Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-11
Straps and facts.


i'm England only for Il brief holiday.
Cables from America heralding Pat
tens visit limited of the possibility of
his having designs on the Liverpool
market and as q result the local deal
erS are watching the Americans move
mcnts closely. Mr.. Patten intends to
return To the United states by the
Nauretania next Saturday. There is
firm belief in cotton circles here that
he is arranging To engineer a deal in
May cotton. At luncheon with prom
inent brokers today he is credited with
saving that. the fun on the market
has not yet commenced"
Kansas City. March s: Fearing
that complications may develop, Jere
+. Lillis. president of the Western En-
change bank. who was severely cut by
John =. Cudahy. packer, last Sunday
morning in the Cudahy home, was not
taken from the hospital To his home
today. as had been planned. Lillis may
remain in st. Mary's hospital for sew
rral DAYS DR.. Samuel AyreS VINO is
attending the injured banker. fears
that blood poisoning may develop. The
knife which Cudahy used is said TO
have been old and rusty. LilliS is still
unable to talk as his lips were badly
battered. 1t is said that he has not
spoken since his arrival at the hospi-
tai. As the knife did not touch any
vital Part. Lillis will probably be up
and out in a few days if blood poison
ing does not set in. Mr.. Cudahy re-
mains at the Coates house. He refuses
to talk. Jonn Moss, Cudahy's chauffeur,
who assisted in the roping and cary
ing, has not been found.
- Washington, March S: \ resolution,
introduced today in the house by Rep
resentative Sisson of Mississippi de-
clares that the 14th and 18th amend
ments to the constitution are null and
void. and directs the attorney general
to submit the question to the supreme
court of the United States. Mr. Sis
sons resolution recites that the jour
nails of the senate and mouse of the
Thirty-ninth. Fortieth and Forty-hrst
congresses show that the two amend
ments relating to the enfranchisement
. of the negro were not adopted in the
two houses by a two-thirds vote, and
further, that three -fourths Of the sew
eral states did not ratify them, as re-
uuired by the constitution. The attor-
ney is ordered and directed to sub
nit the question of their validity TO
the supreme court and to file at the
same time with the court copies of the
journals Of both houses of congress and
of the legislatures of the states which
acted upon the matter
Announcing that he had come
south to refute the charges made by
Thomas F. Watson that Elsie Siegel
WAS a missionary and that there are
cases similar to that of this girl
among the American women mission
aries in China. William T. Ellis, Phil
adelphia newspaper man. in an address
before the Atlanta Bible conference,
last Tuesday night. roundly denounced
the Georgia politician and editor Mr..
Ellis submitted affidavits and letters
from the state department and else
where, in disproof of the statement that
Elsie Siegel was at any time employed
as missionary by any Christian
church. That is the point that brings
me south-WatsOn'S monstrouS charge
H., 4
led astray by the Chinese than there
are Chinese converts. l owe it to the
Georgia women that | met in the ORR
ent to come down here and nail tnat
slander." Thomas f. Watson recently
refused to meet Mr.. Ellis in joint de-
bate on the subject Of foreign missions.
Mr.. Ellis declared that he would not
now meet Mr. Watson in joint debate.
Over $l,O0O.0OO was added by the
house, Tuesday. to the appropriation
recommended by the committee on
poStOffices and pOStrOadS for the rural
free delivery service for the year end
ing June go 1911. This appropriation, it
was stated. would be sufficient to per-
nit the establishment of 5000 new ru-
raj free delivery routes, as it would
make available for such extensions
about $l.5OO.OOO. During the current
fiscal year $66O,OOO was available for
extension of this service. Democrats
from southern states took prominent
rart in the advocacy of the increased
allowance for rural free delivery.
Chairman Weeks accepted for his
committee an amendment offered by
representative Finley Of South Caro-
lima. adding half million to the
amount for rural free delivery recon-
mended in the bill. but demands for a
further increase for that purpose came
from both sides Of the mouse, with the
result that the higher amount was
placed in the bill i'm accordance with
an amendment offered by Mr.. Small of
North Carolina.
After adopting three amendments
of impor,,, ice and listening to another
verbal castigatiOn of the forestry by
Senator Hepburn, the senate on Tues
day passed the agricultural appropria-
ton bill. As passed, tine bill carries
total appropriation of $l3.522,636. an
increase of $l92.360 over the amount
carried by the bill as ii passed the
house. BY the amendments adopted
today. the secretary of agriculture Is
authorized to build fences along inter-
national boundary lines to keep out