Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-26
Scraps aud fafts.

ture on last Wednesday began the
hearing Of bills to prevent the dealings
in future on agricultural products
such as corn, wheat, cotton, etc. Rep
resentatives of the National Farmers
Union. including President Barrett OF
Georgia and State President Neiu OF
Texas. were before the committee.
Representatives Henry and Smith OF
Texas made brief statements explain
ing the position Of the bills they have
introduced on this subject The Hen
nv bill will be the basis Of measure
which will be reported by the COM
mittee. 1t provides severe penalty
for any telegraph company teie-
phone company or common carrier 10
transmit any information that has TOT
its purpose speculation In farm prou-
ucts. Representatives Of Farmers
Union in eighteen states were In at
tendance.
Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, for
merly of Toledo, o., at a oanquet Oh
tho Sons of the Revolution here last
night, delivered a scathing denuncla-
t,on of the "unwritten law" and openly
named Dolphin M. Delmas, Harry X.
Thaw's famous counsel, who last night
delivered the Washington birthday ora
tion to the Kansas City Bar associa-
tion. as the 100000 counsel for de-
generate aristocracy, who uttered IN
suits to God and humanity" DR.. Bra
DIV said. There Is no unwritten law
in this country. 1t was only because
NJ the unwritten law of taxation with
out representation, that the great war
of the Revolution was fought This
500, 900 counsel for degenerate aristo-
cracy comes here to our city and Ut
ters these insults to God and humanity
in our midst. VIII We stand for II!
The Jury down in New York turned
II down, as it should be turned down.
He (Delmas) says he is the exponent
of and the originator of the phrase de-
mentia Americana I hesitate to as
sociate the word Americana with his
name, rather should it be 'Delmasia de-
mentia."
Fort Monroe Va, February %: The
American battle fleet" as the sixteen
vessels which circumnavigated the
globe are officially designated by Pres
ident Roosevelt, were storm-swept in
the roadstead here today, but riding
safely at anchor the heavy ironclads
did not feel the effects OF the plow.
Admiral Sperry will personally inspect
the entire fleet and make detailed re-
port to the navy department, covering
the cruise since he succeeded Rear
Admiral Thomas, at San francisco.
Each vessel after inspection Will De
detached and sent to a navy yard for
repairs. The most serious work IS the
scraping and painting Of the hulls IN
dry docks. The ships came In yester-
day with little or no coal left In their
bunkers. Foul sea growth accumuiat-
ed upon the steel bottoms. That the
ships so long after docking could main
tain their prescribed cruising speed Oh
ten knots speaks volumes for the con-
dition of the machinery. Several OF
the ships are to be modernized as TO
turret mechanism and other details
needed to bring them up to the stand
ard of present day fighting units.
-Oficial amende for the sensational
elimination of Jefferson Davis name
from the stone tablet on Cabin john
Bridge, six miles west Of Washington,
during President Lincoln's administra-
ton, is given in directions the presi-
dent issued last Monday, through the
secretary Of war to the chief OF en-
gineers Of the army to restore the
name. The tablet is on the bridge
that arches Cabin John run on the
MARYLAND side Of the Potomac river,
structure famous for years as the long
est single-span stone bridge In the
world. The bridge carries the conduit
which brings Washington's water sup
ply from the upper Potomac. 1t was
begun under Davis as secretary or war
and when he Joined the Confederacy
and became its president, his name un-
der government orders was chiseled
from the tablet. Repeated efforts to
restore it have been made. At the
1907 convention Of the Daughters OF
the Confederacy at Richmond a reso-
luton was adopted asking for the Da-
Wis restoration and Representative
Myer Of Louisiana, sought unsuccess-
fully to have this carried out. The
erasure Of the name was by direction
of Caleb Smith, Lincoln's secretary Of
the interior, after suggestion by Gal
usha Grow Of Pennsylvania, then
speaker Of the house.
There was a lively debate in the
Federal house of representatives few
days ago on the conference report on
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill. When the discus
sion turned on the increase in salaries
of the president, vice president, speaker
Of the house and judges, about which
the conferences could not agree, Rep
resentative Clark of Missouri, declared
there is much misinformation about the
amount the president received and said
instead Of it's being $4,000 it actually
Is $291,O0O per annum. By vote of 81
to 1O2 the house refused to accept the
senate amendment increasing the sala-
ry Of the speaker. The increase pro-
posed in the presidents salary from
fifty to a hundred thousand year, was
rejected, 141 to 16S. Before the an
nouncement was made Speaker Cannon
directed that his name be recorded in
the affirmative. An unusual scene fol-
lowed. Members were on their feet in
a general scramble for recognition for
motions of one sort or another. The
speaker, unruffied by his besiegers,
held that the motion by Representative
Watson Of Indiana, to recede from
amendment, and amend it so as to
make the salary seventy five thousand,
preferential The amendment carried
1853 to 149. The effect will be to leave