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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.” PAGE FIVE