The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-04-20

Dixie echoed with as loud fevor as Marching
Through Georgia
REPRESENTATIVE Macon, of Arkansas, has
introduced a bill making it unlawful for Sin
terstate or foreign buying, or selling, or
otherwise dealing in future in agricultural pro-
ducts or commodities of any kind whatsoever"
The bill would prohibit the receipt delivery and
transmission of Interstate or foreign messages
sent by telegraph telephone or mail, if such
messages are in connection with or. dealing
In future in agricultural products.
tremendous interest to, the advocates of
\ good schools in the state is the announce
ment that the state is to lose about $780,
600 OF the school fund for 1911-12. This is due to
the fact that the farmers of the revenue act fail
ed to comply with the state constitution as to
keeping up the proportion between the property
tax and the poll tax. The constitution requires
that the poll tax shall be three times the property
tax and the law made the tax for general purposes
including school, As cents on the 500 and left the
poll tax at $1.29, when it should have been $1.35.
a bill has been introduced in the house by Re-
~ preventative Hardwick of Georgia, providing
for the repeal of the fourteenth amendment
to the constitution. The measure seeks to pre-
vent congress from limiting representation of
southern states because of 4disfranchisement of
the negro, which ~curtails the voting population of
the states.
AVID Jayne Hill of Rochester, N. Y. am
bassador of the United States to Germany
has resigned. His resignation is accepted
by President Taft. Neither in Hills letter of re-
%signation nor the presidents letter of acceptance
is a reason given for the ambassadors action.
The president thanks Hill for his services at Ber-
lin and says he is glad to know he will remain
until July l. when the resignation becomes efec-
tive. Mr.. Hill became ambassador to Berlin
April 2, 1908. His resignation was a great sur
prise to official Washington. 1t was argued that
the fact that he is to remain at his post until
July 1 indicates that there was nothing urgent in
the ambassadors action.
7 Attic, a trick elephant. whose antics have
~delighted thousands Of visitors to New
York Central park menagerfe, nearly died
of Glover collie" Saturday. Hattie is a gentle |
little thing of some ten summers and three tons,
tional to her tonnage and the remedy must be
to her pain. This IS the dose pre-
scribed for her by Keeper Bill Snyder:
Laudanum, two ounces.
Linseed oil, two quarts.
Spiritus oil, two quarts.
1t took a wedge between her jaws and a block
and tackle to get the dose into her, but when it
reached tn spot, the increase in her good nature
was noticeable.
Y IRGING the democratic party to state it's
creed in the concret and define clearly the
especialf forms Of privilege it declares |
against in a general campaign "for the rights of
the people" Governor Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey, in an address to the National League Of
Democratic club last week, set forth the objects
of the party as he believed they exist and should
be stated.
Q YSTEM is to mark the searching inquiry into
expenditures in the governments departments
and in order that the work may 20 forward
rapidly and thoroughly, Speaker Champ Clark
has called for a conference between chairmen of
the nine departmental committees. At this meet
ing a comprehensive plan Will be mapped out where /
by during the summer the economy campaign will
be conducted with a view to presenting to the i
democratic house. when it convenes in regular /
session in December I
E opening arguments for and S9ainet tbo
Canadian reciprocity bill were made in the /
house Saturday, in two striking speeches.
Claude k1tchin, OF North Carolina, one of the
leading democratic speakers, addressed the house (
for three hours in favor of the measure, arrang-
ing the Republican argument of projection for /
the farmer, and characterizing it is "'humbug."
Following him. Asher Kinds, of Maine, for Is |
years the parliamentary clerk of the house, i
made his first speech as a new member of that l.
body, and aligned himself in opposition to the
treaty in an address devoted to the support of
for the farmers of the nation. The re-
treaty, he said, threatened the ration
prosperity in threatening to take away from
the farming communities the protection to pro-
ducts necessary to their continued prosperity
and development. /,
7 D is threatened with a taxicab strike
The situation is the outgrowth of the re-
fusal of the government TO remit the pa
troll tax OF three half pence a gallon. Taxicab
owners therupon proposed that the fares should
owners thereupon proposed that the rates should
mile. The drivers declined TO acceded to this,
On the ground that they would lose money ow-
.ng to reduced patronage. Then the owners
increased the patrol tax would be charg-
ed to the drivers. Representative Of the mems r.
union declared that if the ultimatum was not
a general strike would be ordered
y fort of republican ~partisans to discov-
er a split in the democratic party were ridi-
culed last week by Speaker Champ Clark in
an ADDRESS before the College Mems Democratic
in celebration of the birthday anniver-
sary OF Thomas Jefferson. I'VE are not going
to get together" said Mr.. Clark, for we already |
are together. We always have been together.
Mr.. Clark referred to rece~nt~democratic caucnses
to the u~nanimity of the democrats at the last
session OF congress, and to the fact that demo-
crats passed the reciprocity bill in the house i
when President Taft, with all his patronage
could not muster a sufficient majority in a re-
senate to put his measure through"
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