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PS ■ ► - - • W'k. 1.- THE MID VU K UK n SHIV RArrsGtttm IT UST SAILED '■h t i j 4 ■ .^ir ?#• Tbc Fleet That Will Make the Trip ^ Will be Mach Larger Than the One That Sailed Around the World Daring President Roosevelt’* Term Of Office. When the American fleet sails for tb* Mediterranean in January, it will tai a fleet of nearly twice the muzsle energy of the famous buttle fleet sent around the world in 1907 by former .‘President Roosevelt and a fleet of half again as great tonnage. 1 The schedule and ports of call re main to be worked out, and it merely hoe been announced that the big fleet »WPnM tour the Mediterranean in di visions. It was the original plan, in connection with the opening of the . Panama canal, to have the fleet pass through from the Atlantic to the Pa- dfllc about January 1, the tentative date of the opening. This practically is disarranged by the decision to send the fleet abroad, but it was pointed out that from the Mediterranean it is comparatively a short voyage thru the Sues canal and into the Pacific and the fleet could return that way, making the passage through the canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The main ships of the line to go on the January cruise will be the battle- skip Wyoming. Florida, Arkansas, ''Delaware, North Dakota, Utah, Ver mont, Louisiana, Michigan, New ’Hampahlre, ftouth Carolina, Virginia. Ouorgla. Nebraska, New Jersey. • mkode Island, Minnesota, Connecti cut. Kansas and Idaho. Comparing these ships with the buttle fleet which went around ths , world, they aggregate a tonnage of Ift.ieO as against 223,(00. Navy point out that a more striking pie of the advance In the navy's fighting power is shown by a comparison of the mutsl* energy of Ike main batteries of the fleet with tke world girdling fleet of 1007. la round figures the mussie energy of tke buttle Suet of 1107 summed up l,tS0.00f-foot pounds Tbs main bat teriee of the fleet, which will make Ike Mediterranean trip with total 9 IIS.000-foot pounds -almost twice as much. The battleships will be arcompa uied by all the destroyers that can be gpqrsd sad so aerompan!mo*t of re- pair-aad supply skips. This official uasouaosmeat by Secretary Daniels makes it apparent that the ships will go fully equipped While It Is the plan now to have tke ah Ip* sail about January 1. and make their first call at Gibraltar with possibly a stop or two on the way, a schedule and plan of the ports of coil has sot been worked oat Those who will watch the tour of the test are evincing n greet deal of In ter net as to what the schedule win provide. Tke Navy Deportment's official an oouBcement declares the fleet will be too large to be accomodated at any one time In many barbora to be visit ed and that at Gibraltar It will he divided and make a tour of the Medi tsrranean la divisions. Official announcement of the fie«‘t * movement, as made at the Navy !>»• partment, declared th#*hbject waa to send the fleet jm a pleasure cruiac to tlmulyjo uadfstment and educate o cert and men Accompanying the announcement was a comparative statement of the fighting strength of the fleet as pgalnat the battle fleet of 1907 and also a short review of the first of the new navy to cruise in for sign waters and the cruiae of the battle fleet of 1907. The White squadron had four ves sels. Their total tonnage was 16,- 220, Just that of the Connecticut, Evans’ flagship in the famous battle ship cruise. The total muzzle energy of the squadron’s main battery was 120,000 foot tons, that of Connecti cut la 370,000. A salvo of the squad ron flrecl.4,900 pounds of projectiles; that of the Connecticut 7,500 pounds. The New York, launched October 80, 1912, with 27,500 tons displace ment, 15,0,00 pounds and 700,000 foot tons In a salvo Is nearly twice the size and fires three timee the weight of metal, with six times the energy of the w'hole Jamous "white squadron" In 1890. The battleship fleet of 1907 wa« composed of 16 battleships, five aux iliaries and the second torpedo flotil la. The fleet called at Trinidad. Rio de Janeiro, Punta Arenas, Callao, Magdalena bay and arrived at San Francisco iMuy 6, 1908, a total dis tance of 15,000 miles. Thence Die fluet visited Puget sound, returned to San Francisco and sailed on July 7, via Honolulu, New Zealand, At i tralia and Manila, for Yokohama, arriving there October 18, 1908 after a jour ney of 16,000 miles and spending a Week of courteous exchange of com pliments. The fleet assembled at Ifaailla, departed thence December 1, , via Ceylon. Sues and Gibraltar anchored In Hampton Roads 28. 1909, 12,465 xnllsa sail completing what is Iks greatest practice cruise history of as vies. SCORED BY TILLMAN WRITES HOT LETTER TO ONE OF THE PROTECTED. South Carolina Senator Says Nation at Large is Going to Get Its Share or Stop Stealing. The Washington correspondent of The State says Senator Tillman wrote a red hot letter Monday to John Fis- ler of Philadelphia, who is largely Interested In the Worsted Spinners’ association, in answer to one from him, In which the South Carolina senator takes Issue with the man from the Quaker State as to the Un derwood tariff bill being “radicaNy" wrong. Mr. Flsler’s letter is as follows; "There are many members of con gress who know that the Wilson bill now before them is radically wrong in a very great many respects. They know it is a deadly blow at the work shop and yet they are doing nothing to defeat It. Why? Is It the promise of political patronage? Is it the promise of committee appointments? If so, do they intend to sell out this great, free, liberty-loving people, for a ‘mess of pottage’? Don't you be with them, anyhow.” To this Senator Tillman replied: 'Yours of April 19 received. Are you right sure that you are correct In charging that the tariff bill now be ing considered by congress is 'radi cally wrong in a very great many re spects’? "Are you not one of those Repub lican protectionists who have fatten ed all these years at the expense of the people and have grown rich with out honest work from lfV Pennsyl vania has had her full share of the graft and stealing wrought by the protective tariff and the rest of the country Is now trying to get Its share or pull you off Iletter revise your viewpoint and give other people the credit of being an patriotic and wise as you are " < l/OHING AT WOFFORD. ttp8. Forty ie the Graduating <lo/m Thin Veer at Great School. The 1913 Wofford rommenre- ment programme has recently been completed Saturday. Juae 7. will be the opening night and the princi pal feature of that evening will be the annual junior debate After the debate tarloun medala for a< holar ahlpn. raaayn. poetua and ntonea will be delivered, alao rupn for athletic feats The commencement sermon will be preached Sunday morning June K. by Hlshvp K l> Mouron. < lasa of 'M of San Antonio. Tema Pr»-m d»-nt Henry N Snyder will d»i »er the bacca 1*ur«at«* aiblr'n* on Sun day evening at * 3" Hoth of exerclae* will be held in I'entral M K Ufiurch Monday. Jane 9 wrill be nommenc*- ment day At the morning eier< Ue» atv seniors will make addrtaaaa di plum a* will be delivered, announce* menta made and the annual addreea will be delivered (o the graduating claaa by Dr John K White of At lanta. the well known author and Itaptiet mtnlater Monday afternoon, from 5 to C o'clock, the clasii of 1913 will hold farewell exer< tee* on the Uwn In front of th*- main building Imuu-i lately following thewe exercises there will tie a reception given bv (tie fac ult and ttieir wives to the friends and r-iatUes of the senior clis> i in Carlisle Hall Mondav night will tie alumni night At s Mr K It. Smith, ot fhe class of 1S77, now editor of the Paltimorp American, will make the annual alumni oration At t" t" P M the seniors and old Wofford men will meet in the dinning room of Carlisle Hail for the alumni banquet. LUMBER PLANT BURNED DAMAGE WILL REACH HALF M1U I JON DOLLARS. Plant of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company at Georgetown Almost Entirely Destroyed. The plant of the Atlantic Coaat Lumber corporation at Georgetown, said to be one of the largest lumber plants in the world, having a capacity of one-half million feet per day, Was almost completely destroyed by a Are which broke out Tuesday morning at about five o’clock. Fanned by a strong wind from the north which increased as the flames made head way it seemed that nothing In the pathway of the flames could escape, but one of the mlHs which was locat ed north of where the fire commenc ed and another which was not direct ly in the direction of which the wind was blowing remain standing. Two mills, together with the pow er house and two dry kilns and a vast amount of lumber, some 10,000,- 000 feet, were destroyed. The loss Is estimated at about one- half million dollars, completely cov ered by insurance. It Is quite a serious proposition to a great many people who were em ployed In these mills, as well as to business generally in Georgetown and vicinity, as this was the chief in dustry in this section, but the man agement has announced that the work of rebuilding will be started at once, and that the two mills which were not burned will be run day and night, so it Is hoped that it will not turn out to be as serious as was at first anticipated. Owing to the fact that most of the pumps were put out of commission during the early stage of the fire very little could be done to check the flames HoweYer, the plant of the Dupont Powder company, which manufacture* alcohol from sawdust whs hhv• » tiy heroic work on the part of th* igement and employees of that p ■( re ottrai-fed great •ntton ar irge crwwil of jieople in fart *• me who could poar bly get out tu . |J out to wit new* It TOOK HIS OWN I JFK. <'an*r of Haeh l^erxl Due to Poet Ufe of Hu I ride. The following from a Concord N C paper give# further detail* of the ■ utrtd** of G VS Allen, the former resident of Greenville who had *erv *-d a term in the South Carolina pen Itenliary for murder and wtioae daughter took her own life at her home in Gre«nMile aeveral month* ago Standing In the presence of hi* M'ung wife a bride of only two month*, and with n.-r frantiral!> pleading for him not to do *o G \V Allen, an employee of the Globe Tonic Company, fired a bullet Into hi* breaat in hta room at the Hopkin* Houae on K*m Depot atreet. Inflict mg a mortal wound, from which he died an hour later The rauae of the rash deed appear* to relate to the dead man » paat life in South Caro lina He had been in Greenville only 'hre«* weeks, w a* know n only to a few people and n<> one with the poaslble except Ion of his business associates were familiar with his pawt life In qulrles. however, reveal the fact that Ins career m that State had been checkered A former wife, it devel ops, js living In South Carolina and 1 from whom it not known whether In* secured a divorce and on account | of whom h>- shot a m an in South C ar |ol:n;a and was sentenced to a term In prison, being pardoned in Ibln by (lovernor Ansel. MCK BY FIEND IITHEI AND SIN HABIT HDBT IN THEII HOME TRIED TO MAKE ESCAPE THEY ARE SHUT OUT No Federal Otticea fa»r the New Jer sey (Vowd. E. Tracy Landerman, friendly to the Wilson branch of the party in New Jersey, is exiaected to get the postmastership at Hast Orange though Washington Cross was en dorsed by Representatives McCoy and Townsend and supported by- Smith and Nugent Democrats. A similar situation exists at Atlantic City. The white house let it be known that John F. French is con sidered to be allied with the Smith- Nugent people and the post probably will go to supporter of Wilson, Wil liam B. Loudenslager. . Kills Husband This Time. At Calumet, Michigan, one year ago, Mrs. Anna Kusasio inflicted injuries which almost ended fatally. She was afterward committed to an asylum. Tuesday the woman who recently discharged as cured again attacked her husband with an ax as he lay sleeping and killed him. Knpw at Caeaar’s .Head. A Greenville dispatch says theree Inches of snow is reported in the mountain* at Caeaar’s Head, twenty- five miles north of that city. Moon- talneera comlnj into the city Tues day say the snow commenced to fall Monday afternoon at t.SO o’clock, and continued until nightfall. DIES OF SOME DRUG. Young Woman Takes Her Own Life in a Moron Hotel. An unknown woman, whose name is* said to be Ktliel Adams, died re cently at the Macon hospital from an overdose of morphine and cocaine administered by her own hand. Since she came to Macon in February she has been stopping at the Elberta hotel, from which place she was re moved just before she died. The body has been prepared for burial and will be interred at the expense of the county, as she left no funds or effects that would divulge her Iden tity. She was a very attractive blonde and appeared to be about twenty years of age. Ready to Meet Death. At New York, "Happy Jack’’ Mul- rqney, recently reprieved from the death chair for sixty days on the pleas that he allowed himself to be wrongfully convicted of the murder of "Paddy, the Priest," because he was unwilling to squeal on a pal, wrote Judge Rosalski Wednesday that he was "willing to take my medi cine.” and asked that proceedings in applicatloq for a new trial be aban doned. Herman Kelly, a Negro, Was Arrest ed, Charged With Striking the Wife ancl Young Son of Coast Line Employee With Wrench, ami (Vowd Wanted to Lynch Him. Tli<‘ Florence correspondent of The News and Courier says an attempt, .supposedly to take the life of a well known Florence lady and her son, Ferdinand, at their home, 104 East Front street, about 9:30 o'clock Sat urday night, was made by a negro with the use of a part of a heavy "S" wrench. But for their screams and prompt response of neighbors and members of the police force, both of them no doubt would have been mur dered. The husband, who was at work in the A. C. L. yards, was ap prised of the deed later in the even ing. The story as given by Chief of Police H. M. Brunson, who, with Foreman Mack Worrell, of the chain gang, soon ran to earth the negro supposed to have committed the as sault, Is as follows: The lady, the wife of an Atlantic Coast Line trainman, and her twelve- year-old son. were alone at their home. Rome one knocked at the door and upon investigation It proved to be a negro, said to be named Her man Kellv. who had been sent there to buy milk He did mft have a v*—- •*e] to take the mil* tn and he w a.~ lent a pitcher which he was to re turn Later in the evening Kelly re turned with the pitcher and. accord !ng to th*' police story, as he han I d the lady the vessel he caoght her by the arm and struck her over the Lead with a part of a steel ' S" wrench, which is u-ej by Tick force* for tigh'enmg rail holts Th* 1 tdow par Dally felled her and she began acrer.rnlng The a»sail*nt ir’rurk her sgaln and hy this tlm* 1 her »*>n wh - had been a*leep, was awaken*-! and he ran Into the yard screaming Thinking that he had probably »l*ln the lady, the negro ran out after the boy. felling him Hy this Mme neighbor* began to reach the place and fearing he would be caught the negro, auppoaed to hare been Kellv ran through the hack var i and attempted to scale a high fence to th*- aide of the premises In doing wo however, a board broke with him and he fell heavilv to th** ground Vs h*- fell hi* arm w.»s caugh' on the end of a picket and th*- »k n torn off In th;* condition and with hP>o! from his rP tlm • wound# smear*-! over ID* clothing he mail*- good for Die time Ills e«( a;>e It was not long afterwards before a great crowd gathered and the po lice ofTcera proceeded 'u run down the negro <*hl* i f Hrunsoc and (i'f,c#-r Worrell followed a clue and •hortlv after midnight a' the horn** of Jack Black, whose wife Is an aunt of K*-l !v s They arrested Kelly, who i* charged as being the man who corn mltfed th* 1 deed When arrested Kelly Is said to have had 'he scratch on ’he arm whlc h 11 ,h thought was mad** in the fall over the fence The officers took Kel for* 1 hls v ictitns. w ho Idc-nt. Child Choked to Death. A small colored child from thi« county died on a train on iU way to Charleston recently from choking. It gqt a nut of some kind lodged in it* throat, and waa on its way to Char- leeton for treatment. fled him .is being th** right party Kelly w i- th*-n carried to the swioti hoimo and Inter removed to th* 1 i.v.l Pv th Is t'me there were various run.or-. .1 - to what would be clone with him ,f Die ctowd could get at him Throughout the day yesterday tho deed committed was the talk of the town, and as the day grew into night squads of men who were seen talking soon gathered in a crowd. Shortly after nine o'clock it had reached sonic 1 l.nO or J'lO men. It seemed that this gathering proposed to take* summary action on Kelly; and not only .velly, but the McIntosh hoys, who, it will be* remembered, arc; in jail under the senteneb of death for the murder of little Andrew Jackson last February one year ago, and who are awaiting the Supreme Court’s decision, and lynch the three of them at one time. About ten o'clock a move was made and the crowd proceeded to the jail, and Jail er Bryant was called up. Upon open ing the door several of the crowd called upon him to surrender the keys, which he refused to do, but which he was later forced to give up, and while held captive an attempt was made to gain entrance to the cell room in which the cages are located, but it seems that Bryant gave up the wrong keys and the mob failed to reach their prey. By thi§ time a telephone message to the police station from the jail, or from some one in the neighborhood, reached the chief, who happened to be in the central station. With Desk Sergt. Joseph F. Turbeville, he hur ried to the jail, and at the same time the chief made a call for other men who were out on their beats. When the crowd saw the officers coming down upon them they quickly scatter ed, and only a few remained. Chief Brunson, it is said, rushed in upon the crowd with Sergt. Turt>eville close at hls heels and palled some of the men back from the Jail door. This broke op the sappoead at- i SCHOOL KIDS STRIKE HIVE THEIR VIEWS TIE PAITT LEADERS TALI ABOUT THE TARIFF THEY DIFFER GREATLY THEY REMAIN AWAY FROM, THEIR CLASS ROOMS. »— - The Dietorbance Was Designed as a Protest AgaioHt - Live Retention of Hupertntendent. The strike of school children at Pittsburg against S. L. HeetCr, su perintendent of the city’s public school system, spread rapidly Tues day and resulted in one death. A little girl was run down by a street car and killed during one of the dem onstrations. Beginning (.Monday w hen hundreds of children remained away from schools a protest against Heeler, who last Friday was acquitted by a Jury of two serious charges prt-leired by a female domestic employed at his home, the strike gained great pro portions Tuesday, in all parts of the city thousands of school children pa raded the streets, tying up traffic at a number of busy points. Police reserves were called out to maintain order. Late in the after noon when the demonstrations had ceased the Pittsburgh board of edu cation held a meeting at which a committee of seven prominent men was asked to investigate the various alleged charges of immorality against Heeler. The committee follows-. W. H. Stevenson, president of Chamber of i ommerce; Valentine Parle, presi dent Iron City Central Trades coun cil; Bishop C L. Whitehead of the Pittsburgh diocese; A. Leo Well, president of the Voters' League of Ptishurgh. Bishop J R Canvin of th* 1 Pittsburgh Roman Catholic, dio- rt-se, the Rev. Geo. W. Shelton, pas- •nr of the Second Presbyterian Church, the Rev Hr M J Levy, rabbi of Kodehh Shalom synagogue. The unique strike caused th* 1 police considerable inconvenience A score of the youthful marchers were detain ed at the various police stations until their parents could b** notified One little girl was run over and killed by a street car during th excitement or rasloned by one of the parade* ('has McCool. aged 33. was arrest ed in front of a school building an 1 charged with disorderly conduct He H alleged to have been seen attempt- .ng to prevent children from enter mg school William Slater aged 67. was taken Into custody, charged with Inciting a riot Slater and several women attacked two officer* who were breaking up banners carried bv children Inscrlb | ed ' Kick Heeter t>u'. ' Banner* of) all description*, some of them tnflam 1 matorv. are In evidence all over the . 4. - *,,-I „ „ ■ 0*«>**e who had amaased fortune* un- ctrv At a number nr points during- . , d*-r it !. »v, . onirolb-d Die gov. rnm.-nt the lav Heeter w a* hanged and burn Chairman Underwood, the Able Democratic Leader, Plainly Points Out Wherein Protective Policy Fails and Revision Measure Takes Place of Evils of Republican Plan. Beginning the debate in the house Wednesday on the Democratic tariff revision bill Representative Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama, the majority leader, predicted great relief for the nation through the passage of the pending bill, Representative Angus P. Gardner of Massachusetts voiced Re publican skepticism, for the country’s future under such a tariff system as that proposed, and Representative Kelly of Pennsylvania expressed the opposition of the Progress.ve party to all tariff bills framed under the present system. Mr. Underwood In out'rning the bill severely criticised the protective tariff theory based on the cost o: pro duction difference's at home and abroad, and praised the competitive tariff theory, declaring it would strengthen American industry and send Am* rican products into the world’s markets. He denounced the raising of taxes by tho proteitive tariff as unjust, be- cau-e he said it taxed equally the working men ami the multimillion aire He pointed out that the rates in Mi* 1 pending bill were substantial red net ions from the rates in the ex isting law and declared that the low er rates wouli r-sult in a reduction in the cost of living to the consum ing pu' lie Mr Underwood did not discuss the income tax feature of the bill, leaving that to Representative Hull of Tennessee, who will Speak later "The enactment of this bill Into law will mark the end of an ttxa In the fiscal administration of this country and the beginning of a new on* 1 . Mr Underwood began, while the Democrats applauded Mr Un- derwi.ol disruased the origin af Die present ' high tariff ayatem". declar ing tbit it was instituted a* an emer gency n)*-a«ure during the War Be- tw *-en t he Sect ion* Tl •-**«' tin;u*' war taxes ' be said. I' lav. been maintained ever a.n< *• ami el In eft-g' SMITH sT\KTs 1<> WORK. ♦ — Active In Ketialf of A|>*>ll< anl*. f.*r 1 esleral J.*t»w. The Washington correspondent of The Stat*- Has* South Uarudan* who are waiting fur federal pla.es ami In * ‘ o** 1 behalf Senator Srul’h I* work Ing will be glad to know that th*- lat ter Tuesday 'tarted out Ir* mediately after breakfast while the senate was not in session, and visited a number of th* 1 departments rrom which thear appointments are expee'ed to come When Senator Snu’h saw th*- seer*- ’ary of the navy. Die attorney gen > r.tl ami other department beads, h* 1 -ai l tnat ju>t at th s particular turn 1 I.*- d.id not care to say anyDiing about Du-se matters for publication , xc.-pt Diat he w a> mmdi encourage 1 and be!,evt'd that at least on* good ouDl Danilina app-en* im-i.t nUgh* 1 • an- mmm ed when the senate tm >'s to day ex ept 'or one hr:.-' in'* 'val In I. a d s< llssloti he followed ( !o*e- 1. ’: .* r. ie n t ' outline! in D-* 1 re port .d ’be 11* tno. ra’ic map r.ty of ! lib way* an I - all- committee <iur great r«-a[*< ns 1 'ell'v ," d* i < lar- • ! Mr ! mlerwoud ' la t.’.e Interest am! rig’bla of the great mass of con sumers among the American people. From our v . w point industry muat be considered a* secondary to tho rights of the consumer Kelerrlng to the increased cost of liviig Mr Underwood said \ great proportion of this in- rrease was caused by th* 1 abnormally high protection given to the great manufacturing interests of the count* fi > under th* 1 tariff." Mr Underwood said, however, that ? he pa-sago of t lit b 11 would 1 o w • • 1 by r• ID mg- ' U.llU I bell Munocratic tariff mmediately fnl- ueMotis in the cost of add* 1 "that W II I. I II I. THE RILL. Editor L ike \\ ill Land Spartanburg Job. /A Congressman Joseph T. Johnson announced at Spartanburg Wednes day. afternoon after a day of confer- ence with friends concerning the post office situation in Spartanburg that lie w:.ould appoint his former secretary, P. H. Fike. Mr. Fike is at present city editor of the Spartanburg Herald and is one of the best known newspaper men in the State. Pike's appointment will co far toward healing many of the wounds that have been made by the bitter controversy over the matter that has been engendered during the last few weeks. Mr. Fike is a native of Laurens county, a graduate of Wofford col lege and has bees in newspaper work for more than fifteen years, liis ap pointment is accepted in Spartanburg situation. it is said there is a powerful lobby in Washington trying to defeat the tariff bill. We do not believe it will he able to corrupt the Democrats and sidetrack the bill. tempt at violence and it was only a few moments before the crowd dis persed, but not before being ordered by the chief to do so. The mother and son are badly Injured, but are getting along fairly well, although both of them are very nervous over their experience. Robbery is suppos ed bo have been the motive for the deed. within a reasonable time after trm merchants have disposed of the goods -ought under high protective tariff the people of tins country will find the cost of living decreased.” Representative Gardner admitted that the people of the nation had repudiated the Payne tariff and that the Republican parry had been dis lodged from power because it had '-been too slow to recognize growing evils and permitted a "far too power ful oligarchy” to run the government In its way instead of in the people's way. He cautioned the Democrats to live up to their promises to the people, declaring he believed that if they did not, the people would turn to the new Progressive party. "Suppose that the Democrats fail to carry out their radical program," said Mr. Gardner, "will the country turn to our party? I doubt It. "The people wish to try some of these new ideas and are willing to risk the consequences of their prov ing disastrous. The Republicans have not given them what they ,wish ed. If the Democrats follow our ex ample it need surprise no one should the people turn to the Progressive party. In fact, this Is the only direc tion in which I can see a future for that party.’’ In presenting the views of the Progressive party, Representative Kelly criticised bitterly the present method of tariff legislation. He said that the Underwood bill, like every other tariff bill in the history of the country, was "framed on a basis of insufficient information and political and partisan logrolling.” The solu tion of the tariff problem, he declar ed, could only be found in the adop tion of the progreaalve policy of plac ing the tariff in the hands of a cap able, nonpartisan commission. -ft