Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-02-12
Straps aud faets.

shall not yield to President Roosevelt
on this question until we are shown
very forcible evidence that IL will be
for the good Of the country at large;
that Is, that the country at large de-
mands 1t. We will stand on our states
rights to the last ditch. We have
statute on our books excluding the
Chinese and the Japanese from the
public schools. and we believe that IT
is a just and a necessary law ana we
propose to enforce 1t. The law was
not strictly enforced before the hre'
but we must enforce 1t now owing TO
the crowded condition Of the schools.
A great wolf hunt, organized by
l. o. Armstrong. colonization agent OK
the Canadian Pacific railroad, COM
menced at Sault Sainte Marie, Mich.'
last Saturday. Thousands OF Sports
men from American and Canadian
cities are taking part. The drive
commenced at Desbarats, twenty-eight
miles east Of here and Is in charge OF
eight old wolf hunters, while a force
Of guides accompany the expedition.
AS there has been heavy fall of snow
1t will be quite possible to secure
large quantity of wolves. There Is
bounty on each wolf and it has been
decided to divide the total amount ac-
cruing amongst the sportsmen equally.
The hardest work in connection with
the drive will be done by the guides
The sleeping each night will be done
in tents, each of which will be heat
ed by a camp stove. The expedition
will be about fourteen days in the
wilds.
The Congressional Limited train,
on the Pennsylvania railroad, which
leaves Washington for New York at
o'clock, ran through Philadelphia
Wednesday at terrific speed. with the
engineer, Josh Toms, dead at the
throttle. The train, which was made
up of seven buffet dining and parlor
cars, makes two stops in this city, one
at West Philadelphia and the other at
North Philadelphia. Shortly after the
train left West Philadelphia the fire.
man, Harry Michner, noticed the speed
of the train was unusual. The train
swayed as II rounded the curves, but
the engineer gave no signals. Mich
ner called to Toms, but received no
answer, and when the train rushed
through Fairmont park and neared
North Philadelphia, the fireman climb
ed over the big boiler into the engi-
neer's cab, to find Toms dead. with his
hand on the throttle. His head was
hanging out of the cab window, and
had been crushed by striking some OBJ
ject along the road. Michner support
ed the dead engineer on his arm and
brought the train to a stop at North
Philadelphia, where a new engineer
was secured and the train proceeded to
New York.
Twice in the history Of congress an
increase of salary bill for. its members
has been repealed the year after 1t
took effect. In both cases the act was
classed by the public as a salary
grab" In 1915, when the pay was IS
per day, with mileage amounting to IS
for every twenty miles travelled, the
pay was increased to $500. 1t was
repealed in 1917 and the per diem in
creased to sS. which held until 1856,
the year of high war prices, when the
pay was made $4,000 year. In 1873
a salary grab bill, which was re-
troactive and increased the congress
mems pay to $500 passed and Gre
ated so much comment that many
members returned their increase, and
the next year the act was repealed. A
salary Of $1,000 does not look alike to
all legislators. so great is the variation
in the standard of living in different
sections. To some members II Is
soft snap" as one representative ex-
pressed II in the recent debates. To
others 1t does not stand for the single
item of house rent. 1t has been noted
though, that those members to whom
$4,000 is a good deal Of money" are
the ones who have tried hardest to
earn 1t by close attendance at ses-
sions.
Says a Washington special to the
Charleston Post: AS stated in dis
patch to the Evening Post there is
danger lurking in the wake of the res
olution introduced in the house by
Representative Gardner, of Massachu-
setts, requiring the bureau Of immi-
grafton to forward to congress all the
information in its possession relative
10 the landing Of immigrants at
Charleston. Mr.. Gardner Is from a
district In which there is a large per-
centage of alien population, and while
1t would seem that they would well
come more aliens, a sentiment has
been stirred up among them recently,
which has grown to such an extent
that petitions are coming to members
Of congress from that section by al
most every mail, protesting against
the immigration movement and pray
ing congress 10 enact a restrictive law,
one that will materially reduce immi-
grafton in the south. While the la
Dor element of the New England coun-
try Is back Of the movement to restrict
immigration. members Of congress from
those districts are equally as inter-
ested and there are not few from
that section who would gladly see the
efforts now being made to attract i'm
migration southwark, fail. Commits
siOner Sargent will prepare the infor-
nation for Mr. Gardner as soon as the
resolution has gone through the usual
congressional red tape and will eX-
plain in detail just who Commissioner
Watson of South Carolina, brought
over on the Wittekind, where they
came from. and what they have done
since their arrival
Washington dispatch February 5:
Fashionable Washington is agog over
the purchase of home in one of the
most exclusive sections of the city by
AlOnzo Ware a negro. Ware started