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TARIFF BILL PASSED fiETS THROUGH SENATE WITH SEVEN VOTE MAJORITY WITH PROGRESSIVES HELP l.u Follotte and Poindcxtcr Aid Democrats, Making tlie Vote I I For to J17 Against?llotli of the lxmisianu Senators, Though Supposedly Democrats, Vote Against the Hill. The Democratic tariff revision bill passed the Senate at 5:13 o'clock Tuesday afternoon amid a burst of applause that swept down from the crowded galleries and found its echo on the crowded floor of the senate. Its passage was attended with surprises in the final moments of the voting when Senator La Folletto, a itepuoucan, cast his voto with the Democrats and was joined a few moments later by Senator Poindexter, a Progressive. Until the names of Senators La Follette and Poindexter were called no one knew definitely the stand they would take and their votes were received with applause. President Wilson Tuesday night expressed great gratification over the end of the long struggle in the senate. Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, who piloted tho bill through the finance committee, tho Democratic caucus and the senate, predicted its passage would bring immediate stimulus to the commercial life of the country. As it passed the senate the tariff bill represents an average reduction of more than \ per cent, from the rates of the original bill that nassed I he house and nearly 8 per cent, from tho rates of existing laws. In many important places the senate has changed tho bill that passed tho house and a conference committee of tho two houses will commence work Wednesday or Thursday to adjust differences. Leaders of both houses predict that the conference will consume less than two weeks' time. The senate named its members of the conference committee as soon as tho bill passed. Vice President Marshall appointed Senators Simmons, Stone, Williams and Johnson, Democrats, and Senators Penrose, Lodge, and La Follette, Republicans. Senator Stone withdrew from the committee and Senator j Shively was appointed ? his place. The house conferors, it was reported, will bo Representatives Underwood. Kitehin and Rainey, Democrats, and Payne and Fordney, Republicans. Tho final struggle began at 4 o'clock when under a previous agreement votes began on the pending amendments. During tho closing hours of donate Senator La Follette had become the centre of Interest, proposing final amendments on the cotton and agricultural schedules and discussing some features of the bill he deemed favorable. It was nearly f>:P,0 o'clock when the vice-president put the bill upon its passage. T^he roll call proceeded delilverately until the clerk called "La Follette." MT!, ! ~ 1 ?1 ! Il.? 1 11?J VV lBltJJiaill Ql'llillUl f 111 lilt; front row, hesitated a moment. TTis head was bowed and resting on bis hand. Tie leaned forward a trifle and vigorously answered, "Aye." Instantly applause broke from the galleries and senators on the Democratic side joined In hand clapping. When the name of Senator Poindexter, the only Progressive senator, was reached and lie had contributed his vote for the bill tlio applause was renewed. Senator La Follette Tuesday night had a few words to say of bis vote, after many Democratic sentors bad visited bis desk and shook his band. ' "I realize what T did was a politi-' oal sacrifice but that something within me compelled me (o vote for the hill. The tariff act of 1000 was but little short of a crime; the bill passed today is not a Democratic measure but is a protective measure. Dive tho Democrats time and I hey will put everything on a free trade basis, but they have not done it in this bill." Senator Poindexter said of bis vote: "T voted for tho senate tariff bill because it is as a whole a better bill than the Payne-Aldrich law now in force. Furthermore it contains an income tax which wo have been trying to get for twenty years." When the vote had been announced Senator Oallinger of New Hampshire leader of the minority, congratulated Senator Simmons "for his courteous, kindly and considerate manner,'* in the conduct of the dc bate. "Tho l>i 11 itso 1 r is and, *ne said, "but its management has been in every way creditable to llie majority and eminently fair to tho minority." Just before the voting on amendments began Senator La Follette yielded a few minutes of his time to Senator Thornton of Louisiana, who was .about to desert his colleagues on the roll call. "It is hard for mo to vote against this bill," said tho Louis- J iana senator. "It is made a party ( measure by tho party with which I cast allegiance 46 years ago. It is harder etill that I am forced to voto EXPLOSION ON TORPEDO ? BOILER lU'KSTS, KILLING TWO AMEHICAN SAII/ORS. I ? Tlirot* Otliors Are Injured OPT Tybeo, Near Savannah, to Which the Ornven Was En Route. A boiler explosion on the United States torpedo boat Craven, off Tybee, at one o'clock Wednesday afternoon resulted in the death of Chief Water Tender McCaffray and Water i Tender Mlllon and serious injuries to Chief Machinist's Mate Swinn, Water! Tender Daughton and Oiler Gabbitt. 1 The Craven was coming in under a good head of steam when tho accident happened. Ensign W. D. Lament was on the bridge when bo saw steam shoot up through the hatches and heard tho cries of the men who were being scalded by tho boiling water in the fire room. The hatches were at once closed and the pumps were set to work pumping tho water! and steam out of the compartment. When tho hatches wero opened Water Tender D. B. Smith went down nt tho risk of his life and! brought out the body of McCaffray. 1 He was badly scalded and lived but a| short time. Millon was dead when brought out. Soon after tho explo-J sioti the engines of the Craven ceas-1 od working she drifted helplessly! until tho pilot hoat Estill and the! tug Cynthia No. 2, both of Savannah, J went to her assistanct. McCaffray died before the Craven reached Tybeo. It is believed by the officers of the Craven that low water in tho boilers! caused by a defective water guage caused the explosion. An examina-l tion showed that the boilers were not seriously damaged, the damage bo-1 ing confined to twenty-two tubes. Every man in the room at tho time of the explosion was either killed or injured. Ambulances met the Craven when she arrived at Tybeo and tho injured wero taken nt once to tho J post Hospital at Fort Screven. It Is believed that two will recover, but the third is expected to die. The Craven was coming from the Charleston Navy Yard to join the torpedo boat Shubriclt. She had been rent out on a trial run. She belongs to the reserve flotilla, the base of which is at the Charleston yard. Tt is reported that in his delirium McCaffrey constantly called: "Low water; low water." This was construed to mean that the water in the boiler was low. The matter will be thoroughly investigated by an official board of inquiry. ? ^ SVLZRK S IMPEACHMENT. ?. Will Cost Empire State on Enormous Expenditure. Tho impeachment trial of flov. William Sulzer, which begins Sept. 1 8, will cost the state of New York ? 5&0.000, if it lasts a month. If the trial continues for more than a month $.">0,000 may bo added for each additional week. When the cost of the extraordinary session of tho legislature is taken into consideration, tho row between Gov. Seizor and Charles Murphy, Tammany boss, is considered and its consequent impeachemnt proceedings, the state will probably be hit for at lea6t $ 1 ,000,000 and probably more. Gov. Sulzer is receiving many letters of sympathy from governors of states and declares he will win his fight. ? Tho I)rys Win Out, Following a long executive session Wednesday night the State board of canvassers announced that the election held in Sumter County on the dispensary question had been thrown out on the general ground that the ballots used were not of tho legal size. The board tn effect declared that no legal election on tho Issue had been held. ? 4 Aviator's Fatal Tumble. Tn the fall of an aeroplane at the fair grounds at Rutland, Va., George Schmidt, an aviator, was fatally hurt; J. T)yor Spellman, assistant Judge of the muncipal court, received burns which may cause his death. the bill to a popular referendum next fall also was defeated. One important, change made on the recommendation of the finance committee gives tho secretary of the treasury power to censor all imported moving picture films. Senator lames, acting ior inn iinance committee obtained the adoption of an amendment modifying the provision of the t)ill that authorizes the secretary of the treasury and collector of internal revenue to employ income tax officials without regard to the civil service laws. against it becauso my own party seeks now to strike a vital hlow against the great sugar industry of my State." The Senator said he was charged with a duty from his Stato higher than any duty owed to the Democratic party and voting against the hill, he continued, was keeping his pledge. Income tax amendments by Senator Bristow and La Follette, similar to thoso they introduced several days ago, were defeated. An amendment by Senator Oallinger that propsed to send the whole tariff question over until December, 1914, and submit - -- ? THAW TAKEN BACK + CANADIAN AUTHORITIES PUT HIM OVER LINE ? FREE FOR THREE HOURS ? Canadian Immigration Oillcials Unexpectedly Kush Matt en wan Escape Across American IjLuo Into New lUinpshlrc, Where lie Was Arrested After Three Hours of Freedom. Harry K. Thaw, who escaped from an asylum in Now York, where ho had been confined several years as a crazy man, to Canada, was sent back to the United States Wednesday by the Immigration authorities of Canada. Efforts were being made by New York to havo Thaw sent back, and the Canadian Courts were to decido tho matter Monday, but tho immigration officials of Canada seized him on Wednesday and sent him in an automobile to Colobrook, N. II., where, after enjoying three hours of perfect freedom, ho was arrested. TlmwV'a rnnptinn frnm r*.,,, o#l.i ... ? vjwi i v/tu VjUIKUHl UU" pan with tlio breaking of a window pano. Aroused from his cot in the immigration detention room at Coaticook and told ho was to ho taken across the border at once, he flew into a rage, picked up a heavy glass t'imbier and with all his might hurled it at the head of the nearest immigration ofllcor. The otllcial dodged and the tumbler crashed through a window and was smashed on the station platform below. Five minutes later Thaw was half carried, half dragged down the stairs, forced into a waiting automobile, wedged between two Dominion policemen and whirled toward Norton Mills, Vt., nine miles away, lie protested through the short trip, but his guards ignored him. At S:r>5 Thaw was whisked past a gray slab marking the boardary, and, like a rabbit being released, was set gently down 011 a hit of open ground. He whimpered in bewilderment. He looked north, south, east and west, as if trying to decide which way to go. For perhaps half a minute Thaw stood there, his hat pulled over his eyes, his hair awry, his face unshaven, his clothes rumpled. Then, as there was nothing to do, he climbed into the automobile of a newspaper correspondent and asked to be driven a way. "Take mo to the New Hampshire line," lie implored. ''Jerome has pot the Attorney General of Vermont fixed. Tn New Hampshire T believe I would have a fighting chance. Maybe we can reach a railroad somewhere and T can buy a through ticket to Detroit." Talking incoherently of Detroit, bis lawyers, his mother and of writs of habeas corpus, he was driven east over a winding road a stone's throw from the boundary. At Averill, Vermont, five miles 011, the car stopped at a small summer hotel. Thaw had not breakfasted. Ho ordered bread and milk and pulped it down while he tried to pet. Montreal over the long distance telephone to inform his Canadian counsel and his mother of bis predicament. Hut wires were bad and Thaw was excited and he could make no connection. He strode out on the porch only to learn that the chauffeur of the car had deserted. This man was Thomas Trihey, a business man of Coaticook, who had volunteered to assist the newspaper men, but had not counted on aiding Thaw. Hesides, he had not reported his car on crossing the boundary, as required by the customs regulations and was afraid of the consequences. Reluctantly he turned back, leaving Thaw fuming on the porch of the little j hotel. Then came up Frank Can tine, a lean French Canadian. Tie was driving a small, four-seated car and was ready to travel anywhere for money. "Suro I will drive you to hell and back," he said. Thaw got in and so did the newspaper correspondents. Thaw clung tightly to a box of cigars, all the baggage he carried. Tho little car jumped away. Cantine evidently thought, it was a raco for life. Thaw tried to appear calm. His bat was swept off, dust blinded his eyes. Tho little car took the Vermont bills like a squirrel. Cantlne nulled bis car down to 20 miles. A farm wagon hove in sight. Thaw seemed frightened for a moment; then he settled hack and tried to smoke. ITo could give no idea what he proposed to do. After several miles ho swerved north and was hack in Canada again. Thaw grinned. "This is familiar," ho said. "I was along here coming up." Cantine gave his car more fuel and it fairly hummed through the town of Canaan, Vermont. Ahead lay the Connecticut River and beyond it New Hampshire. Tlireo minutes more and Thaw was parading about tho public square of West Stowartstown. He made no attempt to conceal his ldentiy. In fact, ho appeared rather proud to let his identity bo known. Being in New Hampshire made him breathe easier and he entered tho hotel and tried again to get Montreal on the telephone. lie came out and started to leave .1 .V. ' - STOLE BIG SUM OF MONEY SEVENTY-ONE THOYSAM) DOI^ LAKS WAS TAKKX. Stolen l-'rom Atlantic Const Line Express (Yir Between Now York and Savannali. Probably the greatest robbery In the history of the Southern Express Company came to light in Savannah Wednesday morning when a sealed safe supposed to contain $7 1,900 in currency consigned to Savannah, Brunswick and Valdosta banks, was opened at Savannah and found empty. Of the stolen money $50,000 was consigned to the Savannah Bank and Trust Company from the Chase National Bank of New York. The balance, $2 1,900, was consigned to banks at other Georgia cities. Mr. W. F. McCaulcy, tho president of the Savannah Bank and Trust Company, confirms tho loss of tho $50,000. It was shipped out of New York on Monday on train No. 8 9 of tho Atlantic Coast Line railroad, and should have reached Savannali Wednesday morning at three o'clock. When tho sealed steel trunk in which it was supposed to have been shipped was opened it was found that tho money had disappeared. "All that I know about it," said President McCauley, "is that the money was started to us from New York and that it never reached Savannah." Tho seals on Ihe outside of the stool trunk or safe, it. Is understood, did not show that they were tampered with but the sealed envelopes in which tho money was contained when it left New York were either fil i t ni\nn n r Aflinr nrloA t o m i\ov/\/i The shipment was sent .out of Now York by tho Adams Express Company and delivered to the Southern Express Company. Atlantic Coast T,ine train No. 89, it is stated at the local offices of the Stout horn Express Company, is very probably the one that carried the money which lias been stolen. j It is stated that the treasure was probably placed in a combination safe, tho combination being known only to representatives of tho company at cither end of the line. As for tho seals on the safe, it was stated, those are put there by the bank shipping the money. The Southern Express Company has hurried its Eos* men to Savannah to undertake t'.i r covery of the money or to locate the thieves. Mr. \Y. .1 ITockaday, general manager of the company, and a representative of a national detective agency of Atlanta, reached Savannah Thursday morning and are now working on the case. The safe containing the $71,900 in two packages was delivered by the Adams Exnress Comnanv to the Rout horn Express Company In Jersey City, according to W. W. Pendleton, the general agent of the Adams Company. The transfer was made last Monday night, Mr. Pendleton said, and at that time the safe and its contents were intact. The package containing $21,900, he added, was composed of a number of consignments to soparato banks in Georgia. One of the envelopes in tho smaller package contained money from the Coal and Iron National Bank of New York, to a consignee in Albany, Ga. ? Corset Steel Saves Woman's Life. A corset steel, which deflected a bullet aimed at her heart, saved the life of Mrs. Mario McDonald, of Sacrtl tYlOB f A Pol A I/1 f1n roo eh a! i (ki.ivii lv/, vc*i., >t itcu j j. \ /(i! i y n 11 u i at her. Carey, as soon as ho saw the woman fall, turned the pistol on himself and inflicted a fatal wound in his head. ? Thunder Scured Woman to Death. Mrs. B. A. McGough, an aged woman, of Sea Bright, N. J., was scared to death by a clap of thunder, during a severe electrical storm. In his car. A quarter of a mile down the road was a cloud of dust and under tho cloud of dust was a big automobile. Thaw grew panicky. Somehow, even at that distance, tbe car had for him a sinister look. "Hadn't wo better turn back?" be asked, yet he did not order the chauffeur to stop. The little car kept on. Tho big car stopped. Tho men got out. There wero three of them. "Stop," said ono of them, *'I am the sheriff of Coos county.'? Tlio.tr 1 -1 1-1 1 i nun n lUl Wttl U UI1U 1UUKIM1 in tho sheriff's face. TIo shook the sheriff's hand cordially and with no word of protest or reproach climbed into the sheriff's hip machine. Tinder his arm ho bore his cigars. "Give me a square deal, sheriff," ho begged. "They did mo dirty up in Canada and T hope for hotter treatment in New Hampshire." The sheriff's car started almost immediately for Colobrook, seven miles away. No news of Thaw's arrest had preceded him and the town was swept off its feet when Thaw, now thoroughly composed, came down Main street and stopped besido tho Colobrook National bank building. Over tho hank are tho officers of Thomas P. Johnson, one of the town's leading lawyers. Thaw was taken into the offices and immediately retained Johnson as local counsel. IIo was hold a prisoner in a room at a hotel for the night. SAYS SULZER PAID ? BROKER TESTIHES THAT THE DEPOSED GOVERNOR ? SPECULATED IN STOCKS ? Wall St root Man Swears Sul/.er Opened Amount Himself, and Paid Money in Person?Had \o Mealings Willi Mrs. Sul/.er on the Stock Market. Sulzer's transactions in Wall street from June 'J7, 19 10, till thoy ceased at least so far as one firm of brokers was concerned on July 14 last, were described under oath at New York Friday by Melville I>. Fuller, who said he was Sulzer's broker, in a hearing hold by the nine impeachment managers appointed by the Assembly. Fuller, who refused to testify before the Frawley investigating committee concerning certain mfttters, answered all questions. He testified that Su 1 /.or had paid him $16,000 in person within a month and a day after the last election and that he (Fuller) had had no dealings with Mrs. Sulzer. According to Fuller's testimony Sulzer, while a Congressman, opened an account with his firm, Harris & Fuller, June L'7, 1910. In September, he testified, Sulzer borrowed $22,(100 from the firm, giving as collateral 100 shares of "Pig Four" Railroad I stock and in November of the same | year Sulzor ;i< 1 < 1?m 1 some American Smcltor stock to his collateral held hy the brokers. " 'Dig Four' declined from 80 to 77 within a year," Fuller continued, "hut Mr. Sul'/.er bought some more of (he stock and added Southern Pacific to his holdings." "On Novcnihor 1.1, 1012, a few days after lie was elected governor," Fuller continued, "Sul'/.er walked into the ollico of Harris & Fuller with ten ion thousand dollar hills in his hand. These he paid on his account, his indebtedness, owing to other transactions, having increasor to $;">(),6 1 2." On December 0, Fuller said, Governor-elect Sul/.er paid in person $0,000 more in cash on his account. On June 10 of this year Seizor's debt to the brokers had been further reduced. One of the checks, Mr. Fuller said, was from A. 10. Spriggs, a former Governor of Montana. Lieut. Com Josophthal, of Governor Seizor's staff, visited the ofllce o; Harris & Fuller July 10 last, Fuller added, and closed the account hy paying tho balance, $20,7.19. Joseplitlial received tho stock left K.. C1..1 1,1 * * * ' ' uy ouizur :i? cunuierai. josppiunai presented an order, which was produced. it. was signed "William Seizor for Mrs. Sulzer." Mr. Fuller could give no explanation of the words ''for Mrs. Sulzer,'? he said, as neither he nor his firm had ever had any dealings with her. QIINIMC AS CI'It 10 1 OK HAKIMS. Dr. Ti. 10. If arris Says That Ho Used it lOffoctivcly. Tlie curing of rabies by the uso of quinino was the subject of an address by T)r. Ti. TO. TTarris, of St. TiOuiR, before the American Health Association Wednesday at Colorado Springs, Col. Dr. Harris, submitted the results of a treatment with quinine in accordance with the theory of Dr. Virgil H. Moon, recently announced, and gave as his opinion from exhaustive research that medical scienco within a short time will have been entirely revolutionized with respect to the treatment of this malady. TTe told of administering iniftftMnna nf rmfninn to a patient a short timo ago and said that within a week tho patient was discharged from his caro. TWO WOMION MmniCHRI). Husband Discovers Crime Wlien Ho Returns From Church. When William Cook, of Smyrna, Tenn., carno hoino from revival services ho did not see his wife about the house, but supposed sho was in another room with his niece, who was visiting tho Cooks. Ho went to bed and, waking in tho morning, saw that his wife had not returned to her room. As ho went out on tho porch ho found her Plnrwlann hnUv ? w* ???h in tho doorway of his niero's room. In tlio room was tho body of his niocc, lior skull smashed with some heavy instrument. Itlind Woman Scalds Orandson. Frank Davis, apod threo years, is in a serious condition in Wllming, ton, Del. His blind grandmother poured scalding water over his head and shoulders instead of into tho sink where she was preparing to wash dishes. ? ? Senators Tillman and Smith stuck to their posts in tho Senate during tho long, hot summer. Old newspapers for sale at this Office. % 1 WAR ON POISON GANG ? NKW YORK CITIZENS ORGANIZED I OK PROTECTION. ? ' Must Terrorized I'ntll Situation \ llocoinos I'nlx'nrablo, Will Fight lliuk. Gangs and gangsters who infest tho lowest Hast Side of New York city and prey upon shopkeepers and | merchants will bo driven out or exterminated by members of the East Side Neighborhood association, re- < cently formed as a sort of general vigilance committee. Rome features of their work will bo Bocret but, by force of numbers and mutual protection they expect, to triumph and run 1 the offenders down. I It Is not only business men who ? have been suffering at the hands of grafters, blackmailers and gunmen. { Many women and children have been robbed day and night by pickpockets adUlated with the merciless gangs. Tho merchants will now do all In ! their power to aid the police and dls- I trict attorney in exterminating the gangs. j The first, attack on tho gangs will ho directed against, horse poisoners. Already nine men have been Indict- ^ ed and of these six are in the Tombs awaiting trial. Moses M. Frankel, i director of tho Horse Owners' Pro- ; tective association, declares that | members are only aiding criminals toward the commission of great of- ? fences when they pay graft and \ blackmail. t The immunity of the gangs of < grafters, gunmen, cut-throats, horse poisoners and pickpockets is said to ~ have been due to tho fear of victims 1 to appear against them. Henry A. Kolchln, a victim of tho horse poisoners, lost nine horses when ho refused to join their association. Through liis evidence and I that of "Nigger" Fricdmann, now jserving thirty-five years in prison for robbery, David Claholfor and Max * f Swirskoy liavn noon arrested, and it c c is predicted more arrests will follow. errs "itack iiomh" did. President Wilson May \ isit Columbia 1 1 This Fall. ! ( The Washington rorrespondent of 3 The News and Courier says: Com- { uilssloner of Agriculture R. J. Wat- ,] son, of South Carolina, came to < Washington Wednesday in connection ( With several matters of importance, s In company with Senator E. D. Smith and Slate floologlst Pratt, of North I Carolina, lie called at the White t House and Invited President Wilson, ? on behalf of both tho Carolinas, to pay a home-coming visit to Columbia, , on his way back from Mobile, in tho ) last week in October, (luring the State 1 Fair. The President said that he had so 11 many Invitations tlmt he hnd at first * decided against accepting any, except x one" to open the Panama Canal, but 3 ho added that this Invitation from r r Ids old home was so attractive to him and Impressed him so especially, that he would give it serious consideration and would reply definitely In a few days. MAGAZINK FOR FAltMFKS. ? To Itc Published by the United States (aovcrnmeiit. ^ I The United States government 1s t going Into the magazine publishing business for the benefit of the farm- * ers. This is the announcement mado by Q the Department of Agriculture, which adds that the first issuo of tho magazine will he out this month, and that other issues will follow regularly at monthly intervals. The publl- ' cation will he devoted principally to a detailed review of crop conditions nationally and by states. ^ It is the department's purpose to \ make the periodical which will bear tho titlo of "Tho Agricultural Outlook," a magazine of from 18 to 20 l pages. It will deal not alone with t tho production and conditions of ? crops, but will instruct tho farmer as ?l f() tliO 111 n rk nl i Tl r?f liiu Iifonfia < ? ? t' Defies Supremo Court. il Governor Rlease announces ho will 1 not sign any bonds or stocks, making it certain there will bo no re- ? funding of the State debt during his 1 kC term of ofTlce. Ho scored the Su- | preine Court Thursday morning for their decision in upholding tho validity of the Refunding Act and goes 51 .after Associate Justice Hydrick, who ^ wroto tho opinion. i 1 <i i'imuii iiiiiik i ,111piiihii, A slit skirt bathing costume worn ? by Mrs. Charles T.anning, at Atlantic 1 City, created such a sensation that P n tbo wearer was literally mobbed. At- J ter being roughly handled by a crowd ?1 of several thousand persons, she fainted and had to be carried unconscious to the hospital tent. ;|| v Negro Held for Old Killing. r< T-om Sanders was arrested In Pino ft' Bluffs, Ark., charged with having t killed a negro seven years ago. Ho 01 has been taken to TTazolhurst, Miss* ^ whero the crime was committed.