Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OP THM AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN 0AYf "SIVEN THE NEWS 0r THE SOUTE What Is Taking Plaoe In The South - land WiU Be Found In drift# Ci.rin r:nhi Foreign? The French chamber of. deputies re cently gave Premier Poincare a vot< of confidence, 472 to 107. Influenza, accordng to dispatche! from Paris, is becoming an epidemh aU over France. Recently twenty four deaths were reported in one da; in Paris. Premier Magnusson of Iceland, wh< has been on a visit to London, has gon< back home?to get warm. He sayi that it is ten degrees warmer in Reik javik than in London. v Enver Pasha, former Turkish minis ter of war, who fled from Turkey ver; shortly after the close of the war, hai been* captured in the Caucasus an< has been handed over to the Turkisl Nationalist government at Angora. Chile has accepted an invitation fron the United States government to des ignate a plenipotentiary at Washingtoi to study the form of execution of th( treaty of Ancon under which the Tac na-Amica dispute between Peru an< Chile arose. Premier Lenine will represent Sovie Russia at the coming Genoa economii conference on the condition that th? Russian secret service be permitte* % to organize a system to guard hin safely during his absence from th< Soviet capital. The British cabinet is said to be del initely opposed to any alterations ii the draft of the proposed Anglo-Frencl alliance. The cabinet is particular!; unfavorable to the French suggestioi that the treaty should contain specifi' provisions regarding the extent o Great Britain's coo-peration in thi event of aggression. Washington? Statistics showing the actual bah weight of cotton ginned during th< last season have been transmitted t< the senate by Secretary Hoover in re sponse to a resolution by Senato: Smith (Dem.) of South Carolina. Figures showing the growth in fed eral bonded warehouses for storing o agricultural products have been com piled by the department of agriculturi for the information of delegates to th< national agricultural conference, whicl meets here soon. Senate Republicans. In party confer ence, recently approved the allied deb refunding bill, with the addition of ; provision that the interest rate on th< refunded bonds should not be less thai that fixed in the Liberty loan acts au thorizing the loans to the allied na tions. George Washington Yarbrough, i higtvschool teacher of Roanoke. Ala. and rated as the welterweight cham pion ofr the American expeditionar; forces, told a senate investigating com mittee that he had witnessed the shoot ing of an American soldier by a firinj squad ne2r the Chateau Thierry regiot in July, 191S. The invitation for the United State: to participate in the economic and fi nancial conference at Genoa was re ceived at the state department recent ly from Ambassador Ricci, of Italy. A provisional agreement was reach ed by railway executives and head: of the four railway brotherhoods meeting at the instance of Secretar; Hoover, to submit wage and workinj questions affecting train service em pioyees to regional, conferences fo adjustment if possible, without con tests before the railway labor board After presentation of testimony b; way of denial, war department records submitted to the senate committee in vestigating charges that American sol diers had been hanged without trial ii France, showed that on the bodies o two men dug up in the little cemeter; at Bazoilles, the rones and black cap: in which they were put to death 01 the gallows had not been removei prior to burial. Secretary Hughes, as head of th< American delegation to the Washing IUU luuicicuvci ucnuuvi u.l a uiccini; of the Far Eastern committee th< American policy concerning the opei door in China, his statement, it wa! said being based on a note he sen as secretary of stateto Alfred Sze, th< Chinese minister. The German government has noti fied the American government tha Alanson B. Houghton, now member o the house from New York, will be ac cepted as ambassador and the name o Mr. Houghton will be sent to the sen ate soon. Senate Republicans have voted ii party conference to press the alliei debt refunding bill and a soldiers bonus bill, in that order. There wa a disagreement as to details of th< two measures, and the conference ad journed to continue its discussions a a later date. Retention by the war department o nine main training centers, one ii each corps area, and of a number o other special camps, has been recom mention uy iieuoi.w rcrniuu^, ituci u staff, at a hearing before the housi military committee. The Itirminghain and Northwester] railroad has applied to the interstati < ommen e c ommission for permissioi to issue $SU0,000 in bonds, which wil he used to refund existing issue of se curitier. An agreement has been reached h; the Chinese and Japanese delegate: whereby the coal and iron mines ii the Kiao-Chow leasehold in Shantuni shall he operated by a company to b< formed under a special charter by tin Chinese government. The Japanese will be permitted to invest" capital it the?enterprise not exceeding the to tal amount of Chinese capital. The nomination of H^nrv p. Fletch>r, Under-Secretary of state, to be .ambassador to Ileligum, was confirmed by the senate, together with that of Wil| liam J. O'Toole, of West Virginia, to be I minister to Paraguay. A combination of French. Japanese, and. finally, British opposition to ar5 itcle four of the Hughes "open-door" doctrine for China, has resulted in the quiet death of that article. The five-power treaty for limitation of naval armaments has undergone furIther changes in the course of a final overhauling by experts, and it now is complete except for the article estab. lishing a fortifications status quo in the Pacific. Japan's right to the former German cables in the Kia-Chow leasehold, the Chefoo-Tsin Otao and the TsingtaoShanghai lines were renounced by the Japanese delegates to the Washington - conference recently at a meeting with 3 the Chinese delegation on the question of Shantung. * Warning of an impending general " oti-iirn in ?ViQ munfrv'a (>nal tnHllstrv was given by Secretary Hoover, who declared that the public should know what to expect when the national 3 agreements covering the wages and 3 working conditions of# miners expire * April 1. i With a total of $108,297,590 in excess of the appropriations for the same f offices for the current fiscal year, the 3 annual independent offices appropriaj tion bill carrying $494,304,238 was rej ported by the house appropriations committee. The amount recommended in the bill, however, is $9,529,475 less _ than the amount requested in budget j bureau estimates. 3 I ' # Domestic? i j Will H. Hays will become directing t head of the new National Asociation c of Motion Picture Producers and Dise tributors "immediately after March 4," 1 it was announced recently at a dinner i at which the postmaster general was 3 the guest of a group of motion picture officials in New York. Mr. Hays' formal resignation from President Hari ding's cabinet will be presented soon, i | it was said. v After an all-day investigation, fedi eral officials at Mobile, Ala., probing c into liquor smuggling on the Gulf f i coast, announce that the probe will e 1 continue several days. Nine arrests have been made, six on the Gulf coast and three in Mobile. The investigation of liquor smuggling will extend 1 from Miami to Mobile. . 9 Beautiful, temperamental Geraldine e : Farrar has put it up to New York to j guess wnv sne nas suaaeniy announceu her abdication of the queen privileges r and prerogatives which she enjoyed throughout the fifteen years of her _ stardom with the Metropolitan Opera f company. Next year Miss Farrar will, . in the patter of the vaudevillian, "hit a the grit'' as a lone trouper, in a con? cert tour which may earn her a quarj ter of a million dollars. President Harding, it is learned in . Newark, N. J., has commuted the prist on term imposed upon Frank H. Nobbe, x one of the group of men sentenced by ; a federal judge in New York for vioi lation of the Sherman anti-trust act. . * A good, warm cell in a penitentiary . j is preferable to liberty these zero days | in Utah, according to Jim Wilson, alias j Martin, an escaped convict from the south. Martin walked into fhe office 11 of Chief of Police Burbridge at Salt f Lake City, Utah., and asked to be tak; en back to the North Carolina state . ! prison. t The jury trying Arthur C. Burch, at j Los Angeles. Cal., for the murder of J. Belton Kennedy reported itself tins able to agree on a verdict recently and [. was discharged. (-; Severe earihshocks were felt in many sections of Los Angeles, Cal., recently, shattering window glass in some quarters and shaking frame ? buildings. Lillian Russell sailed on the steam 7 snip ivt?uifee \> uMiiiiKiwn, iiuiu 5 York recently, determined to get at '* the hfart of the American immigrar | tion question. '* Unable to reach an agreement on ' ! the railroad wage question, the manV : agement of the Nashville, Chattanooga >. and St. Louis railway and the Order '* of Railway Telegraphers will submit 1*; jointly their proposals to the railway J labor board for final action, it was anf nounced recently by W. P. Bruce, geny ' eral manager of the road at Nashville, s Tenn. 1 j Reports that a large store in Chii | cago had opened a window display in which living and unclad reproductions ; of Helen of Troy Venus and Cleo | patra were the chief points of interest. 1 ; attracted such crowds that traffic was 2 blocked, and a police sergeant and five l ! aides rushed forward. "Come on, men 1 1 it's all right," he mumbled to his aides, t | who still were staring in the window. 2 I "Those are just wax figures, but .way | back in the rear of the window that - way, they sure did look real.'* t Daniel G. Buntin. 47, of Nashville, f Tenn., real estate operator, at Nashville and in Chicago, shot and killed f himself recently at his home in West i- End. the act being attributed to illhealth. 0 This year of 1922 will be "a good 1 year for remembering, above all, busii* ness is business and not speculation." s Herbert P. Howell, vice president of 0 the National Bank of Commerce, reI cently told delegates to the convention t of the National Wholesale Dry Goods association, at New York, f Rev. W. E. Robb, sheriff of Polk 0 county, Des Moines, la., has resigned f his pastorate at the Urbandale Fedi erated church, because, he said, he f I does not wish the church to be sube jected to criticism when he hangs two murderers this spring. 0 Donation of $ 1??0 by Cordc-11 Hull, of e Tennessee, chairman of the Democrat* 0 ic national committee, to the Wilson 1 foundation fund was received at Nash! ville. Tenn., by the foundation's chairman in this state. f A proposal by Mayor Ainslie of s Richmond, Ya.. that the controversy 0 between the Virginia Railway and ? Power company and its employees be 0 arbitrated, lias been rejected by T. S. 0 Wheelwright, president of the compa0 nv. upon the grounds that the plan 0 ' "does not include a definite assur ance that the company's revenue will | be considered by the arbitrators." ' ^ 1?Radio-Controlled bout exhibited Granite Stute, pride of the navy in th Chang of Lamar, first prize winner in NEWS REVIEW OF I CURRENTEVENTS i I i | Washington Conference Goes J Far Toward Establishing Real Open Door in China. i AGREEMENT BLOW TO JAPAN j .1 Foreign Policy of New French Gov- J ernment Stated by Premier Poin. care?Irish Free State Formally 1 | Installsd-f-Postmaster General s Hays Announces Coming f Resignation. ? r rnufADH \KJ Dir.l^ARn If oy t UTTnnu vv . > STRONGLY backed by tlie British ' and Italian delegations to the 1 Washington conference, Secretary Hughes and bis American colleagues ' last week pushed far toward comple- ' tion of their plans for the establish- ' ment and maintenance of a real "open 1 door" in China. In effect. It was a big 1 week for China and u rather unpleas- ' ant one for Japan. 1 Mr. Hughes submitted to the FarEastern committee a set of resolutions ( by which the powers in the conference, 1 other than China, agree: "(a) Not to seek or to support their ' nationals in seeking any arrangement which might purport to establish In favor of their interests any general superiority of rights with respect to commercial or economic development In any designated region of Chinn: "(b) Not to seek or to support their nationals in seeking any such monop- ( | oly or preference as would deprive other nationals of the right of under- f taking any legitimate trade pr industry in China or of participating with the Chinese government, or with any provincial government, in any category of r public enterprise, or which by reason J of its scope, duration, or geographical extent Is calculated to frustrate the practical application of the principle of ' equal opportunity." China, for its part, declares its "In- " " t tent ion of being guided by the same principles in dealing with applications for economic rights and privileges ' from governments and nationals of nil foreign countries whether parties to that agreement or not. Provision Is made for the establishing of an international hoard to which questions of compliance with the open door principle may he referred for investigation and report. As first drafted. the resolutions made this applicable to existing concessions. France objected to tills nnd the Japanese, though accepting the plan "In principle." were plainly nervous nnd worried and asked for time to study the text. In the interest of speedy nctlon the objectionable clause was withdrawn, nnd thereupon the plan was given unanimous approval by the committee. The Americans did not look on this as a defeat, for. under their construction of the resolutions, it will still be possible to bring before the international commission any open door question involving existing concessions, including the privileges 1 which Japan by her notorious 21 de' inanils forced China to concede in 101H. ; The Japanese maintain they got noth- < I ing ill rough those demands that vio- | ! lates the open door principle. Ambas- 1 sudor Shidehara dors not believe the J hoard of reference plan is practicable, t finnllv nt*f>antlh1 if \ It really looks as though the com- J mereial open door In the Far Fast Is i about to become, jn the words of Mr. 1 Hughes, n fact Instead of a motto. s In the latter part of the week the s committee was considering the matter i t of the reformation of China's railway > system. The British proposed that the i s powers undertake to abolish all trans- 1 portatlon discrlndnation in China, and i the Americans suggested that China t unify her railways under Iter own con- i trol "with such foreign financial and t technical co-operation as may prove i necessary." I Some dispute, unknown to the public at tliis writing, held up final comple- f I tion of the naval treaty. Apparently it > I involved the question of fortifications, 1 and members of the British and Jap- i CANADIANS WANT OWN CANAL I' i \ Ottawa and Georgian Bay Waterway Is Proving to Have Many Friends in the Dominion. ' ! t Ottawa.?While the project to pro- : vide a great international eluin- s nel for ocean-going ships by improving the St. Lawrence river to the (treat t I.akes is being studied by the govern- < ments of the i'nited States and Canada, t proponents of the proposed Ottawa and . t Georgian bay canal, are seeking to en- i j m ill first American Boys' exposition in e middle of the last century, being jun annual show of Pekingese Club of An inese delegations blamed each other for the delay. It was said the British vanted to limit the fortifications stalls quo to the parts of the Pacific ivhere Japan and the United States utve neighboring possessions, and that they insisted that in any event it could lot affect Singapore, which Is their nost important naval base in the Far Kast. A I/THOUGH Polncare and Lloyd George exchanged honey-worded mtes of esteem and assurance of corlial desire to resuiTle examination of lie questions at issue between their rovernments, the new French premier nok a firm stand in his ministerial ieclaration made to the chamber of leputies Wednesday. iii said the; government was determined to base its, oreign policy on the Versailles treaty, mil was anxious to maintain and consolidate its alliances. Germany, he nsisted, must make up its mind to fulill the obligations it undertook at Versailles. Before agreeing to take part 11 the Genoa conference, he said, "ranee must liuve guarantees from the soviet government of Russia. in talkng to correspondents, M. Polncare ;aid he would not go to Genoa; that ''reach business men might meet Gernan and Russian business men there, iut that France desired that the Genoa :on fere nee should not be the means of 3oishevik propaganda in Europe. The Russians are?very enthusiastic iver the Genoa meet and already have innounced the list of their delegates, t is headed by Premier I.enln, whose dace will he taken by Foreign Miniser Tcliitcherin if the chief cannot go; he other members are all prominent In he soviet government. Leon Trotzky, lowever, does not think the confer nce can be a success unless the Unit >(1 States participates and takes the cad. He adds that Russia favors gen*ral disarmament, but it is skeptical >f France. rHK soviet government Is not yet at war with Finland over the \arelian revolt, but hostilities seem lot far off unless the Finns yield comiletely. They offered to have the nf"air arbitrated, hut this the Russians efused. Tcliitclierin now demands lie Internment, disarming and surrenler to soviet Russia of ail Karelian inmrgents on Finnish soil, the surrender . o Russia of tlieir arms, and an indemlity from Finland for all damages lone to Russia through the Karelian evolt. f X ACCORDANCE with the decision * of the reparations commission. Oernany is paying $7.500.(XH) gold every en days until further arrangements ire made. The first payment was made >n Wednesday. rHK French were much aroused by a resolution Introduced in the Tnited States senate by Medill McJonuick of Illinois. It calls on the state department for full information oncernlng the financial condition, the tudgets and the amounts spent on miltary establishments by European ouutries that owe money to America. There is a belief in France that the esolution was aimed at that country done because of its stand concerning ts land forces and on the subject of submarines. There was no indication hat the resolution had the approval of lie American administration, and it nay be that in stirring up something >f a row it lias doriVtoll .Mr. McCormiek tver expected it would do. LORD FITZALAX. British Viceroy of Ireland, on Tuesday formally urned over Dublin castle to the pro* isional government of the Irish Free Rate, tiie official designation of which s Rlaltas Sealuheach Xa Helreann. hi-- ik,. lilt? gUYtM'Illlirill H'? ??ic iiirsuiii * vfiilists of Michael Collins and seven aslociates. <Griffith, who is president of he Pail Kireann. believed tliat body ihotild be kept separate from the new date organization and so declined to tend the provisional government. As apitll.v its is practicable the British roops are being removed front the sland. and as they leave there are tinny outbreaks by the irreconcilable 'epuhlicans. Collins and his coleagues are phinniiig to send a cmtimisiion to Cantttla to study the I >otitinlon's orm of government ami draft a con:l it lit ion tilotig Cstntiditin lines. The tank of Ireland has'agreed to lend the lew government u million pounds. ist support for their "All-Canadian" vaterway. Advantages claimed for this route iver the St. Lawrence sliip eanal in liide its position entirely within 'anadltin territory, its iinnittnity from he storm htiztirds of the lakes and the aving it offers in mileage. Canadian government engineers have i inide tin exhaustive study of the proj'ct and say the scheme is practicable. L< surveyed, the eanal would follow he St. Lawrence from Montreal to the unction of the Ottawa and St. Law- ^ /?../* 1 1 ...:^ I I x^fTftT^N I ><H \ 1 ^ '' -V A / x yi ' , | > /' - I: .V ;;-%.x-Afe iSftfess J-i ''' t Washington. 2?Old oaken frigate g L-p?l iti Xnrtli rivpp of NVw York. 3? lerica. POPE BENEDICT XV died rather unexpectedly Friday morning after a brief illness which suddenly developed into pneumonia. Until almost the last his physicians insisted that the attack was not serious, and the passing of his holiness surprised us well as shocked the entire world. Benedict was born In 1854 and was elected pope in 1014. He won general esteem by his wise courses and counsels as head of the Roman Catholic church and by his earnest and continuous efforts to restore peace and amity among the nations after the outbreak of the World war. Because a fatal outcome to his illness had not been looked for there has been no discussion yet as to his probable successor. DOSTMASTER GENERAL HAYS * has announced ids retirement from the cabinet about March 4 for the purpose of becoming the directing head ol the new National Association of Motion Picture Producers and Distribute ers. President Harding, in regretfully accepting his resgination, expressed the opinion that Mr. Hays was about to take up a work of great public beno fit. It is believed Hubert Work ol Colorado, now first assistant, will sue. ceed Mr. Hays as postmaster general, with the understanding that he will retire in the fall to make way for Senator New of Indiana in case the senator is defeated for renomination or re-election. Mr. New's opponent in the Republican primaries will be former Senator Albert Beveridge. IN A report transmitted to the senate the federal trade commission charged that three of the largest tobacco manufacturing concerns in the country?the American, the P. Lorillard and the Liggett & Meyers compa >loo \y n \'t\ onnrntro/l Ir* nnncnirapiod with many jobbers' asociations to keep up Jobbers' prices. The commission promises prosecutions where the evidence discloses violations of the law. The report says the j(7bbers' agreement became effective last September when it was learned that the commission's investigation was under way. The three companies named were,formerly parts of the tobacco trust which was. dissolved by the Supreme court. \I7*ITHOUT waiting to he asked, * * the American governmeflt has intervened in the dispute between Chile and Peru over the Tacna-Arica territory and the treaty of Ancon, and lias invited both countries to send delegates? to Washington for a conference. The invitations, sent in the name of President Harding, say the American government has observed with pleasure that the negotiations between the two South American republics "seemed to forecast a settlement in conference of the difficulty involving final sovereignty of the provinces of Taena and Artca." Recent dispatches indicate this is a rather optimistic view of the situation, but it may $ be justified. ? " c T*HROUGH Ambassador Richard , Washburn Child and General Al- e len. at the head of a composite bat- f tallon from the army of occupation, j America on Wednesday paid tribute to tiie memory of Italy's "unknown sol- j, dier," who is buried In Home. King ^ Victor Knunanuel and all high govern* ^ merit officials, as well as the entire ^ diplomatic corps, attended the impress ive ceremony, which was witnessed by ^ an immense throng. Ambassador Child ^ delivered the oration and bestowed on the Italian warrior the Congressional r Medal of Honor, and Premier Honoml ^ responded for his country. v c AN KXroURAGIXG start lias been i, made in the collection of the mil- t lion-dollar fund which the Wondrow a tt'll * ...til llU WllSOn I (HUM III11IMI MOI nuillllli^K-t ...? making annual awards to persons who h distinguish themselves by their serv- P ire to humanity. All ovfrr the country t the pledges came in thick and fast, u One of the most significant contribu- f tions was that of $1,000 by the rail- o road shop crafts unions. The resolu- t tions accompanying it said the con- p trihutioii was "a testimonial to Wood- v n?w Wilson for his unselfish ideals in behalf of not only the people of the h I'liilcd States but of the entire world p who loved liberty and happiness, and f for his fairness in dealing with facts $ that so vitally affected the welfare of r the American people." o rence rivers; thence the Ottawa would b be followed to Mattawa, and Lake j p Nipissing and the French river would r provide outlet^ from the Ottawa river 7 to Lake Huron. t] The length of the canal would he 440 a miles, with twenty-seven locks totaling f< 7.1s; feet. Twenty-two feet would he n the minimum depth on the entire s length. This waterway would cons'st ft of twenty-eight miles of canal proper, "* sixty-six miles of improved river navigation and 316 miles of river and j ' lake. 1 .. ? - - IONS KEEP BUSY ill! MANY BILLS I JILLS OF STATEWIDE INTEREST ARE BEING INTRODUCED IN ABUNDANCE. ? LAX BILLS ARE IN THE LEAD ieveral Measures For Raising Revenue Are Receiving Consideration of the Lawmakers. Columbia. The hydro-electric tax bill, which s fathered by the ways and means :ommittee, would provide for the levyng of a tax of one-third of a mill for sach kilowat hour of electric power >roduced by water power in the state, he tax to be assessed and paid quarerly. Plants incapable of producing 1,000 kilowat hours a month would be ixempted from the provisions of the ax. The state tax commission would lave charge of the administration of he tax. The Ellerbe fraternity bill, which vas rejected by an overwhelming maority, would have left it to the opion of the board of trustees of the iniversity as to whether or not Greek etter fraternities would be allowed it the university. The bill was carded over on the calendar from the [921 session. The morning session was cut short n honor of the anniversary of the )irth of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Immeliately after the holding of the special jxercises to his memory Representa;ives J. T. B. Hamlet and J. G# Greer >f Greenville, both veterans of the Confederate armies, at the invitation )f the house, made the addresses in ribute of Genral Lee. while Eugene S. please of Newberry replied in the lame of the house, thanking the two reterans for their addresses and callng upon the people of the state to emember the Confederate soldiers in he few remaining years they will be iving. Justice Marion submitted his resiglation to the senate, and Lieutenant 3overnor Harvey ordered an election 'or January 31 to fill the place left facant by Mr. Marion's promotion. T. Lyfes Glenn, representative from Chester county, is considering resignng and making a race for the senite. The income tax bill was read by he senate, it having passed the house ind being referred to the finance comnittee. The corporation license measure. :he fifth of the new revenue producing jllls making up the tax reform of the present legislature, has been introluced by the ways and means comnittee of the house. The five revelue bills now on the calendar, which *111 provide that income in lieu of property taxes, are the gasoline tax jill, the income tax bill, the insurance uni +V.A V? rnolootrio nnwpr tflY Jill and the corporation license bill. The corporation license bill provides i tax against corporations of three Masses, domestic corporations, com* non carriers and foreign corporations. The tax against domestic corpora:ions annually would be one mill upon ;ach dollar paid to the capital stock jf each corporation, to be paid before \pril 1 of next year. The tax against foreign corporations vould be one mill on each dollar of :he value of the property of each corjoration used within the state, -o be jaid within 30 days after notice of assessment by the state tax commissionsr the first part of each year. This ;ax woulil be in addition to the initial icense fees paid by foreign corporaions. The tax against railway, street rail* vay. express, navigation, waterworks, jower, light, telephone, telegraph and 'ullman car companies would be three nllls on the gross income of such corporations, to be paid before May 1 of iach year. Senator Crosson introduced a bill to ibolish the present tax commission ind board of review and the present ounty, township and municipal board >f appraisers and to provide for a state ted ^county board of appraisers, reine their duties and prescribe their powers of taxation. Senator Goodwin presented a measire to prohibit the killing of partridres in South Carolina under any conlitions and to punish anyone violating his act. The bill will enable the farm rs to fight the boll weevil as the birds lestroy many weevils. Senator Goodwin said. Senator Crosson also introduced a neasure to "place all hospitals, barter shops. soft dring stands and places i'here soft drinks are either bottled ir manufactured" undetr the provisons of an act passed in 1920 relating o the sanitary inspection of hotels nd restaurants. The senate passed without a dissentng vote the measure to give the genral assembly control over expendiures by all state agencies during Janary and February of this year, and at he same time to appropriate one-sixth f the 1921 appropriation bill to run ' he government on until the 1922 ap- ! mnrlation act is passpd. The bill | < ras sent to the house. A concurrent resolution from the i ouse was adopted calling for the apointment of a committee of three ! roni each house to investigate the s louth Carolina Tuberculosis sanitaium. I H. B Hendricks and Asa Hall, both f Anderson, are the authors of the ( ill to abolish the state hoard of 1 ublic welfare, which bill was also < eferred to the judiciary committee, i 'he bill provides for the repeal of < he act of March 10, 1920. with all i mendments thereto, which provided ; :>r the government and control of pe- I al and charitable institutions in the ] tate by the state board of public wel- l rre. Senator George W. Wightman ' f Batesburg has introduced a similar 1 leasure in the senate, which is also t l the hands of a committee. t - ! Questions of taxation and cotton mill industrial problems continue to hold front rank in tfce activities of the house, the sending of the new income tax bill to third reading and the Introduction of a measure to prevent the closing of cotton mills for a longer period than 19 cousecutive days within one year without the approval of the governor, being the salient features of the session. Representative T. W. Dukos, of Rowesville is the author of a bill in troduced to amend tne state nignway commission act so as- to permit the state highway commission to maintain roads through towns having a population of 2,500 or under. The present act provides for such state maintenance only in the case of towns of 1,000 or less. The bill, fathered by Representatives J. K. Hamblin and A. O. Kennedy of union, to standardize the text books used in the public schools of the state, which was also among the number of measures continued from the 1921 session, fell foul of considerable opposition and after a warm bit of debate was recommitted to the committee on education. Representative Hamblin, who is one of the authors of the bill, led the fight for the sending of the *bill to third reading, contending that the absence of a standard list of school books in the state had worked a hardship on the country folk. Representative F. W. Toole of Aiken is the father of the bill to prevent the indefinite closing of cotton mills without approval of the governor and it is his intention, Mr. Toole says, to make it impossible for the cotton mills of the state to "cause starvation among their employes" by causeless shutting down of their plants. The concurrent resolution, introduced by Representative E. R. Ellerbe of Latta, calling upon the tax com- . mission to reduce the valuation of lands in the state by at least 25 per cent, was agreed to by the house despite opposition, the vote standing 51 to 35 in favor of the measure. Senator Crosson's measure to inflict death penalty or life imprisonment where the jury recommended mercy on all persons convicted of blowing or cracking safes or vaults used for money depositories when the intent be to rob was passed to a third reading with the understanding that the debate would come then. Senator Watkins intimated that this measure might deplete the population of the state by running out all yeggs and safeblowers. Senator Crosson said that was what he wanted to do. Senator Wightman's bill to remove a number of Restrictions of the present law in regard to admitting percnna tn nmrtiee law in this state was killed by a vote of 20 to 10. This measure was to allow any person with a general preliminary education to be admitted to practice under such qualifications as the board of law examiners might provide. The two years' study in a lawyer's office or the law school education now required would have been eliminated by Mr. Wightman's bill. The vote was taken on Senator Young's motion to strike out the enacting words, which carried by 20 to 10. Representative Mclnnes' bill to repeal the antl-tipping law was passed to a third reading after a general debate, the vote being 16 to 12 on Senator Wightman's motion to strike out the enacting words, which was lost After the refusal to strike out the enacting words the bill was sent to third reading. Senator Young explained that the anti-tipping law was of doubtful constitutionality and had never been enforced. He said it was useless and added that such laws tended to create a state of mind for more general violations of all laws. Senator Hubbard said if the law was being repealed because It was not enforced he favored adding the prohibition law. Senator Young said a man had a right to give away his own money and he didn't believe a law to the contrary would be constitutional. Senator Wightman asked the Charleston senator about giving away liquor and Mr. Young said he was "not a mildionaire." Among other measures of interest introduced in the house was a bill to require all persons, firms or corpora tions engaged in me Dusiness ui cau< nlng. packing, preserving, pickling, bottling, boxing, casing, crating or in other way of preparing food for sala and shipment to brand or label such foods "South Carolina Product." The bill was referred to the committee on \ * fish, game and forestry. The committee on agriculture returned a favorable report on the bill to require tobacco warehouses handling ungraded tobacco to pay a license. The resignation of Senator Marion, the new associate justice, was accepted with deep regret upon motion of Senator Laney. Senator Williams' bill to require the clerks of court, magistrates and mayors or intendents of cities and towns in this state to apportion fines in certain cases was passed and sent to the house. Among the new bills introduced was the one by Mr. Gerald of Richland to provide for a state board of arbitration for labor disputes in cities of between 30.Q00 and 50,000 inhabitants. Columbia is the only city of that size in the state. There has been a threatened street car strike here for some time and the bill is directed to settle this. Senator John Hardin Marion was sworn in as associate justide of the state suprepie court at noon. Judge W. H. Townsend of Columbia administered the oath. The 48-hour bill, which was introiueed by Representative J. K. Ham blin 01 Lnion ana ri. o. neuuricKs af Anderson, would make it "unlawful tor any textile industry, whether incorporated or otherwise, to require more than 48 hours' work per week'* ind would also limit the working day to nine hours. Violators of the proposed law would be liable for sentence at the discretion of the court, rhe bill, upon the motion of Mr. Hamilin. one of its authors, was referred o the committee on the Judiciary, of .vhich he is chairman. t '' s A , tW . o uiaJ*