The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, April 09, 1914, Image 3
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.
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Touches Upon Strange Attitude of a
Certain Power Towards Mexico—
Not Much Enthusiasm Shown.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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