Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-27
Straps and faets.

- Answering simultaneous cnallenS-
es from Austria and Montenegro,
says a Constantinople dispatch of last
Saturday, Turkey has begun rapid
mobilization Of troops. The invasion
OF Novibazar by Austrian soldiers is
taken as an intimation that Austria
has decided upon another grab. The
call of the entire Montenegro army is
believed to mean that King Nicholas
will attempt to aneX northern AL
bania. Bulgaria was also reported tC
be showing military activity. Car
Ferdinand wants Macedonia. 1t is be-
lieved that Turkeys neighbors con-
slider the time ripe for dismemberine
the Ottoman empire. The Turks viii
resist desperately. One member OF
the cabinet said today that the world
will have a chance soon to see how
Turks can fight. Their showing agains
Italy was poor, he observed, because
it was naval campaign. Turkey has
no warships that will do more thar
float. On land, he declared, it will be
different. He pointed out that foreign
as we'll as Turkish military authorities
consider the Turkish soldiers perhaps
the finest in the world. The danger
from abroad seems likely to avert 6
revolution. Rival parties are forget
ting their differences. The govern.
ment has received assurances Of sup.
port from leaders Of the Young Turk
ish group.
- Washington, August 26: Congress
ended another billion dollar session to-
day, but the exact total of the nations
cost of living varies as it Is seen
through Republican and Democratic
eyes. The total appropriations for the
fiscal year of 1913, which began July
1, 1912, amount to $1,019,636,143.66 as
given to the senate and house today
by Senator Warren and Representative
Fitzgerald, respectively the chairmer
of the two appropriation committees
1t is conceded by both Of these leaders
that this is $7,046,000 less than the ma
tion's budget of 1912, but it remained
for former Speaker Cannon, in behalf
of the Republican forces of the house
to produce figures to show that the
present Democratic congress had ac-
tually appropriated more for general
purposes than did the preceding Re-
publican congress. Representative Can
non declared that out Of the general
total should be taken all expenditures
made for the Panama canal. With such
deductions, he said, the total appro-
priations for 1913 would be 1890, ,655, ,143,
as compared with a total of $9S1, 1,122,-
SS1 appropriated for general purposes
last year. Predictions that the gov
ernment would face heavy deficit al
the end of the year were made both by
Senator Warren and Representative
Cannon. Senator Warren said Presi-
dent Taft and his cabinet had carefully
reduced estimates to the lowest figures
The appropriations actually made are
over 21,000,000 less than the estimates
and the Republican leaders declare 1t
will be impossible for the existing gov
- The proposed plan Of Acting
Chairman McAdoo Of the Democratic
national committee to have the banks
receive and transmit campaign contri-
buttons for the Democratic, Republi-
can and Progressive parties is not ille-
gal, so far as the national banks are
concerned, provided the banks incur
no extra expense and undertake the
work voluntarily. This opinion was
given to Secretary MacVeagh by r. A.
Reeve, acting solicitor Of the treasury
department, who examined the nation
al banking and campaign publicity
laws with reference to the proposition,
the legality Of which was called into
question few days ago by Represen-
tative Hill Of Connecticut. The comp
troller Of the currency will be furnish
ed copy Of the opinion for his guild
ance in case the plan is adopted.
john D. Archbold Of the Standard
Oil company. on last Friday told the
senate committee that is investigating
campaign funds that in 1904 the
Standard Oil company made a contri-
button of S125,000 to the Republican
war chest. Mr.. Archbold said that
100000 of the money was paid to
Cornelius N. Bliss, the treasurer of
the Republican party, with the distinct
understanding that it was desired and
would be appreciated by Col. Roose-
welt. He said that the remaining
$4,000 was paid to Senator Penrose
OF Pennsylvania, for campaign pur-
poses. Senator Penrose corroborated
the statement and went on to say that
Col. Roosevelt afterward sought to get
an additional 100000 from the Stand
ard Oil company, and it was because
that amount was not forthcoming that
Mr.. Roosevelt fell out with the COM
pany and later sought to annoy it with
litigation. Mr.. Roosevelt requested
the right to go before the committee
and tell his side; but was told that
the committee would not meet again
until September.
Scenes in the house early this
morning, says Washington dispatch,
were burlesque; about twenty Of the
old guard, most of them Democrats,
remained. Up in the rostrum, sat
Speaker Clark, worn out, but enjoying
the capers Of some of the members,
whose mock speeches, stories and
limitations of their colleagues were not
put into the official record. In the
cloak room pillows were in demand
and once Republican Leader Mann,
who rarely leaves his seat, picked a
comfortable sofa and rested for few
minutes. Representative Levy, of
New York, sleeping soundly on a
couch in the lobby back of the house
chamber, started quickly when a col
league yelled "All out for Manhattan
transfer" Representative Kinkhead
Of New Jersey, established himself as
the wit Of the house by hours Of con-
tinuous laughable speechmaking. He
gave limitations Of Speaker Clark. re-
peating from memory part of the
speakers speech early in the day, of
Leaders Mann and Underwood and of
some of the humber members; told
Irish stories, broke into song and
kept everybody laughing. Once in the
middle of a peroration extolling the
merits of the Hackensack river, which
he said Columbus had spied with
glasses, when he landed at San Saliva
dor, a five-year old child who had
crept into the speakers chair dur
ing a recess, raped with the gavel
and announced that the time of the
gentleman from New Jersey had eX-
pired. A hundred spectators, most
ly women, remained in the gallaries
all night.
Washington, August 26: Silenced by
the embarrassments of Saturdays all
night session of filibusters and dis
agreements, congress adjusted its diff
ferenceS tOday invited President Taft