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8 H BD FARMER ^ v 2Hi Ank Committee Hears Pleas for Anti-Option Bills. j^llBLING IN FUTURES Pntllrat Brooks' ,of the Farmers TTllion, and Mr. Lewis W. Parker, Appear Before Committee on Agriculture in BchnJf of Bills Intended w> t'revi'iic ii. "This question Involves hundreds of millions of dollars and the welfare of millions of people,' declared T. J. Brooks, of Atwood, Tenn., president of the Farmers' National Union In opening the hearing on the antidptlon bills before the House committee on agriculture at Washington on Wednesday. The proposed legislation Is designed to prohibit dealings In futures on boards of trade and exchanges. The committee room was crowded with Congressmen from the States interested. Mr. Brooks declared that dealings In futures of cotton were no more necessary than In wheat and wool and farm implement. Hedging operA ations "on change" he characterized as no different from gambling on the rise and fall of priceB. "On what moral principles," he asked, "is one class of citizens obliged to make up for the losses of another class, for whore one gains another must lose? The original intention of the cotton exchange to bring the buyer and seller together has been eliminated In the development of present exchange practices. "We are willing to abide by the results of abolished futures," he Baid depicting the temptations held out to the prospective victims who later "come into the <game" and get "frozen out." He declared the exchanges aggravated the natural situations and denied that they tended to steady prices. He believed that "suckers inw uui 1111 ueuu ana uy way or corroboration he read newspaper reviews of sculping markets, sudden declines and "things done in the dark" to affect prices. Under the shadow of the exchanges competition among local buyers had been eliminated in the South, he said, and he charged the existence of a tacit understanding in the cotton and tobacco belts for division of territory. The farmers' union which Mr. Brooks represents, has a membership extending over 29 States. Mr. Lewis W. Parker, one of the biggest mill men in the South, contended that abnormal conditions ought to be represented in spot cotton and contract cotton at the same time. He said that as a rule futures control spot cotton. He declared that the exchanges are not of advantage, either to the consumer or the producer and that it seemed impossible to make the exchanges realize the fairness of the complaints against them. He said the fight of his interests is to have the farmers properly warehouse their cotton and to market it gradually during the seaBon. He described Englishmen as chary of speculation in futures, that the Liverpool cotton exchange is not used by the English for speculation and that the American speculate on Liverpool to affect prices. Mr. Parker declared that in the position the American spinners occupied toward the exchanges, the En gush spinners stood with the American spinners. "Don't you think that we would have a picnic in buying cotton if exchanges were abolished," Mr. Parker was asked. "We would abide by the results," he answered. "The absence of exchanges would revolutionize the character ot the present business. We would readjust our business. There would be no difficulty in effecting re' * adjustment. I recommend regulation of the exchanges. I would make the exchanges responsive to spot conditions." "Has the cotton producer this year realized through speculation more than ho would have without speculation?" "Yes," replied Mr. Parker, "but this is an exceptional year; nothing like it in the memory of spinners. It is the first time we have had 15 cent cotton since I have been in business." George W. Neville, an important factor in the New York cotton exchange, arraned the report of Commissioner of rv?.p ? ? wmi i>uiuiiuiih rteroeri Knox Smith as a "masterpiece of theory," but lacking in practibility in the working out of his theories. Declaring that he had been selling spot cotton to the mills for twenty years and that he had found 90 per cent, of the spinners were bears, Charles S. Webb, a broker, contended Tor the necessity of "hedging" ngainst future deliveries and predicted that abolishment of the cotton exchanges would put the price of cotton in the hands of spinners. Mr. Webb argued that abolition of future dealings would depress the price *of cotton. It's better to have a foolish belie! that comforts you than a wise one that pains you. , i rT.iWWKn"n*w ?. ismr r?w - # POPE'S NARROW VIEW ~ DECLINES TO RECKHT3 FORMER J VICE-PRESIDENT Because He Had Accepted Invitation ( to Speak in the Methodist Church at Rome. The visit to Rome of Charles W. 1 Fairbanks, former Vice-President of , the United States, brought about a very delicate situation owing to the fact that he wished to pay his re- a I spects to the king, the Pope an 1 the ' American Methodist Church. Inci- i dents of this kind are not infrequent, and extreme care has been exercised c I I... . V. ---< it-- - ? uj inusr ii(Mixi iviiuiii me arrangement 1 of the audience falls, in order to 1 1 avoid offending the susceptibilities s on either side. c Hy a tactful arrangement Mr. Fairbanks' audience with King Vic- ' tor Emmanuel was fixed for Saturday s and that with the Pop- for Monday, 8 and when everything seemed satis1 afctorily planned, the vatic*.i sud- f denly announced that it would be ' impossible for His Holiness to receive the former Vice-President if he car- y ried out his announced intention to n speak in the American Methodist church, because the American Metn- 1 odlsts had been active in proselyting 1 among the Catholics. n Negotiations were Immediately begun wth a view of avoiding any un- ( pleasantness, and in these negotia- * tions prominent Vatican oillclals took ' part. Mr. Fairbanks finally declared s that although he wns animated by a strong desire to pay his respects to the head of the Catholic Church, he * oould not withdraw from his promise to deliver an address before the American Methodist Church. Monsignor Kennedy, rector of the American college, gave a dinner at noon in honor of Mr. Fairbanks. The hall was decorated with American flags. Among those present were 144 American students, the largest body of Americans that has ever attended o , the institution. t At the American Methodist Church Mr. Fairbanks' address acquired exceptional importance because of the 1 incident with the Vatican, and it Is C looked upon as his final answer to the conditions imposed upon him rel- .1 ative to his audience with the Popo. o During the course of this addreBB. s he said: r "It Is impossible to emphasize too C strongly the good work the Christian o ?V. .. t- -1 _ f ?- * * - " kuuiuu ib uouig m hii lands and r amongst all nationalities. It Is grat- d Ifylng that the American churches ? established In all countries are asserting a wider Influence today than I ever in their history. t "All Christian churches are worthy a of support. They above all should he Inspired by a generous tolerant spirit K towards each other. Nothing is more a unseemly than the narrow jealousies which they occasionally manifest to- F ward each other. There is room for h all. Cease the narrow denominational $ wars and direct your energies toward t< the common enemy. Let the Cath olics and the Protestants of all de- n nominntions vie In carrying forward s the work of the Master, which is A worthy of the best In them all." S1 S CLARK AN1) JONES. n p 1 tl \\ ill He Prosecuted for Conspiracy y to Defraud. W. A. Clark and Wilie Jones, of Columbia, presidents of the two lead- y ing banking institutions of South Carolina, are to be indicted on a charge of consuiracy to defraud. The announcement was made Friday by -y Dr. E. J. Etheredge, chairman of the v board of receivers. *, Oen. Jones state that he had been nuiiicuuilK "I tni8 Kind, () "for any hysterical stockholder of j( any corporation can with shrewd ti lawyers cause a lot of trouble," said 0 Gen. Jones. "However, I am Innocent t in my motives and I invite rather (] than defy examination of my record." jj Dr. Ktheredge stated that every person connected with tho Seminole company would be prosecuted?with oiio exception, Thos. B. Bryan, one r of the trustees. He would give no (j further information. 0 It Rejected Suitor Homicidal. jj Near Tylertown, Miss., George n Walker, a negro farmer, was Bhot h and killed, his oldest daughter, fat- tj ally wounded and three others of his ' family seriously, two of them per- a Ifaps fatally, injured by Sylvester Beardon, a yound negro, late Friday. Walker's rerusal to let one of his (laughters marry Beardon led to the j latter's attack. I, * * ? f< Killed Himself. tl Tho Augusta Chronicle says th it n a few moments after he had pent) ;J c< the words: "I have no excuse what- tl soever. Old John Barleycorn is the r?( cause," W. W. He-ems, connected with pj "Thft Cat and the Fiddle" Theafrl cal Company, went to a suicide's grave in his room Tuesday night. * m * hi Horning of an Old Church. a Erected one hundred and four d( years ago, the First Methodist Church in of Sparta, Ga., was destroyed by Are hi Wednesday afternoon. A piano and in a memorial slab to Bishop Pierce was fe 'saved. ^ pi i HANGED FOR ASSAULT 'WO FIENDS EXECUTED LEGALLY FOR THE CRIME. )ne of Them Had to Be Held Up While the Noose Was Adjusted About His Neck. Convicted of assault. George Rey>lds and John Williams, were hang,,l oinillttnn nnnol.. I.. Ulo louri. Their execution marked the irst time the death pehalty has been nfllcted in that state for this crime. The negroes on the night of Deseniebr 23. 1909, attacked Mrs. W. J. Jackson, a violinist, who was reurning home from a charitable intitution, where she had given a conert. Reynolds collapsed a few hours beore the execution and it was necesary to carry him upon the trap in i chair. When the chair was removed he ell limp upon the trap door, moanng ?piteouBly. Williams, who had been known for ears as a desperate character, retrained composed. The evidence brought out at the rial was so horrifying that Judge talph S. Latshaw, in sentencing the egro said: "I shall not desecrate Friday, the ay on which legal hangings usually ake place, by ordering your execuion on that day. There is at least a park of manhood left in almost evry man executed by the State. But here is no manhood in either of ou." Mrs. Jackson's husband wUnassed he hangings. ASPARAGUS RAT MS KK1U CMI? iower Shipping Charges to Eastern Points. Senator Tillman, who is a grower f asparagus himself, has been in ouch since last October with the xpress companies in regard to a new ariff on that vegetable from South Carolina points to Northern markets. When he came to Washington in anuary he enlisted the co-operation f the Inter-State commerce commls Ion, and at a conference with the epresentatives of the AdamB Express !ompany the whole subject was thorughly gone over and the following ates were agreed upon for the stanard 24-bunch crate, estimated with weight of sixty pounds. From South Carolina Points?To loston, $1.25; Pittsburg, $1.15; llalImore. 95c; New York, $1.05; Phildelphia, $1; Washington, 90c. A glance at the following table, iving the old rates, will show what reduction has been made: From South Carolina Points?To (oston, $1.80; Pittsburg, $1.65; lew York, $1.50; Philadelphia. 1.35; Baltimore, $1.05; Waahing:>n $1.05. Everything in connection with the egotiations has been pleasant and enator Tillman expresses his gratleatlon at the liberality and friendly pirit shown by both the Adams and outhern Express companies. These ew rates will go into efTect on Feb. 5, 1910, and will give the growers tio benefit of the reduction on this ear's crop. LEANS FROM CAB iiul Is Killed by the Engine of Passing Train. Albert Winne of Rennsellaer, N. engineer on the Adirondack and fontreal express was killed in his ab at Little Falls early Friday morntig. Engineer Winne was leaning ut of the window examining a hot ournal which had attracted his attention and did not see the approach f an east bound train. The locomoive struck him in the head, knockng him from the cab and killing him astantly. Child Fatally Iluriitd. A most deplorable accident occured at Lumberton, N .C., on Satur-4 ay when the little 2-year-old child r Mr. and Mrs. Roger Collins, was urned to death. It seems that the Ittle tot was playing out in the field, ear a burning brush-heap and someow escaped notice by its parents un11 it was seen running down one of he furrows, with its clothes all flame. Pnvs Ki ni> A dispatch from Laurens says T. Kincaifl, the young nevvsltfcher who was arrested Tuesday >r selling whiskey on train No. 1 on le Charleston and Western Carolina liiroad, plead guilty in the mayor's >urt and was sentenced to pay a no of $.">0, or serve 30 days on the junty ohalngang. The young man aid the fine and was released. Peculiar Heath. Mose McKevit, a negro, died at his ome near Gree, on Tuesday night as result of an injury received wl.'.ie awn in a well. McKevit was down i the well cleaning it out, when a g heavy tub or bucket used in haulg mud and water to the surface, ill back from the top after being liled up and his head was crushed.* ) COUNTRY SCHOOLS WILL SOON HAVE SPECIAL SUP- S EKVISION BY A State Superintendent of Elementary I Rural Schools, Who Will Be Prof. W. K. Tute, of Charleston. The State says the department of education is soon to receive a strong addition by the appointment of W. K. Tate, assistant superintendent at Charleston, to the position of State supervisor of elementary rural schools. This position is made possible by the liberality of the Peabodv board and the Southern education board. The establishment of city and State systems of public education was for many years the great aim of the trustees administering the will of George Peabody, who in 1S67 gave $.1,500,000 to the cause of public education in the South. Next in order the Peabody undertook to foster normal schools in the fourteen Southern States. The great work accomplished in South Carolina by the Winthrop Traning School, now Winthrop College, has been liberally supported by this board, and the recent endowment of $1,000,000 set aside for the George Peabody College for Teachers at Nashville forcibly emphasizes the purpose and practice which the trustees have consistently followed. The latest experiment introduced by Dr. WycklifTe Rose, agent of the Peabody board, is a direct effort to improve school conditions in remote country districts. This work has proved so successful in Virginia and North Carolina that the board has dee rated it wise to introduce it also into South Carolina. A trained school man will be associated directly with the State department of education and will devote all his time and energy to the lural school of the State. The man selected for the work iB ?t-n kuuwu 10 ine proression In every county. Coming to South Carolina ? upon the invitation of Julian Mitchell 1 at that time chairman of the board *' of commissioners of the city schools c of Charleston, Prof. Tate 1b thorough- c ly identified with the educational in- v lereats. His work in the Memminger J1 school, in several State summer " schools, and on the State board of education is well known and fully ? appreciated thoroughout the State. e He is the retiring president of the ? State Teachers' Association and at l) the recent meeting in Columbia made R a forceable presentation of the con- 1 nection between education and good citizenship. P When first approached with the of- j' fer of the position as State super- " visor of elementary rural schools, he a made this characterises reply: "A v man with frontier blood in his viens is irresistibly attracted by the diPlculties and manifold opportunities of w this new work." Prof. Tate will do" ^ lecture work in the university and r perhaps at Winthrop College. It is probable that the trustees of the university will make him professor of elementary education, thus giving Cl the students in the pedagogical de- c' partment the benefit of his ability Sl and experience in their preparation r for active duty in the school room. " The girls at Winthrop will also he ? afforded a like opportunity to hear e Prof. Tate's lectures, if bis duties in ? the country schools do not require all c of his time. t( The thanks of the educational department aro directly due to Dr. Rose and Gov. Ansel for securing a irum mo reanody board an appropriation of $2,700 for this work, and Dr. S. C. Mitchell for his assistance in securing $1,000 additional from the Southern educational hoard. These appropriations will enable the State supervisor of elementary rural schools to visit nny community with- a out Imposing any expense whatever t| upon trustees, teachers or superln- ^ tendents. His work 's intended to ^ reach communities unable to secure j skilled supervision and suggestions j, in school improvement. Prof. Tato t| will enter actively upon his new work p during the coming summer, and is j to be the right arm of the State department of education. The development of this work in the hands of Prof. Tnte recalls the ^ great service already rendered South , Carolina by the trustees of the Pea- r body board. In 1878 Dr. Sears, the j first general agent of this board, made possible the adoption of the school law formulated by Hugh S. Thompson, and his colleagues. Three years later he also brought to South " Carolina Dr. Edward S. Joynes, pro- tv fessor emeritus of modern languages o! In the university. In 1880 the Win- 1,1 throp training school was founded by Dr. I). H. Johnson, with the as- ai sistance of that great educational V( | pioneer. Dr. J. L. M. Curry. In 1010 r> I)r. Wycllke Rose, the third agent of the board, has made possible this work for the too-long neglected country schools, and in giving to South Carolina the services of Prof. Tate he has placed his finger upon In the weakest link in the school system Iof the State. hi ? ? a There is no room to doubt the H1 quality of Brother Fairbank s backbono, whatever may be said al>out his 'r politics. ? fr A man thinks he can control othera when he can't control himself. wl * * ' ( NEW COUNTY LAW .TATE SENATE PASSES A VERY RADICAL BILL. ' t Relates to the KxjH'nses of Formr Inj; New Counties and Who Should Pay Them. The passage of Senator Harvey's r >111 to require the proponents of new ounties to pay the expenses o". st.rreys. elections, etc., caused h ficht n the senate Wednesday morning. A notion to strike out the enacting vords was made when the bill was :alled and Senator Harvey, the auhor, defended his bill with vigor ind earnestness. ' The Senator from Berkeley said < hat if thev had to n?v io many ambitions new county ailvo- < ates would not spring up, as is the ase now. He continues that with the t inancial obligations of attending to I urveys and elections, attending an t ffort to secure a new county the c .dvocates would think and lieBltate c >efore rushing into the attempt. i Senator Montgomery favored the s till, giving the case of Marion and t he recent "run-in" with Dillon. The enator from Marion said that his s ounty is now confronted with a debt C f $10,000, half of which will have C o be made by the old county, and J lie amount represents the expenses a f the formation of Dillon county, t rhich hurt Marion and which it will (| icverherless have to assist in pay- 1 Qft. '1 Senator Appelt told of a movement a ow on foot in Clarendon to form a t ew county and said that Clarendon t ? now facing a deficit caused by sur- t eys for n'ow counties, which would ossibly have not been made had the ? dvocates been called on to pay the a ills and at any rate the county c roul i not have suffered financially ' ad the present bill under discussion t revailed at the time. t Taking the position that the bill c could do an injustice, Senator Mass n pposed its passage, as did Senator i iates. Senator Graydon favored the t ill. "A microbe lurks in every new I ounty boom," he said, "and the new 1 ounty enthusiasts are not satisfied cith one survey, but insist on others <1 nt 11 their umbitions are finally real- 1 scd." *' Senator Tllack said that his county v f Ilamoerg can not be affected eith- 11 r way, as it contains only a little v ver the 400 square miles required c y the constitution, but that he re- ' ards the bill as a Just one and in hat event would favor it. Senator Harvey again urged the ' assage of the measure, saying that a f the other counties did not desire 1 ts advantages. Berkeley at least was nxious to enjoy the privileges uro- 8 ided for in the bill. Ity an overwhelming vote the mo- a Ion to strike out the enacting words 11 ras lost and the bill passed, and or- " ered sent to the house. The bill " rJ eads: "Section 1. That hereafter when it s ? proposed to form a new county or " d take any portion of an established v ounty and attach same to another 1 Dunty, the county auditor shall aspss on all taxable property in ter- '' itory proposed, to be changed, a stif- s cient tax to meet all the expenses * f surveys, elections and all other ' Q xpenses incident to or arising from r out of any change or proposed hange in the county lines, raid ?ax 3 be collected as taxes are now col cted. g "Section 2. All acts inconsistOT , re hereby repealed." WANTS JKFF DAVIS c n Statuary Hall at Washington or No One At All. . . v v If the legislature of Mississippi f dopts a concurrent resolution, in- h rod need in the senate at Jackson, I" liss., by Senator W. I). Anderson, i' lississippi's niche in the hall of ime at the national capital at Wasliigton will remain vacant until secional feeling has so entirely disap- ^ eared that the statue of Jefferson (avis may be placed there without bjection. Rather than face the on osltion encountered by Virginia in \ tie case of the Robert E. Ixe statue, c tie resolution provides that "Missis- y Ippi's vacant place will l>e a sufli- p lent and a perpetual memory to ? efferson Davis." t n Murder or Suieide. s What may have been a double o uirder, a Consumate suicide pact, or > vo sudden deaths from natunl carsi, was disoovered Monday when the r tidies of William Bohrer, a pros- w srous lapidary, aged 5f> years, and ? ii umaenuried woman, about thirty s< ?ars of ago, were found in a room '' i the wholesale jewelry section of 11 hiladelphia where they had lain for d robably a month. ft ? it Results Fatally. As a result of Injuries received i a three handed fight in the Ited Ight district of Greenville in which s head was battered to n pulp with ' beer bottle, D. Y. Miller, a farmer, fl ring near the Greenville, Pickens b Id Anderson county lines, is dead al om tetanus, lockjaw having set in t* om the wound. Will Foster hits r? en arrested and locked up changed nj Ith the crime. i>i ' DIED IN RIOT lad Liquor and Guns Cause of Fight Between Whites and Blacks TWO OF LATTER KILLED J Hie Ringleaders Among the .V-g.oes Fl?il l"p tli?? River At for the Fight, With ii Sheriff and Posse in Pursuit.?The Fight Occurred Xeur Chattanooga on the Dam Works. A dispatch from Chattanooga says '.wo negroes were killed as the result jf a race riot at the Hales Bar lock ind dam soon after midnight Tuestay. Bad feeling has been brewing for some days between the white and )lack employes of the lock and dam :ontractors, and an assault upon one >f the negro laborers by a number )f white men, coupled with a liberal listribution of bad whiskey and guns imong the negroes. It is said, brought he trouble to a climax. After an exchange of shots between i force of tive policemen sent from Chattanooga, under the direction of Capt. W. M. Durk. Deputy Sheriff doreland of Marion County who had worn in a number of special deputes. and the negroes, the trouble was Ittellcd. None of the white men was tilled or wounded in the rioting. The negroes who had taken the most ctiw part in the trouble making rerented up the Tennessee river, and he sheriff of Marion county is trying o apprehend them. Charles Lee, a negro, who was ent to the lock and dam from Alexndria, Va., was set upon by a party if white laborers and badly beaten "lie enmity of the white men tonn.d he negro arose from a rumor that he negro was to be placed la chcge ?f certain pump work, whi*h is ?:slally looked after by white maeaiusts. The contractors tuj-:e .t clear hat no such move was anticipated, ?ut the report had gained wide circuation. After the negroes at the lock and lam had quit work Monday whiskey tegan to circulate freely, and they idopted an obstreperous attitude toward the whites. As the blacks outtumbered the whites two to one, the vhite employes and their families ame alarmed and notified the Maron county authories. Sheriff Westnoreland was in Chattanooga at the ime, but his brother, a deputy sherff, took charge of the situation while n attempt was being made to locate he sheriff. The negroes were firing from the helter of their shacks in all direcions. The officers returned the fh o nd closed in upon the negro settk:nent, clearing the shacks of the U nds. A band of negroes retreated ip tne river towards the mountains, "his party, about thirty in number, eemed to be the principal troublouakers. On their tlight they ^irrled >ith them a large number of repeatnl' rifles and revolvers. The officers made no attempt to ursue the fleeing men, but made a earoh of the negro houses. One ne;ro was found dead in one of the ouses, in such a position as to indlate that he had been killed in a runken fight with members of his ace. Another dead negro was found n the ground behind one of the oases where he had apparently tood while firing upon the office;n i pistol was found beside nls bo 5y Before the officers had leit a third egro was re|>orted dead in i nearby ornfield, but this could not be .enled. A search of the negro ho ssei ri- . ealed a laige amount of wia's'-.ay, k'hich accounts, in a large manure, or the trouble. One case, which. iad not yet been broken op-?o. was mind, while whiskey bottles were lvug agound n large numbers. SHOT Willi,K I'K.YYIXG. io^jro Minister Wounded in Church During Service. Sunday night while the Rev. Wm. IcDonald of the colored Baptist hurch, of Waxham, North Carolina. >as on his knees engaged in prayer n front of the pulpit of his church nd surrounded hy his congregation, hree pist<?l shots rang oui on tho ight air. one going wild and two triking the minister in his left aide, ne inflicting a wound that is serious, hough not cessarily fatal. The shots were fired through tho ear window of the church, and all ere aimed at the colored preacher, ne inflicting the fearful wound, a eond striking his watch and glattc H iin* nurd nurying its 1-f in lie floor. The congregation lmmn 1 iately dispersed. No clues were diar?vered, no one in the confusion be>g aide io find out anything. Why .Murderers Kscnpe. "A murderer has a better chance T going scot free than a horse thief," colored Judge S. P. CJilbert, In his large to the grand jury at Columns, (la., in which he took a "rap" t "maudlin sentimentality" as he rmed it, which he said was largely ^sponsible for the number of crimi!tls escaping Justice, through being urdoned and otherwise.