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p fj I' OLD TO THE NEW (Ciaugei ia the Personnel if ibt Uuited Slates Stoatf From Hal OF A FEW YEARS AGO TTIie Tyj>c of the TJody Has Undergone < treat Changes, and the Old Senate Dominated by the Old Ciiai'd Has Becunio a Tiling of the Past. When former Senator Thomas Carter of Montana died a few days ago attention was directed to the rapidity with which the United States is changing its personnel, says P. H. ftlcGowan, the Washington correspondent of the Columbia State. Mr. McGowan goes on to say: At the present rate of change it will be only a few years until the present senate has been almost entirely reconstructed. Senator Carter's final term in the senate was from 19 05 until 1911. Hut the senate, as he knew it, is an utterly changed body. In the first place the senate with a few strong men of the old guard, like Aldrieh and Hale and Allison has passed out of existence. The probabilities are that it will never return. A new and different type of public men have come upon the scene. It will never be possible again for a man of the Aldrieh type to hold the senate in the hollow of his hand and voto it almost as he wants to. The old regime is gone. It began tn tnftor snnn after Senator Ha Pol lette came to the senate and started to talk to empty seats, while his old guard colleagues scoffed at him from the clerk rooms. By himself, La Fol lette couldn't pry the old guard loose but it wasn't long until he got help. Now, the insurgents who believe in the things that La Follette believes in hold the balance of power in the upper house. The house of representatives is generally thought of as the body of congress in which these is the most change, in which service is the fleeting and transitory. But, as a matter of fact, it is little if any more given to change than the senate, in these modern days of the direct primary and the war on the member who is suspected of having affiliations with any but the common people. If one wants to gain an Impression of how the senate is changing let him pick up a congressional directory of a few years ago and see how many of the men then in the senate are left. Take for instance, the directory of the first session of the Sixtieth congress. Examine the edition printed at At the beginning of the year 1908 That is only about three years and a half ago. That nearly half of the senators then in service should now be in their graves or retired from congress seems almost unbelievable. Yet such is the fact. Of the 9 2 mem,hers cf the senate 10 are no longer in that body. The roll of those retired by death or by the exigencies of politics is a stirring one. Look it over. The venerable and well-beloved Allison is dead. Nelson F. Aldrich, confronted if not by defeat at least by a discredit ed leadership in the senate, is in retirement. Teller of Colorado is dead Frye of Maine is dead. Hale has retired because he saf a political storm coming which he could not breast. ]>aniel of Virgina, in his day one of the most gallant figures that wore the gray, is dead. So is Proctor of Vermont, one , time secretary of war. Hansbrough is retired. Burrows of Michigan was driven out of public life by the overwhelming vote of his constituents in favor of a younger and more progressive man. "Uncle Steve" Elkins of West Virgina has gone to his grave Clay, of Georgia, one of the most earnest men who ever sat in the senate is no more. Foraker, because of Hoosevolt, is out of ofllce. McEnor., ? "? 11 ~ -1 : ,1.^. I,ni>nncc or IvO 111 SI it II il lllt'll J II tilt? 11(11 utoo. Thos. Collier Piatt, too, is dead. Money, Beveridge, Depew, Kean, Scott, Taliaferro?all well known figures about Washington for years, and oi' influence in the senate ?have been succeeded and not of their own volition, by other men. The magnificent Dolliver, coverted from regularity into zealous progressivlsm, came to a tragic end. Hal ley is still in the senate, hut has declared his intention to quit. McLaurin of Mississippi and Kittredge of South Dakota both are dead, and so is Latimer of South Carolina. Ankeny of Washington, Pulton of Oregon, Hopkins of Illinois. Long of Kansas, McCreary of Kentucky, Dick of Ohio, are additions to the list of the retired. Knox left the senate to enter the cabinet, and, gossip says, would be glad if he could throw off the unhappy burdens of his office and once more he senator. Bulkely, of Connecticut, was boaten. So was Burkett of Nebraska. Flint ^juit to practice law in Los Angeles. Hemenway of Indiana was driven out and still flits now and then like a gliost of the past about the capitol. Piles of Washington went back to his law office, assisted by a large number of adverse votes. Warmer of Missouri has been sent back to retirement and so far has Frazier SOME PLAIN TA1K HKISTOW AX1) FISHEH CLASH IN PKESKXCE OF TAFT. DiscuNsion as to Who Arc Progressives .Marks the Close of a Xon Partisan Celebration. Near the close of what had been a non-partizan celebration of the 5 0th anniversary of the birth of Kansas as a State at Hutchinson on Tuesday with President Taft as the principal speaker, a political incident flared up and gave a thrill to the thousands of Kansans who packed the grandstand at the State fair grounds. Walter L. Fisher, secretary of the interior in President Taft's cabinet, just back from Alaska, made a threeminute speech in which he said some thing's about the difference between "real progressives of the middle of the road like Mr. Taft," and "hypocritical, demagogic progressives who oppose every practical progressive policy put forth." Senator .Joseph L. Bristow, ranking second only to Senator La Follette of Wisconsin among the progressives of the senate, followed Secretary Fisher and quickly caught up his challenge. We in Kansas," he said, "are always willing to grant that the other fellow is honest in his views and we expect him to grant that we are honest in ours. I want to say to PrePresident Taft in this State, there now, that in working out the problems that confront us, we of Kansas will have our part and have our say, to the end that there shall be justice to all and special privilege to none." Both Mr. Fisher and Senator Bristow were applauded. The throng seemed to appreciate the verbal pas sage at arms ana me virtual serving of notice by the junior Kansas senator that while he was participating ireely and gladly in the welcome to President Taft in tris State, there would he no let up in the factional fight as soon as the chief executive left the borders of the commonwealth. The president himself had made little reference to politics. His reference was purely historical. Mr. Taft was introduced by Gov. Stubbs, who led hn the cheering that followed Mr. Taft's introduction. When the President had concluded Gov. Mann, of Virginia, made a .brief address. BLUE AND GREY LINK ARMS. + Climax of Union and Confederate Gathering at Memphis. To the strains of the fife and drums 500 veterans of the lilue and Orey marched with arms linked through the streets of Memphis Wednesday night bunting bedecked and gayly illuminated in their honor. It was tho culminating feature of the reunion of soldiers who fought in tho opposing armies during the civil war of the 'GO's. The Sons of Veterans and other auxiliary organizations, State troops, fraternal associations and mounted police paraded with the gray-haired men. Former slaves, body servants during the war, inarched in the wake of the veterans and spectators crowded the streets to cheer the old soldiers. The most important action taken at the Reunion was an endorsement of a proposed peace jubliee and a general reunion in Washington in 1913. Other than this the Reunion was principally a happy intermingling of those who were foes fifty years ago. They participated .in a barbecue arranged by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. w ^ m ELEVEN imOWXKI) IX SKIXIO. Auto Plunges from Itridgc into River With Direful Results. Eleven persons wore drowned and ten others hurt by the overturning of an automobile 'bus into the Seine Thursday afternoon, says a Paris dispatch. The automobile 'bus with twenty-fivo passengers, was coining from the Jardin Dos Plantes in the direction of the opera. It was halfway over the Archeveche bridge leading from the left hank of the river to the Island immediately behind the Cathedral of Notre Dame. In trying to avoid a collision with another omnibus the chaffeur gave his steering wheel a sharp turn. The heavy vehicle skidded violetly, shot onto mo sioewaiK, erasneu niroiinn the heavy iron railing as if it were a pipe stem, and dropped into the river below. All the passengers were carried down with the exception of two or three who jumped just in time. of Tennessee. The brilliant William Picknev Whyto of Maryland died at over 80 years. So did the young and brilliant William J. Pry an of Florida. Paynter, is still in the senate, but his tenure of office is uncertain. Contemplative folks searching for proof of that aged saying, "Vanity of Vanities, all is vanity," will do well to study the mutations of recent time in the senate of the United States. ? Rudyard Kiplin's American royalty may be falling off, "TP PJLIC6 QUELL RIOTS FORCED TO CHARGE MOBS WITH BRAWN SABRES. Mexican Indians Crucify Chiofas Citizen When They Sacked That Place ?Women and Children Murdered. Within a few hours after the return of Francisco I. Madero, Jr., from his speaking tour through the south Thursday, Mexico City again became the scene of riots whose quellin by the mounted police resultquelling by the mounted police resulted in two fatally wounded and 15 injured. To restore order the police were forced to charge the mobs with sabres drawn. Groups of manifestants were still parading the streets and shouting " Vivas" tor tne returning candidate when police were compelled to disperse rioters who had gathered in the zocalo in front of the city hall. The work of the authorities accomplished here was repeated half an hour later in a factory district ten blocks away, where the same drastic measures were employed to suppress another outbreak. Neither of these riots had any great political significance and their origin on the day of Madero's return was either merely a coincidence or due to the fact that the thousands of manifestants on the streets made it easy for troublemakers to get in their work. Instigated by those who profess to believe that Antonio Rivergo, the governor's secretary, was responsible for the political confusion in the state of Chiapas, the mob marched to the zocalo. Its numbers steadily increasing and the cries became so insistent and insulting that the authorities called out the mounted police. Twice the police called on the people to disperse, but without result. Sabres then were drawn and the squadron charged into the midst of the mob, which gave way, but not until a few scattering shots from revolvers had been fire by the rioters, one of which fatally wounded a mem utri ui tut; iiiuu. j Ten minutes later the zocalo was deserted, but the neuclus of the mob remained intact and gathering fresh recruits the hoodlums marched to T^a Carolina, a texile mill in the northern part of the city. A labor dispute was pending there and the rioters' efforts were directed toward precipitating a strike. Another squadron of mounted police charged the rioters. This time the mob did not reform. DEATH AMONG MERRY-MAKERS. ? Rockets Explode in Mexican Church. ?Madero Festival. A terrific oxplosion of rockets and boombs in a crowded church at Guadalajara, Mexico, Wednesday, resulted in four dead and fifteen seriously injured, cast a shadow of gloom over the merry-makers attending the coming of Madero Wednesday. Of the wounded many were so seriously burned or trampled in the panic which followed that they are believed to have been fatally injured. Fifty rockets and six hundred bombs had been stored in the Chapel of Jesus for use in celebrating the arrival of the sacred image of the Virgin of Zapoapian, which at this season is carried from church to church and believed to have power to effect miraculous cures on the faithful. The explosives, piled at the foot of the stairs leading to the tower, is thought to have been ignited by the careless dropping of a lighted cigarette. Those nearest were hurled in all directions by the force of the detonation. The building was quickly filled with suffocating smoke, which blinded the struggling and frantic occupants who fought one another in their efforts to reach the exits. When the smoke cleared away one man was found dead partially disemboweled, and three hoys, one eight and two ten years old, so frightfully burned and mangled that they died soon after being carried from the building. ? ? ? Was lteatcn to Death. C. II. W. Johnson, mayor of Oakhurst, suburb of Atlanta, was beaten to death with a scantling by T. W. /.unor, airer me taiier nau uweii ?mn and mortally wounded by .lohnson. Zuber was rushed into Atlanta for medical attention, and Johnson died at his home about 15 minutes after the fight. Gen. Jackson's Birthplace. At Clarksburg, West. Va., a bronze tablet marking the birthplace of Gen. Stonewall Jackson was unveiled on Tuesday. Dr. James Power Smith, only surviving officer of Gen. Jackson's staff, made the dedicatory address. ? ?> .We thank the Columbia Record for putting us straight about precedents in running for governor. As the record shows, there has been only one campaign in which a governor was elected without opposition in recent years, and that was when Gov. 1 ley ward was elected the "^cond time. . p :IpW* - ' SOME COTTON FACTS THAT ARE VERY INTERESTING JUST AT THIS TIME. ? Increase in Supply This Year Over Last Was Twelve Per Ceut, While Less Was Used. There was an increase of more than 12 percent, in the supply of raw cotton in the United States during the cotton year which ended August 31, 1911, according to the census bureau's preliminary report on the supply and distribution of cotton issued Tuesday. The supply amount ea to 13,655,479 bales, compared with 12,188,021 bales for the pre vlous year, when there was a decrease of 2 0 per cent, from that available in 1909. Notwithstanding the increase in the total supply, the consumption of cotton in the United States showed a decrease of slightly more than 2 per cent, over last year, and was the smallest consumption during the past three years, it being 4,090,01 0 bales. The consumption during the year was larger in the cotton growing States than the previous year, while in all other States it was smaller During the cotton year the exports were 22 per cent greater than inl910 the amount being 7,781,414 bales compared with 6,339,028 bales a year ago. This year was the fourth largest in the history of the export trade. The net imports increased more than 52 per cent., the total amount, 2 31,191 bales, being greater than in any year in the history of the industry. The supply and distribution of cotton in the United Staes in running bales, including linters, for the cotton year, which ended August 31, 1911, with comparisons for previous years, were announced Tuesday by E. Dana Durand, director of the census. The supply was: 1911. 1910. Total 13,655,479 12,1 88,021 Ginnings ...12,384,248 10,350,978 .Stocks at beginning of year 1,040,040 1,685,648 Net imports .. . zzi.iyi l&i.ayo The supply was distributed as follows: 1911. 1910. Exports 7,781,414 6,339,028 Consumpton . 4,696,3 16 4,798,953 Destroyed by fire 10,000 Stocks at end of year ... 1,177,749 1,040,040 In detail the consumption amd stocks held at the end of the year were as follows: The consumption was as follows In the United States, 4,696,316 bales, compared with 4,798,953 bales last year; 5,240,719 bales in 1909,and 4,539,090 bales in 1908. In cotton growing states, 2,32 8,265 bales, compared with 2,292.33 3 bales last year; 2,553,797 bales in 1909, and 2,1 87,096 bales in 1908. In all other states, 2,368,051 bales, compared with 2,50 6,620 bales last year; 2,686,922 bales in 1909, amd 2,351,994 bales in 1908. Stocks held August 31: In the United States, 1,177,749 bales, compared with 1,04 0,0 4 0 bales last year; 1,483,585 bales in 1909, and 1,236,058 bales in 1908. By manufacturers, 523,4 11 bales, compared with 533,23 2 bales last year; 907,097 bales in 1909, and 594,184 bales in 1908. By manufacturers in cotton growing States, 100,63 0 bales, compared with 121,349 bales last year; 186,3 93 bales In 1909, and 112,471 bales In 1908. By manufacturers In all other States, 422,81 1 bales, compared with 411,883 bales last year; 720,704 bales In 1909, and 481,713 bales In 1908. In independent warehouses, 431,401 bales, compared with 306,808 bales last year; 325,099 bales in 1909, and 444, 626 bales in 1908. In independent warehouses in cotton growing states, 3 4 7,625 bales, compared with 155,871 bales last year; 242,747 bales in 1909, and 362,584 bales in 1 908. In independent warebouses in all other states, 83,5 7 6 bales, compared with 150,937 bales last year; 82,3 5 2 bales in 1909, and 82,0 4 2 bales in 190 8. By other holders, 22,907 bales, compared with 200,000 bales last year; 2 5 1,389 bales in 1909, and 19 7,248 bales in 1 908. The number of cotton spindles operated were as follows: In the United States, 28,871,849 compared with 29,1 83,945 for the vear ending December 31, 1 909, which included spindles consuming cotton mixed with other fibres; 2 8,018,305 for the year ending August 31, 1900, and 27,505,422 for 190S. In cotton growing states, 10,877,457, comparod with 10,801,494 in 1910; 10,420,200 in 1909, and 10,200,903 in 1908. In all other states, 1 7,994,392, compared with 1 8,3 87,4 51 in 1910; 17,539,1 05 in 1909, and f7,304,519 in 1908. These statistics are in running hales, Including linters, except for foreign cotton, which has beon reduced to equivalent 500-pound bales. Statistics for cotton consumed and of stocks held at mills and in warehouses were collected hy canvasses of the consumers of the warehouses, but the stocks shown under the classification "elsewhere" wore not secured from actual canvass, but by deduction, this quantity being the difference between the total supply and the Water Pumping Outfits, Gasc Mills, Elevators c A Card Stating Nee< Cooper and Any Kind 125 East Bay St., Charleston, S. C. "Pulleys! Pulleys! Pullc Largest stock of Steel Split, Wood Pulleys with Interchangeable bushing At least favor us with your inquiries. COLUMBIA SUPP 823 West Gervals Street. CLASSIFIED COUJMM $10.00 a I>ay easily made selling our new census -maps. Agent wanted in each county. Huse Co., Atlanta, Ga. Order Now?We are ready to All all your orders. Write for price list, i Charleston Fruit Co., Charleston, S. C. Small Cost?large profits breeding . . Duroc Jersey Hogs of finest strains. ; I can supply you. Frank C. 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The new course, known as the Work Boy Course, which enables a boy to work and attend classes alternate weeks, is proving very popular. Twenty-seven boys are now pursuing ^ this course. Great improvements have been made to the college property during the summer. In addition to the improvements of barracks the new diary building has been completed and equipped, large concrete silos have been built, and the farm barns are now under construction. >> The encampment at the State Fair this year will rest largely with the boys. If they want to go, the trip is virtually assured. The decision will be made by the President of the Board of Trustees and the President of the College. An exchange says it may be but a mere coincidence that the price of sugar has gone up just at the time that housewives are making preserves, but the same thing happens every wear. 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