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UNDERWOOD WINS TOGA IN ALABAMA DEMOCRATIC HOUSE LEADER IS .NAMED SENATOR FROM STATE OF ALABAMA. A HEAVY VOTE WAS CAST Ticket Was Very Long, and Count Was Necessarily Slow in All Precincts. Birmingham, Ala.-Oscar W. Under wood triumphed over Richmond P. Hobson in the contest before Demo cratic primaries throughout the state j ?for the nomination to the United iStates senate. Owing ^ td^jUie com (plexity and length of the ballots com plete returns were slow in coming in. The protracted struggle for the norn inatlon between tho two distinguished candidates terminated with a record breaking vote by Alabama Democrats. Interest in the contest for the short term in the United States senate, the nomination of ten congressmen, a gov ernor and other state and county offi cers also brought thousands to the polls. Mobile, Ala.-Mobile and south Ala bama polled the heaviest vote In years. The total in Mobile county will reach 6,000. Underwood swept south Ala bama. Comer, for governor, led Kolb in the country precincts, but Kolb took"j a wide lead in the city. Henderson and Seed were not in the running here. Mr. Underwood made the following statement: "I am thoroughly satisfied with the primary election. The splendid ma jority given me in the state I attrib ute to the magnificent work that my friends have done for me in my ab sence. The result I feel is a personal vindication and a distinct approval of j my remaining in Washington and at tending to my official duties. But af ter all is said, the final conclusion must be that it is more of a victory for fundamental Democratic principles than for myself," BANKS ARE ASKED TO ACT Every Effort Will Be Made to Expe dite New System. Washington.-Every effort will be exerted by the federal reserve bank organization committee to have all hanks expedite the formal steps acc essary to put thu new; currency sy?? 9 ? of the committee, appar entaBM^o no oxpectution that there wilfl^pany financial crisis to face requiring the assistance to banks which the resrve system will pro vide, but they are particularly anxious to have the twelve reserve banks in the field when crop moving time comes around next fall. They hope to be able at that time to demonstrate how easily and quickly the reserve sys tem will take care of a situation which in previous years lias caused financial .worry, and which last fall led to di rect loans from the United Stages treasury to national banks in the farm ing regions. Under the new law the several steps to be taken by the banks might be de layed so that there would be little chance of setting the reserve banks up before autumn, but if the banks respond promptly there is little rea son to believe that the organization will be deferred much longer. "Mr. K. F. Shah" Representing China Washington.-"Mr. K. F. Shah," as the new Chinese minister, prefers to register himself in token of China's acceptance of American ideas, arriv ed in Washington from N?w York, with nineteen of his suite. In the usual course the state department will be advised in a day or two of the arrival of the minister and the president will designate some afternoon when the newcomer will be receive dat the white house. One of the first matters that will claim tho minister's attention is a report of the American engineer, C. D. Jameson, upon the great recla mation project alnog the Huai river. Thia involves the raising of a loan of $20,000,000 in this country and in ar ranging for this transaction Minister Shah will have the benefit of the act ive support of tlie American Red Cross Aviation Fatal to 38 in Three Months. Washington.-Death levied a heavy toll on aviators for the first three months of this year. Between January 1 and April 1 thirty-eight men lost their lives through the'uncertainty ol air currents or the failure of their fly ing machines. The United States, with five killed, stands fourth on the list, which France heads with ten dead, France has more aviators than any nation in the world. Germany los! eight, Great Britain seven. Turkey lost three and ChUe, Spain, Argentine Switzerland, and Italy one each. Wilson's Views on Justice. Washington.-President Wilson an nounced the principle that is guiding him in the selection of public aerv ants. He said he did not believe ir choosing men who would decide ques tions in a certain way, but would se lect those whom ?he knew to be jus and fair. The president remarked tha to him it seemed justice was the hard est thing in U?e world to obtain ant t'mt it required more courage thai ?ny olher ono thing. Mr. Wilson wai discussing hiB appointment of Prof .Winthrop M. Daniels. ROBERT LANSING Mr. Lansing has been appointed by President Wilson to succeed John Bas sett Moore as counselor for the depart ment of state. His home is at Water town, N. Y. \ ? FIGHT ?0 SECURE BANKS DECISION OF COMMITTEE CAN BE REVERSED ONLY BY THE RESERVE BOARD. Federal Reserve Board Cannot Be Ex pected to Reverse Itself, However. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Where Banks Will Be Located. + + ' + + Washington.-The cities se- + + lected for regional banks are: + + Boston New York + + Philadelphia Cleveland + + Richmond Atlanta + <f ?hicago St. Louis + + Minneapolis Kansas City + + Dallas, Tex. San Francisco. ? + i 'm"' + + + + + + + * + + + + + + + Washing? on.-There was every indi cation that the announcement pf the reserve districts and cities by fhe re serve bank organization committee had given the signal lor a determined 'struggle upon the/part of several cit ies which" were disappointed to over turn the committee on the decision a?d bring about a redistricting of the country, or at least a change in the reserve cities named. Under the law the decision of the organization committee is not subject to review except by the federal reserve board. This board probably- will not be named by President Wilson for sev eral weeks, but in the meantime it ls believed that those disappointed with the committee's announcement will bend every effort toward paving the way for changes. It was pointed oui that both Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Comptroller of the Cur rency Williams of the organization committee, are ex-officio members of the reserve board, and hardly could be counted upon to reverse themselves. The president has given no Intimation as to whom the other five members will be. REBELS TO ATTACK TAMPICO Admiral Fletcher Predicts Federals Will Abandon Gulf Port. Washington.-Following closely on official advices from George C. Caroth ers, American consular agent at Tor reon, of the flight of the federal troops from that city, came a prediction from Rear Admiral Fletcher that the im portant gulf port of Tampico proba bly would be abandoned by the fed erals without a fight. Administration officials made nc comment on the Torre?n result and official sentiment is not likely to crys talize until more is known of the bat tie itself and its effects in Mexicc City and elsewhere. Mr. Carothers' report of the fall ol Torre?n lacked detail, particularly with reference to losses sustained or both sides and the movements of th* retreating federals. Gunmen to Be Given Reprieve. Albany, N. Y.-Unless Governoi Glynn changes his mind, a reprieve foi the four New York gunmen, under sen tence to die in Sing Sing during tin ' week beginning April 13, will bi granted. i? granted, ihe stay of exe cution will be until after? the secom , trial of Charles Be"c"ker, who, with th< . gunmen, was found guilty of the mur ' der of Herman Rosenthal. District At . torney Whitman has said he intendi ' to try Becker a Becond time as sooi , as possible,' but it will bc from ihre! to six months hence. Monroe Doctrine Not Obsolete. Philadelphia.-The principle of th ; Monroe doctrino is just as alive no\ - as it ever was and President Mor ? roe's declaration is not an . "obsolet - shibboleth," according to statement a - the annual meeting of the America! t Academy of Political and Social Sc t euee. Speakers with few exception - ware in agreement upon the genera i principle of the doctrine. Rear At i mirai Chester urged a concert of a< 3 tion _among American republics in :. policy of "America for thc Amer cans." IN THE U. S. SECRETARY DANIELS ISSUES A RULE TO BAR LIQUOR FROM .... EVERY SHIP. ORDER EFFECTIVE JULY 1 A Clear Head and a Steady Hand Is , Need-id, Says the Secretary of the Navy. Washington.-Absoluto prohibition will prevail in the United States navy after July 1 next. Secretary Daniels made public a sweeping order, .wj?fltv not only will abolish the traditional ''wine mess" of thc oflicers, but nil bar all alcoholic liquors from everyj^ ship and shore station of the navjr?'~ This order, constituting one of most notable victories ever won1 prohibition forces, was issued on.* recommendation of Surgeon Genf Braister. ;t?M "The use of introduction for *d lng purposes of alcoholic liquors/ board any naval vessel, or within navy yard, or station, is strictly^rt? hibited, and commanding ofncers'wW be held directly responsible for this L enforcement of tills order." In a statement Secretary DanL said: "I am in hearty agreement with u??; views expressed by the surgeon gel eral. There should not be on shi; board with reference to intoxicants*! one rule for officers and another and a different rule for the enlisted P??KJ? sonnel. The saddest hour in my oWciajL life is when an officer or enlisted man must be punished for intoxication; During the past week it has been my painful duty to approve a courtmari tial for dismissal from the service of an officer for intoxication. He told me that he never had tasted intoxi cants until he did so in the wine mess on the cruise.. Others who have been discip'.inwu fr/r drinking to excess have., made si > ? r statements to me. "Officers now are commissioned at the early age of 22 years. Has the government a right to permit this temptation, which too often destroys the highest usefulness of young of ficers? I think not. If there is one profession more than any other that calls for a clear head and a steady hand, it is the naval profession. MAN SLA?N_WITH AN JtQ P. O. Bonnell Murdered in Sleep'at Mllledgeville, Georgia. Hawkinsville, Ga.-Paul O. Bonnell, 22 years old, was killed here as he lay in bed sleeping. An ax, apparent ly, was used in the murder. Harry Lee, nephew of the dead mun and who roomed wi til him, is being held by the police pending an investigation. Lee is 18 years old. The youth denies any connection with the killing and claims lt was done by a negro. He claims he was awakened by the noise made by the negro in time to see him escaping from the room. Bonnell is survived by a wife, now living in Florida. Lee, who roomed with Bonnell In his place of business, ran out of the store at one o'clock in the morning and gave the alarm. He declared that his un cle had juBt been killed by someone who used an ax. He says that both were in bed at the time and that he was not asleep, that he heard someone in the store and, looking up, saw the party, whom he did not recognize, with a large ax raised, and that the mur derer dealt the death blow before he could do anything, and escaped. Boy Killed by Mule's Kick. Atlanta.-Theodore Ford, the" four year-old son of Mr. and, Mrs. W. It. Ford, was kicked to death near their home on Flat Shoals road, where Mr. Ford conduct a farm and dairy. The child had gone into the field with its mother and approached the mule, when the mother's attention was directed to other thangB. Tho animal turned sud denly and kicked the child several times, which resulted in crushing his skull. He was rushed to the Grady hospital, but died. The body was re moved to Bloomfield's chapel and fun eral arrangements will be completed later. The body was removed to Bloomfield's chapel Fleas Cause the Plague. New Orleans.-Fleas carried in sacks of sugar and not rats are re sponsible for the recently reported cases of bubonic plague at Havana, Cuba, according tc Surgeon John Gui teras, director of sanitation for the republic of Cuba, in a letter to Dr. Oscar Dowling of the Louisiana state board of health. Surgeon Gaiteras Btates in his letter that he conducted more than twenty-five hundred labora tory experiments with rates, for the purposes of determining the manner in which bubonic plague germs carried. Many Spaniards Deported. Torre?n. Mexico.-Gen. Francisco Villa ordered that the 600 Spaniards of Torre?n be deported. He issued in structions that trains be provided im mediately and that the exodus to El Paso, Texas should begin at once Their property will be temporarily con fiscatcd. It is the tragedy of Chihua hua over again', arid ls said to express the deep-rooted suspicion and even ha tred with which the native Mexicac and particularly the peon looks on the Spaniard. DANIEL F. MOONEY Mooney, St. Marys, O bann appointed United States mir to Paraguay. He is'the first resl , it diplomatic representative accred ,^rt{l?Vthat country since 1870, wher thi diplomatic posts of Uruguay and ?kri^Wliy were combinod. feht J????L MEASURE IS REFERRED JO SENATOR O'GORMAN'S COMMITTED. Spectacular and Heated Debate ls Expected When Measure ls Introduced. Washington. - Thc administration bill to repeal tolls exemption for a>U American coastwise ships in thc Pan ama canal, which passed the house amid spectacular scenes readied the senate and was referred promptly to the committee on iuter-oceauic canals without debate. Senator O'Gorraan, chairman of the canals committee, who is marshaling the anti-administration forces, an nounced definitely that he would call a meeting of the committee for next Tuesday, Until that time, no formal consideration of Uie ijepeal measure or proposed amendments can develop*. Al though friends of the president had hoped to have the canals commit tee meet earlier, they decided to make no effort to induce Senator O'Gorman to change his plans. They will insist, however, upon action within reason able time after the committee gets down to work. NEW CHIEF OF, U. S. ARMY Wotherspoon Appointed Chief of Staff Succeeding General Wood. Washington.-Maj. Gen. William W. Wotherspoon, now assistant chief of staff of the army, has been selected to succeed Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood as chief of staff at the end of Gen eral Wood's term, April 22. Brig. Gen. Hugh L?, Scott, commanding the troops at Eort Bliss, Texas, will be assistant chief of staff. General Wood will assume command of the Eastern department, with head quarters at Governor's Island, New York. The appointment of General Wother spoon to be chief of staff had been ex pected,, as it was in accordance with the practice of promoting the assist ant chief of staff to the first place. So the interest of the army centered in tho selection of an assistant chief of staff who might in turn succeed Gen eral Wotherspoon when the latter re tires on account of age next Novem ber. J. H. Woodward Is Seriously III. Orlando, Fla.-t-J. H. Woodward of Birmingham, Ala., rated as one of the weal tli ie st men of the South, is seri ously ill at lils winter home here. His daughter, Mrs. Oscar W. Underwood, wife of the house Democratic leader, and other members of the family are here. $100,000,000 Capital for Reserve Banks Washington.-The now federal re serve banking system will start busi ness with a total authorized capital of about $100,000,000 for all reserve banks, nc matter how many institu tions the organization committee de cides to set up. This fact became ap parent when figures were made public from all national banks responding to the last call of the comptroller of the currency, made March 4. The state ment giving t.he??e figures' W1IJ be the last of the kind issued. Mississippi Bank Officials Indicted. Natchez.-Investigation into the af fairs of the Pirst Natchez bank, which closed its doors on October 30, 1913, resulted in the indictment here br th; Adams county grand Jury of A. O Campbell, president; S. H. Lowenberg, first vice president, and lt. Lee Wood, second vice president of the defuncf institution on the charge of accepting deposits after tho bank was insolvent The grand jury is Investigating tlu ravings department of the bank aarf other indictment/1 ar? exp\cted. STATE L WILL LIE FALLOW i: OPERATIONS ON PENITENTIARY FARMS ARE CURTAILED ON ACCOUNT OF LABOR. o ! b LATE STATE CAPITOL NEWS p ii -.- I r Review of The Latest News Gathered j 1 Around the State Capitol That Wilt '! * 8? of Interest to Our Readers Over ? T South Carolina. j r Columbia. 1 :. One day recently there were 1 Rt! j e prisoners in the state penitentiary and 57 prisoners on the stale farms. ! ( Of the prisoners in the penitentiary;* lf>0 were men and 3G women. All j j the prisoners employed on the state j farm were mon. Under normal conditions it requires' about 1G0 convicts to work the 2.400 ; ai res of cultivated land at the state j farms hi Kershaw and Sumter couu- I ties. Much of the land will lie fallow!) this year. Practically no cotton will be planted at the slate farm. The small force of convicts will be used to cultivate food crops exclusively. About GOO acres have been sowed in wheat and oats. Some corn has al ready been planted and more will be j1 planted later on. As there is not 1 enough labor available to cultivate ' the big cotton crop which the state 1 farm has been planting for years, it | ' will not be grown this season. The penitentiary directors have disposed of the mules they do not need on the state farms. The chair factory at the penitenti ary is turning about 55 rattan rockers per day which are sold in various parts of the South. Forty male con victs and 12 female convicts are em ployed in the chair factory. The ash and maple for the arms, frames and rockers of the chairs are shipped from the lumber mills in the moun tains. The rattan reed is imported from the West Indies through New York. All the parts of the chairs are made on the premises from raw ma terial. Government Dam Completed. The wicket dam at- tho government locks on the Congaree river is com pleted and will be ready for operation as soon as the coffer dam cribs are removed. The government forces have a der rik D oat at Work lifting? the cribs1 now. After Ute wicket dam ls in op eration, there will be three feet of water in the basin at the foot of Ger vais street. The government locks have long been ready for the passage of boatB. The dam which the government has erected across the Congaree riv er is of the Chanoine type and was in vented by a famous French engineer. lt was first used successfully on the Seine and the Lroire in France. The government has built a long chain of Chanoine dams on the Ohio river. The Black Warrior river is made nav igable up to the coal fields of Ala bama by wicket dams. Big Fertilizer Tag Sale. A total of $235,271.24 has boen re ceived from the privilege tax on the sale of fertilizers up to date, accord ing to figures from the office of State Treasurer S. T. Carter. The amount received from this source up to this time last year was $201,933.40, and to j the corresponding date in 1911, one j of the heaviest years, it was $224, j 543.36. The total received from the ! fertilizer tax in 1911, a banner year, : was $255,082.49, and as the receipts from tJ-e tax are greater this year to : date thu.1, they were for 1911, it is be lieved the income from this tax will break all records this season. The fer tilizer tag tax goes to Clemson Col lege. Some New South Carolina Enterprises Boyla Hardware Company of Char leston has been commissioned by the secretary of state, with a capital of $3,000. The petitioners are S. M.J Boyle and B. A. Hagood. Merchants' Grocery Company of Greenwood has been commissioned with a capital of $25,000. The peti tioners are R. J. Cartledge, J. W. Coleman and J. B. Walton. Fire Will Not Stop Business. H. J. Gregg, of the Hammond-Gregg Company of Columbia, dealers in cot ton bagging, said that the fire which destroyed the warehouse of the firm on Blending street recently would not interfere with its business at all, as new quarters would be taken immed iately and all orders would be filled. The stock of second hand cotton bag ging in the warehouse was a total loss. The building and its contents were valued at between $7,000 and $8.000. They were insured. Instruct Militia at Charleston. A joint encampment of Instruction ,/or field training of the regular army and the state militia of South Caro lina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida has been ordered by the war department to be held In the vicinity of Charleston, S. C., from July 1 to August 15 according to orders re ceived recently by Adjutant General Moore, of South Carolina. Each state has a federal appropriation of $18,000 for the expense of the campaign. Not more than three regiments will be en* camped at one time, it is stated. ? i age Inspects Kleid Hospital. Fiord hospital equipment of the Nat* ional Guard of South Carolina, undef ommand of Maj. J. E. I'oore, was in pected recently hy Maj. Hoary Page, fnited States army, and Capt. Allen . Jervey, of the medical corps of Iiis state. The medical corps connected with lie militia of the state have been dis rna ni zed during the pas), two years y tho establishment of the field hos Ital, but an order has recently been SSUOd hy the adjutant general au liorizing the organization, of a hos 'Ital corps to he attached to each of he regiments. Col. A. E..Legare has ecently recommended the appoint ant of two Columbia doctors, N. irueu Edgerton and Belton D. Caugh uaii, as assistant s-urgeona, and the loypiial corp:; to be attached to his egiuumt will be"organized and train td by il: i-m. Columbia being tho headquarters o? ho field hosp'ti.'.l, which is attached o the entire militia of the state and s a separate organization, the regi dental detachment that is being or :ani;-.ed will ho trained in connection vith Maj. l'oore's command and this ?ombination, while relieving thc Indi ridnal medical officers of much work, viii create a friendly rivalry .between he organizations, and al the same ime will place tho members in closer mrsonal relations when on duty dur ng (he encampments. The duty of these hospital corps ar?, lot confined to the actual treatment )f cases of illness in the camps, hut hey are theoretically trained in all he necessary hygienic measures to ie adopted in the camps and by the men for their personal protection, ind they are charged with the duty if seeing that such precautionary measures are carried out while on leid duty. Certain members of the hospital corps, being specially quali fied for this duty, are charged with abserving anl instructing the men in :amp in the prbper care of their per sons and clothing, while others are in charge of the conditions surrounding I Lhe preparation and protection of the roods in the kitchens, and any breach of the rules laid down regardinri thc , sanitary conditions are immediately reported and severe punl^Ian-uu met ed out. Four Companion Divide Business. Meeting a few days ago at the state house, the sinking fund commission awarded contracts for the. reinsure ance of 60 per cent of the buildings owned by South Carolina. Moro than a score of bids were received by the commission. Following are the .fjuccc.=;sfuli,4jnra panies: Fireman's of Newark, New Jersey. Southern States Fire Insurance Company of Greensboro, N. C. Southern Underwriters of Greens boro, N. C. Underwriters' Insurance Company of Greensboro, N. C. According to D. H. Means, chief clerk of the commission, the joint bid of these companies, which was submitted by C. E. Mebano of Greens boro, N. C., was 30 per cent off the regular premium. Gets Verdict of $7,000. A verdict of $7,000 wan given re- ' cently in the court of common pleas in the case of Maggie E. Kelly, as ad ministratrix of the estate of Robert Li. Kelly, deceased, against the Col umbia Railway, Gas and Electric Co. The case arose out of the death of Robert L. Kelly on the night of De cember 10, 1912. Tho complaint al leged that the street car was moving at a rapid speed, without adequate lights and wi thou}, giving proper alarm of its approach. The complaint asked for damages amounting to $25,000. City Pays for , Hydrants. J. A. Summersett appeared before city council at its special session re cently and asked that the city de fray the expense of placing new fire hydrants within the inclosure of the state hospital for the insane and of repairing all the old fire plugs. After discussing the matter, council decid ed that it could not pay for such work and J.he resolution by Council man Stieglitz ordering the town to pay the necessary expenses, waa adopted. j Canning Club Directress Busy. Miss Dorothy^ Napier, directress of 1 the girls' canning clubs in Richland j county, working under the direction j of the United States department of ' agriculture, Winthrop College and the j Columbia chamber of commerce, has been at her desk in thc office cf tho , bamber about a month and a half. I During this time she has covered tho I county, enrolled 112 girls in ll clubs, and Richland now lias more ambitious girls in her canning clubs than any other county in tho state. Several new clubs have been organized. Hearing on Freight Rate3. Hearing on the petition for a read justment of freight rates in South Carolina will, be held before the rail road commission April 15. The peti tion was filed by members of the South Carolina Freight Rate Associ ation. On the same date a hearing will be held before the commission on the question of starch rates from Charleston. The shippers hold that when starch is delivered at Charles ton by the steamship lines and reload ed on freight carsi tho intrastate [freight rate should abplj.