Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-03-22
Scraps and faets.

BY a strict party vote, the house
committee on rules, on last Monday,
decided to report the resolution of Con-
gresham Crumpacker, Of Indiana, pro-
viding for a special committee of thir-
teen members to investigate and re-
port on the alleged disfranchisement OF
voters in certain states. The resolu-
ton is especially aimed at the fran
chise laws of the south, and the report
ing of it will mean the Inauguration Oh
a bitter partizan fight, the like OF whlcn
has not been known since the defeat OF
the famous Force Bill.
Whatever else one may find In the
New York papers, one can always de-
pend upon finding the details of one or
more sensational murder trials in whlch
New Workers figure as the principals.
There are now in various stages or
prosecution five rather unique and IN
teresting cases-the Molineaux case,
which now awaits a re-trial; the Fat
rick case in which it is alleged that
lawyer poisoned a rich client in order
to get possession of his money; the NC
Auliffe case, wherein a policeman VINO
had testified against other officers Is al
legged to have been killed to prevent his
giving further testimony; the Voepel
case. in which 17-year-old boy is sus-
pected Of stabbing his mother to DEATH
and the Burns case, in which a beauti-
full young woman is charged with shoot
ing her recreant lover.
Charlotte Observer: If one were
asked to name the four wisest, safest
Democrats in the senate-men having
wisdom acquired by age and long ex-
perience in public affairs-who would
he pick out? Would he choose any be-
fore Senators Cockrell and Vest, OF Mis-
souri,, and Morgan and Pettus, of Ala
bama? If he were told that these were
opposed to a certain proposition ana
that among Democrats who were non
committal on 1t were two other able,
lone-headed senators in Messrs. Bacon,
of Georgia, and Martin, Of Virginia,
would he not say: Look here! These
six men constitute the bulk of the abil-
ity on the Democratic side Of the SEN
ate. Guess we had better stop awhile
and think about this thing?" The New
York Journal has polled the senators
as to their attitude toward the propo-
sition to elect United States senators by
the popular vote. Messrs. Cockrell,
Vest, Morgan and Pettus are opposed
to it and Messrs. Bacon and Martin de-
cline to commit themselves. -
Washington dispatch Of Tuesday:
The general debate on the river and
harbor appropriation bill in the house
was enlivened today by Mr.. Hepburn,
of Iowa, who made his annual on
slaught upon the measure. Contrary to
his usual custom, Mr.. Hepburn found
several things in the bill to commend,
although some Of his criticisms were
quite severe. Mr.. Hepburn said that
congress should set definite limit up
on the depth Of water sought to be OBJ
tained in seaport harbors-30 feet, for
instance-and place limit upon naval
architecture. Otherwise, he said, there
would be no end to the depth Of water
which would be demanded. The other
speakers today were Messrs. Ball, of
Tennessee, and Lawrence, of Massa-
chusetts, both members of the commit
tee, and Messrs. White, of Kentucky;
Thomas and Burnett, of Alabama, who
spoke in favor Of improvements of in
terest to their districts. 1t was agreed
that debate on the bill should close to-
morrow at o'clock. Saturday, April
26, was set aside for memorial services
on the late Representatives Stokes, of
South Carolina, and the late Represen-
tative Crump, Of Michigan.
The New York Sun prints the fol-
lowing interesting paragraph in con-
nection with its report of the passage
of the ship subsidy bill: Senator Han
mas amendments introduced at the last
moment, and adopted as the closing
paragraph of the bill, were quite uRex-
pected and took the Democratic side Of
the chamber entirely unawares, pro-
viding, as they did, that no foreign
built ships should get the benefit of the
proposed subsidy, and that American
registers should not hereafter be grant
ed to foreign-built vessels. They took
the wind entirely out Of the Democrat
ic sails, as these are the two points that
had been the special objects Of attack
from the Democratic side of the cham
ber. During the debate Senator Berry
and other Democrats rang the changes
on the statement that two of the Amer
lean line ships, the Paris and New York,
were foreign built, and that it would be
easy to pass bills in congress granting
it was desired to bring within the bene-
fits of the act. Senator Hanna prompt
ly offered his amendments, making
both of these statements impossible Of
realization, but the Democrats refus-
ed to be convinced and voted against
the amendments containing the very
propositions that they had advocated.
The trial of James Wilcox, charged
with the murder of Nellie Cropsey, was
not dragged out at as much length as
was expected. The state rested it's
case last Tuesday afternoon, and rely
ing upon the presumably weak evil
dence submitted, the defence decided
to put up nothing in reply. The bal
ance Of Tuesday and all of Wednes-
day was consumed in argument.
The opening speech for the defence
was made by H. w. Mcmillan. He