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I t v VOL. 8, NO. 65, SEMI-WE] CAN SHIP LIQUOR 3 FOR PERSONAL USE m fa g i Supreme Court Defines the Webb Y Law?Knjoins Kxpress Company ai . ror neiuBing to Make Deliveries fa > <flr \ in South Carolina. iu The following was taken from Thursday's Columbia State: J" That there is no statute in the state of South Carolina prohibiting pt the importation of whiskey from another state for personal use and j? that the Webb act gives the state ?*' the right to enact such a statute, if 1 it so desires, is the decision of the pI supreme court in deciding a case testing the constitutionality of the c* Webb act, which was passed by Con- cl gress, withdrawing the protection bl iof interstate commerce from whls- of key shipments frofn one Btate to an- 8h other. The supreme court held that bl the old dispensary act forbidding ti( the ordering of whiskey for person- bl al use from other states, having been declared unconstitutional, before the passage of the Webb act, could not be vitalized by the passage of the J? Webb act. INTENTION OF ACT. ^ ''It is not the intention of the Webb act to interfere with the policy of the state in regard to the 1m- te portatlon of liquor but merely to er provide that the enforcement of a state statute would not be inter- C( fered with or hmapered by the interstate commerce laws," says the q( decision. v "In other words, the act in this respect is passive," continues the decision, "while it is Incumbent on rb the state to enact legislation of an tb active nature if they are desirous W I ^ of prohibiting the importation of G' liquors for personal use or other I purposes. But even if Congress had ce undertaken to give validity to an un- v*' constitutional state statute it would have been beyond its powers. T1 1 POWER OF LEGISLATURE. gl "While the legislature can not IP&bb an act, validating the provis- "* ions of the dispensary statute which we have declared to be unconstitu- r* tlonal, so as to give it a retroactive effect, it, nevertheless, has the power to adopt a staute with similar provisions having a prospective effect, prohibiting alcoholic liquors At from being imported into this state. "Such a statute would not contravene any provision of the United T1 States constitution. As we have al- m ready said, the recent act of Con- $2 gress divests intoxicating liquors of ye x their interstate commerce character se IO v' and Invests the respective states is with power either to prohibit the lai , Importation absolutely or allow it as only for sale and use through a dls- $2 pensary. The classification of the ye counties, so as to allow the sale of sti . liquor in some of them while it is ro not prohibited in others, would not fig be violative of section 1 of the of ; . 14th amendment to the constitution la: of the United States which provides that no state shall deny to any per- > son within its 'jurisdiction the full protection of ht elaws." CASE FROM RICHLAND. H< v The case arose in Richland county through W. W. Atkinson bringing a suit to secure an injunction lit against the Southern Express Com- G< pany from enforcing its order re- ca fusing to deliver shipments of. wliis- m: key in South Carolina for personal use. The injunction was granted Tl by the court, the decision being za 1 written by Chief Justice Gary and m yr concurred in by Associate Justices sa "j ' Woods, Hydrlck and Watts. Asso- 80 ? elate Justice Fraser says: "I concede that the above statement so hi strongly made is correct, but I dis- co sent from the judgment. The reg- 1?' ulatlon complained of in the peti- HI tion refers exclusively to interstate commerce, and I think this court has no jurisdiction to interfere." A test case was brought under joj the same conditions in Kershaw county and the court granted the Injunction in this case on the same j, grounds as that from Richland. CAPT. A. H. FOSTER DEAD. I' bu One of Most Prominent and Wealthy an Citizens of Union. th Union, May 14.?Capt. A. H. $7 Foster died at his rpold pnPA horn I early yesterday morning after a long Illness. He was one of Union's s most prominent and its wealthiest citizen. He leaves a wife, formerly ja, MIbs Hettle Branden, and three v._ daughters, Mrs. L. M. Jordan, Miss an Mary ICmma Foster and Miss Louise \ Foster. The interment will take ne place this afternoon at the Old j Presbyterian cemetery. Captain (J() Foster was a member of General al) Longstreet's command and a cap- m< ; tain in the Palmetto Sharpshooters. HOj ! He was 78 years old. pU i *\ we FOR MEDICAL IlKSKAKCH. tei thi FYisco Woman Gives $1,000,000 in eel Memory of Husband. W, Berkley, Cal., May 15.?In memory of her husband, who for years "j1 bad suffered from a malady that eluded medical skill,* Mrs. George William Hooper of San Francisco has transferred to the University of 801 California $1,000,000 for the establishment of an institute for medical f research. A L In announcing the gift President foi Wheeler said: ou I , "Mr. Hooper knew he could not coi De neipen, out he hopea that some-|ex| thing might he done for others who frl suffered in the same way." ' dif ?gp T % 0 P17T AT ' ' LKJ.VAJ 1 . JLJAIN (JASSTER, I AMBLING AND SOCIAL EVIL, lirilll ITMIl/CDC ensure Providing For Controlling " Ulll TLlluJ Board Attacked as Reactionary 117IT I Anpi New York, May 14.?A legislative Mf ll 1 llr|*j easure providing for a public wel- "* mmJMJ VI MJl re board to supervise control of imbling and the social evil in New ork city was attacked as reaction- Methodist Institution in *y and pernicious at a hearing be- to Begin?Initiation re Mayor Oaynor yesterday. Lead- Delayed For I>ack of g social workers expressed their Take Place June 4, P ews on Xhe question of withdraw- Washington, May 15.,g from the police Jurisdiction over ican University, plannei ie vices named. The bill was by Methodist Episcopa issed by the recent legislature as and provided with beai i outcome of the several inquiries ings and grounds in the to the police situation after the this city, will be open osenthal murder last summer. It with a college for gra is not been given executive up- June 4, next. This was "OVal. nn " * " 41 * V" ov ?. mrcinig ui IIIC I John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who Is yesterday. Forty mem ilef supporter of the bureau of so- board, representing n< al hygiene, protested against the section of the country v 11 through Starr J. Murphy, head Large sums of money ! the bureau, who said action in constructing the univ tould be deferred until after the in8s and equipping th ireau has completed its lnvestiga- opening has been delaye on of the social evil In Europe and time because until is prepared its data for study here, trustees were without The aldermanic police investiga- income to warrant thei on committee and the bureau of taking to operate the ini unlcipal research also enter ob- considerable bequest I ction. Proper administration by president of the board, 1 ie police rather than a separate Carroll of Baltimore m: >ard of control, the protestors lege for graduate study sld, was the solution of the vice The college for the tuation. trustees announced, w Officers of the citizens' commit- an institution for resear e, former Mayor Seth Low, favor- crated in connection w! ' the bill. ions federal department tutions here, will carry ONVICTED ON SECOND TRIAL. of lectures and will sup prehensive system of fe uin'an Found Guilty of .Inciting connection with leading Riot in Paterson. institutions of this coun Paterson, N. J., May 14.?Pat- ^ ot sfveral fellowsh nk Quintan, Industrial Workers of J1?1?. ?. *5'd travel 8 e World leader, indicted with beei1 arra"^ for. illiam D. Haywood, Elizabeth Reports to the trus nrley Flinn, Carlo Treska and th?l ,he financial resoi lolph Lessig in connection with re- nniversity have been "it silk mill strike riots, was con- vancing. cted on his second trial today. The 8t jury failed to reach a verdict. PRESBYTERIAN MOD ie Jurors today found Qulnlan lilty of inciting to riot. Dr. Stone Heads North* Quintan's consel announced that Lyons Souther i appeal will be taken which will Atlanta, Ga., May 1 t as a stay of sentence. The pen- of moderators by the co ty may be from one to seven years of the Northern and Soi prison. byterian churches, wit! unexpected choice in the TOTAL OVER 32 MILLION. former, featured this sessions of the Presbyte laessmenta of Cotton, Oil and Fer- biles in session here. tilizer Plants. Dr. John Timothy 9 Columbia, May 14.?Special: Fourth Presbyterian chi ie total assessments of the cotton fco, was elected model Ills for taxation for this year is Northern body, and Di 8,516,598, an increase over last Lyons, of the First ] ar of $350,001, and the total as- church, Louisville, Ky., ssments for the cotton oil mills moderator by the Sout $1,501,425,011, an Increase over lotion. All three of th< 9t year of $43,950, and the total session here now h: scssinents for fertilizer plants is moderatois, the Unite !,230,963, an increase over last r*ans taking this action ar of $561,620, according to a when Dr. R. M. Russell, itement issued to-day by Compt- mington, Pa., was chost ller General A. W. Jones. The lures were fixed by the State board Mrs. S. W Heath and i equalization at its meeting here Stoneboro are expected st week. a vj8jt to Mr w McD ] V. E. GONZALES FOR CUBA? = l/TTPn A 7 ?lieved He Can (Jet Post if He V Wants It. Washington, May 15.?It is be- rT"fJ3 IT1 sved here that if Editor W. E. f ll /| )nzales, of The Columbia State, n be induced to accept the post of Inister to Cuba, that honor will be ndered him by President Wilson, r?| J . a tere is little doubt that Mr. Gon- C^lQOOTQlC /\TT les could have some European Ission if he desired it, but it is P i . < id that he would not wish to go UtTXlGTlCllTW far from home. The Cuban mis>n would have a special appeal for m because of the distinguished V^fl nnection of his ancestors with the 8truggle of the Cubana ,or Chattanooga, Tenn., y' Officers high in the cou HOTEL -WINONA" IHJKNED. ^el'fas repreMnSlfve^ so high in rank, are wa ames Destroy I^aurens Hostelry? praises of the arranger Total Loss $7,000. made for the 1913 reui Laurens, May 14.?The Winona May 27-29 and pa.' )tel, owned and conducted by Mm. a?on8 their comrades ;ese, was destroyed by Are this ^rea^ awaits them when srning at 3 o'clock, together with a?re? surrounded by si actically all the furnishings. Tho places as the battlefield tiding was erected five years ago anaauga, Lookout Moui d cost about $5,000. Including fdooary Hidge, etc. e furniture, the loss is plcaed at Brigadier General Jol ,000. man, commanding the Division, U. C. V., and Death of a Child. *rand marshal of the re 11. mi. kt has a strong word of ecia to The News^ u f ? h Rr Heath Springs May 15 ?Neva peclally the plan8 for p e Crenshaw, aged eight and one- more partlcufarly the v. if years younger daughter of Mr. rade whl(>h ,8 t be k d ' Crte"HvhaW;,diod the Confederate soldiers y night. May 12th, after an ill- so that th win t b ss of more than two weeks dur- owed b other fPatUres < which time all that could be been a(lm?ted heretofor ne by tender hands was done to Hlckman wrote as folio evlate her suffering She wa; a eral chairman Brock: imber of the Presbyterian Sundav - y\h an omoer or tne iool here and a scholar In the j can onjy allow In tt bile schools. Impressive services parade what Is set out ire held at the home Tuesday af- jawB. They provide fo noon, In the presence of a mander-ln-chief, his stai rong of friends and sorrowing amj maids 0f honor; the lool-mates, conducted by Rev. T. commanders, their stafT , DeVano, assisted by Revs. H. C. and n,aids of honor- 1 ?uzon and J. W. H. Dyches. In- generals, their stafTs, sp racnt took plane at Salem ceme- maids of honor, with t y. The pall-bearers were Glenn erate soldiers forming ickey, Robert Therrell. Simla l0n. After the by-laws ?bley, Ray Mobley, Waddell Hin-'ed( and by order of G< a and Claude Mobley. d. Le??, the Confedcr; * mental Association wa Japan Confident. place In the parade. ' Toklo, May 15.?The Japanese will be allowed In the i eign ofllce Is optimistic over the nothing more, tcome of the California alien land ; "Our reunions are heh ltroversy. A high official says he the Confederate soldlei peels the countries to reach a are, or should be, the endly permanent solution of the however, for years we llculty. lost sight of In the shufl #1 K . 'MSttV 3. C., FRIDAY, MA Y 16, 1913. ITY TORNADO TAKES N SOON TERRIBLE TOLI Washington Destroys More Than a Third n oi Work, Seward, Neb.?Four Towns Sal< Funds, Will to Have Been Wiped Out. text * Seward, Neb., May 16.?A torna 7" Amer- ^0 wh}ch took a toll of 10 lives, in 1 yearo ago jure(j 30 odd persons and destroye* more than a third of this town, oc imrui Dulld- curre(j shortly before 6 o'clock yes outskirts 01 terday evening. Twenty-two resi a fornJal!y dences were destroyed and man; ,uastudy more were partly wrecked, but th decided up- business portion of the place did no TU8t608 nere 1 prrnaHy mi ffpT hers of the j T^be tornado struck the resident jariy every portion of Seward and swept every ; thing in its path. Most of thos. ? ?8Piei^ killed were caught in the wreckage t w ti?: ?f their hom?aem but the . , d from time The tornado after passing througl recently the Seward continued to the northeast a sufficient Reports last night say that th< n in under- towns of Homare, Lushton, Graf Btitution. A ton and McCool Junction were wip >y the late out. Four persons are reportet Jr. David H. hilled at Tomare and several a ade the col- McCool Junction. Utica was in th , possible. path of the twister, present, the Before the last telephone wlr ill maintain went down an appeal was sent t< ch to be op- Lincoln to send physicians and un Lth the var- dertakers. .a ana insu- j Reports from surrounding sec on a series , tions Indicate that, the effects of thi iport a com- tornado were felt over a wide rangi llowships in of territory, educational The tornado was followed In Se try and ^u- ward by a hail and rain storm ips for for- ; j,a8t night the town was withou ilready have ught8. ?" WILL CALIFORNIA steadily ad- j REFUSE TO BE BOUND' Portion of Governor Johnson's Re ERATOR.S. fusal to Veto Rill Causes Speou hit ion?Ambassador Chimin I: >m and Dr. Unofficially Notified. n. Washington, May 15.?Governoi 5. Election Jihnson's decision to sign the Call mmissioners ' fornia alien land bill despite Japan'', ithern Pres- protest was unofficially communl a a totally cated today to Ambassador Chindi i case of the with the understanding that Secre afternoon's tary Bryan may later present John rian Assem- son's answer officially with suol comment as he may wish in behal nt of the United States. In-rh rtiim. I When the-ambassador has receiv , ' . th~ ed Bryan's formal communicatloi J SDrole communicate it to the for Prpshvtnrin., ' el8n office and receive instruction! was chosen for the preparation of a rejoinder hern oraan Interest is excited by Johnson'! e assemblies Quotation of a portion of the Call ave selected forn,a law which appoints to limi (1 Presbvte a<,ti?n 80 'ar as it recognizes the i Inst nip-ht JaPanese rights to a treaty, of New wii- i There is speculation as to wheth ;n . er that was Intended to foreshadow ' the refusal on the part of Call ! fornia authorities to be bound b] Jon -a At A. . uauiutcig ui tne stipulations of any treaty here tonight for after negotiated In conflict with th< Brown. I new law. VS' REUNION : HELD MAY 27-2S angements Being Made Foi ment of Confederates at attanooga, Tenn. May 15.? .parades have gotten to be a non ?/?(1r. I ' - CRUSHED TO DEATH. Mr. John Pressly Caught by lleltii t ; is So lladly Mangled That 1 j Dies on Way to Hospital. J | A sad accident occurred at t I Lancaster cotton mills this mornii j at about 6 o'clock which resulted t the death of one of the employi i Mr. John Pressly. While engag in his duties in the card room, 1: person came in contact in some w with one of the belts attached to I machiife, and he was hurled to t ceiling and down again, his i><> * falling on another carding machit ~ Col. Leroy Springs, the president " the mills and also president of t g L. & C. Railroad, had a spec! t train summoned to carry the i jured man to the hospital at Ch< ter, but he was so badly injured died before the train reached thei ~ His family, consisting of a ^ wife a 8 two children, residing at Monr< 8 were notified of his unfortuns death. Mr. Pressly was about II years of age. and came tn the Lancaster mills about two wee e ago. He was an expert, having be - working as a mill employe for " years. J t TO DISMISS ALL CONSTABLE* e Governor to Dispense With Tin e Services?Writes to the Chief. 3 Following the decision of the ? - preme court, defining the Webb la the governor yesterday addressed - letter to the chief whiskey co e stables in the various sections 0 South Carolina, announcing th they and their men would be d . missed after June 1. It is said th . about 260 men will be affected t the action of the governor. The following letter was addrei ed to the chief constables: "Dear Sir: I regret very much have to inform you that, as a resi r of the decision of the supreme cou in the case of W. W. Atkinson > . Southern Express Company, testii . the validity of the Webb law as a < plied to this state, I have reach* the conclusion that it is absolute r needless for me to continue to ex ploy the services of whiskey co H stables in this state. Under th decision, for the reasons which a ( more fully stated this day and flit in my office, I request the resign tion of yourself and the men und ~ you, effective June 1, 1918. Wit f out the assistance of the courts, feel that it is useless to try to e force the diBpensai*y law in th ~ state." ~ THE CATAWBA RANGERS' FLA * Mr. G. Wash Williams Talks Inte estingly of the Historic Company j The fact that a flag belonging , a command known as the Catawl Hangers is now in Los Angeles, Ca in possession of a lady who is an ~ lous to restore it to its rightf owners, has excited much intere " in this county, which sent to tl front a company by this name. Ve ~ few of that gallant body of men a ' now living, but we had a convers tion with one of them, Mr. G. Wai z Williams, who was in town We nesday. Mr. Williams is quite su the flag was never captured by tl enemy, but from the descripth thinks it altogether probable th I it is the flag of his command whl* he believes was taken by some Sherman's bummers when th were in Lancaster on the mar through the state. He says tl words "Victory or Death," were < f the old flag. He says when his rej ment, 4th South Carolina Caval left for Virginia, he remembe that Mrs. J. Anna Stevens, then Mi Oil rotnn ' n ui me (leHcnpt, and tilled up with tally aterans, as hos, automobiles, hacks, Carryalls -eterans not militia and everything on foot 01 ,rm in their riding. In fact, they have gottei nents being in such ill repute that a large pei lion in this cent of the Confederate soldiers wil is the word not participate. that a rare ?<j am jn rPCelPt of letters fron they gather au over the South and from th? ach historic moRt prominent soldiers, commend s of Chick- jnR the orders I have issued. On< itain, Mis- jg that I am to have a parade as provided by law, the other is thai in P. Hick- the young ladies, representing th< Tennessee mothers of the South, shall not rid< I therefore astride. On these two orders we in lunion, hero tend to stand pat. commep.da- "j deRlre to congratulate the peo ementa, es- pje Gf Chattanooga on all arrange aradea,^ and nients the committees have made eterana' pa- amj especially on the parades of thf t Intact for Eleventh United States Cavalry, thf themselves, sponsors and maids, and the Son? e overshad- 0f Confederate Veterans. From thf that have work being done by your coramlto. General tPC8> you can but have a great sucws to Gen- PP8a 0f our twenty-third annual reunion." a^c'ation, E. V. Mullenlx of Fort Worth, iei?V!r..rja?n^ Tex., was sent all the way to Chattanooga by R. E. Lee Camp, of that r me com- pjace( Qf which he is a member, to HPonsors 8ee what the prospect was for the ree corP8 reunion, in order that members of s, sponsors that oamp an(j their friends might major- jiave something to guide their dotonsors and fjRjon about attending. Mr. Mulh ?Vi ? 'en'x looking over the sltuaeacn divis- tjon bore was most enthusiastic and were adopt- wrote a warm letter back home wP speaking hightly of the prospects ate Monu- j hrging that Texans come in ? civen a - x?i,X w ~ large nn in hers. The above * parade, and T vo bnen investigating the prep i arfttions here for reuion," said Mr. A to glorify | Mullenix Just before he left Chntrs, and we : tanooga, "and see that something attractions; very grand, probably hotter than we have been have been accustomed to, is ahead 1e, and our for the veterans who tome." ?, y.uiKureu IU iiik reKiine or his company, he Is not su which, a flag, and he well remei hers her very appropriate speech making the presentation. Mr. Williams talked interesting of the war. He was in Columbia the time the city was fired by She r man. He was selected by Maj. Ge 1 M. C. Butler, after all of his divi J ion except the brigade of Brig. Ge ' Pierce M. B. Young had evacuat* the city, to carry a dispatch back i General Young. That he saw She 5 man's men enter the city and thi - there was no evidence of fire unl i they marched in and that, after th, ' pandemonium broke loose. M 1- Williams says he was captured " February, 1865, by Sherman's m< ' and put in the county jail with hundred or more Confederate so diers, among them Mr. John D. M - Carlev, now deceased, of Winn boro. That while he was in ja , the building was fired while tl > prisoners were upstairs and wh< they were brought down the stai i way was burning. Besides Mr. Williams, the men hers of the company now living fro iliis county, are Samuel F. Masse J. C. Hudson, Albert L. llinson. M Burwell N. James of Kershn county was a member of the con pany. The late James D. Mcllwal , was the first captain of the compan , The late William J. Mcllwal father of Mr. R. K. Mcllwain an Mrs. Carrie S. Green, was the ne: Captain, who in turn was succeedc by the late Capt. John Cantzon Fo ter. who was its captain the great* part of, and until the end of tl war. The missing flag is now 1 possession of Mrs. Maud Burg Thew, Los Angeles, Cal., to who we have written for particulars ? to how she obtained it and all tl information she knows about it. 1 the meantime wo would be glad ft further information any one ca give as to the flag. Capt. L C. McFadden of Roc i Hill spent yesterday in Lancaster. us. $1.50 PER YEAR. ^ BAPTISTS RE-ELECT I! ALL OLD OFFICERS OR in 38, Sixty-Seventh Annual Convention ed Formally Opens at St. Louis. tis ay St. Louis, Mo., May 16.?The v. _ oIv#W-OA*?"?> * L ? ~ - - ? 1 u i?Av;-iraTiiuw <tiiii uiti convention or he the Southern Baptists formally dy opened this afternon. The Rev. ,e. Edwin Charles Dargan presided, of Officers for the ensuing year were he re-elected with the exception of the lal vice presidents. The officers are: n. The Rev. Dr. Edwin Charles Dar;B_ gan of Macon, Ga., president; M. P. he Wolf of Dallas, the Rev. A. Q. Washre. burn of McAlester, Okla.; Isaac B. ad Tigrett of Jackson, Miss., and Wil)e, liam Ellison of Richmond, Va., vice Lte presidents; the Rev. Dr. Lansing 33 Burrows of Americus, Ga., and the in Rfev. Oliver Puller Gregory of ks Staunton, Va., secretaries; George en W. Norton of Louisville, Ky., treae15 urer, and William P. Harvey of Harrod8burg, Ky., auditor. The program provides for three j. sessions each day, the closing session being next Monday night. The sir morning session today was given up to missionary matters and the 1U_ afternoon session to the Laymen's ' Movement and the young people's ?' work. n~ TEXAS LEADS. of It is shown In the statistical r?at ports that Texas leads all the states lg_ in the convention in the amovint of at money contributed to both home and by foreign missions, giving $71,000 to home missions and $86,000 to for}8_ eign missions. Optimism characterized the anto nual report of the foreign mission ,lt board of the Southern Baptist rt church submitted by Rev. T. B. Ray ,g of Richmond, Va. ' "Baptists are awakened to worldwide responsibilities, and at that the same time to great opportunities ly before them in the home land," says n_ the report. n_ Considerable space is given to conditions in Mexico. ro "The year 1912," reports A. N. .j Porter, in charge of the Southern a_ Mexican Mission, "was one of th? yr most trying in the history of the Mexican people. Thousands of j bandits have over-run the rural dlsn_ tricts. leaving ruin and distress. lig Suet conditions have made it nearly impossible to do missionary work, I except in the cities." tG . A plea of denominational loyalty is made in the report of the board of home missions, submitted to the Southern Baptist Convention yes;o terday. 5a TRIUMPHANT PROGRAM. I "As we contemplate the great x' problems that the South confronts," uj 3ays the report, "the negro, materialism, 22,000,090 people not in any T. lf> religious body, the fearful cheapening of human life, the more than re 3,000 churches that have no houses a_ of worship-?as we think of these things, we long to be empowered to (j. project a program that shall be re positive, courucjous, adequate and lie triumphant." >n The home mission board reports ;lt that it closed the year's work free from debt. Emphasis of the doctrinal character of Christianity is ey urged in Sunday school \/ork in the t.b report of the Sunday school board, submitted to the Southern Baptist ;)n i Convention. ,j_ The Sunday school lesson com^.y mittee's work in this connection and a rs I its work in graded lessons for the 'ie 881 intermediate department is comnt mended. n?- ANOTHER FLY DANGER. I in * Insert Said to Carry Infantile Parly alysis Germs. at St. Louis, May 15.?Warring r- against the fly as the most common n. cause of infantile paralysis was 8- given by Dr. E. W. Saunders of St. n. Louis in an address before a medi*d cal association here yesterday. B to I)r. Saunders traced a connection' V r- between infantile paralysis and the ?t raising of poultry and gave this as J til an explanation why the disease is fit more prevalent in country and sur. burban districts than in the crowdIn ed part of a city. in While experiments were not comn plete, he said, yet he was confident '1- that final tests would demonstrate c" a connection between "limberback" R- in fowls and infantile paralysis. Hia H theory is that flies carry the germs of infantle paralysis from the car n casses of fowls and possibly from r- the bodies of hogs and dogs to food. .1 Dr. Saunders condemned legal 1 n- protection of the buzzard which he m said transmits infectious diseases of y. live stock. I ? SENATOR J. HAM'S FIRST BILL. \ y. Illinois Statesman Advocates Nation- 1 in al Wage Commission. id Washington, May 15.?Senator m *t James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois >d introduced yesterday as his first bill 8- a measure to establish a national sr wage commission to provide a sy?ie tern for insuring a minimum wago ! In | in all work pertaining to the federal 1b j government, public service corpora- H nuns aiui an concerns doing an !nterstate business, te The President would be authorlzn ed to appoint a wage commissioner >r in each congressional district, who n would handle appeals charging violation of minimum wage rogula- ? tions. Tho bill would appropriate k $500,000 for expenses and salaries j of such a commission. | _ - -JtL<*** + ' y