The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, December 27, 1906, Image 3
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IN FAVOR OF SOUTH
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Was First Ruling Made By
New Head of Commerce
t- ON IMMIGRATION CASES
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States May Induce Immigration WithV
cut Violating the Alien Contract
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JLabor Law?South Carolina
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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W. umir ^omp&uy iur a no
bale weighed five hundred pounds,
and was sold for 36 1-2 cents per
pound.
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^ROOSEVELT IS DEFIED
By Board of Education of San Fran
cisco?Secretary Metcalf Also
Roundly Scored.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Do Not Coincide With Thoss
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Head of Labor Intimates That Decision
in South Carolina Case
Will Be Tested in the
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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 * .
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the report of Solicitor Earls of the
department of commerce and labor,
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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.
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BATH VIOLATED THE LAW.
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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,
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