Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-26
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said BRYAN, "the Democrats are uni
ted in this campaign" Bryan said
there was only one Republican candi-
date for president who could really be
considered as representative of the
reforms the people demanded, anG
that was Senator LaFollette. Bryan
said that a Republican had asked him
if he did not think Roosevelt had
talked too much and acted too little
II answered him." said Bryan, "by
asking what could person do whose
hands were tied behind his back by a
lot of highwaymen and had nothing
left but his voice. Would you not give
him credit for making a noise?"
Washington, May "a: Both the
senate and the house will devote their
best efforts to so shaping their analrs
as to bring an adjournment at the
earliest time possible during the pres
ent week, and as a consequence what
ever is done will be in the nature OF
completing work already begun. Most
of the time, if not all of II, will be
given to consideration of reports OF
conference committees dealing with
points of difference between the two
houses in measures which have been
passed by both. Even these will be
confined largely to appropriations
bills. All the supply measures have
received attention from both houses
but there are still points of difference
in connection with some OF them, and
especial effort will be made to COM
promise them. AS soon as they are
adjusted the session will come to an
end. The general deficiency bill will
be held back until the last moment in
order to use ii as a vehicle for the APP
preparation of money to carry into ef-
feet the provisions of the OMNIBUS
public buildings bill. Final adjourn
ment will probably take place Thurs
day.
Washington, May %: Under sus-
pension of the rules the house today
took up the bill requiring publicity OF
campaign contributions with the
Crumpacker amendment prohibiting
fraud in registration and elections and
providing a date for the reduction OF
representatives among the states. Mr.
Crumpacker explained his amend
ments by saying that they were de-
signed against fraud and intimidations
in elections. Mr.. Hardwick, of Geor-
gia, said: Reduction in the repre-
sentation has no terrors for the south.
The Republicans need not deceive
themselves on that proposition.
Heavy as is the price" he exclaimed,
unfair and unjust as we believe II
would be to exact this pound OF flesh,
vet if the people of America ever DO
require it, they will find that the south
will pay it for the protection OF It's
homes and for the preservation of its
white civilization" The bill was pass
ed by the house by a vote of 100 to
l25, with the Crumpacker amend
ment added. The amendment would
have the effect of reducing congress
sionai representation in the southern
states. 1t is believed the bill will not
pass the senate.
Austin, Texas, May "a: A terrific
wind and rain storm that at times de-
veloped into tornado swept
Texas from the Panhandle to the Gulf
early today. The destruction to crops
and vegetation, trees and Shrubbery
was the greatest reported in years. In
numerous places houses were uplifted
and small villages and hamlets in
many instances were inundated by the
terrific rainfall which in the space of
four hours, reached seven inches in
many sections. Austin was in the
path of the worst Of the storm and
for hours the streets were impossible
for either man or beast, electric light
and telephone connections were dis
abled and many houses were unroof-
ed. The agricultural sections of CEN
trail and southern Texas have been in
measurably damaged according to
general reports received here tonight.
Badly demoraliZed wire service occa-
sions slow and very unsatisfactory re-
ports from many sections that are
known to have suffered from the
storm. All west Guthrie, Oklaho-
ma, is inundated with from seven to
ten feet of water rushing through the
streets The Cottonwood river is
twenty-five miles wide in places and
is still rising. Several bodies have been
seen floating in the river. Not train
has arrived in Guthrie today.
Washington, May 23: The house
TODAY again wreStled with the subject
of mail subsidies to steamship COM
panies and once more recorded itself
against the proposition by the vote of
145 to 154. The debate ran we'll into
the night. Having been overwhelm-
ingly defeated yesterday, the confer
ees on the postoffice appropriation bill
today came into the house with new
report, agreeing with the senate on
everything except the subsidy proVls-
ion and that relating to the system
for weighing the mails. The portion
of the report on which there was no
dispute was adopted unanimously, un-
der an agreement to extend the time
of debate on the subsidy question. The
senate amendment changing the stand
ard of weighing the mails by reduc-
ing the number of days during which
the weighing should be conducted was
showed under-94 to 1856. BY reason
of the action of the house in rejecting
these amendments the bill again went
back to conference for the third time,
although the senate had already
agreed to the report. AS soon as the
action of the house was announced in
the senate Senator Penrose moved to
recede from the remaining senate
amendments and discharge the con-
ferees The motion was carried and
the congressional work on the bill
thus completed. The effect is to leave
the mail subsidy provision out Of the
bill and thus effectually dispose OF 1t
for the present session.
New York, May %: That the
Wright brothers made several long
flights, one of three miles, in their air.
ship at Manteo, \. c., became known
when Wilbur Wright declared that he
and his brother Orville have at last
solved the problem of aerial naviga-
ton. Mr.. Wright said the accident to
their machine was only slight, and
that they left ManteO because they
had accomplished practically all they
set out to do. In their flights at Man
teO the brothers made three long as
tensions. THE first time" said he,
1--WE went up our airship Travelled
eighteen miles. Two days later we
went twenty-four miles at the rate of
about forty miles an hour Orville
Wright, after their experiments. went
TO his home in Dayton, Ohio. and Will
bur came here to confer with Charles
r. Flint, the banker. who is said to be
furnishing the finances for the aerial
experiment. Mr.. Wright has also been
in consultation with J. NJ. Flannery
manager Of the American Nanadium
company, of PittSburg, and has ar
ranged for the use of vanadium steel
in the construction of future airshipS.
Nanadium is a tluX which figures in
the hardening of metals and can be
utilized successfully with either steel
or aluminium. 1t is said for the pro-
cess that it will give tensile strength
equal to that of the best steel now in
use. with % to 80 per cent of the
weight. Mr.. Wright is of the opinion
that he can build a machine much
lighter than the one with which the
experiments were made at ManteO,
and therefore just so much easier to
keep i'm the air. He will begin eXper-
irnentS with the fink as soon as he can