Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, February 23, 1922, Image 3
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
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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
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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
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: 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
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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
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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
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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. '
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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
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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. ,
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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.
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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.