Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-11-22
Straps aud 5aets.

Hitchcock not to permit any Federal
officeholder Of the southern states to
60 to the Republican national conven-
ton next summer under instructions
or otherwise favoring the nomination
of himself for president a third time.
This fact, which came to light today,
is by far the most interesting piece of
Republican political news to be deVel-
oped in the last several months. 1t
will be likely to take away the breath
of the anti-administration element,
which has been exploiting the alleged
. efforts Of the presidents representa-
tives to corral the southern Republican
organization for denomination; and,
when its breath is recovered, 1t will be
put to harder guessing than ever as
to the political game the executive is
playing. The executive injunction may
affect materially the Tennessee Re-
publican state convention which Is to
be held early in January and which
has been advertised to fire the first big
third term gun in the form Of unan-
imous Roosevelt movement and an in
structed delegation.
Three important proposals have
been made of methods for providing
elastic currency. There is, first, the
plan suggested by the New York
Chamber Of Commerce, which would
permit banks to issue additional notes
based on approved commercial paper;
second the plan Of the American Bank
ers's association, which would permit
banks to issue additional notes under
certain conditions based on the bonds
which they have already deposited with
the government for their present cir
culation; and, third, the plan proposed
by Mr.. Treat. the treasurer Of the
United States, which would permit
banks to issue additional notes based
on approved investment securities such
securities, for example, as savings
banks are now permitted to purchase.
Each Of these plans. in order to furnish
a genuine elastic currency Of universal
circulation, must absolutely insure in
its provisions two things-a guarantee
by the United States government,
which all national bank notes now
practically possess, and method or
easy, automatic, and quick redemption
which shall bring the notes back for
cancellation to the banks Of Issue
when they are no longer needed.
Carson, New, November 10: Driv-
en- to bay by a lone officer. two Of the
three convicts who escaped from the
state penitentiary yesterday were to-
day captured, while the third, after
seeing his partners captured, commit
ted suicide. The escape yesterday was
most daring. When wagon drove in
to the prison yard with supplies, Dick
Forest, under ten years sentence for
murder; Charles Watson, serving elev-
en- years for robbing, and John Ed
wards, serving thirty years for a des-
perate holdup.. leaped into the vehicle
and drove away. In some unknown
manner the convicts managed to Sc
cure a rifle, and, armed with this
weapon, took to the woods. Deputy
Sheriff Knoblock, armed only with a
revolver, started after the trio. AS he
was riding along a road a short dis
tance out Of the city bullet came
whistling past his head. A moment
later two men ran from the under
trush and were quickly covered by
Knoblock. They were unarmed, and
after submitting to arrest proved to be
Watson and Forest. The hunt for Ed
wards was continued by a posse. A
short distance away from the scene of
the capture Of Forest and Watson the
body Of Edwards was found. He had
fired a rifle bullet through his brain,
presumably after he had witnessed the
capture Of his confederates.
Montgomery, Ala, November IS:
Unprecedented scenes were enacted In
the senate chamber Of the historic
Capitol of Alabama today when the
. statutory prohibition bill was passed.
The vote was thirty-two to two,
Spragins and Hamer being the
only members to vote against 1t. The
law becomes operative January l, 1909,
an amendment to this effect having
been adopted, with but one dissenting
vote, before the roll on the passage OF
the bill was called. When two carloads
of Mobile women came to the city to-
day to- lobby against the bill they
found the delegations from Montgom-
cry, Selma and Birmingham who favor
ed the prohibition measure had filled
the senate galleries until not seat was
left. Women and children thronged the
corridors and gallery, and even usurped
the floor itself, pushing the senator's
from their seats, and giving vent to
their enthusiasm by shouts and. cheers
that echoed and re-echoed through the
building. Senators who opposed the
bill were Missed down when they. arose
to speak against the measure, and
Lieutenant Governor Gray, the presid-
ing officer Of the senate, was forced to
reprove the spectators. The bill was
in the nature of a compromise between
the antis and the Prohibitionists. The
antis, seeing they were in the minor
ity, agreed to give up the fight provid-
ed the time was extended to January
/, 1909, when the sale Of whisky will
be forbidden in the state Of Alabama.
This amendment will be sent to- the
house and will be concurred in without
a fight Governor Conner will approve
the bill and II is understood that a
movement already has been started by
the w. c. T. U. to make the signing
of the bill very formal occasion.
New York, November 2S: The
governments issue of $1O0,000,000 in
treasury certificates of Indebtedness
continued today to engross the atten-
tion Of the New York bankers, who
apparently have not reached a definite
conclusion as to the course they shall
pursue. The subscriptions so far re-
ceived at the local sub-treasury seem
to indicate that the larger banks in this
city are temporarily Withholding their
offers of purchase. The sub-treasury
officials are not disposed to make pub
lie the amount of subscriptions receiv-
ed during the past three days, saying
they are merely acting as transmitting
agents for the treasury department at
Washington, to which point the offers
are being forwarded as fast as they
come in. The fact that the banks are
holding off for the time being has led
TO the more or less definite rumor that
heads of the larger banking institu-
tions are desirous of obtaining some