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TELLS SORID TALE REPRESENTATIVE M'DERMOTT IS THE CH1EE FIGURE ? HE TOOK MUCH MONEY House Ijobby Coiiunitteo Start led by iM.srio.Niirrs ainuo in Testimony ef J. II. McMichaels, Dismissed l'agc, Who Says Representative From Illinois Threw llim Down. In a dramatic statement, .1. H. McMichaels, dismissed chief page of the 'House of Representatives, Saturday night presented to the House lobby investigating committee a sweeping charge of corruption against Representative James H. McDermott, of Illinois, for years his sponsor. With intense earnestness McMichaels, In picturesque language, corroborated the allegations of M. M. Mulhall against McDermott and made additional charges, at times shocking the committee and spectators with outbursts of profanity and slang. The witness declared that for years he had exerted every effort to support McDermott, had loaned him money, had helped him in his campaigns. Now, ho said, McDermott had "thrown him down" and he felt he must tell the truth. a- i'? 1 in uuuiuuii u) iii*3 cnarges already made, McMichaels swore that the Chicago Representative told him that he received $7,500 out of a fund of $10,000 raised hy the pawnbrokers of Washington to oppose a bill possed in the last Congress regulating interest rates in the District of Columbia. In this connection McMichaels told of a trip to New York, when McDermott conferred with a member of an association of brewers, and with George H. Horning, a local pawnbroker. Concluding his testimony McMichaels testified that Congressman McDermott since the Mulhall expose, had endeavored to get him to conceal McDermott's alleged part in the transaction. "I met McDermott in the hall of this office building," said McMichaels, his voice unsteady with emotion, "and ho said, 'My C.od, I am a ruined man. What am I going to do? Do you suppose anybody will believe this old guy?' I said to him, 'I've worked hard for you for six years, harder than I ever worked for any man. I tried to elevate you and help you to a big position.' I told him I had done all I could for him. He said, 'You've got nothing to lose, you don't live with your wife. I'm a Congressman and I've got a wife and children. Say you wrote these letters unbeknown to me and that I didn't know anything about it. Even if they prove that you committed perjury and forgery they can only send you down the river to the ark for two years and I'll pay you $100 a month while vou are there.' "I said to him, 'yes, you're willing to pay me $100 a month to go to jail for you, but you won't pay me the wages you honestly owe me. I've got eleven dollars in my pocket, that's all I've got to show for six years' work, but I won't do this for you." Apparently struggling to control himself, McMichaels told the committee of furnishing $75 to take Mulhall to Chicago to aid McDermott in the 1012 campaign. "Where did you get that money?" asked Representative Garrett. "My mother had just died," said McMichaels, "and T was executor for my mother's will. The money was in a hank here to the credit of. the estate and I gave Mulhall a check for it. T had to hustle to put it back. I never got any of it from McDermott." McMichaels told at length of making trips to various pawnbrokers in Washington to secure money either for McDermott or himself. "McDermott told me," he said, "that the pawnbrokers had raised $1 0,000 to fight the loan shark bill and later he told mo he got $7,000 out of It. When I asked him why he didn't pay me what he owed me with a part of it, he said, 'My God, man, I lifljl f r> nnv it nn rioUta nnrl I uitll ft \w r> $9,000.' " Tho witness said that he, McDermott. and Mulhall, after conferring at the Capitol, would adjourn to a dining room in a small hotel, near the Capitol, for "extended sessions". Tie described the room provided in the Capitol for tho conferences as a "good place to sleep off drunks". "Mow would you or McDormott know about the other having money after these conferences?" said Chairman Garrett. "We'd just smile at each other," he said. "Both of us was careful not to let the other know about how much money we had. If Mulhall gave me two hills I'd hide the larger one and flash the smaller one, because every time I flashed anything over two dollars he conned half of it. Ife would go to the cashier and give him his money and draw two dollars and come back to where T was. He'd say to the cashier, 'For God's sake don't let Mac see this.' We were both doing this." Attempts by Mulhall to dispose of a collection of affidavits, which, McMlchaels said showed that Burns' detectives had committed perjury in a uif"1/ .... _ i \ counterfeiting case, were detailed at length. After Mulliall had left the National Association of Manufacturers, the witness said, these affidavits were offered to the corps of attorneys defending former Senator Lorimer in the Senate for the purpose of discrediting the evidence of Burns' detectives. Later, he added, he and Mulliall tried to get McDerinott to turn over the affidavits and other documents in Mulhall's possession, including the pnrrfisnnnilonoo . ~?ru..uv>ivo i cv.cmi> lllUUU public, to a committee of the House, to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and to Clarence Harrow, defending the McNamara brothers in the dynamiting cases on the Pacific coast. McMlchaels told of a conference early in 1912, at a saloon near the Capitol, when he said he, McDermott and Mulhall drew up a resolution providing for the publication of the Mulhall correspondence and documents. He said that McDermott agreed to see Speaker Clark, Majority Leader Underwood and Republican Leader Mann, and if they were favorably inclined to introduce the resolution in the House. "Three days later," said the witness, "McDermott told Mulhall that he had seen the leaders and that they advised against the introduction of the resolution. McDermott lied about that. He hadn-t seen the leaders." "How do you know he lied?" asked Chairman Garrett. "Why he'd rather lie than eat," said McMlchaels. The chairman had some difficulty in restoring order in the committee room after this outburst. From the fall of 1 909 until January, 1912, McMlchaels said he was almost constantly on the pay-roll of successively Democratic chief page of the House, attendant in the House press gallery and elevator conductor in the Capitol. He told of introducing Mulhall to Representative James E. McDermott, of Illinois, for whom he worked as a kind of sonrofarv onH said that McDormott worked with Mulhall and provided the latter with a roo min the basement of the Capitol, where McDermott, McMichaels and Mulhall conferred. "Did you ever see any money pass between Mulhall and McDermott?" asked Chairinana Garrett. "I never saw any money actually pass between them," said the witness, leaning back in his chair and pausing to puff at his cigarette. "Hut I had reason to believe that plenty of it was passing. I got mine open and above board." "Why do you say you had reason to believe money was passing?" The witness leaned forward and pounded on the committee table: "I am not a fool," he continued. "When two guys like me and McDermott sit down to a table and the two of us ain't got a penny, and a third guy comes in and we have eats and drinks and get up with the dough, I know that dough don't grow on trees, or on the tables." KILLED IN POWER HOUSE. Colored Man Touched a Live Wire With Piece of Iron. At Greenwood George Davis, colored, was instantly killed Thursday at tho power house when lie touched a live wire carrying 23,000 volts. The negro was in the small brick transformer house, where the heavy voltage from the Savannah River plant is reduced to the voltage used on the Greenwood transmission wires. lie started to show Engineer Deadwyler, who was with him, a place where the heavy wires had an uninsulated spot, and in doing so ho pointed to the place with a piece of wire which he held in his hand. Without knowing it, he touched another uninsulated place on the wire and was instantly killed. "Pleas? Send Irs Daddy." "Governor, please send us daddy," wrote the two little tots of David A. Kinard, of Tlamberg, to Governor Blease Monday morning in a letter accompanying their photographs. One was a little girl two years old and a little boy four years of age. "Daddy" was in the penitentiary for ten years for killing another mill operative, William Marvin in Bamberg last spring. The governor ac| ceded to the request of the children, and sent "daddy" back homo with a parole in his pocket. This would have been all right if Governor Blease could send the daddy of the little children of William Marvin, who was killed by Kinard, 1 1. 1 1 1. ^ .1 ^ 4 1. ? i .1 1U A.. unt'K, i>ut iiu cum l uu uiiu, itiiii uiuy ' will have to suffer on and shift for themselves. Why should not the man who took their daddy from them bo punished? Why should he he turned loose to go and kill the daddy of some other little children possibly because his little children wanted their daddy back? Kinard ought to have thought of how he would he missed by his little tots when he was about to deprive the little tots of Marvin of their daddy by sending him into eternity, from whence he can not bo called back. CAnnl Soon Ready. Latest reports from the canal zone announce that as the result of prospective substitution of dredges for j steam shovels in the excavation of | the f&mousCulebra cut the canal may j be ready for shipping next December. * NEGRO KILLS HIS WIFE SLAYER THEN ESCAPES ANI) MANHUNT IS BEGUN. Georgetown Negro Shoots His Spouse When She Kef uses to Leave Georgetown With Him. Monday afternoon a negro laborer at the mills of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation at Georgetown, by the name of Robert Richardson, drew his money at the pay olllco, stating he intended to leave for Alcolu, his former home. Turning to his wife, a native of Georgetown, he called upon her to pack up and go with him on the next train. Unon her refusing to accompany him away from Georgetown, he drew a pistol and shot her twice at close range, one bullet taking effect in the back and tho other enterng the ear and passing entirely through the head, causing instant death. Thereupon Richardson took flight for tho woods, with several negro men in pursuit. Twice the pursuers were flred at by Richardson, but bravely continued tho chase until tho woods were reached, when the fugitive disappeared in the dense undergrowth. Word was at once sent to County Supervisor G. D. Anderson, who had gone to Sampit llridge, where the chain gang is at work, to send the county blood hound, which arrived shortly thereafter in an automobile. The dog was put on the trail by Deputy Sheriff Prevatt. Tho negro was tracked through the swamps and marshes for a considerable distance, until he came to the creek, when all signs of him disappeared. The negro population was much moved by the occurrence, and a mob gathered at the scene of the tragedy, women and men calling for vengeance against the perpetrator. Every effort is being made to capture Richardson. HEATS TRAIN IN A RACE. Aviator (Jets From New York to Washington First. C. Mirvin Wood, the American aviator, who Friday attempted a non-stop race in his monoplane with a train from New York to Washington, and thence to Fort Myer, Va., for exhibition (lights, reached his destination late Friday afternoon after he had ben compelled to interrupt his flight on a farm near Gaithersburg, Md., sixteen miles from Washington. Wood won his race with the train, making tho landing at Gaithersburg at one minute after nine o'clock, forty minutes before the train rolled into the union station. Money to Move Crops. For tho first time in the history of the United States Government the treasury department recognizes it* obligation to the agricultural interests. The determination of the Democratic Administration to let the bankers of the South and West have large sums of money to move the crops will be of great benefit to the farmer and all others in these sections. This is in direct contrast to the policy of the Republicans. They always loaned the public money to Wall Street instead of lending it to tho banks in the South and West to move the crops. This means a great easing up in the financial situation. It means that producers, dealers, millers and exporters of grain and cotton will be able to sell and handle the new crops now being harvested to bettor advan l.ik*' man lur many years. Jt means a greater demand for what the farmer has to sell, and plenty of money or credit with which buyers may be able to promptly pay for grain and cotton. It means easier conditions for farmers throughout the crop marketing months during the balance of the year. It may not mean higher prices tc producers or consumers, but this action of the treasury department will so facilitate all legitimate transactions in buying and moving, marketing and moving, marketing and manufacturing grain and cotton as tc tremendously benefit all the people as well as farmers, bankers and the trade. This new action also will have an important effect in encouraging the progress of currency and banking reform. For the first time the United States recognizes prime commercial paper, at 65 per cent, of its par value, as the basis of current credit or advances of money from the treasury. This is a recognition of the principle of credit currency, in contradistinction to a bond subject currency. Every student of the subject knows that when Congress finally enacts an adequate banking law which shall safely provide for a credit currency, this country will be almost insured against panics and will leap Into a dominating position as the financial power of the world. Orange Judd Southern Farming says that every principle of sound banking is observed In this transaction. Our late ambassador to Mexico seems to bo one of the closest friends of the bloody Huerta. ? ? The downfall of Governor Sulzer of New Tork la very pathetic. FANATICS KILL GIRL ? FKKNCII XAT1YKS ACT IN 1MUM1- I TIVK FASHION. Father, Mot tier, Drotlier and Sister ^ "Drive Devil Away" by t'luhblub ller to Death. Religious fanatics participated in a bloody tragedy near Avigon, France, t recently, in whtrh n. vniint' K-irl tun <1 ? f ? " * r> o l' posed to have been possessed of a c devil, was murdered. Her father. mother, brother and sister are under ? arrest, pending an investigation, i They are acused of the crime. t Their arrest was brought about by ? a priest to whom the brother and sis- v tor confessed they had succeeded in " driving Satan away. lie suspected t what had happened, informed the po- I lice and caused the arrest of the entire family, inelu ling a grandmother. I aged eighty years. (I The eldest daughter of the French s family became the victim of the f bloody orgy at the Avignon home c She asserted she was possessed by I Satan. Every day she had new tales > to tell about the demon whose power t she believed herself to be in. The other members of the family, except- < ing the grandmother, were so work- c ed up over the statements that at lasi 'I they believed her. t The climax came one noon when t the entire family was in the house. ; The girl lay down on the Moor and bo- ( gan crying: "Go away, Satan! Go t away, Satan!" Suddenly her brother and sister joined their father and t mother in the performance and all 1 cried aloud, "Demon, go away!" The grandmother tried to comfort ( them hut they tied her to a chair. I Then they sought clubs and beat the 1 g'M's head up until it was an unrcc- I ogni/.able mass. Then they began to < sing and shout for joy because they \ had succeeded in driving Satan out. ? Several days after the death of the 1 girl they reported to the police that s they had driven Satan out, and the 1 whole family was arrested. i , ? Help tlio State Fair. ? As we see the matter the State Fair is one of our most important in- i stitutions, and all the counties in 1 the State ought to do all they can to make it a grand success. Tho Statu 1 Fair is a valuable educational agency along all lines of agricultural and in- ' dustrial advancement and the people of the State should take advantage of it as such. It is not an enterprise of Columbia but belongs to the whole State, and the whole State should give it cordial and substantial encouragement and support. To encourage the different counties to take more interest in the State Fair the management has offered valuable prizes for county exhibits. This should stimulate a healthy rivalry among the several counties, and : help make the State Fair this fall the ' best and most complete ever held. The different counties should put their best foot foremost and let the outside world know what they can do ; in the way of raising crops and stock of all kinds. Such exhibits would do 1 the respective counties a great deal more good than they would the State ' Fair. In many County Fairs that have 1 been inaugurated in the State should nut ue conducted on an antagonistic 1 basis to the Stato Fair, but as auxiliaries to it. There should be no antagonism 011 the part of the management of any County Fair to the State Fair. Greater success for the State Fair means greater success for every County Fair held in the State. Both State and County Fairs are valuable 1 as educators to all our people, and both should be encouraged and helped as much as possible by all the ' people. No observant man, it makes no dif1 ference what his calling may be, ever 1 , attended a State or County Fair who did not come away benefitted by the 1 many things ho saw there. Then, 1 ' too, mixing up with and coming in ' contact with other people broadens a ! man out and makes him a better and more public spirited citizen in every ' way. For this reason, all who can 1 ' should avail themselves of the educa- 1 ' tional advantages offered by the ' 1 State and County Fairs by attending ^ ' them and investigating the new 1 L things they come in contact with { there. The farmers are the backbone of 1 the State, and for the benefit of ( themselves as well as for the benefit 1 of the State, they should keep abreast I of the times in all things that tends 1 to increase the productiveness of 1 their farms and make their hiirriena I lighter. ThiR they can do by attend- ' ing the State and County Fairs and ' exchanging views and methods with farmers from all over the State. In this way new ideas and plans may bo 1 learned that would he of inestimable 1 value, not only to themselves, but to I their respective communities. In the t multitude of counsel there is wis- I dom. 1 The farmers should not only attend the State and County Fairs, but i they should make exhibits at them and thus give others the benefit of their ideas and methods. The Wil- ' liamson plan of raising corn has been i of great benefit to the farmers of the State, but if Mr. Williamson had not ! generously let others know of it by | publishing his formula and bis expe- l rience very few farmers would have ] LONG VIGIL MAY END [.Iltl/S KKAItCII r<)K KATII Klt'S IU>I>\ \ KAIIIjY OVKIt. Mow Creeping (.lacier Will Olive l'|i Corpse of Main Who I>Un| Cortytwo W^ais After waiting forty-two years for he body of her father, who was one >f a party lost in a storm while limbing the Alps, the long vigil of diss Edith Randall, of Huston, may ml this year. Summer after smaller Miss Randall has journeyed to 'hamonix, Switzerland, to watch the jiant glacier slowly creep down the alley from Mont Rhine, hoping igainst hope that the mighty mounain of ice would deliver the body of icr father, John Randall. The guides and scientists are exacting the giant glacier to deliver its lead this year. The rate of progresion of glaciers has been observed or many years, and, according to the alculatlons of the scientists, the todies held in ice for more than forty 'ears should reach the valley late his summer. On August 2t?, 1S70. two Amerians, one Scotchman and eight guides darted the ascent of Mont Mane. The weather was threatening and hey were warned not to go up, hut hey thought that it would clear up, tnd started. Hut the storm lasted >ight days and nights. Not one of he party was ever seen alive again. A week later fourteen guides tried 0 make the ascent, but were driven jack hv the storm. On September IT 1 party of twenty-three guides set >ut for tlie summit. . There they 'ound the bodies of five of the men. juried in the snow. The bodies were 'rozen har?l. The body of Mr. Kan1 all and those of tho other guide? vere never found. The. broken-heart Ml daughter waited all summer, then returned to America. Hut each vent die has returned to the Swiss resort waiting for the river of ice to give uj: its toll. Hast summer the ice pick and several small articles belonging to Mr Kandall were found at the. foot of the glacier. This year Miss Kandall hopes !o recover the long lost body of hei father, and has already started foi Phamonix to begin her summer-long vigil. +. <? DASH TO DKATII. Cable l*in of Car Itreaks, Hurling il 8,300 Feet. Nine men wore killed and oik probably fatally injured recently hi Clifton, Ari/.., when a cable pin snap ped and two cars carrying twelve tons of ore and thirteen men dashee down tho thirty-eight degree grade for a distance of 3,300 feet. The cars and their passengers had just been lowered over the brink ol tho grade, which is one of the longest and steepest in tho world, when tho pin holding the cable attached tr tho car snapped, tho safety chaim broke and the cars started downward liko a shot. Tho dead include five Americans, two Italians, and twe Mexican miners. ? -? Hotter Remedy for Malaria. Romo sixteen years ago an arm\ doctor on duty in Cuba found oul that a pesky mosquito, biting fron man to man, carried malaria as wel as yellow fever that, as you put the anopheles insect out of business, yov likewise reduced the li.ibility tc "flush and shakes". What he didn'l learn was what made the mischief ir the skeeter's bite. Dr. Wade Brown a University of North Carolina pro feasor, has just uncovered that. It's a colored poison called liemi (in. The little bug which the doctors call the malaria germ, concocts thai pigment somewhere in its minute sys tern and once It gets into the bloo( Df a human being it quickly spreads throughout the body, producing the straw malarial tinge. Dr. Brown has also discovered r way to make thlsi colored poison. He md numerous other researchers are now at work on mice and guinea pigs Inoculating them with hematin, preliminary to seeing whether they can'1 find a dope that will take the place if quinine as a specific for malaria. Luckily the anopheles skeeter isn'l very common, and if you're careful tc drain your swamps or keep them wel coated with kerosene, the malaria germ won't have much of a show But it would ho fine to be able tc take a swig from a little bottle con tabling something not quite so bittei is quinine and bid the hematin distri butor to do its worst. Miners on a Strike. Seven hundred miners, employed ay tue raclflc Coast Coal Compan) In three collieries at lllack Diamond Lwenty-flvo miles southeast of Seattle, walked out because the company refused to reinstate Goo.go Ayers who was discharged after ho hac Huarreled with a foreman. Henry Lane Wilson has shot ofl his mouth once too often. Ho will now go. been benefitted by it. So all othei farmers who may have something that may benefit other farmers should let it be known. - <r * SULZER IMPEACHED BY VOTE OF 79 TO 45 AFTER AN ALL NIGHT SESSION WIFE TAKES ALL BLAME Slit* ('on fosses That She Fsed Part of llis Campaign Funds Without Ilis Knowledge, hut ller Fleventh Hour Statement Failed to Halt tlie I in peach me lit IVocc^hUiiks. Governor William Sulzer wan impeached at 5:16 o'clock Wednesday ' morning by the democratic majority in the assembly of the New York legislature at Albany. The vote, 79 to 4 5, came after an all-night session and after the governor's wife had made an eleventh hour effort to save him at tho risk of sacrificing her own reputation. After marking time all day Tuesday In order to allow absent members time to arrive in Albany so as to have enough votes to carry the impeachment resolution tho Now York legislature went into session at elevent o'clock Tuesday night. Tho first roll call indicated that the organization had tho votes to carry out its program to impeach tho governor before adjournment. One hundred and twenty-two members answered to their names as follows: Democrats, 85; Republicans, 85; Progressives, 2. Of the 8 5 Democrats, the majority leader was eon 11dent that 78 two more than a bare , majority would vote for the iin peaelunent resolution. (in Tnnuil m a f I c. ? * ? i ? v... ........... 11 i .1 11.111 i?'. i : 1111 ? i poaehment proceedings again t. her husband Mrs. Sr.lzei M Senator i Palmer that she had dibbled in stocks with the campaign money hut , that the governor knew nothing of ? her dealings on the ICxchange until the Frawley committee began lis in vestlgation. When lie first heard the revelations, liis friends said, lie re> fused to believe, but ridiculed them ? as a hoax and branded them as an at tempt to secure his resignation. Later, when it was seen that the ; Frawley committoe was in earnest in its investigation, Mrs. Sulzer, it Is declared, told the governor of her actions and volunteered to make a public statement detailing them. This, t it is said, (iovernor Sulzer refused to permit. When tlio testimony concerning the Wall street transactions, was brought out, Mrs. Sulzer again insisted, according to the story, that ' she tell all and save her husband, (iovernor Sulzer consented to permit Mrs. Sulzer's declaration to be1 come public late Tuesday night, only when lie found that lie could not prevent it and that it lived as a rumor 1 on the lips of every member of the r assemply. At one o'clock Monday morning 1 (iovernor Sulzer, of New York, who ' faces impeachment on a charge of us; ing campaign contributions contrary 1 to law, and who is also charged with having sworn incorrectly to hie ex} penso account, gave out the following statement: "In view of the fact that the Frawley committee is about to make its r report of the investigation it has been t making, I am advised that it would i be unwise for me at this time to I make any detailed statement in reply - to the matters that had been brought i to the attention of that committee, > but having promised that I would furt nish the press a statement, in fulfill> ment of that promise I make tlie fol. lowing brief reply to the matters that - I am informed had been brought beforo such committee. "I deny that I used any campaign t contributions for personal use. t "I deny that I speculated in Wall street or used money contributed for I campaign purposes to buy stock eithi er in my own name or otherwise. J "I never had an account with Fuller & Gray or ?oyer & Griswold. I i never hearu of these firms, do not i know the members, and knew nothi ing about the transactions with theso i firms testified to before the Frawley committee until recently threatened t witli exposure, and the alleged trans} actions were brought to my attention by the Frawley committee. 1 "The stock matter with Harris and ) Fuller was not a speculative account 1 or matter, but a loan made upon 1 stock collateral, which stocks had been acquired and paid for years be) fore my nomination for 4he office of i.overnor, and rrom other sources * than Harris and Fuller. "Certain checks given to me for campaign purposes were deposited to my personal account, and thereafter I paid the amount of said checks to I my campaign committee. r "In filing my statement of receipts , and disbursements with the Secre. tary of fitato I relied on information r furnished me by the persons In im( mediate charge of my campaign, and I in whom I had and have the most implicit confidence, and I believe tho statement furnished by them to me t to be accurate and true." I Since his occupancy of the Executive ofllce Governor Sulzer has de. olared he has been subjected to con tinual espionage. Spies invaded hie ; household in New York before his I inauguration, friends declared, and i followed him to Albany. 1