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BRYAN EXPLAINS
TOLLS QUESTION
SECRETARY OF STATE BRYAN DE-
FENDS THE REPEAL OF THE
EXEMPTION CLAUSE.
DEFENDS THE PRESIDENT
In Lengthy Statement Mr. Bryan De
fends the Policy Pursued by
President In Tolls Fight.
■Washington.—Secretary Bryan in a
statement lengthily reviews the Pan
ama tolls questions, and in the course
of the statement declares that the re
peal of the tolls exemption in the
Panama canal act "cannot be con
strued to be a construction of the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty,” but is “simply a
refusal on the part of the United
States to raise that question in that
■way.”
Mr. Bryan discusses various features
of the subject—the limiting of debate
in the house of representatives, the
Baltimore platform and the effect of
repeal on the treaty.
Claiming that the opponents of the
repeal had seized upon the charge
that the president was “surrendering
to England,” Mr .Bryan declared that
the opposition to the repeal had at
tempted to appeal to "prejudice rather
than to reason.”
“What has Great Britain done,” he
asked, “to justify the accusation that
she is trying to dictate to this coun
try? She has simply called attention
to the terms of the treaty, and asked
for arbitration of the question of con
struction, in case this government dif
fers from tlie British government in
the construction to be placed upon the
language. The very men who are so
insistent upon construing the treaty
to permit tree tolls delayed for months
the ratification of the treaty with
Great Britain because of their opposi
tion to any arbitration of the subject.
In other words, they construed the
treaty to permit discrimination, and
then objected to allowing any interna
tional court to express an opinion on
the subject. If, as a matter of fact,
the treaty grants the rights which
Great Britain claims, is it a 'surrender
to Great Britain' for our nation to re
peal a law that raised that question?
The repeal of the law cannot be con
strued to be a construction of the
treaty. It is simply a refusal on the
part of the United States to raise that
question in that way. In the contro
versy over the Welland canal, Canada
withdrew a discrimination which she
had made in favor of Canadian ships,
‘in order that no cause for friction
with the United States authorities in
regard to the matter should exist.’
Why canot the United States with
draw a discrimination for the same
reason? When the treaty involved was
before the senate for ratification an
attempt was made to so amend it as
to permit a discrimination in favor of
coastwise vessels, but it was voted
down by a decided majority. With this
record to support them, is it strange
that foreign nations question our right
to make an exception in favor of
American vessels?”
GOVERNMENT FORCES WIN
San Domingo Rebels Are Defeated by
Government Forces.
Satno Domingo.—Rebel forces that
have occupied the citadel at Santiago
have surrendered to the government.
Another rebel force under Gen. Mauri
cio Jiminez, military chief of the in
surrection, which occupied a fortified
position at Las Vegas, also has sur
rendered to federate under Tancredo
Savinon, who lias been appointed gov
ernor there. President Bordas, heading
1,500 men, is on his way to Santiago,
having taken the field against the in
surrectionists a week ago. The gov
ernment is virtually in control of the
republic and peace prevails, except
in the northeast portion.
Red Cross to Prevent Floods.
Washington.—Plans are being per
fected here for beginning work on the
immense reclamation project in China
fostered by the American National Red
Cros sto relieve suffering from flood
and famine in the Huai and Yellow
river districts of China.
Monument to Union Veterans.
Americus, Ga. —Information received
here was that the New York delegation
of veterans and prominent citizens
coming to Andersonville national cem
etery April 30 for dedicatory ceremo
nies of the New York state monument
will come directly to Americus, going
later to Andersonville. Five hundred
New Yorkers will constitute the par
ty, and they will be entertained while
in Americus with a program arranged
while in Americus with a program ar
ranged by the Americus chamber of
commerce.
JOHN NICHOLAS BROWN
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John Nicholas Brown, the richest
boy in the world, photographed on his
return with his mother from an ex
tended tour of Europe. His home Is
in New York.
REVENUES 10 PAY EXPENSES
INCREASED CUSTOMS HAVE PRO
DUCED MORE REVENUE
THAN EXPECTED.
Statement by Treasury Department
Showing Operation of the New
Tariff Law.
Washington -Figures were made
public In a treasury department state
ment showing that customs revenue
during the fiscal year which ends on
June 30, 1914, almost certainly will
meet and probably will exceed the
estimates made when congress passed
the new tariff law.
The statement, prepared by Assist
ant Secretary Malburn, in charge of
customs, said:
“It was estimated that the receipts
from customs for the fiscal year 1914,
which Included three months under the
tariff act of 1909 and nine months un
der the present tariff act, approved
October 3, 1913, would amount to $270,-
000,00, resulting in a los sos $49,000,000
from the customs receipts of the pre
vious years.
"The total customs collections for
the nine months just ended amounted
to $225,500,000, showing a loss tor the
nine months' period of $24,750,000 com
pared with the collections for the same
period during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1913. As this loss is only
one-half of the estimated loss for the
whole year, it is probable that the re
ceipts for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1914, will exceed the estimate.
WILSON FOR LOCAL OPTION
President Doesn't Believe Prohibition
Should Be Part of Politics.
Washington.—President Wilson is
tor local option on the liquor question
and does not believe prohibition
should be made a part of a party pro
gram. Since the oruer of Secretary
Daniels was issued prohibiting the
use of liquor by officers in she navy,
persons in a position to obtain the
president's views have learned that he
will stand by his letter written in
May, 1911, while governor of New-
Jersey, to the Rev. Thomas B. Shan
non of Newark, N. J., in which he
said:
“I am in favor of local option. 1
am a thorough believer in local self
government, and believe that every
self-governing community which con
stitutes a social unit should have the
right to control the matter of the regu
lation or the withholding of licenses.
But the questions involved are social
and moral-and are not susceptible of
being made parts of a party program."
Secretary Daniels told friends the
purpose of his order was in no way
to give a political aspect to the sub
ject of prohibition or to commit the
national administration, but only to
promote efficiency in the navy. The
president looks on tiie order as a de
partmental matter. Secretary Daniels
having acted on his own initiative.
Empress Eugenie’s Maid Dead.
Tampa, Fla.—Miss Philippine Pan
ger, who was a lady in waiting to ex-
Empress Eugenie when Napoleon 111
ruled France, died at the home of
Gustavus Ward here. She was 89
years old and had been in the Ward
family more than forty years. Fol
lowing the overthrow of the empire,
Miss Panger came to America and be. :
came maid to Mr. Ward's mother at ;
Nashville, Tenn. She was German, '
and letters in her possession show ■
’ that she was related to families of the ;
nobility of that country.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
RESERVE BOARD
ISSUES STATEMENT
COMMITTEE OVERWHELMS DIS-
GRUNTLED CITIES WITH AVA
LANCHE OF FIGURES.
REPLY MADE TO CRITICISMS
Atlanta Was the Favorite of the Ma
jority of the Banks Asking for
Membership.
Washington.—Replying for the first
time to the criticism ventgd upon them
by the disappointed cities of New Or
leans, Washington and Baltimore, the
federal reserve bank organization com
mittee gave out a formal statement.
Quoting from the official records in
I the comptroller's office the committee
showed that the Atlanta member
banks, which were mainly national
banks, had more capital and surplus,
more loan:- and discounts and more
individual depositors than either Dal
las or New Orleans.
More significant even than this su
perior showing for last month was
the tremendous advance shown to
have been made by the Atlanta banks
in ten years. The national banks of
Atlanta increased their capital aud
surplus between September, 1904, and
March, 1914, 256 per cent.; Dallas, 120
per cent., and New-Orleans only 8 per
cent.
Particular attention was given to the
committee’s reasons for choosing At
lanta, Ga., and Dallas, Texas, in pref
erence to New Orleans; for selecting
Richmond, Va., instead of Baltimore,
and for naming Kansas City Instead of
Denver, Colo., Omaha or Lincoln, Neb.
The committee called attention to the
fact that since thirty-seven cities were
applicants and only twelve named,
twenty-five had to be disappointed.
“With so many conflicting claims,”
said the statement, “somebody had to
judge. Congress constituted the com
mittee a court and gave the federal re
serve board the power to review. Dis
appointed competitors should seek a
remedy through the ordinary process
the law prescribes.
ARREST AMERICAN MARINES
Apology Demanded for Insult to Amer
ican Flag at Tampico, Mexico.
Mexico City—A launch from the
United States gunboat Dolphin, carry
ing the paymaster and a small detach
ment of marines, put in at Iturbide
bridge at Tampico. The Americans
were after a supply of gasoline. They
were in uniform, but unarmed. The
launch flew the American flag.
Colonel Hinojosa, commanding a de
tachment of Mexican federate, placed
the paymaster and his men under ar
rest. They- were paraded through the
streets and held for a time under de
tention.
Admiral Mayo made a vigorous rep
resentation to the authorities and the
men were released. Gen. Ignacio Zar
agoza expressed to Admiral Mayo his
regret.
President Huerta, in an official state
ment to American Charge O'Shaugh
nessy apologized for the unusual zeal
ousness of the Mexican commander
at Tampico.
TREATY EFFECTS TQLL FIGHT
Colombia Granted Free Use of Panama
Canal for Warships.
Washington.—Free use of the Pana
ma canal by Colombian warships, troop
ships and navy supply vessels is pro
posed in the new treaty between the
United States and Colombia signed
at Bogota to seal the breach between
the two countries over the separation
of Panama. Secretary Bryan announc
ed with the explanation that the clause
in the convention was identical with
one in the Colombian treaty negotiat
ed by Secretary Root in 1909, with the
approval of Great Britain and ratified
by the United States senate though |
never accepted by Colombia.
Woman Sentenced to Hang.
Pensacola. Fla. —For the first time
in the history of Florida, a white wom
an, “Sis" Hopkins of Calhoun county,
has been found guilty of murder in
the first degree and sentenced to hang.
Governor Trammell will set the date
for the execution.
Florida Citrsu Crop Reported Injured
Ocala, Fla.—Hail and wind storms
accompanied by as harp drop in tem
perature did many thousand dollars’ i
damage to vegetable and citrus fruit i
crops in central Florida. Orange i
groves and melon and tomato fields j
suffered most severely. Sou.hern Flor
■ ida. however, where the bulk of the
I peninsula's citrus fruits are produced,
I experienced only a cool rain. Frost
1 in the state was„confined to the north-
I western section, where crops were not
I sufficiently matured to suffer.
MME. POINCARE
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This Is a new photograph of Mme. ■
Poincare, wife of the president of the
French republic. It Is reported that
she Is expecting a visit from the stork
in the near future. Mme. Poincare is
forty-six years old, and has no chil
dren.
COLOMBIAN JREATY SIGNED
UNITED STATES AND COLOMBIA
DIPLOMATS SIGN IMPORTANT
DOCUMENT AT BOGOTA.
<>25.000,000 Pala South American Coun
try for its Interest in Panama
Canal Zone.
Bogota, Colombia. —The treaty be
tween the United States and Colom
bia settling the Panama controversy,
was signed at the state department of
Colombia by the American minister,
Thaddeus A. Thomson, and represen
tatives of the Colombian government.
The ceremony of signing the treaty
was an impressive one. The American
minister was accompanied by the sec
retary of the legation, Leland Harri
son. The Colombian signatories were
the Colombian minister of foreign af
fairs, Francisco Jose Urrutia, and
members of the advisory committee,
Marco Fidel Suarez, first vice president
of the republic; Nicholas Esguerra,
former minister of state; Senator Jose
Maria Valencia, Senator Rafael Uribe
and Antonio Jose Uribe, president of
the house of representatives.
The signing of this treaty is looked
on here as a momentous event in the
history of the foreign relations of Co
lombia and marks a new era for her
future. It is pointed out by those sup
porting the treaty that the friendship
of the government and the people of
the United States is of incalculable
value.
Washington.—Signing of the treaty
of Bogota was the outcome of nego
tiations that had been in progress
since soon after President Wilson took
office.
Details of the agreement have not
been made public in Washington.
ILLINOIS WOMEN VOTE-DRY’
More Than One Thousand Saloons I
Closed by Women of Illinois.
++++++++++♦+++
+ +
+ One Thousand Saloons + !
+ Voted Out of Existence. +
+ Chicago.—Conservative esti- + i
+ mates based on actual reports +
from townships show that more ♦ I
+ than one thousand saloons were + ;
+ voted out of existence in the +
+ state of Illinois outside of Chi- +
+ cago. +
♦ +
+++++++ + + + ♦ + ♦ +
Chicago.—lllinois women swarmed
I to the polls in nearly three hundred
townships and as a result of their
activity at least twelve counties have
been added to the thirty which now bar
saloons.
The country districts saw the great
est gains in anti-saloon territory. Os
the larger cities the following voted
from wet to dry:
New York "Gunmen” Must Die.
Albany, N. Y, —Governor Glynn re-‘
fused to either commute the death
sentence of the four gunmen convict
| ed of slaying Herman Rosenthal or to
i grant them a reprieve until after the
second trial of former Police Lieuten
ant Charles Becker. They must die
by electrocution in Sing Sing prison
some time next week. It would have
been a miscarriage of justice to have
granted a commutation aud an improp
er exercise of executive power to
have granted a reprieve, the governor
said in a statement.
TAKE SALTS TO FLUSH
KIDNEYS IF BACK HURTS
Says Too Much Meat Forms Uric Acid
Which Clogs the Kidneys and
Irritates the Bladder.
Most folks forget that the kidneys,
like the bowels, get sluggish and clog
ged and need a flushing occasionally,
else we have backache and dull misery
in the kidney region, severe head
aches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver,
acid stomach, sleeplessness and all
sorts of bladder disorders.
You simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney
region, get about four ounces of Jad
Salts from any good drug store here,
take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia, and is harmless to
flush clogged kidneys and stimulate
them to normal activity. It also neu
tralizes the acids in the urine so it
no longer irritates, thus ending blad
der disorders.
Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive;
makes a delightful effervescent lithia
water drink which everybody should
take now and then to keep their kid
neys clean, thus avoiding serious com
plications.
A well-known local druggist says he
sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who be
lieve in overcoming kidney trouble
■ while it is only trouble. —Adv.
When Years Come All in a Heap.
The leading woman in “Wilestones"
ages twenty-seven years in twelve min
utes. “I know how to sympathize with
her,” says Mrs. Pozozzle. "I did the
same thing the afternoon of my re
ception, when the caterer who was to
serve the refreshments did not arrive
promptly.”
HOW TO CLEAR AWAY
THOSE UGLY PIMPLES
It is so easy to get rid of pimples
and blackheads with Resinol, and it
costs so little, too, that anyone whose
face is disfigured by these pests is
foolish to keep on with useless cos
metics, or. complicated “beauty treat
ments.” See how simply it is done:
Bathe your face for several minutes
with Resinol Soap and hot water, then
apply a little Resinol Ointment very
gently. Let this stay on ten minutes,
and wash off with Resinol Soap and
more hot water, finishing with a dash
of cold water to close the pores. Do
this once or twice a day, and you will
be astonished to find how quickly the
healing, antiseptic Reeinol medica
tion soothes and cleanses the pores,
leaving the complexion clear and vel
vety. Sold by all druggists, Resinol
Ointment, 50 cents and sl, Resinol
Soap, 25 cents.—Adv
Lloyd-George Smiles.
* The caustic tongue of David Lloyd-
George recently caused Sir John Ran
dles to move in the house of commons:
"That this house contemplates with
regret the repeated inaccuracies of the
chancellor of the exchequer and his
gross and unfounded attacks on in
dividuals.” When the motion was de
bated Lloyd-George responded with
what T. P. O’Connor declares was the
most brilliant speech of his career.
The motion was not carried.
NEIGHBOR ASKED
FOR INFORMATION
Which Was Promptly Disclosed and
She Lost no Time in Profit
ing Thereby.
Miami, Okla.— “One of my nelgh
j bors,” says Mrs. Hannah M. Turley, of
i this town, “came to my house last
i week, and said: ‘Mrs. Turley, what
I did you take to help you so quickly?’
I told her it was just Cardui, the
woman s tonic, and she said: ‘I wish
I looked as well as you do.’ I told her
if she would only get $5.00 worth of
Cardui, and take it, she would. So
she sent her husband to town-to get
the Cardui, and commenced taking it.
She looked so pale and sick all the
time, but is beginning to look better
already.
As to how it helped me—l suffered
for about 5 years, with womanly trou
bles, and became so weak and ner
vous, and would suffer such pain
every month, that I thought, at times,
I would die. Was in such condition
that I couldn’t do my work half of
the time, and would have awful smoth
ering spells.
My husband bought me a full treat
ment of Cardui (6 bottles) and I can
truthfully say that after I took the
last bottle I was well. Am enjoying
the best of health now, and am so
thankful to Cardui."
Take Cardui for your trouble. You
will never regret it. Begin today. Ask
your nearest druggist.
N. B.—WYUe to.- Ladies’ Advisory Dept.. Chatta
nooga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga. Tenn.. tor
Swha/.’njiracKonj, and 64-page book. heme Treat
ment for Women," sent in plain wrapper, OS
request. Adv.