Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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“fl lisors PSOOIIAH mu)8 PUN FOR FARM WORK mo* OP BIO BUSINESS iron BB PLANNED. * NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD PROF FERS OLIVE BRANCH. ^ M-—-^rni . CONGRESS STARTS SECOND BAP > OP THIS SESSION. LEVER AND HOUSTON WORE FOB UIT REORGANIZATION. OF VANBBBttfff. MtMti “V USCUSSED nr CABINET of Jaattoo Seoroo Boom Sweepinx Anti-Tnut Victory for tho Preoeat Administrotlon. j Tho Now fork, New Karen A |Iart- Wlshee to EeubUsh , ftoAB t |^ ord r&i } roa ^ and the aejMLrtnjrent of PROBLEMS TO BE FACED j-4 Whose Object Would bo to Keeb Government and Indus- try Informed as to the Law’s Re- President WJLiann. Tuesday gaTO <. eabinst members "hit ideas on the gorernment’^ relation to “big busi ness”, the field anti-trust legislation should cover In the present session of congress and the spirit in which he believed the task should be ap- tched. j> Ax^eeling of friendly conciliation rather ^Qian of hostile antagonism, yet a constructive program that will eliminate uncertainty about the law and stimulate the growth of legiti mate business are ^Ite fundamentals of the president’s plan'of action to be embodied in the message lie will read at a Joint session of congress next we^k. He presented the document to the cabinet and worked all Tuesday afternoon on minor changes as a re sult of the meeting. .S' Cabinet members speak-iof the mes sage as a progressive declaration that ' would reassuxe the business world of the sincere intentions of th’e admin istration to deal fairly with it.- While the president has not' revealed his views on detailed legislation, he hopes his message will be the guild- ing influence that will keep the ■hope of activity with a well defined compass, eliminating, so far as j*gp- slble any congestion_of radlcaLbills that might be misinterpreted hJLthe outside world. SJo f t ar as known the cardinal fea tures of the president’s plan are: 1. Supplimenting the Sherman an ti-trust law to reduce the debatable area around it, 2. The prohibition of interlocking directorates. 3. Location of Individual responsi- Jlty and the flying of personal guilt fof all .violations. 4. Jhe creation of an interstate trade eommission to. perform the functlonkof a bureau of information and to dethtunine by its investigations whether decYees dissolution or mandates of Courts are carried out. The president fs ( proceeding on the theory that legislation is necessary at. this time and that, there should be nb delay In accomplishing those re forms on which public sentiment is agreed. The recent actifhp of J. P. Morgan A Co. in voluntarily with drawing from numerous directorates on account of a “changes In public sentiment” is considered by adminis tration supporters as evidence that the business world expects interlock ing directorates to be dissolved. la this connection President Wll son 'bflleves the whole course of pub lic opinion has undergone remark able tbange in the last few years. From a point where doubt as to the existence of trusts was at first ex pressed, through the period which reasonable and unreasonable combi- aations In restraint of trade were de bated, he believes there has develop ed now-an acceptance of-tfae princtple Justice at Washington Saturday night announced a preliminary agreement designed to effect a reorganization of the New Haven and to prevent a suit for its dissolution under the Sher man law. In compliance with department de mands, the New Haven will dispose bflts holdings In the Boston ft Maine, cancel its Joint agreement controlling tbe Boston ft Albany: give up.Us trolley lines and several of its steam ship lines. The question of its re tention of the so-called Sound lines of steamships will be left to the In terstate commerce commission. Under the Panama canal act the road Is required to give up all steam ship holdings by July 1 unless the commission-finds their continued op eration by the railroad is to the com mercial advantage of the public and not. in restraint of competition. It was conceded that the depart ment of justice gained virtually every point demanded. Announcement of the agreement was made in the fol lowing statemeat issued by Chairman Elliott: “An agreement has been reached between TSeT department of justice and the New Haven road. The New Haven in addition (to the cancellation of the Boston & Albany agreement, which becomes effective February|1, will dispose of its holdings in tj]e of Boston &’ Maine railroad, their trifr ley systems,' their Merchants and Miners Transportation company, the Eastern Steamship corporation and the HaLne Steamahjin. .company under a plait the details of whifch will be worked out as promptly as possible with representatives of the depart ment of justice. • i “Concerning other steamer lines, application has been made under the Panamsr canal act to the interstate Commerce commission, and their dis position will be determined by that body. Until plans are put into ef fect the management and operation of the properties will be continued as at present.” «■ The conference was between the attorney general and Special Assist ant Gregory, r Assistant Attorney General J. E. Adkins, Assistant 'Frank M. Swacker, representing th« department of Justice, and Howard Elliott, Arthur T. Hadley apd L. S. STorT^'represen11ng the Neyr Haven company. ' •►.t- Department of Justice officials were of the opinion that the New Haven was as big a victory for the princi ple of peaceful settlement of anti trust cases as that registered in the case of the American Telephone and Telegraph company. Th< : that private monopolies are indefens ible and that trusts practice certain things which ought to be prohibited. The president is also reiterating to those #tth whom he is discussing the subject a view expressed in his pre- convention speeches two years ago— that, to stop "Joy riding”, It is nec essary “to arrest the chauffeur and not the automobile.” He Is expected to recommend In his message that the law with respect to personal guilt should be enforced vigorously ...and provision made In all legislation for individual offenses. One of the most Important fea tures of the anti-trust program Is the Interstate trade commission. This organization differs from the kind of commission which was advocated by the national Progressive party during the last campaign In that it would not be veated with powers of regula tion, but would be the medium through which the government would keep the business world Informed and eliminate “the twilight zone” In “big business”. There have been repeated.requesta for Information from business con cerns and the need of an authorita tive reservoir of Information already . kaa been demonstrated in the pres ent administration’s experience with the trust question. It Is Intended t6 leA pointed ibut’-ihat the complexities of the New Haven were greater than In the tjele- phone case and that a suit to separate the New Haven from its greater hold ings might have resulted in disaster on the road itself, and in reflex action upon business that would have been widely fell. They recognized that the New Haven’tould not be expected tQ dis pose of its holdingain a few months and recognized that to Torce the road to get rid of Its Interests within a specified time would perffilt prospec tive buyers to wait until that time limit expired and then pay their own pries. > As long as Chairman Elliott and his associates show their Intention to carry out the terms of the agreement assurances are given that the depart ment of Justice will not press them for haste. Although no one in author ity would predict how long s time such a reorganization will require, It generally was believed that final re adjustment can not be reached for many montha and on some points probably, not for years. Negotiations with the New. Haven began more than two months ago, shortly after Mr. Elliott came East to take active charge of the opera tion of the road. There have been several conferences between.the rail road men, the fttorney general and his two assodsttes In this case. This Is not the first time the New Hsven has escaped the hand of the Sherman act. Sveral years ago the rot d was investigated by the depart' ment of Justice and was sued by the then Attorney General Bonaparte. Former Attorney General Wlcker- sham did not press proceedings and the suit wes ' abandoned. ' Several Wilson's Message fiT Expected to Treat of Trusts gad Farm Credit* Embodying Recommendations the President and Attorney < eral .'v-' ■ -It.: .. ; ~ Congress started Monday on th* second stage of the regular session with the calendars of both houses crowded With varied and far-reach- tng legislation. Refreshed by the first complete relaxation since Presi dent Wilson convened the special tariff currency session last April. Sen ators and Representatives have re turned to Washington keenly Inter ested In the prospective developments of the next few months. Trust legislation, through further corredtive and prohibitory legisla tion, will hold much of the attention of -both houses, from the time work beg|ns; but other subjects will share the legislative arena. The first of tho trust bills to bear any official status are expected to appear during the first week, with the andprsement of the Democratic membership of the House judiciary committee, and their scope and terms probably will reflect closely the views of President Wilson and Attorney General McRey- nolds. The president will reach Washing ton Tuesday, bringing with him a draft, i/ not the completed copy, of ills message to Congress upon trust legislation. This will be gone over at canlerences between Abe president and House and Senate trust bill frawsrs before ft is submitted “to congress. The general character of anti-trust bills prepared by Chair man Clayton and his associates of the House committee already has been outlined. \ ’ r ; Rural credits legislation also will receive attention when the president returns. He has had with him the report er the rural credits commis sion and an outline of the general banking bill that will be laid before congress for consideration at this session. Both of these documents will be made public within a week or two. Rural credits legislation would create a system of country banks, from which farmers and stock raisers could get credit upon special terms of security and time of maturity. It also includes the creation of credit associations by which farming com munities could finance— their own perations. Scores of other legislative subjects re pressing for consideration in both ouses, and congressional leaders predict the .present session will be crowded with work until well Into the summer. Efforts will be made^to dispose of the appropriation bills and to push the more Important work so it may be completed by June. This will he done so Democratic congressmen can get out Into their own states to join in campaigns for tho fall congressional elections. President Wilson has impressed on party leaders his belief that legisla tion promised by the Democratic platform should be accomplished-as early as possible, so senators and Flan la to OenceiMrnte in Paw Five Large Otteaa the Work of All the llnreana. ^ * Reorganization of the department ot agriculture by aouusmag - hu or wie present 13 bureaus enu substitut ing tour or five iaige otuces is con* tempiaied in provisions earned In uje agricultural appropriation bill wtucu me House couiuuuee on .agriculture almost has completed. While details are left to Secretary Houston,, he and Representative Lever, chairman of the committee, have conferred over the plan for re adjusting tire work oI the department to eliminate all lost energy that pos sibly can lie corrected. The only obstacle to the concentration plan is the possibility of objection on the ground that the provision constitutes new legislation that can not be car ried In an appropriation hill. The readjustment is expected to FIGHT II NEAR EM Jto. Fuf—i MU TT - The Question to be Decided Is Baas the Methodist Episcopal Chwch, Sooth, Own., Vanderbilt University "or la the Institution Owned by the ^ Board of Trustees. The fate of Vanderbilt university rests in the hands ot the highest court ot Tennessee. Both sides had their last say in the famous controv ersy before the adprame court Wed nesday morning, and unless the fed eral supreme court la asked to finally pass upon the matter,, tha decision of the state court probably within the. next three Weeks will bring the i Irani a to a close. Two of Tennessee’^ greatest bar risters locked horns ~ Wednesday, «e£-- months after Mr. McReynolds assum- place the commissioner of corpora- ©««« be determlned the govern- tions at the head of the Interstate -trade conjmisslpn and to incltade In its membersh’p business men who would know business methods sdffl- ^clently td conduct the necessary In- onlrles and furnish the desired Infor mation. With the president’s discussion of. s subject at Tuesday’s cabi net meeting the talk of “slowing up” Off the administration program and postponing trust legislation nfftll the December session apparently disap- qafelark. Ad. thill fstrstttm support errin'the House and Senate will endeavor to keep the work of trijst reform within certain limits and to push It forward to rapid completion so as to eat short the ment would sue or the New Hayen would reorganise. f * Mad Dog Bites Two. An unknown white woman and small negro boy of Greenville uere bitten Thursday by a dog believed to have been angering from hydrofrho- bta. Subscribe today for one of the heat county -papera in the 8tate.< This paner ranks among the bpsjt. Jp, State. ' vr- - .ZL period of djoubt as to what adjust ments may be In proipect for the business of the country. into four groups, each under a single officer as follows: - ^ , Regulatory or quarantine work; dealing with insecticides, meat in spection, etc. Scieiftific and research work, to comprehend’ everything that comet under those general heads. Demonstration or extension work for farmers which is to be radically expanded. Administration, to handle the de partment executive affairs, including the offices of the secretary and as sistant secretary, chief clerk and dis bursing officer and similar officials. ^The agricultural bill also will carry an' appropriation that will reach close to the $1 94,000 asked by Sec- retary-fhwmton for acquiring and dif fusing Information on subjects con nected with the marketing and dis tribution of farm products, a project initiated by Chairman Lever. For farm demonstration work the secre tary asked $378,000 and for farm management $382,000, for eradica tion of hog cholera $3fM)00. include the concentration of division's" "when Gen. Gus T. Fitzhugh, the elo-' FLAGMAN AVERTS WRECK. representatives may take an active part in the defence of the party in tfre fall campaign, when the control of congress will again be at atake Some of the problems that will re ceive early attention from congress are: The tapping of trading in cotton futures to prevent speculation; con stitutional amendments greatly suf frage to women and prohibiting the manufacture or sale of liquor; Pana ma canal legislation. Including the fixing of the form of government and the abolishment of the free toll pro vision for American ships; Investi gation of the Calumet and Colorado- mlne troubles; strengthening of the army’s organization and the authori zation of two new ^attleshlpz for tbs navy; construction of government railroads in Alaska; establishment of a literary test for immigrants; ex tension of Federal aid for road and for instruction In agriculture and trades; regulation of the employment of seamen. The Alaskan railroad measure has first place on the calendars of both houses of congress and will corns up T for consideration Monday. It is be lieved congress will agree to the velop the resources of Alaska, and to bring its coal and minerals Into com- merefc. •- Several new measures relating to monopolies will be thrown Into the arena of anti-trust leglslatlpn when congress reassembles. A brief hill designed to strengthen the Sherman law will he Introduced by Representa tive Webb of North Carolina. Repre- aentave gresslve, will introduce two resolu tions. One would direct the attorney general to report to the House on the legality of relatoins existing between V } sylvanla corhjpiifyisoirfhe^oFtinfi^fe and Ghlo.rallroad. The other would order an Investigation of relations between the New York Central-rail road system sad its subildlary llttes ed Varner out of the telescoped day coach and with blood streaming from his many wounds and one arm crip pled, he ran back on the track and placed fuses and stood there with his lantern to slgnaLthe flyer td atop. He reached the place Just In time, pas sengers say. TO GET GOOD JOBS. quent Mempbian, met John J. Ver- trees, .known as one of the south’s leading lawyers. Fitzhugh sooke for, the church, and Vertrees closed the case for Vanderbilt. The speeches of these two gentlemen were master pieces, and tlie largest crowd tfiat has yet attended the trial was pres ent Wednesday to hear them. “When the rebellions board of Georgia' Hero, Hurt In Collision Sig- ’ nals Down Fast Train. Three lives were lost and more than twenty-five persons hurt, six of whom are seriously Injured, In a wreck of Passenger Train No. 3 on tho G. S. and F. railroad, sixty miles south of Macon, Ga., Friday morning. Trailing in the wake of the wrecked train was the famous Dixie Flyer, the Chicago-Jacksonville train, south bound, and a double disaster was on ly averted by a heroic flagman. The scene of the wreck was on Gum Creek trestle. After the locomo tive and baggage cars passed over a broken rail, the day co&ch appeared to have been lifted skyward, then ov er the embankment and a heavy Pull man ploughed into the rear of it. Above the cries of the injured and panic-stricken, passengere came the shouts of Flagman Varner, of Macon, himself badly wounded: Lookout, the Dixie Flyer is right behind ue,” be shouted. “Help me out and UU atop hex.' A passenger standing near bypull-} tho donation hadheen given tiT the Methodist church. To this Commo dore Vanderblft answered “Well, governor, I have no sort of control over that matter. I might agree with yon, but I don’t know “Do you think for a minnte,” said Mr. Biggs, “that Commodore Van derbllt would have preferred to have given the control of his large dona tion to a body of twenty men coneti- tutlng the board of trnsteee than to have given It to the Influential and powerful Methodist church? I mean no reflection on the men constituting the original board or trnsteee of Van derbilt university. They were men honored in their cities and state but they were unknown to Mr. Vanderbilt and it is unthinkable-that he would have entrusted the disposition of his thousands to them Instead of a great trustees beganiheir fight to wrest the control of Vanderbilt university from the church that hftd founded and sus tained It, they undertook, a full-sized -man’s Job.” So said Judge Edward Clay'‘b’Rear, the distinguished Ken tucky jurist, during the course of his argument before the supreme court Tuesday morning in behalf of the board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. The entire session of the court Tuesday was taken up with argu ment by counsel for the church. Mr. Biggs opened for the church at 9:30 o’clock, and his speech of two hours was an exhaustive review of the rela tions of the Methodist church to the university since its foundation. He arranged his facts in a logical and forceful manner, and has a clean-cut manner of driving his points home. Mr. Biggs told of how the officials of the Methodist church conceived the Idea of founding a university dn the south as far back ai 1858, that the action of the Memphis convene tlon, at which Us establishment was authorised, was, but the consumma tion of an intention formed year! be fore. He said that at no jtlme during tho deliberations of the convention at Memphis was any other Idea domi nant save that of establishment a school entirely under the control of the Methodist church. He said that conference repre sentation had always been recognized from the very Inception of the Idea to found the nnlveraity. Mr. Bigga told of a conversation that Gov. Por ter, then chief executive of Tennessee had had with Commodore Vanderbilt just after the donation had been made relative to the donees of the gift, —v “Gov. Porter,” said Mr. Biggs, “was opposed to sectarian schools, and he told Commodore Vanderbilt JhAUhe regreted that the control of Anti-trust and rural tlon are considered ot ] Immediate Importance Wilson. Though the inflacapi ot thft executive was exerted la behejf off other measures as well dortag (ho present leorioo of ooogni. ho MB- cated In a conversation with oonor spondents aboard Ms train Mnedor en roots to Washington train Paoo Christian, Xlse., that la tho Itoips dlate future theee two sabJocts wooM occupy the foram of pabUe i HHHgn nrdhaljfjmt bHawaiI aIaafIv * *itx frtWBxtitTUi oaaroa ij these reforms la particular had 1 on his mind during hlo Besides sketching his trust which will be characteristically brief; the president carefully studied the report of ihq commission that went abroad to study rural credita. Bo examined also a bill on the enbjeOt prepared by Senator Fletcher, ehale- man of the commission, and said that beJia^ Jtist written the Florida sen ator asking film to confer with him about It at the White House when ho got bark. The president remarked that the bill seemed- sound' in thd main, though he thought some addi tions ought to be made. In giving hiti attention now to tho trust and rural credit questions tho president feels that he Is carrying out, .not only tho promises made In the party platform, but fulfilling aa informal understanding with mepi- bers of the Oenacte ,and House, who sought, to bring the subject of r«ral credits into tha discussion of the cur rency bill and to prohibit interlocking directorates and other trust STlll kf . provisions in both the currency and tariff bills. It was only after tho agreement among Democratic leadero that all phases of the trust aad rorol credit problems would be handled separately that they were then fltm- inated from consideration. ' While conferences on them ques tions have not all been arranged, tko president is planning th devote tbo remainder of the week to connnlto- tlons with members of hi* cabinet and leaders In congress and will rsoft his trust message to a Joint next Monday or TuesdaJ South Carolina Men Have Support of Both Senators. In response to a notification from Commissioner of Internal Revenue Osborn that he was ready to receive their recommendations foi^foer ap pointments In South Carolina under the Income tax law. Senator Tillman and Smith Tuesday joined In endors- denomination In which be could place Ing the following men: L. M. Over- street of Aiken, ta%e inspector; W. H. Bass of Walhalla, and J. F. McIn tosh of Lynchburg to be office depu ties, and 8. Frank Parrott of Gaff ney to be field deputy. ’ The senators signified to Commis sioner Osborn that the sooner these appointments were made the better they would be pleased. It Is possi ble that Secretary McAdoo will not financrng oT"government roads lo de hound entirety by the recommen- on the part of the board of trustees, datlons. In several states appoint ments were announced In the Inter nal revenue department, which did net have any senatorial fnfiaence be hind them. In; the main, boweter, Mr. McAdoo Is expected to follow the senators’ endorsements as to these places. Negroes Kill Negro. Gary Wadley end W Is ter Carson, young negro farmers, of Greenville, roile ten milee Monday afternoon that they might give themselvee np to the sheriff, Wadley -having shot to death HHl- a n«g ■SRPHttl borhood. and the influence of Interlocking stock control upon the railroad’s costs, service and rates; - every confidence. Wednesday morning Geii. Fitzhugh oegan the cloaipg arguments for the church. During the course of his re- marks he alluded -to the fact the Methodist church had been criticised In the brief of the trustees for not giving more funds to the university. He denied that ths church had been niggardly, bat he said be had aever witnessed any examples of liberality LOSE THEIR LIVES. Four fen of Battleship Wy to Their Deaths. sotg went down In 1907, With the- eleven lives, mostly yoanf The capsizing in Hampton off Norfolk, Va., Friday of a motor cutter from the battleship Wyoming; flagship of the Atlantic fleet, result ed in the loss of the lives ot tour seamen of the Wyoming’s crew. Thn accident occurred near the spot wham a’ launch from the battleship Minnw- 3 we of midshipmen. Another coincident* was that the Wyoming was anchored In the same place that the Mlnnseetn was lying six and a half yean ago; The Wyoming’s boat with ntnatenq men aboard was carrying wheelbar row* from the flagship to the navy- collier Protons. All the man warn- thrown into the sea, and the weight of-the stee! whaeUMurows-eertfed Jfeft. cotter under, leaving nothing for ttn - men to cling to. Small Boats were sent out aai passing tng give assistance tn the run* cue work. Thirteen of tho men goft out. None of the other .bodies havn- been recovered, though boats trom the Wyoming and other battleahfpo ~ were engaged the remainder of tho day In dragging the roadbed for them. '■ , r - " S. Buck Stays Man. With virtually every bone In body broken and his lungs pi tured by the .boras of a large hi Patrick Horan, of 4sllp, L. I., ’ found dead Monday night In an on sure where deer were kept. “When did they ever give a penny to . tills Institntlont” he said.. - Gen. Fitxhugh resented the attacks made upon Bishop Hobs In the hrief of the trustees. He said that these attacks had come because the bishop hid the courage to take np the gage of battle Yken the rebellion began and to stand like a faithful sentinel fof the rights of the church. “When the persons secured the charter for Vanderbilt nnlveraity they were not acting for themselves; but for the whole cbnrch,’’ said. Mr. Fitzhugh. “When Mr. Vanderbilt ori -years- .made hfe -pfandt® 4 Rebellions Are Killed^ Twelve rebellious Mexioon soldtara were killed at Ensenada, Mexee, an a result of a quickly repressed retoll the failure of the Mexican Gow- ent to pev off the troop la thn nada garrison. Takes Fatal Leap; Herbert Thomas, a negro of FBon- ence. was so badly injured freon lumping from a moving train that bn died Monday, the day after bts Jamjs were not stricken ont and tbo pur poses of the foundation of tho uni versity remained unchanged. 4 * “There are but two oeoautons In this record.56 he said, “where tha board of trustees declared itself self- perpetuating, and in both of them Instances the resolutions wore accom panied by acts which showed that th* boards recognised tho central off church.” Mr. Fttshugb saM -that the right » of tbe church to control the" affatm of the university had from the very beginnlng until 11 th<rschool It was addwn as the eon- to support his tral college of the Methodist.church, church had the and wheh Its charter was .vioended to ths university ehapge the name to Vanderbilt uni-'of the charter-In which ty. the Memphis resolutions bodied the Memphis f t: