The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 19, 1909, Page THREE, Image 3
1ILLIN DEFENDS
CARLESION YARD
SBNATOR GROWS WARM IN DIS
CUSSING NAVAL STATION.
Declares Magazine Article About Es
tablishment at South Carolina
Port Misleading.
Washington, Feb. 16.-When the
senate today took up tie naval appro
priation bill Senator Dixon of Mon
tana was the first to take the flooi
and he continued his strictures of the
plan of having many navy yards
along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
instead of three of four gnreat naval
bases, which. lie insisted, was the
course that would be pursued by any
great commercial and business man.
He said millions of dollars are anual
ly wasted by the scattering of the
work through many navy yards.
Senator Tillman taunted the sena
tor from Montana with being a "sen
ator from the Rocky mountains who
has come here to tell us show to build
a navy." "It is," he continued,
"easier to sit on a mountain peak out
in Idaho and read magabine eritic
isms of the navy than to run the
navy.''
He declared that a magaziiie arti
cle from which Mr. Dixon read was
"full of lies."
"Whether or not it is full of lies,"
wDlied Mr. Dixon, "is just what I
sm endeavoring to find out." He re
ferred to a statement in .the magazine
to the effect that the improvement at
the Charleston, S. C., yard was ad
vised against by the experts, buit
-when Mr. Tillman said this was not
the ease, -he expressed himself as sat
isfied.
Mr. Dixon insisted that the naval
committee of the senate was compos
ed almost entirely of senators wiho
have navy yards in itheir respective
States. He wanted to know what
would be thought of having the com
mittee on reclamation of arid lands
composed of senators from the States
in which such lands a-re located.
Mr. Hale replied that such was ithe
ease, and Mr. Tillman added that a
similar condition exists in the Indian
and the public lands committees.
Mr. Dixon was again reading from
the magazine from which 'he had
quoted when Senator Tillman inter
rupted to say that if lie was "going
to bring muckraking into the senate "
the bill would be there a long time.
"If this is the only muckraking
brought into .the senate it would in
terfere very little with -the dispatch
of work," retorted Mr. Dixon.
Charleston's Advantages.
Mr. Tillman referred to t'he subject
of the C4harleston yard, on whose ad
vantages 'he elaborated.
"You," he declared, pointing his
finger at Mr. Dixon, "simply are pre
judiced against the Southern yards
arid you want to get that out of your
head."
Mr. Dixon replied tha't he was a
Southern mani and :had no such pre
judice, so far .as 'he knew. Charles
ton might be the best place for a
great naval station.
"If I am mistaken," Mr. Tillman
replied, "-then I beg the senator's
pardon. But there are some people
who think nothing is good if it is in
ithe South. The president himself rea
izes this condition and 'has in his
speeches appealed for a different
treatment for that section."
Mr. Tillman declared tha.t there
was a "el-ique in the na.vy department
who wanted to break up the Charles
iton navy yard."
"I am not speaking in the interest
of any navy yard." said Mr. Dixon.
"'I am only speaking in favor. of con
solidation.'"
"'If I stood indicted in this arti
ele," said Senator Dixon, referring to
the m'agazine criticism, "I1 would an
swer it. I think that it is a matter of
self-respect that the senate and con
gress and the administration should
answer these charges which are made
openly. T:he people of the country be
lieve these articles whether we do or
not.''
Senator MeEneryv, of Louisiana. de
lared that 'hostility in the navy de
partment against .the navy yards of
Louisiana prevented any ship from
gongz there for repairs. "They ab
solutely refuse," he said, "to make
improverments and 'repairs in 'tha.t
vard and yet they send small boats
from the South Atlantie coast to
Northern yards for repairs."
There was, he said, a usurpation of
authority in the navy department. so
that. evenl when congress makes ap
propriations for certain yards the de
partment withholds the money and
delines to make estim'ates for. fatare
appropriations for them.
Mr. Dixon declared in reply to
statements made by otiher senators
that he was not filibustering again-e
the naval bill.
"What is lie filibusterinv-r
aainst?"' asked Mr. Flint in an un
dertone.
''The senator from Montana is not
filibustering 'ait all," replied Mr. Dix
on for himself.
"Here is a bill carrying $13S,000.
000 and we have had one day to con
sider it," said Mr. Dixon. "Has ii
reached such a. point in this senate
that a senator has not a -right to ask
questions about a bill earrying s
much money?"
Mr. Dixon declared tihat we dc
not know where we are dritit ing,' i
ina-kin- these appropriations. " God
knows,'' lhe said, "there ought to be
some plan somewiere to put a eiek
upon this geometrie increase in the
appropriations, especially when WE
are confronted by a deficiency of
$150,000,000.
Mr. )ixoi yielded tlie floor and the
conlside;ation of the bill was proceed
ed with. An amendmenit directiingu a
report on the availabi-lity of land of
the Jamestown Exposition company
near Norfolk, Va., for a naval train
ing station was stricken from tjhe bill
on a point of order.
SAD ACCIDENT.
Fourteen-Year-Old Irene Wade Run
Over and Killed by Freight
Train at Greenwood.
Greenwood, February 16.-Irene,
the littl.e 14-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. P. D. Wade, of this place,
was run over by a freight on the Sou
thern here this morning, and so bad
ly crushed -and mangled that she died
about tihree hours after the terrible
accident.
The little girl, with a you.nger sis
ter, aged about 8, was on her way to
school from their home, on Lee street,
and were in the aet of crossing ith-e
railroad tracks at the lower end of
Hampton avenue, near Beaudrot'
shoop. A freight train on the Ohar
leston -and Western Carolina was
oming in as they began crossing, and
the two little girls were watching
that. They were directly behind the
caboose of South;ern freigh,t 66. which
had a few minutes before come in
from Greenville. This freight sud
denly moved baek, and without warn
ing tihe little girl was pushed down,
run over and mangled. Her left leg
was practically crushed off above the
knee. Her left. hand was run over
and also erushed off.
The girl's screams attracted -
meiate attention. Dr. J. B. Owvens,
who lives very near. was the first to
reach 'her. Messrs. Geo. Anderson,
Beaudrc t, and Ed. Hunter, were also
quikly .at hand, and the little suffer
er was carried crushed and mangled
to her home, from whence she :had on
lv a short while before left 'happy and
content. Her mother was away from
home, .atitending the Sunday school
convention in Orangeburg. Her fath
er, superintendent of the Greenwood
Cotton Mills, was in the mill. He was
soon at home. The best surgical skill
was rendered aher,. but she never sur
vived the terrible shoek. She died
about noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade 'have been liv
ing here only a few months. They
came from Peizer, where Mr. Wade
was superintendent of one of 'the mills
there. The Southern train was in
eharge of Conductor Fant. The trage
dy has deeply stirred the community.
Anything of the sort happening to a
child is peculiarly sad and peculiarly
affecting. Parents gaze with fonder
and more ~tender eyes on their own
ehildren, -and their 'hearts go out in
inexpressible sympat,hy to the berear
'd father and mother of little Irene
Wade.
YBGG WAS IN LAURENS.
Man in Arrest in Jacksonville Talk
ing-Claims to Know Dead Man
-Adds There Was Third
Man.
Columbia St.ate, 17th.
The identity of the heretofore un
known ye-gg killed at Laurens seems
to ihave been established. The identi
fications have been nlumlerous, but
'at offered by a brother yegg captur
ed by -a Jacksonville polieeman in the
et of blowing .a safe in a saloon in
that city seems 'to be 'the best yet
preseted, if it can be credited. How
ever-, it is not a yegg habit to talk,
and this fellow may be trying to pro
tet 'himself. According to 'this man'
*s!tatement, the dead man's name is
Charley Silas.
The man appr-ehended in .Jackson
v-ille talks ver-y freely of himself and
his v-aried operations as a safe crack
e-. Hei says ,his name is -John Samp
son. A yegg by the name of George
Barton is alleged to 'have been with
Sampson, watching on the outside
while Sampson did the . ob in the sa
loon. This Barton, says Sampson, is
the man who was with Silas when he
was killed in Laurens. Barton is al
leged to have evaded the police and
made ihis 'escape while the lone officer
was running in Sampson.
Sampson says 'he himself w'as no-t a
participant in the shbooting. He went
to Laurens with Silat and Barton, but
he remained on the cars a little longer
than did his two pals and was lying
ear wheni ie heard the re-olver re
p<mvts.
His tile of the trip to LInr1en. is
iltat about six neeks ago he went to
Oharleston, and one of the first men
he saw was Charlev Silas. The two
were old pals and he had known Silas
as an exceptionally elever safe erack
er in New York eity and elsewhere.
Thev two planned miany "Jobs"!
while they were in Charleston. the
Laurens stall beiig ailono- them, and
after several diys went to Savannah.
While here the; met Geo. Barton, an
old pal of theirs, who told them that
he had been operating around AugOus
ta. but ithey had decided to get out of
Georgia. The three selected Jackson
vIll-e as a good poilit to camp for a
while aid1 sia.ed in i tiat (itv. '-erack
ing'' safes in the outlying list]ries.
That city remained their -iwadquar
ters. One of .the trio is dead, anither
in jail and the thirdI fleeing from t-he
Jacksonville poliee.
Sampson says they had some time
before planned a "job' at Lauren.;
and went from Jaeksonville to Char
leston. where they caught a freight
train for Laurens. The entire party
was to have alighted from 'the train
near Laurens, but lie himself. as
aforesaid, did not get off with them
and only heard the shots from the top
of the ea,r. After the shooting, Samp
son and Barton caugh.t a later -train
for Cha.rleston, coming immediately
to Jacksonville, where they continued
>perations until tihe capture of Samp
son and the leparture of Barton for
parts unkno -n. Sampson says that
itfhe pictures published of Silas were
excellent likenesses and both he and
Barton commented on this fact.
Sampson talked freely to the Jack
sonville police, telling of many
"jobs' lhe has been implicated in.
The 'records corroborate everything
he has said as to the jobs pulled off,
and as to his partner, Barton, being
wanted in different States and escap
in<r from the Fulton county jail.
Sampson is an artist in his --profes
sion." and says Silas. tlhe dead yegg,
was one of the very best in the busi
ness of cracking safes. Sampson
claims to have made his own nitrogly
cerine. * The liquid, according to
Sampson's story, was made by put
ting sticks of dynamite in hot wa.ter
and 'after mashing to a pulp, squeez
ing -it through a rag into small bottles.
The dynamite was purchased by Bar
ton, who declaired that he wished to
1use it in blasting in conneetion with
the work on a house .he was building
Sapon was very bold, passing the
Jaeksonile police headquarters fre
quently and carrying on conversations
Iwith several patrolmen. He was ar
rested by .the sheriff on a charge of
vagraney, but was released. He had
at the time, he said, a small bottle of
nitroglycerine suspended from a
at:ring tied around ,his waist. Samp
son says -he would have shot the po
liceman arresting him had he not
thlought that he had other offieers
with him, and that Barton is a dan
gerous man, alwvays going armed, and
will not thesitate to shoot.
Postoffice Inspector Gregory is in
Jacksonville .to take a look at Samp
son and he may have information that
will result in additional charges being
placed -against him.
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