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VOL. XXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 8, 1914 NO.3 CAPTURES TORREON llA TAKES CITY AFTER LONG AND BLOODY BATTLING GARRANZA HEARS NEW Federals Are Driven From Their Stronghold and in Riotous Retreat Are Pursued by Victors-Not Yet Known Whether Federal Com mander Has Been Captured. Torreon completely into the hands of the rebels at 10:20 o'clock Thurs day night, according to announce ment made at Juarez, Mexico, by Gen. Venustiano Carranza. The news first was announced to the world when the bugler in front of Carranza's res idence blew the staccato notes of vic tory. The paean, Carranza said, was sounded even before it was heard' in Torreon, Villa delaying out of com pliment to his chief. The meagre bulletins excitedly an nouncing victory after the bloodiest series of battles known to modern Mexico said that Villa captured a large number of prisoners and that the fleeing federal remnant was be ing pursued. Whether Velasco, the federal commander, was captured was not stated. - There was heavy fighting Thurs day, it is understood, and the end came wken, after capturing the three remaining barracks held in the city by the federals, the rebels stormed the trenches and barbed wire entan glements of Canyon de Guarache. The prisoners captured are believed to have been the defenders of the b-rracks, while the trool3 in the can yon, which forms an egress from the hill girt city, were able to escape. The campaign against the federal stronghold of Torreon, the main ob ject of the rebel campaign, began suddenly two weeks ago after Gen. Villa had spent months in making the most careful preparation. The rebel loss in this campaign Is said to be more than 2.000 killed and wound ed. Trains loaded with wounded have been arriving daily at Chihua hua for the last week. The rebel commander moved with a rapidity hitherto unknown in Mex ican wafrare. He worked his men in shifts, and as one shift became ex hausted he sent fresh hosts against the enemy. A number of small towns of lesser importance in a military sense fell first-Mapimi, Noe and Sacramento, where a bloody battle was fought. This opened a path for the main attack. Next came Lerdo and Gomez Pala cio. populous suburbs of Torreon, and all three connected by a belt street car line. Lerdo was not de fended but it took three main as saults in which the rebels lost heav ly to take Gomez Palacio. In the final attack on the city troops were withdrawn from Lerdo, whereupon the federals occupied it and another sanguinary conflict was necessary to retake -it. . Last Friday, six days ago, Gen. Moncloio Herrera, with his own bri gate and part of Benavides' Zara goza brigade of veterans, made the first dash against Torreon. He enter ed by the east and penetrated to the bull ring north of the centre of the town before he was checked. Street fighting, in which hand grenades were the most useful weapons used, followed. Gen. Villa, then at Gomez Palaclo, announced that he would join the at tack, taking supreme command. He announced also that the newspaper men with him would not be allowed to send any news whatsoever until the town was completely in his hands. DROVE BAND)IT OUT. Fxpress Messenger Balks Bandit by Opening Fire on Him. A bandit who attempted to rob a Seaboard Air Line passenger train near Corner, Ga., early Thursday. was balked by an express messenger, R. C. Fletcher, who exchanged shots with the outlaw until he jumped from the train near Comner and escaped. He boarded. the express car as the train was leaving a water station two miles south of Comner. Covering Fletcher with a revolver he ordered him to open the express car safe. Fletcher drew his pistol and opened fire. After several shots were exchanged, the bandit. hit by a bullet in the arm, dropped his wea pon and leaped from the train. Fletcher was not Injured. Posses be gan a search for the outlaw. BOY INKURED AT PLAY. Jesse Turner of Clover Hurt by Pow der Explosion. While playing with some other boys in the mill village near Clover Saturday afternoon. Jesse Turner. son of M. H-. Turner, sustained a very se rious accident. He and some other .boys had placed some powder into a tin can and put earth on top of it. When they put a match to the fuse it exploded, the can striking young Turner in the face. The blow put out one or his eyes, broke his nose. cut a long gash through his upper lip and caused other painful Injuries. Stabbed by Lynchers. Twenty mnaskedl men took Adolfo Padilla. charged with murdering his wife, from Santa F'e. N. 31.. Tuesday and stabehd him repeatedly. He is expected to die. Fireman hilled in Wreck. John Rorers. a norro fireman. was killed at Spartanhurg Tuesday when FACES SERIOUS CHARGE RELEASED CONVICT MAKES AT TEMPT ON LITTLE GIRL. Puts Up Drunkenness as Main De fense, Saying He Knows Nothing of the Crime. Lodged behind the bars of the Charleston police station is Clarence Davis, a young white man of that city, who was arrested Wednesday morning, charged with attempting a crime for which the punishment is electrocution. His victim is alleged to have been the four-year-old daugh ter of a Charleston citizen. The screams of the little girl, it Is re ported, saved her. Davis a the young man who was either paroled or pardoned by Gov. Blease several months ago, after serving part of a sentence for for gery on a King street clothier. Since his return to Charleston, however, he had been in trouble before this lat est exhibition of devilment. On Feb ruary S, 1113, in the police court he was sentenced to $50 or thirty days on the chain gang by Recorder Jer vey, for assaulting a young woman in the Market. He served his time. The story of the attempted assault is shocking. It is claimed that Tues day afternoon Davis met the little girl on Vanderhorst street, while she was going to a store for her mother, and enticed her to his home by giving her five cents. There, it Is alleged, the ugly crime was attempted. The screams of the child brought Davis' wife and others, several of whom ap peared at the Investigation. At the preliminary held Thursday before Magistrate George Lunz Davis was held for trial in the court of gen eral sessions. Three witnesses tesli fled as to the attempt, telling of how he enticed his victim, who is but four years old, to his residence and of how her screams saved her. Davis pleaded, in a statement made to the magistrate, that he was drunk and denied any knowledge of the alleged assault. He was not represented by counsel. Members of the police force arrest ed Davis on the charge of attempted criminal assault Wednesday morn ing, after they had been informed of his crime, which is alleged to have' occurred Tuesday evening. Accord ing to the witnesses who appeared before Magistrate Lunz Wednesday Davis met the child Tuesday even ing on Vanderhorst street, while she was on an errand for her mother and enticed her to his home by giv ing her five cents. There, it is al leged. the crime was attempted, but the screams of the little girl brought the wife of Davis and others to the scene before she came to any harm. NEGRO ARRESTED. Enters Home at Union and Flees When Alarm Was Given. Dudley Johnson, an 18S-year-old egro, was arrested about 5 o'clock Wednesday morning at his father's house, .near Putnam church, eight miles northwest of Urnion, and lodged in jail. Dudley Johnson Is charged~ with a very serious offense-that of! entering the room of a young white woman of the Putnam community. The account as gathered from all Information obtainable Is that the! young woman, who Is about 15 years of age, had retred. With her was sleeping a young sister. About 11 o'clock Tuesday night she was awak ened by some one placing a hand on her. She exclaimed: "Who Is that?" and the answer sought to convey the idea that It was the young woman' brother. She recognized the voice, She, however, recognized the voice, Is alleged, to be that of the negro . . Tohnson, who has worked on her .a .r's farm, and had worked about the house. The young woman screamed and caught up the child and ran into her mother's room, and as she ran screaming from the room, the intrud er jumped out of a window and fled. The alarm was promptly given and Sheriff Fant made a hurried trip to Carlisle, where be got Gary Jeter, the chain gang guard, and his dogs, and proceeded hence to the Putnam neigh borhood. The young woman Is posi tive in her identification of the ne CHILDREN ARE PO1SONED. One Cherokee Child D~ies From Eat ing Polk Root. Three children of Columbus Wad del, who lives in the Goucher neigh borhood, about six miles from Gaff ney, were posoned Saturday after noon from eating polk root. The children were seven, five and three years old, and the three-year~old child died that night. Dr. J. G. Pittman, who was called to see them, says that the other two will recover. It seems that the children were in the field where their father was plowing, and eeing the polk roots thought they were potatoes and ate them with the above result. Fatal "April Fool" Candy. "April Fool Candy," which was found to have been f'avored with poisonous berries, is likely to cause the death of two children of Quincy, Mass. Shoots Stepmother'. Failing to find his wife at the house of his stepmother. Mrs. Ella Disma, of New York, George Disma sht and killed her Saturday. Indians Go on Warpath. Yaoui Indian raiders went on a :foraing expedition around Douglas City, Ariz., Wednesday, and killed IOtto Mueller, a German citizen. 13 UP TO SENATE BATTLE GROUND OVER REPEA1 OF FREE TOLLS SHIFTS WILL SEE MUCH DEHATI Both Opponents of Repeal and Ad ministration Leaders Are Strainini Every Nerve for Desperate Battle Estimated Majority of Sixteen En courages Those Favoring Repeal The Panama tolli controversy, sur passing in interest any problem tha has absorbed the attention of con gress in recent years, was transferrei to the Senate Wednesday from the House, wher : Tuesday night the Sim, bill repealing the tolls exemption wa. passed by 247 to 161. The meas. ure's appearance was accepted as the signal for the beginning of one of thi most protracted and complicated con tests the Senate ever faced. Senator! both for and against the repeal said they saw no hope of a final disposi tion of the issue within the next five or six weeks. Senator O'Gorman, who- will lead the fight against repeal planned tc have the inter-oceanic canals com mittee, of which he is chairman, be gin consideration of the measure Im. me diately. The committee already has before it various other bills re lating to exemptiom. It appears thal the members are nearly evenly divid ed on the chief issue. How a vote will result is regarded as extremely uncertain now, but unless there is a change in the line-up opponents o repeal appear to have a mapority o one. Senator Lewis of Illinois has a bill empowering the president to suspend tolls by proclamation. Senator Reed has Introduced a measure whici would repeal the toll exemption clause and grant to foreign vesself the right to compete with American ships now engaged in the coastwisc trade. Senator Owen's bill, identical with that passed by the House, it was expected, would be replaced by the administration's measure, its purpose to expedite consideration In the Sen ate having failed. There are othex measures pending, including a bill oi Senator Thomas and Senator Gallin ger's resolution expressing the sensc of congress that it has the right tc do as it pleases with respect to regu lating shipping in the Panama canal. The latest poll brought to thc White House by an administration Senator who canvassed his colleague! and excluded from his count those he considered doubtful Indicated that the president's contention would have a majority of at least sixteer Republicans as well as Democrats, Senator Owen, the administration leader In the canals committee, where the measure is now pending, was al the White House early conferring with Secretary Tumulty. Asked about the procedure In the Senati and length of time for discussion thi Oklahoma Senator said: "It Is natural to assume that If thE committee does not report prompt, motion will be made to discharge thi measure from consideration of the committee. There Is to be no efforl at forcing unnecessarily but we wani no dilatory tactics. The committe' stands, I judge, against the presi dent, and I think when organized those who were In favor of the toll! exemption were In the majority. A week in the committee will be rea sonable time for discussion." The president had no comment tC make on the result In the House bui let It be known that he cherished nc Ill-feeling over those who, expressinj their convictions, opposed the repeal There was no comment made on th< speech of Speaker Clark. It was said to be apparent that determined effort would be made t< add to the House repeal bill a claus< to assert the sovereignty of the Unit ed States over the canal. Some Sen ators were said to take the view tha such an amendment could not be con sidered as a compromise. Democrati senators most active in the fight fo the repeal contend the House bi] should prevail In the Senate withou amendment. How far Republica1 senators will figure In the result o the controversy was the subject o considerable speculation. RACE RIOT QUELLED. Firemen In Missouri Town Pla: Water on Crowds. A race riot at Sedalia, Mo., earl Sunday was quelled only after th fire department was ordered out t aid the police and sheriff's deput: drive the combatants to their home! The trouble arose at midnight be tween whites and negroes at a merry o-round. Armed with brick-bats an' clubs, several hundred persons bat tled In the down town district fo two hours. After several arrests wer made the crowd was dispersed. N one was seriously injured. Takes Blood Revenge. T. H. Musgrove, wealthy planter o lythevile. Ark., was shot and kille Thursday by JTohn Walker, a sixtee year old boy, whose father he ha slain fifteen years ago. Mexicans Qnit War for Work. Ten Mexican federal deserter threw their rifles into the Rio Grand at Laredo. Tex., a few days ago an crossed the U. S. border to find worli Joke Causes Trouble. An April Fool advertisement tol the unemployed of Chicago that local railway wanted men. Five hura dred applied and began rioting whe not employed. CAPTURED BY SIEGE DESPERATE NEGRO HOLDS OFF L JASPER COUNTY OFFICERS. Negro Escaped From Chaingang Last August, But is Captured on Return to His Old Home. On Saturday night through the effi-. - cient work of Sheriff Porter and his deputies, of Jasper county, a sensa ticnal capture of one of the most des . perate criminals that has ever been in Jasper county was effected. Marion Brown, a negro, who was convicted during the May term of court in 1913, and sentenced to serve three . years on the county chain gang, dur ing the month of ARugust, 1913, es caped from the gang after securing the guard's rifle, inflicting a severe wound though not a serious one. Ever since his escape Sheriff Por ter has been making every effort withing his power to rapture him, having made three trips to Georgia, where it was reported that the negro had been seen, but each trip proved that it was the wrong negro. Last Saturday some one informed the sher ii that Brown was at his old home in the upper portion of the county and immediately thereafter he left with all his deputies. They arrived after i dark and learned that he was in a small negro cabin alone, whereupon Sheriff Porter deinanded that he sur render, but he refused. Immediately the sheriff ordered his men to fire on the cabin, thus hoping that he would surrender, but this also. prov ed in vain. After firing in the cabin for about three hours, some one secured half a dizen sticks of dynamite, and the sheriff then told Brown that this was his last chance that he was going to use dynamite and blow up the cabin if he did not surrender. This had the desired affect and he stated that would promise him protection, which hie would surrender if the sheriff assurance was given him. - After his surrender they found three guns and a rifle in his possecsion, and the gun that he had in his hands had been shot through the stock with three dif ferent balls. showing. how near he came in losing his life in resisting the officers. WILL SOON BE EMPTY. State Farms Unplanted on Account of Shortage of Worker. There are 186 prisoners in the State penitentiary and 57 prisoners on the State farms. Of the prisoners in the penitentiary 150 were men and 36 women. All the prisoners em ployed on the State farm are men. Under normal conditions it requires about 160 convicts to work the 2.400 acres of cultivated land at the State farms in Kershaw and Sumter coun ties. Much of the land will lie fallow this year. Practically no cotton will be planted at the State farm. IThe small force of convicts will be used to cultivate food crops exclu sively. About 600 acres have been sowed in wheat and oats. Some corn has already been planted and more will be planted later on. As there is not enough labor available to culti vate the big cotton crop which the State farm has been planting for years, it will not be grown this sea son. The penitentiary directors have -disposed of the mules they do not ineed on the State farms. - ;The chair factory at the peniten tiary is turning out about 55 rattan -rockers per day, which are sold in various parts of the South. Forty >male convicts and 12 female convicts tare employed in the chair factory. >The ash and maple for the arms, frames and rockers of the chairs are .shipped from the lumber mills in the Smountains. The rattan reed is im ported from the East Indies through SNew York. All the parts of the ychairs are made on the premises from araw material. - FOUGHT IN THE WAR. - Woman 3Masqueraded as a Mian for e Over Sixty Years. IAfter masquerading as a man for 60 years and serving as a soldier in Grant's army during the War of Se cession "Albert" Cashier, whose sex was discovered at the Quincy, Ill.. soldiers' home Saturday, was commit ted to an Insane asylum. The wo man was born In Ireland 73 years ago. She came to America as a stow away clad In boy's clothes. When war broke out, she, having continued to represent herself as a male, enlisted in Company G, Ninety fifth Illinois infantry. She partici pated in several bloody battles and behaved with gallantry. When the war closed she resumed civil life as a workman until she became helpless to support herself. She then entered the soldiers' home, where her sex was discovered while she was under the care of a surgeon. e Negro Kills Negro. *At a negro dance on the plantation of Mack Gregg. about three miles east of Florence. Saturday night An thony Scott shot and mortally wound f ed James Conner, his cousin. At the : last term of court Scott was tried for a the killing of a negro woman and was : found not guilty. Bank Robbers Slain In Fight. Joseph A. Patterson. 'who entered s and robbed the State bank of New e alla. Okla., of 0700 was shot and d killed in a running fight near Okla .homa City. Sight Restored After 19 Years. d After 1 9 years total blindness, a arry W. Smith. a Civil war veteran, -has sight restored to one eye by oper atin in Atlantic City, N. J., Wednes MAKES NO ATTACK SPEAKER CLARK DISAPPOINTS PRESIDENT'S ENEMIES. Finley, Aiken and Ragsdale Oppose Wilson-Lever, Byrnes, Whaley, and Johnson Favor RepeaL Although Speaker Clark made a tremendously interesting and effec- 2 tive speech ' Tuesday afternoon against the repeal of the law exempt ing our coastwise trade from Panama canal tolls, the president's majority was nearly twice as great as was last week on the rule limiting debate. After the first decisive test some of those who had been wavering came over to the administration side. So far as can be ascertained, the speak- t er's great heart-to-heart talk to his colleagues in the House Tuesday did r not change a vote. C But there are many who do not t follow the speaker on .this subject d who think that it was a mistaken and I unjust policy to attack him personally s and as a Democrat for his stand. t President Wilson has been careful not to say anything personally disa greeable about Mr. Clark, and Mr. Clark has been likewise careful about the president. Speaker Clark, In closing the de bate against the repeal, disappointed those who expected him to attack President Wilson. He disclaimed any personal issue with the. president, de lared he believed Mr. Wilson was actuated by the highest patriotic mo tives and that there was no breach In the Democratic party. He argued at s length against the president's con tention and declared that "the amaz ng request of the president for a re 0 t peal, like the peace of God, passeth all understanding.' He disclaimed any personal Issue between the president and himself and added that if the president had reasons "which are not utterly un tenable and which compel him to make this request" he had not given t them to the House. He differed from the president's statement that toll exemption was "a mistaken economic policy" but admitting dispute on that point, proposed that the exemption be suspended two years. He con- t tended that the president was mis taken in his view that the exemption was rep.ugnant to the Hay-Paunce rote treaty. He attacked the attitude of House V Democrats who have led the presi- b dent's fight for the toll exemption re- C peal. Referring to published declara tions that his opposition to the presi- t dent was the "opening gun of his ight for the nomination in 1916", the speaker declared he had told all to whom he had spoken about the 1916 c situation that if the president's ad: ministration was a success, Mr. Wil son would be re-elected, and If it was a failure "the nomination would C not he worth having." As to his own future the speaker Insisted he could be happy without the presidency or the speakership. The South Carolina delegation stood as it stood last week-four with the president and three against im. This time Representative Jas. . Byrnes was on the floor to cast his allot for repeal. He left his sIck roo into do so. With him on the ad inistration side were Messrs. John- I son, Lever and Whaley. As before, Messrs. Finley, Aiken and Ragsdale 2 voted against repeal. Representative ~ oeph T. Johnson, who was the only member of the South Carolina dele gation to speak on the tolls repeal, strongly supported Mr. Wilson. WANT 1T REVERSED. Bishops File Petition Asserting Er rors in Vanderbilt. Decision. Clain Ing that the recent -decision of the s .preme court Is in error, and renamIag the grounds on which the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, claim the ownership of Vanderbilt university for the church, a petition Saturday was filed t before the Tennessee State supreme< court at Nashville, Tenn., asking forf a rehearing of the case.. It-is under stood that the answer of the board of trust to the bishops will be filed be fore the supreme court. The petition Is a voluminous document of 60 pages,-which assails every proposition laid down by the court' In the petition it is argued that the board of trust Is not a self per petuating body, but that the Method ist annual conference had had in the beginning the sole right as members o.a corporation to elect the trustees and that. subsequently this right was vested in the general conference. It was likewise claimed in Lbhe petition1 that Commodore Vanderbilt was not the founder of the university, but that It was founded by the annual conference of the church and that the church is entitled to the credit for the funds given by Vanderbilt. Shot His Wife's Friend. While George Young and his wife were quarreling Thursday In their home at West Plains, Mo., a hired hand, George Billings. ran Young out of the house with a poker for slap ping Mrs. Young. Young grabbed a gun and shot him. *1 Country D)ivided into 12 Districts. The country has been divided into twelve districts in accordance e-ith the new banking law. South Caro lina, North. Carolina. Virginia. Mary land, part of WVest Virginia and the District of Columbia make up District No. 5. Mfother Saves Cripple Girl. Makng rope of blankets, Mrs. F. Hoile. of Roosevelt, L. I., Wednesday lowered her crippled daughter, Pan sey from a second story window Oft her burning home and saved the child's life, although badly burned START NEW-SYSTEN qEW BANKING LAW BEGINS WITI HUNDRED MILLION FINAL STATEMENT MAUI qational Banks of County Are in Fin( Condition to Meet Demands of Neu Law-Actual Working Capital ol Federal Reserve System May be Only Half of Authorized Total. The new federal reserve banking ystem will start business with a otal authorized capital of about 100,000,000 for all reserve banks, o matter how many institutions the rganization committee decides to set p. This became apparent Wednes ay night when figures were made ublic from all national banks re ponding to the last call of the comp roller of the currency, made March The statement issued giving these gures will be the last of the kind efore formal launching of the new ystem, unless the organization com aittee changes Its present purpose nd delays announcement of reserve istricts and citiss for the location f regional banks. The total capital nd surplus of the 7,494 national anks reporting was given at about 1,780,000,000. Under the reserve ct each national bank must sub cribe 6 per cent. of its cap'-i and urplus to the capital of the reserve ank in its district, and 6 per cent. of his total would be about $107,000, 00. There were only 7,455 national anks who signified their intention D enter the system, so that the total ,ould be somewhat reduced, but the ntrance Into the system of state anks and trust companies will tend D offset this, and It is possible that ith these institutions Included the apital of all reserve banks will be ear $110,000,000. The actual working capital of the eserve banks may reach only half his amount, for the act -provides iandatory subscriptions of only hree-sixths of the total 6 per cent. 'he reserve board the machine which rill direct the system, is authorized, owever, to demand payment of the ther three-sixths. The statement shows national anks In excellent condition to meet be demands of the new law. Some bservers were surprised by the fact at loans and discounts have in reased instead of being curtailed. ,oans and discounts on March 4, 914, amounted to $6,357,535,898, a ain over January 13, 1914, the time f the last call, of $182,130,936. Subscribing banks must begin pay ents for their reserve bank stock hirty days after announcement of he districts and reserve cities, and was believed In some quarters that Vednesday's announcement might how a decrease In loans and dis ounts because of this Impending an .ouncement. The loan and discount acrease, taken together with the act that individual deposits increas d in the same period by more than 39,000000, was said to be the best idicaton that the national banks re In shape to meet the demands of he new system. According to the statement, the re ources and liabilities of the national anks were $11,564,497,260; their 'apital stock $1,056,482,120 and heir ndividual deposits $6,1 11,323,. 57. Their reserves were put at 1,547,592,375, an average of 20.62 er cent. and $47,529,429 a,bove the mount required by law. The cash banks decreased since January, 914, about $14,000,000, but increas d over AprIl, 1913, about $80,000,. During March ten new banks were Luthorized to begin business and ince the currency act was signed here have been 184 applications for onservation into national banks or 'or entrance into the new system as tate institutions. BOY KILLS TEACHER. 'retty Young Woman Murdered by Scholar She Ex;.elled. Te body of Miss Lydia Beecher, lgh school teacher of Portland, N i., was found Saturday In a clumi f bushes on the outskirts of thai :own. She had been' murdered witi knife apparently after having beer ttacked. The young wonman left hei oarding house Friday night to mai: letter at the village post office and ailed to return. Engene Giannini, a 17-year-oli rtalan, lad was arrested as a suspect n connection wi:th the murder o Niss Beecher, who had expelled hin rom the school, confessed Saturda: ~vening that he killed the girl and :old the police where he had hiddet :he knife and wrench with which th< rime was committed. -Releases Fifteen. Go. Elease Thursday night grant d freedom to fiftecn convicts on va r:us chain gangs throughout the Shtae. In the batch was one whiti man, who received a pardon to re store citizenship. Put Crew Into Irons. Twelve sailors of the Italian bard aspon, were put in irons at Gull port, Miss., Wednesday. They muti nied in an effort to get money for; shore leave. I i Equestrienne Killed. Ella Hackett, a 19-year-old eques trienne, of New York, was almost I: stantly killed by a fall from a 50-foc trapeze to an improvised platformi mMadsn Squre Garden Wednesda; HUERTA SENDS MESSAGI SPEAKS TO MEXICAN CONGRES AT OPENING SESSION. Touches Upon Strange Attitude of Certain Power Towards Mexico Not Much Enthusiasm Shown. "Before leaving these precincts must engrave upon your hearts tha it is my purpose, as I have said bE fore to the national congress, t achieve the peace of the country anc if to do so, your sacrifice and min shall be indispensible, you and I wil know how to sacrifice ourselveE This is my purpose or, what is th same thing, my profession of polit cal faith." With this statement Presiden Huerta ended his message to th, Mexican congress, which convened o1 the first day of April. The documen otherwise was devoid of sensationa statements or dramatic effect Throughout the reading neithe members nor those in the gallery in terrupted with applause. Just be fore his closing words the presiden paused and surveyed the house which became unusually silent. Hi pointed his finger as he impresse( on the congress his "profession o political faith". Then came applaus, with cries of "Viva Huerta!" In this message President Huert. said he refrained from extensive men tion of international relations, al though he commented with bitternes on the difficulties the Mexican gov ernment had encountered in obtain ing money, owing to "the influenci exercised by the strange attitude o a certain power towards Mexico." The only direct reference to th, United States was in a review of thi foreign office, when he said: "Re ferring to the department of foreig1 relations, I must tell you that thi government of the republic has earn estly endeavored to develop a jus nationalistic policy, which far forn injuring our international relations has resulted in making them the mos cordial possible with the chief pow ers of the world. "Some of the American states hav not yet recognized the constitutiona government ad Interim cf the repub lic,' but the greater number of then keep in Mexico diplomatic representa tives, and no one of them has inter rupted relations with the republic The United States has been so goo< as to Invite us, through his excel lency, President Wilson, to organizi in common accord the preparator: work for the approaching peace con ference at The Hague." President Huerta told congres: that the department of agriculturi was preparing laws regulating thi distribution of 230,000 square kilo meters of government land. The message made no suggestioi to congress as to legislation, but re ferred to several messages whici would be presented. Little space wa devoted to the war department, thi president confining himself to thi general statement that this brancl had done excellent work. He ex planed the apportionment of th army, now totaling 283,100. as fol lows: Regulars, 250,000; stat troops. 31.000; rurales, 2.100. MYSTERIOUS MURDER. Tenessee Parents and Child Kille< Three Miles Apart. Mystery surrounds the killing nea Clinton, Tenn., early Wednesday c fhree members of the Seivers family Millard Seivers was shot through th back of the head at his home thre miles from Clinton and a short tim later three miles away the bodies o his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs Jacob Seivers, were found lying I3 the dining room of their home. Millard Seivers' wife told the offl cials that she was awakened earl Wednesday by a revolver shot. Sh said she investigated and found th body of *ner husband lying on th floor with blood flowing from a bul let hole in the back of his head. Hi revolver was beneath him. Mrs. Seivers swooned, she saic and does not know how long she re maned unconscious. On recoverin she summoned help and sent a me. senger to the home of her husband parents. Unable to arouse any on at the home of the elder Seivers, thi messenger investigated, and found thi bodies of the aged man and his wif< Both of the Seivers were prosperou. farmers. The elder Seivers was 6 years old and the son 35. MADE LONG TRIP. Fourteen-Year-Old Boy Stole Ride i Refrigerator Car. Benjamin Wickman, 14 years ol! Wednesday told his experiencec three days locked in a refrigerate car filled with fruit that he could se through a grating, but could n< reach. A year ago the boy's famil moved from New York to Floridi Benjamin longed to be back in Ne York. He. claimbed into a refrigt rator car at JTacksoniville several da: ago and was locked in. IHe starve and thirsted for three days with; sight of the juicy fruit. Child Falls Through Trestle. Louise Chapman, a three-year-ol girl, last her balance while crossir a trestle near Lancaster and felli the ground thirty feet below. SI ,was not seriously hurt. Fireman is Killed. Buster Boyd, a negro fireman, w: killed Saturday at Coma, Ga.. in wreck between two freight trains. - Will Not Enter Race. t John Gary Evans has announct a that he will not be a candidate for t1 B MUST NOT UUML IT 'S ' ADMINISTRATION* LADIRS tILL NOT COMPROMISE - MEET ISSUE SQUARELY ,t President Expresses Confidence That Senate Will Pass Repeal Measure 0 as It Was Passed in the House e Several Republicans Are Joining With Him on This Question. - Administration leaders in the Sen ate buckled on their armor Thursday t and plunged actively into the Panama a tolls fight, determined to maintain 1 an unyielding position until the end t of the controversy..- Though the I House bill to repeal toll exemption . for American ships is resting in the r hands of the committee on inter - oceanic canals, there were many in - formal conferences during the day t relating to the issue and among the developments was a visit of Secretary a Bryan at the capitol in the interest I of the administration policy. f "No compromise" was the slogan e of the administration leaders in their conferences. So many bills and res ' olutions have been introduced tend - ing to cloud the plain issue of re - peal that it has been determined to s make it plain from the outset that - no temporizing is to be countenanced. - President Wilson told inquirers 9 that he expected no factional delay f or filibustering and had every rea son to -believe from what senators a told him that there would be a 2 prompt report from the committee on - interoceanic canals. The president i said there were one or two members of the committee who were against - the repeal bill, who, he understood, t would vote to bring the question 1 promptly before the Senate in an early report. t Incidentally, the president took o casion to deny published reports that he had sent any ultimatum to the Senate through Senator Owen or any one else with a view to forcing early action. He had done nothing, he said, along this line. He added that no proposals for compromise or change In the repeal measure bad been brought to him and significantly suggested that amendments were not being offered by administration lead ers. The president has more than once made plain that he believed it the duty of the American congress to re peal the tolls exemption without equivocation or evasion and that he was against any amendments. He told callers frankly that while he did not expect obstructive tactics in the Senate, he expected a full discussion of the question there but was confi dent the repeal would pass. The president declared no propos als for a caucus had been mentioned to him. Reports were In circulation that an effort might be made to force the repeal bill into a caucus, but these rumors were denied promptly Democratic leaders asserting that a caucus would not be necessary, at the same time Insisting that there is no doubt that the repeal bill will have a safe majority when the vote is taken. It yas pointed out that Dem Socratic senators, such as O'Gorman and Chamberlain, who are openly. and unyieldingly opposed to toll ex r emption repeal, could not go Into a f caucus which would .be designed to .bind them. 2 Friends of the repeal bill insisted e that support of the president's policy 2 is increasing rather than decreasing. f One Republican senator who will vote -for the repeal declared that a canvass 1 of the Senate showed a clear majority of nine for the bill, the probability - being that several votes counted for y -the opposition would be reversed. A e -number of Republicans, however, it' e is now generally understood, have de e cylined to line up against the repeal, -notwithstanding they voted against s free tolls originally. Among these are Senators Penrose and Oliver of Pennsylvania, who have publicly an nounced their change of position. gSecretary Bryan discussed the issue with several senators while at the scapitol, among them Senator Ashurst e iof Arizona, one of the Democrats e openly opposed to the repeal. Sena e tor Ashurst said, after his talk with the secretary of state, that he had Snot changed his views. Mr. Bryan Salso discussed the situation with Sen ator Overman of North Carolina, who is In favor of toll exemption repeal. FIND HEA DLESS BODY. Kentucky County is Scene of Grue some Aftermath of Robbery. f The body of a man, supposed to r have been John King, of Jenkins, Ky., e was found Saturday near Glenmor t gan, a mining town In ,the vicinity y Iof Wise, Va. The man had been mur L dered, robbed and decapitated. His w p orkets were turned Inside out and a 3suitcase, found near the body had -shecn cut open and rifled. The body (I apparently had been in the woods for n several weeks. The man had been shot in the back and his head had Deen cut off. d Kills Wife Instead of Hawk. Bgfun Johnson, a farmer living near oCovlngton. Ky., shot and killed his tyoung and pretty wife while rushing through the house on his way to shoot a hawk that had attacked a brood of chickens. at F ine Stock Burned. The barn and stables of Mr. L. P. McClellan, o-f McClellanvllle, with three horses, two mules, a valuable d cow and much corn and hay, were ae . destroyed by fire between 12 and 1