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i?crei?ry 'Wilson H "mistes-' Under Washington, Special-^Recommend ing that the standard of the diner ? grades of cotton as fixed by them be adopted as the official classifica tion of the government, tho c?mmit "tee of expert classification designed Tjy the Secretary of Agrculture to as sist him in establishing such a stan c-dard, have made their report to the latter. The committee has made up "types representive of the nine differ .ent grades to be designated middling fair, strict good middling, grood mid-j .diing, strict middling, middling, strict low middling, low middling, strict good ordinary, and good ordinary, to "be thc official standard. The recommendation is made that in view of the confusion that might arise in case the standards were pro mulgated at once, they should not .go ?to effect until September 1st, 1910.. It also is recommended that efforts should be made to secure the ?co-operation of - foreign* exchanges in .connection with the. standards. The ! further recommendat>o? is made that '; "Congress enact legislation penalizing ' any one tampering with the standards { which are to be kept locked up at the Department of Agriculture. Sec-J letary Wilson bas the report of the j -committee under advisement. Stated Names Retained. The belief was expressed that as the result of an examination of the j standards of this ard foreign coun-. tries the least confusion would arise I . to the cotton business of the country j by adopting a classification of cotton | -that was acceptable to all foreign' consumers, but owing to the action of JAPANESE TO ATTEND Sacramento, Cal., Special.-Grove L. Johnson's bill compelling Japan ese to attend sepurate public schools passed the Assembly Thursday by a vote of 48 to 26. ? Mr. Johnson's other bills prohib iting aliens from being members of boards of directors and restricting "them in residence districts at the op tion of boards of supervisors, were -.defeated, the former by a vote of 54 "to 15. The latter measure failed of 'passage because of a tie vote, the "friends of the bill being unable to "..muster the required 41 votes. Roll .??ll finally stood 37 to 37, after a .?all of the House and several changes H?rom aye to no. and vice versa. The principal debate was upon the residential segregation bill. Many GOVERNOR HASKELL C Muskogee, Okla., Special.-SoveN -"indictments were reteurned by tho Federal grand jury here Wednesday in the town lot alleged fraud inves tigation, the charges being conspir acy to defraud the government. The j|names of those indicted are: Gover nor Charles N. Haskell, F. B. Severs, IA. Z. English, C W. Turner, W. T. Hutchings, Jesse W. Hill and Walter E. Eaton.. All the parties gave bond. Fifteen ol' the wealthiest men in Muskogee called at Ihie office of the United States marshall here and signed Gov ernor Haskell's bond for $5,000. Many more asked to be allowed to sign it. Haskell Issues Statement. Governor Haskell, when informed HIS LEO IS GRAFTED Washington, Special.-The graft-1 ing of leg and knee from a man but a j few moments dead to tue stump of a j living man is the rare operation ! which is said to have been performed some days ago at Georgetown Uni versity Hospital by Dr. George Tully Va jghn. Geoige A. Kelley was tokeri to the hospital suffering from a dis eased kneecap which seemed to neoes PRESIDENT ROOSEVEl Sacramento, Cal., Special.-Gover nor Gillett Thursday received from from President Roosevelt the follow ing: "Your kind letters just receiv ed. What is the rumor that the Cali fornia Legislature hus passed a bill excluding the Japanese children from the public schools? This is thc most offensive bill of all, and in my judg *"ment is clearly unconstitutional and we should at once have to test it in the courts. Can it he stopped in the Legislature of by veto?" - ? The bill passed places the-Japan THE GOV0?N??NX Mli^I Washington, D. C., Special.-De^ elating that "if the government is to act with, full efficiency against crim inal!!, it must have some force of sec ret service agents who can act against criminals anywhere." President Roosevelt, in a statement made publie flem the White Housq Wednesday, emphatically reiterated his opposition to restricting the field of usefulness of tlio secret service. GOVERNOR PATTERSON EXE Nashville, Tenn., Special.-In veto .?ins tho prohibition bill Wednesday Governor Patterson said, why not for bid thc raising or selling of the grams o;r cultivation of the grape out jj of wh??ili .spirituous, malt cr vinous liquors, rro made? "IJ? Wo arc thus sirrtcd where shall we end )' lt is helter not to make tho gterl*. ''Tn the e\-:"-'s" ct* mr const''n ti?n?*l ?.ewer rs ('?.*.?." ;'!...'..]. f veto ;lhiK I-ntea-iirc and a.s?i i's ?r-onsiucraticii: as Report of Com Congress, tho committee found it necessary to confine itself to stated names which are in use in this coun try. The standards finally recommended for adoption are those that are in use in practical every day business throughout the greater part of the coton belt, and are the standards ac cepted in commercial practice be tween this country and Europe. The characteristics recognized in the es tablishment of the grades aro those generally -used in the trade at the present time. * It was the express wish of the com mittee that the government should at all times maintain the' strictes su pervision' of the preparation of the standards, and that the standards prepared should be safeguarded in every way by legislation to prevent their being handled or ' tampered with. It was strongly urged th^ steps immediately be taken to secure the concurrence of foreign exchanges in these standards, and owing to the fact that at the present time on the are being made in contracts fully a year ahead, it was believed Chat in order to avoid confusion, the stand ards certified should not go into use in the trade prior to the time indi cated. It was pointed out that it would be unfavorable to have the standards unsed as a basis of sales in the middle of the cotton season, and that they could not be used for the coming season without great injustice and confusion. In fixing cotton standards, the com mittee acted in conformity with.an thority of Congress. SEPARATE SCHOOLS tvho voted against the land and cor poration measures announced that they favored segregation of undesir able aliens because that was effect ive anti-Japanese legislation. Shortly after the disposal of the Johnson bills, Mr. Drew moved that the vote by which his land bill was defeated be reconsidered. He .offer ed 'to amend the measure by striking out a sction which, it bad been de clared, violated the treaty rights of several nations. He declared that os the school bill har just been passed and that was the one against which the President objected most strenu ously two years ago, the Assembly should go a step further and pass the land bill also. The motion was lost, the vote be ing 36 ayes and 3S noes. This show ed a gain bf ten votes N for the pro ponents of the bill. ;HARCED WITH FRAUD that he was indicted, issued the fol lowing statement to the Associated Press : "I have just heard of the indict ment for conspiracy, coupled with seven or eight of the oldest and high gst charactered citizens of Muskgee mea who developed and built up that country by their unselfish effort. From now on the proceedings will be open to both sides, "Hearst's crooked manipulations will be at a discount. "I am satisfied- the Interior De partment has been misled by false statements. I am confident there has pot been a dishonest act done by any of the indicted parties, aiod that good citizens in general, regardless of poli tics, feel the same way. "C. N. HASKELL." FROM A DEAD (MAN sitate the amputation of his leg. The hospital physicians, it is said, obtain ed permission of relatives of another white man, whose name is kept sec ret, and who was dying, to amputate his leg as soon aftef death as possible and endeavor to graft the limb. This was done, it is declared, and now Mr. Kelley has a left leg gTafted just above his knee. .T ENTERS PROTEST ese in the same classification with other Asiatics and inserts the word "Japanese" in the ^resent State statute providing for the segregation in separate schools of "Mongolian" children. By-this action the lower house of the California Legislature has taken the< step which the board of educa tion of San Francisco intended to take two years ago, which was aban doned after the board and former Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz wei ?J called to Washington and had several con ferences with President Roosevelt. The statement" was called forth by "misleading statements appearing in some of the afternoon papers" to the effect that the work of the secret ser vice has not been hampered, and that the investigation of cases outside the detection of counterfeiters and the pretection of the President has not been circumscribed by restricting leg islation at the last session of Con gress. ?RCIS?S THE VETO POWER first, because it ruthlsssly 'deprives the State of revenue without any sort of corresponding benefit; second, ;t discriminates gainst our own peo ple in favor of the people of other ? States; third, it destroys the proper ly of the citizen without compensa tion; fourth, it makes a dangerous pr?c?dent, humiliates Tennessee and lowers thc place of dignity she has rcupicd as ene of the proudest and rvost conservative cf States in the ' V.icn. DECIDES AGAINST TRUST -\ United States Supreme Court Up holds' Jobber's Contention Against Continental, Wall Paper Company. . Washington,..SpeciaL-The. case of the Continental Wall Paper company vs. Lewis Voight & Sons of Cincin nati was Monday decided by the .su preme court of the United States in Voight's favor. The suit was brought by the company cn a debt of $.37,000, the payment of which was resisted on the ground that the paper company ^ a trust. In effect the decision holds that an admitted trust, organ ized contrary to tho Sherman anti trust law, can not use the court to collect debts. It was represented that Voight had bought over $200,000 worth of paper, on which he had paid 50 per cent, more than he would have had to pay if there had been compe tition. It was also set out that the Continental company had been or ganized to conduct the business o* the various wall paper factories ol the United States and that Voight as a jobber in its products, had been compelled to sign a strict agreement on the threat that if he did not dc so no paper would be sold to hin: and that it would be made impossible for him to continue in business. In a demurrer the company admit ted that it was a trust and still con tended that it could properly collect debts due it. On this showing thu company's petition was dismissed bj the trial court and its decision wa? affirmed by the United States cir cuit court of appeals for the Sixth circuit. Monday's opinion was bj Justice Harlan, and sustained the de cisi?n of the lower courts. Justices Brewer, White, Peckham and Holme.' dissented. Justice Harlan's opinion was ol considerable length and dealt in de tail with the various phases of the case. It was based on the third de fense of Voight, that the company is part of a trust. He started out with the proposition that the Con tinental company is within the pro hibition of the Sherman act, which he said, is clear from the facts set forth in its defense. He then went on to show that this corporation is the representative of combination which would have the effect not onl> of restraining but of monopolizing the sale and manufacture of paper. Fire at Negro Hospital. Raleigh, Special.-At 8:30 o'clod Monday morning fire was discovers in the third story of St. Augustin Hospital at St. Augustine Colored Normal School, which is a large in stitution .here under the auspices oi the Episcopal church. There were 20 patients, and these were quickly moved to Walker Hall and made com fortable, and everything was' carried out of the burning building. The fire was at the northeast corner, and about a fourth of the roof was burn ed, some damage being done to the third floor The weather was bitter cold, the temperature being a little above 20 degrees, but the firemen stuck to their work.. None of the cases in the hospital were dangerous and none had been operated on in ten days. There were two city patients and some sent by the railways. The damage is perhaps $1,000, covered by insurance. The new hospital is near by, but the interior is incomplete and funds come in so slowly it will bc months before it. is finished. Ccld Sns-p Damages Alabama Cab bago Crop. Mobile, Ala., Special-The cabbage crop of Mobile county is believed to have been practically ruined by. the freeze of Saturday and Sunday nights. There was an increased acreage of about 25 per cent and the crop was about a month advanced. Shipping had been under way for about a week. Conservative truckers estimate the damage at a million dollars. 7leet Now at Gibraltar. Gibraltar, By Cable.-The Ameri can battleships that arrived Sunday were exchanging the salutes Monday morning with the shore and the for eign ships in the harbor that were omitted because of Sunday morning. The Connecticut saluted the port and the flag of Vice Admiral Sir James Goodrich, the commander of all the naval establishments at Gibraltar, with 21 guns and when these hade been returned gun for gun from a shore battery and the British battle ship Albemarle, other salutes were fired to and. answered. The Birmingham Receives Silver Service. Mobile. Ala., Special.-A handsome silver service and loving cup was presented to the cruiser Birmingham by the citizens of Birmingham, Ala. The service was presented by Mayor Georere B. Ward, of Birmingham, on behalf of the city. General Rufus N. Rhodes, of Birmingham, spoke of the devotion of the country to the Ameri can navy. Will Push the Prohibition Fight. ? Birmingham, Ala., Special.-Jubi lant as having driven the "rum de mon" from Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi- and Tennessee, the workers of the Anti-Saloon League are gathering here for a con ference at which they will agree up on plans for carrying the warfare in to the remaining "wet" States of Dixie. The Alabama State Anti-Sa loon League will hold a jubilee meet ing here thc latter part of the week. Mrs. Blair Goes Free. Columbia, Special.-Contrary t< expectations, the jury in the second trial of the handsome Mrs. Ethel W. Blair for the-murder of her hus band, Conductor McCullcy W. Blair, returned a verdict at midnight Fri day night, acquitting her of thc charge, and she was immediately sel free by the usual court order. Thc case went to the jury nt the close of hr afternoon session, and Mi's. Blaii ..cramed ir- the court room with bc; relatives doing her best to conceal her agitation. Storms Reach from Texas to Kentucky. SOUTHERN TOWNS AREH?T BARD Severe Rain, Hail, Wind and Electri ca! Stenns Sweep Over South Cen tral States, Killing and Injuring Many and Destroying Property Valued at Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars. Louisville, Ky., Special-Death for probably a score of persons, losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property and the crippling of many telegraph wires resulted between noon and dusk Friday from a series of small tornadoes which swept the south central States from the Ten nessee line to the Texas Panhandle. The storms were accompanied in most cases by hail, darkness, terrific 'light ning flashes and sheets of rain. Most of the towns where loss of life occuned are off the railroads,, so that news from them has been com ing slowly. Known casualties are: Stuttgart, Ark.-Mrs. Gerfield and a child of Will Story. Mrs. Story is reported fatally injured. Sulphur Springs, Texas.-Mrs. James Ardis and Mrs. C. Caldwell, from Rolling Fork, Miss., just before the telephone wires broke word came that four had been killed. Booth, Miss., reported to' Birming ham that six had met death there. In other towns such as Ennis and Waxahatchie, Tex., and Boscoe, La., many dwellings are said to have been demolished by the wind. Arkansas and upper Louisiana rice Belds were injured to the extent of many thousands cf dollars, while the larger cities experienced rains and darkness and lightning bolts that made large buildings quiver. At Chattanooga there was a terri fic storm of hail. Reports from Birmingham state that several persons were killed by a tornado at Gillman, Ala. Friday ifternoon. The home of George Stewart, seven miles east of Hanesville,.. Ala., waa itally destroyed. His 2-days-old nild was blown half mile and killed. His 2-year-old child was' blown into i grate and probably fatally burned. Mrs. Stewart was caught under some rafters in the house and so1 badly in jured that she will die. Mrs. Tom Bown er and a child who were in the louse were fatally hurt. Night Firing Tests at Fort Caswell Satisfactory. Washington, Special.-In tests made at Fort Caswell, N. C., Febru ary 1st and 2d of the new system of fire control for rapid-fire -guns, the :oast artillery corps made an aver ige of 50 per cent of hits in night iring at a moving target at range from 1,700 to 2,000 yards. The pro jectiles were provided with lighted ;racers, ,and the target, which was 10 feet by 24 feet was illuminated by searchlights. The test was conducted jy a 3-inch gun battery and was very satisfactory. Seven Dead in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala., Special.-Mayor George H. Brier, of Cullum, Ala., tvires that seven people are known io have been killed in that county Friday afternoon by the cyclone :vhich passed over this section of the State but that wire communication is inpossible with the stricken locality. tVt Kayosa, a mining camp west of Birmingham on the Southern Rail, vay, five houses were blown down but Dnly one man was injured, a Mr. Logan. The property loss in the ter ritory north of Birmingham appears io have been very larse. Haskell Memorial Home Burned; Three Missing. Battle Creek, Mich., Special.-The Haskell Memorial Home was destroy ed by fire Friday morning. Three of the thirty-seven members of the or phanage are missing. Seven little girls jumped from a third story win dow, but ii is not thought any of them are fatally hurt. James Arm strong, 12 years old, standing on a shed under the window from which the girls had to jump, directed them how to make their fall as easy- as possible and caught two of the SUIDU er girls in his arms. Woman Brutally Murdered. Winston-Salem, Special.-Charles Ferrell, a negro about 34 years old, brutally murdered his wife, Chrissie, Friday afternoon as she sat in her home on Highland a'venue. He fired four shots from a revolver, killing ber instantly. An eye-witness says Ferrell began firing after his wife told him she was afraid to live with bim longer, she having left him after a fight Christmas week. Dies Protesting Innocence. Spartanburg, S. C., Special.-Will Foster, colored, who was twice con victed on the charge of murederin? John Young, a well-known white man of the country, in N vember, 1907. was hanged in the county jail Friday morning. Foster went to his dc=ith declaring his innocence. After the black cap had been adjusted he was asked if he desired to make any state ment, and he replied that all he had to say was that he was innocent. General Items Condensed. The very lamest says a man has been dug out of the rains of Messina conscious and with chances of lifi after being shut up there 38 days. The town of Ycharaa (says a Chi cago dispatch of the 4th) is Lr> fee deep in water. Pittsburg, Pa., has been the vic' of many negro depredations and suppress it many cf ?hem !'.:'?.'<. b< arrested. This hrs bu-v'-f that ; torie city almost f:.co *>? face wi?': race war. DOINGS OF CONGRESS Snmmary of Important Proceeding? Enacted Prom Day to Day. Senator Teller, of Colorado, ot Wednesday addressed the Senate-ir support of Senator. Bacon's resolu tion declaring that the Senate has a right to any information in posses sion of the executive departments and cited various precedents to sus tain his contention. He claimed thal only in exceptional cases is the Pres ident warranted in withholding in formation and declared that Congress had never failed to respect such ac tion on the part of the- executive when it has been based on considera tions of public interest. The Senate remained in executive session during most of the day con sidering the nomination of Dr. W. D. Crum, to be collector of customs at Charleston, S. C., and at 5:27 p. m. adjourned. General debate on the agricultural appropriation bill in the House af forded critics' and defenders of the Department of Agriculture an excel lent field day. Mr. Lever, of South Carolina, led off with an attack on the appoint ment and work of the referee board of consulting chemists in the depart ment. Mr. Heflin, of Alabama, asked on behalf of cotton growers for a jgovernmental monthly report on the consumption of cotton. Mr. Sturgis, of West Virginia, urged an extension of the forest service. Mr. Humphrey, of Washington, took an exactly op posite view, while Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming, declared the bureau of forestry the most autocratic govern ment bureau outside of Russia. Mr. Bartholdt, of Missouri, urged the is sue of bonds for inland waterway improvement and Mr. Candler, of Mississippi, complained of the tariff on agricultural implements. Chair man Scott, of the agricultural com mittee, closed the debate with ' ex planatory remarks on the work done by the department during the past year. While the bill was under considera tion under the five-minute rule, an in crease of $500, to the salary of Solic itor George P. McCabe, making it $4,500, was stricken out on a point of order. An increase of the salarv of Di rector Willis B. Moore, of the weath er bureau, from $5,000 to $6,000 suf fered a similar fate. Before the bill was taken up in general debate the House passed thc Senate pension bill for Federal ju dees. The monotonous tones of the read ing cleark of the Senate as he labor ed through the bill of over 100 pages making appropriations for the Dis trict of Columbia constituted the diief feature in the proceedings of that body Thursday. There was an evident intention on the part of the authority to lengthen the time neces sary to dispose of the measure, it be ing the only obstacle to an executive session for the further consideration qf the nomination of William D. Crum to be collector of customs at Charleston, S. C. On the Democratic side there was a persistent demand for the most care ful reading of the bill and ocasional ly members of the minority became involved in a spirited debate on items usually left to the judgment of the committee reporting the measure. When the Senate adjourned at 5:18 o'clock the reading of only half of the bill had been completed. In the House the forest service got its usual annual drubbing, Thursday, the criticisms against it coming prin cipally from Mr. Smith, of Califor nia, Mr. Cook, of Colorado, and Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming, all of whom charged extravagance in administra tion and the extortion of money from miners, farmers and even the owners of bee hives. Mr. Cook attributed to Mr. Pinchot, the chief forester, the ulterior motive of scheming for Sec retary Wilson's seat in the Cabinet. Both Mr. Pinchot and the forest ser vice were vigorously defended by Messrs. Mann, of Illinois, and Weeks, of Massachuetts. All attempts to amend the bill in any important particular failed. Its consideration was about two-thirds completed when the House at 5:20 p. m. adourned. The Senate Friday concluded con sideration, of the District of Colum bia appropriation bill, carrying an aggregate of about $11,500,000. A conference report on the urgent defi ciency bill was agreed to. It appro priates $12,000 for the ''purchase, care and maintenance of automobiles for the President," and $150,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue to combat the foot and mouth disease in horses* and cattle. A resolution was adopted directing thc . committee on military affairs to investigate military posts and various phases of army administration. After en executive session, in which the nomination of Willjam D. Crum to be collector of customs of Charles ton, S. C., was considered. Private claimants by the score had their innings in the House of Repre sentatives, the whole session being given over under a special order to their consideration. The debate was not without its incidents, both humor ous and exciting. Mr. Mann provok ed the House to laughter by question ing the value of two Kentucky thor oughbred horses, and he charged htat the committee had accepted the valu ation of the animals as fixed by "an idiot" as against that of the claim ant's committee f,v conduct his af fairs. But it was left to Messrs. Hep burn (Iowa) ; Macon, of Arkansas, and Gaines, of Tennessee, to furnish the exciting feature of the proceed ings. The Speaker became involved in the controversy and was called up on to make a niling, and then Mr. Gaines threw the House into an up roar by charging that the rules pro libitcd a "square deal" to claim .nts. Thc President's message vetoing i bo census bill was read just before 'iljournmcnt. Tue splendid qualities of mir^Pfchd character of the late Senator William B. Allison, of Iowa, 35 years a United Slates Senator, and eight years a mendier of the House of Representa tives, were the subject of'many eulo gies ifl. the Senate Saturday. Nine teen Senators spoke in praise of the public services of Senator Allison and during most of the day the number of Senators in their places on the floor and the attendance in galleries was large. The delivery of thc eulogies consumed the entire day. The Sen ate adjourned at 4:56 p. m. Under special order, the House of Representatives considered the bill amendatory of the national bankruot cy law. By way of a substitute Mr. Clayton, of Alabama, offered an amendment repealing the bankruptcy law of July 1st, 1893, with ? proviso that proceedings under the law begun prier to the time the act shall take ef fect shall not be affected. The first business of importance to claim the attention of the House ofv Representatives was the President's message vetoing the census bill. Mr. Crumpacker moved the reference of the bill and message to the census committee. The committee on rivers and har bors improvements practically has completed its consideration of the bill providing for emergencies for surveys and for maintenance, which is to be reported within a few days. The bill carries a total appropriation of slight ly less than $10,000,000. A survey for the Atlantic deeper waterways pro ject, which contemplates an inside water route from New York to Flori da, is provided for, as well as a sur vey for the intercoastal canal through Louisiana and Texas, to r^iine>?t the Mississippi and Rio Grande rivers. Having for its object the prevention of the importation of deceased nur sery stock a bill has been introduced by Representative John R. Lamb, of Virginia. It provides that all nur sery stock shall be subject to inspec tion by experts of the Department of Agriculture, at such points of entry as the Secretary of Agriculture may designate. THE LARGEST WARSHIP The Battleship Deleware Launched al , Newport News Saturday-Descrip tion of the Great Sea-Fighter. Newport News, Va., Special.-The great battleship Deleware was suc cessfully launched from the yards of her builders, the Newport News Ship building and Dry Dock Company Saturday. The lauchiug was witness ed by 5,000 people. Compared with the battleships, completed or under construction,, of the navy of any foreign country, the Delaware surpasses all. She is one Congress which will form an indomi table squadron. The other vessels are the North Dekota,. being built at Quincy, Mass.; the Florida, which will be built at the New York navy 3'ard, and the Utah, to be . built at Camden, N. J. The Delaware is to carry as heavy armor and as powerful armament as any known vessel of its class; will have a speed of 21 knots, which is believed to be the highest practicable for a vessel of this type and class, and will have the highest practicable radius of action. The arrangements of her main battery guns is such as to permitfta broadside fire 25 per cent greater than that of the broadside of any battleship now built, or, so far as is known, under construction.. Her defensive qualities, other than those dependent upon armor protection, are such as to give the maximum' degree of protection to all thc vital portions by means of unusually effective com partmental sub-division, so that in conjunction with her armor protection the defensive qualities of this vessel are believed to be distinctly superior to those of any battleship hereto de signed. The hull is protected by a water line belt of armor 8 feet in width, whose maximum thickness is ll inches. This armor belt gives effec tive protection to the boilers, machin ery and magazine spaces. The side above tke main armor belt is protect ed by armor 7 feet 3 inches wide and of a maximum thickness of 10 inches. Above the main casement armor amid ships the side is protected by armor of 5 inches thickness, which effords protection to thc smoke pipes, the ma jor portion of the secondary batter ies of of 5-inch guns and the hull structure. ? Mr. Taft Leaves Colon. Colon, By Cable.-President-elect William H." Taft and party left Jicre at 0 o'clock Sunday evening on board the cruiser North Carolina for New Orleans acompanied by the cruiser Montana. Just previous to embark ing Mr. Taft gave out the following: "I am not prepared to mike a statement as to the results of the trip to the isthmus, except to say that we have found the work progressing in a most satisfactory way; the organi zation better than ever before, the esprit de corps excellent and the de termination of all, even the humblest laborer, directed to the building of the canal. I am sure that this has impressed itself upon every one of the board of visiting engineers as it has upon mc. "With reference to the type of the canal and the continuance of the present plans, the engineers promise that they will be able to hand me their report by the time we land at New Orleans." Razor For Suicide. Asheville, N. C., Special-Telling wife that he was going downstairs to shave, James M. Hyatt a prominent business man of this place, Sunday morning shortly after 8 o'c^ck pick ed up his razor and other shaving ma terial, went down stairs, locking the doors and slashed his throat with the razor, dying soon after the act was discovered by Mrs. Hyatt. No cause other than ill health can be assigned for tho rash act. America's first printing press was erected at HarWril in the year ft>39. authorized by f ANTI JAP BILL DLA California Legislature Votes Down Anti-Alien Bill THE BALLOT STANDS 48 TO 28 After an All-Day Session, Filled. With Sesational Utterances and Dramatic Climaxes, the. California Legislature Voies Down tie Anti Alien Bill. Sacramento, Cal., Special.-After a debate extending from ll o'clock Wednesday morning until 6 p. m. the Assembly by a vote of 48 to 28 re jected the bill drawn by A. M. Drew barring aliens from ownership of land In California. The bill had been amended at the request of President Roosevelt and Secretary Root so that the clause applying it to Japanese only was eliminated, making the bill apply to all aliens, but the measure aroused such a storm of opposition that long before the debate was clos ed by Mr. Drew it was apparent that the measure would be defeated. In substance the objection to' it was that it would drive at least $1, 000,000,000 of foreign capital out of the State and might - jeopardize the present friendly commercial relations with Japan. The supporters of the hill contend ed that the State was being ovenun by thrifty Japanese who were grad ually gaining an impregnable posi tion ns land owners and whose gov ernment was trying to dictate to Cali fornia regarding legislation. Two sensational speeches were made, one for and one against the measure. Assemblyman Grove L. Johnson, of Sacramento, ex-Congress man and author of four bills segre gating Japanese ia schools and resi dential districts and preventing aliena being members of corporations, made tn impassioned appeal for the enact ment of the Drew bill. At the cli max of his speech he walked back ward from his seat to the lobr-* rail and seizing in his arms a golc^i "air ed girl of 3, held her aloft and de clared that he was "in favor of this as opposed to th Japanese menace te our institutions." ELEVEN JURORS IN BOX. The Cooper-Sharpe Murder Trial En ters Upon Its Third Week, Having Exhausted the Fourth Venire in an Effort to Complete the Jury. Nashville, Tenn., Special.-After securing two new jurors, making elev en now in box, the trial of Col. Dun can B. Cooper, Robin J. Cooper and John D. Sharp was abrutly inter rupted Wednesday because of a lack of veniremen. A fifth venire of 50O men was ordered in court Monday at which time an effort will be resumed to' complete the jury. The hearing of the charges against Juror Whit worth, accused of having prejudice, was taken up but not completed. It will he resumed in the morning. A few minutes after court opened, J. A. Woodruff, the tenth man ex amined, was selected as jurir No. 10. Woodruff was not examined by the defense. He testified on questions by the State that he had read noth ing about the case and merely knew Carmack had been killed. He said he was a friend of John Sharp bvt would consider only the law and the evidence. The panel of 50 was exhausted be fore noon at.d another one made up of 49 talesmen was exhausted be fore recess for luncheon and no other additions to the jury were made. Much debate occurred on the com petency of Juror Whitworth, whom the defense wants to get rid of. In his own defense Mr. Whitworth strenuously denied saying things at tributed to him and witnesses cor? xoborated him. His case is yet unde cided. Small Part of Canal Put in Use. Panama, By Cable.-The Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamer Newport used on Tuesday for the first time the Pacific entrance to the canal which has been dredged to a depth of 35 feet. President-elect Taft was not present when the New port started on the trip and there was no ceremony of any kind. Earthquake Post Cards. New York, Special.-Orders con tinue to pour in for the official me morial post cards issued by the Am erican-Italian General Relief Com mittee and it is thought that millions of the cards will be disposed of in the next few months, resulting in an immense addition to th* fund for the relief of the Italian ' earthquake vic tims. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, August Belmont and other famous New Yorkers are vice chairmen of the re lief committee. Conferring on the New Wage Scale. Washington, Special.-The officers of the Southern Railway and a com mittee of the employes of the road are holding a conference here rela tive to the wage scale. The men ask that wages of a certain class of em ployes be increased and the working hours adjusted. The officers of the road express themselves as confident that an amicable arrangement be reached. Judge Henson Resigns. Richmond, Va., Special.-Judge W. J. Henson, of the Twenty-second ju dicial circuit, composed of the coun ties of Bland, Giles and Tazewell, has resigned, thc resignation to be effective February 1. It is understood flint Judge Henson proposes to en crn-c in a law partnership in thc city of Tvoanokc with Mai shall McCor mick. Fid I on Keglcy,. a young law yer of Bland couiity, lias Iren aiv nointcd to fill the luifXpircd tenu