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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKL^ likes Senator McCamber's Opposition to Reciprocity Treaty APPEAR RIDICULOUS How the Blind Senator Took All the Wind Oat of the North Dakota Senator's Sails, Which Was Great ly Enjoyed by President Taft and Others. (One oi the finest pieces of sarcasm In the recent records of Congress went to tie credit of Senator Thos. P. Gore," Oklahoma's blind gonlus, at last Wednesday's session of the Sen ate. ^Jtfr. Gore has been saying very little At the extra session, rarely ris ing except to introduce a bill or to make a brief inquiry. "At the close of a long and lugubrious speech by Senator Cumber, of North Dakota, Wednesday, in opposition to the Can adian reciprocity bill, however, Mr. Gore gave a brilliant display of his gifts as a speaker. While Mr. McCumber .vas wiping from his fevered brow the perspira tion remitting from his terrific as sault on reciprocity as a menace to the prosperity of our farming in terests, /Senator Gore arose and in his clea.r voice, clean-cut enunciation and faultless infection, without hes itating a moment for the right word, and also without even the semblance of a smile, asked to have printed in the Record a speech recently de livered in the Canadian 'Parliament by one, Mr. Sexsmlth, predicting for Canada, as a result of the recipro city treaty, not only agricultural de cline and industrial suffering, but complete national disintegration. In explaining his request that the Sexsmito. speech . should be printed, Senator Gore delivered this little masterpiece, over which nobody has chucklsd with more delight than the President of the United States: "According to the prophetic vision, according to the argument conclusive and unanswerable argument, of Mr. Sexsmlth and the Senator from North Dakota, the fair and fruitful fields of the Dominion and .of this Republic are destined soon to become a wel tering waste of wreck and ruin. "Mr. President, the section of this Union now designated as, Arizona and New Mexico was once peopled by a prosperous and enlightened race now known as the Cliff Dwellers. The ruins of their former prosperity still taark the desolate mountain sides of that distant region. They were brought to an untimely end through some unaccountable cata clysm of nature. The remains of those people are still found with their hands elapsed upon their mouths as if protecting themselves against the noxious fumes and ex halations from a quaking and dis tracted earth. "Mr. President, when ruin comes again upon the people of this coun try, shared by our neighbors to the northward, it will not be through poisoning the air that they breathe. Sir, it will be through a removal of the tax upon the bread that they eat, a removal of the tax upon the whea: and cattle which thty import from the Dominion of Canada, and our neighbors will suffer a similar catastrophe from the removal of the tax on the wheat and on the cattle which they import from the United States I repeat, sir, not from too UVtkt breath, ,but from too much breiid. "Some may marvel that such re sult should flow from this Canadian agreement, but I suppose the fact that it is to precipitate disaster upon both the countries results from that ancient and established canon of philosophy that like causes produce like effects, and it would be unfair! for this agreement to precipitate chaos and ruin in the United States without precipitating a similar fate upon the inhabitants of Canada. "I wish to print this speech, so thai: when these two lands now fair, fruitful and prosperous, shall be come a weltering waste; when the traveller of the future impelled by curiosity, shall wander through this land, now prosperous, then desolate, shall find deposited in the corner stone of that mausoleum in which our hopes, opr prosperity and our destiny are entombed the speech of the Senator from North Dakota, ac companied by the speech of Mr. Sex smith, of the Canadian Parliament, accounting for the catastrophe which overwhelmed this matchless Republic and splendid Dominon toward the Northrn Star. He Was Strung Up. Wtq. Bradford, a negro of Annap olitta. Miss., was hanged by a mob near the lawn of Sussky Mitchell, a farmer of this section. Bradford was enroute to jail in the custody of a sheriff when the lynching party nrade its appearance, and after some ar.rument took the negro. He was charged with attempted assault on a white woman of that county Bolt Kills Boy and Mule. Dick Tisdale, a negro boy about 16 years of age, was killed Monday af ternoon by a stroke of lightning while ploughing in Shannontown, a suburb situated south of Sumter. The mule that Tisdale was ploughing was torn to pieces by the lightning. LIST OF AWARDS MADE 3X .? GIVEN TO GRADUATES HIGH SCHOOLS. Credits Are Made Up Prom Work Actually Done by the Pupils in the ? Course. The State board of education has ?awarded the Stete high school diplo mas, which are given each year by the board to pupils of the public high, schools who have to their cred it not fewer than fourteen standard units. These credits are made from the work actually done by the pu pils in the high school course. In the State ds a large number of pupils with a credit of twelve units andl over but fewer than fourteen. The list of those receiving these diplomas is as follows: Anderson?Annie Laulre Rogera, Saidee Alice Clarke, Mattie Lou Mc Cants, Percy Ciayton, Harper Balen tine, James Francis Spellman. Darlington?Sara Wardlaw Ed wards, Ethel fioatwrlght' Brunson. Abbeville?Robert Hemphill Cole man, William Thomas iMcDomald, Louise Peletier McDill, Annie Louise Roche, Annie Margaret Hill, Marie Pearl "Barnett. Denmark?BTonde Barton, Gladys M?house, Boyes M. Steadman. Bamberg?Jerolyn Bruce, Evelyn Free, Eulalie Coleman, Helen Easter ling. North Augusta?Mattie Mae Whit ton, Anna Cathleen Jennings, Lena Rebecca, Bradohaw, Will Verdery Woodward, Heiiry Settle Wynn, Wil bur Harmon Creighton. (Central?E<?na Clayton, Jeanette Aiken, J. B. Falls, Stacey Ramseur Shirley. Allendale?Eunice Keel, Minnie Elizabeth Reeves, Ernestine Boineau, Eleanor Rutn Hiers. Johnston?Lwwson Auburn Moyer, Kate Lydia Pruitt, Frances Narcissa Pruitt IMarion?Sadie Kate Hunter, Wil liam Dixon Cross, Edward Clark Smith, Duncan Emerson McDuffie, Clara Louise Lide. Leesville?Ihomas William Cool ey, Mytrie Bryan, Mertle May Wil liamson, Fannie Vester Howell, James Btrabham, Justina Dukes, Wal ter Young Cooley, Nellie Crcrach, Ralph Monde Crosson, Claudia Pearl Howell, Verda. Euroda Whittle. Sumter?Harrington Cooper Brear ley, Francis Vtoing Gibson, Edward Eugene Jone?. ?hepard K. Nash, Allen Raymond Richardson, Earle Rowland, Alfred Scarborough, Wilfred Mc Lauriu Shaw, Char lton Lev! Burkett, Virgil Payne Conbett, John Craig Hurst, Leon Le Grand, Francis James Millette, Ray mon Schwartz, Elizabeth White, Mary Anna Strother, Susie May Raffiield, Adele Pitts, Mary Louise Millette, Nancy Witherspoon McKay, Gertrude Elizabeth Kohn, Evelyn Fr?ser, Susie Dunlap Dick, Rosa Dun-| das Cheyne, Margaret Isabelle Chey ne, Agnes Bryan, Anna Louise Brown, Ella Pauline Blandlng, Anne Janej Barnes, Innls. McKewn Cuttino. Dillon?John Crawford Bethea, j Philip Bruce Sellers, William Laraont) Smith, Rena Christine Bracey, Annie Beulah Biracldy, Alice Leigh Ev^ns, Mary Alice: Jackson, Sarah EulahJ Moody, Nort- Edna Rogers, Ruth Ele anor Stackhouse. Summerville?Edgar Allan Cohen, Randolph Proughton Lee, Francis Allen Miles, Pearle Rhett Riggs, Olive Marjory Scarborough, Harriet Elizabeth S allivant, William Simons, Ruth Holmes Walker. WILL REMAIN THE SAME. There Will be No Change in State Bo;trd of Education. Governor Blease, in positive lan guage before the State board of edu cation Saturday, declared that there will be no change in the personnel of the board. The statement was made at the session of the board this morning, and this evening the press was furnished with a steno graphic report of what Governor Blease had said to the board at its session Sa'urday. iGovernor Blease, in addition to making the final assertion that the members of the State board of edu cation would not be removed, out lined his position with regard to the adoption of school books. In this respec t his statement was prac tically the same as that printed in The News and Courier a few days ago. 'Governor Blease also reviewed the Wadriy Thompson incident, re ferring to the adoption of history books. Among other interesting statements Governor Blease made re ference to the reported presence of detectives in Columbia at this time who, he asserted, were here "to watch hs," according to the informa tion Governor Blease has in the matter. Woman Starve to Death. For the second time within forty eight hours, a woman collapsed Sat urday of starvaaion in the steets of New York. This time the victim died. She said she was Rose Dasso, aged 51, homeless and friendless. She had alept in doorways and parks for a year, she said, and with her last breath she told a policeman who knelt over her that food had not passed her lips for so long that she had forgotten the date, and had all but forgotten the taste. i ORANGEB' WILL WORK WONDERS i NEW STORAGE BATTERY PER FECTED BY EDISON. Can Be Used in Cars, Automobiles and All Kinds of the Ordinary Vehicles. Edison's new forage battery, which he is now perfecting, will sure ly work wonders if all that is said of it is true. In speaking of it the Manufacturer's Record says: Just when the storage battery el ectric car is establishing Itself in favor with street-railway men for service comes Thomas A. Edison with the .anouncement that he has designed a new type of storage bat tery, which is a ^vonde^, and It may further popularize cars without trol leys. A few days ago he told a re porter of the New York Times about the new invention, saying tha't, al though it will run a car ?r automo bile, and, in fact any kind of vehi cle, it can be put in a suit case, be ing small and light, yet containing sufficient power for a 50 or 60 mile trip. ' Moreover, it can be recharged in three or four minutes, whereas the first storage battery he produc ed required a long time for recharg ing. Furthermore, if necessary, ii can be partly recharged in a min ute or less should time be pressing. He is working along the same line to produce a battery for heavy ser vices on railroads, doing work as efficiently as steam locomotives do now, and is also quoted as saying that one of his storage batteries is working on a butcher's wagon in West Orange, N. J., where Mr. Edi son resides, running for 17 miles at an expense of 2." cents. The battery Is under the seat, and it ia recharg ed by conned ion with an ordinary feed wire. He referred to the street car now being operated at Concord, N.C ., saying that the people there were laughing at the rest of the country for using trolley cars. This implied promise of Mr Edi son to give the world street-car ser vice at lower operating costs, and without the disadvantage and dis figurement of trolley wires and their accompanying overhead structure, is most encouraging when read in con nection with the reports of success attending the operation of storage battery-cars on cross-town lines in New York, where they have proved so satisfactory that the Third ave nue railroad has,ordered 35 more of them, which, with 30 now in service, will give it a good supply of the new vehicles that are to take the place of horse cars on short routes across the city between the Hudson and the East Rivers. The battery equipment will be fur nished by the Electric Storage Bat tery Company, of Philadelphia. It appeaTSJ that the railroad has now a little less than 10 miles of line operated with storage battery cars, the rest of its lines being equipped with electric cars of the usual type and a few horse cars. The storage hattery vehicles are reported to have worked well in all kinds of weather, and the operating expense was low, while the life of the batteries is greater than anticipated. The cars have also gathered more business for company, as many people would not use the horse cars. So much has al ready been accomplished by storage battery cars that the efforts of Mr. Edison and others to extend their field of usefulness will be observed with deed interest, and reports of greater achievements are anticipated. MEXICAN BOY LYNCHED. Whittling a Stick Caused the Death of Several People. The whittling of a stick led to the killing of Charles Zeitung a garage owner, and the subsequent lynching: oft a Mexican youth at Thorndale, Texas, Tuesday night. Whether the ! boy was a citizen of the United States i or of Mexico Is not known. The Mexican, a lad of about 18, whose name has not been as certained, was sitting on the sidewalk, in front of Zeitung's garage early Monday night, industriously wheilding a pocket knife and making a pile of shavings. Zeitung protest ed against the littering up of the entrance to his place of business and ordered the youth to stop. This, ac cording to bystanders, angered the Mexican and he stabbed Zeitung in the heart. The youth was arrested and lodg ed in jail. Soon after nightfall k j mob of about 100 men surrounded I the jail and secured the Mexican I with little difficulty. Some of the I lynching party went for ropes, but i others in the crowd were impatient I and held up a truck farmer who was j drivng a load of watermelons to mar ket. The team was unhitched and the four, trace chains fastened to gether. One end of the chain was fastened about the neck of the youth and another boy climbed a telephone pole, throwing the free end over a limb. The Mexican was hoisted about six feet from the ground and was quickly strangled to death. Main Witness Dead. Cicero Bird, the main witness for the State in the case against Coyt Blackman, charged with murder, that was to be tried Tuesday at Darling ton, was found dead at his home and the house in ashes. It is supposea that lightning struck the house kill ing Bird and burning his home. URG, S. C, THURSDAY, JUN] WILL SAVE WIFE] Senator Lake Lea Offers Himself as Sacrifice to Restore Her GIVES fliS OWN BLOOD The Operation Is Entirely Successful and the Youngest United- States Senator and His Young Wife Are Both Doing Well After the Trans fusion Is Made. United States Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee, to save the life of his stricken wife, heroically sacrificed a Quart of his blood at Georgetown hospital Sunday, and Monday night hope for Mrs. Lea's recovery, which bed almost been abandoned, is prac tically assured. The anxious youngest senator of the nation, as he lies near the bedside of his wife, is recuperat ing his strength. Mrs. Lea's condition, serious for some time, became alarming Sunday after an operation the day before.. Her strength, because of lack of blood, was gone, and vitality was fast ebbing away. Senator Lea, upon learning of her condition, demanded that a transfusion operation be per formed and prepared at once to sub mit to the ordeal. At his entreaty physicians and surgeons made ar rangements immediately, and the op eration which followed was declared to have been very successful. Senator Lea withstood the opera tion well, though it left him so weak that for hours he could not stand alone, but his gratification over the reviving effect it had upon his wife was inexpressible. Surgeons assured him that, without the sacrifice which he made, Mrs. Lea could have lived but a few hours. Both are now in Georgetown university hospital. It will be two or three days before Mrs. Lea is altogether out of danger. At present her symptoms are favor able, although she is still very weak. Senator Lea Is confined to his bed at the hospital, his vitality, being re duced by the transfusion operation. It is exipected, however, that he will be able to leave his room in a few days. When heroric effort in Mrs. Lea's (behalf became imperative and the transfusion operation determined up on, Senator Lea, athletic In statute, would not consent to anything, but that a sacrifice of his own blood to renew her vanishing strength be made. /But because a prime factor in trans fusion operation is that the blood be fusible, tests were hastily ordered. Before analysis was completed by the surgeons, Drs. H. D. Fry and George Tully Vaughn, fearing that death might ,be swifter than they, became -alarmed at Mrs. Lea's condition, and decided on the operation anyway. Just as the Senator's arm had been bared, and a tube inserted in an artery word came that the bloods of the husband and wife were fusible. The other end of the tube which had been inserted in Senator Lea's I arm was connected with ah incision in Mrs. Lea's arm and the blood be gan to flow from his veins into those of his wife. The transfusion con tinued for about an hour and a half. The patient responded to the treat ment from the first. Gradually the color was retored to the Hps and cheeks of the frail sufferer. But as Mrs. Lea's color was restored the flush faded from the cheeks of her husband. When the transfusion haa continued an hour and a half, he Im poi tuned the sarsrons not to arrest the operation while there was the possibility of a doubt as to the out come in Mrs. Lea's case. But the surreons, realizing the weakening et fects of such a drain on the senator's system, eventually staunched the flow. After the operation Senator Lea fell to the floor in a faint. He was imediately placed in bed, and is now making splendid recovery of j his strength. AVANT CAUGHT IN TEXAri. He Was Going Under An Assumed Name When Found. A special dispatch from Cameron, Texas, to The News and Courier says W. B. Avant, alias William Benja min, was arrested there Tuesday by Sheriff Hooks, Avant is wanted in Georgetown ,S. C, where he was tried for murder and convicted of manslaughter. Following his con viction, the case was appealed and the sentence was affirfmed. Upon hearing of the affirming of his case, Avant, accompaned by his wife, fled to that State about a year ago. When arrested he was engaged in selling sewing machines and was located at a boarding house. Upon his arrest by the sheriff he admitted that he was Avant, and said that he would go back to South Carolina without requisition papers. He is about 35 years of age and is of good appear ance. Buckshot Greet Serenaders. A party of country folk that gath ered early Tuesday under the win dows o:' J. Walter Force, a young bridegroom in the village of Living ston, N. J., with the intention cf giving the bridal couple chivaree. were welcomed with buckshot. Wal ter Livenguth, a serenader, fell mor tally wounded and Hugh Porter wf.s seriously wounded. S 22, 1911. F?LL JilGHTY F?ET WORKMAN I?tET DEATH WITHIN A TALL CHIMNEY. He Lost His Footing and Dropped to the Ground and Is Mashed and Broken to Pieces. Mashed to a pulp by a eighty foot fall was the sad fate of Henry Huen nefeld, a chimney worker, employed sty a Hoboken contracting company, which is building the huge chimney on Concord street in Charleston for the Consolidated Compr.ny's gas works. The News and Courier says the accident was a horrible one. It seems that Huennefeld and an other man were at work in the chim ney which is now in the course oi of construction. They were standing on a platform know as a "V", this platform being suspended inside the chimney. The men walked around this as they placed their bricks, and as the height of the chimney increas ed the "V" was pushed upwards. Inside of the chimney are * iron "steps," as they are known, on which the men suport themselves. Accord ing to testimony produced at the coroner's inquest, it seems that Huen nefeld miscalculated the distance to one of these steps, and fell like a plummet eighty feet to the ground inside th'1 chimney. He sustained fearful injuries, practically every bone in his body being broken and j bis brains dashed all over the ground. He was reached a few seconds after the fall, but was then dead. The man is a German, who is said to-have no friends, nor relatives in this country. He was employed .by the Hoboken company which Is doing the work, and has been in Charleston since the construction started some time ago. The nody is now rt the undertakers, and those In charge of the company's work have wired to Hoboken for instruction as to how to dispose of the body. Huennefeld was about 40 years of age and was un married. The chimney in which Huennefeld met his death is a gigantic thing of its kind towering 200 feet above the ground. Huennefeld, when he lost his footing, was about 80 feet from the bottom, and so great was the velocity which the body of the un fortunate man attained -in Its drop that It crashed clear through a two Inch plank within the chimney. A TRAIL OF BLOOD. Desperado Spares No Man Who Was in His WTay. Wi'liam R. Kidd, railroad conduc tor, dead; Samuel Melton, deputy sheriff, seriously wounded; Edgar McGill, rancher, wounded; Reuben Scott, watchman, three fingejs shot away; Robert Oley, constable, wound ed?these are the known victims of Hugh Whitney, an outlaw. Added to the identified sufferers, them may be others whose fate has yet co be learned It is rumored that the bandit has killed his former part ner in crime and there is uncon firmed report from Blackfoot, Idaho, tha- he shot and killed a boy to se cure possession of a fresh horse the lad was riding The bandit's trail of blood extends ha'.f way across eastern Idaho. A whole region has been terrorized by hin deeds. Posses are out from ev ery town and the governor of the State is considering a plan for call ing out a portion of the Idaho Na tional Guard. ?Blood hounds have taken up his trail at times, but a more formidable pursuit is that begun Tuesday by a band of Blackroot Indians, who unitb with the instinct of hounds the sa gacity of the scout. Whitney is the "short man" of an attempted saloon hold up at Monlda, Mont., on Friday. He shot the ot ficer who had him in custody and fatally wounded the Oregon Short Line conductor, assisting, the officer. McGill was shot because of the horse which the bandit needed; Scott be cause he was guarding a bridge, and Oley because he was a member of ii pursuing party. PASS THE WOOL BILL. Twenty-Four Republicans Vote With the Democrats. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 221 to 100 Tuesday passed the Underwood wool tariff revision bill providing for a reduction of the duty on wool and manufactures oZ wool. Twenty-four Republicans vot l ed wtih the Democrats for the pas I sage of the measure, and one Demo crat, Representative Francis of Ohio, voted against it. Many amendments were offered and voted down, the only 'one being a slight change in phrase ology. Almost five hours were spent . by th9 house in debate under the ; live-minute rule. The bill prescribes that it shall be in effect January 1 ! next, but it is not believed that the bill will pass the senate at this ses ' sion. Negroes Were Attacked. The strike in New York among the steamboat and railroad men still con jtinues. A score of negro strike breakers escorted by police were at tacked on West street Tuesday by a crowd of 500 strikers and sympathiz ers. Stones were thrown and the ne groes fled Police reserves repulsed the crowd and several arrests were made. WAR ON THE FIT WORLD WTDE PLOT TO SLAY THE LITTLE PEST. Scientists Cln?n That Typhoid Fever Would Practically Disappear Were the Flies All Killed. During these hot summer days in which flies glory and in which they thrive enthusiastically, it is well for every individual person to bear in mind a few facts concerning those house hold pests. In the first place a single harmless fly may carry from 550 to 6,600,000 bacteria. These germs may be, often are, the germs of typhoid fever, in part. The fly bears away virulent typhoid bacilli not only uron its tiny legs but also in its digestive organs. These germs it carries to food, leaving them in quantities on every tiny spot of food touched by a fly which has come from a typhoid pa tient's room. A colony of bacteria, begins to grow with wonderful rabid ity. A person not in fit physical con dition; and few are in hot summer weather, has an excellent chance to catch typno-d fever from this con taminated fo.cd. One case of fever then, of course, furnishes the bound less possibilities for other cases. . It is by the careful experiments of scientists that the habits of flies are made known. Leland O. Howard, chief of the United States government hureau of entomology, in his "The House Fly, Disease Carrier," a compleeetaolnfl5 Disease Carrier," a complete manual on the fly and how to fight it, pub lished by Frederick A. Stoke3 com pany, this spring, gives scores of ex periments, which show that disease germs by the millions have been found on flies by both laboratory scientists and army surgeons. Back in 1898, Surgeon General Dr. George M Sternberg, of the United States aruy, warned the army gath ering for the Spanish-American war that flies would carry typhoid In crowded camps. His warnings were somewhat neglected. Flies were al lowed to swarm from the tents of the sick toldlers to the tables of the well, and so every regiment of the United States army developed typhoid fevei. In the national encampments in 1898, one-fifth of the soldiers de veloped typhoid. While water was partly to blame, the doctors have de termined that the fly was the chief agent for this terrible spread of dis ease. Doctors Tooth and Calverly of the British army, found in the Boer war that in tents full of sick men, the flies left arufferers from sun stroke alone, but settled pitilessly on the faces of typhoid patients?and then swarmed over food It was then noted that when the cold weather hilled the flies, the typhoid stopped. .From India, Lieut. Col. F. W. C. Jones shows that flies are the chief carriers of typhoid; and thur all who carelessly eat food which have been allowed to be touched by the filth 'bearing flies, .ire nothing less than eaters of filth. Aside from army camps, in the ordinary peaceful cities, proofs of the fly's disease-bearing have been found, though here, where there are no army surgeons in charge jf tt'ery man, it. is harder to investigate. As for the wholesome country, doc tors have shown that practically nV of the terribly prevalent typhoid. iu borne, not so much by bad water, as by flies. Once the country flies gather the germs, they can leave them in milk or butter tor transportation to crowd ed cities. '.' bey gather thickly about most dairies, markets, etc. And ty phoid germs will live in milk for 20 days ready to infect in the very milk that goes to children?while in butter the germs will live for 140 days. In the laboratory, many scientists have by careful experiments proved that flies do carry germs every time they touch them. In a number of cases cited by Dr. L. O. Howard in his book, scientists have had flies walk over and feed on solutions con J taining typhoid bacilli. When v>.mBe flies were transferred to clean con tainers, they always were found to carry the germs to the new vessels,. Typhoid causes more deaths in one year than yellow fever does in fifty? and flies cause 95 per cent, of ty phoid in many rural and some city districts. What makes is most dangerous is that even where there are no ty phoid patients about, still flies can j collect the germs and carry them, for j a goodsized proportion of typhoid pa tients, even when absolutely cured I so far as feeling goes, continue to be "chronic carriers," and are likely to .be sources of danger for the rest : rtt their lives?unles the flies that irry these germs are destroyed, j There is only one possible manner j in wihch the constant menace from i typhoid germs may be avoided?the I whole community must work togeth er, planning to end the fly scourge. I That is what'Major Wanhill did with his typhoid afflicted Brithish troops in j Bermuda. In two years he almost {wiped out typhoid, largely by ending the fly nuisance. The fly should have no place in which to be born. If, however, he does succeed in entering the world he should find no space therein in which to live. There should be a "work altogether plan" against him. ? TWO CENTS PER COPY. SOME HOT TALK Division 9a Reciprocity Hay Cause Split in Republican Parly. REVOLT BECOMES OPEN Republican Senators Prom the North western States Declare that the Reciprocity Bill Is a Blow at the ? Keystone of Protection and Un fair to the Farmers. Republican opposition to the Can adian reciprocity bill in the senate reached the stage of open revolt Mon day. Led by Senator Dixort of Mon tana, who again failed in his demand for an explanation or a speech'in favor of the bill from some of the Republican leaders who champion the measure, the Republican opponents declared that if the bill passed, many Republicans would join the Demo crats in an attempt to lower the du ties on all unmanufactured products. "When the cornerstone is pulled out of the Eystem of protective tar iff," said Senator Dixson, "when the farmers' products are thrown1 into a' free-market while his purchases con~ tinue to be protected, there are many good protectionists in the Republican ranks here who will vote to have the duties pulled down on iron and steel, chemicals, cotton and many other things." Other Northwestern Republicans signaled their approval o fthe Mon tana senator's words that the pas sage of the reciprocity bill, which It is admitted will have a majority of the votes in the senate, will be attended with a fight that threatens to throw open the whole tariff sub ject "We want to make one killing," declared Senator Crawford of South Dakota. "We find the senators from Pennsylvania, New York, Connecti cut, Massachusetts and Maine, States that have always reaped -:he greatest harvest of protection, advocating this free list every single aiticle raised In the Northwest. I want-to push this matter In its entirety. If Penn sylvania, Misssissippi and Massachu setts have joined hands in a new political propaganda, it is time for the rest of the country to strike ont on a new tack." . ."If you can get enough senators on that side with you," returned Sena tor Bailey, of Texas, "we win take one of these bills now coming over from the house and make a whole new tariff law out of it.'' Senator Bailey declared there would he no adjournment until the senate had acted upon the free list bill. Reciprocity came before the senate with the Root amendment, affecting the importation of pulp wood and paper from Canada, as the matter for imrnediaae consideration. This amendment was again laid aside be cause of Senator Root's absence. Later he came into the chamber, but said he would not be ready to discuss the amendment until Wednesday. Opponents of the bill, including Messrs. Bailey, Dixon, Cummins and Smith of Jflicbigan, then demanded an explanation or speech from some one in favor of the measure. Several senators said they would not speak against the bill until they had heard some word in Its support. Senator Root made a brief expla nation of the reason for offering his amendment, which requires Canadian provinces to remove export restric tions before pulp wood and paper are admitted free. References to President Taft's speeches in favor of reciprocity and his criticism of the Root amendment were met by Senator Root with the statement that he would not discuss newspaper quotations. Senator Bailey declared he pro posed to discuss them; that if the president could criticise legislation and attempt to influenae the senate in open speeches, the senate should feel free to discuss and criticise the president. Senator Williams of Mississippi in sisted that President Taft is not open to critcism for his efforts to secure thy passage of the Canadian recipro city bill. In a direct attack upon the Root amendment Senator Williams con tended that if it were adopted, no Canadian paper and wool pulp would come into the United State free of duty until all Canadian provinces had removed their export restrictions and that the influence of the "paper trust" would result in preventing Its ever coming in free. "Those who would continue the present grip of the International Pa per company will vote for the amend ment," he said with much intensity, "while those who wish to remove that strangling hold will vote against it." Young Man Gone Wrong. R. C. Kuhle, ar. express messen lodged in jail, charged with the theft; day b yDeputy Sherilf Harell and logded in jail, dharged with the theft of articles in his charge while in transit. Kuhle was running between Florence and Jacksonville while In' the service. -m~*~*- 1 Man Falls Twenty-eight Stories. At New York civ last Saturday af ternoon William Anderson, a stone cutter, fell from the 28th story of the Bankers trust company building* His body was horribly mangled.