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ket and makes entry at the price he
is compelled to pay, demoralizing to
the customs service generally, and in
effect a material and indiscriminate
reduction in the tariff which shou’d
be made only after hearings granted,
and then by the legislative branch
of the Government.”
The league holds that the modifi
cations or annulments of existing
statutes entailed by the agreement
will result in a reduction of from 10
to 25 per cent of the duty levied by
law upon merchandise imported from
Germany upon which an ad valorem
duty is assessed.
China Warned By Viscount Hayashi.
Viscount Hayashi, Japanese Min
ister of Foreign Affairs, in an inter
view at Seoul; Korea, said:
* ‘lf the fate of Korea may be re
garded by China as a lesson, it should
be a warning to that country to put
her house in order ere some strong
nation —whichever one might be
moved so to do —imitate the events
in Seoul.
“China’s despotism, which is the
worst form of government, must yet
reach a crisis, as, when the present
ruling mind has gone, the State will
fall a prey to intrigues.”
Prosecuting Ryan Road.
The North Carolina Corporation
Commission at Raleigh, N. C., issued
a warrant against the South and
Western Railroad, charged it with
failing to make returns of its prop
erty for assessment for taxes. The
penalty for violation of this law is
S3OO, with SIOO for each day’s delay.
The South and Western is the road
being built from Johnson City, Tenn.,
to Marion, N. C., on the Southern
Railway, and Bostic, near Ruther
fordton, on the Seaboard. It is
backed by Thomas F. Ryan and other
Northern capitalists.
Senator Pettus Dead.
United States Senator E. W. Pet
tus, of Alabama, died Saturday night
at Hot Springs, N. C., from the effects
of a stroke of apoplexy, with which
he was seized while at the breakfast
table. His entire body was paral
yzed, and he never regained con
sciousness since that time. The death
of Senator Pettus follows quickly
the passing of his colleague from Ala
bama, Senator Morgan. Both were
notable types of the old school
Southern statesman; much alike in
temperament, appearance, age and
political convictions. During the civil
war Mr. Pettus rose to the rank of
brigadier-general in the Confederate
army. He entered the senate ten
years ago, and while not among the
brilliant orators of that body, he was
notable for his conscientious atten
tion to the details of public business.
Venezuela Refuses to Arbitrate
Claim.
The foreign office has handed over
to the American Minister, W.
W. Russell, the answer of the Ven
ezuelan Government to the second
note from Secretary Root regarding
the arbitration of five American
claims.
The government persists in its re
fusal to arbitrate the claims. The
reply is long and answers in detail
the arguments advanced by Mr. Root.
The opinion at Caracas in some
quarters is that the answer may lead
to the severing of diplomatic relations
between Venezuela and the, United
States.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
Governor Hughes Uses the Ax.
Gov. Hughes, of New York, killed
2-18 of the 448 thirty-day bills left by
the Legislature. The total number
he has signed is 61, and there still
lie before him four passed at the ex
traordinary session.
The wholesale killing which the
Governor achieved breaks all records.
He vetoed nine bills favoring rail
road corporations, shattered the
hopes of forty claimants for State
money, killed the Prentice official
primary ballot bill over the personal
protest of Republican County Chair
man Herbert Parsons, of New York,
favored married women by vetoing
the Cunningham bill making them li
able for necessaries in case of the
irresponsibility of their husbands,
and put out of business the Cobb bill
providing for a quick review bv
the courts of apportionment ques
tions and tying the hands of the
Democratic Secretary of State.
The Governor further killed the
important bills urged by the state
Tax Commission. These measures
compelled corporations to come up
promptly with special franchise tax
es and authorized the tax board to
equalize special franchise tax valua
tions throughout the State. The
Governor also vetoed the West bill,
providing that opticians shall pass a
State examination, and the Foley
bill, permitting the redemption of
trading stamps in money or goods
at the option of the holder. The
Merritt pure food maesure was given
its death blow, as well as the bin
giving immunity to witnesses in in
surance rebate cases.
Forty-eight of the bills vetoed by
the governor affected New York city.
Among them were those prohibiting
borough presidents from voting in
the board of aidermen; giving per
diem employes of the city vacations
with wages; authorizing the city to
appropriate $25,000 for a monument
to Andrew H. Green, the Brooklyn
College consolidation bill and all
measures relating to claims against
the city and petitions for reinstate
ment on the police and fire forces.
Once More Bryan is Solid.
William J. Bryan’s recent declara
tion that his Government ownersh : p
idea will not be a party issue in the
Presidential campaign next year is
received with great satisfaction by
Democrats generally throughout the
country.
Labor Snubbed Gompers.
President Gompers, of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, addressed
an audience of forty-two persons at
the Park Theatre in Kokomo, Ind.
The failure of the meeting was due
to the fact that the local unions re
fused to recognize him or go to hear
the speech.
Governor Glenn Victorious.
The law-defying Southern Railway
has at last met its master, and has
been forced to bend to the will of
the state of North Carolina and Gov
ernor Glenn. When Governor Glenn
made the statement that “the laws
of the State of North Carolina will
be enforced, and the prosecution of
the charges against the Southern
Railway Company will be continued
with all the means I have at hand.”
the Southern paid no attention,
but kept right on running over and
trampling on the laws of the peo
ple, till finally warrants of arrest
were issued for President Finley, of
the Southern Railway Company, and
O. C. Wilson, city ticket agent or
the same road. A policeman arrest
ed Finley, but did not succeed in
reaching the police court with his
prisoner. Just as he was ready to
leave the hotel a deputy United
States marshal walked in and took
charge of Mr. Finley. Finley was
taken to the Federal Court room
where he was released by Judge
Pritchard. The officials of the rail
road then sought a conference with
Governor Glenn, and the result of
that meeting was, the Southern and
Atlantic Coast Line Railways prom
ised to obey the law ponding an ap
peal to the courts by the roads of
the state which propose to fight the
law.
Governor Glenn gave out a state
ment regarding the outcome of the
state’s fight for the 2 1-4-cent rate
law as follows:
“The governor considers the vic
tory in the matter of the state
against the railroads as one for
state’s rights and the people. There
were many things that added to the
victory.
“First, the righteousness of the
cause, the determination of the peo
ple through their officers, no longer
to submit to the oppression of the
ra’lroads or the interference of the
federal courts.
“The governor feels that it is a
great step forward for state’s rights,
and that if all the other states of
the union will continue the fight al
ready begun in North Carolina and
insist upon their senators and rep
resentatives in congress trying to cur
tail the growing power of the federal
courts, in the future there will be
no trouble to control and direct rail
roads and other corporations.”
French Winegrowers’ New Move.
The Defense Committee of the
French Winegrowers’ Association has
offered one hundred rewards of S2OO
each for information leading to the
conviction of persons selling adul
terated wines or having such wine
in their possession.
Fighting in Minnesota.
There is a bitter fight on between
the United Steel Corporation and
the Western Federation of Miners,
caused by the tie-up by strike of the
Minnesota iron mines, and bloodshed
is predicted by some, as in the Col
orado and Idaho struggles.
Intimidation and threats have
driven two thousand miners from the
Mesaba ranges in the Duluth region
during the week. They are mostly
Italians, not affiliated with any un
ion. There are forty thousand min
ers on the iron range of Minnesota.
Os these six thousand belong to the
Western Federation.
Gov. Johnson has been asked to
send troops to the ranges, but instead
will go there himself to offer his ser
vices as mediator.
Headed by a brass band several
thousand miners left Virginia, Min
nesota, and marched over the Mesaba
range, forcing miners to stop work
wherever they found any signs of in
dustry. They are directing their en
ergies chiefly against the indepen
dents, as most of the Steel Com
pany’s minis are already closed
down.
At the Pettit mine of the Republic
Iron and Steel Company, near Spar
ta, they compelled the 250 men to
quit work. While the band tooted
encouragement the strikers threaten
ed and coaxed the workingmen.
The mob then marched on to Bi
wabik, and the Kellogg mine there,
owned by the New York Steel Com
pany, was forced to close.
At Hibbing the streets are filled
with striking Federation miners. A
parade took place with 700 miners
in line. No red flag was displayed,
hut incendiary speeches were made.
The Steel Trust is keeping men at
work in its forty-five or fifty mines
in that region, with deputized em
ployes on guard. Threats and intim
idation are reported to be driving
non-union miners from the district
by trainloads. G. N.
GOV. GLENN FORCES SOUTHERN
TO ITS KNEES.
(Continued from Page One.)
sented by Governor Glenn, State
Treasurer Lacy and the special coun
sel engaged by the governor, includ
ing former Governor C. B. Aycock
and Hon. E. J. Justice, speaker of
the house of representatives. The
lailway representatives were Alfred
P. Thom, of Washington, and Judge
Alexander P. Humphrey, of Louis
ville, general counsel of the South
ern Railway, and Alexander Hamil
ton, of Petersburg, Va., general coun
sel, and George P. Ott, of Wilming
ton, assistant general counsel of the
Atlantic Coast Line, and George
Rountree, of Wilmington, N. C.,
counsel for R. Nelson Buckley and
other stockholders of the Atlantic
Coast Line, who had obtained re
straining orders and an interlocu
tory order from Judge Pritchard
against the Atlantic Coast Line put
ting the 2 1-4 cent rate into effect.
Text of the Agreement.
The agreement entered into by the
Southern, the Atlantic Coast Line
and the state is:
“1. The railroad puts the 2 1-4
cent rate into effect not later than
August 8, 1907.
“2. The state to appeal from the
order of Judge Pritchard discharg
ing parties in Asheville on writs of
habeas corpus.
“3. The Southern Railway ap
peals to the Supreme Court of North
Carolina in the Wake county cases,
and if the case is there decided
against it to take the case by writ
of error to the Supreme Court of
the United States.
“4. That both sides co-operate to
have both of said cases advanced
and argued together and speedily ad
vanced.
“5. The state at its option to
indict the Atlantic Coast Line in one
case.
“6. All indictments and prosecu
tions now pending to be dismissed
and no other indictments or prosecu
tions to be instituted for any al
leged violations of the law up to the
time the new 2 1-4 cent rate is put
into effect under this arrangement
as far as the governor can control
the same.
“7. The governor advises all peo
ple against bringing any penalty
suits pending final determination of
the questions involved, and asks the
people as a whole to acquiesce in
the arrangement.
“8. The suit pending before
Judge Pritchard to be diligently
prosecuted without the state, how
ever, waiving any question of juris
diction.”
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