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WATCH _ Your Label H H ^ and Keep I If Paid Up, A JL VOL. 11, No. 3(>, SUM I PROM ONE" GALLON 10 TWO QUARTS Senate Votes for Alternative Amendment in Changing Gallon-a-Month Act CUTS WHISKEY ALLOWANCE Two Quarts ot isooze or r ive Dozen Dottles Beer Monthly I If Houses Argees. Prohibition measures were further entrenched in South Carolina Wednesday when the senate by a vote of 26 to 18 reduced the amount of liquors that may be imported each ^ month from one gallon to two quarts. Earlier in the morning an amendment to limit monthly shipments to one quart was rejected by a vote of 21 to 23. Several other amendments were offered, among these being two to allow the alternative of beer shipments. One by Senator Hughes of Union would provide for 60 bottles or one-half barrel of beer monthly. Senator Sinkler of Charleston offered in substitute an amendment to provide for 30 bottles of beer. Vote was not taken on the alternative amendments during the morning session. in the evening session the bill whs further modi fieri by tin adoption of the Hughes amendment, which provided for month ly shipments of GO nint bottles of beer lieu of the 2 quarts of whiskey. The amendment was adopted by a vote of 22 to 10 The Hughes amendment was further modified to preclude shipments of beer with a content of alcohol greater than 5 pei cent. Provision was also made te have beer shipped in open cases that rigid inspection might be enforcerl. The bill in its entirety was passed bv a vote of 28 tr 12. Each sorctav fp his sea< yesterday morning, and a com nlete vote was polled on the tw< amendments, calling for decisive act!on One changed vote on thr first amendment would in ,,v probability b'>ve cut the shir ments to one n"->vi Qm.-v. chnnowould have divided the fov,-> > penally, thu co >vv>l1:nr1' the nr ? sident of th * enstP V'hn ia : avdo^t prohibitionist 4 > the deciding vote. Sninted debnl-c v?? mm 0, :n dur'ng the morning the ' meats fol'owincr the age won Mnos of olovarro between legi;'? tion with loop-hole and thai which knows no compromise Senator Banks argued that nd option of the amendment woulc run counter to the exnressc wish of the peonle. who had fa vored prohibition, contingent ut> on extension of the cahon month law. Senior Carlisle empha sized that the referendum re ferred particularly to manu facture and sale only, without sentence, without the fine alter relation to importation. Senator Black of Bamberg bo lieved the reduction of tht amount would aid materially ii eliminating blind tigers. StocV for illicit selling, he said, coulr be easily supplied when three or four would pool their monthly shipments. Senator Kitchin argued foi the retention of the law withoul modification. Shipments could be received from each express office in the county, and reducing the amount, he said, would onl.v necessitate an increase in the number of offices to which the purchaser would have package shipped. Senator Brice argued for the passage of the amendment, expressing the belief that the -reduction of the amount to one quart would be mere effective in ridding the State of illicit liquot dealers than would the Liles bill, which proposes imprisonment sentence, without the fine alterv native. ^ Senator Alan Jonstone, Sr., of Newberry characterized the Sinkler amendment as a "dangerous bill." Express packages, the Newberry senator pointed out, could not be broken, and bottles of whiskey could t)e 4 VWrva "r ? ' ^ 7. 3 4E L/ Wh XLfY. mmMANNING 1 URGES PASSAGEOFBILLSI Sends Message to General As- F sembly Regarding Several Important Measures SAYS PEOPLE WANT ACTION W Torrens System Rural Credits, Child Labor and Other Matters Referred To Columbia, Feb. 8.?Special: r( to Charleston News & Courier u Governor Manning tonight sent1 n a message to the General As- C( sembly urging them to pass the j Torrens system of land registra- ^ tion, the rual credis bill, the bill ^ providing for the teaching of agriculture in the common j schools, the bill raising the child ( r( labor age limit to 14 years, the workmen's compensation bill; i and the bill providing for the (sj certification of teachers. The N message follows: j L, "Permit me to respectfully ' call your attention to the im- j portance of pressing the con- ' i sideration of certain measures y . on your Calendars, which I .deem i of importance to the great body j > of our citizens whom you and I , r represent. i. "My reason for this message (\ , that we .are approaching th1 ^ ,j closing days of the session, and' [ I earnestly desire that these matters should not be overlook- 0_ . ed. "a . "There have been meetings of ] citizens in many localities > throughout the State, calling on , j the Legislature to adopt the y [ Tor reus system of land registra-1 j I tion ami enact the same into ^ . law. This is a necessary pre-|a ) requisite to a system of rural ^ credits. It will reduce expenses j ? in borrowing money on land; it I n .(gives the State warrant to titlej j J and puts an end to litigation j on land titles. Such an Act would (J he a boon to the State, and T earnestly urge its adoption. v "Forty-three per cent of our I white farmers are tenants. The j dream of the South Caroline j tenantsh is to become owners of . II their homesllnd farms Tf we >re to progress we must help the e tenants to help them - selves in thoJr an' '' to be 3 come !\on c owners m' u t 1 ma! 4 th: pos -ib'c bv adopt' ' > - apes hitherto, u t?:cd , if iW nv v seem radical T e 'Crw'luufcd on Sth n ye.) j " 2 . " " \ . i easily inserted when eases were I made up in lieuor houses Tt - passage, he predicted, would . open a gateway yhich would , \ "destroy the dignity and effect- f 1 iveness" of the senate's act and j . that passed by the people. i ^ Senator Wightman of Saluda ' , saw a greater peri1 in soft c . drrinks, which form "the stop- ( . pin# stones to drunkenness." c . I The Saluda senator said he had t :! "never take a chow of tohacco, v .; smoked a cigarette or taken a s drink of whiskey." Tf he had to ^ he debauched by either soft j( [ i drinks or beer he'd prefer the \ ( beer. He pleaded for total elim- v . I ination or the retention of the j j act in present form. Senator Ginn o^ Hampton fa- v .j vored the passage 01 the amend- e ment. His chief objection to theie . beer provision was that percent- v ajjes of alcohol in beer could be \ j readily increased, until the con- 1< [ tent was nearly all alcohol, and t f j yet retain the name beer. t -1 The vote for the Carlisle to i amendment, reducing the shin- r i ments to two quarts, which is a n . J duplication of the laws in effect n I in Georgia and North Carolina, t" . was: a Yeas ? Beamffiiard, Black. a .j Brice, Carlisle, Christensen, Du. Rant, Earle, E. C. Epps, R. D. t i Epps, Evans. Ginn. Gross. Hnr-'n ilvey, A. Johnstone, Laney, Lide, t McCown, Nicholson, O'Dell, Pad-; t ;jgett, Richardson, Sherard,' Sin-'v kler, Spigner, Verner, and Walkes,?26. m o Nays?Banks, Beattie, Buck, r . Goodwin, Hughes, D. B. Johnson s ,|Ketchin, Lee, Manning, Mullins, u i Nickles, Patterson, Sharpe, s ; Stacey, Stuckey, Wightmai], f< John F. Williams and D. Reece' a , Williams?18.?The State. t n ii 111 i ?i ii in |> , II' ?? 1 I I V.N C ASTEi LANCASTER, S. C. FEBRUARY 11. 1!)U> ECRETARY GARRISON WILSON SPEEDS UP LESIGNS FROM CABINET ROUSE ARMY E j ailure of Congress to Adopt Measures Will Likely be 1 the Continental Army for Represenatives i s Scheme Cause. Two Weeks WILSON'S POSITION SENATE HEARINGS EI i ___ filling to Leave It to Congress* Dills Two Houses Expec While Garison Insisted on ! Differ and Final Action 1 Department Plan. j be Compromise. Washington, Feb. 10.?Sec-| Washington, Feb. 9.? itary Garrison resigned today President Wilson pesonalh ecause President Wilson would j mf? both Democratic and F ot 'irrevocably" support the; lican members of the sntinental army plan, and be-' military committee to 1 luse he opposes the Admin- j preparation of bills to car) itratiop's program of selling a j the army's part in the ns efinite time for Philippine in- preparedness scheme, indie enendence. J tonight were that the me; President Wilson accepted the might be ready for the esignation but has not selected, within two weeks or less successor. The President him-' Hearings will end torn elf probably will take personal or next day and it is unde harge of the Administration's the main features of the b lational defense plans in Con-; ready have been whippe ress. | shape in which it is ex Assistant Secretary Brecken- they will receive virtual idgc also resigned as a mark unanimous approval of th< f loyalty to his chief, whose mittee. iews he shares. The President The Senate committee hr ccepted his resignation. Both eluded its hearings on arm ake effect immediately. Major take up the wo ieneral Scott. Chief of Stall' of orat'ting its proposals fo he Army, automatically be- Senate early next week, omes Secretary of War aci in* n'"? *he general outline i erim. plan to be recoromendec Tt is known that one of Sec- crystallized in the minds etar.v Garrison's principal rea- members, ons for his conviction that only . T'1" hill of the f vo hoi Federal continental army in- ,s expected, will d'Ofer rn toad of a reorganized National ar,d final legislation 1 rimrd should be the main milit - j ^vorl<ed out as a comnron ry dependence of the Nation j conference, lis belief that some day the Un- Progress also was made ted States may be called upon on navy legislation, the o defend the Monroe Doctrine, sures paving the way foi ind in that event he foresaw atruction of battleships * hat the National Guard might 44 at navy yards and pro lot be available for use outside for '100 additional midst >f the United States before a in the July class at Ann leclaration of war. being passed by the Senate Upon that contention on the oassed the House .vested; ?ne hand, that the continental ?nly the President's rmy or ultimately universal ser nture to become law. S rice was the Nation's only ivUj_, Clark introduced r bill to nee. and the position on the increase the number of ther, tli?4 re cr.r. plan could be Military A ulemy inon Congress, Piesident Wi!- Chairmen v. of th > on and his Secretary of War military - ommitt . >. and v it >t mi official company. of his Democratic :oili Mr. G rri; oi i motion ''sou- *:ed rrmv i?t ?* s ' t ecmnh in -u:or; <? to r?" :,;ert \\'il?on <! n ?ho Va h p <on grp ?.rally TTe n *Kp.. he Pre iden4' 'M'-go {' ? *y 1 r, ,,i % c. I ? "()\- rV : *v ' ' loi b' fo a tV Y'U : 1-ekim -F-nubP-ar n -ml . t'-j \y ,v fo To Xew York <?> : V bite I Tor -\o ? ? thr v<)V(* h rJ bcrr -r -so ' ?t 1h 11 ' "!k! v'u Department that ho hud('nt v :1j< :)! u-o-Uvlth !.h-? rone for an Indefinite stay. '.1() (' '' ' v H The acute differences of opin- ' 11 h;m. o which led to the hreak bo- was evident, however ran early in the year when op- tor proceedings ol the o position to the contiental army tee that Representative II dan began developing in Con- uot been swayed from 1 tress. There had been indefinite position to Secretary Gar umors of the possibility of the Proposal for a continental Secretary of War leaving the which the President warn ""abinet. but they never were vocated during his recer ountenanced in official ouar- j Paredness speaking can crs. The Secretary everywhere witness hefore the com vas regarded as one of the i ho was opposed to tl itrong men of the Administra- ! tinental plan, ion upon whom the President '*:o am ' " interiecte* eaned in the difficult situations, Hay. "We all are." foth domestic and international, Democrats and Repukiit 'hich have marked his Admin- the committee agreed ton stration. saying that an army bill The circumstances which led ,)e Quickly written alt ip to the resignation are detail- there might he minor d in the Secretary's correspond- which would take consic nee with the President which ('?^at? to settle. The feat /as made public tonight by the House bill, it was Vbite Hmi?o n-- would be M ? ^MV.1 ?tters disclose, believed that the I ''*'/1 though a pay bill raining, organization and con- IVs limitations designed rol of a military reserve should the war department peac e under immediate Federal di- i ?on?' 0f training anciI i ection, but is not "irrevocably!111^ National Guard r dogmatically committed to T ~ ny one plan." He wrote Mr., SENATE PASSES^ iarrison that he could not force' NAVAL nv specific plan on Congress; . . ? nd added: Washington, Feb. 9?T1 "I must welcome a frank in-J1? " resolution n erchanjreof views and a patient i ? .000 available for nd thorough comparison of all 1 PH Maw Island and New he methods propose,1 for oh-1 V-V Vnr<lfl *<? h"'1' haUI' aininer the object we all have in '* f*8se<l,a bl" ,ln('r lew 1 y entrance class ' . , . .. 'Naval Academy. It pass< Mr Garrison s contention that h Momlva * nly the plans of the War De-i 1 artment could be considered ? ? ~ eemed to the President "wholly | njustifiable." Mr. Garrison con- wro^e President, idered 'reliance upon the militia "It is evident that we ir National defense an unjustifi- lessly disagree upon what ble and imperling of the Na-iceive to be fundamntal ion's safety." In resigning he ciples." in *tt ,m >11, .?? t* ' - rnea THE HOUSE PASSES IILLS CHILD LABOR Bll Iteadv put Through Graduated Me n ure as Compromise by a Vote of 61 to 39 i sTDElV; BILL FOR WAGES BY WEI ted to Cotton Mills Measure Amenc Will to Include Lumber Plants and Passed. -With Columbia, Feb. 9.?Speci / urg- j to Charleston News & Cour tepub- The House today passed a gra< House' ated child labor bill. It provid lasten first, that no child under 14 ry out siding in any school disti itional where there is complsory sch ations j attendance shall be employed !\sures! any cotton mill. Second, that House1 ter July 1, 1916, no child un< ! 13 shall be employed in any c mrrow ton factory, and that after J rstood l, 1917, no child under 14 si ills al- be employed in any cotton f d into tory. This bill was passed pected (third reading by a vote of fil ly the 69, and is regarded as a cc =? com-| promise. Section 1. That Section 1 is con Volume 2, Criminal Code V bids: South Carolina, 1912. be, . 0< tin1 same is hereby, amended r the I ..f ? * ? = - i! .-mi ii? ir; win >;iiu Mii'iion anil There inserting in lieu thereof the of the lowing: No child under 1 1 ve 1 has! }lfre residing in any school < of the,t?ict. where the conipuls school law is in force shall isci. employed in any factory, mini dically textile establishment of t >vi'l be stat<v After July 1. 1016, ii*o in ehild under the age of 10 yo shall 1)0 employed in any fact* today niine or textile establishmen mea- this State. After July 1. 1017 r con- i child under 11 vears of ayre si 13 and he employed in any facte ividinc mine or textile establishment lipmen this State. anolis, The vote on the substit '* They child labor bill stood: Aye, ( iv and > bill) 61; nfty, (against) i sitrn-i Ayes?Speaker T-,?. A H< peakev \ f k in sou \ustin Relies, Hal d v to P>ockott Reiser. Ron v. P.lue cadets \y Boyd, R. t>. Boyd, Britrh) "n vie Co! V n Ci mi, D. > Rousfl 'er. Dennis, DesCbanips, Kri levorel 1 ."jr. T ' M " ' urn >a urues \ "p h ' > a, w r tt TT TT i (v or* S'Mif t'v S > .rsor- ' ,M uiev. snnltT Stnrkie S.:r n Toole. Yarn. Wall" oe, Vn r in In- Wood?61. immit- Mays.?Arnold. Bolt. Bow ay had Bradford, Brown, Burns, Cai lis op- Carter, Chapman. Cherry. Dr rison's Dixon. Durst Etheredge, F army, Goggans, Graydon, Hicks. 1 nly ad- t-hi nson. Lofton, MeKeown it pre- m. Martin. Masse.v, Moore. M lpaign. ei, Nunn, Ramseur, Reid, Rivi mittee w. S. Rogers, Jr., Wagnon. W le con- White. Williams, Wolfe, Wr man, Wright?3D. 1 Mr. Paris: LeGrand rnd J. Walker. ;ans of The House also passed a ight in offered by Messrs. Rogers would Hicks requiring all textile pla .hough to pay their employers wee details'The bill was amended throi lerable the efforts of Mr. Barr. ure of | Georgetown so that it will said, elude lumber plants, of the; The House found itself v carrv. *- ,t-_n ? ..... Miucri naneo up" tins morninj 0 give account of the fact that it 1 e time made "special orders" of a ni officer-! her of bills, and that these 1 precedence over all other me ; ures. At the suggestion of ] Moise all special orders were < charged. The House will r te sen- Pr,)Ce0(l regularly with tkaing Calendar. equip- Rills are now going in throi 1 York committees, and while there 1 ishi.ps. been a considerable shacken at^ho thero still continues quite ?d the steady flow of proposed legis tion. The chances are all toge er against any new general 1 islation that is now proposed coming a statute, as there see to be general unanimity that pCrin- .i?urnment be bad n week. * ' .... . .. . v w y WEATHER Fair Friday and Saturday, rising VJ temperature Satv W $1.50 A YEAR. ^ GOVERNOR SPEAKS II Dccnnr Tiir i ?\/mrii ll DLrunc mt LHUVitN as-( Great Reception Accorded the I State's Chief Executive by Religious Conference EK i OTHER SPEAKERS HEARD led Convention Came To A Close ? Wednesday Night?Prominent Men Speak. al: Columbia, Feb. 8.?Special: ier Governor Manning was accorded du- a great reception when he stoples, ped by the Laymen's Convention re- this morning on his way to his *ict office. He was presented to the ooi gathering as a man who was in doing his part in the great work af- of upbuilding South Carolina, der Governor made a short talk to :ot- the delegates assuring them to ulv his intense interest and symlall pathv in the noble purpose which ac- is responsible for the Convento tion and of his readiness to do to everything in his power to as>m sist in the movement. The third day of the South 22. "arolina Laymen's Convention of i of the National Missionary ind | Movement saw severed hundred by' more delegates added to the bv 1 number already enrolled It was fob estimated this afternoon that ars over 2.">00 delegates were here dis- for the Conv< njdon, 1 the VM... *. ' i ui v i u -iins vnK rterr,om brought bo more to :ul<! to this already * or!epoch marine attend; nco. The ihisj oirit of unity of purpose and of no \ co-operation in the great cause !ar< ! underlying the Protestants of )ry. .the state made the sessions one t in of great invagination. Much en. no thusiasm is being d'splayed by hall the delegates in every session, >ry. and the great auditorium of the t in Jefferson Hoto' has been crowded both morning and night to ute hear the diPV?i*T.f snoakm\s. for In addition to Governor Man30. jning the speakers >t tlm morn>vt,1 ing se -.ion today were: iP1T- The Rev. ii G. Dale. Chester. ' secretary Laymen's Missionary vemont. VP ? Chu" h. Two Americas;" the Rev. lv^ r \. G. Shinlev. ?h mghm, a. si.- n; ex- of the MothTm 1 : > (''I , . ( i ay ' p'? foj ^ ^ | * 1 ' 'ft: ? 1 * -e>. .i )t iv t he I O ! ho 1 B"-e1 ' . i till 1(1. ..T,u, a?... ??. ? (|i. i .: ' ' pf ,r" us Christ." , ( , At 3 o'clock this afternoon / there were conferences of *he ','V. denominations in al! of the de' \Y'1 nominntional churches of the I | city. Those conferences were j" largely attended and talks on ' ' ' | the laymen's work dominated ow e ers conferences. e^t The programme f'or tonight )ik- wns scednled for 7.30,, and included the following: F. "The World Crisis and Its | Challenge to America," by the bill Rev. C. .1. Thompson, Raleigh? and secretary for mi c-h-is, FountC them Baptist Convention, kly! "A Near View of the Far igh East," by the Rev. William F. of McDowell, D. D.. Chicago, Bishop in- of the Methodist Episcopal Church. erv The Message and Mission of r or Jesus Christ," by J. F. Love, D. lied D., Richmond, secretary foreign lm-i hoard, Southern Baptist Convened j tion. v The Convention will come to Mi' > close with the sessions tomorlis row morning and tomorrow lOV/ liffht. Tnmnrvmr ..... . *> in ut? tne th,* climax of the gathering, and in?-* dications tonight were that the igh attendance tomorrow would surha PRr"s nven the figures for toing night. The people throughout a i the State seem to be thoroughly 5la-| live to the great good which th- {will result from a Laymen's eg gathering, and the unity of purbe pose dominating the various sesms sions have evoked warm approvad al from the rank and file of the ext Protestant denominations ; throughout the entire State. , . - - J