Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-20
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His argument is to constitute the
principal defense of the law, which is
called in question in fifteen cases now
before the court. The solicitor gen
eral told the court that the htteen
cases before it had been brought by
shareholders in corporations VINO
objected to the latter paying the tax.
Each of the corporations had eX-
pressed an intention to obey the law.
The government is prepared. said
the solicitor general, ito help cor
porations pay the tax" Every
objection has been raised to the tax,
Mr.. Lehman said, that could be raised
to any tax possible of being levied
under the constitution. The only
limitation on the scope of the Fed
eral government to tax, he said, ap-
piled TO exports. Possibly there was
an implied limitation against taxa
ton of the agencies and instrumental
tiles of state governments, he added.
The spectre of war stalked in the
house of representatives last Tuesday,
but its repeated appearance, says
Washington dispatch, was for the pur-
pose of permitting wholesale haylns
of military critics and of furnishing
reason for liherality In appropriations.
The army approximation bill carrying
approximately SSO,VVV,VVV was PSSS>N
after a discussion of the military pre-
paredness of the nation. The debate
on the effectiveness of the army to
meet all emergencies oDened with
denunciation by Mr.. Hull, chairman OF
the military affairs committee, OF
published interview in which FREDERICK
Lewis Huidekoper. washington CITY
lawyer, contended that the army was
in a lamentable state of unprepared-
IT, To
of the appropriations committee. also
vigorously attacked so-called military
critics, and declared that the amount
of money the government spent in ten
wears in preparation for war wonld
more than build FIVE Panama cana's.
Mr. Tawnev declared this government
had expended during the past zen
wears an aggregate of S2,193,l36,5SO
in preparing for war.
-. Washington, January IS: The
house today adopted an amendment
to the Moon bill codifying laws relat-
ing to the judiciary, which Will nave
the effect of stopping the practice OF
corporations doirg an interstate busl-
ness, from taking practically all sults
against them from the hands OF
state courts and placing them in the
Federal courts. The amendment was
offered by Representative Garrett OF
Tennessee and after preliminary
skirmish, in which party lines were
tightly drawn. was finally adopted
by a unanimous vote. Adopted IN
full it is as follows: provided,
further. that no suit against a cor
poration or joint stock company
brought in a state court of the state
in which the plaintiff resides. or in
which the cause of action arises. or
in which the defendant has its place
Of business, or carries on its business,
shall be removed to any United states
court on the ground of diverse cltl-
zenship." Mr.. Garrett, in explaining
the amendment, said it would prevent
a New Jersey corporation, for in
stance, from transferring from state
court suits against it to the United
States court on the ground that the
officers and directors of the corpora
ton live in New York. The amend
ment is regarded as an important one
and called out a general debate.
Kiel, Germany, January IS: The
sinking of the ~ g." the German
navy's first submarine disaster, cost
three lives. The dead are the cap
tain of the submarine and Lieuts.
Fisher and Koelbe, the latter the
helmsman. Their deaths were due TO
an unforeseen mishap at the moment
the officials of the navy were recelV-
ing congratulations on the supposed
successful raising of the ~ 3" and
the reScuing of the crew. When the
submarine, three hours after she sank,
had been brought to the surface by
the salvage ship Vulkan, yesterday,
and twenty-seven of her men had
made their way to safety through the
torpedo tube, the captain and the
two lieutenants elected to stand by
their ship until she was once more
master of herself. The three men
were in the coming tower Il" which
remained submerged when the YES
sci rose obliquely. Here the men
might have stayed without danger
for some time as the boat had con-
siderable supply of oxygen, but for
an accident that shut off this supply
from the tower. Word was sent out
that the raising had been successful
and that the crew was safe. The
work was continued, when suddenly
a ventilator gave way permitting the
water to rush into the submarine,
isolating the tower and cutting off
the oxygen upon which the three Off
GERS We're dependent. With the in
rush of water the bow of the ship
rose quickly, but the stern. where
the tower t. is located, sank deeper.
It ilVih "ViV SuAA'NoNN''
- Cincinnati. January IS: Mem
bers of a committee Of joint COM
mission are holding a conference in
this city today for the purpose OF
considering ways and means whereby
the Methodist Episcopal, the Protest
ant Methodist and the Methodist
EpisCo church. south, can consol.-
date. The members of the commit
tee were appointed by the three
churches to formulate the plans for
union and present them to the next
conference of the different churches
Five million church members are
involved. The committee is COM
posed of the following: Bishop
CranSton of Washington, ID. c.;
Bishop Walden and DIR. r. T. Miller
of Cincinnati, representing the Meth
odist EpisC opal church; Bishop L. E
Hess of Nashville, Tenn; DR.. F. NJ.
Thomas of Louisville and Judge NJ. L.
Walton of WooGS'o"k, Va. of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and
President T. II. Lewis of Westminster,
Md; DR.. VI. l.. Jennings or PiItsDurS,
and f. l.. Harris Of Henderson. y. c.,
of the Protestant Methodist church.
--. Washington. January IS: Mil
lions Of SpindleS in the cotton mills of
the United states will be idle one
NudllGI
market conditions improve. if rec
OmmendatiOn made this afternoon by
the Arkwright club is accepted gcne"-
ally. Curtailment is TO begin at once.
The Arkwright club is an organiZa
ton of treasurers of mills in Mas
sachusettS. New Hampshire and
Maine, many of which have their
head offices in Boston, and represents
more than lO.0OO.OO0 spindles OF
the 2S,OO0.00O spindles i'm the United
States, 100000 are in New Eng
land The attendance of this meeting
was the largest in ten years Several
kilograms from owners in Georgia.
North Carolina and South Carolina
were received. telling of the arrange
ments being made To curtail the out
put The cotton mills of the cOun-
try curtailed extensively last year be-
cause of the high cost &C cotton and
an Indifferent demand for goods and
the same reasons are given by the
Boston treaSurerS for their action to-
day. The cotton mills Of New Eng
land employ nearly 100000 operatives