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1 " ' ' I I f. * 9 (Tbr lambrrg iirralii \ $2.00 Per Year in Advance. BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1921. Established in 1891. HOUSE PASSES NEW TAX LAW MEASURE SUPPORTED BY THREE j DEMOCRATS. I Goes to Senate Monday. Fifty Party Men Join Democrats in Asking for Repeal of Income Surtax Above 32 Per Cent. Washington, Aug. 20.?The tax revision bill of 1921, estimated to cut $818,000,000 from the nation's tax burden by 1923, was passed late today by the house, 274 to 125, on an almost straight party vote. Three Democrats supported the measure and nine Republicans voted against. Compared with the number of Repulicans were 50 who voted for a Democratic motion to recommit the bill for elimination of the provision repealing the income surtax rates above 32 per cent. This motion was lost, 169 to 230, with one Democrat, Campbell, of Pennsylvania, voting against it. The bill will be sent Monday to the senate, where it will be taken up after the end of the recess on September '21. Meantime the senate finance committee will hold additional public hearings on the whole tax question and probably revise the nearly 100 committee amendments, measure in a number of details. As finally passed by the house with the bill is estimated to produce a total of $3,470,000,000 revenue this fiscal year, or $221,000,000less than the ' estimates under the existing law. As repeal of the excess profits tax and higher income surtax rates would not become effective until next January l, the full force of the measure will not be reflected in government receipts until the calendar year 1923, but Republican leaders say that through repeal of the transportation and other taxes the reduction in the tov hin in thp nPYt calendar vear will "be approximately $512,000,000. Principal Changes. The principal changes in present tax levies made by the bill as passed include: Repeal of the excess profits tax. Increase of the corporation income tax from 10 to 12% per cent., effectk ive next January 1. * Repeal of the income surtax rates B from 32 per cent, to 65 per cent, inW elusive. f Increased exemptions to heads of | families, effective as of last January I 1, to $2,500 for incomes not in exr cess of $5,000 and additional exemption for dependents to $400 from $200. Repeal of the transportation taxes, effective next January 1. Repeal of the tax on life, fire and marine insurance policies and impo ~ c 10 1/ sition oi tne corporauuu ia.\ ui 1^72 1 per cent, on all such insurance companies, except fraternal, effective next January 1. Repeal of the taxes on 'fountain drinks, ice cream and other beverages and the substitution of manufacturers' taxes as follows: .Four cents a gallon on cereal bev-i erages; 5 cents a pound on carbonic j acid gas; 2 cents a gallon on fruit juices of soft drinks; 3 cents a gallon on still drinks, exclusive of mineral and table water, and ten cents a gallon on fountain syrups. These changes would go into force on enactment of the law. Repeal of the stamp taxes on perfumery, cosmetics, toilet preparations ^ and proprietary medicines upon enactment of the law. Repeal of the 10 per cent tax on base ball, foot ball and basket ball equipment, skates, toboggans, snow shoes and skiis, and reduction of the 10 per cent, tax to 5 on tennis, golf and polo equipment, games and the like, the whole to come into force on enactment of the bill. Exemption from the income tax of the first $500 of income from investments in building and loan associations, effective at passage of the law. Candy Levy Reduced. A reduction of from 5 to 3 per cent, in the levy on candy, and of from 1 0 to 5 per cent, in the levies on fur l articles and art and art works, and I repeal of the tax on electric fans. I A reduction from 10 to 5 per cent, f in the tax on all yachts with motor or other craft less than 32 feet in length or of less than five tons carrying capacity exempted from this tax. k Exemption from the income tax of ? all allowances from the federal govB ernment for the service of the beneP ^ SHERIFF LOSES BIG STILL. j Outfit Stolen Friday Night and Hauled Away in Automobile. Greenwood, Aug. 20.?Xo developments had come to light tonight in the robbery of a 50-gallon still from the sheriff's office, a few hours after its capture. Officers declare they hnrt cIups which misht lead to ar rests. The still, the largest ever captured in this county, was taken boldly out of the front door of the court house and hauled away Friday night. The copper outfit was in full operation when captured Friday afternoon on the Greenwood county side | of Saluda river, a short distance above Smith's bridge. A negro, Chester Hawkins, according to officers, was catching the liquor in a jug as it ran from the still. Hawkins was arrested and admitted to j Jailer T. W. McMillan tha ' e had I been helping make liquor <*t the i still. Besides the still, 20 gallons of j corn liquor and 24 60-gallon mash! barrels, all but 11 of which had been run, were captured. The theft of the still from the sheriff's office is regarded by officers as the most audacious in the annals of the county. Thieves apparently gained entrance through a window and unlocked the doors from the inside. The still was taken out through the front door, loaded in an automobile or truck and carried ^way without being discovered. Officers did not discover the robbery until they came to the office this morning. BODY IX RAILROAD DITCH. Special Agent of Atlantic Coast Line Charleston Man. ? I Florence, Aug. 29.?Missing since! Wednesday night, the body of J. L. | Motte, of Charleston, a special officer i l of the Atlantic Coast Line police de-i partment was found lying in the ditch j by the railroad tracks a mile and a j half north of Xew Hope. Section | hands who found the body were un- j able to identify #it. Word was soon received from Charleston that Mr. Motte had been missing and the body was identified by railroad officers who went to the spot from Florence. Mr? Motte's neck had been broken and his body had every appearance of having been badly bruised. It is supposed that the officer was.thrown rrom tne top 01 tne ireigxu nam uu which he was traveling by some person whom he was attempting to arrest. Mr. Motte's pistol and his flashlight were found some distance from the body. There were no papers in his pockets. Mr. Motte had not been heard from since Wednesday night, when he left here on a Charleston bound freight train. That day he; brought two prisoners here from Charleston. He was thirty years old and unmarried. GERMAN PROPERTY SEIZED. "Count" Wedel Had 210 Acres of; Land in Richland. I i Columbia, Aug. 18.?The first ord-1 er of its kind ever to be received in' Richland county was that received by j the clerk of the court from the United States alien property custodian, giving official notice that the property of G. W. Wedel, formerly known as "Count" Wedel, has been taken possession of by Joseph M. Bell and John ! D. Bell, in the name of the alien property custodian, Thomas M. Miller. Wedel is formally declared a resident of Hanover, Germany. The property belonged to him in fee simple. "Count" Wedel owned two tracts, one of 125 acres, the other of 25 acres. During the war there was much^talk in Columbia about certain construction operations conducted on these farms. A cash bonus for ex-service men in Connecticut has not been granted, but the state has a fund for sick and needy soldiers and their families. ficiary of another in the military or naval forces of the United States. Repeal of all the so-called luxury taxes now collected by retailers and the substitution of a manufacturers' tax of 3 per cent, on the following! articles when sold by the manufac-j turers at the sums given: ^ 1 ^ (? O ? A o crrnn VIA I L3rpClS ctxiu 1 UgS, tpo.WJ a, oviuai g yard: trunks, S30 each; valises, traveling bags, suit cases and hat boxes. $15 each: purses, pocketbooks, shopping and hand bags. S4 each; port-j able lighting fixtures. $10 each; um-1 brellas and parasols. $2.."0 each;! fans, $1 each, and house or smoking; coats or jackets and bath or lounging robes. $3 each. j i e I BASE V THE POST SEASON SERIES. I B. C. Boland Writes His Side of Controversy and Pres. Black Replies. I The Williston Way, of August ISth, j published the following communij cation from B. C. Boland, of Springfield: "Editor Williston Way, "Williston, S. C. "Sir:?I have noticed from time to time that you have devoted considerable space in your columns during the past few weeks to the baseball results of the Tri-County league. I The season as per schedule closed on Friday, August 5, 1921; at which; time Springfield was at the top of ; the percentage columns. By virtue of the president and others the last game with Bamberg and the last game with Barnwell were thrown out and ordered played over; after the season closed. And I might add that the Barnwell game was was thrown out without protest and without request of the Barnwell management. President Walsh of the . . i South Atlantic League, so per tele-; gram of August Sth, states that games cannot be played off after the' season closes, however, in so far as certain ones connected with the j great Tri-County league are concerned, Mr. Walsh is no authority on baseball and consequently Springfield has been ordered to practically play the! second half over again in order that j Bamberg may have another chance ( for the honors. We have therefore conceded our! claim to those who must have it and! I merely wish to state further that! when we entered the league, it was! not our understanding that any one! team should be the winner and that' we regret very much the unfortunate, occurrence which is bound to be a backset to good baseball hereafter. However, we are withdrawing on; top in the percentage column and we; hope that Bamberg and Williston are : both contented and that no further steps shall be necessary in order for them to battle in peace. Respectfully, B. C. BOLAXD. I J. B. Black, Jr., of Bamberg, presi-j dent of the Tri-County league, sent fVia fr?11r?Ti'incr ronlv t/"? flip flhflVP PflTTl- ! tilt/ 1VHV *? iU5 A VW w W - ? ? munication to the Williston Way on August 20th, with the request that it publish same: "Aug. 20th, 1921. "Editor Williston Way, "Williston, S. C. "Sir:?I read with regret the letter from Mr. B. C. Boland, of Springfield, published in your paper of Aug. 18, regarding the unfortunate ending of the Tri-County league. As Mr. Rnlami is misleading the Dublic in re gard to some of the facts, as he is not stating all of the facts, I feel that in justice to myself as president of the league and to the gentlemen managing the teams of Williston, Denmark,) Bamberg and Ehrhardt, the public should know the whole truth and! then I will leave it to them as to! whether Springfield or the Tri-Countyj league was at fault. "The facts are these: In the last) half of the Tri-County league season, i Springfield used a pitcher named Gil-! liam against Barnwell and Bamberg,) and Springfield won both games, i Bamberg protested the game that w!4a!% a J /nm A 11 rr On/1 ft COincf VjUUPUi piLLUCU VLL Aug. Oil! aomuoi Bamberg, and on Aug. 9th the case came up before me. It was proved beyond any doubt that Gilliam had pitched professional ball for Newport News Va., and for Griffin, Ga. Spring-1 fiel'd did not even refute this testi-l mrtrnr Thp Priitnr nf Thp Snnrfiner News, St. Louis, Mo., gave us this in-j formation and it was verified by the owner of the Newport News club. I Therefore it became my duty as presi-! dent of the league to throw out this! game. The directors of the league j also requestd me to throw out the j game that Springfield had won from ; Barnwell when Gilliam pitched. All | of the directors were in favor of this 1 except the one representing Spring-! field. As there is a rule in this i league that a game does not have to be protested by the losing team but, that any director can bring a case up before the president, this game was also thrown out. i "Springfield then contended that the season had closed on Aug. 5th. and j that she would not have to play these! games over. If this'had been a fact' Springfield would have won the pen-j nant for the second half by percent- i age with six victories and one defeat! against Bamberg's seven victories and | BALL ' II WILLISTOX TAKES PEXXAXT. Wins Three of Five Post-Season Seiv?-m: / nt*b i/ci'iuiiig v. iuuiii<iuu?iuj'< By winning the game Friday afternoon, Williston won the championship of the Tri-County league, having defeated Bamberg three games to two in the post-season series. It is a pleasure to state that this important series was played without a kick from either side. Hyde Smith, from Orangeburg, umpired the entire series to the satisfaction of both teams. While the home team was a little disappointed in not winning the pen-| nant, they have no excuse to offer nor do they wish to take any glory from Williston for having defeated them. The home boys were pretty confident of winning over their opponents, as Bamberg was conceded to have the better team, but base ball is a very uncertain game and the life of the national game is the uncertainties of it. Williston played hard and won without question and the Bamberg team, as well as the fans, wish to give three cheers to their opponents for the honors they have won. They are a clean set of ball players and fans and it was a pleasure to play ball with them, not only in Bamberg but in Williston, as well. Third Game. The third game of the series was played In Bamberg and resulted in a victory for the visitors by the score of S to 6. While Bamberg out hit Williston, having secured 12 hits to their S, the visitors secured their hits in the pinches. Bamberg had three men on bases in the ninth inning, but could not score. Score: Williston ....010 110 203?S 8 3 Bamberg 101 000 400?6 12 2 Batteries: Brown and Dodge; Whiteside and Large. Fourth Game. Bamberg won the fourth game with ease. Radcliffe, pitching for Bamberg, only allowed two hits in the six innings he pitched. He was taken out after Bamberg had the game on ice. Warren and Whitside finished the game. Cawley, pitchins for Williston. was hit hard. In the fifth inning Bamberg scored seven men on seven hits and one error. , Cr.A? A Wi C . Williston ..000 100 220? 5 7 4 Bamberg ....003 074 OOx?14 17 3 Batteries: Cawley, Lott, Sherlock and Dodge; Radcliffe, Warren, Whiteside and Large. Fifth Game. The fifth and deciding game was} played in Bamberg Friday afternoon. Bamberg got to Smythe in the fifth; inning for four hits and this coupled with an error netted them three runs. Bamberg made one run in the second inning. Williston scored one| run n: the fourth on three hits and | made three runs in the sixth on three hits and an error in the field. The game was tied up until the ninth, when Williston put across four more runs on three errors and two hits. The score: Williston ....000 103 004?8 8 5 Bamberg ......010 030 000?4 8 6 Batteries: Smythe and Dodge; Radcliffe and Large. two defeats. It was then up to me j to act and according to the by-laws governing this league it was perfectly clear what I had to do. Realizing, however, that I was a Bamberg man, I decided to put this question up be fore the board of directors. At this meeting each team in the league had one vote except Barnwell, which did not have a representative present. Mr. Boland insinuates that I had quite a hit to do with ordering the games played over. However, I did not even have to vote at the directors meeting as it was so plain tnat springneia i was wrong in her contentions that the vote stood 4 to 1 against her. "The telegram that I received from j Mr. Walsh, of the South Atlantic' league, read as follows: 'In ourj league no games can be played after j the close of the season.' However ij have been informed that the by-laws1 of the South Atlantic league call for the segson to close on a certain day. Naturally then they would be breaking their by-laws if they played a ' - * - - i ^ ~ nl nni n O" ' game auer tne aay set iui mc tiuam6 day. This telegram was shown the directors at this meeting but had no bearing whatever on their actions as | HAN DLES 30,000 BALES COTTON. ] | Exports and Imports Corporation Has j Fair Profit. Columbia, Aug. 17.?During its; brief existence the American Prod-1 ucts. Exports and Imports Corporation, j a? i'a% f rxflrwdTy^ nr PiVhor/1 T i Manning, of South Carolina, is the; executive head, has handled more! than 50,000 bales of cotton, two-1 thirds of which was for exports, and | has made a fair profit over expenses, i according to a statement from the J president of the corporation this afternoon. Joseph Walker, general manager, is now in Europe, looking over the export field and conferring with the corporation's representatives: thorp Regardless nf COniDeti tion, the corporation pays the market price for cotton and more than \ $1,S00,000 has been paid out to South Carolina farmers for cotton since the inception of the enterprise. The corporation has at least 5,000 stockholders. the majority of which are residents of North and South Carolina and some of them from Georgia. Relative to the financial condition of the enterprise, the statement follows: "A stock of cotton equal to that subscribed to the capital stock of the corporation and the liberty bonds subscribed to the capital stock have been kept intact. The cash paid in 011 subscriptions to the capital stock, amounting to $133,529.23 has been iieo,3 oc a wnrlrin v panifal Wp llflVP U>JV/U, UO U IfWiiWUQ . . w ? - ? , established good lines of credit. We have paid out to the cotton growers in South Carolina more than S1 ,S00,000. We have paid off all organization expenses amounting to $20,700, have paid all operating expenses and show a satisfactory profit to July 1. We have made good foreign connections and have our representatives abroad. BURIED CITY EXCAVATED. Will Be Feature of Mexican Centennial Exposition. San Juan de Teotiliuacan, Mexico, Aug. 5.?A force of 300 workmen is engaged in rushing to completion the excavation of the buried city here in an attempt to make it one of tne show places during the Centennial Exposition opening next month. The most modern scientific devices are being used to dig out the city which thousands of years ago before it disappeared. boasted of a population of at least 100.000, according to Manuel Gamio, in charge of the reconstruction. When the excavations are complete the city with its streets, temples, residences, stores and baths surrounding a huge plaza will be exposed. The government is giving liberal financial assistance to the work. One Drawback. 4 *T rt rrr\r\ ri r\T/"\T7i IS ) UUt uuouauu a ?uuu w ? nivi, Dinah?" "Yessum, he's a good providah all right, but I'se alius sheered dat niggah's gwine to git caught at it."? 0. E. R. Bulletin. they had their own by-laws to go by. "Th^ by-laws of the Tri-County league that made every director, exppnt Snr in afield. feel it his duty to vvfv ??? 1 ? vote that these games be played over, state that the 'season shall commence on May 31st, or as soon thereafter as practicable,' and further state that 'the season will consist of twenty games divided into halves of ten games each.' They also state that all games thrown out by the president of the league on account of a protest being upheld must be played over. The by-laws say nothing about when the season shall close except that twenty games shall be played. "As Springfield had only played seven games in the second half she had three more to play. The directors were perfectly right in ordering these games played and when Springfield refused to play them, she automatically withdrew from the league and forfeited one game to Ehrhardt, one to Barnwell, and one to Bamberg. "These are the true facts concerning this unfortunate occurrence, and I sincerely hope that the public will see them as the directors of the Tri County league did. If Springfield I had stuck to the by-laws and had not I played an ineligible player this { trouble would never have come up. But it was her own fault, so she must suffer. "I will appreciate it if you will give this letter the same publicity that you gave Mr. Boland's. i "Respectfully, "J. B. BLACK, JR., "Pres. Tri-County League." BURNS HURLS LIE AT MICHIGAN MAN T TUBULE XT SCENES EXACTED IX HOUSE. Caused By Great Speech. Takes Exception to Statements Made By "Jimmy" in Debate?"Free for All Fight" Threatened. Washington, Aug. 19.?Turbulent scenes were enacted in the house of representatives late last night and again this afternoon by sensational clashes between Representative James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, and Chairman Joseph \\r. Fordney, of the ways and means committee, XT' V? r\ i o o r*crr\ r\ f tlio P onn hllPQTI " -law io iu vuai \j i. biiV/ ivv^/ <-* viivwu bill to revise federal taxation. Many members exchanged fiery challenges across the inter-party aisle and it looked as if there might be a "free for all fight.'' Mr. Byrnes last night was making one of his sweeping and very effective speeches attacking the Republican bill, saying nothing unparliamentary and using no stronger language than has frequently been used in the course of debate by other speakers. But the way in which the South Carolinian put the case in the course of colloquies with majority Leader Mondell and Representatives Longworth, Greene and others, seemed to irritate Chairman Fordney who advanced up the aisle and pointed his finger at Mr. Byrnes, after the latter, who was making his speech from the wall of the house in front of the speakers' _ _ ? . 0 rostrum, delivered tlie following onslaught on the tax bill and its Re- ^ publican authors: \ Take Burden Off Rich. "You reduced the taxes on Mr. Mellon and Mr. Rockefeller $500,000 and $600,000 and you levy a tax on medicines, on soft drinks, on candy, on moving pictures, and on many of the articles that are used by the people. You do not reduce the tax on incomes from $5,000 to $66,000. You take all off the rich people of this country who contributed to your campaign last fall." (Applause on the Democratic side.) Shaking his finger at Representative Byrnes and interrupting without permission of the chair, Mr. Fordney declared that the statement of the 'South Carolinian was untrue and that he knew it to be untrue when he made it. Chairman Fordney repeated this, looking straight at Byrnes. Then the latter, also throwing aside parliamentary rules, called Fordney a liar. Pandemonium reigned for some minutes, and it looked like serious trouble, in which many would have participated, but Majority Leader Mondell finally obtained recognition and suggested that both the gentleman from Michigan and the gentleman from South Carolina had used unparliamentary language, and asked unanimous consent that the obpectionable words be expunged from the record. This was done. It was supposed that the incident was ended, but this afternoon Chairman Fordnev took the floor and proceeded to make a speech, iD which he repeated what he had said the night before to Representative Byrnes. The latter, who was present, then arose to say that, in the circumstances, as the gentleman from Michigan had seen fit to repeat his offensive language of the previous evening, he fRvmoci n.-nnlH also reDeat and de nounce the statement of Fordney as a lie. Again everything was in an uproar and at fever heat, and it looked like a fracas of a widespread nature. This time Representative Mann, of Illinois, formerly majority leader, quieted the tempest by declaring that the gentleman from Michigan had used unparlamentary language, calculated to exasperate any man, and that the record ought to be immedi' 1 -* j - * ~?-u ^ fVia ateiy cieareu ui me eAimausc m offensive terms. Again this was done. It rests with Mr. Fordnev whether there shall he another repetition of the unpleasant controversy. Representative Byrnes feels that there was nothing elsf- for him to do but reply to the unparliamentary attack in. kind. The two men have hitherto been quite friendly personally, in cnitp nf thpir nnlitical divergence of views. Representative Byrnes was today informed that Speaker Gillett had appointed him a member of the joint committee of the house and senate to investigate readjustment of / pay and allowances in the government service.