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NOW IIP 10 THE STATES
Income Tax Question Submitted
to the Differeat Legislatures.
SOUTHERN STATES TO RATIFY
Georgia, Alabama and Texas Desire
Distinction of Being the First to
Ratify Amendment.
Washington, D. C. —It is now up to
the legislatures of the several stales
to say whether there shall be an in
come tax amendment to the consti
tution. By the decisive vote of 317
to 14, more than the necessary two
thirds, the house passed the senate
joint resolution providing for the sub
mission of the question to the states.
It is the belief of southern sena
tors and congressmen that the states
of the south will unanimously ratify
the proposed amendment to the con
stitution providing for the level of an
income tax and that if the measure
fails of endorsement by the necessary
three-fourths of the states, it will be
by reason of the non-action of legis
lature in the north and west.
Members of the Texas delegation!
wired Governor Campbell of that
state, urging him to call the legisla
ture together for the purpose of rati
fying immediately the proposed con
stitutional amendment.
Representative Hobson of Alabama
has wired Governor Comer suggesting
that when he issues the call for the
forthcoming session of the general as
sembly he I, specify that ratification of
the income tax amendment be one of
the objects of legislation.
Both Texas and Alabama desire the
distinction of being the first state to
ratify the amendment.
Georgia is likely to have the honor
of first ratifying the amendment, for
the reason that the legislature of that
state is already in sessibn.
SOUTH’S PRUSPtKIIY DISCUSSED.
Diversity of Agriculture is the Cause,
Says Railway President.
New York City.—A greater diversi
fication of agriculture is attributed to
the prosperity which the south is en
joying by President W. \V. Finley of
the Southern Railway. After attend
ing a directors’ meeting here and be
fore starting for Washington, Mr. Fin
ley said that the higher prices of
wheat had led the southern farmer to
grow crops other than that of cotton,
and that this had been such a great
success that, the continued prosperity
of the southern states was assured.
This fact and the large increase in
cotton manufactures had brought
much money into that section. Cot
ton mills in the south had proved so
successful, said Mr. Finley, that many
others were now being built, and that
there was bound to be a decrease of
raw cotton shipped to the New Eng
land mills, and possibly to the Liver
pool market.
“TENDEgfMT" HAS SEARED.
Nine Texans Were Not Killed by the
Mexican Outlaws.
El Paso, Texas. —A "tenderfoot,”
frightened by a fake attack upon the
camp of a party of horsemen near
Afton, N. M., was responsible for the
spreading of a tale of the wholesale
murder of the men by a band of In
dians and Mexicans. Officers who
hurried to the scene reported that the
thing was a hoax. The men, driving
horses overland, had spent Sunday in
a camp relating blood-curdling stories
to a stranger within their midst, and
had followed this up at night by
shooting and shouting. The new ar
rival escaped, and gave out the re
port of an attack and the murder of
his companions.
LAKE STEAMERS EOLLIDE.
14 Lives Are Lost When Ships Went
to the Bottom.
Salt Ste Marie, Mich. —Three min
utes after the steel steamers, Isaac M. j
Scott and John B. Cowle, had col-1
lided in Lake Superior, the Cowle had
«one to the bottom in fifty fathoms of
carrying with her fourteen
i? eDlber of her crew. The Scott, al
'Enough badly damaged, put back to
Yms port, where she arrived with part
df the crew of the Cowle.
MEAT INSPECTION LAWS DISREGARDED
Another Meat Inspector Makes
Charges Against Packers.
v' East St. Louis, 111.—J ulisli Bishof,
one of the government inspectors!
wh£<V,as discharged after he had sus-
the allegations of James F.
oigjgn? against the meat inspection
g>s\em\in the packing houses here,
■ sworn statement, giving his
before the committee sent
Secretary Wilson, to inves-
Aiaa>e Harms* charges. Bishof's
against the inspection sys
tem are more serious than those made
by Harms.
TARIFF BILL IS PASSED.
Measure Went Through the Senate
Vote of 42 to 24.
Washington, D. C. —The tariff bill
passed the senate by a vote of 45
to 34. Republicans voting in the neg
ative were Beveridge of Indiana, Bris
tow of Arkansas, Brown of Nebraska,
Burkett of Nebraska, Clapp of Minne
sota, Crawford of South Dakota, Cum
mins of lowa, Dolliver of lowa, La
Foleltte of Wisconsin and Nelson
Minnesota. McEnory of Louisiana was
the only democrat recorded in the af
firmative.
Mr. Gore delivered a final denuncia
tion of the entire system of protection
as exemplified in the bill.
The failure of the senate to keep
HERE ARE A FEW
NECESSITIES AND THEIR
ALDRICH BILL PRICES.
According to merchants direct
ly eonoerned in the manufac
ture or sale of the goods named
here are a few' samples of the
increases that can be looked tor
when the new tariff goes into
effect:
Shoes, an advance of 20 to 25
per cent. In other words, a shoe
now selling at $2 will cost $2.50.
A $3.50 shoe will probably cost
$4.25. A $5 shoe will cost sfj.so.
A serge suit that can be
bought for sls today will cost
S2O next year.
Carpets, rugs, matting and ho
siery will be substantially ad
vanced in price.
the promise made to the people by
the republican party respecting a re
vision of the tariff downward, was
the theme of Senator Beveridge, as
the debate on the pending bill was
drawing to a close.
Mr. Beveridge was answered by Mr.
Aldrich, who said he had often seen
men interpret their own judgment
as the judgment of their party.
Mr. Aldrich declared that the pend
ing bill was a fulfillment of the par
ty’s pledge. If senators wished to
vote against the bill, he said, they
should not attempt to speak for their
party.
Mr. Crawford delivered a vigorous
protest against any attempt upon the
part of Chairman Aldrich to prevent
republican senators from the exercise
of the'.r Judgment.
Senator Clapp also joined in the
protest against any effort on the part
of the present senator from Rhode Isl
and to control his actions.
The bill was then put on its pass
age. It was passed 45 to 34.
Much interest was aroused in the
senate over the adoption of the amend
ment of Senator Bradley removing the
restrictions on the free sale of tobacco
in the hand.
The Bradley amendment authorizes
anyone, the grower, any person to
whom he may make transfer, or any
one else, to sell tobacco in the hand
without paying a tax, but requires
that when the sale exceeds ten
pounds, a record shall be kept for
the benefit of the internal revenue
service.
The present law permits the grow
er to dispose of his product, but does
not allow’ his vendee to transfer it
without paying a tax of six cents a
pound. The prohibition has been the
cause of much disturbance, culminat
ing in the forays of the night riders
in Kentucky and Tenessee. ,
LARGE TOBAGEU SHIPMENT.
Four Solid Trainloads Arrive at Pensa
cola, Florida.
Pensacola, Fla.—What is claimed to
be the largest single shipment of to
bacco ever to arrive within a single
day for export, reached here from
the tobacco fields of Tennessee and
Kentucky. It consists of four solid
trainloads, or 115 carloads. Each car
contains about 15 hogsheads of the
tobacco, each weighing 1,000 pounds,
and making a total of nearly I.SOO
hossheads. The shipment is for Liv
erpool.
FARMERS LOSE $30,000,000 YEARLY.
Says Cclonel Scott in Address to
Farmers' Union.
Conyers. Ga.—The speech delivered
by Colonel Leonidas F. Scott, editor
of the Conyers Free Press, before
Oak Grove Local Farmers’ Union,
has aroused a good deal of interest
in this section. In his speech Colo
nel Scott made the statement that
the south loses $30,000,000 a year
from the one source of carelessly
packing a bale of cotton.
Sixty-two Lepers In Louisiana.
New Orleans, La.—According to a
report submitted by the bcatd of con
trol. there are now sixty-two patients
in the Louisiana Lepers’ home, more
than at any time since the colony
was started. The board made an in
spection of the home, and it was stat
ed that improvements would be made
in order to take care of the increas
ing number of patients.
COTTON NEEDS RAIN
Improvement Is Shown in Some
of the State*.
BOLL WEEVILS NUMEROUS
The Crop Promise I* Still Uncertain, Bui
With Favorable Weather a Fair
Yield Can Be Made.
Memphis, Tenn. —The following is
the Commercial-Appeal’s summary of
the week’s cotton crop condition:
Returns from the cotton crop this
week are mixed. Improvement is
noted in Georgia, Alabama, Missis
sippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma
and northern and eastern Texas. No
improvement or loss occurred in North
Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana,
and central, southern and western
Texas.
The plant in Arkansas, Oklahoma
and northern Texas is large, fruiting
well, thrifty and full of promise. East
of the Mississippi river, although im
provement has taken place as nott%,
the plant Is small and not always
healthy and apparently stands are
bad. The crop promise is regarded
as still uncertain, although with fa
vorable weather for the remainder of
the season, a fair yield can be made.
Hea>'y rains in North and South
Carolina. delayed cultivation and much
grass is still complained of. Dry
weather there is greatly desired. Much
apprehension exists throughout cen
tral and western Texas of a sum
mer drought. It has not rained there
for two weeks or more and tem
peratures have been very high. The
plant shows the effect. As yet no
great damage has resulted, but it is
believed that the crop has reached a
point where it will soon deteriorate
without moisture. 801 l weevils are nu
merous in Louisiana, but elsewhere
complaints are not frequent.
New Orleans, La. The Times-
Democrat, in its summary of cotton
crop conditions, based on reports from
correspondents in every section of the
south, says “the concensus of opinion
is to the following effect:
‘‘Taking the belt as a whole, there
has been distinct improvement since
the last report.
“The crop is late, as a rule, but has
been Industriously worked wherever
the meteorological conditions were
favorable. There has been some ad
ditional reduction of acreage, through
forced abandonment. There are com
plaints of boll weevil from sections of
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and
Texas, but it is too soon as yet to
forecast the ultimate damage. Despite
the improvement during the month,
the situation still presents grave pos
sibilities, and the plant, being small
and puny, is peculiarly subject to dam
age from premature frost.”
GIRLS WALK WHILE ASLEEP.
Young Lady Fell Off Train—Fireman
Saved Another.
New York City.—lt required the ef
forts of the fire department and a po
lice detachment to save Miss Cather
ine Soulier, a somnambulist, from
death at her home in Y’onkers. Miss
Soulier, who had been afflicted with
somnambulism for several years, rose
from her bed and, with her eyes
closed, walked out of a window onto
a narrow ledge three stories above a
well-iighted street. Passersby saw
her and called the polioe. An officer
ran upstairs and climbed out of the
window. Miss Soulier had reached the
end of the ledge when the policeman
grabbed her arm. She awakened sud
denly and, when she looked down into
the street, became so terrified that
she fainted. In falling, her body went
over the ledge. It required the fire
department and an extension ladder
to save the girl from falling.
Ravenna, Neb. —While walking in
her sleep. Miss Lois Campbell, the 16-
year-old daughter of Vice President
Campbell of the Frisco system, leap
ed from the rear of her father’s pri
vate car, attached to a Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy flyer, as the train
was speeding over the prairies west
of Ravenna. Rendered unconscious
by the fall, the girl finally recovered
and succeeded in flagging a freight,
on which she rode to the next station,
where she was found by a special,
which had been sent out to search
for her. She is practically uninjured.
1,000 PEOPLETmADE HOMELESS.
Stream Breaks Its Banks at Sioux
City, lowa.
Sioux City, lowa. —One thousand
people were driven from their homes
and many thousands of dolalrs dam
age done by a flood in Perry creek,
a small stream which separates the
east and west side.
There were many narrow escapes,
but no lives have been reported lest.
A cloudburst north of Sioux City is be
lieved to have been the cause.
It was estimated that 500 homes in
the densely populated district along
the creek were surrounded by water.
CASTRO PREDICTS RtVOLtITIUN.
Ex-Dictator of Venezuela Says Gomez
Government Will Fall.
Santander, Spain.—General Castro,
ex-president of Venezuela, issued a
statement predicting the downfall of
the Gomez government in Venezuela,
Castro says:
“The diplomatic arrangements
made by the Venezuelan go\ernment
with the United States, France and
other nations are onerous and humil
iating to Venezuelans. The sover
eignty and independence of Venezuela
is weakened by the treaty with the
United States, which is now in a po
sition to take possession of the Ven
ezuelan republic in the name of the
Monroe doctrine.”
“ELEVATOR ALLOWANCE” BARRED
Re-Shipping Prohibited Under Decision
of Interstate Commerce Commission.
Washington, D. C. —The so-called
“elevator allowance” to dealers in
hay, grain and grain products at
Nashville, Tenn., was declared to be
unlawful discrimination in a decision
announced by the interstate com
merce commission.
The complaint was brought by com
mercial houses in Atlanta and other
Georgia cities, w r hich alleged that the
carriers have granted to Nashville un
due preference in the handling of
grain, grain products and hay from
Ohio and Mississippi -*ver crossings
to southeastern destinations, thereby
eliminating competition with iLr
southeastern territory.
The commission held that ‘the cir
cumstances and conditions prevailing
at Nashville are not so dissimilar
from those prevailing at other points
in the southeast as to warrant a con
tinuance of this privilege at Nashville
without undue discrimination, to the
prejudice and disadvantage of points
in that territory not having a simi
lar privilege.”
It was held further that “this priv
ilege operates as a device by w T hich
traffic may move at less than the law
ful ttriff rate.”
The defendants which include prac
tically all of the lines operating in
the southeastern territory, are order
ed to cease paying by September 1,
next, any allowance for elevation, un
loading or handling grain, grain prod
ucts or hay at Nashville, or for re
billing or reshipping su.ch products at
Nashville. They are Erected to file
tariffs with the commission in con
sonance with the order.
THREE-SCORE-AND-TEN
FOR ROCKEFELLER
ClevMand, Ohio.—John D. Rocke
feller has reached the three-score-and
ten period of his life. Seventy years
ago he was born on a small farm
near Richford, Tioga county, New
York. Beginning life as a penniless
farmer’s boy, Mr. Rockefeller is now
reputed to be the w’orld’s nearest can
didate for a gillionaire. His health is
good, and he is enjoying rugged old
age. Mr. Rockefeller received sev
eral congratulatory telegrams and a
few callers, who extended their best
wishes. His birthday w r as spent in his
usual manner, attending to business
affairs and playing golf.
RECORD IS BROKEN
FOR SIZE OF CHEESE
Utica, N. Y.—The largest cheese
ever manufactured in the Mohawk
valley was shipped to a Chicago firm
by the local cold storage company.
The cheese w r as built in the usual
shape, but it measured 32 inches high
and 45 inches in diameter and weigh
ed 1,950 pounds.
It took about ten tons of milk to
produce it and it was pressed into
shape by a specially constructed press
in a cheese factory, where it. was
bought by a Chicago firm through a
cold storage company.
MUST FACE TRIAL
FOR TRYING SUICIDE
Memphis, Tenn.—So far as records
show for the first time in the history
of Memphis, the name of an alleged
wouid-be suicide apears on the police
docket formally charged with attempt
ed self-destruction, and will be used
as a test of the Tennessee statute
which declares attempted suicide a
felony and provides heavy punish
ment. The arrest was at the instance
of the superintendent of the city hos
pital, where the young woman w r as
taken for medical attention.
OFFICERS MUST EAT
FOOD SENT INMATES
Topeko, Kans.—Governor W. R.
Stubbs believes that the officers and
employees of the various state insti
tutions should eat the same food they
set out for the inmates.
“If the grub is not good enough for
the officers and employes,” said the
governor, “it is not good enough for
growing children and invalids in the
institutions. If the officers cannot
live on food the state furnishes Its
w'ards, they should buy their own pro
visions.”
WOMEN CONVICTS MAY
BE TAKEN FROM ROADS
Mansfield, La. —Because of protests
by humanitarians, women convicts
serving time on the roads of DeSoto
parish will probably be relieved of
hard labor and returned to the jail
here to finish their sentences. The
authorities of the parish have been
deluged with petitions seeking the
abandonment of the working of wom
en convicts.
Newsy Paragraphs.
A sensational action against Pope
Pius, in which a vast fortune is at
stake, is pending. It i 3 declared that
unless there is an amicable adjust
ment suit will be entered by the
three nieces of the late Bishop
Ad ami.
Justice Mills directed that Harry K.
Thaw be transferred from the Mat
t-eawan asylum to the White Plains
jail. This is a distinct victory for
Thaw. Justice Mills said he would
recommit Thaw to Matteaw’an if Jus
tice Gaynor granted a change of ve
nue to the state attorney general.
Total receipts for the Charleston,
S. C., postoffice during the year just
closed were $151,538.20, the’ largest
in the history of that postoffice.
The gain over last year’s business
was nearly SB,OOO.
Among the latest civil list pensions
granted by the British government
are $125 a year each to Mary, Dor
othy and Bessie Dickens, grand
daughters of the late Charles Dick
ens, in recognition of the literary em
inence of their grandfatehr.
TAFT TO JISIT SOUTH
President Will Come to Savan
nah, Macon and Augusta.
WILL MEET PRESIDENT DIAZ
Announcement Is Made of the Plans of
President Taft for His Tour
West and South,
Philadelphia, Pa.—President Taft,
while here, announced some of the
tentative plans for his trip west in
the fall. He also wrote to President
Diaz of Mexico that he would be
glad to welcome him at El Paso, Tex
as, probably on October 15. The pres
ident expects to start west on his
ftUy-seeond birthday, September 15.
He will head direct from Beverly,
Wash., stopping at Denver, Salt Lake
and Spokane on the fray. From Se
attle the president will go to Portland,
Ore., thence to San Francisco: to Los
Angeles, where he will visit his sis
ter; to San Diego, to New Mexico
and Arizona, to Texas, where he will
spend several days on C. P. Taft’s
ranch near Corpus Christi; to Hous
ton, to New Orleans, stopping for a
time in the Toche country of Louis
iana; to Jackson, Miss.; to Birming
ham, Montgomery, to Macon, Ga.; to
Augusta, to Savannah, to Wilming
ton, N. C.; to Richmond, Va., and.
then home to Washington.
$10,0011,(100 FOR EDUCATION.
Rockefeller Gives to General Educa
tion Board.
New York City.—John D. Rockefel
ler increased his donations to the
general education board by a gift of
$10,000,000 and also released the
board from the obligation to hold in
perpetuity the funds contributed by
him. The gift, announced by Freder
ick T. Gates, chairman, brills Mr.
Rockefeller’s donation to the board to
$52,000,000. The gift was .contributed,
according to t-he statement made by
Chairman Gates because the income
of the present fund available for ap
propriattion had been exhausted and
a large income to meet educational
needs of great importance had become
necessary.
Mr. Rockefeller’s action in empow
ering the board and its successors to
distribute the principal of funds con
tributed by him upon the affirmative
vote of two-thirds of its members was
said to have been taken in consider
ation of the possibility, now remote,
that at some future time, the object
and purpose of the Rockefeller foun
dation might become obsolete. Under
original conditions imposed, the
fund would have had to continue in
perpetuity regardless of whether a
public demand for its continuation
evists or not.
MAN HASTWENIY-FOUR WIVES.
Bigamist Goes to Jail and Wives Are
Waiting at Home.
San Francisco, Cal. —John Madson,
wanted for bigamy in nearly every
large city in America, and in many
of the smaller ones, is in the hands
of the police here. The authorities
have established his marriage to ten.
women and his engagement to four
teen others. Each of the 24 women
duped by Madson is said by the police
to have lost more or less money
through him.
Madsen is said to have deserted
each of these women within a few
hours after marriage. Among the
women to whom he was either en
gaged or married was one each in
Jonesburg, Ark.; Gettysburg, Ohio,
and New Orleans, La.
The strange history of Madsofi, who
is an aged man, extends over only
a few months. Almost without ex
ception his victims have been wid
ows or divorced women cf middle
age. Madson may be taken for
trial to Stockton, where “one of his
wives resides, but in the meantime
the police here are trying to secure
a somplete sonfession from him.
ECBNUMV ON ISTHMUS.
No More Carriages for Governmenl
Officials.
Washington, D. C—The wave ol
economy first noticed at Washington
some time after the advent of the
Taft administration is reported as
having arrived at the isthmian canal
zone. Its first effect was to sweep
away nearly all the government car
riages used by the commissioners and
other officials on the zone. Colonel
Goethals, chairman of the canal com
mission, has issued an order discon
tinuing the use of these carriages
and directing the chief quartermaster
to sell all transportation equipment on
hand, with the exception of a few sur
reys to be used exclusively for the
transaction of public business. None
of these is for the use of any mem
ber of the commission. In contrast
with this policy is to be noticed the
methods of the French during their
attempt to construct the canaL
mob.
Bolivian Mob Stoned Argentine
Legation.
La Paz, Bolivia.—A furious mob at
tacked the Argentine legation. Troops
were called out, to guard the Argen
tine minister. The trouble is the out
come of the decision rendered by
President Alcorta of Argentine in the
boundary dispute between Peru and
Bolivia.
Great crowds which had been pa
rading the streets finally turned in the
direction of the Argentine legation,
which they surrounded. There were
shouts of rage, and stones and other
missiles were hurled at the building,
and the government found it neces
sary to oider out troops.
