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WATCH Your Label I and Keep I W ^ Paid Up. JL J| VOL. 11, No. 35, SEMI-1 fIesphujppis ~ | within four years Senate Passes Bill, 52 to 24, to Give Greater Degree of SelfDovcriiinpnt. MEASURE CiOKS TO HOUSE Has Harking of President and Will He I^cssed for Early m Passage. Washington, Feb. 4.?The Philippine bill, which would extend to the islands a greater degree of selfgovernment, and would authorize the President to grant them absolue independence within four years, passed the Senate tonight, 52 to 24. Various Democratic Senators, led by Chairman Stone, of the foreign relations committee, tried unsuccessfully to amend certain features of the independence clause, but in he end the Democrats, Joined by six Progressive Republicans, voted solidly for the measure. It is understood the bill will go to the House with the backing of President Wilson and will be pressed for an early passage. Administration leaders tonight seemed confident that the bill, including the Independence feature, which Democratic Senators declare squares it with the Paltimore platform, would have the nnnrovnl nf the House Democratic majority. The Republican Senators who voted for the hill were: Rorah. Clapp. Kenyon, Lafollette. Norris and Works. Ry overwhelming majorities the Senate refused to modify the Clarke amendment, which contains the independence provision, and also Rives the President authority to extend or withhold Independence at the end of four years if he should And conditions in the Islands unfavorable. The time*would be extended, however, only until an incoming Congress could consider the subject. Senator Stone declared the hill was in reality not an independence measure because of the extension provision, and offered an amendment to eliminate it. hut his proposal **?- was voted down 60 to 17. Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the Philippine committee, sought to amend the bill by extending Independence within four years on condition that the people and Legislature of the Philippines should ratlfv a constitution. This was rejected, 52 *o 25 "I am making a last anneal for what I think is good faith and jus* treatment of he Philippines," said Senator Stone In urging his amend ment. "I am unquestionably and unconditionally in favor of cnrrylng out the pledge of the Democratic party by relinquishing control over the Philippine Islands completely. We are, in this bill, not offering independence in fact, but merely a aug gestlon of it to some future President." Senator Norris, in opposing a proposition in the hill empowering the President to retain naval bases in the PhlllnDineq. declared President Wilsonn had been converted from n man of peace to a militarist. "The President." said Senator Norris, "recently announced a pro^ gramme of preparedne-.s contrary to views he held a year ago. and In the last few days he has changed his mind on that. Now he says he Is in favor of the United States having the largest navy In the world." Senator William Alden Smith scored the Democrats for their determination to give up the Philippines and declared the American people did not wish to Bee the American flag over the iBlands hauled down. "This action is an unjustifiable and uncalled for surrender of American rights." he said. "If these islands become anarchistic and the people get to warring among themselves you will be blamed for It. as you ought to be. If other countries go to war over them it will date from the day when you cowards abandoned a taslr which Providence placed In your hands and which by this act you are Acknowledging you are unanie to master." ,8cnator Stone, replying, charncteri/.ed Senator Smith'H remarks as a "voclgeroua, scathing. dreary. Inane, partisan harangue." As passed the hill carries a provls^r ion authorizing the President when ind>i>< ndenoe is granted to negotlat treaties to adjust all propery right' of citizens of the United States an 1 ? other countries in the islands, and to acquire such naval base and coaling stations within that territory a? he 1 # IE Li WEEKLY. J. P. KING CONGRATULATED | Spartanburg (jets P. and N. Perm- ' ancnt for Most Business. ? I Of interest to the Lancaster. ' friends and relatives of Capt. J.| ' Palmer King of Spartanburg, form-' erly of Lancaster will be the follow- ( ' ing complimentary reference in The, Sprrtanbu'. g Journal to his sucess-| I iv.. words as freight agent of thej Piedmont and Northern Railway com-! , Spartanburg: The Spartanburg office of the Pielmont and Northern Railway company in the freight traffic department i "put it over'' the Charlotte, Gaston ia, Greenville, Greenwood and Anderson officers, in point of greatest I increase in the business of January j just closed as compared with the' ! business shown at these offices for | January of last year. Notifications' : of the success attained by the local I office together with personal coni gratulations from W. S. Lee, vice ! president of the company and E.1 Thomason, general manager have been received by J. P. King, agent In' charge of the freight depot here. Paul Alfrad, soliciting agent in this territory assisted the local force in "putting it over." 1 As an appropriate award for the , I good business done at the local i freight of the P. and N., a flag will j be raised on the P. and N. depot with appropriate exercises Thursday i afternoon, the hour to he announced i ! later. Under a plan adopted by the i P. and N.. as a stimulant to special efforts from he agents, a flag is to. be awarded at the end of every i month this year to the office which' i shows the greatest Increase of business for that month as compared with the corresponding month of last year. Spartanburg has taken the flag for the first month of the year and Mr. King, the agent, says he is going sronng in the running o secure it again and ueain and in fact he talks like "what it takes to get flags he l.olcls it." The unusually heavy increase in j the husinee done her by the P# and N". in the freight department clearly I indicates that Spartanburg mer i "hants and industrial promoters have been enjoying good business. Mr ! King says there has been general activity among all class of merchants j and Industries and he expects too so even greater increases for the sue-i ceding months." peatii or sweet i.itti.e c.iri, Maud Rlackinan Passed Away Saturday. l.'ttle Maud Blackman, the only daughter of Rev., and Mrs. P. E. Blackman of Longvdle died Saturday. She was a sweet little girl and , loved by all who knew her. She was eight years of age. Another link in the household band hns been broken.^ She has gone to enter the promised land. Written by her schoolmate. Julio Sims. : deems necessary. The upper house of I A 1_ - TW.W ... . . ... I I in?- rmpinn uegwaiurp wouin oe en- | j larked to twenty-four members, | twenty-two chosen by the voters and two appointed by the Governor General to represent the Non-Christian tribes, The lower house would he Increased from eighteen to ninety, the people choosing eighty-one and the Governor naming nine. The Governor General would have! a veto power such as rests now with the Secretary of War. A two-thirds vote of the Legislature would be needed to overrule It. The President would J have the right to Interpose an absolute veto within six months. No restrictions are imposed on the Legislatude's power to levy export duties, except that they cannot be levied on exports to the United ; States. A limit of $17,000,000 is n'rfced on the public Indebtedness I which permits the Issuance of new bonds to replace the $7,000,000 friar | land bonds now being retired. The bill would Increase the right j | of suffrage from the present 250,000 to approximately 700.000 by extend-, Ing it to any citizen able to rend and ' 1 write a native language. Polygamous! marriages, and the import, sale or manufacture of intoxidhtlnar drinks; ! or drugs, except the native bever- | nse*. would be forever prohibited and no laws could be parsed that vould permit religion* diae.rimlnn tlon. alavery or the creation of a 1 nobility. .I!1 THF <,ANf!AHTER VT? \NCA LANCASTER, S. C. FE SAYS MING BILL UNCONSTITUTIONAL ! Congressman llritt Tells Why He V?te?l .Ignlnst the Measure in The House THIRD WIRE FROM CARTER The Southern Textile Secretary Continues to Find Fault With the Measure. Asheville, N. C., Feb. 5.?Congressman James J. Rrltt, of the 10th Congressional district, one of two1 Republican Congressmen who voted against the Keating-Owen child la-1 bor bill, told the National Child Labor Conference here tonight that he ; opposed the Keating-Owen bill because it was wholly unconstitutional and an invasion of State rights. "I lay my tribute at the feet of those of work for the children," said Mr. | Brltt. "They are good men and wo-1 men and my heart and energies are with them In their work, hut the Keating bill Is an undesirable waste of efTort. I voted under my oath, with another Republican out of 107 Republicans, and If 434 members of teh 4 3g members of that great bodv had voted for it, I should have voted against it." Paying his respect to Congressman Keating, of Colorado, who was present tonight and who will address the conference tomorrow afternoon, Mr. Rritt said: "In the State of Colorado, the home of the distinguished author of this bill, there is out peace between capital and labor. Within recent months there the blood of laboring men, the fathers of children, has flowed in streams. While he reforms me and mine, I commend him to the reformation of himself and his. I challenged my colleagues on the floor of the House, hut challenged in vain and now annul i-iiaiH'iigp .mi*. locating to name an Instance where the Court has ever held that Congress has the right to regulate commerce in an article such ae an Immaculate yard of cloth, an article perfectly harmless, healthy, sound ami normal. re is where your law breads doIn its constitutional validity." <"n cross man Drift then turned his attnetion to the conference, saving: "I resent your making my Stat?the brunt of your attacks. There are no condllons here to warrant It. 1 do not. claim that we have done all we could do, but wc are moving. Great reforms do not come in a day. The problems are ours and we are equal to them. Leave us to solve them." Other speakers tonight were Drt Samuel McCune Linndsay, vice chairman of the national child labor committee, New York, who sketched the source of the Keating-Owen hill; Wylie M. Swift, Greensboro, secretary for the Cnrolinas, who discussed "The Two Views of Child Protection." and Dr. A. J. McKelway, secretary for the Southern States, who spoke on "The South for Child Labor Reform." The heart of the South is for abolishing the evils of child labor. Dr. McKelway said. N ATION AL DEFENSE BEFORE V. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Washington, Feb. 6.?National defense probably will be the chief subject of discussion before the Chamber of Commerce of the United; Stntes, which begins n three-day meeting here on Tuesday. Delegates representing more than 700 commercial bodies were gathered here tonight for the meeting tomorrow of the Nationnl Councillors, the first session in connection with the convention. Thursday's session will be given over entirely to a discussion of National military preparedness. Secre-! taries (larrison and Daniels will out-' line the plans of their Departments' and n. special committee of the chambor, which ltna been studying the defense probb/n, will make Its report. At the annual banquet Thursday night President Wilson Is expected to bring the convention to a cIo?? with an address on preparedness. . IWS T?^RRTT APV o mi<? CTETD >d jl jl\ IBRUARY 8, 1916 gIrdsInM PROHIBITION WIN Kumls of 950,000 to Enforce Ant J Liquor Laws and 82."?,(MM( For Property Shortage Provided. Columbia. Feb. 5.?Emergency funds of $50,000 for the enforcement of the prohibition law and $25,000 for the payment of the shortage in militia equipment were placed in the appropriation bill yesterday morning after a long and heated debate, In the course of which charges wer? made that there had been a coalition I of prohibitionists and militia supporters in getting the amendments passed. An eleventh hour attempt | which developed also a split in the [ hitherto solid committee on ways and means, was made to have these two funds turned into a direct appropriation; this failed, however. At 2:15 o'clock the general appropriation bill was given a second reading and the "clincher" put on. The bill had been under consideration continuously through Ave sittings of the house and though the ways and means committee carried practicp'ly : all of its contentions and voted down j conflictinc amendments, the hill had i a stormy passage. Notice was given | of ceneral amendments on third read inc. consisting principally of change? in totals and the recapitulation. i The creation of the two emergenc\ ' funds was the object of prolongei discussion. The law enforcement I fund, which is to be drawn from b\ mi- governor oniy when condition, justify or require extraordinary measures, was passed on a yea an* nay vote of 53 to 35; the militit shortage fund of $25,000 was decree* on a yea and nay vote of 64 to .3 0 with the provision that the money shall not proper means of avoiding the payment have failed. The fund are in anticipation of contingencies and do not in themselves increas. the appropriation bill. ItltlTIXN TO or.M \\1> ItKI.KXSK OK XPI'.XX \\"til Maintain I'nitcd States Itestoro Liner I'nder Term* <> ' tlnugiie Convention. I.ondon, Feb. 2. Tlie llritish go\ omment will hold that the Xppan must he released under clauses 2 and 22 of The Hi.guo convention o 1007, it was stated today. The.?* provide that a merchantman can no be converted into an auxiliary cruise on the high seas and that a mer eliantman prize can only he takei into a neutral port under certain cir cumstances of distress, injury or lacl of food and that if she does not de part within a specified time, she nius I be turned over to the orig'nal owner | with nil her cargo. I.AVMRN OF STATE MKKT. Over Twelve Hundred Delegates At tending Convention. Columbia, Feb. ?>.?Special: Witl 1,228 delegates registered the initia session of the South Carolina Conven tion of the Nattional Laymen's Mis ! sionary Movement took place in the j auditorium of the Jefferson Dote j this afternoon. Dr. W. S. Currell i president of the University of Soutl Carolina, presided and delivered the address of welcome. Addresses were also made h> President E. M. Potent, of Furman University, on "Spiritual Objectives fo: Men of Rusinss," and by Dr. Wortli M. Tippy, of Now York, on "The Task of the Modern Church." There were union services in several of the churches tonight, Dr. Potent preaching to a great audience at the First Baptist Church, und Dr. Tippy to a large crowd at the Washington Street Methodist Church. The Rev. R. W. Patton. of Atlanta, addressed a meeting for women this affternoon at the First Baptist Church, and preached at Trinity Kpfscopal Church tonight. More delegates are expected tomorrow. The convention tomorrow night will he addressed by the Rev. R. \V Pattonv of Atlanta; Dr. W. W. PinHon, of Nashville. and l)r. John N Mills, of Washington. The BnaVnn of the Convention will last through Wednesday.?W. F. C. in News and Courier. " 1 nev MIDWAY, ROUTE NO. 5. Miss Annie Lingle spent the week-end at Lancaster. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Adams spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Small. Miss Bessie Catoc is visiting her cousin, Miss Patsy Hinson at C.n i>i A mi Mr. and Mrs. T. E. W. Adams spent Sunday with the former's daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Hoyte Faile. Mr. and Mrs. VV. S. Neal visitI ed Mrs. Jack Queen Gardner and Mrs. J. B. Caston Sunday afternoon. Rev. J. B. Caston and Mr. Jack Gardner spent Saturday night with their grandfather at Kershaw. I The many friends of Mrs Dena Gardner was sad to learn of her death throughout this section. Mr. and Mrs. John Morgan spent Sunday with the former's i sister, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Byrd. Mr. Ed. Love oof Lands spent the week-end with his mother, Mrs. R. A. Love. Mr. J. C. Catoe spent Satur1 day night in Kershaw with relatives. M iss Ruth Philips and brother 1 Tom spent Saturday night and 1 Sunday with Miss Carmon Rob orts and Frank. There will bo a oyster supper at Mblway Acadmev W. O. W. c mp No. ?21 Saturday night. ! Feb. 12, inst.. the public is int vited to attend. Mi. Willie Catoe og Kershaw , spent Sunday with Mr. .John . Catoe of this section. AT.. T ?? ? t Mrs. .j. ii. Upburn and dau, phter Miss Mae returned to their i home in this section, they have been at Lancaster for sometime. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Catoe and T Mr. and Mrs. John Morpan were * visitors at the home of W. S. , Neal. the past week. Master .Jack Philips spent Saturdav nipht with Master Dewey Neal. K!v\TI\<; DKl'I VDS MIS Mil l I ra<|ti \ssall* < I a i I ' t l.ntior in (iiMii'i'al. Asheville. N. C.. Feb. 6,?Thl II tli annual child labor conf.-renco iMHltM' th" an apices <>! tic national chilli labor committee ended today with addres ses by Congressman Kent ' ing. ot" Colorado, and several local f speakers. Mr. Keating defended bis r. child labor bill, which was passed , by the House of Representatives last Wednesday, and took occasion to ref ply to the address of Congressman Hritt,. of North Carolina, before th? 1 conference last night. The Colorado Representative de clared that bis child labor bill iva? constitutional and be assailed child , labor in general. He declared that child labor was responsible for the * rejection of many applicants for the i army and navy. Mr. Keating urged hi hearer to wire their Senator at Wahington in upport of the pending child labor bill. , rORI> II \S A NEW PEACE PI.AN I ON I.VIUiRR SCAI.E THAN FIRST Chicago, Feb. 6.? Henry Ford of , Detroit, who sent a peace ship to I Europe, has a new peace plan. "I would like to tell you about the | new plan but I must wait until mv , party has returned from Europe," said Mr. Ford today. He said he was perfectly satisfied with the result of ills peace expedition. Mr. Ford came here to attend a ( banquet given last night by the Michigan Society of Chicago. He said that his new effort to bring the strife In Europe to an end will be on i nrger scale than the Oscar II expedition and that his recruits would be "personalities rather than personages." ' i j "The new venture is along the same lines as the first one," continu1 ued Mr. Ford, "but on a larger rcnle. I shall include some of the people I had on the Oscar II. The people across the wat?r were astonished when they sa>'- the person 1 of that party. They had ev prctPfl to srt? n lot 6( *li?r*hrows' >vd wore surprised to h-Ml that fh v were Just every-dry people Tho> null hardly believe me when I old them I could have brought thousands tnore of the same kind of people." 1 1 r y I WEATHEP Pk K I Fair Friday aud B a I Sntnrdav rlolno I temperature sat^ J J $1.50 A YEAR. SEVERAL THOUSAND I PERSONS HOMELESS Breaks in Arkansas Itiver Levees Disastrous to Large Section. ltlVKK STILL RISINU Mississippi Also t'ontiniies to Rise and Breaks in Levees Are Feared. Little Rock, Feb. G.?The rapidly widening lake in southeastern Arkansas, formed by the flood waters of | the Arkansas River pouring through breaks in the levees, had engulfed a score of towns tonight, leaving several thousand persons homeless. Sixteen lives have been lost in the last few days, and damage that probably will run into hundreds of thousands I of dollars has resulted in the rich farming territory. ( Still greater damage is feared if the Mississippi continues to rise as i in the last few days. Predicated , stages at Arkansas City would endanger the levees there and a break in the Missippi levees would precipitate a serious situation in the river valley. All day the 700 men who remained in Arkansas City toiled in an effort to strengthen the levees against the fast rising waters and tonight they were hopeful thai the levees would i,r.ta ? - ......i nun mi' town bo saved. Tho narrow -trip of ! voo is th- only land in sight thoro. On one side is tho river, swollen, until its surface is i"> foot ahovo the ! vol of the town. On the other side of the levee is the great flood lake nearly 40 miles lone ' and 20 miles wide. From it only the upper stories of buildings In Arkansas City protrude. At the levee are three steamboats, one of which is ready to carry the workers to safetv should they lose their battle with tho flood. They are living iti the second stories of their homes and in box cars on the levee. Today the river rose two-tenths of r foot, to "t'.T feet at Arkansas City, j and is still rising slo-vly tonight. At I.."ke Village the flood water rose at the rate of half an inch an hour today \t Giim t Landing, four mile-- north >f Lake ViLap. . 4"i) p. ioo were on tho l. yee tonight without shelter !! -blent of Lake Vi 1 lac- went in 'mats to the ourt hous 1 today where they planned to send a ? rescue fleet of row boats to Gaines Landing. In Clarendon, on the White River, where the levee broke last night water today is six feet in the highest portions of the town. The r'ver had attained a stage of .17.4 feet and still is rising. Little is known of conditions in the rural districts of the flooded area, but there seems litfTe doubt that many who refused o leave their homes in face of repeated warnings have perished. Fred J. Henry of Washington, meterologist in charge of the river and flood division of the Fnited States Weather bureau, who is in Little Rock, declared that a condition similar to that which now exisits in Arkansas has never before occurred in the history of the Weather Bureau. "Heavy snow followed by thaw and heavy rains in Illinois and ottmr Northern States has caused a rise in the upper Mississippi River.'' lie said. "The ni.m " * * , -wi> uootied in its power course .and general rains in the valleys of the Arkansas, Red, White and other tributaries of the Mississippi have tlooded the latter river until it will require to run out. The swollen condition of the Mississippi has made j the Arkansas River flood much mnr" disastrous than it otherwise would have been.'' | DEATH OF MRS. H. <\ WHALEY. Oood Woman Who Passer! Away Recently. Mrs. H. C. Whaley died at her home in the mill village Wednesday, January 26. 1916. She took sick suddenly in the morning about nine o'clock and died at 2:20 in the afternoon. Mrs. Whaley was forty-nine years of age. She will be sadly n-iss ed in he community for she v.as a faithful friend of the ?f< 1: ; ell as any others in need she will b?* lone enii btit d bv her i ;mv filer..'s and ' !;<? i \ . in in ill - ills i ", T re mains \vcr? ~ n ti ?' hum? In Hao'' r' l,r< ' urvived by her hvsbnnd. .Mi H. c. Whaley. three on*, tin.? ,13 ightera r.nd two grandchildren by a former marriage. ....?_____ - *