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LM FALLS TO OHIO NATAL OFFICER KILLED MEN HI PLANE FELL HIS COMRADE ESCAPES RDHlgn IlillingNley and IJeut Tow ers, United States Naval Officers, Meet With Accident in An Aero-' ©plane. When the Former is Kill- and the letter Has Narrow Escape. The naval Academy added its first victim to the death roll of the air Friday when Ensign William D. Bil lingsley was hurled from a disabled biplane 1,600 feet in the air and fell, straight as a plummet, into the depth of Chesapeake Bay. Lieut. John A. Towers, chief of the navy aviators, clung to the hurling wreck that fol lowed his comrade’s course from sk> to water and eecaped death, almost miraculously. Ensign Billingsley, in a biplane had been converted into a hydro aeroplane by the addition of pon toons, with Lieut. Towers as a pas senger left the aviation ground# at the Naval academy at Auapolis Fri day morning to fly to Claiborne, some eigtiteen miles across the bay. About ten miles down the bay a gust of wind struck them. Ensign Billing sley was thrown forward across the steering gear, which was disabled. The craft dropped like a dead bird towards the water. As it fell the pilot was catapulted out, and turning over and over his body outsped the disabled machine toward the water Deep in the bay the body sank and late Friday night all the available boats In the neighborhood were out seeking It. When the aeroplane started on Its dive for the bay, Lieut Towers clung desperately to one of the uprights be tween the planes After falling about 500 feet, the biplane turned a complete aomersault and for a moment the force of the fall wa* broken Striking the bay. It carried Lieut Towers beneath the water but rose to the surface almost immediately The aviator, suffering eirruatlng pain, feared that he would lose consclousneas before h« could be rea. :*-<l and tearing looec t tie lashings of one of the planes bound hlUiseif fast to a pontoon With n a few minutes however he was taken off by H L Hronaon and S Kellar who had watched the aero plane « movements from a motor boat kept on the bay for us** In Juat such emergencies At the \a>al academy hospital. Id* ut Towers almost in a state of lie - mujs collapse bis head wagging , i'e* usly told the tragic story of hU fad from the sky Just '^fore the accident," he said. ' I look*-'! at the altitude dial and It showed w were running at a height < ' jC*- j* ’ *‘ _'*w*t Just then a gust <*f wind *e**med to come up from THAT CURRENCY BILL ♦- MEANl ILK DIOhK.NKI) TO HFIJ’ HISINES8 MEN. LETTERS ARE READ SHOVING BOV LOBBY DID ITS V9RK It Will Take the Control of the Mon ey Market Out of the ILandH of UaH Street. Congress turned from the tariff Friday and scrutinized the adminis tration’s currency bill, to be intro duced In both houses next week. The tentative draft of the bill, an nounced Friday night, brought Infor mal dsuicssion which the president and Democratic leaders hope will develop complete harmony. Inter est centered in the supervisory pow ers to be exercised by the federal re serve board of nine members over the reserve banks. Originally it was planned to give the banks representation on the fed eral reserve board, but It was argued that the banks practically have the management of the reserve banks, and by placing the board entirely under government control, a check on the reserve banks’ operation will be assured. The framers of the bill desired an *asy, unembarrassing change from the present banking system by using existing machinery. The bill is ex pected to be liberally amended. A problem was presented in the provis ion to retire two per cent, bonds, now securing seven hundred million national bank notes, so as to pre vent depreciation. The administra tion hopes the note Issue provision will be unchanged. Under the plan state and national banks may obtain currency from re serve banks by depositing adequate security. Reserve banks must hold 30 per cent in gold of the amount of notes advanced The Interest charge will be levied on the note is sue, regional reserve banks rrkay dis count notes and banks may discount note* and bills of exchange arising from commercial transactions It is believed this will alevlate the money stringency in times of stress. The Gian bill proposes that the new new currency law become effective ninety days after paasage. but that thirty-eight months be allow.-J for shifting pr*-*ent r«e«-r>**e to new fed eral r**«rve banks WORKED THE SENATORS PAY OUT COTTON TAX SKNATOH SMITH HAS A BILL Ft>K TH AT PI RPl>KK. kll.I.S NKIJ- AT HOME. Several I/etters that Paaeed Between Oxnard and Palmer Containing Reference* to the Handling of Sen ators to Suit the Sugar Trust Made Public. The Senate Lobby Committee gave to the public Wednesday over the protests of a lawyer representing Henry T. Oxnard and Truman G. Palmer, a series of letters written by those two beet sugar representa tives, showing a long continued ef fort to influence legislation in W’ash- ington ; to control Congressional committees; and to direct national political affairs In support of the con tinuance of a protective sugar tariff. The Onxard-Palmer letters, pro duced at the close of the committee’s morning session, were the chief fea tures of an exciting day. They cov ered a period from 1 906, when Phil- lipine free trade came up, through the balance of the Roosevelt admin istration, the political campaign of 1908 and into the Taft administra tion. Assurances that certain senators would be on the Senate Phillipine committee; that "no stone was be ing left unturned to get real protec tionists'' on the House ways and means committee; and that strong pressure could be and was being brought to bear upon members ot both houses to accomplish various ends, appeared frequently in the ser ies of letters Chairman Overman's first effort to read one of the Oxnard letters, w'ben the committee began its sesgions brought a proteat from John T. Yor kea. an attorney representing Ox nard and Palmer. He declared the committee had no right to go into "private correspondence" dated be fore the present seaaion of congreas In a long executive sea* on the com | mittee decided that the letters bore j directly upon the attempt* of Oxnard and Palmer to In flu “nee legislation j and they were at once made public. THE CURRENCY Bill IILL BE INTRODUCED IN BOUSE NEXT MONDAY POSSE FIGHT BANDITS WHO HAD HELD UP A Fi GER EXPREM *— Measure Would Prorid* That Money Be Entrusted to Banka of the Cot ton State* for Ixmuu. The State's Washington correapon- deot says if a bill which Senator E. D. Smith of South Carolina has Just Introduced becomes law, millions now held in the federal treasury, and which has been there since the War Between the Sections, being held as a result of the cotton seizure for fed eral taxes, will at once be distributed throughout the cotton growing states to be loaned by the banks. Many bills have from time to time been introduced in both houses of congress looking to distriVun n of this fund, but up to the present time no practical method lias ever been found for getting the money from the treasury to pay the persons or their heirs or those from whom the cotton was seized. The bill just offered by Senator Smith, which would appear io solve the mater in a most satisfactory man ner, is in part as follows: "That the secretary of the treasury be directed to deposit in the several banks of the cotton growing states the amount of money now held In the treasury accruing from the sale of cotton seized under orders of that department after the close of the Civil war, for the specific purpose of aiding the growers of cotton In financing the crop. “That said money be distributed among the banks of the said States according to the amount oc the pro ceeds of the cotton seized within said State, provided that such banks as receive the deposit shall furnish such security as may be required by the secretary of the treassry "That any part of said money may be recalled at any time by the see retary of the treasury upon proper notice to liquidate any property ad Judicated claim for seii*-d cotton ” Senator Smith said Friday that he would rnak** every jxmalble effort IS OUTUNED BY GLASS Tb« Bandits Two of Two bandits who held up th« Dia mond Special of the Illinola Central In a spectacular manner Wednesday morning, cowed the passengers, fought off a hastily organized posse and applied at least six chargee of dynamite to the "through’* safe, were ill-paid for their daring ate tempt. The explosive failed to break the heavy safe containing $25,000. Soon after midnight, as the train bound from Chicago to St. Louis neared Olenarm, 111., a masked man climbed over the tender and ordered the engineer to "stop her”. He did. As curious trainmen and passengers peered out of the cars to see what was the trouble, they heard bullerts whizzing past their heads and were ordered by one of the bandits to stay in the cars. The other meanwhile was cutting off the express car. After taking his partner aboard, they ordered the en gineer to pull tho express car down the track. The first charge of dyna mite aroused some farmers and after the second charge had been fired they telephoned to Springfield. Several officers jumped Into automobiles and hurried to the scene. The robbers were at work when the posse arrived. The robbers not only started to fight the posse, but caiptured and dla- armed two members of it. one a po liceman and the other a newspaper reporter. When the battle became To Provide Means for Rediscounting Specified Types of Commercial Pa per, a Basis for Elastic Notes Pro perly Safeguarded, and Machinery for Doing Foreign Ranking Busi ness. The Administration currency bill was made public by Representative Glass, chairman of the House com mittee on banking and currency. It will be introduced in the House and Senate after President Wilson has delivered in person his address to Congress on Monday. An outline of the measure pre pared by Mr. Glass describing it as " a basis for legislative action”, states that it will be gone over in de tail for alterations, and sets out that its purpose is to accomplish three principal objects: Provision of a means for redis counting commercial paper of speci fied types. A basis for elastic notes properly safeguarded. Machinery for doing foreign bank ing business. The measure's essentials remain as they have been outlined from time to time since the President began a study of the subject with House and Senate leaders, Secretary McAdoo j ( O0 they boarded tha engine, and other advisers, provided twelve had been cut off from th* or more Federal reserve banks, which p reM rari * n d it rapidly toward will rediscount paper deal In govern- thtt clty W hen near the city limit* ment securities, exchange and con- thfiy jump^ from the engine and duct government fiscal operations npd The agent of the Welle-Fargo National banks and such State bank. A Co ^ lhat the whlch WM and trust companies as confirm to blown open, contained about $500 standards would be stockholders ef I and that this amount would cover the reserve banks The government t b e i oaa *ould hold no stock. to have tl pa-* .1 Member of live NCate 1 ure A letter fr and took an TM« threw steering gea plane* went \S ith am bine lurched violently uncertain dive forward Bllllngaley aero** the ’ and »he lateral rud**r out of busln**iui ther forward lunge the - >ped down at exprewa train speed It all happened In a minute Billingsley went out of hla seat and clear of the plane When the ship started to fall. I had one hand around the upright, be- twene the planes, and I locked it there 1 knew that was my only ho*>«* I wa*; torn loose from my seat Nut held on to the upright I swung Bear of the planes, and the gearing The *;tr'(tn on mv arm* and fingers was awful, but Y clenched my teeth ' on I tried to kick the steering gear back into working or der but 1 could not make it go. I looked down, and saw Rtlingsley turning over and over in the air.’’ The trembling officer halted his story to wipe the sweat from his ashy face, but went on immediately: "When the aeroplane had dropped about 900 feet the front planes went down and under, until the ship had been turned completely over. When it was half way over it steadied for a minute and the force of the fall was broken a little, but it gathered momentum again and when it hit the water there was a terrific crash. But I kept clear of the engine and the planes and managed to come to the surface safely.” At the hospital Friday night. Lieut Towers was listed as “slightly injur ed Internally,” but the surgeons were In doubt as to the exact extent of his injuries. He suffered terri bly from shock. iCJTl't. John H. Gibbons, in charge of the naval academy, Friday nigit appointed a naval board of Inquiry to Investigate the accident, Comman der W. W. Phelps, Lieut. E. J. King and Ensign Victor L. Herbster mak ing up the board. The tug Standish was sent down the bay to bring In the wreck of the aeroplane and the torpedo boat Stringham and all other available craft were sent out to search for the body of Ensign Billingsley. Take* Ilia Own IJfr. Fred William* a m**mb*r of the House of Repreev-ntatlvo* from Pick en« county, committed sulcld* Fri day afternoon about !> 30 o'clock at b.a horn* t»o mile* w»#t of Eeeiey A member of the family h**rd the report of a pistol and. ruahlng into a shed room edlolnlnf the front porch, found the body on the floor with a pietof hole in the centre of the fore head A phreiclan was summoned but death took place before hi* ar rival A note «ai found on the bu reau stating that he «as sane but considered 'his the beat step It said that he owed no man and had done no Injustice to any on* He *a» known throughout the ounty and had accumulated a con siderable amount of property He • a* fifty fl*e years of sge and w sur vived by a wife and all children UKNT Tt> MIN OUN VN \KK NQ;*jx>eed I^ead Man Walks in Room Full of Mourners. At Kearney. N J . James Kiely •till is suffering from the shock of witnessing what hie relatives and friend* believed to be his own "wake". When he returned to his home last night after a few days’ ab sence he found his sister, Mrs. Cath erine O’Brien, his two brothers and a score of neighbors sitting In the front parlor weeping over a coffin The mourners spied him as he stood on the threshold and his sister faint ed at the shock of seeing him. Dur ing his absence the newspapers had told of the death of James Kelley from sunatroke In Newark When Mrs. O'Brien read the item she fear ed that the victim was her brother and that the paper had misspelled the name. She viewed the body. The features were so singularly the dou ble of those of her brother that she believed it to Eve his body. i August 1. 15( MUST DIE FN CHAIR Garrett is Convicted of Murdering the Campbells M. L. Garrett waa convicted last week at Bishopville of murdering two men and sentenced to die in the electric chair on July 11. The crime for which Garrett was convicted stir red the State. On May 18 he shot to death his son-in-law, Aaron Camp bell, and John H. Campbell, his fath er. Only three days before Aaron Campbell had married Garrett’s daughter. The tragedy took place at the home of the Campbells, 13 miles from Bishopville. After firing the fa tal shots Garrett fled to the nearby swamps, dragging his daughter with him. Senator La Follete seems to have deserted the Progressive* with the hope that the Republican! will nomi nate him for President. That cotton platform should be re built by some meams before the cot ton season opens the latter part of next August Oxnard io i’altnrr in part sild Rigardlng thw vacancies on th* Pbllllppln* commlttw*-. 1'. 1* tru« that nothing can b* don* uutil next win ter, but I apok* to Fowle.* and Nrw land*, (he told me he w aa O K ) and a*k*d them to apply for '.Ue vac- ancle* made by th* Tenn****» and Idaho Senators They tol 1 me they would " Another letter from Ornard to Palmer "I *«•* no harm In having New land* try for th* committee, too I am committed to him already I •aw Foeter s political manager In Washington yesterday and Impressed on him the Importance of Foster s getting rarmack • place ” An unsigned letter to Oxnard dat ed Chicago. July 1»07, was In part aa follow* ' Major Gove wrote | to m* some time since in regard to the formstlon of the Senate Phillip pine committee in the COth Congress and I wrote him that that matter w*a fixed last winter Gove writ*# that Teller will take it hlmaelf, rather than to have it in uncertain hand* Any friendly I>emocrata •een during the winter will count.” A letter August 27, 1907. from Oxnard to Palmer "I am of the opinion that you had better not even try to get any resolution through regarding Cuba, as that might start our enemies going Of course, we want & strong Anti-Phllllpplne re* olution put through." July 18. 1907. Oxnard wrote from New York to Palmer: "I prefer that you leave the Cuban question alone for the present. If we begin talking It will start them raising money and talking back. Regarding the trusts I would neither attack nor defend them. We don’t want a fight with them if we can help It.” Oxnard wrote to Palmer on July 1, 1 908: “After going over the sit uation with our friends here most carefully It was deemed best that I should not put in an appearance at the Denver Convention and I feel that It might be better If you also stayed away. It Is alright for Morey and Gove to be there.” “Another written from Chicago on October 7, 1907, to Oxnard said: “Wakeman wa* with Uncle Joe for four hours and feels that he accom plished something, though he did not feet at liberty to tell me much In detail. From here he went to cinnatl at Foraker’s request to meet him. “He la leaving no stone unturned In his efforts to get real protection ists put on the committee on ways and means to fill the five vacancies.” To Palmer, October 15, 1907, Ox nard wrote from Upperville, Va: “I had been trying to find out what chances we bad on the ways and means, and am glad to get the infor mation yott give on that line. Will bring all pressure I can on Cannon.” A letter to Oxnard, dated October 1, 1907, and apparently from Pal mer, said In part: “In Denver I saw both Senator! Teller and Patter- TM1RTY Ml \l< \NS KYF:< l TED. Mexican In-urgrtit* T n«l«'r F'ran« iwro \ ilia 'w-v-k Revenue Thirty Federal soldier* were ex- uted by the inaurgetjta under Gen Francisco Villa, according to Ameri can refugee* arriving at El Paaao. Texas Thursday by hand car fr*m the interior of Chihuahua Stale They related that thla waa done aa revenge of a ruse of the Federal* at Buatilloa. Chihuahua, last Friday. The F'ederaia had asked permission to send two trains with women sad children through the rebel line* Villa agreed but on seeing the train approach laden with aoldlers he ord ered an attack Be*ldea the capture of 30 prisoner* many of the Govern ment troop* were kllle«d and th# re- mainded of the 4 00 F'ederaia forced to return toward Madera The government would control the F'ederal reserve banka entirely thru a F'eieral reserve board of aeven member* In which the banka would have no representation Th# board would be composed of the Secretary of the Treasury. Secretary of Agri culture. the comptroller of the cur rency. a* member* ex officio, four other members would be choaen by the President and confirmed by the von*: TO REFUSE GIFT Benate The national bank note circulation | tnist *** ** ould remain undisturbed and no pr<n>o*al la mad* In th* bill for re tiring approximately 1700.000.000 2, per cent bonds, upon -bleb that note trMl 0f V * Bd#rWU - {m gift, is a breach of trust a*ue now rests An amendment or separate bill to refund these bonds nto 1 per rent, bonds may be latro- duced later In addition to the $700,000,000 el ating national bank notes not more ban 1500.000.000 in what are to be known aa F'ederal reeerve treasury 1 won Patterson told me that Ixwlg* I stated to him that we had those is land* for the purpose of exploiting them with American capital, and that we were going to do it. ’ Teller told me that Aldrich told him that he and hla crowd would • tand by us. but that if the hill got on to th# floor of the Senate they would have to stay with their party and vote for the passage of the bill ” * My Idea has always been.” the Palmer letter continued, "to starve the thing off until general tariff re duction oomea, when we could trade with the other fellows ” A letter from Oxnard to Palmer July 1 6. 1 908. said in part: "I spent a day with Mr Thomas recently on his yacht and he seems to think we had better stand in with Mr. Taft If possible.” A letter from Palmer to Oxnard, July 3, 1 908, In part: “When Taft was nominated I sent him a congrat ulatory telegram and thla morning received his thanks. On the 29th I sent him a letter recalling my last interview with him and enclose copy herewith. I hope that be will not convey a verbal reply through some third party.” Oxnard wrote from Washington, December 26, 1907, to Palmer, then In Chicago: /T have seen Col. Ed wards and got him to agree with me that it is poor policies for Taft to push this measure this winter and he Is going to try and bring him to that way of thinking. I also saw eb, who agreed with me that the whole subejet had better be post poned and will talk with the Pres ident. While I have little hope o ' success I shall keep at it on those llnee.” Oxnard at Upperville, Va., recelv ed another letter from Chicago, dat ed October 29, 1907. Here Is part of it: “I was glad to hear that you are keeping that matter In mind for of course, If we could hold the ways and means committee, It would save a lot of work and avoid a heap o: 1 danger. Gove says further,” the let ter continues, “that Colcock further informs him that If he succeed! he will not need but three Republicans Methodist Blahope Eapoae C« Mhrewd Hr heme At a called meeting of the Metho dist Episcopal church. South, attend ed by nine members of the college of blahope. a veto message was drawa up. setting forth the following objec tion* to tha aotion of tbw board of 3mm t gift from Andre-sr CamelgVe to tbe Van derbilt Medical college That the action of the bonrd of It under sad by vtrtao of tfco as of tho Memphis eoaveotioa, eoMtltute tho fonadatlon of Vander bilt university; that said action la beyond tho powore of dko board and that It oomtiteleo a dlvorstoa of a large portion of the fund* and prop- note* might be laeued at th# diacre- p 1 ” 1 * of lh# unlverai'.y from 'h# Ion of the Federal rvoerve board 0 * K>a whlch “ ld * ro *«** “ k0i4 - U •olely for the purpose of making ad- rol><r * r y 10 terms of the vanres to the F'ederal reaerv# bank*. uni vanity, and is illegal. which would do no bualneoa with the nul * and public, deal only with their member A copy of thle action will bo dnly banka and receive deposit* oaly from and forwarded to tho Boo th# United State* While th# notm rata^r of th# board of trwnt of the ould on their face, purport to be university. Tho *^ attondlng the obligations of the United State#, the meeting weiW Blahope Ooltitta they would be required to be secured Denny. E R. Hendrix. W. by a gold reserve of 33 1-1 per cent., buth, E D. Mouson. J. O. Kilgore, provided by the Federal reeerve J. H. McCoy, E E Hoea, H. C. Mor- hank, would be a first and par- | rtson and W. A. Candler, amount lien on all the asset* of thaae banka and would be redeemable In Eight L gold on demand at the treasury de- The burial of Charle# E. Moore, partment at Washington or any Fed- 0 f Chicago, 111., One-legged eral reaerve bank. of an artificial limb manufacturing Stringent provision* are made concern waa attended by ten men against counting any of these notea who had but eight legs bet as a part of hank reserves, and the them. The four pallbearers had * system la guarded agalnat inflation it K each. Two men attended who by lodging power with the Federal had no legs, except of the artificial reserve board to exact an Intereit | kind, and four other* had four 1 charge upon the treasury notes in order to secure their prompt redemp-. Ti . ^ tion. The notes are not made legal ^ ° mr ^ R “ B * tender, but would be receivable by Roewell, N. M., I* menaced by a the government and every bank of hl >K e volume of water pouring d<rwn the aystem at par without exchange. the R1 ° Hondo river from the Whit* No change would be made In the MouQt » lM - Cloudburwtn after a protection of other exietlng note*. week of continuous rain caused the The Federal reaerve board would ' flood - require one Federal reeerve bank to rediscount not necessarily uniform I bank,” the statement says, for all reserve banks, but made with “The presumed effect of this plan a view to accommodating the com- will be to end the placing of reserve* mere© of the country and promoting with central reserve city banks for a stable price level. use in stock market operations, to For recasting the present bank re- J ^ ee P reserves in some measure at serve system the bill proposes to I h° me and to require speulatora to transfer the reeerve* from national J ^ un ^s they need In their op- banks in the present reserve and cen- J orations, either by directly borrowing tral reserve cities to Federal reserve j Lhc m from persons who hold them banks, carrying the process of trans- want len d the cash for that fer over thirty-eight months to avoid purpose or else by borrowing from shock to market conditions. The bill hanks in the places where tbs proposes, according to Mr. Glass’s j operations are to be carried on statement, “ultimately the establish- “In the belief that the present re- raent of a reserve system in which | 4erve system is antiquated and unsat- 'sfactory, that to the massing of funds in New York and other finan cial centres, of which so much has country banks will have 15 per cent of reserve (namely, 15 per cent, of total demand liabilities) such 15 per cent, to be held 5 per cent, in the I been said In recent years, is largely banks’ vaults,' 5 per cent, with the National Reserve Bank and 5 per cent, either at home or with the re serve bank, while reserve and cen tral reserve city banks have reserve* of 20 per cent, of demand liabilities of which 10 per cent, will be a* home, 5 per cent, with the reserve on that committee to hold any mat-1 bank of the district and 5 per cent 1ue to the present reserve require ments of national banks, and that In order to get the real benefit from the system of rediscount which has been oroposed as a remedy for many ex iting evils, It is necessary to baa* xuch system upon an actual control of reserves, provision has been made for recasting the present bank re- ter up that may some.” either at home or with the reaerve I serve system.