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PUBLISHED THREE Tl CORN_CW*TEST Its Object and the Roles Governing the Same Given in Foil. PRIZES FOR THIS YEAR ? Indicated That Much Interest Will be Manifested by Farmers of State?vict Making Appropriation Places t batest Under Management of Depa rtment of Agriculture. From the office of Commissioner Watson Monday were issued the gen eral announcement and the list of prizes in the State corn contest. In ' view of the general interest taken last year in the contest and the Corn Exposition held in Columbia, the contest will this year be very keen, indeed. Col. E. J. Watson will, un der the appropriation this year, have complete oharge of the contest. The announcement is as follows: This competition has been inaugu-j rated with the view to increase grain growers' profits by increasing the yield per acre, and also the quality! of corn through simple methods ot seed selection and proper culture. It is so named from the fact that it can- j not but result in adding thousands in the aggre gate to the profits of those I engaged in agriculture in this Stale. - The ccntest will be conducted by the State department of agriculture under the terms of the Act. Objects of the Contest. 1. To encourage proper selection of seed and .better care of soils. 2. To ::entre attention upon varie ties that are superior for each sec tion, to introduce seed of such varie ties that are pure and true to name, and to prove that when such varie ties are :;rown under normal condi tions it is not necessary to so fre quently change seed. 2. To encourage better methods of culture and harvesting,* so as largely to increase average yields per acre and improve quality. 4. To show that such results can be had al: less expense of time, mon ey and labor than poorer crops when increase in yield is considered. 5. To improve methods of mar keting and conversion of crop into largest possible cash return. 6. To increase grain growers' prof its on e?ch acre and each bushel every year. 7. To promote the keeping of in telligent records and the use of busi ness principles in farming, to foster the farmer's prosperity and the wel fare of the whole people. Nature of the Contest. 1. Each grower will be required to grow one acre of crop, or in the five-acre contest, five acres, but no part of a five-acre entry can be con sidered an entry in the one-acre con test. 2. Each contestant can follow his own ,besi: judgment as to the selec-J tion of seed and soil and mode of j culture, harvesting and marketing. | 3. Each contestant must report all ; particulars relating to growth, till-| age, etc., on forms in Contestants' Manual. ) tales of the Contest. 1. Any person may compete. There are no f;?es or dues. 2. Each contestant is to furnish i and ship to the commissioner one sample bushel of corn in the ear from et'.ch acre grown, (except in cases of five-acre contests, for which one bvshel is sufficient.) to be judged, and then sold for benefit of expenses of conducting contest. 3. Etch competitor must secure the Contestants' Manual. 4. To enter contest, simply notify the commissioner of agriculture and order 'Contestants' Manual as pei preceding paragraph. 5. Reports must be made on forms prescribed in Contestants Manual. 6. This contest to improve grain' ?growers' profits is to cover the crops Of corn planted in 1911. 7. In the boys' contest all require-j ments are the same as in the con test among grown men. All boys must comply with all the require ments herein. All men and boys entering corn clubs in the several counties of the State under other auspices may also enter for the Slate prize by merely complying with the regulations as set for;h above. Each contestant's work, including sample of crop, record and report will be judged according to the fol lowing scale of points: Scale of Points. Points. 1. Purity and selection of seed. . 10 2. Methods of culture.L'5 3. Re/ord or report its clear ness, completeness, accur acy, care bestowed upon it, etc. .. 15 4. Yield of contest acre.25 5. Quality of crop, market grade. salaibility, feeding value, etc. 10 6. Profits resulting from the en tire operation.1.". Total points.100 The scale of points offers every in ducement to truthfulness, and by means both apparent and secret, the judge? will be enabled to exercise righteous judgment. There is no need or inducement for misrepresen tation, and anything of the sort will be deirimental to the contestant. Boys' One- Five- one acre acre acre; !MES A WEEK. FOUGHT OVER A FENCE DISPUTE OP LONG STANDING CAUSED THE FIGHT. John Garris, an Old M;ui, Hit in the Head by A. E. Steedley, a Young Man. A special dispatch to The State from Walterboro says a dispute over a line fence early Monday morning is responsible for what, may prove a fatal injury to John Garris, a highly respectable and prominent citizen of Williams in the upper part of the country. The reports received of the trou ble are that A. E. Steedley, Jr., had gone out early Monday morning to remove a rail fence when the latter, arriving on the scene, forbid him moving the fence. Mr. Steedley claims that Mr. Gar ris cursed him and threatened to cut his throat if he persisted in moving the fence. Mr. Steedley told him that he would be obliged to move it as he needed the rails to repair his other fencing. He claims that Mr. Garris then reached in his pocket and drew hi* knife, advancing on him, when bf picked up a piece of rail and struck him on the head two or three times with it. Steedley then left, and a little later Mr. Garris was found in an uncon scious condition and taken to his home a few hundred yards away. It was found that he had several serious wounds in his head and it is feared he may not recover. Steedley went to title home of his wife's father, Fred Padgett, and when last heard from was still there. He is a young man, possibly 35 ye-xrs old, while the wounded man is about 60 years old. It seems that there has been trou ble' for a year or more over thip line fence. The fence was on Mr. Steedley's land, but by consent it has remained the only fence between their fields. Mr. Garris Is a member of a large family in the county. DON'T UNDERSTAND PARDON. Charleston Man's Views on Pardon ing of Nei Crlss. That the people of Charleston do not understand why Ned Crlss, who is described as a bad negro, was par doned, by Governor OB lease, was the statement made at Columbia Tuesday by John Ahrens, member of the State pension board from Charleston. Mr. Ahrens, in talking about the case' explained that Criss killed E. H. Old enberg, an old German merchant of Charleston, In a most brutal man ner. The way the crime was com mitted, as he recalled It, was that Criss called to Mr. Oldenberg to go to the store and get something for him for his sick child. As the old man's head was bent over the sugar barrel the negro hit him in the head, taking off part of the back of the skull. The crime was a very brutal one, and Mr Ahrens says he doesn't see how the negro could be pardoned. In the pardon petition it was urged that Cri.ss was not the ne gro who did the killing. FUGITIVE Ii', CAUGHT. Convict Has Lived an Upright Life in Kentucky. Warden G. P. Sale, of the North Carolina State penitentiary, left Lex ington, Ky., Tuesday for Raleigh with T. B. Whltsoa, who was arrest ed at Lexington last week, accused as a fugitive from prison. Whitson admitted that he escaped from the penitentiary sixteen years ago while serving a thirty-year term for mur der. Since his escape Whitson has lived an upright life in Kentucky, and has amassed a comfortable for tune. A movement will be started to Obtain a pardon for him, and it is thought it will succeed. Teacher's Wi'e Poisoned. At Prescott, Fla., Mrs. M. C. Pitt man, wife of the principal of Bagdad school, died from strychnine poison Monday night. Her husband was saved from the same fate ,by the use of a stomach pump. Mystery sur rounds the poisoning. Prizes on yield & con- con con points test. test. test. First. . . .$100 $100 $ 50 Second. . . 50 50 50 Third. . . . 30 30 15 Fourth. . . :U 20 10 Totals. . . .$200 $200 $100 Certificate of Honor. Every competitor in this contest, whether he or she wins a prize or not, provided their work is meritor ious, as shown by results and com plete report, will lie awarded a cer tificate, setting forth the results achieved. In awarding these cer tificates, special s'.ress will be paid by the judges upon the purity and selection of seed and met lions of cullure. as well as the actual crop the certificate only to contestants obtained. The purpose is to award whose methods and crop are such as to render the grain they produce on the contest acre in 1910 worthy of endorsement for seed purposes. In this way it is hoped that farmers everywhere will universally demand certified seed grain when they come to plant for 1911. E. J. Watson, Commissioner. itut OBANGKEBT7 PARDON MILL GRINDS GOV. BTJEASE TURNS SEVERAL LONG TIMERS LOOSE. Among Them Are Men Convicted of Murder, Manslaughter and Other Crimes. The pardon mill of Gov. Blease continues to grind, and criminals are being turned loose. Franklin McAl lister, a life prisoiPer In the peniten tiary, escaped last January and went to his home In Williamsburg county to see his Wind mother and to secure an old petition for pardon which had been filed with Gov. Heyward. He later went to the office and presented the petition to Gov. Blease. Monday he was paroled during good behavior, ,but will have to return to prison for life should he be convicted of an other crime. McAllister was convicted in Wil liamsburg county in 1901 on the charge of murder and upon the rec ommendation of the mercy of the court received a life sentence. Judge Wilson, who was the solicitor prose cuting the case, said in a letter to Gov. Blease that he would not make a recommendation as he did not re member the facts in the case. He was convicted for the murder of Siah Fullmore. Ned Criss, a Charleston negro, serving a life sentence in the peni tentiary, has been pardoned by Gov. Blease. Criss was convicted in 1889 on the charge of killing E. H. Olden berg, a Charleston merchant. Caesar Fraser, another negro, was convicted at the same time and was hanged. The two negroes were robbing the store of Oldenberg and when Mr. Old enberg caught them, one of the ne groes fired, killing the merchant. Criss was sentenced to be hanged but hi3 sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Gov. Richardson. In the petition for pardon it is stated that the fatal shot was fired by Fraser. Sion Miller of Saluda county, who was convicted in 1904 on the charge of killing a negro, Richard Truesdale, and sentenced to 10 years In the pen itentiary upon a verdict of man slaughter, has been pardoned. Rus sell McCormick was convicted on the same charge and was pardoned by Gov. Ansel. Judge Purdy, who heard the case, said In a letter that under the circumstances he would not op pose a pardon for Miller, i James Stuart, who was convicted in 1909 in Hampton county on the charge of larceny of live stock, has received a commutation of sentence from Gov. Blease to date.. He was given one year in the penitentiary. THE SMALL BOY AND GUN Kills His Little Sister and Shoots Lady in the Arm. As the result of a most distress ing accident at Florence on Monday 'afternoon, the one-year-old daughter I of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Cole is dead, and the arm of :.\lrs. Wallace, a neighbor of the Coles, is terribly lacerated. Charles, the ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cole, took a shotgun to go rabbit hunting. As he attempt ed to pass out the door of the Cole home, the gun fired and the entire contents took effect in the stomach of the boy's litte baby sister, and the J arm of Mrs. Wallace, who was a visi tor, and who was holding the baoy j in her arms. The child died almost i instantly, as it was practically dis ' em bo welled. Mrs. Wallace had her arm dressen ' as quickly as medical aid could reach : her and she is resting easily, al i though it is not known how badly j she is injured. The parents of the ; children are greatly distressed over i the unfortunate accident as well as i the boy who had the gun in hand. DROPPED FOUR STORIES. Fall of Elevator Causes the Death of j Three People. i At St. Paul, Minn., two girls and a man were killed, one girl fatally hurt and several others Injured in an elevator in the wholesale fur house of Gordon & Ferguson Tuesday. The : elevator fell four floors. The dead and injured were pinioned in wreck age at the bottom of the shaft. Ma son Johnson, the elevator operator, told Coroner Jones that when he closed the gates after discharging passengers at the fourth floor the ele vator started to slip down. The clutch failed to work. The elevator gathered momentum and when it struck the bottom of the shaft the counterbalance weight at tin.' top dropped. Saved His Life. At Alcolu a house occupied as a dwelling by J. Muck Gagnal, was dc stroyed by lire Moiukn night. Mr. Gagnal is a cripple and was in the house alone ;ir.d asleep at the time the house caught fire and would pos sibly have lost his life but for the timely arrival of a negro man, Sam Washington, who knocked the door down and aroused him. Maine Still Democratic. Democratic success in Maine was continued at the city elections held Tuesday, candidates of that party winning the mayoralty contests in four of the five cities which voted Bangor. Augusta, Belfast and Bidde ford. Republicans won in Brewer. EG, S. a, PHUKSDAY. M OLD MEXICO HOT Conditions in That Country Are in a Ter ribly Excited Slate. DECLARES ? TRAVELER Who Says the Revolt is Widespread and All Business is Paralyzed in the Country?Mexico a Land of Feudal Barons and Serfs?Politics Dangerous Subject. "Mexico is poisoned from end to end. The spirit of revolt and unrest, most evident in Chihuahua, Is rife in all the twelve States of the Republic. Very few people in the United States have any idea of the terrible condi tions now existing in the sister na itlon." In these words Mr. Frederick W. ? Olds, who is secretary of the Raleigh : Chamber of Commerce, and who left ' Mexico just nine days before, summed ' up the situation in the unfortunate I country, the President of which has just announced a war of extermina tion against the revolutionists, j "I do not think," he said, "that the j army which the United States is as I sembling along the Mexico border I will become an army of occupation. ! There is grave doubt whether the ac i quisltion of Mexico would be a desir able thing. We would acquire there by a vast number of what Col. Roose velt calls 'undesirable citizens,' ut terly unfit to govern themselves and too ignorant to discharge the duties of citizenship, and the trouble that they would give us would more than offset anything that we. would gain by annexation of the Republic. "Moreover, If war should come, It might prove a more serious proposi tion than most people imagine. While it is true that Mexico is divided against itself, American intervention might lead to a prompt patching up of all internecine feuds and a very determined resistance on the part of the invaded country. It all depends on the priests. They wield a tremen dous influence over all classes, and if they were to declare against the Americans It would mean a sort of holy war. The Mexicans distrust and dislike the Americans already, and I do not think they would submit to conquest. .. ^ "As for Diaz, it looks as If his day is over. He Is recognized as a great man, but the general opinion in Mexico is that he has grown too old and that, due largely to bad advisers, i he has become too despotic. Some of ! the papers, I see, have printed re j ports that he is dead. I saw him in January and he looked well enough . then. He came out and stood on the ' balcony of the palace overlooking the ! great Plaza in Mexico City, while the bands played and the soldiers stooa \ in line below. He looked very erect and soldierly?a fine figure. I was i Impressed with the fact, however, that no popular enthusiasm greeted j his appearance. "What the end of It all may be j no man can say. Mexico is in a ter rible condition from one end to the other. It is like Europe a thousand years ago. The population is divided into two classes?the great land-own ers, who are virtually feudal baruns, and the peons, who are virtually serfs. Some of the former own as much as four million acres of land. The latter illiterate, and absolutely paupers. The Insurrectos consist j largely of these peons who are de ! termined to throw off the yoke of their overlords, though there are also many wealthy men among them. "In fact, In Mexico nobody knows who is an insurrecto and who Is loy j al to the Government. It is danger ous to talk politics and ruin or death j to abuse the party in power. At the : present moment the jails are full. The papers are consored so that It Is i impossible to learn the truth as to the progress of the revolution, and nobody will talk politics for fear of financial ruin if he happens to say something unwise. "In the revolution the Diaz Gov ernment has a tremendous problem on its hands. The spirit of revolt is everywhere. If troops are withdrawn from one place and sent to another to quell a disturbance, there is at once a fresh outbreak In the place which the troops have just left. The Federal army is made up lrrgely of convicts. A man convicted of a crime is given the choice of military ser vice or jail. There is no navy, no heavy artillery. There are no forts worthy of the name and the cities arc agsolu tely unfortified. "American interests are suffering terribly. These amount to something like a .billion of dollars, and business is absolutely paralyzed. There arc pproximat ely seven! y?five thousa nd American citizens in Mexico, most of them in the State of Chihuahua. They cannot now, and never can. get along with the Mexicans, because the Saxon never yet understood the Lat in." Mr. Olds stated that, while he had ample opportunity to observe condi tions in .Mexico, and while he wit nessed many incidents that impressed upon him strongly the fearful con ditions prevalent there, he himself had met with few disagreeable ad ventures. He was obliged to go through all sorts of tedious forms in entering and leaving the country nnd was examined closely as to what his purpose was and what he had with ; him. Later he was given the same AUCH 16. 19] 1. BAILEY NOT WANTED PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OB JECT TO HIS LEADING. They Say He Must and Will be Elim inated From All Influence in the Party. A special dispatch to The News and Courier from Washington saysj although Mr. Bryan stated most em phatically that he had not come to Washington for the purpose of in terfering in any way with the plans of the next Congress, or to oppose Tammany's work in making Repre sentative Fitzgerald, of New York, chairman of the House committee ofl appropriations, he ueld a number of conferences with the leaders among the "progressive" Democrats. His visit will develop, it is expect ed, the full plans for maintaining i the progressives in control of the I legislature program, and for coun I teractlng the influence of the "Bai ley Democrats," as they are now gen-: erally called. The fight for control iof the Democratic party between. I these elements, headed by Bryan and Bailey, is declared by the pro-j gressives to be fast growing into a! fight for life on Mr. Bailey's part. The progressives declare that Bry an and Hearst are with them, heart I and soul, in the effort to eliminate j Bailey from influence in party coun ; cils. Concerning this feature of the situation, Senator Owen, of Okla homa, who has suddenly sprung into ] leadership of the Anti-Bailey ele I ment, talked with the tarje-timt Presidential-candidate at length. Bailey - has been the most bitter and relentless antagonist of Bryan since 1908. He was not for Bryan's j nomination and did not attend the ! Convention, though there were inti mations that he could have been chairman of the resolution commit tee if he had cared to come into camp and be good. He has been un interruptedly hostile ever since. The Bailey conservatives and Tammany influences are looked upon as the obstacles to complete control by the progressives. Bailey's lead j ership is opposed with hardly more earnestness than is the candidacj of John J. Fitzgerald, Tammanyte, for chairman of the appropriation committee. Beyond this lies tht, House committee composition. The same forces, which oppose Bai ley and Fitzgerald object to Mr. Adamson, of Georgia, for chairman of Inter-State commerce. They say he Is not in sympathy with Demo cratic policies on questions this committee must consider. It Is known that Mr. Bryan's aid has beet | sought, and he is understood to be: ; willing to extend it. j Under the caption of "Democrats Take Warning" the Philadelphia) North American says: "The spectacle of Bailey in the senate surrounded ,by the pleading! group of Sherman, Lodge, Root and! Lorimer, and besought by those re publicans to recall his farce-comedy; j resignation, has Its logical sequel in the plan to put the purse-s!rings of the nation into the hands of John i.T. Fitzgerald, ally, savior and bene ficiary of Joe Cannon. "Fitzgerald, like Bailey, is no commonplace servant of special priv ilege. He is dangerous because of his ability. If the scheme to make . him chairman of the appropriations 'committee is consummated, it will give the He to all future pretense : that the Democratic congressional or ganization Is progressive and has the public interest honestly at heart. ! "Honest, country-loving Democrats of the type of Speaker Clark; Henry, of Texas; Hay, of Virginia; Sims, of Tennessee; James, of Kentucky, and ; Kitchin, of North Carolina, may con sider such a promotion a strategical ; political concession to 'harmony* in 'the 1912 election. But they never ! can convince the country that the j 'harmony' is an) thing but a surren der to Wall street. Big Business, re action and special privilege." Prisoners Escaped. Overpowering and killing the guard who opened the door of the jail at Vera Cruz. Mexico, Tuesda) morning in order to give them their coffee, 40 prisoners made a break for liberty. From the jail to the out skirts of the city a fight occurred be tween policemen and prisoners. All except two succeeded in escaping. One was captured and one was killed. A policeman was also killed and three wounded. Tillman Case Continued. Senator Tillman's health, accord ing to Dr. J. W. Babcock, being such as to make it inadvisable for him to attend a trial, the civil action brought by Mrs. Lucy Dugas Tillman against her husband, Mr. B. R. Till man, Jr., to recover about $13.000, alleged to be due the senator's daug'i ter-in-law by his son, was on Sat urday continued by Judge Sea.se. Many in Want. Twenty-fnc thousand inhabitants in the beleaguered city of Chihuahua, Mexico, face famine, according to u courier who reached here today. Hundreds of women, driven from the city by fears of starvation, have tak en their children with them and they are roaming the country. Chihuahua is bottled up by insurrectos. treatment (by a party of insurrectos, but no violence was done him. < T STOCK SHEDS BURN MANY HORSES, SHEEP AND HOGS PERISH IN THE FIRE. Four Men Are Seriously Injured in Their Efforts to Save Fine Animals from the Flames. At Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday, nearly two acres of stocksheds burn ed, roasting to death between 500 and 1,000 head of horseB, sheep and hogs and seriously burning four men. The value of the burned animals is estimated at about' $250,000 and the property loss $50,000. Large numbers of blooded animals which were at Fort Worth for exhi bition at the fat stock show, the big gest exhibition of its kind in the Southv est, are believed to have been saved. The caretakers' first efforts were for these animals, scores of which were turned loose to run as they pleased through the stockyards dis trict. Great difficulty was found af ter the fire in gathering them again. Most seriously injured of those who worked to save the stock were Murray Howard and L. E. Walton. The latter, pinned close to the flames by the swinging of one of the cattle gates, barely escaped in time. The fire is believed to have been started by the carelessness of a help er cooking his breakfast in one of) the barns. None of the packing I houses was damaged. THROWN FROM THEIR BUGGY.! Rev. H. W. Kee Killed and His Wife Seriously Hurt. At Columbus, Ga., while driving late Monday afternoon Rev. Howard W. Kee, son of Bishop J. S. Kee of the Methodist church, South, was In stantly killed. His wife, who accom panied him, also was thrown from the buggy and sustained serious in jury. In falling from his buggy Dr. Kee struck a post, crushing his head. Mrs. Kee had two ribs broken ana was badly bruised but is expected to recover. Because of her condition, she was not informed of her hus band's death Monday night. Dr. Kee was 61 years old and has been one of the prominent Methodist ministers in this section of the State for many years. He is survived by i the widow and six children. The funeral arrangements will be an nounced later. DEADLY WORK OF LIGHTNING. A Man and His Little Boy Are In stantly Killed. While standing under a large oak tree, with his ,fiour-year-old .baby; boy in his arms, Y. H. Evern, a ne-, gro, who lives near Hobbysville, near Spartanburg, was struck by lightn ing. Both the negro and the boy, were instantly killed. A peculiar feature of the tragedy was that no marks whatever were left on the , body of the boy, but the father was j badly mutilated. All metal about his person was completely melted; I the butrbns on his (overalls were I melted off and a pocket knife show j ed signs of the current. Another i negro, about one hundred yards dis ; tant, saw the stroke, and when he ; arrived at the side of the negro l-otn were dead. It is thought that death must have been instantaneous. Caused by Old Grudge. While his aged mother looked on, Robert I-Iowell, a well-to-do white man, shot and instantly killed John Odom in a store at Nankin, Ga., Monday. Before shooting Odom, ? Howell gave him a thorough whip I ping with a horsewhip. A fight dur . ing last Christmas holidays is said to ' have caused the trouble. Green Eyed .Monster. At San Francisco, Cal., in a jeal ous rage, R. ft. Moslyn, a turret cap tain on the cruiser California, Tues day shot and killed Messie Cook, a dance hall sinucr, and Hugo Randall, night clerk in the hotel where she lived. He then shot himself through the head. All died almost instantly. Deadly Stroke. At Kinks Mountain, X. C. during a severe electrical storm Tuesday af ternoon Mrs. I). L. Cordon was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Her daughter. Mrs. Wallace, was severely shocked and is in a serious condition. Kvjms Will Be Tried. It is generally believed that the case against Hub II. Evans, of New berry, will in- called for trial in thai city next week. .Mr. Evans is charg ed with conspiracy to defraud while a director of the State dispensary board. Bandits Rob Hotel. At Ogden, Utah, the Reed hotel was robbed by two masked men at I o'clock Tuesday morning. The bandits made the clerk open the safe and enpty $700 into a bag. Af ter getting the money they escaped, Found in a Field. T. K. Starling, a white man, was found dead in the field of John Bail ey, near Saxegotha Cotton Mills in Lexington County Monday. An ex amination revealed the fact that the man died from natural causes. i WO CENTS PEB COPY GOT VERY MAD -? 1 Senator Bailey Seems lo Think He Is Above the Coons of Law. SUMMONS TO TESTIFY He Says, Is a "Contemptible Piece of Politics" on the Part of the Illinois Prosecuting Officer Who Had the Subpoena Issued for His Appear ance. A subpoena was Issued last Satur day from Sougamon County, 111., for United States Senator Joseph W. Dai ley of Texas at the behest of State's attorney, Burke, summoning him as a witness in the rase against State Senator John S. Broderick of Chi cago. Broderick is charged by for mer State Senator David H. Holstlaw of Iuka with paying him $2,500 on July 16, 1909, in Broderick's saloon in Chicago for Holstlaw's vote for William Lorimer for United States Senator. Holtslaw produced a deposit slip for that amount on the State Bank of Chicago in which hank he said he de posited the money. The deposit slip was taken to Washington by the sub committee investigating , Lorimer's ' election and the last knowledge of the whereabouts of the slip was when Senator Bailey held it in his hand during his speech in the Senate in defense of Lorimer and denounced It as a forgery. Broderick's case is set for trial 'Monday, March 20. A request to Senator Bailey for a statement regarding the missing affidavit came from Senator Cum mins, of Iowa, who, telegraphing from Des Moines, declared he bad made a statement and that he de* . sired that Senator Bailey also sboulu . give his version of the loss of the two documents. At that time Senator Bailey turned the papers over to Sen ator Tillman and Mr. Tillman states that he handed them to some Repub lican Senator. Not since then has either of the documents been seen. It is now said that because the au thorities of Sougamon County, 111., Issued a subpoena for him, which came to his knowledge on Tuesday, Senator Bailey probably will make no explanation relative to the disap pearance in the senate chamber at Washington of the affidavit of Mr. Newton, the bank clerk, and the Holstlaw bank deposit slip, concern ing which there was much discussion during the pendency in the senate of the resolution to vacate the seat of Senator Lorimer of Illinois. "Before the senate adjourned," said Senator Bailey, "Senator Cum mins told me that he had been asked to make an affidavit himself reciting that he had received that paper and delivered it to me. and asked me also to make an affidavit that 1 had re ceived it from him and handed it. to Senator Tillman. who had in turn handed it to some other senators who desired to see it. I very readily told Senator Cummins that I would make the affidavit and Saturday afternoon Senator Borah told me that he had received a tele?ram from Senator Cummins asking me to prepare and send the affidavit, i immediately pre pared it and delivered it to Senator Borah to be sent to Senator Cum mins." The senator went on to say '.hat after he had given the affidavit to Mr. Borah he saw for the first time a news dispatch saying that subpoena had been issued for him in Spring field, 111., and on Sunday sent a tel egram to Senator Cummins reading: "I received your message through Senator Borah Tuesday afternoon and promptly prepared the affidavit, . which I delivered to him for trans mission to you. Later in the after noon I read a statt ment that the State's attorney of Saneamon coun ty had procured a subpoenae duces tecum for me and if that is true I desire you to return my affidavit to me at once and under no circum stances will I consent for the prose cuting attorney at Springfield to have it. Of course lie perfectly under stands that Illinois could not issue a subpoena for persons outside of her jurisdiction and therefore the appli cation for it. if made, was a con temptible piece of petty politics. If the district attorney there had hon estly desired my presence he could have secured it iiy a simple and courteous request." Burke Replies to Bailey. When shown at Springfield, Hi., the dispatch from Washington, with Senator Bailey's comment, Statu? Attorney Burke, of Snngamon coun ty. Monday nighl said: "What Mr. Bailey men! to say was thai Illinois could not 'compel' the appearance of witnesses from with out tue State. I am slow to believe that "a simp!) and courteous request" would .avail when a subpoena does nor. "In view of the statements in the Senate about the imaginary 'forgery', of this deposit slip, having mention of the highest executive office in this State in that connection, the neces sary inference affecting other respect able citizens of this State, including myself, and the subsequent mysteri ous disappearance of this slip, and his attempt to explain its disap pearance, is not satisfactory."