Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-08
Scraps and fats.


missed the indictment and the su-
preme court held the lower court had
erred.
Senator La Toilette laid before
the senate last Tuesday what, he de-
clared, was evidence of a widespread
conspiracy t. intimidate, coerce ana
control the interstate commission ana
force them to grant eastern rallroaos
the per cent freight rate increase Tor
which application is pending. Tne
senator spoke on his bill to make II
criminal offence to seek to influence
decisions of the commission. He talK-
ed for more than two hours and pro-
duced a mass of newspaper clippings
comics of letter and kilograms which
found their way to the commission,
in which the authors urged favorable
action on the railroad people. Tne
commission must find its decision on
the evidence and testimony taken py
It, and not on the evidence from such
a campaign, he said. In the course
of his speech the senator declared
that in Washington newspapers
President Wilson had frequently been
made to appear in favor OF the rate
increase. He said he could not be-
lieve that the president sought TO IN,
fuence the commission, but expressed
surprise that these published reports
of his attitude had never been denied
Revelations in the Frank case '""'~
day to day asnew witnesses are calleo
in Judge Ben Hills court in the extra
ordinary motion for a new trial, are
fast making one of the biggest bribery
and perjury scandals that ever came
to light in the southern states. WORK
ers for and against Frank have been
accused Of every crookedness ana al
most every crime under the sun. The
climax came Wednesday with revela-
tions of an alleged poison plot In
which Jim Conley was the intended
victim. Annie Maud Carter, who re-
Gently was in Jail on conviction for
robbery. testified that she was allow
ed considerable liberty in moving
around inside the Jail, and that one
day when she was walking in the part
of the Jail where Franks cell was To-
Gated a friend Of Franks came TO her
and asked If she wanted to get rich
quick. The Carter woman said the man
asked her If she ever visited Conley's
cell. She said she was going there
then. Thereupon, according to the
witness the friend Of Frank said in ef-
feet: Take this bottle, and be mighty
careful Of it. Don't get any OF 1t on
you. 1t is dangerous. Just put one
drop in the food that is given Conley.
The Carter woman said she repned
that she didn't want to have anything
to do with killing anybody, and that
the matter ended. Another sensation
of the past was the action Of Judge
Hill, on request of the solicitor gener-
al, in holding Dan Lehon Of the Burns
detective agency, in $1,000 bond, as a
witness in the grand jury investiga-
tio~ into the Ragsdale affidavit and
bribery scandal.
Washington special of May 8, to
the News and Courier: Today's most
interesting development in congress
sional circles was the sudden report
ing of the Hobson prohibition amend
ment to the Federal Constitution
from the house committee on the 5u-
dietary. The amendment was re-
ported without recommendation. Al
the same time an amendment looking
to woman suffrage was similarly re-
ported from the same committee.
The course of the committee was a
shock to the majority of the member
ship, which had believed that it would
be impossible for the advocates or
either amendment to get 1t out OF
committee at the present session. The
idea of a roll-call on the prohibition
amendment is particularly distaste-
full to a large proportion OF the house
in view of the approaching campaign.
1t is understood that the vote of the
committee to report the Hooson
amendment was largely due to the
action of the Republicans on the COM
mittee, who desire to embarrass the
Democrats for political reasons, and
who, therefore, voted with the prohi-
bition Democrats. While the prevail
ing opinion of the best informed men,
bers is that neither the prohiDltlon
nor the suffrage amendment will
reach a roll-call in the house at this
session, it is realized that the advo-
Gates of both amendments have
gained a point in getting them out OF
committee and that there is good
deal of uncertainty about the situa-
ton. Every parliamentary device
will doubtless be employed to Sc
cure the roll-call which the majority
of the members would like to avoid.
Washington, May 5: With the ex-
planation that the Baltimore platform
merely approved of congressional ac-
ton in asserting the right Of the
United States to exempt from tolls,
American vessels passing through the
Panama canal, but did not sanction
the granting Of subsidies to American
coastwise vessels, Senator, Stone OF
Missouri. today told the senate that
he would vote for tolls exemption re-
peal, after voting for the exemption
in 1912. Challenging many argu-
ments made in favor of exemption
made by Speaker Champ Clark with
out mentioning the latter by name,
however, the senator expressed as
tonishment at eminent members OF
the house and senate taking the "su-
perficial view" of the Baltimore plat
forms pronouncement on tolls. Sem
ator Stone declared that the action
of congress in 1912, in passing the
exemption in the face of a protest
from Great Britain, was Americas
answer for all time for its rights to
do as it pleased with the canal. mo
foreign government is now asking us
to repeal this law" asserted Senator
Stone, who is chairman of the foreign
relations committee. True it is that
in the course of the debate it has
been said that the exemption violates
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. But that
is being said here in congress and in
American and foreign newspapers,
and not by foreign governments. No
foreign government has filed any pro-
test against the exemption since its
enactment" Having presented his
viewpoint on international rights in
the canal, Senator Stone said congress
was now proceeding to deal with the
domestic question of subsidies; that
coastwise vessels already enjoyed a
monopoly and that he had heard they
were in league with the transconti-
mental railroads. In support of this
charge, he had been informed that
coastwise ships refuse to convey any
passengers from Norfolk to any port
south of that city, such as Charles
ton, Savannah or Jacksonville.
Vigorous criticism of the admins
tons Mexican policy and a heated
debate over the Vera Cruz situation,
marked the effort Of Senator Lippitt
of Rhode Island, Wednesday, to Sc
cure action in the senate on his reso-
luton asking President Wilson If he
is supporting Pancho Villa for the
next ruler of Mexico. Chairman Stone
of the foreign relations committee,
defended the administration. The
resolution was laid on the table with
out a recorded vote. THE suspicion
that our government is aiding, or
even condoning the villainous Villa is
so sickening that l long have refused
to believe it, said Senator Lippitt.
But the reports that the administra-