THE STTMTEU WATCHMAN, Esta CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,1 THE SENATE INCREASES ] TAX LEVY; ??- - Finance Committee! Reports Appropi*ia-i tion Bill With In-j creases Over House! Bill . ii Columbia, Marek S,?The fin- j ance committee reported the gen- j eral appropriation bill to the sen- ; ate tonight with an increase of j 170.640.46 over the amount as sent | to it by the house two weeks ago. j The house bill carried a levy of 3 j mills and that of the finance com-j mittce shows a levy *>f about 7 1-2 j mills. The house bin carried an ? aggregate of $5,670,610.S3 and the j finance committee bill has a total i of S5.741.251.29. In reporting the bill, however. I the finance committed has chmi-1 uatett several items furov?tod Uy I the house for the paynwM of loans \ totaling $256."33 obtained from the! sinking fund commi^or-. These j loans are allow .-d to tk?3tt arsd 5.r.-| terest is provided for the com mis-: sion in lieu of the principal. These I are $37,300 due by Winthrop Col-; lege: $73.000 by the University of South Carolina, and $124,003.24 by the State Hospital. This arrange ment makes ana-pparent reduction in the appropriations for the uni-" versity;and for -Winthrop" when in fact they receive-slight increases. The finance committee placed the j salaries of all chief-clerks back' to their former mark, the ways! and means committee having re-1 duced them 10 per cent. Practical-j ly all other reductions in salaries j remain. However, the secretary of I the State Board of Public Welfare] will get $3,000; the State High way j Engineer $5.000 and the chairman j of the State Tax Commission $3,-j c6.00 per annum. There are increases^all down the, line for the. adjutant generals'! -office. They were: Chief clerk j $140; porter $30: travel $250: tele-j phone and telegraph $74 : office j supplies $100; office equipment; $200; salary disbursing officer $300; j salary armorer $130; freight, ex press and' deliveries $ S 5 Or travel disbursing olficer $150: repairs 1300: otlice supplies, armory $100: insurance $4.0^;-v4r^o?y;. office equipment $15,0: special serv ice and travel m connection with the N?v tional Guard $900: repairs for the National Guard $H>0; guard sup plies $100: ? an increase in main tenance fund for 33 organizations from $10.000 to $27VOO0. For the University of South Car olina there was an actual increase of $300: for the Citadel an increase of $3.010. and for personal con tractual serv ices in the Upkeep of buildings and grounds and a de crease of $19,000 to $4,600 for per manent improvement?. . For Win-1 throp College thtr/c ?<*as a decrease j of $l,soo for contraetural services under the superintendent; and in- i crease of $7.550 for persona! ser-i vice in connection with normal and j industrial education and an in- j crease of $8,284.73 for the upkeep} of grounds and buildings and an j item of $500 for a shed for build-1 ing material was eliminated. For1 the State Colored College there was an increase of $3,800 for equipment and the item of $2,000. for a sum mer school was restored. For the j oiate Medical CoUdy^. contraetural! services were reduced from $4,175 j to $2.675 and insurance was in- j creased from $700 to $1,200. For j the John do la Howe School there! were increases for personal service j from $8.900 to $10,880 and for equipment from $10,000 to $14,005.! and there were no changes in the! school for the deaf and blind. There was a large number of i changes in. the department of edu-1 cation. The money per diem of the! mem her? of rhe board was in- j breamed $200 and the chief clerk's j salary was put back to $2.400. Aid! for^approved schools was increased $40.000: the school community or ganizer's salary was increased $100 and that of the supervisor of adult schools $110. Items ?providing | $3.000 for inspection of rural j schools. $3.000 for inspection of mill] schools. $8.300 for 'vocational train ing under the Smith-Hughes act and $8.000 for maintenance and de velopment of or.*- and, two-teacher j schools depleted l>y eonsolidatior were added. There were increases all down ! f]?e line in the State Hospital for the insane. For personal service from $21.000 to ;$24.S20. contract-1 OK? services from $2,830 to $3.462. care, and treatment of initialed from $52,217.40 to $32.001.10. upkeep and buildings and groups from $t0, 3 00 to $46.$59: hospital dairy from $13,775 to $20.375: Columbia farm from $5.425 to $7.483; Moor?- farm from $3,83."? to ->5.771. and Pel] farm from $5.070 to $7.301.12. For the state penitentiary there "were increases granted and treat-: ment of inmates from $61.564? toj $02.001: farm So. t, from $f 4.225 to $18,254, and farm No. 2 from $17.<;33 to $19:6 23. ? ? ?a SALOME WAS A j CIRCUS GIRL London. March 9?Salome wasi an acrobatic tumlder. not a dancer I of th?- modern hallet type, ac.-! cording to evidenee presented be fore fh?> Royal Archaeological In stitute by George Rruce, of Ox- j lord. I e bLsiied April, 1830. 881. _ COMPR?MKE 7 BONUS BE INTRODUCED New Measure Carries Bank Loan Provi sion Plan in Place of Cash Payment Fea ture Washington, March 7.?The compromise soldiers' bonus bill, carrying a bank loan provision in place of the cash installment pay ment plan originally proposed and once approved by the house, finally was agreed to today by Republican members of the ways and means committee. It was introduced later in the House by Chairman Ford ney. who announced that it would not be called up until next Monday if then. Passage of the bill was predicted by Mr. Fordncy. His opinion ap peared to be shared by members of the House generally, some of whom said that on the final vote party lines would disappear. There was some speculation in House lob bies and corridors as to President Harding's views of the eompromise plan, and also as to whether he would find occasion to express those views before the House voted. Chairman Fordney still declined to say whether he had dscussed the compromise with the Executive. At the White House it was said that Mr. Harding had not studied, an'd_ consequently had not formed an opinion of the bank loan pro vision. He was represented, how ever, as maintaining the same po sition that he did when he '.vrote Mr. Fordney on February 1?; that the bonus either should be paid by a sales tax or the legislation post pone^ Some of the majority members of the eommttoe believe that since the new plan defers for t'ir*c years any ,large drain on the federal" treasury the President will not ob ject to it. They say the compro mise will enable needy veterans to obtain cash" without the necessity of imposing additional taxes on tue general public. Mr. Fordney said, the entire ways and means committee would meet on Saturday when the Democrats would have an opportunity :.o pass judgment on the bill. Aside from the substitution of the bank loan provision for the cash payment plan, the bills as introduc ed is-very similar to that previously passed by the. House. VThc only im mediate cash payment proposed is to veterans whose adjusted service pay would not exceed $50. Other veterans could select one of these four options: Adjusted service certificate, com bining a loan and insurance plan. Vocational training. Farm and home aid. i.and settlement. The ultimate cost of the bonus to the government, it was said, would depend upon the number ot men selecting each of the options. It was estimated that the immedi ate cash payment to those entitled to not more than $50 each woul?% be around $16.0.00.000. The final cost might range all the way from $1,000.000.000 to $4.750.000,000 tho maximum figure being predicated upon all of the veterans selecting certificates and holding them until maturity or until their death. The adjusted service certificate would ho dated October t. H?22: would mature in twenty year?, or at the death of the veteran; and in either case, would have a face value equal to the sum'of (1) the adjusted service credit of the cet era:;, inc reased by 27, per cent plus (2) interest thereon for twenty years at the rate of p<-r cent compounded annually. The total amount would be "approximately equal to 3.015 times the adjusted service credit of the veteran." This credit would Ik figured on the basis of $1.25 for e ich day of overseas service and $1 for each day of home service, but in no event could the credit exceed $500 in the case of a veteran who per formed no overseas service and $625 in th<- cast of a veteran who -d overseas, i'rior { incorporated under the laws of any stat?-. teriitory pos session or the District of Columbia. ttouW ???? authorized to loan to a veteran on the certificate aaj amount not in excess of 50 per cent of the adjusted service credit plus interest at -? [*> per cent from Oc tober I. The loan would have to mature not later than September 30, 1!'l'.">. and the rate of hit* rest charged by th<- bank could not ex ceed by more than - per cent a year the rate charged at :h<- i!a(< of the Joan for the discount of ninety-day commercial paper by the federal reserve bank ii i b< federal reserve - s?d vance to the veteran. JERSEY COW BREAKS RECORD Stores. Conti? March '?' A n<-<\ record for milk production by y Jersey cqw has been mad ? by "?? } vies Star, owned by A. V*. I-Jarnos. She produced 26,016 pounds ;u one year. Be Just and Fear PLAN TO KILL MUSCLE SHOALS WILL SUCCEED Chairman Koh-n o f the House Military Committee Asserts That Legal Difficul ties Prevent Accept ance of ford's Bid Washington. March 7.?Chair man Kahn of the house military committee today told W. B. Mayo, chief of engineers for Henry Ford, that it would require years to thresh out existing legal entangle ments and it was doubtful even then that the government would be able to accept the Detroit manu facturer's proposed contract for purchase and lease of the nitrate and power projects at Muscle Shoals. After the committee adjourned other committee members said the legal barriers to acceptance of the Ford proposal appeared inescap able because of the contracts held by the Alabama Power company and the Air Nitrate corporation which, those concerns claim, give them exclusive rights to purchase the Warrior steam plant and nitrate plant No. 2. respectively. Roth units would be delivered to Mr. Ford with free titles in the event of his proposal was accepted and could not be free from the contract condition? without prolonged liti gation in the court1?. The discussion of the legal diffi culties in the committee in consid ering the Muscle Shoals situation developed after Mr. Mayo and Gray Silver, Washington represen tative of the American Farm Ihj reau federation had presented three alterations which. they said. Mr. Ford had agreed to make in his original offer for the shoals pro jects. The fust alteration provid ed for a fixed capitalization of not less than $101000.000 lor the com pany Mr. Ford would create to [operate the Alabama enterprise. The amendment was suggested by Secretary Weeks when he submit ted the hid to congress in order to safeguard the governrnent's inter ests against failure of the operat ing company to carry out the con tracts in good faith for the 100 years it would bfc effective. Another amendment offered by Mr. Mayo was a guarantee to man ufacture "commercial fertilizer" ! rather than nitrates and "other ! compounds," while the third pro | posed to give authority to the com i pane's directing -board to regulate I the delivery of rhe fertilizers di : reel from factory to consumer, j making it impossible for interme diary agents to handle the products 'and increase the price to the ; farmers above Hie S per cent. I profit charged by the manufactur i Ing company. These amendments were welcom ed by the committee although ? some members expressed rregret that Mr. Ford had refused to accept a 50s year lease and had insisted iupon the 100 year clause. Repre sentative Green (Republican) of ! Vermont declared he was strongly opposed to changing the publie j policy limiting the issuance of leases on public properties to ?"'? years and said it would be unwise ? to make an exception to it for Mr. I Ford. Chairman Kahn and Representa tive Miller (Republican) of Wash ington asked Mr. Mayo if Mr. Ford j would further modify his offer. !eiiminiating the provisions requir ing the government to give him J clear titles to the Warrior steam j plant and nitrate plant No. 2. and {whether Mr. Ford would agree him jselt" to adjust the legal disputes over j the rights claimed by the Alabama j i'ou er company and the Air Ni J trates corporation, defraying the j litigation expenses as well. I Mr. Mayo replied in each in Istance that the legal situation was j the government's ousincss and Mr. j Ford would not be willing to pay [the costs of court trials. II?- also insisted that the Warrior plant was j essential to tin- plans for Muscle [ Shoals development that Mr. Ford j had in mind. ; Mr*. Kahn said attorneys for the i power company and the nitrate cor poration had advised him the> j would insist thnt the government ! discharge the obligations it had as : sinned when contracts for the con struction of the two units wen- <-\e jcuted with war department olh jctals and options given their clients i for exclusive purchase of the two t plants in the event the covern l ment ever decided to sell them, tm j der their separate warnings thai they would refuse to submit to the disposition ot the properties to Mr. j Ford and would battle tor their [rights from the lowest to the high ,est courts. Mr. Kahn said he was tunable to sec how the govern I ment could enter into the ngr??e | ment proposed by Mr. I'ord to th? I extent of delivering the plants to him for immediate development ei for future operation if the courts huphcld the power co''?pany and I nitrate corporation in the Phial <;t;i t?1 I olficia lly. Not?Lot all the ends Thou Aiius't a Slimier, S. C Saturd Morse and So v Charles W. Morse and his'three with defrauding: the government of This photo, taken in the office of tl two of the sons and their father, H< Charles W. Morse. TWO TOWNS WRECKED 1 BY STORM _ Langley and Warren-! ville, Aiken County,j Reported Wiped Out: This Morning?Loss' of Life Feared ______ Augusta. Ga., March 7?Lang ley and Warrenville. small South1 Carolina towns arc reported t? havoj been wiped out by a storm that) swept this section today. Several] are said to have been killed. Wire communication is cut oft und details/' are lacking. Warren ton, Ga-, also reported to have suffered damage from the] storm. ; A portion of the A?gusta-Aikeji railroad is reported damaged and ! [Charles Banghart, the general man-: ager is informed that a number <>f houses were Mown down in the \ i oinity of Warrenville and Langley and several killed. I A lineman sends in a report that nine were killed and many houses destroyed, and plans are being ?made to rush the injured to .\il-.<:t and Augusta hospitals. This iv ; port is unconfirmed. Six are known to be dead ami scores were injured as a result of the-high winds and Hooded streams j i in this section of Georgia and [South Carolina. Langley. Stifleton* j Graniteville and \VarrenvilIe. S. ('. [were struck by a tornado at day i break. Houses were swept away, i trees uprooted and telegraph poles felled. leaving the towns in dark I ness without communication. The brunt of the storm hit War ! renville and Stifieton where sis are i dead. The yare Fred Hoover. 1U: 1 Mrs. L. Munday. ; die.. The slorm scattered parts of buildings and furniture over the fields. Eleven houses were razed at Warrenville. four at Stifieton. Dirt roads ;md bridges ;ir<- report ed washed Milledgeville, Ga.. is temporarily suspended. HOLDING YOUNG MAN Low Price Asked For Car Aroused Suspicion Marion, March S.?While at tempting t<> sell car here lasi night. Arch f>as>. ;i young man <>[ Lumberton. X. <'.. u;is apy>rchond ed by Deputy Sheriff Kunnati l?i wards and held for investigation. After a telephone* conversation with officers in Lumberton this morning the young man was lo?!u ed in tin- county j.-til awaiting eoni rntlmcul t?> the Itobeson county jail. Mass offered the ear. which was comparatively new. to a garage man for $7-?. This a roused his suspicions and h^ telephoned the sheii?Ts ??!!'; ???? ?1 luirned Saturday evening The iv.- originated fr??ni a cigarette, it s sa id. No insurance was carried. The ? ?ss was ubOU-t t be tliy Country's. Thy God's and ay, March 11? 1922 >ns Face Trial < millions In shipbuilding contracts, icir attorneys, shows, left to right, irry F. Morse, Frwin A. Morse and' CAN BANKS CARRY THE BONUS-LOAD? Republican Plan to Meet Demands of . Legion Would Im pose Burden on the Banks Washington. March '.:;?s. '.i was understood that an unsuccessful effort was made to confine the bonus largely to the adjusted service certificate" option. The other differences were said to have been unimportant. After a forenoon session of the majority coin mts teem en. Chairman Kordney announced thai il was the ohm to complete the bill in the xf Jernoon. introduce it in the house immediately and formally present it tomorrow after a session of the '?!!ii:'<- committee. ft seems that the proposition to require the Democrats on the com mittee to cast their votes on the bill, without bavins full opportun ity to consider it. met with some opposition from ihe majority side and i; was indicated that when the measure was put in final form by the Republicans the minority mem bers would be given time to study its orovisions before final commit tee action. The bill will i><- taken up again tojnorrow by the Repub licans, ii was sat-!. Changes made in tit" i>i!l at the two sessions of the majority mem bers today were said to have been largely of a technical character. Committeemen declared that no im P< rtant alterations had been made in the compromise plan eliminating the .'"ash bonus except where the men were entitled t" or less iwl substituting a bank loan sec tion to the adjusted service certi ficate title authorizing national and si;ue banks and trust companies organized under state laws t'> lo.nr. ??ertificate hoiCcrs ui> to 50 per ?-.?ct. of the adjusted service credit. Representative RongwortSl of Oh to. a member of the committee. Lold newspaper correspondents h? thought the tormer service tnc? v.oald have no difficult* in reallSP inu: on tiie certificates saying that :i:<- .-1!11: representatives Wednesday night Killed the hill hy Repres? n'ati\?? Moon. Of Gre??nvill?\ to provide an ??ducalional survey of the state. There was considerable ?lobate on th?' t?:e;LsuK,.. the chief oi?t?osition being bas?*d i'ii the cost the sur vey would entail upon the state. Tins bill was Sponsore?! I?y the ne\v|y organized Sout h Carolina Ivd ;;? ational Association. IJENEFIT POLO MATCH AT AIKEN Aiken. S. <'.. March :? ?A polo match will lr played here Saturday for the benelit of the storm suffer^ ? rs a: rren vi Ii", s. ?'. Truth's.*' LEGISLATURE i CLEARING UP j THE CALENDAR _ j Chiropractor Bill Kill-] ed, Telephone Rate! Bill Passed by Sen ate, Gov. Vetoes University Trustee Bill, etc. i _ I i Columbia, March 8.?The House' [of Representatives Tuesday night j killed the "chiropractor bill," a; measure which would have provid- . ed a state board of chiropractic ex aminers. to examine and license j persons to practice this profession j in the slut*'. The hill was intro- j jduced by Representative Loopard.' j of Pickens. j j The bill was opposed by the j medical profession of the state. The j [opposition took the position that' the chiropractor should be required j to stand the same examination doc J tors have to stand. Dr. Barnxvell, of Charleston, who was the chief enemy i?? the bill in the House. | j fighting it last year and again this session, spoke against it Monday' i night. He argued that for precau-i I fion sake and for the. public safe-1 j 'y the chiropractors should be re ?juircd to stand the medical exami nation. Representatives Kennedy,, DeTreville. Hanahan and Dr. Lan cast? r. spoke against the bill. Rep ! resenta.tives O'Rourke. of Charles jton. and Sapp. of Columbia, cham-j pioned it. The bill was killed by aj j \ tc of -I to IS the senate) i adopted the amendment of Sena-i I tor Miller to the Foster telephone! j bill restoring the exchange radius ! to its condition as of January I.! j llcJI. and then, following the adep I tion of an amendment providing for appeals from tin- decision of the railroad commission to courts; I of competent jurisdiction, passed' the K?ster bill by a roll 'all vote; lot' - I to !:: and returned it to the I house as a mended. As finally passed tin- telephone [bill restores the rates charged by! telephone companies in South Car-j olina to their same status as off '.January I. 1921. prior to the ttmej {the increase was allow ed b; the I now defunct railroad commission, j : \n amendment was adopted to thej I original bill not to make it. affect ! I companies operating in one or two! ?eounties. this allowing for local; j companies. Under the bill tele i phone companies can gro before the! railroad commission and ask for; ' changes in rates. The last amendment to be adopt ':??>). thai restoring tin- exchange! j radius to tin- same status as of January 1. M?21. caused a bitter; ? f jgrht. being debated all during the fvrtdaj night session and again lyeyterdaj Several attempts to '? :?? -ach a \ot,. Uridav niglit were not i ??arried arid it was only after per i sistent .'ighls that a vote wa:*.' i reached yc^b I'd ay. This a mend men! restores the :,1- | leg",] "free toll" service between' towns of from two to as high as I above ;;" miles apart, this being In effect prior to the railroad cotnmis-1 sion order a year ago. When the telephone ''ill is re turned to tin. house ji number c?f amendments will be incorporated in it ??"?<] it is net known whether! THE TRUE SOU BONUS PLAN DENOUNCED BY CRISSENGER Comptroller of Cur rency Says Bonus Certificates Are the Worst Sort of Froz en Credit and Ad vises Banks Not to Accept Them Washington. March 9.?Comp troller of the Currency Crissinger announced today that in the event of the enactment of the soldiers' bonus, providing for payments by adjusted service certificates, he would advise national banks to de cline to accept them, as security for loans. He declares this would be the worst kind of frozen credit. STRIKE TROUBLE IN RHODE ISLAND Arctic Mill Subjected to More Picketing Today Providence. R. I.. March '.)?Arc lie Mills, at Arctic, one of the sev eral plants in the Pawtuxet Valley, owned by B. B. Andre Knight. Inc., was the scene of mass picketing today. Rumors that the plant woul reopen did not materialise. SECRETARY FOR INDIA RESIGNS London. March 0.?Edwin Sam uel Montague, secretary for In dia, resigned today. or not the house will concur ia these amendments. The foreign corporation license fee bill was passed and returned to the house as amended in the sen ate. Several amendments were adopted, one providing for a penal ty where the law is violated and another offered by Senator Young to provide that foreign corporations already domesticated shall not have to pay this fee again. This bill will give the secretary of state more power in controlling the foreign corporations and also will raise the fees upon such corporations to a sliding scale according to the capi tal stock rather than a ?15 flat fee as at present. Under its terms the fees will increase from around $15,000 to S70.0?0. it was stated on the floor of the senate. The ways and means three mill constitutional levy bill was advanced to third reading without objection. Senator Hart gave notice that he would withdraw his series of bank ing bills, but due to uascontcsted matters at the time they were not w ith drawn. Gov. Cooper last night returned to the house of representatives with his veto the bill to provide for the enlargement of the board of trus tees of the University of South Car olina. The house was practically unanimous in its approval of the measure and a strong fight is ex pected to be made to pass th** bill, the governor's diapprovai not withsta ruling. Governor Cooper's objections to tin- bill, as expressed in his mcs age to the house, were: That the increase in the number of members from seven to 21 "will give us an unwieldy board, and must necessarily be less: effective and efficient." That the most important duty ? the board is the supervision of the university's executive officers and faculty and that larger the board the nearer this selection would ap proximate election by popular vote and. he argued, "I doubt if any one would advocate the election of a university president hy popuiar vote or even by the general tissemLly." That if the large board were to leave the major portion of its wet> to an executive committee! <;s the proponents of the measure contend, there would be no need for the oiher board members since the executive committee would do practically all the work. That the hill do?-s not contain in i; a provision t<> secure a more gen eral representation of the various sections of tin- state on the board, which., proponents of the 'dll state, is. one of the purposes of the rutas ure. That the university is already represented in every county, if not every township, of the state by its alumni. That ih.- enlargement of the board would hinder the state m some later rime in forming one general board to control "all state institutions of higher education as well as our public schools." That the passage and approval of the -"o-t would lead other state institutions to ask for similar en larged boards. That the friends of the univer sity have no reason for diseourtige ment. "It now has the largest en rollment in its history and Us schol arship standard has never been higher. It compares favorably in its instruction with any similar in stitution in our sister states and in my humole judgment is at the threshold of its greatest period of usefulness." THRON, Eslablisucd June 1, 1&66. VOL. LIIL NO. 8 RAID ON ~ TREASURY DEFEATED J Attempt to Donate I Million Dollars to Farmers of North west Blocked by a Few Votes Washington, March 0.?By a close vote the house refused today to suspend its rules and pass a bill authorizing an appropriation - of ?J.000.000 for the purchase of se.jd grain to he used in the drought stricken areas of the Korthwest. With Jive members voting ??pres ent" the vote was 11?! to l?fi or SEC votes short of the two-thirds need I ed for passage. j Sharp debate preceded the vote. ? Proponents of the hill declared the situation in the Northwest was 1 critical and contended the govern? j meat should lend assistance. Op | ponents of the measure, most of whom were Democrats, held, how I ever, that it had not been shown j that the farmers affected were dT j titute or had exhausted their! cred | it resources. Representative Moudell of Wyo I ming, Republican leader.' urging passage of the bill, said that set tlers In North Dakota. Montana. Idaho and Washington, the four states chiefly afftcted by the legis lation, were carrying on great "experiment" to determi. neth er crops could be grown on their lands or whether the soil was good I only for grazing purposes. "The question' is, are they J*o abandon their homes and their struggle or are they to be given the opportunity to, pursue the ex periment which means more to the country as a ivhole than to them individually or collectively ?" Mr. Mondell sutcd. Speaking in opposition to the measure Representative Garrett of Tennessee. Democratic leader, de clared it was'*time for the Rpub lican majority congress that is "making a pretense at economy to u*"* more discretion in advocating bills that call for1 government ex penditures." He said that ko evi dence had -feceu presented to the agricul^r/gjuu&aHttee that farmers In the t^rtffWe'J?' were in destitute circumstances. t The agricultural appropriation bill last year earned ?-.000.000 for the purchase of seed grain to be loaned farmers* in trie North west. Representative Buchanan of Texas, a Democratic member of the appropriation committee; told the house that at hearings before the subcommittee prep-iru;g this year's agricultural bill it was brought out that only ?C(Hf.frQ(j of the $2.000.000 loaned formers last spring had been repaid. I THE SENATE I SPENDS DAY ON LUXURY TAX - Columbia. March i.?The South Carolina senate spent today, debat ing the bill already passed by the house to tax so-called luxuries, as a means of raising revenue in lieu of property "taxes, with taxes on soft drinks, moving picture tickets, tobaccos and other articles classed as luxuries. Strong opposition to the b?i has developed on the ground that it takes s the poor man's tobacco and the/ every-day man's pleasures. Senator Hamil ton of Chester moved to strike out i the enacting words and this mo | lion is being debated today! Dur j ing his remarks SeTtaror Hamilton i attacked the efficiency experts j who made a study of the state's ; government on the ground that they received high salaries from the state. Luxux? Tax Bill Dead. Coiuinbia. March fc.?The sen ate this afternoon by a vote of 34) to 10, killed the luxury tajt bOL The ? house by a vote of It ro 41 sustain ; ed the veto of Governor Cooper on ] the bill to enlarge the board of I trustees of the University from i seven to twenty-one member:. The I act was de$..1. - I LEGISLATIVE I ELECTIONS Columbia, March 9?The geser ! al assembly Is. Thursday ar'^nvoon. [beginning at 4. in the mid;r Florence*, arc also to be fleeted. PACIFIC TREATY IS AN ALLIANCE Washing! -m, March ? ? Pro nouncing the four power Pacific treaty an alliance Senator Kobln son. Democrat,; of Arkansas; de clared in the senate the pact would not promote peace, but invite,the formation of rival alliances and lead to great harm.