Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Few discordant notes were Bounded in comments from congress men who are to pass upon legislation urged to prohibit monopoly and hold men of business within the law. Throughout the delivery of the ad dress the assembled senators and rep resentatives listened intently to every word, applauding frequently as when the president began enumerating the evils which he believed needed rem edying. . ■ ‘ ' His proposal for an interstate trade commission to facilitate business and keep it in the straight path: the rec- ommendation of laws to prohibit in terlocking directorates and holding companies; suggestions for authority to regulate railroad securities, for an act that would fix guilt upon individ uals instead of punishing business, and that the courts be opened to indi viduals harmed by illegal business— all these were received with general approval, evidenced by enthusiastic applause. Before the plaudits of his audience had ceased, and as the president was passing from the house chamber, where his successive appearances since last April have contributed to the nation’s history, his utterances had precipitated act' Representative Underwood, major ity leader of the house, was the first to act. As soon as the house recon vened after the joint seesion, held to hear the president, ha offered a mo tion to refer to the Interstate and for eign commerce committee the sug gestions for the creation of an inter state trade commission, and for a law empowering the Interstate commerce commission to regulate the issuance of railroad securities, and to the committee on judiciary the proposals relating to legislation designed to supplement but not amend the Sher man anti-trust act This motion was adopted, and it later was announced that both committees would begin work at once aad arrange for public hearings. Expressions on the message cams freely from senators and representa tives, Democratic, Republican and Progressive. The only unfavorable criticisms emulated from Progres sives. Representative Murdock,- the third party leader, asserted that the suggestions for the solution of the trust evil were "Inadequate” and would render the trust evil more acuta. -<v- “The presidents' recommendations are moderate,” said Senator Qalllnger leader of the Republican minority In. the upper house, “and for the most part, wise. It seems to me there is nothing" In the reeommendatlbn that used disturb business men or that would Justify radical legislation. If the Democratic members In both branches of congress will torafulate bills on the lines suggested by the president and abandon their method of legislation by party caucus they will dnd the Republicans ready to co te with them In blunging about tlon that will be of real benefit . j to the country and will harm no one.’’ Senator Lodge'remarked that the message was “very satisfactory.” and Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan said: “The president has at tacked the problem from his., own viewpoint, but probably his pto- gramms will do some good.” Senator Kenyon of Iowa, who rep resents the Progressive-Republican wing of the party, praised the ad dress. /‘It was admirable,” he said, '“and l am lh full accord with it, es pecially that portion which would fix personal guilt for violation of our trust laurs.” Representative Mann, the minority leader in the house, also commended the measure, especially the suggestion for government regulation ence of railroad Senator Jones of Washington, also leader, was colleagues that the president's wquld satisfy the country, "I so certain.” he said, “that ’s plan will be reassur- It depends entirely out." Man Who Killed His Best Fifteen Tsars Ago Problem for the Authorities. The pardon of Gov. Goldsboro ugh of Maryland for Matthew Jones, a murderer, lies unheeded In his pos session In the Maryland penitentiary in Baltimore. The state authorities Are et e loee to know what to do with the man for Jones insists he must stay to help Warden Leonard, and that he wants to do something to show his apprecistion for the treat ment he has received during his im prisonment. Fifteen years ago Jones went on a spree. He awoke the next morning In' a cell In Cumberland, M4„ and was told he had killed his best friend. He was sentenced to years in the penitentiary. More than two years of his sentence were taken off for good behavior; • " Jones was pardoned by Gov. GolHs- borough on December 21 as a Christ mas present fduaood behavior during the fifteen years'hfid spent inside the grim walls of the prison. The pardon w%e placed in hig hands dur ing the Yuletide season, Ntmt Jones laid it aalde, and went on Vlth hie work. Warden Leonard accepteU his statement that he wished to assist^ him during the holiday season Days passed, blit Jones remained, working at his routine as a "trusty”. Day after day the warden has re minded the pardoned convict that he is at liberty to leave, but Jones works on. The repeated reminders have had little effect on iones. W’ith a part of the J70 to his credit on the prison books, Jones occasionally vis its moving picture shows, but he re turns at night to sleep in his cell. - Wllh the mcuiuiy of—years of prison toil and the prospect of won ders to see, Jones insists on staying in the state penitentiary. On his short trips he has seen automobiles, moving pictures n n d other marvels that have been developed while he was hidden from his fellow men To-day Jones presents an unusual problem to the Maryland prison authorities. They hesitate to set him out during the winter and may be obliged to find some regular em ployment for the self-ordered inmate of the prison.- jinks rutin inimi IHUSSS HILUIERT AGITATES ALIEN LAW Estimated That the Diasaninatioa of Scientific Farming Truths Would Doable Fanner’s Wealth. The Washington correspondent of Makes Bpeech Reviewing the Relation tbe Philadelphia North American aays; A bill to double the productive- of the Two Governments and, Bays Japian Recognises Necessity of Oth. er Flaps to Solve Question, Regret ting Time Has Not Yet Arrived. An address by Baron Nobuakl Ma- kino. the Japaneee foreign mlnlater, delivered to the Parliament of Japan, Wednesday, outlining the atatus of negotiations over the California alien land legislation and declaring that the Japanese Government "had to ness of American farms and therefore to add more to the general wealth of the ,United States than could be ac complished in any other direction passed the House of Representatives recently bjr an almost unanimous vote. 1 v •• •' • .• Democrats, Progressives and Re publicans—177 in all—stood togeth er In enthusiastic support of the measure, while but nine men voted against it. 1 ( The bill Is Intended to carry direct- come to see the necessity of oonshsjly to the farm all the scientific dis- erlng some other ways for solution of the question, because the replies of tke United States had not been found satisfactory,” Was cabled in full from Toklo to the Japanese embassy at Washington. The address, which was not com mented upon in official circles, aiP ^PPUed to farm work In the field and nounced that the third npte of protest presented to Secretary Bryan by Am bassaddr Chinda on Auguat„.ijS re mained unanswered. It also revfealed the fact that the ambassador, under 'instructions from Toklo saw, .Presi- dfen't x Wllson on March 5th, the day after li^e President’s inauguration, and asked\that he make an effort to SPEAKS FOR CARRIERS. Byrnes Makes Plea for Better Pay for Rural Carriers. Representative Brynes Saturday Saturday can»e out strongly" In a speech on thd floor of the house In favor of better treatmient for the rural mail carriers of the country. When the postoffice appropriation bill was under consideration he referred to a statement which he had received from the postmaster general in which the latter stated that while the bill ostensibly provided for an Increase of salaries for all carriers, as a matter of fact tbe salaries of all tri-weekly carriers would be reduced and there would be great discrimination in the Increase of salaries of dally carriers. Byrnes stated that under the pro- visioni of the bill the increase on the 23 mile route would be $75 a year; on a 25 mile route $72.50, and on a 24-mlle route $50. He asked for an increase from $1,100 to $1,200 for the standard routee, adding $30 for every mile above and deducting $30 for every mile below. He also said that If the bill went through with tbe increases now provided for the total amount In the bill would have to be similarly increased or else there would be a deficit In the rural delivery service. Senator Bristow of Kansas asserted that be would wait to see the bills that spring from the president’s sug gestions before he made comment. ““If the bills are as reactionary as the currency bill.” he declared, “I certainly will not support them.” Democratic leader^ were enthusi astic oyer the message. Senator Kern declared U would command tbe admi ration and confidence of the country. Representative Underwood said It left no cause for alarm by the business in terests and Speaker Clark said it yrould be reassuring to the nation. Attorney General McReynolds said It is a peculiarly blrillant and lucid foeasage, setting forth what la de manded by the aituatlon with won derful force.” * Little Negro fa Killed. On the plantation of L. R. Rosa, near Gaffney. Saturday a negro boy, 7 years of age. shot and killed an other negro t years of age. The boys were playing whan gome .disagree ment arose between them. . . - - v - Maay Bales Destroyed. Fire believed to have been started leiti.jjby sparks thrown but by a passing locomotive late Thursday destroyed the plat of a Fort Worth. Texas, com- sure >*ens and aAeat 4.500 bales of cot Aviator Drowned. Jumping from an aeroplane 1,000 feat aboYe, Arthur E. Perry, para- stop the threatened legislation in Cal ifornia, which since has been enacted. The substance ofijie address, which was made public by the embassy, is that it reviews the facts that for ten years the State Legisla ture of California has introduced bills of “antl-Jaoanfiaa:. character.” liowever, “nothing of serious moment did occur, but at the fortieth session of the Legislature, which assembled last year, a bill aiming at prohlbtion of ownership of property by Japanese was passed by an overwhelming ma jority. “The new act places Japanese on a different footing from other aliens and the main point in dispute be tween the two countries has been the discriminatory treatment resulting from this Act.” Next follows a review of the diplo matic exchanges that have passed be tween the Imperial government and the new Administration. The Japan ese Ambassador on March 5 earnest, requested “that the new Executive would take proper steps and n/ake best efforts to stop the threatened legislation. The President thanked the ambassador for the represdiitatior thus made, and stated that, although the Federal government coaid not in terfere with rights reserved to the States, he would not hesitate to use the efforts so as to realize the wish of the Imperial government. The address further recounts a sec ond Interview held with Secretary of State Bryan on the 12th.ef April and a third on the 15th of April. "In both Interviews the ambassador reiterated that the Imperial Government could not .but attach great Importance to the question, and asked the President and the Secretary of State that more efforts be made to prevent the pas sage of tbe bill. Then Is given a recount of the tele grams sent by the President and the governor of California. “Tbe Presi dent then sent tbe Secretary of State to Callfortaia. The Secrteary appear ed in joint seaalons of-tbe bouses of the Legislature to explain pgrsonally 1 the ^request of the Federal govern ment and to present their sugges tions. Despite all available efforts us- ed by the Secretary of State to mak« the legislation less objectionable, the Governor and members of the Legis lature striptly adhered to the prin ciple that ue rights of the State must not be Interfered with, and the bill was passed. V - “Upon the receipt of the informa tion that the bill bad become law, the Secretary of State handed to Vis count Chlnda a reply to tbe protest of the Imperial government It began by recording the fecit that efforts bad been made to the fnlleet extent by tbe United States Government to prevent the legislation, expressing regret as to Its flna^., enactment, then went on to state emphatically that the enact- men was purely the oucome of eco nomic questions, and gave countei arguments on various points raised In our protests. But as the reply wee not satisfactory to the Imperial Govern ment/ the ambassador was Instructed to address on the 4th of June a sec ond communication to the Secretary of State In answer to the reply, dis cussing in detail the point concerning the violation of the treaty. On the sixteenth of June the Secretary of State handed to Viscount Chlnda, the rejoinder. i ' _ “The Imperial—Government then pared the third note of protest and on thalSth of August to the Secre tary of State, which note remains un answered. \ ‘The replies of the United 1 States Government were not found satisfac tory and the Imperial Government has come to see the necessity of con sidering some other ways for solution of the question. However, to the xe- PRAISED DOUBLES PRODUCTI VENB8& OF AMERICAN FARMS. coveries made by the department of agriculture and the agricultural col leges and demonstration farms on the various States and to instruct the farmers and the farmers’ wives by demonstrations in the best and most economical methods that can be In the homes. Under the .measure the various state agricultural colleges would re ceive Federal funds to finance plans for acquainting the formers‘through publications and experiments with facts established by the department of. agriculture. As it passed the House the bill would provide for an immediate ap propriation of $480,000, of which $.10,000 would go to each state com plying with the requirements of the law. This appropriation would be increased by* $300,1)00 each year for nine years, and after a ten-year period would become a permanent annual appropriation of $3,000,000. Nine billions of actual wealth were created by the farmers of the United States last year. It is estimated that this enormous sum can be doubled by the same farmers through the use of scientific method?, and that it is pos sible, by making farming at onee more profitable ahd attractive, loin/ crease the number of those engaged in it. And the Realization of this predic tion would not only make the United States rich beyond all former dreams, but will go far toward the establish ment of that hoped-for condition iu ‘which abject poverty and want will be unknown. Extravagant as these estimates may seem, there is nothing absurd or improable about them. 'iThe system proposed by the bill passed by the House is the system that has been applied in the princi pal nations of Europe with results just as pronounced as those for in the United States. „ ^ Application of scientific and econ omic methods of farming abroad has Increased the average yield per acre until it Is two and one-half times more than the yield in the United States, and this with poorer land to work upon and conditions originally less favorable than they are now in the United States. The bill passed is known as the Laver bill, providing for co-operation in agricultural extension work. Rep resentative Lever of South Carolina, chairman of the committee on agri culture, has been working on it for several years, and the success of his efforts in Its passage constitute an achievement that may easily prove to .be the greatest of tbs present Con gress. to see tbs necessity of considering jeome other ways for Aolution of tbe ' question. However, to the regret of rived for reporting on the point.” Although the address elicited no formal comment from the State de partment, the conditions under which tbe statement that Japan’s last note remains unanswered was made, will, it is understood, again serve to direct attention of the Stats department to this subject, from which it has been almost completely divered in the past By mutual agreement tbe two' Gov ernments have kept from publication details of tbs negotiations, bnt it has been understood that ths negotialons came to an end becusea the principals had arrived at an "lippasse." The la test Japanese note, it Is said, could not technically he described as a pro test; it was a refusal to accept as con vincing the argument laid down by the State department in support of Ita contention that Hie California legie- lalon was not In derogation of Jap anese rights. Each side had-started propositions to which the other could not subscribe, to there no longer was room for argument \ As no way baa been found out of this position under existing conyen- tions It is understod that the last Japanese proposition contemplated the making of a new treaty which nr (i in KTisrmi not >* TIE Cltni STATU MENACES ENTIRE CROP Probable Effect If It Invades Ala bama, Georgia and South Carolina r * 1 • * ^ -V r * —Has Already Ravaged its Way Through Mississippi. Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. The cotton boll weevil has caused the United States in excess of 10,- 000,000 bales, which, at a value a loss in the production of cotton in $50 a .bale, represents a financial loss of $500,000,000* This is only the loss in areas actually planted. The reduction in the production of cotton due to the fact that Verniers refrain ed from planting because of the fear that the weevH/would 'not allow the plant to mature can never be esti mated. These and other interesting facts and statistics concerning the boll weevil are given in a little pocket pamphlet just issued by Director VV. J. Harris, of the census bureau de partment of commerce. Summary fol lows: . . Mississippi—3h seven ' selected counties of Mississippi the produc tion of co.tton in 1907 amounted to 191,790 bales, valued at nearly $11,- 000,000. The boll weevil reduced this production to 89,577 bales in 1909; to 61,432 in 1910; to 37,816 bales in JOlL-and to 30,8.09 bales in 1912. The aggregatejprodiiction for the four years' amounted" to 219,634 bales, valued at approximately $14,- 600,000. Had the crop of 1907 beenJ quiet J’ produced for each of these years the aggregate would have exceeded 767,- (V00 bales, valued at about $48,600,- 000. Many farmers in these counties abandoned entirely, the zrtempt to produce cotton, he majority of the farm laborers have been thrown out of employment and emigrated to oth er places. LouSiana—Louisiana’s largest cot- fon. crop, 1,080,526 bales, was grown in 1904. The production was reduced to 245,648 bales la 1910. This great loss was due principally to the rav ages of the boll wbevilMn ten of the large cottn producing parishes the crop amounted to 215,01,8 bales, vak ued at $4:5,000,000, during the year immediately preceeding the advent of WIFE RAIN ON REQUEST ■ ♦ PITIFUL TALE TOLD BY BYLVANIA ^ V' — Boys She Was la Agony wad Him to Pat sa Bad to R AH, log That It WoakI bo No Six. Tottering under the weight of hi* 80 years, William Eberwoin Tuesday stood In criminal court at Philadel phia and told' of Now his wife, 15 years younger, bad pleaded with him to kill her and how he committed tho deed. Then Judge Walling of Erie, Pa..^ temporarily'presiding, fixed the 'il 7 *■ ” i - crime at murder in the second degree amU lmposed the minimum penalty, Ich in this case practically was a life sentence. It was Solitary confine ment in the penitentiary for not less than seven nor more than 14 years. . Holding to the prisoner’s dock with trembling hands, Bberwein, who is a veteran of the War Between the States, told the court that his wife was an invalid and that one day foat October he came intc^, their home found her lying at the bottom of's stairway, down which she had fallen. He offered to have her sent to a hos pital, but she wouldn’t go. ’’ ‘You do it, Williams,’ ” Eberwein alleged, she said. “ ‘Do what?’ ’’ I Tjatd,”-th® prisoner continued. “ ‘End it all for me. It’s no sin when I’m suffering so.’ \ "I had a* board in my hand that ! had brought in out of the yard. I looked at her and'guessed it wouldn’t be a sin. “ ‘Go on, William,’ she said, on.’ I tapped her on the heal wit^ , •the board, and I tapped her again/ She didn’t moan much'Ond once when I stopped sh6 kind o’ whispered. ‘Go on, it won’t be long.’ “So I kept on tapping and she got The old man stopped speaking, but no one urged him on. Then he be gan again and told of his arrest. "If I get out of this T want to go to the soldier’s home,” he said. * * j * • * CREAV PREPARES FOR DEATH. Their Distress Signals Had Been Seen However and Aid Came. _ " Rescued froip their ice coated sink ing ship after they had given up all hope, the 13/tnembers of the crew of the five-masted schooner Fuller Palmer Sunday morning arrived in BStltimore aboard the Donalson line steamer Marina. The rescue was- the weevil In each of these parishes. I ma ^ e Marina early Thursday 1 „ x vr» rW'vVlvv rr 1 “ £ *-*-* 11 yvr, osv*« 4 V» he aggregated production of these ten parishes for the following four years amounted to only 211,253 bales valued at approximately $1X500,000. Had the production equaled that of the year preefeeding the coming of the weevil, it would have amounted tfr 1.Q24.072 bales, valued at $65,000,- 000. The loss loss to the cotton grow ers in these ten-parishes, attributed very largely to the’ boil weevil, am- mounted to more than $50,000,00 for the four years. Arkansas—During 1906, 1907 and 1908 the boll weevil was dispersed over ah area covering about one-third of the State of Arkansas. In four ser lected counties of the State the crop for 1906 amounted to 73,426 bales. By' 1909 the crop of tbeie counties had been reduced by the weevil to ■26;9-62 bales, and in 1910 it was 36,- 496 bales. The aggregate value of the two crops was abont 14,600,000, whereas had ^ach equaled the crop of 1906 the cotton for these counties would have brought them more than $10,000,000. Texas—The boll weevil first ap peared in the State of Texas in 1892, and during tbe next fifteen years cot- Morin* steed by and when the seas might settle the issues between the caused the ambassador to present itftwo countries by precisely -defining the rights of Japanese in America and of Americans in Japan. * chuted into the Hillsborough river, near Yifiipa. Fla^ and was drowned.' grot of tho Governnpnt, tho time has ptroot. Girl Gets Negro Burglar.. Miss Blanche Thompson, 1$ years old, of Seaside Park, N. X, rnshed from her bedroom, revolver In hand, and captured a negro abe saw enter ing a store on the opppelte side of the ton crop of the State. In seven select ed counties in the northwest section of tho State the prodneion In 1906 ^mounted to 232,063 bales. This was redeed to 114,701 bales in 1907; to 153,347 bales in 1908 and to 145,752 balea In 1909. Tho aggregate value of the three crops In /these counties amounted to about 824,000,000. If the product|on of 1906 had been maintained the value would have been approximately $40,000,000. Alabama—The boll, weevil now covers the southern portion of Ala bama. Selecting six' counties In the eastern part of the State, which are Ip tho direct path of the weevil', tbe production during five years has amounted to 772,325 bales, which sold for abont $45,000,000. If the ravages of the weevil in these coun ties should result in reducing the prod action in the same proportion as In the selected counties In Mississippi, tho cotton produced during the f6nr seasons following tho spread of tho weevil throught these counties would amount to 440,000 bales, and the fl- pandal loss, computed at $50 pqr bale. Would be more than $22,00.000. Georgia—Selecting, five Important cotton producing counties In western Georgia, which are also in tbe path bf the weevil, the loss in the produc tion during the four seasons follow* ing the Invasion of the insects would, range, from 200,(»00 bales, based on the experience of tho counties In Tex as, to 350,00d to 390,000 bales, based on the production In, Dm selected counties In Mississippi ana 'the psr- ishes in Louisiana, repsectlvely. The V Us wonld be, theroforo, from 810.- . : V morning, 156 miles southeast of Cape <^od. S Monday morning, when the ' began to leak, the crew had } keep her afloat. With sails whipped Into shreds by the wind and rigging broken and so coated with Icq that it could not be handled, the Fuller Pajmer practically had drifted at the mercy of raging seas. On Wednesday night with all hope of making pdrt gone and fearful that their vessel would sink at any minute distress signals weresent out. From points on the masts red^ lights were placed so that some ship might see them and come to their rescue. Small boats and life rafts had been crush ed by tho waves, while most of. the woodwork on the upper decks iiad been smashed. There was no way the crew could leave the doomed ves sel; - With all chance apparently gone, the men huddled together in tho forecastle, but up on the bridges Capt. Clark still maintained a watch. Shortly before 5 o’clock Thursday morning a rocket shot up some miles away showing that at last the signals had been noticed. Until daylight tho hid somewhat moderated several boats were lowered and the crow taken aboard. So low was the Palm er In the water that no time was given the men to collect any of their belongings. — Found Under Gotten Seed. The body of Clark Steele, a-negro, who had been missing two days, found at Rock Hill Saturday under pile of cotton seed in tho. seed of an oil mill. There was no ev of foul play. Six Children Are! Six children of Mrs. Wostherby, of Cobokonk, Ont, werq burned Satur day, when fire destroyed their homo. The mother escaped by jumping. Charged With Negro’s Killing. James Johnson, a. negro of Rich land county has boon arrested charg ed with killing Ajlen Long, another negro, near Lykefland, Saturday. / 000,000 to 19,500,000. South Carolina—The production of cotton during the last . five years In. r the five most Important cotton grow ing counties in South Carolina was 1,A7$,72$ bales, a value of approx imately $87,500,000. Should tho boll weei^i. Infest thess cennttee with a ?*- suiting loss m cotton production such as oecurred in-the selected counties la Mississippi, tlbe reductions In 'ths crops -during the four seasons follow ing tbe dispersion $f tho Insects wold resulting financial loss In these coun-i bo 240,000 bales, valued at $42,01$- 000, wm ■ • -