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PUBLISHED THREE SOME HOT STUFF Republicans Clash In the senate ?About Tariff. THEY FAIL TO AGREE Tillman Declares That Aldrich Is the Senate and That the Repub lican Members of the Finance Com mittee Are the Boldest Band of Buccaneers That Ever Was. Senator Dolliver of Iowa Saturday made a speech in reply to that of Senator Aldrich Friday night, when the latter gave his statement of the effect of the-pending tariff bill upon the cotton goods industry. Mr. Dolliver commented on the statement that "only 10 per cent of the cotton cloth schedules had been changed." Denying this by a counter state ment on the authority of Senator Smoot, that only 30 per cent were unchanged, he was quickly inter rupted by Mr. Aldrich. "1 said." he interrupted, "that lea's r"'<*n 10 rer cc**" o[ tfcj im tl ?ct'.<:? importations, whsr:amount'd in aggregate to $78,000,000, were affected by this provision." Mr. Aldrich arising to leave the chamber, Mr. Dolliver said: "I hope the senator will remain to hear what I have to say." "I had an engagement," said Mr. Aldrich. "Well, you have an engagement here," retorted the Iowan. "I say you will not turn your back upon what I have to say without taking the moral consequences that will nat urally arise in such a casvi.'* Mr. Dolliver then presented a copy of a petition from merchants ot New York, declaring against any Increase of the tariff duties. "Please state which of them are importers," said Mr. Aldrich. "Well, some of them are leading merchants of this country," replied Mr. Dolliver. Mr. Dolliver criticised Mr. Aldrich for having read in the senate an anonymous clipping stating that $500,000 would be lost in the fcrm of duties by reason of a decision in the United States supreme court because of a contention over the question whether the duty should be 25 or 30 per cent. All the im portations of cloth of that kind, he said, at New York, in 1907, was worth only $250,000, and the matter in dispute involved only 5 per cent of the amount. "Yet," he said, "that is the kind of clap-trap that is here substituted for facts." Senator Borah declared that he had written to the treasury depart ment for the total amount involved in this case and had been told it was $400.000. If senators could not get reliable information, he declar ed," one thing m?ft be apparent? there would, be (some dhanges in the treasury department." "Either," suggested Mr. Tillman. "the senator from Rhode Island bamboozled us last night or the Sen ator from Iowa is bamboozling us now." When Mr. Dolliver concluded Mr. Culberson took the floor to criticise the statement of Senator Aldrich concerning the revenue probable un der the bill as reported by the fi nance committee. He said that Mr. Aldrich had criticised a portion of his (Mr. Culberson's) estimates which proved upon investigation to have been a literal copy of Mr. Aid rich's own estimates. A vote was taken on a committee amendment consolidating the para graphs on the cheapest grades of cot ton cloths and fixing a rate of 1 cent a square yard on unbleached cotton cloth of 50 threads to the inch of 1 1-4 cents on bleached cloth. If valu ed at not more than 9 cents, and at! 2 cents more than 12 cents. The amendment carried, 41 to 30. i On this vote Senators Foster and McEnery voted with the Republicans. Mr. Tillman declared that he did not want to say anything bitter or to hurt any one's feelings, said. "I am very, very tired of this sham battle, or what appears to me to be one on that side." addressing the Repub licans. "Last night the senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Aldrich) proved to his own satisfaction and to the satisfaction of the Macedonian phlanx which he has organized and holds together that there is no in-I crease of rates in the amendment. The senator from Wisconsin and the , senator from Iowa today have prov- | ed from about the same sources that | ihe rates have been increased ma terially." Declaring that Senator Aldrich ! was admitted to be the senate in the matter pending, Mr. Tillman said "Why don't you push this thing to a vote and go home?' He said that :: Republican senator had referred to the Republican members of the fi nance committee as hypocrites. "You are not hypocrites," added Mr. Tillman. '/but you are the boldest tand of buccaneers that ever got together. By 31> to 2S. Lue f:sf committee ?-?mendment. providing specific for ad valorem duties of the house bill was agreed to. Senator Bacon then suggested that as alf amendments ' of the cotton schedule Involved the same question I TIMES A WEEK. SEVERAL DROWNED WHARF COLLAPSES AND SCORES FALL INTO A LAKE. The Crowd Had Hurried to Board a Steamer to Go to New Or leans. By the collapse or a frail wharf at Mandeville, La., on Sunday even ing, upon which about seventy peo ple had rushed to board the excursion steamer Margaret, on her return trip to New Orleans, ten persons are known to be dead and several are missing. The Margaret did not land at the wharf at which she was accustomed to tie up. Instead she ran into a dock built especially for skiffs and small crafts. This small wharf was pulled by the steamer's ropes entire ly away from the main pier and some seventy people went into the lake in about eight feet ot water. The cries and shrieks of those precipitated into the lake were heard all over the place and many men rushed to the wharf to join in the heroic work of rescue which had been begun. The officers and crew of the Margaret did excellent work by throwing life preservers, and some of them going into the water. Those who figured in the accident told of the usual heart-rending in cidents that marK such catastro phies. A young mother who was thrown into the lake, with her baby in her arms, was stunned when struck by a piece of piling. When she was finally rescued the body of the infant could not be found and it required the efforts of several strong men tu prevent the woman from throwing herself back into the lake. Miss Laura Rays, a young woman who lost her life in the accident, was to have been married within a few months. When the crash came and she was carried down into the wa ter, under the wreckage, these near heard her calling pitifully save me, Jim! Save me!" Her fiance followed her :>ito >'the water and worked heroically around the wreck age until borne out exhausted. A short time later the dead body of his sweetheart was recovered, bearing a deep gash above the right temple. OUTRAGE <JN HELPLESS WOMEN. Masked Robbers Torture and Abuse Three Victims. A brutal outrage perpetrated by unknown robbers at Belmont, Pa., has aroused the community, and a lynching is threaten if the men are captured. Five men. all masked, broke into the home of Mrs. Minnie Ashe, aged 90, a nu ransacked the place. With the aged woman were her daughter. Mrs. Mary Ober, 69 years old, and her grand-daughter, .Miss Minnie Ober, 23 years old. The men found only $3.T>0 in the house and, believing there was more, they bound the three women and subjeited them to merciless torture. The men tore wire from the pir tures hanging on the walls and fas tened the three women to chairs. The men then held lighted candles to their victims' bare feet. Par tially unconscious, the women were otherwise abused. Before leaving the house the burglars released Miss Ober, who late Wednesday afternoon recovered sufficiently to summon help. ORDERED TO KILL HIMSELF. Emperor Tells Yuan Shi Kai to Com mit Suicide. A dispatch from Peking. Chinn, says five court officials are now qn their way to Honan, carrying the im perial yellow cord. tigniCying the throne's order that Yuan Shi Kai shall commit suicide. The report is accompanied by cir cumstantial details to the effect that the officials are to watch Yuan Shi Kai day and night, giving him two months in which to carry out the order. j The per.-istent revival of the death story comes coincident with the re ported serious illness of Prince Ching. and is given color by the ad mitted t'acv that the present dowager empress widow of the late emperor, official coregent. is bent upon Yuan Shi Kai's death. LAWYER COMMITS SUICIUK. William Branson, Prominent Law yer, Ends His Life. William Brunson. one of the fore most attorneys of Macon, Ga., and former solicitor general of the Bibb circuit for eight years, Saturday morning committed suicide at his residence in Macon. He had been in bad health for many weeks and three days ago his condition became alarming. In a fit of despondency he j shot himself while his wife was1 preparing him morning nourishment, j they might be voted on at one time. The suggestion was adopted and the vote was then taken os 13 amend ment* covering 10 pages of the bill. They were agreed to as were the en tire sections'- containing" them by a vote of 39 'to 28. ORANGEBURG, TAX ON IRON ORE Senator Stone Tells Why many Democrats Voted For It. ONLY REVtNUE DUTY i Was Voted for by the Democrats, Which Was in Accordance With AH Democratic Precedence?The Tax Rather Hurts Than Helps the Huge Steel Trust. In the United States senate, Sen ator Stone of Missouri, made a state ment in which all Democrats will be interested. Senator Stone spoke on the vote of, certain Democratic senators in favr f a tariff on iron ore, and as Senator Tillman has been accused of being in league with the Steel Trust because he voted for the tariff on iron ore, we present some extracts from Senator Stone's state ment bo as our readers can see if the charge against Senator Tillman is true or false. Here is Senator Stone's statement: Mr. President, I am one of the eighteen Democrats who voted to put a du;; of 25 cents per ton on iron ore. The eighteen Democrats who voted that way are Messrs. Ba con, Bailey, Bankhead, Chamberlain, Clay, Daniel, Fletcher, Foster, Fra zier, Johnston of Alabama. Mc.Enery, .dartin, Payter, Simmons, Stone, Tal iaferro, Taylor and Tillman. Ten Democrats voted to put iron ore on the free list, viz, Messrs. Clarke of Arkansas, Culberson, Gore,"' Hughes, Newlands, Overman, Rayner, Shively, Snrth of Maryland and Smith of South Carolina. .Mr Iresident, when the questio.i of putting a duty on iron ore was tvfore the senate, I was hesitant a\d somewhat uncertain as to what wi.j the right and proper thing to do: ? ?lit .'n the en1 the best judgment ol wnich I am capable, not only as a , party man, but as one desirous o' promoting the best policy for lae public welfare, I conceived it to ha my duty to vote as I did. I believe in the doctrine of a revenue tariff, and this whether considered from the standpoint of the constitutional pow er vested in congress to levy tariffs or from the standpoint of economic policy. I believe that tariffs should be levied with the primary object of producing a needed public reve nue, and that the duties should be as widely distributed and laid upon as many articles as possible, always, of course, having in View the needs of the government; and 1 hold that the burden should be made lightest upon artciles of common use and heaviest upon others. Under present circumstances I 'doubt the wisdom, or 1 might more I properly say the feasibility, of an 1 extended free list; but at the same | j time.'haviug in view the needs of the | j treasury, I favor admitting free of' ! duty as many- articles of common | j necessity as possible where the art- j I icles are controlled by a monopoly. ' JI do not as a general proposition sub- i scribe to the notion advocated by some of free raw materials to thosei who manufacture them, and at the same time allow protective duties I on the manufactured products. Sue- i j cinctly stated that is my view of the: j Democratic position on the tariff, j question. Now, in applying this view to the; case of iron ore. The first fact con- ' fronting me wai that the duty of 25 cents per ton was a purely revenue ? duty, and iu no sense a protective j duty. Twenty-five cents per ton on 'ore is equivalent to about 10 per cent ad valorem. That means that! under that rate all ores coming from j the outside into this country for con I sumption, except that coining from j Cuba, would pay a duty of approxi-, ! mately 10 per cent. Under our reci-? procity agreement with Cuba, ores ' {from that island would come In uri-j ! der a reduced rate, and would pay i 1 20 per cent lets than ores rrom oth- j er foreign mines. Iu other words, ! placing the rate at 25 cents per ton, j while foreign ores generally would ?? pay 10 per cent ad valorem, Cuba' ores would pay S per cent. Whether , in the one case or the other manifest- ! ly the duty is very low. Mr. President, every since we have had tariff laws, and we have had them for more than a century, there ! has been a duty on iron ore. In ' all our tariff laws up to this time,' whether made by Democrats, Re publicans, or others, a duty has been ' laid on these ores. The duty of 25 J cents per ton, for which I voted, is ' tne lowest duty ever imposed upon ' iron ore in any tariff bill ever enact ed by the American congress. Even the Walker bill, that -.isost, best ar-1 ranged, and most celebrated of Dem- ! ocratic tariff measures, laid a duty on these ores almost double that pro- ; vided In the bill before the senate: [ and a duty of 4 0 per cent was laid on [ those ores in the Wilson bill. And | so, Mr. President, at the very incep- j tion of my investigation and consid eration of this subject, I was con-' fronted with this situation and with these facts. I Therefore, it seemed to me. unless some excellent reason could be given to the contrary,' that I ought to vote to Impose this low revenue tax, and I felt that in doing so I was fol lowing riot only Democratic policy, but. ' Democratic precedent. Of S. C, TH OBS DAY, JIT. course, this was a question about which Democrats might well and con sistently differ. The question was whether iron ore should go on tho free list, or be subject to a low reve nue duty. Whenever that question as related to any article is presented to a Democratic legislator it is one he is at liberty to decide according to his own judgment?according to his own view of the whole situation ?and this he can do without in any degree violating his party obligation or ignoring his party policy. The chief argument against the tax was predicted upon the assertion that the United steel corporation, known as the "steel trust," .favored the imposition of-a tariff duty on iron ore. It was asserted that this great corporation had acquired possession and control, through ownership and leaseholds of enormous areas of land containing iron ore, and that in con sequence that corporation practical ly held a monopoly of the American supply. One senator, at least, and perhaps others, asserted ithat the trust controlled about 85 per cent of the iron ore area of the United States. Assuming these almost in credible statements to be true, It was urged that foreign ore should be ad mitted free in the interest of in dependent manufacturers of iron and steel. Now, Mr. President, it is undoubt edly true that the "steel trust," so called, has obtained possession and control of a large acreage of ore bearing land, but to say that the trust controls 85 per cent, or even 50 per cent, of these lands is, to my mind, a gross exaggeration. The senator from Alabama (Mr. John ston) says that the trust and its al lied interests do not in any way control as much as 50 per cent of the ore lands and mines of his State, and the Senator from Michigan (Mr. Smith) declares, as a natter of per sonal knowledge, that 'ho trust ib?e.-? noi c-mii rt I as n.uoh as 50 per cent of the ore lands Of hl3 State. The same is declared to be true as to the lands and mines of other States. In fact, it is affirmed that in some of the States, as in Virginia, where great quantities of iron oro exist and are mined, the trust has no property interests whatever. Mr. President, to my mind it is perfectly evident and clear that if we should exclude and shut out every acre of ore lands owued^ or controllod by the trust there would still be left vastly more than could be used by all the iron and steel industries of the coun try, including the trust, for a cen tury. Of course, I may be wrong as to this, but I do not believe so. I have the utmost confidence that my estimate in this behalf is at least approximately correct. If this be so, then the independent manufac turers of steel and iron, if indeed there really are any such, can obtain their domestic supply on equal terms with the trust; and if that be true, then of what peculiar advantage would free ore be to the "indepen dents?" If foreign ore should be made free, the trust could go out into the world and buy and import a;, well as the "independents," and ! at least upon equal terms with them. One would hold no advantage over the other. But it has been asserted that the steel trust magnates favored a duty oh iron ore. 1 am frank to say that in my view of the situation, as I have stated it, I am unable to perceive how the imposition of this duty can possibly work to the advantage to the? trust, or how free ore would con tribute to its disadvantage. I must have clearer, more definite, and cer tain evidence than has been submit ted to convince me to the contrary. I can not ignore what seems to me to be the plain truth of this situa tion, and be thrown off my feet and satmpeded because some one exhibits the specter of the steel trust. I must be controlled in my action by facts as I see them, and not by the f?ar of some remote and improbable danger. Again, Mr. President, this further fact stands out and can not he over looked: Enorinous iron ore deposits have been recently discovered and are now being rapidly developed on the northern coast of Cuba. These great properties have been acquired, ostensibly, at least, by the Bethle hem and the Pennsylvania steel companies. These ores can be min ed cheaper in Cuba than in this coun try, and they can be shipped to our seaport* by water at a comparatively light transportation charge. There fore it is altogether probable that the great bulk of foreign ores coming to the States will come from these Cuban mines, owned, as I have said, by the Bethlehem and Pennsylvania steel companies. In the management of these com panies, at least of the Bethlehem, Mr. Schwab is a central and commanding figure. And who is Mr. Schwab? He was educated in the iron and steel industry under the tutelage of Andrew Carnegie, and he was at the head of the great Carnegir works when they were sold to the trust. He received pay for his stock in the Carnegie plant, amounting to mil lions, in the stocks and securities of the steel corporation, and there fore for a long time served as the president of the great corporation known as the "trust." Several years ago he retired from the presidency of that corporation to take charge and direction of the Bethlehem es tablishment. But does anyone sup pose that he has severed his connec tion with the trust; that he no long er holds its stock, and securities In large amounts, or that he Is not still Intimately connected and vitally In terested in that stupendous ?rgani NTE 10, 19011. G. 0. P. DOOMED i ? Senator Smith Thinks its Da; s Are Numbered. PEOPLE m EARNEST i And the Tariff Bill Will Cause the Undoing of the Republicans?The Democratic Party Has the Oppor tunity, Under Skillful Manage ment, to Get New Life. Hon. E. D. Smith, junior United States Senator from this State, spent Monday in Columbia on personal business. The State says Mr. Smith is in the very best of health and spirits and his work at Washington agrees with him, although he said that really he prefers "cotton cam paigning" with its activity and work to the more sedate occupation as a member of the Senate. Mr. Smith was generally congrat ulated upon his stand on the tariff question and many of his friends expressed their gratification that he had received such flattering attention and such complimentary notice up on the occasion of his speech in the Senate last week. Mr. Smith declares his belief that the tariff bill is the rock upon which the Republican party ship will get a jar which will send it to the bot tom in the next presidential cam paign. "In this present tariff bill, in the present discussion," he said, "it is ! made apparent that the Republican tariff policy has at last reached its logical outcome. The principle has been applied and its disastrous ef I fects, understood when this bill becomes law, will defeat the Re publian party. And. in order to prevent this logical result of their outrageous policy, the Republican press is attempting to magnify what seems to be the disloyalty of some Democrats. "By holding this up before the public, they are hoping to distract attention from the disastrous ef fects of their own applied policy. "The difference between the Dem ocratic situation and the Republi can situation is that the Republi can principle has been applied,, has j been tested, put into law and has proved disastrously disappointing. . "Its advocates have been loyal practically unanimous, while, on the other hand, the Democratic doctrine has not been applied, and the few Democrats who have seemingly de I serted hnve in nowise affected the principles of Democracy but have simply emphasized the misleading and pernicious doctrine of protec tion. "Therefore, the hope of the coun try is in pr.uuing the Democratic forces of such as will not stand for Democratic principle and the appli cation of the plans ol' Democracy in government. "The people must not be mislead in thinking that Democracy as a principle of government is a fail ure because a few men may be un true to their pledges, but it is true that, the Republican protection prin i ciple is a failure, because the Re publicans have been true to their pledges, carry them into effert and the result is that the people will repudiate it. "If the press of this country will keep this distinction and will insist on the repudiation of the graft sys tem now on us, and will plead tor the principles of Democracy being J put in practice by the genuine Dem- j I ocrats. I believe that the next elec-' j tion will witness an overwhelming J victory for the Democratic party. The line of distinction between the two parties, as I see it now, P- not sectional to the extent that it nan ' been, but is the line between the masses and the protected interests. "This will be the battle ground , of the coming conflict; and if handl ? ed properly, I have no doubt of the j issue. I think the nterests of the j people would be better served if more ; prominence were given to the dis tinctions between the present I isystem and real Democracy, j than to magnify the shortcomings of some few Democrats." Crashed in Elevator. On her first visit to New York and ; on her first ride in an elevator. Miss j Lena Srhoonmaker, was crushed to death Monday afternoon. I zation? Are there any so credulous as t ? I 'imagine that the corporation with! (Which Mr. Schwab is at this time j 'immediately and prominently identi-| j fied i.s independent? Rather is it. j ! not more reasonable to suppose that these Schwab enterprises are in some way allied with the greater corpo ration? Mr. President, while I can | pot speak with knowledge, I havej iii'le or no doubt that when Mr. j Schwab's Cuban mines begin to ! empty their ores into our market:; the trust will share with the Schwab company In whatever benefits may accrue. It seems to me. therefore. \ that free ore would work no harm to any of these great establishments, i but would be of greater benefit to them than to anybody else. As -1 view this subject, I would not be wlHlng to give free admission to the foreign products of-these great cor porations. TW MANIAC BUTCHER KILLS FIVE MEN BEFORE HE COULD BE STOPPED. Sonicwille Man Runs Amuck in racking House, Slushing Madly With Razor-edge Knife. At Somerville, Mass., Saturday. John Murphy turned from pig-stick ing to man-killing in the North Pack ing and Provision Company's salugh ter house anil driving his fellow working men before him,, slew five of them and wounded four others. Two of the wounded were reported later as dying. According to some of the workmen. Murphy had been act ing peculiarly for some days, but he retimed from his dinner apparent ly in normal condition. Shortly after 2 o'clock he suddenly uttered a blood-curdling scream and sprang at Dr. Hayes, waving his IS inch razor-edge knife in his hand. He cut Dr. Hayes a deep gash on the neck, stabbed him over the heart and practically disemboweled him. The terrified workmen rushed for the door, but Murphy ran after them, slashing right and left. Every man whom he struck went down with a groan. The crowd plunged down stairs, with Murphy after them, and at every landing he cut somebody. On the second floor one of the workmen, an Italian, seized a heavy bar of iron and felled Murphy, but. he was quickly on his feet again and wounded another man. On the street floor he was given another heavy blow on the head and his knife was wrenched from his hand. Two police officers came in to assist the workmen and Murphy was given a fearful beating and finally overpowered and rtaken to the police station. Murphy is 50 years old. weighs 200 pounds and was regarded as one of the strongest men in the plant. He is married and lives in Somerville. KILLED BY DEPUTY. Result of Political Fued in St. Louis, Mo. Frederick Mohrle, who killed Samuel Young in ?North St. Louis several weeks ago. was killed in the corridor of the criminal court build ing Tuesday by Won. Kane, a former deputy under Young. The shooting occurred as Mohrle was being taken to iourt to stand trial for the death of Young and is the culmination of a bitter politi cal feud. Kene lued Young's revolver on Mohrle. When the shots re-echoed through the court - building, Win. Wright, a co-defendant with .Mohrle in the Young case, became hysteri cal. He begged to be placed .in jail and his bondsmen surrendered him to Judge Fisher, who ordered him locked up. Only a few days ago Wright be came frenzied on the streets late at night and began shooting wildly under the impression that the "gang" were after him. Alfred Neilson. who was passing in his way to work in a dairy, was mortally wounded. Wright is also under arrest for this d??ath. Mohr'e kil'ed Young on April 4. News of Young's death wan received with che.-es dt. a political meeting after the tragedy. FEUD WAR BREAKS OUT. Ed. Callahan, Former Sheriff, Shot by an Assassin. Kentucky's reign of blood is on again. Eli Callahan, former sheriff of Hreatbirt county and a notorious feudist, was sl^ot Tuesday by an assassin and is thought to be dy ing. The shooting is expected to be the signal for a combat that will end only when the county is overrun by State troops. Trouble between J the factions began four days ago and the town has been filled with armed mountaineers, taking sides with the respective Hargis and Coskrell fac-1 tions. DAVIS KILLED BY STILL. Fatal Shooting Affray in Barnwell fount y. A Mr. Davis, of the Red Oak township, Barnwell county, was shot) and instantly killed last Saturday night by Jut Still. It la said Davis j was drinking and was advancing on j Mr. Still with a shotgun when he was killed. Davis was from Geor-1 gia and bad only been living in the Red Oak towuship about five months, j .Mr. Still Is a prosperous farmer and has always been considered a peace-j able citizen, lb- im mediately went to Barnwell and gave himself up. Rabies in Laurens. Mr. Fred vv. Green of I^iurcns left early Tuesday morning for At lanta to take the Pasteur treatment for a dog bite received last Tuesday. Saturday the bead of the dog was .sent to Atlanta .o be analysed and a telegram received jf-sterday stat ed that the do j had rabies. Hence Mr. Green left m ouci lor treatment. O CENTS PER COPY Paid Dispensary Officials to Get Orders. FOR STATE WHISKEY State Dispensary Directors Itawlin son, Black, VVylie and Hub. H. Evans Named in Affidavit of C. W. Dudley as Having Received .Iribes. For the first time since the be ginning of the old State dispensary j has there been brought to light a charge which implies directly that ! the controlling agents of the Stale j dispensary got money for favoring I certain firms, says the Columbia ( State. The State then goes on to ( give the particulars: ! Col. C. W. Dudly, who is now very < ill at Lexington, Ky., has made an j affidavit, in the presence of his at ' torney. Col. Anthony J. Carroll of j Louisville, Ky., that to secure an J order for liquor from the State dis pensary, Clark Bros. & Co. of Peoria, 111., had to pay about 10 per cent commissions or $6,200 or an order of $60,000 delivered and accepted. The original order was- somethifii: like $150,000, made in the last days of the dispensary, and a great den) of the stuff was turned back. Mr. VV. E. Hull, manager of Clark* Bros. & Co., testified when he was here recently that he had paid to C. W. Dudley $6,200 "commissions"' to secure this business. Dudley was known to be ill. At torney General Lyon and Col. T. B. Felder visited him iast week in Lexington, Ky., and later his at torney, Col. Anthony J. Carrol), a. leading attorney of Kentucky, went to the hospital and advised him to give the affidavits introduced in evi dence a few days ago. This affidavit, while not admissi ble in a court in which a criminal action is being tried, is said to be backed up with corroborative evi dence, documentary and sworn tes timony. This is the first time in all the months of pacient prodding that the direct charge of bribery has been I made. Col. Dudley was a bon vivant well known throughout this State, J and his affidavit, which follows, I shows that of the $6,200 he kept ! at least $2.000 for himself. The af I fidavit is: j "State of Kentucky. County of Fay | ette. i "The affiant, C. W. Dudley, state* j that he represented several liquor dealers in the State of South Caro I Una during and for several years i prior to I 006. for the purpose of pro ! curing orders for liquors for the j State dispensary. He states tha-' i during parts of said time J. B. VVylie j was a member of the board of direc ' tors of the State dispensary. ! "Affiant states that about the I month of October, 1906, through the I efforts and by arrangements with I tiie said VVylie he procured an order 'from said State dispensary for a , quantity of liquor to be sold ami j furnished by the Live Oak Distilling ' Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, j "Affiant states that he paid to th ! ; said VVylie the sum of $1,500 as a I commission for |Voeur?ny the pur chase of c ? lain liquors by the State I dispensary from C'ark Lios. & Co., of j Peoria. III. He suites nat he was ] pa'd as commission for procuring j said order the sum of $6.500 by W. j B. Hull, that being the total amouut iof commissions paid him on account, of the goods so purchased, and which I were retained by the commission. He states that he divided his said commissions with the three mem bers of the board of directors of ! the State dispensary, to wit: .lohn ; Black, J. W. Rawllnson and J. B. j VVylie, as a consideration for their j making said purchase. Affiant does ? not remember the exact amount paid them, but Black was paid approxi mately $2,200. Uawlinson $1,200 and VVylie approxmately $1,200. "Affiant states that while H. H. Evans was a member of the board of directors of the State dispensary he paid the said H. H. Evans $l,a0<? to aid him in his campaign for re election to said board of directors, this was in 1905, or early in 1906. "Affiant states that this was th? only amount he remembers to have paid said Evans, but he might have paid hjni pther sums. "Affiant states that he has been practically confined to his bed for 1.1 months, having sustained a para lytic stroke complicated with other troubles. He states that he suffer ed constant pain and is now confined to his bed in Good Samaritan hospital at Lexington, Ky., under the care ot a physician and nurses. He state.1 i that he is unable to travel and it is a matter of impossibility for him to go to South Carolina or to tak< any trip whatever. That he was abk with great difficulty to come to Lex ington from Chicago and is now worse and unable to leave his bed. "Affiant states that he had other transactions with the members or j the board of the State dispensary, but j he Is now unable to recall the de tails of same. "C. W. DUDLEY. "Subscribed and sworn to before me by C. W. Dudley this 4th day of Jone, 3 909, W. Wortbington, N. P., Fayatte County, Ky.'