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I: || WATCH ?TT?W Your Label H H and Keep I BT ? Paid Up. JL JJ, VOL. 11, No. 37, SEft nf?pipW?i" nun UlllUUII UILL PASSED BY SENATE Amendment to Strike Out the Enacting Words Rejected by Vote 10 to 21 ASKS ABOUT INSURANCE Senator Williams Wants McLaurin to Give Names of Companies. Columbia, Feb. 11.?Special: To The News and Courier* The Senate tonight passed the House bill creating a new judicial circuit out of Hampton, Colleton, Beaufort and Jasper counies. An amendment to strike out the enacting words of the bill was rejected by a vote of 10 j to 21. Senator D. Reece Williams - a a*- - ? tauocu ? iuirry in me jsenaie tonight by introducing a resolution to require John L. McLaurin, State warehouse commissioner, to divulge the names of the fire insurance companies in which cotton stored in the State warehouses is injured. The resolution follows: "Be it resolved by the Senate That the State warehouse commissioner, John L. McLaurin, is hereby requested and required to forthwith transmit to this body the following information: "First. What companies are insurers under the warehouse system in this State. Second. Are these companies licensed under the laws of this State, and have they subjected themselves there by making the depository required by law? "Third. Is the insurance issued in the name of the warehouse commissioner or the individuals who store the cotton?" Senator Williams explained that his resolution wmm almni? +? find out. if the companies carrying this insurance are solvent. He also said that the warehouse ^ commissioner 's an agent of the State and that the citizens are entitled to co^nlete and full information about the mattersconnected with his department The Senate, on motion of Senator T.aney, tabled the resolution by a vote of 24 to fi. onlv Senators Black. Carlisle. Hucrhes. Ketchin, Nickles and D. Reeco Williams voting for it. The bill creating the 14th judicial circuit out of the counties of Hampton, Beaufort, Jasper and Colleton, and leaving Charleston county alone in the 9th circuit, was called up by Senator Padgett. Senator Wightman moved to stake out the enacting words of the bill. Tn his argument for the bill i Senator Padgett made much of alleged congestion in the coun-| ties affected by the bill and said the new circuit was needed not-, withstanding the editorial statements of the News and Courier. ( which, he said, "I put in th<> same category with barnyard M chickens." ~~lr. a statement favoring the j bill Senator Sinkler said that it1 would be selfishness on the part of Charleston to object when I the other three counties now in 4.u~ nil. !i- * me 9ui circuit were asKing ror; the change. lie contended thnt politics should have nothing to do with the matter and said that | the number of Courts are in-1 creasing because the State is' growing larger and litigation is' on the increase* Referring to the opposition of | The News and Coiirer to the creation of this circuit, the Charleston Senator said that he; believed the opposition was based on conscientious motives, but that the editor had been miss'cd, and Senator Sinkler did not think that the editor was in pos-i session of the facts from alii sides. He paid a tribute to the editor of the News and Courier) and said thnt he felt that the: editor's actions had been dictat. t t ? * en ny tne highest motives for what he considered the good of the people. Senator Sinkler referred to the congestion in the counties affected and said he believed it would be in the inr terest of justice to create the ? M ft I Mm If ?,rt > I ,| I .1 1 ' >?,t " 4 IE Li II-WEEKLY. SINGLE MEN CALLED TO BRITISH COLORS Central News Reports Royal Decree That All Unmarried Men Enlist at Once. London, Feb. 12.?The Ceni tral News says all single men : are to be called on to enlist next week. A royal proclamation shortly to be issued, the Centrai New states, attributes the unexpected speedy summons to the monir 1? , niMitj invent cum crtJUCtJS DG" tween the minister of munitions and the war office. King Greece signed a proclamation fixing February 10 as the date on which the military service act was to be regarded as in force. All single men between the ages of 19 and 41, who are not exempt under the act, were given until March 20 to attest. AT FRONT FN FRANCE Kershaw Surgeon Engaged in War -Zone. Camden, Feb. 12.?Kershaw county has a representative at the French front in the person of Dr. Irvin M. Boykin, son of Capt. B. H. Boykin of Boykins. Dr. Boykin is a graduate of Chapel Hill N. C., and also of Jefferson (Pa.) Medical college. He was employed as an interne at the Jefferson Medical college when the chief of the American | hospital corps cabled him that j his services were needed in France. Since October he has been there, Dr. Boykin has written several letters home telling of his experiences which are said to be interesting. His call to France was considered a compliment to his ability as a sur- i geon and his friends at home are glad of this recognition. MARSHALL WILLING. Vice President in Receptive Mood for Nomination. Portland, Ore., Feb. 10.?Vice i President Marshall is willing to run for a second term, according to n letter made public-here todav bv Pnstmnctrti' T7Vo?lr o Myers*, of Portland, from Mark Thistlewaite, secre.nry to the vice president. Mr. Myers wrote to the vice ! president some time ago asking | if he would permit the use of his name on the Oregon prim-; arv ballot. Mr. Thistlewaite's etter says: 'Replying to your letter, I am saving that the vice president) will glady accept renomination if the Democrats want to renominate him, and that he will glady retire to private life if they do not; but "?he vice president is unwilling to seek renomination and that he does not think a man holding the office shou'd ^bc riding or running around requesting Democrats to I vote for him again. "The vice president could not bring himself to ask anyone to file petitions for him, but if petitions are filed for him, he certainly will not repudiate the action/' No Prohibition Vote. Frankfort, Ivy., Feb. 11.?The lower house of the General As rornWv hero today (U '"eated a pro position to submit to the voters of Kentucky ? Str>t'nv;'1o pro-! h'fcition constitutional ^ireiid-1 ment. , The measure previoi- ?y had } en lost it tl?e Lu nate. Roosevelt to West Indies. 1 New York, Feb. 11.?Colonel ] Thedore Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt sailed today on the British steamship Guiana for a ( Treasure trip through the West Indies. f|>e first port the Guiana ! will stop at is the St. Thomas in 1 the Danish West Indies which ' will be reached February 17. Af ier visuuig ine isritish, French 1 and Dutch colonies, Colonel Ro- { osevelt expects to return to New * York arriving here on March \ 17. ; new circuit He said he had al-' ways thought that Charleston \ should he in a circuit by itself, i The bill by Senator Sinkler as ? to statements of values in poll- < ciea pf insurtuice passed and was t sent to the House. c \NCA LANCASTER, S. C. MOULTRIE J CLEMENT DIES BY OWN HANI Representative^ From Charle> ton hound Dead in Bed in His Plantation Home. Charleston, Feb. 12. ? Th death by suicide of Moultrie t Clement, a member of Charles ton county's delegation, came a a shock to this community todaj He had been in ill health fo some time, and the cause of hi self-inflicted death is ascribed t this fact. He was in Charlesto yesterday, apparently feelin; well, and his sudden demis found his many friends totall unprepared for the news todaj Mr. Clement went to hi plantation at dementia Spring last night to attend to som business affairs, and news of hi death reached Charleston thi morning after the discovery o the suicide. Coroner Mansfield a once went to Mr. Clement' plantation to investigate, an on inquest resulted of self-des truction. The funeral will be held in SI Andrew's parish tomorrow aftei noon. According to testimony adduc ed at the inquest, the remains o Mr. Clement were found thi morning by one of his negr servants. He was lying in bed o his left side with a bullet woun in his right temple. In front o him on the bed lay a revolver. Mr. Clement was well know and generally esteemed in Chai leston and vk'inity. During th present session of the legisb ture he suffered a stroke of il! ness and had to come home. Teleirraph Official Dead. New York, Feb. 10.?Relvi ere Rrooks, vice president o the Western Union Telegrap company, died at his home her today of heart trouble, lie ha been in poor health for sevem months. His death was sudder Uhett National Chamber Head Washing*.<>:, Feb. 11.?R. G Rhett. former mayor of Char leston, S. C'., was today electe< president of the chamber o commerce of the United State* All other fficers were reelected Explosion Kills Four. Salisbury. Md., Feb. 10.?Fou men were killed and three injur cd by the explosion of a boile at John Hurley's sawmill nea here today. "Movie" Men Appeal. Philadelphia, Feb. 11.?Th right of moving picture manu facturers to appeal from decis ion of the state board of censor which may restrict or forbid th public showing of their product was upheld today by Judge Rar rett. The matter has been th bject of bitter controversy be ween movie companies nnrl rv>, state consors in Pennsylvani1 for a long time. LIABILITY BIT T. PASSES HOUSI Final Passage Given Aftei Amended to Provide That N< Punitive Damage May be Re covered Under Act. Columbia, Feb. 12.?Th< house today gave final passagi to the Padgett bill defining th( liability for injuries to employe1 ifter inserting by unanimous consent the following amend ments proposed by Mr. Searson "Punitive damages shall not b( recoverable in cases arising un rler this act." The neeessitv fr?v anmn amendment was made evidenl following a lesaral argumen* h\ Tesse W. Boyd, chairman of the judiciary committee, who main tained that "all damages, including actual punitive and ex miplary" may he recovered un ler the World "damages" accord ng to decisions made by the 3onth Carolina supreme co"?-t Had the amendment, whicV vas in accordance with the vishes of the house, in trivins *econd reading to the bill Fri lay been rejected, it is probable hat the bill would have been re'ommitted. 1,1 ? ? . . - ? |. -| * -x - - -, . , . lSTER FKRRUARY 15. !<)!(> GERMANS MAKING 0 FIERCE ATTACKS 1 ? 4- Have Gained Some Ground From French in the Artois Section. e BUSY WITH ITALIANS I.I , i-: Near Ison/.o Austrians Have! ,s Captured Entrenchments ? r. | Turkish Black Sea Shipr piny: Sunk. 0; The Germans are fiercely at- ' n ! tacking the French positions in ' g the Artois section as well as in Champagne. In the latter district \ y Berlin reports the capture of a rt front of about 700 yards, while ' g the French admit that the Ger- , 8 mans have gained a foothold in , e some o? their advanced trench- j a | es near the Tabure-Sommee-Py a I road. " j rf 1 In Artois near Hill 140 which ( 11 lies to the southwest of Vimy, s; the German attacks followed , d one another in quick sucession, there being four during the I course of the afternoon. Pushtu ing forward in the face of a hail ] ! of shells and bullets, the Germans, on their fourth attempt, succeeded in entering one of the 11 f French first line trenches, which, j 3 however, they failed to hold, j o being almost immediately driven \ n out with considerable losses in L (1 dead and wounded, according to ' \ Paris. * Northeast of Soissons, a Ger- , n man attack, preceded hv a bom- r bardment, resulted in the cap- , e ture of a French trench near the \ Crou.v road, but here also they ( [. were thrown out, leaving their dead on the field. On the British eud of the line; there have meen sapping opcrni_ ticns and bombardments by both ,f sides. |1 All around Soissons the Ger0 man artillery was busy, nrenara- t (l torv to infnntrv attacks* but fhr j t] attacks did not eventuate owing , to the Flench u e of their guns x in curtain of fire volleys.. . 1 Considerable drm-wo has een done to German positions in the -j . Argonne forest by the French. ,1 \rtillery duels are in progress in | f l .orraine and in the Vosges. . The heavy guns are being i, I actively employed on both sides j in tne northern section of the Russian front, but no important * ,. changes in position have occurred. -j r In the Isonzo regions the Austrians have taken entrench j ments from the Italians in the Rombon zone, while the Italian artillery has bombarded Austr- ' ian positions at various points, ' especially in the Gorizia sector. Austrian seaplanes have at" tacked the town of Ravenna, i.i * northeast Italy and several other \ places in the vicinity. Fifteen persons are said to have beer. ^ killed and a number injured. On the British end of the line torpedo boat destrovers have c " sunk additional Turkish sail-nor 1 vessels and have destroyed * bridges and depots ashore. The French cruiser Armiral j Charner. it is feared by the 4 S French Ministry of Marine, has \ been lost while patrolling th > r Syrian coast. The cruiser h> r 1 not been heard from since Feb. ^ * 8 when a German dispatch re ported that a submarine had ? sunk a French warship. 5 The German gunboat 1 Ted wig e ; von Wissmann has been sunk on c s Lake Tanganyika, Africa, I v F ' the Relgians, I1 r I WON'T GO AS DELEG \TE. Secretary McAdoo States \t- / titude Toward St. Louis ! Convention. f Washington, Feb. 13.?S T' , tarv McAdoo wrote Cherf h Piatt of Rata via, N. Y? L thnt unfloi* . -..^v MIIMVA in* V J I V ' ITM V* .'would he permit th<* m . himself a delegate to tiw . cratic National C ? ? Louis next June. 1 asked the Secreter a' , attitude. Mr. Mv > ?o ? said he felt that del' r Ac , be chosen fom met vh h j stood in the trenches and 'h* > the battles of the party . have not received official [< tions." ii ney WILSON TO STAND i FOR RE-ELECTION | "Entirely 1'nwilling to Enter Any Contest" For Kenominaation. Washington, Feb. 14.?President Wilson today consented formally for the first time to the use of his name as a presidential candidate in the coming cam- i paign. At the same time he declared he was "pntirolv linmill ing to enter into any contest" for renomination. This denition of the president's attitude, in line with the plans of his political associates, is expected to bring into the npen the campaign being made in his favor throughout the country. Mr. Wilson's declaration was made in a letter to the Ohio secretary of state, who had written that candidates for delegates from that state to the national convention must signify ' their choices for president before 1 February 25, and that no pre- ! sidential candidates could be named in that convention without their consent. + METHODISTS WIN FROM CAROLINA University Defeated in Basket- i ball Game. Spartanburg, Feb. 12.?In a , pasketball game played here this i afternoon between Wofford col i ego and the University of South ; Carolina Wofford defeated the 1 visitors by a score of 41 to 17. The game was played at the city V. M. C. A. and was witnessed i py a large crowd of basketball < Enthusiasts. 1 i BOYS' FAVORITE DIES 1 lohn Townsend Trowbridge 1 Passes Away. * Arlington, Mass.,Feb. 12.? i( Tohn Townsend Trowbridge. >oet and author of stories for! 1 >oys, diod tonight. Death was mused by bronchitis, which developed from a severe ccld con-1 racted a few weeks ago. . It Wi"'. year'5 ,y,r< that Mr Trowbridge g: ;v to the youth of in earlier generation "Fathoi bright Hopes." the first of a long leries of books that included l\\ ighbor Jackwood." "The ' ^ocket Rille," "Cudjo's Cave." t md ended with "A Pair of Mad- , aps," in 1900. I Until his present attack Mr. Trowbridge appeared physically . veil and mentally alert. The war, j lowever, distressed him greatly. t HERE'S WHERE FORI) GIVES UP MORE MONEY t , kVill Launch Rig Newspaper Ad vertising Campaign Against , Preparedness Program. Detroit, Mich., Feb. 13.?It I vas announced tonight that 1 lenry Ford is preparing to aunch a countrywide campaign / f newspaper and magazine ad- j. 'ertising against the program t or huge naval and military ex- i lenmtures new before Congress, t was said Mr. Ford intends soon , o carry out his auuounced in- , ention to devote millions of ollars to an educational cam- i iaijrn against war and prenared- 1 er;s which he declared to he the j( est step toward actual war. None of ih'? details of the v Inn could he obtained tonight i xcent that Mr. Ford had boon onsidering the campaign for c ome time and that "all the prole of the country would he * cached by it." I j, \ viator Pierces Sky Dome For r It tit ude Record; Goes lTp Mile. Qan n..1 1 a fc cm vni.f rcu? l'l.? s Micinl announcement that s 'lovd Smith, civilian aviator, c >d broken the world's hydro- c eroplane record for nilot and " ro passengers, when he ascend- o 1 9,54-1 feet here Friday, was d to todav bv Cant. Arthur S. o " in. r*h;ff of the s'gnnl corps a \ iation school, United States ii ny. who represented the Aero T '? of America at the flight. a Calibration of the official s c,o<rraph strapped to Smith's t enplane showed the machine o limbed 54 1 feet higher than the r Ititude of 9.000 fefct recorded t i Smith's pocket barograph. I ~ ' 1 WEATHER i m Fair Friday and VM rising ^ temperature Satm $1.50 A YEAR. CORNELL LABORATORY DESTROYED BY FIRE Hurtling of Morse Hall Cause* Loss to Ithaca University of $.100,000. * ' Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 13.? Morse hall, Cornell university's chemical laboratory, was destroyed by fire early today. The loss is estimated at $300,000, partly covered by insurance. The "cause of the fire has not been determined. No one was in the building at the time. Firemen were menaced by chemical explosions and the lack of water pressure hampered their work. Chemicals which, it was said, can not be replaced now owing to the European war were consumed. More than 2,500 students will have to rearrange their sceudhseslsisrrss arrange their schedules, as every course at Cornell except that of law requires the study of chenv istry. rAnn * * * anal route," said Senator Stone, hairman of the committee. Whether she ofTerod $0,000 ooo r $12,000,000 of $20,000,000 ! !o not know. We have no means >f knowing. That Germany was ictuated by the same motives a seeking this canal route that "ranee had in the original Pan ma enterprise is apparent. Peronally I think it would be to he great political disadvantage >f the United States for any Euopean government to have conrol of a canal route across the ^n-American isthmus." 9 r vnu nililj IjAUINI'H ADVERTISING PLAN Detroit, Feb. 13.?It was announced that Henry Ford is preparing to launch a country wide campaign of newspaper and magazine advertising against the programme for huge naval and military expenditures now before congress. it was said Mr. Ford intends <oon to carry out his announced intention to devote millions of dollars to an educational campaign against war and preparedness which he declared to he the irst step toward actual war. None of the details of the plan could ho obtained tonight except that Mr. Ford had been onsidering the campaign for ome time and that "all the people of the country would he cached by it." i'OI'R INCHES OF SNOW tV -iKirg M de PUbc'df m New York. New York, Feb. 13.?Four nehes of snow fell here today >nd. coupled with rain, sleet and ncreasing cold, made wafking lifficult and seriously impeded ratlic. Hospitals were busy renting persons suffering from >roken limbs, sprained ankles tnd other injuries, although no 'atalities were reported. Rail oad elevated trains and surace car schedules were inter upted. Many wires are down. A force of 20,000 men was put o work cleaning the city's streets of snow and sleet. ISfcEKING LANI) FOR CANAL das Made Offer to Nicaragua. Washington, Feb. 1 1.?That tcvmany had offered Nicaragua \ larger sum 1han the United states for an option on the N'ea aguan canal route was urged n Ih ' senate todav as an a-e-unent for early ratification of the lending treaty. Several senators said they had >een informed in the course of he debate that Germany had ong sought an option on the anal route; that efforts first cere made soon after Fran e ur!< rtook construction of the can1 and were renewed more leently. Members of the foreign relaions commitee denied reports hat there was documentary evdence in possession of the comnittee on the subject. "Of course we have heard uch reports that Germany ought to obtain the Nicaragua**