Scraps and |arts. .
? Washington July 21: Federal experts
estimate that a loss of almost
$108,000,000 a year to cotton growers
In Alabama, Georgia. Tennessee and
Florida would result from the adoption
of the plan proposed recently by
Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
which .contemplated the establishment
of a belt In which the growth of
cotton should be prohibited by law, in
an effort to keep the cotton boll weevil
from spreading eastward into the
Atlantic Coast staiea This conclusion
has been reached by the department
of agriculture, based on provision for
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miles wide down through Tennessee.
Alabama. Georgia and Florida. No
figures were prepared to show how |
this loss of $108,000,000 annually
might be offset either in part or in
full, by the raising of other crops. |
? Martin M. Mulhall. professed exlobbyist
for the National Association
of Manufacturers, has retracted the
most serious charge he has made before
the senate investigating committee.
He had sworn that former Representative
James E. Watson, of Indiana,
had been employed by private
interests in 1909 while he was still
a member of the house, to work for a
tariff commission bill. He testified
later that what he had sworn to was
wrong, that Watson was not a member
of the house at the time. Reports
that Watson, who is in Washington,
was about to ask the District of Columbia
grand Jury to indict Mulhall
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lor criminal uuei was uouu awui u.v
investigating room. Mulhall volunteered
his reaction. He said he realized
his mistake when he saw the
date of a tariff convention to be held
In Indianapolis In February, 1909.
The committee did not question Mulhall
about the discrepancy In his
sworn testimony. Watson is under
subpoena and will take the stand
later.
? J. W. Jones, a contractor of Ooldsboro,
taught a half dozen soldiers down
at Morehead City a lesson recently
that they will not soon forget, according
to a correspondent Mr. Jones
went down to enjoy a dip in the ocean,
accompanied by his wife, and while in
bathing a soldier approached Mrs.
Jones, who was alone at the time, and
demanded that she take a swim with
him. Mrs. Jones refused his request,
whereupon the soldier roughly grabbed
w orma nnd tried to take her
in the water. Mrs. Jones screamed and
at this juncture Mr. Jones appeared
upon the scene and demanded of the
soldier to release Mrs. Jones, saying
she was his wife and he would not
submit to her being thus insulted. The
soldier hurled several curse words at
Mr. Jones and a few moments later
found himself scrambling up from a
right swing to the jaw, which for a
short time put him out of commission.
Going over to the bath house the sol
dler gathered together fitfe of his comrades
and immediately returned to
where Mr. Jones was standing on the
beach and renewed the trouble, striking
him on the side of the head, and
then for about ten minutes it seemed
as though a cyclone had struck the
beach for, outnumbered as he was, six
to one, Jones was more than a match
for his opponents, and soon they were
about as surprised a bunch of rowdies
as ever gathered together, one suffering
a broken jaw wihle the others
were nursing discolored eyes and swollen
noses, and at the first opportunity
took to their heels. Mr. Jones was
none the worse off as a result of the
fight, other than a small cut on one
side of his face. Your correspondent
? ? witness of the above affray and
it was the greatest fight a lone man
ever put up, against such odds, all six
of the soldiers receiving a severe drubbing.
Friends have been Joking Mr.
Jones by demanding that he challenge
Jack Johnson immediately, but the
"holy terror" only smiled and said:
"Nothing doing."
? The Democrats of the house banking
and currency committee struggled
along with their consideration of the
administration currency bill last Tuesday,
and when they adjourned at night
only a few scattered sections remained
to be considered. At the same time
several so-called "insurgent" members
of the committee prepared to put in a
substitute measure, which would make
the bill conform with some of the more
radical currency ideas, and would embrace
many of the recommendation*
of the Pujo money trust committee.
DanrasanloHvo T-fpnrv of Tpxas known
as leader of the Bryan element In the
house, who is associated with the insurgent
movement, called on President
Wilson at the White House and
presented the changes proposed in the
substitute. The president did not go
over the amendments in detail, but It
is understood he will review them, and
later will confer with Representative
Henry and those members of the committee
who have manifested opposition
to the Glass measure. The committee
Democrats, Tuesday, rejected by a vote
of 9 to 4 a proposition presented by
Representative Ragsdale, which would
have made cotton warehouse receipts
rediscountable in the Federal reserve
banks to be created under the new
law. A number of minor amendments
were approved, and Chairman Glass
said that only two important sections
remained to be considered. He was
unable to say when the Democrats
would conclude their deliberations, and
he is DreDared for some rather strenu
ous opposition before he can secure an
agreement. Representative Ragsdale's
amendment, rejected by the Democrats
read as follows: "Notes and bills satisfactorily
indorsed having a maturity
of not exceeding four months and secured
by warehouse certificates, issued
by individuals or corporations, establishing
the ownership of cotton or
other staple commodity suitably standardized
and stored, may be admitted
to discount by the directors of any
Federal reserve bank. It shall be the
duty of the Federal reserve board to fix
the conditions under which such certificates
shall be accepted as collateral,
to prescribe a standard form for their
issue, and to issue regularly an official
list of those eligible for the purpose
of this section."
? Concerted opposition was developed
in congress to Postmaster General
Burleson's order reducing parcel post
rates and increasing the maximum
size of packages to be handied in the
service. The order was issued Sunday,
to become effective August 15.
and on Tuesday the senate postofflce
committee requested Mr. Burleson to
appear before the committee yesterday
with an explanation for the authority
for his action. This was the
first step in what promised to be a
bitter contest. When the postmaster
general has been heard, the committee
is expected to undertake to have
withdrawn before August 15, any authority
he may claim congress has
given him to change rates and sizes.
It was contended in committee that
the proposed changes would entail an
enormous loss to the government, and
some of the members complained
strenuously that the postal department
had failed to furnish congress
with data concerning operation of the
parcels post. Apparently there was
no difference of opinion in the committee
as to whether the postmaster
general should change the rates.
Democrats and Republicans agreeing
that only congress ought to have this
power. The controversy has aroused
extraordinary interest at the capitol
and in official circles, since the parcel
post touches more or less directly
nearly everybody in the country.
Those who are supporting the postmaster
general's proposition insist
that the only loss imminent under the
proposed changes would be to the express
companies, which now carry the
profit making, large size packages
while the government transports the
unprofitable, small ones. Although
members of the committee contend
it is mere ungrammatical Jumble of
words without sense or power, department
officials say the postmaster
general is given ample authority for
his order by the following section of
the parcel post law: "The classification
of articles mailable, as well as |
the weight limit, the rates of postage,
zone or zones, and other conditions
of mailability, after this act. if
the postmaster general shall find by
his experience that they or any of
them are such as to prevent the shipment
of articles desirable, or to permanently
render the cost of the
service greater than the receipts of
the revenue therefrom, he Is hereby
authorized, subject to the consent of
the Interstate commerce commission,
to reform from time to time such
classification, weight limit, rates, zone
or zones, or conditions, or other, in
order to promote the service to the
public or to Insure the receipt of
revenues from such service In order to
pay the cost thereof." The changes
ordered by the postmaster general
would affect only the first and second
zones or territories within a radius of
150 miles of the point of mailing.
The maximum weight of parcels
would be changed from 11 to 20
pounds. The rate on parcels weighing
in excess of four ounces in the
first zone, would be reduced from five
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for each additional two pounds or
fraction thereof, and the rate in the
second zone would be reduced from
five cents for the first pound and three
cents for each additional pound or
six cents for the first pound and four
cents for each additional pound or
fraction thereof to five cents for the
first pound and one cent for each additional
pound or fraction thereof.
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Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville
as Mall Matter of the Second Class.
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FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1913
The hot weather detracts seriously
from the interest the people are taking
In congress.
Mr. Clarence H. Poe, editor of the
Progressive Farmer, has been chosen
as president of the North Carolina
Press association, and if th:s does not
mean increased usefulness for this
organization, we will be surprised.
As we see It, the movement for the
standardization of cotton as to packing
and grades is entirely ir. the interest
of the producer rather than the cotton
merchant and producers should
not hesltats to give that movement all
the support in their power.
We would like to see a full settlement
of the military muddle on a basis
of strict obedience to the law. Our|
idea of the matter is that the military
can be of no value unless discipline is
enforced. Full compliance with the law,
however, would result in the wiping
out of the whole militia system.
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The railroads have joined In the
| fight against Postmaster General Burleson's
order reducing parcels post
rates. Their protest is based on the
fact that they receive half the amount
that is paid for express, and the result
of the proposed reduction of parcels
post rates would take $15,000,000 or
$20,000,000 a year away from the railroad
receipts. But the thing that worries
us is why should the people of the
country be required to pay two or
three times the cost of carrying their |
packages? If the government is paying
the railroads a fair price for carrying
malls, then why can the railroads
not carry all mails at the same
I price?
Senator B. R. Tillman let out a com
plaint the other day that there was no
fried chicken to be had in Washington
that was fit to eat and to prove
that he was mistaken, the good housewives
of the city and surrounding
country began bombarding him with
specimens of their cooking. The senator's
clerks and many of his friends, l
even those from the south who know
what fried chicken really is, had a
great feast; but alas for the senator
himself, none of it was good. He is
unable to realize that the change that
has taken place is in him, rather than
In the quality of the chicken.
We are unable to see anything
wrong with Congressman Ragsdale's
amendment to the currency bill. On
the contrary we think It Is exactly the
right thing. The wealth of this country
has been built on cotton mainly,
and most of the tremendous fortunes,
even the so-called money trust, have
grown up directly or indirectly out of
manipulation of the sweat of the cotton
producer's brow. According to our
view of it, Mr. Ragsdale's amendment
is calculated to shift the burden somewhat,
and the general result would be
in keeping with the principles of eternal
Justice. Why not give some advantage
to the cotton producer direct,
rather than through others several
times removed from the toll, risk and
anxiety that he has to bear?
Since the Taft neutrality proclamation
went into effect, it has been lawful
to ship munitions of war from the
United States to the regularly constituted
authorities; but not to the revol??4lr>?\Sn4a
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entitled to ship all the arms it wanted
from this country, and the Huerta government
has been doing the same
thing, notwithstanding the fact that it
has no recognition at the hands of the
Washington government. The constitutionalists
have been complaining at
this state of affairs. They deny most
emphatically that Huerta has any
claim to recognition, and that they
could easily lick him if they could only
get sufficient arms. The Washington
government, after much consideration
of the question, seems to have about
decided that the best thing is to stop
the shipment of arms into Mexico altogether.
On Its face, that idea of putting a
stop to further eastern encroachment
of the boll weevil by establishing a
non-cotton growing strip one hundred
miles wide through Alabama and to
the northward, looks very good; but
how it will work out in practice is not
so sure. Soon after the boll weevil began
to make himself heard, seen and
felt In Texas, to an extent that alarmed
all the other cotton growing states,
experts laid down the proposition thn
there was no danger of spread beyond
the Mississippi river. But this turned
out to be a mistake. As soon as the
weevil was due to appear on the eastern
bank of the Mississippi he appeared,
and there is reason to believe
that he will continue to come east at
his regulation pace, whether the !
mile strip is established or not. Of
course it is understood that if an effort
is made to stop cotton growing in
this proposed 100 mile strip, the land
owners concerned must be taken care
of at a pretty expenfrtve rate. The
government can do no more nor less
than to "save them whole" and in this
saving whole process, many a land
owner will come in for more than he
would have made had his cotton growing
not been Interfered with. But that
is not the worst of it. The chances are
that after millions of dollars have been
spent, the boll weevil will make his appearance
on the east side of the line,
having been brought there in cotton
seed or maybe deliberately. The Idea
may be practicable; but there 18 a
large element of doubt in It.
Think.
If the average individual has one
fault that is worse than another, that
fault is his neglecting to think.
It has been said that not more than
one Individual out of a hundred really
tries to think, and that this one does
the thinking for the ninety-nine others,
and we believe this to be true.
So natural is the common disincli-J
nation to think that we are ready to
venture that five out of six of the people
who glance over the heading above,
will at once skip this article because
the subject is distasteful. But nevertheless,
the principal difference In the
usefulness and efficiency of men hinges
around their capacity and willingness
to think.
Often we hear energy lauded as one J
of the highest and best qualities of the
Individual, and in a sense the laudation
is correct; but what does energy
amount to without thought? As a matter
of fact it is a common thing to see
men who are constantly expending as
much energy as is characteristic of a
cock-roach in a hot skillet; but unless
there is thought behind their energy it
Is expended with no better purpose
than that of the cock-roach.
Send two men Ashing if you want to,
and the chances are nine out of ten,
that one will assume the leadership In
? ? nfher will become
BVCry muvc, aiau vnv
a follower, all because one of them
thinks and the other does not. The
same will apply to practically every
act of human endeavor, whether In the
line of sport, pleasure or creative usefulness.
Of course we would not suggest that
one man should not follow in the lines
blocked out by another. That would be
very absurd; but we do say that the
man who follows without knowing or
thinking where he is going is an object
of sympathy. It is not necessary to assume
that the follower is in any special
danger, or anything of that kind;
but merely that it is best for him to
know of his own knowledge what he is
doing and what for.
It is a matter of common agreement
that the world, and particularly America
has made more progress during the
past few years than during any previous
fifty years in history, and to the
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simple as not to be worth stating.
There has been a great spread of
knowledge through the printed page
and the schools, and a much larger
number of people have been taught to
think.
"There is a Demand."?The Greenville
Piedmont inquires, "Has anybody
seen anything of the demand from the
people that John L. McLaurin run for
governor?" The Yorkville Enquirer
replied by saying, "About the most noticable
manifestation so far, has been
the effort of hostile newspapers to discourage
the idea." Well said. There
are a number of newspapers in this
state that hope to keep down any effort
of the people to make their own
choice for this high office, but all the
same should the people demand the
services of a man for this or any other
office, the newspapers by their concerted
efTort to keep their wishes from
being made known, will only intensify
matters and make votes. There has
been nothing from McLaurin so far as
we have seen that would indicate a
desire on his part to permit himself
to be set up as a target for the newspapers
and the politicians to misrepresent
and abuse; but there has been
? ?.?L Km* r?/w\r*ln In t hn fUQV nf PY.
hiu\jii raiu %jj ?na/piv i*? v*iv ?tw. ??
pressing: a wish that he would be a
candidate for governor. It is well
known that the Times editor and Senator
McLaurin are personal friends,
have been for years, and it would be%a
source of real pleasure to aid in making
him governor of this state, but we
know the man so well, that we feel
satisfied he will not be induced to
make the race as a factional candidate,
notwithstanding the attempt on the
part of some newspapers to make it
appear that McLaurin is to be Blease's
candidate in the next primary. Should
McLaurin decide to enter the contest it
will be solely in the interests of the
masses regardless of factional affiliations,
and with the purpose of endeavoring
to do something for the general
welfare.
Governor Blease spent a day in Hendersonvllle
recently and was shown
courtesies by Senator McLaurin. Im- J
mediately there went over the wires!
that this visit of the governor had po
litical significance, when as a matter of
fact, we are told ty one who knows,
that politics were discussed but little
and only in- a general way. However
later developments will show whether
or not Mr. McLaurin will throw his hat
In the ring. If he does it may he a safe
bet that he is satisfied the call for him
justifies the step, whether the news)
favor him or not.?Manning Times.
South Carolina Again Separate Collection
District.?President Wilson has
issued an executive order that the state)
of South Carolina, now a part of the
fourth internal revenue district of
North Carolina, be detached and hereafter
constitute one collection district |
to be known as the district of South
Carolina.
The order becomes effective upon th?
appointment and qualification of a
collector.
The president has not yet sent to the
senate the name of a collector for the
new district.
The revenue district of South Carolina
was abolished by President Taft
about a year ago, jurisdiction in tins
state being given to the fourth district
including North and South Carolina,
with a collector having headquarters
at Raleigh. Wheeler Martin is the collector
for the district. The late Micah
Jenkins, who was appointed by President
Roosevelt, was collector of inter
nai revenue ior soum uaronna ai ine
time the office was abolished. He became
deputy collector for the district
but served only a short time before
death removed him.
An effort has been under way for
some time to have South Carolina restored
to an independent district, but
it has been understood that this would
not be done. Recent representations
toward this end were disappointing,
and the determination of the president
to restore the district will cause some
surprise and much satisfaction. The
office of collector Is a very desirable
one, and it is probable that there will
be a lively fight for the appointment.
After the Telephone Monopoly.?
Dissolution of the alleged telephone
monopoly on the Pacific coast by the
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
?the so-called "Bell Telephone Trust"
?is sought by Attorney General McReynolds
in a civil anti-trust suit filed
at Portland, Oregon last Thursday.
The government charges the giant
corporation and its subordinates with
absorbing independent telephone companies
to destroy competition, and create
a monopoly in Oregon. Washington
Montana and Idaho, in violation of
the Sherman law. This Is the first attempt
ever made to apply the Federal
anti-trust statute to the telephone situation.
Telephone companies have
claimed that the telephone, like the
railroad, is a natural monopoly, and
that a single system is conductive to
the best interests of the public. The
department of justice contends that it
is a question of public policy for congress
to determine.
It is declared that the suit filed
yesterday will not interfere with the
sweeping investigation proposed by
the interstate commerce commission
into the general telephone situation to
determine whether the Sherman law
should be invoked generally with the
purpose of enforcing competition or
whether monopoly should be permitted
or encouraged under regu'ation similar
to that of railroads. This step was
taken in the west because the attorney
general believed there existed a peculiar
situation demanding immediate attention
to cure evils said to have been
brought about by unfair practices and
illegal combinations.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
9
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Kirkpatrlck-Belk Co.?Says It la prlco
that counts, and quotes prices on a
lot of goods that are seasonable Just
at this time.
D. E. Boney, Agent?Tells about the
paying for another mule killed by
lightning. This time it was in Lancaster
county.
Thomson Co.?Puts on sale Saturday,
all trimmed hats for ladies and children.
Prices on other goods.
L. M. Grist'B Sons?Offer set of dinner
dishes to club makers. See page
four for details.
L. M. Grist's Sons?Talk about rebuilt
typewriters and offer several makes
at attractive prices.
Erskine Adklns, Yorkvllle No. 6?Will
pay reward for return of heavy black
fountain pen.
Sam M. Grist, Special Agent?Calls attention
to the fact that you are getting
older. Insure now.
Palmetto Monument Co.?Wants you to
see it before you buy a monument.
It will satisfy you.
L. R. Williams, Probate Judge?Gives
notice that J. P. Watson has applied
for letters of administration on the
estate of Jno. M. Watson, deceased.
Enquirer Office?Will pay reward for
return of blue bird pin, lost yesterday.
turn of blue pbird pin, lost yesterday.
T. W. Wood & Son, Richmond, Va.?
Emphasize the importance of crimson
clover as a cover crop and soil
Improver. See page four.
Mr. O. W. Hartness threshed 109J
bushels of oats off of one acre, for Mr.
Tim Cnirmhell. at Tlrzah. this week.
The coming Filbert picnic is being
talked all over the state as if big times
were expected.
There ie a etrip of territory several
miles in width running from Bowling
Green to the west of Clover in through
the Cotton Belt section that has been
having very good seasons.
The consolidated school system with
free transportation to the children Is
working very nicely in different parts
of the state, and it could be developed
in York county.
The man who advertises is fearless.
He courts the light. He dares all and
sundry to put him to the test. "This is
what I offer,** he says in effect. "Can
you beat It? Can you do better elsewhere?
Make comparisons and then
do business with me only If you And it
is to your advantage." There is nothing
hidden about the advertiser. He
stands up for himself, for his goods,
for his reputation, for his town. He
wants everybody to know him, to know
his methods of business and his manner
of treating customers. This makes
it safe to do business with him. Having
onont miioh mon?v makinar his
name known, he cannot afford to have
it tarnished, and he will go much
more than halfway in an effort to correct
a misunderstanding that is not of
his making. He wants to tell more
than the bare truth, to do more than
what is really square. Deal with advertisers
for a square deal.
There are probably as many as Ave
hundred unregistered people in York
county who are entitled to register.
There may be more and there may be
less; but less, we think, rather than
more. Some of these, most of them, in
fact, have failed to register through
indifference and neglect; but some
have neglected the matter deliberately,
because among other things, it keeps
their names out of the Jury box. There
is nothing In the law to make a man
register, and in the case of those who
simnlv won't reeister. there is nothing
to be done. Good citizens, however,
who have themselves been duly registered,
can very well afford to employ
their time locating other citizens who
have neglected this Important matter
so far, and persuading them to do their
duty. Every citizen who Is entitled to
register; but who has not yet done so,
should secure a registration certificate
without delay.
WITHIN THE TOWN
? The Water, Light and Power department
is having quite a demand for
electric fans, and is selling a good
many.
? ?Mr. Paul G. McCorkle Is the delighted
recipient, of a handsome and
expensive Victrola graphophone, sent
by friends who preferred not to disclose
their identity. As Mr. McCorkle
has always been, and still is, passionately
fond of music, It is needless to say
that the people who made this selection
would have found It exceedingly
difficult to have sent anything that
would have proved more acceptable.
? Watermelons are becoming quite
plentiful In Yorkville. There have
been a number of wagon loads of the
fruit on the streets the past few days,
and with the Increase of the supply,
there has been a material decrease In
the price. Tomatoes are still scarce and
local boarding house people as well as
private houses are on the lookout for
all to be had.
? "I am here to testify that advertising
pays," said Mr. C. F. Sherer to The
Enquirer on Wednesday. "You know I
advertised that I wanted to sell a pair
or mutes or iraae mem tor a ciieap
horse. There were two inquiries, and
the second resulted in a trade with a
gentleman that I see almost every day;
but who I would never have thought
of approaching on the subject. The
trade was entirely satisfactory to both
parties, and I am still on hand with my
original proposition."
? The Neely Cotton mill has suspened
operation until Monday, in order
to do some much needed cleaning
up and repair work. Several operatives
of the mill went on the encampment of
the First regiment to Anderson. The
Victor Cotton Oil mill people have also
been putting in the greater part of the
summer cleaning up machinery and
getting things in shape for work this
fall.
THE FILBERT PICNIC
The Charlotte Observer of yesterday
has an editorial in which It discusses
the origin and the progress of the modern
political picnic from the days of
the ancient Germans on down, and
then applies its lore to the approaching
picnic at Filbert as follows:
"Filbert is in York county on the
Carolina & North-Western railroad,
four or five miles north of Yorkvllle
and twice as far below the North Carolina
line. Its honors as a great place
of popular assemblage are comparatively
new, for near-by Tirzah?embalmed
in the name proudly worn by
Cansler of Tirzah, an eminent nearnnlitlninn
nf tho rlov fnrmnrl\r KaM
this place. It was at Tlrzah that the
Tillman movement had Its chiefest
stamping ground. There the leader
and his lieutenants would hold vast
rallies year after year, and such whoops
and thrills and frenzies as supremely
characterize South Carolina political
audiences would transpire. But Filbert,
supplanting Tlrzah. has now been the
scene of enough similar events to offer
a sufficiently haunted air. There a
population which takes even its most
purely personal politics with the greatest
seriousness and its factional polltics
at white heat, relying upon polities
in general for its lntensest pleasure
and entertainment, resorts every
year. There stands the highest altar
of a politics-worshipping people. There
on this Friday week will appear Governor
Blease, former United States
Senator John L. McLaurin, Representative
George R. Rembert and other
great suns of the political flrmanent.
Senator E. D. Smith, also Invited, will
drop everything at Washington and
come if he knows what is good for
him. A big picnic dinner will be served
by the Filbertlan ladles. Throngs
will pour thickly from all over the
Torkville section and.scatterlngly from
far and wide. Doubtless, too, many
North Carolinians will attend to gaze
"with the wonder of a cold-blooded
northern people upon the spectacles
which their hot-blooded southern
neighbors create. Surely It will be a
great day.
OFF FOR ENCAMPMENT
Company I*. S. C. N. O., of Yorkville,
left Wednesday morning at 10.30
o'clock for Anderson where they will
go into encampment together with the
other companies of the First regiment.
For a while Wednesday morning it
looked as if Co. L. would be unable to
leave Torkvllle on accdunt of inability
to secure a full company, thirty-eight
men being the requisite.
Several members of the company
were detailed to go out and secure men
to All in, and a few members who had
declined to go on the encampment
were pressed into service.
Capt. Paul N. Moore was unable to
go with the company for business reasons,
and the men are in charge of
First Lieut. Bert F. Smith. The company
left a little late on account of the
trouble in getting the required number.
It was announced that they would
leave Torkvllle at 9.40, and at that
hour the train carrying companies
from Fort Mill and Hock Hill arrived.
It was held in Torkvllle until nearly
II Ot'iOCK wrieii me iueai tuiupaiijr
was ready for departure.
The following: officers and men composed
the Yorkvllle company:
Smith, Capt., Walker, Lieut.; Cameron,
Sergt.; Rose, Quartermaster
Sergt.; Thos. Qulnn, Bugler; Allein,
clerk. Privates?Querry, J. I. Brandon,
E. G. Brandon, Whttesldes, Dowdle,
Garrison, Robinson, Wood. Gettys,
Hudson, Whitener, Moore, Martin, Berry,
Hunt, Michael, Baker, Doster, Dover,
Adams, Camp, Devlnney, Ramsay,
Spencer, Terry, Wilkerson, Kennett,
Marley, Garner, Carroll, Mullla, Bryant,
Qulnn. Cooks?Good and Crawford.
The following staff officers also left
with the Yorkvllle company:
Col. W. W. Lewis, Lieut. Col. J. R.
Lindsay, Major W. B. Moore, Major
M. J. Walker, Capt. J. M. Campbell,
Capt M. C. Willis, Lieut. John R. Hart,
Commissary Sergt. E. M. Dickson, Orderlies,
E. Willis and J. Lewis.
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ABOUT PEOPLE
Miss Lindsay Clark, of Yorkvllle
No. 1, Is visiting friends In Rock Hill.
Miss Eloise Norrls of Chester, is
visiting friends In Yorkvllle.
Miss Ruth Crosby of Yorkvllle, Is
visiting relatives in Newberry, S. C.
Mr. C. E. Spencer and family of
Yorkvllle. are spending some time In
Blowing Rock, N. C.
Mr. T. H. White of Chester, visited
his brother, Dr. M. W. White In Yorkvl!le,
Wednesday.
Misses Ellen. Pearl and Sallle Flanagan
of Bowling: Green, are vlsltinsr
the family of Mr. H. T. Williams, in
Yorkvllle.
Mr. A. W. Smoak and son. Master
Frank, of Yorkvllle, are spending a few
days with relatives at Branchvllle.
Miss Beulah Matthews of Clover, is
the guest of Miss Hattle Thomasson,
on Yorkvllle R. F. D. 6.
Miss Ula Meek McKnight of. Rock
Hill, is the guest of Mrs. R. T. Beamguard,
in Yorkvllle.
Miss T. Leech, of Hlclcorv Grove. Is
visiting relatives and friends at White
Stone, S. C.
Miss Leonora Williford of Sumter. Is
visiting Mrs. H. C. Glenn and other
rciauvm xn xumv un..
Miss Margaret Williford of Sumter,
is the guest of Miss Marie Inman, in
Yorkville.
Miss Bessie Pegram of Yorkville,
visited relatives in Lowryvllle thi
week.
Miss Jennie Pegram of Gastonla. is
visiting the family of Mr. R. R. McCorkle
on Yorkville, R. F. D. 6.
Mrs. M. C. Carroll of Chester, is visiting
the family of Mr. J. E. Carroll in
Yorkville.
Mr. Guy Louthlan of Yorkville. is
visiting his brother, Mr. A. H. Louthlan,
in Charlotte.
Mrs. James Ross and children Mr.
Roy and Misses Rachel and Mary of
Corsicana, Texas, are the guests of
Mrs. Alice Ewart in Yorkville.
Mr. R. J. Herndon of Yorkville, left
Wednesday, to spend some time In
California. Before returning home, he
will visit his son, Mr. Robert Herndon,
in Los Angeles.
Dr. McCain and Prof. Grier of
Erskine, and Prof. Webb of the Due
nrAm??'a oa! loora worn in Ynrlf
VTCBl VTUIliail O waivevi v. v ... ? ~
vllle Wednesday, in the interest of
the A. R. P. schools. While here
they were the guests of Rev. and Mrs.
J. L. Oates.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian:
Friends over the church will be interested
in the following note dictated
by Rev. W. A. M. Plaxco to his son
on July 19, and just received at this
office: "I am still suffering intense
pain, and am considerably emaciated
and very greatly weakened. The doctors
are making a desperate effort to
save my hand. They held a consultation
here yesterday afternoon and
decided to continue this same effort
in the hope that they may yet be able
to save it. The prospect is that I will
be In bed yet many weeks, possibly
months, before I am able to be out.
I have had letters from a number of
the brethern expressing their symnnthv
And I annreeiate them very
much."
Gastonia Gazette: Rev. Dr. J. C.
Galloway, pastor of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church, left on
No. 11 yesterday for Due West, S. C..
to attend a family reunion and spend a
few days with friends and other relatives
in the Seceder town. There are
present at the reunion in Due West all
of the living members of the Immediate
family, namely: Dr. J. C. Galloway,
of Gastonia; Mr. J. M. Galloway,
of Corslcana, Texas; Mr. R. S. Galloway,
business manager of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian, of Due
West. Mr. J. M. Galloway is back on
a visit after an absence of eighteen
years in Texas. He spent last Thursday
and Friday in Gastonia with Dr.
Galloway, this being his first visit here
in eighteen years. He was astonished
at the marvelous progress the town
has made in that length of time. It
was, when he last saw it, a struggling
village of a few hundred people, while
today it is a thriving city of 12,000 or
more progressive and hustling people. ;
One sister, Mrs. Mary G. Glffen, died in l
1881 at Cairo, Egypt, and is buried I
there. She went in 1875 as the first
foreign missionary of the United Pres- 1
byterian church, and soon after she ]
reached Egypt was married to Dr. John 1
Giffen, who went out on the same ship '
and on the same mission with her. Dr.
Giffen still lives in Cairo, and is still 1
actively engaged In missionary ^vork.
A few days ago Dr. Galloway received j
from Rev. J. W. Carson, of Newberry. '
S. C., who Is now abroad, a flower
which he recently plucked from the 1
grave of Mrs. GIlTen In Cairo. Dr. and '
Mrs. GIffen had three children, all of j
whom live In the northwest.
LOCAL LACONIC8 J
Rock Hill District Conference.
The Rock Hill district conference of 1
the Methodist church has been In ses- ]
slon at Hickory Grove since Tuesday !
night and about seventy-five delegates '
representing all the churches In the J
district have been In attendance. Quite ]
interesting and Inspiring have the ser- 1
vices been and the attendance of the J
Hickory Grove people as well as many (
from the surrounding country has been I
large. Bishop John C. KUgo of the '
South Carolina conference, has been j
attending the district conference. The ]
last session will be held tonight and '
the delegates erturn to. their respective j
the delegates return to their respective j
Mrs. Jane A. Ferguson. I
Mrs. Jane A. Ferguson died at the j
home of her son, Mr. J. R. Ferguson, ,
on Yorkvllle No. 6, on last Tuesday \
night, July 20, at 8 o'clock, in the 78th
year of her age. She had been 111 about
Ave months. She is survived by the a
following children: Messrs. J. R? c
White and Brown Ferguson, Mrs. John r
F. Love, of Yorkvllle No. 6, and Mrs. I
Annie Ferguson of Columbia. The de- I
ceased had been a member of Beershe- \
ba church since childhood, and the In- d
terment took place In the cemetery \
there last Monday, the services being a
conducted by Rev. Ray Riddle. t
In the Open Air. v
Rev. W. A. Hafner, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Fort Mill, has 1
Introduced quite an agreeable innova- *
tion in connection with his Sunday e
w . v
nigm services, rws cnurcn is some uis
tant out from the centre of town, and
then people do not like to go out to
church much on hot nights anyway.
The innovation consists of services in
the Confederate park on the hillside
near the Savings Bank, and the congregations
that gather are not only
large, but Include all kinds of people. !
The plan is proving quite a success.
Over on Broad River.
Mr. J. F. Watson, who lives in the
north-western comer of Bulock's Creek
township, was In Yorkville last Tuesday
on business, and speaking of the
crops said that while he has known
both cotton and corn to be better at
this season, his crops were rather better
than the average. The neighborhood
in which he lives has been visited
by rains at pretty nearly regular intervals
almost as needed, and although
the cotton is small, it is remarkably
well fruited. He has seen quite a lot
of cotton and corn also between home
and Ybrkvllle, that does not begin to
come up to the showing his own locality
is making.
MERE MENTION
The attorney general of Mississippi
has Instituted ouster suits against the
Illinois Central and the Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley railroads, alleging
unlawful merger and asking penalties
aggregating 150,000,000.. .Gov. Fielder,
who succeeded to the office of governor
of New Jersey on the retirement of
Gov. Wilson, is to be a candidate for
election to the office A number of
mysterious fires on the estate of Jno.
D. Rockefeller at Tarrytown, N. Y.,
leads his neighbors to believe that the
blazes are of incendiary origin... .The
Philadelphia street car system during
the year ending June 30, collected from
passengers 460,418,640 nickels for car
fares A woman burglar was captured
under a bed in a bachelor's
apartment In New York, Monday .
night.. .Martin Strasburger, a wealthy
Chicago manufacturer, on Monday shot
his mother-in-law through the head
and then committed suicide Mrs.
Mlldora Newton, once a leader of Mobile,
Ala., society, is In Jail in that city
on charges of burglary Three Chinese
provinces have seceded from the
recently formed Chinese republic A
penalty and ouster suit against the
Standard Oil company, several sudbidiaries
and twenty-eight Individuals,
by the state of Texas, aggregating
$102,000,000, has been compromised by
the payment of a fine of $600,000
President Wilson has commuted the
life sentences of four convicts in the
Leavenworth prison, Kansas, so that
the men will be released at the end of
a year, if they continue to be good during
that time Herschel Pierce, 17
years old, has confessed to the Lake
Charles, La., police that he stole $22,000
in currency from a safe of the
Wells-Fargo Express company last
November. An uncle of the boy had
been arrested for the crime on Saturday
Governor Major, of Missouri,
has by porclamatlon set aside August
20 and 21 as "good roads holiday," and
calls on all able-bodied men of the
state to work the roads on those two
days Julian Hawthorne, aged 67
years ,and an author of note, is soon
to be released by parole from the Federal
prison at Atlanta, Ga., where he is
serving time for fraudulent use of the
mails Prof. Zephanlah Hopper, aged
89 years, and for seventy-one years a
teacher in the public schools of Philadelphia,
died in that city Monday. He
was probably the oldest teacher in
point of service in the world
Archibald C. Hart, Democrat, was
elected to congress from_the sixth dis
trict of New Jersey, 'ruesaay, 10 nu
out the unexpired term of Congressman
Martin. Hart was opposed by a
Republican and a Progressive, and received
a majority of 6,000 A mys- 8
terious looking package, addressed to 1
Andrew Carnegie, was received at the ^
Carnegie corporation offices in New J
York, Tuesday. It was turned over to 8
the police, who susplcloned that it was i
a "bomb." Attempts to explode it by a
firing rifle bullets at the "bomb," prov- 1
ed it to be a Scotch cheese The 1
first local option election held in Illi- <
nois in which women were allowed to a
vote, was held at Carpentersville, ?
Tuesday. The saloon element was de- a
feated, 172 to 156. Of 290 women vot- 1
ers in the village, 157 voted. At Ben- s
ton. III., the same day, the saloon was t
beaten out, 409 women voting against t
the saloon A young boy of Hav- 1
erford, Pa., is to receive a legacy of i
$100,000 from his grandmother's es- ?
tate, if when he reaches 21 years of t
age he can swear that he has never u
usejJ tobacco in any form Thomas i;
Hind, general superintendent of the I
Southern Pacific railroad of Mexico, is (
held by Mexican rebels for ransom at C
Guaymas, according to advices recelv- 1
ed at Tucson, Ariz wm. a. jeweii. i
for twenty-five years In the postal a
service, and for twelve years a super- ^
Intendent of a branch postofflce in New t
York, is under arrest in that city on a t
charge of rifling the mails Lieut, j;
General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., re- y
tired, is at Sofia, Bulgaria, and is un- t
able to leave the city because of its be- j
ing besieged by the Greeks John e
A. Reith, aged 61 years, weighing 500 a
pounds, died at Pottsville, Pa., Tues- j
day Fifty girls and women were 0
burned to death in an overall factory t
Are at Blnghampton, N. Y., Tuesday, q
Only about forty of the 126 women employes
escaped without more or less .
injuries. The factory building was a
mass of ruins and crumbling walls jj
within thirty minutes after the dlscov- 8
ery of the fire Anthony Brady, '
a well known New York financier, died 8
In London Wednesday, where he had 8
Just arrived, apparently in good health. J
A 19-year-old bride of Gaines- 6
Ho oVinf Vinr hiiohonH fllinHaV ^
night, seriously wounding him. She v
claims that she was afraid he was go- v
Ing to leave her A. J. Stansel. J1
aged 73, Is to serve a year In the Georgla
penitentiary for forgery, being sent 8
up from Savannah A woman of *
Newark, N. J., was murdered Tuesday *
night, by having a round Instrument a
driven through the roof of her mouth 0
Into her brain Fourteen miners 8
were killed In a coal mine at Gellen- a
kirchen, Germany. Wednesday, by a b
cave-in. caused by a recent cloudburst, v
Fire did damage to the extent of ^
$200,000 at Sing Sing prison. New York 8
last Tuesday. On Wednesday 150 con- v
victs mutinied and refused to go to J
their cells. The warden finally allowed E
them to have their way, rather than h
tiave a riot with probable bloodshed... P
The Swiss Guards of the Vatican at E
Rome, have been mutinous for several t<
days past. A number of them have h
been discharged A revolution is ti
under way In Portugal and the authorl- o
ties of the republic are said to be un- c
?asv as to the Drobable outcome b
Kersey Mitchell, a negTO, hanged at IE
Starke, Fla., Wednesday for thirty- I o
sight minutes for the murder of an- o
Jther of his race, revived after being tl
effaced In a coffin and lived three v
lours Two fathers of Rochester, a
Minn., have made bonds of S700 each, tl
to the effect that the son of one of o
them will be a model husband to the a
laughter of the other. The bond is n
forfeitable on the failure of either h
husband or wife to be all that he or n
she ought to be President Wilson jj
las granted an unconditional pardon to
[saac B. Walker, a banker of Dallas, c
rex., convicted of the misapplication e:
>f bank funds Twenty copper mines ^
n the vicinity of Calumet, Mich., have ^
jeen closed on account of a strike of
he miners The International Institute
of Agriculture, Rome, Italy, es:lmates
that the total world yield of
vheat, barley, oats and rye his year g
vill be 4,963,000,000 bushels. tl
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. i
? The South Carolina Postmasters'
issoclatlon concluded their annual \
onventlon at Spartanburg last Wedlesday
by electing L. O. Young of
Jnion, president, and A. W. Knight of
Jamberg, secretary and treasurer. Five
-Ice presidents were also elected. The
late and place of the next meetings
trere not determined. The day was
pent In hearing addresses on various
>hrases of the postal service which
vere followed by a general discussion.
? Columbia correspondence of the
tfews and Courier: Governor Blease
ias received an Invitation from Gov
irnor Sulzer of New York, Inviting
lim to attend the seventh national
ionference on state and local taxation,
vhich meets at Buffalo, in that state,
October 23-25, and also requesting
ilm to appoint delegates from this
itate. The governor appointed Associate
Justice R. C. Watts, State Senaor
John L. McLaurin and Represenative
George R. Rembert If official
lutles permit, the governor may atend
the conference himself.
? Columbia, July 23: Judge Ernest
3ary today filed with the sheriff an
>rder releasing H. W. Richardson, sulerlntendent,
and M. C. Welch, acting
commandant of the Confederate state
nflrmary, of contempt because in the
eturn they showed that they had relnitqted
N. W. Jones, the expelled vetean,
in who-e favor the contempt proceedings
had been brought. They were
leld in contempt Monday and were orlered
arrested and held in jail until
hey pureed themselves by the reinitatlng
of the deposed old soldier,
vhom they immediately received Into
he home.
? Columbia, July 23: The sum of
1133,816.47 was collected from
corporation licenses tax for the fiscal
rear ending June 30, 1313, according
o a report made public today try
Comptroller General A. W. Jonea
Phis la an Increase of over 911.000
or the previous year and more than
louble the amount which waa colected
In 1905, the first year the law
mposed a license fee on domestic
ind foreign corporations doing buslless
In South Carolina. Of the amount
>f this Income 981,305.42 was paid by
lomestlc corporations, 943,738.14 by
tubllc utility corporations' intrastate
eceipts. and the rest representing
>roperty used by foreign corporatlona
? There has been some hot correipondence
between Governor Blease.
:ommander-ln-chlef, and Adjutant
3eneral Moore In connection with mlltary
affairs. Governor Blease charges
Seneral Moore with assuming authorty
that does not belong to him. General
Moore denies the charge and de:lares
that Governor Blease is playing
:heap politics to the grand stand. The
governor forbade the adjutant general
:o endorse further orders, "by order of
he commander-in-chief until they
tad been duly submitted and approved.
3en. Moore says that when he went into
ifflce he had verbal Instructions from
he governor to run his department in
iccordance with his own judgment He
toes on to say that it would be exremely
annoying to have to submit
tvery detail to the commander-in
:hlef before orders could De put into
sffect
? Columbia special of July 24 to
Ireenville Piedmont: In reply to Adutant
General Moore's interview this
norning. Governor Blease says he is
villing to leave with Colonels Cabinlss
ind Babb, of the adji.ant general's
>fflce, to say whether he was right or
tot referring to the general order islued
for the adjutant general to attend
he encampments which the governor
lid not authorize, he.says, "and under
vhlch order he is saving himself or is
'eceiving pay to the amount of $18.65
)er day extra pay" and then asks if it
s the duty of the adjutant general to
ittend the encampments why he issued
Ills extra order for himself to draw
>xtra pay adding "why this extra
116.65 per day for doing this duty
vhich the tax payers are paying him
in annual salary to do? Cheap doII:ics;
possibly: well surely not cheap
jxtra pay for doing one s auiy. now>ver,
I do not care to enter Into any
:ontroversy with the adjutant general
' leave the entire matter to the miliary
authorities to say if I am acting
'or the best interests of the men in the
lervlce and I am perfectly willing to
iblde their decision."
? Gaffney. July 23: John Graham,
igent for the Southern railway at
Chickety and constable at that point,
van set upon and brutally assaulted
resterday shortfy after noon near his
ifflce. Graham heard a woman callng
for help and when he answered he
>aw a white man advancing toward
lira. Plnson, a respected woman of
["hlckety, with a rock in his hand.
Graham called for him to halt and
iurrender to arrest. The man turned
Lnd announced that he would die first,
it the same time striking Mr. Gratam
with a large rock. The constable
Lttempted twice to Are his pistol, but
he weapon missed each time. Mean
?- ??-? -j??A
lme tne aesperauo nttu uuvoui/cu auu
mocked the constable down, tore his
>istol from his grip and shot at him
vllh his own weapon. Upon missing
he officer' with the first shot he set
ipon the fallen officer and beat him
nto Insensibility with the pistol butt
le then made his escape. When Mr.
Jraham recovered, he telegraphed to
Jaflfney of the happening and Sheriff
.'homas together with Patrolman
Winter, went to the scene. Meanwhile
l posse had been formed from Cowtens
and other points and the trail of
he fugitive was taken up late this afernoon.
He was captured and Is now
n tfc 3 county jail at Gaffney. He gives
lis name as Jim Vick, and is supposed
o be a tramp, since he says that his
tome is nowhere. The incident creatd
great excitement in this section
nd a number of people are said to
lave gone from Cowpens to the scene
>n a specially contrived train to aid in
he search for the assailant of Officer
?ranam.
? BennettsvlUe, July 23: The road
aw for Marlboro county requires that
,11 able bodied men between certain
.Res shall pay a commutation tax of
1.50 or else work on the public roads
Ix days. It has been the custom for
ome time to allow those who failed to
>ay the tax within the time prescribed
y law, and against whom executions
?ere issued, to pay 34.50 in lieu of |
working the six days. M. J. Mlms
rho lived at the BennettsvlUe cotton
nlll, failed to pay his commutation
ax, and after the execution was 1sued
against him, he refused to pay
he 34.60 or to work the six days.
Jnder the state law, such refusal Is ,
misdemeanor, punishable by a fine (
r Imprisonment. A warrant was Is- ,
ued for Mlms, but he disappeared
nd was gone some time. He came
ack to the mill village, however, and ,
as arrested and brought before ,
fagistrate E. Powers, where he plead
ullty to the charge against him, and
ras fined 37.50 which he paid on
uly 3. Mlms appealed to Governor <
I lease who issued a full pardon to j
lm on July 17. Armed with this
orHnn Mr Mlms and his attorney, '
>. D. McColl, attempted on Saturday
a get back the $7.50 which Mima
ad paid to the magistrate. Magisrate
Powers had turned the money
ver to the county treasurer, and of
ourse could not refund it, if he had
een so inclined. Treasurer N. B.
Logers refused to pay the money out
f the county treasury except on an
rder duly approved and issued by
tie county commissioners. Superisor
Coward was appealed to, and
fter consulting an attorney, he took
tie position that he had no right to
rder the refunding of the $7.50 on
ccount of the pardon; that after a
tan had served his sentence or paid
is fine, a pardon can do nothing
lore than restore him to citizenship,
f the other county commissioners
ike the same view of it as does Mr.
oward, the fine will not be refunded
iccept by order of the court. Mr.
CcColl will probably take the case
> the courts and have the matter
>sted.
Veto Power in North Carolina,?The
overnor of North Carolina, although
te accredited head of the State
government, is another "prisoner of
the Vatican." He is completely shorn
of all power except the distribution
of a few minor offices among his
friends. He has moral influence to
be sure, but so has any other distinguished
private citizen. It v as
hoped that the constitutional commission
would confer on the governor
the power of veto which is en-?*
joyed by the governor of every other
Btate in the Union except North
Carolina. At every session of the
legislature, and especially in the
closing hours of the session there is
passed hastily and ill-considered
legislation that ought to be reviewed
and carefully considered by somebody.
But Ihe governor is as helpless
as a deputy sheriff to prevent this
foolish legislation from becoming the
law of the land. Occaslonlly some oily
politician sneaks a bill through, that
is unnoticed by the members of the
ie?imu.iuie, umi is injurious una
harmful; 'In such a case no vqlce
can be sounded In protest and no
hand can be raised to wipe it off
the statute books. It must be written
in the law and we must live under
it for at least two years unless a
special session is called to annul it.
In all such cases the governor ought
to have .the power to veto such silly
or vicious legislation and thus correct
the evils under which we suffer in
the present situation. We hope the
legislature when it assembles, will
take this matter in hand and give the
governor this opportunity to guard
our lawB and frustrate the schemes of
those who are always on the lookout
for special interests. The governor Is
elected by the people to serve them;
and he ought to be clothed with authority
to serve and not be robbed of
all power and Blmply stand as a wooden
Indian In front of a cigar store.?
Charity and Children.
THE CURRENCY BILL
Committee Still Unable to Agree on
Fundamentals.
The administration currency bill
yesterday became the '.'inter of chaos
in the conference of Democratic members
of the house Bank and Currency
committee. After a stormy day session
the conference broke up last night
with an Interminable vista of opposition
and discussion opened up, and
the prospects of an agreement on the
bill apparently reduced to a vague and
shadowy hope.
Even Chairman Glass, champion of
the hill on the house side, was about
ready to abandon the Idea of getting
his colleagues together. President Wilson
regarded the situation as so seri
ous tnat ne arranged ror a conrerence
at the White House last night with
Representative Henry, of Texas, chairman
of the house rules committee, who
has been advising with the "insurgent"
committeemen. The Interview lasted
until well into the night
The conference yesterday was turbulent
from the outset.
After reopening discussion of the
fundamental feature of the bill, the
government control through the broad
powers of the proposed Federal reserve
board, Representative Bulkeley, of
Ohio, held the floor for an hour in a
discussion of President Wilson's attitude
toward the bill.
It became apparent that the proposal
to keep this board a strict government
institution, urged by President Wilson
as one of the essentials, was a point of
wide disagreement
Then Representative Ragsdale presented
a set of amendments practically
rewriting the essentials of the bid.
These amendments, framed by Representative
Henry and Representative
Ragsdale, present the sentiment or tns
so-called "Insurgent" Democrats on
the currency question and provide for
currency Issued on warehouse recelnts
for cotton, corn and wheat
Representatives Henry and Ragsda'e
announced their intention of lighting
for the amendment not only in the
conference of the committee of Demoorats,
but in the full committee, the
Democratic caucus and probably on
the floor of the house.
Chairman Glass said last night that
at the -close of the day's session, he
suggested the impossibility of the
Democrats agreeing and proposed that
they take the uncompleted bill to the
full committee and try to reach an
agreement with the minority members,
or that they take it to the Democratic
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lieved they should make a further attempt
to thresh out their difference; i.
conference.
President Wilson's recently publiihed
political work "The New Freedom'
furnished the text of Representative
Bulkeley's discussion. Mr. Bulkeie>
quoted from the president's work, passages
which he said showed that when
the book was written President Wilson
was opposed to the idea of placing \ a A
governmental responsibilities in the
hands of restricted bodies which might
in any way be controlled or influenced
by industrial or financial interests.
Representative Robley, of Indiana,
replied at length to Mr. Bulkeley and
Chairman Glass took a hand in the discussion
which became rather bitter.
It is expected that the debate on this
and other phases of the Jt>ill will be
extended and that some time will have
to be present In tbe consideration or
the so-called "Insurgent" amendments.
In a statement accompanying the
amendments, Representative Henry
last night criticized the Glass bill as
"written wholly in the interests of
creditor classes, the banking fraternity
and the financial world, without
proper protection for the debtor
classes and those who toil and sustain
the country."
The "Insurgent" amendments would
begin by reforming the proposed Federal
reserve board. They would authorize
a board of nine members, including
the secretary of the treasury and the
secretary of agriculture and the comptroller
of the treasury and six members
appointed by the president. Of
these, one would be a person "experienced
in banking and general business.'
one a bona-flde representative of industrial
labor" and one a "bona-flde
representative of agriculture."
Except for the banking member of
the board all would be forbidden to
hold stock in any bank, trust company
or any concern "the security or paper
of which may be handled by any of
the banks names under this law.'
Another provision would provide
that ex-presldents of the United States
should be deemed ex-offlcio members
of the board.
? London, July 24: Without de:larlng
war, and apparently trusting
that the jealousies of the powers will
prevent European interference, Turkiy
has begun an Invasion of Bulgaria.
The Turks have occupied and burned
the villages on the Jamboll road and
It is reported have pushed their reconnaissance
to Philippopoli8. No information
has been received as to the
strength of the forces that have
crossed the frontier. Probably they
ire only comparatively small bodies
>f Enver Bey's cavalry. Some skirmishes
have occurred on the frontier,
but seemingly the Bulgarians have
jflfered no serious resistance. In
Vienna it is reported that the Turks
lave crossed the Bulgarian frontier
n three places, by the Maritza and
Lundja Valleys, as well as in the direction,
of Jamboli. King Ferdinand
>f Bulgaria, has protested to the
powers and appealed for European
nterventton, but there is no sign that
Europe will act. Both Greece and
lervia are throwing obstacles in the
vay of an armistice, while pushing
heir attacks in the direction of Soda,
[t is reported Rumania has notified
Jervia and Greece that if thay con:inue
their advance, the Rumanian
irmy will be ordered to Sofia first.