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V * * VOL. 8, NO. 83, SEMI-W TILLMAN AGAIN WR4THY HE SAYS III.EASE IS WRONG. Henior senator Wroth at Statement Governor Made at Hendersonville?Criticises Governor. Washington Special to Charleston News and Courier, July 17.?Referring to affairs in South Carolina, ! Senator Tillman said yesterday: "I notice that Governor Blease has broken loose again. He makes a misstatement, to speak mildly, and I feel compelled to correct him. He went to Hendersonville the other day and in a telegram to The Colum- , bia Record he is made to say: " 'Senator Tillman ruined himself with the people of South Carolina in just the same manner when he went about lecturing instead of remaining in Washington and attending to the ( business in the senate.' "I have lectured very extensively throughout the eonntrv hut T novnr neglected any senatorial work to do It, as The Record will show. 1 do not I recall ever having left Washington while the senate was In session exceeding half a dozen times to deliver lectures. Then I went to nearby I points which I could reach after the 1 senate adjourned for the day, deliver the lecture that night and return to Washington the next morning. I have received offers time and again to lecture while Congress was in session, but I always declined. I could have made tens of thousands of dollars had I believed it right to do so. SUBTLE AND CUNNING. "Governor Blease has recently done two things about which I want to say something. I have been amused at the subtleness and cunning he has shown in getting out of the militia muddle. He doublesomersaulted instantly, and was so anxious to comply with the requirements of the war department that he 1 1 ? iciestjiputfti wis acqui?srenrp 10 tne the secretary's demands. The mail was too slow for him. "Another thing the governor has done recently is the letter he wrote to the supervisors of registration ordering them peremptorily to register all white men. His exact words are: 'Let no white man be refused.' "I have examined the law carefully to see Just how the supervisors ought to go. and I take the liberty of advising them to obey the law, the strict letter of the law, and register only men qualified under the law who will take the oath required. That oath is as follows: " 'I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a male citizen of this state and of the United States; that 1 am 21 years of age or more, that I have resided in this state for two years, and in this county for one year, and in the polling precinct in which I apply to be registered and in which I will offer to vote if registered for four months, and that I have not been convicted of burglary, arson, obtaining goods or money under false pretense, perjury, forpery, robbery, bribery, adultery, bigamy, wifebcatlnp, housebreaking, receiving stolen goods, breach of trust with faudulent intent, fornication, sodomy, Incest, assault with Intent to ravish, miscegenation, larceny or , crimes against the election laws.' MIGHT CAUSE ILLEGAL VOTING. "I am very anxious to have all white men who can take the above oath register, and thus be able to fulfill their duties as citizens. But It will be a fearful blunder and crime for anybody in South Carolina to lay the foundation or give excuse for the house of representatives or the senate of the United States to throw out a senator or congressman eiecien rrom woutn Carolina because of Illegal registration. The Republicans are not now in power, and the danger is not as great as it once was. But even a Democratic senate and a Democratic house cannot afTord to tolerate anything smacking of illegality or fraud. "The law as it stands now requires the people to elect senators by direct vote, and I do not want to see South Carolina Jerked up for illegal voting. Until we get our primary law amended by the legislature so as to remove all possibility of the charges of fraud and bribery in the primary, we cannot afford to take any chances. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BLGASE. "If Governor Blease will exert himself to see that the legislature at Its next session passes a reasonable and Just law to insure honest and fairness In our primary, all will be well. I want to emphasize this, and I say It with all due solemnity. "If money buys the next senatorship In South Carolina, as it may do, and as it is charged it has done in the recent congressional race in the first district, I will feel compelled to object to the seating of any man sent here with a tainted title. "I Join with Governor Blease in urging our people to register. While . it may be straining a construction of the law in any other than a genernl election year for supervisors to go to places away from the court house in each county, I can see no harm in that. They are permitted and can go to any place they see fit for the meagre salaries they receive. But every good citizen ought to see to it that no illegal registration is permitted, because as things are now in South Carolina illegality, dishonesty or fraud, either in the primary or in ire Kcnerai ejection, win prove very dangerous. Every fairminded man wants honesty and fair play, and | every patriot will abide the result of an election bo conducted whether his Bide loses or wins." EEKLY. CHARLESTON BOY'S BRAVE ACT. | James l^ary Attempts to Save Ufe of Fellow Seaman on Nebraska. A Charlestown, Mass., Special to Charleston News and Courier. July 1 16.?First Class Electrician Jaipes Eeary, of Charleston, S. C., on the battleship Nebraska, at present at the Charlestown navy yard, was frightfully burned today while at- i< tempting to save the life of Seaman n Henry Azena, of the same ship, b Azena was scalded to death. A valve g flew out in the dynamo room en- < veloping Azena in steam. Eeary q rushed to his aid and pulled him out b into the open, but before he had done 0 so was terribly scalded himself. The accident was caused by exces- c sive pressure in the pipes, and a j, court of the ship's officers will sit to 0 probe the matter and find out who is ^ to blame for the mishaD. Learv is ? the hero of the battleship tonight, where he lies In the hospital room ' 0 swathed in bandages and under the v care of ship surgeons. He will re- , cover. | BOOSTERS' TRIP TO THE MIDDLE WEST ! !B c Committeeman I>o/.ier Says There Has Already Ileen Much Com < ment on Advertising Trip. : t Columbia Record, July 17th. 't "The proposed 'Boosters" train. 1 which the real estate exchange is J planning to operate through the mid- 1 die West in conjunction with commer 1 mercial bodies of the other cities of f the state has already come in for con- a siderable inquiry and discussion on t the part of business men of other t communities." This was the state- J ment L. B. Dozier made this morning, j He with Walter T. Love and Edwin r P. Bookter is in charge of the de- c tals of the trip as well as the matter of arousing interest in oter cities of r the state so that the train will bear t advertising literature and personal j. boosters for other places in the state, s it heimr the desir nf the eveh:unxe tr. t make the tour ont of state-wide proportions and not for the benent of any one part or for the expoiting of any particular resources. A register wil be maintained by the boosters and the names of all persons met in the West will be entered for the future. From these names it is expected that many concerns will be able to get good business, especially .because many persons whose names appear will have heard with their own ears about the opportunities that are offered in South Carolina. There are thousands of persons crossing the line into Canada and it is believed by those who have studied the matter that the tide of emigration will change from the North to the South if the resources of the section are sufficiently laid before those who are about to move. RUSSIA PRESENTS EXTREME DEMANDS . Calls For IndP|H'ndenre of Outer i Mongolia?Submission of Sub- ' stltute Stirs the Chinese. < I ; Peking, '"hln.t. July 16.?llesjia 1 yesterday suddenly presented to the Chinese go/.):*nn;ent new demands re quiring recognition of the full au- ( tonomy of Outer Mongolia declaring ( China to be suzerain onlv, tdnding , China to accept Russian intermedia- ( tion and recognising all the rights 1 conceded to "Russia by the agreement , and protocol signed at Vga. the cap- . ital of Mongolia, on November 3, 1912. I, I These four new demands are sub- \ mited by Russia in substitution for the recently proposed agreement which has not yet been signed and , which Russia announced she has decided to annul. 1 | Both houses of the Chinese parliament have been hastely summoned to consider the demands. Strong opposition to them is voiced by both : Chinese and foreigners and great ex- 1 citement prevails at the unexpected turn of events. The agreement, signed at Uga in November was as follows: "Ry an agreement signed on November 3. Russia undertakes to aid Mongolia and to maintain the autonomous government which she has established. She will support her right to maintain a national army and include both the presence of Chinese troops and the colonization of her territory by the Chinese." The recently proposed agreement declared that Russia acknowledged Outer Mongolia as Chinese territory, while China agreed that Mongolia was .<> have autonomy. The Peking government agreed not to send soldiers into Outer Mongolia, which was to have its own army and police. Russia agreed not to send soldiers Intn MnnoAllo ? /? >> ? ' ? ?.?/ mwu^uiin r AV-r CIO UUII9UIHT guards in accordance with the terms of previous treaties. 8he further l agreed not to send colonies into Mongolia, but retained the extensive . commercial privileges accorded in treaties with the head lama of * Mongolia. C Shortage in the Cotton Crop Certain, j Mayesville Special to Columbia r Record, July 17.?The condition of t all crops is satisfactory considering the dry, hot weather, but cotton is a badly off on account of the poor I stands and there will be a short crop ? at least in thlH section. Some of the t smaller farmers are badly In 11< c grass and have poor prospects. f \ LANCASTER, S. C., FR JRYAN DELIVERS REPLYj lxswfk to .Japanese notes. tejoinder is S? Framed as to Ke- | mire neuiijf All Ikmh-s to Questions For Courts. Washington, July 17.?The Amer- ! ran reply to the last two Japanese otes on the California anti-alien and law was delivered yesterday by I lecretary Bryan to Ambassador 'hinda who at once cabled it to "okio. As in the case of the precedng notes, the contents of the latest ne were withheld from publication, i There is some expectation in offlial circles that the delivery of this lote will conclude the negotiations m this subject between the two counries, for the present, at least, if not ltogether. It is declared that the American reply to the various points if objection to the California lcgisation has been made so complete as 1 o remove most of them from the leld of discussion. Even in cases k'here the Japanese contentions have lot been manifestly completely negtived the expert diplomatists are alrl tn V. ? -? vv Iia?r nu UUUICU rt*" ponses as to reduce the pointa to lear iaauea which probably can be idjusted only on the baaia of judiial decialona. The reault baa been reached hrougli the exchange of five notes, he negotiations beginning May 8 ast with the original protest by apan againat the projected alien and owning act by the California eglalature. This elicited a reply rom Secretary Bryan on May 10 or) is soon aa he had been advised of , he actual signature of the Webb act >v Governor Johnson. On June 4 the apanese government filed its reoinder and on July J this was supdemented by an elaborate expansion f the arguments. Unless the Japanese foreign office oncludes that there la something in he American note delivered yesterlay requiring Immediate attention md reply, probably there will be no urtber diplomatic exchanges for at east another month. At the expiraion of that time the Webb alien and owning act will become effeclve and the way will be opened for a udicial test of its constitutionality. The state department is looking to he Japanese government at least to nke the Initiative in securing a judicial determination of the question as o whether this act is in conflict with existing treaties of whether it vioated nrivilee'es to whli>h tho Tnnnn >se are entitled under the broad principles of International law. While he Japanese negotiations have unofficially expressed the opinion that t was the duty of the American government to make this test, following i precedent established during the Roosevelt administration in connerion with the exclusion of Japanese oupils from the American public 'chools the state department has declined to accept this view. Officials suggested that the Japanese government would be in a better josition to resume the consideration of its grievances by diplomatic means n the event of an unsuccessful litigation if the test were initiated and prosecuted by a Japanese resident of California in a private capacity, even :hough actually financially supported py the Japanese government. Some apprehension has been expressed by the Japanese over the lifficultv of securing an early judicial decision on constitutionality of the California legislation. The state lepartment officials, however, say hey are prepared in good faith to 'acilitate the proceeding by every proper means, even to the extent of :a?ising the attorney general to seek in advancement on the docket of the uipreme court of such a case. S. C. POSTMASTERS TO MEET. %nnual Convention at Oleen Springs July 22 and 23. Summerton Special to Charleston ""Jews and Courier, July 17.?Postmaster Ellison Capers, president of he South Carolina Association of Postmasters, returned yesterday rom a conference with Thomas P. WcEeod, postmaster at Hartsville, ,vho Is secretary of the association, ooklng to perfecting the plans for he coming meeting of the assoclaion, which will be held at Olenn Springs, July 22 and 22. The meetng this year promises to be of great nterest and benefit to the service In his state and will present several lew features. The management condders the association fortunate in laving gotten the consent of the Ion. Hartwell Ayer of Florence, to nake an address on "The Relation ?f the Postal Service to the Press," ilso in being favored with the pres>nce of the Hon. E. W. Conner, of ^ock Hill, president of the South ^arollna Rural Carriers' Association. vho will address thn mpptinir louinantnnN ('apturn Cable Station. Sofia, Bulgaria. July 17.?The Roumanians today took possession of he cable station at Varna on the Hack sea and thus control communlAtlon with Schastapol. As the railway between the coast and Sofia haR ieen cut Bulgaria cannot communlate with the outRlde world except hrough Servla and Roumanla. By forced marches the Turkish irmy is approaching the town of <1rk KUisseh. taken by the Bulrarlans after heavv fltrhMnf at iiin leginnlnf? of the ttalkan war. Many if the population are reported to be teeing. 1DAY, JULY 18, 1913. THE CLIMAX IN MEXICO Se< HUBBY CALL FOB AMBASSADOR.'; Henry Lane Wilson Ordered tojju Washington limned lately on I 14 United States Battleship. Washington, July 16.?President | clr Wllcnn -" < ..kvii luuuj, nin-r an eariy conrerence with Secretary Bryan over the >l.v latest aspects of the Mexican situa- Us tion, presented by the inquiries of SP( foreign powers as to the attitude of Tli the United States, ordered Ambnssa- of dor Henry Lane Wilson at Mexico soi City to proceed to Washington ini- of mediately for a conference. Ambas- ju sador Wilson will hurry north on tib either the battleship Michigan or th< Louisiana from Vera Crtiz, if any delay would be entailed by waiting for ha a commercial steamer. Officials here to believe that the almost total inter- ha ruption of traffic between Mexico do City and the United States will force all the ambassador to make his trip by so water. He is not expected here be- CO fore July 2 J. at the earliest. | be It is believed in official and diplo- ph matic circles that an important an- I nouncement of the attitude of the United States in the pending situa- A tion will follow the ambassador's conference with the President and Secretary Bryan. The President's action today, following closely the \\* unofficial announcement that some of ( the foreign powers which already have recognized the Huerta govern- ; ment were pressing for some, indica- j tion of this government's attitude toward the continued disorders in f Mexico, leads to that belief. .. r, th faces what I think of you. It would hi really not be interesting on the print- w ed page, and if you turn out in suffl- ei cient numbers I might change my g< mind, for you know "discretion is the di better part of valor." ca This call is to all the farmers of w the state, for most of you have heen $1 or ought to be members of the union, cr And the "have beens' and "ought- m to-bes" are the worst fault-finders $; we have. Put yourselves in good cc standing and may be instead of the y< "lambasting" I am laying out to give te you, your fellow members will be so 0< pleased at your coming that you will be elected to high office in the union. || Seriously this is the last call from tliic nffioa Wo Kotfo ?? -- ...... U....V- II KIKIII |,'| bill of faro for the meeting: and the loss will be yours. If you fail to attend and appropriate your share. In addition to the prominent speakers er we have put on the program others m Just as able will be there. H From Saluda county union will is come a suggestion of great impor- re tance about Clemson College scholar- W ships that ought to be carefully con- di sidered and I am sure there are de other matters of equal importance that will come up that need the best m thought of the state that they may a be disposed of wisely. sa Yours for the cause. K< E. W. DARBS, bt President S. C. State Farmers' Union, di MavoHvllle, S C., July 16, 1913. re Al Mr. ami Mrs. C. B. Skipper and th family and Mrs. Jenntnps of Oastonia fr< motored do wnfrom Charlotte to tU Kpend today in Lapeaater. eo i TKAfvEOV UNEXPLAINED. |y i <>u<i investigation of the Jacobs i Tragetl.v Ends. ( S Peak Speacial to Columbia State, | ly 17.?With the dismissal of the ' members of the coroner's jury i bject to the call the second hear- | 5 of the inquest to ascertain what 1 cumstances or hand caused the ath of John D. Jacobs and his fam- ir ended yesterday without estab- i m hing a cause. The verdict of the t( "ond hearing is that of the first. f( ie verdict says: "During the night June 2 7 the said deceased per- ei lis came to their death at the hands d a party or parties unknown to this fo ry." The jury spent some 20 min- a es in deliberation before returning a e verdict. d This inquiry, occupying two days, g( s brought little new testimony in- t< the case. The officers of the law t, ve been active and some half i, zen men have occupied themselves f, T,<>st constantly in an effort to find f me clue on which an investigation n uld be conducted hut nothing has e en found that will lead to the p icing of a charge against any man. q U- . irwuv i>i vitu positively necnn- tn ed to add any Information to his brief announcement of Ambassador U Wilson's call to Washington. However, it is assumed that the administration desires to learn from ' 5 the ambassador directly what in flu- ^ ences actuated the foreign dlplomatic representatives tn Mexico, Tr when they jointly agreed to address 10 their governments with what J"' amounted to a formal complaint against the attitude of the United \ States in its relations with the . Huerta regime. President Wilson . 1 has kept an open mind oh the sub- ,.e ject and is thought to feel himself , hound to adhere to the policy be an- s : nounced early in his administration J" ?ii lenuinp moral encouragement only to such governments In Latin Amorioa as were, founded upon constitutional law and Justice. ^ Tloowever. it is understood he is ? ready to give due weight to any rep- 1)1 resentations Ambassador Wilson may . care to make. * The President has had the benefit of private reports from several of his 1 personal friends who have travelled ? in Mexico recently, but those were unofficial and not sufficient to form T the basis of formal attitude if there were to he any change in policy. Secretary Tfryan was asked if the coming of Ambassador Wilson to Washington would change his projected lecture tour. Tie replied: I nr new npapci IUKI1 IUIglll nflVP assumed that my lecture dates would not Interfere with business, instead ? of assuming that they would. All j my lecture dates were made subject Jv to cancellation." J'j MUCH INTEREST IN FARMERS' MEETING ' of To l>e Held at the Isle of Palms hi July 2.1-21?Saluda County Has P( Matters of S|>ecial Interest. ^ To the Members of the Farmers' aj Union: 4' just a wppk rrom me meeting of the State Farmers' Union. For two fi< months at the risk of being tire- h! some I have been calling upon you to tt get ready for the annual meeting m and have given you some of the rea- es sons why you should attend and be properly represented. Now you r? chronic kickers and fault-flndeing $ critics, I Just want you to go to the T meeting July 23-24 on the Isle of w Palms so that I can sav to vnnr ti ll URKEY GETS BUSY ? IN THE BALKANS " n ill Pu?li Ottoman Troops to Adria- tl nopl?>?Hold Action Taken a For Sake of Moral. h Constantinople, July 1G.?The ? vernment is determined to push 1< rward Ottoman troops as far as 1 e stronghold of Adrianople, cap- a red by the Bulgarian troops after 11 prolonged seige during the recent P dkan war. Although official circles in Con- b intinople are reticent on the sub- a ?t, it is understood such n forward t< ?p is the deliberate plan of the gov- h nment. It intends to take this T Id action not only because of the u aterial advantages to be gained, u it because of the moral influence it c 11 have on Turkey's Internal situa- b >n. It is expected by this means ii e position of the government will c< strengthened and consolidated and c is felt that even if the powers in- b ?t on bringing pressure to bear to li mpel the maintenance of the fu- t re frontier line between Turkey t ul Bulgaria from Knos on thn ? agean sea to Midia on the Black a. Turkey will yet be In a position T enforce the autononmy of the s ovince of Thrace. I Thus far, however, the powers t ive not addressed any communlcn- \ an to the Turkish government on / ie subject of the advance of the c toman troops toward the north. & I REASURY HANDLES \ SEVEN BILLIONS j i amps tlie Federal Treasury as j Greatest Banking Institution 1 in tlie World. 1* Washington, July 16.?The United ates treasury handled in actual cash t iring the fiscal year ended June 30 ? ie stupendous sum of $7,071,520,- 1 )0, breaking all previous records c id stamping the federal treasury, 1 ficialfl declared today, as the great- c it banking institution in the world, i Reflecting the tremendous growth r ' the government's business, this i Igh record, including income, out- t j, and operations within the treas- < ry, exceed the cash transactions of l ic (Jirtnius .yrm uy ytnit,! BS.UIH) f id those of three years ago by $1,- $ 78,826,000. f The figures show that treasury of- t :?ials during the year just closed indled in actual cash nearly twice le amount of the total stock of oney in the United States, which is itimated at $8,720,000,000. 1 Including bonds, checks and warmts, the treasury handled over 10.000,000,000 during the. year, his vast aggregation of wealth hich does not' include the transacons of the sub-treasuries, was indled, it was pointed out today, ithout the loss of a cent to the gov nment. The receiving teller of the ivernment took in over $7 5,358,000 uring the year; the paying teller ished $118,177,000 in checks and t arrants; the shipping toller sent t 384.518,000 to various parts of the j untry and the "change teller" i ade "small change" for more than ] ,0.000.000. The government re- i dved for redemption during the >ar $006,660,000 in time-worn Uni- t d States currency and $675,889.- . 10 in national bank notes. i tlSHM.W WINS HIS FREEDOM. ] f red Kelly llis Own Lawyer in York- ( ville Court. t Yorkville, July 16.?Court of genal sesions convened here Monday ' orning with Special Judge W. A. R olman of Charleston presiding. It c expected that the court will be 1 ady for adjournment by Friday. ? itli two exceptions no cases will be 1 spoRed of at this term where the J ifendants are out on bond. ' One case that created considerable errlment was that of Fred Kellv. t typical Irishman, charged with as- f ult and battery with Intent to kill t elly did not employ pn attorney, tl it conducted his own defense, and 1 d It so successfully that the jury 0 turned a verdict of "not guilty." s 'ter the'verdict was announced and t e prisoner informed that he was t ee, he arose, thanked the court and o e jury, and Immediately left the p art room. h I& $1.50 PER YEAR. JAMES OF Blfi MEN GIVEN TRAIN TEI.iL.ING ON MULHALL. iteresting Interview Between Roosevelt and Ex-Congressman Watson is Described. Washington, July 16.?Plans to lake the National Association of ianufactureers the controlling fac jr in campaigns for congress to deiat legislation in Washington its lembers did not approve, to get the ars of men who were running presiential booms and to land a memer of association in the cabinet of president were laid before the sente lobby investigation committee toay. Martin M. Mulhall, self-confessd lobbyist for the association, swore > the authenticity of nearly 4 00 letjrs which told of these plas and rought in the means of such men as armer Presidents "Roosevelt and 'aft, the late Vice-President Shertan, former Speeker Cannon, formr Senators Aldrich. Hemenway, 'oraker and others, Arthur L. Vories ihio manager of the Taft campaign i 1908, and Frank H. Hitchcock, ne-time chairman of the Republian national committee and Repubcan national committee and posttaster general In Mr. Taft's cabinet. Mulhall testified, too. that the Na ional Council for industrial Defense, n organization allied to the Naional Association of Manufacturers, ad raised between $500,000 and 700,000 a year to used in opposing ?gislation its members did not like, re said this information came from collector of personal knowledge of t expect, that he had been paid for olitical work from such a fund. Mulhall showed the train he has een under for four days during the fternoon session, and the committee ->ok him from the stand for a half our and listened to testimony by J. '. Byrd, general manager of the Man facturers' Association, and treasrer of the Industrial Defense coun11. Byrd brought half a carload of ooks and papers with him to Washfigton and turned them over to the smmittee. He refused to say who had ontributed to the fund or the council ut he will be examined at length at<or and the committee will underake to make him tell what manufa< urers contributed and what amounts hey gave . Anong with the information that lyrd had a half carload of data to ubmit the committee heard that \ C. Schwedtman of St. Louis, secreary to the late James W. Van Clea'e, once president of the National issociation of Manufacturers, had abnit 130,000 letters bearing on the issociation's work. The committee was greatly inter sted in a letter which Mulliall swore le wrote to Schwedtman, April 16, .908. It told of a conversation Mulnall had in Washington with former Representative Watson, of Indiana, n which the letter described a two lour interview at the White House >etween Mr. Roosvelt and himself. In part the letter read: 'He (Watson) said he was invited o the White House at 9:30 p. m., ind was with the President until 11:30. The President wished him to all so they could go over the legisativc program for the balance of >f this season, the president knowng that he represented Speaker Canion had the other leaders of the louse and senate. He stated that the he main reason of the call was that Speaker Cannon, Vice president '" airbanks and several others wanted to find out how the president nuuu in reunion 10 a iniro lerin. ne itated that there were four things he president wished. First, that contress woud stay in session until the 15th of May to meet governors of the lifferent states coming to Washingon on that day. Second, to amend the Sherman law. Third, to have contress vote four battleships. Fourth, 0 pass the child labor law for the District of Columbia, which would be 1 model law for the states in general. "Mr. Watson said he told the presilent that it was impossible for him o get through this congress would >nly vote fro two battlesips. Second hat Congress would not amend the Sherman law. The president wanted o know why Mr. Watson told him hat almost the entire manufacturing nterests of the country were against t. The President wished to know if dr. Watson knew or had met Mr. /an Cleave. "Mr. Watson told him he had. and hat he knew Mr. Van Cleave well, ind other leaders in touch with Mr. /an Cleave, and that Mr. Van Cleave vas a splended fellow. He talked ilong these lines with the president ind finally the president did not press o have the Sherman bill passed at his session of congress. "Ho then stated that they passed o the child labor law and Mr. Wation asked the president who would Iraw this model bill. The president eplied that he would have his labor lommissioner. Mr. Neill, draw it, the 'resident explaining that he merely / vished this bill to be an academic bill or the states " The letter closed with a reference o Mr. Watson's account of his eforts to draw Mr. Roosvelt out on he question of a third term. SchweItman told Mulhall In a letter early n 1008, "It Is really a pity that we an not get you to congress or to the enate right away. You ought to be here. Each day teaches us how to do hings better, and Just another year f this harmonious co-operation will >ut us in a shape where nobody can eat us."