The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, February 24, 1916, Page 6, Image 6
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.
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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
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federal government for cotton for
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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.
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Murder Puts a Town on the Wagon.
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It was not a revival, but a murnoiicoH
tha ontirp nnmila
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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
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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
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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 '
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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.
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packers make money as easily as did
the country boy who witnessed the
killing of a calf by a motor car.
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