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ft F Soutkm educational Assoda| lion to Gather This Month. f HANf SUBJECTS ON PROGRAM. M The iMocUttonK is Alston as Extta ?v? as That of ths National Edu1 national Association. ! ' I h ?1 s < 'i arlotie, N. C., Special.?The r>. meeting of the Southern EducatJo'i-J Association will be held here < vie 28. 29 and 30 of this month. "I S will be one of the largest, important and notable educa1 gat be -ings that ever assembled le South. The last meeting at vV.i.ita was the largest in its his r The association has been larger ^constructed and has now dev ?d an organization almost as sive as that of the National Ed>nal Association. ..I iong the subjects that will be -iisfi ssed in the general session are ollowing: Educational ideals and |. J - ems of the New South as com* I with the Old South; the indusi development of the South?the opment of Southern rural life public schools in relation to it; novement for the improvement Uiool houses and grounds; the I m.i for educational citizenship; nat. aid to Southern schools; educatior 1 legislation and progress during il -ear; the trend of state admini .don to public schools; present stat1 s of illiteracy in the Southern !>'. s; methods of state and local tax: ion for public schools; present ox ? ption of negro education in the Sot i; methods of educational cam KUi: ".a; the service of the state univ? r~ ;y; present status of college ed.? on; higher education of women; nqvenunt for the education of au i s; the supervision of rural * : Is; the improvement of teachers; F lern summer schools; developM of rurul high schools; second, agricultural education in the ? - a J ovvvii?i?1 J CUUCUVIUI1 111 riU" >1 European and American trade Is, etc. a most progressive Southern unip1 :y, colleges nnd normal schools Er v make exhibits of their equi^Hp s, special facilities, etc., bearespecially upon the professional ; r < : aration of teachers in secondary elementary schools. Some of the lei.'ling Southern industrial high and if,, entary schools, also several kinarteu schools, will exhibit the c they hove done. ie' railroads have granted half i I. ? and hotels will also give special i -3L Charlotte is a large com iai and industrial center, and an Uent place for meeting. Madrix Will Accept Office. onagua, Nicaragua, Special.? >< Madriz, judge of the Centra/ m rican court of justice, at Carta* who has been put forward as car* !. te for the presidency to succeed VA ronoi t'O/l or* J ?, imi ?uuiuoiaoilUi IC< ? ion on his arival here. Long behe reached the capital Madriz. we the object of cheering crowds, was met by delegations from var departments, and acclaimed all .1 g the way from Corinto to ManaI shall accept the honor which been offered me. I am not the i lidate of Leon, but of the entire blic. My chief concern will be ippease the ancient sectionalism ?h has divided certain localities." To Meet in Charlotte. harlotte, N. C., Special.?There is ie held in Charlotte Tuesday, Jany 4, a meeting of all the cotton n spinners of the South and rep ntatives of the leading commishouses of the North, for the puri of considering conditions in the on yarn trade with the view to iring a better priee of yarns. >erintendent and Ouard Indicted. vtlanta, Special.?After a rigid in*tion of conditions in the city *?n a grand jury indicted Super'mdent D. M. Vining and Guard ..i Corner, and pronounced tne rontons "inhuman, incrediable and t." The inrv1* rpn^rt ? rpowering ? stenches, infectious f'i torture /machines and other al; ed horrors seen in the men's and i t women's quarters, white Paid Horaage to Leopold. Brussels. By ''able.?The body of k ig Leopold la\ in state in the roya1 palace Sunday, while thousands I o had patiently waited thcrr turn be admitted, filed silently before catafalqua and paid homage to r late sovereign. In the prcg e of Prinee Al'.iert and the officers dignitaries of the court and govment, the coffin h id been borne to mortuary chamber, while priests nted the Miserere and a proeesi of nuns, with bended heads, ?c I the roserv for the dead. The ceremonies were elaborate. Standard Oil Files Appeal. v'l. Lonis Special.?The appeal of the Standard Oil Company of New Jt its subsidiaries and the seven fiv ; individuals, against whom the governue it recently won its dissolution suit Efi id the United Statee circuit court, fjjg| was filed here. Sixty-five instances Sfl 1U which the circuit eourt is alleged I have erred are cited as reasons taking the oaae to the supreme II 1 I. I M.I. III I " LITTLE STATES SPEAK OUT. | Central American Republics Caustic Against Uncle Sua. ( Mexico City, Special.?Resolutions ratified Monday night at a mass meeting of the Central American people in Mexico City, denouncing ^ the action of the United States in refrence to Nicaragua and Zelaya, were mailed Tuesday to President B Taft and Secretary Knox. They are in part as follows: '' That the government of the United States has no right to intervene in the internal affairs of Central America, despite the reasons state by you, and we affirm that the purpose of your government is to consum- aj mate an offense against Nicaragua, -p through the arousing of political pas- j sions and taking advantage of the credulity or disloyalty of some Central Americans. "That Nicaragua has grounds to t(J consider that the political revolution -n has been promoted by the government of the United States and has the per- l feet right to claim from that govern- rpj ment an indemnifimtinn mifRnion* ? ? re pay for the Iobs of life and interests ^ which your government has caused with its irregular proceedings. "That if the government of the jj United States had sought in good cj faith an equitable and impartial solution of the conflict, it would have adopted at once the mediation offered vj by he government of Mexico to solve ?0 the question peacefully?a mediation which was offered, according to the * declaration of the Mexican govern- ^ ment to the press. "We declare that your note is op- rpj posed to the sovereignty and dignity q? of onr common country, but princi- Q? pally* tc the republic of Nicaragua; that we consider that the note is not ja inspired by a government friendly to ^ our people, and in oonsequence we protest against the aggression which jn vour government is practicing against w Nicaragua and we call upon all of our a countrymen in Central America and 1 abroad to be on the alert with respect to the dominating and absorbing tendencies of the American government ? . in order that should the occasion I present itself; thev mav act as th? patriotism and importance of our five republics require." cc Quiet Da yin tba House. ^ Washington, Special.?Taking up the President's annual message tc Congress, the House of Represents- ?* tives Tuesday went through the for- ar mality of referring and distributing P' it among the various eommittees. His colleague, Mr. Richardson, at seized the same opportunity to make a speech in advocacy of a liberal vtterway policy, particularly affecting 3? the Mississippi river and its tribu- 81 taries. Representative McDermott of vt Illinois spoke briefly while general 80 debate was permitted, in favor of *v free wood pulp. " The House agreed to take recess ai next Tuesday over the holidays, vot- C1 ing to reconvene on Tuesday, Jan- 8C uary 4. Labor Union Fighting Steel Trust. Pittsburg, Special.?War was for- ? mally declared upon the United States Steel corporation by the leaders of organized labor throughout the United States and Canada at the bi elose of a momentous two days' con- E ference Tuesday. The decision to ^ battle, long and hard, against the P] _? j -.-i? ' turn* imten Dy ine steel corporation tn in its policy of "open shop" was ft reached by the labor conferences only after hours of debate and a deal of trouble. ? At the conferertee, which passed n< the remarkable battle decree. Samuel 8a Gompers, president of the American n< Federation of Labor, presided. The grievance of organized labor f* against the steel corporation, as set ir! forth in the resolution, have been forwarded to "^President Taft and the P1 United States Senate and House of if Representatives. The Governors of . the States in which the steel corpora.lion owns plants or has interests will ?* also recive a copy of the resolution. w Te Celebrate Emancipation. Washington, Special.?By a joint resolution offered in Congress, a committee of sven persons to inevstigate ^ the prospects for a semi-centennial ir celebration of the emancipation proc- tl tarnation in 1913 is provided. Con- st gressman E. L. Taylor, Jr., of Ohio, and Congressman William A. Roden- ft' burg of Illinois, chairman of the com- G mittee on industrial arts and expositiona. ,L- * , ?- .Uv .Utuvia UL mt; rusoiu- ction. T Education For the Fanners. Washington, Special.?A somewhat unique campaign of education is to w be undertaken in January by Dr. S. 81 A. Knapp of the Department of Ag- w riculture, in charge of the farm demonstration work in the South, which will have for its object a discussion K) of the farm methods and policies oof o the various States visited and the h means for bringing about greater ag- C1 ricultural prosperity. The trip is being aranged by the Southern Rail- 81 way and is undertaken at the sugges- a tio nof that company. Wright Brothers Ask Injunction. i Buffalo, N. Y., Special.?Three of 8 I the world s most famous aviators, the w Wright Bros, and Glenn H. Curtiss. Q joined issue in a legal battle here ?y Tuesday. The proceedings were in a ri suit brought by the Wrights for a tj preliminary injunction against Cortiss to restrain bim and bis asoeiates * from manufacturing and selling aero- S] planes on the ground that in all as- ., sential details Cortiss is infringing. ? the patents of the Wrights. HB I ! 'ft L if"J, I (INC LEOPOLD PEA oMapsed Unexpectedly Fridc Morning. LL BELGIUM IN NOURNIN nlletins Thursday Werrs Altogeth lopeful and People Were Hopef ?Began to Sink at 2:35 a. m. Brussels, By Cable.?King Leopo led at 2:35 o'clock Friday mornin is aged and wasted body being ui lie to stand the strain put upon i he collapse occurred suddenly ar ; a moment when the doctors seen gly had had the greatest hopes f< s recovery. It appears that the doctors wej it ally unprepared for a fatal tern at ion. It was a nun, acting as irse, who first noticed the heai -eathing of the king. She called D hiriar to the bedside Both doctoi sorted to injections of morphin it these had no effect. The eutire Kingdom of Belgiu ourns its departed ruler, Leopo] . Courts, schools and'theatres ai osed, Parliament and the municipi mncil have adjourned and flags ai haif-mast in every city, town an lage of the kingdom out of respei >r the dead monarch. Under the constitution the affaii the nation will be in the hands ( e Cabinet until Prince Albert tuk< le oath of office of succession nei tuirsday, the day after the funerj his unoie. before the ioint hons< Parliament in the Senate chambe An official decree issued Thursda uds King Leopold's career and d< ares his creation of the Congo Ir jpendent State was an act uniqu the annals of history. "Posterit ill judge Leopold a great King wit grand reign," it says. COLUMBIA GETS SEMINARY. lie Theological Seminary of Unite Synod of the South to Be Locate There. Salisbury, N. C., Special.?Th immittee to fix upon a location fc le Theological Seminary of th Juthern Evangelical Luther churcl ,e body known as the United Syno the South, met here on Thursda id fixed upon Columbia, S. C., as th ace to which that institution is t s removed from its present locatio ; Mt. Pleasant near Charleston. The respective offers were: Colun a $17,722 and Bites; Salisbury $14 >0 and sites; Charlotte $8,000 an tes. Charlotte offered the grcatei iricty of sites, but all at valuatioc imewhat strong. Salisbury offere ro beautiful sites, and some other ne was of 10 acres, near the cia id supplied with water from tti ty. Columbia offerd two sites, d< sribed in a letter appended thereb SALISBURY HAS BAD FIRE. ne Fireman Loss Life and Anoth* in Critical Condition?Loss Est mated at $60,000 Salisbury, Special.?Fire, wbic oke out in the second floor of tb mpire Store Company's building t ):30 o'clock Friday night resulted i roperty loss of aoproximately $60 )0, the death of Mr. R. H. Pende member of the fire department an le probable fatal, injury of Mr. E. 1 eeter, also a fireman. At 12:1 clock Saturday morninc it woo at )unced at the Whitehead-Stok? inatoriura that Mr. Keeter migl )t survive the night. The flames spread rapidly and soc le entire second floor of the buih g was enveloped and the who ock seemed doomed. The fire wa roved equal, however, and the ai lining buildings were damaged vei ttle. So threatending was the situi on at one time that all of the gues ! the Empire hotel were awakene id moved out. Genearl Wood in Command. Washington, D .C., Special.[ajor Gene-al Leonard Wood, 110 i command of the Department < le East, will be the next chief < :aff of the army. Secretary Dickii )n made this announcement Wei esday. General Wood will suecet en. J. Franklin Bell whose ter t the head of the general staff \vi xpire next spring. wo Killed and One Fatally Injun in Railroad Wreck. Macon, Ga., S|>ecial.?Two persoi ere kiiled, one fatally injured ar Bven more or less sreiously hu nen a eemrai or Georgia nortl onnd passenger train Friday nior lg at 7:50 o'clock at Harris Cit a., crashed into the combinatu scond-elass, baggage and mail ci f train No. 42, east hound, of tl (aeon & Birmingham road. The a ident occurred at the crossing of tl wo roads and was due, according tatements from railroad officials, frosted track. The Buffalo Sent to Corinto. Washington, Special.?The IJnit< tates ship Buffalo, now at Pan at ith 700 marines on board, has be rdered to sail at once for Corint his action was taken Friday aq t Bsult of a telegram received /frc ie United States consulate at Man ua, in which it was stated that) im inch as Zelays, in his mexsarre 1 igning the presidency, had raatde u leasant reference to Americans, a wing to the reports Americans c jv protection. ^ \ ?=====?=======^^ II I a sms from the scripture. | By The Boitstowi Bari ,y THE CHRlSTMhu CHILD. ( And the ange said unto [J. them: Fear not, for, behold. I I bring yon good tidings or great jot, which shall be to sr - all people. For onto yon is S ill born this day in the eity of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto yon: Ye 11 shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes lying in a manger.?-St. Luke, ii, 10-12 N P Laudation to His Holy name, n And to His lowly birth? T ~ Not that He came in splendor-flame, tl Nor like a king of earth; o Not that the banners waved on high, The cymbals clashed His praise; u " But that alone the starry sky o Led to His humble dais! fl r ? " Laudation to His purpose mild, Who came not unto men 0 e' Except as comes a little child With far, wide-wandering ken; w r\ Who came not panoplied in gold, _ With sword and shield of might. r,j But in His mother's sweet enfold? ^ ^ A rose-bloom of the night! Q id I 1_a, . ? . .. " I u?uaanon w nis deathless soul, U :l Not that He ruled, as king; I But that God's arm around him stole ^ As soft as angel's wing. b )f Not that the thunder of His tread a Shook cities to their doom, I, , But that beneath His feet the dead u Were touched to deathless bloom! >s |T r* Not for the conqueror's mail-dad hand w y Nor for the victor's sword; q Not for the chieftain of a band, c 1_ A wild, world-sundering horde; 10 Lift the hosanna of the years, (2 y Utter the golden song, t " For this, the foeman of our tears And for all human wrong! Aye, for a life that came to lead # All life toward the sun; [, d And for a heart that came to bleed q d For tasks that love had dono; A life that gave that gifts might bless 0 ie All sweets of life; to be? >r This brother of the brotherless? t) ie Dear friend to you and me! a *> t< d Laudation to His holy name! d y Through all the ages cry ie The exaltation of His fame p o Unto the Christmas sky? |j n Hot that He rose as princes rise, tl Unto life's fleeting power; n 1- Bmt thai beneath warm mother-eyes . ' He bloomed as blooms a flower! g d ?Baltimore Sun. jj it ?, Zelaya Resigns Office. B d Managua, Nicaragua, Special?Jose B 8- Santos Zelaya has resigned from the B y presidency of Nicaragua He placed fc >e his resignation in the hands of con- tl 2- gres Thursday morning. Apparnetly ? t>. ( there was no other course for him to f] take. The people were at last aroused. The guns of the revolutionists gj threatened. The warships of the ii >r United States lay in Nicaraguan tl i- ports. Managua has been seething t< for days. The spirit of revolt has tl h spread even to the gates of the k ie palace. it C n 9,429,000 Bales Ginned. h Memphis, Tenn., Special.?The re- * r' port of the National Ginners' Associ- u ation issued last Friday shows that P ^ 9,429,000 bales of cotton had been *' ginned to December 13, 1909. The re1_ port by States follows: Alabama, ? 58 994,000; Arkansas, 652,000; Florida, ^ 11 58,000; Georgia, 1,778,000; Ixmisiana. 246,000; Mississippi, 966.000; Mis- * ? souri and Virginia. 52,000; North P J1 Carolina 590,000; Oklahoma 521,000; jl ,? South Carolina, 1,074,000; Tennesf see, 221,000; Texas, 2,271,000; Total ^ J- 9,429,000. r' 7 a a- A Central National Bank. ts Waging-":n,t Special.?A bill pro- " viding for a ce'ntral national bank of ? America to be established at Wash- & ingtorv, D. C., with branches in vari ous cities throughout the country was ft _ introduced in the House Tuesday by Representative Fornes of New York. aj ^ The hank is to have a capital of a cj \ hundred million dollars, three-fifths 0( 5 of which is to be subscribed for by V the United Treasury through an issue \ j of fifty-year gold bonds. The re- * ' maining two-fifths is to be offered to * j1, (he various national banks of the 1 country. ^ w 5(j Night Ridei3 Reported to Ee Active in Georgia. lls Rockinart, (la., Special. ? Alleged m l(j night rider raids in this community d? vt have become so numerous lately that h- Wednesday Governor Brown was sent ** n. two telegraphic dispatches that the j. > j ? y ci^iiuuriioou was t>e:ntr terrorized. Je The burning of n dwelling had been g, ar charged to thp night riders, threaten- g, ing letters liad been received by good p, f.. citizens and signs i?ostrd telling what lie they proposed doin~. *? Representative Lovering, of Massato ehusetts, one of the leaders of the e] band of House "insurgents," in an ei interview Thursday night on the probable course of the insurgents at this 8' sd session, took occasion to pay his re- n< na speaks rather vigorously to Cannon. C 11 ' V en The display of the name of the " ?" architect o? a. building under con- " struetion was condemned us a viola- 8( 'm tion of professional ethics by the ir ia" American Institute of Architect* * " Wednesday morning, in uession at the C1 **- Willard Hotel. * m- k "g The ceru.aa crm> ounLer* :?.?? Ij* iiOO m?a \ 1^ ? w/ >.i^L..... u A- , fk mu- >* 1EWS BREVITIES: londensed from Wide fieMs? Domestic and foreign. IS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY niUd to the Wants of Bus7 Seadon Booking a Knowledge of What is Ooing on. The steamer Gov. Ames, found from Tew York to Brunswick, Go., went to ieces off Wimble Shoals, 25 miles orth of Hatteras, N. C., Monday. \ 'he captain and wife and eleven of be crew were lost, one of the crew uly escaping. George P. Sheldon is indicted for irceny in the Shortage of $45,000 r $50,000 dollars in the Atlanta ofce of the Phenix Fire insurance ompany of Brooklyn, N. Y. Zelaya has resigned the presidency f Nicaragua amid riotous deinonstraions in which the populace cry dowD rith the old and up with the new egime. The sugar scandals at the New rork custom house are being ferreted ut and the Arbuckle Brothers have oughed up $695,543 out of which hey had wronged the government. The Brokaw divorce suit in New rork is now a live topic. It is rought out that the husband was bout to sue for the divorce but e is fighting the suit now as there ? $60,000 at stake in alimony. It now develops that Capt. Auust W. Loose and his man Dunklo dio swore that they made Capt. 'ook's calculations to help him deeive the world about his getting to he North Pole and squealed because e did not pay up were after soiling heir fabrications and Loose says lunkle got most of the money for he fabrication. News has just arived that a mine aplosion in Southern Japan recentj claimed 762 victims. Forty-three thers escaped. The mine works 4,55 hands and has a monthly output f 44,000 tons of coal. Secretary of War Dickinson will ake a trip to inspect Santo Domingo nd Porto Rico, paying special atsntion to the revolutionary conitions in the former islands. T f id pctiniotn/1 V? o f 7 Q VWv.^u?vu KUUb I IU U LUUilim eople visited Coney Island during tie late summer making about *20,000 rips besides spending $40,000,000 lostly in nickels and dimes, sums tiree times as much as the United tates paid for Louisiana and six imes as much as Alaska cost. Women in high social position? lembers of the Colony Club?held n enthusiastic meeting Wednesday fternoon in their clubrooms at 122 [adison avenue, in the interest of tie striking shirtwaist workers, who rill receive substantial financial aid rom the organization. The Brownsville court of inquiry is itting behind closed doors in Washigton, hearing such applicants of tie Negro disbanded regiment as wish a re-enter the army and can show tiemselves elligible under the Foraer act. Congressman Kitchin, of North !arolina, introduced a bill in the ouse Wednesday the object of diich is to prevent corporations dolg business in the slate from apealing cases from the state to the ederal courts. ifing Leopold, the soverign of telgium, died Friday morning in trussels. The National Geographic society in Washington City Wednesday night estowed on Commander Peary the onor of the discovery of the North oie and awarded a suitable medal, apt. Bartlett also received a medal ar sailing a boat further into the rtie regions than any one else. A fire at East St. Louis, 111., on ronday, burned 100 car loads of rain. The loss is Jtimated at 100,000. Zelayn who is so conspicious heme the world now has a nephew in ew York who is in trouble in love fairs. Miss Juliette Hero, of Orean descent, is suing him for $100,)0 dollars on breach of promise. Another severe storm accompanied ith snow, ice and s'eet passed over ew York, Pennsylvania and the eat lakes Monday and Tuesday, onsideruble damage was done to ires. Three sisters are in New York jail larged with the murder of Oeey lead, whose body was found suberged in a bath tub long after :ath. The Senate >ted unatiin port favoroh idge Horace 6, to be an i jpreme Courl ime members vua*. ressed the opinion that it would I ive been better to hav? ? I mnger man, Judge Lurton being in s 66th year, but there was no gen al opposition to him, or any criti8m except as to his age. Passenger train No. 11 on the outhern Railway was wreeked Wedesday at 6:30 a. m., at Reedy Fork reek, just north of Greensboro, N. probably a broken rail caused two caches and three sleepers to drop rom a high trestle and twelve perms were killed and prohaly 30 were ijured. At Cincinnati last Tuesday some ocnpants of a tenement house were enaged in a quarrel and overturned a erosene lamp which caused a fire i which ten persons lost their lives, so were probably fatally injured, nd 50 made narrow escapes. . ?7? WASHINGTON "NOTES } Tht Bouse Thursday devoted near- ,.'' ly flvb hoars time to consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bHl. The measure carries ate appropriation of $10,146,473 for the expenses of the District for 1911. General debate was concluded but the reading of the measure, paragraph by paragraph proceeded slow- v ly. Several members made points of order against certain sections in the interest of economy and the hai not concluded when the i;< seadjourned Thursday. Mr. x >:i of Arkansas had the paragra?-;i ap propriating $2,400 for an aut< mobile for the engineer commission- 1 (I'o biariot ptwrl-?n put !- c ' the protests of Representative T .\^ ' ney of Minnesota, chairman '.-l .1.0 appropriations committee a^u sentative Gardner of Michi... charge of the bill. Democratic applause greet < a.-, attack Thursday made by Rep: -. . 1tive Hitchcock on the oiiiciui couuuot of Secretary of the Interior Bellinger in connection with the so-called Cunningham coal land cases, in a speech demanding a congressional investigation of the General Land Office, Representative Sliepard of Texas addressed the House during general debate on the bill urging the House to revive the moribund commissions on expenditures for the various departments in order that sweeping euvesti- , gation of the departments might be made. Representative Burgess, of Texas,. Wednesday introduced in the House a joint resolution declaring that the United States shall oease to exercise sovereignty over the Philippine Islands, and by treaty with foreign nations set up and maintain there a free and independent government. The resolution requests the President of the United States to consider the expediency of opening negotiations with Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Spain and Japan for a joint treaty providing for the recognition and preservation of such ? government. Diplomas of merit Tuesday were presented by Secretary Wilson in his ofliee at the Department of Agriculture to Rascomb Usher, of South Carolina; Dewitt Liuidy, of Mississippi; Elmer Halter, of Arkansas and Ralph Bellwood, of Virginia?all boys under 18 years?for special proficiency in agricultural pursuits. The recipients of the awards are among , the 12,500 in the boys' demonstration N M-nt-b- ir. T.-U ?? ? - :? I ?. w* u * * iuc uuuiu. JLJUCli |ilAUI>VU one acre of corn and cultivated it under instructions from the Department of Agriculture. The effort of the present Congress to suppress the "white slave traffic" has caused a materialization of the specter of "State's rights," and that House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce before which the Mann bill is pending, is at loggerheads over the question. Such strong objection by Democrats has been manifested that Chairman Mann and his Republican associates have abandoned temporarily their efforts to obtain early action on the measure. The Pee Dee river, in Chesterfield county, is to get no more money if the recommendation of the chief of engineers of the army, Gen. Marshall, is followed and they> will be in a communication through the secretary of war to congress Tuesday. Gen. Marshall savs that the commerce along the Pee Dee does not justify any further appropriation. Acting, it is understood, upon the suggestion of Secretary Knox, the the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate Wednesday steered clear of the resolution of Senator Raynor of Maryland, authorizing the President to descend upon Nicaragua and punish Zelaya promptly. Some of the members were strongly in favor of modifying the Rayner resolution slightly and authorizing its favorable report to the Senate. Advocating the adoption of a defined waterway policy by the United States (Jovenment, Representative . Richardson, of Alabama, delivered a speech in the House Tuesday, while that body was in committee of the whole with the President's message ' .plunder consideration. Mr. Richardson proposed the expenditure of $50,000,000 d'or the imorovement of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Francis E. Miss, Jr., former mem? ber of the Baltimore paper ruling firm of Blis3, Albrecht Co., was Wednesday acquitted of charges of 1 omenf n Ir? Pwiminol * ? ' . > K * rivon - i i ?rc i ' .1 Yonv> i> in ttllS capacity lie leveittu buvtiiu iu? _ work done by the firm for the United States Government amounting to ft about $169. Bliss was placed on trial about a month ago, but the prosecution was withdrawn at that time becAus the indictment was faulty. President Taft presided Thursday afternoon at the annual meeting of the executive board of the Jeanes ] fund of $1,000,000 for the better- I ment of the small rural negro schools 1 in the South which was held in the m Cabinet room at the White House. During a brief session of the Benate Thursday a resolution by Speaker Cullom waa adopted ealling upon the Secretary of the Interior for in- Jug formation respecting mining disaster & ;da| and facilities of the Federal government for rendering aid in such eases.