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linri mm ?_ icle Sam's Sixteen Wa if Hampton Roads Aftc The Olobe?Ship AMERICA'S RECOR Bur Admiral Charles S. S; FIRST D CONNECTICUTT. Capt. Hu CANSAS. Capt. Charles E. MINNESOTA. Capt. John H VERMONT Capt. Frank F. ! SECOND D Rear Admiral Richard W GEORGIA. Commander Gen NEBRASKA. Capt. Repinal NEW JERSEY. Capt. Willi RHODE ISLAND, Capt. Jos THIRD D { Rear Admiral Scaton LOUISIANA. Capt. Kossuth } VIRGINIA, Capt. Alexande !' OHIO, Capt. Thomas B. Ho ; MISSOURI, Capt. Robert TOURTH Rear Admiral William ! WISCONSIN, Capt. Frank ILLINOIS, Capt. John M. B< KEARSARGE. Capt, Hatni | KENTUCKY. Capt. Walter 1 1 ITINERARY O Left Hampton Roads Decern' Arrived Rio De Janeiro Jan | Arrived Punta Arenas Janua Arrivel Valpariso February ;! Arrivel Caliao February 20, i . A :?j "*??J-I " " iAinveu maguaieua nay MS Arrived San Francisco May Arrived Honolulu July 10, 1 Arrived Auckland August 1 Arrived Sydney August 20, Arrived Melburne August 2 Arrived Manila October 2. 1 11 Arrived Yokohama October i Arrived Manila, First Squad Arrived Amoy, Second Squa Arrived Colombo December Arrived Port Said January Arrived Naples January 10 Arrived Villefrauche Januai Arrived Malta January 14, ' Arrived Marseilles January Arrived Oibralta January ; Arrive Hampton Roads Febi Total Distance Covered?42 Time Consumed?One yetr, Foreign Countries Visited ? Point Comfort. Va.. Special.? stically welcomed by the ming of the whistles of a of naval vessels and a hundred ore other ships, this only to be ued out by the thunderous saof twenty-one guns from each aizteen battleships in the colAmerica's record-breaking fleet majestically into Hampton Monday. afc-'the fleet'8 home-coming af" circumnavigation nf irlnho , most remarkable continuous i ever made by the warships of *vy. dent Roosevelt and Secretary Navy Newberry, who were the ? hid the fleet Godspeed when it mpton Roads December 16, re the first to greet it upon rn. The President and his naval officers and ladies he Mayflower, which was an? Thimble Shoal Light, about ilea out from Fort Monroe, :he warships as they turned >ugh the Virginia Capes, then ; ly reviewed them while they 1 the Mayflower in single colWhen the fleet had dropped i in the Roads just above his- j dd Fort Monroe, the Mayflower \ ed in among them and Admiral /, the commander-in-chief, and ig officers and ship captains jeeived on board by the Presi\ 11. esneciallv the were warmly congratulated e safe completion of their 'ented cruise, lower Takes Her Stand, about 9 o'clock when the came from down the Poid the Chesapeake Bay and near Thimble Shoal. Short10 o'clock the deck watch i .dayflower discovered a colsmoke almost directly eastrer Cape Charles, and half r later the warships, which en approaching under slow ut order not to anticipate their led hour of arrival, came into .tnd passed the Capes. At 11 : the flagshin Connecticut leadrived off the Tail of the Horse t which point the fleet was left Mayflower when it followed 'leships out of the Roads at :ng of the cruise. A quarour later the Connecticut port beam of the May? distance of 300 yards. I ,~site the Mayflower's quar- ! Connecticut's six-inch fruns * official salute of 21 fruns in ' the navy's eommander-ineea than half of these had -EET PROVES TO BE A a matter of pride to the ent that a portion of the fleet Erf to visit China at the time - ' r indemnity was remitted by ^ ed States. Incidentally, it ^ emarked that after discussinestion of a declaration of with the United States as Jtitud* of this country sod Ani Chans s-4 in the Psei MED HOME r-Dogs Drop Anchor in ir Circumnavigating >s in Fine Trim. D BREAKING FLEET. PU pa perry, Commander-in-Chief. <| ivision. ve ^ en ?ro Osterhaun, i| Vreeland. ubbard. 1 no Fletcher. !| Se ivision. J | ge ainwright. Commander. | pu rge W. Kline. *\ A if vr;??,?i..? < u mvuv/inuu. am H. H. Sutherland, eph B. Murdock. rc IVI8I0N. ~ J; 8ei Schroeder, Commander. J? ot Niles. 'I mi r Sharp. !| th< ward. 11 bo M. Doyle. ? tei DIVISION. !; de P. Potter, Commander. Ji E. Beatty. || ? owyer. ^ Iton Hutehins. S . C. Cowles. T THE FLEET. 1[ ber 16, 1907. !' pt uary 12. 1908. \ do rv 31. 1908. * th 14. 1908. S c. 1908. da rch 12. 1908. J? ru 6. 1908. < sa 808. 0. 1908. ] th 1908. > w< 9. 1908. Q< 908. (1 gn 18, 1908. ! Ti ron October 31, 1908. bp idron. October 30, 1908. UI1 12, 1908. < er 5. 1909. ! ti( , 1909. |i sii ry 11, 1909. nc 1909. > el 15, 1909. ([ 11. 1909. : SI ninry 22. 1909. r . j | p.227 miles. I1 two months and six days. <! -Fifteen. ![ I been fired when the Kansas, the sec| ond ship in line, took up the salute, I quickly followed by the others. The i fleet, which has averaged about 10 t A. ? % ... . - ; Knots speea tnrougnout the cntise of " more than 14 months, passed the President at eight knots and entered Ps I the Ponds at six knots. }* Admiral Sperry Reports to President. **> When the Third Squadron had P( ! passed, the Mayflower lifted anchor 1f1 ! and followed slowly at a distance. j Some time was necessarily consumed, : owing to the current in the liunus, 1 caused by the tide, in the ships settling into their berths. When this was completed, upon the flash of sir 4511 I nals from the Connecticut to rhe P* Mayflower, Admiral Sperry personal- ur ly greeted the President and Secre- cu tarv of the Navy and announced er that he stood ready to report the end of his cruise. The report was then in>ui~ in p-r-en. Aamirai Arnold be- ln ing accompanied to the Mayflower in Pu launches bv the three other rear ad- ,st mirals of the fleet and the ship cap- Pri tains. rei Following the President's reception of the officers, the Mayflower started to back to Washington and the officers in and men as many as could be spared we at one tiir.e. rushed ashore, most of ho them to Old Point, to greet the mem- Pe bers of their families and friends is who had come from various parts of ar< the country to welcome them home. an The other officers will be given this Pa temporary shore leave in relays of sm about one-fourth of the number on a? each ship at one time, until all have had the round. After that, they will be granted such liberty as they can be soared for until the ships proceed t}j( to their home yards for docking and ge< repairs. th None the Worse for 42,227 Mile Trip. jj( | As the battleships came in today bo looking their fittest and apparently on none the worse for the wear of the m, long voyage of 42.227 miles, equal to fl ; Himosi iwice me distance around tne [equator, the naval authorities drew a |jf j breath of relief. Not that there had [been any apprehension at anv time I of any serious difficulties, either in TI the matter of navigation or possible military work to do, but because the handing of sixteen of the most mod- j ern and formidable sea-fighting en- wl gines of the world, the supplying them with coal, oil and food at the different ports where stops were P1 made, and providing the ships with Cl the pick of the officers and men of Pr the navy while on foreign view, required careful and almost constant WJ attention, from the time the cruise was first projected, in July, 1007, un- an til the command left Gibraltar a lit- ? tie over two weeks ago. 8" ? mc N INSPIRATION Of RESPECT fic, the agents of the Mikado were in ^ a more agreeable frame of mind for affixing their signatures to the document, after the visit of the fleet to ca Japan. an Aside from this, all nations had op- bo: portunity properly to estimate the Or military importance of the United ha States on the seas, with the result th< that the general international respect set for this country went np on the wl world's market several points. | ga -J V'"\ ENATORS FLEE THE STATE lirtsan Members of the Tennessee Senate Leave the State in Order te Defeat the Purposes of the Election Laws Passed Over the Governor's Veto. Nashville, Tenn., Special.?That 13 ambers of the State Senate have d the State in order to defeat the irpose of the recent election laws ssed over Governor Patterson's to is believed in well informed rclcs. The 13 members were Friday afteron declared in contempt of the nate by that body and the serani-flt-flrms woe inctrnotorl ?" rsuit of the absentees.. It is declared further that the abntees will remain away during the maining 22 days of the legislative ssicn, thereby leaving in the hands Governor Patterson the election ichinery of the State and defeating e expressed will of the majority of th houses in passing over the prost of the Governor laws designed to prive him of this authority. The joint resolution providing for joint legislative session Friday for e purpose of electing the members the State election boards as proled for in the recently enacted ws, and a State Treaurer and State mptroller, was vetoed by Governor itterson Friday. There was no ubt of its passage over his veto but e action of the 13 members of the nnte in remaining awav from the y's session, thus preventing a quoin, renders action on the veto mesge impossible. If the members remain away until ? *i * - - * v tnu ui uiu ic^uiai gession, 11 >uld then be necessary for the )vernor to call n special session to act appropriation laws aiul elect a easurer and Comptroller. The ecial session would be prevented, ider the constitution, from considing any matters not specially menjned in the call for the extra sesan and of course the Governor is ?t expected to refer in his call to ection matters. CRONG DEFENCE OF PRESS. jvernor of Kentucky Pardons Louisville Paper that Scored Officials. Frankfort, Ky., Special.?One of e strongest defenses of the freedom the press in criticism-of public ofials e^er delivered in the South was ritten by Governor Augustus E. illson Thursday in granting a par>n to the Herald Publishing C'ominy, of Louisville, publishers of the wisville Herald, for an indictment the Calloway and in Trigg Circuit mrts of Western Kentucky, chargg the paper with criminally libel)g Judge Thomas P. Cook and Comanwealth's attorney, Denny P. nith. The two officials preside in e district in which the greater part the night rider troubles in Westn Kentucky occurred, and the par vigorously scored them for faile to Derform their <tntv in tion of the lawless element. Govnor Willson wrote upon pardons to e newspaper company this reason: "Because the long series of crimes this district, which have not been nished under these officers' adminration, make it necessary for the ess to criticise all who can be hold vponsibie. "If the Courts do not put an end the rule of crime in the counties which the Judge and Commonalth's attorney are selected to upld law and order, the only hope of rmanent relief from such condition in elightencd public sentiment oused by the press of the country, d instead of punishing the news pers, which make a fight against oh conditions, it should be regarded fulfilling its duty." Bill to Help Prohibition. Washington, Special. ?Following e prohibition agitation in Tcnnese, Representative Brownlow of at State Saturday introduced in ouse a bill to enable the States re effectively to enforce their laws the prohibition of the sale and anufacture of intoxicating liquors, le bill provides for a surrender to e States of full control of the |uor traffic. te Ohio Won the Steaming Trophy. Fort Monroe, Vs.. Special.?The ttleship Ohio railed Sunday for ew York. The third squadron, lich met the returning: hattieshipps le thousand miles at sen. sailed onday for Guantanamo whence it obably will go on n West Indian uise. The Ohio sailed away the oud winner of the "steaming ophy" of the voyage around the orld. The rules for the contest, tiich was one of economy in coal d water consumption for the entire ip were laid dowrt> soon after the ips left Hampton Roads fourteen >nts ago. t xifcrm Chill Labor Laws Desired For South. Raton Rouge, La., Special.?Tin; II of Governor Sanders, of Louisia. for a Southern States child lor conference, to be held in New leans March 20th, 30th and 31st s brought favorable responses from i Governors of Kentucky, Tenness, Mississippi and North Carolina io have forwarded a list of deletes appointed by them to attend. STUBENTS HEAR TAFT m f "* Ike Praeideat-EIect Delivers the Principal Address at the W making ton Birthday Exercises at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Special.?Hon. William H. Taft, President-elect of the United States, Monday was the principal speaker at the exercises in the University of Pennsylvania commemorative of the birth of Washington. He chose for the subject of his address the "Present Relations of the Learned Profession to Political Government." He discussed at considerable length the influence which the learned professions, in this day, have upon national and municipal government. In brief part, he said: "It is the duty of every citizen to give as much attention as he can to the public weal, and to take as much interest as he can in political matters. "The first profession," said Mr. Taft, "is that of the ministry. Time was when the minister of the community was the highest authority as to what the law should be and how it ought to be enforced; but the spread of education and independent think ing, tne wide diffusion of knowledge by the press, the disappearance of the simple village life, have contributed radically to change the position and influence of the ministry in the community. "During the administration of Mr. Roosevelt, and tinder the influence of 'Certain revelations of business immorality, the conscience of the whole country was shocked and then nerved to the point of demanding that a better order of affairs be introduced. In this movement, the ministers of the various churches have recognized the call upon them to assist, and they have been heard in accents much more effective than ever before in half a century. The greatest agency today in keeping us advised of the conditions among Oriental races is the establishment of foreign missions. The lenders of these missionary branches of the churches are becoming some of our most learned statesmen in re spen 01 our proper Oriental policies. Judge Taft, discussing teachers* said that "their relation to politiafi and government is of the utmost importance, though indirect." To the writer, in whatever capacity he may (labor. Judge Taft attributed great influence, either for good or for bad. Referring to the newspaper press he said: "Its power of public instruction is very great; but when it panders to the vulgarest taste f orsensationalism and becomes entirely irresponsible in its influence for good, its pernicious tendency is obviated only by the power of t-he people to protect themselves against it by a safe discrimination and a healthy skepticism. Judge Taft paid a high tribute to the profession of medicine, because it had contributed to the preservation of the health of all the people. He pointed out that the profession had been exalted by its great discoveries and by its assistance in the expansion of our government in the tropics and in the construction of the Panama canal. The law. said he. is in a wide sense the profession of government.. Realizing the defects and weaknesses he still regards the profession of law as the most important in political government. National exigency scorns, said lie. to call forth the men peculiarly fitted to meet the requirements of the situation. Awful Crimes of a Farmer. Mondovi, Wis., Special.?Hans B. Hanson, a farmer living near Strun, cut the throats of his four children, a boy and three girls, whose ages range from 5 to 15 vears. Mondav with a butcher knife. He followed this crime bv stabbing several horses and cows, firing the barn and house, and then cutting his own throat. After killing his children Hanson went to the barn and stabbed several horses, cows, calves and pigs and killed a cat. Seven Are Killed in Penna. Wreck. Delmar, Del., Special.?With its coaches filled with passengers cn their way to Norfolk to witness the incoming of the fleet, the first section of Pennsylvania train No. 40 collided with an engine near Delmar Mondav morning. Seven are dead: J. Ed. McCreadv. of Wilmington, baggage master; Oliver Perry, of Philadelphia, express messenger; W. B. Cochrnn. of Philadelphia; J. W. Wood, of Wilmington: R. Af. Davis, of Mnrydel. Del.; F. L. Wilhclm, pf Wilmington. The last two were mail clerks. Sophia Ashnopoles, of Memphis, Tenn., was painfully injured. Engineer Scalded to Death. | Greenville. S. C? Rnecial.?In the wreck of Southern Railway oxpress No. 3o from Washington to Atlanta, at Harbins. n block office 50 miles south of here, early Monday. Engineer W. J. O'Neal was scalded to death and Fireman Joe Clay, negro, was injured so hadly that he will die. Both men were from Atlanta. The engine and baggage car turned completely over and the passenger coaches tnrnod on their side. v I * m iii*k DOINGS OF (MGtfSS Summary of Proceeding! Enacted From Day to *ajr. The Indian appropriation bill oecupied almost the entire time of the Senate Saturday and was passed with appropriations aggregating over $9,000,000. Of this amount about $1,500,000 was added to the bill by Senate amendments. Two more of the annual supply bills, the diplomatic and consular and the mai'itary academy measures, were passed by the House of Representatives Saturday in a comparatively brief time. For two hours and a half Monday the Senatf discussed tin postal savings bank proposal but an attempt to reach an agreement as to a day for voting on the measure that Senator Carter, of Montana, is irging, failed. The reading by Senator McLaurin, of Washington's farewell address consumed the first hour of the session. Senator Aldrich obtained the consent of the Senate to a resolution continuing the committees' of the Senate as they now exis until their successors are chosen in the next regular session. The agricultural appropriation bill was taken up. The Sena e adjourned at 4:40 p. m. A second speech by Ml Rainey, of Illinois, reiterating his firmer statements concerning the Panama canal, and a bitter arraignment of Mr. Rainey by Mr. Burton, cf Ohio, furnished the principal incitents in the House of Representativfs Monday. After the Illinois member had spoken for an hour in further lenunciation of William Nelson Cromwell, Mr. Burton took the floor to make reply. He vigorously defended Mr. Cromwell, Charles P. Taft, President-elect. Taft and others whom Mr Rainey on a former occasion had nude objeets of his attack. Mr. Rainey, he said, had furnished no proofs of wrong- doing in connection with the purchase of the Panama canal frarchise, but instead had conjured up vrongs and buttressed them with slender and falsehood, thereby placing himself on a level with "the scurvy politician." Mr. Lovering, of Massachusetts, joined in the discussion and insisted that Mr. Rainey had provei nothing. The incident was closed bv a declaration bv Mr. Coc-krnn. of Tpw Vnrk that persons whose reputations were attacked in the House should have an fbpportunity to defend themselves in n the same place. Following the sending of the army and Indian appropriation bills to conference. consideration cf tie sundry civil appropriation bill was resumed, and it was pending when the House at G:12 p. in. adjourned. The President is authorized to appoint a court of inquiry to determine the qualifications for re-enlistment of discharged soldiers of the Twentyfifth Regiment who were accused of shooting up Brownsville, Tex., on the night of August 13th-14tli, 1906. The Aldrich bill for this purpose was passed in the Senate by a vote of 56 to 26. The Senate also passed the fortifications bill, with appropriations aggregating $.3.320.111 and the diplomatic and consular bill, carrying $3,646,386 of appropriations. Appropriation bills mainlv occupied the House Tuesday. The sundry civil bill was considered but progress with it was slow. The fortifications, legislative, executive and judicial, diplomatic and consular and postofflce appropriation bills were sent to conference. Mr. Clarke, of Florida, unsuccessfully attempted to secure an investigation by the committee on tlie judiciary into the writing of the recent letter bv Secretary* of State Bacon apologizing for Mr. Rninev's remarks regarding President Obaldia. of Panama, Mr. Clarke's object being to ascertain if Mr. Bacon's reference to Mr. Rainev constituted an abuse of the privileges of the House. The agricultural appropriation bill was under discussion in the Senate during practically the entire session Y/ednesdav. Senator McOumbcr, of Korth Dakota, discussed at length the right of f-'ofigress under the constitution to fix standards for grain, and declared that present practices makes impossible the sale of Western grain at the prices to which it is really entitled. With its -r paint on. the House of Repr< tives Wednesday by sweeping r i. toritios many times defied the Senate by rejecting its amendments to the legislative appropriation bill providing for salary increases for the President, the Speaker, the judiciary and for the creation of the offices of Under Secretary and Fourth Assistant Secretary of State. Party lir.es were obliterated completely. It was a regular field day in the lower body where oratory and confusion vied with each other for honor1'. Ti.? *:? " ?uc tumc iiuic oi me nenaie was occupied Thursday with the corysideration of the agricultural appropriation bill. Many items of the bill providing for various investigations and matters relating to new legislation were stricken from the bill on points of order. The forestry service was again severely criticised by Senators Carter and Hepburn. The conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill was agreed to during the oay and the naval bill vy sent baek for further conference. '1 <r In an effort to finish consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill the Honse held a lengthy night session. The passage of the agricultural ap- 1 propriation bill by the Senate Friday night followed an extended debate on the forestry service, which occupied the entire session. As passed, the measure appropriates $13,075,716, which is nn increase of $191,890 over the bill as passed by the House. After having dragged along for a week, the sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying in the asnrreeate $137.000.000. xvai m Friday nighi amendments B Earlier in M adopted app ^ five to repor < r* * marks of Mi B livered Thim w dent, should < Record. Later the < diplomatic ap agreed to. Following t three hnndre the House adjourneu. j.uc riytfr ana naroor dui, carrying an appropriation of about $9,700,000 was passed by the Senate Saturday. All paragraphs giving authority to the Federal government to develop and lease water-power were stricken from the bill except in the cose of the St. Mary's river in which case it was provided that the consent I of Michigan should be obtained before making any such lease. This action was to maintain the principles that the water-power belongs exclusively to the States in which it is located. Eulogies were delivered uDon,.the lives of the late Senator Latimer, of South Carolina, and the late Repre Powers, of Maine; Wiley, of Alabama; Meyer, of Louisiana; Brick, of Indiana, and Granger, of | Whnde Island. The lone tight of the discharged negro soldiers of tbe Twenty-fifth Infantry for an opportunity to prove their innocence in connection with the "shooting up" of Brownsville, Tex., on the night .of August 15th, 1906. was won Friday when the House by a vote of 210 to 101 uassed the Senate bill to that end. Violent opposition was encountered from members of the Texas delegation and others, as the vote shows, but their efforts were unavailing'. The general deficiencv bill was taken up and parsed, the aggregate amount carried bv it being over. $17,500.000. A number of miscellaneous - bills and conference reports were ulstf dis- [ posed of. A livelv tilt between Speaker CflrP non and Mr. Oaines. of Tennessee, i furnished something of a scene. Each claimed the other had insulted him, and before Mr. Gaines would take his seat the mace, the emblem of authority, was ordered from its place and the sergeant-at-arms directed to place it before the Tennessee member. Mr. Oaines sat down before the official got to him and was thus spared from the disgrace implied by such acts. The last occasion on which the mace was similarilv used was in the Fifty-fourth Congress. After many yea re of discussion of the subject hitherto without result, a joint resolution was adopted-' approving plans reducing the size of the House chamber. Train Robbers Retreat. Winston-Salem, Special. ? Three masked men attempted a bold hold![ up of Express Messenger Tom Hubbard. who runs between Sanford and Mount Airy. Monday night near Mount Airy, but the bandits were repulsed. The robbers entered the car while the train was standing at the Ararat tank taking on water. They called on Hubard to throw up his hands, but instead of doing this he sniffed out the light and reached for his pistol. Papers Fcr Seminole Men. Columbia. S. C.. Special.?Sheriff W. H. Coleman letc Monday for Nashville, Term., to serve requisition papers on the Governor of Tennes- . see for John Y. Guilinglon. charging the latter with obtain' ng money tin- 1 der f^lse pretenses. Requisition pa- 1 pers are also issued for John Y. Garlington, M. J. Jeans and J. S. Young, charging conspiracy to defraud. Yonilir firwl .Tonnt hnpa t,a? I-""" ? restod. John Y. C.ailington was president of the Seminole Securities Compnn3'. w Tillman Astonishes the Senate. Washington, Special-?Senator Tillman Friday astonished the Senate by the introduction of a resolution instructing the committee on post offices and post roods to inquire whether messages and reports recently sent to Congress by the President should not be excluded from the mails as obscene literature unfit for circulation. The resolution was on motion of Mr. Tillman. referred to the committee on jiostofHces and post roads, its reading in the Senate and reference causing no discussion. THE EXPLANATION. "Peats to tne. Hr'er Simpson, ytf am doin' a pow'ful lot ob Joobllatln' o*ah ono po\ mea3ly coon." '"Taint only dot. Br'er Johnslng; Ah done got a (o-days Job to' nex* week." "Dat explatnlflcs hit." ' "8ho! Now Ah kia t'row np de Job."?Judge.