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m ' - _> ~ - ? ,, -" . I* ll IN FAVOR OF SOUTH V- ; ' Was First Ruling Made By New Head of Commerce t- ON IMMIGRATION CASES K1: States May Induce Immigration WithV cut Violating the Alien Contract 4~ JLabor Law?South Carolina ? i Case is Decided. A "Washington special says: Tlie ^ first decision rendered by the newly -J? Installed secretary of the department y? of' labor was in the interest of the / south, and upholds the right of a state "Jo induce immigration. decision holds, in brief, that, in the circumstances, there is no vio" lation of the immigration laws or of the law to prohibit the importation of alien contract laborers in the action isfrr- of the state of South Carolina, in ' this particular case, in encouraging ^ immigration to the state or in paying ^ the extra expenses of the immigrants i fn coming to the state. ^ ' A similar ruling will beyond doubt - ? be made on the plans proposed by . " the -Georgia immigration society. ? ?'?. v It is pointed out that there is a very essential difference in law beSjLv tween an immigration agent acting under state authority and receiving j vl" only supplemental subscriptions from private parties, and an agent , "B employed directly by private parties v or . corporations, and whose commisB^?vSion from the govenior is simply in] ?:y'' cfdental. This is the point on which the Georgia case turns. The case on which the decision was leased originated in Sotuh Carolina. For some time past the agricultural and manufacturing interests of South Carolina have been retarded and j :were in danger of material injury | owing to the lack of labor. In order ; %?& to relieve this condition of affairs, the legislature of South Carolina passed an act creating a state department of agriculture, commerce and immigration. E. J. Watson was appointed commissioner .of the department. He was empowered by the act to make such arrangements with steamship companies and the Immigration agencies in this country and abroad as would serve best the interests of successful immigration, the necessary expenditure being made from an appropriation provided for the purpose. I The act authorized the commissioner to accept contributions from such 1 citizens of the state as might want to assist in securing desirable immigrants for South Carolina. On November 4, 1906, the steamship Wltekind, arrived from Bremen at the port of Charleston, S. C., having on board about four hundred and seventy-five aliens destined to various points in the state of South Carolina. V ; Ahrmf SAO nf thoco nUpnc wp?? RpI. Igtan mill operatives, their wives and children, the remainder being German form laborers and women seeking domestic service. All of these aliens were induced to migrate to the United States by the state of South Carolina, the state acting through the medium of its commissioner of agriculture, commerce and immigration, who went to Euhope some time in August for the purpose of inducing desirable immigrants to come to the state; the passage money of the aliens was paid to the state from a fund, part of which was appropriated by the state and the balance being contributed by various corporations and individuals. This fund was expended solely at the discretion of the state officials and not under the direction of the contribu The commissioner of immigration of South Carolina found employment and distributed these aliens to vari>. >? ous points in the state, and in so doing exercised his own judgment as to | - the person to whom, and the location ifefv which, the several aliens should be sent. The aliens were free to accept - or reject any offers of employment Triotn + V?ovr% 7?&.T; fcv vuvu?? FOUR WHITE; TEN BLACK. The Revised List of Victims of Ex-; plosion on Steamer. According to the latest news ob tainable from places near Gold Dust Landing, Miss., where the steamer W. .. .? T. Stovall blew up, the list of dead and missing totals fourteen and the injured include four white men and several negroes. The white dead are: Captain John A. Quackenboss, master; L. Wade . ' Quackenboss, Clerk Joseph Smith, Le-; val Yerger. The other ten dead and missing inr elude negro deck passengers and rousv X tabouts. F,VE ARE VICTIMS OF FLAMES. M Small Apartment House Blaze Proves Veritable Holocaust. Four persons were killed and one was fatally injured in a small fire in the Zenobia apartment house on Pros.. ..j pect avenue, at the corner of West Huron street, Buffalo, N. Y., Wednesday night. Other occupants of the place had narrow escapes, half a dozen being rescued by firemen. iffis.' [companies win fight. Administration Tickets of New York Life and Mutual Life Elected. Policyholders Badly Left. A New York special says: With the close Tuesday of the ballot boxes for the election of directors of two great insurance companies, the New York Life and the Mutual Life of New York, it is absolutely certain that the administration directors of both are overwhelmingly elected. W<hile the majority in favor of the administration ticket of the Mutual Life of NewYork is not so much as with the other company, it is conceded that the administration ticket wins. fT|^'v AP fViA QrlminlcfroflAn XilO V1V/IU1J KJL LJLIO UAiiUiuig t,i CVMV?* in the case of tfie New York Life is so overwhelming as to put an end to all further interest in the official count It is accepted on all sides, and the administration officers are already being overwhelmed with congratulations. With the hundreds of thousands of votes polied, it will require several days, and perhaps several weeks, to secure an official announcement of the result. But all is over now but the official announcement, for the result is known. It is now generally accepted that many mistakes were made in the opposition movement. It developed when too late to remedy the mistake that several of the directors named on the so-called policy holders' ticket were men who wero absolutely without financial interest in either of the companies, and it had a. powerful effect In the case of the Equitable Life, there was no opposition ticket. It will be recalled that when Thomas P. Ryan acquired from Hyde enough stock to give him control of the company, he at once deposited his control in the shape of a trust with Grover Cleveland, Westimghouse and O'Brien as trustees. Under the terms of the trust, the policy holders themselves were to elect by direct vote a majority of the members of the board, and the trustees of the company, and the minority, was to he named not by Mr. Ryan, but by Messrs. Cleveland, Westinghouse and OTSiflen?the three trustees named hy him to have control of his stock. This trusteeship is absolute and the tcustees have so exercised it. SOLDIERS FIRE INTO TRAIN. Such is Charge Preferred hy Conductor at Pensacoia. Charges have been preferred by a conductor of a train from Pensacoia to Port Barrancas, alleging that soldiers at that post fired on his car from ambush at 1ft o'clock Tuesday night. Officers of the post are investigating the trouble. The conductor avers that on leaving Pensacoia for the fort, a distance of ten miles, he had trouble with an artilleryman about his fare. When he attemoted to elect the sol dier from the car, his comrades rushed to his assistance/ and one of them threatened the condutcor with a club. The street car man drew a revolver and stood off the soldiers, however. The artilleryman who caused the trouble was placed under arrest by the civfl authorities. . On reaching Barrancas, the soldiers ?about twenty in number?alighted. The car stops ten minutes at the fort before beginning the return trip. The conductor avers that within a short distance from the post on the return, a volley was fired at him. He was on the rear platform, and alighted, returning the fire with his revolver. He says his assailants, whom he recognized as soldiers, then fled. EX-STATE SENATOR TO THE PEN Butt Bribed a Fellow Member to Vote for an Appropriation. Former State Senator F. O. Butt of Eureka, Ark., convicted of bribery, has donned convict stripes. Monday the supreme court sustained the sentence of the lower court. Butt was convicted of giving another senator $100 to vote for the state capitol appropriation bill. MORE VICTIMS OF EXPLOSION. Accident in Savannah Has Caused Death of Three Firemen. Assistant Fire Chief George Mouro and Fireman Edward P. Daley died in Savannah Thursday morning oi injuries .they sustained Wednesday night in the explosion of dynamite in the fireworks factory of Joseph Carbo and Mariana Simpson, in which Fireman Harry J. Eady was burned to a crisp. The city is in grief over the disas ter. Supscription funds have been started for the relief of the families of the dead firemen. SEA ISLAND BALE $202.94. Fleecy Staple Sold in Statesboro at 36 1-2 Cents Per Pound. So far as known, the highest price paid for a single bale of sea island cotton in the south this season was paid in Statesboro, Ga., Tuesday when J. B. Lanier sold a bale to the J. " ? ? ?onn ni rnv.? W. umir ^omp&uy iur a no bale weighed five hundred pounds, and was sold for 36 1-2 cents per pound. -- . - V - : . - / ' ' ^ROOSEVELT IS DEFIED By Board of Education of San Fran cisco?Secretary Metcalf Also Roundly Scored. # Mrs. Flora B. Harris, now residing at Tokio, and widely known as a missionary, recently addressed a communication to the San Francisco board of education, in which she deplored San Francisco's attitude towards the Japanese in public schools and criticized what she termed the "provincial spirit" of the local officials. She deprecated the attempt to classify the Japanese as "orientals,' and expressed surprise that the children of any -C 2 J 1 ioreign r^siumii buumu uc cawiuu^u from the public schools." The board of education has framed a reply, which will be mailed to Mrs. Harris. This reply asserts that the Japanese have not been "excluded from the public schools, "despite the fact that no less a personage than the president of the United States has instigated a similar assertion in framing a message to congress, and notwithstanding the wholly unfair report made of the school incident by the secretary of commerce and labor, Victor H. Metcalf. Continuing, the reply says: ' The fact that the president of the United States basing arguments upon erroneous assumptions, frames against a loyal people scathing criticisms regarding a matter which is purely one o flocal concern, does not in the least deter the people of the Pacific coast, who after all are doubtless the best judges of their own immediate tip Ad a and welfare. "Neither do the misleading deductions and recommendations of a politician high in authority, when voiced through a document which plainly sought the light of favor, and not of truth, impress the people of tlris locality with any sense of doubt as to their rights as free-born Americans, or as to the justice of the stand they have taken. "The board of education will not recede from its position, whether the president of the United States has been led into error, and now applies emphatic language to the people of this state, or whether ambitions secretaries distort plain facts and shape documents that may perhaps be formidable in a political sense." NEW SCALE FOR MACHINISTS. Arbitrators Reach Agreement Without Calling in Umpire. A Washington dispatch says: Alfred P. Thorn, general counsel of the - -- " r> T I Soutnern railway tumimn ^, <mu. *. Conlon, first vice president of the International Association of Machinists, two- of the arbitrators selected to determine the wage scale to be paid to the machinists of the Southern railway company, have reached an agreement without the necessity of calling on Judge Gray of Delaware, who was selected as the third arbitrator. The award reached is as follows: That the Southern railway company grant to the machinists at. all of the shops of the company, except at Birmingham and Sheffield, an increase of 2 cents per hour over the pay such machinists were receiving on August 31, 1906, to the machinists at the shops at Birmingham and Sheffield an increase of 1 1-2 cents per hour, to apprentices at all shops an increase of 1 cent per hour. The wage scaie as fixed by this arbitration is to be effective as of September 1, 1906, and shall remain in effect until November 5, 1907. PATRICK ESCAPES DEATH CHAIR Sentence of Murderer of Millionaire Rice is Commuted. A special from Albany, N. Y., says: Governor Higgins Thursday commuted the sentence of Albert T. Patrick to imprisonment for life. Patrick was convicted in March, 1992, of the murder of William Marsh Rice, the aged millionaire, in New York. On being informed of the governor's action Patrick announced that he was not satisfied with commutation and would at once begin his fight for freedom. FARMER SOLD NEGROES Is Unique Charge in Peonage Case Filed at Jackson, Miss. An unusual peonage charge was filed in the federal court at Jackson, Miss., Tuesday by a negro named Jan uary agauiiil. uamcs rauivn, cl yi uiu" inent Rankin county fanner. TJie affidavit alleges that Janury was held in involuntary servitude together with his wife and six children by a man named Garter for about two years. Carter then sold him to Patrick for a sum of $1,090.71, alleging a debt of that amount, Patrick refused to release him. ANNA WINS A VICTORY. Won't Have to Pay Debts of Profligate Boni de Castellane. Madame Gould, the former Countess Boni de Castellane, has been victorious in the suits brought by creditors and money lenders in Paris against her with the object of making her jointly responsible with the count Thirteen of the fifteen cases were dismissed Wednesday by the court,with casts against the plaintiffs. . FORAKER FRENZIED Ohio Senator Biffs Teddy for Firing Negro Troops. OVERSTEPPED AUTHORITY President is Accused of Delegating to 1 Himself the Powers That Belong in the Province of Congress. Senator Foraker occupied the attention of the senate in its last session before the holiday recess in an extended criticism of the basis of President Roosevelt's action in dlscbrging the negro troops of the ttoenty-fifth infantry on account of the Brownsville raid He was replied! to briefly by SeHar Lodge, while .'Senator Scott sustain ">d the demand of the Ohio senator fo4 a full investigation of the matter by the senate military. committee. A resolution directing such an investigation is before the senate for action at its next meeting. Senator Foraker heaan his sneech with the broad declaration that the "president misconceived his constitutional power when he discharged the croops," and he also misconceived the testimony on which his action wa3 based. Mr. Foraker said that the president's constitutional power was simply to command the army and navy as commander in chief, while to congress the constitution gave power to raise armies and to make rules and regulations for its government. The regulations prescribed that no man could ,be summarily discharged without a righ't to be tried, and the articles of war, he argued, prescribed minutely how these trials are to be conducted; but all punishments should be in accordance with the directions of courtmartial. He contended, after reading at length from the articles of war, it was inconceivable that the president should be absolutely without restraint ? The president, he said, stated in his message that these soldiers were j Hi? *l-? yitrt. , guilty Ui tuuuu;, a?u uau uccu uiocharged for that reason. He followed this with the article of war providln'g that a courtmartial should direct this punishment. This was all to guard against the exercise of an autocratic power. Congress to provide against! excessive punishment had limited the; penalties. j Mr. Foraker held that the case did \ not present an open question, but that j the authorities gave instances of cases . along" similar lines, in all of which j justice had been administered after | trial by courtmartial. "Congress has always been careful." j he continued, "to provide that no man' found guilty of an offense should be punished otherwise than as congress might direct. "The president says this Is {the most atrocious crime ever committed. If these men committed the crime and did shoot up Brownsville, I agree with him. I have no sympathy with that sort of thing and it may be that it was done. But I repeat, that what I want to call attention to is that the president has misconceived both his constitutional power and the evidence in this case. M^. Foraker spent some time pay- I ing his respects to Major Blocksom, | who made the report Replying tc a question from Sena-1 tor Knox as to whether there was no evidence except that furnished in the Blocksom report, Mr. Foraker said he had been unable to discover any other, and in this he believed the president had been misled. TO SQUELCH ICE TRUST. Move Is Made by Attorney General of the State of New York. Attorney General Julius Mayer, la the name of the people of the state of New York, began action at Albany Thursday against the American Ice company in the supreme court of New York county for the dissolution of the 30-called "ice trust" BUNCH OF ROSES FOR STRAUSS. His Georgia Friends in New York Send Him American Beauties. A Washington dispatch says: Oscar Strauss, the new secretary of the department of commerce and labor, attended his first meeting as a member of the Roosevelt cabinet Tuesday, showing the zeal of a beginner by arriving fifteen minutes ahead of time. On entering the meeting room the secretary was treated to a pleasant sur prise in the shape of a magnificent bunch of American Beauty roses sent by his Georgia friends in New York, all prominent men. GOT CHRISTMAS MON5Y. Robbers Loot Bank in Arkansas Town of $4,000. The Bank of Horatio at Horatio, Arkansas, a small town, was looted by two robbers Wednesday afternoon, who entered the bank about two o'clock, and, covering the cashier with their pistols, apropriated all the mon ey in sight, about $4,000. The mer then hurriedly mounted their hors* and rode away with a posse of citi zens in pursuit. \v, ... . v-v. . f :V,0: MANY NEW CCAL MINES Developed in Piedmont Region of the South During Past Year ? Output Estimated at 84,000,000 Tons. Estimating the coal output of the United States in 1906 at about 430,! 000,000 tons, Mr. Frederick E. Saward of New York, an authority in that field, presents in the current issue of the Manufacturers' Record an estimate of the output in the southern states as follows: States. Tons. West Virginia 41,000,000 Alabama 12,750,000 Kentucky 9,250,000 Tennessee 6,250,000 Maryland 5,350,000 Virginia 4,700,000 Texas 1,350,000 Georgia .. .. 400,000 Total 81,050,000 This estimate does not include about 2,000,000 tons of the Arkansas output which would bring the total of the south to nearly 84,000,000 tons. | But the figures mark the steady advance in coal production i na section vance in coal production in a section of the country which in that particular has hardly been scratched. The past twelve months, though, have been notable for movements, especially in a vide territory embracing parts of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama, designed to bring into the industrial markets vast stores of fuel. Typical am +ha rmprafinris PPnffir <J1 liicac ate buv ing about Jellico, on the border of Tennessee and Kentucky. Special correspondence from there in the Manufacturers' Record says: "On either side of the KentuckyTennessee line some vast coal developments are. now under way and an immense coal tonnage is being gotten out. The building of new railroads has brought coal fields in touch with development forces and about 25 new mining operations have been started during the past year. On the Kentucky side in Whitley . county the Bird's-eye railroad has been constructed seven miles into the coal fieid3 and the building of the Louisville and Nashville extension from Baltimore to Knoxville opened vast coal fields on the Tennesee side. The construction of a 12-miles railroad up the Clear Fork of Cumberland river brought an extensive field in touch with development, several important mines have been Opened and shirjfronts hive already assumed large proportions. Other openings will be made during: the coming year. Another rail road extension is now under construction from southeastern Kentucky to Jellico. This is the Cumberland railroad, which will extend 36 miles through rich coal fields. Ten miles are completed and in operation, and a large force of men is engaged in grading, track laying and boring tunnels for the remaining distance. Five operations have already been started along that line." -> HAMILTON PAYS PENALTY. Farmer Boy Hanged for Murder of Man, Wife and Three Children. Toda Hamilton was hanged at Houston, Mo., Friday, for the murder of the Parsons family. Hamilton, a 20-yearcld farmer boy, on October 12, killed Barney Parsons, a neighboring farmer; Mrs. Parsons and their three small children. Parsons rented a farm near that owned by Hamilton. He sold his crops to Hamilton and started with his family overland for Iowa. Hamilton had become dissatisfied with his bargain and lay in wait in the roadway for Parsons. WORK OF MARYLAND MOB. Nearo Who Assaulted White Woman is Swung Up and Riddled. Henry Davis, alias Chambers, a negro, who committed a felonious assault on Mrs. John Reid, of Brownsville, five miles from Annapolis, Md., several days ago, and who had confessed his crime, was taken from the Annapolis jail Friday morning and lynched by a mob of about sixty masked men. He was strung up and hi* body riddled with bullets. EX-POSTMASTER. HARD HIT. Judge Speer Heavily Fines and Sentences Meeks to Pen. Judge Emory fipeer in the United States district court at Valdosta, Ga., "Wednesday sentenced former Postmaster Gilbert Meeks of Nfthols, Coffee county to ome year imprisonment and to pay a fine of $2,069 for embezzlement of that sum from the postoffice funds. The amount was made good Dy jweeus wnen me suuruige was discovered. r-?~ TWO LIFE TERMS FOR JETT. Slayer of Marcum Confessed That He Also Killed Cockrell. At Cynthiana, Ky., Friday, Curtis Jett was found guilty of the assassination of James Cockrell at Jackson four years ago and sentenced to life imprisonment. Jett confessed Thursday during the progress of his trial that he alone had killed Mr. Cockrell. Jett is now serving a life sentence for complicity in the murder of Attorney Marcum several years ago. " , . =- 5 ' ' -, ... ' V ' N V V" % f? - ' .v .' * * -A . l -J ??????? ' I VIEWS OF GOMPERS :1 i3 ___ Do Not Coincide With Thoss of Solicitor Earle, ;V| ON IMMIGRATION MATTER ? -A ? y Head of Labor Intimates That Decision in South Carolina Case Will Be Tested in the ~4M Courts. ? M President Samuel Gompers of the '.0 American Federation of Labor, disagrees entirely with the deductions, anil la roi>ir f-ronlr In Vila nnnrscltinn In * . .jjM the report of Solicitor Earls of the department of commerce and labor, . cn the subject of the violation of the alien contract labor law by the importation of immigrants into South Caro- ^ lina. The department held that the people of South Carolina in bringing ever the Wittekind Immigrants had -M not violated the law. When seen by a representative of . The Atlanta Constitution in Washing- ^ ton Friday and asked whether he ok ^ the American Federal J on of Labor would make a test of the decision in the courts, Mr. Gompers was sifcsnt. "The legal advisers of the depart- ment of commerce and labor have con- ^J| strued the law, and their construction $ ',M will have to stand until the courts (J reverse it," he said. Continuing, Mr. Gompers declared: "It has been held by the courts and by the department that any promise of employment or promise to an alien 3pa that he can secure employment in :2j? America is a contract. It seems to me a. very convenient construction of . the law to say that a state official -'v? can do what a private citizen is inhibited from doing." The charge contained in seme . , southern newspapers that Mr. Com* pers had raised the question of itto?, 7;^ gality in connection wth these pro*; '. % ceedings denied by him. He said some of the boys must have called the department's attention to the matter, and asked that it be investiMr. Gompers was very emphatic in ^ his statement that he had no wish to obstruct immigration to the south, " foe, he declared, that he would like '* to see many of the immigrants that crowd into the large cities of the |f north, diverted to the sonth, as he iXii was convinced that immigration, prop- .' >' erly conducted, would vastly benefit 0 the south. "I would he happy to see the south continue to prosper," he af- | firmed. The only thing he could suggest to 7-7 secure southern immigrants wa3 the employment of men at Ellis Island to work on the newcomers upon their disembarking from the Immigrant -'^JS He thought the chief difficulty about ^ Inducing immigration to the south -7f was th^ low wages peid in the sonthern states. He was very emphatic on I his ground. declaring: "I know labor is short in the south, . and I personally would like to see it otherwise. The south is a beautiful country, a splendid section to liye in, and the prospects there for a man on comfortable living wages are bright. How can you expect to get * ^ common laborers at 70 and' 80 cents a day, however, when the same class - .iM of labor can earn $1.50 per day the north? Skilled laborers In the south draw higher wages of course; The. union Is responsible for that, because it adheres to a strict wage scale. The unskilled laborer, though, fares rather badly, and this class of 'immigrants will be hard to secure for the south. In New York city street sweepers and hod carriers earn %Z a day. This being true, It is perfectly clear that the Inducements now offered by the south are not alluring. If ->>* sufficient wages were offered, the story would be an entirely different .7$ one." In personal appearance Samuel ^ Gompers is a short, thick-set man, with a smooth, round face, much of vwhich is covered by big spectacles. : BATH VIOLATED THE LAW. M Secretaries Hitchcock and Wilson . >; Confess to Wrsfcg-Doing.. 1 Admitting that they had no authority of law for the withdrawal from al- lotment of nearly 4,000,000 acres of ,'?i land belonging to the ftve civilized '-J tribes in the Indian Territory for the purpose of creating a forest reservatlon, two members of the president's ?3| cabinet?Secretary Hitefacock of the ' department of the interior, and Secre- /J tary Wilson of the department of agriculture?endeavored Wednesday to justify their course before a senate committee by stating they had the best interests of the Indians at heart EXPERTS ARE EMPLOYED. To Count Tremendous Vote Cast In Insurance Fight. The task of counting 785.000 votes cast at the elections for trustees held by the New York and Mutual Life insurance companies will soon begin The board of inspectors of each company has secured the services of expert accountants. Both sides claim the victory, ' . : - ' M