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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12

Belated Cnr1SIMas g11Is Were NC
stroyed in a $50O,COO FIRE in the
Adams Express Company warehouses
in New York.
A justice of the New York Su.
preme Court, in an opinion, declared
that no public improvement vas now
carried out without graft.
At Bladen, Neb., after eating 1G
bananas, John Clauen, 10 years Of
age, became i'll, and lied at his home
here. 1t is said thst the fruit had
been frozen.
Mrs. Russell Sage has offered to
buy a park for $65GOOO and give it
to Yale for a campus.
The woman suffrasists of Okla
bona are waging an unceasing cam
paign to secure constitutional
amendment giving item the right to
vote.
The plant of the Kennesaw Marble
Company, located at Marietta, Ca,
has been destroyed BY fire. The loss
is estimated at $1,000, partly COW
cred by insurance.
At Johnson City, Tenn. ire destroy.
cd the Armbrush-Smith building en-.
failing a loss Of probably $4,000:
partially covered by Insurance. Thu
Elks' home and malyi Offices were
located in the building.
Chicago's municipal expenditure
for 1910 will be the largest in the
history of the city For schools
libraries, water bureau and corporate
purposes it will be in the neighbor.
hood Of $55,OOO100, which is $3,000,.
600 in excess d the largest appro.
priation heretofore made.
Atlanta's second year Of prohibi.
tioh which cleed at midnight Fri.
day, Dee. 81, shows on the dockets
at police headquarters $500 case.
for drunkennss against 1850 FOL
last year, an increase of $50 cases.
After cutting the throat of Johr
M. Jennings,a bookkeeper, in a room
in which they had been living. 70,
some time past, Lizzie c. Crenshaw
aged % years, hanged herself in (,
cell at the police station at Nash
Vile, Tenn.
Agnes Boob, the farmous actor o:
two decades, is dead.
An estate of the estimated value
oP AZ 0O0.OO is disposed of by the
terms of tb will Of Stoughton j.
Fletcher, tie indianapolis banker
who died 8 Gallatin, Tenn, Decem-
Der IS.
The Philadelphia Pa.) Rapid
Transit company have decided to
give $5OO,free insurance to each OF
its employs and to give a pension
of $40 a month to each employee &c
wears old md % years in its service.
A cable from Prilippopolis, Bull
garia, sas Eastern Rumelia has
been SWEET by the most disastrous
flood in fifty years, and the whole,
plain resembles a vast lake. ManH'
persons re reported drowned.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
Mills Bought Cotton.

Washington, Special. = American
cotton stocks at the end of Novem-
Der aggregated 1,505,96S bales, COM
pared with 1,795,690 and 1,214,791
bales reported OH the same dates in
1908 and 1907, says the report Of the
bureau of statistics for November.
Sight receipts of cotton during No
vember totalled 1,141,139 bales with
2,595,097 bales during November,
1908, and 1,930,193 during Novem-
Der, 1907. The port receipts, l.
323,224 bales, show a similar decl.n
from 1908 and 1907, figures of l.
sSS,922 and 1,529,526 bales. The
takings Of American spinners for
the three months of the present sea-
son, says the report, were l,5l7,194
bales, only 171,00O less than for the
corresponding period Of the preced-
ing year. The decline in total TAX
ings is attributed exclusively to the
curtailed demand Of the Northern
mills, the seasons takings of. the
Southern mills 696,973 bales, exceed
ing the corresponding figures for the
past season.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
RESUME WORE
Congress Meets After Holiday Ee-
cess-Increased Cost of Living.

Washington, D. c.. Spccial.-Con-
gress, after taking holiday recess, re.
convened Tuesday, but after brief
sessions of both houses adjourned
until Wednesday to the memory of
the late Senator McLanrin, Of Mis-
sissippi. Representative Mann intro
duced a bill making sweeping changes
in the interstate commerce law: ltep-
resentative Humphrey also introduce
ed q ship subsidy bill, which has the
approval of the President.
The increased cost of living was
the subject of a concurrent resolution,
offered in the House by Representa-
tive Hull of (Tenn.) 1t provides for
a joint committee Of seven members Of
the House and five members of the
Senate to investigate conditions and
report upon them and as to what
remedies may be affected through. leg
islation.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12

,ult, if not impossible, lor vu, ~~r.
ooration to comply with their re-
,uirements so as to carry on business
IN a number of different States
TRYING TO DISSOLVE COMBI-
NATIONS.
Let US consider these objections in
heir order. The government is now
rying to dissolve some of these com
,inations, and it is not the intention
If the government to desist in the
least degree in its efforts to end those
combinations which are today mo-
aopolizing the commerce of this
country; that where it appears that
The acquisition and concentration OF
property go the extent of Great
,.ng a monopoly or of substantially
and directly restraining Interstate
commerce, it is not the intention OF
The government to permit this mono
soly to exist under Federal iucor.
ooration or to transfer to the pro-
;ecting wing of the Feedral govern
nent a State corporation now violat-
ng the Sherman act. But it is not,
and should not be, the policy Of the
government to prevent reasonable
concentration of capital which is
necessary to the economic develop
nent Of manufacture, trade, and
commerce. This country has shown
q power Of economical production
that has astonished the world, and
las enabled US to compete with for
Sign manufacturers in many mar
tets. .
The worst offenders will not ac-
,ept Federal incorporation, is easily
answered. The DEGREES of injunction
recently adopted in prosecutions un-
ler the antitrust law are so thorough
and sweeping that the corporations
affected by them have but three
courses before them:
First, they must resolve them
selves into their component parts in
The different States, with a conse-
7uent loss TO themselves of capital
and effective organization and to the
country Of concentrated energy. and
enterprise; or
Second, in defiance Of law and un-
Ter some secret trust they must at
tempt to continue their business in
violation OF the Federal statute, and
thus incur the penalties of contemp.
and bring on an inevitable criminal
prosecution Of the individuals nam
ed in the decree and their associates
Or,
Third, they must reorganize and
accept in good faith the Federal
charter I suggest.
WILLIAM Fl. TAFT.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12

Washington, Speculative have
already discovered that the farmer is
not getting exorbitant profits out of
the beef he raises" said Secretary
Wilson, of the department Of agricul-
ture, in discussing the price of food
supplies.
he continued, "that the same con-
ditions will be found to prevail in
most Of the other lines Of farm pro-
duets.
"The department Of %gariculture
has agents in every state and every
county in the country and they have
been ordered to report exhaustively
on the cost of production and the re-
turns on sales of all sorts of food
products.
"We intend to bring out the truth,
irrespective of whom it hurts or
whom it benefits, I am convinced
that the public is compelled to pay
a great deal more for nearly every
thing it eats than it should, and 1
believe the figures will bear me out.
"There is ample excuse for some
of the increase in the cost Of living
over what it was years ago. The
farm area is not keeping pace with
the demands for food-stuff. The cit
les seem to have mere attractions
for the laboring men than do the
rural communities. The horde of
immigration, as well as the ever-in-
~creasing native population, must be
fed and the farm is expected to fur
nish the food"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
Museum to Open in February.

Washington, Special.-After hav-
ing been in the course Of construction
for four years, the new national
museum of this city will be opened
to the public by the middle of Feb
ruary. One section Of the mammoth
building has been practically COM
pleted. 1t is in this building that
the Roosevelt collection of African
mammals will be exhibited. It will
take a year, however, to mount the
trophies.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
1000 Cherry Trees Coming.

Washington, Special.-Word has
been received that the 1900 Japan
csc cherry trees, the present from the
city Of Toxic to the city Of Wash
ington, designed for the decoration
of the Potomac driveway, have left
Seattle, the port of entry, and are
one their way to the capital. The
trees are expected to bloom next
April. They will be planted in two
rows 20 feet apart, covering a dis
lance of more than three miles.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12

the. "sugar trust case.n because OF
the narrow scope Of the ~pleadings,
the combination sought to be enjoin-
| ed was held not to be included with
in the prohibition Of the act, because
the averments did not go beyond the
mere acquisition of manufacturing
plants for. the refining Of sugar, and
did not include that Of a direct and
intended restraint upon trade and
commerce in the sale and delivery of
sugar across State boundaries and in
foreign trade. The result Of the sug-
ar trust Ease vas not happy in that
to have other companies and combin-
atoms seeking a similar method Of
making profit by establishing an abb
solute control and monopoly in u
particular line Of manufacture a
sense of immunity against prosecu-
tions in the Federal jurisdiction; and
where that jurisdiction is barred in
respect to a business which is nee
essarily commensurate with the
boundaries Of the country, no State
prosecution is able to- supply the
needed machinery for adequate re-
straint or punishment.
Following the sugar trust decision,
however, there have come along in
the slow but cetrain course Of judi
cial disposition cases involving a
construction of the antitrust statute
and its application until now they
seem go embrace every phase Of that
law which can be practically present.
ed to the American public and to the
government for action. They show
that the antitrust act has a wide
scope and applies to many combina-
tions in actual operation, rendering
them unlawful an subject TO indct-
ment and restraint.
The Supreme Court in several Of
its decisions has declined to-read in
to the statute the word %"unreason-
able" before RESTRAINT of trade"
on the ground that the statute ap-
plies to all restraints and does not
intend to leave to the court the dis
erection to determine what is a reas-
enable restraint Of trade.
WOULD ARBITRATE FIRST.
1t is the duty and the purpose of
the Executive to direct an investi-
cation by the Department of Justice,
through the grand jury or otherwise,
into the history, organization, and
purpose of all the industrial COM
panies with respect to which there is
any reasonable ground for suspicion
that they have been organized for a
purpose, and are conducting business
IN a plan which is in violation of the
antitrust law. -"
Through all our consideration Of
this grave question, however, we
must insist that the suppression of
competition, the controlling of
prices, and the monopoly or attempt
of monopolize in interstate COM
merce and business, ar not only un-
lawful, but contrary to the public
good, and that they must be restrain
eG and punished until ended.
URGES FEDERAL INCORPORA-
TION.
l therefore recommend the enact
ment by Congress of a general law
providing for the formation of cor
porations to engage in trade and.
commerce among the States and WlGh
foreign nations, protecting them from
andue interference by the States and
with foreign nations, protecting
them from undue interference by the
States and regulating their activities,
50 as to prevent the recurrence, I'M
lnr-naticnal auspices, of those
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
Deep Enough For Biggest Ship.

Washington, Special.-That the
dry dock at the Charleston Navy
Yard is deep enough and broad
enough to take in any ships that
may be built has just been develop
ed here in the hearings of the naval
officers committee at the House.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
SUGGESTS A COMMERCE COURT.

Washington, D. C., Special.-Pres-
ident Taft's special message to
Congress recommending amend
nents to the interstate commerce
and antitrust laws is here, in part,
given:
10 the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives:
T withheld from my annual mes
sage a discussion of needed leglsla-
ton under the authority which Con-
gress has to regulate commerce be-
tween the States and with foreigT
countries and said that I would tring
this subject-matter to your attentioH
later in the session. Accordingly, \
beg to submit to you cetrain recon-
mendations as to the amendments Up
the interstate commerce law and cesF
tain considerations arising out OF tie,
operations of the antitrust law sug-E
costing the wisdom of Federal incSri
poration of industrial companies.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAWt
In the annual report of the 1ntesr.
state Commerce Commission for }he
year 1908 attention is called to 4hs
fact hat between July l, 1908, ing
the close of that year sixteen sselts
had been begun to set aside order$ e1s
the commission (besides one dom
menced before that date), and Ishat
few orders of much consequence mad
been permitted to go without protest;
that the questions presente&ao by
these various suits weer fun 9nen-
these various suits werofuj |men-
act itself was in issue, and the Slight
of Congress to delegate to any tic Rbu-
nal authority to establish Ian Infer
state rate was denied; but that per
.haps the most serious practical Dues
ton raised concerned the dxtellt of
the right of the courts to review the
orders of the commissions ara it
was pointed out that if thk conten-
Of the carriers in this 3atter
seet alone were sustainelh bit lit
ogrcss had been mail lie in the
n act toward ths effective
ion Of interstate saRaprta-
arges. In twelve off isases
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
Death Rate Great Last Year.

Washington, Specialize average
death rate from street car accidents
in the District of Columbia during
the past fiscal year was the greatest
in its history, according to the annual
report of Health Officer Woodruff.
The death rate was SO, while during
the previous year it was So, and dur
ing the fve-year period, l901-19O5 it
was &c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12

davis, can oyerturn lin
days of patient inevs
very satisfactory result
pected. The railroad 10!
by these proceedings. sir
fail it can only be require
lish the rate and to pay
the difference between
rate collected and the ra
finally held to be reas
point of fact it usually
cause it can seldom be
return more than a frac
excess charges collected. :
In its report for the ye
commission shows that of
teen cases referred to in ]
port, only one had been
the Supreme Court of |
States, although five othe
been argued and submit.
tribunal in October, 300
Of course, every carr.
by an order of the com
a constitutional right to
Federal court 10 protect
enforcement of an orde
may show to be prima ia
tory or unjustly discerning
effect; and as this app
be made to a court in
of the United States, mt
delay result in the emf,
the order, but great ur
caused by eontrariety 4
The questions presented
plications are too often
their character and requ}
edge of the business an
terry of g great volume d
evidence which is tedious
and troublesome to com,
would not be proper to
deprive any corporatIc
right to the review BY
any order or decree W!
disturbed, would rob it {
able return upon its IN,
would subject it to By
would unjustly discrimi
s. .,ud in favor of other
lily situated. " hat |.
Of supreme Importance
decision OF such questb,
US speedy as the natur
cumstances Will admit,
uniformity OF decision y,
"a to brinf Vnt an efl
matte, and scientific enc
the commerce law, rattle,
ficting decisions and usc
final result.
A COURT OF COY
For this purpose I re
establishment of a court
ed States composed OF
designated for such pt:
among the circuit JUG,
United States, to be llc
ssUnited States court O.
which court shall be Il,
exclusive original jurlSd
the following classes OF
az All cases for thel
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
Finds ALI Guiltless.

Washington, Special. : Approval
has been given by officials of the
navy department to the report of
the court of inquiry into the coils
ion of the battleships Georgia and
Nebraska off the Virginia capes dur
ing the recent tactical drill, which
recommended that no disciplinary
measures be taken as a result Of the
accident.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
WASHINGTON Happenings.
News From the National Capitol Briefly Noted
i'm Passing for the Reader.
FARMER DOESN'T GET HIGHEST PRICE FOR HIS BEEF

Washington, Special.-Half the
meat eaten in the United States can
be called uninspected and that a real
and serious danger to the public ex-
lists as a result, is one Of the con-
illusions reached by DR.. A. D. Melvio,
chief of the United States bureau
of animal industry, in his annual re-
port to the secretary of agriculture.
Ineficiency Of the&government in
spection because Of it's Lack of auth
ority to reach business done entirely
within a state, is given as n Of the
causes, and DR.. Melvin points out
the great need of su~pplementing the
government inspection Of meats with
state and municipal inspections.
"One result Of the federal inslec-
ton is to cause the diversion of dis
eased and suspicious looking animals
to the uninspected establishments
where they are slaughtered for the
local market" says the report.
"Nany cities have an inspection
service but very few have an ade-
quate force, and the inspection Of
ten consists of merely examining the
meat as offered for sale in the mar
kets, when it is usually impossible
to detect disease the, evidence of
which may have been removed with
the viscera or organs" says DR.. HEEL
win.
GAS a rule, sanitary conditions
are very bad at u~ninspected slaughter
houses and in order to provide real
protection against diseased or un-
wholesome meat a competent veteri-
nary and sanitary inspection at the
time of slaughter is essential.O
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
Tobacco Trust Cases.

Washington, Special. = Argument
in the tobacco trust cases, which
have attracted much attention be-
cause of the possible effect Of the
courts decision on anti trust legis-
latior, was begun last Monday in re
supreme court of the United States.
The court awarded II hours to coun-
sci which is three times the usual
time given to a case in the court. OF
this time, the government had five
hours, counsel for the American To-
bacco company four and q half hours.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
Cham :by adiudication and

otLI than by adjudication and
cdakR 81 a forfeiture or penalty,
on hsEfiction of criminal punish
mnf any order of the Interstate
EC,mn. Fee. Commission other than
ifn tSSpayment of money.
iel Eli cases brought to enjoin, set
ASIDE. lnnul or suspend any order or
re,uirtment Of the Interstate Com
m.rcetCommission.
3IIAll such cases as under Sec
tim of the act of February 10,
/ lSR known as the "Elkins Act,''
are Ethorized to be maintained in q
circn court Of the United States.
(4l All such mandamus proceed
mos Is under the provisions of sec
ton 20 or section % of the inter-
statecommerce law are authorized to
he 1aintained in q circuit court Of
the United States.
All this point the President deals
at bme length on the testing and
inydtigating Of rates.
Tie claim is very earnestly ad-
iyared by some large association OF
shibers that shippers of freight
shdld be empowered to direct the
rode over which their shipments
shahld pass to destination, and in
thA connection it has been urged
TILT the provisions of section Is Of
thH interstate commerce act, which
n8F empowers the commission, after
hiring on complaint, to establish
though routes and maximum joint
Res to be charged, etc, when no
Asonable OF satisfactory through
Hlte shall have been already estab-
Shed, be amended so as to empower
he commission to take such action,
zen VIXEN one existing reasonable
ind satisfactory route already ex-
,sts, if it is possible to establish adj
aitional routes. This seems to me to
be a reasonable provision. 1 know
Of no reason why a shipper should
not have the right to elect between
two or more established through
to which the initial carrier
may be a party, and require his
shipment to be transported to des-
over such routes as he may
designate for that purpose, subject,
however, in the exercise of this
right to such reasonable regulations
Is the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion may prescribe.
TO PREVENT STOCK WATERING
Such act should also provide for
approval by the Interstate Com
nerce Commission Of the amount of
stock and bonds to be issued by any
railroad company subject to this act
lpon any reorganization, pursuant to
sale or other legal proceed
ngs, in order to prevent the issue of
stock and bonds to an amount in ex-
cess of the fair value of the property
is the subject of such reorgan-
cation.
! believe these suggested modifca-
in and amendments to the in
;erstate commerce act would make it
| complete and effective measure for
securing reasonableness of rates and
fairness of practice in the operation
If the interstate railroad lines, with
out undue preference to any individ-
lal or class over any others, and
would prevent the recurrence Of
many Of the practices which have
given rise in the past to so much
inconvenience and loss.
By my direction the Attorney Cen
sral has drafted a bill to carry out
recommendations.
Bills for both the foregoing pur-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
Reprimanded For Adjustment Delay.

Washington, Special.-In a decis-
ion by the interstate commerce COM
mission involving a claim of 20 cents
in an o~vercharge on freight, made
against the Asheboro Railway com
pany, and other lines, railroads are
generally severely reprimanded for
their delay in adjusting claims
where there has been a palpable
overcharge.l The case was that of a
Wilkesbarre, Pa, firm, who alleged
an overcharge of 90 cents on a ship
ment Of iron wagon axles to Garth
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
Test Exa.:nations February 9Th.

Washington, Special. Fifteen
hundred census enumerators are to
be employed for the taking Of the
census in North Carolina, and those
who desire these positions must have
their applications on file with the
supervisors in the respective congress
sional districts by January IS. Only
residents of congressional districts in
which application is made will be
chosen. The examination or "test''
for enumerators will he held Febru-
airy 9th.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12

ped with Morris tubes, be sent to
each of the naval militia armories
throughout the country for training
purposes. Armories in % States are
affected by this step.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
To Examine Cooks Records.

Washington, D. c., Special-Cook's
polar data is to be examined by the
National Geographical Society. The
documents left Copenhagen, Dec.
21st. The society is TO report the
findings this month.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-01-12
Mo Bond Issue Until March.

Washington, Special.-Unless some
extraordinary situation supervenes,
there will be no new issue of inter-
est-bearing obligations by the Treas
urv before March