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NE? MONROE DOC? HERE NM \R \?.t \s POLKJ1 Hl i i i < n 20TH CKNTl'RY UU \s Crnpoeal Im to Kntrr into Trent) with Ni< .u i, n i Assuming Practi? cally Same Rights nntl Obligations Saat Olve t'nitcd State? Virtual Pn-t.? ("im. Over t uba ? tio?lp (i.Hin- Plan |o ,|<.|ut Hassctt Moore ? Advantage** of WIImmi Supplement? May Solve Mexican l*roblem. tmtttmmmmmm Washington, July 23.?Opinion In Washington la rapidly growing to? wards the positive com lusion that In the naw Nlesraguan proposals, sub? mitted by the Mats department nnd the President to tlo> fSfOSja affairs comrrilttee of tb. senate, the Wilson admlilMtration has made the most significant advance in the foreign pol? icy of the 1'nltcd States since the enunciation of the Monroe dm trine more than ninety years ago. The propsal Is simply that the Vni t*d Slafafl enter into a treaty with Nicaragua, assuming practically tin sasae rights and obligations with re? gard to the smaller country as now give us a virtual protectorate over the Republic of Cuba, and that In addi? tion the United States pay to Nica? ragua $3.000.000 In return for a naval base and for exclusive rights to con? struct an Int. ilc canal through Nicaragua territory In the opinion of the department of State and the President, the incor? poration in the Nicaraguan treaty of a clausa similar to the Platt amend? ment to the Constitution of Cuba, whereby this country has supervision of the dealings of Cuba with foreign > s, and possesses the vote pow? er as to assumption of debts by the Cuban government, would clinch the proposition and establish a precedent altogether desirable in the develop? ment of our relations with Central American countries In general. While the n-mci of the President and the Secretary of State are the ones officially used In announcing the new policy, while it will doubtless go down In history identified with Presi? dent Wison Just as the Monroe doc? trine has been Idntltled with President Monroe, It is the Impression here in best Informed circles that this epochal bUa was worked out by John Has sett Moore, counsellor of the State department, and acting Secretary In the absence of Mr Rryun. Ry general consent the palm has been a< .o I. d to Mr. Moore for hav? ing the best gra'P of International problems of all tic eggsMtJ conncctsd with the department. He is not only a famous authority on international law, but he is a lifelong student of modern statecraft aside from Its strictly legal aspects. He stands to Mr. Rryan very much In the same re? lation as that In which l ust Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John Skd ton Williams stands towards Secre? tary M< Adoo Mr. Williams has been a banker und a student of Horace all his life, and Is doubtless responsible for errtam M Ado.? policies which havs made a deep impression. The beauty of this Wilson sup? plement to the Monroe doctrine is its magnitude and >ts elasticity. When it has been applied to one country, other Central American Republics will have an Oljsai lesson In Its suc? cess, and will almost Irresistibly he impelled by their own desire and Interest to seek to share in its bene? fits. It will soft? n the somewhat de? fiant ami arbitrary ring of the Mon? roe doctrine in the very process of strengthening that doc trim's logic and force. It 1m a doctrine that finds the golden mean between the sordid ? dollar diploma' s/' whnh makes the pj m|, i t k*n oj| \ im. i i, ;m or foreign mone> lenders the ehlel cud, and the . old-td..o,fiM| do. inne, which disavows an\ SOS - in with the tinan cla! doings of our neighboring Re pul.le s Some ..f the most t h- 11 u h 11 ei I \nAT Real analyslsts In Washington hclicvc tbat they can look ahead and see in the sdminlMtratton's poln-y. as in? augurated in the Nicaraguan treaty, the ultimate solution of the Mexican problem, whl'h is one of the most baffling that any President and State department ever encountered. As to Intervention, the situation Is very aptly dese ribed by Senator Tillman sit one- of "damned If we do and damned If we don't." The outrages ?arpetrated in Mexico are well-nigh une-ml ui a bb . \>t IS)OSS ilisintorestod pemons who h c\ the be st knowledge of Mexe an conditions are inclined to srree- that if we undertake to in? terfere ?'\ armed force as matters stand now, all factions would turn on us and gi\e us a fearful ami Mood) > taitk. too eesjttj lo bt worth while. Suppose-, however, thai ? Mealcan sjsgernioe-nt ihouM gel Into omce With a title resting OS] a better foundation than minder, ami should ft. e.en?oelried faiih Worth) cil I.g gdttoi f?vl tin Railed State? Huppe ? that infant go\eirnnenf. feeling shak) In |lM natural onbr of thing* Meal i ,n. should approae h the Called State?* f >r an extension of the benefit which Cuba now esjjotya and N i' uj FIGHT ON PARCEL POST. RAILWAY! Join i\ OPPO&TNCJ rHOPOWII EXTKN8ION. gmrftsaoai not iii'tmi in r vpianation of AutlMHity for Change*?( omplaint of Itnllrnad M' ii Washington. July II,?Railway rep? resentatives today joined in tin- fight t.i pre veal Postmaster Qenefal Burls tei from Increasing the ?ies of parcel i>,?st packages transmissible through the mails and reducing the rates to heroine effective August 15. A dele* gulion representing the railroads gon erally throughout the country laid their complaint before senators and 1 epresentatives and prepared to pro lent formally against the changes to the interstate commerce commission. The movement in tho senate itself to foreatall the change by repealing the aectlon of the parcel post law un? der which the postmaster general claims the right to regulate rates and slzea further crystallzed when Sena? tor Hryan of Florida Introduced a Joint resolution to repeal the legisla? tion in question. Another development of the day was the postponement, from tomorrow un? til Friday of the explanation demand? ed by the senate postolHcc committee of Postmaster General liurleson of his authority to Inaugurate the changes. Hallway representatives said that at present the roads received 50 per? cent of the pay collected by express companies for the carriage of pack? ages and claimed they would lose from $15.000,000 to $20.000,000 a year through the reduced rates and in? creased maximum limit on the size of packages. The Joint resolution introduced by Senator Uryan was in the exact words of the bill introduced by him April 15, the object being to facilitate the pas? sage of tho repealing enactment through the house, where a resolution la under lighter parliamentary handi? caps than a bill. What Time 1 am Afraid. ICdltor Dally Item. Some questions that arise cause great anxiety and fear to those who are deeply concerned for the moral welfare and physical good of a com? munity. There Is no discount upon one who feels fear in the presence of that which rightly produces fear. The only thing that discounts is fail? ure because of fear. The election to be held upon the question of dispensary or no dispen? sary is a source of* anxiety and fear. It la all ? of that. There are those of ua who oppose whiskey selling who realize this question means dang? er. It may cause the moral and phy? sical undoing of a home, a man, a child. This is sutllclent reason fox anxiety and fear. Then Is another source of fear. Put It this way?I have a neighbor who is a ( lever and straight man, he doeg not desire to hurt me or mine, but he is anxious or willing to put whiskey on sale right near my house and his. This man is to be feared. His good character and good will put ulong with his idea and wish about whiskey selling make him ?lore dangerous than a vicious man, much as a vicious man is to be fear? ed. Ho who advocates that which ma> salty injure me or mine is to bo feared and is * source of danger. The \ i< ious and openly harmful can be s? ? despised, or b t .ilone, or avoid? ed. Hut when ItoOM for whom I care would authorize a fellow townsman to ?ill liquor they become a source of dangj r and >?'e greatly to be feared. This is the idea. Can I be a true neighbor and put into the community that which will hurt? Can I afford to bo su? h a man that my friends must be afraid for their very life because "t mv opinion and Vote? a license to merry hei been Issued t>. Prank Johnson and Efflc Williams, i idoi .d, of Renn he rt. ragua is about to enjoy. The Mexlcun euthorltlea could very reasonably represent t<> us that with? out money it is impossible to main la " the military atrength required to preserve order in Mexico, and that without confidence in tin stability of the government it is impossible to get the money, Inasmuch ss the Monroe doctrine pr? vents any defensive and protective alliance with a power out? bids ol this hemisphere. Would no! the logical and proper answer on the pan of the United states be that if Mexico deal red such ud and protection from ua we should be ghid to ||ve it. and would it not be entlrelj natural f??r Mexico i11 that event to find 'he money she needed in the tinted Mates? Then Mexico would stand in the same relation to ua aa Cuba, which is quite the needful nad sensible relation, the result of in? vitation Instead or invasion, and md in mny wsj humiliating t" the self reaped and pride of the protected. Thr Twentieth Century evolution of the foreign polh * ?>f the Palled States has epparently arrived, 1>. M. McLeod. DEMOCRATIC 1.1 \Dl its UPHELD CMU EVERY TEST VOTE. Detailed Consideration of Measure Regina Unexpectedly Uocause of Unpreparedness of Republicans tc. Deliver General Turin* Bpeeches? Senator Simmons Urges ?><> Time DC Lost in Pushing Measure to Vote. Reading of Bill Will Probably lllve Way To-day to Open Debate. Washington, July 23.?Tho Senate took its first plunge into the Intrica cllei of the Underwood-Simmons tariff revision 1 >i 11 today. At the end of a day of hard work only a few para? graphs of the voluminous measure had been completed when adjournment was reached tonight On every test vote through-out the day Democratic leaders were upheld, in some cases re? ceiving the support of Republicans aligned with the Progressive element. Detailed consideration of the bill began unexpectedly, when it was found that no Republican Senaters were ready to deliver general tariff speeches. Chairman Simmons of the finance committee, urged that the Sen? ate lose no time in pushing the mea? sure to a vote and with the consent Of the Republicans, the reading of the bill, line by line, was begun. Tests of strength came upon a number of relatively unimportant is? sues, embraced in duties upon chemi? cals and drugs. The Democratic ranks held solidly upon each vote. Upon the first vote, when Senator Smoot opposed the reduction of the oxalic acid duty from 2 cents to 1 1--' cents per pound, Senators Borah, BrlStOW, Crawford, Cummins, Jones, LaFollette, Nort is and Works, Repub? licans, and Senator Poindexter, Pro? gressive, joined the Democrats in endorsing the proposed reduc tion. On j a subsequent vote, to increase the ' duty on Pyrogalic acid from 10 to 15 per cent. Twelve Republicans voted with the Democrats. Democratic Senators evinced throughout the day the determination I of the party managers to hold debate , to a minimum. No Democratic Sen? ators participated in general discus ! sion further than to give Information as to the reasons for the reductions. The Democrats have determined to make few s|>eeches, and to use their , efforts to minimize debate and hasten final passage of the bill. I Republican Senators criticised re? peatedly the character of the estimates made by the Democratic leaders as ; the basis for the reduced duties. Sev? eral minor errors in the "tariff hand? book, " prepared by Chairman Sim? mons and his staff of experts, gave the Republicans an opportunity to question the authenticity of many sstlmatea and to declare that the Democrats had no adequate idea of the amount of revenue that would be raised under the bill. Senators Lodge and Jones failed in their effort to prevent the adoption of a proposed duty of 5 per cent, on aragols, from which cream of tartar la made. Senator Lodge also pposed vigorously, but without success, tie proposed duty on collodion, from which celluloid is made. He declar? ! ed it would put American manufac? turers at a great disadvantage. The plan of the Democrats to take coal tar products and coal tar distil? lates from the free list and place them under duties ranging from 5 per cent to 10 per cent, was opposed by Senator Smoot, but without avail. ( He declared that they were the raw material of American manufacturers. His amendment to the two schedules Covering these subjects, were defeat? ed, the tlrst 89 to 28 and the second 40 to ;io. Senator Johnson, Of Maine, who was In charge of the Democratic bill dur? ing consideration of the chemical schedule, justified the Increases the committee had made on the ground that they imposed a revenue tax on Chemicals that c ould be taxed without materially affecting American indus? try. The reading of the bill probably will give way again tomorrow to open debate, with Senator Weeks, cd' Mass , achUSCttS, as chief speaker on the Re 1 publican side. Senator Thornton. Dem? ocrat, gave notice today he would speak Monday. Slight Wreck on Northwestern. Sand, which had been washd up over a switch crossing by the heavy rains caused a slight wreck on the Northwestern railroad at Bloomvllle Wednesday? afternoon about 2.30, The engine and tender left the track, but no one on the train suffered any in? jury. Some difficulty was encounter? ed, however, in putting the engine back on the track, it being alter 12 o'clock at night when the train final* |y reached Humter. Probably the most disagreeable feature of fhe wrec k was the fad that seve ral bun? dled picnickers out at Pocullu springs for the da3 wer?, disappointed In u in es III of transportation back home after their day's frolic, though n e.I many were nhle t<> secure au? tomobile and buggy transportation back to Humter, WRANGLE OVER CURRENCY. CHAIRMAN (.LASS HAVING TROU? BLE WITH COMMITTEE. Insurgent Members Endeavor to Amend Administration Rill in Vital Particular? Cliatrraan Overruled by Vote of 7 to r?. Washington, July 2.).?Indefinite ox which Chairman Glass and President of the administration currency re? form by Democrats of the house iiank-l ing and currency committee was fore-j eaated today. Representative Bulkley of Ohio and other members of the committee indicated a desire to re-j open the discussion of all the prin? ciples underlying the administration bill. Representative Bulkley gave no? tice that he was not prepared to de? cide his position in relation to the policy of placing the entire linar.cial system of the country in the hands of a government-controlled boarJ as pro? posed by the Glass bill and asked that the question of the powers and makeup of the proposed federal re? serve hoird he again opened up for general dlsensslon. This is a basic j point in the administration bill'and one which President Wilson has I championed In no uncertain terms. In addition to threatening an in? terminable discussion of the measure tension of the troubulous consideration Wilson are endeavoring to hurry along the committee "insurgents" to today BUCCeedd in forcing into the bill, tentatively, at least, the much discussed and once rejected scheme for prohibiting interlocking director? ates in the banks to be included in the proposed federal reserve system. By a Note of seven to five, Chair? man Glass was instructed to prepare such an amendment as a separate paragraph of the bill. The instruc? tions were included in a resolution presented by Representative WlngO. SENATOR TILLMAN OX VOTING. Denies that He Has Changed Front in Regard to Giving Rallot to Every White Man. The News and Courier has received from Senator Tillman for publication the following open letter to the editor of the Orangeburg Sun: To the Editor of the Orangeburg Sun, Orangeburg, S. C.?Dear Sir: In your paper of Friday, July 18, 1 lind this: "In the days when Tillman was seeking election and re-election he was always 'whooping it up' that ev? ery white man should be allowed to vote. Now he seems to have gone back on all that and doesn't care a rap whether the poor white gets a registration certificate or not. Till? man, of course, never expects to run for office again." Candidly, Mr. Editor, isn't that un? kind as well as untrue? Honor bright now, and say yes or no. The only time 1 recall ever having stressed, or had anything to say about "every white man being al? lowed to vote" was when 1 was urging the (ailing of the Constitutional Con? vention, and when some newspapers were howling about the poor man never being allowed to vote again if the Constitutional Convention was called. I told my friends among the poor white people then that I would suffer my right arm to be taken off before I would consent to any consti? tutional provision which did not safe? guard the ballot to every white man. They had confidence in me enough to vote for the Constitutional Con? vention, and we got it by a narrow margin?about two thousand votes in the State, 1 think. I redeemed my pledge in the Con? stitutional Convention itself by giv? ing three years in which the poor boys about to become of age could qualify themselves by learning to read and write, and I would not hear to a property qualification, except as ;**i alternative. A man must read and write a clause in the Constitution, or pay tax? es on three hundred dollars' worth of property. 1 quote from the Constitu? tion itself. 1 safeguarded the ballot of even white man and at the same time maintained white supremacy. Thous? ands of poor white men last year were bamboozled Into believing l was m> longer their friend, and they say "a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth." 1 suppose that is the reason why 'hi* story has continued to be spread abroad. While i do not ever expect to rui for office again simply because 1 will die before the six years of my term expire. I cannot tamely submit to have falsehoods circulated about ine which are absolutely unjustifiable ss well as unreasonable. Very respectfully yours, i',. k Tillman. Washington, I?. <\. Julj 21, 1913, "El tu watermelon."?Raltlmore Sun. "lit three." Columbia State, if you could have access to the kind comlnn Into Wilmington by Ihe bonl load, the score would be bigger*n that, tu. ? Wilmington Star. SHOOTING OF DIXON BRINGS MATTERS TO A CRISIS. United States Demands Immediate and Drastic Punishment of Men Wim Attacked American at Juarez, also Insists on RdCSSO Of Mining Men. Washington, July 27.?Strong rep? resentations, the most drastic in phraseology that have been made since the present American adminis? tration came into power, were made to the llucrta government in Mexico today. The United States government de? manded not only the prompt arrest courtmurtial and punishment of the Mexican soldiers who shot Charles B. Dixon, an American immigrant olli cial, at Juarez, but the immediate re? lease of Charles Bissel! and Bernard McDonald, mining managers impris? oned by federal soldiers at Chihua? hua City and said to be threatened with execution. So serious were these incidents re? garded in official circles that they overshadowed largely the theoretical considerations of policy which the visit of Ambassador 11. D. Wilson has I brought to a climax. The ambassa ' dor himself was so exercised over the I develi pments in Mexico that he dic? tated two strong telegrams, one to the embassy at Mexico City and the other to the American consul at Juarez. While Secretary Bryan slight? ly modified their tone, they were aP j proved and promptly dispatched. Am : bassador Wilson declined to discusss the affair but he probably will explain ; his views on such happenings when ' he meets President Wilson at 2.30 O'clock tomorrow to discuss conditions in Mexico. The president has Ambassador Wil? son's long report in hand today. He I has studied it carefully and after an early conference tomorrow with Sec? retary Bryan will be prepared to in? quire of the ambassador what reme? dies he would suggest. Meantime the ambassador would give no indication of the recommendations he has had in mind beyond the general statement that his plan would seal the friendly relations between the two counrties. The ambassr dor's experience with outbursts againjit American citizens such as those against which the American government today lodged a protest will make him an important factor in whatever policy is adopted toward the Huerta government on ac? count of yesterday's developments at Juarez and Chihuahua. Although McDonald, who is Bis sell's fellow prisoner at Chihuahua, is ! reported to be an English subject, the i demand for protec tion covered both ' individuals and the American consul at Chihuahua was ordered to go to the extreme limit of his authority to pro? tect the two mining men. Secretary Bryan was at the depart? ment of state for a short time today conferring with subordinate officials in the Latin American division. He said later that the telegrams ordering an investigation constitued the only ac tions that would be taken for the present but that the American gov? ernment intended to pursue its inquiry vigorously. Telegrams corroborating the press accounts of the shooting at Juarez reached the state department today. There is little information about the status of McDonald and BlsselL It appears they were en route to Parral in an automobile to bring out refugees when arrested by Santarosalia. The mac hine was confiscated and the two men were taken to the City of Chihua? hua, where news of their impending fate was carried to the border by A m< rlcans. While the demands today were di? rected towards the Huerta govern? ment the constitutionalists, according to reports here, are making every ef? fort to gain favor with the United States by affording all p >ssihh> pro? tection to Americ ans and their In? terests. THE POSTAL SAVINGS SYSTEM. Every I'rcsldcntal Office to Become Depositor.*. After Sept. 2. Washington. July 27.? By an order just issued by Postmaster General Burleson, every presldental postofflee in the United States will become a postal savings depository on the 2nd of September neat. All but 171 of the presidential post oftiees in the country are already pos? tal savings depositories Of these, four ate in South Carolina-?Bamberg, Ker guaon, Jonesville and Saluda. The four will be Included in the postal savings system September 2. <>nly two p,? si dental others remain ?tut of the sys? tem in North Carolina. Mount Airy and Rust 1 uirham. The only first class postofflee in the United states not yet open for the re? ceipt of postal savings is Danville} Va. If the tariff brines down the coal of living it wont" seem like hone wdl ItV?Wilmington Mar. THE BALKAN WAR. <>\ kve <>r con ferex'ce cox clk t c om im es. (?in ks Refuse Bsrigarla*s Request for Even a Three Days' Truce. News I'Yom f ront. London, July 27.?The Balkan peace conference is cxpeeted to open at Bucharest Wednesday, but mean? time serious lighting continues. The Greeks refused Bulgaria's request for even a three days* truce and after heayy fighting have gotten through Krellna pass, defeating the Bulgarians at Slmekle, capturing three seige guns and driving the Bulgarians Pack on Djuma. The Greeks claim they annihilated the Whole left of the Bul? garian army and that .hey have forc? ed the Bulgarians back all along the Struma valley to Djuma on the Bul? garian frontier. Unless peace is speed? ily is negotiated, another Greek bat? tle is likely to occur at Struma, There is now report of lighting on the Servian frontier. The concert of the powers seems as powerless as before to adopt any united action against Turkey. The porte. however, has disavowed the ac? tion of his troops into old Bulgaria and no further advance of the Tur? kish army has been reported. * The Turks claim that the fort at Adrianople consists of 150 guns, 50, 000 rilles and a supply of corn. Isset Pasha, the Turkish command er-in-chlef, reports that Bulgarians murdered 200 Ottoman soldiers who had been taken prisoners while re porta of Turkish massacres of Armen? ians near Machda, come from Con? stantinople. TURKS AFTER Rl lg ARS. Reports of Massatrres by Irregulars Come from Thrace. Constantinople, July 26 (Delayed in Transmission).?Trustworthy reports of appaling massacres and devasta? tion by Turkish irregular troops come from districts in Thrace which the Turks are reoccupying. The country about Malgara, northeast of Gallipoli. according to reports, has been con? verted into a human slaughter house. Bulgarians pillaged and burned most of the villages and massacred their inhabitants and now the Turks are wreaking dreadful vengeance on the Christian villages which the Bulga? rians spared. The Turkish troops at first ad? vanced committed only a few mur? ders. The irregular Turkish troops and Kurdish regulars who follow have worked their will on the Chris? tians of Malagara and 18 villages in the neighborhood. The Turkish government, realizing the need of the good opinion of Eu? rope at present, has issued strict or? ders to ollicers to avoid reprisals by the troops, but officers have been un? able to restrain the men. cotton bears active See Relief lor Texas and are Convinc? ed That Dry Siadl is About to End in Cotton State. New York, July 24.?The conviction that the long period of drought in Texas was about to be broken was so strong among cotton traders today that tiny sold heavily throughout almost the entire session, forcing new crops off at one time 12 to 14 points under the previous night, with the close steady at a net decline of 6 to 27 points. The greater weakness devel? oped in old crops, chieily August, which at one time sold 32 points under Wednesday's close, with July down 21 points at its lowest interval. All positions rallied slightly just be? fore the close on rumors that tho rains reported Via private wire* at a number of points in Texas weie nothing but sprinkles. The break in August was the result of heavy liqui? dation by traders who had accumu? lated that contract on a mistaken idea that Liverpool took up August bought a month ago. The recent weakness in old crops at New Orleans and depres? sion in some of the interior spot mar? kets also had an effect on sentiment. Prom the \ery start new crops srore under pressure directly attributed to tiie improved weather outlook. The early forecast, predicting unsettled weather and showers in Texas and Ok? lahoma, appeared to he confirmed by subsequent private advices reporting rains at numerous points in both States, hut particularly in Texas. It is in the latter State that lain is most needed and the weather news Is watched with very close Interest. Lo? cal short lines w? re sggressively ex? tended, while the offerings from Wall street and the South w? r<- on a large scale throughout the day. Rallies were few and unimportant, also con? servative traders professed to be skeptical about tin- probability of Tex? as getting the soaking rains that ate conceded to Im? net essary if the earlv ?top promise is to he maintained. Liverpool a*as steady early but weakened on the weather news from this side.