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The Dillon Herald ) ESTABLISHED IN 1895. DILLON, SOUTH AROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24. 1910. VOL. 16. NO. 8. * #*1 * ? - - ? ~ ~ " ' ?' ; 115111 Nt No Reward Until Further Proofs. 1 Until Commander Robert E. Peary furnishes further proofs that he discovered the North Pole no reward will tye bestowed upon liim as the result of a practically unanimous vote of th- sub-committee of the House oom^ oli naval affairs. A speech u? opposition to the proposition of honoring Peary was made by Representative Macon of Arkansas before the committee. Representative Macon declared to the committee that the explorer * it- ? couiu nor have made tlie distance lie said he did in his dash'for the pole. Macon said he was "indignant it the thought of being called upon o representative of the American people to confer a high honor npon any one of its citizens in the dark." All legislation by Congress, he said, ought to be open and above board. Argument in Standard Oil Taj? Case. On account of the importance of the question involved, the Supreme Court of the United States will devote probably all of the week, after decisions are announced, to hearing ^ arguments first in the Standard Oil case, and then later in the corpora^0 tion tax cases. Three days will be taken probably for the former and ^ Thursday and Friday for the question of the validity of the corporation ppi* tax. Attorneys from many sections of the country have made arrangements to listen to the arguments. Such a demand has been made for seats in the little court room that e it was planned to allow admission bv card only. To tbe justices this appeared unwise and hence the first comers will get the sixty seats provid?< ed for spectators. Pinal Hearing on Immigration Bills. TllP lmnoo - ? vmiiuiiiirr on lmmigra <r^. tion held its last hearing Monday on the bills providing for an increase in the head tax and additional test for immigrants, and has voted the amend? ment. Both provisions met with much opposition, and the vote was close. Representative Burnett, of Alabama told the committee that unless the tide of immigration from south^ em Euro|x> to the Southern States should be checked the South would have a new race issue 011 its hands. 1-. He declared that the negro had no respect for the Italian and that the presence of the two 'races in the r South complicated the situation and made it even more difficult to deal with than it is at present. Senate Provides for Wilson's Activity. ' Ater adopting three amendments * of importance and listening to unit other verbal eastigation of the fores1 1 try by Senator Heyburn, the senate passed the agricultural appropriation bill. As passed the bill carries a ' total appropriation of $13,522,636, an increase of $192,300 over the amount carried by the bill as it passed ^ By the amendments adopted the secretary of agriculture is authorized lL to build fences along international lp boundary lines to keep out diseased ^ cattle, the making of lump sum ap, propria! ions for any btireau of the department is prohibited, and $10,000 is appropriated for an investigation J (of the orange grove pest, known as 1 the white fly. Vnt?i ><" " * a v? A bOUli v?uun. T ? The bill creating a Court of Patent Ig1*" Appeals has been passed bv the Senjv. ate. It authorized a bench of five J jpcmbers. The chief justice would be nominated by the President to serve for life, the other four justices to be selected by the Chief Justice of I/*the Supreme Court from among the \ circuit and district court judges of \ the country and to serve for six years. J The proposed court would have jurisdiction of patent cases exclusively. * * Coal Rate Law Sustained. The North Dakota coal rate law ? of 1907 has been held to be constitutional at present by the supreme court \ of the United States despite the claim 1 ra''roaJ8 ^'at ^ie 'aw requires i<f the transportation of coal below the \^cost of service. Wj^r " v <^fef?lle Report Expected Soon. officers who were attached SWN^ Twenty-fifth infantry at the I t (of the ahooting at Brownsville,! H 1,AVA tiAnn *1? _ v.uvivu irciuic (.lit: * Kry court of inquiry which has ^investigating the affair. Capt. A A. Macklin, ( apt. Samuel P. jBand Second Lieut. George C. ^Bton are the officers. The court to give its report to congress KaI * K April. ^He none of the negro soldiers ^Hred by President Roosevelt g^Ben con\\eted by the court of ^^Bty in tl.? shooting, the court llBrted none ah qualified. ' 1 tk h IS 1MB. 1 New Orleans for Celebration. Urging New Orleans us the best > place in the country in'which to lioldi ( the pro|M>sed expositioh in 1915 in I celebration of the completion of the Panama Canal, a delegation of bnsi- * ness men from the Crescent City t | called upon President Taft. after | which they went to the Capitol. They a <li<l not see Vice-President Sherman, but saw Speaker Cannon, whom they invited to New Orleans to the pro- ' posed exposition, as also the House n Committee on Expositions. With a v number of members of the public j delegation from l?uisiana. they were entertained at the National Press 1 Club. 1 Both President Tnft and Speaker f Cannon informed the New Orleans j business men. who were headed by Governor Sanders and Mayor Behrman, that the selection of a city for 11 the exposition was a mat<Vr for Con- F press to decide, but that they had n no doubt it would appropriate the b necessary money when the time rams, n i, To Amend the Constitution. There has been much talk for many a years that the Constitution of the o United States should be revised and f enlarged. Heretofore, however, the b whole thing has been talk, and rep- v resentatives in Conpress lacked the e temerity to tackle that important i: document. As no other statesman a seemed willing, desipte much talk, t Representative Martin B. Madden, of b j Chicago, has decided to undertake the f | task alone and single-handed. He lias filed for the consideration of I Congres^ a joint resolution by which n it is now proposed to so alter the ii ?ild Constitution that the Supreme a (Court will not know it. if the nro- b X j posed changes should bp made. c j Mr. Madden's method is not to call r | a constitutional convention to rej model the Constitution from the pre- d amble down. All that he proposes is a an amendment of about f>00 words (it e would be the 17th if the pending in- t come tax should be ratified?lfitli s otherwise). But those words mean a a lot. 1 i To Protect U. S. Uniform. e The right of an enlisted man to 1 attend the theatre in uniform is being championed in both houses of Congress and by Secretary of the Navy Meyer. Several members of s the Marine Corps were refused admis- 1 sion recently to a local playhouse. ( Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, 1 has introduced a bill which would e make it a misdemeanor punishable by n a fine and imprisonment in the Dis- v trict of Columbia and the Territories of the United States to dis-' c criminate against persons wearing s the uniform of the United Staes. s Secretary Meyer declared that he ?i would do everything possible to pro- t tect from insult the uniform of the service of the United States. t ii Free Postage For Roosevelt. r Rpiirinipiitutii'u o T iiuiuiiiuii r imi OI 4 New York is determined that Con- * gress shall give ex-President Roose- a velt free postage and has argued be- s forr the House committee on |>ost- ? oftie. and post roads -in favor of a 0 bill having that end in view. Mr. Fish informed the committee that George Washington, John Adams. Thomas Jefferson and James v Madison had been similarly honored. ' In 1825, a law was passed giving * ex-Presidents as well as members of a Congress?the free use of the mails, v but this was repealed in 187J. Later 11 the Congressmen were again given 1 the privilege by law, but ex-Presi- 1 dents have never agnin been provid- a ed for. r ii An appropriation of $100,000 is f provided for the establishment of sub- 8 marine signals along the Atlantic Coast in a bill passed by the Senate. Issues Census Proclamation. President Taft in a proclamation 1 issued Tuesday urges everybody! a | throughout the United States "tc| r answer promptly, completely and ac- f j eurately all inquiries addressed to them bv the enumerators or other employes" who will l>e engaged in ' the taking of the thirteenth deeennial eensus. which work will begin in one month. Postoffice Receipts Are Increasing. Business throughout the country is improving, as indicated by the re- j ceipts of the Postothee Department, g which is regarded us a certain barometer of business conditions. During the month of February, 46 t of the 50 largest postofflces in the vVuU.i.t ouuwni an increase oi busi- i ness as compared with Febmary of last year. The increases varied from 1 0.44 per cent at Louisville, Ky., to ^ 40.19 per cent, at Toledo, Ohio. The i total percentage of increase in gross , receipts for February was 11..19 over the same utbnth in 1909, when it waa 4.73 per cent greater than 1908. 1 int SIKIKt SITUATION (j No Indication For Peace Yet Established " Philadelphia, Sjieeial.?After a reek of peaee talk and innumerable 'onferenees between union leaders EI aid peaeeinakers, the strikim* nio ortnen ami conductors and the otli-1 R< ials of the Philadelphia Kapid Tranit Company are apparently still far ipart. There is. however, on both ides a better feeling whieh might ead at any time to the opening of icgotiations. In 110 peaee conference ho et held has the transit company been 18 lireetlv represented. It is said that io he informal peaee meet ins; will eon- jx inne until common ground can be ru bund 011 whieh to bring.both sides ?o ogether. >f President Malum of the Anuilga- 01 nated Association of Street and ru ilectric Railway Kmployes. has anlonneed that all peaee negotiations ?r letween the strikers and the peaee ^ nakers, so far as he and the ear aen's union is concerned, are off. ^ It is now 29 days since the strike is nd the fifteenth of the general walk- is ut. There have been few desertions Wi roni the ranks of the trolley men ?,r nit there is a slow movement toward a return to work on the part w f the general strikers. The return 9' s not universal, but each day finds , few more men going back, so that here is not nearly the great nutnier idle which there was in the first ew days of the sympathetic strike^ ' President (ireenawalt of the Stat/- 1 "ederation of Labor, is still deterallied to put the Stale-wide strike R uto effect. He said lie hoped such iction would not be necessary but ic saw no way in wliiclt to delay ^ arrying out the instructions of the ^ ecenl State convention. |j The dynamiting; of three cars in lifferent parts of the city Saturday ^ ire the first acts of violence rc|>ortd in nearly a week. In this eonnee- ... ion it has been learned tliat 100 , ^ ticks of dynamite were stolen from , quarry on the outskirts of the city Miursdav night. The police liave been astructed to watch all | arsons who arry packages of suspicious aplearunce. 0I Sentenced to Wed. Kansa City, Mo.. Special.?If the* entence imposed upon hint hv Judge talph S. laitshaw, of the Criminal nj ""ourt of this city, is carried out, "red M. Miller, an attorney of this ity, will have to wed the first wonan who will consent to become his kife: . . <|i Miller filed an application in the (| onrt, in which lie represented hiiuelf as a " lonely single man, inpi red with the lofty ambition to take uf into himself a wife." and soliciting he aid of the court to this end. "Here is a man who desires to ( irefer against himself in the eriiunal Court a charge of wanting to get v, narried," said .Judge Iaitsliaw, when filler's application was read. "File he application, Mr. Clerk. Knter a] k plea of guilty after his name nod entence liim to ho murriotl to the ( irst woman who will consent to be- N ome Jiis wife." hi Complication Avoided. Riohnioml. Va.. Special. ? No acancy having occurred in the 'united States senutorship during ^ he session of the General Assembly a .11 of the constitutional questions T idiich have so deeply stirred the inds of State oflieials during the ai >ast few days have been disposed of. w 'he fact tiiat Senator Daniel was " tlive at midnight Saturday night 151 emoved the last doubt in any one's nind as to the correct situation. The Jovernor will appoint if it is uecs- ^ ary. " Governor Vetoes Birthplace Bill. Frankfard, Ky., Soeeial.?Followng on the failure of the Legislature \ t its recent session to accede to his |* equest that the Lincoln memorial r? arm he exempted fom taxation, came si Jovernor Wilson's veto of a hill ajn si ropriating $.">,(101) for improvement |( o he made on the birthplace of .lof- |f erson Davis, in Todd county, Ky. p Big Demand For B?W?? New Orleans, Special.?The denuiui for babies liere has reached ^ ;ueh a proportion that it is feared ? here will In* a serious shortage in ^ he supply. o A carload of hahies from the New ri fork Foundling and Orphan Asylum j was given away here last week. j. Many women clamored for babies in s rain and so numerous are the appli- c rations that the institution has de- 1 ided to send another carload of infant a to New Orleans. 8 J \ IANNON IS OUSTED * urled From Lofty Position ' Last Saturday W REACHED IN BITTER FIGHT f .. ? i fused to Resign, and House Re- ( fused to Further Humiliate Him by 1 i Deposing Him. a AX" 1 * < It C! . .1 Tl... imi. J'. * .. oin'uiai.? i lit" mse of representatives by a vote of ? 'J to 11?U repudiated Speaker Can 11 ami liis eoiiunittee. lly this nil- j pectediy large majority it over- j le?l his decision ami insisted upon t nsidering the resolution of Xorris, i Xehraskn. providing for a re- ^ gani/.atiou of 'the committee of les with the speaker eliminated. ] The complete overthrow of SpeakCauuoii and the annihilation of } e house machine was a question J time. The "frizzled old warrior going down with llags flying, ( king 110 quarter, giving none, lie | as contesting each point with a I im determination, knowing full ; ell that his down fall was hut a ' test ion of hours. It was eurreiltly reported that union would resign the speakerip in the event of his defeat in ' e light. There was 110 continual ion this report, however, and it was >t given the credence that was aeed upon it before the result of e light became so painfully apparit. " 1 More succinctly than it can be ild in any other way. the complete 1 iwnl'all of the Cannon forces in the ouse of Representatives is shown .* the various roll calls taken in itunlav"s historic struggle. Oratory and strategy counted for I tie in that temeudous light. It was 1 i %r- i/i uir ^iirii^iu ifi uni*^ i Hill ?ir? ' availing importance. In their ironolo<rical order, tlie votes taken. 1 stilted as follows: Ayes Noes. ! On Ualzell's motion to lay i the table the appeal of ' orris* appeal from Speak *s rtt 1 i ntr 1(>4 181 On Norris' motion orderimr le previous question on his .peal 182 100 ' On the ipiestion. ''Shall the iliny: of the chair be sustain- ' ed.'' 100 182 On ordering the prevous test ion on the adoption of le Norris' substitute.. ..178 1">0 ^ To substitute the new Nor- 1 s' resolution for the old. Tered Thursday 108 loll To adopt the Norris' resoition 191 155 1 )n Burleson's resolution to M'lare the Speaker's chair leant l.V> 191 What will be the definite, tangible ' 'suits of the bisr victory of the ) lies no one is yet in a |M.siti<?i 1 * of a mind to say. Admittedly annouism is ended, for one thinjr. ' or again, is it claimed wjll de- 1 ute be prohibited. 17-Inch Lemon. i Bedford City. Va? Special.? 1 R. Brown, of flood View. Beil- ] >rd county. whil? in Richmond had ] lemon nearly as l>i^r as himself. < he lemon is six inches high and < venteen inches in circumference, 1 ml weighs two pounds. This lemon I as raised in Mr. Brown's house in ( edford from a lemon tree < rowu from a >rnafl slip, which i ? grot from Ohio. Mr. Brown thinks i int 'better lemons can lie raised in 1 irginia than in an^v other place in 1 ic world, and certainly larger. i Released on $1,500 Bond. Denbrigh, Ya., Special.? Santa 1 Morse. a negro. assistant * ostmaster at I>enbrigh. has been ar sted by Deputy I'nited States Martial R S. Holland, on the charge of ( lea ling the contents of three regis- | red letters. The accused was re- i ased on a bond of $1,500 for his ap- i earance. ' 1 Is 400,000,000 Years Old. , lartli, who lias closely guarded Iter ' ge for her entire life, is 400,000.000 ( ears old, according to the current f umber of u geological publication ( f the University of Chicago. In lere scientific phraseology, the ap- , iroximate age of the earth, it has , >een discovered, may In* determined iv dividing the amount of salt in the j (ea by the amount brought down ( ach year by the rivers that empty tito it. Sir Jokii Murray, Professor Joly ind M. Dubois, all famous geologists-, tand back of the new method ] ? ' THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD rhe Heart of Happenings Carved From thj Who'.e Country. Joseph Burns, who recently raced Tom the interior of Alaska to (.'loveami. Ohio, in a futile effort to reach us liahy before she died. was order d by tIn* Federal I iovernment to reurn to the Miowliotttid territory as i witness in a stabbing atTray in vhicli lie was injured. The Atnenean Society for the Prevention oi Cruelty to Animals in Sew York, lias sent a notice to all lepart incut stores and to bin I ami lliiinal dealers that the aet of keeptig or selling newl\ bal< bed mediator ebiekens intended as raster "avors or presents, is in violation of lie laws relating to cruelty to aninal?. Jerry Faust, an employe of the southern Paeitie Railroad at El Paso, rex., has reeeived a letter mailed in I'ennsylvania do years ago. The recovery of Louis Graf, a 10vear-old Brooklyn boy. who was tak'ii to a hospital a year ago with a jroken neck caused by a fall from a berry tree, is assured. For days I he lad lay near death and lor weeks liis recovery was despaired of. Then lie began to improve slowly and now, after nine months s|?ont with his body encased in a plaster east, is declared sound again. A financial tringenev extending wide and pressing so hard that it would be practically, if not absolutely impossible for Chicago to carry tut one-half of its municipal functions. was pictured to the city council by Corporation Counsel Brundagc nil<1 City Comptroller Wilson as a reality ? f saloons are voted out at the alderuianie election. I)r. James I). llillis, city health nlliccr m LaFayette. Ind.. is suffering from an injury caused l?y a hat pin that may cost liitu an eye. Dr. llillis visited a local vaudeville theater, snd in the crowd he was shoved against a large hat worn by a woman in front of him. A court in Brussels, has awarded $'2,000 to a man who was blinded in one eye by a woman's hatpin. He was standing on the platform of a street ear. which stopped suddenly with a jerk, which caused the hatpin lo pierce his eye. Willi only a small portion of bis juglar vein left, after a recent operalion, Harold Krieksou, a 10-year-old boy, is recovering at the Long Island College Hospital. New York, and sur;eons intend to remove the re.mainder >f the vein in a few days. Celebrants of St. Bat rick's day who had the misfortune to be brought before city judge in HI Paso. Tex.. Tound their shamrock- would be icevpted for bail. In the federal court in Louisville lie Louisville and Nashville railroad idended guilty 011 ten counts in eight indictments charging rebating, atid fudge Evans imposed a tine of .*LM)0 for each count, or a total of [<10,000. The eight indictments contained forty-seven counts, but conrietion 011 many of the counts was impossible. An old llag that recalls many of the differences caused bv the civil war lias been presented to the Maine Historical Society by the Rev. .lolin Hollins. who served in a Maine regiment in the great struggle. The banner is an einhlcm of the state of Mississippi. It was formerly the property of Captain William Collins jf the confederate army, and brother of the donor. Connected with the flag is an interesting story of a fend between the two brothers, who held opposing political opinions. William HoMins was one of the men participating in the Calais hank raid in 18t?4 and when lie fell into the hands of the federal authorities, his brother tried hard to have him handed as a rebel. William escaped, however, and made his way hack to Mississippi, where he died some vears later It is claimed by some that the Rockefeller foundation will have greater power than the government which is asked to create it. Probably the most peculiar |>oliti?al contest now being waged in this oiintry is in progress in Early county. (leorgia. where 1. H. Black. Sr.. and L. K. Black. Jr., father and son, ire opposing candidates for sheriff. Naturally there is a great deal of Peeling. Jacob Hirclifield, Jr.. a Jew. was married in New York in 11(1111C iommers, a Presbyterian, by Rev. William (\ Stiles, a Congregational clergyman, who use?l an Episcopal mrviee book published by a Methoiist Hook Concern. The question of whether a police magistrate may sentence a person to imprisonment without a trial by a jury, is involved in a case from Georgia which now goes to the supreme court of the United States for deCISlOtl. Upon his return to America Roosevelt intends to live quietly at Oyster Bay. and make a living by his ;.?en. /, j. . ^?,',.1? R. R. STRIKE IS OFF f Union Officers Accept Offer of Federal Mediation. ACTION TO BEGIN AT ONCEChairman Knapp and Commissioner Neill Offer Services at Request of Pailrn^Hc TnTTnlTToH *? % Chicago, Special.?Danger of an immediate strike of 127.000 locomotive firemen on tVcsteru railroads ami the contingent throwing out of employment of more than l'Jo.OOO other employes has been averted through the acceptance of mediation from the Federal authorities at. Washington At the request of the general managers of the forty-seven Western railroads involved Chairman Martin A. Knapp o? the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Commissioner of Labor Xeill telegraphed an otTer of Federal mediation to the union officers. This offer was accepted. W. S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, stipulated that action must begin without delay. Census Will Include Enumeration of Races. Washington. Special.?The nationality and mother tongue of all persons enumerated for the nest census was provided in a bill passed by the senate. After objections to recording the race of persons enumerated for the renins, that provision was left out cT the present law. hut upon demand of a large number of citizens r of foreign birth its reinstatement was decided upon. The senate also passed a bill providing for an election by Jhe people of Hawaii on tlie subject of prohibition for the islands. The consideration of local hills affecting the District of Columbia con somen rue entire nine or the house Monday. Finaly Hold Conference. Philadelphia. Pa.. Special.?The first step taken by the Rapid Transit Company toward settling the dispute with its striking employes and incidentally the ending of the sympathetic strike, which has now been in progress for two weeks, was taken Tuesday when President C. O. Kruger, of the Rapid Transit Company, conferred with \V. I). Malum, president m of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electrie Railway Employes. The meeting of the labor leadi i and the Rapid Transit official was the result of outside influences. Young Knox Gets to Work. Providence. R. I.. Special.? Philander C. Knox. Jr., whose elopement last week with Miss May Howler, a Providence girl, caused country-wide interest, has started to earn his living. From the numerous offers of employment ranging from the vaudeville stage to newspaper opportunities lie chose the position of automobile salesman. Young Knox is not deI pendent entirelv inuin !, ? -llnf*? = he has an income of $10<> z. month which he received through tlie will of hi* grand mother. $1,160 in Bottle. Chattanooga. Tenn., Special.?While tearing down a partition in a house formerly occupied by R. T. McMillin, a miser, who died two years ago. .T. W. Owens, a carpenter, found suspended between the walls a half pint flask in which the miser had placed $1.1(50. McMillin was an eccentric man. who for years carried his fortune About with him in a basket. Negro Cuts Woman's Throat. Kansas City, Special.?A negro entered a grocery store kept by Mr?. v Mary Albert, a white woman, in the outskirts of Kansas City. Kan \ Tuesday and after slashing the v man's throat with a razor, rob j her of several hundred dollarsn escaped. Mrs. Alebrt's win i\ ! was severed and she possibly die- ' 1 u f-tl American Reported Washington. Speeial seven-eighth George Cannon, a c?fty-two inches Cannon, had been 1 al l?wt'r odg? ragnh by order prUSfound their ment Tuesd<>n?* of Velvet, idfcp hem of velvet is a pleas|nge in the trimming line and 1^ novel, its predecessor of tho oeintin In lIch narrower. Tho . jem extends to the knees or , . ,ibove. Breltzschw nz, caracul, I f ' and seal musquash, as well as | "V." t, are utilized for such bonis. I JJ . m i i rnaI TurtaM Are I jorge. New turbans nre all large and genally are simply trimmed. /\