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i AND LEFT iUlfEI tl nrniannTEtmns MtOiM.lll.il — • vnm uFn ehbaigo TELLS QF MUROERI VlHtR SAYS Itl UTEK CAST BAIT INTI CIEtK MU lamed bj Taft, Thna Huerta aad HU Fom on Bqiul Footing—President Declare* /] :- 1 ^ Conditions Below Border Demand ed Action. President Wilson by an executive order dated Tuesday, removed all re-' atrlctlons against the exportation of xnubitlons of war Into Mexico from the United States, placing the con tending Mexican elements on a basis of equallty-with respect to the pur chase of arms and supplies In this country. The executive ofder empha sized that it was the desire of the. United States to be In the same posi tion of neutrality^ towards thereon tending factions in Mexico as were the other powers The text of the proclamation* fol lows: “Whereas, by a proclamation of the president, issued on March 14, 1912, under a Joint resolution of con gress approved by the president on the same day, It was declared that there existed In Mexico conditions of domestic violence which were pro moted by the use of arms or muni tions of war procured from the Unit ed States, and "Whereas, by the Joint resolution above mentioned, It thereupon be came unlawful to export arms or munitions of war to Mexico except under such limitations and exceptions as the president should prescribe: “Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil son, president of the United States of America, hereby declare and pro claim that, as the conditions on which the proclamation of March 14 was based have essentially changed and, as It is desirable to place the United States, with reference to the exporta tion of arms or munitions of war to Mexico In the same posllton as other powers, the said proclamation Is hereby revoked." Accompanying the order .the White House Issued the following statement of explanation: “The exe cutive order by which the exportation of arms and ammunition to Mexico Is forbidden was a departure from the accepted practices of neutrality—a deliberate departure from those prac tices under a well considered Joint resolution of congress—determined upon in circumstances which have now ceased to exist. It was Intended to discourage Incipient revolts against the regularly constituted authorities of Mexico. “Since that order was issued the circumstances of the case have under gone a radical change. There notf Is no constitutional government In Mexico, and the existence of this or der hinders and delays the very thing the government of the United States is now Insisting upon, namely: That Mexico shall be left free to set tle her own affairs and as soon as possible put them upon a constitu tional footing by her own force and counsel. The order is therefore re scinded." i American embassies and legations abroad last Saturday were Instructed to Inform foreign governments of the above decision. Similarly, Secretary Bryan late Tuesday Informed the aembers of the diplomatic corps liat this was in line with the pol icy announced at the beginning of the present administration here of keep ing the nations of the world Informed of the developments In the Mexican policy of this government. The administration viewpoint on the action taken Tuesday, as gathered from those familiar with the presi dent’s attitude, may be summed up as follows: "No one outside Mexico can accommodate her affairs. The with drawal of all moral or material sup port from without Is the Indispen sable first step to a solution from within. From many sources which It deems trustworthy the government of the United States has received Infor mation which convinces it that there is more hopeful prospect of peace, of security of property and of an early payment of foreign obligations It Mexico is left to the forces now reck oning with one another there, than there would be if anything like a mere change of personnel were effect ed at Mexico City. "There are no Influences in Mexico that can be counted on to do anything morp than to perpetuate and Strengthen the selfish oligarchial and military interests which, it is clear, the rest of the country can be made to endure only by constant warfare and f pitiless harrowing of the North. The president is so fully con vinced of this, that after months of the .most careful consideration of the situation at close range, be no longer feels Justified is maintaining an Ir regular position as regards the con- tending parties in the matter of neu trality. "The Intent Is, therefore, to re> move the inhibition pn agportatlon of i end ammunition to Hexfco from > United states. Settlement by civil I to Its bitter conclusion Is OoDetoa County Men Let Her Have 9471 Which She Wee to Treat With Hystic Powers. W. 0. Hiott of Walterboro is much interested in the whereabouts of Ma dame Montclair, clairvoyant, because he let her have $471 and doesn’t know where to find It. Incidentally the Charleston police are now looking for the aoOthssyer on a charge of swindling the Colleton county citizen out of the money. Mme. Montclair had been In this section for some time, and had extensively advertised her. alleged power to read the mind and explain the Seemingly unknown She left Charleston hurriedly Sunday however, the police say, taking with her a considerable sum, It Is be lieved, for a great many persons have sought the benefit of her magic pow ers. It seems that Mr. Hiott had a law suit on his hands, and being anxious to find out how it would terminate, came to Charleston to consult the clairvoyant, the first of hie series of deposits was $1, upon which he was apprised of the fact that he would win the law suit, but In order to pro tect him from further annoying ex periences in the future, Mme. Moht clair advised him to bring her three (20 gold pieces, over which she would suffuse a magic powder. He did this and the money was duly returned to him. But in order to make the spell lasting, (40 was treated with the same powder, making (100 In all, which she said must be brought back to her, along with (260, In gold, If he would have the Job complete in every respect. Upon parting with this amount, on Saturday, Mr. Hiott was requested to return Monday morning at 8 o’clock, rain or shine, when upon tha payment* of a $T0'fee. Ills now magic (460 would be returned to Mm, although It was done at a sac rifice, as the powder was worth much more than (11. •• . i Monday morning, the Walterboro man went to the house of the sooth sayer, beyond the northern limits of the city, and found a crowd there be fore him, all looking for Mme. Mont clair, who had left the day before for mysterious regions. Mr. Hiott report ed the matter to Chief of Police jCant well Monday night, who had him swear out a warrant before Magis trate Williams, charging swindling. Detectives are working on the case. Mr, Hiott, whose transactions with the clairvoyant had extended from about January 1, takes the matter philosophically though his faith In these fate-readers is a bit shaken. He Is a farmer merchant from near Wal terboro. The Charleston police had refused to grant an operating license to the soothsayer, and so she rented a part of a house Just beyond the city limits on Rutledge avenue. She posed as be ing a clairvoyant of the highest type. The police had heard rumors before but now learn definitely that numbers have paid out good ^money, with In tangible results. One lady deposited (70, another (60, and another per son (15, according to the police. A ne gro paid (35 ar.d was told that after a series of dreams ~e would find hidden treasures In his back yard, but he never even experienced the dreams, it Is said. A Eutawville negro paid (150 to recover a 206-pound hog, but after the 16 days had expired' the prize hog had not appeared. * THEY TRIED TO, ESCAPE whether we wish It or not unless some outside power la to undertake to sweep Mexico with its armed forces from end to end, which would be the mere beginning of a still more diffi cult problem. "By removing the inhibition on the exportation of arms and ammunition into Mexico the government of the United States puts Itself and intends to put Itself In the same position as other nations, whose subjects all along have been at liberty to deal as they pleased with Mexico. The gov ernment of the United States deems It essential to the settlement of her present difficulties that Mexico should be treated as any other country would be which was torn by civil war. “The circumstances that Mexico is, for the time being, unable to meet her financial obligation creates no novel or exceptional International rights, and she will be the sooner able to meet her obligations and resume ber full international responsibilities If she Is left to determine ber own af fairs, first by domestic force and then by domestic counsel.” ♦ ♦ Negro Killed Near Clinton r ~ Jim Vance, colored, was accident ally shot near Clinton Thursday by his alleged sweetheart. It is said they were playfully scuffling J>ver a gun which he had with him. was r Negro Wounds His Wife. Minnie Brown pf^ Newberry shot Tuesday through her door by a person on the outside who later prov ed to be her husband. Dangerous Films Barred; Moving picture films made of lu- flammabte materials are hatred from the U. 8. mafia by on order made pnMle Thursday. Spartanburg Mystery lie Apparently Solved in the Arrest of a Young Couple—Young Mother Says She Did Not Want to Part With Babe IBot Alan Refused to Marry Her. Charged with murder, the alleged pafents of a girl baby, whose dead body was found In a mill pond near Spartanburg Saturday, were arrested Tuesday afternoon; the woman in Spartanburg, as she was about to take a train for Charleston; the man at Chesrtee, S. C., as hd was prepar ing to leave for San Francisco. He Is Clyde Caldwell Clement, twenty- three years of age, until recently, a student at Wofford college fitting school. -She Is Miss Fleta Pendle ton, age nineteen. Miss Pendleton was Identified as the mother of the baby by Mrs. W. M. Hodges of Greenville. ’ When Mrs. Hodges was taken to’-eee her, Miss Pendleton is caid to have burst into tears, and exclaimed, “Oh, Cod, why did I kill that dear litt’e baby?” Miss Pendleton collapsed. When she had partly regained her compo sure she said Clement dropped the baby Friday night from a bridge Into the creek which forms the mill pond. She said she did not want to lose the baby, but that Clement told her h,e did not love “the d—d brat”, and lie would not marry her unless she would consent to his doing away with It. Weeping piteously in the Spartan burg Jail Tuesday night, Miss Pendle ton begged to see the baby, and the corpse was carried to her to fondle. Miss Pendleton said she gave birth to the baby, named Virginia, at the Presbyterian hospital In Charlotte, December 6. Clement then took her to Greenville and got a room for her at the boarding house of Mrs. Hodges. In a confession made to Solicitor A. E. Hill and recorded by a stenog rapher, she said: - “Clyde Clement came to Greenville last Thursday and spent the night with me and we talked of marrying. Clyde .said that he would tell me in the morning what he would do. Clyde said I would have to make away with the child, and I told him I did not want to, because I loved her. He then said he would not marry me with the child, but If I would get rid of her he would marry me. I was crying and pleading with him nearly all night not to get rid of the child. The next day he said that we would come to Spartajiburg. We left Greenville, and arrived here about 8 o’clock at night, and caught a public hack; the hack had curtains on It. We drove down East Main street, until we got near the bridge. Then we got out of the hack and walked on down toward the bridge. I was carrying In the baby. Before we got to the bridge Clyde took the baby from me, and we walked on across the bridge. Just as we got across the bridge I turned my back and went "up the left hand road by myself. Clyde went down. I never looked back. I don’t know how he threw the child in the river. I didn’t hear the child hit the water, because I didn’t want to hear it, as I loved it so much. “The child was alive when Clyde took it from my arms, and when he came back to me he did not have the baby. I didn't know what he did with It. Then he and I crossed the bridge and came on back up the road together. We didn’t talk about It, baeawew-I couldn’t' stand to hear It mentioned.’’ According to Mrs. Hodges Miss Pendleton tried to place the baby in the Salvation Army rescue borne, In Greenville, but the matron refused to accept It because of its tender age. At Miss Pendleton’s request Clem ent was brought from his cell to see her. She reached her hands out be tween the bars of the cell and clasped his bands with many expressions of love and devotion. Tears streamed down her face as she chokingly told the man of her love. She begged Solicitor Hill to let Clement remain in the cell with her, but the solicitor would not consent to this. Clement never uttered a word during the girl’s demonstration. Clement Is the son of Robert C. Clement, a merchant at Sandy Springs, N. C. He attended Wofford college fitting school last year. Miss Pendleton Is the daughter of a shoe salesman at Durham, N. G. Clement came to Spartanburg- Tuesday morning and gave Miss Pen dleton (25, telling her to leave the city at once. She was preparing to take the first train out of the city, the Carolina Special, and had sent ber trunk to the station when Mayor Jno. F. Floyd. Chief John Hill of the police force: Solicitor Albert E. Hill and Robert E. Miller, accompanied by Mrs. Hodges, called at her boarding house and arrested her. Clement, in an automobile, ffaa on his way to Sandy Springs when be was over taken at Cbesnto by Sheriff W. J. White and a detective and arrsaatd. TO GET WILSON’S VIEWS SMITH will fin# out his idhas qS IMMIGRATON BILL Junior Senator From This State, aa Chairman of the Senators Immigra tion Committee, Will See President. The senate committee on tmmlgra- tlon.of which Senator Smith of South Senator Introduces Bill Providing a Carolina Is chairman, during Satur day’s session decided to authorize the chairman to call upon President Wil son and ascertain his views with re gard to the propositions as to the fur ther restriction of the (migration laws. The bill of Senator Smith which the committee will most likely favor ably report to the senate at an early date for passage, was introduced in the senate last June, ami several days later the Burnett bill, very similar in terms, was introduced in the house. The provisions of the two bills, throwing much stronger restrictive lines around Immigration, Including rigid educational tests, will probably strongly opposed In the senate, but the general concensus of opinion Is that the Smith-Burnett bill will be passed by a substantial majority. The action of the Senate Immigra tion committee Saturday morning was taken In order that the committee might be In full possession of the president’s views with regard to the reltrictive features of the bill before further consideration of It. It Is be lieved that the Senate committed will report the bill with a good majority. Senator Smith has given much study to this question, and the bill represents several years of research In the problem. The hearings before the committee will be continued next week, and In the meantime Senator Smith and the cpmmittee hope to be in possession of the president’s Ideas with regard to the matter. Senator Smith was asked Saturday afternoon for a statement, and said: "Of course the bill Is now under consideration by the committee, and I can speak only from a personal standpoint. Its provisions, to which I have given quite an amount of time and study, seek to preclude what seems to have become a latter day policy with us to throw open our doors to all character of Immigrants. I do not believe that the working classes of this nation, those who, by Inheritance and teaching, have had instilled into their natures the spirit and patriotism of our free Institu tions, should be supplanted by the Ignorant and pauper labor of Europe, which neither cares for our ideals nor has the capacity to embrace them. “The development of the vast re- sources.of America should be a mat ter for the benefit of our own people. In which all Americans, workingman and capitalist alike, should share ac cording to the measure of the Initia tive and work done, and I believe that we are to-day admitting into this country, because of our lax immigra tion laws, too many foreigners who are crowding out American labor. This bill Is so drafted that it will prevent this Influx by making it in cumbent, among other things, that those who enter this country shall be able to pass a literacy test. “Under Its terms, and I think it will pass, I do not apprehend there will be any serious danger to the American workingman from competi tion with immigrant labor. It Is only frank to say that I anticipate some opposition to this measure In the Sen ate, but I believe that the main fea tures of the bill are sure of enact ment into law, and I have now in possession data and facts which, I am sure, will make the position that I have taken In regard to this subject not only tenable, but conclusive’’ WOULD TATTOO CROOKS. Woman Gives New York Mayor Some Novel Advice, f Going right back to a suburb of the Garden of Eden for her idea, "Mme. Mercury” has proposed to Mayor Mltchel of New York a new method of dealing with criminals for the betterment of the race, the uplift of humanity and all that sort of "Tattoo ’em.” “Looking backward over a span of 2,000 years,” says the mayor’s correspondent, ”1 see that the more law and capital punishment adminis tered to humanity, the more crimes and criminals there Is to puqish. Jaljs, penitentiaries, the electric chair, the gallows, the guillotine, death and hell has na terrors or in fluence on stopping crime or lessen ing the number of criminals.” ' By way of a revolution, ’’humane and Inexpensive” and sure to ’’rotate the wheels of crime backward into oblivion,’’ “Mme. Mercury” suggests: "A system of tattoolng ; jsach crimi nal with a suitable mark across bis forehead or on the cheeks. For a pickpocket a long-fingered red hand grasping a purse tattooed on the cheek. For the black hander a blank heart, pierced with the red dagger, on either cheek and on his forehead. A gunman should be marked with a red hand grasping a gun; grafters, grasping the long green tattooed across tbefr foreheads; thugs, mark ed with a bine hand grasping a black jack; burglars marked’with is door lock aad pick.” TM i mLiM «iim me ru cur IHrm ON THEN Bill DP TO THE SENATE 1 *- j 1 ^gggr TAX VALUE OF ' v . a .* - i j r j i. ’ . 1 > 1 ;* VARYING ^ . COUNTIES GIVEN : : • • - * Anderson Coanty Lands Are High as* £ \ While the Male* of Harapiost Are Highest. Anderson counter lands are ed for taxation at a higher rate, $7.34 per acre, than tEdbe of any other South Carolina county, according to data compiled by the comptroHer general for the use of the senate in its discussion of the pending hill to readjust the salaries of county audi tors and treasuries. The lowest-rate per acre> (1-55 is assessed in Berke ley. The six highest rates per acre, af ter Anderson, are as follows; Lee $6.41, Spartanburg (6.18, Chester (6.03, Dillon 5.91, Marlboro (5.72, Newberry 5.65. Mules are assessed highest, (93 each, in Hampton; low est, (32, In Pickens. The following table showing the as sessed valuation of land per acre in the different counties, the average value of ihules, and the the total taxes charged, tis prepared by the comptroller general, Is part of the statistical information, which will be used by the senate in its debate on the county treasurers and auditors’ bill: Lands Taxes Tax on Agricultural Products Sold for Future Delivery—-Measure is Designed to Prevent Speculation in Agricultural Commodities. Senator Tillman Monday introduc ed the following bill to provide a rev enue tax on agricultural products, where sold for future delivery: “Section 1. All contracts for the sale and delivery of unmanufactured agricultural products of the United States, where the amount contracted for shall be (5,000 or more, and the date of such delivery be fixed at’30 days or more distant, shall be evi denced by a written agreement signed by the principals or their agents, and all contracts not so reduced by writ ing are declared to be in violation of public policy and subject to the pehr Allies hereinafter set forth. “Sec. 2. The party who shall sell and contract for fliture delivery agri cultural products as provided In the foregoing section shall affix to the written contract ef sale revenue stamps to be purchased froth the in ternal revenue collector of the United States, which stamps shall evidence the payment to the United States of ah amount equal to 1 per centum of the-value of the products contracted tot, the said value to be computed upon the basis of the price at which the purchaser has agreed In good faith to receive the said products. Upon the delivery of the contract to ^the purchased the vendor shall cancel sal^ stamps by writing bis Initials in Ink across same. “Sec. 3. No assignment of con tracts herein provided for shall be valid unless made In writing by the parties thereto or their duly authoriz ed agent, or agents, assignee or as signees before the products contract ed for shall have been delivered: Pro vided further. That no assignment of a contract shall be valid unless the principal^ thereto or their agent or agents/ assignee or assignees, shall affix and cancel In the manner pre scribed In the preceding section, rev enue stamps which shall evidence the payment to the United States of a tax of 1-2 of 1 per cent, of the value of said products computed on the same basis as set forth in the section 2 of this act. “Sec. 4. Any person, firm, or cor poration making or assigning a con tract for the future delivery of agri cultural products, where the gross value of such products amounts to (5,000 or more, and the date of such delivery Is 30 days or more distant, and sh^ll neglect to affix and cancel revenue stamps as herein provided, shall upon conviction In a court of competent jurisdiction pay a fine of not less than (200 or .be imprisoned not less than 60 days for each offense or both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. “Sec. 6. Contracts provided here under may be canceled by mutual agreement of the parties thereto, and the evidence of such cancellation shall be made in writing across the face of the contract and Signed by the vendor and vendee, their assignee or assignees, agent or agents. At the time of such cancellation, {here shall be affixed revenue stamps evidencing the payment to the United States of a tax of 1-2 of 1 per cent, as provided In the case of an assignment of said contract. •, ‘ "Sec. 6. Wherever agricultural products contracted for under the provisions of this act are made deliv erable In the State in which such products were grown, or In any other State which produced according to the last census 10 pe rcentum of the product contracted for, then the tax payable on such contract shall be 1-20 of the amount hereinbefore fixed for the original contract and assignment or assignments thereof. “Sec. 7. For the purpose of this act, lint cotton in bales, wheat, corn, oats, rye and other grains In their usual commercial packages shall be agricultural products and the depart- deemed unmanfactured agricultural ment of agriculture Las heretofore or j? Abbeville . ..(59 (5.49 (117,235 Aiken 69 4'-12}. 142,200 Anderson ... . 50 7.34 274,159 -- Bamberg .. . 53 3.76 65,00J^Ws Barnwell ... . 54 3.61 134.21M) Beaufort .. ., 80 3.47 46,89Ei ;W Berkeley .. . 56 1.55 54,16a Calhoun .; 56 3.7* 48,591 Charleston . ? 74 3.66 358,598 Cherokee .. . 74 6.02 117,608 Chester .. .. 66 6.03 131,097 Chesterfield . 69 2.66 102,255' Clarendon .. 75 3.62 84,897 Colleton .. . 85 2.15 82,167 Darlington .. 64 lB.27 131,871 Dillon ,. ., 69 5.91 105,867 Dorchester .. 74 1.96 71,5ia ' Edgefield .. . 56 4.61 96,27a Fairfield V. . 69 3.49 88,784 Florence .. . 64 3.99 120,352 Georgetown .. 87 2.02 67,684 ' 1 Greenville ... 37 6.48 358,474 Greenwood .. 53 5.36 147,96a . Hampton .... 93 2. i 39 63,708- Horry _ .. . 76 1.70 63,975 Jasper »•* 90‘ 2.44 36,721 Kershaw .... 84 3.04* 110,887 Lancaster-.. . 52 3.89 94,120 Laurehs .... 46 5.26 162,403 Lee 61 6.41 75,045- Lexington ... 66 . 2.94— -114,592 Marion .. .. 68 2.02 89,174 Marlboro .. . 44 6.72 97,205 Newberry ... 64 6.65 140,463 Oconee .. .. 49 2.99 105,375 Orangeburg . 54 3.60 175,324 Pickens .. 32 3.32 64,161 Richland .. . 68 4.66 292,231 Saluda .. 67 4.73 65,175- Spartanburg . 49 6.18 390.232 Sumter ... . . 66 5.51 142,781 Union ..... . 61 4:61 139,140 Williamsburg 79 2.33 38,054 York 61 5.56 216,028- NEGRO WOUNDS THREE. Camden Ooon . Shoots Two Men and « ' '■'Tfdman. Sam Canghman, a negro, shat and seriously wounded three other n groes near Camden Saturday aftei noon. One of the wounded negro Thompson, will not survive while the- other two will recover. A negro- named Thompson, his 1 daughter and Damon Clayburn were, the victims of shots from daughman’s gun. Tho affair occurred on the plantation ot Melvin Hall, three miles east of Cam den, It is said that the trouble began with a fight between., Caughman’n wife and Thompson’s daughter somo days ago. The case was tried in a. magistrate's court Saturday and th» Thompson girl was acquitted. Thin is said- to have enraged Caughman and after receiving a shipment of whiskey Saturday afternoon he went on the warpath.: - Thompson and bin daughter were shot while standing: in the road. Clayburn was not in volved, but Was shot as he was at work in a nearby field. products, but flour, butter, lard and dressed meats shall Ire deemed man ufactured products and not subject to the provisions of this act. “It shall be. the duty of secretary of agriculture to prepare and promul gate :* list of unmanufactured pro ducts within the intent and meaning of this act:. Provided, however, That no unmanufactured agricultural pro duct or contract therefore, shall be taxable under- the provisions of this act unless the total value of such product in the United States as showh by the latest census report shall ex ceed $10,000,060 in value.- "The secretary of agrlcuHnre is further authorised and directed to construe said census reports and pro mulgate necessary rules which sityl be binding as a declaration of the In tent and purposes of this act, uatil legally revtaed or changed. 1 “Sec. I. - Wherever any State has established by law a system of gmd- ing. Inspection and warehousing does hereafter establish official stand ard grades, to determine the quality or value of such agricultural pro ducts^ when the secretary of agricul ture is authorized and directed upom the application of said State to send such expert or experts as may be: necessary to the State, for the pur-' 1 - pose of establishing the grade and> quality ot the agricultural product,, where the value of such product in the United States according to tho 1 latest census report exceeds the gross sum of $10,000,000.' - “Sec. 9. The secretary of agrlcudj ture is hereby empowered to promii gate the rule* and regulations uadi which his department is. prepared to* 1 co-operate wUJi any State which may undertake by law lo classify, grade or otherwlap determine the qnallty of unmanufactured agricultural pro- dncta a* set forth la tfrts act. "Soo. 1$. Ali acta and pvt of act* t with thfa act ho. and the ; r vr