Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-01
Scraps and facts.

took steps Wednesday To have erased
from the records of the house, one OF
the severest rebukes ever administered
TO a president by congressional action.
He introduced a resolution To eXpunge
the report of the special committee OF
which the late Representative Perkins
was chairman, which caused to be laid
on the table of the house certain sec
tions Of one of President RooseVeitS
messages relating to the secret service.
The message was interpreted as con-
tanning direct reflections upon the IN
tegrity of the members Of the house,
in that the former president defended
his action in using secret service agents
TO ferret cut the acts of certain house
members. The Bennett resolution was
sent to the committee on rules.
The long drawn out Aids Conger
investigation in the New York senate
came to a close last Tuesday. with
conviction of Aids by vote of 40 to
9. The investigation grew out OF
charges by Senator Conger, that Sena-
tor Aids was guilty of bribe-taKing
Both are Republicans. The charge
came somewhat in tine letting of the
cat out of the bag, and referred TO
matters that had occurred some ten
years ago. Aids, of course. denied the
charge. and it was up to Conger 10
prove II, quite a difficult undertaking.
The case was not proven exactly; but
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dence to convince the Republicans that
there had better be an example maze,
and that there would be no injustice IN
having Aids to serve as an example.
-Tiverpool. March 80: Advices re-
ceived here state that fighting contln-
ues between the natives and Liberian
troops at Cape Palmas, Liberia and Is
growing more serious. The Rev MI
Smear. a native pastor at the mission
in Cape Palmas, has been shot ana
killed and the lives of the white resi-
dents are said to be in danger. Ihe
hostile natives appear to be getting the
better of the troops. The latter were
sent to stop the native raid in French
territory. 1t was their eXcesses that
caused the outbreak The natives are
said to be anxious to have few Eng
lishmen killed with the object of bring
ing about intervention by Great Bril-
tain. The Liberian gunboat Lark, tenn
porarily commanded by German or
ficer, bombarded the native villages
but did little damage. A German gun
boat arrived and its commander oftered
TO lombard Hoffman station and pluKe
but the authorities declined assistance
The Indian has at last paused IN
his passing from the face of the earth,
If the statistics concerning births ana
deaths among about One-third OF the
Indian population in the United States
which have just been compiled by the
bureau of Indian affairs, can be ac-
cepted as a criterion of the general
condition Of the red race. During the
fiscal year 1909, there were 1896 births
and 3,17S deaths among 10l,117 Indians.
This showed a birth rate per thousand
of 334 as compared with 31.2 deaths.
An official said today that the hgureS
pointed to an improvement in the gen
eral situation, in that the Indian had not
lost any ground from the standpoint OF
numbers, as compared with decrease
in the past, which has reduced the In
dian population to its present relative
lv small figure 1t was estimated there
were 300,545 Indians in the United
States, exclusive of Alaska, during the
last fiscal year.
The estimates for the British navy
for the coming year amount to about
5000 OO0, 900, which is an increase or
s27.OOO,OOO over last year. The pro-
gramme for new construction includes
five large armored ships, five protected
cruisers, twenty torpedo boat destroy
ers and a number of submarines. 1t Is
denied that the navy estimates are
based on the assumption that other
powers were unfriendly to England
The design is to preserve Englands
standard as a naval power, and does
not depend on the actual expenditures
of other countries, Germany or any
other. 1t is said, however that a fair
definition of Englands standard may
be reasonably taken as that which
will give Great Britain good hopes OF
success against a political combination
of any two powers" Rear Admiral
Bacon, who was the first captain of the
first "Dreadnought," in recent address
before the Institute of Naval Arcni-
II; y
leviathan construction. He regarded
ships of 10000 tons as only step"
toward possible eventual fighting mon
sters. The increase in size must con-
tinue. he said, until a war confirmed or
exploded the present theories.
The demonstration of the success
of the preventive and curativ" treat
ment of cerebro- spinal meningitis dis
covered and perfected by DR.. Simon
Flexner at the Rockefeller institute, is
now complete. 1t was made by DR..
F1eXner himself before a large gather
ing of men of science and of medicine
two or three evenings ago. Heretofore
no more has been claimed for DR.. FleX-
ners discovery than that in all proba-
bility it would be found as available for
use in meningitis as is the diphtheria
serum for the cure of that once dread
ed disease. 1t was known, however,
that Dr. Flexner would not go further
than to express hope Of the success OF
his methods until he was able to make
a demonstration to mis- medical col
4 t;.,,, h.,g,
been made. 1t is regarded as JUS
tifying the claim that ccrebro- spinal
meningitis is now under control. Phy-
sicians regard this as the most import
ant medical discovery since the per-
fecting of the serum for diphthera,
for there has been no more dreaded
disease than cerebro- spinal meningitis
it is deadly; it comes with almost
volcanic violence, sometimes sweeping