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APPALACHIAN RESERVE
Victory is Won By the Ad/o-
cates of Measure.
FAVORABLE REPORT iS MADE
Qn Weeki Bill Ordered By the Home
Committee—The Paitage of the
Bill ia Assured.
Washington, D. C.—Advocates of
forest reserves in the White moun
tains of New England, and the Ap
palachian mountains of the southern
states, consider that they won a sig
nificant victory, when the house com
mittee on agriculture, by the close
vote of 9 to S, agreed to make a fa
vorable report to the house on the
TO SAVE COUNTRY’S RESERVES.
Report of the Committee on Conserva-
tion Sent to Congreaa.
Washington, D, C.—President Roose
velt has transmitted to congress the
report of the commission of conserv
ation of the national resources.
He gives it the sweeping designa
tion of “the first inventory of its nat
ural resources ever made by any na
tion.” Every recommendation is cor
dially indorsed, he stresses the 'duty
ot the national posterity and the com
mon sense side of the conservatism;
and recommends that $5u,0U0 be ap
Washington, D. C.—As the repre
sentative of the war department, As-
propriated to perpetuate the work of i sistant Secretary Oliver has acted up-
DEFINITE MILITIA POLICY
Oliver Acts on Suggestion By
National Board.
TO INCREASE ITS EFFICIENCY
Recommendations Made By the Natiqnal
Militia Board Are Designed to
Help Soldier*.
the commission, since the present re
port may be viewed as only a tenta
tive survey of the nation's assets
Opening with the declaration that
"the duty of man to man, on which
Weeks bill, having tbe creation of the Integrity of nations must rest, is
these reserves in view.
While the Weeks bill Is entitled
“For the appointment of a commis
sion for the acquisition of lands tor
the purpose of conserving the navi
gability of navigable rivers,” and
“For the protection of water sheds, ’
without mentioning specifically either
the White mountains or the Appa
lachians, it was designed for the im
mediate relief of conditions said to
exist in sections included in the pro
posed reserves.
The bill was drafted by Represen
tatives Weeks of Massachusetts; Cur
rier of New Hampshire and Lever of
South Carolina, and is agreeable to
nearly all the advocates of the re
serves.
The bill authorizes the secretary
of agriculture for the protection of
water sheds of navigable streams to
administer and protect, for
no higher than the duty of each gen
eration to the next, the report refers
to the marvelous mineral, land, for
est and water resources of the coun
try, and the manner in which they
have been prodigally wasted.
The awakening of the public to
the importance ot conservation is viv
idly pictured.
The report cites present wasteful
methods of treating al lour resources,
and declares that in their conserva
tion “our dual system of government,
state and federal, should be brougnt
into harmonious co-operation and col
laboration.”
LOCATED BY A TEAPOT.
How American Consulate at Messina
Was Found.
Washington, I). C.—It was by a
j battered teapot, the property of Mrs.
num-! Cheney, wife of the American consul
her of years, private forest lands up- j at Messina, at the time of the recent
on any watershed, “whereon lands earthquake, both of whom lost their
may be permanently reserved, held ! lives, that Stuart K. Lupton, vice Con
or administered as national forest sul at Messina, succeeded, on the
lands.” It is provided that no tim
ber shall be cut or removed from
these lands except under regulations
approved by the secretary.
Another provision is that all mon
eyes received from -public lands uy
the United States shall be 'set aside
for the acquirement of lands located
on watersheds, and that a commis
sion, to be known as the national for
est reservation commission, shall oe
appointed to consider and pass upon
lands recommended by the secretary
of agriculture for purchase “for the
regulation-' of flow of navigable
streams.” This commission would
consist of the secretary of the interi
or, secretary of war and secretary
of agriculture, one senator and one
member pf the house.
Still another provision is that 25
per cent of the money received from
each of the national forests created
under this act shall be paid to the
state in which the forest is located,
for the benefit of the public schools
and public roads.
LET JAPANESE ALUNE
Says Governor of California in Spe
cial Message to Legislature.
Sacramento, Cal.—-With a warning
against any anti-Japanese legislation,
under the recommendation that the
labor commissioner be given money
to take a census of the Japanese in
the state, Governor James N. Gillette
sent a special message to the legis
lature.
After stating that the bills under
consideration are causing a serious
agitation, both here and in Japan,
and have been the subject oi* an ad
dress to the national authorities -by
the Japanese government, the govern
or reviews the negotiations between
the two powers to stop immigration
The governor says that the ques
tion of immigration is one for the
federal government alone to settle.
morning of the catastrophe, in fixing
the location of the American consul
ate.
In a letter to the state department,
Mr. Lupton says that immeuiately at-
ter the terrible shock he started for
the consulate.
“I had not proceeded more than 50
yards when 1 found myself walking
in water up to my knees in a place
where It snould have -been eight feet
above the water level,” he says. "At
the place where I supposed the con
sulate to be there was notning but a
heap of ruins, Iron beams, splinter
ed wood, bricks and stone in hapless
confusion. I was not sure of the
spot, and climbed over the ruins to
s,ee if I could find anything familiar.
Finally, I came across a battered tea
pot, which I recognized as the prop
erty of Mrs. Cheney, and, remember
ing the spot where it had stood, was
able to get my bearings.”
MUST POST KATES.
NO PROHIBITION FOR TEXAS.
Senate Refuses to Pass Bill to Make
State “Dry.”
Austin, Texas.—The senate com
mittee killed ,by a vote of 6 to 1 the
senate bill providing for the estab
lishment of statutory prohibition in
Texas.
' This effectually terminates that
feature of the prohibition fight In the
Texas legislature, but still leaves the
stale-wide prohibition submission bill
pending, which Is now being vigor
ously debated In the senate, and the
bill providing that no liquor shall be
sold within ten mile3 of any school
house, which is pending In the
house.
REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
In Tottering State According to Re
ports Received in Washington.’ 1 '
Washington, D. C. — President
Roosevelt has transmitted to con
gress, with his approval, a letter from
Secretary of State Root, asking that
authority be given for the appoint
ment of a commission of three Amer
icans to go to Liberia and assist that
republic In strengthening its hold on
the reins of government. The presi
dent, in his endorsement of the
prposition, asks for an appropriation
of |20,000 for the payment of the
expenses of the commission.
TWENTY-FOUR TREATIES.
Record of Mr. Root During Term ae
Secretary of State.
Washington, D. C.—With the sign
ing of an arbitration treaty with Bra
zil, Secretary Root has concluded
such conventions with twenty-four
countries of the world. The list em
braces all the principal nations' ex
cept Germany and Russia, who are
not favorably disposed to the form
followed In the treaties with the oth
er countries. The treaties signed are
the result; of the recommendations
of the first Hague conference.
The questions to be arbitrated In
each case are first to be submitted
to the senate for ratification.
Interstate Commerce Commission
Modifies Regulations.
Washington, D. C. — Regulations
were issued by the interstate com
merce commission in modification of
the requirements of the act to regu
late commerce with respect to ex-
piess companies. The companies are
given the option of complying strict
ly with the law or accepting me mod'
ideation suggested by me commis
sion.
The regulations, in brief, require
the companies to afford to express
shippers every reasonable opportuni
ty to know what the tariffs are and
to give them facilities through post
ing tariffs in the stations and the sup
plying of files of tariffs by agents
that will enable the shippers to know
in advance just what any offerea
shipment may cost. These files must
be accessible at all times to shippers
so that no misunderstanding may
arise over the tariffs. By the tferws
of the order compliance is required
not later than July 1, 1909.
A similar order affecting the Pull
man company and other sleeping car
companies also was issued
on a number of t recommendations
made by the national militia board,
designed to increase the efficiency ot
the organized militia. The recom
mendation for detail of the non-com
missioned officers of the army for
duty with the organized militia was
approved, conditioned upon the set
tlement of the question of the right
to pay the expense for quarters, heat,
light, medical attendance and' travel
ing expenses out of the federal ap
propriations for the militia.
Approval was give nto the recom
mendations for a second series of in
spections, with the view to reporting
on the organization, armamept anu
discipline (instruction) of the organ
ized militia; for a system of corre
spondence schools for the militia; anu
the issue of horses for militia field
artillery, to be charged against fed
eral appropriations.
Mr. Oliver disapproved recommenda
tions for the allowance of pay and
traveling expenses of officers of the
militia engaged in giving instruction
in rifle practice, or on continuous
duty at rifle ranges, on the ground
that such payments are not author
ized by law.
Adoption of cap and collar insignia
to identify the wearer as a member
of the first line of the national forces,
etc., was approved, with the proviso,
however that the time is not yet ripe
for the adoption of such insignia. Tue
recommendation for an allowance for
ammunition cases, bandoleers and
clips is still under consideration.
In its report the national militia
board said it regarded as of very
great importance the question of the
adoption of a definite military policy
tor tfle United States, with particular
reference to a complete co-ordinatiou
of effort between the regular army
and the organized militia, and a com
bined organization of the two branch
es of the flfst line of defense. Gen
eral Oliver said that this matter is
already under consideration by the
general start The militia board ex
pressed its Approval of the bill pend
ing in congress, providing for an ad
dition of 612^ officers to the regular
army, and said that the organized mi'
litia will malije every effort to secure
its passage.
12,667,2ft) BALES GINNED.
NEW MAINE AT HAVANA.
Just Eleven Years Ago Old Maine
Reached That City,
Havana, Cuba.—On the eleventh an
niversary of the arrival of the oid
batueship Maine on her ill-fated mis
sion to Cuban waters, the new Maine,
with the still more modern Mississip
pi following in her wake, sailed into
Havana harbor to be present at the
inauguration of General Jose Miguel
Gomez and tbe new Cuban govern
ment.
This is the first visit of the name
sake of the wrecked warship, and the
two American battleships are moored
to anchorage buoys wltnin a few hun
dred yards of the tangled mass of
steel and the old fighting top, the
visible remnants of the vessel de
stroyed February 15, 1898.
Till new Maine arrived at 11 a. in.,
precisely the hour at which the old
Maine steamed into the harbor on
January 25, 1898. The old Maine sa
luted the Spanish flag over Morro
Castle. Today the new Maine salut
ed the Cuban pennant flying from the
historic fortress. . .
Last ol Criminal Havens.
Washington, D. C.—Through the
ratification by the senate of an extra
dition treaty with Honduras, steps
were taken to break up the last re
maining asylum of persons who com
mit crimes in the United States.
When this treaty is proclaimed by the
president of the United States, extra
dition of criminals will be possible
with all governments of the world.
Judges’ Salaries Increased.
Washington, D. C.—After much dis
cussion the senate voted that the
compensation of the twenty-nine cir
cuit judges be Increased from $7,000
to $9,000, and that of eighty-four dis
trict judges from $6,000 to $8,000,
Census Bureau [ Report on the Cotton
Cr*p Issued.
Washington, 1). C.—There were 12,-
667,231 running bales of cotton ginn
ed from the giowth of 1908 to Jan
uary 16 last, a.iainst 10,339,551 bales
a year ago, according to the census
bureau report. The report counts
round as half bales and excludes lin-
ters. It include* 232,521 round bales
for 1909; 188,037 for 1908 and 90,456
sea island bales for 1909, and 80,190
for 1908. The total bales ginned in
1907 up to January 16 was 179,199
bales, representing 93.8 per cent of
the crop of that year, and of the 1908
crop 93.5 per cent was ginned by Jan
uary 16.
The report shows bales ginned and
number of ginneries operated res
pectively by states as follows;
Alabama, l,317,‘j66 and 3,477.
Arkansas, 931,540 and 2,115.
Florida, 68,578 ind 254.
Georgia, 1,951,74p and 4|458.
Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexico,
1,787 and 6.
Louisiana, 458,72j3 and 1,696.
Mississippi, 1,551,265 and 3,476.
Missouri, 55,182 jqnd 78.
North Carolina, H61.618 and 2,756.
Oklahoma, 612,618 and 984.
South Carolina, 1,193,520 and 3,229.
Tennessee, 321,677 and 649.
Texas, 3,529,426 and 4,148.
Virginia, 12,614 and 115.
Distribution of sea island cotton
for 1908 by states i»: Florida, 34,007;
MODEL LIQUOR LICENSE LEAGUE
Ails for Regulation But Not Prohibition
of Whiskey.
Louisville, Ky. — Denunciation of
prohibition as insincere and fallaci
ous gave way to a taking of the
sense of the delegates to the second
annual convention of the National
Model License League upon the ques
tion of regulating properly the liquor
trade of the country. This census
resulted in the approval of one of
the strongest sets of resolutions along
the line of self-government advanced
by tradesmen of any particular in
the United States.
The resolutions were adopted with
great enthusiasm by the several hun
dred delegates from all parts of the
United States who are attending the
convention.
The principal address of the day
was delivered by Mayor David A. Rose
of Milwaukee. In introducing him,
President Gilmore of tho league caus
ed something of a sensation by stat
ing that among the men who had
been invited to the convention were
many ministers, all of whom endors
ed tne purposes and methods of the
league, but said they were afraid to
come as they might be misunder
stood.
“We will consede absolutely,” said
Mr. Rose, “that if prohibition in fact
prohibits; if it operates to promote'
the well-being of the people; if in
truth it is elevating to society and
is beneficial to humanity, then prac
tical considerations should be set
aside. Whatever the result to vest
ed interests might be, whatever loss
it might produce, all should be sac
rificed in the interest of the general
welfare, just as the buildings may
be blown up or razed to prevent the
spread of the conflagration. But, if
the opposite of these is true, then
not only should prohibition be re
fused as an ethical proposition, but
questions 1 of investment of capital,
business profits, employment of labor,
consumption and markets for farm
products, municipal, state and federal
revenue and the many other elements
so inseparably connected with them,
should weigh in the balance in favor
of the other remedy.
“But we cannot reject prohibition
as the remedy unless we can offer
something better, and with the think
ing, the query is, What shall it be?
“My experience as the official head
of a city of 400,000 inhabitants lor
ten years, as well as my observation
of the conduct of other large cities,
wet and dry, and the study and in
vestigation I have prosecuted to gain
the fullest information upon the sub
ject, teaches me to begin to believe
that regulation is the remedy.”
The following rules were suggest
ed by Mayor Rose;
"License should never be granted
to an unworthy person.
"License should never be granted
to keepers of illegal places or to per
sons who could permit open or secret
gambling.
"Minors should be excluded from sa
loons, and sales to minors should be
prohibited.
“Habitual drunkards should be de
nied.”
He also said that loungers should
not' be allowed in a saloon.
WANT GEORGIA TRADE
Jacksonville Fla., People Are
Urging Naval Stores Bill.
TOOMER AIDING FLORIDA
Taliaferro Bill, It Is Said, Will Divert
Naval Stores Traffic From Savannah
to Jacksonville.
PREXtKVATLUN OF TOE HOME
Conference on Care of Dependent
Children at White House.
Washington, D. C.—The importance
of the preservation of the home in J
tact was the central theme around
which the discussion revolved at the
conferences on the care of depend
ent children, which formally was
opened by president Roosevelt at the
while house. The subject under con
sideration was "Should the breaking
tne nome be permitted, lor reasons
of poverty, or only for reasons of in
efficiency or immorality?”
It was the unanimous opinion of an
array of notable charity workers and
others who took part in the discus-
bion that the enild can best be reared
under the influence of the home, and
that it should be ^removed from the
family circle only when proper super
vision at home has become impossi
ble. It was also the concensus of
opinion that where poverty exists in
the home, state aid should be given.
The hitsoric east room of the white
Washington, D. C.—The bill to pro
vide for federal inspection of naval
stores was urged for adoption by a
delegation from Jacksonville, which
appeared before a subcommittee o£
the interstate commerce commission
of the house. The Floridians have
been in Washington for some time
working zealously for the passage of 1
this measure. The Savannah dele
gation, which was here to appear at
the hearing .before the senate com
mittee have gone, but the supporters
of the bill remained on the scene, and
have continued the fight vigorously.
A bill similar to the bill introduced
by Senator Taliaferro in the senate
was introduced in the - house by Mr.
Sparkman.- Its, passage is being urg
ed at both ends of the capitol. While
on the surface it provides for federal
inspection, its real purpose is to "di
vert. from Savannah to Jacksonville
the tremendous naval stores products
now handled through the Georgia
port.
The principal speaker at the hear
ing was W. M. Toomer of Jackson
ville, formerly of Waycross, Ga. The
delegation was accompanied by Rep
resentative Frank Clark of the Jack
sonville district.
The greatest interest is being shown
in this bill throughout the pine belt,
The naval stores industry amounts
to nearly $30,000,000 a year.
GIANT STEAMERS CRASH.
White Star Liner Republic and Ital
ian Liner Florida in Collision.
. New York City.—The palatial ocean
steamship Republic of the White Star
Line, which was in collision with the
Italian liner Florida, off Nantucket,
Mass., went down while she was be
ing towed to this city. No one was
lost. Her passengers had been trans
ferred to the steamship Baltic.
The Republic was in tow of the rev
enue cutter Gresham and the derelict
destroyer Seneca, proceeding to New
York. On board was Captain Sealby,
with a volunteer crew of fifty. The
crew was taken off by the Gresham,
which stood by until she sank be
neath the waves.
The Florida steamed slowly to New
York, convoyed by the American liner
Neyv York.
That there was loss of life attend
ing the collision was not known until
some time after the accident. The
wireless, which has had its great trial
and proved its utility, brought the
news that Mrs. Eugent Lynch of Bos
ton and W. J. Mooney of Langdon, N.
D., had been killed, and Mrs. M. M.
Murphy of Grand Forks, N. D., and
Eugene Lynch of Boston, injured. It
was reported, further, that four mem
bers of the Florida’s crew had met
death.
The bodies of the dead and injured
were transferred to the Baltic.
JEFF DAVIS’ BODY GUARD
Pris-
— .. „ .house was the scene of this notable
-rgia, 43,244; South Carolina, 13,-1 conference .
205.
the
corrected ptatistics of the
quantity of cotton rinned this season
to January 1, are 1$,465,298 bales.
AMERIUAN ROUGHLY TREATED.
Naval Officers in Conflict with the
French Police Officers.
Marseilles, France.—A party of
American officers came into conflict
with the police officers and one of the
Americans was taken to the police
station, where, it is alleged, after a
violent scene, the officer was sub
jected to violent treatment.
Rear Admiral Walnwright has pro
tested to the authorities against the
action of the police, and the case
will be investigated.
AN UNUSUAL WEDDING.
Girl Becomes a Bride by the Corpse
of Her Father.
New York City.—Married in the
same room where lay her father’s
body in a coffin, Miss Daisy Helme, of
Mount Vernon, N. Y., is now the
bride of Francis M. Oliver of Lon
don, England. The bride’s father,
John C. Helme, an accountant, was
asphyxiated at his home accidental
ly, according to the coroner’s verdict,
but arrangements for the wedding
were not halted. The same minister
was in charge of both the funeral
service and the wedding ceremony,
and relatives who gathered for the
funeral were present at the sorrow
ful wedding.
AUTOMOBILE FACTORIES BUSY.
Cleveland’s 1909 Output Expected to
Be Worth Twenty-one Millions.
Cleveland, Ohio.—In marked con
trast with the business depression
which prevailed a year ago, the auto
mobile factories in this city are now
being operated to their \full capacity.
In some instances plants are being
worked overtime. At the present
rate of output it is estimated that ful
ly 21,500,000 worth of automobiles
will be turned out by Cleveland man
ufacturers during the present year.
More than 50,000 men are now em
ployed in the automobile factories
here.
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
That one person in every twenty
in England and Wales is a pauper,
is the appalling fact brought out in
the first three weeks of the old age
pension law. In London the ratio
is one in fourteen, and the figures
gathered tell such a story of nation
al poverty that the government is
believed to be in danger. More than
500,000 persons have been found eli
gible for old age pensions, and it is
expected this total within the next
few months will reach 600,000. Fig
ures compiled within the last few
weeks give a population tc England
and Wales of 34,934,600. The number
of paupers is 1,709,436, while 2,209,-
436 receive government aid.
Answers La6t Roll Call—Was
oner in Washington.
Atlanta, Ga.—Robin W. Cauble, a
Confederate veteran and one of Pres
ident Jefferson Davis, bodyguards, is
dead at his home in this city. Mr.
Cauble was aged 73 years, and was
a native of Charlotte, N. C., where
he resided for twenty-five years.
Mr. Cauble enlisted with the Con
federate army when the war began.
He was transferred from the army
to the navy yards of the Confeder
acy, where he was a pattern-maker
and machinist for two and a half -
years. Near the close of the war he
became one of Jefferson Davis’ body
guards; and, when the president was
captured in Irwin county, at the sur
render, by the Yankees, Cauble was
placed under arrest also, and was
taken with President Davis to Wash
ington and thrown in prison.
He made a fine record as a soldier
and did much for the south as a skill
ed pattern-maker in the navy yards,
and was proud of the honor of being
the president’s protector.
TAFT HAS SAILED.
President-Elect Leaves on the Cruiser
North Carolina.
Charleston, S. C.—After a round of
entertainments by his friends in
Charleston, President-elect Taft sail
ed from this port on the United
States cruiser North Carolina for the
Isthmus of Panama.
Mr. Taft had no statement to make
regarding the conferences which he
held here with Senator Philander O.
Knox and Frank H. Hitchcock, both
of whom arrived here, in response to
telegrams frdm Mt. Taft, requesting
them to meet him in Charleston.
YELLOW SCARE IN CALIFORNIA.
Raised in Interest of Navy, Claim
Congressmen,
Washington, D. C.—Whatever the
Californians may think of the Jaq-
anese war scare, the war bugaboo has
been exposed in the house. It is an
exploded balloon, a worn,out device to
stimulate public support of the ad
ministration’s naval program.
Congressmen from California are
claiming that the controversy between
that state and President Roosevelt
over the proposed anti-Japanese leg
islation aims at the sovereign power
of that state to control its domestic
affairs, and furthermore, Is a racial
problem in which the sympathies of
the south should be enlisted.