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country.
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REGULATION FOR
RATES OF HOTELS
Texas Man Settles Score With
Fourth Of The Five Who
, Robbed Him.
STREETS STREWN
WITH WRECKAGE
PLACES BLAME ON
THE FINANCIERS
Amendment Reducing Number
Of State Representatives
Also Introduced.
By Th# Aseoclated Press
Washington, Jan. 22.—Congressman
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Of Si Bones
The Senate will hold an executive
session tomorrow morning to further
Cotton Classens Also Included
In Measure Proposed In The
State Legislature.
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Frances Doyle, attorney f..
O'Callaghan. said tonight. the
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strayed by Sherman on his march to
the sea.
Through the efforts of receivers of
the importing company, $77,306.25
was finally allowed in settlement of
the claim and more than half of this
has just been distributed to the stock-
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from the soldier for the purpose of
robbing him of 15,000 marks.
Justifies Farmer P.otests.
"The country has lost its sense of
proportion," Young said in opening
his address. “Congress does nothesi-
er of Travis county.’and Thomas G.
Pollard of Van Zandt county, contest-
ing his seat in the legislature, began
hearing evidence here today in the
"While we have no detailed infor-
wition about the resolution we will
welcome any inquiry along the lines
being satisfied that the only result
will be to convince the public of the
fairness of our prices.
State Representative Alleged To
Have Conspired Against The
Government.
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was still pending when the House ad-
journed.
WEATHER
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East Texas—Tuesday partly
cloudy, cooler; Wednesday gen-
erally fair.
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spontaneous combustion due to the
contact of vapor escaping from the
tank car when the mechanic's tap was
removed preparatory to unloading the
car came in contact with the atmos-
phere. The tank car, which contained
8,000 gallons of casing head gasoline
produced by the absorption process,
was shipped here from Kelleyville,
Okla., Mr. Reese stated, and was load-
TO INVESTIGATE
INCREASED FARM
MACHINE PRICES
requiring real estate salesmen of Tex-
as to have a license from this com-
mission.
An amendment to the constitution
reducing the number of representa-
tives from 142 to 62 was introduced
By The Associated Press
Washington, Jan. 24 — The House
voted today to appropriate $360,000
for the free distribution of seeds by
members of Congress. This is $120,
000 more than was appropriated for
the current fiscal year.
at present, was included in a House
concurrent resolution introduced by
John Davis, of Dallas. The resolu-
tion requests that the various states
of the union join in a memorial to
Congress urging that body to call a
convention for the purpose of amend-
ing the federal constitution to that
effect.
A joint resolution was introduced in
the Senate proposing an amendment
to the constitution to authorize the
creation of districts which in bonds
may be issued for the construction of
Publishers’ Message
To Our Friends
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Measure For Fed-
concerning the law which has been
liberally applied in this county.
$360,000 For Free
Seed Distribution
were heard this afternoon, but Nein-
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Savannah, Ga., Jan. 24—After a
lapse of nearly 60 years, the stock-
holders of the Importing and Export-
ing Company, a big cotton concern,
operating here before the Civil War,
have received a portion of the money
paid by the government for cotton
belonging to the company and de-
TEXAN INFORMS
CONGRESSMEN OF
Cohlenz,Germany. Jan. 24— Engle-
bert Manns, a German citizen, has
been sentenced by a German court
here to be guillotined for the murder
tax lists for county, special school,
district school and levey improvement
taxes until Jan. 1. 1922. The bill
. The committee summoned 25 wit-
By The Associated Presa
Austin, Texas, Jan. 24 —Represen-
tative Newt B. Williams, of McLen-
nan county, introduced a bill in the
House today providing for the licens-
ing of cotton buyers and classers, and
that all persons desiring to buy cot-
ton in Texas must procure from the
commissioner of agriculture a license
as to their ability to buy and class
cotton.
This bill is intended to protect the
cotton buyers from inefficient classers .
and is expected to cause considerable,^
debate when called up for passage.'
Other bills introduced in the Honan
include one by B. T. Walker, of New-
ton county, providing for the regula-
tion of rates to be charged by hotels
and placing the regulation of the rata
under the Texas Railroad Commia-
sion.
O. D. Black, of San Antonio, intro-
duced a bill providing for creation ot
a state real estate commission and
nesses, most of whom
are from
Financial Policies Of Treasury
Secretary And Reserve Board
Assailed.
The bill would create a federal live
stock commission of three members
appointed by the president to have
Jurisdiction over live stock industries.
This commission would have powers
to issue orders, correct and desmi-
nate information, have access to pack-
ers books and have general super-
vision over packers, stock yards com-
mission men and similar agencies
Review of the live stock commission’s
orders would be provided by the bill,
which also prescribes rules for the
conduct of the packing business and
stipulation against monopoly, unfair
trade practices, engaging in unrelat-
ed industries and other similar acts.
Voluntary licensing of packers is also
provided. An attempt by Senator
Pomeroy: Democrat, of Ohio, to elim-
inate this feature having been de- '
feated, 43 to 34. :
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By The Associated Press
Austin, Texas. Jan. 24 —The com-
mittee appointed by Speaker Thomas __________
to investigate charges brought against I by T. T. Thompson, of Red River
Representative H. J. Neinast, of county. He proposes that two rep-
Washington county by Robert Thrash-1 resentatives to be elected from each
I of the 31 senatorial districts. His
amendments proposes that the Senate
holders of the defunct corporation
in a speech a dividend on the claims allowed.
Norfleet, his son, Jesse M. Brown,
district attorney, of Fort Worth, and
a detective today left for Fort Worth
with Joseph Feury, alias J. B. Stet-
son. taken in Jacksonville and charged
by Norfleet with being one of the
five alleged swindlers. One of the
others is serving a ten year’s prison
sentence. Another is out on bond fol-
lowing his arrest on swindling charges
A third committed suicide
Young said that the recent cen-
bus showed that 50 per cent of the
American people lived in small vil-
lages, towns and in the rural dis-
tricts and that 50 per cent of them
in the cities. He said that he doubted
if a true census would show that one-
third of the population of this coun-
try is actually engaged in tilling the
•oil.
FARMERS NEEDS Company Gets Damages From
----- Government For Destruction
as a pessimist, talked very plainly on
a number of matters. His speech was
given the closest attention. Young
is to retire as a member of Congress
on March 4. Having declined to stand
for re-election. He will engage
farming in Kauffman county.
By The Associated Press
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 24—His status
established by the secretary of labor
and the State Department as that of
a" seaman. Daniel O’Callaghan, lord
mayor of Cork, left here tonight for
New York, where he will attend to-
morrow night a theeting of the com-
mittee in charge of affairs of the
Irish relief
O Callaghan is at liberty, immigra-
tion authorities state, to sail on any
foreign-bound vessel from any port
that he may choose.
By Th# Assoclated Press
New Orleans, Jan. 24—J. S. Nor-
fleet, of Hale county, Texas, today
drew a black line through the fourth
name on a list of five men. But one
now remains of five who Norfleet
charges swindled him out of his life’s
savings of $45,000 in a bogus oil
scheme 15 months ago.
not agricultural. And
largest amount that has
priated for agriculture in
case.
Neinast is charged with having
been convicted on his own plea of
guilty to conspiring against the
United States during the world war,
in that he was obstructing the draft.
Neinas: admits that he payed a fine
of $50 on this charge, but says that
he did so t minimize the court pro-
cedure and because it was the cheap-
est way to get out of it.
“And, it’s no wonder,” he contin-
ued. “My friends, if the farmer were
A"v- t keep accurately a set of books,
putting his labor down at the daily
wage we recognize by legislation in
thia body, and charged extra hours By Th. Assoclated Prens
for the time he works gefore sunup
and sundown and charged his over-
head, there are very few farmers in
this country who would not be seek-
ing other employment.”
want the secretary’ of the terasury
or any other government official to
say what the price of my products
shall be. I want to take my products
to market under the God-given law
of supply and demand. It is no busi-
ness of any government official what
the value of my crop is.”
Young said that the country is not
suffering from over-production, but
from under-consumption. Instead of
radically disarranging the markets,
the department of treasury, assisted
by the agricultural department should
have been hunting markets.
Criticizes Congress.
The Texas solon did not allow Con-
gress to escape criticism, pointing
out that members that were now tell-
ing of the farmers’ plight had voted
against adequate appropriations. '
"This bill just reported to the public
apprppriates $32,000,000." He said
“$20,000,000 of that is for agricul-
ture, and $12,000,000 of it is f . things
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NOWTPROINYBNTS, BILL PROVIDES
crops. Neinast reiterated his state-
nient that what he made affidavits to
was true, but that he was not con-
spiring against the United States
The members of the committee expect
the hearing to last several days.
SENTENCE GERMAN
FOR AN AMERICAN
SOLDIER’S DEATH
Dr. L A. Levy, inventor of a new
photographic plate 20 times more
rapid than anything known so far,
and which makes possible “snapshot”
photographs by X-ray and facilitates
photography of moving organs, such
as the heart and lungs.
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Blancd Federal Financiers.
Young said that of the 4,000,000
bales of cotton raised in Texas last
year, fully a million bales would rot
and go back to the soil. He blamed
Secretary Houston and Governor
Harding of the federal reserve board
and their campaign of deflation for,
undermining the confidence of the
gation for the committee. W. M.
Fly, of Gonzales, is chairman of the
committee.
The testimony offered by Neinast
this afternoon was to the effect that
he had affirmed the affidavits of a
ast was on the stand most of the
time. He is represented by John
Matthews, an attorney o Houston,
while Representative Joe Burkett, of potato curing plants.
Eastland, is conducting the investi- Thn ° •
Pat M. Neff Is After
Suspended Sentence
Only two importe. nt amendments
were adopted by the Senate before
passing the bill. One by Senator
Wadsworth, Republican, New York
would include horses, mules and goats
within the operations of the bill, al-
though horse and mule markets would
be excluded from the proposed fed-
eral resolution.
Another amendment by Senator
. ittman. Democrat. Nevada, would ex-
empt all persons whose chief business
is live stock growing or production of
agricultural products from the bill’s
provision.
plosives and experts "from the refin-
ery from which the car was shipped
will arrive here tomorrow to definite-
ly determine the cause of the blast.
When the explosion let go a row
of frame tenant houses along an en-
tire block were splintered and the
occupants blown to the streets or
caught under the falling timbers.
Most of those killed outright were
badly mangled, while several of the
injured* were so badly burned they
died soon after.
When police and firemen reached
the scene the streets and alleys in
the vicinity were littered with the
splintered timbers and the torn and
twisted household goods with the dead
and injured caught in the tangled
maize of wreckage.
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trying to get deferred classification Westof Bexar county and J. M. Nel-
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home sufficient time to gather his Postpone the publication of delinquent
is the
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my 101
shall never be changed. Propound,
amendments to the constitution of
the United States to be voted on by
the qualified electors of the various
states and not by the legaslatures, as
Shortly after the alleged swindle.
Norfleet tool? his son from college,
and the pair trailed the men through
most of the large cities of the United
Sttes. Norfleet announced he would
not call it quits until he had found
the fifth man.
IntemmKona Harvested Company^ere j Mareh ONew York)
when told of the resolution introduced
today in the House by Representative
Jones, of Texas, calling for an in-
vestigation of compalints of increased
prices, said:
try at least 60 days, during which he
will visit a number of cities. The
seaman's certificate, Mr. Doyle de-
clared. would permit O’Callaghan to
embark for Ireland from any port,
either as a stowaway seaman or a
passenger, at any time he may desire.
The purnose of the lord mayor’s
visit to this country has been accom-
plished, added Mr. Doyle.
Wilson Recommends
Aerial Mail Service
The Marshall Morning News
believes in advertising, and
therefore, does not hesitate to
advertise what it considers its
own good points. It asks the
merchant to use its columns to
tell the people the advantage to
be gained in trading at his
store. The News believes it is
publishing the very best paper
in this section and one of the
things that makes it believe
this, is that its subscribers are
so very loyal to it, and that
there are more than 3,700 of
them. Occasionally a sub-
scriber leaves the county and
we lose him, but all we want is
to get the News into your home
for 30 days, and if you live in
the county will read the paper
we know we have a permanent
friend.
years' experience in the House.
"Instead of complimenting our-
selves at the limitation we have made
we should see to it that every need
to make agriculture more staple
should be filled. I have lived in one
BILL REGULATING
TWENTY INJURED; MEAT PACKERS IS
IN GAS EXPLOSION VOTED BY SENATE
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Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion Asked To Look into
Advances.
PARTY DIVISIONS
LACKING IN VOTE
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Proposed Commission Would
Have Many Powers Over All
Meat Industries'.
ed at a low temperature. When the
tap was removed, according to this
theory, the vapor came in contact
with much higher atmospheric con-
ditions here and the explosion fol-
lowed.
It was stated that representatives
of the United States bureau of ex-
The resolution would direct the
House Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion to conduct an inquiry and if
prices have been increased to find out
why.
Dallas, Texas, Jan.'24,—At the re-
quest of Governor Pat M. Neff Dis-
trict Clerk John H. Cullom here to-
day began preparing data on the op-
eration of the Texas suspended sen-
tence law in Dallas county during
the past two years. Mr. Cullom said
he believed the governor is planning
recommendations to the legislature
The author declared that the legis
lation should not extend to small
stock raisers and operate ther own
feeding yards.
consider the question concerning the
•appointment of J. A. Herring as a
member of the prison commission.
Due Do Spontaneous Ignition
Of 8,000 Galons Of
Gasoline.
Supreme ( ourt And Congress
Son. when you hev got to that
pint in life whur you hev got
acquainted with yore own self
and air proud uv the acquaint-
ance. why, son. you hev arrived.
Me alius hate the feller thet
we hev bin unjust to En this
meens you en me both.
A smutty story may maik the
crowd laff, but, Bud, when you
tole it you dragged down the
honor uv yore muther en you
put more er less uv a stain on
yer wife en dawter. •
I hurd a preecher last Sun-
day a braggin' on Susen B. An-
therney, en hit wuz in this town
thet I hurd it The sun do
muve ez ole Bruther Jasper sed
what lived up to Richmond,
Virginny. Ef this preec‘ r er
enny uther preecher hev
sed it 30 yeers ago he . hev
lost hiz pullpet.
Washington, Jan. 24 — Investigation
for Mayor of complaints that the International
its intention of’ncreasing appeuncrof an American soldier last April,
tome of its farm machinery "products. Manns is said to have killed the
was called for in a resolution intros American witn
luced today bv Representative Jones
Democrat, Texas.
Feury jumped from a moving train
during the trip here from Jackson-
ville, but was recaptured after a fight
Norfleet stated.
day on the agricultural appropriations
attacked appropriations for the army
and navy while agricultural appro-
priations were kept down, charged
that Secretary of the Treasury Hous-
ton and members of the federal re-
serve board had undermined the con-
fidence of the country, predicted the
repeal of the Cummings-Esch trans-
. portation act, and declared that the
failure of the supreme court to act
on the federal farm loan case has put
the land loan shark back in power in
Texas and elsewhere.
Young, who has never been known
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______Marshall, Texas, Tuesday, January 25,1921 ‘
1 ASNORICOTTON, TEN ARE KILLED;
By Th# Associated Press
Washington, Jan. 24.-By a margin
of 13 votes the Senate today passed
the long-fought bill for federal regu-
lation of the meat packers and other
agencies of the live stock industry.
The vote was 46 to 33, and the leg.
slation the center of bitter contro-
versy for a decade now goes to the
House with its supporters hopeful of
final action during the present ses-
sion of Congress.
A special rule to expedite House
action is to be sought. Partisan di-
vision in the Senate was lacking, but
most Democrats supported the bill
while a majority of the Republicans
opposed it.
The party lineup was 18 Republic-
an 28 Democrats for passage, with
23 Republicans and 10 Democrats
against it.
All fundamental features of the
legislation as presented by the agri-1
culture committee as a substitute for
the original Kenyon-Kendrick bill
were retained by the House and Sen-
ate.
tate to appropriate $600,000,000 in
order to enlarge our navy and $300,-
000,000 for the army for the purpose
of destroving human beings. The
whole world in recent years has pro-
ceeded on this theory, and nations
have loosed their purse strings for
methods of destruction overlooking ~ . ----------—
the fact that building up capacity in Texas.. A third commit
and power of nations rest fundame- and the fifth is, at large. •
tally on the farms."
on. “I don’t
By Th# Assoelated Prene
Washington, Jan. 24—President
Wilson recommended continuance of
the aerial mail service in a message
sent today to Congress. The postof-
fice appropriation bill as recently
passed by the House made no appro-
priation for the air mail service.
Block Of Frame Houses Leveled Lohg- Fought
By Blast Which Shakes j eral Regulation Passed By
13 Majority.
There was considerable debate in
the House late this afternoon over
the bill by Representatives T. M.
By Th# Associated Prees
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 24.—Ten
dead, approximately a score in-
jured. some probably fatally. and
property damage estimated at
$200,000, made up the known toll
tonight of an explosion of "casing
head” gasoline awaiting u iload-
in, from a tank car at the plant
of the Colyar Reese Company, in
North Memphis, which let go this
morning with a blast that wreck-
ci a part of the oil plant, leveled
a block of frame dwellings and
shook the entire north end of the
city.
Of the injured two are white per-
sons L. C. Scott of the Reese plant,
and L. C. Wilder, truck superintend-
ent. Both were badly burned, but
physicians stated tonight they will
recover.
Colyar Reese, president of the com-
pany, attributed the explosion to
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Marshall receipts 4.625; selling
12c to lie. Futures closed 41 to 47
points higher. Spot markets un- l
changed to 35 points ihgher. Close. I
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[March (New Orleans) _____________
March (Liverpool) ___________18 46
Galveston—middling spots ____14 00
Houston—middling spots _____13 60
New York—middling spots____16 50
New Orleans—middling spots___14.50
Liverpool—middling spots ____17.76
Cotton closed up strong today on
general talk of decrease in acreage.
Therefore we should not overlook the
fact that acreage will be the dominat-
ing factor before long.
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