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'*> & Mi If Ton Don't Rond THE CHRONICLE Ton Don't Get The News. ®hp (Ultnlmi f . THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be s Clenn News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable. VOLUME XXV CLINTON, S. C. ( THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1926 NUMBER 12 REVENUE BILL FOR THE YEAR IS OFFERED BY DELEGATION Passes Third Reading And Is Now On Senate ^Calendar. Amendments To Be Offered By Senator Goodwin. The Lanrenfa County supply bill covering the operating expenses of the county for the year 1925, has been introduced by the members of the dele gation in the (Seneral Assembly. The bill has passed third reading and now goes to the Senate for final adoptions While Senator 0. P. Goodwin has not stated what amendments he will offer to the bill, he stated Monday while in Laurens that he had several changes in mind that he would make, though he did not specify the items under consideration. ^ j The following is the bill as it passed the third reading in the House and now goes to the Senate: A BILL To Provide for the Levy of Taxes for School and County Purposes for* 1925, for Laurens County and to Direct the Expenditures^ Thereof., Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: Section 1. That the County Auditor is hereby authorized and required to levy a tax on all the taxable property of the County of Laurens for an amount sufficient to raise the appropriations herein made after deducting from said amount the estimated revenue from fines and forfeitures. Item 1. Roads'and Bridges: Cross Country Roads and Convicts and Maintenance of Road Work Organization ...—. ••...••• ...—.. ........... ........ ........^ 41,000.00 Maintenance and Upkeep of Cross-country Roads and Bridges, One thousand Dollars for each Township, to be expended by the direction of the Supervisor 9,000.00 Maintenance of top soil roads from Mountville to Cross Hill; Cold Point to Mt. Olive, and Gray'Court to Woodruff Bridge; Provided, That if said maintenance be entrusted to private in dividuals that said person or persons shall enter into a con tract with good and sufficient surety, specifying the amount, and kind of work to be done and that said contract shall be prepared by the County Attorney, $4,000.00 if so much be necessary. Item 2. Salaries: ■ Clerk of Court u 400.00 ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 1 Deputy Sheriff - 1,200.00 Treasurer 760.00 Auditor ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 750.00 Superintendent of Education 1,800.00 Traveling expenses of Superintendent of Education 300.00 Assistant Superintendent of Education 900.00 Attorney ........ *...«... ........ ........ ........ .■•*.*■« ........ ........ ........ 250.00 Physician ..' 150.00 Coroner ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ Janitor of Court House 480.00 Supervisor •••••••• ••••••■• •••■•«•• •»••••»• ••••*■•• •••»•••• •••••••• •••••»»* ' 1,500.00 Traveling expenses of Supervisor 300.00 Two County Commissioners at One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars 200.00 Clerk to County Board of Commissioners 1,200.00 Judge of Probate ........ ........ ........ ........ •■...... ..•.*... ........ ........ 400.00 Constable at Clinton 300.00 Farm Demonstrator 1,009.00 Traveling expenses of Farm Demonstrator 300.00 Magistrates: City of Laurens 900.00 Clinton .»■»..■• ■•••»■•• ......•• ••.•••■. .■■■■■•■ ••••..•• ■«■.»■•■ •••■•••. 60O.QO Waterloo ........ ......■• ........ ........ ..■..■■• ........ •••••••. 200.00 Scuffletown 150.00 Cross Hill 200.00 ........ ........ ........ ^....... ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ..a.... 200.00 Jacks ..-■••.« ■■■••••• ........ ••••.■•■ ••••••■• •••»•••• •••••••• 150.00 Gray Court ........ ........ ...— —... 200.00 Sullivan ..•■•■■. ........ ........ ........ ....... ........ ■■*..... ........ ........ 150.00 Mountville 100.00 Item 3. County Boards: Board of Equilization 843.10 , Board of Education ” 50.00 Board of Registration, three at $50.00 each 150.00 Item 4. Jail expenses, catching prisoners, dieting prisoners, 50c per day ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ ........ 2,760.00 Item 5. Jurors and witnesses, if so much be necessary 5,000.00 Item 6. County Home, poor house and poor 2,600.00 Aid to Indigent Veterans 1,000.00 Item 7. Lunafcy •••*»••• ^...... ........ ^........ ........ ........ ........ «•••••■• 1,000.00 Item 8. Public Buildings, including water, fuel, light and insur ance - 2,000.00 Item 9. Printing, postage and stationery 1,278.57 Item 10. Miscellaneous contingent 3,000.00 Item 11. For matron of the Rest Room and upkeep, to be paid monthly upon warrant drawn on County Treasurer, drawn by the President of Woman’s Business League of Laurens 600.00 Maintenance of Rest Room, if so much be necessary 60.00 Item 12. Rural Police: > Six Rural Policemen at Seventeen Hundred ($1,700.00) Dol lars each ........ ........ ....... ........ ...••*.1 ........ ........ ........ 10,200.00 Uniforms, etc ........ ........ ........ •■«..... ........ ........ ........ ■•••«..■ ........ 600.00 Item 13. Vital statistics n.' 432.75 Item 14. Clinton Hospital, payable monthly 600.00 Item 16. Hospital at Laurens 600.00 If either hospital be closed then the amount herein appropriated shall be returned to the County Treasurer to be used for ordi nary county purposes. Item 16. Interest on County Indebtedness: Interest on Current Loans in anticipation of taxes 4,500.00 Item 17. Preservation of old records in Clerk of Court’s office, and equipment for same 2,500.00 Sec. 2. That the County Supervisor is hereby authorized and required to make a semi-annual report to the Laurens County Delegation in the Gen eral Assembly, giving an itemized and verified statement of all the expendi tures pertaining to his office which have been paid by him, and also an item ized statement of all debts and obligations incurred for which Laurens County is liable. Said report shall be made on or before June 1st and December 1st of each year. Sec. 3. That the Supervisor is hereby forbidden from making any debt or obligation for Laurens County, not covered by the appropriation herein made, and any obligation made by said Supervisor in excess of the levy and appropriation herein made shall not be a debt against Laurens County. Sec. 4. That the County Superintendent of Education is hereby author ized and empowered to borrow not exceeding ninety, per cen^ of taxes for school purposes estimated for the year 1925 for the purpose of paying salaries of teachers and other school purposes, to pledge a tax levy for school pur poses for the year 1925 for the payment of same. Sec. 5. That the Auditor is hereby authorized and required to levy a tax of one-half (1-2) mill on all the taxable property of Laurens County, the proceeds of said levy to be used for the use and benefit of the weak . - (Continued on Page Two) BEGIN WORK ON BRIDGE OVER SAVANNAH AT ABBEVILLE SOON Cheraw, March 11.—-The headquar ters of the Calhoun Highway associa tion, which are located at Cheraw, has made announcement in regard to the location of a site for the bridge over the Savannah river which has been awaited for several months. A letter received by the president of this association from Mr. R. E. Toms, district engineer of the bureau of pub lic roads of District Eight, Montgom ery, Ala., to Mr. R. E. Hanna, presi dent of the Calhoun Highway associa tion, reads: 4 T have to advise that we are recom mending to the state highway depart ments of Georgia and South Carolina that the proposed bridge across the Savannah river, connecting Elberton, Georgia, and Abbeville, South Caro lina, be located approximately at the site of what is known as the Burdeifs Ferry Crossing. This means the win ning of the fight which has been waged for four years for a toll-free bridge which will be the only toll- free bridge on the Savannah river north of Augusta, Ga. This bridge will not only serve the Calhoun high way, but will also serve five' other interstate routes, including capital to capital, Columbia to Atlanta; capital to capital, Raleigh to Atlanta, and transcontinental route from Wilming ton to Atlanta to New Orleans and over the old Spanish trail to *San Diego, Calif. Construction will be started in a short while." The state of South Carolina has provided the necessary funds. Abbe-, vills. has also, provided its share of the funds, and Elberton has provided its share of thje necessary funds. This is to be a military bridge, double drive reinforced concrete, capable of bearing the heaviest field artillery, fifteen-tbn capacity. It was estimated that approximately a thousand cars a day will pass over this bridge when completed. OFFICERS MAKE LARGE SEIZURE Thirty Thousand Dollars Worth of Whiskey and Champagne Captur ed Near Charleston. Charleston, March 15.—Four thous and two hundred and seventy-six quarts of champagne and high quality whiskies were confiscated early this morning in Riverside cemetery on the Dorchester road by State bfficer J. Louis Poppenheim, Federal Officers Alonzo Seabrook and Edwin Parker, and Rural Policeman Samuel J. Loo- per. The retail value of the seizure exceeds $30,000. This seizure took place after an all night vigil in the graveyard, the offi cers hoping that a claimant would ap pear. They apprehended one negro man who seemed to believe that he was the owner of these outlawed com estibles. The officers, in the circum stances, took his word for it and pro ceeded to see that the prisoner was made aware of the majesty of the law. The campagne amt whiskey were brought to town in two school trucks. It was thought that the large trucks could do the hauling unassisted, but it was found that the burden was too great and the other was requisition ed for the purpose of transportation to the rear of the courthouse yard. The officers and their convoyed trucks arrived at the courthouse soon after noon and the process of trans ferring the 4,276 quarts of illicit mois ture was witnessed by quite a throng. The liquor'was in sacks and will be held as evidence. The officers did not say whether the negro prisoner would be the only person accused. Neither did they say whether they entertained any suspicions as to own ership. . * VARIED ATHLETIC TEAMS PROGRESS FEDERAL COURT JURORS DRAWN For Six Weeks Term To Convene In City of Greenville On April Seventh. For the term of federal court which convenes in Greenville on April 7 for a term of six weeks, Z. C. Reeves, of Gray Court, has been drawn on the grand jury, and the following from this county on the petit jury: Second week: B. R. T. Todd, Barks dale; Herbert Martin, Laurens; J. C. Smith, Waterloo. Third week: H. T. Jones, Mount ville. Fourth week: W. M. Hunter, Ora;‘ Samuel Byrd, Ora. Also J. C. Bums, Greenwood. < Sixth week: E. P. Minter, Laurens; S. J. Rasor, Mountville; Robert Har ris, Owings. Gone To Markets For Spring Goods E. J. Adair, buyer of Adair’s De partment Store, left Monday for New York and Baltimore where he will purchase spring goods for his well- known firm. Mr. Adair stated before leaving that he is optimistic over the year’s business outlook and intends offering the buying public of this sec tion one of the largest and most com plete stocks that has ever been offer ed by his store. New Books For Clinton Library Through Miss Sallie Wright, librar- ianfi, announcement is made that 158 books have been added to the Clinton Library during tbe past year. Of this nuipber, 42 were given by the Carne gie Endowment Education Fund, and are popularly known as the Interna tional Mind Alcove. These books are given the local association in the hope, that they will be used by the com* munity. Work Goes Forward In Baseball, Track, and Spring Football At Presbyterian College. The athletic field, at Presbyterian College is a mighty busy 'place these balmy spring afternoons with base ball, football, and track practices all going on at the same time. Interest in spring football practice has been considerably bolstered up within the past week. Something like twenty men are out each afternoon for practice. That is a pretty good number, when it is considered that many football candidates are also baseball candidates, and must there fore appear for baseball rather than football. P. C. is expecting to put a championship team on the gridiron in 1925, and of course the more practice the team puts in, the better the pros pects will be. Captain Hughs and his crew of track aspirants are also getting in some good work. The state track meet is to be held at P. C. this spring, May 2, and for that reason more inter est than usual is being shown in track. Baseball continues to show improve ment, and ere the time comes when the first game is to be played, the team will well be able to take care of itself against any of the state teams. The schedule has not yet been completed, and for that reason it can not be published at this time. HIGH STUDENTS WILL DEBATE Clinton To Meet Ninety-Six and Whitmire In Inter-Debate Friday Afternoon. The high .schools of the state enter ing the State High School Debate, will hold the preliminary debates at different places in the state, Friday, March 20th. , Here in Clinton, Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock, frt the graded school auditorium, the affirmative team from Ninety-Six will meet the negative team from Whitmire. Clinton’s affirmative team, repre sented by Ella Belle Wilson and Benet Godfrey, will meet Ninety-Six’s nega tive team at Whitmire. The negative team of the local schools, represented by Ellen Copeland and Margaret Fin ley, will meet Whitmire’s affirmative team at Ninety-Six. City Council Reduces Electric Power Rates At a meeting of City Council held last Wednesday night, a motion was adopted calling for a downward re duction on the electric current scale as formerly adopted. The rate was reduced from the maximum of 12c on the first 12 kilowatts to 10c. The scale then operates on a sliding basis down to a minimum of 2 l-2c per kilowatt. The minimum rate on cook ing current was fixed at $3.00 per month, the. rate being 4c per kilo- wttt hour. The scale of rates adopt ed by council, effective March the first, will be found in an advertise ment in today’s paper. Orphanage Children . Ride Merry-Go-Round Mrs. Agnes Ehring very generous ly furnished tickets last Saturday for frtee rides on the merry-go-round for all the Thomwell Orphanage children. The company also gave the institu tion ten per cent of the receipts dur ing the present exhibitions. This kindly consideration has been greatly enjoyed by the children, and this generosity is appreciated by the or phanage management. Mls| Anna Ward, of Thornwell Or phanage, spent the past week-end in Augusta, where she visited Mrs. T. W. Pilcher. SENATE KILLS REVENUE BILL Enacting Words of House Soft Drink Tax BiU Stricken Oat By Small Majority. FIGHT OVER OFFICE ENDS Sargent's Nomination As Attorney- General Confirmed In Short Order Aft«r Rejection of Warren. Columbia, March 17.—Toesing aside the revenue measures sent it by the house, thd senate today embarked on a voyage of exploration to determine how the money needed for the ex pense of government may be obtain ed. where that voyage will lead to or when it win end are questions that no one here is able yet to answer. Always unpopular with large ele ments in both houses, the proposed soft drink tax, prepared originally by the ways and means committee and amended by the finance ■ committee, was sent to its death by a vote of 22 to 18 after debate lasting leas than two hours. The rejection of this tad* is generally regarded as an indication that it will be useless for the finance committee to bring out its seeond house revenue raising measure, which seeks to place a tax on chewing tobac co and snuff. As a means of retaining a vehicle on which to build a new tax meas ure, the soft drink tax bill was re committed to the finance committee after being killed. This was accom plished by reconsidering the vote to strike the enacting words, wheih had previously carried, and then passing a motion to send the bill back to the committee. It was distinctly under stood, however, that •the adoption of the motion to reconsider the vote was not to be construed as an agreement to accept the bill, but merely to ; pro vide the finance committee with an instrument on whiih it can build an entirely new revenue measure. Such a course was necessary because of the rule that all revenue measures must originate in the house. Substitute taxes mentioned on the floor of the senate during the dis cussion preceding the vote today in cluded occupation • taxes and a gen eral lales tax. Senator R. S. Stewart of Lancaster, author of the revalua tion bill now under consideration, and a man generally regarded as being well informed on taxation problems, strongly advocated the occupation tax as a means ef raising revenue for this year and until the entire tax system of the state can be reformed by a revaluation. Opinion expressed by other members of the senate were also favorable toward such an expedient. A precedent was established in legislative procedure soon after the tax bill was called for consideration when the senate voted to go into exe cutive session. According to men who have been familiar with the South Carolina legislature for many years, this is the first time that either body even went into a secret session to con sider any proposed revenue measure. The session, however, was abortiv, for after about half an hour’s deliberation, the doors were reopened, apd open discussion was resumed just where it had been left off when visitors were excluded. According to members of the senate, nothing whatever was ac complished during the closed meeting, and because no agreement could be reached, the decision to fight the mat ter out before the public was made. The defeat of the soft drink tax will probably kill all chance of the session of the legislature ending this week. Confronted with the task of preparing some sort of an acceptable tax that will yield about $1,500,000, and faced with a battle still to come over the appropriation bill, the senate has sufficient internal problems to occupy it for several days, and when those are solved, it must still reconcile the house to its views. It is believed by many, however, that the action taken today will bring closer to realization a real tax reform for the state. Proponents of the revaluation bill appeared much encouraged at the turn events have taken and are determined to make a tremendous effort to have either it, or a modification of its provisions, placed in effect. Practically all of the up-state sena- Washington, March 17.—The con troversy between President Coolidge and the senate over the attorney- generalship ended abruptly today with the nomination eif John G. Sargent of Vermont, for the post, and his prompt confirmation by the Senate. Mr. Sargent, a former attorney general of Vermont and a close per- * sonal friend of the President, was •elected after Charles B. Warren of Michigan, whose nomination twice was rejected by the Senate, had de clined to accept an offer of a recess appointment. At the moment that Mr. Sar gent’s name was transmitted to the Senate, the White House made pub lic an exchange of correspondence between the executive and Mr. War ren which disclosed that the offer of such an appointment had been tendered yesterday after the Senate bad acted unfavorably upon his name. Mr. Warren wrote the President that he was unwilling to prolong a political controversy which might Lessen Mr. Cooolidge’s opportunity for full usefulness to the nation, and possibly "interfere with your mak ing wholly effective your policies.’’ Announcement of the selection of Mr. Sargent, who lives in the little village of Ludlow, near the Presi dent’s birthplace, was made after Mr. Coolidge had conferred with the Republican and Democratic floor leaders in the Senate. He was un willing to submit the name until he had been assured that his old friend would not be subjected to the haz ard of such .an attack as was made on Mr. Warren. Immediately upon reoeipt of the nomination, the Senate mov e d swiftly to dispose of it. Chairman Cummins Of the judiciary commit tee took the unusual course of lay ing the appointment before the body in open session, and then called a meeting of his committee to act upon it. * There was little discussion in the* committee. Senator Dale, Repub lican, Vermont, appearing on behalf of Mr. Sargent, explained that he would bury ‘‘political differences” with the nominee because the issue was “above political controversy.” An hour and a half later the nomination was reported to the Sen ate in executive session, and ap proved in open session by unani mous consent just four hours after it had been received. The commit tee discussed it only a little more than half an hour and the Senate debated it not at all. SENTENCES FLOYD ’ TO TWENTY YEARS Judge Rice Expresses Surprise At Verdict of Manslaughter For Greenville Man. Greenville, March 16.—John C. Floyd, tenant farmer of the northern section of Greenville county was sen tenced by Judge Hayne F. Rice, in the court of general session here Sat urday to serve 20 years at hard labor. Floyd was found guilty of manslaugh ter in connection with the murder of J. Ed. Thackston, prominent farmer- merchant of Montague, near here, last December 10. Judge Rice ex pressed surprise at the verdict and told Floyd that he was plainly guilty of murder. Last night Floyd was at a county chaingang camp, manacled for his long period of service. He told re porters that he was innocent, and spoke feelingly of his wife and seven small children left without support by his conviction. AMBASSADOR TO BERLIN tors voted to kill the soft drink tax bill. These included Senators Rogers of Spartanburg; Butler of Cherokee, Duncan of Union, and Goodwin of Laurens. Senator Richardson of Greenville, w^s not present, but it is thought that he would have voted against it also had/ he been there. The filibuster planned by Senator Rogers of Spartanburg, was not nec- CONSIDER THE PILE DRIVER Bump! Bump! Bump! Inch by inch, slowly but surely, it drives down the massive log to firla foundation. Advertising drives merchandise messages into hqman conscious ness. It works best by the pile driver process—constant pound ing. Establish your business on a firm foundation by regularly ad vertising in The Chronicle. The epasuMdte kind seldom pmya. Washington, Mar. 17.—Jacob Gould Schurman, now minister to China, was named today by President Coolidge as ambassador to Germany. essary in the light of developments today,' and as a result, that senator did not even take the floor as he had expected to. He announced privately that the vote today indicated that even with a full senate, the soft drink tax would be killed by a majority of two votes. ' Senators who voted to kill the bill were: Beamguard, Butler, Cooper, Craig, Duncan, Fant, Goodwin, Hamilton^ Lightsey, Moise, McDonald, J. R., McDonald, R. D., Outzs, Patterson, Pearce, Riley, Rogers, W. S., Sear- son, Stewart, Williams, A. H., Wil liams, J. F., and Young. Total 22. Those who voted against the Fant motion were: Senators Amick, Funderburk, Gra ham, Greneker, Gross, Harvey, Jef fords, Johnstone, Martin, Padgett, Rogers, R. S., Scarborough, Stabler, Spivey, Spruill, Tyson, Wall, aad Ward. Total 18. t