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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
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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?
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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.
.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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