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REVISE THE TARIFF I I Is Appeal of Association of Carnage Builders. i RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED } . Urging That the Question Be Taken 1 Out of Politics?Strong Protest Made Against the Action of the Railroads. The most important thing done by i the Carriage Builders' National Association, in session at Atlanta Wed- ' oesday, was the adoption of strong ! resolutions advocating an entirely new ; anode of procedure in regard to the tariff. | The committee framing the resolutions was appointed at the convention of last year. The resolutions bear- 1 tog on this subject are as follows: "Whereas, the present tariff sched- ] ?le "was arranged for the purpose of 1 reviving the industries of the United 1 States from the prostration under ! "which they had been suffering for isererat years, by affording adequate ] ^protection to those engaged in man- J ofaeture and production in this coun- 1 try against unfair competition on the j>art of the people engaged in simi- ! - ? * - - -1 -Xl ( lar manutacture ana proaucuon iu foreign countries, and, * ^ "Whereas, the operation of the law containing the schedule has accom- 1 plished the purpose for which it was 1 enacted,. both in the matter of revising said interests by the protection 1 afforded and in that of raising reva- 1 cue, and, "Whereas, the said schedule is now ] oearly ten years old and by long operation has become cumbersome on 1 i some industries, inadequate for many J and so excessive for others, as to lack competitive enterprises under ' contemplation, and, 1 "Whereas, the popular vote which warranted the Dingley bill was cast for the enactment into law and the maintenance of the principle of protection, and not for any particular schedule; and,. j "Whereas, the principle of protection to American industries can be toest maintained by constant adjustment to altered trade conditions, and will be most injured by permitting ' protective schedules to remain fixed 1 after they have by economic changes t>ec?me ineffective, stifling or burden- 1 some to industry; therefore, be it "Resolved, by the Carriage Builders' Jfaticmal Association, in business meeting assembled at Atlanta, Ga., 1 on this the 22d day of October, A. D., 1 1906, that it is the sense of this as- 1 aociation that the present tariff schedule of the Dingley bill should be ^revised; that it should be revised at 1 ' once, and that the revision should t>e made by the friends of the pro- J tective principle while they have the ( power to carry through the revision, ?nd before the subject can be carried ' into political strife, into which a pure- 1 fly economic subject should not be 1 permitted to drift Be it further "Resolved, That the secretary of this association be, and is hereby, j directed to have engrossed a copy of J the resolutions and to certify the cor Tectness of the said copy and forward to his excellency, Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, for such action as may be deemed best." Ik"'* 1 ' ' BECAUSE OF NO SIDEWALKS '? i Free Mail Delivery in New Orleans 1 le Considerably Curtailed. "** J j The cutting off of a considerable ?rea of New Orleans from free mail ' delivery on account of lack of sidewalks or crossings was announced on "Wednesday by the postoffice department, and the order is effective No "vember 1. It was announced that free 'delivery will be resumed as fast ac sidewalk facilities are provided. 1 Mayor Behrman said that he will j i protest against the curtailment of de- I fHvery on the ground that the -city ! i ? has been delayed by court decisions * from the extension of sidewalks, and : - that !n a short time this obstacle will Miave been overcome. < XOTTON GOES UP IN SMOKE. .Disastrous Sunday Blaze Destroys ! Fleecy Staple at Eutaw, Aia. A disastrous fire occurred in Eu"taw. Ala., Sunday, which swept away * the eastern herlf of the Planters' Ware " House and Commission Company's ware house, destroying property estimated at from $75,000 to 5100,000. The ware houses' contained from 2,- ' '000 to 3,000 bales of cotton. About "500 bales on the platform adjoining 'the ware house were saved by citi>zeirs assisted by negroes returning Srom church. Possibly only 500 bales are insured. FIGHT AGAINST BILL BOARDS. American Civic Association Declares . Them Unmitigated Nuisances. " Tax the bill boards out of existence," will be the battle cry of the t American Civic Association for next ; year, as a result of a plan decided *jpon at its annual convention, which opened in Milwaukee, Wis., Wednes- i cday. / * AMBASSADO UNDER FIRE Our Representative at Mexico City Accused of Shielding an Alleged Bank Wrecker?Makes Denial. Somewhat of a sensation was caused in financial circles In Mexico City, Friday night, when it was learned that warrants had been issued for the arrest of J. E. Starr Hunt and three of his associates, charging them with fraud in their handling of the funds of the defunct International Bank and Trust company of America. This sensation was greatly magnified in the United States. Ambassador TKrvm t\cr\n woo 1 tr wit V* i TT uo VUU1 ^vu ttivu endeavoring to shield Hunt. The police and secret service agents are looking for Hunt. Ambassador Thompson denies-any connection with the case, and says the charges against him are absurd. The International Bank and Trust company was organized in the fall of 1902 ;a4d went into the hands of a receiver on October 17, 1903. It was the first bank failure In the republic tor 57 years, and created a sensation at the time. The bank had seven branches throughout the republic and was capitalized at $1,850,000. When' It went to the wall its liabilities totalled $2,584,000. Hunt was an attorney for the bank and it is declared that he favored creditors and fraudulently and falsely dated numerous promissory notes in order to realize upon them after the institution was in the receiver's hands. Associated with him in the transactions were J. O. Rice, general manager of the defunct bank; W. O. Staples, a member o* the board of directors, and Antonio Rincon Alas, confidential adviser of Hunt Charges were brought against the men some time ago, but the matter was postl^oned from time to time. Finally it was rumored that influences were being brought to bear to quash the proceedings. Not until Friday night was it definitely known that the men would be prosecuted. When this was made public, L. W. Wilson of the firm of Warner, Johnson and Wilson, attorneys for the liquidating committer, made Ms charges against the United States ambassador. He said: "We have indisputable evidence Lhat Ambassador Thompson has acted improperly in this case. H6 went to President Diaz, in an effort to have the proceedings against Hunt dis- j missed, and later wrote a letter to Judge Ortega, before whom the case was pending, in an endeavor to influence that jurist. We have drawn up a statement embracing these ] charges, and will forward same to the state department at Washington. I believe we have sufficient proof In the case to warrant the recall of the ambassador" Ambassador Thompson contented himself with a simple denial of the charges. "I never interceded with the president in behalf of Hunt," he said, "nor did I ever improperly try to influence a court in this case. Let them Hie their charges. They will find it is a serious matter when they cannot prove them. The authorities at Washington know of every move I make here and know that I would not do wrong." i The president of the defunct bank and trust company was C. H. Hunt, now serving a sentence in Joliet, 111., for bank wrecking. He organized the Pan-American bank after the failure of the International. He is no relative of J. E. Starr Hunt The latter was secretary of the third Pan-American congress, held in Mexico City, seme three years ago. MORE TROUBLE IN MOROCCO. France Sends Warship to Tangier, Owing to Serious Situation. In view of the situation in Morocco, the French government has decided to send a warship to Tangier. Tho Moorish officials in answer to the French representations regarding the disquieting situation, declare their Ignorance of any facts called to their attention and deny responsibility for others. STRIKEBREAKERS INSTALLED. Southern Imports Forty Machinists for Atlanta Shops. A feature of the Southern machinists' strike situation in Atlanta Thursday was the arrival of a carload of machinists, numbering about forty, for the local shops. The men came from some point in the east, as they came over the Southern from Washington. En route they were encountered by tiis union who had come UJCJ-UU^I o Vi. w out and these conferences resulted in a number of the recruits turning back. The majority, however, went into the yards. STRIKEBREAKERS CAUSE ROW. Nine Hundred Employees of Southern Quit at Knoxville. At noon Wednesday nine hundred men quit work at the Coster shops of the Southern railway at Knoxville, Tenn. The walkout occurred when a passenger train from Cincinnati stopped at Coster and seven machinists and twelve machinists' helpers, all strikebreakers, left the train and went to the shops to begin work. DOPE BY GLADDEN' Well Known Preacher Talks on the Race Problem. FAVORS NEGRO STATES Thinks Tillman's Prophecy of Race Struggles Not Visionary?Outcome Will Be Segregation of the Negroes. At Thursday's session of the sixtieth annual meeting of the American Missionary Association in pberlin, Ohio, ?ev. Washington Gladden, D. D., of Ohio, discussed "The American Missionary Association and the Problems of Emancipation." In part h? said: "The problem as it confronts us involves the principles on which our nation is founded. It is well stated in the words of Carl Schurz: There will be a movement in the direction of reducing the negroes to a permanent condition of serfdom?the condition of the mere plantation hand alongside the mule; practically without any rights of recognizing him as a citizen in the fall sense of the term.' Such a movement as that described in the first alternative is now in full progress. Tn the south the conditions are rapidly becoming moire unfavorable to the negro. The manifestoes of Governor,Vardaman, which some time will be endorsed by the people of. the state, and the recent campaign in Georgia, in which the candidate who most unequivocally favored the repression of the negro was overwhelmingly c>inw iha rtrtff nf nrrfnlon 111 that section. "To keep 4.000,000 in slavery who" were born and reared in that condition was one thing; to reduce 9,000,000 to serfdom after they have been fifty years free is quite another thing. Senator Tillman's prediction that race struggles of a very bitter nature are likely to be frequent and continuous in the future is not without probability. I can see no other outoome of a strife of this nature hut the segregation of the races, A portion of the southern domain would have to be set apart for the blacks; we should probably have three or tour steles of which-the population would be wholly composed of negroes, governing themselves and represented in congress at Washington. The blacks would suffer by being thrown on their own pesources in their poverty; it would take them several generations to work out the problem of civilization. To the whites the prosperity in which they are now rejoicing would suffer a severe, perhaps a deadly blow. "It is idiotic to talk of deporting the negroes to some other country; they are here, and here they must stay, and theft home will be in the southern portion of the United States." LIFE PRESERVERS GALORE. Of Probable Wrecked Vessel Strew Virginia Shore. A maritime puzzle that may be the -AA..1*- on fcrairpffv PATTlfl ICSUlt Ul ?* ? WVMU w. ^ ashore near Cape Hatteras Thursday in the shape of more than four hundred life preservers. Between Hatteras and Big Kinnakeet, the bep.ch is strewn with cork jackets. Some are marked "CaswiCz, Rettunysyurcer, G. R, P., No. 108,341;" Others are stamped "Sealanan." Two hear the name "Smeskf." Three miles north of Big Kinnakeet a part of a white yawl-boat and a fragment of a boat's gunwale washed ashore. There are no marks on this wreckage. Because all the life preservers and the pieces of wreckage came on the beach in such a limited area and because of the large number of jackets, shipping men are of the opinion that whatever the cause may be it occurred not far from the coast and that the wreck, if any, is that of a passenger ship. Search among marine records has failed to reveal any names that correspond with those on the life preservers, and life preservers and generally marked with the name of the boat they are cn. STATE WINS ANTI-TRUST CASE. Judgment for $10,000 Against a Packing Company in Little Rock. 'PV./v c-tofa A rlrancac won in itj? JL ULC7 Otatc Vi. AA4 VU .u anti-trust suits against the packing companies in the second division of the Pulaski county circuit court Judge E. W>. Winfield sustained the motion Sled by the state that the answer of the Hammond Packing company be stricken from the docket and that the state be permitted to take judgment for $10,000 because of the failure of the officers of the company to testify before the commissioner on the recent hearing in Chicago. WILL FIGHT * BLACK PYTHIANS. White Order Objects to Similar Organization of Negroes. Before adjourning at New Orleans, Friday night, the Knights of Pythias determined to fight, through the courts, the organization recently formed in the state of Georgia, calling themselves the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias of North America, South America and Australia. - * - ' ' i ' V " 'i s*.\ COTTON GINNED TO DATE Census Bureau Places Figures at 4r 910,290 Bales?Sharp Break Follows Report In New York. According to a bulletin issued at Washington Thursday by the census bureau, there had been ginned up to October IS, 4,910,290 bales of cotton of the growth of 1906, counting round bales as half bales. For the same period last year 4,990,566 bales were ginned. The nnmber of active ginneries and the amount of cotton ginned by states is as follows: State Ginneries. Bales. Alabama 3,377 472,64b Arkansas 2,034 159,908 Florida 249 24,315 Georgia 4,366 725,980 Indian Territory. . . 499 103,938 Kentucky .... 2 218 Louisiana 1,918 317,084 Mississippi 3,324 364,857 Missouri 55 8,433 North Carolina . . . 2,508 223,327 Oklahoma .... 327 89,329 South Carolina . . . 2,789 396,235 Tennessee .... 548 38,848 Texas 4,099 1,983,038 Virginia ..... 102 4,099 United, States . . 26,287 - 4,210,290 Break In the Cotton Market. There was a severe break in the cotton market at 'New York with December selling down to 10.50 and January to 10.60, or 41 to 42 points under the closing prices of Wednesday night, and 70 to 80 points. tinder the recent high level. The break was caused by liquidation following the publication of the census report PROFESSOR STABS PREACHER. Row In College Over "Leavings" of a negro oaroecue. Following the exchange of heated words between Rev. C. C. Miller, president of Centenary college, a Method? ist institution at Jackson, La., and W. F. Moncrieff, professor of physics and principal of the preparatory department, the Rev. Mr. Miller was stabbed six times, one wound near the heart, by Moncrieff, but attending physicians say his wounds are not necessarily fatal. The difficulty arose over the serving of meat, alleged to be the "leavings" of a negro barbecue, and said to have been purchased by Moncrieff, who, in addition to his other duties, had charge of the mess. The students presented a protest to President Miller. His Interview with Professor Moncrieff on the subject led to a mixup between the men, in which the college president is alleged to have wielded ?a chair with considerable effect. Moncrieff was arrested and later released on bond. He Is from Rock HH1, &. C.f where he also taught school. He claims his act was in selfdefense. / , A GENUINE "SKIN GAME." Man Sues Because Too Much of His Cuticle Was Taken. Alleging that they took more than the amount of cuticle bargained for under a .skin grafting contract, William G. Doll at Cincinnati, Thursday, entered suit for ten thousand dollars, claimed ns damages against J. S. AtlHnn fieorce A. Fackler and John C. Oliver, the latter two prominent Cincinnati physicians and surgeons. The plaintiff says that he agreed that a strip of skin one by six inches should be taken from his l$g, but while he was under the influence of an anaesthetic skin was cut from both legs to the extent of 42 inches. The case grows out of an automobile accident, in which Atkins was injured, and it was for his benefit that the skin was taken: RAILROADS AND COAL PRICES. Interstate Commerce Commission Begins Probing in Kentucky. The interstate commerce commission convened in Louisville, Ky., on Thursday to investigate the alleged ownership by the railroads of Kentucky of certain coal and oil lands and also to inquire into a reported shortage of cars to haul the products cf mines. ICE MEN MUST DO TIME. Fine and Workhouse Sentences Upheld in Circuit Court. The circuit court at Toledo, Ohio, Friday, upheld the decision of Judge Kinkead of the common pleas court, in the sentence he gave Reuben Tyemt>a,"? Ponra onH Toconh Mil'pr VJJ1, JLI VS. 11U u ujiu vvwvyu s,. , . convicted of conspiracfy in restraint I of trade in the sale of ice. These are the famous ice" cases which were tried in common pleas court last summer. The sentences given the men were $2,500 fine each and six months in the work house. DOZEN BODIES RECOVERED From Ruins of Kansas City Chamber, of Commerce Building. Twelve bodies have so far been recovered from the ruins of the chamber of commerce building In Kansas City, Kans, which was destroyed by fire several days ago. The search continues, and It is ex? pected that more bodies will be found under the debris. 'r ' A TROLLEY HORRORl Crowded ElectricCars Plunge From Bridge Into Water. SEVENTY-FIVE LOSE LIFE Cars Were Coupled and Every Person In First Two That Went Down Were Drowned ? Hundreds Witness Catastrophe. A special from Atlantic City, N. J.t says: By the wrecking of a threecoach electric train on the West Jer seyand beasnore railroad Sunday afternoon, at least 50 passengers perished, and the list may reach the total of 75 when aJl is known. The victims were caught like rats in a trap. While crossing over a drawbridge spanning the waterway known as "The Thoroughfare," which separates Atlantic City from the mainland, the train left the track and plunged into the water. The passengers in the flr3t two coaches, with one or two exceptions, were drowned. The trestle is about 16 feet above the water and the drop to the water required several seconds, giving time for the passengers?men, women and children?to see and calculate their fate. The disaster, the worst that has happened since the terrible Meadows wreck, of July SO, 1396, occurred at 2:30 o'clock p. m. The train made up of three heavy vestibule electrie coaches, which left Camden at 1 o'clock, carried at least S8 passengers, as that number of tickets are held by the conductor. That official is uncertain, however, just how many ^passengers were on the train. The cause of the wreck has not been established. It was probably due either to a defective rail or the breaking of some part of the superstructure of the first coach. It has also been suggested that the drawbridge, which had juEt been closed after the passage of a yacht, may not hare been properly locked to the rails. All theories as to the cause of the accident, however, are purely speculative. TOile running at a speed said to have been moderate, the first coach left the rails and dragged those following it over the ties for a distance of 50 feet. Suddenly swerving, the first two coaches plunged over the side of the bridge into the water, 15 feet below. The third eoach struck an abutment, broke its couplings and, for a brief time, hung suspended over the water. Brief as was this period, however, it gave more than a score of passengers an opportunity to escape by the rear door. Then the car slid off, and followed the other two into the water. It is believed every one in the third coach escaped alive, although all were Injured. The accident was witnessed by many persons on shore, and assists ance was promptly sent from Atlantic City. little, it is believed, was done, however, toward saving the lives of those imprisoned in the submerged coaches. The water at the point where the train plunged in was not deep enough to cover the coaches at first, hut as they quickly settjed in the mud and as the tide rose, they were soon hidden from sight, except for the trolley poles. Divers were sent down to try to reach the dead bodies In Ihe coaches, hut as darkness set in and as^he tide ran more swiftly they were unable for a long time to reach them. Late in the evening a wrecking crew arrived on the scene and with their aid, and the use of a derrick, many bodies were taken out. From the officials of the railroad company only a meager and disconnected story of the occurrence could be had. ? Up to midnight the total dead recovered numbered 44. The bodies were placed in an improvised morgue at Atlantic City. . BANK DEFAULTER INDICTED. Seven Counts Against Chisholm By Grand Jury at Birmingham. The federal grand jury at Birmingham, Ala., Saturday afternoon returned seven indictments against Alexander R. Chisholm, former paying teller if the First National Bank, who defaulted for $100,000; four indictments against P. G. Smith, who runs a brokerage office' and who was charged with havlDg aided and abetted Chisholn! in his defalcation, and one indictment against W. L. iSimros, manager of the local office of Gibert & Clay, upon the same charge. HOST OF SETTLERS FOR SOUTH. ? -fcrtrtnn u,v? CSXimdiCU I flaw iwvrwv i IMVV Within Past Twelve Months. The Southern Farm Magazine of Baltimore, in its November issue, says: "It may be safely estimated that between 150,000 and 200,000 settlers have been attracted to the south and that between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 acres of land have been bought by them during the past 12 months." . MPRKTS WHEAT FLAKE CELEST FOOD is prepared under the personal supervision of Dr. V. C. Price, whose name as a manufacturer of pure food products is national. 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