University of South Carolina Libraries
TELLS AWFUL TAIfSfi SOME IQIfilBLE SCEMS BEfOU ABBIANOPLE . ' . .= , . ' CBdilKA PLAYS HAVOC f" A Turkish Officer Who Was Captured. 1 l( Describes the Brave Heroic Fight < of the hungry Turkisfi Boldlers [ Against the Fiery Bulgarian Mon- i i f uter Before tlie Doomed City. I A special cable dispatch to the New J York World from Vienna says Lieut. , .Wagner, the Reichpost correspondent( at the front, wires his paper as fol-j loi.-o .I--, headquarters of the ( Bulgarian army: 1 'Hie uiiucii against the Turkish 1 centre on both sides of Chatalja and the advance in the north are making 1 favorable progress. In the last few ' days the Turks have been driven from ' all advanced positions, but the beginning of (he main attack is delayed for a couple of days. This is due to a heavy rain which has lasted for sev ?r;n (lays, causing auncuities in bringing up ammunition and the drawing of refnforcements and heavy artlliefy from Vlrianople. The fighting is all very violent. I had a talk with Malor Nahll Hey, who was cap- 1 tured during the last sortie at Adrlanople and wounded in the left hreast with a spl'nter from a shell. He told me: I During the last days the flre of the heavy Bulgarian guns wero unendur-J able in Adrianople. In front of the In trench men 9 the earth was furrowed to the depth of a yard. Owing to the sunerior range of the enemy's ( guns our artillery was unable to reach them and we decided upon a flight, attack with fourteen battalions ' from Karng'us. | ; "It was a dismal night and the storm bowled. ** had heen a dull,1 ralnv dnv and all aDernoon the men 1 had been lying in the wet and mud of the trenches. Twice the oroer was given to advance and twice counter> mended. It wa^ a terrible trtaT of nerves for the officers to explain the withdrawal of the orders to the grumbling men who. two days de-| tached fro .1 the northeast, had only. -eaten b'scuits soaked In hot water. I "When the third order to advance came the men were tired and numb, .ond I saw whole companies lying down, deaf to the orders of the oTrers. Finally, two military imama ^succeeding in infusing a little couraeo Into the men and towards nine 1 -o'clock we began to move. "On the west front searchlights( constantly threw white light over the! Pi ain. We marched under cover of the thick darkness and after an nocr we came in contact with the Hulgarlan outnosts. At first there were a few iRolntel shots to the right and left from the trenches; then suddenTy as thouph these shots had kindled a ' vast explosion, we saw a ITne of firo -o^noRite and the Pulgarlan attacked liko a raelng monster. "The very first shots fell In oir ranks. This night battle was terr*- 1 b'e. The machine gun* rattled and; the field artillery blustered. We were uncertain of lho Rtreneth and dlrec-i tlon of the enemv'r counter attack. In I J the darkness, while moving over pathless ground cut by trenches In all directions, out reserves succeeded in petting forward nnd without knowing' ' where the enemy was they received an o^der to advance. In the darkness < nnmnt In.nn fnrn ^11' 11 n IT flactlOC rtf 1 rwiiri lllirn i wi ii vj r iiufii.mip, iiuuiivu w j fire wo d'd not know whetner we ehot the pnomy or our own men. i "Without mercv the Bmeartnn battery threw a death-dealing ball of projectiles over us. After another two bou-s we found ourselves withdrawing In a confused crowd, when pn'MptOv the hurrahs of the charging Tlulgnrlans rang out right and left. "\Tow hoean fearful mrnutes. It ^ "W"a as though angry ppirlfR hnd heen let loose on us. I found myself In the ml'at of a group on a narrow frotwny while the shells hurtled over un. I had a sudden feeling of heat In the bren?t and took a few more etens and after that knew nothlntr. I aweke nfl a prisoner In the hands of the ruilgnrlnnfl." The chole/a epidemic among the Turkish troops holding the line ofj fortifications at Tehatalla In front of Constantinople Is ranldly necomtng worse. Over 5A0 cases are renortod dnilv and the tot.il number already exceeds fl.OOO. W hatever hopes the Turks mav b*>ve had of maintaining the line of defense at TchatnMa have been dissipatei by this outbreak of cholera. An eye-witness declared that be paw corpses burled in one big trench at. Hademkeul, headnuarters of the Turkish commander-in-chief, on Tuesday. The bodies were draggled to the snot on hooks and dropped k. into thp treneb whleh wnR nor nearly enoueb for the purpose, the covering of earth being very shallow. ? A _ ' AVU'ie rnoicn is unnormTmni? rnnjif, Turkish defences. ft also constituted j n formidable opponent to the Thilirarlnn a 'vnn,'i and ft fa potiprally believed that the outbreak ha" d!?posed of the ouostlon of even a torn- ^ pora''v occunatlon of ronsrans* TnonTe ^ hv the nutcarlao treona. It Ts unlfketv that Fine: Ferdinand of Bulra- J rfa will risk the Uvea of bfa soldiers In this way If be can avoid It. 11 1 * * fr No Idlers In Atlanta. b T/oafera, both white and black, are v not wanted In Atlanta: In fact the fl chief of police has declared that ? 0 erybodv must po to work or pet out tl o?* town. Chief Beaver? means what be aays. This la hfs second crnsade. The first In which he closed the boneeg of Ml fame la fresh In the tl Winds of the Atlanta public. Now he n la determined to rid the city of nil r litem I LEADERS PLEASED f i .V' . ATPBOVK WIMON'8 PUR NOR ' AN EXTRA SESSION. I '*? ' ? . V * [Vmocrata ?We Oraml Approval. .7 t Rat McCumber, Btandpat Republican, Expresses Gloomy View. % ; ? ' , \ * . A Washington dispatch says general approval was voioed In Democratic circles over President-elect Wilson's decision to call an extra session of Congress to revise the tariff. The announcement was in line with tne almost universal recommendation of Senate and House leaders, and it met Instant response from Speaker Clark, Senator Williams, Wiliiani .T. Hryan and from Senator Dixon, Col. Roosevelt's campaign manager. Some Repulbican sentiment opposed to the spocial session was apparent among members in the Capital that night. Although the White Housn would not comment upon the announcement from New York, friends of the latter had hoped the Democrats would not bring on any further disturbances of business. Senator McCumbor, of North Dakota. Republican, expressed another Republican view, namely, that ho favored "getting it over with." In all Democratic circles tho extra session was strongly approved Congress will begin in a few weeks preparing for tho nrdous work of another tariff revision. Tne approaching short session, which ends March ? j t. ? V- - ? Tl w?tVv1 loo ri o rl m i n i C Till, W I1C* II I I Ml IVCJJ 11 Ulll.uil nuiui uin~ | tration goes out, will bo engrossed] with annual appropriation bills and routine business, but tho ways and means committee of the House will begin work on the new bills in Jan-, uary. J Democratic Leader Underwood, j ihairman of the ways and means committee, is expected in Washington next week. Members of this committee, chnrged with the duty of framing all tariff bills, agree with the posit on token by Phesident-elect Wilson that repeated investigations of tariff schedules have made naoessnry a long Investigation. The ways and means cnmmlttoe will begin January probably upon the wool, cotton or metal tariff buls. If tho plan adopted wn m the Democratic House began work two years asm, revising tho tariff schedule by schedule, Is adhered to, it is expected that several bills will l>e ready for introduction in the Hoiue as soon as the special seccion convenes. William J. Hryan, when informed of Governor Wilson's announcement, said: "I am very glad to h -uir that Governor Wilson has determined to coll an extra session. It was the wise thing to do. I expected that it would bo done." Renntor. John J?harp Williams, of Mississippi, long Democratlcleaderof the House and a Democratic leader in the Rennte. said: "I think we would be stultifying ourselves 11 arier puiting the revision bills up to a Repub-j Pcnn President, as wo did to President Taft last session, we should fati to show our purpose of putting up those necessary revision bills to a Democratic President. Perhaps some nmendmnts may be tuggested at; the evtra session to those bills to revise the tariff that already have passed Congress In the light of any information that mav have In the meantime developed. The sooner the tariff legislation can bo accomplished the better it will be for all concerned." Senator Dlxson, of Montana, chairman of the Progressive national committee, said: "T think Wilson has lone the wise thing In calling an extra session." "Will the Democrats receive the Bupnort of the Progressives in revlsng the tariff?" Mr. Dlxson was asked. "That will depend upon their performances,' he said. "There are about twenty-five Progressive members of the House who will caucus separately and be a separate political entity and no doubt fhey will be glad to support the Wrll'on program If It squares with their iwn hdlef. mm r>m bor th*? Procressl VOfl irp protectionists," added the Senator, laughing. Senator McCumber expressed the Republican view sayipg: "I suppose be sooner he starts the disturbance hp better. I do not think the Democrats will attempt to put through uich a measure as their platform mils for. I do not think they dare 1o it. Their platform declarations ivere all right to go before the petiole, but they know as well as we do hat such a revision of the tariff will iring consternation to the country. I >ever knew an extra session that did *ot defeat the man *rho called it. resident Taft had a doBe of lt.M - m DArGHTEIW AT WHITE HOlT8K. ^TMidont and Mrs. Taft Becel?e lT. I), C, fn tho East Room. A brilliant series of social fune1ons, centering about a reception by Resident Taft, marked Wednesday's rssion of the Convention of tlie Tnited Daughters of tho Confederacy. The President received nearly a bousnnd of tho Daughters In the. 'sst room of the White Mouse. He rns assisted by Mrs. Taft, and as the tsitors filed by, the President had a enrtv hnndshako and a work of reeting for each. A score of recepions, teas and dinners for various reune of the Daughters were given v Washington society women. Mrs. '.arfon Putler, -president of the Disrict of Columbia of the Daughters, ntertained the general offlceri of , organ tend len at. dinner. Fined S.kO for Killing Negro. Dick Cook, tried at T-oulsrilfo for shooting and killing of Thorns* 'oornt. another negro, was found utlty of a misdemeanor and fined and cost*. ^ i Hi BATTLE BASES T0EIS fKIT HARD TO SATE CONSTANTINOPLE CAUSE SEEM HOPELESS The Turks Rt'ly on Fear of l>eadly Cholera to I'revent the Bulgarians Entering Constantinople, But the Booming of the Guns of the Invaders Can Be Heard in the City. A cable dispatch from Constantinople says the great battle between the Bulgarians and Turks is on all along the line of the Tchatalja fortifications. Nazim Pasha, the Turkish commander-in-chief, sends the following dispatch: "The battle which commenced Sunday morning with an attack on Bulgarian infantry, lasted until one hour after sunset. The enemy, who advanced chiefly facing our right wing and our centre, was repulsed by our infantry and artillery fire. Three Bulgarian batteries were destroyed." All through the day the sound of heavy guns was heard in Constantinople. It ceased only with darkness. The firing along the entire line was evidently preparatory to an infantry attack. The Turkish batteries replied vigorously. The Turkish ships in the Sea of Marmora shelled the Bulgarian nositions. Undoubtedly the fleet in the Black Sea also tooK part in ho engagement, though details from that point are lacking. In the afternoon the wind shifted, and it seomod for a tlmo as though he battle had ended, but again the booming was heard, and the movement of troops could bo observed not far from the gatos to the Capital. A detachment of several thousand from the Tchatal'a lines was replaced by fresh troops, who had been hold tn reserves near the city. The refugees behind tho lines began breaking camp early in the day and moved back toward Constantinople. The Greek villagers heretofore had remained admirably indifferent to events, prepared to desert their homes. While calm prevailed hero was a deadly tension in tho knowledge that tho fate of tho Capital. the Turkish army and those who waited anxiously" in Constantinople was at stako. Several members of the legations and other foreign residents witnessed tho artillery duel, which they described as "magnificent", on tho Sea of Marmora, and the shelling from *?. A x _ 'i i ?i-A. ^ rtU/vi, iieigni. io iieigni y.cru?B in/un v-ziivn.medye Lake and over the plains towards the north. The flashes of the guns on both aides were visible to observers over miles of low country. Within the city every military precaution was taken. Pickets were posted at various points and patrols puarded the streets. The ambassadors held a meeting at the foreign ministry with the commanders of the Ottoman Gendarmerie and devised measures for the safety of foreigners. Thero are now more than a thousand cases of cholera dally in and around Constantinople and the death rate has reached 5 0 per cent. The authorities aro powerless to cope with the situation. On Thursday last 3.000 cholera patients arrived at Ran Stefano. Th?y would have been brought to Constantinople, hut for the protests or the railway company and the Austrian ambassador, who ask^d that hey be sent to the Lazarettos, at Pecos and Ismidt. For twenty-four hours the patients remained in the train on a siding at San Rtefano without water, food or medical attention. Then they were shipped to the quarantine station. If ! they had been of the lower order of animals they could not have been more neglected. Saturday a foreign doctor assisting In (lie military hospital discover od bv accident. that nve Romlors dvlng of cholera had boon placed among fhe wounded. He ordorod TTietr removal. Hearers took up the dying men on their shoulders, hut their condition was such that he ordered the hearers to drop them. This they llterallv did. and the unfortunates were left lying In the mud for an hour, groaning and In convulsions, before they were removed on stretchers. An extraordinary feature of conditions behind the Turkish lines at Chatalja la the Indifference of the army to the presence of unauthorized TlRltors. Any foreigner wearing either a fez or a European hat may hire a vehicle and drive to the Turkish entrenchments and Inspect the t ?*aa i\a n r.r,An tn kA r? ssny I I! WW|fO, 1 IIUI C n U I O I \J UO u\/ VUI don to prevent fugitives from returning to Constantinople. Several foreign officers, who visiten the lines Thursday nnd Friday, report the situation hopeless. The trenches ore only parMy dug. A huge j rile of barbed wire is stacked novr th( endangered northern wing, never ha' n r born put to use. TV? troop* for the most part are unable toi 1 work because cholera Infected soi-; diers are keeping watok in the earth t 1 works. Innumerable sick lie gron"-; ing In the fields to the rear, some of! 1 in their ln<?t agonies. Countless ehoiera Infected fugf- 1 fives rro straggling hack to the fanshaped road converging on Hadem-i ' keul from the outer forts. Thou-1 sards of patients and hundreds of 1 dead He on the ground around Had- emkeut. j At KrVos T rVo, the chief source of Constantinople's water supply, there | a as ft guard of soldiers, hut twelve < of them died and fifteen others were ffrtckon with cholera Thwsdey > nfght. There Is gr-af fp<> i whole wefee shed will he oontnmin^t- , ed. Involving Conetantinoplo In the : SAILORS ARE WELCOME . - . ; t TH(H fiAKDS 8KK CURAT KLKBT RXTKR THE Vf ARBOR, ' ? IIostA of People Are Going to Chaf> lettou to Take Part la the Festivities Down There. A special from, Charleston to T&e State says three divisions of the Atlantic fleet arrived in' port early Sunday afternoon, being welcomed by a crowd of many thousand people who lined the battery and the wharves as the big ships came into the harbor and proceeded to their anchorage ground, it was a magnificent sight to see the ocean leviathans as they steamed into port in single column formation, the somber business-like gxay color being lightened by the display of the .flags of the various fleet and ship officers and the signal colors as they floated in the breeze. The ships came through the new straight channel with a neap tide* and a north wind which did not add to the depth of water, yet there was an abundance of water. The North Dakota and the Utah, the heaviest draft ships, drawing 29.4 and 28.5 feet, respectively, came through the new straight channel which Is projected to take the place of the Cummlngs point range, with its two turns. The ships required no easing and thnt there was more than 34 feet at the minimum depth spoke well for the harbor, and. the fact was freely commented upon by the officers. The dredging of the channel is still under way and will prove especially useful to long big draft ships. Rear Admiral Osterhaus was officially visited by the committee on reception Sunday afternoon. The party was very cordially received aboard and entertained in the admiral's cabin. It was a particular pleasure to many of the committee to meet Capt. W. S. Henson, commanding officer of the ship, who is well known there, he having been ror a coupio or yearn inspector 01 me lighthouse department, and ho was as well pleased to meet his Charleston friends. The committee used II. P. Williams' launch, Vadie. The only visitors to the ships Sunday afternoon were those having business of an official character. Resides the committee on reception. Col Ludlow of the army post and Commandant Helm of the Charleston navy yard visited the vessels, paying their respects. The water front was literally black with people and the harbor was alive with moving craft of every description. It is estimated that not less than 25,000 saw the ships at anchor Sunday evening. Their launches were moving freely between the wharves and the city, several thousand seamen nro on the street and they are having a lively time in celebrating their leave. Charleston is already rapidly filling up with visitors. The hotel lobbies are lively places, and thero are many strangers on the streets. The Fair opened at 9:30 o'clock Monday with an address by Mayor Grace and the round of festivities tvHI Hn in full fnr n week with fV?o nav.il features occupying a prominent part in the program of thn week. The weather is ideal with indications of it continuing to he fair, and the propram will bo followed as already outlined. ? o. . . p, TAKEN OUT OF A MINE. ? Two Girls and Five Miners Saved from Awful Death. A dispatch froln Frisco, Utah, says two girls and five men were rescued from the Horn Silver mine Tuesday afternoon, after fourteen hours entombment three hundred feet below the surface of the ground. Tho party of seven was imprisoned in the mine by an explosion at ten o'clock the nieht before. From that hour until tho rescue next afternoon, miners, from the surface worked in fifteen minute shifts to clear away the mass of car*h and timbers that barred the entrance shaft. d n n (vlH/^rn r\ it Xf { r? a on 1 v\ ii UiUi^iiivi n 1*1 iii xu i v/1 \z 111 (i ii Roy Alexander, David Dnnkfl and Arnold Robinson, James Riley, John White and a CJreen miner, were on the three hundred feet level when there was a tremor, then a blast that snuffed out every candle, followed by a roar and quake. An earth slide had cloned the en-1 trance to the mine. Riley, a sh?ft| hoes, relighted his candle, hurried the party hack into the drift and Picked kin way toward a shaft. Finding the air pipes still in position, he tapped a signal to the men on top; and a little Inter waR able to make his voice heard through the pipe line. ... i . ... ? WANT TO CHANCE NAME. ? i 1'ennajivfinla Tovrti That Has Not a Republican Inhabitant. The town of Eighty-Four, Wash- ' ington County, Pa., wi.h a population | of 7 00, has never contained a Repub-j ( lienn voter. Once many years ago at, Republican wont, to tbo town to go into buslnepp, but d'd not remain un-| , li! election t'me. Rlyhty-Four took I Ma present name when Cleveland was elected president in 15?9 *. Previous to th/tt time It was known as FiftvF^iv, in honor of the election of President .lomes Pncbnnan. Now nftor< twenty years tbo r ?'dents propose to . petition tbo postmaster renewal to ' chance the rvnme of the postoffiee to Ninotr>rv~Twelve in honor of Wood- ! row Wilson's el?ct<on. I 1 i ( jravest dagger. t The throe phvslc'ans at Perwoa > have been unable to more than burv.f Hie dead. Turkish oncers regard further resistance at T-^hatsMa as r in*possible for the PulTnrlang K* oc- i "unv the Turkish positions without i ardangerlpg the whole Bulgarian ar- ? my through cholera. i SHOT ON HIGHWAY ATTEMPT TO ASSINATESAN BERRY IN AIKEN' MULE SHOT TO PIECES 0 * m : Suspecto Trailed by Bloodhounds and Arrested ? Confession Implicates Nino Others, Whites and Blacks? Intended Victim Escapes From Bullets by Taking Refuge in Foot of Buggy. A special from Aiken to Tko News and Courier says run down Saturday night, with Ave bloodhounds lroni the State penitentiary, and lodged behind the bars of the Aiken County jail Sunday morning, three negioes. Koxey Cantt, Washington Kennedy and Vance Quattlebaum, nave, it. is said, made confession to participation in an ambuscade Saturday night, between 7 and 8 o'clock, seven miles of Ridge Springs, in the Edisto Swamp, when Sam Berry, a prosperous colored farmer of that section, was waylaid and made tlie target of a fisillade of bullets from probably more than a dozen shotguns. Berry, who was driving in a ouggy, concealed himself In the foot of his vehicle, as soon pb the firing began, and sustained no wounds, but bis mule, rearing and charging, and breaking away from the velocity of ihp RhnnMnc. ur:iA litornllv shot to pieces. In confessing, it is said, the three incarcerated negroes implicate nine others, four prominent white men and fivo negroes. The white men are Daniel Williamson, Ted H. Dubose, Jim Barton and Arleigh Gregory, the latter a son of Mr. John Gregory, and a nephew of Mr. Giles Gregory, who is magistrate of that Aiken County district. The negroes are Harry and Bristow Mason, Lewis Thomas and Richard and Arthur Ken ner. Warrants was issued through Magistrate W. M. Smoak Sunday morning for the arrest of these other men, and Sheriff Raborn, Rural Policemen Musco Samuels and S. E. Holley, accompanied by tho posse who Saturday night ran down the threo negroes and lodged them in jail. Returned to the Ridgy section in an automobile at noon Sunday. Sam Berry, the victim of the ambuscade, came to Aiken with the posse who brought in the first squad of prisoners, and in an interview with The News and Courier correspondent obtained from Berry, the prisoners and the members of the posse, they| all agree virtually as to the general details of the affray. From the essential alleged details gathered through an extended interview, it seemed that Saturday night about 7 o'clock, a party, armed and prepared for their work, gathered 'n and about a bridge or mill dam over which Berry was to cross that night as he drove to his home, which was situated some r <1 ^ 1. 4 M J ? i J ? i x 1 iour or n vu it u 11 u r?"u yiuuo oisiani. Lying down in the deep grass, or concealing themselves in the dense shrubbery and behind trees, tho men waited. About 7:30, Berry, driving a niuloj and buggy, came driving up at a leisurely pace. As he approached the immediate vicinity of the ambuscade the mulo appeared to he apprehensive of some danger lurking in the shadows, grew restive and paused several times, and with each halt Berry applied the lash and urged the mule forward but lust as the animal came abreast of the lino of ambush ho swerved and lunged away. Simultaneously with this move there rang out a cry of "Halt! Halt!" and tho fusillade followed. Berry slipped Into the foot of his buggy and avoided the missiles, but. as Ptated above, the mule was riddled with lead. The alarm was given in short order, and mainly through the efforts of the negro attacked live bloodhounds from the State penitentiary were carried to the scene by Guard I G. Bobbins, in an automobile driven by E. C. McCreary, of Columbia. As they came through Ridge Sprin* Messrs. Bobbins and McCreary picked up Mr. L. Cumber, a deputy, drove on the the scene of the shooting and placed the dogs 011 the trail, having arrived within one hour and fifteen nilnnlno nl'tnr thnv rprnlvort tho lr<. formation nnd having driven fifty miles. The dogs took up the trail nnd after a Ion? chase of about t\v? 11ty-two miles, back and forth through the swamp lands trnd stubby undergrowth, tho throe negroes previously referred to were run to earth, confessed. It Is said, and implicated the others named. The motive for the attack is obBctre. Berry claims that it was simply the result of a long standing prejudice; that orce he informed the whites of that vicinity that members nf a negro secret order carried an arsenal in their quarters and planned (ho extermination of the whites, and that ever s'ijoo the negro?s have held i grudge against him; further, that there have been differences which r ore the outgrowth of a letter school fight amon?: <hr? blacks. Put there is vild to he still another side, which may hold the real motive at stake Perry, as stated before, is a negro of means, owns property and said at imrs to be hois'erous and overhoe** re, proms to %o much hnnressod with ilmsolf to such a degree that for the last four works ho has. It Is alleged, n various and sundry wavs. ondenv- < >rod to In*oroont pn' sion passage ivor a highway which crosses hi" 1 ^ronortv rloso to Ms residency that i vhltos and blacks have hoop snMoo*- i ?d to manr nnnorancos and humlHg- i 'ons when fhrv tried to ns?s thronrh ind It Is seld that of late Horry and ' ds ho"srhoM have severs] times n**?rnvatlncrlv fred rife shots over the I *>**,of the retr?*Mng nassere-hy ( (Vf^i these alleged facts In mind. It I \ t , * TARIFF TIK REVISED * y -<* . ? i. ^ v f ? FORM IT wax XARR IS; A WATTKB OF OONIBOFtW : ' 1 ? II ... f , 4 Leaders of Party _ Will Goafev a4 j ''i jf I ?i ?' length Before Taking Question Up With President-elect. -The form that tariff revision is to take before the special seshion 6f congress next spring has become a matter of strong individual opinion among Democratic senators and represesitatives now at Washington, ^representative Underwood, * Democratic house leader, who will, reach Washington this week, has given no indication as yet of Lis own plans, and it is expected that Democratic loaders will confer at length over the situation before advising Presidentelect Wilson of any tentative arrangements. Many members now ruvor a general bill, coveting many or all schedules of the tariff law, to be framed as a partial or complete substitute for tlio Payrie-Aldrich law. Those who advance this plan claim It would he the speediest way of fulfilling tariff pledges. Others favor combining In a single bill those measure passed during tho mnt iwo years, but vetoed by President Taft and the preparation of othei single scneauies to rorlow tliis measure. Unless the plan to revise trie entire tariff law in a single bill should bo adopted. It m believed democratic leaders will urge 'he calling Uie special session before April 15. That date was set by Presl,lnnl ? 1 ? ? * 1irll../.n n. It.-. ...? vv iipuii aa cut; i?u'"oi u ir~ j on which he would assemble the new congress. Democrats now in Washington believe the new house can begin work in March, soon after the present administration retires from power and ho organized an ! ready for the tariff legislation earlv in Anrll. It is expected tntu snort hearings will be given oy iti?* nouse ways and means committee 10 industries vltally affected by p<uposeu tai l IT changes. The extent of these members of the house who favor them, will not be such as to interfere with early uction on the tariff bills. The plans of distributing the various tariff schedules among subcommittees of the ways and means committee, which was resorted to last year, was found to operate satisfactorily both in saving time and in obtaining the information necessary to the work of the committee, and it is expected this expedient will be again adopted. Senator Gore expressed the opinion that the entire tarilt revision should bu com tided before next July, p??imi*v.i g the inaugural .on ??i* the tew sen* dales w ith the beginning < f the liscal year July 1. To secui*-* pertect cn-c i v i i-'ion between house nnd M.nate, Senator Gore said be probably won't: suggest a joint stejr ng committee of members of the t -vo bouses to act together during the approacnlng short session In the formulation o.-' a tariff measure for the extra session. in uku way, ne said. wo couia Insure the drawing of a bill that would receive the Mipport of both houses from the stiirt. saving the loss of much time in subsequent conferences." It is not the purpose of the ftepnblicans to allow the Democratic program to go through with remonstrance. They will ask hearings on many of the schedules and Repubtican senate lea 'ers expect to bd abio to make effective opposition in many instances. "The Democrats car. rget a free sugar hill through the senate.' said Senator Smoot of the finance committee. He based his prediction on the understanding the Louisiana senators are sure to oppose such a measure, and he said that there were other Pemorrats who would stand out aea'nst that and other contemplated changes. PLVNCKP OVER PKTOI1MCT5. Automobile Falls Some One Hundred mid Flftv Foot, An automobile containing four men and a woman tumbled backward over a 150-foot precipice at the edge of the Highland bou'evnrd in Rrooklyn Just before midnight Friday night, killing the woman, Mrs. Andrew Hold, and seriously in luring two of the men. The men wno declined to give their names, explaining that the chauffeus had lost control of bts car while attempting to turn It around on a narrow ronriwny. Mrs. Reld wflfi the wife of a Brooklyn manufacturer. Mr. Held declared that he knew nothing about the ride and was unaciuainted with the .Injured men who are held on a charge of homicide. After making this statement to the police Reld coll a peed. The two uninlured mate passengers escaped. Mrs. Raid's jewelry, valued at ffi.OOO, waa found In the pockets of one of the Injured men. i.* believed that the parties involved finally decided to take the matter into their own hands, with the above stated result. Whether they Intended to kill Rorry Is not clear. The nog?*oes In Jail wore nervous and svsnicious and it was imnossfhle to gather any very lurid storv from them. Two denied having runs: one admitted that ho r?*rrfrd a gun, but swore be did not fire it. In Aiken more prominence Is atfached to the f^ct that these whito prominently c^nnecto-i. were Involved In the aTalr, than the attack itself upon the negro and It Is probable that there wrv reallv he some d?en*eatrd motive behind the whole matter which has not yet been brought ?ut and the revelation of which rvay nredtice nufts an interesting stndy. rt 's also seated thai ord'nar'Jv the nee^ees are quiet, fellows and the two Masons are parMcntarlv well thought of by the wiite eltlaens ef the Ridge. n i i'sltm