Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-05-21

News and Courier, some Democrats
point a warning finger at the Mexican
situation. They fear that If congress
adjourned, and Mr.. Taft was re-nomi-
mated, he might intervene in Mexico,
and bolster up his chances with war
issue. 1t is we'll known here that
everything at the war department Is
in readiness for an invasion Of Mex
leo, and has been ready for weeks.
and that the order to move forward
is in shape to be issued at moments s
notice. The influence or the Demo-
cratic congress has been steadily eX-
erted against armed interference In
the Mexican trouble ever since it be-
gan. A cause Of delay in the consid-
Grafton Of the Lorimer case In the
senate is that the Illinois senator Is
reported to be sick at his home. There
Is an attempt to let the matter go
over until the next, or short session
of this congress, and some senators
opposed to Lorimer are willing to con-
slider this If a definite date Is fixed for
a vote at the next session. They in
sist upon the date because they FEAR
that otherwise the L rimer case will
be filibustered entirely over into the
next congress. The matter is getting
to an acute stage, and it looks had for
Lorimer unless he can. stave on ac-
ton.
Congress gossip, says Washing
ton dispatch, now centres largely upon
adjournment The progressive Re-
publican senators insist that after so
many months Of discussion at this
session there should be important leg
islative achievements on the tariff and
other things. The Republican sena-
ators are bringing the tariff bills out Of
he
sidering absenting themselves -. upon
the tariff bill votes, so that the pres
ident may have the advantage OF We
toing straight Democratic measures.
The members have agreed to press all
the tariff bills, including the excise
tax, to q vote, but have not progressed
further toward adjournment. All ef-
forts to map out a programme for ad-
journment before the national party
conventions have so far failed In the
senate. The house has virtually
cleared its decks. The senate Is con-
gested so that such men as Vice Pres
ident Sherman, Senators Penrose, the
Republican leader; Gallinger, Smoot,
Hepburn and Warren, among the
members Of the senate steering COM
mittee; Senator Dillingham;, head OF
the special Lorimer investigating COM
mittee; Senator Crane and others
have no expectation Of congress get
ting away until after June. Adjourn
ment?" repeated Vice President Sher-
man, when asked. About the first
part Of August" 1t was said today
that II the senate did not adjourn be-
fore the conventions, the house would
refuse to recess over the convention
period. Opposition to a recess also
has developed among some senators.
Tive got tired of being lied about
and held up to the country as having
violated every rule OF conduct. when
l am not conscious Of having violated
any," shouted President Taft at To-
ledo, Ohio, last Friday night in the
course of q speech to a crowd that
filled every available seat and blocked
the aisles of the Toledo auditorium.
Mr.. Taft's speech was one Of the most
bitter he has made since he began to
answer the charges or Colonel Roose-
welt and to use hot shot Of his own.
The president bluntly charged that
Walter Brown, of Toledo, one of the
Roosevelt leaders here, had ceased TO
be q Taft supporter because the pres
ident refused to accept his recon-
mendation for judicial appointments.
He declared the opposition to him on
the part of Dan Hanna, of Cleveland,
came as consequence Of indictments
against Mr.. Hanna by the Taft depart
ment of justice. The presidents un-
usual bitterness toward Mr.. Roosevelt
was apparent from the first. He
launched Immediately into accuSa-
tions Of unfairness upon the part of
his predecessor. THE memory Of the
names Mr.. Roosevelt has called me-"
said the president, still fingers in my
ears. Since he began his personal at
to4 I,A ho oil 40 nj
thets he could think Of, and all the
names in the calendar, such as no
president has ever been subjected to
by a man who had two terms in that
office" Mr.. Taft called the tariff
views of Mr.. Roosevelt ridiculous
and labelled his scheme" for tariff
that would make division Of profits
between the laborer and the employer
'catch penny phrases"
- Washington, May 19: With more
than two-third of the delegates to the
Democratic national convention elect
ed, control of the Baltimore gathering
remains as much in doubt as it did
several weeks ago. Claims made by
the managers of the different candi-
dates at the headquarters in Wash
ington made 1t clear that none Of them
expect to control the convention
first ballot, even though great strides
are made for their respective candi-
dates in the convention and primaries
still to be held. The Democratic con-
vention will consist of 1893 delegates.
Under the two-third rule applying to
presidential nominations, 729 votes
will be necessary for any candidate
who secures the nomination. With
about $50 delegates still to be select
ed, the strength of the respective
candidates was given by their head
instructed 1928; pledged 6S-total 391.
Conceded to Wilson 80, not including
South Cardinals Is where the conven-
ton endorsed Wilson. Conceded to
Underwood, S4; to Harmon 2; to
baldwin IA; Marshall 80; Burke 10;
Considered doubtful 127. Wilson:
Claimed as instructed 242; Kansas
20 (Clark), and North Dakota's 10,
(Burke), claimed as favoring Wilson.
Total Of Wilson's claimed strength
273. Conceded to Clark 236; to Un-
derwood 50; to Harmon 4; to Foss
sc; to Baldwin IA to Marshall 80; to
Burke 10. Considered "uninstructed
and doubtful" 1856 Underwood:
Claimed as instructed total delegations
of Alabama, Florida, Georgia and
Mississippi and six from Tennessee,
total 90. No other statement made.
At the Harmon headquarters today 1t
was said a statement would be made
later.
- New York, May IS: Attorney Gen.
eral Wickersham today moved against
the socalled coffee trust. or Brazilian
valorization scheme. In a petition in
equity filed in the United States court
here. the valorization plan is declared
to be a violation of the Sherman anti
trust law The court is asked to de-
cree the scheme unlawful, to enjoin
the valorization committee from with
holding coffee from the market, and to
appoint a receiver to sell the $4,000
bags, valued at $10,000.000. now al
legged to be stored in warehouses of
the New York Dock company. The
government also applied for a tenn
porary injunction restraining the val
orization committee from removing or
disposing of coffee held in America
pending the termination Of the issue
The members of the valoriZation com
mittee have agreed and conspired
among themselves. the government