Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-18

being the record for 1909 and over
100000 than for 1908. Locomotive
sparks were responsible for more blazes
than any other cause
BY close vote, divided along strict
party lines, the house of representa-
tives passed the bill, introduced by
CONGRESSMAN Mann. providing for the
future administration of the Panama
canal zone 1t now goes to the senate
for action. The bill authorizes the pres
ident to prosecute the work OF building
the canal and to appoint a director
general of the canal and the canal zone,
who shall succeed to the powers and
duties Of the present canal commission
The judicial power Of the zone Is to be
vested in one circuit court and such
lower courts as the president may see
fit to create. Appeal will be allowed to
the supreme court Of the United States
in important cases, both civil and GRIM
inal: and trial by jury will be granted
for all criminals prosecuted for felony
The pending measure will, If 1t passes,
be merely a final step in assimilatlnS
the canal zone to American ideas or
government Under Colombian rule
corruption and incompetency prevailed.
BY the Spooner act the president of the
United States was empowered, through
the canal commission, to dig the canal.
BY an act passed in 1904, the govern
ment of the zone an dali military, civil
and judicial powers therein were placed
in the control of the president. These
powers he delegated to the canal COM
mission, under the supervision Of the
secretary of war. A code of laws was
drawn UP by Governor Magoon, then
general counsel to the commission. A
judicial system was organized, with
three circuits and three justices, each
sitting in both civil and criminal cases
as a court of first instance, and all to-
gether as a supreme court. Because CT
the mixture of races and the different
languages, jury trials were abolished.
The old civil code was largely retained,
the old criminal code abolished; but
the civil code has long been Anticipated
and productive of injustice. The leg
islation proposed by the Mann bill looks |
to a greater Capitalization of authori- |
ty and to the undermining and Ameri-
canizing of the whole civil administra-
ton.
Atlanta, Ca March Is: Gov. Joe |
Brown of Georgia, and Mayor Robert
Maddox of Atlanta, have declined to in |
troduced Commander Peary when he |
lectures here Wednesday evening, be-
cause they say he has not produced the |
Esuuimos. Gov. Brown branded Com |
mander Robert Peary, who claims to
have discovered the north pole, as |
faker Mayor Maddox also declined to
perform that service for Peary, giving |
as his reason that Peary was coming |
to Atlanta as a private citizen on a |
money making proposition and was
in no sense a guest of Atlanta. In
an interview today, Governor Brown
said: The public while discrediting |
Cooks story, makes the mistake of sup
posing Peary's true, yet Peary's story |
Is tne same dS SOOh w nat 10 NAA'
best proof that Cooks story is correct?
1t is that Peary's story conforms to
Cooks. thus confirming ii. Did Peary
fake his astronomical figures in the
Roosevelt? He went alone 10 the pole. |
Why? What does Peary bring save
mis- own word? Cook brings the same, |
and as good. Where was Cook? If he
had stayed at one place for months, II
would have gotten out. II Cook has
handed us a gold brick. Peary has
handed US a paste diamond. 1t is up
to Peary TO explain how Cooks story
can be false and his identical story can
be true The American people Will not
accept his smile as proof that he IS not
as great a faker as he charges Cook
to be. The Mount Mckinley story
has no bearing on the Identical story OF
the north pole. 4 man may tell US
thousand lies, yet tell one great truth.
/ have no interest in the controversy
save the right to have the truth, but
when Peary asks me to believe the
same story false from Cook and true
from him, l respectfully decline to be
considered so easy Till Representa-
tive Macons expose of Peary. believed
the stories Of both were true, but that
if either were false both were false,
were takers. Both were heroes OF both
were champion liars"
- Washington, March l6 Opposition
to postal savings banks was shown be-
fore the house committee on pOStotfices
and pOstroadS by representatives of the
American Bankers association. Not
only the speakers oppose tn" postal
savings bank bill which recently pass
ed the senate, but they said they OPP |
posed the principle of the government |
going into the banking business. +.
r. Guerney. vice president of the First
National bank of Fremont. Neb.. and |
a member Of the executive council of |
the bankers association. said that the |
establishment of postal savings banks |
in Nebraska would cause withdraw
ais of large amounts of money from the
banks of that state, seriously upSettlng |
business. The matter of tn" security
and safety of the deposits greatly out
weighed the consideration of the in
terest paid said Mr.. Guerney. and il
the government established the postal
savings banks. offering , per cent in
tereSt the deposits would come TO
them. even though the state banks
might be offering 3 or per cent in
terest Security was what the people
demanded. he said: The banks are