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I VOTE FOR JUDGE A Close and Exciting Race for the New ^ Supreme Coort Jusrice. * A NECK AND NECK START, 0* Meminln?;or, Watts, 1'razor, Honlmm * i anil <?rubcr l'ut in Nomination and on First Ballot Kan Pretty t'lose Together, Except timber, A*'? I ?- ? " * mm luiKKfU nMllll'W'lini llCIIlim. At noon on Wednesday the Senate and House of Representatives met in joint assembly to elect a fifth Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The nominations were: Judge It. Withers Memmlncer, of Charleston, by Mr. Vander Horst. Judge It. C. Watts, of Cheraw. b> Mr. Stevenson. Mr. W. M. Gruber, of Colleton, by Senator Rates. The Hon. Thos. R. Fraser. of Sumter. nominated by Senator Johnstone. Gen. Milledge L. Ronham. of Anderson, nominated by Senator Sullivan. Three ballots were taken, but no election resulted, the vote on the first ballot being Memininger, 39; Watts, 35; Fraser, 33; Ronham, 30; Gruber, 18; Carey, 1. On the third ballot Watts and Fraser received respectively 3 8 and 3 6, while Ronham lost 2 and Gruber 4. The vote of the different members was as follows: Voting for Memniinger. For Judge Memniinger: Senators Appelt, Croft, Dennis, Muckonfuss, Rainsford, Splvey, Walker, Weston. House: Speaker Smith, Ralley, Rookter, Royd, T. P. Rrown, Bryan, j Rutler, Connor. Courtnay, Davis. < Erekmann, Horlheck, Kirkland, be- ! Innd, Mansfield, Manuel, Motte, H. A. i Odom, Osborne, Peeples. Rembert, Sawyer, Sliulor, Tlson, Tobias, Todd, ! Turnbull, Vander Horst, Wells, Wil- j iiams. loumuns?39. bull Vnnder Horst, Wells, Williams, Youmans?39. Voting for Fraser. For Mr. Fraeer: Senators Chrlslenson, Clifton, Johnstone, lIou?n, 8tnrkey. House: Raskin, Reiser, Rethea, Rowers, Bowman, Browning, Chandler. W. L. Daniel, Dick, I)oar. DuBose, Edwards, I. and E. C. Fult7., Graham. James, Jones, Klbler, Legnick. McKeown, Paulllng, Reaves, i Richardson, Saunders. Saye, Vincent, Whl-onant, Wingard. Total, 33. ^ Voting for Gruber. j|r For Mr. Gruher: Senators Ackerman. Rates, Black, Crosson, Glnn. Stewart, Summers. House: Dobson, Hamilton, Hill, Hunter, Hutto, Folk, Minis, Mltehum Riley, C. T. Sliuler, I). L. Smith. Total, 18. Voting for Watts. For Judge Watts: Senators Carlisle. Earle, Green, Hardin, W. J. Johnson, Laney, Lawson, Manning, McCmvn, Strait, Waller, Wharton, You"":. House: Beamguard, Charles, Dixon, Earle, Evans, Gary, Irby, Ketchen, Kirven, MeDow, McQueen. Macill, Mears, Miller, Moore, \V. r. Odom, Pegues. Singleton, Stanley, Stevenson. Willis, Wyche. Total, 115. Voting for Honliam. For Mr. Bonham: Senators Forrest. hide, Mars, W. I,. Mauldin, T. J. Mauldin, Montgomery, Sullivan. House: Arnold, Ashley, Ayer, B. H. Brown, Cary, John M. Daniel. Drummond, Gilbert, Harris, Harrison. Hopkins, Jackson. League. Lee, McCary, Mauldin. Mower. Nicholson, Scott, Searson, C. I"). Smith, K. P. Smith. Watson. Total, SO. Changes on Second Ballot. On the second ballot the changes were: Senator W. L. Mauldin. from Bonham to Watts; Mr. Price, Carey to Frnser; T. P. Brown, Memminger to Watts: Mr. Doar did not vote: Mr. Hamilton changed from C.ruber to Bonham: Mr. Riley did not vote. Mr. C. T. Shuler changed from C.ruber to Frnser. Changes 011 Third Ballot. On the third ballot the changes were: Senator Crosson changed from C.ruber to Watts: Senator Hall, not previously voting, voted for Frt ror: Senator W. L. Mauldin voted for Bonham. Senators Sinkler and Eppe* were absent for the day, the! former being sick at home. In the House Mr. Doar did not vot-\ nor did Mr Dobson; Mr. Ham men voted ror Memminger; Mr. I Rile: did not vote, and Mr. Searson j vote l for Orubor. ''"'-is concluded the balloting for , the day. Ilanged for Murder. At Wayno8i>oro, Ga., Calvin Johnston paid the penalty for the murder > of Harvey Jones Wednesday morning by hanging. The trap was sprung at 11:22 a. m., nnd he was n pronounced dead in fifteen minutes from strangulation, lie went to the palinws with as little emotion as he shoved during his trial, and had no statement to make. Prussia's Population. Prussia has a population of 4 0,157,573. Tho official figures as recorded in Dec. 1, 1910, w^sre made public today. The increase In the last five years is slightly n.'oro than that of tho preceding census period. 1 ; THREE CONVICTS ESCAPE. Negro Prisoners Dash for Liberty From State Farm. While working in a swamp on the State farm, in Kershaw county, throe neerro ronv'ets escaped. Two were serving life terms and the third was serving a sentence of thirteen years. A message was sent to the penitentiary. D. J. GrifTUh, the superintendent of the penitentiary, offered a reward of $50 each for the escaped prisoners. The prisoners who escaped were: Lee Carter, Hllbert Odom and Frank McAlister. IIIIl.AMt r\, J * uuuri i v/vxuui ?ci? ini'u ana convlcted In Barnwell county, in 1904, on the charge of burglary, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is about 5 feet 4 inches high, black hair, dark-brown eyes, dark-brown complexion. He is 33 years old, has small mark on left cheek and has three front upper teeth filled with gold. bee Carter was tried and con\lcted at the March term of Court in Union county, on the charge of housebreaa- ( ing and larceny, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for thirteen years, lie is 27 years old, f> feet 10 Inches high, black hair, dark-brown eyes and dark-brown complexion, ^ind a low, fiat nose. Frank McAllster was tried and convicted at the February term of Court in Williamsburg county, on the charge of murder, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is 30 years old. 5 feet 4 inches in height, black | hair, black eyes, black complexion, has scar under left eye and two scars on back of head. IjOCOMOTIVK ItOlLKH KXrLODKS. ' Kleven Men Were Blown Into Fragments by Concession. At Smithville, Texas, on Wednes- 1 day eleven shop employees of the ' Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad were torn to fragments and several others were injured when an engine, under repair, exploded in the ' Sniithville yards. The locomotive Just had been run ' from the repair shops to be tested ' when the explosion occurred. O'Rourke, a machinist, at the time : was attaching a safety valve. The ' engine was blow nto atoms, two otli- ' er locomotives standing nearby were 1 wrecked, and the round house was 1 partially demolished. With the bursting of the boiler a : rain of pieces of the engine and por- ( tions of human bodies fell for several hundred yards. Pieces of flesh 1 and clothing were literally driven ! into the shattered wall of the round ' house. In several instances identi- 1 ficatlon was impossible. The exact ' cause of the evplosion has not been ' determined. ' a ? a \ DARING KKSCCK RY F1RKMKN. < i Crowds in the Street Cheer Their j Thrilling Work. Firemen achieved spectacular rescues of two imperilled clothing workers from upper stories of a big factory buildiner iti f!r?er<?k York, Wednesday while the flames were bursting out on all sides of them. j The men in danger were in exactly similar positions, one on the < fifth and the other on the sixth floor of the burning structure. I Twining their legs about the flro escape railings of the next door ' building, which ran close to the factory wall, two firemen reached over and joined hands with the workmen as the latter mounted the window ledges anil extended themselves to the limit. Iloth dangled in midair i for a moment but were finally landed safely on the fire escapes. Crowds on the street cheered the rescuers. The fire burned out the ; three upper floors of the building. * ; POWI>EIS PLANT EXPLODES. Ten Employees of tlit* Company Were Blown to Atoms. ( In a disastrous explosion ten men 1 met death at the plant of the Pluto Powder Company, in the outskirts1 of Ishpemlng. Mich., Monday. One ' man was injured. The bodies of the dead werp blown to pieces. The explosion took place in the eelntino 1 nwdur hAnor. i.'........ .... ? I , ~ , .. . x.v. uvupr. I i? VI ,? lilt! II | in tills building were blown to pieces. Throe men were absent from the building and escaped. What caused | the explosition is not known. Gelatine powder is largely composed of nitro-glycerine, and it is supposed that the mixture was being stirred in the big rucihle within the house when it le* go. About 1,00ft pounds exploded. Only twenty minutes before the disaster 5,000 pounds of the explosive were removed. The main plant was little damaged an.l the shock felt in) Islipeniyig v .ia hardly perceptible. ^ Killed by a I don. |, Geo. Grey, a brother of Sir Ed- 1 ward Grc , the British minister of foreign af'airs, died during the nieh at the hospital to which he was removed following his encounter with a lion last Tuesday. Mr. Grey with several companions had been stalking lions near the Athi river in Africa. , None of us comes within a stone's throw of what he shoulw do. % THE EARTH CAVING IN ? < A BOTTOMLESS HOLE APPEARS NEAR GAINESVILLE, FLA. _ ' 1 I Just How Deep the Water In This t Hole is Cannot l>e estimated With c Accuracy. Another "sink" on Alachua Lake, *1 just across from the chain of "sinks" a south of the city, developed some n time during Wednesday night, says a the Sun, of Gainesville, Fla., and as a result the trains over the At- 1 lactic Coast Line were annulled nf- c tor the Leesbure-.Iacksonville train :1 which reached hero Thursday morn- ' ing at 8 o'clock. According to the Sun's account the 1 tlrst report that reached the "Ity was I brought by Conductor Frederick, * who was advised of the trouble by v Section Foreman Thigpen, who made c the discovery early in the morning 0 on his way to the south end of his 8 section. v When Mr. Thigpen first discovered the new sink it was not more than ^ 10 or 15 feet in diameter, but it spread very rapidly during the morn- 0 ing hours, ami by the arrival ol the 0 Leesburg passenger train It bad rrown to about 4 0 feet, one large chunk of earth following after another in rapid succession, and the I ground eracklng for a space of several feet around the entire hole. At about the noon hour the place presented a rather interesting scene, for at this time the great loads of ' earth were rolling in at Intervals, v and with them the water would boil 1 and sizzle as though it was hot iron ' being struck in place. Thp great pool ' ilso resembled the waves of the seas * for duria: all day it was in motion, sometimes being greater than at others, and up to last night the earth 1 was still falling. Reports from the nlnon nt.rv.? were to the effect that the hole had ' covered a distance of 125 feet running north and south, while from s ho east to west banks the distance s fully 100 feet. This sink developed some 20o ^ yards this side of the one that oc urred there a few years ago, when ( i local freight train with many cars (i Tell to the bottom of the place, but fortunately there was no water in r his one, and it was easily filled In. ,. md is used today the same as the >ld roadbed. Just how deep the water In this lew place is cannot be estimated with any degree of accuracy, for luring the forenoon a laree tree that was fully 20 or more feet tall was a n the middle of the place, and in the 1 1 f ifternoon it nad disappeared as hough nothing but a bottomless hoie ? vas there to receive anything that '' same its way. There are a number of old sinks n the vicinity, but the new one is larger than any of the others. I soox Tin-: lxx; was dead. Huge Gorilla and Hull Dog Hat tie to the Death. n A battle to the death between a ' n gorilla and an English bull dog. in which the gorilla was the victor, 11 was the attraction Wednesday night x mil V> ? ?- - " ...... o.uiwsi tut- enure male popula- v tion of New Iberia, I.a., as spectators. A pen 12 feet square and 8 feet s !ii;'h was arranged for the combat 1 with seats on all sides. The dog and gorilla were placed into the pen at 11 12 midnight. At 12.02.30 the dog ll was dead. p The dog leaped at the gorilla lni- 1 mediately after being placed into the s pen. The gorilla caught the dog e iust as a man catches a baseball, hen bit quickly through the dog's v knll into the brain, broke Its back and tore it to pieces. I'ied in a Coal Mine. Seventeen lives were lost in the 3 'X'dosion that wrecked the Cokedale 1 Mine of the Carbon Coal and Coke ' Company, eight miles from PrinadoJ. ' C..1., Friday night. Fifteen bodies a including those of Assistant Super- ' Intedent E. A. Sutton and Robert \!e< k. rescuers, who lost their lives ' in the attempt to save others, have been brought to the surface. * Find Four Read. ? A tragedy growing out of the inability of the head of the house to provide properly for his w ife and two children, 1 the way the police sura r III) 11'. di nvi v.- r>f , . . . ... iwiii rui |!?:a III r \ Brooklyn home today. The vie- L t'ms v ere Fnnk Bernard, his wife p p.! thflr two children.. The family r v ere v!? ! > s of aspyxiation from il:linat lug pas. f] "Mi ' v 1 lives host. Vn rrti. > fishing village of men which hag been c"' tbli.-he I on ' [! ic? ontrli'e iorko sound w s| ' i\ ' r* r " < 'a a pale op Fri- " [lay night. The i..s..aUT was not . i covered until morning, when the vll- 1 lage was already out of sight. Floats s hav- been sent to the rescue hut have not ye# returned. Many Drown. t Several coasting vessels in the v Mediterranean are still missing and I it la feared that they were lost dur- n ing the recent storm. On the Cata- a Ionian ^oast alone five barks were h wrecked and 43 persons drowned. I' VICTUALS FOR HNERS. re*i Stores jof Food Needed by Olympic and Titanic. Sixty thousand dollars worth of tmorican food and drink will be laced on board the new ocean lin rs Titanic and Olympic each time hese big boats dock at New York lty. For meat alone $15,000 is to >e paid each time either of the big ister ships comes into port. Large luantities of beef, lamb, pork, veal .nd mutton will be brought from .11 over the country and stacked .way in refrigerators that must hold nouixh to feed 3 500 nonnto <->? - rans-Atlantlc voyage. Wagonloads ?f poultry costing $5,400 are to be dded to this array, with piles of ish worth $2,000. Far away in the frigid depth of he new liner's cold storage cemlartinents $1,200 worth of ice cream s to he stored, and for cigars $2,000 rill he spent. Wines and spirits osting $5,OOP are set down as necssary for each shipload of passen;ers, together with some $:'.,000 rorth of beer and mineral waters. If both boats are able to begin heir regular trips next spring, $ 1 ,>00,000 will be spent in New York itv in a year simply to stock up their apacions larders. SNOW FlIXIN't; ll? ST It MKTS. llnukct of White Costs Transportation Interests Dear. The snowstorm which struck Chiago early Sunday, filling the streets vith hir-e drifts, delaying railroad ransportation and temporarily tying treet car and elevated train service, lassod on to the east today. The torm centre moved eastward to Inliana and the United State weather tureau tonight predicted clear weatlir for the Middle West tomorrow. The loss in Chicago to traction ompanies, telegraph and telephone ompanies and the city is estimated unight at $1,000,000. Surface transportation companies, which had truggled along during the day. ame almost ?o a standstill in the nop during the rush hours Monday Ight. The situation became worse Mnn ay night when the temperature ropped to freezing and sleet covrod the drifts with ice, which can bo emoved only with difficulty. Two Utilities and numerous accidents on ccount of the snow and ice were reorted to the police. Fruit Trees Itiuom. Pear and peach trees in Mississippi re in full bloom, a rare sight at this line of the year. Planters report ruit trees developing fast because f the recent warm weather. It is parol ilmt a heavy frost will cause onsidera de damage. gaggkd ami poi nd. Iclpless Woman Watches Thieves Holt Her Home. Gagged and hound to a trunk with rire. Mrs. Kate N. Kirkpatrick witesseil the ransacking of her apartlents by a burglar Wednesday at 'ucanbla, Ala. She was not releas< d ntil three hours later when a seiant came from a neighbor on an rrand. The man Mrs. Kirk patrick derribes as well dressed and of Keneel appearance. When she answered lis call he first made inquiry for a uale member of the family. When le ascertained she wa3 alone she xplains, the u an seized and hound ler, then robbed the ho >.e. ilc ecured her purse, jewelry and othr valuables. Mrs. Kirkpa rich, ci.hr than sufferinK a nervou.* collapse, pas not injured. * Hen Trust Pays Well. The expenses of a 100-acre farm n the Walla Walla valley in tnt tnte of Washington are heing paia >y 200 hens, the property of C. C. 'arker. It is stated that after pay11? for all the groceries. fuel, meat fid even for the threshing. the hlckens had a balance of $S2.60 to heir credit In the grocery store on an l. SF.KIOI S KKVOLT. Natives of Ponnpe Island Kill Several ( ernians. The steamer Zealandia, brought epons oi tne revolution suppressed >y Gorman warships on Ponape isand in the Carolines. The rising farted from the punishment of a intive workman. Tho German overseers took to light and sh lt< red ir. i Catholic nission, which 'e n-'tlves plaeed Tile <ier<\ Th?> dc:'< i lers, nine in inr '? nil Germans, were killed. nebk the ntIsrionarv. in i V-111c ' wh n e kin? to leave the dssion and the road superintendents ?? ' a"k< d to piece? nf'er a gilan: Pcht at the Poach, where they ought to launch n Po t. After Many Years. King McNamara surrendered to he police In New York city last ireek and asked that he he sent to ,exington, Ky., to be tried for a uurdur ho committed twelve years .go . The police of T^exlngton found 10 was accused of killing Janfes S. Cellar in 1899. TOOK OFF THE DUTY OBJECT LESSON OP HOW THF TARIFF RAISES PRICES. No Bettor Proof Needed to Show That They Are Framed for the Benefit of Trusts. In Tho Tofforaftnl/\n !"* ' ? . wuvtovuivii vi IUDI ween Ex-Congressman T. E. Watson bajb we have at the present time, an illustration of how the removal of a tariff duty reduce* the price of the commodity upon which the duty was levied. Here is what Watson says about It, which you can read for yourself: "You remember the great forest llres which recently devastated so many hundred square miles in Minnesota. and other states lying along: the Canadian border. Hundieds, < perhaps thousands, of people were! burned out of house and home. Their misfortunes, like that of the sufierers of the Sicilian earthquakes. w*>s of a dramati" character which appealed to the Imagination and aroused human sympathy. A great cry for relief went up from the sufferers?and what shape .ie you suppose it took? It was a demand for the removal of the tariff di.ty upon lumber. "Of course, they wanted to rebuild their dwellings as soon as possible, also their outhouses and fences, and therefore they wanted lumber at the I lowest obtainable price. Some of thf S very men who, in Congress, had i voted in favor of the number Trust and who had argued that the tariff duties were an unalloyed and bountiful blessing, used all of their influence with the Taft administration to have Canadian lumber admitted free of duty. The Administration j yielded, the tariff law was set aside, in so far as it related to lumber, and | the citizens of those north-western i states bought lumber at about half I the price which you and I have to pay. "Could you want any better proof that tariffs are framed for the benefit of the cruel trusts*' Do you any longer doubt that, the increase of tariff duties in the Payne-Aldrich i hill, which went into effort last sum-| rr.er, was the true and only cause of the Immediate advance in the cost , of living? Can you have any further | doubt that those who pretend that ! tariffs are made in the interest of labor and for the general welfare of) the country, are unmitigated liars and hypocrites? "Consider the injustice of the thine; see with what favoritism our, government is run. We must not he-' grudge the enormous benefit of cheap building material to those burnt-out unfortunates of the Northwest. But I why shouldn't the same benefit be' enjoyed by all the rest of us? What have we done that we are less entitled to have the cost-increasing tariff on lumber removed In our favor? Why should we be held down by the government while the Lumber Trust goes through our pock-, ets. { "There is not an hour in the day when somebody is not burned out; there is never a nisht when the alarm-bell does not strike its terror into some town or city. The number of dwellings, barns, gln-houscs and j other necessary buildings that go up I in flames every year, far exceeds the number of homes and other build- ( ings consumed by the forest fires of the Northwest. Therefore, when j you take a bird's-eye view, mentally, of the entire United States, you cannot fail to realize^ that there are just as many unfortunate burn-outs j musiue ine Durne<l-over area of the' Northwest, as there were within it. ' Wihen you think of this and hear tn mind that the Law should be no respecter of persons, and should treat us nil alike, you will deeply feel the Injustice of our Government, in compelling millions of people to surrender a part of their money ?to the Lumber Trust to gratify its inordinate greed for gain. "If you can think up any good reason why the American saw-mtlls in the great lumber regions of :he , Northwest cannot produce lumber profitably, as cheaply as the Canadians can do it, please tell us what it . is. I venture to say that the steam whistles of some of the American saw-mills on the border, can be heard | by some of the saw-mills of Canada, and vice versa. The labor supply is practically the same on both sides of the line. The wages paid by the Canadian mills are worth as much in j Canada as those paid by the Ameri can mills are worth in this country. The lumber Is cut from the: same continuous forest growth. . Why, then, should the Lumber Trust of tlie Northwest be given power to j shut out Canadian lumber and toi i xtort monopoly prices from the Americans who hnvo to use their prortujct? |l Evidently the Lumber Trust was , '? ! ' e - unable to prevent the tern- | pc- >rv i er ne of their victims. The burm-d-eots v re desperate; the demand whmh they placed upon their , representatives in Congress was too' passionately Imperative to the re- j sisted. "The Taft administration has' long heen tempest-tossed on H f.rou- ! bled sea, therefore it was thought, good politics to let the Lumber i Trust release its prey for a little while, leaving it to make up for lost time later on when the people are FOUND A WHALE . / .1 . Forty Foot Mammal Seen Floating Near Cole's island Dead. M MONSTER WAS LANDED Two Young Dadies First Discovered the Big Fish Floating in the Ocean. Was limited Ashore and Will Boll Down the Blubber and Preserve the Frame. The News and Courier says Capt. W. it. Hernandez and members c his family succeeded in landing e forty-foot whale on the beach at Cole's Island, near Stono. Sunday afternoon. The monster, which was quite dead, was seen tloating around the inlet near Capt Hernandez's homo Sunday afternoon. Immediately the captain got busy, and with the assistance of members of his family the immense carcass was landed Sunday afternoon, after working all Saturday night and most of the Saubath. How the monster came to be in these parts is not known, and tlie cause of his death is as' much a mystery as his presence. The whale was first seen by Phoeb and Nellie Hernandez. They were walking on the beach Sunday afternoon, when they noticed a great, bulky object floating about in the inlet. Being unable to make out what it was, they hastened to the house and notified their father. Master Charles Hernandez put his yacht in order in all haste and carried his father out on the water to investigate. Capt. Hernandez soon discovered that he had a whale in his hands, which is about as unwleldiy a proposition as having an elephant on one's hands. As soon as he learned that' the big fish was quite dead Capt. Hernandez set about getting it ashore. unuini Willi Siroilg ropes, the whale was tewed by the little yacht as far as- possible toward the beach. Reaching .a point where they coula not drag it with the aid of the tide, Capt. Herandez put the block ana tackle system into operation. The rope was carried around a pine tree nearby and the captain, son and his two daughters began to "haul in." It was a difficult proposition, even with so many on the rope to budge the fish. It was not until high tide Sunday that they succeeded in dragging their catch up far enough to be left high and dry at ebb tide. It was suggested to Capt. It'erandez that he bring the whale to tho city and have it exhibited, as the one which was caught in the harbor some thirty years ago "was exhibited it Pregnall's ship yard. Capt. Hernandez had a conference with Mr. S. .1. Pregnall, proprietor of the ship yarn, and they agreed that it would not nay to bring the whale to the city, for by the time it arrived it womo be iu a stage of decomposition, which would lie dangerous to the health of the whole community. It will lie remembered that some time in the SO's a 45-foot whale was caught in the harbor at Charleston. TVw? 'if ? - U ~ l - i . .... >VI1 v.i 1 Ilia w unit: is now the property of the Charleston Museum. Prof. Ilea, head of the Museum, when asked if he did not think the skeleton of the present whale would be a splendid addition to the Museum, said that the skeleton of a whale took up so much room that it was almost impossible to allow space lor two specimens, unless they were or different types. He said that it took more than a month to clean the skeleton and put It In condition to be exhibited, lie said that he was very anxious to pet the exact measurements of the whale at Cole's Island and all the particulars about it possible. Ituilder of floats. Capt. W. ft. Hernandez, as his name shows, is of Spanish descent. He came to Charleston from (Ireenville county when he was quite a small boy. It was not long after his arrival that a bis whale was caught In the harbor and later exhibited at Pregnall's ship yard. Capt. Hernandez Is a builder of boats. He says that he has had very little experience as a whaler, but when the occasion arises he is fully prepared to land the biggest fish that "floats." When asked how about landing the biggest one that swims, he replied that he would be willing to tackle the proposition only he would prefer them floating. Tl. ' " ? " tin- ivri-ass 01 iiic wnaic at Colo s Island bag been gnawed but very little by -diarks anil other scavengers of the sea, showing that it has not long hern dead. Capt. Hernandez states that the flesh is perfectly ound, aii 1 that so far there is no perceptible odor. not looking. "Hnt haven't you been asking yourself.-I'.y what rijrht does the Government suspend the tariff law for a single hour in response to any kind of .appeal? It has no such authority it Is a violation of oaths of office. . ,1/ they acn suspend one law, (hey ran suspend theni all. When Government Is operated after that fashion, it Is not one of Law, but of personal whim. Under such a system, nobody and no business Is safe."