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REPORT OX BYRXES'S BILL. Committee Action Favorable on War Time Claims. Washington, Feb. 17.?A favorable report has been made by the house committee on war claims, of which Representative James F. Byrnes is acting chairman, on Mr. Byrnes's bill repealing the statute of limitations insofar as it applies to cases growing out of the captured and abandoned nronprtv act. r F " " I Official statements of the secretary of the treasury show that there is in the vaults approximately $5,000,000 of the fund created by the sale of cotton under this act. As to the greater part of this fund the records show that the seized cotton had been sold by its owners to the Confederate government. Under court decisions the original owners could not recover from the m?. - ' f federal government for cotton for . which' they had received compensation from the Confederacy. It is stated in the committee report, therefore, that the amount the government will be called on to pay cannot In any event be large. The Byrnes bill would give to persons who can prove their cases an opportunity to bring suit in the United States court of claims. It is believed to have a good chance of passing. ??? _ Murder Puts a Town on the Wagon. * - It was not a revival, but a murnoiicoH tha ontirp nnmila UC1 j l>uat vuuuvu v??v v r-i tion of the lively young town of Byers, in Pratt county, Kansas, to climb aboard the water wagon on new year's for a year's ride. Every resident of the town old enough to sign hie name took the pledge not to drink intoxicating liquor nor smoke v r cigarettes por chew tobacco for one year. It was not the preachers who so successfully circulated the pledges, bnt the town's business men anJ the friends of the two young men who were the principals in the tragedy which shocked the town into taking ; , the pledge. *For it was bootlegger's whiskey ' that caused Lewis Sells to shoot and kill his friend Bob Randies on the main street of Byers a few days before Christmas. Everybody in town knew the two young men, and the Spfe tragedy which sent one to his grave and the other to jail was a terrible ahock. Murder in a small town is an awfully personal thing, anyway. It was the town's first killing. Founded at the terminus of a new railroad shortly before the 1915 wheat harvest. Byers was as lively as - "v-"t - . . the usual new town. In a business way it grew and flourished. There was more drinking than in the average.. Kansas town, but the residents wefre inclined to wink at "the fact, * in the manner of residents of boom-; ing young towns. x But the killing changed all this. Business men, leading citizens and friends of the two young principals in the tragedy talked of the fatal affray which whiskey had caused. All sincerely deplored the occurrence. AH agreed that whiskey was to blame. Somebody suggested that everybody in town should sign the pledge. The Idea struck a responsive chord, and the pledges seen were being circulated and meeting with warm approval. "Everybody on th? water wagon," became Byers's slogan. But some few who had been in the habit of drinking moderately whenever they felt like it objected to signing a permanent pledge. "Make it a year and I'll sign," suggested one prominent citizen. And so the pledge was made for one year, with the understanding that It would be renewed at the end of the year if the experiment proved satisfactory. Four young men, Richard Simms, Logan Tompkins, Harvey Tompkins and George Hughes, circulated the pledges. Fifty signers were secured the first two days. On the third day every business man in town had signed, and the rest of the campaign was easy. The entire town mounted the water wagon on new year's without any bragging or blare of trumpets. Two weeks trial of the new system has niade a big hit. There have been no fights and no lawlessness. Neither has there been any more "morning after" headaches and grouches. Nobody in town buys cigarettes or chewing tobacco any more, except some of the farmers who live outside the town and who were not reached in the pledge signing campaign.-j-New York Sun. PASSED BY THE SENATE. Item for $50,000 for Law Enforcement Retained. Columbia, Feb. 17.?The appropriation bill, carrying $2,383,788.72 and galling for a 6 3-4 mills' levy, passed the senate tonight at 11:30 o'clock. 'He bill now goes to free conference to adjust the differences between the two houses. The item for $50,000 for law enforcement was retained. The senate late tonight killed all senate and house bills unfavorably reported. COMING CLOSER. Great Gulf Stream Gradually Changing Its Course. The Gulf stream, that great oceanriver which brings the warmth of the tropics up into the north, is moving closer inshore if certain ship-masters know what they are talking about. The Savannah Morning News reports that masters of vessels arriving at that port claim that the Gulf stream is now a hundred miles further west than it used to be, and the Wilmington Morning Star, in discussing the alleged phenomenon, sees no reason for rejecting the theory and suggests that it may furnish an explanation for the warm weather that has prevailed this winter. That seems rather a violent assumption. There is perhaps nothing inherently unlikely in a gradual change in the course of the Gulf stream; but a change rapid enough and sudden enough to explain the extraordinary mildness of this particular winter could hardly have occurred save as the result of some great ? oceanic cataclysm so tremendous that we should surely have been aware of it while it was taking place. The records of the weather bureau have a way of refuting popular impressions concerning changes of climate; and we are under the impression that those records show no considerable and constantly progressive change in the climate of this coast. Any change in the course of the Gulf stream would probably be due to a change in the configuration of the ocean bed; and the ocean bed is subject to change just as is every other part of the earth's crust. If one considers the evidence of the past, a change in the ocean bed off the South Atlantic coast would be quite in accord with precedent. The ocean once covered all the South Carolina low country; but the forces which make for the uplift or the subsidence of parts of the earth's crust generally work so slowly that the results are not visible from year to year and are scarcely visible from century to century, so that for the story of those changes we must turn not to the his- ^ torian but to the geologist who meas- m ures time in aeons instead of in cen- I turies. If the Gulf stream has chang- Jj ed its course a hundred miles within the memory of ship masters now living, either the change has been due to some other cause than a change in the level of the ocean floor or else the crust of the earth under the Atlantic off this coast is behaving in a most unusual manner.?News and Courier: ., / SOUTH CAROLINA MEN FOft JOBS. Lever and McLaurin Recommended in Case Houston is Made War Chief. ' "Columbia, February 17-r?In the event that Secretary Houston is promoted to the office of secretary of war, South Carolina already has two names to suggest. . Yesterday members introduced in the house resolutions asking that Warehouse Commissioner McLaurin be selected for = the departments agriculture in case Mr. Houston was called to another place. Today Mr. Wingard, of Lexington, suggested the name of Congressman Lever in this resolution: "Whereas, it is not improbable ' ? 4 that the present secretary of agricul- < ture in the cabinet of President Wil- < son may be called to another department in the administration; and whereas, by his diligent study of the subject of agriculture and the devotion he has displayed in the interest ? of the agricultural development of the entire nation, as well as by his ability and capacity, the Hon. Asburv s F. Lever, representative in congress % from the 7th district of South Carolina, has as chairman of the great committee on agriculture in the house of representatives, displayed those qualities which fit him for this high office; "Be it resolved, by the house or representatives of South Carolina, the senate concurring, That the general assembly of South Carolina does hereby present to the president of the United States the name of the Hon. g Asbury F. Lever as one suitable for the position of secretary of agriculture, in the event of a vacancy in that L office. "Resolved further, That a copy of 3 this resolution be sent by the clerk of the house to the president, and also a copy to each of the senators and y representatives in congress from this State." Mr. Belser thought that both of these suggestions could wait until a there was a vacancy, and the house did nothing with either the McLaurin or the Lever resolution. The Money in Stock. 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