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The senate bond bill read in the house this morning was not reported to the house tonigh^, though it was understood that a majority faVorable report from the ways and means com mittee lay on the desk ready to be read out. The committee, it was also understood, had recommended amend ments limiting the amount of bonds to be issued in any one year to $15,- 000,000. , Pleas made by both sides for a quiet and tolerant consideration of the bond bill tonight were interspersed with charges that the majority in judiciary committee had railroaded a favorable report and had not allowed free ex pression of opinion to the minority. Several opponents of the bill also de manded to know whether the measure Was drawn by Harry Hoyt, represen tative of a New York bond house, and who was paying Mr. Hoyt’s expenses to stay in Columbia during the ses sion. ' . * ■ Little heckling or interchange of personal feeling occurred, however. A gallery packed to capacity heard some eight speakers make lengthy address es for or against the proposed bond is sue. Opening debate, I). C. Cook, of Dar lington, who today added his name to the bill told the house that in spita of an adverse grand jury report, people of Darlington county favored the bond biil. "The grand jury subscribed to this paper, a speech, not a presentment, which was drawn t>p bj^ • citiien wbe went before them after the regular presentment had been brought out," he said. “They didn’t know what it was, had not time to consider it, and heard only one side of the question. Five members of that jury have told me that th.y are for the bill." Later Mr. Cook said that .the author of the declaration against the bond bill had during the infancy of the au tomobile sponsored a movement to deny to automobiles the use of the public roads. Constitutionality of the proposed bill was also arguid by Mr. Cook who said that the Supreme court had up held a local bond issue which was not subniitted to popular vote, not with reference to its local nature but be cause the revenues to retire the debt would come from a special tax and therefore did not constitute a bonded debt within the constitutional mean ing of the word. Asked by 0. D. Johnston of Spar tanburg. as to the part play.ti by Mr. Hoyt, the bonding attorney, in draw ing up the bill, Mr. Cook said such ex pert help was entirely proper. "Mr. Hoyt drew up the reimburse ment amendment to the original pay- as-you-go act,” interrupted R. E. Mc- Caslan. “There wa.s no complaint about that." R. B. Herbert of Columbia, suggest ed that in one case Richland county had suffered a loss of $10,CK)0 to $20,- 000 and in another case the bond is.sue was invalidatvd because the county did not draw up the statute with the help of a bonding attorney. ^ On the query of Mr. Johnston whether a county might not load up on reimbursement agicements in con templation of the state’s a.s.suming them under the bond bill, VV. W. Smoak of Colleton, amswered tliat Buch reimbursement agreements would be issued for new'road construcCion and that therefore it would come out of the $75,OdO,00O. Declaring that ni'.mbers .shoul 1 look at the state road system from a state wide and not a county-wide stand point, C. F.. Perry of Ridgeland, sa’d that under the present plan .some state roads w'ould not be paved for 50 years. By improving the roads, he added, tourists would be attracte.i and they would pay a large share of the taxes. A statement that S|)artanburg c«»un- ty would have to add 4 mills to defray an arfnual upkeep charge of $215,000 on Itjcal roads if the two cents of gas tax money were taken from the coun ties was made by John H. Brown. Lo cal roads w’ere of a greater import ance to the country population of that county than were the state highways, be Baid. * C. O. Hearon of S4)artanburg, high way commissioner, was quoted by Mg. Blown as having said that $75,000,000 was excfcssive, tlmt a $40,000,000 out- (Continued op page eight) CHANGE OP VENUE LOOMING AS ISSUE Strenuous Battle In Rafe King Case Likely. Trial la Set for the . April term of Court: York, Feb. 24.—A strenuous battle for a change of venue.will be w^ged by the defense when the case of Rafe king, charged with the murder of his wife, is called at the April term of criminal court, it has beqome definite ly known here. While making no formal announce ment on the subject, T. F. McDow, of York, one of the men^rs of King’s Counsel, in a conversati^ with a news paper' men declared that it was im possible for King to obtain a fair trial here on account of an inflamed state of public opinion toward his client. Mr. McDow attributed this attitude of the York county public in a large measure to the newspaper publicity given the case. He was scathing in his denunciation of some of this publicity, branding it as an exhibition of yellow journalism. ^ While Mr. McDow-said nothing to this effect, it is understood here that defense attorneys Are making a scrap- BORAH REFUSES CABINET POST Offered Attorney Generalship But Prefers To Serve Peopje As Senator. HOOVER TALKS WITH SPEAKER SENATE SINGS TO BLEASE’S MUSIC Longworth Says Congress Can Be Re stricted. Special Session To* Be Called In April. ! book of certain stories sent out from York that they consider' unfair to j King and that when the motion for a j change of venue is made, the news- 1 paper clippings will be adduced, j It is known here that Solicitor J. ' Lyles Glenn, of Chester, will vigor- jously resist the effort of the defense to secure a change of venue. The de- I fense v/ill present affidavits alleging j that if is impossible for King to get ; an impartial trial here on account of ta hostile state of public opinion and j the state will counter by presenting I affidavits of opposite purport.% After presentation of affidavits and arguments for and against the mo tion, it will be up to Judge J. Henry Johnson, of Allendale, to decide the question. While one of the youngest men on the circuit court bench, being '^ohly about 42, Judge Johnson is known for his fairness and will power, as well ' as for his legal erudition. ! If the change of venue should be ! granted, the case would go to Fair- , field or Lancaster county. Chester is i nearer than either Winnsboro,. county Washington, Feb. 23. — Intensive consideration of the selection of the members of his cabinet occupied Prei^ ident-elect Hoover today in the course of lengthy conferences with advisors, political leaders and persons under consideration for appointment. Friends of Senator Borah, of Idaho, simultaneonsly jinnounced that he had •defintely refused an offer to the at torney generalship which Mr. Hoover had made him. The Idaho senator, they said, although attracted by the offer, had come to the conclusion that he could be of more use to his party and to the.country by remaining in his present powerful and influential posi tion. Henry M. Robinson, of Los Angeles, an old and close friend of Mr. Hoover, spent most of the day with the pre.^i- dent-eleCt at his S .street residence. In addition to being himself prominently mentioned for a cabinet position Mr. Robinson was reported to have carried out a canvass of the ability of vari ous individuais for the post of secre tary of labor with which Mr. Hoover had entiusted him before his Florida tlip.. Se<'retar>\ Mellon of the treasury department who,actfording to a liable reports, is looked upon as •Tain of reappointment, also conferred with Mr. Hoover for more than an hour. The secretary was very secretive after his conference and would not even disclose in general terms the sub jects discussed. ?asury ill is c^- FORMER CITIZEN IS BUlflED HERE seal of Fairfield, or I.ancaster, but is tn- ! since Chester* is the home of Solicitor j Glenn, the ca.se would not be trans- ■ ferred to that'county. Solicitor Glenn, who wHl direct the [ prosecution, is considered one of the , mo.st brilliant young attorneys in the i state. He is a former^ Rhodes scholar at Oxford university, England, and is ' a veteran of tjje World war. He is an ' announced candidate for governor in :1932. King al.so has abje counsel. Two of his attorneys, Thomas F. McDow of York, and ^lyde Hoey of .‘Shelby, have j reputations t'hroughout their respec- icive states as succe.ssfur criminal at- I torneys. Baymerit of an admission charge of 2.5 cents a head is now necessary bc- , fore visitors may inspect the premises of thcKing home at Sharon. A man stood today at the entrance of the driveway leading to the house and in formed visitors that in order to gain access to the premises they must part with 25 cents’ each, after which they could stay as long as they cared, ' Hundreds of the visitors paid the charge and swarmed around the house and on the porches, while others of a more economical frame of mind sat in their cars and viewel things from ^ afar. Scores of the automobiles were from Charlotte, Shelby, King’s Moun- : tain and other points in North Caro- lina. Mrs. Leila Evelyn Willis Succumbs At Residence In Spartanburtr. In terment Here Saturday. Mrs. Leila Evelyn Willis, wife of A. T. Willis of Spartanburg, died at her family residence last FYiday after a brief illness. The funeral service- was held here Saturday morning at the grave and conducted by Dr, D. J.^ Woods. Interpient followed in the fam ily burial ground th iKe Presbyterian cemetery. Mrs. Willis, before her marriage Miss Leila Blackwell, spent her girl hood days in this city where she built up a wide circle of friends. She was a grand-daughter of the late Elbert P. Copeland and her death causes much sadness. The deceased is survived by her hus band, four children. Misses Alfreda and Mary Willis, and Robert and Wil liam Willly—Spartanburg; two brothers. L. 6, Blackwell of I.aurens, and Dr. E. C. Blackwell of Greenwood, a sister, Mr.s. H. L, .Moore of Cramer- ton, N. C. Washington, Feb. 25. — President elect Hoover was informed by Speaker ngworth today that in all probabili ty it would not be possible to convene congress in special session before April 10. The speaker thought, how ever, that once convened its activities cculd be restricted to farm relief and to revision of the tariff. The president-elect also conferred with Willia'hi J. Donovan, assistant to the attorney general. Donovan has been mentioned frequently as a likely selection for secretary of war. Mr., Longworth said the ways and means committee of the house would hold a meeting Saturday to take stock of the situation and determine as ac curately a? possible the date on which a tariff revision measure would be ready for consideration by congress. The speaker said that although it did not seern as if congresi could be con vened before April lO, the opening certainly would not be later than April 20. . Further, the speaker said, he and a majority of the Republican member ship of the ways and means commit tee, including Chairman Hawley, were agreed upon the advisability of limit ing tariff schedule revision to agricul tural items, so as to equalize protec tion for agriculture and industry’. He added that only those industrial sched ules for which it could be prove! that Morld.conditions had changed since the last tariff bill was enacted were to be tJ^ken up. "I want the measure to be an amendment to the existing tariff act,” he said, “and not a new tariff bill." He added that therefore any move for the general increase in industrial schedules would be opposed. V\’. R. Castle, Jr.. assistalrt secTetary of state, and the Jepartmeni’s expert on European affairs, had an engage ment witq the president-elect. The ap pointment of Mr. Ca.stlo to the under- seoretary.'hip of state to succeed Reu ben Clark of Utah has been suggested In some quarters. Thomas D, Campbell, of Montana, again called upon Mr. Hoover today and emphasized after his conversation that he was not under consideration for the cabinet. He said, however, he had discussed th^ farm situation with the president-elect and that he ■w'as convtnced the latter would present to the country an agricltural plan that would satisfy not only the farmers hut business interests as well. Campbell ^aid' that with farmers numbering only 27 per cent of the population no plan of agriculut.ral re lief would succeed unless it had the approval ' f the bu,*iness w ^rld. Utilizes All Available Parliamentary Rules To Get Additional Judge for South Carolina. SENATE PASSES Washington. Feb. 23.^Sehator Cole L. Blease of South Carolina, demon- .strated to the senate today that when a member of congress wants some thing for his state^ badly enough he sometimes runs a pretty fair chance of ^tting it. The South Carolina, Democrat took advantage of every parliamentary rule available to senators to prevent the passage of six important judgeship hills until the senate was willing to in clude his own state in the list. His stubborn opposition evidenced through the greater part of this ses sion to the passage of any judge bills unless^ one for an additional federal judge in South Carolma also was ap proved, finally forced the senate to ■meet his demands today and thereupon he immediately withdrew his protest and the whole lot* was passed. Totals Almost Eleven Million Dollars. Now Goes Back To Lower House for Action. The senate tonight restored the ho- Some time ago the senate judiciary I tel inspector, by an amendment to the committee, approved bills for addition- jhoard of health’s depArtment. A salary ,al judgeships in various parts of the Uf $3,000 as appropriated, the amount j country but reported adversely upon to come from the fees collected by the : .Senator Blea^e’s bill for another judge j inspector. It also provides that the in- in South Carolina. I spector be named by the state health Every argument was used on the j officer, senator to let the others pass but he (, amendments adopted, with two was unmoved. Today at the request of Senator RobinAon of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, the senate agreed exceptions, were proposed by the com mittee thiough its chairman. Senator Frank C.- Robinson. The two amend- to let Blease’.s bill through and in less ^ents were: one by Senator Philip than five minutes all of the other; Arrowsmith, 'increasing the item for pending judge bills were approved, i the boys industrial schc.ol at Florence I In addition to the South Carolina by $100 for additional bods; the other 'judgeship, the measures approved in- an item of $500 increase in the salary eluded a federal judge for the middle I of the director of rural sanitation and I district of Pennsylvania, one addition-1 health work projKiscd by .Senator Wil- al for South Dakota, three additional 1 Hams. i for the southern district of New York, The amendments offered by the one additional for the ninth judicial, committee, and written into the bill * circuit, one additional for the eastern ‘ .^^ ere: $2,00() in the judicial depart- fdistrict of New York and also a biH ment. This was to correct an error in I dividing the eighth judicial cinmit and the amount.s appropriated for .steno- ; creating a new, tenth, circuit. ^ i praphers for the chief and associate iu.sticcs and their offices. The aid for employinjr teachers in COLLEGE GIVEN PRIZED BOOKS with. YOUNG ASSUMES MAYOR’S OFFICE $70,000 Provided For Freshet Damage DR. HAYS JOINS COLLEGE FACULTY , Well Known Local Phy.sician To Fill Vacancy .\t Presbyterian Made By I Resignation of Dr. Hoy. President MeSween of Presbyterian college, has announced that S. C. Hay.s. well known physician and .‘sur geon of this city, will head the biology department'of this in.stitution for the session l929-,‘50. He will fill the va- , cam y to be created in September by the resignation of l>r. W. E. Hoy who will at that time become a me^nber of the Ibiiversity of South Carolina fac- 'Ailty. Dr. Hays is-a graiuate of Presbyr tcrian..,collt*p:e and the College of Phy- i sicians and Surgeons, Columbia uni versity, New York. I^ater he sen’ed ; one year with the New Y’ork Nursery and -Child’s hospital, two with the ’ Belleview hospital, and six months )\vith St. Bartholomew's. With hus ' Tfcparation completed, he returned here, his native home, and since then ha.s successfully operated Dr. Hays’ , hospital, privately owned institu tion. Last year while Dr. IJoy ..was en gaged in research wi^k. Dr. Hays taught freshman "biology at the col lege, assisted by A. W. GrSfton. For the approaching session he-will be as- .sistod in this department by C.* W. Grafton, student assistant this year. Oath .Administered Yesterday Morn ing and Affairs of Office Turned Over To New Head. Dr. Jack H. Young, well known business man of this city, who was on Tuesday elerted mayor of Clinton for the unexpired term of the late E. B. Sloan, was .luly inducted into office yesterday morning. The bri;f ceremonies were l^eld in the city council chamber, the oath of office being administered by R. W. W’ade, city attorney, with the former acting mayor, city clerk, and Chief Holland present. Immediat 'ly follow ing the installation, the affairs of the city were turned over to Mayor Y’oiyig who \4ill head the city government for the next year and a half. The county supcrvi.sor and treasurer hav^ been authorized to make a loan of $70,000 to defray' the cost of re- i pairs to bridges and roads of the coUn- ty following the frgshet of last Aug- i ust, according to members of the dele- ! gation. Agreement upon the sum re- j quire 1 wa.s maiie after con.sultation j with the supervisor, who said that a ; part of the fund will be required for ‘repaiis that have not yet been made and for bridges that have not been re built. Re-pay ment of the loan is to be spread over a period of years, so that the burden will not fall too heavily . upon the taxpayers at one time. part of a devoted, generous fi-i.-nd. , By .‘>ciiator .Xrhiw.^niith; To in- I creu.se th.- appropriation in the com- m/-'v A xTvryr^ ; luis.sioner *if agi icultuie’s departtuent lO ORixANIZlE 'by .$090 and provide for an inspector POWER COMPANY •Application .Made for Charter for New Power tiompany .At .Musgroie Mill Near Here. A new corporation to be known a.s him Local Officer Denson Moves I - To Broadway 0 ' In Hospital Denson’s Grwery, headed by W. S. Denson as proprietor, has this week moved from his former location into one of thelVIasonic temple .store rooms on South Broadway. For the past two days carpenters have been re-arrang- t ing the building and the “moving" job is about completed. The store now pre sents a very attractive appearance. Friends in the city of Officer Jmlie McMillan of the city police force, will regret to know that he has been a patient in a government hospital in Memphi.s, Tenn., for the pa.st week where he underwent an operation. Hia condition is reported as improving and he hopes to return to his home within the next few days. In Mr. McMillan’s absence, his place on the night police shift is being filled by Officer Pa;^! giving the .Musgrove f’ower company Pitts. certain powers and privileges in Lau rens and Spartanburg countie.s. The development of the Musgrove Mill falls on-the f»rphanage property has been under advisement for some time. While the details have not yet MEET SATURD AY Demonstratiiin I.e.ssons To Be" Given. Greenville Visitor Will Speak On Schmd Library Benefits. The regular nionthly meeting of the THE CHRONICLE POINTS THE WAY It fully and accurately givea the hews of Clinton* and the prosperous trade territory of which this city is the^ center. There are few homes in this community in which THP] CHRONICLE does not make its weekly visit. . ' If you are not a member of our large family of readers —detour by our office and enter-your subscription today.' 1)ccn announced, the applying for a Laurens ('ounty Teachers association 'charter for the proposed corporation will lie held uii Saturday, March 2, at ■ Columbia, Feb, 26.—Carrying a to-< tal of $10,919,892.86 the senate to night passed the appropriation bill. This amount is an increase over the ^ance committee’s bill of $68,740.00 after taking into consideration an er ror of $5,000 in the totals of the com mittee’s report. Outstanding among the changes made in the bill was a $25,000 appro- praition for an investigation of the power rates of the state, this amount to be expended by the railroad com- hiission. The increase in cohtributifyn to the association for the blind from $8,()00 to $25,000, and ah addition of $19,300 to aid for teachers under the 6-0-1 school law, increa.sing this ap propriation to $59,300. the .superinten lent of cdjcation’;- de partment was increasrtl from $4U,(K)f( to $59,300. The $S,000 appropriation ('apt. E. A. Smyth Pre.sentK Loral In- the a.ssoctation of the blind was in stitution ('umplete Library Cov- jCieascd to $25,000. Ih amount for ! ering South Carolina History. | *he dentist at the suite sanatorium j Copt. E. A. Smyth of Flat Rock. N. ‘ was incr^a^ed from .$480 to $720. and : C., has donated his highly prized li- of wages in the same de.iar'i,- jbiary of South Carolina literature j was incic*a''^ed from $14,000 to ro the Presbyterian college of this , In the sain * department "oth- city, news of his generous gift siij*plie.< ’ was in<Tcased f.-oni ■having been received he,’'e y;.sterday ' ^bOOO to $2,000. i by President MeSween. In making^ his '1'^^ large.st .single .ncrease in the I gift known, ('apt. Smyth notified-^Mr. i 1^*11 was a $25,000 appropriation in the j MeSwoen to send a truck to his home milroad commission’s (d icc. This, ; immediately to transport the books' l^cnator Robinson exi»!ainetl, was I here and his request will be complied omitted from the jirintcd hill, and wa.s neeilc.I for the purpo.se of making an The library of Capt. Smyth that ari l investigution in- j'now comes to the college, is recogniz- P* power rates. I.ater the finance com- j cd as one of the finest in existence , aiittc*-: chaiiiniin said that this does pertaining to .South Carolina history.' increase the appropriation.s, as Il.s Cl ntent.‘i comprise hundred.s of val- is levied against the cor por- ' uable histories, manuscripts and en- ations investigated. I gravings which the owner has been 1 .Among the amendnu nls otfered, j carefully assembling for the past for- and whii h weio tahhd were: By Sen- ty years. The collection contains many ator Crouch: To reduce the amount ■rare .selections an'd will prove a most Paid state emjiloye s on travel ac- 1 valuable acquisition to the college H-i counts fiom S cents to o cents per , brary. It is a magnificent gift on the niilc. 1 isenator .Airowsniith proposed a new item of to r imiejrse the presi- jilent of the l.7iiversily of South Caro- finu for salary in 1928. The amount being the difference between that paid rist year and that appropriated the .Musgrove Power company, with for 1929. During discussion of this offices in this city, is to he organize I amendment .Senators West ani^ Gren- in the near future. The announcement ekor stated that the pre.sident of the oi the Corporators, C. W. .Stone and university had been paid $2,5(M) from 'A. C. lodil. sets forth that the pur- .-rivatc sources, that amount being the ; po.se of the organizatiim is to - con-> diffon nee between the sum pai i by .struct dams, sell power and do othe*- the state and the salary promised him things in connection with the nper- i,y the board of trustees. The am'*n*d- , ation of a power plant. nient wa.s defeated. A bill has Ix-en intfoilueed in the, legi.slature by Repi^sentutive Parrott, TO indicates that these plans are about to o’clock. materialize. .Miss Sara Babb of the Laurens city schools will te;ich a demonstration les- 1 I?1 4* ninth grade Latin. Miss Zoa Ueneral Cileclion ^ Laurens citv schools, will con- Held Tuesday duct a demonstration lesson in sixth V- ‘ * grrule reading. Miss Virginia Cook, of In the g neral electron held >riu‘^-lUe-HivL«ny-Tavern .school, will teach day, only seven votes were cast out ** >econd of a total regi.-stration of fifteen. The read.ng. and Mrs. Raymond J- election was held to ratify the city linton city schools, i^iil Democratic primary recently conduct- tt'S'-'h, demonstration lesson in .ir-t e.l to nominate a mayor for the un- 4rra‘l® reading. expired term of the late E. B. .Sloan. Immediately after these demonstra- Immediately following the chising tions. Miss Mildred P. Harrington, li- of the polls, city council received the brarian of the Parker school district, managers’ report and declared the re- Greenville, w'ill address the teachers suit of, the election by which Dr. Jack on “The Value of the School Library H. Young was unanimously elected. To the Rural ConsoUdattMl School." i