The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, June 18, 1914, Image 2

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* iiyr yij** HU FREE TULLS fSKJVATK VOTES TO PASS EXEMP TION REPEAL SO TO 35. BLOWS ALMOST PASSED I MMenMws Between Democratic Sen* 4to» West and Vardanum Crops ' Out in Final Stages of Debate and ITbUI Huge Bulk of Ashurst Steps Vietween Fist Fight Was Imminent. Repeal of Panama canal tolls ex emption Jor American coastwise ship ping passed the Senate Thursday night by a vote of BO to 35. The measure now goes back to the House, which is expected to accept the Sim mons-Norris amendment, specifically • nwerrlng-aH rightaAhe 4?nited States may have under the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Passage of the bill after a struggle that has lasted for several months was regarded Thursday night as an other victory for President Wilson. Although thirteen Republicans came to the aid of the thirty-seven Demo crats who voted for the bill on final paasage, the President initiated the movement in his party for repeal and It waA behind him that many Demo crats who voted “aye” lined up on the last test. There has been no certain promise from the White House that the presi dent will sign the bill with its quali fying amendment, but there has been t»o declaration that he will veto it apd party leaders in the Senate were virtually certain he would approve it. - Woven Democrats, led by—Senator O'Gorman, fought th.fi bill to the en.d. The Senate waa weary when iU long grind -of debate. Its weary watching for any attempt to gain a parliamentary advantage, and by the lime Vice-President Marshal put the gaeation for the passage of the bill the oratory had died down, the cham ber was quiet and the vote waa taken with bat little excitement. KliOerness among Democratic sena- ttora over the repeal bill appeared -again, and before oil was poured on the troubled waters Senator Varda- maa of Mississippi and Senator West -wf Georgia came near blows. Ap- -iparently only the interference of Sen ator Ashurst and the presence of the ■mgaant-at-anns prevented a physi cal encounter. It all lasted lees than a minute, bat In that time the Senate livened up and displayed an Interest la things such as has not been evi dent for weeks. The trouble started after a bitter exchange between Senator Vardaman and Senator James, who had vlgor- >-ausly criticised the Mississippi Sena- vjar, mad In turn had told that he was not stating the truth. When Senator Vardaman sat down Senator West took the floor and also entered a protest against the recent charge of Senator Vardaman that those who voted for the repeal bill were guilty of treacherf to the Dem- •cratic party. He referred to the charge that the Carnegie Foundation had expended $30,000 to boost the repeal bill. “Who knows,” added the Georgia senator, "but what the shipping in terests have spent $10^,000 to defeat this MU.” ‘'Have you been offered any?” ask ed Vardaman. As he spoke he rose to his feet and started toward the -Georgia senator, who was only a few feet away. “Don’t you say that to me,” said Senator West, shaking his head and lifting his arms. “Well,” said Senat#- Vardaman, still advancing with his arms half raised, “you are making an intima tion that somebody else has been in fluenced." By this time the two senators were only a few feet apart, but Senator Ashurst, one of the biggest men in the Senate, had stepped between them. He laid his left arm across Senator Vardaman’s chest and extend ed his right toward the Georgian and tried to pacify them, but they kept talking. In the meantime members in the cloak room tried to tumble out of the doors all at once, and the galleries were half -filled with people leaning forward with expectation of seeing a ml fight. “Senators will please come to or der,’* shouted Senator Swanson, pre- ■tdlng. 'The senators will please take their seats and the sergeant-at- arms '* here he was Interrupted, but Sergeant-at-Arms Higgins had beard enough, abd he walked out to where the two senators stood glaring at each other across the outstretched arms of Senator Ashurst, and stood nady for the official command to •top whatever might be started. Mr. Weet Insisted on explaining. “I did not say In writing or other- wtoe ” he started to explain. tak* - ■• pin tide of the Senate in Par ticular looked on as tf at a play. “No, I am not going to alt down,*' continued Mr. Wf*. tried to explain that the Oeor- ■ator was trying to make no FiaaUy all rammed their ti OFFICERS AND MEN RECEIVE RECOMMEN DATION. Men Distinguishing Themselves at ' I-J. * ‘ Vera Cruz Remembered From Mr. Daniels. -Praise Officers and men among the Ameri can bluejackets and marines who dis tinguished themselves by conspicu ous bravery and heroism at Vera Crux, yere recognized and rewarded Sunday by the navy department. Every one of the 108 singled out for mention in Rear Admiral Fletcher’s report of the occupation of the port, was given official commendation In a letter from Secretary Daniels, bring ing word in most cases of medals, gratuities or promotions. Secretary Daniels announced the action of the department in a letter to Rear Ad mI ralElfeLfilUftt who directed the operations at Vera Cruz, expr essing the department's appreciation of "conspicuously able and courageous performance of du ties entailing, as they did, as ^rave responsibilities as could well be plac ed upon a naval commander.” “In the department’s opinion,” wrote Mr. Daniels, “your perform ance of duty at the seizure of Vera Cruz equally entitled you to all the well merited praise and commenda tion that has been bestowed on the officers and men whom you were di recting. “It is a pleasure to add that it is fully expected that no matter what you are called to do it would be done with a spirit and a degree of excel lence that could not be surpassed, and these expectations were met in very particular, under circumstances requlrlni professional ability and 8offie T ~crr&rr T «t WHIeh may be coft- UrTTTkfid 'cotrrsgre fff Tire'VbpyTtlflfSifl""* 7 'S* 3 "^** directly aimed at order. "Your part In the operations at Vera Cruz is known throughout the length and breadth of the land and so nobly speaks for Itself that the department finds it difficult to em body in a letter anything more that could add to the aatlsfaotlon of hav ing so capably performed, under ex traordinary conditions, a duty which not only npholds hot adds to the best traditions the service which you adorn. “It is with pleasure that the de partment places a copy of this letter on your already distinguished rec ord.” A general order has been Issued awarding a medal of honor and a gratuity of $100 to 11 enlisted men for extraordinary herotm. They also will be advanced to the next higher rating carrying Increased pay. To 42 officers and 55 enlisted men the secretary has written highly com mendatory letters. In addition to the letter each enlisted man has been advanced to the next higher rating, carrying increased pay. The department, It was announc ed, has under consideration the ques tion of further suitable reward for officers who have received commen datory letters. The law does not per mit the award of medals of honor to naval officers, no matter how con spicuous their service may be. Murder and Suicide. Mrq. Fred Roab of Long Beach, Cal., Thursday killed Ler two little girls and herself. Both Senator West and Vardaman explained that they meant no reflec tion on any one in what they had said. Latdr Senator Williams made a short speech criticising Senator Var daman. "I decline to answer any questions the senior senator from Mississippi asks of me,” announced Senator Var daman. "Of course, it is well under stood that the senior senator from Mississippi never approves of any thing I do. I care absolutely noth ing whether I please blip or displease him. My conduct is controlled by myself without regarcLto his opinion of what I do.” For a while the Senate looked T^r a fresh outbreak, but the trouble sub sided and the steady grind of debate went on. The vote In favor of the bill follows: Democrats—Bankheard, Bryan, Chilton, Clark of Arkansas, Culber son, Fletcher, ‘ Gore, Hitchcock, Hughes, James, Johnson, Kern, Lea, Lee, Lewis, Martin, Myers, Overman, Owen, Pittman, Pomerene, Saulsbury, Shaffroth, Sheppard, Shively, Sim mons, Smith of Arizona, Smith of Georgia, Smith of Maryland, Smith tow, Burleigh.'Catron, Clapp, Clark, of Wyoming, Cummins, Dillingham, Dupont. Goff, Jonea, LaFollette, Lip- pitt, Page, Perkins, Smith of Michi gan. Smoot, Sutherland, Townsend, Warren, 'tVeeks, Works—23. Progressiva—Poindexter. UKal—** V VARDAMAN, HBAR8T, ET AL, AIM OCXS AT PARTY’S HEAD. Miftolssipian Diagrnnled Over Patron age Question Has Thrown, Himself to Wilson’s Enemies, j; Unfortunate as It may be that any man who calls himself a Democrat should act as Senator James K. Var daman of Mississippi has done and turn squarely against the administra tion because he is not In pccord with the president’s views on the canal tolls question, the real reason Is seen In the senator's statement that such action is taken partly to save his own political life. So says P. H. McGowan In the State and he continues by remarking that in Washington there is a clique standing ready to club the adminis- ,trj.UQQ lor aqythiqgiiJBay^o.-JChla. clique has long since stopped fighting fairly and has adopted the sandbag method with ^'llllam R. Hearst and a Washington* morning newspaper doing the dirty work. There Is noth ing that the administration does or can do that is well done; everything undertaken Is doomed to fall and the country, according to Hearst and this aforesaid Washington morning news paper, is headed by the political junk heap. With 'his combination there are grouped the standpat element of the G. O. P., some of the Bull Moose and a handful of disgruntled Democrats. And just here it might be as well to pin. There is a small complement of men around the country calling them selves Democrats who are endeavor ing to make Champ Clark say ugly things about the president and to do Woodrow Wilson and William J. Bryan. This crowd took occasion a day or two ago when Champ Clark accepted the Invitation of the G. A. R. to speak at Arlington to say that he had thrown down his dell to both the president ULd Secretary Bryan and that there would be no more of Wil son or of the Democratic party here after. This Is the line they are work ing on. They are in the sandbagging business ready to club the adminis tration into insensibility for anything it may do, no matter how worthy, and worth while it may be. But this Hearst-Waahington morning newspa per combination will not work unless It gets more force behind it than Sen ator James K. Vardaman of Missls- alppi. Disgruntled because be bas not been able to secure what b* believed to be bis share of federal patronage, according to what is said there, Sen ator Vardaman would unloose the vials of his wrath and drag down the party which elected him to the Sen ate and which brought him from pri vate life to public notoriety. And what does he do the first time oppor tunity affords? t Turns his back squarely upon the party, lines up with the Hearst-Washlngton morning newspaper combination and practical ly says to the country: "To save my political life the Democratic party may go to hades.** . An earnest expression of oplnioa in Washington analyzed the situation very clearly. The remaking of the rency law and the curbing of the trusts has, naturally, turned things up from bottom to top and it was to tariff bill, the overhauling of the cmv be'expected that such a situation would follow the coming into power of the Democrats after the Republi cans had messed things up for the past 16 years. Had Woodrow Wil son not taken the Initiative, had he not seen with his keen foresight and ripe judgment, that such a house cleaning was necessary if the demo cratic party was to live up to Its name and follow out the lines of the platform promulgated at the last con vention. he would have had some rea son then to foam at th^mouth .and bemoan the fact that the party’s deathknell was near, but with poor grace can they do it now. The truth about Vardaman—and .any other Democrat who acts as he ^Igs done—is that his political vision is so much enshrouded in personal selfishness that he would denounce his 'party to save himself. Such oer- sons overlook the fact that It Is not what they get from but give to the party which stamps the genuineness of heir Democracy. Tornado Kills Seven, storm which swept northern sons. ' One of them was a child, torn from its father’s arms and dashed against the side of the farm house. of South Carolina, Stone, SwanspiL. .{owa -Friday night killed seven per- Thompson, Thornton, West, White, Williams—37. Republicans—Brandegee, Burton, Colt, Crawford, Gronna, Kenyon, Mc- Cumber, McLean, Nelson, Norris, Root, Sterling, Sherman—13. Tota—B0. The vote against the bill: Democrats—Ashurst, Chamberlain, Lane, Marline, Newlands, O’Gorman, HMftdeU, RTOd,__Vard%man 4 Shield*—11. fW Negro Killed by Train. Silas WUli&m*/ * young negro of Bennettaville, was ktyled Thursday afternoon by a Bennettsvllle and Cheraw railroad passenger train. » ♦ ♦- 1 ■ ■ * on To ' ill) fill ' * w# — the Panama canal tree tolls ex emption repeal bill tke latter part of this week. “Want Our Law Adopted. As effort la being made to have Maaaaehaaetta adopt the Booth Caro lina lav relating to divorces. • -* ' • Subject to the Governor's Some letters have been recently made public which throw consider able light into the ideas of Governor Blease in reference to the rights of citizens in our State. OnfMay 14 the governor wrote Mr. Henry T. Morri son at McClellanvllle, a leading mer chant and business man, who was a notary public, and Mr. J. M. Mac kintosh, another prominent citizen likewise a notary public, to the ef fect that their commissions had been revoked. Mr. Morrison immediately wrote the governor, and admitting the legal right of the governor, asked that he state his reasons for the removal. The governor replied, May 19, that the governor is authorized to appoint notaries public during his pleasure, and continued:, “You were commis sioned under this law, and it was the pleasure of the governor to revoke your commission, and it was done. I expect you to know why it was done about as well as he does." Mr. Morrison then came back, voic ing the Insinuation which the gov- in a letter of May 25 asked:__‘'Was it because, as a delegate to the Char leston county convention, I voted for J. W. Barnwell as chairman?” To this the governor has not replied. On the 19th of May a meeting of the citizens of McClellanville was held, and in public gathering they pointed out the Inconvenience of both notaries public having their commis sions revoked, and a committee was appointed to write the governor in regard to It. They wrote, in part: "We think it, therefore, due to your self as well as the gentlemen, that you give us your reasons for their re moval.” The governor replied on the 22nd, by quoting the law authorizing those officials to hold during the pleasure of the governor, and ended, "Exercising my pleasure as governor, the commissions of the gentlemen mentioned by you were revoked, and that is all there Is to It.” The Columbia Record closes an editorial upon^these facts as follows: "The plain inference, from all this Is that it is lose majeste in South Carolina for any one to go •counter to the wishes of Governor Blease, who sets np to be the mas ter instead of the servant of the people, and who holds his "pleas ure", to be above the law In spirit, if not in lettec, and who Is Indif ferent to the business welfare of a whole community In the pursuit of his purpose to wreak a petty re venge on an individual who dared to exercise his rights as a citizen in disregard of the governor's wishes.” The trouble with Mr. Morrison was that he assumed that an ordinary cit izen had rights in this State when they conflicted with the pleasure of the governor. He assumed that acts of tyranny and dictatorship were only allowed in Russia and Turkey, forget ting the ban that had been establish ed against all who were not "my friends”. “I stand by my friends” carries with It “I punish my ene mies,” and all who oppose me are enemies. Neil time J^r. Morrison Is sent to a convention to vote it would e well to inquire as to how he shall sfapd, otherwise his punishment will be more severe. Governor Blease this summed will talk before many ordinary dtizens but he will hardly voice the sent! ments behind such arbitrary and vin dictive acts as the above. The peo ple of South Carolina will hear much about his standing up for their rights, but, unless they are fooled bodly, they’ll realize, actions mean more than words, especially vote-hunting words. FARMER IS KILLED. Lancaster Farmers Have Fatal Shoot ing Scrape. News reached Lancaster Sunday of the killing of Will Stack, a farmer of the Tradesville section, b£ Tom Park er, another farmer of the same com munity. It is said that Parker warn ed Stack to keep away from his home, dtherwise he would kill him. Stack was tried for murder at Lancaster several years ago and acquitted. The killing occurred just over the line In Chesterfield coUpty. Both parties are white. It cottld not be learned whether Parker had been arrested. - - — Refuses to Name Assailant. C. C. Wyche, leader of the Blease faction in the House, walked to a Spartanburg hospital Wednesday suf fering from cuts, Inflicted by an op ponent In a fight over personal mat ters. He refused to disclose the name of his attacker. l Fatal Attempt to Catch Fly. In a game of baseball at Charles ton Monday Ernest Howard, a color ed lad, attempted to scald a fence In order to catch a fly, with the result that he fell Into a pile of brick, re ceiving fatal injuries. Train Hits Auto, Kills Four. -Tf ■^’Yrwktohffr-r 1 were killed Thursday whep a train hit their auto near Millard, Neb. Eight Miaers Killed. | Eight miners were killed at Tam aqua, Pa., Friday when a cage In which they were being boletod broke CLASSIFIED COLUMN For Sale—Ear corn at $1 per bushel. J. K. Mayfield, Denmark, S. C. For Sale—Poland China pigs. J. S. Officer, Sparta, Tenn. Barred Rock Eggs—Prepaid, 15, $1. C. T. Hamm, Tobaccovllle, N. C. •• Bloodhound poppies, English regis tered pure-bred. W. NJCavln, Mt. Holly, N. C. Pure Prize Winning White Wyan- dott«e—Eggs 18 for $1.-25. G. B. Dominick, Neeses, S. C. . Indian Runner Duck Eggs—(White) $1.25 per dozen delivered. Good stock. J. F. Tietjen, Savannah, Ga. For Sale—Velvet Beans, $2 bushel f. o. h. Alachua, Fla. Cash with or der. Caswell & Grimes, Alachua, • Fla. Send Dollar Bill. for. 190 Whit*. Ber muda onion plants, by mall, post paid. C. Voorhees, South Lake Weir, Fla. Ran cocas strain S. C. White Leghorns —Hatching eggs, $8 per 100; $1.50 per setting. Red Briar Farm, Hen dersonville, S. C. White Wyandottes—Yearling stock for sale at sacrifice. Eggs for hatch ing. W. P. Causey, 1316 Dickens St., Columbia, S. C. For Sale—One Flanders 20, two new cases, top, extra seat. Car In ex cellent condition. Price reasonable J. F. Burbank, Union, S. C. Special—Pure white and Exhibition Fawn and White Runners, $5; trio _ Utility. $ 1 each or $ 10 doz. Mrz. J. F. Carroll, Hohennald, Tenn. Tomato Plants—Large, healthy plants; all varletlee; $3 per thou sand. Beaufort Island Plant Co., P. O. Box 259, Beaufort, S. C. Indian Runner Dock Egga—Great layers, easily raised. $1 per 13. Express or parcel post paid. Mrs. R. S. Kirk, Lancacster, S. C. R. 6. BUSINESS OUTLOOK GOOD ADMINISTRATION SILENCES A CALAMITY-HOWLERS, For Sale—Egpi from single comb White, Brown, and Bn* Leghorns, Anoonas, Buff Orpingtons, 16 for $1. Carolina Poultry Farm, Reldsvllle, N.C. Men and Women earn $1 dally ad dressing letters In spare time. Send lOe for outfit and beginner. Ad dress Morgan. Box 666, Salisbury, N. C. For Sale—Start right with Young's strain single comb White Leghorns. Beet layers, best show birds known. Eggs, setting $2 to $6. J. Walter Berry, Greenville, S. C. Manufacturing Plants Are Working Full Time and Harvests Await 4 Laborers. ^ President Woodrow Wilson- be lieves that business conditions in the United States are generally good, basing his belief upon faqts and fig ures presented to him by the depart ments of the Government closely in touch ?) wlth the Industrial, manufac turing and farming affairs of the country. In only one spot is busi ness below its normal and that is the line of Industries directly affected bjr the railroads. Steel and iron inter est take an optimistic view of the situation and any indication of de pression, the president believes, ra diates from the offices of the railroad companies, where large equipment orders are being held up pending the decision of the five per cent, increase case. Custom receipts under the new tar iff are greatly In excess of the esti mates, and this, say officials of the treasury department, is a fair barom eter of commerce. The Middle West is calling for 100,000 men to harvest its crops, according to reports re ceived by the department of labor, and this is taken to prophesy an ex cellent condition of business in that great agricultural region. Information in the hands of the department heads at Washington is to the effect that manufacturing plants are working full time and dis posing-of their goods as fast as they are turned out. Members of con gress, always the first to hear of^- business depressions, have reported—- that commerce is moving along sat isfactorily. W. L. O’Brien, director of the Kan sas Employment bureau, says the state needs upwards of 40,000 men, beginning June 15, to help in har vesting wheat. Men can go direct to towns In the wheat belt in Central and Western Kansas and be assured of work at wages ranging upward from $2 a day and board. John T. Fitzpatrick, labor com missioner of Missouri, reports that 40,000 hands will be required to han dle the wheat crop In that state. The period of employment will extend over several months. % Three free em ployment bureaus have been estab lished, one e .ch In St. Louis, Kansas City, and St. Joseph. Charles L. Daugherty, labor com missioners of Oklahoma, says that from 12,000 to 15,000 laborers will be required in the fields of that state during the wheat harvest. For Rent—Eight-room house, very cool, electric lights, bath, large veranda: very fine location; $200 —for three months vacant June 15. C. M. Bell, Tyrou, N. C. A Wonder of the Age—Webb’s Wax- all, apply with rag. 75c quart deliv ered. Will stain and wax floor one application. All colors. _ Webb's Aft Store, Columbia, 8. C. For Sale—Tompkln’s and Langford’s high class Single Comb Reds. Fine breed. Select matings. Eggs, $1.50 $2 and $3 per 15. Young chicks Mrs. John Kerr, Dm ham, N. C. For Sale—Registered Hereford cat tle, best of all beef breeds for our Southern conditions. Eighty breed Ing cows; young stuff for sale. Extra od breeding. Evans Lunsford, vlngton, Ga. Automobile Contact Points, 75c— Why pay f l.60 or $2 for new points We put new platinum on for 75c each. Send them to us and get them . by return mail. Wlesepape Mfg Co., Columbia, $• C. Eggs—Prize winning Rqse. Single Comb Black Mlnorcas, Pape, North rop, Mishler strains. Dark Cornish Indian Games, $2 to $3 fifteen. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Paul Housb Greenville, 8. C. See the World and make from $3 to $5 a day collecting bones and other junk from trash piles; no capital needed. Write for prices. Hender sonville Rubber A Metal Co., Hen dersonvllle, N. C. For Sale—Mountain Grown Lookout Mountain Trisk PoUtoee—Plant In July and raise fine crop. Price, $1,50 per bushel. Order now, from O. P. Sanders, Spartanburg, S. G. ty Go Out and Enroll. Voters can not be too quick about putting their names upon the club rolls. -Procrastination may |)rlng forgetfulness, and forgetfulness means no vote In the primary this summer. For a citizen to loose his vote through neglect is a moral crime, and no man is worthy of the franchise who treats it so carelessly. It is your sacred privilege to partake in the government of your Stae, and HI success to those that prove rec reant to their responsibility. You may not be interested in the candidates this summer, you may feel that your man does not need your vote, or any of the other things by which a lazy man and one afraid to exercise his privilege can dodge the issues raised In voting, but, your duty to your state and nation demands that you vote. Each man should do all that he can. The first step Is to enroll. Do that to-day. 0 Blank Cartridge Kills. Shooting what he thought was a blank cartridge at the three-year-old son of £lr. and Mrs. C. E. Nolach of Tampa, Fla., Thursday, Wayne Coop er fatally wounded the baby. merchandise valued at SI.500. more or less. Will sell at reasonable fig ures. Stock in good condition. Also one desirable lot on M&Ln street. Address A. Q. Rice, Fountain Inn. S. C. Acres Houston County, Ga., Fine ig and Peach Land—Railway way station on place. Don’t hesi tate on account of price, $10,000 for thls^rhlcht la worth $30,000. Southern Insurance & Realty Co., Life Building Macon, Ga. 430 acre farm in Sumter county, Ga. All Improvements. Now under cul tivation. Dwelling containing 12 large rooms with telephone, gas, and water works. J. Lockwood Murphy, Charleston, S. C; — ,l * < —i*''' ,l« -*» l(i> Kellers trass White Orpingtons— Reared from $100 pen. Aldrlcb strain from Madison Square Gar den bine rfbbon winners. Fifteen eggs, $S, ft and $5. Orders filled with car*. W. 8. BtanaaD, Easley 8.C. .v / For Sale—Three doga, four bitch Pointer puppies, 5 months old. Black and white. Sire v Champlon Ladas No. 27307 of Stockdale Ken nels, Bakersfield, Cal. Dam.^Beeeie Kent’s Queen No. 27868. Theee exceptionally fine individual spec! amns—no better bred In the country. Address Dr. F. D. Kendall, Colum bia, S. C, Lady or gentleman, fair education, 40 act as oar reprsoentatlve ig-homo- -- town. Exclusive territory given. Selling experience unnecessary. We fnrnlsh capital. Show how to build * permanent bnatmeea that should pay $$,000 first year. Stapla line. Our book 1st,'"How to Start In Business for Yourself.” explains uH. Free on ( mas*. Address Box lift. PhU- va. >'