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? COTTON REPORT Fairlten aod a Half Million Bales Ginned la Mitffile at January ? THIS ST A ft'S SHARt 1 ? Nearly Four Hundred Thousand Hales More Than Was Ginned Up to the Same Times List Year, Hut It Will Not Sell for Near as Much Money. The vast 1911 cciton crop of the United Sttaes had leen ginned and baled to the exten1: of 14,510,070 bales on January 1G. according to lUe census bureau's report issued Tuesday, showing 1 93,074 bales were ginned during the period from January 1 to 15, inclusive. Ginneries this season have been forced to greater activity than ever before by the cnormcus crop. A considerable quantity remains to be ginned before the close of the season. - The exact amount will be made known by the census bureau's final ginning report Mjrch 20, giving figures up to February 2 8. The census buccal's ninth cotton ginning report of the season, issued at 10 a. m. Tuesday, and showing the number of running bales, counting round as half bal js, of cotton of the growth of 1911, gnn.ed prior to Tuesday, January 10, with comparative statistics for last year and other record years, is as follows: United States?1 4,51 0,070 bales compared with 11,253,1 47 bales Inst, year, when 97.3 per cent of the 1910 crop was ginned pile i to January 10; 1 2,000,203 bales in 1 909, when 90.8 per cent of the 1 998 crop was ginned, and 12,707,000 bales in 1905, when 94.9 per cent of the 1 904 crop was ginned. Ginning by States, with compara rive statistics and me percentage or the total crop ginned prior to Jannary 1 6 last year ano in other record Ciops, follows. States. Bales. Per Ct. 1011 1,638,099 .... 101 0 1,1 74,1 2 2 98.r> 1008 1,31 0,803 98.9 1004. . . . \ 1,411,834 97.3 Arkansas. 101 1 798,153 191 0 747,320 93.6 1 008 93 1,133 93.5 1004 825,910 91.6 Florida. 191 1 88,171 1 01 0 64,778 96.4 1 008 68,624 97.2 1901 81,855 93.5 Georgia. 1 01 1 2,657,632 .... 1 010 1,770,902 98.2 1 008 1,952,1 13 98.7 1 904 1,898,397 96.7 Louisiana. 101 1 357,393 .... 1 010 242,667 98.3 1908 458,762 9S.3 1904 982.598 90.7 Mississippi. 1 91 1 1,057,094 .... 191 0 5,157,4 57 95.5 1 908 . 1,551,7 92 95.8 1 004 1,676,533 88.8 North Carolina. 1 01 1 906,71 4 .... * 191 0 71 8,405 05.4 1 0 08 661,669 06.8 1004 704,801 94.0 Oklahoma. 1 911 91 6,43 8 .... 1 910. 905,051 9 8.4 1908 612,1 44 88.8 1 904 . . 76 1,73!) 95.6 South Carolina. 1 01 1 1,53 6,5 7 2 .... 1 910 1,175,905 97.1 J 9 08 1,192,723 #98.1 1904 1,144,514 95.9 Tcimc.^co. 1 911 386,572 .... 1 91 0 298,615 93.0 1 90S 3 21,727 96.3 1 904 297,443 92.9 Texas. 4 1 91 1 3,9 6 4,21! 4 .... 11 91 0 2,91 4,166 9S.9 ' 1 9 0 8 3,528,981 97.3 1904 3,01 9,944 98.6 Other States. 1911 113,817 .... 1910 74,7 43 88.2 1 908 69,73 2 95.3 1 901 62,023 90.2 The Inst ginning report of (he sea- ' son, which will give the quantity of cotton ginned prior to February 29. will ho issued M\rch 2 0. The preliminary report on the sup- < ply and distribution of cotton for the 1 four months period ending December 31, 1911, will be issued Thursday, January 25, at 1 0 a. m. 1 LIMIUI li> tii'iH niu.tmi u, ( X-Ray Reveals Peculiar Ailment of 1 Snydertown Woman. Miss Florence Single, a music < teacher of Snydertown, Pa., has been < h confined to her room for a week suf < fering from an unusual ailnient. The < X-rays revealed the presence of a large lizard In her stomach. Sometime ago Miss Slagie was visiting relatives In that vicinity and orank a , glass of water from t pump or spring. 1 She felt something slip down her 1 throat, but paid no attention to the < circumstances until she began to suf- I fer peculiar sensations within her 1 stomach. 11 t - CAUSbU BY FUMW5 ' ? MILLIONS ARB FACING STARVATION IN CHINA* Yangtse Valley Farmers In China Have Made Only One Crop Since .| 1900, and No Longer Try. The exciting news of war and dl- ^ plomacy has caused the world to forget the terrible uestitution which now prevails in China, 't is a side issue, but one which may have a vital effect on the settlement of the revolution. The flood in July and August) last, of the Yangste, has resulted in famine areas which are now accurately defined. First, there is the great , 1 Hwai valley region, measuring about 100 by 300 miles, where the farmers have had only one good crop since 1900. Not only is there no reserve to meet present conditions but the eople have lost lieai 1 and will not try to help themselves. The second area is about Wuhu, where the overflow iormer for a time an inland sea from 80 to 100 miles long, and varying ir. width fiom 3 0 to 40 miles. The last district le Hunam, where the floods were locai. One section, 30 miles square and containing at least 1 0,000 people, was completely submerged. An estimate of 100,000 people facing absolute starvation in Hunan alone is considered conservative, while in the three areas, the lowest estimate of the destitute is 3,750,000. Destitution such as is experienced in China is undreamed of in more progressive countries There are almost no charitable institutions an i many families are left shelterless, and nearly unclothed, to endure the rains. Pillage and destruction have commended in the country where the revolutionists are unable to keep order. The Central China relief committee, with headquarters in Changhai, is making an appeal to all countries for funds to carry on relief work. Every effort is being made to avoid pauperizing the .people and much of the work is planned to tide the farmers over until they caught in a crop. ^ ^ ^ 1 ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED. * . Sixth Wholesale Butchery in Louisiana in a Year. Badly mutilated, the bodies of Fel- e ix Broussard, his wile and three chii- v dreu, aged 8, 0, and o, negroes, were f lound in their homo at Lake Charles, La., making the second wholesale lie- s gro murder in that State within a c week and the sixth within the year, A bloody axe, with which the crime i apparently, was committed, was c found beneath the bed upon which s the bodies lay. 2 No clue to the murderer has been \ found except this inscription written 1 on tlie front door of the Broussard 1 home, "When lie maketh the inquisition for blood, lie Torgetteth not e the crop of the humble human live." I In many respects the crime is I identical with tlio murder, in Crow- i ley, La., last Thursday, of a negro C woman and her three children. Two o similar crimes during the past year I were committed at LaFayetto, La., v two at Crowley, and one at ltaye, C La. In each instance an entile fain- 1 ily was murdered. I c SENTENCED \\ ! 11 LE BOUND. I ? F Kerrono Was Carried Info Court * s Strapped to Litter. C With hands and feet strapped Jos- ' eph Ferrone, wife murderer, was car- q riod in a litter to the Court, of Gen- | oral Session in Now York Friday and y sentenced to death by Judge "Foster. _ lie will be executed during the week beginning February 2 6. f] The prisoner was brought to the Criminal Courts building on a p stretcher by nine gucrds. Ili? hands y were handcuffed to the stretcher and ^ his feet were bound with stout linen ( bandages, lie w is carried into the ^ prison pen, on the niessanine floor, and there lifted from the stretcher and taken into court, where ho was tj placed in a chair in front of the bench. ' Then the guards lifted him from (j the chair and held him standing until sentence hint oten pronounced. ry Ferrone killed his wife last October. w Ho is the same desperate murderer 1f that tried to kill a juror in court for u having convicted him. , ^ . p, Harking I>?;g haves Lives. ,1 The barking of ?. pot dog at the w tionio of David Br.i'ton, at Chester, I'a., saved the lives of the inmates, \\ comprising seven persons. Ihatton Sl was awakened by the animal's cries f{ it. 5 o'clock Mor.oo; morning, dis- jn covered that the house was iiueu witn sf soal gas. and although greatly over* 01 :ome by the effects of the gas, with ni iifliculty managed to rouso liis wife v| ind Ave children. pi * ? ol Strikes Blow at Blind Tigers. Ul Congressman W. A. Oi lfield, of 01 Arkansas, has introduced a bill In the house which, if enacted, will of- if rectively put an end to the issuance t> federal license* for the snle of h Intoxicating liquo's in communities w where state or local laws forbid the gi sale thereof. oi ^1 WAS WIPED our State R-fuses (t Print One tf Blease's ?cte Ullages ia Fall ONLY SMI PART PASS r?y a Vote of Eighty-Six to TwentySix the House of representatives Itcfuscs to Allow One of the Governor's Messages to Be Entered in Full on Its Kecords. As a climax to a debate, begun at loon Tuesday, 011 U10 governor's special message to the house of reprelentatives, purporting to give reasons for his veto of the libel act, the lie use Tuesday night, by the vote 80 to 2 6, decided to adopt the rejort of the judiciary committee, and expunge f 0111 the permanent records of the body all of the message jxeept a few small excerpts, which the committee believes include all ivhich could come under the constiutional requirement of "objections it large," which must be printed In lie journal. The matter was brought up at 10011 Tuesday, when Mr. VV. I'. Stevmson of Chosterlield opened for the li'dieiary committee, of which he is ? member. Mr. George It. Kembert > Kichland spoke next in reply, and he debate was resumed at 8 o'clock Tuesday night. Mr. T. J. Kirkland ) Kershaw was one of tLe first speakers of the evening. Mr. Kirkend was in favor oL expurgating the uessage. He was followed by Mr. James E. )avis of Barnwell. Mr. Davis stated in the floor that he was a personal riend of Governor DJease. and that ?e had voted for him, but he delounced in strong terms the language and subject of tho message, 't can see the hand of Esau in this natter," said Mr. Davis in riiscussng the motives which impelled the governor to take this stand. Mr. Magill of Gieenwood did not )elievo that any part of tlu mesago should be expunged from the ecord, and argued constitutional auhorities to show that a message sent ij> with a vetoed bill, giving reasons or the veto, must be printed In full, dr. Osborne of Spartanburg delivtred a strongly phrased talk In faor of wiping the offending message rom the records of the ho-use. The previous question was called hortly after 10 o'clock, and the roll all vote was taken on the matter of idopting the committee report, urgng the expunging from the record ?f all but a small portion of the mesngo. The result showed 8G for and !G against the expunging. The vote vas as follows: In favor of ex unging the part of libel act message rom the record: Speaker M. D. Smith, Arnold, Ayr, Baskln, Beamguard, Belser, Behea, Bookter, Bowers, Bowman, loyd, Brlce, B. H. Brown, Brownng, Butler, Carv, Chandler, Charles, tanner, Courtney, Davis, Dick, Dlx?n, Dobson, Dubose, Druramond, Darle, E. C. Edwards, Isaac Edwards, Erckmann, Evans, Fultz, asque, Glbert, Graham, Harris, Hill, lines, Iliott, Hopkins, Horlbeck, In liter, Jackson, James, Jones, Ketlii 11, Kiblcr, Kirkland, League, Dee, -engnick, McCravey, McDow, McCeown, McQueen, Mansfield, Manuel, 1 cares, Miller, Minis, Motto, Nicliolon, Nunnery, H. A. Odom, W. P. Iilnm. Ofihnrnr>. Pppiios Pnllf loaves, Richardson, Riley, Sanders, iaye, Searson, C. T. S)\uler, R. L. huler, Stevenson, Tison, Vandor lorst, Vincent, Watson, Whisonant, Williams, Willis, Wingard, Youmans -8 6. Not In favor of expunging part of lie libel act message from the record. Ashley, Bodie, T. P. Brown, J. M. hiniel, W. L. Daniel, Hamilton, ITarison, Hntto, Irbv, Kirvin, Leland, lagill, Moore, Mower, Paulling, Peeles, Rem.bert, Sawyer, Scort, 0. D. mith, D. L. Smith, K. P. Smith, odd, Turnbull, Wells, Wycbe?2 6. Tho principal mailer discussed in io argument was whether the conitution required the message to be rinted in full, nudec its requirement lat when tho governor refuses to gn an act, it must be returned to 1 le bouse in which it originated itb bis objections, and that the "obH-tions at large" must be entered pon the journal. Whether or not te bouse could constitutionally exunge any part of the message from le record was the main theme 1 hich ran through the debate. 1 Tho action of ?ho house, showing int. ft large majority thought that I tch a stop was within the const.tt.uon, will doubtless set a precedent 1 i constitutional interpretation, nee the constitutions of the fed*al government ana of many of the rher States contain identical proisions in this connection. This Is robahly the first time in the history ' tho United States that such a sit- ; at Ion has come about either In State r federal government. i One of the largest thrones of vis- i ors since the session opened filled . le galleries and lower door of the ouse Thursday night, and heard i 1th eager attention the various arnments made. At one time a burst < f applause from both lower floor FLAYS I LD1)Y Says R)ts?ft|(s Critcisan it Against Suprtmcytf he Law. ? ? JUDGE PAKKIK SPEAKS -a Distinguished Jurist* in Speech Before South Carolina Lawyers, Declares that Unjust Criticism of lt??tw?!k I?v I'rouifhiiir lloiriti. nii?? of Lowering of Standard. Judge Alton _s. Parker, of New York, who once contested the Presidential election with Theodore Roosevelt, delivered an address in Columbia Thursday iv'ght before the South Carolina !3ar Association, in which he expressed himself as opposed to the recall of the judiciary, and took exception to some of the criticisms of tiie Pencil made in the past by Mr. Kfeosevelt. lie said In part: "If put Into practice and carried tc its inevitable conclusion recall of Judges is the substitution of popular opinion for legal procedure?it is justico or injustice meted out, not according to the law of the land, but according to supposed public sentiment. Recall of judges spells in the ultimate result a retail of tne judicial system and the substitution of a vigilance committee. ' Never before, I think, In the history of civilization has any blind leader of the blind advocated as progressive a return to the chaotic conditions inherent in edininistratidn of justice by caprice rut her than by the rules of law. "The recall of Judges, however, is but the first step toward the cherished goal of the leaders of the movement against the judiciary. Their ultimate aim is the locall of tho power of the Courts to declare void such legislative Acts as sre forbidden by the constitutions, State and Federal. What has happened of late to lead so many to favor stripping the members of the judidftry of their inheritance and shearing them of the power to enforce the Constitution. Surely the judicial standard has not been lowered of late. The cause of the change in public sentiment then [<: not to bo found in the lowering of the judicial standard. It had its beginning during the incumbency of the last President. More combinations to restrain tr: de and prevent competition came into existence during his incumbency of the oilice than in all our precious history. "When the protests of the people against the rising tide of higher prices began to be heard, he sought with his accustomed political shrewdness to shift the responsibility from the shoulders of His party. To that end he inveighed against the impotency of the law and the 'wi ll meaning but fotssilized-c-f-mind Judges,' laying the responsibility of our evil state to the law and its ministers. "Was ever accusation more unjust? From whence came the special privileges against which protest is raised? From the Courts? No, not in a single instance. They came by statutes passed by legislative bodies and in most instances approved by chief executives. "The reports which came :o him of tlie effect of his campaign against the judiciary enabled liim to go out of office fully appreciating that through his skill nis administration and his party had escaped, for a time at least, the responsibility which was justly theirs. What his present motive may be we need not conjecture. 4'ITis grievance is that the decosions are 'in such flagrant and direct contradiction to the spirit and needs of the times.' It means to his multitude of readers that Courts should decide, not as the people have commanded in their Constitution, but according to the notion of himself and his followers as to the 'needs of the times.' "Through his leadership, while President and since, a large and uninformed following has been recruited throughout the United States who are waging, many of thorn unconsciously, a battle agains ttlio supremacy of the law. The ulnformed think because tliov have been deceived, the Courts are in effect vetoing legislation that the people want, not that the Courts are merely setting aside enactments that the pooplyhnvo forbidden the legislative dona rtment of the Covert.ment to nass. if they should ho made to understand the whole truth before It is too late, the movement, in form against the judiciary, but in reality against its power to hold in check tho would-be usurpers of power not granted by the people, will end." ( <? _ ^ Wilson Will lime Delegates. Edward O.rosscup, chairman of the Now Jersey State Democratic committee, issued a statement declaring that Clow Wilson would have a majority of the New Jersey delegates to the Democratic national convention and practically a solid nledged 1 delegation. and galleries called forth remonstrances from Speaker Smith. Not until the roll call vote was concluded, and the result announced, did the crowd begin to melt awaj. Ltr I MM COMfc our ? SWEEPING ATTACK MADE ON BIO REPUBLICANS. Indirectly Implicate* Roosevelt and Taft in Corruption of Awarding Olllco for Campaign Fund*. Demanding an investigation into campaign expend tures in 1904 and 1908, Senator Culborson of Texas in the Senate Tuesday made sweeping (charge of corruption against tho Ue publican committees for those and other years. Indirectly ho charged that foreign ambassadorships were bestowed as a reward for campaign contributions and inferentially he charged that former President Roosevelt had condoned the use of money in politics. Mr. Culberson's address was made in anticipation of an unfavorable report by the committee 011 contingent expenses 011 his rescdution providing for au Investigation. lie said that the limitations of the proposed incjuiry to 1904 should not be construed as a confession that there had not been improper practices before that period. Referring especially to the campaign of 1 908, Mr. Culberson said that the contributions to the Demociatic fund had been made oy 7 4,000 persons with .$5,000 as the largest, while those of the Republican fund were made by 12,38 0 persons, with Charles P. Tafl, brother of the Republican presidential candidate at their head, with a donation of $110,000. Among the contributors mentioned were Ambassadors Reid and Kerens and Minister Larz Anderson. In the course of his speech, Mr. Culberson referred to the fact that George 13. Cortelyou in thu 190 1 campaign had held the position of chairman ol the Republican national committee while he was Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and intimated that Mr. Cortelyou had taken advantage of the secrets of corporations, whose affairs might be investigated under the Federal law, to procure money for the campaign. "It has been estimated," he said, "that the enormous and unconscionable sum of $11,000,000 was raised and probably expended that year by the committee of which he was chairman. The very size and audacity of this sum, if approximately correct, smacks of extortion, profligacy and corruption. Who contributed ana where did it come from? Mr. Culberson declared there should be an inquiry to answer these questions. lie went into some detail regarding the newspaper ch rges that the lato E. If. Harriman had raised the fund of $260,000 to which lie himself had contributed $50,000 in support of the Republican ticket i*i the campaign of 1904. He declared that within the past few weeks an effort had been made t^ clear up this charge and added, "this attempt to unload upon the dead the obloquy > f this disgraceful transaction which I.m said to have changed 5 0,000 votes in the city of New York alone, r ay bo significant ii* several ways. It may be the common and ordinary case of malefactors waiting for the absconding cr death of witnesses, or it may presage a political movement of national consequence and magnitude." Contending that his resolution did not go back of 1904 Mr. Culberson said this was due <o the necessity of fixing a limit and was not because |of tlie fact that money had not been corruptly used prior to that time. DIE AT HAM S OF MOIL Yn,r..n At.... rt.t.l O.... \ 1 V. ...... . A I I 1 I V \ \ l i>l \ u (IIIVI \ M IV.; >) l/IIUI II . Lynched in Georgia. t A mob of 100 iron Tuesday night 1 broke into the Harris, Ga., jail, overpowering Jailer E. I\J. Rabbitson and ( took four negroes, three men and one | woman, out and hung them to trees ( one mile from town They then rid- ( died their bodies with bullets. It ( is estimated that "00 shots were t fired. Last Sunday afternoon while ( Norman JIadley, a well to do unmarried farmer, was sitting in his , house alone a shot was fired through , the window and lie fell do i I. That | afternoon four negro tenants, Belle j Hathway, Joe Moore, Eugene Hall- s ing and "Dusty" Crutch field wore 0 arrested charged with the murder. (. Then the mob lynched them. t) ^ MAKES 1)1 REEL L PREDICTION. s 4 V "Prophet of the Smokies" Sees ^ Wholesale Slaughter. 1 Rev. Thomas Clark, a picturesque ! character, who for years has wander- y cd in tho mountains of eastern Ten- t] nesseo and southwestern Virginia, styling himself the "Prophet of the 0 Smokies," declares that ho has just had a vision in which it wa3 revealed to him by a divine messenger that during tho present year a volcanic eruption equal to tnat of Martinique r or Vesuvius, will take place in tho c State of Pennsylvania and that near- n ly 900,000 souls will bo plunged Into 1 eternity without n moment's warning, v Ho asserts he foretold the assassina- I tion of Presidont McKInley, the fire \ at Baltimore and the San Francisco 1 earthquake. 11 ..M \ s FARED BADLY " ? Hjase Passed Several Bills Wfcidk Were Vetoed By Govncor I lease ? i THtY ARE GOOD BILLS TIio Old State Dispensary Commission and Other Oiliciuls Will Be 11 t .1 ?-. i f* - n^f?i? l ruut'U| luciuiKii^ u;>viTiiur nit-wso Himself, and May Bo His Friend, Tom B. Folder, The rapidity with which the IIousq passed measures over the Governor's veto was tho most interesting of the legislative actions the past week; tho unanimity and rapidity witn which the lower body did this must have made his Excellency piping mad. In quick order tho Act providing for the investigation of the former winding-up dispensary commission and tho Attorney General, the Act relating to tho industrial school at Florence, tho Aet establishing the rural police for Cherokee County and the Act providing for those cities between 4,000 and 20,000 the opportunity to vote on the commission form of f government, were passed over tho Governor's veto by overwhelming majorities. The veto on the 1 ill making moro extended the jury service and wiping out certain exemptions was sustained, tho first and only one so far. Tiie members did not think that there was any reason to make preachers serve on juries, and largely on tin's neenmit the rcte was sustained. In every other ca?e the Governor went clown in overwhelming defeat, for the House said the Acts shall go into tho laws the Governor's veto to the contrary nor withstanding. The vetoed hills which passed the [louse were transmitted to tno Senate, but that body has not yet acted on them, excepting the veto 011 the investigation of the winding-up commission, which was passed over the veto by the upper chambfcr by a vote of 3G to 3, preceded by severe denunciation of the veto by several senators. This measure is now a law. The others wcie received in tho Senate, printed in the Journal and referred to various committees. They will come up for action this week and there is little doubt but that the Senate will follow the action of the lower lfouse and pass them over the Governor's veto. Once the Senate began it dots not take long for it to decide on vetoed measures, and it has shown no disposition to sustain any of the Governor's reasons for vetoing the various matters. Excepting tho Act providing for the distribution or tho dispensary fund among the school?and it is said that the Senate will look closely into this matter, for. there are several educators opposed to tho plan for distribution and tho State board of education reqi e.-led the Governor to veto the bill?all of the measures will probably parts over the veto. In the senate tne bill providing for tho taking out of the hands of tho Chief Justice the power to nominate special judges and to confer both, the nominating and appointing power on thn flnvernnr was killed after several debates, in which the whole light between Chief Justice Jones and the Governor over the special judges matter of the past year was aired. The Senate stood strongly by the Supreme Court and several speeches defending that body and condemning the actions of the Governoi in this position were delivered during the course of the debates. The Senate finally ended th ewholo matter and ndorsed the Supren o Court by overwhelmingly killing the bill. Another matter which has been lebated at nuich length in t.ne upper )ody is the bill establishing a. State lighway commission Almost every lay some time has been devoted to liscussing this bill and its merits anxl lisadvantages have been thoroughly hreshed out. Senator Laney, of Chesterfield is loading the fight igainst the bill ord he wants tho noney arising from licenses on auomobiles and other self-propeling veilcles, the source from which tho >ill seeks to raise revenue for tho upport of the highway eommissionr, to go into the treasury of tho ounty in which the machines aro iwned. Senator W. J. Johnson's bill subtit uting electrocution for hanging rill undoubtedly pass the Senate and ranas good cnancea oi passing mo louse also and being enacted into aw. This was recommended In tho nuual message of Governo" Blease nd is one recommendation likely to ie adopted and one which is rccogiized as a more humane method of iiinishment than the present system >f hanging. Arrested on Suspicion. Two negro preachers are under arest at Lafayette, La., on suspicion f having knowledge of the recent ^ aiv^der 8 of entire negro famlies In that State totalling 26 lctims In 12 months. Rev. King Tarrlson of Jennings and Rev. John Vilklns of Crowley have been taken ? n charge but they deny any eonnecion or knowledge of the assailants.