies closely with that of the person who signed the letter. Hanged for Usual Crime. Pat Crump, a negro, who it is charged, attempted to 'assault the wife of a planter at White Haven. Tenn., Thursday, was hanged by a mob late that night. Crump was captured by a sheriff's posse and was being brought to the county pris-1 cn at Memphis for safe keeping. Just outside the city limits the mob over took the posse and securing the ne gro hanged him to a tree on the roadside. Jones Reaches Penitentiary. W. T. Jones, the Union County farmer, convicted of wife murder, who is to serve the rest of his days in the State Penitentiary, was car-i ried there Thursday to commence the sentence. He has regularly | been imprisoned at the Penitentiary, Jones has protested his innocence, j but has given up the fight in the: Courts, according to his own state-1 tt JRG, S. C, SATURDAY, ? JUN SAYS GOOD-BYE Aged and Broken Ex-Rnler Diaz Embaks for Spain. PATHETIC SCENES Laut Words Before Leaving Country he Ruled so Long a Warning that His Methods Must Continue to As* I sure Peace in Republic.?Farewell to Officers and Soldiers. General Dir.z said his farewell to Mexicon Wednesday at Vera Cruz, With his wife and other mem bers of the Diaz family, he boarded the steamer Vpiranga, bound for Spain. Gen. Diaz said from this port Wed nesday on the steamer Ypiranga for Kaxre, France. The steamer gees by way of Havana and Gen. Diaz ul timate destination is Spain, i His ship was only a little ways out when the searchlight of the fort ress guarding the port was turned on it. With glasses in hand, among I a small party in the stern, Diaz was standing somewhat apart, close to the rail. He was plainly discernible. The last words of the Ex-President snoken to those left on shore were, "I shall die in Mexico." This was uttered in a tone of pro phecy and with a look of inspired conviction. It was 5 o'clock when Gen. Diaz and his party went aboard. The journey from the house where he had been quratered was made in carriages. Crowds jammed the way. Gen. Dias, accompanied by the mili tary commander of the port, Gen. Joaquain Mass, and followed by Se nora Diaz and the other members of the party, received an ovation on the walk to the ship rarely accorded to any one in Vera Cruz and never be fore to Gen. Diaz. With his arras filled with flowers, and bowing right and left, the for mer president started up the com panionway. On board, the ship's band began the Mexican national hymn. Every hat was off and Diaz nalted at the head of the companlcn way. The guns of Fort Santiago be gan for the last time to fire a presi dential salutre ?n honor of Diaz. The crowd cheered itself hoarse and the general lifted his hat. 1 "I will never forget this reception, fellow citizens," he said. "It comes at a time when the country is against me. Xot even a President can bej the recipient of a greater ovation] than this." Once more cheers arose and Diaz moved into the ship. On board the J ship were scores of friends and vis-i itors to the General. The ship cap-1 tain took the old fighter to the bridee. where the General gazed out I upon Mexico. Darkness came over the harbor, j lights appeared and people held their positions waiting for the ship to sail. Senora Diaz, as well as her hus-J band appeared on the bridge. She bade farewell to the old family ser vants who did not accompany the party, and was visibly affected by the parting. Many telegrams and letters had been received by Gen. D/iaz. To each an answer was sent. To h'.s country, Gen. Diaz delivered a warning. Speaking to the little group of soldiers who had served as a guard, the old man who governed Mexico for more than thirty years by miltary strength, deolarel that: the present Government must resort to J his methods .if peace is to be restored. The soldiers were the same meni who had defended the life of the Ex-! President and his family, when rebels j attacked the special train coming to Vera Cruz., Four of the number were j killed in the affair. When Gen. Diaz stepped forward on the veranda of the house, there) ! was a buzz of comment, but no ap-j j plause. Diaz was brief. In the name of the army. Gen. Huerta addressed J him, telling his old chief that he i i could always count on these men, "notwithstanding what every one' said." Gen. Huerta's voice broke as he) added, with perhaps more frankness; than tact: "It is the only portion of the coun-j ?try that did not i:o against you." He declared that he and his men j and the army in general were sorry j to see Gen. Diaz leave Mexico, but that there was alro reason for grat. itude, inasmuch as the peoulc would be given an opportunity to know] what, he has done for Mexico. Bravely Gen. Diaz began his reply, hut before many minutes he was having sreat difficulty in mastering his emotion. "I nm grateful to the army." said the Ex-President, "that I oculd count on it to the last moment of leaving Mexico. It is the only real defence the country has and to re-es-j tablish it will have to be used in this crisis." Tears were rolling down the old man's face now, and his voice was broken. But he continued, assuring his hearers that should his country at any time become involved in trouble, he would be willing to return. Pointing to the colors of Mexico, the General added: "I would then place myself at. the head of the country's loyal forces.1 and under the shadow of that flag, I would know how to conquer as In E .3, 1911. SPY REVEALS SECRET SAYS AN AMERICAN RLEW UP THE "MAINE." " I Plausible Story Attracts the Atten tion of Chief Wilkie But it is De nied by the .Man's Biographer. The United States government it I became known, has investigated a j report tc the effect that the Maine W'-iS blown up in Havana harbor by an American who had been con demned to death by the Spanish, but won his freedom by destroying the American battleship. The spy who turned the story into the Secret Ser vice bureau at Washington, D. C, asserted that George B. Boynton, a ! "soldier of fortune'' who died re cently was the man who actually blew up the Maine. Horace /mith, biographer of Boynton, declares the story is false and that he can prove Boynton was in Venezuela at the lime of the explosion. "The Spaniards," seid the inform er to Chief Wilkie of the Secret Ser vice, "were entirely unprepared for the visit of the Maine, which was sent to Havana suddenly and with out warning. Consequently there was no mine attached to the buoy 'at which she was moored. "Capt. Gen. Blanco and his staff did not relish having a hosti/a war ship In such an advantageous posi tion in the event of war with the United States, which they then re garded as at least a possibility, and it was decided to blow her up, un der such monditions as might make it appear she had been destroyed by an accidental explosion of her own magazines. A large boiler from the. navy yard was taken to the arsenal and filled with powder. It was pro vided with a mechanism by which it would be exploded by electricity and then hermetically sealed. "The boiler was lashed in a sling under a lighter, which was towed j across the bow of the Maine at night When the lighter was di rectly in front of the battleship the! lines which held the boiler were cut and it dropped into the mud. "The Spaniards then fixed on Boynton as the person to set off the mine. He had been captured short ly before while conducting a filibust ering expedition for the Cubans, whom he had aided during the ten years' war, and was then imprisoned in Cabanas Fortress. "According to the story, he was j tried and sentenced to death, .but was offered life and liberty if he would press the button that was to destroy the Maine, and swear, never to reveal the secret. He accepted these terms and on the night of Feb. 15, 1898, when the .Maine swung around until her bow was directly over the mine, with her keel only three or four feet above it, he was taken to the Machina wharf, where he threw the switch that caused the .explosion. Then he was set free and left Cuba." REGRETS HE IS LIVING Pennsylvania Druggist Hired a Man to Kill Him. In a letter ^signed, "A Broken Hearted Husband," received in Ha zleton, Pa., this week, Francis X. Eble, a druggist, who disappeared two months aieo, sends his regrets that he Is still living, despite the fact that he paid a man $250 to murder him. Eble is now in New York city. He still desires death but will not commit suicide. According to his letter Eble left Hazleton because of marital diffi culties. All trace of him was lost until several days ago when he was traced to Buffalo. N. Y., bv mileage he had used. From that city he went to New York where he obtained em ployment. In his letter he rails bit terly at the "coward'' who took his money and failed to keep his bargain by 'appearing at the appointed time and place to do the murder foi which he had accepted pay. The disappearance of Eble created a great deal of interest in Hazleton. j Searching parties scoured the moun tains for weeks after he left borne. It as believed that he had killed him self until several days ago. Tired of Saving His Wife's Life, j Declaring that his wife attempts suicide habitualy 'and that he is i tired of saving her life) Charts Morrison, of Munde, Ind.. is seeking a divorce. times (last." Gen. Huerta grasped his hand and then the old fighters embraced. One by one the minor officers moved for ward, and each was embraced by Hen. Diaz and told good-bye. It was over. Thi? troops stoad at attention for an hour in the broiling heat, but none appeared weary. den. Diaz fumed to enter the house and the officers gave the command to march.' Thi' troops went directly to the cars of a special train, on which they be gan their journey to the Capital. Hen. Diaz, took luncheon, boarded the Tnluna, a Government tug, which carried him to the Ypiranga. With the Ex-President wwre Senora Diaz.' the wife of the General: Senora :re sa, the sister of Senora Diaz, am her, son, Jose: Col. Porfirio Diaz, Jr., | his wiifie and five children: Lieut.! and Mrs. Lorenzo Elizaga and their! young son: Gen. Amenuel Gonzales' and Col. Gonzales. Lieut. Elizaga is j a brother-in-law of Gen. Diaz. BETTER CROP REPORTED FOUR PER CENT MORE LAN!) WAS PLANTED. Condition of Growing Crop Was 87.8 Per Cent, of Normal Score?Bear Ish Report on Cotton Issued. A Washington dispatch says the area planted to cotton this yar in the United States is estimated by the crop reporting .board of the de partment of agriculture, in the first crop report of the season, as about 104.7 per cent of the area planted last year, or 35,004,000 acres in cluding that already planted and ex pected to be planted. This is an increase of 4.7 per cent or 1,586,000 acres, as compared with 33,418,000 acres, the revised esti mate of last year's planted area. The condition of the growing crop on May 25 was 87.8 'per cent of a normal condition as compared with 80.2 per cent, that day last year, and 80.9, the ten-year 'average on that date. Details by the state of area planted in 1911, per cent of 1910, area and condition on May 23, follow: Condi State Acres. Per ct. tion Virginia . . . . 37,000 109 93 N. C. 1,587.000 105 93 S. C. 2,705,000 103 80 Georgia .. _ 5,199.000 103 92 Florida .. 284,000 106 95 Alabama .. .. 3,815,000 105 91 Mississippi. . 3,454,000 101 -96 Louisiana .. . 1,118,000 104 91 Texas. 10,868,000 105 88 Arkansas. . . 2,446,000 103 87 Tennessee .. . 882,000 105 83 Missouri .. .. 115,000 112 86 Oklahoma . ..2,622,000 11 6 87 California. . .. 12000 123 95 STUDENTS STOLE CORPSE. Discontent of Suspension of Base ball Team Causes Trouble. Discontent college students tied a j naked corpse to the piano stool in the chapel in Alfred, N. Y? this week The affair so upset the faculty and student body that the program prepared of the last day of college year has been postponed. For several days the students had been in a sullen mood over the su spension of the baseball team, which played a game recently at a Wels vie without having obtained per mission. A raid was made on an undertak ing room in the town and a body taken from one of the slabs. The town authorities have taken the mat ter up and will make arrests, and the undertaker acting for the rela tives of the corpse, will demand punishment for the violators. BIG RAT ATTACKS WOMAN. She Mistook Rodent for a Kitten and Was Badly Bitten. Mistaking 'a ,blg seer rat for a kit ten, Mrs. Joseph 'Shoalter, of Pitts burg, tried to pet the rodent and had a terrible battle to keep the animal from causing her death. As she touched the animal to stroke its fur it jumped at her throat, sinking its teeth into the flesh. She tried to knock the rodent fom her, but it fought her. Wiith a scream -Mrs. Shoalter fell to the str^t in a faint. Pedestrians rushed to her side. ! The rodent escaped into a near-by se^r. Mrs. Shoalter as removed to a nearby drug store, here, after con siderable difficulty, she was revived. Ater the bites were cauterized she I went to her borne. Cutthroats and Assassins. j A special from Atlanta to the Au | gusta Chronicle says T. B. Felder, i when told tonight of the action taken in Newberry during the afternoon, when a warrant was sworn out for him. charging attempt to bribe H. H. Eva...- and conspiring to defraud the state of South Carolina, said: "Blease and his commission are a set of cut throats and assassins." He says he has no intention of replying to the demand to appear before "that com nr'rsion." I nel. Felder's friends have advised ; him that it would be dangerous for j him to go into the state. In reference to the report that steps will be taken io secure requi sition papers for him he says he "has no fear of their requnsitions" Forest Fire Heroine u Bride. ..Miss Bernice Tripp, of South Bend, Ind., heroine in a terrible for est fire at Spooner, Minn., a year ago. this week, became the bride of Fred Cheek, or Spooner. one of the hundreds she saved. Miss Tripp re aided at Spooner. and at the time of the tire was on duty as operator in a telephone exchange. She remained at her post until the "re had burn ed over half of the town, when she finally tied for her life. Submarine to Make l? Knots. The Ship jack, the new United State naval submarine, was launched at Quincy. Mass.. last week. It is expected she will make 15 knots an hour on the surface. Bank Divided. The distribution of cheek disclos ed an increase of the dividend of the bank of Toronto to 11 per cent, per annum. i 'TWO CENTS PER COPY. PROBE ORERED Lorimer to Be Again InvestigaleiJ by Staate Commi-tfj AFTER LONG DEBATE Investigation to be Conducted by Sub-Conunitteo on I*rivileges and Elections, Four Democrats ami I < Four Republicans, Equally Divid ed as to Sentiment in Matter. A dispatch from Washington says Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, faces another investigation at the ban Ja of his colleague-,. The inquiry will be conducted by a sub-committee of the committee on privileges and elec tions composed of four Republicans and four Democrats, four of whom voted for the conviction and four for the acquittal of the Senator last session. The method selected is re garded as the latest thin? in jury trials. It took seven hours' debate co ngree upon the system and it was finally adopted Thursday evening by a vote of 48 to 20, being substituted for the plan urged by Senator ?La Follette, of turning the case over to five Senators who were not mem bers when the case was voted upon before, and, therefore were suppos ed to be unbiased. Before the vote wa? taken, Sena-* tor Bristow, who favored the La Fol lette plan, accused Mr. Dilllngham, chairman of the elections commit tee, of having capitulated in the in terest of a Democratic scheme of turning the Investigation over, to a sub-committee. This change was bas ed upon the fact that the author of the resolution adopted was Senator Martin. Mr. Bristow also claimed that the ; old guard Republicans had formed an.alliance with the Democrats and I that they had .placed the mantle of i leadership upon Mr. Martin. Senator Lea, of Tennessee, said he would no more tu rn the case over to the elections committee for anoth er trial than he would submit to a second operation for appendicitis by a surgeon who had failed on the first operation to locate the appen dix.. Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, re cently assistant to the Attorney Gen eral, intimated -that the great trust? has busied themselves with the elec tion of Senators so as to influence the selection of United States dis trict attorneys, whose friendship might be useful In the case of proa j ecutions. The defence of the Martin resolu j tion was conducted by Messrs. Dii lingham, Martin, Stone and! others from both sides of the chamber. Most of the insurgent Republicans voted against substituting the Mar tin resolution. The resolution mere ly provides that the investigation shall be conducted by the elections committee and makes no mention of a sub-committee. Mr. Bristow said that he had beenr advised that the investigation wou!d not be made by the committee .vj ni whole, but by a sub-committeo. In discussing what he termed the "eap | itulation" of Senator Dilllngham, be I said he accepted this act as a tein ? porary transference of leadership to I the Democratic side. It was witn j a feeling of regret, be said, that-be I saw the mantle of A:drich fall upon j the shoulders of a Democrat, j "Mr. Gallmrer had not been able to dot*, the mantle," said Mr. Brisj-' j tow', "and it had not been found ?0 i fit Mr. Pen rose. But now that a cdn I ditlon has been formed, the man has been found and the Senate knows whence its signals are to come."' ... ? ? i The real question at issue, accord ing to Mr. La Follette, was whether j the lumber and beef trusts could buy ; a seat in the Senate. "If the Sen j ate does its duty."" he said, "it would l establish these facts, for the proof j exists, and there should be a result' j known. Senate seats should not bo ; on the bargain counter for the trusts ! to buy." j The accuracy of the statement j that an agreement had been made ' between the insurgent Republicans ! and the Democrats regarding the selecting of the subcommittee was j also spoken of by Mr. La Follette. Denial that there was a formal ! agreement made by Mr. Dlllingham, but Mr. Martin said there Ivd been an understanding that the full com ; mittee would be too combcrsome f - : that the plan for the committee of ' eight had been approved in the cau cus. He said that it would be neces sary for the Senate to confirm the nominations of the members of the sub-committee. "Then why not el ct members at once, by adopting the La Folletto resolution?" asked .Mr. Cummins. Mr. Martin replied that he thought it desirable to place the responsibil ity upon the standing committee on I elections. The strictures which Sen I ators had directed as the standing I committee were declared by Mr. ! Stone, of Missouri, to be an unde : served reproach. Exploding Tire Hurls Man to Death. ! Austin Miller, a mechanician, was I killed while testing an automobile j near Richmond, Va. A tire burst and' Miller was hurled against a cedar ! tree with such force that, his body 'was torn almost in twain at the; waist. J ...? i,.^i/Qyd