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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
MAINE VICTIMS WILL
 REST AT ARLINGTON

Washington, March 2o-The scout crus- r Birmingham, bearing the recently re- lowered remains of the victims of the old |battleship Maine, arrived at the navy |gard here today. The 34 collins will be kept at the navy yard until Saturday. when they will be taken to the state,
 var and navy building. where there will
 De memorial services attended by Presi-
 | lent Taft and other officials. 1nterment
 | Will he at the naval cemetery at Airing on. The funeral pageant promises to be
 he most impressive in the history of the ',apital.
 Congress will adjourn for the ceremonies
 | md all offices will be closed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
Conference Postponed

Washington, March 2o.-Presidenl Taft late today postponed indefinitely his proposed conference with John Nit chell regarding the coa, situation. This announcement from the White House unaccompanied by any reason for the change in plans, came soon after con ference between the President and Sec retary of Commerce and Labor Nagel who saw the President shortly after his return from New England. Secretary Nagel and pr. Charles r. Neill, United States Commissioner of Labor, are keep ing in touch with developments in the situation.
 While officials are extremely reticent as to the cause of the postponement of the conference with the labor leader, which had been scheduled for Friday or Saturday, il was generally believed the President and Secretary feared the ae- tiyity of the administration at this time might be premature and might compl.- cate the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
LnFollette to Washington

Chicago March 20.-Senator LaFollette continued his Washington journey today. Before leaving he reiterated hts statement that the results in North Dakota showed that the people considered principles and not persons in casting their votes. He announced that he was satisfied
 April l. he said. he would start another itinerary He will first visit Massachu- setts and other New England states, afterward returning to the west, where he will campaign in Nebraska and thence out to the coast of the Pacific.
 Washington, March 2o-Director Me Kinley of the Taft campaign heauquar- ters today characterized North Dakota s primary as an indication of what might happen in so-called soapbox primary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
DISCUSS DANCING
 AND CARD PLAYING

Kansas City, March 20.-card play ing. dancing and theatregoing are among the topics scheduled for dis cussion by the 44th annual meeting of the St. Louis conference of the Metho- dist Episcopal church which began here today
 "Drop it or enforce it." is the slo- gan of many ministers regarding the Methodist rule against these diver sions.
 Bishop William A. Quayley Of Okla homa is presiding
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
Delegates Elected

Fargo, N D., March 20-Roosevelt car rled but one of the eastern tier of coun- ties in the primary yesterday. Thomas Marshall, the LaFollette candidate for national committeeman, has a majority which it is believed will equal that of LaFollette. The LaFollette presidential delegates have all been elected with ma jorities ranging about the same as the head of the ticket
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
Boyle Credits Gas Theory

Oklahoma City. Okla. March 2o.--In the opinion of State Mine Inspector Boyle who left for McCurtain this afternoon, gas was responsible for the explosion which wrecked the Sans Bois mine. The mount of dust Tn the mine, he thought was small. Boyle visited the mine last Saturday to make ah inspection. but this vas deferred as the mine had closed for the week The inspector, however was lssured by number of the men that ihe mine was in good condition. Five months ago Boyle ordered the property closed for several weeks while conditions he regarded as unsatisfactory were be- Ing remedied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
UNDERWOOD BUSY ON WOOLEN BILL Will Use Data Gathered by
 Tariff Board NO EXCUSE FOR VETO Should Taft Put Different Construc-
 
NO EXCUSE FOR VETO
Should Taft Put Different Construc- ton on Data Will Demonstrate Futility of Board-Under-
 wood Is Being Justified
By WALTER HARPER

Washington, March 2O.-(Special.)-W the sugar and excise tax bills out of the way in the House, MT. Underwood got busy today on woolen bill which will
 be presented as soon as it can be gotten in shape. With the woolen bill through
 the House and up to the Senate the latter body will have five tariff bills before It.. Following the wooden bill MT. Underwood
 will probably rest on tariff Legislation un-
 til the fate of the other bills is known. ' By speeding up the Senate may be able to work off the five bills that are pre- sented by the early part of June. If they are passed and are signed by the
 President MT. Underwood will probably
 continue the work of revising the tariff
 until the entire list of IA schedules Is revised.
 I If the bills are vetoed Congress will adjourn without further work on the
 tariff
 Will Use Tariff Board Report
 The wooden schedule will be framed
 with the information submitted by the
 Presidents tariff board before the ways
 and means committee All the data of value in the report will be accepted and considered by the committee just as in- 1 formation from any reliable source is con-
 sidered.
 1 It is understood that those who have
 examined the voiuminous report of the board declare that it will justify a re- duction in this schedule. President Taft
 and his party are pledged to substantial | reduction of this particular schedule. It will be revised downward by the demo- f..s .s..-- MT Taft will do with bill based on in- formation from his tariff board that re-
 duces the duties on wool
 Taft's Dilemma l Can he have any excuse for veto? l If he should put an opposite construc- ton on the data furnished by the board l than is applied on it by the ways and
 means committee he will emphasize the
 absolute futilty of his board. If the boards s data sustains a material reduction will the people not conclude
 that the same conditions would be found as to the other schedules of the Payne
 tariff?
 l Many politicians who did not at first
 understand why MT. Underwood held up
 the revision of the wooden schedule until | he had put others up to the Senate and Ion the way to the President arc gradu- ally beginning to realize that there is great political sagacity in the move. Everyone admits that MT. Underwood 1 knows what he Is about and his colleagues
 are willing to allow him to have his
 way. The fact that he does not run pro miscuously into print with his legislative 1 programme and purposes does not mean
 that he has no fixed and well laid plans. l When this session of Congress comes to close, he 1t early or late, Mir. .Un-
 derwood will emerge as the greatest leg
 islatve leader since the war in any party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
Views Heard in Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa, March W.-(Special. )-Ihe
 congressional campaign in the interest of
 Frank S. Moody will be waged on tho
 ground that Richmond P. Hobson Is not
 resident of the Sixth district, that he has
 no home in the district that his children
 were not born in the district, that he Is
 not an exponent nf the thought and sen
 timent of the Sixth district and of the southland, and that he is a democrat only
 in name; that in other words, his ten-
 dencies are toward the progressive and
 extreme ideas of Woodrow Wilson, Will
 liam J. Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt
 Henry A. Jones, one of the prominent men of |hsca oosa. supported Captain Hobson when that gentleman was an op- ponent of Senator Bankhead. At the pres
 ent time he is supporting MT Moody.
 Rather than Hobson," said he, 'I would
 support any man of even mediocre ability in the Sixth district. This is due to the fact that he does not think as we do does
 not sympathize with us and is not an exponent of the ideas which are charac- teristic of the people who live below the Mason and Dixon line. When Hobson voted to reinstate tha burly negroes of
 progressive ideas who succeeded in their diabolical pict of shooting up the city of Brownsville. Tex, I was surprised l asked the oartn!n why he had so voted In detail ne has given me his explanation. Still I cannot understand how he could have voted to reinstate those desper- adoes Hobson cannot understand why I cannot understand. The situation is as plain as the nose on the face. Hobson
 does not understand the people he is al | leged to represehf. and the people cannot l understand IIGbgcn. The people and their l representative have no ground in com
 mon. no thought ir common. He does | not live among us. The old Hobson home
 a. Greensboro is leased Were he forced
 to spend a few weeks in this state he
 would have no place of his own in which 10 lay his head. His children were not horn in Alabama. He is one entirely l apart.
 Vandergraaff's Views
 | A. S. Vandergraaf, another of the prominent men of thought in Tusca- :, loosa, supported Hobson when he was a candidate against Bankhead. At the present time he is supporting MT Moody MT Vandergraan Is essentially a democrat. The principals or the party are ground into his bones. His first vote was cast for Grover Cleveland, and at the present time one of his dearest hopes is that oscar Underwood will be nominated in June and elected in No vember In discussing Hobson. MT. i iVandergraan said: The democratic party some months ago obtained con- trol of the House. This was an end for which we had been fighting Tor many
 years It Is the object of the democrat | effort of today that they be not betrayed 1 .r the moment of their triumph. as they
 were betrayed when Grover Cleveland
 was at the head of our nation. It is q | crisis in the affairs of the party. We can afford to send no other than dem ocrat to Congress. We need man from | the sixth district who -iill get actively ! to work behind oscar Underwood We 
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CARL aonRis ourroINTEp.

Now York, March 2o.-Jim Stewart, the Brooklyn heavy weight. outpointed Carl Morris of Oklahoma in 10 round bout at the Empire Athletic club to- night. Stewards work was clean CT cut than that of Morris, the Brooklynite landing straight lefts to the face and occasion ally a right to tine body and right uppercuts, while Morris de- pended a great deal on might ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
NO RESULTS FROM THE CONFERENCE OF THE LEADERS 350,O00 Miners Are Likely to Quit Work on
 April 1
 xe ENGLIs, sy. .rUATIoN
 ss >WS CRITICAL sp A. J, Q ,ur Will Move Rejection of Q mum Wage Bill Today. Settlement of the Strike
 Until Next Week

Cleveland. O.. March 20.-Wage discus sions between the operators and repre- sentatives of 100000 union miners in the bitumnous coal fields of western Penn sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, aim ing at averting a prolonged suspension of business after April l, and also to avert possible strike today were without defi- nite results.
 The prospect that all bituminous coal mines would be closed after the first of the month, pending the making of a new two years working and wage agreement, was said to be imminent. It also was said the lack of a wage scale in the central states would leave the union bi- luminous coal miners in other states with out a basis upon which to work and they would have to close. entailing idleness for more than S5o,0oO miners.
 No Vote Taken | After today's conference adjourned over until tomorrow. the union officials and | operator announced only the first of miners demands had been considered and no vote had been taken. This demand is that all the men be paid on the run | of the mine' basis.
 In the readjustment of this basis the miners demand an increase of 10 cents a ton over the average price now paid They also want shorter working hours.
 The operators ask 10 per cent reduc- 1 tion in the present rate. 1t was pointed | out that a continuation of the present scale would be in the nature of a com promise between the opposing demands, but the miners assert they will not re- | turn to work without more pay and a material shortening of hours.
 Merely Skirmish
 Asked if he considered today's confer ence indicated an early settlement. John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, with eight union directly concerned, Is pressing the de- mands, said:
 "Today's conference was merely a skrmish. It does not indicate anything 1 It is apparent however. that the bitumi- nous coal mines will close on April l. because no agreement can be reached be- | fore then, and even if an agreement is reached it will have to be submitted to a referendum vote of the union, or fhs union will have to be called in conven tion. Tomorrow probably we will tak' up the demands one by one. Only after 1 We have gone over all of them and have started voting, can we determine whether there will be an early settlement"
 "Wil a strike be called if the present conference fails to agree?" MT. White waa asked
 That should be left to the imagina- tion."
 1 J. G. Kilsen, Terre Haute, Ind, who was appointed spokesman for the 32 oper- | ators here, said the operators regarded | a suspension as unavoidable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
COFFIN SERIOUSLY INJURED.

New York, March 20.-Al- though first examinations indi- cated that he had been but slightly injured. physicians said tonight that Frank Coffyn, the aviator. who was hurt today in an automobile smashup in Cen tral park, possibly has sustained fracture at the base Of the skull. His condition Is serious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
Count Bullet Holes

Persons otherwise unemployed have busted themselves counting bullet holes in the court room which a week ago was the scene of the massacre. Upwards of 200 have been found and the wonder is that more persons we're not killed by the fusillade.
 On account of the short range most of the bullets lodged in the walls after piercing the bodies of their victims. Twenty seven of the bullets fired nit those killed and wounded.
 Governor Mann today sent letters to Court Clerk Dexter Goad and his daugh- ter, Jazebel, commenting them for their bravery in the court room last Thurs day. The governor expressed the opin- ion that justice would be done in Car roll county.
 Dr. Wilkinson, the village physician, was busy today denying an assertion credited to Sheriff c. H. Haynes of Sur ry county, North Carolina, to the eff feet that the doctor was believed to have secretly visited Sidna Allen at his mountain refuge on Saturday and dressed his wounds.
 There is absolutely no truth In any such statement as that" said pr. Wilk- inson today If l haa sny information to help the posses locate the Aliens l would give it to them at once"
 Winston Salem, N. C., March 2o.-Two men said to answer the description of Fred Allen and Wesley Edwards. mem- bers of the Allen clan, and who were seen walking toward Pilot Mountain, were ar rested at that place today. They proved to be two Winston Salem boys walking to their home. One was the son of Po- liceman Swain of Salem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
AMuNDsEN TO BEuNos AIRES

Hobart. Tasmania, March 2o.-- The Fran, the famous Arctic and Antarctic exploring ship in which Capt. Rosld Amundsen re- gently made the voyage to the south pole, when he succeeded in discovering the south pole. sailed today for Buenos Ayres.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
Progressive Proposals

ITO further the rule of the majority, continued the speaker. the progressvcs of the republican party in certain states have formulated certain proposals for changed in the form of the state goyes-- ment-certain checks and balances which may check and balance the special in- terests and their allies.
 First, there are the initiative and referendum, which are so framed that \ the legislatures obey the command - some special interest and oostinately re- fuse the will of the majority, the ma iority may step in and legsate directly
 "Then there is the direct primary-the real one, not the New York one. and that, too. the progressives offer as check on the special interests. Most clearly or all does it seem to me that this change is wholly good-for every state
 The direct primary, If accompamed by stringent, corrupt practices act, will help break up corrupt partnership of corpor- ations and politicians.
 My opponents charge that two things in my programme are wrong because they intrude into the sanctuary of the iudiciary The first is the recall ot iudgen. and the second the review by the people of judicial decisions on certain constitL tioual questions. have said again aNd again that l do not advocate the recall of judges in all states and in all communities.
 'But-I say 1t. soberly- y-democracy nas right to approach the sanctuary of the courts when special interest has cor ruptly found sanctuary there; and this is exactly what has happened in some of the states where the recall of the judges is a living issue I would far more will ingiy trust the whole people to judge such a case than some special tribunal perhaps appointed by the same power that chose the judge-if that tribunal IS --~---~-->>~~>---~------ --->--~~-~---~--~-v|~~-~-
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Interviews With Well Known Men on the HObsOn-
 Moody Contest
TUSCALOOSA SAFE
 FOR COLONEL MOODY
Greene County May Be Close With Indications That Moody May Get as Much as One Hundred Majority
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

Eutaw, March 20.-(Special) )-Greene
 county is deeply interested in the race
 for congressional honors in which Frank s. Moody and Richmond P. Hobson are playing the leading roles.
 This is true in spite of the fact that
 there is in progress here red hot cam
 paign for and against a bond issue of
 sl20.O00 for the benefit of the roads of the county. Captain Hobson made three
 speeches in Greene today. and apparently Is making a strenuous effort to accom- plish that which he has never yet been
 able to do, carry Greene in those cleo tions when he has had opposition. As a rule, the leading citizens of Eutaw intend voting for Senator Moody. A. P. Smith. probate judge; John w. Cook. mayor;
 Judge T. w. Coleman, president of the
 Merchants and Farmers Bank of Greene
 county E. C. Meredith. Sr., sheriff; w R. Mckrall, county clerk: James Coleman,
 editor of the Greene County Democrat;
 John Mckinley and W. H. Hawkins, prominent attorneys and others are sup
 porting Moody.
 o. Rutherford, editor of the Eutaw Whig and Observer, Is an admrer of Captain Hobson, as are pr. w. B. Cam
 eron, a prominent dentist; A. N. Grubbs,
 one of the most extensive merchants of
 the county; J. T. Denson, well known | attorney, and others.
 The estimate is that the county will ,as. between 700 and 500 votes. The supporters
 of Moody generally agree that he will win in Greene by between 75 and 100 votes. The Hobson contingency is hopeful and some members of them predict the sue cess of the hero of the Merrimac.
 Opinions of Citizens
 Judge Smith. who has served as pro- bate judge of Greene for about 20 ycars
 when asked today concerning Hobson, re- piled. "Hobson is not true representa- tive of the sixth district. If he has a message to deliver to the people on the Chatauqua platform he should resign his
 seat In Congress- and deliver 1t. AS 8
 rule this is the sentiment of the majority of the people of the county.
 Editor Rutherford is of the opinion that l Hobson will win. When asked today why
 he Is supporting Hobson he replied Be-
 cause he is a man all the way through and a citizen of whom the United States is justly proud"
 Judge Coleman, who Is the best known man of Greene county as far az the state and nation are concerned, is for Moody He states, however, that he has retired from the political arena. in which for
 merly he played such a conspicuous part
 T have always felt said he this after
 noon that Moody will carry Greene. However, l believe that the result will be in accordance with the changes made within the next ten days The situation evidently is elose.'
 Greene county cast 567 votes in the last
 Hobson- Bankhead campaign and Bank head carried the county by majority of s1 Mayor Cook stated this afternoon
 that he had heard of no Bankhead voter changing and that he knew several men
 who voted for Hobson before who will vote for Moody April l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
Roosevelt's Speech
r. Roosevelt said i'm part:

MT. Roosevelt said In part.
 "The great fundamental issue now be- fore the republican party and before our people can be stated briefly. It Is. Arc the American people fit to govern them eslves. to rule themselves, to eontr0 themselves? | believe they are. My oe- ponents do not. believe in the right oS the people to rule. 1 believe that thr majority of the pla,n people of the United States will day in and day out, make fewer mistakes in governing themselves than any smaller class body of men no matter what their training, will make in trying to govern them l believe. again. that the American people are, AS a whole. capable of sef-contro and of learning by their mistakes. Our oppo- nents pay lip-loyalty to this doctrine; but they show their real beliefs by the way in which they champion every device to make the nominal rule of the people a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-21
.SEARCHERS FOR THE ALIENS bAFFLED Another Death May Result
 From Shooting |GOAD IS COMMENDED
Gov. Mann Writes Letter Compliment ing Clerk and Daughter for Their Bravery During Shooting.
 Outlaws Reported Seen

Hillsville, Va, March 20.-With the search for the Allen gang fruitless on the eve of the seventh day since the courthouse tragedy, IL seems probable tonight that the death list soon may be increased to six before morning Andrew P Hewlett who was shot in the back, Is not expected to live through the night He was wounded while trying to protect his wife from the shower of lead which killed the judge, prosecutor, sheriff, wounded several others and set tied the country side into such a state of excitement as 1t had never known. The ball cut through his body, coming out above the chest.
 Deputies Still Absent
 Detectives, who were hurriedly sum moned by messenger yesterday to the supposed hiding place of the Allen gang had not returned from their quest at night fall. With almost week elapsed since the shooting up of the court not a single authentic report has reached here of the movements of any of the outlaws who have spread terror throughout the countryside for more than a generation
 It is believed that there are a dozen of the Aliens and their henchmen in the band somewhere in the mountain fast nesses hereabout and many of the men in the posses, which trained detectives are leading. are mountaineers accum toned to the country and to mountain skirmishing.
 The law of Carroll county has thus far been powerless to relieve the situ- ation, but the detectives and their fol- lowers are not disheartened. If bush whacking and warfare are brought to play, as now seems inevitable, the All lens will meet their full matches ir cunning, courage and endurance. II the chase becomes a siege it will con tinue until tho last of the Allen clan. is killed or captured.