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SENATE CHANGES Kl'LES. No More Filibusters Will lie Carried On in I'pper llrantii. Washington, March 8.?After more than one hundred years under rules permitting debate unlimited only by the physical endurance of senators and the provisions of the constitution, the senate tonight, by a vote of 7 6 to 3, put power in the hands of two-thirds of its members in the future to limit discussion and v to say when a vote shall be taken on a pending measure. Never while the amendment is in cointo rnlA honk can "a little CXXC OVUUtV * ?.v - - ? group of wilful men," as President Wilson called those he held responsible for the defeat of the armed neutrality bill, prevent a vote on a bill before the senate if two-thirds of their colleagues will otherwise. The organized filibuster, as recognized in the senate, is dead. Action came unexpectedly after six hours' debate on the new rule drafted by a bi-partisan committee. Although both Democrats and Republicans had approved the change in caucus and Senator Martin, the majority floor leader, had given notice that the senate would be kept in continuous session until a vote was taken, nearly every one looked for a , much longer discussion. La Follette and Gronna. Senators La Follette and Gronna, < two of those who opposed the armed neutrality bill, and Senator Sherman, who favored it, cast the negative votes. Senators Cummins, Kenyon, Kirby, Lane, Norris, Stone and Vardaman, who were against the armed neutrality bill, voted for the amendment. Colleagues of most of the senators absent announced that if V, r? Viflon nrocont thPV W'Ollld IUCJ JLiUU C7WA1 vwv**v -* ? have supported it. The exact use of the rule "frill not become apparent until it is enforced, but it probably cannot be successfully used to prevent the spectacular oneman filibusters, by which senators have talked bills pending in the closing hours of a session to a legislative grave. Such filibusters probably cannot be prevented unless they are foreseen, but an organized affair, which must be planned two days or more ahead of a session's end, can be disposed of easily. Provision of New Rule. In brief, the new rule provides that on petition of sixteen senators to close debate on a pending measure the senate by a two-thirds vote on the following day, but one may limit debate thereafter to one hour to each senator. It includes the provisions to prevent dilatory tactics and the introduction after cloture is ordered of amendments not germane to the pending bill. Many senators who favored the change do not look upon it as a cloture rule such as prevails in the house of representatives, where the i rules committee with a majority behind it can set the limits upon speech and the hour for a vote. Others who fear that the action tonight merely forecasts a more drastic change in the future, declared it was but the entering wedge and that the days of the senate as the only legislative body in the world where there cannot be a full and free discussion are numbered. Cabinet Officers Visit Columbia. Columbia, March 8.?The interdepartmental nitrate board, composed of Secretary of War Baker, Secretary of the Interior Lane, and Secretary of agriculture Houston, accompanied by a corps of experts, heard the / claims of the city of Columbia for a nitrate fixation plant at a meeting of the local interests at the rooms of ? 1 the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon. The cabinet officers arrived ] shortly after 1 o'clock over the. Sea- ' board Air Line and immediately were : taken to the Jefferson hotel, where ' they were served an elaborate lunch- 1 eon, following which the hearing was 1 held and a trip- made to the Broad 1 and Saluda rivers. Besides the three secretaries the 1 party consisted of Dr. George Otis Smith, of Washington, director of the < Geological Seminary; Dr. C. L. Par- 1 sons, bureau of mines, Washington; ( O. C. Merrill, forest service, department of agriculture, Washington; J. ] IN- Carothers, bureau of soils, departc Avf o orwiAnlfnra WfoeBin atnn * * XIIOU l? U JL y Gen. William X. Black, chief of the engineers, United States army; Lieut. ' Col. Charles Keller, corps of en- ' gineers, war department; Col. C. B. [ Wheeler, ordnance department of the 1 war department, and R. D. Lillie, of Washington, official stenographer. Count Zepj?elin Dead. London, March 8.?Count Zeppelin { is dead, according to a dispatch from Berlin, received by Reuter's Telegram company. According to a Ber- , lin telegram transmitted by Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent, Count Zeppelin died this forenoon at Charlottenburg, near Berlin, from inflamation of the lungs. j Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. WILL ARM VESSELS. President Acts in Accordance With Decision. Washington, March lu.?The American government today began actual preparations for arming American merchantment against Germany's ruthless submarine warfare. Ship owners having been notified of President Wilson's decision that he has full authority to proceed with this policy, details were taken up so there might be as little delay as possible in granting requests for defensive armament. When vessels sail under the policy of armed neutrality they will do so with the full backing of the administration?expressed in the form of war risk insurance and naval guns and gunners. It was made clear today that in the background will be the entire resources of} the United States?ready for action should Germany attack an American armed ship in violation of the warning of the American government. Government's View. The State department's view of defensive armament as expressed today was that the mere appearance of a German submarine near an American armed vessel would entitle the vessel to take all measures of protection on the presumption that the Uboat's purpose was hostile. This was based on Germany's announcement that her submarines would attack without warning any belligerent or neutral merchantman encountered within the barred zone. -Whether this position will be embodied in instructions to commanders of American armed ships and whether arms and ammunition will be furnished to vessels carrying contraband were up for discussion today, but no announcement on either point was authorized. The attitude of President Wilson has been that no steps of a belligerent character should be taken and that if a state of war comes it must come through Germany's commission of acts in clear violation of international law. Shoot-on-Sight Programme. Some officials close to the president are known to feel that in line with this policy the United States should not sanction a shoot-on-sight programme which might be construed as aggression. Since the policy of the government in the past has been not to insure vessels carrying arms and ammunition to the belligerents, it has been considered probable that this attitude' would be maintained. The lists of contraband articles recognized by the United States differ widely from those drawn up by the various belligerents since the outbreak of the war and, therefore, it is believed that only actual munitions of war will be placed on the restricted list for the purpose of determining what ships are to be insured. State Highway Board. Columbia, March 10.?The newly appointed State Highway commission met here this afternoon and tonight and organized by the election of J. Monroe Johnson, of Marion, as chairman and Charles O. Hearon, of Spartanburg, as temporary secretary. M. Goode Holmes, of the University of South Carolina, a member, was instructed to prepare a digest of the highway act. The other two members of the board are the heads of the engineering departments of the Citadel and Clemson college. Must Lead France to Victory. Paris, March 10.?In a Paris , boarding house kept by nuns, lives the peasant girl who has stirred the : imagination of the French by her declaration that, like Joan of Arc, . she has seen visions and heard voices , commanding her to rise up and guide the soldiers of France to victory and the deliverance of her country. She is Mile. Perchaud, 20 years old, daughter of a farmer of the depart- j .? T ? Tr LiitjiiL ui i^n v euuee. l In accordance with the orders of Cardinal Arnette, the nuns will not ^ permit her to be interviewed. One pf the sisters said today: "She is very simple and pious. To ' ill questions she invariably replies, j Do not ask me anything, for I must ] say nothing.' " < Each day Mile. Perchaud goes to ( ppake her devotions at the Chapel of Mont Marte, which contains a statue . pf Joan of Arc. The strictest secrecy : ;s being maintained in regard to her py the authorities. The Pride of Trade. Gentleman {who has engaged aged colored hackman to drive him from :he station to the hotel.)?Say, uncle, that's your name? Driver?My name, sail, is George Washington. Gentleman?George Washington! . Why, that name seems familiar. Driver?Well, fo' de Lavd's sake. 1 should think it ought to. Here I have been drivin' to this station fo' 'bout 20 years, sah.?Harlem Life. KKITSKS TO Sl'ItlSKMWlt OFFICK Gibbes's Attorneys Ivxpecteri to Serve Mandamus Papers. Columbia, .March S.?Contending that the statutes do not give the governor power to revoke a commission after once it is issued, A. A. Richardson, chief game warden, in a statement issued here late this afternoon, said that, if the chief executive had such power, "my job would have been gone long ago." .Mr. Richardson's expression was in criticism of the action of Governor Manning in revoking this morning the commission of Wade Hampton Gibbes. of Columbia, as chief game warden, which was issued on February 25, and reappointing him, effective today. On both occasions Mr. Gibbes went to the office of chief game warden and requested that it be turned over to him, and both times this request was refused by Mr. Richardson. Mr. Richardson contended today, as he did on February 26, that Mr. Gibbes' commission was illegal. Before he had not received the endorsement of the Audubon society nor had he been confirmed by the senate. It is expected that Mr. Gibbes's attorneys will serve mandamus papers on Mr. Richardson tomorrow. Begins Trip Home. El Paso, March 10.?The Second South Carolina infantry left tonight for its home station, to be mustered out of the federal service. The Second South Carolina will go to Styx, S. C. Forty-one women out of every hundred marry between the ages of twenty and twenty-five. SALE OF LAND UNDER ORDER OF COURT. United States of America?Eastern District of South Carolina?In the FHctript Pmirt in "Eirmitv S. S. Ray, trustee in Bankruptcy, Complainant, against Enterprise Bank, of Bamberg, Mrs. Bertha Riddle, Mrs. E. E. Ellery, Defendants. Under and by virtue of a decree made in the above entitled cause, filed Feb. 15, 1917, I will offer for sale and sell (subject to confirmation by the Court), at public auction, before the Court House of Bamberg County, S. C., at 11 o'clock, a. m., on the second day of April, A. D., 1917: PARCEL A: "ALL those certain lots of land, situate, lying and being in the town of Denmark, in tne County of Bamberg, in the State of South Carolina, on the line of the South Bound Railroad Company, 1 nown as lots No. 1 and 2 in block 53 on the map or plat of said town of Denmark, with the buildings thereon; bounded as follows: On the North by lot No. 3 in said block 53; on the East by a lane; on the South by Sixth street, and on the \Vest by Palmetto avenue. ALSO "ALL those certain lots of land known as lots 21, 22, 23, and 24, being the western half of said lots Nos. 21, 22, 23, and 24, in said block 53 here by mortgage and bounded North by lot No. 20 in block 53; on the East by the eastern half of said lots Nos. 21, 22, 23, 24, in said block 53; South by Sixth street and West by a lanp mppsnrinpr frnnt nn Qivth otroot fifty feet more or less, by one hundred feet, more or less on said lane. Being same lots of land conveyed to Reka Rich by Philip Rich by his deed dated the sixteenth day of June, 1897, and recorded in the clerk's office for Barnwell County in Book 6-T, at page 173. ALSO "ALL those certain lots of land situate, lying and being in the town of Denmark, in Bamberg County, in said State, known as lots 3 and 4, in block 53 on map or plat of town of Denmark, and bounded on the North by lots now or formerly of C. L. Wroton; on the East by a lane; on the South by lot No. 2, in block 53, and on the West by Palmetto avenue, being the same lots conveyed to Reka Rich by L. S. Trotti by his deed dated the first day of January, 1897, and recorded in Barnwell County in Book 6-H, at page 450. And being same land conveyed to the said C. C. Ellzey by Reka Rich by her deed of conveyance dated 29th day of November, 1904, and recorded in the office of the clerk of court for Bam berg County, in Book E, at page 190." PARCEL B: "ALL those certain lots of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the town of Denmark, County of Bamberg, and State of South Carolina, and known and described in a plat^of said town of Denmark, as lots Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, in block 54 of said town, which said plat or map was made by W. J. Gooding, Jr., civil engineer, and bears date Dec. 22nd, 1896, and is recorded in the office of the clerk of sourt for Bamberg County, South Carolina." Terms of sale cash, purchaser to pay all taxes becoming due and payable after the loth day of Februarv, 1917. A. M. HUGER, 3-29. Special Master. I PI I FY * COPFI AMD I Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident INSURANCE Office in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG, S. C. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding orProtruding Piles in 6 to 14days. The first application gives Ease and Rest. 50c. Read the Herald, $1.50 per year. TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of State, county, school and all other taxes from the 15th (lay of October, 1916, until the 15th day of March, 1917, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1917, until the 31st day of January, 1917, a penalty of one per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of February, 1917, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the 1st day of March, 1917, until the 15th day of March, 1917, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. THE LEVY. For State purposes 6 1-2 mills For county purposes 7 mills Constitutional school tax 3 mills Total 14 1-2 mills SPECIAL SCHOOL LEVIES. Bamberg, No. 14 9 mills Binnakers, No. 12 3 mills Buford's Bridge, No. 7 2 mills /~ii -r> j \- ~ in c\ UiCal .TULLU, iNU. J.Z - lUlUS Colston, No. IS 4 mills Denmark,.No. 21 6 1-2 mills Ehrhardt, No. 22 9 mills Fishpond, No. 5 2 mills Govan, No. 11 4 mills Hutto, No. 6 2 mills Hampton, No. 3 2 mills Heyward, No. 24 2 mills Hopewell, No. 1 3 mills Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 8 mills Lees, No. 23 4 mills Midway, No. 2 2 mills Oak Grove, No. 20 4 mills Olar, No. 8 9 mills St. John's, No. 10 2 mills Salem, No. 9 4 mills Three Mile, No. 4 2 mills All persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years of age, except Confederate soldiers and sailors, who are exempt at 50 years of age, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar. Capitation dog tax 50 cents. All persons who were 21 years of age on or before the 1st day of January, 1916, are liable to a poll tax of one dollar, and all who have not made returns to the Auditor are requested to do so on or before the 1st of January, 1917. I will receive the commutation road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from the 15th day of October, 1916, until the 1st day of March, 1917. G. A. JENNINGS, Treasurer Bamberg County. NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS. All persons having claims against the estate of Mrs. Laura C. Dowling, deceased, will file the same, duly ifpmiyoH and vprifipd with thp nndpr signed qualified executors within sixty days from the date hereof, and failing so to comply with this notice, will be barred; and all persons indebted to said estate, will make payment to the undersigned executors forthwith. N. P. SMOAK, Bamberg, S. C. MRS. LIXA DOWLIXG XEAL, 219 11th Ave., S. W., Roanoke, Va. Bamberg, S. C., February 8th, 1917,?4t. CHILDREN NO EXCEPTION ti Bamberg as Elsewhere Youth and Ag? Suffer Alike from Kidney Weakness Is your child weak, frail and pale? No control over the kidneys' action? Kidney weakness is a serious thingFar too serious to overlook. It may mean a life of sickliness. Profit by Bamberg experiences. Use Doan's Kidney Pills. Endorsed by Bamberg parents . Read this Bamberg monther's endorsement Mrs. J. C. 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