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?sTernor (town Ton? dm Goreraor FJease's Reqaisitisn FOR ATLANTA LAWYER) The Decision at Hearing in Atlanta Thursday Based on Contention of Felder'ti Lawyers that the Papers from .South Carolina Executive Were Inadequate. ?Govern!):: Brown, of Georgia, on Thursday refused to honor requisi tion papers, issued by Governor Blease, of South Carolina, for Thos. B. Felde::, an Atlanta attorney, for whom a warrant has been sworn out in Newbarry, S. C., charging him with attempted bribery of H. H. Ev ans, -a former member of the old State dispensary board. The contention of Mr. Foldtr's a> torneys, that the requisition papers were inadequate because they lacked affidavits to indicate that any per son had specific knowledge of the alleged offence, was sustained by Governor Brown. The papers merely included a copy of a warrant charging that "one B. F. Kelly, from information presented to him,, believed T. B. Felder, on the ? of October, 1905," offered or promised, "certain gratuities or gifts," tc iff. H. Evans. When Governor Brown told Mr Felder that he had denied extradi tion, the latter replied that he "prob ably would be going to South Oaro lina very soon" on his own accord. He declared h:'s Innocence of any at tempt tc ?ribe and asserted that the ?warrant '.pas merely a subtefuge on the part of his enemies to get him into the State. "I would like to see your creden tials," demanded Mr. Felder, when W. A. FiOlman, of Charleston, S. C, arose to address the Governor to ar gue for honoring the requisition. * "i want to know who is back of tneae charges.7 I am here merely as a lawyer re present! a? the soveri,gn State of South Carolina," replied Mr. Holman. "As tc anything hack of these charg es, I know nothing. My credentials, as you nil! see, ere signed by Gov . arnor Blease." r.,. Mr. Eclman asserted that the Con stitution of the United States left the Executive of a sister state no dlsce tion in the matter, when the Execu tive of one State issued a requisition upon the other for a person in anoth er State. "I recognize that the Constitution of the "Jaited States is the principal compeWing power," said the Govern or, "but the function of a Governor Is to protect the intercuts of citizens of his Statae when that State's laws are. not complied with." The uere fact that the papers al leging the crime charged against Mr. Fetder were accompanied by a cer tificate hearing the seal of Governor Blease, was not sufficient evidence of crisis to warrant him, he said, to gra-v: the extradition. Several prominent members of the Georgh; Bar addressed the Govern or in behalf of Mr. Felder, and cited numerous precedents in which courts in Georgia and other States had de clined requisition beoause the papers did not conform to the laws of the State upon whose Executive they were i:js;ued. The alleged cause underlying the reques: for extradition?personal an imosity between Mr. Felder and Gov. Blease resulting from differences in connection with the winding up of the old South Carolina State dispen sary system?was not brought out at the hearing which preceeded the denial of the request. It was allud ed to incidentally by Mr. Felder, who declared that he had intended to make a statement baring the entire matter, but the attorneys represent ing hin:, had found sufficient flaws in the requisition papers as to make it unnecessary to inject personalities into the proceedings. ?"It is not a matter in which per sonalities should enter," commented the Governor. Heard Five Miles. A dynamite explosion in the con duit >:.' the Commonwealth Edison Company, at Chicago, broke the win dows in buildings for several blocks arourd, causing a panic in several hotelfi. The detonation was heard five miles. There were no casualties. Tillman Has Scholarship. Sena.tor B. R. Tillman has been ?authorized by Superintendent H. O. Murfee, of Marion Institute, Marlon, Ala., to recommend a worthy boy in South Carolina for a scholarship, val ued at $100. Senator Tillman would be glai to consider applications Better and Ont of Danger. Mrs. Lea, wife of United States Senator Lea, of Tennessee, whose life i.'i believed to have been saved by the transfusion into her veins of a quar: of her husband's blood was pronounced to be out of danger. Put Out His Eyes. ?At Atlantic 'City, >N. J., Harry Adara:3, a wealthy bath house own er, lost his sight by seeing a bolt of lightning: reflected in a miirror. Adams fell unconscious though un touched by the thunder bolt. r LEADER OF BANDITS CHARGE MADE /.GAINST RE SPECTED PHYSICIAN. In the Daytime a Highly Respected Clii.zen and Doctor and at Night a Burglar. > By day a respected practicing phy sician and mayor of a Minnesota ci ty. By night the brains of an incen diary and robber band and using i his scientific knowledge In the prep araton of explosives to be used in felonies. This the Jekyll and Hyde personal ity the detectives believe has been revealed by the arre.it of Dr. T. T. Dumas, mayor of Cam Lake, Minn., and owner and manager of the Cass Lake-.baseball team. The mayor has bean arrested,' the warrant charging "wilful, malicious and felonious destruction of proper j ty." This followed a battle between a posse and two men caught blowing Open a safe at Puposky, near Cass J Lake. It was then anouaced by the de tectives working on ';he case and the assistant Btate fire marshal that Dr. Dumas was suspected of leading a gang which has operated in Minne sota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and ether northwestern states, and said by the police to have been employed by merchants to roh safes asd set fire, to buildings for the Insurance. It is declared to have Included sever al men of prominence in northwest ern communities. The mayor obtained his liberty by giving bond. He asserted that he was the victim of a police conspira cy and declared "some one" should suffer. He was present when the safe at his office was opened and found to contain six.sticks of dyna mite and four dynamite caps. He had hastened from the .bedside of a patient to give up tb e combination of .the safe,, so that an expert who had arrived from ISt. Pauil would not have to blow the safe open. He jok ed at the discovery. "The worst Is tey to come," was his comment. The opening of the safe was pro ceeded by a chase through the woods near Puposky after "Mike" Davis who with "Billy" Bean, was trapped by detectives at Puposky. Bean was ?wounded and captured. Davis is also wanted on changes of having killed a policeman in Chicago and another at LMJnnetonka, Minn., during rob beries several months ago. iPInkerton detectives have a sten ographic report of what they claim were the plans for the Puposky rob bery, as given the two robbers in the John Larson saloon by Mayor Dumas. A COLUMBIA MYSTERY. Body of a Negro Man Found in an Unused Well. ' The State says Columbia has another murder mystery which ^?'1 probably never be solved. Well clean ers descending in an old well In the rear of a house at 1814 Hardin street Waverly, Wednesday found the body of Edward Patterson, a negro about 40 years of age, who was employed by the Palmetto Ice Company as a driver until December 10 of last year when he disappeared. It was generally supposed that he had gone to Bdrmingham and no In vestigation was made at the time as to the cause of his disappearance. The well is located just back of the house. The house has not been oc cupied since last August. Coroner Walker made a searching investiga tion as to the cause of the death ana found that Patterson had been mur dered. His head was crushed by a heavy blow. The shirtwaist of a wo man covered his head. The body was decomposed almost beyond rec ognition. An examination by a physicia^i determined the fact that the man was a negro. Coroner Walker found that the negro had about $150 on his person the night that he was killed. He had been robbed. Many theories have been advanced as to the mo tive. No announcement has been made by Coroner Walker as to when the inquest will be held. He is working on several theories and will very probably learn something of a tangible nature. Mrs. Lea Gets Bette?*. Mrs. Luke Lea, whose life was de spaired of until the transfusion of blood from her husband, Senator Luke Lea, of Tennessee, on Sunday, was decidedly better Tuesday, while Senator Lea, greatly weakened by the loss of blood, was able to walk about They are both in a hospital at Washington. *. I Fatal Boating Party. Lela and Lena Stewart, aged six teen and fourteen years, and John Fernhall, aged fourteen, were drown ed in a branch of the Grand river near Eaton Rapids, Mich., when a canoe, which is supposed to have 6truck a Bnag, overturned. There were no witnesses to the accident, and the first known of it was when the boat was found down the stream. Deaths from Cholera. Two deaths from cholera and one death at sea was announced at New York quarantine. The dead were passengers aboard the Duca Deglia bruzzi, arriving from Mediterranean ports. Conrads kmdd for Scbcol Bocta by (he Education Board FOR NEXT FIVE YEARS Some Radical Changes Made from the List of Publications Now Used by the Children in Five Thousand South Carolina Public Schools, as Will Be Seen. The verdict in the adoption of the school books of the State was ren dered at Columbia Thursday evening. There was a radical change in the list. Superintendent Swearingen pro tested against what he terms too sweeping and unnecessary changes, but he was in a minority. The books adopted are these used in five thous and free schools in the State, but do not necessarily apply to the grad ed school districts that have their own adoptions. For the past five years the State depository, R L. Bryaa Company, managers, handled $50.3,243 worth of school books on the list in use during the five year. The present list will result in many sales. Thursday afternoon Superinten dent Swearingen had the verdict read to the assembled agents of the pub lishers. The contracts as awarded and as read follows: Awards Announced. Text Books adopted by the State hoard of education for use in the free pjublic schools from September 1, 1911, to June 3?, 1917: American Book Company?Hunt'3 Progressive Course In Spelling, Book I, Book II, Complete; Milne's Pro gressive Arithmetic, Book, I, II, III; Brook's English Composition, Book I; Maury's New Elements, Maury's Complete Geo/raphies; White's Be ginner's History of the United States; Pearson's Latin Prose Composition; Gleason's "A Term of Ovid;" Web ster's Primary, Common School, High School and Academic dictionaries. Atkinson Mentzer and Grover? supplementary drawing, applied arts drawing books. B. D. Borrry & Co.?Perry's Writ ing System. Educational Publishing Company, Autgsburg's Cours in Drawing. Ginn & Co.?Supplementary Read ers, the Hill Readers, Fourth and Fifth; Montgomery's Leading Facts of English History, Collar & Daniel's First Year Latin Supplementary Classic; Snyder's Selections from the Old Testament. D. C. Heath & Co?Woolley's Hand Book of Composition, Thompson's United States History, Well's Algebra for Secondary Schools, Part 1, Part 2 and complete; Well's new plane and solid geometry. Houghton, Mi in Company?Sup plementary English Clast!rs, to be selected; Supplementary Reading' for sixth grade and seventh grade, to be selected from Riverside Literature series. ' * IB. F. Johnson Publishing Company ?Basal Graded Classics, third read er, fourth reader, fifth reader; Pay ne's Common Words Commonly Mls pelled, Supplementary Classic, the Yemassee, Supplementary Reading; Hall's Half-Hours in Southern His tory. W. H. Jones?Spelling blanks. The McMillian Company?Kinara & Wither's Grammar, Book I, Book II; Duggar's Agriculture for South ern schools, Bothford's Ancient His tory for beginners, Tarr's New Phy sical Geography. Newson & Co.?Buehler's Modern English Grammar. Rand, McNally & Co.?Supplemen tary, the Story of Cotton, Robinson's Commercial Geography, Teller & Brown's Business Methods. Benjamin H. Sanborn & Co.?Cae sar's Gallic War, I to V. Johnston & Sanford?Select Ora tions of Cicero, 0'Oo.ge; Virgil's Ae neaid, I to VI. Chas. Scribner's Sons?Scribner's Supplementary English Classics, to be selected; Supplementary Reading, Mims & Payne's Southern Prose and Poetry. 'Silver, Burdette & Co?Supple mentary Stepping Stones to Litera ture, first reader, second and third reader;, White's "The Making of South Carolina." Parker P. Simmons?American History Leaflets, Record of My Read ing. Southern Publishing Company? Civil Government of the United (states, Civil Government of South Carolina; Civil Government of South Carolina and the United States. W. H. Wheeler & Co.?Primer, basal, first reader, second reader. World Book Company?Primer of Hygiene. Primer of Sanitation, Hum an Physiology. iBids invited on a history of modern times and on a Latin igTammar to be filed with the State Superinten on or before July 7th The most important change is the abandonment of Wentworth's ?.rthmetlcs and the adoption of Milne arithmetics and the abandonment of Frye's geographies and the use of Maury's geographies. Both these series are published by the American Book Company. Thompson's United /States History was readopted. John eon's fourth and fifth readers were retained and third reader added to the baaal readers. Other reading of Johnson's publications were added. White's history appears on the list for beginners. URG, S. C,SATURDAY, JUNI A TINY MIDGET FOUND MAY BE THE SMALLEST PERSON IN THE WORLD. Colored Girl, Two and a Half Years Old, Weighs Only Eight Pounds Is Only .19 Inches in Helgrt. About nineteen Inches In height, two and a half years old, weigh ing exactly eight paunds, and par ticularly strong and bright fo{r a child of her age, Frankie May Ford ham, a little negresa, living with her parents at No. 7 Heyward's Court, is believed to be about the smallest person in the world, with perhaps one or two exceptions, says the Char leston News and Courier. The News and Courier goes on fo say: The child is a veritable marvel. She was born in February 1909 .be ing the fourth child of Henry and Kate Fordham, the<husband being a navy yard employee.- The first three children, who were born away from Charleston as the family has been here only about a year, are hearty and full sized; but it is the baby that is the wonder of the family. The child is not a deformity, but is prob ably one of t hemo^t perfectly form ed negro children in the city. Nothing was known generally ofj the midget's existence until Wednes day as efforts were made by the pa rents to keep the fact of her dimin utive size secret, as they feared kid napping; but a reporter, having re ceived a mysterious "tip" in the form of an unsigned pencil-written letter, visited the house Wednesday night and marvelled at many things he saw. He was met hy the husband at the front door of the house, wrich is a neat two-story affair, and was usher ed Into the bed room, where the mother had the little girl in her night gown, just ready to put her to bed. As the reporter entered the room, the child, catching 6ight of the fatn ex, exclaimed In a sweet and child ish voice, with perfect enunciation: "Hello. Papa." The reporter glanced to see who It was talking and really had trouble in locating the owner of the voice, in locating the owner if the voice, finally espying the tiny tot on the floor. She was playing around in high glee at the prospect of staying up a few minutes later than her reg ular bed-time, and danced and sung at a great rate; showing unusual pre cocity for a child of her age. ' "Her eyes which are dark brown, are ex ceptionally clear and piercing, and her hair is silky and rather long, ab solutely unlike a negro's. Yet she is very dark, and had many of the ra cial craracteristics. The child weighed five pounds at birth, and gained three pounds dur ing the first six months of her life. Since that time she has not taken on an ounce, and several well known doctors who have examined her, ac cording to the parents, have stated that she will never |gain |another inch in height or another three pounds in weight. Her parents have] reoonciled themselves to this, and lavish their affection on the little girl, who is ctrtain to make a friend j of everyone she meets. She dances prettily, looks intelligent and talks fluently, being able to string words together into short sentences al ready. The parents sbate that they have already received many offers from vaudeville and side show managers, some having already offered as high as fifty dollars a week and transpor tation for the mother under a five year contract. All these offers the parents have turned down, hoping for the! ultimate[ development of their little one to her full stature, although they 'have now become al most certain that their hope is vain. The father and mother now s?em to think that they will keep and edu cate the child until it reaches the age of seven or eight years at least, be fore thinking of any vaudeville de parture. STORIES ARE UNTRUE. Confederate Veterans Condemn Them as Misleading. Atlanta Cam.i, No. 159, United Confederate Velerans, has passed strong resolutions severely condemn ing the civil war articles now running in papers all over the country. At a meeting held this week the camp heard a paper by Professor B. M. Zettler, a member, who. denounc ed the series, as unfair, inaccurate and misrepresenting the truth as re gards the confederate side. The paper was received with en thusiasm, and was endorsed without a dissenting voice. A resolution was then introduced and unanimously passed condemning the publications as damning the Southern cause with faint praise, and magnifying every thing concerning the union side. It was pointed out that the harm of these articles lay in giving the young er generation of the country an en tirely false conception of the confed eracy, and doing terrible injustice to the brave men who fought for a cause they beiieved in. Bandits in Palestine. In the wilds of Palestine hold-ups are pulled of in the most improved style, according <to Dr. Ira Payne of Des Moines, who haB just returned from a trip through Egypt and the Holy Land. He witnessed a battle between brigands and tourists. : 24, 1911. GETS HARD BLOW Powder Combine Declared a Trost by the doited States Combine. ORDERED TO DISSOLVE The Dupont Company Charged With Violating Sherman Law by Corn bin'r g to Restrain Trade and Mon opolizing Powder and Explosive (Business and Ordered to Quit. The United States circuit court for the district of Delaware Wednesday handed down a decision declaring that the alleged powder trust, which Is dominated by the E. I. Dupont de Nemours company, Is a combination in restraint of interstate commerce in powder and other explosives in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman anti-trust law; that it attempted to monopolize and monopolized a part of such commerce in violation of sec tion 2 of the same law, and decree ing that the combination shall be enjoined from continuing this viola tion and that it shall be dissolved. The action against the powder trust was begun by the government in 1907 and was directed against 43 corporate and individual defendants. The suit as to 15 of the defendants was dismissed because some of the concerns are out of existence or It was not srown that they were parties to the combination. The court in an interlocutory de cree fixed October 16th as the date to hear both sides in the action as to the nature of the injunction to be granted and consider a "plan for dissolving said combination, which shall be submitted by the petitioner and the defendant or any of them, to the end that this court may as certain and determine upon a plan or method for such discussion, which will not deprive the defendants of the opportunity to recreate out of the elements now composing said combination a new condition which shall be honestly in harmony with and not repugnant to the law." This follows to some extent the de grees issued by the United States su preme court in the Standard Oil nnd the tobacco cases. There, are. 13 corporate and 15 In dividual defendants declared to be in the illegal combination. A major ity of the individual defendants are members of the Dupont family, all of whom except Edmond G. Duckner, are each director of one of the Du pont companies. The corporate defendants are: The Hazard Powder company, Laflln & Rand Powder company, Eastern Dyn amite company, Fairmont Powder Company, International Smokeless Powler and Chemical company, Jud son Dynamite and Powder company; Delaware Securieites company, Dela ware Investment company, California Investment company, E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Co. of Pennsylvania, Dupont Indernatlonal Powder Com pany, E. I. Dupont de Nemours Pow der company, E. I. Dupont de Nem ours & Co. The only mejnber of the Dupont family mentioned In the suit who is not included among the found to be violating the law is Henry Dupont, one of the United States senators from Delaware. The decision written by Judge Wil liam iM. Lanny and concurred in by Judge George Gray and Joseph Buff ing, goes into the history of inter state commerce in gunpowder and other explosives back as far as 1872, when the government charged the first trade agreement of manufactur ers was entered into. The court re viewed the evidence in the case and fouad when the suit has begun that the Duponts had acquire dcontrol of 1 902 controlled in the United States the trade in several varieties of pow der. The court also found that the Du pont company of 1903 and the East ern Dynamite company controlled by the Duponts had acquired contro lof sixty-four different corporations be tween April, 1904, and September, 1907, and caused them to be dissolv ed. The court summarized the num erous companies controlled by the and the Dupont company organ ized in 1903, and then discusses whether the combination it found to exist was obnoxious to the provisions i of the Sherman anti-trust act. The court finds that the case in hand is obnoxious to the anti-trust law and then takes up the nature of j the final decree it shall issue. On| ithis the court ts guided largely byj jthe action taken by the supreme court jin the Standard Oil and Tobacco) j cases. "To stop the business of the com bination immediately," the court says "might be f.ttended with very dis astrous consequences.' Unearth Big Frauds. Frauds amounting to several mil lion in duties on cutlery the last few years were discovered by secret agents of the customs service who have been working quietly in this country and Germany, where most of the cutlery was shipped from *. Fatal Election Riots. A cable from Vienna says it is now known that IS persons were killed and 25 injured, some of them fatal ly, when troops fired a volley into a crowd of election rioters at Dropobcz. WILL FIGHT IT OUT THE ELECTION BILL SENT BACK TO THE SENATE. The House Refused to Accept the Bristow Amendment and it Goes to Conference. The house of Representatives ^Wed nesday by a vote of 172 to 112, a strick party vote, refused to concur in the Bristow amendment adopted by the Senate to the House resolu tion providing for the direct election of Senators. The Bristow amendment leaveB with Congress the power to regulate the time and manner of holding these elections, while the resolution passed by the House during the early days of the session would change the Constitution so the time and man ner of holding such electons will hs decided in each SLate by the State Legislatures. Representative Dalzell, Republican, voted against the amendment, while Mr. Burke, Democrat, of Wiscon sin, voted for it. The resolution, therefore, Is re turned to the Senate for the reconsid eration .by that body as to whether it will reverse its former action. The motion that the House concur in the Senate amendment was made by Representative Olmsted, Repub lican, of Pennsylvania. Several Re publicans spoke in favor of it while a number of Democrats spoke against it. The Democrats protested that the people of the States could safely be entrusted with the pvwer of controll ing the elections of their Represen tatives in the upper House, while the Republicans rented !cd that such df |f?:,ation oi authority would take from Cmgress power Which it should re tain. Representative Rucker, of Mis souri, in charge of the resolution, de clared that It was "the demand of the American people that the election of LHited States Senators be takan out ot the market. "I have no fear'of the people,*' he said, "but of the combinations be hind closed doors which trample on tre most sacred. rights of the people. Give the States, just a little more power and we will take the lumber trust, the sugar, and all the other trusts out of politics." Representative Mann, on the oth er side; asserted that this was an at tempt of the Democrats to accom plish Indirectly what they had been unable to do directly. "You are afraid," he said, "that your grandfather clauses will be declared unconstitutional." The resolutiou, when it is returned to the Senate, is expected to cause a lively discussion, but it is antfepat ed that it will go to conference with in the immediate future. WANTS HIS SHARE. Has Wrong Idea of the Farmers Free List Bill. The Washington correspondent of The State says there is much miscon ception in some sections regarding the true meaning of the free list bill, recently passed by the house. A member from South Carolina receiv ed a letter from a constituent saying that he had been waiting patiently many years for tho Democrats to get control of the house, so that every thing would be "free." He had read of the bill and was glad that hereafter he would not have to pay for anything. He asked his representative to send a horse, to take the place of the one that re cently died, a dozen dinning room chairs, some new chinaware, a new carpet for the parlor and a few other incidentals. After closing the letter he added a postscript in which he said that he hoped the congressman would not forget to send the "old lady" a new sewing machine to take the place of one she had used many years. The recipient of the letter was touched by the appeal, but had to renly that if the writer got the things he wanted he would probably have to pay good American dollars for them. Lost in Canyon. Five English tourists are believed to be either lost or have perished on Mount San Bernardino. The party left ten days ago to explore the Frost Canyon, where Ice is perpetual, and have not been heard of since. The party included Gus Jbrdjin, Mark Landon, George McDonald and two others whose names are not known. Die From Acid Gas. Two farmers, Silas and Warren Hicks, were asphyxiated at the bot tom of a 75 foot well near London, Ont. Both were dead when dis covered. Tt was evident from the ltosition of the bodies that Warren was overcome first, and that his brother lost his life in an attempt to save him. * Fatal Political Fight. As a result of a quarrel o'er poli tics Monday afternoon in Charleston, Hugh Hartnett shot Frank Leonard three times. The men belonged to opposing political sides. Leonard is not seriously injured, the wounds be ing reported to only be painful. It is the first shooting scrape of the present municipal campaign. *. TWO CENTS PER COPY. WOOL TAX BILL Brings About a Coalition Bt twccn km gedts 3iod Democrats* NOW DEMAND REVISION Tlie Republicans of the West Declare that if Reciprocity With Canada is Adopted There Must Be General Changes in the Tariff Law Now in Foree. The throwing of the Democratic wool revision bill into the senate on Wednesday drove the insurgent Re publicans of 'that body into an open coalition with the Democrats in a demand for a general revision of t ^e tariff, and brought about the threat ened crisis in the finance committee in the control of the senate. At the end of a bitter fight the resolution by Senator Gore requiring the finance committee to report back the wool bill before Jnly 10 was passed by a vote of 3:> 10 18. Western Republcans who have fought the reciprocity measure, tak ing up challenges thrown down by the Democratic leader, followed each other in rapid succession in their ultimatums to the senate leaders. These ultimatums were invariably that before the reoiprocity bill i? permitted to pass a Republican aer ate will be forced to undertake at revision of other schedules of the tariff, including much more than the woolen resivion bill and the free list, which have gone through the house of representatives. Of the afllrmative votes cast for the Gore motion overthrowing the finance committee, sixteen were Re publicans. Trey were Senators Bor ah, Bourne, Bristow, Brown, Clapp, Crawford, Cummins, Dixon, Gronua, Jones, Kendon, LaFollette, Nelson, Poindexter, Townsend and Worha. This included the full insurgent strength of 13 and in addition Sena tors Jones, Nelson and Townsend. Senator Myers was the only Demo crat voting with the Republicans against the motion. Notable speeches, on . reciprocity were made in both branches of con gress. Senator Root, announcing that he favored the amendment, ad vocated and explained his amend ment to the wood pulp and paper provision of the bill aronnd which amendment the reciprocity fight has centered and which amendment Pres ident Taft opposes on the ground that it might jeopardize the whole agreement. Republican leader Mann in the house attacked the Root amendment as a violation of the Ca nadian reciprocity agreement Wednesday's fight began the in stant that the wool reviston bill ap peared from the course of representa tives. Senator Gore, apparently with the approval of Democratic leaders, moved that the finance committee be instructed to report the bill back toi the senate on or before July 10. His admitted purpose was to prevent the finance committee from holding the bill indefinitely or from falling to report it at all. The result of the Gore motion was to disrupt so completely the lines, that have formed in the senate that it can not be foretold now when a vote can be reached on the reciprocity bill or whether enough votes can be mus tererd to pass it without amendment. Senators Cummings, Nelson, Craw-_ ford, La Follette, Jones and other Republican insurgents from North western States, who have opposed the reciprocity bill because of alleged dis crimination against the agricultural interest, declared that before a vote would be permitted on the reciprocity bill they would demand that the other schedules of the tariff be taken up and would Insist on an attempt to tack many of them on the reciprocity measure. DROUGTH IS BROKEN. The Crops Will Be Greatly Beneflttea in the South. According to the weather bureau rainfall has been general in the last few days over almost the entire cot ton bolt. The South Atlantic States, east and middle Gulf States and southeastern Texas reported good showers. Only in occasional spots in the territory named does the lo?g drought still prevail. Much- of this section had been without rai nfor a month and the precipitation of the past three days has been worth per haps millions of dollars to Southern farmers. Some parts of South Caro lina still need rain. *. Fatal Train Wi-eck. Rudd Cleveland and Charles Den nis, engineers, were killed and sev eral other trainmen and passengers seriously injuTed in a head-on collis ion, which occurred shortly after 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Mill Creek, on the Tennessee Central Rail way. ; , To Form Great Society. Steps flowjaird formjnig? a Young People's society of Baptists in afl .parts of the world. A committee 'of 25 leading 'ministers and the semi* naTy leaders were appointed to com}* plete the work of organization. J