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DRAFTS COTTON BILL TO PROMOTE DEBATE President South Carolina Division, Southern Cotton Congress InvSfiki; I) icIMItvidll lit AIP<KIII<<I f it\ r* I'l.-'vu.-'.'ivn jivuoui \ The State. 29th. "For the purpose of arcusing thought and discussion/' Wade Stackhouse, M. D., of Dillon, president. South Carolina division. Southern Cot ton congress, before leaving for The cotton conference convening today in New Orleans, handed to The State, for publication this morning, the rough draft of a measure which he believes would effect a reduction of ~>0 per vent, in tlriiuii aiicdi;c iical vcai. Dr. Stackhouse would have each landowner make a return, between July 1 and July 15, showing his total acreage, the proportion under cultivation and the proportion planted to cotton; and he suggests the enactment of a law somewhat as follows: Suggests Reduction Act. "Whereas, cotton in this State is the basis of our industrial and commercial life, as, for about 100 years our very civilization, has been founded and built on the success or failure of toe cotton crop; and "Whereas, a surplus of about .",000,000 bales, brought about by the European war, now threatens loss and ruin not only to the farmers, but to every other 'business interest in this State; and, Whereas, believing this loss and ruin can be prevented to our citizens by reducing the cotton acreage; and. "Whereas, under the police power of this State to enact laws for the general welfare of her citizens and to impose a penalty to enforce such police authority. "Be it enacted^ That it shall be unlewful for any person in this State to nlant exceeding one-third the land he actually cultivates in cotton. "Anyone violating the provision of this act 'shall be fined $25 for every acre planted in violation of this law.' and if a survey is made to determine the violation of this act, and anyone is found to have exceeded the acreage allowed by law, he shall in addition pay the cost of survey. The damages fixed by this act shall constitute a first; mortgage on all cotton produced by person violating this law, and such j -jne be paid into ordinary county fund. 4tThe township assessing board sha-I pass on cotton acreage returns, and shall have power to employ a surveyor and determine, when thought necessary, if anyone is planting cotton in violation of this act." Would Enforce Rotation. Discussing this proposed legislation. Dr. Stackhouse said: "I wish the citizens and members of I the legislature of this State to think 'ivpr this nlan and advise wf.:at cut in acreage we will secure by the passage of this law. "It is my belief that this act would -educe cotton acreage in South Carolina in 1915 about 50 per cent., and would be good legislation, even if no other cotton State should jo .11 us. "It would practically force a. threeyear rotation of craps, which we should have adopted 50 years ago. By using peas, velvet beans and oth?r cover crops, this three-year rotation would have made our South Carolina lands among tVie richest in the world. "It would cut our $26,000,000 fertilizer bill haif in two because we \Nuuia grow our own ammonia. "We would be sel.'-supporting as we would produce all foods needed for man and beast making the cotton a surplus cash crop to be sold without he necessity of mortgaging in Jan- 1 uary the prospect of what we think ( wn; uiaivc lit?al summer. "It would raise the average price ' of cotton seed to from 50 to To cents *?er bushel, thus making the seed pro- J iuced on an acre compare with the ' value of acreage grain crops in the , West. The South would become a 'rreat stock country and we would feed Hrorv nnnri/1 n.f <-?nttr?ri<;pAr] moil no ould produce and not foolishly bury j \ valuable food product in the soil as' a fertilizer. , "This enforced rotation of crops would prepare us for t-he boll weevil ! nd in a short while, when it reaches us. our very business foundations I vould not toiter and tremble as at he present but we would go on pros ?ering in the even tenor of -our way. "Rational and Sane.'* j "If we have the courage to pass 'his law, we. if living, and our chil'ren wiil look back to 1914 and the ! European wr.as the beginning of the ost pros.per< ns era in the history of nr. >>MM. .n. ?-w * * i . l . \rnt 9- -r75 umr un Tvr vr j i! | egin io j>r-:^-?'*-o rational and san<^ trming nir;!>>:<: we T ill begin sy.^~>matic soil building: we will have omething to sell 12 month? in the ear, and if the law is passed we will ever in the future need to make 'enzied appeals to the national government to pass irrational laws to n iTC Aitt nf /Mir f n 11 v "In ir:e event cotton should go to 'join wo can suspend the law on<* year now and then and do our best to ; help raise a 20,0in>,uo0 bait' crop. We might poo! our South Carolina crop and soil it a year in advance and quit gambling on an uncertainty. This b only a suggesttion. We wish the best thirkers, the best lawyers and the best business men of tne South to concentrate on this subject and let us have the benefit of their thought. "For more than H'o years the constitution of the United States, 111 the plastic hands of our supreme court, has yielded, bent and conformed itself to every need of our national life, from the nullification act to controlling trusts. If cotton acreage control I was a proper subject for congress to ! handle. ! have no doubt our supreme court could find in th&t ancient document plenty of evidence to support the law. If our State constitutions are j | only hal: as elastic as that of the United States we have plenty o:' auj thority for State regulation of cotton | acreage. j "iWith a State warehouse receipt so sound ana so strong tnat we can tirau money from all over ^he world to help I finance cotton after it is made, and ; with Stc.te control of acreage, so we i will never in tfce future pile up an j unmanageable surplus. tl:.e South will | easily become the greatest agricul| iural section on the face of the globe.** EJfEKGESCY BILLS DRAWN j To Be Sent to Legislature Next Week. r*i 4 J r\ _ .1 lexr 10 rrmitfti. News and Courier. | Columbia. Sept. 2S.?Bills providing for an emergency warehouse system for storing cotton and State validation of cotton warehouse receipts, prohibiting the planting of more :han eight acres of cotton to the plough in 1915 j and a bill to submit to the people at1 the coming ene'ral election a propospH bond issup of $1,500,000 to Dlace the ' State on a cash basis and complete the State asylum have been prepared i and will be introduced simultaneously j in the house and senate when the general assembly meets on Tuesday of. next week in extraordinary session, to i consider means for relieving the crisis ' , ; now facing the ib'tate tn rough tne ' closing of t!:e European cotton markets. v These hills were agreed on and drawn up by Senator John L. McLaurin, of '"Marlboro, and Representative W. F. Stevenson of Chesterfield, who will introduce them in their respec- j tive houses. Mr. Stevenson met .Mr.! i MoLaurin in conference at the latter's plantation in Marlboro county, where the bills were put in shape and are now ready for introduction. At that { conference the only other person present was W. D. Grist, editor of the Yorkville Enquirer. The Warehouse Bill. The warehouse till is an emergency measure and provdes for the State to take over such warehouse as the | commission thinks feasible 'for the! purpose of storing cotton. Th- com- j mission to handle the measure ,mder ; the bill will consist o:' the governor, I commissioner of agriculture and a, third member to be elected by the ! legislature. Fifty thousand dollars is tn be arroranriated to put the measure into effect immediately. The State is I to validate all warehouse- receipts and i act as tl-ie agent for the individual grower to get a loan on this cotton. To this end the authors point the way to the introduction of a banking bill, the establishment of a central bank j nnrfpr rhe National banking act by ihe ! State, which would negotiate the loans for the individual grower of cotton on j the warehouse receipts, the money to be gotten directly from the government treasury and loaned to tt.e farmer at as cheap a rate as possible, a little to be charged for commission, which would go towards the expenses of :he bank. This wou-ld be tne establishment of a State bank, a measure which is now being debated by the Texas legislature for that State. The warehouse receipt is to carry the absolute title to the cotton and means have been devised to this end in the bill without danger to liens, which may exist on the cotton. The acreage reduction bill "would prevent the planting of more than ">0 per cent, of that of 1914, and is based on the amount of stock used in cultivating the present crop. It would allow a maximum of eight acres, which is made a criminal offense punished bv a fine of $25 for every acre over eight planted or imprisonment at hard labor. In case of a dispute as to the acreage a survey is to be made by the clerk of court. , ft $1.">00.000 bond issue at 4 per cent, to place State on a cash 'basis and ccm",nt" + ocvinn w thp idea of Renre i' 1 ^ C i 1V uvj tentative st even son. It is suggested that funds arising there rom could be used temporarily to finance the warehouse measure and then be replaced, it is also suggested that such bond money could be used for a possible extension of the payment of taxes. | Th^ idea of the authors of these WAS MISERABLE ! Mill nN'T STINfl VVVkPdl I v B iiaiv Testifies She Was Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinfeham's Vegetable Compound. Lackawanna, N. Y. ? "After my first ; child was born I felt very miserable and J. CQU]d not stan.d on | lllf llriP in-law wished me to j mJgrxg* ^^1 tr3r Lydia E. 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I Women who suffer from those distressing ills peculiar to their sex should be convinced of the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore their health by the many genuine and truthful testimonials we are con stantly publishing in the newspapers. J If yon want special advice write to j I Lydia E. Pinkliam Medicine Co* (confi- i I J*? i:?l\ t \r ir l.u ; 11 t uaiiiiii; Jjjui, iTiass. lour tuner niu I be opened, read and answered by a tTODian and held in strict confidence. measures is emergency legislation which they believe will enable t^e State to borrow money direct from the federal government through a State bank to be established by supplemental legislation and loan it direct to the cotton producers at a low rate of interest. They would have the measures to go into effect immediately so as to afford instant relief and save the sit-, nation now threatening the South. On For New Orleans. Senator McLaurin left tonight for .\ew urieans 10 auenu tue general cotton conference. He will be joined there by Representative Stevenson, and they with Dr. Wade H, Stack'nouse, the president of the State cotton congress, will go to Austin, Tex., to urge o/i Governor Colquitt and the Texas legislature the passage of a bill reducing cotton acreage in that State next year at least ")0 per cent. They will also study the warehouse measure already passed there and the proposed act to establish a State bank in Texas to negotiate loans on the warehouse receipts. Mr. Stevenson went to Chesterfield today to get cases in which he is interested continued and will leave for the West tomorrow night. He is scheduled to come to Columbia in the j morning and will, it is stated, give J copies of the bills to the press and have copies printed which will be! mailed to every member of the old ! and the new legislature. Information | of these bills and their main features were given eclusively to this correspondent tonight. It is thought that this will be the main busine&s to i come before the legislature wnen it I convenes next Tuesday. It can b>j stated that a stay law is thought to be unwise and there is iiv disposition \ i to consider it. As to Pollock. Pisgah cor. Sumter "Watchman and Southron. I notice the report of the honor j I 'meeting held at Jefferson hotel, at Columbia last week for Jennings and Pollock thai some speaker congratulated them on their redeeming Sou^ii Carolina. Who did they redeem it; from? Native white citizens, many of them who helped Hampton, and j redeemed the State. Such talk as this Widens me cnasiLi uemecu liic l?u factions and will eventually result in the forming of two parties. The men who voted against Smith are just as fine eitizons and patriotic as tiiose who voted for him, and to -have slurs cast against them for exercising their right, places those who do it as beneath a gentleman's notice. Pollock must have an exalted opinion of himself to think he can be elected United States senator. Ask D. E. Finley, congressman from the fifth district about him and hear his opinion. He bucked against Finley a few years agro and went down in overwhelming (T^'eat. T hope Manning will make him Ja notary public as a reward for his ; wonderful work in this State. Talk j about opening people's eyes. It takes a man with brains to do that. How file War Started. Editor Kingstree County Record: The following conversation was overheard at the Kingstree ginnery a few days ago: Two darkies were discussing the , i HUilMI UlgJP MffnUMOm LiuHlllMWi?i jLfuuum.fMiaLm^i. 'Hi jMfljr Seethe name "Cole's" on ?r-j? the oven "LJiJi""I door?none jj tjTj [ fl genuine I t j i \ J without it I I \ I I "For mercy's sak< "Yes, I know you gas stoves for my Higl "I beg your pardon bi ? m "T] Newberry "scarcity of the stringency" and the war came up, when one remarked: "De low price u'v cotton is wuh bring . de war on." j "No, it en't," replied the other, "dey | tell me dat King George an' his cousin ! i>:ii ? P/ifmoiAQ woe 'cnnrin' rmp Hav I JDlil u. ^ v. ? . 'bout a bottle uv wine an' they git I right hot, till fin'lly King George say to he cousin Bill, 'Oh, you go on borne, you en't nuthin' but a dam Bleaseite,' an' so dey call out de ahmy an' went at it. Uat how it bin." W ho Wll Succeed Tillman. Anderson Mail. The announcement of (Mr. X. B. i Dial of Laurens that he will be a candidate for the senate to succeed Senator Tillman is of interest, and !it may turn out to be important, Mr. i Dial was a candidate against Senator Tillman two years ago, and while ho did not come anywnere near oeing j ' elected he made many (friends 1 throughout the State and he doubt;less learned quite a good deal about | running a campaign, as to which matter he was probably very ignorant j when he entered the race. I Mr. Dial is a man of ability, and Trie ahiiitv runs alons: constructive j lines. He is a thinker, and he de| velops ideas of his own, instead of appropriating the ideas of others and ! advertising himself with them. We ' do not know whether he will be i elected, but we do believe be will be a very forcible candidate, and that j jhe will be a factor in the race. Tims Died a Hero. j Philadelphia Ledger. There was fire in ibis eye and his j list in his hand. "Where's the dishdonged printer who sot this obituary notice?" he ( ; thundered. | "What's wrong with it?"' meekly j i l ikL _ firm V 1 ? w _ T7" ? 1 1 2, i\aie, your Kiicnen have gas, but I woul / ^Al iVLb j V PATENTED ^ h Oven Ra it it don't cost more. It ( v rariw heats hnt*h the Hit J "0~ hey are always cozy and v lis at the same time. 3U can't say that about yo )th my heating and coc ap fuels?either soft coal, m not saying anything abc 11 i my DacK or now eas; draft or how quickly d| heat. But just in co: have the best of you. "If I were you, I would up but half the space of ai you two stoves in one. "Then you will have rea money, too." We bough Harnwarp asked the third subassistant city editor. "Wrong with it? Everything! I wrote a beautiful poem, 'beginning: 'She was le.t a weeping, widow' and that blabgasted printer made it read: . 'She had cleft a weeping willow.' T':e 11 I rote: 'Throw thy. pearls before the swine.' And how did it come out? How? I ask! 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