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- - .NORTH CAROLINA CROPS HEAVY APPROPRIATIONSminI

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Largest Appropriation rer Made fotfPublic Buildings.

Washington, Special. Subject t4Kchanges, the Senate committee outpublic buildings and grounds, upon vconvening made public the amend-ments made during: its night session

Past Session Has Been One of UnusualActivity and Public Importance jr.

in thev v omnibus public building bill . v .

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'Among the new items included, are vthe following: - " ,

Lynchburg, Va., $80,000; Fernart- -'dina, Fa , $100,000; Greenwood, ;S.-C- . --

$75,000; Clifton v" Forge, Va., $40-,- - V .

000; Dalton Ga.t $7,500; Waycross,Ga $7,500. :

Reductions in appropriations from: 'vthe House bill are as follows:

Greenville, S. C, $80,000 to $75-,-000- ;

Florence, Ala., $150,000 to $40,-- " '

000; Tuscaloosa, Ala., $150,000 to "- ,

$125,000; Ocala, Fla., $80,000 to $65,-00- 0;

Portsmouth Va., $98,000 to $90-,- --

000; Dothan, Ala.. $40,000 to $35,-00- 0;

Albany; G a., $125,000, to $100-00-0.

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The Senate committee made in-creases in the House appropriationsas follows: .

Marietta, Ga., $5,000 to $50,000;.Fayetteville, N. C, $10,000 to $60,-- 7

000; Paris, Term., $10,000 to $40,-- Hy000 Chattanooga, Terin., $50,000 to -

Gainesville, Ga., $45,000; - 'to $50,000; Salisbury N. C, $60,000

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to $75,000; Washington, N. C, $60,-- ' '

000 to $75,000,; Fredericksbui-g- , Va.,1

$30,000 to $40,000; Griffin, Ga., $5,-- .

000 to $7,500; Newman, G a., $5000"to $7500. v ;

To the general legislation of the ' '

House is added a provision for tear-in- g

down and rebuilding the publicbuilding at Richmond, Va., and con--'tracts are authorized not to exceed$200,000, with a limit of cost for thebuilding when completed of $800,-000- .-

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Leading Sunday School Workers ,Hold Meeting.

Knoxville, Special. A meeting washeld in Knoxville last week of some vof the leading Sunday school workersof Knoxville preparatory to the meet-ing of Sunday schools of East Ten-- '

nessee in Knoxville-o- n September 5,6 a,nd 7. Secretary Edward Albrightof the state organization was--i- n thecity to (give the matter impetus. ' A '

chairman of the entertainment, pom--, "X'l "I,lr - LLLLU.X l iCI.

mum, and what practice is just, farand reasonable to be thereafter fol-

lowed, and may issue an order fortheir observance, which " shall takeeffect within such reasonable time,not less than thirty days, and shallcontinue in force for such period notexceeding two years, as shall be pre-scribed in the order of the commis-sion, unless the same shall be sus-pended or jnodified, or set aside bythe commission or be suspended, orset aside by a court of competentjurisdiction. " The . power to pre-scribe rates extends to through andjoint rates where the carriers havefailed to agree upon them and com-

plaint is made. Elaborate provisionis made for enforcing the orders ofthe commission, by prosecutions forfailure to comply with the require-ments of the law and for forfeituresand penalties. Incidentalv in desig-nating the venue for suits against thecommission to "enjoin, set aside, an-

nul or suspend any order or require-ment of thu commission," jurisdic-tion for such suits is specifically vest-ed in the Circuit Courts of the Unit-ed States. This is a point which pro-voked such a ponderous and prolong-ed debate in the Senate. The provis-ions of the- - former Act for expedit-ing " the hearing and determinationof suit in equity an so forth" ismade applicable, with some furtherspecifications, and here the provisoover which so much contention wasmade is interposed, ' ' that no injunc-tion or interiocutory order or decreesuspending or restraining the enforce-ment of an order of the commissionshall be-grante- except on . hearingafter not less than five days' noticeto the commission.'

The other important provisions arethose relating to annual reports to thecommission, the details of which arefully prescribed, giving the commis-sion power in its deseretion to pre-scribe forms for all "acounts, re-

cords and memoranda to be kept bythe carriers" subject to the Act, in-

cluding those relating to the move-ment of traffic, as well as receiptsand expenditures, and enlarging thecommission to seven members withseven-yea- r "terms and increasing sal-

aries to $10,000. a year. There is nodoubt that this bill has greatly stren-gthened and improved the inter-Stat- e

commerce law. How. this provisiongivingjthe eorammscribe ra tes" will ' work : r.an only. hedetermined by experience. Probablythe only effect it will have will be toput the carriers on their guard andinduce them to take pains with theirschedules ' to avoid conflict wTith the' A

authority of the commission. Thecommission may also be' cautionsabout conflict over' rates, but if thereshould be serious conflict the cum-bersome system would probably breakdown by its own weight.

New Canal Commission.

Washington, Special Because ofthe failure of the Senate to confirmthe Isthmian Canal Commission, Pres-

ident Roosevelt lias named a newcommission consisting of Theodore P.Shonts, chairman; John F. Stevens.Governor, Governor Charles E. Ma-goo- d,

Brigadier General Peter C.

Hains, U. S., (retired), MordecalEndicott, civil engineer, U. S. N.

and Benjamin M. Harrod. members.

News Notes.

Attorney-Gener- al Moody had con-

ference with the special counsel en-

gaged by the Government to assist inthe Standard Oil investigation.

--The treaty between the UnitedStates and Santo Domingo will prob-

ably be postponed until next Decem-

ber.Rpidnls of joints near Fort Mon

roe complai.T of rccklecs firing fromthe big .yuns at the iort.

State Auditor Dixon saysthat reports' from corporationsare now pouring into hisoffice. The State now derivesa very considerable revenue from cor-

porations, some coming in from thefees for charters, the license fees, thegeneral taxes and also the taxes onwhat are known as the excess value,the latter amounting to a good manymillions of dollars.

'The agricultural department issending out experts to several points,in the State to collect exhibits whichgo to New England. Mr. H. F. Ad-dic- ks

goes to Blowing Rock to makecollections in that part of the State.

j Congressman J. H. Small Renominat- -

, ed. -Elizabeth City, Special. Tho-conventi-

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for the first congressional' district was beld Here and ion. .i. ii.J Small was nominated- - without oppo

sit ion-t- o succeed himself. Mr.Smallappeared before the' convention andmade a lo minute speech, in - whichhe declared tha t Bryan would be theNominee for President in 1903 andthat his election was a practical

EXPLAINS RATE Billi

Fact About the Leading Piece

of Work By Last Congress

ITS STRONG AND WEAK POINTS

Salient Features of the MeasureWhich Became a Law AfterLengthy Consideration.

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It is something of .a task to studyin detail the "rate bill" as it hasbecome law. It may, therefore, beuseful to our readers to make a sum-mary of the salient features thatwork important changes in the inter-Stat- e

commerce law. The definitionof common carriers includes for thefirst time express-companie- s and pipelines for the transportation of oil, butnot seelping car companies. Thedefinition of a railroad 'covers all theappurtenances connected with tracksanch .terminals, and the term "trans-portation" covers all the instumen-fautie- s

used in receiving, conveyingand delivering persons or property,including what is necessary "for venti-lation, refrigeration, storage, han-dling, etc. This brings under the lawthe so-call- ed private car companiesand elevators. The elause restrictingthe-us- of passes or free transporta-tion is new, but it is pretty liberal inthe exceptions made. The provisionsintended to prevent, common carriersfrom: competing in production andtrde in commodities which theycarry is limited to railroad companiesand: takes effect on the first of May,1908. The niairi purpose of this,which was one of the Senate amend-mtsj:;- is

to divorce the ownership,control, a lid operation of coal minesfrom the railroads engaged in trans-porting the product, but it appliestOi all other commodities except suchas may be for the use of the railroadsin their business as common carriers.Railroads are required to make onreasonable terms such connection, atshipping points by means of spurs,sid-ingsj'et- c,

as may be "reasonablypracticable," where it will result in'ffijeatbjinessJ,.' to just ify, theconstruction" arid" maintenance of thesame." Whenever they fail to dothis and complaint is made, the com-mission after investigation may re-

quire it to be done, and its orders inthe premises may be enforced by thesame proceedings as its other orders.

The provisions regarding the filingand posting of schedules of rates andcharges are fuller and more explicitthan those of the law at present.-The- y

must include all through andjoint rates, or, where these are notestablished, all the separate rates andcharges" "applied to through trans-portation." No change can be madewithout a notice of thirty days, ex-cept that the commission may "in itsdiscretion and for good causesshown," allow changes on shorternotice or modify the requirements ofthe law "in respect to publishing,posting and filing tariffs." All con-tracts, agreements or arrangementsbetween common carriers affectingtheir rates or charges must be filedwith the commission, and it may pi-e-scri-

the form of all schedules. Sim-ilar requirements are made regardingpassenger fares. There is a strin-gent anti-reba- te provision, which issubstantially that of the Elkins Act,but somewhat strengthened. Itmakes it unlawful for "any personOr persons- - or corporation to offer,grant or give, or to solicit, accept orreceive anv rebate, concession or discrimination in respect to the transportation of any property," Vherebysuch property shall "by any dvicewhatever be transported at a less ratethan that named" in the publishedschedules, or Vhereby "any other ad-vantage is given or discriminationpracticed. ' ' The penalty is a heavyfine for each offense, but any personor any officer, director or agent of acorporation, who shall be convictedof the offense is maxle also subject toimprisonment. Ample provision ismade fqr the enforcement of thisclause, and offenders who receive re-

bates or pecuniary --advantage aremade liable to forfeit, three times thevalue of the consideration 'received inproceedings brought on authority ofthe Attorney General.

The section giving the commissionpower to prescribe rates has beenmade familiar in the long discussionof this measure. It is only necessaryto recall that where upon complaintand after full hearing the commissionfinds that "any of thfe rates or charges whatsoever demanded, charged orcollected," or any regulation or prac-

tice "effecting such rates or trans-portation," are "unjust or unreasonable, or unjustly cUscnminatory orunduly preferential or prejudicial orotherwise in violation of any of the.provisions of this Act," it may "det-

ermine and prescribe what will be

the .just and reasonable" rates orcharges to be observed as the maxt- -

General Summary of Condition ofNorth Carolina Crops for WeekEnding Monday, July 2, 1906.

The temperatures during the pastweek were very high dn every partof the State, averaging about 4 de-

grees above the normal. The highestwas 100 degrees on the 29th in Hali-fa- x

county ; and the lowest, was 60degrees on the 2Sth in Hendersoncounty. The hottest days were the29th and '30th, and the coolest, werethe 26th and 27th. The rainfallaveraged

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about..one-ha- lf

ithe normal

amount. During the first portion ofthe week there were frequent thunder-storms Avith showers which were v forthe most part light. Some heavyrain occurred, but were local in char-

acter. On Monday night, June 25th,a severe thunderstorm with hail wasexperienced in Harm, Harnett andJohnston counties doing considerabledamage. The latter part of the weekwas generally, fair.

A Serious Crime.

Greensboro, Special. Will Glass, anegro boy 17 years old, was given a.hearing before Justice of the PeaceDH. Collins on a warrant charginghim with attempted criminal assaultupon Hazel Whittington, the 13-yea- r-

old daughter of Mr. John Whittr.g-ton- ,who lives three miles from town.

Glass was bound over to SuperiorL'ourt and in default of a $.500 bondwent to jail. The girl said that oneafternoon this week, while hex fatherwas in the city, the negro came intoher room and attempted to drag heran the bed. An old negro woman,who was there at the time, drovethe negro away. The nep-r-o womancorroborated the story told ,hy thegirl. Glass has been in -- trouble be-

fore and it surprises no one that heis under this charge.

Crushed Between Boilers.Spencer, Special. Fred Glosson,

aged 25 years, a boiler maker at theSouthern sfibps here, was seriouslyinjured by being caught between twoange boilers. He was frightfullymashed in the body aud it is fearedais injuries will prove ftal. He wasrescued by fellow workmen. At thetime of the accident Mr. Glosson wasworking between the boilers whichwere propped up by the use of tim-bers.. These fell, causing a collapseand .catching ;the workman undci'-leat- h.

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. Killed in Union County.Wadesboro, Special. Early Mon-

day morning" just across the line inUnion county, .which borders Brus-rill- e

township, o this .county, WatHill shot and killed Marion Burgess.Burgess and his wife were in a bug-gy togther when he was killed andthe cause of the killing could not belearned here, but it is supposed tohave been the result of bad bloodbetween the parties. ,

South Carolina Cotton Growers.Asheville, Special. The South

Carolina Cotton Growers' Associationmet in annual convention at LakeToxaway, about 200 delegates beingin attendance. Main' manufacturersfrom this and adjoining States werepresent.

Topics for the Tar Heels.

A charter is granted the Hender-son vill.e Auditorium Company, capi-tal stock $25,000, more than a hun-dred citizens being the stockholders.The company will build an auditoriumfor general purposes.

The Windsor division of naval militia has been reorganized and put inshape for service - and the inspectorgeneral, Colonel Bain, is directed tomuster it in.

On the 12th of July, at the. various court houses, aplicants for ad-

mission to the Agricultural & Mechan-ical College are to be examined 'bythe. county superintendents of educa-tion.

Charters were granted to the RyeOla Bottling Company, Charlotte, i

with J. M. Ross, T. M. Miller and F.A.- - McKnighl as incorporators. The

;?&ed, calj U?mfrd ,at1$10,000, of which $1,500 is paid in by;local ' stockholders. The BuckeyeWater' Company, West Asheville, has$25,000 capital stock, with $3,000paid in by L. P. and R. P. Hanynesand Julius C. Martin, all of AsheVille.The company will furnish Xvater,lighting and power. The Durham-Parris- h

Company, - to do a generalmerchandise business. The incorpora-tors are G. A. Durham, S.M. Gattis,and H. L. Parrish, Hilsbpro.

THE PRESIDENT PLEASED

Closing Session Crowded With HardWork. Tile President Visited theLegislature Chambers,

AVasIii;i;to:i, Special.-- : Both

H" i.ses nt Confess adjourned at 10

o'clock Salurday night. For the firsttime in the history of the govern-ment Congress adjourned on the daywhich closed the fiscal year. Othersessions had adjourned before anilsome alter Juno 30, but the Fifty-liint- h

'('impress ended its hist sessionon the day. when the government

strikes its balances and closes itsbooks. --

There were, some .interesting fea-

tures t mark" the end, which fiinallycame when there was lossthan a quo-

rum in 'either House, as many senatorsand representatives relying1 on the be-

lief! hat the adjournment would ebineearly in the. day, made their arrange-ments .to In" theafternoon and theyli.'t not remain for the closing scenes.An error in the enrollment of thesundry civil appropriation bill causedquite a flurry about the capitol. Itv :s found by Secretary Root, in look -

itii: over the bill after it had beensigned by the President, that it con-tained an appropriation of $3,000,000for a site for a public building inWashington, a provision which hadWn eliminated from two differentbills.

After some perplexity the error wascorrected by a joint resolution.

Roosevelt at the Capitol.President Roosevelt t-a- to the

tny'vA about 1 o'clock in anticipationi'f an early ; adjournment, and whenht found that there would be a de-

lay in order to. secure the enrollmentof the bills, which had to be passed,lie took lunch in the capitol and inthe afternoon visited the Congression-al library.

Speaker Cannon rigidly carried outIns intention of keeping back the .'ad-journment resolution until the billsvere all passed and, signed, and thehour for the end was not known un-til a short time before the sravel fellwith the announcement by YicevPres-Me- nt

'Fairbanks in the senate andthe sneaker in Hie Hnnsp. that tliefirst session of he Fifty-nint- h Con- -gress siood adjohrned without day.

Roth Senate arnd House met earlybut a long recess was necessary in theafternoon to enable the enrollingfleiks to catch up to the bills thatIi.mI b enefiassed.

The closing secenes in the" Senatewere formal and without interest. Inthe TTouse there were the usual hila-rious performances consisting ofamusing speeches and songs, which oc-

cupied" the time during the long wa'its,anu members made the best of thehottest day of the season with mer- -TTfH'ttt. '

No Imperfect Business..Xo business of importance aside

from completing the pending legisla-tion was transacted in eiflier Housei':"'i ig the day.

Tiie work accomplished by the Con-$iv- ss

that terminated today is toldhy Speaker Cannon to the AssociatedPress. Ho said:

"In my judgment the work done

Shot Negro Intruder, Released.Danville Special. In the Mayor's

'court here Robert E. Morris, who shotand instantly killed' an unknown ne-srro'w- ho

attempted to enter the bed-room where his wife and daughter"were sleeping Monday night, was ex-

onerated of all blame. The negrowas buried Thursday. - His identitywas not established.

, Freight Wreck ur Florida.Oeala, Fla., Special. At 10 o'clock

Saturday night while a heavy freighttrain with two engines was trying tomount a steep grade on the ; AtlanticCoast Line at Martin, nine milesBrth of Ocala, the train broke in

Vf' ai1(l the'i-ea- r cars were telescop-e,- h

hy the pushing engine. The con-ductor, cary Smoak, and a negro flag-man, name unknown, were killed. Sev-en loaded cars were burned and thebodies of the conductor and flagmaawere almost entirely cremated.

and the legislation enacted in the ses-sion just closed, exceeds in impor-tance for the best interests of all peo-ple o tbe republic, the work of anysession during mv 30 vears of publiclife.

"L have not lime to make a com-plete review of all the legislation. Suf-fice it to say that the legislation cov-ering the appropriations and author-izing of public expenditures" has beenmost carefully considered and wiselyenaetou.

"The legislation, commonly referr-ed to as the rate legislation, the purefood biiis, the inspection feature ofthe agricultural bill, are all measuresthat '.affect the interests of all thepeople ami while nothing perfect canbe enacted, I am satisfied thaht theoperations of these laws will demon-strate their wisdom. -

'Ami I believe if nothing else hadbeen accomplished than the "enact-ment! of these three measures, theyr.lone would be sufficient to make thefirst session of the Fifty-nint- h Con-gress a memorable one in the historyof the republic.' 'President Roosevelt on Work of

Congress.Washington, Special. President

Roosevelt on the adjournment of Con-

gress, dictated a statement concern-

ing the work accomplished during thesession just concluded. He says thatthe present Congress has done moresubstantive work along the lines of"real constructive statesmanship"than has been accomplished at anysession of ' Congress with which thePresident is familiar. He says thatmen of genuine patriotism have alight to feel "a profound satisfac-tion in the entire course of this Cor.-- :

yressThe ext of the President 's state

ment follows':, t

In the session that just closed, theCongress has done more substantivework for good than any Congress hasdone at any session since I becamefamiliar with public affairs. The leg-

islation has been along the lines ofreal constructive statesmanship of themost practical and efficient type, andbill after bill has been enacted intolaw which was of an importance sogreat that it is fair to say that theenactment of any one of them alonewould have made the session memor-able; such, for instance, as the rail-

road rate bill, the meat inspectionmeasure, the pure food bill, the billfor free alcohol in. the arts, the con-

sular reform bill, Panama canal leg-

islation, the joint statehood bill, andthe naturalization bill. 1 certainlyhave no disposition to blink whatthere is of evil in our social, indus-trial or political life of today, butit seems to me that the men of gen-

uine patriotism who genuinely wishwell to their country have the rightto feel a profound satisfaction in theentire course of this Congress. Iwould not be afraid to compare itsrecord with that of any previous Con-

gress in our history, not alone . forthe wisdom but for the disinterestedhighmindedness which has controlledits action. '.It is noteworthk that nota single measure whunh the closestscrutiny could warrant us in callingof doubtful propriety has been enact-ed; and on the other hand, no in-

fluence of any" kind', has availed toprevent the enactment of the lawsmost vitally necessary to the nationat this time."

Meat Inspector's Bill.

.'Washington, Special. When theconferences on the agricultural appro-

priation bill took a recess they pro-

fessed that it appeared to be an im-

possible task to reach au agreement

on the meat inspection amendment.Another attempt to reach an agree-

ment will be made.

Dead and Injured in Wreck on Eng-

lish Railroad.Salisbury, Eng., By Cable. Driv-

ing at a mad pace over the LondonSouthwestern Railway the AmericanExpress-- carrying 43 of the steamerNew passengers frbm Ply-

mouth to London, plunged from trackjust after passing the station here at1:57 o'clock' Monday morning andmangled to death in its wreckage 23

passengers who sailed from New YorkJune 23, and four of the trainmen.Besides those to whom death come

speedily, a dozen persons were injur-

ed some of them seriously.

selected to secure a place of meeting --

and other arrangements made. Theprogram was discussed and the in-- ..

tention is to have a program of ablespeakers. In a few weeks, the pro-gram will be issued arid the workwill begin in earnest to secure a largeattendance at the meeting. '

Found Dead in Her Room. .

Richmond, Special. Miss Albenia,Fitzgerald was found dead in herroom by a colored woman, LauraClark, who had gone to the Fitzger-ald home to gather the laundry. No,one auswering the eall, she enteredthe house and went to Miss Fitzger-- --

aid's room, where she found the bodylying directly in front of the grate,the head resting against a trunk. Tha --

coroner found nothing to indicate tbercause of death except an affection ; --

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of the brain- - Miss Fitzgerald hadprobably arisen and commenced todress, and had been stricken whilecrossing the room. ' Miss Fitzgeraldwas 33 years old. She had been inill health for several years. r - ,

3'v- -Columbian Minister Named.

Washington, Special Enrique Cor-t-ehas been named the Colombian

minister to the United States to suc-ceed Diego Mondaza. - The State De-partment has been advised by theAmerican Minister Barrett at Bogotathat the appointment of Cortez fol-lowed the initiation of preliminarynegotations at Botoga looking towardthe framing of treaties between theUnited Stales and Colombia intendedto settle all disputes and inauguratea new era of friendlv relations.

Forest Fire Rage.

'ElPaso, Texas, Special. Forestfires burning in the lumber traetsnear Magdalena, Sonora,'and the townof Magdalena is threatened. It is re- - '

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peorted that several 1 mining campshave been destroyed. The region isthickly-- , populated with Americanminers. . , .

Great ,Race Horse Dead.

New York, Special. Perhaps thegreatest race horse this country hassver: known, and possibly the bestof nil timer fellcdesd in his box atSheapshcad Bay. at 1 o'clock Sundayafternoon. - Courageous to the cnd, hrefused to give up until the last ounceof his strength was expended, and he

L died as he had lived a brave-hearte- d

thoroughbred. - James R. Keens, theowner of Sysonby, when an offer ot$200,000 vas made a few months ago

I for the animal, merely replied thatmoney would riot buy him. :