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' BOND ISSUES MAIN ' TOPIC IN SENATE! OTHER BRIEF MEASURES ECLIPS ei) for ti3ie being ^>raior Portion of Bay Consumed in i * * Lonir Debate on Acreage Deduction. News and Courier. Columbia, Oct. 15.?The proposal to j issue bonds with which to buy coiton j has eclipsed or the moment ot..er j measures advocated n the State sen- j ptp for of the cotton crisis. In , ^ accordance with Senator Alan John-1 stone's resolution adopted late iast j night to appoint a special committee ! k o:' the senate to frame and bring in a 1 joint resolution for submision to the j people of a several million dollars' "U ^ ~ J * ^ ^ Kurt rtAtrrvn T tpn 53 "H f ' ULJUU isauc IU uu?? vwwu, . | Governor Smith ttois afternoon an- j nounced fce following as members of ! the committee: IFrom the committee on agriculture, Alan Johnstone and Lawson; from the committee on finance, Banks and i } Stuckey; from the committee on judif ciary, Carlisle and Clifton; from the ' -? * ~ ! committee on banning ana insurance, >MeCown and Lide. T:e committee as-1 semhled immediately alter the adjournment of the senate this afternoon j and got down to work. Johnstone's Idea. The proposition to issue bonds with which the State is to buy the cotton ! crop originated with Senator Johnstone, of Xew'berry, who laid it before k his colleagues at an executive session, ( hold late last night. The newspaper 1 men were, o~ course, excluded from ' the executive session, but tr.e propels sition seems to be something: like this: IFor the tSate to issue $50,000,000 in bonds for a short term of years, say three or six, in denominations o-:' $10 and up. The State to buy cotton on a basis of 10 cents a pound a?nd give t;.:e cotton growers in payment these bonds. The State to warehouse ti/is t cotton, properly insured and with ail the safeguards possible, and to hold j P the cotton until the end of the Euro- ; * pean war and t..en to sell it, the idea and expectation being that by then cotton will commaoid a big price. With I the proceeds thus obtained the State is to call in and retire the cotton! * 1 - ?J wnrvlaic! r\r- r> nrAPPPiift oonas emu iwt; auipjiuo vi nvk ^ww^ ? can go to tie support of tne public schools. IThe cotton growers are to sell their I cotton outright to the State and lo * t~ke in payment these bonds, and the idea is for the people t~en to pay their Obligations with these bonds. In other words, this would be making the bon'ds the same as currency and to iLft clace of money. Iiiow Plan is to Work. It must be made clear tnat tee idea is not to sell the oon-ds to some Xorihern financial interests and pay the cotton growers .u casa, but to buy tne fcotton ana gi,e il p&yunent to the rowers the .St^te bands. Obviously t^re fatter ol selling $50,000,000 of State r bonds for casii now would De practically impassible. ; .Whether the bonds are to be non-interest bearing bonds or say 6 per cent, is a detail yet to be worked out. The special committee will hold con.erences and work out the details and then bring in tlae joint resolution to submit >twe question to the people in the com r ing general election. Lt will 'be necessary under the constitution for the B joint resolution to receive two-tliirds m vote of -he people to become effective, this being necessary to increase t. e Jfc/U. UV V V The special committee faces an onerous taskr'One thing they w-i.l have to ^ inouire into carefully is whether this ^proposal can escape tfhe 10 per cent ^^federal tax, which would be prohibitive. This is just one detail o: the manv th/* .musit study care L fully before they can '.orm the joint resolution and report. May Call for Help. It is probable that they will call the financiers and other citizens of the Oi,, .1. ^ Tl-n.+lh o n.H cr At til A H OUltC LU (.UUlCi nii'l/U I.U.UUU 0<_w ~ benefit of the best experience and adm vice and knowledge of everyone inW framing the measure. ? Witlii $50,000,000 bonds under this plan the State of South 'Carolina could I* buy 1,000,000 bales of cotton at $50 per "bale, based on ten cents per pound. As the crop of this State is about 1,400,00 bales it can be taken care of t this way. | This plan will be laid before the I conference of governors of the cotton growing States by Senator McLaurin. oronfd takpt; nlnop in Mem rJL i-i WUi Vi VUVV VW? w ^ phis and Governor Blease, 'Senator \VlcLaurin and Representative Sapp le.t here this afternoon for Memphis to attend the conference. Coupled with the proposal to issue I bonds is a measure to reauce cotion acreage next year 30 as to prevent another surplus of cotton. Tie senate is now debating acreage reduction and fce bill passed by the house today providing for two-thirds acreage reduction will come over to ihe senate II mtim ii i I Telephone Sav< One of the children 1 an Alabama farm and was apparently lifeless. The i - * < i m t 1 the telephone and called tJ He told her what to do before he arrived the chil The protection of wo one of the chief values ( farm.' You can have this sc the nearest Bell Teleph< postal for our free bookie FARMERS' LINE SOUTHERN BELL TI AND TELEGRAPH < ??nai m' ae wmz+tjth1 tomorrow and they will resume this debate when they meet tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock. Matter of Compensation. On motion of C. airman Hardin, of the finance committee, the sena.e this j morning laid on the table house concurrent resolutions fixing the compensation of members for the extra ses- ! sion ar ?200 eaa. and mileage. The ' Senate had previously gone 011 record as favoring $5 per day, but this was killed in U'.:e house. The matter of compensation will have to be settled later, being as yet unsettled. j ?A number of minor local bills were given second reading and sailing was easy until the Hanysworth bill, already passed by' the -house, was reached. The bill amends the present law so as to require cotton warehouses ^ - * -T - .1. _ 1 A + I 10 give Don US 111 lilt; SUili UJ. li/ yci ucuu i of their storage capacity. A ter considerable debate, with an amendment exempting Sumter and Lexington counties, the 'ball requiring bonds to be given at 10 per cent o: tibe estimated storage capacity of the ware- , house passed second reading. The senate refused to concur in the ;ouse resolution in re> erence to tax on jute and burlap. Senator Buck's concurrent resolution inviting United. States Senator Bankhead, of Alabama, to address the joint assembly was adopted. Debate on Acreage. Deibate on the acreage reduction resniiitinr ocr-nmed tie maior share or the day's proceedings in the upper chamber. Senator Verner oposed total elimination of cotton, but favored reduction. , Senator Bank's sipokfe against the Hardin amendment to make the limit eight acres to the plough. "We riave no right to pass laws which wi'lil .make criminals of our people,'' said Senator Gin-n in discussing the acreage reduction proposals "Let's treat every class fair," exclaimed tfce Hampton senator in sounding a warning. He favored a referendum on elimination and acreage rorln^tinn an/1 fhp DPfynle decide. United States Senator John H. Bankhead was introduced to the senate at the morning session "by Presi-, dent Smit'i. Senator Bankhead thanked the senators for the reception accorded him, being received with -i I .cmeers. THE NEWS OF ST. PAUL j Grand Work hj- Supervisor Cbappell on the Rdids?Personal and Otherwise. St. Paul, Oct. 15.?The girls and H/w.ts ammo /vf fhftm .a t 1 Past, ha VP t i/UJOj VA. %*v _ , ;gone off to college. The other folks , {are busy getting out cotton wuich they I j don't know how to sell. Some are j : gathering corn and getting ready for j ! wheat and. oats sowing -which all : means visitors and visiting are on the | i wane, rignt now in these parts. (Some of us boys are mighty glad ; all the girls are not off from home, j i I and that Sunday afternoon and Sun- | j day night visiting is quite the go yet. I Miss Lizzie Wicker will represent j | the Ladies Missionary society at the ; ^ AAWT-AntiAn of Vfnu'Korrr UOlliiilo cuii ? ciuiwii at i j . Mr. Berly Bedenbaugh will rep- j j resent St. Paul at tfce Lutheran Sy- j i nod to meet next week at Greenville, i I Miss Novice Kibler and Mr. Hermis | Kiibler, together wrJi Mr. Berly Bed-| en'baugh, were delegates last week to i the Young folks convention at Prosperity. f.Miss Oia Bedenbaugh and several members of ber family have been vis- j sd Child's Life j: fell into a water tank on rescued unconscious and :rantic mother rushed to he doctor six miles away, and started at once, but d was out of danger. men and children is only D.f the telephone on the II irvice at small cost. See 3ne Manager or send a :t* DEPARTMENT ?I,EPHONE !l n a r^yyi J j j itinig in Columbia, but arc now at heme again. Mrs. A. -E. Bel.lost has gone to Pros- j perity to spend a woile -with hei daughter, Mrs. E. 0. Counts. .Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Epting, o' ; i? +>??,e f.'innnnvnifv UC, iUIil'Uia, US-Lca ixi i -no Saturuey and Sunday c. last week, j [Mr. Dan Stone and mother spent ; a portion c? last week with Mr. L. D. > S-:one, near Newberry. 2VIrsj. Carrie Crouder, of Chester, ' spent the past week with Mr. W. H. ; Counts and family. Miss Mae '.Aimi'ck and Miss Fannie Hol'lowav, cf Newberry, spent Friday 1 nigi'..it of last week with Mr. W. B. | Boinost and family. Mrs. Bach-man Cromer an* daughter, j of Saluda, spent Sunday with Mr. E. B. Wicker. t Mr. T. E. Stone and family spent i Sunday with relatives at Batesburg, 1 I making the trip in his Ford car. Mr. W. V. McGraw, of Xewberrv. is spending a while with his daughter, Mrs. H. B. Richardson. Mr. L. D. Stone and family have moved out from our section, and are now located near Mr. John Neel's on j the Newberry road. We hate to see 1 good people moving away frcm a good ! community, hut wish only good things j for those that leave us. Every old ne^ro and most of the J young ones, tco, I reckon know about j i^uiuyeaxi war. r.vei j uju) iviiuv\s aibout it, the \n"hite and the black, the j literate and the illiterate. The writer ! wishes peace in all t'.e world and j better prices for cotton. Farmer, and j I am one like you, plant lots of oats. J some wheat and a littf.e <?over. Put' out seme catl'Tr^e and coward plants. ^ Sow and plan more peas. Sow an 1 acre of turnip.;; and rape. Why did you .'crget to plant an ' acre c" chutfas, soy beans, peanuts j and potatoes, for those corn destroy-1 ing hogs? I?t would pay the farmer ; for miles around to go to our St. j: Paul's parsonage to see a fiive hog j pato".; but Pastor Riser says not all i at once, any where near dinner time. \ We want to congratulate our supervisor for the excellent work that has been done in this section o late by t:~e j chainigang under the supervision of; Mr. Geo. Richardson, together with1 the help of our supervisor who is . ever on the job and the work of those ! wi'. o have rot paid off. We are now j enjoying t'he best worked up roads i since we can remember. It is our pur- j nnsp sinne this excellent work has ! been so nicely done to keep the roads in good shape by the use of the split log drag. We could not fcMn'k o? closing without mentioning the new bridge that is just completed over that branch between Mr. Thos. P. Richardson's and Mr. P. B. Ellisor's. We also want to add to our oonor roll o." public spirited citizens the name of - 4 - - Mr. P. B. Ellisor, who was so kind as j to give a new road bed to place our new bride which makes it much better. The people have s<":own their appreciation to Mr. Chappell by presenting 'aim wit- a Jno. B. Stetson hat given by the people around St. Paul. T'Vio Wnnfer-TlpwaH <:rhro1 is HOW near completion and. will be well equipped for three teacher?,. Tie patrons and pupils will meet on Friday, 23rd, for t.':e purpose of enrolling the pupils. There will be addresses by j State Supt. of Education J. E. Swear ingen, Pro:\ Geo. D. Brown and Miss ; Sadie Goggans. They invite the public ; to bring baskets and enjoy the day j with I; em. On account of the large increase 6*1 j the enrollment of the past year, it has | been necessary to enlarge the building ' ? II? I n. a ma: 1 Summer-V Ipay abov< cotton anc of notes a] I Bring in ] eapfl ann ( I | Sumr I NEW and employ three teachers which has been done. Prof. D. L. Wedaman, prin- j cipal; Misses Lottie Lee Haifa ere and i Mae Anrick, assistants. . This promises us a successful school year. FOG COLLISION _ | Steamer 3Ietaj)an Rammed DuringT^oneo Ffko> IiV IftTVflH. J.rcii.3^ A "fa /j ? New York, Oct. 15.?iTf.-.e steamer Mctapan, coming in from Co^n, i.'oun- ' dered in the lower haribor late today, , after a collision with the freighter j Iowan, which was leaving port for San j? Francisco. All t':e Metapan's seventy- I seven passengers and the crew were j rescued. Less damage was sustained by the Iowan, which stood by while ~ ? V ??.*?? +^.<-.1- oKnoi?(1 t.TT'A mp flip ? tTI 'L'Ud!lJ5 LUV-TIY U. UUUi c TT \j VI ? apan's passangers. The remainder were transferred to rescuing craft and landed in New York tonight. -At a late hour the freighter remained at anchor near the scene of the collision. Passangers on the Metapan said her bow was badly twisted, but the exaict damage cou^ not be learn- j ed. The Metapan is a United Fruit company steamer and sailed from Colon on October 8 for this port. ALL CHIEFS IN MEXICO SUBJECT TO CONTENTION Agruas Calientes Body Votes Itself Supreme Power of the Land. Mexico City, Oct. 15.?lAill- the mil itary UJiieitains, mciutnng rrajwaaw Villa, Za.pt at a and Venustiano Carranza, are now subject to the orders of the Aguas Ca-lientes convention, which today, after a stormy secret session, Voted itself the supreme power of the land. Tje delegates took oatia to ahide by the majority vote on all ques- i tions, includisg the .:orm of govern- j J J A11'/k^A?*01An meiLL clliu pifcJbJ.U'CiLLi?H 5ugv,wsiuu. The question of the kind of government that shall prevail will be decided at a session to be held October 20, j when a full Zapta delegation, number- j ing 22 men, will be present. Prominent delegates to the conference say the question of further civil J? "v r?".- + V>oe hoon rl ofi rfi tP- ' sxrrie in -vicaiuu u.a.^ ly decided and that peace is assured. A majority o '.the delegates lean toward a commission form of government until general elections can be held, though many of them favor Antonio I. Villa real for t!'.ie provisional 1 nrnciH O7T PV jy 1. v_. OA V4, ^ liV J . Under the new arrangement Carranza can be a candidate for the Presidency in the general elections. ring Ab Imf p "8^1 1 ?YV^(? J. 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