Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SELECTIVE DRAFT BILL IS PASSED BY BOTH HOUSES OF CONOR ESS. Senate Wants Age Limit -1 to 27, House Makes it 21 to 40.?Free Conference to Adjust. Washington. April 2S.?By an overwhelming majority both the senate and house passed late tonight the administration uui 10 rai&e a ?a. army by selective draft. The final roll calls brought into line behind the bill many senators and representatives who had fought for the volunteer system until routed by the decisive defeat of volunteer amendments earlier in the day in both houses. The senate, which had voted down the volunteer plan, 69 to 18, passed the bill by a vote of SI to 8. In the house the vote against the volunteer plan was 313 to 109 and that by which the bill itself passed was 397 to 24. As passed by the senate the measure provides for the draft of men between the ages of 21 and 27 years, while in the house measure the age limits are fixed at 21 and 4 0. This and lesser discrepancies will be threshed out in conference early next week, so that the bill may be in the hands of the president as quickly as possible. The war department already has completed plans for carry ing it into effect. Botli for Draft. Both senate and house early in the afternoon voted approval today of the administration's proposal to raise a great war army on the principle of selective conscription, voting down by overwhelming majority the volunteer army amendments around which opponents of the administration had centered their fight. Tonight the bill was pressed for passage in both houses. In the senate the vote on the volunteer amendment was 69 to 18, and in the house it was 279 to 98, supporters of conscription marshalling a strength which surprised even administration leaders. Whether congress finally would accept the staff's recommendations regarding the ages between which conscription should apply appeared more uncertain. In the senate the bill's stipulation that men between 19 and 25 should be liable to the draft was changed to make the minimum 21 onH tha m a vim li m 9 7 Tha hnnco U1WA1U1 Uiu * I 4. iiv U VUV/V voted down all proposed changes including the military committee recommendation that the limits be fixed at 21 and 40. These and a number of lesser amendments will be considered as speedily as possible in conference in the hope that the measure may be sent to the president for his signature by the middle of next week. Among the more important amendments adopted in the house was one empowering the president to exempt from the draft in his discretion persons engaged in agricultural work. This was pressed to success by Representative Lever, of South Carolina. Another would require each State to furnish a quota of men apportioned according to population, and still another provides that no bounty shall be paid to induce any person to enlist "and that no person liable to military service shall be permitted or allowed to furnish a substitute for such service." Talk of Prohibition. In the senate there was a long debate over the proposal to prohibit the sale or possession of intoxicating liquor during the war. Several amendments were adopted including one to make it unlawful to sell or give liquor to officers or men in uniform or to members of congress or -other officials and then the senate reversed itself and adopted a substitute simply forbidding the sale of liquor to soldiers in uniform and giving the president wide discretionary authority to make other prohibition regulations. An amendment by Senator Curtis stipulating that men subject to draft who voluntarily present themselves shall be recorded as volunteers was accepted by Chairman Chamberlain and went into the bill. Another long debate was evoked over amendments by Senators Thomas and La Follette to exempt from conscription those having "conscientious objections to military service." Both were defeated without roll call, and the bill exemption proposals left unchanged. SUBMARINE IS SUNK. American Liner Mongolia Bags First Prize of War. London, April 2.">.?Capt. Rice, of the American steamship .Mongolia, which has arrived at a British port, told the Associated Press today that the .Mongolia had fired the first gun of the war for the United States and sunk a German submarine. The naval gunners on board made a clean hit at 1.000 yards. The peri : = ? llliiiiili ^Fip VtP.au, (Jnirc US I "THE MOST BI 11 , IN AN == ======i On January the First, and at the leading g=r ==| automobile shows, we introduced what we sincerely believe to be the ==-- W most beautiful car in America. This, we admit, is a bold and sweeping I statement. It is probably the most sensational an' nouncemen* that has ever been made flpll by a manufacturer of medium priced ~ -? ill t .. ==ee^=e=--= automobiles. But we mean precisely what the words illp^p^lij imply, and only ask that you reserve M ^na" judgment until you have seen the New Paige with your own eyes. It is not our purpose, in this advertise' !=pSppll! ment, to describe one single detail of lipr/ the latest and greatest Paige Achieve' I==? ment. tef jg( ji We merely invite you to visit the near' "N est Paige Representative?key your ^ } expectations up to the very highest / nitrh ? and dptprminp for yourself j \ whether* or not we have been guilty j J exaggeratlon- i ^ A moment's reflection, however, must ^ convince you that we would not and 4? could not make any such claim unless | ^ , it were substantially correct f ^ . ? ? - jj_- -~^=g? Our entire reputation and position m the j ! motor car industry depend upon the y~\ accuracy of our public utterances. ? ..yr Vy i ^ i su ' Knowing this, it is not likely that we i ^ would voluntarily assume responsi' 1 bility for a statement which could be refuted to our everlasting discredit. Spll*# If, though, you are still inclined to doubt, please remember that Paige has been one of the truly creative factors in the jjR&jM motor car industry. I ? .1- 1 J Rrrom rne very ueginmng uui uuuy uc&igna have been absolutely unique and re* ^! freshingly distinctive. i The Paige-Detroit 1 BLACK , v Distributors - lat? scope was seen to be shattered. ; gards the ultimate fate of the sub- speed and was a The submarine. Capt. Rice said, marine, was that the shell disappear- when the spray ' " ~ 1 : ? "-de hut frnni fha hri was about to attac-K tne great nner eu iuiiiieuiu,Lci> anci mo m.l ~ ~ - .... in British waters on April 19. He made. The captain stated that a served the spot t declared there was absolutely no shell always ricochets in the watei and they are conl doubt that the F-Boat was hit and j and can be seen again unless it finds was sunk, that there was every reason to be- the mark. Oil also was seen on the periscope lieve it was destroyed. water after the submarine disap ahead on the la Found Its Mark. ! Peare(l- voyage. The cap Even more pertinent a fact, as re- The Mongolia was going at full for full speed ah :> =>: tiful Car. in America iducino* AUTIFUL CAR. , lli J \ TDTO A" "" j U-?r\?V^i/ V V I . If imitation is the most sincere form of -=i| flattery, we should indeed feel elated, I ^^=Ei because it is generally admitted that Paige designs have served as the ? __ models for practically every quality ???Efffill car in the industry. |||||p|f|p| Nothing could more strikingly emphasize I the fact that Paige has always built beautiful cars?and can be logically =zrzz=^ls:|j ? ? . ::==Z "" -r"| 1 expeczea to produce ?" i ne jviost = Beautiful Car in America " =._ fi Si So far as the mechanical features of our m\ | product are concerned, you need only . _= | consult the thousands of owner records ? ? which have been established during == ' % the past seven years .. s . The Paige motor and chassis are world s famous. They have been developed ? by the ripest engineering genius that the industry affords. = In them we have incorporated "very ?= improvement, every refinement, that J ^ )L- - ; could possibly increase the efficiency | I ?3 of a smooth running, ever dependable wn\ "M motor car. | As we have said tune and time again, you can only expect to get out of an f I 11 11 automobile precisely what the mamr- "N facturer puts into it y""\ " There is no substitute for basic quality. ^ A |g To build the truly great things in this world one must work with his Heart ! -?^ quite as well as his Hands . -r?=^ But for the present we are going to say ; i. , | no more. |||==3>:When you?and other Americans like = you?stand before the latest and great' % est Paige achievement, our case will j 1 be in the hands of the Jury . , /mSM\ :-mm ^ f! - tl So,please remember this advertisement at ~X~ i.".t- that time?every word of it?and PlPIUrst determine for yourself whether or not j t C r t our claims are justified. rjP&Sf t f P r In justice to your own interests, make it *rr ' [ a special point to see "The Most ;. Jfr i r l P ' Mil Beautiful Car m America." < , rr life-, -, ' rrw ?l 'I k M I Motor Car Company ! >| & BLACK ISp | - Bamberg, S. C. / j| J J?4 1 =J iU-j a ? ;ff long distance away i tion of ramming the submarine. ! A Poor Diplomat. and foam subsided, j The periscope disappeared and a "I think the one you refused is dge the officers ob-1 few minutes later reappeared on the much the more attractive of the lirough their glasses i ship's broadside. The gunners fired, two." I . .... . . i? t ..t n/imt* timt hut when he pro ident tne submarine | jutting tile periscope squareiy ami auu.n cw?w. j throwing up a mountain of water. posed he went into ecstacies over was sighted dead ?^? how happy I could make him; but st afternoon of the A plow drawn by a motorcycle has the one 1 accepted spoke earnestly of tain gave the order been invented to keep the ice of j how happy he would try to make ead with the inten- skating rinks smooth. i me."?New York Herald. ' --M ' -m ~^?Sii3 ' : v^|