ESTABLISH ED [865. , M CH 24, 190. - WK EK 8 .50A.'!EA GOV. HEYWARD ON CRUM. His Appointment An Indignity to Char leston and the State, But Was To Be Expected. . To the Editor of The Sunday News: Your telegram, asking my opinion on the reappointment of Dr. Urum as collectk>r of the port of Charleston, has just been received. As an appointment made by the Chief Magistrate of our nation, I consider this an indignity, not only upon the City of Charleston, but upon the entire State, and one which should receive the condemnation of every right thinking citizen of South Carolina and of the South. Dr. Crum is in no sense a repre sentative of the community in which he lives nor of this State. As a sup posed representative of the bnsiness interests of Charleston he cuts a ridi onions figure in the otlice to which President Roosevelt has labored so hard to appoint hitn. This is added to by the fact that a Republican Senate, a body of President Roose velt's own party, has twice refused to confirm his appointment. As to any supposed influence Dr. Crum may possess, it belongs to that very dear to President Roosevelt-a political opportunity, which is now the President's only door of hope to phcceed himself. This appointment should be con iodered as an indignity to South ' rolina. By it Pr'sident Roosevelt is clearly shown th at this action on is part is politicsltn othing but poli. ctios, and in making it he has do scended to a level of petty politics, which is degrading to the Chief Magistrate of a great nation. In this connection it is disap pointing to reflect that nothing else could be legitimately expeeteti, since the President has demonstrated more than once his very peculiar views upon this question. With !iooker T. Washington in the dual role of a Social Equal and a Political Prophet, indignity to a sovereign State should not be greatly wondered at, but should rather be expected. D. C. Heyward, Governor. Columbia, March 21: GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Condensed Outside the State. Baron Von Iiuolow, in it notable speech delivered in the leichatag last week, deni icd that his, the Ger m an government was acntuate by it desire for more territory or a thirst fur glory in the Venezuohmtt affair. He sp-'ke of tihe importanuce of cult i Svat ing friendly relat ions withI the American nation. It hits been leartned thIiat Jo se Istrad1a Palma, sonl or th1e Presidlent of Cnbat, and1( Miss Mabel .Jacobs, a *st.udlent at t he Normal College at Newv 'York, were secretly married on the l 1th of lFebruatry. Fear of paternatl op)positioni caused seecy. A bar of gold of the~ valuno of $28, .000( in transit from Satlt L'tke City to the Eat, was stolen from tihe Cxpress -oilico at Det roi t, Maih. , itnd no clue as toi its whIerenhlouts ha~s beeni founitd It. was onea ofC f.our on waiy to the P hiladelphtia mit. Owinig to legal e-enl iientimons oli~ cials hamvo somie dotubt. of thle vailidi ty oif thle ubamn iroaty just rattiftied by thle Senate of I ih' Un itedi tates5. It ap~pears to hso a mu~tlt of a hsty legi'ilationi. Sydniey lair, at fatrmr aigted (S0 years, wvas munrdl.red( aml hiis n iece, - M~1iss Sallie Waliker, wais til t t hroo timaes and( seriousl-ty wVoon ded by a negro in Rteidlvilb-., N. C , ona Friday,. A speciatl court hass boein ordlered for the trial of the negro. Associate J istice Satminel Hf. Tor roll, of the Mississippi snpret conrt, who was a member of the Secession Convention ini 1861 and itt oflicer in the Confederate Armiy for four y'ears, died at his hiomie in Clark county on Friday. "'My queen," fondly excliimed theit infatnated youth. "'My Jack!" softly responlded the blushing miaiden. - -- P~hiilad(lhia1 Telegraph. THE NEGRO'S FUTURE. J. H. Lightfoot Says Not Illiterate Black Men, But Those With a Little Learn ing Cause Mischief. (New York Times.) Discussing the race problem in the South, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night, J. H. Lightfoot, of Nashville, remarked: "There is no race question in the South of the character believed to exist by people in the North and East. If the world should last 10, 000,000 years the position of the no gro in the Southern States would relatively be the same as it is today. The colored people have always been the servants of the whites, and al ways will be, and no power on earth will ever be able to induce the whites to regard the blacks as their rqual. Rtesidents on your 5th avo fue don't take their domestics into their drawing rooms and treat. thom as members of their families. "As a matter of fact., negroes in the South are t.reated with more con sideration than white servants in the North, so long as they know their place and don't overstep it. There is very little trouble with the very large majority of the Southern no groes, especially with those who work on the plantations. They ar eared for when sick and are well housed and fed. I have two planta tions in Alabama and never have any trouble with the help. The illiterate negroes never cause mischief. It is the fellows with a little learning, proving that a little education is a :langerous thing. "President Roosevelt is making a very serious mistake in forcing no. roes into oflicial positions regardless f the protests of the whites. His ,ots only encourage negroes who are not. lacking in insolence. These lat ter go too far, and it is this class that frequently got their heads ,racked. "The war has been forgotten in the South, except in isolated cases. We have the country and the North has the money, which we welcome and use in efforts to build up the country. The Southern whites are not bothering about the negroes so long as the lat(or keep their propcr places, and that they will be com pellod to do. If there is any real )pposition to the nomination of President ltoofevelt next year, I boubt very mfuch that lie can get a singlo dele'gato front: a Southern state. RAINS AND FLOODS DO HARM. [o the DI)stributive Trade of the Country. Prices Malitained. New York, March '20.-Brad dreet's tomiorrow will say: Excess ye moistunre in the form of heavy rains1 and0lood, or or merely had roads5, is an apparent drawback to listribute trade. Over against this, Liowever,, is to be placed an improve. nent in jobbing t rH(d at some load .ng wvestern centera, a shade hotter bian heretofore report ed col lectionis, preci pitable easing of the ear short - tgo trouble and increased st rengthI ni t he iron andl steel trades. Thiere 5 o'veii t-NOo t bioigh, perhaps miore t'larent ihani real, iliiproyeli(,it iin thle b ih(or situtin, some strikes hay ng been'i avoided1 or set tled, but lai bor dist urbance is a possible unset. thig featutre, particularly in the building traoles. The easterni Easter seasont is one of t he latest on record but. sprig weat her condmitions are 1operativP, as masy be judged from libe fact t hat lower lake navigation is al ready pretty wvellI opened. The next t wo weeks wvitl see applied the test of domiand mn retail lines. Gross rail way earniings for the first half of Miarebi show an aggregate gain ever last. year of fully 12 per cent. In prices, features are t he further slight changinig of cotton . Cotton goods have dlisplayed exceptionual strength, t.hough a waitineg tendoey as regard1s nowv busi ness is noted at first hands. No effet of thle higher level of prices in thle shape of checked demand is anniouncedl by jobbhers, however, who almost universally re port the dry goods business this spring as the largest on record. Business failures for the wook number 1941 against 19'7 in the like week of 1902. GOVERNOR'S DISCLAIMER. Ills Charleston Trip Had No Ilidden Mean lIg In Connection With U. S. Senate Aspirations. [New and Courier.] The Governor has just returned to his "flice, having attended the fui. neral of his grandmother, who died I in Charleston a few days ago. Speak ing of a remark that had been made at the banquet in Charleston regard. ing his prospectivo candidacy for the I United States Senate, and which re. I mark ha( received some newspaper Comment, the governor was very em. c phatic in disclaiming any such in- I tentionl. His visit to Charleston was c entirely a social one, he said, and as r such it was enjoyed to the fullest. In closing the Governor added I that. he sincerely regretted that such c an absurd construct ion had been placed upon a remark that was noth. I ing more than a friendly message on v Ia social and friendly occasion. I CUBAN TiiATY RATIFIED. c Must Be Approved By Congress Before It Becomes Law.- -The South's Interest. After formally approving the Bacon t amendment, providing that the treaty t shall not, become effectivo until ap proved by the Congress, and after i adopting also another amendment c introduced by Senator Bacon, which I materially affects one of the .outh's t greatest, indust ries, the Senate Tll.urs day afternoon ratified the Cuban ro t ci proci: y treaty. As to final rat-ification, there never has been a doubt. since the commit tee of foreign afl'airs, upon the in < sistence of the Democrats, accepted 'j the first- ment ioned amendment. There was some doubt for a short while to-day, however, whether there would be i luorum of the Senate present, so many Reupublicans having left the city, but there were many mlore than enough Senators present on the final rot- d up, the treaty be ing ratified by ,+.e vote of 50 to 10. Of chief imp. lance to the South t was the acceptanco to the com. I littee, and the adoption by the c Senate, of an amendment which 1 Senator Bacon had been quietly. t pru,ing. This give to the coarser ' grades of cotton fabrics, which are a muade principally in the Southern c .t.ates, t h- same percentage of ad vanttag, which is given the the finer I grades of New England muanufacture. E In the orginal treaty ther was ia t 5 por1 cent. discrimination against a the coalrse's grades, as compared with a tho Ii nr grad ee. The lin er gradesi imi)ported into Cuba wore to be ac. corded a 30 per coait redu.'t ion of the e (lit is in the general Tariff Act of .r Cuba, while the coarser grades were t to be given~ but a 25 per cent redtuc tioni. Seniator Bacon and other i Southlern~ Sonators construed this ani uneal led for adv~anitageogi ven the liner graded of New ECngland miills, but p some of t he Newv Cngland Senatorsi seemed to think this was all right. 1 Senator 01Hacon insisted~(, however, and1(1 as5 his contenitioni was balcked by i other ~,idrthenrs, whlo stood witht himii, thle coimm))itto ia iallyI accep)ted I his amtendmsenit, and1( it was incorpor.i atedl inito thle t ready. This puts all I grades of cotton fabri(cs on a plano I of (qility. A fter'I ratifyi ng the t reaty the senaitoi aidjournied sine dioi t 10 mmites p)ast S o'clock. Prmact ically< thei entire (lay was spoint hohind 111 closed d1oors in execntive session. Most of' thle timo11 it was dlevoted to conii'derationi of the Cubai treaty. Several speeches woere madoIl in fatvor of it, and1( thlen plrom ptly at. thle agreed hour :- o'clock, voting began. Rtoll call was hadt oni a niumiber oif amn'amanl.iits anid thbe t reaty3 itself waIs mamdo the objet of an aye andl g nany vote. Thie motion01 to ratify was adopted by a ballot oif 50 to 16, somewhat mimore thain ai three fourthis vo(te, whberons only at two( t hirds vote waS ieessary' t ((o ecire a rat i ficat lon.' Mr. TI. lH. Tnucker of North, in Or angelburg County, took his owni life withI a shmotgun on1 I"nday afternoon. T,necker was abuout 701 years old1 and had1( bieen ini had1 heailth for 14omo1 FARME3RS SHOT FROM AMBUSlI. tr. Robert Cheathan Seriously Wound ed-Would.be Assassins Supposed to be Negroes of Phoenix Section. [T'lho Stale.}1 Greenwood, March ld.--itohort G. Jheatham, Robert. Quattlebaum and Jiebe Penn, threo well known whito armers of tho Phoonix section, were eriously shot from ambush at 2 >'clock this morning at some place )elOw Cal 11801, at )ostoilico about ton nibs below hero. Mr. Cheatham received i chargo f buckshot in the upper part of his ody, his hands, armus andcl chest ro oiving the load. Alt hough at close ange his physician thinks thlt the rounds are not nocessarily fat al. le will recover unless sonlm compli ation HOt- inl. Mr. Quattlohmnn had his loft arm roken and also received somo flesh voundH in the upper pat of the ody. Mr. Penn's wound was made by a harge of bird skot whieb eentered a the calf of the loft leg. Although theshiouting occurrean associationls, 1mli like corporai ions, should he tiaxed, ti if iaxed vhother on credits belonging to ttem ecured by mortgages upon property f stockholders. The attorney general siay they are iable to t axat ol a11 t Imt' cOt rporat ionts iuch crodits shouh , h rt retrmd for axXation aft thir a1tillal vall,. In an.. wer to thte(l JC helionl t hat if theo as oci ationi is taxed onI tO olijgations1 holds againist htorr.wersN toheor owinIg stockholer will be ' wien tax (1 GIt It same j1' property, 01e <('OI thIe enl esta1to mort gaiged , anid agin onIl he credit arising ftomtth111loan rsult -1 t rg in dloubtl taxati:>nt, hto qu1otedt rom ni11 op)inmnt of to lilinois courlt [n wvhich t hoe30 conlu1sion is r'oeched: "Tfhe noteo or cot Iract and1 I mott aige hold( by3 a1 loan(1 assoetnt ion atre n no 8s1180 a crocdit of lt he horrocwe'r, mut arm a cr01dit bl)('tging to the5 (or >orationl. If I th e'rOlkit is I liesP, ilh ax falls ont iho corporatio,~ 1 al nolt he( horrowver. It is tru hat)11 a1 por ion of till taix Inalv (IIhoutlely fall oun 11( I)orrowevr, as ai st opptOoed. I1( he wtat wasH it )xecutIiveI 5tess-ion wVhen t ho trstult wasi The~ fiv' vo(to (in Ilppott(sition11 wore hose of Honator Ihmaiol, of \'irginian, 'tis col longuet, Senitator Alart Iin, to I WIw Alabtamau Sontators, lss rs Alorg'an 11md( P'otius, and( Sentotr TlIter, of Coloamo SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More or Less Interest Condensed In the State. 'The birthday of John C. Calhoun was celebrated by the Calhoun Light Infantry in Florence on Thursday of last woek. Col. 1t. A. Robinson, who has rep rosented Anderson county for several terms in the legislature, died on Thurs day. Col. Asbury Coward, of the Citadel, has boon appointed by the President one of the members of the Board of Visitors to West Point Academy. Mr. Joe Baltzogar, a white farmor of near Norway, accidentally ran his wagon over his little son last wook, and probably fatally injured the liltle boy. Win. C. King, the white man who murdered Ja nes and Samuel Ilogers ill Florence, on January 3Ist, has boon seltonced to life imprisonm ent at hard labor in the penitentiary. An 'il(ppal will be taken to the Su promo court. There are now 230 rural delivery mail routes in t he State, and the sal. orines paid amount to $11,000. The Columbia postotlico is headquarters for this State, and from hero all the salaries are paid. 'l'he people of Greenwood have colpliod with the terns upon which it was agreed that the Williimston F emnalo College would be moved, and it is now practically set t led that t ho collhgo will b)e moved to (reonwood. Oi request of the (Greeniwood liar, ia special term of court, has boon ordered for Groonwood county,, be ginning April .1, and contitnuing two woeks, with the Hion. Jon. A. MeCul lough, of Greenvillo, special judge. ''he quest ion having been raised, the At toimoy General hts filed an op inion that m1eibershiip oo t he I lamp tn Monunint coimission is not an oflico, and may be hold by a member of the Legislature. The commission will he called together soon and stops taken to raise money sytomatically F'ounders' Day will be tppropri ately celebrated at Converse College on Aprl 21. The address will 1:e delivered by the distinguished )r. (hts. 1). Mcivor, president. of Nor mil and miod ustrial College of ( reons boro. Governor [1oy ward's granliot her, Mr. ulncan L. Clinch, died in Chirleston on ''hursday night, and about thle sanie time11 his aunit, Mrs. J. II. M. Clinich, died in Savannah. Th'le fun eral of b oth Ilad ies was heldl in Savaninahi on Friday. Tihie Gov elmior aittenided. G~eorgo WV. LFathlami, charged with assault and battery wyithite.to kill his cousin, J1. It Latham, hats boen convicted in Pickens county and son t encedI to pay3 a fine of $2(00. he Lant hams are a prominent fami ly iand thle trial created great interest. Ju rdge II udsori lins rend(eired1 an op,imon holing that thle Columbia canail is not Iliale to county taxation. Th'le d ecision was ron deredi in a suit b roumght by the Water Power Co., own in g thle catnal , to recover b ac.k cont y a xe al ready paid. Thlie At torniey Genieratl will atppeail tihe catse I roceedings for. miand(arnois to coni peIl thle Spatrtant Mtills amida iiaumnt l''actories, of Spairt anbom ,to pay lt) back .ityv taxes for thirteen years, have booni inistitnitedl. These imills weeexeiipt by the c'ity or Spartatn burg andl thle caiso hinges upon the right of the cit.y to exempt institu tionis fronm paying tatxes Matndamrius prcedigswemo iiiad(l returinamble beifore ('h ief just ice Popjie, att (Chatm b ers, in~ N ewbe rry, oni AprilI 7. P'IlliSID1iNTF CAST 10 ItliSIGNS. No lieasons Given or. ixplanatlins Made, and Washington is Tfakemi by Surprise. Cara mens, MIarchI 2 I. Presi liidet Castro rosigned, Illo placed his re;signaition of thle P'reide'ncy of thle lle'pulic of Venezuela ini thle hiandos or th~e President of Conigress After readli ng thle President ial messiage to d1ay Senor C ast ro handIed ove'r thle exi'rrise of t lie IPresideotntial fun ct ion s toi thle Pr~esident of C trmis COTTON SUPPLY 01' 1iUtOPi. Tie Supremacy of this Country Will he Malttainelt--No 1:car of Competion fromt India. Col. Alfred B. Slthpporson, of New York, well known as a HtatiHti. cal o pert in cotton, discussing in last wook'H isHuue of th MIanufactur. ers Roecord the ruhition of this con try to the cotton s upply of E'urope, says: ''In Eightud, ( oruuay and F'rance there is cnst;iderbthlb discussion of the subject anid soinmo practical elforts havo boon runlo for the proruotion of the cultivation of cotton in the co lonitl dOpendencics of tho!o cotitries. Th'HOE c'orts hatve l'in chiefly made by inriufactlrors ani tuorchants, but havt roctivtod tho activo onl. eouragemeiit uol support of the re pelctivo (.overnutonltH. "Since October, 181.11.1, middling -ot-ton inl New York has iot beoa ats ow ia sev'ui it or jouind, rang. ng from i 3- 110 to 11 mIlts, am!1 bo. ig acturally i AT SOUIJIilRN PINiiS. Mrs Gierge A. Johnson, of ltochsster, N. 11., Kills IIerself After lleturnIng Ita lleigh, N. C., Ma lrchi 21.-A spec ial fromo Sout hern Il'inos, N. C., 8ays M rs O eorge A . ,JohlIisor,, of lioelies.. teor, N. il ,lafter ret uin~iig to her homei frorni ai411 dane at t he Sout hern Pillea husband114: "Oh)I, I wvish I was11 deaid." Kno10winog that11 sh e waIs81 sujtct to hyster4 ia, Mr .Joh)nson pa?idt sl ight lat. tention1 to hier remarlik, but mI ai fewy mliiutos sh1e wenit 11iII) allaijeilling rooml, lockinIg Ite door0. MrI Johnson1l01 wasi stairtledII at1( the reort (If a1 piStol andl, aifter 'iomrooinilg ai netig,hbor1, force