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7^1^ ;^- r, HOUSE) KILLS MEASURE) INTEND* KD NOiPjROTEOr KLEpnONS ENDORSE PKESENT PUN P»»ctte«ny Only Argument of Oppo- ■•ota of Reform la That Primary of 1912 Was Above Suspicion «»* •f -'i What Was Good Enough Then is Good Enough Now. ' ,r c - ^f Xv, - He Bet Mm.) Sent It' Maximo Cat dlt, charged^ for the? Cuml hen In r-one captured south of troops, to For the lack of one vote, almost all hope of the passage of legislation by the general assembly to safeguard the primary election system vanished into thin air Tuesday night, when the House by a vote of 54 to 54 refused to pass to third reading the primary election reform bill now pending In the Senate. The Senate bill was sub stituted for the House bill by a vote of 54 to 53 on the motion of Mr. Stevenson of Chesterfield, who led the fight to enact legislation which would guarantee to South Carolina honest primary elections. The bill which the House killed did not throw any restrictions around enrolling for primary elections other than those now required under the ules of the Democratic party. It would not have disfranchised a sin gle white man had it been enacted Into law. : The members who urged Us passage claimed, though, that it would eliminate "repeating” and other forms of Illegal and fraudulent voting, said to have been practiced in the primary election of 1912, and whose occurrence in some counties at least was admitted oh the floor of the House Tuesday night. The op ponents of the bill, hard put to find arguments against Its passage, con* tented themselves in the main with claiming that the present system was above suspicion and that the primary election of- 1912 was fair and square." Although the Mlley and Nicholson • primary election reform bills are now pending on the calendar of the House on second reading, there Is little like lihood that at this stage of the ses sion, should either of them be pass ed, the Senate will ratify the action of the House. Mr. Stevenson ex plained to the House that practically the only chance of enacting legisla tlon at this session to safeguard the primary was for the House to sub stitute for the bill by its judiciary committee th emeasure now pending In the Senate, which would be al most the same in effect. On the motion of Mr. Stevenson the House agreed to amend the bill by substituting the Senate bill for the Judiciary committee’s bill by a vote of 64 to 53, and then promptly re fused to pass the bill as amended by a vote of 54 to 54. None of the members of the House changed their votes. The tie was brought about by the failure of Mr. Rittenberg of Charleston to vote on the question of substituting the Senate bill for the House bill and then voting against the passage of the amended House bill. Mr. Rittenberg Introduced bill in the House this session propos ing t# reform the primary election system in Charleston by much more drastic provisions than those propos ed in the bill -which he voted against Tuesday night. Mr. Mlley of Bam berg, who has a primary election re form bill on the calendar of the House now, also voted to kill the pri mary reform bill Tuesday night. In view of the fact that there Is little possibility pf the passage of legislation to ’ reform the primary election system, the Democratic con vention next May will take on new Importance. The convention will have it In Its power to amend or not to amend the rules of the party so as to safeguard the primary election system. The administration forces at the May convention will doubtless ase the argument that the rules adopted by the last convention, which was anti-administration by an overwhelming majority, ought to be good enough^ to govern the primary In August. 1914. The members of the House who voted In favor of passing the pri mary reform bill to third reading Were the following: Ayes—Atkinson, Barnwell, Belser, Bolt, Boyd, Bowers, Brice, Burgess, Charles, Courtney, Dantzler, De- Laughter, Dick, Epps, Evans, Frlpp, Friday, Greer, Harper, Haynsworth, Hiott, Hutchinson, Hutson, John ston, KIbler, Kirk, Liles, Lumpkin, McCravey, McDonald^-MuMaster, Mc Millan, McQueen, Malpass, Means, Mitchell, Mower, Nicholson, Pate. Pegnes, Pyatt, Ready, Riddle, Riley, L. M. Rogers, Sanders, W. M. Scott, Sherwood, Shirley, Stanley, Steven son. Vender Horst, Youmans, Zelgler —-54. The members of the House who voted against the passage of the prl- mary. reform bill to third reading were the followinfc: ' Nays—Speaker Smith, Addy, J. W. ■hley, M. J. Ashley, Baskin, B^lack ell. Busbee. Clement, Clowney, ch, Daniel, Fortner, Gray, Haile, HaU, Hardin, H. F. Harrelson, M. C. Harrelson, Harvey, Holley. Hunter, Irby, James^Jones, Kfllebgft^JSAlJx Irby, Long, Melfl, Mlley, Milter, win. Mtxaon, Moore, Moeeley, Murray, Net- son, Rittenberg, Robertson, W. 8. ■MEnnana TDII ; I * which ten others lost tA Tuesday thirty- Hachita, N. M., The information was Hugh L. Scott, coaunandeeeqaV Fort Bliss, in the official tetegrom from Cajlt. White, Ninth United States cavalry. With the bandit were six of his followers, who, according to Capt. ^White’s brief dispatch, surrendered with a fight. Castillo, to avoid a range of moun tains on the Mexican slde/made e de tour which brought btig into Ameri can territory. Capt. JPAlte Was on the watch, having received informa tion from Walter McCoymick, Ameri can manager of jLaa ^alomas ranch, on the Mexican )lide, that the much- wanted man was -In the vicinity. Whether the prisoner shall be sur rendered to the rebels Is a Ingah ques tion which remains to be settled. If this is done there Is no doulit that he will be executed for the Cuinbre dis aster. He is not charged with crime the American side. Castillo set Tuesday night it waS regarded as cer tain that they would be returned to Mexico. - '>a- How to accomplish this has not been decided. United States Immi gration authorities might deport the prisoners as undesirable aliens and this probably would result in their Immediate capture by Gen. Villa, who has announced his intention of exe cuting them publicly at Juarez. A special treaty between the United States and Mexico permits the ad joining states of the two countries to deliver fugitives to one another with out reference to the Federal govern ments. Under this, Castillo and his followers, if turned over' to .the gov ernor of New Mexico, might be de livered to Manuel Chao, coasMtution allst governor of Chihuahua, the Mexican state In which the,crime was coor mitted. i - ^ ♦ * FRANK WILL BE HANGED. on fire to a freight train in the Cumbre tunnel two weeks ago. The cark were burning when a passenger train crashed Into it, and every life aboard was lost. The tunnel still Is burn- ing. ■ ’ Consideration has been given by officials at Washington to the ques tion of whlcbj should be done with the bandit leader, .Castillo. As the tunnel disaster occurred in Mexico, no crime can be charged against the irWiky* and 1 Bin wmi AlmWst No Change-Weald Grant ®r«ry P*y Belling at Its afternoon session Monday^when twenty separate sec tions of appropriation ill! ware taken op and pealed, the House con tinued its session until well after elevenvo’cloek, allowing a short re cess before right o'clock. The confi dence which the members placed in the hblUfcr of the ways end means committee li «tte*e&; by thr feet. Only one item was rejected and only one other jnodlftoC- The bill to allow Messrs. TodAand Benson fS.OOO for their-plans forKJatS house Improve ments was kUIed. TJhe other change was an increase of $50 for a hard- worked Joufoal clerk. Cattle tick eradication got Its $30,- 000 without isven a division vote>|o did the Industrial Home; at Florence get its new building, and there^was not a suggested attack on an Item in the medical colioge appropriation. The House, at the Instance of Mr. James, votel $46,000 as a supplemen tary contingent Rind for support of the rural schools of the State. The fund Is to be expended under direc tion of the State board of health. The first fight came on the allowance of $25,000 for the establishment of a tuberculosis hospital. The hot* pital won without a roll call. The Home stab allowed a $10,000 trict court at OklskSM In Afrit for fM.blf f* tried by Mr*-' Minnie E. Oklahoma City. Ths v***** tamed at 1:40 f. mu, 10 pita Only one ballot Was Ukcf.! "We find.” the JWrtkte*: verdict, “the evidence s the plaintiff entirely which bfc bass A sripj that arid donee wholly eloneryttes the ant, and’ bad Che dciendant, at Delusion of the plaintiff's nounced that bo desired to hr duce no ovidencAind onr verdict would have been tbs asms In that event as now returned by ns, ht favor of the ‘ ^ ' Trial oi tbs nesday. & h Bond alleged tha*. the Senator attack* fcy to '4*1 W $1 r mr j?. ■ Net to] struct a 915,904>800 Alaska’s coast i bandits in ti$e United;,:.BtatsA.^and ^flOQtanpmsatt^find'for Its militia, the ^ University, Winthrop, the Citadel, the eolorefd college and all got exact ly what the ways and means commit tee recommended. ed her while she wks ta center mice mary reform have stressed therim- with him at a hotel la WashtagtOtt Mfiioeof this provision all through last March, in conns .possible appointment of her b Julian Bond, as Interna! " leqtof at Oklahoma City* fie Mrs. Bond asseftbd her fatfe was scratched and her-hand laoemtQd by fragments of her broken eyeglasssk In his answer Senator Gore mode general denial of the ch ergos, saf aa Georgia Court Upholds Conviction of Factory Superintendent, The conviction of Leo M. Frink for the murder of MAry Phagan, the 14- year-old factory girl, Tuesday was af firmed by the Georgia supremo court. The court held, four to two, that the conviction last' August of tho. young foctory superintendent had been in every way regular and according to the criminal statutes of Georgia, Chief JusUcu Fish aiLd Associate Jus* tice Beck dissented. It si expected'tbat a date soon wUl be set for the exeontioa ef the pris oner, postponed ittdeftniMy^AA the filing of a motion lor a AtW trial. It was on the denial of thill motion an appeal was More than a^ hundred counts cent laid on all part of twoT popular young fa a Jew, had court rooAl i Significance 'statement 0f denying a m<| said that the evidence, either of the i defendant. ho was" or time Mb David a' leeton, W. Vs day in homo, to . Six There #as not a flutter on the items for intereet on public debt, elec tions, legislative expenses or engross ing department. There was not even a suggestion of amending or trim ming the Item for the medical college of South Carolina. The allowance was $34,800. The Items hummed along nntll the appropriation of $80,000 for the eradication of the cattle tick was reached. A sharp fight developed on this Item, some members contending that the farmers could remedy the situation themselves. The Item was retained without a division vote. One thousand dollars wad voted to the colored State fair. The appro priation of $14,839 for the governor’s office passed without suggestion of change. The amount of $7,570 for the secretary of State’s office passed, though an attempt was made to amend the section by Increasing tho salary of chief clerk from $1,500 to $1,750, and that of assistant clerk from $1,500 to $1.$50. The comptroller general’s and in surance commisslOMr’s office receiv ed, respectively. $10,200 and $10,- 255, and there waa no effort to change either of these amounts. The amonnt of $10,550 for the State treasurer's office was the reoom meudatlon of the -committee, an< that amount tike House agreed to pro vide although attsTnen Orient urjurln- trodoced reducing tho.salary of chief clerk from $1,700 to $1,«00. The amendment waa killed. No kick wa4 made on tho appropriation ol $10,- 340 for the State superintendent of educaton’s office. . * * ^ When the appropriation of Um i jutant general’s effiee was reached ft political opponents who had fa! their efforts to seesro federal age. The Jury, composed of nu mers, a grocer, a banker and a er, was seenred on tike first day of th* trial. - Mrs. Rond waa cafled as thd iMi witness after opening statement! appeared to be the the members of are In favor of safe- elections against Wednesday morn- Mlley primary bill to third reading of 17 to 92. bill provides practically means of regulating the ons as the Senate bill Ifie House, killed Tuesday vote of 54 to 54. Both _ say that voters In the pri- etoetiona must be reglstrt^d in duplicate bpoks. Advocates of prt- bird fight they have made to *ri $£• House to take some action Which' would 'eliminate "repeating” and 'dorms of Illegal and fraudulent in the primary elections. ^~Tbe Mlley bill, like the Senate bill, provides that the county executive oommittees fhall review the books of primary registration before the elec- a counter charge alleged thutthe suit tton and strike off all names which was instigated by a corterie x qf his 'Ihould not appear thereon. The BHley bill, though, makes the reform the primary more of a party mat- ^ an the dead Senate bill did. ■ The chief difference between the which the House passed Wednes- j morning and the one it killed esday night Is that the bill which went through provides for one super- were made Thursday. BopeatiAf her fhor ©f prinjary registration in each allegations, she defile^ euy knowl*. county to be elected by the county edge of the plot alleged tty the Sena tor, who Is a candidate for re-election at the Oklahoma primaries next Au gust. Effortn to have.fread 4! dealing with aHeged^ncidente in nectlon with the past to the suit was prevuatod by a ruling of Judge Clnrki AluChotd such evi dence not vital T. E. Robertsan.- and Dr. J. H. MUf Washington at the epicode as applies^ sltlons, appeared .conventions, whereas the bill which Was killed said that the registration r primary elections should be left the hands of the secretaries ol tike various clubs. The fact that the House passed the EijPtley bill to third reading though it ’ *111 rby Fitzpatrick nesses for Mrs. successful in ertson and Fii have been ey - . i —-—i. ii*.»—■i.k 1, i, < 000 recommended. / Aa unsuccesefnl effort was sukde to out p* the $$.f0t provided for tho Confederate Home eatiegs at Charles ton. The only evi p^Apoeed for th* of the was moved to stitts out tho Item of ^hleh was lost. $10,000 ‘Tor purpose of « MttoAal Ohjoctlon wap rrisod to tho item of encampment If tbe eounty lfi wkteh W ^dhig la** tqal^flal same Ukas place raises a Hke emOUffl, provided so much.he necessary.” The motion wax loot a&d-the item'iretnatn ed to tbe bai. also introdueod to 000 to $175,000 iholifm lor i ing the mill was laid on um weae., t -Whew the^ ' meet of industry was strike out the prpparagonsa hand-book, bn tenance, sad tt. «M>,1 nf Arai 1 - , -/ ■*. . ^ AppoprUtfon, of MS ] .WmW tlo for tho huahua^ t 7 Her ed assault while ESrp asserted'tiMtt! he had been Impoctuned by Senator Gore to have Mrs, Bond leave Walk ington and "hush the mutter up’’. Testifying In ids own defense, Sen* ator Gore charndterlrid the alleg*- tions as “In famou* H«e" sad asserted that the whole affair , was the result of the plotting 6t his political enemies Intended to embarrass hln$ In his campaign for Teaoatlnatift*. He de clared that Mrs. Bond seised him and at an opportune moment RobertsOn and Fitzpatrick sopeueAtAthe room. Other wltnesees for the defense quot ed witneeaee for tho plaSAtlff as ad mitting that a “framo-Tlp” against Senator Gore had hom arranged and quoted several as havtag made threats to "get” the' senator. lied the Senate bill Tneeeday night hi explained by the presenbe of mem- • hers who were In favor ol primary Oklahomans, in reform who were absent Tuesday night and by the fact that* Mr. Mlley ■ federal po- himself voted against the passage qf ^the?Senate bill. Mr. Rittenberg of * ^Charleston, another advocate of prl- mary reform who did not find the claimed to Senate primary reform bill to his i t© the klivffiltaste, voted for the Mlley bill, after the House agreed to the amendment providing that the special primary election laws for Charleston cqunty, which are much more stringent than Itttaemhvttto i the Heose hfi thriflwo m It to $85,Of ■■■Vi nu thwi the ila- 01*9 mid m. Rogers Jr*. seney, Sul We Os C$i «w Ing. r Unit- ■■ ^'■*hX <&■**•**)( mk anything proposed for the rest of the State by the most ardent advocate of reform, should not be repealed by the passage of the blU In view of the action taken by the House Wednesday morning, there is now the ghost of a chqnce that the present general assembly may after all enact some legislation to safe guard the primary system.' This chance hlngee solely on the Immediate agreement of the advo- vates of primary reform In the Senate to substitute the MUey bill (pr the meeenre now pending in the Senate If this is done wlthont delay, it ii possible that a primary election re form act may go to the governor b*- fore tho session ends and allow Um to put into execution his throat to veto any such measure. _ The members of tho Hons© yrhol woomg tna voted in favor of pnislpg the Mlley 10 primary reform bill to third reading were the following: Ayes—-Atkinson, Barnwell, Belem, Bethea, Bolt, Boweps. Boyd, Brice. Burgees, Charles, Dantxler, DeLough- ter, Dick, Evans, Friday, Goodwin, g Greer, HaynsWorth, Hiott, Hunter, Hutchinson; Hutson, Johnston. KIb ler, Kirk, Lee, Liles, Lumpkin, Mo- Cravey, McDonald, McQueen, Mai- paps, Massey, Means, Mlley, Mitchell, Mower, JJIcholeon, Odom, Pate Pegnes, Pyatt, Ready, Riddle, Riley, Rittenberg, Roblnsbn, L. M. Rogers, Sanders, W. M. Scott. Stevenson. Shirley, Sturkie, Tindal. Stanley, Vender Horst, Zelgler—57. The members of tho house who voted against the passage of the Tkoi Mil. autbovisinc ft* preaMsat if j ,<u|lrint.<RiA to Its great OaalseNlA was passed by the Howe late Wed* nesday by a vote of 830 *0 07. A similar measure already has passed the Senate and the MU wig he tahrit up at once in conference between tho two bonsee. with a view to sending It quickly to tho president, who has Sig nified his Intention of rignla* It. At the eleventh boor, after a sharp psrlimentary skirmish, .the Howe eliminated from the nm, as YtpottOi by the territories comndttoa, a pro vision authorising a bond issue of $36,000,000 to finance the ntUoAt and to be paid off by tho proceeds ot government land sales In. AlaofiCTTfi* ~ Senate bill provides for a $40^00^4 000 bond lasne. Representative Fits-! ^ Herald of New Yorit led a fight which ' resulted In striking out tho entire bond provision from the bill. Under the amended measars the project would be financed out of «nv rent funds In the treasury, the prort*/ dent being limited to $35,000,090 and $1,000,000 being appropriated for immediate expense. Congress would appropriate each year the amount estimated as necessary for the construction of tha road. The bill provides for the construc tion of a road “not to exceed 1,000 miles, to be so located as to connect one or more of the open Pacific ocean harbors on the southern const of Alaska with the navigable waters In the interior of Alaska and with a - coal Arid or fields yielding eoet suffi cient in quality and quantity for naval use so as to best aid in the de velopment of the agricultural and miner or other resources of Alaska.** The project is of more taterest than even the expenditures of tha $85,- 000,000 proposed wonld ordinarily create. Coming so soon after tho completion of the Panama canal It Is attracting attention aa another groat engineering project under tha direc tion of the American govern mant. In sense, too. It compares with the government's undertaking in tha ’•Os to push the Pacific railways across tho unbroken prairies and mountains of tbe West and thus link together the West and the East Moreaver, the new; project laio'ba the first tost in this country ex gov* ernment ownership of n public util ity; it Is expected to open to tho commerce of the world great and rich resource* that until now have been for the most part lytngjdle; It will afford employment to a largo army ol mep both in its construction and In Us maintenance; It will develop Al aska agriculturally as well as In other wsys by attracting homeeteaders; and It will cheapen greatly various commodities ol commerce, notably coal. At least these are all things which the friends of measmro claim. The bill places great peww in th* hands of tha president and was op posed by some on this groand, got that they expressed any fear In re gard to President WHeon's Jafigmsal and Integrity-but that they thosghMI' was too much powsr.,to putHfi the hands of shy' one min and directs him to locate a&d i or construction, or by both lino or lines pf water lato the intertbr of, to navigation Xm tho Yukon, or Kuskokwim rivers. MBey bill to third reading were the following: Nays—Speaker Smith, Addy. J, Ashley, M. J. Ashley, Baskin, Black- well. Browning, Bathes, Clement, Creech, DCnlel, Epps, Fortner. Gaaque, Halle, Hardin, H. F. Barrel- son, M. C. Harrelson, Harper, Har- ▼«y. Holley, Irby. James, Jones, kel- lehan, Kelly, Kennedy, Kirby, Ly- brand. Melfl. Miller, Mtxsoa. Moore. Moeeley, Murray, Nelson. Robertson, W. 8. Rogers Jr.. Sapp, W. W. Scott Resolute Woman- Shoots Negro. Mrs. B. F. MeNeai did not tees her mo when n negro entered her heme In ffitabenu. Mina. Instead the got her-revolver and shot him down, r. :: ■wo"*' will ■•09 the settlement .Of Alaska, 4n- nk» Its resources, ted praridewdCK C oato transportation IPs’ coal for tho army and navy, for troops aal Uons of war and for th* , i Hmltatlons is tiriprlct ta chase, there being maal- chaso, there being a few telm of railroad already coaqtructeC Is that It must not exceed the physical vales of the railroad property. Tho total of all railroads bought or eenstruetoi Is not to exceed 1,000 miles and the appropriation for the. purchase in 135,000.000, so that he Is limited to. an of $35,000 mmllAr KILLING Of AUTO, Man and Girl Fond Deed . it , y . • -. •>. The bodies of John Miss Anns Luts, each 30 years wars found In Ligonier, Pa., early Friday, authorities bClieyq ; the glrlukd'ilenfket hfontigg Lnsfi Thursday tste. phoned to the gaiiiteethore ho wag employed and proprietor up the teved Fortune on SIS a Weak. Pstrick Coughlin, who died recent ly st Ferestvtns. Cons., left en srtk about $87,000. a ■lie!* ?