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BRIEF NEWS NOTES WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING WEEK THROUGHOUT COUNTRY AND ABROAD EVENTS OFJMPSRTANCE Gathered From All Parts Of The Globe And Told In Short Paragraphs \ ___________ Foreign? Snipers continue their grim work in the disturbed sections of Belfast, Ireland. The total of deaths so far is ?ighteen. and the number of wounded is not less than fifty. ine nouse or commons nas votea ? an expression of confidence in the policies of Lloyd George, on every issue, foreign and domestic, now before the British people. Chinese shipping companies, lacking government production from pirates who have been seizing and looting ocean-going vessels in buccaneer taple, have taken to arming their ships and placing details of guards aboard. The Standard Oil company has definitely suspended all work at its refineries near Tampico, and workmen numbering upward of a thousand will be discharged immediately, according to advices from Tampico which say orders to this effect have been received from New York. Only the pump workers will be retained, it was added. The British military evacuation of Ireland is expected to be resumed it was declared by Michael Collins, he?u of the provisional Irish government, on his return from London, where he interviewed, Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary for colonies. General MacReady, British military comander in Ireland, visited Mr. Collins, and their conversation, it was assumed, was in connection with the withdrawal of the troops. Up until recently the troop movement had not been resumed but preparations were under way for the immediate shipment of hundreds of tons of army stores. The first person who can prove that supernatural causes are not responsible for uncanny happenings at Alex MacDonald's farm in Caledonia Mills, near Halifax, N. S., will receive 5100 if an offer made by Detective Carroll of the provincial police and Harold Whidden, a Halifax reporter, holds good. Plwlnnf In CionV?Anfl otroof Q rDQ r 11 lug ill me ciauuv[/o uvi vw w, when the disorders broke orut anew recently, after a lull of several hours, became so intense that police, hurried to the scene, were forced to use their arms to subdue the snipers. Protesting his innocence, the Rev. Adelard Delorme, Catholic priest, charged with the murder of his halfbrother, Raoul, an Ottawa university student, pleaded to be tried as soon as possible. The resignation of Czechoslovakia as "guardian'' of Austria is declared in diplomatic circles for discussion between Dr. Eduapd Banes, the Czecho , premier, and foreign minister and the British government during the visit in London of Dr. Benes. The permanent court of international justice was opened recently at The Hague with fitting ceremonies. Several of the royal families were in attendance. An attempt was made on the life of Admiral Nicholas Horthy, the Hungarian regent, according to reports published in Vienna. Washington? Confidence that the work of the railroad administration will be "substan1 1 fi O 4 lictiiv i.uui^ivivu uj ?iaiiuai> i, and that the "entire liquidation of the obligations of the government arising during the period of federal control could be concluded without any additional appropriation ,for that purpose by congress" was expressed in a letter ? from President Harding to Speaker Gillett recently. The Kenvon bill to aid Idle men of the country has been recommitted, and it is believed that the return of the measure to the committee means ? Its "death." Boaz W. Long, American minister to Cuba since 1919, has tendered his resignation to President Harding to take effect at once. While the war department has no official advices as to the situation at El Paso, it has been known in Washington for some time, that a revolution was brewing across the border. The department has left the matter to Major General Howze, as it his business to take special precautions to protect t the border at any and all times. Secretary Denby, in asking congress L for an appropriation of 5350,000,000 for the navy next year, in a frank and * detailed statement as to what the nan department hoped to accomplish, told the house naval committee that his estimate called for a reduction of 10,000 in enlisted personnel, which was made possible only by putting about 100 destroyers out of commission and by sharp cuts in shore station forces. The war department has ordered n further reduction of officers and men in the American rorces m uermany. There remains a total of 169 officers and 2,217 men. Proposals were made before the interstate commerce commission at the hearing by S. Davie Warfield, president of the National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities, preliminary to a report by the board of economics and engineering appointed by ? the association advocating methods for the economical handling of railroad equipment. Efofrts of house military committeemen to exact a pledge for the manuiacture of fertilizers during the one hundred year life of the proposed contract by Henry Ford for the purchase and lease of the government's prop* erties at Muscle Shoals, Ala., failed. W. B. Mayo, appearing before the committee as the personal representative of Mr. Ford, declared the Detroit manufacturer was not willing to modify his offer in any of its existing provisions unless it was to clarify the language only and not alter the plan itself. A demand for ::n Immediate intestlgation of reports that tne "fertilizer industry" Is maintaining an expensive lobby not to defeat llenry Ford's offer for the Muscle Shoals nitrate project was made in the seuate by Senator McKellar, Tennessee. Congress was torn re cully between passing a sales tax to pay a soldier bonus and dropping altogether the cash bonus, stipulating therefor paidup insurance or land grants. This was the situation in the wake of President Harding's letter suggesting the sales tax for abandonment as the alternatives for the bonus. Traffic over the Pennsylvania lines between here and Baltimore had been resumed recently after several hours' interruption caused by the derailment at Odenton, Md., of two cars on the Buffalo express. Four persons were injured, two seriously, and several hundred yards of track were torn up in the derailment, necessitating the routing of Pennsylvania trains over the Baltimore and Ohio tracks until the damage was repaired. The senate judiciary committee, as a means of relieving congestion in certain judicial districts, has agreed to report a bill providing for nineteen additional United States district judges and one additional circuit judge. Domestic? Scores of ships of all kinds from battered tramp steamers of the seven seas to graceful pleasure-freighted passenger liners left New York harbor on a mission of mercy?an attempt to rescue John Birkner, 24, the sailor who was cast adrift from the steamer Gaffney, 700 miles away, in an unfrequent- | ed part of the Atlantic. nTot,, Hrloanc totmrranh nHvifPs shnw that the cotton market is taking its usual spring rise, and in one day the gains ran up to 55 points over the previous day Futures also responded i with a healthy rise. Pussyfoot Johnson was ejected from a Chicago cafe, the other day, by the waiters and other restaurant employees. He was literally kicked from the the "joint" and his coat and hat thrown out after him. The playing of dominoes or loitering about domino parlors in the military area at Mexia, Texas, will constitute evidence that persons so en- . gaged are vagrants, according to an J order published by Brig. Gen. Jacob ^ F. Wolters, commander of the Na- j tional Guard forces there, to restore order and break up alleged trafficking v in whisky and drugs. Hugh C. Fisher, district attorney u for the federal western district of t Louisiana, has been disbarred from c that court for six months on convic- v tion of contempt of court. Reports c of the court's action have been for- r warded to Washington. n The banker for Lorebzo Guissi, under arrest at Oakland, Calif., on a i, charge of failing to render assistance f to a woman who had been run down i by Guissi's automobile, took a wag- t on load of half dollars?$2.00 in all? p to jail for Guissi's bail. It took police b officers near eight hours to count the t money, which was finally checked as t correct. c Dispatches from El Paso, Texas, say [ feeling is tense in Juarez, across the t border in Mexico, and at Fort Bliss, j where reports have caused emergency \ steps to be taken to get ready for a v threatened Mexican rebel attack on p Juarez. Five thousand American sol- s diers have been mobilized at Fort Bliss i "to protect the border." ? The grand jury recently returned i four true bills against Mrs. Catherine t Rosier in connection with the killing t of her husband, Oscar Rosier, and his i 19-vear-old stenographer, Mildred Rick- i ett in his advertising offices at Phil- ? adelphia. Pa. Fire at Dothan, Ala., destroyed the * plant of the Doth n Syrup company, f 1 causing an estimated loss of $75,000, 1 t covered by insurance. r * (oprnpiof nrncram nf international t scope may be revealed through the arrest at Los Angeles, Calif., of eight alleged members of a band of extortionists, it was said by federal and other officers who participated in the arrest. George A. Bowen. attorney, shot and killed his wife, Mary Boden, 37 years of age, and her mother, Mrs. Julia Taylor, 66, and then ended his life in his wife's home at Los Angeles, Cal. Detectives investigating the slaying of William Desmond Taylor, motion picture director, continued interviewing persons thought to have information possibly bearing on the case, but without definite results, District Woolwine announced at Los Angeles, Cal. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., addressing the Westchester County Chamber of Commerce at New York, told another story on himself about his recent visit to China. In one town he visited he caused removal of the top of the sedan in which he was being carried to that he might better see the sights. The populace greeted him in such a peculiar manner that he made inquiries, eliciting the information that he was riding in state only accorded to criminals on their way to be executed. Tabulation of Alabama official returns from the special election of ; Januray 30. submitted by all counties, snow mat iii.oz* votes were cast ior $25,000,000 good roads bond issue ' amendment and 22,918 against. ' Harvey Church, condemned to die , in Chicago for murder of two automo- , bile salesmen whom he had lured to the basement of his home in order to ( gain possession of an expensive motor , car. must live to die on the gallows, ( county jail officials have decided, so } they broke his hunger strike by forcibly feeding him through a tube. Admiral Daron Tomasabura Kato, head of the Japanese delegation at the recent arms conference, is the guest of New Orleans, and will leave for San Francisco, where he will set sail 1 , for Japan on the 21st of February. A federal grand jury investigation into the conduct of the business of the Shroveport, La., Commercial Na- 1 t'unal bank by its former officers and 1 directors, leading to and rendering : necessary the bank's reorganization," lias been ordered by United States 1 j Judge Jack. ;T >^v'" "~~ i. r pV^ct-i -?r- -;? KTjr mmrn ' H | ' | : . '5^1 > jjV ?j' :.: .;' m "* I ; j If !l3i : j ^ IJ i; jlv Jl^P A r ?ifi: it, *'?''" la v /^ "~*rr?> BTj rl V I /a* f 1?Interior courtyard of ancient photograph showing the steamship graphed with Mrs. Edison on his j meu/q Review ne currenVevents Republicans Struggling With Problem of Financing the Soldiers' Bonus. DENBY TRIES TO SAVE NAVY \sks Personnel of 90,000 and Appropriation of $350,000,000?General Strike of Coal Miners Impends ?Collins and Craig Coming to Agreement. By EDWARD W. PICKARD EARLY everyone is in favor of giving tlie ex-service man a >onus, but no one is willing to help >ay for it. Every plan so far pro>osed for raising tlie necessary revnue?estimated at $350,000,000 annuilly for the next three years?rhus iroused determined opposition. Mein ers of tlie house ways and means ommlttee .thought eight special taxes rould turn tlie trick, but every element >f the population that would be diectly affected by them rulsed un lmacdiate wail. Republican leaders appealed to Presdent Harding to suggest something easible, and he undertook to do so on Thursday. Rut what should his plan ?e but the same old general sales tax reposition which it has been admitted iy nearly everyone cannot possibly get hrough congress! Because this was lis only plan, and because he also rltlclzed the plan of providing for the inyments of cash bonuses in installnents over u period of two and a half ears, it was assumed by many In iVashlngton that the President really vlshed the bonus legislation again mstponed, though he hesitated to say io flatly. The situation was plainly incomfortnble for the Republicans, ind the Democrats were Joyously takng every advantage of the discomflure of their adversaries. The leaders >f the agricultural bloc in both the louse nnd the senate reiterated their inqunllfled opposition to any kind of i general sales tax. Some of the Republican leaders itrongly favored the passage of a iouse bill without any plan of financing. They thought the necessary money night be made available by further reluction of appropriations for certain lepnrtments, especially the army nnd lavy. Mr. Mondell prepared a statenent to show how nearly $300,000.)00 could be saved this way. But wen that would not be sufficient, and nany congressmen urged again the issuance of bonds. Of course the defl?lt, after the problematical saving of $300,000,000 in appropriations, could )e made up by Issuing short term eer:lflcates of indebtedness, which it was isserted the mnrket would readily ablorb. Both the President and Secreary Mellon declare that n big bond ssue would seriously embnrass the ixtensive refunding operations that nust be undertaken during the coming . ear, causing an increase in interest ates and disturbing the Liberty bond narket. Some other government offl ials do not agree with them. ^ ENATOR BORAH Is consistently opposing me KUIlua unauac, ?iv; jays, it will interfere with the care )t the soldiers now undertaken by the government through the veterans' jureau. He predicts that within ten k-ears the annual expenditure for distilled soldiers will have reached $1,>00,000,000, of which no one will complain "so long as the appropriations tre based on the necessities and retirements of the disabled soldiers." Director Forbes of the veterans' purenu calls attention to the fact that the total government expenditure required for disabled soldiers for 1022 is $510,000,000, and thus sets forth the tvays in which the bureau 1h using the money: Paying out $1,000,000 cash every Jay, including Sunday, directly Into the hands of the ex-service man or ids Jependents in compensation allotments. Providing, without cost, hospital care ind treatment to 30,000 veterans. DANGER LEFT IN WAR'S WAKE Drifting Mines and Derelict Submarines Are a Constant Menace to Baltic Navigation. Stockholm. ? Ghosts of the groat war still haunt the IJaltic, scaring veteran skippers, sailors, fishermen and steamship passengers alike. Hardly a week passes without reports along the Swedish coast of drifting old mines anil derelict submarines, both a serious danger to all naviga we^W\:.:. .-^f;V : king's palace at Genoa, where economic Northern Pacific being destroyed by fire al leventy-flfth birthday. This care Includes board and lodging and represents an expenditure by the government of $00,000,000 a year. Giving vocational training, without cost to over 100,000 disabled ex-service men at an annual expenditure for tuIH?" ?"<! <100 000 000 ILM7U QI1U oupu ? toivu V/JL yuv,vvv|vvw. Mulling out 650,000 checks every month, representing $42,000,000. Conducting an Insurance business for over 000,000 ex-service men, without cost of administration to them, at premium rates below that of private companies for like policies. Insurance in force $3,500,000,000. Conducting over 50,000 medical examinations every month. Giving outside treatment In cases where hospitalization Is not required to 20,000 ex-service men every month. Receiving 1,000 new claims a day in addition to the 1,200,000 alrendy on file; employing 4,000 ex-service men and woman in carrying out the work. SECRETARY DEXBY began last week a strenuous fight to save the United States navy from congressional action which, he believes, would destroy its efficiency and at the same time destroy the international naval relativity provided for in the pending treaty for naval limitation. He Is ably seconded by Assistunt Secretury Theodore Roosevelt and Admiral Robert A. Coontz, chief of naval operations. All three of them appeared before the house naval affairs committee and argued for a minimum personnel of 90,000 men and 6,000 apprentices, and for an appropriation of $350,000,000 for the flscnl year 1923. At the outset Chairman Thomas Butler, voicing also the opinion of other members of the committee, declared the amount asked by Mr. Penby was altogether too large, that the people would never support a vote by congress for three times what the navy cost In 1910 exclusive of construction. Admiral Coontz in his argument ) said: "The secretary of the navy has <a'led your attention to the expenditures of the naval establishment ror this jear as amounting to $478,000,000. If we add to this various other transactions and moneys re'urned to the tr-*'s*ury, we will have practically a half billion dollar business. Its ramifications extend all over the world. "The navy maintains communications in the Interior of Europe as far east as Constantinople and Warsaw for the benefit of our country, Its commercial Interests and the American relief work. Our radio communications handle Pacific matters, and, at the present time, due to the breaking of the mid" ? onKl a nro KorwlUnrr nrnptlnnllv Wtt) V.?UiC, UIV, Iiuuuiiii^ j/tMWiVM.v the entire trans-Pacific traffic. The naval appropriation also provides the funds for the administration of our island possessions, among which are the Virgin Islands, Haiti, San Domingo, Guam, and Samoa." ONE of the outcomes of the unemployment conference was up for discussion In the senate Wednesday and received some hard knocks. It was the bill Introduced by Senator Kenyon by which the President would be authorized to postpone federal construction and Improvements in prosperous times when Jobs are plentiful and then order the work carried on at full speed when business stagnation appears. Senator New of Indiana based his opposition to the measure on the rntlier ridiculous reason that the Pharaohs were unable to discover a formula to solve the problem of recurring periods of plenty and famine In Egypt. He did not tblnk congress could succeed where the Pliaraohs had failed. WHILE the senate foreign relations committee was discussing the four-power Pacific treaty, the same pact obtained place on the floor of the upper house. Senator Hitchcock offered a resolution asking President Harding to transmit to the senate additional information and documents relating to Its negotiation, asserting that little of this was contained In the report of the American delegates. Ad - A-? aI anlfl tVila ionn Ko. millisiniuuil urnucia nuiu una vino uccnuse practically all tlie negotiations were oral and few minutes or notes of the conversations were kept. The resolution, however, wns adopted. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE HOOVER wants to publish the trade statistics gathered by trade associations, so he asked Attorney Gentlon. The mines are principally of Russian and German origin, and, after breaking loose from their moorings, they have drifted toward the east coast of Sweden. Many of them have been washed ashore on Gottland island, which lies almost In the center ; of the Baltic. The derelict U-boats haunt the western waters. Ever since the armistice Baltic ! storms have washed mines upon the ; coast, and dwellers along the shore j have long since become accustomed to conference will meet 2?Remarkable t sea. 3?Thomas A. Edison photoeral Daughcrty as to the legal limits within which such associations could operate. Mr. Daugherty In reply holds that their activities do not contravene the provislous of the antitrust act unless in actual practice they suppress competition, curtail production or enhance prices. They may standardize grades, quality and processes; furnish Information as to fl'nancial responsibility; handle Insurance and engage In co-operative advertising; gather statistics of production, distribution and wages for the Information of the secretary of commerce; and they may provide a standard system of cost accounting, but should be warned to guard against uniform cost as to any Item of expense. IT APPEARS likely there will be a general strike of coal miners on April 1 unless It Is prevented by government Intervention. The United Mine Workers of America are In convention In Indianapolis and have received the report of the scale committee positively declaring against the wage reductions which liavS been demanded by the operators. Indeed, some Increases are asked by the men, though they do not demand the sixhour day and five-day week. The report says: "In event no agreement Is reached by April 1, we declare in favor of a general suspension of mining operations, such action being subject to a referendum vote of the membership of the United Mine Workers of Amerllca, such referendum to be held prior to March 31." Religious factions in Belfast fought bitterly throughout the week and about two score persons were killed and many wounded. The British troops there took a hand In the melee, making bayonet charges on both sides Impartially, but were unable to stop the sniping and bomb throwing. Michael Collins, heud of the Irish Free State, went to London and after a conference with Sir James Craig announced that they had agreed upon the appointment of liaison commissions from the Free State and Ulster that will patrol the frontier and prevent bloodshed. He also said he had secured the release of the kidnaped Ulsterltes. The evacuation of the Free State by British troops had been halted, but on Mr. Collins' representations it was resumed. FROM Paris comes the prediction that the conference on the economic rehabilitation of Europe will be postponed until May, and shifted probably from Genoa to Rome, Milan or Verona. The reasons, advanced are the delay In forming a new Italian government, the insistence of France on a preliminary meeting to decide on the agenda, and the alleged fact that the United States will not determine the extent of Its participation until the senate has acted on the Washington conference treaties. The German delegation to the conference. which will be headed by Dr. Wnlther Rathenau, foreign minister, will be armed with elaborate arguments to prove that the reparations clauses in the treaty of Versailles must be abandoned or radically altered if the financial salvation of Europe Is to be accomplished. Rathenau's idea is thnt the interests of all will be best served If thore is almost a complete cessation of payments during 1922 and if Germany Is permitted to pay In goods and work Instead of cash. HUGO STINNES, industrial magnate, learned on Wednesday that he Is not so much the master of Ger many as he thought. After a debate In the relehstag In which he and his Peoples' party were bitterly assailed the government was given a vote of confidence. This was a victory not only for Chancellor Wlrth but also for Doctor Rathenau and the Industrial group that Is opposed to Stlnnes. ' I ANOTHER of the gangs of swln- i dlers that prey on ignorant foreign 1 residents has been uncovered, this i time In Chicago. The victims were de- j frauded of millions of dollars by means comparable to those employed by j Ponzi of Boston. Most of the mem- , hers of the gang are under arrest and I i the police are close on the trail of the i others. < the terrific detonations of exploding ( mines hurled against cliffs during 1 heavy gales. Energetic efforts have ( been made to sweep up these danger- j ous relics of the war, but it will prob- j ably be years before either the North ( sea or the Baltic Is free of them. It Is not-at all uncommon for fisher- ^ men to catch mines in their nets. They j are regarded as lucky catches, nlthough they have to be handled gingerly, for tlie government pays hanusornely for the removul or destruction j of the mines. . APPROPRIATION BILL IS PASSED 6? HOUSE SILL CARRIES TOTAL OF $5,672,758. ONLY SLIGHT INCREASE ALLOWED. GOVERNOR SENOS MESSAGE ??? Pleads With General Assembly to Support Schools?Gerald Bill Is Made Law. Columbia. Carrying a total of $5,672,758.51, an increase of only $1,073.84 over the measur#*as reported from the ways and means committee, the general appropriation bill was given its final passage in the house of representatives and was ordered sent to the Benate. The general appropriations bill ran the gamus of as thorough debate as any measure of its kind has ever received in the lower body. Discussion of the measure was commenced Thursday night at 8 o'clock, and this continued until Friday morning at 2 o'clock and, after a respite until 10 o'clock, was again resumed and continued until 2:30 Friday afternoon, when a recess was taken for lunch. The debate was resumed at 4 o'clock, but the house was then weary, and the bill was given its second reading at 5:50 o'clock. It was then decided to adjourn until 12.01 Saturday morning, give only third reading to the measure and quit. There was a determined effort on the part of a minority of the house to materially reduce the bill by offering amendment to practically every item. But these were unavailable, except in three cases. The bill was amended eight times, but five pf these amendments were from the ways and means committee which held such an unbending front under the leadership of its chairman, T. E. Humpes, of Marion, and two of its influential members, C. N. Sapp, of Richland, and R. B. Belser, of Sumter, that the measure went through almost as it was introduced. The only changes adopted were: Amendment by A. O. Hydrick, of Orangeburg, and R. J. Wade, of Aiken, to delete the item carrying an appropriation of $2,500 for a summer school for coaches at the University of South Carolina. Amendment by J. C. Kearse, of Bamberg, to decrease the pay of G. Croft Williams, secretary of the state welfare board, from $3,150 to $2,500. The ways and means committee had previously reduced it from $3,150, or 10 per cent. Amendment of J. K. Owens, of Marlboro, to Increase the pay of the stenographer of the state bank examiner from $1,200 to $1,450. Amendments by the ways and means committee to increase the pay of inspectors of the state department of agriculture; the chief inspector from $2,160 to $2,400; first factory inspector from $1,600 to $2,000; second factory inspector from $1,500 to $1,900, and seven other inspectors from $1,500 to $1,900 each. Amendment by the ways and means committee to increase the balance doe on 1921 building contract at Confederate home from $568.80 to $802.64. The insurgents against the ways and means committee bill were ably led by J. K. Owens, of Marlboro; J. K. Hamblin, of Union, and R. J. Wade, of Aiken, but their efTorts were futile against the close formation front of their antagonists, except in three small amendments. The major fight, precipitated by the governor's special message Thursday night, was on the appropriations for the department of education. Several rather severe cuts were made and a prolonged effort was made, covering about five hours, to have them reinstated, but they failed. After the ways and means committee won its fight on this section the members who wanted to amend the bill seemed to lose heart, and they gradually began to drift out of the chamber until there was barely a quorum to give the measure its second reading. Governor Cooper sent a special mesBoth legislative houses adopted the free conference report on the inheritance tax bill, recommending that all the senate amendments be agreed to save one. This amendment was to tax any gift or deed made within two years before death, this time being construed to be in contemplation of death. The bill was ordered enrolled for ratification by the house and so will be the first of the series to become law if it is not vetoed by the governor. The house favored no limit on the the years at all. but the senate finally agreed to two years. Among the number of measures killed were: W. R. Harris' measure to require the publication at the end of each year of the total amount of fees received by the various clerks of court, probate judges, auditors and sheriffs of the state and the Mclnnes bill to prevent the sale and use of steel traps in the state. The measure, Introduced by J. K. Hamblin. to proride that no suit be brought against a county or highway commission for jamage to property by reason of the building or repairing any road within two years of the time of such alleged lamage, was also killed. The judiciary committee made practically a unanimously unfavorable report on Senator Pearce's bill to pernit the city of Columbia to construct Jriveways around the state house. Folowing this report upon motion of Mr. Pearce, the bill was referred to the ommittee on public buildings. T3y a vote of 26 to 18 the senate tilled the hydro-electric tax bill. This s the first of the new revenue mensjres to be killed by the upper house ind the action of the ssenace disrupts partially the proposed program for leleving the burden from visible tangl-; pie property. sage to both bouses of toe general assembly in which he said he was gravely concerned in the proposed appropriations for the public schools. The governor called attention to the advancement of the school system and how the appropriations recommended in the ways and means committee bill would seriously cripple the work. He urged the legislature not to reduce the common school work as a sacrifice for the institutions of higher learning. In the senate the massage, upon motion of Senator Goodwin, wast referred to the finance committee. The house received it as inofrmation. Final passage of the Gerald bill requiring street railway companies and their employes to arbitrate their disputes was a feature of the senate session, the measure being passed by a. vote of 27 to 7. This bill, while farmed as an act not applying to any particular company, in reality affects only the street railway company ot Columbia and its employes as it applies to counties having incorporated cities of more than 30,000 and less than 50,000 inhabitants. Senators Pearce, Miller and Ragsdale led th? fight for the passage and Senator Watkins against it, as he thought th<* bill unconstitutional and voted' against it on that ground. % The joint resolution providing for the appointment of a committee composed of three members of the hous? and three from the senate to investigate the advisability of erecting an. office building in Columbia to house the state offices was killed by a largo majority. The program to provide for biennial sessions of the general assembly and for four-year terms for state officers encountered an impasse in the house of representatives when the first of the series of seven joint resolutions, required to make these changes in the state constitution came up for consideration and failing to master the needed two-thirds majority, was killed. The other six resolutions, following the defeat of this first measure, were tabled and withdrawn from the files of the house upon the motion of Representative Eugene S. Blease of Newberry county with the concurrence of F. G. Harris of Spartanburg, one of the three authors of the bills. The record vote on the bill stood 53 to 52 in favor of its passage. The resolution upon which the fight was made was the bill to provide for the amendment of Article 10 of the state constitution so as to provide for the levying of the state taxes biennially instead of annually as at present. W. P. Robinson of Lancaster led the attack on this bill, opening the discussion with a motion to strike out the enacting words. This brought a number of the young members of the house to the defense of the measure, chief among these being Representatives J. R. Bryson of Greenville, F. G. Harris of Spartanburg and Julius S. Mclnnes of Darlington, joint authors of the series of resolutions. Of the 48 states in the United States 40 of these, it was pointed out, now operate under the biennial system, while only six ? among these , South Carolina?still cling to the annual meetings. In two states the leglislatures meet every four years. Similar resolutions, it was stated, were passed by both houses of the general assembly several years ago and submitted to the people of the state with the result that after changes had | been agreed to by the voters of the state the general assembly "for some reason" failed to ratify the election. James DeTreville of Walterboro and J. O. Williams of Easley also spoke in favor of the measure. The committee on banking and insurance returned favorable reports, ( with amendments in certain cases, on the bills by Senator Hart to further regulate the banking business, with the exception of the measure in reference to a certain reserve fund, whi^h was given an unfavorable report. Senator Christensen's bill to amend the fish and game laws so as to strike out the clause providing for a $5 license for fishing boats in the low country and requiring owners of such boats to report the number of flsh caught and also striking out the clause making a closed season for terrapin until July 15, 1925, as well as amending the law so as to allow terrapins five and one-half inches long to be caught instead of Ave Inches, was passed and sent to the bouse with no strenuous objection. Senator Har| interrupted Senator Christensen's explanation of the bill long enough to ask him what GrifTenhagen said about the bill. Prospects for an adjournment of the general assembly within the constitutional 40 days look rather slim at present with the senate legislative mill grinding exceedingly slow in comparison to the house. Those in touch with the inner workings of the assembly seem to think that several ex tra WeeKS Will oe uetenoai; uuiwii "more gas Is turned on" and the mill speeded up. One official said that if much more speed was not show? within the next week he was convinced the two bodies would be her? until April 1. That, however, is prol* ably a little far-fetched. , I Governor Makes Appointments. Governor Cooper made the following apointments: W. T. Giles, J. D. Epps and T. J. West to be supervisor of registration for Union county. T. E. Stanley to be magistrate a| Marion, vice D. E. Godbold, who was appointed to succeed Magistrate WhiH den, but declined to serve. J. W. Fulmer to be master in equity; of Saluda county. * Capt. Elias Day, S. H. Brown and J. A. Brown to be supervisors of registration for Pickens county. I Papers for Douglas. Governor Cooper issued requisition papers on the governof of Florida for the return to this state of Will Douglas. alias W. A. Carroll, who is wanted) here for the thef-. of an automobile belonging to F. K. Chapman. Thn requisition was forwarded to Governor Hardee and will be sent to St. Petersburg if the governor honors it, where Douglas or Carroll is under arrest.1 Chief Dunnaway of the rural police is' named as the agent to go for the nriaoner.