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8TRATION LEADERS WILL NOT OOMPRO^II ISK. MEET ISSUE SQUARELY President Expresses Confidence That Senate Will Pass Repeal Measure as It Was Passed • in the House— Several Republicans Are Joining With Him on This Question. ' Administration leaders in the Sen ate buckled on* their armor Thursday and plunged actively into the Panama tolls fight, determined to maintain an unyielding position until the end of the.. controversy, though the House bill to repeal toll exemption for American chips is resting in the hands of the committee on inter- oceanic canals, there were many in^: formal conferences during the day relating to the issue and among the developments.was a visit of Secretary Bryan at the capitol in tfee interest of the administration policy. “No compromise” was the slogan of the administration leaders in their conferences. So many bills and res- olu.tloog have been introduced tend ing to cloud the plain issue of re peal that it has been determined to make it plain from the outset that no temporizing is to be countenanced. President Wilson told inquirers that he expected no factional delay or filibustering and had every' rea son to believe from what senators told him that there would be a prompt report from the committee on interoceanlc canals. The president said there were one or two members of the committee who were against the repeal bill, who, he understood, would vote to bring the question promptly before the Senate in, an early report. Incidentally, the president took oc casion to deny published reports that he had sent any ultimatum to the Senate through Senator Owen or any one else with a view to forcing early action. He had done. nothing, he said, along this line. He added that ao proposals for compromise or change in the repeal measure had been brought to him and significantly suggested that amendments were not being offered by administration lead SPEAKS TO MEXICAN CONGRESS t 1 AT OPENING SESSION. tv.. Touches Upon Strange Attitude of a Certain Power Towards Mexico— Not Much Enthusiasm Shown. v The president has more than once made plain that he believed it the duty of the American congress to re peal the tolls exemption without equivocation or evasion and that he was against any amendments. He told callers frankly that while he did not expect obstructive tactics in the Senate, he expected a full discussion of the question there but was confi dent the repeal would pass. The president declared no propos als for a caucus had been mentioned to him. Reports were in circulation that an effort might be made to force the repeal bill into a caucus, but these rumors were denied promptly Democratic leaders asserting that a caucus would not be necessary, at the same time insisting that there is no doubt that the repeal bill will have a safe majority when the vote la taken. It yas pointed out that Dem ocratic senators, such as O’Gorman and Chamberlain, who are openly and unyieldingly opposed to toll ex- emptioh repeal, could not go into a caucus which would be designed to bind them. Friends of the repeal bill insisted that support of th^ president’s policy is increasing rather than decreasing. One Republican senator who will vote for the repeal declared that^a^canvass of the Senate showed a clear majority of nine for the bill, the probabf being that several votes counted for the opposition would be reversed. A number of Republicans, however, it le now generally understood, have de- cvllned to line up against the repeal, notwithstanding they voted against free -tolls originally. Among these are Senators Penrose and Oliver of Pennsylvania, who have publicly an nounced their change of position. Secretary Bryan discussed the issue with several senators while at the capitol, among them Senator Ashurst of Arizona, one of the Democrats openly opposed to the repeal. Sena tor Ashurst said, after his talk with the secretary of state, thht he had not changed his views. Mr. Bryan also discussed the situation with Sen ator Overman of North Carolina, who Is In favor of toll exemption repeal. Before leaving these precincts I must engrave upon your hearts that it is my purpose, as I have said be fore to the national congress, to achieve the peace of the country and, If to do so, your sacrifice and mine shall, ,be indlspenslble, you and I will know how to sacrifice ourselves. This is my purpose or, what is the same thing, my profession of politi-. cal faith.” With this statement President Huerta ended his message to the Mexican congress, which convened on the first day of April. The document otherwise was devoid of sensational statements or dramatic effect. Throughout kthe reading neither members nor those id the gallery in terrupted with applapse. Just be fore his closing w^rdij, the president paused and surveyed t the bouse, which became unusiially silent. , He pointed his flnget as he impressed on jthe Congress his “profession of political faitn”. Then came applause with cries of “Viva Huerta!” In this message President Huerta said he refrained from extensive men tion of international relation^, al though he ebipmeffted with bitterness on the difficulties the Mexican gov ernment had encountered in obtain ing money* owing to "the influence exercised by the strange attitude of a certain power towards Mexico.” The only direct reference to the United States was in a review of the foreign office, when hq said: “Re ferring to the department of foreign relations, I must tell you that the -government of the republic has earn estly endeavored to develop a just nationalistic policy, which far form injuring our international relations, has resulted in making them the most cordial possible with the chief pow ers of the world. “Some of the American states have not yet recognized the constitutional government ad interim of the repub lic, but the greater number of them keep in Mexico diplomatic representa tives, and no one of them has inter rupted relations with the republic. The United States has been so good as to invite us, through his excel lency, President Wilson, to organize in common accord the preparatory work for the approaching peace con ference at The Hague.” President Huerta told congress that the department of agriculture was preparing laws regulating the distribution of 230,000 square kilo meters of government land. The- message made no suggestion to congress as to legislation, but re ferred to several messages which would be presented. Little space was devoted* to the war department, the president confining himself .to the general statement that this branch had done excellent work. He ex plained the apportionment of the army, now totaling 283,100, as fol lows: Regulars, 250,000; state troops, 31,000; rurales, 2,100. Negro Kills Negro. At a negro dance on the plantation of Mkck Gregg, about three, miles east of Florence, Saturday plght An thony Scott shot and mortally wound ed James Conner, his cousin. At the last term of court Scott was tried for the killing of a negro woman and was found not guilty. w Shoots and Kills Town Marshal. a few days ago by Charles Graham, who made his escape. Feu Off Building. * W. R. Cox, am aged!carpenter, of Ccanmbia, 1» la a serious c nditlon as a result of a fall from a building on WANT IT REVERSED. Bishops File Petition Asserting Er rors in Vanderbilt Declsibn. Claiming that the recent decision of the supreme court is in error, and renaming the grounds on which the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, claim the ownership of Vanderbilt university for the church, a petition Saturday was filed before the Tennessee State supreme court at Nashville, Tenn.,. asking for a rehearing of the pase. IT Is under stood that the answer of the [board of trust to the bishops will be filed be fore the supreme court. The petition is a voluminous document of 60 pages, which assails every proposition laid down by thbxcourt * In the petition iKls argued that the board of trust is not a self per petuating body, but that thuMethod- ist annual conference had had |n the beginning the sole right as members of a corporation to elect the trust and that subsequently this right was vested in (be general conference. It was likewise claimed in the petition that Commodore Vanderbilt was not the founder of the university, but that it was founded by the annual conference of the church and that the church is entitled to the credit for the funds given by Vanderbilt. Country Divided Into 12 Districts. The country has been divided into twelve districts in accordance with the new banking law. South Caro lina, North Carolina, Virginia, Mary land, part of West Virginia and the District of Columbia make\up District No; 5, Bank Robbers Slain In Fight. Lawrenca. Newbem. town marshal . Josepb. A.. Patterson, who entered of Broxtba, Ga., Was shot and killed and robbed the State bank of New- alla, Okla., of 0700 was shot and killed in a running fight near Ok bon torna City. Killed In ioha Rogers, a killed at Spartanb RATTLE GROUND OVER REPEAL OF FREE TOLLS SHIFTS. WILL SEE MUCH DEBATE Both Opponents of Repeal and Ad ministration Leaders Are Straining Every Nerve for Desperate Battle- Estimated Majority of Sixteen En courages Those Favoring Repeal. The Panama tolls controversy, sur passing In Interest any problem that has absorbed the attention of con gress in recent years, was transferred to the Senate Wednesday from the House, wher > Tuesday night the Sims bill repealing tho lolls exemption was passed by 247 to 161. The meas ure’s appearance was accepted as the signal for the beginning of one of the most protracted and complicated con- testq the Senate ever faced. Senators both for and against the repeal said they saw no hope of a final disposi tion of the issue within the next five or six weeks. Senator Qifilorman, who will lead the fight against repqal planned to have the inter-oceanlfc'Tanals com mittee, of which he is chairman, be gin consideration of the measure 1m- me diately Tli© committee already has before it various .other bills rer latlng to exemption. It appears that the members are nearly evenly divid ed on the chief issue. How a vote will result is fegarded as extremely uncertain now, but unless there is a change in the line-up opponents of repeal appear to have a mapority of one. Senator Lewis of Illinois has a bill empowering the president to suspend tolls by proclamation. Senator Reed has introduced a measure which would repeal the toll exemption clause and grant to foreign vessels the right to compete with American ships now engaged in the coastwise trade. Senator Owen’s bill, identical with that passed by the House, it was expected, would ,be replaced by the administration’s measure, its purpose to expedite consideration in the Sen ate having failed. There are other measures pending, including a bill of Senator Thomas and Senator G&llln- ger’s resolution expressing the sense of congress that it bias the right to do as it pleases with respect to regu lating shipping in the Panama canal. The latest poll brought to the White House by an administration Senator who canvassed his colleagues and excluded from his count those he considered doubtful Indicated that the president’^ contention would have a majority of at least sixteen Republicans as well as Democrats. Senator Owen, the administration leader in the canals committee, where the measure is now pending, was at the White House early conferring with Secretary TumuKy. Asked about the procedure in the Senate and length of time for discussion the Oklahoma Senator said: “It is natural.to assume that if the committee does not report prompt, a motion will be made to discharge the measure from consideration of the committee. There is to be no effort at forcing unnecessarily hut we want no dilatory tactlcq^.^he committee stands, I judge, against the presi dent, and I think when organized those who were in favor of the tolls exemption were.in the majority. A week in the committee will be rea sonable time fqr discussion.” The president had no comment to make on the result In the House but let It be known th^t he cherished no ill-feeling over tho^e who, expressing their convictions, apposed the repeal. There was no comment made on the speech of Speaker Clark. It was said to be apparent that a determined effort would be made to add to the House repeal bill a clause to assert the sovereignty of the Unit ed States over the canal. Some Sen ators were said to take the view that such an amendment could not be con sidered as a compromise. Democratic senators most active in the fight for the repeal contend the House bill hquld prevail in the Senate without aba^ndment. How far Republican senators will figure in the result of the controversy was the subject of considerable speculation. DESPERATE NEGRO HOLES OFf JASPER COUNTY OFFICERS. Negro Escaped From Ohalngaag Last August, But Is Captured on Return to His Old Home. BOY INJU Jesse Turner of Clover Hurt by Pow- i der Explosion. While playing with some other boys in the mill village near plover Saturday afternoon, Jesse Turner, son of M. H. Turner, sustained "a very se rious accident. He and some other boys had placed some powder into a tin can and pvt>earth on top of it Wheb they put % match to the fuse it exploded, the can striking young Turner in the fafte. The blow put out one of his eyes, broke his nose, cnt « long gash through his upper lip and caused other painful injuries. by Lynchers. ;ed men toc& . SUbbed Twenty masked Padilla, charged with man wife, from Santa Fe, N. Hu and stabebd him repeatedly. , On Saturday night through the effi cient work of Sheriff Porter and his deputies, of Jasper county, a sensa tional capture of one of the most des perate criminals that has ever been in Jasper county was effected. Marion Brown, a negro, who was convicted duriifg the May term of court, .in 1913, and sentenced to serve three years oh the county chain gang, dur ing the month of ARugust, 1913, es caped from the gang after aecuring the guard’s rifle, inflicting a severe wound though not a serious one. Ever since his escape Sheriff Por ter has been making every effort withlng his power to rapture him, having made three trips to Georgia, where it was reported that the negro had been seen, but each trip proved, that it was the wrong negro. Last Saturday some one informed the sher iff that Brown was at his old home in VILLA TAKES CITY AETFU IX>NG AND BLOODY BATTLING. CARRANZA HEARS NEWS Federal* Are Driven From Their Stronghold and in Riotous Retreat Are Pursued by Victors—Not Yet Known Whether Federal Com mander Has Been Captnred. Torreon completely Into the hands of the rebels at 10:20 o’clock Thurs day-night, according to announce ment made at Juarez, Mexico", by Gdta. The news first PLUNGES IN MILL STRJ0AM. t_ Two Lexington Girls Lose Their lives in Deplorable Accident ■ Brother Escapes. Y’enustiano Carranza, was announced to the world wheQ^; the bugler in front of Carranza's res idence blew the staccato notes of vic tory. The paean, Carranza said, was sounded bven before it was heard in Torreon, Villa delaying out of com- plimenttto his chief. The meagre bulletins excitedly an nouncing victory after the bloodiest the upper portion of the county and ■ ser * es battles known to modern Immediately thereafter he left with all his deputies. They arrived after dark and learned that he was in a small negro cabin alone, wh’ereupon Sheriff Porter demanded that he sur render. but he refused. Immediately the sheriff ordered his men to bre on the cabin, thus hoping that he would surrender, but this also prov ed in vain. ^ After firing in the cabin for about three hours, some one secured half a dizen sticks of dynamite, and the sheriff then told Brown that this was- his last chance that he was going to use dynamite and blow up the cabin sfifren if he did not sfffrender This'll ad the desired affect and he stated that would promise him protection, which he would surrender if the sheriff assurance was given him. After his surrender they found three guns and a rifle in his possecslon, and the gun that he had Ip his hands had been shot through the stock with three dif ferent balls, showing how near he came in losing his life in resisting the officers. NEGRO ARRESTED. Enters Home at Union and Flees When Alarm Was Given. Dudley Johnson, an 18-year-old negro, was arrested about 5 o’clock Wednesday 'morning at his father’s house, near Putnam church, eight miles northwest of Union, and lodged in jail. Dudley Johnson is charged with a very serious offense—that of entering the room of a young white woman of the Putnam community. The account as gathered from all Information obtainable is that the young woman, who is about 15 years of age. had retred. With her was sleeping a young sister. About 11 o’clock Tuesday night she was awak ened by some one placing a hand on her. She exclaimed: “Who is that?” and the answer sought to convey the idea that it was the young woman’s brother. She recognized the voice, She, however, recognized the voice, it is alleged, to be that of the negro boy, Johnson, who has worked on her father’s farm, and had worked about the house.. The young woman screamed and caught up the child and ran into her mother’s room, and as she ran screaming from the room, the intrud er Jumped out of a window and fled. The alarm was promptly given and Sheriff Fant made a hdrried trip to Carlisle, where he got Gary Jeter, the chain gang guard, and his dogs, and proceeded hence to the Putnam neigh borhood. The, young woman is posi tive in her identification of the ne gro. FOUGHT IN THE WAR. Woman Masqueraded as a Man for Over Sixty Years. _ After masefuerading as a man for 60 years and serving as a soldier In Grant’s army during the W^r'of Re cession “Albert” Cashier, whose sex was discovered at the Quincy, 111., soldiers’ home Saturday, was commit' ted to an insane asylum. The wo man was born In Ireland 73 years ago. She came to America as a stow away clad/in boy’s clothes. Whep war broke out, she, having continued to represent herself as a male, enlisted in Company G, Ninety- fifth Illinois infantry. She partici pated in several bloody battles and behaved with gallantry. When the war closed she resumed civil life as a workman until she became helpless to support herself. She then entered the soldiers’ home, where her sex was discovered while she was under the care of a surgeon. 'Auto Accident Injures Two. )r. Floyd Rogers and his wife of Afiderson were seriously injured 8at- day when their ante tamed over res times near that dty. Unknown Men Drown. Two unidentified man warn drown ed when a bride over the Mohawk River. Schenectady, N. T., was ewept way Mexico said that yillk captured a large number of prisoners and that the fleeing federal remnant was be ing pursued. Whether Velasco, the federal colnmandcr, was captured was not stated. . * There was heavy fighting ’Thurs day, it is understood,—and the end came when, after capturing the three remaining barracks h^ld in the city by the federals, the frebels stormed the trenchSs and barbed wire entan glements of Canyon de Guarache. The prisoners captured are believed to have been the defenders of the barracks, while the troops in the can yon, which forms an egress from the hill girt city, were able to escape.' Thd campaign against the feder stronghold of Torreon, the main otf? ject of the rebel campaign, began suddenly two weeks ago after Gen. Villa had spent months in making the most carefuP preparation. The rebel loss in this campaign is said to be more than'2,000 killed and wound ed. Trains loaded with wounded have been arriving' dally at Chihua hua for the last Week. The rebel commander moved with a rapidity hitherto unknown in Mex ican wafrare. He worked his men in shifts, and as one shift became ex hausted he sent fresh hosts against the enemy. A number of small towns of lesser importance in a military sense fell first—Mapimf, Noe and Sacramento, where a bloody battle was fought. This opened a path for the main attack. Next came Lerdo and Gomez Pala- do, populous suburbs of Torreon, and all three connected by a belt street car line. Lerdo was not de fended but it took three main as saults In which the rebels lost heav ily td take Gomez Palaclo, In the final attack on the dty^ troops were withdrawn from Lerdo, whereupon the federals occupied it and another sanguinary conflict was necessary to retake it. Last Friday, six days ago, Gen. Monclovio Herrera, with his own bri- gate and part of Benavides’ Zara goza brigade of veterans, made the first' dash against Torreon. He enter ed by the east and penetrated jto the bull ring north of the centre of the town before he was checked. Street fighting, in which hand grenades were the most useful weapons used, followed Gen. Villa, then at Gomez Palaclo, announced that he would join the at- He newspaper men with -him would not be allowed to send any news whatsoever until the town was completely In his hands. Misses Jessie and Flossie Grout, aged 20 and H years, respectively; lost their lives In Taylor’s mill pond, about fifteen miles south of I^oxleg- ton. Saturday afternoon wh<»n the mule they were driving made a wild dash into the pond while they were crossing the dam. Elzie Croat, a brother of the young ladlee, aged about 12 or 13 years, who was in the buggy at the time of the accident, barely escaped with his life, ha hav ing ipanaged to get to the bank. His etcipe is said to have beea almost Trifraculous. The accident happened within sight of the home orJB Voting women, as they were retarning from Swansea, where they went to visit relatives. There were no wit nesses to the accident The home of Mr. Azarian Taylor is almost within a stone’s throw of the pond where the young women were drowned. Mrs. Taylor and her little daaghter, the only members of the family at home at the time, were attracted by the girls’ screams. They were un able t04end assistance and the lad. tack, taking supreme command, announced also that the MYSTERIOUS MURDER. Tennessee Parents and Child Killed Three Miles Apart. Mystery surrounds the killing hear Clinton, Tenn., early Wednesday of three members of the Selvers family. Millard Selvers was shot through the hack of the head at his home three ijlfTtes from Clinton and a short time later three miles sway the bodies of his father and mother, Mr, and Mrs. Jacob Selvers, were' found lying in the dining room of their home. Millard Selvers’ wife told the offi cials tha( she was awakened early Wednesday by a revolver shot She sdld she Investigated and found the body of her husband lying on the floor with blood flowing from a bul let hole in the back of his head. His revolver was beneath him. Mrs. Selvers swooned, she said, and does not know how long she re mained unconscious. On recovering she. summoned help and sent a mes senger to the home of her husband’s parents. Unable to arouse any one at the home of the elder Selvers, the messenger Investigated and found the bodies of the aged man and his wife. Both of the Selvers were prosperous farmers. The elder Selvers was 65 years old and the sob *5. ■ ■ too young to aid his sisters, strug gled In the watOr In an effort to save his own life. The mule swam to the opposite shore after he had man aged to get loose from the buggy. It wgs possibly half an hour before the men near by reached the scene and it was an hour before the bodies of the young women were recovered. Webster Smith, In charge of the search, found both bodies. The older girl,' Miss Jessie Grout, was still In the buggy in a sitting posture. Mias Flossie Crdttt was reecued from be neath the buggy. The water where the young women lost their Nves was about eight feet deep. Elsie, the lit tle boy, says that be saw his sisters rise two or three times, but be was unable to give them aid. WILL SOON BE EMPTY. State Farms Unplanted on Shortage of lers In the There are 186 prisons State penitentiary and 57 on the State farms. Of the ; in the penitentiary 150' 36 women. All the prisoners em ployed on the State farm are mea. Under normal conditions It raqnirea about 160 convicts to work the 2,400 acres of cultivated land at the State farms In Kershaw and Sumter coun ties. Much of the land vlU He tallow this year. Practically no cotton will be planted at the State lann. The amall force of eonvlets will be used to cultivate food crops exclu sively. About 600 acres have bean sowed In wheat and oats. Some eon has already been planted and more will be planted later on. As there Is not enough labor available to suKl- vate the big cotton crop which the State farm has been planttag lor years, It will not be grown this sea son. The penitentiary directors have disposed of the mulea they de net need on the State faima. The chair factory at the penitea- tlary is turning out about 65 rattan, rockers per day, which ara.aold In various parts of the* South. Forty male convicts and 12 female eonvMs are employed in the chair factory. The ash and maple for the arms, frames and rockers of the chairs'are shipped from the lumber mills ih the mountains. The rattan reed is im ported from fte East Indies Ahrongh New York. All the parts of the chairs are made on the premises from raw material. DROVE BANDIT OUT. Boy Falls on Pocket Knife. Floyd Hill, aged I years, while' on his way to attend school at Barllson, Tenn., Friday fell with an open knife In bis hand. The bladA entered hie body between the robe. Express Messenger Balks BandH by Opening Fire on Him. A bandit who attempted to rob a Seaboard Air Line passenger train near Comer, Ga., early Thursday, was balked by an express messenger, R.'C. Fletcher, who exchanged shots with the outlaw until he jumped from the train near Comer-and escaped. He boarded the express car as the train was leaving a water station two miles soutlFof Comer. Covering Fletcher with a revolver he ordered him to open the car safe. Fletcher drew his pistol; and opened fire. After several shots' were exchanged, the ban ait, hit'by . bullet In the arm, dropped his wei pon and leaped from the train. Fletcher was not Injured. Pc gsn a search for the outlaw. ♦-w- Shot His Wife's Friend. While George Yonog and hie were quarreling Thursday In home af West Plains, Mo., a hand, George Billings, ran Young i of tho house with a poker for ping Mrs. Young.. Yoi gun ah(j sliot him.' ip Me of the county declared logbl Friday by court. Y>