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LEVER AUS COLLEGES. A?RUTI/ITKAL S4 HOOI.s AM) OoogrovMiiun From Thle District Re? gards Pssaage of Act a* II In Most assportsiit Work. Washington. Aug. 25.?The house on Friday passed the Lever agricul? tural extension hill, providing for the establishment of agricultural exten? sion departments In connection with the agricultural colleges and experi? ment stations In the several States This measure, to which Mr. Lever i had devoted several years of study and preparation, completes an agrl- | cultural educational system which had I Its beginning with the passage of the , first Morrlll set in 1862. augmented i by the Hatch act^S year* later. Un? der these enactments stores of agri? cultural Information and facts have been accumulated, but the one defect in tb* national system, until the Lever bill, has been the fact that its prac? tical and local application has not reached the actual farmer. These scientific agricultural facts, gathered by the experiment statlor? and dis? seminated by th' agricultural colleges, have reached only limited number* tn proportion to the total rural popu? lation; and the passage of the l?ever bill, having as its main purpose the direct dissemination among agricul? turists <>f this accumulated knowledge tpperts'rdng to agriculture and home econon Ics. through such agencies as field Instruction, demonstrations, pub? lications and the like, will forge the last link of the chain In a complete system of national agricultural edu? cation. Under the appropriating section of the Lever bill It Is provided that an initial sum of $10,000 per year shall go to each State unconditionally, an additional appropriation of $300.000 is spproprlatcd for the first fiscal year and an annual Increase of this ap proprltlon of $800,000 a year, over the preceding year, for a period of nine years is provided until the to? tal amount of additional appropria? tions will be $2.000.000 annually, but that no State shall be entitled to any part of these additional sums until Its i legislature shall have appropriated a similar amount for extension work. As a matter of local Interest, the State of South Carolina, under the propor? tion Its rural population bears to the rural population of the country. w..ul l be entitled to receive annually the sum of $78.600 from the federal government; conditioned, of course, upon the appropriation of s like sum by Its State legislature for agricultural extension work. Any lesser amount the legislature might see fit to apply to extension work would be dupli? cated from the funds of the national treasury The bill places the disbursement of these funds and the control of the work to be conducted under Its pro? visions, because It was believed that each State had Its own individual ag? ricultural problems which could best be worked out under local environ ros*. The system it will work out seeks to do In a larger measure what I it now being accomplished In sections through the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration work. Possibly no measure this session, certainly none of an economic nature, has become more ger illy discussed or more widely advertised thkn the L*ver extension bill. It has been en? thusiastically supported by leading agricultural thinkers In every section of the United States, the rural press, business oiganlxatlon. agricultural as? sociations, agricultural college pres? idents and experiment station di? rectors. President Taft in his address at the Kansas <'ity Conservative con? gress strongly supported the Idea, and Oov. Wilson In his speech of accept? ance of the nomination for the pres? idency said: 'There is another duty which the Democrat!'- party has shown itself great enough and close enough to the people to perceive, the duty of the government to share In promoting agricultural, Industrial, vocational education In every way possible with, in its constitutional powers" The Democratic platform at Haiti m?>re urges federal appropriations for euch training and extension teaching In agriculture in SOOpefA? tior with the several States." Mr. I^ever. of course. Is enthusiastic over the outcome of his long and con? tinued efforts In perfecting and work? ing for the passage of this measure. "I regard the passage of this bill In the house." he said, as the gftgal significant and pregntnt Steal of my congressional carc-r. My llrst con ? eptlon of this bill a ose gages p#gf| . when I first discovered the i.o t > I <( . is Were tr ?? efforts of the national government In behalf of ag ilture they w re 11-.t as far-reach ing as they ought to be into the uc ?i.l needs of tho rural population. ,4 T have gg gf|gg Haid, the eejrpgga sj this bill it to reach the 'arm-r on his farm with known a?rt , ultural truths. but showing him KXPFHIMFAT STATIONS BENEFIT. their peculiar application to his in- | dividual and particular needs. The ugricu'tur.' COl legst and experiment 1 stations ha\c I ? n and ure now doin.4 an efficient work in the accumulation of this agricultural knowledge, hut true progress among our rural Oltsstl will follow the wisest education and j that teaching is wisest, which, being efficient. Is most general. This end I is the aim <f this bill, and 1 regard its passage in the house as my most ' signal effort in behalf of tho vocation from which I have come and for the betterment of whose conditions it has i i ? ? ii my privilege bumbly to labor " | HEARST FOR "T. R." It cud > it Ulve Indirect Support To Hull Moose. New York Tress. That William It. Hearst Is getting ready t?? give Indirect support to Colonel Roosevelt was made clear in Brooklyn yesterday. It was admitted that In all probability the Independ? ence League organization would join with the Progressives in the nomina? tion of candidates for Congress, the State Senate and Assembly. This combination, it was asserted, would eventually go to an agreement upon State candidates and bring about a general movement for the support Of Colonel Roosevelt. The general state? ment was that William R. Hearst, who announced his support of Gov? ernor Wilson, is getting ready to de? sert the Democratic party because of its stand against a big navy?at least that will be the excuse. Timothy L. Woodruff was asked by & reporter for The Press whether the Progressives would fuse with *he Hearst men. Of much more Importance Is the ad? mission yesterday by E. T. O'Lou-rti lin, Register of Kings county, that a deal is on. O'Loughlin. who was em oloyed by the Hearst newspapers, was tlttttd Register of Kings county on a fusion ticket last year. Ha is tho leader of the Independence League in Brooklyn. He said yesterday that Hearst is in Europe and that ho is acting upon his own Initiative. He said it was likely there would It* p combination of Progressives and lu dpendence Leagues, and that there was a tentative agreement. Of Hearst, he said: "He has had nothing to do with it. It was the spontaneous expression of the desires of the members of the or? ganisation here, and I was directed by a vote of the executive committee to take steps to bring it about. If Mr Hearst does not like it when he returns. I can only tell him that the great majority of the members want? ed it, and that is all. The belief la that Hearst will cause the indorsement of straightout Re? publicans In some districts of Man? hattan so as to take away the appear? ance of a straight deal with the Pro? gressives, but his general object. It H believed. Is to bring about a State? wide split In thp Democratic party and give New York **? Colonel RoefcS? velt if he can. State Suicide. A State which can produce all the corn and hay It needs, and then some more, has no business buying a bush? el of corn or a bale of dust-tilled grast shipped from a distance of 1,000 miles. A state which can raise its own grain'and forage and can get plenty of rich cattle food from cotton seed oil milla right at home, is im? provident If It has to semi money away to buy olemargarine. 1 utterine arid butter made in wide-awak States A Stato which can feed ttttlf and won't, which can make all its meat and don't, and which can be indepen? dent and Isn't, Is sound asleep ovtf its resources?Wilmington Star. A Fine Dwmocrai. A Democrat is a man who votes the Democratic ticket without Praying for? th'- election of a Republican.?Wtl m'r.gton Star. The Panama Canal. Ah an indication in th* Igtrtgnt kH tragt tiptntsd to follow the opening of the rigging Canal, a New York ? hipping Arm has let a contract fOf two steel 100,000-ton steamships Tim ships will cost Jl.r.OO.OUO and w!' be os?d for the Pacific coast trade, -lino loillders are completing u slop for this firm which will 1 iie pio? neer of its itoomsn under the An erl? Cgg Aag. Savannas News. A gprlngfloM minister prtdluti the oi-Klnning of tin- millennium J inn it y 1st. PfObably he has foreseen the good results of the elsotlog of Wood r-.s\ Wilson. Wilmington Star The Grruud Jury brought out in dletment ggajgsj two parties BVtf the ii\er for putting up a Wlfg fell 8 ' Ml n? ir the public roads They ifc . iH also bring Indictment! ggatnst par? tor glowing u]? the roads and this nuissmi-.. would be stopped Dlshop* ville Vindi' it r SITUATION TOUT PARALLEL l?LA\s TO A! JOl K\ CONGRESS SO FAR FRUITLESS. Krittler Sengte or Houso Expected lo Have Quorum Today, There loro Slight Progped of Early Agreement It) Ulo*H' BeSSlon JjS? Foiietto May Continue Filibuster Cnttl Vote Tukon on Penrose Reso? lution. Washington, Aug. 25.?A few score Weary member! Of Congress and an Impatient President of the United states today confronted an unpre- I cedented Governmental situation, fol lowing last night's prolonged and fruitless struggle to adjourn the ses? sion of Congress. The outlook for to morrow'l sessions of the House and Senate promised an even more chaotic condition than obtained in the fight that began Saturday morning and J continued until nearly church time I today. Disgusted with the adjournment failure, many members of the Sen? ate took early trains today for their homes. Senator Penrose predicted that there would be much less than a quorum in the Senate when It meets at noon tomorrow. House leaders were satisfied that that body would be nearly forty members short of the number necessary to transact busi? ness. The double filibuster, which com? pelled the abandonment of the plan to end the session of Congress, is ex? pected to be renewed when the House reconvenes. Senator LaFollette made known to friends today that he would insist upon a record vote on the adop? tion of the Penrose resolution for in? vestigation of campaign contributions of the Standard Oil company in 1901, John D. Archbold. George \V. Perkins and members of Congress. Senator Chamberlain, who led the o*.her Senate filibuster, the object of which was to force the House to agree to the payment of $600.000 of old s'tate claims, will have the support of many Senate Democrats if he re? news his insistence to hold Congress until these claims are paid. The House leaders are determined to fight the claims "until December" if nec? essary. Either of the Senate filibuster holds trouble for any plan of adjournment. If Senator LaFollette should insist on a record vote, it would become neces? sary to secure a quorum. In such an event he could hold the Senate indef? initely, because it would again be un? able to make an adjournment agree? ment with the House. Th? general deficiency appropriation bill If agreed to on all points except the $600,000 of claims, demanded by Virginia. Maryland, Oregon and Tex? as, and the extra months' pay for employes of the. House and Senate. Chairman Fitzgerald, of the House conferees, renewed today his decla? ration that under no circumstances would the House concede the pay? ment of any of these. "If the Sonate insists on the.se items in tho bill it will force tho measure to go over until the December ses? sion," he said. "The House has an? nounced its attitude firmly, and soon? er than see it yield on the items, 1 Will raise the point of no quorum." Members know that it would be al? most Impossible to secure a quorum now. except by the physical arrest of absent members. Senate leaders were hopeful that the Senate might be in? duced to yield on these claims. Tho State claims which have arous? ed tho resentment of the House were also added to the general deficiency bill in the Senate. In the case of the Maryland claim of $72,000 and the Virginia claim of $120,000, house con? ferees insist that the amount now de? manded by those States, as "loans" that were made to the Government in 171b) and 1791, actually were given to the Government as an inducement for the location of the national capitol in tln> present District of Columbia. The Texas claim of $217.693.:i9 is to reimburse the State for money it spent from 1S5S to 1861 In "defence of the TeXSJ frontier against Mexican marauders and Indian depredators." The Oregon Claim of $19:1,543.02 is for tiie expense of raiting volunteers for three Indian wars from 1862 to 1S67. \ hare quorum of Senatort was in Washington up t" the adjournment failure 'brs morning and less than a quorum voted on each propotitlon brought bet?re that body during the night Senator La Follette, by Insisting up? on a roll call on a motion designed to displace tie- Penrose Invettlgatlon resolution threatened to block ad? journment Indefinitely. The leaders u. tinall) forced In surrender and i l iv ild ration of the resolu i Ion, Benator Penrose immediately pro? deeded lo porfect the resolution with amendment Relief seemed to be it light when the conferees on th general le! Icn \ bill appeared with th?*li report Senator La Follette yielded thfl floor expecting action on the measure with hut litle debate. Within fifteen minutes all hope of immediate adjournment was dissipat? ed when Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon) with Senators Martine, Cul berson and Smith of Maryland, be? gan thoir filibuster against the gen? eral deficiency on behalf of State claims. Scores of members of the House, which drifted along for hours without anything to do, visited the Senat? chamber and sat about, arguing with the Senators conducting the filibuster and listening wearily to the extended debate. AS OTHERS BEE IT. 'Ml I ma ii and Blease. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman never did a braver thing when young and well and strong than he does now in his age and weakness in speaking the plain truth about Governor Blease, of South Carolina. The South Carolina primary takes place tomorrow, and the campaign which preceded it has been one of the bitterest ever known in that State. Senator Tillman Is a candidate for renomination, but his physical infirmities have prevented his taking a part in the canvass, and considering the precarious state of his health, his silence and neutrality might, perhaps, have been excused. !'ut with all his Imperfections, cow ; rdlce has never been one of the Sen tor's characteristics, and he speaks t ut now In denunciation of Biegte \v!th entire disregard of political con? sequences to himself. What makes Senator Tillman's step all the more commendable is the fact that his political sympathies and af? filiations have been rather with the plainer classes of the electorate In South Carolina than with what Is re? garded as the aristocratic elemant, and the latter are numbered among the most uncompromising opponents of Blease. Senator Tillman remem? bers their fierce antagonism to him? self, but he refuses to allow that to sway him, and he appeals to the peo pig of South Carolina to "take care of tho State's good name" Tuesday by defeating a Governor who "has disgraced the State in the eyes of the whole world." Since the days of carpet-bag rule South Carolina has not had an execu? tive of whom she has had so much reason to be ashamed as the present ? Governor. If he is not defeated to , morrow, the clean and decent people I of that State may well feel that their I cup of humiliation is full.? Balti? more Sun. W. T. ANDREWS FOR TAFT. Former Roosevelt Man Denied gent in Progressive Convention. Chicago, Aug. 26.?W. T. Andrews, of Sumter, S. C, a negro edator, to? day visited Director Mulvane, of the Repubilcan committee. Andrews said he voted for Col. Roosevelt In the Re? publican National Convention and at? tempted to attend the Progressive Na? tional Convention as a deiegate from South Carolina. He said he was re? fused a seat in the Progressive Con? vention and its a result has decided to champion Mr. Taft's car/didacy. NICARAGUA WANTS CHANGE. Liberal Party Appeal* at Washington. Washington, Aug. 27.?Appearance in Washington today of an active Nlcaraguan junta, working in the in? terest of'the Liberal party and laying plans for bringing pressure to bear upon the State department to cause a change of policy In the handling of the Nlcaraguan revolutionary prob? lem, has added much to the interest felt by the Latin-American dement here. In the absence of any direct news from Managua in the past 4 8 hours, owing to continued interruption of telegraph service in itself a potent sign of Intense activity on the part of the rebels, the attempts hero to bring about a settlement by diplo? matic meant are being watched with interest. Envoys in Washington from the Liberal party are Francisco Altschul, who was consul general for his coun? try under the Zolaya administration In New Orleans, and Angel LTgarte, one time llonduran minister to Washington, but afterward a Liberal leader In Nicaragua. They are seeking to reach the state department with a proposal that the American naval force be diminished to ;i mere legation guard, then the American minister should demand that all factions Including the gov? ernment submit the question of po? litical supremacy to the people in u fair election with the important stip? ulation that the large number of Lib? erals disfran< hlsed by the clerical party should regain citizenship. it is Improbable tlmt the state de? partment would regard nny proposal for the dlmunitlon of the American force now In Kicarngua so long as the present leml-anarchlstlc conditions continue. NEW CONIEMNATION PLAN. BY "EXCESS" IDEA CITY GETS LAND TO SELL. Kingswuy. in London, Greatest Illustration of Tne Method's Bnc* cee?. Baltimore sun. Back of the $2,000,000 loan for a new Light street bridge and "other things" is a plan that is new in Ameri? ca?one that has nut yet been tried out in this country and that will be In the nature of an experiment. It li known as the excess condemna? tion plan, and it calls for the condem? nation of land in the neighborhood of the approaches to the bridge so that the city may control if for indus? trial development. The local plan will be used to en? courage manufacturing industries to come to Baltimore and not for profit, as has been the case elsewhere. The city theory is that the location of additional factories in the city will make up for any profit that may be lost. The administration, it is be? lieved, intends to sell this factory site property at cost, as it did in the case of the old Quarantine Hospital property. Only Four or Five States Have Such Laws. , Though excess condemnation is an old story in Europe and has proved its value, it is comparatively new in America. Maryland was one of the first States to pass, in 1905, legisla? tion allowing excess condemnation. Only four or five States now have such laws. In 1910 the voters of Mas sachuestts passed a constitutional amendment allowing the Legislature to authorize municipalities to con? demn land in excess of the amount needed for public improvement. Philadelphia is now experimenting with the plan in connection with the building of the Parkway. City offi? cials have written for information, but have not yet learned how much progress has been made or the re? sults. Chief Aim is Control of Improve? ments Nearby. Excess condemnation where it is in vogue abroad and where it is be | ing advocated in this country aims [ chiefly to control' the character of private improvements to be made as a result of the public improvement and to give to the city by the sale of j the land condemned in excess of the improvement a profit on the invest? ment. In other words, the city takes over the land which is benefited most by the public improvement?be it a municipal building, a new street, a boulevard, a park or what it may? and sells it at its increased value with such restrictions as may be nec? essary to protect the beauty and use? fulness of the puidic Improvement. Many advocates of the plan claim that by its use the city can carry out vast improvements at a profit instead Of a loss owing to the increased value Of the excess land or property it pur? chases. The plan does undoubtedly reduce the cost of improvement to the public at large, and results: in a symmetrical development of the en? tire section, but the claims do not al? ways pan out as expected. Opponents of the plan claim that heavy benefit assessments that are really fair from the viewpoint of the city and taxpayer bring about the same result without the great investment necessary where excess condemnation la adopted. London Made it a Success. The greatest and most interesting Undertaking in recent years was the construction of Kingsway. connecting the Strand with Holborn. London, a distance of 4.200 feet. The cost was $30,000,000. The sale of land acquired under the excess condemnation plan brought back to the city $21,000,000. leaving $9.000,000 as the total cost of the improvement, but even this charge was covered by the business sense of the City Fathers. When the new street was cut through it caused the demolishment of slums housing 3,500 persons. The Aomea of 3,000 other persons were also destroyed. It was necessary to provide homes for them, so the city built a number of model tenements. The rents from them meet the inter? est charge! on the $9,000,000. \ good deal of the excess land has be n leased. If sold it will bring in more money. Money N o object. Now. the local plan differs from the one in vogue In Europe and advocat? ed In this country In that it aeeka to bring about industrial development, ami the question of financial profit for the city is a minor consideration only. It a farmer could borrow money us easily on land as a speculator can <m w.it? r, the agricultural Interests of the country would nol be a cause for the Nation*? concern. A Republican government for 50 years has been sub sldlzing Industries al the expense of agriculture. Reverse the order awhile and watch the results?^-Wilmington Star. "IX BETHANY HOUSE" Story Tolls About Kcal Lifo in Sontta Carolina?Written by Method** Deaconess. "In Bethany House; by Mary Eliza? beth Smith," is a novel by a Botltfc Carolina Kirl who is evidently deeplr imbued with the South Carolina be I that that plucky little trianglo i.> th* finest State in the union. Her story, like hundreds of others in these dayi of growing social Consciousness, con corns Itself with the "submerged tenth"' in a city's slums, and must prove its claim to originality, not hi its subject, but in its method of treat? ment. At this point Miss Smith has distinctly scored. There is strong re? ligious feeling in the book; but even those who dislike the usual type of re l'glous novel will acknowledge th<t passion of brotherhood with all ths d sinherlted which has leaped from the writer's heart to create a heroin* so in love with humanity that ghg carries even a critical reader alonj; *ith her. For a first book, the story is w<tl. written, though it has its liter&xy faults; and some points of Individual belief are over-stressed, but it is a good book without being "goody," th?? love affairs end, for the most part, bright and natural; and the picture of Southern childhood in the opening chapter is deliciously real, sympa? thetic and funny. One is sure to re? member the tale of black Sam, who, with the white children of the planta? tion as audience, "preaches the fun? eral" for which he has himself pr? vlded the corpse. Miss Smith Is a deaconess of the Methodist Church, South, and ha* been engaged in settlement work is Louisville, Ky., and elsewhere. Thai she has been remarkably guccessfjk' will surprise no one who leads her story.?Augusta Chronicle. NOTIONG WITHHELD. SAYS T. FL Colonel Comments on Prospective Probe of Contribution Dispute. Oyster Bay, X. Y., Aug. 26.?"They can have anything I've got at a? time. They are welcome to any letter I have ever written to any human be? ing on any subject." This was Col. Roosevelt's only com? ment tonight on the Senate's adop? tion of the Penrose resolution direct? ing an inquiry into the Archbold Penrose-Roosevelt cpntroversy over campaign contributions. The new* reached him as he was playing a los? ing tennis game with his sons, Archie and Quentin, at Sagamore Hill. He halted long enough to glanc* over the evening papers, commented again on the visit to him yesterday of William Loeb. Jr., had a few words t*. say concerning William Randolph Hearst's statement in London, and went back to retrieve th<- game wv^fc his racQuet. "You know 1 did not direct Loeb to go down to Washington." he sail when he read his declaration madf earlier in the day that his former private secretary was ready to testify as to what he knew 01 the alleged $100,000 contribution of Jonn T>. Archbold to Mr. Roosevelt's cam? paign in 1U04 and of the Harrimac contribution of $260,000. "Mr. Loeb came to me," said Col. Roosevelt. "He told me that he had seen statements in the newspaper*? that he would be called upor t> testi? fy before the eommitee. Irwuuich Ol he had been my private ?ecretnrjr, hr thought he had better ?peak \* me before ^oing down to Washington. ^ "I told him to go ahead and testify to everything he could remember. 5 told him that if 1 was absent from Sagamore Hill he could come up here and get my letter books and take from them any letters that he wanted to place before the committee." Col. Roosevelt chuckled as he Teas' the newspapers. He stopped abrupt? ly in the reading and looked up at the correspondent. "I could thank Arohbold and Pen rose for what they have done.'' he said. **They have rendered m i s real ser\ ice." There is one thing that Col. Roose I Volt asks the correspondents to make clear each time they visit htm. That is that be does not say the Standard Oil did not contribute $100,000 to his campaign fund in 1004, bU( that he 1 did not know of any such contrlbutlon? land that if it was given his cam? paign managers received it in \10ia tion of hit explicit instructions. The letter which Col. Roosevelt if j wa iting to Senator Clapp, chairman g| the Senate investigating committee: was not finished tonight <mi he said he did not know when it would be done. instead of making his usual Tues? day \lsit to New York, Col. Roosevelt will work tomorrow on the letter. Marriage Ijloensc Record, Isaiah Goodman and Viola Wash I ington of Suntter were Issued .? mar* ri;ige license and married in the Of? . flee of the clerk of court Monday. I