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DCW YORKERS KILLED MANY
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OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION
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' Terrible Times in Great City When
United States Government TjrJed to
J^orce Mon to Join the Army
Against the South—Troops Restor
ed Order.
England right now Is experiencing
qualms about conscription. “Civil
utar" and “social revolt” are terms
that are linked with any discussion
the subject, says the Kansas City
that !
opened their booths the city
was thrown into a state of bloody
riot that lasted nearly a week, in
which many were killed and wounded
and property damaged to the extent
•f S2.000,000.
In January, 1863, the Quarterly
Review published an article urging
conscription. It sdid: v ‘The country
calls for sacriflces at the commands
of duty, and a people that refuses to
make them l as ceased to be worthy
•f liberty or nationality.”
The South was forcing its men into
service, and the North was trying to
•■gin rtiB -war wtttr votuntpgffr ah7
house was showered instantly with
bricks and stones, and a wild mob
rushed in, driving out the officers
and clerics ' With bricks and c clubs.
The papers were tor~ up and the 1
books destroyed.
‘ Some one produced a can of tur
pentine and. poured it oyer the fdrnl-
ture and struck a match. Policemen
and draft officers made a feeble at
tempt to disperse the rtot<yyi, afl,d
check the flames, but they were
driven off by. a bombardment 6f
stones.
John.'A. Kennedy, superintendent
of pplice, appeared in response to a
rush t?aH.' He was not in uniform,
but he was recognized and was set
upon and severely beaten. The mob
gained in fury. A small force of the
Invalid corps was rushed tQJt.be scene
of trouble; But was overpowered and
driven off. fry that time the rioters
numbered thousands Instead of hun
dreds.
The firemen were called out, but
they loitered on the way and when
they did appear they were* greeted
with jeers and derisive applause.
They -made no attempt to save the
burning -building, but succeeded in
stopping the spread of the flames
after several adjoining buildings had
been destroyed.
The mob began to march through
the streets. The loafers of 10,000
saloons poured out and Joined the
procession. Word was spread through
the city of the success of the insur
rection, and men who opposed the
draft turned out by the thousands.
There was no force to cope with
the situation. The police, although
well organized, were powerless. The
city’s militia was in thfi^Intefior of
Pennsylvania' and there was only a
small military force at Governor's
Island—a handful—In the forts com-
The vast majority of men do not
volunteer for war. The United States
found that out in the rebellion and
kad to use the draft. An4 the draft
was, in a way, the last resort. It
produced results. 1
It is said that England dares not
try conscription In the face of the
present opposition, but conscription
la the United States, too, was bitterly
opposed. It was charged that the
administration was reckless and irre
sponsible and was promulgating the
doctrine of compulsory military ser
vice to further political ends. Lin
coln was slandered and abused.
Vwr *j cent, T of ®P*h}ianding the. flea-approaches.
5 0- _ ti0,l l-“ d . The mob-moved oVSr^he city call
ing at gas houses, railroad offices,
workshops and factories demanding
that all work be stopped and the
laborers join the ranks!'; Through
either sympathy or cowardice the de
mands were generally granted.
Ily 3 o’clock In the afternoon the
city was in a tournioil. Drunken,
hellowing men roamed the streets,
plundering shops and attacking
dwellings of persons said to favor
conscription.
The lowest elements in the city
swarmed out by tens of thousands
and r us hod- —through—street—after
■ot succeeding to any great extent.
Some one pointed out that the Con
federates had come nearer taking
Washington than the federals had
taking Richmond.
Many newspapers opposed the
draft in fiery editorials. The New
York Daily News said: “The mis
creants at the head of the govern-
■ent are bending all their power to
securing a perpetuation of their
ascendency for another four years,
aad their triple method of accom
plishing this purpose is to kill off
Democrats, stuff the ballot box with |
bogus soldier votes and deluge the
S usant district with negro suffrage,
i people are notified that one out
of about two and a half of our eitl-
as are to t>e brought off into
Lincoln & Co.'s charnel
house. God forbid!”
The World said: “Weak and reck
less men at the hoad .of the govern-
ment are forcing conjcrlption as an
unnecessary stretch of governmental
control over Individual liberty.”
But the government had to take
the risk. The Confederacy, on April
19, 1862, had adopted a measure
placing all white men between the
ages of 18 and 25 at the disposal of
their executive, and those already en
listed for one or two years were noti-
led that they would be held for the
duration of the war.
Nearly a year later the Union was
struggling along with the volunteer
system and meeting reverses. Like
England of to-day, the pleas to
patriotism were about exhausted and
thousands of able bodied men, were
shirking from battle. Human life
then, as now, was not the cheapest
thing, despite such fatuous state
ments. Men lost in battle could not
be replaced in munitions factories
Lincoln summed the situation up.
“We are contending with an enemy
who, as T understand,” he said,
“drives every able bodied man he
can reach into his ranks very much
as a butcher drives bullocks into a
slaughter pen. No time is wasted, no
argument used. This produces an
army with a rapidity not to be match
ed on our side if we first waste time
to experiment with the volunteer sys-
tem.” , ' •
Conscription was decided upon and
adopted iMarch 3, 1863, by a vote of
115 to 49 in the House. A motion
to delay the measure was overwhelm
ed in the Senate, and it Was adopted
without a roll call of the yeas and
nays.
The act provided that all men, in
cluding negroes and aliens who had
declared for citizenship, between the
ages of 18 and 45, were to be draft
ed by the president, at his decretion,
for not more than three years. Those
between the ages of 20 and 35 were
tp be in the first class and the others
in the second. Federal provost mar
shals were to enroll the men within
the scope of th6 act and those not
reporting were to be considered as
deserters.
A commutation of service could be
bought for $300. Federal judges and,
governors of 1 states were exempt, as
were only sons of widowed and»de
pendent mothers or of aged and in
firm fathers. Fathers of motherless
childrefi less than 12 years old were
excluded, and there were several
other classes set aside.
— The first draft for conscript In
New York waa advertised dor July 13,
1863. la the days Immediately pre
ceding incendiary handbills had ap
peared mysteriously and had incited
revolt. Several newspapers denounc-
ed the draft-^-or any form of con
scription—as needless, unconstitu
tional and outrageous. It was as
serted that the enrolment from New
York was too high already and that
there would he fraud In drawing the
»Vi' ‘
street. It was worse the two follow
ing days.
A negro boy was chased at full
speed by a hundred white men.
Negroes were turned oat of their
houses, ‘beaten and several were
killed. Others, la abject fear, hid.
A negro man was hanged on a
busy street, his clothes set afire
and Ills body left hanging for
hours.
The Negro Orphan Asylum, at
Fifth avenue and Forty-sixth
street, was sacked and burned
while tiie two hundred inmates
fled. The furniture was carried
out aad taken away by the women
folk of the rioters.
An enrolling office at twenty-
ninth street and Hroadwuy stood in a
block of stores, one of which was a
goldsmith's shop, seavlly stocked
with Jewelry. Every store was loot
ed and strip|>ed and the buildings set
afire. Firemen wero forbidden to
fight the flames. In twenty minutes
the walls crashed down and then the
firemen were allowed tp play their
hose.
The riots kept up for three days.
In Brooklyn a grain elevator valued
at $100,000 was burned. A small
body of soldiers was called in from
duty on the harbor, and they, with a
body of militia hastily mustered in,
began crowding the mob back into
its own quarters. There was more
fighting for a time, but less plunder
ing and burning, and- the riotprs be
gan to lose spirit as they saw their
members fall before rifle bullets. A
number were killed.
The climax had been reached. Gov.
Seymour addressed ♦he rioters from
the city hall and premised to use his
influence In Washington to have the
draft suspended. News of Federal
successc- also sapped enthusiasm.
The disturbances dwindled down to
Isolated robberies and attacks upon
negroes.
One force of rioters, however, held
the eastern upper part of the city,
where there were many large tene
ment houses. It was in that district
that a Col. O’Brien, commander of a
volunteer regiment, had been follow
ed to his home the second day and
beaten to death. HIej body was then
dragged through the sheets with a
rope around his neck. ^
The rioters made their last stand
Thursday evening near Twenty-third
street and Third avenue. A small
body of so.ldlers opened fire on men
who wore stoning them from house
tops. Other soldiers entered the
.houses and made prisoners of all the
men they found. * Thirteen rioters
were killed, eightoen wounded and
twenty-four made prisoners.
Several regiments of militia ye
turned from Pennsylvania and were
soon followed by veterans from the
Army of the Potomac. Riots ceased
There had been similar and simul
taneous disturbances in Boston,*Jer
sey City, Troy and Jamaica-amd in
many other places, but they wen
ended With the collapse of the New
vr ''"k insurrejbtiapu f ,
'lie city authorities, to avoid fur
tlier trouble, hon-Owed and appro
priated large sums of money to pa)
for volqptpers, and the city’s quota
was filled Without conscription. Con
scription, however, went on through
out the Union, and Grant was enabled
to raise the gigantic armies tha;
rushed the rebellion. -
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SENATORS TALK OUT
PARTY LINES OBSCURED
1GN AFFAIRS DISCUSSED
VARIOUS* ANGLES
Lodge whether It trri unneutral for
Norway, Ddhmark, Sweden and Hol
land to place an embargo on muni
tions after the' wax began. - Senator'
Lodge said he thought not, because
that act did not dhangfr^a condition.
“Placing of the embargo by these
nations,” Senator Hitelleock replied,
“deprived Germany of a safe method
of procuring munitions and other
contraband from thofee countries and
yet no one was beard to claim thdt
CLASSIFIED COLUMN AND
L FARMERS EXCHANGE
President Wilson Gets Praise FrOi
Republicans and Knocks From
Democrats—James Sharp Williams
* Vigorously Praises Clear Visioned
Man in White House.
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Bonds of restraint against public
discussion of international relations
of the United States Incident to the
European war were broken In the
Senate Wednesday, and for more
than an hour the session was enlivr
ened by debate over the government’s
neutrality policy, exports of war
munitions and travel by American
citizens on belligerent-owned ships.
There was no division of the de
baters along party lines. Senator
Jones of Washington, Republican,
denounced as “unpatriotic” American
citizens who imperilled the nation by
taking passage on belligerent vessels.
Senator Works, or California, Repub
lican, asserted that tjie goveinment
of the United States'was “hypocriti
cally” claiming to be neutral when It
was in fact participating in the war
through the sale of munitions.
Senator Lodge, ranking TtcpubTIcan
member of the foreign relations com
mittee, declared that to plhce an em
bargo on arms now would be worth
more to Germany, than"'* million
men, “It would be grossly unneutral”
and would, in fact, make the United
States the ally of Germany!
Senators O’Gornian of New York
and Hitchcock of Nebraska, ;^oth
Democrats, urged the advisability -of
an embargo on munitions. Senator
O’Gorman also informed the Senate
that American Consul R. N. McNeely,
who lost his life on the British liner
reraia, had disregarded the advice of
American Consul General Skinner, at
London, that he make the journey to
Aden on a Dutch vessel.
The discussion was precipitated
when Senator Jones read a news
paper editorial urging American citl-
sene to keep off bolligerent ships and
advising the president to proceed
slowly in the present crisis, heeding
the Interest of ninety-nine millions
of Americans rather than that of a
"thousand reckless, inconsiderate
and unpatriotic citizens who insist on
traveling on belligerent ships.”
Senator Nelson of Minnesota, Re
publican, aroused Senator O'Gorman
by asking whether Senator Jones re
garded Consul McNeely unpatriotic
because he sailed for hia post on the
Persia. After the New York senator
had explained that McNeely. had de
clined to heed Consul General Skin
ner's advice to sail on a Dutch ship.
Senator Works blazed the way to
general debate on the position of the
United States in the war by declaring
the American government was not
neutral.
Asserting at the outset that the
government shared responsibility for
deaths of Americans on the Lusitania
the California senator said:
“The government knew that the
Lusitania was loaded to the guards
with ammunition and explosives. Pas
sengers were permitted in spite of
this, to travel on the vessel. , The
government Itself, in full knowledge
that the ship carried munitions of
war, Is morally responsible for the
deaths of our citizens.”
When Senator Works declared the
United States actually was partici
pating in the war by the sale of
munitions Senator Reed, Democrat,
interrupted to ask:
“Does the senator know that the
first loan placed in this country after
the war jiegan was a loan of ,^25,-
ar pe|
000,00# to Germany, and that 1 the
loan was made without protest from
him or any other citizen? Does the
senator not know that Germany pro
cured arms in this country as long
as It was possible for her to get
them?”
"That may all be true,” Senator
Works replied, “but it does not alter
the situation.”
“If It be true,” continued Senator
Reed, “that the markets of this
country are free and open to Ger
many as well as to all other coun
tries, and that this government does
not distinguish' between any belliger
ent nations, then Low can the ( ppna-
tor say that this goitefftm^ht ’
taken an unneutral position?”
“It is impossible to get arms to
Germany, and I say it is morally
wrong fqjv tifis-goverament to permit
shipments of arms to any of the bel
ligerents,” Senator Works insisted.
He added that his principal objection
was based on a conviction that the
Upited States was aiding in prolong
ing the war and the killing of men.
and that he would not only! put an
embargo on munitions, but also on
shipment of food and plothing to the
armies of Europe. . -
Senator Lodges in upholding the
position of the United States as to the
shipment of munitions, engaged In a-
’engthy colloquy with Senators
O’Corman, Hitchcock and others.
"Our markets are open to all the
world to buy,” said Senator Lodge 5 '
“A condition has been created by this
war,_.and by the war alone, which
irevents one or more belligerents
buying-in this market! " ff we under
ake to reverse S cpndltlbn created
by the war we at once enter Into tbf*
—ar and endeavor to restore a otfndi
•Ion existing before the war, and that
s an act of unneutrallty//
“Evidently In time of war, such as
s now disturbing the peace of the
■ orid.” Senator O’Gorman rejoined
almost any act of a neutral power
regard*#-eon as an act
>f partiality, but :n my judgment
’*><■ government, if it deemed it bee'
pr the American nation and the b*s‘
eeurity of ponce with all the natter
ould place an embargo against t o
hipment of inanition* to any bellig-
ng Itself to (be
neutrality.
Mexico
furnished the
took
llllams of V|ississippl,
lead! - '
lon^
Dfon'dffSr
on President
Information be
nitlon of the Car
by the United States'J
Senators Fall and
that the president should ft
gross fully: concerning the sJ
before the nomination of an ar
sador to Mexico was confirmed.
upon' .questions arising
European war. He said
from
string” the United States^
Senator Rorah wanted to
whether the Mississippi s<
thought that after the war
the United States
spirit of conquest.”
replied.
“out of a
consent to be bullied. I will tell i
senator why I anticipate bullying,
great power In Europe to-day
Yorkshire Pigs—$5; seven weeks ofd.
S. W. Hayes Lenoir, N. C.
has
Rulgars Grant Money for War.
A .war credit of one hundred mil
'Ion. dollars was enthueiastlcally ap
proved by the Bulgarian parliament
'ays a dispatch to the London Time
from Saloniki. All sections of the
opposition voted , with the govern
•pent.
names from the Wheel.
The morning the enrolling officers
took their stations crowds began to
•epedallY in the uptown dls-
where there was a compact,
foreign Thorn laboring population.
The drawing commenced at a house
at Forty-ninth street ard Third ave-
a knndred uamea had
when a
Many Flee Into Greece.
Telegrams from Athens say tha*
the- number of Serb'an refugees-fi-.
Greek territory is now forty thou
*aod. of whom six thousand ar* m
Aetonlkl * ^ -
ncaret*** for Armies.
Twelve carloads of cigarette* hav<
reached Savannah from
▼a.. «■ roate u tile British
amPiTTiT ThFirPtiFin y 1 vrs Trcrrs-ncis
ed some very delicate questions v
that power. They remain to be
tied. There will be plenty of di|
matlc talk and there will be nle
to quarrel' about.
. "They are in the field of di|
macy now and the president of
United States has very wisely
tempted to keep them within the f
wisely handled by a man long v
ioned and deep visioned and tent
visioned than we have. He has
three of them: They are apt to
mismanaged when they are made
game of battledore and shuttleco
on the floor of these two houst
even when I am one who plays t
game. * *
“You tsk me what we are goli
to expect aggression abou(. My a
swer Is, we havd alteady had It
slon, and If after having that
brought to the attention of a great
power, the great power talks, and if
while It is talking it perpetrates the
same crime on the same crew of the
inferior ship, and after having made
an apology it perpetrates the same
ertmfe upon the crew of still another
ship, and if then It has agreed that
the future policy shall be limited by
our demands, another ally of the
same power perpetrates the same
crime on still another ship, and then
tells us in high toned dogmatism of
diplomacy we have never discussed
the matter with them and they had
right to murder women, children and
men non-combatanta on an unarmed
ship after their allies agreed not to
do it on the high diplomatic grounds
that we had never discussed it with
them
Referring to alleged| attempts to
weaken the Democratic administra
tion through airing of views on the
war. Senator Williams asserted:
“I for one decline to bring a great
international question do.wn into the
dust and sweat and turmoil of politi
cal discussion. I will only say that
there is in the White House aj. this
time one who has deep vision, long
vision, a vision which after it sees
and before it advised action, consid
ers thoughtfully not only American
humanity, but humanity all over the
world.”
RUSSIANS ADVANCING
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Vienna JReports Enormous Losses to
Hosts of the Czar.
Everywhere in the Stripa and Vol-
hynian districts of Russia and'ra
east Galicia the Russians are on the
offensive, the official communications
from bdth Petrograd and Vienna re
veal. Cznerowitz, capital of Buko-
wina, is the position around which
the most important fighting is in pro
gress. , —4^
The Russian war office reports that
the Russians have occupied a line of
trenches northeast of Czernowitz' amf
have repulsed strong counter attacks.
A' Reuter dispatch from Petrograd
gives a report of tbe'evacuation of
(’zernowitz and the capture by the
Russians of a large number of pris
oners, including Germpni
SeecLPeannts—Best var' ty fdr hogs,
, 95c bu. here cash. Christian'Dick
son Co., McIntosh, Fla. >
FOR SALE—115 acres good clay
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Frost proof cabbage plants now ready
\for immediate shipment; all leading
varieties, $1 per 1,000, or 5,000 for
$4. jWrite D. B. Ott, Columbia, S.
C., R. FVp. 4. .
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deliveries.-Prompt Shipment. Write
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For Sale—Charleston, Wakefield and
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per 1,000, f. o. b. Hodges, 8, C. Han
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FOR SALE—Ground limestone, and
also Shell lime, write me for prices,
delivered your station, also‘prices
on all grades of fertilizer material.
C. J. DWYER, Sumter, S. C.
Italian White Doves, $3 pair; Jap
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pair. H. L. Darr, Florence, S. C.
For Rent, lease or eale, fully equip
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cotton, corn, truck and stock rais
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Peas For Sale—Peas will be In great
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Pecan Trees when properly grown
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A card will bring the information.
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strictly confidential; particulars
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Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland, Cal.
Frobt Proof Cabbage Plants, 60c p
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Proctor, Morrisville, N.
Extra Homer Pigeons, r-
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For Sale—60 extra nne i uiauu,
pigs. All eligible to register and
belt breeding. 1 Dr. S. J- Summers
and Sons, Cameron, S. C.
Pineapple Oranges, tne nuesi.
grown. Fancies, $2; Choice. $1.80,
Golden, $1.60 per box, cas ^ ^‘ th
order. J. K. Christian, McIntosh,
Fla.
WANTED—BURNED-OUT -MOTORS,
GENERATORS AND TRANSFORM
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ELECTRIC REPAIR CO., CHAR
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Bargains in “Nickel in Slot” Electric
Pianos and Orchestrions. We need
the money and room quick. ‘ Nuf
Said”7~ John H. Williams’ Musfc
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Cabbage Plants—Leading yprrieties.
y*
open grown in Piedmont Pelt and
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over, 90c. By parcel post, 20c per
100. J. H. Hagan, Hodges, S. C.
Georgia Cane Syrup—New, pure, un
adulterated; $14 per 35-gal. barrel
f. o. b. Cairo, Ga. Quantity limited.
Short crop. Order quick if you ex-
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Ga.
by the Russians^ on this front, al
though Yleijna says that the Russian
attacks have been unsuccessful and
that thmr losses have been appalling.
IjvJone sector, six miles in width.
,300 Russian dead have been count
ed. *
Serbians at Scutari..,
In parliament Lord: Robert Cecil,
under secretary for foreign affairs
said that there was a considerable
body of the Serbian army at Scutari
where at first the men haij been in
-real distress. But the situation, he * KadiCa
had now been largely relieved.
Plant a Pecan Grove—Get ready for
the boll weevil. Twenty trees will
plant one acre. Price, twenty, $8,
best quality budded 2 to 3 feet
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Marion. S. C. '
For Sale—Contents and lease of up-
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centrally located In Florence, S. C.,
near Atlantic Coast Line railroad
shops. Will be sold reasonably. Ad
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Wanted—At David's Junk Yard,
near A. C. L. freight house, now
operated- by' G. J. Halter, carload
lots a specialty: scrap Iron, metal,
rags, bones, brass and copper. Feed
bags, highest cash prices paid.
Write us for price* to-day. G. J.
Halter, Columbia, S. C.
WANTED—Farmers and collectors of
cow hides make us your next ship
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also raw furs, tallow, bees-wax, rub
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tags. etc. We guarantee you square
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W. W. Watson, "Pecanwodd,”
Orangeburg, S. C.
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Tanner and Leather Dealer^ COLUMBIA. N. O
CONSCRIPTION BILL WINS
ON ITS FIRST READING
Three Labor Leaders Quit Cabinet—
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I-almr Congress Wants Com
pulsion Withdrawn.
Amid scenes of wild enthusiasm
the House of Commons Thursday
night passed the first reading of the
government bill for compulsory mili
tary service by the decisive vote of
Thera, has baen a.atxang.adyaxtee. 403 to 105.
The vofe'eame shortly before mid
night, with the galleries again pack
ed, every seat on the floor of the
House occupied, the ministerial
benches filled and an air of eager
expectancy prevailing. The events of
the day -hajjLincseased the tension to
a high pitch, notably the action of
the Labor Congress and the quick
sequel of the retirement of three
Labor members pf the ministry.
The vote was shortly-after eleven
o’clock. The minority was composed
of Nationalists, some Laborltes and
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etc. Ip market for iron, carload
lots. Write us full.description what
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has taught us proper outlet. Satis
faction guaranteed. Prices and tags
on Yequest. H. S. Waddell and Co.,
Sumter, S. C.
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FOR SALE—"Florida Phosphate
Rock very finely ground, analysis 68
per cent, bone Phosphate Lime
Equivalent to 21.75 Total Plios-
.phoris Acjd at $6.75 Bulk or $8
bagged and tagged f. o. b. Charles
ton. Terms cash against documents.
'December-January shipment. A. F.
Pringler30 4 Brbad Street,,Charles
ton. S. C. \ ,
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lls.
Two yean of uachecked maqllnp
is a hlq price for the common peopU
if a nation to pay for tha pleasure of
haring a volunteer army. In eaqa of
war you need what yea mead when
■ The Labor Congress has gope on
record against the bill Introduced in
♦he House of Commons for compni-
eory military seryic*. recommending
that the members of the Labor party
"a parliament oppose the bill at nil
'^By n vote of
79I.999. tha I
to support a demand for the with
drawal of the compulsory service bill
from parliament.
Arthur Henderson, president of
the board of education and leader of
The Labor,.party in the House qf Com-
nrolis; William Brace, parliamentary
under-secretary for home affairs, and
George H. Roberts, lord commission
er of the treasury, also Labor party
leaders, have resigned from the min-,
istry. . .
The resignations of Mr. Henderson,
Mr. Brace and Mr. Roberts were the
'direct outcome of the LabQr/€e«r
gress, which had followed'by a tw(^
house conference among the_fearlia-
menlary Labor menihers. At the
close of the latter conference the-an
nouncement was made of the with-
dlawal of the three I.abdr members
in the coalition ministry.
- There are now four vacancies in !
the coalition mUJistry, including that
cause by the resignation of Sir John
A. Simon, the home secretary. Gos--
sip already is busy over the probable
successors of the outgoing ministers.
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‘ Protest to England.
The United States has sent a note
■rigowQflly prdtestlur flgalhst the
British authorities interfering with
and censoring malls from the United
State* to neutral European-countries.
100.
EOO Montenegrins Drown.
Twer hundred Montenegrins from
JSSjf Jg* thjrtr live. Friday by the
sinking of M Italian
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