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| HE MUST GO f | Insurgent Republicans and Democrats At11 tack Old Man Joe. I COMBINE AGAINST HIM K' The Irregular Republicans and the Democratic Members in the House Join in a Fight on Speaker Can (! nou to Cur'i Mm (.lowing I'owri B Over the Members. They had a hot time in the House of Representatives at Washington on Thursday. Encouraged by their repeated victories over the speaker and the regular Republicans of tin; house, the "insurgents" started an aggressive movement for a change in the rules of the house for the purpose of eliminating Speaker Cannon from the committee on rules and curtailIing his power in legislative matters. Without a word of warning that so radical a proposition would be brought up with the apparent supIport of a majority of the membership of the house, Representative Norris late in the afternoon obtained the ho or and offered a resolution for a change in the rule of the house. ? Mr. Norris insisted that the language of the constitution gave his mcasuro the same privilege that Speaker Cannon had claimed for a ? resolution relating to the taking of tho census. He asked that this resolution be placed before the house at once. On both tho Republican and Democratic sides nearly every member was in his place and all realized that at last the "insurgents" were locking horns with the regular Republicans for what might prove to be a death struggle. On both sides ol the house the "whips," realizing th? necessity of obtaining their full vot ing strength, put in motion all theii resources for the summoning of ah cent members. Telegrams were sen to those absent on leave and ha< left the city. Taxicabs were ordere< to make trips to he hotels and :es idences of the few members knowi to bo in Washington who wore no on band. The news of the Impending strug gle soon spread about the city am the galleries that had been but hal filled became crowded. Mr. Norris. whose seat is on th Democratic side of the chamber, ap pealed to the speaker for a rulin in favor of the immediate considers tion of his resolution. He insiste that the time had come for action b the house so that it might take mat ters affecting legislation into thei own hands. rrhe attitude of the Democrats to ward tho movement so suddenly pu under way was made evident by th prompt endorsement of Mr. Norris contentions by Mr. Underwood am by Chamj) Clark, minority leader. Mr. Underwood insisted that th language of the constitution mad the Nebraskan's resolution a matte of the highest import. Minorit; T i ?i. ? - ~ i liiTfUll"! 1 tillll'JIKMI Ull' that he had once said that the housi could do anything it pleased, evei to the election of a new speaker. "The speaker has said that ai election could be put through tie house if the house so desired," shout ed Mr. Clark. "The speaker," said Mr. Cannon who had until now watched the pre ceedings in grim silence, "would b prepared to rule on the questioi when any gentleman thinks that th minority has become the majoritj But that presents an entirely diffei ent question from the one now be fore us." "If wo can change the speaker, shouted Mr. Clark, "why can't w change the rules?" Deafening applause on the Den ooratic side was evoked by this n mark. Mr. Clark opposing any suggestic that the resolution be referred i the committee on rules, declarii that that committee, consisting < tin eo Republic ar.s, including, t) speaker, and two Democrats, con not be trusted with a measure eu tailing its own powers. The Republican maioritv nf on thnt committee was as great their majority In the house, "and he added, amid laughter, "more i liable." "If you want to change the rule? shouted Mr. Clark, looking over t house, "now is the accepted tinn When the applause had subside Majority Leader Payne made a stro and feeling plea for "regularity." "We can not have the respon bility of the majority of lliis house said Mr. Payne, "unless we can t ercise it under the rules of the houi The men on that side," he contlnu waving his hand toward the Dem crats, "come today to break do\ the rule." "Is the Democratic party going make its usual blunder?" he ask< "Now at this critical time, with i election coming off and with tl best Interests of the people at stak you, who have fought for the Kepu lican party have a care that you < not aid and abet the enemy of t FEARFUL TRAGEDY ' A FATHER ANI> HIS SONS SLAIN IN TIIEIH HOUSE. Triple Tragedy in New York Appeals to be Case of Double Murder and Suicide. Herman Morltz, 45 years old, and two sons, George and Walter, 17 and ' 12 years old respectively were found shot to (loath Sunday night in their homes in New York. The lather b body was in tho hallway, the eldest son lay dead in a closet, wliil? the younger boy was found in the cc!> lar. It appears to be a case of double murder and suicide. Moritz was a retired real estate I dealer and from all appearances he killed his two sons, then turned the revolver on himself. A 3 8-calibre revolver lay beside the father's body. The discovery of tho oodles came about when a policeman an:l night watchman ran into the house alter tho watchman had rung In a fiee alarm at the request of Mr. Moritz, who had rushed Into tho street shouting that his houoe was on lire. The watchman also called a policeman. The policeman pushed on tho front door, which was partly open. The door was blocked but as the policeman pushed harder the door opened suddenly. On the floor in the front hall lay the body of Moritz. in a bed room closet they found tho body of Geoige. The body was all huddled up in the closet in such a position as to indicate that tlie mniy nan neon cnasea by the father and had sought to hide himself. Firemen in the meantime began extinguishing the small blaze in the cellar av.,1 were on the point of leaving when they found the body of the youni son lying o.n a heap of rags near ' o cellar stairway. He had 1 been shot twice in the right breaBt. Mo: it/, was evidently seized with a J tit of despondency to which neighbors say he was subject, killed hU r two boys, set the cellar afire, gave the alarm, then returned and shot * himself. He had shot himself in the * head. The Moritz's were well-to-do. 1 Mrs. Moritz is visiting in Englewood, " N. J. a An outburst of applause on the Republican side had hardly died out before Mr Poindexter one of the Ion* cf Mine insurgents, declared that there was no regular system of rules ir the house by which business wai li aiioavieUi Mr. Poindexter charged tho insur K gents of tho house to bear In mine that this resolution gave them ti 1 chance to allow the country to so; J where they stood In their attitude of reformers of the practices of the r house.' Mr. Douglas in an Impassioned ap It peal to the majority, declared thai by the adoption of the pending res olution the houso would make chaos j of its rules. "Now is the time of your salvation," shouted Mr. Poindexter, aftei 0 ridiculing tho suggestion that this r was tho beginning of choas in the y conduct of the house. j. One of the most vigorous speeches B of tho day was made by Hamilton Fish of New York, who told of his efforts to get a hearing on his bills 1 for a parcels post. ' 'Your resolution for an inquiry into the parcels post suggestion gave the committee nnlv an a<ivo ~ ?- -ww \nij o tw v_yUir ( elude its work," suggested Mr. Smith "Oh," exclaimed the New.Yorker 0 derisively, "you could have changed (l that to give yourselves GO or 9C c days." Then followed charges and countei charges concerning the methods ol the house and inability of member: to get hearings on hills and tho im >. possibility of having hills brough e out unless approved by "the power: of the house." 1_ At three o'clock the regular Re e_ publicans seeing that they wer< whipped left their seats, thus break (P ing tho quorum, hut the Jnsurgen 1() Republicans and Democrats held th fort and renewed the tight as sooi [)f as a quorum assembled Friday morn ing At two o'clock Friday afternoo r. a motion by representative Marti of South Dakota, a regular, that th house take take a recess until na p. m. was carried by a vote of 16 .. to 151. Indescribable confusion an deafening yells greeted the resu of this, the fourth test of strengtl of the question of obtaining a resplb b j From the Democratic side can , ,, mo positive declaration that tli '(, regulars were defeated and that was merely a question now of ho and when. It was claimed that Bj_ certain majority was In sight f( , ,, the Morris resolution whenever tt x speaker rules, if he does rule. so From one of the most intimai 0(l friends of the speaker comes t! l0. somewhat startling statement that vn the Morris resolution was passei Speaker Cannon would resign an to that tho regulars would vote with tl ,(j Democrats for the election of Cham an Clark as speaker rather than sic [l0 with tho insurgents for the selectic :e of one of their choosing. This star 1,1 ling statement was denied hy oth< jo friends of the speaker. The flgl he was still on when we went to prei Friday afternoon. . ? un.. m ? ^ HUNG THEM TWO AHK LYNCHER FOR PARI IN JAIL DELIVERY. Prisoners Were Returned to Slieril but I jitter Taken from Jail.?Tli Work Done in IluslnesH Fashion At Marion, Aik., Hob Austin am Charles Richardson, negroes, \v<m lynched at an early hour Frida morning in the court house squar by a mob of 1100 citizens with aid ing and abetting a jail delivery tha occurred there Monday night. tucnarason was arresiea in Mem phis and while on the way to tin local jail a mob overpowered S!;.?.:t Lewis and secured the prisoner. IP confessed to complicity in aiilni the escape of the prisoners and im plicated Hob Austin. The latter wn immediately apprehended and 1 looked as if the trembling prisoner would be hanged on the spot. Cool er heads prevailed and the two mei were given over to the sheriff. At three o'clcok Friday mornlni a mob quietly formed and marche< to the jail. The negroes were secure< and hanged to a tree in front of tin court house. The mob was orderl; and went about Its work in a busi ness-like fashion. The bodies of the victims wen cut down at seven o'clock Frida; morning and were turned over t< the negro friends for burial. FIVE KITTEN BY MAI) DOG. All tlie Children of Mr. Davis SiniC of the ELlorec Section. The Columbia Record says five IK tie children, the oldest 13 years am the youngest three years, are receiv ing the Pastuer treatment at th State laboratory under Dr. Coward These are the children of Mr. Davi Smith of Elloree, who were bltte several days ago by a puppy tlui was suspected of suffering from ral I A ^ too. ;\n examination or the dog' head confirmed this suspicion an ! the little patients have been uiulc treatment in Columbia since th 1 tenth. Mr. Smith had the head e: amined, and was advised that th dog was suffering from hydrophobii ) The children were hurried to tl t place of treatment at the earliei i convenient date. Mr. Smith is a ? honest, hard working man, and h 1 neighbors and friends extend the 3 sympathy to him in his great mi fortune. We hope that the trea - merit will prove efficacious and tin 1 the little ones can soon return lion i with all danger of the dread discar > removed. The little dog that cause 3 so much trouble is said to ha^ 3 been a pet of the whole family. POISONED EATING POPCORN. t Popped in Frying Pan Which Coi i tallied "lilnck Oil." The manager of the "Mellwoo j Distillery," at Louisville, Ky., sove , employes and two government rei enue men narrowlv oscnnmi , recently by the prompt attendant of physicians after they had eate (I corn popped in a frying pan whic . I had contained a lubricant known a I "black oil." -I In less than fifteen minutes aftc ?I they had eaten the corn, all wei . seized with violent fits of vomitinj , I severe pains and extreme coma. The ( were rushed from the distillery i I carriages to their homes and phys i I clans summoned. I Seven of the men are pronounce out of danger. Three of them, Pet* f Tepper, Conrad Owens, and J. 1 JI Sackleford, all distillery emplo; -1 es, are still in a critical condition. II s GETS ANOTHER BLOW. I Must Prove Ills Discoveries or Loi e I - I Public Rewards, t 0| The proposal to have congress r a I ward Commander Peary for his di i-|covcry of the North Poles met wi I another setback in the house coi n I mlttee on naval affairs Thursda n I Representative Englebrlght, of Ca elfornia, his principal advocate in t 4 I committee, moved to discharge t 1 I subcommittee which has been con si d I ering the Peary award bills and It I consider them in full committ( i, I The motion was defeated by a vo e. lof 17 to 1, Mr. Englebrlght alo 10 I supporting his motion. Another m l0 Irion to direct the sub-committee jj I consider further the bills providi ... I for lion oritur I?.. ' w nil, i uaij WilH UClOpi a by a unamimous vote. As a major! )r of the committee i? strongly oppos lo to voting a reward to Command Peary, however, unless his proc . are made public, it is not'expect ^ that a bill on the subject will ,f reported out. A L ^ ^ ^ Wife Won't Oook. id ,e Because his wife "refuse to co ,p his meals," J. T. Perdeo, of Bi j0 county, fla., has filed suit for i ,n vorce. -The result will he of mu t_ general Interest, as the issue Is o jr never before passed upon by t court. The question of whether |S wife shoukl cook her husbani mealg will then be decided, jffil . ? ? GETS A NEW TRIAL P TilE SUPREME COURT SAVES A FIEND FROM A T Reserved Hanging on a Nonsensical p Technicality and Paves the Way i. for Later Lynchings. il The sentence of death imposed e upon Robert Johnson, alais Tony y Howard, from criminal assault has o been stayed by a decision of the sunrrtiim nmirt on flit, in'mnul tKot I tin t circuit court erred in the trial. The negro pleaded not guilty and at tempted to prove an alihi. The opines ion in the case is by Associate Just tice 11 yd rick. A new trial will Ik* e given the negro. The negro was S convicted in the Darlington county - court last year, lie was held for a f time at the penitentiary for safet keeping. s Tlie crime was committed in the - town of Hartsvillc in December of \ 11)08. On the night of the outrage the woman retired at 7 o'clock, leav; ing a lamp burning low on the bur1 can in her room. The front door 1 was unlocked. She was alone with a her little son. The woman was exy pecting her husband. Several minu tes before retiring she saw a negro standing by the bureau. He blew out a the light. Telling her .that he would y kill her if she screamed, the negro j seized the woman and dragged her into the hall of the home where the crime was committed. The negro left the home, telling her to return to the room and not to i make any fuss for it meant death. The husband came home about ten o'clock and found his wife in a state of shock. The story of the crime was recited to him and he gave the * alarm and the pursuit of the negro was commenced. Robert Johnson >vit? uiierwiuu icienuneti uy tne \vo' man as tlie assailant. s The first exception in the ease nln legod error in admitting testimony c that about 20 negroes were arrested and carried before the woman ims mediately after the outrage and she d failed to identify any of them. The l supreme court says "we think that e the testimony was competent." The court also holds the testimony revele10 vant in that it "tended to show that she had some recollection of the features of the man." Bt The other exceptions impute error n in charging upon the facts. The Is following is the portion of the charge i>' excepted to, "Gentlemen, you need 8_ not bother yourselves much at>out f- the corpus delicti, that is, about the commission of the offense." The 10 court hold with refereonce to this that the negro's plea of not guilty >d put in issue the corpus delicti. The rQ supreme court says that it was necessary for the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime had been committed. It is also hold that in the above expression that the circuit judge gave the jury a plan intimation if not a positive expression. A number of authorities are here cited in substantiation of the holding of the court that a circuit n judge has no right to charge as to the facts in a case. The case was h tried in Darlington county. :e r m 11 "TUT FIGHT IS TOO HARD.** h a is Pathetic Note Loft l?y a Young Wo r man Who Suicided. e , With hor silk stockings tightly iy knotted together, one end bound n around her neck, and the other fastl" ened to a shower bath in the private , bathroom of her suite, the lifeless id body of beautiful Selma Ruth Kauf? man, aged 2 8, of New York, was ' found in the Hotel White, McKeesport, Pa. The young woman, after arranging the improvised rope of silk hosI iery, stood on the edge of the bathI tub, securely fastened one end of the s<> joined stocking to the shower and carefully adjusted the other in a noose, slipped it over her head and e- stepped into eternity. In her room a_ was found tlie following note pinned th to a costly parasol: y, "The fight is too hard. Goodbye, y and God bless all who have been jj. kind. My trunks are at the 23rd street station, New York city. I enlr treat forgiveness as I hope to be for(j_ given and have another chance." to * )e, |((, Proved Good Luck. no A small black cat proved to lie an io- omen of good luck when it saved to Mts. W. J. Hogan and her two chilng dren from a horrible de^th in their od burning home at Griflln, Ga., Triesday night. The family were asleot -.j and unaware that their home was 21 lor mass of flames when thv cat jumped ,fa upon the bed and by repeatedl) ed scratching its mistress, succeeded ir he awakening her just in time for them to escape from the burning housj Died Under Auto. ok ~ W. Hi Jones, a prominent hardbb ware dealer of Oeala, Fla., was in[U. stantly killed and George McKay, ? ch contractor, was fatally injured, when ne an automobile in which they were ho riding near Ocala upset early Tuesa day morning. Mr. Jones was pinned 1*3 beneath the machine and his head horribly crushed. . . 2.... ARE ABAD LOT very One of President Taft's Cabinet Bot One Under a Charge THERE MAY BE CHANGES The Cabinet Members Say that They Are Not Ruffled, as Public Onicials Must Mxneet Onuosition. but tlio Republican I/caders Fear the Effect of ttie Clwrges. The ending of the first year of President Taft's administration develops the peculiarly unfortunate situation of having every member of his official family under charges from the opposition with the exception of Secretary Nagle of tho department of commerce and labor. Secretary of the Interior llallinger is now being investigated by a joint committee of the senate and house?an inquiry that has been and will to the end continue to be replete with sensational charges of misconduct and incompetency, including not only the secretary but Clifford Pinchot, the former chief forester, and other officials of the interior office. Secretary of War Dickinson is now explaining to a senate committee his side of the issue, growing out of the charge that he has given a monopoly to the Pacific Mail Steamship company in the carrying trade between Panama and ports on the Pacific coast. The original arrangement gave tlie steamship company 7 0 per cent of the rate, when they shipped through freight to the Atlantic coast by the Panama railroad it also gave the company the privilege of buying coal at Panama at cost. The protest against this priviI lopp has rppoilllv lirnnmtorl M,/> . _ 0 v x/w ? w* j I'4 v' 111 I' tvvi VII IT DC V retary to promise similar favors to a proposed competing line to the Pacific Mail. Postmaster General Hitchcock has been charged by members of congress with using his office simply for political ends, the efficiency of the postal service having deteriorated in consequence. Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh has been attacked for promoting the Chicago packers' proposition to have the 10-cent per pound tax on cotoned olemargarine reduced to a fraction of a* cent. Secretary of tho Navy Meyer is in trouble over his naval personnel proposition. He has been accusel in service publications and by officers of the navy of attempting to build up the power of the social set in the naval establishment to the detriment of the best interests of the navy. Secretary of Stnte Knox, as a result of his endeavors to force upon China and the interested powers the right of New York capitalists to build certain railroads in the Orient, has been charged with using the influence of his office and his department to promote the financial business of J. P. Morgan and his associates. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is being attacked for his defense of the use of ben/.oate of soda as a food preservative. He has also lveeomo Involved in the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, having been called as a witness before the investigating commit tee. Attorney General Wiskersham has been bitterly assailed by the Republican progressives. They charge that his railroad rate bill, which proposes amendments to the present interstate commerce law, will undo all 1 the good accomplished by former President Roosevelt in curbing the railroads. They also charge that the attorney general has used his moral influence to prevent possible prosecuI tlon of the big men in the sugar I trust as a climax to the sugar trust frauds in Xew York. Anti-Ballingei Republicans are also claiming that the attorney general suppressed anc presented facts in distorted condi tion to the president when tho Hal linger-Pinchot case was before him The cabinet which was held to gether for a year is constantly tin subject of rumored changes. Secre tary of Agriculture Wilson, Secrd tary Rallinger, and Postmaster Gen oral Hitchcock have all been report ed as about to resign Those famtl i iar with, tho conditions do not be 1 lleve that any change is contempiat . ed. Tho men affected by the reporti emphatically deny them. President Taft is carefully watch > Ing the situation and is loyally sup i porting each member. He is i.o I ''idled by the chaiges, having im r plicit confidciwe in the integrity o l the men he has chosen to aid him it i making his administration a succesi Neither vlo cabinet memoe s shov f .gns of worry, but the Kspubiicai leaders ere worked over tlie situa tii n. t Christian Science Healers Failed. ^ Oliver U. Church, a leading bust , ness man of Springfield, Mass., diet . last week after a long and palnfu [ illness. He was attended by no phy I slcian as Christian Science healeri declared he would get well. WEATHER PREDICTIONS "THE DUTCH PROPHET" TELES OF WEATHER To Bo Expected Easter Week and I the Hula nee of the Yea.?Fruit Crop Will Suffer from Frost. Mr. W. P. Houseal. "the Dutch Prophet," says he has heard it intimated in certain sections that a forecast is expected from him just at this period of the year, when springtime is supposed to be ushered in and banish winter with her sombre trappings. The forecast had already been put Into shape, and could have been given weeks ago, but it oonies now at the time when the period of year affected by the predictions is soon to arrive. The vernal, or spring, equinox occurs on March 21st. It is usually accompanied with storms of nioro of less intensity. The central period of the storm for 1910 is March 27th, which is Easter Sunday. The storm, however, need not necessarily occur on that date. This year the day most likely to be effected during the spring equinox is March 24th. Occurring on March 2 4th, the disturbance will be severe in the Mississippi valley, the storm moving northward from the gulf, with percipitation in the form of rain and changing into snow in the Alleghanies and eastward into the middle states with high winds on the Atlantic. This period will be followed by clear and colder weather, with Easter Sunday, in all probability, in the clear period. The danger of severe frosts will extend into April, and even in May tho weather will be unseasonably coll. It will be at least six weeks from March 15 until the cool periods pass into summer heat. Tho peach crop will be damaged by frost to a considerable extent, except in the Ridge Spring section of South Carolina and the sandy regions of Georgia. The red clay sections will suffer most from ttinon ~ ... Olll lllg I frosts. I These conditions will cause the J summer of 1910 to be similar in I temperature of its predecessors of I 1908 and 1909, when few excessively high records were recorded. I A special forecast will soon ho given concerning the periods of precipitation for the spring and summer and extending into the fall and inI eluding the state fair week. Tho farmers need have no fear that the I rainfall in South Carolina will bo I insufficient for the crops. i BIG SALE OF FEKTLIZERS. 4 I Forty-Eight Thousand Tons Moro I Sold This Tear. The farmers of the State, according to the number of tax tags sold, are using more fertilizer this year than in the past, says the Columbia State. The books in the State terasurer's office show that since the first of the year the sum of $154,4 67.38 I has been received for tags. This is over $12,000 more, than, was received at this time last yer. Tho amount received to date last I year was $142,147.37. The total amount received from the fertilizer tax tags last year was $202,741.31. This money goes to Clemson college. There is a tax of 25 cents on I every ton of fertilizer sold in tho State. i Tt was said Thursday that the ferI til/izer 'pnninnnlpa ntk* , i.im I uniting illl orders and the fact may account for the increased sale, but it is believed that the growth of intensive farming is the real cause. According to the amount of tag tax money recelv ed, it shows that over (100,00 0 tons of i fertilizers have been sold 1n the State since the tlrst day of tho . year. . * DAXGIOIl OF DEFEAT. ; Cullom Says Kcpuhlienns Must Stop * # j, Tlieir How. ' United States Senator Shelby M. Cullom, republican, of Illinois, in a letter to the republican editors convened at Springfield, 111., declared: ? "It seems strange to me, but the republican party with a magnificent record, is in danger of defeat unless we harmonize our differences and present a solid front to the ene- | my in the coming campaign. If we are victorious in the coming election, attacks by republicans on re 3 piioiicaim must cease." Senator Cullom believes that the party success is in danger. r Safe Was Ilobbcd. A naval board of inquiry is at f work at the Charlestown navy yard ^ near Boston investigating the theft ^ B of $.'1,500 from the paymaster's safe ; on board the United States gunboat j Castine. The theft was discovered _ last Thursday but did not become generally known until Monday. liOss of Wife Is Worth $5,000. Frank Hale, of Toledo, phio, was 1 awarded $5,000 last week in a dam1 ag^suit against Frank C. Harrison, . in which the latter was accused of 3 eloping with his pretty wife. Hale sued for $25,000. J