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PUBLISHED THREE ' TOWN WRECKED Many Persons Killed and Injured in Texas by A TERRIFIC TORNADO The Village of Zephyr Palls Victim to Ravaging Wind Stonn, Which Leaves Path of Death and Destruc tion in Its Wake?Almost Unpar .alleled in the State of Texas. A tornado of great violence struck the little village of Zephyr in the eastern portion of Brown county. Texas, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning and left a path of death and destruc tion seldom paralleled. The death list has reached a total of 32, anc the number of probably fatally in jured and seriously wounded will reach 50. A score are more or less injured. The storm formed half a mile southwest of Zephyr and swept down upon the village, cutting a wide swath directly through the resident and business district. Many houses were entirely demol ished. Lightning struck a lumber yard and started a conflagration, which destroyed one entire business block. No effort was made to fight the fire as the care of the dead zad wounded victims demanded all at tention. A section hand rode a hand car to Brownwood and spread the alarm. In two hours the Sante Fe railroad was speeding a special train to the scene of the storm with nine sur geons and a score of Brownwood phy sicians. Hundreds of persons directly in the' storm's path saved themselves by taking refuge in storm cellars. More than a dozen bodies were hor iibly mutilated. County \Clerk Thad Cabler, his wife and two children, who had gone to Zephyr to spend the night, were killed. The big atone school building and two churches were swept from the face of the earch. By daylight 16 surgeons were working on the wounded Brownwood hurried her second re lief train at noon Sunday loaded with provisions, clothing and neces sary articles and 40 nurses. Sunday night three persons were still unaccounted for. Two children were dead late Sunday afternoon, two miles out from the town, having been blown that distance. A special train left Zephyr Sun day night for Temple, carrying the more seriously injured to the hospital. The storm was 300 yards wide and swept the earth for only a short distance, probably less than a mile. Its fury is considered the most ter rific of any tornado ever experienced in that section. J. I. Clingman, C. E. Kirkpatrick and nine surgeons, who formed the first party out of Brownwood, found a desolate scene awaiting them. The hillsides at Zephyr were cov ered with debris of all kinds and bodies of dead animals and human beings. The ruins were dimly light ed by the burning buildings and the cries of the wounded rose above the sound of the elements, which threat ened a second storm. A hog roaming through the debris strewn street was killed while trying to devour the body of an infant. Bodies were found twisted about trees and in every conceivable shape. People walked the i&treets almost naked, crying for their loved ones. Residences which escaped the storm were turned into hospitals, where were carried the bodies of the dead and wounded. One stone house collapsed on a family of nine without serious in-1 jury to any. ? [ A QUEER BURIAL. Ashes of a Veteran Lowered in Hampton Roads. A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says a remarkable burial in the chan nel of Hampton Roads, off Sewell's Point, Thursday when the ashes of a former Confederate soldier, who recently died in Seattle, Washington, were lowered in'\> the water in a tiny silver casket, in which they were sent from Seattle, first to Richmond, and then to Old Point Comfort, by direction of the deceased. The bu rial was made by W. H. Fitzgerald, of Richmond, by whose side the de ceased Seattle man fought in the United Artillery of Norfolk at Sew ell's Point during the civil war. ? Dances to Death in Jail. Charles Hill, a negro of Richmond, Va., danced himself to death in the jail at Suffolk, Va., this week. Hill was sentenced for GO days, but, be ing a happy-go-lucky fellow, it mat tered very little to him, and he gave a performance before the other in mates of the jail. After a most as tounding dance, taking all his en ergy. Hill paused and fell worward, dead. ( r . * riMES A WEEK. LONG AIRSHIP TRIP COUNT ZEPPELIN BREAKS ALL BALLOON RECORDS. German Aeronaut Performs Most Remarkable Feat of Remarkable Career?Sailed 45? Miles. Count Zeppelin, says a dispatch from Berlin, Germany, whose re markable performance in his first airship brought unbounded honors to the inventor, Sunday accomplished the most startling feat in his career He guided his Zephelin 11 from Fred erickshafen to Bitterfeld, a distance of more than 456 miles, without landing. The journey lasted nearly 23 hours and so far as known Sun day night Count Zeppelin is still in the air, on the return journey to Frederichyshafen. He has already beaten all records for dirigible balloons. It was announced that the count would come to Berlin and land at the Hemplehof parade ground. Hun dreds of thousands gathered there Sunday afternoon. The emperor and empress, several of the princes and the leading military officials and of ficers were present and towards eve ning searchlights kept an enormous space clear, until it was learned the airship was returning to Fredchshaf en, which caused intense disappoint ment. The voyage began under rather unfavorable conditions. There was a lowering sky, rain clouds, and a strong wind when the airship left the floating hall shortly after 9 o'clock Sunday night. The residents did not pay much attention to this, as they were accustomed to night flights, and when the great ship took \he air at 9:42 there was not a cheer to speed her on her way. The ship ascended directly for a few hundred feet and passing over the town or Friedrichshafen, proceeded north ward. Early in the morning the people of Treuchtlingen, a small city in central Bavaria, were awakened by the noise of the propellers of the craft which was passing slowly at a low altitude. The count here drop ped out a card, divulging his inten tion to proceed farther north. His arrival an hour and a half later at Nuremhurg caused the greatest sur- j prise to thousands of pleasure-seek ers preparing for holiday excursions. The ship manoeuvred over, the city, and a card was thrown 'out, stating that a great amount of water and benzine had been used and that the craft would descend at Lake Dutzenteich to replenish the water supply. This, however, was not done. Count Zeppelin continued towards Berlin, passing over several towns of a low altitude, amid the cheers of the populace, until he reached the frontiers of Saxony, where the air ship was headed straight for Leipsic. Indications were that it would make a landing there and the entire popu lace waited for several hours in the streets and open spaces to greet him. Instead of landing, the count put his craft through a series of manoeuv res, coining at times close to the tops of buildings. He then went on, crossing Halle, to Bilterheld. Then to everybody's surprise the airship turned again and sailed to the south. * WOMAN LEAPS FROM WINDOW And Very Soon After the Fireman Followed Suit. A strange mental suggestion Is attributed by the coroners as the cause of two sensational suicides in New York City. Mrs. Ella Friedmann leaped to her death from the front window of her fourth story apartment in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, presumed to have been mentally un balanced by recent illness. Foreman Thomas J. McCue, of fire engine com pany No. 14, was passing through the street at the time and after as sisting the police in removing the woman's body to her apartment he went to his home. A half hour later he climbed to the roof of an apartment building seven blocks away and jumped off. He also was instantly killed. Mc Cue and Mrs. Friedmann did not know each other. The coroner decided that Mrs. Friend mann perhaps received her in spiration from the suicide of anoth er woman who four years ago killed herself by jumping from the same window and that McCue's inspiration came from witnessing the suicide of Mrs. Friedmann. ? Fatal Prize Fight. James Kureazer, otherwise known as "Greek Jimmy Ryan." died at St. Joseph hospital at Savannah, Ga., early Saturday from concussion of the brain. He was injured Friday night while engaged in prize fight with Young Evans before the South ern Athletic club, falling and strik ing his head on the floor. * They Stole a Safe. The grocery store of William I. Forney, near Mont Alto., Md., was entered by burglar? and a 1,000 pound iron safe was carried off bodily by the thieves, and hauled a half mile away on a wheelbarrow into the mountain, where it was opened with sledge hammers. The burglars se cured $120 in cash.. ? OKANGEBUKG, BACK TO WORK j An Agreement Reached in Fire man's Strike on GEORGIA RAILROAD Temporary Agreement Reached Fol lowing Conference Between Gen end Manager Scott, Fireman Ball and the United States Govern ment's Agents?Trains Running. The strike of the firemen on the Georgia railroad was officially de clared off at 2 p. m. Saturday. An hour and a half later the first train after the resumption of service was sent out of Augusta with a negro fireman in tho cab. The terms of the settlement were not officially given out, but it was learned that they are substantially as follows: The men to return to work under conditions existing at the time the strike began, until final adjustment is made. All negro firemen at the terminal station will be dispensed with. All discharged brotherhood fire men will be reinstated. Three other points are yet to be decided, as follows: First, whether negro fireman shall be eliminated from the road. Second, if not eliminated, what percentage of negroes there shall be. Seniority of negro firemen over white firemen. These other questions are to be discussed and if they are not ad justed are to be settled by arbitra tion under the Eardman act. The exact terms of the settle ment have not been disclosed, but the statement is made that the condi tions are eminently satisfactory to both sides. The settlement was an nounced in a statement by Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the Interstate commerce commission, and Charles P. Neill, United States labor com missioner. It said: "An amicable adjustment of the differences between the Georgia rail road and its employes who have been on strike has been reached on a basis eminently satisfactory to both sides. The strike has been called off and complete train service is to be re sumed immediately." This statement was the result of a conference between Chairman Knapp, Commissioner Neill, General Manager Scott of the Georgia rail road, Vice President Ball of the firemen's organization. The confer ence lasted from 11 a. m. until 2 p. m. and every point of issue be tween the railroad and its employes was carefully discussed. Commissioner Neill said that both sides made concessions. lie added I further that he did not believe a ! complete statement would be made j before next week. It is generally I understood that the railroad agrees I to recognize the senitority of white ; firemen and that the employment of; j negro firemen who have been with the road many years will be contin ; ued. After they are retired no other j blacks will be permitted to fire. Had there not been a settlement of the strike Saturday afternoon it can be stated that federal interfer ence was imminent. It is stated that j both sides were notified that some : adjustment must be reached by (1 o'clock Saturday or the federal courts would take cognizance of the ! situation. This probably would have : meant injunctions, which in the pres ent temper of the residents of the strike district almost certainly meant resistance and possible violations of ? the injunction and speedily thereaf i tor the arrival of United States . troops. j The strike commenced May 17 and lasted 13 days. It was caused by I the attempt of the company to put j negro firemen on the besi runs in I the place of white firemen, who were I given inferior runs- or made sub i stitutcs. The men presented an agreement to General Manager Scott, demanding that he recognize the seniority of white firemen over blacks and thus practically do away with the negroes in the cabs. Scott refsued, claiming that he had no authority to sign such an agreement. The men looked In vain for some official who had authority, and fail ing to find one, struck. General Manager Scott retaliated by prac tically annuiing all trains and thus i tying up traffic. After a few days i the situation became grave in some communities. Food supplies ran low and no new stocks could be secured. The necessities of life were hauled in wagons and automobiles. No mails were sent or received. * Flash Light Blinds. The premature explosion of mag nesium powder used in taking a flashlight picture of a carnival in Odd Fellows' hall, at Washington, D. C, this week, so severely burned the photographer, Lee Van Fleet, aged 20 years, of Washington, that he will probably lose his eyesight. ? Killed by Moro Bandits. Two private soldiers were killed and a sergeant mortally wounded during a fight with Moro bandits on the Rouman river In the Philip pines on May 22, according to ad vices received here. ? S. C TUESDAY. JUNI THE COCAINE CURSE ________ CONGRESS URGED TO PROTECT AMERICAN HOMES. High Tariff on the Deadly Drug Demanded as the United States Should Control Its Tariff. Calling upon congress for a form of tariff protection that will guard all American homes from the rava ges of the cocaine habit, thousands of medical men, philanthropic work ers and the principal drug houses in New York City are supporting the recommendation of the American Health League for federal control of the deadly drug. Only by placing a prohibitory duty upon the foreign cocaine with which the illegal distributors are now sup plied in defiance of all State laws can the growth of drug dives throughout the country be checked, the leaders of the movement declare. From every section of the land reports have been received showing that the people are ready to de mand of their representatives in Washington this relief from the vice land ,'ei<ime that is spreading un checked with the free supply of co caine from abroad. Only fifty per cent of all the co-j caine consumed in the United States last year was devoted to legitimate uses, experts are prepared to show congress, while the other half of the total sales of this drug was covertly supplies to the dens of tie "dope fiend" which are rapiuly increasing. While the American manufacturers and wholesalers are refusing to pan der to the increasing demands of the illicit cocaine distributors and can be held accountable by state and local authorities for their sales, absolutely no hold can be taken on the under ground supply of the drug from abroad, it is shown. Cocoa leaves from which the drug victims may extract a form of co caine with which to meet their crav ing are now free of duty and easily available, it is also pointed out. Backed by philanthropic organi zations and individuals throughout the country, the leaders of this move ment have already presented to the finance committee of the senate at Washington the people's claim for protection against the inroads of the cocaine curse. A prohibitory tariff of $1.50 an ounce on the foreign supply of the drug is being urged as well as a duty of five cents a pounds on the cocoa leaves, which will give Uncle Sam a hold upon their distribution. It is also proposed to place an internal revenue tax upon this drug and to require its manufacturers to be bonded and licensed by the gov ernment. The placing of a special revenue stamp on every package of cocaine, with the record required to be kept of its quality and purchaser, the authorities declare, wil result in the speedy restriction of the illegal traffice in the drug. That the senate leaders have up to this time refused to consider their claims on the ground that they were "not concerned with t!fc nation's morals" was asserted by leaders of this crusade against the cocaine evil. When the people of every part of the country are alive to this chance to check the spreading drug plague, however, every one of their repre sentatives at Washington will be urg ed to its immediate consideration, it is believed. * THE WETS WIN. Preacher Calls Alderman a Liar and Gets Slapped. A dispatch from Petersburg, Va., says after the bitterest and hardest fought political campaign iu the his tory of this city, the anti-saloon league of Virginia met a singai de feat, the "wets" winning by a majori ty of 578 in a total vote of 1,792. The league made a most aggressive fight, bringing many of its strongest speakers into the field. The fight for the "wets" was made by The Business Men's Association, which relied on home speakers and vigorously and successfully a tacked the league's importation of hired foreign speakers. The election was marked by the league's usual meth ods of serving luncheon to the polls, and having women and children sing ing and praying. Only one breach of peace occurred and that was between two church members, Rev. Sidney Peters, sec retary of the Anti-Saloon League, and Wesley G. Andrews, a merchant and a member of the common coun cil. Mr. Andrews challenged Mr. Peters' vote, and hot words en suing, Mr. Peters passed the lie, it is alleged, either in terms of mean ing, and received a slap in the face. * ? Snake in Mail. When John C. Greenwood, of Nor walk. Conn., a rural mail carrier, put his hand into his mail bag he withdrew it in a hurry, for, curled up in the bottom, was a three-foot rattlesnake, with ten rattles, alive and in good working order head to tail, judging from the hissing and rattling. * Man Kills Himself. J. B. Nixon, 32 years old, com mitted suicide a few days ago by drinking carbolic acid at his room at the Hotel Larson, In San Frande co, Cal. ? 1, 1909. a_ THEY FACE JAIL For Exposing Inhuman Atrocities in the Congo ACCUSED OF SLANDER i By King Leopold, of Belgium, Mor rison and Sheppard Told in Lec tures ot fhe Torture of Natives by Rubber Trust and of Cannibals and Their Work. Keen interest is felt throughout the South in the fate of the Rev. Dr. William Morrison and the Rev. Wil liam Sheppard, two American, mis sionaries, now on trial in Leopold ville, Congo Free States, on charge of "calumnious denunciation" of of ficials of the Belgian government and King Leopold's rubber monopoly. President Taft has been asked to ! use his good offices in having the trial postponed and then to see that the missionaries are properly repre sented in court. Last Sunday was a day of special prayer in many Southern Presbyterian churches on behalf of the missionaries. The trial was scheduled to begin on May 28. Dr. Morrison, a white man, conies from Lexington, Va. Sheppard, a negro, comes from Waynesboro, Va. It was about firteen years ago they went to Africa and had great success, making many con verts through object lessons. On his way home from his first visit Sheppard was dined by Queen Vic toria at Windsor Catstle and was made a member of the Royal Geo graphical society. Dr. Morrison was the real of fender in the alleged slander of King Leopold. He told of many men, Vomen and" children who had been maimed and showed photo graphs. However, he was not aware that Baron Moncheur was one of his auditors and the Belgian minis ter. When Dr. Morrison last visited this country he exposed to the world some of the frightful atrocities under King Leopold's reign. More than 40,000,000 of subjects in the Congo Free state are said by him to have suffered in the exaction of tribute of rubber. He said the natives were in ter ror of the Zappo Zaps, the Bangalas and the Batalelas. The last two named were native troops and can nibals, officered by Belgians. They were taken as slave.', but being re moved a thousand miles from their own people were employed as slave raiders. Dr. Morrison told of an encamp ment of 15,000 of these cannibals within three days' march of whore the missionaries were stationed. The natives were invited to visit the en campment, then were shot down without mercy and their bodies eaten he declared. Sheppard, who visited the encamp ment, counted i>l human hands dry ing over a fire. The bodies had been eaten. Other bodies were lying outside the stockades and slaves had been taken. The perpetrators of this outrage, the missionaries) said, es- j caped with light punishment.' * GETTING THE BOOZE. How the Game is Worked Over in Georgia. In a Georgia city a recent traveler, approaching the clerk of the best hotel, said: "I would like a room." Responded the clerk: "You want a dollar or a dollar and a half room?" "A dollar and a half room." The guest was given the key to his room, and upon having been shown to it by a bellboy, unlocked the door and found upon the table conspicuously in the middle of the room a quart ofi the best whiskey, which probably would have cost him about a dollar and a half anywhere in America. This he put in his pock et and demurely went his way. It seems that some linn- later th" prohibitionists of the city, having gotten wind of this evasive method of circumventing the liquor law, em ployed a detective to go through the same process. He did so, obtained Iiis whiskey and had the proprietor of the hotel arrested for selling the liqour without a license. In court he admitted that in the first place he had not purchased any liquor, and that in the second place he carried away the liquor he found upon tin; table he had hired?whereupon he promptly was arrested for petty lar i ceuy. * RESCUED BY YACHTSMAN. Boat Overturned and Occupants Nearly Pearisli. Without waiting ro remove his clothing, Capt. James Gobel, of the yacht Ondowa, anchored in Graves end bay, New York, dived overboard aid rescued three men who, unablu to swim a stroke, were lloundering ? their rowboat having overturned. Capt. Gobel was supporting one of the men who was unconscious when a man came to his assistance with a rowboat and hauled the hope less man aboard. The two men then went after the other two, who were : still struggling, and after conslder > able difficulty pulled them aboard. ? TW STRIKE WORRIES THE CABINET AT WASHINGTON, SAYS ZACH McGEE. It Is Feared That it May Seriously Embarrass "Solid Southbusting Campaign of President Taft. I In a letter to The State Zach Mc Gee says the administration is grave ly concerned over the strike situation in Georgia, where the white firemen are '.rying to displace negro firemen. The entire cabinet meeting Friday was given over to consideration of it. Since all along the Georgia rail road the white people sympathise with the strikers, it is momentarily expected here that violence will break out. If it does it is more than likely that attacks will be made up on trains carrying United States mail, in which case will devolve upon the administration the absolute ne cessity to send down either marshals or troops, or both. In this contingency the Washing ton administration will be put in the j attitude of taking up for the negro in the South against the white man, a most embarrassing and awkard at titude at the beginning of this "solid Southbusting" campaign Mr. Taft lias entered upon with such auspici ousness and harmoniousness. It is also feared that the strike will spread to other States in the j or industries, in which case people, or ndustres, n wheh case the people, throughout the South would be made to feel directly the force of the ad ministration operating against the white man in favor of the negro. The conference was long and ear nest, with grave faces, especially on the part of the president and Post master General Hitchcock, who is in charge of the "solid South-busting" business. No conclusion was reached as to what was to be done, for no one could suggest anything practical to end the strike except to pray. And that is what they are doing, awaiting further news from the scene. ' * WHITES MADE BLACK And Blacks Arc Made White in Coscob, Conn. Temperance cranks, worse than the Ku Klux Klan and the Night Riders, are operating in the village of Coscob, Conn. Habitues of the village saloon believe they are try ing to discourage drunkenness by white washing negroes when they be come intoxicated and by using stove blackiug on whites while under the influence of liquor. Others say the coloring is the work of village wags, but at the best the inebriates are indignant. A taw nights ago the police of Greenwich received a call to arrest a drunken negro in Coscob. Police man Jones took the man to a cell. Next morning the jailor aroused the man when he called "Come out here [ you nigger." A torrent of profani ty issued from the cell and Charles ! Carolig, a white man, but black as the ace of spades, came forward. A short time ago Justice Brush tried a "white" man, and he was whiter than snow, on charge of drunkenness. . He had been white washed while in a stupor. Other similar cases are reported, but the drunks are never able .o identify the perpetrators of the 1 u rible out-? rages," as they characterize them. * THREE DIE IN WRECK. Engine and Caboose on Freight Train Ditched. Three men were killed and one seriously injured when an extra freight engine and caboose of the Mobile & Ohio railroad shortly after .leaving Mobile at 4:20 Saturday af I ternoon, ran into a washout about ja mile north of the city on the line j of the Mobile, Jacksn & Kansas City railroad, over which line all Mobile & Ohio trains in this vicinity are being operated, owing to high waters. The dead: Engineer .1. II. Al bright, .Meridian, Miss.; Fireman Will Evans, colored. Meridian, Miss.; Conductor W. F. Carter, Mobile. Injured: Switchman Chas. A. Felder. Meridian, broken collarbone and bad cut on right cheek. The wreckage is under several feet of water. Blown Two Miles. Miraculous things always attend a cyclone. In the one that recently visited Edgefield, a cage containing a canary bird belonging to Miss Pat terson was blown two miles, lodged in the piazza of a friend and was returned the following day, neither bird nor cage receiving injury. * Twenty-Two Killed. Twenty-two persons were killed and probably In injured in Oklaho ma tornadoes Saturday night, ac cording to messages which had reach ed Stroud, Okla. Ten are killed at Key West and 11' at Depew. Both towns were wrecked. * Gets Two Years. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Bingham, of Springfield, Mass.. was this week sen tenced to two years in the peniten tiary, after pleading guilty to the charge of manslaughter. She shot and killed her husband because, she said, he had habitually abused her. ? O CENTS PEK COPY NIGHT RIDING Outrages in Kentucky and Ten nessee Caused BY THE TOBACCO TAX And Senator Bradley, of Kentucky, Say9 Congress Should Act?He Predicted Recurranee of Violence if Oppression of Tobacco Trust is Allowed to Continue. That the outrages of the night riders in Kentucky and Tennessee resulted from the oppression of the American Tobacco Company and that unless the internal revenue tax on leaf tobacco in the hand is repealed these outrages will again occur, was the declaration made by Senator Bradley of Kentucky Friday in urg ing the adoption of his amendment to the senate tariff bill. This amend i nient proposes to restore in the tariff bill the house provision for the free sale of leaf tobacco by the farmer, which was stricken oat by the fl i nance committee of the senate. Mr. Bradley reviewed the growth of the American Tobacco Company from the time of its organization in 1890 with a capital stock of $25, 000,000 to the present day with stock, including that owned in sub sidary companies, amounting to more than $500,000,000. Not content with destroying all competition in the United States, Mr. Bradley said the American Tobacco Company drove the Imperial Tobacco Company of Griat Britian, its chief competi tor, to a compromise and obtained an agreement by which the Imperial yielded up all competition in the United States. "France, Austria, Italy, Portugal and other countries each meanwhile decreed that the government would buy and import tobacco as a busi ness, the profit going into the cof fers of the government under what is known as the Regie system," said Mr. Bradley. "The American To bacco Company, seeing the danger in this direction, entered into a con spiracy with the Regie agents by which the territory should be and was divided, all agreeing to pay the same fixed price and alloting the territory into well defined districts so that there could be no conflict or interests." Thus the producers found them selves powerless and hemmed in on every side, continued Mr. Bradley, and after appealing to congress with out effect, as a hast resort organized the pooling societies which resulted in a sr.turnalia of crime in Kentucky and Tennessee. Whiie denouncing the night rider outrages, Mr. Brad ley declared that the tobacco leaf growers were sorely pressed, that they were forced to combine to pro tect themselves and that the crimes which resulted were due to the trust's oppression. "If congress re fuses relief, in my judgment," said Mr. Bradley, "the same conduct will be re-enacted, people terrorized and the States materially injured." Before reviewing the tobacco leg islation resulting la the conditions which he represented as existing, Mr. Bradley said. "I will state in the beginning that under the present statutes and rulings of the commis sioner of internal revenue, the pro ducers are so hampered and restrict ed in the sale of their leaf tobacco that they are substantially placed at the mercy of the great trust which has blighted their hopes and desolat ed their homes." Mr. Bradley said the two princi pal objections made to his proposed amendment were that.lt opened the door to fraud and rendered uncer tain the enforcement of the tobac co tax, and that it materially decreas ed the amount of revenue collected. Me asserted that no law could be devised which would entirely prevent fraud, and that the amendment was in substance and effect the re-enact ment of the McKinley bill, which, he said, operated well for three years, both as to fraud and revenue and he could see no reason why it would operate otherwise now. He quoted Commissioner Yerkes in the opinion that the decrease of revenue would he comparatively small. The effect of his enactment, said Mr. Bradley, would be that the farm er and all others would be able to sell unstemmed tobacco In the nat ural leaf without the payment of any tax or charge. "In my judg ment the passage of this law will not only give justice to a deserved class of people but will withstand all lawless elements and restore good order throughout the land," said Mr. Bradley. In concluding, he made an earnest appeal to the senate in behalf of 1.000,000 Americans, who, he said, have been stricken down by the ponderous mace of an all powerful trust. "If that call shall go unanswered, we may at least in dulge the hope that while our op pressors escape here, there will como a time when they shall bo weighed in the balance of a just God, whose judement will be, 'thou are weigh ed in the balance and art found want ing.' " Live Stock Drowned. Iteports received from Tom Green and Concho counties, Texas, say that many cattle and sheep were drowned there In the recent storm.