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RESENTS INSULT. SPECIAL MESSAGE LAID WON TIIH TABLE. Wilt Reoomroend Itiat the Do Aot Qnnaldn Roosevelt's j Concerning the Be? ton. Jen. T.?As disrespect? ful end umireeponelve to the Inquiry Of the house, the Perkins committee, when It reports tomorrow, will recom tneaj that President Roosevelt's se? cret serrtee message of January 4 be mid em the table. A similar request will be saade for the tabling of that portion ef the president's annual mes? sage relating to the secret service, on the ground that It reflects upon the Integrity of the members of the house. The special committee concluded Its consideration >f the meesage today and drafted Us reply, which will b? presented by Representative Perkins of New York The unusual and ex? treme oeuree advised by the commit? tee)?that ef declining to consider any communication from any source which. In the Judgment of the house, ta not rwsaectful?Is likely to create a sensation srhen It is read. The report of the committee will in elude the paragraph of the presldsnt's annual eisasage, which refers to the secret service and suggests that the reason coegreat restricted Its use was because members oC congress them? selves did not vlsh to be investigated. Takt will be followed by an excerpt from taw msees.ge of January 4, In re? sponse to the request made by the house few an explanation of the lan? guage used by ths president, which'' had bsea interpreted by the house ss a reflect*>? of the Integrity of itr members. After sotting forth the statement of the president, that the house had failed to understand his message, the report will say that the language Itself will be Judged accord? ing te ths accepted Interpretations of the Hagltah language. that the house fm charged only with Its responsibility to the people and to ereeorve its own dignity will be * ^sorted wKh great force and If ths report l* adopted the house will Insist, en its own capacity to understand the import ef the president's language. It will ha asserted that the language In question was unjustified and without ba?l? of fact and that it constituted a| breach of the privileges of the house. Tot that reason ths special ccj will ask te be discharged from further crnideration of that portion of ths i ^dent's msasags which refers to the es or st service and will recommend that It together with the subsequent m*? ago of the presldsnt in rsply to the house's demands for an explana? tion, be laid upon the *~ble as being uareesMsasive and constituting an in? vasion ef ths privilege* of the houee . jsstsoning the motives and Intel llgei oe ef mem be re ? OHO OF "FRISCO'S" QUAKE. A number of Interesting and Im? portant questions of Insurance law grow lag out of the losses sustained tr?* the Security Fire Insurance Com? pany of Baltimore In the earthquake aiol uro at San Francisco April 18. 1S08, were decided yesterday by Judge HeuWter. in the Circuit Court. The Court held, that under the policies of Insurance lasued by it. the company Is not liable for damage caused by earthqeakes or by dynamite prior to the burning of the Insured property, but that the company Is liable for damage to Insured property from Are caused by an earthquake or from Are when the water eupply of San Francisco had been rendered useless by an earthquake. The Security Fire Insurance Com? pany was forced Into the hands of s receiver by loseee incident to the San Francisco fire, and the case came be? fore the court on exceptions to the auditor's account. In the auditor's account a balance of over $178,000 eres dtvtdsd among the claimant*, giving them a dividend of 14 1-8 per cent. Of the $840,008 of claims filed agslnst the company considerably more than half aroee from the San Francisco Ire. Exceptions to the pay? ment of the San Francisco claims were filed on behalf of creditors and stock? holders of the Company.?Baltimore Bun. $100,000 FOR ROADS. rheraw, Jan. 7.?Pursuant to a call made some time ego, a large and representative meeting of the cltlsens Of the county met at Chesterfield to? day to consider ths question of better roads la (he county. Among other thing* they recommended that 8100, 000 of county bonds be Issued for this purpose, and that a 88 communtatlon tax and 8-mlll property tax be levied. CASTOR IA fgf Imiamti aJsi GhUdrtB. Tito IM Yn Ira Atviyt taftt HELD YEARS IN CHAINS. MORE THAN A SCORE OF CAS? TRO'S PRISONERS RESTOR? ED TO HOMES. Many Too Weak to Walk?Their .. Jailer Went With Them to La Onnlrn Two Had Been Shackled to One Poet, Mew York. Jan. 7.?Details of the releaaa of more than a score of Cas? tro's political prisoners, their pitiable condition and tales of the treatment they had received in the barbarous dungeons of Fort San Carlos, on an island off Maracalbo, were brought here today by passengers on the steamship Zulla, the ship that carried the prisoners from the fort to La Gualra. Tho prisoners, 17 In number, were men of the best families In Venezuela, They alone >f the droves of the pris? oners sent to the fort for political rea? sons by Castro had remained. Their deliverance came because of Castro's overthrow. The prisoners, when they came aboard the Zulla at Maracalbo, were well dressed, shaved and had beards trimmed, but they were cadaverous and weak. Many could not walk without assistance. They said they had been systematically starved, the allowance for their keep presumably going Into the pockets of their jailers or others In the Government employ. They subsisted on such fish as could be caught off shore and cooked by themselves as well as they could Communication with relatives and friends or with anyone In the outside world waa denied them, and they had no tidings of even their own families until release came. Some of the liberated Venesuelans could not walk even a few steps with? out painful limping. Two who re? mained Inseparable companions on ship told of having been chained for months to the same post and so close together that when either wanted to move his fettered leg he gave the other man warning. Otherwise the chain would chafe the sore spots where the fetters cut Into the flesh. There were tearful scenes at La Oulra, where the forlorn-looking com? pany were met by their families and friends. General Bello, whe had charge of Fort San Carlos and of the prisoners, I was also a passenger on the Zulla Fl'TMH MaTacttlTJo to T? ^ullt* He ^ described as a bony, grlsslsd man of 60, and according to ths passengers, has a rather brutal appearance. He perforce had to go with his own pris? oners. Several military looking men accompanied him, ostensibly as a guard against violence from his form? er captives, but It was suspected *hat they were to see. too, that he wem nowhere but to Caracas. f Bello enjoyed himself about the decks of the steamer and professed confidence that his actions at Govern? or at San Carlos would not only be Indorsed but be commended at Cara? cas. ANOTHER SEMINOLE CONFER? ENCE. Humors That Car of North Carolina Has Made Another More Court Matter Still Up. Columbia. Jan. 7.?It was rumored here yesterday that Julian S. Carr of Durham, N. C, had been appointed receiver In North Carolina for the Seminole company. A dispatch from Durham stated that Carr had nothing to say for publication except that he bad resigned as director and vies president of the concern. It Is be? lieved that Carr, who Is said f bo a prominent tobacco man In North Carolina, has applied for a receiver? ship In that State In order to protect th; stockholders and at the same tine establish their standing In the courts. The receivers held a confer? ence with the directors today on the mattet and as the offices are now In this State It is not thought that any move made by Carr will affect ei her the efficers or the receivers. The con? ference Is on the qeustlon of bond and this will be settled r/lthout con? sideration of the claims of Carr. GATES, TARIFF REFORMER. Millionaire, Writing to Cannon, De? clare* for Free Trade In Iron, Coal and Lumber. Washington, Jan. 6.?John W. Gates has Joined the ranks of those who are asking for free trade In Iron, coal and lumber. A letter to Speaker Cannon, dated at Port Arthur, Tex., reads as follows: "I notice a great deal of evidence Is being taken on tariff matters In Washington. It seems to me there are three articles that ought to be put on the free list?Iron ore, coal and lumber. I have a large portion of my fortune In the steel business, but I say this to you conscientiously and candidly. A cut of 60 per cent. In the schedule would not hurt the manufacturers of Iron and steel a particle." HIS POWER QUESTIONED. THE SENATE PASSES CULBERSON RESOLUTION. Call on Judiciary Committee to In? quire Into Roosevelt's Right to Sanction Absorption of Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. Washington, Jan. 8.?By a vlra voce vote the senate today passed Sen? ator Culberson's resolution Instructing the committee on the Judiciary to re? port to the senate whether the presi? dent was authorized to permit the ab? sorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company by the United States States Steel corporation. Preceding that action, Senator Hop? kins, renewing his objection to the resolution on the ground that the president did not approve the act of the steel corporation in absorbing the Tennessee Coal and Iron company, moved to lay Senator Culberson's res? olution on the table as soon as it was called up by the Texas senator. On that motion the vote was: 14 yeas and 47 nays. All of the senators voting to lay the resolution on the table were Re? publicans and of the 47 votes against that motion 31 were cast by Demo? crats and 26 by Republicans. As soon aa this test vote was announced, Mr. Culberson moved the adoption of his resolution and by a viva voce vote it was adopted, no division being called for. Winter Laying Hens. Away back yonder in 1S85 the writer started a brother, who was a farmer, In the chicken business. That is, we Induced him at that time, to pay more attention to his poultry, and to supplant, gradually, his common run of chickens with a pure-bred stock. He is now a very successful poultry and fruit grower, coupled with some truck farming. He lived in Missouri at the time we write of? and he still lives there?and In start? ing him, we sent him eggs for hatch? ing. He raised that year, from eggs set early In the season, a fine bunch of Brown Leghorn and Partridge Cochin pullets, which he yarded up and housed snugly when the cold weather set in. That was a long time ago, and yet, our brother never tires of telling of his experience with those pullets dur? ing the cold winter of 1886-06. He had a sort of side shed/that used to be for housing his late pigs. He put a large sash of hot-house style of glass in it, and enclosed it all about. The rest of the hen house was of logs, and closely chinked. It was warm In there at night and the shed served as a feed and scratch place on the colder days. He fed those chickens a mash of a morning, which was mostly of oats, with good wheat bran stirred in after the oats had been boiled. He put all the tables craps in the mixture, too, and he would of? ten shoot or trap a rabbit and stew It up for the pullets in the same pot. Well, those pullets laid, and they laid, and he shipped eggs to St. Louis by the case where he got from 3G to 45 cents a dozen for them. There were some 76 or 80 fowls In the bunch? there being a few old common hens which he was coaching for early sit? ters, and he has often declared that those pullets fed his family, fed them? selves, and fed two milk cows that winter with the eggs they laid. Now, the whole secret of this Is, that the pullets were about the right age for good laying at the very out? set of the cold season?that they were housed just about right, and fed for laying. It will take most any kind of pullet that Is matured at this season, and give her r good place in which to roost, and a dry place In which to scratch and feed during the colder days of the winter, and at the same time give her a warm breakfast largely composed of boiled oats, with some vegetable and meat scraps In it, she just can't help lay? ing, and she will keep It up as long as she is so cared for. This has been our experience for years, and it has helped the brother of which we make mention, to establish a very success? ful poultry business. Of course we can keep our chickens In the winter at a small expense, and little trouble by barely giving them enough to keep them living and healthy, but this Is not the way to make them pay. We have on some occasions fol? lowed this latter plan, but It does not pay, for all that they eat under such circumstances goes entirely for main? tenance with no Income whatever. If we would get the greater profit from our hens and pullets In an or? dinary, or market sense, we should get right after them now, and get all the winter laid eggs possible from them, under the very best of care and feeding.?H. B. Qreer in Southern Cultivator. Simpk? Remedy for La Grippe. ? Racking la grippe coughs that may develop Into pneumonia over night are quickly cured by Foley's Honey and Tar. The sors and Inflamed lungs are healed and strengthened, and a dangerous cendltlon It quickly averted. Take only Foley's Honey and Tar la the yellow paekage. W. W. Bibert. TEDDY BEWIES SEMATl ORDERS ATTORNEY GENERAL NOT TO ANSWER. President Says He Was Personally Responsible for Absorption of Tenn. Coal and Iron Co. by Steel Trust? That Acquisition Was Necessary to Prevent Panic. Washington, Jan. 6.?President Roosevelt today Informed the senate in no uncertain terms that he had given his approval to the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com? pany by the United States Steel cor? poration and that he had instructed Attorney General Bonaparte not to respond to the senate Inquiry as to the reason for his failure to prosecute the steel company. The president concludes his message with the statement that he does not conceive it "to be within the authori? ty of the senate to give directions of this character to the head of an exe? cutive department." The message to the senate is in re? sponse to a resolution introduced by Senator Culberson calling on the at? torney general to state whether he had brought an action against the steel company, becaus. of Its acquisi? tion of the Tennessee concern, and if not, the reason for non-action. While the resolution was not di? rected to President Roosevelt his at? tention was called to it by Attorney General Bonaparte. The president says: "As to the transaction in question, I was personally cognizant of and re? sponsible for Its every detail. For the Information of the senate I transmit d copy of a letter sent by me to the attorney general on November 4, 1907, as follows: " 'The White House,, "'Washington, Nov. 4, 1907. " 'My Dear Attorney General: " 'Judge E. H. Gary and Mr. H. C. Frick, on behalf of the steel corpo? ration, have just called upon me. They state that there Is a certain bus? iness firm (the name of which I have not been told, but which is of real importance in New York business cir? cles) which will undoubtedly fail this week if help is not given. Among its assets are a majority of the securi? ties of ths Tennessee Coal company. Application has ben urgently made to the steel corporation to purchase this stock as the j^A&^means of avoid? ing a failure. I " 'Judge Gary and , Mr. Frick in? formed me that as a mere business transaction they do not oare to pur? chase the stock; that under ordinary circumstances they would npt con? sider purchasing the stock, because but little benefit would come to the steel corporation from the purchase; that they are aware that the purchase will be used as a handle for attack upon them on the ground that they are striving to secure a monopoly of the business and prevent competition ?not that this would represent what could honestly be said, but what might recklessly and untruthfully be said. " They inform me that as a matter of fact the policy of the company has been to decline to acquire more than 60 per cent, of the steel properties, and that this purpose has been per? severed in for several years past, with the object of preventing these accu? sations, and as a matter of fact their proportion of steel properties has slightly decreased, so that it is below this 60 per cent., and the acquisition of the property in question will not raise it above 60 per cent. " 'But they feel that it is im? mensely to their Interest, as to the in? terest of every responsible business man, to try to prevent a panic and general industrial smash up at this time, and that they are willing to go into this transaction, which they would not otherwise go into, because It sems the opinion of those best fit? ted to express judgment in New York that it will be an Important factor in preventing a break that might be ruinous; and that this has been urged upon them by the combination of the most responsible bankers In New York who are now thus engaged in endeav? oring to save the situation. But they asserted that they did not wish to do this if I stated that it ought not to be done. I answered that while of course I could not advise them to take the action proposed I felt it no public duty of mine to interpose any ob? jection. " 'Sincerely yours, (Signed) "Theodore Roosevelt. " 'Hon. Chas. J. Bonaparte, " 'Attorney General.' "After sending this letter I was ad? vised orally by the attorney general that In his opinion no sufficient ground existed for legal proceedings against the stel corporation and that the sit? uation had been In no way changed by Its acquisition of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company. "I have thus given to the senate all the Information In the possession of the executive departments which ap? pears to me to be material or relevant on the subject of the resolution. I feel bound, however, to say that I have instructed the attorney general not to I respond to that portion of the reso? lution which calls for a statement of I his reasons for non-action. I have done so because I did conceive it to be within the authority of the senate to give direction of this char? acter to the head of any excessive de? partment or demand from him rea? sons for his actions. eHads of the ex cutive departments are responsible i.? the constitution and to the laws pass? ed by the congress in pursuance *>f the constitution and In the directions of the president of the United State-* but to no other directions whatever. (Signed) "Theodore Roosevelt. "The White House, Jan. ?, 1909." JUDGES DODGE STANDARD CASE. Landis and Bethen Holuse to Sit in Rehearing of tlie Famous $29,000 000 Fine Matter. Chicago, Jan. 6.?The distinction of hearing the retrial jf the Standard Oil case in which Judge Landis' fine of $29,240,000 went to pieces In the United States appellate and supreme courts went begging today. United States District Attorney Sims went before Judge Landis and announced that he desired to begin a new hear? ing of the case on Monday. Landis answered that in view of his con? victions in the case (fundamentally that each car load constituted a sep? arate offense) he did not care to sit again In the case. "But," continued the court, "I'll ask Judge Bethea about it; maybe he will take It." But Judge Sol. H. Bethea of the district court pleaded some slight con? nection with the matter even before it reached Judge Landis and asked to be excused. "Well," Landis said after his tele? phone conversation with Judge Be? thea, "Judge Anderson is coming here to try a case for me soon; wait till he arrives and we'll see what can be done." And there the subject was allowed to rest for the present. WILL REBUKE PRESIDENT. Washington, Jan. 6.?The special committee considering the reference to Congress and the secret service in the President's annual message is to report to the House on Friday. It is expected that there will be consider? able debate on the report of the com? mittee, which will be presented to the House by Representative Perkins, of New York, the chairman. Represent? atives Tawney, of Minnesota; Smith, of Iowa; Fitzgerald, of New York, and Sherley, of Kentucky, who were re? ferred to by the President in his spe? cial message, following the action of the House In resenting the objection? able portion of the President's mes? sage, will take the opportunity to reply to the President. Representative Grigge, of Georgia, on Monday moved that the special message of the President be returned to the Chief Executive, but withdrew his motion on the advice of some of his Democratic coileagt.es. It Is un? derstood that the report of the spe? cial committee, however, will be a rebuke nearly as severe as would have been the action proposed by Mr. Griggs, if it is "not more so. It is said that the report Of! the commit? tee will recommend either the refusal by the House to receive that portion of the President's annual message, which It Is claimed reflected on the House, or will severely rebuke the President in some other manner. SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS AND COU? RIER. A Splendid Newspaper That Gives the News of the Whole World-?dub Rates With the Watchman and Southron. Beginning with February 1, 1909, the combination price of the Watch? man and Southron with the Charles? ton Weekly News and Courier will be raised to $2.25 a year. Two months remain in which new and old sub? scribers may take advantage of this this aplendld combination at the pres? ent price, ^$2.00. Send In your orders^ now. Think of It a little. For the small price of $2.00 you get your own county paper once a week and a twice a week neyspaper that covers the news of the whole world both for one year. 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C, Dec. 30.?So much has been said In the various newspa? pers of the country in regard to the Williamson plan of raising corn that your correspondent asked Mr. O. P. Hill to tell how he raised 121 bushels of corn off one acre and how much it cost him. I give it in Mr. Hill's words: "Last spring I selected a piece of grap land with red clay subsoil on hich I had made 197 bushels of corn per acre in 1907. On this I put seven two-horse loads of stable ma? nure to the acre; I then turned the nd with a two-horse plow, cross breaking It with a one-horse plow. fter breaking it the second time I laid off the rows six feet wide. Then headed out with turn-plow, leaving five-inch balk. "When ready to plant I broke out balk with scooter, and followed in the bottom of this furrow with a Dixie plow with the wing take:i off. Then ridged on this furrow with a half shovel, still going deepe:*. I planted on this ride, dropping on?e grain in a place every four or five inches. This was April 13th. "When corn was small I ran around It with harrow. Then I ran a fur? row in the centre of the middle, which was a high bed, and bedded to the furrow with a turnplow, throw? ing the dirt from the corn. This left' corn on the clay with very little soil around it. I then thinned the corn to six inches in the drill. I cid not work corn again until the growth had been so retarded and the stalk so hard that It did not grow too large. Expe? rience and Judgment are required to' know just how much the stalk should be stunted. "When I was convinced that my corn had been sufficiently humiliated I began to make the ear. I ran around with 10-inch sweep, when corn was about 12 inches high. In a few days I put 500 pounds of mix? ed fertilizers to the acre, containing cotton seed meal, 10 per cent, phos? phoric acid and kainit in equal parte. This was the first fertilizer used at all. I put this down in the old sweep furrow, on both sides of every 1 other middle, and covered by break? ing: out with turn plow. One week, later I treated the other middle the same way. In a few days I sided corn in first middle with 16-inch sweep and put 160 pounds of nitrate of soda in this furrow, covered one^ furrow with turn plow; sowed peas broadcast In this middle at the rate of one and one-half bushels per acre, finished breaking out with turn plow. In a few days I sided corn with the other middle with semes weep; sowed peas and broks out as before. Thisj laid by my corn with good bed and plenty of dirt around the stalk. This was July 7th, when corn was Just bunching for tassel. This fall I gathered 121 bushels per acre. Ex? pense on corn was $26, leaving a clear gain of $95, not including fod-j der and peas.?Charlotte Observer. * INCREASED FREIGHT RATES. Decision by United states Circuit Court of Appeals Allows Railroads* to Charge More. ^ New Orleans, Jan. 6.?A decision of vast Importance to the South and Southwest, because it affects the question of an increase in freight rates on practically all the railroads in those sections, was handed dowrgj here today by the United States cir? cuit court of appeals, reversing the decree of Judge Emory Speer of the southern district of Georgia, which restrained the defendant railroad* from putting the proposed Increased freight tariffs into effect | The decision was in the case of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad company and others, appellants, against the Mason Grocery company, appellees. The opinion was by Judge McCor mlck, Judge Pardee concurring. Judge Shelby dissented. 4 It is expected that an appeal will be taken to the United States su? preme court by the shipping interests, although the question of the pro? posed increase in rates Is at present before the interstate commerce com? mission. A Man Convinced. Mrs. Brown was shocked beyond worda to hear her small son speak of little Jane Smith, who had spent the afternoon at the house, as a "darned^ fool," says the Deltneator. el "Why, Charlea," said his mother, "where did you hear such talk? Come right to the bathroom and have those naughty words washed out of your mouth." After a thorough cleansing of the j small mouth with nasty soap and ' water, Mrs. Brown asked: "Now what do you think of little Jane?" "Just the same as I did before," was the reply, "only I daan't say if K B. Roberts, colored, trtf to st. al a cash regieter from a Br S store in Charleetou.