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t YOLUXE LII, >T3IBER Si ITEWBERRY, S. C? FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1914. TWICI A WEEK, flit A 1111. MEMBERS LOWER HOUSt i FOR FULL COMPENSATION ' RESOLUTION TO THAT EFFECT PASSED BY LARGE MAJORITY. > \ Bills to Extend Time of Paying Taxes Are Killed?Boml Issue is Also Killed. Record, 14th. ^ After considerable uebte and i -wrangling, the house of representa- j tives Wednesday, by a vote c>: 36 to ?Q rho ProocVi prvn/Ml rrPiti t. \)Oy <CUUXFJfcSl^U. resolution providing $200 and mileage for each member of the general assembly, while the Christensen res- | olu'tion, which fras passed the senate, j giving to each member $5 per diem and mileage, was killed by a vote of 36 to 66. The Wyche and Summers ! Dilis. extending me pay en i 01 ia..\*s 1 for 1914, were killed by large ma- ! m jorities. jp The questions of tot a": elimination ! and partial reduction are the two . I k great problems agitating the legisla-: " tors, and there will be a great forensis and legislative battle on the two ' " ..... i ideas, it is saici ?y i>.:ose auvutauu^ the elimination scheme that a majority of the members cf the house . are advocates o~ it; that, if it passes ' , tfce lower body, however, certain sen- : | ators will filibuster until the end ok the session to prevent its passage in the senate. f House Meets. When the Creech concurrent resolution to pay the members of the general assembly $200 and mileage, and the Christensen concurrent reso- j lution to pay eacu member $5 per j diem and mieage, cameup in the ! house Wednesday morning there was j much conbusion and disorder and the | ^ memibers seemed to be at sea. tl was y "with difficulty that t:e Speaker Pro Tern. Wyehe preserved order, for motions and counter motions were made -rt ** rt'itV* o y?n n* <OXI u iII1VIJ. a V* XI. Mr. C. C. Wyche, Mr. Bteakwel!, Mr. Lumpkin, Mr. Vander Horst and Mr. ' Hardin spoke for full pay for the members, ajid Cvlr. Boyd, Mr. Xichol- ] so^, Mr. Stevenson and Br. Dick were for paying the members only $5 per i | .diem and mileage as was provided in- ! ^ he Gi:ristenst a resolution: Mr. Steven-sen then amended the wCreech full pay resolution so as to V nrnviria p.pr riiprn anr? milpa rp for reach member o>: the general assembly. On a direct vote?those voting "yea" favored $5 pre diem and those answering to "nay" wanted $200 or i!'.:e session?the amendment was lost be a vote of 36 to 6S. The following was the vote on roll call: The Tote. i ! Yeas?Messrs. Atkinson, Barnwell, Bethea, Bov ers, Boyd, Dantzler, Didk, Ei>ps, Ev':ms, Haile, Harvey, HaynsAvorth, Hutson, Kibler, McCravey, McQueen, Means, Mitchell, Mower, ^ Nicholson, Odom, Pegues, Piatt, Ready, Riddle, Riley, Robertson, L. M. " Rogers, Sanders, Senseney, Sherwood, L*.SiMrlev, Smiley, Stevenson, Zeigler? i36; .\ays?Merrs. Aaay, j. vv. Asniey, J. Ashley, Belesr, Blackwell, Bolt, Browning, Burgess, Bushee, Charles, ^P^Tement, Clowney, Creech, Cross, Daniel, Fortner, Fripp, Goodwin, Gray, j Greer, Hall, Hardin, H. F. Harrelson, j M. C. Harre'.son, Hoitt, Holley, Hun- | ter, Hutchinson, Irby, James, Johnstot i Kellehan, Kelly, Kirby, Kirk, Long, ' L Lumpkin, McDonald, Malpass, Martin, | Massey, Mefi, Miiley, Moseley, Mur-1 [ray, Nelson, Pate, Ritten'berg, W. "S. Hogers, Jr., Sapp, Walter M. Scott, W. W. Scott, Standey, Strickland, Sturkie, Summers. Thompson. Tindal, Yander, Horst, Walker, Warner, Warren, WeLdh, White, Whitehead, Wilburn, C. C. Wyche, C. T. Wyche?68. The Creech concurrent resolution, giving the members full pay, was kthen adopted. By a direct vote of 36 to G6 the ?hristensen concurrent resolution, ving the members of the general assembly $5 per diem and mileage iach, was then killed. I The following concurrent resolution, Introduced by Mr. Sapp, was adopted nd ordered sent to the senate: [ "Whereas, a conference o- the govrnors of the coton growing States, lid ot~-ers, 5v:as ben called to mee* I the city of Memphis, Tenn., on the th instant, and jSVhereas, Governor Hayes of Ar kansas, the prime mover, having requested the governor, of this State to ' attend said conference, and that, i:? he ! deems it advisabfle, representatives Pt. A,r>i i.rc? rrri-rt e>r\o 1 oo C Qmih 1 \* \\'Vnr?)l 1C II Will IUO a; , " Uiva I now in extra session, also attend: 'Be it resolved by the house of , representatives, the senat concurring, that tih: speaker o: t~e he use of representatives appoint one mem! ber o: the house, and the president | of the senate appoint one member of | the sesate, and teat they be request! tn unftfmmonr +V10 (rnvot'H /-\r> a n r? [ vu cw av/V/^iir^aiiT 1:1^ ? ^i aui , uuu j that the actual expenses of the two members so appointed on said committee be paid from the contingent fund of the governor's office." I 1 (By a vote d.' 44 to 42 the house Wed- ; nesday struck out the resolving words of the Irby joint resolution submitting to foe qualified electors of this State the question of issuing bonds not exceeding $10,000,000 to enable the -State to relieve the people from the : distressed condition brought about by money stringencies, s-hort time loans with uncertainty of renewals, etc-, by providing for long time loans to cit- | izens, etc. By a vote of 50 to 48 the "parliame-ntry clinker" was applied which effiectii.ely disposes o.f the mea sure. The Wyche bill extend the pay-; : ment cf taxes :or ij14 for one year j occasioned considerable debate, \ !Messrs. C. C. Wyche, H'ardin and Moore speaking in favor of the measure and -Messrs. McQueen, Nicholson and Huts on against. Mr. Moore offered an amendment extending the tiune writing penalty ustil April 1, 1915. On a motion to strike out tfce enacting words the bill was killed by a vote of 73 to 20. j The Creech concurrent resolution ' relating to the shutting down c>: the cotton niiHs at certain periods, was killed. i fThe Summers hill to extend the time of paying*ihe taxes of 1914 also was i - killed by a direct vote of 47 to 9. | The State bank act was made a spe- ' cial order after the bill to reduce the cotton acreage to one-third has been considered. Miss EtlieJ Hobbs Highly Honored. Miss Ethel Hobbs, daughter of Col. and Mrs. John F. Hobbs, of New York city, has received two unusual honors from her college. She has 'been appointed by the faculty o! Hunter college (formerly known as Normal college of the city of New York) assistant. editor oif The Argos, the college magazine. 9ae is in the 'b-igh school department of the college, and the honor is a most unusual one, having never come to ner ciass loeiore. x>liss Ethel has further received the unusual distinction of being elevated, tyy the faculty, to the council of the student 'body of the college, which meets and consults with the faculty upon matters relating to tine conduct of the college. Col. Hobbs is a graduate of Newtoerry college, as "tih-e readers of The Herald and News know, and is a Newberry and Lexington 'boy. He is the grandson of the late (Senator John C. Hope, of Lexington. Miss Ethel's (father, and mot/her are justly proud of her, and the news of these college honors (will foe very pleasant | reading to her large circle of friends in South Carolina whom she visited, ) with her Barents. last summer. Miss i Ethel 'has also just ibeen elected treas-1 urer oE tfoe .high school Camp Fire club, over which one of her teachers presides. fThis is a nice compliment in itself She was seventeen years of age or HptrtHor Rrt"h rHnlnnftl an 1 rVTrc TTrvKh<? gave her a delightful dinner at one of the hotel cafes in New York city, at which there were 17 guests, one for each- year of -her life. Miss Ethel was allowed to select her list of guests to foe invited. It is nice to hAar r?f *YYiiniep ladies wlitJh. Smith flar olina blood giving an account of themselves in so big a communtiy as New York city, with all its activities and nerve-racking peace. Parole Granted. The governor has granted a porole to .John Reeder, \v:.o was convitced ia Newberry county in 1904 of murder and upos recommendation to mercy was sentenced to a life term in the State penitentiary. Last January the governor commuted Reeder's sentence to 25 years. % ACREAGE REDUCTION. House Passes Committee Bill For Not llvnx SiJv 4 OPac f/l WdrV V f tjiA iv rr via Mule. Special to Tie Herald and News. ! Columbia, Oct. 15.?Under concur rent resolution, xte-preseniauve oapp and Senator MclJaurin and Governor Blease have gene to Memphis, Tenn., i to attend a conference of governors, i in regard to the cotton situation. ! | The house today passed the committee bill reducing acreage to 1-3 o:' ! the crop not to exceed six acres in ! cotton to the work mule, by a vote J of 77 to 20. The senate killed t'r.e house resolution allowing members full pay for the extra session. The senate had passed a resolution to allow members $5.00 per day and mileage, as compensation for the extra session. Senator Bankhead and Mr. Clark, president of the Mississippi Cotton congress, will address the joint assembly tonigiit. 415,134 BALES IN SEPTEAIIiFPt Slight Decrease Shown in Statistics Comajned With Same Date Last Year. Washington, Oct. 14.?Some idea of the extent to which the cotton growing industry has suffered as a resclt of the European war was disclosed today in a census bureau report showing thlat for the first wo months of the cotton year exports were more than a million- bales less than in the co mo nori r\r\ 1 a of ViDQ r JtlXX-lVs y^/1 AV.'U AUO L, J VUi Domestic consumption of cotton during the same period decreased more than 75,000 bailes. Cotton imports, however, increase'd 42,402 bales, having been brought in, compared with 15,234 bales last year. Washington, Oct. 14?Cotton consumed during September was 415,194 a'es, exclusive of lingers, compared with 442,435 in September last year, the census bureau announced today. Consumption for the two months ending September 30 was 798,874 bales, against 874.785 last year. Cottjii on 1 fir. dSeptember 30 in ' manufacturing establishments was J 560 068 bales, compared with 614,581 ! a year ago, ar.d in iLdependent ware- j houses l.f.'ji S"-6, compared with 1,- ' I'y.Mio a y-a rago. i Exports were 1 ;! ">,778 bales, against ' 930,328 last year, and ;or the two , months 146,9S8S, against 1,187,5000 a ; year ago. Imports were 15,315 bales, against 7,449 last year, and for the two months 42,402, against 15,234 a year ago. Cotton spindles active numbered 30,562,1 S5, against 30,634,381 a year ago. Linters consumed was 27,389 ales, . aginst 27,697 a year ago; and for ttoe j xo : ?x ta L v> \J XUUU1 Lira cliCS, cigitlilSl i 327 last year; on hand in manufacturin gesta'blishments 63.944 bales, against 52,491 a year ago, and in in- > dependent warehouses 25,682, aginst 24,861 a yeaT ago. Linters exported was 1,8OS bales, and for the two months 2,693 bales. Wreck on C. N, & L. r.anroniC 19 T^ncrinooor XKT T> MMMA V/AAWy V/Vl?, AU* AJXJU^ A11V V 1 T ? A/ e Graham, of this city, and his negro fireman were painfuWy injured today when tie engine of train No. 55, on the Cohrmbia, NeWberry & Laurens railroad ran into a split switch at Goldlv.llle. Bdtlh men jumped just as the locomotive left the track and thus escaped more serious injury. The engine was overturned and the baggage car was derailed. Mr. Graham was brought to Ibis home here this afternoon and is resting comfortably tonight. iThe Civic association will hold its regula* monthlv meeting at the resi aencc of Mrs. J. Y. McFall, Monday afternoon at 4:2? o'clock. Tne Junior Dvision of the Missionary society of Central Methodist church will meet Saturday ".fternoon wtih Miss Abbie G-aillard. Bad weather will not prevent the meeting. TTvere will be a call meeting of the Drayton Rutherford chapter of the U. D. C at the librarj room Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock. A full attendance is desired ss n.atters of importance will be brought up. ?? ??? BOSTON WINS SEKIES. Capture of World's Championship Completes Most Sensational Record in Modern Baseball. Attendance 34,365. Boston, Oct. 13.?The official at [ tendance and receipts for today's game lis as .allows: Attendance, 34,365. [ Receipts, .$62,653. National commission's share, $6,| 265.30. j Flayers' share. $33,832.62. i Each club's share. SI 1.277.54. Total for serious of four games: Attendance, 111.009. Receipts, $226,739. Players' si are, $121,900.94. National commffcion's share, $22,673. ' Each club's share, $40,632.5S. -Boston. Oct. 13.?The Boston National league clu btoday completed the most sensational record in mod era basebaall history by defeating the Fhi.adelp .,ia Americans in the :ourth and final game of the world's series at I'en way par, 3 to 1. Beginning wifo their rush from last place in the senior league in the middle of July, the Braves have broken traditions and records with* speed and abandon. They emerged late te&iav chamroions of the world. leaving a trail of startling surprises' an dupsets in their wake. Last and far from the least of their accomplishments was the overthrow in four consecutive games of i ti':.e world d'amous baseball machine cf Connie Mack, with its hundred ! thousand' dollar infiold, heme run heroes and corps o; skiD.ully blend- ! ed -'.eceran an'i youthful pitching stars. Tonight 'he new champions, gathered under the management of George Stallings, are ceiebratin gtheir ascent o the championship while the wreck cf the Ao.i'.etics' baseball ju^cyarr-OTif i c Vimir*. r? "f r\ r? V? rvm a ctnnr>Q^ ?5 1 xxcx u. u 10 UVUUU XVI XI vyxil Oiuuu^/W. and stupified. Bird Protection Exhibit for StUte Fair. Tj? farmers all over our State are invited and urged-to attend the exhibition on 'bird protection in the agricultural building during the State fair, October 26-30. This exhibit is the first of the kind ever ne:a in ttiis state, it is unaer the auspices of tue national association o!.! Audubon societies in co-operation with ithe bird committee of the federation of women's clubs. This exhibit will be interesting and instructive. Scientific experts have been studying tihe food habits of birds , for years. Some of the results of these investigations -will be s'-own by picture, chart and publications. Ow ing to their feeding habits most 'birds are of immense value to farmers.! There-ore, birds should ibe protected. ' A resident hunter's license law af- i fords one of the ibest .means of bird : protection. This is taught by the ex- 1 perience of other States 'possessing such a law. One of the greates/t enemies oil' bird life is the common cat. A place will be given to the cat in this exhibit. ' - - - ^ 1 . rt ! TUiere will oe aispiay oi inoaeis 01 practical bird houses and1 boxes- w^ick can be constructed for a few cents. iValuaJble literature on the subject of (bird protection -will 'be distributed: free. Belle Williams, Chairman Bird Committee, S. C. Federation Women's- Clubs, Columbia, IS. C. Cbas. X. Stieff at the Fair. Chas. M. Stieff the well known piano manufacturer will send to the State fair the largest exhibit of grand upright and player pianos ever shown in the South. The feature of the exhibit will be the "Stieff .School Piano'' the only piano on the market in case of solid mahogany and used by the greater number d: school and colleges or.the Southern States. Then the "Stieff Baby / Grand " the little grand that speaks for itself. These pianos will be there i.'or your inspection and a visit by you will be greatly appreciated by the manufacturer. Downfall Sore to Come. As coon as a man begins to think I he knows a woman thoroughly some- ( things crops out in her personality j V:at entirely upsets his calculations. i^??^ WATSON LOOKING AFTER SMALL MAN ro>nnssio>er tells of his WORK'IN THE EAST Fas Visited Financial Centres in Behalf of South Carolina Farmers. I News and Courier. (Columbia, Oct. 1^.?E. J. Watson, president of tie Southern Cotton conrr r?/-vc c o n ^ r> r\ -r>-> mr\ iccinnor f\f ?) 0*TM'fMl 1 +11 fP gi COO aiiu ^VUiiniC^'Jlvyiivi VI. ^ A V ^ o: o'SutJh. Carolina, today made a brief but guarded announcement as to the vigorous effort he is making in the East to care for the small farmer in South Carolisa aginst the meeting of ; his fall obligations and the passing of j his crop of cotton into the hands of j speculators. Mr. Watson le> t Columbia Saturday { evening, returning to the city this ! morning spending every moment of his I time durisg hi sabsence in the prose| cution of the effort to accomplish j something s'pee'J r. During 'his. brief J absence he spent a portion of Sunday ; in Washington consulting with Con| gressmen Lever and others, and again | s- ent a portion of '.Monday a-t the Xat. >nail capital. Upon hisN return this morning Mr. / | Waston said: "For several weeks I have most anxJ irfusly watched the situation and have i realized that the financial net is being hourly drawn more closely with no further aid in sight from the federal j go. eminent or from the banks or else| wcere. A?1 of the effort saeretofore have ben directed to aiding the banks | in the South but everyone of those e'2| forts are along^such lines that should I they be succesSful in the end they would not come in time to save the small farmer who is about to be forced to sell his cotton. I have no war to | make, nor have I made any, on my | ma'ke nor Lave I made any, on ahy of taese very laudable eqorts but I ! ! have < ellt deeply for t:.e man c.-.o would I not help himsejf?the man who after November 1, would not be able perhaps-even to buy the seed to put in a . grain crop. As the time to save him ! was passing so raiprdf.y and had reduced itself to a matter of days, I de ? a- t- - - 1. i. J 4- ~ lerminea 10 majKe a. rasi ucsytrxaie t?ii fort to prci.iide the help that we all knew is so sorely needed at this moment. i went to Washington first and ! talked! witih. our leaders there, but could net see where any material aid was going to coime in time. I then went direct to a man who is noted for nis aixrursiuc lllt>illl<iuuii5, cum picuuly -laid the real truth of the situation before him. The idea appealed to him immediately, and he has taken his coat off to develop that idea. Already Ihe has the wheels moving in New York, and r.e has already taken up the mofcter with some of his strongest Iriends in England. Whether we can accomplish the desired end in time or at all, I do not know. I have reach* ^ ^1* * iV* a aa+f art fl rrV? f + -o ^ tJU Lilt; point WILLI LUC V/VkWll 115111, 1. ai I am certain of nothing until ft is an accomplished fact I ihiave every reason to hope for success. The mian I refer to declines at present to ipermit me to mate his name public, but he is willing for me to give to the press a copy of a letter he has written to me, which speaks for itsei'.. i nis lexter, with its signature I will tand to the proper committees of the South Carolina legislature, inasmuch as the effort involves tf.ie passage of a simple warehouse measure whi-qh will be essential. "I do not wish to hold out any false hope, and really hesitate in making this matter public at all for that rea son. il is nectrs'sa.iy, uuwevci, uu cu-n the attention of tbe general assembly to the specifications indicated in the letter and the enactment quickly of the measure suggested is essential to anything that can be done. ''Since my arrival in Columbia this morning I have 'tad encouraging telegraphic information from the writer of the letter in New York in regard to me matter u: swunmg liic ii-^osaij cash. This morning I am adivised that fertilizer manufacturers and other are beginning to make their demands on obligations falling due on the 15th of October, and if anything is to be accomplished by this effort, Trthich is directed to partially* care for t?he absolutely necessary to do it at oace. I v.eel that I have done the best that I can to get the matter as far advanced as it has gone in the 48 hours that I have devoted to it." GEORGIA ADOPTS ST. LOOS PLA3T CAT j! If- 2. t4 ?1 1/x . I J T1? "Xjtiiujh^ jiuveiueni' txpiamea to Mnanciers at Atlanta by Edwin W. Robertson. .. S Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 14.?After Edwin j W. Robertson of Columbia had^ explained the St. Louis plan for raising a $150,000,000 cotton pool here today the convention otf clearing house asy ; sociations of Georgfc unanimous ; adopted it. About 100 representatives of the clearing fcbuse bgjiks cf the : State attended the meeting to coni sider participation in the pool. The scheme contemplates that Georgia shall raise $10,000,00. Atlanta Ga., Oct. 14.?Convention of clearing house associations of Georgia j here today after achi^ess and cxplasation o: Edwin (W, Robertson unani; mously adopted St. Louis cotton plan. Meeting largely attended. R. Charlton "Wright. , ^ Death of 3Irs. Gossett. Mrs. Nancy E. Gossett, wife of Thos. i M. Gossett. died of pellagra at tfce State hospital on Tuesday. Mrs. Gossett lived at Whitmire. Besides a husftrand sle leaves one child. WOFFORD 3TA>' WEDS MISS MARY HERBERT i ; Spartanburg Herald. * !| The following anr-otmcepient will be of interest to many in Spartanburg and elsewhere in the State: I Rev. and Mrs. Walter Isaac Herbert announce the marriage of t'beir sister, Mary Boyce, to Rev Clarence Wells Watson on Wednesday, October 7. 1914, Spartanburg, S. C., at home, after November 1, Upper Lake, Call omnia. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. I. Ker'bert at his home oa Wofford college campus last evening in the precene oi.: relatives asd a groom. Mrs. Watson is a daughter of the late Rev. T. G. Heri'oert, of tie South Carolina conference and spent sev- . eral years of her cihildhocd in this Ol' tr Qll a ic? o c.i'c^Qr r\ f I? Air P P v/xcj . 10 ci cacici V l lie v. v.. ?v?/. Herberet, pastor of Central Methodist chuncta, and ot:. Rev. T. G. Herberet, pastor of Main street Methodist church, Columbia. Mrs. Watson is a graduate of the school of Osteopathy, Kirksvi'lle, Mo., and for the past 12 months has 'had a successful practice in Chester. 1 )Mr. Watson is at present a member of the California Methodist confer: ence, is frcm Ridge Springs and is an 0 alumnus o?? Wofford college. Mr. and Mrs. Watson left on the midnight train for El Paso, Texas, ; where they wi'M sipend a few days witia, relatives before going to their Choline ^n California. John K. Anil Editor. Greenwood Journal. It is understood that John K. Aull, Gov. Blease's private secretary, will Via /vP rPV? /v Z*1 /v?v* at* nr ao 1 f ^ A uk? CTiiivi vi JLUJ.^ V^VALLAUU. VY caiua, unt? i new paper which has been capitalize | d at $25,000. The first issue will be published just before or soon after the legislature convenes in January. The paper 'wrll be owned by a stock comjpany the shares to be only $5 each. It was learned that stock is being taken in all parts of the State. The plan .s to permit no ! stockholder to own more than 50 , shares. ^m Her Plan. "Do you read ai'l the war news?" "Every line of it." "Anid san you pronounce the awful names of those places?" "Dear me, no. Whenever any other town than London or Berlin or Paris I is mentioned I just skin right over , the name." Detroit Free Press. _ . mats tne eKason. I "It must be great to be a man. One ; dress suit lasts you for years and years and a woman must have a new | dress for every party." "That's why one dress suit 'lasts & mau^^^r-ars and years."