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rCJBLISHED THREE FEAR A RACE WAR Many Idle Negroes Are Airrested Because of Attacks on YOUNG WHITE GIRLS I Reign of Terror in Herron Hill Dis ' trict Causes Police to Decide to j Arrest All Negroes Without Visi hie Means of Support?Relentless Crusade to Stamp Out Crimes. Pittsburg, Feb. 3.?At the Central police station here today 126 negroes arrested last night and today, fol lowing a carnival of crime againsi young white girls in the Herron Hiii district recently, were given hear-! 1ngs before Magistrate Brady. For ty-three of the negroes proved to the court that they have honest eraploy ment and were discharged. in spite of many threats of armed I resistance upon the part of negroes j if the police continue their whole- j aale arrests of member -: of their race J without employment in the Herron ,? Hill district of the city, no outbreak of any kind has occurred up to late tonight. Of course these threats will have no effect on the authorities. Following the wholesale arrests last night from now on large forces of officers will be stationed over the ?entire Herron Hill district and stren uous efforts will be made to stamp out the many assaults on young wo men. Indignation is high against this clfai acter of crime and the au thorities have decided to arrest ev ery negro who has no visible means i of support or who is known to be a, xiser of drugs. J During the evening three were taken to police stationr, and it is anticipated that tonight many others will be arrested. No further attacks upon women l;- girls has bc?:?i repoit ?ed since last night, and should one ?occur, the temper of citizens is such that violence very probably would be meted out to the assailant if -caught. Men and women throughout the ? section involved are carrying revolv ers, and the negroes- are said to be well armed also. Should a clash come, as is considered not at all im probable if more arrests are made, the result would be serious. Local orators are inflaming the negroes to . resistance, and the feeling is high. Forty-two were fined today in amounts varying from $5 or ten days in jail to $25 or thirty days in the workhouse and forty-one were "held over pending further investi gations. The police are of the opin ion that the terrible criminal acts of the negroes are the work of a lew degenerate cocaine fiends. This character of negroes together with those who shirk work and frequent pool rooms, are to be taken into ?custody as soon as located. This afternoon a large number of negroes are indulging in much rabid talk. There is talk of race riots and bloodshed. It is said that the ne groes are arming themselves. Ac cording to rumors, should the au thorities decide to make another raid -on the negroes armed resistance will he offered by them. The police, however, seem to have the situation well in hand and probably will not j make further indiscriminate arrests. Of the negroes arrested last night, J thirty?nine were fined, most of them going to the work house, and two. Mack McGee and Edward Ar instead, were held over for further evidence, having been partly identified as per petrators of one of the attacks on girls. It is said that during the past monfh over a dozen girls have been assaulted in the Herron Hill district. This will give some idea of the "state of affairs. STARVING FAMILY IS FOUND. Father Placed in Jail for Stealing Bread for Children. New York, Feb. 3.?So weak from lack of food that they could scarce ly walk, a mother and four children were found in a house at Corona, L. I, by an agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Child ren. The woman's husband. Michael Lumbard, is confined in the Queens county jail, unable to provide $200 b?il after being arrested cn a charge of stealing bread. Both he and his wife were arrested with twenty loaves in their possession, but the charge against the woman was not pressed. With her husband in jail, the mother had no means of providing for herself and children, and they were in a pitable light when visited. The children were sent to the rooms of the society, while neighbors pro vided food for the mother. Town Under Water. Chico, Cal.. Feb. 4.?The town of Tehama. which had 600 inhabitants is under 15 feet of water. The Sou thern Pacific railroad operator at Tehama junction, half a mile from the town, says that the depot is gone and a block of houses has been wash ed away. The houses are floating ?20 feet above the city's streets. TIMES A WJSEK. HASKELL INDICTED HE IS CHARGED WITH CONSPIR ACY TO DEFRAUD . The Government in the Town Lot Case??Six Others Are Indicted With Him. Muskogee, Okla., Feb. 4.?Seven indictments were returned by the Federal grand jury here last night in the town lot alleged fraud inves tigation, the charge being conspiracy to defraud the government. The names of those indicted are: Gov. Charles N. Haskell, F. B. Severs, A. Z. English, C. W. Turner, W. T. Hutchings, Jesse W. Hill and Walter R. Eaton. Attorney Thomas H. Owen, of Muskogee, representing Governor Haskell made arrangements for the governor to enter his appearance on Friday and give bond in the sum of $5,000 for appearance for trial. The writs issued are returnable forthwith. Governor Haskell is at Guthrie. There is but one indictment against him. It charges conspiring with Walter R. Eaton and Clarence W. Turner to defraud the government. There are two indictments against Turner and one each against the) others indicted. Walter R. Eaton, one of the men indicted, is the secrctwy of the In dlanola Contracting Company, of j which Governor Haskell is president, and which it is alleged scheduled the names of many "dummies" to secure town lots. Fifteen of the wealthiest men in Muskogee called at the office of the United States marshal and signed Governor Haskell's bond for $5,000. Many more asked to be allowed to sign it. Governor Haskell when informed that he was indicted issued the fol lowing statement to The Associated Press: "I have just beard of the indict ment for conspiracy coupled with seven or eight of the oldest and high est charactered citizens in Muskogee, who developed and built up that country by their unselfish effort. From now on, the proceeding will be open to both sides. "Hearst's crooked manipulations will be at a discount. "I am satisfied that the interior department has been misled by false statements. I am confident there has not been a dishonest act done by any of the indicted parties and that good citizens in general regardless of politics feel the same way. (Signed) "C. N. HASKELL." TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. Nineteen People Drowned in a Lake in Italy. Rome, Feb. 4.?Word has just been received from Vercurago, in the district of Lecco, of a drowning ac- I cident, in which nineteen people per ished. The wife of Signor Locgone, the proprietor of one of the larg est silk factories in the district, was taking sixteen of the girls employed in her husband's mill on a trip to the famous San Gennaro sanctuary, when the barge in which they were proceeding began to leak. The girls became panick-stricken and in their struggles upset the boat. AH were drowned, including two workmen from the factory who were rowing the barge. BOTH LEGS BROKEN In Attempt to Stop a Horse at Ben nettsville. t Benncttsville. Feb. 3.?In an effort to stop a horse this morning, Mr. George T. Reid had both his legs broken just above the knee. Mr. Reid was at home. The boy brought the horse and buggy out and the horse became frightened at some thing. Mr. Reid attempted to stop the animal and was knocked down and injured. The physicians have set and dressed the injured parts and Mr. Reid seems to be standing the shock remarkably well. He is about 57 years old and the senior of the firm of Reid & Co. of this place. ELEVATOR ACCIDENT. Kills Two Men and Wounds Eight Others in Mine. Johnstown, Tenn., Feb. 4.?Two. men were killed and eight others injured today as the result of an elevator accident at Shaft No. 1, of the Jerome Coal mine. Jerome, Pa., near here. The dead men are Michael Mudderick and Charles Ber bers. While descending the shaft the elevator dropped with terrific speed. Mudderick and Borgers at tempted to jump out when the car struck, but when the car bounded upward they were crushed to death, while their eight companions escaped with painful bruises. Shot Girl and Self. New York, Feb. 3.?Harry Pope, a saloon keeper in Brooklyn, shot Bessie Schroeder, 23 years old in the back this afternoon and then killed himself in a brooklyn hotel. ORANGE BUBO, 6 SUNDAY LUNCHES THE HOUSE REFUSED TO INTER FERE IN MATTER. Sabbath Observance Given as the Principal Reason for Voting the Bill Down. Columbia, Feb. 5.?The Rucker bill to prohibit any city or town to make it unlawful to sell lunches on Sunday had another fight and was finally killed by a vote of 68 to 48 by the house yesterday. When third reading bills were reached Mr. Richards moved to re commit the bill. He said he knew it was unusual but he felt he would be doing himself and those who be lieved in Sabbath observance an in justice if he did not protest against such a bill. The legislature had not the right to enforce a law of that kind on towns that might want to prohibit lunch selling on Sunday. Mr. Rucker said his bill simply allowing a hungry man to gel some thing to eat when he traveled on Sunday. ' He had no patience with the smug believer in Sabbath observ ance who denied a lunch to the trav eler while enjoying a hot dinner at home. Mr. McMahan said it was dang erous to meddle with local police regulations. It would not be just, for instance, to say to a strict re ligious community like Due West that it should have the same local ordinances as Columbia. The entire principle was wrong. The bill on an aye and nay call was accordingly killed. The Vote. The vote on the motion of Mr. Rihcards to recommit the bill was as follows: Ayes?Messrs. Amick, Bodie, Bow ers, Bowman, Brice, W. D. Bry an, Bunch, Cantrell, 'Carey, Car rigan. Carter, Carwile. Celey, Clary, Daniel, Dick, Dingle, E. C. Edwards, ,Fraser. J. P. Gibson, W. J. Gibson, Graham, Green, Greer, Hall, Hamer, Harmon, J. R. Harrison, Wade, >C. Harrison, Hines, Horger, Hydrick, Lane, Lawson, League, Lee, Leng plck, McColl, McEachern, McKeown, McMahan, Mann, Mauldin, Mosley, Nicholson, Niver, Nunnery, Richards, Ridgell, G. M. Riley, D. C. Sanders, Scarborough, Seibels, B. A. Shuler, Simkins, Singleton, Chas. A. Smith, M. L. Smith, Spears, Stanley, Stubbs, Jared D. Sullivan, Suydam, Utsey, Vaughan, Way, Wingo, Wyche?68. Nays?Messrs. Joshua W. Ashley, Melvin J. Ashley, Ayer, Berg, Brown, Browning, F. M. Bryan, Coker, Cos grove, Dixon, Doar, Duvall, Isaac, Edwards, Foster, Fultz, Garris, Gasque, Glasscock, Griffin, Hollis, Hughes, Irby, Jackson, Kibler, Lee land, Mars, Mobley, Nesbitt, Pat terson, Pauling, W. L. Riley, Robert son, Rocssler, Rucker, O. L. San ders. Sawyer, C. T. Shuler, K. P Smith, P. P. Sullivan, Tobias, Wade, Wells, Whatley, Wiggins, Williams, O. A. Wilson, W. B. Wilson, Jr., Wright?4 8. FIRE DRAWS NEAR And Residents of Pittsburg Are in Great Fear. Pittsburg, Feb. 3.?A fire burning for forty years in the depths of a coal mine in West Liberty, now in the new Nineteenth ward will be fought by the Pittsburg fire depart ment in an effort to save two houses which are ..reatened. Besides fear ing for the safety of their property, as the smouldering fire creeps closer, have asked Director of Public Works Edward G. Lang for aid. Assistant Fire Chief James Connelly, after an investigation yesterady said that while the danger did not appear to be immediate, action would be tak en by the department. Three years ago a man who went to sleep on the warm earth above the fire was over come by gas fumes. CHILD KILLED BY LION. Mother, in Despair, Almost Throws Herself on Beast. Balboa, Cal.. Feb. 1.?Her two year-old boy killed by a huge moun tain lion and the sight of the fierce beast devouring ,one of his legs, which it had torn from the sock et, greeted Mrs. Chris Brown when they entered the family tent, after a short walk last evening. When 'he mother realized what had taken place she screamed and almost threw herself on the lion, which growled savagely and disappeared slowly through the rear of the etnt, carry ing a mouthful of flesh in its teeth. Stork Trains ('rash. Chillicothe, O., Feb. 3.?Three trainmen were killed and one fatally injured early today when two stock trains on the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad collided head on at Powersville, Mo. It appears one of the trains was a runaway, the crew having lost control of it. Forests Burning. Aiken, Feb. 3.?A forest fire of large extent has been raging north of Aiken. Up to this time, it is stated that several thousand acres of valuable timber lands have been burned over. The damage is not known, but will probably reach many thousands of dollars. C SATURDAY, FEJBRI PROHIBITION 1 Wins Its First Fight In the House Thursday VERY CLOSE VOTE The House Agrees to Take up Pro hibition Measure Out of its Reg ular Order and Will Talk on the Subject, But the Vote is Not Con sidered Important. Columbia, Feb. 5.?After an aye and nay vote the house yesterady decided to order bill No. S5, known as the prohibition bill, an" adjourn ed debate bill, for 11 o'clock today. The State says the vote is really not a test of the streigth of the phohibitionists, according to the lo cal option people in the house, as there were a number who will vote against the bill that were willing for it to come up and be disposed of before the debates were started on the appropriation and supply bills. Mr. Richards, who made the mo tion for the oil, urged the house to consider the measure either one way or another at once. The bill is in troduced by Messrs. Richards, M. L. Smith, C. A. Smith and J. P. Carey. Mr. Rucker raised the point that the aight before the house had re fused to take up the bill for a special order and the ?Jlincher (had been put on the refusal. Mr. Smith, act ing as speaker in the absence I of Mr. Whaley, ruled that the motion of Mr. Richards was in order as the motion the night before was for ?he purpose of making the bill a special order. The present motion of Mr. Richards was to make the bill !an adjourned debate bill. I Mr. Rucker held that to make the bill either special order or an ad journed debate bill two motions were necessary. First to take up the bill out of its regular order. That motion had been defeated the day before. Should the house agree to take up the bill out of Its regular order, then it could be made a spec ial order, withdrawn or any other action taken on it that the author might desire, should the house con I sent. Mr. Smith, however, ruled that the house could not bind itself for the entire session on any motion not to take up a bill out of its regular order. The motion to make the bill a special order had been clinch ed, but the motion of Mr. Richards was to make it an adjourned de bate bill. ? The Vote. Mr. Dixon moved to lay the mo tion of Mr. Richards to make the bill adjourned debate on the table.. The ayes and nays were called for and the vote was as follows: Yeas?Messrs. Melvin J. Ashley, Ayer, Berg, Browning, F. M. Bryan. Bunch, Carwile, Coker, Cosgrove, Cothran, Dick, Dixon, Doar, Duvall, E. C. Edwards Isaac Edwards, Fultz, Garris, Gasque, Glasscock, Graham, Greer, Griffin, J. R. Harrison, Hol lis, Hughes, Hydrick, McColl, Mc Mahan, Mars, Niver, Patterson, Paul ling, Rucker, O. L. Sanders, Sawyer, Seibels, Simkins, Singleton, K. P. Smith, Stanley, Tobias, Vander Horst, Vanghan. Wade, Wells, Wig rins, Williams. 0. T)#A. Wilson, W. P.. Wilson, Jr., Wrigfflt?55. Nays?Messrs. Amick, Joshua W. Ashley, Bodie, Bowers, Bowman, Boyd, Brice, Brown, W. D. Bryan, Cantrell, Carrigan. Carter, Celey, Clary, Daniel, Dingle, Foster, Eraser, J. P. Gibson, W. J. Gibson, Green, Hall, Hamer, Harmon. Wade C. Har rison, Hines. Horger, Kibler, Lawson, Lee McEachern, McKeown, Mann. Mauldin, Mobley, Mosley, Nesbitt, Nicholson. Nunnery. Richards. Ridgell. G. M. Riley, W. L. Riley, Robertson, Roessler, D. C. Sanders. | Scarborough, B. A. Shuler, C. T. I Shuler. Chas. A. Smith. M. L. Smith, Spears. Stubbs, Jared D. Sullivan, P. P. Sullivan. Suydam. Utsey, Way. Whatley. Wingo. Wyche? 61. The clincher was then put on and by a division vote of ">9 to 52 the house agreed to make the measure an adjourned debate bill for 11 o'clock tomorrow. THE HEAD OF A MAX Found on the Pilot of Passenger Train Engine. New York. Fe A 3.?The head of a man was carried into the Pennsyl vania station on the pilot of a lo comotive which drew a fast passen ger train into Jersey City. Despite the fact it was removed as quickly as possible hundreds of passengers saw it. It was learned that in Rail way men had picked up fragments of a man's body and had been search for the head. Then word was sent to that place of the finding of a head on the locomotive, which lin ing for the head. Then word was ser'.l man. Shot While Hunting. Hawkinsville, Ga., Feb. 3.?News has just been received here that Dr. E. C. Brown, a well known physician of this city, had been accidentally shot through the eye at a dove shoot several miles above here. JAKV 6, 190?. THREE MEN KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK AT LONG CANE TRESTLE. Two Trains on the Seaboard Air Line Collided Six Miles East of Abbeville. Abbeville, Feb. 4.?Trains Nos. 19 and 20 on the Seaboard Air Line Railway collided head on some six miles east of Abbeville, near Long Cane trestle about halfpast ten o'clock Tuesday night. The trains were running at high speed when they met on a long tres tel, and both locomotives and ten cars were totally demolished. Engineer Clyde Moore, and his fireman, L. H. Nichols son of ex County Supervisor G. N. Nichols, were killed and also a ccj'ored brake man named Beard. Mr. Moore formerly lived at Lan caster, where his remains will be tak en. The bodies of Messrs. Moore and Nichols were brought to Abbe ville last night to be prepared for burial. The colored brakoman's body was not recovered from the wreck until Wednesday morning, when it was brought to Abbeville in a sheet, lit erally ground to pieces. Flagman Harges, white, and Fire man Henry Workman were slightly injured. No one on their train was seriously hurt. A relief train was sent at once to the scene "of the wreck when the matter was reported at this place. It is said that Engineer Marvin Jones of train No. 20 had set his watch exactly an hour wrong and that he passed the designated meet ing point at Long Cane trestle where train No. 19 should have me-: him. Mr. Jones saved his life by jump ing from his engine. He is held in the highest esteem here and Is one of the road's best men. VASTINE^CHAVIS CAUGHT, He Is accused of Stealing a Mule in Augusta. Alken. Feb. 3.?On last Friday morning Vastine Chavis was cap tured on Mr. Britt Hutto's place in the sand hills of Lexington county, by the chief detective for the State of Georgia, C. E. Hall, with the as sistance of Sheriff Corley, of Lex'ng ton, and his deputy. Chavis is wanted .for horse steal ing. It is alleged he stole a horse from Mr. C. D. Carr, the well known merchant of Augusta. Chavis rode the mule to near Langley and traded him to Nat Hamlet for a bay horse and $20 to boot. Chavis had his gun when arrested and raised it to shoot, but was grab bed by Sheriff Corley and soon over powered and handouffed, and carried back to Augusta. He is charged with other depredations In Aiken county. A BEAUTIFUL HEIRESS, Scorning Life of Ease, Marries a Sal vation Army Worker. Burlington, N. J., Feb. 3.?Re jecting a life of ease and luxury and refusing to enter the field of social prominence her family had planned for her. Miss Marion Fer gus Woolman, rich, good looking and brilliantly educated, and a daughter of one of the city's proud est families, last night became the bride of Capt. Alexander Samuel Hewitt, an officer of the American Salvation Army. Xext week on their return from a brief wedding trip, the pair will take up slumming work in Plainfleld, where the bridegroom has been assigned to the command of the local corps. Miss Woolman is heiress to a fortune estimated at from $150,000 to JL'?O.OOO, and she will give a greater portion of the money, it is said, to Salvation Army work. FIEND IN HUMAN FORM. A Mother Saves Her Child From Horrible Fate. Gaffney, Feb. 4.?Tuesday after noon, about 5 o'clock, while the two Children of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Tur ner, a boy of about 10 and a girl of about 5 years, were playing in the house, a negro boy named Norman Gregory entered the room, and, seiz ing the little girl, attempted a crim inal assault upon her. The screams of the boy alarmed the mother, who was somewhere about the premises, and upon running to the house found the rascal making the attempt as above stated. She seized a shotgun and snapped both barrels, only to find that the weapon was unloaded. The negro made good his escape, but he will be caught. Killed Six Italians. New York. Feb. 4.?Six men were killed and several injured today when a construction train on the New York Central railroad ran down a party of track repairers near University Heights in Bronx borough. A gang of laborers, all Italians, were working near a curve when the train swept around the bend, plunged into the group and hurled the men in every direction. / mm] DESERVES HANGING MARYLAND GOVERNOR WOULD HANG NEW YORKER Who Abducted and Carried Off a Twelve-Year-Old Girl From Her Brooklyn Home. Baltimore, Feb. 4.?The Balti more grand jury today will indict Joseph Janer,, who is accused of kid napping Katherine Loerch from her home, 334 Classon avenue, Brook lyn, and if he is convicted of the crime charged, he may be hanged. The Maryland authorities will re sist all attempts of .the Brooklyn po lice to have Janer extradited and will insist that he be tried here, where death is the penalty. The child,, who will not be 12 years old until the 22nd of this month, related the story of her ab duction in the Central police court. When she had finished the Mary land authorities, headed by the gov ernor, were so enraged that they decided to indict and try him within a week, under Maryland law. Ar ticle 27, section 369, of the code of public general lawB of Maryland, provides for cases of this sort a? followjs: ? "The offender being convicted thereof, shall, at the discretion of the court, suffer death or imprison ment for life in the penitentiary or for a definite period, not less than 18 months, nor more than 21 years." Janer, who had been a friend of the girl's paralytic father, and a boarder in her home, was arrested in a barroom on Calvert street. He had been drinking heavily there for an hour, and the child he had stolen stood shivering and crying in the street outside. He had forced her to wait there for him since they had left a cheap boarding house some hours before. At police headquarters Janer was too much befuddled with whiskey to talk, but the girl sobbed out a pitiful statement to the [officials, which she signed. Its nature is such that no considerable portion will do for publication. MEMORY OF LINCOLN Will Bring Harmony to Political Parties of Kentucky for a Day. . . politics ath One3,6k hrdluuuuuu Louisville, Ky., Feb. 4.?Though politics are admittedly dominant in Kentucky, both political parties have united in preparation for the Lin coln centeniary celebration to be. held at Hodgenvllle,' Ky., February 12th, when President Roosevelt and others will speak. State Chairman Winn and Henry B. Prewitt, both of Mount-Sterling and next-door neighbors, have eae^i appointed four members of a con ference committee which on Satur day will determine what concerted part the Republicans and Democrats shall take in the ceremonies. CHANGE NAME CAPITOL SQUARE Wants It to Be Known as Indepen dence Square. Washington, Feb. 4.?Congress man Barthold, of Missouri, proposes to introduce a bill to change the name of Lafayette Square, which is directly in front of the White House to Independence Square and substi tute for the statue of Andrew Jack son, a fitting statue of George Wash ington. The Jl.ckson statue now stands in the center of the square, and is one of the handsomest in Washington. The statue of Von Steuben which is to adorn one corner o fthe square?, is now ready and the house has been so notified. On another corner is the statue of Lafayette! on another that of Roch ambeau and on the fourth corner will be Pulaski. New Cotton Expert Appointed. Washington, Feb. 4.?Julien L. Brode of Memphis, Tonn., an ex pert in the cotton business, wil be appointed special agent of the de partment of commerce and labor to inquire into the matter of cotton seed products, succeeding Albert G. Perkins of Tennessee. resigned. Brodo's work will begin in the South of France and will extend east as are as St. Petersburg. Shoots Self to Death. Charlotte. X. C. Feb. 3.?Citizens of Thomasville, N. C, wore shocked this morning by the news that A. F. Cox, one of the most prominent res idents of that town, had committed suicide. After kissing his wife and baby. Cox went upstairs, took his revolver and blew out his brains. Loeb Gets the ob. Washington. Feb. 4.?Friends of William Loeb. secretary to the Presi dent, made the definite announce ment that he will become collector of the port of New York at the be ginning of the next administration. Passed Over Veto of Governor. Nashville. Tenn., Feb. 4.?The bill prohibiting the manufacture of in toxicating liquors in Tennessee was passed by the house over the gov eronr's veto. 3 CENTS PER COPT. WILL BEAT CRUM Senator Tillman to Talk to Death His Nomination. HE HAS A HARD FIGHT Cut He Plans a One-Man Filibus ter by Which He Hopes to Defeat Cram's Appointment ? Declares He Can Talk It to Deatii Provided His Health Will Stand. Washington, Feb. 3.?In order to defeat the confirmation of W. D. Crum's appointment as collector of the port at Charleston, it is staged today that F~ "or Tillman, if neces sary, will conduce a "one-man" fiilli buster until congress adjourns on March 4, even at the risk of his health, which is none too good. The senator proposes to talk the confirmation to death, which he may easily do if his strength doesn't de sert him. Under the rules of tha senate, no proposition can be put to a vote so long as a senator wants to be heard, and there is no way-by which the remarks of a member can be limited. Senator Tillman has requested a number of Democrats to tielp him with his fillibuster, speaking from one hour to half a day each, and he has enlisted the aid of a number, although it appears that many Dem ocrats doubt the wisdom of contin uing the fight on Crum. But, with little help, Tillman should be able to hold up the confir mation until Taft is inaugurated, and unless he changes his mind, he will do this. The senate does not hold an ex ecutive session every day, and this fact will operate to the hand of Till man, as the Crum matter can be con sidered only in executive session. After Senator Tillman had taken the floor, he called for a quorum, and after the roll call, he announced that he proposed to see that a quo rum was maintained throughout the day. The vice president called his at tention to a ruling made in the last hours of the last session of congress, to the effect that, business must not intervene between calls for a quo rum, and that a speecn would not be regarded as "business." This announ'cement provoked a discussion of the rule, but through out the afternoon no occasion arose to call forth a ruling on that ques tion. Mr. Tillman had received commu nications from various commercial bodies of Charleston, in opposition to the confirmation of the Crum nom ination, and read them to prove that his protest against Crum fully repre sented the popular sentiment in Charleston. The Japanese and Chinese ques tions, now causing discussion on the Pacific coast, were referred to, and Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, made a gen eral inquiry of the Pacific coast as to their attitude toward any propo sition to appoint a Chinaman as col lector of customs of San Francisco. There was a very general discus sion of the race problem in which several of the senators on the Dem ocratic side took part. Senator Money occupied nearly an hour and reviewed the history of the races, to sustain his position that the su periority of the white race marked it to dominate in matters of govern ment. About, fifty senators remained in the chamber thoroughout the ses soin. The nomination will come up in executive session today, and Mr. Tillman. it is expected, will continue nis remarks. As predicted above, the Crum mat ter came up today and nearly four hours was devoted to its considera tion. Senator Tillman aided by his Democratic colleagues staved off ac tion and the matter went over for the present. The Republican senators are unit ed in favor of confirming Crum in order that Mr. Taft may be reliev ed of the necessity of sending a nom ination to the senate, wTiicli has been opposed during the present adminis tration. The debate in the senate today, according to the reports which leak ed out afterwards, resembled an old time ministrelsy. Senator Tillman, McLaurin, Money and Johnston told negro dialect stories and kept the senate in laughter throughout the proceedings. Nothing but the best of humor was displayed. Senator Tillman re counted a number of incidents with his various controversies with Presi dent Roosevelt. Fate of Steamer Unknown. New York. Feb. 4.?The agents of the Norwegian steamer Munin, which sailed from New York January 26, for Darien, Ga., said that they had had no word from the steamer since she left port. The Munin carried no passengers and had a crew of 25. When asked if there was a proba bility that the Munin was the steam er which went down offDiamond Shoals last week, the agents said it was possible.