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SHOWS UP TEDDY
Sonsatlonal Charges Made
Against Him and Others
TO SWINDLE PANAMA
Conifrr'ssinan Ituincy Makes the Accusations
and UcclurcH That tin*
Present Administration and the
I'lrsidcnt-KliYt llavo Aided in
it. K. Frauds in Central Ainerlra.
Washington, Jan. 2f>.?Representative
ltainey, of Illinois, this afternoon
delivered a scathing and sensational
speech in the house, upon
the Panama canal purchase. He attacked
President-elect Taft, William
Nelson Cromwell, a number of New
York financiers, and others. He
said, in part:
"It is to be regretted that the
time of the president of tin; United
States has been so much taken up
with outdoor sports and among the
pleasures of the lighter literature.
Hi* knows nothing of the drudgery,
physical or mental, that is required
to arrive at matter of fundamental
importance.
"Declarations of alleged facts that
come with so much assurance and
such frequency from the While
House are not always entitled to the
weight we would like to give to
communications from the chief executive
of the nation. The statements
with reference to Panama ca
nal matters are sometimes particularly
inaccurate.
"For some weeks the secret service
agencies of the government, have
been at work investigating the senior
senator from South Carolina. They
have succeeded in discovering that
In; used his frank inadvertently in
private correspondence, and so deprived
the government of revenue
to the amount of two cents, and the
matter was considered important
enough to he embodied in a special
message from the president to congress.
The senior senator from Massachusetts,
I believe, is still Invited
to White House dinners, is the president's
friend and advisor and the
cabinet maker of the incoming president.
I have not heard of any secret
service agents disturbing the senior
senator from Massachusetts, and yet
he is directly, individually and solenily
responsible for the fact that
on the first day of January of this
year for the purposes I have named,
there was taken out of the treasury
of the United States over one million
dollars.
"We have embarked now upon the
stormy seas of Central American
politics. Our flag is floating now
in the Isthmus of Panama. It seems
that tlie Constitution does not always
follow the flag. In fact, it. has not
followed it at all in its recent rumblings,
but a coterie of New York Olt>
financiers follow it and flock around
like vultures, wherever it. goes.
They have followed it to the Isthmus
of Panama and have already, under
Its sheltering folds, pounded down
upon that defenceless little country.
They have taken everything in this
country that is not nailed down and
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their operations on tho Isthmus of
Panama.
"It becomes necessary now to
know something about Central America
politics, and i desire to introduce
to the country Senor Don .lose
Domingo do Obaldia. It is important
to know something about the
career of this interesting SpanishAmerican
statesman."
Senor Obaldia's connection with
the Panama canal and its purchase
by tlie United States was then gone
into, the speaker declaring that
Obaldia and William Nelson Cromwell,
together with high officials at
Washington and elsewhere had
agreed upon certain actions not to
their credit.
"There is pending now in the general
asenibly of Panama,' he said,
"the most infamous railroad proposition
ever submitted to any government.
That infant republic lists
had no experience in building or
managing railroads. This proposition
is being seriously considered
and about to be adopted by the general
assembly. Randolph G. Ward,
of the city of New York, is the person
who appears on record in the
matter and who seeks to get for his
successors, his heirs or assigns, most
valuable concessions."
Mr. Cromwell's record, as general
counsel ror me 1'anama canai company
was gone into and also his
legal connection with E. II. Harrimnn
and the trans-continental railroads.
Mr. Cromwell's organization
of an American syndicate to purchase
the canal was referred to. After
he had obtained $3,000,000 out
of the $0,000,000 subscribed for the
purchase of the Nicaragua canal
project, Cromwell gropped that
scheme and sought to Bell the Panama
canal company to the United
States government for $109,000,000
but finding it impossible, reduce
his prlpe in one hour to $40,000,00(1
"I propose to discuss later hov
much of that $40,000,000 ever reach
ed the creditors and share holders
of the French Panama canal company.
"Through all tho career I have
described," he said, "Mr. Cromwell
has remained the trustee advisor
of Secretary Taft in all matters pertaining
to the Isthman canal. It is
hard to explain why all the agencies
of the government are now being
used in an attempt to indict certain
newspapers for saying unkind things
about Mr. Cromwell and some others."
After referring to tho alleged attempt
of certain New York and other
ilnanclers to obtain forests on the
isthmus, and also the right to reclaim
certain lands on the Isthmus, j
Mr. Knlnoy, adds:
"Since the election of last November.
bread lines have commenced to
rorni in the South and in our principal
cities and today 111 the capital
city, on Pennsylvania avenue, under
the shadow of the dome of the capitol,
a bread line appears daily, constantly
increasing in length. If we
permit the scheme of William Nelson
Cromwell, Roger L. Parnham,
Charles 1'. Taft and others to go
through 011 the Isthmus of Panama,
this government will have there a
bread line containing four hundred
thousand people.
"The men who are attempting to
steal and to appropriate to their
own use the revenues of this republic
are in reality about to impose .enormous
additional burdens upon the
treasury of the United States. Today
the deficit in the treasury is over
$ 7 '1,000,000. If we permit these
men to rob the republic of Panama,
we will place upon the Putted States
the oppressive burden of providing
a government for four hundred
t housand people 1 hero.
"I do not charge that the gentleman
who will bo inaugurated presi
dent of the United btsites on the
fourth dsiv of Msirch sis ;i purly to
this infsunous scheme for robbing
this little country. I hsive only presented
the evidence. His friend,
Cromwell, his selection of Cromwell,
Farnham and Drake sis members
of the hoard of directors of the
I'ansuna railroad, his continued endorsements
of both Cromwell and
Farnham, hs iinterference on the
Isthmus of Panama, which compelled
the election of si corrupt statesman,
absolutely under the control of Cromwell,
as president of that republic.
"All these things and other things
for which the present administration
is responsible made possible the
signing of a contract by Obaldia
which may bring the gentlemen interested
therein riches beyond the
dreams of avarice. It will not be
long, if this scheme goes through,
before the campaign contributions
made by some of the gentlemen interested
in this enterprise, will be
returned a hundred fold.
"If we permit the plans of Mr.
Cromwell and his associates to go
through on the Isthmus of Panama,
and if those treaties are continued,
there will he no revenues in Panama,
out of which to pay this indemnity.
The United States government will
he called upon to pay it all, and if
these plans for the spoliation of Panama
proceed to a successful conclusion,
it will not he long until immense
burdens of a different character
with Panama will be imposed
upon our treasury.
"These patriotic gentlemen, therefore,
are being permitted, not only
to rob the republic of Panama, 1ml
indirectly to i*>b the treasury of
the United States, and in their efforts
in this direction, they have had so
far the complete co-operation and
the active assistance of the present
administration and of the next president
of the United States."
FKillT TO Til 10 DEATH.
Two Duelists Are Dead as Itesult of
Encounter.
Heat rice, Ala., Jan. 2.r>.?As the
result of a dispute over a negro
whom both planters claimed, Ed.
English, of Coy, Wilcox county,
fought a duel with 11. C. Walston
Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Both
men are dead after a bloody encounter.
English went to the plantation of
Walston and asked for a negro, who
he claimed, was under agreement to
work on his farm.
Waist on seemed to deny tin
rights of English and following a
dispute, the two men drew tlie 1 f
guns and went to shooting.
FOUND IN A WHALE.
The I/eg of a Man Taken Front Its
Stomach.
Messina, Jan. 28.?The work of
excavating among the ruins of Messina
goes on without cessation.
Many bodies are discovered dally,
but all are unrecognizable, owing te
the length of time they have been
burled beneath the debris. An enormous
whale has been captured or
he coast of Catanai, and in its stom
?ch was found the leg of a man, wltl
i shoe on the foot. The shoe in
'icated that it had been worn by ai
allan sailor, who probably was ?
letim of the great tidal wave fol
wing the earthquake of Decombe'
'8th.
MEANS SQUARE DEAL
FOIl THE FARMER ANI> SHOULD
HE PASSED.
A MciiNiirc Thut Will Kunltlo Farmers
to Tell in Advance Probable
Demand for Cotton.
A special from Washington to The
News and Courier says the prospect
oC favorable consideration Congressman
Lever's joint resolution,
authorizing the director ot' the census
to publish additional statistics
as to the amount of haled cotton on
hand on September I, November 1,
December 1, January 1, and March
I. is very bright. The resolution
is of great importance to the entire
cotton trade, but especially to the
cotton grower in that It gives the
latter full information ;i^ to the probable
demand during the course of
the season for his product, and thereby
enables him to put bis cotton 011
the market in a more intelligent
manner.
The census committee, to which
this resolution was referred, gave
Mr. Lever a hearing yesterday, at
which time the director of the census,
Mr. North, and Mr. ltoper, who
is in charge of the issuing of the
ginners' report, appeared with Mr.
Lever in support of ins resolution.
It is the opinion that these gentlemen
made a most favorable impression
upon tiie committee, and tiiat
the committee in a short time will
report the resolution favorable to
tiie House. In support of this resolution,
Mr. Lever said among other
t liings:
"The committee is aware, of
course, that the census bureau is
collecting statistics from time to time
showing the amount of cotton pro
uucud, the amount of cotton grown,
and at the same time Lite statistical
bureau of the department of agriculture
issues a general report on
the first of December, estimating
the amount of cotton that has been
raised during that year, so that the
government is furnishing to the cotton
world at this time figures as to
the amount of cotton produced, but
is giving only partial statistics as to
the amount of cotton needed from
time to time by the manufacturing
world.
The eotton farmers throughout
the South, in my observation, complain
about this system. They are
willing to have the amount of cotton
ginned from time to time, published
as is now being done by the
census bureau, they are willing to
have the government estimate on
the amount of cotton that lias been
produced during the year, but they
contend, and I think vrith justice,
that if you are to furnish to the manufacturer,
the buyer and consuming
world, the amount of cotton produced,
it is no more than right, no
more than inst. that rmi should at
the same time, furnish to them, the
selling world, the producing world,
the necessities of the buying world,
as is indicated by the stock on hand
in the various warehouses and the
like, and this resolution undertakes
to furnish a complete statistical picture,
both as to the amount produced
and the amount needed to
meet the demand of the mills.
We can illustrate this in a homely
way perhaps by putting two parties
opposite to each other on either side
of a table in a game of "seven up."
The cards are dealt and each is careful
that he conceals his "band."
The government steps in and says to
one, in this case the cotton producer,
the cotton farmer, "lay your hand on
the table face up." The manufacturer
sees his band and plays his cards
accordingly, and, of course, the
\
farmer gets the worst of the game.
This resolution intends to lay both
hands on the table face up, so that
each player will have a square deal.
The cotton farmer is entitled to this
consideration.
< This eliminates to some extent the
feature of speculation, and gambling
in cotton, in my judgment, and gives
both parties, the buyer and seller,
a square, fair deal at the hands of
the government, so far as statistics
for cotton go, and that is the only
purpose of the resolution. I will
say in this connection before I close,
that for the first time in the history
of the government we have reached
a point where congress can legislate
along these lines. Hitherto we have
not been able to get these statistics
of cotton on hand in the various
counties, and the warehouses of the
world so as to present a complete
picture, hut through the good work
of the census bureau during the past
year, an arrangement, I understand,
has been made with the foreign consumers
of cotton by which they will
furnish to the census bureau their
holdings from time to time as requested
by the bureau, so that now
we are in a position through this
resolution to collect the figures from
the United States, and at the same
time supplement them with the figures
that we get through tho census
bureau from the foreign holders ol
cotton, and thereby present a comdete
and absolute picture of the cotton
trade, the amount produced am
he amount needed by the manufac
hirers."
In answer to questions by mem
tiers of tho committee, Mr. Levei
{
said further: "The census bureau
is now Issuing a report on September
1. The heavy selling period of cotton,
when it goes out of The hands
of the farmer, ranges from September
to January 1. Tho census
bureau is furnishing only one report
a year, that of September 1. That
furnishes rather incomplete information
and this resolution proposes
to give to the cotton world, through
the heavy selling period, the llgures
of consumption and stock on hand,
so that the farmer will be informed
from time to time of the necessities
of the manufacturer and may put
his cotton upon the market in a
more Intelligent manner."
In the course of his remarks
director of the census, Mr. North,
said: "1 regard cotton from the international
point of view as the most
important crop that this country
grows, and there is no doubt that
these figures are as valuable across
the ocean as they are In this country.
1 think also that there is no doubt
that the price of cotton is fixed by
foreign conditions more truly than
is the case with any other staple.
This is the fact which these gentlemen
have in mind in desiring this
legislation."
The Hon. 1). C. Roper, who is in
charge of the issuing of the ginncrs*
report, also discussed the advisability
of Mr. Lever's resolution at some
lengt h.
In conclusion Mr. Lever continued:
"If there are no further questions,
1 am very much obliged to
you for your courteous attention, and
in conclusion let me say that I regard
this as a very important matter
to the cotton inddstry of this country,
and as suggested by the director.
Mr. North, there is no opposition to
it from any source. It is not a contest
between the cotton growers and
the cotton manufacturers la any
sense of the word. It is only an effort
to complete the cotton picture
of this r>nnnt rv so that un liinv soi?
it in its fullness and net upon full
information both as sellers and buyers.
I should be very glad, indeed,
if the committee sees fit, if we could
get a favorable report at the earliest
possible moment in the hope that
we may be able to get the resolution
passed at this session of Congress.
I thank you very much."
THK WA(?KS OF SIX.
Ceorgiu laid Shot Down in a Crap
(iaine.
Alphnretta, Ga., Jan. 25.?Lying
face upward in a pine thicket near
Alphnretta, with playing cards and
money scattered about the body of
Frank Webb, aged nineteen, was
found late yesterday evening, with a
bullet wound through the heart.
The coroner's jury is busy today in
| trying to learn the details of his
death.
Five white boys and eight negroes
are locked in the Milton county
jail today following the investigation.
They were companions of
young Webb in a game of cards, it
i? nllncorl Illlfl lw? nvlrlcmnn
toward tho shot having been fired
by one of the gamesters. Some of
the negroes said tiiis morning that
a white hoy fired tho shot.
Young Webb's father, K. O. Weld),
was sheriff of Milton county five
years ago.
A WOM AN I IF.N I).
Confessed She Murdered n Baby Because
It Had Cried.
New Orleans. Jan. '2 9.?Judge, 1
killed my adopted child, five months
old, and I want to he punished for
it. I strangled the baby because I
have a very had temper. He cried
for his milk and it angered me."
?
Such was the startling declaration
if Mrs. Alice Thompson, 25 years
old, of Fort Worth, Texas, today,
'ollowing her unsuccessful attempt
?t. suicide in the Mississippi river
tore yesteray. The officers believe
tie woman is insane. The child wa:
tilled last January.
I TllltKATKK TO KILL hAWYKK.
toports Circulated Crowing Out ot
the Land Cases.
Muskogie, Okla., Jan. 27.?Some
hing of a flurry was experience!
tpon the circulation of rumor oi
hreats to assassinate M. L. Mott.
tttorney for the Creek Indian Naion.
and others collected offlclalH
vlth the land investigation. Noth
ng tangible obtainable, however
ias developed, and it was impossible
o trace the origin of the rumors ti
my definite source.
( ood Cow to Have.
Chicago, Jan. 27.?A Holsteli:
lelfer on tho farm of Senator Isaa?
'tephens, at Kenosha, 111., produce
.1 pounds of butter last week. Th<
mtter sold for more than $8.
Attacked and ltohhed.
Columbia, Jan. 27.?Andy McDonnell,
while on his way to work
arly Monday morning was held up
nd robbed by two negroes. The
robbers got $83.
f
A MONEY SAVER
FOR TIIK COTTON FA KM KIIS OF
TIIF HOL'TII.
Valuable Invention of a South Carolinian
That Will Revolutionize the
Handling of Cotton.
A large inanufatcuring plant ia to
ho established in Richmond, Va., to
manufacture the Neely compress,
which whs invented by Mr. Samuel
M. Neely, of Cheater, S. C., and
which it is claimed will revolutionize
tl !l il it I i l> ir |i(i If/111 t 11 > I iu IIV.
ported to other countries.
According to the figures that come
from the census bureau at Washington
there were about 12,500,000
bales of cotton ginned in the Southern
States last year, and it took
something like 30,000 gins to do '
this work. Ginning means the sepa- !
ration of the cotton fieece from the j
seed and putting the ileece into
bales; large nnwelldy bales that are
but poorly fit for shipment by steamer
to foreign parts and that cost,
entirely too much in freight, storage
and other charges.
To meet this situation there have
been established in the leading Southern
cities during the past decade or
two various compress companies,
which take the bales of cotton as
they come from the country gine and
compress them into smaller areas
and put them in a kind of shape for
shipment to Kuropo ports hut as a
matter of fact there has been but
little chaiiKe within the past three
quarters of a century in the manner
of bailing and compressing cotton
for foreign shipment, except that the
iron screws lots been substituted for
the old wooden screw that was used
by our forefathers.
Of course, there have been many
improvements in the Kins that are in
use so far, as the mere matter of
tlm separation of the seed from the
lint is concerned, but till of the improvements
made in the matter of
compressing the ginned bales ready
for shipment have been primarily
in the interest of large corporations,
which control the comparatively few
compress establishments in this
country. The owners of these steam
compesses have been enabled to form
one of the most gigantic and most
autocratic of the trusts.
In the olden time the cotton
grown in the South that went to all
parts of the world was ginned at the
country and village gins and condensed
in the old-time bales of irroat
hulk, pounds. Those bulky bales
took up a groat deal of platform
space at the storage points and a
great deal of car space when the
railroads came to haul them to the
seaport points for shipment to foreign
manufacturers, and also a great
deal of space in the ships that took
them across the waters.
The compress became a necessity,
that is, a steam compress that could
take the bulk bales and squeeze them
into smaller space. These steam
compresses are few in the number,
being established only in the seaport
cities of the South, and in time,
as before stated, the compress men
became something of a trust, and
then later on one of the most arrogant
of all the trusts. The ships refused
to receive for transportation
the old-time bulky bale direct from
the country gin, and thus the farmer
was placed at the mercy of the compress
men.
At least 8,000,0 00 bales of our
cotton are exported, and every one of
these exported bales must go
through one of the few existing compresses
located in the cities. This
export cotton lias to he shipped from
the gin to the compress and ho compressed
heforo it is put. on shipboard
for shipment to some other
country. All this costs money and
it comes out of the pockets of the
Southern farmer. To obviate till of
those interminable troubles and to
bring about some peace of mind to
the Southern cotton grower and to
increase his profits on the sweat of
his brow inventive genius has been
at work for several years.
As a result of this study several
inventions wore made and came on
the market, but none of them entirely
filled the bill, until Mr. Samuel
M. Neely, of Chester, S. C., who
lived in the cotton country, brought
out his cheap and in every way suitable
compress. After years of study,
and just before his death, Mr. Neely
invented and had patented a compress
that is believed to meet the
situation and this is the machine
that a milliou dollar company has
been organized to manufacture in
Richmond.
The Neely machine is very simple,
and will bo mado in time for this
year's crop at a cost to the ginner
of about $i.r> 00 each, and their great
saving to tho cottou grower is sufficient
to guarantee that every one
of tho thirty-odd thousand gins in
tho COUntrv. will snonor of lator
have one in operation with the gin;
and hy this means the cotton growers
of the country will be guaranteed
a saving in the business of a fraction
over $3 per bale, or in the aggregate
$25,000,000 to $30,000,000
per annum on the cotton crop of the
South.
The means by which this great I
I
I
savings to the cotton growers of the
South can readily bo seen when It 1?
remembered that one of the ordinary
railway cars will take from the
Interior, that Is, direct from the glu
to the exporting point, 100 bales of
cotton compressed by the Neely machine,
whereas under the present system
of ginning four cars are required
for that number of bales. Then
another big item of economy is the
saving of freight in shipping to
European countries.
The ships which carry cotton tz>
Europe charge by cubic foot space
and not by weight. Hence there will
be a great saving in freight charges,,
inasmuch as nearly douhletus many
Neely bales can be placed in a ship's
space as of the steam compressed
' * ' ?
1)111 PS, for 11 rius IM'eil UCiuuiisuaiou
that while tho steam compressed
bale is compacted to a density of
only about twenty-two pounds to tho
eulde foot ilk Neely bale, with its
air eliminntotr And its other superI
ior qualities, condenses the cotton to
a density of about thirty-two pounds
to the cubic foot,
j This density insures a cheaper Insurance,
as it is almost impossible
to consume cotton by fire if it Is
packed with this density and is absolutely
free from air, and in addition
the Neely bale is thoroughly
and neatly covered with burlap instead
of the fire-inviting jute, and
is so packed that the covering holds
good until it reaches the spinner
wherever lie may be, thus making it
i im 11? 11. in overv \v:iv oloases
the spinner of i$?e Kast and makes it.
more valuable to him.
This mode of packing is not now
except in America. The Kast Indian
and Egyptian cotton shippers, who
annually land many bales in Kngland
and other Kuropoan markets havo
long since been far ahead of Americans
in their system of baling, and
as a consequence they have not been
subjected to the tare charges which
every American shipper has suffered
from. These tare charges amount to
$15,000,000 annually, and thesemillions
the South has lost by inferior
and improper baling. All of
this trouble is to be overcome by
the Neelv compressing system. The
thing can be easily figured out, for
it is no secret that American cotton
landed in foreign ports under the old
system of baling is subjected to a.
discount of thirty pounds tare oq
each bale.
LKYKlt IS KIGHT.
Limited Parcels Post Would Help
Fanners and Merchants.
Washington, Jan. 27.?Congressman
Trover in the debate on the postoffice
appropriation bill took occa- , <
sion to criticise the action of the ^
committee in not making provision <C
for a limited parcel post on rural
delivery routes as recommended by
the Postmaster General. Congressman
Lever said that a limited parcel
post would be of benefit to the
small merchant in the country town
and that the oppoisition to it come*
from the express companies and thfc
large department stores in the metropolitan
cities.
HAKM FOILM OF INSANITY.
l'nfortunatc Man Sudors When lie
Is ruder Observation.
Kalamazoo, Jan. 27.? Claude Vanderwall
lias boon admit led as a patient
at the State insane asylum here*
suffering from a rare form of insanity.
When the man is spoken to his.
body becomes rigfd and relief seems,
to come only with the feeling that
he is entirely unnoticed. Even when
left alone and unobserved he changes
his position but little. Yesterday
in a local court room he stood an
hour with one arm outstretched,,
never uttering a word or moving a
finger. Food is administered to him
at regular intervales by force.
\M\i nm:,\l> LINE.
Salvation Army I ndertakes to Curefor
Hungry lVople.
New York, Jan. 2 7.?To New
York's several "bread lines" ha4*
been added a new distributing station
in Harlem, the first of its kind
in that part of the city. It is in
charge of the Harlem hcadquartci?
of the Salvation Army. Coffee and
rolls are to be distributed nightly
f rum 9 wacnn nt Oc, r V Dimmm .i
| . . x?... %? ?. ?%nwt? i?v a iti u cnunuu aim
125th street. Some 300 homeless
men were provided for last night.
Miners Killed.
San IiOuis Oi)ispo, Cal., Jan. 23.?
Six miners were killed and eight
others were severely injured by an
explosion of gas in the Stone Sanon
Coal Mine at Chanvellor's Friday
night. One of the miners entered
a room with a lighted torch. The
room was full of gas and the oxplosion
followed. Most of the men
wore Italians. *
Killed About Woman.
Gainesville, Fla., Jan. 2G.?Sam
Mussellwhite and Sapp Watson, well
known white men, ar^hlead, and R.
II. Owens is In jail here as the result
of a fight today at Jonesvllle.
A woman, It Is said, was the cause
of the trouble. Watson was killed
by Owens and White Interfered, losing
his own life.
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