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VOL. XXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1913 NO.1 SHAVE THEM DOWN SOUTHERN STATES LOSE POWER i1TH REPUBLIAS DELEGATES CUT DOWN National Committee of the Republi cans Resolves to Reduce South's Representation in-the Councils of the Party-G. 0. P. Is Reorganized on a Compromise Basis. The Republican National commit tee, in meeting assembled* at Wash ington Wednesday night concluded Its labor of reform in party procedure and launched its campaign for a re union of warring elements by adopt Ing a resolution providing for a radi cal change in the basis of representa tion in national nominating conven tions. wh!ch would reduce the quota of Southern States from 33 to 16 per cent of the Convention's total. The action of the committee, made unanimous before adjournment, must be endorsed by States entitled to cast a majority of votes in the Electoral College before it becomes party law. In order that such action shall be taken as promptly as possible the committee appointed a sub-committee of three, consisting of Charles B. Warren, of Michigan: Senator Borah, of Idaho, and Governor Hatfield, of West Virginia, to prepare an address to the States urging their Immediate ratification of the proposal. Approval by the States will insure a call from the national committee for the National convention of 1916 along the lines laid down at the meet ing Wednesday. The re-organization plan adopted came a compromise, which reflected the views of many committeemen that Southern repre sentation should be reduced, but not brought to the vanishing point. The resolution provided: "That this committee shall Issue a call for the National Convention to be held in 1916 to nominate candi date for President and Vice-President In accordance with the following bas Is of representation: "Each state shall be entitled to four delegates at large; one delegate at large for each Representative in Congress at large from any State: one delegate from each Congressional dis trict: en additional delegate from - each congressional district in which the vote either for Republican Presi dential electors or for the Republi can candidate for Congress in 1914, shall have been not less than 7,500 and that for each delegate chosen an alternate delegate shall be chosen in the same manner and at the same time to act in the absence of the dele gate. *Provided, however, that the above shall not be made the basis of the call for the National convention to be, hold in the year 1916, unless prior to January 1, 1915, Republican State Conventions held under the laws of the States, or called by the Republi can State committees of the States in such number of States as are entitled to cast a majority of the votes in the present Electoral College, shall ratify the action of this committee in re spect to determining this basis of representation." According to figures submitted by the sub-committee the new plan -~ would reduce the total number of' delegates from 1,078 to 99g. The Dis trict of Columbia and Alaska were provided with two delegates each by separate action, and the Phillipine Islands. Porto Rico and Hawaii also were given two each without the * right to vote. The Southern States w 1ould have 164 delegates in all. R. B. Howell, of Nebraska, led the fight against the resolution. He said Republican voters would not be sat isfied with a reduction of the sort proposed and pointed out the com parative, strength of the delegations from several northern and Southern states under it, giving also the per centage of votes cast in these States to show the Republican weakness be low Mason and Dixon's line, and the strength above it. Mr. Howell was op posed by Senator Borah, former Gov ernor Hadley,. holding the Louisiana proxy; Committeemen Remmel, of Arkansas. and McGregor of Texas. and H. L. Johnson, a District of Ce lunmbia negro, who held a proxy from Georgia.* POST OFFICE ROBBERIES. Liberation of Yeggmien Believed to Have Caused the Increase. Many post office robberies are be ing- reported in this section of the South, and the opinion expressed in Columbia is that the safes as being blown by the yeggmen liberated by the governor. It is a strange coinci dence that immediately following the release of "Portland Ned" and Wil liam McKinley the blowing of post office safes would begin. Then John Fisher escaped from the penitentiary. Many post office inspectors are work ing around this section of the coun try. Hurt in Runaway. James Caughman, former comm is stoner of Lexington county, was run over by a heavy two-horse wagon loaded with corn on his plantation, about five miles north of Lexington, Tuesday and dangerously injured. * Man an:. Child Shot. 3. W. Barnes, of Columbus. Ga., and his little child were shot at the home of Barnes' wife during a quar rel bet,.veen Barnes and a boarder, Dock Christie on Saturday. * Two Killed. H. Lunehford and Charles Farthing of Edgewood, Texas, were killed in a .hbmth aray saturday night. GIRL KILLED BY A BOMB EXPLOSIVE SENT TO EMPLOYER CAUSES HER DEATH. New York Detectives Trying to Dis cover Who Sent Dynamite That BIew Her to Pieces. Ida Anusewitz, 18 years old, em ployed as confidential bookkeeper of the 0. K. Bottling company of New York, was killed Friday by a bomb sent to her employers. Thomas Mc Cabe, managing salesman,. was cut in the head by flying metal, and Michael Ryan, an employee standing outside the office, was injured by shattered glass. The desk on which the bomb was placed as Miss Anusewitz opened it was demolished and the office was wrecked. The bomb was delivered by ex press. Apparently it contained dyna mite, as the force of the explosion was downward. Who sent the bomb and why were questions that sent half a hundred or more detectives at work on every possible clue. On the wrapper they found a written address-23 State street, New York city. The building at this address is a large office building, accupied chief ly by exporting firms who employ a number of foreigners. The bureau of combustibles, work ing on the mystery with the few bits of metal found in the floor and walls, announced that the missile was of similar construction to the bomb sent to Judge Rosalsky about two years ago. The package containing the bomb was addressed to the bottling company in stencil. It was received by McCabe, who placed it on the girl's desk. The force of the explosion wrecked the room, shattering plate glass win dows and tearing a jagged hole in the floor. Inasmuch as the force seemed to be downward the police believed dynamite had been used. Employees of the company connected the explosion with the alleged dis charge recently of thirty workmen by William H. Callahan, the proprietor. Callahan, however, denied having discharged the workmen and told the police that they were working with him still. "To the best of my knowl edge, I have no enemies," Callahan said. The affair is a mystery to me." Within an hour several squads of detectives were working on the case. The remnants of the package were sent to the bureau of combustibles for investigation. Upon the corner of the package was stencilled the re turn address, ostensibly, of the Eend er. It was 23 State street, New York. LEAVES IT TO U. S. Spain Entrusts Care of Its Mexican Citizens to This Country. Senor Don Jua'n Riano, Spanish ambassador at Washington, Tuesday advised Secretary Bryan of Spain's heartfelt thanks for the attitude of he United States towards Spanish efugees from Chihuahua, Mexico. Similar action was taken by the Span ish minister to Mexico, who request d that Charge O'Shaughnessy con ey to the various authorities in El Paso, Texas, thanks on his behalf for heir kindness to the refugees. The announcement from the Span ish premier that the Madrid govern ent had decided to leave the safe uarding of her interests in Mexico o the United States Tuesday was spoken of by Secretary Bryan as in line with the action of Great Britain, France, Japan and other nations, which did not happen to have consu lar officers at places where their sub jects were in difficulty. The Spanish consul at Chihuahua said that he hadieceived a cablegram from the minister of foreign affairs a~t Madrid, which said the Washing ton government had promised it would exact from all factions in Mex co the same respect for Spaniards as was demanded for Americans. AUTO KILLS BOY. Newberry L~ad Run Over by Slow Moving Machine. Zeddie Berry. the 9-year-old-son of Ed Berry of Newvberry, was run over and fatally injured Wednesday even ing by an automobile driven by Chal mers Brown, son of Dr. WV. C. Brown. who lives in that county. Young Brown was arrested but was excon erated by the coroner's jury and then set free. The little victim was in a drug store and dashed out into the street just as young Brown drove up in the automobile. Though the machine wa on very slowly and young Blrown set'med to be driving very carefully, he was unable to stop in time and the car struck the little boy. inflicting inju ries from which he died about an hour later. Young Brown was arrest ed and the coroner made an invest iga tion, the jury bringing in a verdict that the tragedy was purely an acci dent. Victim of Odd Accideni. William, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lohre, of Lake land, Fla., while playing about the yard at home Tuesday. accidentally struck the side of his head again a sharp nail that stuck out fromn the wall of the dwelling. The nail piere. ed the brain and the little fellow died within a few hours. Both Duellists jilled. D. A. Rogers, town marshal, of Ar cadia, La., and Thomas Cathey, shci and killed each other in a rev'olve! duel in a diug store there late Satur day night. Children Riurned to Death. Two negro children of Alex ?.lcCor kle were burned to death Thiurr'ia: near Edgemoor. Chester ecunty. The: were left alone in the hou~s e nd play ed in the fire. The house caught fir nd +hm were burned in it. CRIME MOST AWFUI BLAGK FIENDS MURDER ANI ASSAULT A LADY ARE RUN 0OWN BY llOit6 Three Young Negro Brutes V idt tho Home of a Young Georgia Farmei During His Absence and Assaultei and Murdered His Wife in Pres ence of Children. A dispatch to the Augusta Chron icle from Wren, Ga., says the mos1 horrible, brutal murder in the annal of Jefferson County, Ga., was the kill. ing Sunday afternoon some time be tween 4 o'clock and dark of Mrs. Jef ferson Irby bp three negroes, Wil. liam and George Hart and Roberi Paschall. Mrs. Irby was only 26 year. old, and had been married about si, years. She was soon to become a mother for the third time when the fiendish brutes assaulted and murder ed her. The story of the murder was told by her little five-year-old daughter tc Mr. Irby when he returned to his home about dark from a visit to the home of his brother. Sunday marn ing Mr. Irby left to go to the home of his brother to take Sunday dinner and spend the afternoon. Mrs. Irby, who has not been leaving the house lately, was at home alone, save for the two little children, one five years old and the other about three. Upon his return about dark Mr. Irby no ticed that the fire had burned out, only a few live coals remaining In the fireplace. Calling into the dark bedroom for his wife he got no response, and on investigation he found the two little tots covered up In one bed with their clothing on. Lifting the little girl to the floor he asked, "Where's mamma?" "The Hart negroes have been here and killed her-papa, she's out in the yard dead," was the little five-year-old girl's reply. Mr. Irby found a trace of blood on the back step, traced it to the wood pile and there found his wife's mutilated body. Her throat had been cut In two places and the top of her head almost entirely battered off with an axe. 'rom the description given by the little child It must have been about 4 o'clock in the afternoon when Wil liam and George Hart and Robert Paschall came to the house. George Hart, according to the little child, then grabbed Mrs. Irby and dragged her into the yard. During her strug gles on the door step the negro slash ed Mrs. Irby's throat twice. Her hair had become loosened and, holding her by one arm and her hair, the ne groes dragged her to the wood pile, at the rear of the house and beat her brains out with an axe. The little girl told her father the negroes went across a field and out through the oods. Mr. Irby gave the alarm to neigh bors. and about 11 o'clock Sunday niht Sheriff Smith with bloodhounds arrived on the scene and the dogs Im mediately took up the trail, leading directly to where the three negroes were located. When they were cap tured Sheriff Smith succeeded in ov ercoming a determination to lynch them Immediately by the argument that identification must be positive, and if he took the negroes to Louis ville he would assure the people an immediate trial. The three black fiends were then taken to Augusta to escape a large angry crowd that was rapidly gathering. After reaching Augusta George Hart, one of the fiends, made a con fesson, which revealed one of the most horrible and dastardly of crimes, so shockingly heinous in con templation and execution that the de tails could not be published In the newspapcrs. According to the confes sion of George Hart, he and his brother, William, and Robert Pas chal1. after becoming partially intox icated from drinking the skimming from a sugar cane boiling, went by the Irby farm home. They knew thai IMr. Irby was not at home, and knen that Mrs. Irby and two little chil dren were the only ones at home. According to the confession as made by George Hart, Robert Pas chall went Into the house, while he nd his brother, William, stayed or the front piazza and watched. GeorgE Hart says they next saw Robert Pas hall and Mrs. Irby come out of thE dor. Paschall having hold of the ladl and trying to overpower her, whilE she was fighting him as hard as shE cold. Finally Paschall reached it his pocket and secured his knife with which he cut Mrs. Irby's throat while her two little girls, who werE awfully frightened and crying. werE looking on. Paschall then dragged the body o Mrs. Irby to the woodpile and kncek ed her In the head with the axe hE found there. George Hart then goe on to say that he and his brothe William also knocked Mrs. Irby In thi head with the axe. Then, he says all three of the black fiends assault Ied Mrs. Irby, who was then barel: alive. The three black fiends thei left the body at the woodpile. Tb' two little girls had run off and hid or they would have been murderei by the black fiends to hide thei crime. They were found later in bel t their father as described above. Wi!inm Hart and Robert Paschal rhny that they had any connectio1 with the crime, but it is stated tha Mrs. rbys little five-year-old gir reonized the Hart fiends at th ime her mother was killed. Thr -o. the dogs traced the Hart fiend r~adily to a house where they wet -;found in bed and just as rearlily trat -d -APasebaell. Tbe three fiends at you'ng negroes, all apparently uinde -20 years of age. George says that h s only 16 and that his brother is on ,.a hi senor. All three are dar EXTENDS FARMERS' TIM SMITH GETS AMEXDMENT T( CURRENCY BILL. Caucus Approves South Carolinian's Provision to Meet Planters' Need for Long Time Loans. Following the line of thought de veloped in his recent speech upon the floor of the' Senate on the pending currency bill, Senator Smith of South Carolina Wednesday night in the Democratic caucus insisted that the farmers should have a six months note upon which federal reserve notes might be issued. He continued the fight Thursday, and succeeded in securing a majority of the Demo cratic senators to back him up in his fight in behalf of an amendment to the currency bill which he has pre pared and which is as follows: "Provided, That notes, drafts and bills drawn or issued for agricultural purposes having a maturity not ex ceeding six months may be discount ed in an amount to be limited to a percentage of the capital of the fed eral reserve bank to be ascertained and fixed by the federal reserve board." This amendment, which was adopt ed by the caucus Thursday night, will be offered upon the floor of the Sen ate and will be 'incorporated in the new banking law. Senator Smith, of course, is very much gratified at the outcome of his labors. Thursday night he said: "This amendment puts the farm ers where thier business is recogniz ed as of equal importance In the financial system of the country with the prime commercial papers of other business, such as the notes, drafts and bills of merchants, miners and those of the so-called business world. Under the terms of this provision, farmers' notes, bills and drafts, is sued for agricultural purposes, are available at the reserve, bank for a note issue on the same footing as pro vided for a 90-day paper. "In other words, in a case of money stringency or panic threaten ed, this paper can .be used for deposit with the regional bank and upon it federal reserve notes may be issued for the purpose of meeting the emer gency. Thus you will see, It puts the farmers' notes, bills and drafts upon exactly the same footing, as an asset upon wM'' capital may be realized by the farmers, as the prime commer cial paper of the other branches of business in the financial world, and for a period of six months." After the caucus adjourned, Sen ator Owen, in charge of the bill, sasid that in accordance with the resofu tion submitted by Senator Smith and his plea for it In the caucus that the committee has now reconsidered sec tion 13 and will accept the amend ment quoted above. brown in complexion. Not one of them appears to be very much wor ried over his situation and as soon as carried in to the Richmond county jail each went to sleep and was hard to awaken for breakfast. The Augusta Herald says the story of the crime for which the three ne groes are held and the thrilling race wvhich the officers had across three counties to get them out of the reach of mobs of outraged citizens is one of the most horrible and thrilling stories ever heard In Augusta. The awful crime was committed on a quiet Sun day afternoon while the husband was away and Mrs. Irby was at her home with her two little children. The neighborhood had always been a quiet and orderly one and the father left his children and the husband his wife without any thought of Impend ing danger. But the fiends were lurking near. It was about 4 o'clock when the black fiends made their dastardly and inexpressibly brutal attack on a de fenceless woman who was in a deli cate condition and in no manner pre pared for a shock of any kind. In the horrible confession of George Hart he mentions nothing about Mr. Irby owing them 50e. Indeed, they went to the house for an entirely different purpose. They murdered Mrs. Irby and assaulted her and left and when the shades of evening had fallen and the husband and father came home he found that instead of the usual cheerful fire there were only a few live coals left and the house was (lark. The necks of such fiends should be cracked as soon as possible. All Three Confess. The Augusta Chronicle of Wednes day said martial law was declared off in Waynesboro Tuesday morning about 4 o'clock; the militia, by its prompt action, kept the forming mob away from the Burke county jail even after the three negro prisoners had been spirited away; one of the most intensely exciting nights in the history of Burke county had passed, and entire quietude followed. Tues day tne town was normal. William and George Hart and Rob ert Pasch all, the three murderers of young Mrs. Jefferson Irby, near -Wrens, are in the Richmond county jail; have confessed the crime, and are beyond the possible reach of an intensely impassioned public cover ing more than the territory of twc counties. In most unthinkable details the negroes have told a story of bestial ity and blood-thirst; twice denyini 1 their confessions and later going intc the minute particulars of the trag tedy in the presence of witnesses. Essentially, the details of the story as told Tuesday morning conform tc the confessions of the negroes, ex cept that the later word picture add a horror to it all. Mrs. Irby's brain1 . ws battered out by the three ne e roes, each taking his turn with thi r ae. after which she was abused and finally her throat was slashed with e butcher knife by one of tlie Hart ne ~ groe DENOUNCES ELIHU ROOT 'CARTER GLASS CRITICISES NEW YORK REPUBLICAN Replies to Charges, Declaring That Currency Bill Now in Congress is Far From Hodgepodge of Errors. Representative Carter Glass, chair man of the house committee on bank ing and currency in an address deliv ered at Richmond, Va., Tuesday night warmly defended the administration currency bill against the "greenback ism" and "flat money" charge launch ed by Senator Root in the' senate on Saturday and retal'ated with a sharp attack on Senator Root. "On the floor of the United States senate last Saturday," said Mr. Glass, 'Senator Root of New York charac terized the measure as "greenbackism run mad," and unacquainted with the subject which he undertook to dis cuss, he described it as proposing a return to the reserve issues of 1896. "I take it that the duty of a sen ator to preserve the public from na tional harm is m'ore than overbalanc ed by his moral obligation never to sound a false alarm and never to I permit himself to be deflected from the path of strict truth to gain a point of vantage. And. yet he did , sound a false alarm and sounded it 3 upon information which he himself j admits he secured second hand from 2 another senator. "When to one's reputation is add- t ed his renown as a great lawyer and his fame as an international states man, and the subject involved relates to the tender fabric of national cred- 9 it, when such a man trifles with a subject of this moment he is guilty ] not only of grave indiscretion, but of downright treason to his country." C 'All that I have said of Frank A. L Vanderlip," said Mr. Glass, summing t up a sharp reply to the statements JJ made by the New York banker, "may C' be accentuated and applied to Mr. % Root. God alone knows how men t who understand the currency bill so t little as to charge it with greenback- P3 ism have ever gained control of banks C with a capital of $25,000,000 or have I ever attained to a seat in the United t States senate." a a THIRTY-EIGHT KILLED. c h c Bodies Mangled and Burned by Colo- 1 rado Mine Explosion. t 0: Thirty-eight men were killed Tues- n day by an explosion of coal dust in -p the Vulcan mine of the Rocky Moun- b tamn Fuel company. Two miners were t rescued after the underground work ings had caught fire. All the victims d were married, and all but six or eight c were Americans. Men in charge of b the rescue work asserted that it c probably would be a day or two be- e fore the bodies could be recovered. t Before sundown the mine had been t cleared of gas and a thorough ex-|t ploration of the wrecked workings j was made. Many of the bodies were| mangled and burned. je The Vulcan mine was only about a c year old and was equipped with mod-C en safety devices. It is believed the i explosion was caused by an accumu-| lation of dust in the west portion ofr the mine, where work practically had ja been abandoned. Most of the dead ji were found in the east workings, to which the explosion was communicat-t ed. This fall the employees were call ed out on strike by the United Mine Workers of America, but some ofa them had gone back to work. The i other victims of the disaster wered strike-breakers. PRESIDENT WTHDRAWS. Wilson Shows Resentment at Caraboa lt Society Jests. President Wilson Monday night|C formally withdrew his recent accept-| f ance of honorary membership in the|3 Military Order of the Cartboa, com-|t posed of regular and volunteer offi- jc cers of the army and navy who serv-| t ed in the Philippine islands during| I the four years succeeding the Span-| I ish-American war. Earlier in the jt day the president had ordered an 1n- c vestigation of varIous satires and travesties on the administration's j policy toward the Philippines as por- x trayed at a banquet of the order last i Thursday night. It was made plain at the White I House that while general burlesque t of the adninistration's peace policy I and thrusts at Secretary Bryan and others were deeply resented because c they came from army and navy off cers. the chief objection was to thea spirit of hostility shown to Philip-c pine independence as the problem is being worked out by the present ad ministration. Negro Kills Another Negro. H athaway Cox, a young negro, shot I and .killed another negro, in lower< Brownsville, Marlboro county, Thurs day night. It is said that the two( negroes got in a dispute over a card I game and some liquor. Jackson was at the home of Cox when the shoot Ing occurred. Robbery in Chester. The store of J. W. Bankhead & Son, at Stover, Chester county, was broken Into and robbed Sunday even-1 ug. It is generally understood that the thief got off with considerable booty. Killed Aged Mother. Because his aged mother did not respond promptly to his request for a cup of coffee. Paul Falcon, of Donald sonville, Fla., Saturday shot her. Shot by Mistake. Alfred Widemar Jr., aged 26, ef t Elko, who was mistaken for a robber by a night watchman several weeks: ago and snot, died in Augusta Mon-J iRACE HTS ANGY 1HILE . BEFORE COMITTEE ON WHALEY CONTEST IFFERS TO FIGHT POST 3race's Methods Displeases Demo crats on the Committee, and He is Warned by Members-Grace Says Many Votes Had Been Bought for Blease in His Fight for Be-election. The Washington correspondent of rhe News and Courier says: Re eated clashes between Mayor John ?. Grace, of Charleston, and Chair nan Post, of the House elections ommittee, which is considering the rotest filed with Speaker Clark gainst the seating of Representative . S. Whaley, characterized the hear ng held Monday by the committee to ive Mayor Grace an opportunity to ebut the evidence submitted by the ongressman In reply to the evidence reviously put on record by the aayor. Chairman Post often stopped Mr. race's line of questioning or discus on, or told him not to argue, or ob ected to the prompting of witnesses. Lt one time the statements of the hairman with regard to a conversa Ion which Mr. Grace had with him bout the conduct of the case were .irectly contradicted by the mayor, rho beligerently suggested that the uestion of whose word was best ould very easily be settled outside of he committee room. Mayor Grace appeared before the ommittee with two witnesses, John ; Cosgrove, who took nearly all of he original Grace affidavits, and C. . Bresnihan, who had assisted in se ring some of them. He put these tnesses on the stand in rebuttal of he Whaley affidavits charging that e Grace affidavits were improperly rocured and unworthy of credence. osgrove made a better witness than resnihan, but on the whole their mtimony, subjected to the cross-ex- t mination of the chairman, did not em to Impress the majority of the )mmittee. Cosgrove said-at first that e had not been Influenced by any ,nsideration of employment in tak- C ig the affidavits, and later admitted E it he was regularly employed In the t Mfice of Logan & Grace at $100 a Lonth. He admitted that he was 1 ersonally unacquainted with a num- x er of the: men whose affidavits he .1 )ok. I Bresnihan was several times called C own for answers which impressed i )mmitteemen as impertinent. Once ( e was admonished for prompting i osgrove. He admitted that he was a C ity employee. Cosgrove said that ie blind tiger situation in Charles mn was a violation of the statutes, c ut declared that It was inherited by t [ayor Grace from Congressman 7maley's brother-in-'- ", Mr. Rhett. 'e questions of the s..airman of the 1 ommttee and of Representatives< risp, of Georgia, and Stephens, of [ississippi, who did most of the Ques-2 oning for the majority of the corn ittee, indicated a decided failure to t pprove of the Grace policy of deal ig with the liquor problem. The two Republican members oft ae committee plainly showed sym-1 athy with the Grace side of the case, nd did all they could to encourage s sponsors. Several times it appear-1 1 probable that the committee would irect Mayor Grace to leave, becauseI f the objections of Democratic corn-1 itteemen to his method of state ent as a lawyer and as a witness,1 ut the stormy session was broughtt y a close without the threatened ob-< action. Mayor Grace tools the stand after osgrove and Bresnlihan had testi ed. He made a bitter attack on Mr. Thaley and some of Whaley's rebut a1 witnesses; defended his own ourse and likened himself in his sit ation before the committee to Christ efore Pilate. He did not deny that e had himself bought votes, and said at no jury could be made to convict n the charge of vote-buying in his tate. He said that Hughes had pent more than $40,000 In his fight rith Whaley for the nomination and dmitted that he would not have sub 1tted a protest to Congress If [ughes had won. When pressed as o his reasons for this distinction, the ayor acknowledged that he regard d Whaley as a perjurer and a hypo It was brought out while Mr. Grace vas on the stand that he had endeav red in vain to induce Senator Till san and various members of the outh Carolina delegation in the louso to take the initiative In mov g for an Investigation of Mr. Whal y's right to his seat. Members of he committee laid' stress in their uestonng on the character of the itnesses~ from whom the Grace affi avits were obtained, expressing sur prise that there were not among them any professional men or merchants, armers or manufacturers. Mr. Grace admitted that he had spent large sums of money in his own ocal campaigns, and declared that, nany votes had been bought for 31ease in the latter's fight for re-elec ion. The mayor said that the peo le of Charleston and South Carolina, iad become accustomed to corruptionI n primary campaigns and that an .ppeal to the local courts in such a :ase as this would have been useless. de declared at one point of the hear ng that "the most terrific conditIOns hat ever existed on the face of the barth exist in Charleston to-day". The mayor complained several mes that the committee had not reated him fairly. Mr. Bryan, coun el for Congreusman Whaley, made 1 reply in behalf of hit client to the ,mpauioned speeches of Mayor Grace, ayng at the close of tire session that1 aotling ha 'en addnhed against the HAD NO STATE LIENSE WEALTHY HUNTERS SPORT ID GEORGETOWN COUNTRY. State Game Warden Gets in Behin( Them, but They Take Special Trair Out of the State. Isaac E. Emerson, the "Bromc Seltzer King", who owns a hunting preserve In Georgetown county, tool his party of wealthy northerners ou of the State on a special train Sun dap afternoon when Chief Game War den A. A. Richardson got in behind them for hunting without licenses, according to information given out Tuesday by Mr. Richardson, who had just returned to Columbia from Georgetown, where he said one of the party, George W. Ewing, of Balti more, Md., was dismissed on a tech nicality at a hearing before a magis trate for bunting in the State with out a license. According to a statement from Chief Game Warden Richardson, he Bent his assistant, Mr. Funder.burk, to Georgetown county to look over the situation when he felt that there were not as many non-resident hunt ing licenses being reported from that county as he was certain there should be. Deputy Funderburk reached Georgetown on Thursday and found be states, that Millionaire Emerson was entertaining a party of wealthy tourists, none of whom had licenses as far as he could ascertain. Deputy Funderburk went out to "Arcadia", the magnificent country estate of Millionaire Emerson, which Is located on Waccamaw Neck five miles from Georgetown. When he reached there he found Mr. Emerson and his guests just returning from a kunt and he ascertained that the fol towing made up.the party: George W. Ewing, M. Henry, Mrs. Bettie W. Ewing, Mrs. Annie Emer on and Mrs. Margaret Vanderbilt, ll of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Ethel WCormick, of New York, all wealthy Lnd well known tourists, and Isaac E. Emerson, the owner of the place. )eputy Funderburk says he ascer ained from the clerk of the court hat only Mr. Emerson had a license when he demanded to see their ii enses. He then telephoned Chief ,ame Warden A. A. Richardson, at olumbia, who instructed him to take put warrants for the men !i the party Lnd to tell the ladies the law required hem to have licenses. Deputy Funderburk had talked ith Mr. George W. Ewing when he net the party at "Arcadia", as they ere returning from the hunt and be ng certain only of his name, swore ut a warrant charging him with untng without a license in South larolina. In company with the sher ff of Georgetown they went to the ountry estate of Mr. Emerson on aturday and arrested Mr.'Ewing on aturday morning. Mr. Emerson ae ompanying them back to George own. The sheriff and Deputy Funder mr had made the trip to the coun ry estate of Mr. Emerson in the fish :ommssioner's boat, the "Nancy", Lnd when they were starting back dr. Emerson asked how fast the 'Nancy" could travel On being told ;en miles per hour, he ordered his nen to bring out his racing boat, the 'Arcadia", capable of running nine ;een miles an hour, and the party were soon In Georgetown, where Mr. wing was put under sufficient bond ; await the arrival of Chief Game Varden Richardson. Owing to the train schedules, Mr. tichardson did not reach Georgetown mntil Mor day morning and when he rrived he found only Mr. George W. swing, and said that he discovered hat Mr. Emerson liad ordered a spe al train on Sunday evening and had eturned north with his other guests ;hat night. N~EGRO DIFFICULTY. Whiskey and Concealed Pistols Cause Tragedy in Chesterfield. Three Lancaster county negroes, Bob Robinson, Ellison Threatt and ~rnest White, while returning Sun lay night from a church in Chester leld county, became engaged in a lifficulty on the Chesterfield side of :he river, near the Lancaster line, with the result that Ernest White was shot to death by Ellison Threatt. heriff Hunter of Lancaster, who Lappened to be in the neighborhood, :aptured Threatt and turned him ver to a magistrate's constable in hesterfield county. Sheriff Hunter states than the trouble was over whis iey and pistols, the dead negro hay ing two on his person and the other two, one each. Congresman except hearsay, and that the committee needed no argu ment as to the value of that sort of evidence. Elections Committee No. 1, of the House of Representatives. Tuesday rated, 7 to 2, to dismiss the charges filed with the Speaker by Mayor John P. Grace. of Charleston, against Con* gressman R. S. Whaley. One Demo crat and a Republican voted for an Investigation, while two Progressives voted with the majority Democrats. Battleships Home Again. The United States battleships Wyo ming, Arkansas, Utah and Florida returning from visits of courtesy tc various European ports reached New York Monday. -Two Children Perish. Two small negro children were burned to death in a fire which de strayed their house near Sumter early Monday morning. Unfinished Pier Burns. Clyde Line pier No. 2, which wa! undergoing construction at Charles ton was Monday destroyed by fire, en ailng a $20,000 loss. ilAS LNUhli VQ'iL STRENGiTH SHOWN ir I;UIENCT BILL oN FIRST TE '-. CENTRAL BANK KILLED Administration Measure Meets eere Test In Senate, But Democrats Table Hitchcock's Amendment to Pat One Institution In Control of Monetary System. Victory for. the aministration forces in the irst test of strength on the Zurreney reform bill marked Monday's session of the Senate. The vote, 40 to 35, tabled a substitute offered by Senator Hitchcock for Seo tion 2 of the administration bill, pro posing a system of four regional banks, with a possible Increase to. eight,. the regional banks' stock to le owned by the public. The defeat of the amendment prac tically assured the adoption of the Owen plan, which provides for from 8 to 12 regional bank, with the stock owned by. the national banks that become members of the respec tive regional banks. The Democratli leaders claimed that the result of the test vote, involving one of the most important features of te Ight,Ind cated the complete success of the ad ministration measure. Efforts to get an agreement for a time to begin final -vote on the bill were not successful, but leaders on both sides of the chamber looked for ward to an early termination of. the debate and for final action before the end of the week. When. the Hitch cock substitute had been tabled, Sen ator Reed made a speech vigorously defending the Owen bill and replying to Senator Root, who on Saturday at tacked the measure and called Secre tary Bryan "the dominating in fluence" behind the proposed- new - currency system. Replying directly to Senator Root's predictions that undue inflation and a financial panic might ensue If the currency bill were passed in its pres ent form, Senator Reed declared no -inflation of the currency could occur unless the "sound 'money men who. run the banks" brought It about. "This is workable bill," he declar ed. "It is not surcharged with de struction to business. If added checks ought to be put in, I, for one, am willing to put them in. But the sen ator from New York spent his time telling of the dire things that would happen to business and spent but lit tle time explaining his own proposed amendments. "No one has the right to undertake to alarm the business interests where there is no just cause for It. I doubt the high patriotism of the man who will stand here and cry 'Wolf, wolf,' where there is no wolf." Senator . Reed said a "typewritten document" proposing Senator Root for the presidency had been prepared and given to the press before he made his speech. '"It 'is not difficult then to understand why the secretary of state was brought in," he added. "When the voice of ambition Is call ing to higher honors, it Is not diffi cult to understand that men will sometimes let their interests~ over come their spirit of fairness and can dor. "If we ever have inflation of the currency bill, it will be caused by the bankers of the country and by no one else. This proposed federal reserve board can not put out $1 of addi tional currency until there has been a call made upon it by the regions whose boards will be controlled by 'the sound money men' who run the - national banks." Senator Hitchcock made. a sharp attack on the proposed control of the regional reserve banks by the bank ing interests of the country. He de clared .this feature. of the bill would turn the country reserve to the_use of these bankers and would legalize the methods and the combination of control, against which the country has long -protested. KILLING ON BEECH ISLA-ND. Negro Kills White Man by Crushing in His Skull. Early Sunday morning Rural Po liceman Holley : brought to Alken Daniel Berry, colored, charged with the killing of a white man by the name of Minus McElmurray. ThE killing occurred on Beech Island Sat urday night. It seems that a wagon load of people were returning from Augusta. all said to .be in a drunken condition. McElmurraywa~s along, and got into a fuss with Berry. The negro struck the white man over the head twice with an iron pipe, crushing his skull. McElmurray lay down in the wagon then and was put out at Dob son's store where he soon died. Feared Mob Violence. Posses Monday night searched the surrounding country about .Stanville, Ga., in the hope of finding the negro who attacked a white woman in her home. When found she had been choked into insensibility. Violence was expected if the criminal was ap prehended. Told Them to Move Out. Fifteen feudal enemies of the Col lins family of Old Horton, Mo., rode Into the village Sunday and burned four houses, severely beating the in mates. The Collins were warned to leave on pain of death. Spaniards at El Paso. The Spanish colony in El Paso, augmented by the 320 refugees ex pelled from Chihuahua, now aggre gates more than 400, and many more -iare expected from remote rau-ches l and mines.