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l)IHI.K!iH! u i SOUTH CAROLINA NO! VWi IN ITS MILHIA TRHlliM NO AIU Til ARKANSAS Arizona is Also About to Lose I lor ' Federal Assistance?Secretary liar- , rison is Kij^lit in Heliind the Slack .>1 ilitia ('oiiiiiniiiov ii!voi-vi..iw ?- 1 i- ."v. j mirir, gardless of States. The recent mix-up between Governor Please and Secretary Garrison, of the United States war department, is the occasion for the following editorial comment which appeared i 11 the Washington Post: "Secretary Garrison's policy in urging governors of states to organize and develop the state militia in conformity with the Dick law gives promise of a shaking up that will do the militia establishment a world of good. The secretary's sharp note of warning to Governor Please that unless the South Carolina militia observed the provisions of the Dick law, federal aid would be withdrawn, and the governor's promptness in wiring that the law would be obeyed, has aroused general interest in the matter, and led to additional disclosures, of indifference and neglect on the part of many states. "So universal is slack obedience that only two of the states Michigan and Wisconsin?have faithfully adhered to the requirements of the statutes. Arkansas has forfeited fedoral aid on account of failure to establish satisfactory conditions, and Arizona is about to be disciplined for failing to account for equipment loan ?ed by the war department. A considerable quantity has been lost he yond recovery, and much more is uncared for. Part of the blame rests with the Arkansas legislature for failing to make the necessary appropriation. One besetting sin of militia authorities is the appointment of ' too many staff and line ofllcors. It is noticeable that although the regiments may fall short of the rekuired number of companies the full quota of officers is invariably maintained. Naturally, it is not to he expected ' that the national militia arm will ever attain the sate of efficiency con- * templated in the enactment, of the Dicklaw without the loyal and hearty 1 co-operation of the state organizations. Our young men lack nothing in incentive and the military spirit, but nothing short of continuous and 1 systematic drill and discipline will ever find them prepared and able to 1 give a good account of themselves in 1 the hour of emergency. Secretary ( Harrison's circular letter to the governors of all states urging closer en- 1 foroement of the Dick law and the < emnhasis given his instructions by his t telegram to Governor Mease are well I calculated to start the ball rolling." , * SMITH ON 1IIS JOil. Hefuses Speaking Engagements I'ntil Ttariff is Reformed. 1 Senator E. D. Smith has received j many invitations asking him to speak ^ at different points in South Carolina ( In the near future to explain his bills j as to regulating the sale of cotton { for future delivery and to check the advance of the lx>l 1 weevil, in which j there is so much interest. lie has ^ written his correspondents that as { the tariff bill is now .before the sen ate and it is imperative that every j Democratic senator remain at his ^ post until that bill is disposed of it f will bo impossible for him to make ^ any more speaking engagements until ? after the final passage of the bill. ?^^ The Day of Large Ships. ^ The Imperator is the last word in r ocean steamships, but how long it , may continue to be the last word is uncertain. In size, structure, equipment and furnishings it would seem to the average man that nothing can ^ excel the Imperator. The description of her state rooms, saloons, \ palm rooms and other conveniences j and luxuries reads like a chapter out of the Arabian Nights. And yet in ^ all likelihood the Imperator will be as much out-distanced within the ^ next three years as she has out-dis- . tanced the ships which before her advent held the palm. Probably the greatest advance will be in size and structural efficiency, for other things being equal the larger the boat the a cheaper relatively It can be sailed, f and the greater the security for the n passengers. A few years ago some ' people who posed as experts said that it would be impossible for ships of 1' any greater length to be constructed because, so they said, such a boat would break its back. They seemed to forget that the water bouys up a C ship evenly from stem to stern, if any Si limit is reached in the size of a ship f( it will be due to insufficient harbor- si ago and dockage. c b llolwls Kill Mail Carrier, Word reached Doming, N. M., Thursday by courier of the murder by Mexican rebels near Columbus, on K the Mexican border, of the United f< States mall carrier operating between T Columbus and Doming. P CALLS MULHALL A FRAUD ['AN 1)1 DATK FOR llOI'SK HOWKVr.K, ADMI TS HKTTINU AID. M Says Mtilhall Was Not Ilis Manager, llut Has to Admit That Manufac(lints' Agent Worked for Him. S. Wood McClave, ltepu.blican candidate for Congress in a special elee- T tion to be held in the Sixth New .Jersey district Tuesday, went to Washington Friday night and told the Senate lobby investigating committee that Martin M. Mulhall, late "lobbyist" for the National Association of Manufacturers, had perjured himself in his testimony before the committee. s McClave denied emphatically that j, Mulhall had raised or ..pent money OJ for him, had managed his campaign, (p or had been his close companion and p, associate during his fight against ,\ William Hughes for the Sixth (lis- e, trict nomination in 11) 1 0. Mulhall, the witness swore, came ^ unknown to him in his otlice in New York city in 1910, introduced himself and said he wanted to help him. "It ^ looks as if you were going to get the nomination," he quoted Mulhall as saying, "and 1 wanted to know how 111 you stood on public questions." McGlave said he replied that he ('( stood for protection and fair dealing to labor, and that Mulhall responded, " "our organization stands for the same thing and wants to help you." 1' He added that Mulhall insisted upon two rooms in Paterson as headquarters. but that he visited them 11 only a few times and then saw a newspaper man. The witness said he had letters from Vice-President Sherman, Congressman Gardner and others. "It ^ was my first experience," he added, J* "and I supposed that a man cm dors- 11 ed by such men must be all right." McClave had been held up to the a committee by Mulhall as one whose meal checks and other expenses Mul- '' hal had continuously paid and for whom Mulhall raised and spent more than $3,r>0 0. This McClave vigorously denied. McClave said he could s obtain no aid from the Republican national committee and that when ?( Mulhall came as the representative of 11 the National Association of Manufac- ai turers he said he was willing to ac- " cept their assistance. _ "What was the National Associa- V1 ion of Manufacturers to get in return for he mrtney it spent?" asked Senator Walsh. "It was going to get a Representa tivo in the American Congress who ()' was in favor of protection to Amori- 1' can industries," replied McClave. Cf lie added that it had been said sc that William Hughes, his opponent, now Senator, had received a $5,000 ni campaign fund from the American 2i Federation of Labor and that he felt 01 it was entirely proper for him to accept aid from the Manufacturers' As- V 30ciation. ? In WAITS FIFTY YEARS. (If * N rhen Sues Lover for $25,000 for n< Failure to Come for Her. hi Miss Emma Mahaney, sixty-seven ei rears old, of Wooster, Ohio, asks a cc tieart balm of $25,000 from John ni ATolff, a seventy-seven-year-old vet- cc cran of tho civil war and a retired ar nerchant, in papers which have been ti< served upon him at that place. e\ Miss Mahaney asserts that, she has fo lot seen Mr. Wolff since their separation in '63, when he went to the In ront, after, it is alleged, ho had pro- so losed to her. She says she was wait- m id fifty years in the hope that her F< iweetheart of youthful days would "f lonie day wed her, and that she wan th ecently encouraged by a second pro- su >osal of marriage by mail, but later uj eceived word that the marriage "t vould never take place. She has for- pc varded scores of alleged love letters, nany of them containing poems. fir ? wl Dies i<rom I'ecuiiar Accident. te John C. Kay, a well known mer- Pfl hant of Helton, died at Anderson ur '"riday at the hospital following an iceident Thursday. He went into the *K ard at his home Thursday morning ^ o investigate a noise among his hickens and was returning to the louse with his pistol when he stum>led on the steps, and the weapon ^* leing discharged and the ball enter- er ag his abdomen. +, ? +, tei Freezes in Summer Time. c'f Hugo Meisner, a young helper in HO' (Brooklyn ice plant, was found frozn to death in a compartment which e had entered to adjust machinery. lis body was stiff and stark. The emperature on the street was at tho wr Ime nearly 80. ? f01 Killed Under Five Tons of Sand. Kobert McDonald, of New London, j onn., was instantly killed when the no and truck, of which ho was chaufMir, save wav and lot fiv tons of * cai and fall upon him. Ho had crawlw r d under the truck to locate a trou, BW le. . de ? or Negro's lfead l>eflects Hullet. .. tin A bullet fired at George Worn, a ?f. ansas City negro, glanced off his pc >rehead and wounded Mrs. Edward gp . Smith, sixty years old, who was assing In a street car. ^ KICK AND RACY ULHALL TELLS OF ATTEMPT TO BRIBE GOMPERS EADS OTHER LETTERS heso Showed How the Heneflciarlc* of the TarifT llel|Hsl the ltepuhllnn>% i e i 1 *<? > x <iiiuuiiim-? u?r * engross and President Who Thoy Know Would Make the Tarilt Higher. Martin M. Mulhall Friday gave the mate lobby investigating committee is story of the alleged effort in 1907 * 1908 to bribe Samuel Cionipers to 3sert the cause of labor and sup3rt the policies advocated by tliti ational Association of Manufactures. Mulhall said be bad l)oon referred y VanCleave and Schwedtman to r. Brownoll. in New York, who aimed to be conducting a publicity ureau for the Association. Brownoll told him, be said, that a lan named Brandonberg was followig (lompers; that they had a plan xed up by which they expected tc get" the labor leader; and that ley were positive they could not ill. Mulhall said he warned them icy would not succeed and later adised VanCleave to the same effect. VanCleave loft New York sudden\ the witness said, after tolling him lat he had nearly "fallen into a ap". "He said they wanted him tc o down-town to meet those people, ut he got a tip not to go," added [ulliaJl. "lie told me he thought rownell had more sense than to gc ito trap of that kind." Letters identified Friday covered wide range of activity, but centred liefiv about the campaign in Indiana 1 1908, when Mulhall, according tc ie documents, was working in clost ^-operation with Congressman Jas , Watson and with national and late Republican leaders. Mulhall told the committee he rais1 $5,500 for that campaign. One ol ie letters referred to this amount ud another mentioned a list of manfactoring concerns in South Rend, ie proprietors of which had .been sited by Mulhall in company with eter Kline, deputy factory inspec>r for that district. "In an interview I bad with Mr. erry and other large business men ? this section, they clearly stated ley were jumping the law as far as irporations are concerned in subiribing to our campaign funds," lid Mulhall in a letter to Sclnvedtan from Indianapolis, September 5, 1 908. "There are a hundred and ie ways to get around that and we 1 know that I can not see why Mr. anCleave can not go around it just i well as the large manufacturers ere." Correspondence read late in the ly showed that the Indianapolis ews had identified Mulhall as collected with the Manufacturers' Asiciation in September and had "ought the matter Into public disission. Mulhall laughingly told the immittee that the local, State and itional campaign managers had insistently denied that they knew lything about any work by the Manual Association of Manufacturers ren after work had been going on r nearly a year in Indiana. In a letter to John Kirby Jr., from idianapolis, just after some of the -called Archbold letters had been ade public, referring to Senator nrakcr, Mulhall said he still had aith in Ohio's great Senator," and ougnt he would win. He expressed irprise that Roosevelt was stirring > the Standard Oil matter, and said he President is playing very poor ditics". "Instead of gaining votes he wIM id on the 3rd of Novem.ber that it 111 he a losing game," said the letr. "Even the Standard Oil Commy has its friends, and I can not iderstand why a man of his stripe 111 think it is a crime for a man to mostly work for a corporation of at kind." The Citizen's Iindustrial Associa>11 of America, with C. W. Post as i president, and many ofhcers of the itional Association of Manufacturs on its list figured prominently in iday'a proceedings. Several letrs on the stationery of this Assoitton, and signed "James A. Emery, cretary," were read and Senatoi >ed suggested it was a "halfjbroth" to the 'Manufacturers' Assoeia?n. One of the letters said "Watson is not only the greatest help to us rsonally but ho represented all the rces that did help us, and I pernally believe that we need friends Congress far more than anywhere io. Mr. Taft's labor statements are t at all encouraging." Mulhall went hack Friday to the mpalgn of 1008. Rehwedtman oto him on August 17 that year, he nrn Uiof r? r. ur a r\ *1 1 * V, vmtv UVHD|UI|ID| I I I I > I ? I I It; M , l!VI" ntly emanating from Democratic labor union headquarters, stated it the National Association of Manicturers, as well as the Amorlcan deration cf Labor, was opposing eaker Cannon. "Schwedtman said ho thought he suld write to the Speaker that Mul hall had definite instructions to give attention to the Speaker's district ahead of anything else," and that the Association would concentrate all its energies in his favor if "there is the j slightest occasion for it." Mulhall wrote the lato Henry C. Loudenslager, secretary of the national Republican committee, on August 21, 1908, about help the National Association of Manufacturers I could and would give. He said: "We are doing active campaign work in New Jersey, in Pennsylvania dis? t ~ ~ 1 ? ? uiviii, una would no glad lo aid in 1 the Indiana district." lie added: "We have got workers covering several districts in New York and i Maryland and have written to most every large city throughout the Union to our members for information covering the districts in their section." Mulhall swore lie believed > the activity of the National Associai tion of Manufacturers swung the election of Congressman Coudrey, in i Missouri, in 1908. Sellwedtman wrote Mulhall on Au> gust 26 about the situation in Indiana. which lie said was "very citical", and added "if we win, most of I the credit will lie due to your good ? work." > "This is appreciated by everybody that knows you. and if some of our political friends should forget it later t on. 1 want to take a trip with you into Indiana for the specific purpose ! of laying these good people over our , knees and giving them the kind of a v spanking they ougli to have. They must never forget what the National i Association of .Manufacturers is doing for them, through its commanding political representative, Col. M . M. Mulhall." i Mulhall in August was evidently i centering his light in Indiana and in , Wisconsin, where John .1. Jenkins was up for re-election. The WiseonI sin fight was worrying the National Association of Manufacturers' lead , ers, the letters showed, although the National Brewers' Association, thru I its national chairman, told Mulhall I it was "their fight". L Edward I lines, the Chicago lum, berman, who figured in the Uorimer , case, came into the hearing again Friday. Mulhall swore that a letter I from iiines on August 27, to the National Association of Manufacturers . had been turned over him. It. it. Hlnes spoke of the hard fight in the lltli Wisconsin, and mentioned a . promise to send $1,000 by Mulhall, which nines personally was to see "wqnt into the right channel to bo used for legitimate purposes" in the . Jenkins district. Schwedtman wrote Mulhall on August 28: "There is mighty little in this world that is worth having more than i the confidence of your friends and . the respect of all honest people. And, indeed, you and 1 would not he worth the friendship being shown us by tho greatest men in (lie country (our chief and our associates) were we to , work less and and faithfully than are now doing. When I say 'the greatest men in the country', I make ( no exceptions. I don't consider Teddy nor Taft, nor Sherman, nor For, aker, nor the rest of those great men i equal to VanCleave, Perry, Kirby, . and the others who have given freely of their enegy and their money to tho great cause which is expected in the principles of the National Asso, elation of Manufacturers." A letter, September 1, 1908, from ('. H. Anthony, vice-president of the Manufacturers, to VanCleave asked if there was any way for the Association to aid "our good friend, the Hon. Edwin Denby, of tho 1st Michigan district"; it added tho suggestion was made without tho knowledge of Denby. An unsigned letter to Anthony dated September 3, which Mulhall said was from President VanCleave, said "we must, of course, do all that is in our power for Mr. Denby"*. September 1 t, 1908, Mulhall wrote to Schwedtman about a visit to Cincinnati and breakfast with A. I. M m.. r a ?^ ~ \? t ~ o - ? ~ ?* > ui yn, mr. liiliH cuim ui HLilll . "Vorays was an entirely difforent man to what he was in Chicago," the letter added. "He is more than anxious to have pome of our people actively to work. I convinced Vorys that if he wished (o get a large percentage of our organization busy he had better get Judge Taft to get in communication with Mr. VanCleave, Mr. Parry, Mr. Kirby, Mr. Schwedtman and the other leaders. This he claimed he would bring about in the very near future and wanted me to aid him." , ? ? ? PASSES SMITH'S HIM,. * Senate to Investigate Kaise in Price of Jute Magging. The sen.ate Friday passed Senator 10. I). Smith's resolution ordering the department of commerce to make an investigation into the cause of the increase of two cents a yard in the price of jute bagging within the neat year. Senator Smoot and other Republican senators objected to the inqury, saying there was no need for it, but tho resolution was agreed to by a good vote. The department of commerce is directed to proceed with the examination at once. It is estimated that tho increase in the cost of bagging means a tax ; of nearly $2,000,000 a year on the ] farmers of the South. The increase | in the cost of ties is to be investi- 5 gated also. ] DEFENDS MEASURt ? ? SENATOR THOMAS REPUDIATES CHARGES AGAINST TARIFF WILL CAUSE NO PANIC Colorado S?Miafor hi.iitm-u ui....... _ . . f ? n kilim | ' Speech (<? Senate, llt'fi'iTitiK to Wall Street hkh thr "Monte t'arlo of Finance"?.John Sharp Williams Also Takes a Ham!. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Colorado, and member of the Senate finance committee, in a speech in the Senate Tuesday defended the Wilson tariff hill of 1 893 from responsibility for the financial panic which followed it and ehargod former President Cleveland and the New York hanks with conspiracy to precipitate a ral amity in order to force repeal of the Sherman silver act. Though denouncing the Wilson hill of that time as "a most miserable pretense of tariff reform," he attempted to (dear its skirts and in the course of a vitriolic address branded the New York stock exchange as the most prodigious gambling hoi I of any ago. I Referring to threats now being | made that, "the enactment of the t'n| derwood bill into law will ho a congressional sentence of death to business prosperity, Senator Thomas reiterated his charge of the bankers' plot to bring on the panic of 1893. After reviewing its history he said: "There can be no denial of the origin and purpose of this frightful I calamity. Mr. Cleveland and the New York banks conspired to wreck the progress and prosperity of the nation that they might be rid of an unwelcome law. "The Wilson law was the most miserable pretense of tariff reform ever placed upon our statute books. It was eviscerated by the Senate, agreed to by the House only because its long and disgraceful sojourn through the upper chamber had disgusted the people with the very thought, of tariff reform, and repudiated by the president as a thing fraught with party perfidy, and national dishonor. "Hut wretched as it was it. can plead 'not guilty' to the charge of bringing disaster to the country." He reviewed at length the history in the Cleveland administration of this effort to repeal the silver bill and Hie manipulations of Wall street and other bankers to bring on trouble in order to force the issue. Describing the New York stock exchange as one of the agencies in bringing on the panic, Senator Thomas referred to it. as "the Monte Carlo of American finance, the most prodigious gambling hell of this or any preceding age." "It. is the swindler's paradise," he continued. "It is a huge vampire that sucks the blood from the arteries of industry. It is an unincorporated, irresponsible monstrosity. It is beyond the pale of laws. Its votaries pay it homage without transgressing any command, for there Is nothing like it in heaven, on earth or in the waters under the earth. It is the antithesis of fair dealing and common honesty. It has sanctified speculation. It is the most pernicious influence In the land." Predicting the re-enactment of no such trouble at this time, the senator concluded: "If disaster, whose coming is now so freely predicted, shall overtake us In the near future, it will be caused not by the enactment of the pending revision mil, but by tbo same influences which produced it before. I do not say they will do it. I do not think they will do it. They have no partnership with the administration. That has been dissolved by the people." When Senator Thomas concluded Senator Chilton of West Virginia had read from the record a speech made in the Senate by Senator La Follette during debate on the wool bill in 1011, in which the Wisconsin senator said anybody with any knowledge of the subject knew that the Wilson bill had nothing to do with the panic of 1800. "I had that read," said Senator Chilton, "because Senator Thomas has dug the grave of this argument. Senator La Follette erected the tombstone, and T wanted him represented at the obsequies." Senator Smoot took the flooi. "There is no doubt in my mind now," ho declared, "but what the passage of the Wilson bill was the means of bringing to this country a great drtal of the suffering that came to the working people of this country at that time and if conditions were the same now as then, I <i > not doubt that the passage of the present tariff bill will bring the same result." Senator Williams of Mississippi said tho people at last had found out that tho Republican argument that tho Wilson hill brought on tho great panic was a lie. Denver a Market for Ants. Denver has shipped over 30.000 ants within the last two weeks. The Insects are used by a Californian scientist to demonstrate the effectiveness of a new powder he has made for killing them. SENATE SITS ON BRISTOW I A IIP< HOPS ON IlltY \\ ANl> HAS HIS I OWN HKCOICH CKITK'ISKU. I tr is tow Resolution of Inquiry is i Heat, Making the Author Very Soro i 6 Some Interesting Accusations. Secretary liryan'B policy of lectur- ~~ i ink in iiis vacation time involved the i- ?... .11 11<im in a oilier controversy Friday. It began when Senator Bris- onj, tow, ignoring the defeat of his reso- * lntion directed ut Mr. Bryan's action, 01 1 insisted upon being heard in severe 3. criticism of the Cabinet ofllcer. 235 Before tho debate ended, charges 25)H and countercharges between Sena- BIS tors on the two sides of the chamber 207 had brought the Senate to a high 252 pitch of excitement. Senator Ashurst 514 produced an old letter of Senator (>22 Bristow's, which he declared indlcat- 127 ed that Mr. Bristow in 1906 had 2H2 been perfectly willing to take a Fed- '221 i oral position and devote only part of liis time to It. uld Senator Bristow retorted with tho charge that Senator Ashurst had spent over $ t 09 of public funds sending private telegrams that should iopp have been paid for from his own 22 i pocket, a charge denied by Senator ([ 1 Ashurst. but which Senator Bristow usi? agreed to prove by producing original telegrams that had been paid for out of Senate funds. von From these personal accusations, ray the debate went into the general 1 field of public lecturing and writing, and Democratic Senators called at- > tent Ion to tho Chautauqua platform work of Senator Bristow and many others, and to the newspaper writing , that Senator Bristow had done during 4 the last Baltimore Convention. Tho , Kansas Senator emphatically declar- ^ ed that ho had never neglected the duties of his office. , "I am not on trial here," he said. . j\j "I simply want to show that people w<)1 who live fn glass houses should not . j(, , throw stones," said Senator .Tames. Senators Bristow, Townsend, Fall and others attacked in strong language the action of Secretary Bryan in delivering paid lectures during a time when they claimed nnhiin , M UWO| lions required his close attention to Wi the affairs of the State department. The Rristow resolution introduced on Tuesday, calling upon the President to state what salary would secure all of Secretary Rrynn's time 0i was tabled by a vote of 11 to 2ff, as soon as it came up Friday, all the Democrats and Senator Tiorah and Senator Poindexter opposing it. ^ A prepared attack upon Secretary 0 Hryan's action by Senator Townsend, and an extensivo defence by Senator Lewis, illumined the oratory . of the day. Senator Townsend inslsted the example of the Secretary * in selling his time for private gain, when it had already been sold to the Government, was unwholesome for id i the entire country. Q Senator Lewis asked when the Senator from Kansas and the Senator ooe p, j Cj from Michigan had become so "subt k * 1 |' ly Inoculated with a comprehension ' of the dangers" of a public ofTleial spending his vacation addressing the people on questions of vital interest to them. Tie said it could not have been when a Republican President was campaigning at the expense of the taxpayers. "Where was the voico of protest when a post office official turned hlmRelf into a great political machine to j \ elect another public official to the ,h, 1 Presidency?" he inquired. "Where was the voice when Major Ray aban- jbat doncd his post In the army to engage and In political work in Chicago for a ra Presidential candidate? Why were he the voices of the Senators silent C'a men: was it because those men cot wero not Democrats? Whore was the to voice when officials of previous ad- 'oar ministrations wero speculating on fs I tho stock market. and on tariff bills?" ^os . , t t nds DOURLF K1 LLI N<? IN FIX)RTDA. hu? mpa * but Father and His Daughter's Sweet- less heart Fight Fatal Duel. ^in Montbrook, a small place north of ^ , Dunnellon, Fla., was tho scene of a 1 1101 double killing Friday, when, in a pistol duel between T. D. Howard, of ~ Lakeland, and R. W. King, of Montbrook, both men were killed. Vy Tho shooting occurred at eleven /// o'clock and was the result of an al- ^ loged quarrel over King's daughter, to whom TToward had been paying attentions, and to which, it is alleged, the father objected. Roth began shooting ot the same timo and each killed the other instantly. Howard went to Montbrook al>out three years ago from Maxwell, N. C., and was a flagman on the Atlantic Coast Lin? Railway. He had no relatives there. Fire Traps Three. 3?1 Two young men and a girl, trappod on tho sixth Moor of a burning loft building in West Twentieth ;Co street, Mow York, Friday, stood helploss amid tho flames until their clothing took fire. Tho three were badly burned and with three others were taken to hospitals. Millionaire Kntertains Many. Twenty thousand Kansas children were guests Friday of Italic P. Wag- Vyy goner, a millionaire railroad man of V? Atkinson, Kas., at his annual children's picnic. of 1 * ~ > ;