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VOL. XXXIII
BROCK ON STAND
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BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 2.1910.
SOME OTHERS TESTIFY
CM. Brock Explains Prom His Stand
point Txprune Items In His Ac
connts.—Adjutant General Bo/d
. .. [ *'■ .
Also Put Bp B/ Defense, at Hug'
gestion From the Court.
Tuesday afternoon's session of the
military court of Inquiry was yet an
other damaging one against Col
Brock in the evidence which was tak
en for the prosecution. The most
Important evidence was that Intro
duced by the prosecution through
Lieut. Cabaniss, U. S. A., Chief Clerk
Holmes of the comptroller general's
oflee and Mrs. V. G. Moody, the sten
ographer In the adjutant general’s
ofllce, to show that Col. Brock secur
ed f 100 from Mr. Holme* for a trip
tor himself and Lieut. Cabaniss to
Washington.
Oen. Boyd gave a check on the
Union Savings Bank to Col. Brock
for $50, and a check to Lieut. Cab
aniss for $30.57, although the vouch
er filed with the comptroller general's
ofllce showed two Itemised expense
accounts to cover the hundred dol
lars of $50 each for himself and
Lieut. Cabaniss. The Cabaniss state
ment of $30 had been placed In Gen
eral Boyd's private drawer, to be at
tached to the voucher later, but Mrs.
Moody testified that Col. Brock, In
the absence of General Boyd came In
sad in her presence removed the
Cabiness^tatement with a key to the
private dfawer.
Another feature of the afternoon
sesaion was the reply the prosecution
made to the position of the defense
that so much money shown to have
been spent by Col. Brock for team
hire at different points over the state
was In Col. Brock's work inspecting
riffle ranges. It was shown by Lieut.
Cabaniss’ testimony that he also had
this rifle range business on hand for
the federal government and his team
hire did not appear heavy, as fre
quently local officers would drive
them out to the proposed ranges
And beside this the federal govern
ment was ^meeting the expense of this
riflle range business.
Still another feature was testimony
from Mr. Holmes in contradiction of
the posKion of the defense that the
Brock statements attached to vouch
ers were mere estimates made out
before the trips were entered upon,
the difference between these and
amounts actually spent being later
refunded. Mr Holmes testified that
la no case was this refunding done.
The warrant was Issued and the
itemised statement of expenses ren
dered afterward to cover.
It wag shown by the accused that
two amounts had been refunded, af
ter the row was on. aggregating near
ly $75. The hundred and sixty-odd
dollars Col: 1 Brock got from the treas
ury to advance to Lieut. Bennett of
the regular army, who accompanied
him on one inspection trip, has nev
er been returned to the State, but
this matter will likely be straghtened
out later Lieut. Bennett, it is un
derstood, has hardly had time to get
his money from the war department,
which requires its officers to advance
money from their own funds for ex
penses on occasions of this kind.
Oen Boyd In his testimony on
Wednesday said that when he w n 1 .
cut occassionally on Inspection re
paid hla own expenses out of bts 'wr,
private funds. He denied that Col.
Brock paid hla hotel bill In Charles
ton when Col. Brock’s expense ac
count for this trip showed him charg
ing up $13.50 for hotel when Lieu’
Cabaniss had nothing to pay, wtum
Lieut. Cabantss was told by the ho
tel man that hla bill bad been pah
by Charlestonians. Witness said he
had stopped at the Charleston hotel
and paid his bill by check. But
he had not saved the check lo shi. •
this.
When the cross-examination sta i
ed it developed^ that Gen. Bo id was
rot the defence's witness, b it ha i
been put on the stand by the de.'ee e
at the suggestion of member* of the
court. The croaa-examin&tlon war
brief, the only object being to mak.
more emphatic the point that wh*'!'
Gen. Boyd went out on inspections,
which were being conducted by Col.
Brock, wltnesa paid hla own expen
ses, taking the position that the
State could be properly charged with
the expenses of only one man.
Col. Brock then took the stand
and the attention Immediately dis
played by the conrt and apectators
■bowed that they were anxious to
know how he was going to explain
Laraatigatloo. t
'Witness began by explaining how
whan atartlng out on an inipeetlon
trip it had been hla custom and the
custom of the office fod years to draw
a warrant for an amount sufficient to
carry him for a time, taking up Item
ised statements to cover these wr*-
rants later.
When he first went out he pot
down everything and brought back
SINKS WITH CREW KILLS BLACK FIEND ICANT SAVE HIMl WOMAN FIGHTS THIEF
TWENTY-THREE MEN RDOWNED
BY AN ACCIDENT.
A Bwbmartne float is Rammed by a
Mall Boat and Immediately Goes
to the Bottom.
A telegram received at th« Brit
ish Admiralty at London _aaya a
French submarine was rammed and
sunk In the English Channel by a
mail boat running between Calais
and Cover. All aboard perished.
The foundered submarine's name
was the Fluviose. The crew num
bered twenty-three. All were lost.
The submarine was sunk by the fer
ry boat Pag De Calais two miles
northwest of Calais. The Pluviose
sank in 160 feet of water.
The crew had no chance to ea
cape aa their craft plunged to the
bottom In a moment after the col
llslon. The submarine's length was
160 feet and Its displacement 398
tons, and was one of the best In the
French navy.
BUT A WHITE FIEND SUCCEEDS
IN GETTING AWAY.
drawn.
At first It was the custom to have
the amount drawn In advance and
turned over to Gen. Boyd, who would
give Brock his personal check, Bro:k
afterwards submitting Itemized state
ment. Boyd knew all this and how
the expenses were runlng. Then
when Boyd's health got bad witness
attended to all this business.
"Now so far as the amounts spent
are concerned, they are stated with
absolute accuracy in my expense ac
counts But I wish to explain that
the hotel people My expense ac
counts do not specify any hotels.
"For Instance. If I had small Items
to pay like laundry or getting my
leggings cleaned. I would put the
whole amount to a charge for hotel. ’
By way of introduction be took
up the matter of Cabaniss charging
$o.25 for hotel at Anderson and his
charging $8. This $8 Included his
expenses at Clemson, where he stop
ped for a short time, as was testi
fied to by Cabaniss.
Witness. In answer to further
questions, said he could not remem
ber all the details of expense accounts
on his trips in 1907. 1 908 and 1909
I'or a while he kept a small note
book carrying the items In detail,
birt this had gotten lost He had
now only copies of his statements
filed with the comptroller general.
Witness then explained his ad
vancing money to Lieut. Beuneil,
which was agreed to by Boyd.
Witness in explanation of so much
tesra hire charges on the 1910 In
spection trips testified that he had
been instructed by Gen Boyd to col
lect and turn In the obsolete maga
zine rifles scattered over the State.
In order to coved this expense he had
estimated the cost of doing this and
drew the money. He found later
that this expense could be paid from
pntlonal funds. Consequently, he
refunded to the State $22 In addition
to $50 refunded This was before
General Boyd made any charges
against his accounts.
The defense offered In evidence re
ceipt from Lieut. Bennett for all
moneys advanced by Brock This re
ceipt was Itemized, showing amounts
spent at each place This receipt
was given by Bennett officially and
acknowledged officially .
The army requires Its officers to
remain In the service until their oi>-
llzatlons are discharged and witness
was informed that the paper was
good for cash to reimburse the State
for the amounts advanced to Ben
nett
Explaining the hotel charge of
$13.50 at Charleston when the local
militiamen paid the bill, witness said
the amount charged to hotel was
for Incidentals and part of it was
for a hotel bill for General Boyd
This flatly contradicted Gen-eral
Boyd, who testified that he paid his
own hotel bill by check.
In explanation of $4 charged for
hotel at Pelxer when he was enter
tained there by Capt. J. A Smyth,
lr . witness said the amount was for
a trip he had to make to Columbia
to adtend to some duties of the office.
Part of this charge was for hotel
expense In Columbian which be felt
he had a right to charge as he had
broken up housekeeping here for the
time.
Tbe hotel charge at Barnwell of
$2.75 each for witness and Bennett
on which Proprietor 'Molalr of the
Barnwell hotel had testified that
Copt Cole still owed for this bill,
which was only $1 for the two, was
next taken up. Witness explained
bow expenses had been Incurred In
the atop-over at Blackvllle, which
were not entered. All these details,
amouttting to $2.75 for each, were
charged to hotel at Barnwell. They
stopped at the hotel annex, where
TAJCjosi mattora connected with the only tbe porter was in charge, and
J»<9 paiij tl»e_MLL Qt $1
in explanation of Mr. Cabaniss
and his hotel bills at Camden being
$1.50 for Cabanlaa and $12 for wlt-
ness. Col. Brock Bald the Camden
hotel charge included hotel bills at
Columbia and the $12 was for three
days.
As to charge of $4 for team be
tween Chesterfield and Cheraw,
whereas Cabaniss had testified ha
vouchers for everythhif. He was had paid half this bill, witness said
told at the comptroller general's Of-j he thought Cabaniss was mistaken;
flee that this was unnecessary, that | that witness paid all this and would
did not want to be oncum- not allow Cabanlaa to pay any por-
all thsas vouchm. Ho tjo* wp«ld Mfl jjaam. tho siptaaa
ingisg In small vouchers > personally.
ibmltAUg |U»U*I stata-l Othsr hotel sad similar expanses
wit* slallsrly explained.
CTkaj’lotte and Vicinity Aroused Over
Two Bold Attempts at Criminal
„ Assault. -
A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C..
says two bold attempts at criminal
assault In broad daylight In that Im
mediate section Thursday, In which
ojne of the assailants was a white
man and the other a negro, aroused
the country people to a frenzy, with
the result that the negro was fatally
shot, while a posse of citizens with
bloodhounds is scouring the country
for tbe white man, with the intention
of lynching him.
The negro, Will Ross, entered the
home of James Hailes, near Fort Mill,
and attempted an assault upon Miss
Troy Balles, his daughter, twenty
years old, The girl's screams soon
brought aid, but the negro escaped,
later being apprehended In tbe su
burbs of Charlotte. Ross ran when
Officer Colthrap attempted to arrest
him, and the latter fired, fatally
wounding him.
At noon an unknown white man
attempted to assault Miss Carrie
Bell, the fifteen year old daughter
of John Bell, telegraph operator at
Bessemer City. He too, was fright
ened off before accomplishing his
purpose, escaping Into the woods
near Crowder’s Mountain. A posse
of angry neighbors was hastily form
ed, and with bloodhounds from a
convict camp are scouring the wood*.
At a late hour Friday night the posse
had not been heard from.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
The Grand Txvdge Elects Officer* and
Then Adjourns.
The grand lodge of Knlrhts of
Pythias had a most delightful meet
ing at B^nnettsvllle this week Tbe
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year:
Grand chancellor, J. W. Walter
Doar, of Georgetown; grand vice
chancellor. Frank K Myers of Char
leston; grand prelate, Frank S. Ev
ans of Greenwood; grand keeper of
records and seal, C. D. Brown of Ab
beville; grand master of exchequer,
Wilson O. Harvey of Charleston;
grand master-at-arms, C. W. Cros-
land of Bennettsvtlle; grand Inner
guard, J. L. Reeves of North; grand
outer guard, Dr. J. M Oliver of Or
angeburg.
The following district deputy grand
chancellors were chosen;
First. A. V. Williams, Charleston;
second, W. C. Henry, Timmonsvllle;
third, J F. Carter. Bamberg; fourth,
A M Deal, Columbia; fifth, Rev. H
A Knox, Mayesville; sixth, W. M.
Dunlap, Rock Hill; seventh, A. V
Martin, Clinton; eighth, J. W. Shel-
or, Walhalla; ninth, Jas H. Craig,
Anderson; tenth, J. W r . LeGrand.
Bennettsvtlle; eleventh, George A
Schlffley, Orangeburg All of these
are new except Mr. Deal, Mr. Craig
ad Mr. Martin.
The following appointments were
announced hy the grand chancellor:
Grand tribune for three years—
Herbert E. Gyles, of Aiken.
Members of the hoard of publi
cation of the South Carolina Py
thian M Rutledge Rivers, reap
pointed.
A past grand chancellor's jewel
was presented to Prof. A G. Rem-
bert by tbe lodge, Prof Rembert is
devoted to the work of this organiza
tion and has rendered to it much
valuable service.
Tears Shoe to Shreds.
At Wilmington, N. C., during a
severe electric storm Miss Caledonia
Roderick was struck 'by lightning,
and her right shoe torn to shreds
She was knocked unconscious, hut
examined later hy a physician show
ed that no injury resulted other than
the severe shock and a slight burn
on her right foot.
Running Jews Away.
The exodus of Jewish families
from city of Kiev, Russia, has be
gun. The total departure from that
city up to Thursday night were 300
proscribed families belonging exclu
sively to the poorest classes. The
expulsion is attended with harrow
ing sights.
They Are Everywhere.
“You know r and I know that ‘blind
tigers' are run In this city,” declar
ed ex-Gov. Glenn, of North Carolina,
at a 'Montgomery church Thursday
night. “It is useless to say that the
officials are trying to enfore the law.”
Ride Pleased Him.
The Newberry Observer says: "A
negro was carried to the chalngang
srrra«day m a fine ^rw rsrtomobHe.
He remarietf, ‘(JapTaltr” I've been
wanting to ride in one of them things
a long time.’ ”
Burns Proved Fatal.
Mrs. Joseph T. Patten, of Onawa.
Iowa, who was burned Thursday af
ternoon while wasbing out a “rat”
used in her hair, in gasoline, and
was hurried to a hospital, died early
Friday.
E. N. Bryaq^, a negro waa driven out
of Brookhaven, Mias., sad kia plant
and residence burned.
Presto Taft Sinks Deeper ui Dcepe
in tke Balliaier lire.
HHK FINDS IN HER HOUSE WITH
DEADLY ROLLING PIN.
REPUBLICANS AGHAST
Made Him Leave.
Following the publication of al
leged offensive articles in hie paper, jef interior, 'bat extend the'jndg
Hiey Fear Revelation* That Have
Dome Out In the Case Will Kuin
Not Only the Taft Administration.
Rut the Whole Republican Party
Along With It.
The Washington correspondent of
Grit thinks that If the Ballinger
rumpus, the bane of the present Ad
ministration, Is not placed in the
discard soon, it is going to wreck
the entire Republican party. This
la practically the concensus of opin
ion of the foremost Republicans in
the National capitol, a convlctlou
reached after what has been prob
ably the worst week the Taft admin
istration has experienced In the gov
ernment of the nation. The attempt
of the President and bis advisors and
counselors to clear up the waters
muddled by the sensational Kerby
itatement last Saturday week has
been pitiful.
Instead of clearing it up, the ex
planations and statements have stir
red up the whole unsavory mess ev
en more, and the blacker the affair
trows, the greater the blot on the
Administration Is going to be. Some
one has erred somewhere In the past.
This much Is admitted. But some
one Is erilng ever greater now In
the com se that is being pursued. No
names are mentioned by the disgust
ed Republicans, for It Is not proper
to openly criticise oue very high In
the party ranks.
Secretary of the Interior Richard
A. Ballinger stands discredited be
fore the entire country. No amount
of “Investigation” or Government
whitewash will change the opinion
of the people as to Ballinger's guilt.
His actions since Plnchot first at
tacked his policies, and the thlnzs
irought out against him at the Con-
,'resslonal Investigation, still In pro
gress, brands the cabinet officer as
x man who Is booking after the In
terests of “the Interests" first, and
then scraping up the crums for the
people.
And yet President T&ft persists In
his efforts to whitewash this mem
ber of his official family. The wise
ones see that the Chief Executive
by his actions Is not only leading
his own administration to certain
destruction, but he is .seriously
threatening the very life of the party
chat gave to him the highest office
n the laud. Still he persists, In
the name of departmental discipline,
n bolstering up the cause of Bal-
lingerlsm.
When Frederick M. Kerby, the
young stenographer working In the
Department of the Interior, made
public his sensational story of how
Lawler, and not President Taft,
wrote the Ballinger whitewash letter
which the President gave to the
country, It placed the Chief Execu-
ive in a very bad light. Since tha»
lime the President explanations and
action* have been even worse. With
Taft s consent, Ballinger Immediate
ly dismissed Kerby from the ser
vice
And the secretary of the Interior
liseharged young Kerby, with a
stignlng reprimand, because he re
vealed the manner in which Ballin
ger obtained his exoneration from
the President, and the deception
practiced upon the public in th.it
exoneration According to Kerby's
statement, Secretary Ballinger gross
ly deceived the country, and Presi
dent Taft was a party to that decep
tion. And he was not an lnm;jjt
party, either.
Kerby undoubtedly expected *o be
dismissed. A man of Ballinger's
type would necessarily regard the
affront to himself as far outwelg\-
ing the service Kerby had rendered
the public. The general belief Is.
however, that Ballinger and the Ad
ministration will suffer more than
Kerby.
Kerby merely goes to join iht
growing list of remarkable men
who have proved themselves co.ua-
geous enough to protest against
wrong and place the public Interests
above their own. The list now In
cludes Glavls, Plnchot and Price and*
Shaw, the former assistants of Pln
chot, Hoyt, former assistant gener
al of Porto Rico, and Kerby. They
have all been driven out of the
public service, and are classed ca
traitors by the Administration, but
the only offense committed by a-y
one of them was that of telling tha
truth, and of striving to prevent
what they believed to be the per.-
petraUoa at a greYl wrong.
Others are to be added to the
list, unless all signs fail. They will
be H. Tiller Jx»nes, the special agent
of the Land office, who Joined with
Glavls, In the fight to save the Alas
ka coal'lands, Director Newell, of
the Reclamation service, and Chief
Engineer Davis, of the same ser
vice.
Many Republicans In Congress in
private discussion of tbe latest phase
if the Ballinger case not only coin
cide with the dismissed steno*viu»h-
er In his estimate of the Secretary
7
ment to the President himself. They
are damfoanded, disgusted and die-
hearted at the maMar in which
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>
She Belabored the Burglar Until He
Fell to His Death from a Third-
Story Window, :
At New York Louis Gratoh, twenty
five years old, painter by day and
burglar by night, fell to his death
from the third story floor of a I)e-
lancey street houee after Mr*. Geo.
Gietman. whose apartments he en
tered, had attacked him with an
iron cuspidor and a rolling pin.
Gratch got Into the house by
climbing up the fire escape. To get
to the Gletemans' bedroom he had
stepped across a crouch on which
slept Miss Lena Berkenholtg, a
boarder. Gratch was searching Glet-
envan"s clothing for money when
Mrs Gietman awoke suddenly and
screamed.
She leaped out of bed and selxed
the man. Enraged mors than fright
ened, she rushed Into the kitchen,
where she seized an Iron cuspidor
and struck him over the head and
shoulders.
The man broke away and made
for the parlor window. Mrs. Giet
man pursued him until a boy board
er In thp house ran up and handed
her a rolling pin.
(With this she belabored Gratch
furiously. As the man struggled In
front of the window at the side of
the yard she struck him across the
Jaw With a scream he toppled head
long Into the yard, striking on the
concrete pavement. An ambulance
surgeon found that Gratch had died
of a broken neck caused by the fall.
Taft haa driven his administration
deeper and deeper Into the mire, with
each move he has made In Ballinger's
behalf. They admit that never be
fore In our history, with the possi
ble exception of Andrew Johnson,
has any President brought such dis
credit on himself and his adminis
tration as Taft has done In this Bal
linger affair. The Republicans real
ize that the effect of the revelations
of the last few flays regarding the
President’s set determination to
whitewash Ballinger, even at the ex
pense of his own honor and con
science. must prove disastrous to the
party In this fall's elections.
It is known that the President has
not been animated In his course by
personal regard for his Secretary of
the Interior with whom his acquaint
ance before Ballinger entered the
cabinet was slight. The country Is
therefore bound to seek elsewhere
thsn in personal considerations the
secret of Ballinger’s hold on the
Chief Executive.
The question will inevitable be
asked how it came that Ballinger
was made Secretary of the Interior,
and how Is It that Taft goes even
to the length of misrepresentation,
to put is mildly, to save Ballinger
from the consequences of his queer
maneuvering in relation to the Cun
ningham claims.
The answer to these questions will
be found by persons not entirely
blinded by partisanship and the glam
or of high office, in the testimony of
Glavls, before the Investigating com
mittee. In that testimony Glavls
told how the lobbyist and promoter,
Alexander Mackenzie, warned the
land agent that he was pursuing a
dangerous course In persisting In
his attack of the Cunningham claim
ants
Theses claimants, Mackenzie de
clared, according to Glavls, had been
strong enough to prevent the reap
pointment of James R. Garfield as
Secretary of tne Interior, although
Roosevelt had requested bis reten
tion. And If they were powerful
enough to prevent the reappolntmen
of Garfield, they might naturally be
expected to develop sufficient Influ
ence to secure the appointment of a
man of their own choice as Garfield’s
successor.
Behind the Cunningham claimants,
the Investigation has clearly shown,
were, the great Guggenheim and
Morgan interests, which are seeking
to get a strangle hold on the vast
wealth of the terrHory of Alaska.
The control of the Interior depart
ment is essential to the success of
this great conspiracy and suspicious
people will not be slow to reach
the conclusion that the appointment
of Ballinger as Secretary of the in
terior was not unconnected with the
plot.
Had the President kept his own
skirts clean, and held the balance
even between Ballinger and his ene
mies, he would have escaped suspi
cion. But in many ways it is Indi
cated that he hss been working hsnd
In glove with Ballinger and his
friends to bring about the vindication
of the Secretary of the Interior, al
most regardless of the character of
the means employed, snd he c»o-
not complain If the disinterested pub
lic maintains an attitude of suspi
cion.
The one encouraging facto; in tae
situation is the apparent certainty
the attempts to save Baiting'r wPl
have exactly the opposite effej* to
that intended.
It is the belief In Wr thing’ n tbit
th«- revelations of the past few da>*.
taken In connection wl*b the jnm-
ulatlve effect of the testimony
tha Investigating committee, will
make It Impossible for that body tj
bring In a report while-waafclag
Secretary ot
WAS THROWN OUT IHAVE
REV. C. W. CREIGHTON’fl APPEAL
WAS NOT HEARD.
1
m Nfcr
He Gives Hla Version of the Action
of the Omunltte* That Refused to
Hear His Hide. 1—
The following statement Is made
by the Rev. C W. Creighton in the
Christian Appeal concerning the ac
tion of a committ<e of the Methodist
General Conference hr reference to
his appeal from the action of the
South Carolina Conference In expell
ing him from that body;
There w<re two cases on appeal
to that body—that of the writer and
one other. At the first meeting of
the Committee of appeal the last
mentioned case was taken up first
by order of the bishop who acted as
chairman of the committee. That
appeal was not pressed by the op-
pellant and It might have very prop-
erly been postponed until ours was
heard,, but It was not.
Of the nature of that case we
are compelled to speak, that our
readers may gather an idea of the
method pursued In our css* though
we regret to do so. The appellant
had beea charged with seduction
and 'being party to a subsequent
crime which cost the life of the
girl Involved—a school teacher. On
the first charge he was convicted
and appealed; on the second he war
acquitted by the trial commit
tee. No objection was raised to
hearing his appeal; It was heard snd
a new trial ordered.
After waiting nearly a week our
appeal was entered upon: The charge
and specifications were read, then
the notice snd grounds of appeal.
At this point the bishop asked,
"Shall the appeal be entertained?’
The prosecution objected to hearing
it on the ground that we had preach
ed pending the appeal. We frankly
said, "yes, as s layman we have
done such work as we could, but we
have performed no act or function
of a Methodist preacher.” The bish
op objected to any statement from
us, but we had strong papers from
good men and we persisted In read
ing them. This was a surprise, they
had expected to take us by surprise,
but we were ready. The bishop held
that we had lost the right to appeal
and on this point a hot argument
fallowed which lasted for more than
two hours.
(The discipline provides that "the
General Conference shall never pass
any act taking away the right of
trial by committee and appeal, ’ and
It was therefore held that If any
conditions attached to an appeal
those conditions were void, not at
tached. It was a constitutional right,
absolute snd that the only way by
which It could be defeated was by
death or voluntary abandonment by
the appellant. The appellant insist
ed that no conditions attached to an
appeal form a judgment of expul
sion, that he knew of none, and
had he known of any he would have
performed them. In reply the bishop
read the notice and grounds of ap
peal. called attention to the care
with which they were drawn, said
appellant was s lawyer snd should
have known it and held his posi
tion.
A member of the committee call
ed his attention to the case referr
ed to above and reminded him that
no such point was raised in tha
case. Another member pointed out
the fact that the appellant had work
ed only as a layman and turning to
the bishop he said: "follow youi
position to its logical conclusion snd
it amounts to this, a layman can’t
pray In the Methodist church. 1
question, he continued, the right or
authority ^f the Methodist church to
say that any man who feels moved
to lift his voice in behalf of the Mas
ter and fallen humanity shall not
do It.
The bishop held that by preach
ing the appellant had lost the right
to appeal and that the appellant
should have known this although it
Is not a condition imposed by the dis
cipline. The bishop Is a trustee of
Vanderbullt University, the trustees
of that Institution violated the plain
ly written requirements of the dis
cipline in electing to tha office of
trustee men who are not members
of the Methodist church and thereby
the church is In danger of losing
$3,000,000 worth of property. That
bishop stood up before the committee
on education and a crowded assembly
and plead as an excuse for his act
that he did not know of that pro
vision in the discipline!
A member of the committee re
marked with a degree of patboe
‘ some men must be sacrificed." The
bishop let drop several statements
which showed that he waa perfect
ly familiar with the case and If so
he moat have known that If the eaee
, .
THE L0RI1ER MATTER
• .'H
Cfcarfe that He Wee Elected by the
Uee of Bribe Money Overehadowa
Every Other Ptuue of PreemC
Oongreesional HU nation as Affert-
<■« the Demin—t PeUticnl Party.
P. H. McGowan, the Washington
correspondent of The News and Conr*
ler saysItJTe political iltaatio« waa
never more interesting in Washing
ton than just now, with the Demo- “
erstg having their fill of enjoyment
at the expense of their Republican
brethren.
The Republicans have been In deep
water ever since the present session
of Congress opened In December.
That big Government deficit, the
fierce objection to the AMrich-Payne
tariff law, the troublesome work of
the "Insurgents"—*n these are
causes that gave the majority party
annoyance before others were added.
Now there are still more dilemmas
and either horn looks like a bad one.
The postal savings bank bill la not
worrying the Democrats In the ledst,
while, on the contrary. It Is giving
the Republican members of Congress
both In the House and Senate—-
no end of trouble.
But added to this Is the worst of
all trouble because It la strictly with
in party lines—the fact that unleaa
Senator William 6. Lorlmer, of Il
linois,. can purge himself of tbe eK
legations connecting him with brib
ery work In his recent electioa, when
he defeated former Senator Hopkins,
he must, without doubt, face chargee
of a grave nature before a Court
composed of big present colleagues
In the Senate.
So far as Die postal savings bank
Is concerned there Is little flee to
disgutae the fact that neither the
bankers nor the people generally
throughout the country want It. So
*• the former are concerned
there Jim been sufficient testimony*
presented to CongreM already to
show that the enactment of such a
bill cannot do other than work large
ly to the detriment of these Institu
tions—especially the amaller ones
conducting savings deposit depart
ments on a limited ecale.
The question la being asked In -
Washington, why la it accessary for
the Government to become the guar
dian of several million people and*
take care of their earnlnga In order
to encourage ‘ , th^tft ,, aa tke purpoe*
of the postal savings bank bill un
doubtedly is? it Is pointed out that
If the people have been able to take *“
care of their small savings up to
this time they will probably be able
to do so hereafter.
The Lorlmer case presents several
Interesting features. Unless he can
clear himself from the grave charges
lodged against him he will doubtless
be forced to realgn from his seat In
the Senate. There are both Repub
licans snd Democrats who say that
for the good of the Senate generally
Senator Lorlmer must give a clean
account of hla doings in the Illinois
legislature In connection with his
election.
Falling In this he will be allowed -
to resign, snd declining to take ad
vantage of this opportunity, will be
Impeached.
The fact that Senator Lorlmer re
mained In hla rooms at a hotel for
many daya before going to the Sen
ate, gives clear and positive indica
tion that he believes there la trou
ble In store for him. His case Is
much of s mystery here, and whtlu
he Is not considered ot any special
weight by his colleagues, there will
undoubtedly be s clearing up of the
situation during the next few daya,
unless Senator Lorlmer can do so
himself.
It Is now believed that he will
make s speech in the Senate, but
that It will not be aaMefactory. Then
It will be neceeeary for a special com
mittee of Investigation to be appoint
ed—something like the Ballinger- ~
Plnchot committee or that investiga
ting the existence of a ship subetd?
lobby in Washington. That Mr. Lor
lmer is to be Investigated and that
this Investigation may prolong tiff
present session of Congress many
weeks is one of tbe strong probabil
ities at this time.
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&
••'SM
Shot to Kill.
went to the committee the appellant
would win.
It was an issue between a bish jp
throwing his influence 1 on the ride
of the admlnstration and an humble
preacher seeking to have a miscar
riage of Justice righted; the blab ip
was the stronger and he won by a
vote of 13 to '
The appeal waa not hear!.
merits of the case were not toucA'
ed, but enough wag elicited to mak*'
thla much clear: A preacher who waa
charged with seducing a young w
msa* -a- poor aeheel teadrsr. nmf d
log party to bur sat .
had a hearing without el
a new trial, bat
At Henderson, Ky., W. B. Ebelen,
a well-known horseman waa shot and -
killed and Mattie White, the negro
servant in the family, waa fatally
wounded by Mrs. Ebelen, at the Bbw-
lea home Friday—Mrs. Ebelen j
herself up. tailing the police that
It was merely a rase of whether she
or her husband had to die.
An OM Hero Dies.
■ ~ • - Tar --- ■ . ,
Capt. J. Pembroke Jones, who waa
one of the ofllcera on the
mac when
died In
the ok
Mata!
death.
Merrt-
fonght the Monitor.
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of
for
tb* aecured
and