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HKBR?yWr?, shyf ; V., is WILL CRAW FISH ? Ike PregrtiuTe Rtpaklicus WiH Jtn Fore* WA R(|?brt. DEFiAT TAKKifF PUNS Republicans Will Oppose All legls* ^ Ifttion Looking to a Revision of the Tariff, Rut the Democrats May Use Reciprocity as a Club to l*uNh Through Revision Rills. Despite the fact that the Democrats of the House, by ofllcial caucus action, have declared a purpose to en^ act tariff legislation during the extra session of Congress, which begun last Tuesday, the prediction is freely made in Congressional circles that no such legislation can be put through the Senate, and that the extra session will adjourn earlier than has generally been anticipated. Sentiment among the regular Republicans in the Senate is overwhelmingly against any sort of tarih revision at the extra session. With* k out the support of the progressives the Democrats cannot possibly get any tariff bills through the uppei branch of Congress, j It is apparent that the regular Re* publicans of the Senate will do everything in their power to postpone all matters of general legislation until the regular session next December. It is reported that a number of the progressive Republicans are likely to fall in with this idea. There is every reason to believe that the regulars will promise the insurgents to facilitate consideration of schedule by schedule revision o.. the tariff at the regular session ol Congress if no attempt is made to put through such legislation at the extra session. With such an agreement between the Republicans, it is believed that the Democrats might not at tern,;t to prolong the extra session until late in the fall. In certain quarters it is reported that the Democrats of the House will ^ hold reciprocity up until the Senate ^ and President havo acted favorably on a number of revisions of the present Tariff law which the Democrat intend making. The report has it that the House majority fears ?the President and Senate will "doublecross" them if the Canadian agreement is passed before any tariff revision is made, by the President adjourning Congress, which he can do ^ under the Constitution if the Sen\ ate should get into a disagreement with the House on the question 01 time of adjournment. The Democratc House leaders will go ahead with their program reil 11 i l- i _ i. A ~ c xi i ^ garoiess or ine i)rcjiiiiui? i<ue ui m?ir measures in the Senate until auch a time ae the Senate clearly demonBtrates that it will give no consid^ eration to general legislation during the extra session. In this way the Democrats feel they will have ' done their utmost to fulfill their pledfeea at the earliest possible moment. Some of the Senate Democrats are strongly in favor of waiting until the regular session convenes before revising the tariff. They declare that J r tho Republicans already have passed big appopriation billc for the next fiscal year and that revenues must bt raised to meet them. During the regular session the tariff could be revised and tho new appropriation bills ' scaled down accordingly. The promise made by President Taft that the tariff board will be ready with a complete report on the textile schedules of the tariff by December 1, next, and the hope he has informally expressed that Congress will decide to wait for this report be- I fore acting on thevse schedules, makes tho situation a little more difficult for the Democrats in that the insurgent vote in the Senate has an ex- ? j ruse for crawfishing on their demand f % for tariff reform. M Tt is pointed out that with a report on the much-discussed cotton and woolen schedules promised by c next December, the insurgent Repub- c licans will not stultify themselves by ^ voting for Houso hills amending j these schedules without regard to the tariff board. There is little doubt 'j but that consideration of the recipro- j city measure >.511 occupy many weeks of the Senate's time. It is argued that it would he late in June before ^ consideration could be given in the Senate to a House bill dealing with (J even one schedule of the Payne-Aid- j rich law. With a determination of thirty or more Senators that no such legisla - l - 1 ? X it, ? A _ tlon should do enaciea at tut? ?xira session, it can be easily seen, according to the Republican leaders, that 11 attempts to get such measures ^ through ahe extra session would be futile. This does not mean that the ? President will look unkindly toward a revision of the tariff on necessities ^ of life not included in the Canadian ^ agreement. In fact, it is to the con- a trary. The President expects the Democrats and insurgent Republicans to make reductions in the tariff. Mrs. Champ Clark is to be a social leader at Washington. We hope b she gets the government clerks to * attend all her parties so as to ro- g lievo the strain of their distressing if overwork. r s A SERIOUS CHARE A FAKE DOCTOR ARRESTED IN FLORENCE COUNTY. + i He is Charged With Selling Medicine to Aiken County Negroes Containing Poison. The Florence Times says according to information giver' /'t at police headquarters here morning Aiken county authorities have secured the capture of a man whom, it is alleged, killed two negroes and attempted to kill the third one in that county by administering poisonous drugs while he was traveiirg througn the country claiming to be a doctor and selling the negroes his medicine. His name Is given as Frank Wlnterman alias Frank Slate. It is stated that the case was worked up against him by a well-known negro of this city who knew Slate when he lived at Aiken at the time it is alleged he poisoned these negroes in 1905. Slats, is said to be a white man but has lived with the negroes practically all of his life. A warrant was issued for his arrest in Aiken but he escaped and has been traveling in various parts of the county. He was arrested here a few days ago bq Health Officer Deberry on the charge of being drunk and disorderly and was turned over to Policeman Haselden and locked up. Chief Koopmnn whn hnd hfinn in r.nmm iinfp.nt.inn with the negro man there whom it is said knew all about Slate's movements, telegraphed Sheriff Raybourn of Aiken and he came last night to carry the prisoner back to that county for trial. ? JEFF A RES WROTE A TETTER. For TFiat Reason Ho Was Refused Notary Commission. To the Editor of The State. I have received a letter from Governor Blease's private secretary elnce I wrote my letter to The State in which the Governor gives his reasons for not signing my commission as notary public. Kindly publish my letter of request to the Governor, and his reply. Also my answer to his question. R. R. Jeffares. Shelton, S. C., April 5. I Shelton, S. C., Mch. 31, 1011. His Excellency, Coleman L. Blease, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, S C. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of a letter from the secretary of State stating that inasmuch as you have refused to sign my commission as notary public, he sends me a check to reimburse me for the two dollars sent by me to pay for the commission. Will you please inform mo whether or not I have been correctly informed or whether or not the matter has just been overlooked by you in the routine of daily business. If I have boen correctly informed kindly write 1110 your reason for not signing my commission and oblige. It. R. Joffares. Columbia. S. C., Apr. 3, 1911. Mr. Robt. R. Joffares, Sholton, S. C. Hear Sir: The Governor is in receipt of your tetter of March 31, and directs ms 1 :o ask in reply if you remember an ; article you wrote in the papers some 1 ;ime since? Yours very truly, 1 Alex Rowland, Private secretary. * 000 1 FATAL ELECTION TROUBLES. 1 ( Political Arguments Caused Snooting , at Little Rock. * At Little Rock, Ark., two persons ire dead as a result of shooting afrays, having as their origin quar- , 'els over Tuesday's city election. Following the tragic death of Conitable Ed Lindsay, who was shot to leath in a fight with Patrolman Will leott in the law offices of J. A. Co- } ner on West Second street, former 1 ^atrolman Charles Brown was shot 1 ind killed by E. A. Pipkin early E fhursday. In the same affray Louis S lild was shot and his left leg brok- I n above the knee. Brown had engaged in several fist 3 ights during the day as a result of 1 lolitical arguments. Earlier in the ? lay he had severely beaten Deputy r Prosecuting Attorney Frank Lender- 1 on. t ? ? s Weary and Worn. 1 At Redding, Cal., E. E. Bailey, vice resident or ine uanK or fMortnern Jallfornia, of that city, was found ti a cemetery lying across the graves < f his two wives with a bullet hole ^ n his head and an empty revolver ? y his side. The following note was ( ound on his body: "I am weary r nd worn and physically and men- ^ ally unable to bear the load." Bai- * 3y had been ill for weeks. c Won't Try Cases. The general impression in Columla is that Attorney General Lyon dll refuse to carry any other of the rait cases to trial during the adminitration of Governor Blease as the esult of the pardon of John Black. s 9 THEY WANT BRYAN MEMPHIS OFFERS HIM GREAT INDUCEMENTS TO COME. The Great Commoner Tells People From Tennessee City That He Must Remain at Lincoln. A special dispatch from Washington to the New York World says the assertion is made here that Memphis is willing to put up a million dollars to induce William Jennings Bryan to take up his abode and publish the Commoner there. A year ago a movement; for a greater Memphis was started, ana today a delegation of leading citizens came to Washington to extend an invitation to the thrice defeated can dldate for President to move to their city and make it his future home. Mr. Bryan said he had no intention of leaving Lincoln, Neb., except for his farm In Texas, but the Tennesseeans insist they are going to get him, and on Thursday will entertain him at a luncheon and tender him their fozmal invitation. Another Washington dispatch says William Jennings Bryan Thursday told the committee sent by the citizens of Memphis to invite him to make his home in that city that he could not accept. The invitation was extended at a luncheon given Mr. Tlrvnn liv flin ? '? J l?IA J tuvy VV/1UI1I A V?/VvVy. Judge James M. Greer of Memphis, chairman of the committee, as (oastmaster presented the Memphis idea. He was followed by Senators Gordon of Tennessee, Representative Ivea and Taylor and Representative Sisson of Mississippi and Robinson of Arkansas and Duke C. Rowers of 'Memphis. They begged Mr. Rryan to come where "the people loved him; where he would find friends." Mr. Bowers said he felt sure that Memphis would easily raise $2,000,000 if that would be any inducement to Mr. Bi*yan to live in his city. Mr. Bryan replied that it was not a money consideration, and that if ne looKea at it in tnat ngnt, ne wouia not be worthy of such an invitation. Ho said he knew he had friends in the South who would stand hy him and that was why they did not need him there; they needed him more in the North. Suggesting that he should not he on one edge of the country, he said, his home at Lincoln is almost the center of the country and only about two days ride to any section where he might he needed to , help fight for the cause of Democracy. SHOOTS AT YOUNG WOMAN ? Because She Did Not Beoiprocate His Affection. ' < "Now J will have my revenge," ] shrieked James E. Connor Thursday I afternoon as he sent a pisioi bullet i at Mrs. C. M. Rowse, a stenographer, ; young and pretty, at Savannah, Ga. i T* K ~ i l. /v I I1U UIUHJL BLI UCli till* \> (Jill ctll 'II II1SJ ( left! arm, causing a severe but not i dangerous wound. j Before Connor could fire again, < Capt. P. H. Haddon, in wh ">se oflice t the shooting occurred, jumped for i him and the men went to tli ? floor c together. Captain Haddon disarmed t the man and called for an officer. 1 Connor is held at the poMeo stntion, charged with assault wi.ti intent to murder. He answers questions in a vacant, absent-minded way, I and the police believe his mind is affected. It waR stated that he had been liaying unwelcome attention to Mrs. Rowse for some time and was told ^ to stop them. He was granted his t request, walked into tho office, faced }l the woman and fired. Connor formerly was an engineer v in the river steamer Twt> States, , which plied to Augusta, but later was j. sunk. He is 25 years old. ^ TRAGEDY SHATTERS MINI). \ y Woman Sees Young Man and His Sis- ii tor Killed by Train. ^ Harry McCoy, aged twenty-one, 0 md liis sister, Grace, aged thirteen, 11 were struck and killed by an eastr11 n \ r n 1 o n u n /I i i n t*nr r\ in /VU IIV4 VIV ? ^Klllll U11U X UtOUIII ^ [i(lO icnger train near their home, ai Smiths Ferry, Pa. Several hundred r< eet away, standing on her porch, c< drs. David Quinn screamed to tilt, c: ^oung people to warn them but the a loise of the train drowned her voice, d >he assisted railroad men gather the h nutilated bodies and as they were fi aid on her porch she was suddenly w aken with convulsions, caused by the w hock, and physicians fear her mind 4 s shattered. ? ? ? Mn<1c Him a High. T)..lnnA Ton) Qm 11 r? nnnln n f t Vi o tl A A I A 1 V- V X O li X KJ u it ) xx vs x \y & v x * v v Chinese Emperor, got the toothache 1c vhile he was in Philadelphia last k leptember, and went to Dr. E. Druitt si Crawford, who stopped the imperial lc tain. Dr. Crawford has now received ai vord, through the Chinese consulate c< n San Francisco, that Tsai Suun has H inferred a decoraDnn nn htm. lc Damage by Cloudburst. Damage estimated at over a milion dollars was caused in Middles- fr >oro, Ky.f Tuesday night by a cloud- s< Hirst. Half of the town of Middles- b >oro was under water. Coal mines s< vere flooded. ai \ MISS HOOD IS ALIVE SUPPOSED DEAD, SHE IS LIVING WITH BOGUS LORD. Gained Fame in 1906 as the Last of the Victims of "Lord Percy Sholto Douglas." Mourned as one dead because she was supposed to have been murdered by John C. Cavendish, alias "Lord Percy Sholto Douglas," Josephine Hood, a member of one of the leading families of Aeheville, N. C., who became a victim of the wiles of the preposessing Englishman, by a cer emony of marriage, Dec. 16, li?U6, at Lake Charles, La., has broken the silence of years by writing to an aunt in her home town. In her letter she cites some circumstances of adventure befalling her in company wUh the bogus lord, to which she seems bound by a hypnotic spell, since she declares her belief in his uprightness and that she is happy and is cared for in luxurious style. She carefully refrains from telling her present address. The letter was mailed on a train going west from New Orleans. Mrs. Cavendish tells of trips around the world, of 20 trans-Atlantic voyage*, of visits to Europe, Asia and Africa. She mentions many gifts of jewels from her husband and his lavish expenditures which suggest that Cavendish may be an International gambler. Cavendish was notorious as a bigamist at the time of his marriage with Miss Hood, and she Is believed to be his ninth wife. The present Mrs. Cavendish does not indicate that she knows of his earlier marriages, but does say plainly that she could not communicate before or return to her home because Cavendish has troubles he hopes soon to overcome and then they will live in Los Angeles. Cavendish is said to have married eight women in as many different parts of the United States before he met Miss Hood. One of these he married in Los Angeles, one in Fort Worth, Tex.; one in Norfolk, Va., one in Georgia, one in Denver, Colo., one in New Orleans, La., and one in Ohio. All of these women are said to have written to Miss Hood's aunt, but she has kept no memoranda of their names. He soon deserted all of them except Miss Hood. SAVED BV I IHE DRILL. The Children Are Rescued in Orderly Manner. The discovery of fire in the Eighth lvenue baby shelter of Newark, N. J., late Tuesday night demonstrated the value of lire drills in institutions 3f this character when it was followed by the orderly rescue of more than 50 children, 14 of whom were infants in swaddling clothes. Eightyear-old Johnny Savage, one of the inmates, discovered the fire ana luietly notified Mrs. Harriet Trenchird, the matron. The fire gong was sounded and the nurses got the old2r children in line and marched them o a pavilion in the yard, while other ittendants, in accordance with fire < Irill rp tr 111? t irm s hr?cnn f rnaiMio r?f he babies. All were taken out safey before the firemen arrived. WOMAN 1)11) NOT FAINT. lilt WitWh llandy Hat Pins Put Rurglar to Flight. At New York Mies Hannah Krot- , vhvil threw up her hands early "uesday when a highwayman 1 hrust a pistol in he** face, but lor action was not in token of surender. On the contrary, the young /oman pulled out two wicked looking ^ uatpins and began violently jabbing ^ ier assailant. One lunge that punc- j ured the robber's arm, evidently ook the fight out of him. *or he vheled and took to flight. Miss [ritchvil started in pursuit, screamr ng for help, but handicapped by a J, kirt built on the grounds of a hob- ^ le, she was losing ground, when thers took up the chase and the ^ oldup man was caught. t. Fall From Loft. ' According to a telephone message e eceived from Princeton, Laurens 0 ounty, R. Lee Mahon, a well known ^ Itizen who lived near the Greenville ^ nd Laurens county line, was found c ead yesterday afternoon at his barn, ^ is back having been broken by a f, ill from the loft of the building. He as a son of William M. Mahon, ana f as a prosperous farmer, aged about (( 0. a ei Killed by Tree. ai Willie Crowell, while at work for ti le Scott Lumber company in the tl iwer part of Marlboro county, was fi llled by a tree falling on him. The E Udder was being operated when the O >g struck a tree, knocking it down hi nd killing Crowell. iMr. Crowell re- bi mtly wont to Marlboro from Horry, tl e was about .35 yeas old, and if saves a wire and one clilld. ? ? < Three Were Killed. A long distance telephone messago p om iMonroeville, Ala., the county ci ?nt of Monroe county, north of Mo- 1 lie, states that a cyclone struck a hi jttlement near there Sunday night t( nd that three persons were killed. t< , ^ JL PREY OF MOSQUITOES ? QUEEN IS BOUND TO STAKE AND LEFT TO PERISH. Cruel Vengeance Exacted by the Ruler on an Erring Woman May Wipe Out Colony. Quietly but persistently, and with promise of startling revelations, the United States has turned its coldly inquiring gaze on a condition of affairs that exist on the island of St. Malo on the coast of Louisiana. The circumstances hark back a full century when the French pirate Lafittt, was a very real bugbear to voyagers seeking homes and fortunes in the i French colonies of Louisiana. From . 4 those times up to the present the island has been held by an outlaw male community of semisavages, having ^ their own government, ^vhich they < called a "Free Republic," and administering justice through their own j council. Once or twice there have S been perfunctory effects to bring this i island under the laws of this country 1 but. only recently has there been prov- i ocation sufficient to inspire energetic c investigations. S Up to the time of the recent trag- i edy in which poor, wayward, romantic < Marie La Vigne, a mainland beauty i of Acadian descent lost her life, the 1 island was referred to as an "Eve- t less Eden." Women were not tol- I erated. Up to the present the details ' of the tragedy which Marie La Vigne brought upon herself are somewhat 1 vague, except her horrible death. She captivated the master of the nnlnnv wllilo U'oa m npl/nflntr n / xw V 1. J * ' V ? v ?? UIU1 IWVltlf) (V \ boatload of fish until he became so i obsessed by her charming figure and I coquettish glances that he dared to ( violate tradition by letting her ac- ] company him home. For some months he was able to reconcile his people ' to the presence of his "queen," as 'Marie insisted upon calling herself. Gradually younger men of the col- 1 ony lost their prejudices, under the inbuence of Marie's glances. Pres- ] ently the master found he did not oc- < cupy the whole of Marie's heart, t worse, that his rivals were not only i successful, but numerous. i Marie's public accuser was the > master himself. And his thirst for I vengeance was so fierce that he turned her over to her worst ene- f mies, the council of elders, for trial, c There was no lack of evidence. Ac- i cording to the barbarous standard of p the community, a punishment to fit c the crime was announced by the r council: t "Get her be eaten alive by mos- c quitoes!" \ rn_ ~!i _ ? ^ 1 J i i .11 j .. _ i no council 01 eiuers, in delivering z this terrible judgment, also swore e the islanders to permit no future in- h vasion of the island by any women, n Then Marie La Vigne was led forth to execution. li She was hound to a stake in the s marshes naked, where swarms of h mosquitoes and gnats denied any possibility that she would live long enough to suffer pangs of hunger. Such is the outline of the tragedy ^ which has turned the gaze of tT,e authorities on the whole problem of civilizing St. Malo, and, if possible, bringing to justice the murderers of poor Marie La Vigne. s t t t WON'T PAKDON JON US. e ii t rhls is Governor Mease's Present At- ( tit tide. * .\ The Columbia correspondent of ti Phe News and Courier says another si petition for pardon of John .1. Jones, 11 if Orangeburg County, who was sen- p ;enced to ten years and one month 11 or the killing of Abe Pearlstine, at si Iranchville, was nipped in the bud fi >y the announcement from Governor ti Mease that he isn't going to pardon ti ones. What may come up later can- tl lot be told at this time, but at pres- P nt Governor Please will not act fav- cc rably in the matter. Tie refused a v: etition for the pardon of Jones a is ew days ago. This petition came te rom Edgefield. in The forerunner of a second petiion from Orangeburg was the presnce in the city of two of counsel inerested in the case. Governor Please /as not in the office when the Gov rnor was approached on the subject f whether or not he would reopen ho case, he said that he would be lad to hoar counsel, but he has do- (^c Ided not to pardon. No steps have 0,1 eon taken to further the petition mi rom Orangeburg. 8a The presence of counsel here led he News and Courier correspondent ) ask Governor Rlease this afternoon St bout the John Jones case, and Gov- a? rnor Rlease stated the circumstances ^r: ad said that he would not at this to mo extend Executive clemency for le same reason as moved him to reise the petition that came from wc dgefleld. No papers were filed from '01 rangeburg. A petition may later un 3 presented for the pardon of Jones, inl at it can bo authoritatively stated lat Governor Illease will not now, ft-1 ever, pardon John J. Jones. Hartsville flaw Trebled. According to census returns made eni ublic Tuesday, Hartsville has in eased its population from 704 in 000 to 2,365 in 1910. It will thus a o seen that the Darlington county inJ )wn is more than three times its size hit ?n years ago. loc THE LILY WHITES # Republicans Wiii Hild Meeting Soon in Columbia to Powwow. CALL HAS BEEN ISSUED Capers Approves of the Call and En dorses the Meeting?It Came From Secretary I>an Wallace and State Chairman Leumas Hlalock?No Negroes Will lie there. The Record says there will be held in Columbia on Wednesday, April 12, i meeting of the executive committee of the new "Lily White" Republican organization in this State. The ^all reads: "In further connection with the organization of the Republican party of South Carolina, perfected in the contention assembled in the city of Coumbia on October 27, last, a meetng of the State Republican executive committee and also a meeting of the State Republican central committee s hereby called to meet in the rooms 'jf the undersigned, State chairman, n the city of Columbia at 12 o'clock Wednesday, April 12, (Columbia Moel.) Please be present. Respect'ullv. "D. H. Wallace. Secretary rreasurer." "Countersigned and approved: L. tV. C. Blalock, State Chairman." "The organization of the Republican party referred to in the above notice and the call for a meeting of :he executive and the State central committees meets with my hearty approval. "John G. Capers. 'South Carolina Member, Republican National CommiUee." The notice is sent out on paper Steaded: "John G. Capers, general counselor of the National Republican league, md a member of the Republican naional committee. L. W. Blalock, State chairman, Goldville: I. H. Nor is, vice president, Yorkville; Dan H. Wallace, secretary-treasurer, Hoptins." The Republicans in this State ormed a "new party" for South Car>lina at the meeting last fall, refusng to acknowledge the colored organization in this State. There was luite a split in the camp of the Kemblicans. Two sets of meetings were leld. There are at present two State hairmen, the one for the "Lily Vhites" and the one for the organiation that for the moat part consistid of negroes, whose meeting wa-. leld here two weeks prior to the neeting of the John G. Capers crowd. Secretary Wallace is the son of the ate Judge W. H. Wallace of lTnion, peaker of the famous "Wallace louse." ? LIVE STOCK AGENT. ^ , Southern Railway Appoints Mr. E. L. Word to tlio Position. A dispatch from Washington, D. C?? ays: In pursuance of the policy of he Southern Railway Company to ncourage the growing of live stock a the territory traversed by its lines, / he appointment of Mr. F. L. Word he position of Live Stock Age^t<\/v " hat company will soon be made.-* lr. Word is to devote his/entire line to the encouragement |Of live tock growing in agricultural continuities along the lines of t^e coinany, to the dissemination of inforlation as to the growing of live tock of all kinds that will be helpll to farmers, to supplying informaon relative to markets and facilies for shipment, and to developing io business of shipping cattle into lose localities along the lines of the tmpany where they can be most adintageously fed for the market. He also to give attention to the matr of facilities for feeding live stock i transit. ? JAPANESE ENVOY SILENT. uroii lYIiidu Won't Discuss a Story Alri'jnlv Dollied. Huron Uchlda, Japanese ambassa>r, Thursday declined to comment i or even to deny the declaration :ide Wednesday in El Paso by a man id to be close to the Mexican for^n oftioe, but whose name was withld, to the effect that the United ates troops were sent to the border a caution to Japan, which countv, it was rumored was attempting secure a coaling station on the Pale coast of Mexico. The ambassador declared that ho >uld not deny an old story which lg since had been officially declared true. No comment was forthcom? from the Mexican embassy, where 3 story was laughed at as a "bug)oo." ? tiiven Damages. A f P/vIn l\l a T) AKoi?f Vf l)f*vh nf r\ t vuiumuia ivi/uui t ift? > 'i j i?u v| gineer for the Atlantic Coast Line, 10 sued the Southern railway for 0,000, was Thursday awarded by Richland jury $4,458, because of uries received when his engine was at Royster Junction by a Southern omotive. ( \ ' s