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UPHOLD WEBMENYON LAW
MOST SWEEPING DECISION OF
ALL DECISIONS AS TO
IlKY LAWS.
' Washington, Jan. 8.—In the most
sweeping of all decisions upholding
prohibition laws, the Supreme court
today upheld as constitutional and
valid ihe Webb-Kenyon law prohib-iting
shipments of liquor from "wet"
to "dry" states. It also sustained
West Virginia's recent amendment
to her law prohibiting importation
in interstate commerce of liquor for
personal use.
After having been vetoed by Pres-ident
Taft. who held it unconstitu-tional,
and having been repassed by
Congress over his vetoe, the law was
sustained by the Supreme court by
a vote of 1 to 2. Leaders of the pro-hibition
movement declare it is to
their fight second only in importance
)o the proposed constitutional
amendment.
Lawyers for liquor interests who
beard the decision today, admitted
i: upheld and applied the law "in its
fullest sense."
Chief .Justice White announced
the majority opinion, to which
Justices Holmes and Vendevanter
dissented. Justice Mclteynclds,
while agreeing with the majority'
decision, did not concur in the opin-ion.
An official digest of the majority
tpinion, prepared by the court, sets
out its holdings as follows:
"1. That the West Virginia law,
besides prohibiting the manufacture
and sales of all intoxicants except as
■ o that which is permitted for med-ical,
sacramental and manufacturing
purposes; also forbids all transpor-tation
of liquor and all receipt and
possession of liquor transported in
the state, whether originating in or
outside of the state, and although
it does not prohibit personal use,
puts serious restrictions upon the
power to obtain for such use.
"The court holds that in view of
the well-established police authority
of the state over intoxicants, tliere
is no reason to think that this law
was in any wise repugnant to the
■ lue process clause of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of
•lie United States. It however, de-ides
that unless the state authority
las any exceptional application to
■shipments of interstate commerce as
'.i'- result of the act of Congress
kniivn as the Webb-Kenyon law,
1 .'• provisions of the state law re-stricting
shipments of Intoxicants in-to
ihe state from other states would
be unconstitutional because interfer-ing
with the power of Congress to
resulare commerce among the states
and consequently would he direct
oi'rrien upon such commerce.
"2. Considering the Webb-Kenyon
act. the court holds that there is no
foundation for the contention that
il.e act only applies to shipments
from one state into another for a use
prohibited by the state to which the
liquor is shipped. On the contrary,
t is decided that the Webb-Kenyon
ict, to use the words of the act, pa-
■»Hes to shipments of liquor 'intend-
".' to be received, possessed, sold
>r in any manner used' in violation
if the laws of the state. As this con-
■lu.'ion causes every prohibition of
i'- West Virginia law to be em-
■rared and come under the right
'•onferred by Congress by the Webb-
K"n.\on act, it is decided that the
ivesi Virginia law was not in con-
""■! with the commerce clause of the
•-oustitntlon and the power of Con-gress
to regulate commerce if Con-gress
hail power to enact the Webb-
Kenyon law.
'"■'•■ Disposing of that question, it
• decided that Congress had the
>iower under the constitution to
adopt the Webb-Kenyon law, wheth-er
considered from the point of view
of original reasoning or in the light
,|f the previous legislation by Con-gress
and the decisions of the court
molding that legislation valid.
"It is therefore decided that by
'hiiie of the Webb-Kenyon law
here is no power to ship intoxicants
from one state into another in viola-ion
of the prohibitions of the law
•'f the state into which the liquor is
•hipped. In other -words, it is de-cided
that since the enactment of
i he Webb-Kenyon law, the channels
"f interstate commerce may not be
used to convey liquor into a state
against the prohibition of its laws or
to use interstate commerce as the
basis for a right to receive, possess,
■ell or in any manner use liqifor con-trary
to the state prohibition."
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HENDERSON DELIVERS
VOTE TO MARSHALL.
Washington, Jan. 10.—The elec-toral
vote of North Carolina was
brought to Washington today by
David E. Henderson, of New Bern,
elector from the third district. Mr.
Henderson, accompanied by his wife
and son, David Henry Henderson,
arrived here at 8.40 o'clock this
morning, and made planssto turn the
vote over to Vice President Marshall.
Joseph P. Tayloe, clerk of the sen-ate
finance committee, in the ab-sence
of Senator Simmons, who was
confined to his home by illness to-day,
took Mr. Henderson in hand and
got Senator Overman to present him
to the vice president. The vote for-mally
presented, Mr. and Mrs. Hen-derson
and son, under the escort of
Cortez L. Wright, of Senator Sim-mons'
office, went to the White
House to see President Wilson. The
president told Mr. Henderson that
he appreciated what North Carolina
had done for him and the Democ-racy
in the last compaign. Mr. and
Mrs. Henderson and the lad were
delighted with their reception at the
White House and Mr. Wright feels
several inches taller for having had
the important assignment of pre-senting
them to the president.
C. W. Allen, of Oxford, and J. B.
Walker, of Asheville, accompanied
Mr. Wright and the Hendersons to
the White House. He Is visiting Mr.
Wright.
The Henderson boy, a lad of two
years, handed the vote to the vice
president. When he went to the
White House he said: "Mr. Presi-dent.
I voted for you." The presi-dent
picked the little fellow up in
his arms and hugged him and Mas-ter
David Henry is one of the hap-piest
tots in America tonight.
PREPARE A HARKET
i"OR FARM LOAN BONDS.
Washington, Jan. 9.—In an effort
to prepare a market for the heavy is-sue
of farm loan bonds aliont to be
declared, the " federal farm loan
board has made public a prospectus
of the bonds. Prom $150,000,000
to $200,000,000 in bonds are short-ly
to be issued to raise money to
lend to the farmers under the terms
of the new rural credits act.
The board regards the farm loan
bond as valuable securities affording
a proper means of investment for
the funds of widows and orphans.
The rate of interest these bonds
shall yield has not yet been definite-ly
fixed, but the board says it will
be not less than four per cent and
not more than five per cent.
The bonds will be issued in series,
probably of not less than $250,000,
and in denominations of $25, $50,
$100, $500 and $1,000. The bonds
will run thirty years, but will be re-deemable
in five years.
The interest will be payable semi-annually.
PRISON WALLS BLOWN CP
TO SAVE TRAPPED MEN.
Frankfort, Ky.. Jan. 9.—A num-ber
of negro prisoners, estimated by
prison authorities to be as many as
eighty, were cut off from escape to-night
by a fire which started in cell
house "A," the oldest building in use
at the state reformatory at Frank-fort.
Dynamite was ordered from the
city workhouse to blow down the
walls in an effort to release men held
in cells which must each be unlock-ed
individually before its occupant
can escape. The blaze was discov-ered
shortly before 11 o'clock and
is still raging.
Dynamite brought from the city
workhouse was used to blow a hole
through the walls of the building
at one end where the blaze was least
fierce. Prison officials said at 12.15
o'clock that all but two prisoners
had been rescued safely. Many were
unconscious from the effects of
smoke.
An Investigation by Department of
State.
Washington. Jan. 9.—The sudden
death of Luis D'Antin, an American
citizen attached to the Mexican em-bassy
here, in San Luis Potosi while
en routo to Mexico City with Eliseo
Arrendondo, General Carranza's am-bassador,
has raised a mystery which
may be investigated by the state de-partment.
Officials said today that
if members of D'Antin's family re-quested
it they would1 make in-quiries.
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ADAMSON LAW BEFORE COURT
GOVERNMENT AND RAILROAD
ATTORNEYS FILE BRIEFS—
, THEN ARGUE CASE.
Washington, Jan. 9.—The , legal
battle to maintain the constitution-ality
of the Adamson eight hour law
which averted a nation wide strike
last September, was begun today be-fore
the Supreme court. Solicitor
General Davis, representing the gov-ernment,
opened the case with a de-tailed
argument upholding the au-thority
of Congress to fix not only
the hours of service, but the wages'
of employees on interstate railroadsr
The argument will probably be con-cluded
tomorrow when attorneys for
the railroads of the co'untry will
make their general onslaught on the
provisions of the law.
Both the government and the rail-roads
filed briefs outlining their
contentions as to the Adamson law
before the oral argument was begun.
The railroads base practically their
entire case on the charge that the
law was merely an arbitrary attempt
to raise the wages of the operatives
employed. Their briefs argued1 that
the support of this contention would
violate the constitutional rights of
the roads, appropriating their prop-erty
without compensation.
The government brief says that
the railroads agreed to accept the
Adamson law and that no action
was taken until it was found that no
final decision could be reached until
after January 1. The railroads deny
this, and say that they agreed to ac-cept
the president's program if it
was accepted as a whole, including
his recommendations for preventing
strikes.
VILLA AND STAFF
FLEE TO DIRAXGO.
El Paso, Texas. Jan. 8.—Carranza
forces now .occupy Jimenez, Santa
Rosalie and Parral, while Villa and
his staff have tied to the state, of
Durango, over the branch railroad
from Parral to EH Oro.
# Government agents here who have
been loath to accept the Carranza
reports of the victory over Villa at
Jimenez Friday and of Villa's report-ed
retreat to Parral, admitted today
that the battle of Jimenez ended in a
complete repulse of the Villa forces
and one high government official
said he had information which led
him to believe that the government
forces had won "a sweeping victory
over Villa."
General Jose Carlos Murguia,
commander of the Juarez garrison,
received s message today dated Par-ral
from his brother. Gen. Francisco
Murguia. confirming the, occupation
of Parral by the de facto forces.
SHEPPpD DRY BILL PASSED
FORHraS MANUFACTURE AND
SALE OF LIQUORS IN DIS-TRICT
OF COLUMBIA.
Washington, Jan. 9.—The Shep-pard
bf1, to prevent the -manufac-sale
of alcoholic liquors in
'ict of Columbia, wa3 passed
the senate by a vote of 55
The Underwood amendment
ferendum on the measure
t went into effect was de-fy
a tie vote of 43 to 43.
Thejnal vote on the Sheppard bill
was witnessed by one of the largest
crowds jeyef packed into the senate
galleries. From an early hour in
the m*ning until 4 o'clock, when
the voje was taken, thousands of
men alfj women sat in the galleries
and watched the proceeding.
The Sheppard bill prohibits "the
manufacture, sale, storing, offering
for salt, keeping for sale, soliciting
ing orders for the purchase
die liquors, the giving away
Ming the same."
term "alcoholic liquors" is
defined to include all spiritous, vin-ous,
malt or fermented liquors and
all ottier liquors which shall con-tain
one-half of one per cent of alco-hol,
or more. The bill also provides
penalties for violations of the pro-visions'
of this act, which are a fine
of $300 to $1,000 and imprisonment
from thirty days to one year.
The {bill prohibits the drinking of
liquorW in the public streets, on
street fears or other public convey-ances,
djfccluding railroad trains. It
makes;» an offense to be intoxicated
on thegftxeet. in street cars, railroad
coacuag public place or building at
any public gathering, or to disturb
Die peace of any person, while in-toxicafafl,
anywhere.
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ORGAN-GRIXl>ER'S MOXK EV
BITES I AVETTEVILLE CHILD.
Fayetteville, Jan. 9.—A monkey
owned by a member of the organ-grinding
profession is under lock
and key at police headquarters in
this city as a result of having bit-ten
a little girl on Haymount yester-day
afternoon. The monkey is being
held pending developments, the doc-tors
diagnosed the child's wound as
not. serious except for the possible
presence of the germ of rabies. The
child bitten was Bert, the little six-year-
old girl of Mr. and Mrs. Harllee
Townsend. The child was on the
way home from the Haymount grad-ed
school with a group of other chil-dren,
she being the smallest of the
number. They stopped to watch the
monkey, when the animal suddenly
seized the little Townsend child's
hand, leaving her forefinger badly
marked.
City Health Officer J. W. McNeill
ordered the monkey locked up until
the presence or absence of rabies
can be determined.
KILLED BY
COAST LINE TRAIN.
«, Jan. 9.—Lemuel C.
Richmond, Va., and
Frank C. Dell, of Newark. N. J.. trav-eling
salesmen, were instantly killed
early this afternoon when Atlantic
Coast Line train No. 63, which is op-erated
from New Bern to Wilming-ton,
crashed into their roadster at
Woqdside, thirteen m'iles from this
city. A balky motor and the failure
of the occupants of the car to act
quickly caused the tragedy.
The remains were brought to this
city in the baggage car of train No.
63 and turned over to the under-taker
to prepare for burial. Little is
known of the men here, other than
that they were traveling men. call-
:ng on country trade, when their au-tomobile
stalled on the crossing and
was demolished by a train that was
trying, to make up twenty minutes
of lost time.
ALCOHOL COXCOCTIOX
KILLS DURHAM PAINTER.
Edgerombe Canning CInb Has Nine-ty
Members.
Tarboro, Jan. 9.—The annual re-port
of the girls' club and home dem-onstration
work has been made out
for 1916. The canning club will
soon enjoy its third birthday, and
several of the charter members are
still in the ranks. During 1916 the
roll had ninety names on it, and on
the demonstration list there were
126.
•Mr. and Mrs. J. A. O.dell, of this
city, and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Tuck-er,
of Pleasant Garden, left yester-day
on a trip to Florida.
Durham, Jan. 9.—Con McFar-land,
a white painter of this city,
died this afternoon at his home in
Eva street, at 2.30 o'clock, as the
result of having consumed a quart
of grain alcohol mixed with a pinx
dupe, the name of which physicians
who attended him had not learned.
McFarland, it is claimed, craving
whiskey or some form of drink, ren-dering
the same purpose, secured the
alcohol and made the mixture sev-eral
days ago. Just when he drank
the liquid fire and poison, friends
were unable to say. He was found
in an unconscious condition Monday,
and never regained consciousness.
He has no relatives in Durham.
PTOMAINE EPIDEMIC •
HITS TOWN OF DUKE.
Thirty-five known cases of
ptomaine poison were in the town of
Duke Saturday morning, having de-veloped
during the night from par-ties
eating fresh meat purchased
from a local meat peddler. In sev-eral
instances entire families were
poisoned. The man who sold the
meat also ate some of it and it seems
that be suffered more than the
others. None of the cases were ser-ious,
and many of the parties were
out Sunday morning.
The doctors and druggists were
kept busy from 10 to 2 o'clock Fri-day
night, and several cases devel-oped
Saturday morning. The meat
was peddled Friday and in most
easeo was eaten for supper Friday
night, but some used it for break-fast
Saturday morning.
BUFFALO BILL'S LIFE
LIKE THE HOUR GLASS.
Denver. Colo., Jan. 8.—Colonel
William F. Cody. (Buffalo Bill), is
dying in Denver tonight, facing
death in the same manner that he
has faced it many times on the
plains of the West in conflicts that
made his name famous.
The colonel was warned of the ap-proach
of the end of his life today
by Dr. J. H. East. When Dr. East
walked into his room. Colonel Cody
said:
"Sit down, doctor; there is some-thing
I want to ask you. I want you
to answer-me honestly. What are
my chances?"
Doctor East turned to the scout:
"There is a time, colonel," said he,
"when every honest physician must
commend his patient to a higher
power."
Colonel Cody's head sank.
"How long?" he asked simply.
"I can answer that," said the phy-sician,
"only by telling you your life
is like the hour-glass. The sand is
Slipping; gradually. slowly—but
soon the sand will all be gone. The
end is not far away."
Colonel Cody turned to his sister,
Mrs. May Decker:
"May," said he, "let the Elks and
Masons take charge of the funeral."
Then the man who made history' in
the West when it was young, began
methodically to arrange his affairs.
Dr. East tonight said death would
come within 36 hours.
Buffalo Bill Died Yesterday.
Denver, Colo., Jan. 10.—Colonel
William Frederick Cody (Buffalo
Bill), soldier, hunter and scout, died
at 12.05 P. M., 'here today at the
home of his sister.
Buffalo Bill, the idol of juvenile
America, fought death as he often
had opposed it on the plains in the
days when the West was young.
"You can't kill the old scout," he
would tell his physician whenever
his condition would show improve-ment,
but near the end he accepted
his fate like a-stoic.
"Let us have a game of 'High
Five,' " he said, after he had talked
with his family. And every one
joined, the colonel laughing and jok-ing
because he was winning.
Since January 5, when he was hur-ried
back to his sister's home, in
Denver. Colo., Cody had surprised
all who knew his real condition by
great powers of resistance and re-cuperation.
On January 8. however, his sys-tem
broke down entirely and from
then on it was a question merely of
time.
TWO V. S. EMPLOYES
MEET AND FRATERNIZE.
Washington. Jan. 9.—Chief Jus-tice
White, of the Supreme court,
was walking in Connecticut avenue
yesterday complacently smoking a
cigar. An employe of the govern-ment
printing office with an unlight-ed
cigar stopped the chief justice
and asked for a match.
Chief Justice White searched his
pockets. Finding no match, he said:
"Take a light from my cigar."
"Thank3, said the G. P. O. man.
"I'm John Smith. Have a fresh
cigar. Anything I can do for you
I'll be glad to do. I am in the gov-ernment."
Chief Justnce White accepted the
cigar gravely. "Glad to meet you,
Mr. Smith," lie commented as he
lighted the cigar. "I'm Mr. White,
of the Supreme court."
PARDONED TEXXESSEAX
WELCOMED BACK HOME.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 9.—More
than 300 representative citizens of
Tennessee attended a home-coming
banquet in honor of William J. Cum-mins
tonight and joined in a demon-stration
to welcome the formerNash-ville
citizen who was pardoned
Christmas week by Governor Whit-man,
of New York, after serving
three years in prison for violating
the New York banking laws.
Prominent state and city officials
and leading professional and busi-ness
men from all over the state
were present. The Tennessee legis-lature
attended in a body. Small
delegations from other Southern
states also participated.
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Mr. W. R. Kiraball, of Oxford, was
in the city yesterday.
Mr. S. M. Bumpass has gone to
Virgilina, Va., on a hunting trip.
VOL. 96-MO. 4
IHDICTMK1T FOR KIDNAPPING -
HARRY THAW, SLAYER OF MTAX-FORD
WHITE. AGAIN IN THE
LIMELIGHT.
New York, Jan. 9.—Harry K.
Thaw, who was legally released fif-teen
months ago from an asylum for
the insane where he was sent after
he killed Stanford White, was today
indicted here charged with kidnap-ping
Fred Gump, Jr., of Kansas
City, Mo., a youth of 19, and as-saulting
him with a whip.
With him was indicted on the kid-,
napping charge a man described as
George F. O'Byrnes. and supposed to
have been employed by Thaw as a
bodyguard. Word was received that
O'Byrnes had been arrested in Phila-delphia
and detectives were there
looking for Thaw tonight.
The complaint which was placed
against Thaw with District Attorney
Swann by Frank P. Walsh, former
chairman of the United States indus-trial
relations commission, appear-ing
now as Gump's counsel, alleges
that Thaw enticed the youth to his
rooms at a hotel here Christmas
night and there beat him with two
whips three different times until .he
bled and became almost unconscious.
Testimony describing the whip-ping
of young girls by Thaw made
up some of the most sensational
chapters in the numerous court ac-tions
on the question of Thaw's gan-ity
and his commitment to the Mat-teuwan
state hospital for the crimi-nal
insane. Alienists for the state
testified that whipping was a mania
with Thaw.
After several years' litigation at a
cost of several hundred thousand
dollars to New York state and to
Thaw and in which bitter partisan-ship
was engendered as to whether
he was justly or unjustly kept in
Matteawan, he was declared sane by
a jury in habeas corpus proceedings
in the latter part of 1915 and releas-ed
by a court order.
According to the information laid
before -the district attorney, it was
reward the end of 4915 that Thaw
first met and became interested in
Gump. He had gone to California
after his release here to attend the
Panama-Pacific exposition at San
Francisco and later went to the
southern part of the state, spending
some time at Long Beach, Califor-nia,
where he met Gump at an ice
cream parlor.
Gump's mother and father, Fred
Gump, who is said to be a manufac-turer
of leather trunks in Kansas
City, were with the boy at Long
Beach and made no objection to
their son's acquaintanceship with
Thaw, the district attorney was in-formed,
apparently "sharing popu-lar
opinion that he had been vindi-cated."
After Thaw left California, he
continued to correspond with Gump,
according to information given the
district attorney by Mr. Walsh.
These letters, Walsh said, warned
the boy not to show them to any one,
but he let his mother read them and
she answered them for him. The ex-change
of letters continued through
191C, Thaw expressing a great in-terest
in the boy's future and a wish
to pay for his education abroad.
Although proffers of money by
Thaw were refused the boy at last
came on to New York and went to
Thaw's hotel, where it is alleged the
assault took place.
Thaw, who is a member of a
wealthy Pittsburg family, shot and
killed Stanford White, a noted achi-tect,
in the midst of a crowd at Mad-ison
Square Garden in June, 1906.
He was incited to the act. he said, by
the confession of his wife, Evelyn
Nesbit, a chorus g'irl. made to him
of her treatment by White previous
to her marriage to Thaw. •
Inauguration Today.
" Governor-Elect Bickett will take
the oath of office in the city audi-torium,
at Raleigh, today, and de-liver
his inaugural address. Gover-nor
and Mrs. Bickett arrived in Ral-eigh
this morning on a special train.
Reception at the governor's mansion
and inaugural ball will take place to-night
in the auditorium.
Cannon For Boone Monument.
A letter from Congressman
Charles M. Stedman states that the
war department has forwarded three
large cannon and sixty cannon balls
to be used as a setting for the Boone
monument proposed to be erected on
Grace Court in West End, Winston,
the granite shaft for which has bee*
placed on the ground.
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