The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-22
GENERAL NEWS.

Nv of Atlanta, who disappear
last Tuesday leaving an alfeg-
y shortage in his accounts of
10000.
mrdian reservation life is hell
.bat it's an awful place-yes,
Mi" declared DIR. Carlos Mon
',n,ma, of Chicago, a fullblooded
gobawk-ApacheiGn, who appear
last week before the House
'ammittee on expenditures in the
sstorior Department on behalf of
!, +ribesmen of the Mcdowell re-
.arvation in Arizona. The In
Fans are protesting against plans
the government to transfer
Ehom from their old home.
After the first of next month
oeean-going vessels carrying more
Kan fifty passengers will be IL
HE to a fine of S., 900 unless they
re- equipped with wireless tele-
rraph apparatus capable of trans
niitting messages to a distance of
IT less than 100 miles and man
ned by an operator carrying q
pertifcate issued by this or a for
Egn government.
A bale of cotton that sold at
,uction a few days ago in Hous-
an. Texas, for So a pound
brOught only fifteen cents a
pound last Thursday-less than
he spot price-on the steps Of the
New York Cotton Exchange. In
9ouston the bale brought 81
rs and here $75. It will next
y sold in Liverpool and the pro-
leeds of all three sales will go
b charity.
The Lorimer investigating COM
pittee of the Senate have prac-
icaIly decided to summon as wit
ess in the inquiry the entire
bembership of the illinois Legis-
Bture. which elected Senator
orimer. Cyrus 81. Mccormick,
resident of the international
[arvester Company, and former
overnor Richard Yates of Hi
ois will be head by the commit
be. Each will be questioned as
} his knowledge of the collection
md disposition of the 100000
md alleged to have been used
procuring the election of Mr..
LOrimer.
Accusing the Democrats of hav-
ng abandoned their free trade
principles in the framing of the
WOOL tariff revision bill, and de-
laring they are as much one-man
uled as they ever charged the
Republicans with having been.
representative Serene E. Payne
If New York, chairman Of the
ommittee which framed the
Payne-Aldrich tariff, made the
principal speech in the wool de-
pate in the House Saturday. Re-
erring to the farmers free list
pill he said: "No such crude
MEASURE ever before was brought
INTO this House by any commit
Zee. There is not a man on either
kide who can tell within $15,OOO,-
poo to $50, 900 what difference
t would make in the revenues"
Representative Warburton, in
roduced a bill in the House Sat
lrday placing sugar on the free
list and increasing the revenue
Rn manufactured tobacco. The
pill in line with the arguments
made by Mr.. Warburton In his
peech against the Underwood
WOOL bill in which he declared that
evenue from tobacco could be
argely increased. His bill pro-
poses to tax snuffs % cents a
pound; loose tobacco prepared
or sale Is cents a pound and a
Graduated increase over the pre-
lent tariffs on cigars and cigar
ttes.
Trust busting cost the
government $845, 134 in disburse-
nents to special assistants to the
attorney General and to district
PVtorneys between March 5, 1909,
tnd May 81, 1911, according to a
|eport which the Department of
uStlce has transmitted to Chair
pan Beall Of the House commit
"Hnenditures in that de-
lartment.
HObert Fitzimmons, former
hampton of the prize ring was