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COTTON REVISIO | PASSED > f Carries Average Ad V< Cent.?Bill Support and 30 Insurgen gy" Washington, Aug. 3.?The Under-js "wood cotton revision bill, carrying an ; ] average ad valorem duty of 27 perj " cent, on cotton manufactured goods, i a cut of 21 per cent, from the pres '; ent tariff, was passed Dy tne nouse to-day by 202 to 91. ] Supported by all the Democrats and by 30 Insurgent Republicans, the Democratic cotton tariff bill, the third { of the big tariff revision measures 1 brought forth by the Democratic 1 v house of representatives, passed that body early this evening by 202 to 91. 1 The bill cuts the average tariff on i cotton manufactured goods from 48 ' to 27 per cent, ad valorem, a 21 per < cent, reduction in duty that the Dem- < ocratic leaders estimate to reduce '< t- revenues by about $3,000,000. Not an amendment was offered to the bill, although the Republicans attacked it vigorously on account of t alleged increases in certain items j over the rates of the Payne-Aldrich r tariff law. Scarcely had the cheers j that greeted the passage of the cot- j ton revision bill subsided when Dem- t ||( ocratic Leader Underwood, calling) i - 1 ' " -- !1 +V.A I If?:.;;' up the tree list dui as u passcu 8 senate a few days ago, accomplished j a strategic move which surprised the 8 Republicans. c He asked for a conference on all the amendments to the free list bill r except that of Senator Gronna of c North Dakota putting cement on the j free list. He urged that the house j accept that amendment, adding to it i g lemons. Pacific coast Republicans j i made ineffectual attempts to stop this c sudden and unexpected putting of t lemons on the free list, but the j amendment carried. The * change ^ gave the house Democrats what they j. claimed to be an added advantage in dealing with the senate in the conference committee. Issue Hurry Call. To-night the Republican leaders in! a both houses of congress called in ab-S r r sent members from all parts of the 8 country in preparation for a threat- * Iened attempt of the Democrats to; 1 pass the wool tariff bill over Presi-' t ; dent Taft's veto. The Democratic * leaders in the house have asserted 1 ^ within the last 24 hours that they * have the necessary two-thirds major- * . ity to pass the wool bill over the president's veto and have been doing 8 .effective missionary work in the sen- c ? ate to-day. The Republican managers s In the house insist to-night that they t have enough votes to prevent a two- * thirds majority in support of the t 1 wool bill. c ?The wool conference will start at' IV,10 o'clock to-morrow morning when; the committees of the house and sen- j ate will meet in the effort to effect j a compromise. It is possible that the 0 : compromise can be secured at one Bitting of the committee, in which s case the bill will come back to the * t two houses to-morrow or Saturday, j s Speaker Clark to-night appointed as a V a conference committee on the free a list bill the same conferees who will a act on the wool bill, Representatives Q Underwood, Randall of Texas, and Harrison, of New York, Democrats; Payne and Dalzell, Republicans. D Caucus Methods Attacked. ^ Bitter attacks on Democratic caucus methods by Representative Payne | pVr of New York and other Republican ? K&kv leaders and a charge of Representa- 1 Ii tiye Prouty of Iowa, Republican InBurgent, supported by Representative McCall of Massachusetts and Hill of Connecticut, that the Underwood bill a made enormous increases in the tariff on certain cotton cloth manufac- g tnrers in Southern mills, marked the i closing hours of debate on the cot- ^ T ton bill. s i Former Republican Speaker Can- j non upheld the Democratic caucus ( policy, declaring that "this is a gov- 1 ! ernment by party organization," r while Representative Lenroot, Re- g publican Insurgent, earnestly defend- 1 ed the cotton measure and denounced t the attempts of his fellow Republi- l cans to make it appear that the bill i revised any schedule upward. < Prouty Gets Call-down. Representative Prouty said until to-day he had intended to support the ||f cotton bill, but "figuring with his i ?"<1" Vi/\ fVln o/1 rolnram < pcilUU lie luuuu tiiai/ (,ue au t aivioui , Y * rates on cotton cloth valued at be- ^ tween seven and 12 cents, a type of * cloth manufactured almost entirely ( in Southern mills, had actually been s increased as high as 250 per cent, j H ? above the Payne bill rates. i Democratic Leader Underwood re- i plied that ad valorem tariff schedules ^ I had to be fixed on an average basis, t placing certain rates between two ^ lines, top and bottom, and that Mr. t Prouty had picked up the single i schedule under which there was an i apparent increase. He said that un- j der this schedule last year just $700,- < 000,000 worth of cotton goods con- i m : N BILL BY THE HOUSE j dorem Duty of 27 Per ed by Democrats it Republicans. sumed in this country were imported. He claimed that Mr. Prouty's charge was too trivial to be treated seriously. Representative Harrison of New Fork, a member of the ways and means committee, calling the charge 'picayunish and contemptible," said, 'I am not a Southern man, but I ibsolutely repudiate the insinuations that any sectionalism or favor has t>een shown in his bill." T? IViof .ttepresentaiive x~a..vue muvcu ixmi. the bill be recommitted to be held in committee until the tariff board reports at the regular session in December. The motion was lost without roll call. Then the bill was idopted without amendment. Fill Place or Resign. Washington, Aug. 3.?In view of he fight that the cotton manufac;urers throughout the country are naking against a revision of the >resent tariff duties on manufactured >roducts at the expense of the coton growers, there are indications lere to-day pointing to the fact that uther bill may fail in the senate or t may be necessary to unite the In;urgent vote and adopt a substitute >r amendments to the house bill. Senate Democrats, while not saying nuch publicly, are "sore" with Hoke Imith, because by his absence they ost the adoption of the free list bill, n plain terms, they think that Mr. Imith should either let the Georgia egislature elect another senator or ome to Washington and attend to he duties for which he was elected, f the cotton bill fails in the senate >y a close vote Mr. Smith may be teld responsible for it. Fatally Hurt by Train. Cheraw, Aug. 4.?H. R. Whitman, Lgent for the Seaboard and the Benlettsvitle & Cheraw roads at Kollock, icross the river from Cheraw, was njured, probably fatally, last night n some unknown manner. It is bought he was struck by a north>ound Seaboard train about midlight. His skull was fractured and high broken and he has bad cuts on lis back and ribs. Mrs. Whitman, his wife, says that ls he had not returned home by 5 >'clock in the morning, she went in earch of him and found him near he river trestle, where he had been mocked down the embankment. Litle hope is entertained for his reovery. Increase of House Membership. Washington, Aug. 2.?Final debate in the congressional reapportionment ill to increase the house memberhip from 391 to 433 occupied prac\r oil r?f tft-dav's RPRSiOTI of the I IVsClllJ Mil V/4. vvr w enate. Senators ROot of New York nd Burton of Ohio opposed the bill, nd Senators O'Gorman of New York nd Shiveley of Indiana supported it 'he bill probably will pass the sente to-morrow. Senator Root will offer an amendaent to-morrow to maintain the resent house membership. He conended to-day that a large body tends 0 legislative inefficiency and gives ach district less chance of making ts needs known. Shot By Negro Woman. . Greenwood, Aug. 5.?Lowry Muse, 1 prosperous young farmer of the /erdery section Of the county, was .eriously if not mortally wounded ast night by Lela Fisher, a negro voman. The ball entered the (tomach. He was carried to a nosrital in Augusta and unless his coniition improves death will result. There were no witnesses to the affair. The young man states the woman ihot him with his own pistol which le later recovered. Some weeks ago ;his young man was hit with a rock lurled at him by an unknown party vhile he was hitching his horse after jailing on a young lady. Drowned Himself. Waynesboro, Go., Aug. 2.?Fightng until his last cartridge was gone, Steve Simmons, the negro convict, vho near here to-day shot and killid G. Deck, a guard, and with an)ther convict escaped, after being ' a *? ji ? ? ?3 ^ .not ana Daaiy wuuuucu luis aiLeiiood dropped into a creek and disippeared in 15 feet of water. The )osse that caused his death is dragging for his body. The negro used ;he creek embankment as breastworks and emptied the revolver he :ook from a convict guard at Sherff Joyner as the posse charged. Sheriff of two counties, court officers ind bloodhounds joined in the chase >f the convicts, one of whom is still it large. "DRYS" TO PUT OUT TICKET. Texas Prohibitionists Determined to Continue Fight. Fort Worth, Texas, July 29.?Out of the conference of 500 prohibitionists, from all parts of Texas, here today, following the State-wide prohibition defeat Saturday, July 22, came the determination to place a prohibition ticket in the field next year and the adoption of a resolution calling upon the State legislature, which convenes in special session next Monday, to investigate the expenditures of money to defeat submission of the question to the people in 1908. The resolution provides for probing the money expenditures in every precinct. A committee of ten, representing voWmio oo^Hatic r?f Teyfls wan an TailVUO MWVAVMW pointed to consider alleged irregularities in Saturday's election. The committee will meet in Austin Monday and confer on the situation. No attempt was made to-day to canvass the situation with reference to a candidate for governor on the prohibition ticket next year. Concede Election to Vardaman. Jackson, Miss,, Aug. 2.?That Former Gov. James K. Vardaman has been made the Democratic nominee Sor United States senator?equivalent to election?is conceded by United 1 States Senator Leroy Percy and C. P. Alexander, his opponents in yesterday's primary. The returns indicate that State Senator Theodore R. Bilbo has re- , ceived the nomination for lieutenant governor. Earl Brewer was the unopposed candidate for governor. In a statement to-night Gov. Var- ( daman said: "It is the uprising of the people. It is the affirmation of the plain peo-1* J*.iorVi+ fn rillo Q11/1 Tint pie 1U LLICll llgUU lu 1U1V uuu uw the self-imposed right of a lot of selfelevated and self-assumed leaders and prophets." First Railway Trip. Spartanburg, July 31.?Having ridden on a railroad train for the first time in her life last Friday, when she went to Alta Pass and Spruce Pine, N. C., on the Woodmen's excursion, Mrs. Simpson D. Kirby, of No. 124 Clark street, 50 years old, has become an enthusiastic advocate of travel as an educator. "Yes," says Mrs! Kirby, "I was on a railroad train for the first time last Friday. I enjoyed it very much. Some ladies told me I had better be prepared for it, as the ride was likely to make me sick. But the train ran so smoothly that I didn't mind it at all. "My trip did a great deal of good. I think people ought to travel as much as they can. It gives them new ideas and they can learn to appreciate things so much better, seeing them themselves, than from the description of another." A Morning Smile. . " I When President Eliot, of Harvard, was in active service as head of the university he was noted among the students for his abrupt and brusque manner. Keports nad 1 come to him that one of his young charges was in the habit of absorbing more liquor than was good for him, and President Eliot determined to do his duty and look into the mat- 1 ter. Meeting the young man under suspicion ih the yard shortly , after breakfast one day, the president marched up to him and demanded, "Young man, do you drink?" "Why-why-why," stammered the young man, "why, President Eliot, not so early in the morning, thank you."?Boston Transcript. itcau; w licauiuc iiv/iat Joplin, Mo., Aug. 2.?Though he had just been rescued after being entombed in a mine drift 72 feet below the surface of the earth for three days, Joseph Glary, taken from his prison here to-day, will resume his mining operations to-morrow if doctors permit him to leave his darkened room. Mining has no terrors for him, Clary says, because he believes he has had his turn with the accidents that cause so many deaths in this district. He says the White Oak mine, in which he was entombed with the new shaft through which he was rescued, will prove a paying venture. He had gone into the mine to examine the drift when he was caught. "Will I go back to mining?" Clary asked. "Why shouldn't I? It does not stand to reason that the same fellow will be caught twice in the same trap. I have had my turn and I now can mine all the rest of my life in safety." Clary did not wish to remain in his darkened room to-day, as ordered by his brother-in-law, who is a physi cian. His objections were overruled, however, and he was promised that in case the light does not hurt his eyes to-morrow he will be allowed to return to the mine. If the light proves too strong he will have to remain inactive for another 24 hours. ? HATPIX PUNCHED MAX'S EYE. 'Frisco Vaudeville Actor May Lose His Sight. San Francisco, Aug. 2.?The turning of a woman's head may cost Daniel Mack, a vaudeville actor, his sight. Mack attempted to make his way through a dense theatre crowd on Market street last night. A woman beside him turned her head. A long steel pin projecting from her hat passed through Mack's right eyelid, through his nose and into his left eye. "You brute, how dare you push my hat," the woman cried, as she felt a frantic tug on her headgear. Without looking around she wrenched the pin free and disappeared in tirllilft ATo r>lr oto CCOTPfl 1116 UlUnUy nunc iliuvu uvuqqv. blindly about the sidewalk. Physicians ordered Mack placed in a dark room. "An Honest, Credulous Man/' Washington, Aug. 2.?Declaring that he desired to defend President Taft because the latter "had no one in his own party to say a word in his behalf," Representative Burnett, of Alabama (Dem.) said in the house to-day that "the only trouble with the president is, being honest himself, he is too credulous." "No honest man, as I believe Mr. Taft is," said Mr. tfurnett, "ever naa such mournful comforters since the days of Job. I have no doubt that his daily prayer is that Wickersham and Hitchcock will do as Ballinger did." Mr. Burnett that Secretary of Agriculture Wilson was another honest man to fall a victim to bad advisers, and that consequently the downfall of Dr. Wiley, who has so often stood between murderers and the people, had almost been accomplished. Would Sell Her Finger. Chicago, Aug. 5.?Mrs. Minnie Oherrin says she will gladly sacrifice the index finger on her right hand in order to give her six-year-old daughter, Isla, a musical education. Tne Duyer 01 tne living nng?r, u the transaction is culminated, will be Mrs. Reginald Waldorf, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Waldorf's index finger on the right hand was injured by a cut from a rusty nail. Blood poisoning resulted and the finger was amputated. "There is bi\t one thing that can restore your hand to Its former condition," said the surgeon who amputated the digit. "Some other woman whose finger will fit and who is willing to sell her finger must be found. The new finger can be amputated and grafted on." So an advertisement was published in the Philadelphia papers inviting proposals for a finger. Mrs. Oherrin saw the advertisement and wrote that she would make the sacrifice. 'Are you willing to have your finger cut off to buy the education fof* Isla?" was asked. "Why certainly," answered Mrs. Oherrin. "Haven't I made every other sac riflce a mother is capable of making for her? I would be the happiest woman in the world if this can be done." First Bale in Barnwell. Barnwell, Aug. 4.?The first bale of new cotton grown in - Barnwell county and what is probably the first in the State, was ?sold on the local market to-day by R. H. Lutz, who lives three miles from town. The bale weighed 360 pounds. The price paid was 15 cents a pound, and it was bought by J. A. Porter. The cotton was classed as fairly Jgood midling and Mr. Porter stated that he has never seen a prettier first cotton sample. This cotton was not grown on a prize patch nor was it materially hastened by the drought. The bale was shipped by express to F. W. Wagener & Co., Charleston. This is the earliest date that a new bale has been sold in this county by several days for years. Mr. Lutz will probably get out another bale next week. Mother and Two Children Killed. Union,- Aug. 4.?To-day, about 2 o'clock, Mrs. Arthur Jeter and two small children were killed about onei mile nortn or santuc, in tnis county, by an engine on the Southern railway. Mrs. Jeter and her four children had been to Santuc to attend a religious meeting and all five were in a buggy returning to their home. The road approached the railroad at an angle, and when the vehicle reached the track it was struck by the engine going in the opposite direction. It is said that the engineer was endeavoring to reach the siding at Santuc before meeting the "Carolina Special" from Columbia. Mrs. Jeter and two children, one a baby only a few months old, were instantly killed while the other two children were thrown from the track without any serious injuries. Mrs. Jeter was the wife of Arthur Jeter, a substantial farmer, and citizen of the Santuc section of this county. ~\y ;: vv-'v^ -t'v; ?c SHE COULD SHOUT, SAYS Mrs. John W. Pitch ford, of Aspen, N. C. I will always use Hunt's Cure for itching trouble, and tell all I see about. I could shout now to know that we are all well of that dreadful trouble. The first of last fall my little boy broke out with soioe kind of itching trouble. Thinking his blood was bad I gave him a blood umtet but he got worse, and "/bid nftl sleep at night. Homo said h4 had itch, and told me what ?as good for it. I used what people said *odid cure it, but nothing did agood, My other two children and mysalf took the disease from him in danuary, 1911. I saw Hunt's Cure advef' tised and I purchased a 50c. bo*. It helped my little boy so much I got a box for each of the family, and now we are all well of that awful trouble. Hunt's Cure will cure 'tcb in a short time if you will go by directions. We had it In its worst form, and used Hunt's Cure, and we are now all well. Thanks to A. B. Richards Medicine Co. of Sherman, Texas, manufacturAnn /\f 011 r\Y\ ViAdlfnor m ivio \jl ouv/ii u^anug ui^uiviuv, MRS. JOHN W. PITCHFORD, Aspen, N. C. For sale by Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg; S. C. H. M. GRAHAM H. G. ASKINS GRAHAM & ASKINS Attorneys at Law. We practice in the United States and State Courts in any County in the State. BAMBERG, S. C. TO THE PUBLIC The undersigned have formed a copartnership for the purpose of practicing law under the firm name of Mayfleld & Free. S. G. MAYFIELD, W. E. 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