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GOT A BIG SHARE
Southern Ports Show Up Well
as to Export Trade.
FIGURESONBREADSTUFFS
Value of Grain Shipped Out of Gulf
and South Atlantic Ports Showed
Increase of 66 Per Cent
Over Last Year.
That southern ports are increasing
their importance as exporters of
breadstuffs is shown in the latest is¬
sue of the Manufacturers’ Record
(.Baltimore), which says:
“During the twelve months of the
past calenoar year, the value of
breadstuff exports from this country
increased over that of the preceding
year from $92,311,812 to $146,110,962,
or by $53,799,150, equal to 58 per
cent.
The increase at leading southern
ports was from $30,015,517 in 1904,
to $50,049,696 in 1905, or by $20,034,-
179, equal to 66 per cent.
“Six southern ports — Baltimore,
Newport News, Norfolk Portsmouth,
Galveston, Mobile and New Orleans—
exported more than a third of the
total exports, and the increase in
value of their exports was more than
S7 per cent of the increase at all
ports.
“The trend of this traffic toward tho
gulf ports Increasing now for a num¬
ber of years is destined to become
stronger still. The twelve months late¬
ly ended has seen the completion of
a now line of railroad down the val¬
ley of the Mississippi after several
years of shrewd and diligent engi¬
neering.
“Not far west of this another sys¬
tem is building the first section of
a hundred miles or so of a road that
Is eventually to reach the gulf. Still
anothe.r route lias just been finished
to make an easy connection from
points on and near the lower Missouri
river across country to the Mississippi
valley, following an existing line of
the same system to reach New Or¬
leans.
“A fourth company is by piecemeal
building a road that is soon destined
to enter New Orleans, while the con¬
tract was lately awarded for a fifth
enterprise which will build links to
connect up several railroads for the
purpose of making a New Orleans
and Denver through line. A sixth plan
is that of another large system to get
into the Louisiana metropolis by
means of a line which at present
seems to be no more than a lumber
railroad.
“On the Atlantic side of the moun¬
tain ranges three new lines are now
under construction to give coad routes
to the coast. One of these is from
fuel regions in West Virginia, another
is from the Kentucky and Southwest-
era Virginia fields, and the third is
to extend out of the Birmingham dis-
trict of Alabama.
“Other roads are in prospect, and,
beside, one important line in West
Virginia has only lately been finished,
a road which through its intimate con¬
nections '"ill reach tide at Baltimore.
“There is another traffic movement
which further efforts are being made
to accommodate, It is that of road
from Kentucky, West Virginia and
Virginia to the great lakes, and two
or three plans for lines northward
from nature’s great store houses of
fuel in those three states will prob¬
ably be realized in a few years by
actual construction of new coal roads.”
A KICK FROM PORTO RICO.
Islanders Dissatisfied Over Rule of
American Officials.
Broad charges as to the indlffer-
ence of American officials in Porto
Rico to the wishes of Porto Ricans
were made by Mayor Robert Todd of
Juan in a hearing Friday before the
house committee on insular affairs
on the proposed bill to reorganize the
insular government.
BRUTAL CASES OF HAZING.
Champ Clark’s Appointee Haled Be¬
fore Investigating Board.
Hazing of a brutal nature was re¬
vealed during the trial of Midship-
man Cheste’r Bloebaum at Annapolis
Thursday more plainly than in any
of the previous proceedings. Three
lourth-classmen testified that they
had been hazed by Bloebaum until
they were utterly exhausted. Bloebaum
is n appointee of Congressman
Champ Clark, who said recently on
the fleer of the house of representa-
lives that 1 be would arm a youth he
sent to Annapolis with a "bowie knife
and hatchet.
SLAVS JAIL AN AMERICAN.
Walling Arrested Under Charge of
Syr *>athizing With Russian Reds.
News of the arrest in St. Peter3-
burg of William English Walling of
Chi- tgo was received in New York
Mr. Walling went to St.
Pet to study the sccial situa-
tion nd was arrested because of his
alk 1 mpathy with and participa-
tim with the revolutionary party.
PLACES F0R“HASBEENS”
Secretary Root Expresses In Satirical
Vein the Chief Evil of American
Consulate Service.
A Washington special says: Secre¬
tary Root, while appearing before the
house appropriations committee in re¬
lation to the expenses of tho state de¬
partment, spoke frankly concerning
the shortcomings of the American con
sular service.
The statements of Mr. Root, which
have just been made public, show
that in response to questions by Rep¬
resentative Livingston, the secretary
said:
“There are a great many consulates
that have been in that condition and
there are some that are still in that
condition, and the fact arises from
several causes. One cause is that
consulates are used and regarded here
not as places in which active and ef¬
ficient work is to be done, but are
used as places in which to shelve es¬
timable and elderly gents whose
friends find it necessary to take care
of them in some way.
“Now, I have got old enough to bo
able to say that sort of thing without
anybody being offended. I don’t think
that when a man has lived out tho
activity of his life and passed be¬
yond his ambition and his energy and
jus desire to make a career for him¬
self, I do not think that then is the
time to start him out in a now' place
where he has got to learn a new
business and push the commerce of
the country.”
The following statements w’ere then
made by Mr. Root in reply to ques¬
tions of members of the committee:
Mr. Brundlge: “I quite agree with
you, Mr. Secretary, as to that, but on
w'hom rests the blame for that con¬
dition?”
Secretary Root: "It rests on a long
standing custom, whereby the execu
tlve is expected to appoint to import¬
ant consulates important men from
the different states.”
Mr. Graff: “But you have a system
of examination?”
“Yes, so far as the young fellows
go. You can put the screws on them
and make them come up for examina¬
tion, but when an eminent citizen—”
Mr. Livingston: “An eminent ex¬
senator or member of congress?”
Secretary Root (continuing): “Yes;
w'hen an eminent citizen comes around
you cannot examine him in geography
and arithmetic. He resents it and
there is the dickens to pay all along.
(Laughter.) It is a custom that ha?
grown up—just like this deficiency
When you step in to change
custom you cannot change it. by
you have to jar something.”
LUKE WRIGHT AMBASSADOR.
Governor General of Philippines is
Given New Post In Japan.
Luke E. Wright, governor of the
Philippines, has been named by the
president as the first American am¬
bassador to Japan.
In accepting the new appointment
Governor Wright sacrifices $3,000 a
year in compensation. It is believed
that congress will accept the recom¬
mendation of Secretary Root that in
connection with the elevation of the
American legation at Tokio to the
rank of an embassy, the compensa¬
tion of the incumbent be raised from
$12,000 to $17,500, but as Governor
Wright’s present salary is $20,500, he
will still be suffering a considerable
financial loss.
THREE DIE IN COLLISION.
Freight and Switch Engines Crash To.
gether Near Atlanta.
A head-on collision occurred be¬
tween a through freight train and a
switch engine on the Seaboard Air
Line railroad at Mina, seven miles
from Atlanta, Friday evening at 5:3 3
o’clock, an dthree men were killed
and two injured. An engineer and
fireman saved their lives by jumping.
The dead are: Walter S. Taylor, en¬
gineer of switch engine; leaves wife
and two children. E. B. Rock, tele¬
graph operator; leaves wife and five
children. Thonias J. Eden, fireman
on the switch engine.
BIGELOW ON WITNESS STAND.
Magazine Writer Proves Obdurate Be
fore Senate Committee.
Poultney Bigelow, the magazine wri¬
ter, whose arraignment of the admin¬
istration and management of isthmi¬
an canal affairs, was denounced by
Secretary Taft, proved to be a con¬
tumacious witness before the senate
comrrittee on interoceanic canals on
Thursday, and involved ihe commit
tee in a controversy which continued
through two executive sessions with¬
out satisfactory settlement.
CHARLOTTE INVITES CHINKS.
Manufacturers’ Club Wants Visit from
Imperial Commission.
-pjj e southern Manufacturers’ Club
Q( ujj ar i 0 tte, jj. c., has invited a
eommittee of g ve 0 f the Chinese im-
p erial commission now en route to
th j g coun t r y t 0 visit the city, partic
j ])a j e j n a luncheon and see a njim-
ber oI the cotton m j]] 3 j n and about
tJie looaUty .
GRAY. JONES CO.. GA.. THURSDAY. JANUARY 25. 1906.
tears of Tillman
Flowed in Defense, of Woman
Ejected from White House.
DENOUNCES PRESIDENT
Sensational Speech Delivered by South
Carolinian on Floor of Senate.
Protests Made by Senators
Hale and Daniel.
A Washington special says; Scath¬
ing in its bitterness of invective to
a degree that called forth the open
charge that ho was airing a personal
grievance against and venting his
personal spleen upon the chief execu
five of the nation, the speech in the
senate of Senator Tillman was the
sensation of the day at Washington,
Wednesday.
Beginning with the discussion of
President Roosevelt's Santo Domingo
policy, Senator Tillman led up to the
brutal ejection of Mrs. Minor Morris
from the white house, and so extreme
were some of his references to the
president for his Inaction with regard
to the Mrs. Morris affair that not only
Senator Hale, but Senator Daniel felt
called upon to interrupt that he might
enter protest against such a discus¬
sion in the senate.
The South Carolina senator wielded,
his pitchfork with old time vigor. He
was bitter without transcending the
hounds of legislative propriety, scath¬
ing without resorting to unparliamen¬
tary language, dramatic in his man¬
ner of utterance, logical in his method
of leading from one phase of his sub¬
ject to another unti-l lie reached a
climax in the Mrs. Morris case, and
he kept his temper throughout in the
face of interruptions, that earlier in
his congressional career would have
provoked angry outbursts of pas-
With tho exception of an
outburst of laughter over some of the
South Carolinian’s terms, there was no
demonstration. Senators followed him
intently. The interruption of Sena¬
tors Hale and Daniel did not break tile
trend ot his argument.
During much of the time republi
can senators sat with smiles on
faces as if enjoying it all. When
concluded everybody expected
republican senator to rise In the
ident's defense, but not a voice
heard. The tension was relieved
Senator Hale, who cleared the
leries with a motion to go into
live session.
The speech abounded in Mr. .Till¬
man's peculiar expressions, and
characterized by many severe and
ceptionally personal thrusts at the
president. At times he wept over
what he regarded as the indignities to
Mrr. Morris, and his eyes were full
of tears when he declared in the face
of protests from his fellow senators
that he would demand an investiga¬
tion of the white house incident.
He declared that the president had
been derelict in falling to punish his
subordinates for their course, and
quoted statements from persons said
to have been witnesses to show that
tho proceeding had been inhuman. Ho
said that ne would formally present a
resolution for an investigation of the
entire incident.
The Introduction of this resolution
called out a protest from Mr. Daniel,
while Mr. Hale objected to the pre¬
sentation of the matter at all, except
upon proof. Mr. Tillman declared bin
determination not to be guided by
their advice and closed with the re
iteration of his determination to bring
in the resolution.
WRECKED BY OPEN SWITCH.
Brakeman Killed and Engineer Se¬
verely Injured.
In a freight wreck on the South¬
ern road Wednesday morning at
Cookeville, Tenn., George Worrell, a
brakeman, was killed, and Engineer
Fisher and Fireman Green were so-
vorely injured. An open switch was
the cause of the accident.
THREE MIDDIES ARE FIRED.
Foster, Coffin and Marzoni Lose Out
for Hazing.
At Annapolis Wednesday, when tho
full brigade of midshipmen was pa¬
raded for the regular formation, Mid¬
shipmen Pettersen Barto Marzoni of
Florida and W. W. Foster of Indiana
of tjie first class and Trenmor Bof¬
fin, Jr., of the third class were public
ly dismissed from the United States
naval academy for hazing plebs.
The order of tho secretary of the
navy was a short one. and in each
case addressed personally to the mid¬
shipman concerned.
FRENCH CHARGE BARRED OUT.
Went Aboard Vessel and is Prohibited
from Landing Again.
M. Taigny, the former French
charge d'affaires, having gone n
board the French line steamer Martin
ique at La Guira, Venezuela, without
legal permission, the Venezuelan au¬
thorities have prohibited his landing
again in Venezuela and ho must go
on to Colon,
NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT.
Clement Armand Fallleres is Chosen
to Succeed Loubet as Head of
French Republic.
A Paris special says: M, Fallleres
\jjas electod president of France by
the national assembly at Versailles
Wednesday on the first ballot. Tho
vote was: M. .Fallieres, 449; M. Dou
mer, 371.
The voting proceeded steadily.
Cheers were raised whenever a pop¬
ular legislator or statesman deposit¬
ed his ballot in the urn, each group
applauding its lenders and hooting the
leaders of opposing groups. Several
aged senators, Including MM. Ratio,
Coujon and Sarraut, who were ob¬
viously ill, leceived the assistance of
tho ushers when mounting tho trib¬
une.
Finally silence proclaimed the en 1
tf the balloting and ail present ea¬
gerly awaited the announcement of
the result. Then when tho first fig-
lies, M. Fallleres, 446, and M. Dou-
mer, 371, were given out, there was
an outburst of enthusiasm, which
was renewed after the corrected flg-
arcs, giving M. Fallieres 449. Tho
final figures were:
M. Fallleres, 449; M. Uoumer, 371;
scattered, 28.
One voter abstained from deposlt-
ing bis ballot.
51. Fnlli ires returned to Paris from
Versailles, escorted by a military
guard of honor. He will take over
bis new duties, February 18.
Alter spending a brief period at
the official residence, which lie occu
pics as president of the senate, M.
Fallieres went to the Elysee palace,
to visit President Loubet, who warm¬
ly congratulated the president-elect.
The new president of Franco Is tho
son of a magistrate’s clerk and is the
grandson of a blacksmith.
M. Clement Armand Fallieres was
born November 6, 1841, at Mezin, et
Geronne. He studied law and was
called to the bar at Merac, of which
town he became mayor, retaining that
office until 1875.
In tile following year ho was elect¬
ed to the chamber ot deputies as
republican and affiliated himself with
tho republican left group in the
chamber. He distinguished himself
as an orator and was reelected
1877 and in 1878.
In 1880, M. Fallieres was named
under secretary to the minister ol
the interior and he was again
ed to the assembly in 1881. He
tired from the ministry at the time
the Jules Ferry cabinet, but
to (lower the following year and
made president of the council and
interim minister of foreign affairs.
Subsequently M. Fallleres was sue
cessively minister of public. Instruc¬
tion, minister of the interior and min¬
ister of justice. He was elected sen¬
ator in 1890, a position which ho lias
hold since that time, and was elected
to tho presidency of the senate in
1899. lie was re-elected in 1900, and
was again re-elected January 11 of
the present year.
M. Fallleres took an active part in
the religious question, opposing at
first the proposition for the separa¬
tion of church and slate, but. later
energetically advocated the repression
of the clergy.
FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Senate Committee Favors Passage of
Several Measures.
Senator Clay secured a unanimous
report from tho senate committee on
public buildings and grounds Wednes¬
day in favor of the passage of Ilia
hill appropriating $1,000,000 for a now
public building at Atlanta.
The committee also ordered favora¬
ble reports on bills making approprl
ations for new federal buildings, a?
follows;
At Bluefield, W. Va., $100,000; Fort
Worth, Texas, $325,000; Anderson, K.
C., $75,000.
A favorable report was ordered on
a Mil authorizing the erection of a
building at Raima, Ala.
RAISE THE COLOMBIAN FLAG.
San Bias Indians Rebel Against 8over-
eignty of Panama.
Irranaquina, grand chief of the San
Bias Indians on the lower Atlant'o
coast of Panama, announces secession
from Panama and the renewal of al
legiance to Colombia of himself and
followers.
There are about 30,000 of these In
dians along 110 miles of the most fei-
tile part of the coast of Panama and
in all the villages the Colombian flag
is being displayed. This revolt again ;t
Panama’s rule is said to be fomented
by the Colombians.
KANSAS OUT SIXTY THOUSAND.
State Treasury Found to Be Short In
That Amount. •
A Topeka dispatch says; A report
of an examination of the Kansas state
treasury by expert accountants, giv¬
en out by Goyernor j$. W; Hcch Tubs
c’ay afternoon, shows a shortage <n
elo :e to $30,000. The report covered
the terms of K. E. Grimes and the
present treasurer, T. T. Kelley.
VARDAMAN’S BREAK
Convict Given a Thrashing
by Mississippi Governor.
IMPUDENCE IS RESENTED
Incident Creates Big Sensaion and
Much Talk and Will Be
Subject for an Official
Investigation.
jackson, Miss., special says: Gov¬
ernor Vardanian’s self-confessed whip¬
ping of a negro convict, employed . s
a trusty around the executive man
sion, and which is to he given a thor¬
ough probing by the penitentiary in¬
vestigating committee, according to
assurances from members of that
body, has aroused tho liveliest sen¬
sation of recent years, and Is now
tho most absorbing topic of discus¬
sion among the members of tho legis-
latino.
The governor does not attempt to
deny any phase of the story, but very
candidly admits in answer to ques¬
tions that he soundly thrashed the
prisoner, ind further declares that he
would do so again under similar cir
eumstances. The negro was at first
knocked down by the governor, a
good kick administered, and then a
broomstick was used in the chastise¬
ment, the weapon being broken to
pieces over the prisoner’s body. So
far as known, he sustained no seri-
ous injuries from the encounter with
the chief executive, although he was
exceedingly sore for several days, and
is now in I he negro ward of the con
vict hospital at Oakley suffering from
rheumatism, having been ordered to
that Institution several days ago by
tile Board of control.
The offense that provoked the chas¬
tisement of the convict was his ar¬
rest by Officer Pridgen of the local
police force, who found him prowling
around in the fourth ward one night,
ami carried him lo jail, The local
authorities ore allowed a reward of
$ui lor arrests of this character The
governor sent his private secretary
to the city jail on I ho following morn¬
ing for the prisoner, anil the whipping
occurred shortly after his return to
the executive mansion.
Surprise over the Incident ts ren¬
dered more profound on account of
the governor’s employment loss than
(i year ago of a special attorney to
prosecute David Puckett, sergeant of
the Rankin convict farm, for tho al
leged cruel and Inhuman treatment
of a convict, Puckett being afterwards
indicted by the grand jury. The trial
resulted in a hung jury. In Ills bien¬
nial message to the legislature the
governor dwelt with especial force on
the humane treatment of the states
The rules of tho Mississippi peni¬
tentiary prohibit corporal punishment
for convicts. Although it ha? been an
established precedent, for many years
tho governor, in reality, has no legal
authority to use convict labor around
tho executive mansion.
Tho governor has stirred up con¬
siderable surprise in the house of
representatives by sending in a mes-
sago recommending that trusty con¬
victs Instead of hired laborers he used
as porters around the capital. The
recommendation has already aroused
violent opposition, The governor
wants tho convict porters “uniform¬
ed in gray, or some other agreeable
color.”
ILLEGALLY APPROPRIATED.
Department of Archives and History
in Alabama Knocked Out.
By decision of the Alabama su¬
preme court a very Important depart¬
ment of the state service Is crippled.
It has been ruled that the "department
of archives and history has been using
$700 a year maintenance to which
it is not entitled by law. The case was
made out by Jesse D. Beale, a tax-
payer of Montgomery, who brought
suit to restrain further use of tho
money.
CROOKED DEAL CHARGED.
Graves Avers That Railroads Have
Secured Control of His Paper.
Charging that Charles Daniel, back¬
ed by the Southern and Central of
Georgia railroads, is seeking to gain
absolute control of the Atlanta News
in violation of law and contracts are
made by John Temple Graves, editor
in-chlof of that paper, In a bill In
equity filled in ^Atlanta Thursday.
I he allegations of the hill are sen-
rational. The defendants In the suit
are Mr. Daniel, James W. English,
Jr., Mills B. Lane of Savannah and
tho two railroads above mentioned.
TO GATHER IN BUFFALO.
National Travelers’ Protective Asso¬
ciation Arranges for Meeting.
\V. It. Johnson of Knoxville, Tenn.,
president of the National Travelers’
Protective Association, announced on
Tuesday that the annual convention of
the order will be held In Buffalo, N.
Y., during tho week- beginning June
11 .
VOL. XII. NO. 11.
CHAUNCEY IS ROASTED.
6enator Brackett in New York Legis-
ture Tells Why “Joker’’ Should
Resign from U. S. Senate.
The Now York state senate Ttios-
tluy by a vote of 34 to 1 rejected
the resolution of Senator Edward U.
Brackett of Saratoga demanding the
resignation of Chauncoy M. Depew
from the United States sonato. After
a debate lasting more than throe
hours, and criticized on the one hand
by Senator Brackett's unsparing de¬
nunciation of Senator Depew and tho
Insurance companies on the other by
almost equally harsh criticism of I lie
judgment and the motives of the in¬
troducer of the resolution, tho roll
call showed Senator Brackett’s own
vote to bo tho only one in favor of tho
resolution. Every other republican
senator voted against it, with the ex¬
ception of Senator Armstrong, who
was absent.
The fourteen democratic senators
were excused from voting on the reu-
olutlon, though tho motion to exxcuse
thorn was opposed by Senator Brack¬
et), wno expressed Ills desire to “put
every senator on record on Ibis moral
issue." Senator Grady, tho democrat
Jc leader, said tho democrats regard¬
ed the Depew issue as purely a. re¬
publican affair; they fell like the man,
who looking on while his wife fought
with a bear, cried: “Go it, old wo¬
man; go it, hear.” The more severe
the consequences to both the "old
woman” and the “bear" In this In¬
stance, tho bettor the minority would
like it.
DUKE HEADS THE CONFERENCE.
Explains Objects of Moroccan Meeting
in Welcoming Speech.
The Moroccan conference was open¬
ed at Algeclras, Spain, by the duke
of Almodovar, tho Spanish foreign
minister, who delivered tho speech of
welcome. Herr Von Radowltz, chief
of tho German mission, proposed (he
duke of Almodovar as president of
the conference and the other coun¬
tries represented, including the United
States, seconded the proposal, with
the result that the duke was unani¬
mously elected president.
Daring the course of Ills address,
tho duke of Alniodavar said;
“The (lowers havo clearly shown
their desire that order, peace and pros¬
perity shall reign through Morocco
The sultan, as well as tho foreign
governments, desires this end, which
is obtainable by introducing reforms
upon the triple principle of the sov
ereignty of the sultan, the Integrity
of his territory and. equal commercial
treatment, namely, the open door. Mu¬
tual respect for our reciprocal inler-
ests an<l a sincere desire to conciliate
them must be, according to my view,
our rule of conduct at tills confer¬
ence. Our own sentiment ns well as
the attitude of tho entire world dic¬
tates such a solution.”
MARSHALL FIELD GOES HENCE.
Noted Chicago Multi-Millionaire Vic
tim of Pneumonia.
Marshal Field, tho millionaire Chi¬
cago merchant, died at the Holland
house In New York Tuesday after
noon, after an eight, days’ illness of
pneumonia. Death came peaceruily
while members of tho family, who
had been in almost constant, attend¬
ance for several days, were gathered
around tho deathbed.
They, as well as the dying mer¬
chant himself, were prepared for the
end.
Marshal Field was without, question
the greatest and most successful mer¬
chant of Ills generation, and he was
one of tho world's richest men, his
wealth being estimated at anywhere
from $100,000,000 to $ 200 , 000 , 000 . lie
was a native of Conway, Mass..where
he was born in 1835. His father was
a farmer, and Mr. Field obtained his
education in the public schools of
Conway. At. tho age of seventeen tie
became a clerk in a general country
store In Pittsfield, where ho remained
for four years. Ilo went to Chicago
in 1866, and began his career there
as a clerk.
STRIKING CIGAR MEN DEPORTED.
Citizens’ Committee in Key West Send
Malcontents Back to Cuba.
The crisis came to the clgarmakcrs’
strike at Key West Wednesday when
a second committee of ihe Torcc-
Union, the only one remaining
out, refused to consider any proposi¬
tion to settle the strike. On a signal
the citizens' committee, heavily
armed, surrounded the Torcedores
hall, captured the committee of twen¬
ty-five arid took them to the steamer
Mascotte, which sailed at once for
Havana.
ROOSEVELT OUSTS CAPERS.
South Carolina Natioral Committee
man Fails to (land.
The appointment by President
Roosevelt Thursd iv of Ernest F
Cochran of Anderson to be district
attorney of South Carolina lias creat¬
ed a sensation la South Carolina cir¬
cles. He takes the place of John G.
<’:i|i8rs. national committeeman for
South Carolina, wh > was a candidate j
for reappointment.
THEPHILIPPINEBiLL
Passed in House Through
Help of the Democrats.
SEVENTY-ONE VOTED NAY
Measure Went Through Substantially
as It Came from the Ways and
Means Committee — Majority
Vote Was 137.
A Washington special says: Only
through tho help of democratic votes
did tho administration save its Phit-
ipplues tariff hill from defeat in the
house Tuesday.
In view of tho pry-sent revolt on the
part of republicans the Important fea¬
ture of the vote is that as many us
fifty-nine republicans should have
stood out against the bill to the end
in the faeo of alt the pressure that
could be brought not only by tho
white houso, but by tho speaker and
the house leaders.
There Is every indication that the
revolt against the administration dou¬
ble statehood bill is stronger tlian
that against this bill, and as the dem¬
ocrats are practically a unit against
linking Arizona and New Mexico,
(hero Is a strong probability of tho
Insurgents being on the winning side
in that fight.
The Philippines bill was passed by
the house substantially as It came
From the ways and means committee.
The vote was 258 to 71. 'On the mo¬
tion of Mr. Pujo or Louisiana rice was
made subject to the same tariff as
sugar and tobacco—25 per cent, of
the Dfngley rates; and one or two
changes were made as to language.
This result was attained after de¬
cidedly the most strenuous day of the
present congress. Many amendments
were launched and went to pieces In
the storm of debate.
Republican opposition to the 1)111 In
(lie interest of American beet and
cane sugar and tobacco tried out its
strength early and gave up. This
opposition refused to affiliate with
democratic efforts. The strongest
plea for “insurgent" support was made
in behalf of Champ Clark’s amend
nient. reducing the differential on re¬
fined sugar, which was ruled out of
order by the chair.
The minority sought to duplicate
the house record made on the Cuban
reciprocity act, but. not a republican
opponent to tilts measure stood with
them to overrule the decision of the
chair. The democratic substitute pro¬
viding for free trade vflth the Phil¬
ippines met with only tho supprf^
of (he minority, and wont down un¬
der a vote of 231 to 106.
An effort sustained by the demo¬
crats, hut opposed by all but three re¬
publicans, was initiated • by Mr. Mc¬
Call of Massachusetts to commit the
United States to policy of granting in¬
dependence to tho Philippine Islands
as soon as their inhnhitants can bo
prepared for self-government. Mr.
McCall offeted an amendment to this
futed, which was ruled out of order
by the chair, whose decision was
sustain on appeal— 196 to 123.
The hill admits goods the growth
or product of the Philippine islands
into the United States free ot duty
except sugar, tobacco and rice, on
which a tariff of 25 per cent of the
Dlngley rates Is levied. It provides
that after April II, 1909, there shall
he absolute free trade each way be-
twoon the United States and the Phil¬
ippines. It. also exempts Philippine
goods coming to tho United , ‘alia
from tho export trade of those Islam.:!.
Merchandise from either country Is
subjected to the internal revenue tax
of the country in which such mer¬
chandise is withdrawn from consump-
lion.
Unexpectedly the senate at Tues¬
day’s session found itself considering
tho railroad rate question, which was
precipitated by Mr. Fulton taking the
floor to make a brief speech in ex-
planation of an amendment offered
by him to tho Tolliver bill, giving to
courts of justice authority to modify
orders of the interstate commerce
commission Imposing an unreasona¬
ble rate. He had not proceeded far
when he was switched from a general
explanation of the terms of the pro¬
vision to a defense of the principle
which it seeks to establish, and a
general discussion followed.
Ohio Town Almost Obliterated.
Convoy, Ohio, a town of 1,800 in¬
habitants, was almost wiped out by
firely early Tuesday. The losses will
aggregate $75,000. *
PAYNTPR ELECTED TWICE.
Ambiguity in Kentucky Statutes Mads
It Necessary,
At Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday noon,
the Kentucky general assembly again
v ent through the formality of elect¬
ing Judge T. H. Paynter to the Unt¬
ied States Senate to succeed Senator
Blackburn. This was deemed neces¬
sary because of an ambiguity in the
statutes of the state.