Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Denscriils is the Bouse Will Stand Together so tie hiS. THE WOOL SPLIT FIXED Apparently tho Individuals Are Will ing to Subordinate Their Personal Preferences to the Public Policy, and Have the Republicans Guess ing What the Outcome Will Be. The Washington correspondent of The State says the House Democrats have the Republicans guessing. Long before this it was the fond horpe of ths latter that a split would occur which would send the follow ers of Thomas Jefferson to the eter nal bowbows, .but the spectacle of a perfect organization among the Dem ocrats is the thing that is worrying the Republican leaders as they con template tho 1912 situation. The latest example of what organization can r.ccompi'sh is* afforded by the house caucu. on the wool tariff. In this instance the members 01 the Democratic side, seemingly di vided hopelessly, went into a meet ing and, instead of throwing brick bats and coming to blows, got through a resolution on which both the friends and the enemies of a duty on raw wool were able to stand and present at least a semblance of peace and unity. 'It had been hoped by the Repub lican that the Democrats would split irreparably over the question of a tariff on raw wool. The Repub licans, therefore, are deeply disap pointed to see that the democrats are not going to make any bad breaks prior to 1912, and that the result will probably be the election of a Democratic president and a Demo cratic senate and another Democratic housft. Shrewd observers perceive, of course, that the Democrats are in .?eallty split over the question of tar iff. More particularly, there is a wide division of opinion over the question of free raw materials. But from the standpoint of practcal poli tics dhe question that is facing the Republican leaders io whether the Democrats are going to be able to conceal their differences in the main until after the 1912 campaign. Some indications are given that the Democrats will be able to do this. The house Democratic leaders in particular are bending every ef fort in this direction. That is why they are so mad at Bryan for stirring up the free raw wool issue. But having for the time quieted things as to wool, the house lead ers hope there will be peace. As the result of their efforts, most of the house Democrats are fully convinc ed that the one thing of supreme importance now is to have the Dem ocratic party win in 1912, and that for this reason individuals should , subordinate their views and promote the party welfare. ' That Is why the lead'jrs are able to call caucuses on important matters and bind practi cally the entire Democratic member ship to a certain course of action. Republican members of the house, especially the insurgents, are pro testing against the rule of caucus by the Democrats. They insist that the sway of the Democratic leaders in the house today, though in different form, is just as tyrannical as the rule of Cannon. They say the steam roller was never applied more ruth lessly in the days of Cannon than it is being applied now by the reign ing forces in the house. They say that through thfy medium of the caucus the control of the house bv a svaall coterie of leaders is made possible, and this is just what is happening. But, however, much kicking there may be among insurgent Republicans or Democrats against the method of rule by caucus, it looks as though this method would continue in the hou:-e for the present. So long as the Democratic end of congress is con vinced the party is going to win in 1912, differences of opinion will be sun* to a considerable extent. Al least this is what is happening in the house. In the senate there is less sign that the cry of harmony in order to win in 1912 will con trol senators. Already the senate Democrats have split on reciprocity, and if general tariff revision comes up, they will be more badly divided. However, if the men of the senate follow the lead of those in the house the olive branch will wave, and the Democrats will go into the White) House in 1912. Six Injured in Storm. At Baxley, Ga. six persons were in- j jurud and considerable property dam age done by a severe wind and raf-; storm, which swept that section Mon-, day afternoon. Mrs. H. J. Parker was shocked by a bolt of lightning. The others injured were young men who were caught in a garage which was demolished by the storm. - Tragedy in Machine Shops. George, the fifteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Williams, living a*. Thunderbolt, a resort near Sa vannah, met a tragic death Tuesd;.' morning in a machine shop near his home. One of the large pullev KUs broke and struck the lad over the heart, killing him instantly. BILL WILL BE HANDED TO NEW. BERRY GRLitb JURY. Governor Blease and dub Evans on Felder's Latest Letter About Them and Their Acts. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says it is learned that at Newberry Monday Thomas B. Felder, the Atlanta at torney, will be forma'ily indicted. It is understood that the indictment will be in accord with the warrant recently sworn out against Col. Fel der, chrnging him with offering a bribe and conspiracy to defraud the State. The following witnesses, it is also learned, have been summoned to ap pear at Court: Governor Cole L. Blease, H. H. Evans of Newberry; John Bell Towill of Batesburg, and L. W. Boykin of Cam den. The information at hand is that the bill of indictment will be placed before the grand jury upon the con vening of Court at Newberry Mon day. In regard to the open letter of Col. T. B. Felder, published in the Atlanta Constitution several days ago, charging in effect that Governor Blease, when a State Senator, repre sented certain liquor houses, and otherwise reflecting on South Caro lina's Chief Executive in connection with the old State dispensary, Gov ernor Blease bad the following to say: "I do not care to aay anything as to such stuff emanating from a man that I have made a requisition for to answer to corrupt practices in at tempting to bribe the former State official of this State. I shall not be diverted from my purpose to bring him to justice. The public will soon learn how foolish, malicious and foul have been and are the charges made against me by such persons and their friends, and will sea how they will be confounded in their own filth. Let them go on. The commission will continue their work of investigation, and I will do my beet to have Felder answer for the violation of our law and his friends heie will find that there is a day of reckoning." Referring to Col. Welder's recently issued open letters, "Hub" H. Ev ans, of Newberry, who was in Colum bia Monday, entered a sweeping de nial to all altegatlo: s made by Fel der concerning himself (Evans) in connection with old State dlspnsary affairs and signifies his readiness to meet all charges made, even to the extent of giving "them personal sat isfaction" at any time and place they or either of them may desire. LET US HAVE IT ALL. Felder May Furnish Some Sensa tional Evidence. A special dispatch to the Green wood Journal says there seems to be no misgiving among the mem bers of the dispensary commission as to their ability to bring Col. T. B. Felder to the town of Newberry on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the State. It is said that in case that Governor Brown should refuse to grant requisition papers that the dispensary commission will wait un til Governor Ho.ke Smith takes office as it is understood that he will grant requisition lor Felder. The old dispensary commission re main in Columbia and they hold fre quent conferences behind closed doors but will no', talk to report ers nbr will Attorney General Lyon discuss his trip to the north recently, fntimations around the capital arej that something may drop soon. It is believed thai: Felder will come back good and strong: with some evi dence showing that he did not write the letters which were produced by H. H. Evans, of Newberry, although experts, it is said, declare that the writing is that of T. B. Felder. At any rate a sensaticial step will be taken and it is ..believed as stated above, that Felder will bring another man into the case. DOES SOME GOOD. The Torrid Weather Kills the Cot ton Boll Weevil. A dispatch from Tallalah, La.. Is to the effect that the torrid weather of the past week has .been effective in putting a big per cent of the dreaded cotton boll weevils out of business. The tests conducted by ;he Delta Boll Weevil Labratory, under the direction of G. D. Smith of the Unit ed States Bureau of entomology, in dicates that the bug has sustained its most serious setback since its inva-| sion of that territory. Of the weevils placed in hibernat-i ing cages last fall half of one per cent; only have emerged asrainst 1 1-2, ,,er cent last season, showing that the per cent surviving Is considera-' bly smaller. Thrown From Buggy. Rev. R. A. Yongue, jxastor of the Chester circuit, was painfully hurt on Sunday while returning from church by being thrown from the' buggy. His buggy was filled and he was standing on the back, when his horse took fright, and Mr. Yongue was pitched off. He was knocked un conscious and otherwise badly bruis ed, but fortunately no limos were broken. ORANGES THE PAPER TRUST GRIEVANCES OP PUBLISHERS BE ING POINTED OUT. Netv York Publisher and General Manager Stone Makes Earnest Ap peals for Canadian Agreement. Public hearings on the Canadian reciprocity bill were concluded by the Senate finance* committee Mon day, representatives of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and of the Associated Press being the last to appear before the com mittee. Secretary of State Knox, at the re qiujst of Senator Bailey, has been asked to explain to the committee whether the Root amendment to the paper section of the bill, providing that it shall not be in force until the President is satisfied and has issued a proclamation to the effect that paper and wood pulp are being admitted free into all the provinces of Canada, is in full accord with the agreement, as understood by the commissioners from both countries who prepared the treaty. On Wed nesday the committee will take up the bill in executive session to dis cuss committee action. Both Herman redder, until recent ly president of tr - American News-1 paper Pubishers' Association and Mefrille E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Press, testified Mon day, In answer to queries from vari ous Senators, that in their opinion no effort had been made by the newspapers of the country to present only one side of the reciprocity argu ment to color their reports on the question or to suppress any facts which were of news value. Bruce Haldeman, president of the publish ers' association, and Frank B. Noyes, president of the Associated Press, also appeared. The chief interest which the newspapers of the country have in the matter, Mr. Rldder told the com mittee, is their desire to free them selves from the paper manufacturers' trust which now, he added, has the publishers at its mercy. The read ers of the country would benefit by cheaper paper, as well as the publish ers, he declared, because the money saved on paper would ,be used to fur nish a larger and better news service. Mr. Rldder acknowledged that the publishers' association had sept out bulletins and telegrams urging the passage of the reciprocity measure, "But I would not have favored the measure," he said, "if I had not thought it would be of benefit to the country as a whole, Independent of my interest In it as a newspaper publisher.' When Mr. Ridder attacked the pa per trust, which he said limited the output, fixed the price and told a pubisher where he must buy his pa per, both Senators McCumber and Bailey, opponents of the bill declared that if there was such a trust they wanted to see t prosecuted by the government. Mr. Ridder insisted, in answer to numerous questions, that any amendment to the bill would, In his opinion, endanger and probably kill the measure and that, therefore, he was in favor of seeing the bill passed exactly as it came from the House. Mr. Stone testified that no instruc tions had .been sent out to Associated Press correspondents as to Canadian reciprocity, except that they had been told to Bend any important matter connected with it because of the gen eral interest of the subject. He was questioned in detail as to the Asaociated Press service by a number of Senators. All reports, he said, were supposed to be absolutely fair to both sides; to be a recital of facts on their news value only. THE LORIMER CASE. The Probers to Look Into the Matter Have Been Selected. Senators Dillingham, Gamble, Ken yon and Jones, Republicans, and Fletcher, Johnston, Kern and Lea, Democrats, will constitute the sub committee that will conduct the new investigation into the bribery charg es against Senator Lorimer. They were named for this duty Monday by the committee on privileges and elec tions and are all ready to begin ser vice with all the authority of a full committee as soon as the Senate ap-i proves. Of the ei?ht members, Messrs. Dn-j lingham and Gamble, Republicans.; and Fletcher and Johnston, Demo-j crats, voted for Lorimer in the prev ious investigation. Mr. Jones, Re-j publican, voted against him. Messrs.1 Kenyon, Republican, and Kern and] Lea. Democrats, were not then mem-! bers of the Senate. They are said to be against Mr. Lorimer. Ohio Mob After Negroes. Fear of a mob demonstration I against the two negroes accused of! implication in the murder of 0. F. | Bowers about i. week ago. led offi cers to remove the prisoners from Wellsville to the county jail at Lis-j bon, Ohio Monday. A crowd was! gathering when the negroes were, spirited away. Four at a Birth. At Calgary, Alta.. Mrs. M. Kewal-j osky, aged 21. igave birth to four' children, all of whom are alive and well. The woman previously gave birth to triplets and twins. URG, S. C, THURSDAY, JUN. SUPPORTS TAFT Former President Roosevelt Favors Taft For Repnb'icao Nominee. MAY AID IN CAMPAIGN At Cardinal Gibbons' Celebration in Baltimore the Two Presidents Met ?Roosevelt Will Not Consider Taking the Nomination Himself for President in 1012. President Taft, in his candidacy for the' presidential nomination in 1912, will receive the unqualified en dorsement of former President Roose velt, which will be uttered just as certainly as it was in the last cam paign. This is the best political news -Mr. Taft has received in many months, and it comes to him in a manner that leaves no doubt as to its authenticity. The information that Mr. Roose velt, under no circumstances, will al low his name to be presented to a national convention was received sev eral days ago, but it did not become known until Tuesday night. That Col Roosevelt feels that the Taft administration should be continued was brought out as a result of the meeting between the two at the Car dinal Gibbons jubilee at Baltimore. Whether the former president will enter the campaign, as an active worker, will |be watched with inter est. 1 It is not expected to prove pleas ing to. Republicans, -who have made no secret of their desire to bring Col. Roosevelt forward as a formida ble rival for the 1912 nomination. Many of these Republicans, no doubt, will refuse to abandon hope until Col. Roosevelt himself, in a quoted state ment, announces his position and thus breakB the silence concerning the administration, which he has maintained since landing in New York on his return from Africa. The information that Mr. Roose velt would be fouod allied with the president rather than against him, was brought directly to Mr. Taft from (Mr. Roosevelt by a mutual friend high in official life, who was connected with both the Roosevelt and Tnft administrations in a capa city that enabled him to igain and re tain the confidences in fact, the warm personal friendship of both men. The meeting at Baltimore between the two was only incidental to the Cardinal Gibbons jubilee, but it awakened the political interest of men high in public life. They met first in the reception room in the 5th regiment armory, where the Jub ilee celebration was held. They talk ed together and shook hands with old friends, they chat ted, laughed and behaved just as they used to do when Mr. Roosevelt was in the V/hite House and Mr. Taft was secretary of war. They carried the spirit, of friendli ness up to the platform and, sitting side by side, they conversed in under tones through much of the afternoon Mr. Roosevelt reached Baltimore before the president, and was wait ing for him at the armory. "Hello, Mr. President,'' said he in the high pitched voice that Washlng tonians know well. "I'm glad to see you. I want to Inquire about Mrs. Taft." "Hello, Theodore," replied the president. "How are you'" Shortly after, Mr. Roosevelt was taken aside by the president. The two men were together about ten minutes, beyond ear range of any other'person. Afterwards it was said they "talked about Mrs. Taft's health." The president invited "the colonel to come to Washington on June 19 to be his guest in the White House at his silver wedding anniversary. Mr. Roosevelt said he would try to' manage it. As he had to return Im-! mediately to New York, he was not; the president's gue3t Tuesday niight. j The president arrived in Washing-j ton at 7 o'clock. After he had shaken hands with the cardinal, the president put out his hand to the colonel. "Goodbye, Teddy," said he. Then he leaned forward and said; something. They both laughed and the meeting was over. -?~*-~* PRAYER BOOK BURNED . -?- I Lightning Strikes Church Stunning Many Worshipers. I At Fort Wayne. Ind., during a! severe electrical storm Sunday light-J ning struck the Trinity Church and; stunned many of the worshiper. A prayer book held by Mrs. W. \\. Shryock was .burned from her hand, i\hich was blackened by the bolt. The church was filled with light from the flash and when it had passed the organ which was operated by elec tricity, and on which the organist was playing at the time, was silenced and all electric lights were out. j There was a momentary panic which was quickly subdued by the presence! of mind of the rector and organist. | Three Lost in Storm. Three lives were lost as the re-j suit of au electrical storm that swept through Michigan Monday night Wires are down in many directions. The wind reached a velocity of 60 miles per hour. E 8, 1911. THUG ATTACKS GIRL WHILE SHE WAS VISITING HER SISTER IN GEORGIA. A Young Woman is Attacked by an Unknown Man "Who Deluged the Girl in Chloroform. A special dispatch from Albany, Ga,, to the Atlanta Constitution, says Miss Irene Crockett stepped sud denly out onto the back porch of her sister's home, expecting to encounter that sir-ier, whom Miss Crockett sus pected of an attempt to play a prac tical joke, she met instead a man who deluged her face, neck and clothing with chloroform. From the effects of the fumes of the enesthetic i and the natural fright, Miss Crockett became unconscious a moment after she returned to the hall and scream ed for help. Miss Crockett's home is In Car rollton, and she is visiting her sis ter, Mrs. Q. W. Wallace, in Albany. Mrs. Wallace left the house for a moment to got a bill changed at a neighbor's. Miss Crockett remaining in the house. Hearing a noise .on the hack porch, the young lady de cided that her sister was trying to frighten her, just for a joke. So sure was she that Mrs. Wallace was on the back porch that Miss Crock ett did not hesitate to throw open the door suddenly and run out, de termined to take her sister by sur prise. But Instead of Mrs. Wallace, the young woman encountered a man, who jumped from behind a refrig erator and pulled something from his pocket. Before Miss Crockett had time to even guess what he was about, the man dashed a quantity of some liquid stuff in her face. More of the liquid followed, deluging the astonished young woman's neck and waist. The pungent odor almost prostrated her, but she had the pres ence of mind to run into the hall and scream for help. A moment later, when Mrs. Frank Wallace entered through the front door, she found Miss Crockett prone on the floor and in an unconscious condlton. The house was filled with the fumes of chloroform, and an ex amination showed that Miss Crock ett's hair and light waist were sat urated with it. An officer was called in and a dilli gent search was made for the num, but ho could not be found. 'Miss C'',ckett Is still suffering from the effects of her thrilling experience, but no permanent ill effects are look en for. AN UNINVITED GUEST Man Awakes to Find Snake Coiled About his Arm. During the wind and rain storm Monday night after midnight, E. D. Arnet, an official of the Bibb Brick Company, living at 221 Clayton St., Vlnevllle, Ga.,awoke and was sur prised and startled to feel something tightly wound around his arm. Jumping out of the bed he turned on the electric light and saw a green moccasin, more than three feet long, head uplifted and fangs protruding, looking him In the face He grabbed his coat, and using it as a shield and a glove managed to unwind the snake which he flung away from him. The snake landed in the middle of the bed. promptly coiled and show ed no signs of departing. Mr. Arnett immediately forsook his apartments, and despite the mosquitoes, spent the remainder of the night sleeping on the dining table downstairs. A hick ory tree grows beside Mr. Arnett's bed room window, and it is supposed that the snake was driven from iti into the room by the storm. SHOT WHILE ASLEEP. Spartnnburg Negro Killed by Three Unknown Men. While asleep in his little home, near Whitney Mills, at Spartanburg, at a very late hour Monday night, George Drummond, a negro, was shot and instantly killed by three un known negroes, who entered his home. On account of the excessive heat, Drummond and his wife were asleep with the doors and windows open. His wife heard some one say "hello" and she immediately ran to the rear of the house. She heard the shot and when she returned her husband's head had been almost shot off. The assassins made good their escape, leaving no clue whatever. An Inquest was held, the verdict of the cororner's jury being that Drummond came to his death by gunshot wounds in the hands of un known parties. Coroner John S. Turner is of the opinion that the, negroes who did the shooting were insanely drunk. They have not been captured. Accidentally Killed. I Information was received Tuesday of the horrible and violent death of Mr. Grady Lane, son of Mr. Henry Lane, of Early Branch, Hampton county, a bright young man. who had not yet reached his majority. It seems that he had just returned to his work at the Cummings mills at Flehtig from breakfast, was caught by the belting or shafting, and dash ed to h;s death. Further particulars are lacking. TAKES HIS BRIDE WITH HIM ON HONEYMOON TRIP TO THE CHINA SEA. Baby Girl Rescued, Attacked by Pir ates and Their Beheading, Drive Monotony of Trip Away. Romance, adventure and heroism were just a few of the li'itle inci dents that caused so much good fel lowship between Capt. Frank Downs and his crew on the four-masted steel bark Juteopolis which reached New York 'Monday after a trip to Hong kong and back. When the bark was in Baltimore a little more than a year ago the skipper met Nelly Carter, and, after a three weeks' courtship, Nelly chang ed her name, and as 'Mrs. Downs went aboard the Juteopolis and made the voyage around the horn for a honeymoon trip. The bark spent 153 days in.mak ing Hongkong and then went to Can ton. While in Canton River the mate, Harold J. Symonds, started for a swim. The mate says that the Chinese longshoremen do not like baby girls. He did not know thh when he saw a twelve-months-old girl tumble off a sampan. Her parents watched her sink. The sailor swam with her back to the sampan, but the Chinese poked him away with bamboo poles and forced him to take the baby back to his own ship, where the skipper's wife took care of her. Pirates that infest the Canton Riv er learned that the crew of the Jut eopolis had been feiven shore leave. Unluckily for the pirates and for tunately for the bark Capt. Downs kept his men ashore that night. A little before midnight the Chin ese pirates attacked the bark, but the warm reception accorded then, from half a dozen lengths of steam hose sent them scampering away. Some of them were captured later and the mandarin sent an Invitation to Capt. Downs to witness their exe cution, which was done in the old fashioned way by a headsman, who clipped off head after head until there were no pirates left. Then the Juteopolis hoisted sail and start ed for home. SHOT BY NEGRO. Seeking to Arrest Him is Shot En tering the House. Sim J. Miller, deputy sheriff of Lexington count)', brought to Colum bia Wednesday the story of the kill ing of Pink Bouknight, a prominent flarmer of Lexington county, near Leapharts, by Will Collins, a negro-, early Wednesday morning. It seems that the barn and stock of Joel Fulmer were burned about two weeks agp and the bloodhounds traced some one as far as the rail road bridge of the Columbia, New berry & Laurens roaci. in the direc tion of the house of Will Collins, but could not follow the trail any furth er. Though definite facts could not be obtained by Mr. Miller regarding the killing, it is understood that a posse of about 25 or more men went to the house of Collins, who lived on the place of H. J. Younginer, early Wednesday morning and told him to "come out" Collins refused to "come out" and he was then told if he didn't come out they would shoot up the house. When Collins still didn't come out, it is claimed that the window was prized open and when Mr. Bouk night started through was shot by Collins, the weapon used being a shotgun. Mr. .Miller stated that the ne?ro was at large, but he had a clue which might result in an arrest. He work ed on the case during the entire day. Pink Bouknight, the dead man, was a prominent f irmer of Lexington county. Me was about 3S years of age. Immediately after the shoot ing he was carried to Mr. Fulmer's house, and then was started to his \ home, about three or four miles! away, but died before reaching there. After the shooting Collins ran, and several shots were fired at him, but it is not thought they took effect. OUTLAWS PUT TO DEATH Stand no Chance After Being Cap tu red by Mexicans. Twenty-eight followers of "Mag oon's Mexican liberals" who were op posed to Madero, were summarily ex ecuted on Saturday and Sunday in; the Altar district, near Compania and Altar, according to refugees. The dis tricts have been cleared of the fol lowers of Magoon, who were classed by the provisional government as bandits. The L'S executed were cap tured after a skirmish, in which there were a number of cisualities on both sides. It is said that the Madero troops have been ordered to put to death all captured outlaws. His Last fianie. At Carson City, Nev. Patrick Cas ey, an old time ball player, who is under sentence of death for murder, committed in Goldfield Monday acted as an umpire in what will be his last game at the state penitentiary. For some :ime two convict ball teams have been practicing within hearing of Casey's cell. Casey appealed to the warden for the privilege of see ing and umpiring one more game. He was allowed to do so. TWO CENTS PER COPY. STEEL TRUST The War K-ais ?f the Gigantic Corpcra lion Laid Ban [by Gary ONE OF TEDDY'S PETS Wliile President, Roosevelt Person ally Licensed it to Absorb the Ten nessee Coal and Iron Company iin Open Violation of the Laws of the United States. Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation, told the House investigating committee re cently that the Bureau of Corpora tions had .been investigating the Steel Trust for five or six years. Judge Gary said further that it had cost the trust hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with the on reaua requests for information and statistics, and that "the bureau must have a household of facts." None of these facts has ever been made public by the Government. The Bureau of Corporations was one of Mr. Roosevelt's pet hobbies. As he said in his first message to Congress Dec. 2, 1901: "The first essential in determin ing how to deal with the great in dustrial combinations is knowledge of the facts?pubcity in the interest of the public; the Government should have the right to examine the work ings of the great corporations en gaged in interstate business." The same thought was expressed in a speech made by Mr. Roosevelt in Boston August 25, 1902: "The first thing we want is pub licity; and I do not mean publicity E-s a favor by some corporations?I mean it as a right from all corpora tions affected by law." > Again at Wheeling, Sept. 6, 1902, Mr. Roosevelt said: "The first thing to do would be to find out facts. For that purpose 1 am absolutely clear that we need publicity." Congress yielded to Mr. Roose velt's entreaties and gave hira- a Bu reau of Corporations, which, was or ganized Feb. 26th, 1903. The act creating the bureau upon the Com missioner of Corporation!??power and authority to make, under the direction and control of the Secre tary of Commerce and Labor, diligent investigations into the organization and management of the business of any corporation, joint-stock company or corporate combination engaged in commerce among the several States and with foreign nations, excepting common carriers subject to "An act to regulate commerce," approved on Feb. 4. 1 887. The United States Steel Corpor ation is the greatest of all trusts that control manufacture. As Judge Gary said in his testimony the other day, "the Steel Corporation does ab solutely no operating. It manufac tures nothing. It gets its income from the dividends declared by the subsidiary companies.'' Its control of these subsidiary companies is ab solute, as Judge Gary's testimony shows: "The subsidiary companies have their own directors and officers and have the riight to act independently; but as the Steel Corporation owns the securities, if the conduct of a sub sidiary company was antagonistic in any way it would ony be a question of time when the administration of that subsidiary company would be changed." "You mean the parent company would control the policies of anysub sidiary company?" "It might not for the moment, or the month, but when the time to elect officers arrived it would." Yet Vafter five c|- 'six; yearfs of "dilligent investigation" of the af fairs of this gigantic trust the Bu reau of Corporations has been unable to furnish any "publicity in the in terest of the public," says the New York World. One Pesidential campaign has been fought?and financed?since the bu reaureau began its investigation of steel. The tariff has been revised and preparations are under way for the orations are under way for another Presidential campaign, but the facts collected by the Bureau of Corpora tions under two Republican Adminis trations have yet to see the light of day. During the last five or six years the heavy hand of the United States Government has been laid upon Ha riman. upon Beef, upon Turpentine, upon Sugar, upon Standard Oil, upon Tobacco; but no administrative fin ger has disturbed the serenity of the Great God Steel. It has remained immune, and Mr. Roosevelt as President of the United States personally licensed the absorp tion of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the United States Steel Corporation in further recognition "of the great influence of the Mor gan interests which have been so friendly to us," thus giving it an ultimate monopoly of the high-grade iron ore of the country. Is the United States Government another of the Steel Trust's subsid iary concerns? _4, j j \ Took Poison by Mistake. Rev. II. R. Schramm, a Baptist minister of Wylam, is dead as a re sult of mistaking carbolic acid fofl paregoric. ; im ui_\JL