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/ DIRECT CHARGE I I I Of Graft Made Against Ex-Chairman Evans By a NEWBERRY WITNESS. I . . 1 He Says Evans Told Hi;ti He Got Cash i frctn Whiskey Drummers, and that Evans Saw Towill and Boykin Accept a Bribe. Other Testimony. W. G. Chllds, president of the Hank of Columbia and of the C., N. and L. railroad, won a complete victory in the contempt case against him befoee the dispensary investigating committee last week. lie was unanimously excused on making apology for sw< arlrig before the committee, and all but Mr. Lyon voted to relieve lyjOfyof repeating the rumors ai d jokes he said would unjustly reflect upon dispensary cfllcialsevcn in exeeu ive session I Mr. Lyon's suggestion that Mr | Childs be heard about these j .kes in i executive session bo that L <e cornmit- < ten could be the judge of their role van- < cy was unanimously voted down by the other members of the committee, who * took the position that he should not be required to repeat things to the | committee that was not to go to the ; public, the legislature having provlcl- ] ed that these hearings should be public. 1 USKD A BUlUK. I Mr. Lvon then put up^ A. Brls- 1 tow, a Well known treve.oh VA" 5111(5 ' member of the Greenville ' clothing tirm of Smith & Hri tow, who testi- ( tied that 18 mouths ngo lie had a con- : versatlon with a wilskey drummer named Abe Bamberger, of Baltimore, in whloh Ilambergei told him that he ' had gotten an order for 1(57 000 worth 1 of whiskey from the state dispensary, and had to pay $8 000 to a member f ' the board of control for It Bamberger would not give the name of fcne ' dispensary ( llljlal and did nit say ; wlien the orutr was obtained. Ila said this was the only order he ever : got from the dit pei)*ary. llamber- ' ger last Augmt i apeatod this s ate- I ment In Baltimore In the cretonne r?f Mr. Brlstow's partner, I esse R. ( Smith. Bamberger old theoa he got * the bribe back by doctoring the whls- ' key, wnlch was sn m an he feared It ' would bo Bhipped b :ik. He said he 1 paid the bribe Iri cash. lo Is a pity s IlamberRer aid not Rive the name of ' the member of I he board he bribed. A IIOT TllAIL, The Dispensary Investigating com cnittee struck a hot trail Wednesday. Mr. L 4wis W. Parker, who manages one elRhth of the spindles in South Carolina was put on the stand to tell of something which the committee believed that he knew. He declined fo talk and wa,; arrested on motion of ' Mr. Lyon. Habeas corpus proceed ' , lugs were instituted and at a special meetlriR of the supreme court this 1 afternoon, the witness was placed en ! tlrely In the cust. dy of the commit- i tee. ] When It wan put up to hlnr to talk or to g"> to jail he told the hottest evl- 1 acnc that has been put up yet. He I stated thp.t as president of tnc Olym- < pia mills of this city he had had ecu- I sultations with S. J. Lauham. of i Baltimore, a id that In four occasions, Mr. Lanhf.rr h?d complained to him 1 that notwithstanding his business in- 1 terests In Sf uth Carolina, his lirm had 1 received \i ry little business and he < hinted to Mr. Parker 10 suggest the name of a agent In this state, who 1 would bo inilueutiarwith the board, i Lauham had stated that he had thought that he had had everything arrangod once when he had scoured | the servings of Mr. L. W. lioykiu, < then a n,ember of the board, hut later Mr. Boykla had told him that srioth<r woiskey house was doing well by Mr. Boy kin's brother-in-law. Mr. J. M. Car toy. Mr. Linham explained t< H. H. LI vans and thfl*attor < had bwoi ? tnat Mr. Hoykin would 1 have to i tick to tils proposition, as i the hoarc had everything arranged. < Mr. L-nl idi had made statements of 1 tilts na?u to Mr. Million Smith of ' Po.lz ;r and E. "W. Robertson of Co- 1 hi; nia vod uiey had declined to give 1 inp any advice In t ie matter of securing a nt; d.o rQu.n \ I Mr. P.v x?i M?a ed that on one oc- l cotton w ^.j Mr L ,aham was com- I p.V.i I ^ "f the bid treatment which I ho had received J c dec ared the board ' had b(CUiO ao 1( s.st 95 OOu at that meeting. The committee declined to ' back Mr. L/ in up iu his inquiry &'g to < Hie oarao of the man scoured '*?VMr. ' Lauhauo, after he had been \yrned 1 down by Mr. Boykln. Mr. Parker stated that the salary was 92 000 a year for this m ddle man. Tnere was amusing twisting* and turning by the j membe a of the committee as Mr. 1 Lyon pushed the question, for It Is ' suspected that the party is a member of the legislature. Mr. Parker ad- J no it too that he is some kind of an ofticer holder. Mr. E W. R ibertson, president of 1 the National Loan and Exchange 1 Lank and of a number of other (Jo- ' lumbla enterprises and interested as \ director in a number of cotton mills througho it the Strte, corobprated ' the testimony of L. W. Parker as to \ Samuel J. Lan&hkn having Director ' Boykinati his S,ate middleman, but 1 there was a deoided difference an to what Lanah&n said about having middleman now wno Is a State otllc r but not connected with r ue dispensary, Mr. Parker said M*. Lauaban's statement was made in New York in the presence of Mr. K>bert son, but M r. R ibertson did not remember this and thought Mr Park er must have been mistaken as to this point.. 8TAUTLINQ HKVBLATION8. The most startling revelailo^s that l.ave yet character'/, d the dispensary Investigation were disclosed Thursday morning when the much talked of Newberry situation was entered upon . for the tlrst time in a really atfgres jive manner. C. 0. Davis, a Newberry contractor, who had worked on ex Chairman FI. H. Evan's tine new house in Newberry, iu a ooot and somewhat reluctant manner told of Evans admitting to him that on various oocadon he bad been getting presents of various klcdsand much money from the whiskey houses he tx ok care of on the dispensary purchasing board. E?ans jhowed him on several occasions big bunches of greenbacks of all s >rts of denominations, bills as high as fcl.OOjand several of these In each bunota. On one oocaRton when the witness told Evan" a ''erta'n door in the house bad better be moved Evans pointed to , i beaver hat silting ou the lioor, full pf greenbacks of la^go denominations, iuid asked If he 'hd not think that would move it. Evans never did call t rebates or tfrafo, but admitted he jot the cash as well the presents and laid they were In consideration of Ids lerviccson the board to these houses Action^ the proen's, the witness ?ald, wan a handsome sultof furnirure with a $500 p>ker taole am >uu the pieces wltlch Evans ad tilt tod netting is a p-es'Tit from Hluthenthal & [iickert, of Atlanta. Witness denied th?t Evans told him 10 hou^ht the bitf Kluard plantation in Newberry with dispensary yraft \nd also denied that Evans said he jsed poker p'aylog as a blind. He lerded that Evans told him on one pooaston he v.-on $10 000 In a poker jarne with some whiskey drummers. \ wniskey n;a:i named Johnah Liob .old him that In order t-o tfet & suowntf he paid Evans $2 a case on several ihcusand cases. Tie most Irr p irtant part of DaviH' jestimnny was perhaps, that InvolvUK a direct charge of bribery against .w.? of Evans' associates on the board, Tohn Hell Towill and L. N. Boyklo The wlntness said Evans toid hira ihat h.e (Evans) was nob patting the proper showing for hip friends ia the purchases and that he aud Bridge Wilson, of the K chlaud Distilling Company, here laid a tra in whioh ihey caught Towlli and Bovkin. , Evans' whiskey friends according to ihe witness, got Towll) and ttoykln In i hotel room here and Evans and Willon standing on a tabie In the halls-ay saw the other two directors paid die money. TS&lilBLK BXPLOSi'JN. \n Infernal IVlaclilno Wrecks the Ooorgetown Depot. A dispatch from Georgetown to the Florence Times says a terrllie explodon occurred at the Gsorget ?wn and Western railroad depot Thursday morning at 10 minutes to six. The jbock wa? so great that It awakened marry sleepers frum their morning :iap. L L. Bollock the baggage master Is very painfully, but not necessarily seriously Injured. C. C. F.irilly who was at the depot on the outsidj of the a ~ t pmeiuriu hi hi u uegru urttKumiiu wure 1 liso slightly Injured. From the baggage room going south, the depot Is a wreuk. The force of the explosion went south, about 30 feet of the roof Is torn aw ay. Picots of the building were thrown several hundred feet away. Glasses in the itores across the street and also on the passenger train wore broken. The railroad authorities are at a loss to understand the cause of the explosion. Some of them think it was Blther an infernal machine or dynamite in a trunk In t.ho hagt/age room. Killed by a Kull. The Spartanburg Journal says Markioy Lester, agnd 16 yearH, son [if Mr. and Mrs. L T. Lister, died at the home of ins parents on Pine itreet Thursday morniDg about 5 Pciock from the < (Nets of injuries received last Friday week, while play log base-ball on the green near his home. Some time prior to his'death Marklcy and a number of his friends were playing baseball oa a vacant lot iud during inc game the young ma^ fell and a companion fell on top of him. Young Lester fell so as to causi his elbow to strike him in the side, 'Billeting internal injuries. Peritonitis set in almost immediately. Everything posslole known to skilled pn>stslans was done for the young man, out death resulted early Thursday morning. Cyclone Killed Mtnr. A dispatch from La Cro;hb, Wis., i jays daylight Tnursday revealed a i jceneof terrible devastation al >rig the path of a cyclone which swept South- i iro Minnas >taand Wisconsin Wednes- | day night between Freoburg and Gale* donia. The wife and two children of feter Meyer were killed. S.x me inborn of the family of 0. Z Inglott were In- , (ured and some perhays fatally. The | sntlre family of L. T. Kruger was hurt and scores of farm houses were demolished. Indications from present insomplete reports indicate that many others were killed and injured near Stoddard, Wis. Many bridges in the path of the storm were swept away. TOOK PAY TWICE. That Is What the Investigating Committee Is SAID TO HAVE DONE During the Legislative Session, Took Salary as Legislators and Paid Themselves as Members of the Investigating Committee. One ft ft ft rw - - - - /ncmoer Refused it. It bavin^ come to the ears of the Columbia Record that all the members of the dispensary investigating jommlttoee except one had drawu dou3le per diem during the session of the general assembly the tlrst part of this ^ear, and not believing it possible ihat members of a committee investigating graft would do anything of that tort shout Ih#1 propriety, at least, of which thcr? could oo so much ques Jon, the it-c >rd man addressed the 'ollowing letter to ilon. J. T. Hay, )hairman of i he committee. "1 np ve te n informed that your jommlttue, all of/whose members arc il o members of the general assembly )f this state, held several meetings luring the recent session of tne general asaernblv and that, with one ex ieptlon, the raemhersof your commit- I .ee drew per diem pay for the Hamt lays both as members of the general issen Uly and the Investigating com nluee. It was not stat-d whether .hey also drew double mileage. I ask>d the comptroller general If thet-e jhlngs were so and he replied that he was not the disbursing ctil xtr for the ;ay merit of membeis of your commit.ee, but that if lie were he would nor five double pay for the same day. "I ixve no desire to do anybody an inustlce. 1 believe that the gentleman who gave me the Information knew r/liat tie was talking about, but I do lot care to give publicity to the staterent until 1 asked you a* chairman >f the committee if the charge b .rue. If It be true, 1 am als t willing ,o give publicity in The Record to rour explanation. Did any of the nembers of your committee draw per Hem or mileage for meetings held durng the setjsion of the legislature? Did ,hey also draw per diem and miihuo rom the legislature for the same days? \ prompt answer will be appreclaved, 'or, If this charge be true, i thluk the jeople of the state ought to be put in jofcsession of the fact. 1 have written io the member of your committee who s Hald not to have taken double pay a equest for a statement on this sublet. 1 would like to have your an ,wer in time to publish with bisstatenent." The gentleman who gave The Reo)rdlts lirst luformatinQ of this matter nad stated that Mr. Uole L. Rlea.se, a nember of the committee, had refus id to take double per diem on tne ground that he was not entitled to It. So the following letter was addressed to Mr. Rlease: "i was Informed that the dlspeniary investigating oommlttee held several meetings during the recent lestion of the general assembly, of which its members are also members, md that, with the exception of your lelf, the members of tho committee Irew per diem pay both as uiembert )t the general assembly and as mem bers gt the committee for the same lays. 1 am not Informed as to whether they also drew dtuble mileage. (Jan this k>3 true? If so, I think the v??>plo of the state ought to know it You ? Ml ?I-11 ? win uijjiKu me uy & prompt, answer." Mr. lilease ^oL his letter too lute to reply oy mail, but a Record reportei law him upon his arrival to the city and he said that he was Informed and believed that the report was true. The Committee had discussed their rl^ht to d )uble per die m and. despite his protest, had expressed the opinion that they could draw pay for the same lays both as members of the le^isia Lure and as membirsof the committee. Chairman Hay had offered him a jheck for per diem for meetings hole luring the session of the legislature And he had declined to take it. The Record man met Chairman Hay this morning and a^ked the chairman if be bad received the letter publishid above. Chairman Hay replied that he had, out that ho had been too busy to answer It; besides lie did not know that be would answer it; that the commit tee was not on trial, at least he nad not heard that it was. The Record man replied that the jiuuuiuv/uc un urliii ai ino ^reai bar of public opinion and that the public, wnich paid the committer, bad a rigut to know how itH mono/ was iperiu. Chairman Hay replied that It was true that the public paid the committee, but paid it very little. "Yes," replied the reporter, "but the members of the committee knew how little the pay would be In advance of accepting service on It.'' Toe reporter then asked Chairman Hay did he decline to answer whether or not he or other members of the committee had drawn double pay. Ouairman Hay replied that he would require time to decide whether or not e would answer and also to look up tne records to see what was the truth about the matter. The Record says "the reporter did not say that as Chairman Hay was paymaster of the committee and drew the oheoks he ought to know off land whether be paid members p^r diem as members of the investigating o >m mlttee for the same days on whlou they had drawn per diem as members of the legislator*; and that It ought especially to be ix,o fresh lu his o ?u mind to need any reference to the records to know whether he himself had aoonpted such double pay. The reporter was not at all unprepared for a failure to elicit Information as to expenditure of the peopled money by the oommltteo, for the legislature had been treated just as the reporter was, It Instructed the oommli.tee to make a report of its expon- 1 dltures, whioh report has never been made. It ia said that such a report would disclose some other transactions fully aa Interesting as this making two days lu one. It may be that some furthor information as Interesting as the above will be published shortly in spite of the reluotlona of Chairman Hay to auawer questions that any clt izan and taxpayer has the right to ask and the tight to obtain an answer to. ' ? I BRYAN KNDORSED lly tfio OoUl Winu ot trie Democratic l*art y. A dispatch from Jefferson Cltv, Mo., says what Is generally regarded : vt the most sign!(leant feature of the 1) m^craUc biat/i convention lieio | there last week, was the pointed and I absolute endorsement of Win, Jen nings Bryan fo^ the presidency In 1D08 by IOivld LI. Fiat els of St. LouIk, former governor and Die secretary of the Interior In President Clevek n ?'? cabinet. Former Go/ I) It FranoU was invitod to address the convention. 11 o *p )Ke, in part: f 1 1 wish to ask this convention to ^ send its congratu ations to the nation 1 al I) w^craoy on the d ^appearanc^ of * oi?r (HIT rences. Tuero are no differ * enc(>8 uetween us now. In 19U4, what * is known as t?l?e cotiaerva' lve element ' of our party asked that It be allowed s to m ike the platform and name th* candidate. Right liberally did the r radical faction concede the honor to * the conservative element. You know 1 the result. Now another campaign is c approaching. Those of us who belong c to what has been the conservative f ic t tlon would not be magnanimous, 8 worthy Democrats, If we did not Hay v to you that wo will Hupport your can- ^ dldate and your platform tills time. c The differences that have divided the 11 1) imociaoy exiat no longer." ' G >v. Francis described Bryan as "a a sincere lover of humanity and a pa- t trlottc citizen of the Unltod Statea." v He eulogiz-id both Bryan and Cleve- a laud amid wild cheering. Governor e Folk also apoke, declaring that Bryan v would bo nominated for president In 19u8 and would bo elected. He aald 0 the principles which Bryau has advo- c cited In 189(1 were then considered an 1 archistic, out now are considered the s icrao of patriotism. K ?rmer Gove*"- 1 nor Dookerv a do ice. la n. uimhar v^tr? NY III Not itun. p The State says Speaker M. L. Smith j has decided not to enter the race for j governor. Mr. Smltn made the an- c nounoemcnt wnlie In the city. Mr. i Smith has had strong pressure to en- c >er toe race and his prospects were regarded as good. Mr. Smith has, However, for some time been in bad health, not serious, nut unsatisfactory. His physicians advised him that It would oe exceedingly unwise to undertake a c&mpatgn. Mr. Smith thought that he might be able t > get In shape for the contest and has been hoping up to the last moment to be able to enter the light. lie uas, however, consent od to accept tne serious advlee of his phystolaus and will uot enter the con test for governor, but expects to take a com plot'*, reet. Wanted to ijyuoli Hun. G jv. Braward,of Florida, Tuursday on request of Snerlll Carter, ordered the Hrooksvllle company of State militia to pa cacd at once to Inverness to prevent the lynching of Jim Davis, alias Dago, the negro who suot and killed Hubert liOBwll, a well known business man, last I'uosdav. Tne L;esburg company ha.s M-o been ordered 4 to I jo Id itself in readiness to go to Inverness if needed. Russell was attempting to collect a debt from Davis, who, with no other pro vocation, shot and killed Russell and the negro boy who was driving his team. Davis was captured Wednesday and the Indignation at his crime Is so great that Sneriir Carter fears attempts will be made ( to take him from the Jail. llor Uoiik Answered. A party of young people, c imposing two men and two women were re eently returning from a day In thy country to thler homes In O nana. At a railroad crossing tnler carriage was struck by a train aud one of the young women was Willed, wiua ? ?.. ? "?? ? . .. ** u?tv Ull\J UVUU1 J members of the party wore severely j l Injured. The Omaha World-ilerald i 1 says that at the Inquest one of tae J j survivors said: We wore returning l co Uieclty as j illy a sot of youug folk* 1 as you oversaw and, as wo were dr?v- 1 itig along Miss proposed singing ( Hollo, Ceatral, G)vh Me Heaven,' and * started Hinging. None of the rest of us j ilued liter, so she ft llsned too song c alone and had just tiuished the words H 'Hello, Central, Give Ms Heaven, 1 when the engine struckus and she was 1 killed." c Ouvt) it (J I>. I Finding that his confreres were go? \ Ing to kick him out, Senator llurfcon l of Kansas resigned his seat In the ( (Jolted States senate on Tuesday, "to < take effect Immediately." He had < been convicted in the courts of violat I lng the law which forbids members of < congress from practicing before any i of the departments. j MEATPACKING Horrors Brought to the Attention of Congress Last Week BY THE PRESIDENT. 1e Calls Attention to the Need of Additional Legislation to finable the Fxecutlve Department to Pievent the Distribution of Poisonous Foods. Tho following message from the President to Congress explains Itself: 'The Senato and House of Representatives: "1 transmit herewith the report of Vlr. James Hronson Reynolds and Jommissiooer Charles P. Nell, the pecia' committee, whom 1 appointed x> Investigate Into the conditions In jhc stock yards of Chicago and rep ?rt ihe^eon to me. Tnls report is of a ircllmlnsry nature. 1 submit It to /on now because It shows the urgent iced of immediate action by the J ingress In the direction of providing i, drastic and thoroughgoing luspec J in by the Federal government of all >tnck yaidsand packing houses and of Jielr products. km fur a? to,o K - , .vat Ml? V<tt? I(?\JU^1 mter into Interstate or foreign com nerce. The conditions shown by iven tills short inspection to exist lu Jidcago stock yards are revolting. It s imperatively necessary in the In ere-tt of health and of decency that hey should be radically changed. Juder the existing law It is wholly mpossible to secure satisfactory reults. "When my attention was ilrst dlccted to this matter an investigation j vas macij?ur)der the bureau of animal ndi stry of the department of agri iulture. When the preliminary stateDents of tlds investigation were irouglit to my attention they showed uch defects in the law and such vholly unexpected conditions that 1 leemed It best to have a further im aedlate investigation hy men not coniccted with the bureau, and accordngly appointed Messrs. Reynolds ,nd Nelll. It was impossible under lie existing law that satisfactory vork should he done hy the bureau of .nlmal industry. I am uow, howiver, examining the way in which the vork actually was done. "before i had received the report if Messrs. Reynolds and Neill I bad lirwited that labels placed upon any >ackage of meat food products should hate only that the carcass of the ani nai irom wmon the meat was taken lad been Inspected at tlie time of laughter. If Inspection of meat food >roduots at all stages of preparation s not secured by the passage of the egislation recommended 1 shall feel -ODipelled to order that inspection la eln and certificates on canned pro lucts shall not be used hereafter. "The report shows that the stock >ards and packing houses are not kept easonably clran, and that the methid of handling and proparing food iroducts is uncleanly and dangerous ?o health. Under existing law the National Government has no power io enforce inspection of the many orms of prepared meat food products ,hat are daily going from the pack ng houses into Interstate commerce. Jwing to an Inadequate approprlailou the department of agriculture is rot even able to place Inspectors in t.11 establishments desiring them T ie present law prohibits the shipment of inlnspected meat to foreign oouniriefi. hi 11. MlP.rtt la r*r? nrnwIjlA.. , ...wu iu III> (Iiunnivu 1IIIUIU" ilng the shipment of uninspected neats in interstate commerce, and ,hus the avenues of Interstate com nercc are left open to tratllo In clis:ased or spoiled meats. If, as has men alleged on seemingly good &u .honty further elvils exist, such as ,he Improper use of chemicals and lyes, the government lacks power to emedy them. A law is needed which vi 11 enahie the inspectors of the general government to inspect and su)ervise from the hoof to the can the ireparatlon of the meat food product the evil seems to be much less in the tale of dressed carcass than in the ;ale of canned and other prepared >rodu3fcK; and very much less as re cards pr>duot8 sent abroad than as e^ards tho??e used at home." "In my Judgment the expense of ihe inspection should be paid by a ee levied ori each animal slaughtered, f this is not dcrii, the whole ouro mo >f the Uw can at any Mms be debated through an Insufficient appru>riatio<i; at d whenever there wa< no wt'cular p.jblic interest la the su > jot It would be not only easy but latural thus to make the approprladon limutll .lent, ir it were not for ihis c moderation L should favor the iovernment paying for the luspecilon." "The alarm expressed In cirtaln luarters concerning this feature ihould be .viliyed by a realization of die fact that in no case, under such a aw, will the cost of Inspeotioa exceed 8 cents per head. "1 call special attention to the fact ihat tills report is preliminary, and ihai the investigation is still undoshed. It is not yet p issihle to report )Q the alleged anuses In the use of ieleterlous caemlcal compounds In connection with canning and preserv log moat products, nor, on the alleged iootorlng In this fashion of tainted meat and of produots returned to the packers as having grown unsalable or unusable from aire or from other reasons. Grave allegations are made In r?ferenoo to abuicS of this nature. "Let me repeat that under the pr^ent law there Is practically no I method* of stopping thesj abuses, if they should be discover ^ to exist. Legislation is needed In order to provein the possibility of all abuses In the future If no legislation Is parsed, then the excellent results accomplished by the work of this special committee will endure only so long as the memory of the committee's work Is fresh, and a recrudescence of the abuses Is absolutely certain. "1 urge the Immediate enactment Into law of provisions which will enable the department of agriculture adequately to Inspect the meat and meat-food products entering Into Interstate commerce and to supervlso the methods of preparing the same, and to prescribe the sanitary conditions under which the work shall be porformed. 1 thorefore commend to your favorable consideration and urge tho enactment of substantially the provisions known as Senate amendment No. 29 to the act making appropriations for tho department of agriculture for the lineal year ending June 30, 1907, as passed b/ the Senate, this amendment being commonly known as the Hevarldge amendment. "T11KODO UIC KOOtt K V K LT. "The While Hou?a, June 4, 1900." COTTON FIGU&KS WKONG. Soorotury WilHnu In a Soriou* l'Uoo ah a U 1011 It* There seems to he more graft and juogllng 01 the pari of the United Stales Agricultural Department in reference to the U^ures on the growing cotton crop. A special dispatch to the Charleston P.?stsays great Interest Is shown by Southern members of Congress in the resolution Introduced by Mr. K.lerbe calling on the Secretary of Agriculture for information r lallve to tbe compilation of cotton estimates. Mr. E lorbe said Thursday that ho did not care what Secretary Wilson said c incernlng the matter he would stand by the Interview given the press that ho Is prepared to show that the government reports are absolutely wroriLr. Mr. Lever and oilier members of the agricultural c immlttee have boon closeted with Secretary WllHon for sevoral hours and refuse to k'ive out Information boarlug upon the matter. They Bay, however, the situation Is serious for WU'on. A prop /Sitlon was made to Wilson before the estlrnato was made to allow certain members of Congress to witness the tabulation, but lie refused absolutely to do so. The general belief Is that Wilson has been tho victim of shrewd n vnlpulalors who have used tho Information for personal train WiHHNU BY dTAlUTJE. Remarkable Hill 1 ulroduood In tho liOiilHiaua liOK'nlat urn, T. Spencer Smith, a member of the Louisiana L iglslature, Introduced a freak bill In that body on Thursday It Is Intended io regulate marriage contracts and prevent race suicide. Tue bill only applies to whites aud pro vldes It snail be unlawful for any young man to attempt to court any young woman before ha Is twenty-four, before making such an attempt he shall Inform the parents or guardian of the woman he proposes to court of his intension to do so. He shall also mike alll lavlt that his courtship will be in good faltu and for the purpose of trying to convince the young woman that It will bo provable for her to marry him It shall be unlawful for widowers oyer forty to attempt to o >urt a ly woman under eigateeu beyond the c indues of tho parlsa or thier residence. Ail children born to legibly mvrrtad people snail be raised and educated at public expense. All male children shall be seut to the state university at Hiton Kongo and ail fem tie children to tbo state normal scuool at Nitchlto dries Appropriation of $L7,UOO,000 is provided to carry out the educational feature. lioriK A1 Atr. Mercedes Lopez, a Mexican womau is said to p^ssjssthe lougeno hair of anv person iu me world. 11 or height Is If ve feet ,auel when she stands erect her hair traiis on the Kr< uud lour feet eitfht laohei. Tiehvr lss> thick tliat she cin completely liioe herself in it. Sue naa cuu it v.ory fr quontly, as it grows q lokly, enabling i r to hell larg j tresses to hair deaiera every mopr.o _ t tmlui iluvuitHO. A landowner named Ltbonle, at Sz lteg, Iluigary, refusing to allow plants to u ? laLd csu-tud the outraged tenants to make au attack on nlm. lie with tunny-three servants wtre sftizsd and buried dowuwald in the ground, leaving their legs protruding. A great many peasants were arrested and the authorities are trying to tlx ijio blame (or the outrage. On Him IliKlit Line, Gov. llevward Thursday morning sent a letter to the attorney general Haying: "D^ar Sir?i see through the public prints that, an a result of the Supreme Court, evidence was produced tieforo the laveaoigatlug committee charging fjrmer members of the l>oard of directors of the dispensary with malfeasance and corruption In the discharge of their otttc&l duty. 1 direct this matter to your atweutio.1 to the end that you promptly came such prosecution to be Instituted as sMU oe prooer and necessary to vindicate the law."