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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 1, 1906. NO.42. HOW HE VOTED On Certain Bills and Why Hi Did So Stated BY SENATOR MArN I NG He Refutes the Charges Made Agains Him by Blease and _ Gives Good Reasons for All the Votes He Cast in the Senate. The following statement from Sen ator Manning explaint itself: "I did not propose to be drawn away from my plan of campaign 0 into any controversy, but I intended to conduct my campaign on a high plane, without mud-slinging for I dc not intend to ask for the suffrage of the pecple of Scuth Carolina by de tracting from or injuring the charao ter or reputation of my opponents. But, inasmuch as mention has been made of my votes in the legislature on certain measures, I feel it necessary to keep the record straight. I will therefore have to correct certain statements which have been made. "Mr. Blesse in his speech in Colum bia spoke with a great deal of feeling when discussing the work of the in vestigating committee of the cruelty of injuring a man's reputation by in sinuations or suspicions. He has not observed this rule in his reference to me, for it will be found that in giv ing my record vote on certain meas urea he has given only a part of that record on those matters, and has done me an injustice and created a wrong impression. He may not have intend ed this, and he said to me that he would himself make the corrections to which I called his attention in a per sonal conversation, but he has not yet done so, and I will therefore set this record straight myself. I wish to say, with reference to the bill regulating the rate of interest in 1893, reducing the rate of interest from 8 to 7 per cent., that I voted against- that bill. My only business at that time was farming. I was a borrower cf. money annually, but I felt that if money lenders could not get the current rates for money from farmers that they would lend money elsewhere, and the farmers, instead of getting n oney from banks with which to conduct their' business, would be forced to get advances from commis sion merchants on a lien at a rate of interest running from 10 to 30 per cent. for advarces. For this reason, I voted against the reduction in the rate and believe that that action has proved to be in the interest of the ag ricultural class. "On the child labor bill of 1900, I voted against the bill because of an understanding -had with Col. Jas. L Orr, Mr. Lewis Parker, Capt. Ellison Smyth, that they would use their ef forts to have the ,mills regulate this matter themselves, If we did not pass the law. I then on that understanding voted against the bill. They made this uffEart with the mlfl, but failed. The ftollowing year 1901, the act was again introduced and I voted for the bill, worked strenuously for Its passage and spoke in support of the bill, as will be found in Senate Journal, 1901, pages 295 and 340. "On the bill to prohibit trusts, Sen ate Journal 1902, pages 462-i'72, my reasons for voting as I did are as fol lows: There was a section in the bili exempting agreements with regard to the sale cf agricultural products. Be fore this, an act had' been passed in Tennessee arnd Texas containing a similar provision. The act of Texas had been thrown Into the courts and had been passed on by the supreme court of the United States. The de cision of that court was to the cifect that the 'whole act was invalid, inas much as this discriminating clause af fected the 'whole act in favor of One class and rendered the act null and void. "in the senate, I moved to strike cut that section, because it would make the bill -~uiconstitutlonlal, nuit and void. I was trying to save- the bill. The senate refused to strike out that section and I then said that in the face of the decision of the supre me court of the United States, which was so clear and positive, It was sim ply child's play to pass an act when we knew that the act would be null and void. "As I said, my purpose was to have a bill that would stand the test of the courts and prohibit trusts and monop olies. "Mr. Blease again quotes from the record in part and dces me an in.1us tice in the matter-of the relief bill. I opposed the bill when It was intro duced because it was stated, both by the railroadI authorities and the em ployees of the road, that it was en tirely optional1 with the employees whether they joined this relief depart ment or not. But Mr. Blease falls to state my vote on the bill the next year. *"In the meantime, I had investi *gated this matter and made inquiries among the railroad men themselves. I supported the bill in 1903, because I was satisfied that it was not option al with the employees, but was prac tically a matter of compulsion tha1 they should join this department o3 'would lose their Dosition. My vote -for the bill is found in the Senat< Joiurnal, 1903, page 243. "With reference to my positIon o1 the Cauighman act of 1900, I will at I voted against a bill In 1892 w..i provided for a partition in car, bu -ga.ve no separate toilet accommoda tion for the sexes, which would hav been indecent. This bill failed be cause or Its glaring defects. The separation uf the races was prc vided for by the act of 1898, when was not a member of the legislature When .the bill was before the senat in 1900 to amend this bill, I vote against an indefinite postponementl wlrha would have mean h st the bill. Certain amendments were put in in the senate which did not meet my approval, and I voted against the bill as amended. On the report of the committee of confer ence, the house refused to agree to the senate amendments. On motion that the senate recede from its amend ments, it was moved to lay that mo tion on the table and on that motion to table I voted "Nay" which shows that I favored the bill as passed by the house and as finally passed, with one minor amendmenDt, and which amendment I agreed to in committee of free conference. Senate Journal 1900, page 412. t "I was then put on the committee of free conference on the Caughman bill. That committee recommer ded that the senate reced from some of its amendments. I as one of this com mittee, of free conference, approved the bill as passed, which was satisfac tory to the author of the bill, and I voted for it as it passed. "With reference to my vote on the repeal of the charter of the Virginia Carolina Chemical company, I desire to state that the bill provided for the repeal of the charter of that company without any process of law, which was a proposition for which I felt that 1 couid not stand, inasmuch as such an action would be entirely Ille gal and unjust and would destroy pro perty rights in an unconstitutional manner and would be a violation of my oath. "Richard I Manning." FIVE PERSONS ILLD. Disastrous Meeting of Trolley Cars Near Buffalo, N Y. Five persons were killed and about twenty in jared in a collission between two trolley trains on the Internation- i al Railroad company's line between Buffalo, N. Y., and Lockport Wednes day night. A train of two trolley cars, west bound from Lnckport, and due at Tonawanda as 9.15 o'clock, ran into an open switch at a siding jist east of Martinville and - crashed into a trolley freight motor and a train of seven freight cars which were lying on the siding waiting for the passen- I ger train to go by. Five persons were a killed outright and a score ir jared, 5 some of whom may die. The passenger cars were going at a high rate of speeed when the accident occurred, and the impact was terrif fic. The foremost car was utterly demolished. The wedge-shaped end of the freight motor cut it in half, a and the rear car completed the work t of destruction. The rear car remain- ) ed on the tracks. The dead are: Jonh Blttleman, r Lockport, N. Y. mortorman: Charles T. Hutchinson, Lockport; unknown C workman, head crushed; girl and boy, t supposed to be brother and sister names unknown, and Mrs. Henry r E tell and 6.year-old son. The most seriously injured are: Theodore Nestman, Buffxio; Dr. E A. Wieland, Bt ffaic; H. J. Waiz, Buffalo; Mrs. Emma H. Maloney, Buffalo. Mr. J. D. H ath, Niagra Fall:; Lee Johnson, n-otorman will a probaiy die. The switch Into the siding was not C closed, for the passenger came thun dering along, took the turn and t crashed upon the freight engine. 1 There were about forty pas engers on C the two cars and most of them were I killed or Injured. The motorman of t the first passenger coach was killed, I andhis body was still. in the wreck t late Thursday night. -Fell From Trestlie. A caboose and two passenger coach es, left on the curve of the long over head bridge by which the Seaboard i enters Columbia from the south, were knocked off and thrown Into a heap s of splinters twenty feet- below Wed- I nesday morning, by a freight coming into the city. Conductor Suead was t fatally hurt, but It Is thought that Fiagman Burgnay. who was carrieda down with him, will recover. These were the only occupants of the coach- a es. The coaches were part of thet frst section of the through freight a which crashed Into them and had 1 been left only for a few minutes, in order to dIvide the load going around1 the curve. Engineer Rogers, on the second section, stuck to his machine and was uninjured. His colored fire- 1 man was only slightly hurt. Flag man Burgnay was waving at the ap proaching train as the crash came. Wire Beater Killed. Oliver Bryant, a coal miner of Vanderburg county Ind., drank to excess, and when he went home he 1 quarreled with his wife and ended by 1 giving her a beating. Neighbors heard the screams of the womain, and a mob was organmzed, and while Bry- t1 ant was sleeping off the efiEct of the lIquor, they broke Into his house, I took him out, and beat him so terri bly that he died. Bryant was practi cally helpless in the hands of the mob, but he was kicked, beaten with clubs and pounded over the head with! the fists of the crowd. The mob Is said to have been led by A. J. Gleich, a prominent farmer and fruit grower, and he was arrested. charged with murder. Work of Fiends. In the wreck of the westbound freight train on the southern railway near Petersburg, Ind., Fireman Man ning, of Princeton- Ind., and Brake man Capehart, of Winslow, were killed. Engineer McWilliams was scalded and crushed so badly he will die. After the wreck it was discover ed that both ends of the switch were spiked. The east bound passenger train was delayed and thus escaped being wrecked. Bloodhounds have been sent for and an effort will be made to hunt out the wreckers. The railroad company owns the Muren Coal mines which paid the advanced scale demanded by the miners recent I ly and caused some resentment in cer tailn quarters. tSwallowed His Teeth. -At Frederick, Md., George Benner, e son of ex-Sherif A. P. Benner, w'io - iccidentily swallowed a set of false teeth about nine weeks ago, was oper e ted upon at the Frederick City Hos 1 pital and the teeth were remCv id. . When Mr. Benner first swallo led the e teeth they were forced into his stom d ach and he experianced no inconven , ience. Afterward an operation was e deemed nioessarv. BRYAN ON I8UES. He Has Surprise for Those Who Think He Has CHANGED POSITION. More Radical Than Ever, and Still Be lieves In Principle of Bimetallism But Says Question Has Been Settled by the Discovery of Gold. William J. Bryan, who is still in aondon, having had the opportunity )f reading Amer!can newspapers, con aented Toursday to discuss some of she questions which have been raised ince he has again become prominent is a presidential possibility. He said: "I notice that I am now described is a conservative, and in order that There may be no misunderstanding on hat subject permit me to say that in ns sense I always have been a con ervative. The Democratic policies ire conservative in that they embody ld principles applied to new condi ions. There was nothing new in prin iple in either of the platforms on vhich I stood. We were accused of ,ttacking property, when In fact the )mocratic party is the defenner of roperty because it endeavors to draw he line between honest accumulation y honest methods on the one side ,nd predatory wealth and immoral nethods on the other. It is to the aterest of every honest man that dis tonesty sh'uld be exposed and pun shed; otherwise the deserving are apt o siffer for the undeserving. If, towever, by the word conservative hey mean that I have changed my osition on any public question or aoderated my opposition to corporate ggrandiz2ment they have a surprise aiting for them. I am more radical han I was in 1896 and have nothing o withdraw on economic .l questions hich have been under discussion. "The only question we discussed in 896 upon which there has been any pparent change, is the silver ques ton, and that has not been a change the advocates of bimetallism but in onditions. We contended for more coney and urged the free coinage of Liver as the only means then in sight f securing it. The increased produc Lon of gold has brought in part the enefit we expected to secure from the storation-of silver. The per capita olume of money in the United States almost 5 per cent. greater now than was in 1896, and the benefits rought by this increase have not only indicated the quantitive theory of ioney but have proven the benefits f the larges amount of money. No dvocate of the gold standard can laim the triumph of his logic. "I believe in bimetallism, and I eleve that the restoration of silver rould tbring still further prosperity, esides restoring par In exchange etween gold and silver- using coun ries, but I recognize, as do ill other limetallsts whom I have met abroad, ha the anexpected and unprecedent d increase in gold production has for he present removed the silver ques Ion as an Issue. "While the money question has raned In Importance other questions ave been forging to the front and to hese questions we must apply the ame principles we applied to the oney question, and seek to secure he greatest good to the greatest tumber by legislation which conforms o the doctrine of equal rights for all nd special privileges for none. "Og the new questions many will ct with us who were against us on he money questibns, for, notwith tanding ~the discussion of that ques on, millions did not understand it ,nd were frightened into opposition. Je cannot expect the support of any ne who Is Interested in tak!ng ad antage of the people either through rusts or through any other illegiti nate form of business. Our efforts hould be to distinguish between hose corporations which are legiti nate and those aggregations of wealth hich are organized for purposes of >blic plunder and appeal for support those only who are willing to have he government protect each person i the enjoyment of his own earnings. "The newspapels have been trying create friction between what they all 'old friends' and 'new friends' in olitcs. Tnose. are friends who are vorking towards a common end, and iach cimpaign brings to some extent Snew alignment. In 1896 the party ost many Democrats and was re ruited by a great many who had been Upublicans up to that time, and we elcomed them. In 1900 some came yack who were against us in 1896, ,d we did not shut the door against ~hem. I have no idea that the party il require tickets of admission in he coming campaign. Ujually par ;ies are so anxious to secure recruits hat past differences are not empha dIzed if there Is a sincere agreement present issues. I do not know that we can find a better plan than the Bible plan, which idmits the eleventh hour comeer to a place in the vineyard and to share the reward with those who began earlier. think this is sound politics as well s sound religion, provided the new recruit comes to work and not to in er fere with the other laborers. But f course when an overseer has to be elected, experience cannot be lef aut of consideration. The worker who ame late would, if honest, be too modest to assume an attitude of supe riority over those who had toiled dur IDg the earlier hours. While the ueston Is one of purpose, a man who recoglas5 the dangers that threaten our country and is anxious to avert them will not find it difcealt to estab lish friendly relaticns with those who saw dangers at an earlier date. "If the differences between the sin cere a~nd the pretended friends reform cannot be discovered before, they will become apparent when the platform s rittene foIf presnt indications count for anything that platform is likely to be so plain that no one can mis.ake it, and so strong that no ene my of Democratic principles will be drawn to the party." Mr. Bryan added that he would dis cuss the trust, tariff, railroad and la bor questions, imperialism and other issues at length when he reached America. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were the guests of Ambassador and Mrs. Reid at lun cheon at Dorchester house Thursday. Among tho e invited to meet Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were Sir Eiward Grey, the Rev. Dr. William Boyd Carpenter, the foreign secretary; the bishop of Ripon and Mrs. Boyd Carpenter, Charles Page Bryan, D. 0. Mills and Secretary Ridgely Carter of the American embassy. THE LOST FOUND. The Rev. Wm Aiken Kelly Turns Up in Charleston. Rev. W. Aiken Kelly, formerly pas tor of Grace Methodist church, North Augusta, after being lost to his con gregation for nearly two years, has been found, and the opinion prevail ing at the time of Mr. Kelly's disap pearance that he was suffering men tally is practically substantiated. It will be recalled that during a pe riod when efforts were being made to erect a new church in North Augusta, when the pastor and a committee of the members of the church were work ing dilligently to accomplish that pur pose, Mr. Felly suddenly disappeared and no positive trace could be found of him. - The morning of his disap pearance he was in the city of Augus ta and visited several supporters of his church, some of the members and several friends. Late the same after noon he was seen to board the car bound for North Augusta and just be fore dark was noticed by two or three people to be wandering about listless ly a considerable distance from his home. Later, during the night, when Mr. Kelly did not come home, Mrs. Kelly appealed to several friends in the vil lage and a search was instituted, but no trace of the preacher could be found. The following morning further earch was made, and telegrams were sent to nearby towns, but as the day wore on there were 'io results. A dispatch from Charleston says the Rev. William Aiken Kelley has been discharged from the Roper Hos pital and is now at home recuperating from the effects of the operation upon his brain, removing a clot of blood, which it is thought, will result in his complete restoration to health and enable him to resume his ministerial duties. Mr. Kellev spent some time in Virginia and was for a long time at Charlotte before coming to Char leston. H:s whereabouts were estab lished shortly after he deserted his pastoral charge, but in view of his .ffi ction, his family and close perso nal friends kept the matter quiet and it was not until his coming to Char eston recently for the operation upon his hrain that his movements became ublicly known. His trouble was iagnosed by a Charleston surgeon to e blood pressure upon the brain, and, pon the opening of the head the con ition was found to exist, as stated nd tbe operation was: successfully erformed.. The surgeon is said to have given It a his opinion that there will be no eturn of Mr. Kelly's former brain rouble, and his numerous friends trough the State share In the hope hat his condition will continue to mprove, and that he will be soon able to resume his ministerial func ions in the church which he served so' well. Lost at Sea. Clyde steamer A pache arrived In harleston Thursday afternoon from New York with one -passenger short, Walter Irving of Florence. He was issed at the breakfast table Thurs ay morning and investigation devel ped that he was not aboard the ves sel. His berth has not been occupied and the presumption is that he fell verboard or deliberately elected this method of the ending of his existence. e was seen- about midnight sitting n an easy chair on the deck in right spirits and gave no indications f any mental trouble which would have induced suicide. He is said to ave been drinking and it is possible hat he sat on the deck rail, lost his balance and fell overboard. lie la Lockea Up. At Charleston on Thursday Aaron P. Prioleau, the negro congressional aspirant, surrendered himself at the United States marshal's clibe and was aken over to the county jail to begin is sentence for tampering with the mails when he was running as a rail way clerk on the Atlantic Csast Line. He has been in Washington contest ing the Beat of Congressman Legare, but his contest having been dismissed he now deserts the walls of the capi tol for the steel cages of the county prison. He is to serve three months and one month additional, if he does not pay a fine of $50. Battie in M1iatr. At New York eight stories above the street, on a fl~msy finoring of planks laid across girders, nearly one hundre.-l union Iron workers employed on a hotel building at Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, attacked three special policemen, who were kept there to prevent trouble between union and non-union workmen. O le of the special policemen, Michael But ler, was thrown from the platform and fell two stories to the sixth f1o r eing Iatally i-jarei. The other two were seriously but not fatally hurt. Dc~utruct~ive Clouaburst. A cloudburst and landslide on July to at Ocampo Chihuahua, Mexico, al most completely destroyed the city and killed seven or more persons Many others were in jared and it is ex pected some of them will die. All the killed and injured are Mexicans. The American residents are alleviatiing the sufiering of the wounded and are recovering the bodies of the dead as rapidly as possible. Robert Brooks, of the W.C. Greene G.ld & Silver Co., at Ocampo, is in charge and is hand ing mnatters Raifactorily. DEAF AND BLND tn the United States as Reporte by- the Census NUMBER THOUSANDS, The Total Number of Blind Is Nearl Sixty-Five Thousand, and the Total Number of Deaf Is Nearly Ninety Thousand. The bureau of census has just issu ed a special report on the blind ani deaf in the United States in 1900 The inquiry was conducted under th direction of Dr. Alexander Grahar Bell, who determined the scope of th investigation and wrote the text o the report on the deaf. The report on the blind gives no only data concerning color, sex, na tivity, marital condition, school at tendance, and occupations, but also much information in regard to th age when blindness occurred and thi cause of blindness. The total number of blind person in the United States in 1900 was 64, 63-or about one in every 1,200 o the total population. There wer 35,645 totally blind, and 29,118 par bally blind. These figures, however can be considered only as the mini mum, as an unknown proportion o: the blind were not located by the snumerators. The number of partial ly blind by no means represents the racts as to defective eyesight, but re presents only "verified cases." Of the total number of blind, 37, )54, or 57 2 per cent. were males, and i7,709, or 42 8 per cent. were females. Since in the general population only 51.1 per cent. were males and 48.9 per rent ware females, it is evident that lndness occurs more frequently among males. About 55 per cent of the blind re >orted were totally blind and aboul :5 per cent. were partially blind, A ightly smaller proportion of blind nales than of blind females were to ally blind. Almost 65 per cent. of the blind be. ame blind after 20 years of age, and )ly a little more than 30 per cent. 3efore 20 years. Thus it is seen that )lindness: is chiefly a defect of adult ife. It is interesting to note that ibout one fourth of the persons blind rom childhood, or about one-tenth of 4he total number of blind, were born )lind. The number of blind per 100,000 of opulation was greater among the iegroes than among the whites, and Treater among the foreign bor i whites han among the native born whites, ,he difference in each case being more narked for the totally blind than foi he partially blind. The difference It ~he proportions for the native and he foreign born whites are due large y to the difference In the age distri ntons of the two classes, the great najority of the foreign born whites ing adults, among whom blindness a more common. The most Important causes of blind' ess were, cataract; ijuries, acci~ lents, and operations; congenita lindness; old age;' and sore eyes. Un :own causes were responsible for a lghtly greater proportion of cases ~han any of the above causes. The principal causes of blindnes! lcurring after birth and under 2( ears of age were, injuries, accidents Ld operations; sore eyes; catarrh: nasles; and scrofula. The principa ~auses of blindness occuring In aduil Ife were, cataract; injuries, accidents. d operations, old age, affections o~ ihe nervous apparatus, military ser rice, sore eyes and neuralgia. The report on the deaf gives nol Inly tne date concerning color, sex ace, nativity, marital conditions chool attendance, and occupations ut also much information in regarc o deafness as a defect and to thE bilty of the deaf to comnmunicate. According to this method of class' [fication, the total number of dea as finally determined to be 89,278 r one in every 850 of the genera opulation. There were 37,426 total y deaf and 51,861 partiiy deaf. mong 'the total number of deaf 2, 72 were also blind and 24,369 dumb Of the total number of deaf, 46, 15, or 52.5 per cent. were males, anc 2,372, or 47.5 per cent. were females Since in the general population onli 1.1 per cent. were males and-48.I per cent. were females, it would seen hat there is somie truth In the hypo hesis that males are more exposed tc icidents than females, or more sus eptible to the diseases which pro ice deafness. Negroes constitute 11.6 per cent. 0: the general population and only 5J~ per cent. of the deaf. -That the ne groes seem less susceptible to deafneSi han the whites is probably due ir aart to less complete returns from thi egroes deaf. The proportion of ne groes is larger among those becomaing eaf in childhood and also among thi otally deaf than It Is in the aggre ate deaf population. The age when deafness occurred il efinitely stated for 81.590 persons ad of these 59 per cent. became dea: efore the age of 20 years, 48 pe: ent. before the age of 10 years, anc 0 per cent. before the age of 5 years nd 18 per cent. were born deaf4 Of th~e totally deaf, 91 per cent were so from childhood (uinder 2C year; f age), and 36 per cent. from birth More than one-half of the totally des lost all power of hearing before the: were 2 years old. Of the partially deaf about one hird became deaf before they were 20 years old, one- third between 20 anm 40, and one-third after reaching 40. Of the 89,287 persons returned a deaf, 55,501 were able to speak well 9 417 were able to speak imperfectly and 24,369 could not speak at all Practically all of those who speak im perfectly or not at all lost their hear tng in childhood (nder 2 yer o age.) On the other hand the majority of deaf who speak well lost their hear ing in adult life. Gf the deaf and dumb, more than 36 per cent. were reported as totally deaf. It will thus be seen that the ability to speak is de pendent largely upon two factor-the period of life when deafness occurred and the degree of deafness. Dzaf ness interferes rather with the ac quisition of speech than with its re tention after it has once been acquir ed. TAFT CALLED DOWN. Judge Parker Says He is Trying to Deoeive the ;People. Former Judge Alton B. Parker, in a statement given out at New York Wednesday took, issue with some of the uttterauces of Secretary bf War Taft in the speech delivered at Greensboro, N. C.-by Mr. Taft last Monday. Judge Parker declares that the secretary in his speech sought to have the public draw the inference that the recent prosecutions of alleg ed illegal combinations are dne to 1 new statutes. To this Judge Parker takes exception and to support his r contention he quotes from his letter of acceptance and a speech subse quently delivered during the last presidential campaign. In both the - speech and the letter Judge Parker is quoted as saying that the laws on the statute book were entirely adequate if enforced. Judge Parker in his statement says: "The inference that Secretary Taft would have the public draw from his utterrnces is that these things are due to new statutes; that the vindication which the law is now receiving is due to congressional ac tion since 1904, But that is not so. Not one of the successful prosecutions 'for which the existing administra tion is now entitled to credit is bas ed on any new statute. Every sin gle one of them down to this date rests solely upon the law as it stood in 1904, and it should not be lost sight of by a discriminating public that the law could have been enfor ced In 1904, and in 1903, and in 1902, just as well as today. Had it been the wrongs from which the people suffered would not have so muitipli ed.' Beware of the Unduercow. A few weeks ago a promising teach er, educated, earnest and refined, was drowned at Charleston. He went in bathing and was drawn out by the undertow. A few days later a soldier at Wilmington, N. U., was caught in the undertow and carried to the place of death. In commenting on these sad events the Carolina Spartan says: "The undertow is not discernible on the surface, which appears safe and smooth. Very few of those caught by it have power to resist. The pull out ward and downward is too much 'for them. But there are a hundred vic tims of the undertow on land to one in the sea. Wasted hours, vicious habits, ugly tempers and selfishness draw many people downward. Then many a man falls a victim to intem parance, being deceived by the de lightful sensations of the first plunge before he reaches the Irresistible pow er of the undertow. No one enters on a life of debauchery suddenly. . Few In tentionally prostitute mind and body to a career of vice. It is the captiva ting superficial appearance that lures them on to irreparable ruin. Beware of the treacherous, daadly undertow in social life." Did Not Mean It. In his message to congress in De camber, 1905, President Roosevelt said: "All contributions by corpora tions to any political committee or for any political purpose should be f or bidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholder's money for such purposes; and, more over, a prohibition of this kind would be, as far as it went, an effective method of stopping the evils aimed at in corrupt practice ac'.s. Not only should both the national and the sev eral state legislatures forbid any offi cer of a corporation from using the money of the corporation In or about any election, but they should also for bid such use of moneylin connection with any legislation save by the em ployment of counsel in public manner for distiuctly legal services." Several bills along this line were introduced, but they failed to pass. - Seven Die in Flames. His wife and six children dead and -his home destroyed and himself badly, if not fatally burned, is the fate of Solomon Gobba, whose residence was on the outskirts of Lafayette, Ill. The dead of the family are: R~ chael, 16; Freeman, 12; Guy, 10; Mar quis, 8; E 1th, 5; Brooks, 2; anti Sa rah, the mother 38. G-3bba was in the yard and saw tiames coming from the upper part of the house. He -called to his wife and togethber they rushed up stairs to awaken the chll -dren. Both were overcome by smoke. Gobba managed to crawl to a window and in an effort to raise It fell to the ground and sustained painful injuries. Killed in Battle. G-an. Regalado, former president of Salvador and the leader of the Salva dorean troops In the present confilct with Guatemala, was killed in bantle Thursday. Tomas Ragalado was president of Salvador from 1899 to 1903. A provision of the Salvadiorean constitution prevented him from hav ing a second term Immediately f ol lowing his first, but he was a candi date to succeed President Escalon, -whose term will'expire next year, and doubtless would have been elec ted as he was a popular idol who had achieved much fame as a soldier. Many Dead. Letters. The report of the division of the dead letters for the month of June shows that 834,352 pieces of unclaim ed matter were received, against 761, 373 in the same month last year. The number of unmallable letters -received was 135,625 against 121,789 in June, 11905; number of letters returned to senders. 106,092 against 81,521 in 1905. As compared with June, 1935, the number of letters received con taining money decreased from b,73 to 6,360 but the amount of money contained in the letters increasea from 84,646 in 1905, to $5,557.78 in 1906. WANTS VIDENCE ON WHICH TO PROCEED AGAINST CERTAIN OFFICIALS. Attorney-General Youmans Says That Tanahan Has Denied Parkers Testimony. Mr. LERoy F. Youmans, attorney general, was instructed by Gov. Hey ward about a month ago to proceed with prosecutions against certain dis pensary cffilals. Mr. Youmans has been ill since that time. Wednesday day he wrote to Gov. Heywary, in of feet, that he could not proceed on the testimony which the supreme court ordered Mr. Parker to give before the investigating committee. Following is the letter to Gov. Heyward: Dear Sir: It was stated in the Co lumbia State of June 8th that "the announcement was made yesterday that Governor Heyward had notified the attorney general, Mr. LeRoy F. Youmans, to proceed with criminal prosecution against dispensary offi cials, suspected of misconduct by rea son of the testimony of Mr. Lewis W. Parker." The testimony of Mr. Lewis W: Parker referred to is to be found in the issue of the State of June 7th. On the receipt of your letter, I had a conversation with you, in which I stated my views in regard to the most important fundamental legal proposi tion connected with the matter. As the announcement referred to in the issue of The State of. June 8th has been often iterated and reiterated without any mention of what tran spired in the conversation between us, I think it proper to state in writ ing briefly the position I then took, and to which I still adhere. It will be seen by reference to the testimony of Mr. Lewis W. Parker, alluded to, that it consists in the main of portions.of what was said to him ,n conversation by a Mr. Lanahan, ;ho is a citizen and resident of Mary land, and whom our criminal courts have no power to compel to testify to the matters which Mr. Parker says Lanahan told him. So much of the statement as relates to misconduct on she part of dispensary cffiials,- con sists solely of what Parker says Lana nan told him (Parker), as having been communicated to him (Lanahan) b3 L. W. Byokin, a member of the dis nensary board. I did not then think, and I do not uow tnink that anything revealed by the testimony of Mr. Parker afforded tenable ground on which any prosecu tion proper and necessary to vindicate the law could be instituted against a dispensary official. Parties charged with the commis sion of such offenses as are spoken of, can legally be arrested only on war rants issued upon probable cause of the commissicn of those cffenses sup ported by oath or affirmation. (Con stitution, art, 1, sec 16) A warrant. is a precept under hand and seal of a person authorized to take up any of. tender to be dealt with according to due course of law; Is properly issua ble now upon affdavit, which affdavit must accompany the warrant. A prosecution at this stage of the Eff ir, based on the testimony given would, in my judgment, be premature rll-advised and unwarranted. It will be remembered, too, that In the very carefully prepared 'resolution, by which the legislative committee was appointed to investigate the State dis pensary, the committee is to report its findings to the general assemubly. What further developments may be held be fore this committee I, of course, can not anticipate. I have so of ten seen ill-advised and premature prosecutions result in the miscarriage of lustice that I have found it very unsafe to depart from established precedents and well-established practices. As I understand from your letter, the in vestigating committee has made no report to you of this matter, and what you saw In the public prints produced before the investigating ::ommittee as the result of a ruling of the supreme court, is the manner In which the sub ject was brought to your attention. When the conduct of Black was re ported 'to you by the Investigating committee, as there was no affdavit or sworn statement, I advised you not to take any steps looking to his re mo'val as a memoer of the board until there had been at least an affdavit or s worn statement of what objection able action it was stated that Black had been guilty. On being Informed of this by you, the affdavit was at once supplied. I see no reason, if a prosecution Is to be instituted in this case against a dispensary offcial, why it should be taken out of the domain of the general and well-established law. It is perhaps worthy of remark in this connection that the press which informed ns of Parker's testi mony, informs us also that Tanahan does not agree to the version made before the investigating committee. Very respectfully, LEBox F. YoIrx&Ns, Attorney General. Seven Girls Drowned. At Cedar Rspids, Iowa, seven girls were drowned Thursday In Cedar Rapids river, only three blocks from home, while wading. The smallest child slipped into a deep hole and in trying to rescue her six others were drowned. Euth Klersey was the only one of the party to cscape. The dead: Lucile, Haztl, Gladys and .Tosle Sweeting; Rutni and Cora Coyle, and Clara Usher. The girls ranged in age from 7 to 16 years. The Sweeting children lived with the fatnier near EKlis park on the outskirts of - Cedar Rapids. Clara Usher was the daugh ter of Sweeting's housekeeper and the Coyle children were her nieces, who were on a visit from Sioux, Ia., Four of the bodies were gaickly re moved from the water, ban it was too late to resuscitate them. The other bodies were recovered later. Shooting Affray. In a shooting affray following a party at which some of .those present hlad been drinking 12 miles from Ma riana, Fla., W. 1. Donaldson, a well known stock dealer from Tampa, shot Walter Nicholds in the shoulder, his son, Ross Nqicholds, in the leg and then killedbhimself. It Is alleged that heaaristarted through jealousy. SHE KNOWSNOW. A White Woman from the North Assaulted Near Aiken BY HER NEGRO PET, Who Made His aEscape, and the Of0. cers are Trying to Catch Hi. She Was a (reat Friend to The Negro' Race Gen. eraI1s. A dispatch from Aiken says news of a horrible crime that was perpetrated about five miles from that pace reach ed there Wednesday afternoon, but a coherent account could not be obtain ed until this morning. On Monday morning about 2 o'clook Mrs. L. S. Chapin was. assaulted in ner home by a negro man named Isaac Knight. The fact that Mrs. Chapin is an old lady, at least' 65 years of age, makes the crime all tha more revolting. Thi negro who as baulted her had been n her employ for over three years. Mrs. Chapin lived in the house with no white person. The negro- man, who liyed in a room at the side of the house next to the kitchen, and a negro family living in mne vyrd, were une only ones who stayed near her. Isaac Knight had been off al day Sunday and did not come back to Mrs. Onapin's home -until early Monday morning. Mearing a knock at the en trance of the house, Mrs. Chapin went .o the door to see who It was, She opened the door and found It was Knight. She went into the dining room and was fixing the negro acme supper when he commited the assault. Lne negro left the community and oas not been seen since. Mrs. Chapin has no near white aeighbors, so she could not report the sase at once. When the sheriff learn. .d of it yesterday morning, Fie went to shecommunity at once and tried to rapture the negro, but he could And ao traces of him. The crime had 'not oecome generally known In Aiken un ril late yesterday afternoon, when ' posse of about 50 men under the lead ership or .tue sneriff organized for the purpose of catching the negro. Is was distinctly understood before they left here that there would be no Lynching, but that they. wold=do.: everything possible to catch the negro>. and have nim placed in jail. -.They eft here last evening and searched Dhe country thoroughly, but they could find no traces of him. Farther search will be made for him, Mrs. Chapin wanted the case drop ped, as she did not wish to appear in court in such a case, but, of course, the sheriff and the people of the com= nunity will not allow the negro to~go unpunished If it is possible to captu're him. Every effort will be made to bring the scoundrel to justice, but the people have agreed that there will e 11o lynculng. The posse went armed. last night so as to be prepared to meet any opposition, for it was rumored that the negroes in the community intended to give some trouble. Mrs. Chapin is a Northern lady, and before her misfortune did not. under stand the negro. She had put every trust in Knight and bad even consld~ ered him the equal of the average white man. She had treated him as well as she could have treated any. white person, thinkring that he was a gentleman. She even declared on one accasion that he was a perfect gentle. man. Knight was always respectful no Mrs. OGaapin, bus Is could be seen by 131s actions among other negroes tnat the treatment Snat he was re eving was gIvIng him a false Idea of. nls importance. On Monday morning she nature of the negro asserted Its sef; itcould be held in check -noIon ger. Mrs. Chiapin was originally from Mancnester, Vermont, but she has made her home near Alken for a nuam ber of years. White people have warn ed her several times that she should not stay alone with no one near her arcept negroes, but she would pay no attention to them, thinkring that the negro was worthy of trust. She cams South with the N~ew Englander's sa alldea ofinegro character, and no ar gument that could be put forta could shake the negro from the pedestal on which she had placed him. While the white people of tihe community are not in sympathy with Mrs. Oha pin's treatment of the negre they are determined that he shall be brought to justice. A white lady has been In suted-that Is enough, punishmenlt must follow. When the posse collected last night there were no signs of mob violence. They were a quiet determined body -of men bent upon the capture of the scoundrel who had dared to insult a lady. Although they did not animee in capturing him last night, they are determined to search for him until he is captured. Sold Wife and Child. Fourteen-year-old Loretta Bosen grant, who was sold, with her mother, for $3 to Baymond Palmer, of Forks,. Wyoming County, Pa., in 1900, was Frday married- to' laude Bose. a Lumberman. Her father, <eorge Bosen grant, in 1900, made a bargain wish Palmer by which he sold his wife for 13 and threw in the little girl, Loret go,.to boot. Ari Involved In the trans action were well satisdied. Loretta bad to get her father's consent to be married. He gave it readil). She will be 14 on August 27. Her husband la 23. _______ A dispatch from Sebastopal says Vice Admiral Chouknmn, commander of the Black Sea flet, who was shot Thursday supposedly by a sailor of the oattleship Otchakoff, died Friday morning without regaining conscious. ness. Tne under gardener of Admi tal Chonkninf's villa. is suspected Of baving knowledge of the murderer, as1 he has disappeared.