Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-03-04


ceived revelations direct from COD
through an Angel in Black Presl-
dent Smith admitted that he believes
in the divine sanction Of polygamy and
it developed that he has five living
wives. The object Of the investigation
is to show that the political affairs or
Utah are governed through the church
officials. Up to this time, nothing
of the kind has been developed. except
by inference.
Vice Admiral Togo reports that
more than two thousand Japanese sail
ors volunteered to man the ships en-
ployed in the attempt to block the en-
trance to Port Arthur. The keenest
rivalry existed among the sailors for
permission to join the dangerous en-
terprise. The men on the torpedo
boats, who had no facilities for writ
ing, cut themselves and wrote their
applications to Admiral Togo with their
blood. This extraordinary spirit is not
confined to the navy. The army Is
equally eager to meet the enemy. The
punishment now inflicted in the Jap
anese army for breaches Of discipline
is that of leaving offenders in Japan.
This punishment is held to be so dis
graceful by the soldiers and is so
much feared that ordinary offences
have disappeared among the troops.
According to the Worlds Work,
about two -fifths Of the Panama canal
including fourteen miles from the At
lantic coast and four miles from the
Pacific coast, has already been cut, but
these sections need deepening. Thir-
ty six miles of the most difficult part
remains to be cut. 1t is estimated that
this task will require the work or oo'-
900 men for eight years. A great dam
is to be built at Bohio, which is four
teen miles inland from the Atlantic
coast, that will make a lake fifty-tWo
feet above the Atlantic, into which
vessels will be raised by locks. the
new level thus reached will extend
twenty-five miles. Then vessels going
toward the Pacific will descend by
locks about siXty-five feet; farther on
they will descend again, perhaps thir-
ty feet, to the Pacific level. The dam
will supply power that will be used In
excavating, and the work under Amer
lean direction is expected to go on
much faster than the French company
conducted it. We shall presently be
within sight Of the realization OF the
most important change that has ever
been made by man in the physical
structure Of the earth.
st. Petersburg dispatch Of March
2: According to special dispatch
from Port Arthur, twenty Chinese
have been arrested for signalling to
the japanese ships from the shore with
flash lights and lanterns. A warning
has been issued that similar offenders
will hereafter be treated as spies and
shot. Although it is denied that the
present plans of the admiralty con-
template the dispatch of either the
Black Sea or Baltic fleets to the far
east, it is beyond question that both
are being prepared with the greatest
haste to meet any emergency that may
arise. Gen. Altvaler, the artillery spe-
cialist, and Admiral Verkhosky have
been inspecting the ships and crews
of the Black Sea fleet. Work on the
warships is being pushed night and
day. The battle ship Borodine, the
battleship Orel, and the transport
Kamtchatka are nearing completion
at the admiralty dockyards here. In
the dead Of night the icebound Neva Is
like an Arctic landscape, lighted for
half mile by the flare of blazing stacks
the silence broken by the din of drum
ming hammers. About 500 volunteer
workmen have left here to work at the
dock yards Of Port Arthur and Vlad-
ivostok.
The opinion of the majority of the
court of claims, delivered by Judge
Mott, dismissing the suit brought by
the state Of South Carolina against
the United States to recover money
paid by the state as special tax for
the sale Of liquors at the dispensaries
was made public last Tuesday. This,
the opinion says. is believed to be the
first case brought before a court in
which a state has united in one un-
dertaking an exercise of the police
power with a commercial business.
The court decides that the excise is
not an interference with the states
police powers. AS to the contention
that the Federal government cannot
tax the states or their inStrumentali-
ties of government as upheld in the
income tax cases the opinion says that
between the principles involved in
them and the principle involved in this
case there seem to the court to be
three broad and plain distinctions.
The first distinction is fundamental.
The money exacted here is not di-
rect tax, but an excise. The theory
upon which the constitutional provis-
ion rests is that an excise upon sal
able articles is paid by the purchaser.
The state of South Carolina here
stands on precisely the same footing
which every other dealer stands upon.
All that it has do is to add the inter-
nal revenue excise to the price of the
liquor it sells and let the purchaser
in the income tax cases tax has been
the income tax cases q tax has been
extended to function strictly be-
longing to a state, in it's ordinary gov
ernmental capacity"