Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-16

ing. The new arrival has been named
John Jacob Astor, after his father. The
boy becomes a direct heir to- $3,0O0,000
of the Astor fortune. News Of the ar
rival Of the Astor baby was made
known in a bulletin issued by DR.. Ed
win B. Craigin, the attending physi-
clan. The bulletin reads: Mrs. As
tor has a SON, born at SIS o'clock. His
name is John Jacob Astor. Mother and
son are in good condition" The fact
that his father proved himself a hero
in the Titanic disaster and that the
wife from whom he then parted was his
bride of only few months, coupled
with the large fortune which was pro-
vided for a posthumous child, having
lent unusual interest to the arrival or
the younger Astor. The new Astor baby
will be one of the few children ever
born with a fortune as large as $3,-
100000 in its own right. Col; Astor had
provided that whether the child was a
boy or girl, it should receive $4,000, 900.
Even II the story had brought more
than one child, Col. Astors will cover
ed that contingency, because 1t reads
as follows: 81 beQueath such number
Of separate sums Of $3,000,000 each as
shall be equal to the number Of my
children who shall survive me other
than my son VIM. Vincent and my
daughter, Ava Muriel." The latter
children are by Col Astor's first wife,
Mrs. Ava Willing Astor.
BY the narrow margin Of five votes,
the house on Tuesday passed the wool
tariff revision bill over President Taft's
veto. The vote 174 to 80, was made
possible only by the detection OF twen-
ty-one Republicans who voted with the
Democrats. The announcement of DEM
cd
the house and amid great confusion
the Republican leaders protested that
Speker Clark must count as voting
ten members who answered present
to their names, ruling which would
have defeated the Democratic program
by overcoming the five vote margin
and making impossible the recording Of
the necessary two-thirds vote Of the
house. This the speaker declined to do.
Less than an hour after the wool bill
had been repassed In the mouse, the
conferees on the sugar tariff bill met
and disagreed. They determined to
report to the house and senate that 1t
had been found impossible to reach a
compromise between the Underwood
and Lodge Bristow bills. This action
is expected to mark the end Of sugar
tariff consideration in the present ses-
sion and the excise tax bill, which was
framed to make up revenues that
would have been lost by the reduction
of the sugar tariff, also probably will
remain in conference when congress
adjourns. While Democrats and Pro-
gressive leaders of the senate do not be-
lieve the wool bill can be passed in that
body over the presidents veto, they
will continue the demand for action on
the cotton tariff measure. -......
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sion bureau today faces the greatest fl
nancial crisis in its history as the res
suit of the lack of funds to pay pen
sions. The San Francisco agency has
a balance of exactly seven cents and
Detroit only four cents. Reports from
all agencies received at the bureau tell
the same story of no money for the vet
Grams and their dependents on the ma
tion's pension list. This condition Is
due y the delay in congress in passing
the .nsion appropriation bill. The ex.
tension Of the old appropriation bill
for a fifteen day period so that one
twenty fourth Of last years appropria-
ton might be used to pay less than
half of the SIS 5,000, 900 due on August 4,
has left 100000 pensioners unpaid at
Indianapolis, Knoxville, Louisville, New
York, Philadelphia and Topeka There
is no hope for them until congress acts.
Acting Pension Agent Fountain at New
York reported today to Commissioner
Davenport that the conditions there
are very serious as many army and
navy pensioners are destitute and that
"the withholding Of their pension Is al
most criminal" The funds available
today are but $7.79 at Philadelphia,
s97 at Louisville, where s500,000 Is due;
SS7 at New York. not cent at Concord,
N. H, at Indianapolis only enough to
last one day, Columbus 1924 and Bos-
ton $145. mo pension in July, had to
go to poorhouse," wrote a Pensacola,
Fla, veteran in letter to the pension
bureau today. A naval ensign's widow
who had been at Asbury Park on va
cation wrote a pathetic appeal saying
she was dependent on help-up pen
sion check to pay her expenses. A SIM
liar complaint from Philadelphia was
among the numerous letters that told
of the destitution Of their writer's.
New York, August IA: The reso-
lutte determination of the citizens Of
New York to rid their police force ot
it's system Of graft and blackmail was
given forcible expression tonight at a
mass meeting held at the historic hall
of Cooper Union when they appointed
vigilance committee Of prominent wo-
men and men to see that the public Of
ficers now engaged in exposing the
reasonable alliance OF the police with
organized crime" do their full duty.
The mass meeting which typified the
public indignation aroused by the rev.
elations Of police corruption growing
out of the murder Of Herman Rosen-
thai was attended by a crowd that over
flowed the hall. There were 1000 peo-
pie in the auditorium with hundreds
"a
outside were thousands more who
clamored for admittance. There was
no mistaking the earnestness which
pervaded the gathering as it voiced its
approval of the denunciation of the
police system" which the prominent
speakers on the program employed
when speaking Of existing conditions.
The resolution appointing the vigilance
committee which was given the power
to increase it's number to thirty and
to solicit funds and to engage counsel,
called upon ''the police department to
put forth additional efforts looking to
the arrest of all those implicated in the
Rosenthal murder; upon the district at
torney to bend every energy of his Of
flee, as he has been doing, for the alp
prehension and conviction of those
guilty of this crime; upon the alder
manic committee to make a thorough,
non-partisan and unsparing examina-
tion into existing conditions and into
causes which give rise to systems of
blackmail and graft and to propose
remedies by which these causes may be
removed; and upon the citizens and Of
ficials having information on these con-
ditions to lay 1t before the district at
torney or the aldermanic committee in
the full confidence that they will be
protected against terrorism and op-
preston of every sort"
Washington, August 13: The an
nual postoffice appropriation bill pass
ed the senate tonight at the end of two
days sharp fighting over provisions re-
lating to parcels post, good roads i'm
provement and the affiliation of postal
employees with labor organizations. AS
1t goes back to the house 1t contains
some restriction on the right of postal
employees to organize. an entirely new
system of parcels post, based on the
zone plan, with varying rates for vary
ing distances. The measure will go into
conference with many important differ
ences remaining to be settled. The
house provided that no employe of the
postal service should be subject to re-