Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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REUS to mmn tie nil- ilT IS CONilKIED WANT ITTO BE BflNEST Bills Hstc Been Introduced In the House Intending to Gnsran- tee an Honest Vote ana * True Count—gome Action Almost Sure r-.-fc' to be Taken. prl #r STATES MUSt DECIDE WOIiAH’8 8UFFRAGH IS HO* NATIONAL QUESTION. 7. Primary reform apd the best means to secure it* occupied the at tention of the House Thursday morn ing for the most of the session, and ■were discussed again Thursday night. Four bills having this general pur pose are on the Calendar, and amend ments introduced will have the affect practically of bringing new measures before tho consideration of the body, as they are o7so ^sweeping a nature as hardly to be considered as amend ments, but as bills themselves. Mr. Riley, Mr. Nicholson and Mr, Ri-tenberg have prepared measures on the primary, and the Judiciary committee, to which they were refer red, prepared a, substitute fo rthe bills of Messrs Miley and Nicholson and reported the Rittenberg measure favorably with certain amendments Mr. Stanley and Mr. Casque, as a sub committee from the committee on privileges and elections, introducd 11 another bill on the same subject. 11 the session serves as any indl- tipn of the temper of the House some bill will be passed to chaflge the primary laws, and the question is simply one of Judgment on which of the proposed bills and amendments shopld be selected. Only one speaker Mr. Irby of Laurens, took the posi tion that the present laws wAr esuf- ficlently strict and should not be re vised, and Mr- C. C. Wyche, of Spar tanburg, introduced a very lenient bill, Mr. Wyche giving it as his opin ion that only slight revision was nec essary. Mr. NhSholson presented Thursday to the senate the report of the spec ial committee appointed to draw a substitute for his bill "tightening up the primary." The main features of the bill provide for an annual enrol ment in All clubs and precincts every election yean the voters to -be enroll ed in alphabetical order, the qualifi cations for votigg requiring one to be a citizen of the United States, resi dent of the United States, resident of tlie State one year, county thirty days, and of the township or ward fifteen days before the first primary election. Any person enrolled on any club shall be entitled to change his en rolment to another club in the same ward or township upon applying in person to the ^lub where he is en rolled at least fifteen days before the first primary and having his name stricken from such club roll, then ap plying to such other club as he might wish and have his name enrolled. The enrollment is to cease and the rolls closed ten days before the first primary, are to be certified to by offi cers in charge of such lists before a notary public and filed in the office of ^he clerk of court a certified, copy, of the roll ten- dsyr before the .lirjit ary. No person shall be allowed vote whose name is not enrolled least fifteen days before the first primary. Section 282 reads: "In all politi cal parties, organizations or associa tions in this State, which have here tofore cast 100,000 votes or more in Its primary election, the secretaries of the respective clubs or .precincts and the managers of election for all Such clubs or precincts shall receive compensation as follows: Each of ^pch secretaries shall be paid the sum of S5 for his services and each man ager shall be paid the sum of $2 per day for each day that he shall act as such manager; the said amount to be paid upon a certificate to be Issued by the chairman of the county execu tive committee in each county upon a warrant to be Issued by the comptrol ler general upon the State treasruer, and to be paid out of any funds in the hands of the State treasurer not Otherwise appropriated!"' All persons enrolled properly shall be entitled to vote in all elections by presenting themselves at the club In which he is enrolled, taking the oath and complying with the rules of the party. The following sections cover ing representation in conventions and right ef purging rolls are Interesting. They read: * "The representation of each of the clubs or precincts in the county con tention of each political party, organ- zation or association, and it shall be » number of votes cast at the first primary election of the election next preceding the Said convention. ^Tban an executive committee of ry such political party, organiza- V' x or association shall be provided r'snch political party, organisation or association, for each county oTthe Majority Leader Underwood Shows Why Democaats Refused to Ckeate a New Committee to Consider It. Hopes of national woman suffrage by the present Democratic adminis tration were checked Wednesday, when Representative Underwood of Alabama, majority leader of the House, put the Democratic party squarely on record as opposed to Fed eral action.^ Representative Under wood declared that‘the Democratic party took the position that the ques- ITS REPEAL HUM JUMNCES11NSELF If FISEI n EIEVIIM AGAINST FREE PASSAGE President Reaches Conclnsjoa After Mature Consideration of the Sub ject Involved—Course of Repeal in House Will be Easy, But Senate May Not Agree. ^ President-^ Wilson announced ISGftO Q^STMNI RAND Dllim) STATES ttNATS V OF SHORT TILT. That Negro's Ion of suffrage was one which should Thursday that he VrobM endeavor to be left to the individual states to set- have repealed at the present session tie. • of congress that provision of the Pam The question cropped up in the ama canal act which exempts Ameri- discusslon of the federation bill in]can coastwise ships from the pay- the House and there was considerable ment of toils. He made his position debates as to Just what the action of clear to caUers at the White House in the Democratic House caucus in re- unequivocal terms.-*« x jecting the Raker woman suffrage The president believes that the resolution. Representative Lenroot Hay-Pauncefote treaty with Gteat of Wisconsin declared that, by de- Britain guarantees equality of treat- feating the proposition to create of a ment. to alt nations, including the new woman suffrage committee, the Uulted States in the matter of tolls crats had taken the position and that the United States is in hon- that woman should not have an op- or bound to charge American vessels portfinity to be heard on the suffrage the same tolls It imposes upon those question. foreign nations.' The president im- "The gentleman knows,* replied pressed on his callers that he would Representative Underwood, “thojudl- use every legitimate means at his clary committee has been vested fOrldisposal to have the exemption clause many years with jurisdiction over eltmlpated from the canal act. ^ this very question and has repeatedly] Thls'snnouncement was expected granted hearings to women as to by administration leaders. The pres- whether legislation shall be passed, ident’s views will bo carried out in submitting to the State a constltu- the House with llttle^dUficulty, ac tional amendment for woman suf- cording to Representative Adamson, frage. - chairman of the Interstate and "I was at one time a member of elgn commerce committee. Not the Judiciary committee and I recall certain, however, are some of the a hearing given to Susan B. Anthony. Democratic leaders In the Senate that I noticed that during the entire time the president will be sustained in his the gentleman’s party was In charge resolve on this question which agi of this House it refused to report a] tated American relations with Great suffrage resolution. The proposition that came before the Democratic caucus was merely to provide for a' new committee, giving jurisdiction to the new committee which Jurisdic- Brltain for several years and has been a subject of international con troversy since the passage of the Panama canal act in 1912. i ’ Senator O’Gorman, . chairman of Uon is already possessed by one of the interoceanlc canals committee, the ablest committees of this House, which had charge of the bill, and who This’ committee has had such Juris- led the vtetofious fight in the Senate diction almost since the beginning of to exempt American coastwise shtp- the government. ping from tolls, declared his intention "There Is no objection on the part to stand by the hill. Other senators of the ladles as to what committee pointed to the recent action of the thef shall go before. They wanted foreign relations committed in recort- thelr legislation reported and thought mending the British general arbitfa- they could not get it reported fromltion treaty for extension as an indi- the committee in charge, so they cation that the Senate is ready to wanted to create a new committee, rescind Its action on ths tolls ques- That la all there is to it. It is not a ton, fear of having to submit It to question of taking from them the arbitration having delayed its exten- rlght to he heard." sion by the Senate last summer “Will the gentleman, as leader of I Senator Stone, who voted for the the majority,” asked Mr. Lenroot, “use his influence in the House for a report of that resolution so that we •may have an opportunity to vote on it?” "I would not do so, because I am not in favor of It,” replied Mr. Un- provision, has said he would vote for the repeal, taking the position that, while under the treaty the United States still has he right to levy any tolls it wishes, the exemption should be stricken out In deference to inter national good feeling and in line wttb VI t.**' mz dArwood. • “If there is one funda- a desire to avoid any ill feeling with mental principle that my party stands p* rea ^ Britain. The president’s an- for, it is local self-government, if] nouncement grew out of a report that the Democratic party stands for one I did not seek action at the present thing above all others, it Is that the con 8 res 8- Senator O’Gorman said he right of franchise should be governed ^ a d discussed the tolls question cas- by the States of the anion and not! ua ^T with the president and express- Arm Am Willing to Help Them. An amendment by Senator Jonee, of Washington, to the agricultural extension hiTl which will Insure to the negroes of the South a portion of the fund proposed for farm demon stration work led to sharp debates In the United Senate Thursday over the racial question. Senator Jones for ov er three hours defended the principle of his amendment, which was left pending when the senate adjourned. Senators Hoke Smith of Georgia and Vardaman of Mississippi con tended that the administration of the appropriation should be left Ip the hands of the white man who would “do more for the negro than the ne gro could do for himself.” Senator Jones had not proceeded far with his argument that the negro should be al lowed to handle part of the funds from the federal treasury before Sen ator Vardaman suggested h# 1 had “better take a few days off and study the question.” When Senator Jones said he was speaking from the results of his in vestigation of the question, Senator Vardaman replied: “Then the senator is speaking from the profundity of his misinformation.” He also wanted to know if Senator Jones would be willing to allow the Japanese to share in the administration of the fund al lotted to the Pacific States. "Yes, if the Japanese were citizens, but they Are not,” was tbe emphatic 1, you will admit,” continued Senator Vardamant “that the Japan ese, in all thfe elements that go to make .up the man, la superior to the negro?" “No, I do not^ad^lt that, declared Senator Jones, anoSeqator Vardaman sat down, remarking: can’t argue with that kind of a man.” He was on his feet again, however, when Senator Jones a few minutes later thentioned the progress of the negroes. “Their progress has been due to what the white man has taught them,” insisted the Mississippi senatof. “And let mo say that payself and the other white men of the South would jdo more to preserve the ne gro’s like, liberty and pursuit of hapr plness than others far away who love them as a race And would let them starve a| their gates.” Applause from the spectators At.his point caused Senator Thompson, in the chair, to threaten to clear the galleries. The Ire of Senator Maftin of Vir ginia was aroused when Senator Jones read a paper he recently had prepared on the advance of the ne gro race. He pictured the negro com ing out of the War, of Secession in a state of oppression and poverty. Sen ator Martin challenged every state ment as inaccurate, asserting that the negro would be a great deal better off if the South were left to handle the question under the plan it had pur sued than if those who from far off sought to meddle in tbe problem. irnUTBOT B HI HHBV COMMITTEE IS UPHELD ■ 4 * - ‘ -* 1 - v • I. By One Vole, 89 to 81, Upper Hour Befnses to Admit. Alabama News paper Editor into Ite Sacred Pre cincts—Debate to at Times Spirit ed and Acrid. By a majority of one vote—12 to 31—Frank P. Glass, of Alabama, ed Itor of the Birmingham News, late Wednesday lost his fight for a seat in the United States Senate. The vote sustained the recommendation of the committee on privileges and elections which held that_Mr. Glass was not entitled to be seated because his ap pointment by Governor O'Neal, of A1 abama, to succeed the late Senator Joseph F. Johnston was 4nade after the 17th constitutonai amendment di recting election of Senators by the people had beefi proclaimed in full effect. Spirited, and at times .hitter, de bate marked the close of-the case, the by the national government.” ~ SCHMIDT FOUND GUILTY. Priest Who Murdered Girl Must Go - ~ ■ to His Death. ed the view that congress could do little else at the present\ session be sides passing the trust bldls and ap propriation measures. The president sought to make clear that this was Senator Q'Gonnan’s own Impression of the legislative sit uation, but that so far as he was con- Hans Schmidt was found guilty In New York Thursday of murder in the] cerned earnestly hoped for action first degree for killing Anna Aumpl- at the P r ® 8ent » e88, °n- There has ler, a yohng woman he had married been considerable talk in this connec- th rough a self-performed ceremony t,on of the rwoliitlon introduced by while acting as a priest at St. Jos-| Representative Adameon which would eph’s church. The penalty is death 8U8pend for tw0 y ear * the operation in the electric chair at Sing sing of the exeinpt,on 80 that 11 be prison. Schmidt will be sentenced deflnltel3r determined whether or H't Wednesday the canal could be self-supporting, Schmidt, whose defense was insan- and at the 8ame t,me allow toT Ity, laughed bitterly when the verdict furtlier dIp,or t,c parley was pronounced. He steadfastly had The president, however, has aban- declared himself guilty and had doned any Idea of having the ques- pleaded that he be punished by death. I Uon suspended or postponed and wishes a settlement of it from the present congress so that the great waterway may be orened at the be ginning of next year with the nations of the world on a basis of equality Later he protested against the insan ity defense advanced by his counsel, and said he would not assist them in any way if they prepared an appeal. This was the second trial and the Jury was out a few minutes less than five j and w ith friendship unimpaired by hours. ' v | an 7 impending issue of diplomacy The illness of Chairman Baeon of the Senate foreign relations committee which is holding up consideration of the arbitration treaties, including one with Great Britain, also may de lay action In congress. The president already has cora the first primary th each election year. x "And the said committee shall I have power to hear objections on thej part of any citizen to any of the said club rolls, and If there shall be found , ,, , ■ ■ I on said club rolls the names of any] « a,llcated *‘ew on the subject of person not entitled to vote in sny of tolla to tb * committee There have the precincts, and It shall be found bee “ no developments on the diplo- that the names of any persons e a- ^ of tb ® controversy since titled to vote have been omitted, the the a8 ‘ note of Sir Edward Grey was said committee shall have power to J‘ ecelved In the closing days of the correct the club rolls, and to strike Taft administration. President Wil from or add to them all such names: 80I » • flnal decision followed more Provided, the committee shall notify * han a y« ar carefuI 8tud 7 ot th8 the person affected and the officers Hay-Peuncefote treaty and the de- of any club or precinct of any change[ bate8 ,p congress for aniUgalqst the made In the club roll f*SS three| eienipU<m ' He a,wa y" baa **** op - days thereafter ” * * posed -So ship subsidies And intima- Violation of the provisions of this** b » 8 attitude began to come State, to be composed of one member Act will be a misdemeanor, punish-j ® pt ]* b,,e b ® wa8 president-elect. At tor each dub or precinct. and’a chalr-j able by fine and Imprisonment. This} a,a8rt ® d th ^A* ^ man. to he elected under tha constltu- tlon and rules of such party, organi zation or association, and f tabail be thpjdsty of the executive committee at the In the second which ehe Senate has settled I the colony, who when a prisoner faik- involvtng interpretation of the con-| e< i to produce the ransom demanded, sthutlonal amendment. Senator Blair Just how the capture of the bandit Lee, of Maryland, who waa seated a I detachment waa accomplished wan few days ago on recommendation of| BO t explained. In hla retreat, bowev- the elections committee, made his] e r, Castillo wrought what reveille Be maiden speech In favor of Mr, Glass cou^ H e ran 1ft eara-nf4«aberteto and later cast his vote for him. —tunnel, say. the report, and aet In the lace of the determined oppo- flre to t he train. He next removed attion from the majority mebers of w hat provisions he could carry from the committee, headed by Senator a & rload of 8 „ppUee. ran tho car hi Kern, the champions of the Alabam- a wooden brldge and - Mt flre to th» Ian proceeding from a forlorn hope. car It wlth t he bridge, was destrpy- made remarkable progress in gaining I ed votes and the narrow margin by 1 MEAT ANIMALS SCARCE. Statistics Made Public Show Some / Startling Facts. Shortage of meat animals In the United States was strikingly demon strated by comparative figures recent ly made public by the department of agriculture. The report showed that there are nine less beef cattle, seven less sheep and three less hogs now for each 100 persons in the country than there were in 1910. While the population of the conn try Is estimated to have increased from 91,972.000 to 98,646,000 in the pkst three years the number of beef cattle has decreased 12.9 per cent and of sheep 5.2 per cent.; the num her of swine Increased slightly 1. per cent., but it did not keep up with the proportionate growth of popula tion. In spite of ^e reduced num her It is estimated luat the value of cattle in the country Increased from $1,534,600,000 in 1910 to $1,930 087,000 on January 1, 1914. “This Increase In value, however, the department pointed out, "does not necessarily mean that farmers or strockralsers Are making more, If any profit. On ther contrary, the cost of production had probably. Increased more rapidly than the Increase In the selling price of live stock. The very fact that there is a present Shortage of nearly 19,000,000 meatunimals in the Unietd States since the census of 1810-Indicates clearly that the busi ness is not profitable to producers.” Maximo Castillo, tho baaBMMMft. after 22 of hla mm had tured and executed by a revolt force at HI Valle, near Oaaaa i set fire to tho. woodwork of the i tunnel, which carriee the Northwestern railroad through the continental divide, and escaped Id the mountains, according to an oR- clal report received at rebel head quarters at Juarez, Thursday. Tfee men were captured and summarily executed Tuesday, the report sayto Castillo’s depredations took ptaoa Wednesday. The Drake tnnnel runs through soft earth and tbe gurnlng of the wooden riieathTng may entail heavy loss by cave-ins. Castillo formerly waa fthlef of the bodygnard of FrmncMo Madero, late President of Mexico, la thsTpresent revolution he and hi band of -50 dr.60 folloyrers have ban raiding non-combatants. Castillo ha harassed the Mormon polony at Caae Grandee and is charged with the mor der of George Searcy, a member of With the flames behind Mm the marauder turned attention to the iaet through lofty mountains and deed canyons and there are many high . v ^v ... .grades. Down one of these Castilla to success had hot^been contemp at-l ent ' ^ locomotives. When th«y which they lost the fight created great surprise. been gaining strength steadily In th<Hari few days had been appar ent but th&t'Jie would come so close ed by the opposition until the last hours of the controversy/Then it was that Senator Walsh, of Montana, who wrote the majority report, in a'clos ing plea, appealed to his colleagues to cast aside personal esteem and friendship and to consider the case from a legal standpoint only, to real ize that they were making history and that a precedent might he estab lished upon which the will of the peo- reached a sharp curve they left tttu track and fell, u tangled/mam ef wreckage, 1,000 feet below. -V TO SPLIT TENTH CIRCUIT. Senate Sends Measure to Third ing by Big Majority. Attacked by Senators Varner and pie might be overturned In future] Banks, and advocated Jhy Senators emergencies. - \ Earle, Carlisle, Crouch, SnlUvan, Mub in spite of the committee’s report, ii„s, Patterson and Manldln, «Ba only eight Democrats voted to deny | Senate Thursday morning sent 0*0 Mr. Glass.his seat. They were: Sena- bill creating two circuits ont. of the tore, Kern, Hitchcock, Johnson, Lane, present 10th circuit to a third readr Pomerene, Shively, Thompson and]out the enacting wofds of the.MIL Walsh. | this motion - having been made fey Four Republicans, Bradley, Fall,] senator Verner of Oconee. Perkins and Stephenson voted with ] Those voting to refuse to strike the minority. out the enactlnr words, and $hoe Senator Clapp of Minnesota who] stood in favor of the bill,' weret had signed the n^norlty report fav-j Messrs. Ackerman, Appelt, Buck* or ing Mr. Glass, proved eventually to] Carlisle, Clifton, Christensen, Cgonch, be the undoing of the Alabama ap-JDennis, Earle, Gross, Hall, Hongb* pointee. Senator ClApp previously had | Johnson, Johnstone, Lsney^ Lawson, announced that he woul^ vote to seat] Mars, Mauldin, McCown, McLanrin, Mr. Glass, but late Wednesday, in a Mullins, Nicholson, Patterson, Rich- brief speech, he declared that he had|ardson, Sinkler, Stuckey. Bhlttsmn, become convinced that his original in- ] Weston, Young. Total, 29. terpretatlon of the case had been er-| Those voting to kill the hill were** roneous. Masers. Banks, Beamgnard, Black Some bitterness entered'into the Epps, Ginn, Hardin. Ketchin, Lids debate. Senator Bristownrousing sup- Manning,'Strait, Verner. Total, 11 porters of Mr. Glass when he declar The principal speech foie the Ml ed that it would be an ontrage on the] was made by Senator Earle of Green- people to receive the Alabamian. Sen-1 villa. It provides that a near circuit ator Bristow further asserts: "If the 18th, shall be created oat of the vote had been taken before this | Greenville and Pickens counties, day the majority against Mr. Glass while Anderson and Oconee eooattit would have been two to one. It will shall compose the' 10th circuit. TILLMAN |XO TALK. Senator Tillman will go to South act does not prevent parties from , ur . tually Indicated to Democratic acne ther safeguarding or providing re-J*” hta to , ha :f Past** the primaries, nor does! Root amendment providing for repeal provision. : \ not repeal or affect V erimlni already lal Swell Pox Closes Schools. Thirteen thousand pupils of Port- when the board of health ordered Ml land. Me;, were thrown out of school schools closed for an indefinite period a8,zA preeucationary measure-to pre vent the spread of smallpox, ^fifteen cases of which asp known to exto| t L Win Fight Hoe Cholera. , A threatened loss of 8200,000,000 la h'oga during Jhe present year from hog cholera led be Interesting to watch how certain senators vote to-day." This remark angered Senator Mark a Smith of Arizona, who assailed the| Ig wilUng to Testify in Kansas Senator for "Continually" as serting his sosplclon of his colleagues] of Hospital for and questioning their motives when they did not agree with him. . * The vote was taken on a sub-reao- CtroUl,a ’ durln * tbe comln * w «* k ’ lution offered by Senator Robinson of cordlnf U> * Utter wh,ch h# WTOt * Arkansas providing Mr. Glass be Saturday to Chairman Wyche, to tee- seated. After tbe result had been tlfy ln th * 8tate ho8p,tal “ y,u * **- announced and the roll call had be-| Te8t, * at,QI1 - H * * ddr **a® d th « ton °*- gun on the original resolution of the ln « letter 10 Mr ’ on tha suh- majority to deny Mr. Glass a seat, ^ . . Senator La Follette, who had been "*oura of the 2»th received. I III at his home, reached the Senate h oU th ® Jolnt committee desires m* chamber. His appearance first gave to appear b ® for ® 11 on Tuesday. tbe Glass supporters some hope, but]™* 17 *• * * m T8r7 billing, anxious, when Ms name was called he voted ,ndeed ’ 10 t * 11 what 1 know » bont for the majority report. Babcock and Dr. -Saunrers. But I do Senators voting to seat-Mr. Glass n< * feel tkat 1 •“ strong enough to were: Ashum, Bankhead, Bradley, 8tand tbe of traveling just y«t Chamberlain, Chilton, Fail, Fletcher, M 1 a ® confined to my rooms 4$ tho James, £ee. Martin, Martina, Myers. M 101 ® 1 0B account of iilnsea. If the Nowlands, Owen, Perkins, Pittman. 11 01 ®* committee will be in sassloe o* Ransdell, Robinson, Shafroth. 8hep-| 8 ® t ® 7d ® 7 - FaM™* 7 and I am not ard. Shields. Simmons. Smith. Art- lfled to tbat ® fr ® ct « I try to ap- zops; Smith of Georgia. Smith 6t\V u h®* 0 *® lt - depending, of course, Maryland, Smith of South Carolina. on “y physical condition betweea Stephenson. Swanson, Tillman, Var- ® ow ® nd then. If It will not daman, Williams. Uben. I do not want to take the trip Nays: Borslf. Brady, Bristow. Bur-r® hM* ton, Colt. Cnmntfna, Dillingham,} ^|®*^|J^ B> ®,. >tB0W ** 7011 k ®** the Smutto Th to agree nnaalmowly.to n bill prlatlng SSI tor the < 19 the i Grona, Hitchcock. - Johnson,-Jones, Kenyan, Kern. Lane, Llppitt, Lodge, McCnmber. McLean. Nelaon. Norris, Page. Poindexter, PoWerene, Sher man. 1 Jjhlvptot.J' ; Thompson, Townsend. Walsh, Weeks, Works. ' Mr. Gtaas, who sat oa the floor tbaonghpnt tho fcy senators afttr prassfiff* their regret, was,any