Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-10
Scraps and facts.


accordance with the most approved
methods of modern high finance. 1t is
claimed in the dispatches from New
York that the failure of the Carnegie
Trust company will not have any far
reaching effect in a financial way.
Wheeling, w. Va, January s: Fac
ing a situation which no other state in
the Union will face this winter, the leg
islature of West Virginia, will convene
at Charleston, on Wednesday. The
solution of the political complication
which, by the death of United States
Senator Stephen B. Elkins, now in
wolves the selection of two senators
falls wholly to the Democratic party.
Five candidates active and receptive,
were in line to succeed Senator Nathan
B. Scott, Republican, but since Mr.. Ell
kins's death two others have been put
forward for one or the other OF the
vacancies. One of these candidates is
j. II. Holt of Huntington, Democrat
ic nominee for governor in 1900; the
other is DR.. A. s. Grim of st. Mary's.
1t is known that none of the seven men
mentioned has received the pledges of
thirty mine legislators, the number re-
uuired to nominate in the Democratic
caucus. There is disposition to hold
the caucus as early as possible, for a
prolonged series of ballots is deemed
inevitable, and the legislature has al
loted but forty five days to its ses-
sion.
The programme for the Southern
Commercial congress which will be
held in Atlanta on March s, and 10,
has been completed and has just been
issued by G.. Grosvenor Dave of Wash
ington managing director of the con-
gress. President Taft heads the list
of invited speakers, most of whom have
accepted In addition to President
Taft it includes Roosevelt, woodrow
Wilson, governor elect of New Jersey;
Ambassador Jusserand of France; Jas.
Wilson, secretary of agriculture; Sec
retary of War Dickinson; Mayor Gay
nor of New York: Ambassador Bryce
of England; Ambassador dc LeBalra
Of Mexico: Geo. Westinghouse, Pitts
burg; Geo. w. Perkins, New York;
Hon. John Barrett, Washington, D. c..
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, Florida;
Senator Elihu Root, New York: E. w.
Robertson, Columbia, S. c.; Leland
Hume, Nashville, Tenn; Edward
Hines, Chicago: Gov. Joseph NJ.
Brown of Georgia, and Gen. Julian 5.
Carr of North Carolina. Subject reiat-
ing to the commercial development OF
the south will be discussed. This con-
gress is expected to be the most i'm
portant yet held.
The secretary of the navy, Won l..
Never, is in pretty embarrassing
mess with Governor Donaghey of Ar
kansas, in connection with the chris
tening of the battleship Arkansas. The
custom with reference to the chriSten-
ing of a battleship named after state
has heretofore been to refer the matter
to the governor of the state concerned
and request him to appoint a sponsor
IT, -; hn
himself to appoint as sponsor the
DAUGHTER of an Arkansas congressman.
Immediately afterward the governor
named a snonsor. The secretary OF
the navy claimed that he had notified
the governor as to the situation in
plenty of time and had made his ap-
pointment only after the governor had
shown by his neglect that he was 60
ing to give no attention to the matter.
Governor Donaghey has written the
secretary in effect that he believes his
part of this story. and not only tells
Mr.. Never in unmistakable terms what
he thinks of him; but gives him to un-
derstand that while the state of Ar
kansas had been intending to show its
patriotism by making a rich gift OF
plate. ETC.. it will take no cognizance Of
the occasion whatever.
Rev. DR.. Dubois H. Loux. pastor Of
the Center Congregational church of
Meriden, Conn.,, who has embraced So
cialsm and has written a novel pre-
senting his theories of dealing with
present day social problems, read his
resignation as pastor at the morning
service last SUNDAY. In this letter he
said: IF you will understand my
terms. hold it without question that
organized Christianity today is disso-
Lutte. It is playing fact and loose with
the principles for which Christ died.
1t dare not he true. A church today
is a social ORGANIZATION with religious
and moral tendencies. II must require
doctrines that are congenial and undis-
tnrhing. Out Of its necessities II feels
that It must keep its ear to the ground
to make sure the world Of wealth is
not offended in it, For this reason. to
be true to my ministry, l must stand
outside the pale of pastorate, that l
may voice my protest purely. / have
counted the cost. The doors of the
churches will he closed to me. Our
colleges could not afford to welcome
me into a professors chair. Business
doors are closed. For two months,
while occupying the pulpit I have
been testing the fact am still knock
ing for some door to omen where | may
support my family doing an honest
work while speaking the message of
an honest minister and if necessary I
can dig"
-Four of the international aviators
who were with Moisant at New Or
leans when he fell to his death have
sent to the Associated Press a signed
statement of their findings in an exam
ination of his machine, made on the
spot Immediately after the accident.
Rene Simon. Rene Barrier, Garros and
Audemars all declare that the evidence
shows that Moisant had shut off the
power, that every stay and control
was intact and that nobody will ever
know why his wonderful and admir-
ed airmanship" met defeat. But on
one thing they are emDhatic-that
Moisant's mechanicians Gershpach and
Ferlet had taken every precaution,
and that his death was in no way due
to any omission of theirs. Albert Fill
ouXs statement recently published that
Moisant's Bleriot had been too often
broken and repaired, and that it was
over weighted with gasoline when he
went up for the MiChaelin prize, they
deny as an unfounded imputation of
neglect. FilouX was the mechanic who
made the Paris-London flight with
Moisant, and in a personal letter to a
New York newspaper man received
at New Orleans, Garros writes for his
fellows, supplementing the statement
to the Associated Press in part as fol-
lows: "An incrmination of careless
ness causing death is a professional
dishonor for these boys who are known
in France among the best men who
ever worked on aviation fields. What
was printed about them made them so
sorry that they cried when they talked
to us about it. They deserve nothing
but praise for the way they prepared
Moisant's machine, spending a whole
days time changing every bolt and ev
cry wire of the controls for new ones"
- Washington, January 10: There
will be forty-two more representatives
i'm the siXty-secOnd congress than
there are in the sixty-first. The re-
appOrtionment bill. prepared by
Representative CrumpaCker, chair
man of the house committee on cen
SuS provides that the membership of
the next house will be 433. The
present membership is 391. The ratio
of population as fixed by the new bill
is OIL 500 PV setting this ratio none