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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
TMLMAN IS IMPROVED.
win Be On Hand Today to Report
 Rate Bill.

Washington, Feb. 25.-Senator Ttll- man who was designated by the Senate committee on interstate and foreign commerce to report the railroad rate bill to the Senate and who was confin- ed to his home yesterday suffering from the effects of his recent severe cold. was considerably improved to- day and was able to go out for walk.
 If the improvement continues the senator will be on hand promptly at the meeting of the Senate at noon to- morrow and at the first opportunity will report the bill and have 1t placed on the calendar. Accompanying the measure will be the mass of testimony taken by the committee during US many sessions of hearings of the rall- road rate question together with the digest collation. of the material gather ed by the experts employed by the committee for that purpose.
 This information Senator Tlllmah said tonight cost the government SS0,- OO0 to obtain and he says he thinks 1t right and proper that 1t should be presented to the Senate with the bill. Senator TilIman said in discussing the subiect this evening that he did not expect tomorrow to make any remarks when presenting the report Of the committee, nor would there be any tor- nal written statement of reasons by fine committee in support of the meas ure. which is the course ordinarily followed by committees Of both Hous- es of Congress when reporting a meas ure of great importance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
SUM or s05,OOO.
Probably Will Be Appropriated for War
 on Cattle Tick.

Washington. Feb. 25.--(special.) )-. The sub committee of the House Com mittee on Agriculture, 1t Is understood. has decided to recommend that $65.O00 be appropriated to prevent the spread of cattle tick, In the various States.
 Representative Bowie, who is a mem- Der of the committee. has been hopeful that not less than $100.000 would be allotted. and efforts will still be made to induce tho full committee to agree to that sum.
 Messrs. Bowie. Wiley. Clayton, Heiiin and other Southern members. when they appeared before the committee, strongly urged that not less than $200.. 900 should be appropriated. They thought the exigency of the situation demanded the expenditure of such q sum, in the interest of the cattle raIs- CTS. Experts of the Department of Ag- riculture practically agreed with them. The latter attended the committee hearings in force and were questioned, carefully. as to the extent of the trouble.
 Senator Morgan will, at the first op- portunity, take steps to have perfected by the Senate Representative Richard- sons power plant bill for Mussel Shoals, which went through the House last Friday. There is apparently no opposition to the measure in the Sem ate Alfred J. Stofer
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
Guards Around the For
 bidden City Doubled.
POLICE ARMED WITH RIFLES
Cause for These Unusual Prepara-
 tions is Not Apparent.
Pekin Is Extremely Quiet, and the For eigners Are Not Apprehensive That They VIII Be Attacked
 By the Popuiace.

Pekin. Feb 25.--The guards around the forbidden city have been doubled since yesterday and all the palaces and residences of high officials are espe- cially guarded The police who have hitherto carried batons are now armed with rifles. All the officials that are accessible either refuse any informa- tion or profess ignorance of the rea- sons for the precautions that have been taken and as result many ru- mors are afloat.
 The chief of police and other off, cials were telephoned yesterday to report to the palace and the display of force immediately followed their con- ference. Possibly the only cause is the alarm of the Empress Dowager over the prevalence of revolutionary rumors recently.
 The Chinese minister at Tokio 0 few days ago telegraphed the government warning 1t against several revolution ary students who are departing from Japan to China. Two packages of dynamite have been found in the street outside the gate leading to the palace. Apparently they were dropped by some one afraid to carry them. One report finding credepce is that there Is a quarrel sfoot within ehe palace be- tween the partisans Of the Empress
 
 selection of an heir to the throne. but 1t is not confirmed.
 All the information obtainable indi- cates that the military measures at the palace were only precautionary and were taken because of the widely cir culated rumors that there would be troubles here Saturday.
 Have Been Uneasy.
 The finding of the packages of dy- namite outside the palace gates, which is somewhat mysterious. probably caused uneaslness as the court has been nervous since the outrage in the Pekin railway station September 24. of last year. when a missiIe was exploded inside a private car on the train car rying one of the four missions order ed abroad to study foreign political methods, killing four persons and wounding twenty others.
 The reports of the. trouble within the palace can not be corroborated. but they probably are founded on gossip for which Pekin is always hot bed or are based on the strengthening of the palace guards.
 The police tonight appeared without their rifles. The city was never quiet CT. There has not been the slightest sign of feeling shown against foreig- ners, nor have the foreigners here any apprehensions. Several parties from the foreign legations are taking advan- tage of the mild weather to make long excursions into the country.
 The canard that Saturday had been designated the day for disturbances ap- pears to have enanated in the United States. Telegrams describing the military preparations of the American government for trouble in China have been widely published Tn the Chinese newspapers and are considered as de- cidedIy tinfrtendly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26

entry into Berlin instead of the Elm press, who Is indisposed.
 The hotels are already filled with members of the miner German royal families. of whom on these occasions the capitol usually sees from fifty to a hundred. They and their gorgeous suites flisd up the boxes at the gala opera performance on Saturday night, occupied the principal places at the banquet in the great white hall of the castle this evening and will form rich setting of costumes and uniforms for the wedding ceremonies, of which there will be three. the signing of the mar riage contract under the statutes of the House Of Hohenzol1ern tomorrow. the administering of the civil law paths on Tuesday ano an hour later the re- ligous rites in the chapel on the castle by Dr. Dryander. the court chaplain.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
NO Chnnme, Says Esobbins.

Pittsburg, Feb. 25.--Francis ' Hob- bins, chairman of the Executive Board of the Pittsburg Coal Company. and one of the operators who was a party to the interstate agreement, was not in the city tonight but earlier In the day he said:
 There has been no change in the site uation between the bltuminous coal ops orators and the United Mine Workers of America regarding the arrangement of a new wage agreement for the year starting April next. There can be no compromise offered to the miners with- out meeting of the operators who are members of the interstate agreement and no such meeting has been held nor has one been called. The dispute be- tween the miners and the operators remains identicalIy as 1t has been since the adjournment of the joint confer ence in Indianapolis.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
Lewis Says Operators
 Will Grant Demands.
INDUSTRY IS MOST PROSPEROUS
Money Can Be Made If More is
 Paid to the Men.
sres.rs. Robbins and Taylor. He Says, Recognize That the Positions They Took at indianapolis Are Un-
 tenabIa.

Indianapolis. Ind, Feb. 25.--In q statement issued tonight to the Asso- ciated Press. Vice President T. L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of Amer lea. declares that there VIII be no strike of the mine workers April 1. saying the operators wtll restore the reduction accepted by the miners again and perhaps more
 The statement Is as follows: You may accept one proposition aa a fixed fact--that there will he no gen. eral strike in the mining industry April i. The operators will restore the reduction accepted by the miners agnin. and perhaps more, F. I. Robbins. of Pennsylvania. and Mir. Taylor. of nu- nois, leaders of the operators, recognise their untenable position at Indianapolis and have gracefully submitted to th4 inevitable and will pay an advance to the miners A general strike win ba averted. Business will not be paralyz- ed by industrial strife. An ora of peace will be established for anrther period of years.
 The anthracite operators must now grant an advance In viaw of tho action of the bituminous operators.
 The details will be worked out Iaten and probably through special nation al convention of mine workers.
 Change ln Dates.
 "For two years 1t has been my de. termined purpose to have all wage agreements of the miners terminate on the aame date so that unity of action might be secured without violating ex- fsftna aaraauuauta Fnruaad AF4rf1 Fan& The first move in this direction was made In Pittsburg, Kansas. In the slfrn- mer Of 1904 when the expiration data of the contract was extended from the end of August to the end of March this year. Practically all our agree- ments expire March s1, next By virtue of this arrangement the mine workers of the country are now in position to compel the operators to deal with i us justly.
 'sThe Iron and steel industry and the | railroads of the country--yery large | consumers of coal--were never mora prosperous than now. From admls- sions made by those engaged In the production of coal and dependent large ] ly upon the above named industries 1 1t must have been apparent that few cents per ton advance to the miners was not to stand in the way of the con- tinued prosperous condition of the Iron, steel and railroad interests. The op~ orators at the recent Indianapolis con- vention showed the strongest evidence of the weakness of their position when they ignored our argument that they could pay an advance to the mine work CTS at the present selling price of coal and still make a large profit.
 ''Vice-President United Mine Workers
 of America"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
NELSON SAVES LIVES.
Pusllist stops Runway and Rescue
 Women and Children.

Pugllist stops Runway and Rescues
 Women and Children.
 Huntington, W. Va. Feb. 25.-Bat- ting Nelson. the champion light weight pugilist, who is spending a few days in the mountains at Blue Sulphur. near here. prior to going into training at Philadelphia, was painfully bruised in stopping q runaway at that place to- day and rescued Mrs. Frank Howard with her two small children from a periious situation.
 Mrs. Howard had taken the children for drive and the horse became fright ened, boited and ran As the runaway neared Nelson the pugiiist leaped for the horse,s neck and succeeded in stop ping 1t only after he had been dragged a considerable distance. The bruises were not serious.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
GIRL IS MALTREATED.
Mile. spIrIdOuOvO Who Shot And Killed
 Lu2henohsky.

St. Petersburg. Feb. 25.-Great wrath has been aroused in Liberal circles by the publication by a letter from Mad emoiselle Spiridonovo. the 17-year-old girl who shot NJ. Luzhenoffsky, chief of the secret police at Tamoofr, in which she describes the lndignities and bru- talittes to which she was subjected. on account of her youth and her self sacrifice in executing the sentence against M Luzhenoffsky. who was de- fested on account of hls cruelty in suppressing the peasant disorders, she
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
nenth Due to Dlaenae.

Tampa, Fla, Feb. 25.--By order of Circuit Judge Wall an autopsy was performed today by County Physician Hamblin and others on the body of Captain Parks. who died suddenly yes terday The physicians declared that death was due to acute Brights' dis-. ease and not to the bullet wound inf hicted by Harry Bomford lase 1aaw.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
CASTRO WILL RUN AMUcK.
VIII Humble France First, and Then
 America and England.

Willemstad, Curaco, Feb. 25.-Advices received here from Venezuela are to the effect that President Castro says he will humble France, break up the Mon rae doctrine, clear out the French from Venezuela, and then start on Americans, Englishmen and Germans, who, he de clares, are worse than Chinese. He Is reported as saying that he will clear the country of foreigners. He is very hitter against Americans, whom. he says, are after his country.
 The populace is yearning for an American protectorate and the better class of Venezuelans are reported as saving that the situation demands inn mediate intervention by the United states for the sake of humanity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
Protemt from Birmanmham.

Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 25.--Actine upon resolution adopted today, tel egram was sent to President Roosevelt tonight by officers of the Birmingham Trades Council. urging him to veto the urgent deficiency bill now before him. embodying a repeal of the eight hour law, so far as 1t applies to ern- ployes of Panama Canal zone. The res. olution sets forth that this bill is ''con. sidered step towards revoking the law as it applies to all Governments em- ployes -
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
". coIe KlIIed hx Train.

Birmingham. Ala, Feb. 25.--J. V. Cole. a well known farmer of Mount Pinson, this county was struck and in- stantly killed while crossing the rail- road tracks at s3rd Street last night by wagon was demolished, his horse Killed ard Coles body was torn to pieces and strewn for some distance along the track
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
1b0O ChIcIsenr are EklIIed.

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 25.-FItteen hun- dred chickens were killed by the con- cussion, and about five hundred escaped when two trains side swiped" on the Southern Railway near this city this afternoon. The chickens were in a car which contained altogether $500 bound for New York from Dallas, TexaE
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26

wEATHER FORECAsT. washtnrton Feb. z5.--Forecast for AInbama---Fnfr Monday, rain at night or Tuesday, colder Tuesday, Variable y-inds.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-16

called the prosperity due to the wei,
directed industry Of the men Who
work.
The Republican party in North car-
DINA in 1904. in its platform dorted
by the convention denounced rho
Watts Bill, but when they came r.
publish tina platform they omitted
that denunciation and declared thew
We're standing for temperance in anti
saloon and anri-sti!I counties ana
standing for stills and saloons in tba
counties where they thought they
could make votes by it. being IAN
things to all men" in a sense dia-
metr1caIly opposed to the scriptural
idea advanced bv ST. Paul because
ms admonition to be call things to
all men was d high aIt~uism that
caused men to forget themselves that
they might help others. The Repub-
lican application Of that Injunction
in North Carolina is to be all things
to all men that they may betray all
men who trust them.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-16
COIoRED CLERGY ASK SEP AI:i-
TON.

Tho colored I1piscopalians Of South
Carolina have petitioned hat they be
set apart in q separate diocese to
themselves and state they believe it
viii be best for the race The News
and Courier very seriously approves
the declaration, and sag it viii pro
mote the peace and prosperity OF
Zion though it does not know how
this resolution of the colored clergy
Will impress their Northern advisers"
All the churches in the South. eX-
cept the Episcopal church. maintain
seDaIate church conventions or con-
f~erenceS or SynOdS. There are Separ-
ate cOlored Episcopal churches in the
larger towns, but no separate negro
conventions, and cOlOred clergy sit in
the same convention with white Epis-
COpal preachers. The South Carolina
clergy are tired of this church equal
ity' and wish to set up in business for
themselves. presumably to lave a
bishop of their own, and be free from
white supervision. They are right,
too, for the best interest of both races
III the South is promoted by seDara-
ton of the races l.. school, church,
cars and all public places. leaving to
each race freedom and Independence.
The negro clergy now occupy an IN
ferior seat in the church conventions,
and there is wanting opportunity for
initiative and development. They be-
lieve they could do more with the in
centive of rae leadership and the OPP
portunity to hold responsible positions
in the church, n they ought to have
a chance to work out their saliva
ton and elevation.
AS a matter of truth the fact that
the Episcopal convention in this State
has had negro delegates has more
than once been embarrassing n once
! treated considerable public discussion
when the late Bishop Lyman invited
all the delegates to the Convention to
q garden party or something of the
sort at his home. He did not say this
invitation applies only TO the white
delegates and the negroes accepted.
| With tact, they were served at sep
| aIate tables behind screens on the
lawn, apart from The white delegates,
but it occasioned newspaper comment
and criticism.
Let the South Carolina Episcopal
colored people have their separate or
| ganiZation, and let it follow in the ma
tural order in all other Southern
States.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-16
MIR. GRANT ALSO "PERN1ClOtS.

With respect to "pernicious actlV-
.ity" among Federal ~pie-eaters:
Postmaster w. j. Flowers, of Mount
Olive, is platform manager Of the he
publican campaign in Wayne county
opened the campaign, introduced all
the Radical speakers and generallS
acted like the boss that he is in that
section. On October Sth, at Mount
Olive nostmaster l. \. Grant, of
Goldsboro, a son of Hiram Grant, OF
the ~Freedman's Bureau, made d
soeech which vas actively
for by Postmaster Flowers ana Id
left his business to organize a he
publican League at Mt. Olive in Whlcll
the postmaster, Flowers, Is an acllNe
member and officer. u.
The abuse extends from the hlsIeSt
to the lowest Of Federal patronage
seekers, n mOngerS.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-16
WANTED TO ADMIT NEGROES TO
THE UNIVERSITY.

The chairman of the Republican
State Executive Committee, backed up
by the Subsidized News has chosen
to make The records of the two par
ties on public education the chief
issue in the presnt campaign. The
educational policy of the Democratic
party is it's strongest claim for popu-
lar confidence, and we welcome the
fullest discussion and closest investiga-
ton of every act of the administra-
ton. We have shown that the Dem
ocrats spent more money in building
school houses, paying teachers and
other for the education OF
the children and we only regret that
thew didn't have more money to spend
in hat direction. We have shown
that the schools have been managed
honestly, economically, and solely in
the interest of the children. That is
the Democratic record.
We have shown that when the Re
publicans were in poWr they SOLD
500, 600 stock in the Wilmington
and Weldon railroad. worth then pan
and worth now at least $4,000, 600, for
$14S,000 which they invested in t
fraudulent special tax bonds which
they knoW to be worthless; that they
squandered the Land Scrip money de-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-16
TWEEDLEDUN AND TNElIDLF
DEE

Secretary Shaw is quoted as having
said in d recent speech:
1.-The protective tariff is not the
mother of trusts, though 1t IS the pa
ent of conditions that make It prom
able for capital to combine.
Instead of denial Secretary SHAW
makes confession and avoidance Inc
protective tariff makes a condllloi
that has enabled the recipients or It's
bounty to levy tribute upon the Afnerl-
can people. Deprive them of the tar
iff bounty and many trusts would top
pie and fall. If trusts get no more
succor from protective tarlff theS VIII
starVe for want of nourishment just as
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-16
MUST GO.

Nepotism is one of those very nat
ulal crimes which should be the more
heartily suppressed because it is so
universal in appeal. Public office, as
a transient thing, holds forth ever the
Suggestion that it's emoluments Should
be enjoyed to the full. What more rea-
lsOnable, therefore,, for the statesman
who has arrived to take thought of
lcousin Bill who has never been able
to make good-and who yet took the
prize at writing school, What more
philanthropic emotion than to sup
port the wife which Brother Tom was
was never able to supper himself, by
| putting the head of the family on
some lucrative and obscure high stool.
AS the hope of a coterie of poor rela-
tives, the public official feels a deep
responsibility for their welfare which
he can with difficulty, IL at all, con
troll. The thing itself is easily done
and the work, which is government
work, is done somehow, and there
does not appear to be any reason why
one should not be kind.
For the reason that the appeal IS
strong and that it comes in such rea-
sonable gulse is the best reason why
nepotism should no longer be left to
the individual conscience but should
be made the care of public demand
Through legislative enactment. In
Texas, the first step in this direction
was taken by the insertion of a plank
in the platform demanding the pass
age of laws which would cause nepot-
ism in that State to cease. One of the
Examples cited seemed to be that Gov
ernor Lanham had appointed his son
as his private secretary, the sons
ability and fitness for the position be-
ing conceded. That is carrying the
matter somewhat to an extreme, Dut
the platform shows forth a growing
sentiment against what has been q
long standing abuse. While it may be
that such positions as private secre-
tary, which are peculiarly PERSONAL in
Their character hOuld be left to the
unrestricted choice of public officers,
the inhibition of nepotism by all
other ofnceholderS will no doubt meet
with a hearty response from the pub
lie.
Thomas jefferson best stated the
principle when he angered his Wife's
lrelatives by telling them that he was
elected to serve the people and not TO
furnish office for his connections, and
THAT if they desired to hold office, they
shOuld be elected thereto by the peo-
pie. If office cannot be obtained eX-
lcept through the influence of a rela-
Tive, that is the best evidence of the
unntness Of the applicant.
The Texas plank, made sufficiently
stringent to prevent the swapping OF
Relatives by different officers, should
meet with general expression at the
hands of Legislatures all over the
Icountry. Only by making appoint
ments depend strictly on merit and
continuance in office on intelligent
performance of duty car the pubic
service be placed on the same basis
of efficiency that il deSerVeS-tn
standard which is required in the
offices of a great private or corporate
business.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-16


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