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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20
MORLEY ON THE UNITED STATES
Greatest Struggles of Democracy Are
Relations Between Capital and Ia
Dor and the Negro Question.

London, January 18.-John Morley
devoted a good part Of his first poiit-
zeal speech since his return from the
United States to his experiences in
AnlciIca. Addressing his constituents
at Erechin tonight, after expressing the
belief that there will be dissolution O:
parliament three or four months hence,
Mr.. Morley said he did not despair OF
len ocracy because people had pointed
out faults in the working Of the Amer
lean system. 1t was true, he said, cur
American kinSfolk had a confidence n
things working themselves out which
dangerously approached fatalism, olt
their confidence in their own common
sense was usually justified by the is
ue. One Of the greatest struggles
democracy in America rad to fight out
was the relation between capital and
labor. Another apparently almost 1T
soluble problem was the enormous null
tip1ication and advance northward of
the black population. The r~etribution
tina. followed wrong was finding Ameri-
ca cut in this problem, just as heaven
rculo n day send a bill to Graf
Britain for the folly and wrong of Chi
nese labor in the T~Tansvaal. He De-
lieved the revolt against high duties in
America was growing o strong to be
resisted n whilst Britons are discuss
Ing the advantages OF protection Amer
lea is drifting towards free trade.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20
WHICH is IT?

The charter of the city of Raleigh
may need amendment in many respects.
Such is claimed to be the case by those
of her citizens who are clamoring for
we are not prepared to take issue with
them were we inclined to do so. There
are a good many things roundabout
Raleigh, besides the city charter, which,
in the opinion of the people residing
outside of those august and (w)holy
precincts who have occasion now n
then to perambulate the streets of that
city on business connected with the
state departments, need amendment
But the capital city proposes g new
move in the way of city government.
It is proposed to make it a government
of the minority. The metropolitans are
tired of the rule of the majority. It is
proposed to 50 amend the charter that
one-third of the voters of the city shall
control the selection Of the board Of al
dermen. Our Raleigh correspondent
tells us that it has been agreed by COM
mittees representing the board Of alder
men and the chamber Of commerce that
the city charter shall be so amended
that upon the petition of one-third
of the voters of any ward the al
dermen of that ward may be recalled
by them" In other words, an alderman
votes of his ward must step down n
out at the request of one-third of the
voters of his ward. This is either going
forward with a Rooseveltian vim or
progressing backward, we cannot say
which. We leave the question to the
joint committee above referred to.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20
JENsING VS.. RADIUM.

We had no idea tina gensing was
such a valuable commercial commodity
Until we read the proceedings OF the
state senate on Tuesday. According to
the statements of the advocates of the
pending bill a man who swipes a sack
OF this stuff from his neighbor does him
a greater injury h If he were to steal
his best farm horse. If the returns
from an acre of this stuff viii net rs
planter two hundred and forty thou
sand dollars and at present there are
only thirty five acres in cultivation in
the world. we have solved the cotton
~lcw-price problem. Increase this acre
age a hundred or a thousand fold and
ii will beat cotton at II IL cents a
gent measures against a man attempt
ing to secure enough of this valuable
root to start himself a gensing farm, it
seems that the legislators should en-
courage the enlarged production Of this
valuable commodity, even If it had to
pass a law which winks at securing
seed gensing by moonlight and when
the owner was away from home. Ra-
dunn is about the only article of COM
merce which we know of that is worth
more to the pound than gensing. We
doubt if it Is worth as much, all things
considered, for we do not believe an
acre of mountain side land in western
North Carolina could be made to pro-
duce two hundred and forty thousand
dollars worth of the stuff. If all the
soil was dug UP from h top of Mount
Mitchell to the depths Of the lowest val
ley and put through the process of ra-
dunn production.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20
FOR SMOOT.
Professor James Z. Talnlage Gives
Testimony Before the Senate Conn
mittee. = II,

Washington, January 1S.-Professor
James e. Talmadge, of the Utah State
University. and author of some of the
doctrines accepted as authoritative
of the Mormon church, was
on the stand all of today In the Smoot
investigation before the Senate commit
tee On privileges and elections. lie
gave an interesting cou OF the
church organization, the church courts
proved to be we'll informed on
every subject of church policy.
As to polygamy the witness said
plain English would have to be inter-
|preted far differently than the on
|struction he places on the marriages
to infer even that there is any
thing mandatory about It. He sail
there is not n paragraph In the rave-
|lation that contains an inference that
.Epolygamy should be mandatory except
upon one man-the prophet Joseph-and
i'm all other cases polygamy was per-
Professor Talmadge said he had pa
Fticipated in, or witnessed the endoVs-
Iment house ceremonies between one and
two score times. He denied that The
alleged Oath Of vengeance given py
witnesses for the protestantz,
lis a part of the ceremony. The obliga-
|tions taken, he said, contain nothing Of
the character given by the pr~otestants'
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20
POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT.

Elsewhere in this issue of NE Mes
senger will be found extracts of an
address delivered in Albany, N. Yves
terday at the annual meeting of the New
York state Bar Association, by Charles
A. Gardiner Of the bar of the city Of
New York on The Constitutional Pow
ers of the President"
want of space alone prevents the
publication Of the address in full. 1t
is very lengthy, containing about six
thousand words.
announcements we have ever read.
Many of the speakers declarations
will astonish those who heard it and
those who read it. Some of his asser-
o regarding the constitutional pow
ers of the president will startle men
who consider themselves Vel, iaform-
cd on the powers conferred on the pres
ident and who have made a study Of
this part of the federal constitution.
Greater significance is attached to
this address when it is considered by
whom it was delivered and before
what body.
According to Mr.. Gardiner the pres
ident by the express declarations Of the
constitution is the most absolute among
the rulers of the nations Of the civil
lized world. His power is the same
over states as it is over individuals.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

There was an alteration between DR..
E.. r. Morris and F. A. Todd at S:45
o'clock this afternoon, in the lobby Of
the postoffice, in which guns were
drawn, but which was prevented from
resulting seriously by the Interference
of Observation-Disclosures Gazette-News.
These gentlement should be thankful
that the bystanders were so prompt on
this occasion, for otherwise one or the
other of them would now most proc
ably AVE the mark of Cain on his
forehead, and even if acquitted by a
jury of his countrymen on the plea of
self-defence, would be followed through
all the days of his life with the bloody
spectre Of a murdered friend. This af-
fair should teach these men a whole
some lesson as to the pernicious and
dangerous habit of carrying concealed
weapons.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

when brought into conflict with the
power of the president. The provis-
ions of the constitution. he says. are
self acting n that no act of con-
gress to carry them out are needed.
Congress. furthermore, has no power
Eel the president. He can take the
initiative in carrying out the provisions
Of the constitution which apply TO the
executive and enforce them in respect
to states as well as in the case of their
violation by individuals.
Mr.. Gardiner closes his address by
declaring that the people in the last
election recognized this power OF the
president and that Mr.. Roosevelt's
overwhelming victory was an endorse
ment of this construction of the consti-
tuition by the people on the issue clear
~ drawn between the two parties.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20
QUESTION OF RATE FIXING.
A. {. l.. Representatives Appears BE-
fore Interstate Commerce Conf
mission Regarding Pending Lesis-
lation.

washington. January 1S.-Waiker
D. Hines, representing n Atlantic
Coast Line and the Louisville and
Nashville roads appeared before the
House committee on Interstate COM
merce today. He stated on behalf OF
railroads generally that there was no
effor to deny the propriety of neces-
sity OF effective regulation of the rail-
roads. The public. he said. certainly
expected ii.
HI question TO be considered most
carefully, he continued. was what
would be the actual effect of pending
legislation authorizing he Interstate
commission to fix rates.
when it should declare them to be un-
reasonable. There was. he said. only
one way to construe this authority. II
it gave authority to fix one rate, IL
gave authority TO fix all. Mr.. Hines
said that the most expert traffic man
ager did not make a classification
without ending that something else
was to be done after he q finished
it. He said in view OF h complex
condition bearing on rate making, IL
would be impossible TO e~xaggerate the
situation that would exist after me
commission had been at work on 1t
for four or five years, they would have
changed so many rates. The develop
ment OF he attributed TO
the rapidity and fiexibility with which
railroad men had met new conditions.
Rapidly was the essential thing, he
said. arp remarked that III they had
TO come to Washington every time an
adjustment was to be made. so much
time would be consumed that the con-
dition sought to be met would have
disappeared before action would be
finally taken.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

Mr.. B. Frank Madame, Of this state,
to ave won the presidents heart.
He is the only prominent republican of
this state so far as we have been able
to learn who has called at the White
house since the election who did not
want an office or did not feel it his
bounden duty to instruct the president
as to his duty in making North Carroll
ma appointments. Mr.. Mebane called
at the White house to make arrange
ments for a visit to the president at an
early day of a party Of German CAPT
talists who are interested in the
erection of a half million dollar cotton
factory at Spray, N. c. These men will
soon visit the scene of their proposed
big cotton plant. Mr.. Mebane who is
associated with them wants to take
them to see the president and Of course
the president will be delighted to see
them. We are told hat Mr.. Mebane
had a long talk with the president, at
the latter's solicitation, on southern
politics, but it was in the way of a re-
view Of the situation only.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20
NO SENATOR
Republicans Bolt Niedringhans During
the Joint acknowledgements May
Join With kerens Forces.

Jefferson City. Mo-, January lS.-The
boiling of six Republicans on the nrst
and two more on the second ballot from
the ranks of Thomas X Nied-inghaus,
Republican caucus nominee for United
States Senator to succeed Francis NJ.
Cockrell, resulted in no choice for Sena-
tor in a joint session of the Legislature.
With the exception Of one. vHo cast his
ballot for DR.. Pettijohn, Of -ian county.
all the aucus boilers voted for Rich
ard c. Kerens Of st. Louis who was the
strongest opponent of N-iedringhaus In
the caucus.
Immediately after the second ballot
the joint session adjourned to resume
balloting tomorrow.
A caucus OF Republicans tonight ap-
parently resulted in nothing. All the
116 members of the two houses were
present today making SO votes neces-
sary for a choice. The separate vote OF
yesterday gave Niedringhaus 80; Cock
rsll so: Bittinger /; Kerens 1.
In the first joint ballot today John
iBittinger, the oldest member In point
OF service in the House, and FIVE other
republicans bolted to Kerens, giving
Niedringhaus 81: Cockrell SO; Kerens 6.
On the second ballot two more men bolt
ed Niedringhaus going II DIR. Pettijohn
and n to Kerens, leaving Niedrfng-
haus So votes.
Democratic members of the House
held a caucus tonight and discussed
plans for reorganizing the House and
deposing Speaker Hill. Republican. No
definite conclusions were reached. X
Is current rumor that should the Demo-
Gratis attempt to elect a Democratic
speaker they will join with the Kerens
Republicans in electing a Senator.
Interesting developments are expected
tomorrow. Those who are opposed to
Niedringhaus say that Is votes will be
taken from the Niedringhaus strength.
tomorrow. They say that having voted
for him twice on joint ballot the caucus
pledged members have done their duty
IN are now free to vote for another
candidate and IL necessary to join in A
a for another caucus in a Senatorial
nominee.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

No company OF the state guard has
ever done the state better service, if as
good, in case Of great emergency than
did the Wilmington company both in
1898 and last fall and no section Of the
state was more worthy of representa-
ton on the governors military staff
than Wilmington, if the conduct of the
soldiers n the action and qualifica-
ton Of h officers are to be taken into
consideration, yet Governor Glenn In
making his appointments seemed to for
get that New Hanover formed part of
the state of North Carolina. But we
must remember thai Mr.. Glenn drew
a blank from New Hanover county at
Greensboro last summer-and -sich is
politics"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

In reference to the proposed inland
waterway which the people of Eastern
North Carolina are so anxious to Sc
cure through federal appropriation The
Raleigh Posts Washington c%orrespon-
dent in that paper Of yesterday says:
The inland waterway project is re-
ceiving much attention from Represen-
tative Small, who hopes to secure at
this session Of congress authorization
for a new survey, which is made neces-
sary by reason Of the action Of the
general board of engineers in recon-
mending a route with a minimum depth
of twelve feet. The special board that
made the actual survey and submitted
it's report last summer reported in ia
vor Of a sixteen DOT canal to cost ten
ter completing their desk investigation
of the subject here in Washington, de-
clared that the commerce did not justf-
fy more than a 12-foot canal, and such
was it's recommendation. This action
has made a new survey necessary, and
Mr.. Small hopes to get it through the
influence of members of the senate COM
mittee or Tie house COM
mittee on rivers and yharbors is not
terway, and original Legislation will
have to come through the senate, where
the project has many strong friends in
addition to the senators from North
Carolina and Virginia.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20
FOR MORE PENSION MONEY.
RECOMMENDED THAT 9TH CLASS
PENSIONS BE INCREASED.
This VIII Carry SIS. Geo More OF ap-
preparation Than the Present Law.
German-American Company Cnar
tered, With $780, 900 Capital-api-
tai Clubs Reception and q TO
Governor Glenn.


Raleigh. y. c. January IL
The State grants a charter to the
Company. to manu-
fracture any textile fabrics, OF cotton.
wool or silk. William S~choenheit and
karl yonruck. of Asheville. and B. +.
IMebane. OF spray. being stockholders
manned. the capital stock being s5eo.ooo,
tfour-ffths OF it preferred. with six per
cent. interest guaranteed. The plant IS
ito be somewhere In Rockingham u
fly. This Is the largest corporation
chartered in many months. Another
lcharter is granted the Globe Furniture
of Winston. capital stock
SIS, 900. c. p. Cox and others stockhold-
lers.
The Senate and House committees on
pensions. after a long conference with
lState Auditor Dixon and a full discus
sion OF pension matters. has unanimous
lily decided to recommend that the fourth
lclass pension be increased from $14 to
1920. Auditor Dixon earnestly recon-
lmended this course. There are some
thing over 12,e90 fourth class pensioners,
Including widows, and the bill which
will be introduced will carry o
$50, 900 more of appropriation than the
present law. All the increase this year
will go to the fourth class alone, which
lis the most needy and the most numer-
Ious.
Governor Glenn has appointed l.. II.
!Lumsden. State standard keeper. TO
succeed /. w. Lancaster. The salary is
500 a wear.
The Capital Club has issued 10 per-
sens outside OF Raleigh one thousand
Invitations to the grand ball n re-
Iception which it will tender tomorrow
evening TO Governor Glenn and the 9TH
Ter state officers and the ladies of their
families. No invitations are issued in
IRaleigh. Many officers of the Nationa'
,Guard will be here. The staff officers
Twill wear evening dress, as their uni
form has not yet been received, the reg
~lulation dress having been changed.
Great amusement vas created here
today by the discovery of the effigy oil
10 white man hanging by the neck from
the north side of the wall of the store
iof Alex b. Stronach, one OF Wake Rep
lresentatives in the Legislature. The
sIyI lClllIS wa tSls NoiAN, S~'O
where about daylight. Thousands of
people saw the body, among them Judge
Moore who laughed very heartily. The
%ilynchers are unknown and likewise the
name of the victim.
The state Auditor has sent out war
rants for all the first hundred thousand
dollars of public school appropriation,
Wake leading with s2,s16, M~ecklenburg
next, Buncombe third, Robson fourth.
Later the second hundred thousand
dollars to keep the schools open four
months. will be issued.
Among today's arrivals were George
Hackney, Wilson; r. L. Steele, w. -.
Leak, w. L. Parsons, James l.. Everitt,
William Entwystie n P. c. Whit!ock,
of Rockingham.
The stamp sales here this month are
the largest in the history of the Ra-
leigh postoffice, showing a marked in
crease in general business.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

Glass blocks have been used success
fully for paving in Lyons. France Why
not use them for glass houses and cure
the r~ock-throwing habit?-Lorisville
Herald.
not do for the kind that James I warn
ed his friend Steenie against building
his house out of.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

The house Of representatives will vote
on the Swayne impeachment articles
today. 1t is said quite a change has
xcome over that body of late and it may
s.by today's vote decide to abandon the
Impeachment proceedings.
Wonder If Mrs. Brodie Duke has run
away from her husband or from those
Texas indictments?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

We see hat District Attorney Jerome
proposes to make a chart showing the
location Of the gambling houses in New
York city. What a demand there will
be among the sporting fraternity from
outside points for copies. There will
be a chance here for pretty good graft
by the district attorneys office.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

kinston Free Press: There is quite
Ia remarkable character in town today.
Mr.. J. II. Jenkins is his name. and he
comes from Jones county. Mr.. Jenk-
|ins is 104 years old. having been born
July 1st. 1900. Too old to fight in the
civil war. this old man has lived peace
fully on his farm for the last fifty years
land his prospects seem bright for lfv-
ling fifty years more.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

1t viii bring rich. red blood, firm flesh
and muscle. That's what HOLSTER
Rocky Mountain Tea viii do. TakeE
his month. keeps you well ali summer.
b cents, Tea or Tablets.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20

General Nogi intends to see to it that
nobody presents him with a house when
he gets back to Japan.-Exchange.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-20
The Kidneys

When they are weak, tor
pid, or staSn0nt,, the whole
system suffers. Don't neg
lect them at. this time, but
heed the warning Of the
aching back. the bloated
face, the sallow complexion,
the urinary disorder, and
begin treatment at onceWith
Sarsaparina
which ontainst The best, and
safest, curative substances.
Fer testimonials Of remarkable cures
eend for Book On Kidneys, No. 8.
C. Hood Co, Lowell, Mos.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1905-08-19

hn commission sen down to inyes'i-
gate acute infections diseases in the
i7lnl Of Cuba The work carried ON
ay this commission was executed with
oug blQra of trumpet but vas one Of
the most heroic Efforts ever made IN
The interests of humanity \, 7 Bris-
tow writing in the Worlds Work
SAYS: The story Of the nyes'igation
tells of self-sacrihce and courage that
trausaends the bravery of the soldier
on the battlefield The excitement OF
battle buOys the soldier up 50 that he
forgets danger, and he remembers the
old adage: Every bullet has its bill
let But when a man in cold blood
deliberately allows a mosquito. which
has fed on yellow fever patients for
days, 10 bite him. and this with the
full knowledge that he may become IN
fected with one of the most rapidly
fatal Of all tropical fevers; when men
wrap themselves in the clothing taken
from yellow fever corpses and 50 clad
lie down to sleep on beds covered with
filthy blankets and sheets from yellow
feyer hospitals, with soiled towels from
yellow fever patients on heir pillows
and so spend their nights for three
weeks, We can call it heroism, or cour-
age or sacrifice It is all three.
Tie investigation board which wa
appointed by the surgeon general of
the United States army. consisted Of
MAJ Walter Reed, surgeon in the
United States army and the contract
SURGEONS James Carroll Aristides
Agramonte and Jesse W Lazear Of
the United States army Immediately
on their arrival in Cuba experiments
with the mosquito were begun And
right here mention should be made
that back in 1881 Dr.. Carlos Finlay,
born in Cuba of an English father. had
proposed the theory hat yellow fever
was conveyed by means OF mosquito.
The United States army yellow fever
comm ssion went 10 work to prove this
theory The con mission discovered
tia t takes y days for The mys-
,er.g.e organism OF infection to 'ravel
from the mosquit07 stomach 10 the
-arary glands ana thar curing Geld
weather the time may be heightened
ta S days The mospi o. were all
.v 70 bite at interval OF four s.A
ara 4 days, respectively after having
iaL I yellow fever patients, and the
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1905-08-19
Many Very Pretty BOdices

and tho fTilIs rapcaf tho white Of the
cbemisetto violet pirdIe extends
lust below the waist line. pointed bac.
and front This qown wouId be very
nrettv made either of siIl; nr soft wool
Eyerybody nowadays has one of those
little coats wash affairs lust the thing
for summer wear and early autumn days
The sbops are disposipg of them AT
ridicuIously low prices and they are
being taken nm as fast as mt on the bar
gain counters The fayorife il the bolero
with short sleeves coat and sleeves
edged with ljttIe wheels of aubroidory
or crocbet They IooI, So dainty ana
rriuv are esnecfalIv attractive worn
over the lingerie bIopsa A1.boqgh ora
of tho hest noticed This season vas \
light hIua liner. tbe frocl, as severe and
cIosa-fttfnp as couId he the bolaro wtln
ids little hand made wheels gave q touca
Of elegance TO the simplicity.
Pho eenarato waist 4. la,l. INTO ID