Republican News I teiTL
VOL. XV. NO. 47
GRAY AGAINST
INCOME TAX
Delaware Jorist Opposes the
Federal Plao.
MEANS DOUBLE TAXATION
Declares Proposed Amendment to the
Federal Constitution Is a Menace tc
the Rights of the States.
Judge George Gray, of Delaware,
believes that the proposed amendment
to the constitution of the United
States providing for an income tax is
a menace to the rights of the states.
In a letter written by him to Aus
ten G. Fox, in New York, he dis
cusses the subject at length and comes
to the conclusion that a tax of thi c
kind levied by the federal government
must be double taxation, unless the
Btates give up the power to levy in
come taxes.
On this part of the subject he has
this to say:
"The proposed amendment is not a
mere grant of power to the federal
government, it is a practical surren
der of the power heretofore reserved
to the states What the states give in
this instance they practically deprive
themselves of, for, as 1 have pointed
out, it is not a mere sharing by the
states of this power with the general
government, as the necessity of avoid
ing an oppressive double taxation
would make it necessary to the states
to yield to the paramount authority
of the national government. 1 think,
therefore, Governor Wilson, for whose
opinion I have the highest respect,
was mistaken in his short message to
the legislature of New Jersey in say
ing:
" 'They (the states) will thereby be
sharing with the federal government
one ol the few powers of taxation
which under the latest decision of the
supreme court of the United State?
in that matter they may now regard
themselves- as entitled to exercise to
a certain extent exelusivelj"
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FRANCE WANTS DUTIES
WE OFFER CANADA
Raises the Most Favored
Mathn Cry.
At a meeting ol' the joint commis
sion on customs of the French senate
and chamber of deputies in Paris, Dep
uty Plichon reported tliat during a
study ol' the American-Canadian reci
procity agreement lie had found tliai
the United States gave to Canada ad
vantages not accorded to France on a
variety of articles.
The commission instructed their
president to call the attention of the
cabinet to this discrimination under
the interpretation of the favored na
tion clause of the Franco-American
treaty.
England Also Wants to Know.
Sir Edward Grey indicated in
the British house of commons that
the English government contemplates
asking the United States to accord
to Great Britain the reduced duties
granted to Canada under the Ameri
can-Canadian reciprocity agreement.
He added significantly: "There are
complicated points involved in the
question of the most favored nation
treatment, now under examination.
These must be settled before I can
say what steps we shall take in laying
our view of the matter before the
United States government."
LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1911.
CLARK PROMISES
TARIFREVISION
New Speaker, Taking Seat, Out
lines Policy ol Democrats.
NEW FACES EVERYWHERE
Reciprocity Cuts Secondary Figure, as
Democrats Have Outlined a Preten
t'ous Political Program.
With vociferous demonstrations of
BAultation on the part of the militant
Democrats of the house of represen
tatives, over which they have gained
control after sixteen years of de
feat, and calm, dignified and l online
proceedings on the part of the senate,
which barely remains Republican, the
Sixty-second congress met for the first
time, convened in extraordinary ses
sion by President Tat't to consider his
reciprocity pact with Canada.
Champ Clark, who received an ova
i tion, was elected speaker of ttie house,
polling 217 votes to 131 for James R.
Mann, of Illinois; 15 for Henry A.
Cooper, of Wisconsin, and one for
George W. Norris, ol Nebraska, all
Republicans.
The votes for Cooper were cast by
insurgent Republicans and indicates
that they intend to maintain a sepa
late working organization.
The day marked the opening of the
trial of the Democratic party to de
monstrate its worthiness to receive
"the wider confidence" of the voters
of the country. Asking his colleagues
to keep that fact uppermost in their
minds during the present session of
congress, Clarp, in his speech accept
ing the speakership of the.house, out
lined the measures through which the
party hopes to continue to
enjoy the faith of the people.
Intelligent revision of the tariff,
election of United States senators by
popular vote, changes in the house
rules to permit proper consideration
of public measures, economy in hand
ling the purse strings of the country,
the publication of campaign contribu
tions, and the early admission of Now
Mexico and Arizona to statehood, were
some of the tilings which Speaker
Clark emphasized in the Democratic
program as measures which would be
undertaken by the majority party in
the house.
The ceremonies of the house held
an. unusual interest. New hands were
at the wheel, while the helmsmen of
former days were about to engage in
the pastime of rocking the boat. The
transition from a month ago was com
plete.
New faces were everywhere to be
seen. Democrats not only filled the
side of the chamber allotted to them,
but poured over into the erstwhile sa
cred precincts of the Republicans.
Everybody appeared to be in the
best of humor. The Democrats wore
smiles that would not come off, while
the Republican minority also smiled —
a grim kind which meant that they
were going to try to even up for the
troubles the Democrats gave in days
of Republican supremacy.
The program, always an interesting
spectacle, was followed with uncom
mon keenness. It included the calling
of the house to order by Major Mc-
Dowell, veteran Republican clerk, who
is soon to be replaced; calling of the
roll, election of the speaker, his
speech of acceptance, swearing in of
the members by state delegations and
drawing for seats.
There are always a few privileged
members who are allowed to choose
their seats in advance of the draw
ing. They include u.-ually the oldest
member of the ho-se, in point of ser
vice, General Bingham, of Pennsylva
nia, the minority leader, and one or
two others as the house leaders may
designate.
Notwithstanding that the opening of
the extra session in the senate was
quite secondary in interest to that of
the house, there v. s a large attend
ance in the galleries.
Of the senators sworn, seventeen
were men who never before had occu
pied seats in the senate. Twelve were
Democrats and five Republicans, the
new Democrats being Messrs. Bryan,
Florida: Chilton, West Virginia;
Hitchcock, Nebraska; Johnson, Maine;
Kern, Indiana; Lea, Tennessee; Mar
tine, New Jersey; Myers, Montana;
O'Gorman, New York; Pomerene,
Ohio; Reed, Missouri, and Williams,
Mississippi.
New Republicans were Messrs. Lip
pitt, Rhode Island; McLean, Connecti
cut; Poindexter, Washington; Town
send, Michigan, and Works, California.
The senators were sworn in by
squads of four, colleagues of new men
escorting them to the vice president's
desk.
As soon as the last of them had left
the vice president's dais the roll was
called. Eigthy-six senators, within five
of the entire membership, were in at
tendance.
The political complexion of the Six
ty-second congress follows:
1 KILLED, 5 HURT
IN jACE RIOT
Hundreds of Shots Fired in
Figiit at Laurel, Del.
LYNCHING IS PREVENTED
Sheriff Speeds Four Prisoners Away
In Auto, Fearing Attack on Jail.
Negroes Started the Trouble.
All of the pent-up hatred between
the whites and the colored residents
ot Laurel, Del., burst forth in a race
riot, which was started by the colorol
faction, in which one white man re
ceived a fatal injury, while five oth
ers were shot, and another death is
feared.
Following a report that the white
man had died, the whites, fully armed,
' marched into the colored section of
the town, and a renewal of the out
break was imminent, but the authori
ties succeeded in restoring peace.
The dead man Is Olen Stockiey,
eighteen years old. He was shot dur
ing the beginning of the attack.
George Hudson, fifty years of age, a
farmer of Bethel, Del., also is in the
hospital suffering from gunshot
wounds, and it is feared that he will
die.
The others injured are: John
Thompson, shot in the legs while lie
was shaving a patron in his barber
shop; George Cannon, struck with sev
eral buckshot; James Spicer, shot in
the- ear, and Edgar Quilien, shot in
the side.
The riot started when a crowd of
colored men, made mad by liquor,
swooped down on the main street and
began firing at the spectators and oth
ers about the public square. Stockiey
was one of the first to fall. When the
whites saw this they rushed to arms
and began battle. Those who did not
engage in the fight rushed women and
children to safety and then gave
their hand in the uneven battle, for
the colored men were armed and the
whites were not at the outset.
The whites, once getting their re
volvers, rifles and shotguns, returned
the fire of the attackers, who were
armed with shotguns, and loaded their
pieces witli buckshot, sweeping the
streets. That more were not killed is
unaccountable, for the colored gang
held its place for several minutes, and
fired point blank, it appeared, at the
whites.
Once armed, the whites drove the
attackers from the streets At this ]
time the street lights were shot out,
and from places of ambush the colored ,
men kept up a desultory fire, but their
shots invariably went wild, for they
could not see to aim.
During the afternoon word came
from Salisbury that Stockiey had died
and several white men armed them
selves and proceeded to the /Colored
section, determined to burn it and
bring the colored occupants out into
the open for a fair fight. When the
posse reached a house where it was
known that colored persons lived, they
found Earl Records, a fifteen-year-old
boy, holding "Slim Jim," a colored
man, for whom a search has been go
ing on for two months, at bay with a
levolver. Records had accosted bin:
and drew his revolver,, causing the
prisoner to hold up his hands until
help arrived.
In this raid John Collins, Arthur
Cummins and George Williams, col
ored, and Albert Hitch, white, were ar
rested. Hitch and Collins, who are in
jail at Georgetown, are charged with
the death of Stockiey. Each denies the
crime and blames it on the other. At
a hearing before Justice Clapham It
was testified that the quartet were
the leaders in the attack, and they
were committed to jail.
Girls Disguised as Boys.
Henrietta Wakefield and Hattie
Conklin, both inmates of the New Jer
sey State Home for Girls, who es
caped from that institution recently
were captured in Princeton, N. J., at
tired in old overalls and other articles
of clothing worn by males.
New Customs Court Marshal.
The customs court of appeals has
elected Frank H. Briggs, of Maine, 112
son-in-law of Senator Frye, of that
state, marshal of the court to sticceec
John Elder, of Ohio, who recently re
signed.
Senate—Republicans, DO; Demo
crats, 41; vacancy, 1.
House —Democrats, 228; Republi
cans, ICO; Socialist, 1: vacancies, 2.
Balloons to Kansas City.
Kansas City was selected by the na
tional council of the Aero Club of
America as the city from which the
international balloon race this year
shall be started. Omaha was a strong
contestant for the honor, and the
claims of San Francisco and St. Louis
were also considered.
I SENATOR O'GORMAN.
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O'Gorman Elected U. S. Senator.
Supreme Court Justice James A.
O'Gorman, of New York, a Democrat,
and prominent member of Tammany
Hall, was elected United States sena
tor by the legislature in Albany, N. Y ,
on the sixty-fourth joint ballot, after
a deadlock lasting since Jan. 6.
Justice O'Gorman received 112 votes
out of 192 cast. Chauncey Depew, his
Republican opponent, received 80 '
votes Necessary for choice, 97.
Lincoln's Letter Saves Ker Job.
Forty-seven years ago Abraham Lim j
coin paused in the cares of the Civil
War tor one of those kind and homely
acts which have lived after him.
It was to pen a personal letter to the
postmaster general, asking that offi- j
cial to employ Miss Susan Dugger, of
| Carlinsville, 111., who was the sole
support of her brother, a Union sol- !
dier, crippled at Shlloh. .Miss Dugger
got a position and preserved the let- j
ter religiously.
Secretary MacVeagh, after reading
•ne same letter Monday—though tii'i!
paper has yellowed wfth age and tho j
ink is dim —ordered that Miss Dug
ger's name be not dropped from the
treasury's list of employes, though she
has been ill more than a year When
an empoye has been absent without
pay for that length of time it is cus
tomary to strike the name from the
rolls.
Senator Cullom brought the letter
to Secretary MacVeagh, who promised
that Miss Dugger may have her old
position if she is ever able to work
again. She is now seventy years old.
Miss Dugger was transferred from the
postoiflce to the treasury soon after
President Lincoln's letter got her em
ployment and became an expert in de
tecting counterfeit money. She has
handled billions of dollars —some good
and many bad—during forty-five years
of service for the government.
Socialists Elect Mayor of Berkeley.
The city of Berkeley, Cal., awoke
to discover that it is now in .Mil t
waukee's class, a Socialist, J. Stitt i
Wilson, having defeated Beverly
Hodge Head as candidate for mayor j
Wilson won 2749 to 2468 at the pri
mary, but it has all the effect of an j
election It was a citizens' nonpartisan
primary and the nominee is to be un-j
bossed.
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Commander Robert E Peary wis
commissioned a civil engineer, with j
the rank of rear admiral, in accoid- (
ance with the act of congress passed
at the last sesssion The appointment
is to date from April 0, 190'J, the day
he reached the North Pole.
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