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to will be satisfactory to me, and re-
member, both Of you, every dollar that
is paid is paid by the national commit
tee, but after it's all settled, and If
there is no slip-up, 1 will look to Law
son for whatever is expended. Is it I'M
derstood?'
I'VE agreed that it was and Rogers
left u.s.
Lawson says that the John Moore men
toned was of the stock brokerage firm
of Moore g. Schley. Mr. Moore is now
dead. Lawson describes the Washington
connections Of Moore g. Schley, saying
they did business for senators, congress-
men and other national officials who
speculated in stocks on their inside
knowledge OF legislation.
When everything had been arranged
for the quashing OF the receivership by
the payment of 100000. Lawson went to
Boston with Mr.. Rogers attorney and
the directors of the Boston companies.
Legal transfers wero to be made In Bos-
ton Immediately upon telephone news
from Wilmington Of the retirement of
the receiver Another party headed by
Addicks and including the lawyer. the
receiver, a representative of Mr.. Moore
and counsel for Mr.. Rogers, left at the
same time for Wilmington This latter
contingent, Lawson says, was to carry
the money. Mr.. Lawson writes:
How the Plan Worked.
Before / took the train for Boston.
Just after fhe last deed had been signed,
/ had come to a complete understanding
in regard to the manner in which the
court proceedings the following morning
should be conducted. 1t was UNDER
stood that no one should take another's
word for anything and consequently
that no monev should pass until specific
performance of all the required condi-
lions.
Immediately on the release Of the re-
ceivership Foster and Braman were to
be paid their fee and they asked that
the $4,000 cash coming to them should
be arranged in separate piles of bills.
The two packages containing Fosters
and part OF Buchanans and Bramans
$4,000 were to be in the custory of John
Moore's representative and my partner,
who, with Rogers counsel and Ad-
dicks, had been assigned to represent
Bay State in the court"
Lawson said that Addicks had planned
a revenge upon Foster and Braman after
the payment of the money. Some of his
political "heelers," Lawson writes, had
learned of the payment in cash that was
to be made, and had planned a scuffle
on tho station platform while the lawyer
and the receiver were waiting for the
train that was to take them from Will
mington to New York. Lawson doesn't
be robbed In tho scuffle merely saying:
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The Only objection.
Judge Richardson at Home.

Huntsville, December 23.-(special.)-
Judge William Richardson, representa-
tive in congresse from this district
reached here last night to spend the ho1-
idays. Judge Richardson had a talk with
Judge Burton. chairman of the rivers
and harbors committee of congress and
expressed himself as satisfied that fair
treatment will be accorded the Tennes-
see river In the matter of recommend
ing appropriations. He believes the COM
mittee will recommend that the full
amount Of $5S5,Ooo, estimated to carry on
the work for the next two years at
Colbert Shoals, will be appropriated.
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HOLIDAY EXCURSION
ates Via The Southern RAILWAY

For Christmas Holidays. the Southern
railway will sell tickets from all stations
at the very low rate of one and one-third
fare for the round trip. Tickets will be
sold on December 20, "a. 25 and 81 1904
and January /, 1905, limited returning
January 4, 1905.
Student Rat ,s-Tickets will also be sold
to students of schools and college. upon
presentation of certificates signed by
principals or presidents thereof. Deem
Der IT to "a. inclusive, with final limit
January s. 1906 For full information and
ticketA apply to any agent of the South
ern railway j. N. HARRISON,
District Passenger Agent.
r. B. CREACH. Trav. Pass. Agt.
Birmingham. Ala. l2-7-tf
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WANTS BIRMINGHAM
A BANKING CENTER
Congressman Bowie Says It
Would be Great Thing
OPPORTUNITY NOW OPEN
There Is No Reserve City Between
Louisville and New Orleans and
Birmingham Bankers Can
Have One II Desired.

Congressman Sydney ]. Bowie is taking
an active interest in making it possible
for Birmingham to be a reserve banking
city for the surplus deposit of national
banks in the surrounding country. On
this subject Mr.. Bowie says:
"A statue was passed at the last ses-
sion Of congress reducing the limit of
population of reserve cities in the United
Stetes so that the national banks of
Birmingham could become lawful reserve
depositaries of the national banks in the
country provided three-fourths of them
would consent thereto. There is no re-
serve city between Louisville and New
Orleans and as a consequence fifteen per
cent reserve required to be held by nat
ional banks largely gravitates to New
York. No other factor so powerfully con-
tributes TO New York's pre-eminenee as
financial centre and no one thing strips
the south of more money.
Ought to Have One at Least.
1T seems to me there ought to be at
least one reserve city in each state in the
| south. Mississippi could not have one at
| present as no town in the state is large
enough, but Birmingham, If her national
banks would only accept the privilege.
could well supply both Alabama and
mississippi. 1t has been surprising to me
that the statute was not promptly ac-
cepted as soon as 1t was passed Some
money must be kept In Nsw York on ac-
count Of exchange, but IL our local
banks could keep the bulk of reserve de-
posts in the state. they would not only
build up great banking centre here in
Birmingham, but they would get a bet
ter rate of interest for their surplus
money than New York can afford to pay,
and at the same time contribute largely
to our financial independence.
In the great industrial movement, the
beginnings only of which we now seen
in the south, nothing is so vital as strong
financial institutions at home, and the
best way to make and keep them strong
is for our banks to keep their surplus
money in the state.
The Only objection.
THE only objection that has been urged
thereto Is that the reserve city banks
must keep their own reserve at twenty
five per cent of deposits instead of fif-
teen; but this is not important here be-
cause the Birmingham banks do this any,
way. Moreover, the fact that they are
required to do it would be a valuable ad-
vertisement and would prove a strong
magnet in drawing deposits and business.
1t would be an additional guarantee OF
stability.
II strongly favored the passage of the
bill, having Birmingham in mind at the
time. There is no reserve in North Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Arkansas or Mississippi. The pos
sibilities Of increased business through
this source are great"
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well, many things happen in rush. =
Dress Suit Gases Full of Money.

Judge Wales was on the bench in the
Wilmington circuit court room the next
day, says Lawson. All of the parties to
the arrangement were present and two
dress-suit cases were stacked up in the
sight of all present. The formal motion
to dismiss the receiyershlp was made and
consented to.
at once" writes Lawson, 1.-THE two
dress-suit cases, each loaded with cur
rency, were slipped to Braman and Fos-
ter. In the hustle Bralnan and Foster,
each with his booty, fed
They had arranged for a special train
to carry them out of Wilmington, and
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Cotton Mil Building Finished.

Admission, December 22.-(specia1.)-Th
building of the new cotton mill at Jack
sonville has been completed. The lights
and water pipes. have been put in. A
portion Of the machinery has been placed
and the remainder will arrive and be
placed in time to set the mill in opera
tion March 1. The building was put up
by ]. H. Duke, of this city, and j. W.
Journey of Jacksonville, and they have
gotten in some excellent work Mr.. Jour-
ney has taken a contract to put up TWEEN
ty of the houses that will be occupied
by operatives.
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in this way, Lawson says, the plans OF
the Addicks men were defeated. Lawson
says he learned that the two men had
planned to make big coup In Bay State
Gcs, but he got into the market first,
sending the price up from to 10 a share,
and then causing a slump when they got
aboard at the high price.
In a separate article Lawson again
attacks the life insurance companies,
and to upset the charge that he was
actuated by their refusal to insure him,
prints a fac-simile of = H,OO00OO bond
policy which he holds in the Equitable
Life and on which he pays pearly pre-
MUM of $l44220. This policy expires
on August o. 1912, when Mr.. Lawson Is
to receive $1,300,00O.
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Visit to Banker Moore.

Continuing Mr.. Lawson writes:
Having clearly set forth the political
situation through which we should be
saved. Mr.. Rogers proceeded to map out
my own programme First l must perfect
an alibi for him by going to Foster and
Rrahani and impressing them that he was
absolutely out of the affair." and must
under no circumstances be brought into
II; next, I must convince Addicks to the
same effect, and In addition tell him that
Mr. Rogers had angrily refused to get
into the mix-up, that l should then hold
myself in readiness to meet John Moore
and Hanna or Osborne as soon as an
appointment could be arranged. That af-
ternoon I got the word and went to No.
26 Broadway, and from there Mr.. Rogers
and 1 went over to John Moore's Of
fee.
Lawson Meets John Moore.
John said Mr.. Rogers, am going
TO turn this matter over to you and
Lawson, and / am to have nothing fur
Their to do with It. What you two agree
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POCKET KNIVES,
25c to 90. so.
B'ham Arms & Cycle Co.
NOTICE.

Don't fail to buy your
watches, Clocks, Diamonds,
Silverware, Jewelry, etc, at
Michael Maloney's, 1925 lst
avenue. Everything at auc-
ton prices
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Iawson Meets John Moore.
NOTICE

Effective Tuesday Deem
Der goth and until further
notice. North Birmingham
cars will use the Gate City
tracks in and out 9th Ave.
and 28th st. to Birmingham
terminal. B. R L. & p. Co.
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TODAY AND TOMORROW
l8 lbs. Granulated Sugar,
SI.OO. A. & p. Tea Co.

Fancy Candies, Nuts and
Fruit, in fact whatever you
need for Xmas at Fox Sons
& Smith Co.
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A piano Is a gift to the
whole family. Your selec-
ton delivered any time.
Jesse French Piano and Or
gan Co.
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XMAS DECORATIONS.

Fer decorating the "Xmas
Tree" use the latest electri-
cal effects Do away with
the dangerous old-time cam
dies. Put in your order now.
Would appreciate your visit
to our display rooms.
B'han r., L. & T. Co.
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LAWSON IS AGAIN
AFTER Mr.. ROGERS
Tells How Five States Were
Bought
COURT IS ALSO BRlBEO
Claims Standard OIL Interests Raised
100000 to Defeat Mr.. Bryan
In 1see-Feared an
Awful Panic.
COURT IS ALSO BRIBEO

Thomas ". Lawson charges that Hen
ry II. Rogers. president Of the Anal
gamated Copper company and one of the
leaders of the Standard Oil group, direct
ed the raising of a So 100000 fund to buy
five doubtful states for William McKin-
lev in the 1896 election. The charge is
made in the January issue Of Every
body's Magazine. the sale of which Mr..
Rogers tried vainly to stop by threaten
ing criminal libel proceedings against
the American News company, which is
the general distributing agent for peri
odicals and magazines.
Lawson makes the charge in connec-
ton with his exposure of the secret of
the Bay State Gas fight between J. Ed
ward Addicks of Delaware and Mr..
Rogers. Lawson for Addicks had ar
ranged a settlement with Rogers by
which the latter was to be paid sc, co.,
O00 on a specified dat for his rival gas
plants In Boston and other important
concessions. The money was to be
raised by a new issue of Bay State Gas
stock.
Everything was running smoothly,
when Roger Foster a well-known New
York lawyer, acting for a client, threw
the Bay State Gas company into re-
ownership, Dwight Braman being ap-
pointed receiver. Tl.e receivership pro-
ceedings were put through with such a
rush in the Delaware courts that Adj
dicks only knew of i. after the receiver
had been named.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-07
PEARL nARBOR.

Tt would be worth millions to Hawaii
TO have man at Washington with
enough influence to get something done
about Pearl Harbor.
That harbor has been neglected for
a long time. though its value as the
defensive outpost of the Pacific coast
is as clear as it was in the days OF
General sehofeld and Admiral Kimber-
ley. If the United States is ever at
war on the Pacific it will find Pearl
Harbor vital to its strategic operations
there. Yet not dollar has been spent
on docks, machine shops or fortifica--
lions since the day when, through the
reciprocity treaty. the United states
acquired the fight to control the great
waterway.
What is needed is a strong and in
telIigent and persistent campaign at
Washington for a first appropriation;
a campaign in which the Senators and
Representatives of California, Oregon
and Washington ought to be enlisted.
They should be taught that the pres
euce of hostile fleet here would. un-
less that fleet were beaten by Ameri-
can naval strength, put an embargo on
the commerce of the Pacific coast. An
object lesson could be found in the
way insurance ran up when the auxih-
airy cruiser Lena. with base 5000 miles
away, appeared at the Golden Gate:
What hard work can do. even against
army and navy prejudice, is shown at
san Diego. a city which got a fort
and a dredged harbor. despite opposi-
ton of the strongest kind and by no
other means than sheer pressure upon !
Congress and the War Department.
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Have You Registered?
OFF soHEvEN1NaEN.

The Carnegie Hall of peace is to be
erected in the woods of Scheveningen
Holland. overlooking the sea where. III
1853, the British fleet under Admiral
Monk defeated the Dutch fleet under
Admiral Tromp, who was killed during
the engagement.
Off Scheveningen in the night there
meet two gnostly ships,
And paler than the spindrift white the
tattered rigging dips.
And soundless in the dim moonlight
each Tapping ensign whips.
'.Ahoyl" there comes hail from one;
.Ahoyt'' the answer back.
.'Know We the days of war are done;
warships no more viii tack
And reef and haul and chase and run,
or pillage. loot, or sack?'
'Aye, true" the English admiral cries,
with a mighty oath,
For here to peace they build hail;
to warfare man is loath;
HE Will not here the battle cali that
one day thrilled US BOTH
30 hol'' then come the husky tones
from off the Dutchman's deck,
THE sea is strewn with whitened
bones. with shattered hulk and
wreck
All held in fee by Davy Jones, his pal
ace floors to deck.
1.-The sea is tick with rusting guns, with
ancient dirk and sword
Wherever Maynard current runs one
firoa grim war has rOa AIRED.
Each century has called it's sons and
they to fight have poured.
"And so, what do ye mean by this, old
foeman whom L met
When cutIasses were wont to hiss and
decks with blood were wet?
A hall of peace? 1t sounds amiss: Does
mankind war forget ?"
Sc IT'S true the other says, tbs true;
this hall shall stand for peace;
The calls that once the trumpets blew
forevermore shall cease
The laughter of each ghostly crew this
moment finds release.
Come. then" the other sailor cries,
"let us send up each sail.
And beat until we find the skies that
know no battle hail,
Where never flag in battle flies or guns |
outshout the gale!"
from Scheveningen in the night there |
sail two ghostly fleets,
Full whittier than the spindrift white |
their hulls and shrouds and |
sheets
And as they sail. on left and right, the /
droning war drum beats.
Chicago Tribune
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B@As4zz4;z s;.stszs
LOWER RATES-BY SEA.

The Promotion Committee has done
well in the matter of lowering steam
ship passenger rates by getting a hun
dred dollar round trip figure from the
All Red line 1t is, we hope, the be-
ginning of the end of schedule of
high prices afoat which has, for many
years, kept Hawaii from getting its
share of the tourist trade. As the Ho-
nolulu commercial bodies pointed out
in their recent memorial, this place Is
especially Disseminated against by the
steamship lines whose American term
mus is san Francisco. 1t costs more
per mile TO get mere from California
than it does TO go to Tahiti or New Zea-
land. The price is vastly more per
mile than it is from San Francisco to
Europe. Obviously if Hawaii is to
compete with other tourist resorts at
all, the means of access to it must be
cheapened.
Fortunately the All Red line has ac-
cepted the Hawaiian plea and has fixed
a reasonable price for the round trip,
covering distance 44O miles further.
That is to say, for a round trip of 1900
miles it will cost $S5 less than for one
of 216O miles. The saving is worth
while and we cannot doubt that it will
so tend to divert tourist travel. pro-
viding the Canadian Pacific railroad
makes good use of the Hawaiian trip
in its advertising matter. as to compel
the San Francisco lines to adopt the
800 rate.
: Surely that is enough. It is over So
per day for cubbyhole of a room and
for ordinary hotel fare. One may doubt
that it costs any more to run a steam
ship than it does a hotel of similar
capacity; and there is a freight bust
ness the hotel doesn't have and no
ground rent to pay beyond wharf dues
For the 5000 mile trip across the Allan
tic plenty of good steamers make. a
rate of $50 or even less, carrying steer
age as low as SIS. They may be pre-
stunned to know their business and they
certainly do not lack for dividends IF
the plea is urged that they have
large trade it is enough to say that the
San Francisco lines would have a large
trade too if they chose to cultivate it
by similar price-inducements.
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The nomination of F. t. P. Water
house in the Fifth is strong and salts
factory. If the Republicans had named
a full ticket of men as efficient as Mr..
waterhouse, the leaders would not need
TO appeal to the party as they are doing
now, to vote the straight ticket"
The party would have done so as a
matter of course and many Democrats
and Home Rulers would have cast their
ballots. for it with pleasure. Water
house is an excellent nominee and that
the district is satisfied with him is
shown by the presence among his sup
porters of Mr.. Shaw and his friends,
who are acting in a good spirit All
that remains to make the Fifth District
ticket representative of the better i'm
pulses of the party is to have Maize
Iona removed from it.
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NINE DAYS TO CONVICTION.

The course of the law has been swift
as Well as inex0rable in the case of
Miranda, the convicted murderer of S.
E. Damon. 1t was but ten days ago
tonight that the Porto Rican made This
deadly thrust and yesterday he found
himself convicted of murder in the first
degree. Let it be hoped that there will
be similar expedition in melting out his
punishment, for it is in the speed of
the laws vengeance that the moral
effect upon others is conveyed. For
that reason Czolgosz, the assassin of
President Mckinley was railroaded to
the gallows. It was deemed against
public policy, after he had made his
technicalities.
Notwithstanding the rapidity of the
legal proceedings in the Miranda case,
the prisoner has had a fair trial. His
counsel, Messrs. Davis and Thompson,
made as strong a defence as the cir
cumstances could warrant and the
prisoner himself had his say on the
witness stand. The man convicted him
self out of his own mouth. His false
hoods were many and palpable; his adj
missions were fatal and they left moth
ing for the jury to do but to bring in
a hanging verdict. 'ssxssrH 5iss~
The Porto Rican Migrants need the
lesson which the fate of Miranda will
teach. Like other criminals they have
taken courage from the rarity of exc
cutions and from the various jail de-
liveries which have occurred. 1t is time
to teach them that American justice
does not always walk with a leaden
heel and that it strikes. as in this in
stance. with an iron hand.
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The Gar has complimented the Jap
anese in the following autograph letter
to General Grippenberg:
1.-The intense energy with which
Japan IS conducting the war and the
stubbornness and high warlike qualities
displayed by the Japanese impel me
to considerably strengthen the forces
at the front, in order to attain decisive
success in the shortest possible time.
Since by this increase the units Will
reach a figure making their continuance
in one army impossible without pref
udice to the proper direction, maneuv-
ering and mobility of the troops.
hence I have found it necessary to
divide the active forces in Manchurfa
into two armies, leaving one in the
hands of General Kuropatkin.
Il appoint you to command the sec
ond. Your many years service in war
like exploits and your experience in
training troops assure me that you.
following the general directions of the
cosnmander-in-chief, will be successful
and lead to the attainment of the OBJ
jects of the war the army intrusted to
you.
God bless you for your great and
glorious services to me and to Russia.
Ever your affectionate,
NICHOLAS"
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When Registered You Can Vote.
Rattiesnake Adventure.

BOONVILLE, Ind, Sept 2O.-Mrs
Lizzie Mccoy, the wife of wealthy
stock raiser, near Mt. Olive, Spencer
County, on entering her kitchen this
morning found a large rattlesnake and
a big rat engaged in combat She
seized shovel and broom and made
for the reptile. A fierce encounter fol-
lowed, during which the snake was
slain. While this was going on the
rat escaped. The snake was five feet
long and had II rattles.
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THE WHITE VOTERS.

THE white voters of Honolulu show
up badly in the registry. If they do
not write their names down before
Saturday at midnight, the election will
show some results of which they will
be the first to complain.
1t cannot be said that there is not a
choice of good names on the various
tickets; and while that is true, lack of
sympathy with any one set of names
WIN not excuse, the incivism which
failure to register implies.
There are some citizens who are
holding of in the fear that the pres
ence of their names on the register will
expose them to jury duty. But up to
the present time the directory and the
telephone book have supplied most of
the jury panels and unless citizen
keeps his name off all three he cannot
feel safe from the summons to serve.
Furthermore a citizen who will avoid
voting to escape another high duty of
citizenship hasn't much to boast of in
the way of civic patriotism.
Good government requires that every
citizen. especially every property-own-
er. shall register and vote. Any gen.
eral failure to qualify means the like
Ihood of bad government.