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r f- 4 r f VOLUME XXV SESSION OF CONGRESS GETS OFF IN COLOR AND CALM S. A. ADOPTS 5 DRASTIC RULES House Stages Turbulent Scenes While Senate Is Sedate. Longworth Is Named Speaker - In Three-Cornered Race. Action Would Doom Basketball in Small College; Athletics Limited. Washington, Dec. 7.—Amid color- no semblance of debate and the s«m H '! ful and turbulent scenes in the house and utter calm in the senate, the Six ty-ninth congress put under way today its first, and long, session. A small group of insurgents start ed the fireworks in the house, but de spite their opposition and that of the Democrats, the Republican majority, rolled up witlTTihe Coolidge landslide -of 1924, moved on to victory in every test of strength. Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, former Republican floor leader, was elected speaker in a three-cornered race in which the Democrats supported Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, their floor chief, and the insurgents cast their ballots for Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin. The vote was: Longworth, 229; Garrett, 173; Coop er, 18. Five voted present^ • Formal announcement of the elec tion of Mr. Longworth was greeted with applause and when the new speaker was escorted into the cham ber on the arm of Representative Gar rett,.he was given tin ovation in which both the house membership and the crowded galleries joined. With the organization prelimina ries over, the next .test of strength was on a proposal or the Republican leaders to amend the rules so as to make more difficult the discharge of a committee from the consideration of legislation referred to it. Here again the Republicans won, but by a narrow margin of two, the vote being 298 to 296. Several of the regulars joined with the insurgents and Demo crats in opposing the amendment. The siege in the senate was in sharp contrast to that in the house. The program mapped out by the Republi can leaders was carried through with sion lasted only 25 minutes. Three new senators—La Follette of Wiscon sin, Robinson of Indiana and Williams of Missouri—were sworn In and or* ganization was completed with the election pf Edwin P. Thayer of Indian apolis, as secretary of the senate. Only one question had threatened to disturb the calm of the opening session and that was smoothed out just before the gavel felfc This was whether there should be immediate discussion of the right of Gerald P. Nye of North D4kota to a senate seat as the appointee of Governor Sorlie. Friends of Mr. Nye had the subject referred to committee, f . As the proceedings moved forward, two figures on the senate floor held the attention of the crowded galleries. They were Vice President Dawes, who only recently returned from his cam paign over the country for a change of senate rules, and Robert Marion La Follette, who, as the .successor of his father hs a senator from Wisconsin, gams the distinction of being the youngest man to sit in this body in more than half a century. ' Although many of the senator^wore longtailed coats, Mr. Dawes appeared in a doublebreasted suit of blue serge. He rapped sharply for order and after the brief announcement that the sen ate met in regular session under the constitutional requirement, sat back in his chair except for the time it took to administer the oath to new senators. * Appearing in formal dress a few minutes before the session began, Mr. La Follette was greeted by a number of senators of both parties who came to know him in the years he acted as secretary to his father. When the Five radical regulatiohs fo^he gov ernment of intercollegiate athletic*, were adopted at the opening sessioft of the Southern Association of Col leges and Secondary Schools at Char- of their work in football. leston, S. C., last Thursday morning, December 3. It is a popular opinion that these regulations, if enforced, will sound the death knell of basket ball in the small colleges. The rules adopted are as follows: 1. No member of the association shall permit football practice to con sume more than two hours a day of the students’ time. 2. A student shall not be permitted to take part in branches of athletics occurring successively during the year: if for instance, basketball follow football, a student must choose be tween the two sports, 3. A student shall be allowed only five days absence during each session on account of athletics. 4. Freshman teams shall be allowed to play not more than one jfame away from home during a season. 5. No institution shall be granted membership in the Southern Associ)- session opened, the young senator took a seat in the rear of the chamber until the time came for his colleague and political enemy, Senator Lenroot, to escort him to the dais to take the oath. After the oath had been adminis tered and he had signed the senate register, he was congratulated by a number of Republicans, first, among them being Senator. Butler of Massa chusetts, chairman of the Republican national committee. tion unless it belongs to an accredited athletic association. These suggestions originated with the executive committee of the South ern conference. Dr. S. V. Sanford, of Georgia University, president of the Southern confreence, challenged the association to adopt them. It can readily be seen that practi cally the entire squad of net men at Presbyterian will be eliminated from competition for team berths because Of the men going out for the five this year who are fairly certain of chances to play, Captain Walker, Hunter, Wilson, Du gan, Stamps, Witherspoon, Stevens, and Timmons will be out because of their participation in football. If Robinson, Jones, and Moffatt elect to go out for basketball, they must give up baseball and track. ' Another result of these rules will be the reduction of freshman athletics to a negligible quantity. Tt will be im possible for a rat team to engage in more than two, or at the most, three contests during the season. The limitation of athletic absences to five days during the season will cut down the number of long trips, as some of them require from one to three days. These regulations will be up before the Southern Conference, meeting at Athens, Ga., yesterday, and today, for further consideration. Good Service Aids State’s Progress T he i : BOY SCOUT NEWS The Clinton Chronicle—“The Paper Everybody Reads”—$1.50 Year. Troop Two of Clinton held their regular weekly meeting Friday night at Scoutmatser McHugh’s room. We were planning to go on a hike but it rained so we had an indoor meet ing. Every boy turned in a good turn and then we followed -the regular schedule of a Scout meeting. We were sorry we could not go on the hike, but we made up for it by going to the college gym and playing bas ketball for about two hours. JOHN W. DILLARD, Scribe. $13,000,000 telephone construction program which the Southern Bell Company is completing this year is an investment in^ew and additional plant that South Carolina and other Southern States may have more and better service. As a result of this program, telephone service is now better than ever before, despite the fact that the operators are handling a larger volume of calls. The sendee is more valuable to the individual user, as well as to communities at large, and telephone sub scribers now receive more for the money they spend for telephone service than for any comparable service or commodity. That telephone rates have not increased anything like the cost of other services and commodities in due to economical management and efficient workers who have kept the operating expenses at a minimum despite the growing cost of everything which forms a part of telephone plant and service. MORGAN B. 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