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CUT TARIFF TO
KILL TRUSTS
Is Remedy Urged By W. J. Bryan
* in Banquet Speech.
QUICK ACTION NEEDED
INebraskan Declares Speculation Caused
Present Flurry—Suggests More Strin
gent Railroad Regulations.
William Jennings Bryan was the
guest of honor at a banquet on the
twenty-first anniversary of the Jeffer
son Club of Milwaukee Monday night.
Covers were laid for over five hundred
guests.
Mr. Bryan was received with tumul
tuous applause on his arrival at the
banquet.
Mr. Bryan responded to the toast,
He discussed the demo
cratic theory of government as pre
sented by Jefferson, contrasting it with
the Hamiltonian idea, and speaking of
the spheres of the nation and the state,
took occasion to condemn the national
incorporation of railroads, a 3 proposed
by the president, saying that however
honestly the president intended it, it
was in the interest of the railroads,
which desired not greater federal reg
ulation, but to escape from state reg
ulation.
On the trust question he favored the
enforcement of the criminal laws
against the trusts, the enactment of
new laws, one of which is known as
the license system, to be applied to
corporations when they control as
much as 25 per cent of the total out
put in their respective lines. Accord
ing to this system no one corporation
would be permitted to control more
than 50 per cent of the total product.
On the tariff question he favored im
mediate revision beginning with the
tariff on articles which come into com
petition with trust-made articles.
Such a tariff, he thought, ought to be
entirely removed. He believed that
the fear of removal will compel the
dissolution of such trusts as are pro
tected by the tariff. He regarded a
tariff commission as merely an excuse
for delay of revision. The protection
ists, he said, never favor tariff revis
ion until they arc threatened with de
feat, and then they favor it only to
postpone reductions.
On the railroad question he express
ed hirnself as in favor of more strin
gent regulations, that regulation to
take the form of legislation ascertain
ing the present value of the railroads
And preventing the watering of
stock and reducing rates. He argued
that a reasonable rate would be a rate
that would enable the railroads to
maintain their stock at par when the
road was honestly capitalized.
He discussed the present money
stringency, saying that it began with
speculation in New York, but that it
has extended owing to the timidity of
depositors. He thought that this tim
idity was not justified and that the
banks of the west are sound.
He favored legislation which by In
creasing the security of depositors
would remove even an unreasonable
lear.
DRAWS THE LAW ON TEXAS.
Attorney General Advises That Issue of
Emergency Money is Illegal.
Hon. W. H. Atwell, United States dis
trict attorney for the northern district
of Texas, Monday issued to the press
of Texas a statement in which, after
quoting portions of the federal con
stitution and statutes, he uses the fol
lowing language:
“Section 5138 provides as follows:
“ ‘No national banking association
shall issue any other notes to circulate
as money than such as are authorized
by the provisions of this title.’
“The provision of the title mentioned
allows the issuing of certain national
bank currency, with which we are all
familiar, and no other.
“In line with the law, therefore, if
there be a money stringency in the
northern district of Texas, due to a
failure of money centers to pay what
they owe our local banks, no clearing
house in this district will issue any
promises to pay or any scrip which
violate any of the provisions of the
above quoted law’s.”
ROD WILL NOT BE SPARED.
Corporal Punishment is Reintroduced in
Public Schools of Savannah.
The Savannah, Ga., board of educa
tion, at a meeting Monday night, voted
to reintroduce corporal punishment
into the public schools of the city and
county, from which it has been exclud
ed for twenty-two years. The order
became effective at once.
Home
Treat
ment
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THE UNWRITTEN LAW.
Will Be Plea of Mrs. Biailey, Slayer of
Senator Brcwrn in a Washing
ton Hotel.
A Washington special says: On ac
count of the death of Justice McComas,
of the court of appeals of the District
of Columbia, criminal court No. 1, in
which Mrs. Annie M. Bradley was to
have been on trial Monday on the
charge of murdering former Senator
Arthur Brown of Utah, took an ad
journment, upon convening at 10
o’clock, until Wednesday morning at
the same hour. Mrs. Bradley was in
court, as were also her attorneys and
many witnesses, and all was in readi
ness for the trial.
Mrs. Brdaley came intq the court
room soon after the entrance of Judge
Stafford, who will preside over her
trial, and was unaccompanied except
by a member of the marshal's staff.
Her entrance was so quiet that it was
scarcely noticed. She was dressed in
black, and took her seat on the left ol
her counsel, Mr. Wells. The court
room was crowded, and not since the
Bonine trial has so much interest been
manifested* in any case before the dis
trict court.
Mr 3. Bradley was led from the room
after spending five minutes in the
courtroom. Within this short time,
how’ever, Mrs. Bradley had faced one
of the most crucial moments in her
eventful life, coming face to face for
the first time with the judge to whom
she must give an accounting for the
tragic happenings of that night near
ly a year ago, when she entered the
room of Senator Brown at the Raleigh
hotel and took his life, sayjng: “He is
not my husband, but he is the father
of my two children.”
The killing of ex-Seuator Brown, oc
curring, as it did, a month before the
date set for his marriage to the mother
of Maude Adams, the actress, caused a
great sensation, as it revealed his Ha
son with Mrs. Bradley, and the fact
that he had Induced her to desert her
husband under promise that he would
marry her. Brown cared for Mrs. Brad
ley and their two children for several
years, but when free to marry her, he
refused, and planned marriage with
another. Knowledge of Brown's infi
delity came to Mrs. Bradley and she
made her way from Salt Lake to Wash
ington, called on Brown at his hotel,
and shot him to death. It is said that
Brown, when dying, asked that Mrs.
Bradley be not prosecuted.
Mrs. Bradley’s attorneys had planned
to have her two little boys, sons of
Brawn, as witnesses, but it is said the
judge refused to permit this, holding
that the testimony which the boy 3
w’ould give would be “irrelevant, incom
petent and immaterial.”
Mrs. Bradley's lawyers claim that
they can bring proof that Brown was
the wrecker of other homes.
The trial will be held in the old city
hall, the scene of the Guiteau and other
famous trials. It is said that the presi
dent, disturbed over the publicity given
the Thaw case, will exert every influ
ence to eliminate as much as possible
the sensational features of the Brad
ley trial.
EDITOR ESTILL LAID TO REST.
Funeral Largely Attended and Faithful
Negro Servants Bore Body.
The funeral of the late Colonel J. H.
Estill took place at Savannah, Ga.,
Monday afternoon from St. John’s
church, and it was one of the most
notable seen in the city for many
years. The attendance was large, and
genuine regret for the loss of so up
right and valued a citizen and so true
a gentleman as Colonel Estill was
expressed on all sides.
A striking feature of the funeral
was the attendance in a body of nearly
every one of the 200 employees of the
Morning News. Every department oi
the paper was closed down for the pe
riod of the funeral and the entire body
of employees followed the remains to
beautiful Bonaventure cemetery, where
the intermnt took plac. For many
years Col. Estill had been president
of the company that, owned and con
trolled the cemetery in which his body
now rests.
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PLAN COMBINE
OF DISTRICTS
Revenue Collection Departments in
the South to Undergo Change*
PROHI CRUSADE CAUSE
Curtailment is Imperative But Matter-Will
Be Delayed Until After Republican
National Convention.
A Washington special says: The
consolidation of the two internal rev
enue collection districts In Tennessee,
announcement of which was made Sat
urday by Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Capers, is only the begin
ning of what will be a general aofal
gamatlon of revenue icollectioD dis
tricts throughout the country as the
result of the growing temperance
movement.
The Georgia collection district is to
be consolidated with that pf South
Carolina and the Mississippi and Ala
bama districts are to be made one ac
cording to present arrangements, but
this action will not be taken until
after the republican national conven
tion is a thing of, the past. Political
considerations are responsible for the
delay.
The administration, which is making
a determined effort to control the na
tional convention, does not wish to
give offense to southern republicans
by consolidating these collection. dis
tricts at this time.
( The headquarters of the new Ten
nessee district will be at Nashville,
and the president has appointed Rob
ert S. Sharp of Chattanooga collector
of the new district of Tennessee. The
new’ district will be divided into di
visions, each in charge of a division
deputy collector instead of eleven, a 3
at present, w’hich will afford ample
force to handle the Internal revenue
work in connection with the field
force of internal revenue agents.
Mr. Sharp has tendered to Mr. But
ler, the present collector of the sec
ond district, the position as chief dep
uty collector, and International Inter
nal Revenue Collector Caper 3, the
present collector of the fifth district,
a revenue agent. Commissioner Ca
pers explained because, under the ex
isting condition, that the reorganiza
tion was imperative; the present or
ganization is entirely too large for
the amount of work involved.
“In the entire ninety-six counties of
deputy collectors,” said Mr. Capers,
“there are only forty-nine grain dis
tilleries, sixteen tobacco factories,
thirty-two cigar factories, four brew
eries and 104 liquor dealers paying
special taxes, excepting those located
in Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga
and La Follette, the only cities where
intoxicants can now be purchased in
the state.”
CASHIER AND MONEY DISAPPEAR.
Bank in Lawton, Oklahoma, is Found Shy
$50,000 in Funds.
D. R. Rankin, cashier of the Mer
chants and Planters’ Bank of Lawton,
Okla., who mysteriously disappeared
with a shortage of cash in the bank of
about $50,000, is still missing.
The estimated liabilities of the In
stitution are $119,250, with assets es
timated at $55,169. Only S4OO in cash
was found in the vault by the bank
examiner.
JOB PRINTERS WALK OUT.
Employees of Knoxville, Tenn., Firms,
Strike to Enforce Demands.
Union printers in two of the largest
job printing establishments in Knox
ville, Tenn., quit work Saturday fol
lowing the employers’ refusal of the
Typographical Union's request for an
eight hour day, an increase in wages
ard other concessions. The employers
also announce their establishments
wiU be conducted as open shops.
WITH A GOLDEN CARGO
Great Steamer Lusitania Reaches New
York—Breaks Her Previous Speed
Record by Over an Hour.
The marvelous record established
less than a month ago by the giant
turbine Cunarder Lusitania when she
cut several hours from the passage
time across the Atlantic, already has
been broken. I
The Lusitania stiil retains the title
of queen of the seas, as it was she
herself that established the new low
mark and incidentally she added seve
ral new records to her credit. These
Include the best single day’s run—6lß
knots, mad 9 November 6 —an average
•tf more than 600 knots for every full
day and an average hourly speed of
24.25 knots for the full 2,781 miles.
On her last voyage the Lusitania
covered the distance in four days, nine
teen hours and fifty-two minutes. The
voyage ended Friday, over the same
course, was completed in four days,
eighteen hours and forty minutes, thus
clipping one hour and twelve minutes
from the previous low mark.
In the Lusitania's big vaults wa3
stored nearly 12,000,000 in gold, more
stored over $12,000,000 In gold, more
which had been engaged abroad by
American bankers since the present al
most unprecedented movement began.
This gold will be added to the coun
try’s available circulation of currency.
As soon as the big ship was warped
into her dock, preparations were made
for discharging the twenty-four tons of
golden treasure in her specie room.
The work was under the personal su
pervision of Vernon H. Brown, gen
eral agent of the Cunard line. Long
shoremen were soon at work carrying
the small but heavy steel-bound wood
en cases, of which there were 334,
ashore.
Purser Lancaster checked each box
as it was brought down the gangplank.
Plain clothes men and policemen were
on guard, and a portable wooden fence
placed across the end of the dock,
where the gold was being handled,
served to keep back the curious.
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CUSS WORDS LEAD TO MURDER, j
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Man Used Ladles’ Bath Room and Killed
Fellow Eoarder Who Protested.
Robert N. Mitchell shot and killed
Joe M. Sloop early Friday flight In
front of the Central hotel in Rome,
Georgia.
it seems that there had been some
trouble between Mitchell and Sloop, I
both of whom boarded at the Central
hotel. Mitchell, it Is claimed, had per
oisted in using the ladles' bath room, 1
to which Sloop objected. Friday morn
ing, it is alleged/ Mitchell attempted
to get into the bath room while Sloop:/ j
wife was in there, and it is alleged
» that Sloop applied a vile epithet to
any man who would do that kind
of a thing.
Mitchell, it seems, had been brood
ing over the matter all day, and wait
ed for Sloop to come to supper.
When he saw Sloop, he reminded
him of what he had said in the morn
ing, and called him a vile name three
times, and then shot him in the breast
four times with a 48-caliber revolver.
Sloop died almost immediately.
Mitchell is a musician and leader
of the orchestra at the Rome opera
house. Sloop was a cigar maker and
a quiet, inoffensive man.
The friends of Sloop were very in
dignant over the killing ami expressed
themselves quite freely on the subject
and a good many threats were made
against Mitchell.
DECREASE IN COTTON SHOWN
In Report of the Census Bureau as to Num
ber of Bales Ginned.
At Washington Friday, the census
bureau issued its bulletin showing the*
total cotton crop of this year’s growth
ginned up to November Ist to be 6,-
167,000 bales, as compared with 6,-
906,395 bales for 1906. In the com
putation round bales are counted as
half bales.
There were 26,135 ginneries in oper
ation, as compared with 27,370 for.
1906.
EXTRA SESSION
IN ALABAMA
Begins Grind With Ters: Mkss:ge
From Governor Comer.
RAILROADS HIS TARGET
Attacks President Milton Smith of L. & N.
F.ood of Bills Introduced at
Opening of Session.
The Alabama legislature met in spe
cial session at Montgomery Thursday.
In his message Governor Comer in
sisted that the control and regulation
of the railroads by the state is a
question more important than the mak
ing of rates or any other thing; that
it involves the question of the right
of the state to control it 3 internal af
fairs.
The message goes on to say that
President Smith of the Louisville and
Nashville has held out against the Ala
bama laws, while others have put them
in, has defied the state and its people
by conducting a lobby at the capital
and openly admitting that his company
has Influenced legislation in the past,
has called the governors of Alabama
and Georgia populistic, has raised rates
overnight in defiance of state laws,
and has generally refused to recognize
the right of the state to make laws ap
plying to transportation companies.
That the Alabama rate laws are not
confiscatory is evidenced, the governor
says, by the fact that they prevail iu
other nearby states and prove profit
able. Financial troubles have not
grown out of the laws made to control
corporations, but the rascality of the
high financiers, and the producer of the
of the south is now coming to
gave the country from panic. The
Louisville and Nashville railroad Is
charged with manipulating to prevent
use of waterways, to make rulfes
handling coal, demurrage and freight
that are arbitrary, and generally to
control the state to the hurt of the
people.
Laws are also suggested for the
preservation of the forests, regulation
of the sale of cocaine, lowering excess
baggage charges and providing that
city officers may ride on street cars
on passes.
The first day of the extra session
was productive of a large number of
prohibition bills, amongst them one for
a constitutional amendment to elim
inate the right to make and sell liquors
from the organic law. This last was
presented by Chairman Ballard of the
temperance committee in the house.
A number of railroad hills were in
troduced in the senate. Mr. Hayes had
one to allow street railways to issue
passes to certain city officials. Mr.
Wilson one to prevent dscrimination
on the part of railroads, and Mr. Lusk
one to prevent carriers from charging
a higher rate for traffic than the stat
utes allow.
Half a dozen bills for prohibition
were presented in the house and one in
the senate. It was agreed that mat
ters not mentioned in the call for the
session could be taken up and passed
if two-thirds of the members voted
on them for final passage.
Milton Smith Replies.
Milton H. Smith, president of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, on
Thursday night made a reply to the
message of Governor Comer, In ref
erence to his road and himself.
"Permit me to call your attention to
some of the many erroneous state
ments contained in your message,”
says Mr. Smith. The letter is address
ed to the governor.
It is denied that railroads have tried
to influence legislation. It is asked
if the state has a right to take proper
ty of private individuals and not give
' the defendants the relief that they
have in the courts.* He charges the
governor with many errors, and say*
that “by disseminating such misin
formation you have secured prefer
ment.”
