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consumer, and every commodity
of Hie many thousands thai
Americans eat, wear or consume
in auy way is touched by the tariff,
ihat touch usually meaning
an increase to the consumer, says
u writer in the Deurboru independent.
Under the constitution of the
United Staies ull revenue measures-^-a
turni act is u revenue
measure?must originate in the
house of representatives. 1 herelore
it was, of course, in the
house of representatives that the
McCuinber-r'orUney bill, now before
tlie United StutOs senate,
had its origin.
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MAKING A TARIFF LAW.
Handful of Men Dictate- Provisions
of Measure.
The real story of how Congress
writes a turiii bill into law is, or
ought to be of interest to every
consumer, lor every American,
>ouug or old, little or large, is a
The first stage of the enactment
of the pending hill began
011 January o, 192i, when the
ways aud nu>ans coininittee of the
house began open hearings preliminary
to what was announced
v on lit be u permanent revision ot
the tariff. These hearings continued
for about three weeks and
after the hearings had been completed
the minority members of
the wuys and means committee?
in this congress they are Democrats?were
excluded, and the 1<
majority, or Republican members,
were divided into some half
dozen subcommittees. To each of
these subcommittees was assigned
the task of fixing the rates. The
regular rules of the house were
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Bimpciiucu mm me mi i ......
put through the house under the
"gag" rule.
Wheu the bill reached the scn#mte
it was referred to the finance
committee, of which the late Senator-feu
rose of iYiuisyivauia ww
chairman. There the formality
of hearings was again gone intc
just as it had been in the house
committee. These closed, again
the minority members?still the
Democrats?were excluded, ami
the majority, or .Republican
members, sat- themSeles down ti
write, or rather rewrite, the bill
The only depurture from tin
plan the house committee adopt
od was thut the majority mem
. hers made themselves a siugh
commit tee-of-the-whole instead o
into subcommittees.
This accounts in some mcasun
foi the fact that it required tin
senate committee so much longe
.i-?. i. :n .1 | 1
io rewrite uiv uni uiuu u nuu n
quired the house committee b
tcrite it in the beginning. Afte
months of work the bill was fi
uully reported to the senate h,
the chairman ol' the finance com
uiittee, Senator Met'umber o
North Dakota, who succeeded t
the important post of the lat
Senator Penrose. Supposedly i
is being deliberated upon in th
senate chamber ut this time, air
it* is being considered after
fashion. It is being debated any
mUama I1) Imnru ll\
WIICI C 1 I UII1 U IU -A mU UUUtn
and is likely to be debated fo
many, many weeks, for under tli
senate rules, unlike those of th
house, debate may not be limite
save by a two-thirds vote, an
tuat the majority can't mustei
But regardless of the iiuportanc
of the item under eonsideratioi
or how important the iiulustr
affected by the proposed rate c
duty, it is an actual fact tin
there are seldom more than
dozen senators on the floor du
ing the debate, and frequent I
the number does not exceed
half dozen.
"Chairman McCnmher. in chart
of the bill, and Senator Smoo
next ranking Republican men
her of the finance committe
i _iff who probably knoyrs more abot
^ in^the* bifl than any bod
elae in either house, may usual
. be ^counted upon to be in tl
chamber, while on the other sit
Senator Simmons, ranking Dei
I": oerat on the finance committ
and leader in the fight again
tile bill, is usually on hand, hi
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NEWS ABOUT TOWN.
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Watermelons and canteloupes I
arc now plentiful on the Fort
Mill market and the price has
fallen considerably during the t
past week. t
Fort Mill people will have no
reason to become excited when "
the fire alarm rings tomorrow af- 1
ternoon?it will mean only a prac- ?
tiee drill of the fire department.
Monday evening' $2,400 was *
paid the members of the Tom s
Hall Guards by the national gov- N
eminent for their service during 1
the last six months. 1
Mrs. Mildred L. Wooten, child 1
placing agent for the State board 1
ct' Public Welfare, came to Fort 1
Mill Friday and arranged to take A
to Columbia with her two little
girls who will later be placed in J
l>e la llowe School in McCormick
county.
Considerable interest is expected
to be aroused among the
voters of Fort Mill township by
the announcements carried in The
Times this week of candidates for
magistrate of the local district.
Magistrate J. K. llaile is a candidate
for reelection, with E. S.
Parks, former magistrate, also ?
offering for the office.
The sepcial train bearing the
Tom Hall Guards from Camp
.Jackson to Fort Mill arrived
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
A large number of the militiamen
met the train at the depot to
welcome them home, after a stay
or two weeks at Camp .Jackson
participating in the annual encumpment
of the 118th infantry.
Fort Mill was well reperseuted
Wednesday at tlie Stute campaign
meeting held ut Filbert for
York county. Newspaper men
entimaied tliut there were about
3,000 people at the meeting and
the best of order prevailed during
the entire day. All the candi'
dates were given an attentive'
hearing except John Duncan.
( with Cole L. BI ease seeming to
be the favorite of the six candi1
dates for governor.
I tor Curtis, Kepublieuu whip,
? whose duty it is to shoo Kepubli>
can senators in from the. cloak
rooms when a vote is ubout to be
? taken, are about the only sena
tors who are present during the
- major part of the time the hill is
* being debated.
^ Hut when votiug time comes
and the hell is rung, in flock the
L' senators from the cloak rooms,
the Republicans to vote as they
l* are told to vote by Senator Mc
Cumber or Senator Smoot or
0 Senator Curtis, and the Demo
r erats to vote as their leader or
leaders tell them they should |
y vote. Sometimes they know and i
i-. understand what they are votiiu;
f about, but more otten they do
? not, or at least dt is difficult to
e understand how they can or
* could know, because for the most
c part the cloak room is a'bout as
d near as they get to the subject
u that is being debated until the
r~ bell rings und voting time arr*
rives.
That is how it happens that a
e tariff bill is written by a few
men, aud is rewritten by an even
fewer number. The ways and
means committee of the house,
r* where the bill is written, nutnie
bers 25 members, of whom 17 are
Republicans and 8 Democrats.
y. Nine constitute a majority of the
>r majority, and may dictute the
bill. Under the house gag rule
? At 1_ I i. 4.1 t? , ....
UH'iuotis, witui uicse nine im.v
r" shall be in the bill is usually what
y is in it when it is passed. Then
tt it goes to the senate and is there
referred to the finance commitf?
tie. which numbers 16 senators,
t, of whom 10 are Republicans and
n- six Democrats. There six are a
e? majority of the majority. They
i* write, or rather rewrite, it, and
ly it goes to the senate. The bill is
ly changed in the. senate^ and to ad*
ie just these differences with the
le house it is sent to conference,
n- For the house, the three ranking
ee majority and two ranking mist
nority members of the ways and
id means committee are named; on
ae the part of the--senate, the relad
tive ranking members of tlie fill
nance committee are named. Tha
he six majority members of the two
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NEWS OF TOU COSNTY.
tmi of General Interest Found
in the Yorkville Enquirer.
The enrollment for York county
utiiIs About 1,000 more voter*
hen most of the prognosticators
ad tlgured on. The '"dopesters "
tow have it that at least 6,000 of
he 6,275 voters enrolled will cast
heir ballots on August 29.
The little child of Bright M alii"
of the Lowryville community
uffered the loss of a foot Friday
\hen it was caught iu a mowing
machine. The child was standing
n front ot the machine when the
miles started off, the rapidly
tuning hla.de severing the member.
The child was taken to a
'Lester hospital for treatment.
While they did not register opposition
in the meeting, some .of
the members of the executive
committee thought ttuit me assessment
fixed lor the house ot.
representatives ? #25? wus too
High. They thought that if the
assessment was lixed at $10 or
t?15 it woukl have the- oil act oi
L'licouraging more candidates to.
enter the field.
A small quantity of liquor aud
a complete mooustuniug outfit in
operation fell into the hands of
.magistrate it. L. A. Smith and.
constable McKnighl when they
made a raid oil lands said to belong
to Misses Kula and Lena
W ilKerson near liickory Grove
Friday night. A colored man
was engaged in operating the distillery
when the officers came
on the scene, but made his get-away
after the officers had been
recognized. About three gallons
of whiskey was captured aud 200
gallons oi beer were poured on
the ground. The distillery was
destroyed.
"Well," remarked Dr. D. L.
?Shieder of Vorkville, one of the
candidates for county treasurer,
'whether 1 ttw elavted eottuiy
treasurer or not, 1 will have had
the satisfaction of having learned
York county as 1 never knew
it before when this campaign is
over. 1 have known all the time,
of course, that it was a big county;
but until I began to travel it
1 had little idea that it was really
as large as it is, and there
has been much satisfaction and
pleasure in visiting localities that
i probably would not have visited
had 1 not been in this race."
A series of services in progress
at Clover Methodist church, directed
by Mrs. C. S. Steidly of
rtiastonia, conducted each day
and night last week, cainc to a
close Sunday night with a congregation
that taxed the seating
capacity of the church. Mrs.
Steidly, who is an evangelist of
the Shelby district of the West*
ern North Carolins conference,
was perhaps the first woman
ever to hold an evangelistic campaign
in York Couuty. ller serinons,
delivered each day, were
strong aud forceful and she proved
herself to be a preacher ol
great force and persuasion. Mrs
Steidly was formerly associated
with the noted evangelist, Rev
Baxter McLendon.
James M. Campbell, chuirinaf
of the Tirzah Picnic association
who was in Yorkville Monday
said that practically all arrange
meats had been made- for the an
nual agricultural picnic which if
to be held at that place on Aug
ust 15. Hon. J. Skottowe Wan
mimaker of St. Matthews, presi
dent of the American Cotton as
soeiation, has accepted an in vita
tion to be present and make th<
principal address. Dr. J.* B
Johnson of Rock Hill, president
of the South Carolina Cotton as
soeiation, will likely preside. Dr
Clarence Poe, editor of The Pro
gressive Farmer, who was als<
invited to be present and mak<
a talk, found it impossible t<^ac
ccpt the invitation. Mr. Camp
bell said the people of Tirxal
were expecting a large crowd t<
attend the picnic..
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Celebrating her birthday, Mr#
Fllie Parka Friday evening entei
tained a number of her marriei
lady friends si' a tacky party a
, bar home in the upper auction o
> | town. Bcfruahmnts mam, sen
led by the
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PMPAjr, APOP8T a. 1932.
PLAKB YORK CAMPAIGN.
Committee Fixes Dates and Levies
Assessments.
The campaign itinerary of York
eounty candidates was arranged,
the assessments fixed and the
time lor the filing of pledges
named at a meeting of the county
Democratic executive committee
in York Monday.
An examination of the enrollment
books by the committee disclosed
fewer mistakes than usual
had been made and that only a
few names would be stricken off.
Following is the campaign itinerary:
McConnellsville, Wednesday,
August 9; Ogden, Thursday,
August 10; Rock Hill, Saturday,
August 12; Fort Mill,Wednesday,
August 16; Forest Hill,
Friday, August 18 ,J Clover, Saturday,
August 19; Bethany, Tuesday
Auirust 22: Hickorv Grove.
Wednesday, August 23, Blairsville,
Thursday, August 24; York,
Saturday, August 26.
The assessments were fixed as
follows: House of representatives,
$23; supervisor, $40; treasurer,
$40; auditor. $50; probate judge,
$40; sueprintomlent of education.
$50; couhty commissioners, $15;
magistrates of Bethel, Bethesda.
Broad River and Bullock's Creek
townships $10; of Catawba, $25;
Ebenezer, $15; King's Mountain,
$17.50; Fort Mill, $15; York, $20.
The time limit for the filing of
pledges and the paying of assessments
was fixed as Tuesday, August
8, at 12 o'clock noon.
Question for Candidates.
The Ministerial union of Fort
Mill and the Castors' conference
? Charlotte Sunday afternoon whei
' the motorcycle he was riding rat
into a trolley pole. The speed
ometer of the motorcycle is sail
1 to have registered 61 miles pei
hour when picked up by a citi
seen who witnessed the accident
l'uxton's skull was crushed auc
both liis legs broken. He was ei
route at the time to his work, be
3 ing required to report for dutj
at 3 o'clock in the ufteruoon.
Married Sunday Afternoon.
A marriage of interest to th<
* many friends of the young cou
} pie was solemnised Sunday after
& noon at 3 o'clock when Miss Rutl
- McLaughlin became the bride o
" A. Melville Cathcart. The cere
i mony was performed by the Rev
D J. W. H. Dyches. Mrs. Cathcar
is the daughter of Mr. and Mm
J. Q. McLaughlin of Fort Mill
k Mr. Cathchart is from Winnsber
but for the laat two years ha
i made his home in Fort Mill asth
t foreman ef construe tion for th
f Fort Mill Manufacturing compi
?gr. Mr. and Mrs. Cathcart hav
OI uie 1 OI K J3apil8l assuciai ion
want to. know now candidates
lor the Legislature 111 York county
stand on the matter ol' holding
Sunday sessions of the Legislature
and in the county cuiuyaijgn
t_CL. open_next Wednesday
cacti will be asked to state his
position in response to the following
question, recently adopted by
both bodies:
"The matter of Sunday sessions
of the Legislature of South Carolina,
which are reported to have
been held during tRe present
year and in past years, having
been called to the attention ot
(he Ministerial union of Fort Mill
and the Pastors' conference of
the York Baptist association, a
resolution was passed by each of
these bodies deploring these ses?
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oiuuo as) (i viuiaiiuu ui uuu aim
man, and we therefore request
that you state at the various meetings
to be held throughout the
county during the campaign
ahout to open what your attitude
will be, should you be elected,
toward using both your vote and
your influence for the suppression
of this dangerous practice.'
The question is signed by the
Rev. J. W. H. Dyches and the
Rev. R. II. Viser for the Miniate
rial union and the Rev. J. W. II
Dyehes and the Rev. C. E. Thomas
for the Pastors' conference.
Joe Paxton Killed.
Joe Paxton, rural police oflicci
of Mecklenburg county, N. C.
1 was almost instantly killed ii
Time
SIX MILE TUNNEL.
Western Railroad to Send Trains
Through James Peak.
Six hundred men will begin
work on August 15 011 the longest
Yailroad tunnel in America,
to be built for the Denver & Salt
Lake railroad through James
peak, ubout 150 miles from Denver,
Colo. The tunnel will be a
little more than six miles long
and will cost approximately $li,700,000.
Almost three years will
be required for its construction.
The object of the tunnel is to
reduce the grades which must be
conquered by the locomotives
toiling up and across the Continental
divide. The result will be
a cheaper service and one with
tewer interruptions.
The tunnel is to be known us
the Moffatt tunnel. It will eliminate
all snowsheds and treacherous
roadbeds, two present tunnels
and all the heavy grades on
the line in that vicinity.
The Denver & Salt Lake railroad,
sometimes called the Moffatt
road, is an unusual road. The
road was built by David 11. Moffatt
of Denver, who paid from
his own money for the marvelous
engineering feats that were necessary.
Traffic is possible at 40
miles an hour at any place on the
road, despite the steep grades
and dangerous curves.
The tunnel, which will make
the road one of the most up to
date in the Rocky mountain area,
will be 124 feet high and 16 feet
wide. It will slope from the center
to each end so that there will
be ample drainage. Kleetric locomotives
will pull trains through
:? on,..-.. ...;n l... l
ii i nri r >1111 ui w 111mir u?v iv.
The actual cost of cutting the
long tunnel will be about $6.1288.000.
The rest of the work will
raise the total to almost $6,700,000,-or
about $1,000,000 a mile.
Mysterious African Races.
A race of tree beings, who live
in the tops of trees anil are sheltered
from enemies by the dense
foliage, are said to exist in parts
of unknown Africa. These people,
iwc-toed and claw-handed,
pass from tree to tree with the
ease and activity of monkeys,
and are aaid to be of a ferocious
nature. Then there are dwarfs
in Central Africa which live like
wild animals among the rocks
and bushes. Their projecting
jaws and protruding: lipK> slender,
ill-shaped legs and protruding:
bellies give them the true apelike
appearance. They are singularly
timid and fleet at the sight
of strangers.
As mysterious is the raee of gi1
gantic natives in the unknown
' deserts north of Uaso Nyiro ami
^ the Lorain swamp, East Africa.
; This strange race is known bv
tradition to the natives igow in
? habiting the land west of tin
! Juba in the north and the Tans
" in the south. Until pestilence
and native wars broke them the)
' are said to have cultivated larg<
areas, used irrigation to ruis<
crops, owned camels and lived 11
great circular houses, the hug<
r stones of wliieh testify to theii
; great strength.
1 Printing Postal Cards.
1 Two ingenious presses, each o
* which can print, color, stamp
' cut, trim and count 4 million pos
r tal cards a day, have hcen-de
* vised and improved expressly foi
* the use of the government print
1 Lug oflice in Washington. Thej
i are the only kind of presses o
- their description ever made
f Huge rolls of post curd paper
each of which weighs u thousam
pounds, in turn are fed into thes<
presses. Each roll is converts
K iuio 200,000 postal cards. Hard
" cued steel plates?there are 06 o
them on each of the press cylin
'l ders?print the impression am
* lettering on the postal card5?
f" Rapidly working knives auto
r* inatically cut and trim the card*
* Another attachment counts then
u and delivers them in neat stack
of 50 each, ready to he wrapper
0 and sealed for distribution to th
* small post offices. There is an
e other attachment on the prcsse
6 which is adapted to print repl;
earda^
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$1.60 Per Yaar.
HEARD IN FORT MILL.
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Candidates for State Office Speak '
. at Confederate Park.
Perhaps as many as 300 people
we re present at Confederate park
in Fort Mill late Tuesday afternoon
to hear speeches by Cole L.
Lllease, candidate for governor,
and a number of other candidates
for State office. The candidates
had spoken in Lancaster during
the day and were passing through
Fort Mill on the A ay to Rock
Hill for the meeting there Tuesday
night. Original plans for
tne Fort Mill meeting were that
it was to be addressed by Governor
Hleu.se only, but other candidates
were in town and an invitation
was extended them to >
speak. The crowd was unmistakably
in sympathy with theuttt
ranees of the former governor,
judging from the applause he received.
The meeting was presided over
by Arthur (\ Lytic, mayor of
Fort Mill. Following a prayer
by the Rev. K. 11. Yiser, pastor of
the Presbyterian church. Governor
Hlease was introduced by
Hon. S. 11. Kpps. former member
of tin* Legislature from York
county. The former governor
l< st little time in reaching the
subjects he said he would discuss
11.. ?m.
( * i i * i i j . l&v id m |/(ii ( iv uiui x
pliasis oil what he said was the
extravagance of the Legislature
for the last eight years in creating
useless offices and otherwise /
spending the people's money
needlessly.
Men are now sitting In the skyseuipers
in Columbia drawing
large salaries from the state for
pi rtorming no service of value to
i lie people, lie declared, and the
one message they give to the
people of South Carolina is,
"Ail's well, plow 011, plow 011."
lie cited as an illustration of the
waste ol the taxpayers' money,
the expense incurred by the etticiency
and economy committee,
v Inch he said had done no good.
J i*e also called attention to the
j crime wave which has been
sweeping over the JStaie, saying ' .
1 hat douth Uirouua is today the
most lawless State in the American
union.
Mrs. liar ton Wallace of Coluiu
I L'la, lollowcd Air. 15 lease 111 a
jnappy inile speech 111 which she
' I loia oi her work in the school
II ooni lor the children oi the
(Mute and oi her service overseas.
Airs, \\allacc was the lirsi wonihil
candidate lor a Mute olhce
io address a rori Aim audience
' and her speech was listened to
villi much niler.est.
Waiter K. Duncan, comptroller
J general, candidate lor reeieciion,
smd the elfieiency and economy
' committee had cost the Male
more than $11,0011. lie denoiill|
naled it nothing more than a
"smelling committee composed
oi men urougiit irom the iNorth
1 0 V
to tell us how to run our government,
suying that its woik hail
^ amounted to nothing and that the
tax payers had lo loot the hill.
\V. Hanks Dove, . in a short
^ speech, announced his candidacy
lor reelection as secreiary oi
State, lie told of the efficient
way in which the office had been
j- run under his administration and
thanked the people of York county
for the lartre vote he hud re
eeived in tlit* county in one of
r his former races.
State Senator George Wightf
mail of Saluda county urged supf
port of his candidacy tor commissioner
of agriculture and referred
to the work he hud done
I as a senator for the mill operaL>
lives of the State, lie said the
] oflicc he sought was being ex.
travagantly run and he thought
11 ms nAtllil /In uainn nffnnt irn UfAl*if
. in it as an economist.
1 llarold Eubanks of Aiken preL
sell ted his claims for election as
attorney general,, claiming that
the incumbent was running the
n office at too great cost to the.
H taxpayers.
\ John E. Swearingen arrived 4
e just as the meeting was about to
t. break up, but in time to tell the ? j
H audience why he thought he
y should be reelected as State superintendent
of He