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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.
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?Fever sores and old chronic sores
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TUE HILL COHN METHOD.
Gaffney Farmer Who Raised 121
Bushels of Corn to Acre.
Gaffney, 8. 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.